Volume
4:
Kotoko is
packing up her things and she sees photographs of her
and Naoki studying together etc, all taken by Mama.
As she prepares to leave the Irie household, Mama and
Papa are sad while Yuki seems very happy. Naoki on
the other hand, doesn't seem to care at all.
As they
are leaving, Sai and Kotoko thanks the Irie family
and apologises for all the troubles that she has
caused during her stay. As she is doing so, Mama
bursts out crying and hugs Kotoko, while Papa tries
to console her. Papa then tells Sai to come to their
house next time for a visit. Kotoko then looks at
Naoki and apologises to him, he just said "bye".
Kotoko and Sai then leaves. As the moving van drives
off, Mama runs after it shouting Kotoko's name. Yuki
jumps up and down expressing his happiness. Papa
scolds him. Naoki then says, "Time to eat",
Mama then suddenly turns to Naoki and starts blaming
him for Kotoko's leaving. As Yuki and Naoki start to
move Yuki's thing's back in his room, they realised
how empty the house seems.
The next
day in school, Kotoko tells Satomi and Zinko that she
has moved out and has given up on Naoki. Kinnosuke
who hears this is very happy. As Kotoko and her
friends are walking around the campus, everyone is
whispering and looking at her, Kotoko becomes
suspicious. When she reaches the canteen, she
realised why everyone is talking about her. Kinnosuke
has put up a sign to tell people that she has given
up on Naoki. When Kotoko scolds him, she asked him
what if Naoki sees the sign. Kinnosuke then replies,
"He has already seen it" and pointed behind
her. Kotoko quickly tells Naoki it's not her fault.
Reiko who is with Naoki at this moments starts to
make fun of Kotoko. Naoki doesn't seem to care at all
and Kotoko is hurt.
At the
Irie household, Mama seems to be in a daze. All she
does is stare at the wall. She doesn't cook dinner at
all. In the end, the family had to buy packed dinner.
Dinner time seems to be very quiet also. Papa then
discovers that Mama also has not been doing other
household chores. She also doesn't eat properly
making the whole family worry.
Yuki, in
Naoki's room tells him that because Mama is that way,
the household chores will be divided among Papa, Yuki
and Naoki. Naoki then asks Yuki why he always comes
to his room although he has his own room back. Yuki
then replies that he also doesn't know why. He then
blames Kotoko. As he flips through his journal he
sees the entry that Kotoko has made. Papa in the
kitchen is washing the dishes, while Mama stares at
Kotoko's photo. Naoki sees the Christmas present that
Kotoko has given him. He takes it out and stares at
it.
At tennis
training, as Kotoko is picking up the tennis ball and
being tortured by Sudou (as usual....;;^_^), Naoki
comes over even though he doesn't even have to train
that day. After exchaing words, Kotoko thinks to
herself that Naoki doesn't care about her feelings at
all. Sudou, as usual, challenges Naoki. This time
however, he wants to challege Naoki in a doubles
match. He picks Reiko as his partner and picks Kotoko
for Naoki. Naoki is annoyed with this. Before the
match starts, Naoki tells Kotoko not to hit any of
the balls. Kotoko in turn tells Reiko to pretend that
she is not there at all (What Kotoko means here is
that don't hit any of the balls to her). Reiko agrees
by saying that even if she does hit the ball to
Kotoko, Kotoko won't be able to hit it back. The game
starts with Sudou serving first, Naoki tells Kotoko
to move away. As she does this, she accidentally
bumps to Naoki thus making them lose 15 points. As
the game progresses, with Kotoko as his partner,
Naoki is losing. So Kotoko decides, no matter what
she is going to hit the next ball...unfortunately in
her attempt to do so, she hits Naoki's face. Sudou,
who is in a very good mood because he is finally
winning against Naoki tells him that it is not bad.
That is the game. Naoki replies angrily by asking
what is not bad about the game. Sudou gloats over his
win of the game while Naoki turns around and starts
blaming Kotoko.
