Tsunade Can Hear My Inner Voice novel Chapter 72

Chapter 72 - 72 - The Return of the Ino-Shika-Chō Trio

"Hikari-senpai! Hikari-senpai!"

Kamizuki Hikari, who had been dozing against a tree, was abruptly awakened by the noisy shouting.

A head of dazzling golden hair filled his vision—it was Ino, her face slightly flustered.

"What is it?" Hikari yawned.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that being a teacher might not be such a bad thing after all.

At the very least, he could sleep wherever he wanted, and no one would say a word.

'In that case, maybe I should just be their teacher properly?'

The thought lasted no more than a second before Hikari tossed it into the far corners of his mind.

Being a teacher was never going to happen. His life was all about gate duty, clocking in and out, and idling through the day just to get by.

"Well, we caught the wild rabbits. What should we do next?"

"One of you go gather firewood, another handle the rabbits, and the last one... hmm, how about giving me a shoulder massage?" Hikari cheerfully assigned tasks to the trio.

"So troublesome..." Shikamaru muttered under his breath. Glancing at Chōji and then at Ino, he knew without asking that the job of butchering the rabbits would fall to either him or Chōji.

"Chōji, you—"

Before Shikamaru could finish, Chōji had already made his decision. "I'll go gather firewood. Shikamaru, you handle the rabbits." _{freēwēbηovel.c૦m}

That left Ino, who began listlessly kneading Hikari's shoulders.

"Hikari-senpai, I'm starving!"

"Starving helps with losing weight." Hikari replied casually.

Never mind how weak Ino's massage was—just the thought of a cute girl giving him a shoulder massage was more than enough to please him.

Fortunately, Shikamaru and Chōji had enough sense not to call Ino over to butcher rabbits or gather firewood. If either of them had dared come over for a shoulder massage, Hikari would've made sure they experienced what true "hellish" training felt like.

*Thwack!*

A hard pat.

Ino paused and whined, "Hikari-senpai, I'm seriously so hungry! I feel like I could eat a whole cow!"

"Quit the act. If Chōji said that, I might believe him. But you? You couldn't even finish a cow's leg, let alone a whole cow." Kamizuki Hikari never held back when it came to roasting people.

"Hikari-senpai, you're the worst!" Realizing her whining had no effect, Ino gave up on the massage. She brushed off the ground beside him and plopped down.

"A guy like you will never find a wife. You're clearly destined to be alone!"

"Ino, you're still young. You don't understand what kind of man is really a catch. A man like me is actually very popular in Konoha. If I hadn't resisted all those advances, my kid would be your age by now!"

"Yeah, right. Cheap talk!" Ino didn't buy it at all.

"I'm not bragging. Actually, you're better at exaggerating than I am. Remember what you said just now? If you weren't bluffing, I'll go find you a whole roast cow right now and make you eat it."

Ino rolled her eyes at him.

'Hmph, Hikari-senpai is so annoying. I'm a girl, so what if I exaggerate just a little?!'

"Hikari-senpai, do you just not want to train us?" Now that they were alone, Ino decided to ask something more personal.

Hikari scratched his chin and gave Ino a crafty look.

"What's wrong?" Ino subtly scooted to the left, increasing the distance between them.