Thanks to Pikapikaluv for reviewing! And thank you for being a smart cookie and answering my question. I will send you telepathic rainbows as I post this chapter. Anyway, here's the third! Don't own KHR bla bla- Oh! And Uni and (Name) are still six here!
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Like every day, (Name) is once again sent out by his evil grandmother to fetch some water. He didn't mind as much since he can spend the afternoon napping by his grandmother's tree.
"(Name)!"[1] Uni greets him cheerfully, waving at him with much enthusiasm.
Or he can spend it with Uni.
"Hi," he replies less eagerly than she. Uni smiled.
She likes doing that a lot, he notices. Smiling.
"How long have you been here?" he asks walking to the river to complete his chore before hanging out with Uni.
"Um… not very long…" she replies from behind him, almost unsurely. (Name) was too busy pulling at the handle of the pail to notice.
The grumbling of her tummy is too hard not to notice, though.
(Name) blinked and looks behind him, at Uni who was blushing while clutching her stomach.
She was lying when she said she hadn't been very long, (Name) concludes.
Pushing his two buckets to one side of the tree, he looks up at its branches. It was the first time he noticed, in the many many years he had been sleeping under its shade, that his grandmother's tree was an orange tree.
He kicks off his slippers and stretches his arms.
Uni looks at him questioningly. "(Name)…?"
(Name) then jumps at the tree, hugging it as to not fall off. He climbs it, only to learn that it is painful as the tree is like its owner's legs, old and prickly. The thought made him shudder.
He really wants to go down, he isn't even that hungry. But… he didn't want to look like a wimp... in front of a Uni too.
As if reading his mind, Uni calls out to him, "Don't force yourself if you can't do it, (Name)!"
He didn't listen, he climbs up and up, hurrying to prove Uni wrong.
Then he slips.
"(Name)-kun!" Uni gasped.
He's still attached to the tree, he notices. He hugs to tree for dear life and hugs it close, (Name) looked up to see how far he was from the fruit, learning that it is actually in arm's reach. He allows one of his arms to let go of the tree's trunk to reach for the oranges. He grasps one and stuffs it in his back pocket. He makes to get a second orange that is farther from him than the first. Unable to reach the fruit, he stretches out more,
Ah! There we go. And now he slips off the tree.
"(Name)!" Uni gasped, running towards the fallen boy.
Wincing slightly, (Name) sits up with the help of a very concerned Uni. That was when he felt something wet seeping through the fabric of his shorts. He stands up and allows his hand to travel behind him. His little traveler of a hand then comes back with its spoils: orange goo that seemed to really like his fingers.
"Pffff…" Uni let out failing to compress her laughter. She holds herself aaaaaand she fails. She laughs wholeheartedly but continuously tries to stops her laughter despite her continuous failure to in what (Name) guesses is guilt. Well, it's gotta be guilt. It's Uni and if he knew anything about Uni, it's that she's so polite she'd think laughing when someone looks funny is wrong.
"I-I'm sorry… I-I couldn't h-help myself," she apologized in between giggles.
(Name) was able to save one orange and so they decide to cut it in half.
And even as they were eating, Uni couldn't help but giggle in between bites. She knew she should stop but it was just too funny.
Unbeknownst to her, she didn't have to worry as (Name) wasn't offended in the least, he just found that he liked Uni's laugh.
1. Okay, to those who had read this story on Luna, we will notice that I have removed the honorific "-kun" which Uni uses on (Name)'s name. This is because I realized that they are in Italy and Italians do not use honorifics. So yeah.
Thanks for reading, guys!
