[one-shot] Once in a lifetime
Title: Once in a lifetime
Author: faradakiut
Beta: cherry_akira (thank u~<3)
Paring: ShoXOC, AibaXOC
Rating: G
Summary: one night experience worth a lifetime.
Disclaimer: I’ve prayed to a shooting star so that one day they will all be mine~ T__T
Note: there is no such thing as language…. >.<”
A/N: for jearashifan & sakurailya . Enjoy your temporary freedom… another big exam is coming in two years… XD
She watched as her friend slammed open the door in front of them. Following the friend inside, she closed the door before placing her bags neatly on the bed; at least tried to before the other jumped across to her bed.
“I can’t believe we made it here!” Lya shouted and jumped on the bed, causing her stuff to fall from the bed. Looking at her unresponsive friend, she hopped across to the other’s bed and continued jumping. “I had a hard time convincing my mom to let me go.
“I understand your excitement and now I would really appreciate if you would stop jumping on my bed, Lya,” Rizq said as she picked up her bag that was lying on the floor due to the impact. “Go do it on your own.”
Lya stopped and pouted before slumping down on the bed. “Why are you being serious all of a sudden?” she asked and looking at her friend, who was occupying herself with her luggage, she shot another question. “What are you doing anyway?”
“We need to hurry or they’ll know,” Rizq answered as she threw a bundle of clothes in a bagpack.
“What are you talking about?” Lya looked intently at her roommate. “Why do we need hurry and why don’t we want ‘them’ to know. Who is this ‘them’, anyway?”
“The teachers, of course. I told you before that I wanna explore this place as soon as we got here,” Rizq said as she zipped up the bag and swung it on her shoulder. “Now, hurry up.”
“Ah~ I see. Eh, now?”
“Yes now,” Rizq said as if it was the most obvious thing in the whole world. She walked to the door and peeked outside. “The coast is clear, let’s go,” she said, before looking back to her friend, who was left dumbfounded on the bed. “Are you coming or not?”
“Wa- wait,” Lya jumped off the bed and hastily followed her friend.
They sneaked around the hotel lobby to the kitchen in order to avoid their classmates and teachers. But as they reached the kitchen, they found a classmate talking to one of the waiters. Maybe she’s in charge of tonight’s dinner, Rizq assumed. They hid themselves behind the door and went back to the lobby.
“How are we gonna get through her?” Lya asked as they reached a safer place to think. Rizq smiled as she placed the bag she’s holding in front of them.
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Arashi was having their world tour at the moment and they were localized in a hotel. As always, Nino would share his room with Ohno, while Jun would have a room for himself, and that left Sho with Aiba. Not that Sho was complaining, but sharing a room with the hyper boy meant compromising with his habits.
“Ne, Sho-chan,” Aiba called. Sho looked away from the TV to look at his bandmate. “Let’s go out.”
“You know that we can’t, Aiba-chan,” Sho simply rejected before focusing back on the TV. “Our manager had told us to stay put until he settled everything.”
“But I’m bored.”
“We’ll go out tomorrow, okay? I promise.”
“But I wanna go now,” Aiba whined. “Sho-chan~” Looking at Sho who ignoring him, Aiba pouted as he stood up and reached for his jacket.
“Where are you going?” Sho asked as he saw Aiba at the door.
“Out,” Aiba kept his sulking face as he slammed the door close.
Sho knew this routine very well already. Every night Aiba would complain to him about being bored and tried to talk him to go out. He would go along with the boy at times and if he refused like that night, Aiba would go to Nino’s room trying his luck. But he knew that the boy would end up back in the room.
They were going to have a full rehearsal tomorrow, and he needed his beauty sleep to be in his best condition. Fifteen minutes past after Aiba left, but still no sign of him. Maybe Nino accepted Aiba’s invitation and dragged a sleepy Ohno with them. Well, as long as it’s not him, Sho’s fine with it. He yawned, turning off the TV and climbed on bed before the door opened revealing one very irritated Nino dragging Aiba inside the room.
“Hey, Sho. Keep him in the room, will you?” Nino said as he pushed Aiba towards Sho’s bed causing him to land on top of Sho. “Oh-chan’s trying to sleep, but this boy just won’t stop talking.”
Sho pushed the lad aside before sitting up. Aiba fell softly on the floor before climbing back on the bed to his place beside Sho. “Masaki,” Sho said in a firm tone.
“… but Riida’s the one-,” Aiba tried to defend himself, but only to be cut off by Nino.
“Whatever. Now, STAY!” Nino slammed the door close in time for Aiba to rise from the bed and went to the door again.
“Now, where are you going this time?” Sho sighed. Both of them knew that MatsuJun won’t be entertaining any visitors at this hour so Sho wondered where Aiba would go next. Sho was worried to let him wander outside alone. The fact that, as grown up as Aiba could be, he’s still also a child at heart; he could easily believe a stranger. Sho was afraid that anything bad might happen to him and since they were sharing the same room, the others will surely put the blame on him.
“No where,” Aiba answered simply as he grasped the doorknob. He was about to step out when Sho called for him.
“Fine. I’ll go.”
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“With this,” Rizq smiled as she shoved her bag to Lya. “It’s in there. Open it.”
Lya opened the bag without her eyes leaving her roommate’s. “Sweatshirts?” Lya said as she pulled out yellow and green sweatshirts from the bag “… and caps? This is your great plan?”
“Yeah, it’ll work,” Rizq said as she took the green hoodie from Lya and wore it. “Complain all you want when it’s over. Now put it on.” The girls put on the caps and raised the hoods on top of their heads, covering the faces.
“I don’t see how this would work,” Lya mumbled, fixing her hair under the cap with concentration. Unlike Rizq, her hair was slightly longer,making it hard to stay fixed inside.
“You’ll see,” Rizq said as she peeked into the kitchen once again. “Put your hands in your pockets and let’s go,” she instructed.
“You better hope this’ll work or we’ll be both dead,” Lya whispered out loud as she tailed Rizq back to the kitchen. She imitated how Rizq walked and faced down all the time to hide her face.
As they went past their classmate, the girls heard the waiter.
“Are they your friends?” Lya felt her heart stopped but continued walking as she heard their classmate’s answer.
“No, our school forbids revolting clothes like that.”
“I told you it’d work, didn’t I?” Rizq grinned as they stepped outside the kitchen. “And be grateful that you’re in all-girl school. They wouldn’t imagine us to be wearing something like this.”
“My heart almost stopped beating in there,” Lya pulled the hood off her head. “I don’t know if I could continue living if anyone from school saw me in this thing.” Lya stopped and looked at her friend with a suspicious looks. “Don’t tell me this is your private clothes.”
“Don’t be stupid. Of course, not,” Rizq pushed the sweatshirts and caps back into the bag. “Let’s go.”
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“Wow,” Aiba exclaimed. “This is so cool, isn’t it, Sho-chan?”
“Not too loud, people might hear us,” Sho placed his hand on Aiba’s mouth. “What are these anyway?”
Aiba mumbled an apology and Sho let him go before focusing back to the mountain of outfits in front of them. “I saw them bring this stuff in when we check in earlier. And its suppose to be ours,” Aiba explained as he looked through a clothes rack.
“Ours?” Sho frowned. It’s like hundreds of women clothes in here and it suppose to belong to Arashi. Aiba got to be kidding him. And when he was about to ask Aiba again, he saw a sign on the door. ARASHI-SAMA’s. Damn, it is true then. He wrote a mental note to go and asked Jun to confront the staff responsible for these ridiculous costumes.
“Choose one, Sho-chan.”
Sho looked at Aiba, who was humming happily while selecting a dress he wanted to wear. “Masaki,” he called. Aiba turned to him and raised his eyebrows. “Do we really have to wear this?”
