Gift Fic for momo100
A piece of Senpai love for momo100
Title: The Christmas house of mirrors
Pairing/Group: Nagase, Koichi, no pairing
Rating: PG
Notes: for momo100!
Koichi grumbled as he felt an arm around his shoulder, pulling him close. His friend really had no sense for private space. Like, at all. Nagase must have sensed Koichi’s aversion towards the move, but he felt too much joy in teasing to let it go already.
“Hey, there, pumpkin. Want me to buy you a crepe?”
“You know I don’t eat sweets,” Koichi said, annoyed.
He tried to escape the arm he was captivated under, but Nagase wouldn’t let him move his arm away by any means.
“And stop acting like this is a date,” Koichi demanded. “People are gonna get ideas.”
“It’s not a date,” Nagase opposed. “We’re just hanging out.”
“Right now you are hanging over me and it’s annoying,” Koichi let his friend know.
Nagase looked at him for a moment. Then, “A curry bun, maybe?”
“No,” Koichi told him. “And let go of me already.” He sighed deeply. “Just why did I agree to this?”
“Because it sucks to be by yourself for Christmas?” Nagase suggested.
“But that’s exactly why people will be thinking we’re dating, or something,” Koichi bit out. “Tonight’s a date night and you’re wandering around a funfair with your arm draped over me.”
“Why do you care so much about what people may think?” his friend asked.
Koichi glared at him. “Because I am not a two meters tall stud with a beard growing on my face that doesn’t look ridiculous. I’m a tiny petite pretty face and people keep asking me if I’m gay way too much as it is.”
Nagase chuckled. “Any of them would get a heart attack if they knew how much of a playboy you actually are.” He finally let Koichi escape from his grip.
“Doesn’t help me with Christmas dates, though,” Koichi muttered.
“Well, girls only want to go on dates like that with guys who answer their calls after they had sex with him,” Nagase pointed out.
“Don’t make it sound like I’m a jerk,” Koichi said with a glare. “I always tell them what my intensions are. Most of them come along happily enough. It’s just easier like this. Serious dating is tough for idols and while we’re working basically all year, I’ll rather keep things simple.”
“I understand what you’re saying,” Nagase told him friend. “But then, on days like this, don’t you miss the emotional intimacies of a relationship?”
“Hey, I don’t see you on a date with a hottie today,” Koichi countered.
“Well, you’re here,” his friend teased. “But thanks for reminding me that Minako left me just a week ago.”
Koichi sighed. “Sorry. I know you were serious about her. But that’s exactly what I’m talking about. When you try to establish something, you can be sure that either management, or fan hypes, or basically the stupid entertainment business are going to ruin it for you.”
“Kou,” Nagase said, shaking his head, “she replaced me with one of the Exile guys. She just enjoys “idol-hopping”.”
“Well, then girls suck and dating girls sucks when you’re a Johnny,” Koichi concluded. “Doesn’t exactly make things brighter.”
“But we can still make the best of every spare time minute we have,” Nagase stated, wanting to end that miserable conversation. “Come on, let’s find something fun to do.”
“What do you want to do here?” Koichi asked, yet again annoyed. “This is a place for couples to spend their Christmas date.”
“I like the illumination a lot,” Nagase explained. “Plus, you agreed to come.”
“Yeah, I must have been out of my mind,” Koichi grunted.
“Now stop being such a Grinch,” Nagase demanded. “Come on. We can have fun. There, the Ferris wheel. That’s not a romantic activity. We can just get in and…”
“Sit next to each other,” Koichi muttered, “in a small cabin that nobody can peek into, getting a wonderful view over the city, the night lights glimmering everywhere over the snowy surroundings…”
“Oh god, stop,” Nagase demanded. “That’s too gay.”
“Really?” Koichi asked sarcastically. “Wow, when you say it like that…”
“Okay, I get it already,” Nagase sighed. “It was a stupid idea to come here. Sorry, I was just trying to think of something we wouldn’t usually be doing together.”
“I know,” Koichi smile at him. “The thought’s appreciated, too. But can we please go now? We don’t really fit in here like that.”
“Okay, let’s get going,” Nagase agreed. “How about a nice round of `Need for Speed´ instead?”
“Sounds like a plan,” Koichi agreed happily. “Let’s just make a quick stop at a Lawson, I want to get some beer.”
“And strawberry milk,” Nagase added teasingly.
Koichi rolled his eyes, but did not oppose. They made their way out of the park, when Koichi noticed that Nagase was changing directions yet again.
