Title: Brother Complex (2/?)
Author:
chii_mao_13Pairing: Yamachii, Takachii
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Now they are staying under the same roof. Will he become afraid of more threats from the older brother? Or he'll use it as a chance?
CHAPTER 2
I don’t know how I can describe this scenery before me. It’s unbelievable. Amazing? More than amazing. Beautiful? Splendid. I have to buy some packs of tissue before running out of blood.
“Yamada-nii, are you okay? You looked a bit pale.”
Please, don’t talk to me right now.
“But I think your temperature is okay.”
Please don’t put this hand on my temple.
“Or maybe you can’t resist this hot day? Anemia?”
Please don’t ask me anymore, Chinen. Don’t even face me when you’re wearing nothing but trunks!
“Yamada-nii..”
I feel a pair of hands cupping my cheeks and lift my face upward.
“Your face is all red. Maybe you should take some rest.”
I can’t hold it anymore! I have to…
“What are you doing? Do lovey dovey here?” Suddenly an arm embraces Chinen from behind and pulls him closer to the owner. It’s Takaki. He’s coming, and gives a kind of death glare to me. I know it means ‘don’t you dare to touch my brother’. But I’m not angry. I have to say thank you to him. If he didn’t come, I might do something to Chinen.
It’s as what I thought before, that beach is not a safe place, when Chinen begged Yuya to bring him to the beach. It will be safer if he wore two pieces instead of trunks.
“Yamada-nii seems to be not in a good condition.” Chinen explains to Yuya. “It’s my fault to ask you to go with me to the beach. I’m sorry.”
“No, I’m okay.” I quickly clarify before Chinen misunderstands it more. “I’m really okay. It’s just that I’m feeling a little bit drowsy just sitting here like this.”
“Yeah. We have arrived at the beach, so why don’t we swim?” Yuya, still with his arm embraces Chinen, using the other hand to pinch Chinen’s cheek.
“Good idea.” I respond and immediately rise up. At least if we swim, I won’t be able to see Chinen’s topless body. I’ll put my concentration in swimming, so I won’t be distracted by Chinen’s pheromone.
Or it’s just me being too naïve.
Thirty minutes later…
“Yamada-nii, are you really okay?”
Please don’t look at me.
“Your face is reddening again… Ah is your head okay?”
No, don’t look at how red I am now.
“Gomen ne, I don’t see you coming to that direction.”
No, Chinen, it’s my fault to be too careless until I didn’t see that you were swimming to that direction until I accidentally did a head-butt to your body. I feel really ashamed just by recalling it. Fortunately Yuya was busy swimming to other direction that he didn’t see us bumping into each other. Ah yeah! How about his body?
“No, that’s my fault! I should watch my way careful…ly…”
Crap! I unconsciously lift my head to face Chinen, and now I’m speechless. His hair is wet, and either his topless body. The water makes him looked damn sexier.
“I think I’ll go buying some drinks for us.” I immediately rise up and turn my body.
“Let me come with you.” Chinen follows me.
“You can wait here, Chinen.” I smile to him nervously. “Soon Yuya will realize that we’ve stopped swimming, and maybe he’ll look for you.” It’s not just my excuse. How if Yuya noticing that I go with Chinen, leaving him alone there? “So, you can wait here, okay?”
I think he curves a faint smile on his lips. I feel guilty for this. “Okay. I’ll wait here.”
What have I done this time? I made him forced a smile. As I recall, these three days, I’ve been trying my best not to be too near to him. Everytime he barged into Yuya’s room, I’d pretend to be busy with something unnecessary. When he offered his help when I was cooking, I immediately refused him. Even when we had our meals, I rarely looked into him.
It’s not good for my heart. My heart throbs fast when he’s near. Spending these three days with him has made me realize that I’m attracted to him more and more. There’s nothing on him that I dislike. Even on his craziness, I mean, his daily kiss with Yuya, believe me, they always do it before having meal! Okay, even I don’t have any objection on it. Yuya is the way crazier than him and I’m used to it.
But I have to admit that somehow I feel uneasy with their brotherhood relation. Are they falling in love with each other? Are they incest?
I shake my head as fast as I can. No, it can’t be. Why I must think about something silly like that? It must be their way to express affection for each other.
***
“Are you in love with your own brother?”
This stupid question came unexpectedly from my mouth. I must be dazing off thinking about it too much until I don’t realize that I’ve spit it out straightly to Yuya.
See, now Yuya is glaring at me. Hope he doesn’t get mad.
