Fallen Angels Chapter 18/ 25
Title: Fallen Angels
Author: hippiefox
Pairing: Ohmiya, Juntoshi (slightly onesided), hints of Sakuraiba
Rating: definitely R.
Genre: AU, drama, action, violence, romance
Summary: Even fallen angels have angels.
Disclaimer and chapter list. Please read.
Chapter 18
Alley
The two walked silently side by side under the glow of the street lamps, hands deep in their pockets and a little gap between their shoulders. Nino had once thought that being with Ohno brought him peace, but now, being so close and not being able to touch him, was driving him insane.
He scowled at the moon smiling brightly down on him, a little angry that he couldn’t even go a day without Ohno.
"Jun yelled at me today." Ohno suddenly said quietly.
"Yelled?" Nino asked, turning his head slightly over to Ohno. He shrugged and looked over to Nino.
"Hmm... not yelled, maybe loudly scolded? He told me it was a matter of time before you finally dumped me and why couldn’t I see it coming." Ohno mumbled, smiling awkwardly at Nino.
Nino scowled deeply and abruptly caught Ohno’s elbow, bringing them both to a stop.
"I never wanted to." he said firmly.
"I know, Kazu. Jun’s just protective, you know that." Ohno replied softly, looking back into Nino’s eyes. Another tension filled lull fell between them, strengthening the urge to just hold on to each other. Nino started to walk again, Ohno following a little closer to his side.
"We weren’t supposed to see each other anymore..." Nino said weakly, pausing at the edge of a crosswalk with a group of other people. Ohno bobbed his head slowly, his brows pulling into a frown and his lips pouting. Scratching the back of his head, Ohno sighed and smiled lazily.
"Ah, I forgot..." he mumbled.
"How could you forget something like that?" Nino scoffed as Ohno laughed quietly at himself. The light of the crosswalk turned green and Ohno looked at Nino sadly.
"Goodnight, Kazu." Ohno said with a final nod, Nino doing the same but he couldn’t bring himself to say good-bye again. He watched Ohno turn and walk away, his shoulders hunched in defeat.
Nino dropped his head down, squeezing his eyes shut in a determined frown, telling himself over and over to just walk away and never look back. Forget everything he had with Ohno and the closest thing he’d ever have to a normal life...
Something suddenly pushed his body forward, making him stumble out into the crosswalk with the remaining crowd. Nino looked around for the person who shoved him, but everyone near him were completely minding their own business. Nino wasn’t stupid, he could take a hint when it was given to him.
Rushing through the mass of people, Nino spotted Ohno and reached out his hand. His hand slipped through Ohno’s arm and Nino held on tight, smiling up at Ohno’s bewildered expression.
"Jun wouldn’t want you walking alone at night." Nino laughed, his chest swelling to the point of bursting when Ohno laughed and kissed his nose softly.
Forcing his fingers through Ohno’s, Nino watched as Ohno’s eyes lit up brighter than the street lamps and sparkled like the stars, making Nino wonder when he had turned into such a lovesick schoolboy.
Everything real seemed to vanish when they were with each other, but neither of them would ever admit to it out loud.
That warm feeling they shared when they walked so close that their feet almost got tangled, pulling lightly on the other’s hand to get their attention or the slight embarrassment when they both reached for the same movie to show the other. They’d never admit to those rushes, because those types of things only belonged on television dramas with pop music and hazy camera close-ups to accompany it.
They knew their lives were hardly a television drama. Though, sometimes, it was hard to tell when they’d start singing those cheesy pop songs in their minds.
Ohno and Nino were so absorbed with each other; visiting shops along their random walk, stopping here and there to laugh at a commercial playing or just gazing at the trees with strings of soft lights stretching across like spider webs, that they barely noticed the quieter, darker part of town they stumbled into.
"It’s really quiet here." Ohno whispered, walking closer to Nino and looking all around him with his eyes wide. Nino looked around them, his eyes narrowed, searching for anything suspicious.
Not wanting to alarm Ohno, Nino tried to act composed when the hairs on the back of his neck suddenly stood on end.
"There’s no one around..." Ohno whispered again, his voice more nervous this time. Nino let go of Ohno’s hand and put a protecting arm around his waist instead.
Nino spotted a telephone booth ahead of them outside of an old store.
"We’ll call a taxi from there." Nino said confidently with a smile, just for Ohno’s sake.
