Thinking of this, Tsunade's cheeks also became slightly red. However, right now Shizune was in a shy state, obviously had not noticed.
Tsunade adjusted her expression slightly, "Shizune, if you keep going like this, you'll never catch up to Yugao."
"Huh?"
Shizune was a bit confused.
Tsunade couldn't help but rub her forehead, "Do you know how far Yugao and Aoba have gotten?"
"I don't know…", Shizune seemed a bit nervous.
"They're together every night…"
———
From the countless similar scenes he had seen where major villains turn back from the brink, he could draw one simple conclusion.
If she's innocent and inexperienced, then take her to see the prosperity of the world; if she's gone through hardships, then take her to ride the carousel.
Right now, Konan, because she had experienced the cruel Ninja World War, life and death separations, was already weary and indifferent to worldly affections and matters, her heart already weathered.
Since that was the case, then let her return to the once purest stage.
It's just a pity, Konan had never experienced any kind of innocent life.
Aoba could only use his own kindness to change the other party.
Whether it would be effective or not, that was unclear.
If verbal persuasion didn't work, Aoba also knew a bit of physical persuasion. Just that at that time, as the defeated ninja, after Konan triggered, he could only be reduced to a ninja soldier then.
Aoba had always been a very pure person, his purity was…
As his mind wandered, Aoba had already arrived at the Hyuga clan's grounds.
Relying on the identity of the Hyuga clan eldest daughter's boyfriend, and the second daughter's teacher, in the Hyuga clan, except for some more important areas, he was basically unimpeded.
The two guards at the gate politely greeted him, and then Aoba walked toward Hyuga Hiashi's residence.
However, just as he entered, he happened to meet someone coming out.
Hyuga Neji…
The gazes of the two met in the air.
Aoba nodded at him, Neji merely gave him a calm look, and then brushed past him.
Neji having this kind of attitude toward him was also normal.
Because they were in different grades, the two hadn't had much interaction during ninja school, Hinata also rarely mentioned the other to him, so over the past few years, they had only met a few times.
Adding on that now Aoba was involved with Hinata and Hanabi, the Hyuga main family members.
He felt it was already not bad that the other didn't hate him by association.
After all, the hatred between the main and branch families was not something that could be explained away in a few words.
And the core of that hatred was the Caged Bird.
It was only now that Aoba remembered that the Hyuga clan still had the matter of the Caged Bird.
Although he still didn't know how to remove the Caged Bird seal right now. But he could start researching it now. Though he didn't have much talent for scientific research, he knew a lot.
Various sealing techniques, medical ninjutsu, even soul-related ninjutsu he could do, not to mention that he now had the Tenseigan.
The problem of the Caged Bird was definitely something that needed to be solved.
In his Konoha, how could such a thing that so clearly contradicted the Will of Fire still exist?
'Just, who should I find to study this…'
Neji?
"Aoba-sama?", Just as Aoba was lowering his head in thought, a clear and sweet voice rang in front of him.
He looked up, it was Hyuga Natsu with dark green hair.
"It really has been a long time, Natsu," Aoba smiled and greeted.
"It's only been a bit over half a month since we last met."
Hyuga Natsu covered her mouth and smiled slightly, "Aoba-sama, you must be here to see Miss Hinata and Miss Hanabi, right? I'll take you in."
"Wait, are you heading out?", Aoba called her to a stop.
Hyuga Natsu paused her movement and said, "I was just about to go buy ingredients for lunch."
"In that case, I'll just go in by myself," Saying that, Aoba pulled out a few candies from the bag in his hand and handed them to her.
"These candies I bought for Hinata and the others, help me try them and see how they taste."
"Okay," Hyuga Natsu took the candies, peeled one open, and put it into her mouth, savoring it carefully, "Mm~ the taste is pretty good, Miss Hinata and the others will definitely like them."
"Then, Natsu, do you like it?", Aoba asked. [T/N: Stop hitting on everyone you see man.]
Hyuga Natsu froze for a moment, cheeks slightly red, and nodded shyly, "I like it."
Upon hearing that, Aoba took out a handful of candies and stuffed them into Hyuga Natsu's hand.
"Then these are for you to eat," After saying that, he walked toward the inner courtyard, "I'll go in myself."
Hyuga Natsu somewhat dazedly looked at his back, "Aoba-sama is truly a very gentle person."
———
Aoba walked into the courtyard.
Hinata's whole family was at home.
"Ao… Aoba-kun?", Hinata noticed his figure right away, and even rubbed her eyes subconsciously.
"Hinata, good morning," Aoba quickly walked to Hinata's side, and right in front of Hyuga Hiashi, patted Hinata's head.
Hinata's face immediately showed a kitten-like expression.
"Ahem!", Hyuga Hiashi let out a cough to remind others of his presence.
To directly ignore him, and pet his daughter's head right in front of him, wasn't that a bit too much?
"Aoba-oniichan!", At this moment, Hanabi also pounced over.
"Careful," Aoba quickly opened his arms and caught her.
"You haven't come to see Hanabi in so long," Hanabi hugged Aoba's neck, pouting at him.
"I've been busy with missions recently," Aoba rubbed her head again, then took out candies from his pocket.
They were banana-flavored candies that Hanabi liked.
"Ah~", Hanabi opened her little mouth, indicating she wanted Aoba to feed her.
'So cute,' Aoba smiled, unwrapped the candy and put it into her mouth.
"Yummy~", The sweetness of the candy made Hanabi squint her eyes.
Next, Aoba unwrapped another candy, and put it into Hinata's expectant mouth.
"Yummy~", Hinata had the same reaction.
"?", A question mark slowly appeared above Hyuga Hiashi's head.
He was considering whether he should kick Aoba out.
Aoba handed all the candies in his hand to Hanabi and Hinata, and then looked at Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Ayako.
"Uncle Hiashi, Aunt Ayako."
"Aoba, sit down and have a cup of tea first," Hyuga Ayako was as gentle as ever, immediately getting up to prepare teacups.
Aoba followed the flow and sat opposite Hyuga Hiashi.
Hinata sat beside Aoba, Hanabi sat in her favorite spot, eating candies.
"Aoba, is there some new arrangement from Lady Tsunade?", Looking at the youth entangled by his two cute daughters, Hyuga Hiashi felt that he was the one who looked more like a guest.
"Seriously, Aoba hasn't even had a sip of tea yet, why are you in such a rush?", Hyuga Ayako walked over with tea, and couldn't help complaining at Hyuga Hiashi a bit.
Hyuga Hiashi: "..."
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