“Of course, Sho-chan. It’s the best plan Ni- I mean, I’ve ever thought of,” Aiba stated. He pulled a black dress with a white flower out and shoved it in front of ho’s body. “This one suits you. It’s like in Himitsu-chan when you wore that Chinese dress.”
Sho took the dress and went to a small room at the corner to change. A few minutes later, he walked out back to Aiba and looked at himself inside a full mirror. “Isn’t this too much?” Sho stared into the mirror. What supposed to be him was now an image of a drag queen on ‘her’ holiday; except prettier.
“No, it looks cute on you,” Aiba smiled as he place something on top of Sho’s head before disappearing with a dress for himself.
“I look horrible,” Sho sighed as he fixed the dress on his body. “… and I might expose myself,” he continued looking down to his bulging front.
Aiba, who was done with changing, chuckled. “No, you’re not. You look mecha kawaii,” Aiba said as he moved closer so that both can see their images in the mirror. “What about me?”
Sho eyes widened as he looked at Aiba. “Wow, I thought your girl picture in Shimura Doubutsen was photoshopped.” Aiba looked exactly like his photo in the show. Pretty and sexy.
“Please, I can be pretty when I want to,” Aiba bragged and posed in front of the mirror causing Sho to smile.
“Well, you do look pretty,” Sho answered immediately without tearing his eyes of his own reflection in the mirror. “But I think I look stupi-” Sho mumbled, but he managed to stop before he said the heartbreaking words as he felt Aiba’s eyes on him. He looked at Aiba and smiled, but the lad was already pouted and tried to move away as he realized what Sho was about to say. “Ok, ok, sorry.” Sho grasped Aiba’s elbow, bringing them closer together. “I won’t say anything bad about this thing- I mean, this dress again.”
“The wig too,” Aiba added giving Sho his puppy eyes look.
“… and the wig,” Sho repeated and touched his head fixing its position. He almost forgot about the wig, disturbed on how ridiculous their outfits were. But he couldn’t deny that both of them sure looked attractive as women. He was too engrossed with his thoughts; that he didn’t realize Aiba had moved closer and hug him from behind.
“If you were really a woman, I wouldn’t mind dating you,” Aiba whispered seductively and giggled when he saw Sho looked very surprised. “Don’t worry Sho-chan, we’ll change back to our regular clothes when we’re get out of here. Now, let’s go,” Aiba pulled Sho’s hand and led him out the room.
Still, Sho would rather going out undisguised, run into crazy fangirls and be chased after than wearing his current outfit. Sho sighed as he let himself be dragged by the hyper ‘girl’. He looked down, covering his face, all the way to their destination.
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The girls walked aimlessly around the town until their feet gave up on them. They decided to rest and eat at a restaurant, so they went to a nearby restaurant and ordered some food. Everything was going perfect until both realized that none of them brought their money with them. Without telling the waiter, the two snuck out and crashed at the nearby park.
“Ah~ I can’t believe that we forgot to bring our money; to think that we were being careful and hid our important things inside the suitcase,” Lya exclaimed. She swung herself on a swing and watched as her friend chose to sit on a nearby bench. “This is all your fault.”
“Mine?!” Rizq turned to face her friend. “I didn’t force you to come with me,” she defended herself. She had her hand rummaged inside the bag. “Just admit that you’re scared.”
“Am not!” Lya protested. She jumped off the swing and went to Rizq, who was now taking out the contents of the bag. “I’m hungry. Let’s go back, Rizq.”
“About that-,” Rizq looked at the other girl and held her hand. She looked down and inhaled deeply before looking back into Lya’s eyes. “I need you to calm down and listen to me.”
Lya looked at their intertwined fingers before looking back up to her friend. “What? What do you-?”
“Promise me that you’ll stay calm.”
“Why? You’re scaring me out, Rizq”
“Promise me first.”
“Ok, ok. I promise. What it is?”
Rizq squeezed her friend’s hand softly before saying what was on her mind. “I think… we’re lost,” she said looking down. Receiving no response, she looked back up and saw Lya looking at her in question. “Lya, are you-”
“What?!” Lya suddenly shouted. “What did you just say?!” she frowned as she grabbed the other’s hand tightly. “Tell me you’re joking.”
“I wish I was…but I’m not joking,” Rizq leaned back and looked up to the sky. “We’re completely lost,” she sighed.
“The key,” Lya exclaimed. “The name of the hotel must’ve been written on the keychain. We can-” She looked expectantly at the other only to be greeted with a frown.
“I think we’ve lost it.”
A silent came before Lya suddenly snapped. “You think?! And what do you mean by ‘we’? It’s ‘you’. You’re the one lost the key.”
“I told you to calm down.”
“How can I keep calm, when we’re lost in the middle of nowhere?!” Lya cried out. “Anyone in their right mind would understand.”
“We’ll-” Rizq stopped as she felt Lya’s fierce gaze on her. “I’ll think of something.”
“Well, think quickly,” Lya said as she looked at the starless night.
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“Aiba-chan,” Sho called as they were finally arrived in the town. However, Aiba was too busy flailing at the windows looking at games and shirt. They were lucky that it was almost dark, because two pretty ‘girls’ flailing over a set of baseball shirt would surely cause attention. Sho had to pull Aiba away from the window several times as the owners eyed them suspiciously. “Where are we gonna change our clothes?”
“Ah~ I think Nino told me there’s a place around here somewhere.”
“Nino? What does he have to do with all this?”
“Ah~ no, no. I mean I think-,” Aiba tried to reason but Sho’s stopped him.
“Enough,” Sho grasped Aiba’s shoulder and turned him around to face him. “I know something’s off with all this. Now, spill it out.”
Aiba looked down guiltily before started talking. “I’m sorry Sho-chan. I know you like cosplaying and Nino suggested to me to wear this with you in return for you accompanying me out. It’s kinda fun right?” Aiba chuckled bitterly.
“Are you stupid?!” Sho snapped. “What makes you think I’ll appreciate you doing this in the middle of our world tour? What do-” he stopped as he saw someone looking at them behind a white van.
“Sho-chan, I’m sorry,” Aiba sniffed. “Please don’t be mad at me.”
“I’m not mad,” Sho grasped Aiba’s wrist and pulled him to the opposite direction of the van. “Let’s go change and get back to the hotel.” He walked as fast as he could before he started to run as he saw the man made his move out of his hiding place.
“Sho-chan, wait,” Aiba struggled hard to maintain his body while running and being dragged by Sho.
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The girls ran into a closed café to take cover from the rain. They watched as the rain fall mercilessly, thinking of their possible option for the night before looking at each other.
“So, what now?” Lya decided to ask as she was out of options.
“We’ll wait until the rain stops,” Rizq answered, looking into her bag to make sure the contents stayed dry.
“Then?”
“I’m still thinking, ok?”
Lya sighed as she took her place on the chair. She then saw a public toilet nearby. “Think hard, Rizq. I wanna know what we’re gonna do when I come back.”
“Take your time, then,” Rizq smiled sweetly and waved to her friend until the other entered the toilet before leaning against the chair, sighing. “Ah~ what am I gonna do?” she asked herself.
As soon as Lya disappeared into the toilet building, Rizq closed her eyes to clear her mind, thinking of a possible way to get out of this mess. She opened her eyes a few minutes later when she heard voices and saw two young women talking to each other not too far from her. They parted seconds later; one went on her way into the toilet while the other went to her.
“Hi,” Rizq greeted her and she seemed surprised. She turned to her with wide eyes before stepping a few steps backwards and tripped. She chuckled as she helped her up.
“Oh, sorry,” a woman with a black dress smiled as she fixed her dress. “I didn’t see you there. Hi.” Rizq can’t help but wonder what was she doing walking around in the rain but since she was in no place to ask question like that, she kept it to herself.
