Volume
2:
It's been
four months since Kotoko has begun to stay with the
Irie family. Despite the holidays, Kotoko and Naoki
has to go to school. Naoki for tennis practice while
Kotoko for remedial classes. Kinnosuke come to pick
Kotoko up from the Irie household. As usual, he and
Naoki again exchange insults and of course again,
Naoki has the last word.
In class,
Zinko and Satomi are impressed with Naoki's skill in
tennis as they watch him play. As the class starts,
Kotoko still continues to watch Naoki play. The
teacher gets angry because she isn't paying attention.
Zinko tells the teacher that Kotoko is watching
"her husband". Kinnosuke gets angry because
the teacher praises Naoki. When the teacher asks
Kotoko to read something from her book, she realises
that she has forgotten to bring the book. The teacher
punishes her by making her run outside. While she is
running, Naoki throws the tennis ball at her head and
tells her he didn't do it purposely. Kotoko already
in a bad mood quarrels with him. Unknown to them,
Kotoko's class is watching the whole exchange...even
the teacher is taking interest in Naoki's and Kotoko's
quarrel.
At home,
Mama and Kotoko are making a cake for tea. Papa and
Sai (Kotoko's father) receives an invitation to a
class reunion. They are excited to go but Mama doesn't
seem to be happy because she overhears them talking
about this girl that Papa had liked when he was in
school. Suddenly she changes her mind and tells them
to enjoy themselves. Mama then tells Yuki to eat the
cake but Yuki says that because of Kotoko, the cake
looks disgusting. When eating the cake, Kotoko asks
her father how much longer are they going to stay
with the Irie family, Mama and Papa is upset that she
wants to leave. Yuki gets angry and asks Naoki to
agree with him that Kotoko should leave soon. Naoki
replies by saying that Kotoko always talked in her
sleep and snores, disturbing him. Yuki hearing this
quickly writes in his diary.
Kotoko
and her friends goes for a swim. Yuki also comes
along and Kinnosuke is not happy because he thinks
that Yuki is too much like Naoki. When Yuki enters
the pool to watch Kotoko (so that he can write his
observations in his diary), he nearly drowns as the
pool is too deep. Kotoko saves him. Yuki calls her
names and she threatens to let go of him. To make
sure that Yuki won't drown, Kotoko and her friends
play ball in the shallow pool instead. When Yuki is
has the ball, he throws it at Kinnosuke's head
because Kinnosuke is bullying the little kids in the
pool. That day, in Yuki's diary entry, he writes that
Kotoko nearly drowns.
On the
way home, Kotoko and her friends goes to see how the
repair of her house is coming along. To their
confusion, the house repair is only half-way done and
there are no workers at all at the site. At home,
Kotoko asks her father why is the repair not done, he
and Papa tries to pacify her by telling her that they
will find out why. Her father then changes the topic
by asking Naoki about his tennis practice.
When Papa
and Sai leaves for the class reunion, Mama receives a
call telling her that her mother is ill and there's
no one to take care of her. So Mama decides to go and
also bringing Yuki along. Yuki cries and refused to
go, while Kotoko feels very uncomfortable with the
idea of being left alone at home with Naoki. After
Mama leaves, Naoki tells Kotoko to prepare dinner.
Mama in the train explains to Yuki that the phone
call is false. She just wants Naoki and Kotoko to be
alone together. Yuki hearing this shouts, "I
WANT TO GO HOME!!!!!"
Meanwhile,
Kotoko wants to impress Naoki by cooking a nice
dinner. After a few hours, Naoki enters the kitchen
and asks if dinner is ready. The kitchen is covered
in black smoke and in a mess. Naoki then takes charge
of the cooking. Kotoko is impressed with his skills.
As Kotoko feels that she should say something during
dinner, she asks about his homework. He tells her he
has already finished his homework on the first day on
vacation. Kotoko then tells him that she hasn't done
hers at all. When she asks him if he can help her, he
says he don't feel like it and leaves the table.
