Disclaimer: I'm dearly sorry for the delay, I had sudden job interviews and little accidents along the week. And my computer's power cord stopped working so I had to deal with the horror of my laptop loosing power while I do my work. But now, everything has finally sorted out!

Now then, everyone, this is the last chapter to the omake. It's been a very long time since I began translating this series and while I'm sad that it's nearly over, I'm very happy that I finally completed it. So without further ado, let's finish it off shall we? All credit goes to Shingo Nanami and フクロウ. Enjoy.

野良猫と雷と策謀

Stray Cats and Thunder and Tricks

Part Five

"...Hn."

In the middle of her consciousness, Kasane blankly opened her eyes.

Her body was awfully sluggish.

Yesterday…. What happened.

Once she fully opened her eyes, so found a handsome man, with a loose smile carved onto his expression, watching her.

"...To-no!?"

"Already so noisy in the morning."

As Kasane raised her voice, Nobunaga prevented her from burying herself into the covers.

She groaned and peered out from the blanket, there's no mistake, the one sleeping next to her was Nobunaga.

The events from yesterday replayed clearly in her mind.

"I never get bored looking at your foolish face when you're asleep."

Understanding that he was watching her sleep, Kasane blushed bright red.

"...S-since when were you watching…?"

"Let's see. At the part when you started to drool."

"Dr-! I don't drool!"

Turning red, she wiped at her mouth, but didn't find anything there.

That's when she understood he was only teasing her, she pouted even more.

"Hmph, here bath towel."

"Ueh?"

"Go take a shower."

Kasane obediently nodded as he said that.

Her body ached in several places, felt sticky too, at most she didn't feel so pleasant.

Once she got up, she noticed she wasn't wearing anythings.

"~...! !"

Crying a voiceless scream, Kasane snatched the towel from Nobunaga.

"What was that for."

"Because I'm naked!"

"You're saying that now..."

"It's precisely why I…! !"

Kasane paused, she had just noticed Nobunaga was wearing nothing but jeans.

Though she had seen his chest in the dark, but that was only last night and her first time.

Not to mention, she had never seen it in broad daylight.

No useless fat, however he had a moderate build and while he wasn't thin like bean sprouts, he was almost looked like a model.

His arms are thin, but last night she was…

"...! ! !"

Kasane felt her entire body flush before she dashed out.

"I-I'll borrow your bath! !"

Wrapping herself in the towel, she rushed directly to the bathroom.

Nobunaga poured himself a cup of coffee as he glanced at the his work documents on the sofa.

He placed his glasses over the bridge of his nose.

Although Nobunaga didn't normally wear glasses in his daily life, he would use them for reading the small letterings on the documents.

As one can see from the window, all the remnants of last night's storm was nowhere to be found.

Since Kasane originally didn't plan to stay over for the night, and though he never did laundry before, Nobunaga popped her clothes into the the laundry machine and put in some quantity of detergent and turned it on; once the washing was done, he shoved her clothes into the dryer.

With this, her clothes would be dry when Kasane finishes washing up.

Goodness, he sure is generous to her.

With a wry smile, Nobunaga sipped his coffee.

For him to do things like this, what is she going to do to him later?

While he was thinking this, he then heard the doorbell ring.

What, who in the world will come here early in the morning? Nobunaga thought as he went over to the entrance.

"Morning, Nobunaga."

"..."

For some reason, Onou was there.

He didn't remember inviting her or making any promises to see her today.

Feeling anxious that she would intrude on his morning with Kasane, Nobunaga's mood took a sharp nose-dive.

"What'd you want."

"Well, today's your day off right? I can only meet you at times like these and my dad wanted me to give you something so here I am."

"This early in the morning?"

"Yeah, because I thought you'll definitely be here at this time."

He accepted Dousan's delivery from Onou.

It was a foreign medical article he asked from Dousan long ago.

With the volume being this thick, it should be be called a book instead.

