Ch1: Kanariya (Canary)

Story by Ellard on SoFurry

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#1 of Just the Beginning (Japanese translation)

I AM NOT THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR! I AM THE JAPANESE TO ENGLISH TRANSLATOR! I'm translating this story series with permission from the original Japanese author, whose work can be found here: https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=8342799 (I still need to ask him how to read his name, it's hard Kanji ahhhhh).

This is a (as of the time of writing this) 15 part story series that I really enjoyed reading in Japanese, and figured it might be fun to share to a Western furry website some Japanese writing. You'll notice that the prose is really thin in this series, but that's not uncommon in Japanese writing, because that allows for the story to progress really quickly. It's quite interesting! The content is pretty standard high school gaynst, but it has its own unique charm and Japanese cultural spin to it, so I personally really enjoyed it ^^

The author is also a superfan of the pop star Ayumi Hamazaki so all the chapters are named after her songs, which I found really charming xD Oh yeah, here's the (remix of) the titular Ayumi Hamazaki song 'Kanariya' that inspired this chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UMGmgrgoWY

If you want to send any comments to the original Japanese author, just let me know and I can translate them.

Enjoy~


Jun Yamada

Species: Cat

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Height: 168cm

Weight: 58 kg

Appearance: A regular high school student with grey fur.

A third year high school student raised in a strict household. Lacks confidence and sees himself as without any good qualities. No experience with love. Admires highly masculine men.

Species: Dog

Gender: Male

Age: 19

Height: 180cm

Weight: 72 kg

Appearance: A manual labor worker with lean muscles.

A Japanese-style delinquent (known in Japan as 'Yankees') that lives by himself in an apartment and does outdoor manual labor for a living. A free spirit with a perfectly cool and scary appearance, but also a uniquely strong sense of empathy. Loves riding his old Y30 model Nissan Cedric.

"If you're going to act like a selfish brat, then just leave!"

"You don't need to tell me twice! Fuck this house!"

Ah, shit. I can't take it anymore. This time I'm leaving for real. I packed my things in a large bag and fled from my home.

"That fucker, he should just drop dead!"

All he knows how to do is complain at me. He opens his mouth it's always some archaic bullshit or griping about my studies. He gets angry at the drop of a pin, dictates everything about me, and I feel nothing but suffocated and crushed because of it.

It's always been like this. Giving preferential treatment to my smart older sister and little brother... What's even the point of me having been born in that house? I don't want to live like I'm some canary with its voice taken away!

So I headed to a particular room in a particular apartment...

"You run away from home, Jun?"

Jun: "Well... I guess I did! I couldn't stand to listen to that fucker's bullshit any longer!"

"Chill out."

This person was a Doberman, two years older than me.

He had a scary face with several scars, wearing his work-clothing knickerbockers. Along with his chain smoking, he was quite the Yankee senpai.

I come here whenever something happens.

Kiyoto: "Well, since you came here I guess we might as well go shopping for dinner."

Jun: "Yes! What would you like to eat Kiyoto-san?"

Kiyoto: "Beef stew."

I get in the passenger's seat to Kiyoto-san's Nissan Cedric. We're off to a nearby supermarket. Is this a Y30 model? I guess it's an old car.

We return to the apartment and I begin to make dinner. Kiyoto-san is taking a shower. I often find myself doing this as a thank you for when I crash at Kiyoto-san's place.

Kiyoto: "hmmm..."

It's a small apartment so the door to the bathroom is immediately before the kitchen, and right now Kiyoto-san just can out.

Naked. Uh, yeah, naked.

Kiyoto: "What're you lookin' at?"

Jun: "I- I'm not looking at anything!"

I mean, I mean...

He's tall and has all those muscles and has that handsome face... if he comes nearby in such a bare state then I can't *not* notice it.

Kiyoto: "Go ahead and look if ya want".

Jun: "I'm good, thanks."

It's just those pink boxer shorts of his... argh no!

And his that massive dic... argh, not again!

I came damn close to burning the stew.

Kiyoto: "Good stuff."

Jun: "Thank you!"

Kiyoto: "When I'm by myself I don't ever make legit food like this."

Jun: "You must get really tired from work after all..."

Kiyoto-san hardly chats and has a hard appearance, but seeing him eat my cooking like this is sort of cute.

Kiyoto-san used to be a regular at the Japanese eatery I have a part time job at. That was what led a plain high schooler like me to get close to this senpai of mine.

He was ridiculously hot, and though he was kind of scary, I got the feeling he was a strong person who knew how to live freely. That's what made him seem so cool to me back then.

Jun: "Th... Thanks for your patronage. Um... you've got a rare car, huh?"

Kiyoto: "Oh? You interested in it?"

After all the times I met him at work I couldn't help but be interested in him, so I spoke up to him at the register. I've never known anything about cars, so asking about his was nothing but an excuse to speak to him though.

Kiyoto: "lend me a pen."

Saying that he took out a Purikura photo-booth picture. His name was written on the front in a Purikura machine's glittery characters, so he wrote his number and LINE ID for me on the back, and handed it to me.

