Okay, that was it, the longest chapter by far of this series (5k Words). I hope you enjoy the long chapter. Frankly, my exam is done. So, i can continue working in this series again. Thanks for your support guys, as always.

1st of July 2012

On a Shinkansen train, on the way from Fukoka to Tokyo. There are 2 females, taking a ride in the bullet train. One is around 5 years old and the other one is in her 40's. If you guys have guessed it, yes it was Nobita's Aunt and his Cousin. Nobita's uncle is not going with his aunt, mainly because he had something to do outside Japan. He said that he's going to join his wife when he returned from the visit.

"Waa..." It was the first time the 5 years old took a ride in the Bullet train. She was amazed by the outside view from the window, as the train exited the tunnel to the town of Fuji. The majestic creation of the mother nature, the famous Mt. Fujiyama can be seen clearly in the background. The sky that day was as clear as a blank blue paper. The Summer Sol, is shining pretty bright from above.

"Where are we, mama?" She asked her mother that was reading a Newspaper. Her mother puts down her newspaper and responded to her Daughter

She took a glance to the outside view, then she told her daughter "We have arrived in the city of Fuji," Her mum said before being interrupted by a train attendant.

"Excuse me, ma'am. Do you want some beverages or snacks." The attendant offered as she pulled the beverage trolley.

"Umm, yes please..." Her mum replied, she then bought a cold orange juice and a coffee for her. She's also buying her daughter a little toy.

"Anu, excuse me... What is the estimated time to the Destination?" Her mum asked the train attendant.

"Probably 45 mins to an hour on full speed." The attendant replied.

They were currently travelling at speed of 255 km/h. They needed to travel approximately 150km to Kawaguchi's Akabane Station, and took a bus from there.

"I can't wait to meet, Nobita" She exclaimed as she stated drinking her orange juice.

"Hahaha, you're so close with Nobita..." Her mother said with glee.

Meanwhile 100km away, in Tokyo. Nobita and Doraemon was In their room. Being forced to share a small fan really didn't help with the scorching hot summer day even at the maximum speed. Sweat drizzled both Nobita and Doraemon's body. Few glasses of ice tea Tamako provided really didn't help, as the cold sensation it gave didn't last that long.

"Hhhhhh, what a hot day!" Nobita groaned, he took of his shirt and he wore his tank top shirt that was drenched in his own sweat.

"Agreed." Doraemon said.

"H-hey, can you take out the Anywhere Door?" Nobita requested to the blue robot.

"For whatt...?" Doraemon said in uttermost lazy tone.

"To use it as a free air conditioner to Antarctica." Nobita said in similar tone as Doraemon

"Huuh, if I move an inch, my inner body will get overheated." Doraemon really is exaggerating things as an excuse.

"Huuuuh, come on Doraemon!" Nobita pleaded with his prominent childish character. Even though he had gotten more mature, but his childish side remains in his character.

"Forget that!" Doraemon insisted.

Then Nobita's phone rang. He took a glance at his phone over the desk, he sighed as he knew that he has to check out who's calling. "Oh what again!" He groaned. "I should have placed my phone beside me this whole time..." He regretted

Nobita then 'forced' to woke up and took his phone. Turns out it was from Suneo that is currently visiting France. He was a bit hesitant to pick the phone up, not because he was scared of anything.

Thankfully, Suneo used the LINE messenger app for the call and not a regular call. The International call can be a bit pricey sometimes.

"Moshi-Moshi, Suneo-san... What's up?" Nobita said soon after accepting Suneo's call.

"Hello, Nobita-kun. Enjoying the heat there in Tokyo?" Suneo exclaimed in mischievous tone "I've heard that today, the temperature reaches soaring 36 Degrees." He added.

Nobita was a bit irritated by that line Suneo had said.

"Ye, Are you enjoying the cold weather of Winter there in Paris?" Nobita replied him, as he attempted to 'retaliate'. Doraemon shook off his head after he heard what Nobita said.

