Stars (3/3)
title : Stars (3/3)
pairing : ohkura tadayoshi//yasuda shota
group : Kanjani8
rating : overall pg-13
word count : 1683 (total : 4433)
summary : After high school graduation, Tadayoshi decides to drive away until he ends up at an hotel, the "Stars" and it adjacent bar where he decides to stop.
He didn’t have much time until his first time on the bar’s stage, so he learnt the band songs mechanically. Moreover, it had been a long time since the last time he had had drumsticks in his hands; but somehow, Tuesday night arrived and Tadayoshi was on stage with Shota, Ryuhei and Subaru.
The bar was big. After spending all his evenings there, Tadayoshi knew it; but seen from the stage it was even bigger. And as he saw most of the audience eyes turned toward him, an unusual rush of shyness crashed over him. The soon disappeared, going away with Subaru’s voice as Shota and Ryuhei were jumping all around the stage. Shota faced Tadayoshi a few seconds, sending him a smile as bright as the light spots and suddenly, Tadayoshi insecurities didn’t matter anymore, he just wanted to drum the night away, high on Subaru’s voice and the instruments.
It came to an end and Tadayoshi was laughing without reason coming out of the stage while Ryuhei was patting his back, congratulating him for his performance. That night, they stayed in the bar until the closure hour and Yuu and Shingo refused to give Tadayoshi any alcoholic drink as some policemen were spending their time off there, smoking cigarette after cigarette on a couch.
Subaru was long gone - called by a hotel’s customer - when Tadayoshi had to cross the road to the hotel with a drunk Shota on his hand. He intended to leave him into Subaru’s care but when he reached the reception, nobody was there.
“I don’t want to sleep on the reception’s couch. I always fall on the floor.” Shota said, tripping over himself as his head fell from Tadayoshi’s arm, where he had started falling asleep.
“But I don’t know if there are any rooms left. I can’t give you a key.” Tadayoshi answered, pointing at the room keys hung on the wall. “If the customer decides to come back later and find you on their bed, it would be a problem.”
“Not the couch.” Shota responded, pouting. Tadayoshi sighed and Shota continued “Your bed must be nice.”
“What?!”
“Your bed. Double. I’m small.”
Tadayoshi sighed again and took Shota to his room; given the older boy state it was no use to argue and he didn’t know how long he would have to wait for Subaru to show up.
Tadayoshi was talking, telling Shota to not take too much room in the bed, to not wake up too late when he was cut by a light snore. Tadayoshi stopped talking, changed an climbed in the bed. He dreamt of Shota, bright smile on, playing the drums.
He was awoken by someone shaking him by the shoulders and calling his name.
“Breakfast hour is almost over. Thought you wanted to know.” Shota said.
Tadayoshi mumbled a reply and went to change. Subaru was sat at his usual table, reading newspaper and sipping slowly on his coffee while looking over the customers. He waved when he saw the other two.
“Yasu, you are a real Casanova.” He said, laughing and giving a friendly hit to Shota on the shoulder while Shota was trying to defend himself and Tadayoshi giggled.
Shota sat down on the chair, all smiles, and cried out a happy sounding “Day off!” before looking at Ohkura and asking him “Wanna have a walk, I can show you around some places you don’t know yet.”
They spent the day walking, going to Shota favorite spots, until the night surprised them. Even though it was already the end of April, the nights were still chilly and they hadn’t enough clothes on. Tadayoshi started rubbing his arms in order to warm himself up, and Shota, who was lying in the grass, staring at the stars, noticed.
“I live close by, you might want to grab a coat or spend the night.” Tadayoshi was ready the answer that he didn’t want to disturb but Shota continued, ignoring him. “Don’t worry, I have an extra room, I used to have a flat mate, a young boy called Uchi, he only spent a few weeks there. So, if you want, once you’ll have a job here, you could become my flat mate. I’m a bit bored by myself and you can’t really live at the hotel. It’ll become expensive.”
“Huh, thanks.” Tadayoshi answered, watching Shota standing up from his position.
“Sorry, I’m saying that but I don’t even know if you want to stay there.”
“Don’t worry about it. I quite like it here; I think I want to stay.” Tadayoshi replied smiling, looking at Shota building blurry form .
