In Bus.
“oi..wake up”
Again. The voice wich similar for mayu was awakened her.
“hng..”
“watanabe-san.. wake up !”
“hng..?” its indicate that our little princess has awaken up from her sleep. Slowly, she opened her eyes, trying to regained her mind.
“Aaahh~..” mayu let out some voice again, her body starting to moved strangely. Her eyes had opened widely now, but seems that she still in her mind.
Mayu still not aware with her surroundings.. yea, she yet reconized about her surrondings…and,..she did not know too that she still leaned her head into someone shoulders beside her.
And unfortunately for mayu, it was not yuki’s shoulders, indeed.. it was an old-man shoulders who was still sitting beside her, and the oldman just throwed some resigned smile to mayu. Seems that he was resigned whole-heartedly for mayu who was used his shoulders to be an pillow for mayu.
“..o-oh gomennasai jii-san ! I did not know that… I didn’t mean to.. I’m so sorry !!” mayu who was finally realizing her fault suddenly bowed and apologized to ojii-san beside her. she cursed herself for doing something stupid like this. its so embarassing.
It seems that they already reached Nagoya.The bus that they used had already empty. Now, there just any four people who left behind. Mayu, Yuki, Ojii-san who was used for mayu to be her pillow, and the wife of the jii-san who was still sit beside the jii-san. They ‘four’ was were certainly sit in same line on the back seat of the bus.
“hontou ni sumimasen….” Mayu bowed again.
Looking at mayu who was still busy apologizing, the jii-san and baa-san just chuckled to mayu, “Daijoubu… Daijoubu..” the jii-san smiled and then tapped mayu’s head. “Otsukare sama…” he said again and then slowly stood up and walked away with her wife. mayu got ‘red’ for sure, the ‘otsukare sama’ phrase from the old man was surely a scoff for mayu.
yuki who has stared at the entire scene suddenly brusted out her laugh, “pfft…ahhaaha”,
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Its take a minutes until,..
“wooooh !”, mayu suddenly shouted in disbelieve. Realizing that yuki has laughed so hard, suddenly made mayu’s expression changed into the amazed one, “it’s the first time I saw yuki-senpai laughing like this..”, mayu said amazedly.
“..w-what ?” realizing herself, yuki suddenly stopped her laugh. she then stood up and walked away from mayu. in that short of time, mayu realized something. Her senpai was blushing…cute.
Maybe mayu has learned something from yuki, maybe yuki herself was the type of cherrish and expressive girl…but, is just she was too shy to brought herself, and always hiding in that cold attitude of her.
“hee~ chotto, senpai..” mayu said and then followed yuki who was already getting down from the bus, “Senpai~, come on !! laughing like that again..” mayu said while slowly approched yuki from behind. Indeed mayu has setted her camera to take a photo of yuki. yuki herself was ignoring this hyper girl who had begging her desperately.
“Chotto senpai !! come on ! laughing like that again..” mayu didn’t give up yet for her senpai, she was pouting cutely to yuki.
“what are you saying ? who’s laughing ? I don’t laugh...” yuki said still ignoring mayu.
“you laugh before… I saw it !!” didn’t want to lose, mayu keeps herself to attacking her tsundere-senpai. she still sulked desperately to yuki, begging yuki for laughed again…and then she could take a photo of yuki who was laughed happily and freely.
“senpai !! laugh !!”
“no !”
“senpai !!”
“no !!”
Yuki and mayu was still debating about that randomness in their walk.. they were too busy that they didn’t recognized their surroundings..and now, they have received an much attention from the people who had passed them and saw them debating like..a couple of lover.
After for-who-knows-how-long-they-debating, they suddenly stopped... they confused for a while..
Grrrrwwll…
Groowwwll..
The sudden voice had stopped them..
“..i’m hungry” suddenly mayu said while touching her stomach. “nee~ senpai, can we eat first ?”
“……” yuki silenced ignoring mayu.
“nee~, yuki-senpai can we eat first ? I’m hungry now..”
“…..”
“senpai~… I’m so hungry now.. I feels like I can eat you now if I not get something to eat.. common~” mayu sulked to yuki, attacking her with an cute pout.
Looking at mayu wich being like that, yuki cant help it. She finally sighed in defeated tone to mayu “hhah… its cause you didn’t ate anything last night … like what I said.. you need to eat more and lot again.” Yuki give a bit protest to mayu.
“just try to looked at yourself.. you’re so skinny.. your skin was so pale too… with that appearance, everyone would think that you were get a sick you know !?”, yuki said continued her protest to mayu.
