Hinata was extremely embarrassed, but her personality had always been one that couldn't refuse. At this moment, her voice was as thin as a mosquito's: "Not outside, let's... go home and then, um, um, okay?"
"Okay, okay."
Ino paid lip service, but in reality, someone's hands didn't stop at all.
Tenseigan? That thing wouldn't grow legs and run away! No rush!
"I went to a planet called Konats this time. Their artwork is particularly fun, so I brought some back for you."
Ino took out a silver photo frame. The Konatsian artwork was a bit like the photos in Harry Potter; the paper figures inside the frame could move and wave.
"It's really fun." Hinata wasn't that old after all and was quickly attracted by the picture. But as she watched, she realized something was wrong. Why were the paper figures' clothes getting fewer and fewer? These were two girls inside too, right? Pointed ears, long legs, their skin was really white... their poses were so weird.
Under Ino's constant teasing, Hinata felt her own emotions being involuntarily stirred up.
She looked around like a thief with a guilty conscience.
"Is there really no one here? These buildings look very clean. Could it be... don't, don't use your hands... could it be that someone is cleaning them?"
Hinata had a late birthday. She married at seventeen, and now she was almost nineteen. She ate well, slept soundly, and didn't have the messy affairs of the Main House and Branch House to annoy her. Having acquired a taste for intimacy, she was currently at the peak of her desire. Ino would go away for half a year or three months at a time. To be honest, she herself wanted it quite a bit.
Ino lowered her voice: "Do you remember that time we went out on a mission, and you were practicing your fist style by the lake under the moonlight?"
Hinata blushed. This dark history had already become some sort of code signal before a "great battle" started.
Back then, she really didn't know. She thought the family's ancient texts saying "Use the water flow to sense the chakra pathways in the body, then practice Gentle Fist" meant training fiercely in front of a waterfall without wearing clothes! actually, this referred to a state of mind, a training method requiring the Main House ninja practicing the Gentle Fist to have a heart as still as water, holding their breath and carefully perceiving their chakra pathways. It was completely different from what she had understood.
She hadn't dared to ask, and as a strict father, Hiashi Hyuga didn't explain either, leading to her practicing blindly!
"You're still talking about it!"
"I won't say it, I won't say it. Wife, let's go practice fist styles! The Konatsian music is also really good, let me play it for you. Oh right, I also comprehended a secret technique called Dragon Fist! This move is really fierce when activated!"
Ino took Hinata to play in the Otsutsuki city on the Moon for seven days. Toneri Otsutsuki had left quite a few puppets in the family. Some were responsible for cleaning, and others for repairing buildings. These things were all driven by a type of chakra crystal.
Ino couldn't understand them well, so she immediately awakened Sasori's soul and handed all the puppets over to the professional to handle.
She took Hinata to the floating island temple in the Moon's outer space. Within the great hall named Hamura's Temple, they saw that giant yellow Tenseigan.
"It's so big!" Hinata exclaimed in surprise. This giant eye looked to be ten meters in diameter, and the pupil power contained within was inconceivably massive. However, aside from being massive, it appeared quite mottled; she still had at least that much discernment.
Ino said pointedly, "Not as big as yours."
"Don't... today really isn't possible." Hinata refused repeatedly.
Ino also felt her kidneys ache. "Practicing fist" these past few days had exhausted her. She hadn't hit that one-in-a-thousand conception rate yet, and her grand declaration to "have five children" with Hinata was currently stuck at the one-fifth stage.
Motioning for Hinata to stand a bit further away, she observed the giant Tenseigan up close.
It was said that the people of the Moon's Otsutsuki clan would come to worship this eye every year. The power of this thing was enough to move or destroy the Moon.
Ino closed her eyes, communicating with the residual consciousness within the Tenseigan.
"Senior Hamura, perhaps your consciousness is still here, or perhaps you are gone... Please listen to me. Our shiniobi world is being targeted by some terrible and cruel fellows. I need the Tenseigan to observe external information for me and notify me when danger approaches."
She waited a while. After finding no signal of rejection from the Tenseigan, she injected a mark belonging to herself into the eye.
This giant yellow Tenseigan would act like a space telescope, detecting intelligence on surrounding planets for her. Once a suspicious person approached, it would immediately notify her.
With the matters on the Moon concluded, they returned to Konoha Village.
Hinata always felt it was gloomy up there. Playing there occasionally was fine, but for a long stay, it ultimately wasn't as comfortable as home.
Ino also felt the feng shui up there was bad and the negative energy was too heavy. Having done it so many times without hitting that one-in-a-thousand probability, surely Toneri Otsutsuki's ghost was causing trouble in the dark, making her work hard for nothing. That guy was truly too bad!
Returning to the village, the two dressed up a bit and went to attend a wedding.
The older bachelor, Iruka, was finally getting married.
His bride was Mizuki's former fiancée, Teacher Tsubaki.
Mizuki was already dead. Orochimaru, who had bewitched Mizuki back then, was now in a state of semi-pardon. There was really no need to specifically target a minor character like Tsubaki.
What kind of trouble could an ordinary Chunin with average combat abilities cause? Tsunade transferred her directly from the border outpost back to the Konoha School to continue teaching.
Both were acquaintances of Mizuki. After interacting back and forth, Tsubaki and Iruka got together.
"Hmph, what's so good about getting married? This old lady doesn't want to get married!" Tsunade, Ino, Shizune, and Tonton—the former Tsunade Squad—were drinking at the wedding.
Everyone was busy, so it was rare to gather together; naturally, the atmosphere was very lively.
"Ino, tell me, is marriage good?"
"It's good! Indescribably happy, so much fun!"
Tsunade hit the nail on the head: "Then why are you clutching your waist?"
Ino: "..."
Shizune and Tonton both laughed so hard they sounded like pigs.
Speaking of marriage, this was an old topic of discussion.
The population of the ninja world had plummeted, and the merger of the Five Great Shinobi Villages was partly due to the severe shortage of ninjas.
At least half the ninjas had died in the war. Previously, the Five Great Shinobi Villages combined had eighty thousand ninjas. Now, counting generously, there were only a little over forty thousand, and most of these forty thousand were the elderly, the weak, women, and children.
The higher-ups began to push for marriage!
Those with one child should hurry up and have a second; those with a second should hurry up and have a third!
Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado often muttered in front of Tsunade: About time, right? Sixth Hokage, how old are you? Fifty-something? Still not getting married?!
Truth be told, the two old advisors meant well. The dragging-feet dynamic between Tsunade and Jiraiya was painful even for outsiders to watch.
Yet they themselves weren't in a hurry.
Tsunade was bent on being a leftover woman, and Jiraiya was determined to be a simp!
Since they wouldn't take the lead, the village could only select some representative figures and make them hurry up to marry and have children. Iruka and Tsubaki's marriage was born in this kind of general environment.
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