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nilielhTitle : I Love You, Stranger - 3
Rating : PG to R
Pairing : Ohno/Nino (Ohmiya)
Summary : Losing the love of his life to an accident 2 years prior, Nino decided it was high time he moved on; but things had its major turn around when at the same day he finally found the strength to let go, a man who looked exactly like Ohno appeared out of nowhere.
Disclaimer : fiction, yo!
Torn between running after the man and worrying his friends by doing exactly what was on his mind, Jun stood frozen on his feet, unable to do anything other than to follow the stranger with his gaze as he swam away. The other three remained clueless to what just happened, laughing themselves off as Nino tried running away again out of Aiba and Sho’s hold while giggling like a child. Jun felt his knees buckled at the immediate loss of strength and gave way, slumping down the sand with a loud thud.
W-What did I just see? Did I just saw.... Leader? he asked himself, baffled at the thought. He rubbed his eyes a few times, muttering something incoherent under his breath. If it was really him, then…
God, then they were right… Ohno wasn’t dead; but, how… why?
“What are you doing staring off into space like that? We’re hungry, princess!” Nino whined dramatically and Jun was immediately brought back to the present. Sho and Aiba both threw him a pair of questioning glances before Jun forced himself upright and grinned.
He smacked Nino lightly across the head, trying to hide the trembling of his fingers as he stood up. “Brat. Get out of my way and be quiet or you’ll never get anything. So help me god but I’m really tempted to starve you to death right now…”
Nino pulled an eyelid at him. “As if you can.”
Jun grabbed him and put him in a headlock, ignoring Nino's overdramatic whines, as he caught Sho looking. He shook his head and mouthed, later.
Reluctantly, Sho nodded. Jun wondered what in hell he was supposed to do.
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“What?!” Aiba and Sho exclaimed simultaneously and Jun almost, almost wasn’t able to stop his hands from slapping the two in the mouth. He cursed.
“Shhh! Fucking hell, would you please keep your voices down?” he muttered angrily, “Nino might come in any moment! He'll know instantly that something's up, you know how he is.”
“Are you sure it’s him?” Sho asked, clearly baffled and Jun nodded hesitantly, seemingly aware at the completely confused emotions passing through Sho and Aiba’s faces, slumping down and sighing heavily the minute his words finally sunk in.
“T-That’s not possible,” Aiba breathed, looking around just to make sure Nino wasn’t anywhere near them and shuddering at the thought the minute after. “J-Jun-chan, a-are you sure?”
Jun tightly closed his eyes as his fingers went up to massage his temple, his head throbbing as if it was about to split in half.
“I’m not really, but -” he said, pausing when he heard Sho hissed under his breath, mouth twisting mournfully; "God, I don't know how to explain it. I mean, it was just a split second gaze but there was something so familiar in those eyes, Sho-san, Aiba-chan."
He couldn’t really be sure but he just couldn’t shake that weird feeling off, as if in that split second that his and the strangers eyes met, he was sure he saw something glimmered at the corner of the stranger’s eyes, something like recognition or maybe, that was him hallucinating… he didn’t know anymore.
Sho crossed his arms over his chest and shook his head. “You weren’t wearing your contacts earlier, Jun,” the older man said, staring straight into Jun’s eyes as he spoke. Indeed, but, “I mean, I'm just saying you could have mistaken that man for...for someone else? Maybe it is better for us to forget about this. I don’t want to sound harsh but we all know that Satoshi-kun is - he's dead… and there’s no way-”
“But we never found his body!” Aiba exclaimed in an expression all of them rarely seen on him, not after Ohno’s apparent death and Jun wanted to take his words back if only to lessen the pain of losing their leader all over again. But he couldn’t; not now, not after what he saw.
“And don't you think it’s possible that he’s alive and just lost out there. Maybe it’s him, maybe Jun-chan was right…”
“Masaki,” Sho turned, running his fingers through his hair and Jun swore that Sho suddenly looked older than he was moments ago. “ I - We can’t… y-you can’t think about that again, not after what we promised each other…”
“But Sho-chan-”
Sho shook his head firmly. “This conversation is over. I don’t want to talk about this anymore let alone dwell on that thought the same way we’ve done in the past. We finally found the courage to let him go Masaki, and Nino - think about what this would do to him if he found out we're talking about this again…”
Jun muttered a curse under his breath, knowing full well that Sho was right. Still, he saw what he saw and that clearly wasn’t just a figment of his imagination. The stranger looked exactly like Ohno and Jun was sure he could recognize their leader even in crowd of a thousand people, the same way his friends could do if it were them who saw the stranger and not him.
The question was, was that really Ohno?
“Then we should just check it out ourselves,” Aiba suggested as he continued looking around if ever Nino happened to pop out of thin air. “We don’t really have to tell Nino-chan, right?”
Sho sighed, suddenly feeling exasperated. “That’s already out of the question, Masaki. It doesn’t matter if Nino knows, the thing is we’re not doing this, and that’s the end of it!”
