December Drabble Fest - Day 18
Title : December Drabble Fest Day 18 : Love Sign
Rating : PG / Angst / Romance
Pairing : AU. Ohno/Nino, Gen Arashi Friendship
Summary : Aiba’s party is like the man himself - loud and lively, and honestly something Nino wouldn’t voluntarily go to if he has a choice.
Note : Okay, this part is SILLY. I was stuck in the house without internet for several days and ended up marathoning everything Marvel. Most especially Avengers. Then I remembered that Arashi cosplayed the characters in one of their Shiyagare episodes - Aiba as Thor (I ended up making him Iron Man, though XD), Jun as Nick Fury, Sho as Captain America, Nino as Black Widow, and Ohno as Hulk. SO THIS HAPPENED. This part was completely stolen from that Natasha/Dr. Banner scene in Avengers Age of Ultron, during the party.
(December Drabble Fest Day 17)
Aiba’s party is like the man himself - loud and lively, and honestly something Nino wouldn’t voluntarily go to if he has a choice. He’d rather spend his free time killing monsters on-screen - quite an honest downgrade from his day job of killing people and - things, after all, but Aiba was rather insistent.
The party, Aiba said, was a celebration of some sort. For their success in retrieving the sceptre from that Yokoyama asshole. Nino normally declines such invitation before proceeding on telling his friend off but he lets it go this time, knowing Aiba threw this party not because of the usual where Aiba simply wanted to show off, but for them to really have a good time.
Besides that, well, he’d actually talked himself into attending, simply because he was told Ohno would be there, too.
Doctor Ohno, Nino thinks, is a total eye-candy. Well, he is, especially if he’s just himself and has not yet turned into the green-eyed monster who likes to break things. Nino thinks he’s cute, and kinda funny, despite the fact that he only ever interacts with Nino when he’s big and green and snarling with everyone, and it’s Nino’s job to calm him down so he wouldn’t end up smashing people’s heads off and also so he would turn back into this cute little doctor with the cute little smile and equally cute personality that Nino really, really likes.
Nino doesn’t really think much when he joined the ARangers at first, but after he met the tiny doctor - who isn’t really tiny most of the time - he realized it’s not really that bad.
Nino knows that the doctor usually prefers to be alone, listening to soothing opera music on high volume to keep the Green Monster at bay, but tonight, he decides to join the party. It could mean anything, but Nino tries not to look into it too much.
He’d spied Jun trying to charm the pants off everyone who is willing to listen, and catches Sho shaking his head behind Jun’s back when he walked his way towards the bar to prepare his own drink. He saw Ohno talking to Aiba earlier, but the doctor disappeared somewhere as soon as Aiba was done bothering him.
He takes his time mixing the alcohols, feels his fingers tingle the second he spies Ohno approaching. He makes a good show of filling two cocktail glasses instead of one, once he is certain that Ohno is heading his way towards the direction of the bar.
He pushes the other cocktail glass forward when Ohno approaches with a smile.
“How’d a nice guy like you wind up working in a dump like this?” Ohno asks, once he is close enough for Nino to hear. Nino finds himself inexplicably charmed, chuckling under his breath as he reaches for the other cocktail glass and takes a careful sip.
“Fella done me wrong,” he lies with a non-commital shrug.
Ohno gives him a look. “Got a lousy taste in men, kid?”
“He’s not so bad,” he amends, smirking. “Well, he has a temper. But deep down, he’s all fluff. Fact is, he’s not like anybody I’ve ever known.” he smiles, finding this kind of embarrassing but also kind of not. Especially when Ohno is looking at him as if he’s the most interesting thing in here, in a place full of wonderful people.
He leans over the counter, staring Ohno from under his lashes. “All my friends are fighters. And here comes this guy, who spends his life avoiding the fight because he knows he’ll win.”
The corner of Ohno’s mouth turn up into a half-smile, and Nino finds the sight so endearing. Oh god, his heart.
“Sounds amazing.” Ohno says.
“He’s also a huge dork,” he adds, and meaning it, because how can he not? Ohno is that and more, and despite knowing the other man just recently, he can’t help but feel like they’ve known each other for far longer.
Nino feels so comfortable with him, if anything, and that’s something Nino knows is special.
“Well, chicks dig that.” he points out with a soft smile. He doesn’t point out that gays like him dig the same thing a hundred times over, and he hopes Ohno gets the idea.
Ohno’s smile is hesitant this time, but Nino can’t, for the life of him, fault him for being a little careful.
“So what do you think?” he pipes up, before Ohno can answer. “Should I fight this? Or run with it?” he inquires, generally liking the fact that Ohno looks so cute wearing that frown, as if he’s not sure what Nino is asking him.
“Run with it, right? Or - did he…Was he - What did he do that was so wrong to you?” Ohno asks, stutters a little around the syllable and god, Nino’s heart stutters in return, charmed all over again.
