Camera

It turned out Naruto had only discovered the first layer of her secret.

The chibi doll he had pulled from the plushie's belly made Naruto think that was all there was to it—he thought Satsuki had simply wanted to stay by his side so badly back then that she had made a miniature version of herself and secretly stuffed it into that little cat's stomach.

He also remembered what Satsuki had said when she gave him the plushie: "Put it somewhere noticeable." At the time, he had taken it as an offhand remark, but now that he thought about it, it had probably been the clumsiest yet most sincere confession of her girlhood.

But Satsuki knew that was far from everything. The real secret was in that little cat's eyes.

No, no, no. Wait.

Satsuki's thoughts abruptly ground to a halt. Was this really okay?

Even Uchiha Satsuki herself was beginning to doubt her own judgment. That behavior—secretly hiding a camera in the eyes of a plushie given to the person she loved, then hiding behind a screen every day to spy on his life and fantasize about being held by him as she slept—no matter how one looked at it, there was only one explanation.

A total creep. An absolute creep.

What else could someone who did that to the person they liked be but a pervert?

If he found out, he would definitely think she was a freak, right? He would definitely be disgusted by her, right? Someone as sunny and normal as Naruto—how could he possibly accept that his wife had once been this kind of...

Satsuki cautiously raised her head and secretly glanced at Naruto's face from the corner of her eye. She was afraid of seeing contempt appear on his face, afraid of seeing disgust