Chapter 8: Broken Mask (Part 2)
Title: The Mister Mask
Author: YINGxsquare
Pairing: Ryosuke/OC (currently)
Hidden Pairing: Yes
Appearance of other members: HSJ
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Fluff, Gender Bender, Mild Angst, Romance, Slight Comedy(?)
Disclaimer: Only the plot and OCs are mine, others belong to Johnny.
Summary: A girl was forced to change her identity and gender due to her family problem. On the other hand, Chinen Yuuri of the famous boy band 'Hey! Say! JUMP' injured himself in one of their rehearsals for the upcoming winter concert. A temporary replacement was found to replace him. Will the other members, especially his good friend - Yamada Ryosuke, be able to accept the fact about his injury and the new member? And who exactly is this mysterious replacer with an unknown past?
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7
It was just seven-thirty in the morning and the amount of the noise in the black van was beyond imagination. With the ten enthusiastic young members crowded together, there were endless conversations with random loud noise and totally disturbing their manager, Yuusuke, from his nap.
"OI, ALL OF YOU!"
The van became utterly quiet and the atmosphere was tense all of a sudden. Yuusuke slowly glared at each of them before he spoke through his gritted teeth.
"I know very well that all of you are energetic youngsters and have a huge amount of energy stored in your body that would last you for the whole day. HOWEVER..."
The members were taken aback by his sudden hollering and gulped. He paused to shoot them a death glare and continued to speak.
“Please bear in mind that it's only seven-thirty in the morning and not seven-thirty in the evening. I'm trying to take a nap here and there all of you, who are already partying early in the morning! What on earth is this?"
The members swallowed another gulped at his sudden raised voice and looked at each other with guilt. The only member who wasn't affected by the whole situation was Ryoko. She was deep in her thoughts while staring out of the windows with her music was blasting from her earphones. Totally unaware of the situation, she let out a heavy sigh. Just then, she felt eyes on her and slowly shifted her gaze over. To her surprise, everyone in the van was staring at her with a funny look.
"W-wh-what?" she blurted out, after taking down her headset and darted her eyes from one member to another.
Another sigh was heard and everyone turned to look at the source. It was Yuusuke.
"Troublesome kids," he muttered softly while ruffling his hair and stared at the members.
"I'll let all of you off for now. You guys better save up your energy for the rehearsal later. I hope to see the same amount of energy exerted at the stage to be equal or more than the energy spent here," he warned and with that, he sat back on his seat and dozed off into his dreamland within seconds.
The members looked at each other and Yuuri, who sat the closest to Yuusuke, stretched his neck to take a peek at him and found him sleeping soundly. Sticking his thumb in Yuusuke's direction, he spoke softly, "I think he's really tired. He's sleeping so soundly that I can hear him snore."
Hearing that, the members laughed quietly before engaging in their little talks again, leaving Ryoko to return back into her thoughts. Closing her eyes, she thought of the conversation she had with Yuusuke last night.
-Flashback-
After dinner, Ryoko went straight into Yuusuke's room to find him reading some documents. She took in a deep breath and knocked twice on the door with her gaze fixed on him. The knock interrupted his reading and he looked up, surprised to see Ryoko standing at his door.
"Oh, Ryoko. Come on in," he greeted with a small smile and placed his documents gently on the table before spinning his chair around.
Ryoko walked towards the bed and sat down on the spot where Yuusuke had patted lightly. The both of them stared at each other for a good few seconds, as if they were trying to mind-read each other's thoughts.
"Hmm, are you going to ask me why did I allow Yamada-kun to share a room with you?" he asked suddenly with a smile while Ryoko stared at him in disbelief. How did he know that I'm going to ask him that question?
"Well, the reason is simple. It's a challenge for you by Johnny-san and me," he answered simply and Ryoko's eyes widened.
"Eh?" she blurted out in shocked. A challenge? Are they out of their minds, especially Yuusuke-kun? Didn't he realize that I'll be kicked out if all of them know that I'm a girl?
The next reply from Yuusuke made her jaws dropped.
