Yesterday, when Namikaze Minato saw Kushina Uzumaki being bullied by delinquent classmates, he thought she was a strong girl who could handle it herself, so he did not step in to help.
But Uchiha Kurohane had stepped in, and now Kushina Uzumaki and Uchiha Kurohane seemed to have become very close.
Namikaze Minato felt that his judgment might have been wrong.
He could not help imagining what would have happened if he had acted before Uchiha Kurohane last night.
Would Kushina Uzumaki be sitting beside him now?
Just as Namikaze Minato was regretting it, a beautiful figure walked up beside Kushina Uzumaki's desk and blocked his view.
She slapped both hands onto the desk and spoke with an incredulous expression.
" Kurohane, not only did you fail to do your homework, you even copied someone else's homework. That's two mistakes at once!"
The guilty Kushina Uzumaki jumped in fright and hurriedly looked up.
A pretty girl with a short ponytail stood before her.
She had delicate features, bright eyes, and a serious expression.
She wore a clean white long-sleeved jacket on top and black trousers below.
She looked like the sort of strict disciplinary committee member.
Realizing she was not a teacher, Kushina Uzumaki breathed a sigh of relief and cautiously asked,
"Um, who are you?"
The ponytailed beauty answered amicably.
"My name is Yoshino Nara. I'm the class rep."
Seeing that she bore her no ill will, Kushina Uzumaki immediately relaxed.
Yoshino Nara was Shikamaru's mother in the future Hokage world. Rumor had it that she was strict enough to frighten Shikamaru's father into barely daring to raise his voice, a woman who kept her husband firmly under her thumb.
But from Uchiha Kurohane's interactions with her, she was actually a good woman with a serious personality.
Since Uchiha Kurohane was the dead-last student in the class, Yoshino Nara, as class rep, cared deeply about him and often helped him.
She had even volunteered to give Uchiha Kurohane private tutoring.
She was the classmate Uchiha Kurohane was closest to.
Although they were close, Uchiha Kurohane still found her terribly annoying.
Uchiha Kurohane ignored Yoshino Nara and continued furiously copying his homework.
Yoshino Nara frowned in displeasure.
She pressed her lovely hand onto Uchiha Kurohane's notebook, forcibly stopping him from continuing.
Uchiha Kurohane did not stop writing and directly scribbled all over her fair hand.
"Ah!"
Yoshino Nara helplessly pulled back her hand. Looking at the character for "correct" written on the back of it, she complained unhappily,
"You really dared to write on my hand? Aren't you afraid I'll tell the teacher?"
I don't just dare to write on your hand. I even dare to write on your waist.
Yoshino Nara was an inflexibly upright and troublesome woman. She was rigid by nature—whatever the teacher told her to say, she said; whatever the teacher told her to do, she did. She never adapted to circumstances.
That blunt personality was just like a ninja hound's.
Still, she was exceptionally pretty, a classic youthful black-haired beauty.
Though she was beautiful, her overly serious personality made her troublesome.
Uchiha Kurohane helplessly put down his pen, took a lollipop from his pocket, and held it out before Yoshino Nara's cherry lips.
"Here. Go eat it somewhere else."
"Don't treat me like a little girl!"
I wasn't treating you like a little girl. I was treating you like a puppy.
"Yoshino, I had a perfectly valid reason for not doing my homework yesterday. Just pretend you didn't see it this time."
Yoshino Nara put her hands on her hips and asked seriously,
"What reason?"
Uchiha Kurohane's eyes shifted, and he actually came up with a reasonable excuse.
"Last night, Pineapple Head, Onion Head, and Radish Head beat me up."
"What? They bullied you?!"
Yoshino Nara leaned forward and concernedly examined Uchiha Kurohane's body.
"Were you hurt?"
In Yoshino Nara's eyes, Uchiha Kurohane was a dead-last student. If he had fought three people alone without getting hurt, she would have been suspicious.
"I was badly hurt, but it's under my clothes, so you can't see it."
Yoshino Nara sprawled across the desk, pulled open Uchiha Kurohane's collar, and leaned her face closer to look inside.
As she bent down, her loose collar fell open considerably, revealing the view within.
However, a black fishnet bodysuit wrapped her slender body tightly, exposing not a hint of skin.
Yoshino Nara was exactly the kind of woman who left no loopholes in anything she did.
After looking for a moment, Yoshino Nara raised her head, narrowed her eyes halfway, and looked suspiciously at Uchiha Kurohane.
"That doesn't seem right. You're not hurt at all. You even seem to have gotten stronger..."
Recalling the definition of his abdominal muscles, Yoshino Nara's little face reddened slightly.
"Really? Then I must have recovered after sleeping."
Yoshino Nara hopped down from the desk and turned to search for those three delinquent students.
Her gaze swept through the classroom, but she found that none of the three were there. It seemed they had skipped class.
"Are you using them to fool me because they aren't here?"
Uchiha Kurohane felt that this woman was far too clingy.
Being clingy with her husband would be a good thing, but being clingy with a classmate was a huge nuisance.
"Kushina was there at the time. Ask her."
Yoshino Nara immediately looked toward Kushina Uzumaki.
"Did you see it?"
"..."
Kushina Uzumaki looked at Uchiha Kurohane, appearing somewhat awkward.
Although Uchiha Kurohane really had fought those three delinquent boys yesterday, he had beaten them up one-sidedly.
And that had happened in the afternoon, which had absolutely nothing to do with him not doing his homework that night.
Kushina Uzumaki thought Uchiha Kurohane was lying. She was an innocent child who disliked lying, so she did not know how to answer.
Seeing through Kushina Uzumaki's thoughts, Uchiha Kurohane placed a hand on her shoulder and subtly pressured her.
"You don't need to be afraid. Yoshino is the class rep, so she won't let those three delinquents retaliate against you."
Hearing this, Yoshino Nara mistakenly assumed that Kushina Uzumaki truly feared retaliation. She patted her unremarkable little chest and confidently said,
"Don't worry. I won't tell anyone that you testified, and I'll protect you too. I won't let them bully you."
Feeling the pressure from Uchiha Kurohane's hand on her shoulder, Kushina Uzumaki could only say helplessly,
"They really did fight yesterday, but they were bullying me. Kurohane only clashed with them because he was protecting me."
"So you got beaten up protecting Kushina? I never expected you to be such a brave, good person!"
Yoshino Nara looked deeply moved, her gaze toward Uchiha Kurohane filled with admiration.
That made Uchiha Kurohane feel insulted.
"Yoshino, what do you mean by that? Did you think I was the kind of man who would stand aside and do nothing while a female classmate was being bullied?"
Yoshino Nara's beautiful eyes flickered, and she looked somewhat guilty.
"...No, I never thought that."
"Class rep, your eyes gave you away. So that's what you think of me. I'm cutting ties with you!"
Uchiha Kurohane was angry, and the consequences were serious.
Yoshino Nara felt deeply guilty and apologized with her hands pressed together.
"Sorry. Because you've always been alone and never fit in, you're too withdrawn. Compared to those three, I thought you seemed more like a troubled boy who needed help..."
Being alone, not fitting in, and having a withdrawn personality made someone a troubled boy?
If I'm a troubled boy, then what does that make Sasuke?
This little girl is really making a fuss over nothing!
Seeing that Uchiha Kurohane was unhappy, Yoshino Nara continued shamefully.
"I know now that I was wrong. Consider it a favor I owe you, so don't be mad anymore."
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