One Shot: The Gentleman and the Tramp
It was a gray day as the clouds came together and readied themselves for rain. It was supposed to be the day that the prestige Ohno family would be reading their home for one of their biggest parties yet the next night. The servants rushed around the spacious home as they decorated the walls and tables.
“Satoshi?! Where has my son gone off to now? That boy is always wandering around somewhere,” Mrs. Ohno called out to her son as she searched the house.
Meanwhile Satoshi was strolling around the backyard, wanting to stay out of the way of the servants. In the distance he heard the sound of men yelling and the sounds of crashes in the alleyways behind his home. Satoshi went towards the wooden gate leading to the alley and peered out to see a woman running his way…
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“Well if it ain’t the tramp ‘erself!” the cop looked upon the woman with hungry eyes.
She was dressed in boy pants and button up long shirt, her hair pulled up and hidden under her cap. Even though she was dressed like a young street boy, her slender frame and feminine curves couldn’t be hidden completely in the clothing. Oh god the pig has found me she thought to herself before smirking and popping the bill of her cap up at the cop.
“Dear captain I see you have quite the eye for me. Even when I dressed like this you found me out,” the woman forced her best smile before patting the cop on his chest.
The cop grabbed her wrists and chuckled gruffly, “Well love it’s hard to not recognize such a body as yours even if you try to hide. Now come with me my dear, I have reason to believe you’re prostituting and I ‘ave to check it out myself.”
The cop tried to drag the woman with him into the alleyway, throwing her up against the fence.
“Sorry pig, but I’m not as easy as you think!” the woman laughed before swinging her leg right between the cop’s legs.
The cop doubled over and the woman took her chance and ran off down the alleyway. The cop called out to a fellow policeman and chased the woman down the alleyways.
“Stop in the name of the law you whore!” the cop yelled at her as he tried to catch up with her.
She ran and ran as fast as she could, hoping she could get away from the dirty cops. Her heart was racing as she pleaded to God for her legs to carry her away from this place. Just as she finished her silent prayer she felt someone grab her arm and pull her to the side. She felt her back hit against shrubbery before she tried to put her hands up, ready to claw her way out as she thought she had been caught.
“It’s alright! Calm down, I won’t hurt you,” the young man softly assured her.
She looked into his soft brown eyes and knew he wouldn’t hurt her.
“Why are you running away from the cops? Have you done something bad?” Satoshi asked her curiously.
“I haven’t done anything! Those damn dirty pigs think they can get away with raping me because they see me as some whore on the street, but I’m not a whore!” she snapped at him as she defended herself.
Satoshi carefully took a hold of the rim of her hat and pulled it off, letting the woman’s hair fall to her shoulders. She had wild honey brown eyes with long dark eye lashes that seemed to captivate him with one look.
“What’s your name my dear?” Satoshi asked.
“The name’s Akira,” she introduced herself.
“Well Akira-chan, why would those filthy rats believe you’re a whore when you’re not?” Satoshi asked as he slowly let her go.
“I service men, but I’m not some cheap whore off the street. I’m more of a companion than anything…not that you need to know that. Well thanks for the save, I do appreciate it, but I’ve gotta be goin!” Akira thanked him with a cheeky smile before taking back her cap, putting it on her head and tipping it to him, “Maybe we’ll meet again good sir!”
With that she swiftly made her exit into the alleyway and left Satoshi in his backyard.
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The next night the house was brightly lit and music was loudly playing for the guests to listen, enjoy, and dance to. The aristocrats and higher class families were attending dressed in their best suits and dresses, glad to have been invited to one of the most anticipated parties of the year.
Satoshi was politely mingling and laughing as he went from one guest to another as a formality. He wasn’t one for big parties, but his parents loved the attention and so he was used to it despite being their quietest child.
“Noriko-chan! Mizumi-chan! I’m glad to see you my friends!” Satoshi called out to his closest friends.
Noriko and Mizumi were his neighbors and childhood friends. Noriko was dressed in long red formal gown that accented her womanly figure and Mizumi was dressed in a ruffled baby blue dress that puffed out and stopped above her knees, showing off her black tights and her petite legs. Noriko’s short dark hair accented her slender neck and shoulders and Mizumi had longer straightened hair that framed her baby face.
“We wouldn’t miss our good friend’s party now would we sister?” Noriko smiled at Mizumi before smiling at Satoshi.
Mizumi pulled out her fan and covered her face to hide her smile as she replied, “I would never miss it, and we’ve known each other for so long that it’d be rude not to come.”
