[Ongoing] The Last Promise -Aimiya (5/??)
Title: The Last Promise
Author: Ica_90
Beta by: icedragontmr
Pairing: [friendship] Aimiya, [one-sided (?)] Sakuraiba, Juntoshi [mentioned in some chapters]
Genre: Friendship, Angst, college-life
Rating: PG-13
Summary: a story revolves around the friendship of the two boys, friendship begins from an unexpected meeting, but none of them knows of how it’ll end.
Disclaimer: the word ‘fiction’ should explain everything. I own the plot, not the real character/human.
Chapter 5
It has been a year since we stepped into our university. Our routines don’t change. I stayed with the music club members, I still have a girlfriend and Aiba-chan is the PA to one of the most influential students in the university.
Speak of the devil, now that Sakurai-san is in his third year, his schedule is harder than before. Aiba-chan spends more time with Sakurai because of this, though maybe Sho did consider what I said. He doesn't distract Aiba from attending his classes. But my best friend doesn't have a lot of time to rest following Sakurai-san everywhere. I still don't like Sakurai, even if he does treat Aiba-chan better than before.
That’s what Aiba-chan says. I, however, still see Aiba-chan being treated the same.
“He treats me to lunch.”
I snort, smack his head softly.
"That doesn’t change a lot, I mean, anything.”
“Of course it does. I mean… Sho-san never treated me to any meals before. At least, whenever I work for him, it pays off.”
I smirk.
“Geez… you’re too loyal. I hope it didn’t change your feelings towards him.”
Hearing that, I see my best friends face change its expression to cluelessness. Scratching his head, he asks, “What about my feelings?”
“You know… love…”
“Baka! That’s impossible!” he snaps.
I laugh. I see him blush, but I choose to ignore it.
My first mistake that I didn’t realize.
***
“Baka! That’s impossible,” was what he said to me that time. But it is indeed possible, for him to fall in love with the man.
Few days after that conversation, I went out with Yumika-chan. We’re about to enter the restaurant when I see two familiar figures sitting at one corner of the restaurant.
"Isn’t that Aiba-san?” Yumika-chan says. I shrug.
“I guess so.” Biting my lower lip, I grab her hand. “Let’s go somewhere else. I’m not comfortable.”
She looks at me and the two people before she nods hesitantly and we go to another nearby restaurant.
That night, Aiba-chan comes back, humming his favorite song, something that he always did whenever he felt happy. I turn to take a glance at him before focusing on my notes I’d been writing since half an hour ago.
“You look happy, anything happen?” I ask, not looking at him as he puts his bag on the chair near his table. Shaking his head, he hops towards me before hugging me from behind.
“Nothing much. But I have to admit. It’s a happy day.”
I push him softly before turning to face him.
“You smell stinky.”
“Uso! Sho-kun bought me a new perfume. It’s imp-“
“Since when did you change the way you call him?” I interrupt him, causing him to stop sniffling his clothes before looking at me confusedly. “Sakurai-san to Sho-san… and now it’s Sho-kun?”
“Does it matter?” he asks causing me to chuckle.
“I’m waiting if you’re going to call him Sho-chan next.”
He laughs. I refuse to ask him anymore questions. I’m sure he has something else to do, maybe take a bath hence I refuse to disturb his routine. But suddenly, I heard the sound of the bed creak as someone is sits on it. I turn to take a look at it.
“I went to lunch with him.” I give him a soft smile.
“That’s nice. His treat?”I ask and he nods as an answer.
“I never treated him even once before. He always does it.”
I smirk. “That’s nice… So, are you falling in love with him? Isn’t he a gentleman.”
Aiba-chan gives me an empty stare. The two of us keep on our silence while I keep guessing what is in the man’s mind.
I widen my eyes as realization hits me. The smirk on my lips fade, replaced by an open mouth, trying to stop myself from believing of what I’ve been thinking.
“You… you’re not serious right? I mean you told me it’s impossible, right?”
Silence.
And when he opens his mouth to speak again, I feel like I’ve just received an electric shock.
“I think… I’ve fall in love with him,” is what he says. I went to my bed, sitting there facing him.