"But we have our own phones..." Ohno said quietly. Nino didn’t answer him, he knew there was someone following them and if the guy had a gun, the best place to be would be inside or behind the telephone booth where the glass was at least semi bulletproof.
"How the hell did we end up down here?" Nino mumbled to himself, looking at all the closed down shops, apartment complexes ready to be demolished and several rotting residential homes.
Ohno suddenly jumped and frantically looked around him.
"Someone’s following us..." he breathed, his eyes growing frightened. Nino nodded and pulled Ohno along faster.
"I know, they’re after me." Nino whispered back, finally reaching the telephone booth and pushing Ohno down behind it, squatting down next to him.
"You? Why?" Ohno whispered, his hands tight on Nino’s arm. Nino reached back and pulled out his gun, opening the barrel to check the bullets and snapping it closed again when he found he had all the bullets loaded.
"Why do you have that?" Ohno asked slowly, his body starting to shake now. Nino raised his eyes to Ohno, fright taking over the older man’s eyes.
"Don’t move from here until I tell you. No matter what you see, do you understand?" Nino asked clearly.
"What are you going to do!?" Ohno whimpered in a panic.
"Do you understand?" Nino repeated sharper this time, making Ohno cringe, but he nodded in understanding.
Sudden gunshots were heard and several bullets ricocheted off the side of the telephone booth, making Nino push Ohno to the ground before jumping up and running behind a faulty lit soda machine when the firing ceased. Nino crouched down, straining his ears and eyes for any movement in the darkness.
Ohno remained flat on the ground behind the telephone booth, breathing heavily as his heart pounded painfully in his chest.
"Kazu...!" he whispered in a quivery voice, watching Nino take aim for something across the street between a wall and a dumpster. He pulled the trigger twice as the shadowed man darted across the dumpster and into the alleyway, shooting shots at Nino as he ran.
The bullets hit the store window above Nino, making glass shower down on him. Ohno shielded his head with his arms as the shots continued to ring out, his eyes screwed shut.
Nino paused in his firing as the man disappeared into the alleyway. He knew this guy wasn’t a professional hitman, his style was too sloppy and his aim was bad. If anything, Nino figured this was some guy wanting money and was hired to kill Nino by Mori or another top boss.
Grabbing extra bullets from his pocket, Nino quickly refilled and slowly stood up. He looked over to Ohno trembling in fright and swallowed the lump in his throat.
Ohno wanted to say something, but his mouth wouldn’t open for the words to come out.
He watched Nino run across the street on light and soundless feet and skid to a stop up against the brick wall leading into the alleyway. With just enough moonlight, Ohno watched Nino creeping into the alleyway, his gun tight in his hands and held out in front of him as he stalked forward.
Too frightened to care why Nino was so skilled in shooting or why he was being shot at, Ohno pulled himself up on his jelly-like legs, clinging to the booth for support.
Another shot rang out somewhere deep in the alley, followed by several more until they were overlapping. Nino’s figure was gone from the moonlight and was in the shadows of the alley, bringing an overwhelming panic in Ohno’s brain.
All at once, the shooting stopped and the night was replaced with dogs barking in the distance and the faint wail of sirens. But Ohno couldn’t hear anything but the pounding of his heart as he waited for Nino to reemerge from the darkness.
With each passing second lasting a lifetime, Ohno’s breath quickened and his feet took involuntary steps out from the protection of the booth.
Finally, Nino rushed out from the alleyway, looking up around the buildings next to him in search for the man.
"Fuck..." he panted, looking everywhere for the man. The man had used all his bullets in the brief gun fight in the alleyway and somehow disappeared from Nino’s sight. Hearing shuffling behind him, Nino whirled around with his gun aiming straight at Ohno.
Ohno immediately froze, unable to stop his shaking, tears of fear welling up in his eyes. Nino quickly lowered his gun and met Ohno in the middle of the street.
"I told you not to move!" Nino hissed, hugging a very cold Ohno to him. His teeth were chattering and his hands gripped painfully at Nino’s hair.
"B- But you didn’t come out f- from the alley." Ohno trembled, his words slurred together. Nino pulled away from Ohno and was about to tell him to go back behind the booth, but instead he saw terror in his eyes at something behind Nino.
Knowing instantly it was the man, Nino spun around with his gun outstretched but was too slow.
