Yankee - 5 -
Title: Yankee
Author:su_ede
Length: About 2509 words
Pairing: Matsumoto Jun x OC
Rating: G
Genre: romance - life - School life
Disclaimer: I don't own Arashi...or maybe I do, who knows?
Summary: Jun's school moved to Asuka's neighbourhood recently. She has been looking at him lately. Is not the cool hair and the handsome look what call her attention. It's the idea of rebellion, ideals and braveness what makes her go toki doki for this guy.
Chapter 5
The next morning felt like a Russian movie. Cold, grey, sad and daunting. Nino and Sho have text her asking what happened, why she skipped school. She only answered with a I’ll tell you later.
Her mom have already leave for work. Her breakfast was ready in the kitchen and her bento was full of her favorite food. How her mom knew that she will have the strength to go to school today, was a mystery for Asuka.
She arrived at school just in time. Sho and Nino gave her a questioning look. In Nino’s eyes she looked like crap. Sho walked in her direction grabbing his and Nino’s bags and pulling his friend with him. “We are skipping the first period” He said as he pushed Asuka with them outside the classroom. They went to the art room at the end of the school yard, no one will bother them there. Asuka sat on top of the table that she often uses, Sho and Nino sat at her feet looking up at her “What happened Asu-chan?” Nino’s soft voice felt somehow nostalgic. It remind her each time Nino came in her rescue when some kid from the neighborhood will mess with her, each time Nino would help her get up after falling from her bike, each time Nino would find her hidden inside the girls bathroom back in elementary school after some bullying session from her classmates. Suddenly Asuka felt a bit more loved.
But still, she didn’t know how to answer, or didn’t find the energy to do so. Sho insisted with the question, and she tried to maybe divert it. “Nothing” She said, not trying too hard to make it look like a fact “It has something to do with school? Did someone did or said something to you?” She denied it with a movement of her head “ Did something happened with your mom?” She repeated the same movement. They tried with any possibility, although there weren’t that many since Nino and Sho knew that very few things could put Asuka down. But Nino knew her better. So he asked, not without doubt, or hope that he could be wrong “Did something happened with Matsumoto?” Asuka didn’t deny it this time. She didn’t confirm it either. But for Nino was clear.
Asuka told them what happened, skipping the part were they kiss. That was for her enjoyment only, or pain “Why you didn’t told us?”
“ I didn’t know how…and I didn’t wanted to hear your answers, specially you Nino, I was sure that you would have say I told you so, or something like that” Nino got up, leveling his eyes with Asuka’s “I will never told you that! And in this situation! I know you were in love, I saw your face each time you talked about him or you looked at him” Asuka couldn’t hold Nino’s stare. She looked t the floor and bit her lip, trying to keep her tears inside “Don’t talk in past sentence, I’m still in love, that’s why it still hurts” Although skin ship had been always a hard thing for Sho to deal with, he didn’t thought it twice when the only thing his friend needed was a hug from her friends. Sho hold her frame with care, borrowing Asuka his shoulder so she could shed the few tears remaining inside of her. Nino sat next to her, in silence, resting his head in Asuka’s back.
Sho skipped club activities so they could walk her home and give her some company for a while. But Asuka wanted to sleep, maybe listen to some music.
