Chapter 113: After the Effort, a Comfortable Weekend Time (2)

Chapter 113: Chapter 113: After the Effort, a Comfortable Weekend Time (2)The hand slowly glided over the soft, even flesh, the girl’s warm belly was fair and tender. Uesugi Sakura looked at Hanamaru Hanabi’s face as she lay on her side with her eyes closed, and asked, "Feeling better?" "Sakura-kun’s hand... so warm..." Hanamaru Hanabi’s weak voice was vague and slow. "Feeling better?" "Mm..." "Want me to continue?" "Sakura-kun... rub a bit more..." The raindrops trickled down, and the cold wind and rain pounded the doors and windows, soaking the building. Yet, the two under the covers felt no chill. Smelling Hanabi’s scent, rubbing the girl’s belly, it inevitably led to some fanciful thoughts. "Next week the preliminary rounds start, would you like to come and watch, Hanabi?" Hanamaru Hanabi opened her eyes, embarrassed to look at his face as her belly was being rubbed. "Hanabi will come to cheer for Sakura-kun. Watching Sakura-kun shoot arrows is quite relaxing and cool." "Thank you." Seeing the girl’s shy cheeks, her subtle lips, her fair collarbone under the big shark pattern, Uesugi Sakura leaned a bit closer. Pulling up the covers, just over her shoulder, gently inhaling the fragrance of her neck. The breath filled with the fresh scent of a young girl. "Sakura... Sakura-kun..." His hand pinched her snowy shoulder. "Don’t worry, I just want to hold you for a bit." The feeling of being held was reassuring and familiar, her petite body involuntarily snuggled into his arms. Her mind began to clear, and Hanamaru Hanabi closed her bright eyes again, slowly drifting off to sleep. —————— In the evening, Hanamaru Hanabi woke up with a flushed face. She walked cautiously on her tiptoes to the living room, finding Uesugi Sakura conversing with her mother. "How about taking Hanabi to Mount Takao tomorrow?" Mrs. Hanamaru glanced at the rain outside the living room, "Of course, if it doesn’t rain." "A family gathering?" Uesugi Sakura inquired. Previously, they would occasionally visit parks, hot spring inns, and the like for leisure. Mrs. Hanamaru’s silky hair draped like willow branches down her back, her eyes just as violet as her daughter’s: "Not a gathering, just a walk together, inviting Nobuko." Uesugi Sakura knew his mother and Mrs. Hanamaru were college classmates, and the two ladies often went for walks whenever free. "I’d love to go, but I have something to do tomorrow." Mrs. Hanamaru suddenly laughed beautifully, "So when little Sakura goes to do this, would you take little Hanabi along?" Hearing this, Uesugi Sakura contemplated seriously and nodded, "Yes, I can indeed take her along." Hiding around the corner, eavesdropping, Hanamaru Hanabi was curious. She didn’t know what Uesugi Sakura was planning to do in the morning, yet he would take her with him. "Then why don’t you take Nobuko and me too? We get quite bored at home over the weekend; community tea gatherings are terribly dull." "..." Uesugi Sakura paused in silence then asked, "Is that okay?" Mrs. Hanamaru’s peripheral vision caught the little head peeking out from the corner, smiling serenely, and she continued, "Why not? Didn’t we take you two everywhere when you were kids? If Hanabi can go, why can’t we?" Mrs. Hanamaru raised her hand, smiling warmly: "Speaking of which, the relationship between little Sakura and Hanabi-chan as it is now, you must thank us." "..." Uesugi Sakura was unsure how to handle these mature women’s remarks, should he say thank you now? Leaving that aside for now, he was always curious about one thing. "Was Hanabi and I betrothed as children?" "No." Mrs. Hanamaru maintained her smile and replied quickly. "Really?" As a child, the two moms would sometimes jokingly talk like this. "Really." As Mrs. Hanamaru answered, she gestured to Hanamaru Hanabi behind the corner, scaring her away. Uesugi Sakura glanced back following her gesture, knowing it was Hanabi, then returned his gaze. Mrs. Hanamaru continued, "Your relationship