Hey!
Everyone doing well? Managed to make more chapters and as of this time of writing, chapter 13 is currently done and I'm doing self review on it! Since I'm feeling generous, I'm giving you another chapter. Must have been around 2 months since I last updated, things have been rather challenging in my life. I think I've said enough already so I won't keep you guys waiting, enjoy this chapter!
The Quintessential Quintuplets and their characters are rightfully owned by Negi Haruba! Idea, "Magic, Love and Quints" is inspired by DarkDrawer. Kanna OC is owned by Blackflame7.
"You two didn't have to come with me when I'm just going to get my spare clothes…" Fuutarou muttered out to the two youngest quintuplets.
On their way to his apartment, the two quintuplets were latching on each of his arm. Yotsuba on the left and Itsuki on the right.
"Shishishi~ You didn't seem to hate the idea of having us come along, Fuutarou-kun~" Yotsuba teased him.
Fuutarou only sighed, paying attention to the road ahead. After a few minutes, they managed to reach his house as he opened the door as went inside with Yotsuba and Itsuki following behind.
"Onii-chan! Welcome home!" Raiha welcomed her brother back. She also noticed the two quintuplets and greeted them as well.
"It's good to see you two again, thank you for taking care of my brother! Yotsuba-san, Itsuki-san!" Raiha beamed and started bowing to them in gratitude.
Fuutarou could only blush in embarrassment and came up with a quick answer.
"I can t-take care of myself, Raiha… Geez, you're really embarrassing me when I have these two cute women around…" Fuutarou said, but realized what he said in the end and started to cover his mouth.
"I'll just get my spare clothes…"
Raiha only chuckled while looking at him walking towards his room before turning to the two girls, who were also smiling and giggling for a bit.
"Are you two hungry? It must have been a long walk from school," Raiha asked them.
"Ah, don't worry about it, Raiha-chan! We'll be quick here since Fuutarou-kun will be sleeping at our house!" Yotsuba beamed.
"As much as I want to have food right now, I have to agree with Yotsuba…" Itsuki said, feeling a bit disappointed she couldn't get to eat Raiha's food.
Raiha tilted her head in confusion, wondering about what they meant.
"Onii-chan is going to sleep in your house?" Raiha asked them for confirmation.
Before Itsuki could answer, Fuutarou came out of his room with his bag. Looks like he has found the clothes he needed for the sleepover.
"We planned to study as well during the evening, so we agreed that I would sleep over there," Fuutarou explained to his sister.
Almost immediately, Raiha formed a big smile and started praying near the picture of her mother.
"Mom! Did you hear that?! Onii-chan has two girlfriends!" Raiha exclaimed, too happy for what Fuutarou told her. The latter blushed heavily while looking down in embarrassment.
Yotsuba and Itsuki also blushed upon hearing what she said, almost as red as their hair but they giggled afterwards.
"Raiha-chan has a hyperactive personality, doesn't she?" Itsuki asked. Fuutarou only nodded and started heading to the entrance door.
"We should get going, we don't want to be late girls…" Fuutarou told the two, reminding them that they should be in the Pentagon before due time.
The three teenagers decided to take the cab to the Pentagon as Itsuki called for their butler to pick them up. After the call, Itsuki stared at Yotsuba with a serious expression.
"Yotsuba… Can I talk to you for a moment?" Itsuki asked her, with the latter looking at Itsuki with a confused expression on her face.
Itsuki took a deep breath before she started to ask what was bothering her.
"When did you start calling him 'Fuutarou-kun', and why are you using that nickname for him?" Itsuki asked.
The fourth quintuplet only stared at her, having an unreadable expression, but she quickly made a small smile.
"You don't remember much from our trip in Kyoto, didn't you?" Yotsuba asked her with a calm expression.
"I only remember that we met this particular boy in Kyoto when you introduced us to him," Itsuki reflected while trying to remember.
Yotsuba looked at the road ahead while continuing to talk.
"Before I introduced him to you, he was actually in trouble that day. I saw this random person that was about to attack him, but I interviened and protected him. When I first met him, he looked like that he was scared of the world," Yotsuba narrated while chuckling.
"W-what? You were in a fight just to save him?" Itsuki got shocked while asking her, with the fourth quintuplet nodding in agreement.
"Yeah… From there, we introduced to each other and went around the town we were…"
("H-hey! You don't have to drag me that hard!" the boy said while getting dragged by Yotsuba.
The girl was smiling and humming while continuing to walk towards a souvenir shop. The two then headed inside, noticing some interesting small scrolls, bracelets and necklaces lying around the shop.
"I like those scrolls! Check this out Fuutarou-kun!" Yotsuba exclaimed while pointing at the scrolls.
Fuutarou looked at the scrolls Yotsuba wanted him to take a peek at and got amazed.
"Those are really nice… Are these…" Fuutarou pondered.
"Scrolls of good luck! I'll take five of them!" Yotsuba exclaimed and started taking five scrolls.
Fuutarou pondered more and wondered why she wanted five of them. Perhaps to increase her luck?
"My sisters would like these types of scrolls too! What about you Fuutarou-kun?" Yotsuba asked him while the latter smiled and took one scroll.
"Seems like a good idea to have better luck!" Fuutarou said.
After picking up the scrolls, the two paid at the cashier and then explored around the town a bit more before heading to the train station. They were just outside as the two noticed their parents talking and Yotsuba's sisters playing around. Once her sisters noticed both Yotsuba and Fuutarou, they immediately went over to them.
"Yotsuba! Where have you been?" a Yotsuba lookalike started asking.
Yotsuba only scratched her head in embarrassment and chuckled.
