"Hey, your home is the same way as mine right?" Sumire asks.
"Yes, I believe so." Nao replies to her question.
Sumire wraps Nao's arm between hers and drags her along down the road. Instead of releasing her grip, Nao simply follows.
"So, has any idea come to mind yet?", Nao asks, while in the process of getting dragged across the sidewalk by Sumire.
Sumire looks down to her feet and comes to a halt, causing Nao-chan to smack into her back.
"I'm sorry, I still have nothing.. because of this the club will disband for sure." Sumire starts shaking a bit and her grip on Nao's arm loosens,
"I can't just ruin a club Azusa-chan worked so diligently to perfect. Nao-chan.. please help me."
Without hesitation, Nao chan grips onto Sumire's arm, dragging her across the sidewalk this time.
"Nao-chan, where are you taking me?" Sumire asks worriedly, while tugging her arm in a desperate attempt to escape.
"We are having another sleepover at my place.", Nao insists as she tightens her arm around Sumires again.
Sumire laughs, "Didn't this happen before during our freshmen year?"
Nao doesn't respond, instead a slight smile radiates off her face.
Finally, Sumire and Nao return to her home. Upon entering the house, she is bombarded by none other than her quadruplets.
"Hi, Sumire-senpai!", said all of them at the same time.
"Hi Kids! It's nice to see you again!", Sumire says, as she shuffles their hair around.
Nao picks them all up and places them in a chair, she folds a bib around their necks and places a plate around their necks
The noise of clashing metal comes from the kitchen. "Sumire? Would you mind helping me with preparing dinner?", Nao asks as she continues to struggle getting a bowl out.
"S-sure!" Sumire responds, rushing to the kitchen to save Nao from impending doom.
The smell of bonito flakes, octopus and freshly made batter fills the area as she enters the kitchen. She looks down to the floor to find a bunch of pots, pans and miscellaneous kitchen items scattered across the floor.
"It smells so good! What are you making?", Sumire asks curiously, looking over Nao's shoulder.
"Takoyaki.", Nao answers, clearly deep in thought and focused on mixing the batter. "There's bowls in the cabinet, don't mind the mess", she says, pointing to the clearly obvious mess.
"Okay, what do you want me to do?" Sumire says while putting an apron, decorated with various kitchen utensils.
Nao stops what's she's doing and reaches into a drawer and pulls out a slip of paper. Its a recipe for takoyaki. She slams it onto the table.
"Today, we have a competition!", Nao said, with determination plastered on her face.
Sumire is stunned by her proposition, "Competition? Why!?"
Nao gets closer and puts her hand on her shoulders, "Because, last time you came over. You made a way better dish than me, I've been outshined and embarrassed in-front of my brothers!"
Sumire is blown away by Nao's determination in this challenge, so she goes with it. "Okay.. I suppose a little competition wont hurt."
Nao smiles and turns back to her bowl. Sumire grabs the paper, takes a mixing bowl from the garbled mess of a cabinet and acquires the needed ingredients.
She finishes mixing the batter, she looks over to Nao, who is already in the process of frying the takoyaki. "Ew! This octopus is so slimy and gross..", She says as the octopus slips out of her hands and onto the floor.
Promptly ignoring all safety precautions, she starts cutting up the octopus, Nao, who is cutting up seaweed sheets lightly scoffs. Sumire, who didnt clearly hear her, admires her cooking skills.
"Nao-chan, your knife skills are amazing!", Sumire says with a sparkle in her eye.
"Yes, I have been cooking for as long as I can remember, 12 years. I was frying yakisoba before I could even form a full sentance." Nao said, triumphantly, as she sprinkled seaweed and bonito flakes onto the takoyaki.
"Wow, you must make some pretty amazing dishes, Nao-chan. I hope I can taste them all." Sumire dreams about all the wonderful creations Nao could make as she salivates at the thought.
'I wonder what I could to do to make this better..", She thinks for a while, 'Oh, this will make things unique!'
