Dear Myself - Chapter 6
Title: Dear Myself
Author: neko-fish
Pairings: Akame, Ryopi
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Kazuya and Jin's relationship has been going downhill when help comes in the strangest way
Prologue// Chapter 1// Chapter 2// Chapter 3// Chapter 4// Chapter 5
Chapter 6:
Later that day, after Yamapi had practically flew out of the apartment to get home, the doorbell rang again. Kame looked over from the television and got up, “who is it this time…?”
Jin watched as the younger one left to answer the door, he suddenly realized that had he forgotten to ask Pi about the issue between him and Kazuya. If there was anyone he’d tell, it’d probably be Yamapi. He sighed, irritated at himself for forgetting. “Oh well…there’s always next time…”
He could hear chatter coming from the front door and decided to go check it out incase it was a persistent salesman that refused to let up again. When he reached the entrance to the apartment, he was tackle-hugged, much to his surprise, by Koki who was happily yelling in English, “You’re alive!”
The singer looked over at Kame who looked just as astonished as he was, even more so when the other three stepped through the door. The youngest looked over at the rapper, “of course he’s alive, why wouldn’t he be? Koki…take it easy, he’s still injured you know…”
The rapper let go and laughed sheepishly, “yea…” then he raised his hand and pointed accusingly at their band’s official leader, “it’s Ueda’s fault! Yesterday and this morning, we kept asking about Akanishi, and he wouldn’t tell us anything except that he was in an accident. And the way he said it sounded like something terrible happened.”
Jin laughed and scratched his nose unconsciously, “So you guys assumed I died?”
Koki looked around and nodded, “yea, pretty much.”
Ueda raised a brow, “I only said that he’d gotten into an accident and suddenly I got dragged here. You look a lot better today, Jin.”
Junno shot one of his smiles at the group and made an attempt at a pun.
But he was more or less ignored as the eldest of the group examined Jin and the bandages around his head, “…you know…for someone who was in an accident, you’re awfully cheerful. I was sure you’d be in bed looking dead or something.”
The rapper voiced his agreement before asking, “So are you okay?”
The A of the group shook his head, “I’ve got amnesia.”
There was a long pause between the three who were unaware of his condition. Koki raised a hand to feel his forehead, “are you sure you’re alright? That was worse than Taguchi’s jokes.”
Jin gave a frown, “why does everyone think I’m joking when I say that?”
Ueda looked over calmly, “you go and think about it.”
Yuichi made a face, “if you have amnesia, why are talking to strangers like us?”
“I remember you guys just fine, I wasn’t lucky enough to forget you guys.” There was a loud protest on the rapper’s part as he continued with his explanation, “it’s a mild case of amnesia, so I only forgot a couple months worth of stuff or something, I’ll remember all that soon enough.”
“Wait…” Maru looked rather thoughtful as he asked slowly, “So you hit your head…” Jin nodded, “and you ended up with amnesia…” he nodded again, “and you still remember us…” another nod, “this isn’t right! I mean I’m glad it’s not that serious but that’s just not how amnesia works!”
The singer laughed, “You guys have watched way too many dramas, things don’t always happen that…dramatically.”
Kame finally decided to speak up and join the conversation, “thank god for that.”
The leader averted his attention to the youngest member, “Kame, you look tired. If he ever becomes too troublesome or if you get tired of taking care of him, just call us and one of us will pick him up and dump him in our homes or in a garbage can or something.”
Jin looked over, somewhat offended, “hey, you can’t get rid of me that easily!”
Ueda calmly fixed his glasses and gave a small smile, “I realize that, don’t worry, I have it all planned out. When I get sick of you, I’ll know how to dispose of you. Let’s just say it involves Shibuya and food.”
The injured singer looked over with interest, completely ignoring the other’s thinly veiled threat to dispose of him, “food?”
The second eldest sighed and directed his attention back to Kame while the other three surrounded Jin repeating the word “food” with different intonations. He laughed, “I see he’s gone back to his old simple self. I’m kind of glad, at least I can understand him again.”
The youngest nodded understandingly, a small smile on his lips, “yea…the simplest language in the world.”
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“Tat-chan…” the youngest let out a soft whine to the other, “sometimes I just don’t understand what he’s going on about!”
Ueda looked over, “It’s really not that hard to understand, I mean it’s Jin. There are basically three main words in his language. Once you figure out the three words, you’ll realize that almost everything’s connected to those words. It’s actually the simplest language in the world.”
