Oretachi no Omoide - Chap 20
Chapter 20: In which second stage starts…
Sho watched Aiba silently. The younger guy was busy cooking dinner to them in the kitchen. Or he said he’ll do this. But actually he was so deep in his thoughts that he did nothing in the past few minutes and it started to endanger whatever they’ll eat tonight…
“Aiba-chan…” Sho called him but Aiba didn’t even hear him. “Masaki!” Sho repeated a bit louder and hugged his waist from back.
Aiba squealed at this and jumped a bit.
“Sho-chan! Don’t do this ever again, it’s dangerous! I’m cooking here…” Aiba scolded him lightly.
“No, you don’t” Sho disagreed and to prove his point he turned off the stove before turned around Aiba to face him. “What’s wrong, honey? You’re weird recently…” Sho said with concern in his voice and looked into Aiba’s eyes.
Aiba’s lips trembled as he will burst out crying any minute and lowered his head so he didn’t have to look into Sho’s eyes.
“Why are you with me, Sho?” Aiba asked mumbled.
Sho’s eyes widened at this. How could Aiba even think about something like this?...
“Why are you with me, Sho?” Aiba repeated but still didn’t look up. “I’m too…”
“How can you ask this, Masaki? I love you, don’t you know that?” Sho said and forced Aiba to look at him.
“I know but… But maybe you should choose someone else… Someone who’s not a baka like me… I don’t even have a job… I just… bring shame to you, right?...” Aiba sniffled with teary eyes.
Sho was more shocked at this but he was furious too.
“Who said this to you?” Sho demanded. “Whoever it was, he’s lying! Do you hear me, Masaki? HE’S LYING!... You don’t bring shame to me, and whoever thinks this then he can can fuck himself! I don’t care what others think about our relationship so don’t you dare break up with me because of something stupid like this. Okay?
Sho wiped the tears from Aiba’s face gently before pulled him to kiss him desperately.
He was sure that someone told this to Aiba. There was no way he would came up with something like this alone. He was too… too innocent for it. But who could it be? A few months earlier Sho would’ve been sure that it was Jun who tries to snatch back Aiba from him like this. But now he was somehow pretty assured that Jun has nothing to do with this…
Almost two weeks passed since Toma’s ‘confession’ but nothing changed. On the surface…
Firstly because when Toma woke up the next day with sore neck and stiff body because of the sleeping on the kitchen table, he remembered nothing about his confession. Or was he just acting?
Anyway, Jun said nothing about it too. But he did it because he wasn’t sure yet how to react it. He knew that he wasn’t indifferent to the younger guy but he wasn’t sure that it’s because he sees Aiba in him or because he started to seriously fall for him. But he was sure in one thing: his heart skipped a beat like a teenage boy’s when he heard Toma’s words…
When Jun entered to their living room in the morning he found Toma laying prone on the couch his chin rested on the armrest and was flipping through a magazine what was on the floor next to the couch. It didn’t seem that comfortable reading position but he seemed to be okay with it.
“How come that you’re here?” Jus asked.
Toma looked up at the model while he flipped a page.
“I didn’t know I’m that much a disturbance” he said with mock hurt and pouted for the act.
“I didn’t say that. It’s just recently you just came home to eat and sleep…” Jun shrugged as he was uninterested to he was worried because of Toma’s weird behavior.
Hearing this Toma grinned and sat back on his heels instantly.
“Why? Did you miss me?” he asked grinning.
“No” Jun said too quickly and turned his face away from Toma.
“So you did miss me. It’s okay, you can admit it…” Toma teased him laughing.
“No, I totally didn’t miss you” Jun said stubbornly. “Actually, I hoped that you won’t be at home today as well so I can enjoy my rare day-off undisturbed…” he added before heading to the kitchen; and Toma became disappointed. “But since you’re here… Do you want to watch a movie together later?” Jun asked turning back at the door to glance at Toma before he entered the kitchen.
Toma glared after him with widened eyes.
“Ye…ah… sure…” he stuttered finally.
“Okay, then it’s a date!” Jun called back from the kitchen.
“WHAT?” Toma shrieked and blushed furiously.
Hearing the shriek Jun started laughing and came back to the living room. Toma immediately hid his face behind his palms.
“Don’t worry, it was a joke” the model said laughing and pulled away Toma’s hand from his face. “Unless you want it to be a real date…” he said seductively and leant closer to Toma.
