The unknown Chapter 13 **end**

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Title: The unknown Chapter 13 *end*
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
Warning: none
Beta:little_kirin
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…

Ohno was walking behind Kame. Ohno had never been in Kame’s atelier. He was curious how it looked there, even though he should have been more interested in the truth, but he was an artist after all, his job (and passion) was always on his mind.

Kame turned the key and let him into his apartment and atelier. There were a lot of pictures on the walls. Most of them were with the dogs and this strange guy on them. There was one big painting, showing Kame and this guy standing next to each other, looking at each other. In the middle their hands touched. Both smiled. The picture was made with dark colours. It let a dark and sad feeling spread in Ohno. He let this picture sink in. The background was dark, the trees were almost rotten, but around their hands was a small shining part. Like something came back to live. They were barefoot and around their legs started flowers to bloom, like a new life started there. There were no dogs on it, just the two men. “Who’s this?” Ohno wanted to know.

Kame smiled at him. He handed him a glass of whiskey and stepped next to him. “It’s my brother.”

“He is the one on every picture you make?” Ohno looked at Kame.

Kame took a sip of the whiskey. Ohno could see that it wasn’t easy for Kame to talk about that topic. “You know why I wanted to help Jun and Aiba?”

“Yes.”

“My brother got sick some years ago. We had always had a good relationship, but he wasn’t able to tell me about that sickness he had. He was a business man and he had hid behind his work. I got to know about everything when he had already been in hospital.” Kame smiled sadly. “I scolded him for not telling me. We talked hours and hours about everything.”

Ohno tilted his head. “And then your relationship got better.” Kame blinked. “After you talked with each other, I mean.”

Kame nodded. “Yes. If we had talked earlier, it would have been easier for him. He would have had someone to help him. No one from our family knew about it. He was too proud to tell anyone.”

“Did he die?” Ohno cursed silently. First think – then talk … sometimes it didn’t work out for him.

Kame shook his head. His smile got happier. “No.” Kame stepped to his cupboard to take a picture down from it. “That was some weeks ago. He is healthy now and we have a real strong bond now. Even though we don’t see each other often, because he doesn’t live in Tokyo.”

“Who is he?” Ohno wanted to know.

“Sho.” Kame said.

Ohno had his mouth wide open. This whole thing got more and more confusing.

~~~

Jun looked at Sho. “You tell me that my boss is your brother?” That couldn’t be the truth.

“Yes.” Sho said. “Aiba talked with Kame some weeks ago. He told him about his sickness and in the same breath he said that he couldn’t talk with you about it. He was so afraid and scared, he totally blocked.”

Jun pulled one eyebrow up. “So this was all Aiba-chan’s idea?”

Sho shook his head. “No, I don’t think that he is able to come up with such a plan. I don’t know him, but what Kame and Nino had told me, he is too nice to do anything bad.”

Jun smiled. “That’s true.” He sighed. “So it was Nino’s idea?” Who else? Jun thought. Such plans can only come from Nino.

“Yes, together with Kame,” Sho answered. “Listen, Kame was worried, because we had experienced exactly the same situation.”

“What exactly?” Jun wanted to know. “You just said that you had the same sickness?”

“Yes. I was totally into my work and I drifted apart from my brother years ago. When I got the diagnosis, I thought I need to hide that from everyone. I wanted to live on like I did before. But that wasn’t possible,” Sho explained. He made a little pause, and Jun had the feeling that it was hard for Sho to talk about that time back then. “It was almost too late when I finally found the courage to talk with my family about it.”

“What happened then?” Jun asked.

He could see Sho smiling at him. Sho looked up. His eyes were sad, even though he had overcome his sickness. “Kame shouted at me, and in the end he hit me quite hard.” Sho said. “He doesn’t look like, but he’s pretty strong, and his punches are really painful.”

“You overcame all your problems?”

“Yes. But not before we hadn’t talked about everything properly. I think Kame feared that you and Aiba would end up like we almost did,” Sho said. “I think Kame often thought about the worst case scenario. He told me that he’d have hated me forever when the worst would have happened and I would have kept silent about everything.” Sho rubbed over his arm. “He just wanted to help, and so did Nino.”

Jun sighed. It made sense, at least a bit. “But you could have told us directly. Why this whole mess?”

Sho shrugged. “It sounded adventurous. And Kame wanted Aiba to make a little holiday. He would have never agreed to go on a trip, if he had known about it.”

“No, probably not. And me neither,” Jun answered. “So I got totally tricked by you.”

Sho leaned forward. Jun felt a cold shiver running down his spine when he saw Sho’s dark eyes resting on him. This intense glare in Sho’s eyes was amazing, but also mysterious.

“Yes, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t have any interest in you,” Sho said.

Jun blushed at that. His heartbeat rose. “But you said you got asked to do this?”

Sho smiled at him. “Yes, but the one thing doesn’t exclude the other, right?”

Before Jun could say something, Sho continued. “Come. I bring you back to the resort. You should explain Aiba what’s going on here.”

“Okay,” Jun just said.