"Oi, Nobita-kun... Do you realize that France has the same season as Japan?" Doraemon said to the bespectacled boy that was standing beside his desk to take the phone call, "Are you really that stupid?" He sighed.

"Huh! I know that!" He exclaimed dismissively, denying Doraemon and pretending he already knew it. Doraemon shrugged and continued laying down in front of the small fan.

"Anyways, how's your trip Suneo-san?" He questioned, just to make the phone call more interesting.

"Well, it's been raining here in Paris since last night. So, we hadn't gone anywhere." Suneo said as he glanced towards the outside of the Hotel's window. Rainwater covered the entire window, partially blocking the view of Early morning of Paris.

"Hm, okay then" Nobita replied.

"And also, do you know why Suzy-chan is calling me multiple times not few hours ago?" Suneo asked. Nobita has no clue on what happened. He then tries to think of a good answer.

"Uhh, I don't know?" He replied. "Have you tried calling her back?" He added.

"Nope I haven't" Suneo replied. "It has happened since few weeks ago, when I helped her with something..." He added.

"What have you done to her?" He asked.

"Well, " Suneo said as he started to tell him a story.

I was having a walk for the afternoon when I heard grunting sound from beside my house. I was wondering what happened, then I approached the source of the sound. Turns out it was Suzy-chan. She was doing some gardening works. To me, she didn't have any experience in Gardening. So I approached her

"H-hey, Suzy-chan!" I said to her, she then paused for a second then replied to me with her usual cold tone.

"Huh, What are you doing here Dessert Lizard...?" Suzy replied as she wiped off the sweat from her forehead.

"Nah, nothing... I just heard some grunting sound from you. And decided to check... That's all" I said to her. "What are you doing, anyway?" I asked her

And She seemed to notice the way I talk to her. Then she stopped being cold to me.

"Well, my mother ordered me to plant some plants and do some gardening." She replied. "She also stated that I must finish before she got home." She added as she continued working on the lawn.

"Wow, that's a mom you got there." I chuckled.

She really don't understand how to properly done some work in the lawn. She hadn't even done half the area her mom asked her to do. The finished area wasn't even properly worked on. Some plants in worked area seemed to look messed up, some even fell to the ground because the ground itself wasn't even properly hardened up.

"You need some help?" I offered to her.

"Huh, why I even need help from a Dessert Lizard?" She replied, again with the insult.

I was a bit offended, but I can hold myself together. Then I decided to strike her back, but not with insult.

"Well, look at this mess." I said as I crouched down to see closer. "You didn't even hardened the soil up." I added as I tried to place the plant back.

"H-hey! Don't touch the plant with your filthy hand!" She exclaimed.

"Hey look! Your mum would be so mad if she sees this!" I told her. "Well, if you didn't want any help then sure. But don't put the blame on me." I said.

"U-uh. H-hey look I didn't have any experience in gardening... So any help would be appreciated." Suzy replied. From her tone, I know that she was defeated.

"Huh! Okay then." I said as I crouched back down. "At least be respectful at others you know"

"Okay okay I get it!" She replied.

Then from there I asked her what's the plan for the garden. I helped her restarting the garden and teaches her how it should be done beautifully. After an hour or so, we are done with the work. Coincidentally her mum came home exactly after we're done. She was happy with the work of her daughter and I volunteered not to take any credit for it. She was grateful to me and thanked me multiple times.

... So that's how it all started." Suneo said to finish off his narration.

"Hmm, and then what have you done to her after that?" Nobita asked.

"Well, I've helped her with some of her homework, especially drawing assignments and things like that. She became more respectful towards me, but still maintained those cold attitude towards me." He concluded.

"Well, I think she's just trying to communicate towards you." Nobita said. "At least try to call her back and ask her what she needs." He finished off.

"Yeah, I'll try" Suneo replied.

Then Tamako came into the room. Disturbing the phone call a little bit.

