Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 54

After the second free movement, the meeting place for the first-year classes in Tsu High was also moved to the large parking lot near Asamushi Onsen Station.

After finding the bus of Class C, Naruse and Shangko sat on the bus for a while, and other students came to gather one after another.

When it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, there was a sudden commotion outside.

Shangzi took a look with his head, and it was Takikawa Hikaru who was surrounded by a group of girls.

"What's wrong?" Naruse beside him also poked his head.

"It's light."

Surrounded by Yingying and Yanyan, Takikawa stood at the door of the car and waited for the upper class. It took several minutes just to say goodbye to the girls in other classes.

"Okay, let's talk later."

Finally got into the car, she walked to the back, and quickly noticed the two people looking at her.

"Did Chunhai and Shangzi go to the hot spring?"

"Ah."

"It's pretty good." Hikaru Takikawa sat down in the back seat, "It's really comfortable to soak in a hot spring after hiking."

Naruse turned his head and looked at her short wet hair, "Are you with those girls just now?"

"That's right. We met at 'Asayama Hot Spring', and we soaked together. Oh, the hot spring pool is full of girls from Tsugo."

"After all, it is the off-season for tourism, and there are not many tourists."

Hikaru Takikawa leaned forward on the back of Naoko's seat and looked at the two of them, "Speaking of traveling, where are we going to go?"

Naruse glanced at her, "Are you confused? I'm going back to school."

"I mean when you're free, like winter vacation."

"It's too early to think about it now."

"So you can make preparations early." She lowered her arms and gently hugged Shangzi who was sitting on the seat, "What does Shangzi think?"

Shangzi took her hand and tilted his head slightly, "I only said that if I have a place I want to go."

"oops."

Hikaru Takikawa smiled, "Because I was taking a hot spring just now, I thought it would be great if I could go to the hot spring in winter, and I also wanted to take Yue to relax, and then Reiko recommended a hot spring in Yamagata. .”

Reiko was probably one of the girls who went to the hot spring with her just now. Naruse had never heard of this name, so he didn't recognize it. "Over there in Yamagata? What hot spring?"

She thought for a while, "It seems to be called Baiyin Hot Spring."

Naruse frowned, "Silver... Yinshan Hot Spring?"

"Ah... yes! It's the name. Chunhai knows it too, is it famous?"

"Of course it is famous. There used to be a very famous TV series "Oshin", which was filmed there." He paused, "My mother also filmed commercials in Noto House there."

"Is that so..."

Hikaru Takikawa's eyes widened, "So, is Harumi going?"

Do you want to go to the hot spring during the winter vacation...

Naruse imagined for a while, and also looked forward to it.

"Winter is the peak tourist season over there, so it's hard to book rooms."

"Well... so is it still too late to make an appointment?"

"I don't know, let's look it up on the website." Naruse said, but found that Takikawa looked at him unmoved.

"……Fine."

He took out his cell phone and checked it for her.

"Yinshan Hot Spring...has it."

There are many hotels in Yinshan Hot Spring, and since November, there have been a large number of reservations.

"A year ago, or a year?"

"Well... years ago."

Takigawa Hikari lay forward again, lowered his head, and subconsciously sniffed Shangzi's hair.

Naruse glanced at her, "You actually left your family to go to the hot spring at such a busy time."

"It's too much." She laughed, "Didn't I bring a month?"

"You can decide the exact date yourself." Naruse handed her the phone.

Hikaru Takikawa took the phone and looked through it.

"Wow, the accommodation is so expensive!"

"It's peak season after all."

"It's too expensive. I still want to live there for a week."

"You really don't want to help prepare for the New Year."

She flipped through it for a while, then suddenly raised her eyes, "Chunhai and Shangzi must be going."

Naruse looked at Naoko, and she was looking at him too.

"Then go."

"uh-huh."

"OK~" Hikaru Takikawa smiled, and thought about it again, "Let's call Kamiyo and Haixing as well."

Naruse pursed his lower lip.

"The two of them may not necessarily agree."

After all, one is busy studying, while the other doesn't want to see him.

"I'll go ask."

She was about to get out of the car with her mobile phone, but was stopped by the teacher standing at the door.

"Where is Takikawa-san going, we are going back."

"I'll go to Class E for a while, and I'll be right back..."

"No."

Hikaru Takigawa raised his hand to support her, and Yuki Nakahara raised his head to look at her, "Go back and sit down, the teacher is about to start roll call."

"Little Snow~"

"No, OK~"

Takikawa Hikaru had no choice but to return to his seat.

