Chapter 485: The Three
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
Haruno Sakura rolled her eyes at her friend.
"All my energy has been squeezed dry!" Hinata lay limply on Sakura, like a salted fish being marinated, pouting and complaining weakly, "It's all your fault for dragging Sasuke out to play, leaving me to handle all the missions requiring pupil techniques! Worked overtime for four days in one breath!"
Hinata Hotaru held a high position and power, too lazy to do these trivial tasks, so the work of two people these past few days was all shouldered by the Anbu newcomer Hinata Hinata alone.
No choice, who told her she was neither the orphan of a major clan nor had a brother who shocked the ninja world? The Byakugan pupil technique was also generally recognized as inferior to the Sharingan, and she herself was a taijutsu-type ninja who was not easy to shine.
"Hinata... sorry." Haruno Sakura took her hand and said embarrassedly, "How about I treat you to Ichiraku Ramen?"
"Just ramen?"
Haruno Sakura gritted her teeth: "Unlimited, eat until you're full!"
"Really?"
"Really!" Sakura's eyes were extremely firm.
"Forgive you!" The white-eyed girl's face turned sunny instantly. She propped herself up from Sakura, the smell of salted fish on her body vanished instantly, and she smiled brilliantly.
The speed of change made Sakura dumbfounded.
Haruno Sakura kept a straight face and looked sideways: "You are just deceiving my feelings, right!"
"Hehe, forgive me, Sakura." The white-eyed girl leaned over smilingly and kissed Sakura on the cheek, "Love you!"
Kissed.
This kind of intimate behavior between girls stunned Haruno Sakura. She quickly pushed Hinata away with a look of disgust and wiped her face: "What are you doing, there's saliva!"
Wet.
"Are you a dog?!"
Disgusting!
"Haha," Hinata laughed unladylike, pointing at the girl's face, "Sakura-chan is shy!"
Later, inside Ichiraku Ramen shop.
Because of Naruto, a loyal fan of Ichiraku, Haruno Sakura, Hinata, Sasuke and others would also come here for meals from time to time.
Large quantity to fill the stomach, favorable price, and the taste was also quite good. For young ninja who just entered ninja society and were shy in pocket, it was a very good dining choice.
However, no matter how affordable the price, multiplied by more than twenty, it would become a quite exaggerated number.
And the empty bowls stacked in front of Hinata soon exceeded the number twenty, piling up into a high stack on the table, swaying precariously.
The mouths of the diners watching from the side opened wider and wider, Uncle Ichiraku's small eyes opened brighter and brighter, while Haruno Sakura, who was treating, turned paler and paler.
"Twenty-fifth bowl!" Hinata drank the last bit of soup in the bowl, added another layer to the stack of empty bowls, wiped the corner of her mouth heroically, and shouted, "Boss, another bowl please!"
"Okay!"
Responded with a smile, turned around and handed over another bowl of noodles, completely ignoring Haruno Sakura winking hard and frantically signaling from the side, placing it squarely in front of Hinata.
"Twenty-sixth bowl!"
A meddlesome ordinary diner shouted boisterously, attracting the attention of a passing teenager.
"Hinata?"
The black-haired boy walked over. The first thing he saw through the curtain was the stack of high piled empty bowls. He looked down and unsurprisingly saw the black-haired girl seemingly burying her face in the big bowl, slurping ramen quickly.
The boy was slightly stunned, lifted the curtain and walked into the shop, just meeting the gaze of Haruno Sakura who had a bitter face.
"...And Sakura too." He laughed.
"Sasuke?"
Hearing the familiar voice, Hinata raised her head abruptly, turned around and looked. The slender boy standing behind her was Uchiha Sasuke.
"Good job Sasuke! You abducted my Sakura-chan to go out and play, didn't include me, and made me work overtime in Anbu for so many days, hmph!" Hinata joked familiarly, smiling at Sasuke, "Tell me, how are you going to compensate me!"
Compensate?
Sasuke glanced at the one empty bowl in front of Sakura and the twenty-something empty bowls in front of Hinata, understood in his heart, pulled out a stool to sit on the other side of Sakura, and said lightly: "I'll treat this meal."
"Keep ordering, don't be polite with me." Sasuke was rich and imposing, saying calmly, "Uncle Ichiraku, I'll have a bowl too, same as Sakura's."
"..." Hinata was speechless for a moment.
She suddenly deeply realized Sasuke's essence as a tycoon inheriting a huge family fortune as an Uchiha orphan.
Haruno Sakura glared at him sideways and said grumpily: "What are you doing? I said I'd treat this meal, find your own way to return the favor!"
Turned her head and said to Ichiraku again: "Uncle Ichiraku, put his share on my bill too."
Uncle Ichiraku narrowed his small eyes, smilingly looked at the three young ninja from left to right, then from right to left again, before returning to the kitchen and serving a new bowl of ramen in a few moves, placing it in front of Sasuke.
"Little Sasuke is too thin, eat more to grow some meat, so you have strength to practice or something!"
Haruno Sakura always felt that Ichiraku's words were meaningful, implying something.
Sasuke didn't hear anything, eating noodles gently while glancing sideways at the two girls beside him.
Haruno Sakura sat straight, quietly sitting beside him, her index finger touching her soft lips, not knowing what she was thinking. Separated by one seat was Hinata, who was eating quickly with an elegant posture. While Sasuke ate a mouthful, she had already finished the remaining half bowl of ramen. Seeing the boy looking over, she said: "By the way, Sasuke, why suddenly re-study Sai's file?"
The black-haired boy withdrew his gaze, eating the beef brisket while saying slowly: "Sakura and I just obtained a batch of new intelligence. Sai belongs to the Root members who can be redeemed, so Hokage-sama is considering giving him a chance."
"So, I didn't go out to play with her, we completed an S-rank mission outside!"
Hinata narrowed her eyes, staring at him with disbelief.
"It's true!" Haruno Sakura nodded, helping to explain, winked at Hinata and said, "But what exactly happened, it's not convenient to say here..."
Hinata scanned back and forth between Haruno Sakura and Sasuke suspiciously.
Only when Haruno Sakura felt creeped out did she put down her chopsticks, elegantly wiped her mouth, touched her still flat belly and muttered: "Only half full... then tell me next time, Sakura!"
She stood up and looked at the time: "Can't do it now... I have to rush back, almost time for the family curfew."
—As a wealthy and influential clan, the Hyuga family had quite a few rules.
"See you later, you two!"
She walked out of the shop briskly, blowing a kiss to the girl: "Thanks Sakura-chan for the treat!"
After speaking, she turned and left, disappearing into the night.
Haruno Sakura watched Hinata leave, turned her head and found that Sasuke had also finished the ramen in a few bites, put down the bowl and chopsticks and said to her: "Finished eating. Next... I'll walk you home."
"By the way, those questions from noon, I want to talk to you on the way."
Sasuke's expression was very serious.
Haruno Sakura looked at him steadily, then suddenly laughed.
Ichiraku Ramen shop and her home were both in the core area of Konoha, not far apart. Even walking back slowly wouldn't take too long.
Speaking of which, if she needed someone to escort her in the entire Konoha, then everyone would be in danger, right?
"I don't need you to send me." She curled her lips and refused without hesitation.
Saying that, Sakura paid the bill and turned to leave.
Sasuke followed behind.
"We are going the same way for this part." Meeting the girl's doubtful gaze, Sasuke explained.
Haruno Sakura shrugged her shoulders.
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