[fic] To Quit This Act (5/14)
TITLE: To Quit This Act (5/14)
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 | 02 | 03 | 04 |
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“Nino?”
“We didn’t do anything Aiba. We just fell asleep.” Nino growled, not taking his focus off of his DS screen. Aiba was acting like he knew something, and Nino didn’t like it.
“I know.” Aiba said sweetly, sliding into the chair beside him, though it was only meant to seat one person. “Did you have fun with him?”
Nino glanced at him suspiciously from the corner of his eye. “… I suppose. Why? What are you trying to get at?”
“Oh nothing, I’m just curious…” Aiba looked up and away, smiling smugly. “…Aren’t you curious?”
Nino narrowed his eyes at him, wriggled out of the chair and walked away without bothering to answer. He didn’t miss the thumbs up Aiba aimed in Sho’s general direction a moment later. They were definitely up to something, and Nino wasn’t one bit pleased. “Are we almost done here?” He called tiredly, approaching their manager who was having a polite conversation about something or other with the interviewer.
“Yeah!” Aiba chimed much too excitedly, bounding over. “Are we done?!”
Their manager frowned at the two completely different tension levels and then nodded. “Uh, yes. You can go ahead and change.” He bowed to the woman who’d interviewed them, thanking her for her time, and then turned back to his five charges with his day planner in hand. “Ninomiya-kun, you have drama filming next though, and then an audition after that. Don’t forget.”
“I know.”
“Matsumoto-san also has a press conference about his new movie.” He raised his head, looking for the youngest member lounging at the back of the room. “You’d better hurry, it starts in two hours.”
“Yes sir.” Jun yawned, standing up and stretching before heading for the exit. The rest began following close behind him.
“You other three have the rest of the day free, I suppose. I’ll see you tomorrow!” He flipped a page distractedly, pulling a worn-down pencil from behind his ear and scribbling something into the page’s margins.
“You seem tired, MatsuJun…” Ohno said, walking arm and arm with the youngest member at the front of the pack.
Jun smiled. “’Been busy.” Was his truthful response. “You seem well-rested though, you lazy thing.” Ohno just laughed, glancing over his shoulder subconsciously. Nino felt his cheeks starting to flush again and silently cursed at how easy it was to make him blush. He could feel Aiba and Sho watching him. Jun didn’t notice. “What are you doing with your day off, Leader?”
“Mmm…” Ohno hummed thoughtfully. “It’s nice out today, so I think I’ll go fishing for a while.”
“Of course.” Jun rolled his eyes affectionately and Ohno laughed again.
“It’s been a couple weeks now since I last went!” He protested.
“Make sure you wear sunscreen, Oh-chan.” Nino blurted, causing the older man to smile widely at him and nod as they separated to move into their dressing rooms. “I mean, makeup will kill you if you get any darker, you know…” Behind him, Aiba was giggling, being ushered away by Sho. Nino paused to calm himself and refrain from causing the tall man serious injury before disappearing into his own dressing room.
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“Could you be any more obvious, Aiba?” Sho hissed, letting go of the younger man’s arm once everybody else had vacated the hallway. “You’re gonna make him mad at me for telling you.” He shook his head, opening his own dressing room door and going inside. He swung it closed as he passed through, but instead of the click it should have made upon impact with the frame, there was a small ‘oof’. Sho turned back around curiously, fingers already at the collar of his shirt, to find Aiba rubbing his shoulder and closing the door behind himself. “What are you doing in here?” He demanded with a frown. “This is where I get changed. We’re not sharing a dressing room!”
“But I have to talk to you!” Aiba explained, plopping himself down onto the chair by the mirror and spinning it around to face the newscaster. “Don’t worry, I won’t look.”
Sho gaped for a second, dropping his hands with the first two buttons of his shirt hanging open. “You’re looking right now!”
Aiba rolled his eyes. “At your face. And it’s not like we haven’t all seen everything anyway.” It took him a lot of effort and some violent lip biting to keep from laughing out loud at Sho’s red and flustered expression. Ahhh, this was one of his favorite pastimes…
Sho pursed his lips, crossing his arms defiantly. “Just, turn around.”
Aiba raised an eyebrow and did so, grinning at Sho’s reflection in the mirror. “Better?” He couldn’t help snickering.
“…Shut up.” Sho pouted, floundering around before spotting a big shopping bag crumpled up in the corner. He grabbed it, billowing it out and sticking it over Aiba’s head.
“Hey!”
“Just leave it for a minute, you won’t suffocate.”
“I might.”
