first fic for the year!!!
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angelshillTITLE: Got Me Thinking
CHARACTERS: Ohno Satoshi, Sakurai Sho, Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazunari, Matsumoto Jun, Inoue Mao
GENRE: RL
RATINGS: PG
DISCLAIMER: The only thing i own in this story is the plot...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: written because i wanted my first fic for the year to be JunxMao... and because i wanted a Kohaku-linked fic... and also, because it's been quite a while since i last wrote a JunxMao one-shot...
SUMMARY: Jun and Mao were really just friends... but with Kohaku putting them back to work together, is that about to end?
“I thought you guys left already!” Jun exclaimed in surprise the moment he found his four other group member there.
The five of them, well, six actually, counting their female counterpart for the year’s Kohaku hosting, Inoue Mao, had just finished up a string of shoots to promote the grandiose event. The final leg of those shoots was simply a batch of photo shoots featuring all of them at one point, solo ones in others, and two-shots in the rest. The two-shots were actually scheduled for the finale, the Jun/Mao pairing being the last of the 5 pairs they had to do.
And Jun had finished doing exactly that when he entered the Arashi greenroom and saw all of them there.
He’d have thought they left, especially since they’ve all said goodbye to him earlier already. The rest of Arashi were supposed to have gone home already. It was okay to leave him behind since he had his car, so did Aiba actually but he didn’t feel up to driving earlier, so they said they’d go ahead.
“Well, we would have,” said Sho, looking up from his laptop. “But our driver asked us something he never asked before.”
“Really?” Jun snorted as he headed straight towards his things and started arranging them. “And what is that?”
“He asked us if it’s possible to stick around for a bit,” Aiba replied in his usual high-energy voice, except that there’s some sort of snicker mixed in to those words.
“Why?” Jun asked, his eyebrows furrowing in confusion.
Their driver, the one they’d had for a few years now, had never been one to complain even though he’d be driving to pretty far off places just to pick up or drop off any one of them for a shoot or project or something like that. He had never heard the guy even mumble despite their odd hours, which is why he found it almost impossible that the guy would end up requesting that (and the guys and their manager giving in to such a request).
“Apparently,” Nino drawled out in a dry, annoyed tone, causing Jun to turn to the (slightly) older guy. “He was hoping to catch you and Mao-chan during your photo shoot.”
Jun was just about to ask why again when Sho immediately supplied helpfully “Domyouji and Makino! He’s a huge Hanadan fan.”
“Oh!” was all Jun could say at first, never really expecting that, of all things, to be the reason or a reason for their driver to make any request not now at least.
“He wasn’t alone actually, I heard some of the staff and crew talking about it excitedly when I left the shoot,” Aiba supplied. He was the 4th in their succession of the two-shots with Mao. “And not just talking, gushing even.”
Jun simply looked at Aiba for a moment before he shook his head and shrugged. “I don’t get it,” he admitted eventually.
During the years that Hanadan 1 thru the movie was on air, both he and Mao understood the charm of people seeing the two of them together, even the year after the movie aired. But it’s been years and years now. He’s had a lot of other roles and so had Mao. And it wasn’t like they’ve been seen around each other that often. He had assumed that the furor had died down already, especially within the entertainment circle where it’s already well established that he and Mao are just friends. Really, just that.
“You picked the words right out of my mouth!” Nino exclaimed in triumph as he turned towards Sho. “Hear that Sho-chan?”
“What?” Sho shrugged defiantly. “Jun-kun and Mao-chan looks perfect together!”
“But they are not together,” Nino pointed out.
“That’s not the point,” Sho simply shrugged
At this, Jun caught Aiba’s eyes as the latter sniggered causing him to roll his eyes and continue with his packing. Ohno simply smiled. After all, they’re all very well aware that Sho is the biggest Hanadan fanboy out of all of them and Nino just happens to enjoy putting down that certain belief of their resident caster’s ever since, well, ever since forever, but especially since Nino and Mao got to act with each other in their special drama.
“So what are you guys still doing here?” Jun decided to ask to intervene with the discussion (or else Nino and Sho’s discussion would never end). It was a logical question too, especially since the photo shoot has been over for about 15 minutes now, it was just that it took Jun and the director quite a few minutes to talk about some of Jun’s ideas.
