The Rings That Bind Us Together [4th Ring]
Title: The rings that bind us together (other title: Of rings and destiny)
Pairing: RyoDa, AKame, one-sided love
Genre: Fluff, angst, crack
Rating: PG for now and will be keep in view for later chapters.
Summary: err...Ryo loved Kame and Jin loved Ueda but Kame loved Jin and Ueda loved Ryo...a series of incidents happened and...*the author faints*
A/N: this chap is crappy since my 1/3 of my brain cells died during the test...somebody shoot me...
~ 4th Ring ~
“Fucking old man threatened me with the allowance…” Ryo grumbled. His hand was fumbling with the keys to his apartment. Behind him was Ueda, tapping his fingers against his thigh, listening to his mp3. He was holding a bag with his other hand. Finally, the door opened. Ryo pushed the door and rushed inside.
“Please…come in princess…” he mumbled. Ueda nodded and walked slowly inside. His eyes wandered around the room. It was just a simple apartment. The walls were painted light brown. The marble floor will freeze his feet if not for the blue carpet laid on it. The living room was quite big, occupied with a long cream-coloured couch, an ebony coffee table and a small cupboard where the TV, DVD player and PS2 were put by Ryo. The simple kitchen and the living room were separated by a counter. Ueda could see two doors from behind the couch. He just assumed that the doors led to the bedrooms.
“Your apartment is smaller than mine…” Ryo glared at Ueda. The latter just shrugged.
“Just be glad that you didn’t have to pay the hotel and stay here…free of charge…”
“As if I couldn’t afford to pay…” Ryo breathed heavily. This man over here was getting on his nerve. If Johnny-san hadn’t threatened him with the word allowance, he wouldn’t even bother to see Ueda’s face.
“As if I want you to stay here either…now princess, the room on the left is yours, there’s bathroom inside… just don’t do any mess and do not, step your feet inside my room.” Ueda whistled, completely ignoring what Ryo was talking about as he moved to the said bedroom. Ryo sighed. He was tired of cursing already. He couldn’t even count how many time he cursed today.
He jumped on the bed. It was surprisingly soft and smelled nice. Ueda rolled on the king-size bed for a while. He stopped when his cell phone vibrated. He looked at the screen. The number was weird to him.
“Hell…O…what else do you want from me?” he said, annoyingly to the caller.
“I don’t even want to call you, princess! Just want to say that if you need anything to eat, go explore the fridge but DO NOT BURN my kitchen…that’s all, bye.”
“Tch…fucking midget calling just to say that…why don’t he called to say good night or how’s your room? Cozy enough? Want me to accompany you or something… Wait!!!” Ueda smacked himself mentally.
“What the fuck was I even thinking??!” he screamed, earning and equally loud shout of ‘Fucking shut up’ from the next room.
~*~*~*~
Jin walked in front, leading Kame to his apartment. Kame however, looked dejected.
“J- Akanishi…stops.” Jin complied. He turned around to face Kame with a brow raised as a sign of asking whether something is wrong.
“I’m sorry…” Kame muttered. Jin inhaled the air, slowly. Flashing back the incidents today made him drowned in confusion and sadness.
Confuse of the facts who is his destined lover, sad that he couldn’t even confess.
“If it is about the ring, we couldn’t do anything about it Kame…let just forget what happened today, shall we?” he tried not to talk about the topic.
“But it is my fault…and the fact that we need to stay together…just say no and I’ll go back to my apartment…” Jin shook.
“Nah…we’ll just do what Johnny-san told us…we do not want to seek for trouble, do we? Now, hurry up! We’ve got photo shoots tomorrow morning.” Jin opened the door slowly. They stepped inside the apartment.
Kame just stood beside the kitchen counter with his eyes following every movement Jin made. Kame felt weird why Jin needed to move out from his home and live at this apartment. Jin picked up the scattered magazines on the floor before opening a door on the left. He looked pale. I forgot the laundry! Again!
He turned around and faced Kame, slowly closing the door.
“Err…Kame…is it okay for you to sleep inside my bedroom?” Kame’s eyes widened. What? I think I misheard things…
“Hah?” Jin’s eyes were blinking non-stop.
“Well…since I used to live with my mom and I’ll always go back to my mom’s house every weekend…I don’t have much time to clean this apartment…the same goes with the laundry…and this guest room…err…is not a guest room for the meant time…so…wait here…I’ll go clean my bedroom first!” Jin stormed inside another door and begun cleaning his bedroom. He tossed all his dirty clothes inside a basket, changing the bed sheets, pillow case and gathered all of his stuffs and simply put them inside the cupboard. Meanwhile Kame was scanning the apartment outside. It was a nice and cozy apartment except the part that it was in a little mess and untidy. He sighed, but he felt his heart was beating faster. He does not love you Kazuya…he loves Tat-chan…stop dreaming…
After a few minutes, Jin stepped out of the room looking tired.