"Actually, I'm not included in the suggestion. It was Johnny-san who asked for it. He said that it had already been more than a month since you entered the Jimusho. The challenge is another way of saying that he's trying to check on you," he said firmly with a stern expression this time round and added, “Did you accidentally let out any traces of you being a girl to anyone else in his presence? Because no matter how much I think, it's weird for him to suddenly impose this challenge."
Ryoko couldn't help but to frown. Check on me?
The shadow from that afternoon flashed through her mind once again. She allowed herself to be release into deep thoughts. That shadow. The challenge. Check on me.
Then her eyes flew wide opened, locking her gaze with Yuusuke in horror. Before Yuusuke could speak, she spilled out everything that happened in the day to him. After she had finished, she found Yuusuke staring at her in disbelief.
"Hold on for a second. Before we discuss about Johnny-san, did you just tell me that Chinen-kun knew your real identity?" he asked, horrified.
In reply, Ryoko nodded her head and Yuusuke let out a heavy sigh before covering his eyes with his palm. Seeing that, Ryoko quickly explained.
"Oh, so you mean you had made him to keep it as a secret?" Yuusuke asked again, slightly frowning.
"Yeah, but he promised me that he would never tell anyone about it," she reassured him and watched as he heaved a sigh of relief.
"I see, alright. But back to Johnny-san, you're guessing that the shadow belongs to him or his secretary or assistant?" Yuusuke repeated and Ryoko nodded her head with a serious expression.
After much discussion, the two decided to head on with the challenge but Yuusuke reprimanded Ryoko about being really careful.
"Bear in mind that you're sharing a room with Yamada-kun and not Chinen-kun. You mustn’t let him know your real identity either."
-End of flashback-
Unconsciously, Ryoko fell asleep while in the midst of her thoughts. Ryosuke, who was sitting beside her, suddenly felt a heavy weight on his left shoulder and slightly tilted his head around. He was surprised to see Ryoko resting her head comfortably on his shoulder.
Suddenly, his heart began to race. He felt an urge to put his arm around her shoulder to pull her closer to him. Just as his arm was about to snake around Ryoko’s shoulder, Yuto suddenly spoke and Ryosuke dropped his arm immediately.
“Oh! Ryo-chan fell asleep!” he announced loudly and the members took a glimpse at the sleep figure.
“Hmm, Yuto-kun is right. He seems to be very tired today,” Yuya agreed.
“Usually, he would be blabbering about random things with us. But earlier on, he was really quiet. I wonder if something was bothering him,” Daiki chipped in and the others nodded in agreement.
Ryosuke remained in silence as the other members continued to blabber on. Somehow, he felt angry when Yuto announced to the other members that Ryoko was sleeping. He had no idea why he’d feel that way and he knew that he shouldn’t get angry with Yuto because of such minor things. However, deep within his heart, he had secretly wished to be the only one to notice Ryoko in her sleeping form.
On the other hand, Yuuri, who sat opposite of Ryosuke, was observing his actions. He raised his eyebrows when he saw the change in expression on Ryosuke’s face upon noticing that Ryoko had fallen asleep. A weird feeling washed over him and he couldn’t help but to think it that way.
From what I had seen, it seemed like Yama-chan had fallen for Ryo-chan.
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After what seemed like hours to Ryoko, she finally woke up from her nap. Still in the sleepy mode, she looked around to find the place different from earlier on.
“Where is this place? Where am I?” she mumbled groggily and rubbed her eyes.
Just then, she saw someone came into her view and realized that it was Ryutaro.
“You’re finally awake, Ryo-chan,” Ryutaro said with a smile and Ryoko raised her eyebrows after the sleepiness had worn off.
Looking at Ryoko, who seemed to be very confused, Ryutaro chuckled lightly and spoke again.
“We’re in JUMP’s preparation room now. The rehearsal will be starting soon. As for how did you manage to enter the room, well, ask Yama-chan for yourself. That’s all.”
After hearing what Ryutaro had said, she finally understood. However, the last sentence lingered in her mind.
“…As for how did you manage to enter the room, well, ask Yama-chan for yourself.”
She frowned slightly and sat up from the couch. Ask Yamada-kun?
