It’s Too Early to be Having Newlywed Syndrome! ~Childhood Friends Who Rekindled their Love for Each Other ~ - 2 - 8 - It’s Too Early to be Going on a Honeymoon!

It’s Too Early to be Going on a Honeymoon!

“You’ve earned a lot of tokens with this, haven’t you?”

When they found a good stopping point in the game, Natsuki asked.

“I’m quite lucky today. I think my tokens increased by about 500 pieces.

In exchange the items in the game are being arranged, so we can either play another game, or we can go home now.”

Saying that, Naoto prompted Natsuki to decide.

“What should we do?”

“For now, it might be more convenient in the future if I entrust some of the tokens to you. It’s forbidden to transfer tokens to another person’s account after all.

If we deposit all of this tokens on me, we would only be able to play two player games at the start. But if Natsuki tokens, you can line up on one player games right from the beginning as well.”

“So you’re entrusting the tokens as mine?”

“The tokens that we used might be deposited on my account, but the ones that we have now all came from the game machines, so we should be able to treat the tokens we have now as being owned by the both of us. I’ve never seen anyone who have done that having their tokens forfeited. I think it’s not allowed to personally give out medals the came out of the pachinko machine.

If that’s not the case, then tokens won by two player games should be confiscated if a father bought the tokens and gave the winnings to his daughter.”

“Let’s make the medals you entrust with me mine then.”

“That’s better. In truth, spending New Year’s playing medal game might be tough. Let’s come here again when there’s an event.”

“I want to go to that okonomiyaki shop as well.”

“Yeah, let’s go when we have time for the okonomiyaki lunch. It’s common sense to go somewhere else though on days like school entrance ceremony. There are lota of places that provides lunch until about 7 in the evening, so we should plan ahead when we want to go.”

“The number of things to look forward to just increased, I’m troubled.”

“You look more happy than troubled, though.”

“I’m troubled, but happy as well.”

“That’s good. It will make me sad if you’re genuinely troubled like the time you had cystitis.”

“Nao-kun was kind to me during that time as well, so I’m happy even when I was troubled.”

“……At that time, maybe our parents realized halfway that we will be closer because of cystitis.”

“My mom was happy in the least.”

“It’s somewhat embarrassing.”

“It’s better than them being against it.”

“I see, yeah that’s right. We’re lucky, aren’t we? Normally, I would get scolded for sleeping at her girlfriend’s house during New Year’s Eve, right?”

“That does not happen often how haw many times you think about it after all——-, if that’s normal it will be difficult for me, you know?”

“Eh? But wasn’t Natsuki soundly sleeping last night?”

“I actually slept 5 minutes later than you.”

“That’s too short for comparison!”

“I woke up 3 minutes earlier as well.”

“That’s just 8 minutes in total!”

“Ah, wasn’t 8 a lucky number during New Year’s?”

“If you can just do that by adding, then anyone can connect everything to 8.”

“That’s right, what do you think about giving me 888 tokens?”

“Ah—-, there are that kind of people every now and then. Wanting exactly 1000 pieces or 777 pieces. I think we should hurry up, though.”

“Eeeh—–?”

“If you want split up tokens like that normally, you should do it when the place is empty, but people like that don’t really take note of their surroundings.”

“I see. There’s a lot of people here because it’s New Year’s Day so we might be a bother.”

“Well, I’ll take a look around, if there are no people who look like their lining up or depositing their tokens, should we do it?”

“Let’s not. It’ll be a bother for the shop.”

“Well, we didn’t spend any money here today after all. Should we just split it between us discreetly?”

“Let’s. We even received free fried dough and milk, we’re quite the cheapskates, aren’t we?”

Natsuki can’t help but laugh.

“It’s alright, part of the freebies we received came from the old man after all. There’s nothing we can do because today’s our 500-yen date.”

“Even though it’s a 500-yen date, I really had a fun time!”

Seeing Natsuki in high spirits, Naoto was glad that their date was a success.

While on the way home, the two of them reflected on the day’s events.

“Somehow, we received food and drinks for free, and our tokens increased as well, considering we only have 500 yen, we ended up not wanting.”

Naoto said while drinking from a pet bottle.

“It didn’t feel like we’re in a bind at all.”

“However, if I don’t spend this remaining 220 yen on Iida, I really wouldn’t know what to use it for.”

“We could have another date on another date, perhaps?”

“Ah, I see.”

“Right? What if you save it for now?”

“But, is it all right? Wasn’t it rough for Natsuki?”

Naoto worried.

“I had fun you know. It’s okay even if we go to the arcade again.”

“Natsuki, you’ve changed. You’re okay now with going on a date twice in a row on a game center, even though you used to get mad at me when I want us to date twice in a row in a game.”

