Live with Me

"Big sister!"

Walking along the broad roads within the clan, Kaguya let go of Wuye's wrist as usual.

Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hizashi caught up from behind.

"Big sister..."

Hyuga Hiashi called out again uneasily.

Kaguya turned around, her expression calm. "What is it?"

"I... I..."

Hyuga Hiashi stammered for a long while. "I never wanted to be clan head... Really..."

Kaguya quietly looked into his eyes until he could no longer bear it and lowered his head.

"If you truly had no such thoughts, then on the day I returned, you should have told me about the grand elder." Her voice was slow.

Hyuga Hiashi's face instantly turned deathly pale. "I-I'm sorry... I..."

"I understand." Kaguya remained calm. "Boys your age always fantasize about possessing things beyond their ability."

"Hiashi, I don't want a mere position as clan head to turn brother and sister against each other," she said coolly. "I'll give you a chance. Whenever you can defeat me, the position of clan head will be yours."

Hyuga Hiashi's entire body trembled faintly... not with excitement, but anguish.

Their parents had both died, and their eldest sister had been like a mother.

It was Kaguya who had held things together, keeping this family from falling apart.

Yet he himself had been tempted by a single stray thought and involved himself in something like this...

"Big sister, my brother really didn't do anything. He was conflicted and hesitant too. I guarantee that he didn't agree to anything, much less do anything," Hyuga Hizashi couldn't help but interject.

Kaguya nodded noncommittally, then turned to look at him. "Hizashi, once the Caged Bird is branded, it can only disappear with death. I can't remove the one on your forehead either, even though the system has already been abolished."

"This is already very good." Hyuga Hizashi looked somewhat happy. "At least the children in the future won't have to go through the desperate days I did."

"Mm."

Having said all she needed to say, Kaguya was sparing with her words and headed alone toward the clan head's grand residence.

The Hyuga brothers hurriedly followed.

Hyuga Wuye looked at the fork ahead. One path led to the grand residence, while the other led toward the outskirts. After some thought, he still headed for his own small house.

Who knew whether Kaguya had merely been putting on a show? He couldn't possibly shamelessly cling to her and become her little brother for real.

Although she was a target, the first rule was not becoming a simp.

"Come."

But at that moment, Kaguya stopped walking and spoke a single word without looking back.

"Oh..."

Wuye turned around and followed again...

This wasn't simping. He'd been invited. It was different, mm.

"Clan head, is there anything else?"

After thinking it over, he still asked.

What if she intended to take him back, lock him in a room, tie him to a bed, then step on him and whip him...

He absolutely could not submit!

"Live with me."

Clan Head Kaguya was concise as ever.

Hyuga Wuye's expression...

Could she mean one room?

"Big sister, he..."

Hyuga Hiashi hesitated.

His sister had originally been divided between two brothers, but now she was split three ways...

"I'm fine living by myself," Wuye said.

You couldn't force yourself to live off a woman. A grown man had to remain independent.

Kaguya said blandly, "Kotone asked me to take care of you."

"Oh."

Wuye followed again.

Naturally, he couldn't let his mother's arrangements go to waste.

Kaguya led the three boys into a spacious courtyard in the center of the clan grounds, then instructed the maids to move Wuye's belongings over.

"This room is close to mine. You'll stay here."

Kaguya casually pointed to a side room beside the main house. "Everything you need has already been prepared inside. Go change into training clothes, then wait for me in the training room behind the house."

With that, she went inside by herself.

"Big sister, what about us?" Hyuga Hiashi couldn't help asking.

Seeing Wuye's treatment made him a little nervous.

Kaguya paused. "Mm, come along too."

"Yes."

Hyuga Hiashi breathed a sigh of relief.

Big sister still loved me. She wouldn't forget her old little brothers just because she had a new one, mm!

He secretly clenched his fist.

"Brother, don't drag me down with you when you have a death wish!"

The moment Kaguya disappeared from sight, Hyuga Hizashi cried out, "Didn't you get beaten badly enough two days ago?"

Hyuga Hiashi pointed at Wuye, who was walking toward the side room. "Wasn't I worried that big sister would secretly teach him?"

"What has blinded your eyes..." Hyuga Hizashi scratched his head irritably. "He doesn't even have the Byakugan. What could big sister possibly teach him?!"

Hyuga Hiashi... froze.

Was this guy some kind of sister-con?

Wuye glanced back at him, then stepped inside.

This side room closest to Kaguya was actually somewhat larger than his former residence. Its furnishings were understatedly luxurious without being ostentatious, every corner displaying the ancient simplicity and weight of a thousand-year-old clan.

He looked around and quickly found the walk-in closet.

A sea of white filled his vision.

Snow-white kimono, snow-white ninja uniforms, snow-white loungewear...

Because their eyes were the Byakugan, even their clothes had to be white? Were they a clan of white tofu?

"Good thing my looks are up to par, or I couldn't pull off these all-white outfits at all."

Wuye changed into a set of training clothes, stood before the full-length mirror, and nodded.

Objectively speaking, if Neji's looks were a seven, then his own were at least a nine.

Thinking of Neji, Wuye nearly blurted out, "Neji, you died so horribly... Ah, no, he hasn't even been born yet."

"Based on the current generation, doesn't that make me Neji's uncle?"

He touched his cheek. "That also makes me Hinata and Hanabi's uncle. And with Kaguya added in, why does this feel very wrong..."

He quickly put thoughts of the future aside. He could deal with the troubles of happiness when they came.

Following a maid down the wooden corridor with soft tapping footsteps, he finally arrived at the training room.

It was once again a space of several hundred square meters, the sort that would make overworked office workers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou die of envy. Damn capi... Damn ninja clans!

Kaguya had not arrived yet. The Hyuga brothers sat quietly cross-legged on cushions.

Hyuga Hiashi had his eyes closed, seemingly unaware of him.

Hyuga Hizashi, on the other hand, gave him a friendly smile and pointed beside himself. "Sit down first. Big sister will be here soon."

"Thank you."

Wuye nodded politely and sat down.

"Tap... tap... tap..."

When faint, rhythmic footsteps came from outside the door, the Hyuga brothers almost simultaneously straightened their backs and sat properly.

No matter how Wuye looked at them, he could see one word written on their faces: "cowardly."

Having changed out of her elaborate clan head attire, Kaguya's figure looked slender beneath her simple training clothes, her curves flawless.

She was still a girl, yet she exuded the elegance of a young woman.

Her snow-white hair rose slightly with her movements, and Wuye instinctively held his breath...

White-haired girls were the best! Long live white-haired girls!

"Who's first?"

When he came back to his senses, Kaguya was standing before the three of them, hands behind her back, her expression tranquil.

At that moment, the Hyuga brothers exchanged a glance and simultaneously pointed at Hyuga Wuye. "Him."

Wuye turned to look... When had you two moved your cushions back by a whole seat?

Noticing his gaze, Hyuga Hiashi raised his head toward the ceiling while Hyuga Hizashi lowered his head toward the floor.

Did you really have to be this cowardly...

Wuye stood and faced Kaguya.

Bang bang... smack smack... thud thud... boom!

Three minutes later...

He had turned into a puddle of mush on the floor.