Title: The JUMP House
Author:
yutorinislove (Hikari)
Genre: Comedy, romance, friendship
Pairing: JUMP x OC
Rating: PG to PG-13
Summary: JUMP finally gets a vacation all to themselves, but they are bidden to make a song for their new album while on vacation. This in mind, witness how JUMP gets the inspiration they need for their own individual songs. <3
Author's Note: I have planned to post this last Christmas, but I fail at timing... but I still think it's pretty good, so please give it a try? :3
Warning: Slow uploads. Random storylines. Confusing and intertwined plotlines.
Chapter One:
December 15, 2012
“Itai~!”
Rubbing his sore butt, Arioka Daiki looked up at whoever pushed him out of bed, his eyes glaring at the group’s resident pianist, Inoo Kei.
With one quick glance at the clock on the wall directly behind the curly-haired twenty-two year-old, Daiki concluded that Kei was evil for having woken him up at seven o’ clock on a weekend, and what was worse: on one of their precious days off.
“Wake up~!” Kei said as he turned to the bed and fixed the sheets. Be it as it may, Kei was always going to be the member of the group who putters around the house like a nagging mom.
“Why do you have to push me off the bed?! You could have just woken me up by shaking!” Daiki whined. Falling on your butt wasn’t exactly what Daiki could call an ideal way to wake up.
Kei looked at Daiki with a knowing smirk. “I tried that, Dai-chan, believe me, it doesn’t work. Now, fix yourself and get down to breakfast! We have company coming!”
Daiki was still scratching his head and complaining to himself when Kei said that. At the mention of the word “company”, he stopped and blinked. That was when he realized that Kei was dressed in street clothes already, and not in the sky blue sushi-printed pajamas he usually wore to bed. “Eh? Company?”
“Yep,” Kei said. “Ryutaro’s going to visit, along with his girlfriend, I guess?”
Daiki nodded… then his jaw dropped open. “Wait, what? Ryutaro has a girlfriend?”
“Just kidding!’ Kei laughed. “Is it really that surprising if Ryutaro has one? Now go and fix yourself: you shouldn’t make breakfast wait!
Especially since I cooked it!” With a flair and a flourish, Kei left the room and left Daiki there, still unable to process what he has just said.
When Daiki was finally able to get what the pianist said, he cursed himself for being such an idiot. But who can blame him for believing Kei? The guy was an expert liar most of the time.
And yes, it would be very surprising if Ryutaro had a girlfriend. Especially since JUMP members five years older than him hasn’t had one yet.
“You got me there, Inoo,” Daiki muttered as he grabbed his towel from the rack and proceeded to the bathroom.
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“Yabai! There’s no more shampoo!” Chinen said as he inspected the racks in the bathroom. There were two bathrooms in the JUMP House despite its size, and one of them is reserved for guests’ use only. That meant that the ten guys had to share the upstairs bathroom most of the time. And not just the bathroom, but also the soap, shampoo, toothpaste and other beauty products that Johnny Kitagawa requires them to use to ‘take care of their looks’.
“You better ask Yabu for the key to the storeroom,” Daiki said from behind Chinen. He was scratching his hair and yawning, like it was against his wishes to be up and about this early. Chinen shared the sentiment. He was definitely aching for his bed, but Inoo’s threats of eggplant in his favourite gyoza later at lunch were enough to wake him up from his beloved sleep. Inoo might be a random person, but he was sometimes serious enough to put action behind his words.
“It’s Yabu-kun who holds the keys to the storeroom now? I thought the key was hanging by a nail near the storeroom door?” Chinen asked.
“Naahh~ Food was missing, and Takaki is the presumed culprit, so Yabu took the key for safe-keeping. You know,” Daiki winked. Chinen nodded. Takaki sometimes ate way too much; the food in the fridge sometimes doesn’t satisfy him.
“Okay then,” Chinen said cheerfully as he walked out of the bathroom and went up the stairs. He went down the hallway and searched for Yabu’s room’s door. When he found the dark green door (the doors were color-coded according to JUMP colors. Their manager insisted on it, saying “It’s best this way, so nobody gets lost even if someone gets drunk.” The humor was lost on the 7 members, but the BEST members looked unusually guilty when their manager said that), he saw that it was ajar. One of the JUMP house rules that Yamada implemented from Day One: an open door immediately spells “welcome”, so Chinen immediately barged in.
Yabu rolled out of bed so fast that he fell down. “Itai!” he groaned, rubbing his back. Chinen immediately rushed over to help him, but not before knocking the huge pile of clean laundry stacked beside the door. “Nyaa~! Gomen~!” Chinen said before bending down and stacking the clothes back into its original position. Chinen was busy refolding some of the clothes when a dark blue “I love Kota~!” shirt caught his eye.
He was about to tease the older guy about being a bit narcissistic when the words “From Riku” which were printed in small letters on the back caught his eye.
“Zenzen,” Yabu said as he pulled himself up and stretched. “It’s fine, Chinen. What do you want?” he looked at the younger kid, then his eyes widened when he saw what Chinen was holding.
“Gimme that~!” Yabu said, diving for the shirt. When he got the shirt, he hid it under the bed and tried to act cool while sitting on the floor.
“What is it that you want, Chii?” he asked in a business-y manner.
“T-the key to the storeroom,” Chinen stuttered, trying to hold back his laughter. Yabu acting childish wasn’t such an unusual thing about Yabu, but this was a different issue. Yabu had a girl he liked!
Yabu reached for the shelf across the room. Because of his body length, reaching out to the other side of the room while sitting on the bed was easy-peasy. “You should’ve said that before so you wouldn’t have to linger in such a messy room.”
Chinen grinned. “Thanks, Yabu-kun! Sorry for the clothes. Oh, and if it’s about that Riku girl who gave you the shirt… Don’t worry, the other members won’t know about it from me!”
Of course, there wasn’t an instance where a goldmine of information opened up to Chinen that the squirrel of JUMP didn’t take advantage of.
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to be continued...
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