Chapter 15
The beginning: 2 years worth of months and days 4 . 5
As I was being hugged by Shuusui, I recalled the night right before parting with the brothers one year ago .
It was a similar kind of situation .
The last three days before Shuusui and I would move . It was the brothers’ wish that I would sleep over with each of them .
But each of them had their own bedroom days, so I visited taking those days into account .
The first day was with Ujino nii-sama . I went to go meet him after his time in the tatami room was done, and after taking a bath together went directly back to his room .
Upon entering the room, the usual scenery greeted me .
A single lattice window, a black lacquer chest of drawers holding his kimonos and accessories in the back, with his shamisen placed next to it . His dressing table was next to the door, and on top of it was his brush for rouge or lipstick .
Is this an actress’s room?!
“Here, let us take out the futon,”
“Okaaay”
As I burned the impression of all the things around me into my memory, nii-sama and I opened the closet and laid out the futon together . After lining up two pillows last, the preparations were complete .
“Roll roll roll—”
“Ukyaaa—!”
Halfway through Ujino nii-sama started to amuse himself, holding me and rolling around; he looked like he was having fun as we played . “I wanted to try this at least once, you see,” he said, sounding satisfied, so I’m glad his wish was granted .
I solemnly thought that this was a very playful, cute person .
You’re many times more feminine than me, nii-sama . I’ve lost in a lot of ways .
“There, now come over here,”
“Yes!”
Smiling, he patted the futon next to him and urged me over .
Having cheerfully gotten in next to him, I noticed Ujino nii-sama smelled very good . That indescribable smell of just having gotten out of the bath . On top of that, nii-sama had gotten under the blanket before me, so it was very warm .
It got dark in an instant after blowing out the candle to sleep, but the moonlight coming in from the window shone in, allowing the face of Ujino nii-sama who would sleep next to me to be seen clearly .
Laying on his side, propping his head up on his elbow, this person lulled me to sleep by patting my stomach .
K, kindergarten teacher!! It’s a kindergarten teacher!!
Actually, how old am I! You’re an adult, aren’t you?! Why are you letting yourself be patted! Embarrassed, the other me in my head started beating my brains, but I won’t pay any mind . Heh .
“Nogiku, do you like us brothers?”
“Y, yes,”
I replied instantaneously to this sudden question .
Of course I like them! This whole year, until the point of ‘all this for me?!!’ did they take care of and help me . Thanks to this, I’ve started being able to perform the arts better, and I’m terribly grateful .
“Like” is not a strong enough word for how much I love them . All of the brothers .
“I like you too . Please think of me from time to time,”
I started becoming drowsy, having my stomach patted gently in a fixed rhythm and listening to nii-sama’s voice . My eyelids gradually got heavier and heavier, becoming half-closed . I was still awake, so I desperately tried crossing my eyes or rolling my eyeballs around, but it was no use . My face at that time was definitely like a monster .
But when I looked over at nii-sama with my half-closed eyes, what a gentle smile he was wearing .
I think that Ujino nii-sama really is a motherly person after all . Though it might be rude to the person in question .
As my eyelids shut completely, I heard the voice of nii-sama telling me “Goodnight,” and with that the first day of sleeping over came to a close .
The next morning, I’d be thankful if you knew what position I was in without me saying anything . T . Shape .
“Nogiku, come over here”
The next day was Kiyomizu nii-sama .
It was the same as yesterday with Ujino nii-sama; after laying out the futon I was promptly directed to his side .
Ah, I said the same, but he didn’t roll around on the futon .
Nii-sama’s room was a bit more bleak than Ujino nii-sama’s . Though it was probably because there was a cloth covering his chest of drawers and dressing table, I couldn’t really get a sense of color from it .
It was fine that I was led over, but right now I’m on top of Kiyomizu nii-sama, on his tummy . Lying on my stomach, with my head around his collarbone area, I’m just like a baby .
What’s more, my back was being rubbed so it was an even more indescribable feeling .
Well, I’m still happy, but . It’s warm, you know? It’s warm and I feel safe, but . Even though I had my stomach patted by Ujino nii-sama yesterday .
I’m an adult adultadultadultadultadultadultadultadultadult
“Nogiku…”
As I tried and failed to use self-suggestion to escape reality, the hand that was rubbing my back stopped and nii-sama called my name .
Maybe, by some chance, he had noticed . Powerrrrrrr~ .
“Yes”
“… . no, it’s nothing . Goodnight”
Thinking he had something to say, I raised my head to look up at Kiyomizu nii-sama’s face, but his expression was dark and somewhat sad, like when I had seen him on that first day . He wasn’t talking as much as usual, and it kind of felt strange .
Since I had expected that we would be able to talk a lot, I was a little bit sad .
Though I wanted to know what was wrong, since goodnight had already been said I couldn’t say anything .
He was probably just tired from work . Even so, he still would sleep with me, so I’m thankful just for that .
Being disappointed is selfish!!
Remember who you were in the beginning—Remember~ , you will remember how humble you were in the beginning!
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Ah . Instead of humble, I remember that I was just scared .
W,well, anyway .
Grasping the black hair that flowed across nii-sama’s warm chest, I gradually dozed off .
Incidentally, the next morning I was still on top of nii-sama .
I can do it if I try!
