D: Ohayo Minna-san! It's been a while that I would be able to write this! Anyway, have ya lovely readers noticed that the first challenge was done? Noticed anything during the story about the said challenge?
Kintaro: Yeah, if you haven't I am done with the first challenge. Something about m-
D: Ok, we don't need that statement anymore. Thanks! Anyway, anyone wanna check-up the reviews?
Ichika: Hai-hai! So let's see here…
Kintaro: Hm? Oh yeah. I'm prepared for whatever the quintuplets have in store for me. I mean, I'm not in trouble. I'm in love with them! Right girls?
Miku: …
Nino: …
Yotsuba: …
Ichika: …
Itsuki…
D: Yeah, it's apparent, but I don't know about that. Just get ready to do your four challenges, although…
Miku:
Kintaro: Although what?
D: I'm not going to like the 5th trial at this story...
Kintaro: What do you mean?
D: You'll know at the end. Next!
Miku: Who would you cosplay during the Feudalistic Japan era Lance-san? I imagine myself being Totoyomi Hideyoshi! His depiction really looks nice, and I want to wear something like that when I cosplay!
D: You do cosplay?
Miku: No.
D: Well, that says it. Anyway, before we start, can someone give the usual disclaimer? Itsuki?
Itsuki: Alright D-kun. Before the story starts, we want to post a disclaimer that tempura's are really tasty, especially the cr-
D: Are you doing a disclaimer or are you just advertising food just because you're hungry again?!
Itsuki: I can't help it! I'm hungry as always!
D: Alright, how about you do the disclaimer then I'll let you eat the Tempura all you want?
Itsuki: Deal! The author doesn't own any of Gotoubun-no Hanayome. All rights and credits go to their respective owner! Now, where's the Tempura!?
D: Dang it, Chill Woman!
Yotsuba: I just feel like Itsuki doesn't think of anything rather than food.
Nino: Agreed…
Itsuki: Hey! I heard that!
It was another weekend at the Nakano Apartment. One week have passed after their supposed tutor has disappeared into nothing, when they received a mail. Yotsuba heard the doorbell and went to get it.
"I'll get it!" Yotsuba exclaimed, curious as to who sent the quintuplets a package. After retrieving said package, she went back to their apartment and called all the other quintuplets. Ichika was putting on her usual make-up in her room, ready for the day. Nino was already cooking their breakfast in the kitchen, consisting of two fried eggs, one muffin and a cup of hot chocolate to start their morning. Miku was upstairs in her room. Itsuki, as usual, was eating her favorite chips in her room while reading some mangas.
"Miku, Ichika, Itsuki, Yotsuba, Breakfast's Ready! Nino shouted to the sisters.
"Coming!" Itsuki was the one to come down and reply to her sister. Being the one with the most appetite, of course she'd be the one to answer faster than the speed of light. "What's for breakfast?" she asked.
"It's the usual. Where are the others anyway?" Nino asked Itsuki. It's already breakfast and they have to consume it before it turns cold.
"I think Miku and Ichika are still in their room, while Yotsuba is over there." Itsuki pointed to a carrot colored-hair quintuplet that was intently staring at the package that was sent early in the morning. Brimming with curiosity, they decided to pry on the carrot quintuplet further.
"Hey Yotsuba! What're you looking at?" Nino took a quick peek to see what's going on with the said Quintuplet who was still looking at the package.
"Did you guys order something online?" Yotsuba asked. She placed her ear on the side of the package as she wonders about the content of the said package. "Doesn't seem to be anything heavy." She continued as she shook the package that they got.
"No one knows about our address though." Nino said, with a confused look on her face.
"Wait, let me ask Miku or Ichika." Itsuki offered. She went upstairs to leave the other two quintuplet, namely Nino and Yotsuba.
"Do you think we should open it?" Yotsuba wondered, still shaking the box to figure out what's inside it.
"Wait, let me get the box cutter!" Nino exclaimed, and proceeded to run towards the bar counter to look for the said box cutter.
Yotsuba is still looking intently at the box, eager to cut it open. 'I hope you're doing well for the past few days Uesugi-san… We're still worried for you.' She thought as she dropped the box on the table and went to massage her temples. 'It's been a week since we last heard from you…' she continued while looking at their balcony.
Meanwhile with Itsuki
"Miku!" Itsuki shouted, knocking the door of the headphone-quintuplet. On the other side, Miku is currently playing one of her favorite games entitled "Date a Warlord". The game consisted of several warlords, and their different routes. Of course, if there's a best ending, there's also the worst ending, to which Miku hasn't ventured yet.
