One holiday, the Hikigaya family's children were, at the moment, perplexed.

"...I don't want to."

"Even if you say you don't want to, she already came here, waiting awkwardly at the entrance."

"She wouldn't want to meet us."

"Wouldn't want to... really mom? You're not a child!"

Because their mother wasn't acting her age, being depressed and sulking, it was embarrassing.

"Wasn't it you who wanted her here, mom?"

"I don't remember."

"...amnesia?"

"Do you want to be spanked, Komachi?"

Their mother got enraged at such ridiculous suspicions. 'It's improper, you still aren't that age yet' she said, cutely puffing out her cheeks. How old are you again?

"Ahh! Onii-chan, just bring Yukinoshita-nee-chan to the living room, going on like this is useless!"

"... it seems like that would be the proper course of action. Komachi, I'm leaving mom to you."

"Right! Just leave it to Komachi."

"W-wait! Hachiman! Komachi?!"

"Yes, yes! Just sit quietly on the sofa, mom!"

The siblings smoothly gave up trying to convince their mother. The brother went out to meet up with the guest at the entrance, while the little sister was blocking their mother in the living room. Startled by the betrayal of her children (mother's perspective), she couldn't help but be sat blankly on the chair. There was nothing she could do.

"Mom, just give up. We already went this far."

"U-u-uh, ne-"

"ne?"

The daughter scrunched her face up, confused, at her mother who bowed her head in despair. However, as if unable to contain something and shaking heavily, the mother rose up, crying out loudly, like vomiting the thoughts held bound in her chest.

"Ne-e-e-e-e-e-e-ver! I'll never meet Hachiman's girlfrieeeeeeeeeeend!"

A mother, who brought upon the world a son and daughter, couldn't, wouldn't recognize reality for what it was, that her son had a girlfriend, and thus...

She complained.

The story comes back to a few days before.

Everything started when, after eating dinner and lazing about the living room, the daughter nonchalantly spoke.

"Ah, right! Mom. Onii-chan got himself a girlfriend."

"...ha?"

The mother couldn't accept the words her daughter said, and stiffened. It was a look that itself said "Don't look here!", as she stared slack-jawed at her daughter.

Furthermore, the person who was directly involved, the son, wasn't there due to it being bath time. In addition, her husband, their father, as always due to overtime, was absent.

"I said, onii-chan got himself a girlfriend! And, it's a very, very pretty girl!"

"Huh, come again?"

"Don't act like the protagonist of Haganai mom! Onii-chan got himself a girlfriend!"

Their mother regained the motherly instincts that she burned up, due living a life of livestock, working such and such. In her lauded overprotective mode, whatever the case, she couldn't accept the reality of her dearly beloved son having a girlfriend.

"Komachi, April Fool's Day already passed."

"I'm not lying! Onii-chan really has a girlfriend. He has, to the degree of it being one-of-a-kind, a girlfriend that's both rich and pretty. "

"...in that case, the police."

"It's also not a con! It's fine."

Their mother, as if she couldn't believe that her son had gotten himself such a girl, took out her smartphone. Her heart filled with the desire to call the police.

'Oh dear, I stepped on the landmine,' meant the scrunched up face of her daughter, who felt tired of this. However, in seeing the two numbers displayed on the smartphone, she swiftly snatched it away. Komachi's problems just keep on coming.

"It's nothing to be worried about. She's just the one that Onii-chan, after thinking heavily, decided on. Please believe me."

"No."

"Aaah, even if you say 'no' to Komachi, they're already a couple!"

"Hachiman having a girlfriend... still too early."

Though her daughter tried to persuade her through this and that, whatever means, the mother staunchly refused to recognize the fact. Mother's resolution is solid.

"Still too early... then, when would it be not early?"

"At the least, after ten years have passed."

"Mom... Komachi thinks that that isn't it."

"...Isn't it great though? It's alright if Hachiman and Komachi don't do anything like marrying. I'll continue on raising you."

She sat in lotus position on the sofa, frowning and continuing her complaints.

"Where did she even come from? Tempting my Hachiman without my permission..."

"Though I don't think they should need your permission... anyway, that's that. Komachi already told you! Onii-chan joined a club. She's their president."

"Ah, you certainly did say that. What was it again... "Service Club?"... for some reason the name seems off. Tempted by a prostitute. I won't forgive her!"

"Nononono! "Service Club" is right! But it's... a problem counselling and volunteering club. And, Yukino-nee-chan, a prostitute... is too much! In many ways! If it was Yui-nee though..."

