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chapter 24: - Believe
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“Ok. I guess we all agree on it, so shooting will be started next week because it is SP drama so, we have to finish it up ASAP..” Nino just nods to what the director is saying. He couldn’t focus but he is good in pretending it.
“Ok. Johnny-san, director-san, Ninomiya-san,I’m sorry again on behalf of Nagasawa-san for not being able to be here..” Masami’s manager bows. “Its okay.. I hope this drama will have a good rating.. rumor is good for publicity and publicity is good for business.. ok. I have another appointment after this. So, thank you for coming..” Johnny-san smiles.
The meeting ends there.
Nino and his manager head to the studio to shoot VsA for the next episode. On the way there, Nino didn’t talk at all. He just nods for the explanation that being given by his manager even he didn’t hear anything. His mind is in total mess. Masami and Mia's faces are hunting him right now.
Nino enters Arashi dressing room.
“Ah, kazu! Genki?” Masaki greets him. Nino nods. He sits on his usual place. “Daijoubu?” Jut pat Nino’s shoulder. “Hmm.. I’m okay.. sho and Satoshi wa?” he asks them back. “Sho has a CM shooting, if I’m not mistaken. Riida- I don’t know” Jun answers him and the moment he finish the sentence, Satoshi enters the room. “Yo!” he greets them.
“It is unusual for you being late..” Masaki speaks his mind. “Ah, I have a meeting just now..” he answers while taking place near Nino. “Eh, new drama?” Jun and Nino just listen to the conversation between Masaki and Satoshi.
“Emm.. I got an offer to do an art exhibition in New York..” he smiles proudly.
“Hontou ni? Omendetou!! Uwah.. sugei na, riida~”
“Omendetou, riida..” Jun and Nino congratulate him. “Iya, iya.. that is just a proposal.. but, to be honest, I’m so excited about this…”
“Yeah, it has been your dream, deshou? To have an exhibition out of Japan..”
“Hmm.. I want to use other name, this time. I will not do an exhibition as Ohno Satoshi, but as someone else..”
“Nande?”
“I feel like my art had being overlap by Arashi’s Ohno Satoshi. I really want to hear people’s view about the art solely.. you got what I mean?”
“Hmm.. I think I got it..”
Nino move beside Satoshi. “Ne, Riida..”
Satoshi looks at him. “I have something to talk to you..” both of them looks around. Masaki is busy with the bento and Jun with his phone. “Hmm.. okay”
Nino don’t know how to start. Satoshi smiles. “About Mia-chan?” Slowly Nino nods. “Y-You like her?”
“I did”
“Eh?”
“I do like her, very much. From the first time I saw her in your house, I think.. but..”
Nino just stay silent. “But.. she loves you..”
Suddenly Nino looks at him. “How did you know?”
“She told me.. on the night I came to your house.. when I confess to her..”
“You confess to her??”
Satoshi smiles and nods. “You know me, Kazu.. I will straight tell someone if I like her.. but, why did you asks?” No answer. Satoshi looks properly at Nino. Then he inhales a long breath. “I see.. you like her too.. then you have to choose”
“Choose?”
“Between Mia-chan and Masami-chan..”
“H-H-Ha..hahaha.. don’t tell me you also believe the rumor..”
“Kazu, I know you still hurt about Shiina-chan long time ago until you are too afraid to tell others about your love life. But, we are your friends. We know, Kazu..”
“You all did? Since?”
“At the first place, we just ignore it because that is your private matter, but when you buy the necklace in LA- we know you dates her..”
“I-I’m sorry for hiding it..”
“It okay.. we understand, Kazu.. but, how about now?”
Nino close his eyes and rubs his forehead. “You are big enough to make a decision, but let me tell you something, Kazu.. I will not being hesitate to take Mia-chan from you if you make her suffer. She is a nice girl, naïve and very fragile.. if you can make her happy, its okay for me.. but if not, hmm.. you know what I mean Kazu.. let the best man win!” Satoshi pats Nino’s shoulder.
Few minutes later, Sho arrived. “Ohaiyou! Ah, Kazu! Genki?” he asks. “Genki desu. Ne, who is our guest today?”
“My PA told me that it is YamaNade drama, for promotion as usual.. so I think Tegoshi-kun, Uchi-kun and Kame-chan will be here also today.. and for plus one- I don’t have any idea..” sho answers it while letting the make-up artist do her job.
The VsA shooting is started. YamaNade team enters the studio. Arashi members greet the guest as usual and the shooting goes flawlessly. “Ok, now, let me introduce this week plus one guest that will join Arashi team, and the guest is- dozou!” after sho announce it, the music theme plays. All arashi members turn around; wanting to know who their guest will be since none of them know who he or she is.
