It’s Too Early to be Having Newlywed Syndrome! ~Childhood Friends Who Rekindled their Love for Each Other ~ - 5 - 3 - Definitely Won’t Happen
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Definitely Won’t Happen
“Geez—–, don’t make me laugh that hard. Being impatient or being worried too much, I didn’t expect those words to come from Natsuki. ——What were we talking about before that again?”
Sakurako asked Natsuki while wiping the tears that came out due to her laughing too much. Not getting her breathing back to normal yet, she breathed heavily.
“So I was saying…… what was it again? Ah, yes, yes. I’m talking about how I think Iida will listen intently if Sakurako confesses to him.”
Finally calming down, Natsuki answered while drinking her coffee.
“But somehow, it looks like Iida-kun is someone who’s devoted. Doesn’t it look like I’m no match for Haruka-san? Wasn’t she the most popular person back in their middle school?”
“Nao-kun said ‘Maybe Iida’s not that much in love with Tachibana-san’, though.”
“Why?”
“Overall, it looks like he’s not that enthusiastic, he didn’t even cry and at the very least it doesn’t seem like he thinks he loves her very much. It seems like compared to the feeling he had on the way home on the day the two of them threw away her pet bottle, he was not that excited yesterday.
I was told for a while after the day Haruka-san left school early, they kept thinking what to do if it was because of illness, or what is it they needed to do if she’s being troubled by a stalker, or if she might’ve felt disgusted with them looking at her too much during class. When they have come up with some new hypothesis about it, they would go to a dead-end staircase during break time and discuss it in full detail.
Right now, he doesn’t have such feelings at all, so he couldn’t search for any feelings towards Tachibana-san in his head, it seems. He told me that if Iida-kun loves her, then he should be in high spirits coming up with various ideas on how he can support her, and even vigorously asking Nagatomo-san questions.
He also told me Iida-kun’s clearly doing is that between her cute appearance, sympathy for her fear of men and correcting his first love, he’s just showing moderate interest about it. If he’s really loves her, then he wouldn’t be able to say that calm, he said.”
“Could that still be called being calm when Iida-kun lost his appetite?”
“Nao-kun said ‘That’s not how we react when the person that we like is in trouble. Natsuki also saw me worrying about you so you know what I mean, right? I couldn’t even call you out from the classroom into the hallway in a natural manner.’ Moreover, for some reason he was really proud of that.”
“What’s with that?”
“Remember, that time when we returned to the classroom and heard someone saying ‘A confession?’, so we said that we’re neighbors and our moms just got in touch with us—— or so that’s how we covered it up.”
“A—h, a—h! If I remember right, we’re saying ‘Morita’s face was kinda red, wasn’t it?’, and while being excited, we waited for Natsuki to return. You took long, so we thought that the confession might’ve been a success.”
“I thought so! I thought that that’s what you were definitely talking about!”
“Huh? That day was the first time we heard that you’re neighbors, right?
I wonder if that’s the day Aki realized that the heroine of the novel was based on Natsuki.
It was before winter vacation when Aki said ‘Morita-kun said that Natsuki’s very kind’, right? That would mean that she knows that Morita-kun likes Natsuki, wouldn’t it?
It was such an unnatural topic to have back then so I remembered it well. I ended up wondering at the time if Aki and Morita-kun are going out with each other.”
“Even if you ask me that. Certainly, I also wondered why she talked about that though. Well, well understand once we read the novel, right?”
“So it really comes down to reading the novel, or else we wouldn’t be able to fully understand that event, huh.”
“Well, that’s true, I’ll be able to read it tonight.
More importantly, we’re here today for Sakurako’s love consultation, right?”
“Waa, that’s right. Hey, hey, so a guy’s preference on men’s clothing is pretty different from a girl’s preference on women’s clothing, right? Is it okay if I recommend clothes that I want Iida-kun to wear just like that?”
“Well, he wants to wear the clothes for the sake of Tachibana-san, so it’s better to choose clothes based on a girl’s perspective, isn’t it?”
“Won’t he get hated if she got the impression that he has poor fashion sense?”
“If he’ll get hated because of such a thing, then there would already no possibility of them meeting up in the first place.”
“That’s kinda irresponsible coming from you. Doesn’t Morita-kun get into a foul mood when what Natsuki wears is not to his liking?”
“Does that guy even have a preference with his own clothing? He does look happy whenever I wear a skirt, though.”
“Eh, a skirt is alright? So guys really like skirts?”
“That depends on the person, doesn’t it?”
“How about Iida-kun?”
