Author: Veridanya (暗 and 軽 collaborating)
Genre: Romance, angst
Rating: G [can change at some chapters]
Pairing: SakurAiba, Ohmiya, SakuMoto (one-sided)
Disclaimer: we don't own them (We wish tho... T_T)
Summary: Can you forget the person you loved the most once? Can you forget the person whose existence marked you? Could you forget your first love?
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Aiba woke up from the same dream again, but this time after many years, the guy had a face again in his dream, and it wasn't one he wanted to see. He rolled out of the bed trying to shake out of his head the image of Sho kissing him in the dream.
As he got out of his home, all that was in Aiba's head that morning was how to avoid Sakurai. The last he wanted was to see him ever again, but he had to go to work. Maybe he could look for another job; after all maybe that kind of job wasn't made for him.
As he reached the metro station he saw the metro coming and rushed to catch it, but just as the doors were closing the person that he less wanted to see rushed in.
"Good morning Masaki"
Aiba just grunted as an answer. Who had, in first time, told him that he could call him by his name?
"Well, I'll take that as a greeting. So, do you love me?"
"Of course I don't. Now leave me alone"
Really, what exactly had he done to deserve that?
As they reached their destination, Aiba got out of the train as fast as he could, walking fast to leave Sho behind, but the other one wasn't going to let him escape, and rushed tried to keep Aiba’s speed.
Aiba kept looking behind him, but no matter how many times he’d look, the other was still keeping his pace. He was about to turn to snap something at the older guy when he saw Nino walking towards them from the opposite direction.
Saved! He thought he’d have to deal with more Sakurai but Ninomiya appeared in the correct moment to save him.
“Ah, good morning!”
“Good morning Aiba-chan!” Aiba could see the flinch of Sho’s face at that greeting, but he couldn’t care less, he was glad they had met Nino so he could ignore Sakurai.
They got inside the building and walked towards the elevator, and Aiba focused on giving his whole attention to Nino, glad to not being alone in such a small place with his first love. But still, the other guy catched the same elevator and Aiba could see the looks he was giving him each time he laughed at any of Nino’s teasing.
It was a calm morning for everybody. Well, for everybody but Aiba who had been playing some kind of hide and seek with Sho, trying to avoid him as much as possible. But it was really hard avoiding somebody when that person was your boss. But so far, he was wining their little game and had been able to avoid being alone with the other guy the whole morning. But as he was about to relax, thinking the other one was out for lunch, he found himself in front of Sho and with nobody around. That was it, there was no way out this time. He really didn’t want to talk to him and…
“Sakurai~! What the fuck is that?” A guy with black hair and strong features appeared in front of Sho with some papers in his hands.
“What the fuck is what?” Sho looked really annoyed, but Aiba took his chance to run away from there, not believing his luck that day.
He reached the department and sat down at his usual place besides Nino, the shouts from the other 2 man could still be heard from there.
"Well, Matsumoto. Go complain with your boss if you have a problem with those reports"
Then they came inside the department, and both, Aiba and Nino that were not doing anything tried to pretend be working.
"I came to ask you, you're supposed to know why those reports are wrong" The guy complained
Aiba turned to ask Ninomiya
"Who's that?"
Nino turned around to check they couldn’t hear them before replying in a soft voice.
"That's Matsumoto Jun he's he is the second in charge of sells department"
"Ooh, I see" was all Aiba replied while he kept starring the pair going on with their argue until they left the department area. Once they were alone, Nino turned again towards him.
"So...Aiba-chan"
Aiba looked at him with a smile.
“Yes?”
“Care to explain what happens between you and Sho that had you avoiding him the whole morning?”
“Eh?” Aiba was shocked, was it too obvious? Well, maybe it was, he had been focusing a lot in his hide and seek game….
Nino laughed of the other guy’s expression
"Well, it’s just that…”
But just as he was starting to explain him, he heard Sakurai coughing behind them, forcing them both to go back to work. Nobody wanted to mess with Sakurai at work. So Nino just smiled at him before telling him.
