TO SEE YOU SMILE

Chapter 4: Gift & Chocolates

Mitsuri's POV

Iguro and I walk together while holding plenty of carrots in our hands because we're going to feed the rabbits inside a cage.

I like how the rabbits calmly nibble the tip of the carrot I'm holding. All of them looks so adorable while eating.

"Eat a lot, babies..." I said, making Iguro turned his head towards me.

Suddenly, I felt conscious but I pretended that I didn't notice that he's looking at me. Though if he continue to stare at me like that for few more minutes, I don't think I would be able to stop my face from turning red.

I bit my tongue and focused myself on feeding the rabbits. I also start counting them inside my head when I noticed one of them trying to escape the cage.

"Hey, don't leave your friends alone," I told the rabbit who wants to escape and carefully carries it in my arms.

The rabbit's ears look soft so I played with them using my free hand.

"But you're so cute, You're also bigger than the others. I suddenly want you to become my pillow." I said.

I was taken aback when Iguro carry the rabbit away from me. But unlike me, he wasn't carrying the rabbit because he finds it cute.

"Hey, you fat rabbit. You got more bigger so that means you got a lot of meat in you, right? Can I eat you now?" He asked, darting a glare at the poor, innocent rabbit.

My eyes went wide as I got shocked by what he said, but I realized that Iguro was just being jealous so I covered my lips with my hand and chuckled softly.

I held his shoulder and carried the rabbit in my arms once again. Iguro frowned because of what I did and look away.

"You don't need to scare him like that, Iguro. And please don't eat Obamitsu!" I pleaded.

"Obamitsu?" He asked, completely confused as to why I've also given the rabbit a name.

"Yes, Obamitsu. That's your name combined with mine." I answered him with a wide smile.

Iguro got frozen for sixty long seconds. He just move to turn his back from me when I noticed his ears turning red.

Taking few steps forward to close the gap between us, I rested my forehead on his shoulder while still carrying Obamitsu.

Soon, Iguro raised his hand to pat my head and told me that he wants to carry the rabbit again.

"You won't scare him anymore?" I asked, wanting to make sure.

"Yeah, I won't." He replied. His voice is too soft that it almost sounded inaudible.

I smiled.

I'm glad that he isn't mad or jealous anymore.

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Shinobu's POV

"Hey, I've been standing here for exactly 10 minutes without doing anything. Don't you need my help?" I heard Giyu asked behind me with his bored tone.

"There won't be a day in the calendar that I would need your help, Tomioka. If you don't have anything to do, go cut your hair or jump from a tree." I answered without looking at him and just continued cutting the ingredients of the food that I'm going to cook.

"How rude. I just want to help here because I was entrusted by Kanroji to cook dinner with you. Why are you being so rude to me?"

Seriously, did this guy really think that I will cook with him? He doesn't even know how to cook! He only know how to fry an egg. Why would I cook with him?