March 28

As soon as seven o'clock in the morning, Kyosuke Hojo had already gotten up. Today is the day Sakura returns home, and he originally wanted to go directly to Kyoto to pick her up, but he was refused.

"Wow~ I'm so shy, it feels like a quarrel and I run back to my parents' house, and then my husband comes to greet me." Sakura on the other side of the phone smiled and said happily.

Although someone repeatedly said that he was not afraid of being misunderstood, the girl refused at all times:

"My mom and dad will send me to Kyosuke's door, you better think about how to face them~"

How to face it? Let's face it calmly, if Uncle and Aunt Yamauchi want to stay in Tokyo for a while, he will treat him like his own parents.

Ying Lili walked downstairs sleepily, she was still wearing red, yellow and blue cotton pajamas. When he went downstairs, he stretched his waist, revealing a snow-white slender waist. The delicate little navel is also faintly visible, but unfortunately no one appreciates this beauty.

In this family, neither she nor Kyosuke Hojo are the latest to get up, but Shiyu-senpai is. The one who doesn't care about what is developed or not, he stays up late every day to watch all kinds of things.

Also because of Kasumigaoka, someone has some doubts about Kyosuke Hojo's claim that going to bed early and waking up early helps physical development, but fortunately, there is still a positive teaching material for glass.

"Huh? Whose birthday is it today? ”

Ying Li Li walked to the kitchen bar, leaned over and dipped her index finger in a little cream and put it in her mouth. The sweet and soft cream made her feel like a dream when she just woke up, and the whole person was about to float.

In the kitchen, Kyosuke Hojo is carefully placing the pickled cherry blossoms on the creamy cake base with tweezers. After noticing Ying Lili's arrival, he brought a small cake from the side and placed it in front of the other party.

"Why don't I have cherry blossoms on my cake?"

Unceremoniously scooped a large piece of cake with a spoon and stuffed it into his mouth, Ying Li Li Hanhu protested. She was obviously not talking about the small cake in front of her, although it was meant to be eaten immediately, but it was still very delicately made. The cream layer is smooth like a mousse cake, and it is topped with cherry blossoms decorated with threes, threes, twos, and twos of pink. Some are pickled real cherry blossoms, and some are painted with strawberry jam.

That is, the girl's head is not very clear now, otherwise she will definitely take pictures and enjoy it for a while before eating.

"But there's no eggs on this cake." Kyosuke Hojo doesn't have a good airway.

Ying Lili's birthday was on March 20, and she hadn't moved here yet, so he also made a cake for each other. It is made of chocolate to make a hollow ellipsoidal shape, that is, eggs. I drew various pictures like Easter eggs, and then I made rabbits in various shapes.

In terms of delicacy, it completely surpasses the cherry blossom cake in front of you.

"I don't listen, I want a cherry blossom cake next time for my birthday. It must be different from this, and the number of cherry blossoms varies from five to twenty. ”

Although, seeing this stupid guy prepare a birthday cake for another person with a gentle face, she is just not happy. Why do I have to wait for the cake to be ready before bringing it to my home, I don't want any surprises.

"You've got to let me watch you do it, or you might be lazy!" Obviously, the process of making is the most important thing, but this idiot really doesn't understand anything.

"Yes, my princess." Kyosuke Hojo stroked his chest and saluted.

"You haven't told me whose birthday it is." Ying Li Li pulled a high stool and sat down at the bar, asking as she ate.

"It's Sakura."

"Sakura? It turns out that her birthday is today, and I haven't heard her talk about it. Ying Lili recalled for a while with a spoon in her mouth, and was ashamed to find that although she had known each other for so long, she had never celebrated this schoolgirl's birthday once.

"Ah, don't worry, that idiot has more than three birthdays a year, but the real birthday is never celebrated." Kyosuke Hojo said casually without raising his head.

"More than three birthdays?" Ying Lili was stunned, is there such a happy thing in the world?

"Well, 'Sakura is a flower that chooses a flowering date,' Sakura said. So when she sees the first cherry blossom in full bloom, she will happily announce that she has a birthday that day, when she sees the last cherry blossom withering, she will also be sad to hold a birthday party, and when she can't see the cherry blossoms, she will miss asking for a birthday cake. ”

Damn, that's so handsome.

Ying Lili kept grinding the spoon with her teeth, and began to wonder with envy whether she could have more birthdays a year. Your birthday is International Day of Happiness, so as long as you feel happy, it should be okay to have a birthday, right? Kyosuke, this stupid guy shouldn't be able to find fault!

