Requested by Mikampret
Republishing this part, since I editted some~
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"Then, let's make this one, (F/N). A pendant charm just for the two of us. A promise between us, that I will marry you ."

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He opened his eyes, awaken by the noisy alarm clock and a call from his phone.

He lazily got his phone, and answered with his morning husky voice

"Ume-chan, you totally forgot our meet time today, don't you?" There was a minute of silence as he tried to remember the voice who he was talking to "it's me, Hanae Natsuki! We are here in Egu's place!"

"Ah!" He hastily stood up and noticed the time, finally remembering his itinerary for the day "wait, I'll be there immediately!"

"It's okay, Ume-chan!" He heard Saito Souma's voice "Egu is still sleeping. He is not yet opening the door"

He laughed from what he heard and again told them that he would just prepare himself first

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After an hour, Umehara finished preparing himself and was about to leave when he noticed something above his center table.

"Why is it here?" He asked getting a pendant that has a shell on it, embedded with his initials. He smiled to himself and put it on then left. "Oh yeah, I asked Aneki to bring it here last time."

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"You two really are so slow" Hanae chuckled as Umehara sat down inside Eguchi Takuya's place. He found out that Eguchi opened the door 30 minutes after Hanae called Umehara.

"Ahre? Ume-chan, what's up with the pendant? First time seeing it" Saito asked since it was out of his fashion and they could see that it was made by an amateur

"Ah this? When my sister visited me last week, she gave this to me. I asked her to bring it since she visited our house in Shizuoka. I made this with a friend when we were young. Then we both asked our sisters to help us put our initials here." He explained while his face turning red and that was caught by the two of them

"Hmmmmm... is it a girl?" Hanae teasingly asked

"Eh? How did you know?"

"Your face is so red" the two of them responded at the same time "so obviously, it's a girl"

"Eh whose girlfriend?" Eguchi asked as he entered on his living room where the other three were

"Ume-chan's" Saito pointed him out

"She is not! She is a childhood friend. I haven't seen her for more than 10 years now" he frantically responded "besides I couldn't think of her as my girlfriend, b-because if she is, t-then we'll do this and that" he added, making Hanae and Saito laughed

"What are you saying? We didn't say anything about doing this and that" Hanae patted his back

Umehara felt embarrassed and just shut his mouth, not letting them know that he promised that friend of his that he would marry her.

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The four of them head out as they planned to go to their schedule together. They would be having a photoshoot for an anime magazine featuring the anime idol group SolidS.

They wore hat and masks, as they commuted towards the venue for the photoshoot.

As they were walking along with the wave of people on a busy street in Tokyo, Umehara halted as he turned around

"What's wrong Ume-chan?" Egu confusedly asked

"Nothing, I thought someone called my name."

"Huh? Probably you misheard it?"

"Probably"

However, Umehara was really caught by it since he heard that it was a female voice, and he wasn't called by Umehara, but a certain nickname that only one person called him with that.

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The four of them arrived on the venue, and they were greeted by the one of the staffs. They were asked to change and their stylists were already there, and even their make-up artists were on the way. The camera director was still on the other venue, finishing his work

They wore the same clothes with their anime counterpart, and the female staffs that were already there were all giggling.

"Your make-up artists arrived" one staff informed them.

Umehara put down the neck tie he would be wearing later, still thinking of that voice calling him. But it would also possible that it wasn't him being called by that. He got the pendant and stared at it as he headed out to join Hanae, then Eguchi and Saito.

