Love is a blind man's battlefield [Chapter 1]
Title: Love is a blind man's battlefield [Chapter 1]
Author: makipat
Pairing: Chiitaro, hinted!Okamori, Hikato
Genre: Angst
Summary: Love is a blindman's battlefield-- and it certainly is. For a blind man to love and fight in a blinded love, how will things turn out??
Note: this is the sequel of my other fic my boyfriend's look-a-like.
He watched calmly how the waves would crash through the huge rock on the sea banks, he listened attentively to the sweet harmony that the wind was creating for him while his nose was caught by a capturing scent. It had always been like this ever since… ever since he could remember.
‘Hmmm… that smells delicious. I wonder what Keito is cooking.’
He turned his head back and stared at how the tall muscled guy happily tasted whatever he was cooking. It was amazing to see this guy cook; you might all think that it’s normal for a person to cook but not really for him. This hamster like boy was amazed by the fact that the other boy could almost to anything… even though he was blind.
“Mio, breakfast is ready.”
The hamster like boy called Mio blinked, only a minute ago he was still enjoying watching the latter cook and now he saw the guy right in front of his face while holding onto his crane.
“Breakfast is ready, come on.” His voice was always like classical music to Mio’s ears, it was calm… just like the sea.
“Hai, hai.” He stood up from the terrace railings and grabbed onto the muscled man’s hand to guide him to the table.
They sat while facing each other, the younger of the two eyes the newly baked pancakes like he hasn’t eaten for a century. Mio eagerly pushed the whole thing down his throat and that was when his eyes shinned even more.
“Umeee~~!!!” he gobbled everything down in a quick flash.
“Really Kei-ho, how can you hook something hike his??” Even though his mouth was full of everything, he couldn’t stop himself from showing his appreciation to the older boy. “Kore wa hontou ni UMAI!!!”
All the other guy could do was just laugh at how cute the hamster boy could be. Even though he couldn’t see it, he can imagine this guy eating the pancakes he made for him happily. It’s been like what? 11 months? Wait, it has been 11 months, 15 days, 28 minutes and 34 seconds since that day he first saw him and let the hamster boy live with him. And during those 11 months, 15 days, 28 minutes and 34 seconds, he had never regretted even a minute that passed.
His train of thoughts was stopped once he felt something fluffy nudging his mouth, needless to say, he opened his mouth and welcomed the fluffy pancake that he had cooked.
“Umai deshou!?” He nodded his head and flashed a smile towards the scent of the pancakes.
Keito could imagine how the latter would grin at him before turning back his attention to the food and it somehow made him blush.
‘He must really love my cooking.’
This fact is something he already knew. Ever since the first day Mio opened his eyes, this person was the only one who would cook for him. Not only because of the cute remarks that the hamster boy would make but also because he could never imagine someone cook for the latter other than him and receive those flattering comments and also to witness that smile he had longed to see
“You’re really amazing Keito, even though you can’t see…” For a moment the hamster boy stopped for a second and Keito could see his face slowly turning red.
“I’m glad I met you, Keito.”
A deafening silence engulfed the two of them while the color red painted their cheeks. Keito wanted to thank the boy but no words would come out of his mouth. They silently stared at their food, listening to the crashing waves and the chimes that the wind was blowing.
“Ah! I’ll go get some strawberries for our pancakes nee.” The younger boy found an excuse to escape the silence and was about to leave the room when…
“I just use my other senses… I use my ears to hear.” ‘To hear your footsteps when you come near me’ He wanted to say those words but couldn’t.
“I use my nose to smell the things I put in what I cook.” ‘And also to smell your scent where ever you are’ still the thing he wanted to utter couldn’t come out.
“I use my hands to memorize the things I don’t see.” ‘I use my hands to memorize every single detail about you’ his heart was already shouting but his mind and body was still protesting.
“And last, I use my heart…” ‘To love you’
He knew that he couldn’t… he could never tell this guy how much this blind man is head over heels in love with him.
Just then, a blond skinny guy came out from nowhere and put an arms around the blind man and started eating.
“Umai!!!” Keito didn’t need the voice to know who the culprit is, because the warmth was enough for him to know that this was his childhood friends, Hikaru.
“Hikaru-kun, ohayou.”
Keito smiled at the warmth of the guy who continued to eat his breakfast, forgetting the other presence in the room, the presence of someone who’d been eyeing them with sadness in his eyes the very moment that blond guy came.
