Title : A Broken Love Song (Chapter 5)
Author :
lovu_lovu_aiba Beta :
andreja1989 *who beta-ed 2 fics today, how awesome is she! XD*
Pairing : Sakuraiba, Junba, Ohmiya
Genre : AU, Romance, Angst
Rating : PG13
Disclaimer : The boys aren't mine, I really hope I own them tho XD
Summary : Aiba Masaki used to be a great songwriter until the death of his beloved made him stop composing. Yet, the arrival of Sakurai Sho has colored his life. Sho taught him what is love and made him knew happiness again. But life...never be that easy...
Fifth Melody...
Aiba walked between the racks, tried to touch everything that was under his reach, while Jun followed him and tried to stop him from touching everything. Jun kept holding his boyfriend back every time he started to be excited over something, and made them stop every five steps. It would be a never ending shopping if Jun let Aiba be. So he pushed the cart and pulled his boyfriend at the same time. It somehow made Jun felt like a mommy who brought her five years old boy to go shopping, and surprisingly, Jun loved it. He liked to take care of his boyfriend as he felt like someone needed him and couldn’t life without him.
Suddenly Jun’s steps stopped, Aiba who walked beside him and didn’t try to see his way crashed on the cart. He cursed in pain but he asked, “What happened? Do you agree to buy the monkey doll?”
But Jun didn’t answer him, he swayed his hand in front of Jun’s face and he got no response again. “Jun...?”
Jun looked startled but he smiled nonetheless, “You can choose the monkey doll... I’ll be back soon...” he said as he walked away. Aiba was excited about the monkey doll for sure, but he held back his excitement and wanted to know the reason why Jun agreed to buy the doll and left him alone. It wasn’t like he didn’t believe Jun, he just thought that it was so weird.
Jun walked and approached a guy, who didn’t look so happy when he saw Jun there. Jun and the guy looked like absorbed into an argument. Who is that guy? Aiba never saw him before and he was sure that he wasn’t from same university with him. He didn’t try to move closer because he didn’t want Jun to see him, although it didn’t mean he couldn’t hear the conversation. It was just a short conversation between them. Jun walked back again to Aiba who didn’t try to hide that he knew what just happened.
“Who is that?” Aiba asked when Jun was already beside him.
Jun looked like thinking for a while but he answered, “My ex’s brother...”
“You ex’s brother?” Aiba frowned. “Why did he look like not happy to see you?”
Jun shrugged but his body looked stiff, “Maybe because the ending of my relationship with his sister wasn’t that good...”
“Why?” Aiba asked again. “You never tell me anything about your ex...”
“Because it’s just a past, Masaki...” he said as he held his boyfriend hand. “Do you want crêpes? Chocolate ice cream for me,” Jun winked to him. Aiba knew that he wanted to change the subject of their conversation, but he nodded anyway.
“I’ll pay the groceries and you go buy the crêpes,” Jun smiled and nodded to him.
Aiba nodded again, “Okay, chocolate ice cream, right?” he asked.
“Chocolate ice cream is it...”
Aiba walked to the stand that selled the crêpes. The shopkeeper smiled to him but she suddenly looked so happy and asked, “Are you Aiba Masaki?”
Aiba was startled, he used eyeglasses and hat already but this girl noticed him, “Um...yes...” he nodded.
“Oh My God! I love your songs!” the girl said it and at the moment Aiba really wanted to finish the business crêpes fast.
But he answered anyway, “Thanks...” he smiled.
“Oh, and your order?” She asked, surprisingly didn’t try to ask another silly question to him.
“Ah... One chocolate ice cream and one strawberry ice cream crêpes...” he answered. The girl nodded and asked him to wait for a while. Not long after she was back and brought two crêpes with her, she placed it in a nice box. Aiba accepted it and paid for it.
“Aiba-san...you’re actually our 100 customers today, so we will give you a gift!” the girl told him cheerfully and Aiba loved the gift...
“Really?” he asked as his excitement moved to the max. The girl nodded and pushed a fluffy little box in front of him. Aiba frowned but he took the box anyway.
“Omedetou...” the girl said and gave him a cheerful smile.
