Be Mine Chapter 6
Title: Be Mine
Author: nakachii
Pairing: Nakachii (main), slight Yamachii, Yamajima, and Okajima
Genre: Angst, Romance
Rating: PG-13 (to be safe)
Disclaimer: I do not own the boys, they belong to JE and their parents. lol Although I am hoping to kidnap, just kidding. lol XP
Summary: Chinen has always been in love with Yuto since the debut of Hey! Say! 7, unable to express his feelings, he finds himself building a wall between the two. Yuto who has a cheerful personality finds himself falling into depression as his family is falling apart and as his popularity declines. Can Chinen break down barriers before its too late? How can puppy love escalate into desire and true love?
Chapter 6:
Both boys lay side by side on the grass allowing the cool breeze to tousle their hair. Yuto was in deep thought, the silence in his house was slowly starting to trouble him and he couldn’t help but wonder when his father would bother emailing him again. Did he mean that little to him?
What he hated the most about being at home was dinner time, to eat alone in silence was always depressing for him because he would find himself remembering back to the days where he ate with the entire family and how Raiya would always grab food from his plate mischievously. The only things that remained painful to him now were the memories.
Shaken out of his thoughts by Chinen who was now gently tapping his cheek with a flower, he smiled at the smaller boy who was grinning at him happily.
“A gift!” Chinen exclaimed.
“For me?” Yuto inquired taking the flower from Chinen.
Chinen nodded as Yuto stared blankly at the flower, the more he looked at it the more touched he felt. How was it that Chinen knew whenever he was feeling down? Chinen would always do something when he was sad, any antic possible one could think of and what was amazing was that Yuto would never even have to voice his feelings because Chinen always knew.
“Thank you.” He said softly now smiling as he looked closely at each petal. Their lunch time was always so peaceful and Chinen was always so adorable. Chinen never showed any strange or upset behaviour during their times alone which remained a mystery to him. It was as if they were both in a different world when they were together but Chinen’s rude attitude continued to persist otherwise which caused Yuto to always be puzzled by the real reasoning behind it all.
He let out a soft snort, smiling as Chinen played with his bangs; something he had become accustomed to by now, although he still wasn’t used to much contact otherwise so it still sort of tickled.
Letting out a yelp of laughter as Chinen gently brushed his cheek, Chinen raised an eyebrow questioningly.
“You’re really ticklish.” Chinen said affectionately while smirking.
“I can’t help it!” Yuto pouted feeling it was unfair that Chinen was always the one doing as he pleased and making fun of him to boot. “It’s not fair! You’re always the only playing with my hair, see if you can withstand how ticklish it is.”
“Go ahead,” Chinen replied seriously, “if you want to play with my hair you can.” Yuto gulped a bit, not expecting such a serious reply. Not wanting to be defeated by Chinen’s declaration in which he took as a challenge he readied himself; sitting now upright, facing one another on their knees, Yuto shyly raised his hand to the top side of Chinen’s head.
“Here I go,” he said lightly brushing the hair and moving his hand down towards the loose hairs near Chinen’s cheek. His hair felt soft under his touch and his skin was nice and smooth. Chinen was staring at him as he awkwardly but gently experimented in playing with Chinen’s hair. Yuto was surprisingly feeling very nervous, he didn’t know what it was and although he felt embarrassed and his cheeks were getting hot, he couldn’t stop himself and gently continued.
Resting his hand on Chinen’s cheek they stared at each other lost for words, Yuto could hear his heartbeat quicken and he noted the rose colour that was starting to appear on the other boy’s cheeks. Time seemingly had stopped as Yuto felt a strange sensation overcome him as he slowly felt drawn towards the smaller boy’s face, the school bell rung allowing both boys out of their trance. Eyes widening, Yuto quickly pulled his hand away and abruptly stood up.
“L-let’s g-go.” Yuto stammered confused as to what just happened.
“Uh...yeah.” Chinen replied also seemingly lost and following momentarily after Yuto.
+++
Yuto had barely paid attention to any of the lessons, what exactly had happened to him during lunch time, he was certainly becoming weird. What in the world was he doing anyway? He was worried over it; perhaps he was ill? Remembering back to the way Chinen had been looking at him, he blushed remembering the desperation in Chinen’s eyes. Shaking his head, he brushed off the idea, there was no way Chinen would look at him that way, he was obviously the weird one here making things up.
‘He was so pretty.’ Suddenly a light bulb flicked in his mind and he concluded simplemindedly that he was merely in awe at how pretty Chinen was for a boy and that was probably all there was to it. Feeling content with his own conclusion he felt relief sweep over his body.
Unfortunately for Chinen, he had begun a false sense of hope that perhaps Yuto was starting to feel the same way he did. He began to feel a great sense of joy and he remembered back to how red Yuto looked while touching his hair. Yuto was just the most adorable boy Chinen knew and although he was clumsy and somewhat dense when it came to love, he was an honest person.
Perhaps it was too soon to think too much into things because it only depressed him more when Yuto acted so casually on the way to the photo shoot. Of course Yuto’s oblivious and normal attitude only upset Chinen more causing him to get slightly irritated by the taller boy. Yuto frowned, Chinen was obviously bothered by something again, he didn’t quite understand it but he was certain Chinen was fine during lunch time. Yuto boggled his mind for answers but each time his answers came out jumbled. He was accustomed to Chinen’s strange mood swings now and knew it was best to remain silent for the rest of the way.
Entering the studio, Yuto happily greeted Keito followed once again by an angry huff by Chinen. About to question why Chinen’s sudden mood swing had gotten worse he was interrupted by Keito.
“I think he hates me,” Keito said frowning.
“I-I don’t think that’s it, he’s never really said anything about that.” Yuto replied reassuringly.