'Is she still sleeping?' Itsuki wondered. 'I might want to take a peek to check how she's doing… After all, she's the one who took the most about Uesugi-kun's sudden disappearance.' She took a peak just to see an ecstatic Miku playing her favorite game. "Mikuuu! Earth to Mikuuu!" She tried to wave in front of her, with no success.
'Dang, she's too focused at her game. What should do the work?' She thought as she went outside to think of a way to distract said Warlord-addict to pay any attention to her. Just then, she thought something. 'Maybe I should try this…' She evilly grinned and went to her room. After for some time…
"What's that noise?" Ichika wondered. She was still applying her make-up and went to open her door to take a look, just to see nothing. 'What was that?' she went back to her table and hid all of her cosmetics in a drawer, and went to the source of the noise. She noticed an open door leading to Miku, and tiptoed her way, just to hear the noise louder.
'What the? It sounds like something repetitively crashing!' She felt nervous after hearing the said noise. When she reached the door, she slowly looked inside to see what's happening, like how a child would be scared when they're in trouble. What she saw baffled and almost made her laugh so hard.
Itsuki turned to the stalking quintuplet and smiled at her. "Morning Ichika!" She said before colliding something that according to Ichika, seems like two cymbals that's too loud for anyone.
CRASH
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CRASH
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CRASH
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CRASH
'It's no use, dang it!' Itsuki gave up crashing said instrument before looking back to Ichika.
"What're you doing Itsuki-chan?" Ichika went inside Miku's room to find out the source of Itsuki's disturbance.
"I'm trying to get Miku's attention, but it seems like she's in a trance." Itsuki explained.
"It's probably since his disappearance." Ichika whispered, while staring at her quintuplet, who by the by is still tranced at playing her favorite game. "I think I can distract her somehow." She giggled, apparently thinking that she saw how Fuutaro was able to get her out of her trance-like state.
"What do you have in mind Ichika?" Itsuki enquired.
"Just watch and see. Teehee!" Ichika explained. She then went downstairs to get Miku's favorite drink: Chilled Matcha that was visible near the freezer. She took it out and then rush upstairs and threw said Matcha to Itsuki.
"What's this?" Itsuki asked. Looking at the contents, she saw it was labeled "Matcha". "And how are we going to snap Miku out with this?" Itsuki raised an eyebrow while asking the eldest quint.
"Just place it near her cheeks. Trust me, it'll work!" Ichika cheerfully replied, grinning while knowing what's about to happen.
"Can you take the cymbals away from me first? I can't clearly place this cold can beside her cheek while holding these things." Itsuki replied as she offered her cymbals to Ichika.
Ichika never said anything except she nodded and removed the cymbals from her hand.
"Why do you have these cymbals anyway?" Ichika pondered, staring at the cymbals.
"I don't really know. I even forgot where it came from anyway." Itsuki replied while holding the can and approaching the victim. "Are you sure this will work?" she calmly asked before doing said thing that would wake her up from her distraction.
"I mean, there's no harm in doing it, right?"
"What d-"
"KYAH!?" A headphoned quintuplet shrieked in surprise due to the cold can's surface. Miku removed her headphones and placed it around her neck. She looked at Itsuki and Ichika with a "You-should-have-a-good-explanation" glare. "What was that for?" Miku asked, pouting at her quints.
"You weren't paying us any attention, so I thought of some things to make you look at us." Itsuki explained.
"You could've just made a loud noise so that I'd be able to hear it." She quipped, unknowingly not paying any notice to the cymbals that was used to wake her up.
"Umm, we did?" Ichika answered back, pointing to the cymbals that was on the floor.
"Oh. What did you need anyway?" Miku asked, as she opened the Matcha Soda and gulped it down in one shot. "Ahhh that felt good!" She euphorically smiled while savoring the flavor of the Matcha Soda in her hand. She threw the soda away near the empty trash can beside her desk.
"I just went here to call you guys to eat already. Nino and Yotsuba are already downstairs. Another thing, did any of you guys order something online?" Itsuki scratched her neck.
"As far as I know, my delivery should be at least next week, at least according to the courier." Miku explained.
"Did you already open it Itsuki-chan?" Ichika crossed her arms towards her chest.
"Not really, but I want to open it altogether so we can see what's inside." Itsuki said while looking at Miku, prompting her to get ready.
"Alright, you guys can go ahead. Let me just prepare myself." Miku understood Itsuki's message and went to get ready.
"Let's get ready for Breakfast Itsuki-chan!" Ichika gleefully went outside of Miku's room.
"Coming!" Itsuki quipped back and chased her eldest quint downstairs. "Oh right! Miku, we're going to study later, are you coming?" Itsuki popped her head out inside of Miku's room
Miku looked at her with a confused face. 'Was there a tutor father assigned that I'm not aware off?' She thought and went to ask Itsuki about it. "Is there someone going to teach us?" she yelled, apparently still preparing to get herself ready.
