Disclaimer: Hello everyone, sorry I'm late. Had some stuff to do during the weekend. Anyway all credit goes to Shingo Nanami and フクロウ. Enjoy!

無自覚関係

Oblivious Relations

Part One

Kuranosuke x Kasane

"…Ah?"

Kuranosuke awoke to the morning light.

Slowly bringing his upper body, he clenched his head from the throbbing pain.

Searching for a reason for his headache, he remembered that he drank a lot at yesterday's banquet.

(…So when did I go back to my room…?)

Judging by his surroundings, he was definitely at his own room in his lord's castle. He always used this room when he stayed overnight at the castle or when he rearranged documents and such.

However, he still could not remember how he managed to go back to his room on his own.

"Hm…"

Just as Kuranosuke tilted his head, he heard a small voice at his side. He immediately stiffened. His gaze turned fearfully at the voice, and there he found a 'woman'.

"…!?" Confirming the woman next to him, Kuranosuke jolted into the air and unconsciously cried, "UWA!"

Why, why.

"Why was 'that woman' sleeping together with him!?"

Laying beside him was one woman.

A short, black-haired girl.

She calmly sleep on at his side, softly breathing in and out in short intervals.

Taking in at this spectacle, he went completely ballistic.

Kuranosuke wasn't a young child nor was he stupid to understand the meaning when two people of similar ages and different sex sleep on the same bed at night.

(Why!? Why is the woman here! ! ?)

He clenched his head and groaned into his mind.

Trying to follow his memory from last night, he soon hit a small wall that stopped the memory short.

(…I can't remember…)

He felt an impulse to punch the last night him for this predicament.

He knew full well that his whole body paled.

Nervously, he took one more look at Kasane.

She was still a resident of the dream world.

He began to think.

There wasn't a single memory he could remember from last night.

However, they certainly spent the night together on his bed. It doesn't mean that nothing happened that night.

He's a man and this is a woman.

What was important was to find out if there was "consent" or "not".

If memory serves him right, either way this means that he and this woman became "lovers".

It could be that he forced her here and raped her.

He finally understood that she may resent him.

(….—Once she wakes up, How will she look at me?)

He was suddenly seized with uneasiness. She's going to despise him. She might never smile at him again, the worry eroded his heart into black matter.

"Unnn…?"

As Kasane started to shift and open her eyes, Kuranosuke felt his heart shrieking.

"…Nna…?"

Still half-asleep, she muttered blankly as she met his gaze.

As his beat beat furiously against his chest, Kuranosuke waited for Kasane's reaction.

In her large, chestnut eyes, he could see the light shine brighter and brighter as she gained consciousness.

…What he was waiting for was—

Rejection?

Or affection?

"…Good morning, Kuranosuke-san."

Kasane greeted him normally.

Widening his eyes, not knowing what was said to him, he went blank for an interval of time before he could try to reply back.

"Ah, not good… My morning chores!"

"O-oi!"

Just as she saw the sunshine from outside, she hurriedly got up from the futon and left his room. He thought of tugging her back, but instead wordlessly withered away.

With his eyes still glued to where Kasane left, Kuranosuke dumbly left his outstretched hand swimming into space.

When Kuranosuke finally calmed down his heart, he got dressed in his usual clothes and went out of his room.

Proceeding to the kitchen, he found Kasane, who recently finished cleaning the castle, cooking breakfast.

Seeing her happily cooking, Kasane seemed to sparkle in front of his eyes. He felt his breath stop.

…The thought of her being his woman suddenly made the young girl terribly adorable.

Kasane is his… woman.

With the thought echoing in his mind, his face heated up.

This lighthearted girl who is adored by many men was his.

Before he could try to call out to her, Kasane noticed his presence and turned around.

"Kuranosuke-san! What's wrong?" she beamed her usual smile at him.

And just that alone made his heart skip and pound horribly.

"I-it's nothing…"

If he asked what happened last night, she might grow distant with him.

"If it's breakfast then I'm almost finished, so please wait a little bit more okay?"

As she turned around to go back to work, he unknowingly grabbed her slender arm.

"…! !"

"What's wrong?"

Surprised by his actions, Kuranosuke released her arm.

"N-no… Well…"

As Kuranosuke formed inarticulate words, she looked at him with a puzzled expression.

At that moment he felt a strange discomfort.

An incomprehensible, muddy discomfort…

Assuming that Kuranosuke had no other business with her, Kasane said her salutations and returned back to work.

This time he did not pull her back and continued to watch her slim form at a distance.

TBC

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Ah, just to let you know, I opened a poll back in my profile page. Click your favorite pairing... If you want :). Anyway I hope everyone has a lovely week. See you next time.