Rental Girlfriend: The Practical Dater (Short Story) Part Two

Characters:

Kazuya Kinoshita

Chizuru Mizuhara

Mami Nanami

Ruka Sarashina

Sumi Sakurasawa

Nagomi Kinoshita

Yoshiaki Kibe

Shun Kuribayashi

Sayuri Ichinose

Umi Nakano

Shinbo and Kawanaka

Getting into the Groove:

Returning back to the Apartment Building that they both lived in, Chizuru had no problem with Kazuya coming into her Apartment. Where before almost a week ago, she would follow the Agency Rules that prohibited him being in hers or she being in his. Mainly due to that he was her Boyfriend now. Her Real one and he was no longer a Client. Those Rules do not apply to him anymore. They both had classes tomorrow and during that time on the Campus she would don her Ichinose persona. Then they would pretend they did not know each other. It was not the right time to come out and disclose everything to her or his friends yet. Not that her Job for now was to be a Rental Girlfriend. "Then there lies the recent problem...Like what Yukana had disclosed to Kazuya and me. I too feel like I am cheating on Kazuya." She thought as she made Tea for her and Kazuya. Finding it harder the last three Booked Dates to keep herself from outwardly displaying her displeasure about being with a Client. Then there was his new Part Time Job. Yes she had made sure nothing hinky was going on with him going on a Practice Date with Yukana. But she could not help feeling as he had put it, insecure about him going out with someone else.

"Is there something wrong Chizuru?" Kazuya asked interrupting her thoughts and she quickly turned towards him.

"No...Not really. Why do you ask?" Chizuru asked back smiling at him and he gestured at the Tea Kettle.

"Uhm...Well the water has been boiling for about five minutes." Kazuya said pointing at the pot on the stove and the white steam that was flowing out of it in a steady stream. Chizuru blushed slightly and removed the pot of the Stove then turned it off. "So do you want to tell me what has gotten you so...well distracted?" He asked her and she moved over to sit next to him. They would have to wait for Tea until the water cooled enough where they could actually drink it. She enveloped his right hand in both of hers and gazed at him fondly. This too was a new appearance to her. Having someone there to talk to when she did have a problem. Having someone that would be there for her when she did have any problems and needed someone to listen and attempt to help her.

"I was just thinking about what Yukana asked and...and well I may or may not have the same problem that she said she is having. I know it is ridiculous...But I too...I sort of feel like I am cheating on you when I go out with a client." Chizuru admitted and Kazuya smiled.

"That is alright to feel that way. Though I have this fear that like I said before...That you will suddenly realize that I am not exactly...You are way out of my league." Kazuya said and Chizuru shook her head.

"We have been over this several times already. I...FELL..IN...LOVE...WITH...YOU." Chizuru said each word with conviction. "I love you Kazuya Kinoshita and if I have to beat it into you that I do love you. Then I will." She exhaled and smiled. He smiled back at her. Moving his left hand upwards, he lightly caressed her face and slowly leaned towards her. She leaned towards him as well and as their lips touched she let go of his right hand and slipped her arms around him. Drawing him closer. He did the same with his own arms and before they could do much more. His Cellphone Dinged. "ARRGH...Next time put that thing on Vibrate." She growled with frustration parting enough so he could retrieve his Cellphone from his pocket. He had an incoming text.

"Toru has another one she wants me to go on a Practice Date with. Wants to know if I am willing to confirm the Booking for Tomorrow afternoon." Kazuya told her and Chizuru shrugged.

"Go ahead. You might as well Confirm it and go on it." Chizuru said and after he did confirm it, she took the Cellphone from him and put it on vibrate. Then tossed it into her nearby recliner chair. "Now where were we?" She asked him with a coy smile putting her forearms over his shoulders and leaning back into him. He eased his own arms around her and within seconds they were once more Kissing. They made out for several hours and she was extremely tempted to have him spend the night. But they both were waiting until they both were ready to become more intimate.

Practice Date Number 2:

This time Kazuya did not feel so nervous that he felt like he was going to vomit. But he still was concerned because he still had no idea what he could suggest or offer on a Practice Date with one of the Rentals that was still having trouble on their Rental Dates with a Client. He looked down at his Cellphone and checked the time. Toru Yaoyorozu had arranged it that he met Ranko Honjo. (Again if you want to see what Ranko looks like. Go check her out on MY FIRST GIRLFRIEND IS A GAL). He had found out that Yukana Yame had suggested to Ranko to inquire to Toru about having him go on a Practice Date. So after he checked Ranko's Profile. He again had to wonder what problems she might be having that Toru believed he could solve. From what he could tell from the Picture Ranko was on equal footing with Yukana and Chizuru with being a Hottie. Also her Reviews indicated that most of her Clients were giving Positive Reviews. Though there were some that were confusing. So he decided to ask about that. Now as he stood in front of once more Donny's. He soon saw Ranko walking towards him. Within ten minutes he found that perhaps he should have turned down this one.