"Not really, but we can try asking father to hire a new tutor if you want." Itsuki shot back.
"Let me think about it!" Miku yelled back, contemplating on whether they should get a new tutor. It's been actually a while since they last saw Fuutaro. The phone call time was also their last time seeing him, and as of now, they don't know what ever happened to him.
"I-I don't know Itsuki… I don't think I want to have another tutor beside Fuutaro." Miku finally said after deliberating for some time while dressing up.
"Oh, mkay! Let's just do our best, alright?" Itsuki chimed cheerfully. She knew they're going to have to use what they learned while Fuutaro was still tutoring them.
"Alright." Miku blurted while thinking about the one that she wanted to get tutored with. 'Fuutaro, where are you right now?'
Downstairs at the Nakano Apartment
"Nino, where's the box cutter?" Yotsuba shouted. It's already minutes since they haven't opened the box that was "supposedly" delivered to them.
Nino, forgetting about the said box cutter, snapped her fingers as if she just remembered about it thanks to Yotsuba. "Sorry! I was just finishing up the table!" she swooped the box cutter in the drawer then tossed out it to Yotsuba. "Catch!"
"Yoink! Yosh, thanks Nino!" Yotsuba said as she attempted to catch the box cutter. Of course being the most athletic Quint that the Nakano Sister are, she easily caught the box cutter that was thrown to her. 'Now, time to open this mystery package!' She quickly stabbed the box with ease and opened the box. What she saw shook her.
"Eh?" Yotsuba blinked once. Twice. She inspected the content of the box, to find out it was mistakenly delivered to their room when in fact it was delivered to the wrong address. She snooped around the content, to find out that it was supposed to go to the other building.
"What did you find Yotsuba?" Nino pondered. She went to Yotsuba's right side and peeked around her sister's shoulder.
"It looks like a paper, as well as a briefcase?" Yotsuba, being the snoopy quintuplet, shook the content of the briefcase just to find out what's inside.
"Is it supposed to be ours?" Nino asked, in disbelief that such an item belongs to them.
"Hey, what are you guys up to?" A voice came down to Yotsuba and Nino's back. When they turned around, they saw Itsuki and Ichika together.
"Where's Miku?" Yotsuba asked.
"Miku is still at her room dressing up." Itsuki told them how she shouted at Miku, and tried everything to wake her up from her trance from a game. It ranged from her to poking Miku first, then to using the loud cymbals to crash her, until Ichika suggested to put a cold matcha soda to her cheeks.
"Well, that's Miku of course." Itsuki giggled lightly.
"Oh look, speak of the devil!" Ichika pointed out to the remaining quintuplet stepping down until she reached their living room.
Going down the stairs is Miku, who still keeps yawning after being introduced to cold Matcha after while she was playing her game. "What's up?" Miku asked her sisters and tilted her hair sideways just a bit.
"Hey Miku, do you know this Apartment?" Yotsuba inquired as she shoved a letter that contains the address to another apartment.
"What's this?" Miku asked.
"It was sent to the wrong address, and now we want to give it back to its rightful owner." Itsuki kept looking at the package.
"Oh look!" Nino exclaimed, pointing to some words scrabbled out on the back of the letter.
"What is it Nino?" Ichika asked.
"Hm? It looks like the phone number of the Apartment and its Owner. Does anyone wanna call this number?" Itsuki looked at her sisters.
"I'll do it." Ichika said, and proceeded to went to call the number addressed on the letter.
RING
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RING
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RING
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RI-
"Hello?" A voice boomed from inside the phone.
"Oh, hello, is this K-san?" Ichika asked.
"Who's this?" the voice quipped.
"This is Ichika Nakano, calling from the Orpheus Apartment." Ichika told the caller. She noticed how familiar the voice is, but can't quite put up to her where she had heard it before. She was too busy doing her job as an entertainer, something that the Quintuplets already know.
"Oh, hello Nakano-san! How may I help?" the receiver asked the quintuplet.
"You see, there was this package that was sent to us by mistake," Ichika said while staring intently at the quintuplets having a discussion about who sent it, and more specifically, who was the mysterious receiver. "I was hoping if I can send it to you by your way."
"Oh sure! I live at the 35th floor of the Celeste Condominium. It's kind of a ten minute walk from your place." The voice explained.
"Is that so? Well, can I drop it down to your condo?" Ichika wondered.
"But of course! As thanks, I would like to invite you to have a dinner with me!" the voice cheerfully stated.
"Is it alright?" Ichika asked, bashful of the sudden invite. It was the first time that she received an invitation such as dinner with a stranger.
"If you don't mind coming along, that is." The voice said.
