Multichapter: [Tadaiki] - View of You c.02
Title: View of You
Author: mar_coon_ah
Pairing: Tadaiki
Rating: Pg-13
Genre: Fluff
Summary: This fic is based on a movie. Well…, it’s not 100 percent similar with the movie. As I remembered, it’s a Chinese movie. I watched it when I was in elementary school I think, so I don’t even remember what’s the tittle or the casts. It’s about a rising star that lost his light and being left by everyone then somehow found someone who loves him when he’s not a star.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
“Ahahahaha…!!! Really? They must be crazy doing stuffs like that…!” Ryu laughed widely.
“Well, it’s our job to make money….”
“Knock, knock!” the door was knocked.
“Please come in,” someone to enter the room.
“As I thought…,” The guest said that as he saw his little brother, Ryu was actually inside the actor’s room.
“Dai-nii! What’s up?” he woke up from the sofa where he lied before.
“Ah, is that you Arioka-kun?” Takaki was also ready to get up from the sofa where Ryu was laying before.
“Do you know what time is it now?” Daiki looked mad.
“It’s…nine?”
“Jeeez…! Just what are you thinking leaving your room before the doctor visit time?” Daiki was powerless if it’s about Ryu, his only beloved brother.
“Ah…, gomen! I just felt bored and instantly coming here to have a chat with Takaki.”
“Now let’s go back to your room ‘cause Nakajima Sensei will come soon.”
“Jyaa na, Yuyan! We’ll be right back.”
“Sorry for always intruding your time Takaki-san,” Daiki bowed as he dragged his younger brother.
“It’s okay! Make sure to come back again soon....”
***
“Chirp, chirp, chirp….” The birds are chirping in the early morning on top of the trees outside the hospital like they always do. The nurses are preparing their jobs according to their scheduled as always. And as always…, they’ll gossiping before they begin their works.
“Ne, ne…! Did you see that?”
“Nani, nani?”
“There’re so many journalists in the first floor, wonder if they’ll do an interview with Takaki-san.”
“So, that’s true then?”
“What? Do you know something?”
“Well…, maybe they come here for ask a clarification to the person himself about his retiring from the movie Natsu no Kaze.”
“Maji? So…, it’s like that….”
“But, it hasn’t been confirmed yet. There’re also no statements coming from the agency though.”
“So it’s him who retires from the movie and not him being kicked out from it….”
“That must be better for him to retire before being kicked, right?”
“Poor him really…”
“Aren’t you tired, ladies?” Daiki appeared as the gossiping about to end.
“Arioka-kun…. How could you say we’re tired when it’s only in the early of the morning?”
“Yes, I mean it! It’s only in the early of the morning, yet you’ve gossiping someone without even thinking of the feeling of the person himself.”
“Ah! We’re sorry…,” she begged a sorry suddenly.
“It’s not me whom you should ask for sorry….” The other nurses kept in silent.
“Well, don’t be so serious! I just want to tell you that what you’ve talked around this time could have hurt him.”
“Hai! We’ll say sorry to him by ourselves!”
The nurses then come in to the actor’s room, apologizing because they’ve always gossiping about him all this time. After they finished apologizing, the young cheeky boy entered the room.
“Eh, nani? What’s going on Yuya?”
“They’re apologizing to me for always gossiping about me. It’s not like I care about it though…, and I think your brother is behind this all.”
“What?! How could he do that? You know, he doesn’t even equip with anything related to showbiz or….”
“Ahahah…! You sure are covering your brother…. Anyway, that’s not what I mean. That apologizing nurses, he must have done something to the nurses so that they did apologizing to me.”
“Why do you think like that?”
“He once said to me that he hates watching entertainment news because all they did were just gossiping about the celebrities, and he also said to me to not care about when I accidentally heard them gossiping me.”
“He did?”
“Hm.”
“That’s my Nii-chan.” His round beautiful eyes wide opened as he said he’s being proud of his brother.
“Ryu!” the one being told by is coming. “Nakajima Sensei wants to talk with you.” He came by to tell his brother about Nakajima Sensei, his doctor.
“Oh! That’s right! I forgot about it! Ja…, I’ll leave now!” Ryutarou headed to the door, “Niichan! You don’t have to accompany me now,” but then he stopped his brother for following him.
“What is it?” Daiki smells something fishy.
“S.e.c.r.e.t…” Ryutarou played his brother, left him behind with his curiosity.
“Hey! What’s that?”
