M-Married?
Hearing the question that was practically shouted, Neji Hyuga and Hyuga Hinata both froze as they looked at Aunt Yukina ahead of them, whose face was filled with the contradictory expression of desperately wanting to know, yet fearing she would learn something she did not want to know.
Clearly, they had never expected their Aunt Yukina to ask such a question.
In fact, this was completely unlike the Aunt Yukina they remembered. Compared to the Aunt Yukina in their memories—even compared to the Aunt Yukina from just moments ago—in an instant, their aunt had changed from a leader possessing the absolute majesty of a superior, capable of overshadowing nearly all of Konoha's current upper and middle ranks, into a little girl worried about some boy.
To be honest, the contrast was far too great.
Originally, although their Aunt Yukina's behavior had seemed not too different from theirs, they could still sense the traces of time upon her. At the very least, this Aunt Yukina was someone from an entirely different age group. Truly, they regarded her as their aunt, even if she actually looked about the same age as them.
But now, in an instant—especially for Hyuga Hinata—she suddenly felt that the Aunt Yukina before them was actually about the same as them. She was still just a girl, a girl who had fallen for someone. In that sense, this Aunt Yukina no longer felt like an aunt. Instead, she felt like someone their own age.
No.
She really was about their age.
The expression on Aunt Yukina's face, wanting to know yet not wanting to know, was far too much like their own immature selves! At this moment, the one standing before them was not their aunt, but a teenage girl just like them.
Her temperament had been