The Art of Secret (3/?)
TITLE: The Art of Secret
PAIRING: Ninomiya Kazunari x Yui (Aragaki)
GENRE: Half AU, Romance(?), Angst
LENGTH: Chaptered
RATING: PG
DISCLAIMER: This is a fiction. I own the story and the imagination only.
A/N: This should be pairing between NinoxOC but since I love Gakky a lot, the OC will take her character, appearance and anything related. Warning: Un-beta-ed
SUMMARY: Sometimes, you won't need to keep the secret...to yourself only. ( I'm suck at summary. Yeah, I know)
Special thanks to : tenshii_chan and nxm9473 , whenever I felt down to write this fics, I think of you. I feel motivated.
Chapter 3 [Impermissible Thought]
Nino lies down on his bed. He looks blankly at the ceiling. He closes his eyes for a moment. The one that pops on his mind is just her.
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“Yui-chan,” Nino called her after checked around to make sure that no one could heard him.
“Hai, ah..Kazu-kun. Nani ka?” Yui looked up to him while her hands were busy to arrange her stuff for the shooting.
“Ne, please don’t tell the other members that we live in the same apartment, okay?”
Yui chuckled a little and gave him a smile.
“Why should I tell them about that? Am I too close to talk something personal like that with them? We’ve just met today, right?”
Nino felt a relief in his heart, but he replied, “Er, I mean…don’t tell Aiba.”
Yui stopped from doing her work. She looked at Nino’s face and frowned. “Why are you being so cautious like this? I don’t think I will tell him about that.”
Nino startled a bit. He leaned his back to the wall while pretending to tidy up his shirt. He cleared his throat before answered, “Hm, betsuni. I just... I don’t want to answer their weird question later. You know Aiba, right? He will ask a lot of ridiculous questions to me if he knows this.”
Nino grinned to her. He hoped that he could satisfy her with that answer. Unexpectedly, Yui smiled and nodded her head.
“Ah, they call me. Sorry ne, Yui…for disturbing you.” He winked to her and quickly walked back into their preparation room.
The photoshoot ran very smoothly. Yui was very professional and neat to handle her work despite of the fact that she is so young. The first session just took less than 2 hours to end. Nino sat on the bench at the corner of the room. He watched from his seat how excited Aiba was when talking to Yui at the shooting site. The rest of Arashi were joining Aiba in the conversation. He took a bottle of water on the table and drank it. Somehow, he felt ease as everything seem good and he just being his self (though he WAS nervous to pose in front of Yui).
After he stretched his leg, Nino walked towards them. As he came closer, he heard Aiba said, “Ah…~ our hero is coming.” Ohno grinned to him, while Sho and Jun giggled.
With a smirk on his face, Nino said, “What kind of lie that you tell to Yui-chan,hm?.”
“I just tell them how you manage to carry Yui on your back though you are so small back then. Hehe. 6th grade, I think? When she was hit by a car?,” Aiba turned to Yui.
Yui’s face became red, but she did not stop smiling and giggling. Nino didn’t expect that Aiba would turn out telling those stories. He decided not to say anything but just laughed. God knows how relieved he was when the manager had calling them back to next session.
When the session ended, Nino quickly shoved his things into his bag as he wanted to catch up for Yui without other members knowing. He managed to get to her and hide between the walls before whispered to her.
“Yui-chan.”
Yui looked around to search for the voice and he saw partial Nino made some hand-gestured to draw her attention. She raised her eyebrows to him.
“Want to go back together?”
“Eh…is it okay? My things…it takes time to pack.”
“It’s okay. I’ll wait for you outside. You bring your car here?”
“Basement parking lot. Take this key. You can’t drive, right? Warm up the car for me, okay? Remember, don’t do anything to it.” She flung out the car keys to Nino before he disappeared through the back door. Nino walked along the corridor before he heard Aiba’s voice calling for him.
“Are you going back, Nino? I’m just about to ride the company car. Want to join me?”
“Nope. I have things to do after this. Take care Aiba-chan.” Nino walked quickly passed him onto the opened lift as he waved his left hand to Aiba.
Yui appeared at the basement ten minutes later with a huge packaging. She apologized for being late as she had a lot of things to be organized with the other staff. Nino came out from the car and helped her carried those things into the seat behind him.
“I’m sorry, Yui-chan. I’m the one who’s asking you but you are the driver. Johnny-san makes me feel ashamed.” Nino said to her after she buckled up on her seat.
“Eh, it’s okay. We’re living in the same place and nothing wrong with me being your driver.” Yui laugh quietly as she corrected the side and back mirror.
“Want to eat something before going home?” He paused as he checked his pant’s pocket. “My treat.”
“That’ll be good. Oden or hamburger?” She winked at him. Nino laughed and stared at her. Her cheek blushed but she kept pretending to focus to her driving.
