Sakura's POV:

It was the morning after we've arrived in Tomi's hometown Tochigi. We woke up early for today's tour. Like yesterday when we went out to places in Kagoshima. Unlike our stay in Kagoshima where we aren't able to tour as much, because I had to stay at home and care for Obaasan Emiko. It was only yesterday when I decided to go and hike with them. The team were a bunch of goofballs, a lot of energy from them, each had their own antics they kept doing that it drains me and make me more tired. I sat at the park table in one of Tochigi's parks as the rest of our kids run around and do whatever they wanted. Chaen sat with me as she watches everyone.

"Are you tired, Aegiya?" She asked me.

"Sorta." I replied to her.

"You can rest for a bit, Yeobo." She replied to me with a smile.

"I am resting right now, Yeobo." I replied as I leaned to her shoulder.

Her arms wrapped around me as we sat still in the Tochigi park, it was cold right now here at Tochigi.

"You spoke with both Unnies?" I asked her cautiously.

"I did." She replied and paused.

"I spoke to both Unnies. They said that I need to let them go, free them from the misery by not staying angry because of their deaths." She replied to me softly.

"You should how ever not let them in vain, do something nice for them, like educate people about terrorism or perhaps mental health. We can use IZ*ONME as a platform to support those causes. We can write a song to comfort our WIZ*ONEs." I replied to her.

"We can do that, I suppose." She replied quietly.

"Chaeyeon." I called out to her.

"Hmmm?" She hummed at me.

"Are you serious about what you told everyone last night?" I asked her cautiously.

"Which one?" She asked me.

"One where you are willing to wait, until we are both ready." I replied to her.

"Of course, I'm serious about that, Yeobo! Gosh! I won't force you to love me, I just want to spend time with you, sitting like this or perhaps laying in bed and not moving all day. I wanted to discover and experience all your cute quirks, before we go steady, sure, I would love you to be my better half, but it doesn't mean I want you to be my other half means I'll be pressuring you to surrender to me. I'm saying I love you and I am prepared to love and understand you." She replied to me.

"Thank you and yes, I was serious about my love for you, it's just. I'm just scared a little you know? I was deeply traumatized of my love for Matsui-san, it happened in a rush, like a Tsunami, it already left when I realized what I felt. Then finding out that she played me for a fool. It's just. Just disheartening and traumatizing. Then I found strength to leave Japan and come to Korea, we've met again and then I found out about things that transpired and everything crazy. Let's take our time, I'll never leave your side, I promise." I replied to her with a sigh.

"We'll take all the time that we both need. I promise." She replied and placed a kiss on the top of my head.

"Jjaeyeon! Why does your voice sound so sensual? You're dreaming of it aren't you?" I replied laughing at her wildly sensual voice she had earlier.

"Yes, Yes, Yes, I am thinking of you, in positions I can't tell you." She replied giggling at me.

Her low demonic laugh rising from her chest.

"Yah! Don't do that!" I replied to her threateningly.

"I love the feisty ones, threatening ones, Japanese woman especially." She whispers sensually into my ears.

"Less talk and show me." I replied to her before standing up to go to a food cart, cause I was hungry.

This talk we are having suddenly had me hungry for food. Any type of food. I said it before in an article I wrote for a film review, I happened to recommend to the readers an LGBTQIA+ Movie called Close-Knit to them. I honestly thought that Love knows no gender. That I think there is a possibility for me to find love with the same gender as me or perhaps the opposite gender. No matter what anyone else says about the person you love, you should never feel ashamed of that love, but why am I blushing with her words? Aaaaahhhhh I hate this blush that's creeping on my face. I hate how easily I get flustered with her. Ayshe! I'm red all over my face and my head slightly down. I walked to the nearest food stall and got myself one of everything they're selling. I need to calm down. Breathe Saku-chan, breathe, slowly my mind told me. I looked up the woman who was manning the stall. She smiled softly at me and asked me what I am buying. She was selling fish cakes and instant ramen, so I told her to give me twelve of each and then twenty four fish cakes and twelve bottles of water.

It was a good thing it was winter and I was wearing a cap and a face mask. Usual get up of Korean Idols that goes out and just wanted to eat. I went bare faced today, not even a touch of make up, just some lip moisturizer for my chapped and dry lips. The lip moisturizer was transparent, I didn't want a pop of color or anything. Just moisturized lips to keep them from chapping. I have the tendency to peel of my chapped lips, causing it to have cuts if I pulled too harshly. So, I had to resort to applying lip balms or lip moisturizers instead of pulling the dead skin off. I go through two lip balm or moisturizer in two weeks at most when it's winter. On regular days, I go through one for the whole month. It was crazy cause out of all the lip balms I had, I liked the one from Chaeyeon, which she bought for me from Colorgram. I was brought out of my reverie when I heard Chaeyeon speak.

"Let me carry all your food." She told me.

