Village choses - Jiraiya
Jiraiya doesn't NOMINATE.. to be nominated you should be in the village.. Jiraiya who represents the village goes to search for Tsunade.
He then REQUESTS tsunade to be Hokage.. notice being Hokage was never in her interest.
Also the manga storyline doesn't look at "Base" or "SM jiraiya". It only looks at characters. However, Sakura right now is solely trained by Tsunade, and she takes a dump on the start of shippuden Naruto and SAsuke (who were trained by oro and jiraiya).
Also, Yin seal was her new jutsu.. lol.
For the "he said he'll kill her".. Naruto said he'll kick her ass.. then proceeded to get his ass kicked.. Notice jiraiya threatening her had 0 effect on Tsunade.
Oh yup, she contributed more to the war than any other shinobi also.
The way people judge "strongest" is by looking at their "on-screen" feats. However, those don't have much to do with the characters in the storyline.
And what did you think when you actually saw it?![]()
Yet he put her name up for the role and the elders said she would do so Jiraiya pretty much nominated her as no one else did. Also even though Jiraiya isn't duty bound to Konoha anymore, he's still loyal to Konoha as he helped them during the invasion, found them a worthy Hokage, gives them Intel on Akatsuki, protected the villages jinchuuriki, died gaining Intel for Konoha.
Are you really going to compare a Genin level ninja's threat to a Kage level ninja to that of a Kage level threat to another Kage level? Doesn't matter it wasn't her interest, it wasn't Jiraiya's interest either and he was nominated by the elders themselves. Uhhh, no. Beginning Naruto will go 4 tails and kill Sakura as he was enough to threaten both Jiraiya and Orochimaru's lives and Orochimaru was using ninjutsu in that fight. Sasuke is faster than Sakura and his Sharingan reads her movements. She gets close and body chidori blast her back or he easily dodges as he did when she tried to hit him and he can place her under genjutsu if he wants to.
Also for the threatening, when Jiraiya is being serious he doesn't say something he can't back up. If he had doubts of beating her then he would be more causious then threatening her to her face, gaining Intel on Pein was enough to make him doubt his chances enough to send the toad key away and go to Naruto. She's a healer, the best in fact so yes her job was important. While Jiraiya and Orochimaru fought she only healed them, she even gives us enough info when she told Madara the rules all medic ninjas must abide by which is not to fight when they're the only medic ninja for the team unless they have the yin seal healing which she didn't have until after we see her in part 1 since Orochimaru never saw it before that.
Tsunade did react to Jiraiya's threat
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. Tsunade said Hiruzen always intended for Jiraiya to become Hokage but he said it wasn't for him so Hiruzen put Jiraiya as a worthy Hokage than both Orochimaru and Tsunade as she said always and not anything relating to after finding out about Orochimaru's darkness so Orochimaru was actually second choice from what Tsunade said and she was third.
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