Someone's Watching Over You (a Nakajima Yuto x OC oneshot)
Title: Someone's Watching Over You
Author: yutorinislove (a.k.a. Hikari)
Rating: T
Pairing: Nakajima Yuto x OC; with slight hints of OhgoJima.
Summary: “I'm here, don't worry”
Author’s Note: This is just one part of the multi-chap story I was writing. Yuto, Chinen, Yabu, Hikaru and Yuya live in a boarding house complex right around their school with three girls, our OC with them. :) Yeah. It's a fairly overused springboard for fanfics, but well, it's my first time writing a JUMP fic, so it's a start. :"3
Also, I made them into a kind of delinquents or something, much like the Bakaleya boys in Bakaleya. X3 It's actually weird, making good-boy Yuto into a delinquent, but, I guess I managed. X3
Any more questions and I’ll be happy to answer them. Just drop me a comment or something. J
Nothing here happened in real life, and though I would kill to own Yuto and the other JUMP members, that’s just not the case. Enjoy reading the fic!
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Yuto was in the middle of class when the guidance counselor came into the classroom, interrupting Kawashikara-sensei from his Math lesson. Normally Yuto would have been overjoyed by the interruption since he hated Math, but the way that the guidance counselor searched the class with her eyes and landed on him made him shiver with nervousness. What was it this time? Since Yamada and Chinen were in Osaka for that blasted school field trip, and that meant that all fights were suspended until Yamada gets back...so there was really no reason for the guidance counselor to call on him, right?
The guidance counselor spoke to Kawashikara-sensei in hushed voices. Then Kawashikara-sensei looked at Yuto. "Nakajima-kun, please go with Hayashi-sensei. You are excused from class."
Yuto could feel that his doom was coming. He stood up and followed the guidance counselor outside the classroom.
"What is it, Hayashi-sensei?" he asked, barely able to cover up the tension in is voice.
"You do live at Hanasake High School Boarding Unit 3, right? The one on Housenka Avenue?" Hayashi-sensei asked, peering at his from behind her wire-rimmed eyeglasses.
Was it the Oshiro guys again? Have they trashed the unit again? Oh damn, the we really ought to kick those assholes' butts sometime! Yuto nodded. "Yes, I do."
"It's your housemate, Hikari Rei-san? She has a high fever, and somebody has to take her home. Unfortunately, your other housemates, Shirayuki Kunimitsu-san and Maria Shindo-kun, along with Hikaru Yaotome-kun, Yuya Takaki-kun and Yuri Chinen-kun are unavailable as of this moment, and since you're the only other one available, can you please take her home? Don't worry -- you'll be excused from the entire day." Hayashi-sensei said, assuring him.
Yuto blinked, unsure of what the guidance counselor was trying to tell him. Then he realized that, if he took Hikari home, he'd have to watch over her until Shirayuki gets back from her own class' field trip, and that might mean until at least 8pm that night...and he has a date with Suzuka-chan today! That may mean he'll have to miss it! "Can't she stay in the clinic?" He asked, keeping himself from panicking.
"The nurse has told me that Rei-san cannot get comfortable in the clinic, and, as you know, we have to keep a patient as comfortable as possible so that she could get better."
Yuto was about to refuse, until he remembered that conversation he and Hikari had that first night in the boarding house.
==Flashback==
It was very nearly two a.m. when Yuto rolled out of bed. For some reason, all that drinking last night left his throat parched. He wasn't much of a drinker, unlike Takaki-kun and Hikaru-kun, so his throat wasn't used to all the alcohol.
On his way to the kitchen, he noticed that the front door was open. He cocked his head to the right and got himself some tea before appraoching the door.
Outside was Hikari. She was drinking cold tea herself, judging from the way she was holding her glass. She was sitting on the porch, staring out into the green expanse of the promenade. The boarding house wasn't that big, but the school made sure to add some greenery into the scene to make it more refreshing to the eye. But in the dark of the early morning, the promenade just looked so much like a scene from a horror movie.
"Hikari-chan?" Yuto said. He remembered how much she hated to be called just "Hikari" by the other Kanpeki members, so he made sure to add the honorific, though using "-san" might have killed him. He hated formalities.
