[fic] Shameless Truths - CH6
Title: Shameless Truths - Chapter 6
Author: spaarklingwine
Pairings: Akame
Rating: R (for now - just to be safe)
Genre: Romance, horror (No character death where Akame are concerned!)
Disclaimer:
Warnings: Unbetaed and Akame AU.
Summary: Akanishi Jin needs a pretend boyfriend to get the press off his back. Enter Kame.
Author's Notes: Akame is real^^;;
Previously: Chapter One// Chapter Two// Chapter Three// Chapter Four// Chapter Five
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"Ne... Kamenashi-san?" Ayane Sato, The Japan Times photographer started, gently perching herself on a nearby chair. "I'm sorry about the notes..." Ayane was two years younger than Kame. She was a nice, quiet girl who ended up getting slightly carried away with her crush on Kamenashi. Two years ago, Ayane, despite Kame's protests of being gay, persisted in following him around everywhere, taking his pictures, and sending him cards and chocolates. Kame put up with Ayane's advances only after failing to spurn her affections, and mostly he hoped she would just lose interest soon because she really was a lovely girl, and she deserved someone special.
It was only after Ayane attempted to strip for Kame one late afternoon on top of Kame's work desk more than a year ago did Kame pull her down, mortified, and finally had a long talk with her. It was quite an eye-opening experience, seeing his most polite and calm colleague scrambling onto his table, but since then it's been treated as if it had never happened, so Kame just dropped it altogether.
"Hmm? What note?" Kame asked absentmindedly. He was rummaging around his desk looking for his lucky pen - because all writers have a lucky pen - and he was sure he had put it somewhere near. He usually kept it in his pants pocket but it was very possible that it had slipped out somewhere.
"The one in the red envelope...? On the red paper...? Written in fake blood...?" Ayane hinted, playing shyly with her hands, her gaze fixed on Kame. If she felt offended at his lack of attention, it didn't show. "You know... the one that said... "Stay away from him." The one I wrote-"
Kame was still trying to tear a hole through his cupboard and on the verge of searching through the dustbin when Ayane's voice sunk in.
"What?!" He whirled around so fast he tripped and fell, ending up on the ground, blinking up owlishly at the pretty girl. "You sent the notes?!" Kame asked, incredulous, then he thought back to Ayane crush. Would this have anything to do with that?
Kame pushed that thought away as quickly as it came. Ayane was a sweet girl, plus she's even got a boyfriend now.
"Oh... you didn't know they were from me, Kamenashi-san? I had to, I had orders from BENI... she didn't want a lot of people involved in this, so she asked me to send them... Er... she gave me the fake blood. She told me it was made from corn syrup or something... Anou sa... forgive me asking," Ayane blushed, "But would this have anything to do with the photo I shot of you and the singer?"
Kame scratched his head, still reeling from the information he had just learnt. "Ah... apparently I'm suppose to make Akanishi Jin fall in love with me..." The distress and turmoil was evident on his face, and it threatened to suffocate him. He really wished he didn't have to do such an inane task... and the fact that Jin was such a nice person just made everything all the more difficult.
"Eh...? Hontou? But she can't make you feel attracted to Akanishi-san if you just aren't, right?" Ayane scrunched up her nose in disbelief.
"Ah... well..." Kame smiled, embarrassed, trying to justify his own actions but also unable to stop the words from tumbling out of his mouth, "It's... not that hard to feel attracted to Jin... He's so very-" Kame stopped himself before he started sounding like a fangirl. "I mean, it's Akanishi Jin for heaven's sake. So... attraction is... inevitable..." He trailed off, blushing. "Ah, mostly I just have a few scruples with the whole... expose his life bit..."
Ayane perked up. "S-so... that photo I took of you two... was a hoax? Because everyone was just gossiping about how you're going out now..." Ayane looked so bright and curious, but all the questions were making Kame's head whirl. He didn't even know what was going on yet.
"To be honest, Sato-chan, I don't actually know what we are... or where we are... it's all sort of baffling. Ah, gomenasai, I need to go see BENI now and ask her what the hell is going on." He shook his head angrily, "Honestly, sending stalker type notes. What is this? Her idea of a joke?!" Kame glared menacingly at his desk, willing his pen to appear with his mind. But when it didn't, he stormed past a confused Ayane in the direction of BENI's office.
*
"Oi!" An annoyed Yamapi thumped Jin on the head.
"Ow! What was that for?!" Jin was currently situated on his bed trying to write a song. At the sound of Yamapi's voice, Jin raised his head with a start.
"What's gotten into you?!" A completely mystified Yamapi asked.
Jin gazed at his best friend, completely bewildered, unable to figure out what he could have done. "Nothing... Why do you ask?"
Yamapi looked at him skeptically; Jin was sitting cross-legged on his bed, clad in jeans and a black, form-fitting, t-shirt, with a pencil tucked behind his ear. He was holding his acoustic guitar in his lap whilst he stared down at his notebook in front of him in frustration. "Well, for starters, you've sat there for virtually an hour, singing something about brown eyes over and over again. And you've been doodling eyes on your notebook too - by the way, those are fucking creepy. But seriously, why brown eyes?"
A rare blush flitted across Jin's face as he realised he wasn't concentrating on his song writing at all, and had indeed been singing something about eyes for an hour. He coughed to hide his embarrassment. "That," Jin began in mock snootiness, "Is none of your business, Yamashita Tomohisa. Besides, why aren't you at your dance studio practising for your upcoming concert with NEWS, hmm?"
