Chapter 6

The first day of the Asahiyama High School field trip was nearing its end. The color of the sky was now showing the shade of yellow and orange and the evening time was around the edge. 5 PM was nearing and the third-year students had made their way back to the hotel they were staying for the next two days and two nights. Even with the earlier warning from their teachers, some of the students still made it back late and they were warned with a verbal warning to not repeat the same mistake again next time.

Right after, the students were gathered in the meeting hall to be briefed of the second day's schedule. For the second day, they will be going to a place of choice provided by the teachers with their respective group. Each group were given a form to fill for the desired destination and it will be returned on tomorrow's morning briefing.

After an hour and a half of briefing and some sharing session, the students were now off to the hotel's restaurant for dinner. Because of their number, the restaurant was exclusively booked for the Asahiyama students and teachers for this evening.

"Wahh…! This restaurant is great! Look at the food, it looks delicious!"

"Yeah, I'm really tired and hungry after a long day of going to places… Let me find us a good table to sit…"

"Let me repeat it again, all of you have one hour of dinner time. After that, you have a free time until ten o'clock and going outside the hotel is forbidden."

"*sigh* I'm so tired… I think I'm going to skip dinner and go back to our room…"

The atmosphere in the restaurant was loud and merry. Most of the students were enjoying their dinner and talking with their friends about today's trip and visit. The rest who did not join were hanging outside the restaurant, going back early to their room, or sneaking out from the hotel, even with the warning.

Somewhere in the restaurant, Fuutaro and his groupmates were having dinner. Plates of sushi, desserts, and other meals were up on their dining table as they also enjoyed the foods, especially for Fuutaro because he rarely had a chance eating this kind of meal. As for Takeda, while eating his meal, he asked Fuutaro about his alone time with one of the Nakano quintuplets this afternoon at Fushimi shrine.

"C'mon, Uesugi-kun. Tell me what happened between you and Nakano Miku-san back at the shrine?" Takeda asked to him with a teasing tone, looking at the quiet boy who sat next to him. "Did you do something special with her? Well… Knowing you two were alone back then…"

"Tchh… How many times do I have to tell you? There was nothing happening between me and her." Fuutaro shook his head, feeling vexed by his groupmate constant annoyance as he continued eating without even glancing a look at him. "This is like the third time you ask about this… Isn't there another topic we can talk other than this?"

"Heh! Like I said, don't be shy. We're friends, right? You can tell me about your most embarrassing secret and I will keep it to my grave," Takeda stated as he continued asking him, insistingly, "Don't tell me that you were all quiet and didn't even bothering talking with her for like an hour before you came down?"

"Well… It was something like that, but not really." Fuutaro grabbed a glass of water and drank it. He then continued eating with an uninterested face. "We did talk a little bit and looking around the area before going down."

Even though Takeda said that they were already friends and exchanged contact info, Fuutaro was still wary of him and not trusting enough to tell him about important things or secrets because he rarely interacted with him, as a friend, after the national mock exam. As far as he remembered, he never really had a friend before aside from some acquaintances in school, in which he rarely talked to because of his indifferent attitude and focus on academic aspect. For now, this kind of things were better to kept for himself until he saw Takeda was a worthy person to talk to or to share a secret.

"Hmm… If that was what really happened, I guess you're still really far and stiff on interacting with girls," Takeda said in a slightly disappointed tone but his face was still lively as always. "Uesugi-kun, you really missed out on a good chance, you know? I can see that Nakano Miku-san is really interested in you."

"Is that so?" Fuutaro said with a bland tone although he already knew of it.

"Of course! Don't you remember what I said back then? The Nakano quintuplets are very supportive of you and… you seem to be very close with all of them," he stated, reminding him of the situation. "Like I said, all of them will eventually fall for you and I can see that Miku-san already liked you."

"You think so? I didn't really pay much attention to it." Fuutaro put down his chopstick and pull out his phone to check on something. "My job right now is to support and tutor them in academic aspect and make sure they graduate without any trouble."