"Hey Ichika!" Yotsuba exclaimed, tackling on her eldest sister.
"How's it going?" Itsuki inquired.
"You look like you're enjoying your time with the call? Eh?" Nino smugly mentioned.
"Well?" Miku, still waiting for the news about what to do with the package.
"Actually, I was invited by the original receiver of the package for a dinner in their place." Ichika twirled her hair, a small blush can be seen on the quint's cheek.
"Really? What's for dinner?!" Itsuki excitedly asked, as if she wasn't fed a while ago.
"ITSUKI!" All the quints screeched in unison, agape at the quint's bold question about the dinner, forgetting the fact that only Ichika was invited.
"Sorry, sorry!" Itsuki dejectedly lowered her head in shame.
Ichika then prompted all the quints to shush down and let her speak again with the receiver.
"Sorry, my sisters were just wondering about your plan." Ichika sheepishly laughed. She felt so ashamed for Itsuki's behavior just to be received a hearty laugh at the other side of the phone.
"Ahahaha, it's alright! If your sister's want, they can also join if it's alright with them!" the voice cheerfully invited all quintuplets at this point.
Itsuki, being the one who was looking forward to it, smiled to her ears, evidently eavesdropping on the call.
"YES PLEASE! THANK YOU!" Itsuki thanked the caller over Ichika's ear. Meanwhile, the other quintuplets just chuckled at their sisters over happiness of an invitation.
"It's no problem! You guys can wear anything you want! When will you guys visit?" the voice said, sounding like it's the first time he/she will be able to have a visitor.
"Is it alright if we deliver it today night? It will be around 7PM." Ichika looked at their clock, and it was only 9AM.
"Of course! Just tell your driver to find the Celeste Condominium." The voice agreed.
"Alright, we'll take note of that! Thanks for the invite K-san!" Ichika smiled.
"No problem! Just call me when you guys arrive at the lobby!"
"Alright, see you later!" Ichika nodded, and placed the phone down and looked at her sisters with a determined and happy look that reflected on all of the quintuplet's faces.
"Well then, should we get ready?" Ichika asked her quints with furor.
"YES!" they shouted in unison, readying for night's invite.
Meanwhile…
"WHY DID I DO THAT?!" A certain yellow haired shouted with the top of his lungs, screaming at his pillow. "Why was I too audacious as to invite all of THEM when I'm trying to avoid them!?" He continued to curse himself internally for being too expectant, and have to figure out how to be able to handle them without knowing his true identity.
He finally stood up and went to his room that was spacious enough for 10 people. He went to his drawer and looked at the contents of the letter that was sent to him.
"Well, at least my first task was complete, and that father and Reiha are having the time of their life upstairs." He sighed as he placed the letter back. He was living in the 35th floor all alone, with five different rooms in his condominium as his family was living in the 36th floor. There's a specific reason why it was five rooms, all with different themes and different items for different quintuplets, but hopefully will be occupied by someone that he loves so much and can't bear to see them incomplete.
"Well, at least I'll have a chance to be able to see them and be able to talk to them." He muttered, while thinking of the times that he had spent with the Quints, from meeting Miku and talk about Warlords to making Nino finally approve of him.
"I wish that time would come again, and hopefully I'll be able to marry you all, as opposed to the manga. I just don't want one quintuplet. I want all of you, and I'm going to be selfish for all of your happiness." He whispered to himself before heading to the kitchen and cooking all of the Quintuplet's dishes. He researched online as to what food they wanted and went to proceed to make it.
"I hope the other three challenges would be easy as this." He said as he was preparing all of the ingredients for their dishes.
D: Damn it, it's been a while since I last updated, and I had to remove more of the first person point of view and focused on the quint's conversation.
K: At least you did your best, right girls? You're going to visit me soon enough, at least in the next chapters!
Ic: We can't wait to see you Fu- I mean Kintaro-kun!
N: Be ready for me Kintaro as I'm going to swoop your heart and make you mine!
M: Mouu, Fuutaro!
Y: Get ready Uesugi-san!
It: Nyu Anyer nyour ngwesnyon Eddie-san, D-kun wanted to see if there was a problem with hish fanfic. Nyurns out nyothing wash wong.
D: Maybe you shouldn't eat while you talk Itsuki. It's starting to sound ridiculous but cute.
It: Wat nyu shay?!
D: Chill down woman!
M: Anyway, enjoy reading, and hope you review about what else the author can do to improve the storyline! Jaa ne!
It: Mye-mye!
D: Have fun!
Y: Revieeeeew!
K: Before we end, let me ask you esteemed readers. The 2nd trial is now done. Can you guess what it was?
N: The first challenge was w-
D: Ok, no one wants to know. Let the readers guess it!
N: Argh, fine!