Parents Meet

Although Ningyuan said he was doing street dance, he was actually performing Phoenix Dance of the Nine Heavens 1.0. Since this world didn't have street dance anyway, the right to define it naturally rested in his hands.

If he said it was street dance, then it was street dance!

The reason it was called 1.0 was that his dance level had improved, giving the originally seemingly perfect Phoenix Dance of the Nine Heavens room for further refinement.

Of course, he had to activate Path Creator and enter a Brain Overclocking state to do it.

But for Yūhi Kurenai, Phoenix Dance of the Nine Heavens 1.0 was enough for now.

Watching the boy in front of her suddenly start dancing without a word, Yūhi Kurenai's first reaction was embarrassment. How could he be so bold?

But she quickly forgot that embarrassment and became immersed in Hyuga Ningyuan's movements.

After all, this was a dance that gathered the finest elements of Earth's dances. It possessed beauty, rhythm, and power alike. If it were performed on Earth, it would not be an exaggeration to say it could establish its own school!

And this was 1.0, a version created while his brain was overclocked!

After all, few dances that could be promoted to ordinary people and seen by Hyuga Ningyuan were anything less than classics.

Of course, that excluded those suggestive dances.

"So cool, so beautiful, so pretty!" Her initial embarrassment had completely vanished, leaving only amazement and envy.

And anticipation!

Could I dance like that too? Could I be that cool too?

Light flickered in Yūhi Kurenai's wine-red eyes. At that moment, Hyuga Ningyuan seemed to be glowing before her.

At first, she had become friends with Hyuga Ningyuan only because he was cute and had taken the initiative to play with her.

Such friendships came easily and went easily. Hyuga Ningyuan could do it; someone else could too.

Simply put, Hyuga Ningyuan had not been much different from anyone else in her heart. He had merely taken a few more steps than they had.

But from that moment on, Hyuga Ningyuan carried a different meaning in her heart.

It was as if the affection meter had suddenly shot upward, leaping straight from 30 to 80!

At that point, the number basically declared the goal complete. As long as Hyuga Ningyuan didn't mess around or stir up trouble later, the two of them could naturally end up together.

Hyuga Ningyuan spun through the air, then landed lightly on the ground.

"Done!"

Clap clap clap clap! Yūhi Kurenai immediately raised her hands and applauded. "That was amazing!"

"Want to learn?" Ningyuan asked.

"Mhm, mhm!" Yūhi Kurenai nodded heavily.

"Then let's start with the first set of movements!"

At the school gate, Yūhi Shinku watched the other children get picked up one by one. His expression slowly changed from anticipation to anxiety, then to irritation.

Only when a Byakugan woman in white home clothes with long black hair arrived at the school gate did Yūhi Shinku finally lose patience and ask, "Hello, are you here to pick up a child too?"

"Yes!" Hyuga Mie smiled. "It's Ningyuan's first day of school. This morning, he said I didn't need to pick him up after class, but he still hasn't come home, so I came to look for him."

"Hyuga Ningyuan!" Yūhi Shinku gritted his teeth. There were quite a few Hyuga children in this class, but two had already left. Could the remaining one be the brat who had held his daughter's hand at the opening ceremony?

My daughter didn't leave after school, and that Hyuga brat didn't leave either. Doesn't that mean they both stayed at school?

Then what were they doing at school?

Yūhi Shinku naturally trusted his daughter's upbringing. She could not possibly do anything improper, and besides, they were too young for that. But he didn't trust that Hyuga brat!

"I'm here to pick up my daughter. They should still be at school, right? How about we go in and look for them?" Yūhi Shinku suggested, forcing down his anger.

"Sure!" Hyuga Mie hadn't noticed the change in Yūhi Shinku's mood. Instead, she was cheerful, her heart full of anticipation at the thought of picking up her child.

Yūhi Shinku had attended the Ninja Academy, so he knew the place well. He headed straight for the first-year classrooms, but every room was empty. There were no students at all.

Yūhi Shinku then found the office. Fortunately, Shōhoku Sōun was still there.

