15 The Three Musketeers: Create Shell Companies And Anonymously Run An Entertainment Conglomerate!
Within moments of his vision turning black, Yuuto felt a few strange sensations on his head and neck as he groaned.
"Please, wake up, Yuuto-dono." A clean and orderly voice said as Yuuto felt a hand nudge his shoulders; surprisingly, he couldn't even move before and when the man nudged his shoulders, his body restarted as Yuuto opened his eyes.
Yuuto could feel that he was on a bed; but looking at it more clearly, he could see that he was lying on a white, plush lounge sofa upholstered in pure, soft fabric.
Is this a hotel cabin?
Yuuto looked around and saw towards his left, an oval window among the white background of the cabin displaying a clearly lit runway.
The surfaced tarmac was clean, and slightly shining due to it being washed with water.
Yuuto's mind clicked as he suddenly realized that he was in an airport, and judging by the fact that it was now night — he was absolutely sure that he was drugged and taken somewhere.
Yuuto was sure that his father drugged him, so there was no chance that he was kidnapped or something — otherwise he'd be in for a lot of trouble.
Yuuto looked at his surroundings with an alarmed aspect.
This was a private jet alright.
As it was night, the windows offered no light — as a result, the linear lighting system on the cabin's ceiling shone with sheer sharpness, illuminating the all-white design of the cabin.
Yuuto was currently dressed in a very simple and clean shirt and trousers; which was a successful mimicry of what he was previously wearing.
Standing beside Yuuto was Uesugi in the same suit he was wearing before, same posture he was donning before; but unlike then, a comically dry aspect was on his face as he glared at him.
Immediately, he jumped from the lounge sofa and stood up, a hazy expression on his eyes as he looked at Uesugi.
"Where am I? What happened?"
Yuuto had a lot of questions in his mind, mainly about Sakuya.
"Direct to the questions I see?" Uesugi had an annoyed look.
"We're now in Miyako Airport, Okinawa."
"Miyako Airport? In Miyako-Jima Island? "
"Yes, we've only landed right now, so I didn't think I needed to wake you up before."
"Anyways, I'll be sticking along with you for a while now boss."
Boss? What does he mean by that?
"What do you mean by that?" Yuuto loosened his body up by shaking it a little, which urged a snicker from Uesugi.
"I mean that — from now on, I'm assigned to you." A lonely look flashed in Uesugi's eyes hidden below the golden-glasses, yet a moment later they vanished as he snickered.
"Assigned? You mean a 「Retainer」?"
Although Yuuto had a strong sense of aversion to be banded along with them; to a man from a noble house, an assigned person can only mean one thing: a 「retainer」.
Central to the noble houses in Japan were the lord's indentured and loyal retainers, and beyond stood a more amorphous group of general supporters and contacts. The former always stood behind the houses, supporting them from the behind and spearheading campaigns while the latter did the meager tasks of managing the lower ministries.
The retainers certainly after decades of marriage between the houses didn't manage to fade away or be flushed into the toilet, but instead become one with their houses and flourished as a supportive, branch family.
Although it meant that the retainer families were allowed to serve and manage the government departments —sometimes— headed by their families, intervening or even entering their business were enough to he thought of as betrayal.
Even the «Kazuya House» had two loyal retainer families behind them, but unfortunately Yuuto was refused to be acknowledged and boycotted by them from birth since his father was an outsider, and rather laughingly, of low-birth to them.
Yuuto was a mockery in even the lower vassal families of the retainers, much less the 「officers」in the main branch.
Nevertheless, Ayumi was the one that received their support and connected with retainer families the most; and was almost taken away from him due to their pestering of her to join a more noble school.
Yuuto still remembered the names the children of the vassal families used to call him — and even though some of them got kicked in the nuts by Ayumi or his friends, it didn't mean that he forgot about them, and he certainly could remember that when the name callings began, he wasn't in a state to reply in an equally interesting manner.
All of this had to do with his father: Hagashi Amami — who was of common birth and also an unverified orphan at that, talk about a combo huh?
Just because one is a billionaire and powerful doesn't mean that he can kick away his past; that applies even more so when one's past is shameful and scandalous.
"That's impossible. A retainer is classified as a person of utmost loyalty; furthermore above all, it requires one's family to serve another house for decades and even longer for one to be classified as retainer."
"My loyalty stretches only towards Hagashi-sama, and there is no exception in that rule. I'm only here because I've been asked to monitor you."
"The thing is, Hagashi-sama has asked of me to dictate your rules and change your lifestyle — your bank account is now emptied and transferred to Ayumi's account."
"W-what?!"
"Come on, you trust her don't you? It was only 50K, and I believe that she's now —also, the incident regarding her being ditched in the hotel has a play in this— alarmed and rushing here after I told her the basics."
Yuuto frowned.
"I understand that, and I don't really care about how I live either; I'm accustomed to eating 2-minute noodles anyways without Ayumi."
"But the fact is, I believe you should know that, right?"
"Indeed, I haven't come here to restrict the cash flowing into your account but to change you, boss."
"You're obese, and Hagashi-sama believes that we must change that."
"First, you're not allowed to eat anything outside of a rigorous diet plan; second, no car rides or anything for you, only a cycle; third, you'll have to do the exercises we'll ask you to do."
"The first and the third rule will soon be effective the moment Mitsumi —that lady you saw before that shoots JAV— comes here tomorrow evening."
Yuuto's face changed as he smiled and nodded towards Uesugi, who was expecting crying or angry insults, suddenly became bewildered by his sunny smile.
" Thanks, that's just what I wanted. "
Is this guy a chameleon or something who's planning to attack him the moment he turns his back? — was the question floated in Uesugi's mind as he heard Yuuto.
"Pardon: you aren't angry or upset?"
"Why would I be? I was planning to lose weight and gain muscle even before this, and the thing I'm lacking in right now in order to become that is a good fitness trainer."
"Which I believe Mitsumi is one of. Isn't she?"
"...Yes yes, she is... "
"I see...well, how's Sakuya?"
Yuuto sighed as he thought about what happened before: rape, Hagashi's further planning, and most importantly, the rage-inducing fact that Sakuya replaced him with Kogure in her heart — while he was having sex with her.
A satisfied but tranquil # smirk flashed by Yuuto's face as he shook his head; not even putting the matter of Kogure and his "girlfriend" in his mind.
If it was absolute that someone would be his "wife" sooner or later, why care about what type of behavior or of actions she took in order to stop it? It's meaningless you know?
Yuuto never aspired to be a rapist, molester or even anything closely related to it — not due to his upbringing I assure you, but due to his own personal set of morals cultivated by his past experiences.
You know you really want something when you're willing to pay a great price unlike other — like shedding your own personality and morals for it.
"Her? She's sleeping right now, it'll take at most 8 hours for her to awaken; beforehand, she's already been whisked away to a hotel near this beach, so you can taste her again once she wakes up."
Uesugi fixed the cuff-links of his tuxedo as he grinned.
" I see...did she, I mean, has she in that state said anything about Kogure...? "
A sublimely wry smile intervened into Uesugi's face as it hinted an answer worse than Yuuto could even think of. Without any answers, he kept Yuuto waiting for at least a few moments.
" Hey? Tell me. You work for me now, right? "
" Ha-ha, I sure do. But do you think you can bear with the truth?" A mocking aspect slipped into Uesugi's smile.
"Really, I'd like to hear the truth. Facts don't care about feelings — and I want the truth."
Uesugi flipped his tuxedo and smoothly fixed his tie, which was messy before signaling that even he was sleeping.
"After you became comatose, Sakuya still hadn't fallen asleep — neither had the drug vanished from her system as she grabbed a pillow and happily imagined it to he Kogure."
The sounds of knuckles being forcefully cracked rang throughout the room.