"Uhh, Nobi-chan. Can I have a second?" She requested. Nobita then glanced over his mother.

"Hm, wait a sec!" Nobita said to Suneo as he muted his phone. "Yeah, for what?" He said after putting down his phone from his ear.

"Your cousin will arrive in few minutes, can you help me move some tables downstairs?" She asked.

"Okay, I'll be there in a minute." He replied before putting the phone back up to his right ear.

"Okay!" Tamako replied as she walked out from the room and went downstairs.

"Uhh, Suneo... I'm sorry... I need to help my mother." Nobita apologized to Suneo.

"Oh yeah, it's okay. Take care!" He replied.

Then as he hung up. Doraemon looked at him with terrified look. "A-aiko-san?" He said. Remember, Doraemon was 'terrified' by Nobita's cousin

"Yeah!" Nobita replied to the blue cat robot.

"I better evacuate!" Doraemon said as he hid himself in his room.

"Whatever, Doraemon..." Nobita said as he chuckled before exiting the room to go downstairs and help his mother.

After a few minutes, he had finished helping his mother tidying up some part of the house. Then the bell rang. Nobita approached the front door. "Okay okay, I'm coming!" He said before holding the door knob.

He opened the door slowly, and he was right, It was Aiko with her mother. After the door opened a bit wider, Aiko rushed to enter the house and jumped towards Nobita, she hugs him as hard as she could.

"Nobita-kun!" Aiko exclaimed "Long time no see!" She said.

"Granted it's been a year or so since we last met." He replied. "Nice to see you, Aiko-chan!" He said as he embraced Aiko back

"Where is Doraemon?" Straight haired girl asked.

"Well, he's in the cupboard in my room." Nobita said, "You can go greet him, though." Nobita added. Aiko then rushed towards Nobita's room.

"But, please be advised that he was a bit sensitive lately, so." Nobita said to his cousin

Then he glanced back at his Aunt, and greeted her.

"Nice to meet you Aunt Nagomi!" He greeted as he bowed down.

"Nice to meet you too, Nobita-kun!" She said as she brushed her hand on Nobita's hair. "Wow, You looks so different, and I like it!" She remarked.

"Yeah, I do!" Nobita nodded. "Glad you liked it..." He said.

Then a voice was heard from his room, and he was expecting the voice to be heard from his room. Yes, it was Doraemon's yelling voice.

"NONONO!" He yelled from upstairs. "Nobita-kun!" He called out from upstairs.

"Anyways, I'm going to check out on Aiko upstairs." Nobita said as he walked upstairs. "It seems like they're having a bit of a fun" He said.

As he entered the room, he saw Doraemon standing on top of His desk, petrified by the looks of it. While Aiko was standing beside the desk and was confused on what just happened.

"Calm down Doraemon, she's not a monster!" Nobita said, trying to extinguish the situation up.

"N-noo! She was!" Doraemon said. "Especially her sharpie, is what I'm terrified of." He added.

"Well, Aiko..." Nobita called out. "If you want to play with Doraemon, don't do anything he dislikes, Ok!" Nobita warned her.

"Mhm!" She nodded in agreement to the Bespectacled kid.

"Well there you go, everything is fixed!" Nobita said as he stood back up. "Get off from my Desk, please!" He said as he gestured Doraemon to go down the desk.

"W-well," He said as he hesitantly stepping down from the desk

"Doraemon!" Aiko called.

"Yeah!?" He replied almost immediately in a surprised yet scared tone.

"Here is a toy! You said you liked it, right? I bought two." Aiko said as she took out 2 bobble head cat.

"w-well, thanks." Doraemon said as he hesitantly approached the girl.

"Let's play!" Aiko said as she took out a little game board from her bag.

"Ano," He was hesitant to do it,

"Hey Doraemon!" Nobita said, " I thought you supposed to be good at handling kids like this since the cats robot is designed to handle kids like this." Nobita added.

"U-uhh...yeah" He said as he scratched the back of his head. "S-sure!" He replied Aiko soon.

