I Like You

A day later.....

Faced with black, hard masses of unknown shapes, Yotsuba's smile stiffened. The mold breaking cooking beckons discord.

"What are these?" Yotsuba asked Miku while pointing at three black hard masses on a plate.

"Croquettes." Miku replied as Fuutarou who was with them grabbed one of them.

"Are you sure they're croquettes? These look like ohagi you know?" Fuutarou teased the headphones girl before opening his mouth to give it a taste, making her blush in embarrassment and pout at him.

"Itadakimasu...." Fuutarou and Yotsuba who grabbed another one of the 'croquettes' whispered before taking a bite out of them.

Fuutarou ate it all and grabbed the remaining one while Yotsuba's face scrunched up in disgust at what she was eating.

"You don't want it?" Fuutarou asked Yotsuba who quickly shook her head and rubbed her stomach.

"I'm feeling a bit full from eating lunch, hehe..." Yotsuba lied while she laughed nervously, making him chuckled at her terrible lie.

"I'll have it then." Fuutarou grabbed the one out of Yotsuba's hand before throwing it in his mouth.

"Mm. That was pretty good you know." Fuutarou commented with a smile on his face. Yotsuba looked at him with a shocked expression.

"Wh-what?! It wasn't good at all! You just have no taste, Uesugi-san!" Yotsuba argued with him, pouting at Fuutarou because she thought he was lying to make Miku feel better.

Right now, Yotsuba felt like Miku needed honesty because faking it isn't going to help her improve her cooking skills.

"Are you lying to me Fuutarou? Please don't lie to me. How can I improve my cooking if you lie?" Miku asked Fuutarou who sighed and sat down beside Yotsuba.

"I'm sorry Miku, I don't think I make a good food criticizer for you. Because I'm suffering from a disease called 'every food is good, no matter how disgusting they look' disease." Fuutarou apologized with a sad smile on his face, making Miku and Yotsuba giggle at his funny, sad but true joke.

"This 'disease' manifested because of my living conditions back when I was young, when my father had a lot of debt. Back then, we didn't really eat a lot. It was just rice with a little bit of curry on the side for every meal for years." Fuutarou explained with a sad glint in his eyes. The girls frowned as they listened to his story.

"I learned to be grateful for every bite I take and also learned how precious food was. Somehow that kinda transitioned into this, now every food is good, no matter if they looked like... This.... " Fuutarou pointed at the black hard masses Miku called croquettes on another plate. But he smiled and rubbed his chin before looking at Miku.

"But for me personally there's one thing that helped me decide if the good or not. And that is how much love was put into making it. This...." Fuutarou raised the plate full of 'croquettes'.

"There's definitely love in this one! You have truly outdone yourself, Miku. Keep up the good work and remember to don't give up!" Fuutarou motivated her. Miku smiled and clenched her fists.

"Then I'll make more until I've perfected it so please Fuutarou, Yotsuba, be my judges!" Miku replied determinedly.

Yotsuba blinked before she pouted at Fuutarou.

"Uesugi-san, what have you gotten me into?"

Fuutarou smiled at her.

"Do it for her, Yotsuba. We can deal with the consequences later."

Yotsuba smiled and nodded.

"Okay! "

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"How's your stomach? Miku will be back from the store soon with the medicine." A concerned Yotsuba asked Fuutarou who was lying on the ground with his head on a soft pillow.

"I'm okay, my stomach just feels like exploding. How are you still standing though?" Fuutarou asked her while rubbing his stomach. His stomach still has his limits even though his Heavenly Restriction made his body be in it's peak forever.

"You can't tell, but my stomach is about to burst as well...." Yotsuba muttered while looking dowm at her inflated stomach full of food. Fuutarou chuckled.

"Miku's really determined isn't she? She made us eat until we collapsed. You collapsed first before I did." Fuutarou smiled at her. Yotsuba nodded.

"Yeah, but she made a delicious one in the end. So I guess it was worth all the trouble." She replied before smiling.

" What's this, Uesugi? Are you seriously napping at our home when you're supposed to be tutoring us right now?" Nino asked with a smirk on her face as she and Itsuki approached Fuutarou and Yotsuba.

