[Fruit Basket] Her Royal Highness the Rabbit Princess

"Hurry up." Sensing the footsteps getting closer, Xiaotao tugged on Hongye's clothes anxiously, "Otherwise, you may be finished when Brother Zhi and Brother Wu arrive!"

Seeing her like this, Hongye felt amused and curious at the same time, "Who are the "Brother Zhi" and "Brother Wu" that Xiaotao is talking about?"

"They are my sister's elder brother," found that he had no intention of moving, Xiao Tao could only drag him to the other entrance of the side hall, while explaining briefly, "They are usually very nice, It's just that if they see a boy getting too close to his sister, their reaction will be very big..."

Hearing what she said, and remembering what Suzuha said before to forgive her brother's unreasonable behavior, Hongye suddenly thought of the two brothers he knew, one was the careless and strange-thinking Ayame Kusama , and the other is Cao Modenglu who is about to become a professional dad, so the tension that had just sprouted completely dissipated, and he deliberately slowed down his pace, enjoying the appearance of Xiaotao pulling himself and worrying about himself.

Not long after, Hongye finally saw the people whom Suzuha and Xiaotao called "Brother Zhi" and "Brother Wu", and judging from their appearance, he believed that he could recognize them even without anyone's introduction He is Suzuha's older brother, because the hair color and eyes of the three siblings are so similar.

Thinking that there is a great possibility that she will be with Suzuha in the future, whether as a couple or as a friend, Momiji patted the tensed Tao on the head reassuringly, then smiled at Himekawa Tomokazu Takeshi Himekawa leaned forward slightly, "Hello, Mr. Zhi, Mr. Wu, I am Momiji Kusama, meeting for the first time, please give me your advice."

The elder of the two glared at him viciously, "Who wants to teach you?!"

His merciless words made Hongye stunned, but before he could think about when he had offended her, another younger person had already walked to Suzuha's side quickly, and pulled her away from her. Pulled up on the sofa, he solemnly warned: "Hime, be careful in the future, don't be alone with boys who have bad intentions!"

"Mr. Hongye is a guest I invited here. Brother Wu, you are too rude to say that! Besides, we are not alone, Xiaotao is here too!" Suzuha, who was so angry that his face was slightly flushed, suddenly paused when he said this. After a while, he looked suspiciously back and forth between him and Ji Chuanzhi, who also stood in front of him, "Why are you guys here? Didn't you have an important video with the general managers of overseas branches today?" meeting?"

"What's more, why didn't you tell us that the kid from Kusama's family is coming to visit today. If we didn't overhear Dad mentioning it on the way to the company, otherwise we might not be able to make it back! What if something happens? Who will protect us? You?!" At this moment, Takeshi Himekawa didn't know what picture he had made up in his brain, he suddenly stretched out his hand and took Suzuha into his arms, and while patting her on the back, he murmured "It's so dangerous".

Suzuha, who was holding his forehead, wanted to say something to refute, but Himekawa Satoshi who was standing on the side stepped forward and asked, "Hime, you didn't mean to invite that Kusama over on purpose today when we were going to have a meeting, did you?"

After what she did was exposed, Suzuha could only raise her voice guiltily and said, "Brother, I've said it many times, don't call me Hime when there are outsiders!"

Hearing that Suzuha defined himself as an "outsider", for some reason, Hongye felt a strange feeling in his heart, even though he knew very well that compared with Himekawa Tomo and Himekawa Takeshi, he was indeed an outsider.

"Hime, don't change the subject." Ji Chuanzhi poked her head lightly with his finger, and then showed a heartbroken expression, "Really, to think of my dear brother like this for an outsider..."

Seeing that Ji Chuan Zhi, who thought he was very stable, behaved like Hime Chuan Takeshi who was in a state of explosiveness from the beginning, and Hong Ye, who had been standing aside watching the interaction between the three of them, couldn't help opening his mouth slightly, and then under Xiao Tao's worried gaze Embarrassed, he reached out and touched his nose.

Finding that her two elder brothers were pretending to be pitiful again, and they were becoming more and more exaggerated, plus there were Kusama brothers and sisters present, so Suzuha took Ji Chuanzhi with one hand and Himekawa Takeshi with the other, and took With an apologetic smile, he said to Xiaotao, "I'm sorry, Xiaotao, let's go out for a while, please entertain Mr. Hongye for me."

Seeing Xiaotao nodding immediately, Suzuha planned to take her two brothers out of the side hall immediately, but Ji Chuanzhi and Ji Chuanwu didn't go with her as she wanted, instead they pulled her to stay where they were, "Wait Wait a minute, Hime, we haven’t made it clear to that guy Soma that the blind date between you and him was entirely on his own initiative, and the two of us never agreed.”

"That's right," Himekawa Takeshi nodded vigorously, and then glared at Hongye fiercely, "I'm telling you, Soma, Hime is enough with the two of us, and we will always be with her and take care of her, don't be wishful thinking Already!"

Hearing what her brothers said, Suzuha had the urge to stomp her feet for the first time, and after taking a few deep breaths, she gritted her teeth and said, "Did the brothers misunderstand something, Hongye-kun and I are just friends That's all."