Silence drew between Daiki and Takaki in that room after Ryutarou’s leave. It’s a bit awkward that nobody began to talk with each other. Perhaps because Daiki felt that he is not so close to him like Ryutarou. And it must be hard to talk to someone you’re not usually talk to.
“Then I..., I’m going to the library now.” He’ll take his leave.
“Arigatou.” He then stopped, heard what was uttered from Takaki’s mouth. “The nurses. They apologized to me.”
“Ah…, really? Then that’s good!” Daiki felt a bit strange in his noise. It seemed that he wanted to say something but he just couldn’t do that. “Ja…, I’ll go now.” Maybe it’s better for him to leave now, he thought.
“Tomorrow!”
“Nani?” Daiki turned back as he heard Takaki said a word out of nothing.
“I’m going to the press conference tomorrow! …about me getting out from the showbiz.” It shocked Daiki. “Not for the whole showbiz perhaps. It’s for the current project about the drama. Well…, I’m not sure about myself actually, whether it’s only for the current drama that I’m quitting, or is this for the whole career of mine in that business. I don’t even know myself when will I get the donor or … when I do get the donor, could I even go back to that business?”
Daiki walked towards Takaki, then stopped in front of him. Takaki, looking like this, looking so empty, clearly told someone who sees him that he’s really break in to pieces now. His inability, his worries and his fear drew clearly on his face. Seeing the guy he hated before in this kind of state, drives him to stretch his arms and circled them around Takaki’s shoulders.
“Just do what you think it’s right.”
Takaki drowned to Daiki’s embrace. His shoulders were trembling. He tried not to let out his cried voice. And Daiki embrace him more tightly. Patting his back like he said it’s okay for him to just cry and let out the voice. His pats were as if tell Takaki that he’s right with him now, that he can count on Daiki, that Daiki will be with him at a time like this.
***
“Ne, Niichan! Do you like him?”
“Ittai!” Daiki cuts his finger. “Shhh…, what are you talking about?” he hissed as he licked his cut finger. He was cutting the apples into bunnies as his younger brother suddenly asked him a weird question.
“I’m talking about someone who’s in your mind now,” he then smirks devilishly curious to see how his brother will react.
“Da…, dare?” he hides his nervousness in continuing cutting the apples after he wrapped his cut finger.
“Dare kana…?” he narrowed his brother with his suspicious glance.
“Che!”Daiki annoyed that he’s lose now. Meanwhile, Ryutarou was so happy with his victory. Cornered his brother was a big success.
“So, you love him, right?” Ryutarou uttered his thought before.
“I don’t know whether it’s love or not…,” he’s still cutting the apples.
“It IS love!! That must be it!” Ryu made him sure.
“Love, huh?”
“Uhn!”
“Then, what if it is? What should I do with this… love?”
“You have to tell him!” he suddenly fired up upon his idea to make his brother confess his love.
“No way!! We’re from different world, you know?” Daiki felt pessimistic about their background. “He’s a superstar that seems far away to touch.”
“Ack! Nii-chan! You cut too much apples! How could I even eat those all?”
“I…, I’ll eat those!”
“We’ll share them to Takaki then! Lets go!!!”
“Eh, what?”
***
“Gomennasai! I don’t intend to do this, but….”
“Ii yo! It’s not your fault. You have your own life. You have your family to feed. You can’t lose your job just because of me.”
“Yuya…!!!” someone cried out loud on Takaki’slap. Takaki just patted the man’s back, calming the man that seems not too older than him. Meanwhile, the brothers stood still outside the room, waiting for the good timing to enter the room.
“Arioka, Ryu, just come in!” Takaki notice their presence since the first time, but he called their name just right after that man calmed down.
“Shitsureishimasu…,” Ryu enters the room formally.
“Well…, we’ll only want to share the apples I cut too much before.” Daiki put the plates on the table near the bed. “Then…, jya ne!” he dragged Ryutarou to hurriedly get out of the room.
“No! Please stay here!” he stopped them.
“Then…, I’ll take my leave.” The man before was ready to take his leave. And this time, Takaki didn’t stop him. “I’ll call you later.”
“Thank you for all this time,” Takaki bowed, still in his sitting pose on the bed, and so did the man, bowed to him then walking out through the door.
“Ah! He left his coat!” Ryutarou found it on the sofa.”Nii-chan, stay here! I’ll give this to him!” Ryutarou rushed to catch him, left his brother and the actor Takaki in his room.
“What did he think he is? Ordering me like that…,” Daiki murmured, annoyed being ordered by his brother.
“Sorry I made you stay here…,” Takaki apologized for being self centered.
