Chapter 151: The Kiss of Death

Inside Tsunade's office at the Konoha Hospital, just as Kato Yufeng and Tsunade were sharing an intimate moment as a young couple, one of Kato Yufeng's eyebrows twitched slightly. He sensed a familiar chakra fluctuation in the distance, rapidly approaching his and Tsunade's location. An acquaintance was coming.

"Damn it!" Kato Yufeng cursed under his breath, then looked down at Tsunade, whose cheeks were flushed in his arms, and complained further, "Why do they always have to show up at the worst possible time? Every single time!"

"Hmm?" Tsunade noticed that her boyfriend had stopped moving. She opened her bright, watery eyes and looked up at Kato Yufeng in confusion.

"Someone is coming, looking for me. You rest for a moment."

With that, Kato Yufeng summoned a tremendous amount of willpower, forcing himself to leave Tsunade's cozy embrace, and began straightening his clothes and ninja gear.

Seeing Kato Yufeng stand up, Tsunade scrambled up from the sofa as well, wanting to help him tidy up his clothing and equipment.

"Ouch!"

However, Tsunade's body was completely drained of strength at that moment, especially her long legs, which felt exceptionally weak and sore. She failed to stand properly and collapsed back onto the sofa with a soft gasp of surprise.

"Alright, Tsunade, don't move. Just lie down and rest a little longer."

"No way, how can I let anyone see me looking like this? It's all your fault, you're terrible, humph!"

Tsunade still wanted to climb off the sofa, but after a few futile attempts, she failed.

"Kato Yufeng, you're getting worse and worse, more and more annoying." Unable to stand up, Tsunade started complaining to her boyfriend, and then asked, "Who is coming?"

Kato Yufeng looked at his girlfriend's shy and blushing appearance and chuckled foolishly, "Hehe."

"My princess, you can't be unreasonable. You were the one who initiated the end of that just now, and didn't you enjoy it quite a bit too? Hehe."

Kato Yufeng bantered with Tsunade with a wicked smile. While quickly straightening his clothes and gear, he casually set up a soul-concealment barrier around the sofa area, cutting off all external perception of the space.

"You're the unreasonable one! Your whole family is unreasonable!" Though Tsunade's body was too weak and sore to stand, her tongue was working just fine. Maintaining her fiery temper, she bickered back and forth with Kato Yufeng.

Kato Yufeng certainly didn't dare to argue with Tsunade, so he quickly changed the subject, "Don't worry, my princess. With you looking this mouth-watering, how could I ever let another man see you?"

Besides, Kato Yufeng hadn't lost out just now; he had taken plenty of practical advantages, so letting his girlfriend win a verbal argument to vent was fine.

Perhaps seeing that Kato Yufeng had set up the soul-concealment barrier, or perhaps truly lacking the strength, Tsunade stopped struggling to stand. However, she didn't follow his advice to lie back down either, instead sitting upright and beginning to smooth out her own clothes.

"You still haven't said who is coming."

"Shimura Danzo's subordinate, the messenger Old Black. You've met him."

"Old Black?" Hearing this name, Tsunade asked in surprise.

"You've met him, have you forgotten? That big black rat. Last time, right in this office, on this very sofa, you pretended to be asleep just to let me lick—"

Kato Yufeng didn't finish what he was going to say he licked, switching topics instead: "Last time that guy ruined my good mood, and it's him again today. Just watch how I deal with him in a minute."

"Pffft, you wicked thing, nothing good ever comes out of your mouth." Seeing Kato Yufeng trail off before finishing his sentence, Tsunade rolled her eyes at him. "Don't you go doing anything reckless."

"Hehe, how could I do anything reckless? I'm such a reliable Konoha Jonin, and moreover, a Konoha Jonin about to be promoted and heavily trusted by the village."

After a brief exchange, Kato Yufeng had finished sorting out his clothes and equipment. He then leaned close to the sofa and gently kissed Tsunade on her fair, smooth forehead.

