In Time

[nilielh]

Title : In Time – 14.1
Rating : R
Pairing : Ohno/Nino
Genre : Angst. Romance
Disclaimer : fiction, yo!
Summary : Where I came from, Leader’s gone. He’s dead. Buried six feet under the ground where I can no longer reach him. Where you can no longer reach him. You want to know why I’m here? Well then, there’s your answer.
Note : based on a very old Meme Prompt - Future!Nino is from 2 years in the future. Lots of Future!Nino pissing present day Nino off. I’m not even sure if I did this right but I guess it's alright as long as there’d be lots of pissing, though with lots of angst, too. So sorry for that.



"What the fuck was that?!" Jun hisses, voice tinged with annoyance and frustration as his eyes alternates between glancing at the door where future-Nino's just disappeared into, and then glancing back at him.

He would have thrown a hand carelessly into the air if not for the fact that he is currently busy massaging his jaw which is throbbing like a bitch after future-Nino punched him. Instead, he settles with a rude, "How the hell would I know?!" as he goes to sit on the couch.

Of course he knows what it's about, of course, but it's so difficult to come up with something better to say when he is vibrating with so much anger and jealousy he could barely think past it. He grumbles something under his breath and slouches back onto himself as Jun walks the short way towards him, footsteps sure and shoulders stiff as Jun towers over him.

"What?!" he mutters, irate, meeting Jun's gaze straight on.

"Your counterpart punched you," Jun says as if there's a need for him to point out the obvious when the evidence of that sure is already visible on his face, then, "and yet you're here, saying you don't know why? What is this? Are you trying to hide something from us or -"

"I'm not trying to hide anything, okay?" he returns, then proceeds on scrubbing a palm roughly over his face. He knows there's no way he could lie about all these when he himself is acting like a crazy chick who'd just caught her man screwing another girl on their own fucking bed, but hey, worth a shot.

"You're lying," Aiba grumbles from where he is, eyes narrowed at him and fuck, this isn't the time for his friends to be coming out with superpowers enough to read his mind. "Jun-chan, he's lying. You know he is, it's so obvious, he -"

"Shut up, Aiba-chan!"

"Then tell us what the fuck happened and why your time-traveling counterpart looked like he'd seen a ghost the moment he saw you!" Jun yells, completely ignoring Sho's attempt at calming their youngest friend down by tugging Jun by his elbow.

Well, that he honestly don't know. All he knows is that he's so fucking mad at that jerk for even finding the balls to show his face here - to him - when he knew what he did. The bastard didn't even look the least bit embarrassed for fucking Leader, and for lying all about it.

"Maybe because he's gone mad, who the fuck knows?!" he hisses, lying through his teeth and still bristling with so much anger that it's making it so hard to think straight.
He looks up and vaguely wonders what in hell is stopping him from telling his friends that the reason he's acting like a woman scorned is because he can't bear the thought that after what happened between him and Leader, he was chased out of Leader's place like he's nothing. And that despite the numerous time Leader told him he loves him didn't change the fact that his jealousy is eating him from the inside out and he doesn't know how to fucking stop it.

"He won't tell you anything, Jun-chan, because he's an idiot," Aiba grumbles, obviously annoyed, and he would have yelled at his longest friend some more for that if not for the fact that Aiba has just left the spot he's been standing at and is currently heading towards the door.

"Masaki, where the hell do you think you're going?"

Aiba waves a hand at them without bothering looking back. "Going to follow the doppelganger," he says, "because I'm not going to stay here and waits for Nino-chan to find the balls to admit that he's just jealous, and because I think the doppelganger is right. Leader needs help. Nino-chan does, too, but he doesn't need ours. He needs a professional to help him sort his shit out for him," Aiba says before he's out the door.

+++

He is shaking something bad and no amount of calming words he tells himself are enough to ease his rising panic, the urge to run so fast is so strong he barely has time to think things through until he realizes a familiar voice is calling out on him (he supposed, though not with his name, what the hell?), coupled with the noises coming from someone's car beeping horn from behind him.

It turned out the bastard is Aiba. He frowns and watches as Aiba maneuvers his car. "Doppelganger-chan, oi, doppelganger-chan!"

"Huh?" he blinks, then pauses to point at himself.

"Yes you," Aiba stops the car next to him; luckily, it's already pretty late and there aren't much cars hanging around the sidewalk so Aiba is able to pull over quickly. "You're heading to Leader's place, right?" he nods his head in answer. Aiba nods back. "Come, I'll drive you there," Aiba says, then, "but only if you promise to tell me what is going on, okay?"

He's not sure he has the brain capacity to tell Aiba what Aiba needs to know but at this point, he cares so little about that when the only thing that matters now is Ohno, how he needs to get to Ohno's place, and fast.