Kiyoto: "I'll come again."

Jun: "Yes! We'll look forward to it! Thank you very much for coming!"

My heart wouldn't stop thudding.

At that time I never thought we'd develop a relationship where I could freely drop in and out of his home.

After we finished dinner, I decided to also take a shower.

Crap! I forgot to bring my things inside the shower room.

When I opened the door and peeked out, Kiyoto-san was drinking a beer while watching TV.

Jun: "I appear to have left my clothes over there..."

Kiyoto: "'Kay."

There's no way I can directly tell my senpai to grab my clothes for me...

Covering my naked body with a towel, I entered the room. I know he's not looking at me, but it's still embarrassing.

Jun: "I'm sorry..."

Kiyoto: "Cute undies ya got there."

Jun: "Huh? What do you mean by that?"

Kiyoto: "Huh? Oh, nothing much."

They're just regular star patterned boxers...

Kiyoto: *yawns*

Jun: "Do you want to sleep now?"

Kiyoto: "Yup. I'm good on the floor, so you sleep on the bed."

Jun: "What, no you don't need to do that! I'll be totally fine on the floor."

Kiyoto: "Alright, I'll sleep on the bed, but you're still sleeping on it."

Jun: "What?!"

Wait? What does that... Huh??

Kiyoto: "Not okay with that?"

Jun: "No... It's not a problem."

It's not a problem in that way. It's just I'm, you know...

Jun: "Are you cramped?"

Kiyoto: "I'm good. Night."

Jun: "Goodnight..."

It's a normal sized bed so we're so so close, ahh.

I'm not making out the slightly harsh smell of his cologne like usual, but rather the after-bath smell of soap and Kiyoto-san's musk.

I've came to this place many times, but this is a first.

Woah, Kiyoto-san is already asleep! That was damn fast!

Kiyoto: "zzz...zzz..."

I can't really make out his face, but his breathing is so cute. I bet hardly anybody else has seen him like this... I put aside trying to fall asleep for a moment, and brought myself closer to him.

Oh no. My uh, crotch is starting to have a funny reaction.

Stop, stop! Kiyoto-san is straight so I can't be having weird thoughts like this. Right, let's just sleep.

....

I tried to somehow go to sleep, but as I am I can't calm down and even if I start to fall asleep I quickly wake back up.

It's still the dead of night. Kiyoto-san is fast asleep.

It appears that the body warmth of another guy has the power to destroy my common sense...

Jun: "Kiyoto-san... I'm sorry..."

Underneath his sweatshirt, I place my hand up against his stomach. His abs are hard. From his pits comes a scent too heady to be washed away from the shower. I slowly bring down my hand on his abs lower and lower...

I touch the large manhood lying upward underneath his boxers. It's so different from mine. I'm going to touch it for just a bit, just a bit, except my hand is getting faster and faster.

After a few minutes I'm burrowed under the covers, pressing the tip of my nose up against his boxers.

Jun: "Kiyoto-san, I'm sorry. I..."

At that moment, Kiyoto-san's body suddenly moved, and the bedcovers were thrown off.

Jun: "Waahhh!"

Kiyoto: "The hell are you doing, Jun?"

Kiyoto-san, with his upper body now risen, looks down at me.

Jun: "Uh... Uh... I'm sorry!! I'm sorry!! I'm sorryyyyy!"

I'm in a sudden panic. I really messed up.

It's all over now.

Tears are flowing down. Kneeling down on the top of the bed, I pressed my head against the bed.

Is he going to punch me? Kick me? My body stiffens.

Kiyoto: "Look up at me."

Jun: "U-uh, I'm sorry... What I was doing must have been really creepy... I'm really sorry."

Kiyoto: "I didn't say anything about that."

He was patting the top of my head. Why was that?

Jun: "You don't hate me then?"

Kiyoto: "Nah. Each to his own. C'mon, look up. I'm not mad at you."

Jun: "Kiyoto-san... thank you so much."

My cold sweat quickly went away. Thank God, for a moment there I thought my life was over.

Kiyoto: "It's just a shock to suddenly have that when I'm sleeping."

Jun: "I'm sorry..."

Kiyoto: "If you're gonna do somethin' like that say so first."

Jun: "Huh? Kiyoto-san, you don't mean you're also..."

Kiyoto: "No, I'm not into that. But maybe if you're really desperate..."

Jun: "O-Oh! Gotcha, haha."

This guy might actually be a little bit strange.

Come to think of it, he's been a bit unordinary ever since he handed me his contact info on a purikura photo. I might not have gotten him to really understand what's going on with me, but I'm just glad he didn't reject me because of it.

If he weren't that kind of person, then I probably wouldn't be here.

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Next Morning

I have to see off Kiyoto-san to work and go to school in my school uniform.

Kiyoto: "I'm off."

Jun: "Please be careful. I'll see you again later tonight."

Kiyoto: "Yup."

I have both P.E. and my part time job after work. What a pain... But still, I'm put at ease from not having to return to that suffocating house.

There's no damn way I'd come back even if he begged me.

So this is how I came to be a permanent house guest, and my day to day life with my senpai began.