Dear Myself - Chapter 14

Oct 08, 2007 13:33

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// Chapter 7// Chapter 8// Chapter 9// Chapter 10// Chapter 11// Chapter 12// Chapter 13


Chapter 14:

Ryo sighed as he tried for the thirty-forth time that week to convince Tegoshi that he wasn’t going to die any time soon, and even if he was, it wouldn’t be because of a random girl that had been thrown down a well.

“But Ryo-tan, she called me!”

“Yes, yes, with Jin’s cell phone, I know.”

“Exactly! Don’t you care that I’m going to die in…four days!?”

Not particularly…

“…three days.”

“What?”

“You mean in three days right?”

Tegoshi checked his phone and wailed, “I’m going to die in three days and Ryo-tan doesn’t care!”

“You’re not going to die. That was Jin, not Sadako.” Thirty-five…

“But Massu said it was Sadako!”

Ryo’s eye twitched, “there’s a difference, Massu is dumb, I, am brilliant. Tegoshi…”

“Yea?”

“I know everything right?”

“Yea…”

“I’m telling you, I know that it was Jin calling you…”

When that didn’t work the elder sighed and took the other’s cell phone while he wasn’t looking and deleted the history of Jin ever having made such a call. Seeing that he couldn’t convince the younger one that he wasn’t going to die, he went and tried to convince him that it was all a dream.

Much to his annoyance, it worked.

“…so I dreamt it all up?” He nodded and watched as the other skipped off happily, singing about how he wasn’t going to die.

Pinching the bridge of his nose, he frowned at the lack of intelligence emitting from the boy, he should’ve known better than to have such high expectations. He sighed, wondering why he continued to stay in NEWS in the first place, there was money and fame of course but…he looked around the room, eyes lingering on the figure at the door.

Pi caught his gaze and smiled, gesturing for him to come over, “Ryo-chan! I bought us lunch!”

A small smile touched his lips, oh yea…that’s why…

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“Uah, I’m depressed!” Ryo looked up from his food but didn’t say anything as the other continued his ranting, “I lost my favorite necklace, it must’ve fell outside…I can’t believe I lost it!”

Again, he didn’t reply, but he carefully made a mental note on it.

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Jin raised a brow, “What do you mean he’s been coming home late?”

“I mean he’s been coming home late!”

“…are you sure you’re not being paranoid again?”

“How do you explain coming home past 2 in the morning for two nights in a row?”

He frowned and shrugged at Kame who was looking at him rather warily, “he did look pretty sleep deprived…why are you asking me?”

“Who else am I supposed to ask?”

“Okay…well calm down.”

“I can’t! I mean he told me not to wait up for him and he won’t tell me where he’s going, how am I supposed to be calm about that?”

“Point taken…you don’t think he’s…”

“I don’t know what I’ m supposed to think! You know I’m not all that great at thinking!”

“…just try not to jump to conclusion…”

“I’m trying…you know what, I’ll just talk to you tomorrow.”

“Alright, it’s probably not what you’re thinking though.”

“Yea…”

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The next day in NEWS’ break room during lunch, Ryo’s phone rang as he picked it up tiredly, “Hello? Oh hey Tacchon, lunch? Wait…” he turned to Yamapi, “oi, Pi, are we going out for lunch?”

After five seconds of receiving no reply from the other, he rather hesitantly answered, “yea…pretty sure I can, I’ll see you there then…bye.” He closed his phone and announced “I’m going out to lunch” and left.

A moment later, Pi grabbed Tegoshi, who was sitting next to him and stalked out of the room with binoculars attached to his pants.

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“Leader, why are we in a bush?”

“We’re spying on Ryo-chan.”

“Why are we spying on Ryo-tan?”

“Because we are.”

“…why are we so far away?”

“Because this is the closest bush there is. Can you read lips?”

“No…”

“…I’m thinking I should’ve planned this a little better…”

A pause, “…I’m hungry…”

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“You seem rather gloomy today Ryo-chan.”

The singer looked up at his friend and frowned, “I’m tired, I want to go home and Pi’s been ignoring me lately.”

Ohkura blinked, “Seriously?” Then he noticed how the other hadn’t received a message from the leader of NEWS yet.

