[Multi-Chapter]: Chobits 16/?
Title:Chobits
Chapter:16/?
Pairings:OhnoxNino, ShoxAiba
Extra Characters:Naka Riisa (as Freya), Okamoto Keito (as Kokubunji Minoru), Kiritani Mirei (as Yuzuki)
Genre/Rating:AU, Humor, Fluff, Romance, Sci-fi/PG-13
Disclaimer:Idea taken from original manga Chobits by Clamp. Almost all the quotes are from the manga as well.
Word Count:3307
Summary:Ohno Satoshi, the computer illiterate young man who lives in the 22nd century full of androids everywhere?! What will happen when this young man meets one android that was meant to be thrown away?
A/N:The plot will go exactly like the manga, but there will be some changes cause this is my story. I don't plan on making chobits seem weird. Just decided to share because it was my first manga that I came to love. If you don't wanna read this, then don't. Edited in 2014
Fanfic Masterpost
Okamoto leaned his elbow further to the corner as he scribbled furiously on the computer. He had a ton of things to do, a lot of things to research regarding Ohno's com; especially that day when even Mirei had frozen in place. In the midst of this research, Mirei came from behind, asking him if he wanted more tea.
"Yes, please," He answered without looking up from the computer.
"Poor dear," he heard her sigh as she poured hot tea in his cold cup, "I do hope Nino is all right."
"But..." Okamoto stopped being busy momentarily and swiveled his chair so he was facing Mirei, "I'm still at a loss as to why the other persocoms froze up like that. You can't offer any insight into what happened, can you, Mirei?"
"I'm afraid not, sir..." Mirei looked down, her face showing disappointment before she looked up and closed her eyes. "Well, there was one thing... It was like there was a voice, speaking to me from within."
Okamoto raised an eyebrow in suspicion. "A voice? Whose?"
Mirei opened her eyes and rested a hand on her head as if she was trying to recall it. "I don't know. But it was comforting... As if it was someone I knew."
Keito looked up in surprise. A voice? He thought to himself. Maybe if I go into Mirei's hard drive I can--
"Ding Dong." Okamoto snapped his attention to the computer and saw one of his persocom maids showing on the screen. She was one of the ones he made, one he intended to throw away; but after one fix, she was fine. “You have a visitor, sir. Satoshi Ohno is at the gate. Should I let him in?”
“Ohno?” Okamoto questioned as he moved the pen on the computer again. “He must want to discuss what happened yesterday...Yes please, show him in.” Meanwhile, Mirei lightly announced she would some more tea because of Ohno’s presence. Once she left, Okamoto heard what sounded like a stampede coming towards him; turns out to be Ohno. “You make quite an entrance.”
Ohno ignored this as he ran with lightning speed towards the latter. Chinen was already on his hand so that saved him from wanting to tear his hair out of his head from frustration. “PLUG HIM INTO ONE OF THOSE VIDEO-PHONE THINGIES THAT LETS YOU SEE WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO!!” He yelled as he thrust Chinen to Okamoto’s face.
“You mean a cable modem port with high-speed, low-latency service and a webcam and a monitor for video playback?”
“YEAH, THAT’S WHAT I SAID!”
“May I ask who it is you wish to talk to?” Okamoto asked him as he placed the dazed Chinen on top of the computer.
“AN ELOPING BASTARD!”
\\\♥///
Nino sat in the middle of the room as he stared at the door, wishing that Satoshi walks through it anytime. However, Satoshi never came home this early. He knew this because he was always home and Satoshi only came back during midnight or sometimes an hour early before that time. He was always happy seeing Satoshi come back, but he was never happy when Satoshi left him alone at home.
“Satoshi has... School...Then work,” Nino mumbled to himself as he looked around, imagining that Satoshi was in those spots, smiling towards him. “Satoshi does not come home... until late at night.” As Nino sighed, he closed his eyes and brought his left hand over his chest. It always felt like something in there was pounding him inside whenever wasn’t present. “I feel a pain right here.”
“Does it feel like your heart is being crushed?” The voice of his sister asked when he felt an arm wrap around his back. “Your heart hurts...” She told him as she brought her hand to his chest and held it tight. “...Because Satoshi isn’t here.”
“When Satoshi is away... Nino cannot smile.”
“But Nino just wants to make Satoshi happy,” he told her before putting a hand on his chest. “Make him really happy.”
“If Satoshi is “the person just for you,” you will be able to make him happy. But it won’t be easy for Satoshi to accept,” She sighed as she held out her hand and Nino took it in his own will, “You are what you are. The things that make you different... that make you special they might trouble Satoshi.”
