#NOT CELEBRATE **YUUYA'S** BIRTHDAY OF ALL THINGS

[quailclaws]

happy belated birthday to my husband <3

[naradivision]

The day was slowly winding down, turning daytime into night. Just a few more hours more and it would mark the end of Yuuya's birthday. Suddenly she heard a knock on the door. Ceasing what he was doing for the moment, he opened the door to find a large package outside the door. Blinking, the former high school student picked it up and groaned as he had underestimated its weight.

Lugging the large package, whatever it was, inside the house and to his bedroom, he sighed as he finally dropped the thing on the ground. Opening it up, the part-time worker looked at what was inside, his eyes growing wide.

It was an electric guitar, at least to the untrained eye. But if you knew music like Yuuya, you'd know this was a Platinum ESP FRX CTM FR Electric Guitar, worth over $35 grand. You'd have to save up big time in order to even acquire one of these. And now... Yuuya, the boy fresh out of high school was now in possession of one.

As he held it in his hands, his eyes sparkled and he couldn't help but give it a few strokes. Even just random notes on this thing sounded spectacular. He was almost hesitant to hold it because he was afraid it might disappear. As he did hold onto it, a thought came to his head: who left this for him?

As if to answer his question, a note was plastered on the back of the package, which read:

'What up, birthday boy?! Heard it was your birthday today, so I decided to thank you for sending me those purses and sunglasses last year for my birthday. So I went out and bought you this electric guitar! I heard you were a music fan and loved music, so what better way to celebrate than sending you a fuckin' electric guitar, you know? So have fun with that thing, kid! And don't worry if you get cracked or something, it's insured! So go fuckin' nuts! And happy birthday again!

Sincerely,

Meari "Bloody Mary" Miracle'

“Huh? —Eh??! Really?! What’s happening? Is this really from ‘Bloody Mary’ ???”

The birthday boy’s brain had just stopped functioning for a moment as there was nothing but a surprised noise fumbling from his mouth when he discovered what was hidden in a mysterious package he accidentally found at his doorstep. “The lead singer of famous 86 herself was the one sending this to me?!”

Who would have known that one day he was going to get a hand on this very exclusive brand-new electric guitar this soon… And even far beyond his imagination, it was from one of the artists he (and his clubmates) held in great admiration! He would have never expected her to recognize him from all a massive number of her fans though.

“What’s the matter, human!? Hey, be careful!! You almost dropped your phone!” Shrieked ANGE who was currently displaying on his phone’s screen until she caught a glimpse of something shining in his hands. “Wait— Have you got a new gift?! Lemme see! Lemme see!”

Perhaps her enthusiastic voice snapped him back from being stunned with surprise, even Ojou-chan who was lying with her eyes closed was perking up her ears and jumped down her beloved cat tree to check on him.

Yuuya cleared his throat a bit in embarrassment before adjusting his phone’s position for his cybernetic roommate to get a better view.

“Ahem, well, you see… The note said that it’s Miracle-san from Minato Division who had given me this wonderful present. Now it looks like I don’t have to worry about borrowing the old buds from my club room anymore.”

Yuuya gave his brand-new guitar few testing strokes and let its vibrant sound echoed in his room. Maybe he would get this cool lad some tune up by tomorrow since today was already getting late at night. By the way, he just couldn’t wait to find out what part he could add it in his current work-in-process!

The electric guitar was one of the instruments that gained its exclusivity at his club. Since the good instruments were quite hard to afford by students, especially by those who had to work hard in order to support their own lives such as him, originally he and others in the club had to play with a single handed-down one in their club room —And yeah, to gain its accessibility became a bit difficult as he had already graduated from school.

He also didn’t have one at home before he was gifted by Maeri. The only guitar he owned was the acoustic one his father used when he was just a beginner. In truth, he thought he had seen a lot more fantastic instruments back when he took him to visit his workplace. But, as heart-wrenching as it was, there were no more of those days since everything was now gone like a whisk of smoke…

One memory of 16 candles shining brightly on a pound dessert was still haunting him at every beginning of summer.