“I don’t know.”
“Please ask Morita-kun what type of girls clothes Iida-kun will probably like.”
“If I ask him that out of the blue, he’ll get jealous now, wouldn’t he? If it’s okay to tell him that it’s because Sakurako wants to know, then I can ask him easily, though.”
“Nnn—…… If I ask Morita-kun myself, then he’ll learn that I like Iida-kun, won’t he?”
“But in the end, wouldn’t it be better telling him that you like Iida-kun? Unless you do that, Nao-kun might become supportive of Haruka-san and Iida-kun getting closer to each other.”
“It’s not like I have any intention of getting between them if it appears they mutually love each other.”
“Even if you want to confirm if that’s the case, without Nao-kun’s help, you won’t be able to ask how Iida really feels, right?”
“Ah—, you got a point……
Would Morita-kun act normally even if I ask him such a thing?”
“I wonder. He’s the kind of guy who gets nervous even when just calling me to his room. —— I’ll ask for a coffee refill, how about you, Sakurako?”
“I’ll get one as well, wait one moment.”
Saying that, Sakurako hurriedly emptied her cup of coffee, and sent a gaze to a store staff.
The staff noticed and poured the coffee refill onto their cups. The aroma of coffee surrounded them.
“Please enjoy.”
While in the middle waiting for the staff to leave, Sakurako once again forgot what they were talking about. However, just that time, Sakurako was hesitant to ask about it. It was because if she asked, it might make them laugh, in turn making them stand out.
Opting to remember it on her own then looking at her cup of coffee, a question suddenly floated on her mind.
“Speaking of, isn’t it unusual for you to finish a cup of coffee this fast, Natsuki?”
“Might be because today’s coffee is somewhat delicious. Lately, I haven’t been able to drink coffee at home, after all.”
“Why weren’t you able to?”
“Just a while before, when Nao-kun kissed me directly after I drank coffee, he frowned, saying ‘The coffee is bitter’, then parted from me. Pretty mean, even though he’s the one who initiated the kiss, don’t you think?”
Although Natsuki said that, she was smiling.
“Eh— what’s with that, that’s cute. So he’s not good with coffee at all?”
“Seems so. I don’t know it that well, but on top of his inability to eat hot food or take hot drinks, he’s also bad with bitter things, so maybe he hasn’t drank coffee that much before.
It seems like those who have drank iced milk tea, melon soda, iced chocolate and the like in their childhood kept drinking such things. They’ll be mostly happy being served sweet and cold drinks.”
“If it’s that much clear, then it’s good since it can easily be understood, right?”
“Well, that may be. On that point, it might be that the type of drinks that I can take the one that’s weird.”
“Nao-kun was surprised back when I drank coffee and that time I drank grapefruit juice.
Whenever I say ‘I’ll be drinking something bitter—’ or ‘I’ll be drinking something sour—’, he’ll kiss me before I can take a sip.”
“So because of that, you admirably restrain yourself during dates so Morita-kun will kiss you, huh—”
“That’s exaggerated. During those times I would also drink coffee that were incidentally made by my parents.”
“However, you were shocked when he said your mouth tasted bitter, weren’t you?”
“Not really. The moment Nao-kun showed his dislike for it, I took that as an opportunity to play around with him, so I kissed him. When I did, nao-kun disliked it so much he ran away, so I went after him.”
“He didn’t get mad at you for doing that?”
“Even though he said he don’t like it, he was siling after all. Even with Nao-kun, when he runs away after tickling me, in contrast I would cling on his back.”
“That’s kinda erotic.”
“It isn’t, I’m telling you.
Since after that, I said ‘This is like the time when I forced to feed you that mint gum we received as a give away from a yakiniku restaurant mouth-to-mouth back when we were kids, right?’, then we felt so nostalgic that the two of us laughed.”
“Isn’t just remembering feeding him forcefully mouth-to-mouth already erotic in itself?”
“I told you, it’s not. Even before that, I already fed him ice cream and candy mouth-to-mouth, so I just thought what would happen if I did it but with something that he doesn’t like.”
“What is strange is how used you are with mouth-to-mouth feeding. How can a child think of such things?”
“During the period when Nao-kun felt embarrassed with kissing, I realized that by doing that, I can kiss him, so I would feed him things like chocolate little by little using my mouth.”
“What cunning!”
“Don’t call it cunning! Call it a maiden’s pure feelings!”
“Nooo, a maiden wouldn’t come up with such an idea. Did you keep doing that?”
