I'm Not - Chapter 8: Calling
I'm sorry! D: It's always like this, huh?
I'm leaving for a while, but I wanted to post some stuff before that. This chapter was a little rushed, I'm not even sure if the story is understandable. *shot*
Well, please check it out anyway! :D Comments are loved, ne. ♥ Highly loved ne. XD
“Stop that.”
Nino looked back at the guy with a slight smile from his place against the couch's armrest. The tone of voice the guy used was almost inaudibly shy. Nino decided to play with that uncertainty. “Stop what?”
The guy sighed and shifted in his seat, crossing his arms irritably but apprehensively. “That.”
Nino smirked amusedly and watched as the distraught person across the room narrowed his gaze at him. Nino only smiled wider. “What that?”
“That that.” The young man pointed towards his direction with slight hesitance, a disapproving scowl plastered on his face. Ohno was lying on Nino's chest and napping while Nino was trying to shuffle his cards with one hand.
“Oh, you mean this that?” Nino wrapped his free arm around his Leader's head and kissed his forehead as softly as he could.
“Yes.” The guy's glare was strong, but Ohmiya was too happily caught up in their own world to really care. Nino saw that the young person across the room was blushing the tiniest bit.
“No.” Nino returned his attention to his cards while absentmindedly stroking Ohno's face gently. The man furrowed his eyebrows, an unbidden pout across his face. “I don't want to.”
“Why!?” The young man at least showed his respect for the sleeping man by not shouting too loud. Nino was a little impressed by the compassion the young man seemed to show unintentionally.
“Because.” Nino made a short bow at the action, which the younger man across him unconsciously bowed at in courtesy, not really taking his mind off the topic between him and Nino.
“Because?” The young person tilted his head, genuinely confused and expecting an answer.
“Because because.” Nino played with him more, gaining much amusement from the other person's modest attacks.
“Why don't you stop!?.” The guy had been putting up with their brazen closeness since he came into the room. He was asked to wait for his manager to call him for an interview in the other room when he spotted Ohno and Nino at the far corner together, Ohno asleep even before he came in.
He seemed very disturbed by it.
“Stop what?” Nino's smirk grew wider as he cuddled the man beside him shamelessly. “This?”
“Yes.” The guy deepened his frown at him, displeased that he was being toyed around with.
“He'll wake up if I do that.” Nino stroked Ohno's ear which elicited a gentle groan from the sleeping man. The guy jumped in his seat at the sound, reaching a hand out as if to touch him and make him sleep once more. Nino turned his eyes to the man across the room, a glint shining brightly in them. “You don't want that, do you?”
The guy grew red suddenly, averting his gaze to the floor. “Well...” He looked around the room full of empty couches and sat up a bit straighter than before but still looking away. “H-He does look quite content.”
Nino smiled. “I'll tell him you said hi.”
The guy raised his head and smiled at Nino. He nodded energetically. “You're not such a bad guy, Ninomiya-san.”
“Oh, you have no idea.” A sweet smile was flashed towards the young man, the aura of which totally contradicting the tone of his voice.
The guy made a confused face. “Ah, I don't unders-”
“It's your turn, Chinen-kun.” The manager's head poked through the door and he nodded towards the young man. Chinen stood up, flashing a cute smile at Nino who smiled back. “See you then.” He bowed and left politely while Nino huffed, satisfied that he had kept his ground and made amends with Chinen, not to mention that he still had Ohno sound asleep.
He was just a tiny bit proud of himself.
'YES! I am SO awesome! Yeah!!' Okay, perhaps 'tiny' wasn't the right word to describe the extent of his conceitedness.
As he celebrated in his mind, Ohno was dreaming up fishes and art brushes.
He was also dreaming of poking a passed out Nino on a boat with said art brushes.
Ohno was still thinking up those wicked plans, but recently those so-called 'evil' plans weren't so horrible anymore. Maybe. Plans to kill were still plans to kill, even if the rating went from R to a PG. The overly kind Riida decided not to take chances and just keep the downhill slope going for as long as it should, seeing that he can get distracted pretty easily anyway.
Meanwhile, he'll just keep himself occupied with fishing and art and Nino's antics and continued to wait for dream fishes in his dream boat.
Nino put down his cards on the side table closest to him and placed that hand over Ohno's brown head, smiling slightly.
