I guess, in a way, you could call this a 'random chapter'...
But it was just something I thought up of while I was writing. And I apologize for its shortness...
And I discovered something totally and absolutely wrong! There's only one RinxHaru C2 community! There's more HaruxKyo and HaruxYuki than HaruxRin!! There's totally something completely wrong about that!!
It didn't take a terribly long time before Rin was forced to accept it...
...the vast majority of her wardrobe could not accomodate her swelling stomach.
It was this (reluctantly accepted) revelation that had brought Rin and Haru to this point.
Their mission: to buy clothes that could accomodate her.
It wasn't going well. Rin was a picky shopper. Nothing they found that actually fit her was to her liking.
"Rin, you have to pick something", said Haru, "Your clothes don't really fit well for junior there."
"I know", she said, "If I saw something I actually liked, I'd buy it!"
She was wearing Haru's coat, which was big enough to hide the fact the fact that she was pregnant.
"Well, what do you like? Any particular color? Style? Give me something to work with here."
"I'll know when I see it!"
"...that's not helpful."
Another hour passed, and still nothing had been accomplished...
...at least, it appeared that way, but it wasn't entirely true. Some progress had been made. Rin had found something she was actually considering, and had gone to the fitting rooms to try it on.
On account of these circumstances, Haru was waiting in the women's section of the store, like some security guard outside the fitting rooms. Women saw him and spoke to each other in hushed voices, and some of them giggled. One group of teenage girls seemed like they were going to try to make a move on him.
He really wished Rin would hurry up.
As if on cue, Rin made her grand appearance.
The teenage girls were backing off.
Haru wasn't going to try to deny it. Rin could glare like a basilisk.
"..well?" he asked.
"It's fine...I guess. Let's hurry this up. I'm getting tired."
After three more stores and having women hit on him (and he was sure he kept seeing those teenage girls again in every store), Haru was ready to go.
But, he didn't want Rin to feel like she was being rushed. So, he stood there like a sentinel, holding Rin's shopping bags, feeling the gaze of women upon him. They were probably deciding which of them should go flirt with him...even though it should have been completely obvious that that only way he would ever find himself outside the women's dressing rooms was if he was waiting for his woman...
Women were such strange creatures.
He was relieved when Rin came out and her glares sent other women scurrying away from him.
"I'm ready to go home", she told him.
Haru had been waiting for her to say that all day!
"All right", she said, "Let's go buy this and then we can go."
Anyway, sorry if you didn't like how this chapter...well...had nothing to do with anything. But we'll get back to Kagura in Chapter 7.