Chapter 110: Love Downstairs, Parenting Upstairs

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The car arrived all the way to the parking lot of the district, here is about three to four hundred meters away from Aoi’s home, it will need to walk to, Long Cherry turned off the car, sideways to follow the other people to get off together, when she probed the moment she went out the door, that tall figure also entered the line of sight of a few people, Aoi couple or the first time to see such a tall girl, not only high height, looks are also very outstanding, the son in the end, how did he know her?

“Let me help carry the stuff.” Dragon Sakura was enthusiastic, just getting out of the car and walking quickly to the trunk.

Aoi Long also saw where it is good to let her help again, and quickly walked up, “Do not trouble you, or let me do it, the box is heavy, you a girl ……”

The trunk opened slowly.

Before the words were out of his mouth, Long Sakura grabbed the large suitcase’s handbag with one hand and lifted the entire bulky suitcase out, then the other.

Aoi Long, who was watching from the side, also looked silly, this time they came back with a lot of souvenirs back, a suitcase less than seventy to eighty pounds, this girl just so easily take them all out?

Natsuki Arai looked at her mom and dad with a fuss on her face, and her heart was instantly balanced.

I think I was almost as surprised when I met Ryuusakura, anyway, just don’t think of Ryuusakura as a girl as much as possible when it comes to physical fitness.

Aoi Ryuya’s attempt to reach over and give him a hand froze in mid-air, and as he looked around at the empty trunk as well as the two suitcases on the floor, the smile that had been hanging on his face immediately froze, “Ryu, Ryuusakura …… sauce?”

“Aye! Is there anything else I can do for you, Uncle?”

Yugiri Ryuzakura was facing him, and in that instant, Aoi Ryuuya felt that the figure of the girl in front of him became more and more imposing, gradually obscuring his immediate sight ……

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“So Long Cherry’s family runs a martial arts school! No wonder, no wonder, it must have been very hard to learn martial arts from elementary school, right? Seeing that you, Long Cherry, with such a thin arm, can actually carry such a heavy suitcase, you must have endured a lot of exercise in the past, right?” Aoi Ryuuya pulled the suitcase and walked in the front of the row with great interest, chatting with Long Sakura.

Long Cherry naturally answered every one of his questions enthusiastically, “Uh-huh, since I was a child, I have been entrusted by my family with the high hopes of being the next generation heir to the Divine Heart Stream, so I have likewise been working out desperately, and that part of the experience is indeed very grueling when I think about it nowadays ……”

Dragon Sakura’s brain began to recall bits and pieces of that year, all sorts of swords and mountains, wild jungles, fighting with ferocious beasts, and so on.

“Yes, yes, yes.” Aoi Ryuuya obviously couldn’t realize the deeper meaning of this passage, and after nodding frequently, a series of training exercises similar to jumping rope, frog jumping, balance beam, and this kind of training emerged in his mind.

“Uncle …… you are really gentle, compared to my father, he is a very strict person.” Long Sakura suddenly changed her words, words that even Aoi Natsuki had never heard before.

Behind her, Aoi Natsuki, who was holding Rina’s hand and holding a paper bag in her other hand, also cast her gaze together.

Aoi Ryuuya looked at this girl on the right, cheerful, family history is also good, looks equally impeccable, such a girl if you can match my family Natsuki ……

“Ya …… don’t count for much, I’ve never advocated strict fatherhood, plus Natsuki wasn’t exactly rowdy when he was a kid, so it wasn’t cultivated badly after all.” Aoi Ryuuya rubbed the back of his head and laughed, then returned to the topic and opened his mouth to ask that

“What does Ryuzura think of my family Natsuki as a person?”

Hearing that question, the mother in the back as well as Natsuki Aoi herself froze.

Not good!

According to Ryuusakura’s character, she most likely would!

“Well …… I feel very good about getting along.” The corners of Dragon Sakura’s mouth rose slightly, her eyes narrowed into slits, and her smile grew wide even in the light of the daylight, the

“I like him a lot too.”

Slap–

A voice came from the rear.

Long Sakura turned her head, only to see that it was Aoi’s mother who had dropped the purse she was carrying in her hand, while looking at her with a wooden expression, mixed with startled eyes looking straight at her.

Aoi Ryuuya’s expression was similarly no better, and after hearing this answer from Ryuusakura, his heart, which had always suffered from arrhythmia, was now beating so fast that his breathing became rapid as a result.

This, if such a nice girl can like our family Natsuki, then, that’s really ……

That’s great!

Arai Ryuuya jerked his head around, his excited gaze looking straight at his son.

Natsuki Arai tried to look away, avoiding as much as possible the sight of his parents focusing on him.

Dragon Sakura stopped in her tracks, bent down to pick up the purse, patted the dust on it, and handed it back to Aoi’s mom.

