Words and Heart [Remix]
Title: Words and Heart
Rating: G
Group/Pairing: Koyama+Tegoshi
Warnings: None.
Notes: So, when I got my assignment for Remix, I apparently only read the "natsu" and assumed that meant owaranai_natsu. It didn't. Luckily, the mods pay more attention than I do, and they caught my mistake when I sent in the final version. And, again luckily, there was plenty of time for me to the remix for the correct author. Take a lesson from me: do not skim emails; properly read them. Especially when they contain somewhat important information. Like, exchange assignments.
Link to Original Story: Writing Us
Link to Original Writer: lastingdreams8
Tegoshi is laughing so hard he's crying, panting and clutching at his sides. Koyama frowns, and the others look on in pity.
"Why would you do this to me?" Koyama whines, picking at the edge of the tape wrapped around his suitcase.
Tegoshi just keeps laughing. Shige is starting to look a little guilty, which means he's got a hand in the prank somewhere. Koyama grumbles as he rips off the tape. It's okay that Shige's feeling guilty -- it just means Koyama can get a free dinner out of this from him. Tegoshi on the other hand...
He falls over sideways onto the couch, still laughing and sneaking glances at Koyama's misery.
Yeah. No hope there.
*
Tegoshi pranks Koyama worse than any of the others, mostly because he's a child at heart.
Koyama doesn't have any pigtails to pull on, and spitballs are right out. So, he does the next best thing: uses Koyama's stuff like it's his own, wrapping suitcases in tape, gluing the soles of his shoes to the floor, taking the tuna out of his lunches. Koyama's miserable face is adorable, and when he turns it on Tegoshi, the younger melts a little more inside.
*
Ryo glares and openly judges Tegoshi when he finds out how the kid writes lyrics.
"You can't just put them on your phone."
Tegoshi cocks his head, acting cute. "Why not?"
"You have to feel the words! Write them out!" Ryo sighs, like a tired parent. "Haven't you learned anything from me?"
"I've learned lots from Nishikido-kun!" Tegoshi chirps.
A few days later, Ryo hands Tegoshi a simple hard-backed notebook, and walks away before Tegoshi can even thank him.
*
Tegoshi takes the notebook everywhere, scribbling down parts of songs as they come to him, all in blue ink from a pen he found stuck between the cushions of the couch.
warattte, waratte, boku ni waratte
soushitara, nayami ga nakunaru kara
Smile, smile, smile at me,
Because when you do, my worries disappear.
kanpeki no pea da to omottakedo
kimi wa chigatta
I thought we were the perfect pair;
You thought differently.
kimi wo mite, wakatta
konya dake no koibito
I knew it when I saw you,
a lover just for tonight.
"What are you writing, Tegoshi?" Koyama asks, leaning over the back of the couch.
Tegoshi instinctively snaps the book closed. "Um. Just bits of lyrics that come to me."
"Will you show me when you've finished a song?"
"Of course." Tegoshi smiles. "Kei-chan always says nice things about my lyrics."
Koyama laughs, and Tegoshi has to turn away so Koyama won't see the color on his cheeks.
*
"Why, Tegoshi, why?!" Koyama shrieks between mouthfuls of water, trying to wash the painfully spicy taste out of his mouth.
Tegoshi laughs, just on the safe side of malicious.
Pi leans across the table and takes dips a bit of his food into Koyama's little dish of soy sauce. He jerks when the food hits his tongue. "Tegoshi, you made that really hot."
Koyama is still whining, but he's moved onto eating large mouthfuls of rice.
*
"I need to take my revenge on Tegoshi," Koyama says, complaining to Shige over the phone later.
"Anything you try, he'll see coming a mile away."
"Help me then!"
Shige grumbles. "No. I don't want to get on his bad side when it comes to pranks."
"You already are!"
"Fine," Shige says eventually, in a tone like he knows Koyama would have convinced him of it sooner or later. "Did you have anything in mind?"
Koyama thinks for a long moment. "He's been really attached to that notebook lately. The one with his lyrics. I think I'll steal it."
"... That's it?" Shige asks. "That's not much of a prank. You have to do something to it."
"But, it's his lyrics!"
Shige scoffs. "I didn't mean, like, burn it, or something. Write obnoxious notes in the margin, mean comics about him -- stuff like that."
"I couldn't write something mean about Tegoshi in his own book!"
"You are really bad at this sort of thing, you know that, right?"
