[Fic] It could be better, but it’s good enough; chapter 2
Title: It could be better, but it’s good enough.
Pairing: Yabuki Hayato/Kusano Akira (some time it’s may not look like it is though)
Rating: PG13
Genre: Drama
Disclaimer: If I owned them, I wouldn’t be writing this.
Summary: 2 baka, is it possible?
A/N: Slipped out from under a huge pile of works to post this, and I’m crawling back under it now.
I thought I forgot something last chapter, I went to read one of my fav NwP fic then I remembered that I forgot Akira’s ‘Kon’.
Warning: English is not my first language, so there’ll be a lot of errors. Please do correct me if you found it. And each chapter might be short, because I can only work at slow pace.
Still have no ending in mind.
Chapter 2 was told in Hayato’s POV
Chapter 2
‘Unpredictable’
That was Hayato’s description of Kusano Akira. Seriously, what was that guy thinking? Or he wasn’t thinking at all? Hayato was confused with what was running inside Akira’s head. And his best friend, Kiritani Shuji, the guy was acting like he was annoyed by Akira one second but the next he was all protectively toward him. What a weird best friends they were.
When he was told that his next job would be a bodyguard for the company’s long time client’s son, he thought it was another boring job, followed a spoiled rich kid all day. But it turned out to be not as boring as he first thought, well let’s just say the job was boring but his charge was not.
The first time that Hayato met Kusano Akira; small face, round big eyes, slightly chubby cheeks, and full lips, Hayato bet that this guy definitely looked like a doll when he was little. When Akira saw him walking into the room behind his father, he immediately launched himself to the guy beside him (his best friend Kiratani, Hayato was told later) who look exactly like Hayato’s friend ‘Ryu’, and tried to hide behind him as much as possible.
Hayato was so surprised. “Ryu! What are you doing here?”
But that guy just looked at him, confused.
“Why didn’t you tell me you know them, Ryu? Why are you looking at me like that?”
The guy looked more confuse at him. Then Akira said from behind Ryu-lookalike while trying look at his friend’s face and not letting Hayato see him at the same time.
“Shuji-kun, you know him? I didn’t know that you know someone who works as a security. Why didn’t you tell me that you know him?”
“I don’t know him, Akira” the guy said, then turned to Hayato “I think you’re mistaking something here, my name is Kiritani Shuji, not Ryu. And I don’t know you.”
“Kiritani!? …Eh?... No way! You look exactly like Ryu. If you are not Ryu at least you could be Ryu relative.”
“I don’t have any relative named Ryu and looks just like me, and…” But Akira interrupted him,
“Maybe you’re twins but your twin was abducted since birth, are you sure your parents have only 2 sons? ………or………you were adopted, Shuji?” excited Akira.
“…sigh… Akira, I’m positive that my parents have 2 children, and I am their biological child, or do you want a DNA test?”
“But it’s possible…”
“No, it’s impossible. Now shut up and get off my back!” He tried to shake Akira off of him. Akira was pouting before slowly let go of Kiritani’s back but still standing behind him.
“Mama…stop arguing, let me introduce you..” Kusano-san started “That is, as he said, Kiritani Shuji-kun, my son’s friend. And the one behind him is my son, Kusano Akira………Akira come out, let him see you properly.” Akira reluctantly stepped out from behind Kiritani to stand beside him. Then Kusano-san continued “This one here is Yabuki Hayato, your bodyguard from now on…”
…That was how the first meeting went…
Hayato had to move in to Akira’s penthouse where he lived with Kiritani. Kusano-san told him that his son had been friend with this guy since high school. He even went after Kiritani in their last year in high school when Kiritani had to move away.
To Hayato, that was very weird. If one of his friends had to move, he wouldn’t go that far just to be able to stay beside his friend. But that wasn’t all, after Akira graduated, he came back to Tokyo with Kiritani, refused to live in his father house, and went to looking for an apartment to live with Kiritani, then went to the same university, same faculty, and same major as Kiritani.
