A Name's Curse - Prologue
Title: A Name's Curse
Pairing: Ohmiya
Rating: PG
Genre: Romance, I guess..
Summary: Nino’s father, a member of the Japanese legislature passed a bill allowing same-sex marriage in Japan. And Nino will be made to undergo an arranged marriage with a guy in accordance to this bill.
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Prologue
It was a bright and sunny Saturday morning, with just the right ambient temperature, averting the need for air-conditioning or warming, wherein the natural breeze from the window was enough and quite perfect, just as Nino liked it.
Nino was in his father’s study, much like an actual library for it was full of books on politics, business and the like, and as he added, books on music and culinary. There was a navy blue couch on the corner by the window where he liked to slump and to immerse himself on books. Sometimes he would just listen to music with his earphones on and eyes closed. He would bring his guitar at times and hum a random tune. That spot, that couch by the window, just had a calming effect on him.
More than a sense of duty, it had become something like a habit that he would clean his father’s study on a Saturday. He had been doing it since he was young and he felt a sense of warmth while doing it, much like how someone feels when he/she feels needed by another human being, a sense of purpose of some sort.
Nino was arranging the election paraphernalia in his father’s study when he found a document. It was the bill allowing for same-sex marriage in Japan, the exact same bill that his father passed.
Nino knew nothing of the details; he merely raised an eyebrow and put the document away because it did not concern nor interest him at all. Yet.
After he was done cleaning the room, he went over by the window and looked at their garden with pride and admiration welling in his chest. It was through his effort and hard work that it had come to this. It used to be just a neglected patch of earth where weeds and random wild grass grew. Now, lush grass covered the land adorned with a cherry blossoms tree in the center of the garden, with a bench underneath the shade of its leaves. There vegetable patches on one side including tomatoes and cabbages. Sometimes, Nino would cook using the vegetables grown by him as ingredients. On the other side, there were flowers of different kinds.
One thing peculiar is the cosmos flower growing on the side of the fence. It had already been there before Nino fixed the garden. It was blooming in pink and white and purple along with the weeds and the wild grass. Nino decided to just leave it there and not take it away for it somehow symbolizes beauty through adversity. Yes it may seem a forcibly deep and ambitiously poetic way of putting, but that was really what he thought.
The things that interest Nino could be summarized into 3 words: games, music and gardening. He was also a student taking a Business Management course, but that was climbing up the list of the things that he hates. That and getting sea-sick.
He went back to his room, exhausted, and decided to play with his DS.
Now Nino got too immersed in his game that he had subconsciously forgotten the room where he was previously in, as well as the piece of document on the table.
The document was a bill which stated that:
STATEMENT
“This bill, entitled the “Marriage Equality Act,” would authorize same-sex marriage in the nation of Japan. The bill defines “marriage” as the legally recognized union of two consenting persons in a committed relationship, provided they are within the legal age of 18, and of sound mind, regardless of sex.
The Supreme Court held that denying rights and benefits to committed same-sex couples that are statutorily given to their heterosexual counterparts violates the equal protection of rights, granted by the Bill of Rights.
Civil marriage is a legal institution recognized by the State in order to encourage stable relationships and to protect individuals from discrimination.”
Of course a lot of debates and criticisms on morality and the mere necessity of it ensued at the mere idea of this bill, but Nino’s father was determined to pass it. And it was passed and earned popular support from the LGBT or the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of Japan, earning him the role of their hero.
Nino didn’t realize it at that time but it was a bill that would cause a drastic change in his life.
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To be continued...
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AN:The bill was taken from this: http://www.kenyalaw.org/Downloads/Bills/Unpublished/200703.pdf
Disclaimer: I do not own this bill. I just found it in the internet.
It’s been a while since I have last written anything, isn’t it? Well here goes... I hope I would be able to update as frequently as possible since it’s vacation anyway...