Nino gasped. “But Nino... does not want to trouble Satoshi! Nino, does not want to be a bad boy.”
“If Satoshi does not like you because you’re different... then he’s not the one. If he can’t like you for what you are, Satoshi isn’t “the person just for you.” ”
Nino looked down from her eyes and pulled his hand away. He remembered seeing Satoshi’s smile that day when he had a date with someone he didn’t know. All he was aware of was that person was a girl, who made Satoshi smile so nicely like that. Nino sulked his body lower to the floor, but was held up by his sister’s small hands.
“I see that you are slowly beginning to relearn things long forgotten,” she told him as he was pulled up, his eyes going to her light face, “Living with Satoshi is unlocking many feelings from deep within your programming. You seem much happier now than you did before.”
“I was taught that being happy was a good thing,” he said as he stared deep into her eyes, “Is being with Satoshi a good thing?”
She pulled away, her eyes still not leaving Nino’s face as she made a small smile. “...Let us hope so. I just hope you find him before they interfere...”
“Your person just for you.”
\\\♥///
Ohno couldn’t contain his anger any longer as he watched Keito work his magic on the high-tech computer. Just watching Keito innocently logging Chinen into the computer made him want to bash a particular person’s teeth in his mouth. However he couldn’t do this since this person had disappeared without a damn trace.
Blip!
“You’re logged on,” came Okamoto’s voice as soon as he heard the computer chime.
And as soon as Okamoto moved out of his way, he saw an idiot smiling wide in the bright screen. “Yo, Satoshi! What’s up?”
Ohno’s eyebrow twitched. “WHAT’S UP?!” he snarled as he grabbed the computer by its sides and shook it to his anger. “I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT’S UP, YOU HUSBAND-STEALING PIG! WHAT KIND OF A SICK JOKE ARE YOU TRYING TO PULL?!”
“It’s not a joke,” Sho chuckled, “Like I said, Aiba-san and I are eloping.”
“Well. How quaint,” Okamoto mumbled as he watched Ohno snarl like a mad dog towards his screen.
“Oh!” Sho exclaimed, his eyes moving to the right side of the screen. “You’re at Keito’s house.”
“Pay attention!” Ohno snarled yet again and slightly pushed Keito aside. “So, how is it that you and the teacher are running off together? Or more importantly... how long had the two of you been having your little affair?!”
“Hmm... about six months now.”
“WHAT?!” Ohno exclaimed, “But that’s right after we started school!”
“Yup.”
“You--” Ohno paused as he was tempted to punch the screen with his bare hands, but he held back. “You’ve been with the teacher for six months and you never said anything to me?!”
So for those six months, Ohno went to school and befriended Sho without knowing all of these secrecy going on behind some invisible curtains. He didn’t even suspect a thing, or anything strange at all between the two as he saw the both of them almost everyday. Maybe this is the reason why he can’t attend college like a normal adult would.
“I would have told you...”
Ohno’s eyes snapped back to the screen as he saw his friend’s goofy smile change return to the smile Sho always wore everyday.
“...Or rather... I wanted to tell you... I’ve always considered you a friend. Even though I had to lie to you.”
“I-- I thought we were friends too!” He yelled as he slammed his hands on the desk before him, “So why?!”
Sho lightly chuckled as he ran his hand through his disheveled hair. “Masaki asked me not to tell you... You know Masaki’s married, right?”
“Yeah,” Ohno breathed as he remembered the time Aiba-san slept over his apartment. “He told me.”
“Well, their marriage is a joke. Right after they got married, they got a persocom...” Sho paused for a second giving Ohno a chance to see the mix of anger and sadness in the latter’s face.
“...And right away his wife became totally obsessed,” He continued, the smile on his face no longer present. “All she ever wanted to talk about was their persocom. At first, Masaki thought that she was just excited because it was new, that in time she’d talk about their future like she used to. Masaki tried not to let it bother him. But as time went on, it got worse. She only want to spend time with the persocom. It didn’t even matter whether Masaki came home or not.”
“I live right by Masaki, though,” Sho pointed out and smiled a small smile as if talking about that fact made him happy. “There’s a park nearby. It was right after I barely started school when I first saw him there. Masaki... I still called him Aiba-san then...”