When Tadayoshi moved into Shota’s flat, it was the end of July and the heat was suffocating. The humidity coming from the seaside was making their skin stick and the small town was deserted at the sunniest hours, save for a few tourists walking around. Tadayoshi could see them sweating at the ramen shop where he worked as a waiter. Now, except for his job, he mostly came out at night, Shota flat had a pretty big garden and the boys would gather there with some beers, enjoying the refreshing summer night rather than always going to the bar - although they still went quite often, to play, and because Shingo and Yuu couldn’t just leave their workplace.
The night Tadayoshi’s phone rang, they were in their garden, the summer night breeze had been quite a contrast to the mid-August summer wet heat and it was only Shota, Tadayoshi and Ryo, fast asleep into Shota’s lap while Shota stroked his hair absent-mindedly. It was his mother, finally coming home for a week and not finding him there, and telling him about college, and becoming a lawyer and coming back, now. Tadayoshi had yelled first and then hung up, cutting his mother in the middle of her sentence. He had then thrown his phone away in anger and went to lock himself in his room.
A few minutes later, Shota was knocking softly on the door, asking if everything was alright while Ryo sleepy voice was asking what was wrong.
The next morning, Tadayoshi was in the kitchen, smoking near the window while taking his coffee, it had rained during the night, and the morning wasn’t as hot as usual. The door opened and Tadayoshi met Ryo’s eyes.
“You slept there? I didn’t saw you in the living room.”
“’Slept in Yasu’s room.” Ryo answered, pouring himself some milk.
Tadayoshi felt pissed at the statement, maybe he had ended up believing in Yuu’s joke that Shota and him were a couple. But Tadayoshi was cut in his thought by Shota’s “Morning!”
“My mom told me to come back over the phone yesterday.” Tadayoshi said, watching the ashes in the ashtray “I am thinking that maybe I should just do that.”
“ ’Will miss you.” Ryo said, between two sips.
“Do whatever you think is the best for you.” Shota said, looking for something in the fridge.
Now, Tadayoshi was totally pissed, he threw his cigarette in his unfinished coffee cup and went outside, making a straight line to his car. He drove away and from the kitchen, the fading engine noise could be heard as Shota slumped on a chair.
“I don’t give him more than a week. The guy loves you.” Ryo said picking a cigarette from the pack Tadayoshi had left by the window. Shota looked at him, surprised look crossing his features.
“Stop looking surprised. You know it, everybody knows it.”
Shota smiled as an answer, muttering an inaudible “Yes, I know.”
True to Ryo’s predictions, Tadayoshi was back seven days later, excusing himself for his behavior, returning behind the drumset and the ramen shop counter. A lot of customers seemed to be happy to see him again after he had been absent for two live. He had always thought that the fact that musician were that popular with girls was a myth, or than the girls’ interest went to the most handsome or the more well known, but playing at this bar had proven him wrong. When he came out of the stage, there were always girls wanting to have a drink with him and even more so after his short absence.
He usually declined the offer to drink with the other, boys but this night, he decided to pick one of them. Despite her love for musicians - that Tadayoshi found quite shallow - she was smart and very hot but he couldn’t bring himself to actually want her. He brought her home nonetheless, and he vaguely remembered Subaru telling him a few months ago where was the town red district and who to avoid there.
The girl was not there anymore in the morning and Tadayoshi smiled to himself, from what she had told to him the previous night, she was not the kind of girl to do commitment of any kind, or to cling to a one night stand between others. He somehow envied her carefree ways.
Shota was sat at his usual spot in the kitchen, reading the newspaper.
“Do you like me?” he asked, looking over the newspaper, and Tadayoshi was taken aback by the direct question.
“That doesn’t matter, you’ve got Ryo.”
“No, I don’t, it was some kind of experiment because Ryo thought he had a crush on a man, and felt more comfortable … experimenting with me.”
Tadayoshi nodded and left to work. He crossed Yuu and Shingo eating ice cream on his road.
It was the winter, a day when the town was covered in snow that Shota finally had his answer. In the kitchen, the coffee smell was overwhelming and on the radio, the newscaster announced that the few days to come would be warmer. Tadayoshi had just blurted out a “To answer your question, yes, I do like you.”