With a vacant chair on the opposite side of his seat, no matter how long the day was or just or how short the night of that year had become, a part of him still kept wondering…

…If only that time he wouldn’t be greedy, if only that time he wouldn’t be too ambitious asking his dad for too much, or if somehow he could make a flawless work, he wondered if anything would have changed way back then.

The sun had long disappeared with a scent of aromatic incense diluting in the air.

—Thanks for the gifts! And sorry for my very late reply!

[saitama-division]

Going for a brief check-up at her front doors after hearing her vibrant doorbell ringing one time in the morning, the famous celebrity of Saitama knew that there might be somebody stopping by at her place again since she found a beautifully-wrapped present placed in front of her doorstep. Without the presence of its sender together with her sharp sense of skepticism, whether this mysterious package is served to bring her blessings or malicious intents, she’s going to find it out soon.

However, greeted by an envelope with the momiji seal written “Happy Birthday Lola Takahashi” in such an adultlike fashion, there she instead starts to feel more curious about it —That’s because her special event has already passed on by a couple of days. Gracefully drawing her pocket knife from nowhere, the model then uses it to opens the wax seal and starts reading the contents inside;

“To Takahashi-san and greetings ‘Femme Fatale’

Hello and apologizing for the late delivery, the one who’s writing this is a certain Nara boy from Nara Division. Apparently, there was some ‘stuff’ happened in my hometown on the day that we’re supposed to relay our birthday presents, so we unfortunately can’t afford to deliver our presents to you in time.

Even so, since this is your special occasion, we still want to get you some presents. They may not be pricey but I hope you will enjoy them.”

After unwrapping her present, she found the two boxes. The first one on top seems to emit some sweet scent, so the model decides to look into it first.

“These confectionaries are from Hi-chan! They might look like some expensive jewelries at your first glance, but in fact; these crystals are edible, fruity, and simply made from sugar and agar-agar jelly named Kohakutō. With their mischievous but beautiful looks, they’re undoubtedly very popular at his family’s store. I even believe that I may or may not see somebody from another division regularly coming here to buy this treat from his shop.”

And the other box has some rattling sound contained inside as she lifts it up. Opening the lid up, something sparkly is exposed to her sight.

“These beautiful earrings are from my classmates and my acquaintances! Many people I know out there (and even the classmates in my class) happen to be your fan, hence I’ve always been nagged to relay their presents to you ever since they know our team intends to gift you something on your birthday. Fortunately, their choices of gifts aren’t anything perverted and are actually the decent ones. They choose these butterfly patterns because they think they would suit your and I shall admit that I do think the same as well.

By the way, since almost every gift in this box isn’t technically picked by me, so… I’ve added my own pick as well. They’re the Cat Cafe tickets I got from the onee-san at my nearby pet shop. She gave me these tickets because her sister had just opened the small cat cafe in Saitama. And I did catch wind that you’re good with animals; therefore, I think this might bring a good breather to your busy days and to enjoy some peace of mind with your friends and family.

Last but not least; Happy Birthday and have a nice year onwards Takahashi-san!

Sincerely,

Yuuya Kanata”

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Somehow somewhere in Nara...

“Isn’t the traffic in Saitama is quite packed today? I don’t even expect you to return this early, Chishio-san.”

“Well, we still have a little ‘business’ left here to finish after all.”

“Ew. That disturbing smile again. Just don’t overdo it, okay? We won’t gain anything from this if you just scare the shit out of ‘them’.”

“Hmm. Young master has entrusted me with this sort of things so I consider myself somewhat trustworthy to this task. Besides, betraying his expectations is out of my policy. So, please be assured, I’ll get every last drop of what we need from them.”

“Geez, I do understand your and that old man’s point, but still; can’t you just see that these poor guys have already been through a lot with our battle and Momose-san’s method? *sigh* Good gracious, Hi-chan doesn’t know anything about this...”

