Arashi - AU - Thank You for the Rain - 5/30
Title: Thank You for the Rain
Chapter: 5/?
Fandom: Arashi
Pairing: several
Word count: 1921
Notes: Okay, windrette, you get your longer chapter now... XD; Though it's a bit sketchy, I think. It just was one of those difficult chapters where nothing seems to flow well.
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05. Nino: One more first day.
He was nervous. He was more nervous than he had been in a long time.
It was strange. After seven different schools, you’d be expected to have gotten used to introducing yourself, making new friends and starting all over once again. But it felt like every time he had to go through this, it just became more and more difficult.
“Hello. My name is Ninomiya Kazunari. I like baseball, playing guitar and singing. Nice to meet you,” he said in a clear voice, willing it not to tremble. He was damned if he was letting anyone in the class know that he was nervous. This was just another role; he needed to give the class a certain image of himself, at least in the beginning. If he came out sounding self-assured, but not too cocky, no one would try to mess with him. They’d just be interested in knowing more about him.
Hopefully.
The teacher pointed a seat for him and he took it, hearing the usual whispers around himself. People were still staring at him and he willed his body to stay relaxed. He was just going to pretend that he didn’t notice the stares, or maybe act more like he didn’t care about them.
Just that...
That one boy, few seats away from him, near the windows… The tall boy with the unruly hair and bored expression. Their eyes had met briefly when he had passed his seat and Nino had seen something there, a little bit interesting. Maybe.
He had figured that he had two options in this school, like in every school he had attended before this one. Either he would try his hardest to blend in, hang out with anyone who wanted to hang out with him and just adjust himself into the school’s structure. He had done this few times before. Everything would go smoothly, even if he would feel a little bit irritated by some of the more idiotic things that approach made him deal with, but at least he would be able to carry on without a hitch until his father would announce that they would have to move again.
On the other hand, he could seek out the most interesting people in this school and try to be friends with them and make things actually exciting. Of course, when he would have to move again, he would be leaving these people behind and it would be hard. Again.
In the end, there really wasn’t that much to think about, was there? He would always choose interesting over boring and ordinary. He didn’t really care how many enemies he would make along the way, it wasn’t important. What was important was that he could see himself being friends with that boy, the one who was staring out of the window instead of paying attention to the teacher.
Of course, he always got interested in the ones who didn’t show any interest in him.
Well, he was used to that.
The difficult thing was, Aiba seemed to be extremely hard to come across outside of the classroom. When the luch hour came, he disappeared before Nino had even figured a way to catch his attention. Nino would have followed him out, but he was instantly surrounded by curious classmates, who wanted to know more about him.
“So annoying...” he muttered from under his breath. Forget it, he would catch up with Aiba sooner or later. “Hey, tell me about that Aiba-guy. Why didn’t he stay here?” he asked from a nearby boy, who’s name he had already forgotten.
“Oh, no one really knows much about him. He keeps to himself,” the boy said, shrugging his shoulders. “Though, girls seem to like that kind of mystery. They all have a crush on him.”
“Kind of annoying, really,” another boy - Nino thought his name was Yamashita - laughed. “But he’s cool, so we don’t really care about that. It’s not like he takes advantage of his popularity with girls.”
“Yeah, you’re lucky if the guy even talks to you at all. I always get one word replies to everything,” a guy called Miyamoto laughed. “But he’s boring. Let’s talk about something else.”
“Oh, yeah!” the first boy nodded. “Who cares about him? Say, do you want to come with us to this café after school? The girls who work there are really pretty and we want to show you all the cool places to hang out.”
Nino shook his head. “No, I have things to do after school. Maybe some other time.”
He highly doubted that he would ever want to hang out with these guys. They were friendly enough, but Nino really wasn’t that interested. These people wouldn’t know exciting from boring even if it punched them in the face.
The day passed, class after class. It was all pretty normal, unless you counted the obviously crazy guy who taught them chemistry. So, by the time the final bell rang, Nino was feeling bored and annoyed. He had tried to speak to Aiba a couple of times but he always got very short answers or then he was ignored completely.
It pissed him off.
So when two tall jock-types were standing in the hall, leaning right against his locker and looking like they would never move away, he was ready for a fight.
He noticed a thin and awkward-looking boy hovering about when he walked towards his locker and the two guys. The boy was clutching a book against his chest, staring at the two annoying roadblocks. They were probably leaning against his locker too, and he was too shy to say anything. Nino wondered how long he had already waited quietly for them to move.
Idiots.
