It’s Too Early to be Having Newlywed Syndrome! ~Childhood Friends Who Rekindled their Love for Each Other ~ - 5 - 13 - Sakurako’s Tears

Sakurako’s Tears

A few days have passed.

“Is Sakurako feeling down right now? If she’s cheerful, she would have at least told us ‘We just parted ways’, right?”

Natsuki was eagerly waiting for Sakurako’s report while in Naoto’s room.

Natsuki thought about Sakurako and Iida who went together to buy clothes after classes were over, looking embarrassed.

“There’s no message coming from Iida either, so simply put, they might still be hanging out together.”

Said Naoto. Compared to Natsuki, Naoto was calm. Since their feelings for each other are mutual, there’s no need to worry, right? Those were his thoughts.

“They might’ve had a fight about choosing clothes.”

“I couldn’t think of Iida as someone who’s that picky with what he wants to wear, though.

Would that even lead to a fight? I don’t know about Iida himself, but if Hirose-san says that he looks cool in those clothes, I think he’ll buy it.”

“Then, maybe she noticed that Iida-kun didn’t actually like the clothes they bought, so she told him if you didn’t like it, you shouldn’t have bought it, then it turned into a fight.”

“Would she even notice that kinda thing?”

“Maybe through intuition or such.”

“Intuition? Then Natsuki, do you know what I’m thinking of right now?”

“Eh—? That I’m worrying about it too much?”

“I’m thinking if you would be giving me a kiss today.”

“Fu—-n, so you want some.”

Natsuki smiled voluptuously.

“Yea…”

Naoto got on all fours, and sidled up to Natsuki.

“Why are you approaching me?”

“Am I not allowed to at least go near you?”

“Your face is too close though.”

“Natsuki, I love you.”

Naoto hugged then whispered to Natsuki.

“I love you very much as well.”

Naoto and Natsuki had a lengthy kiss. Natsuki was pushed down to the carpet, and while feeling Naoto’s weight with her whole body, until Naoto parted with her lips, she mindlessly clung to him.

When the two of them finally parted lips, Naoto looked at Natsuki with gentle eyes.

“You’re cute, Natsuki.”

“Gee. ……It feels like Nao-kun have gotten assertive just like in the past.”

“Does that scare you?”

“If you tell me that you love me, I won’t feel scared.”

“I see. Then I’ll tell you that I love you. I want to say it you you lots after all.

……I wonder, was Iida able to tell her that he likes her?”

Naoto lied down beside Natsuki, then gazed at the ceiling.

“But, Iida-kun doesn’t want to confess yet, right?”

“Even if it doesn’t end up with him confessing, if he could at least say ‘I like people like you, Hirose-san’.”

“If she heard something like that, even Sakurako would gain courage.”

“But well, if Iida was able to properly say something like that, we would have heard about it by now at least once from Hirose-san.”

“Then, did it end up in failure after all? Maybe she thought that she shouldn’t complain about it to us, so there’s no message coming from her.”

“On the other hand, they might be having too much fun right now that she thought it was not the time to send us a message.”

“That could also happen. They should just go out with each other, and then kiss each other or stuff.”

“In the end, it’s kinda difficult for us to be the one to send a message to her to check.”

“A—-ah, if it would end up like this, I should’ve followed Nao-kun’s suggestion to play games while waiting.”

“Putting games aside, you won’t even give me a kiss.”

“I’m sorry. Are you angry?”

Natsuki, who said that, gently kissed Naoto.

“I’m not angry, but you really worry this much about this. Is it just that I’m an inconsiderate person?”

“It’s not good for me to be doing this kind of thing, is it? Being all curious about it since I felt I have a sense of responsibility for it just by being somewhat involved.”

“—-Woah, suddenly, Iida’s calling me.”

Naoto rose up and sat cross-legged, then put the smartphone on his ear.

“What’s up?”

“We parted ways just now. Really—-, Hirose-san was terribly cute today!”

“Have you gotten closer?”

“I think we considerably gotten even closer.”

“Hee—–, ain’t that a good thing?”

Natsuki smoothed down her chest, then leaned on Naoto.

Naoto kept Iida company over the phone while patting Natsuki on the head.

In the middle of it, Natsuki received a phone call from Sakurako.

“I was worried about you. Did everything went fine?”

Although Natsuki said that, her voice sounded relieved.

When Naoto looked at Natsuki’s face while he was talking on the phone, Natsuki gasped

“What’s wrong, Sakurako? Are you crying?”

Naoto was shocked.

Hirose-san is crying?

Moreover, they don’t seem like tears of joy.

“It’s alright Sakurako, calm down.”

