[Fic] Playground Volume 1

[nilielh]

Title : Playground 1 - His Unexpected Hero
Rating : PG
Pairing : (Chibi) Ohno/Nino
Disclaimer : fiction, yes.
Summary : AU. They’ve always been together, since they were children. Best friends. Doing things together, growing up together. Only one thing Ohno didn’t count on – falling in love with his best friend.

Nino looked around, clutching the thing against his chest like a lifeline; his fingers trembled, his stomach kept bitching at him no matter how many times he told it to shut up because he just have his lunch on his hand, for crissake, if it could just wait a few more seconds when he was sure no one was around to see him. He crouched down, his knees shaking as the scent of vanilla and faint strawberry filled his senses, making him all the more dizzy.

He opened his mouth and closed his eyes, his stomach growling at the same time he took a bite, his pupils dilating at the weird taste of it that he thought he was used to by now.

“That's not food,” someone muttered behind him and Nino jerked and turned in shock, automatically hiding the ‘thing’ behind him. He was met with a boy about his height – blinking and staring at him through confused, sleepy eyes. Nino felt himself blushed, but he was too busy mentally murdering the other boy to properly reply him.

“You cannot eat that, you'll get sick.” the boy added in a gentle tone and Nino suddenly felt like crying. Or punching the boy in the face for interrupting him.

God, he’s so hungry he’d probably pass out before he even manage to swing his arm around.

“Why do you even care?” Nino bit back with a scowl. The boy looked all the more confused and Nino had a very little chance of knowing what he should fire next when the boy dropped his back pack on the ground and started digging for something only god knows what.

“I know I have some here, wait.”

“What?”

He took a step back, still hiding the ‘thing’ behind him and the boy blinked a couple of times, looking increasingly confused and Nino had a very little chance of knowing what he ought to be saying next when the boy dropped his back pack on the ground and started digging for something only god-knows-what.

The boy seemed to be wholly focused on whatever he was looking for, the tip of his pink tongue peeking out of the corners of his mouth and Nino didn’t know why the boy looked adorable and a bit dumb at the same time. He cleared his throat and the boy looked up, scrunching his nose in a way that was so cute that had Nino thinking of fluffy, little animals and adorable, drooling babies.

“What - What are you doing?"

“Looking for candies,” the boy answered brightly, dropping all the contents of his bag and grinned when he found what he was looking for. “Here, you can have these.” he said, his hands filled with about four different varieties of candies that made Nino’s mouth watered.

He looked down at his hands. Those are definitely way better than –

“Tissues are not food,” the boy mumbled matter-of-factly and Nino suddenly felt the urge to hit him on the face (even though he’s really cute and kind too). “Candies are. So here, take them. I would give you my lunch too but I ate them all already. I’ll bring you some tomorrow, I promise.” he said without pausing, crouching back down to put all of his things back into his bag. Nino remained still, staring at the candies in his hand as if they were a gift from heaven.

His eyes watered suddenly and Nino wasn’t able to hold back a choked sob, staring at the candies in awe.

“Don’t cry.”

Nino glared at the boy. "I'm not crying."

The boy leaned in forward, dropping a soft kiss against Nino’s pale cheeks and Nino’s eyes widened in shock.

“Okay," the boy agreed, looking nonchalant, as if he didn't just made Nino's baby heart pound hard. "My name is Satoshi, meet me here again tomorrow okay? I’ll ask my Mom for an extra lunch box for you, I promise.” the boy, Satoshi said, and started walking.

Meet him?

Eh?