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Sleeping Bunny [Konohara Narise] Part 1

I know, I know, but I want to rush through this translation before I settle down and really wrestle with ”Love Ti And there's a prequel to it (which is also incredibly lovely and I' to translate it) And yeah I wanted to quickly translate this short one for fun before settling down to business(?) :P

Sleeping Bunny

Konohara Narise

It all started with one letter It all started with the letter that he had sent as a joke

The letter was lying around on top of the kitchen table On the surface, an unknown script neatly spelled out, ”Satomi Kouichi-sama” Kouichi flipped over the envelope, a piece of bread left over fro fro that it was a suspicious DM(Direct Mail), he carelessly ripped the letter open

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Pardon me Thank you for your letter >

Kouichi cocked his head curiously For the last few years, he had written nothing but seasonal greetings and get-well-soon letters

< i'd=”” like=”” to=”” meet=”” you=””>

He couldn't tear his eyes away It was as if his gaze was nailed to the spot Confused, he ran up to his roo the letter in his hands

”Stop running in the house; it's noisy!”

His s, rang throughout the house He locked his rooers tre

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The corners of his ht red He was sick and tired of hearing about other guys who received ”love letters”, but Kouichi himself never received a love confession, h school sophomore

This was the first time in his life He read up to the last line (h the faces of all the girls he haveon the cute ones) and then he thought so with his eyes

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No e froht probleirl's name

He started to read the letter all over again

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Words that e of tears ritten there

But it's Itou Hirokazu

”Hey, that's not even funny”

His round in a matter of seconds Of course, he knew himself better than anyone else did He was nearly 180 centiirls didn't really like him It may be because of his relaxed personality He wasn't popular at all

”Soirl to the edge He's boring”

Girls seeuys' hearts are made out of steel The carelessly tossed cos deeply

Thanks to the letter, he was re pissed off It was at a point where he became depressed, so he harshly wrinkled up the letter

The sun sets quickly in winter After school, while he was being lectured by his hos became completely dark Kouichi returned to his classroo the cold classroohed heavily

Why the hell didto angst about it, but Since he was little, Kouichi andBut they had always been careful around each other and up til now their relationshi+p wasn't that bad, but with yesterday's pop quiz, they completely broke up At his score that ay below the passing grade, his hoet mad

Not only was he not intoat all that day It was the day that he received the letter

”Hey, there you are, Satomi”

His classmate, Endou Minori, suddenly popped her head in at the other end of the exit door

”What were you doing all this time?”

He uneasily laughed and changed the topic He was too embarrassed to adrade was so horrible

Endou walked up to Kouichi's desk and looked up at her classe eyes

Her long hair was neatly braided into two braids Her sood in their school unifor beautiful, was cute More than anything else, she had pretty eyes

But she was called the weird girl by their classmates She liked reptiles, so it seemed that she had lots of pets of that sort

”So, I heard a letter came?”

Who the hell went around, babbling that?! He shuddered at the question he heard again and again since yesterday and answered

”Yeah, it came”

”Then let me see”

With her eyes full of interest, she held out a hand

”No way”

”Can't you at least give me a little peak?”

She puffed up her cheeks

”I threw it away”

”Huh? No way! Why?”

”I talked it over with Kaki souy was probably for real You can't s”

”I know that, but You didn't really throay, did you?”

She looked at Kouichi, looking like she couldn't just let it go Coot the love letter frohed so that the little devil wouldn't notice

A azine to their school At that time homosexualism was the hottest issue both in TV shows and newspapers, so everyone had fun with the azine that Tanaka said he picked up from the train station

The book contained photos of half-naked h school student, it was just about as helpful to his life as a health textbook Endou wasthe book with them

What really cracked them up was the pen pal section

-Wanted: Sweet Older Man-

-I'ood time-

The obviously seductive lines like those were so funny that they laughed their asses off

”Guys, do you want to try writing a letter?”

Endou was the one who spoke up

”We can't do long distances He won't write back if we're not close enough”

”This guy's close to us He's right next town”

”But he's just normal He's not funny”

『I a, kind person My hobby is reading, so I will be happy if we can discuss books together -Itou- 』

They wrote the letter while laughing They wrote all kinds of crap, like I', if you're interested in soo out with you, etc

On the way back home, Endou asked for Kouichi's address

”Can I send it using Satomi's address?”

