Oretachi no Omoide - Chap 1
Chapter 1: In which past becomes present…
“Ohayou, Ohno-kun” Sho greeted his sleepy looking colleague when he stepped into the lift.
“Oh! Sakurai-kun, ohayou…” responded Ohno and yawned. “How come you’re here this early?”
“I didn’t finish a report yesterday…” Sho said and held back a yawn as he leant to the lift’s wall.
“Ah…” Ohno nodded.
There was silence in the lift till a small twinkling sound signaled they arrived.
“You work too much recently, Sakurai-kun… You should rest more…” Ohno said before stepped out.
“But at least when I’m working, I don’t think about Masaki all the time…” Sho mumbled to the empty space as he headed to his office two floors higher.
The morning passed quicker than Sho expected and when he noticed it was already lunch time. He quickly turned off his computer then rushed to the exit.
“Ah, Sakurai-kun, I was just looking for you! I have to give this to boss but then would you mind eating lunch with me?” Ohno asked when they met on the corridor.
“Gomen, Ohno-kun, but I have to de something very important! But we can eat together tomorrow. My treat! I promise!” Sho shouted and jumped in the lift which already started to close the doors.
“Oh… okay…” Ohno mumbled a bit disappointed, though Sho already left.
“Aiba-chan!”
The call came from the shop’s back.
“Hai!” said the tall guy while he kneeled next to a cage and tried to feed the rabbit in it.
“Can you take Shiba-chan and her brothers to walk?” Shimura-san asked as he stepped out the office.
“Hai!” the boy answered smiling wide.
He put collars and leashed to all three of them non-stop babbling about how much fun they’ll have in the park…
As soon as they arrived to the park, Aiba took off the leashes so they could run freely. Aiba laughed while watched them then a few minutes later he himself crouched on the ground to happily play with the puppies. He love this part of his job the most! Not that he hated any part of it… Oh no! He was happy to working in Shimura-san’s pet shop. He loved animals and Shimura-san doesn’t seem to mind if he plays with them for hours when he has to feed them or clean their cages.
Half an hour later Aiba lied down and looked up the sky. Suddenly he felt a moist nose nuzzled his neck and he closed his eyes and started to giggle. Then he felt an other small body climbing on his chest and a rouge tongue licking his chin. This just made his giggle more and he waited his last attacker to appear... but nothing… Nothing happened… He opened his eyes immediately and sit up. The puppies might sense there was something wrong and they started to whine softly. Aiba automatically started to caress them to calm them while his eyes scanned their surrounding in order to find the third puppy but she was nowhere to be found.
“Yabai… Shimura-san won’t be happy if we go back without her, right?” he asked the puppies who both found their comfortable place in his lap.
All the puppies had a small medallion on their collar with the Shimura Pet Shop’s address so if someone finds the lost puppy, can easily take her home. But who knows what kind of person would find her?...
Aiba didn’t waste time to put on the leashes the other two puppies, just cradled them in his arms and started to look for their lost sister.
Then he finally found her. She was nibbling at something that look suspiciously the other half of the shopping bag what the man in elegant suit held in his hand next to the puppy. The man just bent down to pick up something what might fell from the bag when it was torn.
“Shibu-chan!” Aiba run to the small troublemaker and sat on his heels. “I told you not to wonder off like this, didn’t I? And what did you just do?” he scolded the puppy but she just waggled her tail happily at the familiar voice, without showing any sign of guilt.
“Aiba-chan?” the ‘attacked’ man asked while the other guy tried to put on the leashes to prevent something like this happen again.
“Hai!” Aiba said immediately and stood up. For a while he was looking curiously at the good-looking man in front of him. "Excuse me, but how did you know my name?” he asked finally.
Sho didn’t want to believe his own eyes. He grew taller, his hair now was dyed light brown and semi-perm but the same innocent brown eyes looked at him, the same breathy voice called him. It was Aiba. His Aiba! But then… how come he didn’t recognize him…? He didn’t change that much during the years to Aiba not be able to recognize him… Sho didn’t understand it and it spoiled the happiness of the moment.