“I don’t know, but no worries about that, oh yes, I promised you yesterday I’d show you how to properly grip the strings down, here, give me your hand.”
+++
Chinen stared angrily as Keito was yet again touching Yuto, ‘You indecent little...’
“Why is it that every time I see you your squeezing juice boxes?”
Chinen gasped and embarrassedly grabbed tissues from the table.
“What are you even looking at?” Ryutaro stared surprised to see a familiar sight from the last time Chinen had acted oddly.
“Wait, I thought you became friends with Yuto now, why are you still glaring at him? Or could it be Keito, but Keito doesn’t even talk to you...” suddenly realization dawned upon the younger boy. A smile was slowly forming on his face, one of which was beginning to horrify Chinen.
“Oh my god...d-don’t tell me, Chinen,” he was giggling now, “you’re in love with Yut-”
“Shhh!!!” Chinen panicked, desperately covering Ryutaro’s mouth with his hand and nearly yanking the boy to the ground, “not so loud.”
“What’s?” he said in English for added emphasis, “So it’s true, you just admitted it, wow! I can’t believe I never realized before, it all makes so much sense now, why you were so mean and all.”
“Ryutaro just stop,” Chinen said in a low voice putting his arm around the younger but taller boy, “I know I never beg but I am begging you to not tell a single soul about this, you understand?”
Ryutaro nodded somewhat fearing the look Chinen was giving him, “Don’t worry I won’t tell a soul.”
“Do you promise?” Chinen said giving the best puppy eye expression he could possibly do.
Ryutaro nodded even more afraid of what Chinen’s puppy eye expression meant if he didn’t comply. His agreement caused Chinen to take a deep breath of relief. “You’re so nice!” Chinen said squeezing Ryutaro’s cheeks.
“Stop treating me like a kid.”Ryutaro sighed batting Chinen’s hand away.
+++
Keito laughed watching Chinen squeeze Ryutaro’s cheek who looked quite annoyed and tired.
“I wonder what they’re doing.” Chuckling he looked over surprised to see Yuto staring at the two expressionlessly but Keito had taken notice that his eyes looked deeply hurt.
“Yuto... are you okay?” Keito asked concerned.
“Hmm? Oh what?” Yuto shook his head vigorously in disbelief, “Oh yeah, I’m fine, I’m going to go to the washroom.”
Storming off he walked aimlessly through the halls letting his body lead the way, what was wrong with him today? He was definitely becoming strange, why did he suddenly feel so upset seeing Ryutaro and Chinen together. He was not himself at all today; reaching the washroom he ran to the sink and splashed cold water onto his face in hopes of cooling his head. Staring at his reflection and calming his breaths from running he said to himself, “Nakajima Yuto, get it together! You are acting weird!”
Wiping his face with a paper towel he could hear someone entering.
Chinen walked in humming a familiar tune from one of their albums, seeing Yuto, he smiled. Upon getting closer, his smile faded realizing how pale Yuto looked and that his bangs were dampened.
“What’s wrong? Are you not feeling well?” He was deeply concerned, touching Yuto’s forehead causing the taller boy to blush profusely; he concluded that Yuto wasn’t sick although he did look somewhat red all of a sudden.
Yuto shook his head vigorously once again; he probably didn’t get enough sleep last night that must have been it. Once again feeling calmed by his own conclusion, slowly his worries once again dissipated and he calmly remembered he had something to ask Chinen during lunch time in which he had completely forgotten due to of course certain circumstances he thought were best to ignore at this time.
“Hey Chinen, you know how I said I’ve been quite lonely, I was wondering if you minded sleeping over some time.”
Chinen’s eyes lit up with delight but slowly it faded remembering a certain someone, “But wouldn’t you want to ask Keito first? I mean it looks like you have a lot of fun with him.”
“What? Keito is Keito and Chinen is Chinen, I’m asking you because I want you to come of course.” He was honest with his answer and also slightly confused as to why Chinen would say such a thing or bring up Keito in the first place.
Hearing Yuto say those words was like music to his ears but of course Chinen was never really an honest person and his reply came out haughtily and rude.
“Fine, I’ll come because you asked so nicely.” Chinen secretly cursed his sharp tongue.
“That’s great! I’d like that.” Yuto smiled cutely and unfazed by Chinen’s rude reply. This caused Chinen to just want to embrace the guy tightly right then and there.
“...When can I come?” he said in an inaudible voice now looking away and slightly blushing out of happiness.
“I’m sorry?”
“When can I come!..I said...” He said roughly, trying to hide his excitement.
“Oh, anytime, tomorrow is even okay, just ask your mom to see if she’s okay with it, you can stay as long as you like too.”
“Oh, alright, I’ll drop by tomorrow.” Chinen said still trying to hide any sort of happiness he was experiencing at the moment. Walking out of the washroom, he quickly poked his head through the door once again startling Yuto who was now wiping his bangs.
“I’m only coming because you’re so lonely and all, it’s not like I really want to come or anything.” He said trying to prove himself.
Yuto nodded nervously, “Um yeah that’s fine, if you don’t want to come it’s okay too.”
“NO! I’m coming!” Chinen said panicked by Yuto’s quick change of mind.
“Um okay...great! See you tomorrow then.” Yuto was smiling again, cheerfully.
“Uh yeah, see you.” He closed the door calmly. As soon as the door was shut a smile emerged on his face as he began to skip down the hallway happily. ‘Sleepover at Yuto’s! Sleepover at Yuto’s!’ his mind was singing. Chinen giggled to himself happily as he pondered what he should pack tonight.
---
A/N: I have to say I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, Yuto is in denial while Chinen is being as dishonest as ever. <3
Thanks for your comments once again, it lets me know there are readers so I’m grateful! ^__^ Your comments mean a lot, thanks a bunch!