Series: Days (7)
Title: Days
Episode: 7
Genre: Romance, angst
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Junma
Beta: laurachan2
Disclaimer: Arashi and Toma belong to JE. Inoue Mao's (the actress) artistic talents belong to Seventh Avenue. I'm only using them as characters for my fic and am not making any profit out of this. This is written for entertaining purposes only. Absolutely no redistribution!
Notes: Lots of internal dialogue going on in this episode... also, I hope there is no confusion as to which Inoue Mao being referred to at the end. As always, if you're following the links to the previous chapters from here, please go through any warnings that chapter may come with.
( Episode 1 : NC-17 )
( Episode 2 : NC-17 )
( Episode 3 : R )
( Episode 4 : PG )
( Episode 5 : PG )
( Episode 6 : PG-13 )
Toma sighed closing his eyes parting his lips as he felt Jun’s mouth over him. He moaned softly and wrapped his arms around Jun’s shoulders. Jun started unbuttoning Toma’s shirt exploring Toma’s mouth in a rush. He frowned as his fingers seemed to open endless buttons, ‘Ah, why do shirts have so many buttons… can’t they make shirts without buttons… perhaps have strings instead of buttons… it would be so easy … just pull the strings and the shirt would open up … revealing skin!’
Sighing into Jun’s mouth, Toma opened his eyes and was surprised to find Jun staring at him, while their lips were locked. He blushed profusely, feeling unreasonably conscious he gazed down at Jun’s t-shirt. They held onto each other as long as possible, but since both of them wanted to touch bare skin, they had to break their kiss to hurriedly remove their shirts.
Tossing the shirts aside, they wrapped their arms around each other, immediately coming together for a kiss again. Toma’s fingers ran through Jun’s hair, messing up Jun’s perfect style carelessly. Jun ran his fingers down Toma’s shoulders and arms sending shivers down Toma’s spine in anticipation. Slowly, their kisses drifted down to each other’s necks and panting softly, Jun bit down on Toma’s neck, leaving a red bruise. Toma gasped and smiling softly he nuzzled Jun’s shoulder before licking a spot on the shoulder. Jun’s eyes went wide and he rammed his hips into Toma urgently at the sensation. Groaning softly, Jun shook his head unable to form coherent words.
“I know!” Toma whispered releasing Jun’s shoulder, “That’s why I didn’t bite and leave a mark. We can’t have you come so quickly!!!”
Jun panted looking at Toma, frowning slightly as he pulled away from the other man, “Yeah, I haven’t had you in weeks and I’m not coming so pathetically!!”
Toma smiled as he traced Jun’s body with one of his hands. His fingers paused at Jun’s right nipple and played with it until it turned into a hard bead. He smiled at Jun’s gasp of pleasure when he closed his mouth around the beaded nipple. ‘How I love this man, his body, his smile, his touch… oh god, I missed this… his touch so badly!!!’ Toma thought when he felt Jun’s fingers in his hair and a sudden jerk brought him back to face Jun.
Jun’s lips were again on Toma’s mouth for a small brief kiss before moving down Toma’s throat and chest. He licked Toma’s nipples until they turned hard to Jun’s satisfaction. He was smiling in pleasure as he kissed down Toma’s body and paused to play with his navel for a few minutes. He could hear Toma’s moans and feel tiny involuntary thrusts coming from Toma. He bit on the sensitive skin of Toma’s belly button before encountering the protective jeans.
Jun frowned and looked up at Toma’s clouded face, “Pants… off!”
Jun stood up to face Toma again; his lips were once again engaged with Toma’s, his fingers pulling on Toma’s belt buckle and the buttons on the jeans. He was slowly leading Toma to the couch. Toma in turn was busy trying to unzip Jun’s pants, taking baby steps towards the couch, kissing Jun back. They were too busy with each other to notice the shirts they had thrown away earlier. They slipped on the shirts and fell to the floor, with Toma on his back, Jun in Toma’s arms. They had managed to tangle themselves up in each other’s legs and could feel the pulsing and throbbing organ of the other man. They looked into each others eyes for a second before trying to remove the pants and underwear in a hurry.
“Hurry, hurry! I can’t take it any longer!” Toma mumbled, his fingers trembling in urgency.
