[ShigeTego fic] Signs (chp1. Arachnophobia)
Title: Signs (chp1. Arachnophobia)
Pairing: ShigeTego
Genre: Romance
Author: ai_happy4lucky
Disclaimer: I wish it’s me…
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It’s a sign. All we need is a sign. And it’s everywhere.
A/N: It's a random story but fed up one another anyway...And it's okay if you not follow it in right number. I already made it up to 3 but I rather post it one by one...
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Signs
Author: ai_happy4lucky
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1. Arachnophobia
He was so bored.
NEWS dressing room has been too quiet lately that it was enough to surprise him. Even Koyama who talkative plus Ryo who love to annoyed people has all gone quieter than usual. Maybe it’s because the person Koyama usually talked to wasn’t here today. And come to think of it, this said person was Ryo’s everyday poison mouth target. No wonder these two were seems bored too. And to make worse of it, the schedule today was not as full as usual.
That’s settle it, today was boring day.
Tegoshi allowed his feet to lead him aimlessly around the building.
He got nowhere to go, no plans to attend, and no work’s schedule to fulfill also because today’s work was done rather well. He wanted to go around town today but he preferred to have company. Yamapi and Ryo still have their shoot for their new drama that aired recently and sold so well, so it was understandable that they all they want for now was some good sleep. Meanwhile Massu was having another plan with his family and Koyama was still busy with work as well.
And Shige wasn’t at work today, said he got fever. Ryo scoffed that it because he study too much and forget his humanity needs to get sleep. But it’s just Tegoshi’s nature to get curious and get worried so quickly especially if it’s Shige.
Before Koyama left Tegoshi shared his concern and he just grinned at the evident worry in his face and said, “He’ll be all right, it’s just fever, he’s Shige after all”
And it sounded like the perfect statement to describe the law students with diligent natural attitude. Tegoshi smiled at his statement and allowed himself to calm down. Yet it’s still bothered him and he decided that he would be completely convinced once he sees him face to face.
After parking his car near the apartment, Tegoshi quickly walked toward Shige’s room. He rings bell twice but no answer, so he decided to just open it. His fingers reached out for the knobs of the door and felt familiarity surging through his body. Tegoshi took a deep breath and opened the door.
The room was standard size, filled with books that he didn’t bother to even glance at it in book store. It had titles on all sorts of topics, in various sizes, with different book covers and many of it not had content in his own languages. And it’s when scattered everywhere. He inhaled the strange and unique smell that could only be produced by these books.
And Shige wasn’t anywhere around.
The room was dim and Tegoshi seriously need some lighting, so he had to walk slowly around the room until he found the window curtains. He tugged at the curtains and slowly started to spread them open allowing the bright sunshine to give more light to the room. After taking in the breath taking view outside, he turned around the room and frowned. Although books are Shige’s pride yet when it scattered everwhere around the room, it made this room very…
Very dusty.
Not to mention paper everywhere and random books scattered or stacked on the floor. Pages of some books were torn off and added to the clutter of the room. The messiness almost reminded him of Ryo’s room.
Is this where Shige resides all the time?
How Shige loves the atmosphere and the aura of the room he can understand that much, but the room positively needs cleaning. Without second thought Tegoshi put his bag and jacket, storm the room in search of a mop, bucket, rags and various cleaning materials. He's not a really a neat type, but he couldn't stand this room either...
Cleaning up this room would take a long time.
He dreaded the thought but, he had nothing better to do anyway. A thought crossed his mind and made him smile.
It would be enough to spend time on as he waits for the owner of the room to come back.
He tucked his sleeves of his hem as he got ready to clean. He started as cleaning up as soon as he got all the materials he needed.
After placing all scattered papers in table, he grabbed the ladder and decided to start dusting the cobwebs off the ceiling. He started from the doors going to the windows. He dusted off the cobwebs with his dominant hand and covered his mouth and nose with his free hand.
A bath sounds really good once he finishes.