"Frankly, the phrases 'I love you' and ' I want you' were fairly common as she rolled —even with her limited strength— around the bed and announced that she was going to be his wife."
A livid smile was on Yuuto's face as he waved his arms at Uesugi to make him shut up.
" It's meaningless to think about it anyway. Let's go and get cleared by the customs, Uesugi. "
" Sure, but I have a solution for your situation, want to hear? "
Yuuto turned back as his feet stopped moving.
"What?"
"Simple, don't bother with her."
"She's just a few strings of meat bound together by bones — mortal, easily corrupted and meaningless to chase over."
"Dopamine is easily obtainable using power and personal satisfaction and also rather safe — while using women, an external source of dopamine and validation, are not."
"People that chase after women for validation and affection are the lowest types of men. Playing around is fine but keeping them around isn't. It's..."
"It's a simple thing — don't worry about women. Chase achievements, passions everything."
Yuuto laughed in response, which attracted a glare from Uesugi.
"Have you ever wanted something enough that you willingly bore the hurt, then you stay, and keep it?"
"Even though you know it's meaningless and will end up putting you in a worse place, have you ever played a game?"
"Have you ever loved Mr. Uesugi? I have, two times. One ended up dead and the other one... I don't know."
Uesugi coldly snickered.
"Oh please, it's a bad investment of time. I'd rather invest my time into my career and my passion, than bear with a person who'll change —after a while— into something that I'll hate."
"My passion and my love is power. Nothing is paramount or as reliable as it, it is the apex of satisfaction and desire."
"My obsession is power; therefore, to do anything of a high level, one has to be obsessed."
"I see. Well, my love is my love i guess. I like women, I find them fascinating; delicate beings."
"Great then; father like son."
"You never loved anyone before Mr. Uesugi?"
"No. I have desires, but that's easily sated."
"Well, I had one, two to be exact, and the former is dead."
"Karin Kazuya? You little sister?"
"Yeah, I don't frankly remember everything. Maybe my memories amount to a love story that is mostly made up, from memories that are mostly false, between people who were mainly not there. The things for which she was not there have her in them now more deeply because of her absence, and her effect on my way of seeing them."
" Regardless, anytime I note her absence from a thing, she arrives at once, as if summoned, entrenching herself more deeply than she exists in my memories of times when she was there, so that time, the sequence of what really happened, seems to curve around her."
" And do you know who's face appears every time I think about Karin? You're correct if you thought about Sakuya — after all, she's a perfect replacement for and canvas for my imagination. "
" Regardless, boss, we have to go down now, the custom officials are waiting for us."
" So be it. "
...
As soon as Yuuto descended using the jet's ramp, three customs officials questioned him and checked the jet for illegal materials and flight information inconsistencies.
The little car labeled with the words "interior customs" zoomed behind him as the airport officials chucked the private jet in a hanger.
"So, where are we going to?"
Yuuto looked at Uesugi. Frankly, if he had to walk all the way to his somewhere under the excuse of "exercise", he might as well commit seppuku and call it a day because the island of Miyako-jima is huge!
"Ayumi Kazuya's private beach house." Uesugi laughed and he hit the shutter of the hanger behind him, successfully motioning the officials to close it.
"Um, sure, but isn't she upset because you guys left her?"
"That's up for debate, boss."
With a stern smile, Uesugi watched as a black limousine strolled into the general aviation ramp —the side of the runway he was in— and stop.
Uesugi formed a difficult but stoic smile on his face as he strided forward and waited for the princess to exit the car.
"How dare you do this to me?!"
The car's door immediately opened as it hit its limitation and banged against the car itself, soon, a woman exited the car heaving with heavy breaths.
Yuuto's eyes turned bright as he saw the woman; her normally serene and glazed eyes were now livid and filled with trepidation. Her lips were surprisingly calm and smiling, which contradicted her previous outburst and her eyes.
The clothes she was wearing seemed messily worn: the violet bomber jacket and the hem top underneath it were filled with creases and the jeans she wore were the same.
"Aya-nee...?"
Ayumi turned towards him and scowled, having no intentions to even answer his calling.
Yuuto sheepishly smiled as he came near her, which was defiantly stopped by her with a gentle push on his chest.
"Don't come near me, you idiot!"
Yuuto felt his heart pain as he almost cried over the insult. Nevertheless Ayumi ignored the sulking Yuuto and turned towards Uesugi.
"You! How dare you take him away without my permission?!"
"Indeed Mr. Uesugi. What you did is a filthy crime."
Another woman dressed in red from head to toe exited the car as she swiftly stood beside Ayumi.
The woman couldn't be called beautiful, because she wasn't. Hehe, such irony...
Nevertheless, her only unique feature was her square jaw as sharp as needle as she smirked at Uesugi.
Uesugi totally wasn't expecting this woman.
"Wait a minute, what are you doing here?"
Uesugi's expression turned into that of slight disbelief as he faced contradictions after contradictions in his mind. The main one was that he didn't remember seeing this woman anywhere near Ayumi before.
"Oh please, drop the act. As a loyal 「retainer」of the «Kazuya House» and a vassal to Ayumi Ojou-sama, i have to tend to their needs and protect them from harm."
Mebuki Makoto. High-powered criminal attorney, a familiar face to everyone in the legal world of Tokyo. Facing such a troublesome woman renowned for stripping her foes clean and shredding them into meat, Uesugi doubted that he'd he able to escape.
Regardless, who was he? He was a few levels above her at least, so why fear her?
"Anyways, I'm not here for a banter with you Makoto. Why have you intervened in our conversation?"
"I haven't intervened anywhere, it's just that I've come here to meet the kidnapper and the victim."
"As far as my client, Ayumi-ojou-sama, has told me: Hagashi Amami has already relinquished his parental rights over Yuuto Kazuya, right?"
"Yes he has." Uesugi had an alarmed expression on his face as he clearly heard Mebuki say something about a kidnapping.
"Then it figures. We're ready to press charges over this then; this is a case of kidnapping, harassment, and blackmail. Hagashi will get at least ten years on this one!"
"Wait a second, what is happening? Kidnapping? How is this re—"
"Without permission from the legal guardian —Ayumi Kazuya— you took Yuuto Kazuya away from his home. Tell me, is this a joke then? Neither you nor does Hagashi have the permission to do that, we can sue you for this!"
Even before himself, Uesugi had to protect Hagashi first.
"Excuse me, ignoring the fact that I've asked permission from the guardian personally over this matter, you have no proof that Hagashi-sama is the one that kidnapped Yuuto."
Uesugi smiled as the glasses on his face shone, there were no chances of a slip up occurring; the thing was, that Hagashi had no intention to be caught. So the thing he did was he chucked Yuuto in a jet and transferred him straight into Kyoto, and in the meanwhile, Hagashi traveled there using a car; meaning that there were no pesky customs inspections, which would lead to the information about him being in Kyoto leaked.
Mebuki snickered and looked towards Ayumi, who had an expression on disbelief on her face.
"I never gave you permission!" Ayumi bawled as she sprinted beside Yuuto.
"See Mr. Uesugi? Either way, i don't really think that Hagashi-dono would need to personally come down here to execute his vengeful plan, he only needs to have you, his secretary and campaign manager to do all the work."
"My mistress was worried to death over this!" Mebuki pointed towards Ayumi, who was skillfully looking at her feet and dryly sobbing.
Uesugi's lips twitched as he simultaneously rolled his eyes.
"Please stop this charade. Your motives to stop our agenda is childish. To even think that I'd make a mistake like this...are you an idiot or are all lawyers in your industry like this? "
"W-what? That's an ad hominem attack!" The woman had a shocked expression on her face.
"Idiot, look at this—"
Uesugi chuckled as he pulled out his phone and showed it towards Mebuki.
