[FANFIC] The Usual Argument
Title: The Usual Argument
Author: Macy
Pairing: YamaShi
Genre: fluff, crack
Rating: G
AN:
- '---' means a lot of time has passed.
- /plotting as I type.
- Unbetaed.
- Inspired by Filipino movie 'I Do'
"Yamada-kun!" Someone suddenly called him and he turned to see one of his co-actors in his first ever drama SP, Tantei Gakuen Q.
"Shida-chan…" He felt relieved somehow to see her. At least he wasn't alone. Currently, they were on the train on their way to their filming venue.
"Are you okay?" Shida asked. "You seemed… distracted."
"Yeah." Yamada said quickly. "Just, I can't…" He tut in disapproval as he shook his phone. "Why is there no service in this train??"
Shida also took out her phone and checked. She shook her head at him and said, "Don't worry too much. We'll get there. I'm sure they'll understand." She told him.
"We're already very late…" Yamada said in defeat. He looked at Shida again and asked, "Are you alone?"
"My manager is sitting over there." She answered, pointing to the seats. She turned back to him. "You?"
"Manager's already on location." He said with a nod. "I came straight from school."
Shida nodded with a smile. Yamada stared at her.
"Aren't you worried?" He asked. He knew Shida was already used to this kind of work, but he was sure it was never good to be late.
"No." Shida said simply.
"At all?" Yamada asked.
Shida laughed. "Everything happens accordingly. It seems we're meant to be late today, so why worry?"
Yamada looked at her in ponder.
---
"It must be nice to live in your world." Yamada said with a sigh.
"What??" Shida said with a laugh, looking at Yamada questioningly. They were currently watching the screen as Kamiki and Wakaba film their scene.
"You're just so carefree…" Yamada said in answer.
"Is this about what happened during hide and seek?" She asked in a teasing tone.
"Shut up about that already." Yamada pouted.
Shida laughed. "Just think of it this way, you--" Yamada glared at her. "Well, it must have happened so we'd all be more close to each other. It's meant to happen in the first place, so no use wishing it didn't happened…" Shida said.
"There you go again with destiny and whatnot." Yamada said, shaking his head with amusement.
"That's how I can be so carefree. Want to be in my world, and then think like me." Shida said.
"I just can't believe in those kinds of things." Yamada said seriously.
"Why not?" Shida asked.
Yamada shrugged. "What happens to you is a product of what you do… of your choices. It's not because of three old ladies weaving a thread or whatever."
"The three fates is a myth."
"Exactly." Ryosuke cut her. "Destiny, fate… it's a myth…"
"There are things that you can't control. That's fate." Shida insisted.
"No, they're choices made by other people." Yamada retorted.
Shida pouted. "There is such thing as fate… and soul mates. My parents are."
"Your parents chose to love each other. Destiny didn't choose for them." Yamada said.
"It did so." Shida said stubbornly.
"How do you know?" Yamada asked skeptically.
"How do you know it didn't?" Shida asked with a raised brow?
Yamada was about to reply but the director called for them.
---
"There is no such thing as destiny." Ryosuke said with a laugh as he snatched his strawberry milk back from his friend.
"There is!" Mirai said laughing as well as she tries to take the milk again. It was the usual argument.
"You're telling me your friends were 'meant' to hate me??" Ryosuke asked.
"Suzu-chan and Umi don't hate you! Why do you even think so?" Mirai asked.
"They hate me." Ryosuke deadpanned. "Seriously. We can't even talk normally when we're in the classroom. We have to go here in the rooftop so we can talk like this."
"They don't hate you!" Mirai insisted. "They just don't know you that well. You're so awkward around them."
"It's because they hate me…"
"They don't!" Mirai said, laughing.
Just then the door to the stairs opened and Suzuka came out to the rooftop.
"Suzu!" Mirai said, standing up.
"Sensei is looking for you." She told her.
Mirai nodded and turned to Ryosuke. "I'll be back." She said simply and made her way to the stairs.
Suzuka looked at Ryosuke and he tried to smile.
Suzuka just stared at him with an expressionless face, and then, she too turned and goes.
Ryosuke covered his face with his hands.
"Why do they hate me???"
---
"I think we've bought everything." Mirai said as she checked their list.
