Chapter 9
...As if I can sleep now!
Not even five minutes had passed as she pushed
aside the blanket and jumped to her feet.
Her eyes were red and congested, as if she had
just come out of the pool.
I tried
give this situation a good conclusion, but this is just impossible! I can’t
help but think about it! Hikaru, someone I love, is literally sleeping next to
me!
Your ordinary person wouldn’t be able to fall
asleep in a situation like this. Hikaru wasn’t ordinary so he was sleeping like
a log, but Sakura on the other hand possessed common sense of a normal person.
And on top of that, she was a proper, healthy
sixteen year old girl.
Frankly
speaking, I’m too excited and can’t fall asleep!
Gaah!
Sakura rolled about in the futon.
Her body was hot, and she had a hard time
enduring various feelings.
Whenever Hikaru’s breath tickled the nape of
her neck as he slept, her body would start trembling from the physiological
response.
Even if she started to recite the heart sutra,
following the ‘clear your mind of all mundane thoughts, and you will find even
fire cool’ route wasn’t an option either. The worldly desires were the
privileges of the young, men and women were the same in that regard.
Okay,
let’s calm down. I should just calm down.
She forcibly persuaded herself.
There’s no way these worldly desires would
settle down, and neither would she be calming down any time soon, but she had
to think either way.
In order to maintain their pure relationship,
she had use all her power and find a way to make a clean break out of this
situation without loosing to her desires. What she needed to do now was that,
above anything else.
...Hmm?
Eh?
She suddenly recovered herself.
Actually… Was is really something she
shouldn’t do?
Losing to her desires and graduating from
their pure relationship… was that really something bad? Despite the fact that
they were officially dating? And had promised to marry each other on top of it?
That
doesn’t sound wrong at all. It’s instead the correct thing to do.
Which meant…
Even if she made a move now, it wouldn’t
really be a problem, would it?
Sakura gulped loudly.
She looked down on Hikaru who was sleeping
next to her.
His skin was surprisingly beautiful, and his
lips seemed so tasty.
She had been with him for too long, so she
could easily tell whether he was feigning sleep or not. And right now, he was
most definitely asleep.
And that meant…
Even if she did something to him, he wouldn’t
really know...would he?
And even he did, wouldn’t it still be
legitimate…?
Gulp.
Sakura swallowed once again.
The temptation was real. A sense of virtue
could just go fuck itself.
At the point when a young girl and boy decided
to sleep together, those textbook-like ethics had already lost all their
meaning.
In this situation, an angel was a devil, and a
devil was also an angel. The conflict that commonly happens between good and
evil no longer held any significance here.
Ba-bum-ba
bum-ba bum.
Her heart rate accelerated without a stop.
And now...
Right now…
Maybe she could try doing something that she
normally couldn't? As a preface or a hors d’oeuvre or something!
She slowly drew closer to Hikaru’s face, while
frantically trying to hold back her breathing that seemed like it would go out
of control at any moment.
And then, she whispered in a voice so low that
Hikaru wouldn’t be able to hear it even if he was awake.
“...Hikaru. I love you.”
Kyaa!
Kyaa! She rolled while throwing kicks around.
Whoops, that was a bad move. If she made so
much noise, even Hikaru could wake up from it.
But
still──Uhehe. I said it, I said it!
She had finally said the words she wanted to
say for so many years but was never able to.
But the person concerned was sleeping, you
say? As if that mattered.
And they were already dating after he
confessed anyway, you say? Stop joking around, it is always important to say
those words to make sure. Tacit understanding is just a nice excuse to avoid
it; even when it comes to remembering one english word, isn’t it far more
effective when you speak it aloud?
Whoops,
calm down, me. I need to be careful here, really, really careful…
Sakura rebuked her agitated self.
After all, this situation was likely to
develop into “Hikaru’s been awake all this time!” scenario. And Sakura was well
aware that she was exactly the kind of person who was likely to step on that
landmine.
And so, she decided to make sure of it.
She poked his face, and drew her ear close to
his nose to check his sleeping breaths. Moreover, she even put her hand on his
chest and checked his heartbeat. ──Okay, he was sound asleep, no two ways about
it. She was a hundred percent safe.
She got annoyed at him for falling asleep in
this situation, but now that it had come to this, she was instead thankful of
it. By all means, she wanted him to keep sleeping until morning.
And during that time, she would do as she
pleased with him!
No matter the times, those who showed openings
were the ones to be blamed!
I’m
going to kiss him right now!
This was quite literally a once-in-a-lifetime
chance.
There was hardly a chance for it to go wrong.
If she failed here, there was no knowing when she would get another chance. But
this was just the first day of their dating, you say? That doesn’t matter. The
lucky and good day was exactly when the Lady Luck showed her smile. If she let
go of this chance, she would be incurring a divine punishment. And it wasn’t
good to turn one’s back at the providence of heavens.
I’m
doing it.
Miyamoto
Sakura, sixteen years old, will now be taking her first step on the stairs of
adulthood…!
She drew her face closer to be on top of his.
Hikaru was still sound asleep. This was the
promised victory. However clumsy she was, even she couldn’t possibly screw this
up.
Okay,
I’m doing it, here I go!
And I
don’t meant your cheeks, but your lips!
I’ll be
taking my first kiss now──
...As
if! It won’t be so easy! I knew it!