Standing up, she began to look around for him. As she was about to turn in at the corner of the door, she banged into someone with a bigger frame and stumbled. Just as she thought her body would hit the hard cold floor, a pair of warm arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her into an embrace. When she opened her eyes, she was surprised to see that the person she had banged into was Ryosuke! Realizing that they were in an awkward position, they quickly moved away from each other.
“You had finally woke up uh?” Ryosuke said and Ryoko nodded.
“You should start preparing soon. The rehearsal is going to start in five minutes’ time,” he reminded and was about to walk into the room when Ryoko stopped him.
“Erm…about earlier on-“
“Oh, you mean that? You must have heard from the others. Well yeah, I was the one who carried you into the room,” he said and started to walk but suddenly, he stopped halfway and turned to his side.
“But luckily I’ve a pair of strong arms. Or else, I don’t think I would able to carry you at all. You should start losing some weight,” he snickered and continued his footsteps.
Hearing that, Ryoko’s eyes widened. What the hell? Did he just attempted to praise himself and criticized me?
Her stare turned into a death glare.
“Oi, Yamada Ryosuke! You’d better stop on your track! You stupid pig!” she yelled while chasing after him, who started running as well.
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Oof!
“Whoa, I’m totally worn out for today!” Ryosuke sighed as he plopped himself on the hotel room’s bed.
Ryoko couldn’t help but to roll her eyes as she sorted out her clean clothing from the baggage.
“I bet your bed is going to stink later. You’re totally covered in your own perspire and yet you just lied onto your bed. Yucks!” she exclaimed loudly and made the disgusting sound.
“What did you just say? I’m not smelly at all! That Takagi mentioned before that I smelled like rose when I perspire!” he retorted and got up from the bed to move over to Ryoko.
“What? Rose? You’re kidding me! I think you smell more like the stinky mud because pigs roll in the mud,” she laughed, without knowing that Ryosuke was standing beside her.
“Are you sure, Nakano Ryota? Do you want to try smelling it?” he smirked as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
She was startled by the sudden contact and looked up. With that smug look on his face, she knew that he wasn’t up to anything good. Just as she was about to run away, Ryosuke grabbed her arm and started to force her to smell his shirt. She struggled and decided to poke his sides.
Being sensitive, Ryosuke released his gripped to stop her from poking him. But as soon as he figured out that he was being tricked, he wanted revenge. He did the same thing to her and while they were playing halfway, Ryosuke accidentally slipped on the floor and fell forward.
Oof!
The both of them landed on the bed with Ryoko lying beneath Ryosuke and both his hands were placed on either side of her head. They were in a totally awkward position. However, they were too preoccupied with the closeness of their faces to realize it.
Their gaze was locked and both of them were staring at each other widely. The room became awfully silent and only sound of the air-conditioner could be heard. Feeling his warm breath tickling her face, Ryoko gulped silently and her heart began to pound faster every second. With such close contact, she could smell his cologne that was surprisingly fresh even after he had perspired. Yuya-kun was right. He does smells like rose.
On the other hand, Ryosuke’s heart was pounding so furiously that he could feel his chest aching. Suddenly, his body was out of control. He started to shift closer, decreasing the gap between their faces till only a few inches apart. Their lips were only a centimeter away and he felt her lips brushing against his. Closing his eyes, he leaned in all way, pressing his lips against her soft ones.
A warm tingling sensation ran though his body. To his surprise, his body felt so light that he thought he was floating. The feeling was heavenly. With his feelings taken over the control of his body, he started to deepen the kiss when he felt a sudden strong push beneath him.
Thug!
The warm sensation disappeared immediately and in place was the coldness from the floor. Slowly, he sat up on the floor and his gaze trailed along the bed which was then fixed on Ryoko, who appeared to be in a daze after the kiss. The atmosphere became very awkward and to escape from it, Ryoko quickly took her clean clothing and ran into the bathroom. Upon hearing the locking sound of the bathroom door, Ryosuke heaved a long sigh and closed his eyes in distress.
What’s wrong with me? I-I just ki-kissed him and he’s a guy! I’m turning gay! What have I just done?
Annoyed, he ruffled his hair roughly before face-palming himself on the bed.