"You didn't have to do this, you know. You could just have asked Ogawa-kun." Ryosuke said. "And don't tell me the two of us are simply 'meant' to buy the stuffs for the school festival."
Mirai just laugh but didn't reply.
Ryosuke placed the bags in his right hand and looked at his watch. "It's still early." He commented.
Mirai grinned. "Wanna do something before we go back?" She asked.
"Like what?" Ryosuke asked.
"How about a movie?"
-
"'Romeo and Juliet'?? Isn't that an old movie??" Ryosuke asked.
Mirai ignored him and read the poster.
"It says here it's a new promo in this mall. They'll be showing backdated movies… for ¥500! Let's watch this one, Ryo! My treat!" Mirai said excitedly.
Ryosuke sighed and looked at the poster.
"Why do I have the feeling that you'll be persuading me to believe about nonexistent things again?"
"Destiny is real!" Mirai said as she whacked him playfully. "Come on! We're just in time for the show!" She said as she dragged him to the ticket booth.
-
"This is stupid."
"It's not!"
"Why do they make it a 'modern version' of the story if they're using the original dialogues in the book… which is in traditional language??"
"Firstly, it's not a book, it's a play." Mirai said, frowning at Ryosuke though he could barely see it in the dark cinema. "Secondly, it's just an interpretation. You seriously don't appreciate it."
"It's stupid." Ryosuke said simply.
Mirai punched his shoulder a little harder than usual.
"Ow!"
"It's not stupid; it's a beautiful, tragic story!" Mirai said. "Romeo and Juliet are soul mates. But they were unfortunate to have been born in feuding families."
"That's contradicting." Ryosuke said, trying not to grin. "You say they're soul mates, or what you meant as 'destined' for each other. But you also say they're 'unfortunate' to be born in feuding families. What the hell is your destiny doing??"
Mirai punched him again.
"OW!"
"Shhhh!!!" The other audience said and Ryosuke reflexively crouched down.
"You just can't understand because you haven't fallen in love yet." Mirai said stubbornly, ignoring the other people.
"Lower your voice." Ryosuke muttered. "Why, have you fallen in love?" He asked her skeptically. Looking at the screen in front of him, but not really understanding what he was seeing.
"It's not your business. Anyway, I've grown up watching my dad fall in love with my mom on a daily basis." She said.
Ryosuke took a quick peek at her and then said, "I still don't believe it. Hear me out, okay. It's my opinion. I mean, I don't even think they're seriously in love. They just met and Romeo proposes? Who would believe that?"
"It was love at first sight!" Mirai said, pushing Ryosuke playfully. And he knew he was forgiven.
"Romeo thought Juliet was really pretty and he wanted her. That's that." Ryosuke said as they watch Tybalt and Romeo's-cousin-who-he-forgot-the-name fight.
"Well, if what you say is true; that your destiny is your choice. Then why didn't Romeo just choose Rosaline and Juliet choose that guy her parents wants for her? It would have been a lot easier. But they couldn't do it, because they knew it wouldn't be right. They knew they belonged to each other and no one else!" Mirai said, her voice getting louder and louder.
"That's called teenage angst. And they probably believe in fate or whatever, too. So Mirai-chan, if you don't want to end up taking your own life because your stupid boyfriend thought you're dead and took his life, stop believing in those kinds of things." Ryosuke said in a teasing voice.
Mirai pouted, though didn't look at him. "When someone is ready to risk everything for you, to die for you, wouldn't you say that's tragically sweet?" She asked him.
"I'd call it morbidly stupid." Ryosuke said.
"Stop saying 'stupid'." Mirai said in exasperation. "You wouldn't even be moved? That someone would love you more than they love themselves?" She asked him seriously.
"I appreciate war heroes, okay. But what Romeo did isn't heroic. I mean, if it was me, I'd think of other alternative. Why go to killing yourselves immediately? I think I can die for the one I love. But wouldn't you rather if the one you love live for you?" He asked her just as seriously.
Mirai didn't reply but smiled as she turned back to the movie.
-
"Shhh…" Ryosuke said as she patted the girl besides him, crying her eyes out.
"Haven't you watched this before? Why are you still crying so much?" Ryosuke said as he tried to calm her.