"Dense and indifferent as always, I see? Anyway Uesugi-kun, let me give you some advice so you can be closer to girls." Takeda also put down his chopstick and drank a water. He then cleared his throat and told Fuutaro the advice with a light tap on his shoulder, "Ask about their interest and listen to them. Also, don't ever say anything they found insulting and be gentle with them. But don't get too comfortable with them or they will see you as a creep."

"Uhuh…"

"Make sure to listen to them and don't push your opinion too deep or they will find you stubborn," Takeda continued to said as the other member of their group came back from taking another meal and desserts. "Don't be like Maeda-kun, where he got all mad just because we saw his suggestion or opinion didn't fit into today's trip, right?

"Huh? What do you mean by that, Takeda?!" Maeda slightly yelled to him in irritation from hearing an apparent insult directed to him as he sat back down on his seat, in front of Fuutaro and Takeda. "You know, the Fushimi shrine was really boring other than the Senbon Torii and the rest area. There were other interesting places to visit in this town and I still can't believe you two picked the shrine…" He then ate the meal without looking at his groupmates in front of him.

"Well anyway, you need to see the situation and just follow your heart if you ever find yourself in another situation where a boy and a girl are alone together." Takeda then picked his chopstick again and continued to eat. "I can see that you're not really that hopeless with girls, considering that you're always together with Nakano quintuplets for almost every day and every time, and they pretty much liked your presence. With all of those time together, I have to say that you must have some experience with girls, right?

"Yeah, yeah… Whatever, Takeda…"

In the other side of the restaurant, the quintuplets were also having a dinner, minus Miku. The third sister told the rest that she will skip dinner because she was very exhausted from today's trip and immediately headed back to their hotel room right after the briefing was over. The mood between them was now calmer compared back on the train and at Fushimi shrine, thanks to Miku was not here and Itsuki was too busy enjoying the dinner without much talking.

The sight of empty plates was piling after another and it was all mostly thanks to the fifth sister, who ate a lot of desserts and extra meals because she was starving, as usual. Nino can only look at her sister's appetite with an unimpressed, bewildered expression, even though she already saw this phenomenon for so many times. While Ichika and Yotsuba were pretty much the same, although they followed it with a weak chuckle. The other students were also glancing at their table once in a while and also whispering to each other behind their back of this unusual sight.

"Uhh… How many more dessert you can eat, Itsuki?" Nino said as she managed to compose her expression and continued eating her meal. "You already had your third main meal and this is your what? Fifth dessert? Just how much can you eat, you meat-eating monster?"

"I am really starving, you know?" Itsuki cheerfully ate a pudding, ignoring the second sister's displeasure. "After a long and tiring day, it is natural to get hungry and craving for food, right?" She then drank a glass of cold apple juice.

"Well, that's true for most cases. But in your case, it's not normal at all." Nino shook her head in disbelieve. "Anyway, there's something that I want to discuss with you all and it's important."

"What is it, Nino?" Ichika asked, slurping a glass of iced coffee.

"Believe it or not, I'm being stalked by someone," Nino told them with a serious face, putting her chopstick down. Her words made the other three sisters stopped eating and immediately looked at her with a curious face. "A creep photographer to be exact."

"I've sensed them ever since we were going back to the hotel. And I'm pretty sure they followed me all the way to here," she explained the situation. "If you think I'm making this up, there's some news on the net about a stalking situation targeting school students when they were on the field trip. I've read some of it and most of it are believable.

"Hmm… Even if there was one, why would they target you, Nino?" Itsuki said casually as she continued eating her pudding again.

"H-Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" Nino responded back in annoyance because of Itsuki's indifference respond.

"If this was true, then you should immediately report it to the teacher," Yotsuba advised her.

"Yeah, I agree with Yotsuba. We can't risk of an unwanted situation if this keeps on going," Ichika said, supporting the suggestion. "You want us to accompany you telling this to a teacher?"