Meanwhile,
Mama has arrived in the university incognito. She
finds out from other students about the tennis match
and runs to the tennis court. As she sees Kotoko,
tears of joy starts welling up in her eyes. Zinko and
Satomi recognises her and unwittingly discloses the
fact that Naoki and Kotoko has kissed before. She is
so happy about it that she instantly regains her old
self and starts plotting again to bring Kotoko and
Naoki together.
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Kotoko is
late for the trip for the tennis club. In the train,
Kotoko and Sudou overhears Reiko offering Naoki some
of the food that she has made. Kotoko who has been
sitting in front with Sudou. Turns the chair and
starts to sit with Reiko and Naoki. Reiko is very
unhappy with this but Kotoko and Sudou just do
whatever they want. ^_^
As the
club reaches the resort, the duties are divided among
all of them and Kotoko got the duty of cooking dinner
O_o. Sudou also then reveals to Naoki that there'll
be another doubles match between them both and Kotoko
is going to his partner again. Naoki is so angry and
turns around and tells Kotoko that they must win the
match. Kotoko suddenly feels that she is being
watched but as she she turns to look around, she
doesn't see anyone.
Before
dinner time, Kotoko is daunted by the sheer amount of
onions and other vegetables that she has to cut. She
doesn't even have any idea what and where to start.
Some time later, Naoki enters the kitchen to tell
Kotoko that it's time to train. He sees her crying
and turns around to leave because he remembers the
time when he saw the same thing (ie the time when she
tried to cook dinner for him). Kotoko begs him to
stay and help her. He does but he tells her not to
tell anyone that the food is actually cooked by him.
At dinner,
everyone is impressed by "Kotoko's cooking"
and starts telling her that with her skill, she can
be a good wife to someone already. Some even went to
the extent of telling Naoki what they think. Naoki
starts to become annoyed and tells Kotoko that it's
time to train.
During
the training, Naoki is very harsh on Kotoko. Sudou,
who stands by the window commented that Kotoko is
very pitiful and that Naoki is being overboard. The
senior who heard this, mumbled that what Naoki is
saying now is actually what Sudou has said before.
After the
training, as Kotoko walks out of the court, she feels
someone watching her again.This time she sees the
shadow and screams. Naoki hearing her screams went to
take a look. Kotoko tells him that there's a ghost
but Naoki just asks the shadow who they are. As it
turned out, the people from the manga club has been
following Kotoko. They are doing so because they are
basing one of their production on Kotoko (I think the
title of their manga would be "Tennis Girl"
or maybe "Tenisu no Onna"????)
At night,
after Kotoko has finished speaking to Kinnosuke on
the phone, Reiko teases her again about Kinnosuke and
giving up on Naoki. As Reiko walkes aways, Kotoko is
unhappy but she admits that she is the one who has
decided to give on Naoki.
As life
goes on in the camp, Kotoko tortured by Sudou, peeped
at by the people form the manga club, helped by Naoki
to cook dinner, tortured by Naoki during training and
ends the days tortured by Kinnosuke who calls her in
the middle of the night after she's asleep...
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Kotoko
assures the senior that she can cook dinner. Suddenly
he asks Naoki to attend some sort of event with the
teachers and Kotoko panics. He then asks her if
something is wrong and she quickly says nothing. As
Naoki walks away with him, Kotoko tries to call his
name to no avail.
Everyone
is shocked by the dinner that Kotoko has prepared
this time. All of them are burnt and they taste
horrible. Kotoko has no choice but to reveal to them
that Naoki has been the one cooking for them. Eveyone
is shocked.
Reiko
then asks Naoki to take a walk with her because she
has something to tell him. Kotoko is upset because
she remembered Reiko telling her that she wants to
tell Naoki how she feels. Then, Kotoko notices that
Sudou has a very strong reaction to Reiko asking
Naoki out too. Then they make excuses to follow Naoki
and Reiko. As both of them walked away, the other
students are thinking what about dinner.
As Kotoko
watches Naoki and Reiko from the bushes, she is
shocked to see Sudou too. Then Kotoko figured out
that Sudou likes Reiko. Sudou, embarrassed covers
Kotoko's mouth while Kotoko is struggling to stop
Reiko from expressing her feelings to Naoki. Their
scuffle causes Naoki to look away as Reiko says,
"I like...." and Naoki goes to investigate.