“I know… I’m hurrying!” Jun whimpered, his body shaking with urgency as well. Frustrated at the slowness of their movements, Jun turned Toma around when their pants and underwear pooled at their knees.
Toma panted softly as his member sprang free of its restraint. He was surprised to find himself staring at the carpet, but his body and mind were too occupied with sensations to complain.
Jun smiled as he knelt behind Toma. Pulling Toma’s hips up towards him, he smiled at the way Toma was quivering in anticipation. He sighed softly as he positioned himself against Toma’s entrance, his mind barely remembering the fact that neither of them was actually ready.
“Damn… lube…lube…” Jun grumbled, frantically looking around the room, trying to remember where the nearest bottle was hidden.
“My back pocket… there is a lubed condom,” Toma panted thrusting his hips further against Jun, leaning his face against the carpet.
With trembling hands, Jun dug around Toma’s back pocket anxiously until his fingers met a plastic wrapper. Smiling widely, he pulled the condom out of the pocket and started peeling the wrapper away. His smile turned into a grin when the condom was free and he started putting it on carefully. He let out a tiny squeal of triumph when his member was fully covered.
Panting softly, Jun entered Toma slowly, taking in the feel of Toma’s warmth around him. ‘Oh, how I’ve missed this man! I can’t believe I really love him!’ Jun thought once he was inside Toma completely. He stayed unmoving for a few precious moments, taking in the feelings Toma elicited in his heart and body.
Toma sighed softly closing his eyes, relieved to be under Jun again. He hadn’t been sure how to face Jun after what he thought was rejection. ‘Perhaps Jun doesn’t hate me as much as I thought’ Toma thought feeling Jun inside him again. After a few moments of silence, Toma wriggled his butt, eliciting another groan from Jun.
Jun grinned opening his eyes and wrapping his hands around Toma’s waist, he started moving again. Thrusting in and out of Toma gently, he set an unhurried pace after such a rushed foreplay. Toma moaned softly as Jun hit his magic spot several times gently. He gasped loudly when Jun’s hand came around and wrapped around his stiff length. As Jun slowly increased the pace the hand on Toma’s member followed.
He brought them to the brink of explosion as he pounded into Toma, his hand matching his thrusts. Their bodies gleamed in sweat and their breath exploded out of their lungs as they both came together. Jun released himself into the condom inside Toma, while Toma came all over the carpet. Finally spent and exhausted, Jun collapsed on Toma and rolled sideways, taking Toma with him.
Jun was gently expelled from Toma’s body naturally as they lay down on the carpet, panting. Their brains were still fuzzy and pleasure soaked. Their pants and underwear still tangled around their knees. Jun pulled Toma into a tighter hug, his chest pressed against Toma’s back, their hearts beating against each other, matching their rhythm as they settled down. They were too spent to even move a muscle and smiling they fell into a nap on the carpet.
Fifteen minutes later, Jun woke to a vibration near his leg. Frowning, he slowly extracted his hands from under Toma’s head and smiling at his sleeping partner he thought as he stood up, ‘Love you Toma’. He pulled up his pants, discarded the used condom into the trash can and stretching slowly, he looked at his cell phone. He had three missed calls, all within the last ten minutes. Frowning he flipped open to see who had been trying to reach him.
As he was going through the call log, Toma blinked opening his eyes. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was Jun’s back. Smiling slowly, he sat up wincing softly. Even though Jun had been gentle in the beginning, they were both carried away by passion towards the end and his bottom was now protesting its rough treatment. Still smiling, he stood up and pulled his pants up and bent over to pick up his discarded shirt.
Jun turned around with a frown, “Oh, you’re up already.”
Toma nodded, his smile fading at the frown, “Yeah. Listen Jun, I came here today to…”
Jun placed a finger on his lips motioning Toma to be silent, “Johnny called. He asked me to call back. So, hold on Toma-chan.”
Toma frowned and nodding his head, he bent over to pick up Jun’s t-shirt. He inhaled Jun’s scent slowly, discretely, before handing the tee to Jun. Jun nodded his thanks and pulled the garment over his head.
“Ah, is Johnny in? This is Matsumoto Jun speaking. I had a call from him,” Jun spoke as he frowned, tracing a gentle finger across Toma’s right cheek.