"No, not yet. I'm still pretty sure that I'm being stalked until now," Nino said and she took a glass of water to drink. "But I can be wrong since it's just a feeling of mine and I haven't seen the stalker yet."

"You sure about it? Better safe than sorry, you know?" Itsuki said as she finished the pudding and moved to eat another dessert.

"Don't worry about it. Once I see the stalker, I will confront them and smashed their camera onto their face." She then put the glass down in a very roughly fashion out of irritation. "I will act cautious from now on, so be sure you all too since who knows that the stalker might targets the others too."

"Yeah, yeah… Anyway, Yotsuba, can you come with me after this?" Ichika called her, who was sitting the opposite side from her.

"Hmm…? Where to, Ichika?

"There's something interesting I want to show you at the souvenir shop. I'm sure you will be very interested on seeing it," she said, drinking and finishing her iced coffee. "We can go after you finished eating, so take your time."

"Unn… Just a moment." Yotsuba quickly ate her half-eaten meal in flash and drank a water to push all the food down the stomach. She then put the glass of water down and eagerly said, "I'm ready to go!"

"There's no need to rush eating like that, you know?" Ichika chuckled and stood up from her seat. "Anyway, let's go."

Ichika and Yotsuba left the restaurant, leaving only Nino and Itsuki at the table now.

Nino, slightly turned her head back, looking at the first and fourth sister with a narrow eye until they gradually disappear from her vision. She then continued eating her almost finished meal and let out a big sigh. "*sigh* I can't believe those two tricked us, twice, in the same hour…" she said in an annoyed but dispirited voice as she slowly ate. A minute later, she finished her meal and then grabbed her glass of water with more force than normal, feeling frustrated. "I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Fuu-kun walking back together with Miku. Good for her, I guess… But I still can't accept the fact that everything was going against us. If only you didn't suggest that stupid condition, I could've walked with him instead of her. Enjoying a good, alone time just with two of us…"

For the fifth sister, she did not seem to be fazed by the complaining of the second sister as she continued eating the dessert with a bright face. "Well… It cannot be helped," she responded with an uninterested tone, still eating the dessert. "I suggested that condition for my advantage in the first place, but fate said otherwise, so that's that. I say you need to make your move fast. There are only two days left and the third day is the cluster day, so you can end up with him… or not at all."

Nino, looked at her, still with irritated face. "Yeah, I know about all of that, no need to say that to me. There's still tomorrow and I'm going all out to get him to walk with me," Nino stated as she gulped the whole glass of water. She then threw a sharp look to Itsuki who was sitting in front of her. "You know Itsuki, I definitely won't lose to you, neither to Ichika, nor Yotsuba too."

"Hmm… What are you talking about, Nino?" She looked at the second sister, momentarily stopped her eating.

"Don't play stupid with me. I know that you also wanted to get some alone time with him too, right?"

"Is that so?"

"It was really obvious from your behavior," Nino said. "Back then when we deciding the group with him, I can saw you were glaring at him for a few times, seemingly wanted to say something to him. Also, the way you kept saying to follow his group every time he got too far from us, wasn't that pretty obvious? You were also kind of forceful to him for the past few days whenever we were talking about school trip."

"Ehh… Was it that obvious?"

"Of course it is! So prepare yourself, Itsuki." Nino put the glass down with force. She then crossed her arm in confidence and continued to state her intention, "You know about me, right? If you don't act fast enough, I will hog him for the rest of the school trip. Who knows that Ichika and Yotsuba are thinking the same even though they don't show it now."

Itsuki stared at her, slightly narrowing her eyes and there was a trace of annoyance on her neutral face expression. "I already knew about it, Nino. I already have my own plan to spend some time together with him," she calmy said as she finished her final dessert and took a tissue to wipe her lips. "I have already done my research about his interest and what places he likes to visit, so I am pretty sure Uesugi-kun will be interested in spending time with me more than you." Her face expression now turned into a more serious one as she shot another look at her sister.