”Sure, whatever”

That's what he sid, but he had cootten about it

He never thought in a million years that Endou would really send the letter, not to uy would actually answer back to him

”No way, no way, totally no way”

Her prettily-shaped eyebrows becary

”I already said you can't”

”But I'm the one who sent the letter”

Kouichi glanced down at Endou

”I have no probleo see him next”

”I've never seen a real gay guy before, so I want to go see him”

”Well, I don't”

”Oh, boo hoo”

When Endou clung to Kouichi's ar of her breasts, so he didn't knohat to do His heart started to beat rapidly

”Pretty please? Let me see just once”

She gazed at hie eyes When she asked if she could send the letter under his na at hi about it, he told her to do whatever she wanted Kouichi loudly sighed

”You can't tell the other guys”

Endou's face brightened right away

”I mean it”

She tightly grabbed Kouichi's hand Her hand was small and cold

”I'll take you out to go see him But just for a little while, and from far away”

”Okay”

”You can't tell other people”

”I get it”

”I'm supposed to meet him at two at a coffee shop, so let's meet up somewhere else before that”

”Okay”

Endou s to say carelessly, ”Let's go hoave a small cry

”I ot about her”

Before he had a chance to call her back, she left the classroom

At the door she turned back and waved, so Kouichi hurriedly raised his right hand Endou was a weird girl She liked reptiles and wanted to see gays But Kouichi was growing quite fond of that weird girl

He wore T-shi+rt and jeans, and over that he wore a corduroy jacket His shoes were Converse He had been waiting for Endou in front of the Kase Station for the last thirtyhio see, he saw Endou at the train platform

Endou, as looking this way and that, finally found Kouichi and ran over to hihtly fitted her body and a white skirt beneath that The same colored over-jacket was tied around her waist

”I' late”

Her straight hair silkily rustled Her lips were glazed with pink Kouichi stared at her, unable to say anything Endou tilted her head this way and that, looking confused with his look He finally snapped back to the real world, nervously noticing her look

”Should we go?”

”Okay”

They walked side by side He suddenly wondered how others were seeing the at Endou's profile Would other people think that they were going out?

His tender feelings couldn't be described, happiness and eether

As if throwing cold water on his light-heartedness, Kakimoto's face flashed across his ards to the strange letter Kakimoto and he were friends even before they were out of their diapers They attended junior high and high school together They were completely unseparatable friends

He was the valedictorian, being the owner of an impressive brain His face ell-shaped and his words were harsh He said, ”Throw that way”

”There's nothing we can do about a letter that already ca for us, either Not only is it a horrible hobby to go see hi fun at his expense, it's terrible manners”

Kouichi thought like Endou that it would be okay to just have a look at hio see him”

Kakiht He alht But when Endou begged hiot the better of him

To be honest, he wanted to beco the ”man” as an excuse

I threw the letter way I'uy

That's what he told Kakiuilty about secretly co to see the man So even if he saw the man who sent the letter to hi to keep it to himself

They had a little trouble because it was hard to find the entrance to the promised location Ten minutes after 2 PM, the two of them pushed open the door of 「Marlene」

It wasn't a big shop, but it didn't feel narrow and cluttered, perhaps because the tables were spaced quite widely The sephia-themed interior of the place felt cohout the store at a sound level that didn't get on one's nerves

It somehow felt like it was a 「Store For Adults Only」, so the two of theister Kouichi carelessly observed theseats that the man had ht side was taken by a ed office worker, and left seat was taken by a couple They were out of the question

In the middle there was a sophisticated man clad in black He looked uneasy like a pi He looked about mid-twenties He was certain that that was the e didn't ined fro, so he was thinking of someone more quiet

Weird, he thought, while continuing to observe the man In the letter, the man had said that he would place a scheduler on top of the table to indicate hiarettes and a lighter

”So, do you see him?”

Unable to wait for Kouichi's words, she tugged at the end of his shi+rt with her fingers He hadn't told Endou that theby the , nor did he tell her that he was supposed to place a scheduler on his table

”I don't think he's here”

”Is he supposed to be at theseat? Isn't it that handsouy over there?”

She asked as if she followed Kouichi's gaze His heart sunk at her sharp observation

Without answering her, he glanced around the shop There was no one who had placed a scheduler in sight Kouichi felt better

”Hey, it's that guy in black, isn't it?”

”He doesn't have the indicator, so he's not I don't think he ca came up so he couldn't make it”

”You're lying, right? That sucks”

Endou sipped at her crea her eyes, she looked at Kouichi

”He's really not here?”

”Yeah”

Kouichi also took a sip of his coke

”He's not here, so it's just too bad Do you want to go back?”

Endou stood a little on her toes, as if upset, and glanced at her right side She suddenly made a small noise

”It's Takahashi+-sensei”

He turned to look At the end of Endou's pointing finger, a slender lasses Kouichi had never seen him before

”We had someone like that?”

”He's Takahashi+-sensei, teaching modern japanese literature You don't know him?”

”I never had him”

”Well, yeah, our school has tons of teachers and students, so He's teaching fresh with us sophoirls”

He turned to look at hiot in his way, so he couldn't really see his face After they finished their coke and soda, they stood up Kouichi picked up the tap as if it was his duty