The unknown Chapter 1
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sky_no_yukiTitle: The unknown Chapter 1
Pairing: Main: Matsumoto Jun/ Sakurai Sho alias Sakumoto; Side: Ninomiya Kazunari/ Toda Erika, Matsumoto Jun/ Aiba Masaki as brothers. Aiba Masaki/ Nishikido Ryo; Ohno Satoshi/ Kamenashi Kazuya
Rating: PG-13 and higher
Warning: none
Beta: Thanks to my dear![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
little_kirin for beta reading and for your great help with some plot issues :D
Summary: Jun’s life seems perfect. He has a great job, amazing friends and he enjoys every part of his days, till he meets a stranger at a friend’s party. With this day his life starts spinning upside down and he isn’t sure anymore if his life is really that perfect…
Notes: Written for my belovedlilly0 as a birthday present. I really hope you’ll like this.
“Do you think the green one is better?” Jun turned to look at himself in the mirror. He had been standing there the last hour, changing his clothes for the tenth time.
“Mhm,” he just got in response. Ohno was lying on his bed, covered with the shirts and pants Jun had thrown out of his closet. His eyes were closed like he was already about to fall asleep.
Jun took the sweater he had placed on the small chair and threw it against Ohno. “Hey, wake up. You didn’t even look at me when I asked about my clothes.”
Ohno stretched his limbs. “Jun, it doesn’t matter what you wear. You look good in all of these things.”
“You are right,” Jun replied.
Ohno just nodded at him.
“I should have called Aiba, he knows better about fashion than you do.”
Ohno just sighed at that and rolled his eyes when Jun smiled at him.
“Talking about Aiba, is he already on his way here?” Ohno wanted to know.
“Yeah, I think. He wanted to finish his work for the presentation on Monday, but he should be done by now,” Jun answered.
“A new advertisement?”
Jun nodded. “Yes. It’s something about soap and shower gel. But I don’t know any details. I am stuck in my project, so I didn’t have any time to ask Aiba about his work.”
“Still the new motorcycle advertisement?”
Jun sighed. “Yes.” Months had passed since he had the first mail from this motorcycle selling company on his desk. They wanted a totally new, innovative, never-seen-before advertisement for their machines. Jun had worked seven days a week to create something new, but he had withdrawn all his drafts. This was the first day in weeks he allowed himself to go out at night, spending some time with his friends.
“It’s really good that you come along with us today. You need some more free time,” Ohno said. “And I almost forgot how you look, because I haven’t seen you for-,” Ohno closed one eye and started counting, “-five weeks.”
“I am really sorry about that,” Jun answered. “I haven’t even seen Aiba for two weeks, even though our office rooms are almost next to each other.”
“You really work too much.” Ohno crossed his arms. “What does your boss say about it?”
“The old or the young one?”
“There are two?” Ohno asked.
“Yes,” Jun started. “The old one is about to retire, and his son will succeed him, but he is still in the US to study there. No one has seen him up till now. It’s just what the old man told us in the last meeting. By the end of the year his son will be our new boss.”
“Sometimes I am really happy to be my own boss.” Ohno laughed.
Jun angled for the green sparkling T-shirt and changed another time during this evening. “It must be cool to have one’s own business.”
“Yeah. It is. But believe me, owning a gallery isn’t always just nice. Artists are a strange bunch of people - really nerve-racking sometimes.”
Jun tilted his head and looked back at Ohno. “You know that this includes yourself as well, because you are an artist too?”
“Sure, never said that I am easy to handle,” Ohno grinned.
“Talking about easy to handle, did you take the pictures from this new artist you talked about last time?” Jun slipped into his jeans. He had again lost some weight. He immediately recognized it when his jeans almost slipped down his hips. He needed to search for his belt in his closet.
“Yes, he is really talented, though he has only two themes he draws – this one guy in every position and his two bulldogs.”
“That sounds…interesting?” Jun said.
“He is really good in drawing, but it’s getting a little boring to have only these dogs and this one guy,” Ohno replied.
“What was his name again?” Jun wanted to know.
“Kamenashi Kazuya. He is a friend of Nino. I guess he’ll be at the party tonight,” Ohno mused.