"Heh! What a big statement coming from you. I didn't expect you to be this bold. This reminded me back when you slapped and asked me to apologize to him last year," she responded back, showing a cheeky smirk to Itsuki, seemingly amused by her sister's rare confidence. "I guess it's on then. Let's see who will come out at the top!"

"Yeah, I will not lose to you, Nino."

One hour later, the dinner time was finally over and the period of free time finally begun. Some students used this period to visit each other's room, playing and spending time with their friends. While the others were at the hotel lobby or the other part of the hotel, enjoying the hotel atmosphere, alone or with their friends. The rest were at their room, relaxing or asleep from the exhaustion, or sneaking out from the hotel.

For the quintuplets, excluding Ichika, they were heading back to their room, agreeing to rest after a long day of visiting Fushimi Shrine and also to prepare themselves for the next day trip. Ichika, she was called by her friends to their room when they were walking back and she said to the three to go back without her and will catch up in a moment.

Arriving in front of their room, the three stopped momentarily to check for the room key card and it seemed neither of them had it.

"I don't hold the key card, so who's the one who had it?" Nino said, looking at the other two.

"Umm… If I am not wrong, you and Ichika were the one who hold the cards." Itsuki looked at Yotsuba after checking her pocket. "There were two key cards given to each group when we arrived back at the hotel, right?"

"Yeah, that's true. But I gave my card to Miku before she went back to the room an hour ago, in case of emergency or if she needs to go somewhere while we're still eating," Yotsuba explained.

"*sigh* What a pain… Ichika won't be back in a while because I know that her friends will be all over her talking about her recent acting in that popular TV drama. Let me ring the bell, who knows Miku will answer the door." Nino then pressed the door bell, a few times, in which a faint ring can be heard from where they were standing. A minute had passed and there was still no response from the other side of the door, which they concluded that the third sister was still sleeping. "Well… I guess we have to wait til Ichika come back. Miku will not answer her phone because she always put her phone on silent mode when sleeping."

Itsuki stretched her arm in the air, out of tiredness. "Wahh…! I am really exhausted right now…" She then said with a dreamy, soft voice, "After a long day of climbing those steps and finally eating a delicious dinner, I cannot wait to get a relaxing, warm shower, and then jump into the comfortable hotel bed."

"I really wonder how can you not gain weight after all of that eating and then immediately go to bed without any stretching or waiting all of it to go down," Nino said, looking at Itsuki's stomach and poking it repeatedly. She then softly pinched and held the stomach skin of the fifth sister, which resulted in a small squeak from her. "I'm pretty sure that you weigh more than any of us even though it's not really that visible if you glance at it…"

"Ughh… Nino! Please stop it!" Itsuki yelled in embarrassment and immediately backed down from the second sister. "I did not gain any weight recently… Besides, from last year school medical examination, all five of us combined weight was 250 kg, right…? So let's use that result and divide it equally by five, so we should all weight the same, right…?" she said in a nervous, stuttering voice and followed with a weak chuckle at the end.

"Yeah… I really doubt that…" Nino looked at Itsuki's body once more and there was a weak smirk on her lips, processing about her theory. "Besides, that was one year ago re—"

A clicking sound was heard, not far from them. Nino, immediately turned around the second that sound entered her ears because it was a familiar sound for her ever since she went back to the hotel from the Fushimi Shrine. She then intensely observed the hallway, looking for the source of the sound.

"Hmm…? What's wrong, Nino?" Yotsuba asked to the tense Nino, who still looking at the hallway.

"Did you hear that sound? I swear I heard a clicking sound just now." She repeatedly looked around the hallway with a narrow eye, carefully scanning each of the corner. After some seconds of finding nothing, she then turned her attention back to her sisters. "It was a clicking sound that you usually heard when taking a picture from a camera."

"You sure you are not being paranoid? You really need to calm down." Itsuki said with a mocking smile, lightly tapping Nino's back as well to calm her down. "A clicking sound, you said? It probably was just you imagi—" Her words got cut as a clicking sound was popping out again, but this time she also heard it.