"So you are supposed to help me become a better Rental Girlfriend?" Ranko said as Kazuya and her sat at a Table at Donny's. They had both ordered Ice Coffee and Kazuya still had no idea how he was going to help her. "That is what Yukana suggested to me. That you might be able to come up with why some of my Clients are giving me negative Reviews." He had checked her Profile and read over some of the reviews. Some were not too bad, but from what he could tell a lot of them were not really pleased with their Rental Booked Dates with her.

"I guess so. Let me ask...What do you usually do on your Dates?" Kazuya hoped it was something obvious and she simply shrugged.

"Oh the usual. I meet up with them and then pretend to be their Girlfriends. I smile a lot and pretend to be interested in them." Ranko said and Kazuya wondered still what he could do since that basically what Chizuru did in the beginning when he started to Rent her. It took him until they became a couple to look back and remember how after some time that changed.

"Uhm...Do you usually dress like this?" Kazuya asked gesturing at her attire. Ranko was wearing a really extremely short skirt that hung high on her thighs. Her shirt was almost skin tight and showed a lot of cleavage. She shrugged again.

"When you got it...Flaunt it." Ranko simply said with a small smile and Kazuya could see it and heard it now. Ranko was the type that knew she was attractive and for some that can be a curse. Sure Chizuru knew she was. But she did not have that chip on her shoulder that he suspected that Ranko had. There was an aura about her that he could almost detect from her. "That cannot be it. If that was it...Wouldn't they post that in the Reviews and my Profile shows me in similar outfits."

"Yeah...I don't think it is the outfits you wear...But how you...interact with them." Kazuya really did not know how to word it.

"I interact with them fine. It is just that...I know they all want to do me and since they cannot they get all pissie about it." Ranko declared and then smiled over at Kazuya. "Hell the moment I met you I could tell that you would if I offered." Kazuya shook his head.

"No I wouldn't and I am betting most of them do not really want to either." Kazuya said and Ranko looked at him offended.

"Wait are you saying if I offered to take you back to my place and rock your world...You would turn me down." Ranko asked and Kazuya nodded. "I doubt that."

"That is exactly what I am saying. Mainly because I am in love with my Girlfriend and have no intention of cheating on her. Ever." Kazuya told her and Ranko scuffed. Then after a second.

"Oh that is right. I remember now...Yukana told me that you are with Chizuru Mizuhara for real. That you were once her Client and now you both are a Real Couple. Though I still believe that if I wanted to...I could get you to come home with me." Again Kazuya shook his head.

"You can believe what you want and I believe that is why you are getting negative Reviews from your Clients. It is because of your attitude towards them." Kazuya was tempted to just say fuck it and leave. He was giving up time he could be spending with Chizuru.

"What attitude?" Ranko asked and Kazuya decided it was time to be blunt.

"You have this...I don't know how to say it right...But...It seems like you...You are looking down at anyone that wants to Rent you." Kazuya said, though he was going to be more blunt by saying she was in a word, Bitchy. Then decided it might not go over too well to say Bitchy to her.

"Any why not. Most of those that Rent me are losers. Look at you...You rented Chizuru and from what Yukana told me for over a year. You wore her down to actually believing that since you had been together that long...She might as well date you for real." Ranko said and Kazuya shook his head.

"That is not how it was, by the way. For one I was lonely because my first and only Girlfriend I ever had dumped me. By some trick of fate I rented Chizuru. Oh and according to her...She started to fall for me way before...Back when some events happened that I will not go into detail. The problem we both had then was neither of us could...Neither of us knew what to do or if the other actually felt the same way." Kazuya told her and Ranko exhaled softly.

"Sorry I did not mean to sound so...so you know." Ranko glanced over towards the Counter and then back at him. "Things have not gone the way I expected and being a Rental Girlfriend. I just don't like having to pretend to be someone's Girlfriend. Especially those that tend to rent me. Most of them...Most of the Dates revolve around them flaunting me as if I was some sort of...Well glorified prize. Stroking their egos. I am sure it is that way for every Rental. Some pathetic loser that wants strangers to admire them." She took a hefty drink from her Ice Coffee and scowled. "The whole thing of being paraded around just so that these Guys can look like they are not pathetic losers. It bothers me. I mean a lot of them if they were not sexist pigs could get themselves a real Girlfriend."