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[ Mod’s notes: AHHHHHH saitama division, sorry for being late T▴T ]

"Awwww these are so cute!" Lola gushed as she held up the earrings, admiring how they glimmered and sparkled in the light. She placed them down and picked up the crystal like candy before popping it in her mouth, humming in approval at the taste.

After putting the sweets away, Lola took hold of the earrings again and started to walk towards her walk in closet.

"Oh, I just know the perfect outfit that will pair well with these beauties~!"

Thank you for the gift!

(I am so sorry, this was so late but hey, at least you don't have to send in another one-)

[setagaya-division]

Once the assumed birthday of the self-proclaimed ‘Big Sister’ of ENIGMA has finally come to the city of Setagaya, one cherry blossom petal was falling through the window’s gap and laying itself not far away from the birthday girl —which could be called rather strange considering the season was gradually turning into summer and normally cherry blossoms didn’t last until this late in May.

Yet strangely enough, this year seemed to be something else since she swore she could still see some trees blooming around her school as if it was celebrating for something…

No one no how this was happening but she then recalled Elliot has ever rambled about something like ‘Climate Change’ or other sorts related to this once ...Maybe there were too many surprising things beyond our realm of understanding in this vast world after all…

Yeah, something just like herself —Something that ought not to have an answer.

However, Mina’s trains of thought suddenly stopped when she heard Elliot telling her that there was a parcel for her delivering at their doorstep.

As curious as she didn’t get many deliveries directly addressing the receiver to be her, Mina rushed in to take some look before finding out that it was indeed her own birthday present from a certain division in Kansai;

Firstly, she was greeted by a pink tube of sakura sunscreen from the babyface wagashi maker in Nara!

“Happy Birthday Nakayama-san☆ Apparently, it kinda sucks to hear that you are suffering from many food allergies and your weakness to sunlight of sorts. Therefore, go-go fighting! I hope you enjoy the last of this spring and get over your disease soon~ (・ω<)

—SWEET-T”

And the next was coming with a letter… Wait, were there two gifts and also both of them seemed to be crafted by hands!?

“Hello and sorry to disturb you on your peaceful weekend, President Nakayama-san!

First of all, I’d like to say that I and my friends are very grateful for your approval on the proposal we submitted to the student council not long ago (Great thing that the approval was launching out just before the summer break!). Even if this new found committee of ours is just for temporary, we the ██████████ Committee promise you to carry out this event the best as we can!

By the way, the sakura badge sent to you is a sample of souvenirs we specially prepared for distributing in this event —What do you think about it?

And lastly, could we ask you to please keep this a secret from other students, especially from my classmates? Thanks you a lot!

P.S. The flowery papercut in the frame is a gift made by other committee members since they would like to express their gratitude as well

—Happy Birthday Nakayama-san!

ARROW Yuuya Kanata

(Representative chairman of ██████████ Committee)”

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Mod: Miraitabi’s Spring Mixtape coming soon!

"Ugh, that baby-faced wagashi-maker sent this, didn't he?" Yorii asked, frowning at the tube of sunscreen lotion. "I can literally smell the pastry coming from that bottle."

"I really don't see what your issue with Asahi-san is, Yorii." Elliot stated, looking for a good place to hang the Sakura maker that Yuuya-kun had gifted his older sister. "I mean, didn't you two do a duet for last year's Collab Project?"

"Ignore him, Elliot," Mina stated, rolling her eyes at her youngest brother's complaint as she sat on her bed in her room, the sunscreen lotion still in her hands. "He's just envious of Asahi-san, is all. Its no secret that Yorii dislikes anyone that he deems "cuter than him"."

"What?!" Yorii shouted. "Don't make me laugh! What could I possibly be jealous about from that loser anyway?"

"Well, it just seems that whenever he or someone else that girls think is cute is suddenly brought up in a conversation, you suddenly become all defensive." Mina answered, a bored look on her face.