Kame raised a brow, confusion written all over his face, “what three words?”
“Here, I’ll show you.”
“But he’s not in the room…”
The elder ignored him and looked over at the three lounging around and randomly called out, “Kame!”
The three immediately looked over, Koki was the first to reply with a confused, “Kame-chan?”
Then Maru with a slightly concerned, “Kame?”
And finally, Junno, who turned away from his games with a curious, “Kame-chan?”
Kazuya shot the U of the group a puzzled look, it was like a chain reaction. But it wasn’t completed until the door abruptly burst open and Jin stepped in with a happy, “Kame-chan!”
He watched as the four repeated his name in different tones. By that time he was seriously wondering about the intelligence level of the four, maybe Ryo was right after all. Did that mean he was one of the basic words of Jin’s little personal language? He looked over at Ueda, wondering what would happen next, the elder’s lips were curved upwards in an amused smirk. “Hey Jin, there’s food.”
Jin perked up and walked over with interest, “food?”
Ueda nodded, “food.”
Kame watched in amazement as their conversation continued simply by saying ‘food’ over and over again in different tones. He decided to give it a try, “…food?”
The A looked over and smiled, “food.”
The eldest of the three gave a nod to Kame before changing the topic to “music.”
Jin’s attention reverted back to the shorter man, the conversation becoming a little more professional, “music.”
By then Kazuya had figured out the three words, he nearly laughed at the simplicity of it all. Finally deciding to end the conversation, Ueda pointed at the door, “food.”
The singer seemed to understand the message and left the room, muttering “food” to himself.
“Wow…” Kame managed to stifle his laughter, “do the other guys have their own three words too?”
The U nodded, “I think everyone does, there might be more than three words though, but I haven’t found over three yet.”
“So even you have three basic words?”
“Probably,” he shrugged, “you just have to test it until you find the right words.”
“You should be a scientist…do I do that too?”
The elder nodded again and looked at him evenly, “Jin.”
Kame found himself responding immediately, “Jin?” Then he realized what he was doing, he gave a gasp and covered his mouth, trying to suppress the rising blush, but the other wasn’t done quite yet.
“Shopping.”
“Shopping-” he covered his mouth again and glared at the other, “hey, stop it!”
Ueda just laughed rather evilly and left the room.
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He remembered how he ended up spending his free time trying to figure out the basic words of other people. Ueda’s discovery really did amaze him.
The first few words he figured out were “rap” for Koki, “games” for Junno, “Ryo-chan” for Yamapi, “Gackt” for Ueda. It surprised him how “friends” was actually one of the words for Ryo along with “me” which was less surprising, but the most unique one was probably Maru’s whom he managed to communicate with through his attempts to beat box.
Kame looked at the group before him and smiled, it made him happy when the group was together and fooling around like dorks, “are you guys just going to stand around the door or do you actually want to come in for a bit?”
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That night, the two of them laid on the bed, staring at the ceiling, the dull glow of city lights managed to slip through the blinds, illuminating the room a bit. “Hey Kame-chan…”
“Yea?”
“It was nice, having everyone come here to visit me and getting all worried like that.”
He nodded in agreement, “yea, it was, but what’d you expect? They’re your friends; we’ve all been together for years now you know, if something happens, obviously they’ll get worried.”
Jin turned a bit and directed his gaze to the younger man beside him, “what about you? Were you worried?”
Kazuya returned the stare and raised his brow, “let’s see…I woke up in the middle of the night and drove to the hospital when I got the phone call…no I wasn’t worried at all.”
“Sorry, I guess that was a stupid question, but it seems really…tense between us. I’m not sure if it’s something that happened before the accident or not, it probably was, but yea, I’m not going to lie, I really don’t like it. …we were still friends right?”
“You idiot,” he frowned and resisted the urge to smack the other on his already injured head, “of course we were. You of all people should know that no matter what stupid thing you do, I’ll still be your friend.”
It was true, no matter what the other did, he found himself sticking by the elder, whether it was as a friend or something more, he was always stuck there by his side.
Jin smiled, “yea, I’m a lucky guy.”
“You're going sappy and it's gross. Now stop talking like an old man and go to sleep,” he frowned, closing his eyes and turning over onto his side.
