Title : In This Small Town (chapter 5/?)
Author :
keeconkPairing : Nishikato
Rating : PG-13
Disclaimer : i only own the plot..
Summary : living as a writer might not actually as extravagant as it seemed, and Kato Shigeaki knew it well.. especially not if you had an editor like Nishikido Ryo..
A.N. : it's unbeta-ed.. an update!! yay!!
( Prologue )( Chapter 1: The Nightmare )( Chapter 2: It Didn't Like What It Seemed )( Chapter 3: Life Was Somehow Unfair )( Chapter 4: Not Big Deal )----------------------
Chapter 5: It Was Me!
Shige’s upper lip twitched when he saw his boss, with head on the desk, pretty much looked so fucked up, with huge pile of paper works to do. He sighed, realising that he would have to spend another night helping his poor self de-motivated editor.
“I don’t know what else to do with you. Look at the mess,” complained Shige.
“Watch the way you talk, Kato. I’m your boss,” groaned Ryo, without actually looked up.
“I won’t help you anymore if this kind of situation becomes more common to be seen,” complained Shige again.
“I never asked you to help me,”
“But we’ll be missing the date-line if I don’t!”
“This time, we won’t, because I actually managed to finish the whole thing,” said Ryo, grinning, as he looked up.
Shige stoned for awhile, trying to digest correctly what Ryo just said to him. Haaa? Shige tilted his head, and quickly rushed out to Ryo’s desk. Well, yeah, the desk was pretty much in such a mess, but every draft had been put into his editor’s approved box.
“Huaaaa!!! How did you manage without me today?” admired Shige suddenly.
“Because it makes me look so pathetic if I keep getting help from you. So I decided to do everything myself. Gosh. I’m so proud of myself,” grinned Ryo as he crossed his arms on his chest.
“God! Finally! The determined and hates to lose Nishikido Ryo that I know is back to business,” praised Shige.
A big wide grin grew wider on Ryo’s face. He looked somehow satisfied with his own work. He sat up properly and started to clean his desk up. It was time for him to start showing his dad some awesome works of his. “Are you free? Let’s go out and grab some coffee right after I finished cleaning this,” asked Ryo to Shige.
Shige nodded as he smiled. It had been ages since he saw his boss being all excited over his work. Lately, if not because Shige helped him every night, Ryo would be in such a horrible mess each time.
The young columnist had to admit somehow that his relationship with his editor was getting better. It had been pretty rare for Ryo to scold him or talking trash about his draft. Ryo also started to get less grumpy everyday, making the whole columnist section quite happy about it.
Other than that, Shige was getting way better with his writing. He got more page share than ever before and his articles got pretty got review and there were lots of readers’ letters praising his works. Of course there were some critics and some readers’ that did not like his articles sometimes, but he managed to survive.
“Why each time I offer you a drink, I always ended up treating you for dinner?” complained Ryo as he passed back the menu to the waiter.
“How the hell I supposed to know? It was you who were driving. I just sat there beside you and followed wherever you took me,” replied Shige back, closing the menu booklet.
Ryo’s upper lip twitched in annoyance at Shige’s reply. He was annoyed by it of course. No one, no one literally ever talked back to him like that. Even so, Ryo just somehow couldn’t get his anger all out when it came to Shige. Especially because of the fact that Shige had been helping him with those huge bunch of drafts without he even asked him to.
“Ne, they said there are some chances for you to be promoted soon. Is that true?” asked Shige.
“Yeah. That’s what they said to me too. I’ll get the confirmation about next month,” replied the older man.
“Lucky you, ne,” said Shige as he took a sip of his drink.
Both went silent for awhile. Ryo wasn’t really sure how to react to what Shige just said that he just stared at random spot on the table. Shige on the other hand, was still trying to put some words together to be said so that he wouldn’t have to face any silence.
“Do you think my dad has something to do with it?” asked Ryo at the end. Shige just blinked for awhile, a bit surprised that Ryo said something before he did.
“Your dad?”
“Yeah. You see, I’m not even here for a year yet. It’s a bit too fast for me to get promoted any time soon, no matter how prodigy I am. Well, although I am indeed a prodigy, but you know, it still doesn’t make any sense to me at all,” explained Ryo.
Somehow, a smile grew on Shige’s face. Well, maybe more towards a smirk. He leaned forward a little as he raised his eyebrows together. “Maybe, he actually can’t stand about the whole you stopped contacting him and such situation anymore. So maybe, just maybe, he doesn’t mind you being gay anymore,” grinned Shige.
“Stop messing around with me Shige,” complained Ryo, sweat dropping.
“Well, what if whatever I said is actually right?” asked Shige as he leaned his back to the chair.
“I don’t know,” Ryo just replied with a short answer.
He didn’t hate his dad of course. He would probably be as mad as his dad if he found out that his son was actually gay, especially if he had only one child to begin with. The family name was kind of on his shoulder after all. As he stared at Shige, he started to wonder how it would feel like to be alone, without having parents and such.
“Kato..”
“Hm?”
“Is it lonely?”
“Ha?”
