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A Different Start
Chapter Thirty-five
After stubbornly asking an explanation Keitaro and Nanami were now sitting in a nearby ice cream shop with Keitaro waiting for the girl to fess up. The large double scoop vanilla fudge in the middle of the table did little as a distraction.
"So are you going to tell me or not?" Keitaro said munching on a wafer stick and his arms crossed in front.
Nanami puffed out her cheeks pouting, and sighed relenting into his demands. She placed her arms on the table and her chin on her right hand and started to explain begrudgingly.
"I told you about that arrange marriage being cancelled right? Well thanks to my parents who thinks I will have a hard time finding my own man, has oh so graciously arranged a party for those oh so eligible bachelors." Nanami said exasperated and sighed.
"So you need me as a repellent?" Keitaro asked and Nanami looked at him pleadingly.
"To put it in a way, yes, please I just need to make it look like I'm unavailable just to get them off my back." Nanami said hands clasped in front head bowed towards Keitaro.
The young apprentice archaeologist weighed his options, willingly pose as her fiancé and get in trouble or get dragged instead and still get in trouble... either way he knew he did not have a chance in getting out of it. Besides he's pride won't let him back down after saying he would do anything for those who he gave those coupons to. Keitaro really hates himself for being too spontaneous at times.
"Fine, I'll help you, but we need a good story if we want to fool them. Half-truths are better than full blown lies so we need to get our facts straight on how we met and so on." Keitaro said grudgingly.
"Thank you so much KEI-chan!" Nanami said dashing from her side of the table and tackled hugged Keitaro on his side. People where looking at them funny and Keitaro was having a hard time controlling his embarrassment, and Nanami's breast touching him was not helping either.
Nanami looked around and suddenly blurted out " He proposed!" Nanami said hugging Keitaro and the people around had congratulatory looks aimed towards them some wolf whistled and others clap and even made their way to Keitaro and gave him a pat on the back. The owner even gave a round of scoop for free being that, that declaration made his day.
Keitaro blushed heavily and looked annoyed at Nanami. The red headed girl looked back with this oh-so-cute-hard-to-feel-angry-at-her-smile. Keitaro sighed and resigned himself to the predicament he somehow got into again.
Unknown to the Hinata manager two of his younger tenants were there and they heard it all, all about the proposal anyway.
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Shinobu walked alongside Kaolla dazed. She so surprised to see Keitaro with a woman in the ice cream parlor and suddenly the woman blurted out that her senpai had just proposed. Her world just crumbled, she thought she still had a chance.
The tanned princess on the other hand was NORMALLY walking besides Shinobu; she was walking, not jumping around or riding one of her inventions she was just walking like any other person which was still hard getting used to for the others in Hinata.
After the whole coming of age event Kaolla's character did a whole 180 behaving properly and directing her energy on her work more now. She moved passed the destructive inventions, although she still plans on conquering the world.
"What's the matter with you Shinobu-chan? Kaolla asked licking her triple scoop banana ice cream.
"I, it's just that you did see Keitaro-senpai earlier right with a girl that he..." Shinobu said trailing off and Kaolla nodded like it was not that important.
"Well aren't you worried or even jealous that he proposed to someone I mean I thought you liked him too? Shinobu asked, earlier if you knew her, she wouldn't be this forward with her feeling with anyone, but since confessing to Keitaro and all the things happening she grew out of her shell and was more forward with her feelings than before.
"Well I don't mind Keitaro-chan liking someone else. I don't mind being the second wife or third..."Kaolla said nonchalantly. Shinobu had this surprised look on her face and stared at Kaolla trying to make out what she had just said.
"Oh, in my country because I'm royalty my husband is actually encouraged to have multiple wives. Keeps the whole bloodline alive and stuff. I can have multiple husbands also but that's just not my thing." Kaolla said smiling.
" Really?" Shinobu asked and then had a brief day dream of her being pampered in the castle with multiple women clad in see through fabrics and Keitaro picking out his partner for the night.
"How about me... onii-chan..." Shinobu said in a very provocative pose leaning in forward towards day dream Keitaro.
The little fantasy of a 1001 nights of love was interrupted by the young princess as she suddenly grabbed Shinobu who was almost ran over by a car.
"Shinobu-chan are you ok?" Kaolla asked worried about her friends spacing out and almost demise.
"oh my, I'm sorry about that. Thank you for saving me Kaolla-chan." Shinobu apologized and Kaolla smirked.
"Having dirty thought about Keitaro eh." Kaolla said and instantly Shinobu's face heated up and looked away.
Laughing out loud Kaolla hugged her friend. "Don't worry Shinobu-chan I'll make sure to share with you." Kaolla said and Shinobu reddened more if possible. To think that they were only middle-schoolers.
'Wha-wah...what are you talking about Kaolla-chan. I-I wouldn't I ... aww" Shinobu stuttered and Kaolla laughed.