Ryo nodded glumly as he took a bite of his lunch, thinking out-loud, rather offhandedly, “Maybe I’m not sexy enough for him…”

When those words left his mouth, the younger man choked on his lunch and whipped out his cell phone before the other could mutter another word. He called Yokoyama You and spoke seriously into the phone, “Yokoyama-kun? It’s Ohkura, there’s an emergency Code Yellow.”

He never thought that the codes would actually come in handy one day.

The older man stopped eating and winced slightly when he heard the very loud “What!?” coming from the other’s phone. He watched as the younger man put his phone away before cautiously asking, “…are you okay Tacchon?”

“Yea, I’m fine, and don’t worry, you’re still very sexy.”

And within minutes, the rest of Kanjani8 had arrived to reassure Ryo of his sexiness.

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Tegoshi looked away from his binoculars while stuffing the rest of the sandwich in his mouth to look at Pi who was still very much concentrated with the mission at hand, “Leader, why’s everyone from Kanjani8 there?”

The older man shrugged, eyes never leaving the binoculars, “I have no idea, I wish I could hear them…they keep saying “sexy” …maybe I’m not reading their lips right…”

“How come we never have big smothering group hugs like that?”

“…because the first time we tried Ryo-chan yelled at us, remember? He was all “You freaks! As if we’re not gay enough! Do we really have to go and catch up to KAT-TUN?” Not to mention he’s very uncomfortable in big smothering group hugs.”

“You’re right, he does look really uncomfortable…look, he’s yelling at them.”

“And they’re laughing and now they’re leaving…wow that was a quick visit…”

“Yep…wow Ohkura-kun must’ve said something really nice, look, Ryo-tan just gave him a hug…leader?”

Yamapi frowned and dragged the younger boy out of the bushes, “I just jumped to conclusions.”

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“…so that’s the conclusion you jumped to?”

Pi looked up after eating the last bite of his dinner, “Yes it is. I mean, what conclusion would you have jumped to?”

Jin nodded understandingly, “I suppose you have a point there…Kame what do you think?” The youngest of the three opened his mouth only to be cut off by the other, “Exactly what I was thinking! Let’s take this to the living room.”

When the two disappeared from sight, Kame’s eyes narrowed into a glare as he crossed his arms and dragged his feet after them.

And after a bit more of listening to their ranting, the doorbell rang, looking for an excuse to leave, he offered to answer it. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to help; it was just that when Jin and Pi got into a discussion, it was impossible to intercept.

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The two sat on the couch, the younger one looking deep in thought, “so what am I supposed to do now?”

“Well you’re a man right?” Pi nodded wordlessly, “and you really like Ryo-chan right?” He nodded again, “then go take charge and get him back.”

“But what if he doesn’t like me anymore!? I don’t want to force him to be with me if he doesn’t actually like me!”

“What?”

“I mean if I didn’t do anything wrong then there’s probably a reason why he’s out there…with someone else…”

“No! Don’t let your thoughts stray like that! Focus Pi! Okay, you’re going to go up to him, grab him, and kiss him.”

“…why does this plan seem strangely familiar…” he frowned, “hey! This is what you told me to do to confess!”

Jin blinked, “Oh…fine, go and be picky. Let’s modify it a bit, you can either go up to him and tell him who he belongs to then kiss him or you can go up to him, demand to know who he’s been sleeping around with and start a big argument in which you’ll somehow prove that you’re the one for him and that you love him more than anyone else in the world then kiss the life out of him-hopefully not in our break room. Better?”

“I guess that’s better than what I had in mind…”

“Begging and groveling?”

“Yep…but that’s not happening now! Ryo-chan’s mine and only mine!”

The elder pumped his fist in the air encouragingly, “And you’re going to beat the crap out of whoever he’s been affair-ing with!”

Pi followed the gesture but paused, “…only if I have to!”

There was a call from outside the room, “…you guys better come to the door…”

The two exchanged confused looks before heading out of the living room.

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The second they were in sight of the door, something hit them, hard. When the object landed on the floor, they were quite mortified to find that it was a shoe. And at the door stood a very pissed off Ryo, looking like he was ready to kill. Hurt glittered dangerously in the other’s eyes.