Mebuki's smile died down as she saw Ayumi in the hospital room, fully knowing that her meager chance of toppling Hagashi in the internal sphere was now gone.
" Damn you! "
" Haha, yes, nice." Uesugi sarcastically bobbed his head up and down, after a few moments of dead silence he glared at Mebuki.
"Anything else? If not, take him with you."
Uesugi waved his hands as he yawned.
"Eh? You won't take him away?"
Ayumi curled her fists in a ball as she glared at Uesugi.
"Take him away to where exactly? We don't have any properties here where we'll be able to stay at, and neither do we have any further use with him today."
"Although he doesn't have to do anything else today, he'll have to do something tomorrow for sure. You know, he's fat, and we have to change that."
"Ah, that's...I was going to have him exercise anyway!"
"Really? That 'exercise' of yours wouldn't work, you know that don't you?"
"You should clearly know what I mean by this. Don't you, Ayumi?"
A light shone in Uesugi's eyes as he scanned Ayumi's befuddled face with amusement.
Ayumi's beautiful face turned a bit guilty as she looked towards Yuuto, her teeth were on her lips as she bit them.
Yuuto looked at her with a frown. Why was she having that type of expression towards him?
"Regardless, I won't interfere any more. Take him with you, but don't do anything 'of that sorts', okay?"
"U-um, okay..."
Ayumi turned abnormally quiet as her tall figure in the night trembled.
Uesugi turned away whilst Mebuki growled and followed him with stampeding steps.
"Ojou-sama, I have something to talk about with this man, can I go?"
Mebuki bowed towards Ayumi and asked with a solemn aspect in her eyes.
"Of course, but take care of yourself." Ayumi nodded with a gentle expression.
"Thank you for taking care of me, ojou-sama."
The woman, with a grateful expression bowed and skipped away towards Uesugi, who waited beside her upon seeing her follow him.
Yuuto rolled his eyes on seeing how he was ignored as if he didn't even exist; frankly, he didn't even expect anything more from a vassal family's woman.
He looked towards Ayumi, only to discover that she had already left the spot beside him and was currently walking towards the limo.
Bitter — is that what's called the devastating feeling of losing his breath and feeling as if his heart was stolen?
"Aya-nee, wait for me!"
Yuuto yelled as he ran as fast he could to catch up with Ayumi, who had already gone half the way.
Unlike how she would act before if he called for her, Ayumi didn't turn around nor did she slow down and instead increased her speed.
...
Yuuto sighed as he walked towards the limo with the quiet Ayumi in tow, fully angsty from being called an idiot and being ignored by Ayumi.
Full of hurt feelings and tiredness, Yuuto scratched his neck and twisted it in displeasure not knowing anything else to do.
You might be saying that he's overreacting or he's being irrational, but for God's sake she's ignoring him!
"Aya-nee...I'm sorry you couldn't be there, my father didn't want you to come so—"
Yuuto whimpered as he felt a warm hand grasp his right hand. Ayumi soon used both of her hands to tug and caress on it. And due to their close proximity, it couldn't be helped that her shoulder collided with his softly.
" Look at you...your hands are so cold..." Ayumi remarked with a slightly sad tone as her fingers intertwined with his.
"I'm sorry, Aya-nee..."
Ayumi took a deep breath she put her hand on her chest, her glazed eyes were however, glancing at the distant moon in the sky deeply.
"Do you remember the promise I made to you, Yu-chan?" Ayumi asked with a tone-less voice, it almost felt as if her unique characteristics had all vanished into the air as she emotionlessly glared at him.
Ayumi's complexion was pale; frigid cold and utterly nervous and shaky.
" The one where I forcefully made you promise to marry me?" Yuuto chuckled a bit in order to ease Ayumi.
Ayumi unfortunately, pretended she didn't hear his chuckles and hit him in the shoulders.
"Yeah, that's what I'm talking about."
"So, did you enjoy?" Ayumi stood still and turned her face away.
"Pardon?"
"I'm talking about the girl. Did you enjoy her body?" Ayumi turned towards him with a soulless smile.
"Depends on which part of my heart is talking. If you want to listen to the truth, it's that it felt amazing."
"Stop, I don't want to hear anymore."
"But, Yu-chan. You can do anything you want, impregnate girls, have fun with them, go out with them. Anything, I don't care, I want to be a good wife to Yu-chan."
"I'll even kidnap girls for your sake, but don't break that promise, please..."
"I'm used to these types of things, I don't care if you have affairs, but..."
Ayumi pleaded with trembling lips and teary eyes, her face seemed utterly pale and absolutely painful.
Yuuto didn't know if her hurt was regarding the matter that she'd have to let him have sex with other women or if it was regarding him not marrying her.
Yuuto shook his head as he chuckled.
"I'll keep my promise regardless of whatever happens, that's for sure..."
"You know, it's impossible for me to even throw away that promise because I'm sure I can't love anyone else the way I love you."
" Yu-chan..."
Ayumi blushed as she rubbed her shoulders with Yuuto's.
"But I have a slight doubt over yours."
Ayumi's blush immediately died down as she looked at Yuuto for clarification.
"It might be biased, but you know, I can't trust anyone else but myself."
"Words can be twisted into many shapes. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They're just labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast."
" Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them either. "
" In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power."
" It's slightly hypocritical by the way, that I don't trust you to keep your promise but you do and will support my adultery. "
" In the first place Aya-nee, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises. "
" You know, I've never trusted anyone in this world. Am I inherently a madman, or am I just a fool to not believe even though my conscience says to believe?
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough — that's what I penned after introspecting a bit, because it's a dead end both ways and the middle ground seems a bit uncaring."
Ayumi giggled hysterically as she grabbed his arm and leaned on him.
" I don't care, Yu-chan. I trust you and I trust myself, so I don't think I'll break my promise! "
" You trust to easily, Aya-nee."
" I don't care if it's you, you can break me or hit me; but as long as you don't change or throw me away!"
"And I don't think my Yu-chan will do anything to me!"
"Geez, Aya-nee. Others will call you a doormat if you talk like that."
Ayumi looked at him with a pleasant smile and happiness in her eyes.
"Hehe, Yu-chan, life is an exciting business, and it gets more exciting when it's lived for others!"
"Have you never felt like that? Where you found more joy in trying to please your love ones — and succeeding in it? Trying to bring a smile on their face? I think that's how people would should live life like, because even if you inherently think that you're boring or worthless, one wouldn't think as such and will try to improve. "
Yuuto looked at the blushing and happily giggling maiden and felt a pang of pain in his heart.
What will you do if you lose your dream? If it mistakenly gets broken?
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.
What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want to be?
Maybe life is all about trying to get up while you fall a little bit deeper in the pits of hell, each time you try not to...
Yuuto looked at Ayumi again, the bravest and cheeriest woman he had ever seen.
Ayumi awaits the rain like a writer embraces metaphors,
A drizzle isn't for the child who dances in the storm.
Of rain that washes away the petrichor it brings,
A downpour of a hail of bullets, and she calls it spring.
Yuuto interrupted her lengthy explanation.
"Aya-nee...?"
"Ah, yes, Yu-chan?"
Yuuto smiled towards her and poked her on her cheeks, to which she tilted her head in confusion not knowing what his meaning was.
"Aya-nee, when will you start your story again?"
Ayumi didn't understand what Yuuto was trying to say, so she gently stood beside the car and looked at him for further explanation.
Yuuto chuckled.
"You know, when is your story going out of its hiatus? Let's draw again, okay?"
Ayumi initially didn't have anything to say, but as a few moments passed, her hair flew upwards as she flashed an understanding and lonely smile.
"My story?"
"Yeah. If you don't want to put it out of a hiatus, just rewrite it, it always helps!"
