Chapter 640: Chapter 402: The Nonexistent Sakura Lord_2
"Sakura, did you know? Just to simply hold Hanabi for a moment, and you still won’t..."
"Hanabi has done so much for you... yet you still cruelly left... Hanabi curls up alone under the covers... it’s still raining outside... so cold, so cold..."
Uesugi Sakura let her hold him, knowing that she wasn’t talking about him, but about another Sakura, the one who abandoned her, Hanabi’s Sakura.
...
Hanamaru Hanabi suddenly lifted her head, cradling his face in both hands: "Sakura, it’s because of your handsome face."
After speaking, she buried her own face in Uesugi Sakura’s chest, her small hands trembling and clutched at her chest, her entire petite body experiencing what seemed like a harsh winter.
She muttered something, and Uesugi Sakura tried hard to listen, but could never make it out.
Suddenly, she cupped Uesugi Sakura’s face again, repeatedly saying:
"Sakura, Sakura, Sakura, Sakura, Sakura..."
After this, Hanamaru Hanabi fell into a state of extreme emotional instability, and when she calmed down again, the real Hanabi emerged.
"Sakura..."
"Hmm, I’m here."
"Sakura, please don’t abandon Hanabi..."
"Why are you saying this too?"
Uesugi Sakura was puzzled, just how bad could that Sakura be?
To turn the timid Hanabi into a lovesick patient.
"Why not tell me about that bad Sakura?"
Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head in his embrace.
"Can’t say...?"
"I don’t want to say..."
"Alright then, let’s not talk about it now, it’s late, Hanabi can take a bath first, I’ll go back to my own room to sleep once you fall asleep."
Hanamaru Hanabi held onto his arm, speaking in a weak voice: "At night, we should sleep together..."
The girl’s expression turned fragile, her tone sounded like she was pleading with him.
Uesugi Sakura understood, this was her way of seeking security, looking for comfort in him.
"Alright, I’ll stay with you, you go take a bath first."
"Sakura, don’t leave while Hanabi is taking a bath," Hanamaru Hanabi instructed.
Uesugi Sakura chuckled: "I won’t leave, besides, the bathroom partition in this hotel is semi-transparent, I might even peek at you taking a bath."
"Sakura..." Hanamaru Hanabi blushed, "Sakura can peek, but you mustn’t leave."
"Now I’m allowed? Before, when you were changing, you always made me leave the room..."
"Because now, Sakura is my husband..."
Hanamaru Hanabi shyly pecked his cheek, her lively eyes gazed at the side of his face for a moment, then she buried her face and hurriedly ran off, clutching her change of bath towel as she dashed into the bathroom, and just before closing the door, she peeked out halfway to glance at him.
Uesugi Sakura touched the cheek she had kissed and smiled.
Indeed, this personality of Hanabi is more alluring.
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After bathing in Hanabi’s room, Uesugi Sakura went straight to the big bed, hugged the girl who was only wrapped in a bath towel, and placed her small, light body on top of him, indulging for a while.
After getting tired, he held her snow-white shoulders, letting her lean against his chest.
Hanamaru Hanabi’s fair face was tinged with a tender blush, she buried her face in Uesugi Sakura’s chest, issuing a delightful series of gentle laughs.
"What are you laughing about?" Uesugi Sakura asked.
Hanamaru Hanabi’s cute face was shy yet full of sweetness that girls have after being affectionate, she gazed at Uesugi Sakura, her voice soft and sweet: "Hanabi thinks... that Sakura was definitely fake..."
"Why suddenly say that?"
"Because... Sakura is so good to Hanabi... and so gentle..." After speaking, the girl smiled and hugged him again, "Hehe, hehe."
Uesugi Sakura couldn’t help but laugh at her: "Like a lovestruck girl, the easiest girl to deceive is the kind like Hanabi."
"Then... Sakura didn’t deceive Hanabi, right?"
"Hmm, indeed I didn’t."
"Hehe, see?"
"See what?" Uesugi Sakura suddenly tapped on Hanamaru Hanabi’s forehead, his expression serious, "Now you’re just a typical girl whose head is clouded with love, the kind that still says she loves him even after being tricked."
"Anyway, Hanabi believes Sakura won’t turn into that Sakura."
