Chapter 292 Plum Rain (4)
It is Sunday, and the rainy season that has lasted for a week has come to an end, so it is a sunny day.
Watanabe Toru came back from his morning run, took a shower, and got back into bed without putting on any clothes.
Miki Kujo groped over, put her arms around his neck, and buried her face in his arms.
"It's a sunny day today." He put his arms around her smooth, slender waist.
"......Yeah." Kujo Miki responded in a daze.
"I saw a dragonfly on the road. In summer, I want to..."
"Go to sleep." She half ordered, half acted coquettishly.
"good."
The two of them slept until ten o'clock before slowly getting up.
After breakfast, they discussed with Mrs. Kujo where to go.
"I didn't expect it to be sunny today. It's the weekend, so there might be a lot of people in Ueno Park." Toru Watanabe looked at the blue sky and sun outside.
"Then let's go to Meiji Jingu Shrine to see the irises." Mrs. Kujo said nonchalantly.
"…Maybe the same is true for Meiji Jingu Shrine."
"The weather is good, so you don't want to take me out to play? You just want to be sweet with Miki?" Mrs. Kujo looked over and asked Watanabe Toru with a smile.
"Is that so?" Kujo Miki also asked Watanabe Toru with a smile.
"Of course not!" Watanabe Toru affirmed, "I mean, we can go to a place with fewer people."
"I've been alone all the time lately and wanted to go somewhere lively," said Mrs. Kujo.
"You were surrounded by a lot of people yesterday... Forget it, since you said we should go to Meiji Shrine, then let's go to Meiji Shrine."
"You seem reluctant?"
"Not reluctantly, not reluctantly, not at all."
"real?"
"Really." Watanabe Toru nodded.
"He is worried about something else." Miki Kujo looked at Toru Watanabe meaningfully.
Meiji Jingu Shrine is near Shinano-machi Apartment. On this rare sunny day, Koizumi Aona, who did not go out for a trip this week, is likely to go for a walk with her two girlfriends.
Maybe there’s Mai Asuka too—they seem to be getting familiar with each other lately.
Facing Mrs. Kujo's curious gaze, Watanabe Toru said:
"There are so many people here, I'm worried about your safety. Meiji, don't leave half a meter away from me today!"
"Okay." Kujo Miki replied.
After discussing it, the three of them changed their clothes and took a car to Meiji Jingu Shrine.
Mrs. Kujo went for the Showa style today, with a simple open-front sweatshirt and a retro long skirt that reached her ankles.
Although the style is retro, it looks good and even makes her look young. Toru Watanabe almost thought she was a high school girl who wore casual clothes on weekends during the Showa era.
Miki Kujo wore the men's baseball uniform prepared for Toru Watanabe - it was still black and red, very large in size, covering most of her body.
She wore slim-fit jeans, showing off her long legs and graceful curves.
"Why do I feel like I'm always wearing women's clothes?" Toru Watanabe looked at her and said.
"This is the same style for men and women, also called couple outfit. Do you feel comfortable now?" said Miki Kujo.
"Is that so? Then I will...wait, don't put your hands in the pockets of your baseball uniform!"
"Why are you so startled?" Kujo Miki frowned, still putting her hands in her pockets.
"I was definitely cheated!" Toru Watanabe took out his cell phone and flipped to the photos taken in Atami.
"Look!" He handed the phone to Miki Kujo.
As soon as Miki Kujo saw the photo, she burst out laughing.
In the photo, Toru Watanabe is wearing a red and black baseball uniform and jeans, with his hands in the pockets of his uniform.
"It's indeed a couple's outfit." She said as if she had just discovered it, "You go back and change now? We're wearing the same thing today?"
"Every day I was tricked into wearing women's clothes, I..."
"Watanabe-kun!" Mrs. Kujo suddenly took Watanabe Toru's hand, "Look at Maki too! Doesn't she look pretty today? Why are you staring at Miki?"
“…”
Toru Watanabe almost bumped into the tall, faded torii pillars at the entrance of Meiji Jingu Shrine, causing the pillars to turn red again.
"Take care of your mother." He said to Kujo Miki.
Miki Kujo hooked her arm around his other arm and pressed down on him with her soft touch.
She said coquettishly, "Tetsu-kun, do you want Meiji or Zhenji?"
"I……"
"A widow or a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, which one do you choose? Tell me."
"…Meiji, don't do this, I'm scared."
"You're afraid but you don't pull your hand back. Do you want to bury it here?" Kujo Miki's face suddenly turned cold.
