In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 45
Drops of crystal clear water slipped from the umbrellas, and evenly and hastily disappeared on the stones under the eaves.

Kai Uesugi looked at Hanamaru Hanabi's gentle face, holding a transparent umbrella in his right hand, and invited her with a smile:

"It's still raining heavily, let's go together."

Hanamaru Hanabi raised her head, smiled at that well-fitting face, nodded happily and said:

"Ok!"

The way to school belongs to the time that the two have been alone for a long time,
The two people under the transparent umbrella walked side by side. The two people who were very familiar with each other's rhythm, even the footsteps of stepping on the rain were unusually neat and even.

Uesugi Kai held a transparent umbrella in his right hand and placed it between the two of them.

The continuous sound of "slapping" raindrops on the umbrella, these sounds mixed with a little breeze, seemed to make the weight in the hands much heavier.

The small red scarf was quietly attached to her chest under the black sailor suit, and it rose and fell weakly with her even breathing.

The nasal cavity is still filled with the scent of a girl, mixed with a hint of lily.

This is a sweetness that I have never smelled before, but it has become more and more obvious in recent days.

So he asked aloud:

"Huahuo, have you changed your shower gel recently? There is always a faint lily fragrance."

"Well, I just changed it a few days ago, doesn't Uesugi-kun like the smell?"

"That's not true, the elegant and delicate fragrance feels good."

"That's good. If Uesugi-kun doesn't like it, I can change it back to the previous one.
"But is the smell on Hanabi so obvious? Every time Uesugi-kun can smell what kind it is."

"It's quite obvious. You girls don't seem to know this. You should be used to it. But in addition to the smell of shower gel, you also have the real lily fragrance mixed with you."

Kaoru Uesugi turned to look at her.

"Do you have a few lilies in your house?"

Hearing this, Hanamaru Hanabi nodded and replied quietly:

"Mom bought two pots at the flower market a few months ago, and they just bloomed a few days ago, and they were placed in the bedroom of my mother and me. The flower shape and fragrance are very good."

Hearing this, Uesugi Kai suddenly frowned, and continued to ask:
"Have you been sleeping very late in recent days?"

Hanamaru Hanabi looked up at him with a surprised expression, and said:

"How did Uesugi-kun know? Mom seems to be like this too."

Kai Uesugi looked up at the cloudy, drizzle-filled sky above, and remembered that it was April [-]th.

This happened to be the day when the first lilies bloomed.

"Huahuo, take the lilies in the bedroom outside."

"Well, but."

Hanamaru Hanahoo showed doubts, and was about to say something, but quickly understood what Uesugi Kai meant, and asked tentatively, "Uesugi-kun, could it be that the inability to sleep at night has something to do with that pot of lilies?"

Uesugi Kai looked at the passers-by who were holding umbrellas and hurriedly passed by, and said calmly:

"Lilies have a clean appearance and pleasant fragrance. Many people like to smell the smell of lilies and are obsessed with them. Although the fragrance of lilies is not poisonous, behind its fresh and elegant fragrance, there is a small amount of excitement secretly hidden. agent.

"If you smell this fragrance for a long time, you will have a vague [Drunk Flower Syndrome], which makes you overexcited, difficult to fall asleep at night, and slightly tired in the morning.

"You go to bed very late at night, that should be the reason."

"Ah!? How...how come."

After hearing what Uesugi Kai said, Hanamaru Hanabi was extremely surprised, she never expected that there was such a terrible thing in the simple and beautiful white flowers.

"Don't worry," Kai Uesugi turned his head to look at her flustered little face, "It won't cause too many side effects if you smell the fragrance for a long time, but it's just that you can't sleep at night, it's good to put it in the study, it helps to refresh yourself.

"When you go back at night, just remind Aunt Mieko a little bit."

Uesugi Kai's calm and comforting voice also calmed Hanamaru Hanabi.

"Uesugi-kun is amazing, you know so many things."

"It's nothing, I just learned a little more about it when I was growing flowers on weekdays."

Most of the people under the rain are walking alone with umbrellas, social animals, white-collar workers, the elderly, students, they all seem in a hurry and lonely.

Some people passed by from time to time. They looked at the two who went to school under the same umbrella, leaving a little envious eyes.

Kaoru Uesugi noticed this.

He turned to look at the two little hands holding the shoulder bag in front of Hanamaru Hanabi.

White and tender, delicate, with distinct joints like white jade.

Under the gently swaying pleated skirt, there is a pair of slender calves, straight and straight.

From the ankle to the knee, the black stockings are a delicate curve unique to the girl's leg shape. It outlines the bare skin on the thigh and forms a circle of perfect sensual lines.

While making people's youth hormones surge, they can't help but swallow their saliva.

The cute little sister next door has grown into a slim girl now.

This made Uesugi Kai want to grasp the present time while lamenting the past.

But at the same time, he is a love idiot who doesn't know what to do, which can enhance the changing relationship between the two.

So-called couples, what should they do?
Stepping up the steps of the overpass with Hanamaru Hanabi, Kai Uesugi shouted to her:

"Fireworks."

"Uesugi-kun" Hanamaru Hanabi quickly responded to him, seeming to have been prepared.

He didn't expect to respond so quickly, so he paused:
"We're dating now, right?"

Hanamaru Hanabi blushed and nodded cautiously:

"Ah."

"Then we are now...a boyfriend-boyfriend relationship. Right?"

"Hmm." Hanamaru's voice became weaker and weaker, and the blush on her cheeks deepened.

Uesugi Kai was embarrassed to continue looking at her red face, straightened his thoughts, looked at the wet steps in front of him, and continued:
"We are childhood sweethearts, we have experienced more than ten years of growth together, we have each other's little secrets, although I have always treated you as a younger sister before, but I still want to ask you now.

"What should be done between lovers?"

Hanamaru Hanabi had already buried her head deeply in the scarf around her neck, exhaled hot air from inside, her cheeks were constantly burning in the knitting thread, gradually heating up, and even her entire petite body began to heat up.

But she didn't hear the question behind him.

Her purple eyes trembled slightly, and the highlights gradually disappeared. After a long time, she said:
"It turns out that Uesugi-kun has always treated Hanabi as a younger sister?"

"Don't you know Hanabi...?" Uesugi Kai inexplicably felt a sense of loneliness called disappointment in these words.

Hanamaru Hanabi still buried her head in the scarf, and freed up a hand to raise the height of the scarf, covering her flushed and hot cheeks.

(End of this chapter)