It was another ordinary Saturday morning. Aoi was humming a song while sweeping the front of the manju shop when someone called her name.
"Aoi-chan!"
She turned towards the voice and saw Nishinoya's grandfather with his usual flower-patterned shirt, signature shades, amd trademark grin. She quickly flashed a smile and bowed.
"Good morning, ojii-san!" she greeted. "The shop's still closed but I can prepare some manju for you."
He waved his hand off. "I didn't come here for some manju. Actually, there's someone who wanted to badly meet you."
Wanted to badly meet me?
He suddenly pulled out someone who was hiding behind the lamp post. When Aoi caught sight of the tall figure, she now realized why this person wanted to see her. There's no mistaking the familiar wavy long brown hair and the magenta lips along with the flashy red dress and black stilletos.
The figure was teary-eyed, his make-up smearing all over his face as he sniffed. "Aoi-chan.."
"O-OTOU-CHAN?!"
At the shop...
Akihana Toshiro sat in front of Aoi who was trying to calm him down. The box of tissues on the table was empty and even though she served him the usual green tea that would soothe him, it didn't ease the pain he was experiencing.
Especially when that pain involved her mother.
"Mitsu-chan probably doesn't love me anymore. I mean she's more manly than me and she's always the one doing most of the hard work," he cried. "All I do is serve drinks and mingle with customers at okama bars."
"Otou-chan, please don't think that way!" Aoi protested. It was new; seeing her father criticizing himself in their own relationship. "Okaa-san might be manlier but I know she loves you. Okaa-san even supported you in working in okama bars, right?"
Toshiro shook his head. "But Mitsu-chan told me last night that it might have been better if she married Sousuke-kun."
"Who's 'Sousuke-kun'?"
"He's our 30-something-year old neighbor. Mitsu-chan quickly became friends with him because Sousuke-kun is a chef and they both share recipes once in a while," he told her. "Then when I went home after work..." Toshiro didn't want to say it but he had to. "I saw him kissing your mother."
Aoi was horrified. Her mother might be manlier, but she also knows that no one has dared do those kinds of things to her because the Akihana matriarch would punch them in the gut before they do.
"And then we fought. When she said those words, I immediately packed up and left to see you. Then I saw Yuu-chan come out of the shop so I went to his house and I got drunk and cried to him all night that he wasn't able to sleep," he continued crying.
Poor Yuu-kun...
"Does okaa-chan know you're here?" she asked. "Maybe I should—"
"No! Don't call her! It's better if we don't talk for a while."
"Eh? I think it would be better. Okaa-chan cannot run the Tokyo shop alone," Aoi said. "Besides—"
The shop's door slid open with brute force and a male version of Aoi with blonde pixie cut hair glared while panting. Toshiro only flinched in fear, trying to hide behind Aoi who seemed so calm.
"Okaa-chan—"
"OI TOSHIRO! HAVE YOU NO SHAME? NOT ONLY DID YOU DISTURB OUR PRECIOUS DAUGHTER AND YUU-CHAN, BUT YOU ALSO LEFT ME ALONE IN THE SHOP. HOW CAN I POSSIBLY WORK THERE ALONE?" Akihana Mitsuba practically yelled at him.
"W-Why are you the angry one?" Toshiro retorted. "You're the one who wanted to marry Sousuke-kun!"
"If I really wanted to marry that asshole, then I won't be coming here to drag your ass back to Tokyo!" Mitsuba replied then she pulled him by the ear. She turned to Aoi who seemed used to the scenario of them bickering. "Thank you for taking care of your father. I promise this will not happen again."
Aoi nodded. "Before you two go, I just want to ask if this Sousuke-kun really kissed you."
Mitsuba only frowned. "He did then I beat him up earlier when he came in the shop." Then she reverted her attention to he okama husband. "Now let's get going. We have to run the shop even if it's late."
The two waved off to their daughter and left. Aoi thought, I should visit Yuu-kun later to see how he's doing.
BONUS:
At the Nishinoya residence...
So when she did go to Nishinoya's house, his grandfather was watching the latest news when he said, "Go look after Yuu upstairs. He's been sleeping for far too long."
When she went in his room, the bed was almost slipping down to the floor. Another pillow was thrown across the room and he was snoring rather loudly with a small drool coming out of his mouth.
She giggled. Very different from the time I confessed.
"Yuu-kun." She patted his shoulder. "Yuu-kun, it's almost noon. Wake up now."
And when he did, he thought he was still dreaming when he saw her face so he pulled her to him and locked her in a tight embrace.
Her face immediately reddened. "Y-Yuu—"
He kissed her head. "You smell so good," he whispered then he suddenly licked her cheek. "Makes me want to eat you."
E-Eat m-m-me?
Aoi shook him again. "Y-Y-Yuu-kun! Please wake up. You're being weird."
Nishinoya did wake up and when he realized that he did lick her cheek, heat rushed up to his face then he sat up.
"Please forgive me! I thought you were edible like a manju at that moment so I did those things," he apologized then added, "But even though I call you Manju, I don't mind if I eat you or something."
Then he saw steam come out of her face so he continued, "It's not what you think, Manju! Please don't mistake me for a pervert or something."
Yuu-kun... Yuu-kun still is a man, after all.
Author's note: In case you didn't understand, Aoi's parents are crossdressers. Her father is an okama while her mother is just a manly woman who likes cooking.