"Come on, let's draw together from tomorrow. I don't know anything about it but you'll teach me and maybe—"
"Yu-chan..." Ayumi took a long sigh devoid of any of her previous spontaneous gaiety.
"You don't understand. My story is already over, it's axed. Either way—"
"I don't want a story — a beginning. Not anymore. I have long ago stopped walking on a road where my dreams walk around. I change my destination a hundred times if I ever see an old wish of mine standing there in its real form. I don't know them. I don't want to. They too must not know me. They too must not recognize me as their owner. "
As Ayumi's mouth opened once again, Yuuto interrupted her with a small laugh.
Ayumi helplessly shook her head, nonetheless, a smile returned on her face as she didn't take it to her heart.
" Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean, but picking up the pieces of it is better than having no pieces to pick up at all, isn't it Aya-nee?"
Ayumi's face hidden in the dark blushed as a sudden sunny radiance was emitted from her body, her eyes peacefully fell as she without wasting a second, jumped on Yuuto.
"Oh, Yu-chan!"
Yuuto certainly didn't expect to be kissed as soon as he said that, he certainly didn't. He didn't even hint anything romantic goddammit.
Ayumi without even the faintest sign of shyness kissed him as he felt her tongue smash against his, it didn't get any further as Ayumi apparently recognized that she jumped on him and retracted her kiss back.
Yuuto was left with a smile on his lips along with a trace of saliva on them, Ayumi in the meanwhile put her palm on her lips as she faintly blushed and looked away from him.
"...I didn't do anything, okay?" Ayumi said as she opened the limo's door and entered, but she didn't close it as Yuuto was supposed to enter along with her.
Ayumi's face was truly shining in the dark.
...
"I'm sorry Yu-chan, I didn't really mean to act that way with you back then." Ayumi purred.
As soon as Yuuto entered the limo and sat beside Ayumi, she with a whimper leaned on him and laid her head on his shoulders.
Even though she was quite taller than him, it didn't matter as she moved a bit here and there and was successfully able to lie her head down on him.
The limo was a standard one — bulletproof but not luxurious or pompous, just simple and minimalistic without any fancy televisions or decorations.
Yuuto looked at the girl leaning on his shoulders, who didn't close her eyes as she attentively looked at his face for any changes of expressions. Her hair free of any colorful decorations fell on his lap as he took one lock of it and rubbed them.
Ayumi felt him tug on her hair as purred with satisfaction and snuggled in his body.
"Well, I didn't take it to heart anyway." Yuuto turned his eyes away as he sheepishly grinned in his mind, obviously he took it to heart back then but he would die than rather tell her that.
Because it felt as if he did do that, he'll appear weak.
"Ah.. I'm still sorry."
"It's okay, Aya-nee. Don't worry..."
"By the way Yu-chan, do you know which beach we're going to right now?" Ayumi exposed a playful smile as she put her hands on Yuuto's eyes, not allowing him to look at the windows or any where at all.
"Mmh, I don't really know. But since this is Miyako-jima, there should be like, tens of beaches, right?" Yuuto smiled as he answered while trying to remove the hands on his face, which turned out to be futile as the grip was too strong.
Why is this girl so strong anyway?
" Correct! Since the amount is too big, I'll give you a hint; guess which beach we're going to out of these three — Paingama, Ikizu, Funakiasu!"
Yuuto put his hands on his chin as he thought.
Ayumi went to all three beaches before with him, so which beach did she like the most? Paingama was out of the question as she didn't like how there were no trees or grasses near it and was filled with apartment complexes, and so was Funakiasu...
"Let me guess, Ikizu?"
"Fuuu, so quick!"
"Come on, that question was pretty easy to figure out!"
Ayumi giggled as she removed her hands from Yuuto's eyes, and as soon as she did she felt the shoulder beneath her head disappear and as a result, she fell down on Yuuto's lap.
Yuuto keenly smiled as he took revenge; not that it was his main motive, his main motive was to see her blush and tremble bashfully.
She totally did the opposite of what he expected.
Ayumi didn't blush as she instead smiled and wiggled her head on his lap, bearing no concern or shyness of whether she would hit a certain snake in his pants.
Yuuto instead dryly coughed as he tried to change the topic.
"So, is everyone here?"
"Hm, everyone arrived yesterday. I didn't tell them anything about why you weren't there but I guess they already know that it's something related to Hagashi." Towards the end of the sentence, Ayumi gnashed her teeth as the action emitted audible sounds.
"I see...Aayaden must've— well, let's go then."
...
12:00AM
Yuuto sneered as he looked at the wall-hung clock inside the beach house, mainly because he felt that today passed on insanely fast.
First of all, the entire house was dark as fuck since Yuuto sneaked inside the beach-house along with Ayumi, in order to not alarm his friends or awake them.
Ayumi turned around and put her index finger on her lips, then she turned around once again and walked while gently tugging on Yuuto's hands in order to guide him.
"I can see; you know, Aya-nee."
"Shh~"
With one look, Yuuto could tell that she was enjoying herself so he just shrugged and let her guide him to wherever she wanted him to go.
"Nii-nii, I don't want to sleep with you! Go away!"
Ayumi suddenly stopped on hearing the shout, while Yuuto didn't as he collided with her and smacked her bum with his crotch.
A bead of sweat fell down his head as he tried hard to stop the hard-on from becoming reality, all the while Ayumi ignored him as she looked towards a corner where a door was situated at.
"Ah, my little sister, please let me sleep with you. I promise on Buddha that I won't turn around or disturb your important sleep."
"The hell? Sleep on the couch, I'm not a child anymore, Nii-nii!"
"Please? If not, then fret now. If Buddha stands in my way, slay Buddha! If the devil stand in my way, slay the devil! Then what comparison does a human's opinion offer! Consent doesn't matter for me, because I'm Chu Fe—"
"Nii-nii, the police might help."
"Nevertheless, consent is important little sister. Everything without consent is immoral and indecent, and very harmful to one's attained Karma..."
"Good, now sleep on the floor. No couch for you today, Nii-nii!"
"...I'll go..."
Ayumi giggled as she shook her head and once again restarted her legs, pulling Yuuto along with her.
...
"I'll be back in a moment, don't go anywhere."
Ayumi left Yuuto's hands as she walked towards the bathroom, and Yuuto being Yuuto sighed and jumped on the bed being absolutely tired.
Within moments, he fell asleep as he began to snore...
Moments later, a woman entered the room.
"Muu, Yu-chaaan~!"
Ayumi bawled as her legs turned into jelly; without further adieu she ripped away her violet bomber jacket and jumped on Yuuto's body like a kitten.
Yuuto barely made a sound except he turned towards his left, which was the perfect opposite direction of where Ayumi fell on.
"Yu-chaan~! Don't sleep, talk with me!"
Ayumi bawled unrestrainedly —although she wasn't crying— as she hit Yuuto's shoulder and only received a tired grunt in response, which on further infuriated her and increased her begrudgingly-angry mood.
However, her frown died down as she noticed that Yuuto's shoulder was abnormally cold — to the extent that even the chilly air of the air conditioner and the air of April combined couldn't compare.
Worriedly, both of her hands brushed across Yuuto's shoulders as she noticed that both sides were cold, and for further evidence she slid her hands down into his back using the gap in his t-shirt, which she also found was similarly cold even though he was wearing clothes.
"Yu-chan, do you have a cold...?" In order to not wake up Yuuto if he didn't hear her, Ayumi whispered it in his ears, which of course proved to be unsuccessful as he grunted unconsciously, once again.
Ayumi's expression began worsen as she looked around at her surroundings and immediately; everything clicked as she noticed the air conditioner at full-blast, the open windows, Yuuto's thin t-shirt and no blankets over him.