Not much changed after Tadayoshi’s confession except for the two of them becoming a couple (they were still the target of Yuu and Shingo jokes, Subaru still was quite unreadable, Ryo still acted like he owned Shota, and Ryuhei was still Ryuhei)
pairing : ohkura tadayoshi//yasuda shota
group : Kanjani8
rating : overall pg-13
word count : 1683 (total : 4433)
summary : After high school graduation, Tadayoshi decides to drive away until he ends up at an hotel, the "Stars" and it adjacent bar where he decides to stop.
He didn’t have much time until his first time on the bar’s stage, so he learnt the band songs mechanically. Moreover, it had been a long time since the last time he had had drumsticks in his hands; but somehow, Tuesday night arrived and Tadayoshi was on stage with Shota, Ryuhei and Subaru.
The bar was big. After spending all his evenings there, Tadayoshi knew it; but seen from the stage it was even bigger. And as he saw most of the audience eyes turned toward him, an unusual rush of shyness crashed over him. The soon disappeared, going away with Subaru’s voice as Shota and Ryuhei were jumping all around the stage. Shota faced Tadayoshi a few seconds, sending him a smile as bright as the light spots and suddenly, Tadayoshi insecurities didn’t matter anymore, he just wanted to drum the night away, high on Subaru’s voice and the instruments.
It came to an end and Tadayoshi was laughing without reason coming out of the stage while Ryuhei was patting his back, congratulating him for his performance. That night, they stayed in the bar until the closure hour and Yuu and Shingo refused to give Tadayoshi any alcoholic drink as some policemen were spending their time off there, smoking cigarette after cigarette on a couch.
Subaru was long gone - called by a hotel’s customer - when Tadayoshi had to cross the road to the hotel with a drunk Shota on his hand. He intended to leave him into Subaru’s care but when he reached the reception, nobody was there.
“I don’t want to sleep on the reception’s couch. I always fall on the floor.” Shota said, tripping over himself as his head fell from Tadayoshi’s arm, where he had started falling asleep.
“But I don’t know if there are any rooms left. I can’t give you a key.” Tadayoshi answered, pointing at the room keys hung on the wall. “If the customer decides to come back later and find you on their bed, it would be a problem.”
“Not the couch.” Shota responded, pouting. Tadayoshi sighed and Shota continued “Your bed must be nice.”
“What?!”
“Your bed. Double. I’m small.”
Tadayoshi sighed again and took Shota to his room; given the older boy state it was no use to argue and he didn’t know how long he would have to wait for Subaru to show up.
Tadayoshi was talking, telling Shota to not take too much room in the bed, to not wake up too late when he was cut by a light snore. Tadayoshi stopped talking, changed an climbed in the bed. He dreamt of Shota, bright smile on, playing the drums.
He was awoken by someone shaking him by the shoulders and calling his name.
“Breakfast hour is almost over. Thought you wanted to know.” Shota said.
Tadayoshi mumbled a reply and went to change. Subaru was sat at his usual table, reading newspaper and sipping slowly on his coffee while looking over the customers. He waved when he saw the other two.
“Yasu, you are a real Casanova.” He said, laughing and giving a friendly hit to Shota on the shoulder while Shota was trying to defend himself and Tadayoshi giggled.
Shota sat down on the chair, all smiles, and cried out a happy sounding “Day off!” before looking at Ohkura and asking him “Wanna have a walk, I can show you around some places you don’t know yet.”
They spent the day walking, going to Shota favorite spots, until the night surprised them. Even though it was already the end of April, the nights were still chilly and they hadn’t enough clothes on. Tadayoshi started rubbing his arms in order to warm himself up, and Shota, who was lying in the grass, staring at the stars, noticed.
“I live close by, you might want to grab a coat or spend the night.” Tadayoshi was ready the answer that he didn’t want to disturb but Shota continued, ignoring him. “Don’t worry, I have an extra room, I used to have a flat mate, a young boy called Uchi, he only spent a few weeks there. So, if you want, once you’ll have a job here, you could become my flat mate. I’m a bit bored by myself and you can’t really live at the hotel. It’ll become expensive.”
“Huh, thanks.” Tadayoshi answered, watching Shota standing up from his position.
“Sorry, I’m saying that but I don’t even know if you want to stay there.”
“Don’t worry about it. I quite like it here; I think I want to stay.” Tadayoshi replied smiling, looking at Shota building blurry form .