~~~

Aiba stared at Jun. That couldn’t be the truth behind the whole Sho-story. “They did this?”

Jun nodded. “Yes.”

Aiba pulled the bathrobe closer around his neck. He was freezing, even though it was still warm outside. He had to be mad with Nino and Kame, but he couldn’t. Thanks to them he found the courage to talk with Jun. “These brats,” he finally just said.

“But you are thankful?” Jun wanted to know.

Aiba smiled at him. “Yes. I think I would have never told you about it, until you would have found out on your own.”

“Why?” Jun asked.

“What?”

Jun looked at him. “Why were you so afraid of telling me?”

Aiba sighed. He knew that this question would come. “You know the whole fact about our relationship was bothering me. I didn’t know how you would react to it. Maybe I feared you’d push me away?”

Jun stared at him. Aiba could feel some tears coming up in him. Shit … he hated being a crybaby. Aiba started nibbling on his lower lip. He tried supressing his tears, but he knew that never worked out. “How can you think something like this?” Jun asked.

Aiba just shrugged. “You are stupid, Masaki. Really.”

“I think I didn’t want to be the weak one again. I wanted to show that I can handle things on my own,” Aiba confessed. He had always been the weak one, and he didn’t want to bother anyone now.

“Okay, let’s stop this. You are really an idiot,” Jun started.

“You…” Aiba said, but Jun interrupted him immediately.

“You can’t think that you need to go through this on your own? There’s Nino, who’ll get on your nerves till you are back home. Then there’s Satoshi, who’ll probably place his easel in your hospital room to share time with you. And I’ll stay at your bed from the very first second of visiting time, till the very last second. So, don’t think you get away alone here,” Jun said.

“Thank you,” Aiba just said in the end.

~~~

“That was your big secret?” Ohno finally said. Now he knew why Kame was the way he was. “That’s why you are such a strange artist.”

Kame looked at him. “Sorry, I didn’t want to say something rude, but already when I painted you, I had the feeling that there is something off with you. It’s the whole thing with your brother, which is still on your mind?”

Kame nodded. “It’s getting better, but I still think a lot about it. Especially after I got to know about Aiba, it came back to my mind.”

Ohno stepped closer to Kame. They looked at the picture of the brothers without saying anything. It was such an intense picture. Kame would have never been able to describe all his feelings like he had painted them in this. Ohno tilted his head. “It means a lot to me that you showed me this picture.”

“Why?”

“This picture is like a picture to your soul. It shows all the feelings you have and had. The whole desperation, sadness, frustration, hope, anger and so on. Right now I feel like I am reading your secret diary,” Ohno answered.

He could feel Kame’s hand brushing his. He smiled at that and stretched his fingers a bit to get a hold of Kame’s. Kame’s hand felt warm and the feeling spread in Ohno’s body.

~~~

“Can I really leave you alone for another three hours?” Jun asked his brother.

They had dinner on the balcony when Jun got the message that Sho wanted to see him down at the sea in one hour.

“Sure, go and clear things up.” Aiba smiled. “If you ask me, I think …”

Jun sighed. “I don’t ask you, stupid older brother.”

“I think he likes you,” Aiba ended his sentence without listening to Jun.

Jun grumbled. He didn’t want to hear something like this. He just went to this invitation to close the case called Sho. It was the only reason, and nothing else. His fast heartbeat and his sweaty hands had nothing to do with it.

Jun passed the bar and the terrace with the big swimming pool. Through a small path he reached the beach. There was a blanket on the ground and Sho was already waiting for him there. It was early in the evening, but the sun was already disappearing behind the horizon.

“You wanted to talk with me?” Jun said. He didn’t sit down, but waited for Sho to answer.

“Hello, I am Sakurai Sho, I am the owner of this resort,” Sho started.

