Translation - ARASHI Code: 5.5 Years
This is Nino-kun's cut translated from the interview in the book called ARASHI Code
Part 1: Childhood
-"In erobaba 's note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsunori_Hara
erobaba 's rant:
Well given the fact it was an interview the article was hard to translate because Nino-kun kept talking about things sporadically so that's why some of the thing he says seems kind of out of place. But I can really understand where he's comming from because I know what it's like to be torchered to death by people who just get a kick of out seeing other people overeact. Also I prefer to work by myself too but maybe not to the same extent, but what can I say, I love being independent! Although, Nino could've been a bit better with with girl... she must have been like...
Girl: Uhmm... here Nino this is my letter for you <33
Nino: ...oh...opens...
Girl:... so....
Nino: ...so...
Girl: So.... so... SOOOO?????
NIno: ...*laksdjfaljds* silence *alskdjfaaksd*
Girl: *dies inside* HE HATES ME !!! (runs away forever)
Okay so this is just the first installment, but I have yet to translate Part 2: Jr. Period & Part 3: Lastly Arashi!
I hope you enjoy this, I know I did! Comments are love <3
ARASHI Code: Arashi at 5.5 Years (©2005) p.074-075
Kazunari Ninomiya’s 10,000 Character Interview
Part 1: Childhood
*A Kid That Doesn’t Deal Well With People
When I was little, I was a kid that didn’t deal well with people. I hated group activity type things so I loathed nursery school. I cried every morning because I didn’t want to go. I liked being alone inside my house more than going outside. I wonder why? Before I noticed, that’s just how I was.
However, I never cried or caused the teacher trouble when I went to the nursery school because I didn’t want to make a scene and have to be monitored as result. Aren’t I a pain? People would ask me stuff like, “Why are you crying?” Maybe if I had been more mature there wouldn’t have been any trouble. If it were possible, I wanted to be left alone. Wasn’t I unlikeable as a child? I think that about myself too. At the nursery I always thought, “I wonder if my mom’s coming to pick me up soon!” Then when I came home I felt really relieved. That’s how it was. So when I entered elementary school I was bullied I guess. A lot of crap happened to me and on top of that I had no friends to help me out.
Although it was strange, it wasn’t too awful for the most part. You see, I was going though an apathetic period of my life. I felt that putting up a fight was kind of a bother. Hence, if I had resisted, I knew that others would benefit from my reaction and continue to do more things to provoke me. So if that’s how it was going to be I thought, “I’ll just let them do what they please.” Gradually, all the bullying stopped.
Despite what my classmates did we actually became friendly. Being all by myself attracted more attention, so all the bullying and being watched by the teachers stopped when I changed, but it was a piece of work! As one would expect, being in a group draws less attention, right?!
In my 6th year of elementary school (age 12) at my school’s camp in the forest, I being the “recreational” type did a little something. I t was a very gross and surprising thing to do. I would stay, hiding myself and then scare my classmates! I had to wait forever in the darkness, so I think that it was definitely scarier than being bullied. Everyone gave me the*HATE BEAM* with their staring afterwards. I thought, “That’s why I don’t like group activities!” (laugh)
The only reason I joined the baseball club was because Mr. Tatsunori Hara loved baseball. The group training and the teamwork didn’t bother me that much because I thought, that’s just how it is when you join a team. Mr. Hara was a team player and I wanted to be like him so by doing these things I followed his example.
But like the practices were tough~! Especially since it was blazing hot outside! During my so called summer vacation, practices were from 9 o’clock in the morning to about 5 o’clock in the evening! And it’s not like I could drink some ice cold tea during practice breaks either. So I used this thermos container as a water bottle. Then my mom put the cold tea in there for me and then I would head off to practice, carrying it with me.
I f you ask me why I didn’t quit the baseball team, after all it had been rough, it’s because I hated being angrily asked, “Why are you going to quit?!” and I hated getting all sorts of comments like that. So I told myself, I am not the type to quit! But, you know, in the end I came to love baseball.
My first love consisted of me only thinking, “She’s sooo cute!” I didn’t think about dating her or anything.
When I was in my 5th year of school (around age 11) I got my first love letter. I wasn’t all that happy. So rather than dealing with the matter at hand I didn’t reply back to her. Now, when I think about it I was wrong. That girl hasn’t said anything to me since then.
Part 1: The End