Hot Spring? Yep, it's time Nino Bros. That's all, Enjoy :)

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Third Person Perspective.

With only one room available, the girls and Fuutaro all had no other choice than to bunker down in this tiny inn room in the middle of nowhere.

"This place is pretty nice!" Fuutaro said with his hands pressed firm against his hips. There was a a supernatural glow radiating off of him, so much so that the others were being blinded.

"So when do you think this idiot is gonna get off of his travel high?" Nino asked sarcastically. She took a quick scan of the tiny room. "Wait, isn't this the size of a 4 person room? How are we all meant to stay here?" She crossed her arms, already seeming tired of this place. "And there's no way I'm sharing the same room as him!"

"We don't have any other options, unless you feel like sleeping in the snow" Miku blankly said.

"Y/N is rubbing off on your too much, it's gross" Nino objected.

"Gross? I thought that would make you like me more if I was more like him" Miku smugly replied.

Hook, line and sinker. Miku was the second coming of Y/N and had the same effect he did on Nino now, she faintly blushed in embarrassment and started to hastily scroll through her phone.

"Gah! This place has no service, ....I can't even contact Y/N......" She angrily said to herself. Ichika overheard but decided against her typical teasing routine as it was clear to her how true Nino's feelings towards Y/N were and she really missed him.

For one reason of another anyway, Fuutaro was in surging spirits but not everyone else was enthusiastic as he was. Nino was doing a majority of the complaining, especially about sharing a room with Fuutaro and to be honest they were all a bit sceptical of Fuutaro in his current state as they'd never seen him so full of life.

Regardless, they all ordered food and Ichika checked out a brochure of the inn.

"Hmmm..." Ichika quizzically scanned the paper in front of her. "Oh, there's a hot spring here apparently!"

"Really!" The girls all exclaim in unison.

"Ah..." Ichika continued

"What is it?"

"It's mixed...."

The girls all recoiled in surprise and let out an audible gasp together.

"Huuuuuuuh! First we share a room and now we need to share a bath with him too!" Nino said, practically screaming across the room, the entire inn could probably hear her.

"That's unacceptable!" Itsuki joined in on her sisters objection.

"That's just how it is apparently" Ichika shrugged

Nino screwed up her face and turned to Fuutaro. "You!" She pointed her finger out at him. "You bathe later, we're going now!" She ordered.

"Fine, if that's what you guys want, I'll stay here instead" Fuutaro complied without any further confrontation and reduced himself to a corner of the room.

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Nino POV

You and the girls all made your way to the hot spring, upon arriving there was no one else's stuff anywhere so it looked like it was just going to be you 5 which was a big relief.

Uesugi had been acting too giddy for your liking ever since you all got here and you got the impression that he would strike in the night, he was a man after all. As much as you liked Y/N, Uesugi was just such a different story. No matter what, you would never like that guy but for Y/N's sake you try to keep it as civil as possible.

"Lucky us, It looks like no one else is here!" Ichika said as she wrapped her towel around herself.

"Seems so, but I wonder why no one is here in the first place..." Miku trailed off as she adjusted her towel which kept slipping down.

Grabbing a hairband from your coat, you neatly tie up your hair into a bun, to keep it away from the water. You did have the longest hair out of everyone after all, the same length it was when you were all kids. The thought of cutting it had crossed your mind a few times recently but you couldn't seem to let the long hair go so you kept putting it off.

Everyone seemed to have finished preparing, and with no one noticeably in the hot spring, Yotsuba leads the way and slams open the door leading to the hot spring. "We're ready for the hot spring!" she exclaimed.

What she didn't expect, was to see some one already in there.

It was a boy, he was leaning back on the rocks, looking at the night sky. The water was glistening off of his skin, his hair was wet as if he'd just dunked his whole body underwater. For some reason, your heart started to beat faster and faster.

"Oh, sorry" Yotsuba bowed towards the boy for disturbing his peace.

The boy waved his hand as if he didn't mind.

