Title: The Brat’s Love (multi-chap)
Author: me (Saana-chan)
Pairing: Sakumiya (main), Masatoshi, JunxMao, one-sided Sakuraiba, fake Ohmiya
Rating: anything/everything between PG-13 - NC-17
Genre: angst (a lot), fluff, smut (maybe;)), some humor if I manage XD
Summary: Sometimes no matter how much you want things to happen, all you can do is wait... This goes to Nino as well. He's in love with Sho. Yet he never expected that the road to earn his love will be like this…
Warning: mentions of mpreg later
A/N: connected to my previous series
You’re my Angel but not really a sequel rather the same story from a different POV (mainly Nino’s) so this cause there be the same scene’s/dialogues as in the previous story but this time the focus will be on Nino and Sho’s relationship…
Previous chapters:
Prologue: Nino’s crush Ch1: Wishing for the distance Ch2: Osaka
Chapter 3: First step?
Nino stumbled into his apartment late night when the minibus dropped him off after arriving back from Osaka. If there was something he hated about his job that was coming back to an empty home after a long trip. Sure, usually he was okay with living alone. On those rare day offs he had his precious games kept good company to him. But they couldn’t greet him in any way when he came back home.
Sometimes he thought about getting a pet to change this. At least a goldfish. Maybe it won’t greet him with words or acts as well but at least his apartment wouldn’t be completely lifeless when he comes back…
He won’t have to go to work tomorrow yet, maybe he’ll go buy that goldfish… Ohno would be happy if he knows it…
It was Nino’s last thought before he drifted into sleep…
“Hey, guys, let’s go out drinking tonight! Since Nino finally came back from Osaka and Arashi is complete again!...” Sho proposed after they finally finished with shooting.
Nino’s head shot up immediately hearing Sho’s suggestion. A tiny sparkle of hope glinted in his hazel eyes at the thought that Sho might missed him and now wants to celebrate his return. He couldn’t stop his imagination to run wild but again, he didn’t really want to…
“Why, Sho-kun, did you miss me that bad?” he skipped to the rapper invading his personal space.
Sho leant back a bit to be able to look at the brat’s smirking face better and smiled back though a faint surprise shined in his round eyes.
“Of course I missed you! We’re not Arashi without you!” he said and hugged the smaller boy for a minute.
It wasn’t really the answer what Nino wanted to hear but he learnt to appreciate the little things he could get from Sho.
“Good” Nino said and snaked his arms around Sho’s waist in return but refused to let go though Sho already dropped his arms from his shoulder. “Then I let you treat me tonight!” he added and looked up at him with an adorable face.
“Okay” Sho gave in laughing and for some strange reason he didn’t try to push Nino away from him while he looked at the other three members. “You’re coming too, right?” he addressed the question to all of them but his eyes were fixed on Aiba.
“Ehm… I don’t feel really well and Jun said he’ll take me home…” Aiba said. “But I can ask someone else if you want to go with them, Jun!” he added quickly.
“Don’t be silly! I already said I’ll drop you off… By the way, I promised Mao-chan to be at home early today, so I’m sorry, Sho-kun!” Jun excused himself too. “Can we go, Aiba-chan?” Jun asked and took the older man’s hand when he nodded.
Sho looked at the pair suspiciously. He didn’t like the fact that these two spending this much time together lately. He wanted to pull Aiba back with whatever lame excuse just to separate him from Jun.
Nino might sense it somehow and lightly he tightened his hug around Sho’s waist clenching his fingers into his shirt. It was nothing prominent, it just simply made impossible to Sho to get between Aiba and Jun so the pair left the dressing room undisturbed.
“Ne, Satoshi, you’re coming, right?” Nino asked the oldest member who said nothing so far.
“Gomen, I planned going out fishing tonight. The boat is already waiting for me. Sorry!” he clasped his hands in front of his face and shut his eyes tightly for a second. Then he grabbed his bag and headed to the door.
“Then… it will be just the two of us, I guess…” Nino said beamingly but his heart hammered in his chest furiously fearing Sho might want to cancel the whole thing now that the others turned down his idea. Yet in the same time he felt excited by the chance to spend the whole night alone with Sho…
“Yeah, it seems like that… Well, it’s their loss, right?” Sho asked and smiled back at the gamer who was still clinging onto him. “Let’s go!” he said and they left the green room too…
In the end they decided to go to Nino’s place instead of some bar so it won’t be a trouble if they drink more than what they should. On their way there they stopped at a super market to buy beer and other alcoholic beverages and - as Nino let him - Sho paid for everything.
“Tadaima!” Nino said as they stepped into his apartment.
Sho looked at him confused.