‘God…….is he going to die or something if he has to separate from Kiritani?’ Hayato thought. Kusano-san warned Hayato that his son was a little weird, but this, to Hayato, was too weird. Or there was something going on between them? Hayato wouldn’t know.
The first week together was as he expected, awkward. Akira hadn’t said a single word to him yet. Then one day, this girl came, Kotani Nobuko aka Nobuta. She was really shy, spoke with a slightly stutter. But she looked comfortable around Akira and Kiritani.
Hayato was really bored, watching they talked for hours from the corner of the room until he saw Nobuta turned to say something to Akira, looking serious. Akira kept on shaking his head and said “No……………no…………no”
Then it came, “A..AKIRA…go talk to him.”
‘Is she mad or something?’ Hayato thought.
Akira was about to answer back but the look that girl gave him made him close his mount and nodded. Then he stood up and walked straight to where Hayato sat.
“…umm…Yabuki-kun… Nobuta said I should talk to you and befriend with you, so can I call you Hayato?”
Quite surprised Hayato said “..ya…yeah…you can call me Hayato..”
‘Why’d he so docile to this girl?’ Hayato didn’t understand.
Giving Hayato slightly nodded, Akira went on “Nobuta wants to know about you, would you come and talk to her…to us?”
Hayato nodded, still confused at how this Nobuta girl have influence over Akira. She asked Hayato a lot of questions, he guessed she must worried about her friend. Who wouldn’t, when he took this job he got a brief about his charge; the boy, 21 years old, was abducted 2 times and there were also several attempted kidnaps. It seemed that it stopped when he entered high school but it started again a few months ago.
Before Kusano-san introduced Hayto to Akira, he said to him that “Akira is my only son, the most important thing in the world to me, I would give everything I have just to make my son smiles. So Yabuki-kun, I leave him in your hands now, please take good care of him.”
Hayato had to accept that he felt a lot of pressures when he heard that, but it just made him more aware of how important his work meant to someone. He was now in charge of someone’s child whose parents loved him so much. He was entrusted with such responsibility. If he failed, it was not just that he could lose his job, but it meant that someone would lose their beloved person.
But it wouldn’t work right, if the boy wasn’t cooperate with him, so Hayato guessed he had to thank this girl. After that day, Akira was more open up to him, but still clinching on Kiritani.
One day when Akira said he had nothing to do and Kiritani was ignoring him again, Hayato decided to took Akira to the beach. Though in this time of the year, not many people would want to go because the wind was getting stronger and colder, but the sight was beautiful.
The drive to Kanagawa was filled with silence with Akira pretended to be looking outside the window all the time but when they arrive at the port to cross Tokyo Bay, Akira’s face lit up. It looked like he liked the beach. The cruise took about 45 minutes to arrive at Chiba, the wind was really strong but it felt so good. He could also see Fuji-san[Mt. Fuji], it felt different seeing it from the sea. [A/N: if you watch ctkt ep.54-55, you’ll get the picture.]
They walked around Kanaya, and then took the ropeway to climbed Nokogiriyama. On the top of it, the view was so beautiful, they could see the view of Chiba, Tokyo, Fuji-san, and Yokohama without moving from where they stood.
And it was also that day that Hayato saw Akira smiled, he meant he saw it before but it was never directed at him. But that day, it was the first time Akira smiled at him. From then on, Hayato started to notice Akira’s smile, the ways he smiled. Most of the people around Akira; university friends, Kusano-san’s staffs, received the same kind of smiles except one, Kiritani Shuji. The smiles Akira gave Kiritani were difference. It was smile that reserve for only him. Somehow Hayato started to wonder what it would feel like if that smile was directed at him.
After 3 months, Hayato concluded that Akira was indeed spoiled (by both his father and best friend) and weird but sometime, just sometime he could be real cute and innocent.
‘What’s getting into me?’
Hayato knew that his contract would end shortly after Akira’s graduation, but he felt like he wanted it to last a little longer than that, so he would has time to stay with Akira and get to know him better.
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TBC
A/N: できた！ Chapter 2’s done! Not quite good ending tough.