When I Saved a Lost Plushie, I Got Close to a Young Lady From a Yakuza Family
It was around 2 a.m. when I decided that we should become a family, but I was thinking about how I could become a family with Sagara-kun.
Suddenly, I look out the window from my room.
I can actually see Sagara-kun’s apartment from here.
After meeting Sagara-kun and finding out that he lives there, the view from here, which I always see, looks different.
I knew that there was life in every single light, but now I feel closer to it.
Sagara-kun’s room is over there, ……, oh, the light is still on.
I want to share the same rhythm of life with Sagara-kun, so I have decided to go to bed when the light in his room goes out.
As far as I can see for the past few days, the light was turned off before twelve o’clock.
I can’t imagine he’s left the light on, if so, I’d like to turn it off to protect his comfortable sleep.
But maybe he doesn’t have to and are staying up late because tomorrow is our day off.
I wonder if he’s making a ploshie r some other small thing.
When I visited him at his house, there were fabrics and threads on his desk.
The serious look in his eyes when he sewed Ba-irachan’s arms, and the kind look in his eyes when he washed her clothes.
They were all different from the look he had in the classroom, a look he would only show to plushie.
If I were to be gazed at with such eyes……
I imagined such a thing and felt a heat rise in my cheeks. I put my hands on my cheeks to cool them down.
I was so out of my depth.
After shaking my head to calm down, I looked at the lighted room where Sagara-kun was.
I wonder if he is getting enough nutrition while working through the night.
I can’t help thinking about Sagara-kun.
He has eaten his lunch, but if possible, I want him to eat it freshly prepared.
At that moment, I decided what I would do.
To become a family, I would become a part of Sagara-kun’s life.
And then, little by little, I’m going to fill the outer moat.
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The next day, I went to Sagara-kun’s house to cook for him.
Because he was going to eat cup noodles.
I had heard from Matsuda that it was a hassle-free, and above all, great for a nighttime snack, so I don’t intend to deny cup noodles in general.
However, Sagara-kun’s body after an all-nighter should not have such an unbalanced diet.
When I went up to the room, I was really surprised. The familiar music made my heart pound.
To my surprise, Sagara-kun listened to “Asterisk,” my favorite idol, to accompany me in my work.
It’s not often that someone really gets in touch with what I like or recommend.
And yet, as is the norm, he immediately looked me up and asked me about it, and I was very impressed.
But if I had to say something disappointing, I would say that Sagara-kun didn’t look at me much.
I wonder if he is not interested in me ……?
I think he has often turned his face away from me in the past.
Muu.
This outfit was a little too revealing, and I was embarrassed, but I did my best.
I wonder if he will look at me someday if I keep attacking him
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A little time has passed since then, and I was looking for fabric in the storehouse of my house.
[Ten-chan, will you let me make a kimono for Banira-chan?]
It was an unexpected proposal.
When I saw Sagara-kun’s plushie, Kune-chan, wearing a kimono, I thought it was very cute and was astonished at how well it turned out.
It was so beautifully finished that if it were sold, I would definitely want to buy it.
Are you a genius, Sagara-kun? I really respect you …….
I couldn’t help but imagine how cute Banira chan would look in this kimono, but I didn’t want to bother Sagara-kun just because of me, so I initially declined.
[Wouldn’t you like to take a picture of Baniara-chan and Kune in kimono side by side?[
But I nodded to his angelic, gentle, devilishly sweet whisper.
And since I knew that this kimono made by Sagara-kun was a fabric that would suit Kune-chan, and since I couldn’t bear to have him pay for the materials in addition to the technical fee and time, this is how I came to the warehouse.
“I found it….”
I took out the fabric in a paulownia box.
It’s a hagire and not worth the price, but it’s a very important fabric for me.
When Sagara-kun proposed it to me, I thought that I wanted him to make it from this fabric.
As a result, I was right to entrust him with this fabric.
The kimono he made for me turned out to be very beautiful and careful.
The result was already promised when I saw Sagara’s serious eyes while he was working.
I have no idea how many times I almost sighed at how cool he looked as I watched from the side the whole time. It is true that I had a sense of superiority that I was the only one who knew about it.
I wish I could have you all to myself.
When I put the finished kimono on Banira-chan, my heart was so tightened by the cuteness of it.
And then, with a certain determination, I invited him to the cherry blossom viewing party.
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I took a deep breath in front of Sagara’s house.
I knocked on the door, wondering if I would look good in this kimono.
“You look like a mother”
Sagara-kun’s comment about me looking like my mother gave me goosebumps.
It wasn’t just a simple word like “cute,” “beautiful,” or “looks good on you.”
That made me very, very, very happy.
–Because this kimono was one of my memories of my mother.
It was a precious item that my mother used to wear when I was little, when she took me to see cherry blossoms.
My mother was kind, warm, and sunny, and I longed to be like her.
As a small child, I begged for a matching kimono so that I could be closer to my mother.
I was tall enough to wear the adult-like pattern.
We wore them together, parent and child, and walked hand in hand.
I remember vividly the feeling of her knee lap when I was sleepy-eyed from playing at the cherry blossom viewing party.
I remember them all vividly.
As I grew taller, I could no longer wear the kimono of my childhood, but I could wear my mother’s kimono.
But I was afraid to put my own sleeves on it.
But I thought that I could wear it with Banira-chan, and I wanted Sagara-kun to see it.
That’s not fair, Sagara-kun.
You probably don’t realize it, but you always give me what I want most.
After that, the cherry blossom viewing was so much fun that the bitter memory of dropping the noui seemed to be rewritten.
Sagara-kun was so cute as he dozed off on the boat after eating his dinner that I wished I could fall on his lap.
Oh, mother must have felt the same way?
I hope so.
Sagara-kun would probably have refused, but he was tired from making two dresses in one day, so he visited my lap without resistance.
His normally innocent face was even more meltingly loose and sheltered.
Oh, I want to spoil you even more.
I wonder what you would look like if I did.
And I asked him how it all started, wanting to know why he had fallen so in love with the stuffed animals, the ones he poured his heart and soul into.
It was easy to imagine that he was a kind older brother who had started this for his younger sister.
This was clearly evident in the way he looked at her and the way he handled her.
I was very happy to know how he came to like what he liked, but in the end I regretted asking him.
Sagara kun’s sister was no longer with us.
I stare at him as he tells me this and falls asleep.
I am sorry for bringing back painful memories.
I will be there with Sagara-kun, who is acting as if he is alone and nothing is wrong.
I will never leave him so that he won’t be lonely, so that he will feel safe.
Suddenly, a vibration is transmitted through the carpet.
I looked at the source and saw his phone there.
A message popped up on the screen.
I unintentionally peeked at Sagara-kun’s phone.
I tried to avert my eyes, but I couldn’t take my eyes off it.
The icon was a selfie of a young girl and it said, “Sou-chan, I’m going to play with you on my next day off”
Ha ……?