Disclaimer: Hello everyone, sorry for the late update. All credit goes to Shingo Nanami and フクロウ. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter.

甘い君

Indulging You

Part Two

Kasane x Nobunaga

"...Just what does Tono-sama want from me…"

Though she arrived in front of his room, Kasane felt hesitant to open the door.

She fully understood that the Nobunaga in her mind wouldn't have called her for that sort of reason, but for a young girl like her, it was understandable that it was difficult to enter a man's bedroom like this.

"...Uuuu… It's hard to go in…"

"...You're slow! What's taking you so long."

She had no clue if he had heard her voice or if he felt her presence, but Nobunaga's deep voice sharply cut through the doors.

Preparing herself, Kasane slide open the door and stepped into the room.

There she saw a white futon spread across the floor with Nobunaga, who was wearing a thin nightwear, sitting right on top of it.

"Um, did you need something from me?"

For now she asked in an innocent manner. Making sure she wasn't close to him, she maintained a reasonable distance.

To that question Nobunaga gave her a cold gaze and with a slight tilt of his head, he motioned her to sit close to him. Trudging her legs, Kasane sat next to him.

Stealing a glance at him, she could catch his stern, yet handsome features.

Just then Nobunaga's sharp crimson eyes turned to hers, to which she hurriedly avoided.

"...Um."

Without telling her anything, Nobunaga silently gazed down at her. Kasane withered under that heavy gaze.

Hesitantly he placed a hand under his chin. His long, unruly black hair spilled over his back.

"...What sort of place is your world like?"

"...Huh?"

Disbelieving what she had just heard, Kasane unthinkingly raised her voice.

Her world. That means the place she previously live in.

Finding it slightly unexpected, her eyes widened. For this arrogant realist, for this man to be curious about something like that came to her as a surprise.

Though this was the young man who believed her that she came from another world, he was someone who could care less of one's social standing gender and routinely accepted things as if it was nothing so this was quite a shock.

"Could it be, that you called me to ask that?"

"It's not like I could ask this question before Sado and Gonroku after all."

Nobunaga replied with a slightly embarrassed look on his face.

For this haughty young lad to be curious like any youngster, that sort of emotion wasn't that all different than her 17 year old self.

The man in front of her who was firm and strict and really adult-like now seemed just like a regular 19 year, someone who was not so older than her. Somehow she felt a sense of closeness then, which made her happy.

"If that's the case then that's fine! I tell you anything you want to hear!"

"..."

All the wariness from the moment she had stepped into the room flew away; the fact that everyone else was fast asleep and the fact that she was all alone with a man in the middle of the night didn't bother her anymore.

"...And then a car is…"

"..."

Just how much time passed?

She was just so focused in their conversation (well she was the one doing the talking). Even so she had so much fun.

His curiosity towards her world had no ill will and he also silently listened to her.

Tono-sama is unexpectedly nice...

He picked up her, who had no place to go, and gave her work and even believed in her 'unbelievable' tale.

He's really a gentle person.

Though he was also really blunt and strict and tyrannical and had really slanty eyes. She especially had no clue what he was thinking.

"What's marriage like in your world?"

"Marriage?"

This was yet another unexpected question she never knew Nobunaga would ask, Kasane smiled.

Taking her smile as her way of making him a fool, Nobunaga's eyebrow twitched.

"...What?"

"Eh? No, well, it was just an unexpected question I just…"

"If you're not going to talk, then forget it."

"Eh. No, I'll tell you!"

As if sulking, Nobunaga crossed his arm offended by her remark. Somehow he looked similar to Masamune so it looked kind of cute.

"In my world, as long as two people love each other, anyone can marry each other."

"When two people love each other? What about social position? Betrothals?"

"Social positions don't matter… As for betrothals, as long as they both love equally love each other, anyone can marry the person they like."

"...That's quite a peaceful tale."

"Right?"

Saying that, Kasane grinned. A sunny smile.

"..."

A careless smiling face. An unflattering attitude. Such a fearless woman.

"...Are all the woman of your world like you?"

As he murmured out that question, Kasane's eyes widened.

"...L-like me?"

She couldn't understand his intent her. Does he mean her appearance?

If so, then no. The ones who wear school uniforms like this are high school girls.

"You're a maiden aren't you."

"...M-maiden?"*

Puzzled, she tilted her head at the incomprehensible word.

"A virgin."

For a moment time froze.

Vir, vir?

Written as place and woman.**

"Vir-...! !"

Finally connecting the dots to Nobunaga's words, Kasane's ears turned bright red.

Even though she was just a high school student, surely she wouldn't be able to not understand those words.

However she thought even further than that.

"When I ask of the women of the other world, are you any different than the women here?"

During this time Nobunaga had closed in to her, Kasane unintentionally edged back.

"Eh? Eh? Eh? Wai- what? Anyway, so close!"

Frightened by the turn of events, Kasane tried to maintain their distance, however Nobunaga completely ignored it and drew closer to her.

They were now so close their breath mingled together. Those crimson eyes caught the reflection of her frightened self wondering what he was going to do.