With a nervous expression, Ayumi stood up and searched around for the AC's remote and once she found it, bashed the "off" button on the remote with all the strength in her body. She then looked at herself; a hem top and a short without the jacket she was previously wearing.
Ayumi had an idea pop up in her head as she went into another room in the house, and soon quickly stumbled inside the room again with haste and three bulky, colorful blankets on her body.
"Hai!"
With a heavy heave, Ayumi threw the blankets on the floor and picked them up one by one and rolled them on top of Yuuto, who comfortably sighed once every single blanket was on top of him.
Looking at the pleased face of Yuuto, a sense of pride and joy swept past her as she giddily smiled and slid inside the three thick blankets and hugged Yuuto once again.
"Yuu-chaaan~!" She sweetly called out to him as she, with a flick of her phone, turned off the smart lights inside the room.
"Ah...!"
Yuuto comfortably rolled inside the blanket as he turned and put his arms over Ayumi, much to her reaction which consisted of a bashful smile and a small gasp.
Ayumi nonetheless, quickly returned back to her normal state as she closed her eyes and rubbed her cheeks along with Yuuto's, bearing no shame even when her breasts smashed against his chest or enveloped his arms.
However, as soon as a few moments passed, Ayumi's body turned warm as she felt her scalp and skin start to sweat, soon the heat inside the blankets began to overwhelm her want to sleep with Yuuto as she rolled outside the blankets and gasped for air.
The cool air hit her face as she sighed and looked at the entangled mess of colors beside her, underneath them was sleeping a part of her heart.
A flash of regret passed by her face as she shook her head; unwilling to go away and but what could she do?
"Aya...nee...?" Within the blankets, a hand came as it tried to grasp something and only managed to grab air, and when the host of the hand realized it he —although rather subconsciously— let out a sigh of disappointment.
A rock became lodged in Ayumi's throat as she looked at Yuuto's hands, soon she was once again under the covers and rubbing her cheeks against his.
The trick to her lasting so long however...
Ayumi pouted as she grumbled and took off the shorts she was wearing and threw it towards one corner of the room, and her hem-top came second as they flew away like pigeons in the sky.
In the dark and also cramped space, even Ayumi herself couldn't see her underwear. Nonetheless, she didn't care as she happily smiled and fell asleep, her warmth spreading to Yuuto and vice-versa.
Suddenly beside the bed, a white light flashed as two boys appeared. The duo inside the blanket didn't realize it as they fell asleep instantly.
The two boys had small discomfortable grins on their lips as they searched around the room with suspicion.
The boys looks were dissimilar as each had distinct features that separated him from his other one, but both had one feature that felt similar and that was both of their blue eyes.
Although one was a paler shade of blue and the other was a bit dark, they weren't undifferentiatable or unrecognizable.
The boys both wore similar clothes— a blue shirt with "Absolute Dominion" written on them and red shorts, basically plebian clothes.
"Where is that man?" One of the boys, the one in the front, quietly grumbled as he glanced at his surroundings with scrutiny.
"I donz' thinkz' hez' heer brou'." The other boy slowly, uttered as his tongue lashed around quite a few times.
"Damn him, he's already done the deed. We can't kill him now as it'd cause a bit of inconsistencies in the timeline, well, looks like we'll have to kill our mother first."
"Idnz' care 'bout tyat wahmen."
"Good, first let's just mutilate that bitch and throw her down the river. "
"Thaz' not torytous'. Itz' too gentleg, we muz cut heer heart first'."
"I agre—"
Suddenly, another white light flashed in front of them as they looked at it with evident disbelief in their eyes, which calmed down as soon as it came.
They both looked at one another and shook their heads, soon they grabbed a gun out of their pouches as they looked at the spatial gate with apprehension.
"Stop! Who are you guys?!"
Instead of what they thought would happen, both of them were sucked inside the hole as they looked at one another again and frowned in fear.
Their entire vision turned colorful as the saw themselves in a tunnel, except the two of them there was no one else in the tunnel.
"I thought that this would be another machine from an alternate branching of the timeline! But this is an even more advanced version of what we used to travel here!"
"Brou' whatz do we do nouw'?"
"Wait I guess, this must be another child he fathered in a brothel. If she or he also turns out to be like us, we'll be able to kill him with another friend."
"Oof, brou' u so smarrtt!"
"Hehe, you're smart too Sora."
"Nou brou', you alwayz eccel in things I can't even refermber the nahmes of. U snart."
"Alright, the tunnel's closing!"
"Boom!"
The leading boy opened his eyes as he saw an apartment.
The apartment's insides had water falling from the ceiling, while the furniture were all rundown or either half broken.
"Thiz' apartment iz very beg, isn't it brou'?"
The leading boy enviously shook his head. Even though it was run down, he wouldn't mind living here as it was better than the shack he calls home.
"Hey! You there, are you also from the future!"
In the middle of the room, there was a seat hooked up with thousands and thousands of wires effectively converging at a single point and emerging as a thick transparent wire, the entire room was filled with such wires as a white tesla like tower was fitted above the seat.
Returning back to the seat, a little girl with blonde hair was sitting on it with a helmet attached to her head, she yelled that question while sitting on the seat.
"Indeed, we are from the future."
The boy waved his hands as he cautiously looked at the girl, the girl however, threw away the helmet and jumped towards him.
"Really?!? Are you also from the future?!? Wow!!!! Can we be friends?!?!?" The girl instantly grabbed his shoulders and began to shake them as if they owned her money.
Is this girl a retard? — was the first question that floated inside the leading boy's head
"Surz bozz ladue!" (Sure boss lady!) The other boy laughed as he came forward to shake hands with the girl, but was immediately stopped since the girl turned around and glared at him murderously.
"Are you mocking me?!? FOR THE LAST TIME, I'M NOT A GIRL! I'M A BOY, LOOK!"
The girl opened her shorts and threw them away, the boys rolled their eyes upon seeing the dangly snake hanging down from her/his crotch.
"Sorry, we didn't know."
"Sorry bozz ladue." The other boy chuckled and bowed.
The girl/boy with blonde hair looked at the other boy that slurred and frowned.
"Is he...?"
"No, he isn't mocking you. He's just born like this."
"Ah, I'm sorry if you took offense at that. I'm always bullied so I couldn't help but get self defensive."
"Donz worry fruend. Vous ne devrait pas esprit me."
The girl(we'll call her girl for clarity's sake) didn't get the latter part of the sentence, but she could guess that it was just courtesy.
"So, let's start with the introductions. My name is Tenshi Kazuya, and this kid here is my little brother, Tendou Kazuya." Tenshi nodded his head.
"Ah, my name is Ai Kazuya! We're from the same parents I see..."
Ai sighed.
"First thing's first, what did you guys come here for? I came here to fix my parent's relationship!"
"Us? Simple — Kill Yuuto Kazuya, so we can't be born."
...
(Un)fortunately, Yuuto didn't dream of anything weirdly sexual today as he woke up and started sneezing and coughing the moment he threw the three blankets off him.
He looked towards his left as his soul jumped out of his body using his crotch.
Elastic and plump curves, devoid of any fat: tempting, soft and voluptuous breasts covered with a red bra and flat stomach, furthermore looking down—
"Yu-chan, I don't want to drink anymore...nooo...i don't want to see your cute little penis..."
"The fuck?" Yuuto gagged on his breath as he slipped away from his bed, having no intentions to return anymore.
"Better get out of here..."
As soon as Yuuto went outside the room, he stumbled on a fat bloke as he uttered words of 'wisdom'—
"The fuck?!"
Well, not really.
"The fuck did you come from?!" Aayaden yelled as he fell on top of a sofa as a result of the collision. His expression was filled with disbelief and suspicion.
"Surprise motherfucker."
...
Yuuto left the house wearing a shirt and a thigh-length swimming shorts, his friends were still inside the house trying out the clothes they brought while he had quickly gotten outside with Ayumi.
