JE/NewS [REMIX]- "Does it Still Count as Dodging"
Title: Does it Still Count as Dodging When You Can’t Even Tell That People Are Throwing Things at You In the First Place?
Universe: JE/NewS
Theme/Topic: White Day remix at pearljemz.
Rating: PG-13
Character/Pairing/s: NewS, KAT-TUN (with implied Pin, light TegoMassu and KoyaShige, and not-really any speaking roles for members of K8)
Warnings/Spoilers: Crack, OOC, stupid.
Word Count: 2,086
Summary: remix of oddest_nooks’s “Tokyo and Osaka's Master Plan, It's Big News: The Valentine's Espionage Spectacular”- No one told NewS that they were involved in a competition.
Dedication: Sorry for like, raping your fic, oddest_nooks! Haha um, remixes not my forte clearly.
A/N: So, in light of participating the 24-hour Valentine’s Day Challenge last month, here I am again, with um, the 4 hour White Day remix. As in, I didn’t even know what story I was going to do until like, one o’clock today. *epic fail*
Disclaimer: No harm is meant by this!
1.
Koyama and Shige are in the storage room of Koyama’s restaurant when they suddenly hear a muffled, strangely familiar shriek come from the other side of the door.
They pause, blink, turn to each other. “Was that…” Shige starts, but trails off when the rational part of his mind suggests that it’s impossible. Why the hell would Eito members come all the way to Tokyo to eat ramen?
Koyama laughs as well, swiping at the sweat on his brow with the back of his hand. “For a second, I thought so too ne!”
“I think this room needs more ventilation,” Shige tells him matter-of-factly, and bends down to help Koyama pick up an enormous box of paper napkins that needs to be carried outside because they have about several million napkin holders to refill before the dinner rush sets in. “Also, why am I spending Valentine’s Day like this again?” he asks, when he feels like something in his back is going to give out at any second now.
Koyama grins back. “Because it’s one of the busiest nights we have. Also, to make up for all your freeloading over the years.”
Shige sighs but doesn’t argue. “If only the fans all knew how sad their idol’s private lives really are.”
Koyama looks facetiously sympathetic as he walks towards the door. “Cheer up, Shige. I’ll tell kaasan to put extra chashu in your dinner for you tonight,” he offers magnanimously, and the two of them manage to heft the box out of storage and carry it to its proper new home behind the counter without too much additional trouble.
“Kei!” his mother calls, waving at him from the floor as he and Shige finally appear from the depths of the kitchen some time later, “I think some of your friends were just here, ne.”
Koyama and Shige blink again. “Really?” he asks. “Which ones?”
“Oh, some of those idol boys,” she replies, looking amused. “Apparently they couldn’t stay long. I think they were looking for you, though.”
Koyama and Shige share another look. Then Shige stops to point at his older groupmate with a vaguely incredulous expression on his face. “They were looking for him? On Valentine’s Day? Really? Him?”
She nods.
A moment.
When Shige speaks again, the expression on his face is oddly philosophical. “Huh. I guess I feel a little better knowing that some of our coworkers’ private lives are actually even sadder than ours,” he muses, before grabbing a handful of empty napkin holders and padding back into the kitchen with them.
Koyama blinks.
Then shouts. “Hey! What’s that supposed to mean?”
~~~~~
2.
Last week, when NewS members had heard that Massu’s parents were going on a romantic getaway for two to Okinawa for Valentine’s Day this year, they’d realized that the news didn’t just entail leaving Massu to his own devices for four whole days, but that it also meant a potential heart attack for Koyama if something wasn’t done to rectify the situation quickly.
“He can stay with me,” Tegoshi had offered hastily, in-between Koyama’s scrambling attempts to make Massu a handwritten survival guide of household things that were not meant to be ingested by human beings ever; “My mom really loves watching him eat her cooking, ne.”
“Oh thank god for member-ai,” Koyama had breathed upon hearing that, slumping against a chair bonelessly.
Tegoshi is glad that he’d been able to save Kei-chan the trouble of a coronary, and really, he thinks it’s always fun to have Massu sleep over.
And so here they are on Valentine’s Day, watching concert DVDs on Tegoshi’s laptop after having eaten their fill of Tegoshi’s mother’s curry rice and croquettes for lunch.
“Tesshi’s mom cooks really well,” Massu murmurs contentedly, and stretches out on Tegoshi’s bed luxuriously. He yawns like a big cat, and Tegoshi laughs, sprawling out next to Massu so that their shoulders bump.
“Pay attention to the concert,” he says, indicating the laptop screen, “This is how I want my next solo to look like on stage. What do you think?”