Komachi had some relatively bad sentiments against her brother's other friend. And out comes her big brother, shivering after coming out of the bathroom. Hachiman resigned himself, his face saying 'Either way, I'd still be denounced.' Giving up is important. (first time)

"Oh, yo! Onii-chan! Nice timing!"

"Lies. I won't be tricked. The timing was never good. Source: mom who's in "Troublesome" mode, hanging over me."

"Hachi-man!"

"No... that's..."

"That's?"

"I told mom you had a girlfriend!"

"Ack...(understanding)"

So you didn't just shut up, he lightly thought, glaring after realizing the future that awaited him. ...giving up was important.(second time)

And, satisfying his expectations, with eyes wide open, their mother approached him with her hands on his shoulders.

"...Hachiman."

"Y-yeah?"

"Bring her."

"...come again?"

"I told you to bring her home! Your girlfriend!"

"Eeeeeh..."

With a nod and a face that said 'it's become troublesome, as expected.' he took whatever chance he had to look at his lovely sister. What he saw, was his sister's sparkling smile and salute, and in her hands was a bath towel and her change of clothes that she got some time ago.

"So, onii-chan. Komachi'll go take a bath now!"

She escaped. In the wake of her brother barely understanding the situation, the little sister bailed out, sliding out of the living room as if she had won.

"Don't worry, Hachiman! I'll confirm if she's meant for you or not! Scout's honor!"

Hachiman looked at his mother, who, in her burning spirit, gripped fire, and whined, his eyes going blank, after realizing the situation he was placed in.

"Please be anything else."

"Giving up is important!" (third time)

And back to the present. The atmosphere was turning delicate in the Hikigaya household.

"...So... where's mom?

"Sorry, onii-chan. Just before Onii-chan came in, she escaped."

"Ah...um... err... what should I be doing...?"

"Ah~ sorry, Yukinoshita. But, really...?"

Though it was nice that she had that kind of spirit, enough to silence him, Hachiman held his head, as he felt utterly distraught by his mother who had left with her tail tucked behind her rear as the finale started. The mental exhaustion he felt was unfathomable.

"Alright. What happened happened. Komachi, could you please make Yukinoshita some tea?"

"Sure, sure! Ah, Yukino-nee-chan, you just sit comfily on the sofa!"

"Ah, thank you, Komachi-chan."

Yukinoshita hesitated, then sat on the sofa as per Komachi's advice, and by her side, her boyfriend-kun also plopped his back on the couch.

Looking from her perspective, the situation in which she was called by her boyfriend's mother one day, then suddenly the whole thing went topsy-turvy as the meeting was postponed... Hachiman, who knew how she usually acted, was secretly glad that she hadn't exploded at all. Eh, not that mom has any excuse. Breaking a promise is not right, never!

"Hikigaya-kun. By the way, am I not thought of well by your mother?"

"Possibly."

"...if you speak so bluntly like that, even for me that's quite shocking."

"Stop making such a high level problem, Onii-chan! You haven't been together for a month stil..."

Saying this like it was something too ridiculous to even think about, Komachi entered the room with coffee for three people in her tray, placing each cup gently in front of them. For starters, she didn't even mention the fact that she was the one who caused this avalanche in the first place. How dirty, as expected of the youngest child.

They sat, quietly drinking coffee as they thought about how to fix the situation they were in. However, it was a situation where the most important factor, the Mamaterasu-ookami, had shoved herself into her room. The three of them certainly couldn't dance in front of her door, so they didn't know what to do.

However, it was when they had started to give up that-

"Let's have an honest conversation!"

Mother had invaded the room, shining her glasses upon them while wearing office pants for some reason.

"Are you supposed to be some sort of bearded director?"

"Quiet. Shut up. Stupid son. I'll cut down your allowance."

"That's too unreasonable!"

She swiftly cut through the room, disregarding Hachiman who had reflexibly stumbled, and in front of the dining table she addressed the girl, who had sat blankly.

"Miss, this way."

"Eh? Ah, I..."

"This way."

Yukinoshita flurried as she followed the woman who tapped the dining table with her right hand, and pointed at a chair with her left.

And then, after sitting down facing together, coughing, and arranging her glasses, she spoke to the girl in front of her.

"Alright, let's start with your name."

"Ah, yes... my name is Yukinoshita Yukino."

"...Yukinoshita?"

"Ah, yes, that's correct."

Suddenly, mother pretended to close her eyes at the girl introducing herself, her eyebrows scurrying together, like she was thinking of something. The son and daughter stared blankly at the scene, as twilight started to befall them. This was similar to trying to find a place of refuge from reality."

