A/N: Uhm... hi? I'm really sorry that it took me so much time to update the story. To tell you the truth this story and well me being a writer is going to be in a much longer hiatus. The reason? Lack of time, lack of inspiration and most of all I need to improve my grammar because I know just ho bad I am with grammar and I thought that you guys truly deserve a story with a proper grammar. But then well someone PM me and tell me that they want me to continue writing and everything and really it was so heart warming and it made me realize you guys must be waiting for this story to be updated and as much as you guys deserve a perfect grammar story you guys also deserve an update from me.
I'm really sorry guys about the hiatus and everything, and also I'm really thankful for you guys support for this story and believing in me. Thank you so much for everything, I can't promise a regular update because it really hard to write with my schedule now but I will promise you guys that I will at least finished this story as the ending already near. Once again I am so sorry and grateful for everything.
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"I'm really sorry, Tsubasa-chan." Honoka said as soon as Tsubasa took a sit right beside her on the park bench making the idol looked at her.
Tsubasa had been wondering about why Honoka keep her silent on their way to their usual dating spot which is near Honoka's house even though she was smiling so brightly before when they went out from the café. She was worried that Honoka was sick or something wrong happen to her (aside from her inside Umi's body of course) but she never thought that Honoka was silent because she felt sorry for a little stunt she pulled before. Not when she thought they already cleared up the misunderstanding in the café before.
"Why you suddenly said that?"
"Because, when I rethink about what I did before I realize that it was so stupid of me and-"
"I thought we already get over with it." Tsubasa said, cutting Honoka's words as she took Honoka's hand in hers and gently squeeze it. It's definitely feel weird as it wasn't Honoka's hand that Tsubasa held right now, however she will do anything just to make Honoka smiled again no matter how strange it feels. "It's fine."
"But-"
"No but." Tsubasa quickly said, sending smiled towards Honoka, "Beside if you think about it more clearly I should be the one who apologize for thinking that you don't want to meet me and instead sending Nozomi-san to replace you."
"You didn't need to say sorry about that Tsubasa-chan!" Honoka quickly said as she looked at Tsubasa with wide eyes, "You didn't do anything wrong!"
"So do you."
"Eh?"
"So let just call this even and let us forgive each other, how about it?" Tsubasa asked as she gently squeeze Honoka's hand again and smiled towards Honoka who when she saw how Tsubasa smiled, slowly smiled back.
"Okay."
"That's better, I like your smile much more than your frown." Tsubasa said with a laughed making Honoka laughed as well.
"I'm sorry, that was totally out of character of me, huh?"
Tsubasa shook her head, "Not at all. I know that you like to stress over the thought about you causing problems to other people and this is one of the example of that. But you forget about something Honoka."
Honoka titled her head in confusion, "What is it?"
"I'm your girlfriend so it's okay for you to causing problem to me."
"Geez, Tsubasa-chan! How could you say something like that so easily!" Honoka shouted, her face went red as she hit Tsubasa who laughed at her reaction.
"I'm only saying the truth." Tsubasa said between her laughed.
"Geez," Honoka pouted, "But Tsubasa-chan,"
"Yes?"
"What made you know that it was Nozomi-chan and not me?"
"Well, I don't know that it was Tojou-san at first." Tsubasa began, smiling, "But I know that she is not you, like I said before it was quite obvious."
"What is?"
Tsubasa put her hand on her chin as if she was thinking deeply, Honoka know better though that she was just teasing her judging from how Tsubasa grinned, "I just know."
"That's not the answer that I wanted to hear." Honoka said, pouted.
Tsubasa shrugged, "Well I just know."
"You are such a teaser." Honoka said folding her arms on her chest making Tsubasa laughed again.
"If you didn't want to answer that question then fine, but I want to know since when you know it wasn't me?"
"That's simple." Tsubasa said as she took Honoka's hands and squeeze it gently. Her green eyes looking at Honoka's eyes directly making Honoka face change color once again into red. Even after months of dating, Honoka still can't stop herself from blushing and her heart from pounding so loudly. "From the beginning, I know that she wasn't you."