Nino looked worried, normally he would hide it, but this time he didn’t and his worry coincided with Sho’s “This is the first time I see her like that? Right Nino? I mean, not crying, but her eyes…her eyes were different, her voice sounded different too. That guy hurt her bad, and probably he doesn’t even know it”
“I know, I don’t like seen her like this. She is an old oak, she can’t be like this for a guy, I don’t like it. Since we were kids I have never like seeing her suffer, because when she is showing you pain is because is so big that she can’t hold it inside anymore…Sho-kun? Sho-chan what is it?” Nino was surprised by his friend sudden detention. Sho had his eyes fixed in something at the distance, two silhouettes were approaching from the other side. A tall guy with blond hair and a smaller one with dark hair. “Matsumoto!” Nino couldn’t stop his friend, his short fingers just grabbed the thin air, and his friend was already walking in Jun’s direction with decisive steps. Jun and Aiba stopped at the call of Jun’s name. It took Jun a split of a second to recognize who was the guy who was approaching him with such a threatening aura. Aiba was about to step in front of his friend and face this new menace, but Jun stopped him right there. He knew what was about to happen. Sho stood in front of him, and Jun was a little bit taken aback by the sharp angles that Sho’s eyebrows made. “Matsumoto, you bastard, you come close to Asuka again, you make her suffer again and I don’t care how many of those friends of yours I have to face, I will make you regret it” Although Sho’s words lacked a bit of credibility, Jun didn’t take them lightly. “If you wanted to play, go pick another girl, not Asuka”
“You know I did it to protect her”
“From you?” Jun answered with a single nod “Then you should have done that before you let her know you better…She accepted you man, since the first time she saw you, she never judge you” Sho’s words sink down hard in Jun’s head “But if you couldn’t appreciate that I guess you just don’t worth her care…In fact you don’t, you don’t deserve a single thing from her” Sho didn’t waited for a replay, anyway it didn’t look as if Jun would answer anything. He looked back at Nino and found him looking at him with big eyes and his mouth half open. He gave him a signal and they resumed they path. Aiba tried to say something, to step up for his friend, but Jun stopped him again “Let’s go Aiba” Jun didn’t looked up at him. He didn’t look at Sho either. He kept walking too, and Aiba notice how his friend’s mood changed.
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“Ne, Matsujun, this means that Asu-chan will not visit us anytime soon right?” Jun stopped playing with a little stone that he found in the grass and looked at his friend with a sad smile in his face “No, I don’t think so Aiba-chan”
“Why is that?” Jun released a long sight and start scratching his eyes in annoyance, not with Aiba, but with him “I told her not to come close to me again”
“Why”
“You saw what happened the other day, when I realized that she was there, when I saw that guy’s intention to hurt her…I have never felt so scared in my entire life, something could have happened to her and it would have been all my fault. I can’t deal with that, I can’t expose her to that…” Jun head fell back, and Aiba felt sorry for him. The disturbance in Jun’s face was obvious for Aiba, he didn’t ask him why. He thought it was something about his father, he never thought that it was a love matter. That was a first “Jun-pon, tell me, why do you like Asu-chan?” Jun was surprised by the turn of events, although it was something very Aiba like “That’s none of your business Aiba”
“Come on! Tell me! Is it because of her hair? Or her cute little nose?”
“Don’t talk about her as if she was a puppy Aiba!” Aiba silently apologized, but refused to dropped the issue “So it wasn’t that…Is it because of her personality?” Aiba didn’t missed the way Jun’s face light up with thought of Asuka “ Of course! But is not just that…she never labeled me, the first time we met she told me that she didn’t care about me being what I’ am, as his friend said, she accepted me just the way I’ am, with my bad behavior, my fights and all that”
“But I also accepted you as you are, and you’re not in love with me” Jun laughed with his friend, he was rather grateful by Aiba’s attempt to make him smile. “Aiba, you have one dick to many for me to like you”
“Ehhhh…but that’s not my point! You like another thing right? Tell me, tell me!” Aiba started to shake Jun’s right arm in a childish way, trying to bring Jun close to his boiling point so he could spit everything out. Not that he wanted to ear it, he wanted Jun to hear it, to hear his own thoughts. “Well, she’s adorable, each time she talked to me she looked straight in to my eyes, and that’s adorable, annoying in a beginning, but it grew in to me…and man…she’s so pretty, with her long wavy hair, those beautiful lips, those dark eyes, her big sweaters, her short dresses…I love how her ears get pink each time she’s embarrassed…” Aiba felt back, resting his body against the grass, covering his face from the thin rays of sun and smiling from ear to ear, thing that annoyed Jun “Ahh Junpon, I wish I had record what you just said”
“Why?”