“Well, don’t. It won’t take me long to get out of this stuff…”
“If I do, you’ll have to give me CPR.” Aiba said casually. “…Whether you’ve got any clothes on yet or not.” He paused and then laughed. “Wouldn’t it be hilarious if someone walked in on that?”
There was only the hurried rustling of clothes as Sho refused to answer, and it still made Aiba laugh loudly because he knew Sho’s expression was priceless.
“…Anyway, Sho-chan,” he said after a moment of listening to Sho fumble around at the table in the back, murmuring something about ‘missing pants’ in a slightly panicked tone. “I’ve got another step in the plan ready to go, wanna come with me?”
“… I don’t know. Come with you where?” He asked suspiciously, suddenly sighing with relief upon finding his missing garment under a stack of newspapers.
“To the TBS Broadcasting Center!” Aiba exclaimed happily.
“Why?!” Sho pushed, belt buckle clinking metallically as he fastened it. “You don’t have any work today, why are you going there?”
“Nino’s going there to audition for a movie later.”
“I- You-…No, Masaki!”
“Yes he is…”
“No, I mean you’re not going there to harass him. He’ll punch you. I’ll punch you… and then I’ll ban you from ‘helping’ with this anymore.”
“No! Sho-chan, no! He won’t even know we’re there! He’s filming the last episode of his drama right now, so we’ll go in and talk to the director ahead of time!”
Sho pulled his T-shirt over his head and sighed wearily. “Aiba…”
“You’re done, right? Can we go? It’ll be bad if we’re late and he catches us…”
Another sigh and Sho bent over to gather his things. “…Yeah. Fine.”
Aiba leapt to his feet, heading towards the door bouncily. “Great!” He said, pulling it open. “I’m gonna get changed real quick, you go start up your car. I’ll meet you in the parking lot in five minutes!”
‘Aiba-chan,” Sho frowned, “take that bag off your head before you fall and kill yourself.”
“It’s fine,” Aiba replied cheerily, whipping it off and tossing it haphazardly back into the dressing room as he ran towards his own across the hall. “It’s pretty see-through anyway!”
However much he wished he could have seen the undoubtedly tomato-ish color of Sho’s face, Aiba had the sense to close and lock his door just in time to avoid being strangled by the older man.
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“Kato-san!” Aiba near exploded in happy-to-see-you enthusiasm when he was allowed entrance into the studio where auditions for the very movie Nino was trying out for were going to be held. Sho knew the hyperactive man well enough to know that most of that excitement he was displaying was just that, a display. Since there were no cameras around to be putting a show on for, Sho assumed it was because Aiba wanted something and was going to use his appeal as the-adorably-happy-guy-you-just-can’t-say-‘no’-to in order to get whatever it was he’d come there looking for.
Sho followed him in warily, bowing to the staff that had opened the door and nearly gotten bowled over by Aiba’s hurricane of happy. His gaze followed his friend’s beeline across the room and recognized the man he was chattering friendly greetings to. Kato Arata. He was a director he’d worked with on Tukujo Kabachi!!, a director who’d also worked with each of the other Arashi members on other shows (Nino in Stand Up!!, MatsuJun in Kimi wa Petto, Aiba in Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru, and Ohno in Maou). “Oh, Kato-san…” He greeted, approaching the two.
“I brought Sho-chan with me!” Aiba grinned, pulling Sho close by the arm the instant he was within reach. “Because we have a proposal for you~!”
“A proposal?” The director asked, fighting back an amused smile at Aiba’s antics. Sho was afraid to hear what Aiba was dragging him into, but also curious about whether or not the director would agree to go along with it. He knew the guy had a soft spot for Arashi, and that usually meant having a big weakness to Aiba’s charms as well. It was almost a package deal.
“Yeah! I’ve heard you asked Ninomiya-kun to come and audition today, right?”
“Mm, that may be so, but even if you ask me I can’t guarantee him the part, you know…”
“Oh, I know! That’s not why we’re here.”
“Oh?” Kato-san let out a short, surprised, laugh, crossing his arms and leaning back against the long table behind him.
“I don’t want you to give him the part.” Aiba grinned, Sho and the director frowned in confusion. “Ninomiya-kun…uh… let me look at his script earlier today.” Sho’s frown deepened, distinctly remembering Nino warning Aiba not to touch his things. “So I know the storyline, and I’ve been thinking… Nino doesn’t really suit that part, ne? I couldn’t help but feel that it didn’t suit him at all, for some reason, and even stranger was that I was getting confused because I kept accidentally picturing him playing that other character, Nobuta-san! Isn’t that weird?”
The director chuckled again. “So you’re saying you want me to give him the part of the second brother instead?”