“Um...Arigatou...I guess...” he answered and felt really confused. He took the box of the crêpes and the little box while he looked for a corner to open it. He almost left the crêpes box fall when he saw a ring placed neatly on the box. There was a note there...
Masaki...
I’ll buy you crêpes for the rest of your life...
But I have one requirement...
You have to change your name into Matsumoto...
Be mine?
His eyes were teary when he saw someone approached him but he answered when Jun took his hand into his, “I can’t reject the crêpes for the rest of my life...”
~*~
Aiba woke up in the morning and felt a pair of arms embracing him tightly. He opened his eyes and saw the unbelievable view in front of him. Jun’s face was just centimeter away from him, his eyes were closed, but Aiba could feel his chest moved up and down steadily. Was it just a dream? That accident was only a dream? And Jun is still alive? He felt his cheek wet. It was just a nightmare… He told himself as he traced Jun’s cheek slowly. He could feel it, Jun’s warm body… He is here… He is alive… Jun won’t leave you alone, Masaki…
Probably because of his touch Jun opened his eyes, but suddenly he backed off and stood up fast, left Masaki stared at him confusedly. “I’m-I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to sleep on the bed, I was about to move but you won’t let me go, so…”
Aiba brought himself to sit and tilted his head, looked totally confused. “Masaki?” Jun who looked no less confused asked him again. Aiba missed his voice, his face, his smile, his everything… But he told himself that the accident was just a bad dream, all about his brother and marriage thing were just a dream… Jun was there so everything would be okay…
“Jun…please hug me…” Jun stared at him still looked so confused but he controlled his mind fast and sat on the side of the bed. He looked hesitate but right after he sat Aiba throw himself to his embrace, hugged him so tight like he didn’t want to let him go anymore.
Jun hugged him back and stroked his back slowly. He heard Aiba soft sobs and he tightened his hug. “I got a bad dream… I lost you… you left me alone…”
Jun buried his fingers on Aiba’s soft hair as he whispered, “It’s just a dream, Masaki… I’m here… I won’t leave you anymore…”
“Jun, I love you….”
Jun’s voice sounds hoarse as he whispered to Aiba’s ear, “I love you too, Masaki… a lot…”
That was when a phone call disturbed them. Jun freed Aiba but the later didn’t want to let him go. Jun patted his head slowly as he said, “I won’t go anywhere, I’ll just pick up the phone, I promise…”
Half hearted Aiba released him. He looked around the room and stared blankly to a vase with beautiful yellow flowers on it as Jun reached the phone and picked it up, while his left hand caressed Aiba’s hand delicately. “Yes?” he talked firmly to people on the phone.
“Sir, there is a meeting at 11 pm, we need your signature for some documents…”
Jun frowned as he said, “I’ll take some days off, my wife is sick. He needs me, so I can’t leave him. I’ll do my job on my house, and please take care of the rest…”
A man on the phone paused for a while but he answered after some seconds, “Yes, Sakurai-san…”
~*~
Aiba ate the crêpe happily as he sat on the bench in a park. A guy sat beside him, smiled as his eyes didn’t leave Aiba at all. “You ice will melt, Jun...” Aiba said as he pointed to the melting ice cream in the grass. “You like chocolate crêpe right?”
Sho nodded, “Yeah... Yes, sure I like it...” He bit his crêpe and groaned in pleasure. This crêpe tastes awesome! He praised it in his head. He missed 26 years of his life without knowing about this awesome food? He couldn’t believe that.
Aiba giggled when he saw Sho’s expression, he wiped the ice cream that remained at the corner of his lips. Sho has frozen as he felt Aiba’s finger on his lips, he never expected that he would get such an action from his wife. “You can never eat properly, don’t you, Jun-pon?”
Sho felt that his heart scattered every time his wife called him Jun, although he was the one who asked him to call him whatever he wanted. He promised to his wife, he would be someone that Masaki wanted. The answer was of course Masaki didn’t want Sakurai Sho... Was it good for Masaki? He didn’t really sure about that, but Masaki changed after that. He didn’t drink, smoke anymore and he laughed a lot. The things that Sho had never seen since they married... The things that could only been seen by Matsumoto Jun, Sakurai Sho had no right to see this side of Masaki... But he decided, he would do anything for Masaki...
