{124} Scared {Saga/Shou} Chapter 5
“I’m so going to beat you, Aki!” Nao shouted, looking at my brother with a mischievous expression on his face.
“That’s what you think, Nao!” Aki said, smiling in a devilish way. Yuuki strengthened her hold around my neck after hearing the little show that Nao and Aki were making. “What’s happening to Aki-kun, Oni-chan?” she asked, lifting her head a little bit to look at me.
“He’s just having fun with your brother`s friend,” my mom said softly before raising up and coming to where I was sitting. “Come on Yuuki, it’s time for you to sleep.” Yuuki at first looked at our mom weirdly, refusing to go with her. “No.” Yuuki said, refusing to move from my lap.
“Yuuki come he…” my mom was interrupted by a sudden scream that came from where Aki and Nao were.
“YAY!!!!! HAHAHAHA I WON! SEE, I TOLD YOU!” Nao screamed and jumped up and down at the result of the video game, Aki just looked at him, muttering something that no one, except himself, could understand. “I won! I won! I won!” Nao continued singing and dancing on the spot with one of the joysticks still in his hand.
“Revenge!” Aki screamed, also rising from the floor.
“Hehehe, it looks like little Aki-kun isn’t tired of me beating him.” Nao said with a triumphant smile.
“What? Are you scared?” Aki said sending him evil glares.
“Not a bit!” Nao said as they sat on the floor again, and pressed the restart button.
We all stared at them; they were obsessed with that video game and had been playing it for the last hour. My mom resumed talking again, after a few seconds of hearing the buttons being pressed continually.
“Yuuki come here please, it’s your bed time and you need to take a bath.” Yuuki just refused to obey once again; it was going to take more than that from my mother to make Yuuki obey her. “Yuuki, you are going to make mom sad.” I said as I break her hold and hand her to our mom. Small tears started forming in her eyes as my mom carried Yuuki away in her arms. Yuuki tried with all of her strength to return to my lap, but my mom’s grip was stronger. Yuuki calmed a bit after some failed attempts to get to where I was.
“Good night,” my mom said bowing a bit and going to the bathroom.
“Good night, Okaa-san,” Aki and I said, although Aki was still focused on the video game.
“Good night Hitomi-San,” Nao said, also enthralled by the game.
“Well guys I’m also leaving, see you later Nao -san,” my dad said, heading off in another direction.
After my parents had left the room I turned my face to see what they were playing, it was a Final Fantasy game. “Can I play with you guys?” I asked, a bit nervous as I sat down next to them on the floor; I wasn’t sure if they would let me play with them.
Aki pressed the pause button and turned his head. “Yeah why not, do you have any objections Nao?” Aki asked, turning his head to his left side.
“No,” Nao said, grabbing one joystick and giving it to me. “Here, I think we should restart the game again.” Nao said, smiling at us both. We both agreed and Nao restarted the game again.
“Awwwwwww!!! I’m so tired!” Aki said, yawning and rubbing his eyes with his hand. “I think we should stop playing now and go to bed,” I said, yawning and stretching before laying on the floor.
“Yeah you’re right.” Nao looked extremely tired as he turned off the Playsation 2. Playing for two hours and a half for me, and three hours and a half for them, wasn’t a good idea for anyone’s health, especially if you have classes the next day, as was Aki’s case.
“Saga, I guess I should be leaving now.” Nao yawned as he stood up, I also stood and looked to where Aki was, and to my surprise he was sleeping on the floor, one of his arms used as a pillow while the other was around his tummy.
“Ehh… Nao?”I called, fixing my gaze to where he was, just to find that he was sleeping on the sofa, with one of his hands around his tummy, just like Aki, but the other brushing the floor, along with one of his legs.
I sighed and went to where Aki was, it wouldn’t be good for him to sleep there. I tried to wake him up, but all that he did was hit me. “So this is how is going to be huh?” I said in a low voice with a mischievous smile. “Then have good dreams Aki,” I said, trying to suppress my laugh. I left the living room with the two videogame fans sleeping there, going to my bedroom.
