Chapter 4
The sunlight passed through the window of a big hotel room, illuminating it and annoying Itsuki, who woke up unwillingly. The ahoge girl rubbed her eyes for a bit before they widened at a sight she didn't expect: Nino and Fuutarou sleeping happily while cuddling with each other.
'Ehhh?! S-she clung on him again and he's hugging her in his sleep?!', she thought, flushed and shocked at what she was seeing.
It was also the moment in which Yotsuaba woke up as well and saw the same thing. "W-wow, Uesugi-San and Nino like each other in the end!"
"W-what?!", shouted Ichika and Miku, waking up abruptly from their sleep to see their love interest cuddling with the social butterfly, who hugged Fuutarou tighter while he started to wake up.
"Geez, why must you girls be so loud?", he said, opening his eyes and yawning.
"Fuutarou-kun, why are you and Nino clinging on each other?", asked him Ichika, smiling to hide her jealousy while Miku pouted instead.
The young man looked at the beautiful long haired girl that was still hugging him and that had her smiling face leaned on his chest. He blushed, since he could feel something soft touching him, but smiled too at remembering what happened the night before.
He was about to reply at Ichika's question, but the sleeping beauty did it for him. "Can't I cuddle with my boyfriend?", asked Nino, yawning and opening her eyes.
"Y-your what?!", asked her sisters in unison out of pure shock, making her smile.
"Hehe, it's like I said; Fuutarou and I are a couple now.", she told them, hugging the young tutor tighter.
Ichika and Miku were totally shocked; they didn't expect Nino to develop a strong interest for him soon after becoming his friend, but finding out that he became her boyfriend so rapidly was way more stunning. Though, it also meant that they didn't have any more chance with him.
"F-Fuutarou, i-is that true?", asked him Miku, looking very sad.
"Y-yeah, it's the truth; Nino and I confessed to each other last night and b-became lovers. I'm sorry, Miku, Ichika. I-I was aware that y-you had feelings for me, b-but after I and Nino opened up with each other, I ended up falling for her like she did with me. I'm really sorry.", he replied, keeping his gaze down to hide his sad expression.
Worried, the social butterfly continued to hug him to comfort him; she didn't want that her Fuutarou was sad. Meanwhile, the other quints were stunned by the boy's words and by how sad he was for feeling like he hurt Ichika and Miku's feelings.
The headphones girl walked towards him and knelt to hug him, surprising him and making Nino glare at her.
"I-It's ok, Fuutarou. I-I'm not angry or anything; I-I understand y-your feelings and don't want to see you sad. E-even if I can't be your girlfriend, I-I want to be always your friend.", she told him, crying some tears that stained his yukata.
'Ugh, I'm letting you hug him only this time, Miku.', thought the second oldest quint, glaring at her sister that was getting a headpat from the boy.
"I'm glad to know it, Miku.", he told her, caressing her hair.
Ichika sighed and smiled instead, despite some tears in her eyes, "Onee-San will obviously be always your friend too, Fuutarou-kun. Just promise me that you will be a good boyfriend to Nino, ok?"
The young man smiled back at her and nodded, with the sound of his hungry stomach making hear itself. The quints were surprised by that at first, giggling then while he blushed embarassed.
"W-well, I d-didn't expect you and Nino to become lovers, Uesugi-kun, but I'm happy for you 2. And s-since you're hungry like me, shall we go to eat, everyone?", asked Itsuki, stopping to giggling like her sisters did.
She got a nod from everyone, so Fuutarou was free by Nino and Miku's hug, even if the first stopped reluctantly to hug him, and took his ski suit to go to change in the toilet. There was skiing as activity, after all.
Once he was ready with his blue suit on, so were the quints with their pink and white ones when he got out of the toilet. The six of them left their room to go to have breakfast, and the butterfly ribbons quint didn't hesitate to link arms with her boyfriend, who blushed at her move.
Some students that saw that were flabbergasted, with a few ones whispering some things that made Nino's eyes twitch.
"I don't believe it, she and Uesugi are a couple?", whispered a male voice.
"They were the ones who scared everyone during the test of courage. Maybe they became lovers yesterday night?", wondered a female voice.
"She has really no taste in men.", said another one with a tone of disappointment.
'Why can't these idiots mind their businesses?! What's wrong with me and Fuutarou loving each other?!', she thought, with her blue eyes getting darker.
