Chapter 2

Fuutarou was walking towards his school, after greeting his mom and Raiha and leaving. The star student noticed some waves of greeting from his female classmates, when he approached the school gates, waving back at them with his usual smile and obtaining some giggles as response.

Before he could enter inside the building, a familiar and sweet voice called for him, "Wait, Uesugi-kun!"

He turned around to see his new redhaired friend reaching him, with a happy expression. He smiled and said, "Good morning, Itsuki. You wanted to go in class together?"

She blushed and smiled, "Y-yes, b-but I also wanted to give you some good news."

This perked his interest. "Oh, you made me curious now. What good news?"

"I talked about my father about you tutoring me, and he said that he will gladly let you teach me if you do the same for my sisters.", she replied with a happy voice.

Fuutarou was surprised. It's true that he knew that Itsuki needed his help to ameliorate her grades, but he didn't think that the same could apply to her sisters. Not to forget that their father, who was a friend of his parents, now knew of him and accepted wholeheartedly to let him help his daughters. But there was an issue that needed an answer.

"I'm glad to hear such good news Itsuki, but are your sisters fine with this arrangement?"

The happy expression of Itsuki fell off and was replaced by a sad smile. "Unfortunately, even if I talked about you to them describing you as a kind and helpful person, only Ichika and Yotsuba were enthusiast to have you help them with their studies. My other 2 sisters refused."

Fuutarou, not wanting her to look dejected, gave her a headpat. "It's alright, Itsuki. If 2 of them don't want my help is not strange. They don't know me yet, so how about I eat with you 5 at lunch? In this way, they get to make acquaintance with me and trust me maybe."

His gesture and proposition gave back the ahoge girl her cute smile. "Y-yes! That's a splendid idea, Uesugi-kun! Then we can go to the cafeteria together after the first period."

"That's the beautiful smile that I want to see on your face.", he told her, making her redder than before.

He took her hand then and walked together to the classroom. She wanted to ask him why he did it, embarrassed as she was, but the soft and strong hold of his hand on hers made her happy and feel safe. So she went with him without complaints of some sort.

Having reached their class, the 2 students were seen together by their classmates, that gave them various types of glances: jealous glances from the girls at Itsuki and glares from the boys to Fuutarou. Not minding the looks on them, Fuutarou and Itsuki went to sit down, the exact moment where their hands detached.

Itsuki was now very happy that she could have lunch again with Fuutarou, especially this time because she can make her sisters Nino and Miku see the wonderful person that Fuutarou is, hoping that they'd accept him and let him help them.

Fuutarou instead started to bring out his notebook for the History lesson: today their teacher would have explained some arguments about the Sengoku period, and he wanted to take a lot of notes to use for helping Itsuki in their studying session later. After some minutes, their teacher arrived and started his lesson, with the students listening to him, especially the star hairpins girl and the handsome black haired boy.

After their first period finished, Fuutarou and Itsuki left their classroom to go to the cafeteria and have lunch with her sisters. During the way, Itsuki tried to grab Fuutarou's hand bashfully, but he anticipated her and grabbed hers first, getting a swift "Yelp!" that was replaced with a blissful smile.

Entering in the cafeteria, they went to take their lunch trays (the usual Yakiniku for Fuutarou and the expensive dish for Itsuki) and to search for the table where her sisters were waiting for them. In fact, Itsuki had sent a message to her sisters to communicate them that her friend will have lunch with them, getting a yes from everyone. Even from Nino and Miku.

Finally, Itsuki saw the familiar hairstyles of her sisters and walked with the young man towards them. Ichika, noticing their presence, got up and went to greet them.

"Hey you two. You're finally here.", she said with her usual friendly tone.

"Haha, sorry Ichika. We finished the lessons a little late. It's nice to see you again.", replied Fuutarou with his kind smile.

"Yeah, Uesugi-kun is right. But never mind and let's eat!", said Itsuki with her appetite demanding to start eating.

But before they could sit down, one of the other sitting girls got up from her chair and walked towards the 3 of them. Fuutarou noticed her long red hair and the butterfly ribbons.

She was in front of him, looking at him as if she was scanning him. The black haired boy was confused from her behaviour, just like Itsuki and Ichika.

Then, the butterfly ribbon girl asked him, "So you're that Uesugi guy that Itsuki talked about?"