*Six months ago*
Sho kicked an empty can lying by the sidewalk gutter, wondering how something like that ended up there when the trash was a long trip from the direction he came from. Maybe it must have been the wind, or someone must have knocked the trash over and forgot to pick up the lonely can. But whatever caused it to travel, Sho can care about it later. As for now, all that mattered was that man on the swings as he slowly passed by him in the park near his apartment, looking as if the man really needed someone with him.
He hesitated to approach the brown haired man, but it looked as if he was reminiscing something horrible to make him wear such a long face. As much as Sho was itching to ask the man what was bothering him, instead he walked away since at that time, it seemed the best to do. Sho didn’t want to make things worse for him...
It was around midnight when Sho decided to go out for a walk in the park, being the night owl he is. As he followed the long path with his eyes focused on the floor, he noticed a familiar shadow swaying back and forth. Sho looked up curiously and saw him, the man from the swings six hours ago. Puzzled, he finally decided to approach the man.
“What are you doing out so late?” He asked the fair haired man as he stood in front of him.
The man shrugged. “I can’t go home. The door’s locked and I can’t get in.”
“Did you lose your key?”
The man laughed, his surprisingly brown eyes finally meeting Sho’s. “I have a key, but the chain is on... so I still can’t get in.”
So someone’s inside? Sho guessed although he wasn’t sure so he asked anyways. “Is there anyone in the room?”
“My wife’s home.”
“Did... you get into a fight?”
The man shook his head, the brown eyes leaving his face. “I haven’t fought with my wife in a long time now. We don’t really talk at all anymore.”
“That sucks,” Sho replied indifferently as he was very ignorant of these kinds of matters. “You should yell at her.”
“What difference it make?” the man sighs as he gets up and turns around, “The fact that she put the chain on means that she’s forgotten that I’m even coming home. Once I realized that it doesn’t matter to him if I come home or not... I just stopped caring about everything...”
*Present*
“Even as he was telling me this, he refused to let himself cry. But I could see that crying was what he wanted to do more than anything else. It was all that he could to do hold back. And as I watched him holding back those tears, I thought...
‘I want to make him feel safe so that whenever he feels the need to cry, he can go ahead and do it, and he’ll know that things will be alright.’
At that moment... I fell in love.”
Sho smiled so sincerely that Ohno felt like an idiot himself, rather than Sho. If he would have known this, he would have understood. But for six months, the two kept it as a secret and he was only finding out six months later. This thought itself make Ohno want to destroy something valuable yet hug a pillow at the same time.
“After that, I kept offering to give that support... but he didn’t say it wasn’t appropriate. I was his student and unhappy or not, he was still married. And now...” Sho smiled at first, then grinned, and then laughed as he spread his arms for Ohno to see, “And now it’s come to this.”
“Okay, so you’re in love,” Ohno concluded after listening to the story behind it all,”Couldn’t you just send flowers? Why elope?”
Sho smirked. “To show my resolve.”
“Huh?”
“After what his wife put him through, Masaki doesn’t trust human women anymore. Even if someone tells him they love him, how can he trust that they’ll feel that way when a persocom shows up? After all, a persocom makes the perfect mate,” Sho pointed out, “They stay young and pretty, they’re always interested in you, the never talk back. How could a mere human boy like him possibly compete? No matter how many times I told him that wouldn’t happen with me, he just wouldn’t believe me.”
“And oh yeah!” Sho jumped up as if he had something urgent to tell him, “The other night when he stayed over your house... he was supposed to be moving in with me. I guess he got cold feet at the last minute.”
“So that’s why...” Sho chuckled as he scratched the back of his head, “I’m running away with him to this remote hot springs resort so he can’t escape again!”
“In any case, I don’t plan on coming back until Masaki says yes.”
Ohno’s curled his eyebrow in confusion. “To what?”
“Marrying me.”
Ohno, once again, thought that the words that came out of Sho’s mouth was a joke. But seeing that his friend was in fact, not joking, every hair on his body stood up in surprise. “MARRIAGE?!”
Sho shook his head, a wide smile playing on his face. “So, take good care of Chinen for me while I’m gone!”
“WHAT?!”
“Who are you talking to?”
Ohno stopped his fist in midair when he saw another person enter the screen. The man looked nothing like the person he saw as a teacher. Aiba-san looked way much different with his damped hair, innocent face, and the yukata he was wearing.
“Aiba-san’s a hundred times sexier than usual!” Ohno beamed as he stared at his teacher through the screen.
“It’s Satoshi,” Sho answered Aiba softly. “Well, later dude! Duty calls--”
“Wait a minute!” Ohno yelled just as Sho was about to press something, “Next time... Next time either of you are in trouble... just let me know. It’s not like there’s much a starving student like me can offer... but, I don’t know, maybe I can do something to help. Just... keep me in the loop, okay?”