“eeh whats with that ? now, you caring so much about me, senpai ?” , somehow get an scold from yuki not make mayu silenced, otherwise mayu instead smiled and act cutely in front of yuki wich get an ignored again by yuki.
“huh ? its not like I care about you…” yuki said while looked away from mayu, she blushed a little.
Looking at yuki who was being ‘red’ again, somehow make mayu want to tease her senpai more again, “hee~ don’t say that you were already like— aakh !! ittaiyo !! its hurts !” unfortunate for mayu, yuki cutted her word by a smack on her head.
“stop your nonsense... “ yuki said while looked away, “lets go !” then she walked first,leaving mayu who was still touching her head wich get smacked by yuki.
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in some shop.
Mayu was still busy for looking the food that she can eat. First, she took a sandwich wich use an sarden, then she took an ‘red rice’ onigiri, and for the last, she choose to get some apple for desert.
“are you sure just that ?” yuki asked to mayu when she finished. “if you were starving again.. I didn’t want to take care of you, you understands !?”
“yeesss, sir ~”
“and beside that…we need to hurry if we want to take the express train… ten o’clock ! we must reached the station at ten o’clock ! on time !” yuki continued explaining.
“yea..yea..yea, I understands” mayu answered bluntly to yuki, seems that she was not paying much attention to her.
It seems that mayu was hiding some secret plan again. And for sure….she have one. She did not want too hury this time, she want to enjoyed more about this town. Nagoya. Mayu never visited Nagoya before, so…she would do anything for this plan of her.
Thats why when mayu had finished her thing, she begged to yuki to taken some break, she argued that she need to eat her breakfast first.. and.. surprisingly, after an hour of beg and persuading yuki, she finally given up on mayu.
And now.. there they are, sitting in the one of the famous park in this city. Meijo park.
Meijo park, that’s what they called. This place was one of big famous park in Nagoya. Everyone in nagoya has loved this place. This park is representation of beauty on this city. In here, you could see the grove of trees wich neatly arranged, The many kind of flower, the shade of trees..and of course.. the line of sakura tree wich afterly made this park looked so beautiful and great. And what’s the best is… you can see the greatnees of nagoya castle from here. so beauty, right ?.
Lets back to mayu and yuki who was now sitting under one of sakura tree in there.
“Aaahh… we were so unfortunate. The sakura yet bloomed now..”. mayu said while busy taking a photo at every corner of this park. Seems that she really enjoying her time now.
“of course not yet.. in the midle country like this, maybe sakura will bloomed on the next week.” Yuki replied.
“souka..emmm.. maybe in kansai ? maybe sakura have bloomed in kansai now, right ?” mayu asked curiously, “ah ! beside that … senpai~…when we arrived in okinawa.. is any sakura that still bloomed in there ?” for some reasons, mayu feels worried about that.
Yea, she feels worries about that. She feels worried cause in this journey.. one of the dream that she want to be fulfilled is.. she want to do a Hanami with her lovely senpai.
Hanami, mayu was always dreaming about doing a hanami with yuki..she always fantasizing that the two of them was sitting under the sakura tree… they sit peacefuly.. while enjoyed the sakura wich falling from the tree… ahhh so romantic right ? …but… yea, maybe its imposible. If she try to asking yuki to doing something like that, maybe she will refused immediately. So unfortunate.
Mayu still fantatisizing about her dream, she did not know that yuki was staring at her all the time. It seems that yuki has knowed what mayu’s think, and when suddenly mayu’s expressions changed into the sad one, yuki stood up while calling mayu’s name. “Watanabe-san..”
Mayu wich surprised , looked at her senpai confusingly.
“we can still do Hanami…” yuki said while looked into straight away, she putted her hand insert her jacket… then she looked at mayu again.
Mayu was more shocked again, why !? why so sudden ? why her senpai starting talked about Hanami ? Is she not missheard it ? mayu was widened her eyes while looked at yuki.
“..E-eh, Hanami ?” mayu said pretend to be the one that not understands, “w-what do you mean senpai ?”. mayu confused… why ? why ? why its always going to be like this ?... everytime yuki give some ‘hope’ to her, she will felt an awakwardness.. why ?
“Yea,Hanami… wait…don’t say that you didn’t know about that ?”
“..O-of course I know,” mayu said and started made some strange behavior again..weird. she felt more awkward again when yuki suddenly looked straight into her eyes directly. Waaa.. she could feels that her heart was going to explode now.
Mayu was uncontrolled. She blushed, she embarassed. She confused. She didn’t know what she would to do. She looked away from yuki, not agitated to looked at yuki’s eyes directly. It seems that yuki’s word has a different power to mayu.