“Hey, where are you…?”
“Oh no,” Nagase exclaimed. “Look, there’s a little girl lost in the house of mirrors.”
Koichi looked at the fairground ride and there was indeed a small girl standing at one of the frontal panes, crying her little eyes out. He sighed.
“Naga-“
But his friend had already dashed off, paid the ride and got into the house of mirrors quickly. Koichi huffed, annoyed. Just why did Nagase always have to dash forward so impulsively? He sighed deeply, deciding to wait for his friend and seating himself on a near-by bench. And there he waited. Five minutes. Ten. Fifteen. After almost twenty minutes, Koichi had had it. He went back to the front of the house of mirrors.
“What are you still doing in there?” he barked at his friend.
Nagase fidgeted with his fingers a bit. “Well, I… sorry, I think I kind of… got lost in here?”
Koichi stared at his friend. “You’ve got to be kidding me. Are you telling me you dashed in there to rescue someone and now you’re stuck in there yourself?”
“Well… I didn’t know it was so tricky,” Nagase complained.
Koichi rolled his eyes. “Wow, that’s… okay, hold on.”
With a deep sigh Koichi collected some coins from his pocket and paid for a ticket. He got into the house of mirrors and, knowing that you could see the connections between walls and mirrors on the ceiling quickly walked through to his friend.
“Okay, let’s get out,” Koichi told Nagase as he reached him. “Just follow me.”
“Hey, the girl’s still in here too,” Nagase told him. “We should help here.”
“What do you mean, we?” Koichi asked pointedly.
“Come on, Kou,” Nagase urged. “Let’s help.”
“Fine,” Koichi grumbled. “Come on, then.”
“Wait, hold on,” Nagase called after him. “Not so fast.”
He grabbed Koichi’s hand so he wouldn’t lose him. Koichi wanted to slap the hand away, but ultimately decided that the sooner they got out of there, the better for everybody. Koichi spotted the lost girl in a corner of the labyrinth.
“Hey,” he said as they reached her. “Did you get lost?”
The girl has stopped crying, but still looked seriously lost. She nodded at Koichi.
“I see,” Koichi said, smiling kindly. “Well, this is tricky. My friend here got lost too. So I came in to get him out. Do you want to follow us too?”
The girl nodded eagerly.
“Alright, come here, then,” Koichi offered.
The girl came running immediately and without asking grabbed Koichi’s other hand. Koichi blinked at it for a moment, but then merely shrugged as he made his way through the house of mirrors. Koichi kept checking the ceiling and took his turns according to what he could see. Following that pattern it didn’t even take them a minute to find the exit.
“Well, here we are,” Koichi declared.
“Thank goodness,” Nagase sighed. “That was awful.”
Koichi chuckled, shaking his head. Then he addressed the girl again. “So… do you know where your parents are?”
The girl shook her head. She looked like she was about to start crying again.
“Not to worry,” Koichi assured her. “They must be here somewhere, right? Where did you last see them?”
“Duck fishing,” he girl squeaked out.
Koichi nodded. “And then?”
The girl merely bit its lip. So Koichi tried a different approach.
“What’s your name, sweety?”
“Maya,” the girl answered.
“Okay, Maya, don’t worry, you’re gonna get back to your parents, okay?”
“Okay,” the girl answered.
“There you go,” Koichi smiled at her. “Now, what did you do after the duck fishing?”
“I had a token left,” the girl related. “I wanted to spend it here.”
“Did you tell your parents where you’re going?” Koichi asked.
The girl shook her head.
“I see,” Koichi sighed. “Well, fear not, little Maya. We’re gonna take you to the information stand. The employees there will find your parents for you, okay?”
To reassure her he took the girl’s hand again. Like that and with Nagase in tow they made their way to the information. Once there, they found that Maya’s parents were already there waiting for her daughter. It turned out that they went their right after losing her and the employees told them to stick around because lost children were always brought there.
“See, Maya?” Koichi said to the girl. “I told you we’d find them.”
Maya nodded happily. She hopped over to their parents, who hugged their daughter. Koichi smiled. At least they had done something nice for Christmas. When the parents had made sure that their child was alright, they came over to thank Koichi and Nagase.
“Thank you very much,” the girl’s mother said. “We were so worried and…” Then she stared at the pair of them. “Oh my God, you… you’re… Nagase-san. Domoto-san.”
