Chapter :10
It seems my parents and brother aren’t coming home today, so I have to do the housework by myself.──I shouldn’t, but… “The meat and potato stew is ready, little brother. Let’s eat it together.” “Oh, okay.”Kana-neechan called out to me as I was cleaning the bathroom. Kana-neechan prepared the food with practiced hands, then plated it and carried it to the table.
As for why Kana-neechan was at home, my mother had apparently contacted Nishida-san’s parents.
My parents and Nishida-san’s parents are family friends and are very close.
When Nishida-san’s parents found out I’d be left home alone today, they were worried about me being alone, so they contacted Kana-neechan.
Since my parents are often away from home, I can cook, clean, and do laundry by myself.
However, my mother was still worried, so she contacted Nishida-san’s parents.
As a result, Kana-neechan came to our house.
“I’m worried about you, little brother, if you’re alone,”
she said.んなねーちゃんは、もうちょっとまた待ってい？」 English: I
almost want to tell her just how overprotective she is.
After that, nothing happened with Kana-neechan. It
‘s the same as always.
“About today’s meat and potato stew. What do you think?”
“Yeah. It’s delicious,”
I reply, picking up
the meat and potato stew with my chopsticks. Even when I’m eating dinner like this with Kana-neechan, nothing has particularly changed. “
I’m glad. I was worried
that I wouldn’t like it.” “There’s no way I would n’t like it.
” “Really?” “Yeah. But you’re good at cooking, aren’t you, Kana-neechan?” “Well, I do like cooking, but… Not as good as you, little brother . ” “As good as me… It’s just a hobby for me, so I’m not particularly good at it…” “The meat and potato stew I made today is one I’m proud of, I learned from you, little brother.” “…No no. I don’t think it was because I taught you, Kana-neechan, but rather because you worked hard on it yourself.” “Really? For me, it’s all thanks to you teaching me so well,” Kana-neechan says, a happy look on her face. To be honest, it makes me happy, but I can’t bring myself to be happy about it. To be honest, Kana-neechan’s cooking skills are quite impressive. If I’m not careful, she might overtake me. “By the way, was it Takizawa-kun that you met at the shopping mall today?” “Yeah. What’s up with Takizawa-senpai? ” “You wanted to walk with us, what did you want?” “Well, I think…” He probably wanted to go on a date with Kana-neechan. That’s what I thought, but I couldn’t say for sure. “Maybe he wanted to go shopping with me? …But even if we went to a lingerie store, I don’t think there’s anything a boy could buy.” “I don’t want to hear that from Kana-neechan, who just took me to a lingerie store.” “…No. Well, you see, I just wanted my little brother to see it too.” “What could I have done differently? Men aren’t supposed to look at underwear.” “Considering that, it looked like you were drooling over Nao-chan’s panties. What was that about?” “Well…” It was unavoidable at the time, and I definitely didn’t look because I wanted to… “Were Nao’s panties really that cute?” Kana-neechan asked, a sullen expression on her face for some reason. I don’t really understand why she looks like that… “I didn’t mean to look or anything. They just happened to be in my field of vision,” I said, standing up. “Where are you going?” “The bath. I’ll come in after I finish putting away the dishes.” “Okay. Have a nice day,” Kana-neechan said, looking at me as if she wanted to say something. I put my dishes down in the kitchen and headed straight for the bathroom. The bathroom is the only relaxing space in this house, after all. I can take a long bath without being disturbed by anyone. Anyway, tomorrow is school, so what should I say to Takizawa-senpai so that he’ll understand? From the looks of it, he seems very vindictive, so if I explain it the wrong way, I’m afraid he’ll attack me in a sneaky way. It’s best to just brush off whatever that kind of person says, but the problem is that they’re not good at giving up. At a time like this, it would be more effective if Kana-neechan just rejected me outright, but Kana-neechan herself doesn’t want to do that, so what should I do… “Little brother,” Kana-neechan called out to me from outside the bathroom. “What’s wrong?” I asked, and Kana-neechan asked thoughtfully. “Well, I was just wondering about the temperature of the water. ” “It’s just right.” “Yeah. It’s just right,” Kana-neechan said, seemingly convinced of something. “What’s wrong, Kana-neechan?” “Nothing. I was just asking.” “Oh really?” If she was just asking, there shouldn’t be any problem.
I don’t know what Kana-neechan was thinking, but she started doing something on the other side.
The other side of the bathroom was made of translucent glass, so I could clearly see Kana-neechan on the other side.
I wondered what she was planning to do.
“Little brother…I’m coming in.”
“Eh…”
It was all so sudden.
Kana-neechan opened the bathroom door and walked right in.