The elder wrapped his arms around the smaller frame’s waist, “hey Kame…”
“Yea?” He muttered sleepily.
“When I get my memories back, will they be happy memories or sad memories?”
“What kind of question is that? There’ll be both of course.”
“…but will there be memories that I regret remembering?”
Kame opened his eyes and frowned, managing a “…how should I know, you idiot?”
“Well, when I remember, you’ll be there for me till the end right?”
It wasn’t as though he had a choice, not really. But he couldn’t really bare the thought of leaving Jin, at least not until he’s fully recovered. He sighed, “Yea, I will, till the very end, alright? Now shut up and go to sleep.”
In the end, the one leaving won’t be me. It’ll be you.
There was a long pause, “Kame’s such a good friend to me…” when he realized that the other wasn’t responding and had fallen asleep, he sighed and shuffled a bit closer to the younger man, “I wonder if he’ll ever be anything more than that…ne Kame…” he muttered sleepily to the unconscious man, “did you know? Love’s the most complicated language in the world…”
I hope to learn it one day.
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Extra sorta:
The next day Jin went to the bookstore in attempt to find a book on a certain language though he wouldn't disclose which language it was. And when Kame asked him about it, he merely answered with a smile:
“It's a language I want to become fluent in.”
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But in the end, he couldn't find a book on it.
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Extra sorta 2:
「亮ちゃんお前さ・・・」
「え？俺？」
「うん、お前。」
「俺。」
「亮ちゃん。」
「俺。」
「お前。」
「俺、俺俺俺。」
「お前。」
「うん、俺。」
「あっ、そうですか・・・」
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Incase you didn't understand that, that was just Kame and Ryo's random conversation of:
"Say, Ryo-chan you..."
"Eh? Me?"
"Yea, you."
"Me."
"Ryo-chan."
"Me."
"You."
"Me, me-me-me."
"You."
"Yea, me."
"Aa, is that so..."
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A/N: Couldn't resist the little extras there. I'll leave their conversation to your interpretation. And I couldn't resist the little basic words thing, it's my theory that everyone's got a couple basic words that their lives revolve around. Thank yous to commenters! I <3 you all very very much =] Hmm I'm wondering if I should finish up with this fic before staring other ones... but meanwhile, enjoy. =]
Author: neko-fish
Pairings: Akame, Ryopi
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Kazuya and Jin's relationship has been going downhill when help comes in the strangest way
Prologue// Chapter 1// Chapter 2// Chapter 3// Chapter 4// Chapter 5
Chapter 6:
Later that day, after Yamapi had practically flew out of the apartment to get home, the doorbell rang again. Kame looked over from the television and got up, “who is it this time…?”
Jin watched as the younger one left to answer the door, he suddenly realized that had he forgotten to ask Pi about the issue between him and Kazuya. If there was anyone he’d tell, it’d probably be Yamapi. He sighed, irritated at himself for forgetting. “Oh well…there’s always next time…”
He could hear chatter coming from the front door and decided to go check it out incase it was a persistent salesman that refused to let up again. When he reached the entrance to the apartment, he was tackle-hugged, much to his surprise, by Koki who was happily yelling in English, “You’re alive!”
The singer looked over at Kame who looked just as astonished as he was, even more so when the other three stepped through the door. The youngest looked over at the rapper, “of course he’s alive, why wouldn’t he be? Koki…take it easy, he’s still injured you know…”
The rapper let go and laughed sheepishly, “yea…” then he raised his hand and pointed accusingly at their band’s official leader, “it’s Ueda’s fault! Yesterday and this morning, we kept asking about Akanishi, and he wouldn’t tell us anything except that he was in an accident. And the way he said it sounded like something terrible happened.”
Jin laughed and scratched his nose unconsciously, “So you guys assumed I died?”
Koki looked around and nodded, “yea, pretty much.”
Ueda raised a brow, “I only said that he’d gotten into an accident and suddenly I got dragged here. You look a lot better today, Jin.”
Junno shot one of his smiles at the group and made an attempt at a pun.
But he was more or less ignored as the eldest of the group examined Jin and the bandages around his head, “…you know…for someone who was in an accident, you’re awfully cheerful. I was sure you’d be in bed looking dead or something.”
The rapper voiced his agreement before asking, “So are you okay?”
The A of the group shook his head, “I’ve got amnesia.”
