18 Wake Up

Ye Han woke up feeling refreshed. Like his burdens taken off his shoulders, perhaps shared with someone. No matter what it is, he felt happy. Waking up in a soft and fluffy bed with the sun brightly shining upon you. He actually hates the sun, but who cares? He's happy, and not even the sun could hope to stop his happiness streak.

The room also felt cool, just the right temperature for his taste. 'This is why I need to buy an AC.' He thought. The pillows are soft to the touch and made him felt like he's experiencing the ultimate VIP treatment.

Suddenly, he felt something warm shift in his embrace. 'Something warm?!' He then realized that he was hugging something… or someone. 'Please please, please. Please don't be human.' Carefully, he lifted the covers but just as he took a tiny peek he immediately put the cover back on. 'I'm f*cked. I don't know what happened but I'm f*cked.'

He tried shifting himself away so that he could find an opening to escape but was surprised to find Akari holding him with an iron embrace. 'She's hugging me! Yup, I'm definitely f*cked. Goodbye Suzuka, you will always be in my heart.'

Lying down the fluffy bed of doom, he waited for his eventual end. As he was staring blankly at the ceiling, memories came flooding back inside his mind. 'Oh right! This is not the first time this happened.' Ye Han remembered all of the girls he encountered during his career. Virtues of that era strictly dictate, always and always above all else, cherish a woman. It may have mellowed down in the present but during his era, it was hardcore stuff.

During his time as a hero, several distraught women have come for his aid in search of comfort. Of course, he would happily and gladly comply with any of their whims. But the comfort in the topic is not that kind of "comfort" that someone else might be thinking. It was all just talks, encouragement and would eventually escalate to hugs. Nice try pervs.

After their "session" it would always end up with a hug. He did not know the reason but every time he hugged a woman he would always fall asleep faster. 'That's right, girls are good sleeping pills.' But what made him furious is that every time he woke up with a woman beside him it would always end up with him being slapped or worse, beaten to a pulp.

As a respectable gentleman, he made sure to never retaliate. 'But those girls are ungrateful! I provided them comfort and what would they reward me? That's right, a slap. Not just any slap. It's a slap that would surely sting for a week, even a month.'

He has been numbed. Being a veteran to the slap-war for the nth time, he has finally accepted the fate of being a punching bag for stressed girls. 'It will be the same this time.' Finally resigning to his fate, he once again awaited. When suddenly-

'Oh cr*p. Her family's here. Even that elegant looking grandma. F*ck me, I'm not just dead I'm quadruple dead. Even my ashes won't remain. And I bet that overprotective father would smile in mirth as he chops my body to pieces.'

Ye Han can only grieve to the eventual outcome. He's either dead or very dead. Escape? He can't hope to do that, they'd still- 'That's it!'

He shifted his body, finding a more viable position to make his great escape. 'I'm sorry Akari. It's either me or myself this time.' Without wasting any time, he gathered his strength in hope to somehow manage a slick escape from Akari's iron grip. But before he could unleash everything, the door suddenly opened. 'Goodbye Suzuka.'

"Rise and shine!" What entered the room is an energetic ball of happiness courtesy of Akagi, Akari's mother. She went near the bed, her ever-present glowing smile still present on her face. It was the same smile she showed during dinner.

The two made eye contact with each other. This went on for a whole 5 minutes, with each second becoming another stage of awkward for Ye Han. "Good… morning?" He finally managed to utter.

"Did you like your stay here?" She asked.

"…yes." Was the only thing he could utter.

"That's nice. Come, breakfast's ready." Akagi invited.

Fortunately, she understood his current plight as she proceeded to remove Akari from him. And seeing her effortlessly relieve the grip Akari's doing on him made his jaw drop. 'Note to self, Ms. Akagi is definitely top ten of my not-to-piss-off list.'

"Thank you for the help madam.'

"No need to be polite Ye Han, you should call me, mother-in-law. Oh, what am I saying?'

Ye Han inadvertently cringed deep inside. 'Mother-in-law? What is that?' Unfortunately for Ye Han and his feeble archaic mind, the word mother-in-law is not yet part of his modern vocabulary. But his gut feeling screamed at him that addressing her like that would lead to bad happenings in his life.

"That would be very rude of me, Mrs. Shirosaki." He said respectfully.

"That's bad. Mrs. Shirosaki makes me sound old. Just call me A-chan."

"Uh sure, A-chan?"

"Ohhhhhhhh. What a good boy you are Ye Han!" Akagi voiced out excitedly, very satisfied of him.

"Now that you're free, you should get up. Don't worry, I'll be the one to wake Akari up." She added.

"Thank you for that A-chan."

After thanking the considerate housewife, he decided to finally stand up and stretch his body. But he should have not stood up.

The last thing he remembered clearly last night was soaking down in that comfortable bath. But it got too comfortable that he was assaulted by a wave of severe dizziness for being exposed to high temperatures. After that, he was lying down the bathroom floor, groaning. He did not care how Akari found her way to his bed, but he felt it. 'I'm actually naked.'

Akagi just looked at him blankly. Standing in front of her is Ye Han, in his birthday suit. Pale shade with an obvious tenderness. His body looked like a flat-chested girl. Everything looked so pure almost to the point that it can be called "girly." But before she could examine what's underneath-

"Iyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

***

Akagi couldn't believe her ears. A boy just screamed like a girl. It was more girly than other girls' screams. 'I still haven't examined what's down there.' She sighed disappointedly.

Still embarrassed, Ye Han instantly ran towards the bathroom where his clothes currently are. Without wasting any time he excused himself and went home, just to save his remaining integrity as a man.

Still, in her disappointment, she noticed Akari groggily woke up for her sleep. "Just on time. But sadly, you missed him. He has already gone home."

"Ye Han?" She asked with tiredness still in her voice.

"Yeah. And guess what?"

"What?"

"You slept together, hugging each other."

"Eh?" This time Akari's voice contained much alertness.

"Don't believe me? Don't worry I took pictures. Here I'll show you."

"Eeeeeehhhhhh?!"