The Kudo residence.
Shikamaru was reading when something suddenly occurred to him. He immediately put down his book and saw Ino walking over, drying her hair.
As she approached, she even took a bottle of chilled milk from the refrigerator and started drinking it, acting as though this were her own home.
Shikamaru was speechless at the sight.
"Hey, Ino, don't tell me you left the lights on while you were bathing?"
Ino paused at Shikamaru's question, then answered as though it were obvious. "Of course! I had to bathe an unconscious girl. We could've fallen over without the lights!"
Shikamaru: ...
"Seriously... do you never listen in class? I remember you knew the basics of Ninja training pretty well! Don't you know what you should and shouldn't do in an unfamiliar environment?"
Shikamaru's words left Ino thoroughly embarrassed.
"Um... I forgot. It won't happen again..."
No sooner had Ino finished speaking than someone opened the front door of the Kudo residence from outside.
Sasuke Uchiha walked in with a kunai held against Conan's neck.
"Um... don't do this. I'm just an ordinary kid!"
"I just saw... saw the bathroom light on at Kudo's house, so I was curious whether he was back..."
"Hmph!" Sasuke snorted. "You're immune to my Sharingan's genjutsu, and you claim you're an ordinary kid? Who would believe that?"
Hearing Sasuke and Conan's exchange, Shikamaru's expression grew serious.
"Sasuke, you're saying this brat is immune to your Sharingan's genjutsu?"
"Yeah! He was skulking around outside just now. I was going to use genjutsu to make him leave, but... it didn't work on him!"
Conan desperately wanted to say, What right do you two brats have to call me a brat...?
But with the kunai still against his neck, he didn't even dare take a deep breath,