Noticing her angry expression, the golden eyes boy told her just for her to hear, "Don't mind them, Nino. They're probably just envious."
"I-I know, but I still hate it when they badmouth you.", she replied, with the color of her eyes returning to normal and holding his arm tighter.
He sighed and smiled, " I guess that I'm lucky to have a dumb but very protective girlfriend."
She pouted at that, "D-don't insult me or I will kiss you in revenge."
Both of them blushed after she said that and looked at each other's eyes for a moment before her sisters told them to not stay that behind or they would have breakfast without them. Still flushed, the two of them nodded and reached the other quints, not stopping to link arms either for a second.
'Damn it, I want to kiss him/her now!", they thought in unison, remembering their first kiss and the others of the previous night and feeling the need to connect their lips another time at the moment. But their thoughts changed when they arrived to the hotel's cafeteria with their sisters and saw how many pastries Itsuki took for breakfast.
Wanting to make a little prank, Fuutarou distracted her by telling that there a table full of meatbuns behind her, and when she turned around, Nino took 2 pastries and gave one to her boyfriend. Pouting because it wasn't true that he saw a lot of meatbuns behind her, the ahoge girl gasped when she saw that 2 of her 3 pastries were not on her plate anymore and pouted angrily at seeing her tutor and her sisters eating said pastries.
"Y-you two tricked me!", she exclaimed, crying comically.
"Hehe, pranking you is too easy, Itsuki.", told her Nino, smirking.
"I agree haha.", said Fuutarou, grinning as well.
"Both of you are really evil.", said Miku with a deadpan while Ichika and Yotsuba giggled at Itsuki's expenses.
Some of the students inside the cafeteria chuckled too, finding funny how the newborn couple pranked the gluttonous girl. Fuutarou and the quints continued to have breakfast for a while and went then to skiing .
Outside it was full of snow, so it was ideal to practice some skiing. But having never skied before, Fuutarou and Miku too needed Yotsuba to explain them the basics while the others, except for Nino, were already skiing.
'I don't like leaving my Fuutarou alone with other girls, even if they're my sisters.', thought the social butterfly, standing next to the boy while Yotsuba explained him and Miku how to start skiing. Once he and Miku nodded in understanding, they started to apply what the sportive quint told them, skiing slowly through some little descents.
"You two are doing good! Remember to keep balance to not fall!", told them Yotsuba, cheerfully.
"Got it.", replied the headphones girl and the golden eyes boy, making sure to do as she suggested.
"You're doing really well, Fuutarou. I didn't expect it from my dear smartass.", said Nino to her boyfriend, skiing by his side and giggling.
"T-thank you. Also, I didn't forget about tonight; I look forward to dance with you, even if I-I never danced before.", he replied, blushing like her at his words.
"I-I'm glad to hear it. Dancing together with you at the bonfire will be something amazing.", she told him, giving him a kiss on the cheek once they reached the end of the descent. She even hugged him and snuggled her face on his chest, smiling happily while he hugged her back.
The other students around them were stunned by how much affectionate the two of them were with each other, especially Nino's friends. They had heard that she and Fuutarou became a couple, but they were flabbergasted now at seeing the love between the social butterfly and the top student.
"You two really like showing your love in public.", told them Ichika, who appeared together with Itsuki.
"J-just don't do shameless things in front of everyone.", said the ahoge girl, blushing at seeing Nino and Fuutarou hugging each other very affectionately.
"I can't help it; I l-love this handsome guy too much.", said Nino, blushing more and hugging the boy tighter, who blushed because of the compliment.
"Hehe, you two are really adorable.", said Yotsuba, who arrived together with Miku. But other whispers from some male students around them suddenly started again, making the quints frown in annoyance, since they could hear that they were saying bad things about Fuutarou.
Again, Nino's eyes' color became a little darker and she was tempted to go to yell at those envious idiots to stop it with badmouthing her beloved, but a little headpat from him calmed her down and made her smile.
"I told you that I don't care about what they say about me, Nino. So just ignore them, ok?", he asked her, smiling and getting a nod from her.
"B-but Uesugi-kun, it's not right that they say bad things about you.", said Itsuki, with a sad frown.