When Tadayoshi moved into Shota’s flat, it was the end of July and the heat was suffocating. The humidity coming from the seaside was making their skin stick and the small town was deserted at the sunniest hours, save for a few tourists walking around. Tadayoshi could see them sweating at the ramen shop where he worked as a waiter. Now, except for his job, he mostly came out at night, Shota flat had a pretty big garden and the boys would gather there with some beers, enjoying the refreshing summer night rather than always going to the bar - although they still went quite often, to play, and because Shingo and Yuu couldn’t just leave their workplace.
The night Tadayoshi’s phone rang, they were in their garden, the summer night breeze had been quite a contrast to the mid-August summer wet heat and it was only Shota, Tadayoshi and Ryo, fast asleep into Shota’s lap while Shota stroked his hair absent-mindedly. It was his mother, finally coming home for a week and not finding him there, and telling him about college, and becoming a lawyer and coming back, now. Tadayoshi had yelled first and then hung up, cutting his mother in the middle of her sentence. He had then thrown his phone away in anger and went to lock himself in his room.
A few minutes later, Shota was knocking softly on the door, asking if everything was alright while Ryo sleepy voice was asking what was wrong.
The next morning, Tadayoshi was in the kitchen, smoking near the window while taking his coffee, it had rained during the night, and the morning wasn’t as hot as usual. The door opened and Tadayoshi met Ryo’s eyes.
“You slept there? I didn’t saw you in the living room.”
“’Slept in Yasu’s room.” Ryo answered, pouring himself some milk.
Tadayoshi felt pissed at the statement, maybe he had ended up believing in Yuu’s joke that Shota and him were a couple. But Tadayoshi was cut in his thought by Shota’s “Morning!”
“My mom told me to come back over the phone yesterday.” Tadayoshi said, watching the ashes in the ashtray “I am thinking that maybe I should just do that.”
“ ’Will miss you.” Ryo said, between two sips.
“Do whatever you think is the best for you.” Shota said, looking for something in the fridge.
Now, Tadayoshi was totally pissed, he threw his cigarette in his unfinished coffee cup and went outside, making a straight line to his car. He drove away and from the kitchen, the fading engine noise could be heard as Shota slumped on a chair.
“I don’t give him more than a week. The guy loves you.” Ryo said picking a cigarette from the pack Tadayoshi had left by the window. Shota looked at him, surprised look crossing his features.
“Stop looking surprised. You know it, everybody knows it.”
Shota smiled as an answer, muttering an inaudible “Yes, I know.”
True to Ryo’s predictions, Tadayoshi was back seven days later, excusing himself for his behavior, returning behind the drumset and the ramen shop counter. A lot of customers seemed to be happy to see him again after he had been absent for two live. He had always thought that the fact that musician were that popular with girls was a myth, or than the girls’ interest went to the most handsome or the more well known, but playing at this bar had proven him wrong. When he came out of the stage, there were always girls wanting to have a drink with him and even more so after his short absence.
He usually declined the offer to drink with the other, boys but this night, he decided to pick one of them. Despite her love for musicians - that Tadayoshi found quite shallow - she was smart and very hot but he couldn’t bring himself to actually want her. He brought her home nonetheless, and he vaguely remembered Subaru telling him a few months ago where was the town red district and who to avoid there.
The girl was not there anymore in the morning and Tadayoshi smiled to himself, from what she had told to him the previous night, she was not the kind of girl to do commitment of any kind, or to cling to a one night stand between others. He somehow envied her carefree ways.
Shota was sat at his usual spot in the kitchen, reading the newspaper.
“Do you like me?” he asked, looking over the newspaper, and Tadayoshi was taken aback by the direct question.
“That doesn’t matter, you’ve got Ryo.”
“No, I don’t, it was some kind of experiment because Ryo thought he had a crush on a man, and felt more comfortable … experimenting with me.”
Tadayoshi nodded and left to work. He crossed Yuu and Shingo eating ice cream on his road.
It was the winter, a day when the town was covered in snow that Shota finally had his answer. In the kitchen, the coffee smell was overwhelming and on the radio, the newscaster announced that the few days to come would be warmer. Tadayoshi had just blurted out a “To answer your question, yes, I do like you.”
Not much changed after Tadayoshi’s confession except for the two of them becoming a couple (they were still the target of Yuu and Shingo jokes, Subaru still was quite unreadable, Ryo still acted like he owned Shota, and Ryuhei was still Ryuhei)