“What game was that? A weird game?”

Natsuki asked with a sharp gaze.

“Ah?! N, no, no, it’s not a weird game. It’s just a normal baseball game.”

Naoto panicked for some reason.

“You can date on a baseball game?”

Questioned Natsuki.

“I don’t know much of the details, but if you are not close enough with your girlfriend, you will get a bad end where the girlfriend explodes or becomes a monster.”

“There’s no such baseball game!”

“But there is.”

“Hmmmmmm.”

“Ah, I’ll show it to you tomorrow.”

“So you won’t be showing it to me today, fu—-unnnn.”

“No, I’m just, um, thinking that you might be tired for today. It’s fine by me to show it to you today, though.”

“Then, as soon as you arrive home, take it to my house.”

“…. Understood…”

Naoto was still flustered.

Natsuki, planning about showing Naoto the mini-osechi that she had secretly prepared earlier in a natural manner, smiled to herself.

Naoto, after arriving at Natsuki’s room, quickly gobbled up the mini-osechi that Natsuki served to him.

“To think that you even made osechi for me.”

After eating, Naoto quickly lied down using Natsuki’s knees as lap pillow. After his ears were cleaned by Natsuki, Naoto has become a captive of the sensation of Natsuki’s thighs, in reality he actually wanted to receive a lap pillow from Natsuki again.

“I thought we might get hungry with the 500 yen budget, so just in case I prepared it, but it seemed to be a needless worry.”

“It’s different form ice cream and fried bread so this is also delicious. It’s different from the usual osechi, it only has all of my favorites after all.”

“I asked what kind of food Naoto eats at New Year’s after all, I’m glad I was able to properly make it.”

“It was indeed delicious, but next time, shouldn’t we go buy the ingredients together? If you want to keep it a secret, you can just get the receipt in advance, or something.

We should at least split the bill between us, if not wouldn’t Natsuki’s allowance be quickly used up?”

“Everything involves money, doesn’t it?”

“If we go on a date on a whim with no plans, it will be quite costly.”

Natsuki thought for a bit,

“We should think about saving huh………dad is opposed to me getting a part-time job as well.”

She said.

“That much is obvious. In my case, I don’t do any studying at home, so I was told it would be better to take a part-time job than just lazing around. But in Natsuki’s case, it would be better if you spend your time at home studying.”

Naoto was in support of Natsuki’s father’s views. Naoto also doesn’t want Natsuki taking a part-time job if it can be helped. It’s because he was worried that Natsuki’s male acquaintances might increase.

“Stop putting on airs.”

Natsuki laughed.

“For the time being, I can pay you back for the pizza we ate on Christmas, or I can also handle all of our expenses at Health Land, what do you say?”

“Is it alright?”

“Right now, it’s pretty clear that Natsuki’s the one shouldering all of our expenses.”

“Then, I’ll leave our expenses at Health Land to you.”

“Got it.”

“The things I look out for just increased.”

“……How was today?”

“It was fun for me.”

“It was fun for me too, but today I completely realized that money is amazing.”

“Isn’t it? We really have to take care of how we spend it, really.”

“Now I find it hard so spend my salary at my part-time.”

“Speaking of, what happened to your salary at your part-time?”

“What happened? Nothing really.”

“You don’t use them?”

“On my first two months, I spent them on games and manga, but I found out I can’t find proper time to play or read them. I was so shocked, I stopped buying since.”

“Ah—–, your part-time work is very busy, after all.”

“Add to that, I became somewhat of a cheapskate once I was accepted at my part-time.”

Naoto said while making a face like he feels unpleasant.

“Is that so? Isn’t that the opposite?”

“There’s the fact that I stopped buying bottled drinks that are 10 yen more expensive than others. Even when I eat at restaurants, I can’t help but be extremely observant of the difference between the price of each item in the menu. I even find it hard to buy new sweets on sale.”

Natsuki smiled,

“But that’s better than wasting money, right?”

She said.

“That may be so, but when I think about it, couples who go on a honeymoon trip are amazing, aren’t they? I wonder how much it costs.”

“Might be about 500,000 if you go abroad.”

“500,000 is about……. 1000 times larger than 500 yen, huh.”

“1000 times is kinda incredible.”

“It’s 1000 times larger than our budget today, after all. If we have 500,000 yen, we can have an extravagant meal at a family restaurant at least a hundred times, right?”

“We can! We can!”

“Even if we hold on 280,000 yen, we can have a 280-yen date a thousand times.”

“Or we can have a 2800-yen date a thousand times.”

“No—–, Even so, I wonder if I would want to go on a honeymoon trip?”