"What?! I do not!"

"Really?" Mina asked, before holding up her fingers. "Asahi from Nara, Shuu from Suginami, that American ambassador guy from Okinawa, Ren and Kaiji both from Kobe, that crazy daredevil kid that lives in Roppongi, that foreign police guy from Kanazawa, that detective guy from Niigata... do you need me to go on?"

"I do not get jealo..."

"And plus, aren't all those guys that you may or may not have issues or problems with, for some reason?" Elliot asked, chiming in.

"I, that's not, I don't..." Yorii stammered.

"Yes?" Mina asked, still a bored look on her face.

"Gah, you both suck!!"

With that, Yorii quickly exited, leaving his older siblings behind who stared at the doorway.

"What's with him?"

"He couldn't handle the truth, is all."

[taito-division]

Among the mountain of presents delivered to her birthday, somehow a certain simple but peculiar package wrapping in the neat piece of cloth has caught her eye.

With a letter attached between the folds of cloth, the renowned MMA fighter and descendant of Viking warriors picks it up and give it some read;

“Hello Iwasaki-san and greetings Taito Division. This letter is from Nara Division and recently this season has become my turn to deliver our birthday blessings on account of the rest of my team www. 

Unfortunately, I still have classes and a work shift today so I can’t deliver them in person, but if you’re reading this, then I guess our presents are safely sent to your home. Now, let me introduce what we’ve chosen as your birthday gifts.

I’ll go with Hi-chan’s first!

He made you the Hourai manju. If I remember correctly, they’re believed to bring happiness and are quite the good picks for the celebration …and also the wedding —That may be why he wants to send both of you some little gifts since we’re a bit late in knowing your good news with Kirumi-san (Well, congratulations again to your wedding!). Maybe we should enjoy life like enjoy these manju; looking plain from the outside, some of us may never expect to find a lot of small colorful manju packed inside unless you want to savor them. 

And next one is Saigo-san’s Narazake. 

Well, it would be a lie if I say I’m not biased to anything related to my hometown (I also don’t know much about liquor btw). Still, I want to insist that the sake from our hometown is the top-graded one! Granted that they are chosen by that picky old man of all people.

And we’ve come to the last;

Japan’s summer has always felt a bit overbearing as of late. Also, at this time around, heat stroke has become rather popular in not a good way. So, it makes me think maybe I should send something that can help beat these crazy heatwaves… 

Hanging around your neck, it’s a portable neck fan; light, rechargeable, and doesn’t contain any blades inside! It has no need to be worried of getting your hairs caught up in the device as well.

Lastly; Happy Birthday, Stay hydrated, and please don’t do too much work-out during the death heat of the day.

—Hope you and your team have a great (and safe) summer

Yuuya Kanata”

Looking at the box wrapped in the red cloth, the MMA fighter cocked an eyebrow as she held the box in one hand and read the letter attached to it in the other. Blinking with her one good eye, she shrugged as she opened the package and looked at the manjū. Biting into one of them, her mouth experienced many different flavors, some good and some... out there. It wasn't bad, but she didn't know if she could eat these things on a daily basis. Shrugging, Eldrid finished it off and left the remaining one for her wife, Kirumi when she returned home.

Looking at the next gift, Eldrid smiled at the sake bottles. Ever since she had married Kirumi, she tried to control her drinking to only three or four times a week. She would just count this as one of those days.

"I'll save you three for later tonight," Eldrid said, putting the bottles in her fridge.

Looking at the other gift, Eldrid's eyes grew as looked at the neck fan. She had been wanting to buy one of these for the longest ever since Summer started but had never found time or had been putting it off. Placing the device around her neck, she turned it on and felt a blast of cold air hit her, making her smile.

"Better break this thing in now while I can." She said as she headed to her room, coming out three minutes later in her jogging outfit. "Yuma, I'm going for a run. Call me if you need something."

With that, the MMA fighter opened the door and started off down the street until she was out of sight. Today was shaping up to be a good birthday.

