Title: Two souls in one heart
Word count: 1,333 words
Rating: PG-13
Genre: comedy, romance, drama, supernatural
Disclaimer: I don't own Arashi ( but they own me )
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Chapter 3 - A joyful Saturday
Saturday morning came. Hearing the clock ringing, Nino started rolling annoyed on the bed, wrapping the sheets around him, unwilling to wake up. But after falling asleep again for a while, he had to wake up, because the powerful light was hurting his eyes.
“Is it this late already…”
Rubbing his eyes, Nino tried to open them. But he didn’t saw the ceiling. Looking around, he didn’t saw his bedroom either. And the powerful light wasn’t from the sun, as he thought. Trying to comprehend what was happening, he realized he was walking, dragging a shopping cart after him.
“UWAAA”
“What? Why are you screaming?”
Nino was still in process of understanding the whole situation. Stunned, looking around, he saw lots of shelves and other people with shopping carts. Examining himself too, he noticed he was in his pajamas.
“You took me shopping while I was ASLEEP!!??”
“But I always go out on Saturday morning, and as you didn’t wanted to wake up…Woah, such a nice rubber boat!”
“I’m so gonna kill you….I’m so so so gonna kill you…”
“You’re forgetting an essential part in that statement, Kazu. Oh, and it’s cheap too. Always wanted one of these.”
“You could had at least changed my clothes!”
“Eh? Undressing someone while he’s even asleep? That’s sexual harassment. You can spend years in jail for that, you know.”
“I swear to you Ohno, this is the last tim-"
“Ne Kazu, it’s a pretty boat, isn’t it? I think I’ll buy this”
And before Nino could finish thinking of a proper way to express the thousand ways he wanted to annihilate Ohno with that rubber boat, he realized he was at the checkout.
“It’s 50.000 yen” the shopkeeper said
Looking at his own hands counting the money, Nino had a sinister feeling.
“Oy Ohno, don’t tell me…those are MY money”
“Of course they are, there’s no way I could have mone-HEY let them go!!”
With desperate movements, Nino was trying to snatch the money back from the shocked shopkeeper’s hands.
“You damn thief!!”
“I’m the thief?!” asked the shopkeeper exasperated, while pulling the money to his direction.
After an intense battle, finally managing to grab his money, Nino tried to run out of the shop, but two massive guards blocked his way and seized his both hands, while another was talking through the transmitter.
“Were’re dealing with a peculiar man in pajamas that is acting suspicious. Call the police.”
“No no please, I’ll pay, I’LL PAY!!” shouted Nino and struggled to release himself from the two guards, this time begging the shopkeeper to take the money.
Desperate and left with only 50 yen in his wallet, Nino was kicked out of the shop, with the rubber boat soon coming flying after him. As Nino’s mind was too blank and people were starting to gather around him, Ohno took control, grabbed his beloved boat and headed Nino’s body quickly towards the nearest exit.
“I’m seriously going to sue you.”
“That’s gonna be a bit hard.”
“I don’t care. Then I’ll come after you to the other world and beat the crap out of you until I make you revive. And then I’ll kill you just to do that again.”
“You have a such a splendid imagination, Nino-chan…”
Finally getting outside the commercial center, Nino started to look around, with a murderous aura radiating from him.
“Where the hell did you brought me…Thanks to you I don’t even have money for a taxi! And I’m dressed like this… I’ll definitely get home in a police car.”
“Actually, that pajama really suits yo-“
“That has nothing to do with it!!”
Cursing with all his might, Nino crossed the boulevard, while frantically trying to find a solution. But the desired solution came from the worst possible source, when he saw Sho’s car suddenly stopping in front of him. And as if it couldn’t get any worse, he was with an important producer from the entertainment world.
“Ni-Nino…?” asked Sho in disbelief.
“Didn’t knew you had such…hobbies, Ninomiya-kun” the producer said cynically, looking at him with an amused look.
Too pissed to find a good excuse ( which would be hard anyway for a man sitting in his underwear holding a rubber boat in the middle of the street ), Nino just looked annoyed in another direction.
“Nino, please get into the car, people are staring at you.”
“You seem busy so-
“Oh don’t worry about me, I was just casually having a conversation with Sakurai-san. I have other affairs anyway.. You can leave me here, Sakurai-san, I’ll call a taxi.”
Nino followed with ferocious eyes the producer getting off the car, as if he was at fault for his situation, then he got on, slamming the door dramatically.
After Sho started driving, they both kept quiet for a while, Nino silently threatening Ohno, and Sho carefully choosing the words for what he wanted to say.
“Nino…you should see a doctor. You’re don’t look quite well recently.”
“And tell him what? That a bastard took over my body and is messing with my life, my wallet and my personal possessions?
“No, you should tell him that you’re the bastard who can’t have a bit of consideration for other people’s feelings!”
“Who are you calling a bastard you bastard?!”
Sho almost hit an electric pole after hearing Nino’s monologue, but he somehow managed to keep the car on the road and turned to Nino to throw him a what-the-hell look.
“Nino, I think-“
“Thank you for the ride Sho-chan, you can leave me here.”
“Here? But there’s still a few streets until your building.”
“Don’t worry, I have business to take care of before going home”
Sho raised an eyebrow and wanted to ask “dressed like that?”, but Nino looked too pissed to take any kind of commentary, so he just let him go, planning to follow him. But apparently Nino knew what he was up to because he started running as soon as he got off the car, disappearing into the most unexpected alleys, until Sho lost him. After a wild marathon that lasted almost 10 minutes, Nino finally stopped at the end of a bridge to recover his breath. Looking at the whirling water, his well-known bratty smile made a notable appearance on his face.
Ohno obviously realized what was going to happen because he tried to stop Nino right away, but his reaction was too slow. All he could do was watch his boat falling into the water and getting wrapped inside the waves.
“There goes your damn boat” Nino added satisfied, with a huge grin all over his face. Expecting a harsh reply from Ohno, he immediately got ready for the new fight, but Ohno’s responding voice startled him.
“Why do you always have to be like this…”
“Well…y-you deserve it for what you did today!” he replied, not very convinced.
“I guess I do”.
Unprepared for the sudden change in the conversation, Nino didn’t said anything anymore and started walking towards his house, too absorbed into his thoughts to notice he was attracting astonished stares with each step. A feeling of regret was torturing him, although he knew well Ohno was the one who had to apologize."I can't believe he's making me feel bad when I'm the one who's right", Nino was thinking. As he entered the building and pressed the elevator button, he couldn’t take the silence anymore.
“Look, I’m sorry for that, Oh-chan. But it’s completely your fault. You should tell me when you want something. I looked like a complete psycho because of you earlier.”
“Yeah…I’m sorry too.”
“Ok then” continued Nino with a sincere smile this time, “let’s get over this, kay?”
“Ok!” answered Ohno cheerfully.
“Wait, where did you put the keys?”
Nino was now in the front of his apartment’s door and was confusingly checking his pajama pockets.
“What keys?”
“The apartment keys.”
Ohno thought profoundly for a few seconds.
“Ah, I…don’t remember.”
Silence.
“OHNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
To be continued...
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