JE/NewS- "Six Fights Ryo has with Shige"
Title: Six Fights Ryo has with Shige
Universe: JE/NewS
Theme/Topic: N/A
Rating: PG-13
Character/Pairing/s: NewS (lightly RyoxShige?)
Warnings/Spoilers: Crack? OOC? Stupidity? THESE PEOPLE REALLY EXIST OH GOD.
Word Count: 3,312
Summary: Companion/parallel piece to “Six Fights Ryo Tries to Start in NewS (and One Fight He Starts in KAT-TUN).” Attempt two- as per Shige’s instructions, Ryo chooses one victim this time around.
Dedication: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN I’M SORRY THIS IS DUMB.
A/N: The second story inspired by the Wink Up article translation Ann sent me (located here: http://ricci.bidan.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=773). I figured if I was going to do one version of events I might as well do the second option too. Though the first version probably actually turned out better; I’m sorry your birthday presents are so retarded, Ann. BUT HOPEFULLY BY THROWING UP TWO OF THEM I have split the stupidity in half? Maybe? I dunno. Math hurts my head. XD;;
Disclaimer: Not mine, though I wish constantly.
Distribution: Just lemme know.
During their Wink Up interview back in March, Ryo boldly declares that he wants to have six fights in NewS. He thinks that having a proper argument with each member at least once will be good for their group dynamics (and that it will be fun and that he’ll probably win in the ensuing fistfight unless it is against Yamapi or Koyama, who have large arm muscles). When Shige hears Ryo’s declaration he thinks it’s just another one of the older boy’s meaningless bluffs; he only laughs and suggests off-handedly that rather than have one (or two) fights with each member of the group, Ryo should just have all six fights with one person instead.
“Because that would be better,” Shige says.
Ryo thinks about this for a while.
Ultimately, he discovers that it is a very sensible suggestion.
So he picks Shige.
1. Petty Fight
Ryo hates Shige’s hair and decides that it is an apt starting point for round one of his six fights with the younger boy. He hopes that using it as a springboard will not only serve his ultimate purpose in starting an argument, but that it might also result in Shige getting that disgusting nest on top of his head cut as well.
In short, two birds, one stone, and a lot of dead animals.
Nishikido Ryo has always been forward thinking like that.
So, as he is walking past Shige in the dressing room before dance rehearsal is supposed to start one morning, Ryo reaches out and grabs one of the younger boy’s long bangs in his fist.
Then he tugs on it. Hard.
“Ow!” Shige yelps, and jumps. He looks down at Ryo in confusion and clutches the side of his head. “What are you doing!?”
“Your hair,” Ryo begins, in all seriousness, “is disgusting.”
That said, he waits for Shige to get defensive and fight back-this could get good if he goes about it correctly. In fact, they might even end up throwing things at each other since there are lots of makeup bottles and the like within easy reach of where they are both standing.
But Shige doesn’t react at all like Ryo wants him to; instead he just blinks and looks even more confused. “If it’s disgusting,” he says to Ryo, slowly, “then why are you touching it?”
There is a moment in which Ryo realizes that he doesn’t actually know how to respond to that.
So he turns around and walks out of the room without another word.
He decides (magnanimously) to let Shige have the first round.
2. Silent Treatment
Afterwards, Ryo decides that maybe a children’s level quarrel won’t work with Shige like it had with Yamapi; he remembers belatedly that Shige is an old man trapped in an idol’s body and as such, doesn’t actually act his age at all. Ryo is thus forced to come up with something much more adult and mature for round two.
After some thought, he decides to employ the master strategy that he’s seen his mother use on his father whenever she is annoyed with him; it’s as sure-fire a prelude to a fight as Ryo’s ever seen in all his years on this earth.
So he borrows her technique and spends the next few days going out of his way to ignore Shige.
The silent treatment, as it is.
On day one of ignoring Shige Ryo does not expect much to happen by way of results-maybe a few worried sideways glances at most, but nothing earth shattering.
Koyama however, picks up on what he is doing pretty much instantly (because that’s just how Koyama is), and by the time early afternoon rolls around Ryo already sees the older boy clutching at his chest like his heart is hurting. That’s good; if tension starts to develop in the dressing room this quickly between the other members then Shige should realize what is going on even faster.