“we can still do an Hanami if we could reached osaka and kyoto.. on time…” yuki’s word suddenly break the silent.
“….”
“..on time.” Yuki repeating again her last word.
“..he ? really ?” mayu was stunned, but an wide smile has maded on her face now. She cant belive it ! she will do an Hanami with her lovely senpai… is it what they say ‘the dreams comes true’..
“Yea..that’s why we need to hurr— aakh“
Yuki’s word was cutted cause suddenly there is someone who was bumped her from behind.
“Aw !” then after it, there is sounded a loud voice from yuki’s behind.
Mayu looked first at the direction of the voice, then she aprroched in hurry to someone that bumped on yuki, “are you okay ?”
A little girl. The one that bumped yuki was actually a little girl. She used an blue uniform with a yelow hat. It seems that she was just an kindergarten student. Maybe she lose her way, seems that she almost crying because of it… or maybe, its cause she bumped to yuki.
The little girl then try to stand on herself, she ignoring mayu’s help. And when she already stood up, suddenly she shouted to yuki, “You are not Mama !!”.
“eh ?” Yuki surprised with the little girl word.
“You separated from your mother ?” Mayu try to asking and giving some help to this little girl, but what she got was a protest and an angry glare from this little girl. Mayu confused for first, why ? why this little girl stared at them with such irritated glare. Then after throwing some mock face to mayu and yuki, this little girl run away from them.
“Jurina-chaan ! Jurina !”
Suddenly from different direction, there is sounded some shout that calling someone names. A woman. The one who shouted was a young woman wich now was running into mayu and yuki standing place. And when this unknowed women have reached mayu and yuki, she stopped.
“That little girl..before… Jurina-chan.. wich way she went ?” still breathing hardly, this young woman suddenly throwed some question to mayu and yuki.
Mayu and yuki looking at each other. They confused for a while.
“ah ! that little girl who was bumped yuki-senpai ?” mayu asked.
“yea..yes.. she was jurina-chan ! I saw before that she was running into this way.. are you saw it ?”
“emm..souka.. jurina-chan was running into.. eh ?” mayu was confused. Where the way wich that little girl run into ?
Looking at the unknowed women, yuki then try to interrupted,“ehm.. excuse me, but who are you ? and what the relations of you and that’s little girl ? are you her mother ?” yuki said while looked suspiciously to this young woman.
“ah.. I’m sorry that I didn’t reintroducing myself… my name its Matsui Rena.. I was jurina-chan teacher.. she was the one of my student in Sakae Kindergarten.” The young woman said while introducing herself.
“..ah ! right there !.. emm matsui-san, jurina-chan was running into that direction before..” mayu said interupted again. Seems that finally she could remember where jurina was going. “emm.. but..matsui-san, can I ask something ?”
“a-ah its okay..”
“why jurina-chan seems angry before.. yea, she looked so angry before.. is there any something wrong with her ?” mayu curiously asked to rena wich get some warn glare from yuki to not involved into other people problems. But its just mayu.. and its not mayu if she not wanting to give some helps into someone who needs helps.
In that time, yuki have sighed and tapped her head. She was really know what would be happen after it. she then wondering, her schedule.. her schedule would be crushed again because of this. Then she diverted her gaze to mayu. Wondering about this hyper girl yuki then sighed. this one hyper girl, cause this one hyper girl, she need to remark her schedule again..huuh.
“ah.. today, our school was doing an study picnic in this park… and it seems that jurina-chan was not really like about it..she refused to join this picnic….but, since we already arrived here, we cant back…” rena-sensei said try to explaining the condition. “its already an hour that she has protested and begged us to sent her back to home… she said that she want to meet her mom..”
“Aahh.. souka,.. I understands now, that’s why she was mistaken you as her mother, senpai ?” mayu said and then grinning to yuki, “seems that you have an appearance wich same with her mother..” mayu giggled a bit while teasing yuki.
“a-ano…im so sorry if she has made some troublesome to you.. I’m so sorry !” rena-sensei bowed and apologized to yuki and mayu.
“its okay..its okay, its incidentally happened… so its okay” mayu said while give an cute smile to rena. Somehow that’s make the young teacher blushed a little. And yuki who was realized about it suddenly interrupted the moment, “ehm.. so, I think its finished, right ? we need to hurry cause we have something else to do, right watanabe-san ? so, please let us rena sensei..” yuki said in irritated tone, she then grabbed mayu’s hand to walked away. But unfortunate for yuki, mayu was pushed yuki’s hand away.
“what with that cold attitude ?.. tch.. yuki-senpai baka..”
“what ?” yuki said while looked to mayu in disbelive.