The said blond guy name Hikaru saw everything thought. From the corner of his eyes he could see how hamster boy, namely Mio, looked at his and Keito’s direction with sadness. He threw a playful smirk at his direction before opening him mouth.
“Hey hamster boy! I didn’t see you there!” Hikaru greeted, more like teased, the other guy while wrapping his arms tightly around Keito.
“Good morning to you too, Hikaru-kun.” He politely bowed down while desperately stopping his aching chest.
Breakfast was ended in silence, on Mio’s part that is. His whole morning was spent in his room while he was watching the blond guy and Keito do whatever they wanted to do at the shaded tree just below the hamster boy’s window.
During the whole day he just reminisce his life with Keito this past 11 months. He would smile and laugh whenever he remembers the silly thing he and the muscled guy would do. But in contrast with his happiness… he still wanted to remember his past.
He himself didn’t know his name, he just woke up inside this white room. He remembered one time when they went to town, almost all the girls who saw him stared for about a minute before asking his name and his number. He was indeed a beautiful man… and that’s how he got the name Mio.
He remembered how he would have nightmares every night, nightmare about his past was all he could see. And so after the first month of nightmares, he told Keito to stop look for his identity and even his real family. At first, the other guy was confused and he even refused to stop but Mio would always reassure him…
“I’m already happy here, Keito… I’m happy to be Mio”
True, he was happy… but this wasn’t actually the main reason why he wanted to stop looking for his true identity.
Actually, he was afraid… afraid to face the fact that he doesn’t even have a family to return to.
“If I really have one… why aren’t they looking for me? Maybe because they don’t love me.”
That was the logic he believe and the constant nightmares about his past proved to him that maybe he was not love in his past, maybe he was not wanted by anyone.
“Being here reassures my happiness… I don’t want to look for my true self and just be hurt”
He believed this… he believed that being a coward is better than hurting your own self.
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His eyes shot open, he looked around just to see that he was not at his room anymore. He panicked and kept calling for help, he didn’t know where he was, he didn’t have a clue, all he know is that he’s all alone at a dark building surrounded with glassed windows.
The hamster looking boy crashed down to the ground, he pulled his legs to his chest and sobbed, he was lost.
He kept crying and whimpering while silently asking for help. After a few minutes of crying, he heard footsteps… heard an angelic voice calling a name, he knew it wasn’t him the angel was looking for but his heart shouted for him to look up and stare at the angel.
“Ryutaro…”
He did look up, but he saw no one… it was just a voice, the voice kept calling that name. It made him dizzy all of a sudden. He tried to step back but the cries grew more desperately. He turned around to runaway while the voice kept calling that name like it was chasing him. After a second of thinking he finally did run, the voice was dying down little by little.
He stopped once he reached a door, he opened it and saw him sleeping inside his room. Without thinking he stepped into the room and before the door closed, he saw a small guy running towards him. The boy was crying while doing his very best to run, Mio didn’t know why but he unknowingly stretched out his hand for the boy telling him to hurry.
He watched the boy run, but what’s happening? He wasn’t moving from that spot later he found out that he was the one moving, he wanted to jump out of the room to help the boy but everything was just going so fast. Finally he was able to get out of the room, he saw the sleeping him inside his room, it was still moving. He turned to look at the guy to see him only a 3 meters away, he waited there on his spot until the guy was just a step away until everything went black, the guy was gone the only thing he could see was darkness and the only thing he could hear was the other’s cries.
“Chii…”
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“Chii!!!” his eyes shot open, he looked around and saw that he was inside his room, beads of sweat was flowing down from his whole body.
He remembered his dream… more like nightmare, and asked himself…
“Who is Ryutaro?”
“Who am I calling Chii??”
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On the other side of the country, a little squirrel was having the same dream. He woke up from the dream with tears already flowing from his eyes. He hugged his knees to his chest and cried silently, whispering the name of the person he longed to see.
“Ryutaro…”
A/N: weee~ its been awhile since i wrote chiitaro! xDD
i miss them T.T
so for the month of march, i would be focusing more on updating this fic!
i'm not so busy this month so i'll be nice ne~
i was already about to sleep when i decided to write this so the story kinda twisted just like me head xDD
well hope you like it! xDDD
this fic and the proceeding chapters won't be locked for the whole month because of my love to spread chiitaro love!! xDD