Chapter 174 – Ambiguous Little Movements

“Well? Is it letting me in? Or will you not let me in?” Sakurajima apricot body leaned forward, both eyes looked straight at Aoi, Aoi Natsuki pursed his lips for about ten seconds, at this time, the sound of poof came from his ears, he was shocked, and quickly remembered that the kitchen was still cooking miso soup, turned around, and ran in the direction of the kitchen.

“Whatever, come in come in.”

After receiving permission, Sakurajima Apricot raised an eyebrow at his flustered appearance, the smile on her face grew even wider as she lifted her foot and stepped into the entranceway, reaching out to rub Rina’s cheeks, “LUCKY~”

“Hee hee.” Lina smiled back showing two rows of teeth.

The two of them held hands as they entered the dining room, looking at Aoi, who was busy with her hands in the kitchen, the entire space filled with the aroma of the meal, as well as the body-warming warmth of the temperature, which was obviously a few degrees higher than that of the outside, and Apricot Sakurajima gazed at Aoi for a couple of seconds through the clear glass, before pulling Rina towards the living room to watch cartoons together.

“Awwww!” Rina suddenly cried out, breaking away from Sakurajima’s embrace and getting up to run back into the dining room again, placing the still half-eaten corn in her hand in a bowl on the tabletop, only half of it to be eaten, a pact between her and Natsuki! Then ran back again barefoot.

Aoi Natsuki had asked Sakurajima if she’d stay to finish dinner, and naturally she’d said yes a hundred times, that deliberately sweet voice giving him the creeps.

In the living room, Sakurajima apricot wearing indoor shoes, found a big cushion cushion behind her, lazily lying down, Lina is snuggled in her arms, she didn’t consider herself as an outsider at all, and the snacks on the coffee table were eaten whenever she wanted to eat them, rummaging through the snack bag, she suddenly noticed that there was also a lipstick laying next to the snack bag, at that moment, her jaw lifted up slightly, and her movement stopped for a second, reaching out to pick up that lipstick, and her fingers rubbed it and turned it around, the The pattern on it felt unfamiliar to her.

“Lina, are you using this lipstick, or is Aoi using it?”

Leena brought her eyes over and stared at the lipstick for a moment, shaking her head.

“Not yours or Aoi’s?”

Lina nodded, her right index finger resting against her chin, her eyes glancing towards the upper right corner, as if she was somewhat impressed by this, then suddenly her eyes lit up, and her body swooped down to the coffee table, grabbing the writing pad as well as the grease pencil, and quickly writing on the board to 「Ryuzakura-sama」.

Seeing those words, Sakurajima immediately “growled”, glanced to the kitchen, and then resumed her narrow-eyed smile and continued to ask Rina, “Then when did Ryuusakura-san leave this lipstick behind? …… “

……

Aoi Natsuki walked out from the kitchen with the dishes, a large and small group was already sitting obediently at the dining table waiting for the meal to start, why were they so well-behaved today? Usually, they have to be called over and over again by themselves before they would come over from the living room fondly, he gave a wink to Lina, who immediately took a bowl mat and put it in the center of the table, and then he rested a casserole dish on top of it, there were three dishes and one soup for the three of them, which was already considered to be quite a sumptuous meal.

“Fire away.” Aoi Natsuki had just taken no more than two bites when she noticed that Sakurajima had been looking at herself with an odd look, interspersed with a single lament, what kind of demon was she doing again?

Forget about it and ignore her.

Aoi averted his eyes back and continued to eat in big gulps.

Seeing that it didn’t work, Sakurajima Apricot puffed up both sides of her cheeks, followed by pulling that one lipstick out of her pocket and gently pressing it against the side of his bowl.

Natsuki Aoi was a bit curious at first, but coincidentally, he happened to remember Ryuusakura wearing this lipstick, which kept him from picking up on the conversation in the first place.

“This lipstick …… seems to ring a bell with you, Aoi.” Sakurajima said faintly.

“Well ……,” Aoi Natsuki looked embarrassed.

“You say you don’t like it, but you can’t help but bring it home secretly ……”

Aoi Natsuki’s face was stunned: “No, the situation is not like this, that day, do you still remember? We went to the beach together as a group, when we came back, Rina and I were the last to be dropped off, and it was getting late, so I asked her if she’d eaten yet, and if not, we dealt with a bite at my house, it was as simple as that, thank you, yes! Totally out of gratitude!”

It was said with a clang, but Sakurajima Apricot’s face didn’t seem very convinced.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk.” Sakurajima picked up the lipstick between his left index finger and thumb and waved it in front of him, “If you can keep the lipstick this time, you might be able to keep something next time.”