“You got it.” Blip!
\\\♥///
"He really is a good kid, that Satoshi," Aiba mumbled as he watched the screen go blank.
"Yeah. He's a great guy," Sho agreed proudly as he thought of his friend. "But... he's such a great guy that you can't tell him anything."
Aiba smiled. "The day I was supposed to move into your house... you know how I went to Satoshi's house?"
"Yeah," Sho frowned when he remembered how tired and exhausted he was from looking for her, "And I looked all night for you."
"I told you I was sorry!"
"Hmph!"
"Well, we had a few drinks..." Aiba continued, "... a lot actually... and Satoshi got pretty drunk. He was pretty much out of it for half the night. So I asked him...
'Do you think it's wrong for a married person to fall in love with someone else?'
And Satoshi said...
'You can't help it when you fall in love. That's just love, you know?'
That's what he told me.
'But if it's true love, it isn't easy-- not for the married person who feels the pain of betrayal, or for the one who loves him who feels guilty for helping to cause that pain. So whatever the lovers choose to do, they can't half-ass it. They've got to do it right. And they have to do what truly makes their hearts happy, as they'll live with the choice for the rest of their lives.' "
Sho's eyes opened in surprised at the choice of his friend's words. Maybe Satoshi wasn't so bad when he was drunk and all. "Hmpm... like he knows what he's talking about! He still gets red when he talks to girls."
"But his words," Aiba mumbled as he put his hands over his chest, "they hit me right here. After hearing what he said about doing what makes my heart truly happy... I suddenly felt relieved."
"And what could make you happier than moving with me?" Sho questioned as he smiled and gently pulled Aiba towards him.
"I don't think I'm ready to take that step yet."
"No yet means you're halfway there, right? When you're ready, you know where to find me."
"You really are quite the optimist, Sakurai," Aiba giggled as said man wound his arms around his waist.
Sho clicked his tongue in annoyance, but he wasn't mad at him.
"Hey, babe," Sho smirked as he brought he ran his hand through Aiba's damp hair. "We're not in class anymore. There's no need to call me Sakurai. But let me pose this question to the teacher... what do you want to call me?"
"Sho.." Aiba moaned, his brown eyes glistening despite the dimness.
"Teacher gets an "A". Now for some extra credit!"
\\\♥///
Keito smiled smugly as he watched the adult fluster in front of the computer. "I said it once, and I'll say it again-- you really are a god guy, Satoshi."
Ohno blushed at those repeated words. At least everyone tells him that same phrase, as if they were enchanting a curse on him, or a mockery as to why he doesn't have what they call: love. "Aw, c'mon! It's not like that!" He whined as he covered his face to stop it from burning.
"It's a tragedy that a nive guy like you can't get a girlfriend."
"Sh-- Leave me alone!" Ohno yelled and fell down as if dumbells with the words: virgin and girlfriendless weighed down on him. Just because I help my friends doesn't mean I know how to get one! And even if he does try, he knows he can't get one with the way he was compared to Sho who had striking muscles, and a perfect body anyone could ask for. Lucky for Aiba-sensei...
Aiba-sensei... Ohno recalled his teacher's name as he looked up at the computer. A wife who got hooked in his persocom, huh? Even after breaking a real man's heart, she still can't pull away from his 'com. How sad…
What if-- Ohno shook that thought away. There was no way that would happen to him, ever, because there's Inoue to think about. But then there was Nino, a... "Persocom..." Ohno mumbled as he gripped the edge of the desk.
~~~~~~~
A/N: Damn, long time no see! But just to let you know, I was meant to post this chapter ages ago since I started school, but sadly, I couldn't. I do, in fact, have time to write fanfics but I need some resting time after finishing up all my homework. I even had Thanksgiving Break, but I couldn't work on it. I needed rest.
Maybe I'll try to update as much as I can. Depends on how much is on my plate. But I'm sure I can update during my Christmas Break. Maybe.
Other than that... Chobits had been updated! I know it's already made into a manga so you're probably asking why I can't write it easily (maybe your not, idk). But as I said, I'm busy so I can't really thing about writing anything else other than school shit I have to deal with.
Comments are <3!!
A/ other N: Also, Sho and Aiba aren't going to apper anymore according to the manga. So take the poll below and lemme know if you wanna see more of them! (they are going to be side stories, and will be related to the Chobits (w/o Ohno and the others)).
