Uzuki Yugao and Aoba exchanged a glance.
Then she couldn't help but widen her eyes.
Looking past the small Aoba in front of her, she saw Tsunade sitting on the bed, clothes disheveled, expression complicated.
More importantly, in the exposed whiteness of Tsunade's chest, there seemed to be a few palm marks that had yet to fade…
If it weren't for Aoba still being a child and the huge age gap between the two, she would've thought they'd just done that kind of thing.
Before she knew it, her brain had already filled in some adult-only scenes.
"Yugao-nee, are you okay?", Seeing that Uzuki Yugao hadn't said a word since just now, her expression inexplicably flushed red, Aoba couldn't help but call out.
"Hm?", Uzuki Yugao snapped back to reality, but when she saw Aoba's concerned expression, her cheeks flushed even more.
At the same time, she silently cursed herself in her heart.
'Uzuki Yugao, how can you think of those things? Aoba is still a child. And besides, how can that kind of thing involve Lady Tsunade…'
"Yugao-nee!", Seeing Uzuki Yugao seemingly drifting off into strange thoughts again, Aoba could only remind her once more.
"Ahem! Ahem!", Uzuki Yugao let out two quiet coughs without changing expression.
"Aoba, it's your first day of school today, of course Onee-san has to come."
"Come downstairs with me first, Shizune-senpai has already prepared breakfast," As she spoke, Uzuki Yugao extended her fair hand and grabbed Aoba's small one.
"Lady Tsunade, I'll take Aoba downstairs first."
"Mm, I'll change and come down."
Watching the two close the door, Tsunade couldn't help but scratch her messy golden hair.
Though her face showed nothing, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
The look in Uzuki Yugao's eyes just now… for some reason it felt like she'd been caught in bed cheating.
Even though it was just a brat.
Tsunade got up from the bed, feeling a bit off.
After so many treatment sessions, she'd discovered that Aoba's proposed treatment methods did seem to have some effect.
If they could really work in the future, she'd be able to manage a lot on her own.
Tsunade absentmindedly slipped off her loose pajamas.
But just as she was changing clothes, her expression froze.
She had just noticed a red handprint on the snowy peaks of her chest.
'No wonder Yugao's look was so weird just now.'
Feeling utterly humiliated again, Tsunade clenched her teeth.
"This brat! Why did he hit so hard?"
A soft green light appeared in her palm. She had to use Mystical Palm Technique to erase the palm mark on her chest first.
———
As she pulled Aoba downstairs, Uzuki Yugao suddenly spoke, "Aoba, you've changed…"
Aoba: ?
"How have I changed?"
"Sigh~", Uzuki Yugao suddenly let out a long sigh, wore a bitter face, and said nothing, leaving Aoba to guess.
"..."
"Yugao-nee, I had a reason for sleeping with Sensei," Aoba quickly caught on.
But Uzuki Yugao still said nothing. However, he could feel her grip on his hand tighten.
After a moment of hesitation—
"Yugao-nee, do you have any missions today?"
Uzuki Yugao's usually drooping lips lifted a little, "No missions these two days. Why do you ask, Aoba?"
"Then do you want to stay at my place tonight?"
"Aoba really wants Onee-san to come?"
"Of course. It's been a long time since I slept with Onee-san. I wonder if Onee-san would share the same bed and pillow with me tonight?"
"Haha, Aoba, where did you learn to talk like that?"
Uzuki Yugao couldn't hold it in and laughed out loud, "But since Aoba sincerely invited Onee-san, then I guess I'll reluctantly keep you company."
Uzuki Yugao originally came to wake Aoba up. When she didn't find him at his place, she asked Shizune and found out he slept here last night.
She just didn't expect that opening the door would reveal that scene, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
'He'd been avoiding sleeping with me for so long, and now he went and slept with Lady Tsunade?'
'Don't tell me… he thinks Lady Tsunade's two pillows are comfier than mine?'
Hearing Uzuki Yugao's tsundere-laced statement, Aoba rolled his eyes, then slipped his hand out of hers and ran toward the bathroom, "I'm going to wash up first."
———
When Tsunade finished getting ready and came to the living room—
Aoba, Uzuki Yugao, and Shizune were already sitting at the dining table waiting for her.
Tsunade didn't sit down right away.
Instead, under everyone's curious eyes, she walked over to Aoba.
"Sensei, you—mmph!"
Before Aoba could voice his question, he was fiercely rubbed all over by Tsunade.
The eyes of Shizune and Uzuki Yugao showed envy, not of Aoba, but of Tsunade.
By the time Aoba's hair looked like a chicken nest and his face was flushed from all the rubbing, Tsunade finally stopped.
And sat in her seat.
"That's punishment for being a perverted brat."
"How was I not well-behaved?"
Aoba gently rubbed his face, Uzuki Yugao also helping him rub it.
He felt like he was being wronged for no reason. If there's a chance later, he definitely wanted to rub back.
But right now, he wasn't her match. If he really tried, he'd probably get squeezed to death by the furious Tsunade.
He could only avoid her edge for now.
Tsunade had no idea Aoba was plotting such a rebellious thought.
"Let's eat," With that, she picked up a rice ball and took a bite.
Seeing this, the others also started eating.
Midway—
Tsunade chewed on a rice ball and suddenly asked vaguely, "Brat, what are you planning to say in your speech?"
"Mm?", Aoba, who was also eating a rice ball, swallowed the food and replied, "Just talk casually about medical ninja knowledge. Wasn't my carefully prepared speech torn up by you already?"
"You're still going on about that speech?"
Tsunade gave Aoba a look, "It's fine if you've prepared something. Just don't go blank when you're on stage."
"I really don't get why that old man made a special arrangement for a brat like you to give a speech."
She remembered that in the past, Sarutobi Hiruzen could speak for over an hour by himself, and now they added Aoba too.
She didn't even want to imagine how despairing the kids below would be.
"Maybe he thinks I'm gifted and have Hokage potential, so he wants to groom me into the next next generation Hokage," Aoba found that perfectly reasonable, though most of the reason probably still lay with Tsunade.
"Heh, you've really become shameless. Just don't embarrass me up there."
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