"It's just so tragic, Ryosuke…" Mirai said between sobs.
"You are such a girl."
She hit him. "Sexist!" She said and started sobbing again.
"Hai, hai… stop crying…" Ryosuke said.
But Mirai just continued to cry. Ryosuke looked around and saw that they were the only ones left in the cinema.
"We need to go, Mirai-chan…" Ryosuke said. Mirai nodded though she was still crying.
Ryosuke sigh and took hold of her hand. "Let's watch another movie. I think there's a comedy chic-flick showing right now."
-
As the ending credits rolled, Ryosuke turned to Mirai and was surprised when she saw her.
"Are you crying?"
She is, and she's actually crying much harder than earlier.
"Why are you crying? It's a happy ending..?"
"That's why I'm crying. It's such a beautiful ending…" Mirai said, teary-eyed.
Ryosuke couldn't help it, and started laughing.
"You are so weird."
---
“You lied.” Ryosuke said as they sat against the railings on the rooftop.
“Lied? About what?” Mirai asked, confused.
“Your friends hate me.” Ryosuke said.
Mirai laughed. “I’ve told you they don’t.”
“They do. You told me they just don’t know me. We’ve been classmates for three years, they still don’t know me? Ohgo’s even going out with my best friend!” Ryosuke said with a pout.
“I promise you, they don’t hate you.” Mirai said, grinning wide.
“Then why are they like that? They always glare at me like I did something wrong…”
“Do they?” Mirai asked, looking away.
“You seriously haven’t noticed all this time?” Ryosuke asked, raising a brow.
“Maybe they’re just meant to be that way around you.”
“You’re seriously going to make ‘destiny’ as your excuse for this?” Ryosuke asked, sighing in amusement and exasperation.
“Well, maybe they do hate you.” Mirai said teasingly.
“Why???” Ryosuke asked, frustrated.
Mirai laughed. “I was joking, they don’t.”
“Then explain why they’re like that…” Ryosuke said.
“Maybe it’s because you don’t agree with me about destiny.” Mirai said in ponder
“Are you serious?” Ryosuke asked, surprised.
Mirai just smiled. Ryosuke didn’t know what she meant by it.
“I can’t really get myself to believe that, though. You should know. You’ve been convincing me for five years now.” Ryosuke said.
“’What happens to us is a product of our choices.’” Mirai wrote quotation marks with her hand. “You’ve been saying that for five years, yeah.” She said with a grin.
“You’re just such a romantic.” Ryosuke said with a chuckle. “I think you’ve read and watched too many love stories.”
“Or maybe I just listened to too many love songs. Like Hey! Say! JUMP’s Romeo and Juliet.” She teased.
Ryosuke rolled his eyes good-naturedly.
“I don’t believe in soul mates.” Ryosuke said, looking at the sky. “I think who you fall in love with is your choice. Like, if she’s the one, can you really love her even though she’s so stubborn… even though sometimes she can be annoying? Even though she’s so busy with her work, that you’d be her last priority. Even though she can be weird sometimes and her friends hate you. I think it takes effort to love someone. It can’t be because ‘fate’ says so, it’s because you give your all for her.”
He trailed off, eyes still looking far above.
He slowly turned to Mirai and gave her a small smile.
Mirai was also smiling at him.
She laughed. “And you tell me I’m such a romantic.”
Ryosuke shrugged with a smile, his eyes locked on Mirai’s face. He started slowly leaning in.
“My friends don’t hate you.” Mirai tried to say.
Ryosuke nodded, though continued to move closer.
“And you’re not my last-“ Mirai trailed off as Ryosuke’s lips touch hers.
After a while, he pulled back. They locked eyes, and shared a smile.
“Suzu… doesn’t like me spending more time with you than her. That’s why…”
“They hate me.” Ryosuke said with a tired grin.
“They don’t. They’re just-“ But again, Mirai was cut off as Ryosuke kissed her, this time longer, deeper.
Ryosuke felt something drop from above and pulled away, looking up. Rain started falling hard and Mirai stood up and tried to pull Ryosuke to shelter but Ryosuke held on her.
He stood up slowly and with a mischievous grin, pulled her to him and claims her lips once more.
“We must have been 'fated' to get drenched in the rain.” He teased, and Mirai playfully pushed him.
