Chapter 551: Chapter 365: Must Go Out for a Trip_2
"Hanabi-chan, do you think... we could still be this beautiful when we’re old?"
"...Sakura-kun... as long as you don’t dislike Hanabi..."
"Hanabi, you’re a bit too submissive."
"Sakura-kun, don’t you like it?"
"No... if I didn’t like it, I would’ve said so a long time ago."
"I like you, Hanabi-chan." Uesugi Sakura spoke softly, soothing her anxious little heart.
"Mm..." Hanamaru Hanabi responded, "Hanabi knows... Sakura-kun even gave Hanabi a necklace and a sharky bag..."
Uesugi Sakura hummed in agreement, willing to believe her and to love her as deeply as he does today.
"This afternoon on the way home, I met an uncle driving a taxi. The uncle is over fifty, divorced, with a son, and he treats his passengers with great respect... He works fourteen hours a day just to earn a little more money for his ex-wife and child... He wants to reconcile, make up for the time he neglected his family because of work. His dream is to watch his son grow up and buy him a car when he graduates.
"Very ordinary, right? I like you and feel that such a simple life is really good. A quiet life is inherently beautiful—you by my side, answering when I call your name, smiling at happy things, hiding in my arms seeking comfort when you’re sad... Hanabi... I will always follow you... Even if you disappeared, I would always search for you."
Hanamaru Hanabi listened to him with her eyes closed.
She sensed that recently Uesugi Sakura’s mood has been unstable, perhaps because of his illness, so she worriedly held him tight.
"Sakura-kun... let’s sleep first... Hanabi will hold you to sleep..."
"Mm..." Uesugi Sakura was indeed tired.
Hanamaru Hanabi pulled the thin blanket over his shoulder.
The night gradually quieted down, and Uesugi Sakura leaned his head into her warm embrace.
This feeling was so good, so good... making one gradually forget all the troubles, sinking into a dreamy Utopia...
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The next morning, the sun wasn’t as bright as it was yesterday, but the weather was still acceptable.
Uesugi Sakura brought Hanamaru Hanabi back from their morning run, and at the door were the bicycles they impulsively bought.
In Japan, the back seat of bicycles isn’t supposed to carry people. When buying it, he specifically paid extra to have the shop owner modify it so Hanabi could sit.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they went out, they ran into the police.
Two days later, the father-in-law somehow heard about this incident and even called him specifically.
Saying:
’If you want to play, don’t take Hanabi with you.’
Then hung up directly and neatly.
Uesugi Sakura couldn’t answer back.
Uesugi Sakura looked up at the fairly blue sky, turning to look at Hanamaru Hanabi beside him, covered in a delicate sweat.
"Did you get hot from running?"
"I got hot from running!"
Uesugi Sakura chuckled, "You’re quite spirited today, your speed barely surpassed Mr. Samizaki."
Mr. Samizaki is an elderly man living nearby, in his seventies who runs every morning for his health.
"Sakura-kun is teasing Hanabi again..."
Uesugi Sakura bent his index finger and flicked her forehead with a snap.
"Ouch... that really hurts..." Hanamaru Hanabi immediately stepped back, covering her head with both hands.
"If you know it hurts, then you also need to know to work harder, your constitution is so weak, how will you give me five?"
"Who, who said I would have five..." Hanamaru Hanabi’s already rosy cheeks blushed even more.
"Ten?" Uesugi Sakura said with a smile.
"Annoying! I won’t have even one for Sakura-kun!"
Hanamaru Hanabi huffed, clenched her little fists, and hit his chest.
Uesugi Sakura directly grabbed her delicate hand.
"That’s not up to you, however many I say, Hanabi-chan will have for me."
"Hanabi... Hanabi definitely could... but Sakura-kun certainly can’t..." Hanamaru Hanabi puffed out her small chest to encourage herself in a weak voice.
"I can’t? Hanabi, it’s not like you don’t know whether I can or not."
Hanamaru Hanabi suddenly became bashful, her small face avoiding his gaze.
Uesugi Sakura continued to provoke her, smiling faintly, "Didn’t Hanabi just say I can’t? Rest assured, I can definitely make you have ten in the future."
"...Big... doesn’t necessarily mean you can..."