“What would you like?”
“Yakiniku.” Yui replied bluntly and made Nino laughed hard for that.
“Okay, I’ll go for it.”
It’s been awhile since they ate together, excluding last night dinner. It meant just the two of them. It was not often, in fact. Last time was when Nino bumped to Yui on the first day she moved into the building.
Nino suggested to her a yakiniku restaurant at Ginza since he knew that the place was quite private and not so crowded. He didn’t want to make fuss if he gets caught by the fans or media. Honestly, he didn’t want to be disturbed while she was with him.
After placed the order, they kept talking about various things and sometimes the giggles and laughs just inevitable not to be heard. Nino really treasured the moments he had with her as it would make him relaxed and enjoyed. It’s not that he is not enjoyed himself with Arashi, but to be with her is a different feeling. And he never been able to describe that feeling properly.
“Ne,Yui. How about the omiai that your mom talking about? She’s serious about that?”
“Hm. She has told me about the candidate. Nope, she showed me the candidate.”
“Oh? You’ve seen the picture? That’s quick. When it will be?” He controlled his voice as he didn’t want her to know his shocked feeling.
“You know my mom. She’s prepared everything before telling me. It will be next week.”
“Hm…he must be fat, nerd, boring…and not so handsome like me,” Nino teased as he forked the meat into his mouth. She laughed a bit to his childish statement. She then stared at him.
“Hm…let’s see. He has two eyes, two ears, one nose, and one mouth. Ah, yeah. He’s not so handsome like you.” She chuckled before continue, “…but, he’s quite rich. He works as CEO at Meiji Holding.”
Meiji Holding is one of the biggest food companies in Japan. Nino knew that. He grinned bitterly.
“I’m rich too. Want to know my bank saving?” Nino said it blatantly with a smirk on his face. Yui laughed again.
“If I do that, you will think that I love money. It is not about it at all.”
“I know…”
“He’s son of dad’s friend. Maybe I should just go and look how things will turn. I don’t know if I even will suit him.” Yui said in a very low voice.
He replied nothing to her last sentence. He sipped his juice slowly and he could listen how fast his heart was pumping. He avoided the aches by changing the topic.
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Nino stepped out of the lift when it reached on the 7th floor. He stopped a moment to give a space for Yui passed of him.
“You don’t need to send me home, Kazu-kun.”
“I just want to thank you for the ride.”
“There’s nothing to thank me. You treat me with dinner, isn’t it?” he could see her shook her head with a small smile on her thin lips.
They exchanged the good night greeting as soon as they get to Yui’s door. Yui was placed the key into the hole when she felt a grab on her left hand. She turned to her back.
“Yui.” Her eyes met his as she attended to his voice calling out her name. The voice was different. It was in very low tone that she could not been able to perceive the meaning.
“Don’t go to the omiai.” The sentence was very clear. And firm like the grip on her hand.
“Eh…why?” She just managed to blurt out the ‘why’ instead of other words.
“Nothing… Just…don’t go. Please. Em, I’m sorry.” Nino seemed to snap out to reality as he released her hand and left to the lift, leaving her in perplex state.
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‘Why on earth I did that?’ Nino rubs his face and sighs to his action to Yui, before. He opens his eyes and looks again to the ceiling. The cool breeze from the air-conditioning makes him shivered. He pulls up the blanket over his chest and takes a deep breathe.
He closes back his eyes, trying to recollect Aiba’s stories earlier in the studio.
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1995.
That was a sunny evening. The good weather to play outside, especially baseball. Aiba sat on his bicycle while humming a song. He took a quick look on his watch. It was a quarter and five.
“Where on earth is Nino? He promised to go to practice today.” Aiba tapped his finger on the baseball bat. He was in a good shape today as he wore full attire. He played with his cap and looked around to find for Nino’s arrival.
“Nino~!” He shouted as he saw Nino’s figure came closer, riding his bicycle. Nino stopped in front of him and panted. Nino raised both of his palms and said sorry to Aiba.
“Gomen, Aiba-chan! My mom told me to buy something. She keep listing and listing and I need to wait for her list.” He grinned.
“Sou ka. It’s okay. So, you need to buy it now?”
“Nope, I said to her that I will buy those after the practice.”
“Alright. We should go now. We are already late.” Aiba grinned as he paddled up his bike. Nino smirked and followed behind him.
It was halfway from the practice field when they saw a figure pulled a bike on the side of the road, about 50 meters beyond them. It looked like a girl as they could recognize it from the uniform that she wore. Out of the blue, the girl fell down. Nino was very surprised as he speed up to her and pushed away his bike.
“Yui!” He screamed seeing that the girl was actually their friend.
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And Nino falls asleep before he manages to put together all of that memories.
I'm sorry that I'm soooooo late updating this. Huhu...though I know maybe no one read it. But I will work hard! Gambarimasu~!