Behind the waves Chapter 15 (*end*)
Title: Behind the waves
Pairing: Aiba Masaki/ Sakurai Sho; Matsumoto Jun/ Ohno Satoshi;
Rating: PG-13
Warning: none
Summary: Aiba has a special ability - he can see shadows surrounding people who can’t get rid of their past and what had happened to them and the people they once loved. As psychologist it’s Aiba’s duty to help them getting rid of their bad experiences (and their shadows) to start a new life.
„Where did you get that information from? The internet? My ex-wife?” Sho yelled. His breath had gotten faster.
Koko looked at her father. “He is still so angry. You know he always called me butterfly. We played a lot together. Our favourite game was ‘I found something new’. We developed it together.” She pulled a small flower out of her bag. “We searched for flowers or other things in nature and afterwards we sat in the library, searching for the names and details about the things we collected. Oh, and this flower - it’s a guinea-hen flower, we didn’t tell mommy about it. It was our secret, because this is a rare and special flower.”
Aiba stood up. He stepped closer to Sho, who walked backwards. “You called her butterfly and your favourite game was ‘I found something new’.”
Sho shook his head. “No. Please stop it.”
“Guinea-hen flower - it was your secret,” Aiba said. He could see Sho’s eyes got teary. He sobbed.
“Please Aiba-san, if you are a fool, stop it,” Sho begged.
Aiba stepped closer, touching Sho’s shoulder. “Sho-san, I would never, never play with someone’s feelings - especially not in this case.” He looked at Sho closely. “I just want you to understand that Ohno wasn’t aware of what he was doing. He tells the truth. He can’t remember about it.”
“I don’t know … Aiba-san, you know how this sounds? You tell me here that you are a medium or something like this, and you want that I believe you, while my brother’s boyfriend almost killed my brother. And you tell me he didn’t know it? It’s hard to believe this you know.” Sho said. He walked up to Ohno’s place, sitting next to him. “Ten years ago I would have punched you to death, the both of you, but I don’t know. Maybe I changed, maybe I got more good-hearted.” Sho smiled sadly.
“Sho-kun, I would never pull Jun in something like this. I love him, you should know that,” Ohno tried to explain.
“I know,” Sho said. Aiba was astonished how calm Sho suddenly was.
“I am overstrained. So can we please wait till we know how Jun is, and I think afterwards we need to settle all things,” Sho rubbed his face. “I feel numb and tired, and I can’t make a clear mind right now.”
Aiba nodded. “Sounds good.”
The door opened and Nino came back into the room. He smiled at them. “Good news,” he said.
Sho and Ohno jumped up immediately. “What’s with him?” Both said unison.
“He has a broken leg and some broken ribs and a broken hand, some cuts on his forehead and arm, but everything else is okay. He had been lucky. The man drove slow, so he didn’t hit him with full speed,” Nino said.
“Can we visit him?” Sho asked.
“He wants to see Aiba first, don’t ask me why, but yes, we are able to visit him.” Nino looked at Aiba.
“Me?” Aiba asked.
Nino nodded. “I bring you to him.”
Aiba looked back at Sho and Ohno apologetically, before he slipped out of the door.
~~~
Aiba opened the door to Jun’s room. “I wait here,” Nino said.
Aiba nodded at him. “I am so happy that Jun is okay,” Aiba said before he slipped into Jun’s room.
Jun lay on the bed, his leg and arm in a cast. “Hey, Masaki,” Jun said.
Aiba sat on the chair next to Jun’s bed. “God, we were so afraid.”
Jun smiled. He tried to move on the bed, but he was only able to shift a little bit. “You know, Koko told me that she is able to talk with you.”
Aiba blinked. Did Jun really say that right now? Was he really talking about Sho’s daughter? “What?”
Jun laughed out. “Masaki, I know that Oh-chan can’t remember about that accident. I am aware of his wife hunting him. But she is gone now, right?”
Aiba had his mouth wide open. “You …” Aiba stuttered. “No.”