”HEY! Excuse us!” Nino said loudly. “If the two of you have stopped gossiping like little girls, can I get to my locker already? And I think he needs to get to his too.” He nodded towards the scrawny kid who was hiding behind his book.
”Sorry,” the other roadblock muttered, looking suitably ashamed. The other one - the uglier of the two - glared at Nino.
“Hey, don’t you have any respect for your seniors?” the ugly one said, sounding annoyed and a little bit amused. It was all the same to Nino, he didn’t care. He just wanted to get his stuff and go home.
“Hmph. I have just as much respect for you as you have common courtesy,” Nino said and ignored the two, instead turning towards the small boy who still tried to hide behind his book. “Hey, you, stop hovering there like some idiot and do whatever you came here to do. Is everyone in this school thick or something?”
The boy blinked and blushed a little. “Sorry for bothering you,” he muttered to the two. Nino rolled his eyes. Why was he being all courteous towards these guys? They didn’t particularly deserve it. The boy stuffed things inside his backpack in a panic that was pretty fascinating to watch. Did he really fear these guys that much? Of course, all the poor kid was able to do, was to spill the contents of his backpack on the floor.
The uglier roadblock laughed.
By now Nino had decided that he wanted to be friends with that scared little thing. The boy reminded him of some small animal, all shuddering and panicked in front of bigger animals. It was pretty adorable, even if it was also really annoying.
The other roadblock, the cuter one, was actually helping the boy to pick up things. How very nice of him. “Don’t worry,” he said, smiling. “Sorry about not noticing you earlier.”
Maybe this one wasn’t that bad, Nino thought. But never mind, he had already decided that he didn’t like him. There just was something very galling in the way he looked. The big lips and the big eyes and the flashy smile... Something about him rubbed Nino in the wrong way.
Anyway, it really wasn’t that important. It was raining outside and it looked like it wouldn’t stop for a long time. And he had forgotten to take his umbrella with him when he left home that morning. He had probably been too nervous to pay attention to the gloomy weather.
Among the things that the boy had spilled on the floor, Nino had noticed a small umbrella.
“Hey, book kid,” he said, sounding a lot more friendlier now when his annoyance had mostly gone. “You have an umbrella with you?”
“Yeah,” the boy nodded, looking a bit guarded, careful of what would come next. A bit like a rabbit in the headlights.
Nino fought off the urge to grin.
”Wanna walk with me to the station? I’m going to get wet otherwise.” Nino put his best pleading-look on his face. It usually worked with everyone. This time was no different. The boy grinned a goofy grin and nodded. The kid was so adorable, there was nothing else Nino could do than to smile widely back. “Let’s go then!” He took the boy’s umbrella and lead the way out the door, completely ignoring the two guys, still standing around, staring at them.
At first the boy was in a daze, probably still shocked about what had happened, but Nino could at least get his name from him.
Matsumoto Jun, one year younger than him, a little bit taller than him. From the way he was clutching the book against his chest, Nino figured that he apparently liked to read. Awkward, gangly boy, with too long limbs and a big, awkward smile. And it was again one of those occasions when Nino found himself liking someone a lot, even when he didn’t know anything about them, or when they should have only annoyed him. He tended to go with his gut-feeling, since it was usually pretty right in knowing who were good, interesting people and who were not.
“What’s with you? You’re really quiet,” he asked from the boy, who still didn’t show any signs of coming out of his stunned silence. “Did I scare you or something?” he laughed.
It turned out that Jun had a lot more in him than showed on the surface. He could actually hold his own against Nino. Bickering with Jun was really fun and he was interesting with his Sakurai Sho-worship and what seemed like a double personality, with the sharp tongue and timid appearance. Nino wanted to see if he could draw the boy out of his shell. He hoped he could. That way things would get even more interesting.
Well, right now it seemed like Jun didn’t really like him that much. Nino was getting dark scowls directed at him. It only made him feel more cheerful, after spending all day being ignored by Aiba. Actually getting a reaction from someone was a welcome change. And, besides, Jun could scowl and insult all he wanted, he didn’t really have a choice in this matter. Nino had already decided to be friends with him, he wasn’t about to change his mind any time soon.
“See you tomorrow!” Nino said, waving, as they arrived at the train station and discovered that they would go to the opposite directions.
“Right,” Jun muttered. “Don’t you have anything better to do than make my life even more difficult?”
Nino grinned. “It’s just too much fun.” Then he turned and walked to this own platform, leaving Jun scowling at him.
When Nino got to his platform, he was surprised to see Aiba standing there, alone.