Having just said that, Hanamaru Hanabi suddenly covered her face, realizing what she had just said.
Thinking... thinking wrongly...
Uh...
Uesugi Sakura didn’t catch her mutter, "What did Hanabi just say?"
"Annoying!"
"What?"
"Sakura-kun can’t!"
Hanamaru Hanabi tightly covered herself, standing motionless.
Alright, alright, it seems the young girl has fallen into deep self-fantasies again.
"So, do you still want to have ten with me?"
"I don’t want Sakura-kun’s babies."
"What are you talking about, they would also be Hanabi-chan’s babies."
After that, Hanamaru Hanabi didn’t speak a word to Uesugi Sakura until breakfast.
"Brother, what’s up with Sister Hanabi?" Aei asked while swinging her little legs on the chair.
"Shy." Uesugi Sakura glanced into the kitchen where little Hanabi was busy with breakfast, "Just now, brother told her we would have ten little babies together, and she became shy."
Aei showed a child’s wonder on her face and asked with a lazy tone, "Is brother going to make little people with Sister Hanabi?"
Make little people...?
That’s right, elementary school does teach this part; Aei should indeed know about the process of making little people.
"Ahem... not yet at that stage."
"Brother always looks at Sister Hanabi with lecherous eyes."
"Do I?"
"Uh... said it wrong, it’s that brother likes Sister Hanabi!" Aei replied, and then asked again, "Brother hasn’t made little people with Sister Hanabi yet?"
"No..." Uesugi Sakura always felt it was weird to talk to a kid about these things.
But Aei reads a lot of books, and certainly knows more than most kids.
"Then... Aei can help~" Little Aei lowered her voice, speaking like an enchanting forest fairy, "Aei can help brother put some sleeping pills in the water Sister Hanabi drinks, then brother... can make little people with Sister Hanabi while she’s asleep! It’ll feel great!"
Uesugi Sakura almost choked on his water.
Aei probably got this scenario from some book again.
Regarding this, Uesugi Sakura, as her brother, must help her establish the correct values.
"Aei, you can’t use sleeping pills casually; making little people requires mutual consent and should be done with love. It’s only after that love that babies come into the world."
"Brother is lying."
"How am I lying?"
"You can have babies without love, just like Dad with Mom."
"..."
Aei said it quite casually.
But it didn’t sit well with Uesugi Sakura.
Non-marital children sounds nice, but the truth is, they are, in essence, illegitimate children.
Did their father have love for their mother at all...?
No.
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After breakfast, Uesugi Sakura was changing clothes in the bedroom.
Hanamaru Hanabi happened to be picking up clothes to wash and bumped into him while he was changing.
Her little eyes couldn’t help but linger on his body, the chest... the abs... the arms... along with his handsome face.
Ss-ha...
Hanamaru Hanabi’s face turned bright red.
"Sakura-kun, are you going to Mr. Sakihara’s dojo this early?"
"Not the dojo," Uesugi Sakura put on a summer outfit, smiling at the shy girl, "Hmm? Didn’t Hanabi-chan say she won’t talk to me?"
"Hanabi, Hanabi never said that..."
"Then does that mean you’re willing to have ten with me?"
"Sakura-kun... why so many..."
"I really like the way Hanabi-chan looks with a big belly, it must feel great to touch your round belly then, and Hanabi would also let me put my ear to your big belly, listening to the baby kicking inside. How does that sound? Isn’t it full of happiness?"
"Sakura-kun... really... only thinking about touching Hanabi’s belly... then I won’t let Sakura-kun touch it!"
"I will definitely touch it, every day."
After saying that, Uesugi Sakura quickly added.
"Of course, not just touching, but doing naughty things too!"
Hanamaru Hanabi made an "×" with her hands: "Naughty things are forbidden during pregnancy!"
"It’s not impossible."
"It’s bad for the baby..."
"It really is okay, if you don’t believe me, check it out. Anyway... we haven’t even gotten married yet, why talk about things so far ahead."
Uesugi Sakura smiled at the blushing girl, relieving her shy emotions.
"Alright, I need to head out."
"Where is Sakura-kun going?"
"To meet Aei and Chiaei’s mother."