Ichika directed you all to the other side of the Hot Spring, the boy was still in sight but there was a couple meters of distance between him and your sisters. The entire time, he stayed looking up at the stars.

"I didn't think there would be anyone else in here..." Itsuki leaned back and said "I didn't see any other clothes or bags inside, did anyone else?"

Miku shook her head.

"So why is someone in here with no clothes or bag in sight? That's pretty unnatural right?" Ichika asked.

"Maybe he just forgot it!" Yotsuba answered.

"No, that guy's pretty suspicious" You added as you sank into the water, feeling the warmness surround your body.

"Nino... You can't just be suspicious of every boy" Yotsuba contested, jumping into the air a little.

"She's right you know" A voice says from the other side of the bath. You turn your head to the boy along with your sisters, you're all looking at him in confusion.

The boy still stared off into space. But held a finger out, letting the snowflakes crumble on his skin.

"First, you leave me alone on the bus, and now you guys don't wanna sit with me." Everyone flinches at the voice, looking around at your sisters, it was easy to tell they were all thinking what you were thinking.

He lowers his head and faces your group. "You guys must reaaaaally hate me huh?" He smiled.

"Y/N!!!" You all shout together. Even with the heat already in the hot spring, you could feel yourself getting even hotter looking at his smug smile, That Shit-Eating grin is what you loved so much about him, you couldn't help but feel your heart beat increase even more.

Yotsuba ran through the water to Y/N first, with the rest of you following close behind. It was surprising to see how different he looked for some reason, you didn't know it was his wet hair, the general atmosphere of not expecting him to be here or whatever the case may be, but you couldn't help your urge to be with him right now. After not seeing him for a few days, it felt like your heart was a volcano about to erupt but before the eruption could happen it seems he calmed it down for now. Putting your hand over your chest, you followed your sisters over to the love of your life.

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Y/N POV

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce.

Your eyes followed the rhythmic movement of the Nakano sisters bodies as they all approached you in the Hot Spring. It had been about 5 minutes since you got in and it was a total shock when they all walked through the door together it almost made you pass out but inside you felt warm and some sense of relief.

The girls all sat beside you one by one, damn now that you were thinking about it this was a pretty sweet situation you'd found yourself in. Five incredibly beautiful girls in nothing but towels sitting within arms reach of you in a hot spring with no one else there, "Maybe my main character arc is finally here!" You excitedly think to yourself, a dumb smile naturally appears on your face but you shake your head quickly to snap out of it and return to reality.

"Oh, Nino" you say as you raise a finger towards her hair. "Your hair looks pretty like that"

"D-Dummy, what are you saying...." she fizzles out.

To be completely honest, your heart was beating out of your chest right now, your poker face was usually decent but a situation such as this seems like something you'd read about online and have an internal debate with yourself if it was true or another completely fictional story.

"Speaking of" Nino puts her hand up towards your hair and ruffled it, you strained your eyes to not look downwards as she approached you. "Your hair's so different when it's wet, we didn't even recognise you but it looks nice" She simply says

"A-Ah, thanks..."

"Oh? What's that Y/N? are you embarrassed?" Nino teased. Her body was extremely close to touching yours, especially her boobs.

"No, I just haven't been complimented on my hair before so it came as a shock, that's all" You say with a completely straight face. Her somewhat attempt at embarrassment failed so Nino retreated back into the water like an alligator.

"Y/N, why are you here?" Itsuki asked.

"Oh, well after you guys abandoned me this morning" Specifically putting more harsh emphasis on the abandoned part. "I just came here by the bus, we all checked in to here too but everyone else is restricted to that part of the inn, but I didn't feel like staying so I snuck out to here"

"But wait, couldn't you get in trouble for doing that?"

"Yeah but to be honest, I'm already in a heap of shit from that bus ride" A large sigh leaves your mouth and you rest your head in your hand.

"Wait what happened!?" Nino asked with some sincere concern in her voice.

"I got into a fight."

"YOU WHAT!?"