"Yeah, I'm Fuutarou Uesugi. Nice to meet uh…"

"Nino. Just call me Nino. You know, you look way better than I thought. I thought that you were some plain guy that didn't bother to take care of his figure.", she told him, keeping a neutral expression.

"Oh, thank you Nino. If it comes from someone so stylish like you, it's certainly true.", replied Fuutarou blushing a little.

Being called stylish by the young man made Nino blush, "O-of course that I-I'm right. B-but never mind and just sit down with us."

Itsuki and Ichika were watching the whole interaction, remaining amazed. They expected their sister to be impolite or to look at Fuutarou with a scowl, since she was not fond of strangers. But seeing that she made compliments to him with him doing the same reassured them, so they sat down like Fuutarou and started to eat.

While they were eating, another sister with a green bunny ribbon asked to the young man, "So you're Uesugi-san, the boy who got a 100 in his test?"

Fuutarou was eating the meat of his Yakiniku dish, but swallowed it and replied, "Yes, that's me. Nice to meet huh.. "

"Yotsuba!", she told him with a cheerful voice, "I'm glad to meet you, Uesugi-san! Papa told us that you'll be tutoring me and my sisters and not just Itsuki hehe."

"Haha, yeah. Itsuki has told me this morning about his decision, but she told me that not all of you accepted it."

Nino intervened, "Yeah , sorry Uesugi, but I don't like the idea of having someone outside of my family in our apartment tutoring me. So I won't participate to your study sessions."

Suddenly, another voice spoke up with a quiet tone, "Why should a student of our age be our tutor anyway?"

Fuutarou shifted his gaze from Nino to another girl with mid-long red hair and blue headphones around her neck. "Umm, what's your name?", he asked her.

"Miku. Just call me Miku.", she replied with a soft voice.

"Glad to meet you, Miku. To answer your question, I can say that maybe it's better having a student that's following the same subjects like you, instead of an adult that only cares about money. In fact, I took a lot of notes about the Sengoku period for your sister."

His last sentence picked an interest in the headphones girl. 'Sengoku period? Usually it's a period that's boring for everyone, but someone so smart like him that tries to take the most notes possible to help Itsuki is rare and interesting. Maybe I could ask him this…"

"Fuutarou, do you like History?", asked Miku, blushing a little in hope for a certain answer.

The young man smiled, "Yeah, it's one of my favourite subjects. Even if I ace in every subject, History is one of the most interesting for me, especially the Sengoku period caught the most of my interest."

And there. Miku heard the answer that she hoped to hear and was very happy inside. She thought of being strange to like a historical period about some old bearded warlords when girls of her age preferred actors or singers. But having found someone that shares her same interest made her glad and prompted her to take a decision.

"I-if y-you like so much History, c-could y-you t-teach me something new that I don't know?", she asked with a sheepish smile.

"I will be glad to.", replied the black haired boy with a kind smile, that made Miku blush a lot because of its cuteness.

Her sisters watched their interaction with different reactions: Itsuki and Ichika smiled happily to see their sister accepting Fuutarou's help, Yotsuba giggled and Nino frowned a little but without glaring to Fuutarou.

"Well, I'm very happy that another one of you agreed to let me help her, but here comes another issue. Is it fine for you girls if I come to your house for our study session?", asked Fuutarou with a polite voice.

His question made the 5 sisters ponder what to do and discuss between them, while Fuutarou was finishing his meal.

"Girls, you wouldn't let him enter in our house I hope."

"Oh come on, Uesugi-san is not unworthy of trust. I heard that he's quite popular in this school."

"Oh, I didn't know he was popular. That's something new to hear."

"That's true, Ichika. Uesugi-kun told me that he helped other people with their struggles, so he made a lot of friends before meeting me."

"Ara, are you not scared that some girls have their eyes on him, Itsuki-chan?", teased her Ichika.

Itsuki blushed, "I-I told you t-that we're just friends, mouuu!"

"Oh, he's popular you said? He's not a nerdy loner then. Alright, I let him come inside our house, since you insist. But what about you, Miku?"

Miku meekly replied, "I-I'm fine with Fuutarou coming t-to our house. I can feel it that he's a g-good person."

Nino sighed, " Fine, if you 4 don't have any problem with that, he can enter in our house."