“You know, you're just too cute.” Nino ran a finger across Ohno's smooth cheek repeatedly as he ranted in a soft voice to no one.. “Everyone likes Riida. I have no qualms about that, but the thing is, I want Riida to only look at me.”
“That's impossible though. You're really too kind...” Nino whispered mostly to himself in a slight daze, a hand still stroking Ohno's hair. “I wouldn't be surprised if I find out that you would cancel a round-the -world fishing trip just because I said so.”
“You thought I didn't hear you? Screaming and crying while you were sleeping.” At that, Ohno coincidentally shifted, in his dreams a big fish had pulled too hard and snapped his rod in two. He settled in once more after a few pats from Nino's hand. “I know it's my fault. It has always been mine, hasn't it? You always deny that, but I know...” Nino cringed ever so slightly at his own words, grabbing hold of Riida's shoulders gently. Nino kept Ohno still as he slipped off his seat and onto the floor, laying Ohno on a pillow in place of the magician's body. Ohno didn't seem to notice anyway, still happily fishing and poking Nino in his brightly-colored dream. “I'll fix you.”
Nino reached a hand out to touch the sleeping man's face but paused over his round cheek. It hovered over his face for a moment longer before Nino pulled it with him as he stood straight. “You're really the kindest person I've ever met. It's amazing how much you can take without really cracking.”
Instead of the caress he wanted to give originally, he mischievously decided to straddle the peacefully sleeping Ohno.
'It's also amazing that I get to do this, finally.' Nino thought as he lovingly stared at the man below him. He leaned forward, slipping his arms on either sides of Ohno's head and kissing his slightly pouting lips, in effect waking Ohno up just as he was about to reel in the biggest fish there was.
He lost the fish, but what greeted him when he woke from the slumber was far more alluring.
“Morning.” Ohno managed to mutter despite his growing blush.
“Chinen said hi.” At least Nino kept his word, not that it made him any happier. He wasn't exactly joyful to have uttered his name either, and to Ohno too.
The sudden statement left Ohno dumbfounded. He knows that that particular junior had Nino frowning and even the mention of his name made Nino's eyes narrow dangerously, after he found out about how Chinen idolized Ohno.
“Chi-” Lips covered his suddenly, passionately. He didn't resist, not that he would, really. He succumbed to the sensation of Nino's tongue tasting him and his hands running over his body. He wrapped his arms around Nino's waist and responded, delighted.
'You have absolutely no idea how I play, Chinen.'
Nino was easily bored.
He had nothing to do because the first topic today didn't interest him at all.
The guest he wanted to meet was still going to arrive in the middle of the show, so he had time to be bored.
Him being not able to use his sharp comments weren't helping either, since he was seated the farthest of the 5 away from the guest. It was hard for him to put a word in, so he stayed quiet.
The good thing about this was he was with the other member who didn't put much effort into talking either, Ohno.
He decided to relieve his boredom and play a little game with Riida while the camera was busy focused on the guest and other members.
Nino scooted closer to Ohno and Ohno did the same, their movements unnoticed because the guest made a joke and attention was on her. His moving towards him was a sign that he was bored too and was up for the game.
This game was something they haven't played in a while, but they used to play it often. Because of the wait, both were ready and willing.
The game didn't have a name and it had no permanent rules. Ohno and Nino were playing this game even before they realized they were playing at all. The goal was: to touch each other without the camera catching them in the act of, and if a camera was on them and they decided to initiate the play, to touch the other as subtly as possible so that the others or the crew wont notice.
Someone loses if it's their turn and they are given notice by the other people surrounding the gaming area or if the camera focuses on them while they were attacking. To avoid this, they act like they were getting something from behind the other person or looking at what they were reading or some other acting thing. Sometimes it would work, and in the times that they were caught without reason or just high in tension, the game would immediately shift to “Fanservice mode” and they would touch each other as long as the camera was on them.
A fun game for those playing and watching.
They never really cared for who won though, the fun was the game itself.
Nino chose to begin the game by creeping a hand behind Ohno and wrapping it around his shoulders. Nino tried to pull down his furtive smile that just wont keep hidden. Ohno too, but he wasn't really trying that hard.
They both looked around and confirmed that no one had seen. Both looked at each other and smirked.
Ohno's hand traveled across Nino's back and rested it on the gamer's waist, pulling him even closer.
Nino caressed Ohno's ear and the older man had to suppress the urge to shiver to Nino's delight.
Ohno threaded his fingers in Nino's hair that seemed to grow really quickly, not that he complained.