Sakura got flustered and moved her face away,
making a clean break.
After all, there was no way it could go so
well. She didn’t want to boast but, she was a natural born, hopeless-at-love
girl, and it was simply impossible for everything to go her way like it has
until now. There was definitely a trap ahead.
When it
comes to a trap that would come up in this situation, it’s most definitely
going to be those perverted sisters!
Sakura suddenly glared towards the door.
After
all──After all, they are surely holding their breaths on the other side of it,
aren’t they?
They are
trying to ascertain with their own eyes just what would Hikaru and I would do,
right?
Since
this was originally part of the bride training, after all! The one those
sisters created! And I almost forgot about it, too!
If it’s
those three, they are definitely going to do something! There’s no way they
would sit quietly when there’s something so interesting before them! They are
definitely observing us now, and maybe even filming it, and they want to show
me that video with smug faces! I can totally see that happening! Even if I am
not the goddess of time and destiny, Norn, I can still predict that much!
Sakura jumped out of the bed, and dashed
straight towards the door.
And then, she pushed open the door with all
she had in order to expose the three sisters who were surely giggling on the
other side.
Slam!
Okay,
you perverted sisters!
You must
be having a great mistake if you think you can get away with messing with me
every time!! Predicting the earlier development falls under your specialty,
doesn’t it?! I’m not gonna stop this time and beat you into──
...They
aren’t here!
There was no one there.
There was only the dark corridor spreading
beyond the opened door.
The Oogami house had fallen silent in the dead
of night, like an uninhabited house.
──Why
won’t you come to interrupt us?! Isn’t that basically how it goes in this situation?!
Wouldn’t it be bad if I kissed him just like that?! Read the mood, you hear me,
read the mood!
Sakura stamped her feet in silence,
frustrated.
No no.
Hold on a bit.
A certain possibility flashed in her mind.
Listening from behind the door was way too
predictable thing to do. Then what if they were observing in some different
way?
It was certainly a possibility.
A listening device, or a hidden camera, there
were many ways to do it. And to make matters worse, this was the sisters’ home
ground. They had more than enough time on their hands to make their
preparations. And they were goddesses, to begin with, so they could very well
be able to use something like X-ray vision, too.
I see, I
didn’t see that coming──Sakura conceded.
The enemy prepared a high class strategy.
Thinking about it, it was quite natural that if they were going to observe,
they would choose the means that was least likely to be found out. Such
scheming fellows they were, she was almost deceived.
And with that, her next action was already
decided!
She ran downstairs to the first floor! To the
reception hall where the three sisters had their futons spread out and slept!
She was going for a surprise attack!
The victory went for the one who made the
first move, so while they weren’t aware that she realised their scheme, she
would go and obtain the irrefutable evidence!
Creak!
She opened the sliding door.
I found
you, perverted sisters!
I was
sure it would be something like this. You are hundred years too early to be
peeping on our kissing scene! You are always messing with me, but this time I’m
going to──
...They
are sleeping!
The three sisters were sleeping normally in
the bedroom before the door and releasing sleeping sounds. And they weren’t
feigning it either, but instead they were so sound asleep that they wouldn’t
wake up even if you hit them.
Or
rather…!
Don’t
sleep!
Sakura stomped her feel on the air,
frustrated.
Isn’t
this situation where you would be plotting something?! Why are you sleeping
like it’s nothing! I believed in the cliche development and came here in high
spirits, but I look like a total fool now! But well, I came running here with a
triumphant look while fighting a nonexistent enemy, so I really am a fool!
Sorry!
Or
rather, what am I even doing in someone else’s house! I’m reflecting on it, I’m
really sorry!
Also,
let me just confess here!
I never
actually planned to go for a kiss since the start!
After
all, I had a premonition that you’d definitely get in the way!
I mean,
isn’t that how it was supposed to be?!
When it
comes to these kind of developments, some kind of interruption always comes up,
doesn’t it?! Usually, you’d act based on that, right?! It’s because I was
convinced that I’d get interrupted that I became so confident there!
So I’ll
change my attitude now, and I’m not going to kiss him!
And
moreover, I won’t go beyond that point no matter what! Isn’t it just
unreasonable?! It’s my first time! If I could do something like that, I’d have
long since confessed to Hikaru myself! I’d have dated him for a long time now
and flirted with him like a normie!
So, I’ll
just go sleep now!
I’ll go
and sulk in bed!
I’ll
send my consciousness in the dream world, and start a new day pretending
nothing happened! I can only do that now! I would die from embarrassment if
someone saw me right now! And I don’t wanna die yet! Not when I just started
dating Hikaru today!
Thus, she returned to Hikaru’s room on the
second floor and crawled into the bed. She put the blanket over her head and
tightly shut her eyes.
Now, let’s
sleep. Let me count sheep or something and I’ll fall asleep. I’m sure tomorrow
would wash away today's events. I’ll bury the memories of this impossible game
of today far away, and start a new game tomorrow. Yup, let’s do that. I have to
do that, I want to do that, I hope I can do that──
...No like I said, I can’t possibly
sleep now!
She pushed aside the futon and jumped to her
feet, and that started another loop, returning her to the starting point.
──And that covered my report on how Miyamoto
Sakura tilted at windmills and had a maiden-like breakdown.
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