Things Sakusa Doesn't Know

Also known as The Thing Hayakawa Rii Didn’t Know

Female celebrity x athlete, mutual pining, one-on-one romance

Hayakawa Rii liked SakuSa.

Like any ordinary teenage girl, she secretly followed the person she liked, cared about everything he did, and did foolish things she later felt she never should have done.

But being an idol meant her feelings were a secret she could never reveal. SakuSa would never know.

Hayakawa Rii thought she might have been given the script for a bittersweet coming-of-age drama. There was some regret, but she was already more than content with how things had turned out.

Then they met again, and their frequent encounters made her wonder if she had been given the script for a reunion after years apart.

Until she happened to hear that she had turned down SakuSa’s confession.

Hayakawa Rii’s brain short-circuited. She looked like the bewildered cat meme gazing at the universe. “What? What are you talking about?!”

“Are you talking about me? I turned him down?”

“When did that happen?!”

Had she been given the script for a mystery drama after all?!

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A certain person with bean-shaped eyebrows, who would rather not be named: Or did you think Omi was that gentle with everyone?

Just being by your side, just being gazed at by your eyes, my heart won’t stop pounding, I can’t say no., Utada Hikaru, “Automatic”

I’m hopeless at writing blurbs, lol.

I own the OOC; anything not covered in the original is my headcanon.

Lyric translation from NetEase Cloud Music.

Miura Rin was an orphan. In wartime, there was never a shortage of orphans.

Fortunately, a kind farming family took her in. Unfortunately, the man of the house soon died on the battlefield, leaving a frail widow and a girl under ten to fend for themselves.

As time went on, she noticed a child who kept showing up to pay court to Madam Miura. Watching his face turn bright red whenever he looked at her, Rin suddenly understood. You little creep, you’re into widows…

And so they became childhood friends. Under each other’s influence, they both grew up to be into husbands.

Then one day, while on her way to the Shoka Sonjuku to see Katsura, she ran into Yoshida Shoyo. At that moment, a forbidden love was born

Katsura: “I’m not into widows. I just want to ease Madam Miura’s pain.”

Gintoki: “The two of you with your weird fetishes have no room to talk! And Shoyo-sensei isn’t even married, so he’s not a husband! What kind of husband lover are you? Apologize to all the husband lovers out there!”

Miura Rin, perfectly serious: “You don’t understand. Being a husband is a kind of nurturing, motherly quality.”

Takasugi rolled his eyes. “You’re all idiots.”

“Huh? And what about you, Shorty-Sugi? You’re a teacher-fetishist yourself!”

“Who are you calling Shorty-Sugi?!”

“Rin, I understand you. Because being a married woman is actually, ”

“Thump, ”

“Who asked you?!”

Yoshida Shoyo sat on the wooden veranda, smiling as he watched them bicker. Then the girl, in the middle of the four-way scuffle, was the first to leave the fray. She pattered over, looked up at him obediently, and whispered, “Shoyo-sensei, is the reason you still don’t have a wife that you can’t get it up?”

Yoshida Shoyo’s smile froze instantly.

The voices of Gintoki and the others, who had heard the conversation, gradually quieted. After a long pause, Gintoki’s mouth twitched. “She did that on purpose, didn’t she? She absolutely did that on purpose!”

Why wasn’t someone who looked like a combination of EnO and KinO Flash, and whose name was Rin, a tsundere instead of a schemer? Careful, Otsuki might send you a lawyer’s letter!

Theme: Love can make people stronger