“Am I right with my in thinking that you’d never exhibit those pictures if they weren’t from a friend of one of your best friends?” Jun turned a last time to look at himself in the mirror. Blue stoned jeans and a green sparkling T-shirt. Everyone else would have looked strange, but it fit Jun. The crazier the better – in his case.
“No, I probably wouldn’t. Nino, Aiba, you and I have been knowing each other since childhood, I think I can’t refuse any request from you,” Ohno sighed.
“Hm, so if I asked you to blow me off, you’d do it?” Jun joked.
Ohno pulled one eyebrow up, staring at Jun. “Idiot.”
The very moment Jun wanted to answer, the doorbell rang. “That’s Aiba for sure,” Jun said instead.
He opened the door and looked at the other. It always amazed Jun to see Aiba. No matter what Aiba wore, it fit him. “That looks interesting,” Jun smiled.
“I wanted to try something new,” Aiba answered, one of his bright smiles curling his lips. He slipped out of his shoes and took the slippers Jun handed him. Aiba looked tired, even though he tried his best hiding it. But no matter how hard Aiba tried covering that he was exhausted, Jun could see it immediately. They had been knowing each other since forever after all.
“Have you seen mom and dad?” Jun asked.
Aiba let himself fall down on the couch in Jun’s living room. “Nope. I called dad yesterday, but he was out fishing.”
“I envy him,” Ohno hooked in.
Jun had to laugh. “You really spent too much time in our house.”
“Maybe dad will replace us with you as his son,” Aiba smirked.
“Yeah, if we don’t visit them soon I think he’ll really think about that,” Jun sighed. He knew their parents; they always wanted them to come by at weekends to visit them. But with their jobs in the advertisement industry they had hardly any free time to spend their evenings. Sometimes Jun missed his family, but at least he had his brother not too far away from him.
Ohno sat next to Aiba and looked from one to the other. “You know, at the beginning I always thought you were twins.”
“We?” Aiba giggled. “But we don’t even look alike.”
Ohno tilted his head like he was searching for similarities between them. “No. It’s not about looking like each other, but you are acting the same, you understand each other without words. That’s incredible.”
“In the end we are siblings, Satoshi,” Jun answered.
“Special ones. When I think about my brother and me. Ah, no, let’s talk about something different,” Ohno waved his hand.
Jun knew that Ohno and his siblings weren’t close - a thing that had always been hurting Ohno. He would never admit it, but he was jealous of the bond Aiba and Jun shared. Jun couldn’t remember that he had fought with Aiba for real. That had never happened between them. And if they had had one of their silly fights back in their childhood, Aiba had started crying (even though he was the older one) and Jun had felt so sorry about it, that he had pampered him in the end instead of being mad about their fight. It had always been like this between them.
“Yeah, I think we really are special. Cool, tough, hot, the best, famous and totally liked by everyone,” Aiba joked.
Jun rolled his eyes. “Yes, absolutely Aiba-chan.”
“We should go now, you two super-great-men,” Ohno laughed.
Jun would never understand Ohno’s mood swings. He could be in his thoughts, sad, happy, chipper, depressed… and everything within five minutes. But after all these years he had learned handling Ohno the way he was. And no matter if they were just friends, Ohno was something like a third brother for Aiba and him.
“Come on, old aniki,” Jun grinned.
“Hey, I am not old,” Ohno complained.
“Older than we are. So you are the oldest among us,” Aiba giggled. “You are the grandpa, especially when you talk about going fishing, an old men sport.”
Ohno grumbled something unintelligible. Jun could see Ohno’s cheeks flushing. He knew that Ohno liked it to be seen as a part of their family. In the end, Ohno hadn’t had an easy childhood and he spent more time at Aiba’s and Jun’s home than at his own. For Jun (and also for Aiba) Ohno was their older brother – even though not related by blood.
***
Jun would never understand how Nino could live in an apartment with hardly any furniture.
Jun knew that he himself was special when it came to living conditions. He had this tick for extreme rare and stylish things and he didn’t even want to think about what the lamp he bought last week cost. But it didn’t need to be all expensive to make Jun feel comfortable. Jun loved Aiba’s apartment for example. It was like a cosy, bubbly cloud with a lot of vintage stuff and warm colours. Nothing Jun would prefer to live in, but it was comfortable to spend time there. In Nino’s case it was something different.
“Ah, I see you bought a couch?” Ohno asked and let his hand wander over the item.