"When will Sakura come back?" After eating the cake, she began to daze with the warm hot milk.

"When you think she's not going to show up."

"Huh?" Ying Li Li raised her slender eyebrows.

"She didn't say, you should know more or less about that guy's character, right?"

"Ah, yes, it's completely out of the ordinary."

The girl lay down again.,In the second grade of junior high school.,The first time I was asked by this school girl to go to Akihabara.,She thought her otaku identity was exposed.。 Unexpectedly, just because Sakura felt that her appearance was very similar to the heroine in the cartoon, for the sake of the other party's vision, she would avoid embarrassment and accompany her with her true face.

Come on, Sakura, and then I will have allies and I can defend against that demon girl together.

"Stupid Momotaro, puppies can't eat too much cream, their fur will fall out!" She kicked the puppy who was still dissatisfied after eating a little cream.

"Hum huh~" A fluffy ball, he kept pulling Ying Lili's stool with his little feet.

"Although I understand that it's Yingli Li's mouth fetish, but don't just call me stupid after calling me stupid and turn around and call Momotaro stupid." Kyosuke Hojo protested.

"Huh? I don't think I called you stupid this morning, did I? ”

"You must have shouted in your heart."

That's right, after all, Kyosuke is a super stupid person.

"From now on, I'll call you Ahhh For a small request for chores, Ying Lili readily agreed.

"No, no, no, isn't this still stupid? It's just that it has changed from a standard language to a Kansai dialect. ”

"Baga, Baga, Baga—" The idiot died.

The two chatted happily, and the rest of the family got up one after another. A small cake per person heats up the milk and then the new day begins.

Glass was supposed to have a course at the training center today.,But in order to wait for Sakura to come home, I dropped it.,And then I'm caught by Ying Lili and taken to the courtyard as a model.。 Next to each fish, there is a Q version of the glass holding a whip to introduce the name and characteristics.

At noon, Kasumigaoka Shiyu got up to smell the smell of rice. This reminded Kyosuke Hojo not only of the soft rice fairy Imaizumi Sanshiro, who put the butter in the pot when his girlfriend woke up, and let the fragrance naturally waft into her nose.

When you get up, you see your loved one preparing lunch for yourself in the kitchen, which can really bring happiness to girls.

This is known as long as you look at Shiyu Senpai, who walked out of the room, first lay on the guardrail on the second floor, staring blankly at Hojo Kyosuke in the kitchen for a while, her face full of happiness. Then he walked down and slowly hugged him from behind.

"Do you want to sleep a little longer? I can bring you to bed with the meal. Feeling the soft body behind him, Kyosuke Hojo said softly. The scent of roses overshadowed the butter and kept burrowing into his nostrils.

"Uh-huh~" Kasumigaoka Shiyu buried her face in Kyosuke's back, took a deep breath with satisfaction, and then shook her head gently, her hands still tightly wrapped around his waist.

"Is there anything you'd like to eat?"

"Uh-huh~"

Still shook her head gently, as long as she could hold him quietly like this, the girl felt that it didn't matter if the world was destroyed. Turning his head sideways, his delicate little face was full of laziness, and his burgundy eyes were full of love.

"Kasumigaoka Shiha!

！ ”

The sound of rage came from the living room, followed by the footsteps of "Dongdong Dong", and the momentum was quite amazing. After rushing to the kitchen, Eiri grabbed Kasumigaoka's arm and pulled it back, and her movements were quite skillful.

"Kyosuke, let's make the kitchen closed, and I'll let the workers at home do it in the afternoon."

Kasumigaoka obediently stepped back, but his mouth was fluttering.

"Huh? Closed kitchen, can't you still satisfy your dissatisfied witch like this, you still want, you want ......"

Ying Lili's little face turned red, and countless 18x pictures were played in his mind, and he had the heart to reprimand the demon girl, but he was embarrassed to say it. After all, the glass is still behind, and she has to maintain her image in front of her best friends.

"Allah, didn't I prepare this for Sawamura-san? Now you're embarrassed, when this place becomes a wall, you can also follow the plot of those books drawn......"

"Nonsense, that's just artistic creation, how can someone not even be able to distinguish between reality and a book!"

Ignoring the two of them, Glass and Naoka walked into the kitchen and began to serve the dishes on the table.