"Shishishi~ I was taking a little walk around the town and bought souvenirs! I have scrolls that I wanted to share with you!" Yotsuba replied to her.
"Scrolls? What kind of scrolls?" another Yotsuba lookalike asked her.
Yotsuba then handed out four scrolls she bought to her sisters as they looked amazed upon seeing them.
While the quintuplets were checking the scrolls, one of them were noticing that Yotsuba brought a boy along with her.
"Yotsuba? Who is that boy with you?" the quintuplet asked.
Fuutarou got a little startled and introduced himself to her.
"I'm Uesugi Fuutarou…" the boy said.
The girl observed him for a while, before giving a small smile to him.
"It's nice to meet you, Fuutarou-kun! My name is Itsuki! Nakano Itsuki!")
Upon reflecting everything Yotsuba told her, Itsuki finally started remembering about the boy.
"W-what?! The boy you introduced us to…" Itsuki muttered out, but didn't say much more as she was too shocked to form a sentence.
"Realizing that Fuutarou-kun was the same boy that you told us about, I was happy to meet him again… but I was scared he wouldn't remember me… That's why I called him Uesugi-san," Yotsuba sadly explained.
("Hi, Uesugi-san! I'm Yotsuba! I look forward to learn from you, sensei~")
Itsuki could only nod upon remembering their first encounter at the high school, before looking down for a moment and faced Yotsuba afterwards.
"Then… What made you change his nickname to 'Fuutarou-kun'?" Itsuki asked.
"When I saw him getting calm around you… I couldn't help but think about the promise I made to him. Seeing him so close to you made me feel jealous and I wanted to be the one he could rely on," Yotsuba told her and started facing her with a serious expression.
Itsuki continued looking at her, also facing her with a serious expression while Yotsuba continued to explain.
"You might be the first girl he got calm around with, but you're not the only one anymore, Itsuki," Yotsuba said with a determined expression. Itsuki only formed a small determined smile.
"Uesugi-kun can still rely on me if he feels nervous, what makes you think he'll rely on you more than me?" Itsuki asked her.
Yotsuba made a small grin and looked at the road once more.
"I'm gonna make sure he knows that he can rely on me too, because I promised him that I'll always be there for him when we met again!" Yotsuba replied back with determination.
("Hey, hey! Tell me more about the dream you have, Fuutarou-kun!" Yotsuba beamed at him, causing Fuutarou's cheeks to go rosy when she got slightly closer to him.
"Me? I just want to help out my family… I hope to graduate and get a well-paid job…" Fuutarou explained while he looked away to avoid getting his cheeks even redder as Yotsuba's hair.
Yotsuba looked at him with sympathy, wishing she could help him. She then came up with an idea for both of them.
"How about we make a promise?" Yotsuba proposed the idea to him, causing Fuutarou to tilt his head a little.
"What kind of promise do you have in mind?" Fuutarou asked her.
"When we meet again in the future… Can we always stay together like this?" Yotsuba asked him shyly and held both his hands gently, waiting for his answer.
Fuutarou looked at her shyly and cleared his throat.
"You still want to be with me when we get older?" Fuutarou asked her, needing more context. Yotsuba nodded and gave him a smile.
"I can protect you, help you out in what you want to do in the future and I want to continue knowing you more!" Yotsuba beamed, causing Fuutarou to only chuckle.
"W-well, I suppose that wouldn't be too bad… Then it's a promise?" Fuutarou asked her once more and Yotsuba nodded in eagerness.
"Yep! When we meet again, I'll always be by your side! It's a promise!")
Itsuki continued to stare at her, amazed at her determination. However, she didn't want to give up herself and then began answering her back.
"Well then, I'm not going to give up either, Yotsuba! In case you don't know, I still have the upper advantage! I won't ever give Fuutarou-kun to you!" Itsuki told her and reached out for a handshake, causing Yotsuba to give a curious expression before giving a determined smile, shaking her hand as a challenge that got accepted.
"Shishishi~ Don't worry Itsuki, I'm definitely going to make him mine before you get the chance! He isn't your boyfriend or my boyfriend yet!" Yotsuba exclaimed.
Hearing Yotsuba say that with much determination made Itsuki frown, but before Itsuki could say anything else, a limousine was heading towards their direction as they saw the man rolling down the window as soon as he parked near them.
"Good afternoon, Uesugi-sama, girls! Did you wait long?" the man asked them politely.
"Not at all, Ebata-san!" Yotsuba beamed while getting inside the car and dragging Fuutarou in eagerness.
"W-whoa! I'm coming with you, Yotsuba! Why are you so energetic so suddenly?" Fuutarou asked in surprise as he was getting continued being dragged by the green ribbon quintuplet.
While looking at the two, Itsuki stared at them while continuing to frown.
"Yotsuba is the only one I should be aware of for now… She did a lot for him…" was all Itsuki could think of before sighing and going inside the car as well.
During the car ride, Itsuki kept looking at Fuutarou while thinking back at the meeting back in Kyoto.
"I still can't believe that Fuutarou-kun is the same boy when Yotsuba introduced us to him… His behavior is still the same, huh? Only this time, he feels much more nervous around us…" Itsuki thought.
She noticed that Yotsuba was feeling happier as she was asking a lot of questions to Fuutarou, who was smiling while listening to her rambles. Itsuki only sighed as she made a small frown while continuing to reflect on her past meeting with him.
"How could I not recognise him back then… He even had golden hair too! Mouuu…" Itsuki thought while sighing.
"I'm glad we got to reunite again… Yotsuba might have the advantage for saving him and meeting him first, but I'm going to make sure we make more memories and make Fuutarou-kun have only me in his heart!" Itsuki thought in determination.
Thank you for reading - ShadowLivy