“Let’s go to dinner!” Ohno replied (and effectively stopping Nino and Sho’s bickering).
“Yeah!” Aiba nodded. “It’s been a while since the five of us actually went out to eat together.”
“Oh!” Jun exclaimed, straightening up with a slight frown on his face. “Dinner huh?”
“Why, you have other plans?” Nino asked.
“You have a date?” Sho immediately followed up.
Before Jun could say anything in response to the sudden perk in the interest of the room though, a knock was suddenly heard, immediately followed by the opening of the door and a woman’s voice saying “Jun-kun, let’s go!” as she went through it.
Aiba and Ohno smiled pleasantly, Sho looked triumphant and Nino turned to Jun as though he was the biggest traitor he has ever met.
Because the woman walking through the door was no one else but Inoue Mao.
-----
“We’re really, really sorry for interfering with your date,” Sho bowed pleasantly and apologetically as the six of them reached the area where their cars were parked outside that restaurant, dinner having just ended.
“Oh no! No!” Mao chuckled as a slight pink colored her cheeks. “It wasn’t a date! Nothing like that Sho-kun! It isn’t!”
“Then thank you for letting us join you and Jun-kun!” Ohno beamed.
“Yeah!” Aiba nodded. “We didn’t know you and Jun-kun had a not-date dinner plans.”
“It was nothing Ohchan and It wasn’t really planned Aiba-chan, we just realized we were both hungry after the shoot,” Mao smiled as she turned to the guy on her right. Nino, who was by then being obscured off Mao’s direct sight by the length of Aiba, rolled his eyes, and Jun who was already standing by the driver’s side of his car, face palmed.
“Always been a pleasure spending time with you Mao-chan,” Nino exclaimed, stepping out of Aiba’s shadow as he bowed in some sort of exaggerated flourish. “Always.”
“You too, Ninomiya-kun,” Mao smiled and Nino beamed.
“Anyway,” Jun ended up coughing when Nino didn’t seem to be affected that Mao is starting to get squeamish under his gaze or that the three other guys around him were trying their best not to snicker (they all knew of Nino’s crush on the woman). “I guess we all better get going now, it’s pretty late.”
“Yeah,” Aiba nodded before he ended up grinning naughtily. “Plus Jun-kun can’t wait to keep Mao-chan to herself after we ruined their date.”
“Of course not!”
“It wasn’t a date!”
“Idiot!”
Jun, Mao, and Nino exclaimed almost the same time and they would have said even more if Sho hadn’t raised his arms in laughter and cried “Okay, okay! Stop! Really, we should all better be going!” he added as he steered the others towards Aiba’s car. The four of them would be carpooling while it’s already been decided that Jun would drive Mao home.
There was no point countering Mama Sho’s statement rally, not with Jun being of the same opinion, which is why the other three went along. Ohno and Aiba didn’t really need convincing though but Nino obviously didn’t want to leave Mao just yet.
He was already even about to enter the car when he turned around again to wave and smile at Mao, beaming when Mao waved back. And it was only after Aiba had started the engine did Jun and Mao finally enter his car.
“Real charmer, that one,” Jun chuckled as he started the car, referring to Nino. “He really does like you.”
“You all like me,” Mao corrected cheekily as she turned to Jun.
“Cocky,” Jun observed dryly, his eyebrows slightly raised although there was a small smile on his lips. “But you may be right. Nino, though, doesn’t just like you. The guy’s got a huge crush on you.”
“Oh please, that’s just some petty crush,” Mao shook her head, downplaying Jun’s statement.
“But still,” Jun shrugged. “Some people would say that you two look good together. You two would make a good couple.”
“I’ve heard that more than just a few times about us too,” Mao chuckled in reply.
“Yeah,” Jun sighed, remembering the conversation he had in the greenroom with the boys before Mao appeared. “Domyouji and Makino…”
Mao turned to Jun with a small smile before she too sighed.
“Yeah,” she simply breathed.
-----
“Do you ever wonder?” Mao suddenly asked just as they stopped in front of her apartment door, turning around to face Jun.
“Wonder about what?” he asked.
Mao was about to open her mouth but hesitated and closed it again. When she reopened it, she was just about to say that it was nothing when she saw Jun raising an eyebrow. She knew that it meant that Jun knew that she was just about to retract, knowing her as much as she knew him.