“No…, it’s okay.” An awkward silence suddenly covered the room as they’re only two of them left. “Ah, do you want some apples?’
“No, thanks.” Short reply from Takaki made Daiki back to the uneasy silence.
“Actually…, I don’t want to you to see me right now. I don’t want you to pity me. I don’t want you to feel sorry for me. But I..., I want you to be here with me….” Takaki trembled and held his tears behind his palms. Daiki confused hearing him saying something like that. It was as if he was just confessed to him.
“I used to live in a bright world, with so many people proud and envy me. But now…, I am no one. I’m just a blind ex-actor, with no one envy me anymore…,” his blind sad eyes were facing towards Daiki as if they can see him clearly. “My friends from the same agency barely visited me. Haaah…, maybe because they hate me so much before because I always steps away in front of them. My boyfriend Inoo, visited me only once…, once at the day when I signed in to this hospital after the accident. Then now he must be very happy to let go of me and be with the person he really loves, my own childhood friend, Kota. Then now…, the only person I trust most. The person who’s always by my side even after the accident that has changed my life…, in the end he also left me behind…,” Takaki’s shoulders were trembling. He hardly held his tears away back.
“I don’t blame him tough. He must be being pushed by the agency because he didn’t make money since I got the accident. It’s his job to make money from people like me. He is my manager. So when I couldn’t make money anymore, the agency must be signed him to another talent with bright future. I don’t blame him. I just couldn’t blame him…,” in the end, he couldn’t take his tears back anymore. Seeing the person he loves buried his teary face in his palms, Daiki then approached him, stretched his both slim hands and circled them to Takaki’s wide shoulder. Ears met ears, Daiki’s chin landed on Takaki’s left shoulder, and then Daiki’s right hand softly patted his back to calm him down.
Takaki was a bit surprised with what he experienced just now. But after feeling Daiki’s warm embrace, also his small hand patted his back, he felt more comfortable now. At least, at this time, this person was there with him…. This scene continued for a bit longer than they expected. They missed the right timing to release the embrace. Their warm embrace now became hotter. As now they felt uneasy, Daiki then release his circled hands and so did Takaki. An awkward silence drew between them.
“Takaki-san…,” Daiki opened his mouth. “I don’t know if it’s the right time to say this, but…. If you don’t like it, you can get mad at me or slap me instead.” Takaki tilted his head a bit as he was confused. How could he even slap someone he couldn’t see? “I… uhm… you… I like you!!!” that surprised Takaki a lot. It clearly stated on his face that became redder even though he tried to hiding his blushing faceby turning his face.Then another awkward silence after the sudden confession spread around the room.
“I don’t like your choose of timing, but how could I slap the person I love?” the blunt respond from Takaki made Daiki’s confident level heighted up.
“I don’t want to be called a cheater if I suddenly kissing you after the confession attack, then I’ll ask you this first! Is it okay…, to kiss you?” Daiki sure is so straightforward today.
“Hmpfh…,” while waiting for the permission to kiss the guy he loves, what he heard was Takaki’s chuckles. “Why did you even ask permission to….”
Chuu
Daiki was confident enough to take the right angle so that he can land his lips right onto Takaki’s just in the blink of eyes. He pressed them gently, trying to send the love massage through the lip’s skin ship. On the other hand, Takaki who was surprised before, because of the sudden encounter of his beloved one, seemed calmly welcoming Daiki’s soft lips.
“If only I can see you, I would have been kissing you when you embrace me tightly before.” Takaki cupped Daiki’s face while their forehead still glued against each other.
“You really CAN NOT see me, right?” Daiki asked a weird question to a blind beloved person in front of him.
“Nani sore? Of course I can’t!” Takaki replied, a bit chuckled.
“It’s fine then since you can’t see my embarrassed face.” Daiki’s eyes rolled as he tried to avoid Takaki’s even though the blindfold covering his sight. “And ah…,” Daiki continued his words. “I’m sorry if I suddenly confessed to you at a time like this, but I really….”
“Arigatou. Hontou ni arigatou….”Takaki curved a smile. This time, it wasn’t the fake smile he always showed to Daiki like before.
“UWOOOH….!!! Nani sore?!” then the missing person just appeared. “I saw it!!!” Ryutarou who was just arrived and who only acts as an audience felt embarrassed enough to feel his temperature getting higher in cheeks area that made them almost like a boiled crab.
***
“A DATEEEEEE???!” the choir of Daiki and Takaki in the early morning frightened the chirping birds outside the room.
“YES!!! It’s fine, right?” Ryutarou just came up with this idea for the new couple to go to date.