“I’m sorry about my senpai here rena-sensei.. it was her habbit that she always rude to other people .. but actually she was an kind girl..” mayu said ignoring yuki, she prefer to apologize to rena than looked to yuki. “once again.. I’m so sorry.”
“..w-wait..wait..wait.. watanabe-san, what are you saying ?” yuki said in disbelive.
Rena was confused, don’t know how to react. She just noded to mayu,“..i-its…o-okay..” somehow she felt an awkwardness.
“So.. my name is Watanabe mayu..” mayu said then suddenly grabbed rena’s hand. Rena blushed again cause the sudden skinship from mayu. “yoroshikune~.. rena-sensei” , rena blushed more when suddenly mayu give her an other cute smile.. she just stared at the ground then, trying to hide her red face.
“chotto..chotto.. chotto !! whats with the sudden lovey-dovey things ?” yuki said interrupted.
Mayu let off rena’s hand, she looked to her senpai for a while before she introduced her to rena.”and.. this is Kashiwagi yuki-senpai…my frie--.. emm ..i don’t know.. partner in crime, maybe ?” mayu giggled a bit.
“w-what ?” yuki more shocked again hearing mayu’s word.
“so…are there something that we can help about jurina-chan ?... we can help you to finding her !!” mayu said full of spirit, still ignoring yuki who had already letting out her ‘reaction queen’.
“..H-help ?” rena and yuki said in the same time but in different tone. Yuki somehow in surprised and high tone. And rena said cause she confused.
“yes.. we can help you to looking for jurina-chan ?... but that still if you not mind about it.” mayu continued her word, still with the cherrish expressions on her face.
“i-ts okay for me, I-I’m really grateful if you c-could help us..b-but..” rena looked to yuki, she hestitated on her decission.
“what ? me ?” yuki wich know what rena mean, suddenly voiced out. “.. of course I’ll no—“,”of course yuki-senpai would be happy too about it !! she really like helping other people.. like what I said.. she actually an very kind girl”, mayu cutted yuki’s word before she can finish it.
“w-what !? I do—“ ,”so.. doushita rena-sensei ?” mayu cutted yuki’s word again.
“t-then.. i-its okay I think.” Rena said noded to mayu.
“aaah.. yokatta.. so lets go ! we must hurry if we want to looking for Jurina-chan !” mayu said then grabbed rena’se hand and dragged her to walked first.
–Rena blushed again—“……” yuki just silenced while looked at the two figure who was already walked away.
Its take an minute for yuki until she regained her mind. Her heart was ached. “oii.. watanabe-san !!!” she then shouted from behind.
“hurry up yuki-senpai !!” mayu shouted from a far, stil holding rena’s hand.
Yuki who was doumbfounded in there then walked and followed them from behind. “tch… baka-mayu… is there need to holding hand ?..” yuki mumbled and protested to herself. she then walked while grumbled about mayu stupideness.
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So, in that day. yuki and mayu finally just spending their time to looking for Jurina-chan who was suddenly dissappear. Not reminding that they was still in their run away journey cause its looked that they was so busy about their searching activities..
And its been an hour but they yet found her..
“I cand found it in there…” mayu back from her way from searching of jurina-chan. She approched rena slowly, “I’m sorry rena-sensei… “ she apologized to rena wich make rena feels more down again about it.
“What about you, yuki-senpai ?” mayu asked yuki. but yuki just shooked her head indicating that she cant found it either.
Rena looked more down,“..i’m afraid.. what if ? what if she was kidnapped by someone !?..” rena-sensei said starting more panicked. She cant hold herself now.
“She would be okay sensei ..” suddenly mayu said to rena, “just belive…. She would be okay !” she tried to give some trust to the young teacher. And surprisingly rena just noded after hearing mayu’s word. Seems that rena was calmed a little by mayu’s word.
In the side way, yuki was staring at mayu amazedly. She cant believe that mayu was going to be so serious about this. yuki somehow feels surprised on mayu, its not just she was not given up yet for searching jurina after an Who-knows-how-much-hour… and still !! she was still placed her smile across her face.. not minded about her body wich have sweat a lot and breathing hardly like a want to fainted. Mayu was amazing…that was yuki thought now.
Suddenly yuki has an strong power in her heart. She was touched with the mayu’s act.
“lets try to search once again..” yuki suddenly blured out her thought. “..maybe she was still in here… maybe jurina –chan was hiding in some place.. we need to search in the castle area too.. we yet searching in there right !?”
Mayu felt an little surprised about the sudden spirit from yuki. but then she understand about it.. she was not wrong about yuki-senpai.. she was really care and very kind person for sure.
