[completed] Beyond The Bet (Side Story of The Bet) 5/5
Title : Beyond The Bet (Side Story of The Bet) Chapter 5
Author : lovu_lovu_aiba
Pairings : Ohmiya, mention Sakuraiba & Junba
Genre : AU, Romance
Rating : PG13 [Ohno`s POV] and PG13 [Nino`s POV]
Disclaimer : I hope I own them but sadly not D:
Summary : Sakurai Sho and his little perfect group of friends - Ninomiya Kazunari, Ohno Satoshi and Matsumoto Jun - made a bet about which one of them would make Aiba Masaki fall for him. Why did Nino start the bet? And why did Ohno agree to join the game? Find that out in “Beyond the Bet.”
Warning : Un-beta-ed just because I didn't write this fic for a year more, please forgive me ><"
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Ohno’s POV
He neglected me, Nino was still talking to me normally, as normal as we used to be before we started the I-will-make-you-fall-for-me game, and it wasn’t amusing anymore. He was pretending everything was alright in front of Sho and sometimes in front of Jun. He was still trying to fix Sho and Jun’s relationship as the regret to start the bet never left his heart. But everything between us was over, for him at least… Because it wasn’t for me… He established a strong wall between us by not letting himself to be alone in one room with me. The loner Nino was suddenly made so many friends so he couldn’t be leave alone by anyone, not even when he was going to toilet. He made sure to bring either Jun or Sho if he needed to talk to me, for the sake to keep our ‘friendship’ in good shape.
I did come to his house but again… he tried every way to make it not obvious that he didn’t want to talk about us, in fact he kept me in living room area where his mom and sister came through. He didn’t even budge even when his mom said, “Why are you made Satoshi-kun sitting awkwardly in our living room, Kazu? Go to your room!”
But he only mumbled that his room was in mess although I believed that I’ve seen the worst condition of his room, and I thought I really had no problem with that. In my desperation, I tried to talk to him while we were watching television with his mom and he kicked me out from house immediately. I even tried to talk to him whenever we hang out with Sho or Jun, but again… he ran away immediately or pretending not hearing anything, which usually worked just fine because Sho didn’t pay much attention to anything on numb state and Jun didn’t respond on it either.
Days changed into months, season changed, our graduations were coming closer uncontrollably. I didn’t understand why I made this graduation as our limit to talk about us although I was sure Nino would ask me out even after we graduated, again… for the sake of our friendship, but it felt like there was no other chance outside this wall for me and Nino. He would be someone who was out of my reach.
Nino’s thought worked like a maze, if you got involved to, there was no coming back and the way out wasn’t particularly promising, the only thing you had was yourself and your belief. Nino would make a very simple thing became amazingly complicated, for his own enjoyment sometime, but the other time just because he was Nino. It was frustrating… How he made me chase after him for months just to tell him that I wanted to be with him, no one else. I understood that he felt extremely unconfident about my feelings as I, myself didn’t able to explain it well. I was in love with someone for years but suddenly I chase after him, I would perfectly understand if he couldn’t accept it easily. But my feelings for Nino were completely different, it was very egoistical… very uncontrollable. If you decided to be closer to him than ever, you couldn’t never back as friends, there was no way back. No when you were unreasonably couldn’t stop thinking about him, no when he was frustratedly lingering on your head.
Nino was strong and cynical outside but he was delicate and fragile inside, he was just being tough to protect himself from wreck, because he was never trust someone enough to depend on them. I would never understand how that mind of him worked and I would love to give everything to infiltrate to his mind. But his protection was too strong, I couldn’t ever understand his mind nor entered his heart.
Even so I found he dragged Sho along with him toward me after graduation ceremony, I really needed to laud his persistency to keep our friendship in spite of his obstinate to ignore a conversation about our relationship. “Oh-chan! Let’s make a graduation party in Sho’s place? I will try to call Jun!”
And his persistency to make Jun and Sho got along together again, which I was sure, impossible. Once you mixed friendship with love, once you broke it, there was no way it became uninjured, like how impossible to glue a vase after crashed to the floor. Just like my friendship with him, it was no longer friendship anymore since he decided to intercept me with our game.
Sho kept his blank expression, he lost his smile since Aiba was gone, mirthless and pathetic, but no less realistic. Aiba was his center of life, just like how earth revolved around the sun. Imagine if the sun was gone… I believe the earth unable to move anymore to continue it lives. “I have dinner with my family tonight…”
No, I didn’t.
