Another small chappie!
Tenipuri belongs to Konomi-sensei!
"Kawamura ji-chan!" Kumiko said, happily entering the sushi place. Kumiko then took her usual seat at the front and placed her school bag at the seat next to hers.
"Ou! Kumiko-chan! Is it the usual today?" The elder Kawamura said, ruffling Kumiko's hair.
"Yes! The usual please!"
"Gladly! Oi Takashi, Kumiko-chan's here!" Kumiko then saw the younger Kawamura out from the kitchen and waved.
"Taka-senpai!"
"Ah, Kumiko! You're here today!"
"Yep, kaa-chan let me go for sushi today."
"So, how is school today, Kumiko-chan?" The older Kawamura said as he placed a plate of sushi in front of Kumiko.
"School's great! And today I watched over my fellow first years in the club."
"Really? You must be pretty good then, being asked to watch over them." Takashi said when his father walked away to serve another customer.
"Well, usually Yanagi-senpai will be watching my friends since he'll look at who might have good potential to be a regular next year. Kirihara-kun got quite some problems with the 2nd years though…"
"I see…"
"I'm not that good with my seniors either… remember when I told you they bullied me just because I'm in the regular team? I can't go near them now… but at least I still have my fellow classmates…" Kumiko said, eating her sushi while Takashi patted her back.
"It's okay Kumiko, you still have your teammates."
"Yeah… and when onii-chan went out with jii-chan I stayed at Atobe-san's place!"
"Really? Your parents also went overseas right at that time?"
"Yeah, that's why I stayed at Atobe-san's place… onii-chan asked him to, Atobe-san said."
"That's rather unusual for Tezuka."
"But it was nice, but the room Atobe-san gave me was so big! It's at least three times my room or more! The bed is big too… at that time, Atobe-san was having his team there, so I asked them to stay with me in my room since I don't like being alone in a big room."
"I see, was it fun?"
"Yeah! We played tennis, then I explored Atobe-san's garden and I sketched it! It's so pretty Taka-senpai, see?" Kumiko said, pulling out her sketchbook and showed Takashi her sketch of the garden.
"It's pretty, and is this a new sketchbook?"
"I didn't pack anything since Atobe-san came so suddenly, he just told the maid to lead me to my room and everything was prepared there. He even got me a new sketchbook and Karupin slippers!"
"Karupin?"
"That's Echizen-kun's cat's name, the slippers are exactly like Karupin! It's so cute! And he gave me pajamas and clothes to use too…"
"That's very nice of him."
"Yeah, and we talked too! Atobe-san said he rarely has his parents home, so he must be lonely too… well, Oshitari-san said he is, since he usually would have the team go there to practice."
"But you're not lonely there, right?"
"Nope, Atobe-san's very nice, he'd stay with me and eat with me and sit in the garden with me. And he let me swim in his pool too!"
"That's great!" Takashi said, laughing, patting Kumiko's head.
"I thought I'd get lonely, but it's not at all, Atobe and everyone at Hyoutei team is nice. I got to play tennis too."
"So, do you want more tea, Kumiko?"
"Okay, and I want more sushi too!" Takashi chuckles as he took Kumiko's cup and ruffled her hair.
"Sure thing, be right back."
"Okay!"
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