Nino smiled at them. “No, not really. I found it on the bulky waste. Isn’t it a scandal to throw such a cool thing away?”
Jun wrinkled his nose. Not in one million years would he sit on this couch. Nino wasn’t the master of cleaning, so he was sure that he had only placed the couch in his apartment without a proper cleaning beforehand. Jun looked at Aiba and Ohno, who seemed to have the same thought he had. Once again Jun didn’t understand why Ohno had once been together with Nino. But he perfectly understood the reason why they weren’t anymore.
“You still don’t have curtains or a carpet?” Jun asked.
Nino just smiled at him. “Nah, I don’t need that kind of stuff. I am not a girl after all.”
“You mean, you don’t want to spend money on it,” Aiba countered.
“But maybe you find some more things on the bulky waste,” Ohno added.
“Hey, that’s a good idea,” Nino said.
Jun poked Ohno’s side and murmured, “He doesn’t need more stupid ideas, Satoshi.”
They walked up to the dining table and sat around it. Jun trusted this place, because he had donated it to Nino when he had bought himself new furniture last year. So this place was safe for Jun. “If anyone else at this party wants this place, protect it with your life, Aiba-chan. Not in hundred years am I going to sit on that couch,” Jun pointed at the item.
“Yeah, me neither,” Aiba whispered back.
“How’s work going?” Nino asked when he came back into the room, four glasses with beer on a big plate.
“Stressful, but it’s okay,” Aiba said.
Nino placed the things on the table and sat next to Jun. “What about you, Jun?”
“Same. We have a lot to do right now. But it’s okay.”
“And you Satoshi?” Nino wanted to know.
Jun admired the relationship they had. They had been together for almost the whole time in school, and when they had broken up they managed to stay friends. It was unthinkable for Jun to stay in contact with one of his ex-friends. The four of them always stuck together, and Jun was glad that it stayed like this.
“I am okay. Just that friend of yours, Nino...he is really...strange?”
Nino laughed. “Oh yes, I know. His pictures are something special, aren’t they?”
Ohno looked at him, visibly searching for the right words. “They aren’t special anymore, because he only has two motives. That’s not special, Nino.”
“Give him some time, Satoshi. He really is talented. He just needs some time to get out of this two-motive-phase he is in right now.”
Ohno sighed. “Just because he is your friend, Nino. Otherwise I would have stopped exhibiting his pictures at my gallery.”
“I really want to get to know this strange artist,” Aiba said.
“Oh, he’ll come tonight,” Nino smiled. “So you’ll see him later on.”
“That’s cool,” Aiba answered.
“He really isn’t interesting,” Ohno grumbled. (A little too fast in Jun’s opinion.)
“What about you, Nino?” Jun asked. “How’s work going?”
Nino grinned at him. “Oh, times are good for me.”
“Loan sharks never run out of work, right?” Aiba said.
“Nope. I have enough to do, that’s good.”
Jun could understand why Nino tried to safe all his money. He had to see a lot of familieswho spend their last money on totally unimportant things. He knew a lot of people who couldn’t pay back the money they borrowed, but in the end Nino had a big amount of money, so he could at least buy himself more things to feel more comfortable. But that wasn’t Nino. He would never spend money on things which weren’t absolutely needed.
“So, what’s the reason you invited us today?” Ohno wanted to know. “You never invite people – so there must be a great reason to this.”
Jun could see Nino blushing a bit at this. “Oh, oh, oh, I guess I know what’s going on,” Jun smiled. If it really was what he thought, it would become a big party.
“Yeah, I think you got it right, Jun. I can see it in Nino’s big caramel brown eyes,” Aiba said.
Ohno sighed. “Sorry, I am slow on the uptake. I have no idea what you are talking about.”
Jun was still smiling, but on the other hand he hoped that the following words wouldn’t hurt Ohno too much, even though the thing with him and Nino had been over over for years now.
“I am going to get married this summer,” Nino finally said. “And I want to celebrate that I finally found the courage to ask her.”
Aiba clapped his hands. “That’s so incredible, super-duper incredible.”
Jun looked at Ohno and finally at Aiba, moving his head just a little bit, but he knew Aiba immediately understood what he wanted from him.
“How about drinking some champagne?” Aiba suggested.