“ So you could have listen to yourself and realize how dumb you were for breaking up something that could have been a precious thing for you” Jun just frowned at Aiba, and decided to ignored him. He hated to been slapped in the face with his own stupidity.
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Music heals.
Asuka knew that very well, and this time it wasn’t an exception. Listening to Chaka Khan (1) gave her a renew feel of womanhood. Asuka wondered if anytime Chaka Khan acted like she did because of a guy, most probably she didn’t. Asuka wanted to be like her, she wanted to be like all the woman’s who ever wrote about a man that broke their heart, but instead of cry, they shook it off and kept walking their ways.
That Saturday she got up at 8 o’clock, played her records at maximum volume, taking advantage of the fact that she was alone. She cooked herself a nice breakfast, took a long shower and then hit the street to buy the ingredients for that delicious meal she was planning to cook for her mom. Once out of her house, her body turned left instinctively planning to take her to Ohno’s konbini. After walking an entire square she stopped, there wasn’t a reason anymore to go to that konbini, now she could stop walking 5 streets just to see her crush.
He wanted her to stay away.
Asuka turned around loosing all the energy she gained during the morning. But she needed to stop it. She put her headphones on and pressed play in her happy play list.
But what would she know about Jun’s plans. How would she know that just in that moment he would decide to go for a run. He lives relativity close to her house so it was highly probably that they would run in to each other.
But it was too soon.
Too soon.
As soon as Asuka saw him, she wanted to scream to him and beg him to let her stay close. But her body didn’t let her do so. Instead she turned around in the corner and waited until Jun passed by. She even closed her eyes so it would hurt less.
Jun did the same.
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They met again a couple of times, but now Asuka felt a bit more confident. She felt a bit more sinic with herself. Those two times she passed by him she ignored him. She didn’t even bothered on look in another direction or answered a fake phone call. She just passed by, with no expression in her face, not even a hair from her head moved.
And Jun hated it.
The third time Jun ran in to Asuka and she acted the same way, he exploded.
“Hey! Wait there Kayano, what, ignoring me?” Jun felt like a fraud acting like that, but he couldn’t bring it up in a different way. Asuka stopped and every single muscle in her body tensed and hurt. She didn’t know if it was because of the call of Jun’s voice or for her redemption towards it. Anyway, she didn’t like it. “I know I told you to stay away from me but a little Hi wouldn’t hurt” Asuka said nothing. She was getting mad, and talking would have make it worst. Jun was completely conscious about how stupid he sounded, but there was no lie in his words. A little hi wouldn’t hurt, on the contrary, it would heal Jun. But it was unfair to Asuka, how would she know what precisely mean away for Jun. “ I know what I told you, but you’re a really cool girl, and I had really good conversations with you, what if we stay like friends” The stare that Jun got from Asuka made him wish he could take his words back. It was a choleric stare, Jun could see how Asuka tried to stay calm, but her eyes stayed dark. “Sorry but no, I don’t want to be your friend” The depth of her voice made Jun feel miserable, and it took him a lot of work play it cool, although the break of his voice betrayed him “Man, that bad you despise me now”
“I wish it was that, I wish I could stop liking you, I wish I could, has you said, despise you…anyway, sorry, but I can’t be your friend, is not enough for me” Asuka walked towards Jun, gazing at Jun’s haunted face and stopped only when less than a meter kept her away from him. “I don’t want to be your friend, I want to kiss your lips” She took her time to look at Jun’s face. She have missed her handsome face, still young, but with such strong features. “I miss what we almost had Jun” Asuka enjoyed the way Jun’s breath got stuck in his throat and the way his body jolted after hearing her words. She felt as if the match was on her side. Now Jun was the one who looked clueless, Jun was the one taken aback. But if a minute more passed, she would be back to the losing team. So she opted for what was the best for her. She looked down, took one step back and resumed her way back home.
Jun stayed on his position, trying to breath normally again.