"But some can't. Think about it this way...I bet some of them are using you to build up their confidence. Perhaps using you so that they can ask out someone that they want to ask out." Kazuya suggested hoping that was the case. Thinking about how Chizuru had changed him. Before her, there was no one that seemed interested in him at all. Then Ruka had come out and said that she liked him. Wanted to date him. Wanted to be his Girlfriend and if he had not been so head over heals for Chizuru. Along with not hurting Kuri. He would have without hesitation. "In a weird way that is how it was with Chizuru. Let me tell you about Ruka Sarashina." He then told Ranko about Ruka.

The Unexpected Visitor:

When someone knocked on her door, Chizuru was not expecting or never believing that it would be who it was. Ruka Sarashina. Opening her door, she looked directly at the shorter Girl. "No matter what you say...I am not going to let you have Kazuya." She declared sternly and Ruka shook her head.

"That is not why I am here. Actually I wanted to talk to you. Can I come in?" Ruka said and Chizuru moved back so the other Girl could enter. Being a good host, she took her over to her Table and they both sat.

"Okay...What do you want to talk about?" Chizuru asked still believing Ruka was up to something devious. Also believing that Ruka was not about to give up on becoming Kazuya's Girlfriend. The other girl took a deep breath.

"i just wanted you to know that I...Well I am happy for you and Kazuya. Remember when I confronted you and...and accused you of not wanting Kazuya to be with anyone else?" Ruka asked and Chizuru remembered. Ruka had grabbed her breast and said that and at that moment she began to wonder if what the other girl had said might be true. Back when she had met Ruka and Kazuya was being Kazuya. She had felt the first stirrings of jealousy within her. Something she never felt for any of her Clients.

"Yes I remember." Chizuru said and Ruka laughed.

"I was actually hoping then you would...Well let me have him. But that did not work, did it? I bet after that you started to wonder or perhaps think about what if I was right." Ruka said and Chizuru nodded. "Thought so. After that...I sort of realized that it could go that way." She laughed again and shook her head. "I guess it was obvious. Hell if I could see it right after meeting you...It had to be." Chizuru looked at her somewhat confused.

"What do you mean? It was obvious?" Chizuru asked and Ruka laughed again.

"That you and him were meant to be. It was so obvious it was ridiculous. You mean you did not see it or know it?" Ruka asked and Chizuru shook her head. "Well it was. I bet everyone that looked at you two saw it. I also bet that you did not act the same with your other Clients then how you acted with Kazuya."

"Yeah I noticed and I guess we were meant to be. I felt it back after he had jumped in to save me when I fell off the Ferry. You know I doubt any of my other Clients would have done that and if they did they would have expected something from me later." Chizuru had time to think about that afterwards and she could think of several of her Clients that would have used that to get in between her legs.

"I figured that out when I took him to that Love Hotel. Any other guy would have jumped on me the second we got in there. Even though I only took him there to talk." Ruka clarified thinking perhaps Kazuya had not told Chizuru about when she did that. Chizuru smiled.

"He told me already about you taking him there and as you probably realized he is not that type of person. So are you going to give up on him?" Chizuru asked somewhat worried that someday Kazuya might leave her to be with Ruka. The other girl smiled.

"Nope. I am hoping at some point you two break up. I doubt it will happen. But I can still hope." Ruka said and Chizuru shook her head.

"Never happen. He is the first one I ever fell in love with and he will be the only one." Chizuru declared.

"Well I am still hopeful. With that said...Any chance me, you and Kazuya could be friends?" Ruka asked and Chizuru smiled at her.

"I would like that and I bet so would Kazuya. So since he probably won't be back for about another hour or so...Want to go get something to eat?" Chizuru asked and Ruka nodded.

"Sounds good to me...A Mcdonalds just opened a few blocks from here and I am craving a McRib." Ruka said and they left. But on the way, Chizuru texted Kazuya about her going to Mcdonalds with Ruka and if he got the chance he should meet up with them. "So tell me something...Have you two...?" Asked as they walked and Chizuru stopped walking. She blushed a bright shade of Red and Ruka giggled.

"We...We both are waiting until...We both are ready." Chizuru gasped and stuttered out and again Ruka laughed.

"No not that! I was wondering if you two are going to...told everyone yet about you being a Rental and the whole story." Ruka said clarifying what she meant and again Chizuru blushed a bright shade of red. Ruka smiled coyly. "Though now you have peaked my interest...So you two have not yet. Nice to know." Chizuru scowled.