“Did I make you speechless?” Jun looked at him.
“Honesty, I don’t understand a word,” Aiba admitted. “Are you a medium?”
Jun nodded. “Since childhood, but I never told anyone about it. And I always thought I am the only one.”
Aiba had to laugh. That really couldn’t be. “I shocked your brother right before with my ability.”
“You told him about it?” Jun asked.
Aiba nodded. “I had to, because he was about to kill Ohno.”
Jun shook his head. He had a smile around his lips. Aiba was glad that Jun was really not that badly hurt. “It’s amazing that he believed in your words.”
“Koko helped me with it,” Aiba admitted.
“Oh,” Jun said. “You know, I would have helped them, but they didn’t listen to my tries, and I was too afraid to tell them the truth, because who would believe in this?”
“Shall we call the others, because I think Sho and Ohno are already running mad outside. They want to see you.” Aiba stood up to get to the door. “And let’s talk about everything when you are out of here, okay?”
Jun nodded with a smile. “I am happy that I’ve found a second person like me.”
“Me too.”
~~~
“Jun.” Sho headed to the room. “God, I was so afraid.”
“I am okay,” Jun said. He looked at Ohno, who walked into the room behind Sho. Aiba could see his gaze lowered, he was nervous and tensed. Aiba gave him an encouraging smile.
“Satoshi, it’s okay.” Jun raised his healthy hand. “Come here.”
Ohno seemed irritated. Maybe he had counted with Jun scolding him, yelling at him, throwing him out. He stepped to the bed and took Jun’s hand in his. “I know that it wasn’t you who acted like this.”
With this Jun started explaining what he was, and Aiba hid a grin when he saw Sho’s face getting pale again. It was hard for him to believe this story, but now it was far too much for him.
~~~
Two days later Aiba roamed through his kitchen. He searched for his cookies he had bought some days ago. “Haro I am getting confused. I had this package somewhere here, but where?”
Haro barked happily, her tail wiggling left and right. She jumped up to the door when there was a knock. Aiba cursed when he hit his head on the cupboard and walked up to open. “Sho-san?”
The other raised his hands with some self-made cookies on it. “Can I come in?”
Aiba looked at the plate. “Did you make them?”
Sho nodded. “My tenth try succeeded.”
Aiba laughed. “Come in.”
They sat on the balcony. Sho looked at the sea. “I still hate the sea, but you know that.”
“No, I don’t know it. I don’t even know what happened back then,” he said. It was the truth. He hadn’t talked with Koko about the cause of her death.
Sho blinked at him. “I thought you know my whole past?”
“No.” Aiba shook his head.
Jun was still in hospital, but he should be released in a few days, and Ohno had spent almost every minute at Jun’s bed. Nino was back at work on a long weekend shift, and Sho had called him - for Aiba’s surprise.
Sho sighed. His eyes had changed so much from the first time he had been here. They weren’t that dark anymore, and his whole body language wasn’t tensed. “Four years ago I made a boat trip with my family. My daughter, Koko, jumped into the sea and started diving around there. She was a good swimmer, but suddenly she was gone.” Sho’s voice broke. “I jumped into the water. I searched for her. And I found her. Her leg got caught in the buoy’s rope. It was too late.” Sho looked down.
“I am sorry about that, Sho-san,” Aiba said.
“Is she here right now?” Sho wanted to know.
Aiba nodded. He looked at the girl next to Sho. She stood there, smiling. “I am so happy that he finally talks about it. Aiba-san, please take care of him.” She bowed.
“Everything is a mess right now. The whole thing with Jun, and my own life. But I decided that it’s time to change.” Sho looked up to the sky. “And I am sure you’ll watch over me, Koko, no matter where you are. I really love you, always.”
Aiba could feel the tears in him rising. He could get really emotional. “Bye, Papa, we’ll see each other again one day. I love you too.” She waved happily. “Bye, bye, Aiba-chan.”
“Bye, Koko,” Aiba said. “She goes now. She knows that you are alright now. She loves you and one day you’ll see each other again.”