“Domyoiji and Makino,” she admitted eventually and in a very small voice as she looked anywhere but in Jun’s eyes. She felt foolish suddenly asking that question, it was just that the continuous digs they kept getting from his group mates, and then the reactions from everyone else from the staff to the crew, somehow got to her.
She wasn’t supposed to be asking that sort of question and she fully expected Jun to suddenly chuckle or scoff at her. Except that he didn’t.
“Do you?” he asked.
Looking up to meet his eyes, Mao saw that Jun looked rather serious. “Do you?” she ended up asking back, not sure on what to say.
Mao didn’t really know what to expect, she didn’t even know why she suddenly asked that aloud all of a sudden. She specially doesn’t know why her heart is suddenly beating that fast or what Jun is going to react to that.
And so it follows that she didn’t see it coming when Jun suddenly grabbed her by the waist and pushed her back against the door as he claimed her lips.
It wasn’t their first kiss, they’ve already kissed a couple of times in Hanadan and those kisses weren’t just lips touching either. And it wouldn’t even be her first real kiss. It wasn’t even long either.
But it still took her breathe away.
And for some reason, she felt like she’s been racing a few hundred miles when Jun lifted his lips and allowed their foreheads to touch.
“You’re shaking,” she heard him chuckle as his arms wrapped around her for an embrace.
“I’m not!” she cried, hitting him lightly at the chest. “What was that about?”
“Well, you did ask,” he pointed out with a chuckled.
Mao pouted playfully as their foreheads separated. “So what does this mean?” she asked.
Jun smiled. “After hours and hours of hearing, again, how everyone gushed about us being together, and then listening to my friend’s ribs, and then seeing Nino hit on you like that, and then you asking that question? Well, let’s just say I’m seriously thinking about it.”
Mao, who had, herself, raised an eyebrow at his rather lengthy reply, smiled.
“Yeah, me too.”
-----THE END-----
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CHARACTERS: Ohno Satoshi, Sakurai Sho, Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazunari, Matsumoto Jun, Inoue Mao
GENRE: RL
RATINGS: PG
DISCLAIMER: The only thing i own in this story is the plot...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: written because i wanted my first fic for the year to be JunxMao... and because i wanted a Kohaku-linked fic... and also, because it's been quite a while since i last wrote a JunxMao one-shot...
SUMMARY: Jun and Mao were really just friends... but with Kohaku putting them back to work together, is that about to end?
“I thought you guys left already!” Jun exclaimed in surprise the moment he found his four other group member there.
The five of them, well, six actually, counting their female counterpart for the year’s Kohaku hosting, Inoue Mao, had just finished up a string of shoots to promote the grandiose event. The final leg of those shoots was simply a batch of photo shoots featuring all of them at one point, solo ones in others, and two-shots in the rest. The two-shots were actually scheduled for the finale, the Jun/Mao pairing being the last of the 5 pairs they had to do.
And Jun had finished doing exactly that when he entered the Arashi greenroom and saw all of them there.
He’d have thought they left, especially since they’ve all said goodbye to him earlier already. The rest of Arashi were supposed to have gone home already. It was okay to leave him behind since he had his car, so did Aiba actually but he didn’t feel up to driving earlier, so they said they’d go ahead.
“Well, we would have,” said Sho, looking up from his laptop. “But our driver asked us something he never asked before.”
“Really?” Jun snorted as he headed straight towards his things and started arranging them. “And what is that?”
“He asked us if it’s possible to stick around for a bit,” Aiba replied in his usual high-energy voice, except that there’s some sort of snicker mixed in to those words.
“Why?” Jun asked, his eyebrows furrowing in confusion.
Their driver, the one they’d had for a few years now, had never been one to complain even though he’d be driving to pretty far off places just to pick up or drop off any one of them for a shoot or project or something like that. He had never heard the guy even mumble despite their odd hours, which is why he found it almost impossible that the guy would end up requesting that (and the guys and their manager giving in to such a request).
“Apparently,” Nino drawled out in a dry, annoyed tone, causing Jun to turn to the (slightly) older guy. “He was hoping to catch you and Mao-chan during your photo shoot.”