Hikari looked up and twisted her lips in a semblance of a smile. "Nakajima-kun."
Yuto took the acknowledgement as an invitation to sit down. "It's nearly two. What are you doing still up? It's a school day tomorrow," he asked as he settled down beside him -- not too near, she might flip.
"I can't sleep in unfamiliar beds," Hikari said directly. She looked down on the tea in her hands. "I know it's childish -- but I often think that there's something spooky under the bed, or inside the cabinet, or whatnot."
Yuto smiled, feeling a bit closer to Hikari because of the imparted knowledge. "Really? Even if you had somebody with you?"
"If somebody was with me, then it might not matter. I'll feel safe, because there would be somone looking after me," Hikari said. Then she stood up and shrugged. "Good night," she said as she went up to her room, obviously thinking how awkward it was -- talking with a boy she barely knew in the wee hours of the morning about her fears.
==End of Flashback==
Yuto knew that Hikari was scared of being alone in one place, and the clinic was one of the creepiest places in her vocabulary. He sighed: he'll have to save her somehow.
"Okay. I'll take her home."
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Once at home, Yuto, having exhausted all his possible energy at carrying Hikari from the school to the boarding house, decided that he will not be able to carry her upstairs to her room, so he just spread out a futon for her in his first-floor bedroom. Thankfully, Hikari was asleep, so it wasn't much of a struggle to tuck her in.
He went to the kitchen and filled a bowl of cold water, in which he soaked a piece of cloth. He returned to the room and found Hikari mumbling about stuff. He thought she was awake, so he approached her, and from a closer inspection, he saw that she was dreaming.
"Uh...tomare..." she was saying. It looked like she was having a bad dream, so Yuto shook her awake. He knew how bad it was to have a bad dream, for he frequently had those when he was a kid.
"Hikari-chan," he said gently, shaking her awake. "You're having a bad dream."
Hikari opened her eyes, and Yuto was surprised to see that it had tears in them. She blinked, maybe still unsure whether this was still a dream or something, then she tried to smile. "Oh. It's you."
There was something in Yuto that just went out to her when she said those words. It was like a breath of relief. He sat down beside her looked at her calmly. "So this is what happens to you when you sleep in strange rooms? You get nightmares?" he asked conversationally as he wrung the water from the cloth and put it on her forehead.
She tried to shrug. "Yeah, maybe. It's just that...I feel alone, in a strange room, somehow." She closed her eyes. "It reminds me of when Mom left us and we had to move away from the only home I've ever known."
Feeling a bit sheepish at being imparted something personal and obviously precious to Hikari, Yuto tried to change the subject. "So why have you gotten this sick? Was it because of the water balloon fight last night?"
She giggled weakly. "Yeah. Sou da ne."
"You fought hard last night. Shiroi-chan is so proud of you," he said to her, retrieving the cloth. It worried him a bit that the cloth that he put on her forehead had turned warm with just a minute's worth of exposure to her skin.
"Was she? That's great," she said. She had her eyes closed, so Yuto didn't know what she was thinking. It was one of the things that Yuto found interesting in Hikari Rei -- everything that was going on inside her head was reflected in her eyes. It disappointed him a bit, not being able to see her thoughts. As if he had a right to know her thoughts.
There was a silence as he changed the cloth again. He watched her silently as her breathing became more even. She was so still that Yuto thought she was asleep.
I should get some study time, then, Yuto thought, trying hard not to yawn. It was already past one o' clock that morning when the water balloon fight was finished, so he wasn't able to get some sleep. He decided that since he was free the whole day, anyway, and he had to look after a sick girl for the rest of the day, he might as well try to study so he can easily catch up when he went back to school tomorrow.
He stood up, thinking that he'll study in the kitchen, when Hikari murmured, "Stay."
Yuto looked down at her. "Eh?"
"I'm scared." She opened her eyes, and the tears were back. "The bad dreams would go back. Please stay."
Yuto kneeled down and looked around the room. He was a sucker for girls who were scared easily, because the way they needed him made him feel so manly... but this case, with Hikari, was not like the ordinary cases of damsels in distress he has been involved in. There was a meaning to those tears -- something that only she has imparted to him... the aloneness that she felt when her mother abandoned her as a kid and made her live her fears of monsters in the dark -- that Yuto just can't ignore, couldn't brush aside.
