[multi-chapter] Destiny Calls [Ohmiya] [07/10]
Title: Destiny Calls
Pairing: Ohmiya
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance, mystery, suspense
Summary: Plagued by dreams in which he sees the same man die over and over again, Nino is trying to do the impossible, to escape fate that has chosen him of all people to be a life saver.
Previous chapters: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06
A/N: It's time for some Ohmiya interaction! For my complete fic list click here :)
誰も知らないストーリー始まる
And the story that no one knows begins
- Lotus / Arashi
Dream 7 - The Man of Dreams And His Savior
Nino watched every step Ohno Satoshi took closely. His eyes were locked on him, not allowing even the smallest movement to escape him. His feelings were mixed.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you," Ohno said, carefully still; but Nino concentrated only on the movements of his lips. Then all of a sudden fear struck.
'I have to talk to him. He will ask questions galore and expect answers. Answers I should have given him a long time ago,' Nino abruptly realized.
When Nino didn't answer because he thought he had forgotten how to form words for a moment, Ohno looked at Jun uncertainly. Let Jun give him answers, he was the one who had gotten Nino into this situation anyway. Let Jun tell him what was going on, let him explain what was happening to Nino. That such a mysterious connection had been established between him and Ohno.
But to the displeasure of Nino, Jun did no such thing. He only smiled encouragingly and backed away. "I'll leave the two of you alone for a bit," was the last thing he said before he left the hospital room.
An immense pressure suddenly weighed on him. As if he was the one buried beneath iron girders this time.
Ohno pulled a chair up to the bed.
"Ninomiya-san...," he began again and for a short moment Nino thought about just ignoring him. How long would this Ohno try to get an answer out of him? But he quickly discarded the idea - after everything that had happened, Ohno was surely prepared to do a lot to get answers.
Not that he was trying to make him do anything anyway.
"Ohno-san," Nino therefore answered carefully. But said no more than that for now.
He expected the words to come gushing out of Ohno now. That he would bombard him with thousands of questions. Why are you there whenever I'm in danger? Why do you save me?
How do you know all of this?
The questions Nino had been asking himself as well all this time. But after a moment of silence Ohno only asked,
"Is there something special between us?"
Nino could only stare at him, perplex.
“What...”
- was wrong with this guy? Nino didn't understand what was going through his head, even though he had thought he knew everything about him until only a few moments ago. Yes, he had even thought he knew him inside out without ever having met him. These dreams he had had all these years, they were like an alter ego hidden away somewhere inside of him. Something he knew in all its facets.
This man, who was sitting in front of him now, was someone else entirely.
"Something special...?" Nino repeated after a moment, confused. Ohno, who had been watching him patiently this whole time, nodded at once.
"You're my savior after all. That's enough to be called 'special', right?"
In lieu of the questioning look, a smile appeared on Ohno's face. As if this that been enough to resolve things between them. As if it was that easy.
Nino shook his head, bewildered, "You are here to ask me, if there's something special between us? Nothing else? I'm lying here, frantically trying to figure out how to explain why I dream of you every damn night and you... ask this?"
A hint of disapproval could be seen in Ohno's eyes for a moment, but before Nino could make it out properly it was already gone again. But Ohno wasn't smiling anymore. Instead the look he gave Nino said quite clearly that he thought Nino had just said something really stupid.
"You can't explain fate." He shrugged his shoulders. His indifference was suddenly too much for Nino.
"It might be really easy for you, you know! You don't have this shitty responsibility, you don't have to play life saver. So go on, continue to put yourself in danger, fate will surely save you again and again."
His sudden bout of anger had made Nino forget that he had only just woken up after a terrible accident. That he was in the hospital - not without just cause - and that there was a thick bandage wrapped around his chest, beneath which a sudden, horrible pain developed.
"Damn...," he gasped, pressing his hand to his chest, but he couldn't stop the ever growing pain.
"Shh... calm down. Slowly now." Ohno had sprung to his feet immediately and Nino felt his hand on his shoulder, stroking it gently, reassuringly. "Try to take deep breaths."
