"Hanabi, you probably made quite a few friends at school, right?", While wiping, Aoba asked Hanabi about the situation at school.
"It's okay, just feel like the kids at school are too childish," Hanabi squinted her eyes, looking very relaxed.
"I don't like playing with childish kids!"
"Is that so... If you don't like it, then no need to force yourself, but it's still good to have one or two good friends."
"Like Aoba-nii and Onee-san kind of good friends?", Hanabi asked with an innocent look on her face.
"Ugh ugh..."
Then Hanabi covered her head, putting on a pitiful expression.
"Such a little rascal," Aoba withdrew his hand and continued helping her dry her hair.
"So how were your grades this semester at school?"
"First place," Hanabi changed her expression instantly.
"That's good, you didn't shame me, your sensei."
"Then you..."
"Alright, alright! Aoba-nii is here to play with me today, not to talk about schoolwork!"
Hanabi puffed her cheeks and shook her head, interrupting Aoba with dissatisfaction.
"I'm your sensei, of course I have to care about your studies."
Aoba tapped her forehead with annoyance, but he didn't continue asking.
He focused on helping her dry her hair.
"What does little Hanabi plan to play?"
After drying Hanabi's hair, Aoba started wiping her still slightly damp little feet.
Cool and soft, tender.
Hanabi slightly tilted her head up, pointed her finger at her slightly pursed lips, showing a thinking expression.
After a while.
"How about we go fly a kite!"
"Fly a kite?", Aoba was stunned for a moment.
"The weather today doesn't seem suitable for kite flying," Hinata interjected, as there wasn't much wind today.
"Can't we?", Hanabi turned her head toward Aoba and showed a pitiful expression again.
She just said she doesn't like childish kids.
But facing such a cute little sister-in-law's request, how could he refuse?
"Then let's go fly a kite together."
"Yay!"
The three of them went out together. Luckily, although the Hyuga compound was traditional, it was spacious enough, and there was a clearing perfect for kite flying.
No need to go far, just in front of the house.
"Here will do," Aoba took out a kite, and with a simple move, the kite flew up immediately.
After the kite's flight in the sky gradually stabilized, he handed it over to the eager Hanabi nearby.
For ninjas, flying kites never required worrying about the environment.
Aoba just needed a Wind Release, and the kite could soar high.
"Sorry to trouble you, Aoba-kun," Hinata's face flushed slightly, apologizing to Aoba.
"It's nothing, it's not trouble at all," Aoba smiled.
'Aoba-kun is always so gentle,' Hinata thought so in her heart.
"Ah!"
Hanabi's anxious voice suddenly sounded, "Aoba-nii! I can't hold it! The kite is going to fall!"
Aoba heard this, moved under the kite, and used another Wind Release.
The kite soared high again.
Happy times always pass quickly.
It was soon dusk.
Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Ayako entered the compound and immediately saw the three of them flying a kite.
Aoba carrying Hanabi on his back, Hanabi holding the spool in her hands, and Hinata in a white yukata covering her mouth with a smile on the side, eyes crescent-shaped.
This scene looked more like a family of three than the actual one.
The two didn't disturb them and went straight back to their own house.
As it got dark, Aoba also prepared to go home.
"Aoba, why don't you stay for dinner?", Hyuga Ayako tried to keep Aoba.
Hinata and Hanabi also looked at him with expectant eyes.
"No need, dinner should already be ready for me at home," Aoba still declined them.
"Alright then, come play more often in the future."
———
Leaving the Hyuga clan, Aoba went to the commercial street and bought a perfume from a cosmetics store that wasn't yet in Karin's collection box.
Karin liked collecting perfumes, so giving perfume as a gift was just right.
———
"Aoba-nii?"
Looking at Aoba at the door, Karin was a bit surprised.
Then she hugged him and began taking advantage of him. Having held back the whole afternoon, she was already impatient.
"Aoba-nii coming to find Karin so late, is there something going on?"
"Hmm? Didn't I say I'd bring you a gift when I got back?", Aoba lifted the bag in his hand and shook it in front of Karin.
"There really is a gift? What is it?", Karin's eyes lit up as she took the bag from Aoba's hand.
"The latest perfume!", Karin was even happier.
"When have I ever lied to you," Aoba gave her a light flick on the forehead with a helpless expression.
"Hehe, then I'll use this perfume tomorrow," Karin's face was full of joy.
Aoba also smiled, "Then I'll get going first."
"Not coming in to sit for a while?", Seeing Aoba about to leave again, Karin called out unwillingly.
"Sensei is probably waiting for me to eat," Aoba patted her on the head and turned to walk toward Tsunade's house.
But after he walked a bit, Karin suddenly called him again, "Aoba-nii!"
"Hmm?", Aoba turned around in confusion and looked at her, smiling as he asked, "What is it?"
A trace of guilt flashed through Karin's eyes. After all, it was her who tattled to Yugao.
When Yugao came back this afternoon, her expression was really scary.
She thought she was going to be killed at the time.
She jogged to Aoba's side, glanced at the dark window of his house.
She always felt there was a pair of eyes staring at her from there.
"Aoba-nii, when you go home later, be careful," Karin leaned close to Aoba's ear and whispered a reminder.
"Careful?", Aoba also looked at the window of his own house, but didn't notice anything strange.
He wanted to ask more, but Karin had already run back to her door, waved at him, and closed the door.
He didn't think too much about it either. Judging by Karin's reaction, it was probably a prank in his house due to her pent-up energy.
He just had to be careful later.
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