Author: Macy
Pairing: YamaShi
Genre: fluff, crack
Rating: G
AN:
- '---' means a lot of time has passed.
- /plotting as I type.
- Unbetaed.
- Inspired by Filipino movie 'I Do'
"Yamada-kun!" Someone suddenly called him and he turned to see one of his co-actors in his first ever drama SP, Tantei Gakuen Q.
"Shida-chan…" He felt relieved somehow to see her. At least he wasn't alone. Currently, they were on the train on their way to their filming venue.
"Are you okay?" Shida asked. "You seemed… distracted."
"Yeah." Yamada said quickly. "Just, I can't…" He tut in disapproval as he shook his phone. "Why is there no service in this train??"
Shida also took out her phone and checked. She shook her head at him and said, "Don't worry too much. We'll get there. I'm sure they'll understand." She told him.
"We're already very late…" Yamada said in defeat. He looked at Shida again and asked, "Are you alone?"
"My manager is sitting over there." She answered, pointing to the seats. She turned back to him. "You?"
"Manager's already on location." He said with a nod. "I came straight from school."
Shida nodded with a smile. Yamada stared at her.
"Aren't you worried?" He asked. He knew Shida was already used to this kind of work, but he was sure it was never good to be late.
"No." Shida said simply.
"At all?" Yamada asked.
Shida laughed. "Everything happens accordingly. It seems we're meant to be late today, so why worry?"
Yamada looked at her in ponder.
---
"It must be nice to live in your world." Yamada said with a sigh.
"What??" Shida said with a laugh, looking at Yamada questioningly. They were currently watching the screen as Kamiki and Wakaba film their scene.
"You're just so carefree…" Yamada said in answer.
"Is this about what happened during hide and seek?" She asked in a teasing tone.
"Shut up about that already." Yamada pouted.
Shida laughed. "Just think of it this way, you--" Yamada glared at her. "Well, it must have happened so we'd all be more close to each other. It's meant to happen in the first place, so no use wishing it didn't happened…" Shida said.
"There you go again with destiny and whatnot." Yamada said, shaking his head with amusement.
"That's how I can be so carefree. Want to be in my world, and then think like me." Shida said.
"I just can't believe in those kinds of things." Yamada said seriously.
"Why not?" Shida asked.
Yamada shrugged. "What happens to you is a product of what you do… of your choices. It's not because of three old ladies weaving a thread or whatever."
"The three fates is a myth."
"Exactly." Ryosuke cut her. "Destiny, fate… it's a myth…"
"There are things that you can't control. That's fate." Shida insisted.
"No, they're choices made by other people." Yamada retorted.
Shida pouted. "There is such thing as fate… and soul mates. My parents are."
"Your parents chose to love each other. Destiny didn't choose for them." Yamada said.
"It did so." Shida said stubbornly.
"How do you know?" Yamada asked skeptically.
"How do you know it didn't?" Shida asked with a raised brow?
Yamada was about to reply but the director called for them.
---
"There is no such thing as destiny." Ryosuke said with a laugh as he snatched his strawberry milk back from his friend.
"There is!" Mirai said laughing as well as she tries to take the milk again. It was the usual argument.
"You're telling me your friends were 'meant' to hate me??" Ryosuke asked.
"Suzu-chan and Umi don't hate you! Why do you even think so?" Mirai asked.
"They hate me." Ryosuke deadpanned. "Seriously. We can't even talk normally when we're in the classroom. We have to go here in the rooftop so we can talk like this."
"They don't hate you!" Mirai insisted. "They just don't know you that well. You're so awkward around them."
"It's because they hate me…"
"They don't!" Mirai said, laughing.
Just then the door to the stairs opened and Suzuka came out to the rooftop.
"Suzu!" Mirai said, standing up.
"Sensei is looking for you." She told her.
Mirai nodded and turned to Ryosuke. "I'll be back." She said simply and made her way to the stairs.
Suzuka looked at Ryosuke and he tried to smile.
Suzuka just stared at him with an expressionless face, and then, she too turned and goes.
Ryosuke covered his face with his hands.
"Why do they hate me???"
---
"I think we've bought everything." Mirai said as she checked their list.