Jun was just about to ask why again when Sho immediately supplied helpfully “Domyouji and Makino! He’s a huge Hanadan fan.”
“Oh!” was all Jun could say at first, never really expecting that, of all things, to be the reason or a reason for their driver to make any request not now at least.
“He wasn’t alone actually, I heard some of the staff and crew talking about it excitedly when I left the shoot,” Aiba supplied. He was the 4th in their succession of the two-shots with Mao. “And not just talking, gushing even.”
Jun simply looked at Aiba for a moment before he shook his head and shrugged. “I don’t get it,” he admitted eventually.
During the years that Hanadan 1 thru the movie was on air, both he and Mao understood the charm of people seeing the two of them together, even the year after the movie aired. But it’s been years and years now. He’s had a lot of other roles and so had Mao. And it wasn’t like they’ve been seen around each other that often. He had assumed that the furor had died down already, especially within the entertainment circle where it’s already well established that he and Mao are just friends. Really, just that.
“You picked the words right out of my mouth!” Nino exclaimed in triumph as he turned towards Sho. “Hear that Sho-chan?”
“What?” Sho shrugged defiantly. “Jun-kun and Mao-chan looks perfect together!”
“But they are not together,” Nino pointed out.
“That’s not the point,” Sho simply shrugged
At this, Jun caught Aiba’s eyes as the latter sniggered causing him to roll his eyes and continue with his packing. Ohno simply smiled. After all, they’re all very well aware that Sho is the biggest Hanadan fanboy out of all of them and Nino just happens to enjoy putting down that certain belief of their resident caster’s ever since, well, ever since forever, but especially since Nino and Mao got to act with each other in their special drama.
“So what are you guys still doing here?” Jun decided to ask to intervene with the discussion (or else Nino and Sho’s discussion would never end). It was a logical question too, especially since the photo shoot has been over for about 15 minutes now, it was just that it took Jun and the director quite a few minutes to talk about some of Jun’s ideas.
“Let’s go to dinner!” Ohno replied (and effectively stopping Nino and Sho’s bickering).
“Yeah!” Aiba nodded. “It’s been a while since the five of us actually went out to eat together.”
“Oh!” Jun exclaimed, straightening up with a slight frown on his face. “Dinner huh?”
“Why, you have other plans?” Nino asked.
“You have a date?” Sho immediately followed up.
Before Jun could say anything in response to the sudden perk in the interest of the room though, a knock was suddenly heard, immediately followed by the opening of the door and a woman’s voice saying “Jun-kun, let’s go!” as she went through it.
Aiba and Ohno smiled pleasantly, Sho looked triumphant and Nino turned to Jun as though he was the biggest traitor he has ever met.
Because the woman walking through the door was no one else but Inoue Mao.
-----
“We’re really, really sorry for interfering with your date,” Sho bowed pleasantly and apologetically as the six of them reached the area where their cars were parked outside that restaurant, dinner having just ended.
“Oh no! No!” Mao chuckled as a slight pink colored her cheeks. “It wasn’t a date! Nothing like that Sho-kun! It isn’t!”
“Then thank you for letting us join you and Jun-kun!” Ohno beamed.
“Yeah!” Aiba nodded. “We didn’t know you and Jun-kun had a not-date dinner plans.”
“It was nothing Ohchan and It wasn’t really planned Aiba-chan, we just realized we were both hungry after the shoot,” Mao smiled as she turned to the guy on her right. Nino, who was by then being obscured off Mao’s direct sight by the length of Aiba, rolled his eyes, and Jun who was already standing by the driver’s side of his car, face palmed.
“Always been a pleasure spending time with you Mao-chan,” Nino exclaimed, stepping out of Aiba’s shadow as he bowed in some sort of exaggerated flourish. “Always.”
“You too, Ninomiya-kun,” Mao smiled and Nino beamed.
“Anyway,” Jun ended up coughing when Nino didn’t seem to be affected that Mao is starting to get squeamish under his gaze or that the three other guys around him were trying their best not to snicker (they all knew of Nino’s crush on the woman). “I guess we all better get going now, it’s pretty late.”
“Yeah,” Aiba nodded before he ended up grinning naughtily. “Plus Jun-kun can’t wait to keep Mao-chan to herself after we ruined their date.”