Chapter: 5/?
Fandom: Arashi
Pairing: several
Word count: 1921
Notes: Okay, windrette, you get your longer chapter now... XD; Though it's a bit sketchy, I think. It just was one of those difficult chapters where nothing seems to flow well.
chapter 1 | chapter 2 | chapter 3 | chapter 4
05. Nino: One more first day.
He was nervous. He was more nervous than he had been in a long time.
It was strange. After seven different schools, you’d be expected to have gotten used to introducing yourself, making new friends and starting all over once again. But it felt like every time he had to go through this, it just became more and more difficult.
“Hello. My name is Ninomiya Kazunari. I like baseball, playing guitar and singing. Nice to meet you,” he said in a clear voice, willing it not to tremble. He was damned if he was letting anyone in the class know that he was nervous. This was just another role; he needed to give the class a certain image of himself, at least in the beginning. If he came out sounding self-assured, but not too cocky, no one would try to mess with him. They’d just be interested in knowing more about him.
Hopefully.
The teacher pointed a seat for him and he took it, hearing the usual whispers around himself. People were still staring at him and he willed his body to stay relaxed. He was just going to pretend that he didn’t notice the stares, or maybe act more like he didn’t care about them.
Just that...
That one boy, few seats away from him, near the windows… The tall boy with the unruly hair and bored expression. Their eyes had met briefly when he had passed his seat and Nino had seen something there, a little bit interesting. Maybe.
He had figured that he had two options in this school, like in every school he had attended before this one. Either he would try his hardest to blend in, hang out with anyone who wanted to hang out with him and just adjust himself into the school’s structure. He had done this few times before. Everything would go smoothly, even if he would feel a little bit irritated by some of the more idiotic things that approach made him deal with, but at least he would be able to carry on without a hitch until his father would announce that they would have to move again.
On the other hand, he could seek out the most interesting people in this school and try to be friends with them and make things actually exciting. Of course, when he would have to move again, he would be leaving these people behind and it would be hard. Again.
In the end, there really wasn’t that much to think about, was there? He would always choose interesting over boring and ordinary. He didn’t really care how many enemies he would make along the way, it wasn’t important. What was important was that he could see himself being friends with that boy, the one who was staring out of the window instead of paying attention to the teacher.
Of course, he always got interested in the ones who didn’t show any interest in him.
Well, he was used to that.
The difficult thing was, Aiba seemed to be extremely hard to come across outside of the classroom. When the luch hour came, he disappeared before Nino had even figured a way to catch his attention. Nino would have followed him out, but he was instantly surrounded by curious classmates, who wanted to know more about him.
“So annoying...” he muttered from under his breath. Forget it, he would catch up with Aiba sooner or later. “Hey, tell me about that Aiba-guy. Why didn’t he stay here?” he asked from a nearby boy, who’s name he had already forgotten.
“Oh, no one really knows much about him. He keeps to himself,” the boy said, shrugging his shoulders. “Though, girls seem to like that kind of mystery. They all have a crush on him.”
“Kind of annoying, really,” another boy - Nino thought his name was Yamashita - laughed. “But he’s cool, so we don’t really care about that. It’s not like he takes advantage of his popularity with girls.”
“Yeah, you’re lucky if the guy even talks to you at all. I always get one word replies to everything,” a guy called Miyamoto laughed. “But he’s boring. Let’s talk about something else.”
“Oh, yeah!” the first boy nodded. “Who cares about him? Say, do you want to come with us to this café after school? The girls who work there are really pretty and we want to show you all the cool places to hang out.”
Nino shook his head. “No, I have things to do after school. Maybe some other time.”
He highly doubted that he would ever want to hang out with these guys. They were friendly enough, but Nino really wasn’t that interested. These people wouldn’t know exciting from boring even if it punched them in the face.
The day passed, class after class. It was all pretty normal, unless you counted the obviously crazy guy who taught them chemistry. So, by the time the final bell rang, Nino was feeling bored and annoyed. He had tried to speak to Aiba a couple of times but he always got very short answers or then he was ignored completely.
It pissed him off.
So when two tall jock-types were standing in the hall, leaning right against his locker and looking like they would never move away, he was ready for a fight.
He noticed a thin and awkward-looking boy hovering about when he walked towards his locker and the two guys. The boy was clutching a book against his chest, staring at the two annoying roadblocks. They were probably leaning against his locker too, and he was too shy to say anything. Nino wondered how long he had already waited quietly for them to move.
Idiots.