Matsujun wondered why laughter wasn't heard behind him so he looked back and was what Ohmiya was doing just Nino's hand was pushing Ohno's head to face him.
Nino noticed his shocked face as well as the cameraman, who began to move the camera their way.
Nino looked into Ohno's eyes, the mischief in them doubling in a flash. 'FM?'
Ohno sighed quickly, nodding. 'FM.'
He sort of wished he had more hesitance.
Nino quickly ran a hand up Ohno's shirt as the camera landed on their playful figures, head nearing Ohno's own and Nino stopped going forward when their foreheads touched.
A sweet smile. “You're mine.”
Nino whispered lustfully into the blushing man's ear, just loud enough to be picked up by their microphones.
“Nino!” Ohno proclaimed, surprised and reddening.
“NINO!” The rest of the people around them screamed, faces red. The audience, all women, were in a frenzy.
Nino simply smiled at the camera nearest him, as adorably as he could muster.
“Yes? ♥”
The audience grew even wilder.
“Okay, now that Ohno-kun and Ninomiya-kun are separated,” Sho said as the camera zoomed out to show Ohmiya on the opposite ends of the couch, amused at the success and both unhappy about the distance between them. “Let's move on. Our next guest has a special skill that she wants to show everyone today. She has studied thoroughly on Psychoanalysis and is a Psychology major. Maya-san, what is it that you want to showcase for us today?”
She stood up, bowed and looked forward to the camera. “It's my hypnotism prowess.”
Ohno and Nino straightened their postures.
“I want to prove my ability and I've heard that most of Arashi is prone to being hypnotized.”
Traumatized by previous hypnotic experiments earlier in their careers, they were hesitant to be doing that again. It was even scarier that it was Maya, a hypnotist who was known for her latent ability to control people and really make them do anything, even to make liars tell the truth or to make the most unyielding person deny the beliefs they have been abiding to all their lives.
Young and beautiful, she was betwitching and completely in her own league. Thing was, she was really scary. So scary, in fact, that people would fear her because, according to a recent rumor of hers, her last boyfriend was found dazedly swimming in a dumpster after he broke up with her.
She was that scary.
Even more so because anyone could succumb to her, especially Arashi who already had previous experiences.
“So, who wants to be hypnotized?” Maya's eyes glinted.
“RIIDA!!! Maya-san is calling you!!” The three pushed Ohno to stand before Maya. Nino had this feeling in his stomach that it wasn't a very good idea.
Ohno, out of habit, glanced at Nino and saw his worried face. He gave him a reassuring tilt of the head and faced the lady.
“Here, Ohno-san. Pick one.” Maya-san brought out a small box and opened it towards Ohno. In it were small, round medallions that were face down. There were 5 inside.
He pointed to the one in the middle and Maya-san raised it by its ribbon and it turned.
It was Ohno in his Maou look.
“Eh?” Ohno looked at the picture on the button pin-like thing in curiosity. It was familiar, in a vague sense.
“You're a lucky one. Now Ohno-san, don't you feel sleepy?” Maya's hand swooped towards the confused Arashi leader and snapped her fingers. Ohno suddenly fell as if passed out. Good thing that he was near the rest of Arashi that saved him before he hit his head.
“Ah, that was too quick and too deep. I take it he's gullible and easily hypnotized?” Maya asked and the other 4 scared members nodded politely, laying Ohno on the couch they were seated on.
“What are you planning to do?” Aiba asked with a worried tone of voice. Sho and Matsujun nodded in agreement, feeling very uneasy while Nino stayed behind them, trying to figure out what was causing the odd feeling.
“Whatever you want me to do.” Maya suddenly turned to them, her gaze strong and willful. She turned to the man at the back. “Ninomiya-san?”
Nino raised his head to meet her gaze. Neither said anything for a while. Meanwhile, Maya kneeled beside Ohno, running her long fingers over his forehead.
“Don't.” Nino said aloud by accident, blindly wishing that the thought should have stayed one. He continued. “Don't do that. He'll wake up.”
Maya raised her eyebrows, intrigued. No one has ever told her, directly or indirectly, that her orders weren't effective. “Oh, really?”
“Yeah.”
“Why is that?”
“I'm still controlling him.”
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I went “Eh?” when I reread this but I'm too damn lazy to do anything about it. D: Forgive me.
I'm sorry for the confusion. :D
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