I reached my room still feeling a bit tired, Chiko was already there sleeping near my bed, so I moved quietly to my closet and started changing from my daily clothes to my pajamas; I moved towards my bed and lay down, falling asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
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I opened my eyes, looking at the little clock that was on the table besides my bed, it was 7:00 am. It was way too early to wake up. I tried to sleep again, but without any success. Groaning, I move a little bit to go to the bathroom, but stop when I felt an extra weight on my body, at first I thought it was Chiko but turning my face to see what it was, noticed that Yuuki was the one who was applying that extra weight on my body.
‘When did she get here?’ I thought to myself as I started to shake her a little bit, trying to wake her up, but I got the same response as Aki, except that she didn’t hit me.
I lifted her off me and placed her on the bed, getting up myself and going to the bathroom to start to get myself ready. I came back to the room and saw that Yuuki had already woken up and was playing with Chiko.
“Good Morning, Yuuki-chan!” I said, raising her up from the bed.
“Good morning, Taka-kun!” Yuuki said, kissing my cheek before I placed her back on the floor. “Come on Yuuki, let’s go and eat some breakfast.” Yuuki nodded with a big smile on her face.
I open the door and let Yuuki and Chiko leave the room before me. As we were near the kitchen, I started hearing people talking; some low laughs and moans of pain.
“Good Morning,” Yuuki sang, entering the room with a big smile on her face and some occasional laughs.
“Good Morning Yuuki-Chan, Saga-kun,” my mom said as I sat down in a free spot in front of Aki, who was laying his head on the table.
“Are you alright, Aki?” I asked him with a little mischievous smile, already knowing what was wrong with him. I could hear a little groan from Aki and a laugh from Nao; his laughs were soon followed by my laugh.
“Saga-kun! Nao-san! Stop laughing at Aki!” My mom scolded as she placed our breakfast in front of us. Yuuki came to the table and sat next to Aki “Daijōbu, Ni-san?” Yuuki asked, a bit worried. Aki just made a signal of ‘No’ with his hand.
“Ahh! Ni-san, poor you?” Yuuki said, hugging him and placing a kiss on his cheek. Nao and I just smiled to ourselves as we watched this “Boys, eat, or your food is going to be cold and both of you-” my mom said pointing to Aki and Yuuki “-need to get ready for school.”
“Hai!” We all said as we started eating our breakfast.
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It had been almost two weeks since the last time I had seen or even spoken to Saga. In all this time Tora and I had made up our minds, and now it was official about us leaving Givuss. We had already discussed this with the band, at first they didn’t want to believe us, but when they saw that we were serious about it, they became a little sad and accepted our decision.
Although we were disbanding, we decided to stay friends. This occurred one week ago and since that time, Tora had been telling me to call Saga, but every time he told me that, or if I had talked to him, I would always act as though I hadn’t heard a thing. But not now, since Tora was in front of me, waiting for me to dial his number.
“Are you going to call him or not?” Tora asked me, already annoyed. I didn’t answer, making Tora’s mood worse; he took my cell phone out of my hands and started searching for Saga’s number, pressing the send button as he found it and selected the speaker option. “Take,” he said, giving me the cell phone and sitting beside me. I heard the cell phone ring, and I began feeling nervous and that shy part of my personality started to show up.
“Moshi Moshi.”
“uhh… Hi Saga, it’s me, Shou.” I said without looking at Tora, because if I did, I would start feeling a lot more nervous than I was now.
“Hi Shou, how are you?” Saga said, and I could have sworn he sounded excited, and maybe a little bit frightened. Why would he be scared?
“Fine, hehe and you?” This conversation was turning somewhat uncomfortable, especially since Tora was hearing it all.
“Fine, thanks for asking, by the way, why did you call?” I gulped, knowing that I had to ask him right now. “I was calling to ask you, if you had already come to a decision about what I had offered you, the idea of being in a band together?” I said as fast as I could, hopping that he would have understood it. I heard a sigh coming from the cell phone, and I start waiting for the worst.
“Eh… Shou?” He said with a tone of voice that seemed ashamed. “Yes Saga?” I said feeling how my heart accelerated, knowing his answer. “I think I would have to turn down your offer, Shou, gomen ne.” I got shocked by his answer, feeling how Tora rose up from the sofa and went to an unknown destination for me, since I kept my eyes glued to the cell phone.