Aiba blushed, doing a very loud and impressively real-looking embarrassed giggle. “Ah, well, I was just really excited about it when I pictured it that way, and I thought ‘What if this is a big missed opportunity for Ninomiya-kun?! I need to tell somebody!’ So I came straight here to you. Maybe I’m overreacting a little, though…” Another giggle. Sho almost shook his head in awe at the amount of overwhelming adorable the younger man could exude when he was really trying. It almost made the newscaster want to get down and beg Kato-san to do anything Aiba wanted him to.
“Well… It’s definitely an interesting idea.”
“Isn’t it?! I think Nobuta-san is a character that would be... uh… really complimented by Nino’s acting style, right? He could totally do that deep but subtle romance thing well, you know? Ahhhh, Kato-san! I’m excited just thinking about it!” He bounced on the spot, looking like an overgrown kid opening a Christmas present.
“Yes… Yes.” Kato-san looked seriously deep in thought, obviously considering the idea. “I’ll tell you what, Aiba-kun. I’ll have him audition for both roles, okay? We’ll see how that turns out and then I’ll think about it some more.”
“Really?! Ah, wow, I’m really really excited here! Aren’t you excited Sho-chan?!” He turned to Sho, who smiled though he was more confused about where this was going than anything.
“Hm… the only problem is the actor I was starting to consider for Shunsuke… If Ninomiya’s playing Nobu then they wouldn’t really match, huh?...”
Sho braced himself to endure one of Aiba’s kicked-puppy pouts and then not give in to buying him ice cream on the way home, but instead found Aiba’s grin growing creepily wide. Sho frowned in alarm. That expression was not a good one.
“…I think… I might have one more suggestion, then, Kato-san…” Aiba ventured slowly. “Excuse me for wanting to play ‘Casting Director For a Day’, that’s not really my aim, but I know someone who would complete the Nobuto and Shunsuke pairing perfectly.”
Kato-san raised an eyebrow in interest, and Sho knew already -even as he guessed where this was going- that Aiba had won.
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Notes:
Yay! As you can see, I have a new layout (courtesy of arashi_layouts ) And I've also finally gotten around to scouting out some arashi icons. I feel like I match what I'm writing now, Hurrah!
So, can anybody guess what exactly Aiba's plan entails? I'm not sure whether I made it obvious or not, but the details will definitely be revealed in the next chapter.
Thanks to everybody who has read and commented so far! I love your feedback~ <333
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 | 02 | 03 | 04 |
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“Nino?”
“We didn’t do anything Aiba. We just fell asleep.” Nino growled, not taking his focus off of his DS screen. Aiba was acting like he knew something, and Nino didn’t like it.
“I know.” Aiba said sweetly, sliding into the chair beside him, though it was only meant to seat one person. “Did you have fun with him?”
Nino glanced at him suspiciously from the corner of his eye. “… I suppose. Why? What are you trying to get at?”
“Oh nothing, I’m just curious…” Aiba looked up and away, smiling smugly. “…Aren’t you curious?”
Nino narrowed his eyes at him, wriggled out of the chair and walked away without bothering to answer. He didn’t miss the thumbs up Aiba aimed in Sho’s general direction a moment later. They were definitely up to something, and Nino wasn’t one bit pleased. “Are we almost done here?” He called tiredly, approaching their manager who was having a polite conversation about something or other with the interviewer.
“Yeah!” Aiba chimed much too excitedly, bounding over. “Are we done?!”
Their manager frowned at the two completely different tension levels and then nodded. “Uh, yes. You can go ahead and change.” He bowed to the woman who’d interviewed them, thanking her for her time, and then turned back to his five charges with his day planner in hand. “Ninomiya-kun, you have drama filming next though, and then an audition after that. Don’t forget.”
“I know.”
“Matsumoto-san also has a press conference about his new movie.” He raised his head, looking for the youngest member lounging at the back of the room. “You’d better hurry, it starts in two hours.”
“Yes sir.” Jun yawned, standing up and stretching before heading for the exit. The rest began following close behind him.
“You other three have the rest of the day free, I suppose. I’ll see you tomorrow!” He flipped a page distractedly, pulling a worn-down pencil from behind his ear and scribbling something into the page’s margins.
“You seem tired, MatsuJun…” Ohno said, walking arm and arm with the youngest member at the front of the pack.
Jun smiled. “’Been busy.” Was his truthful response. “You seem well-rested though, you lazy thing.” Ohno just laughed, glancing over his shoulder subconsciously. Nino felt his cheeks starting to flush again and silently cursed at how easy it was to make him blush. He could feel Aiba and Sho watching him. Jun didn’t notice. “What are you doing with your day off, Leader?”