And with that, Tsubasa closed the gap between the two of them. Honoka closed her eyes tightly, waiting for the kiss that she knew was coming and she was right, however instead on the lips like she thought before it was placed on her forehead which making Honoka's eyes flew opened. She was greeted with a red face Tsubasa who tried to looked at anywhere aside of her.
"That was close…" Tsubasa thought as she tried to calm her beating heart. For a moment there, Tsubasa saw Honoka as Honoka and not Honoka inside Umi's body. With her soft ginger hair that Tsubasa's like to run her fingers on it, beautiful glittering blue eyes, kissable pink lips, beautiful rosy cheeks, and the entire feature that Tsubasa's love so much which makes her almost lost her control as her heart beating really fast.
Thankfully she came back to her sense before she can do something greatly stupid and weird considering Honoka is inside Umi's body right now.
"I-I'm sorry…" Tsubasa began looking greatly embarrassed, something that she rarely show. "For a moment there, I almost forget that you are inside Sonoda-san's body and almost do something that really stupid."
"I-it's okay." Honoka softly said as she too looked down in embarrassment, just leave it to Tsubasa to make her act like this. If other people saw her, they probably thought that she is so out of her usual character right now, She can't help it though, being with Tsubasa always makes her like this.
"I will do it properly when you back to your body though." Tsubasa said with teasing smiled as Honoka pouted at her but before Honoka can say anything back at Tsubasa her phone suddenly ringing making her quickly mumbled an apologize towards Tsubasa and opened it, only to realize that it was Umi's phone and not her.
"Oh right, I'm Umi-chan right now…" Honoka thought as she unlocked the phone, thank goodness that she is Umi's childhood friend if she isn't she probably won't know the password to unlock the phone. Not that it was hard to guess, Umi password was Kotori's name. "Hello?" Honoka answered quickly without seeing the caller name.
"Honoka-chan, where are you?" Honoka heard Eli's voice.
"I'm at the park near my house. Is something happened, Eli-chan?"
Honoka heard Eli giggled before she answered, "Honoka-chan, it's Kotori."
"Oh right!" Honoka said as she face palmed, she forgot that they are inside each other bodies now. "So what is it Kotori-chan?"
Tsubasa looked at her girlfriend with a small smiled on her face as she waited for her to finish her call. She really can't wait for Honoka to go back to her own body, because then she finally can kiss her all she want but until then she need to be patient. Thankfully Tsubasa is a patient person, after all she wait for months for Honoka to finally said yes to her confession so she is confident that she can wait for another couple of months.
She just hope it won't be that long.
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"Okay, bye Honoka-chan." Kotori said before she ended her call with Honoka.
"So what she said?" Umi asked as soon as she saw Kotori ended her call with Honoka.
Kotori gave Umi a reassuring smiled as she pocketed Eli's phone on her skirt pocket, "She said she understand, Umi-chan."
Umi let out a small sighed, "I sure do hope so, the last thing that I need is for her to forget that she is inside my body right now and instead of going to my home she go to her own home."
"You need to put more faith on Honoka-chan, Umi-chan."
"I know, it just after being with her for almost all of my life I couldn't help but to feel worry."
Kotori giggled, "You're only sixteenth years old Umi-chan, I believe you haven't live almost all of your life yet."
"Y-You know what I mean, Kotori." Umi said as she blushed. Kotori let out another small giggled before she wrapped her arms around Umi's and smiled softly making Umi blushed become redder than it was before, "I know, I just like to tease you, Umi-chan." Kotori said.
"Geez Kotori, you really-" before Umi could finish what she want to say, a loud gasp coming from behind the two girls making her stop her words in the midsentence. Her eyes went wide in surprised and worried as she knew that sound of voice and judging from how Kotori looked right now, Umi know that Kotori knew from who is that gasp coming form.
"Onee-chan! What are you doing with Hoshizora-san?!" Arisa shouted in shocked as she looked at the two girls with widened eyes, "Are you betraying Nozomi-san?!"
Umi went into a frozen state as Kotori quickly unlatched herself away from Umi's arm and walked towards Arisa, almost running actually, as she frantically shook her head and shouted, "This is not like what you think Arisa-chan!"
"How could I let myself to act so shameless like that in the middle of the road and not to mention inside Rin's body?!" Umi thought in horror while she mumbled to herself, "Shameless shameless shameless shameless shameless-"
"Umi- I mean, Rin-chan stop banging your head into the wall!" Kotori shouted in panic as she now runs towards Umi who keep banging her head every time she said shameless.