After the tedious task of dusting cobwebs and put away the books inside bookshelf and whatever place he found fine enough to place on, he reached Shige’s bed room and decided the condition was not even better. Book, many books, more books, tons of books, Tegoshi started to get irritated with all those books not to mention they’re very heavy and he feels sore by lifting it again and again.
Because there’s no place anymore inside the shelf, he decided to place it on top of it. He used a ladder to reach the top of shelf as he carried books. The shelf is quite big and Tegoshi now was near the window, he took a deep breath taking to relieve himself. He absent-mindedly stopped lifting and arranging the books. Relish the feeling of air filled his lungs. It’s nice to see the town’s houses and people in minor detail.
As his thoughts started flowing he can’t help but feel a strange chill in his spine. He felt small movements around the room and he wasn’t sure what it was. He took a deep breath and calmed himself. He slowly turned around trying to maintain his balance on the ladder.
His deep brown eyes widened when it came to contact with a four tiny pairs of black eyes reflecting the shock it held. Its tiny legs were squirming very slowly as its body nimbly hang itself from the thin silky thread. It was black from head to body to legs and it didn’t look to friendly. In Tegoshi’s opinion that is, since it was just two inches away from his face.
The cold chill in his spine came again and there was no use holding back because he couldn’t take it anymore.
*****
He needed sleep pretty badly.
In all honestly he thought he would never get back in one piece. First the fever, then crappy train ride, then the good-for-nothing-clerk who made fault with the copy machine so Shige’s copy was now useless, fortunate thing he didn’t lost his origin papers. After that a killer teacher who had tendency to be a psychotic when he got a bad mornings which made students had to suffer from that in return, and in addition his wallet was almost lost and…ah heck you probably don’t want to hear the rest of it.
To cut it short:
It was hell.
Shige was dragging his sore feet to his destination, his apartment. And as always a wave of anticipation washed through him. It feels very nice to be in place you knowledge as your home you can go back.
From what he recalled, all NEWS member were all occupied today. Yamapi and Ryo sure busy with script and shooting, Koyama still have work to do in Shonen Club, and he said Massu was spend his time with his family…Eating perhaps? Everyone’s busy…Today sounds really boring right now.
He winced and remembered that Tegoshi didn’t have any plan.
Koyama didn’t know where he went after work. Not with NEWS member to be obvious. And if he got no plan to spend this day with, then he must be pretty bored right now. And in an instant his thoughts swirled around the youngest member.
He smirked as he wondered what Tegoshi might be doing right now. Shige guessed that his train of thought would run around something like this: I wonder if everyone doing good right now? I hope them safe. How about Yamapi’s leg? He got hurt at the last shooting. How about the others? And other similar phrases that ran through the same thought. Sometimes it bothered Shige that he worries too much. No, he never got worries too much before, it’s just recently. But if that’s the case, Shige will always assure that everything will be okay.
And for some reason a part of him wanted to see Tegoshi’s bright welcoming smile as he stepped through the doors of his apartment, which is so impossible, Tegoshi got nothing to do with his apartment, especially when there’s nothing but books scattered around the room.
Shige blinked and realized that he was already in front of his apartment.
He stretched his arms hoping some stretching would wake him up. His body may be fully awake but his mind and soul were as good as dead right now. A bath sounds really good now.
“AAAAAAHH!”
The familiar voice was enough to send an alarm to his body and it shook him awake instantly. It sent chills to his spine as he sensed fear wavering in that voice. He worriedly stared up and searched as to where the scream could’ve come from and sensed it coming from the third floor, his room.
Without second thought he dash to his room to the damsel in distress who’s screamed for reasons who knows what.
*****
Frozen stiff as he shakily tried to maintain his balance, Tegoshi’s clamped his mouth as his screams could was probably strong enough to echo throughout the apartment. He was now praying so hard that no one would come and witness such embarrassment.
The spider twitched some more and it looked like it was about to move. He decided to get down as soon as possible before the spider caused him to scream again. He was doing well going down when the spider strangely had the same train of though and started going down with the help of its silky thread.