Yamapi arched an eyebrow, "Nice change of subject. The studio had a power break or something, so I'm here with nothing to do." Realisation dawned on Yamapi's face. "Ohh~... would this have anything to do with Kamenashi Kazuya-san? The one that you said even I would have sex with? Which I highly doubt. Men of my calibre are hard to find." Yamapi nodded and smirked at the embarrassed look on Jin's face. Bingo.
Knowing he had hit the jackpot, Yamapi puckered his lips and batted his eyelashes, "Jin and Kamenashi-kun sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N- OW!"
Jin had whacked him with his notebook, "You should never have made us watch The Little Mermaid! Now you've got us both puckering our lips and making fools of ourselves. You know, Kazu-chan called me Bakanishi today!"
Yamapi stared at Jin in shock before clutching his sides, rolling on the floor laughing his head off, "Oh my god! That's genius! Ahh~ I've got to meet this 'Kazu-chan'" He broke out into helpless giggles again.
Jin smacked Yamapi with his notebook again.
Pi rubbed his - by now - very sore head, and glared at Jin before sticking out his tongue childishly. "I was trying to be nice, but you brought this on yourself." He darted to the other side of the room, and bellowed, "Jin and Kazu-chan sitting in a car. Are they naked?! Yes they are!" Cackling madly, Yamapi fled from the room before he was assaulted further.
Jin groaned in despair. All those times he had teased Yamapi about his relationships, he felt safe in the knowledge that Yamapi couldn't extract revenge and now Pi was paying him back a hundred fold and milking it for all he was worth.
He turned back to this notebook and berated softly to himself, "Right. Stop thinking about Kame-kun's brown eyes and fucking get some work done!"
He ripped out the page in his notebook covered with the words 'brown eyes brown eyes brown eyes brown eyes' and doodles of pretty eyes with long eyelashes and tossed it into the bin.
Then frantically rushed - almost falling over himself in his hurry - to fish it out of the trash when he realised that he had written Kame's address down on it.
*
"Kame-chan!" A mountain of CDs crashed into him before Koki's face appeared from behind.
Kame stared at all the scattered CDs, "Ne... Koki-kun... what is all this for?"
"Eh? Oh, Dj, dj, remember? I'm going to go practise, I've got a gig later on."
"... Seriously... do you ever do any work...?"
"This is work!" Koki cried indignantly, "But never mind that, I just heard about it from one of the junior secretaries. It is true that you've been receiving threatening notes?! ...Er... is this a bad time?" He poked Kame's livid face, knowing that the turtle was rarely one to have outbursts without good reason.
Yeah, it's kind of a touchy one. Gomen, Koki-kun, but I need to go see BENI," He needed someone to vent his frustrations out on, and he didn't want his best friend to end up as the scapegoat. He no longer wanted to be part of all these secrecies and lies, and no matter how much he was taken in by Jin or how much he wanted to see the JE idol again, he didn't want to look back on his life and realise how low he stooped for a story.
His legs moved at an even faster stride, with Koki - who was running at this point - trying to catch up to him.
"M-matte! Please! Wait!" Koki made a futile attempt at slowing down the man who was furiously marching away from him, before he gave up entirely. "All right. Fine! I'll just sit here with my CDs. I don't need friends. I don't need explanations. All I need are my babies." He peeked up at the quickly disappearing Kame who had ignored him. "Oi! Explain it to me later and then I'll forgive you!"
By this time, Kame's form had vanished completely from sight and into BENI's office.
*
On the other side of the door, an emotion akin to what would be the furthest from affection was being felt. Kame, fuming silently, was currently glaring a hole into the back of BENI's head who was giggling over the phone to someone.
"Sweetie! Of course! I told you, I have my best reporter on the Akanishi Jin case. I'm telling you, honey, we'll have that billionaire singer exposed in a nutshell... Yeah... yeah... oh, you! You know I can't spill out all my secrets, but if I get my way, and I always do, it will involve my prettiest reporter and hopefully a bottle of whip cream!" BENI cackled down the phone, but at the same time she noticed Kame's presence. Offering a quick goodbye to whomever was on the phone, she turned to face the intruder who had just barged in.
But before she could get a word out, Kame exploded, "What were you thinking?! I don't mean to be disrespectful, BENI-san, or get out of line, but creepy, stalker threats?! 'Stay away from him'?!" Kame raked a hand through his dark brown hair in frustration.
"Ah, should have known Ayane-chan couldn't resist apologising to you. Kame-kun," BENI looked at him with exasperation, "I told you, leave this all to me! I promise everything would be fine, didn't I? The note was to make Akanishi-san want to protect you, just to add a little amunition to your little relationship. And it worked didn't it? He's obviously going to think that it was his fault, that his fame put you into such a situation, since you don't receiving threatening notes often, love. Not that Akanishi-san doesn't have the hots for you. The whole world knows that, thanks to your little display." BENI leered at Kame, causing shudders to shoot up and down his spine and an odd, slimy feeling enveloped him from within. "But, let's just say, I asked Sato-chan to fuel the fire... so to speak. Ha ha, poor girl didn't know what she was doing, I bet."
"Now," BENI turned her attention to the papers on her desk, a gesture of obvious dismissal, "Run along. Don't make me resort to threats of my own. These temper tantrums are not very flattering Kame-chan. Complete this job and everything will be fine. Or else." A hard glint came into her eyes but disappeared a moment later to be replaced with a friendly twinkle. "Got it, sweetie?"
Kame couldn't do anything else, but stare at BENI in horror and confusion.
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p.s. I think the new G-Dragon (aka blonde and cute - anyone see the MV Breathe?) is sooooo pretty~!! Wah obsessed with him^^
p.p.s. Does anyone like Hongchul? (aka. Lee Hongki and Kim Heechul??) I think they are really cute together!!