Koichi cringed. “Well, yeah, we just happened to be here. We’re glad we could help.”
“We should invite you for dinner,” the woman suggested.
“Ah, thank you,” Nagase stuttered, “but… we’ve got this… meeting. We really need to get going.”
“Oh, that’s a pity,” the woman sighed. “But thank you so much for finding our daughter.”
“Yes, really, thank you,” the girl’s father agreed.
He then tried to pull his wife back by her shoulder. She still seemed a bit reluctant but ultimately understood that she had to let it go. As Koichi and Nagase retreated, Koichi sighed.
“Okay, that was awful,” he decided.
“Agreed.” Nagase nodded. “But we could help, that was nice.”
“Yeah,” Koichi snorted. “The way you got lost in there sure helped a lot.”
“Sorry for bothering you,” Nagase muttered.
“Yeah, whatever, just take me home already,” Koichi demanded.
“Wait,” Nagase opposed. “You were really cool. Let me make it up to you.”
“No, really,” Koichi told him. “No need.”
“Aw, come on,” Nagase urged. “Let me at least win you a small plushie.”
Koichi made a face. “What - no. Just… leave it, already.”
“Oh, young man,” the voice of a young woman cut in. Obviously she had just walked by and overheard part fo their conversation. “Whatever your boyfriend did, he’s really trying to make it up to you. Give him a chance.”
Koichi stared. Then he shook his head madly.
“No, we… we are not a couple,” he demanded so harshly the woman retreated immediately, looking shocked. Then Koichi addressed his friend. “You. This is all your fault.”
Nagase smiled apologetically at him. “I’m sorry, really. But hey, this time around I was taken for gay too,” he shrugged.
“That’s not very comforting,” Koichi told him. “Well… maybe a little.”
Nagase chuckled. “Okay, let’s get to your place now. At least now we have a good story that we can tell.”
“That much would be true,” Koichi agreed, chuckling along.
“Okay, that strawberry milk is on me,” Nagase told him as they strode off.
They walked calmly together, Nagase bringing up his obligatory arm to wrap it around Koichi’s shoulders.
“You’ll never leave it, will you,” Koichi sighed.
“You’re just too comfortable,” Nagase told him.
Koichi nudged against Nagase’s side.
“I’m so gonna kick your ass at `Need for Speed´.”
Title: The Christmas house of mirrors
Pairing/Group: Nagase, Koichi, no pairing
Rating: PG
Notes: for momo100!
Koichi grumbled as he felt an arm around his shoulder, pulling him close. His friend really had no sense for private space. Like, at all. Nagase must have sensed Koichi’s aversion towards the move, but he felt too much joy in teasing to let it go already.
“Hey, there, pumpkin. Want me to buy you a crepe?”
“You know I don’t eat sweets,” Koichi said, annoyed.
He tried to escape the arm he was captivated under, but Nagase wouldn’t let him move his arm away by any means.
“And stop acting like this is a date,” Koichi demanded. “People are gonna get ideas.”
“It’s not a date,” Nagase opposed. “We’re just hanging out.”
“Right now you are hanging over me and it’s annoying,” Koichi let his friend know.
Nagase looked at him for a moment. Then, “A curry bun, maybe?”
“No,” Koichi told him. “And let go of me already.” He sighed deeply. “Just why did I agree to this?”
“Because it sucks to be by yourself for Christmas?” Nagase suggested.
“But that’s exactly why people will be thinking we’re dating, or something,” Koichi bit out. “Tonight’s a date night and you’re wandering around a funfair with your arm draped over me.”
“Why do you care so much about what people may think?” his friend asked.
Koichi glared at him. “Because I am not a two meters tall stud with a beard growing on my face that doesn’t look ridiculous. I’m a tiny petite pretty face and people keep asking me if I’m gay way too much as it is.”
Nagase chuckled. “Any of them would get a heart attack if they knew how much of a playboy you actually are.” He finally let Koichi escape from his grip.
“Doesn’t help me with Christmas dates, though,” Koichi muttered.
“Well, girls only want to go on dates like that with guys who answer their calls after they had sex with him,” Nagase pointed out.
“Don’t make it sound like I’m a jerk,” Koichi said with a glare. “I always tell them what my intensions are. Most of them come along happily enough. It’s just easier like this. Serious dating is tough for idols and while we’re working basically all year, I’ll rather keep things simple.”
“I understand what you’re saying,” Nagase told him friend. “But then, on days like this, don’t you miss the emotional intimacies of a relationship?”