At this Toma blushed more and lowered his head muttering something unintelligible under his breath. Jun just grinned at this and went back to the kitchen to make breakfast…
In the end Jun had mercy on Toma and pronounced it a ‘not-date’ though Toma still acted as a love-sick schoolgirl on her first date. He blushed, giggled and jumped anytime Jun ‘accidentally’ touched his hand or bent too close in the movie theatre’s darkness too close when he commented the movie. And this made Jun really happy for some reason. No, he wasn’t happy only because he could embarrass the younger guy, he was sure of it; but he had no idea then what’s the main reason? But his stomach made flip-flops every time the small electric sparkles bounced under his skin when he touched Toma’s hand. When he realized it he almost slapped himself. He amused over Toma acting as a schoolgirl though he himself wasn’t better than a teenage boy who asked out a girl first time in his life (though it was a boy in their case…)
“So… you’re in love with me, right?” Jun asked out of the blue while they were walking home and cut-off in the park from the station to their apartment.
Hearing this Toma choked on nothing and started coughing furiously.
“What? I have no idea what are you talking about…” he said when he could catch his breath finally but the blush on his face had nothing to do with the coughing.
“Really? But it was you who said it… ‘Jun daisuki...’, you said this exactly…” the model pressed and stopped looking at Toma who followed his lead immediately and stopped as well.
There was silence between them for a while. Toma pouted sulkily and looked wherever just not at Jun; but Jun on the other hand looked straight at his face expectantly.
“Okay, I’m in love with you, so what?” he admitted in the end, not that it would worth denying it anyway. “It’s not that I would jump on you and rape you or something…” he added and crossed his arms over his chest defensively.
“Well… now you confessed so nicely, we should do something about it…” Jun said and stepped closer to Toma who still wasn’t looking at him.
“What do you want? Should I move out?” Toma asked.
“I didn’t think about that…” Jun said smirking and in the next moment he put his hand on Toma’s nape and tugged him into a forceful kiss.
Toma was waiting for the kiss too long so when Jun’s lips touched his, he instantly closed his eyes and let Jun dominates him. He moaned softly when Jun tilted his head to be able to explore his mouth more with his skillful tongue.
But suddenly a bothering thought intruded into Toma’s pleasure fogged mind. It was Jun he was kissing… And Jun was in love with Aiba…
He opened his eyes at this and pushed away Jun forcefully.
“What do you think you’re doing?” he asked flushed and breathless; hurt and anger was mixed in his eyes.
“I was kissing you, if you would’ve not noticed it…” Jun said panting with a mocking tone to hide his hurt that Toma pushed him off.
“Yeah, I noticed that, thank you very much but… but don’t just kiss me when you… when you’re in love with Aiba-chan…” the younger said in a dying voice and lowered his head. “I don’t want to be his replacement again, it hurt enough the first time…” he muttered.
“What are you talking about?” Jun asked frowning.
“I’m talking about when you almost fucked me drunk thinking I was Aiba!” Toma shouted at him and his eyes brimmed over with tears though his face was flushed because of shame.
Jun couldn’t say anything for minutes. What could he say at this? That he’s sorry?... That he couldn’t control himself because he was drunk?... He doubted that any of these would help his situation now…
“Okay… It’s true that I was in love with Ma-chan, I think maybe I still am…” Toma winced at this. “… a little… But it’s not that easy, stop loving someone, okay?” Jun said a bit annoyed. “But I don’t walk around kissing any passers-by! I… I like you, Toma… I think… I started to fall for you so give me a chance to fall for you head over heels, okay?” Jun demanded but didn’t give Toma the chance to answer instead pulled him in again and kissed him one more time.
Toma felt as the tears rolled down on his face but he didn’t care. He didn’t care anything just the warm feeling what burned in his chest from Jun’s kiss…
Sho headed back to his office relieved. It was his last meeting for today which meant almost half an hour and he can be at home with his Masaki…
The younger guy was still bothered by the whole ‘I bring shame to Sho’ thing so he decided to change this. He started this with looking for a proper job which could make Sho proud of him, though the older man couldn’t stress how proud he’s at him already. Sho also tried to dissuade about the whole job-thing since the shelter will be finished in a few months and that’ll give enough work to Aiba to do, but he wasn’t listening to Sho at all in this case…
Sho just closed his office door behind himself when his phone rang.
“Moshi-moshi? Sakurai desu…”
“Good evening, Sakurai-san! I’m Yamada, Ikuta-san’s assistant. If you agree on it, Ikuta-san wants to meet you tomorrow. It would be business related…” a young woman’s voice said on the other end.
Sho blinked a few times surprised.
“Anou… Sakurai-san? Are you still there?...” the woman asked warily when Sho gave no answer to her.
“Oh, yeah, I’m still here, sorry. Yes, I’m free tomorrow” Sho said, not that he had any chance to say anything else. It wasn’t that kind of invitation where you can say ‘no’.
“Great! Then I’ll send you the details about the meeting. Goodbye!” with this the assistant hang up.
But Sho still glared into space confused minutes later…
A/N: yaaaay!!! Toma and Jun are finally together!!! are you happy? it might seem too quick, sorry for that but since I want to finish this story soon, I have to make things a bit quicker...
