Chapter 13

(A/N Notes: Something something Yuriko will not be appearing that much in these next few chapters or so)

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*Bell ringing*

The school ring had signaled that all lessons of today had ended, now having a moment to move without constraints, Yuriko stretched her arms as she remained in her seat as she had an expression of satisfaction

"Haa… … …" <Beating those two perverts was really refreshing>

As Yuriko thought of that, just some seats behind her, two empty desks could be found, one was from Daichi and the other was from Yamada, and they were both in the infirmary after they both became victims of Yuriko's and the other girls' punches

Yamada was sent there because of the beating he received, while Daichi was sent there because when he had come back to his senses, he was given the news by Yuriko herself that he was now ousted from the student council and that he couldn't talk to her anymore, which made him pass out again

<I need to go talk with the principal as well about what happened during lunchtime… That means less time to talk and make up with Takeru…> "Haaa…"

Yuriko then felt slightly dejected at that thought, since she really wanted to make up with Takeru and go back to having meaningless talks with him

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Meanwhile

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"Achoo! Ugh… Is someone talking about me?"

Takeru was changing to his outdoor shoes as he put his indoor shoes inside his shoe locker. Since he didn't have anything planned with Yuriko, and because he was also really worried if she would give him the same treatment as Daichi and Yamada, Takeru decided to avoid her for the day, and instead go to his cousin, Yasu, house as he had promised to help him and his mother on their housework

After he finished changing his shoes, he made his way out of the school grounds, with a certain someone seeing him

"Ah…" <He's already leaving… … … I guess we won't be going home together as well…>

Yuriko was making a dejected face as she made her way to the principal's office

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Some time later

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"…" *presses the doorbell*

Takeru was standing in front of a door of a house that was clearly of a pretty well-off family, but Takeru's face was the same one he usually had when he was alone or with his extended family, a bored expression with his eyes half-open, showing that he was not all that keen on talking

After a little wait the door was opened, and a tall guy with a considerably good-looking face, appeared from inside the house, the guy's face lacked any form of emotion, instead, it was expressionless, and lacking in any emotion, Takeru and the guy just kept staring at each other

" "…" "

"So? You gonna let me in or what, Yasu? And your house looks like shit"

Then Takeru crunched up his face in annoyance as he said that and called the guy by his given name. It was his cousin-in-law, Hirano Yasu, and the entrance house was already covered with trash, mainly paper

"Sure, sure, come in and just take care of where you step"

Maintaining his expressionless face, Yasu let Takeru inside his house. And after removing his shoes and walking deeper into the house, Takeru saw the bigger mess it was, with many sheets of manuscript papers, monthly manga magazines, and used packages of snacks and beverages littered everywhere in the house

"Geh! How can you and your mother be incapable of doing basic housework?"

"You already know the answer, but you can always ask mother over there"

Yasu pointed at what appeared to be a big pile of manuscript papers and mangas as he said that. Then the pile began to tremble and a figure emerged from under it

"Uuuuugh… I shouldn't have drank that much last night… Hm? Ah! If it's not Takkun! Did you come to save us?"

"I came here for the money"

"Boooo! You're always a party killer! You could've at least answered it a little more like Ichiro"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Aunt Kimiko, so how's your manga going?"

The figure was Yasu's mother, Hirano Kimiko, and as if to betray her gorgeous looks and her always perfect and beautiful wavy brown hair, fitting of a perfect example girl. Her personality was that of an otaku, she was hopeless in any form of housework, she hated going outside her house and talking to other people outside the family, and to top it all off she was a mangaka. It could be said that her beauty was wasted inside the walls of the house (A/N Notes: Please stop, I can only get so hard, ah wait I'm one writing it)

"Ah! Thanks for asking… … … It's going horribly! I can't get any good idea, and all I've been eating since last week was cup noodles!"

"Cool, what else do you have to say to make me see you less and less as a human being?"

"Yasu has been doing the same, but he at least still goes to school when he's not helping me with my manuscripts or making his own"

Takeru turned his head and looked at Yasu while making a crunched-up face that clearly asked what the hell his cousin was doing with his life

"… I'm a good artist!"

Yasu only said that in a confident tone and he pointed at himself with his thumb, while keeping his expressionless face

"… *Deeply breathes in*… Haaaaa… Okay, I'm going to start with your office, Aunt Kimiko. After I'm done cleaning there, you two work on your manuscript, manga, or whatever you two are working on right now, so that I clean the rest of the house without interference. And then after that, I might cook something simple for dinner"

" "Thank you very much, our savior Takkun-sama!" "

"Just start drawing and stop speaking already, dangit"

Yasu and Kimiko made respectful dogezas towards Takeru as he went to prepare the materials needed for the cleaning, including clothes since he knew he would see some disturbing things in that house

While he did that, Yasu and Kimiko went back to working on their current manuscript that was laying on top of the coffee table in the living room, that was being used as a makeshift drawing table because the conditions of her office were… unsuitable for work

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Which could only be described by Takeru's scream when he opened the door to her office

"… Do you think he's going to kill us?"