"You didn't have to do this, you know. You could just have asked Ogawa-kun." Ryosuke said. "And don't tell me the two of us are simply 'meant' to buy the stuffs for the school festival."
Mirai just laugh but didn't reply.
Ryosuke placed the bags in his right hand and looked at his watch. "It's still early." He commented.
Mirai grinned. "Wanna do something before we go back?" She asked.
"Like what?" Ryosuke asked.
"How about a movie?"
-
"'Romeo and Juliet'?? Isn't that an old movie??" Ryosuke asked.
Mirai ignored him and read the poster.
"It says here it's a new promo in this mall. They'll be showing backdated movies… for ¥500! Let's watch this one, Ryo! My treat!" Mirai said excitedly.
Ryosuke sighed and looked at the poster.
"Why do I have the feeling that you'll be persuading me to believe about nonexistent things again?"
"Destiny is real!" Mirai said as she whacked him playfully. "Come on! We're just in time for the show!" She said as she dragged him to the ticket booth.
-
"This is stupid."
"It's not!"
"Why do they make it a 'modern version' of the story if they're using the original dialogues in the book… which is in traditional language??"
"Firstly, it's not a book, it's a play." Mirai said, frowning at Ryosuke though he could barely see it in the dark cinema. "Secondly, it's just an interpretation. You seriously don't appreciate it."
"It's stupid." Ryosuke said simply.
Mirai punched his shoulder a little harder than usual.
"Ow!"
"It's not stupid; it's a beautiful, tragic story!" Mirai said. "Romeo and Juliet are soul mates. But they were unfortunate to have been born in feuding families."
"That's contradicting." Ryosuke said, trying not to grin. "You say they're soul mates, or what you meant as 'destined' for each other. But you also say they're 'unfortunate' to be born in feuding families. What the hell is your destiny doing??"
Mirai punched him again.
"OW!"
"Shhhh!!!" The other audience said and Ryosuke reflexively crouched down.
"You just can't understand because you haven't fallen in love yet." Mirai said stubbornly, ignoring the other people.
"Lower your voice." Ryosuke muttered. "Why, have you fallen in love?" He asked her skeptically. Looking at the screen in front of him, but not really understanding what he was seeing.
"It's not your business. Anyway, I've grown up watching my dad fall in love with my mom on a daily basis." She said.
Ryosuke took a quick peek at her and then said, "I still don't believe it. Hear me out, okay. It's my opinion. I mean, I don't even think they're seriously in love. They just met and Romeo proposes? Who would believe that?"
"It was love at first sight!" Mirai said, pushing Ryosuke playfully. And he knew he was forgiven.
"Romeo thought Juliet was really pretty and he wanted her. That's that." Ryosuke said as they watch Tybalt and Romeo's-cousin-who-he-forgot-the-name fight.
"Well, if what you say is true; that your destiny is your choice. Then why didn't Romeo just choose Rosaline and Juliet choose that guy her parents wants for her? It would have been a lot easier. But they couldn't do it, because they knew it wouldn't be right. They knew they belonged to each other and no one else!" Mirai said, her voice getting louder and louder.
"That's called teenage angst. And they probably believe in fate or whatever, too. So Mirai-chan, if you don't want to end up taking your own life because your stupid boyfriend thought you're dead and took his life, stop believing in those kinds of things." Ryosuke said in a teasing voice.
Mirai pouted, though didn't look at him. "When someone is ready to risk everything for you, to die for you, wouldn't you say that's tragically sweet?" She asked him.
"I'd call it morbidly stupid." Ryosuke said.
"Stop saying 'stupid'." Mirai said in exasperation. "You wouldn't even be moved? That someone would love you more than they love themselves?" She asked him seriously.
"I appreciate war heroes, okay. But what Romeo did isn't heroic. I mean, if it was me, I'd think of other alternative. Why go to killing yourselves immediately? I think I can die for the one I love. But wouldn't you rather if the one you love live for you?" He asked her just as seriously.
Mirai didn't reply but smiled as she turned back to the movie.
-
"Shhh…" Ryosuke said as she patted the girl besides him, crying her eyes out.
"Haven't you watched this before? Why are you still crying so much?" Ryosuke said as he tried to calm her.
"It's just so tragic, Ryosuke…" Mirai said between sobs.