Nino had a furious look on her face but you kept the same nonchalant face you were already sporting.

"What happened Y/N?" Yotsuba spoke up.

"Was it Kaito?" Ichika interrupted before you could begin

"You.. How do you know about him?"

"Fuutaro told us stuff about you when we were on the way here, about your past at home and and with Kaito"

To be honest, it rubbed you the wrong way a little bit that he just gave out that information like a food stall, but it didn't really change anything in the long run so you just let the feelings go. As time went on it was natural they would ask at some point anyway.

"Is that right?, and what? you think differently of me now?"

"No its not that..." Miku started.

"We just know you've been through a lot Y/N" Itsuki finished.

"Well anyway, yeah it was Kaito, he sat next to me on the bus and things escalated from there"

"But he's not even in our class!" Nino said.

"Yeah he's not, but apparently he got kicked off of his bus and dropped into our class' bus. And as my luck would have it, he had to sit next to me" you huffed. Out of the water, you bring up your hand, which was pretty red on a couple of your knuckle and show it to the girls, they all look at it with shocked looks on their faces.

"Oh my god Y/N!" Nino shouted rushing beside you and taking your hand in hers. "Are you an idiot! why would you start a fight?" she continued in her usual tone.

"Who said I started it, plus Kaito isn't even the one I fought with, it was one of his lapdogs"

"His lapdog?" Itsuki asked.

"It's like a yes-man; someone who just follows Kaito around and does whatever he says for whatever reason, he just came over and threw a punch at me while I was arguing with Kaito, so I hit him back. But Kaito didn't throw any punches, I imagine he signalled that guy to come when I couldn't see"

The girls all look at your knuckle and back up at you but no one knew what to say next, so there was a silence for a few seconds until one of them spoke.

"Aww poor Y/N, do you need some comforting from big sis Ichika?" The eldest sister teased as she waded through the water towards you with her arms wide open. Instead of replying, you just lean back and rest your arms on the rock wall behind you, leaving you wide open to her advance.

Before she could reach you however, Nino who was currently grabbing your hand, let go and stood in front of you directly in between you and Ichika.

Nothing could have prepared you for what she did next.

Nino sat directly on your lap facing you, wrapping her arms around your neck and her legs around your waist, she looked into your eyes for a brief moment. Before she turned around to the approaching Ichika who had stopped in her tracks and could only look on as the Nino train had become unstoppable.

"He's Mine" Nino said full of confidence. Locking eyes with Ichika.

Now you were in a situation that was literally impossible to keep up your calm and collected act. With the girl of your dreams right here on your lap, in nothing but a bath towel, asserting her dominance over her other sisters. All of your senses were in overdrive and the monkeys in your brain were screeching.

The sisters sat in shock, mouths agape and so were you. Nino kept her eyes fixated onto Ichika until she finally backed off and sat back down. But Ichika had a smile on her face nonetheless whereas all of the other girls looked as if they were about to be killed in a horror movie or something.

Nino graciously turned back to you, the movement of her body against yours in the situation was way beyond your limits of control and you could feel every asset of her body pressed against yours.

"And you!" She snapped.

"Me? What did I do?"

Instead of answering, Nino just stared down at you, due to the position she was in it was the perfect position to look down upon you. Her intense gaze seemed to be working, as you could feel your entire body getting hotter.

"What?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to see you on the losing side for once" She devilishly teased. As she purposely pressed her body weight down into you a bit harder, which only made the monkeys scream louder and the dragon grow stronger.

"You really stress me out sometimes, you know that?"

"Whatever you say Y/N, but don't act like you're not excited in your current situation"

"Who said I wasn't, I'm basically living out a fantasy right now so keep it up Ribbons" You said with the dumbest smile in the world.

"R-Rib... Idiot! I thought you'd finally gotten over called me that name" She pouted and turned away in your lap, her body facing her sisters again.

For some reason, calling her Ribbons always seemed like the failsafe tactic to gain back the upper hand in your mental love warfare.