Thanks for the gift!

[rotten-velvet]

Going back to Australia tonight.

My stay in Malaysia was a blessing. I got to do a lot of things.

I even organised a RL meetup for my Discord server and it went well.

Attended a con, went to an anime themed cafe and went to an escape room with best friends.

And I celebrated Yuuya's birthday at a cafe.

All of them were amazing and I'm going to miss Malaysia. ;;;w;;;;

I'll be back next year, hopefully.

[uselesslilium]

Jubilant for the poly ship meme!

Finally done! Sorry about the wait, Anon, hope you enjoy it anyway.

Also, turned out long enough to go under a cut:

1. A large spider has gotten into the house/apartment. How does each person react?

None of them mind spiders at all (Yuuya and Sora especially think they’re cute), but they do probably try to get it out of the house quickly before one of their other pets notice and try to eat it.

2. What are their sleeping arrangements? Do they get multiple mattresses, several rooms? Line a floor with mattresses and then make the entire room a bed? Who are the blanket hoggers? The ones who flail?

Before they move in together, they had a bunch of sleepovers where they all just grabbed a blanket and pillows and slept together on the floor (despite Sora and Yuuya having their own rooms in the Sakaki household). After they got their own place, they made sure to get a bed big enough for three. Yuzu is a terrible blanket hog who refuses to believe this when people point it out to her. Sora sleeps the least and a lot of times he’ll still be wide awake after Yuzu and Yuuya are out for the night, but he likes being in bed with them anyway so he stays there.

3. How do they celebrate the holidays? What are the favorite holidays in the household for each person? Are there ever any disagreements about which holiday is the best? Do any of them go all out with decorations and participation in events? Does anyone ever suffer in silent agony that they’re being forced into holiday sweaters or fed too many holiday foods, but out of love they keep their mouth shut?

Sora likes Halloween and Valentine’s best. Yuuya loves Christmas, with all the lights and colorful decorations and music. They have disagreements on when it’s time to take down the Halloween decorations in favor of Christmas every single year and Yuzu has to mediate. Yuzu likes celebrating birthdays more than holidays - she prefers focusing on the people rather than the event, and always puts a lot of thought into how to make each year special.

4. How do they all keep house? Do they assign chores, and if so, does anyone ever slack? Does anyone ever say, “let’s clean” and (most?) everyone suddenly hops off the furniture and pitches in?

Yuuya and Yuzu aren’t super diligent about chores and cleaning, so they don’t really notice the kind of clutter they leave around. Sora, having grown up in essentially a military barrack, does notice and tidies compulsively without really thinking about it. Every now and then Yuuya and Yuzu notice he’s doing this and really make an effort to pitch in and clean the whole house up together, but inevitably they lose track and the cycle repeats.

5. Something contagious is going around! How will each of them handle being sick? Who are the ones who insist on working even when they’re not well? Who are the ones who stay away when they’re healthy? The ones who play nurse?

Yuuya tries to work through his illness and usually winds up making it worse and forcing him into bed rest. Yuzu gets all frustrated and scolds him when this happens, but then she does the exact same thing when she inevitably gets sick from him. Sora doesn’t hide when he gets sick, exactly, but he does get kind of. anxious and almost guilty about having to stay in bed, and needs extra reassurance that no one minds taking care of him. They all get sick right around each other too, because they are just too used to being cuddly and can’t avoid it.

6. The mess that is deciding where to eat out and what to order.

After many years of conflict as teens, they finally settle into a schedule of taking turns picking where they eat out. Priority can be shifted depending on what kind of specials are happening at someone else’s choice.

7. One or more of them comes across a stray animal. How do the family members each react? Who tries to find the previous owner? Does anyone want the others to mind their own business? Do they end up keeping it?

They keep every single stray animal they ever find. It’s a habit Yuuya picked up from his mom, and neither Yuzu nor Sora see any reason to try and restrain it (though Yuzu probably does at least go through the motions of putting up fliers to find the possible original owner). Their house is basically crawling with dogs and cats and a couple of reptiles, and they love all of them.

