D: It's been a while, like, five or six days already?
K: Yeah, it's been a while indeed. Have you come up with any ideas to continue the story?
D: I don't really know, I've been thinking ways on how to continue with this story.
M: Should we do the disclaimer already?
It: It might be myeth to stawt it.
Ic: Come on Itsuki-chan, that isn't how a grown-lady supposed to act.
It: Can't help it, ok? I'm proud of being "Eatsuki"
K: You do know there's this phenomena called "getting f-"
N: Oh come on, you don't talk that way to a growing girl!
M: Why does this give me a sense of déjà vu?
D: Who knows? Anyway, you know the drill.
Y: Bla bla bla bl-
D: Next!
Ic: The author does not own any of the characters of this anime. All rights reserved, and belongs to their respective group and owner.
D: Thanks Ichika! With that said, let the story begin!
Condominium de Celestia (Yes, I had to make it sound a bit affluent as it can possibly be.)
The Quints have arrived at their destination, which at first glance seems to be simple in the outside, but absurdly exorbitant in the inside.
"Ichika, where's the guy you called a while ago?" Nino asked the eldest quintuplet, can't wait for the person who was supposed to be fetching them.
"Wait. Let me just contact him." Ichika replied, retrieving her cellphone from her jacket-pocket. She dialed some numbers and waited for the receiver to pick it up. Meanwhile, the other three quintuplets can't help but wander around the place. They have never seen something this extravagant of a lobby that was this a bit large than their entrance which only consisted of a total of five elevators with three from the right and two from the left.
"Whoever lives here must be pretty rich." Yotsuba said, looking like a kid that wants to wander around even more.
"You think? Their work must be pretty difficult if they were to own this if you ask me." Itsuki replied, looking at the golden chandelier that was hanging above their heads.
On the other hand, while the four quintuplets are talking to each other, one being Nino and Ichika who were calling someone called "K", and Itsuki and Yotsuba who were talking to each other while wandering around the lobby, is the third girl who was silently listening to the music of the lobby.
"…" Miku said nothing, since she was listening to what an outdated song ranging from the Meiji period, and currently looking at the pictures of what she calls "handsome" warlords from the said period.
Back to Ichika, she was currently waiting for their receiver sender, finally got in line with the said person, oblivious that they know who the voice belonged to.
"Hello? Who's this?"
"Oh hi, this is Ichika! We're already down here." She said, and glanced to her fellow quints who were minding their own business. The other three heard the caller, and went back to reconvene with Ichika and Nino who was waiting with Ichika for some minutes now.
"I'm coming down, just stay put over the lobby." The voice commanded.
"Gotcha." Ichika nodded and she placed the call down. For some reason, she feels a bit uneasy. She doesn't know if she was afraid about how creepy the guest is, or probably the guest sounds like someone they knew. 'Why does he sound like someone I know?' She placed her right hand on her chin while thinking about it.
"Is something the matter Ichika?" Miku asked, staring at the eldest's facial reaction.
"Ah, no no! There's nothing wrong. Let's go sit over there and wait for him." She brushed it off with a bit off uncertainty and pointed out the sofa that was near the entrance of the lobby. It was night time, and it was fully conditioned, so they were shivering. However, they never said anything else and thought that she was lying.
'With a face like that, who can ever believe you Ichika?' Nino muttered softly in order for not to let her thoughts out. She then looked at her sisters who was thinking the same way as she did, albeit different from her reaction.
'I wonder what Ichika's thinking… it can't be possibly about the food right?' Itsuki pondered, still distracted by the fact that they were going to get a free meal from someone they just met.
'I think she's a bit distrustful about the one that's coming down here, knowing that we just knew him because of a wrong delivery package sent to us.' Miku thought, as if she knew what the star-clipped quintuplet was thinking.
'I wonder what he looks like. I don't think he has any intention to hurt us, especially that this hotel is really exclusive as heck!' Yotsuba's line of thought as she looked at her quint who was still feeling a bit uneasy.
'Eh, I can protect my siblings if ever that creep who invited us actually tend us harm!' Nino reassured herself, being the one who protects her sisters from anyone, including the time when she tried to be too harsh on someone for being their tutor much to his dismay yet adamant attitude.
Unbeknownst to the quintuplets, a shadow was patiently waiting for the elevator to go up to his floor, hoping that the quintuplets weren't peeved enough that they would leave the package and leave without any notice.
35th floor, Futaro/Kintaro's POV
'How do I explain to them about my plight? I don't think they'd brush it that easily.' It's difficult to think of a way of how to explain to them about my sudden "disappearance" when in reality I just dropped out because of the letter that told me to. I know it's a bit farfetched to think that I'd easily succumb to money, but think of it as a desperate measure especially when we need it to pay off our debts.
The elevator finally arrives in the nick of time before I think of something else rather than what I was thinking a while ago. 'Finally, it took the elevator two minutes to come up to this floor. So much for being an expensive condominium as such.' I hear the elevator ding and I see it open slowly, much to my dismay.