It didn't look like she was going to get off of your lap anytime soon, so you made the bold move to wrap your arms around her slender waist. She let out a frail shriek as she felt your fingers make contact with her, unfortunately it was the towel and not her bare skin, but it was close enough. You wrapped your arms around her and pulled her in closer, so her back was touching your chest then proceeded to show your head around her side. In all honesty for the past minute or so you had completely forgotten there were 4 other people in the bath with you and Nino.

"I didn't realise you both were so... attached" Ichika pointed out.

"I guess she was just dying to see me again" You joked, squeezing Nino a little harder.

"That reminds me" Nino speaks out. "Our room only has room for 6 Futons, so someone was to sleep next to Uesugi"

"Wait, Fuutaro's here?!" You said excitedly.

"Yeah, that's why we weren't on the buses this morning" Miku answered

"?" you tilt your head.

Itsuki continued "Y/N, only me and you know where he lives, so I went to his house and picked him up and brought them with me"

"But why was he even still at home in the first place?"

"Raiha was Ill"

"RAIHA WAS ILL!?" You shouted, your fake big brother reflexes were kicking in.

"You really care for her don't you? Y/N, you would make a good older brother!" Yotsuba gushed.

That was kind of an embarrassing compliment but you continued. "Anyway, Is Raiha okay?"

"She's fine now, when I arrived she was up and running about, it must have been just an overnight sickness"

You smiled to yourself in relief knowing that all seemed to be well with Raiha.

"So, what about Fuutaro, where is he now?"

"That idiot is on a travellers high" Nino blurted out.

"Oh shit, don't tell me he's doing that thing were he gets all over-excited and it seems so out of character"

"Exactly that"

"He did that in first year too, unfortunately I forgot my earbuds that day so he was killing me"

"You poor thing..." Ichika responded

"Oh C'mon guys, he's not being that bad" Yotsuba interjected.

"Well if you feel that way Yotsuba, why don't you sleep next to him." Nino retorts.

"Well... that's a bit too...." Yotsuba stuttered, she sounded like she was lagging on 1000 ping.

"Wait!" Miku stood up, her towel completely falling off of her body instantly. Your eyes popped out of your head but before you could truly take in the glory in front of you, Nino turned around hastily and covered your eyes.

"We should split it equally!" Miku blurted out, picking up her towel. Upon doing so Nino un-covered your eyes and you felt robbed.

"That's not a bad idea, If we're all next to him, there shouldn't be a problem." Itsuki replied.

The girls all nodded in agreement to the plan and Nino unfortunately left your lap to go and sit back with her sisters.

"So Fuutaro gets to sleep with 5 beautiful girls tonight? Damn, lucky him." You said sarcastically but in reality you were envious as fuck.

There was a collective blush at the beautiful remark.

"Don't worry Y/N, I'm sure you'll end up in his situation of of these days" Ichika teased

"Don't get my hopes up big sis, a man can only dream"

"What about you Y/N?" Miku looked in your direction.

"I gotta go back to the rest of the class, I've already been gone longer than I should have and I gotta sleep there tonight regardless"

"That's a shame, we'll meet up in the morning though"

"Yeah, definitely, If you guys ditch me throughout the entire trip I'm never letting any of you live it down"

The girls all smiled and stood up. They all said their goodbyes to you and departed back to their room 1 by 1. Except for Nino who was the last to leave. She remained standing in the hot spring in front of you.

She stood there for a moment, while snowflakes fell all around her, under this moonlight she looked even more beautiful than usual and it had your heart racing. The silence was killing you though so you just had to say something in typical Y/N fashion.

"You drop a contact of something?"

"I'm Sorry..." she whimpered.

"Sorry?"

"For leaving you today"

"Oh that, I'm not actually mad about it no worries"

"Y/N..." Nino was tapping into that rare timid side of herself. God you wanted to hug her so bad... Wait, why am I even bothering to think that?

Standing up, you approached Nino in the middle of the bath and wrapped her in a soft hug. She immediately reciprocated and you started to speak softly into her ear.