“Then it’s settled, we’ll go for a drink after work so let's hurry with that report"
After work, they went to a small bar in front of the office building. Aiba didn’t remember how long it was since the last time he had gone to have some drinks with a friend… well; he had decided to consider Nino his friend. After all, he was going to need somebody by his side if he had to keep working there with Sho.
Nino was the first one to talk once they got their drinks, it was a calm place and he could talk peacefully.
“So, you and Sakurai, what happens?”
Aiba looked at him, doubting for a minute if after all telling Nino was a good idea.
“Come on, I know something’s going on. You’ve been avoiding him the whole day, and he’d been clearly chasing you” Nino smirked at that.
“Was it that obvious?”
“It was.” Nino laughed and Aiba joined him, thinking that probably it would have been pretty funny seeing the, playing hide and seek in the office. “So, something happened outside work? Don’t tell me that you too…”
“No! No! It’s not like that. I mean, was, a long time ago. But no way, no, not again”
Nino looked at him confused, and Aiba realized he had stopped making sense, so he decided to start explaining him from the beginning.
“So, let me see if I got all. You were together 10 years ago, you broke up, you moved away, now you’ve meet up again and he wants you to be with him again, that’s all?”
“Pretty much”
“wow! It’s like a drama! You sure you are not characters from a manga?”
They started to laugh again until Aiba saw appearing in the bar the same man he had been avoiding. What? He was stalking him or something? But what was more shocking is that he was laughing as he came in with that Matsumoto guy from before.
“Hey, Nino. Isn’t him the guy from before?”
“Matsumoto? Yeah. They are friends… actually; there’ve been many rumors that they are together”
“Eh? Really? I thought they hate each other, they looked like they wanted to kill each other before”
Just then Nino’s phone started to ring with a text.
“Ah! I’m sorry Aiba-chan, but Oh-chan is already waiting for me”
“It’s ok. I should be leaving too, now that it looks like he’s busy so I won’t have to face him”
They just laughed at that and Nino left while Aiba went to the toilet before leaving home.
But as he was going to leave, somebody appeared cornering him in the restrooms area.
“So, you are Aiba Masaki, huh?”
Aiba looked at him, and recognized him immediately. Matsumoto Jun. Had Sho talked to him about what happened?, did he know anything? Well, he knew him, so he guessed so.
“I’m just gonna tell you something Aiba, leave Sho alone. He suffered enough because of you in the past and you have no right to come here again.”
“What… what do you mean?”
“Don’t play dumb, if you’ve come to work in this company because of him, you should leave. It’s because of you he turned like this, and I’m not gonna allow you to hurt him again. Now he’s mine”
Now he’s mine. Somehow, those words gave Aiba a bunch of emotions… But what should he care? He shouldn’t…
“I think you’re getting it wrong, Matsumoto-san, there is nothing between Sakurai-san and me. Now if you excuse me…”
Aiba passed by him and got out as fast as he could. Now he’s mine, those words were still dancing in his mind when he felt a hand grabbing his arm.
“Masaki, are you ok?”
“Wha-what? let me go!”
Sho let him go, and Aiba was shocked about how easy it had been. But instead of turning and leave, he took the chance to reassure his position.
“Listen to me Sakurai, there’s nothing between us, and there’ll never be anything again. I will never love you again”
Aiba saw the hurt look on the others face before turning to leave, but he still couldn’t get those words out of his mind.
Now he’s mine. Maybe he should just leave… again.
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a/n: ok, chapter 3 posted. How it's going? XDD Somehow, I (暗) was wondering if our updates are too long. Well, anyway, hope you're all enjoying the fic. <3
Next one should be ready soon and we'll post it as soon as we're able too XD
And personal stupidity directed to my co-writer... 軽, watch sekai ichi hatsukoi! <3
PS: LOL sorry, I always forget to add the LJ cut the first time I post it and 軽 always has to remind me to do it... I'm helpless like that... m(_ _)m