"Yaay!" She exclaimed.

Then Aiko and Doraemon played the boards game together, Doraemon is still trying to adapt to Aiko's unpredictable action, and get used to it, but he was slowly improving and started to get comfortable with Aiko. Nobita was reading his manga, when his Aunt came into the room.

"Oi, Nobita-kun!" She called from the doorway

"Yeah?" He replied as he glanced away from his manga.

"Can you go walk outside with Aiko, because she wanted to do it." Her Aunt asked.

"Hmmm, sure!" Nobita nodded. "Oi Aiko!" Nobita called.

"What?" Aiko replied.

"Do you want to walk outside with me? Your mom said you wanted it..." He offered.

"Oooh! Yeah!" She said with excitement. "Now?"

"Yeah, now..." Nobita said as he puts his phone in his pocket.

"Nobi-chan... Don't forget to look after her carefully. She'll get lost if you didn't keep a look on her." Tamako added from behind Her Sister.

"Yeah of course..." He said as he walked downstairs and wore his shoes up. Aiko followed her relative up.

"Anyways, we're going out! Bye!" Nobita said as he opened the door for Aiko and him. "Bye!" Aiko followed her older cousin.

"Bye Nobita, take care!" Tamako said.

Nobita and Aiko walked through the neighborhood, with direction towards the main road. Because in the main road, there's a lot of street food vendors and frankly, there's a summer festival not far from his residence (Across the main road). He thought that she would rather want street foods like ice cream or Mochi's or playing some games.

On his way to the main road, he met Nonko. She was seen carrying a plastic bag of ingredients.

"Oh hey, Non-chan!" Nobita greeted, Aiko held his right hand. "What's up!" He waved

"Oh hey, Nobita-kun!" She answered with glee. "What are you guys doing?" She asked.

"Oh, just taking Aiko for a walk, you know... Refreshing things!" Nobita answered.

"Hey, Aiko-san!" Nonko greeted her as she knelt down to match Aiko's height. "Give me a high five!" Nonko said as her hand gestured her to do high five.

"Non-chan!" Aiko exclaimed as she did high five.

"She's pretty cute, you know that Nobita-kun..." Nonko said as she stood back up.

"Indeed." Nobita nodded. "Anyways, what are you doing?" He replied.

"Just running some errands for my Mother." Nonko said,

Then Aiko noticed something in Nonko's bag. "Chocolate! Is that Chocolate?!" Aiko exclaimed as she points at purplish thing found inside Nonko's plastic bag.

"Sssshhh" Nobita said "Don't do that!" He said to Aiko.

"Oh yeah, it was a chocolate." Nonko said as she took a glance at her bag. "You want them?" She offered as she took out the chocolate.

"Ah, n-no-" Nobita denied, but Aiko "Yes!" She exclaimed as she received the chocolate.

"Thank you!" She exclaimed as she bowed down.

"My pleasure!" Nonko replied.

Then Nobita reached his pocket, seemingly to take some cash out. But Nonko, stopped him.

"No, Nobita-kun... No need to change the money!" Nonko said as she gave a gesture to stop.

"B-but..." Nobita said.

"Nah, it's fine. Seeing a kid eating the chocolate I gave is enough to make me happy." She said as she brushes Aiko hair. "Anyways, I'm going to continue walking." Nonko said as she about to continue walking.

"Yeah, me too." Nobita said as he took a few steps. "Again, Thank you so much, Non-chan!" He said. Nonko replied him with a thumbs up.

"Hey Aiko, don't do that again, yes?" Nobita warned

"Okie!" She exclaimed as she munched through the chocolate.

"Oi, Nobita!" Gian thunderous voice called him. Nobita glanced to the left, turns out there's Gian and Haruo playing some game (Haruo's Nintendo).

"Hmmm?" He replied.

"Wanna come or not?" Gian offered him. This was an invitation Nobita cannot resist, then as expected, he joined them.