"Oh, you're looking for Yūhi Kurenai?" Shōhoku Sōun said. "She's on the rooftop, together with Hyuga Ningyuan."

How could ninjas possibly fail to notice two students dancing on the rooftop? If anything happened, they would have to step in.

"The rooftop?" Yūhi Shinku frowned. He recalled how he had once wanted to do it on a rooftop, but Yūhi Kurenai's mother had refused, so he had never gotten the chance. They couldn't be up there kissing, could they?!

"Ningyuan's mother, shall we go up and take a look?" Yūhi Shinku asked.

That way, if he caught them in the act, he could beat that brat up right away. His mother would have seen everything too, so she couldn't claim he was falsely accusing him!

"Sure!" Hyuga Mie said with a smile. Just as Yūhi Shinku trusted his daughter, she trusted her son.

Watching the two leave, Shōhoku Sōun worried that something might happen. After some thought, he set aside his work for the moment and followed them upstairs.

A moment later, he saw Yūhi Shinku and Hyuga Mie pressed against the rooftop stairwell wall, cautiously peeking outside.

"You two..." Shōhoku Sōun began.

"Shh!" Yūhi Shinku hurriedly told him to be quiet.

"Uh..." Shōhoku Sōun was confused, then saw Yūhi Shinku gesturing for him to come look too.

Shōhoku Sōun leaned over and saw a boy and a girl standing in the middle of the rooftop.

Weren't they just dancing? What was the problem?

"Let's go downstairs," Yūhi Shinku gestured.

"Alright." Shōhoku Sōun nodded and followed the two away from the rooftop.

A moment later, the three of them were sitting in the office.

Yūhi Shinku's expression was complicated. His mouth opened and closed several times, but he didn't know how to begin.

As a Jonin, he naturally knew how to observe people and read microexpressions. The expression on Yūhi Kurenai's face while she danced had been one of genuine happiness.

That meant the two children actually got along very well.

And that dance had looked like nothing more than a dance, yet something about it had seemed off.

It carried traces of the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist Style.

Although it differed somewhat from the Gentle Fist Style he knew, the Hyuga Clan had been passed down for so long that it was perfectly normal for them to have styles he had never seen.

Could it be some secret Hyuga Clan dance, perhaps a ritual dance?

So Hyuga Ningyuan teaching his daughter the Gentle Fist Style meant his family was the one benefiting.

With that in mind, he suddenly couldn't bring himself to tell Hyuga Ningyuan to stay away from his daughter.

It wasn't that he coveted someone else's martial arts. It was simply that the Yūhi Clan truly did not excel at taijutsu, and the ninja world was unstable. Another war could come at any time.

If it could give his daughter a better chance of surviving, and she liked it too...

Judging by Yūhi Kurenai's expression, that affection and admiration in her eyes were impossible to hide!

Damn it, how had he done it? School had only started today!

The only problem was that Hyuga Ningyuan was from the Hyuga Branch Family!

But on second thought, if he were from the Hyuga Main Family, there would be even less of a chance, since the Hyuga Main Family never married outsiders.

Though members of the Hyuga Branch Family had the Caged Bird mark placed on them and lacked personal freedom, their chances of dying on the battlefield were greatly reduced.

If his daughter chose someone from the Hyuga Branch Family, then at the very least, their safety would be guaranteed—both Hyuga Ningyuan's and Yūhi Kurenai's.

So the question was: freedom or life—which mattered more?

After agonizing over it for a long time, Yūhi Shinku finally let out a long breath and said, "Ningyuan's mother, have Ningyuan come to my house tomorrow!"

"Alright!" Hyuga Mie nodded, though her own thoughts were in turmoil.

She had long known that her son would eventually find a girlfriend, marry, and have children, but wasn't this happening far too soon?

He was only five!

And yet, that little girl really was adorable.

What excellent taste!

Shōhoku Sōun looked at Yūhi Shinku, then at Hyuga Mie. What were those expressions supposed to mean? Weren't two children simply playing together?

Why did it look like the parents had already met to discuss marriage?

In other words, had these two little brats' romance already been approved by their parents?

Damn it, even five-year-olds were dating, while he was still single?