After they finished their discussion, the 5 sisters turned their attention to the the young man, that had just finished to eat.

Nino spoke up, pointing her finger at him "Listen Uesugi. We agreed to let you enter in our apartment, but I warn you. If you act strange or behave in a bad manner, you get out, ok?"

Fuutarou, having heard the decision, pulled off a bright smile, "Happy to hear that. Don't worry, you can trust me that I won't never harm you or your sisters. I promise."

His response and that smile of his almost pierced Nino's heart like a Cupid's arrow. 'Gosh, why must he be so kind and handsome? Aww, if he only had blond hair and a thuggish appearance, he would be my ideal type.'

Recollecting her thoughts after his answer and his super effective smile, Nino told him, "W-well, I-it's good that you understand. Now I have to go back to my class, since lunch time is almost over. See you later, Uesugi." And she left their table.

After Nino left, the oldest sister took the chance to speak, "Ara ara, Fuutarou-kun. You're the first the guy that makes a good impression on Nino, you know that?"

"She hates guys by any chance?", asked a curious Fuutarou.

"Shishishi, no Uesugi-san. Nino is just very protective and she doesn't trust outsiders. But Ichika is right, it's the first time that I saw Nino blushing twice. And because of a guy too hehe.", answered Yotsuba with her cheerful voice.

"Oh, that's good to know then haha. Well, I guess that I'll see you all at your house then. Let's go, Itsuki.", he said, while taking the hand of the youngest sister and starting to walk with her back to their classroom. Itsuki, caught by surprise, was blushing and smiling at the same time because of the gesture.

A gesture that was noticed particularly by her 3 sisters. "Oh my, did you two see that? They're so chummy with each other that he grabs her hand like nothing."

"Uesugi-san is really kind and sweet to do that, don't you think Miku?"

But when Yotsuba turned to the headphones girl, she saw a pout on her face, whose eyes were looking in the direction of Fuutarou and Itsuki.

"Umm, Miku?", asked Yotsuba, grabbing Miku's shoulder.

That did the trick and Miku turned to Yotsuba. "Eh? A-ah, y-yes, Fuutarou is really sweet to d-do that.", she replied bashfully.

Her expression from before was seen by Ichika anyway, that was looking at Miku with a mischievous smile. "It seems that someone has a little crush fufu.", said Ichika to tease the third sister.

Yotsuba got red and shouted, "Ehhhh?! Miku likes Uesugi-san?!"

"N-no! T-that's not true… I…"

"But you were looking at them as if you were jealous fufu. Maybe you wanted to hold his hand too?"

Miku became red like a tomato, unable to respond to Ichika's teasing .

" Hehe, don't worry Miku, you can see him and talk with him at home later. Nino accepted to let him come with us after all.", told Ichika to Miku, trying to get her out of her embarrassment.

That worked enough, as Miku smiled while still blushing, and her sisters giggled to see her calm as before.

When the second period's lessons ended, the ahoge girl and the top student reached her sisters that were waiting for them outside of the school. After they reunited, Nino called the butler of their father, Ebata, to arrive and get them.

Some minutes passed, and a black expensive limousine arrived and stopped in front of them, with the driver's seat occupied by an old man with glasses and a suit.

"Thank you for coming, Ebata-san.", told Nino to that man.

"You're welcome, Nino-chan. Get on the car everyone."

Fuutarou was stunned from seeing for the first time such an expensive car in front of his eyes. 'That must cost millions of yen.', thought the young man.

Having seen his amazed state, Itsuki smiled and grabbed his hand. "Let's go, Uesugi-kun?"

Fuutarou got out of his previous state and replied, "Yes, let's go haha." Fortunately for them, Nino didn't see their handholding, avoiding in this way a possible argument.

The quints and the boy got in the limousine, so Ebata started drive towards their apartment as destination.

During the way, Yotsuba asked a particular question to their young tutor. "Uesugi-san, when we arrive to our house, what are we gonna do for our first session?:

"Well, I thought of having everyone of you take a small test to see which are your weaknesses and in which subjects."

Nino joined the conversation , "Didn't I tell you that I don't want to join your study session?"

Fuutarou smiled, "Yeah, I know, but how about this? If you score at least a 50 on the test, you're free to not join our session. If not, then you join us. Deal?"