Poll Want more Sakuraiba?
Chapter:16/?
Pairings:OhnoxNino, ShoxAiba
Extra Characters:Naka Riisa (as Freya), Okamoto Keito (as Kokubunji Minoru), Kiritani Mirei (as Yuzuki)
Genre/Rating:AU, Humor, Fluff, Romance, Sci-fi/PG-13
Disclaimer:Idea taken from original manga Chobits by Clamp. Almost all the quotes are from the manga as well.
Word Count:3307
Summary:Ohno Satoshi, the computer illiterate young man who lives in the 22nd century full of androids everywhere?! What will happen when this young man meets one android that was meant to be thrown away?
A/N:The plot will go exactly like the manga, but there will be some changes cause this is my story. I don't plan on making chobits seem weird. Just decided to share because it was my first manga that I came to love. If you don't wanna read this, then don't. Edited in 2014
Fanfic Masterpost
Okamoto leaned his elbow further to the corner as he scribbled furiously on the computer. He had a ton of things to do, a lot of things to research regarding Ohno's com; especially that day when even Mirei had frozen in place. In the midst of this research, Mirei came from behind, asking him if he wanted more tea.
"Yes, please," He answered without looking up from the computer.
"Poor dear," he heard her sigh as she poured hot tea in his cold cup, "I do hope Nino is all right."
"But..." Okamoto stopped being busy momentarily and swiveled his chair so he was facing Mirei, "I'm still at a loss as to why the other persocoms froze up like that. You can't offer any insight into what happened, can you, Mirei?"
"I'm afraid not, sir..." Mirei looked down, her face showing disappointment before she looked up and closed her eyes. "Well, there was one thing... It was like there was a voice, speaking to me from within."
Okamoto raised an eyebrow in suspicion. "A voice? Whose?"
Mirei opened her eyes and rested a hand on her head as if she was trying to recall it. "I don't know. But it was comforting... As if it was someone I knew."
Keito looked up in surprise. A voice? He thought to himself. Maybe if I go into Mirei's hard drive I can--
"Ding Dong." Okamoto snapped his attention to the computer and saw one of his persocom maids showing on the screen. She was one of the ones he made, one he intended to throw away; but after one fix, she was fine. “You have a visitor, sir. Satoshi Ohno is at the gate. Should I let him in?”
“Ohno?” Okamoto questioned as he moved the pen on the computer again. “He must want to discuss what happened yesterday...Yes please, show him in.” Meanwhile, Mirei lightly announced she would some more tea because of Ohno’s presence. Once she left, Okamoto heard what sounded like a stampede coming towards him; turns out to be Ohno. “You make quite an entrance.”
Ohno ignored this as he ran with lightning speed towards the latter. Chinen was already on his hand so that saved him from wanting to tear his hair out of his head from frustration. “PLUG HIM INTO ONE OF THOSE VIDEO-PHONE THINGIES THAT LETS YOU SEE WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO!!” He yelled as he thrust Chinen to Okamoto’s face.
“You mean a cable modem port with high-speed, low-latency service and a webcam and a monitor for video playback?”
“YEAH, THAT’S WHAT I SAID!”
“May I ask who it is you wish to talk to?” Okamoto asked him as he placed the dazed Chinen on top of the computer.
“AN ELOPING BASTARD!”
\\\♥///
Nino sat in the middle of the room as he stared at the door, wishing that Satoshi walks through it anytime. However, Satoshi never came home this early. He knew this because he was always home and Satoshi only came back during midnight or sometimes an hour early before that time. He was always happy seeing Satoshi come back, but he was never happy when Satoshi left him alone at home.
“Satoshi has... School...Then work,” Nino mumbled to himself as he looked around, imagining that Satoshi was in those spots, smiling towards him. “Satoshi does not come home... until late at night.” As Nino sighed, he closed his eyes and brought his left hand over his chest. It always felt like something in there was pounding him inside whenever wasn’t present. “I feel a pain right here.”
“Does it feel like your heart is being crushed?” The voice of his sister asked when he felt an arm wrap around his back. “Your heart hurts...” She told him as she brought her hand to his chest and held it tight. “...Because Satoshi isn’t here.”
“When Satoshi is away... Nino cannot smile.”
“But Nino just wants to make Satoshi happy,” he told her before putting a hand on his chest. “Make him really happy.”
“If Satoshi is “the person just for you,” you will be able to make him happy. But it won’t be easy for Satoshi to accept,” She sighed as she held out her hand and Nino took it in his own will, “You are what you are. The things that make you different... that make you special they might trouble Satoshi.”