Next Chapter
A/N: Right! Here's another update! Two updates in a day! :D Enjoy and comments are extremely welcome! :D
Author: YINGxsquare
Pairing: Ryosuke/OC (currently)
Hidden Pairing: Yes
Appearance of other members: HSJ
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Fluff, Gender Bender, Mild Angst, Romance, Slight Comedy(?)
Disclaimer: Only the plot and OCs are mine, others belong to Johnny.
Summary: A girl was forced to change her identity and gender due to her family problem. On the other hand, Chinen Yuuri of the famous boy band 'Hey! Say! JUMP' injured himself in one of their rehearsals for the upcoming winter concert. A temporary replacement was found to replace him. Will the other members, especially his good friend - Yamada Ryosuke, be able to accept the fact about his injury and the new member? And who exactly is this mysterious replacer with an unknown past?
Previous Chapters: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7
It was just seven-thirty in the morning and the amount of the noise in the black van was beyond imagination. With the ten enthusiastic young members crowded together, there were endless conversations with random loud noise and totally disturbing their manager, Yuusuke, from his nap.
"OI, ALL OF YOU!"
The van became utterly quiet and the atmosphere was tense all of a sudden. Yuusuke slowly glared at each of them before he spoke through his gritted teeth.
"I know very well that all of you are energetic youngsters and have a huge amount of energy stored in your body that would last you for the whole day. HOWEVER..."
The members were taken aback by his sudden hollering and gulped. He paused to shoot them a death glare and continued to speak.
“Please bear in mind that it's only seven-thirty in the morning and not seven-thirty in the evening. I'm trying to take a nap here and there all of you, who are already partying early in the morning! What on earth is this?"
The members swallowed another gulped at his sudden raised voice and looked at each other with guilt. The only member who wasn't affected by the whole situation was Ryoko. She was deep in her thoughts while staring out of the windows with her music was blasting from her earphones. Totally unaware of the situation, she let out a heavy sigh. Just then, she felt eyes on her and slowly shifted her gaze over. To her surprise, everyone in the van was staring at her with a funny look.
"W-wh-what?" she blurted out, after taking down her headset and darted her eyes from one member to another.
Another sigh was heard and everyone turned to look at the source. It was Yuusuke.
"Troublesome kids," he muttered softly while ruffling his hair and stared at the members.
"I'll let all of you off for now. You guys better save up your energy for the rehearsal later. I hope to see the same amount of energy exerted at the stage to be equal or more than the energy spent here," he warned and with that, he sat back on his seat and dozed off into his dreamland within seconds.
The members looked at each other and Yuuri, who sat the closest to Yuusuke, stretched his neck to take a peek at him and found him sleeping soundly. Sticking his thumb in Yuusuke's direction, he spoke softly, "I think he's really tired. He's sleeping so soundly that I can hear him snore."
Hearing that, the members laughed quietly before engaging in their little talks again, leaving Ryoko to return back into her thoughts. Closing her eyes, she thought of the conversation she had with Yuusuke last night.
-Flashback-
After dinner, Ryoko went straight into Yuusuke's room to find him reading some documents. She took in a deep breath and knocked twice on the door with her gaze fixed on him. The knock interrupted his reading and he looked up, surprised to see Ryoko standing at his door.
"Oh, Ryoko. Come on in," he greeted with a small smile and placed his documents gently on the table before spinning his chair around.
Ryoko walked towards the bed and sat down on the spot where Yuusuke had patted lightly. The both of them stared at each other for a good few seconds, as if they were trying to mind-read each other's thoughts.
"Hmm, are you going to ask me why did I allow Yamada-kun to share a room with you?" he asked suddenly with a smile while Ryoko stared at him in disbelief. How did he know that I'm going to ask him that question?
"Well, the reason is simple. It's a challenge for you by Johnny-san and me," he answered simply and Ryoko's eyes widened.
"Eh?" she blurted out in shocked. A challenge? Are they out of their minds, especially Yuusuke-kun? Didn't he realize that I'll be kicked out if all of them know that I'm a girl?
The next reply from Yuusuke made her jaws dropped.