That’s it! He decided to jump of the ladder when he lost his footing and his deep brown eyes widened as he heard a familiar voice scream his name.
“Tegoshi!”
“S-Shige??”
He turned his head slightly to see Shige who just came from the door as he caught his fall. Shige grabbed Tegoshi’s small frame close to him as they crashed heavily on the floor.
Tegoshi was the first one who got up and panicked at the grimace on Shige’s face
“Shige! Shige! Are you alright?!”
Shige’s eyes cracked open just to be blinded by deep brown ones. He groaned as he felt a headache spinning through his head.
“I’m so glad you’re alright!!” Tegoshi held him as he tried to suppress the tears forming in his eyes. It’s so tight Shige almost choke air off his throat.
He could only grin, “Idiot.”
Tegoshi giggled and beamed with his usual bright smile. It was either that or his headache was making him dizzy. He slowly sat up and looked around the room, “What were you doing here anyway?”
“I was cleaning up until you arrived.”
He raised a brow, “Eh?”
“It was pretty boring while everyone seemed strangely preoccupied today.”
He took a few minutes to register what he just said and agreed, “Oh.” Then he popped the question, “Why were you screaming? Did something happen?”
He didn’t fail to memorize every detail on Tegoshi’s face when he blushed, “Nothing.”
Shige, being the smart fella he was, took Tegoshi by surprise as he tightened the grip on his hand as he stood up and made the younger boy stand up with him. Curiosity and mischief was dripping in his voice, “Oh really?”
Annoyed, Tegoshi just stared somewhere else and refused to meet his eye. “I told you it was nothing.”
Curiosity was starting to kill Shige as he restlessly wondered what it was that would make this talkative, clingy, self-centered, and not to mention cute and bright boy, scream in fear.
By the looks of his face he looked pretty determined not to talk about it. Shige accepted this as a losing battle and decided to change the topic when a small black object started slinging itself downward with the help of long silk thread. He was about to point it out to Tegoshi when he noted he was biting down a scream as he shuddered and quickly hid behind him.
“I.don’t.want.to.see.it.” Tegoshi muttered against his back as he gripped on Shige’s clothes tightly.
His glances shifted from the innocent spider dangling two inches from his face and the small frame who was hiding behind him. His gaze remained at the innocent spider that was coated black all over, with four pairs of tiny black eyes and eight squirming legs.
This made Tegoshi scream and shuddered.
This made him dash as fast as he could to the third floor and not to mention he must climb all those stairs.
This is what he was afraid of???
As he registered the amusing discovery in his head he was grinning like an idiot deep inside as tried his very best to keep it to himself. He just couldn’t help it and this time he was mentally laughing.
The brightest boy he knew was actually arachnophobic.
“Who would’ve thought?” He smirked as he sending the innocent little spider flying out the window. He muttered a small ‘Thank You’ and the smirk on his face grew wider.
‘I came home after all disaster and look what I found…It’s so nice to be home.’ Shige mentally thought.
“You can look now.”
Tegoshi popped his head from behind his back and blinked in relief to see that the object of his dread was nowhere to be seen. Shige turned to face him and he quickly took a few steps back. Frustration and embarrassment was mixed in his face.
“If it helps,” He paused as he caught Tegoshi’s attention, “I won’t tell anyone.”
If looks could kill, Shige was lying in the pool his blood right now, “You won’t tell anyone?”
He gulped as he raised his hands in surrender, “I promise.”
Tegoshi’s expression relaxed a little as he gave a small and shy smile, “I’ll take your word on that.”
He tiptoed and kissed Shige on the cheek, coloring his cheeks with a shade of bright red. He winced and looked down at Tegoshi’s bright smile and can’t help but return the smile as well.
“This should be enough for a thank you.”
And after that Shige swore to kill all the spiders he would come across to if he were to be kissed for every spider he killed.
Of course he won’t forget to thank you.
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A.N: OK, that’s the first story. Actually, about Tegoshi being arachnophobic was my own thought. So it’s fiction. After all, we free to express our thought right? And it’s FANFICTION for any name’s sake!