"Itsuki, you saw it on the first day we met; people will always start rumors about something, no matter what. That's why you should not pay attention to them and live your school life freely.", he replied to the ahoge girl, making her and the other quints surprised.
"Wow, I thought that you would have said to concentrate on studying too.", said Ichika, stunned.
Fuutarou chuckled, "Maybe spending time with you girls is changing me more and more everyday haha."
All the quints giggled at his reply, laughing together with him while Nino stayed glued to him and enjoyed his warmth. Yotsuba then proposed to start a snowball fight, getting a positive nod from everyone.
The newborn couple, smiling viciously, stopped hugging and started to throw snowballs against the other quints, who were hit often with a double snowball attack.
"Hey, it's against the rules playing in 2 against everyone else!", complained Itsuki, pouting.
"Rules? Who cares about that haha!", replied Nino and Fuutarou in unison, throwing two snowballs against Itsuki that put her hands on her head defensively.
Some students observed the game and thought of joining, but a glare from Nino made them think otherwise. 'I heard you idiots saying bad things about my Fuutarou earlier and I don't trust you at all.', she thought, being again very protective of the young man. Fuutarou didn't notice her angry expression, as she changed it into a bright smile when she turned to look at him again and to give him a kiss on the cheek, giggling at seeing him blush.
The snowball fight went on for a while, until it wasn't time to have lunch, since it was almost midday. Guided by her big hunger, a smiling Itsuki walked fast back to the hotel, followed by her sisters and the golden eyes tutor that sweatdropped. Nino wrapped her arms around Fuutarou's arm during this, smiling for how he was flushed due to her chest pressing against his arm.
'D-dad and Raiha will tease me a lot once they see how clingy Nino is with me when I bring her to home.', thought the young man, still blushing but liking the young girl's affection, which he reciprocated by giving her a kiss on the forehead that she adored.
As he told her, Nino ignored the whispers and the rumors that she and Fuutarou were hearing, but that didn't stop her from getting annoyed somehow anyways. Even if they were useless rumors, she couldn't stand that someone said lies and bullshit about her Fuutarou; unlike her, they didn't know him well, so they had to shut up and mind their businesses.
Some minutes later, the quints and their tutor arrived to the hotel's cafeteria and started to eat. The social butterfly giggled and fed her beloved Fuutarou sweetly, making him blush.
"N-Nino, you don't have to do this. I-I can eat on my own.", he told her, embarrassed.
The girl shaked her head and blushed, "I want to take c-care of m-my boyfriend anyways."
"Uesugi-San is all red hehe!", said instead Yotsuba, giggling like the other quints while the boy frowned and stole her onigiri.
"Hehe, Fuutarou is a food thief.", said a smiling Miku while Yotsuba gasped and pouted, with Fuutarou eating her onigiri. But by doing that, he got some rice grains on his cheek, which got cleaned by Nino with a kiss that made him blush.
Her sisters giggled or were stunned at seeing once again how much the social butterfly loved the young man, whose face was still red while Nino clung on his right arm lovingly.
"I'm glad that you love each o-other that much, but what are you going to do when Father finds out about it? I'm not sure if he will accept your relationship.", said Itsuki with a worried expression.
"I don't care if Papa won't accept it; I l-love Fuutarou and I don't want to get separated from him. Ever.", replied Nino, tightening her hold on the boy's arm in a possessive way.
"Don't worry, Nino. We will tell him together that we're a couple and if he fires me for this, I will teach you 5 anyways.", he told her, patting her head and looking at her sisters too.
The social butterfly blushed deeper at his words and lifted her face to kiss him on the lips, surprising him and making her sisters and other students gasp. Knowing that her Fuutarou wouldn't abandon her and her sisters even if Maruo fired him made her very happy, so much that she wanted to kiss him lovingly without caring about the looks of other people.
The young man was flushed due to this, but he kissed her back anyways. He also felt like putting his tongue in, making Nino moan while her sisters blushed. The young couple continued to kiss for some seconds before their lips detached, smiling at each other.
"I g-guess that I saw some tongue in that kiss.", suddenly said Ichika, blushing.
"H-h-how shameless!", exclaimed an embarrassed Itsuki instead.
"What's wrong with kissing my dear Fuutarou?", said a giggling Nino, leaning her head on the boy's shoulder.
