[Fruit Basket] Her Royal Highness the Rabbit Princess

Since Xiaotao learned that Hideyuki Kusama did not agree with her to have a private relationship with Hongye, Suzuha would lend her car to pick up Hongye every time she invited the brothers and sisters of Soma to her home, so that Hideyuki Kusama would not know that Xiaotao went to Ji The Chuan family was accompanied by Hongye.In addition, Suzuha also lent one of her mobile phones to Xiaotao, so that Hideyuki Kusama and his wife would not know that she was texting with Hongye because of the contact records.

With the help of Suzuha, the relationship between Hongye and Xiaotao became better and better. Within two months, the relationship between the two brothers and sisters was no less than that of other brothers and sisters who had been together since childhood. Perhaps it can be said that , Their relationship is better than ordinary brothers and sisters. After all, such a brother-sister relationship is lost and recovered for Hongye, but it is a dream come true for Xiaotao, so the two will cherish it more than ordinary people.

It’s just that there are gains and losses, because the time when Hongye and Xiaotao cultivated their relationship at Himekawa’s house was the weekend when Hongye and Suzuha went out on a date, so after Hongye was invited to Himekawa’s house for the first time, he and Suzuha The time spent alone is greatly reduced.

Out of gratitude to Suzuha, and because she wanted to spend more time with her, Momiji invited her to dinner at the end of a three-person tea party at Himekawa's house. She froze for a moment when she heard his invitation, but she quickly recovered and nodded to him blushing.

After the long-lost lunch date ended, although Hongye felt very happy, he always felt a little embarrassed to ask the other party out just for a meal, so after leaving the restaurant, he said to Suzuha next to him with an apologetic face : "I'm sorry, I just wanted to have a meal alone with you, Suzuha, but I forgot to arrange the itinerary for the future. Is there any place Suzuha wants to go?"

"It's all right," Suzuha smiled at him as she gathered the collar of her coat, "But I want to go to a nearby department store to buy something, I wonder if Hongye-kun can accompany me there?"

"Very happy." After nodding to her with a smile, Hongye put the coat in her hand on her shoulders, and then gently arranged her hair, "The weather is getting colder, remember to bring more clothes when you go out , or the cold will be bad."

Because of his intimate behavior, Suzuha blushed and lowered her head, said nervously: "Well, I will remember next time..."

"Then let's go." After finishing speaking, Momiji took Suzuha's hand and led her towards the department store.

Since Suzuha would immediately distance herself from herself whenever there was physical contact before, only when she inadvertently held her hand last time did she not have such a strong reaction, so this time when he held her hand he He was glad that his guess was right, but on the other hand, he was thinking about how he could get closer to her.

In fact, since the curse of the twelve zodiac signs was lifted six years ago, he has wanted to embrace the opposite sex he likes unscrupulously, but he couldn't recognize his mother, and his favorite Xiao Tou left with Jia again. The relationship between the two has improved, but after all, the relationship between the two is still not brother and sister on the surface, and if there is physical contact, it is easy to be misunderstood, so now the only person he can hug and wants to hug is this one who makes him very excited. Suzuha...

After entering the department store, Suzuha blushed and withdrew her hand. Facing her hand, which still had the warmth of the other party, Momiji felt a little regretful, but she could only pretend to be nonchalant and ask, "Suzuha is here?" What do department stores want to buy?"

"Well, next Monday is Xiaotao's birthday, so I want to come here to find some suitable gifts for her."

Hearing what she said, Hongye remembered this incident, and secretly blamed himself for his carelessness, but before he finished reflecting on how failed his brother was, he heard Ling Yu's voice again: "By the way, if you don't mind, Hongye-kun, would you like to send it with me?"

"Okay," Hongye readily agreed, "Because I seldom gave gifts to girls before, and at most I just invited them to a hot spring hotel for a trip. I was just wondering what gift to choose for Xiaotao. If I can give it together with Suzuha That would be great."