Nino gasped. “But Nino... does not want to trouble Satoshi! Nino, does not want to be a bad boy.”
“If Satoshi does not like you because you’re different... then he’s not the one. If he can’t like you for what you are, Satoshi isn’t “the person just for you.” ”
Nino looked down from her eyes and pulled his hand away. He remembered seeing Satoshi’s smile that day when he had a date with someone he didn’t know. All he was aware of was that person was a girl, who made Satoshi smile so nicely like that. Nino sulked his body lower to the floor, but was held up by his sister’s small hands.
“I see that you are slowly beginning to relearn things long forgotten,” she told him as he was pulled up, his eyes going to her light face, “Living with Satoshi is unlocking many feelings from deep within your programming. You seem much happier now than you did before.”
“I was taught that being happy was a good thing,” he said as he stared deep into her eyes, “Is being with Satoshi a good thing?”
She pulled away, her eyes still not leaving Nino’s face as she made a small smile. “...Let us hope so. I just hope you find him before they interfere...”
“Your person just for you.”
\\\♥///
Ohno couldn’t contain his anger any longer as he watched Keito work his magic on the high-tech computer. Just watching Keito innocently logging Chinen into the computer made him want to bash a particular person’s teeth in his mouth. However he couldn’t do this since this person had disappeared without a damn trace.
Blip!
“You’re logged on,” came Okamoto’s voice as soon as he heard the computer chime.
And as soon as Okamoto moved out of his way, he saw an idiot smiling wide in the bright screen. “Yo, Satoshi! What’s up?”
Ohno’s eyebrow twitched. “WHAT’S UP?!” he snarled as he grabbed the computer by its sides and shook it to his anger. “I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT’S UP, YOU HUSBAND-STEALING PIG! WHAT KIND OF A SICK JOKE ARE YOU TRYING TO PULL?!”
“It’s not a joke,” Sho chuckled, “Like I said, Aiba-san and I are eloping.”
“Well. How quaint,” Okamoto mumbled as he watched Ohno snarl like a mad dog towards his screen.
“Oh!” Sho exclaimed, his eyes moving to the right side of the screen. “You’re at Keito’s house.”
“Pay attention!” Ohno snarled yet again and slightly pushed Keito aside. “So, how is it that you and the teacher are running off together? Or more importantly... how long had the two of you been having your little affair?!”
“Hmm... about six months now.”
“WHAT?!” Ohno exclaimed, “But that’s right after we started school!”
“Yup.”
“You--” Ohno paused as he was tempted to punch the screen with his bare hands, but he held back. “You’ve been with the teacher for six months and you never said anything to me?!”
So for those six months, Ohno went to school and befriended Sho without knowing all of these secrecy going on behind some invisible curtains. He didn’t even suspect a thing, or anything strange at all between the two as he saw the both of them almost everyday. Maybe this is the reason why he can’t attend college like a normal adult would.
“I would have told you...”
Ohno’s eyes snapped back to the screen as he saw his friend’s goofy smile change return to the smile Sho always wore everyday.
“...Or rather... I wanted to tell you... I’ve always considered you a friend. Even though I had to lie to you.”
“I-- I thought we were friends too!” He yelled as he slammed his hands on the desk before him, “So why?!”
Sho lightly chuckled as he ran his hand through his disheveled hair. “Masaki asked me not to tell you... You know Masaki’s married, right?”
“Yeah,” Ohno breathed as he remembered the time Aiba-san slept over his apartment. “He told me.”
“Well, their marriage is a joke. Right after they got married, they got a persocom...” Sho paused for a second giving Ohno a chance to see the mix of anger and sadness in the latter’s face.
“...And right away his wife became totally obsessed,” He continued, the smile on his face no longer present. “All she ever wanted to talk about was their persocom. At first, Masaki thought that she was just excited because it was new, that in time she’d talk about their future like she used to. Masaki tried not to let it bother him. But as time went on, it got worse. She only want to spend time with the persocom. It didn’t even matter whether Masaki came home or not.”
“I live right by Masaki, though,” Sho pointed out and smiled a small smile as if talking about that fact made him happy. “There’s a park nearby. It was right after I barely started school when I first saw him there. Masaki... I still called him Aiba-san then...”
*Six months ago*
Sho kicked an empty can lying by the sidewalk gutter, wondering how something like that ended up there when the trash was a long trip from the direction he came from. Maybe it must have been the wind, or someone must have knocked the trash over and forgot to pick up the lonely can. But whatever caused it to travel, Sho can care about it later. As for now, all that mattered was that man on the swings as he slowly passed by him in the park near his apartment, looking as if the man really needed someone with him.