"Y-you two a-are very bold to kiss l-like that in public.", said Miku, blushing like Itsuki.
"I'm not afraid to show how much I love this handsome right here.", replied the social butterfly, hugging Fuutarou's arm tighter. The boy blushed and smiled at hearing such words, which made him caress his girlfriend's head.
The butterfly ribbons quint giggled at receiving such nice gesture, glad also because no one of the other students dared to say something about her and Fuutarou's kiss.
Once the quints and their tutor were done with having lunch, they decided to make a snowman all together, since they had already skied in the morning. When he saw that the snow man was modelled after him, Fuutarou burst out laughing and the quints took a photo of him and it and one all together with him.
Nino blushed at seeing Fuutarou's smile on those photos. 'I really love it when you smile, Fuutarou.', she thought, with her eyes getting darker when she noticed two male students whispering bad things about her man.
She was tempted to go to slap them, but her love's voice grabbed her attention, "Nino, let's make another snowman!"
Her eyes went back to their everyday color before she smiled at him, "Yes, Fuutarou!"
She walked towards him and her sisters nas they made another snowman, this time more classic with also a carrot as nose.
"Did you take a carrot from the hotel's self service, Yotsuba?", asked her the boy, sweatdropping.
"I thought it would be useful to make snowmen, and I was right hehe.", replied the young girl cheerfully, making him and her sisters chuckle. Fuutarou then put his scarf around the snowman's neck, making Nino worried.
"W-What are you doing?! Y-you risk to get sick if you get too cold, Fuutarou!", she told him, clinging on him.
"W-well, if you cling so much on me, I can stay warm all the time.", he replied, scratching his cheek and making her blush.
Smiling, she wrapped her arms and hugged him, keeping her face on his chest to give him warmth and enjoying his own. Unbeknownst to them, her sisters took a photo of them, finding them very cute and to put it in their family's photo album; Nino liked taking photos as memories, so she would be happy for that.
"You know, you two could go the mixed baths together.", suddenly teased them Ichika, making the young couple blush.
"Ehhh?!", was Fuutarou and Nino's reaction while the other quints were flushed or shocked.
"T-That's too shameless!", said Itsuki, completely flustered.
"Oh come on, what's wrong with that? Fuutarou-kun and Nino have already had their intimate moment and are now a couple. They can do that freely fufu.", said Ichika, making the couple more embarrassed.
'Aaah! I-I can't stop imagining me and Fuutarou in the bath together now!', thought the social butterfly, touching her cheeks to hide her blush somehow.
"Nino is thinking about it. She's a pervert.", suddenly said Miku, making her sister glare at her.
"S-Shut up!", snapped the flushed social butterfly, making Miku chuckle.
"I will give you a lot of assignments to do as punishment once we're back to Tokai, Ichika.", said Fuutarou, making the oldest quint gasp while her sisters giggled at her expenses.
The group continued to chuckle for a while, until they didn't decide to go back to the hotel, since it was getting colder outside. Once in their room, the six students started to play Uno and other card games to spend the rest of the afternoon, even if Fuutarou decided to take a nap by sleeping with his head on Nino's lap.
The social butterfly was flustered because of that, but she smiled happily and started to caress her boyfriend's hair. She also told her sisters to not make too much noise to not disturb the boy, getting a nod from each one of them.
'Fuutarou, I can't wait to dance with you tonight. After you opened yourself up with me and reciprocated my feelings, I just want to always stay together with you.', she thought, planting a kiss on her beloved's forehead that smiled in his sleep. Nino also took a photo of him, as she found him very cute.
The other quints could see once again how close the girl and the boy were to each other, and even they felt a bit jealous of Nino, they couldn't negate that she and Fuutarou were really cute together. They were even stunned when the boy wrapped his arms in his sleep around Nino's waist, who blushed deeply.
'It's like he wants to keep her always close to him. Hehe, he's really adorable.', thought the other quints while the social butterfly could just smile happily. Seeing that Fuutarou was so affectionate to her made her truly glad and look more forward to dance with him at the bonfire.
The young tutor continued to sleep on his girlfriend's lap for an hour and half, after which he woke up to see the smiling face of his girlfriend as first thing. He was flushed for that, but he smiled back at her and got to hug her with her reciprocating the gesture.
"I really doubt that Papa won't accept your relationship. You two look so cute together!", said Yotsuba, smiling.