“That’s ok. I’m Rizq, by the way,” Rizq stood and offered her hand. The woman looked hesitated before accepting her hand and shook it lightly.
“You can call me Ai-chan,” the woman said.
“Ai nee-chan,” Rizq repeated. She watched as she glanced several times to the toilet. “Sister?” When the young woman raised her eyebrows in question, Rizq pointed to the toilet.
“Ah~ a friend, actually,” Ai nee-chan smiled and took her place beside Rizq.
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Lya pushed the door opened and stepped inside. She sighed in relief as she found the toilet useable and clean. She peeked inside each stalls before entering the one in end and locked the door. A few minutes later, when she was about to go out, she heard someone enter. Just in case of anything bad would, she remained in the stall, listening to whomever was outside. But then something weird happened.
“Stupid people, what are they doing in a toilet at a time like this causing me to come here,” Lya’s eyes widened as she heard ‘her’ voice. She was actually a man. What was a man diong in ladies’ toilet? She was about to peek when she heard him again. “… and he just had to drop that bag. What did I do to have to go through all this?” the man sighed. Lya tried to stay still in the stall when she heard something fell on the floor and gasped. She prayed hard that he didn’t hear her but to her horror, the man seemed to hear her. “Who’s there?”
Lya clasped her mouth and remained still in the stall. Then she heard the man kicked open one door, then to another, soon progressing to hers. Her mind gone crazy thinking of a possible ways to get away and when the man reached the stall next to her, Lya pushed the door opened and ran out. But the man was fast to grab her before she could escape. “No!” she shouted. “Let g-” she didn’t even dare to open her eyes as she struggled to escape from the man’s grip.
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Sho managed to grab the girl before she could escape from the toilet. He pinned her on the wall and placed a hand on her mouth to shut her up. The girl struggled while having her eyes closed all the time. “If you promise not to scream, I’ll let go,” he said to the girl earning nods from her.
“What are you gonna do to me?” the girl asked as soon as he released her. She had a terrified look on her face and hugged her body. He still had his hands on her shoulders just in case she tried to run off again.
Sho eyes widened to the question but soon he started to laugh. “What do you think I was gonna do?” he asked as he squeezed her shoulder lightly.
“I don’t know. Rape me? Then kill me?” she blinked her eyes waiting for confirmation.
Sho chortled as she answered truthfully and released her shoulders. “You watch too much news on TV,” he said as he turned back to the mirror, continuing his previous task. “I’m not gonna do anything to you,” he continued as he saw the girl didn’t move from her spot. “They’re so dead when I get back.”
Lya stood still beside the door while listening to Sho’s blabbering. Now that she knew the man wasn’t going to do anything to her, she felt more at ease just watching him. “Stupid wig,” he tore the wig from his head and started removing his make up.
“You… I know you!” Lya’s eyes widened as she looked at Sho’s reflection in the mirror. “You… you’re that… Sakurai SHO!!” she exclaimed out loud.
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“So, what are you doing out so late?” The supposedly Ai nee-chan asked after they started to get comfortable towards each other. Rizq looked at him attentively, judging whether to trust her or not. Looking at her bright smile and innocent eyes, Rizq decided to tell her the truth. At least she’s not some guy running around at night and maybe she can help Lya and her get back to their hotel. She was about to answer when they heard screaming coming from the toilet.
Both of them got on their feet and ran as fast as they could towards the sound. “Lya?” Rizq shouted as she knocked the door. “Lya, what’s wrong? Open the door!”
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“What do you mean by ‘that’?” Sho turned to face Lya, who was now speechlessly looking at him. Before Sho could continue, they heard someone knocking on the door.
“Lya? Lya, what’s wrong? Open the door!”
Both pair of eyes darted to the door before at each other. Lya had her hand on the doorknob, but before she could grasp it open, Sho gripped her wrist. “What do think you’re doing?”
“It’s my friend,” Lya said looking in question at him. She tried to open the door again, but Sho still wouldn’t let her. “What!”
“I don’t want more people to see me like this.”
“But-” Lya was about to ask why when Sho heard Aiba’s voice.
“Sho-chan? Are you in there?” Aiba called as he knocked the door. Both stayed still before they heard arguing coming from outside. Sho sighed as he opened the door and pulled Aiba inside, along with Rizq.
“What’s going on here?” Rizq asked as soon as she registered her surroundings and looked at Lya, who made her way beside her. “What took you so long to open the door?” She then followed Lya’s gaze to Ai-chan’s supposed to be friend. “Who the hell are you?” she asked.
“He’s Sakurai Sho,” Lya whispered. “THE Sakurai Sho!”
“Who? Sa-” Rizq turned abruptly towards the guy and shouted. She looked at Sho from hair to toe before frowning. “No way.”
“What do you mean by that?” Sho asked, feeling slightly insulted. Aiba moved closer to him and held onto his shoulders. He knew that Sho can be pretty concerned when it comes to how he looked even though not as sensitive as Jun.
“She’s just surprised to see you here,” Lya tried to covered as she poked Rizq at her side, indicating to her to say something.
“Yeah, I was just surprised,” Rizq said annoyingly before smirking. “I was just surprised to see Sakurai Sho in a ladies’ toilet wearing a dress.”
“Rizq,” Lya and Aiba harmonized.
“Ok, ok. I’m very sorry,” Rizq said as Lya clung on her. “So you must be Aiba Masaki, right Ai nee-chan?” she said sarcastically to Aiba, earning a sheepish grin from him. “What’s with the dress?”
“Ask him,” Sho pointed to Aiba and turned back to the mirror. He continued fixing his make up and frowned as he felt a pair of eyes on him all the time.“What?” he asked. Lya quickly looked down as she saw Sho glaring at her from the mirror.
“Sorry.”
“Are we gonna continue chatting in here?” Rizq said as all of them didn’t make any move to go out.
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The four decided to go back to the gazebo and wait for the rain to stop. They sat in silence watching the rain fall, occupied with their own thoughts when Rizq suddenly brought out the sweatshirts she kept in the bag. “The weather’s getting colder and I only have two of these,” she said.
“We can share,” Aiba suggested.
Rizq held one out to Aiba and swung the other on her and Lya’s shoulder. The sweatshirt was huge enough for the girls but not for the boys. Aiba took the sweatshirt from Rizq with a quizzical look before wearing half of it, thinking on how it would fit both him and Sho.
“I’m not gonna fit inside that thing with you,” Sho said while he hugged himself to keep warm as he watched Aiba’s face contorted as if he was thinking so hard “… You can have it.”
“No, you’ll get sick if we leave you like that,” Aiba reasoned with him. He then moved next to Sho and hugged him from behind.
“What are you doing?” Sho asked with slight interest as he felt Aiba’s hand on his hips.
“Sharing this with you,” Aiba replied cheerfully as he buried his face in the crook of Sho’s neck.
“Get off me!” Sho pushed Aiba away and went back to hugging himself. “Do that to your girlfriend.”
“I know! Let’s change our partners, then,” Aiba shouted happily as he “Rizq-chan will share this with me and you can use that with Lya-chan.”
“Eh?!” the other three exclaimed. “No way!”
“Do you have any other ideas?” Aiba pouted and looked at the other expectantly.
“Fine,” Sho replied in defeat. He took the sweatshirt from the girls and wore it before taking his place beside Lya. She stiffened a little when Sho hugged her from behind as he pulled her into his embrace.
“Now this is more like it,” Sho closed his eyes and rested his head on Lya’s shoulder.
Aiba was about to approach Rizq when she had her hand on his chest. “Don’t ever think about it,” she took his hand and swung it on her shoulder. “Not more than this.”
“That’ll do,” Aiba said as he pulled Rizq closer to him. Little that they knew, both girls were blushing.