But Aiba noticed nothing about the emotional war inside Sho. He was still thinking about how this stranger knew his name…
“Ah, of course!” Aiba slapped his forehead when he remembered that he was wearing the apron with his nametag on it what he used to wear in the shop. This must be reason why the stranger knew his name! (Though Sho couldn’t see the nametag before he stood up…) “Ah, please, don’t be mad at Shibu-chan! She didn’t mean any harm, just likes to play… Ah! Did Shibu-chan do that?” Aiba asked horrified when he noticed the broken frame in the man’s hands.
“Yeah… but it’s no problem…” Sho smiled softly. He still didn’t understand what was happening but he was happy that Aiba is still the same babbly, hyper person who was during their childhood.
“Hontouni sumimasen” Aiba bowed deeply. “I’ll pay for it!”
“That’s not necessary, really…” Sho tried to reassure Aiba. “By the way, my name is Sakurai Sho” he added though deep in his heart he hoped it would be unnecessary cause Aiba will recognize him.
“Hajimemashite, Aiba Masaki desu” Aiba introduced himself with a bright smile. “And they are Shibu-chan, Momo and Rabu” he said pointing at the three puppies who dragged their leashes impatiently. Then Aiba suddenly remembered he should be on his way back to the shop already. “Yabai! I have to go now. We never walk more than an hour but now Shibu-chan was lost… It was nice to meet you, Sakurai-san and I really sorry for the frame!” Aiba bowed one more time then headed back to the store.
Sho hesitated only for a moment. He would have head back to the office too, if he wanted to eat something but who cares about food when he was able to find Aiba again after all these years?
“Ano!” he called Aiba’s attention, the guy turned back and looked at him with questioning eyes. “Can I help you?” Sho asked with a smile pointing at the three puppies.
“Sure!” Aiba smiled wide.
Sho nodded, he threw the broken frame in the nearest trashcan then took a leash from Aiba.
While they walked to the pet shop, Aiba didn’t stop talking even for a second and Sho was able to make himself believe that they were never separated, not for a minute…
When they reached the shop they stayed on the street a bit more chatting then Sho had to go back. Aiba waved after him then went into the shop.
“Was that Sakurai Sho whom you talked to?” a voice asked out of the blue.
Aiba looked at the voice’s direction. The boy who was sitting on the counter had his eyes glued to the DS’s screen so Aiba had no idea how on earth was he able to see whom to Aiba talked.
“Hi to you too, Nino-chan! You should be working, didn’t you?” he asked while he put back the puppies into their cage.
“I do that, for you information” Nino snapped back. “But you didn’t answer my question. Was that or was that not Sakurai Sho?”
“Yeah, that's his name, why? Do you know him?” Aiba asked and went next to his friend.
“No, I don’t. But I saw him a few times. He works with Oh-chan…” Nino said. “But Oh-chan thinks he’s really weird…”
“Weird? Like how?... Wait, does Ohno-san thinks he’s weird at all or it’s just you?”
“Okay, I think he’s weird. Oh-chan said something about he’s mourning his lost lover or what… I wasn’t really paying attention when Oh-chan talked about him…” Nino shrugged.
“As expected…” Aiba muttered.
Nino could be really well informed about everything but sometimes he mixed up his information with his speculations…
But still, Aiba wondered for a while on what he heard. He didn’t notice that the man would mourn someone… Though he didn’t really speak too… At the end Aiba just shrugged off the thing, it can’t be helped, even if he thinks about this for hours.
“So, what kind of game did they give you to test?” he asked turning back to Nino.
The other guy just lowered the DS in his hands so Aiba was able to see the screen too…
A/N: next to Aiba, Ohno and Nino appeared too^^ I promise, Jun will come later too, so we'll have the whole Arashi here^^
“Ohayou, Ohno-kun” Sho greeted his sleepy looking colleague when he stepped into the lift.
