Fierce Battle (Part 2)

Uchiha Mikoto was no fool. No one who became a jonin was a fool.

After noticing that her body was becoming increasingly abnormal, she began eliminating every impossible cause one by one in her mind. In the end, the remaining possibility, no matter how unbelievable, had to be the truth.

She had been drugged.

As for where things had gone wrong, Mikoto already had an answer.

"The Medical Department... Uzuki Yugao!"

As the image of the other woman surfaced in her muddled mind, Mikoto began recalling every interaction they had shared. She realized that not only had they never held any grudges against each other, they had gotten along quite well.

Uzuki Yugao could not have drugged her deliberately. There were many people in all of Konoha who could order Yugao to do such a thing, but very few would dare—after all, her teacher was Uchiha Asuka!!

What if Uchiha Asuka was the one secretly ordering her around? The thought flashed through her mind. She then raised her eyes and stared at the handsome young man close at hand.

Though the room was pitch-black and she could not make out his features, Asuka's image was exceptionally clear in Mikoto's mind. Especially that wicked smile on his face—it seemed to be silently conveying something.

Heh, trying to sleep with me using such a lowly trick? she sneered inwardly. Yet her body seemed bound by an invisible force. Her muddled mind could not issue the command to rise and leave, and her entire being seemed swallowed by a vortex of desire.

Only her mind could still think calmly, but as time passed, even that calmness was gradually replaced by heat.

Thinking back on her past with Asuka, Mikoto remembered that she had disliked him intensely at first. If not for the constraints