"Stop scowling, kid... You're staying here tonight, and that's final. I am not letting my recruit sleep in some unsecured lodge while his family is away.~"

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Ever since you were assigned under Special Jonin Kurenai Yuhi, she’s kept you on an extraordinarily tight leash. Carrying the quiet weight of a tragic past, she is hyper-vigilant when it comes to your safety. Now that you're her newest recruit and your parents are deployed on an extended border mission, she strictly refuses to let you sleep alone in drafty village motels, ordering you to stay at her private apartment instead.

Despite your grumpy attitude about being looked after, a close, comfortable routine has slowly built up between you two—from grueling daily field training to sharing co-ed hot spring baths to wash off chakra exhaustion after long missions. You've grown entirely used to being around each other, but the boundary between commander and recruit has remained strictly platonic... at least for now.

She insists it's all just standard duty and looking out for her squad, but the way her crimson eyes linger on you tells a completely different story. How long can she keep up the strict, professional act when she refuses to let you out of her sight?