There was a long pause between the three who were unaware of his condition. Koki raised a hand to feel his forehead, “are you sure you’re alright? That was worse than Taguchi’s jokes.”
Jin gave a frown, “why does everyone think I’m joking when I say that?”
Ueda looked over calmly, “you go and think about it.”
Yuichi made a face, “if you have amnesia, why are talking to strangers like us?”
“I remember you guys just fine, I wasn’t lucky enough to forget you guys.” There was a loud protest on the rapper’s part as he continued with his explanation, “it’s a mild case of amnesia, so I only forgot a couple months worth of stuff or something, I’ll remember all that soon enough.”
“Wait…” Maru looked rather thoughtful as he asked slowly, “So you hit your head…” Jin nodded, “and you ended up with amnesia…” he nodded again, “and you still remember us…” another nod, “this isn’t right! I mean I’m glad it’s not that serious but that’s just not how amnesia works!”
The singer laughed, “You guys have watched way too many dramas, things don’t always happen that…dramatically.”
Kame finally decided to speak up and join the conversation, “thank god for that.”
The leader averted his attention to the youngest member, “Kame, you look tired. If he ever becomes too troublesome or if you get tired of taking care of him, just call us and one of us will pick him up and dump him in our homes or in a garbage can or something.”
Jin looked over, somewhat offended, “hey, you can’t get rid of me that easily!”
Ueda calmly fixed his glasses and gave a small smile, “I realize that, don’t worry, I have it all planned out. When I get sick of you, I’ll know how to dispose of you. Let’s just say it involves Shibuya and food.”
The injured singer looked over with interest, completely ignoring the other’s thinly veiled threat to dispose of him, “food?”
The second eldest sighed and directed his attention back to Kame while the other three surrounded Jin repeating the word “food” with different intonations. He laughed, “I see he’s gone back to his old simple self. I’m kind of glad, at least I can understand him again.”
The youngest nodded understandingly, a small smile on his lips, “yea…the simplest language in the world.”
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“Tat-chan…” the youngest let out a soft whine to the other, “sometimes I just don’t understand what he’s going on about!”
Ueda looked over, “It’s really not that hard to understand, I mean it’s Jin. There are basically three main words in his language. Once you figure out the three words, you’ll realize that almost everything’s connected to those words. It’s actually the simplest language in the world.”
Kame raised a brow, confusion written all over his face, “what three words?”
“Here, I’ll show you.”
“But he’s not in the room…”
The elder ignored him and looked over at the three lounging around and randomly called out, “Kame!”
The three immediately looked over, Koki was the first to reply with a confused, “Kame-chan?”
Then Maru with a slightly concerned, “Kame?”
And finally, Junno, who turned away from his games with a curious, “Kame-chan?”
Kazuya shot the U of the group a puzzled look, it was like a chain reaction. But it wasn’t completed until the door abruptly burst open and Jin stepped in with a happy, “Kame-chan!”
He watched as the four repeated his name in different tones. By that time he was seriously wondering about the intelligence level of the four, maybe Ryo was right after all. Did that mean he was one of the basic words of Jin’s little personal language? He looked over at Ueda, wondering what would happen next, the elder’s lips were curved upwards in an amused smirk. “Hey Jin, there’s food.”
Jin perked up and walked over with interest, “food?”
Ueda nodded, “food.”
Kame watched in amazement as their conversation continued simply by saying ‘food’ over and over again in different tones. He decided to give it a try, “…food?”
The A looked over and smiled, “food.”
The eldest of the three gave a nod to Kame before changing the topic to “music.”
Jin’s attention reverted back to the shorter man, the conversation becoming a little more professional, “music.”
By then Kazuya had figured out the three words, he nearly laughed at the simplicity of it all. Finally deciding to end the conversation, Ueda pointed at the door, “food.”
The singer seemed to understand the message and left the room, muttering “food” to himself.
“Wow…” Kame managed to stifle his laughter, “do the other guys have their own three words too?”
The U nodded, “I think everyone does, there might be more than three words though, but I haven’t found over three yet.”
“So even you have three basic words?”
“Probably,” he shrugged, “you just have to test it until you find the right words.”
“You should be a scientist…do I do that too?”
The elder nodded again and looked at him evenly, “Jin.”
Kame found himself responding immediately, “Jin?” Then he realized what he was doing, he gave a gasp and covered his mouth, trying to suppress the rising blush, but the other wasn’t done quite yet.