At noon, Eiri and Glass, they went to take a nap, and Hojo Kyosuke, who was worried that Sakura would come back at noon, gave up his nap and wrote in the Japanese room with Shiyu. When it's accurate, it's to help the other party refer to it, and he can't write anything decent in his current state.

Maybe if it's written, the document will become "Why hasn't Sakura come back?" When will Sakura come back? Uncle Yamauchi can't be lost, right? Sure enough, I should go to Kyoto to pick her up. Something like that.

"It's a little unreasonable for such a rich lady to appear in the boarding house, and special arrangements need to be made, such as ......" he seriously gave his advice.

Ding——

The loudspeaker of the security system sounded, which was a sign that someone had opened the courtyard door.

Kasumigaoka Shiba was listening intently to what Kyosuke was saying, her fingers tapping on the keyboard, writing notes on the side. The sound in her ears stopped suddenly, and before she could make a doubt, she saw the boy next to her stand up and rush towards the entrance in an instant, and the speed actually made a "Hugh" sound, and then the back of the clothes flying away.

If the ancient assassins of Neon could have this speed, then the assassins should be the assassins, otherwise they wouldn't do anything for a day, and they would all be there for the succession ceremony, and it might not be enough for the assassins to kill all their relatives within five generations.

I was stunned for a second, and the girl who had just been immersed in writing also reacted to what was happening. Judging by Kyosuke's reaction, it should be that Sakura Yamauchi is back.

Although she hadn't seen anyone yet, her head had red and blue lights lit up, sirens were blaring, and 10,000 ducks were shouting "Danger, danger, danger" in horror as if they had seen a pressure cooker.

Oh, is this the power of childhood sweethearts? The girl who has always scoffed at those vulgar settings finally felt the power of this unreasonableness, and the sweet space carefully compiled was destroyed by inexplicable words.

I really should let "Sha Yujia", who practices kendo, take a look at what a clean and neat sword of the king is.

sighed in his heart, the love engine in Kasumigaoka Shiyu's heart not only did not go out, but instead emitted a deafening roar. Yes, what I like is such a person, his loyalty to love, his cherishing of the people around him, his talent, and his strength.

This is the kind of person who deserves to be held firmly in the palm of his hand, and he will not lack happiness for a lifetime.

The moment he heard the bell, Kyosuke Hojo knew that Sakura was back.

The heart that had been restless all morning, the heart that had been suppressed all morning, finally rioted at this moment.

When he opened the door, he felt that the cherry blossoms of the whole of March were blooming today, and endless light shone in through the open courtyard door. The joy of his whole body overflowed from the corners of his open mouth.

"Welcome home, Sakura."

He went barefoot and with his arms outstretched.

The whole world seemed to have only the figure standing in the white light, she grinned as before, showing her snow-white teeth, raised her arms, and shouted in a voice full of vitality:

"I'm back!"

"Welcome home, Sakura."

I couldn't help but hug Yamauchi Sakura into my arms, and with a little more force, I hugged the girl all over. At this moment, only such a childish act as lifting high and turning in circles can express his mood.

"Aha, so naïve, Kyosuke, hurry up and let me down." Sakura shouted with a playful smile, a small hand gently patting Kyosuke's waist.

Kyosuke Hojo put Sakura down according to his words, then hugged her tightly and took a deep breath.

"Huh? Sakura, are you feeling unwell? ”

He let go of his hand and took a closer look at Sakura. The smell of the dew is still fresh and full of life, but it seems to be slowly evaporating in the sun.

"Ah, because my grandparents knew that I was back in Tokyo, they have been feeding me hard for the past few days, and I can't hold me up. So I have to eat something clear these days, hey, it's a pity that I'm still thinking about having barbecue with Yingli Pear Glass and them when I come back. ”

Sakura frowned, holding her little belly and said in distress.

"It's okay to eat it later." Kyosuke Hojo rubbed his little head, and then wondered:

"Why did you suddenly start wearing watches?"

I haven't seen him for a long time, and any small change in the girl's body makes him curious. If he could, he would like to hear her say the snacks she eats every day during her walks.

"Ah, I've already decided, from now on I have to cherish my time, after all, don't you always say that high school life is always over~." Sakura raised her wrist and proudly displayed the watch on her wrist.

It was a white sports watch, not a popular style of the moment, and it looked like it was worn by a child.

"Although I want to say that I hope you think the same way when you go to class, but since you want it, then I'll give you a new one later, it just so happens to be your birthday." Seeing the familiar watch, Kyosuke Hojo's eyes softened more and more.

