[Fic] 粘着系男子の15年ネチネチ(A Clingy Boy's Fifteen-Year Pursuit 3/5)
A Clingy Boy's Fifteen-Year Pursuit
粘着系男子の15年ネチネチ
A Yama Fanfiction adaptation
Satoshi Ohno knows he's being clingy but if it'll take him an eternity (or fifteen years) to reach Sho Sakurai in some way, so be it!
Third Stage
It takes two to tango
a step forward and a step back
Perhaps you've adjusted
to the finesse that I lack
The Seventh Year
"Bouncing back" was perhaps not the most accurate way to say Satoshi has recovered, what with his level of potential energy...or his lack of it.
Either way, he has recovered. Probably more than a hundred percent.
He promised his writing muse and Sho, that he would take better care of himself now. After the nightmare that was being in the hospital for quite a long time, he didn't want to encounter any more trouble that would impede him from writing. He was stable with all other resources like food and money, but health is more of a variable.
Sho wasn't completely a health nut but he knew a good deal about it. He knew a pretty good deal about just everything. He was like a mother at times, taking one look at Satoshi and identifying things like, "you lack sleep," or "you haven't eaten".
Satoshi's mind wandered to those days. He was thoroughly spoiled by Sho being so caring and situationally aware. Satoshi, on the other hand, would probably end up in a hospital before he'd know he was sick.
That year, instead of taking bold all-nighters, he used bold similes and metaphors.
Sho Sakurai is like Extreme Ironing, a mundane task done to the highest level.
Sho Sakurai is like inner product space, complicated stuff containing more complicated stuff.
***
The EighthYear
Cozy in his earnings from having compiled a poetry book, still doing magazine entries and absolute frugality, Satoshi wants nothing more in life than Sho's response. But in his excellent health, he had begun to think a little differently.
He took care of himself in the hopes that Sho wasn't ignoring him for being so reckless in the past years. Sho usually dove into situations head-first from what people see. Satoshi knew that Sho was more than an impudent yankii who did as he wanted. He did his thinking behind the scenes, outside of the spotlight. It looked spectacularly like a last-minute success but it was the product of thinking ahead.
That was something Satoshi was never able to catch up with: Sho's mind. It ran like a wagon on a slope, hence his ability to talk about anything with anyone. Satoshi's only good with listening, but Sho would always say that's his best point.
"You're like...an ideal dad." Sho once laughed.
But just being himself wasn't enough to make Sho respond. He tried bold metaphors last year, completely different from his usual writing style. If he had been more engaging and interesting, would Sho have liked his company a lot more? Would he have made Sho laugh more? If Satoshi was more something perhaps Sho would respond.
So Satoshi stuck to his new plan from last year.
Sho Sakurai is like winning 16 sumo battles in a row, unbelievably amazing.
Sho Sakurai is like an AMPA glutamate receptor, causing funky brain stuff Satoshi didn't really know about.
***
The NinthYear
Satoshi Ohno? Who is that?
Satoshi himself had no idea. While it started as a bit of identity crisis, it went on to be a total wipeout after he responded to his name at some alley. To his horror, he found himself in a hospital
Sho Sakurai was all he could say, but they knew it wasn't his own name. Even he himself knew it wasn't his name, just that he lived his entire being for the one called Sho Sakurai.
The bandages on his head didn't say anything about how some hater cornered him and hit him on the head. That's what people told him. He didn't care. What's important is that he mustn't miss a day of poetry. He insisted on writing and nearly escaping once, in his desperation.
One of the things he remembered vividly was that he was hospitalized before too, and he pulled off writing then. And Sho Sakurai was a man who was always on time. Satoshi must be on time too. He has to write. And Sho will probably respond.
***
The TenthYear
He had gone back to a semblance of normalcy. Family and other supporters helped him get back on his feet and all, but he managed himself just fine. He wanted to be alone more than anything so he could continue writing. Perhaps if he went on writing every day in his old poetry style, Sho Sakurai would respond. Sho Sakurai was all that mattered now. Sho Sakurai was on top of all his memories.
Satoshi pondered. What could he do, what could he give, to get Sho Sakurai to respond? He now recalled that he has everything a bachelor could want. He recalled Sho Sakurai loved poetry. Sho Sakurai's name was written with the most beautiful combination of kanji he could ever think of. He recalled something about a goldfish so he bought one. What was the name?
Sho Sakurai had something to do with the goldfish. Sho, a goldfish and a breezy summer night.
***
The Eleventh Year
Satoshi Ohno had wealth, fame and absolutely nothing. He gave away his wealth and covered up his fame. People think he has stopped writing. Some say he's dead. Sometimes, Satoshi agrees with the later.
He is nothing without Sho. There is nothing without Sho.
He has never stopped writing, though. But this time, his audience is one specific man.
He was close to figuring something out. He consulted the goldfish as he felt some kind of pull to it. He guessed that he used to do it often since it felt pretty natural to stare at the fishbowl and remember bits and pieces.
Two boys, a goldfish and a breezy summer night.
A bet they lost, yukatas they wore.
What else? The goldfish never answered and Satoshi understood. There was an old goldfish. Maybe if he reconnected to the first goldfish, he will remember. Maybe if he remembered, Sho would finally respond at last.
But where was the goldfish? What was the name?
Second Stage
「怒り」Please click here
Fourth Stage
「抑うつ」Please click here
Credits:
Starring
Satoshi Ohno as 粘着系男子/Clingy Boy
Sho Sakurai as Satoshi's Everything
Adapted By:
Mie Tachibana
Dedicated to:
Aimi and Maki
Disclaimers:
See First Stage.