“jaa~ !! let try once again..!!” mayu shouted full of spirit. “lets go senpai !!” mayu suddenly grabbed yuki’s hand and dragged her to walked again. Yuki flinched a little cause the mayu’s sudden act.. but then she just followed the hyper girl.
Its just a few steps when suddeny mayu stopped her walk. “ah !.. rena-sensei !! just wait in here okay… we will found her !!” mayu said while looked to rena with full of determination. Somehow rena felt speechless on mayu, she just noded to her after it.
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“aah..its been 30 minutes, but yet we found her..” mayu said while breathing heavily.
Yuki looked to mayu. She feels worried about her. somehow she feels more worries about mayu than jurina.
“you could take a rest fir—“, “she must be not far away from here..” yuki yet finished her word cause mayu’s cutted again her word.
“lets searching again..” mayu then walked first from yuki.
Watanabe mayu.. what are you thought on her mind now. Yuki said to herself then followed mayu from behind. They were put too much effort in this thing. Especialy for mayu who has forced herself to always running and shouting for hour.
“senpai.. I think you need to try to calling her name..” mayu said to yuki wich awaken up yuki from her thought. “before, it seems that she was mistaken you as her mother… so maybe if you calling her name she will think that it was her mother who’s called..”
“what ? me ? shouting like you did ?” yuki hestitated with stupid idea from mayu.
Mayu noded. “common try it ! .. just say ‘Jurina-chaan ! Jurina-chaan ! Mama ga koko ni iru yo !!” mayu try to give an example to yuki. “come on senpai !! try !!”
Yuki was hestitated for a while.. she mumbled something that like an grumbled from her. but afterly.. she then shouting like what mayu did before….
And aftery…. Mayu’s shout and yuki’s shout was breakened the silence in the afternoon of this day. they shouting like crazy while calling jurina’s name. sometimes they was asking into the passenger that visited this park, hoping that someone maybe have seen jurina in somewhere. And its been 30 minutes and still..no imrpovement.
“senpai.. why if jurina was kidnapped by someone for real !?” mayu asked to yuki. “if..if she was kidnapped for real !? what should we do then !?” , mayu satrting feels worried about that.
“Stay calm hyper !!... she wouldn’t be kidnapped.” Yuki said replying mayu.
Yuki then thinked for a while. what should we must do now ? we have try many kind of ways.. but still no evidence from jurina… ugghh. Come on !! think yuki ! think !!
“Yuki-senpai….”
“…..”
“senpai…”
“please be silent for a while watanebe-san… I was still thinking”
“but.. senpai !!”
“watanabe-san.. be silent, please !?”
“Jurina-chan !!! it was Jurina-chaan senpai !!”
“eh ?”
Mayu then pointing into some shade of trees that placed in the side of the park. “is that Jurina-chan ?” mayu asked again.
Yuki looked at the place that mayu have pointed. She pierching her look into there… then, she was shocked about what she saw. “Oh my god…how can ?”
“see…” mayu said eagerly to yuki, then slowly walked into jurina placed. Yuki followed her form behind.
And finally…there she is. Sitting under one of the big trees. Hiding from everyone. Jurina. She was stitting while sleeping.
“Kawaiiii….” Mayu suddenly said when she was already standing into the little girl in front of her. what she got was.. jurina sleeping face wich was so cuuuutee.
“don’t be noisy…you can awaken up her !” yuki said awarning mayu. Then she approached jurina’s sleeping figure. “ssshhh..” she make an gesture to mayu to keep silent, then slowly she tried to lift the body of jurina from the ground. She carried jurina on her hand.
“hnngg..emmhh” jurina let out some voice, but seems that she was still in her sleeping mode. “hngh..mama…mama..” jurina was talking in her sleep, she hugged yuki tightly…it seems that jurina could feels that she was being carried by her mother now.. she didn’t know that the one who had carrying her was yuki.
“haaahh… finalyy.” Mayu said in relieved tone.
“..yup…finally..”, yuki said too while looked to mayu.
And finally, the case of the disappearance of Jurina matsui has clearly finished. Mayu feels glad about it. everyone feels glad about it. especially rena-sensei who was bowed for several times to mayu and yuki to showed her gratitude of thanks. She give some snack to mayu and yuki too… yea, afterly she was knows that mayu and yuki was doing some journey.. so, she choose to give some food to mayu and yuki wich maybe could help them a little.
Yea, this is the story of this day… seems that mayu really enjoyed about this day.. yuki ? yea…maybe she enjoying too….And of course too, it will be the one of the sweet memorries that mayu wouldn’t ever to forget.