"...Is that so."

"Is, is there a problem?"

"No. It's fine. It's nothing. We'll continue on."

"Ah, sure. Let's."

Whatever the case was, it seemed that their mother had arranged her thoughts. She demanded this, after taking out a clipboard from somewhere and started writing whatever in it. She ignored the whine that emanated from the girl.

"Alright, next. Please state why you chose Hachiman and your reason for appropriation."

"Eh?"

"Quickly."

"U-u-uh, that's... um..."

In any case, saying that in front of her boyfriend, his sister and their mother was crossing the line, and so her eyes frantically looked left and right as she tried grasping for anything to say.

Though it wasn't like there was something she was uncomfortable about talking, can she really say something that embarrassing face to face? Grasping at straws, she turned her eyes to her boyfriend. However, Hachiman, who had placed himself behind his mother, with a face that seemed to realize something, held up a cue card that said "soz, please do your best!" [1]

"Good luck."

It hadn't helped her at all. In addition, beside him, his sister was holding up a camera, video taping everything, as her eyes sparkled. It could be said like onii-chan, like imouto.

She felt irritation rise up in her for a split second, considering to condemn him in front of his mother, but she inevitably swallowed the words that had reached up to her throat, thinking that now was not the time for such. She resolved herself to drag him in front of her parents after this, and spoke in Greek just to say something.

"At first, I should say that I...I didn't have the best impression of him at all... and of his appearance. In any case, my heart was at unease next to him."

"Uhuh."

"However, slowly, I started to want to speak with him more and more. With him, and another person... a f-friend... I began to have a lot fun in the club."

"...Hmmm."

"Although our club was for consulting with students about their troubles, various requests came, and although each time Hikigaya helped out a lot, and though I was exasperated by it, he was just so reliable that... I suddenly noticed that I was being helped."

"We crossed each other, we fought each other, we forgave each other... the last year I spent with him had a lot of things happen, but suddenly, being with him became such a natural thing. What I'm saying is... is that... what I want to say is... despite myself, I like Hikigaya-kun very much!" [2]

"...Komachi, boil some coffee for me. Black."

"Hai~!" [3]

Someday, with a very pleasant smile, would there be a young woman dragging her boyfriend by the collar as he bowed his head with a face that screamed 'it's the end of the world!' Although there's a story like that, that's another story.

The dam might have been spilled while she was explaining. Halfway into self-abandonment, the girl still refused to reject her character, her face reddening, and magnificently told everything to her boyfriend's mother. Contrary to that, however, their mother, with a face that looked like she had chewed and crushed a bug, ordered a cup of coffee from Komachi. It was a terrible deal for her, even though she was the one who had asked.

Digressing a bit, about the said boyfriend, he was, in reality, very embarrassed, and so covered his reddened face, whimpering and wiggling in place. If he exploded right about now, it'd be alright.

Out of the four, two were vomiting sugar, and the other two were slowly being immersed in a sea of chaos. So as to not get swept up by the atmosphere, the mother drank from her cup of coffee. Not hiding her uneasy face, she continued the interview. Mother was strong.

"...Alright, continuing on, what are your hobbies and specialties?"

"Reading, reviewing movies and horse-back riding."

"Ohoh? How exceptional. How one-of-a-kind. Obviously, you'd be attending either a public or high-level university, so different from our Hachiman who's only good at the humanities."

"..."

Indirectly stating that Yukinoshita's path would be different from her son's. Implied the two's unadultlike mother. Mother was crass.

"Yukinoshita, you said was your last name...your family is..."

"Yes. Yukinoshita of Yukinoshita Construction, and my father is currently a member of the National Assembly."

"Oh my. Is that so? As expected. You look like you were of that sort. In addition, being the esteemed daughter of such a corporation, you must've lived a life so unimaginable to our forever-commonfolk selves. Kyaa~. I'm so jealous~."

A mother who didn't care for formalities, had spoken that if she were to continue being his lover, their worlds would be different. Mother was vicious.

"That's that. You're a very beautiful girl. Although I think our Hachiman isn't too shabby himself, because his eyes are like that... how about it? You're famous, aren't you?"

"...In-indeed."

"You're not denying?"

"It's the truth, after all. Furthermore, if I deny it, it's just going to make things unpleasant."

"..."

"..."

To summarize, because she was famous, then it's alright if it's not her son, right? goes unsaid from the lips of a mother who loved her son dearly. A mother's love runs deep.