A moment later they found themselves pelted at with shoes. For once, Jin cursed his infinite amount of shoes.

The elder frowned, “Ow-Ryo-chan! Wh-ow-what did-ow I do!?”

The other let out a frustrated yell as he continued pelting shoes at the two, “I can’t, believe, I went through, all that crap, just to, put up, with this! Damn it! I need more shoes!”

Kame nodded and quickly dug up more of Jin’s shoes for the other to throw.

“You stupid ass! I’m going to kill you!” Jin looked over and sent his I think he’s bluffing vibe to Pi. Unfortunately for him, Ryo had been hanging out with them for too many years and had learned to pick up such signals and he managed to hit the other square in the head. He narrowed his eyes, “You, you’re going to die too.”

The eldest scooted behind his best friend, “Me!? Why me!?”

“What did we do!?” Pi opened his eyes slowly when the pelting suddenly stopped, the other had ran out of ammo and stood at the door fuming. Suddenly, he had a sinking feeling in his stomach.

“Do you know how little sleep I got because of you!? And here you are complaining! I can’t believe you thought I was cheating on you! Who do you think I am!? I’m not-” Kame shot him an alarmed look, but luckily, Ryo didn’t lose his head completely when pissed off, he paused and turned his back to the two, “I’m not…you know what…just forget it, I’m going back.”

“But-”

“And Kamenashi’s coming with me.”

Jin felt his jaw drop, and suddenly, he too, was at the mercy of Nishikido Ryo.

“Ryo-chan…” Pi frowned when he received no response, “Wait, Ryo-chan.”

“You know what Pi? Just don’t…I don’t want to talk to you right now. Here,” he pulled something out of his pocket and chucked it at the other, “it’s yours.”

With that said he left the apartment, Kame took a glance back before following the other. Yamapi looked down and blinked at the object he had just caught, “my necklace…” there was a slight vibration in his pocket, he pulled out his phone and read the message.

Leader! Don’t jump! Conclusions are bad! Ryo-tan told me not to tell you that he was going out with Ohkura-kun to find a store that sells the necklace you lost! Have a nice day!

Adios!
Tegoshi

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“Are you going to be alright?”

Ryo closed the apartment door behind him, “Yea. I hate Pi.”

Kame sighed, “You don’t mean that.”

“Yes I do.”

“No you don’t. Remember how you couldn’t stop laughing after he ended up at your house drunk on the first day?”

“…Shut up, I’m trying to sulk.”

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There was the ringing of his doorbell, beyond annoyed, he dragged his feet from the bedroom to go and answer the door. On his way, he glanced at the clock which he vaguely remembered as an ‘ungodly hour’, when he reached the door, he was ready to yell at whoever it was that dared disturb his sleep. “This better be good…someone better have been brutally murdered…”

The door opened and there stood Pi, wobbling unsteadily on his feet, “Akira shock! Ryo-chan! What are you doing here?”

His eyes narrowed as the other wobbled inside, “I live here…are you drunk?”

“No…yes…I mean no, yes I am, but I’m not-I’m happy!” he plopped onto the couch and laughed to himself, “Ryo-chan!”

Ryo frowned and stood in front of his drunk band mate, “Why’d you go drinking? You know we have work tomorrow.”

Pi gave another laugh, “I’m sorry-kon kon! Yamapi is just so happy that Ryo-chan said yes that he had to go out to celebrate with best friend Jin!”

It took a lot of control to suppress the twitching in his lips, “You’re an idiot.”

The younger of the two had his eyes closed and was lazily sprawled out on the couch, happy grin still on his face while the other headed off to find a blanket, “That’s fine because Ryo-chan’s going to stay with Pi forever right?”

Ryo returned and threw the blanket onto the other with a scoff, “Of course not, the second Leah Dizon comes begging for me to marry her, it’s over.”

Pi gave a laugh, “Well until then, Ryo-chan’s mine.”

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The two paced around in the living room, both conversing in a rather hysterical manner, ranting about how they didn’t deserve anyone. When one of them went hysterical, the other would too, because that’s just what best friends did.