“You got carpet burns here,” Jun mumbled with another frown as he removed his finger from Toma’s cheek, ‘I need to have this carpet removed here… and perhaps have someone bring over an emergency futon… at this rate, Toma’s body will be red as a tomato in no time and then I’ll probably have to restrain myself for weeks!’
“It’s nothing. Listen Jun, really…” Toma began and Jun placed a finger over Toma’s lips.
“Ah, Kitagawa-san, this is Jun. Yes… yes… I understand. Give me half an hour. I should be able to make it in that time. I’ll see you soon then…” Jun hung up and running his fingers through his hair, he started towards the door.
“Sorry Toma. It looks like Johnny has something important to tell me. I’ll be back soon,” Jun said from the door.
“Jun. Wait… I…” Toma sighed as Jun ignored him and ran towards the elevators.
Jun frowned at Toma’s disappointed expression as the elevator doors closed. He was still wondering what could have possibly upset Toma when he reached the JE building. ‘I mean, it wasn’t that I was too rough… he can’t be upset because of that…or…does he not like being gentle? Does he only like it when it’s rough? But he came… so that can’t be right…wait, he came all over the carpet… ah shit… the carpet needs to be cleaned… even steaming it might not remove the stain…how embarrassing… how can I explain to the staff cleaning my dressing room what that stain is… wait, have the other members ever had to explain such stains to the cleaning staff before? Should I ask them? No… Nino and Sho are bastards… I can’t believe they’d doubt Oh-chan and Aiba-chan. Poor Aiba-chan, he couldn’t stop talking about Sho and Sho thinks he was confessing to me… and Oh-chan, he really is a patient guy, I’m glad I’m not the one Nino is in love with… I’d totally not be able to tolerate his personality constantly!!! Ah… but it’s so nice that they’re in love… they all look so happy… but Toma looked sad… I did tell him I loved him right…or was I just thinking that… then again, love makes people stupid, perhaps I should just not tell him those words… perhaps expressing it physically should work…flowers and chocolates… but no, he isn’t a girl, although flowers worked out fine the last time I cooked him dinner… Oooo, perhaps I should just cook him dinner every night… that would be a nice gesture…would it be too much if I moved in a couple of my clothes and stuff into his apartment? I mean… every time I cook him dinner, I’m almost certainly going to be spending the night there…it would be such a pain to drive back to my place to change…’
Jun’s internal dialogue was still going on strongly when he was shown into Johnny’s private office.
“Jun! I’m glad you could make it in time,” Jun snapped out of his thoughts as he heard a booming voice from across the room.
He blinked and looked at the bright office, a large desk placed in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass windows. A small man was sitting in front of the table in a comfortable plush chair, his fingers tapping away at the laptop on the desk.
“Ah yes, of course.”
After a full five minutes of silence, Jun started fidgeting in his chair, “Umm… so why did you call me here?”
Johnny hit a couple more keys on his laptop before he closed it and gave Jun a direct look, “Well, there has been a change in your management.”
Jun frowned, not really understanding what Johnny was talking about, “Change?”
“Yes. Your previous manager was very successful in launching your career and has done an excellent job. I thought perhaps I could put him in charge of someone else.”
“Oh, but… what about me?”
“I’m getting there. Do you know why Ikuta Toma hasn’t been debuted yet?”
Jun frowned, flushing slightly at the memories the mention of Toma’s names brought, “Well, no. What does Toma have to do with my situation?”
“There is a very good reason I haven’t let Toma debut yet. He is a good actor; however, he has even better management skills. He has been able to keep the juniors in check very beautifully for me and I believe it is time for him to move up the ladder to bigger people.”
Jun’s frown deepened, “Ok… but again, what does that have to do with me?”
Johnny sighed looking at Jun, “You know, you can be so dumb sometimes!”
“What, what did I do?”
“Jun, you’re one of the bigger people in the agency. Your career is going excellent. I am putting Toma in charge of you.”
Jun stared at Johnny; his throat went dry at the news, “But… Toma…acts…career”
“Toma will continue taking on roles, however, I need to test his endurance and skills in time management as well as managing people and how he handles stress. I’ve bigger plans for him than merely letting him be an actor.”
Jun sighed and drinking a glass of water on the table, he spoke again, “So, Toma will practically have two jobs?”