“I think you’d look good in that jacket as long as it’s not too big for you,” Massu manages around another yawn, completely off topic.
Tegoshi sighs. “That’s not what I meant,” he says, and nudges Massu. “Keep your eyes open.”
“Huh? Okay,” he says, right before his head lolls onto Tegoshi’s arm and he is fast asleep. Tegoshi sighs, chalking it up to the overpowering effects of excessive warmth and food coma in combination.
So Tegoshi ends up watching the rest of the concert by himself; after it starts to wind down he finds himself yawning as well and turns his laptop off even though there’s still one more encore left before the show is over.
Since Massu is really warm, he thinks, an afternoon nap doesn’t sound so bad right now. He can always finish watching his new L’arc DVD later.
That decided, he pulls the covers up over the both of them and falls asleep with his head pillowed on Massu’s shoulder blade.
Massu snores gently into his hair.
~~~~~
When Tegoshi wakes up from his nap a little while later it’s because there is a crashing, cursing noise coming from somewhere in the vicinity of his window. He yawns, crawls out of bed, and pads over to it, opening the blinds a little so he can see what is going on. He hopes it isn’t burglars.
Tegoshi blinks when he sees what he thinks he sees-not burglars, as it turns out- and promptly opens the window completely so that he can lean out of it and make sure he’s not hallucinating or something. “Koki-kun? Yasuda-kun?” he asks.
The two of them freeze at the sound of his voice, Yasuda balanced precariously on Koki’s shoulders and still not quite able to reach the window from there. They look up at Tegoshi sheepishly. “Ahaha… oh, this is your apartment building, Tegoshi?” Koki begins, trying to sound innocent. “What a weird coincidence!”
Tegoshi cocks his head to the side. “If you want,” he suggests, looking them both over carefully, “I can buzz you in, ne.”
They hang their heads a little. “Yes please.”
~~~~~
A little while later, after Tegoshi has forced them to watch the entire concert DVD from beginning to end with him, Tegoshi yawns, crawls back into bed with Massu, and tells them that they can help themselves to anything in the fridge if they’re hungry, or if they’re bored, they know how to get out this time; it’s not the same way they tried to get in. He thinks he’s going to finish the nap he’d started earlier.
In his typical selfish-with-no-ill-intentions manner, Tegoshi turns off the light before either of them can respond and is fast asleep within seconds.
~~~~~
Barely fifteen minutes have passed when Tegoshi hears more cursing and scrabbling noises from near his window again, he sleepily recognizes Nakamaru and Maruyama-kun’s voices and as such, doesn’t even bother to get out of bed this time.
Instead, he yawns and gropes blindly around the nightstand, looking for his phone.
When he finds it, he text-messages the other members and then goes back to sleep.
~~~~~
3.
When Yamapi gets the text message from Tegoshi he’s not quite sure he wants to believe that members of KAT-TUN and Eito would go so far as to waste an entire precious day off doing something as strange as stalking NewS.
But then again, Yamapi knows that Tegoshi wouldn’t waste his time texting about it if it wasn’t at least a little bit true either.
Not sure what to think at this point, he sighs to himself and heads to the restaurant where he’s supposed to meet Jin for dinner tonight, hoping for the best. However, when he gets there and sees both Kame and Murakami sitting at the table he’d reserved instead of his intended date, he realizes belatedly, that he should have known better than to doubt Tegoshi, even just a little.
Kame sees Yamapi in the entrance to the restaurant and kind of arches an eyebrow at him, while Murakami waves.
Yamapi pads over and sits down next to Kame, thinking to himself that he probably already knows how this is going to end just by looking.
He goes ahead and orders without Jin.
~~~~~
4.
Ryo’s Valentine’s Day plans had been simple- go to a bar or two, hit the clubs after ten, dance with some girls, and maybe even take a cute one home as his date if she wasn’t too annoying by the end of the night. By simple plans, he means nonexistent ones.
He’s all about improvising after all, about confidence. Because it’s not like he ever has to make any concrete strategies for these types of things; everyone knows that it’s a general rule of nature for someone of his considerable charm and style to never have to spend any night alone if he doesn’t want to, and Valentine’s is no exception.
So even though he hits the first bar alone, he’s feeling pretty good about tonight, all things considered.
The good feelings last up until the moment he catches a glimpse of ugly in one of the glassy walls by the bar.
At that point he pays his tab and promptly leaves, because any establishment where Ueda hangs out on Valentine’s Day is not a place where Ryo wants to be caught dead at on any day.
