Imouto sae Ireba Ii. Vol 1 Chapter 2

The apartment of Itsuki Has.h.i.+ma is on the 2nd floor of a 3 storied apartment building. Built 10 years ago, it features reinforced concrete construction, 1K plan, wooden flooring, indoor laundry machine, and combined bath and toilet.

Inside the room is Itsuki's working desk, a collapsable bed, TV, largish kotatsu, and a multipurpose shelf of steel construction occupies an otherwise empty s.p.a.ce.

Inside, books, CDs, games, DVDs, Portables, and figures are all neatly lined up.

With so many things crammed into one room, one cannot ignore the packed feeling, but isn't this to be expected for a single guy living alone? The organizing was all done by Chihiro, however.

From this room, Itsuki's publis.h.i.+ng office is only a mere 5 minute walk away, and the closest station is only 10 minutes away by foot. It really is a convenient place to live, and is highly valued by other authors as well.

When Itsuki moved in, the first thing he did was custom order a huge kotatsu, but when the actual thing arrived, he thought "This is going to very troublesome...." and regretted it deeply. As it turned out, visitors took a liking to it and it became sort of a visitor's table.

With no expression and sitting quietly, Kani Nayuta is reading Itsuki's light novel.

18 years old as of this year.

With silver hair complimenting a pair of blue pupils, she looks as if she was an elf from a perfect world with her beauty.

Slim body and a smaller build while possessing b.r.e.a.s.t.s that are on the larger side for her size.

Kani Nayuta is her pen name, even Itsuki didn't know her real name.

Debuting one year ago from the same contest Itsuki had won, she had become more or less his junior.

With her debut work "The Silver Landscape" suddenly erupting in popularity, she continued work on the "Landscape" series. With each volume achieving a greater rating than the last, her sales steadily climbed.

Though with only 4 volumes published as of now, her c.u.mulative sales had already effortlessly exceeded Itsuki's and became a huge hit.

With a junior overtaking a senior so quickly, it is not a rare occurrence in the world of light novels.

Itsuki first met Nayuta a bit before her debut—at the award party of the new comer's compet.i.tion.

Itsuki was chatting with fellow authors, when Nayuta(17 at the time), who was one of the guides at the party, came up to him. With a cute face and slightly teary red eyes, she suddenly said,

" — I'm in love"

Implying with Itsuki, everyone in the room did a double take. She then continued,

"— with Has.h.i.+ma-sensei's works."

""Don't flip the sentence around!""

Even as everyone retorted, Nayuta didn't falter one bit.

The puzzled Itsuki looked on at the girl's face as her pure white skin gradually turned into a brilliant blue.

"Ogeeeeeee?!"

Reverse.

Being puked on by a girl he just met was a first for Itsuki. Or rather, being puked on by anyone he just met was a first.

The aspiring authors left the scene in a hurry after that.

2 days later, Nayuta, along with the head editor, cleaning costs, and a box of cakes, came to apologize to Itsuki. He quickly accepted.

— Being in love with my works, isn't it a common occurrence? As a senior, I must look out for my juniors. Writing endors.e.m.e.nts on the belt of books, and if inclined, I might even personally teach the ups and downs of writing a novel fuhahahahaha!!

Itsuki arrogantly thought along this line at the time.

However...

"Senpai, I'm hungry."

Nayuta spoke up with an indifferent voice at Itsuki, who is working on his laptop.

The clock read 7 o'clock in the evening.

"nnn—— I guess it is around time to eat. Is there anything in particular that you want?"

"Senpai's ochinchin[1] will do."

"Come to think of it, there's still some chili shrimp and fried rice from yesterday. It's decided."

".......If you're going to ignore me please don't bother to ask me in the first place"

The sullen Nayuta made a sidelong glance as Itsuki took out the sustenances stored in plastic containers from the fridge and started the microwave.

Itsuki placed 2 servings on the kotatsu and the two began to dine.

Nayuta, actively blowing on the hot fried rice to cool it down and chewing with her small mouth, somehow reminds Itsuki of a kitten.

"hafu hafu.....coming into senpai's room, eating delicious handmade meals on the kotatsu.....please marry me."

"Shut it Kani. Also, I didn't make this. Don't you live in your parent's house in the first place? You have a buffet of handmade meals."

"My mom is out of the house a lot recently so she hadn't made many of them ."

"fuun, then start learning how to make your own food."

