Title: 妹 (Akane) Vol. 6 "...Kiss Me"
Artist/Author: 山花典之 (Noriyuki Yamahana)
Book Size/Pages: B-6, 221pp., w/o furigana
Volume: 6/14
Original Serialization: Weekly Young Jump Vol 28, '01 - Vol 40, '01
First Printing: 12/15/01
Rating: 3/4

It looks like Shinpei is even more certain that he can't let anything happen between him and Akane. However, Akane finally reveals her feelings for him and tells him directly. It's not even half way through the series, and there's already so much that has happened. I wonder how it'll turn out.

There's a color page but I don't particularly like the picture.

58. my sweet home: With some money that Shinpei received from Akane's true mother, he and Akane finally move out of his small apartment. While he has the money to get a decent place, Akane decides that she wants to live in a small and run-down hut. This hut is where she and Shinpei grew up.

59. 義妹だよ (Step-Sister): Suzu hears that her relatives, the (evil) people who ran the restuarant that she used to work in, are having less and less business, partially due to their ailing bodies. Suzu helps out and gets tricked into working there. She decides to quit her job at the auto repair shop, but part of her decision is also because it's hard for her to be around Shinpei, especially since she feels like she's competing with Akane for his love. Afterwards, he declines Akane's invitation to pick him up in the rain, and tells her that she's just a step-sister.

60. 傷だらけを抱きしめて (Embracing Many Wounds): Akane's quite an athlete and is approached by the coach (not just for her skills, but rather her body). Emily knows that the coach is a bit sketchy and tells Shinpei. She asks whether he's worried, to which he responds that Akane is already 16. After work, he heads over to the restaurant and after some talk, he hugs Suzu.

61. Yes or No: Suzu's roommate accidently sends off a text message to Shinpei that asks "Do you love me? Yes or no." Akane and Shinpei both see this. He delays his response and finds out from Suzu that it was an accident. While Suzu is there are the shop, Akane has told Akira and Tetsu to let her know what's going with the two of them. Akira exaggerates and Akane ends up crying by herself.

62. ダーゲッと！ (Target!): The coach pays a visit to Shinpei with the alibi that he wants to ask him to allow Akane to join the track team. When Shinpei declines Akane's invitation to go to the festival, the coach sees his chance and convinces Akane to join the team, making her believe that he'll put some sense into Shinpei.

63. バッドタイミング (Bad Timing): At the festival, the coach and Akane end up together in the house of horrors. Akane is claustrophobic, so she needs to take a break. While she's resting, the coach sees Shinpei and Suzu. He embraces Akane in front of Shinpei.

64. 恋する瞳 (Loving Eyes): After the festival, Shinpei takes Suzu home. At his own house, Emily, Marina, and Akane are there lighting fireworks. Shinpei comes back, Marina and Emily depart and leave the two of them alone.

65. 恋夏合宿 (Summer Love Training Camp): The track team go to the beach for training (of course, the only reason is that the coach wants to see Akane in a bathing suit). The guys from the auto-repair shop also decide to go, but Suzu unfortunately has promised a few clients that their cars will be fixed. Shinpei volunteers to stay behind and finish the job and allowing the others to leave first.

66. アブないすれちがい (Dangerous Encounter): Akane accidentally gets stung by a sea urchin. Later that day, Akira tells her that he'll take her to meet Shinpei at the train station. However, he pretends to get lost in the mountains in the pouring rain. He has his devious plans, but meanwhile Akane is starting to hyperventilate and getting a high fever. Akira still has his dirty thoughts even though she's incapacitated.

67. SOS: Akira's car gets bumped and gets pushed down the side of the road and water is starting to fill the car. Meanwhile, back at base camp, Shinpei and Suzu hitchhiked from the station since they didn't have a ride. His boss take him to try to find Akira and Akane and find them just in time.

68. Kiss Me: Akane and Shinpei spend the next day playing at the beach. At dusk, Akane tells him that she wants to kiss him.

69. 夏のかけら (Pieces of Summer): During their last night on vacation underneath fireworks, Shinpei asks Suzu to be his girlfriend.

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