"I'm happy you're here"

"Me too..." She squeezed into you a tad harder. This moment defined to you why Nino stood out from her sisters to you, a girl with emotions is a really weird thing to like about someone, and it doesn't really make sense but this moment just felt right.

"You're surprisingly a lot more honest about your feelings than I originally thought, maybe you're finally letting go of your Tsundere side"

"It's only because it's with you you know..." It was as if you could taste the pout that was on her face.

"Well then I guess I'm just the luckiest guy in the world if I get to see you like this"

"Idiot..." She warmly finished as she kept the hug going for another minute that felt dramatically too quick. But you both knew you had to part ways now, at least until the morning, so you split off the hug and went the the rooms that you respectively belonged too.

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Morning arrived and so did Fuutaro and the Quintuplets.

Nino sat with you on the bus this time, surprisingly she ditched her group her friends, even when they had an open seat for her. Ultimately you decided to hold off on giving her that Origami Butterfly you were still carrying around and save it for another time, maybe giving it to her on a bus was a pretty crummy place to do it all things considered.

"So how was last night?"

"Fine, that idiot didn't cause a problem as far as I'm aware, what about you?"

"I got grilled by the teachers a bit for sneaking off, but they thought it was for way less time than it actually was so I think I'm in the clear."

"When I met you, I didn't think you'd be the bad boy type"

"I wouldn't call myself that, I just like doing things by my own rhythm sometimes, people hold themselves back a lot by doing their things in someone else's tempo so this is just how I operate"

"Woah, Deep" She says sarcastically with a fake amazed expression on her face.

In return you pinch her cheeks and you have an entire back and forth exchange of pinching each others faces before the bus finally arrives.

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Each class leaves their respective buses and everyone filters into their own friend groups between their classes. It was instructed we all go to our rooms and put our stuff away before any of the activities started in the evening.

Both you and Nino call a truce on your pinching game and go to meet up with the others as everyone was getting off of their buses and chilling in the entrance area.

"Yo" You call out.

"Yo" Fuutaro replied.

You both stood there staring at each other for a moment.

You stepped towards him and punched him with a bit of force in his chest.

"Ow. What the hell was that for"

"Next time Raiha's Ill, tell me immediately dumbass" You scowled.

"Yeah, sure thing..." Fuutaro said rubbing his chest.

"We're gonna head to our room" Ichika says to the both of you.

"You guys need any help unpacking?"

"We'll handle it Y/N thanks"

"Both of you better come to our room later!" Yotsuba waved as their group started to make their way back to their room.

You and Fuutaro begin to head towards your room too but suddenly you're interrupted from behind.

"Y/N!" a voice calls out. Like a pest that kept coming back, Kaito approaches you with one hand out. He calls out loud enough to grab the attention of the people around including a few teachers.

Unbeknownst to you, the Nakano's had also heard Kaito and they all swivelled around on the spot to watch what was going on.

"What do you want?"

"Look man, I wanted to apologise for what happened on the bus!" he was practically roaring at this point, it was obvious he was being loud on purpose so others could hear him. It did seem to make the teachers back off though.

"So, can we squash this whole thing and put it behind us?" He asks, extending his hand out to me. You could hear the crowd whispering amongst themselves.

"Woah, is he really apologizing?"

"Kaito would never do that"

"No way Y/N's gonna shake him, they hate each other"

After reading Kaito's expression for a few moments, you let out a sigh and take a step forward and take his hand. He gives it a firm shake.

"I knew you'd pull through" He said with a big smile before pulling you into a bro hug.

"Hey-!"

Kaito faintly laughed in your ear. "Let's fuckin' settle this at the Test of Courage, I'll be waiting Y/N..."

A bit of a chill runs down your spine. "Sure, It's about time anyways, I'll be there." you assured him.

He lets you out of the hug and walks away towards the teachers, probably to tell them that we're on good terms now which turned out to be a façade.