“Kame…you can come in now…I think it’s clean now…” Kame came into reality. He nodded and slowly made way to Jin’s bedroom.
~*~*~*~
Ryo landed on the bed, his arm resting behind his head, pillows just mere inches above. His throw his cell phone on the bed after the call. He sighed. He was tired of sighing already but that was the only thing he could do besides cursing to no one. Every single thing happened earlier entered his mind one by one.
After he went separate way with Ueda, he bumped into Jin who was holding a sobbing Kame in his arms. None that he knew that Kame was wearing Jin’s ring. So, he helped Jin just so that Kame knew that he cared for him too. The fact that he was jealous with Jin was one of the reasons he helped too. Slowly they brought the younger man to the dressing room. When Jin went to search for the first aid kit, he was automatically assigned to comfort Kame. And he couldn’t feel happier. He tried calming the sobbing man, telling him soothing words. As he was about to hold his hand, Ryo noticed something shining around the latter’s right finger-ring. ZAPP! A blade cut his heart. He remembered the lady from the shop said there was only two pair of the rings. And since his pair of ring was worn by Ueda he could only came into one conclusion. Kame is someone else’s lover. Thinking of that, he immediately went out of the room just the time Jin came back.
I never have thought he is someone’s lover…I always seen him alone without anyone accompanying him…baka me…I should have guessed…if I knew this earlier I won’t have to buy that rings…this ring…
He glanced at the metal around his left finger-ring. The metal he bought with all his heart.
So now I’m stuck with Ueda huh…?
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Hell no! He shook endlessly.
~*~*~*~
“… first person who wears that ring shall be the true owner of it…”the sentences echoed inside Jin’s head. He huffed. No wonder people calls me a baka…for once they are right…it was supposed to be given to Tat-chan…not Kame…baka, baka, baka me! There goes my chance to experience true fucking love!
Jin rolled on the couch resulting him to landed, hard on the floor. Head banged to the leg of the coffee table.
“ITAI! ITAI! ITAI!” He yelped in pain. He rubbed his head a few times.
“…what’s wrong?” Kame’s voice reached Jin’s ears. Jin looked up and met Kame’s worried gaze. Jin shook his head trying to show that nothing happened but his actions made him hissed in pain even more since he banged his head to the couch and the coffee table as he shook.
“ITAI!” Kame chuckled seeing Jin’s antics. He stretched his hand.
“Come on…I’ll help you…” hesitantly, Jin took Kame’s offer and he was now standing on his feet again.
“T-thank you…”
“No problem…you know what, let me sleep on the couch and you can sleep inside…it’s no big deal anyway…” Kame suggested. Jin shook, again.
“Nope…you’re my guest so I’ll treat you like one. Now I’m back to sleep. Oyasuminasai Kame…” with that, Jin shoved Kame aside and launched his limbs on the couch, pulling the blanket till above his head, refused to see Kame. Kame however, shook his head while smiling. He’s stubborn sometimes…
~*~*~*~
“Ryo-chan! You’re late!” Yamapi shook his best friend’s shoulder, trying to wake him up. Ryo’s eyes fluttered open. He was tired and he was very sure that his tomodachi right here didn’t have any clue about that.
“10 minutes only Pi…no harm done…”
“W-what?! Time is gold Ryo-chan! You shouldn’t waste it!” Ryo showed an expressionless face.
“Says you the one who got the history of being late few times, huh?” Ryo raised a brow. Yamapi pouted.
“But Ueda-kun is already here! 10 minutes early! How come you’re the one who is late? Aren’t you staying together now?”
Ryo stopped abruptly causing Pi to stumble upon him.
“Don’t. Talk. About. That. Princess. And the fact that he is the one who stays in my home.” He huffed and continued walking.
Yamapi blinked a few times. Ryo looked pissed. That’s bad. Early in the morning. Pi widened his eyes. That’s even worse.
He ran slightly to catch up with Ryo. And he made a mental note not to bring that topic again. Or so he thought.
“Ohayo Ryo-tan! I didn’t see you with Ueda-kun?” Tegoshi smiled his…smile. Pi looked shocked. Yabai! Dead, dead Tego-nyan. He took a glimpse of Ryo.
“Ohayo Tego-nyan…” and he simply walked away, leaving the youngest member who wanted an explanation from Pi.
“We’ll talk about this later Tego-nyan…”
-TBC-
Gomen! *runs*