To his shock, Sudou and Kotoko are together in a
compremising position. Naoki then asks them what are
they doing, Kotoko and Sudou tries to explain. He
suddenly pulls Kotoko away from Sudou and tells her
to that it is time to train, Sudou is only too happy
to get rid of Kotoko. Reiko is unhappy with Naoki's
abrupt departure.
At the
tournament, Sudou is expecting to win again while
Kotoko has got bruises all over her after the hard
training that Naoki has out her through. She is
really afraid but Naoki tells her not to worry as she
is not alone and with him there she doesn't have to
worry. Kotoko is very happy to hear this. As the
games starts, Kotoko is unable to block Sudou's first
serve, she apologises to Naoki and Naoki calls her
stupid. Kotoko then manages to hit the second serve
but not hard enough to hit it back to Sudou's and
Reiko's side of the court. Naoki scolds her but Sudou
and Reiko are shocked that Kotoko manages to bock the
ball. As the game progresses, Kotoko manages to block
all of Sudou's and Reiko's serves. Sudou becomes
really frustrated. As the game ends, Kotoko manage to
score and Kotoko and Naoki wins the game. The people
from the manga club cry tears of joy, Sudou is
humiliated while Naoki tells Kotoko, "Not bad".
She is very happy then she realises that she has
sprained her anlkle and she could not stand up. Naoki
tells Sudou that they cannot play another round
because Kotoko is injured. Kotoko then tells Naoki
that she canoot stand up so Naoki carries her out of
the court even though he is annoyed with her.
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Naoki
sends Kotoko home to her new house. But to her shock,
there is an old man staying at her place and her
father is not there at all. She couldn't contact him
either so Naoki brings her to his house instead. When
they arrive there, both of them are shocked. The
house has been renovated. Yuki comes running out of
the house to tell Naoki about Mama but before he
comlpleted his sentence, Mama comes out and tells
them that this one is one of her plot to bring Kotoko
and Naoki together. As they protests, Mama reveals
that she knows that both of them has kissed before.
Yuki asks Naoki if it's true while Naoki looks
angrily at Kotoko. Kotoko whispers to Naoki that she
wasn't the one who told Mama. Mama then tells them
that they'll be going for dinner at Kotoko's father's
restaurant.
As the
Irie family arrives, Kinnosuke runs out to greet
Kotoko, Mama then tells Kinnosuke that they are here
to celebrate the fact that the Irie family and the
Aihara family will be living together. Mama also
tells Kinnosuke that Naoki and Kotoko has kissed
before. Kinnosuke is shocked and demands that Naoki
tells him that whether this is true. Naoki tells him
that it is true and that Kotoko was cute then.
The next
day in school, when Kotoko goes to Naoki's faculty
building, she notices Sudou peeping at Reiko and
Naoki. They sees Reiko asking Naoki out but is turned
down by Naoki. Sudou then tells Kotoko since Kotoko
likes Naoki, he himself likes Reiko but Reiko likes
Naoki, they should work together. So they started
discussing what to do.
Meanwhile,
Naoki is told by his friends that Kotoko is here
again only this time with a guy. Then as his friends
discussed why Kotoko is here again after declaring
that she is giving up on Naoki, Naoki walks away. In
actual truth, he walks to where Kotoko and Sudou are.
As he sees them together talking and laughing, he
looks angry.
That
night at dinner, Naoki hurts Kotoko by telling her
that her cooking is horrible etc. As she is in the
bath, she notices that she has forgotten her
undergarment. She tries to calls Mama for help but as
she tip-toes out, her undergarment is thrown at her
face. As it turns out, Naoki found it on the floor
where Kotoko has dropped it. He hurts her again by
insulting her and he tells her if she doesn't want
him to do that, she should go somewhere where he can
never see her. As Kotoko is stunned and hurt, Papa
clears his throat and tells them that they should
wait until they are married before doing this. Papa
has misunderstood as Kotoko is only wrapped in her
towel.