“What?” Jun asked.

“What’s your name?”

“Matsumoto Jun. Sho, what’s going on here?” Jun said.

“Sit down, Jun. I really want to talk with you,” Sho smiled at him.

Jun had no idea what was going on here, but he just did what Sho asked him to. He sat down and waited.

“I am a little idiot, you know. But maybe if you know me better, you can forgive me?” Sho asked.

“Start anew, right?” Jun smiled. He had the plan to make a cut, to say Sho that they’d go back to Tokyo tomorrow, and he should never call him again. But right in the moment he had seen Sho here at the beach, he knew that this was not possible.

It was love at first sight, Jun couldn’t deny it. “You are a big idiot. It will be a stony, hard way to convince me that you aren’t a total moron.”

“Challenge accepted.” Sho smiled. He took the two glasses of wine and handed one to Jun.

They sat there and watched the sun turning the red sky black. First they didn’t talk with each other.
They just enjoyed the calm atmosphere around them.

“I’ll be more often in Tokyo from next month on,” Sho finally said.

“Why?” Jun asked.

“I open a new resort near Tokyo. I need to be there for the whole time at the beginning,” Sho explained. “Do you think we can meet up more often then?”

Jun smiled at him. “Maybe.”

“Good. For now I can live with this answer.” Sho nodded. “I’ll bring you back to your room now.”

“I find the way, you really don’t have to,” Jun said. He felt embarrassed when someone was guiding him home.

“I insist.” Sho stood up and helped Jun stand up.

They walked back to the hotel. Jun felt the bubbly feeling returning to his body. Of course Sho had lied to him, but maybe his intention extended from just bringing Jun closer to Aiba to bringing Jun back to his brother, and make Jun fall for him, because he already liked Jun.

“Good night, Sho-kun,” Jun said and opened the door to his room.

“I am in Tokyo on Monday, can I call you?” Sho wanted to know.

“Sure,” Jun said.

He wanted to close the door when he felt Sho grabbing his arm. He pulled him out of the room again, and wrapped his arms around Jun’s waist. “I am sorry for the whole mess,” Sho whispered into Jun’s ear.

Jun could feel Sho’s breath tickling in his neck. It was like little electric impulses on his skin. “It’s okay.” Jun said. He leaned into the embrace.

Jun closed his eyes when he felt Sho’s hands on his face, stroking his cheeks softly. He felt like exploding when Sho’s lips met his. It was a sweet and tender kiss. A little careful at the beginning, like the both of them didn’t know if it was okay to do this. When Jun felt Sho’s tongue brushing his lips, he opened his mouth to let Sho deepen their kiss.

When they broke the kiss Jun had the feeling that hours had passed. He felt his face burning from the sensation in him.

“Till Monday,” Sho said. He left a last peck on Jun’s lips before he turned to leave him there.

“Yes,” Jun said before he slipped into his room. “Yes … what a stupid answer,” he whispered to his own.

“I guess it was successful,” Jun heard his brother yawning.

Jun blushed even more. “Yeah, guess so,” Jun replied.

“I am happy about that.” Jun looked at Aiba. He had already been asleep. Aiba smiled at him with small, tired eyes.

“Me too,” Jun said. “But now let’s sleep,” Jun said. The feeling of being in a big pink bubble stayed till he fell asleep early in the morning. The whole story was weird and just unbelievable, but maybe it would end in a new adventure waiting for him.

______


9 months later

Jun was walking down the street. He was already late, but work was almost killing him. “I am home,” he yelled, when he entered the apartment.

“I am in the kitchen,” Jun heard Sho saying.

Jun peeked into the kitchen. He sneaked behind Sho and looked over his shoulder. “You cooked?”

Sho turned. He placed a kiss on Jun’s nose and pulled him closer. “You really think that I’d cook?”

“I fear, but I hope you didn’t,” Jun grinned. He shifted when he felt Sho tickling him. “Hey, let me.” Jun pouted.

Sho let Jun go off. He took a bag from the cupboard and showed it to Jun. “Oh, that’s the new delivery service. They have great Italian food,” Jun said.

“Yes,” Sho started. “That’s where I ordered things.” Sho confessed.

