A Flavor to Love
16-1
GECK! GECK! GECK!
The knock from outside the door of Yutaka Fujiwara's work room in the classic style of dominant brown-painted wood made Grandpa who was aged but still looked healthy and fit it stopped his work activities in giving a disposition that must be subordinate's work.
"Lake in!" Answer Yutaka.
"I'm sorry to bother Yutaka-sama," Reiko, the secretary who has been serving her since she was a girl to have a family and has a child who has gone to high school, opened the door slowly. "Akio-sama is about to face you now."
Akio's? Tumben once the boy wants to face him? Usually his grandson is most reluctant to meet what else is dealing with him who constantly forces matchmaking proposals for him? What a miracle of life! There must be something that made him lower his exorbitant self-esteem even in front of his own grandfather to approach him.
"Send him in!" Yutaka's orders. He got out of his big chair and sat on the guest sofa reserved for interested people to talk to.
"Well, Yutaka-sama," Reiko nodded then invited the serious-looking Akio.
"Good day, my dear" Sapa Akio bowed his body and stood straight again and did not budge from his position before he received instructions to sit on the sofa. Yutaka frowned a little bit there were some bruises on his face but he paled to ask because he believed Akio had experienced quite a hard fight and he did not want to interfere with the affair considering his grandson it's grown-up.
"Please sit down," Yutaka invited Akio to sit down and the man chose to sit on the long sofa close to his Grandfather's position.
"What is it that my stubborn, rebellious granddaughter, who never wanted to meet and deal with me, suddenly asked for permission to meet?" Asked Yutaka in a slightly satirical tone.
"Come on, I don't want to joke around following Grandpa's sarcastic style" replied Akio lazily responding to Yutaka who was clearly mocking him. "If I don't have to, I don't want to see Grandpa either."
You poor grandson! Inner Yutaka. Maybe he had been too hard to educate Akio since his son and son-in-law died, the longer his grandson had less respect for him.
"Alright, just get straight to this conversation you want to talk about," Yutaka leaned his body towards Akio by raising his right foot on his left foot making it a pedestal and linking his ten fingers on the hoe as if tying the knot so that his sitting position did not change. He tried to be as relaxed as possible because moments like this are very rare.
"Grandfather still intends to match me with his sister Akio Fujiwara?"
Yutaka raised his right eyebrow. To make sure the unexpected question came out of his grandson's mouth. "Grandfather didn't listen wrong? You didn't eat wrong, did you? Or because of the fights that occur to make not only your face but also your brain battered? Though in the past you always refused it outright because you do not want your freedom to be taken away from the bond, what else is the incident that girl is the sister of your best friend and senior at school."
"Do you know what Daiki Matsumoto's daughter looks like? I've never seen it in person, even the intel I sent always managed to get driven away by the people from Daichi Matsumoto." Yutaka let out a long sigh of despair. I don't know what is feared by the heir of Matsumoto Group that makes him always refuse raw whenever he mentions the matchmaking of his sister with Akio. He had almost given up and let Akio live the life he wanted. When he did not care now it was his own grandson's turn to ask for it like a paradox to him.
"Of course you know, otherwise, there is no way that I would beg Grandpa to persuade his father to agree to my matchmaking request for his daughter" Akio said seriously and affirmatively. Yutaka looked into Akio's eyes and there was no doubt within his black eyelids. After a long time Akio had never asked for anything with this much determination, he felt this young man slightly change who was originally cold-hearted to warm.
"Grandfather needs detailed information about Daiki Matsumoto's daughter before confronting the man. Facing his son alone had already created emotions and headaches due to his stubbornness, let alone his father?" Yutaka smiled broadly at the slight openness of his granddaughter. This is what he expected from his grandson, it feels like he should thank his daughter Daiki for making Akio more human.
"From A to Z I will also give you Kek, as long as the green light is allowed to marry his daughter." Akio smiled in a slant. "If his father agrees, his son will agree, right?"
You little carbuncle! Just plain!
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"Later I'll talk to my wife first" Daiki stopped talking to someone from her smartphone. Two weeks of no news from Rea caused him to falter and worry so he decided to follow his wife back to Japan. When he landed earlier on a private plane, he rushed to Shirakawa Village where his wife and daughter are currently on holiday. What exactly happened that Rea never returned to his side in London? Is the problem of his two children so complex that he was left alone?
Daiki walked slowly towards the traditional house where Rea and Kirana were. Rea seemed to be all alone so busy as usual with a laptop and a fantasy romance story for a new novel project that he was working on while somehow his daughter was. If others are new to her, that timeless, beautiful woman can be stamped with a hallucination, though from the results of making it that many books of the romantic genre have been published and sold tens of millions of copies. Ah, it seems that he is too praising the wife who is always excited in the business of realizing what has been her imagination so far..., he came here in addition to picking up his wife again also discussed about the conversation earlier with someone who was so persistent did not want to give up to convey his intentions.
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"Ma, I..," Kirana had not yet entered, she found her parents talking warmly. Apparently true said his brother if they had met, the world seemed to belong to both and the people around him only became mosquito repellent. Naturally, it has been two weeks Papa and Mama separated because of the business of disappointment and heartbreak that he experienced. This is actually what he was worried about.., apparently he was not old enough to solve the whole problem himself...
Kirana sighed and chose to get out of the traditional house and take a leisurely walk while enjoying the warm air combined with the mountain breeze that seemed so happy to greet her. He laughed cheerfully while playing the colorful paper mill that was purchased earlier in one of the stalls in the village that he originally wanted to show to the Mama but was done by him.
When he saw the group of village children who were doing the same activities as him, Kirana decided to join the children. The atmosphere of fun, laughter, and joking mingled into one with the rhythm of nature that is green, cool, and peaceful.
From some distance there was someone who was smiling broadly at Kirana. A look full of longing and longing could not be hidden anymore. I want that expression back to him, happy and full of love. No, he had to be patient and not rash for that! This time the plan must not fail!
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