Long Lost Love - chapter 5

Me: Yuecchi come do the disclaimer
Yue: nothing you recognise is owned by Taranee-san…*wanders off*
Me: well that was boring…
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Chapter 5
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Twenty minutes later Yue entered the store and looked around “What was it you wanted?”
“hold on, come on follow me” Haruna pulled her into the backroom where everyone was standing “ta-da” Yue’s brow furrowed
“Nodoka?”
“Am I that recognisable?”
“No, you’ve changed a hell of a lot actually, how’d you get it so quickly Yuecchi?”
“The fact Negi-sensei’s arm is around your shoulders gives it away a little”
“but-how did you-?”
“Sensei, you’ve still got your staff”
“Oh yeah, I’m not your sensei anymore anyway”
“Konoka, Sakurazaki-san, Asuna-san…” her eyes swept around the room
“you got everyone right except Setsuna-san”
“what?” Setsuna held up her hand with her wedding ring on it “oh” A small almost smile passed across Yue’s face “Congratulations you two” she said looking directly at Konoka and Setsuna
“You’re slightly scaring me now, how can you tell this stuff?”
“Simple logic really, red hair and bells, means it’s Asuna-san, the sword helps with recognising Setsuna-san same with Negi-sama’s staff, Konoka hasn’t changed much at all and I already explained how I recognised Nodoka”
“That’s amazing Yue” Yue shrugged
“Thanks Nodoka” before either of them knew what they were doing they were embracing each other warmly
“I’m sorry everyone” Nodoka said to the small crowd of people as she stepped back “If I caused any problems when I left”
“Actually even if you had I would have blamed him, because it was his fault you ran off”
“I didn’t run off”
“What else can you use to describe sneaking away in the middle of the night and not coming back”
“uh-”
“I thought as much”
“Sorry”
“It’s not your fault, you were upset and more than likely heartbroken”
“Asuna-san, stop it, he’s said he’s sorry what more do you want?”
“I can’t believe you’re all just so willing to let it go, I-I-I-” everyone could see she was getting mad again “I’ll talk to you later” She stormed out of the room and out of the bookshop leaving a stunned silence in her wake.
“It’ll be fine when she calms down” Konoka reassured everyone “It was just a bit of a surprise for her, you can’t blame her for being mad”
“We don’t, it’s come as a shock to all of us I think”
“Yeah, I spent ten years living quietly and in three days my world’s been turned upside down, again, not that it‘s bad, actually I‘m really happy”
“Good, so are we going out for lunch or not?”
“Yeah, come on everyone”
“I’ll just grab my jacket” Nodoka ran up the flight of stairs and came back down with her jacket over her arm. She took her bag off the chair she’d previously been sitting on and everyone filed out of the bookshop. She locked the door behind them and then ran to catch up with the small group
“So how have you all been?”
“Good”
“Yeah not bad”
“Alright”
“I have my own series of manga books”
“Wow that’s great Paru”
“What about you? You own a bookshop?”
“Yeah”
“Wow that-”
“I’ve heard about the nickname”
“Damn I thought I was gonna be first to mention it”
“Nope Asuna-san pointed it out to me, and to be honest I have known for years”
“Fair enough, I knew you were smarter than that”
“thanks for not under-estimating me” both girls burst out laughing Yue just shook her head
“I don’t get it” Konoka admitted
“Never mind”
“So where are we headed?”
“There’s this really cute restaurant down the street, I was thinking of going there”
“sounds like a good idea”
“Yup” The group of six people walked down the street following Konoka to a small restaurant
“This looks familiar”
“It should Negi-kun, it’s Chao Bao Zi”
“Really?”
“Yeah Satsuki-san’s got it going great, there are several of them now”
“I haven’t been in this ne yet but it should be just as good as the original”
“Shall we?”
“Yup” They entered the restaurant and were told by a waitress where to sit, they each took their seats
“Someone will be over to take your order shortly” The waitress told them whilst handing out menus, they each thanked her and looked down at the list of food
“They still have meat buns”
“Nothing beats the classics”
“Yup, shall we get a basket between us?”
“Yeah”
“May I take your order please?”
“Um yeah we’ll-” There was a collective intake of breath at the girl in front of them