“Anyway,” Sho started as the four getting comfortable. “What are you girls doing out at this hour?”
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“You, what?!” Aiba said in disbelieve. He looked at Sho before focusing back at Rizq. “What-”
“So you can’t remember the name and where the hotel is?” Sho asked cutting Aiba short and Lya nodded. Sho stayed still for a moment.
“What are we going to do Sho-chan?” Aiba asked his unresponsive band mate.
“As soon as the rain stops, we’re going back to the hotel and send the girls to the police.”
“No. you can’t do that,” Rizq said suddenly.
“… And why not?” Sho asked with a frown. Aiba looked at her with concern.
“We just can’t go-” she didn’t able to finish when suddenly a white van stopped not far from the gazebo.
“Get down,” Sho ordered as he pulled Lya down with him. Aiba pulled Rizq down with him before going to the wooden wall between them and the van.
“Is it them?” Aiba said as he peeked through a wooden wall. “They must’ve tracked us here.”
“Took them some time to find us though,” Sho said as he went next to Aiba. “We gotta get out of here, now,” he said firmly as soon as his eyes landed on one of the guys getting out of the van.
“What’s wrong? Who are they?” Rizq asked, trying hard to look back at the men as Aiba was practically dragging her.
“Bad news,” Sho answered without looking back. He tried to pull Lya along, causing her to trip.
“Lya,” Rizq shouted and went to her friend. The boys continued to pull them but the bad guys was faster. In no time, the four were surrounded by them. Sho and Aiba stood in front of the girls, shielding them.
“Look what we have here,” the one, who is supposedly the leader, stepped forward. “Didn’t your mama tell you not to stay up this late?” the boss went closer to them but when he tried to pull Aiba closer to him, Sho slapped his hand away. The boss laughed as he signaled his men to take hold of Sho. “You’ll get your chance later,” he whispered as he pulled Aiba to him.
“Don’t touch him!” Rizq shouted and try to go to Aiba but couldn’t as Lya was holding her back.
“‘Him’?!” the boss looked at Aiba. “What the-” before he could finished, Aiba kicked his shin and went to the girls. Sho took the chance to free himself from the men’s grip. “Get them!”
They ran as fast as they could but when they almost reached a corner, Lya fell down again. She winched painfully holding her leg. Sho pushed Rizq to Aiba to go ahead before squatting down attend to the girl as Aiba pulled Rizq away.
“NO, Lya!” Rizq struggled to go to her friend but Aiba’s grip tightened. “Let me go. I need to go to her.”
“She’ll be fine. Don’t worry,” Aiba said as he tried to pull the girl’s hand but the girl refused to move as she looked at Sho and Lya.
“You guys go ahead. I’ll take care of her,” Sho said with comforting assurance.
“But-”
“Go on, Rizq,” Lya said with a smile. Rizq had no choice but to follow Aiba as he pulled her away from her friend.
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“Is she going to be ok?” Rizq asked as soon as they managed to find a hiding place. Aiba was busy fixing his dress to notice her. “Aiba-san, would stop with the dress fixing?”
“Oh, what? Sorry,” Aiba smiled timidly as he fixed it one last time. “I think they’re gonna be fine.”
“You think?” she frowned.
“I’m… sure?” Aiba raised his eyebrows.
“I wanna go back,” Rizq said as she stood up, but being held back down by Aiba.
“Ok, ok. I’m sorry,” Aiba said as he patted Rizq’s shoulder. “But I believe in Sho. He’ll make sure that your friend will be ok,” Aiba assured her. Rizq looked at him in doubt and sighed as he responded with a smile.
“I hope I won’t regret-” she started to say as Aiba suddenly pushed her down and lying on top of her, with faces inches away. “What are-?”
“Shh, I hear something,” he whispered. His eyes blinked as he tried to focus for any sound.
“I don’t hear anything,” she whispered.
“Maybe it’s just my stomach,” he chuckled.
“Get off me,” Rizq rolled her eyes and tried to push Aiba off her, but Aiba lost his balance and landed his lips right on top of hers. Her eyes widened as she felt his lips moving. She pushed Aiba with all her might before slapping his face.
“Ow~” Aiba whined as he held his cheek. “It hurts.”
“What are you guys doing?” a voice came before Rizq manage to respond. Aiba turned to see Nino and Ohno. Ohno looked at them in question while Nino had a smirk on his face.
“Nino, Riida,” Aiba exclaimed as he jumped on them. “I missed you guys.”
“It’s only been hours since we last saw each other,” Nino said as he pulled Aiba up. Ohno went to Rizq and helped her up. The four of walked to the awaiting van not far from them. The van opened to show Lya and Sho inside, smiling happily towards them.
“Lya,” Rizq exclaimed as she went inside to hug her friend. The other smiled watching the girls. “Are you ok?”
“We found them when you two busy smooching each other,” Nino said simply as he swung his hand around Aiba. “Now, get in.”
“We- we’re not smoo-” Rizq said blushing.
“Relax,” Nino cut her off. “Those two were doing the same when we found them,” he said causing Sho to cough and Aiba to giggle. Rizq looked at Lya and the girls smiled quietly to each other.
“But he didn’t get a slap afterwards,” Nino smirked and this time Sho was the one laughing.
“Can we go now?” Jun asked fixed his sunglasses and started the engine.
“Sure, Jun-pon,” Nino replied cheerfully as he leaned towards the girls. “You girls are lucky to have the mighty Matsumoto Jun to be your driver.”
“I can hear you loud and clear, Ninomiya!”
“My intention exactly.”
“But we still don’t know where our hotel is,” Rizq looked at the seat behind Sho while avoiding Aiba’s gaze.
“Now that I can get my hand on my sources, it’ll be a piece of cake,” Sho bragged as he lifted his organizer.
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A few minutes later, the van arrived at the backdoor their hotel that was connected with the kitchen. Jun parked the van across the street so that no one would be suspicious. “We’re here, ladies,” Nino jumped out of the vehicle and offered his hand. The girls accepted it and climbed out. Nino climbed back in as soon as Sho and Aiba got out. “Take your time, but not too much,” he said before closing the door.
The guys led the girls across the street before stopping not far from the door. Sho pulled Lya aside and whispered something before those two disappeared leaving Rizq and Aiba.
“So...” Aiba said breaking the silence.
“So...” Rizq responded. The two tried to look at each other before ended up laughing. Aiba suddenly pulled Rizq into a hug and whispered. “I’m gonna miss you.”
Rizq placed her hand around Aiba’s hips and rested her cheek on his shoulder. “Me too,” she muffled against his shoulder. When Aiba pulled away from her, she leaned forward and gave a peak on his lips before she ran inside catching him off guard. Aiba touched his lips before smiling like an idiot.
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“You understand right?” Sho asked. He held her hand in his and leaned forward to look at her in the eyes.
“I do,” Lya replied sadly. She looked down to avoid Sho’s gaze, but Sho held her face to have her looked back at him.
“I’m really gonna miss you,” Sho said before landing his lips on hers. He wiped the girl’s tears as he pulled away. “Be a strong girl now.”
She hugged him one last time before turning and disappeared inside the building. Sho smiled as he saw Aiba walked to him. “Done?”
“Yeah, let’s go back.”
---
Nino was waiting for the pair to get back to the van as he opened the door as soon as both arrived. “Aw~ I’m gonna miss you,” Nino said as he hugged Ohno.
“Me too,” Ohno joined and gave in as Nino kissed him before laughing together. Both Sho and Aiba smacked the two on the head as they got inside the van.
“Come on, we don’t have all day,” MatsuJun called from the driver’s seat.
