Red Nara

- But a solid shinobi would hardly spend time with children like that, even in the form of a clone," the woman shook her head in surprise.

- Maybe this is the only opportunity for Nara-sama to get a taste of childhood, which he obviously didn't have," Shindo sighed.

- Childhood?

- If a child works as a full-fledged iryo-nin in a hospital from the age of eight or nine, what kind of childhood can we talk about?

Nono recalled one of the old rumors about Nara's next genius and nodded understandingly.

- The children love Ryo-sama very much, despite the infrequency of his visits, and the entire staff of the orphanages respect him very much," the old man continued, his eyes slightly closed, "and so if some organization starts giving Nara-sama a hard time at your suggestion...

The heavy and penetrating gaze from beneath his lowered eyelids chilled the kunoichi to the bone, and she suddenly remembered that despite the truth of her neighbor's words, there was not a single crippled or unable to use chakra among the staff of the orphanage now, and the vigorous and active older men themselves had decades of service under their belts. Many, even in Anbu. Against this backdrop, the threat-warning sounded looked in a very different light.

***

The first sign of awakening was a headache. It was so bad that I couldn't even think straight at first. I don't know how long I lay there and suffered, but gradually the hammering in my head began to subside and suddenly I felt thirsty and dry mouth, which had been looming somewhere on the periphery of my consciousness.

Ha, what a hangover! Barely moving my swollen tongue, I touched the seal on the inside of my cheek and got some much-needed moisture. And began to drink, drink, drink. Until my dry throat began to work properly again, and the feeling of shitting cats in my mouth disappeared. After running the chakra transformed into healing chakra through the channels in my head, I literally rose from the dead and began to perceive the signals of the rest of my body, which informed me that my position was very comfortable, my head was resting on something soft and warm, and my arms were embracing... female forms of the lower ninety.

When I opened my eyes and blinked properly, I didn't realize what I was looking at at first, but the cloth-covered, impressive mounds I was almost bumping my nose into left no room for speculation. Uh-huh, so I'm using someone's belly as a pillow. I could have pulled myself up and looked, but I was too cozy in that position, so I closed my eyes and started to remember what had happened yesterday. Despite the hangover prophylaxis, my memory was still not working very well and I had to make some effort to catch the memories.

So, yesterday we had... celebrated my birthday (sixteen years in this world already, the horror)! That's right! I invited Kei, Mito and Kushina, the rest of my team, the Shikaku trio, Keiko, and my uncle and Setsura. Linley was just afraid to, given the literally flaming glances in Kanade's direction from Ma.

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