Nino smiled at them. Jun could see Nino’s tension fading. “I was pretty nervous telling you this, much more nervous than telling the others later on.”
Jun knew what Nino meant, even though he didn’t say it directly. On the one hand, he was nervous because they were his best friends, and he wanted their agreement for his marriage, and on the other hand, there was this strange tension between Nino and Ohno.
“What kind of alcohol do you have in your fridge, Nino?” Aiba asked while he was already on his way to the kitchen.
Nino laughed and followed him. “I’ll show you.”
Jun waited till the two disappeared in the other room next to this one, chatting happily with each other, before he turned to face Ohno. “Are you okay?”
Ohno blinked at him. “Sure, why wouldn’t I?”
Jun tried reading Ohno’s face, but there was nothing telling him what the other really felt – he was always inscrutable. “Because of Nino’s marriage.”
Ohno sighed. “Jun, we haven’t been together anymore for ages. That was long ago.”
“So it doesn’t hurt you?”
Ohno had a small smile curling his lips. “I am really glad that you are worried, but I am really okay with it.”
Ohno shifted closer to Jun. “I am just wondering how Erika-chan lives with his bulky waste– saving money spleen, really, I think I would kill him.”
Now Jun laughed out loud. It was rare to hear Ohno talking like this. “Yes, you are right.”
Pairing: Main: Matsumoto Jun/ Sakurai Sho alias Sakumoto; Side: Ninomiya Kazunari/ Toda Erika, Matsumoto Jun/ Aiba Masaki as brothers. Aiba Masaki/ Nishikido Ryo; Ohno Satoshi/ Kamenashi Kazuya
Rating: PG-13 and higher
Warning: none
Beta: Thanks to my dear
little_kirin for beta reading and for your great help with some plot issues :DSummary: Jun’s life seems perfect. He has a great job, amazing friends and he enjoys every part of his days, till he meets a stranger at a friend’s party. With this day his life starts spinning upside down and he isn’t sure anymore if his life is really that perfect…
Notes: Written for my beloved
lilly0 as a birthday present. I really hope you’ll like this.“Do you think the green one is better?” Jun turned to look at himself in the mirror. He had been standing there the last hour, changing his clothes for the tenth time.
“Mhm,” he just got in response. Ohno was lying on his bed, covered with the shirts and pants Jun had thrown out of his closet. His eyes were closed like he was already about to fall asleep.
Jun took the sweater he had placed on the small chair and threw it against Ohno. “Hey, wake up. You didn’t even look at me when I asked about my clothes.”
Ohno stretched his limbs. “Jun, it doesn’t matter what you wear. You look good in all of these things.”
“You are right,” Jun replied.
Ohno just nodded at him.
“I should have called Aiba, he knows better about fashion than you do.”
Ohno just sighed at that and rolled his eyes when Jun smiled at him.
“Talking about Aiba, is he already on his way here?” Ohno wanted to know.
“Yeah, I think. He wanted to finish his work for the presentation on Monday, but he should be done by now,” Jun answered.
“A new advertisement?”
Jun nodded. “Yes. It’s something about soap and shower gel. But I don’t know any details. I am stuck in my project, so I didn’t have any time to ask Aiba about his work.”
“Still the new motorcycle advertisement?”
Jun sighed. “Yes.” Months had passed since he had the first mail from this motorcycle selling company on his desk. They wanted a totally new, innovative, never-seen-before advertisement for their machines. Jun had worked seven days a week to create something new, but he had withdrawn all his drafts. This was the first day in weeks he allowed himself to go out at night, spending some time with his friends.
“It’s really good that you come along with us today. You need some more free time,” Ohno said. “And I almost forgot how you look, because I haven’t seen you for-,” Ohno closed one eye and started counting, “-five weeks.”
“I am really sorry about that,” Jun answered. “I haven’t even seen Aiba for two weeks, even though our office rooms are almost next to each other.”
“You really work too much.” Ohno crossed his arms. “What does your boss say about it?”
“The old or the young one?”
“There are two?” Ohno asked.
“Yes,” Jun started. “The old one is about to retire, and his son will succeed him, but he is still in the US to study there. No one has seen him up till now. It’s just what the old man told us in the last meeting. By the end of the year his son will be our new boss.”
“Sometimes I am really happy to be my own boss.” Ohno laughed.
