TELLING THE TRUTH After overcoming a myriad of challenges, Tsugumi and Itsuki adopt a baby boy named Koki. As time passes, their bond as a family only grows stronger. Meanwhile, the day approaches for their next task -- to tell their son that he was adopted.
Tsugumi Kawana has started dating her first crush, Itsuki Ayukawa, who's in a wheelchair. However, amidst the harsh opinions of those around her, she becomes sick and falls from a station platform becoming badly injured. Tsugumi returns to her hometown of Matsumoto to recuperate. While Itsuki makes a decision as he struggles through various trials. Which is—
When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.
Heartbroken, Tsugumi rides home from the Ferris wheel with Itsuki in silence. She tries to come to terms with Ituski ending their relationship, but she just can’t seem to swallow her lingering feelings. When she's at her lowest, it's Koreda who comes to support her. Tsugumi is torn between her first love and her unrivaled support! And in the middle of everything, even Itsuki’s helper Nagasawa-san caves!
Tsugumi Kawana has started dating her first crush, Itsuki Ayukawa, who's in a wheelchair. However, the deeper and deeper their love gets, the harsher the realities they face become. And at the appearance of Itsuki's caregiver who has feelings for him, Nagasawa, and Tsugumi's classmate who has feelings for her, Koreda, everything begins to fall apart as emotions are stirred…
After her breakup with Itsuki, Tsumugi leaves Tokyo for her old home in Matsumoto...and after one stormy night, she finds herself in a relationship with Koreda! Tsugumi thought she was over Itsuki, but she meets Kaede, who uses a wheelchair, and Keigo, her boyfriend who wants to build her a house that meets her need...and, shockingly, Itsuki refuses to design it for him! The news plunges Tsugumi's heart into turmoil... Meanwhile, big changes are in store for Nagasawa and Itsuki's relationship.
A NEW CHAPTER Now happily married, Tsugumi and Itsuki start their life as newlyweds. Their relationship and careers are going smoothly, and they cherish the everyday moments shared together. They couldn’t ask for more, but when they start thinking about the future, they inevitably wonder how they feel about starting a family. But having a child is proving to be a challenge for the couple, especially for Tsugumi...
Itsuki and Tsugumi spend the night after the earthquake together in a van outside the shelter. Koreda and Nagasawa arrive from Tokyo the next day, and Nagasawa takes Itsuki to a different shelter and away from Tsugumi. Unfortunately, Koreda learns that Tsugumi and Itsuki spent the night together. Later, Tsugumi's friend, Maika, invites her out to Tokyo, and Tsugumi accepts...only to learn that Maika's boyfriend, Haruhito, who uses a wheelchair, broke up with her some time ago. They say they have no regrets...and Tsugumi finds herself at Itsuki's apartment that night instead of Koreda's.
"University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the village where Miwako spent her final days. While he is away, Fumi receives an unexpected guest at their shared apartment in Tokyo, increasingly fearful that Miwako's death may ruin what is left of her brother's life. Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of Rainbirds, Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman's careful faðcade, unmasking her most painful secrets"--
"26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana reunites with her first crush from high school, Itsuki Ayukawa, at a get-together between an architecture firm and the interior design company she works at. He sends her heart aflutter, until she realizes he's now disabled, and in a wheelchair. At first she feels she couldn't date a guy in a wheelchair, but then her feelings begin to change ..."--Publisher.