The guest appears. Looks like a girl from the back and at that moment, Nino’s eye wide open. No, it can’t be true. She turns around- yes, she is Nagasawa Masami. Nino tries to calm down, using every acting skills he have to hide his feeling right now. Audience are giving big applause and screaming loudly; welcoming her.
Jun, Sho, Masaki and Satoshi give slight glance to each other. Similarly, they have one word in mind- yabai! However, as a professional, they are good in hiding it. “So, today plus one guest is- Nagasawa Masami-san.. yoroshiku onegaishimasu..”
Masami smile and bow. “Yoroshiku onegaishimasu”
“Nagasawa-san, within our members you had being acting with Matsujun, ne?” Sho asks her. Try to be normal. “Ah, hai. In The last princess.. Isashiburi, Jun-kun..” she greets Jun. “Ah, isashiburi..” Nino just looks at her. “Nino also had acted with you, right? In Yasashi Jikan” another question from Sho. Nino startle.
“Hai. Yasashi Jikan. Ninomiya-san, isashiburi..” Masami bows at him. Nino bows back. “Chouu isashiburi da ne?” others may see it as usual say but Nino and Masami understand the meaning of it very well.
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Nino finishes another can of beer.
The balcony is in total mess right now with lots of cans of beer. Just like the state of his mind. He couldn’t think straightly. He didn’t understand his own heart. He didn’t understand what he had did..
No one around and in a split second, I managed to enter Masami’s dressing room. Noticing someone is standing behind her, she turns around. “Baby!!!” she hugs me. Tightly. She lift her head, tries to capture my lips but I look away. “What happen?” she asks me and that question made me lost my patient.
“You ask me what happened? Bulls**t! where the hell you are for the past three weeks?”
“I told you, I’m in Hawaii”
“Couldn’t answer my call??? Could reply my massage??”
I cant believe she can still smiling that time. “You think I’m playing around here?”
“Yeah, I know.. 378 miscalls, 571 massage.. you really miss me don’t you?”
“I’m hell serious right now! You can still have nerve to make fun of me???”
“I purposely did that..”
“What???”
“Didn’t you read my massage that I left? That is for your punishment..”
“Punishment?? For what??”
“I’ m so excited when preparing the dinner and we didn’t eat them because of you..remember?”
“What???? only because of that??”
“Owhhh~ don’t be angry with me, baby.. I’m sorry.. but I really want to see how miserable your life without me..” she giggles. “I cant believe this.. Oh my God! You are crazy, Masami!!”
“Yes, I’m crazy. I’m crazy about you.. hihihi..”
“Sir-chan?” Nino turns around. Mia is smiling and sits beside him on the floor. “Gomenne.. I went to Sunako-chan house just now.. her mother is not well..” because of the balcony’s lamp is quite dim, Mia couldn’t see Nino is crying right now. “You drink a lot.. ah, I’m going to change first, I’ll join you after this okay..”
Mia is just about to make a move, suddenly Nino hugs her. Burying his face on her stomach. Mia startles but she let him be. She can feel her cloth becomes wet because of Nino’s tears. She strokes his hair. After a few minutes, Nino slowly stops crying but still hugging Mia’s waist. “Ne.. dohsta?” Mia asks him. Slowly and softly. No answer. Mia hushing him.
There is serene feeling that Nino can feel in Mia’s arm. Peaceful. Calming. He takes a deep breath and let go of Mia’s waist, but then he takes her hand and kissing the palm of her soft hand. Mia kneels down in front of him. She kisses his eye. “Hey.. this lovely hazel eyes will swollen if you cried too much, Sir-chan..” Mia is repeating the same sentence that Nino had said before. She caresses his face. “Doshta?” she asks him again.
No answer.
Perhaps, he is not ready to share his problem. Mia smiles. She sits beside him. Taking his hand and place it on her cheek. Nino looks at her. “I just want you to know, I will always be here.. like what you want me to promise you yesterday.. what ever happen in future, I will always stay here, be with you..”
Nino suddenly hugs her.
Mia stokes his back and kissing the curve of his neck and his shoulder. Try to calm him down. “I don’t know what happen if you dint tell me.. but its okay. I won’t push you..”
“I’m sorry, Mia..”
“Its okay.. I understand.. but promise me, you will be alright. I’m worry about you..”
“I’m sorry..”
Mia looses the hug and look at him. She kisses his lips then he cups his face. “Always remember, I will be here, forever.. when you cry or smile, I’ll always be here.. even the whole world isolates you, I’ll always stay here for you..”
“I will always believe in you..” listening to that sentence, Nino close his eye, feeling really guilty when he remember what happen this afternoon..
Masami hugs me again. “Don’t you miss me?” she smiles seductively. I couldn’t look at her eyes. What is she thinking? A punishment? S**t! Suddenly I can feel Masami’s hand touchng my sensitive spot at my waist. It has been a year since we being together, and we had $*x like thousands time?? She know my body really well and slowly I’m defeated..