In the end, he recalled the trip to the hot springs that he had given Xiao Tou as a gift for Valentine's Day, and couldn't help but wonder how much that trip had warmed Xiao Tou and Jia's relationship.

But it didn't take long before he realized that Suzuha was still there, and what he said just now about asking other girls to travel to the hot spring hotel seemed to cause misunderstanding, so he quickly explained: "The trip to the hot spring was just given to me by me. The other party’s Valentine’s Day return gift, besides us, there are two relatives of mine, and the girl has been dating one of them for several years, and recently I heard people say that they seem to have talked about marriage.”

"Ah?" Hearing him say that suddenly, Suzuha, who didn't know what she was thinking, froze for a moment. When she realized why he said this to herself, she lowered her head and said in a low voice, "I don't really care much. Yes, after all, I have given many gifts to men because of interpersonal relationships..."

For her reply, for some reason, Hongye felt a little lost, but on the surface she pretended to be nonchalant and followed her to the floor where the high-end clothing department was located.

"Excuse me, I want to see the headgear and the fan." As soon as we arrived at the kimono area, Suzuha said to the reception clerk, and then turned to Hongye and explained, "Momo told me a few days ago , Aunt Cynthia recently ordered an orange kimono for her, this is her first kimono, so I want to help her choose accessories."

Hongye smiled and nodded, and then followed the clerk to the glass cabinet where the headgear was displayed, watching her carefully choose the headgear.

After a while, Suzuha picked up a pink headdress in the shape of cherry blossoms and showed him, "What do you think of this, Momiji-kun?"

Since she didn't have much research on hair accessories, Momiji took the head accessory, compared it with her hair, and said with a smile, "Well, it's very beautiful!"

Hearing what he said, Suzuha put the hair accessory back to its original position while her face blushed slightly, and picked up another red head ornament in the shape of a camellia instead, "I even forgot that Xiaotao's hair color is the same as that of red leaves. The golden color like you may not be suitable for light-colored hair accessories. What do you think of this, Momiji-kun?"

"This one is beautiful too."

"In that case, let's buy this." After handing the headgear to the clerk, Suzuha went to the cabinet where the fans were displayed, and picked out a fan with an autumn red maple pattern.

After choosing the gift, Momiji went to the bookstore of the department store to buy a card at the suggestion of Suzuha, and wrote the card on the specially arranged sofa in the store. feather.

Based on the previous conversations, he successfully found her in the picture book area, but the book she was holding was beyond his expectation.

"Suzuha, I'm fine." He walked towards her who was immersed in reading, and asked carefully, "Does Suzuha like this picture book very much?"

Seeing him coming, Suzuha quickly closed the book, looked at the cover with "The Gentle King" and said slowly: "I like it very much, this is the picture book that touched me the most recently, although my brothers always say The king in the story is very stupid, but I think that king is very... er... very cute, I don’t know how many times I have flipped through the book at home.”

"Yeah, I think he's cute too..."

Since it was the first time to hear someone agreeing with her point of view, Suzuha seemed very happy, and was very happy to share her thoughts with Hongye, "I have already booked a new work by this author to be published next month, and I hope this Once he can hold a book signing event, I...actually, I really want to meet the person who created this picture book."

"That," looking at her slightly flushed smiling face, Momiji felt his cheeks getting hot, but for some reason, he didn't want to just tell her that he was the author, so he said, "Inaba no Yuki White Rabbit happens to be the author of the publishing house where I work, although I can't arrange for you to meet with him, but it should be no problem to get your autograph for you."

Hearing what he said, Suzuha showed an overjoyed expression like a child getting candy, but before he could take this expression into her heart, she took the picture book to the counter to check out, and then turned back , and handed the book to him with both hands, "This picture book will trouble Hongye-kun."

Momiji accepted the picture book with some amusement, "Suzuha already has a copy, wouldn't it be good to sign the author with the original one?"

