Crawling Sister-in-Law

"Take your Summoned Beast and get back to the Side Courtyard!" Hiashi supported his kicked lower back, his face dark as he scolded.

A perfectly good mood, ruined the moment he met Fuyuki and his Summoned Beast.

"Understood, Father." Fuyuki shrugged and spread his hands, expressing his helplessness.

Although he knew Moryo had awakened, he hadn't realized Moryo was so vicious, attacking people the moment it regained consciousness.

But then again, if Hiashi hadn't been bored enough to tell Fuyuki to let go, would he have been kicked?

"Here, here, come."

Fuyuki beckoned, and Moryo followed behind its summoner with a wagging tail, looking exactly like a loyal dog. A fawning smile bloomed on its beautiful face; it had completely lost the bearing of an Otherworld Demon King, living a life even more pathetic than a sycophant.

Back in the Side Courtyard, Fuyuki sat on the wooden floor and waved for the housemaid to leave, saying with a smile: "Moryo, didn't you want to know my true form? That's right, this barely seven-year-old child is my true form. Do you have any thoughts you'd like to share?"

"I'll kill you, I will absolutely kill you!" Moryo's emotions were extremely unstable, its heart filled with hatred.

It could not endure being humiliated by Fuyuki like this!

"Come and do it if you have the ability."

Fuyuki waved his hand, unconcerned: "We can discuss killing me when I have the time. For now, you are just my pet. Obey and you'll be rewarded; defy me and you'll be punished. I hope you haven't forgotten the two lashes I gave you."

Moryo, who had been kneeling obediently on the ground while desperately cursing Fuyuki in its mind, felt its pupils constrict. It immediately shut its mouth, not daring to bicker with its summoner anymore. Clearly, it had recalled what Fuyuki had done to it in the cave.

"Starting tomorrow, you will learn etiquette in the morning and arithmetic in the afternoon. My Hot Spring Resort should be ready to open in about half a month. During that time, you need to work at the Hot Spring Hotel to pay off your debt."

"You owe me about six billion ryo, right?"

"Talk to me about other things once you've paid off your debt. If there's nothing else, you can go rest."

Fuyuki stood up and left, heading toward the Main Branch compound, intending to see if Hanabi was sleeping.

In just a few short months, Hanabi, who had been huddled in swaddling clothes, had already learned to crawl. Surely, before long, Hanabi would be able to crawl into her beloved brother's arms and call out sweetly: "Onii-chan, hug me~"

The more he thought about it, the happier Fuyuki became, his mouth curling upward wildly.

"Hanabi, did you miss your brother?"

Fuyuki opened the sliding door, entered the room with its jarringly modern minimalist style, and asked Hanabi, who was crawling slowly and unsteadily on the carpet.

"Da!"

Hanabi switched from a slow crawl to a fast one, quickly reaching Fuyuki's feet, showing a big smile and reaching out her hands as if asking for a hug.

"Such a good girl!" Fuyuki picked Hanabi up and nuzzled her. Hanabi let out a happy laugh, clearly very fond of her brother.

"Fuyuki, why did you skip class again today?" Mother said with a headache: "Your final grades are failing, and the Ninja Academy won't let you advance. Do you want to be the first heir of the Hyuga Clan to be held back?"

"Why would the exam be a failure? Can't the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan see through things?" Fuyuki asked with a look of wonder.

Mother was instantly speechless, not knowing what to do. After all, this was her first time raising a cub; she had no experience!

"In—in any case, skipping class is bad behavior!"

Hinata inherited her mother's personality, being very gentle, virtuous, and considerate, making her exceptionally well-suited to be a mother.

If it were any other mother, and Fuyuki dared to be this cheeky, he would likely face:

The sword in a loving mother's hand, slashing at the wandering son!

His mother in this life was incredibly good to Fuyuki; when he was young, scenes of "Father wants to discipline, but Mother won't allow it" were a common occurrence.