His bet picked the challenging side of the social butterfly. "A bet huh? Good, then I will show you how good I am, Uesugi.", she told him, smirking.

"We will see about that, Nino", he replied with that dangerous smile that made Nino look away embarassed. Damn, what a dangerous weapon.

Then Miku asked him, bashfully "Fuutarou, e-even if we pass the test, c-can we s-study together anyway?"

Miku was sitting to his right, so Fuutarou placed his hand on her head to pat it, obtaining a big blush on her face. "Of course that we can, Miku. As I told you, the test is just a way to see where I have to help you.", he told her, keeping his genuine smile.

Hearing his response made the third sister smile, and she enjoyed the headpat he gave her. But her sisters watched their interaction, especially Itsuki and Nino, that were frowning. Maybe out of jealousy? Ichika and Yostuba giggled instead.

Finally, the group arrived to the quints' apartment, so they got out of their car and went inside through the glass door, which was opened by Ichika's card, inserted in the security system.

"Do you see, Fuutarou-kun? This door doesn't open unless you have one card of our house. If you come alone to our house, be sure to digit our apartment's number on that security dock that you saw earlier. In this way one of us will open the door for you from inside.", explained Ichika to the young man, getting a thankful nod from him.

"Now that you mentioned numbers, is it ok if I ask you for your phone numbers girls?", asked Fuutarou to his soon to be students, while they were entering in the elevator to reach the Pentagon.

The girls looked between themselves to reflect about his question, and after a minute Itsuki replied, with red cheeks, "I-I d-don't see a problem with that. Here, Uesugi-kun.". She took her phone to show her address to him.

"Y-yes, I a-agree with Itsuki.", said Miku, doing the same.

"Fufu, you can have Onee-chan's number, Fuutarou-kun."

"Here you go, Uesugi-san!"

4 of them showed their phone numbers to him, except Nino that was crossing her arms. "Sorry, but I think that's too soon to give you my number. First you have to show me that I can really trust, Uesugi.", she told him with a serious expression.

After finishing to save the others' numbers, Fuutarou chuckled, "Haha, ok Nino. I'll be sure to show you that I'm worthy of your trust then."

His confident reply made Nino gaze away with a blush on her face. Seems that the charm of the guy with messy black hair has quite the effect even on the most stubborn quint.

When the elevator reached the last floor, the sisters and Fuutarou went to the door of their apartment and entered. Once inside, Fuutarou was amazed from how big it looked and with a lot of furniture; a kitchen, a big living room with a couch, a terrace with a view on the city and another floor with 5 doors.

Yotsuba noticed his amazement and giggled, "Hehe, our house is really cool, right Uesugi-san?"

Fuutarou replied, a little ashamed "Haha, yeah, it's the first time that I enter in a place like this. My house is nothing compared to this."

Itsuki, having heard this, asked concerned, "You mean you live in a poor apartment, Uesugi-kun?"

"Ah, you got it right, Itsuki. I live in a very poor neighborhood, but don't worry about it. It's important to be motivated now, so let's begin our study session.", he told her, while starting to take some tests from his school bag.

Itsuki rejoiced after he reassured her. "Yeah, let's start Uesugi-kun. We can sit on the couch for that."

And so the tutor and the 5 sisters sat down on the couch, with Fuutarou giving them the ok to start their test.

After several minutes, each sister finished and gave her own test to Fuutarou to make it grade. The young man didn't take too much time to do that and after he was done, he said, "Alright, girls. I finished to grade your tests, but I'm afraid that no one passed it. Ichika took a 12, Nino a 20, Miku a 32, Yotsuba an 8 and Itsuki a 30."

The expressions of the sisters were now of dejection and embarrassment, with everyone looking down ashamed.

Fuutarou tried to motivate them, seeing their state. "When you make a mistake, the important is to check where you went wrong and to recognize your mistake. Maybe you didn't perform well now, but if you acknowledge your mistakes, then you'll manage to score higher than before."

He turned his attention to Nino, who was sulking. "Well Nino, it seems that I won our bet in the end. Would you let me teach you now?", he asked her but without hints of teasing or mocking.

The second sister lifted her face, and while looking at her left, said embarrassed, "F-fine, I-I'll let you t-teach me as we agreed. B-but you better treat me kindly, got it?"