Nayuta stared at the arrogant Itsuki with scornful eyes.

"......Isn't senpai completely hopeless in home economics as well?"

".......uuu"

Despite always relying on his brother to take care of stuff, Itsuki does have a will to be able to make his own meals. At the end of the day though, it stays only a will.

"A-as for me, if I had an imouto like Kobato from 'Haganai' or Komachi from 'Oregairu', I would do all I can to learn how to cook for their sake!"

"I see you haven't changed at all from your die-hard siscon att.i.tude. If that's the case, what if you end up with one like Kirino-chan from 'Oreimo'?”[2]

"Of Course I would still want to present to her lots and lots of handmade cooking, but instead of showing appreciation and happily accepting it, she would say 'Haa?

You can't even make a decent dish, you really are useless.', but it's exactly the thing i would want to hear anways so there would be no need to learn. "

Nayuta stared on with scornful eyes at Itsuki, who answered smoothly without any hesitation.

".....Must be an illness."

"Catching an illness from my imouto is my long cherished ambition! .....Anyways, no matter how you look at it, the fault that I can't cook nor do any housework can be traced to the absense of an imouto. If I had an imouto everything would be perfect in this world, just why do I lack one..."

".....If thats the case you don't have much choice other than to tell your parents to do their best."

Being confronted with the reality of her advice, Itsuki's talkativeness took a u-turn and awkwardly mumbled,

".....One that's that young....it's kind of......That won't do."

Itsuki's father and Chihiro's mother has been married for 3 years now.

Their relations.h.i.+ps are doing as well as ever, and with his mother still quite young in her 30s, the birth of a younger brother or sister is not a far fetched idea.

But if such an event really occurred, Itsuki wouldn't know how to react.

"What a troublesome person."

Nayuta let out a gentle smile with a slight hint of astonishment mixed in.

"Come to think of it, how are the ma.n.u.scripts of your new series coming along? The main heroine isn't the imouto this time."

Itsuki had allowed Nayuta read the first volume of 'The Scarlet Jäger(Name subjected to change)' previously.

Because she had reacted very positively, Ituki requested 'Please definitely read the continuation of my work', howeverー

"Fuun.....I abandoned that series."

As Itsuki showed no signs of joking around, Nayuta's expression turned into one of bewilderment.

"Abandoned.....? Why is that?"

"Even though I completed the whole ma.n.u.script for vol. 2, that kuso manager demanded I rewrite it and wouldn't have it any other way. If I had to follow that fellow's instructions word for word it's better to just abandon the whole thing."

"......Even though it was so interesting, what a shame."

Itsuki can feel pain in his chest as he looks on towards the dejected Nayuta.

"But on the bright side, other than your manager, I was the only one who got to read your ma.n.u.script right? I feel very special."

"Actually, I also gave it to Miyako and Haruto."

Said persons are both acquaintances of Itsuki and Nayuta.

".....There are others as well, the ma.n.u.script turned out to be an inconceivable b.i.t.c.h."

Nayuta peevishly pouted as she began to dine on the fried rice once again.

Since Nayuta leisurely enjoyed her dinner(on purpose), by the time she was done, the last train had already left, so Nayuta is staying the night at Itsuki's apartment.

ーNayuta likes Itsuki way too much, she wants to do all kinds of ecchi things with him, it is concreteー.

While in the shower, Nayuta made full use of her eminent imagination of a successful light novel author, visualizing things that can not be said out loud and obviously cannot be published. Nayuta let out a series of sighs while putting on an enchanted expression that could not be shown to others.

The time were Nayuta came to like Itsuki, it was when she was 15 years oldーFirst year of highschool.

Nayuta became a hikkikomori as a result of bullying from school. It was around that time when she stumbled upon Itsuki's debut work.

The development of the story was very unreasonable, furthermore, the writing style was also very unorganized and messy. However, this author loves his characters with all his heart, he loved the story with all his heart, and he wrote not because it was his profession, but because he loved what he was doing. There's a saying that goes the line of It seems as if his energy is overflowing

Nayuta found out the author was a highschool student from the afterword, she was. .h.i.t extremely hard by that fact.

As a result, Nayuta’s response can be expressed with a single sentence, “I’m not very good at academics nor athletics, nor do I have many friends, all I do at school is daydream, I should just write novels at homeー”.

…..It is indeed a post word that the Itsuki now will never write, but the time when Itsuki first debuted is considerably honest and modest.