And then the last day was with Ramon nii-sama .
“Did you have fun sleeping with Kiyomizu ‘n them?”
“… . Ki… . Yes!”
Ramon nii-sama and I both propped ourselves up on our elbows on the futon and talked while looking at the moon we could see out the lattice window .
There were a lot of things in Ramon nii-sama’s room . Vidro glass he had probably gotten from a customer, and a paper lantern? kinda thing? And on the tea table, a long pipe and a folding fan . It was a room very like Ramon nii-sama . (optional fun info about vidro glass at the bottom)
Heheh, it’s a kid’s room, a kid’s!
“Ki? What?”
“I,it’s nothing!”
I was worried about Kiyomizu nii-sama, so I almost tried to say something, but I stopped . It wasn’t something to just go around telling people, after all .
“But 6 years— . That’s real long”
“Yes”
Six years was a long time . How would everyone have changed after six years? Whether the brothers would still be at Amatsuki Brothel, or what they would look like when they were older, or what I would be like; my mind was filled with imaginations of the unknown .
… . wait… . ? …… . Ah!!
It was out of the blue, but that’s right, I was female wasn’t I . The thing that comes around around that age……… . . the period .
I had completely forgotten that a blood smeared future awaited me .
Crap!! That means I have to by any means possible find out how this era deals with periods!!
For the time being, when that time came I would ask the people around me……… .
Ah . It was all guys .
“I wonder how Nogiku’ll be then—”
“wah, Hoh,”
“Heeeere we go”
As I was frozen by the fact that there were only guys, while lying down nii-sama rolled onto his back and subjected me to ‘up high up hiiiigh!” Dangle dangle . Wooooow .
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“You’re a lil squirt so I’m worried about your memory . Don’t forget about us now, you hear?”
“I,I , wooon ‘t for,get!”
Don’t underestimate a child’s(my) recollective ability!!
I have 100%, no, 1000% confidence that I won’t forget!!
Nii-sama, hearing my reply brimming with confidence laughed while setting me down to the side .
“Well, that’s fine then”
“Yeees!!”
Not even scolding me when I accidentally replied in a really loud voice in the middle of the night, nii-sama who pulled the blanket up to my neck somehow looked like he was having fun .
The next morning, feeling that I was being tightly enveloped by something, I opened my eyes a little from my sleep and saw a man’s chest right in front of me . Ah, Ramon nii-sama’s .
But, for some reason black hair is flowing down this chest . Ramon nii-sama? Wasn’t it green?
Oh, maybe he was the type of person whose hair changes color in the morning?
No, what kind of type is that even?
“ah…did you wake up? Good morning Nogiku”
“!? Ki, wha, Ki, yomizu nii-sama,,”
Hearing a voice that I shouldn’t be hearing surprised me . Looking up, I saw a Kiyomizu nii-sama with a sleepy expression .
I should definitely have been at Ramon nii-sama’s place .
So why was Kiyomizu nii-sama right before my eyes? If my memory served me right, last night was a bedroom night for him .
Besides that, having his inner kimono half-open like that first thing in the morning just oozes seductiveness . The morning sun coming in from the lattice window illuminated nii-sama perfectly and was just too bright . My eyes are going to explode .
Wait, no, but why .
Gasp! C,could I possibly be sleepwalking? Late night prowling? Is that why I came all the way to Kiyomizu nii-sama’s place?
What a nuisance!!
My bad sleeping habits evolved further until I walked to move around, how terrifying . I guess I’ll try asking Shuusui to tie me up with rope next time .
Eh . Wait, no, I’m not a masochist .
“Sorry . Could you sleep for a little more?”
“Just a little longer… . then I’ll let you go”
Saying this to me who had woken up, he wrapped me up again, and curled up squeezing me under the comforter like a pillbug .
Kiyomizu nii-sama’s good smell enveloped me completely .
“If, when you,”
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“?”
Being under the blanket, voices were muffled, but since it was right by my ear I could hear it well . Right when I was thinking it was a bit ticklish, nii-sama bumped our foreheads together .
Even in the darkness of the blanket, I could see his sparkling black pearl eyes .
“If, when someday you become an adult, if you leave here and end up pledging yourself to someone,”
“Ple?”
Pledging?
“Before that, just once, would you eat sashimi with me?”
“S, sashimi?”
“Would you eat it?”
“Sashimi, I’ll eat it!”
Pledging, did that mean marriage? Nii-sama really was overprotective, saying something like that now . Even though nii-sama was the one who would be leaving Amatsuki before me, and since it was nii-sama, he might even be ransomed . If there was sashimi I would eat any amount of it with him .
Besides that . I,it’s hot!
Breathing, the breath!!
Even while thinking this, I put wondering what had happened to Ramon nii-sama and wondering when I had gotten into this state back in the corner in the mind .
I devoted myself to being wrapped up in Kiyomizu nii-sama’s warm arms for the time being .
I heard nii-sama chuckle .
“Then it’s a promise”
“Yes!”
“I won’t let you say ‘never mind,’ okay?”
“Yes!”
“If you break your promise I’ll forcefeed you,”
Just how much do you want to eat sashimi?
A few hours later .
“Hey, don’t just take Nogiku whenever you want . How did you even in the first place”
“She was over your head, Ramon . It was easy”
“…………… . . ”