“Hey, don’t be whimsical.” Aoi Natsuki instinctively raised the chopsticks in her right hand and pointed at her.

Who knew that with a glance of her eyes, she leaned forward with lightning speed in the next second, opened her mouth, and took a bite out of the head of the chopsticks he was reaching for.

At the same time a kind of jealousy mixed with a slight anger came out of his eyes.

Aoi Natsuki froze, turned to let go of the chopsticks, and even though one side of the chopsticks fell to the ground, but the other side, still by Sakurajima tight bite, that chopsticks but he ate ah ……

“Why are you so angry?” He asked, narrowing his eyes and sounding a little despondent.

Sakurajima Apricot spat out her chopsticks, her face became a bit shy again, turned her face sideways, and slowly said, “That, that’s for sure, didn’t I say before, I, I only allow Hayakawa to be in front of me, and all the other girls, I’ll be jealous.”

“…… “Aoi Natsuki was speechless at her remarks, and he still couldn’t find any reason at all to make a rebuttal, hmmm ……

“Awwwwwww!” Rina, who was on the side, yelled and wrapped her arms around Sakurajima-san’s arm, patting it comfortingly while swinging her hands around with a very anxious look in her eyes.

“Lina, Sakurajima and I weren’t fighting oh, we were just talking about some personal matters, it’s fine now, eat eat eat.” Aoi Natsuki smiled slightly.

He had just picked up his bowl of rice, and Sakurajima on the side was still staring at him with a deadpan look of unhappiness.

“Well …… I promise, Long Cherry this lipstick really just accidentally landed in my house, I …… cough, in terms of relationship, I and you after all meet so many times, familiarity is definitely more than Long Cherry familiar, so can Can I ask you to start eating?”

How could Aoi Natsuki not have thought that he had used the word guarantee, even after he had said those words, he felt that they were a bit too ambiguous, and that they had been said in a hot-headed manner in the situation just now?

As if Sakurajima Apricot sensed the emotion in those words, her eyes lit up, and in the next second, she took a hold of the lipstick, and the expression on her face instantly improved, her cheeks flushed, and she didn’t know if it was because of the room temperature or because she was actually blushing, but anyway, the smile that was displayed in that moment made Aoi Natsuki have a moment to get mesmerized.

It’s not just the attraction of beauty, it’s the physical, stronger, more intense emotions ……

……

After the meal.

Aoi Natsuki was washing the dishes, the sky outside was really as the weather forecast showed that it suddenly started to drizzle, he had just squeezed the detergent on the cleaning sponge when the light rain started to turn into a heavy rain outside the window, which surprised him a little, and the rain was getting louder and louder, accompanied by the heavy rain, the violent wind blew a big poplar tree outside the window kept swaying its branches, he shrugged off his hand, took out his cell phone to look at the weather, and the software showed that this rain was going to keep falling until two in the morning, then in that case, Sakurajima would really have to stay tonight.

Aoi Natsuki stepped out of the kitchen, looked at the two in the living room, and said, “It’s starting to rain heavily outside, so pay attention to the temperature, and if you’re cold, turn on the floor heat, Lina, you’re not allowed to run around barefoot anymore, alternating between hot and cold, so be careful of heat stroke.”

“Awwww!” Lina said, holding up her hand.

But in the next second, all the lights in the room were series, and all of a sudden Aoi Natsuki had blackness before her eyes.

“Awwwwwww!” Lina’s cries were all that could be heard in her ears.

“Don’t be in a hurry, I guess it’s either a trip or a power outage, I’ll go take a look.” Aoi Natsuki lit up the screen of his cell phone, went ahead and walked to the glass window of the balcony, and looked outside, the street lights that had been always on were completely off at this time, so it seems very likely that it’s not a blackout ah ……

Natsuki Arai returned to the living room and rummaged through the cabinet under the television, finally finding the candle.

Small white candles in cylinders, a little larger in size than a coin and about three centimeters in height.

“Lighter …… lighter ……” and in the coffee table as well as the compartment underneath to find a pass, finally found a lighter, and then squatted down, first lit a small candle, placed on the On the coffee table, the weak light of the fire slowly illuminated, originally some fear, curled up in the arms of Sakurajima sister Lina, eyes looking at the small candle, the panic on the face has also been reduced by half.

“I’ll go check the situation first.” Natsuki Arai stood up, meeting eyes with Sakurajima, and then walked out of the dining room, going first to check the electrical switch installed in the kitchen room, and at a glance, there was no problem.

He thought about it again, there is also an electric box installed outside the home, it is also possible that there is a trip, think for a moment, he still walked to the entrance door, drew an umbrella, opened the door to the entrance door, braving the heavy rain, walked most of the way around the periphery of the home, the rain quickly drenched his trouser legs, found the corresponding electric box, unscrewed it to see, and there is no problem, then it seems to be a real power outage.