-the end-
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another OC fic... and it's sakuraibaXOCs...
but not to worry dear sakuraiba friends...
coz i already have something in my head for this Halloween...
something really good... *smug*
later~<3
Author: faradakiut
Beta: cherry_akira (thank u~<3)
Paring: ShoXOC, AibaXOC
Rating: G
Summary: one night experience worth a lifetime.
Disclaimer: I’ve prayed to a shooting star so that one day they will all be mine~ T__T
Note: there is no such thing as language…. >.<”
A/N: for jearashifan & sakurailya . Enjoy your temporary freedom… another big exam is coming in two years… XD
She watched as her friend slammed open the door in front of them. Following the friend inside, she closed the door before placing her bags neatly on the bed; at least tried to before the other jumped across to her bed.
“I can’t believe we made it here!” Lya shouted and jumped on the bed, causing her stuff to fall from the bed. Looking at her unresponsive friend, she hopped across to the other’s bed and continued jumping. “I had a hard time convincing my mom to let me go.
“I understand your excitement and now I would really appreciate if you would stop jumping on my bed, Lya,” Rizq said as she picked up her bag that was lying on the floor due to the impact. “Go do it on your own.”
Lya stopped and pouted before slumping down on the bed. “Why are you being serious all of a sudden?” she asked and looking at her friend, who was occupying herself with her luggage, she shot another question. “What are you doing anyway?”
“We need to hurry or they’ll know,” Rizq answered as she threw a bundle of clothes in a bagpack.
“What are you talking about?” Lya looked intently at her roommate. “Why do we need hurry and why don’t we want ‘them’ to know. Who is this ‘them’, anyway?”
“The teachers, of course. I told you before that I wanna explore this place as soon as we got here,” Rizq said as she zipped up the bag and swung it on her shoulder. “Now, hurry up.”
“Ah~ I see. Eh, now?”
“Yes now,” Rizq said as if it was the most obvious thing in the whole world. She walked to the door and peeked outside. “The coast is clear, let’s go,” she said, before looking back to her friend, who was left dumbfounded on the bed. “Are you coming or not?”
“Wa- wait,” Lya jumped off the bed and hastily followed her friend.
They sneaked around the hotel lobby to the kitchen in order to avoid their classmates and teachers. But as they reached the kitchen, they found a classmate talking to one of the waiters. Maybe she’s in charge of tonight’s dinner, Rizq assumed. They hid themselves behind the door and went back to the lobby.
“How are we gonna get through her?” Lya asked as they reached a safer place to think. Rizq smiled as she placed the bag she’s holding in front of them.
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Arashi was having their world tour at the moment and they were localized in a hotel. As always, Nino would share his room with Ohno, while Jun would have a room for himself, and that left Sho with Aiba. Not that Sho was complaining, but sharing a room with the hyper boy meant compromising with his habits.
“Ne, Sho-chan,” Aiba called. Sho looked away from the TV to look at his bandmate. “Let’s go out.”
“You know that we can’t, Aiba-chan,” Sho simply rejected before focusing back on the TV. “Our manager had told us to stay put until he settled everything.”
“But I’m bored.”
“We’ll go out tomorrow, okay? I promise.”
“But I wanna go now,” Aiba whined. “Sho-chan~” Looking at Sho who ignoring him, Aiba pouted as he stood up and reached for his jacket.
“Where are you going?” Sho asked as he saw Aiba at the door.
“Out,” Aiba kept his sulking face as he slammed the door close.
Sho knew this routine very well already. Every night Aiba would complain to him about being bored and tried to talk him to go out. He would go along with the boy at times and if he refused like that night, Aiba would go to Nino’s room trying his luck. But he knew that the boy would end up back in the room.
They were going to have a full rehearsal tomorrow, and he needed his beauty sleep to be in his best condition. Fifteen minutes past after Aiba left, but still no sign of him. Maybe Nino accepted Aiba’s invitation and dragged a sleepy Ohno with them. Well, as long as it’s not him, Sho’s fine with it. He yawned, turning off the TV and climbed on bed before the door opened revealing one very irritated Nino dragging Aiba inside the room.
“Hey, Sho. Keep him in the room, will you?” Nino said as he pushed Aiba towards Sho’s bed causing him to land on top of Sho. “Oh-chan’s trying to sleep, but this boy just won’t stop talking.”
Sho pushed the lad aside before sitting up. Aiba fell softly on the floor before climbing back on the bed to his place beside Sho. “Masaki,” Sho said in a firm tone.
“… but Riida’s the one-,” Aiba tried to defend himself, but only to be cut off by Nino.
“Whatever. Now, STAY!” Nino slammed the door close in time for Aiba to rise from the bed and went to the door again.
“Now, where are you going this time?” Sho sighed. Both of them knew that MatsuJun won’t be entertaining any visitors at this hour so Sho wondered where Aiba would go next. Sho was worried to let him wander outside alone. The fact that, as grown up as Aiba could be, he’s still also a child at heart; he could easily believe a stranger. Sho was afraid that anything bad might happen to him and since they were sharing the same room, the others will surely put the blame on him.
“No where,” Aiba answered simply as he grasped the doorknob. He was about to step out when Sho called for him.
“Fine. I’ll go.”
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“With this,” Rizq smiled as she shoved her bag to Lya. “It’s in there. Open it.”
Lya opened the bag without her eyes leaving her roommate’s. “Sweatshirts?” Lya said as she pulled out yellow and green sweatshirts from the bag “… and caps? This is your great plan?”
“Yeah, it’ll work,” Rizq said as she took the green hoodie from Lya and wore it. “Complain all you want when it’s over. Now put it on.” The girls put on the caps and raised the hoods on top of their heads, covering the faces.
“I don’t see how this would work,” Lya mumbled, fixing her hair under the cap with concentration. Unlike Rizq, her hair was slightly longer,making it hard to stay fixed inside.
“You’ll see,” Rizq said as she peeked into the kitchen once again. “Put your hands in your pockets and let’s go,” she instructed.
“You better hope this’ll work or we’ll be both dead,” Lya whispered out loud as she tailed Rizq back to the kitchen. She imitated how Rizq walked and faced down all the time to hide her face.
As they went past their classmate, the girls heard the waiter.
“Are they your friends?” Lya felt her heart stopped but continued walking as she heard their classmate’s answer.
“No, our school forbids revolting clothes like that.”
“I told you it’d work, didn’t I?” Rizq grinned as they stepped outside the kitchen. “And be grateful that you’re in all-girl school. They wouldn’t imagine us to be wearing something like this.”
“My heart almost stopped beating in there,” Lya pulled the hood off her head. “I don’t know if I could continue living if anyone from school saw me in this thing.” Lya stopped and looked at her friend with a suspicious looks. “Don’t tell me this is your private clothes.”
“Don’t be stupid. Of course, not,” Rizq pushed the sweatshirts and caps back into the bag. “Let’s go.”
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“Wow,” Aiba exclaimed. “This is so cool, isn’t it, Sho-chan?”
“Not too loud, people might hear us,” Sho placed his hand on Aiba’s mouth. “What are these anyway?”
Aiba mumbled an apology and Sho let him go before focusing back to the mountain of outfits in front of them. “I saw them bring this stuff in when we check in earlier. And its suppose to be ours,” Aiba explained as he looked through a clothes rack.
“Ours?” Sho frowned. It’s like hundreds of women clothes in here and it suppose to belong to Arashi. Aiba got to be kidding him. And when he was about to ask Aiba again, he saw a sign on the door. ARASHI-SAMA’s. Damn, it is true then. He wrote a mental note to go and asked Jun to confront the staff responsible for these ridiculous costumes.
“Choose one, Sho-chan.”
Sho looked at Aiba, who was humming happily while selecting a dress he wanted to wear. “Masaki,” he called. Aiba turned to him and raised his eyebrows. “Do we really have to wear this?”
