"No one else is here."
Naruto looked up at Sasuke and could no longer pretend to be cute. He just gave him a pitiful look, silently begging for mercy.
"How do you know there's no one else? Whatever, you don't know anything, but from now on, you must remember: whenever there might be others around, you're absolutely not allowed to use that jutsu, got it?"
Sasuke lightly tapped Naruto's head with his finger, casually twirling a lock of his hair, then suddenly flashed a strange smile.
But he shook his head afterward, suppressing that thought.
Although he liked it, Naruto was different—there was no way he could really bully this guy.
"I got it, I promise I won't use it outside. At worst, only in your room, Sasuke."
Naruto's voice grew smaller and smaller, blinking in a pitiful way as he swallowed the rest of his words.
"I'm not interested."
Sasuke snorted and turned, heading toward the door.
He wasn't walking away because Naruto was too flirtatious—he just didn't like this guy acting like that, especially since he was a guy.
Forget it, no more thinking about it. This idiot just has a screw loose. As long as he doesn't use the seduction jutsu outside, that's fine.
"Sasuke, have a good rest tonight. I'm going to sleep first!"
After seeing Sasuke leave, Naruto quickly jumped up and closed the bedroom door, not forgetting to say goodnight to Sasuke.
Once he couldn't hear anything outside anymore, Naruto's pitiful expression instantly vanished. He swayed his hips as he approached the bathroom mirror, examining his current look.
As expected, he knew Sasuke couldn't escape the laws of men either.
If he ever needed help or wanted to apologize, he could totally run straight into Sasuke's room and use the seduction jutsu.
As for outside, Sasuke was so angry just now—he really wouldn't dare use the seduction jutsu in front of anyone else.
He had long since passed the stage of messing around. Now, he only wanted to work hard alongside Sasuke, and once they had the strength, they would go do what they truly wanted.
Sasuke wanted revenge, so he would accompany Sasuke in seeking it.
"Those two brats are sleeping really early tonight. They must be really tired. But compared to those three brats in Guy's squad, these two at home are actually pretty cute."
Kakashi had just come back after having some grilled meat and drinks with Might Guy.
Coming back to the now quiet two courtyards, he checked their steady breathing after they had fallen asleep. Smiling, Kakashi went back to his room to rest.
Tomorrow, he still had to keep pushing Naruto around, then make Sasuke take the punishment for Naruto.
He wondered if those two little brats even wanted to curse him in their dreams.
After all, sometimes his reasons were too arbitrary, and anyone looking in would think he disliked those two kids and was deliberately picking on them.
But no matter how much he struggled before sleep, after breakfast the next day, because Naruto hadn't met the training standards, Kakashi punished both of them to run laps again.
And to the extent that after running, they were too exhausted to cook.
"Sasuke, can we think of a way to make Kakashi-senpai stop bullying us so much? He's gone too far!"
Naruto leaned against a tree by the roadside, his legs completely drained of strength, but they were still two laps short of Kakashi's punishment target.
"Maybe he got humiliated in front of others last night and now he's bullying us to regain some confidence. But even so, we still need to train. If you can't go on, rest, and I'll run those last two laps for you."
Sasuke patted Naruto on the head. Before Naruto could reply, Sasuke was already running off.
It was just two more laps. If he couldn't even finish that, how could he keep sending shadow clones into the system space?