The man hit Nino across the head with a hollow metal pipe, making him fall to the ground, stunned and dazed. His gun slid from his hand out of reach, but Nino couldn’t think about grabbing it anyway. Stars danced in front of his unfocused eyes and ringing filled his ears.
He saw a glimpse of Ohno’s pale and terrified face some feet away from him before the shadow of the man loomed over him. His black gloved hands grabbed Nino around the neck, making Nino kick and fight as best as he could, he had to fight back, he wouldn’t let this man kill him and then go after Ohno.
A painful looking knife was above Nino and he knew his struggle was over.
But somehow through the shouts of struggling, the ringing in his ears and sirens drawing near, Nino heard the click of a gun and a single shot that rang out in the night.
The man toppled off of Nino, falling to the asphalt with dead weight. Nino opened his eyes and looked to his side to see the man with a clean shot, dead center in his forehead.
Moving his eyes in front of him, Nino couldn’t quite comprehend what he saw.
Ohno stood strongly with Nino’s gun in his hands, his finger still lingering on the trigger as the moon’s pale light behind him cast an almost angelic glow around his figure.
But Ohno’s expression wasn’t the terrified, deer in the headlights look from before. It was stoic and dark for a split second before suddenly realizing what he’d done.
He let the gun clatter to the street below, his eyes glued to the dark blood and brain matter that stained the street barely a few feet in front of him.
Glowing tears pooled down Ohno’s pale face as he sank to his knees, his quaking legs finally giving out. Nino blinked rapidly, trying to focus his eyes as he flipped over on his hands and knees, clumsily crawling over to Ohno.
"Sa... toshi..." Nino whispered, his head pounding from the blow. Turning Ohno’s face away from the gory sight, Nino wrapped his arms around his violently trembling body and pulled Ohno’s face into his neck.
"H- He was... going to kill yo- you." Ohno wept into Nino, his fingers once again digging painfully at Nino’s hair and shoulders. But Nino remained silent, his blurry eyes on the unknown man and listening to the sirens that grew closer.
Nino knew he was going to have to act fast.
.
AN: Yeah~ lots of trouble there guys.... and this time it was Ohno who did the shooting >8D
Next chapter... Nino has a lot of explaining to do... but how will Ohno react to all the information???
Thanks guys :D *and a happy late anniversary to the Skittles of JE~ Taste the rainbow~*
Author: hippiefox
Pairing: Ohmiya, Juntoshi (slightly onesided), hints of Sakuraiba
Rating: definitely R.
Genre: AU, drama, action, violence, romance
Summary: Even fallen angels have angels.
Disclaimer and chapter list. Please read.
Chapter 18
Alley
The two walked silently side by side under the glow of the street lamps, hands deep in their pockets and a little gap between their shoulders. Nino had once thought that being with Ohno brought him peace, but now, being so close and not being able to touch him, was driving him insane.
He scowled at the moon smiling brightly down on him, a little angry that he couldn’t even go a day without Ohno.
"Jun yelled at me today." Ohno suddenly said quietly.
"Yelled?" Nino asked, turning his head slightly over to Ohno. He shrugged and looked over to Nino.
"Hmm... not yelled, maybe loudly scolded? He told me it was a matter of time before you finally dumped me and why couldn’t I see it coming." Ohno mumbled, smiling awkwardly at Nino.
Nino scowled deeply and abruptly caught Ohno’s elbow, bringing them both to a stop.
"I never wanted to." he said firmly.
"I know, Kazu. Jun’s just protective, you know that." Ohno replied softly, looking back into Nino’s eyes. Another tension filled lull fell between them, strengthening the urge to just hold on to each other. Nino started to walk again, Ohno following a little closer to his side.
"We weren’t supposed to see each other anymore..." Nino said weakly, pausing at the edge of a crosswalk with a group of other people. Ohno bobbed his head slowly, his brows pulling into a frown and his lips pouting. Scratching the back of his head, Ohno sighed and smiled lazily.
"Ah, I forgot..." he mumbled.
"How could you forget something like that?" Nino scoffed as Ohno laughed quietly at himself. The light of the crosswalk turned green and Ohno looked at Nino sadly.
"Goodnight, Kazu." Ohno said with a final nod, Nino doing the same but he couldn’t bring himself to say good-bye again. He watched Ohno turn and walk away, his shoulders hunched in defeat.
Nino dropped his head down, squeezing his eyes shut in a determined frown, telling himself over and over to just walk away and never look back. Forget everything he had with Ohno and the closest thing he’d ever have to a normal life...
