When I Saved a Lost Plushie, I Got Close to a Young Lady From a Yakuza Family
I was tapping my thighs with my fingertips, unable to hide my irritation as I rode in the car Matsuda was driving.
I had urgent business today when Matsuda called me. What in the world is going on when I have plans to have dinner with my usual Sagara-kun?
“You seem to have been going around in circles since a while ago, where are you headed?”
“Well, that’s that thing, that thing! I wanted to eat the trendy maritotzzo with the young lady. ……”
“Maritotzzo? When did that become a fad? You’re not up to something, are you?”
“N-No, I’m not!”
He whistles badly.
Matsuda is a terrible liar.
“I’m leaving.”
“Excuse me, miss? I’m going to get yelled at by Oyaji!”
“Ah?”
“I understand!”
I felt uneasy at the mention of oyaji’s name, and when I questioned Matsuda, he told me the truth.
It seems that Grandpa had something he wanted to discuss with Sagara-kun alone, and he wanted to keep me away from him during that time.
We arrived at the house and were on our way to the hall when Iwahashi stopped us.
“Matsuda, you screwed up, didn’t you? Wait for me, young lady.”
“Sagara-kun is here, isn’t he? Move!”
“We didn’t do anything wrong. He’s in a good place.”
A good place?
I peeked through the sliding door and saw Grandpa and Sagara-kun talking face to face.
Sagara-kun is scared…!
“I see. I understand what you’re saying. But you see, I have to swear by this Uruwashi’s crest that I will make the parentless Ten happy. I can’t have you approaching her with half-hearted determination.”
Grandpa glared at him.
Sagara-kun faced him head-on without averting his gaze.
“Ten-chan’s pretty and cool appearance can lead to some misunderstandings, but she actually loves cute things, and although she’s usually cool, she enjoys talking about her favorite characters, and she’s also the kindest girl around. I have no intention of leaving her.”
Sagara-kun’s eyes as he talked about me were just like the eyes of the man I love when he talks happily about plushie
Sagara-kun is so cool that he dared to speak up in front of grandfather who is scary of even the the other group leaders!
“Fuee ……”
Then my whole body relaxes and I slump down and can’t move.
Beautiful ……. Sweet……no intention of leaving…….
Sagara-kun’s words run through my head repeatedly.
“Heh, hehehe”
“I told you.”
Iwahashi seemed to be saying something, but I didn’t hear it.
The moment I regained consciousness was when Sagara said something shocking, about how I look like my grandpa.
Then I took Sagara-kun by the arm and left the hall to go back to his house, or rather to our house.
I wanted to calm Sagara-kun down as soon as possible after what he must have gone through.
After apologizing for all the trouble I had caused, I put all my skill into cooking dinner for him.
Even so, Sagara-kun, you’ve even got my grandfather to acknowledge you, and Emi-chan also adores me and calls me Ten-nee, so I wonder if this means that two families have official approval?
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The next morning, I wake up to my alarm and start getting ready for school.
I take a morning shower, put on my school uniform, and then burn a piece of toast with jam on it and put it in my mouth.
I’ve been eating breakfast more often than not, so it’s quite a progress that I’m cooking and eating by myself, albeit a simple one.
I wonder if this is because I am trying not to worry Uruwashi, I think to myself as I look at the cushion she uses next to me.
When I asked Uruwashi herself about what Itetsu-san had said yesterday about how Uruwashi was indebted to Emi, she told me that the outfit she wore to the collaboration café was actually something she and Emi had chosen together.
It took a lot of courage for Uruwashi, who has no friends of the same gebder, to choose the outfit by herself, but she chose Emi, a girl of the same gender who was close to her and sensitive to the latest trends.
Emi. I thought she sometimes smiled with a hint of a smile when she was out with me that day.
I guess it was because she had plans to meet with me in the morning and Uruwashi in the afternoon to coordinate with each of us. That should be fun.
I took the plate I had finished eating to the sink, grabbed my bag, and went to the front door to leave the house when there was a knock at the door.
When I opened the door, I found Uruwashi-san dressed in her school uniform. Her silver hair, illuminated by the morning sun, is beautiful today. Her slit eyes are looking at me kindly.
“Good morning, Sagara-kun. Let’s go?”
“Good morning, Ten-chan. It’s rare that you come to pick me up.”
She would pick me up when she was going out, but on days when we had school, we would go our separate ways.
I was so happy to have such a beautiful woman come to pick me up in the morning.
“From today on, I wanted to go with you.”
Does that mean not only today, but every day from now on?
Going to school with a girl had never occurred to me before in my life.
And she’s even making me a super delicious bento lunch. How could I be so happy?
On the way to school, I noticed something different about Uruwashi walking next to me.
“Ten-chan, are you bringing Banira-chan with you today?”
In Uruwashi’s schoolbag was Banira-chan in an outing pouch.
“Yes, because I want to be with the ones I like all the time. From now on, I’m going to show what I like. That’s how I met Sagara-kun.”
Uruwashi looked at me and smiled softly, which made my face heat up.
That day, I picked up Uruwashi’s plush Banira-chan and stitched her arm, and that is how our relationship came to be.
That’s because I kept doing what I love and never stopped.
I’m going to give more of what I love from now on, too.
I now hope to start selling my hobby of making plushie and someday make it into a career.
Uruwashi-san pulls her shoulder against my body.
Her silky silver hair smells sweet and I can almost feel her body heat.
I wonder what’s going on, so I pull away a little, but Uruwashi closes the distance between us without saying a word.
As we repeat the exchange, I am driven so close that my other shoulder almost rubs against the wall.
“Hey, Ten-chan? Aren’t we close?”
When I say this, Uruwashi-san squeezes her arms together.
Hnn! I’m hitting all sorts of soft spots?
Damn, I’ve been nervous since this morning. It’s bad for my heart.
“Sagara-kun, I thought you weren’t going to leave?”
“Oh, that line ……! Did you hear that, Ten-chan?”
I wonder how much of my exchange with Itetsu was overheard.
I’m so embarrassed.
Uruwashi’s charming smile made my heart beat even faster.
The reason why my life turned out like this is…….
“Sagara-kun said he wouldn’t leave me, so I won’t let you go, be prepared.”
When I saved a lost plushie, I got close to a young lady from a Yakuza family.
Is… is this the ending?
yes it’s the end of the first chapter