“Shopping.”
“Shopping-” he covered his mouth again and glared at the other, “hey, stop it!”
Ueda just laughed rather evilly and left the room.
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He remembered how he ended up spending his free time trying to figure out the basic words of other people. Ueda’s discovery really did amaze him.
The first few words he figured out were “rap” for Koki, “games” for Junno, “Ryo-chan” for Yamapi, “Gackt” for Ueda. It surprised him how “friends” was actually one of the words for Ryo along with “me” which was less surprising, but the most unique one was probably Maru’s whom he managed to communicate with through his attempts to beat box.
Kame looked at the group before him and smiled, it made him happy when the group was together and fooling around like dorks, “are you guys just going to stand around the door or do you actually want to come in for a bit?”
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That night, the two of them laid on the bed, staring at the ceiling, the dull glow of city lights managed to slip through the blinds, illuminating the room a bit. “Hey Kame-chan…”
“Yea?”
“It was nice, having everyone come here to visit me and getting all worried like that.”
He nodded in agreement, “yea, it was, but what’d you expect? They’re your friends; we’ve all been together for years now you know, if something happens, obviously they’ll get worried.”
Jin turned a bit and directed his gaze to the younger man beside him, “what about you? Were you worried?”
Kazuya returned the stare and raised his brow, “let’s see…I woke up in the middle of the night and drove to the hospital when I got the phone call…no I wasn’t worried at all.”
“Sorry, I guess that was a stupid question, but it seems really…tense between us. I’m not sure if it’s something that happened before the accident or not, it probably was, but yea, I’m not going to lie, I really don’t like it. …we were still friends right?”
“You idiot,” he frowned and resisted the urge to smack the other on his already injured head, “of course we were. You of all people should know that no matter what stupid thing you do, I’ll still be your friend.”
It was true, no matter what the other did, he found himself sticking by the elder, whether it was as a friend or something more, he was always stuck there by his side.
Jin smiled, “yea, I’m a lucky guy.”
“You're going sappy and it's gross. Now stop talking like an old man and go to sleep,” he frowned, closing his eyes and turning over onto his side.
The elder wrapped his arms around the smaller frame’s waist, “hey Kame…”
“Yea?” He muttered sleepily.
“When I get my memories back, will they be happy memories or sad memories?”
“What kind of question is that? There’ll be both of course.”
“…but will there be memories that I regret remembering?”
Kame opened his eyes and frowned, managing a “…how should I know, you idiot?”
“Well, when I remember, you’ll be there for me till the end right?”
It wasn’t as though he had a choice, not really. But he couldn’t really bare the thought of leaving Jin, at least not until he’s fully recovered. He sighed, “Yea, I will, till the very end, alright? Now shut up and go to sleep.”
In the end, the one leaving won’t be me. It’ll be you.
There was a long pause, “Kame’s such a good friend to me…” when he realized that the other wasn’t responding and had fallen asleep, he sighed and shuffled a bit closer to the younger man, “I wonder if he’ll ever be anything more than that…ne Kame…” he muttered sleepily to the unconscious man, “did you know? Love’s the most complicated language in the world…”
I hope to learn it one day.
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Extra sorta:
The next day Jin went to the bookstore in attempt to find a book on a certain language though he wouldn't disclose which language it was. And when Kame asked him about it, he merely answered with a smile:
“It's a language I want to become fluent in.”
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But in the end, he couldn't find a book on it.
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Extra sorta 2:
「亮ちゃんお前さ・・・」
「え？俺？」
「うん、お前。」
「俺。」
「亮ちゃん。」
「俺。」
「お前。」
「俺、俺俺俺。」
「お前。」
「うん、俺。」
「あっ、そうですか・・・」
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Incase you didn't understand that, that was just Kame and Ryo's random conversation of:
"Say, Ryo-chan you..."
"Eh? Me?"
"Yea, you."
"Me."
"Ryo-chan."
"Me."
"You."
"Me, me-me-me."
"You."
"Yea, me."
"Aa, is that so..."
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A/N: Couldn't resist the little extras there. I'll leave their conversation to your interpretation. And I couldn't resist the little basic words thing, it's my theory that everyone's got a couple basic words that their lives revolve around. Thank yous to commenters! I <3 you all very very much =] Hmm I'm wondering if I should finish up with this fic before staring other ones... but meanwhile, enjoy. =]