Something suddenly pushed his body forward, making him stumble out into the crosswalk with the remaining crowd. Nino looked around for the person who shoved him, but everyone near him were completely minding their own business. Nino wasn’t stupid, he could take a hint when it was given to him.
Rushing through the mass of people, Nino spotted Ohno and reached out his hand. His hand slipped through Ohno’s arm and Nino held on tight, smiling up at Ohno’s bewildered expression.
"Jun wouldn’t want you walking alone at night." Nino laughed, his chest swelling to the point of bursting when Ohno laughed and kissed his nose softly.
Forcing his fingers through Ohno’s, Nino watched as Ohno’s eyes lit up brighter than the street lamps and sparkled like the stars, making Nino wonder when he had turned into such a lovesick schoolboy.
Everything real seemed to vanish when they were with each other, but neither of them would ever admit to it out loud.
That warm feeling they shared when they walked so close that their feet almost got tangled, pulling lightly on the other’s hand to get their attention or the slight embarrassment when they both reached for the same movie to show the other. They’d never admit to those rushes, because those types of things only belonged on television dramas with pop music and hazy camera close-ups to accompany it.
They knew their lives were hardly a television drama. Though, sometimes, it was hard to tell when they’d start singing those cheesy pop songs in their minds.
Ohno and Nino were so absorbed with each other; visiting shops along their random walk, stopping here and there to laugh at a commercial playing or just gazing at the trees with strings of soft lights stretching across like spider webs, that they barely noticed the quieter, darker part of town they stumbled into.
"It’s really quiet here." Ohno whispered, walking closer to Nino and looking all around him with his eyes wide. Nino looked around them, his eyes narrowed, searching for anything suspicious.
Not wanting to alarm Ohno, Nino tried to act composed when the hairs on the back of his neck suddenly stood on end.
"There’s no one around..." Ohno whispered again, his voice more nervous this time. Nino let go of Ohno’s hand and put a protecting arm around his waist instead.
Nino spotted a telephone booth ahead of them outside of an old store.
"We’ll call a taxi from there." Nino said confidently with a smile, just for Ohno’s sake.
"But we have our own phones..." Ohno said quietly. Nino didn’t answer him, he knew there was someone following them and if the guy had a gun, the best place to be would be inside or behind the telephone booth where the glass was at least semi bulletproof.
"How the hell did we end up down here?" Nino mumbled to himself, looking at all the closed down shops, apartment complexes ready to be demolished and several rotting residential homes.
Ohno suddenly jumped and frantically looked around him.
"Someone’s following us..." he breathed, his eyes growing frightened. Nino nodded and pulled Ohno along faster.
"I know, they’re after me." Nino whispered back, finally reaching the telephone booth and pushing Ohno down behind it, squatting down next to him.
"You? Why?" Ohno whispered, his hands tight on Nino’s arm. Nino reached back and pulled out his gun, opening the barrel to check the bullets and snapping it closed again when he found he had all the bullets loaded.
"Why do you have that?" Ohno asked slowly, his body starting to shake now. Nino raised his eyes to Ohno, fright taking over the older man’s eyes.
"Don’t move from here until I tell you. No matter what you see, do you understand?" Nino asked clearly.
"What are you going to do!?" Ohno whimpered in a panic.
"Do you understand?" Nino repeated sharper this time, making Ohno cringe, but he nodded in understanding.
Sudden gunshots were heard and several bullets ricocheted off the side of the telephone booth, making Nino push Ohno to the ground before jumping up and running behind a faulty lit soda machine when the firing ceased. Nino crouched down, straining his ears and eyes for any movement in the darkness.
Ohno remained flat on the ground behind the telephone booth, breathing heavily as his heart pounded painfully in his chest.
"Kazu...!" he whispered in a quivery voice, watching Nino take aim for something across the street between a wall and a dumpster. He pulled the trigger twice as the shadowed man darted across the dumpster and into the alleyway, shooting shots at Nino as he ran.
The bullets hit the store window above Nino, making glass shower down on him. Ohno shielded his head with his arms as the shots continued to ring out, his eyes screwed shut.
Nino paused in his firing as the man disappeared into the alleyway. He knew this guy wasn’t a professional hitman, his style was too sloppy and his aim was bad. If anything, Nino figured this was some guy wanting money and was hired to kill Nino by Mori or another top boss.