Tears were running down Sho’s face. Aiba wasn’t sure if Sho had ever been that emotional before.
Koko’s body faded till she was gone completely.
“Aiba-chan,” it was one of the few times Sho called him like this. “Would you come with me to Tokyo one day, visiting Koko’s grave?”
Aiba nodded. He’d love doing this.
~~~
Some weeks later Aiba sat together with Sho and Jun. He looked from to the other and back. They yelled at each other, cried, yelled some more, cried some more, and so one. One hour later they stopped and none of them said a word.
“Are you done?” Aiba asked.
Both nodded at him. “Good. What do you think now? Is it possible to change the situation between the both of you?”
“I still can’t believe that you didn’t tell me about your ability, but I had been a real jerk in past, so I guess it’s just normal that you didn’t talk with me. And I am really sorry for everything, Jun. You are my brother, and you’ve always been,” Sho said.
Jun smiled at him. “You know, Oh-chan told me how afraid he had been that you’d kill him right after the accident. He told me how much you cared about my health. Let’s move on together, okay?”
Sho nodded at him, and Aiba smiled about it.
~~~
Almost half a year had passed since the accident. Aiba was about to go for a walk with Haro, when his phone rang. “Sho, what can I do for you?”
Neither Sho nor Ohno were his patients anymore, they had become friends. Aiba couldn’t remember how many times he had talked with Jun about their ability, and how many times he and Ohno had gone fishing together. But with Sho it was something different.
Aiba’s feelings had grown, but he wasn’t confident enough to talk openly about it, and Sho didn’t make a step either, even though Jun, Ohno and Nino tried their best to get them together.
“Ah, Masaki, I wanted to ask if you accompany me to Tokyo?” Sho asked. His voice sounded nervous.
“Yes, I come along,” Aiba agreed immediately. Not only because he wanted to share time with Sho, but also because he wanted to visit Koko. In the end she was the one who broke that vicious circle.
~~~
Two days later they stood at the grave and Aiba placed a Guinea-hen flower on there. It was already getting colder, at least in Tokyo, and Aiba could feel his hands getting cold. He was glad that they didn’t have this cold weather on their island, but sometimes he enjoyed it - like today. He didn’t know why, but this weather made his mood rising.
“You know Sho-chan, we could go for a walk in the city. I want to see the enormous lighting,” Aiba chirped. He always hated it, but maybe even he had changed, without realising it.
“Sho-chan? Are you nuts?” Sho said, his hands on his hips.
Aiba’s smile faded. “Sorry,” he murmured, earning a laugh from Sho. “Hey, you fooled me,” Aiba pouted. “So, let’s go.” He took Sho’s hand in his and pulled him along the road.
Not before they reached the crowded street Aiba realized that he was still holding Sho’s hand, who didn’t even complain about it. Aiba could feel Sho’s fingers intertwined with his. Sho’s hand was warm and soft against his. His thumb brushed over Aiba’s back of the hand. Aiba smiled widely, his cheeks flushing.
Aiba heard laughter and turned. He was sure it was Koko’s voice singing excitedly about her father’s new happiness, but probably he misheard it.
“What’s wrong,” Sho asked, his other hand brushing Aiba’s cheek.
“Nothing, I just thought I heard a voice,” Aiba said.
Sho looked around. “Here are a lot of voices around us.”
Aiba wanted to say that there were even a lot of shadows, but he didn’t care about it now. They pulled on his energy, but Aiba had the feeling that no one was able to bring him down at the moment. “I thought of a special voice, but probably I misheard it.”
“And if is Koko, I want her to know that I am happy now,” Sho whispered, leaning closer to Aiba till their bodies touched.