“Of course, Sho-chan. It’s the best plan Ni- I mean, I’ve ever thought of,” Aiba stated. He pulled a black dress with a white flower out and shoved it in front of ho’s body. “This one suits you. It’s like in Himitsu-chan when you wore that Chinese dress.”
Sho took the dress and went to a small room at the corner to change. A few minutes later, he walked out back to Aiba and looked at himself inside a full mirror. “Isn’t this too much?” Sho stared into the mirror. What supposed to be him was now an image of a drag queen on ‘her’ holiday; except prettier.
“No, it looks cute on you,” Aiba smiled as he place something on top of Sho’s head before disappearing with a dress for himself.
“I look horrible,” Sho sighed as he fixed the dress on his body. “… and I might expose myself,” he continued looking down to his bulging front.
Aiba, who was done with changing, chuckled. “No, you’re not. You look mecha kawaii,” Aiba said as he moved closer so that both can see their images in the mirror. “What about me?”
Sho eyes widened as he looked at Aiba. “Wow, I thought your girl picture in Shimura Doubutsen was photoshopped.” Aiba looked exactly like his photo in the show. Pretty and sexy.
“Please, I can be pretty when I want to,” Aiba bragged and posed in front of the mirror causing Sho to smile.
“Well, you do look pretty,” Sho answered immediately without tearing his eyes of his own reflection in the mirror. “But I think I look stupi-” Sho mumbled, but he managed to stop before he said the heartbreaking words as he felt Aiba’s eyes on him. He looked at Aiba and smiled, but the lad was already pouted and tried to move away as he realized what Sho was about to say. “Ok, ok, sorry.” Sho grasped Aiba’s elbow, bringing them closer together. “I won’t say anything bad about this thing- I mean, this dress again.”
“The wig too,” Aiba added giving Sho his puppy eyes look.
“… and the wig,” Sho repeated and touched his head fixing its position. He almost forgot about the wig, disturbed on how ridiculous their outfits were. But he couldn’t deny that both of them sure looked attractive as women. He was too engrossed with his thoughts; that he didn’t realize Aiba had moved closer and hug him from behind.
“If you were really a woman, I wouldn’t mind dating you,” Aiba whispered seductively and giggled when he saw Sho looked very surprised. “Don’t worry Sho-chan, we’ll change back to our regular clothes when we’re get out of here. Now, let’s go,” Aiba pulled Sho’s hand and led him out the room.
Still, Sho would rather going out undisguised, run into crazy fangirls and be chased after than wearing his current outfit. Sho sighed as he let himself be dragged by the hyper ‘girl’. He looked down, covering his face, all the way to their destination.
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The girls walked aimlessly around the town until their feet gave up on them. They decided to rest and eat at a restaurant, so they went to a nearby restaurant and ordered some food. Everything was going perfect until both realized that none of them brought their money with them. Without telling the waiter, the two snuck out and crashed at the nearby park.
“Ah~ I can’t believe that we forgot to bring our money; to think that we were being careful and hid our important things inside the suitcase,” Lya exclaimed. She swung herself on a swing and watched as her friend chose to sit on a nearby bench. “This is all your fault.”
“Mine?!” Rizq turned to face her friend. “I didn’t force you to come with me,” she defended herself. She had her hand rummaged inside the bag. “Just admit that you’re scared.”
“Am not!” Lya protested. She jumped off the swing and went to Rizq, who was now taking out the contents of the bag. “I’m hungry. Let’s go back, Rizq.”
“About that-,” Rizq looked at the other girl and held her hand. She looked down and inhaled deeply before looking back into Lya’s eyes. “I need you to calm down and listen to me.”
Lya looked at their intertwined fingers before looking back up to her friend. “What? What do you-?”
“Promise me that you’ll stay calm.”
“Why? You’re scaring me out, Rizq”
“Promise me first.”
“Ok, ok. I promise. What it is?”
Rizq squeezed her friend’s hand softly before saying what was on her mind. “I think… we’re lost,” she said looking down. Receiving no response, she looked back up and saw Lya looking at her in question. “Lya, are you-”
“What?!” Lya suddenly shouted. “What did you just say?!” she frowned as she grabbed the other’s hand tightly. “Tell me you’re joking.”
“I wish I was…but I’m not joking,” Rizq leaned back and looked up to the sky. “We’re completely lost,” she sighed.
“The key,” Lya exclaimed. “The name of the hotel must’ve been written on the keychain. We can-” She looked expectantly at the other only to be greeted with a frown.
“I think we’ve lost it.”
A silent came before Lya suddenly snapped. “You think?! And what do you mean by ‘we’? It’s ‘you’. You’re the one lost the key.”
“I told you to calm down.”
“How can I keep calm, when we’re lost in the middle of nowhere?!” Lya cried out. “Anyone in their right mind would understand.”
“We’ll-” Rizq stopped as she felt Lya’s fierce gaze on her. “I’ll think of something.”
“Well, think quickly,” Lya said as she looked at the starless night.
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“Aiba-chan,” Sho called as they were finally arrived in the town. However, Aiba was too busy flailing at the windows looking at games and shirt. They were lucky that it was almost dark, because two pretty ‘girls’ flailing over a set of baseball shirt would surely cause attention. Sho had to pull Aiba away from the window several times as the owners eyed them suspiciously. “Where are we gonna change our clothes?”
“Ah~ I think Nino told me there’s a place around here somewhere.”
“Nino? What does he have to do with all this?”
“Ah~ no, no. I mean I think-,” Aiba tried to reason but Sho’s stopped him.
“Enough,” Sho grasped Aiba’s shoulder and turned him around to face him. “I know something’s off with all this. Now, spill it out.”
Aiba looked down guiltily before started talking. “I’m sorry Sho-chan. I know you like cosplaying and Nino suggested to me to wear this with you in return for you accompanying me out. It’s kinda fun right?” Aiba chuckled bitterly.
“Are you stupid?!” Sho snapped. “What makes you think I’ll appreciate you doing this in the middle of our world tour? What do-” he stopped as he saw someone looking at them behind a white van.
“Sho-chan, I’m sorry,” Aiba sniffed. “Please don’t be mad at me.”
“I’m not mad,” Sho grasped Aiba’s wrist and pulled him to the opposite direction of the van. “Let’s go change and get back to the hotel.” He walked as fast as he could before he started to run as he saw the man made his move out of his hiding place.
“Sho-chan, wait,” Aiba struggled hard to maintain his body while running and being dragged by Sho.
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The girls ran into a closed café to take cover from the rain. They watched as the rain fall mercilessly, thinking of their possible option for the night before looking at each other.
“So, what now?” Lya decided to ask as she was out of options.
“We’ll wait until the rain stops,” Rizq answered, looking into her bag to make sure the contents stayed dry.
“Then?”
“I’m still thinking, ok?”
Lya sighed as she took her place on the chair. She then saw a public toilet nearby. “Think hard, Rizq. I wanna know what we’re gonna do when I come back.”
“Take your time, then,” Rizq smiled sweetly and waved to her friend until the other entered the toilet before leaning against the chair, sighing. “Ah~ what am I gonna do?” she asked herself.
As soon as Lya disappeared into the toilet building, Rizq closed her eyes to clear her mind, thinking of a possible way to get out of this mess. She opened her eyes a few minutes later when she heard voices and saw two young women talking to each other not too far from her. They parted seconds later; one went on her way into the toilet while the other went to her.
“Hi,” Rizq greeted her and she seemed surprised. She turned to her with wide eyes before stepping a few steps backwards and tripped. She chuckled as she helped her up.
“Oh, sorry,” a woman with a black dress smiled as she fixed her dress. “I didn’t see you there. Hi.” Rizq can’t help but wonder what was she doing walking around in the rain but since she was in no place to ask question like that, she kept it to herself.
