Arriving at the Pentagon, Yotsuba ran up the stairs to her room, surprising her sisters as she passed them.

Her sisters concerned went up to her room, but the door to hers was locked.

"Yotsuba? What's wrong?" Ichika called out to her sister.

"What happened to Yotsuba?" Miku asked her sisters where Itsuki replied,

"She told us that she'll meet us at the main gate earlier, but then texted that she had extra training."

"Yotsuba? Can you tell us what happened?" Said Miku as she knocked on her door.

Her sisters continued to knock on her bedroom door, calling her name. Miku then put her ear to the door and heard some noises. Noises that sounded like crying.

Yotsuba finally opened her door after a few minutes of her sisters calling her and knocking on her door. But as she opened the door, it revealed her eyes red from sobbing that did not stop even as she exited her door and ran to hug her sister.

"Yotsuba?! What happened?" Ichika said in suprise as the fourth quint hugged her while sobbing on her shoulder.

" *Hic* Uesugi-san..." She said his name as she continued to sob on her sisters shoulder.

"That bastard made you cry?! I'll show that pathetic-" Nino said in rage as her sister called out his name while crying. As she was about to march off to his house and beat him up, but was stopped by Itsuki and Miku.

"Nino! Don't forget what you already did!" Itsuki said to her sister as she blocked her path.

"Hah? That bastard made our sister cry and yet you're stopping me?"

"Nino, Fuutarou would never hurt anyone. Just let Yotsuba explain after she stops crying." Miku tried to stop Nino as Itsuki and Ichika were busy with Yotsuba.

"You're still siding with him? I guess you really do like plain guys." She retorted to her, where Miku was about to insult her as well until Ichika opened her mouth.

"Nino." Ichika said that made both sisters silent as Yotsuba continued to cry on her shoulder. Her voice had heat in it like a few days ago when she got angry with her last time.

She clenched her fist before sighing and sat down the couch, as Miku went to help calm Yotsuba with the others.

After a few moments of sobbing on her sister's shoulders, she finally had calmed down. But was still clinging to her sister with redness in her eyes from the sobbing.

"Now now Yotsuba, can you tell us what happened?" Ichika asked the fourth sister as she caressed her hair. Yotsuba wasn't the kind of person who'd cry because of anything unless it was something she loved. But here it is not something but someone.

"It's about Uesugi-san *hic*" the fourth quint continued said as tears kept rolling down her cheeks.

"What about Fuutarou-kun? Did he do anything to you?" Ichika asked her sister as the other sisters leaned in as soon the topic of Fuutarou comes up. The sisters, excluding Nino went closer to listen in on the sobbing quint as she wiped her eyes.

While Yotsuba kept wiping her tears and Ichika caressing her hair, she began to explain what she saw earlier. Including Fuutarou getting hugged by another girl.

"There there Yotsuba, it's might just be a misunderstanding."

"Yes, it might just be a misunderstanding Yotsuba. Uesugi-kun lets you hug him before right? So it might just be a friend or a relative. He did say that he did have good friends in elementary and middle school."

The other Quints agreed with Itsuki as well, Fuutarou did let her hug him every time they meet so it might just be a misunderstanding.

Although Miku, had a scary aura behind her thinking about Fuutarou being hugged by another girl.

Their dinner went back to normal as Yotsuba became energetic again with their apartment filled with laughter and smiles while Nino was having deep in thought. 'Why should I apologise to him? He's just a loser that just studies all the time. He isn't Kintarou-kun.

But... Where is Kintarou-kun?...' she thought as she reminisced that night where Kintarou saved her from falling from a cliff in a dark forest from their school trip a few months ago.

"It'll be 1476¥ please" said Fuutarou as he was talking to a customer at his new job. It's only been a few days and his personality has gotten a little better due to him interacting with more people than usual where his sister and father also noticed his slight changes and were happy for him.

"Here you go..." The young girl in a white skirt and black uniform said bashfully to the young man as she gave him the money and left as she received the item she bought.

As the girl left, Fuutarou wondered why most of the customers this time around were female students. It's the end of the day so it would be normal to have students, but he wondered why most of them were female and were from a school that was far from there.

The school they were from was the same one where the quints went to before they transferred to Asahiyama due to Fuutarou recognising the uniform as it was the same one that Itsuki wore when they first met.

"Fuutarou-san!" A voice broke his line of thought, where he looked up from the cash register and saw an energetic Haruka with a radiant smile on her face.

"Kawano-san? Do you need something from me?" The young man asked the young girl at the other side of the counter.

"Mouu Fuutarou-san!" The blonde girl pouted at him which made him confused. Did he do something? "Call me by my first name!" she added while maintaining her pout.

"Alright then Haruka." He said nonchalantly making the girls face have a slight shade of crimson due to him saying her name like it was nothing where she turned around and covered her face for a moment as Fuutarou tilted his head confused on her actions.

Inside the break room, Rikka watched the interaction between the two from the slightly opened door, 'So that's how it is... Then how about we do this fufu' she giggled as she now has a plan in mind.

At that moment Rikka opened the door and went between the two.

"Hey Fuutarou-san your shift ends at 10pm right?" She asked him where she received a nod from the young man. She then looked at Haruka where she understood what she was thinking like they had telepathy. Although embarrassed, she does want to know him better as he was interesting in and her sisters eyes so she asked him, "Fuutarou-san wanna have dinner at our place?"

A/N: It's been a while since I updated and this one is quite short as I am slowly getting busy. I can still update but it will be on a slower pace so I do apologise for that. (My writing really is degrading) Anyways, Rikka and Haruka invited him for dinner. What will be his reaction when he meets the others? Find out on the next chapter of 'This story really feels its getting rushed and I feel bad for Yotsuba' next time. Farewell minna~