"How do you know all this," Tsume said, making herself comfortable after listening to my little lecture, "I think we spent the same amount of time at the front, but I've never heard of anything like this.
"I didn't learn it here either, but before the war," I said, jokingly flicking the girl on the tip of her nose and immediately pulling my hand away from her teeth.
"From whom? You have the same new Uchiha working with you at the hospital, so it wasn't her that enlightened you, with the sick I doubt you're just chatting for a living, and if you had someone even for one night, I'd definitely smell it," Inuzuka grumbled.
"Oh-ho-ho-ho, so we're monitoring this moment with our partners," I mockingly stretched out, "unexpected!
From above, I could see the kunoichi's face flush with a ripe tomato.
"N-I don't keep track," she suddenly stammered, shrinking back and lowering her head like a puddled puppy found at a crime scene.
This comparison made me laugh, and I almost said it out loud, but luckily I came to my senses in time. Of course, I could make fun of the poor thing a little, but we never finished talking, so this time Tsume was lucky, but don't expect me to forget about it... When there's more room to maneuver and escape won't be a problem.
"Okay, I believe you. A little bit. Oh!" The kunoichi raised her head and slapped my chin in response to the teasing. - I learned all this from an experienced kunoichi who had enlightened me to the realities of camping life beforehand.
"So I didn't think you had a barely detectable foreign feminine scent on you back at the academy! "Inuzuka suddenly exclaimed. - And then another during our team meetings! You were already going out with women back then!
Mentally, I cursed the overly sensitive nose of the dog clan and the too clever mind of my partner, who quickly put two and two together to get the expected picture.
"By the way, it was you who got the healing seal for free, only because you were on the same team with me," I slapped my palm on the flat tummy of the yelping kunoichi, "but some of the girls couldn't afford it, which led to an agreement that suited both parties.
"You paid for your work in kind? - I chuckled at the amazement in the voice of Tsume, who had twisted around to look me in the face.
"It's more accurate to say that it was consensual-she saw nothing wrong with it, and I got what I wanted, despite my age and my inability to visit the red-light street legally and without being exposed, as well as very useful information about shinobi life as a bonus," I clarified.
"But for someone to agree...
"I don't know if you're aware of it, but it's hard for a clanless kunoichi to live, and it's not that uncommon to find yourself in a victim's bed during a mission, just to stab someone to death after or during a fuck. And getting important information through the bed? That's not an uncommon mission either. In addition, many visiting aristocrats do not mind getting deadly and slender kunoichi in their bed, so they do not consider it a shame to earn money in this way. And if you refuse such tasks, then there are only low-paying missions like courier or with a high chance of meeting the enemy, where it is much easier for a woman to die than a man. So it's better to jump on a handsome young boy and get a second chance than to end up in some old bastard's bed. Those aren't my words, but her own.
From such revelations, Tsume hovered for a bit, digesting the new information. I waited patiently for her reaction.
"It doesn't seem right," she sighed, raising her gaze to me.
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