"Sure!" He said, forgetting his duties to keep lookout for Aiko. As Nobita played a game together with Haruo and Gian, Aiko sat in the shade of the big tree. Munching the rest of her chocolate.

Then something interesting passed by the empty lot, An Ice Cream truck just passed by the front of the empty lot, of course this catches Aiko's attention. Out of Nobita's ignorance, she sneaked out from the empty lot. Without little to no effort, she successfully escaped Nobita's watch. And going on a journey to chase the ice cream truck. (She didn't really running to chase it, she was just walking there quickly)

The Ice cream truck took a few corners and turn, which Aiko can hardly follow the ice cream truck. She ended up in the main road. She has no clue on where the Ice Cream truck now.

While at Nobita, he was done with playing and remembered that he needs to continue his journey to the main road with Aiko.

"That's it, I'm done... I have to look for my ... Cousin?" He said as he froze. The place where Aiko sat before is nothing more than a piece of Chocolate's plastic wrap

"Aiko?" He said, "Aiko!" He shouted as he glanced left and right, hoping Aiko would be there.

"Hey! You know where Aiko is?" Nobita asked, he was concerned on his cousin's wellbeing.

"Wait, don't say that the girl I just saw was your cousin." Gian said. "If I recalled correctly, she wore a white shirt and blue skirt"

"No way, where's she heading to?" He asked.

"She ran to the right there, chasing an ice cream truck." Gian said,

"Nonono..." Nobita said "When did you saw her leaving?" He asked.

"I think it's around 25 mins ago." He said, Nobita was shocked hearing that. "No!" Nobita exclaimed before running to look for Aiko.

"Aiko!" Nobita yelled as he walked around the neighborhood.

3.46 PM

Aiko is walking in the road side of the Main road. Still looking for the Ice cream truck,

"Ice cream truck?" She murmured.

Many adults actually feel pity when they saw her walking alone without anyone accompanying her, they were afraid if something bad happened at her and no one noticed.

Apparently, some adult did ask her why she is walking alone, or ask her about her parent. But she ignored all of those question. Because she overtook the advice her mum had said to her, to not interact with person she didn't know.

Then after a few meters of walking, the ice cream truck was seen parked on the side of the road. Few customers is seen lining up beside the truck. Aiko was excited to finally find the ice cream truck.

Then she glanced back, to gave a sign to Nobita that she wanted an ice cream, but when she glanced back, she saw no one standing behind her. She glanced left and right and Nobita wasn't there.

"Nobita?" She called. "Nobita?!" She called out. Then she walked heading further from the Ice cream truck.

Back at Nobita, he was desperate looking for her, he then decided to sweep the Riverside area, close to his school.

"Aiko!" He shouted as he glanced left and right.

"What I'm even doing, this is my fault!" He said, blaming himself for the trouble both kids experienced. Bad thoughts did appear in his head. But he tried to shrug that off.

"Aiko!" He shouted again.

Then he met some pedestrian that is walking in that area.

"Excuse me, ma'am... Have you seen a five year old girl wandering around here? She wore a white shirt and blue skirt." Nobita asked a woman that was doing an evening run.

"No, I didn't... Sorry kid." She replied.

Later, "No, I haven't seen 5 year old girl around here, sorry" An old man said.

And Later "No, sorry!" A businessman said.

Those were the answer Nobita is getting when he tries to ask the adults.

Back at Aiko, she has gotten a bit desperate. She checked every corner she could find, hoping to find Nobita hiding there. But nope, she found no one.

"Nobita! Don't play with me!" She exclaimed. "Nobita..." She said as she started sobbing.

As expected, tears started to flow down her cheek. Yes, she was crying, because she couldn't find Nobita. She was afraid that she wouldn't met her mum again. The bystanders looked at her with pity. But she still ignores some adult's question that will help her get home.

Then she decided to walk aimlessly. Hoping that she would stumble Nobita or even her mum. She regretted her decision to ran away from Nobita.

