[fic] To Quit This Act (2/14)
TITLE: To Quit This Act (2/14)
PAIRING: Ohmiya (Ohno SatoshixNinomiya Kazunari)
LENGTH: Multi-chaptered (14 chapters total)
BANDS: Arashi
GENRE: Drama? It's a roller-coaster, folks.
RATING: Overall R
WARNINGS: Language and sexual themes/situations in later chapters.
SUMMARY: He did the things he did as a joke, and for years that was fine... but turning it into a prank changed everything entirely.
PREVIOUS PARTS: 01 |
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“We can’t air that, okay? None of what the tapes caught can ever be aired.” Nino explained hurriedly into the mouthpiece of his cell phone. He kept glancing around nervously, waiting for someone else to finish their individual shoots and come looking for him, and so he kept his voice low. “It’s just too personal. And it didn’t work out anyway. There’s nothing in that footage that’s worth using… And just so you know, I’m not the only one who’ll kill you if it does get out. Johnny-san will be after you too.” He paused, relieved at least with regards to this problem. “I know you know, I’m just warning you to make sure.” He chuckled softly. “Thanks Hina-san.”
His phone hung up with an electronic chirp and he shoved it in his pocket before sinking down onto the couch. He sighed, barely refraining from running his hands through his hair and having the hair and makeup girls scold him for it later.
He could kick himself for being so stupid. He’d played questionable pranks before, but this had been his absolute stupidest idea. Why hadn’t he noticed before? Why hadn’t he considered that Ohno could have been serious the whole time? Ohno hadn’t been testing him at all, he’d accepted everything Nino did because he wanted it, and he wanted it to be real…
If Nino didn’t already feel like an ass for playing the idiotic prank, then thinking about the torture he must have been putting Ohno through for all these years made him want to crawl into a dark hole and just disappear. He let out a growl of frustration and buried his face in his hands, only to nearly jump out of his skin when he felt a presence to his left, the shift of weight being added to the couch and tentative hands on his shoulder and back of his neck. Nino’s eyes snapped open as he jerked away from the touch in alarm. It was Ohno kneeling beside him, of course, but as Nino fell backwards Ohno lost the only thing holding him up, and he fell with him before he could catch himself.
Not that they hadn’t been in questionable looking positions with each other before -and this wasn’t even that bad-, but he was now all too aware of the warm press of Ohno’s stomach against the side of his thigh, the way his eyes looked at him with concern and affection (that was clearly not nearly as platonic as he’d previously thought) and some amount of embarrassment, the way his long fingers now seemed to burn where he held himself up with a grip on Nino’s shoulder.
It was awkward, and Nino had no idea how to react.
Had Ohno always felt this awkward when he was the one lying about how he felt?
“You’re upset.” The brunette announced, perhaps in way of explanation for his current position -though he made no attempt to get up.
“I-… no…” Nino replied lamely.
Ohno looked at him silently for another moment before lowering himself down, folding his arms and pillowing his head in them on Nino’s chest. Nino gaped. Ohno smiled and his eyes crinkled up. “I wanted to cheer you up.”
“Oh…” Nino shifted a little. Ohno was a heavy weight on his ribcage and across his legs, almost like having a really big cat sleep on him. Nino craned his neck a little to try and put some space between himself and the older man’s naturally pouty lips. “Listen, Oh-chan…”
“Mm?”
“…What does this mean, exactly?”
A small crease appeared in Ohno’s brow. “‘This’?”
“You know,” Nino said, knowing he probably did and was just making sure, “us. What are we… now…?”
Ohno hummed thoughtfully, looking unsure again, like his confidence was draining out of him. It made Nino feel terrible. “Us… We’re Ohmiya, aren’t we?” He chuckled awkwardly, but let the sound die off when it didn’t get rid of the tension Nino was creating. His gaze dropped and he began fiddling nervously with a button on Nino’s shirt. “I don’t know. I thought-… Are you happy?”
“Happy?” He questioned the word, eyes stuck watching Ohno’s long, tanned fingers flicking and smoothing over the silver button.
“You know…” and Nino ‘s gaze flickered up just in time to see a soft smile spread on his friend’s downcast features, “when you said you loved me, I was really happy -I’m still happy-, and I thought that if you were telling the truth then-“
“Of course I was telling the truth!” He burst out in a fit of panic.
Ohno smiled that gentle, almost sad, smile again. “I know. I just thought that you’d be happy to hear that I loved you too… but you’ve been acting strangely all day.”
“I’m not acting strange!” He snapped nervously. Somehow, he couldn’t bear the thought of Ohno knowing it had been a lie. Not now. Not after he’d made him so frigging happy… And at the same time he couldn’t possibly let the lie continue, could he? That would be even worse!