“No. Before long, Nao-kun lost his embarrassment over kissing, and whenever we became alone, he became desiring of a kiss. It made me happy—”
“I can still understand that pert being a maiden’s pure feeling.”
“Isn’t it? I was already happy with just that. However, as I got used to it, I wanted him to love me more.
He wouldn’t embrace me out of embarrassment, so I told him that we won’t kiss unless we do it while hugging in order to get him used to embracing me. When he got used to embracing, then I told him we won’t do it unless he tells me he loves me.
He might hate me with all of my selfish requests, I thought of that as a child, but since Nao-kun was kind, I couldn’t stop myself.”
“As I thought that was too greedy for a maiden! If you were not a child at the time, then you would’ve just been a perverted woman.”
“Why, it’s just pure love.
It’s just him telling me he loves me while doing those things. It’s not the case of him telling me he hates me while doing those things.”
Natsuki objected with a serious expression.
“That’s a given. It’s scary for a grade schooler to have their partner say they hate them while kissing, after all.
What’s weird was you making him used to kissing!”
“Certainly, when I think about it now, it was quite embarrassing.”
“That should be extremely embarrassing.”
“Since that day, I thought that two people being affectionate towards each other was a very sacred thing.
That’s why I pretty much forgot about the time we started getting used to kissing. Rather than forgetting, you can say that I just can’t remember it. Nao-kun did tell me ‘You did it at least a hundred times’, but I thought that there’s no way I kissed him that much.”
“So then, what Morita-kun said at that time turned out to be true after all.”
“Yeah. When I finally remembered it, I did do it at least a hundred times.”
“If your memories of that didn’t happen to match, then basically Morita-kun’s is the correct one.”
“However, with just that, he could not forget those times we kissed each other, right?”
“That’s what you got from all that? Don’t you feel guilty opening an innocent little boy’s eyes to such bad things?”
“I don’t know about any of that. It’s Nao-kun himself who opened his eyes to those.”
“No, no, it’s totally Natsuki who make who awakened him to those things.”
“I just made a pure relationship with him. It’s just that Nao-kun got the wrong idea from it.”
“Bold of you to say that, when you kept seducing him until he laid his hands on you.”
“Why is everyone taking Nao-kun’s side that much?”
“Well, because. Morita-kun is totally the victim here.”
“There’s no way that’s the case. He became able to say ‘I like kissing Nat-chan very much’, after all.”
“I feel sorry for Morita-kun who got completely brainwashed by Natsuki.”
“He’s not someone to feel sorry for. Nao-kun feeling embarrassed at the start doesn’t mean he didn’t want to do it. He pretty much already like me at that time after all.”
“I didn’t get the impression that that’s the case when I listened to Morita-kun’s story, though.”
“He had told me many times that he loves me, you know.”
“Natsuki keeps forgetting things that are inconvenient, so you had to ask Morita-kun once you’re together, right?”
Sakurako looked at Natsuki in amusement.
“For what reason? You’ll believe Iida-kun’s and Morita-kun’s story anyway.”
“I like Iida-kun very much, after all. I like Morita-kun as well.”
Sakurako smiled at Natsuki in order to tease her.
Natsuki, noticing that Sakurako was saying things to fool around,
“Then, I won’t listen to what you want advice on anymore. How about you talk about it with Nao-kun?”
Pretended she was sulking.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I like Natsuki too. I’ll believe Natsuki as well.”
“Then, as consultation fee, you have to treat me to one inexpensive donut. I somewhat felt hungry when we’re talking about chocolate.”
“Eh—. I can’t spare any change since I’ll be having a date with Iida-kun.”
Sakurako seemed to intentionally emphasize.
“You’ll be splitting-up immediately afterwards anyway, so you won’t have anything to spend money for, right? Even I have my plate full with all our date schedules.”
Natsuki, not one to lose, uttered exaggeratedly.
“No, you won’t know if we’ll split-up after our objective there is done.
First, we look for clothes, then we’ll go eat, right? And right there we’ll make small talk and once our thoughts are aligned, he’ll ask me if we could hang out a bit longer. He’ll leave the clothes he bought in a lovker, then well go to the movie theater—, then maybe we’ll go to the arcade, after that we’ll eat again. Ah—, we had so much fun the last train has already departed. ——That’s how it’ll go.”
Sakurako was so absorbed in her fantasy, that she looked up at the empty space while putting both her hands in front of her chest.
“Won’t happen, won’t happen.”
Natsuki answered with an exasperated expression.
“It might happen.”
“Definitely won’t happen.”
Sakurako’s love consultation wasn’t progressing that much.