4.08 PM

She walked beside the riverbank when she stumbled the Ice Cream truck from before. And it seems like a teenage girl with a pigtail hairstyle is waiting for her Ice Cream. She decided to approach the Ice Cream truck with a hope that she would be given direction or even free ice cream

She approached the teenage girl, and nudged her multiple times to catch her attention.

"Oh hey, what are you doing here, alone?" The girl asked Aiko. "Where are your parents?" She asked as she knelt down to match the height of Aiko.

By then, she knew that Aiko was a lost kid. "You got lost?" The Teenage girl asked. In which, Aiko then nodded to the question

By the way. Yes, she was Shizuka Minamoto, the one who waited in the Ice Cream truck

"I want Ice Cream!" She said as she points at the ice cream. Aiko occasionally wiped the tears off her cheeks and her eyes.

"Oh, you want ice cream?" Shizuka offered as she she checked the money she have. "Hey mister, 1 cone Ice Cream please!" She requested.

"Oh sure! Which flavour?" The Ice Cream man said.

"Which flavor do you want?" Shizuka asked. Aiko responded by "Vanilla"

"Vanilla please.." She said.

"So when did you lost your parent?" Shizuka asked Aiko as she knelt down again.

"It's been a while" Aiko responded. "My cousin lost me..." She added.

"Oh, that's horrible." She reacted. "I will help you find your cousin, that's for sure." She added.

"Alright, here is your Ice Cream!" The man said as he handed over the ice cream.

"Alright, here is the money, you can keep the change." Pigtailed girl said. "Thank you!" the man said as he jumped into the Driver seat and drove off.

Shizuka and Aiko walked together, climbing up the stairs on the River bank few meters eastward from her school. to get the closer view of the Arakawa River. "Hey, let's take a seat in this chair." Aiko offered as she pointed to a chair under a shade of a big tree

"Oh ok, sure!" Shizuka said as she followed Aiko's request. "We are going to finish our ice cream first before looking for your cousin, ok!" Shizuka said as she sat down on the bench.

"What River is that," Aiko pointed out towards the body of water in front of their eyes.

"Oh, it was Arakawa River!" Shizuka said. "It was the biggest river in Tokyo." She added.

"How big is the river." Aiko asked.

"Well, I'm pretty sure it wasn't as big as y

"Hahaha!" Aiko giggled.

"By the way, your necklace ornament kinda reminds me of friend of mine." Shizuka remarked.

It wasn't too long for Aiko to recognize that the girl in front of her that she knew Doraemon. Nobita had also remarked similarly about her necklace ornament that looks like Doraemon..

"Nobita...?" Aiko murmured.

"Eh?" Shizuka was surprised to hear that. "You know, Nobita-san?" Shizuka asked.

"He is my cousin." Aiko replied.

"Oooh, why he is abandoning you?" Shizuka asked.

"I ran from Nobita and I lost him." Aiko replied to her. "I shouldn't have ran away." She added.

"Oh, so next time, stay close with the older relative or your parent." Shizuka reminded her. "So this will not happen next time, got it!" She added.

Shizuka was a bit relieved to know that the girl in front of her wasn't a total stranger, because her cousin was his best friend. She knew that the search wouldn't be as hard as she thought of earlier.

"Got it!" Aiko exclaimed.

Then the both girl continued to talk. The both shared laughs and giggles, sometimes Shizuka would also give her basic knowledge. Her beginner mum instinct kicked into gear. The two drew closer and closer, to the point where Aiko is now attached towards Shizuka.

While at Nobita. He was desperate looking for her. He was overwhelmed by guilt and regret because he had distracted himself. And he was ready to take the blame for it.

Bad thoughts also overwhelmed his thoughts. He could not imagine what is going to happen when he can't find Aiko. Those scary thoughts is enough to keep Nobita motivated for the search.

He took a glance at his phone, it was around 4.15 PM. He sighed as he had lost Aiko for around an hour or so.