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Maki looked at the apartment door in front of her with a small frown latched on her face. She still feel a little conflicted about all of this, sure like Nico said that she is at least the most lucky member out there where she doesn't need to hide her true self or trick anyone in the house as Nozomi live alone unlike the other members, but still it is feel wrong to enter someone place without them in there. It feels inappropriate although technically she is Nozomi right now so the apartment is hers, that and the fact that Nozomi herself gave her the key, phone and permission.
"It's not like I have any choice…" Maki mumbled lowly, an action to make herself feel less self-conscious as she fished out the key from her pocket and unlocked the door. "Sorry for the intrusion…" Maki softly said as she pushed the door opened, revealing Nozomi's apartment.
Maki looked around as she step inside the apartment room, Nozomi's apartment was so… silent. Not that she thought otherwise as she know that Nozomi live alone, but still standing inside the apartment like this with no one around her makes her realize just how silent and lonely it was. Even her own house didn't feel this lonely, as eventhough her parents always busy, there's always the maids and butlers in the house.
Maki wonders if Nozomi always feel like this everytime she went back to her apartment.
"No wonder Eli likes to ask Nozomi if she want to sleepover at her house…" Maki thought as she walked towards the small sofa inside the room and put her belongings or rather Nozomi's belongings on it. "It feels so lonely…"
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"Okay Nico, you can do this!" Nico said encouragingly as she did a fist pumped, completely oblivious from the stared the by passer that looked at her as if she is a crazy person, "You are a number one idol in the whole universe and as a number one idol there's no way something like this can bring you down! Yeah! Just think this as an acting practice because of course an idol will need to have a perfect acting skill as well!"
Nico was too focused on hypnotizing herself that she didn't even notice how the door knob is turn over, she only realize it when the door is opened revealing the person she dreaded to see.
Nico let out a small squeak of shocked.
"Really nice Nico, you just have to let out a squeak." Nico thought as she cursing herself.
Principal Minami however didn't seems to mind the squeak at all, instead she was looking at Nico with bemused expression on her face as she asked, "Kotori, are you going to come in or are you going to keep talking to yourself like that?"
"I-I uhm... I'm going in." Nico nervously said.
"Good, I was afraid that you will decide to stay the night in front of our house." Principal Minami said this time with a small laughed as she took a step aside so Nico can come in.
"I'm home," Nico softly mumbled as she stepped inside the house. It sure is feel weird to say that when she is not in her home but what is feel totally weird is the next word she is going to say and she really didn't want to say it however it's not like she has any other choice. So she steeled herself, inhale before she looked at Principal Minami and gave her the biggest Kotori's smile she can muster. "Mom."
Principle Minami smiled, "Welcome home, Kotori."
"Ugh, this is so weird…" Nico thought as she tried to keep the smiled on her face.
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Nozomi feel so out of place right now, she feel like she wasn't belong in there which is the truth as even though she looked just like Honoka, she still wasn't the real ginger hair girl so yes she doesn't belong in here.
"Honoka, are you okay?" Honoka's mom asked pulling Nozomi away from her thought as she looked at Nozomi in concerned making Nozomi's heart clenched in pain. She feel bad for having to lie to the woman.
"Yeah onee-chan, are you okay?" this time Yukiho was the one who asked Nozomi as she too looked at Nozomi's direction with furrowed eyebrows, concerned was definitely shown in her face. "You hardly touch your food."
Nozomi gave them a small smiled, "I'm fine, I'm just… not that hungry." Nozomi answered softly as she looked down on her plate. She couldn't tell them that the reason she act like this was because she feel weird and feel out of place as she never even once remember that she have a decent dinner with her own family before. And now having dinner with Honokas family even though they are not her real family makes her feel… sad.
"You're not feeling hungry?" Yukiho asked, surprised was latched on her voice making Nozomi let out a small giggle despite the feeling she feel right now. "That was new."
"Yukiho, don't be rude with your sister." Honoka's mom scolded her youngest daughter before she looked at Nozomi again, "Are you sick Honoka?"