The day after that, when Ryo continues to blatantly ignore Shige, Koyama looks as if he is actually falling ill from the bad atmosphere swirling around the room. At that point even Yamapi starts to clue in on the fact that something might be amiss here; he purses his lips thoughtfully as he tries to figure out what it is all on his own. At first he thinks it is bad ventilation in the building, but after talking to Koyama he gets set straight (even though he still thinks bad ventilation is a big part of it).
By the time day three rolls around and Massu starts acting nervous too, Ryo thinks that it is a sign to go ahead and get this thing started for real. It usually takes around three days (maximum) for Ryo’s dad to go crazy from the silent treatment whenever Ryo’s mom is pulling it on him. Besides, if Yamapi and Massu have both already picked up on something being wrong here, Shige should as well, shouldn’t he? He is one of the smart ones after all.
Though Tegoshi is still bouncing around the place chasing sparkly things like nothing’s wrong at all, which doesn’t really stand in line with the rest of Ryo’s theories. But then again, Tegoshi has always been a special case in pretty much everything.
Whatever. Ryo patiently waits for Shige to snap; it’s bound to happen sometime today.
He’d bet his reputation on it.
Or maybe not.
Because as it turns out, Koyama is actually the one who snaps first; it’s during a rehearsal break later that afternoon, when Shige is peacefully reading his law textbook at the table by himself and Ryo is sitting in one of the overstuffed armchairs glaring silently at the back of Shige’s head.
“Are you and Shige having a fight!?” the oldest member explodes at Ryo suddenly, and is sweaty with distress as he looks between the two assumed combatants. All eyes are suddenly on Ryo and Shige.
Ryo very nearly smiles; it looks like it’s finally time to use the atmosphere he has been cultivating so painstakingly for the past three days.
But then Shige promptly ruins it by blinking and looking over at Ryo guilelessly. “Wait, we’re fighting?” he asks, and snorts. “Nobody told me.”
Silence.
Then, Tegoshi laughs melodically. “Ryo-tan is making a funny face!” he giggles.
Ryo groans and buries his head under one of the couch cushions.
3. Using the Fans
Ryo is fairly confident that the fans all love him more than they love Shige, so he decides to tell the world during the August NewS Abake that he and Shige don’t get along at all.
“We don’t have anything to say to each other,” he announces into the mic confidently, and can hear the viewers’ collective gasps of surprise when he does. Of course ninety (or more) percent of them are going to choose to side with Ryo against Shige after this; it’s only natural given his Osakan Sexiness and his other multitude of charms (all of which Shige is clearly lacking).
But as nice as that is, it’s not really the most important thing here. The most important thing here is the fact that Ryo knows that Shige is always the one who worries the most out of all the group members in terms of what the fans think of him (or you know, if they even know who he is). As such, Ryo can only assume that saying the sort of stuff he’s saying on air in such a blasé manner must annoy the younger boy at least little bit.
Hopefully a lot.
Hopefully enough to maybe even start a heated, egocentric backstage argument in the tradition of KAT-TUN, where things will be thrown and furniture will be broken. If it’s that kind of quarrel it will suit Ryo’s style best, and he would like to maybe win one of the fights he starts with Shige sometime this century, please.
But of course Shige decides not to cooperate with Ryo’s plans again; instead of being angry at Ryo’s insensitive words, the younger boy promptly counters by talking about how he’d walked into the dressing room earlier and saw Ryo sitting there by himself.
“I immediately shut the door!” Shige exclaims, and must be grinning like an idiot judging by how happily the audience is laughing at his words.
Ryo can’t help it; he actually kind of laughs too.
It isn’t until much later that Ryo realizes Shige has won round three as well.
In fact, he practically gave it to the bastard.
4. Exploiting a Weakness
Trust Tegoshi to be the one who finds a sure fire way to annoy Shige without actually meaning to; what Ryo has been trying to accomplish for weeks Tegoshi figures out in a single second of thoughtless inspiration.
In short, Tegoshi takes to suddenly singing Shige’s name in the place of the lyrics to their songs when they’re all backstage together. He does it brightly and cheerfully and at the top of his lungs with no ill-intentions at all. Naturally, this irritates Shige to no end.
So of course Ryo takes advantage of it.
Before long he’s doing it even more than Tegoshi is, and Shige looks like he wants to bury his head under a pile of sand every time it (inevitably) starts up.
“Shige! Shige!” Ryo barks, and sways to the tune of Sayaendo as he does. “ShigeShigeShigeShigeShi-geeee!ShigeShigeShigeShi-geeeee!!”