Jun angled for the green sparkling T-shirt and changed another time during this evening. “It must be cool to have one’s own business.”
“Yeah. It is. But believe me, owning a gallery isn’t always just nice. Artists are a strange bunch of people - really nerve-racking sometimes.”
Jun tilted his head and looked back at Ohno. “You know that this includes yourself as well, because you are an artist too?”
“Sure, never said that I am easy to handle,” Ohno grinned.
“Talking about easy to handle, did you take the pictures from this new artist you talked about last time?” Jun slipped into his jeans. He had again lost some weight. He immediately recognized it when his jeans almost slipped down his hips. He needed to search for his belt in his closet.
“Yes, he is really talented, though he has only two themes he draws – this one guy in every position and his two bulldogs.”
“That sounds…interesting?” Jun said.
“He is really good in drawing, but it’s getting a little boring to have only these dogs and this one guy,” Ohno replied.
“What was his name again?” Jun wanted to know.
“Kamenashi Kazuya. He is a friend of Nino. I guess he’ll be at the party tonight,” Ohno mused.
“Am I right with my in thinking that you’d never exhibit those pictures if they weren’t from a friend of one of your best friends?” Jun turned a last time to look at himself in the mirror. Blue stoned jeans and a green sparkling T-shirt. Everyone else would have looked strange, but it fit Jun. The crazier the better – in his case.
“No, I probably wouldn’t. Nino, Aiba, you and I have been knowing each other since childhood, I think I can’t refuse any request from you,” Ohno sighed.
“Hm, so if I asked you to blow me off, you’d do it?” Jun joked.
Ohno pulled one eyebrow up, staring at Jun. “Idiot.”
The very moment Jun wanted to answer, the doorbell rang. “That’s Aiba for sure,” Jun said instead.
He opened the door and looked at the other. It always amazed Jun to see Aiba. No matter what Aiba wore, it fit him. “That looks interesting,” Jun smiled.
“I wanted to try something new,” Aiba answered, one of his bright smiles curling his lips. He slipped out of his shoes and took the slippers Jun handed him. Aiba looked tired, even though he tried his best hiding it. But no matter how hard Aiba tried covering that he was exhausted, Jun could see it immediately. They had been knowing each other since forever after all.
“Have you seen mom and dad?” Jun asked.
Aiba let himself fall down on the couch in Jun’s living room. “Nope. I called dad yesterday, but he was out fishing.”
“I envy him,” Ohno hooked in.
Jun had to laugh. “You really spent too much time in our house.”
“Maybe dad will replace us with you as his son,” Aiba smirked.
“Yeah, if we don’t visit them soon I think he’ll really think about that,” Jun sighed. He knew their parents; they always wanted them to come by at weekends to visit them. But with their jobs in the advertisement industry they had hardly any free time to spend their evenings. Sometimes Jun missed his family, but at least he had his brother not too far away from him.
Ohno sat next to Aiba and looked from one to the other. “You know, at the beginning I always thought you were twins.”
“We?” Aiba giggled. “But we don’t even look alike.”
Ohno tilted his head like he was searching for similarities between them. “No. It’s not about looking like each other, but you are acting the same, you understand each other without words. That’s incredible.”
“In the end we are siblings, Satoshi,” Jun answered.
“Special ones. When I think about my brother and me. Ah, no, let’s talk about something different,” Ohno waved his hand.
Jun knew that Ohno and his siblings weren’t close - a thing that had always been hurting Ohno. He would never admit it, but he was jealous of the bond Aiba and Jun shared. Jun couldn’t remember that he had fought with Aiba for real. That had never happened between them. And if they had had one of their silly fights back in their childhood, Aiba had started crying (even though he was the older one) and Jun had felt so sorry about it, that he had pampered him in the end instead of being mad about their fight. It had always been like this between them.
“Yeah, I think we really are special. Cool, tough, hot, the best, famous and totally liked by everyone,” Aiba joked.
Jun rolled his eyes. “Yes, absolutely Aiba-chan.”
“We should go now, you two super-great-men,” Ohno laughed.
Jun would never understand Ohno’s mood swings. He could be in his thoughts, sad, happy, chipper, depressed… and everything within five minutes. But after all these years he had learned handling Ohno the way he was. And no matter if they were just friends, Ohno was something like a third brother for Aiba and him.
