My Good - Looking Neighbor

Ch 4: Spark?

Today is Sunday. The weather is quite cloudy which makes the air quite cool on a hot day. Today is also a great day for shopping and dating.

It's just that since Ryuuji doesn't have a girlfriend, he chooses another option, shopping. The stock of meat is gone, the sausage is gone, the eggs are gone, the rice is gone, the bread is gone, the bath soap and the laundry soap are gone. With all these problems, of course, anyone will agree that today is the right day to shop.

And this is where Ryuuji is at the supermarket, shopping while walking around. His appearance was rather striking with his height and piercing in his ears. He walked casually while carrying his shopping trolley which already contained laundry soap and toiletries. Now he was walking towards the vegetables and fruits section.

Arriving at the vegetable and fruit section, he immediately picked and sorted casually until he bumped into someone.

"Ah, sorry."

As Ryuuji looked over, he saw a familiar face. Glasses girl.

"Senpai?"

It was Chizuru.

"Oh, Ichinose. What a coincidence."

"Senpai? Are you shopping too?"

"Well, you see for yourself."

"I guess men who live alone rarely shop."

"And now you see him, the man who lives alone but shops."

"You're looking for fruit?"

"Obviously, vegetables and fruit. Honestly, I can't tell which is good and which isn't."

Chizuru sees Ryuuji take two apples, and returns them to his place.

"Hmmm, I can teach you."

"Then, then,.."

"Come to senpai."

Once they finished picking fresh and good vegetables and fruit, both walked to the meat section. They end up shopping together because what they buy is pretty much the same.

After they finished paying, they left the supermarket. Ryuuji's luggage looks more because he also carries rice. Both hands are full now.

"Are you going home or what, Ichinose?"

"I'll be home before it rains."

"Do you want to walk together?"

"Of course."

Just walking for a while, Chizuru's worst guess came true. It was raining hard and Chizuru was not carrying an umbrella. So they decided to take shelter in front of the closed shop.

"Your bad feeling came true."

"I should have bought earlier." Chizuru then sat down and took off her glasses and braids.

Ryuuji on the other hand was standing up and combing his wet hair with his hands. His movements are natural but look cool to her. Chizuru who happened to see the scene was stunned. He had indeed somewhat ignored Ryuuji's appearance. But indeed, after a few looks, Ryuuji was a cool and handsome man. Coincidentally, Ryuuji combed by facing towards Chizuru.

Since Ryuuji was looking down, Chizuru who was sitting below could see his face. Red eyes with black hair, the combination of the two looks very harmonious. The black piercing on his ears made Ryuuji's impression rather cruel and mischievous. Chizuru can capture all the details of Ryuuji's face from below.

'The handsome guy.'

The moment their gazes met, reflexively, Chizuru instantly averted her gaze. She's a little embarrassed.

Ryuuji who was staring at Chizuru saw her white shirt slightly wet pressed against her skin which added to her sexiness. Thinking clearly, Ryuuji immediately averted his gaze and sat a bit away from Chizuru.

He looked at Chizuru again. Then he took off his jacket.

"You wearing?"

Seeing Ryuuji thrust his jacket, Chizuru immediately refused.

"Eh? I'm not cold, and your jacket is also wet with senpai."

"Not that."

Ryuuji pointed towards Chizuru's body with a straight look ahead without paying attention to Chizuru's body.

'What?'

Chizuru looked for what Ryuuji had pointed at. He was quite relaxed until he once again looked at Ryuuji's hand and found his wet shirt somewhat transparent due to the rainwater.

His face immediately flushed and covered his chest with his hands. He immediately turned his head to Ryuuji and found that, he did not see his body at all. Chizuru was somewhat relieved by that. But thinking that, Ryuuji had already seen it, embarrassed him. Slowly he picked up the jacket Ryuuji offered and put it on.

"T-Thank you."

Ryuuji looked at her and smiled bitterly.

"Together."

Just then random thoughts entered Ryuuji's brain. He remembered something. He immediately opened his backpack and found a treasure.

"Ichinose, I forgot I brought this."

Chizuru looked up and saw what Ryuuji was holding, it was an umbrella. Chizuru's eyes sparkled. But soon, his gaze turned sharp.

"Senpai?"

"Hm?"

"Are you on purpose?"

"What intentional?"

"Hmm."

Looking at Ryuuji's flat face that showed little confusion, Chizuru put away her accusation. Ryuuji doesn't know what Chizuru is thinking.

"It's okay. Let's go home."

"Hm? Both? With this one umbrella?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"You don't matter?"

"alright. Then come on. You hold it, okay?"

"okay."

After that they walked and went home to the apartment with one umbrella.