A/N: So that's it my dear friends <3 I really want to thank everyone who read this story, and thanks for every single comment, I was happy about every bit of it. <3 <3
I had pretty much fun writing this multi chapter, and I really hope to see you in my next multi chapter, starting next Sunday. It'll be a different pairing, but I hope you'll like it <3
Thanks again, see you soon <3
Pairing: Aiba Masaki/ Sakurai Sho; Matsumoto Jun/ Ohno Satoshi;
Rating: PG-13
Warning: none
Summary: Aiba has a special ability - he can see shadows surrounding people who can’t get rid of their past and what had happened to them and the people they once loved. As psychologist it’s Aiba’s duty to help them getting rid of their bad experiences (and their shadows) to start a new life.
„Where did you get that information from? The internet? My ex-wife?” Sho yelled. His breath had gotten faster.
Koko looked at her father. “He is still so angry. You know he always called me butterfly. We played a lot together. Our favourite game was ‘I found something new’. We developed it together.” She pulled a small flower out of her bag. “We searched for flowers or other things in nature and afterwards we sat in the library, searching for the names and details about the things we collected. Oh, and this flower - it’s a guinea-hen flower, we didn’t tell mommy about it. It was our secret, because this is a rare and special flower.”
Aiba stood up. He stepped closer to Sho, who walked backwards. “You called her butterfly and your favourite game was ‘I found something new’.”
Sho shook his head. “No. Please stop it.”
“Guinea-hen flower - it was your secret,” Aiba said. He could see Sho’s eyes got teary. He sobbed.
“Please Aiba-san, if you are a fool, stop it,” Sho begged.
Aiba stepped closer, touching Sho’s shoulder. “Sho-san, I would never, never play with someone’s feelings - especially not in this case.” He looked at Sho closely. “I just want you to understand that Ohno wasn’t aware of what he was doing. He tells the truth. He can’t remember about it.”
“I don’t know … Aiba-san, you know how this sounds? You tell me here that you are a medium or something like this, and you want that I believe you, while my brother’s boyfriend almost killed my brother. And you tell me he didn’t know it? It’s hard to believe this you know.” Sho said. He walked up to Ohno’s place, sitting next to him. “Ten years ago I would have punched you to death, the both of you, but I don’t know. Maybe I changed, maybe I got more good-hearted.” Sho smiled sadly.
“Sho-kun, I would never pull Jun in something like this. I love him, you should know that,” Ohno tried to explain.
“I know,” Sho said. Aiba was astonished how calm Sho suddenly was.
“I am overstrained. So can we please wait till we know how Jun is, and I think afterwards we need to settle all things,” Sho rubbed his face. “I feel numb and tired, and I can’t make a clear mind right now.”
Aiba nodded. “Sounds good.”
The door opened and Nino came back into the room. He smiled at them. “Good news,” he said.
Sho and Ohno jumped up immediately. “What’s with him?” Both said unison.
“He has a broken leg and some broken ribs and a broken hand, some cuts on his forehead and arm, but everything else is okay. He had been lucky. The man drove slow, so he didn’t hit him with full speed,” Nino said.
“Can we visit him?” Sho asked.
“He wants to see Aiba first, don’t ask me why, but yes, we are able to visit him.” Nino looked at Aiba.
“Me?” Aiba asked.
Nino nodded. “I bring you to him.”
Aiba looked back at Sho and Ohno apologetically, before he slipped out of the door.
~~~
Aiba opened the door to Jun’s room. “I wait here,” Nino said.
Aiba nodded at him. “I am so happy that Jun is okay,” Aiba said before he slipped into Jun’s room.
Jun lay on the bed, his leg and arm in a cast. “Hey, Masaki,” Jun said.
Aiba sat on the chair next to Jun’s bed. “God, we were so afraid.”
Jun smiled. He tried to move on the bed, but he was only able to shift a little bit. “You know, Koko told me that she is able to talk with you.”
Aiba blinked. Did Jun really say that right now? Was he really talking about Sho’s daughter? “What?”
Jun laughed out. “Masaki, I know that Oh-chan can’t remember about that accident. I am aware of his wife hunting him. But she is gone now, right?”
Aiba had his mouth wide open. “You …” Aiba stuttered. “No.”
“Did I make you speechless?” Jun looked at him.