After a while, both takoyaki dishes are done and ready to be served to the judges (quadruplets).
"Here yo go, kiddos", Nao cheered, "I'm sure these are up to your standards"
Nao's dish was a the standard takoyaki, fried octopus balls with kewpie mayo, bonito flakes, seaweed and sauce.
Sumire-chan instantly stuffs all of the takoyaki in her mouth, "Whow! This ith really good~~"
Unlike Sumire, The Quads don't seem content.
"Basic"
"Yuck"
"Needs more mayonnaise!"
"Yum— I mean ewww..!"
Nao threatens to deep fry all of them, just as she may actually do it, Sumire steps in.
"Alright! Try mine." Sumire slides them all a takoyaki dish that seems quite lackluster and relatively the same as Nao's.
"Sumire-chan.. did you make the same dish as me?", Nao muttered, blushing and chuckling at the same time.
"Absolutely not! I'm not that bad at cooking", Sumire snapped, "Please, enjoy it!"
Nao and the quads took a bite of the takoyaki.
"Hmph, this tastes the same as mine..",
…
"Sumire-chan… did you put Spicy Sauce in the takoyaki?" Nao said, sweat dripping down her face.
"Well.. yes. I thought it would *spice* up my dish. Why? I hope you aren't allergic!", Sumire said, worried for what she just caused.
Nao hunches over, "No no.. that's not it. Im just~~ extremely sensitive to spicy foods."
After a few seconds of awkward silence, Nao stands up.
"N-Nao-chan?", Sumire murmurs, concerned.
Nao-chan bolts to the kitchen, making an even bigger mess than she made before. She pulls the fridge door open and grabs 2 bottles of water from the fridge.
"Nao-chan, no! Water doesnt help!", Sumire makes an attempt to save her but its too late.
She flings the water bottles into the sink and runs around the house.
Nao realized something, the quads also ate her takoyaki, "Are you kids not affected at all?", She asks.
"Not really"
"It was pretty mild"
"More"
"Yum!"
Sumire looks over to Nao to find her on the floor in the coffin position.
"Oh, Nao-chan.."
After 30 minutes of cleaning up the abominable mess around the house. Nao and Sumire settle down in her room.
"So, what movie would you like to watch?", Nao asks, digging through her disc cabinet.
"Lets do a scary movie, those are always fun.", Sumire insisted.
"I have alot of scary movies saved up here, Psychological, Thriller, Slasher, etc."
"My brothers, and my mother always have horror movie marathon every Halloween.", Nao gushes. "Oh, what about Schoolgirl Apocalypse, I heard that is a good one!"
Sumire is intrigued, "I never heard of that one! Lets do it."
Nao pops the disk in and plays the movie. The two settle in under a blanket on Naos beanbag chair, leaning against her bed with a pillow behind them.
A few minutes into the movie, Sumire is already bunched up under the blankets scared. On the other hand, Nao is completey sucked into the movie.
"Nao-chan, how are you not affected by these things!?", Sumire wept, now gripping onto her arm.
"I told you, I'm used to these movies because I do this every year. You'll be fine, Sumire-chan."
The movie is about a girl named Sakura that lives in a town in the mountains. At school, one day the teachers and students start acting weird. Suddenly, the try killing everybody and Sakura has to survive in the school for over 2 weeks.
Sumire has calmed down, and is now invested in the movie. Towards the end of the movie, Sumire feels a slight weight on her shoulder.
"Nao-chan..?", Sumire looks over to find Nao asleep on her shoulder. Looks like she wasn't that invested in the movie after all
The movie has ended and Sumire is stuck with a snoring Nao on her shoulder. Suddenly, she remembers something.
'Oh right. I have to come up with an idea for the club..'
Sumire completely forgot about that, and still has no ideas. Then, out of nowhere she had an idea.
'Perhaps, I could convince Ms, Yamanaka to advertise the Light Music Club on the intercom. I guess we will have to see tomorrow.'
Slowly, but surely. Sumire-chan yawns and drifts off to sleep on Nao's head.