...

The next day after returning home from class, Ryuuji immediately lay down on his bed. Today there is no hangout with his two stupid best friends and no errands. The work is also done. So he can relax a little.

After lying down for a while, he took a shower and sat down on his gaming chair and turned on his computer. He intends to play a relaxing game, GTA V. Actually he is a bit bored with this game, besides this game is almost 10 years old. And he's been playing it since the beginning of release.

Playing for an hour, he got bored and lay down again in his bed. Just then, a knock on the door sounded.

Ryuuji immediately got up and opened the door. As soon as the door opened, she found Chizuru dressed up very pretty in front of her.

'Wow.'

"Oh, Ichinose. What's up?"

"I wanted to return your jacket yesterday. And I make kare."

Chizuru offered her a jacket and a lunchbox filled with kare. Ryuuji took it gently.

"Oh, it's still warm. Thank you." Thank you."

"Either. Then I'll excuse senpai."

"Ah, okay. Careful."

Ryuuji unconsciously said carefully.

'She's dressing. Dating?'

...

The next day, after returning from class, Ryuuji returns the Chizuru's lunchbox. And it just so happens that, before Ryuuji knocks, Chizuru comes out dressed again.

In a few days Ryuuji often met with Chizuru after class. There were days when she didn't come out or come out with a regular makeup. But he saw her more often with beautiful makeup.

Ryuuji refrained from asking because they were not close enough yet. But after a few days, they sometimes exercise in the morning together, and sometimes chat at night on the balcony. Because they have known each other for 3 weeks and often do activities together. You could say they are pretty familiar now. So, Ryuuji wants to inquire about Chizuru's different appearance if he meets Chizuru's next beautiful fashion.

...

On another day, in the afternoon near the shopping center, Ryuuji was walking alone to buy his destroyed digital clock. Because it was quite far away, Ryuuji brought a motorbike and parked it some distance away from the shopping center. He wanted to take an afternoon walk to enjoy the crowd.

Walking leisurely, he finds the nerdy version of Chizuru being gathered with several girls. Like friends. They sat far away in front of Ryuuji, but not too far away to be visible to the naked eye unless they had vision problems.

As Ryuuji got a bit closer, he greeted him casually.

"Oh, Ichinose!"

Chizuru who thought she could leisurely enjoy her afternoon time, suddenly felt somewhat uncomfortable with the familiar voice that called out to her.

The other girls immediately turned to look at Ryuuji who looked unfamiliar as they had never seen Ryuuji.

"Senpai?"

After saying that, Ryuuji could see the uncomfortable look from Chizuru. Ryuuji can understand if being bullied while hanging out with friends can be uncomfortable. But Chizuru's gaze felt wrong, she could feel hostile on her face.

"Can you give us a minute?"

Chizuru immediately grabbed Ryuuji's hand and pulled him away.

"What brings you here, senpai?"

The tone was slow but it sounded angry.

"Buying my broken digital watch."

Chizuru looked at Ryuuji cynically.

"You shop quite far, senpai. And where's that clock?"

"I'm just gonna buy it."

"Where?"

Ryuuji who bombarded the question with an angry tone, frowned. What's wrong with this woman? Is it just because I called her, only to greet her for a moment that she could be this angry?

"In the shopping mall." Ryuuji answered coldly.

"Fyuh, please don't call me so suddenly like that. Especially when I'm with my friends or when I'm working. Please understand, senpai."

Ryuuji once again frowned. Work it? His gaze turned cold. He did not know what his mistake was and was bombarded with a tone full of anger. He doesn't even know what his job is.

Suddenly he remembered Chizuru's beautiful fashion appearance. Is fashion beautiful to work? Is his anger because of that? Really am. If you want to tell me, you can tell me right.

His gaze was getting colder. Even Chizuru started to feel scared by Ryuuji's gaze.

"Really, what's wrong with you Ichinose?"

Ryuuji released Chizuru's gently frozen hand grip. Then Ryuuji smiled sweetly.

"I'm sorry. If you really don't want to see me, I'll leave now. Just chill. Have fun."

Ryuuji said nonchalantly and walked away leaving him. The frozen Chizuru could only watch him walk away. Then it awakens.

"Ah. He doesn't even know my job."

Because Ryuuji often sees her dressed up and dressed pretty, he frantically forgets that Ryuuji does not know the job he is hiding.

'I'm careless.'

With a bland taste in his heart, he turned around and returned to sit with his friends.

"Who was that cool guy? You never introduced him to us. How's ka-"

"How about we enjoy the rest of the day. I'm not in the mood to talk about it."

Chizuru said as she endured the guilt lodged in her heart.