"But should we tell the others?" Kaolla asked her blue friend finishing her treat. Shinobu looked at her and contemplated about it.
Both simultaneously thought about what would happen if the other's knew about the news. Even in their imagination Keitaro ended up being harassed and chased around the house by the older girls trying to get an explanation out of him that they still would not accept
Both young girls sighed and had an exhausted look on their face. Looking at each other both nodded and came to a conclusion.
"NO". The others did not need to know about it.
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"Is this really necessary?" Keitaro asked being measured for a suit in the expensive looking store.
"My Mom is really hard to please; she needs to see that you can provide for me and stuff." Nanami said looking at some of the silk ties.
"But a 50 thousand yen suit? I'm not going to be able to pay for this!" Keitaro said yipping suddenly when the tailor jammed the measuring tape near his crotch. The tailor expressed his displeasure in hearing the words of not being able to pay. Keitaro gulped.
"Don't worry about it. I have enough money to pay for it and remember I do have a few businesses of my own that gives me my own income." Nanami said and sat on a chair. The tailor seemed to have eased up on his measuring hearing they were able to pay.
"I'm having second thoughts about this now..." Keitaro sighed.
"Aw...don't worry love I'm sure we'll get through this." Nanami said suddenly hugging Keitaro from behind after the tailor finished and went away.
Soft perky breast pressing on his back, Keitaro couldn't say he did not enjoy the 'moment' but he knew he shouldn't let her do that. He struggled a bit and managed to detach himself from her and turned to face the red headed vixen.
"Will this really work what if you just tell you parents that you don't want to be married to anyone at the time" Keitaro asked holding Nanami's shoulder.
"I've tried that already. I also tried running away from them but wherever I ran my mother found me."The red headed fake fiancé` sighed.
"It's because my older brothers who is supposed to head the company left, making me the one responsible for the company and all." Nanami said and watched Keitaro look around the shop admiring the expensive suits.
"Is that so... well what our story then? Did we meet one night in a party and hit it off or something, I got to know before we get to this party of yours. ? Keitaro said and stopped in his tracks when a door swung open and the tailor came out holding a suit.
"... the suit will be ready in 2 days be sure to come early so we can adjust it if there is anything wrong." The old tailor said and walked across the room carrying the suit away.
"Let's get something to eat first and we'll discuss the details of our love there." Nanami said and Keitaro was amazed at how she can put up a straight face while saying that in front of people.
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It has been a long and tiresome day for Keitaro. Being dragged around by Nanami and teaching him of what he should do and not do in front of her Mother.
They decided on a pretty solid lie of them meeting in class which they did and slowly developed feelings for each other. If he was asked what he did for a living he would tell her parents he was a Hotel owner.
Keitaro sighed and headed straight for the kitchen to get something to drink. Pulling a can of Kitsune's beer Keitaro pop opened the beverage and slid a chair out and sat in the kitchen putting the beer can on his forehead. The cold touch of the container made his head feel better.
As he relaxed in the kitchen table someone entered and Keitaro opened one eye to see who it was. Yuu came in wearing only her white cotton panties and an oversized T-shirt which he recognized to be his.
Ignoring the young man Yuu strolled across the kitchen into the fridge getting a beer and popped it open and drank it like it was the sweetest thing she ever had.
Keitaro did not realize he was staring and the girl finally felt his gaze and noticed his presence in the room. Yui looked at the can and then down on her attire and blushed. Using her free hand she tried to hide the lower part of her body with the t-shirt.
"K-Keitaro-san I didn't know you were here." She said quickly sitting down on the table. Keitaro was still staring at her and Yui thought he must be wondering why she was wearing his clothes.
"I-I this is not what you think! I didn't go over your clothes like some pervert and just snatched this away I-I just felt so hot in my clothes that when I saw the shirt I asked to borrow it from Shinobu-chan when she was ironing it and and..." The Blue haired biker chick trailed off her face ablaze and her hands fidgeting with the shirt.
"It's alright you can have it if you want." Keitaro said already leaning back on his chair his can of beer balance on his forehead. His eyes closed and his looking so peaceful Yui was a bit taken back by the sight.
"I, thank you..." She said demurely sipping on her own beverage.
Suddenly someone entered the kitchen again it was the owner the beverage the two mischievous beer thief was drinking.
"OH HO... so that's why they were disappearing so fast!" Kitsune blurted out at the doorway only wearing a very tight tank top and blue underwear. Keitaro took a quick glance at the woman but was too tired to actually have a reaction.
"I'll just deduct it from you rent..." Keitaro said cooly and kept the beer on his forehead. The resident fox took a minute before walking up the young manager and took the beer from his head and drank it.
"Fine but next time, buy your own beer." Kitsune said and placed it back on the head of Keitaro.