“I mean. Is it lonely to be an orphan?” asked Ryo, a little bit clearer. Shige just smiled. It wasn’t the first time someone ever asked him this kind of question, especially during his college time.
“It is sometimes, of course. But then again, there are tons of people out there that just simply in worse situations than me. So when I start to think about it that way, I feel better somehow,” said Shige.
Ryo was pretty sure that his heart stopped beating for awhile there. He never knew that Shige could say something deep like that. Unlike Shige, Ryo found it hard to express himself verbally. It was way easier for him to write things down than saying it out loud. It was impressive enough for him that Shige could say such nice phrase.
When they were from their way back for the dinner, both didn’t really say anything. Shige was pretty much too full and too tired to say anything, while Ryo tried his best to not fall asleep while driving. It was quite late, so it was kind of normal for the two of them to be so worked out.
“Ehm.. Nishikido-san. This is not my apartment building, I don’t even leave in such an expensive place to begin with,” replied Shige.
“I know,” yawned Ryo.
“Then?”
“It’s my place. Can you just come over?” asked Ryo, leaning forward to Shige who was sitting next to the driver sit.
“Ha? For what?”
“I don’t know, Kato. Just come over. Or shall I call you Shige?” the next thing Shige knew, Ryo was already pressing their lips together.
He wanted to push his boss away. It was so wrong, very wrong. Shige wanted to punch Ryo in the face and ask him what the hell he was thinking about. He pretty much wanted to just run out from the car and rush back to his apartment right now. He wanted to break the kiss as much as he wanted to breathe, but he didn’t. He didn’t do anything.
“Then? Coming over?” asked Ryo, yawning again.
“I’m straight, coming over to a gay boss’ house is not a really good idea,” replied Shige.
“You didn’t push me away. That wasn’t a good idea as well, because you just gave me a green light,”
“Maybe I’m drunk,” said Shige calmly.
“You didn’t drink anything with alcohol, Shige,”
“Oh yeah. True. And since when I give you permission to call me Shige?” frowned Shige.
“So why didn’t you do anything?”
“I don’t know. It didn’t feel weird somehow,” replied Shige bluntly.
“Good,” Ryo quickly walked out the car and dragged Shige out of it as soon as he reached his side.
“Oiii.. I didn’t say I want to come over. Oiii! Nishikido-san!! Hey!!! Stop dragging me!! Ryo!” complain Shige as he was being dragged to the apartment by Ryo.
“Did you just call me Ryo?” Ryo turned his head to Shige, with lips smirking. Crap! Shige was pretty sure that he was so doomed.
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Shige just sat on the bed with eyes stared at the wall in front of him like an idiot. He scratched his hair with face pretty much looked so worried. He was dead tired, and luckily it was weekend that he didn’t really have to quickly get out of the bed any time soon.
Even so, it wasn’t such a good morning really. He had only about three hours of sleep, and his stupid body just automatically woke up when it was 6am. He sighed as he felt the muscle aches all over his body. Shige decided to lie down on the bed again, trying to take another sleep. He closed his eyes, shifts a little here and there, and found it hard to get back to sleep. At the end, he opened his eyes wide again the moment someone hit his head hard.
“Stop moving, damn it!! You woke me up!” complained Ryo.
“I didn’t mean to wake you up, idiot! I can’t sleep,” replied Shige back.
“How the hell can’t you go to sleep?! After the whole two rounds last night?? I’m fucking tired right now,” groaned Ryo.
“I don’t know! I want sleep as much as you want to shut me up right now, but it’s hard to sleep when I’m not on my own bed,”
“No one told you to sleep on my bed,” Ryo closed his eyes, trying to get back to sleep.
“What the hell?! I just fucked you, twice! You want me to just walk away!?! God! I don’t understand you! Fine! It’s shocking enough that I got aroused easily by my own gay boss kissing me like there was no tomorrow! And it’s just as shocking to find out that I’m perfectly fine with making love with a guy! Geez! I’m going home now!”
Shige sat up again, and tried to grab his clothes that were scattered around the Ryo’s bedroom floor. Before he managed to stand up and leave, Ryo pulled his hand, making him bumping his body back to the bed.
“I didn’t say you should go, you moron. Now sleep,” Ryo wrapped his arms to Shige’s belly from behind, with lips pressed to Shige’s shoulder.
Shige sighed. He ruffled his hair with mind started to wondering off. He tried to go to sleep by closing his eyes, but his mind seemed to have life on its own. Basically, Shige still didn’t understand why the whole thing happened. His mind kept on repeating what happened the previous night
He was dragged by Ryo from the car to his apartment. He was then pinned to the wall once they were inside and Ryo started to kiss him. Things went pretty fast, that the next thing he knew he was the one that pinning Ryo down on the bed. He was the one that started to stripping Ryo off from his clothes. He was the one that started to fuck Ryo. He was the one who took the lead!
Am I just as gay as Koyama and Massu?!?!
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i dunnoe why, but i've been updating my fanfiction very late.. i need to do something with this.. anyway.. hope u like this one.. comments are so much loved!! XXXD
i'm too lazy to check the grammar.. please ignore mistakes and typo.. i'll do it once i have the time to..
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