It's not jealousy that I feel. Rather that, it’s more anxiety.
“Are you sure that’s what's best?” I ask, unsure of what I should ask in the first place. He nods, causing my jaw to drop once again.
“What?” he snaps. “I’m a human too, Nino. Like you. Is it fair for you to have a girlfriend, while I can’t even love and be loved?”
“That's not that what I mean…” and then I pause.
I just have an instinct by the first look. I’m sure that Sakurai-san isn’t a good man. He’s rich, he’s proud of himself. While Aiba-chan… Aiba-chan is gentle, he cares about others. A lot. What if Sakurai-san just takes advantage of him?
How am I supposed to protect my own best friend from being hurt again? He hurt enough last time. I don’t want him to hurt again. Just no.
Taking a deep breath, I hide my thoughts with a smile.
“Never mind… maybe, it’s not that bad to hope” I say as I walk back towards my table.
He laughs, throwing his pillow at me before it hits my head.
“What’s that? It doesn’t sound encouraging at all,” he tells me along with a laugh, his usual hyena-like laugh.
But then he stops before rushing to me, shaking my body vigorously.
“Promise me that you won’t tell him, or anyone. Even Jun-kun. Because he will tell Ohno-kun and Ohno-kun might tell Sho-kun. Haaaahhh, it’s scary,” he explains.
Smiling, I nod to his request.
*****
“You’re joining us today, right?” I nod as Jun-kun asks me while I help him and Ohno-kun cleaning the music room. “Yumika-chan?”
“I don't think so. She said she has something to do. Girls day out she says,” I replied causing Jun to chuckle a little before shake his head.
“Women… are weird.”
I laugh hearing this.
“But I thought we’re even weirder. A bunch of guys spending most of our time together.”Jun throws me a weird glance. “I feel gay.”
“Ok, now that is offensive,” Jun says as he throws the drum sticks towards me, hitting my arm. I didn’t do anything in return, instead I laugh while continuing my work rearranging the sheet music on the racks.
It is weird. When I first entered the university, I never imagined myself surrounded by so many friends. But now, I have a girlfriend, Aiba-chan, Jun-kun and Ohno-kun. There aren't many, but in my own mind, more than one was considered as many.
I know that Ohno-san has been hinting his feeling on Jun-kun since the very first time I met them. It was so obvious, despite how Ohno-san appear to be dreamy, minding his own business, but when he starts to tease the younger one, it never fails to make the younger one blush by the teasing.
Hence it has been expected when Ohno-kun proposed to advance their relationship to ‘lover’ and Jun-kun accepted it without a doubt. I couldn’t help to laugh every time I remember how Jun-kun used to deny his feeling for the older man, but in the end accepting him without any other gesture except nodding once Ohno-kun finished his words.
“Aiba-chan?” Jun-kun speaks again causing me to look at him once before shaking my head.
“I guess, he’s busy with his work. You know... That work.”
I see both Ohno-kun and Jun-kun shrug as they hear my simple explanation about my best friend.
I couldn’t explain more when there’s nothing in particular to explain. I did invite Aiba-chan to join us last night but he declined my invitation, saying Sakurai-san had asked him to organize something.
1 month after we entered our second year, and I’m sure that Aiba-chan never really had a good weekend because Sakurai-san kept Aiba to himself, making him do a lot of work which sometimes I don’t think is necessary. Maybe it is happiness for Aiba-chan, as he can spend more times with the older man. But most of the time, Sakurai-san was not even there.
I’m not sure of the man’s purpose. Is it to keep Aiba-chan for himself, or to keep him away from me? I doubt the first one.
A tap on my shoulder startles me a little bit. I turn around to see Ohno-kun standing behind me with a wide grin.
“You’re cute when you do that,” he says.
“Excuse me?” I ask.
“Have I been a bad influence, Ninomiya-kun? You seem to daydream a lot nowadays. Not that I’m whining, because you look cute doing that…” Ohno-san didn’t manage to finish his words when suddenly we hear the sound of the door being close with unnecessary sounds. I turn to look around to notice that Jun-kun was no longer at his place. I turn back to the older man.
“What the hell are you doing?” he looks at me, dumbfounded. But later, he shrugs.