~~~~~
By the time he hits the second and third bar that Ueda is also mysteriously at (accompanied by Jin of all people), Ryo is fairly certain that they are stalking him. Not long afterwards, when he gets the text message from Tegoshi saying that yes, they are being stalked, he sighs and realizes that his plans are officially shot for tonight.
So he decides to figure out why they are stalking him instead. Or more specifically, why Jin is stalking him, because Ryo had been fairly certain the moron had a date with Yamapi tonight. He just chalks up Ueda’s presence to that whole thing where he is pathetic and unpopular.
And so, without wasting any more of his night, he corners them by the bathrooms, arms crossed and looking expectant.
“Ah, Ryo-chan!” Jin starts, and his acting is just as bad in real life as it is on TV, “What a coincidence to see you here! Ha…ha.”
Ueda doesn’t say anything, which is fine; Ryo doesn’t want to talk to him.
“Yeah. Coincidence. Great. Now buy me some booze and tell me what the hell you two are doing following me around.”
Jin laughs nervously.
~~~~~
One round of booze buying soon turns into about half a dozen between the two of them, because the more Jin talks, the more Ryo realizes that you have to be drunk out of your mind before the words coming out of his mouth will actually make any sense.
As it is, Ueda is the one who has to carry both of their sorry asses out of the bar later that night; he makes it as far as the park across the street before he drops Ryo on accident and things take a decidedly not-good turn from there.
When Ueda’s Valentine’s Day ends with him falling down a hill, he decides that he will punch Taguchi in the face the next time the idiot gets an idea.
~~~~~
5.
Some weeks later, when Kanjani 8 is on Utaban again, Koyama hears Yokoyama’s praise for NewS during the interview portion and nearly bursts into tears at how kind everyone in Johnny’s Jimusho really is.
“I like everyone,” he says, and really means it, “It’s so great that we all get along so well, ne. We’re like a big, extended family!”
Shige doesn’t look up from his textbook. “Sure,” he agrees absently, even though he is fairly certain that Yokoyama is being completely facetious right now. It’s a safe assumption to make because as a general rule of thumb, Yokoyama doesn’t ever really mention the other groups in the company on TV unless he’s making fun of them in one way or another.
But even still, Shige manages to keep quiet about it because he feels that someone has to try and protect Koyama’s innocence from the harsh reality of this idol world.
In the meantime, the rest of his groupmates’ eyes are glued to the screen; they clap and marvel to each other about how manly and grown up Nishikido-kun is for going so far as to protect his dog’s mother from slander.
END
EDITS PLZ.
Universe: JE/NewS
Theme/Topic: White Day remix at pearljemz.
Rating: PG-13
Character/Pairing/s: NewS, KAT-TUN (with implied Pin, light TegoMassu and KoyaShige, and not-really any speaking roles for members of K8)
Warnings/Spoilers: Crack, OOC, stupid.
Word Count: 2,086
Summary: remix of oddest_nooks’s “Tokyo and Osaka's Master Plan, It's Big News: The Valentine's Espionage Spectacular”- No one told NewS that they were involved in a competition.
Dedication: Sorry for like, raping your fic, oddest_nooks! Haha um, remixes not my forte clearly.
A/N: So, in light of participating the 24-hour Valentine’s Day Challenge last month, here I am again, with um, the 4 hour White Day remix. As in, I didn’t even know what story I was going to do until like, one o’clock today. *epic fail*
Disclaimer: No harm is meant by this!
1.
Koyama and Shige are in the storage room of Koyama’s restaurant when they suddenly hear a muffled, strangely familiar shriek come from the other side of the door.
They pause, blink, turn to each other. “Was that…” Shige starts, but trails off when the rational part of his mind suggests that it’s impossible. Why the hell would Eito members come all the way to Tokyo to eat ramen?
Koyama laughs as well, swiping at the sweat on his brow with the back of his hand. “For a second, I thought so too ne!”
“I think this room needs more ventilation,” Shige tells him matter-of-factly, and bends down to help Koyama pick up an enormous box of paper napkins that needs to be carried outside because they have about several million napkin holders to refill before the dinner rush sets in. “Also, why am I spending Valentine’s Day like this again?” he asks, when he feels like something in his back is going to give out at any second now.
Koyama grins back. “Because it’s one of the busiest nights we have. Also, to make up for all your freeloading over the years.”
Shige sighs but doesn’t argue. “If only the fans all knew how sad their idol’s private lives really are.”
Koyama looks facetiously sympathetic as he walks towards the door. “Cheer up, Shige. I’ll tell kaasan to put extra chashu in your dinner for you tonight,” he offers magnanimously, and the two of them manage to heft the box out of storage and carry it to its proper new home behind the counter without too much additional trouble.