"Don't, the regret that I didn't wear it when I was a child, now I have to make up for it. Kyosuke, you haven't been using that old wallet yet, if you want to change it, we'll change it together. ”

Sakura retracted her hand and covered her left hand with her right hand. Although she said that, she immediately repented, and with a smirk on her face, she said happily:

"I still don't want it, I always feel so happy to see the wallet that Kyosuke has been using me~~"

"Stupid." Kyosuke Hojo gently pinched Sakura's nose.

That watch was given to Sakura by him in the fourth grade, and of course he didn't have the money to give any expensive watches. The original intention of sending the watch was to let Sakura have a good time, not to patronize and play after school every day, and let him wait at the school gate for half a day.

But Sakura hates the feeling of being bound on her wrists, so she refuses to wear it, and immediately seals the bad thing that reminds her of the passage of time in the box under the bed.

"Ahem—"

The sound of coughing interrupted Hojo's words that Kyosuke wanted to tell Sakura that the maple tree had grown a centimeter taller.

"Oh, Uncle Yamauchi, Aunt Maki, you're here. Welcome, come in. ”

It turned out that Sakura was not the only one in the white light, but also her parents behind her. Someone scratched their heads as if they had just woken up from a dream, and said hello embarrassedly. Next to him, Sakura had already held his hand and grimaced at his parents.

Seeing the interaction between Kyosuke Hojo and his daughter, Masashi Yamauchi nodded and smiled, and then walked in. Then he saw one, two, three, and four girls coming out of the door of the back room, and his face instantly turned bad.

He had also seen and known Glass and Naoka, but why were there two more people in less than a month? Stopped, not going to go in again. This bastard boy is still so popular with girls, don't you know how to restrain it!

Kyosuke Hojo followed Sakura's father's eyes and looked behind him, and saw the sleepy-eyed Eiri Riri, wearing a big trench coat, standing there supported by Kasumigaoka. It seems to have been woken up by force.

Glass and Naoka had already come over and greeted the Yamauchi couple with familiarity. Then he also introduced the two parties, only saying that they were his friends.

Maki Yamauchi nodded and smiled at a few girls, walked up and grabbed Kyosuke Hojo's hand:

"Kyosuke-kun, take good care of Sakura." The words are heavy, containing a mother's love.

"Well, I will, just like I love my own life." Kyosuke Hojo nodded heavily.

Mr. and Mrs. Yamauchi did not enter the house, but said that there was something else going on in Watergate City, so they got in the car and left. Sakura looked finally relieved, and stood next to his luggage and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sakura, you're inflated."

Ying Lili seems to have just come to her senses now, looking at the school girl who is so close to Kyosuke, this stupid guy only now remembers that this is a childhood sweetheart who is destined for heaven. With a shriveled mouth, she didn't want to take out the birthday present she had prepared before taking a nap.

"Ah, Ying Lili, it's been a long time." Sakura shouted in surprise and ran over to hold Ying Lili in his arms.

"Call me a good senior sister." Facing Sakura Yamauchi, who was ten centimeters taller than herself, Ying Li Li could only be hugged aggrievedly.

"But Yingli Lili, didn't you say before that you don't need to call Senior Sister?"

"It was before, and now it is now." At that time, I didn't even know Kyosuke, and I didn't know that you were his childhood sweetheart. Really, I'm such a fool.

"Hello, I'm Kasumigaoka Shiyu." Kasumigaoka Shiyu noticed that she seemed to be the only one present who had become an outsider, and hurriedly spoke.

"Ah, I know, Ms. Kasumiko, I like the book "Love Metronome" so much, and I asked Kyosuke to help me sign autographs before." Sakura held Kasumigaoka's hand with both hands and shook it vigorously.

The glass and Naoka in the back looked at each other and smiled, who doesn't know, except for Kyosuke's works, Sakura's stupid guy never reads books other than textbooks, at most he reads magazines. The content of "Love Metronome" that she knows is still talked about when several people usually discuss it.

Before this, Kasumigaoka Shiyu had thought about many scenes of meeting with the Tianzi No. 1 threat, and had also established Yamauchi Sakura's file through understanding from many aspects. The other party's acquaintance with Hojo Kyosuke was much earlier than Glass and Naoka, but the latter still became friends with Kyosuke, which shows that she is a very confident person.