“Come on, old aniki,” Jun grinned.
“Hey, I am not old,” Ohno complained.
“Older than we are. So you are the oldest among us,” Aiba giggled. “You are the grandpa, especially when you talk about going fishing, an old men sport.”
Ohno grumbled something unintelligible. Jun could see Ohno’s cheeks flushing. He knew that Ohno liked it to be seen as a part of their family. In the end, Ohno hadn’t had an easy childhood and he spent more time at Aiba’s and Jun’s home than at his own. For Jun (and also for Aiba) Ohno was their older brother – even though not related by blood.
***
Jun would never understand how Nino could live in an apartment with hardly any furniture.
Jun knew that he himself was special when it came to living conditions. He had this tick for extreme rare and stylish things and he didn’t even want to think about what the lamp he bought last week cost. But it didn’t need to be all expensive to make Jun feel comfortable. Jun loved Aiba’s apartment for example. It was like a cosy, bubbly cloud with a lot of vintage stuff and warm colours. Nothing Jun would prefer to live in, but it was comfortable to spend time there. In Nino’s case it was something different.
“Ah, I see you bought a couch?” Ohno asked and let his hand wander over the item.
Nino smiled at them. “No, not really. I found it on the bulky waste. Isn’t it a scandal to throw such a cool thing away?”
Jun wrinkled his nose. Not in one million years would he sit on this couch. Nino wasn’t the master of cleaning, so he was sure that he had only placed the couch in his apartment without a proper cleaning beforehand. Jun looked at Aiba and Ohno, who seemed to have the same thought he had. Once again Jun didn’t understand why Ohno had once been together with Nino. But he perfectly understood the reason why they weren’t anymore.
“You still don’t have curtains or a carpet?” Jun asked.
Nino just smiled at him. “Nah, I don’t need that kind of stuff. I am not a girl after all.”
“You mean, you don’t want to spend money on it,” Aiba countered.
“But maybe you find some more things on the bulky waste,” Ohno added.
“Hey, that’s a good idea,” Nino said.
Jun poked Ohno’s side and murmured, “He doesn’t need more stupid ideas, Satoshi.”
They walked up to the dining table and sat around it. Jun trusted this place, because he had donated it to Nino when he had bought himself new furniture last year. So this place was safe for Jun. “If anyone else at this party wants this place, protect it with your life, Aiba-chan. Not in hundred years am I going to sit on that couch,” Jun pointed at the item.
“Yeah, me neither,” Aiba whispered back.
“How’s work going?” Nino asked when he came back into the room, four glasses with beer on a big plate.
“Stressful, but it’s okay,” Aiba said.
Nino placed the things on the table and sat next to Jun. “What about you, Jun?”
“Same. We have a lot to do right now. But it’s okay.”
“And you Satoshi?” Nino wanted to know.
Jun admired the relationship they had. They had been together for almost the whole time in school, and when they had broken up they managed to stay friends. It was unthinkable for Jun to stay in contact with one of his ex-friends. The four of them always stuck together, and Jun was glad that it stayed like this.
“I am okay. Just that friend of yours, Nino...he is really...strange?”
Nino laughed. “Oh yes, I know. His pictures are something special, aren’t they?”
Ohno looked at him, visibly searching for the right words. “They aren’t special anymore, because he only has two motives. That’s not special, Nino.”
“Give him some time, Satoshi. He really is talented. He just needs some time to get out of this two-motive-phase he is in right now.”
Ohno sighed. “Just because he is your friend, Nino. Otherwise I would have stopped exhibiting his pictures at my gallery.”
“I really want to get to know this strange artist,” Aiba said.
“Oh, he’ll come tonight,” Nino smiled. “So you’ll see him later on.”
“That’s cool,” Aiba answered.
“He really isn’t interesting,” Ohno grumbled. (A little too fast in Jun’s opinion.)
“What about you, Nino?” Jun asked. “How’s work going?”
Nino grinned at him. “Oh, times are good for me.”
“Loan sharks never run out of work, right?” Aiba said.
“Nope. I have enough to do, that’s good.”
Jun could understand why Nino tried to safe all his money. He had to see a lot of familieswho spend their last money on totally unimportant things. He knew a lot of people who couldn’t pay back the money they borrowed, but in the end Nino had a big amount of money, so he could at least buy himself more things to feel more comfortable. But that wasn’t Nino. He would never spend money on things which weren’t absolutely needed.