"Actually, I'm not included in the suggestion. It was Johnny-san who asked for it. He said that it had already been more than a month since you entered the Jimusho. The challenge is another way of saying that he's trying to check on you," he said firmly with a stern expression this time round and added, “Did you accidentally let out any traces of you being a girl to anyone else in his presence? Because no matter how much I think, it's weird for him to suddenly impose this challenge."
Ryoko couldn't help but to frown. Check on me?
The shadow from that afternoon flashed through her mind once again. She allowed herself to be release into deep thoughts. That shadow. The challenge. Check on me.
Then her eyes flew wide opened, locking her gaze with Yuusuke in horror. Before Yuusuke could speak, she spilled out everything that happened in the day to him. After she had finished, she found Yuusuke staring at her in disbelief.
"Hold on for a second. Before we discuss about Johnny-san, did you just tell me that Chinen-kun knew your real identity?" he asked, horrified.
In reply, Ryoko nodded her head and Yuusuke let out a heavy sigh before covering his eyes with his palm. Seeing that, Ryoko quickly explained.
"Oh, so you mean you had made him to keep it as a secret?" Yuusuke asked again, slightly frowning.
"Yeah, but he promised me that he would never tell anyone about it," she reassured him and watched as he heaved a sigh of relief.
"I see, alright. But back to Johnny-san, you're guessing that the shadow belongs to him or his secretary or assistant?" Yuusuke repeated and Ryoko nodded her head with a serious expression.
After much discussion, the two decided to head on with the challenge but Yuusuke reprimanded Ryoko about being really careful.
"Bear in mind that you're sharing a room with Yamada-kun and not Chinen-kun. You mustn’t let him know your real identity either."
-End of flashback-
Unconsciously, Ryoko fell asleep while in the midst of her thoughts. Ryosuke, who was sitting beside her, suddenly felt a heavy weight on his left shoulder and slightly tilted his head around. He was surprised to see Ryoko resting her head comfortably on his shoulder.
Suddenly, his heart began to race. He felt an urge to put his arm around her shoulder to pull her closer to him. Just as his arm was about to snake around Ryoko’s shoulder, Yuto suddenly spoke and Ryosuke dropped his arm immediately.
“Oh! Ryo-chan fell asleep!” he announced loudly and the members took a glimpse at the sleep figure.
“Hmm, Yuto-kun is right. He seems to be very tired today,” Yuya agreed.
“Usually, he would be blabbering about random things with us. But earlier on, he was really quiet. I wonder if something was bothering him,” Daiki chipped in and the others nodded in agreement.
Ryosuke remained in silence as the other members continued to blabber on. Somehow, he felt angry when Yuto announced to the other members that Ryoko was sleeping. He had no idea why he’d feel that way and he knew that he shouldn’t get angry with Yuto because of such minor things. However, deep within his heart, he had secretly wished to be the only one to notice Ryoko in her sleeping form.
On the other hand, Yuuri, who sat opposite of Ryosuke, was observing his actions. He raised his eyebrows when he saw the change in expression on Ryosuke’s face upon noticing that Ryoko had fallen asleep. A weird feeling washed over him and he couldn’t help but to think it that way.
From what I had seen, it seemed like Yama-chan had fallen for Ryo-chan.
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After what seemed like hours to Ryoko, she finally woke up from her nap. Still in the sleepy mode, she looked around to find the place different from earlier on.
“Where is this place? Where am I?” she mumbled groggily and rubbed her eyes.
Just then, she saw someone came into her view and realized that it was Ryutaro.
“You’re finally awake, Ryo-chan,” Ryutaro said with a smile and Ryoko raised her eyebrows after the sleepiness had worn off.
Looking at Ryoko, who seemed to be very confused, Ryutaro chuckled lightly and spoke again.
“We’re in JUMP’s preparation room now. The rehearsal will be starting soon. As for how did you manage to enter the room, well, ask Yama-chan for yourself. That’s all.”
After hearing what Ryutaro had said, she finally understood. However, the last sentence lingered in her mind.
“…As for how did you manage to enter the room, well, ask Yama-chan for yourself.”
She frowned slightly and sat up from the couch. Ask Yamada-kun?