“Honesty, I don’t understand a word,” Aiba admitted. “Are you a medium?”
Jun nodded. “Since childhood, but I never told anyone about it. And I always thought I am the only one.”
Aiba had to laugh. That really couldn’t be. “I shocked your brother right before with my ability.”
“You told him about it?” Jun asked.
Aiba nodded. “I had to, because he was about to kill Ohno.”
Jun shook his head. He had a smile around his lips. Aiba was glad that Jun was really not that badly hurt. “It’s amazing that he believed in your words.”
“Koko helped me with it,” Aiba admitted.
“Oh,” Jun said. “You know, I would have helped them, but they didn’t listen to my tries, and I was too afraid to tell them the truth, because who would believe in this?”
“Shall we call the others, because I think Sho and Ohno are already running mad outside. They want to see you.” Aiba stood up to get to the door. “And let’s talk about everything when you are out of here, okay?”
Jun nodded with a smile. “I am happy that I’ve found a second person like me.”
“Me too.”
~~~
“Jun.” Sho headed to the room. “God, I was so afraid.”
“I am okay,” Jun said. He looked at Ohno, who walked into the room behind Sho. Aiba could see his gaze lowered, he was nervous and tensed. Aiba gave him an encouraging smile.
“Satoshi, it’s okay.” Jun raised his healthy hand. “Come here.”
Ohno seemed irritated. Maybe he had counted with Jun scolding him, yelling at him, throwing him out. He stepped to the bed and took Jun’s hand in his. “I know that it wasn’t you who acted like this.”
With this Jun started explaining what he was, and Aiba hid a grin when he saw Sho’s face getting pale again. It was hard for him to believe this story, but now it was far too much for him.
~~~
Two days later Aiba roamed through his kitchen. He searched for his cookies he had bought some days ago. “Haro I am getting confused. I had this package somewhere here, but where?”
Haro barked happily, her tail wiggling left and right. She jumped up to the door when there was a knock. Aiba cursed when he hit his head on the cupboard and walked up to open. “Sho-san?”
The other raised his hands with some self-made cookies on it. “Can I come in?”
Aiba looked at the plate. “Did you make them?”
Sho nodded. “My tenth try succeeded.”
Aiba laughed. “Come in.”
They sat on the balcony. Sho looked at the sea. “I still hate the sea, but you know that.”
“No, I don’t know it. I don’t even know what happened back then,” he said. It was the truth. He hadn’t talked with Koko about the cause of her death.
Sho blinked at him. “I thought you know my whole past?”
“No.” Aiba shook his head.
Jun was still in hospital, but he should be released in a few days, and Ohno had spent almost every minute at Jun’s bed. Nino was back at work on a long weekend shift, and Sho had called him - for Aiba’s surprise.
Sho sighed. His eyes had changed so much from the first time he had been here. They weren’t that dark anymore, and his whole body language wasn’t tensed. “Four years ago I made a boat trip with my family. My daughter, Koko, jumped into the sea and started diving around there. She was a good swimmer, but suddenly she was gone.” Sho’s voice broke. “I jumped into the water. I searched for her. And I found her. Her leg got caught in the buoy’s rope. It was too late.” Sho looked down.
“I am sorry about that, Sho-san,” Aiba said.
“Is she here right now?” Sho wanted to know.
Aiba nodded. He looked at the girl next to Sho. She stood there, smiling. “I am so happy that he finally talks about it. Aiba-san, please take care of him.” She bowed.
“Everything is a mess right now. The whole thing with Jun, and my own life. But I decided that it’s time to change.” Sho looked up to the sky. “And I am sure you’ll watch over me, Koko, no matter where you are. I really love you, always.”
Aiba could feel the tears in him rising. He could get really emotional. “Bye, Papa, we’ll see each other again one day. I love you too.” She waved happily. “Bye, bye, Aiba-chan.”
“Bye, Koko,” Aiba said. “She goes now. She knows that you are alright now. She loves you and one day you’ll see each other again.”