“Well, Toma will finish filming Maou. He will then focus on managing you and your career. Whether he takes on future acting jobs or not, is up to him… and me.”
Jun frowned again, feeling like Johnny was giving the short end of the stick to Toma in this deal, “But Kitagawa-san, Toma is really a good actor.”
“Jun, I’ve made my decision, you can’t change my opinion now. Besides, Toma already agreed to it.”
“Eh!!! He did! But he didn’t tell me!”
“I heard you were extremely busy, perhaps he hasn’t had a chance to speak with you. Have you seen him recently?”
Jun blushed profusely as he finished the glass of water on the table, “Well, we got distracted. If that is all, may I take my leave?”
Johnny scrutinized Jun’s blushing face before he nodded his head, “Yes. You may leave now.”
As Jun closed the door behind him, Johnny leaned against the back of the chair and laced his fingers together, ‘Something is going on here that I do not know about. Will Matsumoto Jun be a hindrance or an asset to my plan? I should probably have someone keep an eye on him…’
While Jun was at the office, Toma was pacing Jun’s dressing room, “I should probably leave. I mean, he has no reason to come back to the studio.” Toma whipped out his PDA and opened up Jun’s schedule. “Seriously though, it’s kinda creepy to know that Johnny has the ability to copy anyone’s schedule and hand it over so easily!”
Toma sighed softly as he scrolled through Jun’s schedule for the next couple of days. His fingers froze and shook as he came across an entry for Wednesday. His eyes went wide and his body trembled as he read the words ‘Date with Inoue Mao’.
‘So… Jun was just using me… I was wrong…he doesn’t really like me…he just wants me to satisfy his bodily needs…I can’t believe I was so stupid as to harbor the feeling that perhaps Jun might come to like me eventually. He just wants to sleep with me and nothing more…he really is involved with Inoue-san…and just like everyone is saying he might be thinking about dating her seriously!’ Toma thought as he stepped into the elevator. His eyes were brimming with tears as he stepped into his car and drove off, just as Jun’s car came to a halt behind him.
[To Be Continued]
[End of Chapter 7]
Comments are appreciated and very welcome!
Episode: 7
Genre: Romance, angst
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Junma
Beta: laurachan2
Disclaimer: Arashi and Toma belong to JE. Inoue Mao's (the actress) artistic talents belong to Seventh Avenue. I'm only using them as characters for my fic and am not making any profit out of this. This is written for entertaining purposes only. Absolutely no redistribution!
Notes: Lots of internal dialogue going on in this episode... also, I hope there is no confusion as to which Inoue Mao being referred to at the end. As always, if you're following the links to the previous chapters from here, please go through any warnings that chapter may come with.
( Episode 1 : NC-17 )
( Episode 2 : NC-17 )
( Episode 3 : R )
( Episode 4 : PG )
( Episode 5 : PG )
( Episode 6 : PG-13 )
Toma sighed closing his eyes parting his lips as he felt Jun’s mouth over him. He moaned softly and wrapped his arms around Jun’s shoulders. Jun started unbuttoning Toma’s shirt exploring Toma’s mouth in a rush. He frowned as his fingers seemed to open endless buttons, ‘Ah, why do shirts have so many buttons… can’t they make shirts without buttons… perhaps have strings instead of buttons… it would be so easy … just pull the strings and the shirt would open up … revealing skin!’
Sighing into Jun’s mouth, Toma opened his eyes and was surprised to find Jun staring at him, while their lips were locked. He blushed profusely, feeling unreasonably conscious he gazed down at Jun’s t-shirt. They held onto each other as long as possible, but since both of them wanted to touch bare skin, they had to break their kiss to hurriedly remove their shirts.
Tossing the shirts aside, they wrapped their arms around each other, immediately coming together for a kiss again. Toma’s fingers ran through Jun’s hair, messing up Jun’s perfect style carelessly. Jun ran his fingers down Toma’s shoulders and arms sending shivers down Toma’s spine in anticipation. Slowly, their kisses drifted down to each other’s necks and panting softly, Jun bit down on Toma’s neck, leaving a red bruise. Toma gasped and smiling softly he nuzzled Jun’s shoulder before licking a spot on the shoulder. Jun’s eyes went wide and he rammed his hips into Toma urgently at the sensation. Groaning softly, Jun shook his head unable to form coherent words.