“Hey, I don’t see you on a date with a hottie today,” Koichi countered.
“Well, you’re here,” his friend teased. “But thanks for reminding me that Minako left me just a week ago.”
Koichi sighed. “Sorry. I know you were serious about her. But that’s exactly what I’m talking about. When you try to establish something, you can be sure that either management, or fan hypes, or basically the stupid entertainment business are going to ruin it for you.”
“Kou,” Nagase said, shaking his head, “she replaced me with one of the Exile guys. She just enjoys “idol-hopping”.”
“Well, then girls suck and dating girls sucks when you’re a Johnny,” Koichi concluded. “Doesn’t exactly make things brighter.”
“But we can still make the best of every spare time minute we have,” Nagase stated, wanting to end that miserable conversation. “Come on, let’s find something fun to do.”
“What do you want to do here?” Koichi asked, yet again annoyed. “This is a place for couples to spend their Christmas date.”
“I like the illumination a lot,” Nagase explained. “Plus, you agreed to come.”
“Yeah, I must have been out of my mind,” Koichi grunted.
“Now stop being such a Grinch,” Nagase demanded. “Come on. We can have fun. There, the Ferris wheel. That’s not a romantic activity. We can just get in and…”
“Sit next to each other,” Koichi muttered, “in a small cabin that nobody can peek into, getting a wonderful view over the city, the night lights glimmering everywhere over the snowy surroundings…”
“Oh god, stop,” Nagase demanded. “That’s too gay.”
“Really?” Koichi asked sarcastically. “Wow, when you say it like that…”
“Okay, I get it already,” Nagase sighed. “It was a stupid idea to come here. Sorry, I was just trying to think of something we wouldn’t usually be doing together.”
“I know,” Koichi smile at him. “The thought’s appreciated, too. But can we please go now? We don’t really fit in here like that.”
“Okay, let’s get going,” Nagase agreed. “How about a nice round of `Need for Speed´ instead?”
“Sounds like a plan,” Koichi agreed happily. “Let’s just make a quick stop at a Lawson, I want to get some beer.”
“And strawberry milk,” Nagase added teasingly.
Koichi rolled his eyes, but did not oppose. They made their way out of the park, when Koichi noticed that Nagase was changing directions yet again.
“Hey, where are you…?”
“Oh no,” Nagase exclaimed. “Look, there’s a little girl lost in the house of mirrors.”
Koichi looked at the fairground ride and there was indeed a small girl standing at one of the frontal panes, crying her little eyes out. He sighed.
“Naga-“
But his friend had already dashed off, paid the ride and got into the house of mirrors quickly. Koichi huffed, annoyed. Just why did Nagase always have to dash forward so impulsively? He sighed deeply, deciding to wait for his friend and seating himself on a near-by bench. And there he waited. Five minutes. Ten. Fifteen. After almost twenty minutes, Koichi had had it. He went back to the front of the house of mirrors.
“What are you still doing in there?” he barked at his friend.
Nagase fidgeted with his fingers a bit. “Well, I… sorry, I think I kind of… got lost in here?”
Koichi stared at his friend. “You’ve got to be kidding me. Are you telling me you dashed in there to rescue someone and now you’re stuck in there yourself?”
“Well… I didn’t know it was so tricky,” Nagase complained.
Koichi rolled his eyes. “Wow, that’s… okay, hold on.”
With a deep sigh Koichi collected some coins from his pocket and paid for a ticket. He got into the house of mirrors and, knowing that you could see the connections between walls and mirrors on the ceiling quickly walked through to his friend.
“Okay, let’s get out,” Koichi told Nagase as he reached him. “Just follow me.”
“Hey, the girl’s still in here too,” Nagase told him. “We should help here.”
“What do you mean, we?” Koichi asked pointedly.
“Come on, Kou,” Nagase urged. “Let’s help.”
“Fine,” Koichi grumbled. “Come on, then.”
“Wait, hold on,” Nagase called after him. “Not so fast.”
He grabbed Koichi’s hand so he wouldn’t lose him. Koichi wanted to slap the hand away, but ultimately decided that the sooner they got out of there, the better for everybody. Koichi spotted the lost girl in a corner of the labyrinth.
“Hey,” he said as they reached her. “Did you get lost?”
The girl has stopped crying, but still looked seriously lost. She nodded at Koichi.
“I see,” Koichi said, smiling kindly. “Well, this is tricky. My friend here got lost too. So I came in to get him out. Do you want to follow us too?”