He took another hard step back to the entrance door of the foyer, and when the door was closed he felt like he was turning into a soupy chicken, a look that was bound to be made fun of by Sakurajima, he sighed and changed into a pair of shoes, and as far as his eyes could see, he noticed a fire-lit surfeit of light in the doorway of the dining room, a light that was far more luminous than the feeble candlelight.

Hardly?

Aoi Natsuki’s heart stuttered, and in the next second, he shouted under his breath, “Sakurajima!”

Foot pace extremely fast rushed to the door, arrived at the door, the eyes immediately look at the source of light, but …… the source of light but with the fire he just envisioned a great way out, this shout instead of the two people in the living room startled for a moment, only to see them at this time is divided into a clear division of labor, one lit candles, the other set up the candles, because the living room and the dining room are connected, there is only one step up and down, while Sakurajima lit about twelve or thirteen small candles, neatly arranged on the cabinet next to the sofa, all the candles added together the light, which makes the whole space look so bright.

“Welcome back~” said Sakurajima with a sweet, crooked smile.

Aoi Natsuki immediately frowned, “Ah! What are you doing! What’s the point of lighting so many candles! What a waste!”

“Che~ Aoi you’re so unemotional, look at that, how nice it looks now na.” Sakurajima apricot also glanced over to Rina, who was naturally having fun, grinning while nodding frequently.

“Look, Lena said yes.”

“It’s mostly a waste of …… this ……”

“What’s the waste, if you’re upset, I’ll ship you a crate tomorrow and light up the whole place, all of it, for it.” Sakurajima pointed his finger around, spinning around, and just hearing that made Rina even more excited, and obviously had the appropriate picture in her head.

Sakurajima and Rina tied up, Aoi Natsuki knew that they could not be persuaded, but also could only accept it like this, see Sakurajima still want to continue to light candles, and hastily opened his mouth to stop: “It can be! This much is enough!”

“Cheapskate.” Sakurajima spat his tongue out at her.

Natsuki Aoi gave her a blank look and said, “I’m going to go change my clothes, you stay here with Rina for now.”

After saying that, he turned around and was about to go to the second floor when suddenly Sakurajima called out to him and he turned back.

“Did you just …… call my name because you were worried about me?” Sakurajima Apricot said with interest.

Aoi Natsuki then suddenly remembered that he had just called Sakurajima’s name, er …… after a few seconds of silence, since he really couldn’t make an explanation, he simply didn’t say anything and turned around to leave the dining room.

Jogged up to the second floor, to change a set of clothes, during which the more I thought about it, the redder my face became, what kind of spell had I fallen under?

When Aoi Natsuki returned to the first floor, he found a large and small group of people staying peacefully on the couch, the number of candles had not increased, which made him sigh in relief, and walked over to the couch, looking at Rina laying on Sakurajima’s lap, probably sleepy at this point from all the day’s fun.

“I’m sorry.” Natsuki Arai folded her arms and whispered.

“Nope.” Sakurajima pointed to Rina’s little head and then outside, “The restroom ……”

Aoi Natsuki understood for a second, and then the two of them cooperated, lifting Rina’s head up, and then the two of them switched positions, after which he had thought that Sakurajima was going to leave, but he didn’t want her to sit directly on his left side, and then gently take his arm with her hand, leaning up intimately.

With a start, Natsuki Aoi realized that there was also a Lina lying on her right side.

What! Is that your plan too!

“What kind of nonsense goes on in your head all day?”

“Hmm? Are you messed up, Aoi?” Sakurajima countered.

Just when Aoi was helpless, he only heard a deafening thunder from all directions, which startled him, and in front of the original face of light smile Sakurajima in an instant, the whole body followed a tremor, when Aoi came back to his senses, he only saw Sakurajima’s whole body hid into his embrace, his hands gripping tightly on his shirt, and his arm couldn’t stop trembling, not only his arm, due to the light of the candle was bright enough, he could even clearly see the tight expression on her face, eyes closed, biting her lower lip, now she no longer looks as mysterious and varied as before, instead she looks just like a little pitiful.

Fear of thunder turns out to be real ……

Aoi Natsuki held his hands left and right out of thin air, his heartbeat accelerated more and more, the longer he watched, that original ambiguous atmosphere was growing, and now not only Sakurajima Apricot’s body scent, but even the shampoo scent of her hair was very obvious.

Natsuki Aoi gulped and adjusted her breathing immediately afterward, trying to keep her mind off of it as she said, “It’s fine ……”