Having run away from home, Kamishiro leaned against a tree in a small grove in Konoha, smoking a cigarette with a sense of grievance.
"What the hell? Why do I have to sleep on the sofa? So what if she's a girl? Can't girls sleep on the sofa? Sigh, but that's a minor issue. What should I do about my money? Since the shop belongs to a clansman of the Sandaime, maybe I can put it on credit."
"I originally wanted to display dozens of puppets in the shop, but it looks like I can only put up a few now. I'll have to find a way to make a killing when I ask Minato-sama for reimbursement later."
Kamishiro suddenly choked on the smoke: "Cough, cough, what the hell is this? It tastes so bad. Whatever, last puff."
Kamishiro took a deep drag, threw the butt of the cigarette that had burned down to the filter onto the ground, and headed home.
After returning to Minato Namikaze's house, Kamishiro was stunned to see Uchiha Hikari dressed in all pink.
"You, you..."
Kamishiro couldn't even speak properly. Uchiha Hikari asked nervously: "Does it not look good?"
"Ahahaha..."
Kamishiro clutched his stomach and burst into laughter.
Uchiha Hikari looked strangely at Kamishiro, who had suddenly started laughing, not understanding what was so funny.
Kamishiro pointed at Uchiha Hikari, laughing until tears came out: "Before, you were a cool, edgy girl, and now you've suddenly turned into a sweet, girly loli. This contrast suddenly reminds me of when we were on the battlefield, and Tafu ate the red Chili Pill. After using the Butterfly Mode, the big fatty suddenly turned into a skinny dog. It cracked me up!"
Minato Namikaze, Pakura, and Uzumaki Kushina all had black lines on their foreheads.
Even Uchiha Hikari clenched her fists involuntarily.
As expected, it was still the same familiar Kamishiro.
"Speaking of which, who picked out your clothes? Such bad taste. How can you wear all pink? You should at least mix in some other colors. If nothing else, maybe change the color of the butterfly on your headband?"
Minato Namikaze shook his head helplessly.
He really gets itchy for a beating if he doesn't get one for a day.
Pakura and Uzumaki Kushina had already used the Instantaneous Body Technique to appear on Kamishiro's left and right, exuding an aura that made Kamishiro shudder, causing the smile on his face to freeze instantly.
"What, what are you two doing?"
"We picked out Ashita Natsu's outfit. Do you have a problem with it?"
Kamishiro shuddered and instantly changed his tune: "Uh, no problem. How could I have a problem? It's absolutely beautiful, so pretty~"
"Heh, that's not what you said just now. 'Bad taste'?"
Kamishiro's expression was already beginning to twist: "No, that's not it! It's such good taste! Really! You heard wrong!"
"Oh? We heard wrong? Does that mean we're deaf?"
Kamishiro was almost crying. Looking at the stance Pakura and Uzumaki Kushina were taking, there was no way this was going to end well.
Pakura's brows suddenly furrowed, and she sniffed: "Hm? What's that smell on you?"
Kamishiro's heart was in his throat: "No, there's no smell."
Uzumaki Kushina also leaned in to sniff: "Hm? Cigarette smoke? You've been smoking?!"
Sweat poured down Kamishiro's forehead like rain: "No, I haven't! Hey, what are you doing? You're violating my privacy!"
Pakura and Uzumaki Kushina started searching Kamishiro and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.
Kamishiro immediately started trembling, because Pakura and Uzumaki Kushina were glaring at him with terrifying eyes.
"Very good. You go out once and learn bad habits!"
Kamishiro felt as if the sky had collapsed.
Kamishiro hardened his heart, intending to break and then build: "Hey, I'm not a kid. So what if I smoke? It doesn't bother you guys!"
However, the result was that while it was broken, it wasn't built back up.
Pakura and Uzumaki Kushina each grabbed one of Kamishiro's ears.
"Heh, hitting your rebellious phase, are you?"
"Looks like we have to teach you a proper lesson!"
Kamishiro was dragged into a small room.
The next second, Kamishiro's screams rang out from the small room.
"Ah! Easy! Take it easy!"
"I'm going to fight back! I'm really going to fight back!"
"I won't do it again! I really won't!"
"It was that guy Asuma! He's the one who taught me bad habits! I refused at first, he forced me!"
Minato Namikaze calmly took a sip of water and said with a smile to the slightly worried Uchiha Hikari: "No need to worry about Kamishiro. You'll get used to it. Who knows, maybe you'll join them in the future."
Uchiha Hikari was a bit confused.
Get used to it? Is this something you can get used to?
Also, she would join? How is that possible?
At the dinner table.
With his head swollen like a pig's, in protest, Kamishiro just shoveled white rice into his mouth without eating a single bite of the side dishes.
"Ashita Natsu, look at how thin you are. You need to eat more."
"That's right. Is it good? If it's good, eat more. If it's not enough, we can add more."
Pakura and Uzumaki Kushina kept piling food onto Uchiha Hikari's plate.
Uchiha Hikari looked at the food piled high in her bowl and said softly: "It's really enough, it's very delicious."
The sound of Kamishiro shoveling rice suddenly got much louder.
Uzumaki Kushina slanted her eyes at Kamishiro and said: "If some people make any more unnecessary noise, they can go eat at the doorway!"
"Hmph!"
The annoyed Kamishiro snorted, but he only dared to snort once, and the shoveling sound disappeared.
Minato Namikaze looked at Kamishiro with a complicated expression. What kind of protest is this? Just eating rice without the dishes—isn't he just torturing himself?
After eating, Kamishiro, wearing an apron, and Minato Namikaze washed the dishes at the sink.
"Why? I didn't eat a single bite of the side dishes, why do I have to wash the dishes!"
Minato Namikaze handed Kamishiro a soapy plate and said: "Alright, stop complaining. You know full well that your protest is completely ineffective. You should have just eaten more dishes earlier."
Kamishiro took the plate, rinsed it twice in the clear water in the sink, then dried it with a towel and put it in the cupboard.
Kamishiro complained to Minato Namikaze: "Minato-sama, it's all your fault."
Minato Namikaze asked, puzzled: "What now? Why are you blaming me all of a sudden?"
Kamishiro looked at Minato Namikaze with resentment: "Ashita Natsu is living in my house now. My room was directly confiscated by Pakura and Kushina-nee-san and given to Ashita Natsu. I have to sleep on the sofa from now on. If I don't blame you, who do I blame? If I blame Pakura and Kushina-nee-san, will you take the beating for me?"
"Uh... I'll just give you a bit more mission compensation."
Minato Namikaze knew that Kamishiro was short on money right now, so he simply used money to tempt Kamishiro.
Kamishiro curled his lips: "How much more can you give for one mission, Minato-sama? How about you lend me 10 million ryo?"
Minato Namikaze glanced at Uzumaki Kushina, who was chatting and laughing with Pakura and Uchiha Hikari on the sofa, and said speechlessly: "Do you think I have a lot of money?"
Kamishiro was almost depressed to death: "Why is everyone henpecked! I'm speechless! There's not a shred of masculine dignity!"
The corner of Minato Namikaze's mouth twitched. He has no masculine dignity, but Kamishiro does? If Kamishiro gets married in the future, he'll definitely be henpecked too!
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