I decided to take my time going down with the elevator to the lobby and retrieved a music recorder from my pockets. Nothing beats a boring elevator accompanied with some music.
'Hmm, what music should I play?' At first I didn't think about what music to play since I was dirt poor, but now that I think about it, my phone which is apparently new since I bought it yesterday looks
After for some time, the elevator has reached down to the lobby, and I'm finally on the floor where my "quintuplets" are, or at least, would be my girlfriends. I don't know. It's really hard for me to think that my future possibilities might only end up with one.
I can see them chilling on the sofa, minding their own business. I think I ca- wait? My legs are starting to become jelly. 'What? Am I this nervous to meet them again? It's only been like, what? A week or two?' I can feel like my legs are about to collapse on me. Oh well. It's now or nothing. Steeling myself from the nervousness, I went on my way to meet those five quintuplets.
Back to the Celestia Lobby; 3rd person
"Hi! I hope you guys didn't waited for too long." A voice boomed out, surprising all quintuplets who were preoccupied with something. He was wearing a short scarf that covered his neck and a blue jacket with mittens. When he was his old self, he was only known for his
"Oh no, it's alright. I hope we're not too much of a bother for you K-san." Ichika replied. She was wearing a pink sweater and blue skirt that was knee-length in size, and a cute pink beanie to compliment her clothing style.
'Hm? Why do I feel like I've seen him before?' Nino pondered as she looked at the guy who lost the package because of a blunder by the courier.
'Crap, I hope Nino doesn't find out who I am before I can even introduce myself and explain all of these.' K tried his best to remain calm so his identity won't get exposed. He doesn't want them to know his name, at least for now.
'Eh, might be my imagination.' Nino finally concluded after looking at him for some time. K was relieved at this moment.
"Anyway girls, are you quintuplets or something?" K asked, even if he already knew the answer. It was just a way to be able to feign ignorance and not let his guard down against this quintuplets. He knew that they were worried about him, and doesn't want to let them to worry more about him.
'These poor girls. I feel bad for lying about my identity already.' He glanced to the quints and looked at them one by one.
"The Name's Ichika Nakano, nice to meet you K-san!" Ichika offered her hand, and he in return accepted and shook her hand.
'Her hand feels so soft as usual! Argh, calm down Futaro!' he thought. Her supple hand and soft texture makes him want to hold it for more. He brushed off the thought and looked at the next quintuplet.
"Nino." She just greeted off casually as if she doesn't have any interest and no trust to the man that just shaken Ichika's hand. She never knew that the one she just talked to was the one who she actually confessed to.
'She looks too attractive! Argh, what are you doing Futaro?!' He wanted to faceplant himself at the wall for getting distracted. Nino was wearing her iconic ribbon that came along with contact lenses. She was wearing her casual blazer as well as a red scarf to cover herself from the cold place which is the condominium.
'How cold is this place anyway?' Yotsuba wondered, as if she knew what was going through Nino's head.
Meanwhile…
"M-Miku here…" the introverted quintuplet looked at him with a shy look on her face.
"Nice to meet you Miku!" He sweetly smiled at the 3rd quintuplet who blushed at seeing him smile. Her heart and mind was going haywire inside her body, since it resembled how a certain someone would smile. Even if he was the most impertinent tutor she had ever met, she can't stop blushing at the thought of it.
'Calm down Miku, you're not in love with K. You're in love with Futaro.' She managed to calm herself down, not knowing that K is actually Futaro.
'Still introverted, huh Miku?' He softly smiled at her, which made her legs too soft to even stand and hold her place, but still able to keep up with it, albeit forced. Aside from the melting quint, he looked at the two other quints who hasn't been introducing themselves yet.
"Hi hi! Yotsuba here! Nice ta meet ya K-san!" Yotsuba cheerily smiled, as to say that she's happy to meet someone else and that they were able to help a person who needed their package.
'Look at you so happy.' K chuckled at a low volume at how he met the 4th quintuplet. He was thinking how to get Itsuki on her good side and any call-outs to him by the carrot-hair girl was futile until he was snapped from his thoughts.
All comes down to the last quintuplet. Unfortunately, the last quintuplet wasn't paying any attention to their conversation, not because she was bored, but because her mind was occupied on what she's expecting. It's the reason why she wanted to join her sisters on returning:
'Itsuki's thinking about food again. It's the least thing I can do since they returned my case and letter.' K thought.
Not wanting to disrespect the person who invited, Ichika nudged her youngest sister, which made her stop thinking about food and focus on the present. All of the Quints, as well as K were staring at her, with mixed reactions.
"Oh, s-sorry about that! My name is Itsuki." She smiled sheepishly, ashamed that she was there only for the food. 'Dang it Itsuki!' she internally cursed at herself, much to the Quint's embarrassment. However a laugh from K was heard by the Quints, and all quints looked at him with curiosity.
"Oh sorry, sorry! You just remind me how he describe you guys." K joked around with a small grin on his face.
"He?" Itsuki asked.
"Who's he?" Ichika continued.
'He couldn't possibly mean…' Miku thought.