Natsuki called to Sakurako and whispered to Naoto ‘Sakurako is crying’, then distanced herself from him. It was in order to not miss what Sakurako has to say.

On Naoto’s ear, he could hear Iida who’s as easygoing as ever.

“Somehow, I received a great encouragement.”

“Iida, did you say anything to Hirose-san that might have hurt her feelings?”

“I don’t think I did. She said bye-bye to me while smiling, you know.”

“I don’t know if I should be telling you this, but Natsuki is on the phone with Hirose-san right now. It looks like Hirose-san is crying.”

“But why?! Is it my fault?!”

“I don’t know but…… where did you part ways? Did you part ways in a place where it’s safe for a lone crying girl to walk about?”

“I’ll try dashing back to that place.”

“Got it. For the time being, run.”

After saying such to Iida,

“Iida said he’ll return to the place where he parted ways with Hirose-san. Has Hirose-san already moved to another place? Is she somewhere safe?”

Naoto whispered to Natsuki.

“Listen Sakurako, are you in a safe place? A park? The park at the side of the convenience store, right?”

Naoto relayed the info to Iida.

“Right now, Hirose-san is at a park at the side of a convenience store.”

“Got it!”

“——She said there’s a srine where lots of kids play so it’s safe there.”

“Looks like there’s a shrine nearby.”

“I see the shrine! I also see the park and the convenience store! ——I found Hirose-san, I’ll go ahead and apologize.”

“Got it. Do your best. ——-Natsuki, he said he found Hirose-san.”

“Sakurako, you see Iida-kun heading you way, right? Yeah, then I’ll hang up now, okay? He came all the way for you, so it’s okay to pour all your tears to Iida-kun. Yeah. Yeah.

Hm? You’re crying face? You’re crying face is ugly so you don’t want to? It’s not ugly, it’s absolutely cute. Okay, I’ll hang up now. Good luck!”

“Ha—……”

Naoto and Natsuki immediately felt tired, so they went to the bed and lied down. It felt like a storm has just passed.

“I wonder what happened. Did Sakurako got rejected?”

Natsuki asked near Naoto’s ear with worry.

“I don’t think that’s it. Iida called me out of sheer happiness, he’s in a state where he likes Hirose-san. Even when I told him that Hirose-san was crying, it felt like he has no idea why would that happen at all.”

“If she was not rejected, then did something happened that shocked her?”

“Hmmm. I would be the best-case scenario if it just happened that she misheard something.”

“The way Sakurako cried was not normal. I couldn’t hear it very well, but she was saying how she’s such an idiot.”

“Ah—, isn’t it just that she forgot to zip up her skirt and it was so embarrassing for her? Like she ended up flashing to him or such.”

“Would she cry that much just because of that?”

“I don’t really understand what ‘that much’ means though.”

“I think it’s close to when Nao-kun cries with all your might.”

“That’s quite the cry.”

“Right?”

“If she cried that much, then……”

“Maybe for some reason she realized that Iida-kun still has feelings for Haruka-san.”

“With the current odds being 8:2 in favor of Hirose-san?”

“It’s actually about 5:5”

“5:5?! That doesn’t seem the case with our conversation until now.”

“Maybe he received a messaged from Tachibana-san in the middle of their date, and he was looking happy because of it.”

“That wouldn’t make it 5:5 just because of that now, right? In the first place, if she’s going to message someone, it would be me rather than Iida, wouldn’t it? What kind of message is that?”

“On that point, maybe it was a message that no matter how much he was asked what is it about, he would only dodge the question.”

“In the first place, even if the message is from Tachibana-san, he wouldn’t go out of his way to say who the message came from, right?”

“Maybe she knew by intuition.”

“Again with intuition?”

“No, it’s actually kinda easy to tell.”

“Do you have any experience with such things?”

“When we were little, I thought ‘this guys a good person’ by intuition, so every day, I would destroy what Nao-kun’s building with his building blocks.”

“You don’t need such intuition!”

“Also, it was intuition that made me interested in Nao-kun.

It looks like I was crying a lot at the time that we moved in. It looks like I had some friends before we moved. However, because of Nao-kun I stopped crying.”

“I’m happy with that kind of intuition.”

“Aren’t you glad I got interested in you by chance?”

Natsuki said jokingly while clinging on Naoto’s arm.

“It isn’t by any chance now, is it? Among the numerous kids, I’m the one who Natsuki chose, isn’t that the case?”

“When you phrase it like that, it sounds like I was looking at Nao-kun my whole life, and it feels embarrassing.”

“Look at me from now on as well. I wish you would look at me until you get tired of it.”

“It ca—n’t be he—lped”

Saying that, Natsuki poked on Naoto’s face.

“I might not get tired of this yet.”