In
training, Reiko asks Kotoko about her and Sudou. As
it turns out, everyone thought that Kotoko and Sudou
are an item. Kotoko is annoyed by the rumours.
Sudou
challenges Naoki again. During the match where Sudou
is losing, Reiko is cheering for Naoki. Kotoko tells
Reiko that she should cheer for Sudou instead. Reiko
instead of doing that, shouts out to Sudou that
Kotoko wants Sudou to do his best. Naoki, hearing
this, looks angry. He then plays harder, bruising
Sudou. Kotoko tries to help Sudou up but everyone
misinterpret her concern for love. They started
teasing them. They tried to explain to no avail. As
Naoki is leaving, he asks Reiko out. Kotoko and Sudou
are shocked and starts blaming each other for this
turn in event.
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Kotoko
and Sudou tails Naoki and Reiko on their date.
Kinnosuke who heard about Kotoko's and Sudou's "date
are trying to follow them. He only knows that Sudou
and Kotoko will be watching a movie.
Kotoko
and Sudou purposely sits behind Reiko and Naoki in
the cinema. Each time, Reiko tries to make a move on
Naoki, they distrupt her. As Reiko decides to
confront the people sitting behind them, Naoki tells
her to forget it. Kinnosuke ended up in an X-Rated
movie.
Next,
Naoki and Reiko goes to to a cafe. There, she asks
Naoki what type of girl he likes, he tells her that
he wants the girl to be pretty, has a good figure,
smart and knows how to cook. Sudou who is hiding
behind one of the plants with Kotoko tells Kotoko
that Kotoko has no hope in retaliation for telling
him that he has no hope just now when Reiko tells
Naoki what type of guys she likes.
Next,
they went shopping. Kotoko ended up buying a shirt
for Naoki. Kotoko decides to stop following them
around when she sees Naoki putting his arm around
Reiko. Although he does that to save Reiko from a
truck. Sudou scolds Kotoko who decides to leave. But
as she turns to do so, she bumps into a mean, huge
man. She causes him to spill his drink on his shirt.
he then tries to make Kotoko pay for the damage. When
all hope seems lost, Naoki comes back and rescues
Kotoko. He gives Sudou a tennis racket and tells
Sudou to take care of Reiko. Sudou then realises that
Naoki knows about his feelings for Reiko. Reiko is
unhappy when Naoki leaves with Kotoko.
As Kotoko
wants to apologise to Naoki, he tells her that he
knows that Kotoko has been following him around. He
also tells Kotoko that he thought that Kotoko and
Sudou are an item. She apologises. Naoki then asks
her to walk with him (ie as in dating that type of
walk....but in this case, I guess it's not a date.....).
Kinnosuke
and his friends bumps into the guy whom Kotoko bumped
into just now. Only this time, he has a tennis racket
mark on his face. Kinnosuke gets beaten up by this
guy.
Meanwhile,
Naoki and Kotoko goes to a park. There, they decides
to rent a boat. As they went boating Naoki tells
Kotoko that couples who goes boating in this park,
usually break up. Kotoko tells Naoki that they should
go up now but Naoki keeps teasing her. Kotoko got
angry and stands up. The boat capsized because of
this.
On dry
land, Kotoko apologises to Naoki and gives him the
shirt that she bought for him. Kotoko has forgotten
to take the price tag off. Naoki tells Kotoko to wear
it. When Kotoko asks him is it because he doesn't
like it, he tells her to wear it for now and give it
to him later at home. As Kotoko comes back from
changing Naoki is gone. As it turns out, he went to
get something to eat. They started talking while they
eat. Kotoko then hugs Naoki and tells him that she
likes him etc. Naoki then tells Kotoko to show how
much he likes her by doing well for the upcoming test.
Meanwhile,
Sudou and Reiko are eating together although Reiko is
not happy about it, Kinnosuke is injured and calling
Kotoko's name.
As Naoki
and Kotoko goes home, Kotoko asks Naoki how much
should she aim for. She asks if 60% is alright and he
asks her if that's how much she likes him, she tries
70%, Naoki tells her he expects 90%.
-Jennifer
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