“I know!” Toma whispered releasing Jun’s shoulder, “That’s why I didn’t bite and leave a mark. We can’t have you come so quickly!!!”
Jun panted looking at Toma, frowning slightly as he pulled away from the other man, “Yeah, I haven’t had you in weeks and I’m not coming so pathetically!!”
Toma smiled as he traced Jun’s body with one of his hands. His fingers paused at Jun’s right nipple and played with it until it turned into a hard bead. He smiled at Jun’s gasp of pleasure when he closed his mouth around the beaded nipple. ‘How I love this man, his body, his smile, his touch… oh god, I missed this… his touch so badly!!!’ Toma thought when he felt Jun’s fingers in his hair and a sudden jerk brought him back to face Jun.
Jun’s lips were again on Toma’s mouth for a small brief kiss before moving down Toma’s throat and chest. He licked Toma’s nipples until they turned hard to Jun’s satisfaction. He was smiling in pleasure as he kissed down Toma’s body and paused to play with his navel for a few minutes. He could hear Toma’s moans and feel tiny involuntary thrusts coming from Toma. He bit on the sensitive skin of Toma’s belly button before encountering the protective jeans.
Jun frowned and looked up at Toma’s clouded face, “Pants… off!”
Jun stood up to face Toma again; his lips were once again engaged with Toma’s, his fingers pulling on Toma’s belt buckle and the buttons on the jeans. He was slowly leading Toma to the couch. Toma in turn was busy trying to unzip Jun’s pants, taking baby steps towards the couch, kissing Jun back. They were too busy with each other to notice the shirts they had thrown away earlier. They slipped on the shirts and fell to the floor, with Toma on his back, Jun in Toma’s arms. They had managed to tangle themselves up in each other’s legs and could feel the pulsing and throbbing organ of the other man. They looked into each others eyes for a second before trying to remove the pants and underwear in a hurry.
“Hurry, hurry! I can’t take it any longer!” Toma mumbled, his fingers trembling in urgency.
“I know… I’m hurrying!” Jun whimpered, his body shaking with urgency as well. Frustrated at the slowness of their movements, Jun turned Toma around when their pants and underwear pooled at their knees.
Toma panted softly as his member sprang free of its restraint. He was surprised to find himself staring at the carpet, but his body and mind were too occupied with sensations to complain.
Jun smiled as he knelt behind Toma. Pulling Toma’s hips up towards him, he smiled at the way Toma was quivering in anticipation. He sighed softly as he positioned himself against Toma’s entrance, his mind barely remembering the fact that neither of them was actually ready.
“Damn… lube…lube…” Jun grumbled, frantically looking around the room, trying to remember where the nearest bottle was hidden.
“My back pocket… there is a lubed condom,” Toma panted thrusting his hips further against Jun, leaning his face against the carpet.
With trembling hands, Jun dug around Toma’s back pocket anxiously until his fingers met a plastic wrapper. Smiling widely, he pulled the condom out of the pocket and started peeling the wrapper away. His smile turned into a grin when the condom was free and he started putting it on carefully. He let out a tiny squeal of triumph when his member was fully covered.
Panting softly, Jun entered Toma slowly, taking in the feel of Toma’s warmth around him. ‘Oh, how I’ve missed this man! I can’t believe I really love him!’ Jun thought once he was inside Toma completely. He stayed unmoving for a few precious moments, taking in the feelings Toma elicited in his heart and body.
Toma sighed softly closing his eyes, relieved to be under Jun again. He hadn’t been sure how to face Jun after what he thought was rejection. ‘Perhaps Jun doesn’t hate me as much as I thought’ Toma thought feeling Jun inside him again. After a few moments of silence, Toma wriggled his butt, eliciting another groan from Jun.
Jun grinned opening his eyes and wrapping his hands around Toma’s waist, he started moving again. Thrusting in and out of Toma gently, he set an unhurried pace after such a rushed foreplay. Toma moaned softly as Jun hit his magic spot several times gently. He gasped loudly when Jun’s hand came around and wrapped around his stiff length. As Jun slowly increased the pace the hand on Toma’s member followed.