"Alright, I'll go to class tomorrow. Mother, how are Hinata's grades lately? Have they improved at all?" Fuyuki brought up the question he was most concerned about.

Because Fuyuki didn't participate in family training and spent his time wandering around with a cup of iced milk tea, the Hyuga Great Elder was furious and forbade Fuyuki from stepping anywhere near the Training Ground unless he wanted to join the intensive training.

"Hinata..." Mother's smile stiffened, and she sighed: "She's having a hard time. Lord Hiashi has had Hinata undergo the elders' elite education."

The Hyuga elite education was harshly abnormal, with four Jonin-level elders providing round-the-clock training. They taught everything from combat experience to family secret techniques. The intensity of the training was far greater than that of other family members, and on top of that, Hinata still had to go to the Ninja Academy in the morning.

Although Hinata's strength was growing rapidly, her days were quite miserable.

"How pitiful."

Fuyuki chatted about daily life with his mother while holding Hanabi, letting her rest on his shoulder to sleep, and said: "Is Father not afraid of a backlash from pushing Hinata to become stronger like this?"

A certain Lu once said: If you don't erupt under oppression, you become perverted under oppression.

Fuyuki was afraid that Hiashi was pushing Hinata too hard, forcing her personality into that of the irritable older sister from the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

One must know, there are no naturally irritable older sisters in the world; they only become irritable when their patience is exhausted by idiots!

"Backlash? You mean physical injury? Don't worry, the Hyuga Clan's medicinal plasters and medical ninjas are the real deal." Mother reassured Fuyuki that the training wouldn't hurt Hinata.

"Uh, I hope so." Fuyuki was uncharacteristically at a loss for words.

After placing the sleeping Hanabi on the bed, Fuyuki didn't stay in his mother's room for long. He intended to talk to his father about inviting the Lord of the Land of Fire for a visit. The Hot Spring Resort was staffed mostly by ninjas, so the efficiency was naturally higher than that of ordinary people.

Something that could be solved with one Earth Release might take ordinary people half the day.

However, ninjas rarely engaged in production, and their fees were extremely expensive, so few people hired ninja masters for manual labor. Powerful ninjas were not lower in status than nobles in the shadows; on the surface, they just gave those nobles some face.

If the noble lords tried not to allocate funds, they'd be turned into ashes!

"Hm?"

Fuyuki's body stiffened, feeling as if he were being pressed down by a giant boulder, pinned to the spot and unable to move.

"Finally found you, you despicable thief who misappropriated the power of a god."

A layer of black, oil-like mucus spread out from the cracks in the ground, climbing up from Fuyuki's feet as if intending to envelop his entire body.

"Black Zetsu? Why are you here?" Fuyuki's body was immobilized, but his consciousness and mouth remained free. "Chenxiang-san, instead of going to find your mother to enjoy some family bonding, why are you running over here to mess with me?"

"Tell me, how did you use the Summoning Jutsu to misappropriate the power of the Rabbit Goddess?" Black Zetsu manipulated Fuyuki's arm to aim at his own chest, where the Chakra of the Gentle Fist Technique began to glow on his palm. "If I sense that you are lying, I will have no choice but to regretfully send you to the Underworld."

Fuyuki looked up at the sky, speechless. Why was this bored Otsutsuki Chenxiang coming to bother him?

Come to think of it, how did it know that he could summon the Ancestor Kaguya?

He hadn't displayed it in front of it, nor had he gone around showing off the power of Kaguya-hime. He had only used it once while fighting for his life against Auntie Orochimaru, and when talking to his father, he had merely summoned a faint phantom of Kaguya-hime.

"Black Zetsu, I'm afraid you're about to become an orphan."

"What do you mean by that?" Black Zetsu said sinisterly. "It seems you haven't just misappropriated Mother's power; you've also obtained quite a bit of intelligence from Her."

Second update, requesting votes.

Note 1: Lu Xun actually said this!