Of course, she must have thought that showing her naked body to a teenager was inappropriate, so she was properly wrapped in a towel when she entered.
“Hey…!? Kana-neechan!? What are you doing! Don’t just barge in
like that,” I said, flustered by what was happening. I
never expected Kana-neechan to barge into the bathroom, so I ended up getting flustered. I’m a guy after all.
“What’s wrong, little brother? We used to take baths together a lot, didn’t we? There’s no need to be so surprised…”
“That was when we were little.”
“Yeah, I was little. To us, it’s the same now as it was then, right?”
“That’s true, but… whatever we do, we’re not little kids anymore, so we should be more careful about that sort of thing. Are you listening to me, Kana-neechan?”
Kana-neechan picked up a body sponge and started to lather up.
He wasn’t listening to me.
“Come on, little brother. I’ll wash your back, so turn around.
” “No, I can do that much too. Please get out of the bathroom.”
“Even if you say so… I’m already in the bathroom.”
“Why is this…”
At this point, I had no choice but to give up.
I obediently turned my back to Kana-neechan.
Then Kana-neechan gently began to wash my back.
しい。 English: “How is it? Does it itch anywhere?”
“No, nothing. In fact
, it feels good.” “I see. So it feels good.”
“What’s wrong, Kana-neechan?” She
stopped midway,
so I became curious and tried to turn around. Kana-neechan started washing my back again, looking flustered.
“No, nothing. Nothing. I never asked you to do it either.”
“You want me to do it…”
“I never asked you to do it.”
She made it very clear. Kana-neechan…
I can’t help it.
After I finished washing my body, I picked up the body sponge and turned around.
“Here, Kana-neechan. Turn around so I can wash your back.”
“Eh, but… I feel bad for my little brother
.” “You came all the way here. I guess I have no choice.”
“But I have to get naked…”
Kana-neechan held the towel back shyly.
Looking at her, she looked a bit like a cute newlywed wife devoted to her husband.
But I wasn’t going to be fooled.
“You don’t mind me seeing you naked.”
“No, I don’t have any problem looking at my little brother’s body. I’ve been looking at it since I was little. But…”
Even Kana-san, who is known for being so brazen, seems to be reluctant to let me see her naked body.
She can look at other people’s naked bodies so openly, but she’s so embarrassed to show me her own. She’s
kind of bold, or something.
“I’m just going to wash your back. I don’t think you should be so embarrassed…”
“That’s true, but…”
Kana-san hesitantly grabs the towel wrapped around her body.
Well, if she’s that reluctant, there’s nothing I can do about it.
I can’t force her. But──
“By the way, Kana-neechan, why did you come into the bathroom?”
“Huh? Because I thought I’d give you a wash for your back.”
“But does that mean you had to take off your clothes before coming in?”
“You know, if you go into the bathroom with your clothes on, you’ll get wet. That’s why I took off my clothes before coming in.”
“Oh really?”
“Don’t worry about me. I do it because I like it.”
With that, Kana-neechan took off her towel and turned her back to me.
There was no way I could wash Kana-neechan’s back, so I just got into the bathtub.
“Huh? You’re not going to wash my back?”
“Huh?”
“You took off your towel, and now you’re not going to wash my back?”
Kana-neechan said, turning her back to me.
“…”
I was just about to relax in the bathtub.
“I’ll do it. I’ll wash your back for you.”
— What a pain.
Kana-neechan’s whims are so annoying.
I took the body sponge from Kana-neechan, reached for the body soap, and began to lather it up.
Then I began to wash Kana-neechan’s back.
Kana-neechan’s back was smaller and more delicate than I had expected.
As I began to wash her back slowly, Kana-neechan spoke, as if remembering something from the past.
“We used to wash each other’s backs like this a lot, didn’t we?”
“Yeah. Back then, there wasn’t much to worry about.”
It’s true that back then, we weren’t at an age where we cared about being a boy or a girl.
But around the middle of elementary school, we started to feel embarrassed about each other, and we stopped wanting to bathe together.
“I guess now you need to be mentally prepared…”
“But for me, that was before I even considered it,”
I muttered.
Kana-neechan turned to me, as if she had heard me, and asked,
“Did you say something?”
“No… Nothing.”
I gently washed Kana-neechan’s back, then said ,
“I’m done,”
handed her the body sponge, and got back into the bathtub.
Kana-neechan thanked me,
“Thank you.” I really didn’t want to see Kana-neechan washing herself, but it couldn’t be helped. I wish she’d at least put on a swimsuit, but that’s Kana-neechan. She calls me “little brother,” so I guess she doesn’t have any embarrassment. Kana-san looked relaxed and began washing her body while humming “Hmmm.”