“Hold on a second, Ryu! Why a date?” Daiki seemed against the idea very much.
“What else? Because you’re a couple now!”
“But dating is just…, too sudden and ah… too troublesome….” Daiki thought of it so much.
“I’m fine with it. A date,” Takaki then smiled brightly and waiting for his beloved boyfriend’s response.
“Wha..?! But…, what are we going to do?” now Daiki panicked about what he should do in a date.
“Watching movie, having lunch or dinner at a fancy restaurant, walking in the park and…,” Ryutarou listed some activities that people usually do in a date.
“That’s all?” Daiki fast response. “That’s too plain, too normal!!!” this elderly brother just snickered that what they call date is actually something normal and standard they could do anytime.
“What? Now you said that, even though you’ve never been to a date before?” Ryutarou reveals his brother’s past life of no romantic love experience.
“YOU!!!”
“Oi, oi! That ‘normal’ date… I don’t think I can even go any.”
“Eh?” Ryu’s eyes opened widely out of shock.
“WHYYYYY???” now Daiki was the one who desperate about it.
“How can I go to a movie or having dinner out there with my condition now?” he surely has a point there.
“And it must be a huge scoop if you go out ‘cause you’re still Takaki Yuya.” Daiki disappointed though he really wanted to do it. But this circumstances they had just didn’t allow them to do as they wished. And so, the dating plan has just disbanded because of some impossible conditions.
“Then, what about the three of us doing hanami (sakura viewing)?”
“Hanami?!” another choir from the new lovely couple.
“Uhn! Even though it would only in the hospital’s park, we can still do hanami under the sakura tree.” Ryutarou came up with another idea. “Nii-chan! For tomorrow’s bentous, I leave it to you!” he bowed deeply as he asked his brother to prepare all the bentous for the hanami. It’s not a bad idea, the hanami. It could be count as a date though there will not only be the lovey dovey couple but the three of them.
***
“Uwa! Oishi so…!” Ryu complemented his brother’s prepared bentous. “I don’t know you could make the bentous this fancy!”
“I don’t accept any complains today…,” Daiki still busy opening the bentou boxes one by one.
“You usually made me a bentou when I was still at school, but it has never been this good looking,” he opened the chopsticks box. “Itadakimasu!” he chomped the crispy termpura first. “Umai…!”
“Ne, Ryu…, moushikashite… because of me?” Takaki was full of himself now, saying that Daiki could make the delicious bentous because of him.
“That must be the cause!!!”
“What are you guys blabbering about? Let’s just eat already…,” the hanami of the three of them became another lunch under the sakura tree. “Yuya, open your mouth,” Daiki fed his boyfriend.
“Uwooo! So romantic!” and the younger just making fun of them. They ate and laughed happily. Under the sakura tree that had its petals falling one by one, and the warm breeze sweeping their hair, this day will be their unforgettable memory.
“Are the sakura petals falling down?” Takaki on his laying position, stretched out his right hand as if reaching the sakura petals that has been falling down.
“Uhn! It’s spring anyway,” Daikilaid beside him.
“I’ll treasure it.”
“Hm?”
“This day. The day when the three of us having our first hanami even though I can’t see the falling sakura petals. I’ll treasure this moment.”
“Hai.”
“Oi…! Don’t just flirting with each other when I’m still around,” Ryu who laid beside Daiki felt left behind by those two loving people. Then the two just bursted out their laughs.
“Let’s go back before the doctor’s visiting time!” Daiki woke up. “ You two can go first, I’ll do the rest.” Then as they being told, Ryu walked Takaki together to their room before Daiki.
“Ne Yuya,” Ryutarou spoke as they’re far enough from his brother. “Thank you, for loving my brother.”
“What? Are you a dad or something?” Takaki was taking it as a joke but it didn’t seem so for Ryutarou. “Nah…, I’m the one that should say thank you to him and you also. If only we didn’t meet before, if only you didn’t bring you brother that day, this time won’t even happen. Arigatouna, Ryu.”
“Please, take care of my Oni-chan from today on,” Ryu tightened his grip on Takaki’s hand. “He is my precious brother for me. I don’t have anyone else except him in this world…,” He seemed as if he was ready to cry out loud.
Takaki stopped his step. Then another hand of his, which wasn’t in Ryu’s grip, covered the smaller hand gently to calm the owner down. “I’ll treasure him.”
This happy moment wasn’t just stay long as they wished for. Where the happy moment felt, there must be someone felt the opposite one. That smiles of them, wasn’t painted for an everlasting happiness.
