Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

The nurse smiled and said, "It's not uncommon for best friends to not be in the same group... It's such a pity."

Naruto emphasized: "This is just the grouping for this final exam. The teacher rearranged it! We have always been together before, always, always, always in the same group!"

The nurse smiled but said nothing.

Seeing that she didn't seem to believe him, Naruto shouted, "Of course I will!!!"

Shikamaru stopped him, "Don't be so loud in the hospital, idiot!"

"Then I'll leave this to the reliable young man from the Nara family."

The nurse said, closed the door and left.

Naruto was still a little angry as he looked at the direction she left, and said unconvincedly: "I will definitely be with Chaolu! We will never, ever separate!"

"Alright, alright," Shikamaru said with a headache, "Anyway, I will definitely be in a group with Ino and Choji, so you can be in a group with Asaka and Sasuke!"

"I don't want to be in the same group with Sasuke!"

Sasuke glared at Naruto and said, "Who wants to be in a group with a loser like you?"

Shikamaru asked Naruto, "Who do you want to be in a group with?"

Naruto narrowed his eyes and thought for a long time: "Asaka and Shino are love partners. Since they are partners, then Shino is the one!"

Shikamaru looked at him in disbelief: "You... are such an idiot!"

"what?"

Sasuke looked like he couldn't stand it anymore and turned to look out the window: "Idiot."

"Damn Sasuke! What did you say?!"

Shikamaru stopped paying attention to the two of them. As he walked over to me and checked my injuries, he muttered, "How long are you and Shino going to practice love?"

I said as a matter of course: "Of course I have to finish practicing."

He frowned. "What does it take to finish practicing?"

I thought about it. "In comics and novels, it is said that love develops gradually. It starts with holding hands, then hugging, then kissing, and finally spending the night together! Getting married!"

Shikamaru stared at me.

"However, Shino and I skipped the middle stage..."

Shikamaru gasped, "Skipped what?!"

"Skipped the hand holding and went straight to the hug."

He breathed a sigh of relief: "Ah, this, that's it."

I looked at him strangely, and Shikamaru laughed awkwardly: "Hahaha, hahahaha, I thought... it was nothing!"

"Because Shino doesn't really want to hold hands with me." I looked at my hands soaked in warm water. "He doesn't want to hug for too long without clothes. If it's skin contact, he resists it."

"Is it because of the bugs?"

I nodded. "Shino said that if it touches the skin, he may not be able to control it now, and bugs will fly out. Although I said I don't mind, Shino said that he doesn't want me to say I don't mind but mind it in my heart and then quietly distance myself from him. I can't prove to him that I don't mind in my heart either... Alas."

"Through the clothes?"

"He said that even if there were clothes between them, bugs might come out after a while... Because it is said that people in love will have a special feeling when holding hands and hugging. It is said in comics and novels that that feeling will make people feel dizzy, so Shino is worried that his emotions will get out of control."

Shikamaru looked relieved: "...I see, Shino is very careful."

"Yeah. The first time we hugged was during the fireworks display." I said in distress, "But, is there something wrong? Although I feel safe and happy hugging Shino, I always feel that it is different from the feeling described in the book... the feeling of happiness that makes me feel like I am going to heaven..."

Shikamaru whispered, "Maybe it's not the hug that's wrong, it's the person...it's the feeling that's wrong."

"I was thinking the same thing." I said, "Is it because we are just dating partners, not lovers? Shino said at the beginning that we don't like each other, so we can't be called lovers. If we were lovers, maybe we would feel so happy that we could go to heaven, right?"

Shikamaru said, "I think so."

"You see, this is the meaning of love practice!"

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"If you haven't practiced, you won't know what it feels like to hug someone who isn't your lover, and you won't be able to compare the difference with hugging a lover, and you won't know how happy it is to hug a lover! So, hugging someone who isn't your lover is also important, right?"

Shikamaru: “Huh?”

"Because only when you have tried everything, you will know how happy it is to be with your lover, right?"

Shikamaru: "...If you say so...then it can't be said to be wrong..."

"After knowing the difference, I think everyone will cherish their lovers even more. Because only people who like each other can give people such a wonderful feeling!"

Shikamaru looked a bit confused: "...ok...ok?"

"As for the kiss, the book says that the first kiss is very important, so I'm still considering the timing." I said seriously: "After all, it's Shino's first kiss, we must not treat it lightly! I hope to leave him with a good memory whenever he recalls it!"

Shikamaru:"……"

“And sleepovers!”

Shikamaru: “!”

"But I have experience with this because I've stayed overnight at Naruto's house."

At first, we had planned to ask the orphanage to allow me to live with Naruto, but one time, when I slipped out to meet up with Naruto, I was caught by Brother Urusi.

He said angrily, if I don’t like staying in the orphanage so much, I might as well let the Nara family adopt me!

It is said that Shikamaru's mother once came to the welfare home to inquire about me.

After hearing this, Naruto and I never dared to do that again.

But later on, I would occasionally stay overnight at Naruto's house, but most of the time it was because I worked too late, or in order to have a part-time job nearby the next day.

Naruto's home is much closer to the village center than the orphanage.

Although Brother Urusi had always been reluctant to do this, he was very busy as a medical ninja, and the number of times was not too often, so he did not prohibit it so strictly.

But Naruto told me that one time he was caught by Urusi-gei on the street, and then he was severely taught "which parts of girls you absolutely cannot look at or touch".

"He said that if I don't obey, he will never allow Chaolu to get close to me again." Naruto clenched his fist and said firmly: "We made an oath between men, and I swear to absolutely abide by it!"

I was a little nervous: "Well, do I need to comply? Can I not hold Naruto to sleep in the future?"

Naruto scratched his head and thought for a moment, "Urusi-nii didn't seem to say that Asano had to obey... so it shouldn't be necessary, right?"

I breathed a sigh of relief: "Great!"

Naruto said, "Anyway, I think there's nothing a boy can't see or touch."

He gave me a confident thumbs up: "It's okay for Chaolu to look at or touch anything!"

Naruto is a boy, of course he understands boys best, so I completely believe him: "So that's it!"

At this time, Shikamaru pulled me back to my thoughts: "...But if you go to Shino's house to spend the night, you can't live with him like you did with Naruto. Shino's parents won't agree."

"Yeah, so we agreed to spend the night together again after graduation. By then, we will be independent ninjas and can go out and spend the night alone!"

Shikamaru:"……"

He seemed to swallow my words with difficulty: "But if Shino is not even comfortable with holding hands and hugging, is it really possible for her to spend the night with Asaro?"

I said, "I will cure Shino with desensitization therapy before then! I plan to touch one spot on Shino's body every day so that he will simply give up control and release the bugs to get used to me. What do you think, Shikamaru?"

"But there are some places that boys can't touch..."

"Huh?" I was stunned. "But Naruto said that there is nothing that boys cannot see or touch."

Shikamaru:"……"

He turned around and looked at Naruto who was still arguing with Sasuke by the window, and was choked by Sasuke's words: "Naruto!!!"

Naruto was startled: "Wow! Why are you yelling at me so loudly all of a sudden--!"

"You, who don't even have common sense yourself, stop teaching Chaolu these messed up things!!!"