Shige glares balefully at Ryo; it makes Ryo’s heart leap with anticipatory glee. He senses that his first victory is finally at hand.
But before Shige can tell Ryo to cut it out, Tegoshi joins in with the older boy’s singing in perfect harmony. Not long after that Masuda and Yamapi add their voices to the chorus as well; even Koyama relaxes enough to try it out.
“Man, why did you have to start doing that all of a sudden?” Shige sighs to Tegoshi once they’re all done (because they’re laughing too hard to go on). He looks mentally exhausted at this point, and Ryo is fairly certain that this means the upper hand for him if only he can find a way to take advantage of Shige in his current state by luring him into an argument.
In the meantime, Tegoshi simply blinks up at Shige innocently. “I started it because I love Shige!” he answers, with complete honestly. Then he pauses and cocks his head to the side cutely. “Though Ryo-tan does it a lot more than me lately, ne? Maybe he loves Shige mo…”
Ryo promptly forgets about the argument; he claps a hand over Tegoshi’s mouth and carries the youngest member out of the room.
He decides that so long as he can shut Tegoshi up for the day, this round can be a declared tie.
Even though normally, ties are for wimps.
5. Bad Career Choices
A few days after that Ryo spends seven straight hours on one of his precious few days off watching Shige’s latest drama; by the time he’s finished with it all he knows enough about the show to theoretically hold his own in a heated debate with Shige about why it sucks.
So the next morning at work, he approaches the younger boy confidently and says, “I watched all of your stupid drama yesterday. It was horrible; how is this sort of thing going to help your career at all? You might as well sign up to costar with Kamenashi for your next series for all the good your acting choices are doing for your image.”
Shige looks kind of mystified as Ryo suddenly and unexpectedly berates him like this; it gives the older boy a huge rush of self-confidence to finally make Shige the one who is so surprised that he can’t even properly speak. It must be an omen of some sort; Ryo is certain that this time, he’s going to be the one who comes out on top.
But then Shige suddenly snaps out of it; he laughs at Ryo and says, “Weren’t you in Attention Please?”
Ryo sputters at the abrupt turnaround. “That is not what we are talking about!” he shouts.
Then, something else occurs to Shige as well (since he’s smart), and it’s bad enough a topic that it even makes Ryo want to go back to talking about his own career embarrassments. “Nishikido-kun, you watched all of my drama yesterday? That’s almost seven hours,” Shige says, and looks embarrassed and pleased all at once.
Ryo turns beet red. “You! Cut your hair!” he snarls by rote, before turning around and retreating to the bathroom.
Shige blinks after him. “I just cut my hair recently,” he calls after Ryo. He sounds very patient.
“Well cut it again!”
Ryo scowls to himself and kicks over a chair on his way down the hall; the resulting slam sends several juniors scattering like frightened rabbits. One of them wets his pants.
But their terror only makes Ryo feel slightly better.
6. Guns Blazing
After failed fight number five, Ryo resorts to holing himself up in ABC’s dressing room after kicking them out of it because they don’t really have enough talent to deserve a dressing room anyway. He supposes that it is time to admit to himself that he is feeling a little bit depressed about failure stacked upon failure in regards to this whole six fights thing.
But then again, no one can really blame him; it’s well established that in NewS, no one likes losing except for maybe Koyama, who doesn’t mind being a little bit miserable himself so long as his group mates are happy.
Ryo is clearly not Koyama.
So he sulks alone for a while and tells himself that he’s got one more chance left before the whole six fights theory he’d been talking so loftily about to Wink Up will become a complete and total bust.
He hates being made a liar of.
In the meantime, Koyama has checked the atmosphere around Ryo and warns everyone to leave him alone for a while-it seems that he is in one of his moods.
For the most part, everyone listens to Koyama’s dangerous weather forecasts because they don’t want to be strangled to death by an angry Sexy Osaka Man. Well, everyone listens except for Tegoshi, because Tegoshi is the type of person who, for one, is not afraid of Ryo, and for another, sometimes just doesn’t hear what Koyama is telling him because he’s humming too loudly to himself.
So he ends up bouncing into Ryo’s personal space shortly after he misses the memo that’s being passed around the office telling everyone to leave Ryo alone; the younger boy sticks his face right into Ryo’s and smiles with no ill-intentions. “Ne, Ryo-tan,” he chirps, “are you depressed?”
