"Inner Sakura, what are you doing?!"
After seeing Inner Sakura's completely shameless behavior, Ino snapped back to her senses and immediately questioned her.
"Doing what? Of course I'm doing what should be done right now."
Inner Sakura grabbed a pant leg in each hand and pulled with great effort. If Aoba had not been holding on tightly, she would have already succeeded.
"Inner Sakura, calm down first."
Aoba sounded a little helpless. It was not that he did not want to, he just felt that Inner Sakura was being a bit too impatient.
"Aoba-kun, let go already, I just want to help you!"
Inner Sakura said somewhat aggrieved, but the strength in her hands did not lessen at all.
"..."
"Inner Sakura, that's enough!"
Ino could not stand it anymore. She hurried behind Inner Sakura, wrapped her arms around her waist, and tried to pull her away.
And Sakura could only stand to the side, watching anxiously.
Then the scene turned into a tug-of-war.
Aoba's pants were that rope.
However, even with the two of them working together, they still could not contend with Aoba's strength.
It was just that the pants had already been stretched out of shape from all the pulling.
Watching the two of them strain themselves, Aoba felt that Ino was completely making things worse.
Just as he thought, the thing he worried about the most happened in the next moment.
Riiip!
Along with the sound of fabric tearing, Aoba's poor pants finally could not hold on anymore and were completely ripped apart under the three-way struggle.
No matter how good the quality of the pants was, it could not withstand this kind of tearing from a ninja skilled in monstrous strength.
Soaking in the hot spring pool, Aoba felt both amused and exasperated at the scene before him.
But before he could make his next move, Inner Sakura was already standing on the surface of the hot spring water in front of him, wearing a mischievous grin and looking down at him.
"Aoba-kun, you just need to lie there. Leave everything else to me."
"Inner Sakura, you!"
Before Aoba could finish speaking, Inner Sakura had already—
After staring blankly for a while, Ino gritted her teeth and simply walked over as well.
———
After coming out of the hot spring pool, the three of them did not leave the hot spring inn. Instead, they stayed in a private room at the inn and ordered quite a few local specialty dishes.
After a simple lunch, Sakura and Ino lay down on the bed.
Aoba was still kneading their feet for them.
The earlier training had caused some minor muscle strain for the two of them, leaving both girls with sore legs.
If it was not relieved quickly, the afternoon date probably would not be able to go on.
"Aoba-kun, you said earlier that you would also listen to me and do one thing, right?"
Ino, who had been lying down, suddenly turned over and lay on her stomach on the soft bed, watching Aoba massage Sakura's sore calves.
Sakura had already switched back. After all, something like what happened earlier was not something Inner Sakura could enjoy alone. She still had to leave some soup for the main body.
"Hm?"
Aoba's movements paused slightly, and he asked in confusion, "Didn't I already give you a massage too?"
"That… that was clearly you acting on your own because of your terrible hobby, not something I asked for."
Ino said with a red face, "And… and I even resisted at the time."
"This…"
Aoba opened his mouth speechlessly. There really was no way to refute that.
Earlier, he had wanted to treat them fairly, so Ino would not feel unbalanced.
After all, Sakura really did win by playing dirty.
"Ino, you're playing dirty!"
Sakura said with little confidence.
Ino raised her eyebrows and stared at Sakura, "Then tell me, which one of us is actually more shameless?"
Breaking the rules during the competition was one thing, but now she was even accusing first.
Sakura immediately shrank back and did not dare to speak.
Aoba smiled helplessly. But he naturally would not refuse Ino's request, or rather, even without that so-called game bet earlier, as long as it was a request from Ino or Sakura, Aoba would not refuse.
Even if they wanted the moon in the sky, he could fly up there, drive that Otsutsuki clan back to the ninja world, and then build a vacation resort up there.
"Ino, what do you want me to do?"
"Well…"
Ino held her chin and thought for a moment, then said with a red face, "I'm a little sleepy right now and want to take a nap. I want you to hold me while sleeping, and you're only allowed to hold me, not Sakura!"
"W… what?"
Sakura immediately widened her eyes, her big eyes blinking as she looked at Ino pitifully, "Ino, we're good friends."
"Then who told you to play dirty and sneak ahead earlier. You must be punished!"
Ino showed no sign of softening.
Sakura pouted and said aggrievedly, "The one who sneaked ahead was clearly Inner Sakura, not me…"
"So you admit you played dirty?", Ino grabbed her cheek and questioned her.
"Mm~ sorry, Ino, I was wrong," Sakura pouted as she apologized.
"Hmph! Good that you know you were wrong."
Seeing Sakura apologize, Ino finally let go of her face.
Seeing the two girls make up again, Aoba also showed a relieved smile.
But he also knew that Ino was not really angry. Or maybe she was angry, but it quickly subsided.
After all, their cooperation earlier had been quite tacit.
That was also because, only by working together could they bring out the best effect.
As compensation to Sakura, Aoba was even more serious when helping her relieve the soreness.
Then they all crawled under the covers together.
Of course, Ino was facing Aoba as they held each other, while Sakura could only sleep on the other side, pressing her body against Aoba's back.
"Sakura, don't move your hands around. You're affecting my sleep!", Ino patted Sakura's tender little hand that had reached over from behind Aoba.
"Mm!", Sakura had no choice but to stop her hand resentfully. Then she blinked her eyes. Since she could not take advantage physically, she could only switch methods.
Her spirit form slipped out, imitating Inner Sakura as it entered Aoba's mental world.
Ino had her eyes closed, but she had only just dozed off when she suddenly opened her eyes in panic, burying her small face in Aoba's chest, her face flushed red.
"A… Aoba-kun, you—"
"..."
Aoba did not respond and kept his eyes closed.
"Aoba-kun?", Looking at Aoba, who seemed to be asleep, Ino could not help but call out again. Still no response. She could not help but purse her lips.
'How did he fall asleep so fast?'
"Inner Sakura, Sakura, you two stop messing around. We still need to take a nap."
In the mental world, hearing Ino's call, Aoba looked helplessly at the two identical girls who were flustered and busy.
"Aoba-kun…"
Inner Sakura leaned close to his ear and breathed softly, her voice full of temptation.
Aoba was about to complain a bit more, when his eyes suddenly widened.
In the real world, Ino saw that Aoba still did not react, but in this situation she could not sleep properly anymore.
She simply shrank under the blanket. Otherwise, this nap would be impossible.
Practice makes perfect.
And under the double blow, Aoba no longer knew what heaven and earth were.
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