“Thanks girls, so how are you enjoying it so far? I’m tired of meeting everyone,” Satoshi chuckled.
“Well I heard an interesting piece of news from one of the gossipy housewives that the Ninomiya house’s son has brought himself a gorgeous date. One who’s been seen before with the older wealthy gentlemen around town,” Noriko tried to hide her smile by pulling out her fan and fanning her face.
“Noriko, you’ve always been one to like to listen to those bantering housewives with nothing better to do but gossip about others. I haven’t seen Kazunari Ninomiya in ages, I should try and find him,” Satoshi chuckled at his friend’s antics.
“No need, here he comes with his date as they part the sea of people,” Mizumi pointed out as she closed her fan and pointed in Nino’s direction.
Satoshi turned his eyes and saw Nino walking happily with a beautiful familiar woman on his arm. Her hair was neat and styled, pulled to one side and flowing to the front of her shoulder. She was wearing a long form fitting golden dress, the color of the house of Ninomiya. Satoshi made his way over to the couple and bowed.
“Good to see you again old friend of mine let me introduce you to my date. This is Akira-chan,” Nino smiled and patted Satoshi on the back before introducing his date.
Akira batted her lashes at Satoshi, her red lips turning into a smile as she extended her cleaned up hand to him, “Hello Ohno-kun, nice to meet you.”
Satoshi took her hand and politely kissed it before replying, “I do believe you look like someone I once met.”
“Probably in your dreams good sir,” Akira chuckled lightly.
“Or on the arm of another wealthy man,” Noriko mumbled to her sister before Mizumi elbowed her in the stomach to be quiet.
Akira just smiled before asking Satoshi, “How about a dance good sir?”
Satoshi nodded his head before escorting Akira out onto the dance floor. They got into position before taking off into the dance.
“So you recognize me then?” Akira changed her formal speaking tone to her rougher tone she had spoken to him the first time they met.
“Of course I do, you may have cleaned up but I can still tell it’s you…I’ve never seen such eyes as yours before,” Satoshi told her in a gentle tone.
“You goin’ to spout poetry at me about my eyes now? Don’t need your pretty words good sir,” Akira teased him.
“If you don’t need such words then I’ll use others. May I ask what you’re doing here with Nino-kun?” Satoshi asked.
“I told you that I service men right? Well I’m Nino-kun’s companion for the night. Men pay me to be their companion to their fancy dinners and parties. All I do is show up, let them dress me up as they want, and then I act like their girl and fawn over them and make others jealous of what they have. Nino is a sweet guy and his parents wished him to not attend this party alone so they paid me to be his wonderful date,” Akira explained before Satoshi twirled her around and brought her back to him.
“I see what you mean by serving men. Well at least you don’t service men in other ways,” Satoshi chuckled.
“Good sir,” Akira faked her formal tone again, “I dare not sell my soul to those acts of the night. I just enjoy being pampered when I truly have nothing in this world. Yet, to everyone else, I am still only a tramp in their eyes.”
“You’re no tramp my dear. Just a stray in the alley, waiting to be cleaned up and taken to a loving home,” Satoshi told her as he slowly turned her around again and brought her back up close to him.
“Nice analogy, but I’m not exactly beggin to be picked up off the street,” Akira coldly told him before she pulled away from him and headed back over to Nino’s side.
“Kazu-kun I’m hungry, let’s go get a plate,” Akira said sweetly to Nino before dragging him off to the buffet.
Noriko and Mizumi went over to Satoshi and they noticed the odd expression on Satoshi’s face.
“She’s trouble Satoshi-kun, don’t get mixed in with her,” Mizumi warned Satoshi as she pulled out her fan to hide her uneasiness.
“Don’t worry, I doubt she’ll ever show her face around me again,” Satoshi sighed before joining his friends again.
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A week had passed since the party and Satoshi had gone back to relaxing around his home. He was relaxing one day beneath a tree, reading one of his favorite literature books. It was a beautiful day, but since the party Satoshi had been unable to get his mind off of Akira. Satoshi pulled out a notebook and started to sketch what he saw.
“Eyes as rich and beautiful as the honey made by the bees, how I wish to swarm like them to it. Soft and flowing hair like the flowing curtains which sway with the gentlest of breezes, letting in the sun light which warms me like your smile. Oh how I can’t get her image out of my head,” Satoshi said aloud as he stopped his pencil.
“You should really tell that girl how you feel about her, if she knew what you wrote I’m sure she’d give you access to her house and the family jewels,” Akira chuckled teasingly as she appeared from behind the tree.