*
Shige is the distraction, dragging Tegoshi away with a vague explanation while Koyama goes after the notebook. He opens it, grinning and with a pen in hand.
But, he can't bring himself to write anything, because the lyrics are all wonderful and moving, and just like something Tegoshi would come up with. He flips through all the pages, reading the lyrics, but hearing them in his head in Tegoshi's voice. There's no music script written, but he can just tell how Tegoshi would sing this part, and how the emotions would be felt in his voice, and where he'd drag out the vowels for dramatic effect.
And, after going through the whole notebook, he finds himself back at the scrawled, messy lyrics he likes best out of them all.
kimi to deai
soshite nakiwarattari suru hyoujou mo
subete ga boku no takaramono
zutto zutto arukitsuzukete ikou
Meeting you, then seeing your laughing and crying expressions
all of it is my treasure
Always, always let's continue walking on.
Koyama reads the words over and over again, and doesn't even realize he's drawn a little heart at the end of the first line until he's pulling his hand away so the ink won't smudge. The red ink from his pen stands out brightly from the blue pen that Tegoshi has used throughout the whole notebook.
The point was to write something gently mean, but Koyama just can't -- not when he knows Tegoshi has poured his heart and soul into this book and its lyrics.
The heart stares back at him, and Koyama feels almost embarrassed at leaving that as the only mark that he went through Tegoshi's book. He flips to a random page, where there's a good deal of empty space above some lyrics, and draws two stick figures, the taller pushing the shorter and laughing. The image nearly fits the lyrics -- bits and pieces of a ballad that seems to be about a man's bad luck. (He wonders if it will eventually be dedicated to Shige.)
Tegoshi's loud voice wafts down the hall and jerks Koyama out of his little world made of Tegoshi's lyrics. He stuffs the book back into Tegoshi's bag and tries to look as innocent as possible as Tegoshi and Shige step back into the room.
"We're going to film the new PV on location, Kei-chan!" Tegoshi says, smiling.
"Ah, how wonderful."
"Filming on location is the best! We should go out to celebrate."
Shige laughs.
"You mean, I should buy you lunch to celebrate," Koyama says.
Tegoshi smiles and nods.
Koyama sighs and knows he won't be able to say "no" to that face.
Rating: G
Group/Pairing: Koyama+Tegoshi
Warnings: None.
Notes: So, when I got my assignment for Remix, I apparently only read the "natsu" and assumed that meant owaranai_natsu. It didn't. Luckily, the mods pay more attention than I do, and they caught my mistake when I sent in the final version. And, again luckily, there was plenty of time for me to the remix for the correct author. Take a lesson from me: do not skim emails; properly read them. Especially when they contain somewhat important information. Like, exchange assignments.
Link to Original Story: Writing Us
Link to Original Writer: lastingdreams8
Tegoshi is laughing so hard he's crying, panting and clutching at his sides. Koyama frowns, and the others look on in pity.
"Why would you do this to me?" Koyama whines, picking at the edge of the tape wrapped around his suitcase.
Tegoshi just keeps laughing. Shige is starting to look a little guilty, which means he's got a hand in the prank somewhere. Koyama grumbles as he rips off the tape. It's okay that Shige's feeling guilty -- it just means Koyama can get a free dinner out of this from him. Tegoshi on the other hand...
He falls over sideways onto the couch, still laughing and sneaking glances at Koyama's misery.
Yeah. No hope there.
*
Tegoshi pranks Koyama worse than any of the others, mostly because he's a child at heart.
Koyama doesn't have any pigtails to pull on, and spitballs are right out. So, he does the next best thing: uses Koyama's stuff like it's his own, wrapping suitcases in tape, gluing the soles of his shoes to the floor, taking the tuna out of his lunches. Koyama's miserable face is adorable, and when he turns it on Tegoshi, the younger melts a little more inside.
*
Ryo glares and openly judges Tegoshi when he finds out how the kid writes lyrics.
"You can't just put them on your phone."
Tegoshi cocks his head, acting cute. "Why not?"
"You have to feel the words! Write them out!" Ryo sighs, like a tired parent. "Haven't you learned anything from me?"
"I've learned lots from Nishikido-kun!" Tegoshi chirps.
A few days later, Ryo hands Tegoshi a simple hard-backed notebook, and walks away before Tegoshi can even thank him.