8. They take a trip to the zoo. What is each person’s favorite animal, and who gets excited about seeing theirs? Who downplays it? Who is willing to wait while the other drags everyone off to their favorite animals, and who tries to tell everyone they’re going to stick to the set path from beginning to end, and everyone will get to see their favorites soon so calm down?

Sora is ecstatic about zoos, he loves every animal and wants to look at all of them. Twice, if possible. Yuzu similarly wants to look at every animal, but she sometimes gets caught up in watching especially cute ones and has to be dragged away. Yuuya likes looking at the birds the most, so he spends some extra time with them and tries to catch up later on. They help give him costume ideas for performances sometimes.

9. Describe everyone going on a camping trip. Who enjoys it? Which one(s) set up the tent? Who would get lost in the woods but is only a few feet away from a gas station?

Sora’s definitely most used to roughing it and knows what he’s doing. Yuuya and Yuzu are athletic and enjoy hiking, but they don’t do very much camping and rely on him to show them what to do. They all wind up really enjoying it, though, and Sora has fun getting to play teacher.

10. Who tells the ghost stories or watches the ghost stories, and who are the ones who need a cuddle sandwich to get through the night every time they encounter anything the least bit spooky?

These three have ghost story telling competitions among themselves. They use special effects and everything. Yuuya and Yuzu scare more easily than Sora, but they just take that as a challenge.

11. Who steals everyone else’s clothing? Who can’t tell their own clothing from other people’s anymore?

Sora started it by playfully stealing Yuuya’s jacket a couple of times, so Yuuya tried to get him back by stealing his. Sora then went ‘okay fine, I’ll just wear Yuzu’s stuff instead’, so she started borrowing Yuuya’s jacket when she couldn’t find her own, and things have continued to spiral ever since. They can always tell who’s is what because Sora’s a size smaller than either of them, but as long as they’re either around the house or going out somewhere casual, it doesn’t really make a difference.

Stage costumes, however, are another story, and they are all very particular and strict about only wearing their own.

12. One of them starts singing. Who joins in? Who absolutely refuses to join in? If any of them can’t sing, does everyone roll with it, or do they stop and beg that person to stop as well?

Listen. All three of these kids would live in a musical if they could. They’ve got entire shows memorized, and if one of them starts, there’s a 90% chance they’ll all keep going until the end and sing every part if no one stops them.

13. Who is the warmest to cuddle with? Who is always cold? Who wants the heater up, who wants the heater down, who wants to save money but is cold as fuck and piles under layers of clothing and blankets in the house? Who dies in summer? Who wants to turn up the AC and wait out until winter?

Sora isn’t always cold, but he always wants to cuddle, no matter what the temperature is like. Even if this means laying on top of someone in the middle of summer. He can’t be stopped. Yuuya’s a little more tolerant of temperature (hot or cold), but heat really gets to Yuzu and it’s a testament of her love that she doesn’t shove Sora off immediately when he gets like that. She does, however, insist on sitting in front of the AC if he’s gonna cling to her.

14. When grocery shopping, who budgets and makes lists? Who happily throws things into the cart and figures it’ll work out? Who estimates their general spending as they pick up items, but they throw in a couple of splurges? Who oversees that the splurges don’t go too far and tells the other(s) to put some or all of the items back on the shelf?

Sora has no impulse control and cannot be allowed to grocery shop by himself. HE TRIES, he really does, but he needs someone around to rein him in or he winds up coming home with three cakes and half a dozen boxes of cookies. Yuzu and Yuuya usually work together to come up with the official list, and Sora gets to pick out a couple of things while they’re going to the store to throw in the cart.

15. Something broke down! Are any of them handy around the house with fixing things? Who thinks they can do it on their own and what level of success do they have? Who breaks down and calls a professional out?