The girl nodded eagerly.
“Alright, come here, then,” Koichi offered.
The girl came running immediately and without asking grabbed Koichi’s other hand. Koichi blinked at it for a moment, but then merely shrugged as he made his way through the house of mirrors. Koichi kept checking the ceiling and took his turns according to what he could see. Following that pattern it didn’t even take them a minute to find the exit.
“Well, here we are,” Koichi declared.
“Thank goodness,” Nagase sighed. “That was awful.”
Koichi chuckled, shaking his head. Then he addressed the girl again. “So… do you know where your parents are?”
The girl shook her head. She looked like she was about to start crying again.
“Not to worry,” Koichi assured her. “They must be here somewhere, right? Where did you last see them?”
“Duck fishing,” he girl squeaked out.
Koichi nodded. “And then?”
The girl merely bit its lip. So Koichi tried a different approach.
“What’s your name, sweety?”
“Maya,” the girl answered.
“Okay, Maya, don’t worry, you’re gonna get back to your parents, okay?”
“Okay,” the girl answered.
“There you go,” Koichi smiled at her. “Now, what did you do after the duck fishing?”
“I had a token left,” the girl related. “I wanted to spend it here.”
“Did you tell your parents where you’re going?” Koichi asked.
The girl shook her head.
“I see,” Koichi sighed. “Well, fear not, little Maya. We’re gonna take you to the information stand. The employees there will find your parents for you, okay?”
To reassure her he took the girl’s hand again. Like that and with Nagase in tow they made their way to the information. Once there, they found that Maya’s parents were already there waiting for her daughter. It turned out that they went their right after losing her and the employees told them to stick around because lost children were always brought there.
“See, Maya?” Koichi said to the girl. “I told you we’d find them.”
Maya nodded happily. She hopped over to their parents, who hugged their daughter. Koichi smiled. At least they had done something nice for Christmas. When the parents had made sure that their child was alright, they came over to thank Koichi and Nagase.
“Thank you very much,” the girl’s mother said. “We were so worried and…” Then she stared at the pair of them. “Oh my God, you… you’re… Nagase-san. Domoto-san.”
Koichi cringed. “Well, yeah, we just happened to be here. We’re glad we could help.”
“We should invite you for dinner,” the woman suggested.
“Ah, thank you,” Nagase stuttered, “but… we’ve got this… meeting. We really need to get going.”
“Oh, that’s a pity,” the woman sighed. “But thank you so much for finding our daughter.”
“Yes, really, thank you,” the girl’s father agreed.
He then tried to pull his wife back by her shoulder. She still seemed a bit reluctant but ultimately understood that she had to let it go. As Koichi and Nagase retreated, Koichi sighed.
“Okay, that was awful,” he decided.
“Agreed.” Nagase nodded. “But we could help, that was nice.”
“Yeah,” Koichi snorted. “The way you got lost in there sure helped a lot.”
“Sorry for bothering you,” Nagase muttered.
“Yeah, whatever, just take me home already,” Koichi demanded.
“Wait,” Nagase opposed. “You were really cool. Let me make it up to you.”
“No, really,” Koichi told him. “No need.”
“Aw, come on,” Nagase urged. “Let me at least win you a small plushie.”
Koichi made a face. “What - no. Just… leave it, already.”
“Oh, young man,” the voice of a young woman cut in. Obviously she had just walked by and overheard part fo their conversation. “Whatever your boyfriend did, he’s really trying to make it up to you. Give him a chance.”
Koichi stared. Then he shook his head madly.
“No, we… we are not a couple,” he demanded so harshly the woman retreated immediately, looking shocked. Then Koichi addressed his friend. “You. This is all your fault.”
Nagase smiled apologetically at him. “I’m sorry, really. But hey, this time around I was taken for gay too,” he shrugged.
“That’s not very comforting,” Koichi told him. “Well… maybe a little.”
Nagase chuckled. “Okay, let’s get to your place now. At least now we have a good story that we can tell.”
“That much would be true,” Koichi agreed, chuckling along.
“Okay, that strawberry milk is on me,” Nagase told him as they strode off.
They walked calmly together, Nagase bringing up his obligatory arm to wrap it around Koichi’s shoulders.
“You’ll never leave it, will you,” Koichi sighed.
“You’re just too comfortable,” Nagase told him.
Koichi nudged against Nagase’s side.
“I’m so gonna kick your ass at `Need for Speed´.”