"If he doesn't accept it, I w-won't hesitate to go to live with this hottie.", said Nino, blushing and hugging said hottie tighter while he blushed at her words.
"L-Living with U-Uesugi-kun? B-but you t-two are s-still students!", exclaimed a flabbergasted Itsuki.
"Hmph, I don't care about that. I-I want to stay together with Fuutarou anyways.", replied the social butterfly, making her sisters stunned.
'I guess that I'm lucky to have such an affectionate girlfriend like you, Nino.', thought the young man, smiling and patting the girl's head, which made her giggle and keep her blushing face close to his chest.
"Fufu, if you're willing to live already with him, you two should get married soon then.", teased them Ichika, making both Nino and Fuutarou blush a storm.
"S-shut up, Ichika!", shouted the couple in unison while the oldest quint and the others giggled.
"Hehe, I was just kidding. Anyways, I thought of going to visit some temples before the bonfire dance of tonight. Who wants to come?"
Almost her sisters raised their hands, as Nino and Fuutarou shaked their hands. "Thank you, but I prefer staying here for this time.", said the boy.
"I took a lot of photos of the temples we visited yesterday, so I w-will stay here too.", said Nino instead, keeping to cling on her boyfriend.
"Ok then, see you two later. And d-don't do p-perverted things!", said Itsuki while leaving with the other quints. Her words caused the social butterfly and the top student to blush once again, but they continued to hug each other.
"Haha, y-your sisters like embarrassing people or what?", said the boy, chuckling awkwardly.
"S-seeing you blush is cute anyways, Fuutarou.", replied Nino, smiling at him.
"Speaks the one whose face is red like her hair.", he told her, chuckling and making her even redder.
"T-then I will make you blush more!", she suddenly said before wrapping her arms around his neck to kiss him lovingly and surprising him.
Nonetheless, he kissed her back and kept his arms around her waist, making her very happy. Since he kissed her the day before, Nino couldn't but be extremely glad whenever she and he kissed each other; she loved giving love to her Fuutarou, after all.
But suddenly, Fuutarou put some tongue in the kiss, making Nino moan more. 'F-Fuutarou, I-I'm so glad you love me so much.', she thought, liking how his tongue played with hers.
Their kissing session lasted for some minutes, after which their lips separated to catch some breath and they looked at each other in the eyes.
"F-Fuutarou, h-how about we take a bath together?", she asked him, totally flushed and making his eyes widen.
"Ehh? I-Isn't it too soon for that?"
"W-we saw each other almost naked. I d-don't see anything wrong with taking a bath together now that we're lovers hehe.", she replied, looking at him with eyes full with nothing but love.
The young man blushed more at that, and even if he still thought it was too soon, he could agree with her that they could take a bath together; they just had to keep it a secret from her sisters and Maruo. So Fuutarou sighed and nodded in agreement with the social butterfly, who smiled and kissed him on the lips.
They then stopped hugging and took a change of clothes before leaving the room and going towards the baths. There weren't any people in the corridor, which was good for them; they didn't want to be seen by somebody and to deal with some annoying rumors, after all.
Once they reached the mixed baths, they entered inside and took off their clothes, making sure to not look at each other during that. After that, they turned around and blushed deeper at seeing each other with nothing but a towel. To make her feel more comfortable, the young man took the girl's hand, who smiled and walked inside the baths with him.
Then, they entered inside the water, which hid somehow their intimate parts while sitting next to each other. Despite blushing as a tomato, Nino couldn't help but smile while leaning her head on her love's shoulder, who was smiling as well.
"Y-you really wanted to take a bath together with me, huh?", asked the boy to his girlfriend.
"I-It's just like I told you, I d-don't think it's wrong if we do this.", she replied, more embarrassed.
"Are we sure you didn't want to to see me naked too?", he said to tease her.
"Ehh?! I-I'm not a pervert!", she replied, frowning while he chuckled.
"Haha, don't worry, I was joking. I just like making you flustered.", he told her, patting her head. Nino smiled and enjoyed the nice gesture before looking at him deeply in the eyes. They joined their lips together another time and the girl wrapped her arms around his neck to keep him closer.
'W-we are couple just since yesterday and here we are, taking a bath together and making out without going on a date first. But I can't help it; since Fuutarou reciprocated my love for him, I want t-that he focuses just on me.', she thought while moaning due to her boyfriend's tongue playing with hers again.