I just didn’t want to join that graduation party, faking that I had nothing to say to Nino, faking our friendship to be okay, faking that we were friends, I hated to fake everything, and I wasn’t going to fake my feelings also. He looked startled with my rejection as I continued, “But I will make time for that party if you are going with me now…”
For some seconds Sho’s eyes glistening with understanding, “Sure, we can delay the party… I never know you guys are that close…” his voice full of rue and apology, although it suddenly became distant also.
“We aren’t-”
“Thanks, Sho-kun,” I cut Nino’s words sharply. Sho smiled, dry and weary, but I knew he was sincere… He was just facing a hard condition to aware with his surroundings. That was so Sho… when he lost his sun. No one knew if the light of his eyes would ever light up again. Nino seemed dejected because he lost as he knew I managed to corner him.
“Why are you so persistent to talk about this?” he frowned to me and fold his hands after Sho left us alone.
“Why are you so persistent to run away?” I countered.
He frowned even deeper to my question, “Because we don’t have anything to talk anymore.”
I felt my throat dried as I tried to keep talking, “We do, about ending our game, that’s your decision not mine, and I can’t back to be friends!”
“Now, I don’t understand, Ohno-san!” he exclaimed nearly shouted at me, “This is your moment to be near with Sho and you don’t need his substitute anymore!”
“His substitute…?”
He sighed, “Am I wrong?”
I looked back into his strong gaze as I needed to use my whole energy to hold my urge to hug him, he looked incredibly fragile if he held back his feelings like that. He suppressed his lips into one thin line as he was waiting and I knew what was he waiting for…
My confession…
But it seemed like it was so hard to tell him about my feeling, I never said it to anyone and never thought I need to say it out loud. Suddenly he broke our gazes and laughed dryly, “It’s over…” he shook his head slowly.
I grasped on his hand immediately, “Nino… Nino… I…”
“Ohno-san…” he removed my hand to free his wrist, “No need to push yourself to say anything… No need to fake a confession for the sake I stay with you. Because I do, without even need a confession… as friends…”
He showed a smile to me before he walked away… most probably… forever…
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Nino's POV
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Author : lovu_lovu_aiba
Pairings : Ohmiya, mention Sakuraiba & Junba
Genre : AU, Romance
Rating : PG13 [Ohno`s POV] and PG13 [Nino`s POV]
Disclaimer : I hope I own them but sadly not D:
Summary : Sakurai Sho and his little perfect group of friends - Ninomiya Kazunari, Ohno Satoshi and Matsumoto Jun - made a bet about which one of them would make Aiba Masaki fall for him. Why did Nino start the bet? And why did Ohno agree to join the game? Find that out in “Beyond the Bet.”
Warning : Un-beta-ed just because I didn't write this fic for a year more, please forgive me ><"
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Ohno’s POV
He neglected me, Nino was still talking to me normally, as normal as we used to be before we started the I-will-make-you-fall-for-me game, and it wasn’t amusing anymore. He was pretending everything was alright in front of Sho and sometimes in front of Jun. He was still trying to fix Sho and Jun’s relationship as the regret to start the bet never left his heart. But everything between us was over, for him at least… Because it wasn’t for me… He established a strong wall between us by not letting himself to be alone in one room with me. The loner Nino was suddenly made so many friends so he couldn’t be leave alone by anyone, not even when he was going to toilet. He made sure to bring either Jun or Sho if he needed to talk to me, for the sake to keep our ‘friendship’ in good shape.
I did come to his house but again… he tried every way to make it not obvious that he didn’t want to talk about us, in fact he kept me in living room area where his mom and sister came through. He didn’t even budge even when his mom said, “Why are you made Satoshi-kun sitting awkwardly in our living room, Kazu? Go to your room!”
But he only mumbled that his room was in mess although I believed that I’ve seen the worst condition of his room, and I thought I really had no problem with that. In my desperation, I tried to talk to him while we were watching television with his mom and he kicked me out from house immediately. I even tried to talk to him whenever we hang out with Sho or Jun, but again… he ran away immediately or pretending not hearing anything, which usually worked just fine because Sho didn’t pay much attention to anything on numb state and Jun didn’t respond on it either.