"Not if we pay him a handsome amount for the help… And if we don't make him a character in one of our works as well"

"Aaaawwww… I wanted to make a doujinshi with him as a character in it"

"He would definitely murder both of us if we did that"

Kimiko made the face of someone who was about to disagree, but then it became a thinking expression

"… Yeah, you're right"

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Some hours later

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"… … … Your office is clean, Aunt…"

Takeru had an expression of someone who just fought a battle over life and death

"Great! Then good luck on the rest of the house!"

"Good luck"

Kimiko and Yasu grabbed their stuff and left the living room, leaving Takeru alone to deal with the rest of the mess in their house

"… … … Hopefully, the rest won't be as nightmarish as that room"

*Ding dong*

But before Takeru could even go back to cleaning someone pressed the doorbell, since he was the one nearest to the front door, he decided to see who it was

"Sup"

"…" *Slowly closing the door*

It was his cousin, Ichiro, who pressed the doorbell, and seeing it was him, Takeru simply decided to close the door

"Aunt Kimiko and Yasu told me you would be here to clean their house for them"

"…" *Still slowly closing the door*

"… I even brought that cream choux you always like to eat at my mother's cafe"

"…" *Stops closing the door*

Having heard that Takeru stopped closing the door, and instead opened it fully

"So what did you come here for?"

"You know, Aunt Kimiko's house is close to my place, and since you were coming here, and today there was less traffic at the cafe, so I decided to come here to help you"

"That's really suspicious coming from you"

"If you stop arguing, I'll even let you eat this cheesecake slice I also brought with me"

"Please, come in"

As Ichiro expected, Takeru was easily bribed with sweets. Then Ichiro put the sweets in the empty fridge and began to prepare himself to help Takeru with the cleaning

"So how have been things in your new school, Takkun?"

"None of your business"

"I see… You definitely met a girl"

"!" *Flinches* "W-what the hell are you spouting?"

"Angry annoyed face… Intimidating glare… Angry tone… With a slightly blush *Nodding* Yep, yep, I got a Taketsun right there, there's definitely a girl you're interested in, in your new school" (A/N Notes: *Suggestive eyebrows movements* Eh. Eh. You get it? Taketsun, Takeru plus Tsun Eh. Eh. Huh? No? It was a shitty wordplay? Tch!)

"If you have time to talk nonsense! Then go clean the other rooms upstairs!"

Takeru said that almost shouting as his tsundere side was showing, exactly as Ichiro expected

"Fine, fine. But this is not over yet… By the way, I got engaged to a pretty nice girl during spring break"

"… There's a girl crazy enough to agree to get engaged with you?"

"Yes!"

Ichiro just went with the flow of the conversation as he always did, and he continued going upstairs, as Ichiro left his field of view, Takeru began cleaning the living room, only for a few seconds later…

"GYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

The sound of Ichiro's scream coming from upstairs could be heard by Takeru

"Heh"

He knew that was going to happen when he said for Ichiro to go clean the rooms upstairs

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More hours later

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After long hours of cleaning the mess that was the house of their hopeless cousin and his mother, Takeru then extorted Kimiko for money to buy grocery for the dinner and then left to buy whatever ingredient it was needed

<I should buy only enough for a week since Yasu said that he only needed me there for that amount of time, then I should buy…>

As Takeru took mental notes of what he needed to buy to feed his cousin and aunt's stomachs, he accidentally met the eyes of a pink-haired girl who was walking in the opposite direction, they both stopped walking and just stared at each other in silence. Only for them at both make annoyed faces and glare at each other at the same time and say…

"Huh?"

"Hunh?"

Dear, readers. What we're witnessing right now, is the start of a rare encounter between two wild tsunderes. Look at how they slowly approach each other, as they both make condescending glares and puff out their chests with their hands on their hips in an attempt to intimidate the opponent, as they made the characteristic tsundere cry

" "Hunh?… Huuuunnnh!?… HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNH?!?!" "

Takeru and the girl glared at each other from very close range, with the girl having an advantage in height, as they both moved on a circle without letting the other gain an advantage, and once they made a 180º turn, they both stopped moving and just intimidatingly glared at each other, until they…

" "Hunh!" "

Looked away as they both lifted their faces to make condescending glares as they turned and continued on their ways

"… … … " <Why do I have the feeling I saw that boy's face somewhere else before?… … … Ah! He was in that photo album in Yasu-san's house!… I think… Talking about Yasu-san, is he fine without me there? No, no, stop thinking about him, it's not like I like him or anything… … … I hope Yasu is eating well at least… Well, since it wasn't anything important I came back earlier than expected, so maybe I should pay him a visit… Yes, let's pay him a visit>

That girl was the one that Yasu mentioned to Takeru as Cano-san, and she was a tsundere just like Takeru. After that encounter, Takeru bought the necessary ingredients and returned to Yasu's home

"I'm back!"

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

The first person he noticed was a pink-haired girl, the same one he saw earlier

" "Huuuuuuuuuuuunh!?" "

And they both glared and tried to intimidate each other once again

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(A/N Notes: This is the most ambitious crossover I ever made… Because I can't think of a better joke)