They probably all have a little experience with small repairs by the time they’re living together, but Yuzu and Sora both tend to vastly overestimate how much they know how to do and balk at the idea of having to call a professional until something starts smoking. Maybe not even then if they’re really invested in the idea of being right.

[naradivision]

Mod’s notes:

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the late reply and thanks to @kunnaki for asking the rap themes of my characters, here I’ve updated each of them in their profiles (Yuuya | Asahi | Saigo)

Though I do have the idea about this ever since I’ve created my OCs, somehow I has left this topic uncompleted for such a long time because I’m not so confident in translating my own thought into words and my basic knowledge on music is kinda limited 😅

And one more thing, due to some circumstances on my side in December, I think I have to skip the birthday event of Saigo-san for this year. Hopefully, I wish I could celebrate all three of them in 2024!

If I’m lucky enough, see you guys later around Christmas

[setagaya-division]

The sun was so close to leaving the big blue sky over the city of Setagaya when a certain red-haired boy from Nara residence has arrived at the birthday owner’s place —The famous Yorii or ‘Sireen’ who has just entered the industry by the incredible young age and instantly made it big due to his rumored supreme angelic voice only within a couple of years.

Though he used to collaborate with this very celebrity before due to the shuffle collaboration some times ago, he couldn’t imagine himself rising to stardom this quick. It seems like there was some big gap between him and all those talents who already had one (or both) of their feet in the industry after all…

But, weirdly enough, despite Yorii’s poppularity with many —Why does the new friend and fellow music lover of his seem to despise him to some extent? This isn’t the first time she is acting like this though. There were Narizuka-san and that DJ ‘Wolf of Shadows’ as well, but honestly why? They were good musicians and weren’t horrible people, he believed?

Yuuya shaked his head a little as he was trying to get rid of his petty thoughts.

—Nah, nah, he shouldn’t think about it. It was kind of rude to think of such things as today was one of those people’s birthday. Let’s just have that new friend of his calm down a little during his leave. He was here today to bring the singer some birthday gifts from his division.

However, it seems like the birthday’s owner and his siblings weren’t at home at the moment, maybe they were going to celebrate somewhere. So, what he could do was only to drop the gifts there.

One was from him, the phone charger, and the other was a box full of fancy chocolates from Asahi. And even if he knew that his wagashi maker buddy felt like the singer was having some attitude against him, he still tried to make himself a better impression somehow, Yuuya admitted he gotta praise his friend for this.

—Back to the car somewhere outside the complex

Returning back to Chishio-san who drove him here in the first place, the red-haired boy suddenly paused when he noticed something unusual…

Aside from the familiar attendant of Saigo-san in the driver seat, smiling sweetly next to what should be his own spot was an unknown someone with a shady look and even more suspicious sunglasses. And even with those numerous friends he has swore to know across Japan, he was certain that he has never know this dude(?) before.

Thus, as the response, he could only blink.

“Geez, Chishio-san.”

The old chaperone he called wasn’t helping anything but returned him a mischievous smirk.

“Wouldn’t it be more polite if you considered giving me some head-up that I’m going to get kidnapped today?”

…Now he didn’t know whether it was good or bad choice he made to leave his phone and ANGE at home

"Ohh, now these look interesting." Yorii said, as he looked at the chocolates left for him. Upon returning home with his siblings from a small dinner party, the idol looked as there were some gifts for him outside. The phone charger was good enough, but the chocolates were what really made this gift shine. Biting into one, the idol's eyes sparkled. Looking at his siblings, he held up the plate.

"You guys want some?" he asked, offering.

"No thanks, Yorii." Elliot answered, shaking his head. "I try not to eat too many sweets in one day."

"Mina?"

"You know I can't eat anything that's not a liquid, Yorii." Mina answered, scowling at him.

"More for me then!" He exclaimed, tossing a chocolate in the air and catching it in his mouth. His siblings sighed as they watched their younger brother's antics, figuring this wasn't out of character for the young boy. Besides, it was his birthday, after all.