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(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xuUdI1an0
Author:su_ede
Length: About 2509 words
Pairing: Matsumoto Jun x OC
Rating: G
Genre: romance - life - School life
Disclaimer: I don't own Arashi...or maybe I do, who knows?
Summary: Jun's school moved to Asuka's neighbourhood recently. She has been looking at him lately. Is not the cool hair and the handsome look what call her attention. It's the idea of rebellion, ideals and braveness what makes her go toki doki for this guy.
Chapter 5
The next morning felt like a Russian movie. Cold, grey, sad and daunting. Nino and Sho have text her asking what happened, why she skipped school. She only answered with a I’ll tell you later.
Her mom have already leave for work. Her breakfast was ready in the kitchen and her bento was full of her favorite food. How her mom knew that she will have the strength to go to school today, was a mystery for Asuka.
She arrived at school just in time. Sho and Nino gave her a questioning look. In Nino’s eyes she looked like crap. Sho walked in her direction grabbing his and Nino’s bags and pulling his friend with him. “We are skipping the first period” He said as he pushed Asuka with them outside the classroom. They went to the art room at the end of the school yard, no one will bother them there. Asuka sat on top of the table that she often uses, Sho and Nino sat at her feet looking up at her “What happened Asu-chan?” Nino’s soft voice felt somehow nostalgic. It remind her each time Nino came in her rescue when some kid from the neighborhood will mess with her, each time Nino would help her get up after falling from her bike, each time Nino would find her hidden inside the girls bathroom back in elementary school after some bullying session from her classmates. Suddenly Asuka felt a bit more loved.
But still, she didn’t know how to answer, or didn’t find the energy to do so. Sho insisted with the question, and she tried to maybe divert it. “Nothing” She said, not trying too hard to make it look like a fact “It has something to do with school? Did someone did or said something to you?” She denied it with a movement of her head “ Did something happened with your mom?” She repeated the same movement. They tried with any possibility, although there weren’t that many since Nino and Sho knew that very few things could put Asuka down. But Nino knew her better. So he asked, not without doubt, or hope that he could be wrong “Did something happened with Matsumoto?” Asuka didn’t deny it this time. She didn’t confirm it either. But for Nino was clear.
Asuka told them what happened, skipping the part were they kiss. That was for her enjoyment only, or pain “Why you didn’t told us?”
“ I didn’t know how…and I didn’t wanted to hear your answers, specially you Nino, I was sure that you would have say I told you so, or something like that” Nino got up, leveling his eyes with Asuka’s “I will never told you that! And in this situation! I know you were in love, I saw your face each time you talked about him or you looked at him” Asuka couldn’t hold Nino’s stare. She looked t the floor and bit her lip, trying to keep her tears inside “Don’t talk in past sentence, I’m still in love, that’s why it still hurts” Although skin ship had been always a hard thing for Sho to deal with, he didn’t thought it twice when the only thing his friend needed was a hug from her friends. Sho hold her frame with care, borrowing Asuka his shoulder so she could shed the few tears remaining inside of her. Nino sat next to her, in silence, resting his head in Asuka’s back.
Sho skipped club activities so they could walk her home and give her some company for a while. But Asuka wanted to sleep, maybe listen to some music.
