At a crossroads, Uchiha Chen was hiding in a patch of shade.
He looked up. The sun was already blazing down upon the earth.
Uchiha Chen had been waiting here for nearly twenty minutes, yet Kushina, who had promised to come for tutoring, still had not arrived.
It really was no rumor that girls took forever to get ready before going out.
It seemed that whenever he went out with a girl in the future, arriving twenty minutes after the agreed time would definitely be fine.
"Nothing happened to her, did it?" Uchiha Chen was somewhat worried. An accident was not impossible, after all. He remembered that Kushina had once been kidnapped by the Hidden Cloud Village.
Uchiha Chen was just about to go to Nawaki's house to look for her.
Suddenly, hurried footsteps came from nearby.
Uchiha Chen looked up and saw that Kushina had arrived.
Kushina wore a black ninja outfit today, her red hair tied into a ponytail.
The moment she saw Uchiha Chen, Kushina broke into a dazzling smile.
"Sorry, Chen, I'm late. Sister Tsunade kept holding me back to explain some precautions."
"Huh? Precautions related to training?" Uchiha Chen was somewhat surprised.
Even lazy Tsunade could be pretty reliable sometimes.
"N-No. She said they were precautions for guarding against perverts."
Hmm? Uchiha Chen nodded. Tsunade probably was not talking about him... perhaps.
He still had some self-awareness in that regard.
"Anyway, come with me."
"Okay."
Summer was steadily advancing at its own pace. The pedestrians on Commercial Street remained as numerous as ever.
"Wow, there are so many people here." Kushina looked as though she had never seen the world.
"Kushina, you haven't properly explored Konoha yet, have you?" Uchiha Chen asked.
Kushina's gaze filled with envy, and she nodded.
"That's right. I've been learning