”HEY! Excuse us!” Nino said loudly. “If the two of you have stopped gossiping like little girls, can I get to my locker already? And I think he needs to get to his too.” He nodded towards the scrawny kid who was hiding behind his book.
”Sorry,” the other roadblock muttered, looking suitably ashamed. The other one - the uglier of the two - glared at Nino.
“Hey, don’t you have any respect for your seniors?” the ugly one said, sounding annoyed and a little bit amused. It was all the same to Nino, he didn’t care. He just wanted to get his stuff and go home.
“Hmph. I have just as much respect for you as you have common courtesy,” Nino said and ignored the two, instead turning towards the small boy who still tried to hide behind his book. “Hey, you, stop hovering there like some idiot and do whatever you came here to do. Is everyone in this school thick or something?”
The boy blinked and blushed a little. “Sorry for bothering you,” he muttered to the two. Nino rolled his eyes. Why was he being all courteous towards these guys? They didn’t particularly deserve it. The boy stuffed things inside his backpack in a panic that was pretty fascinating to watch. Did he really fear these guys that much? Of course, all the poor kid was able to do, was to spill the contents of his backpack on the floor.
The uglier roadblock laughed.
By now Nino had decided that he wanted to be friends with that scared little thing. The boy reminded him of some small animal, all shuddering and panicked in front of bigger animals. It was pretty adorable, even if it was also really annoying.
The other roadblock, the cuter one, was actually helping the boy to pick up things. How very nice of him. “Don’t worry,” he said, smiling. “Sorry about not noticing you earlier.”
Maybe this one wasn’t that bad, Nino thought. But never mind, he had already decided that he didn’t like him. There just was something very galling in the way he looked. The big lips and the big eyes and the flashy smile... Something about him rubbed Nino in the wrong way.
Anyway, it really wasn’t that important. It was raining outside and it looked like it wouldn’t stop for a long time. And he had forgotten to take his umbrella with him when he left home that morning. He had probably been too nervous to pay attention to the gloomy weather.
Among the things that the boy had spilled on the floor, Nino had noticed a small umbrella.
“Hey, book kid,” he said, sounding a lot more friendlier now when his annoyance had mostly gone. “You have an umbrella with you?”
“Yeah,” the boy nodded, looking a bit guarded, careful of what would come next. A bit like a rabbit in the headlights.
Nino fought off the urge to grin.
”Wanna walk with me to the station? I’m going to get wet otherwise.” Nino put his best pleading-look on his face. It usually worked with everyone. This time was no different. The boy grinned a goofy grin and nodded. The kid was so adorable, there was nothing else Nino could do than to smile widely back. “Let’s go then!” He took the boy’s umbrella and lead the way out the door, completely ignoring the two guys, still standing around, staring at them.
At first the boy was in a daze, probably still shocked about what had happened, but Nino could at least get his name from him.
Matsumoto Jun, one year younger than him, a little bit taller than him. From the way he was clutching the book against his chest, Nino figured that he apparently liked to read. Awkward, gangly boy, with too long limbs and a big, awkward smile. And it was again one of those occasions when Nino found himself liking someone a lot, even when he didn’t know anything about them, or when they should have only annoyed him. He tended to go with his gut-feeling, since it was usually pretty right in knowing who were good, interesting people and who were not.
“What’s with you? You’re really quiet,” he asked from the boy, who still didn’t show any signs of coming out of his stunned silence. “Did I scare you or something?” he laughed.
It turned out that Jun had a lot more in him than showed on the surface. He could actually hold his own against Nino. Bickering with Jun was really fun and he was interesting with his Sakurai Sho-worship and what seemed like a double personality, with the sharp tongue and timid appearance. Nino wanted to see if he could draw the boy out of his shell. He hoped he could. That way things would get even more interesting.
Well, right now it seemed like Jun didn’t really like him that much. Nino was getting dark scowls directed at him. It only made him feel more cheerful, after spending all day being ignored by Aiba. Actually getting a reaction from someone was a welcome change. And, besides, Jun could scowl and insult all he wanted, he didn’t really have a choice in this matter. Nino had already decided to be friends with him, he wasn’t about to change his mind any time soon.
“See you tomorrow!” Nino said, waving, as they arrived at the train station and discovered that they would go to the opposite directions.
“Right,” Jun muttered. “Don’t you have anything better to do than make my life even more difficult?”
Nino grinned. “It’s just too much fun.” Then he turned and walked to this own platform, leaving Jun scowling at him.
When Nino got to his platform, he was surprised to see Aiba standing there, alone.