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“Ok. I guess we all agree on it, so shooting will be started next week because it is SP drama so, we have to finish it up ASAP..” Nino just nods to what the director is saying. He couldn’t focus but he is good in pretending it.
“Ok. Johnny-san, director-san, Ninomiya-san,I’m sorry again on behalf of Nagasawa-san for not being able to be here..” Masami’s manager bows. “Its okay.. I hope this drama will have a good rating.. rumor is good for publicity and publicity is good for business.. ok. I have another appointment after this. So, thank you for coming..” Johnny-san smiles.
The meeting ends there.
Nino and his manager head to the studio to shoot VsA for the next episode. On the way there, Nino didn’t talk at all. He just nods for the explanation that being given by his manager even he didn’t hear anything. His mind is in total mess. Masami and Mia's faces are hunting him right now.
Nino enters Arashi dressing room.
“Ah, kazu! Genki?” Masaki greets him. Nino nods. He sits on his usual place. “Daijoubu?” Jut pat Nino’s shoulder. “Hmm.. I’m okay.. sho and Satoshi wa?” he asks them back. “Sho has a CM shooting, if I’m not mistaken. Riida- I don’t know” Jun answers him and the moment he finish the sentence, Satoshi enters the room. “Yo!” he greets them.
“It is unusual for you being late..” Masaki speaks his mind. “Ah, I have a meeting just now..” he answers while taking place near Nino. “Eh, new drama?” Jun and Nino just listen to the conversation between Masaki and Satoshi.
“Emm.. I got an offer to do an art exhibition in New York..” he smiles proudly.
“Hontou ni? Omendetou!! Uwah.. sugei na, riida~”
“Omendetou, riida..” Jun and Nino congratulate him. “Iya, iya.. that is just a proposal.. but, to be honest, I’m so excited about this…”
“Yeah, it has been your dream, deshou? To have an exhibition out of Japan..”
“Hmm.. I want to use other name, this time. I will not do an exhibition as Ohno Satoshi, but as someone else..”
“Nande?”
“I feel like my art had being overlap by Arashi’s Ohno Satoshi. I really want to hear people’s view about the art solely.. you got what I mean?”
“Hmm.. I think I got it..”
Nino move beside Satoshi. “Ne, Riida..”
Satoshi looks at him. “I have something to talk to you..” both of them looks around. Masaki is busy with the bento and Jun with his phone. “Hmm.. okay”
Nino don’t know how to start. Satoshi smiles. “About Mia-chan?” Slowly Nino nods. “Y-You like her?”
“I did”
“Eh?”
“I do like her, very much. From the first time I saw her in your house, I think.. but..”
Nino just stay silent. “But.. she loves you..”
Suddenly Nino looks at him. “How did you know?”
“She told me.. on the night I came to your house.. when I confess to her..”
“You confess to her??”
Satoshi smiles and nods. “You know me, Kazu.. I will straight tell someone if I like her.. but, why did you asks?” No answer. Satoshi looks properly at Nino. Then he inhales a long breath. “I see.. you like her too.. then you have to choose”
“Choose?”
“Between Mia-chan and Masami-chan..”
“H-H-Ha..hahaha.. don’t tell me you also believe the rumor..”
“Kazu, I know you still hurt about Shiina-chan long time ago until you are too afraid to tell others about your love life. But, we are your friends. We know, Kazu..”
“You all did? Since?”
“At the first place, we just ignore it because that is your private matter, but when you buy the necklace in LA- we know you dates her..”
“I-I’m sorry for hiding it..”
“It okay.. we understand, Kazu.. but, how about now?”
Nino close his eyes and rubs his forehead. “You are big enough to make a decision, but let me tell you something, Kazu.. I will not being hesitate to take Mia-chan from you if you make her suffer. She is a nice girl, naïve and very fragile.. if you can make her happy, its okay for me.. but if not, hmm.. you know what I mean Kazu.. let the best man win!” Satoshi pats Nino’s shoulder.
Few minutes later, Sho arrived. “Ohaiyou! Ah, Kazu! Genki?” he asks. “Genki desu. Ne, who is our guest today?”
“My PA told me that it is YamaNade drama, for promotion as usual.. so I think Tegoshi-kun, Uchi-kun and Kame-chan will be here also today.. and for plus one- I don’t have any idea..” sho answers it while letting the make-up artist do her job.
The VsA shooting is started. YamaNade team enters the studio. Arashi members greet the guest as usual and the shooting goes flawlessly. “Ok, now, let me introduce this week plus one guest that will join Arashi team, and the guest is- dozou!” after sho announce it, the music theme plays. All arashi members turn around; wanting to know who their guest will be since none of them know who he or she is.
