Aoba received the lip stud.
The atmosphere between the two of them once again turned a bit silent. After a while, Konan, who slowly came to her senses, began to complain a little.
"You were too much just now, not even asking for my opinion."
"Weren't you the one seducing me, Konan-nee?", Aoba was also a bit confused. Konan had been so straightforward earlier.
"I wasn't! When did I seduce you?", Konan's face turned completely red. The chakra in her body had already fully recovered.
"Then why did you bite my finger?"
"Didn't you tell me to bite it?"
Konan just thought that biting the arm would be too embarrassing, so she bit the finger instead. She honestly didn't realize where she had seduced the other party.
Aoba froze slightly, realizing he might have misunderstood.
He simply sat up, looked into Konan's eyes, and reached out to brush aside the hair covering her face, tucking it behind her ear, while watching Konan's constantly dodging gaze.
"Then I might've misunderstood just now. But this time I won't misunderstand, want to go again?"
Konan's cheeks flushed red. Seeing the serious look in his eyes, she stammered for a while and eventually nodded.
Under the moonlight, the two figures overlapped again.
Moonlight faint, breeze cool.
———
"So… you went out once, and then brought back another one?"
Yugao showed a gentle smile, while Terumi Mei was already rummaging through the kitchen for a handy weapon.
Temari merely looked curiously at the blue-purple-haired girl in black robes in front of her.
Looking at her… she seemed to be quite a bit older.
She felt like she'd found another trait of Aoba, he really liked older sisters. And older sisters seemed to like him too.
"Uh… Konan-nee is now my prisoner," Aoba explained a little awkwardly.
"Prisoner?" ×3
All three of their expressions turned to wide-eyed shock, looking at Aoba with expressions like they were staring at a p*rvert.
"What kind of expressions are those?", Aoba was a bit baffled.
Yugao hesitated to speak, started and stopped, and finally said, "Didn't expect it, Aoba, you even like this kind of play? If you're into it…"
Konan's originally cold face instantly flushed red, and Aoba also realized they were misunderstanding something.
"I mean literally a prisoner, Konan-nee tried to attack me earlier and got defeated, so she became my prisoner."
"She attacked you?", Yugao looked at Aoba, then looked at Konan who was doing her best to maintain a cool expression, "Do you even hear what you're saying?"
Aoba also knew that this excuse was a bit far-fetched, but he could only brace himself and explain.
"Uh… anyway, that's how it went. Konan-nee also knows a lot of my intel now, so I can't let her leave Konoha."
"Then wouldn't putting her in Konoha's prison be more convenient?"
"Konan-nee won't run around. And she didn't do anything to destroy the village or whatever, locking her in prison is too harsh. Keeping her at home is fine," Aoba's voice got smaller and smaller as he spoke. Even he knew that this reasoning had zero logic.
"..."
Not just Yugao and the others, even Konan couldn't keep listening anymore.
"Actually… I'm fine with prison…", Konan said softly. Staying in prison might help lessen some of her guilt, so long as each day she could…
"No way!", Aoba rejected it outright. He was the one who forcibly kept Konan here. Throwing her into prison, what would that even be?
Konan: "I…"
"Enough!", Yugao interrupted the two of them, then turned and walked upstairs.
"Yugao-nee?"
Yugao didn't even turn her head, "I'm going to tidy up a bedroom. When it's time for bed later, you'd better explain everything to me properly."
She actually didn't object that much. It was just that there was one more person in the house, that's all. Konan wasn't the first, and certainly wouldn't be the last.
Once the girls all grew up in the future, this whole house would probably be even livelier.
As long as it didn't affect her, she didn't really mind.
"Yugao-nee…", Aoba's face was full of gratitude.
"Hmph, Aoba, you owe me an explanation too," Terumi Mei blocked Aoba with her arms crossed.
"An explanation, huh…", Aoba stepped forward and gave Terumi Mei a ki*s on the lips.
And Terumi Mei left.
"Then what about my explanation?", Temari asked with anticipation all over her face.
"This…", Aoba hesitated for a while, and finally pecked Temari on the cheek like a chick pecking rice.
Temari blushed and also walked away, returning to her bedroom.
Seeing that no one had any objections, Aoba finally sighed in relief.
"Konan-nee, you can just live here without worries from now on."
"Hmph!", Konan only let out a cold snort and went upstairs to find Yugao.
She couldn't just sit by and do nothing either.
Aoba looked at Konan's back.
He had forgotten, Konan was also the jealous type.
But anyway, Konan had smoothly moved in.
No one in the current situation was injured, so that was a win.
But it wasn't like no one was hurt. Deep into the night, Aoba went to find Shizune to explain things again.
In the end, in order to satisfy Yugao, Terumi Mei, and Shizune all at once, Aoba's waist took a bit of a beating.
———
[Morning]
Despite a night of war, Aoba hadn't forgotten he still had to go to the Hokage building today.
When he walked out of the bedroom, Temari was already up earlier than him and in the kitchen.
Aoba asked with concern, "Did you not sleep well again last night?"
Temari shook her head and said with a smile, "Preparing breakfast for an early-rising husband is also a wife's duty."
"Uh… thanks," Aoba thought for a moment, then just said thanks and went to the bathroom.
Even though there was a bathroom in the bedroom, using it would disturb Yugao and Terumi Mei's rest, so he used the one outside.
The bathroom door was already open.
Konan was standing in front of the mirror, holding a toothbrush, with white foam still at the corner of her mouth…
"Konan-nee," Aoba greeted her.
But Konan only gave him a cold glance and continued brushing her teeth with focus.
She had originally thought Aoba's relationship with those two sisters might only be a little closer than her own with him.
She hadn't expected that even sleeping at night was something they did together.
She didn't believe for a second that this p*rvert Aoba could behave properly sleeping with two big sisters.
Thinking about how last night, it was just a wall between them, she slept on this side, and Aoba on that side… She felt a weight on her head.
Aoba also knew she wasn't in the best mood, so he didn't say much more.
He walked into the bathroom and stood beside her.
"Konan-nee, can you move in a little?"
The bathroom wasn't very big. Aoba nudged Konan's thigh with his butt.
"Hmph!", Konan still gave a cold snort, but she moved in a little.
Aoba scooted in a bit more.
The two of them were almost pressed together. Konan's cheeks turned slightly red and she said in displeasure, "Isn't there still plenty of space on your side?"
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