was quite good since getting to know each other, she was reticent, so were you, for long periods she would just dumbly follow you around." Speaking of this, she sighed helplessly. "Always felt it was little Sakura leading little Hanabi astray since you were remarkably bright back then." "Was I? I thought I was pretty normal." Uesugi Sakura said. "Being overly normal is abnormal, anyway, I haven’t seen any kid as clever as you." Mrs. Hanamaru squinted her eyes, speaking softly: "Didn’t little Sakura set his sights on our Hanabi from an early age?" "How could it be, if I had any such thoughts, wouldn’t I have accepted Auntie’s hints long ago?" "Playing hard to get." Mrs. Hanamaru maintained her smile without continuing the topic, "When are you two getting married?" "...?" "No need to be surprised, it’s perfectly normal, think carefully, is there any obstacle between the two of you?" "The law...?" Uesugi Sakura pondered for a while and could only think of this. Mrs. Hanamaru covered her mouth, chuckling softly, "Haha, true, you’re both not yet 18." "Let’s leave that topic for now." "Alright." After a moment. "Where do you plan to get married? Traditional or Western?" "Auntie, didn’t we say not to talk about this?" Uesugi Sakura’s tone was somewhat helpless. Mrs. Hanamaru seemed in a good mood, laughing, "Let me know early, so Nobuko and I can prepare. We’ve actually discussed when you should have kids after getting married." "?" Uesugi Sakura couldn’t quite keep up with his future mother-in-law’s rhythm. "Can that timing be controlled?" "Kind of, sort of, to an extent." Mrs. Hanamaru was passionate about this topic, "After the walk tomorrow, should we go to a shrine and draw a fortune for you two? Choose an auspicious date?" "..." "I think getting you two some Omamori is also important, writing a wish on an Ema is nice too. Which shrine do you think is better?" "..." "Give me some reaction, little Sakura, if you don’t chat with me, you won’t get to see Hanabi over the weekend." "Alright..." Then, Uesugi Sakura spent the whole afternoon discussing auspicious dates with his future mother-in-law. —————— The next morning, after a rain that lasted the whole night, the sky finally cleared. The sunlight shining through the clouds glittered on the wet leaves of the trees. The temperature was neither cold nor hot. Uesugi Sakura casually changed into some casual clothes and walked to the living room. Uesugi Kenichi sat by the table, eating breakfast and scrolling through his phone, seeing Uesugi Sakura sit across from him, he looked up, "Are you running low on money recently?" "You could say that." "Why not ask me for it? As a father, I’m happy to give it to you." Uesugi Kenichi said without any middle-aged arrogance. Uesugi Sakura felt there was something odd about his dad’s tone, "Do you have 1 million yen?" "Uh... no." He replied quickly. "Then I’d better earn it myself." "Do you have a way to earn 1 million?" "There’s a Kyudo Alliance competition in the Shinjuku District." Uesugi Kenichi knew he’d recently joined the Kyudo Club, thinking the kid had a breakthrough. "It’s only been a little over a month since school started, how good can you be in Kyudo." He spoke to himself. "But your spirits have improved significantly, not as lazy as before." Uesugi Sakura received the breakfast his mother brought over, eating as he replied, "I wasn’t lazy back then, just tired from studying." "You did seem pretty tired during that period." Uesugi Kenichi nodded slightly. "And how about you, Dad, always working overtime lately?" Uesugi Sakura didn’t want to hear his father keep talking about him. "Me?" Uesugi Kenichi couldn’t help but pout, "Clients keep coming up with bizarre requests, demands mean code changes, code changes lead to bugs, coffee is like water to me, I’m pulling all-nighters fixing things." "If not for the manager bowing and apologizing every day, I’d really want to—" "..." "Never mind, having done this for so many years, just looking forward to that retirement fund."