He grins as he leans forward and whispers, “Not a damn thing,” he says, and licks his lips, smirking knowing that Ohno’s eyes are following his every movement. He hopes it didn’t come out as if he’s complaining, and if it did, oh well.
He takes his barely-touched cocktail glass when he sees Sho approaching, and pulls away but not before muttering a hushed, “But never say never.”
++
“It’s nice,” Sakurai Sho quips, as he watches Nino walk away. What in hell just happened?
He turns to Sakurai and frowns. “What is?”
Sakurai shrugs and gives him this look that he can’t quite understand. But Sakurai’s eyes are smiling and the corner of his mouth turn up in a way that tells Ohno he’s enjoying something, and it’s only making Ohno more confused.
“You and Ninomiya.” Sakurai says.
Eh? “No, we haven’t,” he counters, quickly, “That wasn’t…” wasn’t what, really? He’s not sure himself but from that brief exchange, he could say there’s something else there. Something he probably shouldn’t think much but ends up thinking about it anyway.
God, he’s so weird.
“It’s okay. Nobody’s breaking any bylaws here,” Sakurai says. Then, “It’s just that he’s not the most open person in the world. Ninomiya, I mean. But with you he seems very… relaxed.” Sakurai points out.
Ohno shakes his head. He’s really - he has no right to say these things but.
“No, Ninomiya-san, he’s just…. he likes to flirt.” he says, but the thing that’s so weird is that he finds himself inexplicably upset about it.
Did he really just say that? That Ninomiya-san likes to flirt? Jesus, he doesn’t even know the man, not for so long, at the very least, and he’s here, judging the man for what he’s probably not just because he doesn’t have the balls to admit that he likes Ninomiya-san, period.
Sakurai chuckles and tilts his head at him, gives him a once over and grins.
“Well, I know what I’m talking about okay? I’ve seen him flirt, up-close and. This ain’t that.” Sakurai says. Then, Sakurai crosses the short distance between them after he’d took a bottle of beer behind the counter and points it reverently at him.
“Look, as maybe the world’s leading authority on waiting too long, don’t. There’s obviously something there, and anyway, it’s fine. You both deserve a win, just saying.” Sakurai says, with a grin, before he walks away.
His brain has just caught up with everything, and the only thing that stuck is -
“W-Wait, Sakurai-san, what do you mean ‘up-close’??”
(Dec Drabble Fest - Day 19)
Rating : PG / Angst / Romance
Pairing : AU. Ohno/Nino, Gen Arashi Friendship
Summary : Aiba’s party is like the man himself - loud and lively, and honestly something Nino wouldn’t voluntarily go to if he has a choice.
Note : Okay, this part is SILLY. I was stuck in the house without internet for several days and ended up marathoning everything Marvel. Most especially Avengers. Then I remembered that Arashi cosplayed the characters in one of their Shiyagare episodes - Aiba as Thor (I ended up making him Iron Man, though XD), Jun as Nick Fury, Sho as Captain America, Nino as Black Widow, and Ohno as Hulk. SO THIS HAPPENED. This part was completely stolen from that Natasha/Dr. Banner scene in Avengers Age of Ultron, during the party.
(December Drabble Fest Day 17)
Aiba’s party is like the man himself - loud and lively, and honestly something Nino wouldn’t voluntarily go to if he has a choice. He’d rather spend his free time killing monsters on-screen - quite an honest downgrade from his day job of killing people and - things, after all, but Aiba was rather insistent.
The party, Aiba said, was a celebration of some sort. For their success in retrieving the sceptre from that Yokoyama asshole. Nino normally declines such invitation before proceeding on telling his friend off but he lets it go this time, knowing Aiba threw this party not because of the usual where Aiba simply wanted to show off, but for them to really have a good time.
Besides that, well, he’d actually talked himself into attending, simply because he was told Ohno would be there, too.
Doctor Ohno, Nino thinks, is a total eye-candy. Well, he is, especially if he’s just himself and has not yet turned into the green-eyed monster who likes to break things. Nino thinks he’s cute, and kinda funny, despite the fact that he only ever interacts with Nino when he’s big and green and snarling with everyone, and it’s Nino’s job to calm him down so he wouldn’t end up smashing people’s heads off and also so he would turn back into this cute little doctor with the cute little smile and equally cute personality that Nino really, really likes.
Nino doesn’t really think much when he joined the ARangers at first, but after he met the tiny doctor - who isn’t really tiny most of the time - he realized it’s not really that bad.
Nino knows that the doctor usually prefers to be alone, listening to soothing opera music on high volume to keep the Green Monster at bay, but tonight, he decides to join the party. It could mean anything, but Nino tries not to look into it too much.