I still haven't looked at her when I felt her arms snake its way around my waist, holding me possessively. Totally unlike Matsui-san, who tries to undress me once her hands grab a hold of me. She wasn't successful in undressing me fully, everytime. It was only one time when we were in her dorm room, where she filmed me. I didn't know how she edited the footage to make it look realistic. We talked shortly that night when Chaeyeon almost punched her in the dressing room. She said she was sorry and I told her she's dead to me and I didn't want to see her or talk to her anymore. That's when she held me by the arm and tried to pull me out of the dressing room. Tomi, Nako and Kwangbae intervened but their attempts to stop Matsui-san was futile, Eunbi Unnie tried to stop her too and that's when Chaeyeon came. My knight in her shining armor, Lee Chaeyeon grabbed her by her dress' back collar and pulled her off lightly, making Matsui-san's grip loose and I pulled my arm away. I let her be as her breathing was blowing down the side of my neck currently. I was just silent the whole time when she whispers again to me.

"I'm sorry, Kura-chan. I wasn't thinking of you know, that thing... I was only joking around being a goofball. I honestly think of you as someone who I should marry before exercising my rights to pro-create. Yurue Kudasai." She whispered to me.

I tapped her cheek with my gloved palm and stayed silent.

"Kku-chan. Talk to me please." She whispered softly and I could already see her pouting face.

"What is there to talk about? I'm alright, are you alright? You are alright am I right? I'm good and you don't need to worry, I was just hungry." I replied to her and fell silent again.

"I know you're hungry and I also know that you were offended with the joke. I'm sorry for being a goofball. I'll be serious from now on." She replied.

"Promises are made to be broken, Jjaeyeon." I replied to her.

"I swear it to the skies then." She replied.

"Do as you say, Actions speak louder than words." I replied to her.

"Aahhh Saku-chan! Please don't be angry." She plead to me.

"I'm not angry, Jjaeyeon." I replied to her.

"But you are angry." She replied sulkily.

"Am not." I replied to her.

"Yes you are." She replied.

"Am not." I replied to her.

"Here's your orders Miss. One thousand eight hundred yen for everything." The woman said and handed me my orders.

I reached for my orders and reached for my pocket to pay, but I was too slow, as Chaeyeon already handed her two thousand yen and even told her to keep the change. She places a kiss on my cheek before getting the bags from me and holding my other hand as if it was the most natural thing she ever did, pulling me along with her. She hums as she walks back with me to the table we occupied. We leisurely walked back to our table as we saw some people jogging, some walking their dogs, kids playing everywhere. It was winter, school is out and kids are on a winter break. Normally ten days but for my brother it was three weeks and it started yesterday. We brought him along on the hike up Mount Shiroyama, I was never good with any physical activities, much more hiking up a mountain. Yujin offered to give Kenshin a piggy back ride which Kenshin loved, it wasn't his first time to go to Mount Shiroyama as we went here before coming to Disneyland, to go camping. Oton insisted that we go to Shiroyama and I quote his words 'We're going to have fun.' that weekend and then I nearly sprained my ankle climbing up the mountain, Oton was worried and went down the mountain to drive me to the nearest hospital..

Oton could be the overprotective man, he drove me to a hospital and asked an Uncle of mine who works for the radiology department of that hospital, to look thoroughly at my ankle, despite me telling him I was fine. Oton was like that, he worries too much for me. Even when I simply tripped on a rock, he's always there to catch me. Oton calls me his princess and Chaeyeon heard Oton call me that numerous times now, that's why she liked to tease me about being a princess, like yesterday when she called me 'Pwincess Sakuwa' in her baby voice. She's a cutie really and I could totally see our little family of five, Mini Sakura, Mini Chaeyeon and Mini Chaeryeong with a mix of Chaen-yeol and Chaemin, Chaen-yeol the supposed to be brother of Chaeyeon who died of a weak heart. We reached our table and sat huddled together. She opened the plastic bags and lifted the lid on one of the ramen cups and gave it to me, she also gave me the cup that held the fishcakes. She then calls our kids to have snacks with us. We've been at this park since seven in the morning and it's now 9:30 a.m. everyone of the team members approached us and sat beside us.

They all started to eat, audible slurps coupled with Mmmm could be heard in the table. Eunbi Unnie's eyes grew big as she ate the ramen. A thumbs up was flashed towards me. Kwangbae was chewing intensively, Minju's eyes turned to full moon and went back to being crescents, something Minju does everytime she ate something delicious, her eyes grow bigger like a frog's then back to her crescent eyes like the fennec fox's, it was amusing to see her eat something new, which is why I always had variety in the dishes I serve them. For once, I wanted to really cook for the Korean members, cause their reactions are priceless. They're very expressive with their habits of letting me know that the dish I cooked was delicious. Sometimes they all engulf me in a suffocating hug, sometimes bright smiles and then thumbs up or the regular 'this is delicious eomma' it makes me happy that they love what I am cooking, only thing is Yujin doesn't like vegetables unlike the rest of the Korean members who eats almost everything, save for Kwangbae who doesn't like raw seafood and ferm