-end of chapter 2-
Author: mar_coon_ah
Pairing: Tadaiki
Rating: Pg-13
Genre: Fluff
Summary: This fic is based on a movie. Well…, it’s not 100 percent similar with the movie. As I remembered, it’s a Chinese movie. I watched it when I was in elementary school I think, so I don’t even remember what’s the tittle or the casts. It’s about a rising star that lost his light and being left by everyone then somehow found someone who loves him when he’s not a star.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
“Ahahahaha…!!! Really? They must be crazy doing stuffs like that…!” Ryu laughed widely.
“Well, it’s our job to make money….”
“Knock, knock!” the door was knocked.
“Please come in,” someone to enter the room.
“As I thought…,” The guest said that as he saw his little brother, Ryu was actually inside the actor’s room.
“Dai-nii! What’s up?” he woke up from the sofa where he lied before.
“Ah, is that you Arioka-kun?” Takaki was also ready to get up from the sofa where Ryu was laying before.
“Do you know what time is it now?” Daiki looked mad.
“It’s…nine?”
“Jeeez…! Just what are you thinking leaving your room before the doctor visit time?” Daiki was powerless if it’s about Ryu, his only beloved brother.
“Ah…, gomen! I just felt bored and instantly coming here to have a chat with Takaki.”
“Now let’s go back to your room ‘cause Nakajima Sensei will come soon.”
“Jyaa na, Yuyan! We’ll be right back.”
“Sorry for always intruding your time Takaki-san,” Daiki bowed as he dragged his younger brother.
“It’s okay! Make sure to come back again soon....”
***
“Chirp, chirp, chirp….” The birds are chirping in the early morning on top of the trees outside the hospital like they always do. The nurses are preparing their jobs according to their scheduled as always. And as always…, they’ll gossiping before they begin their works.
“Ne, ne…! Did you see that?”
“Nani, nani?”
“There’re so many journalists in the first floor, wonder if they’ll do an interview with Takaki-san.”
“So, that’s true then?”
“What? Do you know something?”
“Well…, maybe they come here for ask a clarification to the person himself about his retiring from the movie Natsu no Kaze.”
“Maji? So…, it’s like that….”
“But, it hasn’t been confirmed yet. There’re also no statements coming from the agency though.”
“So it’s him who retires from the movie and not him being kicked out from it….”
“That must be better for him to retire before being kicked, right?”
“Poor him really…”
“Aren’t you tired, ladies?” Daiki appeared as the gossiping about to end.
“Arioka-kun…. How could you say we’re tired when it’s only in the early of the morning?”
“Yes, I mean it! It’s only in the early of the morning, yet you’ve gossiping someone without even thinking of the feeling of the person himself.”
“Ah! We’re sorry…,” she begged a sorry suddenly.
“It’s not me whom you should ask for sorry….” The other nurses kept in silent.
“Well, don’t be so serious! I just want to tell you that what you’ve talked around this time could have hurt him.”
“Hai! We’ll say sorry to him by ourselves!”
The nurses then come in to the actor’s room, apologizing because they’ve always gossiping about him all this time. After they finished apologizing, the young cheeky boy entered the room.
“Eh, nani? What’s going on Yuya?”
“They’re apologizing to me for always gossiping about me. It’s not like I care about it though…, and I think your brother is behind this all.”
“What?! How could he do that? You know, he doesn’t even equip with anything related to showbiz or….”
“Ahahah…! You sure are covering your brother…. Anyway, that’s not what I mean. That apologizing nurses, he must have done something to the nurses so that they did apologizing to me.”
“Why do you think like that?”
“He once said to me that he hates watching entertainment news because all they did were just gossiping about the celebrities, and he also said to me to not care about when I accidentally heard them gossiping me.”
“He did?”
“Hm.”
“That’s my Nii-chan.” His round beautiful eyes wide opened as he said he’s being proud of his brother.
“Ryu!” the one being told by is coming. “Nakajima Sensei wants to talk with you.” He came by to tell his brother about Nakajima Sensei, his doctor.
“Oh! That’s right! I forgot about it! Ja…, I’ll leave now!” Ryutarou headed to the door, “Niichan! You don’t have to accompany me now,” but then he stopped his brother for following him.
“What is it?” Daiki smells something fishy.
“S.e.c.r.e.t…” Ryutarou played his brother, left him behind with his curiosity.
“Hey! What’s that?”
Silence drew between Daiki and Takaki in that room after Ryutarou’s leave. It’s a bit awkward that nobody began to talk with each other. Perhaps because Daiki felt that he is not so close to him like Ryutarou. And it must be hard to talk to someone you’re not usually talk to.