“Oh! Sakurai-kun, ohayou…” responded Ohno and yawned. “How come you’re here this early?”
“I didn’t finish a report yesterday…” Sho said and held back a yawn as he leant to the lift’s wall.
“Ah…” Ohno nodded.
There was silence in the lift till a small twinkling sound signaled they arrived.
“You work too much recently, Sakurai-kun… You should rest more…” Ohno said before stepped out.
“But at least when I’m working, I don’t think about Masaki all the time…” Sho mumbled to the empty space as he headed to his office two floors higher.
The morning passed quicker than Sho expected and when he noticed it was already lunch time. He quickly turned off his computer then rushed to the exit.
“Ah, Sakurai-kun, I was just looking for you! I have to give this to boss but then would you mind eating lunch with me?” Ohno asked when they met on the corridor.
“Gomen, Ohno-kun, but I have to de something very important! But we can eat together tomorrow. My treat! I promise!” Sho shouted and jumped in the lift which already started to close the doors.
“Oh… okay…” Ohno mumbled a bit disappointed, though Sho already left.
“Aiba-chan!”
The call came from the shop’s back.
“Hai!” said the tall guy while he kneeled next to a cage and tried to feed the rabbit in it.
“Can you take Shiba-chan and her brothers to walk?” Shimura-san asked as he stepped out the office.
“Hai!” the boy answered smiling wide.
He put collars and leashed to all three of them non-stop babbling about how much fun they’ll have in the park…
As soon as they arrived to the park, Aiba took off the leashes so they could run freely. Aiba laughed while watched them then a few minutes later he himself crouched on the ground to happily play with the puppies. He love this part of his job the most! Not that he hated any part of it… Oh no! He was happy to working in Shimura-san’s pet shop. He loved animals and Shimura-san doesn’t seem to mind if he plays with them for hours when he has to feed them or clean their cages.
Half an hour later Aiba lied down and looked up the sky. Suddenly he felt a moist nose nuzzled his neck and he closed his eyes and started to giggle. Then he felt an other small body climbing on his chest and a rouge tongue licking his chin. This just made his giggle more and he waited his last attacker to appear... but nothing… Nothing happened… He opened his eyes immediately and sit up. The puppies might sense there was something wrong and they started to whine softly. Aiba automatically started to caress them to calm them while his eyes scanned their surrounding in order to find the third puppy but she was nowhere to be found.
“Yabai… Shimura-san won’t be happy if we go back without her, right?” he asked the puppies who both found their comfortable place in his lap.
All the puppies had a small medallion on their collar with the Shimura Pet Shop’s address so if someone finds the lost puppy, can easily take her home. But who knows what kind of person would find her?...
Aiba didn’t waste time to put on the leashes the other two puppies, just cradled them in his arms and started to look for their lost sister.
Then he finally found her. She was nibbling at something that look suspiciously the other half of the shopping bag what the man in elegant suit held in his hand next to the puppy. The man just bent down to pick up something what might fell from the bag when it was torn.
“Shibu-chan!” Aiba run to the small troublemaker and sat on his heels. “I told you not to wonder off like this, didn’t I? And what did you just do?” he scolded the puppy but she just waggled her tail happily at the familiar voice, without showing any sign of guilt.
“Aiba-chan?” the ‘attacked’ man asked while the other guy tried to put on the leashes to prevent something like this happen again.
“Hai!” Aiba said immediately and stood up. For a while he was looking curiously at the good-looking man in front of him. "Excuse me, but how did you know my name?” he asked finally.
Sho didn’t want to believe his own eyes. He grew taller, his hair now was dyed light brown and semi-perm but the same innocent brown eyes looked at him, the same breathy voice called him. It was Aiba. His Aiba! But then… how come he didn’t recognize him…? He didn’t change that much during the years to Aiba not be able to recognize him… Sho didn’t understand it and it spoiled the happiness of the moment.