He’d spied Jun trying to charm the pants off everyone who is willing to listen, and catches Sho shaking his head behind Jun’s back when he walked his way towards the bar to prepare his own drink. He saw Ohno talking to Aiba earlier, but the doctor disappeared somewhere as soon as Aiba was done bothering him.
He takes his time mixing the alcohols, feels his fingers tingle the second he spies Ohno approaching. He makes a good show of filling two cocktail glasses instead of one, once he is certain that Ohno is heading his way towards the direction of the bar.
He pushes the other cocktail glass forward when Ohno approaches with a smile.
“How’d a nice guy like you wind up working in a dump like this?” Ohno asks, once he is close enough for Nino to hear. Nino finds himself inexplicably charmed, chuckling under his breath as he reaches for the other cocktail glass and takes a careful sip.
“Fella done me wrong,” he lies with a non-commital shrug.
Ohno gives him a look. “Got a lousy taste in men, kid?”
“He’s not so bad,” he amends, smirking. “Well, he has a temper. But deep down, he’s all fluff. Fact is, he’s not like anybody I’ve ever known.” he smiles, finding this kind of embarrassing but also kind of not. Especially when Ohno is looking at him as if he’s the most interesting thing in here, in a place full of wonderful people.
He leans over the counter, staring Ohno from under his lashes. “All my friends are fighters. And here comes this guy, who spends his life avoiding the fight because he knows he’ll win.”
The corner of Ohno’s mouth turn up into a half-smile, and Nino finds the sight so endearing. Oh god, his heart.
“Sounds amazing.” Ohno says.
“He’s also a huge dork,” he adds, and meaning it, because how can he not? Ohno is that and more, and despite knowing the other man just recently, he can’t help but feel like they’ve known each other for far longer.
Nino feels so comfortable with him, if anything, and that’s something Nino knows is special.
“Well, chicks dig that.” he points out with a soft smile. He doesn’t point out that gays like him dig the same thing a hundred times over, and he hopes Ohno gets the idea.
Ohno’s smile is hesitant this time, but Nino can’t, for the life of him, fault him for being a little careful.
“So what do you think?” he pipes up, before Ohno can answer. “Should I fight this? Or run with it?” he inquires, generally liking the fact that Ohno looks so cute wearing that frown, as if he’s not sure what Nino is asking him.
“Run with it, right? Or - did he…Was he - What did he do that was so wrong to you?” Ohno asks, stutters a little around the syllable and god, Nino’s heart stutters in return, charmed all over again.
He grins as he leans forward and whispers, “Not a damn thing,” he says, and licks his lips, smirking knowing that Ohno’s eyes are following his every movement. He hopes it didn’t come out as if he’s complaining, and if it did, oh well.
He takes his barely-touched cocktail glass when he sees Sho approaching, and pulls away but not before muttering a hushed, “But never say never.”
++
“It’s nice,” Sakurai Sho quips, as he watches Nino walk away. What in hell just happened?
He turns to Sakurai and frowns. “What is?”
Sakurai shrugs and gives him this look that he can’t quite understand. But Sakurai’s eyes are smiling and the corner of his mouth turn up in a way that tells Ohno he’s enjoying something, and it’s only making Ohno more confused.
“You and Ninomiya.” Sakurai says.
Eh? “No, we haven’t,” he counters, quickly, “That wasn’t…” wasn’t what, really? He’s not sure himself but from that brief exchange, he could say there’s something else there. Something he probably shouldn’t think much but ends up thinking about it anyway.
God, he’s so weird.
“It’s okay. Nobody’s breaking any bylaws here,” Sakurai says. Then, “It’s just that he’s not the most open person in the world. Ninomiya, I mean. But with you he seems very… relaxed.” Sakurai points out.
Ohno shakes his head. He’s really - he has no right to say these things but.
“No, Ninomiya-san, he’s just…. he likes to flirt.” he says, but the thing that’s so weird is that he finds himself inexplicably upset about it.
Did he really just say that? That Ninomiya-san likes to flirt? Jesus, he doesn’t even know the man, not for so long, at the very least, and he’s here, judging the man for what he’s probably not just because he doesn’t have the balls to admit that he likes Ninomiya-san, period.
Sakurai chuckles and tilts his head at him, gives him a once over and grins.
“Well, I know what I’m talking about okay? I’ve seen him flirt, up-close and. This ain’t that.” Sakurai says. Then, Sakurai crosses the short distance between them after he’d took a bottle of beer behind the counter and points it reverently at him.
“Look, as maybe the world’s leading authority on waiting too long, don’t. There’s obviously something there, and anyway, it’s fine. You both deserve a win, just saying.” Sakurai says, with a grin, before he walks away.
His brain has just caught up with everything, and the only thing that stuck is -
“W-Wait, Sakurai-san, what do you mean ‘up-close’??”
(Dec Drabble Fest - Day 19)