[BONUS CHAPTER] Gathering at Ryosuke's House

The second Chūnin exam was over.

Some people were happy and some were sad.

After returning home, Ryosuke told his mother Mizuki the good news that he had advanced to the third exam.

He then told his mother that Hinata and the others would come here for dinner at night.

Hearing that her son's girlfriends were coming for dinner, Mizuki hurriedly started preparations.

After all, this was the first time Hinata and Ino were coming over for dinner.

As their future mother-in-law, she had to make good preparations.

Ryosuke originally wanted to help.

But after he almost knocked over the bowl for the third time, he was kicked out of the kitchen by his mother, and he was strictly forbidden to enter the kitchen again.

Ryosuke stood outside the kitchen and smiled wryly.

It seems his talent in cooking is a bit...

Why does he seem to be unable to do anything related to cooking?

It felt like he was under a curse.

Very incomprehensible!

Now that his mother had kicked him out of the kitchen, Ryosuke could only do his own thing.

After 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Ino arrived at Ryosuke's house first.

Ryosuke went to open the door for Ino and invited her in.

"Hi Auntie! I'm Yamanaka Ino. We have met before."

When Ino saw Ryosuke's mother, she called auntie sweetly.

"Haha! You're very sweet!"

Mizuki looked at her future daughter-in-law with a smile on her face.

Then she glanced at her son standing aside, feeling very happy in her heart.

Her son was very promising. He brought back two such beautiful daughter-in-laws.

"Auntie, are you making mushrooms? Let me help!"

As soon as Ino saw a large pile of ingredients in the kitchen, she immediately volunteered to help.

Mizuki saw her future daughter-in-law's potential as a cook.

She quickly asked Ryosuke to take Ino to the living room but Ino insisted on helping.

Ryosuke also said that Ino's cooking skills were very good.

Mizuki couldn't stand her ground against these two little guys, so she had to agree to let Ino help in the kitchen.

Seeing Ino's skillful chopping and cooking, Mizuki believed what Ryosuke had said just now about Ino's cooking skills being very good.

Unexpectedly, the princess of the Yamanaka clan was willing to make food for her son.

This surprised Mizuki.

After a while, Hinata and Kurenai also arrived.

Kurenai saw that Ino was helping in the kitchen, so she also suggested to help herself.

Mizuki looked at Kurenai and then looked at Ryosuke, who was accompanying Hinata over there, and siganled if this was her daughter-in-law as well?

Ryosuke didn't expect his mother to be so insightful.

She found out at a glance. Ryosuke lightly nodded at Mizuki.

After Mizuki got Ryosuke's affirmative answer, she smiled and took Kurenai's hand.

'Although this girl is a little older, she is still beautiful and a good match for my son.'

Kurenai felt that the way Mizuki was looking at her was a bit strange.

She felt that Mizuki was lookimg at her as if she was looking at her daughter-in-law.

'I'm just overthinking it, right?'

Kurenai thought to herself.

"Come on, cheers!"

"Let's congratulate Hinata and Ryosuke for qualifying for the third exam!"

At the dining table, five people sat together, and the table was full of sumptuous dishes.

"Ryosuke, if your father was alive, he would be proud of you!"

After taking a sip of wine, Mizuki's eyes turned red.

She thought of how hard she had worked to bring up Ryosuke.

Now that Ryosuke had grown up and was capable, she felt that all her efforts over the past few years were worthwhile.

It was just a pity that Ryosuke's father wasn't here.

Otherwise, seeing his son grow up to be a wonderful adult, he would be very happy, right?

"Mom, you have worked hard all these years!"

Ryosuke took a glass of fruit juice and toasted Mizuki.

"Auntie, I also offer you a toast!"

Ino also picked up the glass of juice in front of her, and said with a smile.

"Auntie, I respect you too."

"Miss Mizuku, come, let's have a drink too!"

Mizuki looked at the three daughter-in-laws in front of her with a smile, and happily drank several cups.

At first, Ryosuke was worried about his mother's drinking capacity.

But after a while, he found that even though Kurenai looked a little drunk, his mother didn't seem to be even slightly drunk.

This level of alcohol tolerance...

...

This meal didn't end until around 9 o'clock in the evening.

Ryosuke then sent Hinata and Ino back home first.

Then when he got home, he found that his mother was still drinking with Kurenai.

It's just that Kurenai was obviously drunk.

But Mizuki's cheeks were only slightly red.

"Mom, you have drunk too much!"

Ryosuke shook an empty wine bottle beside him.

He and Hinata didn't drink any alcohol during the meal.

After all, he was still young.

Therefore, these wine bottles must have been emptied by Mizuki and Kurenai.

And most of it was actually drunk by Mizuki, Kurenai only drank a small part.

But even so Kurenai was the one who was in a daze at this moment.

"When I was young, I had a nickname called Wine Princess!"

Mizuki looked at her son with a smile and said.

Wine princesses?

Ryosuke looked at his mother, dumbfounded.

"Your sister Kurenai is drunk. Don't let her leave tonight. I will tidy up the guest room later. Let her sleep in our house tonight."

As Mizuki said, she got up and went to tidy up the guest room.

Kurenai was still sitting swaying, with the empty wine glass in her hand, muttering things like having another glass.

Late at night.

After cleaning up the guest room, Mizuki asked Ryosuke to carry Kurenai to the room to rest.