Chapter 1

(A/N Notes: Hmmm... This one is showing good signs of becoming one of my regularly updated stories)

"..."

"..."

Yasu and the pink-haired girl were at an impasse because neither of them could understand what the other was saying. But how they got into this situation? Well, let's go back to some minutes ago

Some minutes ago

"And these are the ruins of..."

Taichi was explaining to Yasu and his parents about the ruins they were visiting, Yasu was looking at the various cats inhabiting the ruins without paying attention to what his uncle was talking about. Then he noticed a very peculiar cat

"..." <Holy... That cat is fat... And orange... With dark orange stripes... My god... it's a real-life Gorfield!> *Expressionless surprised face*

And he walked to take a closer look at the cat, and as he did that

"Look at the hour, how about we go have lunch?"

"Yeah, it's a good idea"

"Yes, I'm getting hungry in fact

"Great! Because I know of a great restaurant that we can..."

When Taichi started talking he would always take quite a while to stop, and he also talked in a way that made the people he was talking to pay close attention to him, and so none of them noticed that Yasu wasn't accompanying them

"..." *Staring and patting the fat orange cat* "You're fat"

"Miao"

Yasu after having his fair share of staring got up and turned to join back with his parents, but then he noticed he was the only one at the ruins

"... ... ... Where are they?"

He then looked at the hours

"... Yup... I have no idea for how long I kept staring at not Gorfield"

That wasn't really helpful at all to him, so instead, he tried to make a call to his father's phone, but when he tried to make the call the weak internet signal disappeared making the call fail, only for it to return right after

"... ... ... *Deeply inhales*"

Then he turned and went back on staring at the fat orange cat since that was all he could do

Back to where we left

"..."

"..."

Yasu and the pink girl were still staring at each other, him with this expressionless face, and her with a troubled smiling face

"Hmmm... Sai dove sono i tuoi genitori?"

She tried to speak to him again

"???"

And he again made a confused face, since he didn't understand anything that she had just said

"Miao"

"Ah! Sei cresciuto dall'ultima volta che ti ho visto"

She noticed the fat orange cat jumping down from the rock block it was laying on, and walking towards her, she got down to pet the cat and so did Yasu, the petted the cat together

"È carino, non è lui?"

"Huh?... Erm... Y, Yeah..."

"?"

Yasu who wasn't expecting her to try to talk to him again was taken by surprise again, so this time, he tried to remember about the stuff in the Italian-Japanese dictionary his father had bought some time ago, that he had a brief look at the pages

<C'mon, c'mon... Remember my brain about that dictionary with weird words>

And then he started to remember... About a certain funny video, he had seen some time ago

<Wrong!... But it was still worth remembering it... Dictionary... Dictionary...>

He began remembering again, and this time it was the dictionary, but there was one problem... All he was remembering was a bunch of hazy pages without any useful information

<... Well... I guess it's time for a leap of faith...>

He gave up on relying on his memory and instead decided to brute force his way out, and by that, it meant to try to say something, anything, and hope for the best

"Y, Yeah... S, sei... Carino"

Yasu said that as he looked at her with his serious expressionless face, and she who was looking at him when he said that began to have her cheeks turn red

"Eh? Ah! G, grazie..."

Her voice turned lower when she said so as she turned her face away, and Yasu who didn't understand what she spoke, easily understood that she was embarrassed

"..." <At least I now know that what I said isn't offensive... Embarrassing, yes. Offensive, no. I shall take that as an absolute win!>

He was reassured that what he said wasn't swearing or an offense

...

H, h, he called me cute!? I, I know my friends say that I'm cute!... But...

*Glances at Yasu*

"?"

None of them said it with a serious face like that!!!... Wait, he doesn't appear to know what I'm speaking, so he probably said that by accident... Yes, it must be that or he was saying that the cat was cute... Y, yeah, it must be either of those!

"S, sì ... Il gatto è davvero carino"

"... *Thinking pose with both index fingers in front of his mouth*"

With this, I will be able to confirm who he really was calling cute

"... Gorfield *Points at the cat*... Carino *Points at the girl*"

"Eh?... Fueeeeeeeehhhh!!!" *Blushing intensely*

He really meant that I'm cute!!! And he looks really serious about it!!! What do I do? What do I do? WHAT DO I DO???

...

"..." <The hell is she thinking?>

"H, hmmm... E, erm... I, il mio nome è Cicilia Carcano"

"..." <Cicilia... Carcano?... That sounds like a name... She's probably telling me her name> "... Watashinonamaeha (my name is) Hi-... ie ie *Making a no gesture* Yasu Hirano... *Saying something in Japanese to himself in an inaudible tone with his hand on his chin*"

"Vedo..."

Cicilia after hearing his name got up, but she got up a little too fast, so she ended up losing her balance because of the low blood pressure

"!"

And Yasu who noticed her losing her balance, swiftly got in position to catch her. Making Cicilia fall on his chest, and when she noticed that, her face blushed even more and she hurriedly got up

"Q, quindi Yasu ... M, mi congedo adesso, ci vediamo"

And she left in a hurry with a beet red face

"bye-bye *Waving at Cicilia*... ... ... And she's gone... ... ... And I'm still hungry"

Meanwhile

"The food here is pretty good"

"I know, that's why I brought you guys here. I'm sure the boy is liking it..."

"I'm sure Yasu is enjoying it..."

"Yeah, he must be..."

" " "..." " "

"By the way, where's Yasu?"

"Wasn't he with us all this time?"

"... Did we forgot him at the ruins?"

" " "... ... ... Santa merd-" " "

They all swore in Italian when they realized that they completely forgot about Yasu

Half an hour later

The three came back to the ruins, and there they found Yasu laying on top of one of the rock blocks as he emitted an annoyed and angry aura around him while his face remained as expressionless as ever

<He's angry>

<He's hungry>

<And he saw us>

The three had to apologize to Yasu, as he ate the food they brought with them for him

3 years later

"*Yawn*... It has been some time since I dreamt about that time"

A 16-year-old pink-haired girl got out of her bed and opened the curtains in her bedroom, and the morning sun greeted her

"I think we also ended up meeting at Naples, around that time too didn't we?... Hmm... Well, I can think about that later, now I need to get dressed for my first day in school!"

The pink-haired girl who was already fully awake started her preparations for going to her new school

Bonus

Yasu was back at the hotel after being forgotten for almost an hour at the ruins

"... I should see what I said to that girl means"

He picked his phone and searched what "Sei Carino" Meant

"Sei Carino means... You're cute... Oh..."

He looked at the results and thought for a few seconds

"It's okay, that girl... What was she called again?... Cicilia?... Carcano?... Yeah, it must be that... Anyway, Carcano-san looked cute so it should be fine to call her that"

(A/N Notes: Best strategy when talking to someone: Just agree with them and try to flee as quickly as possible)