Standing up, she began to look around for him. As she was about to turn in at the corner of the door, she banged into someone with a bigger frame and stumbled. Just as she thought her body would hit the hard cold floor, a pair of warm arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her into an embrace. When she opened her eyes, she was surprised to see that the person she had banged into was Ryosuke! Realizing that they were in an awkward position, they quickly moved away from each other.
“You had finally woke up uh?” Ryosuke said and Ryoko nodded.
“You should start preparing soon. The rehearsal is going to start in five minutes’ time,” he reminded and was about to walk into the room when Ryoko stopped him.
“Erm…about earlier on-“
“Oh, you mean that? You must have heard from the others. Well yeah, I was the one who carried you into the room,” he said and started to walk but suddenly, he stopped halfway and turned to his side.
“But luckily I’ve a pair of strong arms. Or else, I don’t think I would able to carry you at all. You should start losing some weight,” he snickered and continued his footsteps.
Hearing that, Ryoko’s eyes widened. What the hell? Did he just attempted to praise himself and criticized me?
Her stare turned into a death glare.
“Oi, Yamada Ryosuke! You’d better stop on your track! You stupid pig!” she yelled while chasing after him, who started running as well.
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Oof!
“Whoa, I’m totally worn out for today!” Ryosuke sighed as he plopped himself on the hotel room’s bed.
Ryoko couldn’t help but to roll her eyes as she sorted out her clean clothing from the baggage.
“I bet your bed is going to stink later. You’re totally covered in your own perspire and yet you just lied onto your bed. Yucks!” she exclaimed loudly and made the disgusting sound.
“What did you just say? I’m not smelly at all! That Takagi mentioned before that I smelled like rose when I perspire!” he retorted and got up from the bed to move over to Ryoko.
“What? Rose? You’re kidding me! I think you smell more like the stinky mud because pigs roll in the mud,” she laughed, without knowing that Ryosuke was standing beside her.
“Are you sure, Nakano Ryota? Do you want to try smelling it?” he smirked as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
She was startled by the sudden contact and looked up. With that smug look on his face, she knew that he wasn’t up to anything good. Just as she was about to run away, Ryosuke grabbed her arm and started to force her to smell his shirt. She struggled and decided to poke his sides.
Being sensitive, Ryosuke released his gripped to stop her from poking him. But as soon as he figured out that he was being tricked, he wanted revenge. He did the same thing to her and while they were playing halfway, Ryosuke accidentally slipped on the floor and fell forward.
Oof!
The both of them landed on the bed with Ryoko lying beneath Ryosuke and both his hands were placed on either side of her head. They were in a totally awkward position. However, they were too preoccupied with the closeness of their faces to realize it.
Their gaze was locked and both of them were staring at each other widely. The room became awfully silent and only sound of the air-conditioner could be heard. Feeling his warm breath tickling her face, Ryoko gulped silently and her heart began to pound faster every second. With such close contact, she could smell his cologne that was surprisingly fresh even after he had perspired. Yuya-kun was right. He does smells like rose.
On the other hand, Ryosuke’s heart was pounding so furiously that he could feel his chest aching. Suddenly, his body was out of control. He started to shift closer, decreasing the gap between their faces till only a few inches apart. Their lips were only a centimeter away and he felt her lips brushing against his. Closing his eyes, he leaned in all way, pressing his lips against her soft ones.
A warm tingling sensation ran though his body. To his surprise, his body felt so light that he thought he was floating. The feeling was heavenly. With his feelings taken over the control of his body, he started to deepen the kiss when he felt a sudden strong push beneath him.
Thug!
The warm sensation disappeared immediately and in place was the coldness from the floor. Slowly, he sat up on the floor and his gaze trailed along the bed which was then fixed on Ryoko, who appeared to be in a daze after the kiss. The atmosphere became very awkward and to escape from it, Ryoko quickly took her clean clothing and ran into the bathroom. Upon hearing the locking sound of the bathroom door, Ryosuke heaved a long sigh and closed his eyes in distress.
What’s wrong with me? I-I just ki-kissed him and he’s a guy! I’m turning gay! What have I just done?
Annoyed, he ruffled his hair roughly before face-palming himself on the bed.
Next Chapter
A/N: Right! Here's another update! Two updates in a day! :D Enjoy and comments are extremely welcome! :D