“That’s ok. I’m Rizq, by the way,” Rizq stood and offered her hand. The woman looked hesitated before accepting her hand and shook it lightly.
“You can call me Ai-chan,” the woman said.
“Ai nee-chan,” Rizq repeated. She watched as she glanced several times to the toilet. “Sister?” When the young woman raised her eyebrows in question, Rizq pointed to the toilet.
“Ah~ a friend, actually,” Ai nee-chan smiled and took her place beside Rizq.
---
Lya pushed the door opened and stepped inside. She sighed in relief as she found the toilet useable and clean. She peeked inside each stalls before entering the one in end and locked the door. A few minutes later, when she was about to go out, she heard someone enter. Just in case of anything bad would, she remained in the stall, listening to whomever was outside. But then something weird happened.
“Stupid people, what are they doing in a toilet at a time like this causing me to come here,” Lya’s eyes widened as she heard ‘her’ voice. She was actually a man. What was a man diong in ladies’ toilet? She was about to peek when she heard him again. “… and he just had to drop that bag. What did I do to have to go through all this?” the man sighed. Lya tried to stay still in the stall when she heard something fell on the floor and gasped. She prayed hard that he didn’t hear her but to her horror, the man seemed to hear her. “Who’s there?”
Lya clasped her mouth and remained still in the stall. Then she heard the man kicked open one door, then to another, soon progressing to hers. Her mind gone crazy thinking of a possible ways to get away and when the man reached the stall next to her, Lya pushed the door opened and ran out. But the man was fast to grab her before she could escape. “No!” she shouted. “Let g-” she didn’t even dare to open her eyes as she struggled to escape from the man’s grip.
---
Sho managed to grab the girl before she could escape from the toilet. He pinned her on the wall and placed a hand on her mouth to shut her up. The girl struggled while having her eyes closed all the time. “If you promise not to scream, I’ll let go,” he said to the girl earning nods from her.
“What are you gonna do to me?” the girl asked as soon as he released her. She had a terrified look on her face and hugged her body. He still had his hands on her shoulders just in case she tried to run off again.
Sho eyes widened to the question but soon he started to laugh. “What do you think I was gonna do?” he asked as he squeezed her shoulder lightly.
“I don’t know. Rape me? Then kill me?” she blinked her eyes waiting for confirmation.
Sho chortled as she answered truthfully and released her shoulders. “You watch too much news on TV,” he said as he turned back to the mirror, continuing his previous task. “I’m not gonna do anything to you,” he continued as he saw the girl didn’t move from her spot. “They’re so dead when I get back.”
Lya stood still beside the door while listening to Sho’s blabbering. Now that she knew the man wasn’t going to do anything to her, she felt more at ease just watching him. “Stupid wig,” he tore the wig from his head and started removing his make up.
“You… I know you!” Lya’s eyes widened as she looked at Sho’s reflection in the mirror. “You… you’re that… Sakurai SHO!!” she exclaimed out loud.
---
“So, what are you doing out so late?” The supposedly Ai nee-chan asked after they started to get comfortable towards each other. Rizq looked at him attentively, judging whether to trust her or not. Looking at her bright smile and innocent eyes, Rizq decided to tell her the truth. At least she’s not some guy running around at night and maybe she can help Lya and her get back to their hotel. She was about to answer when they heard screaming coming from the toilet.
Both of them got on their feet and ran as fast as they could towards the sound. “Lya?” Rizq shouted as she knocked the door. “Lya, what’s wrong? Open the door!”
---
“What do you mean by ‘that’?” Sho turned to face Lya, who was now speechlessly looking at him. Before Sho could continue, they heard someone knocking on the door.
“Lya? Lya, what’s wrong? Open the door!”
Both pair of eyes darted to the door before at each other. Lya had her hand on the doorknob, but before she could grasp it open, Sho gripped her wrist. “What do think you’re doing?”
“It’s my friend,” Lya said looking in question at him. She tried to open the door again, but Sho still wouldn’t let her. “What!”
“I don’t want more people to see me like this.”
“But-” Lya was about to ask why when Sho heard Aiba’s voice.
“Sho-chan? Are you in there?” Aiba called as he knocked the door. Both stayed still before they heard arguing coming from outside. Sho sighed as he opened the door and pulled Aiba inside, along with Rizq.
“What’s going on here?” Rizq asked as soon as she registered her surroundings and looked at Lya, who made her way beside her. “What took you so long to open the door?” She then followed Lya’s gaze to Ai-chan’s supposed to be friend. “Who the hell are you?” she asked.
“He’s Sakurai Sho,” Lya whispered. “THE Sakurai Sho!”
“Who? Sa-” Rizq turned abruptly towards the guy and shouted. She looked at Sho from hair to toe before frowning. “No way.”
“What do you mean by that?” Sho asked, feeling slightly insulted. Aiba moved closer to him and held onto his shoulders. He knew that Sho can be pretty concerned when it comes to how he looked even though not as sensitive as Jun.
“She’s just surprised to see you here,” Lya tried to covered as she poked Rizq at her side, indicating to her to say something.
“Yeah, I was just surprised,” Rizq said annoyingly before smirking. “I was just surprised to see Sakurai Sho in a ladies’ toilet wearing a dress.”
“Rizq,” Lya and Aiba harmonized.
“Ok, ok. I’m very sorry,” Rizq said as Lya clung on her. “So you must be Aiba Masaki, right Ai nee-chan?” she said sarcastically to Aiba, earning a sheepish grin from him. “What’s with the dress?”
“Ask him,” Sho pointed to Aiba and turned back to the mirror. He continued fixing his make up and frowned as he felt a pair of eyes on him all the time.“What?” he asked. Lya quickly looked down as she saw Sho glaring at her from the mirror.
“Sorry.”
“Are we gonna continue chatting in here?” Rizq said as all of them didn’t make any move to go out.
---
The four decided to go back to the gazebo and wait for the rain to stop. They sat in silence watching the rain fall, occupied with their own thoughts when Rizq suddenly brought out the sweatshirts she kept in the bag. “The weather’s getting colder and I only have two of these,” she said.
“We can share,” Aiba suggested.
Rizq held one out to Aiba and swung the other on her and Lya’s shoulder. The sweatshirt was huge enough for the girls but not for the boys. Aiba took the sweatshirt from Rizq with a quizzical look before wearing half of it, thinking on how it would fit both him and Sho.
“I’m not gonna fit inside that thing with you,” Sho said while he hugged himself to keep warm as he watched Aiba’s face contorted as if he was thinking so hard “… You can have it.”
“No, you’ll get sick if we leave you like that,” Aiba reasoned with him. He then moved next to Sho and hugged him from behind.
“What are you doing?” Sho asked with slight interest as he felt Aiba’s hand on his hips.
“Sharing this with you,” Aiba replied cheerfully as he buried his face in the crook of Sho’s neck.
“Get off me!” Sho pushed Aiba away and went back to hugging himself. “Do that to your girlfriend.”
“I know! Let’s change our partners, then,” Aiba shouted happily as he “Rizq-chan will share this with me and you can use that with Lya-chan.”
“Eh?!” the other three exclaimed. “No way!”
“Do you have any other ideas?” Aiba pouted and looked at the other expectantly.
“Fine,” Sho replied in defeat. He took the sweatshirt from the girls and wore it before taking his place beside Lya. She stiffened a little when Sho hugged her from behind as he pulled her into his embrace.
“Now this is more like it,” Sho closed his eyes and rested his head on Lya’s shoulder.
Aiba was about to approach Rizq when she had her hand on his chest. “Don’t ever think about it,” she took his hand and swung it on her shoulder. “Not more than this.”
“That’ll do,” Aiba said as he pulled Rizq closer to him. Little that they knew, both girls were blushing.