The young man chuckled, "Haha, don't worry. I'm not one that scolds the others. As my student, I'll treat you with respect." Then he got closer to her, reaching with his hand the social butterfly's head. His action caught her by surprise, and made her blush more than her hair. The other sisters gasped. Miku and Itsuki frowned in particular.

"W-what a-are y-you doing?!", she stuttered while shouting.

Fuutarou quickly retracted his hand, "Ah, s-sorry. I didn't like seeing you so dejected, so I tried to cheer you on."

His reply made her redder and fidget her fingers. "W-well, i-in that case, c-could y-you pat me more, p-please?", she asked with a shy voice.

A little surprised by the sudden mood change, Fuutarou smiled and proceeded to continue to pat her head, making Nino smile happily.

After he was done, he said, "Ok, everyone. Let's start with checking together what you got wrong, so we can see where are your weaknesses. Sounds good?"

His proposition got a nod of approval by every sister, so they started to review every single answer. While showing them their wrong answers, Fuutarou explained to each sister what she got wrong and that she had to make sure to work on her weaknesses next time. During all his explanation, he never tried to offend them by calling them "idiots" or "dummies", explaining everything with kind words and caressing their heads instead. This process made each sister quite happy. During this, Nino offered to bake some cookies for everyone, even for the young man.

An hour later, their tutoring session ended, so Fuutarou started to pack his notebooks and tests to go home. "Good, girls. As first session, it was very good to be honest. I hope that you understood what to do for the next time. Have a good dinner and see you tomorrow."

Before he could leave, Nino stopped him and showed him a little bag of cookies. "Wait Fuutarou, take some cookies with you as thanks for your help.", she told him with a gentle smile.

Her sisters got shocked. Has Nino just called him by first name? What the hell?!

Fuutarou, while being stunned from her offer, got over it and took the little bag in politeness. "Really? Thank you very much, Nino. My mom and my sister will surely like them. I'll take my leave then. See you girls." And he waved at them, while leaving their house and getting a "Bye!" from each sister.

Now that they were alone, Itsuki took the occasion to ask Nino something, with a frown, "Nino, why did you call him by his first name?"

Nino turned to look at her sister and replied, "What? He showed that I can trust him and that I don't need to worry about him harming us. So I call him "Fuutarou" in exchange. Shouldn't you do the same since you're the first that became his friend?"

Itsuki's cheeks got red, "W-well , I-I t-think that's too early to c-call him like that for me and-"

Ichika interrupted her, wanting to tease her, "Ara Itsuki-chan, you're embarrassed to call him by his first name? You know that Miku calls him Fuutarou without any problems, don't you?"

The headphones girl blushed, "I-I just like h-his name. T-that's why I call him Fuutarou."

Yotsuba spoke up too, "I call him "Uesugi-san" as sign of respect, so I prefer calling him like that hehe."

'I'd like to call you like I did in Kyoto, Fuutarou-kun, but I don't feel ready yet for that. I'll do it when I can show you how good I can become in my studies with your help. Then I'll tell you the truth and kis- No! What I'm thinking?! Bad thoughts, bad thoughts!', thought the fourth sister, embarrassed for having thought of kissing her tutor.

Suddenly, Nino spoke up again, "Suit yourselves, girls. I prefer calling him "Fuutarou" by now. It's way better than "Uesugi" in my opinion."

Her oldest sister was reminded of something, "Oh Nino? Didn't you forget to give him your number earlier? You said that you'd have given it to him, if he managed to show you his trustworth."

The realization of her forgotten action hit the second sister heavily. "Shoot! I totally forgot it, damn it! Oh well, I can always give him my number at school tomorrow."

Her sisters laughed at her silly mistake and quick solution, making her pout in annoyance. Then they started to set the table to have dinner together, with Nino preparing the food as the only one capable to cook perfectly. So they started to eat, while chatting together and talking often about their new and handsome tutor. Each one of them looked forward to meet him again the next day.

A/N

Oh, what's this? Another chapter of my harem story? Sure it is my friends!

As you can see, our favourite tutor doesn't waste time in making the girls trust him quickly, even the stubborn Nino has problems in resisting to that kindness and confidence of his. And thanks to this, their first tutoring session went just fine. Stay tuned for more.

See ya!