*
Tegoshi takes the notebook everywhere, scribbling down parts of songs as they come to him, all in blue ink from a pen he found stuck between the cushions of the couch.
warattte, waratte, boku ni waratte
soushitara, nayami ga nakunaru kara
Smile, smile, smile at me,
Because when you do, my worries disappear.
kanpeki no pea da to omottakedo
kimi wa chigatta
I thought we were the perfect pair;
You thought differently.
kimi wo mite, wakatta
konya dake no koibito
I knew it when I saw you,
a lover just for tonight.
"What are you writing, Tegoshi?" Koyama asks, leaning over the back of the couch.
Tegoshi instinctively snaps the book closed. "Um. Just bits of lyrics that come to me."
"Will you show me when you've finished a song?"
"Of course." Tegoshi smiles. "Kei-chan always says nice things about my lyrics."
Koyama laughs, and Tegoshi has to turn away so Koyama won't see the color on his cheeks.
*
"Why, Tegoshi, why?!" Koyama shrieks between mouthfuls of water, trying to wash the painfully spicy taste out of his mouth.
Tegoshi laughs, just on the safe side of malicious.
Pi leans across the table and takes dips a bit of his food into Koyama's little dish of soy sauce. He jerks when the food hits his tongue. "Tegoshi, you made that really hot."
Koyama is still whining, but he's moved onto eating large mouthfuls of rice.
*
"I need to take my revenge on Tegoshi," Koyama says, complaining to Shige over the phone later.
"Anything you try, he'll see coming a mile away."
"Help me then!"
Shige grumbles. "No. I don't want to get on his bad side when it comes to pranks."
"You already are!"
"Fine," Shige says eventually, in a tone like he knows Koyama would have convinced him of it sooner or later. "Did you have anything in mind?"
Koyama thinks for a long moment. "He's been really attached to that notebook lately. The one with his lyrics. I think I'll steal it."
"... That's it?" Shige asks. "That's not much of a prank. You have to do something to it."
"But, it's his lyrics!"
Shige scoffs. "I didn't mean, like, burn it, or something. Write obnoxious notes in the margin, mean comics about him -- stuff like that."
"I couldn't write something mean about Tegoshi in his own book!"
"You are really bad at this sort of thing, you know that, right?"
*
Shige is the distraction, dragging Tegoshi away with a vague explanation while Koyama goes after the notebook. He opens it, grinning and with a pen in hand.
But, he can't bring himself to write anything, because the lyrics are all wonderful and moving, and just like something Tegoshi would come up with. He flips through all the pages, reading the lyrics, but hearing them in his head in Tegoshi's voice. There's no music script written, but he can just tell how Tegoshi would sing this part, and how the emotions would be felt in his voice, and where he'd drag out the vowels for dramatic effect.
And, after going through the whole notebook, he finds himself back at the scrawled, messy lyrics he likes best out of them all.
kimi to deai
soshite nakiwarattari suru hyoujou mo
subete ga boku no takaramono
zutto zutto arukitsuzukete ikou
Meeting you, then seeing your laughing and crying expressions
all of it is my treasure
Always, always let's continue walking on.
Koyama reads the words over and over again, and doesn't even realize he's drawn a little heart at the end of the first line until he's pulling his hand away so the ink won't smudge. The red ink from his pen stands out brightly from the blue pen that Tegoshi has used throughout the whole notebook.
The point was to write something gently mean, but Koyama just can't -- not when he knows Tegoshi has poured his heart and soul into this book and its lyrics.
The heart stares back at him, and Koyama feels almost embarrassed at leaving that as the only mark that he went through Tegoshi's book. He flips to a random page, where there's a good deal of empty space above some lyrics, and draws two stick figures, the taller pushing the shorter and laughing. The image nearly fits the lyrics -- bits and pieces of a ballad that seems to be about a man's bad luck. (He wonders if it will eventually be dedicated to Shige.)
Tegoshi's loud voice wafts down the hall and jerks Koyama out of his little world made of Tegoshi's lyrics. He stuffs the book back into Tegoshi's bag and tries to look as innocent as possible as Tegoshi and Shige step back into the room.
"We're going to film the new PV on location, Kei-chan!" Tegoshi says, smiling.
"Ah, how wonderful."
"Filming on location is the best! We should go out to celebrate."
Shige laughs.
"You mean, I should buy you lunch to celebrate," Koyama says.
Tegoshi smiles and nods.
Koyama sighs and knows he won't be able to say "no" to that face.