"You're saying Chji" Chiharu starts her mind racing. "He would never! He couldn't!"
"I've only ever heard positive things about Chji-kun," Kurenai admits. "Without the personality needed to carry out such intentions, it's clear there's a piece missing.
I only wish to ask him if he knows what the pill is and if he gave it to anyone." Chza's hard face nods, and Kurenai adds, "please allow me to ask him myself."
They place the blue pill on the table between them and summon Chji. Stern parents on one side and the pretty Jnin Ino had talked about on the other side is the sight Chji faces when he enters the seating room.
"Otou-san, Okaa-san," Chji calls for clarity. "Kurenai-sensei," he greets with a short bow.
"Please have a seat, Chji-kun," Kurenai gestures. Slowly, he does as she asks. Spotting the blue pill in the middle of the table, a twin of one he had taken, Chji automatically grows nervous.
He hadn't liked taking the pill, but he was happy that Ino had become much friendlier within the team, so he can't feel all that bad. "Chji-kun," Kurenai delicately starts. Despite his parents stern energy, the pretty sensei's smile puts him at ease.
"If you could help us out, there are a few questions I'd like to ask you. Now be honest, do you know what this is?"
Chji looks at the blue pill Kurenai-sensei is pointing to and feels very much like he's in trouble.
Though his first instinct is to deny it, Kurenai-sensei is a Jnin, his parents are here, and he's been taught better than to lie, so, he slowly nods as he answers, "Okaa-san said it was a special pill shinobi and kunoichi take so they can be friendly." As if experiencing terrible stomach pains, his mother drops her head with wide eyes.
Chji wonders why his mother's looks so sad when Kurenai-sensei continues to ask, "friendly how, Chji-kun?"
Slowly eying his freaked out parents, Chji nervously answers, "so they can be nicer to each other, like best friends are."
Chza's gulp is as audible as his knuckles cracking from a tight fist when Kurenai then asks, "and did you happen to give this pill to someone you wanted to be better friends with?" Chji slowly nods his head, beginning to answer, "I gave it to-"
"Chji-kun, please don't say her name," Kurenai interjects, lifting her hand seal ready to silence him if need be. While Chji's mother seems devastated, Chza is a stone, immobile and just as imposing.
"But But-" Chji gets to his feet, and whips to his mother. "It's for being better friends! Okaa-san, you said-"
"You were wrong Chji!" Chza's powerful voice thunders in the room. "We were wrong. The girl- the far too young girl you gave this pill to suffered terribly because of you and this clan."
Chji looks horror-stricken, clearly thinking of his blond teammate having sex with someone she doesn't love. "But that- that wasn't why I gave it to-"
"Chji-kun," Kurenai yells lifting her genjutsu seal to her chest but doesn't silence him. "She is the victim here! The guilt you feel, the shame your parents must feel only comes second to her suffering, so do not speak her name.
If her identity is revealed, your parents and her parents will have to be involved, which will then involve the Hokage. And despite any justice she may see, everyone will know what happened to her.
This will define her in the eyes of her peers, her village, and to some extent, her parents, possibly for years. That is not what she wants. You will neverI repeat, NEVERreveal the identity of the person you gave that pill to!"
After ordering the teary-eyed genin, Kurenai turns to the parents. "It's very possible you may come to learn the identity of this person. In the event that you do, she only asks three things of you.
One, you attempt to shoulder your shame so she may have a brighter future without the stigma of being a victim of sexual impropriety. Two, if you must appease your conscious, you give her sufficient time to speak and prepare her parents. And three, she punches your son."
Before Kurenai finishes the sentence, an invisible Ino spins Chji around and strikes him harder than she's ever punched anyone in her life. Her fist didn't even feel human as her suffering condenses her muscle, tendon, and bone to the unyielding density of a diamond.
Driven by extensive mental and emotional anguish, her killer right straight impacts Chji's nose with such force, he's sent flying into the table behind him.
Despite feeling a crunch at the end of her fist, Ino feels no sense of satisfaction and rather than hit him again, and possibly lose herself to homicidal mania, Ino snags the blue pill that's rolled on the floor, jumps on top of Chji, and shoves the extra-strength sexual stimulant down his throat.
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