"If you believe that, then go to sleep, have you even looked at the time?"
"Sakura, you’re so fierce..."
Uesugi Sakura saw something and suddenly paused for a second.
"... Or, Hanabi should come on top?"
"No way! Sakura said it’s time to sleep." Hanamaru Hanabi buried her face in the pillow.
Uesugi Sakura had no choice but to coax her again: "Little Hanabi, Hanabi, Hana honey, darling, I love you the most."
"No, no, no, no!"
Hanamaru Hanabi buried her face even deeper, her little feet at the end of the bed waving up and down, the bright moonlight, enchantingly beautiful.
"Really no?"
"No way!"
"Okay then! If sleep is what we’ll do, then we’ll sleep."
Uesugi Sakura simply turned his back, closed his eyes, and crossed his arms.
The night was silent.
With his eyes closed, Uesugi Sakura suddenly felt a slender finger poking his waist, once, twice.
He discreetly smiled, a naive girl indeed fell for it.
"What’s the matter?" Uesugi Sakura’s tone carried a bit of impatience.
"Sakura..."
"Don’t call me, it’s time to sleep."
"Sakura..."
"Sakura..."
"Sakura..."
Soon, the act of poking him turned into gently pushing him.
Hanamaru Hanabi calling his name became increasingly like a whine.
Uesugi Sakura had no choice but to turn back, looking at her tender face illuminated by the moonlight through the window, her face clearly showing a hint of shyness, overflowing with cuteness.
Hanamaru Hanabi hesitated, wanting to speak but not daring to.
"I’ve really lost to you."
Uesugi Sakura helplessly propped himself up, pulled up the quilt, covering them both once more.
...
"Sakura... a little to the right..."
...
"Wait a moment," Uesugi Sakura suddenly called out.
"Wh-what’s wrong..."
"Where’s the other Hanabi?"
"Sh-she’s asleep..."
"And you, Hanabi?"
"Hanabi... Hanabi was sleeping during the day..."
"..."
"No wonder you’re so energetic."
...
...
...
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"Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep!"
Awakened by the alarm clock, Uesugi Sakura sat up from the big bed, he saw, a line of words inexplicably appeared before him.
[Emergency Task]
What the heck?
It took Uesugi Sakura a while to confirm that he wasn’t mistaken.
What on earth is this nonsense task at the starting point?
Uesugi Sakura didn’t even want to look, he just swiped away the task.
He was about to get dressed and get up when he suddenly felt a pain in his waist.
Not too painful, but persistent.
Uesugi Sakura was about to wake up the still sleeping Hanamaru Hanabi beside him.
"Hanabi, Hanabi, wake up."
"Sakura... Sakura... what’s wrong?" Hanamaru Hanabi rubbed her eyes.
"My waist is hurting for some reason, accompany me to the clinic in town."
"Huh? Oh, okay..."
...
The sky was not yet fully bright, the blue sky was somewhat misty.
The doctor at the clinic looked at the test sheet, and then looked at Uesugi Sakura.
"Doctor, what’s wrong with me?"
Compared to Uesugi Sakura’s somewhat urgent questioning, the old doctor calmly and slowly asked back:
"Feeling weak all over after getting up today?"
"Yes."
"Sore waist?"
"Yes, yes."
"Also, easily thirsty?"
"Yes, yes, yes."
"Kidney deficiency."
"Huh...?"
The old doctor adjusted his glasses and looked again at the sheet in his hand, nodding: "That’s right, it’s kidney deficiency. Pay attention recently, don’t overwork, don’t stay up late, go back and eat something nutritious, I’ll prescribe some vitamins for you, just take them."
Uesugi Sakura: "..."
With one swipe of the pen, the old doctor concluded the consultation.
Uesugi Sakura walked out of the consultation room with the sheet in hand, feeling unsteady.
Hanamaru Hanabi immediately came up to him with concern and asked: "Sakura, are you okay, what’s the diagnosis?"
Uesugi Sakura looked at her small face, his heart like dead ashes, how... should he explain?
To think I, a man of seven feet, actually... kidney deficiency!?
The doctor even told him to be careful.
No face! Too embarrassing!
"Sakura?"
Uesugi Sakura waved her off repeatedly: "It’s nothing, it’s nothing."