They went on like this for a while before stopping and hugging each other lovingly. "Nino, once we're back to Tokai, can we go on date?", he asked her, making her heart skip a beat.
"Hehe, you and I are truly made for each other, since I wanted to ask you the same thing. Of course, I will go with you not just on a date, but a lot of them.", she replied, hugging him tighter like he did with her.
They stayed like that for some minutes before deciding to leave the baths, as it was almost evening and they had to have dinner later. So they got out of the water, with the young man trying to not glance at Nino while she wrapped the towel around her body, even if she didn't mind that he saw.
After they wore their changes of clothes, they left the baths, with the social butterfly keeping her arms around her boyfriend's arm and not caring if her chest pressed against it. Still, some students noticed them and whispered some things that annoyed Nino, making her glare at them with dark eyes.
'Mind your damn businesses, idiots!', she thought, scowling towards the students before changing her expression into a smile when she looked at her Fuutarou and chatted with him along the way. Finally, they reached their room, finding their sisters already inside of it.
Ichika asked them what they did while she and the others were out to visit some temples, but the young couple blushed and said that they just relaxed together and nothing else. They didn't want to say about taking a bath together, which could have escalated in something more perhaps.
Nino decided to start cooking the dinner then, getting some help from Miku too. Her boyfriend and the rest of the quints prepared the table instead, with him seeing the photos that Itsuki and Yotsuba took of the temples. An half hour later, the dinner was ready and the six students sat down together to eat.
The young man enjoyed what Nino and Miku cooked, making them smile while the butterfly ribbons girl fed him sweetly. "N-Nino, I told you t-that I can eat on my own you know."
"I just like taking care of you, Fuu-kun.", she replied, surprising both him and her sisters.
" F-Fuu-kun?", mumbled the other quints.
"It's a nickname that I have just come up with. It will be my personal way to call my handsome boyfriend hehe.", she said, hugging the boy's arm and kissing him on the cheek.
Said boyfriend blushed and smiled for the nickname that Nino gave him, reciproting her kiss with one on the lips that made her moan while her sisters gasped.
'T-They're both very bold.', thought the other quints at seeing Fuutarou kissing Nino in such a lovely way, which made her very happy. The dinner continued with some chit chat about the field trip after that, until it wasn't the time to clean the table and wash the dishes.
The bonfire dance was about to start in some minutes, so Fuutarou and Nino greeted her sisters and left the room to go outside. Both of them were dressed casually, as the girl was wearing a pink blouse, a long purple skirt and a pair of black shoes while her boyfriend had a blue long sleeved t-shirt, a black jacket, blue trousers and a pair of sneakers.
They attracted various glances from other students while walking towards the pony where the bonfire would take place, with Nino smiling for the fact that no one of them said something bad about her and Fuutarou; she wouldn't forgive them for spouting rubbish about her beloved.
Once they reached the right place, they could see already a big fire and some couples dancing together. Fuutarou looked then at his girlfriend and offered his hand while asking her, "Shall we dance together, Nino?"
The girl blushed and smiled while taking his hand. "Gladly, Fuu-kun.", she replied. So they started to dance in the same way as the other couples; slowly and looking at each other in the eyes.
The other quints were observing how Nino and the young tutor were dancing, smiling and taking a photo of them that the social butterfly and the top student would surely be happy to have later. They even took another one when the young couple kissed each other once again, not caring if other students were stunned before such display of affection.
Luckily, they didn't say anything about it, as Nino wouldn't hesitate to glare at them; now that she and her boyfriend were destined to stay together forever, she would never forgive who dared to say bad things about her Fuu-kun. Never.
A/N
And here is chapter 4, everyone! Oh boy, some many things happened in this chapter, eh? First Nino and Fuutarou telling her sisters about her relationship before skiing all together and the very intimate moment between the young man and his girlfriend, who showed to have become even more protective of him.
Nino is even willing to live together with him if Maruo doesn't accept their relationship, as she doesn't want to be separated from her beloved; he's too important for her. Now that they danced together at the bonfire, her will to stay with him became even stronger and she won't forgive those that say bad things about her Fuu-kun. So what will happen next? Stay tuned to find out.
See ya!