"...!"

Suddenly feeling the faint sensation of his long hair caressing her face, she then felt something soft touch her neck.

Chu, came a small sound with then the sensation of something sucking at her neck.

With a painful tightness spreading across her neck, Kasane pushed him away from her with all her might.

"W-what were you doing!?"

He kissed her. He kissed her neck!

Kasane who was beyond the point of being both disturbed and bewildered, lacked all mental peace as she lost her ability to use her tongue.

Becoming blue then red, the interesting change of expressions from the girl in front of Nobunaga brought a small laugh from him.

"I only sucked your neck."

"! !"

Hearing such blunt words from him, Kasane's ears turned vermillion red.

Nobunaga himself showed no loss of composure, instead he showed her a thin snide smile.

"I-I believe this is more for the person you like instead…! !"

Covering the spot where he kissed her, Kasane stood up and retreated back until she hit the shoji door.

Bumping into it, her free hand fumbled around to and slid it open; shen then fled from the room.

"..."

Left behind, Nobunaga silently watched her leave. After that he scowled in the direction opposite to where Kasane ran away.

"I know you're there Sado."

Lowering his voice dangerously he spat out to the man.

In response, the door slid open quietly.

"As I thought, you've noticed…"

Peeping out from the door was an ashamed Sado.

Confirming the man, Nobunga's brow creased even more.

"You have a nice hobby of peeping on others."

"D-don't be absurd! This Hayashi! I was terrified to intervene in order to stop you!"

Sado said as he attended to him.

His master Nobunaga was an obstinate person who wouldn't hardly ever listen to him.

And that master invited the strange girl he picked from Narumi to his bedroom. Who wouldn't be curious?

In order to look into this matter, he waited in the next room so if, by any small chance, Nobunaga laid hands on that girl, he was prepared to stop him.***

It's fine if he had interest in woman, but if he laid hands on a girl whose origins were unknown, then the Oda's name in Owari which Nobunaga's late father, Nobuhide, had worked hard to build will crumble away.

In the worst case scenario, if that woman becomes pregnant and becomes his wife, more of the loyal vassals of the Oda's clan will leave.

"Hmph..."

Nobunaga gave a small snort and boredly went down to his knees.****

Out of nowhere a stray cat he picked up drew closer to him.

"Nobunaga-sama…. She is different than any vassals or strays. For you to think of touching a young girl of obscure origins… Surely you don't think you've gone slightly overboard?"

In response to Sado's stern lecture, Nobunaga gave out a dry laugh.

Scratching the cat, it purred back at him.

"What… Half of it was a joke."

"Which means half of it you were serious!"

Though Sado scolded him with an exasperated face, Nobunaga remained indifferent.

Sado heaved an intentionally heavy sigh for Nobunaga to hear him and opened his mouth to speak in a tone that was a mix of amazement and astonishment.

"...Goodness… You intentionally left a mark on that girl's neck."

Hearing those words, Nobunaga twitched.

Halting the hand that was petting the cat, he turned his attention to his vassal.

"...You pamper her…"

"..."

"Though she may be just a child, for a young woman like her to not fall prey to others, you use your name as the lord to constrain them. Are you trying to spread rumors that you've touched her?"

"..."

Nobunaga said nothing in return. He then returned his attention to the cat.

The cat cried as if wishing for more attention.

Nobunaga pulled it up and placed the cat on his lap. Resting one hand on the creature, he turned his gaze out through the window and to the moon.

"That girl… is strange."

"Ha?"

Sado heard the soft, idle words of Nobunaga. Paying no mind to him, Nobunaga continued playing with the cat and continued on.

"That girl's eyes does not look up to me in fear like the vassals and members of this clan. She does not try to flatter me. Nor does she even try to revere me. I am curious of her existence. Only that and nothing more."

He gave a thin laugh. He could remember that girl. The time when they first met, her form as she had fearlessly protested and stared straight into his eyes.

Even after he picked her up and ordered the three idiots to throw her off to a river, she meaninglessly threw herself into the river and in her drenched form she gazed straightforwardly in the eye.

Every time she looks at him it's always straight at him, she never once bent her gaze away.

Those big chestnut eyes held no fear nor apprehension nor blandishment.

"She's an interesting girl."

As he said that Sado did not know of the pleasant smile that formed across his face.

TBC

*Some meanings disappear over time, which is why Kasane gets confused at the word maiden. It's like reading old English or any old language in your respective countries. It's like you can read it, but the meaning can be totally different!

** So shojo=virgin or 処女 the sho/処 can mean multiple things like space;room, district;area, etc. Of course it's combined with other kanjis to become a word like 何処(where). As for 女, it's just woman. Well if you're in East Asia and you need to find the bathroom and you're a girl, that's the symbol you need to look for. Ehehe…. yeah a little kanji lesson.

***Here it says that Sado was willing to face seppuku as the punishment for interrupting.

****I believe he changed his sitting position, to the dogeza style.

Well then, this was a long chapter and I hope everyone enjoyed it. Well then, until next time! Make sure you all stay healthy!