The guest appears. Looks like a girl from the back and at that moment, Nino’s eye wide open. No, it can’t be true. She turns around- yes, she is Nagasawa Masami. Nino tries to calm down, using every acting skills he have to hide his feeling right now. Audience are giving big applause and screaming loudly; welcoming her.
Jun, Sho, Masaki and Satoshi give slight glance to each other. Similarly, they have one word in mind- yabai! However, as a professional, they are good in hiding it. “So, today plus one guest is- Nagasawa Masami-san.. yoroshiku onegaishimasu..”
Masami smile and bow. “Yoroshiku onegaishimasu”
“Nagasawa-san, within our members you had being acting with Matsujun, ne?” Sho asks her. Try to be normal. “Ah, hai. In The last princess.. Isashiburi, Jun-kun..” she greets Jun. “Ah, isashiburi..” Nino just looks at her. “Nino also had acted with you, right? In Yasashi Jikan” another question from Sho. Nino startle.
“Hai. Yasashi Jikan. Ninomiya-san, isashiburi..” Masami bows at him. Nino bows back. “Chouu isashiburi da ne?” others may see it as usual say but Nino and Masami understand the meaning of it very well.
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Nino finishes another can of beer.
The balcony is in total mess right now with lots of cans of beer. Just like the state of his mind. He couldn’t think straightly. He didn’t understand his own heart. He didn’t understand what he had did..
No one around and in a split second, I managed to enter Masami’s dressing room. Noticing someone is standing behind her, she turns around. “Baby!!!” she hugs me. Tightly. She lift her head, tries to capture my lips but I look away. “What happen?” she asks me and that question made me lost my patient.
“You ask me what happened? Bulls**t! where the hell you are for the past three weeks?”
“I told you, I’m in Hawaii”
“Couldn’t answer my call??? Could reply my massage??”
I cant believe she can still smiling that time. “You think I’m playing around here?”
“Yeah, I know.. 378 miscalls, 571 massage.. you really miss me don’t you?”
“I’m hell serious right now! You can still have nerve to make fun of me???”
“I purposely did that..”
“What???”
“Didn’t you read my massage that I left? That is for your punishment..”
“Punishment?? For what??”
“I’ m so excited when preparing the dinner and we didn’t eat them because of you..remember?”
“What???? only because of that??”
“Owhhh~ don’t be angry with me, baby.. I’m sorry.. but I really want to see how miserable your life without me..” she giggles. “I cant believe this.. Oh my God! You are crazy, Masami!!”
“Yes, I’m crazy. I’m crazy about you.. hihihi..”
“Sir-chan?” Nino turns around. Mia is smiling and sits beside him on the floor. “Gomenne.. I went to Sunako-chan house just now.. her mother is not well..” because of the balcony’s lamp is quite dim, Mia couldn’t see Nino is crying right now. “You drink a lot.. ah, I’m going to change first, I’ll join you after this okay..”
Mia is just about to make a move, suddenly Nino hugs her. Burying his face on her stomach. Mia startles but she let him be. She can feel her cloth becomes wet because of Nino’s tears. She strokes his hair. After a few minutes, Nino slowly stops crying but still hugging Mia’s waist. “Ne.. dohsta?” Mia asks him. Slowly and softly. No answer. Mia hushing him.
There is serene feeling that Nino can feel in Mia’s arm. Peaceful. Calming. He takes a deep breath and let go of Mia’s waist, but then he takes her hand and kissing the palm of her soft hand. Mia kneels down in front of him. She kisses his eye. “Hey.. this lovely hazel eyes will swollen if you cried too much, Sir-chan..” Mia is repeating the same sentence that Nino had said before. She caresses his face. “Doshta?” she asks him again.
No answer.
Perhaps, he is not ready to share his problem. Mia smiles. She sits beside him. Taking his hand and place it on her cheek. Nino looks at her. “I just want you to know, I will always be here.. like what you want me to promise you yesterday.. what ever happen in future, I will always stay here, be with you..”
Nino suddenly hugs her.
Mia stokes his back and kissing the curve of his neck and his shoulder. Try to calm him down. “I don’t know what happen if you dint tell me.. but its okay. I won’t push you..”
“I’m sorry, Mia..”
“Its okay.. I understand.. but promise me, you will be alright. I’m worry about you..”
“I’m sorry..”
Mia looses the hug and look at him. She kisses his lips then he cups his face. “Always remember, I will be here, forever.. when you cry or smile, I’ll always be here.. even the whole world isolates you, I’ll always stay here for you..”
“I will always believe in you..” listening to that sentence, Nino close his eye, feeling really guilty when he remember what happen this afternoon..
Masami hugs me again. “Don’t you miss me?” she smiles seductively. I couldn’t look at her eyes. What is she thinking? A punishment? S**t! Suddenly I can feel Masami’s hand touchng my sensitive spot at my waist. It has been a year since we being together, and we had $*x like thousands time?? She know my body really well and slowly I’m defeated..
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