"It's not the same. This one is for preservation and collection, while the one at home is for daily reading."

"Okay, I see." Seeing her explaining so earnestly, Hongye looked at her with tenderness unconsciously.

After carefully putting away the picture book, he walked out of the bookstore with Suzuha and asked, "Is there anything else Suzuha wants to go?"

Suzuha shook her head, "No, where is Hongye-kun?"

"Me?" Looking around for a while, Hongye suddenly remembered that the last time he came to this place was a rainy afternoon seven years ago. That day he, Xiaotou, Yuki, Jia and Pochun went to the department store together, not for Not shopping, but to experience the very famous haunted house.Because of this memory, he couldn't help but said, "This department store seems to have a haunted house too, I kind of want to go there and have a look, Suzuha won't mind, right?"

"Won't."

With Suzuha's consent, the two immediately went to the floor where the haunted house was located.

After buying the ticket and entering the arena, Hongye immediately held Suzuha's hand, and said to her with a smile: "If you are afraid, just close your eyes, I will take you out, you don't need to worry too much panicked."

"Oh?" Suzuha glanced at him in confusion, "Momiji-kun seems to have misunderstood. Although I don't dare to watch Western horror or thriller movies, I don't think Japanese ghosts are scary."

"Really, it seems that I was wrong," Hongye smiled awkwardly, "Because I went to a haunted house with a girl before, and her reaction...is still fresh in my memory..."

Suzuha suddenly stopped at this moment, and asked under his puzzled gaze: "Does the girl that Hongye-kun mentioned look a lot like me?"

Hearing her question, Hongye was stunned for a moment, then she pretended to be nonchalant and asked with a smile, "Why did Suzuha suddenly ask such a question?"

"I heard from Xiaotao before that Mr. Hongye has a female friend who looks very similar to me, so..." After biting her lower lip, Suzuha continued in a hesitant tone, "Sometimes I wonder , Did Mr. Hongye regard me as her and infer me based on her preferences, like last time I thought I was not good at sports, and this time I thought I would be afraid... To be honest, I don't like it very much That’s how it feels to be treated like someone else.”

The unknown thought in her heart was just spoken out by her, which made Hongye feel a little bit at a loss besides embarrassment.

"I don't mean to blame, I just want to express my thoughts to Hongye-kun." Sensing his strange behavior, Suzuha quickly explained, "It's embarrassing to say, I'm not the kind who can hide my words Man, I am really sorry for causing inconvenience to Momiji-kun!"

Seeing that she withdrew her hand at the end and bowed deeply to herself, Hongye couldn't help showing a wry smile, and said apologetically while arranging her hair after she stood up again: "The one who should apologize is actually It's me..."

"Guests, I'm sorry, if you don't move forward, you will affect the guests behind!"

Suddenly hearing the words of the staff pretending to be ghosts, Momiji and Suzuha blushed, the former quickly took the latter's hand, and walked forward again.

As he walked, he said slowly: "In the beginning, I did often confuse Suzuha with that friend of mine because of their appearance. I am really sorry about this. Later, after meeting with With Suzuha, I gradually noticed the difference between the two of you, but since I rarely had female friends other than her, I can only get along with you through the experience of interacting with her..."

"Well, I see."

Hearing what she said, Hongye felt relieved and at the same time made a decision in her heart, and tightened her grip on her hand, "Since Suzuha told me your thoughts this time, I also want to take this opportunity to talk to Suzuha. You want to mention one thing, I... I want to know more about Suzuha, instead of relying on other people's preferences to speculate, and I also want to have a further relationship with Suzuha, as a lover..."

After finishing speaking, Momiji nervously waited for Suzuha's answer, and watched her expression from time to time while walking.After a long time, when he was about to give up, he heard her slightly smiling voice: "This is the first time... the first time I heard that someone made a request for dating in a haunted house... "

"So," Momiji asked cautiously, "What is Suzuha's answer?"

"...Gern...Gerngeschehen..."