The pain receded again quickly. Apparently Nino just shouldn't get upset.
"It's... ok," he confirmed quietly. For a moment they stayed like this, Ohno with his warm hand still on Nino's shoulder and Nino, whose breathing was slowing down again and whose face was slowly relaxing out of its pained grimace, with his hands still pressed against his chest. Then Ohno let himself fall back onto his chair.
"So you have dreams about me?" he finally asked and it was once more Nino's turn to look surprised. Shouldn't he have asked this right away?
After a while Jun came back, just when Nino was talking about the first time Ohno had died in his dreams. Ohno was looking very interested throughout all of it, but it seemed to Nino as if Ohno was listening to a good story, not knowing that he was the main character.
Jun had brought back some snacks for them, putting them down on a low table while his gaze rested first on Ohno, then on Nino. He smiled silently.
"The thing at the construction site was pretty sickening. Not very pretty, watching someone be bludgeoned to death by iron girders, I tell you." Nino smiled slightly, somehow the air between them had changed since he had started talking about his dreams. Ohno was in no way demanding and that did Nino a lot of good. He didn't have to explain things to him, he just told him what had happened - without trying to make sense of it.
"And then the shop for fishing equipment. I didn't even want you to see me, but suddenly you were standing next to me."
All of a sudden something changed in Ohno's interestedly amused gaze. He scrunched up his eyebrows and frowned.
"Why did you always run away from me?" he asked seriously.
Nino hadn't expected the sudden question. For a long moment he just looked at Ohno, lost in thought. If there was one question Ohno deserved an answer to, it was surely this.
"Because I was afraid," Nino therefore answered shortly, turning away from him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Jun irresolutely shifting his weight from one foot to the other. "I have dreamed of you so many times, but I never knew if you really existed. And to see you standing in front of me, that-, it was-, it scared me. Because I don't know why all of this is happening."
"I don't know why either," Ohno only whispered in reply and an ice cold shudder suddenly ran down Nino's spine. It was as if Ohno knew more than he was saying, as if he was aware of something that would stay hidden from Nino for a long time still. But one look into Ohno's eyes showed that he was just as clueless as Nino himself. It grated on him. Someone had to know what was going on with them.
Immediately Jun butted in. "Maybe it's something like fate?"
This time Nino really laughed out loud.
"If both of you say it, there has to be something to it."
When Ohno joined in his laughter the rest of the discomfort had fled the hospital room and finally made way for happier feelings. Nino hadn't expected the mood to lighten this quickly, but he was grateful for it. A meeting of the man of his dreams and his savior had been bound to occur after all and he didn't want it to end in an argument.
But when Ohno disappeared into the bathroom, it only needed a few words to bring the oppressive atmosphere back full force.
"He told me not to burden you with it, but I think it's too important to keep quiet, Nino. Up on the roof, there was this man you dreamed about. He would have pushed Ohno-san off the roof if I hadn't intervened. He would have killed him," Jun said quickly, his gaze wandering to the door even though Ohno had only been gone for a few seconds.
Nino suddenly had to swallow hard, his eyes widened. He had completely forgotten about that.
"Do you think someone is after him?" he asked, startled.
"Maybe not only him. Look, it's just a thought, but what if, what if someone-"
But Nino completed the sentence for him, his face white as a sheet.
"... knew about us."
Jun only nodded, his lips pressed into a thin line.
"Did you get anything out of the man? Maybe... maybe he knows what is happening, maybe he has answers to all of this. Where is he? You didn't let him go, right?" Nino asked at once, only barely able to stop himself.
But Jun just looked at his feet shamefacedly, avoiding Nino's eyes, and answered quietly: "He was gone before I could do anything. I couldn't even see his face."
"I understand." Nino didn't even try to hide the disappointment in his voice.
Then Ohno came back, unsuspecting, and sat down next to Nino's bed again with a soft smile. Nino only looked at him for a long moment, thinking about the talk he had just had with Jun and that there might be a lot more at stake than he had originally thought.
"So where do we go from here?" Ohno asked uncertainly after a few minutes, obviously confused by Nino's stare. But Nino only grinned.