Ji Chuanzhi snorted, "Just because you think so, doesn't mean he thinks so..."

"elder brother!"

After shouting to stop him from continuing, Suzuha stopped talking, just looked up at him, and after a while, her eyes slowly turned red with crystal tears.

Seeing her like this, Himekawa Tomo and Himekawa Takeshi both panicked, they quickly squatted down to look at her at the same level, and comforted her in a friendly voice, completely different from the domineering look they had just shown to Hongye.However, Suzuha lowered her head and ignored them, until Takeshi Himekawa said out of anxiety, "Be good, you don't want to cry if you want my brother to do something", then she said intermittently in a choked voice: "Then... Come out with me..."

"Okay, okay, just listen to you."

After nodding helplessly, Himekawa Satoshi directly picked her up with her head down and walked out of the side hall, and no matter how unwilling, Himekawa Takeshi just gave Hongye a hard look and left with his siblings.

Although she breathed a sigh of relief because Brother Himekawa left, Momiji didn't know why, and couldn't help being a little worried because Suzuha's sobbing voice echoed in her head just now.

He was hesitant to follow her to see how she was doing, but just as he took a step, Xiaotao, who had been grabbing the corner of his clothes, grabbed her hand.

"Brother Hongye," Xiaotao urged nervously, "If you follow up, you will definitely be scolded by Brother Zhi and Brother Wu again!"

Hongye patted her hand reassuringly, "It's okay, it's just that Suzuha's voice sounded like she was crying just now, so I want to check on her situation."

"Brother Hongye, don't worry, my sister did that to let Brother Zhi and Brother Wu go out with her. If a similar situation happened before, my sister would handle it in this way, otherwise Brother Zhi and Brother Wu You won't be obedient!"

"Huh?" Didn't expect to hear this answer, Momiji said uncertainly, "So... Suzuha was fake crying just now?"

Xiaotao smiled and nodded, but after a few seconds, she quickly raised her index finger and made a silent gesture, "You can't tell my sister that I told you about this, otherwise sister But it will be embarrassing!"

"okay, I get it."

After getting Hongye's guarantee, Xiao Tao, who was relieved, followed Suzuha's instructions and greeted her to sit down and continue to have refreshments.

"It's quite unexpected," Momiji said after taking a sip of the hot tea replaced by the servant, "I didn't expect Suzuha's brothers to be so... um... they love Suzuha so much..."

"Well, that's why Sister Suzuba is also very distressed because of them sometimes." Xiaotao said while slowly turning the cup in her hand, "To be honest, although occasionally I feel that Brother Zhi and Brother Wu are The behavior is a bit exaggerated, but I still envy Sister Suzuha for having a brother who loves her so much..."

Hearing what she said, Hongye was stunned for a moment, and only after he came back to his senses did he realize that his hand was on her shoulder.

Under her doubtful and expectant gaze, Hongye tried her best to suppress the tension and excitement in her heart, and said to her with a smile: "If Xiaotao doesn't dislike it, I can be Xiaotao's brother, but in exchange, in the future, if Xiaotao If there is someone she likes, Xiaotao must also remember to introduce him to me, and let me check for Xiaotao!"

"Yeah!" I never thought that he would agree to himself so easily. Xiao Tao, who had always hoped that he was her brother, nodded happily. She put down the porcelain cup in her hand, and then took the initiative to reach out and hook his other hand with her little finger. With the little finger of one hand, "This way, we have made a promise!"

Hongye gently hooked his finger back, and nodded gently, "Well, it's agreed, if you lie, you will swallow a thousand needles."

The smile on Xiao Tao's face became brighter. In order to show her excitement, she put the desserts she thought were delicious one by one on the plate of Hong Ye, the "new brother". In order not to let her down, Hong Ye He also ate it very much, and put desserts on her plate from time to time for her to eat together.

While waiting for Suzuha to come back, the two brothers and sisters ate desserts together intimately, sharing their thoughts after tasting. Sometimes Xiaomo would tell Momiji how Suzuha reacted when she ate the same dessert before, or the Himekawa brothers. Exaggerated performance history of younger sisters.

Although a month ago, I had a meal with Xiaotao and chatted with Xiaotao in the company of my parents, but at that time, Momiji still had conversations with Hideyuki Kusama at most, so I was able to enjoy snacks and chat with Xiaotao like now. Hongye felt as if she was dreaming about the trivial matters in the movie, and she was very happy.

While this sense of happiness filled his heart, he suddenly remembered that the last time he had the same feeling was because of Xiao Tou. When Xiao Tou sneaked into the Cao Mo House, he cried excitedly and told himself that Xiao Tao knew that he was, Xiao Tao had been watching Looking at herself, Xiaotao wants to play the violin with herself.

Because of those words and the fact that Xiao Tou shed tears for him, even though his father forced him to give up the violin, even though his father prohibited him from interacting with Xiao Tao, he still insisted on his dream to this day.

And now, because of Suzuha's relationship, he and Xiaotao can be as close as they are now, and interact like brother and sister.

Just as he thanked Xiao Tou back then, he also thanked Suzuha from the bottom of his heart. Although she didn't know about his situation, he was still grateful to her for allowing him to experience the so-called brother-sister relationship.