“Mmm…” Ohno hummed thoughtfully. “It’s nice out today, so I think I’ll go fishing for a while.”
“Of course.” Jun rolled his eyes affectionately and Ohno laughed again.
“It’s been a couple weeks now since I last went!” He protested.
“Make sure you wear sunscreen, Oh-chan.” Nino blurted, causing the older man to smile widely at him and nod as they separated to move into their dressing rooms. “I mean, makeup will kill you if you get any darker, you know…” Behind him, Aiba was giggling, being ushered away by Sho. Nino paused to calm himself and refrain from causing the tall man serious injury before disappearing into his own dressing room.
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“Could you be any more obvious, Aiba?” Sho hissed, letting go of the younger man’s arm once everybody else had vacated the hallway. “You’re gonna make him mad at me for telling you.” He shook his head, opening his own dressing room door and going inside. He swung it closed as he passed through, but instead of the click it should have made upon impact with the frame, there was a small ‘oof’. Sho turned back around curiously, fingers already at the collar of his shirt, to find Aiba rubbing his shoulder and closing the door behind himself. “What are you doing in here?” He demanded with a frown. “This is where I get changed. We’re not sharing a dressing room!”
“But I have to talk to you!” Aiba explained, plopping himself down onto the chair by the mirror and spinning it around to face the newscaster. “Don’t worry, I won’t look.”
Sho gaped for a second, dropping his hands with the first two buttons of his shirt hanging open. “You’re looking right now!”
Aiba rolled his eyes. “At your face. And it’s not like we haven’t all seen everything anyway.” It took him a lot of effort and some violent lip biting to keep from laughing out loud at Sho’s red and flustered expression. Ahhh, this was one of his favorite pastimes…
Sho pursed his lips, crossing his arms defiantly. “Just, turn around.”
Aiba raised an eyebrow and did so, grinning at Sho’s reflection in the mirror. “Better?” He couldn’t help snickering.
“…Shut up.” Sho pouted, floundering around before spotting a big shopping bag crumpled up in the corner. He grabbed it, billowing it out and sticking it over Aiba’s head.
“Hey!”
“Just leave it for a minute, you won’t suffocate.”
“I might.”
“Well, don’t. It won’t take me long to get out of this stuff…”
“If I do, you’ll have to give me CPR.” Aiba said casually. “…Whether you’ve got any clothes on yet or not.” He paused and then laughed. “Wouldn’t it be hilarious if someone walked in on that?”
There was only the hurried rustling of clothes as Sho refused to answer, and it still made Aiba laugh loudly because he knew Sho’s expression was priceless.
“…Anyway, Sho-chan,” he said after a moment of listening to Sho fumble around at the table in the back, murmuring something about ‘missing pants’ in a slightly panicked tone. “I’ve got another step in the plan ready to go, wanna come with me?”
“… I don’t know. Come with you where?” He asked suspiciously, suddenly sighing with relief upon finding his missing garment under a stack of newspapers.
“To the TBS Broadcasting Center!” Aiba exclaimed happily.
“Why?!” Sho pushed, belt buckle clinking metallically as he fastened it. “You don’t have any work today, why are you going there?”
“Nino’s going there to audition for a movie later.”
“I- You-…No, Masaki!”
“Yes he is…”
“No, I mean you’re not going there to harass him. He’ll punch you. I’ll punch you… and then I’ll ban you from ‘helping’ with this anymore.”
“No! Sho-chan, no! He won’t even know we’re there! He’s filming the last episode of his drama right now, so we’ll go in and talk to the director ahead of time!”
Sho pulled his T-shirt over his head and sighed wearily. “Aiba…”
“You’re done, right? Can we go? It’ll be bad if we’re late and he catches us…”
Another sigh and Sho bent over to gather his things. “…Yeah. Fine.”
Aiba leapt to his feet, heading towards the door bouncily. “Great!” He said, pulling it open. “I’m gonna get changed real quick, you go start up your car. I’ll meet you in the parking lot in five minutes!”
‘Aiba-chan,” Sho frowned, “take that bag off your head before you fall and kill yourself.”
“It’s fine,” Aiba replied cheerily, whipping it off and tossing it haphazardly back into the dressing room as he ran towards his own across the hall. “It’s pretty see-through anyway!”
However much he wished he could have seen the undoubtedly tomato-ish color of Sho’s face, Aiba had the sense to close and lock his door just in time to avoid being strangled by the older man.