But Aiba noticed nothing about the emotional war inside Sho. He was still thinking about how this stranger knew his name…
“Ah, of course!” Aiba slapped his forehead when he remembered that he was wearing the apron with his nametag on it what he used to wear in the shop. This must be reason why the stranger knew his name! (Though Sho couldn’t see the nametag before he stood up…) “Ah, please, don’t be mad at Shibu-chan! She didn’t mean any harm, just likes to play… Ah! Did Shibu-chan do that?” Aiba asked horrified when he noticed the broken frame in the man’s hands.
“Yeah… but it’s no problem…” Sho smiled softly. He still didn’t understand what was happening but he was happy that Aiba is still the same babbly, hyper person who was during their childhood.
“Hontouni sumimasen” Aiba bowed deeply. “I’ll pay for it!”
“That’s not necessary, really…” Sho tried to reassure Aiba. “By the way, my name is Sakurai Sho” he added though deep in his heart he hoped it would be unnecessary cause Aiba will recognize him.
“Hajimemashite, Aiba Masaki desu” Aiba introduced himself with a bright smile. “And they are Shibu-chan, Momo and Rabu” he said pointing at the three puppies who dragged their leashes impatiently. Then Aiba suddenly remembered he should be on his way back to the shop already. “Yabai! I have to go now. We never walk more than an hour but now Shibu-chan was lost… It was nice to meet you, Sakurai-san and I really sorry for the frame!” Aiba bowed one more time then headed back to the store.
Sho hesitated only for a moment. He would have head back to the office too, if he wanted to eat something but who cares about food when he was able to find Aiba again after all these years?
“Ano!” he called Aiba’s attention, the guy turned back and looked at him with questioning eyes. “Can I help you?” Sho asked with a smile pointing at the three puppies.
“Sure!” Aiba smiled wide.
Sho nodded, he threw the broken frame in the nearest trashcan then took a leash from Aiba.
While they walked to the pet shop, Aiba didn’t stop talking even for a second and Sho was able to make himself believe that they were never separated, not for a minute…
When they reached the shop they stayed on the street a bit more chatting then Sho had to go back. Aiba waved after him then went into the shop.
“Was that Sakurai Sho whom you talked to?” a voice asked out of the blue.
Aiba looked at the voice’s direction. The boy who was sitting on the counter had his eyes glued to the DS’s screen so Aiba had no idea how on earth was he able to see whom to Aiba talked.
“Hi to you too, Nino-chan! You should be working, didn’t you?” he asked while he put back the puppies into their cage.
“I do that, for you information” Nino snapped back. “But you didn’t answer my question. Was that or was that not Sakurai Sho?”
“Yeah, that's his name, why? Do you know him?” Aiba asked and went next to his friend.
“No, I don’t. But I saw him a few times. He works with Oh-chan…” Nino said. “But Oh-chan thinks he’s really weird…”
“Weird? Like how?... Wait, does Ohno-san thinks he’s weird at all or it’s just you?”
“Okay, I think he’s weird. Oh-chan said something about he’s mourning his lost lover or what… I wasn’t really paying attention when Oh-chan talked about him…” Nino shrugged.
“As expected…” Aiba muttered.
Nino could be really well informed about everything but sometimes he mixed up his information with his speculations…
But still, Aiba wondered for a while on what he heard. He didn’t notice that the man would mourn someone… Though he didn’t really speak too… At the end Aiba just shrugged off the thing, it can’t be helped, even if he thinks about this for hours.
“So, what kind of game did they give you to test?” he asked turning back to Nino.
The other guy just lowered the DS in his hands so Aiba was able to see the screen too…
A/N: next to Aiba, Ohno and Nino appeared too^^ I promise, Jun will come later too, so we'll have the whole Arashi here^^