“I just meant-… I don’t know, did I do something wrong, Nino? I thought you’d want to hear how I felt, but now it feels like- like-“ He looked really upset now and Nino wanted to punch himself in the face for being the idiot source of all problems here. Ohno dropped his gaze again, blinking a little more rapidly than usual.
“You didn’t do anything wrong.” Nino said quickly. It was true; he was the only one to blame for the whole mess. “I am happy, Oh-chan, just… I was just upset because… because the parking lot wasn’t a very, uh, romantic place to… you know…”
“Confess.” Ohno finished for him, looking like his day had just been made… It probably had.
“…Yeah.” Nino sighed before he could stop himself. Every lie he told made things so much more twisted and cruel. He couldn’t stop for fear of hurting his friend, even though the more it grew and festered the more painful the truth would be later on.
“You still seem troubled, though.”
“It’s just a nasty headache, don’t worry about it.” That wasn’t a lie, at least. His head was pounding, and it was most likely from the stress. Distracted by his thoughts, he vaguely registered the loss of weight as Ohno lifted himself up and moved off the couch, and then was thoroughly startled when warm fingertips pressed against his temples.
“I want to help.” Ohno explained, standing bent over him and kneading small circles into his skin. Admittedly, it felt rather nice, and Nino felt himself quickly relaxing into the touch. His eyes that had closed of their own accord snapped open very suddenly, however, when Ohno’s hands moved to his legs, pulling to straighten them out so he was lying flat on the couch, rather than awkwardly bent with his feet still on the floor. That in itself hadn’t been a particularly shocking move, but Ohno then proceeded to climb up and straddle him, one knee on either side of Nino’s body and weight pressing down onto his waist area.
“W-what are you doing?” Nino’s eyes were wide, as Ohno wiggled a bit to get comfy and then leant down so their faces were a foot or so apart.
“This is less awkward.” Ohno answered normally.
Nino would beg to differ, but Ohno’s fingers were back on his face, massaging from his temples up to his brow and down to his cheekbones. Nino’s eyes fell shut again; it was easier just to focus on how good it felt rather than on Ohno’s concentrated expression. One of Ohno’s hands began working the bridge of his nose while the other slipped into his hair, sifting through it soothingly, tugging just slightly enough that Nino tipped his head back a little. Ohno took the opportunity and the hand on his nose moved to work out the stiff muscles in the back of the younger man’s neck.
Before he could stop himself, a low moan managed to sneak its way from Nino’s throat. He felt himself flush at how it sounded, and how he must look, but it felt far too good for him to open his eyes and shove the other man off of him.
“What we are now… I don’t think we have to name it, do we?” Ohno spoke softly, like he was only musing aloud to himself. “We both know how we feel…” Nino tried not to wince. “…Now we can act on that.”
To his shock Nino felt Ohno’s words hit him in the form of hot breath, ghosting over his own lips. His eyes shot open and he reached out reflexively, grabbing the man on top of him by his shoulder to stop him from moving any closer and closing the inches of space between them completely. “Wait!” He practically gasped.
Ohno frowned at him curiously, concerned, and Nino froze.
Shit. He did not want to upset his friend again.
“Um… Oh-chan…” He swallowed, Ohno waited patiently for him to continue but made no move to back off. “… Can we not tell the others?”
“Hm?”
“About us… and whatever we have or are right now… Can it be a secret?” The last thing he needed was Aiba gushing over them or Jun really calling them disgusting or Sho being all prudish and flustered over things he would previously have considered normal. Nino needed time to figure this out. Lying to Ohno was bad enough, but he didn’t want to lie to everybody else he knew as well.
Ohno looked thoughtful for a moment before smiling sweetly. “Okay, if that’s what Nino wants.” Nino nodded, realizing he felt like human scum every time Ohno looked at him the way he was then. “It’ll be our little secret!” He leant in while Nino was busy hating himself and pressed his lips to the younger man’s chastely at the exact moment that Sho walked in.
“Secret?!” He demanded, looking around for traps. “What are you planning-oh!” He broke off in an exclamation of surprise as his eyes landed on the two on the couch. He was just in time to see Nino looking like the world was ending around him while Ohno broke abruptly away from kissing him and scurried to the far end of the couch looking extremely guilty.
… That was abnormal behavior, Sho concluded. Even for those two.
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Notes:
Woo! Chapter 2! Only 12 more to go (though the last bunch are super long compared to these early ones... haha)
Weird fact? I'd only intended for this series to last maybe 6 to 8 chapters? I always overshoot when it comes to fic lengths though. xD I should stop being surprised.
Thanks go out to all readers and especially all commenters! You make me super excited to update fast so... everybody please comment?