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"Yuuichirou, you made it rain again!" His sister complained

"It always like this everytime we go out. Yuuichirou-chan is really incredible" another woman laughed who was standing next to his sister

"Don't bully him nee-san!" A small girl, shorter than Umehara stood in front of him, glaring at the two older females

"We are not bullying him, (F/N)-chan. It's because my dearest brother is an ame otoko (rain guy), we cannot enjoy our summer vacation"

"It's okay nee-san! I am hare onna!(sunny girl)" The little girl named (F/N) proudly said then turned to Umehara and made a big wide smile "but let see... let's have a nickname for him! hmmmmm... Umehara Yuuichirou... Ame Otoko... sweet (amai)"

"Sweet?" The two big girls asked at the same time

"Yeah! He is sweet to me. Ah! Ame-chan! Since Ume turns to Ame, then the candy and the rain!" She explained

"Don't give me weird nickname, (F/N). Umehara sighed "I don't like sweet things"

"It is fine. Ame-chan is the sweet one"

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"It is fine. Ame-chan is the sweet one" Umehara mumbled

"Huh?" Hanae asked since he heard him mumbled "what did you say?"

"Nothing. Anyways aren't we going to start now?"

"Not yet." Saito responded as he entered. "But they are calling us outside already."

Umehara looked over his pendant and put it on top of his phone.

He followed them behind and saw five people talking to Eguchi.

"Who are those people? Girls really do flock around him" Hanae chuckled

"Ah, they seemed the new workers under Pick-up voice magazine. And that girl beside Egu is a director in training." Saito explained "what do you think, Ume-chan?"

"B, B, C, A. I'll go with B or C but C is like a perfect one from here."

"Huh?" The two asked confusedly and looked at the people gathering around Eguchi, and Hanae couldn't help but laugh

"What?" Umehara asked innocently but smiling enigmatically

"That director in training really has C, it's near D?" Hanae narrowed his eyes towards her "does the other one is A?"

"I am not sure. It's too far from here." Umehara tilted his head then crossed his arms "but my eyes automatically looked at C"

"Ah, oppai, huh?" Saito finally got it

"It's nice to fondle that, right?" He asked them but the two laughed so loud making the others looked at their direction, even the girl they were talking about "oh, she has a beautiful face too."

"Ume-chan you really are a pervert. Don't tell me you are thinking this and that?"

"Of course. For a girl like that. Why not?"

"You three, come here. You need to introduce yourself too." Eguchi shouted that made Hanae and Saito laugh shaking their head, and Umehara following behind acting so innocently "what are you three doing there?"

"Ume-chan is starting again." Saito answered but Eguchi didn't get it "anyways, I am Saito Souma."

"I'm Hanae Natsuki. Nice to meet you."

"Umehara Yuuichirou"

"Ume...hara..?" The girl they were talking about asked and stared at Umehara for about 30 seconds. "Yuuichirou?" She again asked

"Is there any problem?" Umehara asked and he could see her lips twitching

"Nothing." She smiled and that made them curious "I am (L/N). A director in training."

She smiled at him then the others introduced themselves.

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The photoshoot started, and the girls started to giggle watching the four of them.

The four knew it, since they could see them, but they knew well that one particular person only looks at Umehara.

"She's looking at you."

"She's staring at you"

"Did you do something towards her?"

Hanae, Saito, and Eguchi asked respectively. The four of them were having a break. And they will be changing clothes after

"I also don't know. But I am curious from her last name." Umehara answered then turned to her who was talking to the director in charge. "But she really has a nice body. And good thing she is wearing a fitter long sleeves."

"She probably heard you a while ago" Saito told him "she probably heard you."

"But you agree with me right? Her height is perfect too." Umehara responded then they all turned to her again, but they were surprised that she was looking at them already "ah, she is looking at us"

"She heard you" the three of them commented

After break, the four changed, and they resume the photoshoot.

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The photoshoot ended past 6 PM, and they decided to have a drink with the staffs.

"Ah" Umehara gasped checking his phone

"What's wrong?" Eguchi asked

"My sister is inviting me for a dinner."

"Invite her" Saito and Eguchi said at the same time

"But she already message me to reschedule it instead when I am free." He responded while messaging her sister back

"She will surely treat her again." The two pouted their lips.

As the four of them got out of their room, they were surprised to see the woman who was their topic the whole day, leaning her back.

"Ahre, (L/N)-san?" Hanae called her "is there something wrong?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to talk to Umehara-san" she responded with a smile looking at him, making the four nervous.