Nino, again, and Itsuki quickly looked back at the hallway behind them and there was nothing. Restlessness, uneasiness was filling their whole mood as their face expression was starting to became tense and anxious with them looking at each other for the uncertainty of a potential stalker. The fifth sister was now as cautious as Nino except that she showed more fearfulness compared to the second sister.

"N-Nino, did you hear that?"

"Y-Yeah… I heard that. It was the same clicking sound…" Nino said in a slightly trembling voice. She then turned her attention to the fourth sister, hoping that she also heard about it too. "Yotsuba, did you hear it too?"

"Umm… I'm not really sure because I was checking my phone," Yotsuba answered as she put her phone back into her pocket. She was now starting to get nervous thanks to the sudden change of atmosphere between them. "Even if it was true, did the stalker you're talking about really follows you all the way to here?"

"No, it can't be." Nino quickly shook her head, thinking of the worst possible case of the current stalking situation. "It will be really creepy if they followed me all the way from the shrine to here. Besides, they wouldn't possibly try it inside the hotel with all of th—" She turned around once again and this time, her worst possible scenario became a reality.

Not far behind them, a digital camera appeared from the hallway intersection and the direction of the camera was pointing at them. The three sisters spotted the camera and were frozen in place. A look of horror was very visible on their face as they were too shocked to move or to talk because they did not expect that there was truly a stalker following them and what Nino said earlier was true. Without any warning, the camera let out a bright flash and it immediately followed by a horrified scream that can truly wake a dead person.

After enduring lots of teasing and girl's advice from Takeda, Fuutaro was mentally exhausted. He was now on the way to his room, alone, because Takeda and Maeda were at the hotel lobby, spending their free time period with the other schoolmates. But for him, he was not in mood to join a social situation as he was too tired, both mentally and physically, and he wanted to go back to his room for a warm shower and a rest. Still, he cannot fully rest or going to sleep because before the clock hit 10 PM, Fuutaro and the other class representatives will be called by their teachers to be briefed and instructed for a duty to count the student of their respective class for the curfew time.

Fuutaro then cracked his tired neck and let out a big sigh, feeling that the class rep duty was such a hassle. Still to this day, he was still kind of annoyed by Yotsuba's decision to pick him as the male class representative, knowing that most students in the class did not really like him because of his indifferent, unfriendly attitude and his preference of not being center of the attention.

When he was appointed, he had a vision of a painful and troublesome responsibility, where the students in the class will not respect him and he will be doing pointless and trivial class rep's task, which a big waste of time for him. But the opposite happened as the time went by. Thanks to him placing at 3rd place nationally in national mock exam, which was good enough for the highest rank out of all third-year students in the Asahiyama, and Takeda started to hang out with him more often, lots of student now looking at him with respect, even starting to talk to him in a more friendly manner.

As for the class rep's task, Yotsuba took the duty very seriously, even doing some of his portion. She even covered up for him at some class representative meeting for this school trip in the past and also a class-rep annual meeting with the student council whenever the schedule clashed with his after-school part-time work. He was grateful of her help and sometimes feel bad for leaving her on her own. So recently, he tried to repay back her efforts and did some of the tasks by himself, although still not good enough considering how much Yotsuba did for him.

Fuutaro was now already in role and slowly getting comfortable of being a class representative, although he still preferred the solitude of being left alone so he can focus on his interest, which primarily was studying…

"KYAAAA!"

Speaking of solitude, a sudden screaming interrupted his inner thoughts and he got startled from the loud sound as he immediately ran to the source.

"What was that scream?!" Fuutaro reached the hallway intersection near his room, which was the source of the scream.

"What just happened here?!"

When he reached the hallway intersection, his eyes saw the first quintuplet, who was popping out from the other side of intersection.

"Ichika, huh?"

"Ahh… Isn't it, Fuutaro-kun?"

"Did you hear that scream? Did you see who were the one who screamed?"