“Is there someone here? I thought you live alone…” the rapper said.
“I do live alone or not really… Since the Chibi is here now too…” Nino answered as he kicked of his shoes.
“The Chibi?” Sho asked more confused and followed Nino into the living room.
The rapper put down the shopping bags on the couch then stepped next to Nino who was bending over a… fish tank? Sho though there’s something wrong with his eyesight but no. There, next to the window, in the corner of Nino’s living room - the utmost place from his beloved gameconsols - there was a fish tank with a single goldfish in it.
The gamer baby talked to the pet while he threw some fish-food into the tank. Sho needed to blink a few times to grasp the scene in front of his eyes.
“Nino, since when do you have a fish?” Sho asked finally.
“Don’t call him a fish. He’s name is Chibi and to answer your question: I bought him after I came back from Osaka” Nino answered looking at the rapper next to him.
“You named your fish ‘Chibi’?” Sho still seemed disbelieving.
“You have a problem with it?” Nino raised an eyebrow, his tone was threatening and Sho immediately shook his head. “At first I wanted to call him ‘Satoshi’ but he’s nothing like Oh-chan but he’s tiny and cute so I just call him Chibi” Nino shrugged.
“You wanted to name your fish after Ohno?” Sho burst out laughing.
Nino looked at him offended.
“Are you finished insulting my pet?” he asked pouting and crossed his arms over his chest.
“Sorry but it’s…” Sho noticed Nino’s glare just in time to not finish his sentence. “Sorry…” he said.
“Tsk… And I thought you…” Nino mumbled a bit disappointed and turned away.
He stepped to the couch where the rapper left the shopping bags.
“You thought I what?” Sho asked curiously and stepped behind the gamer.
Nino turned around and literally bumped into Sho’s chest not expecting the newscaster to be this close to him. He looked up and blushed shyly.
“Drink!” he said taking a can from the bag in his hand and gave it to Sho before fled into the kitchen to get some snacks next to their drinks.
“You thought I what?” Sho asked again following the smaller man not seeming to want to give up.
“Mou! Stop it, you’re annoying! Just drink!” Nino whined blushing deeply again.
He took the beer can from Sho’s hand, opened it and pushed to his plump lips.
“Drink or leave!” he ordered.
Sho drank…
Later that night empty beer cans were everywhere in Nino’s living room’s floor and a half-empty whiskey bottle on the low table in front of them. Nino mentally decided that he was tipsy at least if not drunk already. He turned his head to look at Sho. Both of them were lying on the floor barely leaning onto the couch behind them. The rapper observed his glass of whiskey with fogged eyes.
“Ne, Sho-chan! I tell you a secret!” Nino blurted out suddenly.
There was silence between them after they finished chatting about Nino’s shooting and other stuff. So Nino’s sudden outburst caught Sho totally unguarded. Just as that the gamer called him ‘Sho-chan’… The newscaster looked at the smaller boy questioningly.
“Na…ni?” he asked.
“You know… I miss Yamada Taro Monogatari… You spent a lot of time with me at that time… I miss that...” he whispered leaning closer to the rapper.
Sho blinked at him as he tried to understand his words.
“Of course we spent time together! We had shootings everyday for hours!” he said.
“Yeah, but still… You were just with me during those days… Not with Jun, Oh-chan or… Aiba…” he whispered barely audible before drank the rest of his beer. “But you not anymore…”
“What… are you talking about?” Sho asked confused.
He was too drunk to grasp the deeper meaning of Nino’s words.
Suddenly Nino crawled into his lap taking the glass from his hand. He put his hands on the rappers cheek. Sho automatically hold onto his wrists.
“Don’t you like me, Sho-chan?” he asked and though his eyes were glassy his tone was serious.
“Of course I like you! It’s just…” Sho started but went silent as if he forgot what he wanted to say.
“It’s just that you like Aiba more…” Nino finished it to him and didn’t even try to hide the hurt from his voice. “But you know, Aiba loves Oh-chan!” Nino said suddenly. “He’ll never love you back! So why don’t you just forget him? There are others… I am here too…” Nino’s voice chocked slightly.
Sho stared at him with wide eyes but said or did nothing. Not even when Nino fused their lips together.
Their first kiss tasted like beer and whiskey what they just drank. And it tasted salty because of Nino’s tears…
A/N: to tell you the truth, every time I finish a new chapter, I can't wait to share it with you XD so here's chap3! yay!! >_< I want to ask you if you find where is the third step from Sho toward Nino but it's so small that even I don't know if we can call that the 3rd step LOL XD or maybe the whole chapter can count as it, ne?... anyway, feel free to guess! XD