"I'm-" before Nozomi could say reassuring words so the older woman won't feel worry anymore, the front door bell was ringing making everyone diverted their attention towards the door. "Let me take it." Nozomi said when she saw Honoka's mom was ready to standing. She then quickly walked towards the front door feeling quite happy as she was free from the conversation she had before for a moment, and opened the door.
What greet her though making her eyes went wided in surprise as her jaw slightly dropped.
"Hi, Nozomi." Hanayo, who is actually Eli inside Hanayo's body, greeted her with her charming smiled.
"Elicchi? What are you doing here?" Nozomi asked in surprised as she looked at Eli who now grin as she wipe her sweat away with her hand making Nozomi wondered if Eli was running all the way to there. "Why aren't you at Hanayo-chan's house?"
"Well actually I was from there." Eli said, "I told them that I'm going to sleep over here for the night and well here I am." Eli continued as her grin grown wider.
"Why?"
Eli scratched her head nervously before she answered, "I… I just feel worry about you Nozomi." She answered honestly.
Nozomi giggled, "Silly Elichi, there's nothing to worry about. Didn't I tell you that before?"
"But still I can't help but feel worry about you Nozomi. I just had to see you." Eli smiled warmly making Nozomi's heart beating fast, "If you're okay that's good but if you are not I want to be there for you."
Nozomi didn't even realize what she's doing until she can feel her body pressed with Eli's in a warm and tight embrace, surprising the younger girl.
"N-Nozomi?!" Eli asked almost shouted. Nozomi suppressed her laughed, even though she couldn't see Eli's face, she know for sure that right now the blonde hair girl was flustered and her face must be really red right now.
"Thank you, Elicchi." Nozomi softly whispered as she tightened her embrace on Eli who now finally embrace her back. "To tell you the truth I feel so out of place before, eating inside with Honoka's family feel so surreal. They all are so nice to me and so warm that it makes me feel bad for lying to them and sad because never even once in my life I had experience it, eating with my family together like that I mean. But now I feel so much better with you here by my side."
"Silly Nozomi." Eli said softly, embracing the girl tighter making Nozomi's face burry deeper on her shoulder. "What do you mean by you never experience it before? Isn't µ's your family too? And if my memory is right which it is, we had plenty of dinner together before."
Nozomi chuckled, "Yeah, I guess we had huh?"
Eli smiled lovingly as she kissed the top of the other girl head, "Yes, and if you still worry about that I can assure you that in the future we will have so many warm dinner together that you will get sick of it."
"I won't get sick of it." Nozomi said between her chuckled before she released Eli from her embrace and giving the girl a teasing smiled, "But I couldn't believe that Elicchi just proposed me."
Eli chocked the air in her lungs, "W-what?!"
"You tell me that we will have plenty of warm dinner in the future together," Nozomi said, wiggling her eyebrows making Eli blushed deeply, "And I believe that's mean that you want us to be a family right?"
"T-That's-"
"Thank you Elicchi." Nozomi said before she leaned and kissed the girl cheeks, rendering Eli in utter silence while her face become redder than before, "I'll wait for the real proposal in the future." Nozomi finished with a wink before she walked inside the house leaving Eli staring at her back dumbfound before the younger girl snapped back and quickly went after her all while whining Nozomi's name making the older girl smiled.
"I guess it's not only me, for Elicchi I'm also an open book."
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"I-I'm home..." Hanayo said in a low voice as she pushed the front door open.
"Onee-chan, you're home!" Hanayo heard a voice shouted followed by the sounds of hurried steps echoes around the small house. Not a second later, she found herself already surrounded by Nico's siblings all looking at her with eyes full with admiration and happiness which made Hanayo feel bad. "How's your day one-chan?!" a little girl that Hanayo remembered as Cocoa said as she quickly latched her body on Hanayo's arm and tugging her inside the house.
"I-It's okay..." Hanayo meekly said as she let Cocoa pulled her arms. She really doesn't know what to do in the situation she was in right now. She wanted to shouted for some help but if she do that Nico's siblings will be worried or worse, they will thought something really bad happen that made her sister shouted for help and they will cry or call for police or- Hanayo shook her head slightly, this is not the time for her imagination to run wild.
"Just take care of my siblings." That is what Nico told her before they all parted away and Hanayo swear that she will do her best to do what Nico asked her for.