Ichika shook her head. "I heard the scream, but I didn't see anyone," she said. "By the time I arrived here, no one was here except you and the other people here coming out from their room." She looked around at the people who came out from their room, wondering about the scream as well.

"I see… I guess it's just some random silly prank scream from some girls."

"Ahaha… I guess so," Ichika chuckled hearing his statement. She then clapped her hand with a seemingly realization face, wanting to tell him about something. "Good timing that I meet you! Fuutaro-kun, I need to tell you something."

"Hmm… What is it?"

"Itsuki-chan told me to pass this to you. She said that she wanted to meet with you at the hotel's café up floor in an hour or so," she said with her usual cheerful tone.

Fuutaro raised his eyebrows as he did not expect the message from her. "Huh, Itsuki? Why did she wanted to meet at the hotel's café?" Still with a wondering, confused expression, he then asked further, "Do you know why, Ichika?"

"I don't really know. She only told me this in hurry before going with Nino and Yotsuba."

"*sigh* What a pain… I'm really tired now and I wanted to get some nice rest after a long day of climbing…" Fuutaro unenergetically said while massaging his tired neck. "Can't you just tell her to meet me in front of my room and quickly tell what she has in mind?"

"That's a big no-no coming from you, Fuutaro-kun!" Ichika said with an annoyed tone. Her face expression was pretty much as expected as she continued to scold her tutor's indifferent attitude. "Remember about onee-san's manner lesson, be sensitive to a girl and show a good manner when talking to her. Your statement of asking to meet in front of your room and refusing her invite was rude and had no sense of tact. It's a big red flag coming from your delicacy, to refuse a girl's invite, you know that?"

"This again, huh?" Fuutaro said with a complaining tone. Right now, he was really tired and not in mood to meet and talk with a person, especially in other places than his room. He then did a quick thought and decided might as well accept Itsuki's invite since it did not harm him in any way and he was not in good mood arguing with Ichika, thanks to his exhaustion. "Okay, fine. Tell Itsuki to meet me in an hour at the hotel's café. I'm going to take a shower first and rest for a while. I'm really tired right now."

"Got it! Make sure to not show up late, okay? Girls really hate when you make them wait for too long." Ichika said as her annoyed face immediately turned into a big grin, also adding a wink with her left eye at the end of her sentence.

"Yeah, yeah… Later then, Ichika." Fuutaro then started to walk back to his room again. Few meters of walking, he suddenly remembered that he also wanted to talk to her about something. "I almost forgot… Hey Ichika, I also wanted to talk something to—" He turned around and saw that she was no longer here.

Fuutaro let out another sigh as his attempt to talk to Ichika was slipping away, again. Ever since at Fushimi shrine, he had a desire of wanting to walk with her in this school trip and wanted to tell her about it, but unfortunately, she was gone before he can say a thing, twice, including now. He did walk with her when they were going back to the hotel, but his groupmates and the other quintuplets were also present as well. What Fuutaro really wanted was walking with her together, alone, just two of them, like their little adventure of school skipping few months ago.

After a seemingly endless running, the three sisters had finally stopped in place after an encounter with an apparent stalker, who took a picture of them when they were standing in front of their room. Right now, they were three floors below from where they ran away, which was another room hotel floor. The sisters were too fearful and shocked when they saw the stalker's camera and without thinking, they took the emergency exit stairs since it was near them when they were escaping.

Panting and panting was coming out from their mouth as they were very tired after running and going down the stairs in a fast pace. Nino was bending down, holding her knees while also catching her breath, Yotsuba was the same except she used the wall beside her to support her tired body, and for Itsuki, she immediately leaned against the wall and fell down below from the tiredness. The three took a few minutes to catch their breath and they finally had enough energy to talk about the unexpected situation earlier.

"*pant* *pant* I really can't believe the stalker followed me all the way from the shrine to the hotel," Nino said with a stuttered voice, still struggling to catch her breath. "This is more serious than I thought. I think I have to report this to the teacher *pant*."