“I’m just teasing both of you.”
“You gave him a wrong idea. For god sake, idiot!” I hit the older man’s head before rushes out of the room.
I was about to go down the stairs when I see Jun-kun standing at the corridor, eyeing the campus scenery. I approach him slowly.
“You’re not jealous are you?” I ask, breaking the silence between us. I let go of a heavy sigh when I didn’t receive any reply from the younger man.
But after a while, he laughs. I turn to look at him before I hear footsteps behind me and I see the sleepy face man walks towards me with a smirk on his face.
“It’s funny watching you panic over the thought that I’m jealous.”
I snort.
“You ARE jealous!” I say with exaggeration.
“I know he loves me. Your cuteness didn’t bring any effect.” I roll my eyes hearing Jun-kun answer.
“And I’m not gay. So you shouldn’t be afraid of your own shadows.”
I walk away from the two love bird before two hands land around my shoulders hugging me.
****
There were many time when I become annoyed seeing two lovers together. Maybe because Yumika-chan preferred for me to not really show my love for her, I seldom become a romantic person. Maybe that's the reason why I feel annoyed by those two.
I try to walk as fast as possible leaving the two lovebirds behind. Finding my own way to one of the nearest gaming store, I hide myself in it.
Just when I thought that the two of them had forgotten about me, I feel a hand stop my hand from inserting another token into the machine before another hand tugs the back of my shirt dragging me out of the game store.
"Let me go!" I struggle to break free. I succeed a few second later before Jun-kun puts his hand around my shoulder.
"Come on. I'm hungry," he says as he drags me to the nearest restaurant, a place I called quite luxurious.
"I don't think I can afford it here," I say before I turn to walk away from there. But again, Jun pulls my shirt.
"I'm paying. Go inside!" he says as he pushes me in. We take a seat somewhere near the window.
"Aren’t you gonna pay?" I ask to Ohno-kun whos showing an innocent face as a reply. He shakes his head causing me to widen my eyes and Jun-kun to snort.
"Isn’t he the worst? We've been couple for almost a year. Not even once does he treat me," Jun says causing the man next to him to chuckle.
I shake my head again. But then, I see one familiar figure at one corner of the restaurant.
Sakurai-san... And a girl. Kissing. Passionately.
I smirk. He's a bully anyway. Of course he gonna force Aiba-chan to do his work while he goes on a date with a girl.
But then, my smirk fade of my own thought.
A date.
A girl.
Shit!
I was stunted for a moment when I finally digest my own monologue. Maybe I stay silent for too long when both Ohno-kun and Jun-kun notice my sudden silence.
“What’s wrong? Nino?” Ohno asks, concern. He looks at the same way as me before looking back at me with a frown.
“Nino. What’s wrong?” Jun shakes my body, making a comeback to reality.
As expected, I can never be Aiba-chan's protector.
“What’s wrong, Kazu? Everyone knows about them. They’re like the perfect couple in the university. Surely you know about that right? Aiba-chan must have known about it."
No, he doesn’t. He doesn’t know about it. That’s why he keeps hoping. That’s the reason why he fall in love with Sakurai-san. I should stop him. It’s impossible to make a straight guy to fall in love with a man. It's impossible.
Somehow, I sigh causing them to turn to take a look at me.
"No, he doesn't know." I pause, biting my lower lip before continue again. "And I will never know how to tell him without breaking his heart."
Jun-kun and Ohno-kun fall speechless. I don't know if they understood what I was hinting at. But then, a hand lies on my shoulders.
"No matter how harsh the truth is, he should know. Before he gets hurt even more," Jun says and I could only nodded, asking to take my leave from there, no longer feeling to enjoy the day together with them.
That night, I comfort my best friend, hugging him, calming him down while he cries in my embrace. And I keep asking myself if I made the right choice by telling him this.
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bad news!!! i might delay on posting the next chapter as miss julie who's been helping me to beta this fic said she's busy with school now. hence... i can't promise to post the next chapter next week. maybe two weeks, or more or somewhere in the next week. but i can't promise next week. gomen. hontou ni gomen. i thought i have enough chapters while waiting, but seems i'm too late into writing it. gomen ne minna.