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“Kato-san!” Aiba near exploded in happy-to-see-you enthusiasm when he was allowed entrance into the studio where auditions for the very movie Nino was trying out for were going to be held. Sho knew the hyperactive man well enough to know that most of that excitement he was displaying was just that, a display. Since there were no cameras around to be putting a show on for, Sho assumed it was because Aiba wanted something and was going to use his appeal as the-adorably-happy-guy-you-just-can’t-say-‘no’-to in order to get whatever it was he’d come there looking for.
Sho followed him in warily, bowing to the staff that had opened the door and nearly gotten bowled over by Aiba’s hurricane of happy. His gaze followed his friend’s beeline across the room and recognized the man he was chattering friendly greetings to. Kato Arata. He was a director he’d worked with on Tukujo Kabachi!!, a director who’d also worked with each of the other Arashi members on other shows (Nino in Stand Up!!, MatsuJun in Kimi wa Petto, Aiba in Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru, and Ohno in Maou). “Oh, Kato-san…” He greeted, approaching the two.
“I brought Sho-chan with me!” Aiba grinned, pulling Sho close by the arm the instant he was within reach. “Because we have a proposal for you~!”
“A proposal?” The director asked, fighting back an amused smile at Aiba’s antics. Sho was afraid to hear what Aiba was dragging him into, but also curious about whether or not the director would agree to go along with it. He knew the guy had a soft spot for Arashi, and that usually meant having a big weakness to Aiba’s charms as well. It was almost a package deal.
“Yeah! I’ve heard you asked Ninomiya-kun to come and audition today, right?”
“Mm, that may be so, but even if you ask me I can’t guarantee him the part, you know…”
“Oh, I know! That’s not why we’re here.”
“Oh?” Kato-san let out a short, surprised, laugh, crossing his arms and leaning back against the long table behind him.
“I don’t want you to give him the part.” Aiba grinned, Sho and the director frowned in confusion. “Ninomiya-kun…uh… let me look at his script earlier today.” Sho’s frown deepened, distinctly remembering Nino warning Aiba not to touch his things. “So I know the storyline, and I’ve been thinking… Nino doesn’t really suit that part, ne? I couldn’t help but feel that it didn’t suit him at all, for some reason, and even stranger was that I was getting confused because I kept accidentally picturing him playing that other character, Nobuta-san! Isn’t that weird?”
The director chuckled again. “So you’re saying you want me to give him the part of the second brother instead?”
Aiba blushed, doing a very loud and impressively real-looking embarrassed giggle. “Ah, well, I was just really excited about it when I pictured it that way, and I thought ‘What if this is a big missed opportunity for Ninomiya-kun?! I need to tell somebody!’ So I came straight here to you. Maybe I’m overreacting a little, though…” Another giggle. Sho almost shook his head in awe at the amount of overwhelming adorable the younger man could exude when he was really trying. It almost made the newscaster want to get down and beg Kato-san to do anything Aiba wanted him to.
“Well… It’s definitely an interesting idea.”
“Isn’t it?! I think Nobuta-san is a character that would be... uh… really complimented by Nino’s acting style, right? He could totally do that deep but subtle romance thing well, you know? Ahhhh, Kato-san! I’m excited just thinking about it!” He bounced on the spot, looking like an overgrown kid opening a Christmas present.
“Yes… Yes.” Kato-san looked seriously deep in thought, obviously considering the idea. “I’ll tell you what, Aiba-kun. I’ll have him audition for both roles, okay? We’ll see how that turns out and then I’ll think about it some more.”
“Really?! Ah, wow, I’m really really excited here! Aren’t you excited Sho-chan?!” He turned to Sho, who smiled though he was more confused about where this was going than anything.
“Hm… the only problem is the actor I was starting to consider for Shunsuke… If Ninomiya’s playing Nobu then they wouldn’t really match, huh?...”
Sho braced himself to endure one of Aiba’s kicked-puppy pouts and then not give in to buying him ice cream on the way home, but instead found Aiba’s grin growing creepily wide. Sho frowned in alarm. That expression was not a good one.
“…I think… I might have one more suggestion, then, Kato-san…” Aiba ventured slowly. “Excuse me for wanting to play ‘Casting Director For a Day’, that’s not really my aim, but I know someone who would complete the Nobuto and Shunsuke pairing perfectly.”
Kato-san raised an eyebrow in interest, and Sho knew already -even as he guessed where this was going- that Aiba had won.
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Notes:
Yay! As you can see, I have a new layout (courtesy of arashi_layouts ) And I've also finally gotten around to scouting out some arashi icons. I feel like I match what I'm writing now, Hurrah!
So, can anybody guess what exactly Aiba's plan entails? I'm not sure whether I made it obvious or not, but the details will definitely be revealed in the next chapter.
Thanks to everybody who has read and commented so far! I love your feedback~ <333
Next part >> HERE<<