"You can do this, Hanayo!" Hanayo thought encouragingly towards herself as she looked at Nico's siblings, "How's your day?" Hanayo asked and just like that, Nico's siblings face brightened as they start rambling about their day making Hanayo smiled as a single thought came to her.
They really love Nico.
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Rin was really bored, here she is laying in a queen size bed doing nothing aside from well laying and breathing. In normal circumstances Rin will be really happy laying around in a queen size of bed as she rarely seen one, in fact Maki is the only person that Rin know had it, and she will be rolling around and around on the bed. Not that she didn't do it,in fact she already did and really it was all nice and exciting for the first ten minutes but after that the bed already lost it's charm to her.
"This is really boring, nya..." Rin thought as she looked at the white clean ceiling above her, Maki had been specifically told her-no scratch that, she had been specifically threatened Rin to stay inside her room all the time unless she is called for the dinner and really if only Maki's room is half of fun like her room or Honoka's she will be happily stay there. But no, Maki's room really boring. It doesn't have anything that can keep Rin entertain expect all of those really thick books that Rin was so sure will made someone got a concussion or brain damage if they were hit by it which are placed on the really tall and big bookcase in the corner of the room right beside Maki's desk where a laptop laying there innocently. If only Maki didn't also banned her from touching the laptop by saying she's afraid that Rin will accidently broke it, Rin will be playing with it now.
Thankfully Maki let Rin used her phone, however Maki's phone was as boring as her room with nothing inside it. Rin doesn't even know how she can survive without any single game inside her phone and not to mention all of her songs are either µ's songs or classical songs which are although Rin really love µ's, hearing the same songs again and again and again really boring and the classical song was not even worth to be mention.
A knocking sounds coming from the door pulled Rin away from her thoughts as she quickly turned away from the ceiling and into the door, "Come in!" Rin shouted and not a moment later a maid that Rin recognized as one of the maid that welcoming her home before (yes, the maids and butlers are actually lining up and welcoming her home) opened the door and stepped inside.
"Miss, it's time for the dinner," she said bowing towards RIn.
"Finally!" Rin shouted happily as she jumped off from the bed.
"Pardon?"
Rin coughed finally realizing her mistake that there's no way Maki will do that, "Uhm I mean I will be there shortly." Rin said, trying to be as Maki as she can be.
The maid bowed again, "Of course Miss." She said before finally walked out from the door leaving Rin all alone who after the maid gone quickly jumped up and down happily while pumping her fist, a feat that that there's no way Maki will ever do as she shouted, "Finally, I am free!"
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"How's the food, Kotori?"
"I-It's really good." Nico said as she tried to smiled, hopefully she looked just like how Kotori always smile. By far this is really the hardest thing she ever done today. Even Umi's fan girls couldn't beat it because for goodness sake she was now eating with the school number one person and she actually had to act like her daughter! Nico knew that she always a good actress but really this is too much even for someone like her.
Principal Minami smiled, "Well, that's good to know."
Nico nodded, giving a small awkward laughed before she began to eat her food again want nothing but to finished the awkward dinner as fast as she can. She was almost this close to shove all the food inside her mouth just like how Honoka always did to hers but decide to against it in the last minute. One, she was a super idol so she rather die than being caught doing such unlady act no matter which body she was in and two, Umi will killed her if she know what she do when she was Kotori, that and Principal Minami will definitely suspect something was wrong.
Nico was so focused to eat her food as fast as she can without alerting Principal Minami when Kotori's phone vibrating from her pocket. Silently she took out the phone, typing the code (it was Umi's birthday, really those two are so full of love that it was enough for Nico to feel sick although it wasn't enough to make her to vomit like Nozomi and Eli did) before read who send her the text.
"Nozomi? Oh wait, no it's Maki." Nico opened the message and what she read was enough for her to stood really quickly, earning a confused glance from Pincipal Minami and a loud screeching sounds from her chair being harshly pushed away.
"What's wrong Kotori?"
"I really need to go now!" Nico shouted as she quickly run towards the front door and harshly opened it, completely ignoring the manner and Principal Minami's shouted. There's no way she could care about the manner and being Kotori's act when Maki just send her one single word message.
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