He brought them to the brink of explosion as he pounded into Toma, his hand matching his thrusts. Their bodies gleamed in sweat and their breath exploded out of their lungs as they both came together. Jun released himself into the condom inside Toma, while Toma came all over the carpet. Finally spent and exhausted, Jun collapsed on Toma and rolled sideways, taking Toma with him.
Jun was gently expelled from Toma’s body naturally as they lay down on the carpet, panting. Their brains were still fuzzy and pleasure soaked. Their pants and underwear still tangled around their knees. Jun pulled Toma into a tighter hug, his chest pressed against Toma’s back, their hearts beating against each other, matching their rhythm as they settled down. They were too spent to even move a muscle and smiling they fell into a nap on the carpet.
Fifteen minutes later, Jun woke to a vibration near his leg. Frowning, he slowly extracted his hands from under Toma’s head and smiling at his sleeping partner he thought as he stood up, ‘Love you Toma’. He pulled up his pants, discarded the used condom into the trash can and stretching slowly, he looked at his cell phone. He had three missed calls, all within the last ten minutes. Frowning he flipped open to see who had been trying to reach him.
As he was going through the call log, Toma blinked opening his eyes. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was Jun’s back. Smiling slowly, he sat up wincing softly. Even though Jun had been gentle in the beginning, they were both carried away by passion towards the end and his bottom was now protesting its rough treatment. Still smiling, he stood up and pulled his pants up and bent over to pick up his discarded shirt.
Jun turned around with a frown, “Oh, you’re up already.”
Toma nodded, his smile fading at the frown, “Yeah. Listen Jun, I came here today to…”
Jun placed a finger on his lips motioning Toma to be silent, “Johnny called. He asked me to call back. So, hold on Toma-chan.”
Toma frowned and nodding his head, he bent over to pick up Jun’s t-shirt. He inhaled Jun’s scent slowly, discretely, before handing the tee to Jun. Jun nodded his thanks and pulled the garment over his head.
“Ah, is Johnny in? This is Matsumoto Jun speaking. I had a call from him,” Jun spoke as he frowned, tracing a gentle finger across Toma’s right cheek.
“You got carpet burns here,” Jun mumbled with another frown as he removed his finger from Toma’s cheek, ‘I need to have this carpet removed here… and perhaps have someone bring over an emergency futon… at this rate, Toma’s body will be red as a tomato in no time and then I’ll probably have to restrain myself for weeks!’
“It’s nothing. Listen Jun, really…” Toma began and Jun placed a finger over Toma’s lips.
“Ah, Kitagawa-san, this is Jun. Yes… yes… I understand. Give me half an hour. I should be able to make it in that time. I’ll see you soon then…” Jun hung up and running his fingers through his hair, he started towards the door.
“Sorry Toma. It looks like Johnny has something important to tell me. I’ll be back soon,” Jun said from the door.
“Jun. Wait… I…” Toma sighed as Jun ignored him and ran towards the elevators.
Jun frowned at Toma’s disappointed expression as the elevator doors closed. He was still wondering what could have possibly upset Toma when he reached the JE building. ‘I mean, it wasn’t that I was too rough… he can’t be upset because of that…or…does he not like being gentle? Does he only like it when it’s rough? But he came… so that can’t be right…wait, he came all over the carpet… ah shit… the carpet needs to be cleaned… even steaming it might not remove the stain…how embarrassing… how can I explain to the staff cleaning my dressing room what that stain is… wait, have the other members ever had to explain such stains to the cleaning staff before? Should I ask them? No… Nino and Sho are bastards… I can’t believe they’d doubt Oh-chan and Aiba-chan. Poor Aiba-chan, he couldn’t stop talking about Sho and Sho thinks he was confessing to me… and Oh-chan, he really is a patient guy, I’m glad I’m not the one Nino is in love with… I’d totally not be able to tolerate his personality constantly!!! Ah… but it’s so nice that they’re in love… they all look so happy… but Toma looked sad… I did tell him I loved him right…or was I just thinking that… then again, love makes people stupid, perhaps I should just not tell him those words… perhaps expressing it physically should work…flowers and chocolates… but no, he isn’t a girl, although flowers worked out fine the last time I cooked him dinner… Oooo, perhaps I should just cook him dinner every night… that would be a nice gesture…would it be too much if I moved in a couple of my clothes and stuff into his apartment? I mean… every time I cook him dinner, I’m almost certainly going to be spending the night there…it would be such a pain to drive back to my place to change…’
Jun’s internal dialogue was still going on strongly when he was shown into Johnny’s private office.