Ryo scowls at him from the couch. “I’m not depressed. I’m pissed, so leave me alone,” he tells Tegoshi without preamble, and glares for emphasis.
While others might creep away very slowly from Ryo when he has that look on his face (for fear of getting mauled or worse), Tegoshi is delighted. “Ah, Ryo-tan’s straightforwardness about his feelings is what I like best about him, ne?” the younger boy exclaims happily, before promptly jumping onto Ryo’s back and wrapping his arms and legs tightly around him in a full body hug.
Ryo sighs but doesn’t struggle; he shifts his shoulders slightly so they can take Tegoshi’s slight weight more easily. “You’re annoying,” he says, by rote.
Tegoshi laughs brightly and rests his chin on top of Ryo’s head. “Ne, Ryo-tan,” he begins, and squeezes his thighs around Ryo’s waist in what Ryo can only assume is Tegoshi’s version of a nudge when he is in this position.
“What?”
“Never stop being like this, ne? I’ll be depressed if you change.”
Ryo blinks. “Never stop being like what, exactly?”
“Like the Ryo-tan who I like best!” Tegoshi sing-songs. “Okay?”
“You’re annoying,” Ryo says.
~~~~~
A little while later, Ryo realizes that Tegoshi is right; this whole losing thing is so not like him. Especially the sitting down and taking it part.
Thus inspired, he brusquely shrugs Tegoshi off of him and onto the couch so that he can stand. The younger boy giggles and looks up at him with brilliant eyes, “Are you feeling better now?” he asks, mysteriously.
“Stop being such a nosy brat,” Ryo shoots back, though the irritation is finally gone from his posture. He even throws Tegoshi a sideways smile. “Go bother Pi or something.”
Tegoshi pouts. “I would have even if you didn’t tell me to!” he says with faux defiance, and then bounces on the couch a few times as he watches Ryo leave the room. “Bye-bye, Ryo-tan! Ganbatte, ne!”
Ryo sneers and goes off in search of Shige.
He finds the younger boy not long afterwards; he’s in the dressing room alone reading his law textbooks again. Ryo can only assume that Shige is by himself because Koyama herded everyone else outside so that he could study in peace.
Perfect.
Ryo promptly walks up to his group mate and snatches the book from his hands. Then, after making sure that Shige is looking at him, he tosses it over his shoulder and onto the floor.
Shige blinks. “Um?” he says. “Yes?”
Ryo doesn’t say anything; instead he grabs Shige by the collar of his shirt, pulls him to his feet, and then spins him up against the nearest wall.
Shige looks a little put out at this point. “Nishikido-kun? Is something the matter?”
Ryo smiles at him and leans in very close. When their mouths are millimeters apart he slits his eyes and murmurs, “You and I are going to have fight number six starting now. This time I’m going to win.”
Shige’s face turns a bit red at the proximity. He swallows. “We…are? You are?”
Ryo nods and then lets Shige go; he smirks and backs off just enough to let Shige relax a little. “Yup.”
The younger boy frowns; it looks like his mind is working at speeds previously unheard of in Johnny’s as he tries to figure out what is happening here. “Fight number six? What happened to one-through-five? And we’re starting now? What’s the point? Are you even really angry? What are you going to d…”
For once Ryo ignores the words that are coming out of Shige’s mouth; instead he leans forward and kisses him so that he’ll shut up.
He makes sure to do it hard enough to bruise.
Shige-naturally- goes rigid in the first second or two of contact, though by the sixth his knees give out a little and by the tenth he’s already fisting Ryo’s shirt in both hands.
He’s definitely as quick a study as everyone says he is.
But just when Shige gets bold enough to try kissing back, Ryo pulls away abruptly, licking his lips and grinning in an unholy manner.
Shige’s mouth works dumbly at the sudden loss of contact; his mouth is very slightly swollen and his skin is flushed all the way down his neck. Maybe further; Ryo can’t tell because Shige’s shirt is in the way.
It’s kind of hot.
But the most beautiful part about it?
There are no irritating words coming out of those gaping, gasping lips.
In short, the tables have been turned and Kato Shigeaki has finally been rendered speechless by Nishikido Ryo.
It’s about damned time.
Ryo smirks as he turns around and walks out of the room; he promptly awards himself a billion points for winning this round, all previous rounds be damned.
And when Shige regains himself enough to try and shout after Ryo some several minutes later, all Ryo does is laugh and look forward to winning their next six fights as well.
Because Nishikido Ryo is not a man who is accustomed to losing.
