[kamiki x suzuka] voice
title voice
pairing kamiki ryunosuke x ohgo suzuka
rating pg
note inspired by the borrower arrietty, where i realized that kamiki has a really, really nice voice. it’s very soothing and comforting and this kid is perfect, bottom line. no spoilers for the movie.
Out of Best Friend Obligation, Suzuka attends the premier of Karigurashi no Arietti with the free ticket that Shida forced on her. It is on her own free will, however, when she purchases the DVD months later.
It’s not that she really loves the movie. It’s a good movie, of course- it’s Ghibli, and the laws of the universe require that all humans find Ghibli movies to be fantastic. Suzuka is as human as anyone else, and everything from the beautiful scenery to the very essence of the movie takes her breath away. But she has to hide her ulterior motive for buying the movie from everyone else behind statements that she just really, really loved it, because she does not need Shida or any of her other friends taking the fact that she just really, really loved Kamiki’s voice too seriously.
She closes her eyes as Sho speaks and sighs inaudibly, wondering why it is only now that she realizes what a nice voice her friend has. Maybe he just normally doesn’t speak like this, soft and gentle, with a tone suited for someone with sadness in their eyes. Or maybe, she thinks as she opens her eyes, she just never really took the time to listen properly. And now that she has, she doesn’t want to stop. She keeps the volume low and turns on a timer, and for a couple of days out of every week for a month she falls asleep to the sound of the surprisingly soothing voice of one of her oldest friends. She realizes that it’s mildly creepy and pathetic but stubbornly keeps her secret hidden from everyone else.
When Suzuka catches a bug in June and is kept housebound for nearly a week, she finally reaches her breaking point. Well, she reaches it when her mother vacuums over her DVD, and refuses to buy another copy because Suzuka’s watched it so many times she should have it memorized. At first she thinks that it’s far too embarrassing to explain to her mom why she wants it so badly, but in the end she ends up doing something even more humiliating, her fingers moving seemingly on their own as they dial out Kamiki Ryunosuke’s number.
“Hello?”
Her fingers tighten around the phone and she closes her eyes, breathing out slowly. “… hi.”
“Suzuka-chan? Is everything okay? How are you feeling?”
“I’m… I’m okay. It’s passing.”
“Oh. That’s good.”
Sighing again, she rests her head on her pillow and curls up, half wondering what she’s doing and half wondering when she fell in love. When neither of them say anything for a while and she can practically hear him feeling awkward on the other end she says, “Can you please… just talk? Please?”
“H-huh?”
“It’s just…” she licks her dry lips and thinks about her excuse for him, but her brain is too muddled with fever to think properly and she really, really just doesn’t care at the moment. “Your voice is really comforting and my head really hurts, and I might kind of like you. Probably. And I was just thinking, it would be really nice to hear you. Since I like your voice. And you.”
“… i-is this a joke?”
Suzuka laughs softly, and manages to catch her cough behind her hand just in time. She had expected that. “No. Sorry for springing it on you like this… the fever is making me funny. I didn’t plan on telling you like this. Or really telling you at all, for the time being.”
The line goes silent for an uncomfortably long time, and Suzuka checks her phone twice to make sure they weren’t disconnected. She’s about to apologize when a quiet voice says, “I like you, too.”
The wide smile on her face nearly hurts. “Say it again?”
“S-suzuka-chan!”
“Okay, okay.” Still smiling, she hides a yawn and asks, “Say anything, please?”
He falls quiet again, but what he does say next ensures that the smile probably won’t leave her face for another week or so. “I like you, too.”
pairing kamiki ryunosuke x ohgo suzuka
rating pg
note inspired by the borrower arrietty, where i realized that kamiki has a really, really nice voice. it’s very soothing and comforting and this kid is perfect, bottom line. no spoilers for the movie.
Out of Best Friend Obligation, Suzuka attends the premier of Karigurashi no Arietti with the free ticket that Shida forced on her. It is on her own free will, however, when she purchases the DVD months later.
It’s not that she really loves the movie. It’s a good movie, of course- it’s Ghibli, and the laws of the universe require that all humans find Ghibli movies to be fantastic. Suzuka is as human as anyone else, and everything from the beautiful scenery to the very essence of the movie takes her breath away. But she has to hide her ulterior motive for buying the movie from everyone else behind statements that she just really, really loved it, because she does not need Shida or any of her other friends taking the fact that she just really, really loved Kamiki’s voice too seriously.
She closes her eyes as Sho speaks and sighs inaudibly, wondering why it is only now that she realizes what a nice voice her friend has. Maybe he just normally doesn’t speak like this, soft and gentle, with a tone suited for someone with sadness in their eyes. Or maybe, she thinks as she opens her eyes, she just never really took the time to listen properly. And now that she has, she doesn’t want to stop. She keeps the volume low and turns on a timer, and for a couple of days out of every week for a month she falls asleep to the sound of the surprisingly soothing voice of one of her oldest friends. She realizes that it’s mildly creepy and pathetic but stubbornly keeps her secret hidden from everyone else.
When Suzuka catches a bug in June and is kept housebound for nearly a week, she finally reaches her breaking point. Well, she reaches it when her mother vacuums over her DVD, and refuses to buy another copy because Suzuka’s watched it so many times she should have it memorized. At first she thinks that it’s far too embarrassing to explain to her mom why she wants it so badly, but in the end she ends up doing something even more humiliating, her fingers moving seemingly on their own as they dial out Kamiki Ryunosuke’s number.
“Hello?”
Her fingers tighten around the phone and she closes her eyes, breathing out slowly. “… hi.”
“Suzuka-chan? Is everything okay? How are you feeling?”
“I’m… I’m okay. It’s passing.”
“Oh. That’s good.”
Sighing again, she rests her head on her pillow and curls up, half wondering what she’s doing and half wondering when she fell in love. When neither of them say anything for a while and she can practically hear him feeling awkward on the other end she says, “Can you please… just talk? Please?”
“H-huh?”
“It’s just…” she licks her dry lips and thinks about her excuse for him, but her brain is too muddled with fever to think properly and she really, really just doesn’t care at the moment. “Your voice is really comforting and my head really hurts, and I might kind of like you. Probably. And I was just thinking, it would be really nice to hear you. Since I like your voice. And you.”
“… i-is this a joke?”
Suzuka laughs softly, and manages to catch her cough behind her hand just in time. She had expected that. “No. Sorry for springing it on you like this… the fever is making me funny. I didn’t plan on telling you like this. Or really telling you at all, for the time being.”
The line goes silent for an uncomfortably long time, and Suzuka checks her phone twice to make sure they weren’t disconnected. She’s about to apologize when a quiet voice says, “I like you, too.”
The wide smile on her face nearly hurts. “Say it again?”
“S-suzuka-chan!”
“Okay, okay.” Still smiling, she hides a yawn and asks, “Say anything, please?”
He falls quiet again, but what he does say next ensures that the smile probably won’t leave her face for another week or so. “I like you, too.”