“I wonder if you would want to go?”

Natsuki, not knowing what to answer, parroted Naoto.

“Maybe, in a case like that, even stingy people will want to go on a honeymoon, right? Getting married requires a lot of courage, right?”

“Right? It’s really amazing.”

“Moreover, even though they’re close enough as to marry each other, among those are people that still gets newlywed syndrome.”

“Ah—-, you’re right. There are also people who get newlywed syndrome. Just maybe, they’re still nervous?”

“If that was indeed the case, they’re incredible. They really both love each other. That’s why I wonder if I would be able to save such a money for a honeymoon trip.”

“Somehow, it’s hard to imagine.”

“Even though I felt like we became even closer within just this day.”

“I thought so too! We became closer, didn’t we?! Though for some reason, I feel like we’re still just at the starting line.”

“That many people who does this kind of date ended up with newlywed syndrome, when I wonder how it might feel, I end up thinking we’re still far away from that point.”

“Yup, we’re still far.”

“Even looking at an ordinary old man, if they are wearing a wedding ring, they might have fell in love passionately with their partner that they got married. Even among our teachers, there are quite many that has their own family. I can’t quite wrap my head around it.”

“It feels mysterious.”

“Before, I kept thinking why there were so much people having newlywed syndrome…… but now I understand. For many, it’s the most important event of their lives.”

“It is.”

Naoto noticed that Natsuki has not been talking much except for small interjections. Is she currently deep in her thoughts? I wonder what Natsuki’s feeling right now……

“……It’s bad to be reserved too much in front of the one you love, but instead you should follow their example on how they always treasure you, right?”

“It’s a feeling we don’t ever want to forget, after all.”

“…… I wish we could be this close as well next year.”

“Me too—-”

“Next year, don’t you think it’s a good idea if we have a 5000-yen date?”

“That’s a great idea! I want to do it too.”

“It’s 10 times our budget for today’s date, so we should be able to do a lot more.”

“What should we do?”

“Now that we’re scratching our heads on what to do because we can do more things, a 5000-yen date is problematic in itself, huh.”

“Hey. Does everyone worry whenever they’re going on a date?”

“I’m completely clueless. How does it feel for other people?”

“We’re a newbie couple after all.”

“But people who’re planning on taking a honeymoon is not yet accustomed to it, you know.”

“Then, we’ll always be newbies.”

“Sounds rough. But it’s wonderful in itself.”

“Right? Isn’t it wonderful?”

“I, didn’t plan on going out with Natsuki with half-assed feelings, instead I planned to seriously love you in my own way. However, as my feelings of love approached a hundred percent, it felt like my feelings will burst right there and then, then we started going out with each other. Still, somehow, it feels like my feelings are still reaching new heights.”

“Un. Me too, once my feelings reached a hundred percent, it felt like it’s still going up. Even when it is almost overflowing, my feelings are saying ‘there’s still room for more, there’s still room for more’, I imagined the whole of Nao-kun going in with my feelings.”

“The heck does that mean?”

Naoto laughed.

“That’s because that’s what I really felt.”

“Then, so that Natsuki will only be thinking of me, let’s go out on dates a lot.”

As he said that, Naoto rose up and gently hugged Natsuki close to him.

“I’m already only thinking of you, though.”

“Then I’ll make you think of me more.”

“I will not be able to take any more than that.”

“I want to make you mine more and more.”

Without knowing who initiated, the two of them kissed.

“——Nao-kun, for being a newbie couple, it’s bad to be this good at kissing……. mmmm……”

“Back then, during the numerous instances when Natsuki kissed me, I couldn’t help but feel good, you know. As payback, I want to make Natsuki feel good like I did back then so much that you won’t be able to think of anything besides me.”

“That would be embarrassing……”

“You don’t like it?”

“……It’s not like I don’t like it…”

“I love you, Natsuki. I really love you.”

“Hhhmmm……Nao-kun……”

“I’ll always treasure you, Natsuki.”

Naoto, releasing the feelings deep in his heart, tightly hugged Natsuki.

“Hhmm………”

Natsuki felt really happy. Natsuki kept shouting ‘I love you’ to Naoto in her heart.

It might not be close to what couples on their honey moon feel, but I absolutely love Nao-kun. Natsuki thought to herself.

Then, Naoto said,

“It might come as an exaggeration to you, but I love you.”

“I love you. I love you too.”

As Natsuki spoke of her feelings, tears flowed from her eyes. Naoto did not make fun of the fact that she teared up.

The two of them entered the bed naturally, and in order to ascertain their feelings toward each other, they whispered words of love to each other for who knows how many times.

Part 2 “It’s Too Early to be Going on a Honeymoon” END