END
EDITS PLS.
Universe: JE/NewS
Theme/Topic: N/A
Rating: PG-13
Character/Pairing/s: NewS (lightly RyoxShige?)
Warnings/Spoilers: Crack? OOC? Stupidity? THESE PEOPLE REALLY EXIST OH GOD.
Word Count: 3,312
Summary: Companion/parallel piece to “Six Fights Ryo Tries to Start in NewS (and One Fight He Starts in KAT-TUN).” Attempt two- as per Shige’s instructions, Ryo chooses one victim this time around.
Dedication: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN I’M SORRY THIS IS DUMB.
A/N: The second story inspired by the Wink Up article translation Ann sent me (located here: http://ricci.bidan.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=773). I figured if I was going to do one version of events I might as well do the second option too. Though the first version probably actually turned out better; I’m sorry your birthday presents are so retarded, Ann. BUT HOPEFULLY BY THROWING UP TWO OF THEM I have split the stupidity in half? Maybe? I dunno. Math hurts my head. XD;;
Disclaimer: Not mine, though I wish constantly.
Distribution: Just lemme know.
During their Wink Up interview back in March, Ryo boldly declares that he wants to have six fights in NewS. He thinks that having a proper argument with each member at least once will be good for their group dynamics (and that it will be fun and that he’ll probably win in the ensuing fistfight unless it is against Yamapi or Koyama, who have large arm muscles). When Shige hears Ryo’s declaration he thinks it’s just another one of the older boy’s meaningless bluffs; he only laughs and suggests off-handedly that rather than have one (or two) fights with each member of the group, Ryo should just have all six fights with one person instead.
“Because that would be better,” Shige says.
Ryo thinks about this for a while.
Ultimately, he discovers that it is a very sensible suggestion.
So he picks Shige.
1. Petty Fight
Ryo hates Shige’s hair and decides that it is an apt starting point for round one of his six fights with the younger boy. He hopes that using it as a springboard will not only serve his ultimate purpose in starting an argument, but that it might also result in Shige getting that disgusting nest on top of his head cut as well.
In short, two birds, one stone, and a lot of dead animals.
Nishikido Ryo has always been forward thinking like that.
So, as he is walking past Shige in the dressing room before dance rehearsal is supposed to start one morning, Ryo reaches out and grabs one of the younger boy’s long bangs in his fist.
Then he tugs on it. Hard.
“Ow!” Shige yelps, and jumps. He looks down at Ryo in confusion and clutches the side of his head. “What are you doing!?”
“Your hair,” Ryo begins, in all seriousness, “is disgusting.”
That said, he waits for Shige to get defensive and fight back-this could get good if he goes about it correctly. In fact, they might even end up throwing things at each other since there are lots of makeup bottles and the like within easy reach of where they are both standing.
But Shige doesn’t react at all like Ryo wants him to; instead he just blinks and looks even more confused. “If it’s disgusting,” he says to Ryo, slowly, “then why are you touching it?”
There is a moment in which Ryo realizes that he doesn’t actually know how to respond to that.
So he turns around and walks out of the room without another word.
He decides (magnanimously) to let Shige have the first round.
2. Silent Treatment
Afterwards, Ryo decides that maybe a children’s level quarrel won’t work with Shige like it had with Yamapi; he remembers belatedly that Shige is an old man trapped in an idol’s body and as such, doesn’t actually act his age at all. Ryo is thus forced to come up with something much more adult and mature for round two.
After some thought, he decides to employ the master strategy that he’s seen his mother use on his father whenever she is annoyed with him; it’s as sure-fire a prelude to a fight as Ryo’s ever seen in all his years on this earth.
So he borrows her technique and spends the next few days going out of his way to ignore Shige.
The silent treatment, as it is.
On day one of ignoring Shige Ryo does not expect much to happen by way of results-maybe a few worried sideways glances at most, but nothing earth shattering.
Koyama however, picks up on what he is doing pretty much instantly (because that’s just how Koyama is), and by the time early afternoon rolls around Ryo already sees the older boy clutching at his chest like his heart is hurting. That’s good; if tension starts to develop in the dressing room this quickly between the other members then Shige should realize what is going on even faster.
The day after that, when Ryo continues to blatantly ignore Shige, Koyama looks as if he is actually falling ill from the bad atmosphere swirling around the room. At that point even Yamapi starts to clue in on the fact that something might be amiss here; he purses his lips thoughtfully as he tries to figure out what it is all on his own. At first he thinks it is bad ventilation in the building, but after talking to Koyama he gets set straight (even though he still thinks bad ventilation is a big part of it).