"Yeah… I *pant* agree…" Itsuki responded with the same stuttered, tired voice as she started to get up from the floor. "It is not only involving you but we also got caught in this too. Who knows the stalker might also target the other students too," she said, resulting in a nod from Nino and Yotsuba.

A sound of a phone ringtone was heard. Yotsuba and Itsuki looked at Nino because they recognized that ringtone as her phone notification sound.

The second sister pulled out the phone from her pocket and looked at it. "Heh, finally…" She answered the phone. "Yeah Miku… A scream? Well… That was us… Hello, you there…?" She repeated the words and looked back at her phone. "Ughh… The reception in this floor sucks. Miku, can you hear me?" Nino then started to walk around the area to find a better phone signal, leaving Yotsuba and Itsuki behind.

Yotsuba also pulled out and checked her phone. She sensed her phone vibrating earlier, which can be a sign of an incoming message or a missed call, when they reached the current floor after running from the stalker.

"Hmm… A message, huh?"

There was an incoming new chat indeed. Yotsuba opened the chat and read it immediately. It took her a few seconds to read the chat and an energetic smile popped out from her lips after reading the content. She then put her phone back into her pocket and said to Itsuki, "Hey Itsuki, there's something I need to tell you."

"What is it, Yotsuba?"

"Ichika just messaged me. She said that Uesugi-san wanted to meet with you at the hotel's café in an hour or so," Yotsuba said to her with her usual happy expression.

"Ehh… Uesugi-kun?" Itsuki gasped, showing a surprise expression as she did not expect this sudden of a news. "Why did he want to meet with me? Did Ichika tell you the detail about it?"

Yotsuba shook her head. "No… Ichika only told me to pass this to you and she didn't write any detail about it either," she continued to say with a weak chuckle. "I guess you will find out about it when you meet with him."

"Well… I guess so…" Itsuki did a little nod, still wondering about the invite from her tutor.

Not long after, Nino finally returned to them. "Miku is finally awake, thanks to our scream… So let's go back to our room." Nino headed to the elevator not far from them. She held the back of her neck as she entered the elevator. "Both my mind and body are really tired thanks to today's trip and this stalker thing… I can't wait to hop into bed after this…"

Yotsuba and Itsuki then followed Nino from behind and immediately entered the elevator.

Itsuki, she was feeling puzzled from Fuutaro inviting her to the hotel's café. What did he want from her? Inviting her to the hotel's café? This sounded like a date or something similar… Knowing Fuutaro, if he wanted to say something to her or the other sisters, he would immediately go straight to her and said what he really wanted to say. But this time, he invited her to a café to talk or to meet with her, which was really unusual for him…

Her heart was pounding and she was feeling nervous from just thinking of it. Itsuki then quickly shook her head and let out a small exhale to calm her nervousness. Sure it was very sudden and it was very strange to hear it from him, but after calming down a bit, Itsuki can thought of a potential outcome to this sudden invite from him. It was one of her objectives of this school trip, to spend some alone time with him and this sudden, out of nowhere opportunity, was perfect.

"Ughh… This really surprised me…"

"It is very unusual for Uesugi-kun to invite me to a café…"

"What did he want to talk about…?"

"Still… This is perfect…"

"I finally found the opportunity to spend some alone time with him…"

"I have to use this chance…"

"To get to know him better…"

A/N:

So here's chapter 6 and the next quintuplet who will get to spend her time with Fuutaro will be Itsuki.

I've always wanted to write a story about Itsuki and Fuutaro since she is my second favorite quintuplet after Ichika, but I can't seem to think of the right scenario or moment to do so. Luckily, when I wrote the concept of this fic, I had ideas pouring into my head and thought of an ideal scenario between Itsuki and Fuutaro, which you will find out in the next chapter.

So the schedule for the next chapter will be on the last week of March or very early day on April (27th March - 2nd April).

As always, thank you for reading this story and I will see you in the next chapter.

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