Satoshi turned around surprised before he demanded to know, “Where did you come from?! This is MY backyard after all, how did you get in here?”
Akira kneeled down and smiled before answering, “The same way you pulled me in the first time. Now do tell about this girl you seem to be pining over.”
“You shouldn’t be eavesdropping…and what’s with the clothes? I thought u were done being formal?” Satoshi asked her again.
Akira was dressed in a young lady’s dress that some of the high class women would wear. Her hair was pulled up in a bun and she had a big sun hat on her head.
“Oh this? I have to look like a lady still since I’ve been paid to escort Nino-kun around town for the week,” Akira explained before twirling in her yellow dress, holding onto her white hat so it wouldn’t fly away.
“Will you be done with him once the week is over?” Satoshi asked.
“Yes, tomorrow I go back to the street and wait again for someone to take an interest in me,” Akira answered him before standing up and heading out.
“Don’t go!” Satoshi couldn’t stop himself from reaching out and stopping her.
Akira turned around when she felt him reach out and grab her wrist, “What is it?”
Satoshi was going to say something when he heard someone coming their way. Noriko and Mizumi were coming their way and when they saw Akira they immediately gave Akira a cold look.
“What is she doing here?” Noriko asked.
“I was just leaving. Excuse me,” Akira ducked out and quickly made her escape.
Once she was out of sight Mizumi spoke up, “What was she doing here? I thought I saw her being Nino’s escort this week.”
“She came to visit me; we spoke for a moment that’s all. She’ll be leaving after this week is over,” Satoshi explained.
“Well our mother will be happy about that, she dislikes how Akira steals the available men’s attention in the area. Guess mother worries if we’ll be married off here soon,” Noriko added her comment.
“I’m sure you girls will find suitable suitors,” Satoshi reassured them halfheartedly as he thought about Akira.
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“I will not go! I wasn’t doing anything illegal!” Akira protested as she was picked up by two policemen.
“We were called to investigate your actions, now come down to the station with us,” the cop told her as he brought her down to the police wagon.
“What’s happening over there, mother?” Noriko asked as she joined her mother and sister on the patio.
“I made a nice call to our local police to get that tramp out of our nice neighborhood. I’m tired of seeing her face around here, she belongs off the streets for good,” her mother coldly commented before retiring inside.
“What?! How could mother do that to her?” Noriko angrily questioned her mother’s methods.
Mizumi nodded her head quietly as she agreed with her sister. Then out of nowhere they saw Satoshi come running towards the police, shouting for them to let her go.
“Unhand her at once!” Satoshi demanded.
“Sorry sir, we’re just taking the trash off the street for you,” the policeman commented as he jerked Akira’s arm.
Akira glared at the policeman before turning her attention to Satoshi with saddened eyes, “It’s alright Ohno-kun, guess this tramp belongs in the pound.”
“Let her go! I demand you let go of my fiancée!” Satoshi blurted out.
Everyone was in shock at the announcement, especially Akira.
“Sir, I didn’t know this girl was your fiancée,” the policeman doubted him.
“Well she is so let her go. NOW!” Satoshi forcefully demanded.
The policemen dropped Akira on the ground and got into their police wagon. Satoshi helped Akira up and apologized.
“I’m sorry for saying that, it was the first thing that came to mind to get them to leave you behind,” Ohno explained as Akira brushed herself off.
Ohno pushed some of her loose hair behind her ear to fix it as Akira replied, “I’m sorry you were treated that way…”
“I’m used to it; I’m only a tramp after all. I don’t belong here with a gentleman like you, I’m no lady,” Akira responded as she pulled away from Satoshi.
“I don’t care! To me, you’re the only lady I want in my life,” Satoshi confessed to her as he took her hands into his.
“I thought you had someone you liked already? I know you’re always pining about her in your backyard,” Akira commented.
“It was always you on my mind. Since the moment I met you I couldn’t get you off my mind. When I saw you at my party I couldn’t believe I got to see you again. You always dismiss my words as unnecessary pretty words, but I can’t help it. When I see you all that comes to mind are poetic words that want to slip out of mouth. I’ve never wanted so badly to speak and speak till I have no voice in which to compliment you with,” Satoshi rambled on before Akira stopped him.
“I don’t need your pretty words my good gentleman, ‘I love you’ is good enough for me,” Akira chuckled lightly before kissing him lightly on the lips.
Satoshi swept her up and kissed her again, “I love you my little tramp.”
“I love you too my little gentleman,” Akira chuckled and kissed him on the cheek lovingly.
what did u think? I had a hard time ending this so that's why the ending is what it is lol hope you still enjoyed