"From now on you will visit me every day."
next chapter
Pairing: Ohmiya
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance, mystery, suspense
Summary: Plagued by dreams in which he sees the same man die over and over again, Nino is trying to do the impossible, to escape fate that has chosen him of all people to be a life saver.
Previous chapters: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06
A/N: It's time for some Ohmiya interaction! For my complete fic list click here :)
誰も知らないストーリー始まる
And the story that no one knows begins
- Lotus / Arashi
Dream 7 - The Man of Dreams And His Savior
Nino watched every step Ohno Satoshi took closely. His eyes were locked on him, not allowing even the smallest movement to escape him. His feelings were mixed.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you," Ohno said, carefully still; but Nino concentrated only on the movements of his lips. Then all of a sudden fear struck.
'I have to talk to him. He will ask questions galore and expect answers. Answers I should have given him a long time ago,' Nino abruptly realized.
When Nino didn't answer because he thought he had forgotten how to form words for a moment, Ohno looked at Jun uncertainly. Let Jun give him answers, he was the one who had gotten Nino into this situation anyway. Let Jun tell him what was going on, let him explain what was happening to Nino. That such a mysterious connection had been established between him and Ohno.
But to the displeasure of Nino, Jun did no such thing. He only smiled encouragingly and backed away. "I'll leave the two of you alone for a bit," was the last thing he said before he left the hospital room.
An immense pressure suddenly weighed on him. As if he was the one buried beneath iron girders this time.
Ohno pulled a chair up to the bed.
"Ninomiya-san...," he began again and for a short moment Nino thought about just ignoring him. How long would this Ohno try to get an answer out of him? But he quickly discarded the idea - after everything that had happened, Ohno was surely prepared to do a lot to get answers.
Not that he was trying to make him do anything anyway.
"Ohno-san," Nino therefore answered carefully. But said no more than that for now.
He expected the words to come gushing out of Ohno now. That he would bombard him with thousands of questions. Why are you there whenever I'm in danger? Why do you save me?
How do you know all of this?
The questions Nino had been asking himself as well all this time. But after a moment of silence Ohno only asked,
"Is there something special between us?"
Nino could only stare at him, perplex.
“What...”
- was wrong with this guy? Nino didn't understand what was going through his head, even though he had thought he knew everything about him until only a few moments ago. Yes, he had even thought he knew him inside out without ever having met him. These dreams he had had all these years, they were like an alter ego hidden away somewhere inside of him. Something he knew in all its facets.
This man, who was sitting in front of him now, was someone else entirely.
"Something special...?" Nino repeated after a moment, confused. Ohno, who had been watching him patiently this whole time, nodded at once.
"You're my savior after all. That's enough to be called 'special', right?"
In lieu of the questioning look, a smile appeared on Ohno's face. As if this that been enough to resolve things between them. As if it was that easy.
Nino shook his head, bewildered, "You are here to ask me, if there's something special between us? Nothing else? I'm lying here, frantically trying to figure out how to explain why I dream of you every damn night and you... ask this?"
A hint of disapproval could be seen in Ohno's eyes for a moment, but before Nino could make it out properly it was already gone again. But Ohno wasn't smiling anymore. Instead the look he gave Nino said quite clearly that he thought Nino had just said something really stupid.
"You can't explain fate." He shrugged his shoulders. His indifference was suddenly too much for Nino.
"It might be really easy for you, you know! You don't have this shitty responsibility, you don't have to play life saver. So go on, continue to put yourself in danger, fate will surely save you again and again."
His sudden bout of anger had made Nino forget that he had only just woken up after a terrible accident. That he was in the hospital - not without just cause - and that there was a thick bandage wrapped around his chest, beneath which a sudden, horrible pain developed.
"Damn...," he gasped, pressing his hand to his chest, but he couldn't stop the ever growing pain.
"Shh... calm down. Slowly now." Ohno had sprung to his feet immediately and Nino felt his hand on his shoulder, stroking it gently, reassuringly. "Try to take deep breaths."
The pain receded again quickly. Apparently Nino just shouldn't get upset.