Sho watched Aiba silently. The younger guy was busy cooking dinner to them in the kitchen. Or he said he’ll do this. But actually he was so deep in his thoughts that he did nothing in the past few minutes and it started to endanger whatever they’ll eat tonight…
“Aiba-chan…” Sho called him but Aiba didn’t even hear him. “Masaki!” Sho repeated a bit louder and hugged his waist from back.
Aiba squealed at this and jumped a bit.
“Sho-chan! Don’t do this ever again, it’s dangerous! I’m cooking here…” Aiba scolded him lightly.
“No, you don’t” Sho disagreed and to prove his point he turned off the stove before turned around Aiba to face him. “What’s wrong, honey? You’re weird recently…” Sho said with concern in his voice and looked into Aiba’s eyes.
Aiba’s lips trembled as he will burst out crying any minute and lowered his head so he didn’t have to look into Sho’s eyes.
“Why are you with me, Sho?” Aiba asked mumbled.
Sho’s eyes widened at this. How could Aiba even think about something like this?...
“Why are you with me, Sho?” Aiba repeated but still didn’t look up. “I’m too…”
“How can you ask this, Masaki? I love you, don’t you know that?” Sho said and forced Aiba to look at him.
“I know but… But maybe you should choose someone else… Someone who’s not a baka like me… I don’t even have a job… I just… bring shame to you, right?...” Aiba sniffled with teary eyes.
Sho was more shocked at this but he was furious too.
“Who said this to you?” Sho demanded. “Whoever it was, he’s lying! Do you hear me, Masaki? HE’S LYING!... You don’t bring shame to me, and whoever thinks this then he can can fuck himself! I don’t care what others think about our relationship so don’t you dare break up with me because of something stupid like this. Okay?
Sho wiped the tears from Aiba’s face gently before pulled him to kiss him desperately.
He was sure that someone told this to Aiba. There was no way he would came up with something like this alone. He was too… too innocent for it. But who could it be? A few months earlier Sho would’ve been sure that it was Jun who tries to snatch back Aiba from him like this. But now he was somehow pretty assured that Jun has nothing to do with this…
Almost two weeks passed since Toma’s ‘confession’ but nothing changed. On the surface…
Firstly because when Toma woke up the next day with sore neck and stiff body because of the sleeping on the kitchen table, he remembered nothing about his confession. Or was he just acting?
Anyway, Jun said nothing about it too. But he did it because he wasn’t sure yet how to react it. He knew that he wasn’t indifferent to the younger guy but he wasn’t sure that it’s because he sees Aiba in him or because he started to seriously fall for him. But he was sure in one thing: his heart skipped a beat like a teenage boy’s when he heard Toma’s words…
When Jun entered to their living room in the morning he found Toma laying prone on the couch his chin rested on the armrest and was flipping through a magazine what was on the floor next to the couch. It didn’t seem that comfortable reading position but he seemed to be okay with it.
“How come that you’re here?” Jus asked.
Toma looked up at the model while he flipped a page.
“I didn’t know I’m that much a disturbance” he said with mock hurt and pouted for the act.
“I didn’t say that. It’s just recently you just came home to eat and sleep…” Jun shrugged as he was uninterested to he was worried because of Toma’s weird behavior.
Hearing this Toma grinned and sat back on his heels instantly.
“Why? Did you miss me?” he asked grinning.
“No” Jun said too quickly and turned his face away from Toma.
“So you did miss me. It’s okay, you can admit it…” Toma teased him laughing.
“No, I totally didn’t miss you” Jun said stubbornly. “Actually, I hoped that you won’t be at home today as well so I can enjoy my rare day-off undisturbed…” he added before heading to the kitchen; and Toma became disappointed. “But since you’re here… Do you want to watch a movie together later?” Jun asked turning back at the door to glance at Toma before he entered the kitchen.
Toma glared after him with widened eyes.
“Ye…ah… sure…” he stuttered finally.
“Okay, then it’s a date!” Jun called back from the kitchen.
“WHAT?” Toma shrieked and blushed furiously.
Hearing the shriek Jun started laughing and came back to the living room. Toma immediately hid his face behind his palms.
“Don’t worry, it was a joke” the model said laughing and pulled away Toma’s hand from his face. “Unless you want it to be a real date…” he said seductively and leant closer to Toma.