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Author: Ica_90
Beta by: icedragontmr
Pairing: [friendship] Aimiya, [one-sided (?)] Sakuraiba, Juntoshi [mentioned in some chapters]
Genre: Friendship, Angst, college-life
Rating: PG-13
Summary: a story revolves around the friendship of the two boys, friendship begins from an unexpected meeting, but none of them knows of how it’ll end.
Disclaimer: the word ‘fiction’ should explain everything. I own the plot, not the real character/human.
Chapter 5
It has been a year since we stepped into our university. Our routines don’t change. I stayed with the music club members, I still have a girlfriend and Aiba-chan is the PA to one of the most influential students in the university.
Speak of the devil, now that Sakurai-san is in his third year, his schedule is harder than before. Aiba-chan spends more time with Sakurai because of this, though maybe Sho did consider what I said. He doesn't distract Aiba from attending his classes. But my best friend doesn't have a lot of time to rest following Sakurai-san everywhere. I still don't like Sakurai, even if he does treat Aiba-chan better than before.
That’s what Aiba-chan says. I, however, still see Aiba-chan being treated the same.
“He treats me to lunch.”
I snort, smack his head softly.
"That doesn’t change a lot, I mean, anything.”
“Of course it does. I mean… Sho-san never treated me to any meals before. At least, whenever I work for him, it pays off.”
I smirk.
“Geez… you’re too loyal. I hope it didn’t change your feelings towards him.”
Hearing that, I see my best friends face change its expression to cluelessness. Scratching his head, he asks, “What about my feelings?”
“You know… love…”
“Baka! That’s impossible!” he snaps.
I laugh. I see him blush, but I choose to ignore it.
My first mistake that I didn’t realize.
***
“Baka! That’s impossible,” was what he said to me that time. But it is indeed possible, for him to fall in love with the man.
Few days after that conversation, I went out with Yumika-chan. We’re about to enter the restaurant when I see two familiar figures sitting at one corner of the restaurant.
"Isn’t that Aiba-san?” Yumika-chan says. I shrug.
“I guess so.” Biting my lower lip, I grab her hand. “Let’s go somewhere else. I’m not comfortable.”
She looks at me and the two people before she nods hesitantly and we go to another nearby restaurant.
That night, Aiba-chan comes back, humming his favorite song, something that he always did whenever he felt happy. I turn to take a glance at him before focusing on my notes I’d been writing since half an hour ago.
“You look happy, anything happen?” I ask, not looking at him as he puts his bag on the chair near his table. Shaking his head, he hops towards me before hugging me from behind.
“Nothing much. But I have to admit. It’s a happy day.”
I push him softly before turning to face him.
“You smell stinky.”
“Uso! Sho-kun bought me a new perfume. It’s imp-“
“Since when did you change the way you call him?” I interrupt him, causing him to stop sniffling his clothes before looking at me confusedly. “Sakurai-san to Sho-san… and now it’s Sho-kun?”
“Does it matter?” he asks causing me to chuckle.
“I’m waiting if you’re going to call him Sho-chan next.”
He laughs. I refuse to ask him anymore questions. I’m sure he has something else to do, maybe take a bath hence I refuse to disturb his routine. But suddenly, I heard the sound of the bed creak as someone is sits on it. I turn to take a look at it.
“I went to lunch with him.” I give him a soft smile.
“That’s nice. His treat?”I ask and he nods as an answer.
“I never treated him even once before. He always does it.”
I smirk. “That’s nice… So, are you falling in love with him? Isn’t he a gentleman.”
Aiba-chan gives me an empty stare. The two of us keep on our silence while I keep guessing what is in the man’s mind.
I widen my eyes as realization hits me. The smirk on my lips fade, replaced by an open mouth, trying to stop myself from believing of what I’ve been thinking.
“You… you’re not serious right? I mean you told me it’s impossible, right?”
Silence.
And when he opens his mouth to speak again, I feel like I’ve just received an electric shock.
“I think… I’ve fall in love with him,” is what he says. I went to my bed, sitting there facing him.
It's not jealousy that I feel. Rather that, it’s more anxiety.
