Title: Baby Ohno (Chapter 7)
Pairings/Characters: Aiba/Sho, Ohno/Nino
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Beware of a cute baby Ohno in this story (although Ohno is always cute, baby or not ;)
Notes: And so I ended up posting another chapter~♡(˃͈ દ ˂͈ ༶ ) The main reason I posted today and not on Wednesday (what I originally planned) is because there's a certain chapter I want to post on my birthday (which is coming up soon). So I needed to get these chapters out of the way XD And on another note, I wrote a Halloween oneshot called,
The Mirror Wall, so feel free to read it if you haven't yet~
Summary: An accident occurs when one of Aiba's experiments go wrong. And unfortunately, Leader was in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Chap-6 "Satoshi, we'll only be gone for two hours- two and a half at most!"
Sho pleaded, trying to calm the baby who was currently crying all the water out of his body and wailing at the top of his lungs.
It was about twenty minutes before filming started and Sho had been spending almost half an hour trying to drop Ohno off with some of the staff so they could watch over him during the show (they were all informed by the agency about Ohno's stay). Unfortunately, Ohno didn't like being separated from his fellow group members and started throwing a tantrum when he realized that Sho was gonna leave him. Not even his fishy could calm him as he threw it right across the room when Sho tried to bribe him with it.
"WAAAHHHHH! WANNA GO! WANNA GO!" Ohno cried even louder, kicking at the staff member who was currently trying to hold him. Sho wanted to carry him but knew that if he did, he wouldn't be able to let Ohno go again.
Sho looked helplessly at the staff around, trying to figure out what to do. Since he had finished his hair and makeup earlier, he offered to drop Ohno off to the staff. But now he completely regretted that decision and wished that the other members could have done it.
"Satoshi, we have work to do so you can't come with us. But you can watch us here on the TV." Sho tried again, pointing to the monitor where they would show up.
Ohno didn't seem to listen though as he started wailing louder. "WANNA GO TOO! I BE GOOD BOY!"
"Satoshi, I know that if you could come then you would be a very good boy. But you can't go with us because we're shooting a show and there's too many people around." Sho told him. Since they were shooting a winter special, and with fellow Johnny's being the opposing team, there were more news cameras and paparazzi outside than usual. "Remember what you promise to grandpa Johnny? You told him you wouldn't cause problems" Sho whispered, not wanting the staff to hear what he said.
Ohno was sniffling, his cries becoming softer. "B-but I dun wan papa to GO!" Ohno started crying loudly again at the end. The staff knew that Satoshi had interesting names for all the members (Jun got the most laughs though, much to the youngest member's displeasure).
Sho felt his heart squeeze at the broken expression on Ohno's face. He felt just like one of those parents who were dropping their crying child off to their first day of school. How did they handle this?
"Sho-chan, filming is starting in about ten minutes!" Sho almost cried in relief at the sound of his boyfriend coming. "What's going on here? Why is Satoshi crying?" Aiba demanded, looking at the scene in front of him.
"MAMA!" Ohno cried, thrashing against the staff member's hold, reaching his arms desperately towards Aiba.
Aiba quickly grabbed Ohno and cradled him to his chest. "Little man, what's wrong?" Ohno had stopped wailing as soon as he was in Aiba's arms but his sad sobs could be heard as he hid his face into the crook of Aiba's neck, clutching his shirt tightly with his teeny hands. "Sho, what happened?"
Sho put up his hands in exasperation. "Satoshi doesn't want to be separated from us- he refuses to leave us." He explained, looking helpless.
Aiba furrowed his eyebrows, looking worried. "I guess we really couldn't have left him at a daycare after all." He muttered. Looking down at the sobbing baby, he knew he wouldn't be able to bring himself to let go of him. "What do we do?"
"Why is Satoshi crying?" Aiba and Sho turned to see Nino and Jun, who had just finished with their preparations and came to check on what was taking their members so long. Hearing the commotion, they came running towards them, both had worried looks on their faces- though Nino's had a bit of anger mix in. "Well? Is he hurt?" Nino glared at the both of them, concern visible in every inch of his body.
They proceeded to explain the situation to the both of them. Jun sighed as he rubbed the back of his neck. "We can't bring him with us." He said, flinching when Ohno's sobs became louder.
"Sure we can." Nino argued, bringing his arms up to take Ohno. "We can't just leave him crying like this."
"Nino, there's an audience full of Arashi fans and a lot of press out there. We can't just show up with a baby." Sho protested, although he ended up looking guilty as Ohno let out another wail. Sho reached out to rub the baby's back, trying to soothe him.
"Why don't we get one of the staff to watch him on set? He can just be in the background, like an audience member. At least Satoshi will be able to see us and we would be able to make sure that he's okay." Aiba suggested.
"For the first time, I'm with Aiba on this." Nino nodded, cradling Ohno in his arms as the baby's cries finally started to die down. Agreeing that that was their best option, Jun went to get the director's approval.
Ohno's sobs had stopped by now as he was surrounded by his members, but he still let out little sniffles and a few hiccups. "I s-sowwy. I a bad b-boy?"
Sho couldn't help but smile at the expression on Ohno's face. He kept rubbing Ohno's back as Aiba went to get a tissue for Ohno's nose. "Of course not. We understand why you don't want to be alone. You're still a good boy." He told the baby gently.
Jun came back shortly after. "I got the okay from the director. As long as Satoshi stays with one of the staff and doesn't make noise, then he's allowed to watch us from the set."
All of the members sighed in relief at that. They quickly wiped the tears and mucus off Satoshi's face, changed his diaper and dressed him in new clothes (since Jun insisted that Ohno should look his best in front of an audience).
Ohno was now smiling happily, wearing an outfit that matched Arashi's theme for that episode- all white. He wore a white fluffy jacket with bunny ears on its hood (Nino complained that Ohno was a human so why did they dress him up in animal clothes all the time) and white jeans with white sneakers (Nino again complained that Ohno didn't even know how to walk yet, though he had shut up when Jun pointed out that Nino didn't spend anything on Ohno's clothes so he had no say in what the baby wore).
As they walked to the set, Aiba asked, "Do you think it was bad of us to just give Satoshi what he wanted? We might be spoiling him." Aiba pointed out, shooting a worried look at Ohno who was still in Nino's arms.
Nino rolled his eyes. "We have 3 minutes till the show starts- we don't have enough time to worry about setting a bad example for Satoshi! And besides, you're his group members and I'm his boyfriend- we're not his parents. And it's not like he'll stay this way forever." He reminded him, impatiently.
"But what if he doesn't change back? If that happens, he doesn't have anyone else but us to take care of him." Aiba mentioned sadly. "He pretty much sees us as his parents, his family, anyway."
"Whether any of us agrees to it or not, we are all responsible for Satoshi." Sho announced to them all. They were all quiet as they let that information sink in. It never really hit any of them till that moment that they were now responsible for the life of the little baby that was in Nino's arms.
And it was damn terrifying to think if anything went wrong.
With one minute left before going out on stage, Nino handed Satoshi to one of the staff. Satoshi began to fuss at first before they all reassured the baby that he will still be near them but in the audience and he would have the best seat to watch the show. Satoshi still had a displeased look on his face but at least he wasn't crying as the staff lady went to take their seats (which was located just behind where all the cameras and crew were).
They also made sure to give him his fishy, which did seem to cheer Ohno up a little.
The members all took a deep breath before looking at each other, silently praying in their heads that nothing would go wrong as they step out onto the set.
VS Arashi will now begin in 5...4...3...2...1!