By the time day three rolls around and Massu starts acting nervous too, Ryo thinks that it is a sign to go ahead and get this thing started for real. It usually takes around three days (maximum) for Ryo’s dad to go crazy from the silent treatment whenever Ryo’s mom is pulling it on him. Besides, if Yamapi and Massu have both already picked up on something being wrong here, Shige should as well, shouldn’t he? He is one of the smart ones after all.
Though Tegoshi is still bouncing around the place chasing sparkly things like nothing’s wrong at all, which doesn’t really stand in line with the rest of Ryo’s theories. But then again, Tegoshi has always been a special case in pretty much everything.
Whatever. Ryo patiently waits for Shige to snap; it’s bound to happen sometime today.
He’d bet his reputation on it.
Or maybe not.
Because as it turns out, Koyama is actually the one who snaps first; it’s during a rehearsal break later that afternoon, when Shige is peacefully reading his law textbook at the table by himself and Ryo is sitting in one of the overstuffed armchairs glaring silently at the back of Shige’s head.
“Are you and Shige having a fight!?” the oldest member explodes at Ryo suddenly, and is sweaty with distress as he looks between the two assumed combatants. All eyes are suddenly on Ryo and Shige.
Ryo very nearly smiles; it looks like it’s finally time to use the atmosphere he has been cultivating so painstakingly for the past three days.
But then Shige promptly ruins it by blinking and looking over at Ryo guilelessly. “Wait, we’re fighting?” he asks, and snorts. “Nobody told me.”
Silence.
Then, Tegoshi laughs melodically. “Ryo-tan is making a funny face!” he giggles.
Ryo groans and buries his head under one of the couch cushions.
3. Using the Fans
Ryo is fairly confident that the fans all love him more than they love Shige, so he decides to tell the world during the August NewS Abake that he and Shige don’t get along at all.
“We don’t have anything to say to each other,” he announces into the mic confidently, and can hear the viewers’ collective gasps of surprise when he does. Of course ninety (or more) percent of them are going to choose to side with Ryo against Shige after this; it’s only natural given his Osakan Sexiness and his other multitude of charms (all of which Shige is clearly lacking).
But as nice as that is, it’s not really the most important thing here. The most important thing here is the fact that Ryo knows that Shige is always the one who worries the most out of all the group members in terms of what the fans think of him (or you know, if they even know who he is). As such, Ryo can only assume that saying the sort of stuff he’s saying on air in such a blasé manner must annoy the younger boy at least little bit.
Hopefully a lot.
Hopefully enough to maybe even start a heated, egocentric backstage argument in the tradition of KAT-TUN, where things will be thrown and furniture will be broken. If it’s that kind of quarrel it will suit Ryo’s style best, and he would like to maybe win one of the fights he starts with Shige sometime this century, please.
But of course Shige decides not to cooperate with Ryo’s plans again; instead of being angry at Ryo’s insensitive words, the younger boy promptly counters by talking about how he’d walked into the dressing room earlier and saw Ryo sitting there by himself.
“I immediately shut the door!” Shige exclaims, and must be grinning like an idiot judging by how happily the audience is laughing at his words.
Ryo can’t help it; he actually kind of laughs too.
It isn’t until much later that Ryo realizes Shige has won round three as well.
In fact, he practically gave it to the bastard.
4. Exploiting a Weakness
Trust Tegoshi to be the one who finds a sure fire way to annoy Shige without actually meaning to; what Ryo has been trying to accomplish for weeks Tegoshi figures out in a single second of thoughtless inspiration.
In short, Tegoshi takes to suddenly singing Shige’s name in the place of the lyrics to their songs when they’re all backstage together. He does it brightly and cheerfully and at the top of his lungs with no ill-intentions at all. Naturally, this irritates Shige to no end.
So of course Ryo takes advantage of it.
Before long he’s doing it even more than Tegoshi is, and Shige looks like he wants to bury his head under a pile of sand every time it (inevitably) starts up.
“Shige! Shige!” Ryo barks, and sways to the tune of Sayaendo as he does. “ShigeShigeShigeShigeShi-geeee!ShigeShigeShigeShi-geeeee!!”
