Watching Kushina's back as she quickly ran into the Hokage Building, Aoba was full of confusion.
Weren't things still fine yesterday?
How did it turn into this today?
Aoba carefully went over everything that had happened from last night up to now.
He shouldn't have done anything that would make her hate him, right?
No matter how he thought about it, Aoba just couldn't figure it out.
Thinking as he went, he also walked into the Hokage Building.
There weren't many people inside the Hokage Building right now.
Because it was already lunch break, apart from the staff who had to stay at their posts, everyone else had gone out to eat.
But it was unexpectedly a bit lively.
He had just reached the second floor and arrived in the office area, when he saw Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto tugging and pulling at each other.
"Mikoto, right now is the perfect chance!"
Kushina grabbed at Uchiha Mikoto with an excited face, trying to pull her outside.
Uchiha Mikoto, on the other hand, was full of grievance and resistance. "Kushina, I'm not ready yet,"
"What do you mean not ready, didn't you carefully dress up this morning?"
"T-that… I still need a bit more time to prepare."
Uchiha Mikoto wore a bitter face.
Aoba stood to the side with a face full of question marks, not understanding what the two of them were fussing about. They hadn't even noticed him standing right in front of them.
Still, eavesdropping like this wasn't very good, even if he was standing there openly and listening…
"Aunt Mikoto, what aren't you ready for?"
"!"
The two of them froze as if frightened, then looked toward him.
Kushina's eyes lit up again, while Uchiha Mikoto's expression clearly showed panic and helplessness.
She nervously asked.
"Q-Qingye, when did you come over?"
She didn't know if he had heard her conversation with Kushina just now.
"I only just got here, but…"
Aoba's expression looked a bit strange. He clearly felt her relax. "Has Aunt Mikoto run into some kind of problem lately?"
"If it's really bothering you, you can come to me for help."
"Perfect, Little Aoba, Mikoto has a problem that's been troubling her for a long time, right now you can just…" "Mmff mmff mmff!"
Before Kushina could finish speaking, her mouth had already been firmly covered by Uchiha Mikoto, so she couldn't get a single word out.
Anyway, she was a reanimated body, she wouldn't suffocate.
"Aunt Mikoto?"
Aoba blinked.
Uchiha Mikoto forced out a smile at him. "Qingye, don't worry, I'm fine, there's nothing wrong."
"Alright, but if you really run into anything, you have to come find me."
Seeing that she wouldn't say anything, Aoba didn't insist too much.
"Mm, I will."
Uchiha Mikoto turned her head away, not quite daring to meet his serious gaze.
"I still have something to talk to Sister Konan about, so I'll go first."
Aoba said this and was about to leave, but after walking a couple of steps he stopped again.
"Is… is there something else?"
Uchiha Mikoto was still covering Kushina, who was flailing her arms and legs, and instantly got nervous again.
Aoba smiled and praised her. "It's nothing, I just wanted to say that your lipstick and eyeshadow look really nice today, they suit you very well."
He had originally wanted to say the new stockings weren't bad either, but that would turn into workplace harassment.
Uchiha Mikoto was stunned.
By the time she came back to herself, Aoba was already far away, and Kushina had freed herself from her grip, smiling as she looked at her.
"Mikoto, doesn't it feel great to be praised by Little Aoba?"
Uchiha Mikoto's pretty face reddened again. She kept a straight face and said, "No. I still have work to do, Kushina, stop bothering me."
Then she immediately went back into her office.
"Haha, Mikoto, you look so cute when you're shy. If you could show that expression in front of Little Aoba, you'd definitely charm him silly."
Kushina still followed behind her, chattering nonstop.
But Uchiha Mikoto kept silent.
Kushina then suggested.
"Since he even specially praised how good your makeup looks, it shows Little Aoba definitely likes you. If you ask me, next time you should just directly invite him home, and then…"
"I know."
"Don't rush, you should first…" "Huh?"
Kushina froze, looking in disbelief at Uchiha Mikoto, who seemed to have made up her mind, and suddenly a new idea popped into her head.
"I remember Sister Tsunade has some medicine, I'll help you get it ready, and when the time comes you can…"
Bang!
Kushina was thrown out of the office.
——
Outside of Uchiha Mikoto's office, Samui had also started gossiping.
"Yugito, you've been grinning from ear to ear since just now. Did something good happen?"
Yugito's smile hadn't left her face since she came in, and she seemed absent-minded while chatting.
That made Samui and Mabui's gossiping hearts itch a bit.
"Huh? H-has it?"
Yugito recovered her usual tsundere manner.
Just now she had been thinking about how, when she went on a date with Aoba in a couple of days, she should toy with him a bit and properly get back at him for all the times she'd been annoyed before.
She had lost control of her expression for a moment.
"You're smiling like a flower. Did something new happen between you and Aoba?"
Samui looked gossipy all over her face, and Mabui was the same. This was basically the most entertaining part of their daily lives.
"Have you two done that yet?"
Yugito's face instantly flushed red, and she glared at the two of them.
"This has nothing to do with you, why should I tell you?"
"Oh my, as expected of a woman who has a man now, we, your good girlfriends, have instead turned into outsiders."
Samui teased.
"Annoying."
"Now you're even snapping at us. Before, Yugito, you were cold, sure, but you were really gentle toward us, unlike now where you're cold even to us, and only warm to…"
"Shut up!"
Yugito shouted unhappily.
The noise even gave Aoba a fright as he passed by outside.
But considering he still had things to do later, and that Yugito seemed to be in a bad mood, he gave up on knocking to see what was going on.
He quickened his steps and went to Konan's office.
———
After eating lunch together.
The trio of Tenten, Ino, and Sakura did not disband just like that, but instead each ran off to find Yakumo, Hinata, and Karin.
Then they found a dango shop, and like they were holding a tea party, they crowded around a table and sat down together.
"We can't go on like this anymore!"
They had only just sat down when Tenten spoke indignantly.
Yakumo, Hinata, and Karin were all at a loss. They had only come because they heard the situation was urgent.
For the moment they still didn't know what had happened.
"Listen to me…"
Sakura spoke up and recounted every single one of Uzuki Yugao's "evil deeds" from this morning.
For example, when riding the carousel they only rode one horse between them, for ice cream the two of them only ate one, and when eating their meal they basically only used one pair of chopsticks.
All morning, the three of them had practically come down with a bad case of red-eye, but didn't dare to say anything.
Uzuki Yugao was the big mountain pressing down on the three of them.
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