Meiji Jingu Shrine is full of tall ancient trees. On both sides of the wide road, walking a few steps inside feels like entering a primitive jungle, with the ground covered with thick fallen leaves.
From time to time, various bird calls can be heard, among which the crow's call is the most recognizable.
Maybe there really was someone buried inside - considering this, Toru Watanabe prepared to pull his arms away from Mrs. Kujo Maki's arms.
"I'm not a widow!" Kujo Maki hugged him even harder, "I'm also a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, although I'm a 19** girl. And compared to Miki, don't you think my name sounds better? Maki, a real princess, right, Toru-kun?"
“…”
There were really a lot of people in Meiji Shrine today. It was hard to tell which countries the Asians were from, and it was hard to tell where the white people were from. Almost all eyes were focused on these three people.
"Speak up, Toru-kun, who do you choose?" Kujo Maki came closer.
Watanabe Toru tilted his body towards Kujo Miki: "Now I just want to kill myself from yesterday."
"Why?" Kujo Maki asked innocently.
"As an elder, you asked me a question in front of so many people, and I actually said that now is a good season, and the lotus and calamus are beautiful now. You are really a person who does not know sorrow."
When Watanabe Toru finished speaking, Kujo Maki laughed happily, "Tetsu-kun, you're the best!"
"Huh? What...hiss——" A sharp pain came from the waist.
He turned back slowly and saw Kujo Miki staring at him with a gloomy smile.
"What, what happened?" Watanabe Toru asked with great pain.
"Nothing," Kujo Miki said casually, "You just said the same thing as my mother."
The weight on my hands is getting heavier.
"Mother and son are connected by heart, which is not something you, as a girlfriend, can understand at the moment." After saying that, Watanabe Toru turned to Mrs. Kujo and said, "Isn't that right, dear mother?"
"Mother?" Kujo Maki looked back, "Where is mother?"
Watanabe Toru whispered to Kujo Miki: "Your mother is crazy, really."
"Tetsu-kun." Kujo Maki smiled brilliantly and ruthlessly twisted Watanabe Toru's hand around his waist - they were indeed mother and daughter.
In this atmosphere, the three of them walked to the cultural center.
This is a courtyard surrounded by a long pavilion, surrounded by green trees and blue sky with white clouds in the distance.
In the yard, someone was holding a wedding and many people were watching.
The wedding ceremony at Meiji Jingu Shrine is naturally the "Shinzenki-style ceremony".
The bride wears a white kimono, and the groom wears a black kimono and a plain cloth patterned pleated skirt. He wears a small white flower ball in the middle of his chest and holds a white folding fan.
The shrine's chief priest led the way in front, followed by two dancers in red and white shrine maiden costumes.
The bride and groom walked behind the witch, and behind the newlyweds was a clergyman holding a red umbrella for them.
Behind the clergy were the family members of both parties, with the men wearing tuxedos or suits and the women wearing black or plain kimonos.
A long line.
"Will we get married here in the future?" asked Toru Watanabe.
"With me?"
"...Ms. Maki, can you go back to your 19** years?"
"You dislike my age?"
"No."
"Then why don't you come with me..." Under her daughter's gloomy gaze, Kujo Maki smiled and changed the subject, "Forget it, I won't tease you anymore."
"Then please let go of my arm!" For Toru Watanabe, that was not enjoyment, but torture.
"Let's go and see the calamus!" Kujo Miki was not as angry as imagined. She smiled and led the two of them out of the yard.
After walking in the ancient woods for a while, we came to a green lawn.
Yesterday's rain had evaporated after a morning of sunshine. On the newly green lawn, families were having picnics, children were playing and chasing each other, and couples were taking walks.
"Sit down and rest for a while?" said Kujo Maki.
"Forget it, there are too many people here, let's go forward." Today it was not Mrs. Kujo, but Maki Kujo, so Toru Watanabe did not completely follow her advice.
"I'm not tired, but my feet hurt." Kujo Maki said, "Do you want to carry me, Toru-kun?"
“…”
"If you don't want to carry me, then just take a break. Is that okay? I'm very gentle and considerate."
"Mother, please don't embarrass him." Kujo Miki said with a half-smile, "Walking with me, he ended up meeting a group of lovers. In his heart, he has already killed his yesterday self."
Mrs. Kujo covered her mouth and smiled elegantly, "I did it on purpose. Is it those kids over there?"
She pointed to a camphor tree where many girls were having a dinner together.
'Vicious 19** year old aunt!'