He hesitated to approach the brown haired man, but it looked as if he was reminiscing something horrible to make him wear such a long face. As much as Sho was itching to ask the man what was bothering him, instead he walked away since at that time, it seemed the best to do. Sho didn’t want to make things worse for him...
It was around midnight when Sho decided to go out for a walk in the park, being the night owl he is. As he followed the long path with his eyes focused on the floor, he noticed a familiar shadow swaying back and forth. Sho looked up curiously and saw him, the man from the swings six hours ago. Puzzled, he finally decided to approach the man.
“What are you doing out so late?” He asked the fair haired man as he stood in front of him.
The man shrugged. “I can’t go home. The door’s locked and I can’t get in.”
“Did you lose your key?”
The man laughed, his surprisingly brown eyes finally meeting Sho’s. “I have a key, but the chain is on... so I still can’t get in.”
So someone’s inside? Sho guessed although he wasn’t sure so he asked anyways. “Is there anyone in the room?”
“My wife’s home.”
“Did... you get into a fight?”
The man shook his head, the brown eyes leaving his face. “I haven’t fought with my wife in a long time now. We don’t really talk at all anymore.”
“That sucks,” Sho replied indifferently as he was very ignorant of these kinds of matters. “You should yell at her.”
“What difference it make?” the man sighs as he gets up and turns around, “The fact that she put the chain on means that she’s forgotten that I’m even coming home. Once I realized that it doesn’t matter to him if I come home or not... I just stopped caring about everything...”
*Present*
“Even as he was telling me this, he refused to let himself cry. But I could see that crying was what he wanted to do more than anything else. It was all that he could to do hold back. And as I watched him holding back those tears, I thought...
‘I want to make him feel safe so that whenever he feels the need to cry, he can go ahead and do it, and he’ll know that things will be alright.’
At that moment... I fell in love.”
Sho smiled so sincerely that Ohno felt like an idiot himself, rather than Sho. If he would have known this, he would have understood. But for six months, the two kept it as a secret and he was only finding out six months later. This thought itself make Ohno want to destroy something valuable yet hug a pillow at the same time.
“After that, I kept offering to give that support... but he didn’t say it wasn’t appropriate. I was his student and unhappy or not, he was still married. And now...” Sho smiled at first, then grinned, and then laughed as he spread his arms for Ohno to see, “And now it’s come to this.”
“Okay, so you’re in love,” Ohno concluded after listening to the story behind it all,”Couldn’t you just send flowers? Why elope?”
Sho smirked. “To show my resolve.”
“Huh?”
“After what his wife put him through, Masaki doesn’t trust human women anymore. Even if someone tells him they love him, how can he trust that they’ll feel that way when a persocom shows up? After all, a persocom makes the perfect mate,” Sho pointed out, “They stay young and pretty, they’re always interested in you, the never talk back. How could a mere human boy like him possibly compete? No matter how many times I told him that wouldn’t happen with me, he just wouldn’t believe me.”
“And oh yeah!” Sho jumped up as if he had something urgent to tell him, “The other night when he stayed over your house... he was supposed to be moving in with me. I guess he got cold feet at the last minute.”
“So that’s why...” Sho chuckled as he scratched the back of his head, “I’m running away with him to this remote hot springs resort so he can’t escape again!”
“In any case, I don’t plan on coming back until Masaki says yes.”
Ohno’s curled his eyebrow in confusion. “To what?”
“Marrying me.”
Ohno, once again, thought that the words that came out of Sho’s mouth was a joke. But seeing that his friend was in fact, not joking, every hair on his body stood up in surprise. “MARRIAGE?!”
Sho shook his head, a wide smile playing on his face. “So, take good care of Chinen for me while I’m gone!”
“WHAT?!”
“Who are you talking to?”
Ohno stopped his fist in midair when he saw another person enter the screen. The man looked nothing like the person he saw as a teacher. Aiba-san looked way much different with his damped hair, innocent face, and the yukata he was wearing.
“Aiba-san’s a hundred times sexier than usual!” Ohno beamed as he stared at his teacher through the screen.
“It’s Satoshi,” Sho answered Aiba softly. “Well, later dude! Duty calls--”
“Wait a minute!” Ohno yelled just as Sho was about to press something, “Next time... Next time either of you are in trouble... just let me know. It’s not like there’s much a starving student like me can offer... but, I don’t know, maybe I can do something to help. Just... keep me in the loop, okay?”
