Nami's Note: This translation is for any body that wants to read manga. Don't redistribute this translation for your site, commercial use, or anything I consider inappropriate. If you like this story, you could be supporting the author by buying this manga^-^ "I love ya Baby" is copyrighted to Maki Youko and Shueisha. Signs: (THINKING) [ACTION] ***** = change in time or place I love ya Baby Chapter 1 Girl: No Kippei, you're going out with lot's of girls. Kippei: Why, I'm not going out with anybody. Girl: Then I want to be the one. Let me be your number 1. Kippei: Sure. Teacher: You fool!!! [He punches Kippei, who flys off] Kippei: Why are you at a place like this!! You should be in class!! Teacher: Just when I get my eyes off you for a bit, you flirt around here and there. Don't come to school anymore!! ***** Later in class Friend: What happened to your forehead Kippei? [laughs] Friend 1: He was flirting with a girl during class, then a teacher found him and got him! An idiot! Friend 2: Can I touch that? Kippei: No! Friend 3: Being so dumb at school, don't you think, Kokoro? [Kokoro turns around. Kippei and her eyes meet but she turns back around] Kippei: (Oh.) Friend 2: If you're getting your hands on any girl possible, you're gonna pay for it later!! Kippei: I'm not getting my hands on anybody. The girls come to me. [he's serious] Friend 1: Die. Friend 2: Hey Kokoro, going home? It's still the second period. Kokoro: Yah, I don't feel good today anyways. Friend 3: Well, be careful. Kokoro: Stupid. [she mouths this to Kippei and shuts the door behind her] Kippei: Hmm. You know what, sometimes, I feel that Tokunaga(Kokoro) likes me. [he's serious] Friend 3: I think that's just an imagination. ***** On Kippei's way home Girl 1: Kippei!! [gets on his back] Kippei: Woh. Girl 1: Going home so early? Kippei: Uh huh. Girl 2: Wow! Then let's have some fun. We haven't gone out together recently!! Kippei: Sure. Girl 2: Yay. Kippei: Where do you want to go? Girl 1: To your house. Kippei: No. Wait, I've got a call... Hello... Kippei's sister: Kippei!!! Come home, right this instance. Don't swing by or you're dead!! Got it!!? Girl 2: Wha...what was that... Kippei: Ah----- Sorry, but I'm going home. Girl 1: Eh----- Why is that! Kippei: I can't help it! It's an emergency. [leaves] Girl 2: I wonder if that rumour is true. The one about Kippei living with an older woman. Girl 1: I don't want that! Girl 2: Don't complain it to me. ***** At Kippei's house Kippei: (Did I do anything to get her angry...) I'm home. [There's a little girl standing before him] Kippei: Wha!? Sister....!? Yuzuyu: Yuzuyu! Kppei: "Yuzuyu"...!? Huh!? Sister: You must be dumb. How could she be me. Kippei: Ah, that scared me. I thought you shrinked. Sister: Ediot. Yuzuyu chan, why don't you go watch TV? Yuzuyu: OK. Kippei: Who's that? Sister: Just come. [They do into the dining room] Kippei: Gyaa! What's with the atmosphere!! It's none like our family's! Sister: Shut up and sit!! Kippei: So...... What is it? Mother: Keep yourself together and listen, will you? My younger sister, aunt Miyako, you know.... It's terrible, she disappeared. Kippei: Huh!? Disappeared!? How!!! Sister: Keep it down!! Satsuki(younger brother): This is no magic trick. Her husband died. She didn't have the confidence to raise Yuzuyu chan by herself and evaporated. Kippei: I get it satsuki, so are you really twelve? By the way, what do you mean by 'evaporated'? Sister: Kippei. Kippei: Yes. Sister: You shut up. Kippei: Yes... Nami's note: 'evaporated' means disappeared into thin air or walked out. Father: Any how, until aunt Miyako is found, she'll be taken care of at our house. So keep that in mind. [There's silence in the room] Kippei: This is some drama. Sister: Kippei! Kippei: I'm sorry, I'll shut up now. Sister: You take care of her. Kippei: Why? Sister: How dare you ask! Yesterday, yet another unfamiliar girl came. She brought a hatchet with her and said, "Please give this to Kippei kun" What I want to know is waht you're doing outside. You should baby-sit and live a more quiet life. [Kippei's cell phone rings] Sister: Another call from a girl!? This thing!! [Throws the cell phone against the wall] Kippei: What are you doing!! Seriously. My God. (If I ever invite a girl over, she'll kill me...) Grandmother: Be quiet you two. Say something too grandfather. [There are two knock on the door] Sister: What happened Yuzuyu chan? Yuzuyu: Washroom..... Sister: I see. Oh right Yuzuyu chan, until your mom comes back, this brother will take care of you. Kippei: Hey. Sister: You tell him everything. Kippei: (She's joking---) Sister: I think you know, but I will chop your head off, if you get your hands on her. Is that clear!! For your information, she's only five! Kippei: Like, no one will get their hands on her. Any how, why me! ***** Next morning Sister: This is a map to her kindergarden. Don't get yourself lost! Well, have a great day. Kippei: Bye... Yuzuyu: Bye, Bye! Kippei: So? How do we go