[Taste My Flavor!]

"Kakashi, you train at your own pace. I'm heading out." After confirming Hyuga Bin wouldn't be at the training grounds, Kurenai Yuhi decided to leave.

She was an illusion jutsu ninja and generally didn't need to train ninjutsu at the training grounds.

"Aren't you training anymore?" Hatake Kakashi asked, a little confused since it was the start of the training session.

"Mhm, I suddenly remembered I have other things to do. Bye-bye." Kurenai Yuhi smiled, waved at Hatake Kakashi, and turned to leave.

Hatake Kakashi didn't overthink it. After Kurenai Yuhi left, he continued his training.

While training, he quietly recited the following haiku poems:

"Stealing someone's wife, thrilling and delicious, just like eating fugu..."

The next day, morning.

Hyuga Bin arrived at the dessert shop as usual and ran into Kurenai Yuhi again.

"Bin, we meet again." Kurenai Yuhi greeted Hyuga Bin with a beaming smile.

"Mhm." Hyuga Bin walked up to Kurenai Yuhi, sat down, and offered a smile in return.

"Still the usual three-color dango, I see." Kurenai Yuhi teased, looking at the familiar sweet treat in front of Hyuga Bin.

"Mhm, I plan to eat it until I'm sick of it, then I'll stop." Hyuga Bin nodded and offered a skewer to Kurenai Yuhi. "Want to try?"

Because there were many flavors of three-color dango, Hyuga Bin had been eating them for years without getting tired of them.

"Sure, thanks." Kurenai Yuhi took the skewer and, mimicking Hyuga Bin's previous way of eating, swallowed the entire dango in one bite, filling her small mouth.

As luck would have it, the first one she ate was a sweet flavor with cream filling. The milky white cream spilled out from the corner of Kurenai Yuhi's mouth.

According to unofficial expert analysis, cream filling has beautifying properties.

Kurenai Yuhi quickly covered her mouth with her hand and chewed slowly.

"Kurenai, the dango is quite large. You don't have to eat it all in one bite. Take your time, little by little, and savor the taste." Hyuga Bin advised, seeing Kurenai Yuhi's action.

Kurenai Yuhi, still covering her mouth, chewed and swallowed the entire dango, then licked the cream from the corner of her lips before speaking, "But I saw you eating one dango at a time before."

"I'm just used to eating that way. For a beginner like you, it's best to eat slowly." Hyuga Bin acted like a dango veteran.

As soon as he finished speaking, Kurenai Yuhi couldn't help but laugh. "Heh heh... Bin, you're really funny. If I had chatted with you more before, I would have been much happier."

It was the first time she had ever heard of such a thing as a "beginner" when it came to eating.

"Your sense of humor is just too low." Hyuga Bin said nonchalantly, popping a dango into his mouth.

"Then can you help me cultivate it?" Kurenai Yuhi asked Hyuga Bin.

"I'm a doctor. I only know how to treat illnesses, not how to cultivate eating skills." Hyuga Bin shook his head.

"Okay, but even with your method, if I take a bite, the cream inside will still leak out." Kurenai Yuhi thought about it and said.

"For dango with cream filling like this, you can try a different method. First, bite a small opening in the dango, then suck out the cream with your mouth, swallow the cream first, and then eat the dango." Hyuga Bin taught Kurenai Yuhi another new way to eat dango.

"Bin, you're so knowledgeable." After hearing Hyuga Bin's words, Kurenai Yuhi felt like she had discovered a new world.

"It's nothing special. I just have a lot of experience from doing it often. If you try a few more times, you'll become skilled too." Hyuga Bin waved his hand, maintaining his humility towards good food.

"Alright, it seems I'll have to listen to you and try a dozen more times." Kurenai Yuhi looked directly at Hyuga Bin, who had just eaten another skewer. "But Bin, do you usually eat alone?"

"Mhm."

"It's so boring to eat dessert alone." Kurenai Yuhi disliked being alone; it felt lonely.

"Everyone has different ways of thinking. I find being alone quite nice." Hyuga Bin smiled.

"Bin, besides dango, what other sweets do you like?" Kurenai Yuhi continued to proactively find topics for Hyuga Bin.

"My tastes are quite simple. I basically only come to this shop for the dango. I haven't even tried many of the other items yet." Hyuga Bin replied with a smile.

His preferences were similar to most men who were devoted to one thing: always liking eighteen-year-old girls.

"Then you have to try some new flavors. How about trying my cake?" Kurenai Yuhi scooped a small piece of cake with her spoon and offered it to Hyuga Bin's mouth, gesturing for him to open his mouth, completely unconcerned that it was her spoon.

"Ah, thank you, but no need." Hyuga Bin hastily refused. He wasn't very comfortable with such intimate gestures between ordinary friends.

"Try it, you might like it." Seeing Hyuga Bin refuse, Kurenai Yuhi pouted slightly, looking a little unhappy.

"I'll use my own spoon then." Hyuga Bin didn't refuse Kurenai Yuhi again, but he didn't accept the cake offered to his mouth. Instead, he picked up his own spoon and took a bite.

As he took a bite, some cream accidentally got on his lips.

"Bin, wait a moment."

Kurenai Yuhi saw this and reached out her small hand directly towards Hyuga Bin's face.

The next second, her wrist was grabbed by Hyuga Bin.

"You have cream on your lips. I was going to wipe it for you," Kurenai Yuhi explained, her face flushing slightly.

"Thank you, I'll do it myself." Hyuga Bin released Kurenai Yuhi's hand and pulled out a tissue to wipe his mouth.

Kurenai Yuhi's overly intimate behavior made Hyuga Bin feel like she was being manipulative.

If he didn't have his enhanced Byakugan, Hyuga Bin would have suspected that the girl before him had been swapped out and wasn't the real Kurenai Yuhi.