“Ohh, I see.” I replied, sadness audible in my voice, hoping that Saga wouldn’t notice the kind of tone that I used. “I’m really sorry about this, Shou, but I still hope that we can be friends.” Saga spoke again after a few moments of awkward silence, in which neither of us had the courage to talk again.
“Oh… Hai, Saga, don’t worry,” I said with a fake calm voice, “and of course we still can be friends.” I said as I took the cell phone and unabled the speaker mode. Another uncomfortable silence came between us.
“Well I think that I got to go now, Saga.” I said again, since we didn’t have anything else to talk about.
“Eh.. Shou, before you hang up, can I ask you something?” I started feeling kind of excited, what it could be that he wanted to tell me?
“Yeah sure” I heard a sigh coming from his side.
“I wanted to know if you would like to go somewhere to have some drinks with me?” I started to feel the adrenaline running through my veins, and that annoying blush appeared again on my face.
“E…eh.. Ye-Yeah Sur-e, why n-not.” I said stuttering , holy god this was just too much to handle, since I had kind of figured out that I had been falling for him since I met him, and I discovered this on these two weeks after our last encounters, since I couldn’t stop thinking about him, but this was something that I would never tell to Tora; and I was sure that if I didn’t end our conversation now, I would be screaming with all my strength in that exact moment.
“Great! Are you available tomorrow night?” Saga asked me with an amused tone in his voice, maybe he was expecting that I would turn down his offer. “Yes I am.” I said in a low tone.
“Ok, do you know where the bar is that’s located near the live house where we both perform?” I just muttered a low yes.
“Great, well then, see you there tomorrow at 9:30pm.”
“Okay, see you later, Saga.” I said waiting for his reply, and trying to calm myself down and avoid jumping on the couch on that exact moment.
“Bye Shou.” I heard Saga reply before ending the call. Once the call had ended, I started screaming from excitement and jumping on my spot, without caring that Tora might hear me. At the end I was sad in a way, since he had refused our offer of being in a band, but what he told me next, totally changed my mood.
“Right Shou, and you keep telling me that you hadn’t fall for Saga.” I immediately stop jumping, and looked at Tora with an ashamed expression. Tora just stood there with his characteristic smile, before moving to where I was. “Oi Shou, I got good news for you,” he said lying on the couch.
”I received a call from a person named Nao,” Tora said with a smirk on his face.
“What did he want?” I questioned him as I moved his legs form my couch, to make room for him to sit.
“He called me to ask if we would like to form a band with him and the other member, so we are going to have a meeting tomorrow with them, to see if we are going to accept.” Tora said, waiting for my response.
“Oh! That’s great Tora! And where is the meeting going to be?” I asked, surprised by this news.
“At the Starbucks in Harajuku.”
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Tora and I entered Starbucks and began looking for Nao, which was rather useless since we didn’t know what he looked like.
“Oi! Tora-san, Shou-san! Over here!” We heard a voice calling us, and looking towards the source of the sound we found a blonde man waving his hands frantically. We instantly deduced that he was Nao, so we went to where he was standing.
“Ohayou Tora-san, Shou-san, my name is Nao and I’m pleased to meet both of you,” Nao said, a smile on his face as he sat down on the table, we just emulated his moves.
“We just have to wait a bit until the other member arrives, since he had to leave someone before coming.” We just nodded waiting for the arrival of the other member.
After a few minutes, in which Nao talked about many different things, and we introduced ourselves better, another voice was added to our conversation, but this time it didn’t come from us.
“Sorry for being late, Nao.” I felt like I had heard that voice before, but I didn’t seem to remember from where.
“Don’t worry Saga, you’re not late,” Nao said with a little smile. That name, it couldn’t be him right? There might be other people with that same name. I slowly turned my face to see the other member of the group; and what was my surprise when I saw that it was him. I noticed how Saga’s expression was somewhat similar to the one that I had, one of disbelief and shock.
In that exact moment I couldn’t hear Tora’s soft laugh at the sight, neither could I hear Nao questioning if we both knew each other; there was just Saga and myself, I felt like the time around us had frozen.
“Saga…” I said softly, still shocked.
“Shou…”
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I'm really sorry for the late update ;0; but i ahd some things that wouldn't let me to keep posting this fic. A little warning from chapter 6 till the end, the story would be narrated in third person.