"Oh, it's that cake, right? I've pretty much figured it out these past couple of days. How did I never think of this before? Just wait I'll go make it right now for our dessert master to taste."
After getting an affirmative answer from the shop owner, a smile appeared on Furina's face. Eating the same few kinds of sweets day after day for so many years had long since made her sick of them.
For someone who loved desserts like her, having only the same few options every time was truly a massive torment. Fortunately, she had met the current dango shop owner.
He was actually able to recreate the cake from her memories just based on her descriptions. For someone like her who couldn't make anything and could only eat this was incredibly lucky.
While waiting, Furina immediately pulled up the broadcast content, ready to see what kind of silly comments the netizens from the other world were leaving about her.
"Back row by the window, the king's homeland. My wife really is the protagonist of this ninja story."
"WTF, Naruto actually kissed Sasuke?! I got so scared I quickly checked the anime summary. Phew, good, nothing weird there."
"No, what do you all mean? Shaking and cold. When will us gay guys finally stand tall? This society oppresses gay men way too much."
"Although the barrage doesn't show IDs, please watch yourselves a bit."
As the topic derailed, the barrage gradually became something hard to look at directly. Even Furina felt a bit embarrassed watching it and almost wanted to exit.
Fortunately, she noticed there was a progress bar under the video. After dragging it forward a bit, the barrage finally became somewhat normal again.
By now, the scene had reached Iruka announcing the team assignments. Even here, though, the barrage was still discussing Furina's earlier rescue.
"I knew it no need to guess the teams. It's definitely Naruto, Sasuke, and Furina. Everyone else is obviously just a side character, or straight-up background fodder."
"No kidding. Just look at how Furina single-handedly handled that whole pack of Sasuke simps there's no way she's a side character."
"Furina is so cool! She instantly appeared in the middle and shielded the protagonist behind her. Even the always-posturing Sasuke was shocked. Is this anime actually in big-female-lead mode?"
"Furina: Please, I'm not targeting you specifically. What I mean is, everyone here is trash."
[Affection Points +1 +1 +1... +1 +1]
[Affection Points: 4487]
[Stats]
[Constitution: Chūnin (259/5000) Speed: Chūnin (478/5000) Strength: Chūnin (433/5000) Chakra: Chūnin (3532/5000)]
[Abilities]
[Omitted]
"Nice~" After noticing her Affection Points, Furina couldn't help but feel delighted. Once she gained a bit more, she could directly push Chakra and any other stat to the next level.
The sweat and effort behind this how could mere words describe it? Hehe(^▽^)
While Furina was amusing herself, the progress bar reached the end and switched to something like a live broadcast format. At that moment, she suddenly realized the broadcast content seemed a little… off?
In the scene, Sasuke was sitting together with Sakura, and the atmosphere between them was somewhat ambiguous.
"This…" Seeing this, Furina was momentarily stunned. At this point in time, wasn't Sasuke supposed to keep his distance from all the girls in the class? How could this kind of situation happen?
Like Furina, the viewers watching this scene also sensed something was wrong. After all, they had seen Sasuke's earlier behavior, so the barrage began filling with all kinds of guesses.
"I remember Sasuke completely ignores all the simps in class. Is this really the Sasuke I know?"
"If that's Sasuke, I'll eat my screen right now. That's more like Naruto."
"The guy above, stop trying to scam food and drinks. But yeah, it does feel like Naruto. From earlier plot, you can tell Naruto really likes Sakura. I'm guessing this 'Sasuke' is Naruto using Transformation Jutsu to impersonate him."
"Solid analysis. +1."
So that's what it was. After reading the barrage's analysis, Furina finally understood what was going on. She had only blanked for a moment; with the reminder, she remembered everything.
It was a pretty ridiculous move Naruto transformed into Sasuke to trick Sakura into kissing him, but ended up not getting the kiss because of a stomachache. That was roughly it.
Except… she remembered Naruto got the stomachache from drinking expired milk eating expired food caused it. And she had once told him to throw out all the expired stuff and eat normal food properly.
In that case…
"Damn it." After figuring it out, although Furina couldn't help cursing inwardly, she still decided to go stop it. After all, she was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see something like this happen.
"Shopkeeper uncle, I suddenly remembered something I need to take care of. I'll be right back."
After telling the owner, without waiting for a reply, Furina's figure instantly vanished from the shop. Because from the broadcast, the two of them were already about to kiss she couldn't afford to dawdle anymore.
"Ah, sure, no rush. The cake still needs some time to make."
Right after the owner finished speaking, he realized Furina was already gone. Seeing this, he couldn't help but sigh at how quickly time flew. The little girl he had watched grow up had become an impressive ninja.
...
"Sakura, are you serious?"
"Yes, Sasuke-kun. As long as I can gain your approval, I'm willing to do anything."
With that, Sakura closed her eyes. The distance between the two grew closer and closer only for the ambiguous atmosphere to be shattered in the next instant by a sudden interruption.
"Sasuke, Sakura, what are you two doing? Out in public like this without caring who sees?"
Hearing this familiar voice, the two who had almost touched jerked apart as if shocked by electricity, then simultaneously turned toward the source of the sound.
"I-Iruka-sensei, why are you here?"
"What, you two can be here, but I can't?"
Faced with Sakura's question, Iruka was immediately amused in an exasperated way. He retorted somewhat irritably.
"No, that's not what I meant, Iruka-sensei. We were just…"
Seeing Iruka's tone wasn't good, Sakura instantly became nervous. She still tried to continue explaining, but before she could finish, Iruka interrupted her.