Over the past half year or so, as his relationship with Tsunade deepened, kissing had naturally become a frequent occurrence.

Through sheer repetition, Kato Yufeng had even figured out some patterns behind Tsunade's "Death Kiss Anti-Buff."

Whether it was Kato Yufeng kissing Tsunade or Tsunade kissing Kato Yufeng, there was a certain probability of triggering the Death Kiss Anti-Buff.

The exact probability, the magnitude of the lucky attribute bonus, and the duration of the effect were all variable.

However, if Tsunade took the initiative, these probabilities were noticeably higher, and the intensity of the emotions Tsunade invested during the kiss served as another key indicator.

The more passionate Tsunade felt during their kisses, the better the probabilities and effects of the Death Kiss Anti-Buff would be.

There was yet another indicator: the area being kissed. The best effect came from deep lip-to-lip kisses, followed by the forehead and cheeks. As for other parts of the body...

Ahem, although there was no Death Kiss Anti-Buff bonus there, Kato Yufeng still enjoyed them very much...

Uh, and sometimes Tsunade enjoyed them too, depending entirely on her mood at the time.

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After kissing Tsunade on the forehead, Kato Yufeng stood up, left the vicinity of the sofa, walked over to Tsunade's desk, and casually picked up a medical ninjutsu scroll to browse.

From Kato Yufeng's position looking toward the sofa, Tsunade's alluring figure was completely hidden from view.

Kato Yufeng smacked his lips, thoroughly satisfied with his concealment skills. Glancing at the medical ninjutsu scroll in his hand, he found he had no desire to read it. Instead, he reached out from who-knows-where and pulled out a pocket-sized, vibrantly colored booklet, flipping it open.

On the cover of the booklet, alongside some illustrations favored by gentlemen, was an eye-catching orange-skinned little toad with heart-shaped eyes.

*Make-Out Tactics II*: the latest masterpiece by Kato Yufeng's white-haired old classmate. Compared to the contents of the first volume, Kato Yufeng clearly preferred the second volume in his hands.

Whether in terms of writing style, plot, conception, pacing, or protagonist character design, the new installment of *Make-Out Tactics* was vastly superior to the older work.

This was the normal growth trajectory of a true author. The shinobi world wasn't a world straight out of an author's pen; nobody was born knowing how to write.

If anyone ever claimed they were born knowing how to write right out of their mother's womb, or that writing was just effortlessly simple, then they were either talking absolute nonsense or talking absolute nonsense.

Every celebrated author, whether a grandmaster or a top-tier writer, grew step-by-step from a newcomer, didn't they?

People needed to show a little more patience toward young creators. The shinobi world belonged to both the elderly and the youth, but sooner or later, it would entirely belong to the youth.

Being able to witness the growth of his old classmate with his own eyes, especially growth in literary and artistic creation, filled Kato Yufeng with a deep sense of gratification.

Kato Yufeng decided that the next time he met his white-haired old classmate, he would definitely treat him to a few visits to the green hot springs so he could gather plenty of new writing material.

Kato Yufeng felt that having muscular and robust twin sisters serve his old classmate would be just right. With those husky and powerful builds, it was guaranteed to make his old classmate feel like he was floating between heaven and earth!

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"Achoo!"

Somewhere in the shinobi world, in a small town atop the roof of a public bathhouse, a lecherous man with a mane of white hair and an orange-skinned little toad perched on his head sneezed a massive sneeze.

"Achoo! Which beauty is thinking of this handsome guy? Why such a huge sneeze?"

"Ouch, haha, it's up, it's standing up! Higher, go higher... Hehe, hehe, achoo!"

"Ribbit."

The orange-skinned little toad on the lecherous man's head croaked twice in response to his question, after which the little toad's two frog eyes transformed into two red, heart-shaped orbs.

"Ribbit... Ribbit!"

The orange-skinned little toad croaked even more cheerfully.

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