He then broke up crying, because he was overwhelmed by those thought.

He decided to go to the nearest police box to go get a help as soon as possible, because trusting adults that passed by really isn't a great tactic to search for missing child.

But then, as he walked past his Junior High School to go to the police box, he heard 2 familiar voices coming from the bank of the river. He stopped sobbing and climbed up the neares stairs as fast as he could.

Then voila! He found out that Aiko is safe, together with Shizuka. The both shared laugh as they drank their ice cream cones under evening sun. Nobita slowly approached the both girls and greeted them

"Aiko!" He called out,

"Nobita!" Aiko exclaimed happily as she had finally found her cousin. Then she pelted all the way towards Nobita. Shizuka gave them a smile. "I've finally found you!"

"Yeah, I was worried as hell since I lost you!" Nobita said as he embraced his female cousin tightly.

Then Nobita took a glance to Shizuka, and gave her a 'Nice' hand gesture.

"Arigatou, Shizuka-chan!" He thanked.

"Yeah, No problem!" She said. "At least I found a way to keep her entertained," She added.

"Yeah you helped me a lot." Nobita said as he approached Shizuka and sat down on the same bench as her. Aiko trailed off and sat between Shizuka and Nobita. "I can't imagine what happened to her when you're not beside her." He said, gazing at Shizuka.

Shizuka cheek turned red involuntarily. "O-oh, thanks!" She said.

There was awkward silence between the two, Shizuka took her phone out to try not to make the situation not too awkward. But then Nobita interrupted

"By the way, how's the violin lesson?" Nobita said as he was trying to open a conversation. "Did your dad accept your request?"

"Oh! Yeah, turns out he did accept my request." Shizuka exclaimed. "I've even attended the first two class this week."

"Oh, really? How did it go?"

"Well, I started from ground zero and restarting my technique of playing after the teacher suggested me to do so." Shizuka said. "Well, that goes without saying that the lesson did went well for me!" Shizuka added as she gave him a happy grin.

"That's good to hear!" Nobita congratulated. "Well, goodluck on your lesson this time. And like I said, keep critics as a way to fix yourself, okay!" He said.

"Got it!" Shizuka replied.

"Mom and Dad!" Aiko exclaimed after she took a glance of Nobita and Shizuka remarking each other. "We are looking like a family, Shizuka is mom and Nobita is dad" Aiko joked around.

Nobita cheek turned red and Shizuka was all out flustered. She glanced away quickly to hide her reddening cheek.

"E-eh!" Nobita said with sheepish grin.

"Wait, why I was flustered and I glanced away after she said that?" Shizuka questioned herself.

"Come to think of it, we do look like a family, aren't we?" Shizuka tentatively said. Then she held her mouth shut.

"What?" Nobita and Aiko said in unison.

"No No No!" Shizuka said in her defense.

"Anyways, it's already evening and we need to go home as soon as possible." Nobita said as he saw Aiko has finished her ice cream. "Right, Aiko!?" He said before standing up, and followed by Aiko.

"I'm going home, right now. Bye!" Nobita said as he walked away. "And again, thank you so much Shizuka-chan! You're the nicest girl!" Nobita exclaimed and . "Come on Aiko!" Nobita gestured as he walked down the staircase.

"See you tomorrow Shizuka!" Aiko exclaimed as she trailed off Nobita's path.

Shizuka was left sitting there in the bench, gazing at Nobita before his figure cannot be seen again.

"And again, thank you so much Shizuka-chan! You're the nicest girl!" That line, said by Nobita keeps replaying on her head.

She kept her head down, held onto her unfinished ice cream, looking at it as she was flustered by the line. She felt the inside of her body is exploding with butterflies and explosion of joy.

"What a stupid guy he is..." She murmured as she tries to deny everything she just heard.

The line itself was directed towards Nobita. The reason she said that is mainly that she wanted to 'fight' off the feeling she had on Nobita, and not too look too suspicious for her friend especially Nobita himself.