In the direction Mrs. Kujo pointed, there were Asuka Mai, Koizumi Aona, Akiko, and Miyazaki Miyuki—these were the expected characters.
In addition, the head of the wind band, Kaoru Hayami, and her subordinates: Aoi Ikki, Yoshimi Tamamo, Asako Hanada, Mai Horikita, Rika Kaminishi...
Finally, Kiyono Rin.
"Why are you here?" "Do I need to explain to you?" - This is the eye contact between Watanabe Toru and Kiyono Rin before Kujo Maki said to take a break.
"Go over and say hello, otherwise it would be very rude." Mrs. Kujo said happily.
"Miji?" Toru Watanabe followed his girlfriend's advice.
Kujo Miki sneered: "Then go and take a look."
"Meiji, you must behave like a wife," Mrs. Kujo reminded. "By the way, remember: I am Meiji's elder sister, Maki. I am a third-year student at Sacred Heart Girls' High School. My club is the Kendo Club, and I like comics."
"So you know comics?" Toru Watanabe was a little surprised.
"Tetsu-kun," Mrs. Kujo said with a smile, "How old am I in your heart?"
"……sorry."
"When I was young, I was also a girl who pursued fashion and liked girls' comics. Remember this well."
"Years ago..."
"What did you say?"
"Nothing, nothing at all"
The three men walked over arm in arm, and the crowd over there, who had already noticed them, reacted in various ways.
Asu Mai's clear eyes were fixed on Watanabe Toru, and she didn't even notice the two people beside him;
Koizumi Aina shyly stood up and waited for them to pass by;
Akiko and Miyuki Miyazaki stood behind her, as if to support her;
The members of the wind band were just watching the fun, and Horikita Mai waved happily to Watanabe Toru.
Sitting with them, Kiyono Rin was drinking tea elegantly and calmly - if it weren't for the extra-large bottle of barley tea from the supermarket on the hem of her skirt, Watanabe Toru would have thought she was drinking some really good black tea.
When they got closer, Koizumi Aina was the first to speak:
"Good afternoon, Kujo-san."
Miki Kujo looked at her for two seconds before saying, "Good afternoon, Mr. Koizumi."
"Good afternoon, Mr. Koizumi." Mrs. Kujo repeated with a smile, staring at Koizumi Aona curiously.
"Ah, good afternoon!" Koizumi Aina bowed, "Who are you?"
"I'm Miki's older sister, Kujo Maki, and I'm currently in my third year of high school."
"Hello, Maki !"
Mrs. Kujo's smile became a little more genuine.
Watanabe Toru glanced at the 19**-year-old female high school student and said to Koizumi Aona, "Teacher Koizumi, did you two make an appointment to meet together?"
"Yeah." Koizumi Aona restrained her gaze and intimate tone, "Mai and I were making cakes at home, and Ikki called and asked us to go to Jingu Stadium to watch the game. The game starts at 2 pm, so we'll have lunch here first. By the way, you guys sit down too, there are snacks made by Mai and I."
"Then we won't be polite!" Without waiting for Toru Watanabe and Miki Kujo to react, Mrs. Kujo had already sat down.
Being able to naturally integrate into the group of young people seemed to be a very interesting experience for her vacation, and she was smiling at the moment.
"You two, sit down." Mrs. Kujo patted the picnic blanket.
Watanabe Toru and Kujo Miki sat down obediently.
Asu Mai immediately came over and wanted to sit on the other side of Watanabe Toru, but was blocked by Kujo Maki.
"I'm sorry, Asuhi Mai-san," Mrs. Kujo said with a smile, "Toru-kun, this place belongs to me today."
"...belongs to you?" Asu Mai tilted her head slightly, and a faint voice came out of her thin lips.
"Yes, it belongs to me." Kujo Maki hugged Watanabe Toru's arm, "Isn't it, Toru-kun?"
"…as long as you are happy."
"Really? I've told you so many times not to use honorifics with me, even though we've been out together several times."
“…”
Asu Mai nodded in understanding.
Koizumi Aonai looked back and forth between Kujo Miki and Kujo Maki, and suddenly said as if she remembered something:
"Oh, come and try the cake!"
"Thank you! I love eating cakes the most! Oh, so beautiful, so cute, did you really make it yourself?"
Watanabe Toru: “…”
Taking themselves as the premise, the cakes made by Koizumi Aona and Asuka Mai are indeed acceptable, but Mrs. Kujo's reaction is not sure whether it can be called exaggeration or integration into her identity.
"Toru," Asu Mai cut a piece, "I made it."