“Anyway,” Sho started as the four getting comfortable. “What are you girls doing out at this hour?”
---
“You, what?!” Aiba said in disbelieve. He looked at Sho before focusing back at Rizq. “What-”
“So you can’t remember the name and where the hotel is?” Sho asked cutting Aiba short and Lya nodded. Sho stayed still for a moment.
“What are we going to do Sho-chan?” Aiba asked his unresponsive band mate.
“As soon as the rain stops, we’re going back to the hotel and send the girls to the police.”
“No. you can’t do that,” Rizq said suddenly.
“… And why not?” Sho asked with a frown. Aiba looked at her with concern.
“We just can’t go-” she didn’t able to finish when suddenly a white van stopped not far from the gazebo.
“Get down,” Sho ordered as he pulled Lya down with him. Aiba pulled Rizq down with him before going to the wooden wall between them and the van.
“Is it them?” Aiba said as he peeked through a wooden wall. “They must’ve tracked us here.”
“Took them some time to find us though,” Sho said as he went next to Aiba. “We gotta get out of here, now,” he said firmly as soon as his eyes landed on one of the guys getting out of the van.
“What’s wrong? Who are they?” Rizq asked, trying hard to look back at the men as Aiba was practically dragging her.
“Bad news,” Sho answered without looking back. He tried to pull Lya along, causing her to trip.
“Lya,” Rizq shouted and went to her friend. The boys continued to pull them but the bad guys was faster. In no time, the four were surrounded by them. Sho and Aiba stood in front of the girls, shielding them.
“Look what we have here,” the one, who is supposedly the leader, stepped forward. “Didn’t your mama tell you not to stay up this late?” the boss went closer to them but when he tried to pull Aiba closer to him, Sho slapped his hand away. The boss laughed as he signaled his men to take hold of Sho. “You’ll get your chance later,” he whispered as he pulled Aiba to him.
“Don’t touch him!” Rizq shouted and try to go to Aiba but couldn’t as Lya was holding her back.
“‘Him’?!” the boss looked at Aiba. “What the-” before he could finished, Aiba kicked his shin and went to the girls. Sho took the chance to free himself from the men’s grip. “Get them!”
They ran as fast as they could but when they almost reached a corner, Lya fell down again. She winched painfully holding her leg. Sho pushed Rizq to Aiba to go ahead before squatting down attend to the girl as Aiba pulled Rizq away.
“NO, Lya!” Rizq struggled to go to her friend but Aiba’s grip tightened. “Let me go. I need to go to her.”
“She’ll be fine. Don’t worry,” Aiba said as he tried to pull the girl’s hand but the girl refused to move as she looked at Sho and Lya.
“You guys go ahead. I’ll take care of her,” Sho said with comforting assurance.
“But-”
“Go on, Rizq,” Lya said with a smile. Rizq had no choice but to follow Aiba as he pulled her away from her friend.
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“Is she going to be ok?” Rizq asked as soon as they managed to find a hiding place. Aiba was busy fixing his dress to notice her. “Aiba-san, would stop with the dress fixing?”
“Oh, what? Sorry,” Aiba smiled timidly as he fixed it one last time. “I think they’re gonna be fine.”
“You think?” she frowned.
“I’m… sure?” Aiba raised his eyebrows.
“I wanna go back,” Rizq said as she stood up, but being held back down by Aiba.
“Ok, ok. I’m sorry,” Aiba said as he patted Rizq’s shoulder. “But I believe in Sho. He’ll make sure that your friend will be ok,” Aiba assured her. Rizq looked at him in doubt and sighed as he responded with a smile.
“I hope I won’t regret-” she started to say as Aiba suddenly pushed her down and lying on top of her, with faces inches away. “What are-?”
“Shh, I hear something,” he whispered. His eyes blinked as he tried to focus for any sound.
“I don’t hear anything,” she whispered.
“Maybe it’s just my stomach,” he chuckled.
“Get off me,” Rizq rolled her eyes and tried to push Aiba off her, but Aiba lost his balance and landed his lips right on top of hers. Her eyes widened as she felt his lips moving. She pushed Aiba with all her might before slapping his face.
“Ow~” Aiba whined as he held his cheek. “It hurts.”
“What are you guys doing?” a voice came before Rizq manage to respond. Aiba turned to see Nino and Ohno. Ohno looked at them in question while Nino had a smirk on his face.
“Nino, Riida,” Aiba exclaimed as he jumped on them. “I missed you guys.”
“It’s only been hours since we last saw each other,” Nino said as he pulled Aiba up. Ohno went to Rizq and helped her up. The four of walked to the awaiting van not far from them. The van opened to show Lya and Sho inside, smiling happily towards them.
“Lya,” Rizq exclaimed as she went inside to hug her friend. The other smiled watching the girls. “Are you ok?”
“We found them when you two busy smooching each other,” Nino said simply as he swung his hand around Aiba. “Now, get in.”
“We- we’re not smoo-” Rizq said blushing.
“Relax,” Nino cut her off. “Those two were doing the same when we found them,” he said causing Sho to cough and Aiba to giggle. Rizq looked at Lya and the girls smiled quietly to each other.
“But he didn’t get a slap afterwards,” Nino smirked and this time Sho was the one laughing.
“Can we go now?” Jun asked fixed his sunglasses and started the engine.
“Sure, Jun-pon,” Nino replied cheerfully as he leaned towards the girls. “You girls are lucky to have the mighty Matsumoto Jun to be your driver.”
“I can hear you loud and clear, Ninomiya!”
“My intention exactly.”
“But we still don’t know where our hotel is,” Rizq looked at the seat behind Sho while avoiding Aiba’s gaze.
“Now that I can get my hand on my sources, it’ll be a piece of cake,” Sho bragged as he lifted his organizer.
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A few minutes later, the van arrived at the backdoor their hotel that was connected with the kitchen. Jun parked the van across the street so that no one would be suspicious. “We’re here, ladies,” Nino jumped out of the vehicle and offered his hand. The girls accepted it and climbed out. Nino climbed back in as soon as Sho and Aiba got out. “Take your time, but not too much,” he said before closing the door.
The guys led the girls across the street before stopping not far from the door. Sho pulled Lya aside and whispered something before those two disappeared leaving Rizq and Aiba.
“So...” Aiba said breaking the silence.
“So...” Rizq responded. The two tried to look at each other before ended up laughing. Aiba suddenly pulled Rizq into a hug and whispered. “I’m gonna miss you.”
Rizq placed her hand around Aiba’s hips and rested her cheek on his shoulder. “Me too,” she muffled against his shoulder. When Aiba pulled away from her, she leaned forward and gave a peak on his lips before she ran inside catching him off guard. Aiba touched his lips before smiling like an idiot.
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“You understand right?” Sho asked. He held her hand in his and leaned forward to look at her in the eyes.
“I do,” Lya replied sadly. She looked down to avoid Sho’s gaze, but Sho held her face to have her looked back at him.
“I’m really gonna miss you,” Sho said before landing his lips on hers. He wiped the girl’s tears as he pulled away. “Be a strong girl now.”
She hugged him one last time before turning and disappeared inside the building. Sho smiled as he saw Aiba walked to him. “Done?”
“Yeah, let’s go back.”
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Nino was waiting for the pair to get back to the van as he opened the door as soon as both arrived. “Aw~ I’m gonna miss you,” Nino said as he hugged Ohno.
“Me too,” Ohno joined and gave in as Nino kissed him before laughing together. Both Sho and Aiba smacked the two on the head as they got inside the van.
“Come on, we don’t have all day,” MatsuJun called from the driver’s seat.
-the end-
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another OC fic... and it's sakuraibaXOCs...
but not to worry dear sakuraiba friends...
coz i already have something in my head for this Halloween...
something really good... *smug*
later~<3