After recounting what had happened between them last night, Anko rested her cheek against Xia Yu's shoulder and asked, "Well? Do you remember now?"
Xia Yu nodded. "Yeah, I remember pretty much everything now..."
"Good. Yesterday, you told me yourself that you liked me and wanted me to have your children. If you dare go back on your word, I... I'll kill you!"
"Anko, of course I'll take responsibility for you. It's just... there's something I want to tell you."
Seeing Xia Yu's troubled expression and hesitant manner, Anko smiled sweetly and nestled into his arms. "I know what you want to say. It's about taking concubines, isn't it?"
"Huh? You...?"
Xia Yu was startled.
How did Anko know? Had he told her afterward while he was drunk last night?
Anko explained, "Yesterday morning, the Third Generation Lord Hokage announced to all of Konoha that you were going to have children to carry on your clan. This arrangement was made for you alone."
"After such a tragedy befell the Uchiha Clan, only a handful of you remain. The other ninja clans and everyone in the village understand that you're doing this to rebuild the Uchiha Clan. Besides, since the Third Generation Lord Hokage agreed, the villagers naturally have no objections."
Looking into Anko's clear eyes, Xia Yu asked a little nervously, "What about you? Do you... have any objections to this plan of mine?"
Blushing, Anko covered her face with a smile, then answered with absolute conviction:
"Xia Yu, listen to me. I understand your desire to save your clan through a roundabout approach. Since I've chosen you as my man, your ambition is my ambition!"
"From now on, I'll do my best to have children for you! I'll also sincerely accept other women staying by our side. I'll never fight for your affection or get jealous. I'll work with our future sisters to fulfill the ambition of rebuilding the Uchiha Clan."
"Last night, the moment I gave you my first time, I'd already made up my mind! You have a charm other men don't, and I've fallen so deeply for you that I can't pull myself free..."
"Xia Yu, will you marry me...? I'm a little older than you. Would that put you off?"
Anko had just turned nineteen, making her exactly one year older than Uchiha Xia Yu.
"P-put me off?"
Xia Yu froze completely. It took him a long while before he spoke:
"Anko, do you realize what you just said moved me so much that my mind went completely blank? How could you possibly put me off! To prove my love for you, let's hold our wedding tomorrow, okay...?"
Anko pressed a finger to Xia Yu's lips and shook her head with a smile:
"There's no rush. Your promise is enough. I have a long-term mission to leave on this evening. I've been handling this mission all along, and no one else can take my place. Just wait for me to come back, and then we'll have a proper, grand wedding."
"All right, whatever you say! Come on, let's get some dumplings before you leave on your mission~"
Before they knew it, an afternoon had passed...
Since Anko was leaving on a long-term mission, Xia Yu saw her off at the village gate. After their reluctant farewell, he watched her figure recede into the distance, then turned and headed toward the Uchiha Clan Compound alone.
It was time to go home and take a look.
Ever since he had transmigrated here, he still hadn't gone back to his own home.
Walking down the bustling street, Xia Yu made a point of buying a thin face covering and putting it on.
There was no other reason-he simply didn't want the women he'd previously been involved with to recognize him.
Otherwise, he wouldn't make it home again.
"The grand plan to rebuild the clan can continue tomorrow morning, once I'm fully recovered!"
That was Xia Yu's plan.
But plans could never keep up with changes.
Suddenly, a fierce voice rang out behind him. "Pervert, stop right there! Don't run!"
"Huh? Are they calling me?" Xia Yu had a bad feeling and muttered under his breath, "Crap, don't tell me the flower shop owner's husband has come looking for me!"
The flower shop owner's husband was a jonin of Konoha. If he really had come to cause trouble, Xia Yu's paltry skills would be no match for him.
After weighing it over, Xia Yu decided to make a run for it, but another vicious voice came from behind him, this one right on his heels.
"Kid, get the hell out of the way! Don't block my path!"
"?"
Driven by curiosity, Xia Yu stopped, wanting to turn around and see what was happening.
But in that brief moment of hesitation, a devastatingly powerful claw suddenly raked across his back.
"Ugh! That hurts..."
Relying on his body's instinct to avoid danger, Xia Yu immediately twisted aside and fell to the ground.
That fall finally let Xia Yu see what the newcomer looked like...
Dark red skin, pointed fangs, sharp claws...
"Holy shit! A beastman??"
"No, that's the Beast Transformation Technique! You're from the Inuzuka Clan!"
Xia Yu quickly searched through his old memories, but no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't recall ever having an affair with any married or unmarried woman of the Inuzuka Clan.
"I've never done anything to you! Why are you coming after me?"
"It's your fault for blocking my escape route! Damn it! I'll fucking slaughter you!"
The Inuzuka clansman bared a vicious expression and raised his claws to attack Xia Yu. In an instant, several chains flew in from every direction and bound his body tightly.
At the same time, several Anbu Ninja in gray uniforms appeared on the surrounding rooftops, followed by a tall man with a scar-covered face appearing beside Xia Yu.
It was Ibiki Morino, captain of Konoha's Interrogation Department!
Ibiki Morino didn't look at Xia Yu. Instead, he stared fixedly at the Inuzuka clansman and said coldly:
"Pervert, I've finally caught you! I'm taking you to the Interrogation Room to give a freak like you some proper attention!"
"W-wait!"
A girl with symmetrical red markings on her cheeks ran out of an alley, panting.
When she saw the pervert, the girl bit her red lip, tears in her eyes. She leaped straight up and slapped him with all her strength.
"You're an animal! No, you're worse than an animal!"
The pervert reverted from his beastman form to his ordinary human appearance and knelt before the girl in despair, saying remorsefully, "I'm sorry..."
The girl's anger hadn't diminished in the slightest. "Tell me, why did you molest her!"
The pervert said, "That night... she was lying obediently in front of me, completely naked. I couldn't control myself..."
The girl said, "You couldn't control yourself? I told you to perform an autopsy on her! How could you...!"
The pervert hung his head, his voice trembling. "...It was my fault. I deserve to die!"
The girl raised her hand and pointed at the pervert furiously, her shout heart-wrenching. "You don't deserve to be a veterinarian!!!"
The pervert slammed his head against the ground. "I'm willing to atone with my life! I... I've wronged this ninja dog!"
The girl said, "She wasn't just a ninja dog! She was our companion! To do something like this to a dead companion-from today on, your name will be struck from the Inuzuka Clan Genealogy! That's final!!"
"..."
Beside them, Xia Yu looked utterly dumbfounded.
This was the first time he had ever witnessed anything so inconceivable.
"What's going on?"
"What happened?"
"Why does their conversation sound more and more wrong the longer I listen...?"
"This is just absurd!!"
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