'Hm? Does he know Uesugi?' Nino eyed at him suspiciously.
'Eh?' A confused Yotsuba managed to say.
"Oh, where are my manners? My name's Kintaro Uesugi." He formally introduced himself, but in the back of his mind was far from formal. 'What kind of idiot would introduce himself that way?" He wanted to facepalm himself, but doing so might cause unwanted suspicion on himself.
'Kintaro?' Ichika tried to rack her brain if Futaro ever mentioned of another person who was related to him.
'Not gonna lie, he looks handsome, but Uesugi looks better than him.' Nino looked at him thoroughly. 'Although, they look like just the same for some reason.' She looked at him from head to feet, as if she was convinced enough that Kintaro and Futaro were the same persona. Unknowingly to her, her suspicion is right. 'Eh, might be pure coincidence.' She shrugged it off instead of prying it any further.
"Anyway, should we go up now?" K asked, with a hint of eagerness to catch up to the quints, which all quints agreed on, not wanting to stand on the lobby anymore. "Right this way!" He directed the quints to the elevators. They noticed that the elevators were similar to theirs, except it had a rug.
While the rest of the quintuplets were following suit to Kintaro, they can't help but feel a bit suspicious from the revelation that was made a while ago.
'Uesugi? Is this Futaro's relative or something?' Miku glanced to take a peek at the man that was inside of the elevator in front of them. His stature and pose makes it impossible to make it look like they're the same person.
After a long arduous waiting from inside the elevator, along with an awkward sound of silence, they finally manage to arrive at Kintaro's floor, much to the Nakano sisters' surprise. They found out that the hallway was wide enough for four people.
'Talk about snazzy.' Itsuki thought as she walked along the hallway along with her sisters. She noticed that the hallway was looking a bit too extravagant to her liking, and a rug on their foot which looks like it's been vacuumed every day since it appeared to be spotless.
Later, they have arrived at his room which at first look seems a bit simple. They went inside, and what they saw made the quintuplets' eyes enlargen.
Uesugi Suite, 35th floor.
"WOOOOOOOOOW!" Obviously, an excited Yotsuba screamed, as if a child had travel to someplace where it was their first time going to the amusement park. Her reaction was completely reasonable.
"Make yourselves at home!" Kintaro smiled. He knew that this was the perfect opportunity to come clean to them about his current situation.
'So this is Uesugi's home.' Nino thought, as she glanced left and right to see the complete replica of their apartment back, but with slight changes. Instead of five rooms, there were six rooms with different keypads to encode, with one of them already encoded. (PS: Just try to imagine this because as much as my imagination goes, the home that I'm thinking off is completely overkill as opposed to the Quintuplet's home.) She then went to the kitchen, and her mouth fell off completely to the floor. She was bespectacled at the size of the kitchen and its content.
The kitchen was as thrice as big as the Quintuplet's, further inspecting that it might have been inspired by a certain cooking anime show.
'What's inside the pantry board?' She went to inspect the boards, and she was surprised to see many food ready to be cooked, as if the host was actually a cook or a chef. 'Hm? What's this?' She directed her attention to the food currently waiting for the counter. She noticed the dish that were freshly cooked. She went to inspect and take a closer look, until a voice interrupted her.
"Ninooo, where are you?" Itsuki whined, apparently can't wait for their dinner anymore. She was about to respond until someone went to the kitchen and saw her standing near the foods.
"Oh? Eager to eat?" She looked back and saw Kintaro smiling at her. She can't help but feel uneasy that she saw someone smiled the way he smiled before.
'Who is he?' Nino narrowed her eyes, clearly eyeing him out to no avail.
"Oh, Nino-san! You can go to the table now. All of your sisters are waiting for you." Kintaro announced, holding the plates, spoons and forks.
"Let me help Uesugi." Nino volunteered, which Kintaro gladly accepted with a "Thanks." In her mind, her first impression of him is beginning to falter.
'He isn't so bad after all.' She smiled and took each dish to the table with no struggle.
After some time, all the foods, plates, and utensils were ready on the table. The table was wide enough, capable of occupying ten people. They sat on their respective seats, and began to say thanks.
"Itadakimasu!" Everyone added as they were ready to feast on the prepared food in front of them.
D: Alright, so that was Chapter 5? I don't really know if it was actually good or not.
K: You did well. I think?
D: Thanks for the encouraging reply Kintaro.
N: We're sorry if the author was too lazy to continue, but he didn't want to let his readers disappointed by making this incomplete.
Y: Hey Itsuki, did you know about a certain anime reference?
It: Hm? What reference?
M: It's really obvious, especially if you look between the lines.
It: I don't get it.
D: Basically it's a food anime reference.
Ic: He meant that anime all about food, Itsuki.
N: Anyway, after this fanfic finishes, the author will now move on to the next anime.
D: Yeah. It's about 26(?) girls? And a guy who can seal their powers with a kiss.
K: Review, enjoy, and thanks for being with us during this "lazy" journey sponsored by the writer.
D: Trust me, I want to finish this fanfic and move on already.