“Then I..., I’m going to the library now.” He’ll take his leave.
“Arigatou.” He then stopped, heard what was uttered from Takaki’s mouth. “The nurses. They apologized to me.”
“Ah…, really? Then that’s good!” Daiki felt a bit strange in his noise. It seemed that he wanted to say something but he just couldn’t do that. “Ja…, I’ll go now.” Maybe it’s better for him to leave now, he thought.
“Tomorrow!”
“Nani?” Daiki turned back as he heard Takaki said a word out of nothing.
“I’m going to the press conference tomorrow! …about me getting out from the showbiz.” It shocked Daiki. “Not for the whole showbiz perhaps. It’s for the current project about the drama. Well…, I’m not sure about myself actually, whether it’s only for the current drama that I’m quitting, or is this for the whole career of mine in that business. I don’t even know myself when will I get the donor or … when I do get the donor, could I even go back to that business?”
Daiki walked towards Takaki, then stopped in front of him. Takaki, looking like this, looking so empty, clearly told someone who sees him that he’s really break in to pieces now. His inability, his worries and his fear drew clearly on his face. Seeing the guy he hated before in this kind of state, drives him to stretch his arms and circled them around Takaki’s shoulders.
“Just do what you think it’s right.”
Takaki drowned to Daiki’s embrace. His shoulders were trembling. He tried not to let out his cried voice. And Daiki embrace him more tightly. Patting his back like he said it’s okay for him to just cry and let out the voice. His pats were as if tell Takaki that he’s right with him now, that he can count on Daiki, that Daiki will be with him at a time like this.
***
“Ne, Niichan! Do you like him?”
“Ittai!” Daiki cuts his finger. “Shhh…, what are you talking about?” he hissed as he licked his cut finger. He was cutting the apples into bunnies as his younger brother suddenly asked him a weird question.
“I’m talking about someone who’s in your mind now,” he then smirks devilishly curious to see how his brother will react.
“Da…, dare?” he hides his nervousness in continuing cutting the apples after he wrapped his cut finger.
“Dare kana…?” he narrowed his brother with his suspicious glance.
“Che!”Daiki annoyed that he’s lose now. Meanwhile, Ryutarou was so happy with his victory. Cornered his brother was a big success.
“So, you love him, right?” Ryutarou uttered his thought before.
“I don’t know whether it’s love or not…,” he’s still cutting the apples.
“It IS love!! That must be it!” Ryu made him sure.
“Love, huh?”
“Uhn!”
“Then, what if it is? What should I do with this… love?”
“You have to tell him!” he suddenly fired up upon his idea to make his brother confess his love.
“No way!! We’re from different world, you know?” Daiki felt pessimistic about their background. “He’s a superstar that seems far away to touch.”
“Ack! Nii-chan! You cut too much apples! How could I even eat those all?”
“I…, I’ll eat those!”
“We’ll share them to Takaki then! Lets go!!!”
“Eh, what?”
***
“Gomennasai! I don’t intend to do this, but….”
“Ii yo! It’s not your fault. You have your own life. You have your family to feed. You can’t lose your job just because of me.”
“Yuya…!!!” someone cried out loud on Takaki’slap. Takaki just patted the man’s back, calming the man that seems not too older than him. Meanwhile, the brothers stood still outside the room, waiting for the good timing to enter the room.
“Arioka, Ryu, just come in!” Takaki notice their presence since the first time, but he called their name just right after that man calmed down.
“Shitsureishimasu…,” Ryu enters the room formally.
“Well…, we’ll only want to share the apples I cut too much before.” Daiki put the plates on the table near the bed. “Then…, jya ne!” he dragged Ryutarou to hurriedly get out of the room.
“No! Please stay here!” he stopped them.
“Then…, I’ll take my leave.” The man before was ready to take his leave. And this time, Takaki didn’t stop him. “I’ll call you later.”
“Thank you for all this time,” Takaki bowed, still in his sitting pose on the bed, and so did the man, bowed to him then walking out through the door.
“Ah! He left his coat!” Ryutarou found it on the sofa.”Nii-chan, stay here! I’ll give this to him!” Ryutarou rushed to catch him, left his brother and the actor Takaki in his room.
“What did he think he is? Ordering me like that…,” Daiki murmured, annoyed being ordered by his brother.
“Sorry I made you stay here…,” Takaki apologized for being self centered.
“No…, it’s okay.” An awkward silence suddenly covered the room as they’re only two of them left. “Ah, do you want some apples?’