“Kei!” his mother calls, waving at him from the floor as he and Shige finally appear from the depths of the kitchen some time later, “I think some of your friends were just here, ne.”
Koyama and Shige blink again. “Really?” he asks. “Which ones?”
“Oh, some of those idol boys,” she replies, looking amused. “Apparently they couldn’t stay long. I think they were looking for you, though.”
Koyama and Shige share another look. Then Shige stops to point at his older groupmate with a vaguely incredulous expression on his face. “They were looking for him? On Valentine’s Day? Really? Him?”
She nods.
A moment.
When Shige speaks again, the expression on his face is oddly philosophical. “Huh. I guess I feel a little better knowing that some of our coworkers’ private lives are actually even sadder than ours,” he muses, before grabbing a handful of empty napkin holders and padding back into the kitchen with them.
Koyama blinks.
Then shouts. “Hey! What’s that supposed to mean?”
~~~~~
2.
Last week, when NewS members had heard that Massu’s parents were going on a romantic getaway for two to Okinawa for Valentine’s Day this year, they’d realized that the news didn’t just entail leaving Massu to his own devices for four whole days, but that it also meant a potential heart attack for Koyama if something wasn’t done to rectify the situation quickly.
“He can stay with me,” Tegoshi had offered hastily, in-between Koyama’s scrambling attempts to make Massu a handwritten survival guide of household things that were not meant to be ingested by human beings ever; “My mom really loves watching him eat her cooking, ne.”
“Oh thank god for member-ai,” Koyama had breathed upon hearing that, slumping against a chair bonelessly.
Tegoshi is glad that he’d been able to save Kei-chan the trouble of a coronary, and really, he thinks it’s always fun to have Massu sleep over.
And so here they are on Valentine’s Day, watching concert DVDs on Tegoshi’s laptop after having eaten their fill of Tegoshi’s mother’s curry rice and croquettes for lunch.
“Tesshi’s mom cooks really well,” Massu murmurs contentedly, and stretches out on Tegoshi’s bed luxuriously. He yawns like a big cat, and Tegoshi laughs, sprawling out next to Massu so that their shoulders bump.
“Pay attention to the concert,” he says, indicating the laptop screen, “This is how I want my next solo to look like on stage. What do you think?”
“I think you’d look good in that jacket as long as it’s not too big for you,” Massu manages around another yawn, completely off topic.
Tegoshi sighs. “That’s not what I meant,” he says, and nudges Massu. “Keep your eyes open.”
“Huh? Okay,” he says, right before his head lolls onto Tegoshi’s arm and he is fast asleep. Tegoshi sighs, chalking it up to the overpowering effects of excessive warmth and food coma in combination.
So Tegoshi ends up watching the rest of the concert by himself; after it starts to wind down he finds himself yawning as well and turns his laptop off even though there’s still one more encore left before the show is over.
Since Massu is really warm, he thinks, an afternoon nap doesn’t sound so bad right now. He can always finish watching his new L’arc DVD later.
That decided, he pulls the covers up over the both of them and falls asleep with his head pillowed on Massu’s shoulder blade.
Massu snores gently into his hair.
~~~~~
When Tegoshi wakes up from his nap a little while later it’s because there is a crashing, cursing noise coming from somewhere in the vicinity of his window. He yawns, crawls out of bed, and pads over to it, opening the blinds a little so he can see what is going on. He hopes it isn’t burglars.
Tegoshi blinks when he sees what he thinks he sees-not burglars, as it turns out- and promptly opens the window completely so that he can lean out of it and make sure he’s not hallucinating or something. “Koki-kun? Yasuda-kun?” he asks.
The two of them freeze at the sound of his voice, Yasuda balanced precariously on Koki’s shoulders and still not quite able to reach the window from there. They look up at Tegoshi sheepishly. “Ahaha… oh, this is your apartment building, Tegoshi?” Koki begins, trying to sound innocent. “What a weird coincidence!”
Tegoshi cocks his head to the side. “If you want,” he suggests, looking them both over carefully, “I can buzz you in, ne.”
They hang their heads a little. “Yes please.”
~~~~~
A little while later, after Tegoshi has forced them to watch the entire concert DVD from beginning to end with him, Tegoshi yawns, crawls back into bed with Massu, and tells them that they can help themselves to anything in the fridge if they’re hungry, or if they’re bored, they know how to get out this time; it’s not the same way they tried to get in. He thinks he’s going to finish the nap he’d started earlier.
In his typical selfish-with-no-ill-intentions manner, Tegoshi turns off the light before either of them can respond and is fast asleep within seconds.