Grabbing extra bullets from his pocket, Nino quickly refilled and slowly stood up. He looked over to Ohno trembling in fright and swallowed the lump in his throat.
Ohno wanted to say something, but his mouth wouldn’t open for the words to come out.
He watched Nino run across the street on light and soundless feet and skid to a stop up against the brick wall leading into the alleyway. With just enough moonlight, Ohno watched Nino creeping into the alleyway, his gun tight in his hands and held out in front of him as he stalked forward.
Too frightened to care why Nino was so skilled in shooting or why he was being shot at, Ohno pulled himself up on his jelly-like legs, clinging to the booth for support.
Another shot rang out somewhere deep in the alley, followed by several more until they were overlapping. Nino’s figure was gone from the moonlight and was in the shadows of the alley, bringing an overwhelming panic in Ohno’s brain.
All at once, the shooting stopped and the night was replaced with dogs barking in the distance and the faint wail of sirens. But Ohno couldn’t hear anything but the pounding of his heart as he waited for Nino to reemerge from the darkness.
With each passing second lasting a lifetime, Ohno’s breath quickened and his feet took involuntary steps out from the protection of the booth.
Finally, Nino rushed out from the alleyway, looking up around the buildings next to him in search for the man.
"Fuck..." he panted, looking everywhere for the man. The man had used all his bullets in the brief gun fight in the alleyway and somehow disappeared from Nino’s sight. Hearing shuffling behind him, Nino whirled around with his gun aiming straight at Ohno.
Ohno immediately froze, unable to stop his shaking, tears of fear welling up in his eyes. Nino quickly lowered his gun and met Ohno in the middle of the street.
"I told you not to move!" Nino hissed, hugging a very cold Ohno to him. His teeth were chattering and his hands gripped painfully at Nino’s hair.
"B- But you didn’t come out f- from the alley." Ohno trembled, his words slurred together. Nino pulled away from Ohno and was about to tell him to go back behind the booth, but instead he saw terror in his eyes at something behind Nino.
Knowing instantly it was the man, Nino spun around with his gun outstretched but was too slow.
The man hit Nino across the head with a hollow metal pipe, making him fall to the ground, stunned and dazed. His gun slid from his hand out of reach, but Nino couldn’t think about grabbing it anyway. Stars danced in front of his unfocused eyes and ringing filled his ears.
He saw a glimpse of Ohno’s pale and terrified face some feet away from him before the shadow of the man loomed over him. His black gloved hands grabbed Nino around the neck, making Nino kick and fight as best as he could, he had to fight back, he wouldn’t let this man kill him and then go after Ohno.
A painful looking knife was above Nino and he knew his struggle was over.
But somehow through the shouts of struggling, the ringing in his ears and sirens drawing near, Nino heard the click of a gun and a single shot that rang out in the night.
The man toppled off of Nino, falling to the asphalt with dead weight. Nino opened his eyes and looked to his side to see the man with a clean shot, dead center in his forehead.
Moving his eyes in front of him, Nino couldn’t quite comprehend what he saw.
Ohno stood strongly with Nino’s gun in his hands, his finger still lingering on the trigger as the moon’s pale light behind him cast an almost angelic glow around his figure.
But Ohno’s expression wasn’t the terrified, deer in the headlights look from before. It was stoic and dark for a split second before suddenly realizing what he’d done.
He let the gun clatter to the street below, his eyes glued to the dark blood and brain matter that stained the street barely a few feet in front of him.
Glowing tears pooled down Ohno’s pale face as he sank to his knees, his quaking legs finally giving out. Nino blinked rapidly, trying to focus his eyes as he flipped over on his hands and knees, clumsily crawling over to Ohno.
"Sa... toshi..." Nino whispered, his head pounding from the blow. Turning Ohno’s face away from the gory sight, Nino wrapped his arms around his violently trembling body and pulled Ohno’s face into his neck.
"H- He was... going to kill yo- you." Ohno wept into Nino, his fingers once again digging painfully at Nino’s hair and shoulders. But Nino remained silent, his blurry eyes on the unknown man and listening to the sirens that grew closer.
Nino knew he was going to have to act fast.
.
AN: Yeah~ lots of trouble there guys.... and this time it was Ohno who did the shooting >8D
Next chapter... Nino has a lot of explaining to do... but how will Ohno react to all the information???
Thanks guys :D *and a happy late anniversary to the Skittles of JE~ Taste the rainbow~*