Next part >> HERE<<
PAIRING: Ohmiya (Ohno SatoshixNinomiya Kazunari)
LENGTH: Multi-chaptered (14 chapters total)
BANDS: Arashi
GENRE: Drama? It's a roller-coaster, folks.
RATING: Overall R
WARNINGS: Language and sexual themes/situations in later chapters.
SUMMARY: He did the things he did as a joke, and for years that was fine... but turning it into a prank changed everything entirely.
PREVIOUS PARTS: 01 |
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“We can’t air that, okay? None of what the tapes caught can ever be aired.” Nino explained hurriedly into the mouthpiece of his cell phone. He kept glancing around nervously, waiting for someone else to finish their individual shoots and come looking for him, and so he kept his voice low. “It’s just too personal. And it didn’t work out anyway. There’s nothing in that footage that’s worth using… And just so you know, I’m not the only one who’ll kill you if it does get out. Johnny-san will be after you too.” He paused, relieved at least with regards to this problem. “I know you know, I’m just warning you to make sure.” He chuckled softly. “Thanks Hina-san.”
His phone hung up with an electronic chirp and he shoved it in his pocket before sinking down onto the couch. He sighed, barely refraining from running his hands through his hair and having the hair and makeup girls scold him for it later.
He could kick himself for being so stupid. He’d played questionable pranks before, but this had been his absolute stupidest idea. Why hadn’t he noticed before? Why hadn’t he considered that Ohno could have been serious the whole time? Ohno hadn’t been testing him at all, he’d accepted everything Nino did because he wanted it, and he wanted it to be real…
If Nino didn’t already feel like an ass for playing the idiotic prank, then thinking about the torture he must have been putting Ohno through for all these years made him want to crawl into a dark hole and just disappear. He let out a growl of frustration and buried his face in his hands, only to nearly jump out of his skin when he felt a presence to his left, the shift of weight being added to the couch and tentative hands on his shoulder and back of his neck. Nino’s eyes snapped open as he jerked away from the touch in alarm. It was Ohno kneeling beside him, of course, but as Nino fell backwards Ohno lost the only thing holding him up, and he fell with him before he could catch himself.
Not that they hadn’t been in questionable looking positions with each other before -and this wasn’t even that bad-, but he was now all too aware of the warm press of Ohno’s stomach against the side of his thigh, the way his eyes looked at him with concern and affection (that was clearly not nearly as platonic as he’d previously thought) and some amount of embarrassment, the way his long fingers now seemed to burn where he held himself up with a grip on Nino’s shoulder.
It was awkward, and Nino had no idea how to react.
Had Ohno always felt this awkward when he was the one lying about how he felt?
“You’re upset.” The brunette announced, perhaps in way of explanation for his current position -though he made no attempt to get up.
“I-… no…” Nino replied lamely.
Ohno looked at him silently for another moment before lowering himself down, folding his arms and pillowing his head in them on Nino’s chest. Nino gaped. Ohno smiled and his eyes crinkled up. “I wanted to cheer you up.”
“Oh…” Nino shifted a little. Ohno was a heavy weight on his ribcage and across his legs, almost like having a really big cat sleep on him. Nino craned his neck a little to try and put some space between himself and the older man’s naturally pouty lips. “Listen, Oh-chan…”
“Mm?”
“…What does this mean, exactly?”
A small crease appeared in Ohno’s brow. “‘This’?”
“You know,” Nino said, knowing he probably did and was just making sure, “us. What are we… now…?”
Ohno hummed thoughtfully, looking unsure again, like his confidence was draining out of him. It made Nino feel terrible. “Us… We’re Ohmiya, aren’t we?” He chuckled awkwardly, but let the sound die off when it didn’t get rid of the tension Nino was creating. His gaze dropped and he began fiddling nervously with a button on Nino’s shirt. “I don’t know. I thought-… Are you happy?”
“Happy?” He questioned the word, eyes stuck watching Ohno’s long, tanned fingers flicking and smoothing over the silver button.
“You know…” and Nino ‘s gaze flickered up just in time to see a soft smile spread on his friend’s downcast features, “when you said you loved me, I was really happy -I’m still happy-, and I thought that if you were telling the truth then-“
“Of course I was telling the truth!” He burst out in a fit of panic.
Ohno smiled that gentle, almost sad, smile again. “I know. I just thought that you’d be happy to hear that I loved you too… but you’ve been acting strangely all day.”
“I’m not acting strange!” He snapped nervously. Somehow, he couldn’t bear the thought of Ohno knowing it had been a lie. Not now. Not after he’d made him so frigging happy… And at the same time he couldn’t possibly let the lie continue, could he? That would be even worse!