“Jun! I’m glad you could make it in time,” Jun snapped out of his thoughts as he heard a booming voice from across the room.
He blinked and looked at the bright office, a large desk placed in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass windows. A small man was sitting in front of the table in a comfortable plush chair, his fingers tapping away at the laptop on the desk.
“Ah yes, of course.”
After a full five minutes of silence, Jun started fidgeting in his chair, “Umm… so why did you call me here?”
Johnny hit a couple more keys on his laptop before he closed it and gave Jun a direct look, “Well, there has been a change in your management.”
Jun frowned, not really understanding what Johnny was talking about, “Change?”
“Yes. Your previous manager was very successful in launching your career and has done an excellent job. I thought perhaps I could put him in charge of someone else.”
“Oh, but… what about me?”
“I’m getting there. Do you know why Ikuta Toma hasn’t been debuted yet?”
Jun frowned, flushing slightly at the memories the mention of Toma’s names brought, “Well, no. What does Toma have to do with my situation?”
“There is a very good reason I haven’t let Toma debut yet. He is a good actor; however, he has even better management skills. He has been able to keep the juniors in check very beautifully for me and I believe it is time for him to move up the ladder to bigger people.”
Jun’s frown deepened, “Ok… but again, what does that have to do with me?”
Johnny sighed looking at Jun, “You know, you can be so dumb sometimes!”
“What, what did I do?”
“Jun, you’re one of the bigger people in the agency. Your career is going excellent. I am putting Toma in charge of you.”
Jun stared at Johnny; his throat went dry at the news, “But… Toma…acts…career”
“Toma will continue taking on roles, however, I need to test his endurance and skills in time management as well as managing people and how he handles stress. I’ve bigger plans for him than merely letting him be an actor.”
Jun sighed and drinking a glass of water on the table, he spoke again, “So, Toma will practically have two jobs?”
“Well, Toma will finish filming Maou. He will then focus on managing you and your career. Whether he takes on future acting jobs or not, is up to him… and me.”
Jun frowned again, feeling like Johnny was giving the short end of the stick to Toma in this deal, “But Kitagawa-san, Toma is really a good actor.”
“Jun, I’ve made my decision, you can’t change my opinion now. Besides, Toma already agreed to it.”
“Eh!!! He did! But he didn’t tell me!”
“I heard you were extremely busy, perhaps he hasn’t had a chance to speak with you. Have you seen him recently?”
Jun blushed profusely as he finished the glass of water on the table, “Well, we got distracted. If that is all, may I take my leave?”
Johnny scrutinized Jun’s blushing face before he nodded his head, “Yes. You may leave now.”
As Jun closed the door behind him, Johnny leaned against the back of the chair and laced his fingers together, ‘Something is going on here that I do not know about. Will Matsumoto Jun be a hindrance or an asset to my plan? I should probably have someone keep an eye on him…’
While Jun was at the office, Toma was pacing Jun’s dressing room, “I should probably leave. I mean, he has no reason to come back to the studio.” Toma whipped out his PDA and opened up Jun’s schedule. “Seriously though, it’s kinda creepy to know that Johnny has the ability to copy anyone’s schedule and hand it over so easily!”
Toma sighed softly as he scrolled through Jun’s schedule for the next couple of days. His fingers froze and shook as he came across an entry for Wednesday. His eyes went wide and his body trembled as he read the words ‘Date with Inoue Mao’.
‘So… Jun was just using me… I was wrong…he doesn’t really like me…he just wants me to satisfy his bodily needs…I can’t believe I was so stupid as to harbor the feeling that perhaps Jun might come to like me eventually. He just wants to sleep with me and nothing more…he really is involved with Inoue-san…and just like everyone is saying he might be thinking about dating her seriously!’ Toma thought as he stepped into the elevator. His eyes were brimming with tears as he stepped into his car and drove off, just as Jun’s car came to a halt behind him.
[To Be Continued]
[End of Chapter 7]
Comments are appreciated and very welcome!