She stood over him, letting Fuutarou have a good view of what's inside of her skirt, which was a pair of sexy black thigh highs and a pair of cute white panties.

Itsuki looked at him with worry in her eyes, deciding to help take care of him after Nino was done teasing their poor tutor.

"Well? Say something." Nino raised an eyebrow at him. Fuutarou hummed.

"What the hell am I supposed say... that you're thigh highs are alluring and that your panties are sexy?" Fuutarou smiled at her. Nino widened her eyes and blushed before she stomped on his chest angrily.

"Pervert!!! " Nino shouted while Fuutarou laughed, not feeling even an ounce pain from her stomps at all.

"You were begging for it when you stood above me like that!" Fuutarou argued with her with a big grin on his face. Nino huffed and walked away from him, not wanting to waste her time arguing with a pervert like him.

As she walked away, she hid her bright red face with some of her long hair and resisted squealing in joy.

'I knew it, Fuu-kun is a thigh highs kind of guy!' She smiled before she turned to look at Itsuki who had been calling her while she was fantasizing in her mind.

"Yeah, what is it?" Nino asked, maintaining her stoic face expression, as if she was unaffected by Fuutarou's previous comments.

"Can you get me a hot towel? I want to put it on his stomach so that it can relax the muscles and relieve cramping." Itsuki requested. Nino nodded before she walked towards the bathroom.

"Wait a sec, I'll be back." Nino reply before entering the bathroom.

"Itsuki..." Fuutarou called her with a weak tone. Itsuki immediately knelt beside him.

"Yes, Uesugi-kun?" Itsuki asked him. Fuutarou smiled cheekily and raised his right hand to her.

"I've been infected with the 'I'll die if I don't hold hands with you' disease. Please help me...."

"What kind of disease is that?! You just want to hold hands with me!!" A flustered Itsuki shouted st Fuutarou with a bright blush on her face. Yotsuba laughed as she sat on Fuutarou's left.

"I'll do it! Yotsuba to the rescue!!" Yotsuba laughed as she intertwined her left hand with Fuutarou's left hand before interlocking their fingers. Fuutarou smiled happily at her, making Yotsuba giggle before he turned to look at Itsuki.

"The disease requires two girls to cure it." Fuutarou explained while holding up his right hand again. Itsuki looked away.

"N-no.... It's inappropriate for a student and teacher to be doing that...." Itsuki stuttered out even though she wanted to hold his big warm hand really badly.

It was just her straight laced attitude wired tightly into her brain that prevented her from holding hands with her handsome tutor.

"Oh c'mon, we've held hands before. Remember that date we went on with Raiha tagging along with us? You didn't want to let go." Fuutarou asked Itsuki who pouted.

"Th-that was on the spur of the moment." Itsuki stuttered shyly. Fuutarou sighed in disappointment and put his hand on the ground.

Yotsuba frowned a little and tilted her head in confusion. She didn't know what was wrong with holding hands with Fuutarou at all. It made her face light up, her heart beat faster in a good way and also making her feel very happy.

"Guess I'll just die from the 'I'll die if I don't hold hands with you' disease." Fuutarou grumbled. Itsuki narrowed her eyes and she blushed a little, feeling her heart beat like crazy for no reason.

What was this weird fuzzy feeling in her stomach?

Why does she desire to hold Fuutarou's hand that badly? It's just a hand right? Right?

Itsuki couldn't fight it anymore and decided to act upon that desire. She managed to muster up the courage to sneak her right hand to Fuutarou's right hand.

Fuutarou didn't realize it because he and Yotsuba were staring at each other with smiles on their faces while having a strange glint in their eyes.

Fuutarou widened his eyes a little as he felt a small warm hand interlocking with his. He looked to see Itsuki holding his hand with a bright blush on her face.

Fuutarou smirked and raised an eyebrow at her.

Itsuki looked away while smiling weirdly. She was embarrassed of her actions, but at the same time she also felt in bliss.

Fuutarou's warm hand was really comforting and nice, and she didn't want to let him go either for a second.

