Koi Kaze - 7: First Storm

Title:Koi Kaze
Episode:7: First Storm
Synopsis

The leaves on the trees beging to fall. On her way to school, Nanoka wonders why her brother protecting her on the train made her flush and her heart beat fast. It is weird to her. However as she helps prepare for the upcoming school festival, Tamaki-chan and Futaba-chan question her about boys and especially Miyauchi, with whom she'd walked home a few days earlier. He happens to overhear the conversation, and Nanoka apologizes as they carry stuff to another room in the school. Miyauschi gives her a love letter written to her by a guy in his class named Asano. She's taken aback by this.

Tamaki-chan and Futaba-chan help spy out Asano. When he comes to approach, the three flee. Nanoka is unsure what to do and is embarrased. Futaba-chan gives her advice which is also embarrasing. Again, Nanoka gets teased at having a brocon (brother complex), which she denies.

At home, Nanoka comes to Koushiro. For a while, neither says anything as they sit in his room. She decides to ask him to come to the culture festival, but he has to work. He asks her what's wrong. At first she tries to play it off, but then asks if he'll get mad. She shows him the love letter. He seems suprised by the letter and Nanoka ties to make it seem that maybe Asano is playing a trick on her. Koushiro asks that he not be shown such letters and asks her if she should be showing something so personal to a 3rd party. She wanted advice and tells him so. He behaves normally and says that if she thinks he's a nice guy that she should go out with him at least once. She asks him if that's really OK since he'd gotten so mad. He promises not to treat her like a kid and that she should do as she likes. She agrees.

The next day at the festival, Nanoka walks with the letter and tells herself that her brother has nothing to do with her decision. She meets Asano and politely turns him down. He only wanted to hang out with her at the festival and wonders if she has someone else she likes instead. She denies it, but he's cool with being turned down. She finds herself with tears in her eyes as she recalls her brother telling her to do as she likes, and finds that her reactions are strange.

That evening, Koushiro is at work and again distracted. Nanoka lies in bed looking at Koushiro's teddy bear.

The next day on the train, Nanoka and Koushiro are riding together, Nanoka now in her fall school seifuku. They ride in silence and watch each other until the train takes them out of site. Nanoka and her friends are working the cleanup and they want to see a picture of Koushiro. She doesn't have one, but she describes him as uncool, scruffy, and smelling of old man. This causes Futaba-chan and Tamaki-chan to give her a teasing.

That night at home, Koushiro tosses his shirt at her, asking her to wash it. It lands on her face and she gives a funny look because of it, causing him to be worried of the stink. It didn't stink to her, but smelled of him. Later, as Koushiro watches a baseball game, Nanoka decides to come down and do her homework. She asks him to help him, but he doesn't want to, claiming not to remember what he learned. He rolls over with his back to her and farts much to her suprise. Despite his claims to the to the contrary, he ends up helping her. They are seen by their father, who clearly likes seeing them get along.

The next day at school, Futaba-chan has forgotten to do her homework. She desperately copies Nanoka's homework while Nanoka wonders what her friends would think of her oniichan. She wonders if her brother is cool or not. Meanwhile, Koushiro takes off from the office and is teased by his boss on whether his cute little sister will have a meal prepared for him. He simply says yes and walks out. Nanoka is doing some food shopping and wonders what goes through Koushiro's mind. She skips happily as she walks home and is seen by Koushiro. As he ponders her and the falling leaves, she happens to turn back and see him, and the bag of falls to the ground, the apples rolling down the hill. She runs after them, but is caught by Koushiro before she runs out into the street and gets run over.

Picking up the goods, Koushiro asks how things went with Asano. Koushiro tells her that if she has something on her mind that she can talk to him. She tells him she turned him down and wonders if he was worried about her. They banter back and forth on if he was concerned about her and he jabs her for her carelessness with the bag of food. However, what catches her ear is the fact that for the first time, he called her "Nanoka" instead of some Japanese form of the word "you." She then confesses that she loves him, but says not in that way. He blushes and she teases him about being weird as she rushes home ahead of him.

Comments

AstroNerdBoy: 9 Dec 2006

Well, Nanoka appears to be falling for her brother, though why is a bit of a mystery to me, especially after Koushiro farted, and the stench sent her out of the room. As Nanoka kept saying, "strange."


[Devil Doll, 2006-12-08]: As for the "why", read the Wikipedia entry about GSA.

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