“Of course not!”
“It wasn’t a date!”
“Idiot!”
Jun, Mao, and Nino exclaimed almost the same time and they would have said even more if Sho hadn’t raised his arms in laughter and cried “Okay, okay! Stop! Really, we should all better be going!” he added as he steered the others towards Aiba’s car. The four of them would be carpooling while it’s already been decided that Jun would drive Mao home.
There was no point countering Mama Sho’s statement rally, not with Jun being of the same opinion, which is why the other three went along. Ohno and Aiba didn’t really need convincing though but Nino obviously didn’t want to leave Mao just yet.
He was already even about to enter the car when he turned around again to wave and smile at Mao, beaming when Mao waved back. And it was only after Aiba had started the engine did Jun and Mao finally enter his car.
“Real charmer, that one,” Jun chuckled as he started the car, referring to Nino. “He really does like you.”
“You all like me,” Mao corrected cheekily as she turned to Jun.
“Cocky,” Jun observed dryly, his eyebrows slightly raised although there was a small smile on his lips. “But you may be right. Nino, though, doesn’t just like you. The guy’s got a huge crush on you.”
“Oh please, that’s just some petty crush,” Mao shook her head, downplaying Jun’s statement.
“But still,” Jun shrugged. “Some people would say that you two look good together. You two would make a good couple.”
“I’ve heard that more than just a few times about us too,” Mao chuckled in reply.
“Yeah,” Jun sighed, remembering the conversation he had in the greenroom with the boys before Mao appeared. “Domyouji and Makino…”
Mao turned to Jun with a small smile before she too sighed.
“Yeah,” she simply breathed.
-----
“Do you ever wonder?” Mao suddenly asked just as they stopped in front of her apartment door, turning around to face Jun.
“Wonder about what?” he asked.
Mao was about to open her mouth but hesitated and closed it again. When she reopened it, she was just about to say that it was nothing when she saw Jun raising an eyebrow. She knew that it meant that Jun knew that she was just about to retract, knowing her as much as she knew him.
“Domyoiji and Makino,” she admitted eventually and in a very small voice as she looked anywhere but in Jun’s eyes. She felt foolish suddenly asking that question, it was just that the continuous digs they kept getting from his group mates, and then the reactions from everyone else from the staff to the crew, somehow got to her.
She wasn’t supposed to be asking that sort of question and she fully expected Jun to suddenly chuckle or scoff at her. Except that he didn’t.
“Do you?” he asked.
Looking up to meet his eyes, Mao saw that Jun looked rather serious. “Do you?” she ended up asking back, not sure on what to say.
Mao didn’t really know what to expect, she didn’t even know why she suddenly asked that aloud all of a sudden. She specially doesn’t know why her heart is suddenly beating that fast or what Jun is going to react to that.
And so it follows that she didn’t see it coming when Jun suddenly grabbed her by the waist and pushed her back against the door as he claimed her lips.
It wasn’t their first kiss, they’ve already kissed a couple of times in Hanadan and those kisses weren’t just lips touching either. And it wouldn’t even be her first real kiss. It wasn’t even long either.
But it still took her breathe away.
And for some reason, she felt like she’s been racing a few hundred miles when Jun lifted his lips and allowed their foreheads to touch.
“You’re shaking,” she heard him chuckle as his arms wrapped around her for an embrace.
“I’m not!” she cried, hitting him lightly at the chest. “What was that about?”
“Well, you did ask,” he pointed out with a chuckled.
Mao pouted playfully as their foreheads separated. “So what does this mean?” she asked.
Jun smiled. “After hours and hours of hearing, again, how everyone gushed about us being together, and then listening to my friend’s ribs, and then seeing Nino hit on you like that, and then you asking that question? Well, let’s just say I’m seriously thinking about it.”
Mao, who had, herself, raised an eyebrow at his rather lengthy reply, smiled.
“Yeah, me too.”
-----THE END-----
oooookay!!!! i really hope that made sense... LOL...
anyway, hope you liked it!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!!!
also, i;ve signed up for
help_pilipinas's $1-FOR-A-DRABBLE - BUY A DRABBLE fundraising, open for any JExHET piring... so, if you're interested... *winks*coimments are really loved!!!