Yuuto looked at Ayumi with a perplexed smile, his tongue however, couldn't be helped as it constantly licked his lips and wettened them until it was dripping saliva — which attracted a pleasant chuckle from Ayumi.
"Aya-nee..."
Yuuto looked at his goddess...
Ayumi's face was as ethereal and radiant as ever. Her thin lips were colored bright red as it contrasted fabulously with her pastel-like creamy skin.
Ayumi's hair was unrestricted as it freely flew in the air, evidencing the fact that the air of April is forever youthful and evergreen.
No one could compare with her beauty. Not even Karin, not even Sakuya. But regretfully, once a certain amount of times passes, she'll turn into nothing but a bunch of beautiful bones.
Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse — that's how Yuuto wanted her to die. He didn't want her to fade away — regardless of how shallow it felt.
She was a beautiful color on a canvas, a type of color that will fade away with time and eternally vanish.
So, Yuuto's greatest wish was to die before her.
"Hm? Yu-chan?"
Yuuto woke up from his inner monologue as his eyes fell on top of her swimsuit. She was as he wished, wearing a frilly bandeau, a colorful one at that too.
Ayumi pleasantly smiled as she saw him looking at her, and as observed, she didn't blush as she didn't mind him checking out her body.
Ayumi's perky breasts proudly stood tall as it rebelled against the frilly and restraining grasp of her swimsuit; they didn't sag nor did they stay calm, instead they soared without restrain.
She was wearing a bandeau swimsuit, Yuuto didn't know what they were called but he could see that there were images of palm leaves on the swimsuit.
"Aya nee, let's go somewhere!"
...
Yuuto looked at the scenery in front of his eyes; a blue, transparent sea. The water was cold, even for April, and seagulls cried distantly above as they moved lazily toward the shore.
Beside him, was Ayumi standing with her hands behind her as she looked at the horizon with a gaze filled with anticipation.
"Why are we out here, Yu-chan?" Ayumi asked, still smiling.
Standing beside her, Yuuto felt that she had grown a tad bit more than before. He too was smiling as he chuckled. "Why do I need a reason? You're a beautiful woman and I'd rather stare at the sea with you. ."
Ayumi blushed as she pushed him away, a moment later, she chuckled lowly, "If you wanted to be alone with me, Yu-chan, we could've gone somewhere where I'd at least have a chance to escape if you got too handsy..."
He laughed as he tousled the girl's shoulder length black hair, "How's that for handsy, Aya-nee? I'm gonna mess up all the work you put into your hair this morning."
She giggled and pushed him away, "It's too late Yu-chan; the ocean has already done that."
Yuuto rescinded his assault and stepped closer to her to admire the view, "It's pretty amazing out there... the sun looks like it's CGI'd into the sky."
Yuuto looked at the sun; yellow and lazily shining light into the earth.
Ayumi laughed, "What do you think people said before computers existed, Yu-chan? 'Oh, look at the wonderful view, it's like a very realistic and sharp painting' " She said rather mockingly while giggling.
"Blergh, that's rather uncharacteristic of you ," Yuuto laughed.
"I'm not being a jerk, I'm just grumpy because I have my periods...!" She grinned as she bumped him with her hips.
Yuuto's lips twitched as he rolled his eyes, "I did not need that piece of information..."
Ayumi smiled as she rubbed her shoulders along with Yuuto's while giggling , "Don't worry, I'm just joking! My periods aren't even close at this moment."
"I also didn't want that last piece of information..."
"Anyway Yu-chan, the real reason was that I didn't drink anything since morning, so I'm freaking thirsty!" Ayumi pouted.
What a wonderful coincidence!
"Ta-da," Yuuto produced a small thermos dangling from his hip and handed it to her, "Your favorite."
"Huh, this is a rather strange coincidence...you wanted to give this to me?"
"Yeah, it's your favorite. Try."
She took the bottle suspiciously, "My favorite, huh? We'll see." She took a careful sip before her eyes widened, "Ah, is this yuhoo?!"
Yuuto laughed, "Yup. I had to open five of those stupid cardboard cartons just to fill the bottle; you're welcome."
She took a long drink and shuddered with delight, "Best drink ever made," she sighed contentedly as she closed the lid.
"It's just chocolate water. " Yuuto commented with a wry grin.
"Hmph, you're not a man of culture then; it's a really sophisticated drink!"
"Oh yeah? Then I'll stick with my pauper's beverages, thank you very much. You like everything that tastes like chocolate anyways, so it's biased right?"
"I hate yuhoo by the way."
She cackled, "If you don't like it, why do you even have them in the first place?"
"For you, Aya-nee," he laughed. "Did it occur to you that I might want to keep your favorite drink around for special occasions?"
Ayumi stopped cackling as she looked at Yuuto for a moment and looked away.
Yuuto swore he saw a red tomato blush and smile ecstatically!
"Sure, but what's more likely is that you're carrying it around to placate me if we get into a fight." She continued with a cute pout.
"That's not what this is for," Yuuto assured her with a faint smile. "I wasn't planning on getting into a fight with you anyways."
"Yooohooo! Aya-nee and Yu-nee, hey there!!"
A small loli crashed against Ayumi as she gasped and looked at the girl that collided with her stomach — Minabi Etozawa.
Curvy eyebrows, long eyelashes, a delicate mouth that was still slightly pouted and showed the trace of a faint smile, together with semi-long, smooth hair — all painted the lively image of a fairy.
Strictly speaking, the little girl's body wasn't exquisite, but it couldn't be said as even mediocre. Her boobs weren't big, they didn't even form a bulge on her chest as it resembled a dude's chest — except the hair, that'd be on a new level if that was true.
Her choice of hairstyle was rather bland just like her swimsuit: two-way tsundere hair, or in other words, a twintail. And her swimsuit was also rather bland: red striped blablabla. Pretty super-duper bland.
"You look rather cheery today, Minabi."
Yuuto called her using her first name, rather than using Mi-chan which was taken by Takeshi and protectively patented by him.
"Nee, why are you glaring at me like that?" Minabi hid behind Ayumi and scowled at him.
Yuuto had a nonchalant aspect on his face as he saw this charade take place; this woman couldn't express her emotions the correct way so that's why she acts like that.
Tsundere in the purest sense.
And Tsunderes deserve to be rocked along with Naruto fanfiction writers — no exception.
"No special reason, you look unbelievably...bland today, that's why."
Minabi's hands moved to the ground as she picked up a rock and threw it straight into Yuuto's crotch.
It correctly hit, but not on balls or his dick but instead his stomach.
Yuuto stared at Minabi, who had a shocked expression on her face as he frantically ran and bowed apologetically.
"Hey, why did you do that?! Yu-chan was only joking! You're horrible!"
Ayumi ran and protectively rubbed his head, in return she growled towards Minabi.
Yuuto waved his hands at Ayumi, while Minabi didn't stop bowing as she did a dogeza.
That figure looked small to Yuuto; insanely small.
" Hey, you don't have to do that. I don't really mind, Minabi." Yuuto sighed.
"Yes, Mi-chan, you don't have to do a dogeza..."
"I don't really know, Aya-nee and Yu-nii. I'm sorry, I just have anger issues and—..."
Yuuto held her shoulders and promptly pulled her up using whatever strength he had in his body, which proved successful as she grunted and stood up.
"Well, at least I didn't die, and that's a plus." Yuuto chuckled while Minabi pouted.
"Alright, I'll be back after an hour or so, Aya-nee."
"Ok! Have fun!"
...
Yuuto walked towards a nondescript, desolate portion of the beach where there were no people expect trees and rocks — well, there were people. Two to be exact.