“No, thanks.” Short reply from Takaki made Daiki back to the uneasy silence.
“Actually…, I don’t want to you to see me right now. I don’t want you to pity me. I don’t want you to feel sorry for me. But I..., I want you to be here with me….” Takaki trembled and held his tears behind his palms. Daiki confused hearing him saying something like that. It was as if he was just confessed to him.
“I used to live in a bright world, with so many people proud and envy me. But now…, I am no one. I’m just a blind ex-actor, with no one envy me anymore…,” his blind sad eyes were facing towards Daiki as if they can see him clearly. “My friends from the same agency barely visited me. Haaah…, maybe because they hate me so much before because I always steps away in front of them. My boyfriend Inoo, visited me only once…, once at the day when I signed in to this hospital after the accident. Then now he must be very happy to let go of me and be with the person he really loves, my own childhood friend, Kota. Then now…, the only person I trust most. The person who’s always by my side even after the accident that has changed my life…, in the end he also left me behind…,” Takaki’s shoulders were trembling. He hardly held his tears away back.
“I don’t blame him tough. He must be being pushed by the agency because he didn’t make money since I got the accident. It’s his job to make money from people like me. He is my manager. So when I couldn’t make money anymore, the agency must be signed him to another talent with bright future. I don’t blame him. I just couldn’t blame him…,” in the end, he couldn’t take his tears back anymore. Seeing the person he loves buried his teary face in his palms, Daiki then approached him, stretched his both slim hands and circled them to Takaki’s wide shoulder. Ears met ears, Daiki’s chin landed on Takaki’s left shoulder, and then Daiki’s right hand softly patted his back to calm him down.
Takaki was a bit surprised with what he experienced just now. But after feeling Daiki’s warm embrace, also his small hand patted his back, he felt more comfortable now. At least, at this time, this person was there with him…. This scene continued for a bit longer than they expected. They missed the right timing to release the embrace. Their warm embrace now became hotter. As now they felt uneasy, Daiki then release his circled hands and so did Takaki. An awkward silence drew between them.
“Takaki-san…,” Daiki opened his mouth. “I don’t know if it’s the right time to say this, but…. If you don’t like it, you can get mad at me or slap me instead.” Takaki tilted his head a bit as he was confused. How could he even slap someone he couldn’t see? “I… uhm… you… I like you!!!” that surprised Takaki a lot. It clearly stated on his face that became redder even though he tried to hiding his blushing faceby turning his face.Then another awkward silence after the sudden confession spread around the room.
“I don’t like your choose of timing, but how could I slap the person I love?” the blunt respond from Takaki made Daiki’s confident level heighted up.
“I don’t want to be called a cheater if I suddenly kissing you after the confession attack, then I’ll ask you this first! Is it okay…, to kiss you?” Daiki sure is so straightforward today.
“Hmpfh…,” while waiting for the permission to kiss the guy he loves, what he heard was Takaki’s chuckles. “Why did you even ask permission to….”
Chuu
Daiki was confident enough to take the right angle so that he can land his lips right onto Takaki’s just in the blink of eyes. He pressed them gently, trying to send the love massage through the lip’s skin ship. On the other hand, Takaki who was surprised before, because of the sudden encounter of his beloved one, seemed calmly welcoming Daiki’s soft lips.
“If only I can see you, I would have been kissing you when you embrace me tightly before.” Takaki cupped Daiki’s face while their forehead still glued against each other.
“You really CAN NOT see me, right?” Daiki asked a weird question to a blind beloved person in front of him.
“Nani sore? Of course I can’t!” Takaki replied, a bit chuckled.
“It’s fine then since you can’t see my embarrassed face.” Daiki’s eyes rolled as he tried to avoid Takaki’s even though the blindfold covering his sight. “And ah…,” Daiki continued his words. “I’m sorry if I suddenly confessed to you at a time like this, but I really….”
“Arigatou. Hontou ni arigatou….”Takaki curved a smile. This time, it wasn’t the fake smile he always showed to Daiki like before.
“UWOOOH….!!! Nani sore?!” then the missing person just appeared. “I saw it!!!” Ryutarou who was just arrived and who only acts as an audience felt embarrassed enough to feel his temperature getting higher in cheeks area that made them almost like a boiled crab.
***
“A DATEEEEEE???!” the choir of Daiki and Takaki in the early morning frightened the chirping birds outside the room.
“YES!!! It’s fine, right?” Ryutarou just came up with this idea for the new couple to go to date.