Fuutaro approaches you once again, and you turn to him. Behind him you can make out the figures of the 5 sisters who were looking at you from a distance. They began to head to their rooms.

"Let's go" you say before he can even speak.

"Y/N, is everything-"

"Nah, there's no problem man don't sweat it. Maybe he's finally changed his ways" you laughed.

"Whatever you say" Fuutaro replies as he starts heading off to his room to unpack. Lying to him was the better choice, getting him involved would only make whatever was going to happen way more complicated than it needed to be, the same went for the girls as there was no chance you were gonna tell them what's going on, especially Nino because who knows what she'd do if she found out.

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About an hour later, you and Fuutaro both finish unpacking. It was a small room with only two beds so you both only had to deal with each other which was nice. Recalling that Yotsuba asked you both to come to their room later you decide to text her and she gives you the green light to come over.

Shortly after both you and Fuutaro arrive, they managed to get a room that fit all 5 of the girls and it was literally almost triple the size of your room.

"Uesugi, Y/N, welcome!" Yotsuba greeted us at the door.

"Yo, sorry to intrude"

"No problem, come in!"

The sisters were all sitting on their respective beds talking amongst each other. They noticed you and Fuutaro enter all all turned their attention towards the both of you.

"Have you both finished unpacking?" Itsuki asked.

"Yeah, we didn't actually bring that much stuff between us so it took no time"

"That's good to hear, we barely got finished before you guys arrived" Ichika laughed.

Fuutaro was wearing a blank expression on his face. "Yo, what's wrong?" you asked

"The test of courage.." he replied.

"Uesugi, after I set up some stuff for the bonfire, I'll help you with the Test of Courage!" Yotsuba said in support.

"I know I know, but still, why the hell did it have to get thrown onto my shoulders in the first place" he said, obviously sulking a bit at this point.

"That's what you get for being an oblivious bookworm loser" Nino harshly added unnecessarily.

"Nino" you leered at her.

"I'm only telling the truth..." She folded her arms, you went down and sat next to her on her bed. Patting her head to calm her down.

"But look on the bright side, at least you have Yotsuba" Ichika pointed out.

"Yeah, and she's way more help than any of you, and it's always been that way" Fuutaro declared. The room went silent for a moment as he just made it incredibly awkward without realising it. Oh, my poor dense Fuutaro...

"Well if you like her that much, why not just marry her" you joked. Again it went silent and that joke resulted in a punch in the arm from Nino.

"I would never. In a million years. Let this loser marry one of my sisters!"

A bruise felt like it was on the way, for such a trendy girl she had a good arm. "I just don't see why you had to hit me to get that point across..."

"C'mon Nino, don't be like that, you're gonna marry Y/N right?" Miku teased.

Both Nino and you were completely wide-eyed at the usually timid sister.

"M-M-Miku! Who ever said I would mar-" Nino was cut off by the sound of a phone ringing. Everyone looked in your direction as the noise was coming from your jacket pocket.

Reaching into your pocket you pull out your phone while it's ringing. The name on the screen surprised you, as you looked around at the others who were looking out of curiosity. Nino tried to lean towards you to see who it was calling you probably thinking it was a girl. A quick smile hits your face as you answer the phone and put it up to your ear.





"Hey, Dad..."



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So, the Hot Spring chapter finally arrived, hope it was enjoyable to read!

God I re-wrote this chapter like 3 times lmao, I don't know what was happening while I was writing but I suddenly kept getting a flood of new ideas so I kept re-writing and editing and that's why it's taken a bit longer than usual for this chapter to come out.

Its mid December right now and in all honesty, idk if I'm gonna have another chapter out by Christmas, probably by New Years but yeah I'll be hard at work on the chapter regardless.

You guys are too nice Y'know, I love reading your comments each time I release a chapter, or when someone catches up to the story for the first time its just a nice feeling and I appreciate you guys a ton.

Anyway, that's all from me, take care of yourselves guys, mental health, physical health, all of that stuff.

See you Next Chapter!