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

During the exercise that day, everyone was beaten badly by Sasuke. To be more precise, everyone was beaten badly by Sasuke and I together.

I didn't do anything special, but after Sasuke joined the team, I don't know why he was able to cooperate with the effect of one plus one being far greater than two - before, when Shikamaru and I were in a group with him, it's not like we had never partnered with him before, but we never saw such great power...

However, it does feel a little different.

At that time before, I always felt that there was a thick barrier between us, as if it was very difficult to convey our thoughts to each other. He refused to get close to me and Shikamaru, and I also refused to get close to him.

But now, I feel like Sasuke seems to have opened up his heart to me, but I can't open myself to him in the same way.

So I can't help him, he can only help me.

Although Naruto worked very hard, the effect of his efforts was infinitely close to zero, and he was often alone and disconnected because he could not keep up with our pace.

Today, he was even more unusually motivated, but from time to time he would get too excited and step into a trap or get into trouble, and needed to be rescued by Sasuke and me.

After the class, Shikamaru took a deep breath: "...I thought you and Naruto would exclude the third person because of your good relationship, but I didn't expect that Sasuke would exclude Naruto with your strength..."

Me: "...I didn't exclude Naruto! I just acted normally, no different from before..."

"No," Shikamaru said, "Didn't you notice? Your observation ability is more accurate than before, your sensitivity to chakra is more acute, and your chakra amount seems to have increased."

"Really?" I said in surprise, "I didn't feel anything too obvious... I just felt that winning was easier. I thought it was because of Sasuke's help!"

Ino threw herself on me: "Shikamaru must be right, because he has been watching you the whole time!"

Seeing that my friends gradually gathered around me after class, I just said, "Um... the fireworks display in July, are you guys going to it this year?"

Shino nodded: "Of course."

Shikamaru said, "Okay, but isn't it a little too early to discuss this now?"

Ino smiled and said, "No problem!"

I added, "I also invited Sasuke to join us, is that okay?"

Ino already knew the news in advance, so she was not surprised. She just smiled and watched the others with surprised expressions.

At this time, Sasuke came back - Naruto was injured during the exercise. After the exercise, he insisted on sending Naruto to the infirmary himself, leaving me no chance to intervene.

Just then, Shikamaru and the others came over to talk to me, so I couldn't follow them.

He packed his bag and walked over to me, and I quickly asked, "How's Naruto?"

"Some minor injuries. I told him that we had something to do today and that he didn't need to wait for you." Sasuke stood in front of me, looked at the people around me, and said to me, "It's time to go."

Shikamaru asked, "Where are you going?"

I said, "It was Hyuga Neji who sent us to the hospital, so I thought I should go and say thank you or something..."

Ino looked at Sasuke, then at me, and then looked at Shikamaru with a very complicated expression.

When Sasuke and I left the classroom together, I vaguely heard Ino's weak voice behind me: "I'm sorry Shikamaru, I don't know if I can still firmly support you..."

Shikamaru:"……"

We went to Hyuga Neji's home. He was a little surprised when he saw us, but accepted our gifts and thanked us. However, he was very serious, so serious that I felt uncomfortable staying in his home for even a second longer.

After leaving the Hyuga family, I breathed a sigh of relief: "The atmosphere in his house is so heavy..."

Sasuke accepted it well and looked at me in confusion: "Really?"

"It feels like there are so many rules and it seems so rigid."

"When father was still alive, my family also..." Sasuke glanced back at the Hyuga family: "I feel a little nostalgic."

I think there must be something wrong with his brain.

Soon, it was Sasuke's birthday. In the past, other friends' birthdays would be prepared by a group of friends together, but he said he didn't want to invite anyone else and only wanted to spend it with me. I could only rack my brains to think of how to hold a birthday party by myself - on the birthday, the birthday person must be happy, so for this reason, I have been thinking about whether I should prepare a few programs.

It was a school day, and after school, Sasuke ordered a birthday cake for himself, and we took it back to the Uchiha residence together. The gift I prepared was a shirt I made myself.

It was a piece of very good quality leftover fabric that the owner gave me when I was working in a kimono shop. It was just enough to make a top.

However, to determine the exact size, we still need to measure Sasuke's specific data.

Gifts are supposed to be surprising, so I must not tell him what I'm getting him in advance.

So when I went to Uchiha's house to clean part-time on weekends, he said he didn't need me to clean his room, so I had to find an excuse to get him away, then sneak in with a tape measure, open his closet, and try to secretly measure his clothes, but he caught me red-handed.

I was startled when he pushed the door open, and in a panic I held the tape measure and the clothes I was measuring in my arms to hide them. When he saw me sitting in the closet holding his clothes, the expression on his face was very strange.

"You..." Sasuke crossed his arms, "Can you explain?"

"It's just - I - uh - I really like this dress! Yes! I like it very much! When I saw you wearing it before, I liked it very much!"

"So you just snuck into my room, opened my closet, and tried to steal it?"

"No! I didn't mean to, I wouldn't steal anything! I just - I just wanted to come and see it!"

Sasuke looked at me without saying anything.

I gritted my teeth and continued, "I was telling it how much I missed it... You're disturbing us! Please go out, I'll be fine soon."

"If you like that dress so much, I can give it to you."

But I wanted to give him clothes, so he should have one more piece of clothing, how could he have one less?

"No need! Just go out for a while and I'll say goodbye to it for the last time... Thank you!"

Sasuke bit his lip and looked like he wanted to laugh, but he held it back: "Okay... then... say goodbye to it properly."

Anyway, I got his clothing size.

The owner taught me how to cut, sew, and hem it in his spare time...

I felt like my eyes were going blind from embroidering the Uchiha clan's crest on my back.

Therefore, although the lines are a little crooked in some places, I am still very confident that this gift will be presentable.

When he opened the gift, he was stunned for a moment, "This is..."

“I made this myself!”

In fact, ninjas rarely wear light-colored clothes, especially white clothes. One reason is that they are not resistant to dirt, and the other is that they are difficult to hide. But by the same token, ninjas who dare to wear light-colored clothes or bright colors are definitely very confident in their own abilities.

So after getting the white cloth, I thought Sasuke would definitely be able to wear it.

He laughed, "So that's why you sneaked into my room to look for my clothes?"

"I'm not being sneaky!"

"You really want me to wear light colors."

"Not really. Sasuke looks good in anything. But you have so many dark clothes. I wanted to give you a different gift so it would be more of a surprise. Do you like it?"

Sasuke pushed the strawberry cake in front of me: "I like it very much."

I secretly observed his expression and felt that given his current mood, he might not have to perform the few programs I had prepared just in case.