"Me?"

She nodded, and before the three left,

"We'll wait you outside then." And they mumbled "she definitely heard you."

As they were left alone, Umehara nervously looked at her, who was smiling from the very start

"Uhm... is there any problem?"

"Nothing, not at all. I just want to catch up with my childhood friend who I haven't seen for a long time" she answered that made Umehara looked at her questionably "come on? You don't remember me?" She asked in disbelief then pointed at his pendant. Umehara hold on to it and as he looked back at her, his eyes widened seeing the same pendant she was wearing "do you remember me now, Ame-chan?"

"(F/N)?!" His eyes widened finally knowing and remembering the person in front of her "is it really (F/N)? That (L/N) (F/N)?!"

"This morning, I saw someone walking on the street wearing that pendant, and I just called Ame-chan. Then meeting you here, confirming from your sister that it is really you, then seeing you wearing that again, I couldn't hold myself. I am really surprised and excited." Umehara was taken aback once (F/N) hugged her "I really miss you! But you didn't recognize me at all"

His face was at lost, but then he hugged her back, and his face turned red, since he could feel her whole body. "It's really you, (F/N)."

"Of course!" She moved back and made a big wide smile. "Your refreshing look didn't change at all. As expected from people who was born in Shizuoka. Your voice too changed a lot."

"You, you also changed. Let's go. Let's celebrate this reunion" Umehara told her and they headed to where the others where, while his arm wrapped around her shoulder, and her arm around his waist.

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"..."

The others were silent, dumbfounded looking at them, and questionably staring at why his hand wrapped around her shoulder, and her hand wrapped on his waist

"Did something happen?" Saito asked

"You aren't going to say that you started dating, right?" Hanae suspiciously followed

"I apologize for not introducing myself properly. I am (L/N) (F/N), Ame-chan's childhood friend from Nagoya."

"Ame-chan?" The three asked Umehara in unison "Ame-chan?! Not Ume-chan?!"

"Yeah! He is sweet to me. Since Ume turns to Ame, then the candy and the rain!" She explained making the others looked at Umehara with teasing look, and him looking back at them with satisfying look.

"Then what he said a while is not just words now" Eguchi commented that made Hanae laughed, then Saito slapped him, and (F/N) confused

"It doesn't matter. I am open about it" Umehara responded "but somehow, I will not say it in front of my childhood friend"

"Eh? What is it?" She curiously asked

"Nothing, but I will tell you before you hear it from the others." Umehara looked at her and stated "I was called as closet pervert. But I really hated that"

"Wh- Closet what?"

"But I am not. I am open with that. I am an open pervert."

"Yeah, Pervert bastard" Saito and Hanae followed

"What?" She asked back in disbelief as he looked at him "you really changed. Don't tell me...?" She asked as she put her other arm above her breast "you eyed on..."

"Of course." He responded, and they couldn't helped but laughed since he responded with serious voice

"You become terrible too. That's unexpected."

"I'm a man too. I also think that. It's not unexpected at all." Umehara sighed then turned to her with a smile "but I am really glad to reunite with you again."

"Actually, I supposed to surprise you with your sister today. But, this is really unexpected" she shyly responded "I didn't expect Ame-chan to turn out to this"

The three friends of Umehara were snickering on the side, remembering all their conversations about her that day.

"He turned into a pervert one" Hanae commented, agreed by Souma and Eguchi, in which Umehara couldn't deny at all

"At least I am open with it" Umehara retorted "I am on that age after all"

"So this is what your sister meant. To be careful around you" she sighed but laugh "well, let's get along again from now on. And let's catch up with each other. Now let's go! This is my first time working with seiyuu, and I have no idea on how seiyuu works, so let's have a nice long chat while drinking!"

As (F/N) said that, the other three excitedly agreed on her, and Umehara just quietly smiled next to her.

And as expected, the two sat next to each other, close as ever.

~To be Continued~Unexpected Charm of Umehara Yuuichirou Part 2~