Days changed into months, season changed, our graduations were coming closer uncontrollably. I didn’t understand why I made this graduation as our limit to talk about us although I was sure Nino would ask me out even after we graduated, again… for the sake of our friendship, but it felt like there was no other chance outside this wall for me and Nino. He would be someone who was out of my reach.
Nino’s thought worked like a maze, if you got involved to, there was no coming back and the way out wasn’t particularly promising, the only thing you had was yourself and your belief. Nino would make a very simple thing became amazingly complicated, for his own enjoyment sometime, but the other time just because he was Nino. It was frustrating… How he made me chase after him for months just to tell him that I wanted to be with him, no one else. I understood that he felt extremely unconfident about my feelings as I, myself didn’t able to explain it well. I was in love with someone for years but suddenly I chase after him, I would perfectly understand if he couldn’t accept it easily. But my feelings for Nino were completely different, it was very egoistical… very uncontrollable. If you decided to be closer to him than ever, you couldn’t never back as friends, there was no way back. No when you were unreasonably couldn’t stop thinking about him, no when he was frustratedly lingering on your head.
Nino was strong and cynical outside but he was delicate and fragile inside, he was just being tough to protect himself from wreck, because he was never trust someone enough to depend on them. I would never understand how that mind of him worked and I would love to give everything to infiltrate to his mind. But his protection was too strong, I couldn’t ever understand his mind nor entered his heart.
Even so I found he dragged Sho along with him toward me after graduation ceremony, I really needed to laud his persistency to keep our friendship in spite of his obstinate to ignore a conversation about our relationship. “Oh-chan! Let’s make a graduation party in Sho’s place? I will try to call Jun!”
And his persistency to make Jun and Sho got along together again, which I was sure, impossible. Once you mixed friendship with love, once you broke it, there was no way it became uninjured, like how impossible to glue a vase after crashed to the floor. Just like my friendship with him, it was no longer friendship anymore since he decided to intercept me with our game.
Sho kept his blank expression, he lost his smile since Aiba was gone, mirthless and pathetic, but no less realistic. Aiba was his center of life, just like how earth revolved around the sun. Imagine if the sun was gone… I believe the earth unable to move anymore to continue it lives. “I have dinner with my family tonight…”
No, I didn’t.
I just didn’t want to join that graduation party, faking that I had nothing to say to Nino, faking our friendship to be okay, faking that we were friends, I hated to fake everything, and I wasn’t going to fake my feelings also. He looked startled with my rejection as I continued, “But I will make time for that party if you are going with me now…”
For some seconds Sho’s eyes glistening with understanding, “Sure, we can delay the party… I never know you guys are that close…” his voice full of rue and apology, although it suddenly became distant also.
“We aren’t-”
“Thanks, Sho-kun,” I cut Nino’s words sharply. Sho smiled, dry and weary, but I knew he was sincere… He was just facing a hard condition to aware with his surroundings. That was so Sho… when he lost his sun. No one knew if the light of his eyes would ever light up again. Nino seemed dejected because he lost as he knew I managed to corner him.
“Why are you so persistent to talk about this?” he frowned to me and fold his hands after Sho left us alone.
“Why are you so persistent to run away?” I countered.
He frowned even deeper to my question, “Because we don’t have anything to talk anymore.”
I felt my throat dried as I tried to keep talking, “We do, about ending our game, that’s your decision not mine, and I can’t back to be friends!”
“Now, I don’t understand, Ohno-san!” he exclaimed nearly shouted at me, “This is your moment to be near with Sho and you don’t need his substitute anymore!”
“His substitute…?”
He sighed, “Am I wrong?”
I looked back into his strong gaze as I needed to use my whole energy to hold my urge to hug him, he looked incredibly fragile if he held back his feelings like that. He suppressed his lips into one thin line as he was waiting and I knew what was he waiting for…
My confession…
But it seemed like it was so hard to tell him about my feeling, I never said it to anyone and never thought I need to say it out loud. Suddenly he broke our gazes and laughed dryly, “It’s over…” he shook his head slowly.
I grasped on his hand immediately, “Nino… Nino… I…”
“Ohno-san…” he removed my hand to free his wrist, “No need to push yourself to say anything… No need to fake a confession for the sake I stay with you. Because I do, without even need a confession… as friends…”
He showed a smile to me before he walked away… most probably… forever…
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Nino's POV
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