Kotoko doesn't sleep for the whole night as she
struggles with her homework. The next day, she asks
Naoki for help again and he tells her that he is
meeting his friends. That night, after struggling
again, Kotoko decides to "borrow" Naoki's
book. She enters his room and finds Yuki's diary. She
reads it and becomes angry. She then enters another
entry that praises her instead of insulting her like
Yuki's other entry. She then continues to search for
Naoki's book and finds it. As she is leaving the room,
Naoki pulls her hand. He teases her about being in
his room, Kotoko, thinking that Naoki is serious,
tells him that she likes him but it's too fast etc.
Naoki then laughs and Kotoko realises that he's just
teasing. She starts to leave the room in a huff.
Naoki then asks if she doesn't want the book anymore,
she replies she don't want it. Then when Naoki says,
"okay then" Kotoko turns around and smiles
and again asks Naoki to teach her. Contrary to Mama's
thinking, the two of them spends the whole night
studying together.
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The time
to pick which university they want to go has come.
Kotoko is not sure what she wants to do. When she is
on the way home, she meets Naoki and asks him if he
is going to T Dai University, he replies no.
The
sports day is coming. Kotoko will be running in the
mixed relay and another race (I'm not sure about this
part) while Naoki will be running in the mixed relay
and the 100 metre dash. Kotoko realises that it's the
same event as the one that Kinnosuke will be running
in.
At
practice, when Kotoko wants to run in the first part
of the relay, Kinnosuke says no and tells her to be
the 3rd runner instead because he'll be the 4th
runner. Kinnosuke keeps scolding Satomi and his other
classmate who is running in the relay. However, when
it comes to Kotoko's turn, he praises her. Naoki sees
the F-class training and again he and Kinnosuke
trades insults.
At night,
Kotoko takes a break from doing her homework. As she
exits her room, she meets Naoki. When they go
downstairs, they see Mama, Papa and Kotoko's father
talking. They then eavesdrop. To their shock, Mama,
Papa and Kotoko's father are discussing about
renovating their house, where Kotoko AND Naoki's
bedroom should be, where the baby room should be.
Both of them enters the room and confront their
parents. Naoki then says that even if he likes Kotoko,
he won't do what other people tell him to do then
tears up the house plan.
The
sports day has finally arrived. In the 100 M dash,
Kinnosuke wins the first prize and Naoki, the second.
After Kotoko runs her first race, she receives a
piece of paper telling her to asks the person she
likes to run with her. (I'm not so sure about this
part...) She asks Papa to run with her and they've
got the 6th place. Mama blames Papa then Kotoko tells
Mama about the paper and Mama seems angry. Kotoko
quickly tells Mama that she doesn't mean that she
wants to take Papa away from Mama. Actually Mama is
angry that Kotoko didn't ask Naoki but Naoki replies
that even if Kotoko asks him, he will not run with
her.
On the
way to prepare for the mixed relay, Kotoko and Naoki
gets into another argument because Naoki tells her
that in the 100 M race, he lets Kinnosuke win. This
makes Kotoko determined to win. As the race starts,
the F-class is leading but Kotoko, accidentaly gives
the baton to Naoki instead of Kinnosuke. Naoki calls
her stupid. In the last round, Naoki catches up with
Kinnosuke and wins the race. However, Kotoko in her
excitement falls down in front of Naoki after he
finishes the race, he falls down on top of her.
Kotoko is knocked out. Naoki then carries her and at
the same time got into another argument with
Kinnosuke who blames Naoki for Kotoko's injury. As
Naoki carries Kotoko across the running track, Mama
keeps shouting at Kotoko's father to tape the moment
(Sai has the video camera).
The exam
that allows them to enter the university is coming
and the F-class students are struggling with their
studies. Zinko, Satomi and Kotoko decides to study
together at the Irie household. While Mama is happy
to have girls coming over to the house, Yuki insults
Kotoko's friends. As the three of them do their work,
they could not answer even the first question and
Zinko and Satomi pushes Kotoko to ask for Naoki's
help. Naoki helps. However, as they sit down to do
the 2nd question, they realise that they need Naoki's
help again. So after every 10 min they keep knocking
at Naoki's door asking for help. Naoki gets annoyed
and tells them to come back in 15 min. They are
impressed that Naoki can do all the questions in 15
min.
