Chapter 15: Singer on The Street
After resting in the cafe, they continued their date, no, an outing to the zoo.
Sora wanted to play with baby animals and saw various animals in that place.
Walking together, they were talking about Haru's plan to make a cafe.
"What kind of cafe do you want to make?" Sora asked.
"Maid cafe."
Haru answered without hesitation and his face was serious. He realized that he needed to make his own maid cafe after coming with Utaha yesterday.
"Maid cafe?"
His answer made her confused since Sora hadn't come to maid cafe in the past.
"It's a very good cafe. You don't need to worry," Haru said.
Sora only nodded and didn't ask much, but she felt that his explanation was a bit strange. She didn't know that it was, but she needed to browse about "maid cafes" later after they had gone back.
Arriving at the zoo, Sora proposed to buy the ticket for a lover since it was cheaper.
Haru didn't really care too much. He had money, but it didn't mean that he would splurge it since no one knew what would happen in the future. But for sure, he planned to make his own business rather than work under someone. He thought for a while and wondered whether he should ask Tsunade to send him "Icha Icha" from her world and published it in his own world later. He had never seen "Icha Icha", but he knew that it was a popular erotic book in Naruto's world.
Entering the zoo, Sora became excited.
"Haru! Haru! Let's go to that place!"
Holding his hand, Sora wanted to bring him to watch a penguin.
"Alright, you don't need to run since the penguin won't run away."
Haru smiled looking at Sora, but when he looked at the penguin he felt quite weird since it made him with something somehow.
They continued to walk around the zoo and found a gorilla. The strange thing about this gorilla was that it resembled a human since it was eating a banana while watching television.
Haru took his smartphone and took a picture of that gorilla. He thought that it would be a great photo for Gintoki since there were a lot of gorillas in Gintoki's world.
"The gorilla is a bit similar to you when you are eating a snack in the living room," Haru said with a smile.
Puffing her cheek, Sora hit his chest and said, "Don't say something nonsense!" She walked away from him and her step was very loud as if telling how angry she was.
"I was joking. Don't get too angry."
Haru followed her and said, "How about we go to the baby animal area?"
"Baby animal?"
Sora thought about how cute the baby was and agreed to visit that area.
Holding Sora's hand, Haru said, "Let's go there."
Sora nodded with a smile and moved closer to him while telling him not to tease her again.
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Haru didn't think the combination between a little animal and his little sister would be this dangerous. He took his smartphone and took a picture of Sora who played with a baby animal since he would regret it if he didn't take her photo.
Haru thought that he might need to build cloud computing so he could save more photos of Sora in the future since the memory of his smartphone was too small.
Being licked by a baby rabbit, Sora laughed and said, "Haru, come here! They're very cute."
"............"
'Uwaaaa!!!!'
Haru felt that his chest tightened seeing such a cute scene in front of him. He calmed himself and nodded.
"Alright."
Haru walked beside her and also played together with Sora with those baby animals. However, he stopped some of them from licking Sora's face since it would get her dirty.
Though, Sora tried to stop him since she thought those animals were very cute.
"..............."
Haru sighed and thought that it would be wonderful if he had more memory on his smartphone.
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After playing with the baby animals, they went to the souvenir store to buy something.
Sora looked around and found a rabbit cap. She put it on her head and asked, "How is it?"
"Cute."
Sora smiled and looked around before finding something perfect for him.
"Haru, try to wear this!"
Twitching his lips, Haru asked, "What is this?"
"It's a Wolf Cap. How is it? It's suitable for you, right?" Sora asked with smile since Haru was a wolf who loved to eat cute girls. "Come closer. I'll put it on you."
Haru sighed and let Sora put the hat on his head.
Sora took her smartphone and told him to get closer since she wanted to take a selfie. Looking at the result of the photo, she thought to use it as her phone profile later.
Haru was also quite curious about this souvenir place and found a wooden sword. He picked it up and swung it for a while. He felt this wooden sword was quite good.
Sora came behind him and asked, "Do you want to buy that?"
"Yeah."
Sora thought that it was for Haru's novel or something and she didn't think too much.
They bought the souvenirs and walked around the zoo again until they felt satisfied. When it was almost evening, they decided to go back and bought a cake along the way. Walking together while holding hands, they heard a song. They looked around and found someone singing on the side of the street.
"Sora, let's go there."
"Hmm."
Sora was also curious about the song of this street singer.
Then they saw a girl with chin-length pink-red hair with two locks of hair longer than the rest, extending to her back. She was singing there alone without anyone listening until they came to hear her.
"You may be crying, you may be lonely,"
"But that's perfect, that's what human beings are,"
"The tears you shed say,"
"Thank you for giving life to us--beautiful, honest, and real."
The street singer kept singing and both of them listened to the song quietly. They closed their eyes enjoying this song since they could somehow relate to her song.
"Haru..."
Sora held his hand tightly and didn't want to lose him.
"Hmm."
Haru nodded and caressed her head for a while.
"Thank you to the miracle that we were able to meet in a dirty and ugly world, even like this."
The street singer closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She opened her eyes and saw two people in front of her.
*Clap!* *Clap!* *Clap!*
Sora and Haru clapped their hands together listening to her.
"T, thank you."
The street singer was a bit embarrassed but she was happy that someone enjoyed her song.
Haru looked at the cake in his hand and gave it to the street singer.
"This is not much, but we really enjoyed your music today."
"T, this..."
The street singer was a bit flustered when she received a box of cake from Haru.
Sora nodded and said, "Please take it." She really felt that the song of this street singer was beautiful.
"T, thank you."
The street singer decided to accept the cake.
"I hope that you can become a professional singer in the future. Both of us are your first fans," Haru said.
The girl blushed and nodded.
"Thank you."
"Then until next time. I hope I can hear more great songs in the future," Haru said and waved his hand.
"Bye."
Sora also waved her hand.
Haru and Sora walked back to their home while thinking of buying another cake along the way later.
The girl looked at the back of both of them and the box of cake in her hands. Before she decided to pack up to go home since it was quite late.