there. Can't understand a single thing with this map. Yuzuyu: I'm looking forward to the new kindergarden! Kippei: Don't you feel lonely? Yuzuyu: Yuzu is fine. Kippei: That's a good girl. (Is that?) Yuzuyu: Good girl!? Kippei: Yah, a good girl. Satsuki: Oh, you haven't left yet? You better hurry or you'll be late. Kippei: What time is it!? Satsuki: Quarter past eight. Kippei: I'll be late!! People at this house really don't care about me, do they!! Let's hurry!! [Pulls Yuzuyu's hand] Yuzuyu: ......Ki...Ki...KiKi. Kippei: Huh!? What!? "Ki"!? Yuzuyu: Kippei brother. Yuzu don't have lunch. Kippei: ....Heh!? ***** At the convinience store Kippei: Rice ball(onigiri), bear with it for today. I don't have lunch either. Mom doesn't make any. Nami's note: A rice ball is rice wrapped around with seaweed. There are different kinds of flavour. Yuzuyu: Yuzu loves rice balls. Kippei: I'm glad. Huh! What's the time!? Gyaa, we're late!! We better hurry!! ***** At the kindergarden Teacher: Then please come and pick her up at three. What am I doing.... ***** At school Friend 2: Hey, Kippei's not here yet? I wonder what'up, don't you think Kokoro? Kokoro: (Why do you ask me....) Friend 2: Ah, he's here. [Kippei falls to the floor] Friend 2: Woh, what's wrong Kippei! Kippei: I would never want a kid... Friend 2: Teacher, Kippei says he doesn't want a kid. Seems like he finally got one. Teacher: I don't want to hear about that. ***** At the kindergarden (it's lunch time) [There are two rice balls, bought at the convinience store, for Yuzuyu's lunch] Teacher: (Didn't I say to bring lunch!!?) Ken: My mom made my lunch. Teacher: (Nooooooo) Ken: Doesn't your mom make you lunch? Teacher: (Kyaa, stop Ken kun!!! Say no more!! Over here Ken kun.) Yuzuyu: That's ok, I like rice balls. Teacher: (Children scares me) ***** At school Teacher: Katakura Kippei. You have a detention today. What's with the marks you got on the tests? Low as it can get. Kippei: Awww. Ah, actually I can't today! Teacher: Why is that? Kippei: I have to pick a kid up at the kindergarden. Teacher: You really have a child!!? Kippei: You see me like that!? Teacher: Of course!! Kippei: That's mean!! Teacher: Don't make up a stupid lie! Blow this and I won't be taking care of whatever that will happen to you. Kippei: (What----) ***** Kindergarden Teacher: Yuzuyu chan, he'll come and get you soon. So let's be a good girl and wait. Yuzuyu: I'm waiting. [She plays with the blocks but seems very bored] [She over hears the teachers whispering] Teacher 1: Yuzuyu chan's mother has gone missing, right? Teacher 2: I heard her father's dead too. Teacher 1: That's bad. Poor her. *Yuzuyu's flash back* Yuzuyu's mom(aunt Miyako): Yuzuyu, until mommy comes back, be a good girl. [She pats on Yuzuyu, who's sleeping] [Yuzuyu wakes up] Yuzuyu: Mommy.....? *end* Kippei: (Damn, I'm late) Teacher, where's our Yuzuyu!! Teacher: (Kyaa) Another teacher: Gyaa, Yuzuyu chan!? Yuzuyu chan's gone!!! Kippei: Huh!? ***** [Kippei's looking for her] Kippei: (Where did she go. My sister's gonna kill me!!) [He sees a girl at the park] [Yuzuyu is playing with the sand, looking sad] Kippei: (Wait is that her!?) Hey, what are you doing? Yuzuyu: Wa, so...sorry! Kippei: That's ok. Let's go back. Yuzuyu: Go back? We are going home!? Kippei: Ye...ah. To mine. Yuzuyu: ......... [squats down] Kippei: Eh, why!? Hey. Are you upset that I was late? Sorry about it. I'll come on time tomorrow. How's that? Yuzuyu: Yuzu... want to eat mommy's hand made rice balls. But I can never eat all of them. That's probably why mommy hates me now... I will be a good girl, Yuzu will be a good girl... So take me to mommy.... Yuzu loves mommy.... *Kippei's flash back* Kippei: Don't you feel lonely? *end* Kippei: Nobody is gonna hate you... [he hugs her] Kippei: ....I'll make your rice ball. [Kokoro is walking by, and sees this] ***** At night [Kippei's reading something] [Then the door opens, and Yuzuyu comes in] Kippei: Wha...what's ou!? Yuzuyu: There was a senntakubasami in the hall! Nami's note: A senntakubasami is a kind of clip you use to hang clothes. Kippei: Thanks. ? It's not mine though. Well....then...good night... [Yuzuyu stands ther in her pyjamas with her pillow. She looks like she doesn't really want to leave] Kippei: (What!! Could it be!!!) Do you want to sleep here with me? [Yuzu looks happy to hear this] Kippei: (What do I do... She's cute...) Yuzuyu: What's this book? Kippei: This, this is my 'picture book'. Want to see? Yuzuyu: Uh huh. Kippei: Kidding, you can't. [There's a banging against his door] Kippei: What, keep it down. So that you know, I haven't done anything. ***** Outside the door Sister: I think it'll some how go well. Satsuki: I need Kippei to get along with her, or I'll have to take care of her, but I can't. I find it hard to get along with a child. Sister: How can a kid find it hard to get along with another kid. Satsuki: Done. Sign: Kippei, Yuzuyu's little room. ***** [Inside, Kippei and Yuzuyu sleep in peace]