"Wish you... um... good night."
Yahiko kept looking back with every step, but in the end, he and Nagato returned to the wooden cabin across the way.
Watching Hyuga Wuye and Konan standing side by side at the door beneath the stars, he suddenly had the illusion that he had lost something...
"You're still young. Don't do anything reckless, understand?"
Jiraiya put on a very stern expression. "My hearing is excellent, so don't let me catch you..."
Konan's little face immediately flushed crimson.
For some reason, she remembered the strange noises she had overheard coming from her parents' room when she was little.
Though she had no idea what they had been doing, she could still feel a deep sense of embarrassment welling up inside her.
Would something happen if they slept together...
So nerve-wracking!
"We're master and disciple!"
Hyuga Wuye declared righteously, "Teacher Jiraiya, don't use your filthy thoughts to judge me!"
Jiraiya's old face twitched violently. He suddenly wanted to come clean to him about Kazumiya Yukihime.
In truth, Hyuga Wuye's earlier assumption that Jiraiya had not considered the master-disciple relationship an obstacle made no sense at all.
Because in Jiraiya's eyes, the one who had crossed the boundaries of their master-disciple relationship was Tsunade, transformed into Kazumiya Yukihime, not Hyuga Wuye, who was "kept in the dark."
So Tsunade was the one who had failed to respect her role as a teacher!
Yes, Wuye was innocent...
"Come on, let's go to sleep."
Hyuga Wuye lightly draped an arm around Konan's shoulders and turned away, but he did not forget to look back and say, "Good night, Teacher!"
Jiraiya: "..."
Bang.
The wooden door shut. Outside, Jiraiya's expression flickered between light and shadow.
Why did he suddenly feel like a complete fool?
Tsunade... surely she had not been