Chapter 174: Will Ino Stay the Night?
Ino let out a shriek and squatted down, hugging herself.
"Makoto-kun, did you do this?! Hurry up and change us back!"
Ino had discovered the truth, but unfortunately, he couldn't just go back like that. After all, coming here had cost him a simulation attempt.
"That won't do, Ino. Didn't you say you wanted me to call you 'sexy'? You're very sexy right now."
"Too sexy!"
Her face was flushed. Having such a sexy body was something she was satisfied with, but this was just a dreamscape. In reality, she didn't have such a figure. What if he was too disappointed by the difference and turned to Hinata instead?
"How about I help you change your clothes?"
With a thought, Ino transformed into the familiar "big sister" attire he knew best. Although she looked similar to her younger self, her figure now gave her the qualifications to compete for the title of the number one beauty in the ninja world. And the cosmos on her stomach seemed to have grown a little larger, swaying slightly with her breath, looking both pure and alluring.
Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief. She looked at her new look with satisfaction, then pounced on him and hugged him tightly. "Will I look like this when I grow up?"
"In my heart, you will."
"Ah—Makoto-kun, I like you so much! What should I do?"
Her emotional appearance... as expected of Sakura's best friend. Their reactions were very similar.
"If you really want to thank me, then practice hard. I'm going to teach you a new ninjutsu. This one is only for you, and you are not allowed to teach it to your parents."
She was taken aback, not quite understanding why he had such a request. He had even given her father a new ninjutsu before. He didn't seem like such a stingy person.
"You still don't get it?"
He shook his head, then said, "This is a secret technique that our Akiyama family will pass down for generations—Akiyama Ino."
Her whole body trembled, and she looked at him in disbelief. But then a blush appeared on her cheeks, and a tear glinted in her eye. The next second, she wiped the corner of her eye and said with a feigned lightness, "If you had said so earlier, wouldn't I have understood? Since it's our family's secret technique, of course we can't pass it on to outsiders. Hehe."
She bounced over to his side and linked her arm with his.
The real-world Ino's actions, combined with her current figure, was a perfect blend of purity and allure. She was clearly aware of her own charm and was happy to show it off, wanting to win him over with her warm heart.
Clearly, she had succeeded.
A long while later, he finally demonstrated the Demonic Illusion: Formless Wave to her. Just hearing the principles was enough to make her head spin. The relaxed expression on her face disappeared, and she seemed to be wondering if she could really learn this jutsu.
His answer, naturally, was yes.
"As long as you accept the power I've given you, you can definitely do it."
"Power?"
He nodded and took her hand. She naturally wouldn't refuse him.
And so, in the dreamscape, he fed his bloodline power back to her.
[You are about to transfer the bloodline of Yamanaka Shin to its mother, Yamanaka Ino. Confirm operation?]
He confirmed it in his mind. This was not the first time he had performed a similar operation, so there were no system prompts. It went directly to the system's calculation interface.
[Ding! Your Affection Level with the kunoichi Yamanaka Ino is 3: You like each other. You have obtained 3 random enhancement chances. The maximum number of random enhancement chances is 5.]
[Random enhancement in progress... Enhancement complete. Yamanaka Ino's 'Strength' attribute has been enhanced from 6 to 7. Her 'Hand Seal' attribute has been enhanced from 7 to 8. Her Low-grade Mind-Mirror Image talent has been upgraded to Intermediate.]
[Infusion of bloodline power beginning. Duration: ten minutes.]
It worked! He had just wanted to test if he could perform the infusion in a dreamscape, and it seemed there was no problem. Of course, this was definitely because the two of them were physically close in reality.
Then, Ino lost consciousness in his arms. But because this was a dreamscape, she didn't feel any pain, which was why he had done it this way.
Unfortunately for him, he felt as if he had been here for several hours before she finally finished the infusion.
"What happened to me?"
"You've grown, of course."
He replied. Her whole body trembled, and she frantically checked her body, not even caring that he was seeing everything. But after checking and finding no change, she angrily pinched his cheek and said with a mix of shame and annoyance, "Don't make that kind of joke!"
"I thought I had... in my sleep—"
"What?" He pulled her hands away, wanting her to say the answer herself.
Her ears were completely red. How could she say such a thing? In the end, she did something shocking. She hugged his head, intending to suffocate him. But he just drew circles on her waist, which made her unable to bear it, and she shrieked and ran away.
He then told her roughly what had happened. At first, she was skeptical. But when she tried it herself, she was dumbfounded. The Dual Heart Method, which had seemed incredibly difficult to her, she could now use as freely as breathing. As for the Formless Wave, which he had called an S+-rank difficulty jutsu, although she found it incredibly difficult to cast, there were no talent restrictions. It seemed that as long as she trained for enough time, she could use her clan's secret techniques to directly cast genjutsu.
"This—"
She finally understood why he was going to make this ninjutsu a family secret. On one hand, without his talent, no one else could possibly learn it. On the other hand, this jutsu, combined with the Yamanaka's secret techniques, was almost invincible. From now on, the Yamanaka... no, the Akiyama children would almost all be genjutsu masters.
But this brought another problem. She looked at him with a half-smile. "Darling, in the future, if we have children, do you think I should teach them the Yamanaka's secret techniques?"
He naturally understood her meaning. "Would you be reluctant to teach them?"
"Of course I would teach them! But the Yamanaka clan..." She was a little sad. For her, who was still a long way from marrying him, how to choose in the matter of her clan's legacy seemed to have become a huge, unsolvable problem.
And to this question, he just wrapped his arm around her waist. "Then can't we just have our first child take the Yamanaka name?"
She looked at him in disbelief, not expecting him to be so generous in such a matter.
This time, she finally couldn't suppress her emotions. She wrapped her arms around his neck and began to cry.
He comforted her for a long time. Only then did she say shyly, "Doesn't that mean we'll have to have more than one child?"
"It's fine. I've already thought of names for ten children—"
"I'm not a pig!" she retorted, but then her heart softened. "Ten is really too many. Three or five... I can still try..."
She was completely moved by him, her heart immersed in sweetness, unable to extricate herself. But how could she have known that in the simulation, his and her first child was already default-named Yamanaka Shin? Although he didn't quite understand the principle, he couldn't risk "carding" this child who had contributed so much to both of them.
The two of them then trained repeatedly in the dreamscape. It was not until she could completely and stably release the Formless Wave that the two of them left.
To their surprise, they found that the moon had already risen high, and it was now ten o'clock at night. Not only that, but her body was also sticky, a side effect of the bloodline feedback.
Seeing him about to sniff the sweat on her body, she pushed him away with one foot, shrieked, and rushed into the bathhouse to wash herself.
As for him, after clearing the dishes, he returned to his own room. Ino's enhancement was over. In two days, Sakura and the others should be heading to the Land of Waves. This time, he planned to go out with his main body. Not only would he save Zabuza and Haku, but he was also quite interested in Gatō. There were many bounty hunters in the ninja world, but it seemed this big merchant was the one making the real money. If he could figure out his money-making methods, then he would never have to worry about money again in the future.
Just as he was recalling the details of the Land of Waves, Ino knocked on his door.
He had thought she was here to say goodbye, but she was only wearing a bathrobe.
"Is there a problem with the bathhouse?" he asked subconsciously.
But the next second, she pressed against him.
"Um, I want to stay the night tonight."
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