“You got it.” Blip!
\\\♥///
"He really is a good kid, that Satoshi," Aiba mumbled as he watched the screen go blank.
"Yeah. He's a great guy," Sho agreed proudly as he thought of his friend. "But... he's such a great guy that you can't tell him anything."
Aiba smiled. "The day I was supposed to move into your house... you know how I went to Satoshi's house?"
"Yeah," Sho frowned when he remembered how tired and exhausted he was from looking for her, "And I looked all night for you."
"I told you I was sorry!"
"Hmph!"
"Well, we had a few drinks..." Aiba continued, "... a lot actually... and Satoshi got pretty drunk. He was pretty much out of it for half the night. So I asked him...
'Do you think it's wrong for a married person to fall in love with someone else?'
And Satoshi said...
'You can't help it when you fall in love. That's just love, you know?'
That's what he told me.
'But if it's true love, it isn't easy-- not for the married person who feels the pain of betrayal, or for the one who loves him who feels guilty for helping to cause that pain. So whatever the lovers choose to do, they can't half-ass it. They've got to do it right. And they have to do what truly makes their hearts happy, as they'll live with the choice for the rest of their lives.' "
Sho's eyes opened in surprised at the choice of his friend's words. Maybe Satoshi wasn't so bad when he was drunk and all. "Hmpm... like he knows what he's talking about! He still gets red when he talks to girls."
"But his words," Aiba mumbled as he put his hands over his chest, "they hit me right here. After hearing what he said about doing what makes my heart truly happy... I suddenly felt relieved."
"And what could make you happier than moving with me?" Sho questioned as he smiled and gently pulled Aiba towards him.
"I don't think I'm ready to take that step yet."
"No yet means you're halfway there, right? When you're ready, you know where to find me."
"You really are quite the optimist, Sakurai," Aiba giggled as said man wound his arms around his waist.
Sho clicked his tongue in annoyance, but he wasn't mad at him.
"Hey, babe," Sho smirked as he brought he ran his hand through Aiba's damp hair. "We're not in class anymore. There's no need to call me Sakurai. But let me pose this question to the teacher... what do you want to call me?"
"Sho.." Aiba moaned, his brown eyes glistening despite the dimness.
"Teacher gets an "A". Now for some extra credit!"
\\\♥///
Keito smiled smugly as he watched the adult fluster in front of the computer. "I said it once, and I'll say it again-- you really are a god guy, Satoshi."
Ohno blushed at those repeated words. At least everyone tells him that same phrase, as if they were enchanting a curse on him, or a mockery as to why he doesn't have what they call: love. "Aw, c'mon! It's not like that!" He whined as he covered his face to stop it from burning.
"It's a tragedy that a nive guy like you can't get a girlfriend."
"Sh-- Leave me alone!" Ohno yelled and fell down as if dumbells with the words: virgin and girlfriendless weighed down on him. Just because I help my friends doesn't mean I know how to get one! And even if he does try, he knows he can't get one with the way he was compared to Sho who had striking muscles, and a perfect body anyone could ask for. Lucky for Aiba-sensei...
Aiba-sensei... Ohno recalled his teacher's name as he looked up at the computer. A wife who got hooked in his persocom, huh? Even after breaking a real man's heart, she still can't pull away from his 'com. How sad…
What if-- Ohno shook that thought away. There was no way that would happen to him, ever, because there's Inoue to think about. But then there was Nino, a... "Persocom..." Ohno mumbled as he gripped the edge of the desk.
~~~~~~~
A/N: Damn, long time no see! But just to let you know, I was meant to post this chapter ages ago since I started school, but sadly, I couldn't. I do, in fact, have time to write fanfics but I need some resting time after finishing up all my homework. I even had Thanksgiving Break, but I couldn't work on it. I needed rest.
Maybe I'll try to update as much as I can. Depends on how much is on my plate. But I'm sure I can update during my Christmas Break. Maybe.
Other than that... Chobits had been updated! I know it's already made into a manga so you're probably asking why I can't write it easily (maybe your not, idk). But as I said, I'm busy so I can't really thing about writing anything else other than school shit I have to deal with.
Comments are <3!!
A/ other N: Also, Sho and Aiba aren't going to apper anymore according to the manga. So take the poll below and lemme know if you wanna see more of them! (they are going to be side stories, and will be related to the Chobits (w/o Ohno and the others)).
Poll Want more Sakuraiba?