Seeing this, Aoi Ryuuya held his breath with his mouth to calm down and continued to ask, “Ryuusakura, the liking you just said under your breath, did I misunderstand? This kind of liking is between friends? Or maybe it’s something else in particular ……”

“Not only between friends, if Natsuki is willing, I would love to be his girlfriend, it’s just a pity that he has already rejected my confession twice in a row yet.” Bringing up this topic, a moment of divine sadness flashed across Ryuusakura’s face, but immediately that smiling face was back.

Aoi Ryuu was also struck by lightning, and the way he looked at his son was as if he was looking at a retard.

What kind of a mistake did you make to turn down such a nice girl?

And Aoi Ikuko’s complexion on the side was similarly not much better, although she kept her stance, Aoi Natsuki could clearly feel that her mother’s high emotions had come down, so that when she got home, she would unavoidably be grilled again.

Never mind, let’s just keep pretending like nothing is wrong and keep our heads down on our phones.

Natsuki Aoi chose to disconnect the link directly.

Mr. and Mrs. Aoi were also furious.

Five minutes later, a few people walked to the corner in front of the house, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar house, Aoi Ryuuya mood all of a sudden some melancholy, and his wife looked at each other, have revealed a bitter smile.

After that, he turned the corner, and it was then that Ryuuya Arai realized that there was a girl standing right in front of his house, her body slumped against the iron gate, constantly looking in.

“Ah.” Natsuki Arai recognized her and instinctively let out a sound.

“Ayano?” Ryuusaku was the first to call out her name.

Takahashi Ayano, who was watching from the doorway, her body trembled and immediately turned her head, and the first thing she saw was Ryuusakura, and her face was delighted, “Ryuusakura! As well as ……”

There were two people next to them who didn’t really know each other.

However.

Ayano blinked her eyes as her gaze fell on the middle-aged man, looking at his bewildered expression, and through face recognition in her brain, she slowly managed to perfectly overlap that face with Natsuki’s!

“Could it be, Natsuki’s mom and dad?”

“Yes, I’m Natsuki’s father, may I ask who you are ……”

Takahashi Ayano immediately stood up straight after hearing this, her grip on the drawing in her hands tightened, and she said, “Hello, my name is Takahashi Ayano, and I’m Natsuki’s friend.”

Another girl who looks this good ……

Ryuya Arai’s eyes slowly narrowed and he turned to look at his son behind him.

Aoi Natsuki’s complexion recovered slightly, at first when he saw the purple hair, he thought it was Takahashi Mito, letting her come in, where things were still clear, Ayano’s words, there would be no problem at all.

“What brings you to me all of a sudden my friend,” Aoi Natsuki asked in a serious tone.

The atmosphere in the room is gradually moving in a strange direction ……

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Inside the house.

The entire dining room was warm with the floor heat turned on, Ayano was holding Rina in her arms while Aoi Ryuu at the side was sipping his tea with his head down.

There was a steaming sound coming from the kitchen, the heat fogging the entire thick glass door.

The son had gone upstairs with his wife to tidy up the room; the couple had just returned and there were quite a few tedious little things to take care of.

“Ayano met Natsuki because of drawing manga right?” Aoi Ryuuya asked, speaking up.

Takahashi Ayano looked up, “Not really, Natsuki had attended my sister’s birthday party before, he and my sister are alumni and met first, Natsuki and I got to know each other slowly later.”

“Oh, do you have a sister?” Aoi Ryuuya mused, this is another sister, all of a sudden the characters are a bit more complicated.

“Uh-huh! Yes!”

From the state of this girl in front of me, it is a very active type of girl, and look at Rina with her also quite close, that come to find Natsuki should not be too few times, that ……

His eyes went to the kitchen while Ryuzakura, who was helping to watch the fire, came out with her apron on.

The two girls smiled at each other.

Aoi Ryu also couldn’t help but think a little bit more in his heart, so it seemed that the two were on good terms, so it shouldn’t be a relationship of love rivals, right?

Furthermore, his own son was so ordinary that he wouldn’t be pursued by two such beautiful girls at the same time, right?

Come to think of it, it’s this.

Aoi Ryuuya only then smiled and nodded, he was still very satisfied with this girl called Long Sakura, tall and later genetically good, healthy and filial, as a parent, the most important thing is these.

Whether it’s pretty or not belongs as an afterthought.

“Long Cherry sauce don’t need to be too discouraged, I know my son very well, his temper is occasionally a bit stubborn, very similar to my character, but in reality, his heart will remember the good of others, you insist on persisting a bit more, I believe that sooner or later, Natsuki is going to agree to you.”

“Uh-huh! Okay, uncle.” Dragon Sakura responded with a smile.

Aoi Ryuuya’s heart burst with joy.

“Promise? Promise what?”

“Eh ……” Aoi Ryuu wasn’t sure if he should mention this to the girl, after all, it was Ryuusakura’s personal business, in case she didn’t want anyone to know about it.

While he was thinking that, Ryuusakura made a direct explanation, “It’s about the last time Natsuki rejected my confession.”

“Wow~ So it’s that.” Ayano’s expression wasn’t anything special, looking like she already knew.

Aoi Ryuuya slightly expanded on that, “So you know about this too, Ayano?”