Tears were running down Sho’s face. Aiba wasn’t sure if Sho had ever been that emotional before.
Koko’s body faded till she was gone completely.
“Aiba-chan,” it was one of the few times Sho called him like this. “Would you come with me to Tokyo one day, visiting Koko’s grave?”
Aiba nodded. He’d love doing this.
~~~
Some weeks later Aiba sat together with Sho and Jun. He looked from to the other and back. They yelled at each other, cried, yelled some more, cried some more, and so one. One hour later they stopped and none of them said a word.
“Are you done?” Aiba asked.
Both nodded at him. “Good. What do you think now? Is it possible to change the situation between the both of you?”
“I still can’t believe that you didn’t tell me about your ability, but I had been a real jerk in past, so I guess it’s just normal that you didn’t talk with me. And I am really sorry for everything, Jun. You are my brother, and you’ve always been,” Sho said.
Jun smiled at him. “You know, Oh-chan told me how afraid he had been that you’d kill him right after the accident. He told me how much you cared about my health. Let’s move on together, okay?”
Sho nodded at him, and Aiba smiled about it.
~~~
Almost half a year had passed since the accident. Aiba was about to go for a walk with Haro, when his phone rang. “Sho, what can I do for you?”
Neither Sho nor Ohno were his patients anymore, they had become friends. Aiba couldn’t remember how many times he had talked with Jun about their ability, and how many times he and Ohno had gone fishing together. But with Sho it was something different.
Aiba’s feelings had grown, but he wasn’t confident enough to talk openly about it, and Sho didn’t make a step either, even though Jun, Ohno and Nino tried their best to get them together.
“Ah, Masaki, I wanted to ask if you accompany me to Tokyo?” Sho asked. His voice sounded nervous.
“Yes, I come along,” Aiba agreed immediately. Not only because he wanted to share time with Sho, but also because he wanted to visit Koko. In the end she was the one who broke that vicious circle.
~~~
Two days later they stood at the grave and Aiba placed a Guinea-hen flower on there. It was already getting colder, at least in Tokyo, and Aiba could feel his hands getting cold. He was glad that they didn’t have this cold weather on their island, but sometimes he enjoyed it - like today. He didn’t know why, but this weather made his mood rising.
“You know Sho-chan, we could go for a walk in the city. I want to see the enormous lighting,” Aiba chirped. He always hated it, but maybe even he had changed, without realising it.
“Sho-chan? Are you nuts?” Sho said, his hands on his hips.
Aiba’s smile faded. “Sorry,” he murmured, earning a laugh from Sho. “Hey, you fooled me,” Aiba pouted. “So, let’s go.” He took Sho’s hand in his and pulled him along the road.
Not before they reached the crowded street Aiba realized that he was still holding Sho’s hand, who didn’t even complain about it. Aiba could feel Sho’s fingers intertwined with his. Sho’s hand was warm and soft against his. His thumb brushed over Aiba’s back of the hand. Aiba smiled widely, his cheeks flushing.
Aiba heard laughter and turned. He was sure it was Koko’s voice singing excitedly about her father’s new happiness, but probably he misheard it.
“What’s wrong,” Sho asked, his other hand brushing Aiba’s cheek.
“Nothing, I just thought I heard a voice,” Aiba said.
Sho looked around. “Here are a lot of voices around us.”
Aiba wanted to say that there were even a lot of shadows, but he didn’t care about it now. They pulled on his energy, but Aiba had the feeling that no one was able to bring him down at the moment. “I thought of a special voice, but probably I misheard it.”
“And if is Koko, I want her to know that I am happy now,” Sho whispered, leaning closer to Aiba till their bodies touched.
A/N: So that's it my dear friends <3 I really want to thank everyone who read this story, and thanks for every single comment, I was happy about every bit of it. <3 <3
I had pretty much fun writing this multi chapter, and I really hope to see you in my next multi chapter, starting next Sunday. It'll be a different pairing, but I hope you'll like it <3
Thanks again, see you soon <3