“Stupid.” He snorts. “Of course I love Yuri. He’s my baby brother.” Yuya pays his attention back at the game he’s playing.
I feel thankful that he’s not that smart to understand the real meaning of my question. “Oh, I see.” I turn my eyes to the magazine in front of me again.
“Or maybe you have another meaning, not about a brotherhood love?”
I choked. Clearing my throat, I rise up from the bed. “No, I don’t mean anything related to it.”
“I can tell that you’re curious, Ryosuke-chan.” he teases me without looking at me. “Just to fulfill your curiosity, I answer yes, I love him.”
For the second time, I choked. “You must not be serious.”
“Why not?” He replies. “If it’s about Yuri, I’m always being serious.”
“You mean, you love him not as an older brother?” I ask cautiously. The fear of Yuya’s anger is defeated by my curiosity.
“I love him as an older brother. It’s natural. But I won’t deny the fact that I see him as another boy, another person I fall in love with.” He explains nonchalantly.
So my wild guess is true…
“Has he known about it?”
“I don’t know.”
This is complicated. It’d be better if they didn’t have any blood relation. But in fact, there’s still a blood relation between them. And I think it’s not that good.
How about Chinen himself? Does he fall in love with Yuya too? I mean, look at him, willingly sharing his lips with Yuya. It’s a kiss, right?
“I think I’ll get my juice downstairs.” I stand up and walk toward the door. I feel speechless about this problem.
“Bring me my cola too, okay? The cola we bought this morning.” Yuya asks.
“Roger.”
Yuya is my best friend. Knowing that he loves his own brother won’t change the fact that he’s my buddy. The little problem here is it makes me realizing that I’m an outsider for them and I can do nothing about it.
Reaching the living room, I see Chinen is watching the television alone. He doesn’t turn his head although he hears my footsteps. I really want to sit there beside Chinen and accompany him watching the television so he won’t be alone like this. But Yuya is waiting for me and I can’t make him feeling suspicious about what happens here, and then goes downstairs to find me alone with his brother.
So, I sneak into the kitchen and open the refrigerator.
“Nii-chan, please bring me my coffee. I put it beside your cola.”
It’s Chinen. Owh, he thinks that I’m Yuya. And look, he still doesn’t turn his head to look at me, or at least confirms that the one in the kitchen is his nii-chan. It’s interesting.
I take Yuya’s cola, my melon juice and Chinen’s coffee from the refrigerator. Reaching behind the sofa, I tease Chinen by putting the cold coffee on his cheek. He jolts a bit and reaches my hand.
HE’S HOLDING MY HAND.
By one hand, he takes the coffee from me, and with another hand, he pulls my hand and plays with it.
“Thank you, but you don’t have to surprise me like that, nii-chan. I’ll bite your hand for that.”
Bite?
He pulls my hand again and puts it near his mouth.
“Wait. Since when you became whiter?”
I put my smirk on my face when he finally turns his head to face me. As he realizes what happens, I can see his face is all reddening. He releases his grip on my hand and rises up, turning his whole body to face me properly.
“I’m sorry! I thought you are nii-chan. I don’t know that it’s you, Yamada-nii.” He bends his body to bow to me.
“Haha. It’s okay, Chinen. It’s my fault to deceive you too.” I feel kind of uneasy seeing he bows like that.
“No, I’m stupid. If I didn’t realize it, maybe I’ve bitten your hand. Sorry.” He feels really guilty. And wait, is he going to bite me for serious?
“It’s okay, please, lift your head.”
I trapped on my own joke. I don’t know that he’d be that polite to me. Wait. Polite? Is he creating a gap between me and himself? Oh, this is bad.
“You don’t have to be that polite to me. Yuya has also told you so, right?” Finally Chinen lifts his head. He blinks nervously.
“No, I have to be polite to you. You are a guest here, and I have to act properly in front of you.”
That’s it. It’s the boundary between him and me. I’m a guest, and he’s the owner. We’re still strangers. But I think he wasn’t that polite the first time I came into this house. It felt like he already accept me as a part on this house already. What made him change his opinion?
“Uhm… Chinen… May I ask something to you?” I will try to ask or this will never be solved.
“Yes?” He raises his eyebrows.
“What makes you…”
I stop speaking when hearing the sound of footsteps rushing downstairs. As I turn my face, I see Yuya is running down the stairs wearing formal clothes and holding a car’s key.
“Nii-chan, where will you go?” Chinen asks.