Nino looked worried, normally he would hide it, but this time he didn’t and his worry coincided with Sho’s “This is the first time I see her like that? Right Nino? I mean, not crying, but her eyes…her eyes were different, her voice sounded different too. That guy hurt her bad, and probably he doesn’t even know it”
“I know, I don’t like seen her like this. She is an old oak, she can’t be like this for a guy, I don’t like it. Since we were kids I have never like seeing her suffer, because when she is showing you pain is because is so big that she can’t hold it inside anymore…Sho-kun? Sho-chan what is it?” Nino was surprised by his friend sudden detention. Sho had his eyes fixed in something at the distance, two silhouettes were approaching from the other side. A tall guy with blond hair and a smaller one with dark hair. “Matsumoto!” Nino couldn’t stop his friend, his short fingers just grabbed the thin air, and his friend was already walking in Jun’s direction with decisive steps. Jun and Aiba stopped at the call of Jun’s name. It took Jun a split of a second to recognize who was the guy who was approaching him with such a threatening aura. Aiba was about to step in front of his friend and face this new menace, but Jun stopped him right there. He knew what was about to happen. Sho stood in front of him, and Jun was a little bit taken aback by the sharp angles that Sho’s eyebrows made. “Matsumoto, you bastard, you come close to Asuka again, you make her suffer again and I don’t care how many of those friends of yours I have to face, I will make you regret it” Although Sho’s words lacked a bit of credibility, Jun didn’t take them lightly. “If you wanted to play, go pick another girl, not Asuka”
“You know I did it to protect her”
“From you?” Jun answered with a single nod “Then you should have done that before you let her know you better…She accepted you man, since the first time she saw you, she never judge you” Sho’s words sink down hard in Jun’s head “But if you couldn’t appreciate that I guess you just don’t worth her care…In fact you don’t, you don’t deserve a single thing from her” Sho didn’t waited for a replay, anyway it didn’t look as if Jun would answer anything. He looked back at Nino and found him looking at him with big eyes and his mouth half open. He gave him a signal and they resumed they path. Aiba tried to say something, to step up for his friend, but Jun stopped him again “Let’s go Aiba” Jun didn’t looked up at him. He didn’t look at Sho either. He kept walking too, and Aiba notice how his friend’s mood changed.
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“Ne, Matsujun, this means that Asu-chan will not visit us anytime soon right?” Jun stopped playing with a little stone that he found in the grass and looked at his friend with a sad smile in his face “No, I don’t think so Aiba-chan”
“Why is that?” Jun released a long sight and start scratching his eyes in annoyance, not with Aiba, but with him “I told her not to come close to me again”
“Why”
“You saw what happened the other day, when I realized that she was there, when I saw that guy’s intention to hurt her…I have never felt so scared in my entire life, something could have happened to her and it would have been all my fault. I can’t deal with that, I can’t expose her to that…” Jun head fell back, and Aiba felt sorry for him. The disturbance in Jun’s face was obvious for Aiba, he didn’t ask him why. He thought it was something about his father, he never thought that it was a love matter. That was a first “Jun-pon, tell me, why do you like Asu-chan?” Jun was surprised by the turn of events, although it was something very Aiba like “That’s none of your business Aiba”
“Come on! Tell me! Is it because of her hair? Or her cute little nose?”
“Don’t talk about her as if she was a puppy Aiba!” Aiba silently apologized, but refused to dropped the issue “So it wasn’t that…Is it because of her personality?” Aiba didn’t missed the way Jun’s face light up with thought of Asuka “ Of course! But is not just that…she never labeled me, the first time we met she told me that she didn’t care about me being what I’ am, as his friend said, she accepted me just the way I’ am, with my bad behavior, my fights and all that”
“But I also accepted you as you are, and you’re not in love with me” Jun laughed with his friend, he was rather grateful by Aiba’s attempt to make him smile. “Aiba, you have one dick to many for me to like you”
“Ehhhh…but that’s not my point! You like another thing right? Tell me, tell me!” Aiba started to shake Jun’s right arm in a childish way, trying to bring Jun close to his boiling point so he could spit everything out. Not that he wanted to ear it, he wanted Jun to hear it, to hear his own thoughts. “Well, she’s adorable, each time she talked to me she looked straight in to my eyes, and that’s adorable, annoying in a beginning, but it grew in to me…and man…she’s so pretty, with her long wavy hair, those beautiful lips, those dark eyes, her big sweaters, her short dresses…I love how her ears get pink each time she’s embarrassed…” Aiba felt back, resting his body against the grass, covering his face from the thin rays of sun and smiling from ear to ear, thing that annoyed Jun “Ahh Junpon, I wish I had record what you just said”
“Why?”