Now that he has this, he wouldn't be getting bored anytime soon, Nobunaga thought before he began considering throwing out Onou.

Onou and Kasane got along pretty well.

Nobunaga would unconsciously frowned at the way Onou indulged Kasane.

Meaninglessly hugging Kasane, rubbing their cheeks together; it was like she was playing with a cat.

He heard skinship was common among girls, but it was enough for a guy like him to scowl.

It was plainly obvious that once she finds out that Kasane was here this woman will stay over and he would lose his chance to monopolize Kasane.

"Sorry about that, now go home."

"What's with that attitude. I went all this way to give this to you, don't you think you should give me a cup of tea or something?"

"Then I can treat you someplace later."

"What's this, you're really set on wanting me to leave…"

Nouhime suspiciously eyed at his frigid behaviour.

Just as he began pushing her out, they heard Kasane's cry coming from the room.

"What is this!? Tono-sama! ! This h-h-h-hickey on my neck…! ! Why did you do this, it's totally visible…! !"

Kasane came out of the bathroom, with wet hair and clean clothes, and appeared into the area without reading the mood.

Catching the sight of Kasane, Nouhime froze while Kasane, who did not expect Nouhime to be here, stiffened in shock.

"...I see…. So that's why…"

And after a moment, Nouhime came to her full hypothesis and smirked at Nobunaga.

Nobunaga understood her gaze and scowled back.

"Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-why is Nouhime-san here…! !"

Kasane somehow stuttered it out as she shook and turned red.

Now someone knows she stayed over for the night, she was filled with embarrassment.

"Enough already Onou, go home! I'm busy here!"

"What're you talking about~. You're only busy making good memories for yourself."

"I have to think of an excuse for her grandfather…"

After saying this, Nobunaga suddenly noticed something.

He was a man, it's obvious that if Kasane told her grandfather the truth, he'll get angry. If she made an excuse that she forcibly barged in and stayed over at a friend's house, her strict grandfather would be antipathetic.

But… what if she said that she stayed over a single woman's place?

Nobunaga stared into Nouhime's face.

...He could use this.

"What."

"Onou, tell her grandfather that she slept over at your place."

"Ha?"

Hearing those words, Nouhime frowned with all her might.

"Explain that Kasane has been staying at your place instead. Of course, you better say that you live alone."

"Why should I help your perverted heart?"

"She stayed over yesterday without any permission. At this rate, if I return home, there will be an angry ogre waiting for her."

"Isn't that all Tono-sama's fault~! ! ?"

Even though I had no intentions of staying! Kasane protested, Nobunaga disregarded that and continued on.

"...You said complained something about your previous night shift right?"

"What about it?"

"...I could call my father and have him improve anything you disapprove of."

"Yosh! Kasane, let's go inform your grandfather! !"

Nouhime's completely changed her attitude towards Nobunaga and happily pulled Kasane toward her car.

Afterwards the beautiful Nouhime visited Kasane's home and explained all the details (a bunch of lies) and her grandfather was unable to show any unreasonable behaviour before a pretty young woman so in the end, he didn't drop the thunder on Kasane; meanwhile Nobunaga was in high spirits since he's able to monopolize Kasane anytime with this excuse, however it goes without saying that Kasane haggardly slumped her shoulders in return.

END

It's been about two years since I began translating this. Time sure has flown by hasn't it?

Thank you for all your support for these last two years. I hoped you enjoyed reading フクロウ's modern AU fanfic. I really didn't know what I was trying to achieve when I decided to translate her fanfics, but I do recall thinking, "It's a shame that there's such good fanfics out there, but no one else can read them!"

I do hope everyone enjoyed this series, I had a lot of fun translating it all these years. It's going to be a little weird now that I no longer need to update this, but it's now done.

Thank you for reading till the very end. I will update Owari's Stray very soon. So until then, I hope you all have a lovely and safe day ahead!