Anywaysー.

In an isolated corner of the school where no one is around, Itsuki had taught her just how wide the world is.

I have the ability to become like that tooーI sincerely want to become just like that. Nayuta strongly believed in her goal as her ambition burned brightly.

Even with almost no chance of meeting him and even without the slightest knowledge of what he looks like, Nayuta has fallen in love with Itsuki.

Nayuta applied and won the same new comer’s contest that Itsuki had won before with her first light novel and dropped out of high school, which she didn’t expect to graduate from anyways.

Nayuta pa.s.sed the prize money and the royalties on her works to her parents since she couldn’t be bothered to take care of it herself.

Her works immediately became a huge hit and unimaginable sums of money were flowing in every month, and of course Nayuta pa.s.sed her parents the responsibility of taking care of that as well.

Nayuta couldn’t care less about the money, as long as she can stand side by side with Itsuki, she is happy.

However, what Itsuki really wants for himself isー.

“....Someone who won’t settle for anything but an imouto, senpai is really a hentai.”

Naked in the dressing room, Nayuta buried her face in Itsukis boxers, thoroughly enjoying the smell and feel of the fabric as she breathed in deeply.

The reverse side.

Itsuki was too aware of the sound of the shower so he could not fully concentrate on his light novel. He tried to turn the volume of the music up to its highest.

Itsuki still could not concentrate so he accepted that fact and started to think about Nayuta's naked body.

The time when Itsuki was confessed to, was when Nayuta came to apologize.

"Ahh don't mind it, anyone would've failed if they were that nervous. I'm not that shallow of a person to hold a grudge after this fuhahaha!"

At this response, Nayuta breathed a sigh of relief, then took a deep breath.

"I like you,sensei, please go out with me."

"Hyaiーhyaーhyoーkyopu, kyopofoー?!"

Hit so suddenly with a confession, Itsuki's act fell apart and he became shamefully fl.u.s.tered.

"Wha, what are you saying, Nayuta san!?"

Nayuta's head editor did not seem to expect this as well and panicked.

Nevertheless, Nayuta continued.

"Ive always had feelings for you since the time when I first read your works. When I met you at the awards ceremony, I knew for sure that these feelings were real.

These were not feelings for your works nor statues as an author either, but romantic feelings for the person names Has.h.i.+ma Itsuki sensei. I love you with all my heart, please become my lover."

Those words came entirely from her heart, simply one look at her expression confirms this.

"....Pl, please think about this a bit more..."

Itsuki somehow squeezed out a sentence in his panicked state, then Nayuta fl.u.s.teredly dragged her head editor and dashed out of the room.

That night, Itsuki rolled back and forth on his bed, thinking about what happened earlier.

This is the first time a girl has confessed to him, to the Itsuki who has never dated a girl before, this event can be compared to the time when he got the letter noticing him of winning the newcomer's compet.i.tion.

Even though she isn't his imouto, Nayuta is still breathtakingly beautiful, plus, her oppai[3] are quite big as well. It would be a lie if he said he wasn't happy about her confession.

As Itsuki calmed down with time, his head suddenly filled with pink.

"Uu~ ~ ~ahh ~ ~ ~ what should I do~ ~ ~! But I had already decided my partner for marriage from the very beginning~fuhehehehe~! We don't really know each other that well in the first place anyways~, a good personality is just as important as a pretty face and a nice figure~? And if we really got together just like that, be,be-be-be-before long, won't we do e,e-e-e-ecchi things together? As I thought, it would be better if we gradually grow closer to each other instead ー ?"

As Itsuki aimlessly looked around the room, his eyes fell on the paper bag on top of the kotatsu. Nayuta had placed it there earlier.

Placed inside were the apology cake Nayuta had brought, along with a single book.

The t.i.tle was the 'Silver Landscape'ーscheduled for nationwide release in a week's time, it was Nayuta's debut work.

ーItsuki didn't particularly like the cover drawing, the t.i.tle seemed plain to him as well, and he saw no hints of the heroine being an imouto so he couldn't really get hyped about this book. But perhaps if he read this book he could understand Nayuta better~.

Itsuki half-heartedly flipped open the bookー、

"...........T, The quality.....it's different...."

The shocked Itsuki, who had read from cover to cover without a single pause, quivered as he muttered.

Itsuki responded to Nayuta's confession 3 days later.