"Though speaking as a mother, it'd seem a bit off, but I know for a fact that being together with my son would be something really troublesome. He's a coward, unsociable and is essentially a lazy ass who only does things when he wants to."

"I know."

"...You'd break up with him soon, right?"

"Money is not a problem."

"Ah, here's a picture of Hachiman's kindergarten days."

"What...I want to see-I won't be tempted by m-m-material objects!

In the slowly devolving argument between the two, the son and girlfriend of said two people, rolled his eyes. And the room was bathed in twilight.

"Kyaa~! Onii-chan's getting a lot of lovin~."

"...You're saying it as if it's someone else's problem... think carefully."

"Huh? What?"

"I'm in this situation, right? Try to get yourself a boyfriend. If dad joins the fight too, it'll be a chaotic disaster that will far surpass this one."

Komachi's face transmogrified, easily imagining the shocking situation that her brother told her. Recklessly being loved brought upon such things.

"O-ooooooooooonii-chan!"

"Additionally, I'll be standing beside Mom and Dad, so it'll be useless to ask for help. You'll be isolated and helpless."

"It's not right. This family. We gotta do something!"

The little sister bowed her head at her brother's ruthless words. The future wasn't bright for Komachi's future boyfriend.

"Ah-how cute! Even though this twisted Hachiman we have now is still cute, Hachiman was heaven-sent in his cuteness back then!"

"I humbly request that you show a few pictures to me."

"Ehhhh? I don't know what to do~?!"

"H-h-how much? How much do I have to pay?!"

"Money is not a problem...so."

"Please! Please! What is this situation even?!"

The young woman cried out like Their Excellency the President spotting an actor. [4] 'Hold on, how strange. Who's this? This isn't the Yukinoshita I know.' muttered the boyfriend who titled his head. He wished he was stronger.

"... so, Onii-chan. Shouldn't you gently go stop Yukino-nee-chan? For some reason, I feel like they're fighting for your pictures."

"...shit. Something came into my eyes. I can't see anything. I don't see both of them! (I didn't see. I said I didn't see! I didn't see that kind of Yukinoshita!"

"You're seeing it fine though! They're even speaking what their hearts say clearly! Don't try to escape from reality!"

The boyfriend and son, Hachiman, couldn't get the gist of what's going on with his mother's and his girlfriend's catfight with his dead fish eyes. It seemed like he couldn't accept what his lovely sister pointed out was reality.

"Anyway! Nothing will come about being like this. So go out there and stop them!"

"Unreasonable."

"...I'll spread your middle school dark past at school."

"I'm on my way!"

Hachiman, big brother and brave soldier, in order to mediate between the two parties, had come resolutely into the battlefield, his face reddening and going blue from both disgrace and desperation. Behind him, his little sister clasped her hands and sent him off.

"Becoming his girlfriend after barely a year of being together? Jealous girls become bored of their boyfriends quickly! Source: me!"

"If you're of that sort, why don't you slowly separate from your son? Children think of overprotective mothers as troublesome, right? Source: me!

"Wait, you two."

Komachi, little sister and future Sister-in-Law, began to laugh boisterously as she held a camera up, watching from the corner of her eye her brother, boyfriend to Yukinoshita, receiving damage hearing every insult thrown at him by the two people, as he persistently tried to get between them to try and calm them down.

Like this, the very troublesome comrade Mother and her son's girlfriend's formal marriage interview had the curtains finally fall.

That night, the father was received by his very irate wife, after coming home from work in a holiday. "Accompany me this night, please." Like this, he sighed, and after changing his clothes, quietly moved into the living room. It'll be alright.

"Right."

"Let's"

The husband poured a cup of rice wine from the refrigerator, smiling bitterly, on the cup pushed from his very crossed wife sitting on the table. He couldn't do much because he was whipped.

"..."

"..."

And without a word to each other, they drank their glasses of alcohol.

In order to eat the dried fish taken out to be an accompaniment for alcohol, the cat rose in good humor from the dining table.

"... So?"

"So, what?"

And, eyeing the perfect time, the husband asked his wife.

"You met her. Hachiman's girlfriend."

"...I did."

"So, how was she?"

"She was a good kid. Beautiful. But..."

The wife frowned, and with words mixed in with sighs, she answered her husband as he nudged for more.

"... her name, she said it was Yukinoshita."

"Yukinoshita?... Huh. Is it...?"

"Yes, it is. Hachiman had an accident during his school entrance ceremony, right? She's the other person involved in the incident."

"Are you for real?"