"We are going to...But again it is another firsts for both of us." Chizuru said wanting to discourage Ruka into thinking that the other Girl still might have a chance with Kazuya. "And no we have not told anyone yet. We will soon though. We might have too regardless since Mami Nanami knows about me. At some point she is going to go back on her promise not to say anything and I rather everyone knows before she can twist it around in an attempt to hurt Kazuya again." She may thank Mami privately within her thoughts for making her realize what her feelings were for Kazuya. But she still loathed the vindictive bitch for always trying to cause Kazuya heartbreak.

"You know all the times I talked to him...He never really talked about Mami. Is she really that bad of a person?" Ruka asked and Chizuru nodded.

"Yes. She seemed to delight in hurting Kazuya one way or another. From breaking up with him, when I met her at the Bar with his friends, then there was the beach trip and then later when she discovered that I was a Rental. Every time she tried to cause him problems. Like she needed him to fawn over her and remain miserable." Chizuru said and as they reached Mcdonalds she spotted Kazuya. He seemed surprised to see her with Ruka.

"You are what a Practice Rental Boyfriend...That seems like a weird Job." Ruka commented as she sat across from Chizuru and Kazuya. She had just finished eating her McRib and they were about the same. The two had told her about what Kazuya had been hired to do part time and to her it did seem weird. The one that had helped her was just like Chizuru. An experienced Rental that had been doing it for about a year. Though she had to come up with her own methods on being a Rental Girlfriend.

"It is. The main problem is that I have no idea what to do. Like this last one...I do not think I helped her that much." Kazuya admitted thinking about after he had told Ranko about Ruka, their time was over and he still believed he had not actually helped Ranko with her difficulty on being a Rental. At most he just pointed out the fact that she had a very indifferent attitude that was the root cause of her getting some bad Reviews.

"Give it time Kazuya. You will find your Groove and then...Who knows you might be able to help those that need it." Chizuru said attempting to encourage him like a good Girlfriend would. He smiled over at her and she smiled back.

"Uhm do you two want to be alone? I get this vibe that any minute you two are going to be doing some serious PDA." Ruka asked and then giggled. Thinking it sort of funny how they both got flustered.

Back at her Apartment, Chizuru had Kazuya come with her. Sure they both had Homework to do, but she really wanted to spend some time with her Boyfriend and when she said that to him that she did want to spend time with her Boyfriend. She could not help but like hearing herself say that. "My Boyfriend. I have an actual Real Boyfriend that I am in love with." She thought as she leaned sideways against him while they both worked on their Laptops to get their homework done.

The Morning:

Awakening early, Kazuya yawned heavily. He had stayed up late last night last night and now he was not really regretting that he had done that. For he had spent that time with Chizuru. His Girlfriend. But for him today was going to royally suck. His Alarm was still blaring loudly and as he was about to turn it off, someone else did. "It is too early." Chizuru grumbled tiredly and he looked over to see her there on his Futon. She had her eyes open and she smiled at him. Then it dawned upon him, she had come over to his place last night for Dinner.

"Wait...I thought you left last night." Kazuya said to her and she continued to smile.

"I did. Bet you did not notice I left your Patio Door open? I wanted to sleep next to you last night...So I sneaked in here after I knew you had fallen asleep." Chizuru told him and Kazuya swallowed heavily. She noticed his nervousness. "Oh don't worry we did not...You know. I just wanted to see how it would feel to sleep next to you...With you. I liked it." He sighed with relief and she looked at him a little confused.

"I was worried that...We...You know and...if and when we do that...I want to be able to remember." Kazuya tentatively said and Chizuru blushed slightly.

"I want to remember it too. For now though do you think it is alright if we sleep together at night. I actually have never slept better then I have before having you next to me and with me." Chizuru admitted and Kazuya smiled.

"Just do not sneak in anymore...It would be the height of embarrassment if a Cop saw you do that and you got arrested for breaking and entering." Kazuya and Chizuru both laughed. "So how about breakfast?"

"Sure." Chizuru sat at the table and previewed her Booking for later today for three hours. With a deep sigh she confirmed it and then as Kazuya set down a plate of Scrambled Eggs in front of her. He noticed her expression.

"Something wrong Chizuru?" Kazuya asked her and she looked up at him.

"I...I have a Booking for today. One of my usual Clients." Chizuru said with disappointment and Kazuya sat down. Waiting for her to continue. She exhaled again with a deep sigh. "I wish I could quit so I can stop thinking that I am cheating on you." She told him and Kazuya smiled reaching across to clasp her right hand in his. He gently squeezed her hand.

"It is your job and you are not cheating on me and I am not cheating on you." Kazuya said and Chizuru smiled. Silently making a decision. Tonight was going to be the night, because she felt she was more then ready for them to move their relationship into a more physical one.

The End?