“So, what’s the reason you invited us today?” Ohno wanted to know. “You never invite people – so there must be a great reason to this.”
Jun could see Nino blushing a bit at this. “Oh, oh, oh, I guess I know what’s going on,” Jun smiled. If it really was what he thought, it would become a big party.
“Yeah, I think you got it right, Jun. I can see it in Nino’s big caramel brown eyes,” Aiba said.
Ohno sighed. “Sorry, I am slow on the uptake. I have no idea what you are talking about.”
Jun was still smiling, but on the other hand he hoped that the following words wouldn’t hurt Ohno too much, even though the thing with him and Nino had been over over for years now.
“I am going to get married this summer,” Nino finally said. “And I want to celebrate that I finally found the courage to ask her.”
Aiba clapped his hands. “That’s so incredible, super-duper incredible.”
Jun looked at Ohno and finally at Aiba, moving his head just a little bit, but he knew Aiba immediately understood what he wanted from him.
“How about drinking some champagne?” Aiba suggested.
Nino smiled at them. Jun could see Nino’s tension fading. “I was pretty nervous telling you this, much more nervous than telling the others later on.”
Jun knew what Nino meant, even though he didn’t say it directly. On the one hand, he was nervous because they were his best friends, and he wanted their agreement for his marriage, and on the other hand, there was this strange tension between Nino and Ohno.
“What kind of alcohol do you have in your fridge, Nino?” Aiba asked while he was already on his way to the kitchen.
Nino laughed and followed him. “I’ll show you.”
Jun waited till the two disappeared in the other room next to this one, chatting happily with each other, before he turned to face Ohno. “Are you okay?”
Ohno blinked at him. “Sure, why wouldn’t I?”
Jun tried reading Ohno’s face, but there was nothing telling him what the other really felt – he was always inscrutable. “Because of Nino’s marriage.”
Ohno sighed. “Jun, we haven’t been together anymore for ages. That was long ago.”
“So it doesn’t hurt you?”
Ohno had a small smile curling his lips. “I am really glad that you are worried, but I am really okay with it.”
Ohno shifted closer to Jun. “I am just wondering how Erika-chan lives with his bulky waste– saving money spleen, really, I think I would kill him.”
Now Jun laughed out loud. It was rare to hear Ohno talking like this. “Yes, you are right.”
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Date: 2016-04-01 04:07 pm (UTC)This has everything I like: childhood-friends, family, little banter, little light and fun parts and love stories ♥
Nino is so fun :D *lol* Getting his furniture from bulky waste :D But he still found a girl that apparently can live with that ^^
Kame only painting that one guy with two bulldogs :D I can sense a little interest from Ohno's side though. It's cute in general that he is happy for Nino despite their past together. Juntoshi friendship andd their little teasing and banter is also ♥
And Junba as brothers!! I love family-storylines, and I can totally see these two as caring brothers and best friends a the same time. I also think their work is super-cool!
I'm curious how Sho will fit into this picture! And Ryo! Can't wait for an update!!
Thanks so much my dear for this birthday present! I'm so happy about it and I love it! I can't even thank you enough ♥♥♥♥♥
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Date: 2016-04-09 06:39 pm (UTC)Yes, Nino found someome to share his strange attitude *lol*
Kame will be a great artist, I don't know what your problem is :D
I needed Jun and Aiba as brothers, ...they are dangerous for me :D
Thanks again, dear <3
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Date: 2016-04-01 11:03 pm (UTC)I love the easy interaction of all the characters so far, but I guess when new boss man Sho turns up things will change for Jun.....
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Date: 2016-04-09 06:40 pm (UTC)<3 She is
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Date: 2016-04-10 05:59 pm (UTC)I really, really like this chapter! <3
I love the interaction of all the characters, it's so easy, like a really friends, like a real life. I´m really in love with This!
I'm really waiting for more and more of this, It's beautiful <3
And why Sho gonna change Matsumoto perfect life? I WANT TO KNOW! XD
Thanks for this dear :3
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Date: 2016-04-17 10:12 am (UTC)Sho will change Jun's life, yes, but let's see why ^^ Maybe it's good for Jun :P
Thanks again for dropping by <3 <3