Jun looked up at the stubborn scowl spread across Sho’s feature. No one could blame the older man for trying to do the right thing, not Aiba, and most especially not him. There were just so much Sho had to deal with right after Ohno’s apparent death and it wasn’t easy for either of them, it never was, but still the possibility of Ohno being alive has always been there since the beginning.
Everybody only assumed that Ohno was dead, that was, after over two years of waiting for anything to turn up; may it be Ohno’s body or anything that will lead them to finally letting the older man rest, wherever he may be. Even Ohno’s parents had requested Johnny to stop financing the research team a month ago and that was also when the four of them decided it was probably high time they let Ohno go.
But what happened earlier made things a lot more complicated and Jun knew he couldn’t just let it go. He wasn’t going to just sit there and do nothing when he knew there was something to be done, especially after what he saw.
“I agree with Aiba-chan, Sho-san.” he grumbled, looking straight into Sho’s eyes. If Sho was surprised at the suddenness of Jun’s statement, he did his best not to show it.
“Jun please,” Sho winced, "You're not seriously considering -"
Jun shook his head in firm determination. “Oh, but I do, Sho-chan. I know we’ve agreed about this already but I saw what I saw. And even if I'm not entirely sure that was Leader I saw, I couldn't just sit still until I'm certain I'm wrong. What if I'm not and that man I saw was really our Leader?"
“Jun, listen,”
Jun shook his head. “No, you listen!” Jun exclaimed, the tremble on his voice evident. “Unless I see Leader’s dead body with my own two eyes, this will never be over. I saw what I saw, Sho-san. And I have a feeling that that was our Leader." Jun breathed. "I can't just - I can't just forget what I saw, not now, not after -"
“So, then what are you suggesting?” Sho said, cutting him off.
Jun squared his shoulders. “What else? I want to find that stranger.” he said, determination set in the line of his mouth.
“And if he’s not the one we’re looking for? Jun, you know it’ll hurt a thousand times more if we find out it’s not him. Think about the pain we’ll have to go through again…”
“I don’t care,” Jun stated stubbornly. “If it’s not leader, then I’ll never stop looking for him until we find him. That’s the least we can do for him, for Nino, for us…”
Sho nodded faintly as Aiba’s hands found their way against his own. Squeezing his hands tightly, Aiba leaned and rested his head against the older man’s shoulder.
“I really hope it was Leader… I really hope he’s alive…” Aiba muttered.
“Hope who’s alive?” Nino asked from the doorway and the three froze on their seats.
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Date: 2011-10-06 07:27 pm (UTC)You're there ♥♥ Welcome back ♥
How are you? I wish you're fine? ♥♥
I like this chapter ! I WANT TO KNOW TOO!!!!!!!!!
*__* Was it Oh-chan? Oooh ♥
Thank you for sharing ♥
Have a nice night :)
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Date: 2011-10-14 09:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-06 08:21 pm (UTC)it is good, that they decided to continue to search for him.
but why must nino hear it??
i hope they can find an excuse...
it would be not good, when he would know about that now.
thanks for that chapter.
can't wait for the next one. ^^
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Date: 2011-10-14 09:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 09:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-06 11:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 09:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-07 11:28 am (UTC)How are you?
(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 09:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-07 03:35 pm (UTC)I'm very curious too if it's leader (and hoping that it's really him *excited*), and wether actually the stranger knowing Jun and the others too..
Uwaa, and I wonder what will they tell Nino.. (>x<)
Looking forward to the next! Thanks for the update! (^ ^)
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Date: 2011-10-14 09:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-07 04:07 pm (UTC)Hey it's been a long time since I last saw you around, you're still okay?
I'm getting curious. Was that really Riidaa? Hope that was him...
Thanks for your update! :)
(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 09:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-08 07:52 am (UTC)okaerrriii *big hug*
how are you??genki??genki?? *tension max*
i miss you a lot dear~♥ ♥ ♥
I LOVE THIS CHAPTER!!!
it makes me wonder, is he really Ohno or not.
i wanna know the continuation *pleading eyes*
thanks for sharing dear..
love you~♥
(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 09:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-09 03:04 am (UTC)Happy to see your back!
(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 09:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-11 07:26 pm (UTC)I hope it's leader and that Nino's love will help him find his way back! ^^
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Date: 2011-10-14 09:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 05:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-14 09:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-02 06:40 am (UTC)i understand sho. he wants closure. but i also understand aiba and jun, they want to find out the truth and that is natural. finding leader may be tiring but, as "teleseryes" have proven over and again, you can never be sure that someone is dead until his body shows up. it's scary though, talking in secret behind nino. off to next chapter, thanks!
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Date: 2011-12-15 07:00 pm (UTC).......so many questions to be answered still Jadey~~
And sneaky Nino is sneaky. Always knowing the right time to enter a conversation....
BUT WTF WILL HAPPEN NAOOOO? (Just read on? Okay, I shall XDDDD)
SEE YOU SOON LOVE
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Date: 2011-12-15 07:18 pm (UTC)go, go, go!
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Date: 2014-07-15 01:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-07-15 03:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-03-02 12:08 pm (UTC)At patay! Nino heard the last part *bite nails*
Thanks ate Jadey!