"It's... ok," he confirmed quietly. For a moment they stayed like this, Ohno with his warm hand still on Nino's shoulder and Nino, whose breathing was slowing down again and whose face was slowly relaxing out of its pained grimace, with his hands still pressed against his chest. Then Ohno let himself fall back onto his chair.
"So you have dreams about me?" he finally asked and it was once more Nino's turn to look surprised. Shouldn't he have asked this right away?
After a while Jun came back, just when Nino was talking about the first time Ohno had died in his dreams. Ohno was looking very interested throughout all of it, but it seemed to Nino as if Ohno was listening to a good story, not knowing that he was the main character.
Jun had brought back some snacks for them, putting them down on a low table while his gaze rested first on Ohno, then on Nino. He smiled silently.
"The thing at the construction site was pretty sickening. Not very pretty, watching someone be bludgeoned to death by iron girders, I tell you." Nino smiled slightly, somehow the air between them had changed since he had started talking about his dreams. Ohno was in no way demanding and that did Nino a lot of good. He didn't have to explain things to him, he just told him what had happened - without trying to make sense of it.
"And then the shop for fishing equipment. I didn't even want you to see me, but suddenly you were standing next to me."
All of a sudden something changed in Ohno's interestedly amused gaze. He scrunched up his eyebrows and frowned.
"Why did you always run away from me?" he asked seriously.
Nino hadn't expected the sudden question. For a long moment he just looked at Ohno, lost in thought. If there was one question Ohno deserved an answer to, it was surely this.
"Because I was afraid," Nino therefore answered shortly, turning away from him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Jun irresolutely shifting his weight from one foot to the other. "I have dreamed of you so many times, but I never knew if you really existed. And to see you standing in front of me, that-, it was-, it scared me. Because I don't know why all of this is happening."
"I don't know why either," Ohno only whispered in reply and an ice cold shudder suddenly ran down Nino's spine. It was as if Ohno knew more than he was saying, as if he was aware of something that would stay hidden from Nino for a long time still. But one look into Ohno's eyes showed that he was just as clueless as Nino himself. It grated on him. Someone had to know what was going on with them.
Immediately Jun butted in. "Maybe it's something like fate?"
This time Nino really laughed out loud.
"If both of you say it, there has to be something to it."
When Ohno joined in his laughter the rest of the discomfort had fled the hospital room and finally made way for happier feelings. Nino hadn't expected the mood to lighten this quickly, but he was grateful for it. A meeting of the man of his dreams and his savior had been bound to occur after all and he didn't want it to end in an argument.
But when Ohno disappeared into the bathroom, it only needed a few words to bring the oppressive atmosphere back full force.
"He told me not to burden you with it, but I think it's too important to keep quiet, Nino. Up on the roof, there was this man you dreamed about. He would have pushed Ohno-san off the roof if I hadn't intervened. He would have killed him," Jun said quickly, his gaze wandering to the door even though Ohno had only been gone for a few seconds.
Nino suddenly had to swallow hard, his eyes widened. He had completely forgotten about that.
"Do you think someone is after him?" he asked, startled.
"Maybe not only him. Look, it's just a thought, but what if, what if someone-"
But Nino completed the sentence for him, his face white as a sheet.
"... knew about us."
Jun only nodded, his lips pressed into a thin line.
"Did you get anything out of the man? Maybe... maybe he knows what is happening, maybe he has answers to all of this. Where is he? You didn't let him go, right?" Nino asked at once, only barely able to stop himself.
But Jun just looked at his feet shamefacedly, avoiding Nino's eyes, and answered quietly: "He was gone before I could do anything. I couldn't even see his face."
"I understand." Nino didn't even try to hide the disappointment in his voice.
Then Ohno came back, unsuspecting, and sat down next to Nino's bed again with a soft smile. Nino only looked at him for a long moment, thinking about the talk he had just had with Jun and that there might be a lot more at stake than he had originally thought.
"So where do we go from here?" Ohno asked uncertainly after a few minutes, obviously confused by Nino's stare. But Nino only grinned.
"From now on you will visit me every day."
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