The wife nodded, while grumbling and moaning, at her husband's face that said, "This is ridiculous, this is too strange, even for fiction!"

"I asked Komachi for more detail, after much deliberation. Hachiman's girlfriend, is the one who rode in the car."

"That's..."

"In addition, the club activities that Hachiman joined last year is headed by her, and besides him, there's another club member, a girl of the same age, making it a small, three-person club."

"Ah...(understanding)"

"That another girl is the owner of the dog that created the incident. Furthermore, apparently, they're in a love-triangle fighting for Hachiman."

"I know he's my son, but I also want to say that he seems like someone from wherever love-comedy."

The father couldn't help but laugh bitterly at his son's youthful, yet unimaginable circumstances. Was his slightly misty eyes a sign of him being reminded of his past? Perhaps this is what they mean by blood doesn't betray blood?

"Then, it's like that, huh. Because, our son's girlfriend is the party directly involved in the accident, you don't like her, right?"

"Don't jump into stupid conclusions. I'm not that shallow. Yukinoshita-chan just rode in the car, and though maybe the other girl has some responsibility for that as the owner, it was an accident involving a broken leash, and beyond that, wasn't it Hachiman himself who rushed in to save the dog about to be hit by the car? So it's not as if I'm holding a grudge or anything."

"... When Hachiman was involved in the accident and we received a call that he was taken to the hospital, I didn't think we'd be kicking off of work and running towards him.

"I don't know. It's a precautionary tale for not regretting what happened in the past."

After arriving at the hospital, they didn't think that because there was no danger to his life, that it wasn't something to be concerned of; and the mother having heard that her son was the one who dragged himself into the mess, as if embarrassed greatly by such a ridiculous thing, even before her son woke up, had hurried back in a fluster to the company building. Mayhaps the twisted personality be part of the DNA?

"Then, what is it that troubles you?"

"It's because... such a story of meeting, sounds so much like fate you couldn't shove yourself between them."

"Haaa... Honestly, that sounds like a miracle."

"Hachiman having a girlfriend... still too early."

"If you say that, then what about us? When we started going out, we were at a similar age to Hachiman."

"That is that, this is this."

"...Hey."

After that, she whined while drinking. "I'll bully you if you marry Hachiman!", "This is something that is to be decided by family Mahjong.", "My Son's Teenage Love Comedy is Wrong, as Expected!" and so on. The father and husband of the lovely woman, who whined that her children slowly becoming independent was going to be lonely and who finally slept while holding her tears, watched her pleasantly.

"Huuu-huuu... Ha-man...Hachii-uuueeeeh, munya."

"Haaaah. What the heck are you dreaming about?"

Was it to give space to the owner who held a happily, though, untidily sleeping face that smiled sweet smile after sweet smile that he gently patted the cat who had a dumb look on his face? Even as he smiled bitterly at the cat's face, to protect the wife that he loves, he patted and calmed the violent cat, and covered her with his clothes so that she wouldn't get a cold.

"Alright, first, I'll have to clean up, then carry her back into the bedroom."

Was it that he sympathized with the mumbling head of the family household, worrying if her back was going to twist, that the cat, with a face of realization, started tapping his back gently with a paw?

Translation Footnotes:

1: The original text was "AD 잘 부탁해" which means, "AD do your best.", if you translate literally and ignore the context. But AD is the position where the letters ㅁ and ㅇ are in the Korean keyboard. Put them together and it becomes text lingo for "Sorry!".

2:What the meaning of what she said was: "To the degree that even I couldn't endure it much longer, I like him." Which I felt is a bit too wordy. So I shortened it to "despite myself."

3:She said this in english, so I thought to make her say this in Japanese.

4:I have no idea what the fuck this means.

Hello, fanfictioneers of great caliber! Xynovitch here, bringing you with a translation of a cute Yukino meets Hikimom fic I found in a Korean otaku forum called typemoon dot net. The title of the story in Korean is: 엄마의 위기감과 아들의 여자친구. The meaning is the same as the title's.

This translation was actually a Korean translation of a Japanese fanfic, which means there must've been something lost in this translation, because I was essentially playing a game of telephone. So, yeah, sorry about some of the nonsensical bits. If I was a better translation, I would've cleared up some of the bits that seem dumb. But, either way, I tried my best to give the experience I felt when I was reading this.

Also, I'm sorry for doing some nonsensical stuff like this when I should clearly be updating my main fic. But... I got busy with school and sort of forgot about it. I'll be trying to get back into writing it... no promises though.

Signing out, Xynovitch