He was serious…and he was ready to do anything…
“He thinks I’m Jun…” Sho said softly when Nino drunk his ice tea, he chocked right after that and coughed loudly. Ohno stroked his back slowly and gave a tissue for him. Nino took the tissue from his hand and wiped his lips. Sho decided he would start to know his wife friends, besides Aiba’s condition was bad, Nino and Ohno had the right to know…
“What? And you didn’t tell him? I think he got a serious psychological disorder, not only trauma… we have to bring him to a psychiatry,” he looked to Ohno to ask for approval.
Ohno put his hand on Nino’s shoulder as he said, “Shall we hear what Sho-kun wants to say first?”
“Please let him be for a while… let me take care of him…” Sho bowed to Nino and Ohno.
Ohno and Nino exchanged gaze to each other, “Sho-kun…” Nino started but he hesitated for a while. After he saw Ohno nodded to him Nino continued, “Are you falling in love with Masaki?”
Sho looked at Nino, he looked as if he was thinking for a while. “I am…” he answered firmly.
“Are you sure, Sho-kun?” Ohno asked him to make sure.
“I love him…” he didn’t try to look at other places instead his wife’s friends eyes to show that he was serious. “But I have no intention to ask him to love me back… He is free to love anyone he wants… I just want to be by his side…”
“To be his shadow?” Nino asked as he frowned.
“To be everything that he needs…” Sho said it softly. Nino exhaled as he cursed silently about how stupid his best friend is to let this nice guy suffer because of him.
Sho glanced to his watch, “I have to go… I can’t leave Masaki alone for a long time…”
Nino nodded, “Yes, we will go to your house to visit him later…”
“Masaki will be happy…” Sho smiled to them. “I’ll take my leave…” Sho said as he stood up and bowed lightly to Ohno and Nino. He walked away but he somehow still could hear Nino talked to Ohno, “Don’t you think he loved Masaki even before they married?” but he keep his pace away from there.
Sho snapped back to reality when he felt something on his lips, he was late for a second to realized it was Aiba’s lips. Aiba pulled himself back and giggled, “If you date with me you are prohibited to think about anything else, remember?”
“I didn’t…” Sho lied fast.
Aiba smiled as he leaned closer, “Then, prove it!” he placed his hand on Sho’s nape and kissed him again. This time he was sucking and nibbling Sho’s lips at the same time. Sho still freezed until he felt Aiba’s lips opened for him, he spontaneously slid his tongue and shocked when Aiba’s tongue tangle on his. Sho could hear Aiba’s moan between their lip lock. It was so different with their stranger kiss… Aiba’s face looked so red when they finally freed each other, Sho gave a little peck on the swollen lips as he heard Aiba said, “As expected, my strawberry crepe taste better than the chocolate one…”
Sho laughed, “Masaki, let’s go home...” he said as he held Aiba’s hand. Aiba nodded and they walked back together while Aiba mumbled a soft song.
“Ne, Jun...I want to go to our apartment...” Aiba whispered while he clutched on Sho’s arm. “Please?”
“Just a while, okay?” Sho asked and got an excited nod from his wife.
They walked hand in hand while talked about everything randomly until they reached a quiet road. There was a café on left side and traffic light on the right side. Suddenly Aiba stopped his step, he stayed still as he looked on the road side in front of the café. Sho looked at him as the fear filled his heart. Aiba’s eyes widen, his body was so stiff and his breath was irregular. “No…” he whispered as he shook his head. Aiba could see himself walked out from the café brought a cell phone with him as he smiled brightly.
“Masaki…” Sho pulled him roughly into his chest as he tried to cover Masaki’s eyes with his hand but it was too late. A lot of images appeared on Aiba’s head. The crumpled paper, the light that change into red… a handsome guy walked toward him… the red blood on the snow…
“NO!!” he screamed and struggled on Sho’s embrace, “NO!! JUN!! NO!!!!!”
“Masaki!!”
“JUN!!” his heartbreaking screams tore the quietness, destroyed the beautiful twilight into dust…
AN : Gomen nasai *bows* I made another angsty chapter...just hope it'll turn better soon ne~~ ^.^
kay, it's midnight and I'm super sleepy~~ so I'll sleep right after this~~
hope you enjoy the story ^.^ oyasumi~~ <3