“Hold on a second, Ryu! Why a date?” Daiki seemed against the idea very much.
“What else? Because you’re a couple now!”
“But dating is just…, too sudden and ah… too troublesome….” Daiki thought of it so much.
“I’m fine with it. A date,” Takaki then smiled brightly and waiting for his beloved boyfriend’s response.
“Wha..?! But…, what are we going to do?” now Daiki panicked about what he should do in a date.
“Watching movie, having lunch or dinner at a fancy restaurant, walking in the park and…,” Ryutarou listed some activities that people usually do in a date.
“That’s all?” Daiki fast response. “That’s too plain, too normal!!!” this elderly brother just snickered that what they call date is actually something normal and standard they could do anytime.
“What? Now you said that, even though you’ve never been to a date before?” Ryutarou reveals his brother’s past life of no romantic love experience.
“YOU!!!”
“Oi, oi! That ‘normal’ date… I don’t think I can even go any.”
“Eh?” Ryu’s eyes opened widely out of shock.
“WHYYYYY???” now Daiki was the one who desperate about it.
“How can I go to a movie or having dinner out there with my condition now?” he surely has a point there.
“And it must be a huge scoop if you go out ‘cause you’re still Takaki Yuya.” Daiki disappointed though he really wanted to do it. But this circumstances they had just didn’t allow them to do as they wished. And so, the dating plan has just disbanded because of some impossible conditions.
“Then, what about the three of us doing hanami (sakura viewing)?”
“Hanami?!” another choir from the new lovely couple.
“Uhn! Even though it would only in the hospital’s park, we can still do hanami under the sakura tree.” Ryutarou came up with another idea. “Nii-chan! For tomorrow’s bentous, I leave it to you!” he bowed deeply as he asked his brother to prepare all the bentous for the hanami. It’s not a bad idea, the hanami. It could be count as a date though there will not only be the lovey dovey couple but the three of them.
***
“Uwa! Oishi so…!” Ryu complemented his brother’s prepared bentous. “I don’t know you could make the bentous this fancy!”
“I don’t accept any complains today…,” Daiki still busy opening the bentou boxes one by one.
“You usually made me a bentou when I was still at school, but it has never been this good looking,” he opened the chopsticks box. “Itadakimasu!” he chomped the crispy termpura first. “Umai…!”
“Ne, Ryu…, moushikashite… because of me?” Takaki was full of himself now, saying that Daiki could make the delicious bentous because of him.
“That must be the cause!!!”
“What are you guys blabbering about? Let’s just eat already…,” the hanami of the three of them became another lunch under the sakura tree. “Yuya, open your mouth,” Daiki fed his boyfriend.
“Uwooo! So romantic!” and the younger just making fun of them. They ate and laughed happily. Under the sakura tree that had its petals falling one by one, and the warm breeze sweeping their hair, this day will be their unforgettable memory.
“Are the sakura petals falling down?” Takaki on his laying position, stretched out his right hand as if reaching the sakura petals that has been falling down.
“Uhn! It’s spring anyway,” Daikilaid beside him.
“I’ll treasure it.”
“Hm?”
“This day. The day when the three of us having our first hanami even though I can’t see the falling sakura petals. I’ll treasure this moment.”
“Hai.”
“Oi…! Don’t just flirting with each other when I’m still around,” Ryu who laid beside Daiki felt left behind by those two loving people. Then the two just bursted out their laughs.
“Let’s go back before the doctor’s visiting time!” Daiki woke up. “ You two can go first, I’ll do the rest.” Then as they being told, Ryu walked Takaki together to their room before Daiki.
“Ne Yuya,” Ryutarou spoke as they’re far enough from his brother. “Thank you, for loving my brother.”
“What? Are you a dad or something?” Takaki was taking it as a joke but it didn’t seem so for Ryutarou. “Nah…, I’m the one that should say thank you to him and you also. If only we didn’t meet before, if only you didn’t bring you brother that day, this time won’t even happen. Arigatouna, Ryu.”
“Please, take care of my Oni-chan from today on,” Ryu tightened his grip on Takaki’s hand. “He is my precious brother for me. I don’t have anyone else except him in this world…,” He seemed as if he was ready to cry out loud.
Takaki stopped his step. Then another hand of his, which wasn’t in Ryu’s grip, covered the smaller hand gently to calm the owner down. “I’ll treasure him.”
This happy moment wasn’t just stay long as they wished for. Where the happy moment felt, there must be someone felt the opposite one. That smiles of them, wasn’t painted for an everlasting happiness.
-end of chapter 2-