AN: Hey everyone! I made three new chapters, and I'm warning you, some letters are just annoying, what leads to dumb chapters :)

They're actually sort of oneshots anyway so don't mind please, you can also just skip a chapter x3


I – Ignore


"IRIE-KUN YOU IDIOT!" Naoki watched how Kotoko dashed out of the room and he sighed. They just had a huge fight with each other, and of course it ended up with Kotoko running away. He was sitting on the bed and scratched his head. He and Kotoko had fights regularly, and sometimes they seemed to go extreme, like this one.

Let's see what happened. Kotomi had gone missing and it was Kotoko's fault of course, she just had to look better after her. Naoki had pointed it out to her, but Kotoko was fully convinced that it wasn't her fault. Besides, Kotomi was back home again so she thought it was useless to keep going on about it, but he wanted to make sure it wouldn't happen again with that dreamy head of hers.

He had called her a bad mother, irresponsible, an idiot, worthless, a blockhead and he couldn't even remember what more. He maybe went too far about it. But still, what if something had happened to Kotomi because of her stupidity? He couldn't think about it.

When he came downstairs, Kotoko was playing with Kotomi while the others watched TV. "Kotoko," He said. He wasn't planning on apologizing, but he just wanted to get it over with. But... she didn't answer. "Hey," He grabbed her shoulder but she just shrugged his hand off. "I see." Naoki felt annoyance well up inside of him, and he joined the others with watching TV. If she wasn't planning to talk to him, go ahead, he thought. "Mommy, are you angry?" Kotomi asked. "Only at daddy," Kotoko said and she smiled at her daughter. "Are you ignoring him?" Kotomi asked. "Yep," Kotoko said. "Oh, then I'll ignore him too!" Kotomi squealed. Kotoko was glad that Naoki couldn't hear them. "No of course not silly, no need to!" She said and she patted Kotomi's head. "Ohh.."

The fact that Kotoko had told Kotomi not to, didn't have any effect. Kotoko was ignoring Naoki, so Kotomi did so too. Kotoko had ignored him the rest of the night, and the next day she just went off to work without him. "Kotoko-chan! Shouldn't you just go talk to him?" A worried Mrs. Irie asked when Kotoko walked out the door. She just shook her head. "Not talking to him for a while will make me cool down," She said, and she made a peace sign. "Well then, I'm off!" She left, and a few minutes after that Naoki followed. Mrs. Irie glared at her son. "What? It's not my fault she's ignoring me. Bye." He left too and Mrs. Irie sighed. "What a troublesome couple," She said, shaking her head.


"HAHAHA!" Naoki glared at Nishigaki-sensei. "It's not funny," He said. "So you're just being ignored by the women in the household! HAHAHA!" Naoki regretted immediately what he had said. He and Nishigaki-sensei had conversations pretty often, and he had mentioned his fight with Kotoko. But instead of some good conversation about it, he was just being laughed at.

"But I understand you think you're not at fault, and I know how stubborn your wife can be. Just give it some time, she won't hold out like this," Nishigaki said, and Naoki thought he might be right. Kotoko wouldn't be good at ignoring him forever, she'd probably come begging for forgiveness tonight. He smiled at the thought.


After some hours of work, Kotoko was sitting on a bench with Marina, Motoki and Tomoyo. "Finally you're joining us Tomoyo-chan! You seem so busy lately!" Marina complained. "I know! I'm sorry..." Tomoyo smiled a guilty smile.

"Hey Kotoko-chan what's up?" They noticed she wasn't as cheerful as always. "I'm having a fight with Irie-kun..." Kotoko sighed. "Really?" Kotoko nodded. "I'm ignoring him now," She said, and the others looked at each other. "And…. For how long are you planning to ignore him?" Motoki asked. "I don't know..." Kotoko mumbled with a sad pout. "I won't ask the reason of the fight. Since we know how Naoki-kun can be, so I assume it's his fault," Marina said. "But... I'm afraid you won't hold out for long. You know, ignoring him and all. Eventually you'll let him win, it won't work!" She said.

"I can ignore him!" Kotoko protested. "But can you keep ignoring him until he gives in?" Motoki asked. Kotoko thought. "Hmm I don't know…" She mumbled. "Exactly. He and his charms won't be easy to ignore. You'll have to hold out until he apologizes to you," Motoki said with a bossy face. "Yeah Kotoko-chan. We'll help you," Tomoyo said, and Marina stood up.

"Lesson number one in ignoring your husband!" She said as if it really existed. "Don't look at him! Pretend he's.. he's…" She thought for a moment. "Pretend he's cheese," Motoki helped. They all looked at him/her. "What? Cheese is not interesting and it smells," He said. "Good. Pretend he's a stinky piece of cheese," Marina said, and Kotoko nodded with a serious look on her face.

"Lesson number two. Don't fall for his charms. Remember, he's cheese, and cheese is not charming." Kotoko nodded again. "Lesson number three," Marina continued, sticking three fingers in the air. "Don't let him get to you, don't give in okay? I remember you told us he likes to tickle you, if he does, how hard it may be, don't react! Just shake him off and leave, okay? When he tries to tempt you with touches, get away from him." Kotoko nodded again as she was lectured by her friend. "Alright, then wait for him to apologize, he has to!" She said with her hands on her hips. "Thanks guys!" Kotoko's face brightened.