Jun placed a kiss on Sho’s lips. “Perfect. They’ll love it.”

~~~

Aiba stood up. He had slept almost the whole day. He still felt spent and tired.

“Are you sure you want to go?” Aiba looked up. He turned in the bed till he sat at the border of it.

“Yes, I am sure. It’s Jun’s party after all. I don’t want to miss that,” Aiba said.

Aiba stood up and everything started spinning. “Shall I help you?”

“Yes, thank you Ryo.”

Ryo stepped next to Aiba and wrapped his arm around Aiba’s waist to help him to the bathroom. “Do you really think it’s a good idea?”

“I just need some time when I stand up. I feel weak, but it’s okay when I am awake and up,” Aiba explained.

He had finished his therapy and the surgery four months ago had gone well. He still needed to take a lot of medicine, but he had defeated the sickness almost completely. He just needed some time to recover.

Aiba sat on the border of the bathtub and took the little boxes with his medicine. Five red pills – two yellow ones – three white ones. Four times every day the same procedure. Aiba sighed.

He could feel Ryo’s hand on his back. He knelt down in front of Aiba, his forehead touching Aiba’s. “Not long anymore. You are done with this crap soon.”

Ryo smiled at him. He placed a kiss on Aiba’s lips, and let his hand roam over Aiba’s back again.

“Thank you, Ryo,” Aiba smiled. Ryo and the others had been there for him during the whole time. They had visited him, taken care of him, and had spent time with him. Soon after Aiba had started the therapy he had realized that there was more between him and Ryo, and even though the timing was worst, they decided to give this a try.

“Let’s get ready to go to your brother’s place.” Ryo smiled.

~~~

“You know that you have only twenty minutes till we need to go,” Kame giggled when Ohno placed kisses down his belly.

“That’s enough time,” Ohno said.

“Don’t be silly, Satoshi. We get ready now. Jun doesn’t invite us every day, so come on.” Kame pushed Ohno down from him and started angling for his clothes.

Ohno grumbled. He hadn’t seen Kame for two weeks, because he had been on an exhibition in Korea. And now he needed to go to this party. In the end he got up and searched for his clothes. “Okay, I go to take a shower now. But tonight, when we come back from this party, you can’t push me away anymore.”

Kame smiled at him. “Don’t worry, you’ll be the one to get jumped.”

Ohno grinned and turned to go to the bathroom.

~~~

Jun opened the door. “Hey,” he smiled.

“Hey, brother,” Aiba said. Jun felt a cold shiver when he saw that Ryo had to support Aiba to walk into the apartment. Of course it was better than it had been weeks ago, but it was still hard for him to see Aiba like that. He had the mask around his mouth to prevent catching a cold or any other disease. His face was pale and his eyes small and tired.

Sho helped Aiba to the living room while Jun and Ryo stayed back in the corridor. Jun waited till the others were gone before he asked, “Is really everything okay? He looks bad?”

Ryo smiled at him. He touched Jun’s shoulder friendly. “He feels better every day. It’s just a slow progress, and sometimes Masaki forces himself too much. But I take care of him.”

“I know,” Jun replied. “I am glad that everything is getting back to normal now.”

“What is normal? We have never been normal,” Ohno looked around the corner of the kitchen’s door.

“That’s true,” Jun said. They laughed about that.

“How’s Nino doing?” Kame wanted to know. He appeared right behind Ohno.

“Last thing I heard was that Nino is still waiting.” Ryo shrugged.

They walked up to the living room, where Aiba and Sho had taken place at the dining table. “I think the baby will come tonight.” Aiba had taken away the mask and smiled at Jun.

“I hope you are right. Otherwise he’ll get on our nerves for another day. And honestly, 9 months are pretty much enough,” Ohno sighed.

The others laughed. “He won’t stop, you know that, right? The horror just started,” Jun said.

“Gosh. Give me some alcohol,” Ohno moaned. “I think I can’t stand this,” he added.

Jun felt a warm feeling in his body. He could feel Sho’s hand brushing his thigh innocently. This was just perfect. He could see Aiba and Ryo sitting close to each other. His brother would become healthy again, and he had someone next to him, that made Jun happy. Ohno and Kame seemed happy, though they didn’t talk much about their relationship, and in the end Jun didn’t want to know what they were doing privately. He had heard some things from Nino and he didn’t want to know anything further. And Nino was at the hospital now – waiting for his first child to be born.

Things couldn’t be better right now, and he hoped that it would stay like this forever.


A/N: So that's it ... I hope you enjoyed the multi chapter and thanks to all of you for reading it. :) See you in the next one