~~~~~
Barely fifteen minutes have passed when Tegoshi hears more cursing and scrabbling noises from near his window again, he sleepily recognizes Nakamaru and Maruyama-kun’s voices and as such, doesn’t even bother to get out of bed this time.
Instead, he yawns and gropes blindly around the nightstand, looking for his phone.
When he finds it, he text-messages the other members and then goes back to sleep.
~~~~~
3.
When Yamapi gets the text message from Tegoshi he’s not quite sure he wants to believe that members of KAT-TUN and Eito would go so far as to waste an entire precious day off doing something as strange as stalking NewS.
But then again, Yamapi knows that Tegoshi wouldn’t waste his time texting about it if it wasn’t at least a little bit true either.
Not sure what to think at this point, he sighs to himself and heads to the restaurant where he’s supposed to meet Jin for dinner tonight, hoping for the best. However, when he gets there and sees both Kame and Murakami sitting at the table he’d reserved instead of his intended date, he realizes belatedly, that he should have known better than to doubt Tegoshi, even just a little.
Kame sees Yamapi in the entrance to the restaurant and kind of arches an eyebrow at him, while Murakami waves.
Yamapi pads over and sits down next to Kame, thinking to himself that he probably already knows how this is going to end just by looking.
He goes ahead and orders without Jin.
~~~~~
4.
Ryo’s Valentine’s Day plans had been simple- go to a bar or two, hit the clubs after ten, dance with some girls, and maybe even take a cute one home as his date if she wasn’t too annoying by the end of the night. By simple plans, he means nonexistent ones.
He’s all about improvising after all, about confidence. Because it’s not like he ever has to make any concrete strategies for these types of things; everyone knows that it’s a general rule of nature for someone of his considerable charm and style to never have to spend any night alone if he doesn’t want to, and Valentine’s is no exception.
So even though he hits the first bar alone, he’s feeling pretty good about tonight, all things considered.
The good feelings last up until the moment he catches a glimpse of ugly in one of the glassy walls by the bar.
At that point he pays his tab and promptly leaves, because any establishment where Ueda hangs out on Valentine’s Day is not a place where Ryo wants to be caught dead at on any day.
~~~~~
By the time he hits the second and third bar that Ueda is also mysteriously at (accompanied by Jin of all people), Ryo is fairly certain that they are stalking him. Not long afterwards, when he gets the text message from Tegoshi saying that yes, they are being stalked, he sighs and realizes that his plans are officially shot for tonight.
So he decides to figure out why they are stalking him instead. Or more specifically, why Jin is stalking him, because Ryo had been fairly certain the moron had a date with Yamapi tonight. He just chalks up Ueda’s presence to that whole thing where he is pathetic and unpopular.
And so, without wasting any more of his night, he corners them by the bathrooms, arms crossed and looking expectant.
“Ah, Ryo-chan!” Jin starts, and his acting is just as bad in real life as it is on TV, “What a coincidence to see you here! Ha…ha.”
Ueda doesn’t say anything, which is fine; Ryo doesn’t want to talk to him.
“Yeah. Coincidence. Great. Now buy me some booze and tell me what the hell you two are doing following me around.”
Jin laughs nervously.
~~~~~
One round of booze buying soon turns into about half a dozen between the two of them, because the more Jin talks, the more Ryo realizes that you have to be drunk out of your mind before the words coming out of his mouth will actually make any sense.
As it is, Ueda is the one who has to carry both of their sorry asses out of the bar later that night; he makes it as far as the park across the street before he drops Ryo on accident and things take a decidedly not-good turn from there.
When Ueda’s Valentine’s Day ends with him falling down a hill, he decides that he will punch Taguchi in the face the next time the idiot gets an idea.
~~~~~
5.
Some weeks later, when Kanjani 8 is on Utaban again, Koyama hears Yokoyama’s praise for NewS during the interview portion and nearly bursts into tears at how kind everyone in Johnny’s Jimusho really is.
“I like everyone,” he says, and really means it, “It’s so great that we all get along so well, ne. We’re like a big, extended family!”
Shige doesn’t look up from his textbook. “Sure,” he agrees absently, even though he is fairly certain that Yokoyama is being completely facetious right now. It’s a safe assumption to make because as a general rule of thumb, Yokoyama doesn’t ever really mention the other groups in the company on TV unless he’s making fun of them in one way or another.
But even still, Shige manages to keep quiet about it because he feels that someone has to try and protect Koyama’s innocence from the harsh reality of this idol world.
In the meantime, the rest of his groupmates’ eyes are glued to the screen; they clap and marvel to each other about how manly and grown up Nishikido-kun is for going so far as to protect his dog’s mother from slander.
END
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