He rounds the way to the passenger's seat without missing a beat.

"How fast can you reach Leader's place without getting us killed?" he asks as he puts on his seatbelt.

Aiba grins and turns the ignition on. "Twenty minutes, without traffic?"

"If I tell you where that bastard Nino is hiding his latest porn, will you manage to drive us there in fifteen?"

"Tell me now and I'll make it in twelve,"

Aiba steps on the pedal at the same time he grumbles, "Third drawer where he's keeping the old dragon quest games. Now go!"

"Sweet! Hold on tight, doppelganger-chan!"

+++


"Great, now what?!" Jun grumbles, taking the other side of the couch and crossing his legs.

He curses under his breath, wishing he could just ignore Jun and his bitching but it's hard when Jun obviously doesn't want to be ignored. He keeps muttering about 'do we follow those two or do we stay here, wait until this idiot stops being an idiot and tell us what the fuck happened' and he's seriously considering shutting him up by shoving his fist into Jun's mouth but stops short when he suddenly remembers what future-Nino muttered before he left.

You're stupid if you think he loves me more than he loves you.

So stupid for leaving him alone because Leader knows.

Leader knows.

Leader know what?

So stop, Nino... stop thinking those thoughts because it'll mess you up... it'll fuck you up and the last thing I want is for you doubt this - me - because I love him as much as I love you.

Aren't you going home yet?

I love you, Nino.

I love you, Nino.

He suddenly remembers Ohno's face when he said that, the way Ohno hugged him tight by the door, the gentle way Ohno kissed his lips, the tender way Ohno held his face before Ohno let him go, the way Ohno looked at him, as if... as if it was going to be the last time.

A cold air hits him he is shivering before he realized it, eyes wide as gazes absently on the space before him.

"Nino, did you hear what I said?" Jun grumbles next to him just as Sho steals his attention by waving a hand in front of his face.

"Nino? What is it? Are you okay?"

He is up on his feet before Sho could even think of saying something else, grabbing Sho's arms and shaking it.

"We have to go, we have to go!"

Sho looks absolutely baffled, glancing  back at Jun as he drags Sho towards the door.

"Ninomiya, what the hell -"

"Leader's in danger, he's in danger, we have to go!"

"What the fuck -"

Sho is quickly changing pace he almost stumbles on his feet when Sho wastes no time in dragging him, cursing under his breath. "Fuck fuck fuck, what the fuck -"

++++

It sure feel like they're flying, like his heart is well on its way up his throat every goddamn time Aiba will swerve the car and almost rear-ending another car but thankfully always managed to avoid it. Aiba is hooting like a crazy person, and driving like one too, while he held on to the side handle like his life depended on it.

"So, who are you really and where did you come from?!" Aiba yells, thankfully without taking his gaze off the road and cursing at another car he almost, almost crashed his car into. He swallows hard and opens his mouth to answer Aiba when he feels his pocket starts to vibrate.

It's his borrowed phone.

He fishes it out with trembling fingers, pulling it out and feeling like he'd been punched hard in the gut when he sees the name of the caller.

It's Leader.

He slaps the phone into his ear so hard he wonders if it's still in one piece and starts blabbering, "Hello? Leader? Where are you? Are you okay? I'm coming to -"

Ohno's slurred voice cuts in before he even managed to finish. "N-Nino?" he calls, and he swears his heart does that painful dance inside his ribcage, that 'oh shit, Ohno is calling his name' moment, his fingers tight around the phone as he strains to listen.

Nothing. There's only the sound of Ohno's breathing, deep and even, with tiny hitches that makes his insides hurt.

"What is it? Are you okay? I'm almost there, please don't -" he breathes, even though it's so difficult to make out the words when there's a huge lump blocking his throat and his chest feels it's being squeezed hard by an invisible hand.

Next to him, Aiba remains quiet though it is evident in the way the car is almost flying now that Aiba realizes how badly they need to get to Leader now.

Ohno remains quiet he vaguely wonders if somehow, the older man had fallen asleep during the interim but then his voice came through again, whispering, "I love you, too, Nino," in that soft, soft tone of his that just about break his heart into tiny, unrecognizable pieces before the line went dead.

"Leader?" he half-yells, "Ohno-san? Oh-chan? Hey -"

"Doppelganger-chan, what happened?"

He is shaking all over that the phone slips out of his grasp without him knowing it.

"Hurry," he whispers, voice breaking, "Please hurry, Aiba-chan,"

Aiba doesn't answer and just steps on the gas while he cries quietly, praying under his breath that he gets to Ohno on time.

Hang in there, Oh-chan. I'm coming. I'm coming for you. Just. Just wait for me, please.