Shige glares balefully at Ryo; it makes Ryo’s heart leap with anticipatory glee. He senses that his first victory is finally at hand.
But before Shige can tell Ryo to cut it out, Tegoshi joins in with the older boy’s singing in perfect harmony. Not long after that Masuda and Yamapi add their voices to the chorus as well; even Koyama relaxes enough to try it out.
“Man, why did you have to start doing that all of a sudden?” Shige sighs to Tegoshi once they’re all done (because they’re laughing too hard to go on). He looks mentally exhausted at this point, and Ryo is fairly certain that this means the upper hand for him if only he can find a way to take advantage of Shige in his current state by luring him into an argument.
In the meantime, Tegoshi simply blinks up at Shige innocently. “I started it because I love Shige!” he answers, with complete honestly. Then he pauses and cocks his head to the side cutely. “Though Ryo-tan does it a lot more than me lately, ne? Maybe he loves Shige mo…”
Ryo promptly forgets about the argument; he claps a hand over Tegoshi’s mouth and carries the youngest member out of the room.
He decides that so long as he can shut Tegoshi up for the day, this round can be a declared tie.
Even though normally, ties are for wimps.
5. Bad Career Choices
A few days after that Ryo spends seven straight hours on one of his precious few days off watching Shige’s latest drama; by the time he’s finished with it all he knows enough about the show to theoretically hold his own in a heated debate with Shige about why it sucks.
So the next morning at work, he approaches the younger boy confidently and says, “I watched all of your stupid drama yesterday. It was horrible; how is this sort of thing going to help your career at all? You might as well sign up to costar with Kamenashi for your next series for all the good your acting choices are doing for your image.”
Shige looks kind of mystified as Ryo suddenly and unexpectedly berates him like this; it gives the older boy a huge rush of self-confidence to finally make Shige the one who is so surprised that he can’t even properly speak. It must be an omen of some sort; Ryo is certain that this time, he’s going to be the one who comes out on top.
But then Shige suddenly snaps out of it; he laughs at Ryo and says, “Weren’t you in Attention Please?”
Ryo sputters at the abrupt turnaround. “That is not what we are talking about!” he shouts.
Then, something else occurs to Shige as well (since he’s smart), and it’s bad enough a topic that it even makes Ryo want to go back to talking about his own career embarrassments. “Nishikido-kun, you watched all of my drama yesterday? That’s almost seven hours,” Shige says, and looks embarrassed and pleased all at once.
Ryo turns beet red. “You! Cut your hair!” he snarls by rote, before turning around and retreating to the bathroom.
Shige blinks after him. “I just cut my hair recently,” he calls after Ryo. He sounds very patient.
“Well cut it again!”
Ryo scowls to himself and kicks over a chair on his way down the hall; the resulting slam sends several juniors scattering like frightened rabbits. One of them wets his pants.
But their terror only makes Ryo feel slightly better.
6. Guns Blazing
After failed fight number five, Ryo resorts to holing himself up in ABC’s dressing room after kicking them out of it because they don’t really have enough talent to deserve a dressing room anyway. He supposes that it is time to admit to himself that he is feeling a little bit depressed about failure stacked upon failure in regards to this whole six fights thing.
But then again, no one can really blame him; it’s well established that in NewS, no one likes losing except for maybe Koyama, who doesn’t mind being a little bit miserable himself so long as his group mates are happy.
Ryo is clearly not Koyama.
So he sulks alone for a while and tells himself that he’s got one more chance left before the whole six fights theory he’d been talking so loftily about to Wink Up will become a complete and total bust.
He hates being made a liar of.
In the meantime, Koyama has checked the atmosphere around Ryo and warns everyone to leave him alone for a while-it seems that he is in one of his moods.
For the most part, everyone listens to Koyama’s dangerous weather forecasts because they don’t want to be strangled to death by an angry Sexy Osaka Man. Well, everyone listens except for Tegoshi, because Tegoshi is the type of person who, for one, is not afraid of Ryo, and for another, sometimes just doesn’t hear what Koyama is telling him because he’s humming too loudly to himself.
So he ends up bouncing into Ryo’s personal space shortly after he misses the memo that’s being passed around the office telling everyone to leave Ryo alone; the younger boy sticks his face right into Ryo’s and smiles with no ill-intentions. “Ne, Ryo-tan,” he chirps, “are you depressed?”
Ryo scowls at him from the couch. “I’m not depressed. I’m pissed, so leave me alone,” he tells Tegoshi without preamble, and glares for emphasis.