Under three palm trees forming a circle, Aayaden and Takeshi sat quietly as they gazed at the shore with their hands on their backs. Beside them were two laptops pilled on top of each other forming a cake-like entity.
"Oi, look who's here, man!"
"Whomst came here, friend?"
Takeshi looked around the surroundings, and hummed in surprise upon seeing Yuuto.
Takeshi waved his hands towards him while Aayaden laid on the sands and stretched like a boss.
Takeshi was wearing a colorful shirt while Aayaden was wearing a solid black shirt. Both of them had the same colored swimwear: black.
A red vein formed in Yuuto's forehead as he looked at the lazy ox stretching on the floor; which made his blood boil for some reason.
Without hesitation Yuuto ran and, to the dismay of Aayaden, jumped on him and started to wrestle.
"What the fuck mate?!" Aayaden screamed in agony upon feeling the fat arm grappling his throat.
Yuuto let go of Aayaden's neck and sighed. After a whole he leaned on a tree and looked towards Takeshi, who flashed him a thumbs up.
"I was getting tired of hearing the ox yawn, friend. We were bored waiting for you."
"The fuck we were waiting for you! Why did you do that for?"
Aayaden rubbed his head as he roared at Yuuto, his normally sweaty body was now normal due to the windy weather.
"Ah well, I felt like doing that."
"...Yo- oh fuck, I won't even diss you now. You're far below my level."
"Whatever."
"Hey friend, Aayaden was talking about cracking a cold one with us or something." Takeshi interrupted with a curious smile.
"Cracking a cold one? You mean drink?" Yuuto looked at Aayaden, who relaxed his expression as he began to grin.
"Yeah! I forgot, thanks for me remind me, Takeshi."
"Basically, you're about to turn 18 tomorrow, right? That's why, I brought some fucking great beer for you bunch!"
Yuuto nodded as he saw Aayaden pull out an ice box from behind him, frankly; he never drank anything alcoholic before since...well, he never had the thought of doing so before.
Takeshi was an alcohol-virgin too so he had a curious and excited expression on his face while seeing Aayaden open the ice box.
"Basically, I bought this shit just for you two, so enjoy!"
Aayaden handed out two brown bottles to Yuuto and Takeshi, of which both curiously took it and stared at it.
Aayaden chuckled as he took out a bottle opener and opened both of their bottles.
As he looked at the fizzling bottle in his hand, Yuuto shook his head as he redirected his gaze back towards the beach, both of his friends did the same thing.
Just 5 or something meters in front of them, Mio sat on the ground as she tried to made a sand pit, beside her was Song as she lazily lied down with a perplexed expression.
Ayumi and Minabi were playing in the water.
As soon as Takeshi's eyes fell on the loli daughter, his eyes shone as he desperately poked Yuuto on his shoulders.
Yuuto glanced at Takeshi, annoyed. While Aayaden had an interesting aspect in his eyes as he huddled closer towards him.
"So, friend, who is she again? I remember her calling you 'niichan', so is she your other cousin or something?"
Sweat instantly flew from Yuuto's head — he only had two options, say that she was from a branch family, aka his grandfather's first wife's family or say that she was from a retainer family.
The first one had various problems — the main one being that they weren't on good terms with the main branch and only leeched off its resources. While the second one also had problems — the daughters weren't allowed to mingle with their lords in order to stay pure and only allowed if they were engaged.
The first one regarding the branch family is absurdly problematic, the «Littauer Family» is an open enemy of it due to the fact that it employed a man from it and ended up with a few lawsuits regarding money embezzlement in its energy conglomerate. While the «Etozawa Family» was neutral, it didn't differ much from being enemies with it.
"She's from a 「retainer」family..."
Aayaden gasped as he fell on the sand in a dramatic manner.
"SHE'S ENGAGED WITH YOU? YOU'RE SO LUCKY BROTHER, WHY CAN'T I BE LIKE YOU?!" Takeshi screamed as his lips twitched in pain.
"Fuck off, she's the daughter of a servant of a minor vassal." Yuuto blew it off with a wave of his hands.
"Ah..."
"So, can I talk with her? Or is she already taken?" Takeshi lewdly licked his lips as he shamelessly glared at Mio.
"Do you really think we can't chuck you in jail right now?" Aayaden cackled as he hit Takeshi on his shoulders, which made him return to reality as he wiped away the drool on his mouth and shook his head.
"Ah, I just tend to drift away sometimes..."
"Really? How about I tell this 'drifting away' matter to Minabi, huh? She'll probably make you drift away more smoothly into the afterlife, right dude?"
"Of course, I'll just tell her that Takeshi was in a particularly lustful mood today as he stole some elementary school girl's panties and sniffed them until his lungs hurt...oof."
"Ahem, I promise, I won't stare at little children anymore."
"Nah, don't worry. We don't kinkshame anyone here, right bro. You see, I don't really care if Yuuto wants me to commission some dog-on-man or dog on dog action, neither would I care if you wanted me to commission loli porn."
"But the thing is, even though the age of consent here is 13 the laws regulating porn are a tad bit different."
"I know. Well, I am fine watching minituare girls or short women in porn, but sometimes, one does want the real thing..."
"Well, we'll have to go to Nigeria for that. Hehe, fun fact: France doesn't have a legal age of consent..."
Takeshi's lips twitched as he looked at Minabi with beastial fires in his eyes; his shorts were almost stretched to the point of bursting due to a certain 'snake'.
" France it is then, I shall take her to France, and swiftly take her to a hotel and... "
"How old is Minabi again?"
"15..."
"Then why go to France? It's totally legal here to have sex at that age."
"You do not understand, I have to be somewhere that has a more lower age of consent, and if I have sex there, there will be a more indecent aura there and the society there should be more sexually char—"
"Aayaden, let's just ignore this little wacko."
"Alright brother."
Takeshi's eyes went towards Song as they widened.
"Hey, does not Song look immensely wasted and soulless today?"
"Hm? It does look like that, man."
"Hey, friend. Did you say something to her? Because as far as I know, she only takes you seriously..." Takeshi looked at Yuuto with squinted eyes full of suspicion.
"Yeah, did you say anything to her or something?"
Yuuto wryly smiled upon seeing these two "protective older brothers" of Song, who frankly doted on her a lot and seriously loved her — in a platonic way of course.
Yuuto remembered a certain event where he got kicked in the nuts by Takeshi, for totally nothing. Back then he was a kid and so was Song and some neighborhood kids coerced her into eating mud by telling her it was tasty food sent by the rain deities, and Takeshi being the justice warrior thought Yuuto coerced Song to eat mud and kicked him in the nuts.
Whilst he was in a trance remembering old memories, the two dudes still had a conversation going between them.
"Oi, did this filth force her to do something...you know, that type of thing?!"
"W-what!? How dare this unlawful man do this, ay friend!"
Takeshi shook his shoulders as he woke up and looked at his surroundings.
"Hey, what happened while I was thinking?"
"Yuuto... We won't say anything bad, so obediently admit your crime."
"Yes. If you let everything out, then you shall certainly and definitely feel lighter."
"Surely you don't think we'd do something to our fellow brother, right?"
"You know you aren't persuasive when you're saying that while licking the blade of a knife, right? Rather than that, that's seriously terrifying so stop it. You'll hurt yourself, you know? Tetanus is scary, you know?"
" Why are you licking that in the first place? Is it tasty or something? "
...
Solving the misunderstanding took a lot of words, and after solving it, Yuuto sighed and looked at the clear, cloudy sky.
Takeshi put the beer bottle near his nose as he grimaced in terror.
" Why does this bottle of alcohol smell a bit like urine?"
"Blargh, you're just a peasant. This is 100% unadulterated lager beer, you haven't even seen it before so how would you know what it smells like?