Confident that Kyosuke won't be snatched away by anyone else no matter what. But in these days of getting along, she found that whether it was a glass or a straight flower, her impression of Sakura Yamauchi was not that strong. Even,It seems to be a girl who is more stupid than Ying Lili.,I don't know what I like.。

Even the princess in the castle knows how to protect what she likes, but Sakura Yamauchi is not stingy, proudly showing her treasures to the world, and her attitude towards Kyosuke can be described as more than an indulgence.

Kasumigaoka Shiyu asked himself, if it were him, although he would be happy to show the world Kyosuke's excellence, he would definitely drive away all the women who dared to approach him.

Not proud, not stupid? What the hell was she, Sakura Yamauchi, thinking?

She could feel the unfeigned enthusiasm of the girl holding her hand, and she really welcomed herself. What are you welcome yourself to do? Welcome yourself to this battlefield? Glad to have another person who likes Kyosuke Hojo?

I can't figure it out, I deserve to be the number one threat, and I'm not as easy to understand as the other girls in this family.

In short, the group walked into the living room happily.

When Sakura finished packing up and walked downstairs, a picnic mat had been laid out under the cherry blossom trees in the courtyard. Sakura cake, cherry blossom cake, and cherry blossom-colored watermelon juice are ready. There are also two more packages, which are gifts prepared by Eili Pear and Kasumigaoka.

The other three just send blessings, these years, when there are many times, Sakura has more than ten birthdays a year, and this has to be a gift, so he can only send a workbook.

"Wow, there's a gift! Thank you, Yingli Li, thank you, Kasumigaoka-senpai. ”

Ying Ri Li sent a collector's edition doll, and Kasumigaoka sent a book.

"I'll be sure to finish it, no matter how long it takes!" Sakura said solemnly, the black-haired red-haired girl opposite her was at a loss, and she didn't know how determined Sakura was when she said this.

Less than three minutes after the picnic mat was laid, a lot of cherry blossoms had already fallen, and as April approached, the cherry blossom season would pass. Fortunately, the Hojo family's cherry blossom trees only begin to bloom in late March, so it's the best time to see them.

The fluttering cherry blossoms keep falling on the girls. The pink cherry blossoms and snow-white skin complement each other, and the smiling girl is the most beautiful scenery in spring. The spring mood of the whole March has been confined to the high wall. The sound of crisp laughter and the spring breeze continued to rise, echoing in the sky above the courtyard.

"That's right, there's also Sanye, I said yesterday that I would pick her up when you came back." Kyosuke Hojo patted his head and said.

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"Oh, oh, I'll go with you too, I still have Sanye things to return to her." Sakura decisively put down the serrated knife in his hand to cut the cake.

"What are you doing, my motorcycle can only carry one person."

"Then Kyosuke, you can walk and let Sanye carry me back."

"......" Kyosuke Hojo didn't say anything like letting Mitsuha take a taxi by himself, because Sakura obviously had something to tell Mitsuha alone.

The birthday banquet was suspended, but fortunately, the distance from Hojo's house to Miyamizu's house was quite short, and it didn't take half an hour to go back and forth.

"At that time, when you were still exchanging bodies with Sanye,,She asked me to keep some diaries and photos.,Said I'll return it to her when she comes to Tokyo.。

On the motorcycle, Sakura hugged Kyosuke Hojo's waist tightly and kept sniffing him like a puppy. I haven't seen him for a month, and the appearance of Kyosuke in my mind is not only not the slightest bit ambiguous, but it is becoming clearer and clearer because of the thoughts day and night. Now she just wants to touch his eyebrows, eyes, nose, ears, and lips with her fingers......

I want to hug tightly, I want to have a deep kiss, I want to, I want to do more, I want to vent my thoughts about Kyosuke, my fear of death.

As she lay on the operating table, waiting for the anesthesia to take effect, her head was surprisingly clear. She thought that she could calmly accept the operation with her vision for the future. But she was still afraid, just thinking that the operation might fail. She was afraid that she would never see her parents again, that she would never see Kyosuke again, that Kyosuke would open that room and never see herself again.

I'm afraid that Kyosuke will look at the empty room and kneel on the ground and cry.

In the last moment of falling into a deep sleep, she thought, I must listen to Kyosuke shout ten thousand more times, ten million times, one trillion times......

"Welcome home, Sakura."

Under the helmet of the boy in his arms, a loud voice was worn, with indescribable exuberance and wantonness.

Sakura knows that this longing does not belong to him alone. Kyosuke must be standing in the yard every day, looking at the maple tree and thinking about himself.

She pulled out of the wind, leaned over, and shouted at the man.

"Well, I'm back."