While others might creep away very slowly from Ryo when he has that look on his face (for fear of getting mauled or worse), Tegoshi is delighted. “Ah, Ryo-tan’s straightforwardness about his feelings is what I like best about him, ne?” the younger boy exclaims happily, before promptly jumping onto Ryo’s back and wrapping his arms and legs tightly around him in a full body hug.
Ryo sighs but doesn’t struggle; he shifts his shoulders slightly so they can take Tegoshi’s slight weight more easily. “You’re annoying,” he says, by rote.
Tegoshi laughs brightly and rests his chin on top of Ryo’s head. “Ne, Ryo-tan,” he begins, and squeezes his thighs around Ryo’s waist in what Ryo can only assume is Tegoshi’s version of a nudge when he is in this position.
“What?”
“Never stop being like this, ne? I’ll be depressed if you change.”
Ryo blinks. “Never stop being like what, exactly?”
“Like the Ryo-tan who I like best!” Tegoshi sing-songs. “Okay?”
“You’re annoying,” Ryo says.
~~~~~
A little while later, Ryo realizes that Tegoshi is right; this whole losing thing is so not like him. Especially the sitting down and taking it part.
Thus inspired, he brusquely shrugs Tegoshi off of him and onto the couch so that he can stand. The younger boy giggles and looks up at him with brilliant eyes, “Are you feeling better now?” he asks, mysteriously.
“Stop being such a nosy brat,” Ryo shoots back, though the irritation is finally gone from his posture. He even throws Tegoshi a sideways smile. “Go bother Pi or something.”
Tegoshi pouts. “I would have even if you didn’t tell me to!” he says with faux defiance, and then bounces on the couch a few times as he watches Ryo leave the room. “Bye-bye, Ryo-tan! Ganbatte, ne!”
Ryo sneers and goes off in search of Shige.
He finds the younger boy not long afterwards; he’s in the dressing room alone reading his law textbooks again. Ryo can only assume that Shige is by himself because Koyama herded everyone else outside so that he could study in peace.
Perfect.
Ryo promptly walks up to his group mate and snatches the book from his hands. Then, after making sure that Shige is looking at him, he tosses it over his shoulder and onto the floor.
Shige blinks. “Um?” he says. “Yes?”
Ryo doesn’t say anything; instead he grabs Shige by the collar of his shirt, pulls him to his feet, and then spins him up against the nearest wall.
Shige looks a little put out at this point. “Nishikido-kun? Is something the matter?”
Ryo smiles at him and leans in very close. When their mouths are millimeters apart he slits his eyes and murmurs, “You and I are going to have fight number six starting now. This time I’m going to win.”
Shige’s face turns a bit red at the proximity. He swallows. “We…are? You are?”
Ryo nods and then lets Shige go; he smirks and backs off just enough to let Shige relax a little. “Yup.”
The younger boy frowns; it looks like his mind is working at speeds previously unheard of in Johnny’s as he tries to figure out what is happening here. “Fight number six? What happened to one-through-five? And we’re starting now? What’s the point? Are you even really angry? What are you going to d…”
For once Ryo ignores the words that are coming out of Shige’s mouth; instead he leans forward and kisses him so that he’ll shut up.
He makes sure to do it hard enough to bruise.
Shige-naturally- goes rigid in the first second or two of contact, though by the sixth his knees give out a little and by the tenth he’s already fisting Ryo’s shirt in both hands.
He’s definitely as quick a study as everyone says he is.
But just when Shige gets bold enough to try kissing back, Ryo pulls away abruptly, licking his lips and grinning in an unholy manner.
Shige’s mouth works dumbly at the sudden loss of contact; his mouth is very slightly swollen and his skin is flushed all the way down his neck. Maybe further; Ryo can’t tell because Shige’s shirt is in the way.
It’s kind of hot.
But the most beautiful part about it?
There are no irritating words coming out of those gaping, gasping lips.
In short, the tables have been turned and Kato Shigeaki has finally been rendered speechless by Nishikido Ryo.
It’s about damned time.
Ryo smirks as he turns around and walks out of the room; he promptly awards himself a billion points for winning this round, all previous rounds be damned.
And when Shige regains himself enough to try and shout after Ryo some several minutes later, all Ryo does is laugh and look forward to winning their next six fights as well.
Because Nishikido Ryo is not a man who is accustomed to losing.
END
EDITS PLS.