" Indeed, I shall take a sip of this later, but I have something to talk about with my dear friend, Yuuto. "
Takeshi turned towards Yuuto as the grin on his face disappeared, Yuuto's eyes also turned serious as he felt the atmosphere solidifying in solemnness.
" You know brother, I have a rather large doubt forming in my mind regarding a recent event that happened a few days ago."
"Ask away." Yuuto immediately realized that this was something connected to him.
"You have heard of the Japanese Imperial College before, right?"
Yuuto's mind flashed back towards a rather mysterious and untouchable school, regulated by a ministry separated from the Board of Education.
The school was frankly divided in a sense — middle school wing, high school wing and finally varsity wing, of which all were separated into two different groups based on gender.
Not that this was the thing that made this school what it was. The thing was frankly that the school was filled with wealthy families and noble houses, not politicians as it strictly refused to let their childrens in by saying that 'their powers are restricted and regulated — even with that type of restrictions they can easily lose power'. Which was conveying the meaning of not trusting them and their children's potential.
With exceedingly high levels of rigid expectations and requirements, most don't manage to get inside it.
"Of course I do. It's a rather large and famous institute."
"Then it is good. I have a thing to say, previously my sister used to study there before she came here, and I have a large suspicion over her transfer."
"You see, there are in all sections of that institute, factions consisting of friendly noble heirs. Among there is the «Kazuya Faction»."
"I know that, and I also know that it's filled mainly with the branch family and the retainer families, Takeshi."
"Yes, but did you hear about the matter that students, related or not, to that faction, were suddenly transfered to other schools all over Japan?"
"It's slightly weird. Your family, according to the college's rules, haven't broken any traditions or produced any criminals. "
"The only way something like a mass transfer of afflitiates could have happened over your family's history is regarding your father. You know that that the school has amazing investigative powers, right?"
"There are two possibilities, your father has committed secretive fraud in someplace or has opened a legal but deceptive brothel somewhere."
Yuuto shook his head.
"I don't think so. If fraud had happened, my grandparents would be the first ones to kick my father out of the family. The last one sounds...well..."
"If the last one was true, I'd doubt that he'd be able to run for a seat in the Diet according to the views of people here in Japan."
...
Aayaden opened his laptop as he watched his favorite video game streamer, Baisiwa, playing a certain game with mods.
The man on screen was horribly disfigured to say the least — his nose had weird pimples on it while his lips were all mangled and entangled with each other like spaghetti. Nonetheless, he was good at playing games and shit and that's all that Aayaden had in his mind.
"I'm sorry my dear viewers, I'm announcing that from now on, I'll be going patreon-only."
"Sorry."
Aayaden's lips twitched as he looked at Yuuto, who had the same expression as him —a weird expression— on his face.
"Isn't this pretty funny? He's gonna lose out on that lovely YouTube revenue just for a few little pennies?" Yuuto questioned.
Takeshi nodded. Although both of them caught a tab called "boku no pico season two" on Aayaden's laptop, both of them promptly ignored it unanimously and watched the stream.
"Isn't this guy like, infamous for opening three YouTube channels at once and displaying the same videos, but with different lengths — like uploading the first 10 minutes of one video at his main channel, and the other three 10 minute potions at different channels with ads activated?
"Dude's a creative asshole."
"Well, he's now patreon only. I can't watch him play these anymore so I better flock to other channels."
"Hmm, this is a channel from someone called 'AleayaJadeSkin', a female one..."
"Huh, she's popular. 701K subscribers. I wonder how and what the popular female streamers play."
"I'm sure they're super skilled or..."
Aayaden clicked on a previous live stream and...
A beautiful female appeared on the screen as she moved the mouse, in the meanwhile she moved her breasts left right in a seductive manner.
"Hora."
She wriggled her breasts with more energy than before.
"Hora! Hora! Hora! Hora! Oh noes, I lost lol, teeheehee!"
Her breasts were almost overflowing out of her clothes as Aayaden smashed the keyboard and closed the tab, his expression was filled of horror as he turned around and spit on the sand.
"I do not know if pornstars are more chaste than this lady."
The boku no pico tab fell open as Yuuto's eyes went wide upon seeing it.
Turns out, it's a novel — a fanfiction to say the least written by someone called "Gyihhuhu", an openly gay author that funds gay parades.
[AU Note — where did this come from?]
[AU's alternate persona — Don't deny my friend...you are gay and like dick...]
Aayaden coughed as he closed the other tab with lightning like efficiency.
"Reminds me, did you do something regarding those Naruto fanfictions?"
A battle harden expression appeared on Yuuto's face as he gripped Aayaden's shoulder, to which Aayaden reacted to by licking his lips and screaming out a battle cry filled with blood lust.
Takeshi just looked at them as if they were children playing with dildos.
"Indeed, my brother! HAHAHAHA, I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY CREATED 50 LEVEL FIVE ACCOUNTS FOR YOU IN QUINDIAN.COM!!!!"
"SUCCESS! WE HAVE ACHIEVED SUCCESS IN OUR AGENDA! NOW WE CAN FINALLY START A SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST THOSE NARUTO FANFICS, WAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA!"
"Friends, why do you hate these fanfictions so much...?"
Yuuto violently smashed his foot in the sand, which would've immediately created a portal to the Naruto world and bestow a power called bullshit-no-jutsu on him if the author liked Naruto.
And he doesn't. Fuck you Naruto, you ruined me and my fellow newbie authors by bloating the rankings with shit. I can't find anything new to read anymore either as a reader right now you little piece of vapid shit plated with gold.
"You little piece of shit, how dare you belittle our efforts to thwart the Naruto-archy! I'll show you why I do all of this!"
Yuuto took the laptop and turned it towards Takeshi, who had his soul jump out of his mouth the instant he saw the redundant and shitty things on the screen.
Naruto System In Marvel Universe — 1st Rank. [Contracted]
(Quick little info for my dudes — With a single exception, you absolutely cannot make money on fan fiction. If the owner of the copyright, the production company or the agent of the owner finds out you are making money on fanfiction, you will be sued.
The single exception is that a very few properties have been licensed through Amazon that allow for the writers of fanfiction to publish work based on those properties through Amazon only.
I cannot stress this enough. You cannot make money on fanfiction. If you try, you will find lawyers at your door. In this case regarding the fair calling that shit contracted, this is the only time such unrealistic and unreasonable things will be shown.)
Gumball And Naruto. — 15th rank.
One Piece System In Naruto World: Harem System: Conquer The Women. — 3rd rabk
I Died and I Reincarnated In the Dragon Ball World With Naruto System? — 2nd rank.
Vegetable Vegita In The Onion Empire — 25th rank.
[Yuri] Big-dicked Futa Sakura In A Lesbo-Universe: Watch How She Turns Lesbians Into Cock-sucking monsters. — 6th rank.
Naruto System In The Edea Chronicle Universe: Cucking a Harem Of True Love — 50th rank.
"And the last one has like, two chapters and it's in the top 50..."
"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" (X3)
Annoucment: Listen ya' bunch of gay dicks—
—Gets wrapped in a sheet and pelted with stones by dudes that aren't actually gay—
Ahem, ignore that. It's was my alterior personality speaking.
I want to say something regarding the update schedule: as far as I know, you guys are intelligent and already know that I update regularly every two days. I want to say that it won't change per se but the way I'll update will change.
The thing is, I received some complains regarding the length; where some dude said that the 8000+ word count every chap is rather difficult to swallow and makes them bored. So from now on, I'll split the chapters you guys receive every two days into 4 parts(with 2k each). And don't worry, the update thingy will remain the same; you'll receive 8k words every two days anyway.
Psst, it's me, the alter persona of the author. He's using psychology on you, by creating a virtual abundance situation, bruv! Run away!
— The fuck, go away weird little smurf. No one wants to listen on your Narutoslpaining!
