"Haku! Are you a boy or a girl?" Instead of answering Haku, Hatake Ziyan asked him a question of his own.
Kimimaro stared at Hatake Ziyan in exasperation. Had I chosen the wrong person to follow? You're supposed to be a powerful warrior. Where's your dignity? Isn't asking someone's gender the moment you meet a little inappropriate?
Bang! Haku slammed the courtyard gate shut, then said, "Mom said anyone who cares whether I'm a girl is a bad person!"
Although Hatake Ziyan didn't quite understand why Haku's mother had given her child that warning, he shamelessly pressed on. "Haku is so cute, he must be a boy, right?"
Just as Haku was about to answer Hatake Ziyan, a woman around thirty years old came out wearing a white kimono!
Hatake Ziyan looked at her. Her delicate face had a mature charm no young girl possessed, and even her kimono couldn't conceal her stunning figure. He couldn't help recalling how Haku had looked when he died in his memories. Wasn't there a bit too much of a difference between you and your mother? Or was Haku really a boy, despite being so cute?
"Haku! Who's here? Why did you close the gate?" the woman asked as she walked over to him.
"A bad man! He knows my name is Haku! But the first thing he asked was whether I was a girl!" Haku told his mother.
The woman grew nervous at that, immediately picking Haku up and looking warily at the two people outside the courtyard.
Hatake Ziyan sensed chakra in the woman's body! But she had no more than an ordinary Chunin's worth, perhaps because she hadn't trained in years!
"Hello, ma'am! I'm Hatake Ziyan. I was passing through, and since it's getting late, I wanted to ask whether we