“Oh my god I’m a terrible person, I should’ve known, I should’ve. And now he hates me!”

“Why the hell did I come up with that stupid plan? If he didn’t hear me, or if we stuck to the original begging plan, none of this would’ve happened!” There was a pause before Jin took a seat, “I'm tired, let's brood.”

Yamapi followed and sat down on the other couch looking miserable, “how could I have doubted him like that…did you see that look on his face?”

“Yea…when he said ‘I’m not’, he meant that he wasn’t me right?”

The younger man looked up from his sulking, alarmed, “What do you mean?”

“I mean, the only reason you jumped to those conclusions is because of ‘me’ right? And what ‘I’ did?”

Yamapi frowned, “Jin…exactly how much do you remember?”

“…enough but not enough, Pi, tell me something…why did I do it?”

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The Osaka man frowned and walked around the room for a bit, “He’s an idiot; I should’ve known he’d go around thinking dumb things like that.”

“You didn’t do anything wrong.”

“But still…”

Kame watched from the couch, “what are you going to do now?”

Ryo shook his head and sighed, “I don’t know, I don’t want to talk to him…I’m going to sleep, I don’t want to think about this anymore. Sorry, I shouldn’t have dragged you here.”

“No, it’s fine, it’s the least I can do.”

“There’s an extra mattress and blanket in the closet, goodnight.”

“Yea…goodnight…”

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“…do you think he’s asleep? He can’t sleep unless all the lights are out.”

He waved his hand offhandedly, “Go to sleep Pi, I’ll call Kame and tell him to turn off all the lights, alright?”

“I’m glad Kame-chan went with him, Ryo-chan gets lonely when he’s alone…”

“Go to sleep Pi.”

Yamapi ignored him and kept his eyes opened as he watched the other by the door of the bedroom, “ne, Jin…?”

He watched the other, “Yea?”

“Have you ever just wanted to go ‘Hallelujah chance!’ and go back in time to fix things?”

His lips twitched slightly in a fond manner as the other did his time slip gesture while lying in bed, “Yea, I have…” So many times.

Yamapi frowned and let his arms fall limply back onto the bed, “What am I supposed to do now?”

Jin looked back at his friend, “give him time to think Pi. The only thing you can do is give him time.”

“Hey Jin…he’s not going to talk or listen to me, is he?”

He sighed, “probably not…”

Pi rolled onto his side wearily, “well…if I can’t tell him directly, I’ll just write him letters everyday until he talks to me again.”

His friend gave a soft smile, “letters hm? Sounds like a good plan to me.”

“Do you think he’ll take me back?”

“I don’t know Pi.”

Yamapi let out a weak laugh, “as expected, I really don’t deserve Ryo-chan.”

Jin shook his head and slowly closed the door before replying, “that’s for him to decide isn’t it?”

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“Kame? You’re still awake?”

“Yea…how’s Pi?”

He ran a hand through his hair as he sat down on the couch, “Miserable. He’s finally asleep, he took the bed though so I’m stuck on the couch.”

“Ryo-chan’s asleep too…hey Jin, does this remind you of-”

“Nobuta? Yea…our first really serious fight hm? I’m still sorry about that.”

“What are you talking about? There’s nothing to apologize for. You ended up supporting me…”

“But I should’ve supported you from the beginning…”

“Don’t be stupid. You were the…second person to get over it…sorry, Taguchi beat you to it.”

Jin stared at the phone, “Taguchi? Seriously? Do you two still do the whole secret messaging thing?”

“Hm? Not as much, we talk in person now.”

“So do you tell him your problems and all that?”

“No…from what I hear from him, he seems to have enough problems to deal with, why add on to it?”

He gave a soft laugh, “Kame-chan's so kind, makes me wonder if I really deserve you in the first place.”

“…that’s for me to decide isn’t it? And I’ve already decided a long time ago…”

“Kame…”

“The one that I love most…will always be you.”

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A/N: Sorry! It's been like two weeks hasn't it? This chapter's RyoPi centric hm? There'll be more AkaKame in the next chapter! Only 4ish chapters left to go! I realllly should do my homework now so yea...thanks to commenters again! Enjoy!

ryopi, dear myself, akame

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