“I just meant-… I don’t know, did I do something wrong, Nino? I thought you’d want to hear how I felt, but now it feels like- like-“ He looked really upset now and Nino wanted to punch himself in the face for being the idiot source of all problems here. Ohno dropped his gaze again, blinking a little more rapidly than usual.
“You didn’t do anything wrong.” Nino said quickly. It was true; he was the only one to blame for the whole mess. “I am happy, Oh-chan, just… I was just upset because… because the parking lot wasn’t a very, uh, romantic place to… you know…”
“Confess.” Ohno finished for him, looking like his day had just been made… It probably had.
“…Yeah.” Nino sighed before he could stop himself. Every lie he told made things so much more twisted and cruel. He couldn’t stop for fear of hurting his friend, even though the more it grew and festered the more painful the truth would be later on.
“You still seem troubled, though.”
“It’s just a nasty headache, don’t worry about it.” That wasn’t a lie, at least. His head was pounding, and it was most likely from the stress. Distracted by his thoughts, he vaguely registered the loss of weight as Ohno lifted himself up and moved off the couch, and then was thoroughly startled when warm fingertips pressed against his temples.
“I want to help.” Ohno explained, standing bent over him and kneading small circles into his skin. Admittedly, it felt rather nice, and Nino felt himself quickly relaxing into the touch. His eyes that had closed of their own accord snapped open very suddenly, however, when Ohno’s hands moved to his legs, pulling to straighten them out so he was lying flat on the couch, rather than awkwardly bent with his feet still on the floor. That in itself hadn’t been a particularly shocking move, but Ohno then proceeded to climb up and straddle him, one knee on either side of Nino’s body and weight pressing down onto his waist area.
“W-what are you doing?” Nino’s eyes were wide, as Ohno wiggled a bit to get comfy and then leant down so their faces were a foot or so apart.
“This is less awkward.” Ohno answered normally.
Nino would beg to differ, but Ohno’s fingers were back on his face, massaging from his temples up to his brow and down to his cheekbones. Nino’s eyes fell shut again; it was easier just to focus on how good it felt rather than on Ohno’s concentrated expression. One of Ohno’s hands began working the bridge of his nose while the other slipped into his hair, sifting through it soothingly, tugging just slightly enough that Nino tipped his head back a little. Ohno took the opportunity and the hand on his nose moved to work out the stiff muscles in the back of the younger man’s neck.
Before he could stop himself, a low moan managed to sneak its way from Nino’s throat. He felt himself flush at how it sounded, and how he must look, but it felt far too good for him to open his eyes and shove the other man off of him.
“What we are now… I don’t think we have to name it, do we?” Ohno spoke softly, like he was only musing aloud to himself. “We both know how we feel…” Nino tried not to wince. “…Now we can act on that.”
To his shock Nino felt Ohno’s words hit him in the form of hot breath, ghosting over his own lips. His eyes shot open and he reached out reflexively, grabbing the man on top of him by his shoulder to stop him from moving any closer and closing the inches of space between them completely. “Wait!” He practically gasped.
Ohno frowned at him curiously, concerned, and Nino froze.
Shit. He did not want to upset his friend again.
“Um… Oh-chan…” He swallowed, Ohno waited patiently for him to continue but made no move to back off. “… Can we not tell the others?”
“Hm?”
“About us… and whatever we have or are right now… Can it be a secret?” The last thing he needed was Aiba gushing over them or Jun really calling them disgusting or Sho being all prudish and flustered over things he would previously have considered normal. Nino needed time to figure this out. Lying to Ohno was bad enough, but he didn’t want to lie to everybody else he knew as well.
Ohno looked thoughtful for a moment before smiling sweetly. “Okay, if that’s what Nino wants.” Nino nodded, realizing he felt like human scum every time Ohno looked at him the way he was then. “It’ll be our little secret!” He leant in while Nino was busy hating himself and pressed his lips to the younger man’s chastely at the exact moment that Sho walked in.
“Secret?!” He demanded, looking around for traps. “What are you planning-oh!” He broke off in an exclamation of surprise as his eyes landed on the two on the couch. He was just in time to see Nino looking like the world was ending around him while Ohno broke abruptly away from kissing him and scurried to the far end of the couch looking extremely guilty.
… That was abnormal behavior, Sho concluded. Even for those two.
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Notes:
Woo! Chapter 2! Only 12 more to go (though the last bunch are super long compared to these early ones... haha)
Weird fact? I'd only intended for this series to last maybe 6 to 8 chapters? I always overshoot when it comes to fic lengths though. xD I should stop being surprised.
Thanks go out to all readers and especially all commenters! You make me super excited to update fast so... everybody please comment?
Next part >> HERE<<