The next
day, in school the whole F-class except for Kinnosuke
decides to ask Naoki to tutor them. So they begged
Kotoko to tell Naoki. He is shocked when he returns
home, the whole F-class minus Kinnosuke is in his
house. As the F-class begs him, he relents and tutor
them. After her classmates go home, Kotoko talks with
Naoki about university again. Naoki then tells her he
doesn't want to enter university and asks her why she
wants to. Kotoko tells him that it's because of her
father.
When the
results are out, the teachers are baffled that the F-class
students are doing very well. All passed except for
Kinnosuke. To thank Naoki, the F-class decides to
have a party on Christmas day. Kotoko decides to get
him a present too to thank him. She decides to get
him a pair of pager sort of thingie but she has to
work to get the money. So she finds a job in a
restaurant and works hard. One day, Naoki and
Watanabe (his friend) see her working hard but Kotoko
doesn't know this.
At the
party, Naoki is not surprised about it because he
sees lot's of shoes outside his house. Kotoko also
gives Mama, Papa and Yuki a present. When Naoki opens
his, he doesn't seem to appreciate it. Since Naoki
doesn't have anything to give to Kotoko, Mama
suggests that they take a picture together. Naoki
agrees but only 1 piece. He puts his arm around
Kotoko and just as Mama is taking the picture, Naoki
reveals to her that he knows where she has been
working, shocked, Kotoko pulls out of his loose
embrace destroying Mama's picture. ^_^
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On the 12th
and 13th of January, Naoki has an exam in order to
enter Todai university. Papa is worried if Naoki is
not going to take it and Naoki tells Papa that he
doesn't want to go to T Dai. Papa is angry and Mama
tries to calm him down by asking everyone to play
cards. Naoki is always winning. Kotoko then
challenges him, if he wins, he doesn't have to go to
T Dai. As it turns out he did win and Kotoko fears
that he seriously won't go to T Dai.
In school,
everyone asks Kinnosuke what he'll be doing since he
won't be going to the university. He tells them that
he has found a job but when they ask him where, he
tells them it's a secret.
Before
the 12th, Kotoko and the Irie family go to her father's
restaurant to wish Naoki good luck. Kotoko is worried
because Naoki keeps drinking but Mama tells her that
Naoki won't get drunk. Papa then offers Kotoko a
couple of glasses of beer and she got drunk.
Kinnosuke enters the restaurant. As it turns out,
Kinnosuke will be working in Kotoko's father's
restaurant. On the way home, Kotoko cries and tells
the Irie family that she wishes that Naoki won't go
to T Dai because if he does, they won't be together
anymore, then she wants to throw up. Yuki screams
because he is sitting right beside her and she is
holding onto him.
The next
day, Kotoko doesn't remember about she being drunk
and Naoki is not feeling well because the night
before he cannot sleep as Yuki keeps talking in his
sleep. Mama and Kotoko gives him 2 capsule that will
make him feel better but then they realise that the
medicine will make him drowsy. Kotoko gives Naoki the
good luck charm that she has made for him and hangs
it on his school bag. In the train, the charm is
caught on the door so Naoki just made it in time for
the exam. As he wants to throw the charm away, he
drops it on the stairs but as he picked it up someone
falls over him and they both fall down. Naoki finally
makes it to the exam with a bandage on his face. In
Kotoko's attempt to make sure that Naoki gets more
luck, he gets more BAD luck. He tells Watanabe that
he already threw the charm away but as he is leaving
the room, a girl tells him that the charm is very
nice etc. Apparently he didn't succeed in getting rid
of the charm. Watanabe then teases him by saying that
Kotoko will surely become his bride.
When the
result is out, Mama and Kotoko is very happy that
Naoki got 996 out of 1000 questions right. Naoki is
amazed and says to himself, "I'm really a genius...."
Kotoko then thinks to herself it must be because of
her good luck charm. Watanabe accidentally dicloses
the reason why Naoki's injured that day. Kotoko is
sad. As the family celebrates, she excuses herself
and cries. Naoki follows her and that the charm makes
no difference since she came into his life she has
been messing up his life or something like that (;;^_^).
Mama calls both of them to sing on the karaoke, she
agrees while Naoki refuses.
-Jennifer
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