"If I studied here, would that make you comfortable?" he asked.
"Please."
Yuto smiled and stood up. "Be right back." He went out of the room and went back a few moments later with a small low table and his school things. He set the table beside where Hikari was sleeping and looked down at her. "Go to sleep now," he said gently as he reached over, took the cloth from her forehead and soaked it in the water-filled basin. He wrung the cloth rid of excess water and folded it. He reached over again and stroked her hot forehead free of hair (which also meant he had to push away her bangs) before lightly putting the cloth on her forehead.
She wasn't closing her eyes, so he gently ran his down from her forehead to her cheeks, making her eyelids slide down to shut her eyes. "I'm here, don't worry," he whispered.
Her breathing evened out, and Yuto watched her drift to sleep. She looked so adorable as she slept, looking so much like a kid, with her flushed cheeks and her slightly-open mouth, but looking so beautiful, too, at the same time. She wasn't simply the spunky, energetic Hikari-chan right now -- she was more fragile, more precious, when asleep.
He turned to his books, blushing slightly as he shook off his thoughts from his head. What was he thinking? He can't like Hikari that way -- Yamada would flip at that, especially since he has gone out of his way to help Yuto with Suzuka. Besides, there was Suzuka Ohgo! The girl he has been crushing on since the fourth grade!
Yuto tried to reach for his bag when he felt a weak tug on his clothes. He looked down and saw that it was Hikari's hand clutching weakly at the leg of his pants, maybe making sure that he won't go.
Yuto found this cute, in a way. He took her hand and gently enclosed it in his left one. "I won't leave," he said to the sleeping girl. With his right hand, he brushed back the hair from her forehead and carefully straightened up and faced his school work, his left hand still holding Hikari's right one.
He wasn't going to let that hand go, if only to let Hikari be assured that the bad dreams won't come and get her tonight.
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Shirayuki was informed of Hikari's sickness and hurried home from her trip, but the heavy traffic caused her to get home at nearly seven.
"Hikari-chan?" she called breathlessly as she entered the house. It was dark -- was nobody home? Nobody has even turned on the lights, even on the porch!
She opened the hallway lights as she hurried upstairs. There was nobody on the second floor... Not even in Hikari's room! Where was Hikari? Did the Oshiro guys get her? Oh, this was so screwed up -- JUMP better rescue her before it was too late, she thought as she ran down the stairs to the hallway telephone.
She was already halfway to dialling Yabu's cellphone number (she knew that in Yamada's absence, it was Yabu to call regarding JUMP business) when she noticed Yuto's room's door, the one near the kitchen, was slightly ajar. She put down the phone and cocked her head to the right. Yuto wasn't one to leave his room door unlocked, that was the type of neat guy that he was. This was suspicious, so Shirayuki approached the door.
She cautiously pushed the door open and saw, by the hallway lights, that Hikari was lying on the futon on the bed, and beside her, with his back facing the door, was Yuto, bent over a low table, over what seemed to be Math books. It seemed that Yuto was really looking after Hikari, since there was a cloth on the girl's forehead. The guy must have fallen asleep looking after her, too, since he was breathing evenly and was bent over.
Shirayuki found it sweet and typical of Yuto to act like this, but what really caught her eye was the way that Yuto was holding Hikari's hand.
There was something intimate about the way that he was holding Hikari's hand that Shirayuki was reminded of better days that she had with Yuya. With a painful, reminiscent smile, she pulled a blanket from the corner of the room and put it on Yuto's back. Yuto answered with an grateful, sleepy groan.
Shirayuki slowly backed away from the room, and closed the door gently, letting the two sleep soundly, undisturbed.
===OWARI===
I hoped it turned out right. This is my first time posting a fanfic on LJ. J Oh, if you were wondering who Shirayuki is, that is the name of the OC that would end up with Yuya. Again, JUMP here is a band of delinquents, sort of like the Bakaleya Boys, who’d go on all costs to protect their school’s name. J
Anyway. Thanks for reading! And drop me a small comment, if you could. Thanks~!
Raburabu itsudemo,
Hikari <3