“ So you could have listen to yourself and realize how dumb you were for breaking up something that could have been a precious thing for you” Jun just frowned at Aiba, and decided to ignored him. He hated to been slapped in the face with his own stupidity.
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Music heals.
Asuka knew that very well, and this time it wasn’t an exception. Listening to Chaka Khan (1) gave her a renew feel of womanhood. Asuka wondered if anytime Chaka Khan acted like she did because of a guy, most probably she didn’t. Asuka wanted to be like her, she wanted to be like all the woman’s who ever wrote about a man that broke their heart, but instead of cry, they shook it off and kept walking their ways.
That Saturday she got up at 8 o’clock, played her records at maximum volume, taking advantage of the fact that she was alone. She cooked herself a nice breakfast, took a long shower and then hit the street to buy the ingredients for that delicious meal she was planning to cook for her mom. Once out of her house, her body turned left instinctively planning to take her to Ohno’s konbini. After walking an entire square she stopped, there wasn’t a reason anymore to go to that konbini, now she could stop walking 5 streets just to see her crush.
He wanted her to stay away.
Asuka turned around loosing all the energy she gained during the morning. But she needed to stop it. She put her headphones on and pressed play in her happy play list.
But what would she know about Jun’s plans. How would she know that just in that moment he would decide to go for a run. He lives relativity close to her house so it was highly probably that they would run in to each other.
But it was too soon.
Too soon.
As soon as Asuka saw him, she wanted to scream to him and beg him to let her stay close. But her body didn’t let her do so. Instead she turned around in the corner and waited until Jun passed by. She even closed her eyes so it would hurt less.
Jun did the same.
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They met again a couple of times, but now Asuka felt a bit more confident. She felt a bit more sinic with herself. Those two times she passed by him she ignored him. She didn’t even bothered on look in another direction or answered a fake phone call. She just passed by, with no expression in her face, not even a hair from her head moved.
And Jun hated it.
The third time Jun ran in to Asuka and she acted the same way, he exploded.
“Hey! Wait there Kayano, what, ignoring me?” Jun felt like a fraud acting like that, but he couldn’t bring it up in a different way. Asuka stopped and every single muscle in her body tensed and hurt. She didn’t know if it was because of the call of Jun’s voice or for her redemption towards it. Anyway, she didn’t like it. “I know I told you to stay away from me but a little Hi wouldn’t hurt” Asuka said nothing. She was getting mad, and talking would have make it worst. Jun was completely conscious about how stupid he sounded, but there was no lie in his words. A little hi wouldn’t hurt, on the contrary, it would heal Jun. But it was unfair to Asuka, how would she know what precisely mean away for Jun. “ I know what I told you, but you’re a really cool girl, and I had really good conversations with you, what if we stay like friends” The stare that Jun got from Asuka made him wish he could take his words back. It was a choleric stare, Jun could see how Asuka tried to stay calm, but her eyes stayed dark. “Sorry but no, I don’t want to be your friend” The depth of her voice made Jun feel miserable, and it took him a lot of work play it cool, although the break of his voice betrayed him “Man, that bad you despise me now”
“I wish it was that, I wish I could stop liking you, I wish I could, has you said, despise you…anyway, sorry, but I can’t be your friend, is not enough for me” Asuka walked towards Jun, gazing at Jun’s haunted face and stopped only when less than a meter kept her away from him. “I don’t want to be your friend, I want to kiss your lips” She took her time to look at Jun’s face. She have missed her handsome face, still young, but with such strong features. “I miss what we almost had Jun” Asuka enjoyed the way Jun’s breath got stuck in his throat and the way his body jolted after hearing her words. She felt as if the match was on her side. Now Jun was the one who looked clueless, Jun was the one taken aback. But if a minute more passed, she would be back to the losing team. So she opted for what was the best for her. She looked down, took one step back and resumed her way back home.
Jun stayed on his position, trying to breath normally again.
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(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xuUdI1an0