"I'm home!" Kotoko was home late, because she had gone out for dinner with her friends after work. "Welcome home Kotoko-chan!" Mrs. Irie and her father greeted. "How was dinner?" She asked. "It was great!" Kotoko said with a smile. "Mommy!" Kotomi came running towards her and Kotoko lifted her. "Hey, Kotomi! I'm home!" She hugged her daughter and placed her back on the floor. "Kotoko-chan! Mi-chan has been ignoring onii-chan since last night!" Mrs. Irie whispered at Kotoko. "Oh my.. ah if it can't be helped," She said and she shrugged.

She quickly gazed at Naoki who sat on the couch, sipping his coffee. "Kotomi has to go to bed, and then I'll go too. I'm pretty tired," Kotoko said and she lifted Kotomi. "Good night everyone!" Bingo. She hadn't had eye contact with Naoki at all. She had successfully ignored him. She read Kotomi a story and then tucked her in.

"Mommy? For how long are we ignoring daddy?" Kotomi asked cutely, and Kotoko laughed. "You don't need to ignore him sweetie! Mommy will talk to him soon again, good night." Kotoko kissed her daughter's cheek and then went to sleep herself. That was a lie, although she hoped it would be the truth. Why hadn't Naoki apologized yet?


To Kotoko's own surprise, she held out much longer than expected. She ignored him for two more days. Well actually, she just tried to be away from him as much as possible, so that she didn't have to ignore him. She hung out with her friends after work, went out with Kotomi and hurried around the house to avoid her husband. Whenever he was upstairs, she would be downstairs, and the other way around.

Finally it was Saturday, and both Naoki and Kotoko didn't have to work that day. "Seriously, how much longer are you planning to ignore me?" Naoki asked. Kotoko was in the bathroom, fixing her hair while Naoki stood at the door which was open. Kotoko could slightly see his reflection in the mirror, but she didn't pay attention to him. "He's cheese… he's cheese…" A voice in her head kept repeating while she hummed a melody. "Hey, Kotoko, this is really childish you know, just quit it."

Kotoko didn't react. She could notice from the way he breathed that he was getting annoyed. Very annoyed. Bingo! She finished and wanted to leave the bathroom, but now Naoki didn't give her the chance. He stepped inside the bathroom and closed the door behind him, locking her. "D-" Kotoko wanted to say something, but she'd lose at ignoring him. So she turned her back towards him and fixed her hair some more.

"I'm not leaving if that's what you think. I'll keep standing here until you talk to me," He said. Shit. He left her no choice. Finally Kotoko opened her mouth, it was a hopeless situation anyway. "Then you can keep standing there forever," She said. "Oh my, I talked to you so you can just leave," She said as she turned towards him. For the first time in the past few days, she looked him in his eyes again.

"Kotoko, what are you planning to achieve with this nonsense?!" Naoki asked, and Kotoko's eyes wandered away again. "I…" She turned away from him. "You were so wrong…" To her disgust, she felt her throat get dry. She felt this awful feeling of tears welling up. She couldn't cry! "Kotoko!" He grabbed her shoulder.

"I wanted you to apologize!" She screamed, suddenly looking up at him again, her eyes full with tears. "But you lost our daughter! Don't you know how worried I was about her?" Naoki yelled. "But it wasn't my fault! I… I… Y-you didn't even let me - I... Ugh..." Kotoko started to cry loudly, and Naoki first didn't know what to do.

Watching her made him feel sad. This wasn't about the fact that Kotomi had gone missing. It was about the fight itself, right? What did he call her again? He called her an idiot many times. What more? He remembered calling her a blockhead. A worthless mother, maybe that's what hurt her? Had he been too harsh at her? He looked at his sobbing wife.

He wasn't angry at her anymore, so why was she still so sad? It was just a little fight, and definitely not their first one. Had she always been that sensitive? He honestly still didn't understand everything about his wife. Ah well, it didn't matter anymore, all he wanted was for her to smile again. Finally he took action, he gently grabbed her, pulled her towards him and wrapped his arms around her.

"I'm sorry..." He said, and he could feel her calm down in his arms. "Maybe I went too far. But you know how important our daughter is, right? I was just afraid that it would happen again... I'm sorry," He said. Kotoko's body slowly stopped shaking with sobs, and she sniffled. He apologized, that's what she had been waiting for. "I'm sorry too..." She sobbed, rubbing her head against Naoki's chest in a cuddly way. Naoki pulled away and gave her a kiss, then hugged her again. Kotoko smiled and closed her eyes. She honestly loved him to death.


"So in the end you still lost. What a shame," Marina sighed. "Hmm maybe cheese-san still managed to catch her, but in the end he did apologize, didn't he?" Tomoyo said, and everyone laughed at Naoki's new nickname. "That's right," Motoki said. "Ah well, be sure to win this perfectly the next time you two have a fight," Marina said. Kotoko laughed at her friends. "Na-ah, no fights for us for now. I'd rather not!" Kotoko said, and she giggled.


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