“Of course, after all, I was there that day.”

What the hell, so it is.

Arai Ryuu was also relieved that he had caused himself to be so nervous, so it seemed like Ayano was just a normal friend without a doubt.

The smile on his face grew thicker, “Then it’s Ayano’s fault, knowing that Natsuki is too embarrassed to say yes to a boy, and not hurrying to think of a way to set up more, you’re a friend who’s not doing a good job at being a friend.”

Upon hearing this, Ayano’s playful movements with Rina came to a steep halt, her gaze looking straight at him, and she uttered a sentence that shocked him to the core, “Because it’s not like Ryuusakura was the only one who liked Natsuki at that time!”

“?”

Aoi Ryuuya didn’t react at first, smiling while a bean-sized question mark appeared above his head.

Then the color of his face changed suddenly.

Turning to Dragon Sakura.

Still wearing a light smile on his face, he seemed to acquiesce to the matter.

So, so, that means Ayano wasn’t just joking?

Aoi Ryuuya’s brow tightened and his right hand clenched his jaw in death, half shaking his head.

How much had his son, who had always been a homebody, changed in the six months he had been away on business?

Could this be the legendary peach blossom period?

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Second floor.

Lena’s room.

Instead, the ever-serious Aoi Ikuko went to Rina’s room first to tidy up instead of tidying up her own bedroom the first time she got home.

“It’s true that you alone can’t do it, so tell me, what’s going on?” Aoi Ikuko said as she grabbed the morning mess of Lina’s unwashed panties.

Aoi Natsuki was dumbfounded, it was indeed his mistake, and lowered his head to listen to his mom’s lecture.

“And this room, the arrangement is too simple, the girl’s room should have more decoration to work, this child has no half of childhood, the later days of your father and I have to go out again, or rely on you alone, you are the only big head of her, know?”

“Well …… I know.”

Aoi Ikuko threw the panties into the basin, “I’ll wash them this time, and remember, at this age little kids sweat easily in the summer, and in the fall and winter if she goes to bed she must be told to go to the bathroom before bedtime, or else she’ll be prone to wetting the bed.”

“But isn’t she eight years old.”

“You still wet the bed at twelve!”

“That, that was just an accident!” Every time that incident was talked about, Aoi Natsuki hastily retorted.

That night he remembers very clearly, he dreamed of going to watch a ball game, see half of the time suddenly want to go to the bathroom, found a public restroom, stood in front of the urinal just to relax, he was wet a warm stream to soak awake, that night can be him busy miserable, in order not to be found by mom and dad, secretly took the toilet hair dryer, blowing against the sheet for more than an hour, but later or because the movement was too big, was Parents found, to the present, mom still take this matter to flirt, it is too much!

“Raising kids isn’t that easy, what’s the daily pickup and drop off over at Lena’s school?”

“There will be special school buses.”

“Well, but just in case, when you’re an adult get your driver’s license, it’ll be easier to have a car after all, and don’t bother with man-girls.”

“Good.”

“Remember to change your sheets regularly, even in winter, once every two weeks.”

“Uh-huh.”

“Rina is a girl after all, give her a little more privacy and remember to knock before entering.”

“Uh-huh.”

Aoi Natsuki kept her mom’s words in her head through and through, and just kept following her.

Aoi Ikuko opened the closet and looked through Lina’s clothes, then her face stared and she pointed inside, “It’s so unaesthetic, isn’t it?”

“Ha…… sorry.” Natsuki Aoi smiled awkwardly.

“That’s it for this winter, I’ll take Rina to buy a few clothes to wear in the spring this afternoon.” The more Aoi Ikuko looked at her, the more angry she became, she simply closed the closet and turned to look at her son, Aoi Natsuki would look abashed in the face of his old mom, not uttering a single word, and not knowing where to look with his eyes.

“But …… you’ve finally raised her, and that’s a big compliment.”

“Eh?”

Natsuki Aoi froze.

Is that a compliment?

Aoi Yuzi’s gaze became softer, her voice also calmed down a bit: “What I was most worried about at the beginning was not whether she could speak or not, whether her body had any disabilities, but I was afraid that you would act on your own accord, and that you would not be able to raise a child with a single heart, and that you would be in a dilemma of whether to raise or not to raise her if you felt that she was a burden. In the end, if you don’t want to raise her, just leave her with us. Get this straight, your father and I will be fifty in another ten years, do you want to keep tossing us around? So it’s up to you.

Now you’re kind of a bit of a model, but this is not enough, in the future, her schooling, her rebellious period, her love, her distress you all have to come to be responsible for, to that time, I hope that you can still keep the original heart, remember what you were steadfastly to me and your father said.”

With those words, a silence fell over the entire room.

Natsuki Aoi could feel the emotions his old mom was trying to express, but the experience of it was something he needed to slowly realize through life himself.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

“I’ll do my best, mom.” Natsuki Arai promised softly, her heart suddenly feeling heavy.

There is also a deeper understanding of the word parenting.