"Send a message and ask."

She lowered her head and edited the news. On the other side, Zhong Yuanxue walked back and forth in the car, glanced around and began to roll the roll.

Before Takikawa Hikaru was clicked, Morimi and Haixing had sent replies respectively.

"Yiye said he didn't have time, but Haixing agreed."

Naruse was a little surprised, and looked back at her, "Did you tell her that I would go too."

"Huh? Didn't say anything."

"Then say it now."

Takikawa just lowered his hair and frowned when he raised his head again.

"Starfish can't say it."

"Hehehe..." Naruse laughed dryly.

Hikaru Takikawa leaned forward again, "Chun Hai and Hai Xing still can't get back together, they played together today."

"So it's her problem. It's fine if Hai Xing doesn't go, leave her alone."

Shangzi glanced at him.

"Takigawa."

"exist……"

While taking roll call, Zhong Yuanxue came over and pushed Hikaru Takikawa back to his seat.

A few minutes later, she returned the phone to Naruse.

"Are you ready?"

"No. There are a lot of things to fill in, so let's go back and do it."

After a while, the humming engine sounded, and the bus trembled slightly.

Zhong Yuanxue got up for the last time:
"We're leaving soon, everyone sit in their seats—"

As the bus of class B next to it pulled out of the parking space, the bus of class C quickly followed and set foot on the way home from the hike.

The route back is slightly different from the time we came, but the journey is still long.

Perhaps because he got enough rest in the hot spring, Naruse was not tired at this time, but the other students on the bus became silent within ten minutes after the bus started.

Shangzi beside him also yawned more frequently.

When the scenery outside the car window gradually changed to the same forest, she finally gave up her resistance to sleepiness.

The bus rocked, and she leaned against it.

Naruse turned to look at her, then looked out the window.

forest.

Throwback woods.

After driving to this section of the road, there are only retreating woods on both sides of the county road.

The same goes for the front of the field of vision.

He was awake alone, with nowhere to look, and returned to his side, staying for a long time.

The girl on the shoulders had her eyes closed, her face was peaceful, her chest rose and fell slightly, and her breathing was low and inaudible.

The skin is delicate, the cheeks are so plump that one can't help but want to pinch them, the thin lips are light red and bright, breathing slightly in sleep.

She is a neighbor's child, who grew up with him since childhood.

At the same time, he is also an excellent opposite sex in all aspects.

Naruse lowered his head and moved closer.

Her long black hair was casually draped over her shoulders, exuding a faint fragrance, her shoulders and arms were touching, and her body temperature was constantly coming from her.

She is close at hand.

Everything about her is within reach.

Naruse slowly raised his hand, and stopped when his fingertips were about to touch her cheek.

"..."

Can we start with this?

He believed in Shangzi, and he also believed in himself, but all the "beginnings" he had witnessed were the first steps towards the end.

And the one who is running wearily between the beginning and the end is his perfect entertainer mother.

With the current him, how long can this fragile relationship of love last?
Once started, there is no way to regret it.

The transformation of the relationship between each other, as long as one step is taken, there is no going back.

What's the point of a beginning that is bound to end?
After all, what is the meaning of life?
So busy, yet so fleeting, as if everything was in vain...

With a heavy chest, Naruse took a deep breath, pulled his own thoughts, and stopped them from sinking endlessly toward the dark depths.

"... thinking about such useless things again."

Looking at Naoko who was still asleep, Naruse lowered his hand.

As long as this is fine...

It's good to go on like this.

She felt the same way.

The seemingly non-existent distance between each other is a tacit understanding that they have never spoken.

Without a beginning, there is no end.

An hour later, several buses carrying students from various classes of the first grade drove into the county Jin Gao successively and stopped in front of the main building.

After being awakened by someone, Takikawa went to Class E again as soon as he got out of the car.Before Naruse went upstairs, he saw her and stopped Morimi and Haixing.

"Haven't you given up yet?"

Back in the classroom, Zhong Yuanxue assigned today's excursion as homework, and briefly explained a few words about the three-way talk starting tomorrow, before announcing that school was over.

Because I was a little tired, and there was nothing to do in the club, Naruse and Naruse didn't go to the club room.

"go home."

"Ah."

"My neck hurts from sleeping..."

"You fell asleep when you got in the car."

"How can it be so fast..."

Going to the supermarket to buy ingredients, Naruse carried them, and when he returned home, Naoko was flipping through the keys in his bag, and the door of his own room next door suddenly opened.

A middle-aged woman came out.

"Shangzi."

(End of this chapter)