"Geez! I go away for two minutes and now you guys are flirting with each other! Get a room you three!" Nino shouted angrily as she arrived while holding a small plastic basin filled with warm water that also had a small folded towel in it.

"N-n-nino! It isn't what it looks like I swear!" Itsuki shouted while mumbling excuse after excuse. Nino rolled her eyes as Itsuki's excuses were even worse than Yotsuba when she tries to lie.

Yotsuba laughed happily. "Uesugi-san said he has been infected with the 'I'll die if I don't hold hands with you' disease! It's very serious!" Yotsuba explained cheerfully while having a mischievous grin on her face.

Nino couldn't stop herself from giggling at the name of the disease. She squeezed most of the water out of the towel before she looked at Fuutarou.

"Raise your shirt, Uesugi." Nino ordered before sighing in frustration as Fuutarou would not let go of the girls' hands.

"Lazy bastard...." Nino grumbled, making Fuutarou laugh as she gently raised his shirt, revealing his lean muscular body and sculpted six pack abs.

Yotsuba stared at it intensely with a brightening blush on her face. Itsuki was flustered at the sight of his chest, but like Yotsuba, she couldn't stop looking.

Nino who had a bright blush on her face, was disappointed that she had to cover those godly abs with the towel. But Fuutarou was feeling unwell right now, and she can stare at them again once the towel is off.

"Th-there...." Nino stuttered. Fuutarou smiled at her.

"Thanks Nino, you're the best!" Fuutarou grinned at her, making Nino blush brightly before looking away with a warm smile forming on her face.

"I-itsuki.... H-help me make some tea for Yotsuba and Uesugi." Nino stuttered, desperately trying to get out of the embarrassing situation.

Itsuki nodded before she smiled sadly and hesitantly let go of Fuutarou's hand. Fuutarou noticed the disappointed look in her eyes as she followed Nino ot the kitchen.

"Hey, but what about your disease?" Yotsuba asked him. Fuutarou chuckled.

"C'mon, you know that disease isn't real, Yotsuba." Fuutarou replied with a smirk on his face. Yotsuba giggled before she let go of his hand. Even though she hated letting go of him, her next move would make that feeling go away in an instant.

Fuutarou blinked in confusion as Yotsuba suddenly moved his head up. Yotsuba kicked the pillow he was previously lying on away before she moved again.

Fuutarou widened his eyes as his head was now lying on Yotsuba's soft thighs. He looked at Yotsuba grinning warmly at him.

Suddenly, his view of the world changed dramatically. It was as if time stopped around the two and their surroundings became nothing but a blur, with only Yotsuba and Fuutarou being their respective focuses.

"You're so beautiful, Yotsuba." Fuutarou complimented her with a blush on his face caused by the energetic girl's alluring beauty. Yotsuba's grin only widened and she now sported a cute blush on her face.

"You're really handsome too, Uesugi-san! Compared to back then when we first met, you went from handsome to 1000 times more handsome." Yotsuba complimented, making him laugh happily.

"I'm really sorry I couldn't keep up with our promise we made back then...." Yotsuba whispered. Fuutarou shook his head and cupped her face before looking into her eyes with a gentle gaze from his golden ones.

"Don't be. You are keeping up with that promise, Yotsuba. You're studying harder than ever."

" Do you wanna know why?" Yotsuba asked immediately after Fuutarou finished his sentence. Fuutarou raised an eyebrow at her.

"Yeah, why? "

Yotsuba cupped his face and looked back down at him with a broad grin gracing her lips.

"Because I like you." She whispered out. Fuutarou widened his eyes and blushed even more. There was a silence that followed.

After a few seconds of silence, Fuutarou laughed a little before he gently brought Yotsuba's head down closer to his face. Yotsuba was confused at Fuutarou's actions before she suddenly blushed brightly than her hair color.

"Chu!~"

Yotsuba immediately covered her lips and looked back down at Fuutarou with a shocked expression.

Fuutarou smirked at her while also having a blush of his own.

"Tell me something that I don't already know, Yotsuba~"

To be continued.....