At this Toma blushed more and lowered his head muttering something unintelligible under his breath. Jun just grinned at this and went back to the kitchen to make breakfast…
In the end Jun had mercy on Toma and pronounced it a ‘not-date’ though Toma still acted as a love-sick schoolgirl on her first date. He blushed, giggled and jumped anytime Jun ‘accidentally’ touched his hand or bent too close in the movie theatre’s darkness too close when he commented the movie. And this made Jun really happy for some reason. No, he wasn’t happy only because he could embarrass the younger guy, he was sure of it; but he had no idea then what’s the main reason? But his stomach made flip-flops every time the small electric sparkles bounced under his skin when he touched Toma’s hand. When he realized it he almost slapped himself. He amused over Toma acting as a schoolgirl though he himself wasn’t better than a teenage boy who asked out a girl first time in his life (though it was a boy in their case…)
“So… you’re in love with me, right?” Jun asked out of the blue while they were walking home and cut-off in the park from the station to their apartment.
Hearing this Toma choked on nothing and started coughing furiously.
“What? I have no idea what are you talking about…” he said when he could catch his breath finally but the blush on his face had nothing to do with the coughing.
“Really? But it was you who said it… ‘Jun daisuki...’, you said this exactly…” the model pressed and stopped looking at Toma who followed his lead immediately and stopped as well.
There was silence between them for a while. Toma pouted sulkily and looked wherever just not at Jun; but Jun on the other hand looked straight at his face expectantly.
“Okay, I’m in love with you, so what?” he admitted in the end, not that it would worth denying it anyway. “It’s not that I would jump on you and rape you or something…” he added and crossed his arms over his chest defensively.
“Well… now you confessed so nicely, we should do something about it…” Jun said and stepped closer to Toma who still wasn’t looking at him.
“What do you want? Should I move out?” Toma asked.
“I didn’t think about that…” Jun said smirking and in the next moment he put his hand on Toma’s nape and tugged him into a forceful kiss.
Toma was waiting for the kiss too long so when Jun’s lips touched his, he instantly closed his eyes and let Jun dominates him. He moaned softly when Jun tilted his head to be able to explore his mouth more with his skillful tongue.
But suddenly a bothering thought intruded into Toma’s pleasure fogged mind. It was Jun he was kissing… And Jun was in love with Aiba…
He opened his eyes at this and pushed away Jun forcefully.
“What do you think you’re doing?” he asked flushed and breathless; hurt and anger was mixed in his eyes.
“I was kissing you, if you would’ve not noticed it…” Jun said panting with a mocking tone to hide his hurt that Toma pushed him off.
“Yeah, I noticed that, thank you very much but… but don’t just kiss me when you… when you’re in love with Aiba-chan…” the younger said in a dying voice and lowered his head. “I don’t want to be his replacement again, it hurt enough the first time…” he muttered.
“What are you talking about?” Jun asked frowning.
“I’m talking about when you almost fucked me drunk thinking I was Aiba!” Toma shouted at him and his eyes brimmed over with tears though his face was flushed because of shame.
Jun couldn’t say anything for minutes. What could he say at this? That he’s sorry?... That he couldn’t control himself because he was drunk?... He doubted that any of these would help his situation now…
“Okay… It’s true that I was in love with Ma-chan, I think maybe I still am…” Toma winced at this. “… a little… But it’s not that easy, stop loving someone, okay?” Jun said a bit annoyed. “But I don’t walk around kissing any passers-by! I… I like you, Toma… I think… I started to fall for you so give me a chance to fall for you head over heels, okay?” Jun demanded but didn’t give Toma the chance to answer instead pulled him in again and kissed him one more time.
Toma felt as the tears rolled down on his face but he didn’t care. He didn’t care anything just the warm feeling what burned in his chest from Jun’s kiss…
Sho headed back to his office relieved. It was his last meeting for today which meant almost half an hour and he can be at home with his Masaki…
The younger guy was still bothered by the whole ‘I bring shame to Sho’ thing so he decided to change this. He started this with looking for a proper job which could make Sho proud of him, though the older man couldn’t stress how proud he’s at him already. Sho also tried to dissuade about the whole job-thing since the shelter will be finished in a few months and that’ll give enough work to Aiba to do, but he wasn’t listening to Sho at all in this case…
Sho just closed his office door behind himself when his phone rang.
“Moshi-moshi? Sakurai desu…”
“Good evening, Sakurai-san! I’m Yamada, Ikuta-san’s assistant. If you agree on it, Ikuta-san wants to meet you tomorrow. It would be business related…” a young woman’s voice said on the other end.
Sho blinked a few times surprised.
“Anou… Sakurai-san? Are you still there?...” the woman asked warily when Sho gave no answer to her.
“Oh, yeah, I’m still here, sorry. Yes, I’m free tomorrow” Sho said, not that he had any chance to say anything else. It wasn’t that kind of invitation where you can say ‘no’.
“Great! Then I’ll send you the details about the meeting. Goodbye!” with this the assistant hang up.
But Sho still glared into space confused minutes later…
A/N: yaaaay!!! Toma and Jun are finally together!!! are you happy? it might seem too quick, sorry for that but since I want to finish this story soon, I have to make things a bit quicker...