Reward-and-punishment (1)

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Chapter 50: Reward-and-punishment (1)

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Kurai was the first one to jump at Neji's arms when he reached home, and after that, it was his mother, Gara.

"How was the entrance exam, my baby boy?"

Gara fed Neji grapes while his head rested on her thighs. 

"It was easy."

He didn’t say ‘It went well’, he said ‘It was easy’, and that alone answered everything Gara wanted to hear. This did put a smile on her face. The exam was hard from what she heard from her colleagues whose children also attended the exam, but her little son is clearly fine. Even then, being someone who keeps her children's actions on a tab most of the time, she knew Neji was as strong as Nejire. And knowing that Nejire is one of the Big Three of UA High, she honestly didn't worry much about the entrance exam to begin with.

"It was like wreaking havoc in the beginner village with a Level 100 character."

Gara's smile widened. "Good good, as expected of my cute little sonnn~” She rubbed his cheeks with her palms while giggling. “Real question, did anyone bother you? Some kid?"

"Stop it, mom." He stopped chewing on grapes and stared at her eyes. "I am not a kid anymore, you don’t have to worry about it too much..."

“Hm,” Gara didn’t act childishly this time, she simply smiled. “I guess you’re a big boy now, huh. Did you lose your virginity?”

“Mom!” Neji jumped up from her lap and stared at her with a flustered face. If there are people who can make him blush, Gara was one of them. “Don’t ask such weird things.”

“Hehe, see? Not so mature anymore~ You’d always be a kid to Mommy.” Gara simply laughed it off, ruffled his hair, and stood up. “Anyway, I am kinda tired after work today, I will go to sleep.” 

As Gara left, Neji fell back on the couch and sighed.  "Haiyaah…" 

~Ring Ring~

Just as Neji breathed out heavily, he received a call.

It was Momo Yaoyorozu.

Beep. He picked the call and greeted Momo.

"Good evening, madam."

"Oh stop this and tell me how your entrance went."

A soft giggle flew from the other side just as a sweet talk started between them.

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Aiko Hado, Neji's father, came back from his office and the first thing he saw was Neji laying on the couch and talking to someone, who he found to be a girl.

"Anyway, Yaomomo, I am getting hungry, I will talk later."

His son cut the call and yawned just as Aiko entered the room chuckling.

"It's that the little girl from Yaoyorozu Compound? She's your girlfriend?"

Neji grabbed an apple from the table beside him that Gara left before running. 

"No, not a girlfriend. We are just friends."

At this, an 'Uh?' left Aiko's lips. "Oh shit, is my son making 'just friends' now? Gives me flashbacks."

With a chuckle, Aiko sat down on the couch beside Neji.

"When I was your age-"

"-Girls used to run after you. Yeah, you told me before." Neji completed his sentence. "Though don't let Mom hear, she would throw a tantrum again."

Aiko smiled wryly at this. "This makes me remember another story. Do you know why I am fine with everything your Mom does?" You see, if not for your mother, I wouldn't even have gotten married."

'That was sudden.' Neji sat straight at this, it seems his dad might say something interesting.

"You see, I liked girls a lot. Lost my virginity to my teacher when I was 13, and since then dating 4~5 girls at the same time was normal for me. Girls were just meat bags, soft and squishy meat bags for me - until I met your mother. Heh, I met your Mom around 20 years ago when she was being kidnapped. Don't tell her that I am telling you this, she doesn't like sharing it at all." 

Neji nodded as Aiko continued.

He pointed his finger at the scar on his left eye, "You see this scar? She's behind it. That day I took a detour to my office since the main road was jammed in traffic. On that empty road, I saw a car in front of me with a woman slamming on the back glass of the car. I thought, well, since I am here, why not be a hero?" 

"Things went haywire from there. I stopped their car and tried to fight the guys who had tied your Mom, but after an epic fight, I got my ass beaten. Though I did manage to escape at the end, getting beaten was too much for my pride back then, and more so… I already saw your mom's face there. She had tape covering her mouth, so I didn't recognise that she was the newly born Fashion Queen of the market, but I did recognise her beauty." 

He clapped his hands. "Then I decided, I want this woman. I want her at all costs. So I called the police and made a plan to save her. A week from then, along with a few Heroes, I went to the place where your Mom was locked. The heroes were strong, but with just a few bullet shots from the villains, they went down. Luckily, using my quirk, «Energy», I absorbed the electricity from my Electric Car and used it to enhance my speed and dodge the bullets. I took down the villain and somehow managed to save your Mom. Haha."

Neji blinked at his long wall of words. 'Ah, he is flexing?'

His father continued. "That’s not the end. In the process of all this, I almost lost my eye, thus that scar. After that, I then tried to court your mother after a few weeks passed, but then I finally found out that she was the Black Horse of the Fashion industry. I was rich, but she was rich too, I couldn’t just make her fall for me using my money, not at all. Then I realised," He stopped momentarily. "So all the girls I have had before were only there for my money? I was honestly depressed for a few days. But amongst those days, I just realised maybe it's time to forget my past and live my life anew. So I started to court your mother every week. However, since I was kinda infamous for being… uh, a playboy, things didn’t work out well. She wasn’t harsh at least since I did save her life, but she still refused me for 2 entire years. But guess what? At my 2nd year anniversary of courting-the-beauty, she finally accepted me. Whew, the end." 

“The end?”

He grinned at me. "Oh, well, after that, we got married and here you are."

Neji stared at him intriguingly. "Certainly a very interesting romance story, but there is no moral of the story?"

"Oh, yeah." He shrugged. "I heard you did well in the exam? That’s why I decided to give you a life lesson so the moral of the story is indeed needed… Hm, how about this; Moral of the story: Periwinkle-haired girls are the best.”

"..."

"Try looking for a periwinkle-haired girl, ah, not your sister though.” He coughed. “Anyway, I am tired, I gotta sleep, bye!"

Aiko got up and ran upstairs screaming 'honey, I am back!' on top of his lungs.

After staring at the air dumbfoundedly, Neji crackled up. "Well, I can use this moral of the story in practical use. 'Periwinkle haired girls are the best', huh? Unfortunately, I can’t follow the ‘sister’ part."

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Periwinkle haired girls are indeed the best. Neji realised that the next week, just after he got the confirmation of his admission to UA.

"Well, the Christmas gift didn't work out so well…" Nejire mumbled in his ears. "So I want to make up for it by gifting you this body for acing your entrance exam."

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A/N: Next chapter is hot ????.

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