“Are you sure that’s what's best?” I ask, unsure of what I should ask in the first place. He nods, causing my jaw to drop once again.
“What?” he snaps. “I’m a human too, Nino. Like you. Is it fair for you to have a girlfriend, while I can’t even love and be loved?”
“That's not that what I mean…” and then I pause.
I just have an instinct by the first look. I’m sure that Sakurai-san isn’t a good man. He’s rich, he’s proud of himself. While Aiba-chan… Aiba-chan is gentle, he cares about others. A lot. What if Sakurai-san just takes advantage of him?
How am I supposed to protect my own best friend from being hurt again? He hurt enough last time. I don’t want him to hurt again. Just no.
Taking a deep breath, I hide my thoughts with a smile.
“Never mind… maybe, it’s not that bad to hope” I say as I walk back towards my table.
He laughs, throwing his pillow at me before it hits my head.
“What’s that? It doesn’t sound encouraging at all,” he tells me along with a laugh, his usual hyena-like laugh.
But then he stops before rushing to me, shaking my body vigorously.
“Promise me that you won’t tell him, or anyone. Even Jun-kun. Because he will tell Ohno-kun and Ohno-kun might tell Sho-kun. Haaaahhh, it’s scary,” he explains.
Smiling, I nod to his request.
*****
“You’re joining us today, right?” I nod as Jun-kun asks me while I help him and Ohno-kun cleaning the music room. “Yumika-chan?”
“I don't think so. She said she has something to do. Girls day out she says,” I replied causing Jun to chuckle a little before shake his head.
“Women… are weird.”
I laugh hearing this.
“But I thought we’re even weirder. A bunch of guys spending most of our time together.”Jun throws me a weird glance. “I feel gay.”
“Ok, now that is offensive,” Jun says as he throws the drum sticks towards me, hitting my arm. I didn’t do anything in return, instead I laugh while continuing my work rearranging the sheet music on the racks.
It is weird. When I first entered the university, I never imagined myself surrounded by so many friends. But now, I have a girlfriend, Aiba-chan, Jun-kun and Ohno-kun. There aren't many, but in my own mind, more than one was considered as many.
I know that Ohno-san has been hinting his feeling on Jun-kun since the very first time I met them. It was so obvious, despite how Ohno-san appear to be dreamy, minding his own business, but when he starts to tease the younger one, it never fails to make the younger one blush by the teasing.
Hence it has been expected when Ohno-kun proposed to advance their relationship to ‘lover’ and Jun-kun accepted it without a doubt. I couldn’t help to laugh every time I remember how Jun-kun used to deny his feeling for the older man, but in the end accepting him without any other gesture except nodding once Ohno-kun finished his words.
“Aiba-chan?” Jun-kun speaks again causing me to look at him once before shaking my head.
“I guess, he’s busy with his work. You know... That work.”
I see both Ohno-kun and Jun-kun shrug as they hear my simple explanation about my best friend.
I couldn’t explain more when there’s nothing in particular to explain. I did invite Aiba-chan to join us last night but he declined my invitation, saying Sakurai-san had asked him to organize something.
1 month after we entered our second year, and I’m sure that Aiba-chan never really had a good weekend because Sakurai-san kept Aiba to himself, making him do a lot of work which sometimes I don’t think is necessary. Maybe it is happiness for Aiba-chan, as he can spend more times with the older man. But most of the time, Sakurai-san was not even there.
I’m not sure of the man’s purpose. Is it to keep Aiba-chan for himself, or to keep him away from me? I doubt the first one.
A tap on my shoulder startles me a little bit. I turn around to see Ohno-kun standing behind me with a wide grin.
“You’re cute when you do that,” he says.
“Excuse me?” I ask.
“Have I been a bad influence, Ninomiya-kun? You seem to daydream a lot nowadays. Not that I’m whining, because you look cute doing that…” Ohno-san didn’t manage to finish his words when suddenly we hear the sound of the door being close with unnecessary sounds. I turn to look around to notice that Jun-kun was no longer at his place. I turn back to the older man.
“What the hell are you doing?” he looks at me, dumbfounded. But later, he shrugs.
“I’m just teasing both of you.”
