Chapter 310: Sakurai: Yotsuba, can I kiss you?
When they arrived at the infirmary, the on-duty teacher Tachibana Chizuru had already finished her shift.
After all, it was almost five in the afternoon.
"Lie down, I'll get medicine for you." Sakurai told Yotsuba to lie on the bed.
"Rest for a bit, I'll call your sisters over."
"Umu." Yotsuba seemed to suddenly recall something, she softly asked: "Sakurai-san, are you planning to quit tutoring?"
"Yeah. Ichika already told you?" Sakurai was flipping through the cabinet.
He was quite familiar with cold medicine, the last time he brought Chika here, he had already looked once.
When Miko caught a cold, he had also come to take care of her.
This infirmary, Sakurai could say he knew every corner of it.
Finding the cold medicine, he noticed the kettle still had water, conveniently at a warm temperature.
He poured a cup of warm water.
"If possible, could you not quit?" Yotsuba lay staring at the ceiling and softly spoke.
"If from now on you can stop tormenting your body, I'll consider giving up the thought of quitting." Sakurai brought the medicine and water to the bedside, then handed the pills to her.
Yotsuba propped herself up to sit.
"Aa~" Sakurai said as he brought the pill close to Yotsuba's lips.
Yotsuba blinked a few times.
Eh?
Doing this… isn't it a bit too much?
Feeding someone medicine like that, only lovers are supposed to do it, right?
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Nakano Yotsuba put the pill into her mouth, then took the cup of water from Sakurai Saki.
After swallowing the medicine, Yotsuba lay back down again.
"I will take care of my body."
"How can I believe that? You basically don't know how to refuse people." Sakurai Saki said irritably.
In fact, it wasn't just the basketball club — Yotsuba sometimes went to the track club, the tennis club, basically after class each day you could see her figure all around the campus.
"I… I will know how to refuse." Yotsuba replied, unwilling to give in.
"Then, want to try it?" Sakurai Saki spoke while slowly leaning his face toward her.
"What?"
"Can I kiss you? Just once."
"Of course not..." Yotsuba saw his lips getting closer, hurriedly turned her face away.
That kind of refusal was completely not a refusal at all!
Sakurai Saki sighed, stepped away from the bed, "You can't even refuse an unreasonable request from a guy, how can I believe you?"
He sat down at the desk used by the infirmary teacher, taking out his phone to send a message.
A few seconds later, from behind the curtain came her weak voice —
"I'm sorry."
"You don't need to apologize to me. You should scold me, because just now I almost forced a kiss on you." Sakurai Saki thought that Yotsuba's problem was no longer just about being simple-minded.
At this rate, if she encountered a scumbag, it would be over — she'd definitely be deceived until dizzy, sold off and still help count the money.
So foolish that even a scumbag like him felt worried!
"Please, don't kiss me." Yotsuba spoke in a weak tone.
Sakurai: "..."
Damn, hearing that only makes me want to kiss you more.
"Forget it, just sleep first. It's still early."
"Umu."
Yotsuba turned her face, looking toward where Sakurai Saki was speaking.
Then slowly closed her eyes.
Her head was truly dizzy, if she had known she wouldn't have gone to play basketball.
She was the type who the closer the relationship, the harder it was to refuse; if she had only known Sakurai Saki for a week or a month, then Nakano Yotsuba could have decisively refused.
But after knowing him for a year, even if she wanted to refuse, she had to find an excuse, a good excuse that wouldn't make Sakurai Saki sad.
'Got scolded by Sakurai-san again.' Yotsuba's impression of Sakurai Saki had always been of a very strict person.
Even if she acted spoiled or mischievous in front of him, he would only casually make a teasing remark, then very quickly return to a state of studying.
A Sakurai Saki like that, would he really like the Nakano quintuplets? Especially Nino, the one who always said the opposite of her true feelings.
'I'm so tired.' Yotsuba felt her consciousness gradually fading away.
Very soon, steady breathing sounds reached Sakurai Saki's ears.
He lowered his head to look at the message thread; the other four Nakano sisters had sent today's schedules.
Miku said she was going with Nino to cooking class, Ichika was filming, Itsuki was at home at the moment, but asking her to come here would be a bit troublesome.
'Could it be that I have to take her home myself?'
Sakurai Saki put his phone down.
Then he took out the can of coffee he had just bought, opened it, and took a sip.
He didn't know how long Yotsuba would sleep.
...
By the time Yotsuba woke up again, it was already dark.
Had Sakurai-san gone home already?
"Awake?"
Alright, not yet.
Had he been by her side this whole time?
"Just now a few girls from the basketball club came by, asked a bit about your condition, confirmed nothing serious, then left." Sakurai Saki searched for a thermometer, then stood up, pulled open the bed curtain, and walked to her side.
"Let's check your temperature first."
"Yes." Yotsuba took the thermometer and tucked it under her arm.
Her body was slightly sweaty, sticky to the touch.
"Nino and the others are on their way here, if they didn't come I'd have to take you home myself, that'd be quite troublesome too."
When he asked about their schedules, everyone was busy. Yet the moment they heard Yotsuba had a cold, the sisters immediately dropped what they were doing, even Ichika.
As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps sounded at the door.
"Yotsuba~ are you feeling any better..." Ichika pushed the door open, then suddenly realized Yotsuba might still be asleep, hurriedly covering her mouth with her hand.
She looked at Sakurai Saki, trying to signal her intention with hand gestures.
"Don't be silly. Yotsuba just woke up, you came at the perfect time."
"Phew, that's good."
"Is everything fine with work over there?"
"Of course my sister comes first. But the job's already done too. Just now I was in the zone, so I wrapped up my scene really fast." Ichika said with a refreshing smile.
Perhaps this was talent?
If it were in a xianxia story, it would be a genius cultivator attaining enlightenment every three days, with villains shouting: "This brat is terrifying to this degree, absolutely must not be allowed to live."
"Sakurai-san, temperature's taken, it's 37.6."
"Still a fever, do you want to sleep a bit more?" Ichika asked worriedly.
"No need, if I sleep more the school will be closing soon." Yotsuba got up from the bed.
As she moved, a damp towel slipped from her forehead.
Yotsuba picked up the slightly cool towel without saying anything.
There had only been one person taking care of her here; obviously he was the one who placed it.
"Alright then, if there's nothing else, you should head home early." Sakurai Saki suddenly remembered his bag was still in the student council room.
He stood up, "I forgot my things, so I'll go first."
"Be careful on the way back."
After he left.
Yotsuba drew the curtain aside, put on her shoes, and stepped out.
"Sakurai-san is really gentle, isn't he."
"Right~ otherwise how could so many girls secretly like him?" Ichika came to stand in front of her, reaching out to touch her forehead.
Only after confirming the fever wasn't serious anymore did she let go.
"Yotsuba!!! Are you okay!!??"
Outside the door, Nino's voice rang out, and soon she rushed in, bracing her knees and looking up at Yotsuba.
Panting, she said: "Are… are you okay?"
Seeing her so worried, Yotsuba couldn't help but let out a small laugh.
"I'm fine, Nino, you're worrying too much."
"Idiot! Sakurai-san said on the phone you were on the verge of dying, made me worry to death!"
Yotsuba: ∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ?
Eh?
"He said your whole body was burning up, your head steaming, and your mouth kept mumbling our names." Ichika said with a laugh.
At that moment, all the affection Yotsuba had just started to feel for Sakurai Saki shattered instantly!