"You are such a girl."
She hit him. "Sexist!" She said and started sobbing again.
"Hai, hai… stop crying…" Ryosuke said.
But Mirai just continued to cry. Ryosuke looked around and saw that they were the only ones left in the cinema.
"We need to go, Mirai-chan…" Ryosuke said. Mirai nodded though she was still crying.
Ryosuke sigh and took hold of her hand. "Let's watch another movie. I think there's a comedy chic-flick showing right now."
-
As the ending credits rolled, Ryosuke turned to Mirai and was surprised when she saw her.
"Are you crying?"
She is, and she's actually crying much harder than earlier.
"Why are you crying? It's a happy ending..?"
"That's why I'm crying. It's such a beautiful ending…" Mirai said, teary-eyed.
Ryosuke couldn't help it, and started laughing.
"You are so weird."
---
“You lied.” Ryosuke said as they sat against the railings on the rooftop.
“Lied? About what?” Mirai asked, confused.
“Your friends hate me.” Ryosuke said.
Mirai laughed. “I’ve told you they don’t.”
“They do. You told me they just don’t know me. We’ve been classmates for three years, they still don’t know me? Ohgo’s even going out with my best friend!” Ryosuke said with a pout.
“I promise you, they don’t hate you.” Mirai said, grinning wide.
“Then why are they like that? They always glare at me like I did something wrong…”
“Do they?” Mirai asked, looking away.
“You seriously haven’t noticed all this time?” Ryosuke asked, raising a brow.
“Maybe they’re just meant to be that way around you.”
“You’re seriously going to make ‘destiny’ as your excuse for this?” Ryosuke asked, sighing in amusement and exasperation.
“Well, maybe they do hate you.” Mirai said teasingly.
“Why???” Ryosuke asked, frustrated.
Mirai laughed. “I was joking, they don’t.”
“Then explain why they’re like that…” Ryosuke said.
“Maybe it’s because you don’t agree with me about destiny.” Mirai said in ponder
“Are you serious?” Ryosuke asked, surprised.
Mirai just smiled. Ryosuke didn’t know what she meant by it.
“I can’t really get myself to believe that, though. You should know. You’ve been convincing me for five years now.” Ryosuke said.
“’What happens to us is a product of our choices.’” Mirai wrote quotation marks with her hand. “You’ve been saying that for five years, yeah.” She said with a grin.
“You’re just such a romantic.” Ryosuke said with a chuckle. “I think you’ve read and watched too many love stories.”
“Or maybe I just listened to too many love songs. Like Hey! Say! JUMP’s Romeo and Juliet.” She teased.
Ryosuke rolled his eyes good-naturedly.
“I don’t believe in soul mates.” Ryosuke said, looking at the sky. “I think who you fall in love with is your choice. Like, if she’s the one, can you really love her even though she’s so stubborn… even though sometimes she can be annoying? Even though she’s so busy with her work, that you’d be her last priority. Even though she can be weird sometimes and her friends hate you. I think it takes effort to love someone. It can’t be because ‘fate’ says so, it’s because you give your all for her.”
He trailed off, eyes still looking far above.
He slowly turned to Mirai and gave her a small smile.
Mirai was also smiling at him.
She laughed. “And you tell me I’m such a romantic.”
Ryosuke shrugged with a smile, his eyes locked on Mirai’s face. He started slowly leaning in.
“My friends don’t hate you.” Mirai tried to say.
Ryosuke nodded, though continued to move closer.
“And you’re not my last-“ Mirai trailed off as Ryosuke’s lips touch hers.
After a while, he pulled back. They locked eyes, and shared a smile.
“Suzu… doesn’t like me spending more time with you than her. That’s why…”
“They hate me.” Ryosuke said with a tired grin.
“They don’t. They’re just-“ But again, Mirai was cut off as Ryosuke kissed her, this time longer, deeper.
Ryosuke felt something drop from above and pulled away, looking up. Rain started falling hard and Mirai stood up and tried to pull Ryosuke to shelter but Ryosuke held on her.
He stood up slowly and with a mischievous grin, pulled her to him and claims her lips once more.
“We must have been 'fated' to get drenched in the rain.” He teased, and Mirai playfully pushed him.