Title: It's a matter of taste
Pairing: Ohmiya
Summary: Based in ep 133 of Arashi no Shukudaikun. Oh-chan lost his neckerchief and Aya found it first.
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I think I’ve said this before, but well… not mine! Btw, I don't know anything about Aya Matsuura or her love life, all of this is pure fiction, as always!
Genre: comedy
Words count: 1.015
AN: Betaed by
elenilovesyou . This one was requested by
mikamichael ... Sorry, I did it as well as I could! ^__~
“Didn’t you wear a blue neckerchief when you arrived this morning, Oh-chan?”
Nino looked affectionately at their leader, who sat half asleep in the couch while waiting his turn with the makeup stylist. He waited patiently till his words penetrated into Ohno’s fogged conscience.
“Uh?”
“Your neckerchief. G-o-n-e.” Nino slowly repeated, trying to cover a smile in front of Ohno’s cute confused expression.
“… It’s true…” Ohno seemed to realize it for the first time. “I probably lost it when we were rehearsing at the studio… I must go searching for it before I forget it again...”
They suddenly heard a few knocks at the door and seconds later, a staff member entered the room.
“Ohno-san, it’s your turn. Please, follow me to the make-up room.”
“But I have to look for my neckerchief…” Ohno answered hesitantly, his brows frowning slightly.
“Sorry, there is no time left. Please come with me”
“But it’s my mother’s favorite…” Ohno pouted looking at the staff member with sad eyes.
“Don’t worry, Riida. I’ll look for it.” Nino decided to help the poor man, whose resolution was virtually crumbling under the full power of that pout… and he had been working with them for almost three years already.
“Thanks Nino! I owe you one” Ohno smiled gratefully at him, sad face and deadly pout completely forgotten, and followed obediently the staff member. The other man gave Nino an apologetic bow and guided Ohno out of the room.
“Well, if I were Oh-chan’s neckerchief… where would I choose to be forgotten?” Nino pondered walking toward Arashi no Shukudai-kun’s studio. “Aha! Near the buffet of course” He exclaimed when he spotted the aforementioned scarf laying in a chair near the buffet table.
He made a beeline towards the chair, but stopped abruptly when he saw an unknown woman taking the neckerchief in her hands and smelling it slightly. “Uh? Who is that woman? Aya Matsuura?”
Nino recognized the woman with whom he had worked in ‘Ao no Honoo’ a few years ago. If he wasn’t wrong, she was currently working with Sho-chan in ‘The Quiz Show’ and she was also tonight’s program’s guest.
“This smells wonderful! I wonder who the owner of this scarf is…”
The young woman smelled the neckerchief again with an expression of pure delight. And then Nino remembered another thing about her… She was crazy about smells. She had even admitted once to Nino that the first thing she always noticed in a man was his smell. At that moment, a staff member called her and she left the scarf once again on the chair before following him.
Nino frowned and waited till she was completely out of sight to retrieve the scarf. “And what if she likes Oh-chan’s smell… I like it too! There’s nothing wrong with that, is it?” He was about to return to their green room when a whispered conversation between two women of the staff attracted powerfully his attention.
“Have you heard the last rumor? Aya Matsuura broke up recently with her latest boyfriend”
“It’s that so? But they made such a good couple! What happened?”
“They say that he was cheating on her and somehow she found out about it and got terribly angry… Rumors also imply that she is looking for a new boyfriend already and…”
At that point, Nino’s frown had become a full scowl. He dashed off to the make-up room and arrived just in time to catch the stylist putting the finishing touches on Ohno’s hair.
“Hello Nino! Did you find my neckerchief?”
“Yes, it was in the studio. It was easy to find it.”
He waited patiently for the stylist to finish and leave the room (perhaps the death glares that he was giving him helped to speed his work a little). As soon as he left, Nino got closer to Ohno trying to appear casual, and sniffed him noisily. “The key is to look as if you have all the right to do something, that’s what I always say”
“What are you doing Nino?” The older man questioned him with curiosity, but he didn’t make any attempt to step aside.
“Oh-chan, I think you smell slightly of tobacco” He sniffed him once again secretly enjoying their leader’s scent (nobody said he couldn’t use this opportunity to indulge himself in one of his guilty pleasures, right?)
“Really?” Ohno smelled carefully his left sleeve and then tried the right one, but he didn’t found anything out of the ordinary.
“Don’t worry. Here, let me help you!” Nino took a bottle of perfume from the near shelves and carefully sprayed his friend with it... And then he did it three or four times more, just in case. “Ok, you’re ready! Let’s go.”
After making sure that they put Ohno’s scarf away in his bag, they hurried to the studio and arrived just in time to start the recording. The program progressed without incidents, and then, just after the food segment, Aya finally mentioned her obsession with smells. For example, if she didn’t like the smell of a particular man, she probably couldn’t date him.
Nino leaned on Ohno’s shoulder and got so close that his nose almost brushed the other man’s ear (to Ohmiya fans’ delight). “Perfect! There’s almost no trace of Oh-chan’s scent. I can only smell the perfume” He moved away (but not too much, there’s no reason to waste space in the couch, is there?) and smiled at Ohno’s oblivious look.
And just as Nino expected, after Aya’s words someone (probably Aiba) suggested a ‘Scent test’. After smelling all Arashi’s members and Ogura-san (plus producer Koshio, also known as Construction Worker-san), finally it was Ohno’s turn. Nino waited expectantly and a bit apprehensive for Aya’s judgment. Would the perfume be enough to hide Ohno’s smell?
“I don’t like this person’s scent”
“Why is that?”
“His scent is too strong. I prefer more subtle ones, that it’s all.”
“Probably is because he is getting old” Nino joked turning around to hide his victorious smile from the camera. “Yatta!! Mission accomplished! My Oh-chan is safe again!”
END