When I Saved a Lost Plushie, I Got Close to a Young Lady From a Yakuza Family
“Lost?”
Spring break of my freshman year of high school was coming to an end.
On my way home, I was holding the loot I had purchased at the crafts store and thinking about what I would do with the little vacation I had left, as if to turn my back on the fact that tomorrow I would be moving up to the next grade. I spotted it in the alleyway.
I ran up to it, bent down, and picked it up, wrapping it in both of my palms.
“Aah. So dirty.”
I picked up a pop-up stuffed rabbit.
Recently, more and more people have been carrying around stuffed animals as part of their guessing game. In that neighborhood, stuffed animals are treated like people and are said to be ‘lost and found’
“Poor thing, it’s even injured.”
Perhaps because it fell by the side of the road, its arms were removed and the cotton inside was visible, and it was dirty and in a not-so-good condition.
It might have been stepped on or kicked by someone without noticing.
It should have been fluffier and prettier, but there was a sense of sadness in its appearance.
But from the looks of it, it didn’t look like it had been left unattended for a few days.
I’m sure there must be an owner looking for her right now.
“Ugh, where did it go ……?”
I heard a woman’s lonely voice nearby and turned my head in that direction.
A silver-haired woman was wearing a clearly expensive looking black kimono and was crawling on the ground, not minding getting dirty, searching for something.
I thought it might be her, so I spoke to her timidly.
“Excuse me.”
“Ah?”
Suddenly, with a chilling voice, the woman’s piercing gaze shot through me.
Scary!
Her eyes were strong and intimidating to the point that I was afraid she was going to kill me.
I am talking to the crawling woman from above. So the woman is looking up at me, but it’s not a pretty look, she’s just staring at me.
But her face at first glance was very well formed. Her eyes were sharp and long, the bridge of her nose was straight, and she was not cute, but a beautiful woman. She was a beauty to the point of being frightening.
It was partly because she was staring at me, but more than that, the shape of her face made me feel overwhelmed. It was like standing in front of a majestic work of art.
Because she was crawling, I could see her cleavage from the neck of her kimono, and it was fan-shaped, making it difficult to look at her.
“If you’re picking on me, I refuse. I’m not in the mood for that right now.”
She said this and lowered her face.
She seemed to think that I was a pickup who was trying to take advantage of her in her time of need. She was very wary of me.
But I mustered up the courage to say one more word.
“I’m not picking on you”
With a snap, she stopped searching and stood up.
“Then what?”
Oh, she’s really pissed off.
She must think I’m persistent.
“Sorry if I’m wrong. Is this child yours, by any chance?”
I put the stuffed animal I had just picked up in my hand and held it out to her.
“That’s it!”
She snatched the stuffed animal from my hand and held it to her large breasts, which were visible even through her kimono.
I thought maybe she was looking for a contact or something else, but it seemed to be definitely hers.
“Thank God,” I said, patting myself on the chest.
“I’m sorry, I’ve done an injustice to the benefactor who helped me find my family.”
She bowed her head deeply, as if ashamed of her earlier conduct.
“Anyone would be wary of being approached by a man out of the blue.”
With such a beautiful and attractive looking woman, it is only natural.
She must have been picked up by many men in her life.
“So please don’t apologize. I’m just glad that the girl is back with you.”
“Thank you. …… Ah.”
When she saw the stuffed animal again, her face turned from relief to a shadow.
I found a stuffed animal, but its arms were missing and it was dirty, so it was in poor condition.
“If you want, could you lend it to me? I won’t make it worse.”
She seemed hesitant to offer up her family member, but then she handed the stuffed animal to me.
After receiving the stuffed animal, I took out my sewing kit from my bag.
I stuffed cotton into the removed arm, reshaped it, and sewed it together with thread of the same color as the stuffed animal.
“Yes, the arm is fine now. I think the stains will come out if you wash it by hand with warm water and mild detergent after you go home.”
“Hmmm~~~! Thank you very much! I’m really glad. ……”
She’s a beautiful woman, but when she’s happy, she’s so cute, like a child.
“Um, that is…”
Her gaze seems to be on the sewing set I hold in my hand.
This is the Dragon one I bought in elementary school.
The W-wing sewing set, “LOURD LEGER” series. It is now sold as “Black Dragon”. It is the eternal dream of boys.
“Actually… I like stuffed animals, so I always carry a sewing kit with me. Also, I was on my way home from the craft store today, so I was lucky to have some cotton.”
As you can imagine, I don’t always carry cotton with me.
“It’s strange for a man to like stuffed animals, isn’t it?”
I chuckled to myself.
At the same time, “A man likes stuffed toys?”
I usually hide it, but this time I couldn’t
“No, you’re not, you’re very nice! You saved her life!”
She moved closer to me.
I was so intimidated by her beauty that even up close there was not a single rough spot on her face that I could only reply, “Oh, thank you …….”
“Yes, that’s right. I haven’t heard her name yet.”
I wondered what this toy name was.
“It’s Uruwashi …… Ten.”
Wow, that’s a pretty solid name for a mascot.
And she even has a last name. What kind of character is she?
“What kind of character is she?”
“Eh?”
“Good for you, Ten-chan.”
“Eh? Eh?”
“I’m glad you’re back with your owner. You mustn’t leave it again.”
I patted the head of the stuffed animal in the woman’s arms.
For some reason, stuffed animals are like my own children.
“Tenchan is really cute.”
I patted and patted her.
“Oh, um, …….”
When I looked at the woman’s face, I saw that her translucent white pottery-like skin had turned red.
I took my hand away, wondering if I had touched the stuffed animal too much and made her feel uncomfortable.
“No. Ten is my name …….”
“Huh?”
“The name of this stuffed animal is Banira-chan.”
She then held up the stuffed animal as if to hide her face.
Then, I finally realized my huge mistake.
“I am sorry! I called your name so carelessly!”
I had called her by her name, “Chan!”
I had made a mistake, calling such a grown-up person like a child!
“No, it’s just that I misunderstood your question.”
“No, it was my fault for asking the question in the first place.”
From there, we repeated to each other, “No, no, no.”
After a few more exchanges, we started to laugh at each other.
“Sagara Sou kun, thank you so much for today.”
When we parted, her big smile made my heart skip a beat.
She was so beautiful and cute, it was too much!
Then I got home and sat down at my desk, thinking that I had done a good thing today.
Uruwashi Tian.
An overwhelmingly beautiful woman with silver hair who looks great in a kimono.
As she was leaving, she said, “I will definitely repay you for this favor,” but I don’t think I will ever have anything to do with such a beautiful woman in my life.
But her language was unusual or old-fashioned, I don’t know.
“It was like a chivalrous movie.”
Yes, that fits.
It was like the language used by a gangster or someone in that line of work.
I wonder if I just felt that way because she looked so good in a kimono.
“Uruwashi-san …… is a name I’ve heard somewhere before. That, or rather, how did she know my name?””
I’m sure I didn’t tell her my name at that time.
That question came to mind, so I looked at my sewing set and saw that my name was written there in big letters with an oil-based magic marker.
Wow, how embarrassing!
I’ve been using this since elementary school and I’m so attached to it that I can’t change it, but it didn’t look good on me. ……
With a sigh, I decided to put my embarrassment aside and get to work on the new creation I’d come up with today.