“That baka oyaji called me and ordered me to meet Takemura ji-chan right now, so I have to go to his house. You stay at home with Ryosuke. Okay?” Yuya explains quickly. Looks like he’s really on a rush. “And Ryosuke, you’ll take care of Yuri for me, right? And remember about the ‘dinner’.”
What the hell. He still has time to glare sharply on me and threatens me! Of course I remember it. If I lay my finger on Chinen, he’ll cook me as the dinner. Right?
“I know, I know.” I shrug my shoulders and roll my eyes.
“Take care, nii-chan!” Chinen waves him goodbye. But Yuya suddenly stops running, and walks toward Chinen. I think I know what he’ll do now. Look, he reaches Chinen’s cheeks and gives him a kiss on his lips. After that, he hugs Chinen tightly.
“Saving energy, completed.” He exclaims happily, and turns his body to run out of the house.
After he steps out of the house, I take a glance in Chinen. He still looks at the door. As I scan his face and find his lips, it reminds me to what has just happened. Yuya lands a kiss on those lips. How will it feel to have those plump lips at my lips?
“What happened, Yamada-nii? Are you okay?”
I look at Chinen and he’s looking at me with a worry look. Oh, I accidentally slapped my cheeks repeatedly. My stupid thought and my stupid reaction.
“Um… Nothing.” I give him a smile. And suddenly a reminder about me being left alone with Chinen for some next hours comes like a flash on my mind. How can I forget about it?!
“Ah… Okay.”
It’s just me or I really see that Chinen forces a smile. Is something going wrong with him? But as I remember again, maybe he feels sad for being left again by Yuya after his long awaited comeback.
This is not right. He mustn’t smile like that. Can I do something to comfort him?
Chinen walks nervously to the sofa and continues to watch whatever film he watched before. And I know, I can’t just stand here with my own world and let Chinen to stay on his own world. So I put Yuya’s cola back on the refrigerator and walks to the sofa.
As I land my butt, with the corner of my eyes I know Chinen changes his expression. But I try to keep calm and mature.
“You didn’t go along with him?” I start a conversation, bringing Yuya as the topic. I think it’s the best topic for now.
He shakes his head. “I can do nothing there.”
“Eh? Why?”
“Takemura ji-chan is a photographer. Despite of his stupid looks, nii-chan is very good at photography, and ji-chan often asked him to be his assistant. Maybe there’s a great event that ji-chan can’t handle it by himself, so he asked for nii-chan’s help.” Chinen explains.
I know about it. Yuya is so sharp about photography. He’s the one being the photographer if we have event in our campus.
“So today if I weren’t here, you’d be alone?” I tease Chinen, who is drinking his coffee. After gulping down the coffee inside his mouth, he laughs.
“Maybe ne. But I think I’ll still be okay. I usually was being left home alone if mom and dad were going out.”
To think about this chibi creature to stay alone in this kind of house makes me shivers. Honestly, I don’t like it when I have to be alone in a house without someone to have fun with. But fortunately on my dormitory, I have that fussy brunette as my hanging out friend.
“Don’t you go hang out with your friends whenever you’re alone?” I guess a boy like him must have many friends around. But surprisingly, he shakes his head.
“No, I don’t really like hanging out randomly.”
I think it’s okay if I think it’s because his brother. Before moving to the dormitory, I bet the Yuya aka brother complex boy must forbid Chinen to go out of the house while he’s in the house. That created this side of Chinen, where he’ll just enjoy his time that spent with his brother. But this is not right. Youth time is irreplaceable, and one should use it properly.
“By the way, is there an amusement park around here?” I ask him. Chinen takes an interval to think.
“Uhm… yeah. 30 minutes from here. I don’t really remember.”
“Eh? When was the last time you got there?”
“Maybe when I was 10?”
My guess is right. This boy seems to be an indoor type.
“Can you take me there?”
I see his eyes widened all the sudden. “Eh?” His surprise expression is still cute.
“It’s still noon, and the weather is great. A perfect day for something so called date. Come on, change your clothes and meet me here in ten minutes, okay?”
Taking advantage while Yuya is away? No. It’s not a real date. I just take an initiative to make him enjoy his youth. It’s not for myself. Really. It will be a waste if he has a cute face and cute personality like that but never enjoyed his youth, right?
Anyway, I emphasize again, I’m not taking an advantage. The truth is I’m just using my chance. It’s different, right?
As I've said before, this fic is dedicated for all my friends who have had their birthday but I haven't given anything yet. I know there are many of them, thus I can't mention one by one. I'm sorry.. (><)
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