"Thank you, senior. I can cut it myself." Instead of taking the piece from her, Toru Watanabe cut a piece himself.
You’re welcome. Sorry, Asuka Mai.
But being intimate with them in front of Kujo Miki, even with their consent, would only make her feel bad about the two of them, which might lead to bad things in the end.
However, even if this is not the case, you cannot be intimate with girls in front of Kujo Miki.
After all, Kujo Miki is his girlfriend.
"Mmm - delicious, Tetsu-kun, come and try it!"
"Need not!"
"Is it really delicious? Come on, ah——"
"Really not necessary!" Watanabe Toru dodged and pursed his lips.
As for being intimate with girls ...it seems that Kujo Maki should be excluded.
While all this was happening, someone else was entering the old theater.
"Good afternoon, Kiyono-san."
"Good afternoon, Jiu...Miji-san."
The two young ladies looked at each other, one smiling and the other expressionless.
"Could it be that you have changed?" asked Miki Kujo.
"Thank you for your concern. I heard that Watanabe-san was here, so I agreed to come, but I didn't expect that you, Miki-san, would come too."
"Don't want to see me?"
Kiyono Rin gave a cold expression that said 'you know it yourself'.
"Forget it." Kujo Miki's voice was gentle and melodious. She looked around at Kiyono Rin and said, "This blue dress looks great, and the white belt goes well with it."
"Thank you." Qingye Rin said lightly.
"I'm not lying. I'm really praising you." Kujo Miki laughed. "You, don't you want to praise my clothes?"
Qingye Lin sneered: "I thought you were superficial enough, but I didn't expect you would care about wearing the same clothes."
"Who made me like him? I even want to wear the same clothes as him. Forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you. By the way, how did you know Watanabe was coming here today?"
"Why should I tell you?"
"Watanabe." Miki Kujo called out to Toru Watanabe who was avoiding his mother's feeding.
"What's the matter?" Watanabe Toru responded immediately - the 19**-year-old high school girl was too difficult to please, and she was making unreasonable demands. She was clearly the one who had the final say yesterday, noble and inviolable.
"You told Kiyono-san that we're coming to Meiji Shrine today?"
"No." From these words, Toru Watanabe understood why Kiyono Rin appeared here.
"How did you know I was coming here?" He looked at me and asked, "Do you even have the ability to predict the future?"
"Ichiki-san told me." While answering, Kiyono Rin scolded him with his eyes, 'Stop talking nonsense all day long.'
"Ikki-san?" Toru Watanabe looked at Ikki Aoi in confusion.
"That," Ikki Aoi replied a little nervously, "was told to me by Kunii-san."
"Guijing?" Why are all the men coming out?
"He said that today is the first match of Kamikawa's Koshien qualifiers, and asked if we would like to come and watch the game. I told Kiyono-san, and she gave us a day off. The director knew that I was coming..."
"I'm not interested in your business." Kujo Miki interrupted her.
"Oh." Ikki Aoi nodded quickly. "After that, I tried to invite Kiyono-san, but Kiyono-san, like Watanabe-san, never accepted invitations, so I found Kunii-san and asked him if Watanabe-san would come. Kunii-san said that he would call Watanabe-san and ask him to come to the game, saying that Watanabe-san's house is very close to Jingu Stadium, and he is a member of the baseball club, so he will definitely be able to come."
"So you said to me, 'Watanabe-kun is here too'?" Kiyono Rin looked at Ikki Aoi.
Ichimoku Aoi felt a little embarrassed and quickly said, "But he really came."
"The problem is, that Kunii guy didn't call me."
"Kunii-san lied to me?!" Aoi Ikki's eyes widened slightly.
"Let me check the records. Maybe he didn't notice it." Watanabe Toru reached into his pocket but didn't find his cell phone.
Lost it? ——The moment this thought came to his mind, he remembered that he had shown the photos to Kujo Miki and had not yet got his phone back.
"Meiji, my cell phone is with you, right?" he said.
Miki Kujo looked at Kiyono Rin with a smile and raised her left hand.
Toru Watanabe held her left hand with his left hand, reached into the sleeve of his baseball jacket with his right hand, and took out a cell phone.
"No..." Before he could finish his sentence, his cell phone rang.
"Watanabe, come out to Jingu Stadium and watch Master Kunii's home run for free!"
"Just arrived." Watanabe Toru said to Ikki Aoi.
Miki Kujo looked at Kiyono Rin with a smile, and Kiyono Rin picked up the paper cup and drank the barley tea as if she didn't see anything.