“You gave him a wrong idea. For god sake, idiot!” I hit the older man’s head before rushes out of the room.
I was about to go down the stairs when I see Jun-kun standing at the corridor, eyeing the campus scenery. I approach him slowly.
“You’re not jealous are you?” I ask, breaking the silence between us. I let go of a heavy sigh when I didn’t receive any reply from the younger man.
But after a while, he laughs. I turn to look at him before I hear footsteps behind me and I see the sleepy face man walks towards me with a smirk on his face.
“It’s funny watching you panic over the thought that I’m jealous.”
I snort.
“You ARE jealous!” I say with exaggeration.
“I know he loves me. Your cuteness didn’t bring any effect.” I roll my eyes hearing Jun-kun answer.
“And I’m not gay. So you shouldn’t be afraid of your own shadows.”
I walk away from the two love bird before two hands land around my shoulders hugging me.
****
There were many time when I become annoyed seeing two lovers together. Maybe because Yumika-chan preferred for me to not really show my love for her, I seldom become a romantic person. Maybe that's the reason why I feel annoyed by those two.
I try to walk as fast as possible leaving the two lovebirds behind. Finding my own way to one of the nearest gaming store, I hide myself in it.
Just when I thought that the two of them had forgotten about me, I feel a hand stop my hand from inserting another token into the machine before another hand tugs the back of my shirt dragging me out of the game store.
"Let me go!" I struggle to break free. I succeed a few second later before Jun-kun puts his hand around my shoulder.
"Come on. I'm hungry," he says as he drags me to the nearest restaurant, a place I called quite luxurious.
"I don't think I can afford it here," I say before I turn to walk away from there. But again, Jun pulls my shirt.
"I'm paying. Go inside!" he says as he pushes me in. We take a seat somewhere near the window.
"Aren’t you gonna pay?" I ask to Ohno-kun whos showing an innocent face as a reply. He shakes his head causing me to widen my eyes and Jun-kun to snort.
"Isn’t he the worst? We've been couple for almost a year. Not even once does he treat me," Jun says causing the man next to him to chuckle.
I shake my head again. But then, I see one familiar figure at one corner of the restaurant.
Sakurai-san... And a girl. Kissing. Passionately.
I smirk. He's a bully anyway. Of course he gonna force Aiba-chan to do his work while he goes on a date with a girl.
But then, my smirk fade of my own thought.
A date.
A girl.
Shit!
I was stunted for a moment when I finally digest my own monologue. Maybe I stay silent for too long when both Ohno-kun and Jun-kun notice my sudden silence.
“What’s wrong? Nino?” Ohno asks, concern. He looks at the same way as me before looking back at me with a frown.
“Nino. What’s wrong?” Jun shakes my body, making a comeback to reality.
As expected, I can never be Aiba-chan's protector.
“What’s wrong, Kazu? Everyone knows about them. They’re like the perfect couple in the university. Surely you know about that right? Aiba-chan must have known about it."
No, he doesn’t. He doesn’t know about it. That’s why he keeps hoping. That’s the reason why he fall in love with Sakurai-san. I should stop him. It’s impossible to make a straight guy to fall in love with a man. It's impossible.
Somehow, I sigh causing them to turn to take a look at me.
"No, he doesn't know." I pause, biting my lower lip before continue again. "And I will never know how to tell him without breaking his heart."
Jun-kun and Ohno-kun fall speechless. I don't know if they understood what I was hinting at. But then, a hand lies on my shoulders.
"No matter how harsh the truth is, he should know. Before he gets hurt even more," Jun says and I could only nodded, asking to take my leave from there, no longer feeling to enjoy the day together with them.
That night, I comfort my best friend, hugging him, calming him down while he cries in my embrace. And I keep asking myself if I made the right choice by telling him this.
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bad news!!! i might delay on posting the next chapter as miss julie who's been helping me to beta this fic said she's busy with school now. hence... i can't promise to post the next chapter next week. maybe two weeks, or more or somewhere in the next week. but i can't promise next week. gomen. hontou ni gomen. i thought i have enough chapters while waiting, but seems i'm too late into writing it. gomen ne minna.
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