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Ryo!Muse: Mad Writer on the loose... WTF! The chapter title wasn't even related to the plot! Stop calling me a LOLI damnit! I AM NOT A LOLI!
Title: Tsunderella
Chapter: 5 - Beautiful Eyes
Characters: NEWS members, Tackey
Fandom: Johnny's Entertainment
Rating: PG15
Summary: Pi still could not stop thinking about that young man he had stumbled to the day before.
A/N: Time to drag in the rest of the gang as well as potential 'fairy godbrothers' and 'prince charmings'
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That time, Ryo had looked at him as if he was about to do something that could hurt him. He really acted as if at the very presence of himself, that he would be punished. What kind of joke was this? Ryo was older than him by almost a year. Instead of him treating Ryo with respect since he had been the younger, it was the other way around. And that also had been out of fear.
Somehow, he was unsure how to react to that.
Although now, even after Ryo had found out the truth... he still had not been able to relax in that house. How many times, when he was at home... Shige noticed how Ryo had been acting very cautious. Of course at times, he would still rebel and scream at his mother whenever his mother tried to make him do something Ryo did not want. But most of the times, Ryo had always been restless in that house.
And even though there had been no more big incident happening at home since that day, Shige could not help noticing at times how Ryo would limp for a few days sometimes. Or there could be a new cut on his arm another day. Anyhow, it was hard for him not to worry for his stepbrother.
Wonder how Keii was handling this...
“Toyama-kun...? Toyama-kun? Are you still in this class or not?” Miyake-sensei suddenly spoke as Shige snapped back to reality. Apologizing for his behaviour, Shige sat back on his chair as he reluctantly tried to forget about Ryo for a while and focus on the lessons.
xxx
Pi sighed to himself as he stared blankly towards the sky.
Nishizawa Ryo… was it?
Not sure why… he could not seem to keep from thinking about that young man he had stumbled into yesterday. His first class yesterday had been PE, so he had thought of getting to class a bit late for the day. He did not feel like doing any kinds of sports activities yesterday anyway. Who would have thought he would have another reason to skip class?
That Ryo person, he seemed to be around his age. Maybe a bit older… he did have that kind of feel, despite he seemed to be a bit short. Then again, that older brother of his… seemed to be treating Ryo-san as if he was still a small child. Strange. And that bandage on his head, that almost covered his left eyebrow fully; it did not seem to be a normal injury.
Pi shook his head. Why did it bother him so much? Could it be of the strange manner Ryo had acted? The peculiar things that he had spoke?
“There you are, Yama-kun! We’ve been wondering where you’ve been wandering…” cried one voice as Pi turned around to see who had called him. He shrugged to himself as it had only been Tegoshi, Ohkura and Masuda.
Tegoshi sighed. “Answer when you’re being called, Pi-chan! Jin had been looking for you… but he’s lazy to look for you so here we are.”
Pi grinned. “You guys shouldn’t have bothered then. It’s not like I’m running away after the break is over.”
“So what are you doing here, Yama-kun?” Ohkura asked as Pi shrugged.
“I was wondering about some guy I met yesterday… Ryo-chan. He had a cute name…,” Pi snickered to himself as Masuda turned towards Tegoshi curiously, as the lad had become quiet suddenly.
“Ryo… was his name Nishizawa Ryo-tan, Pi-chan?” cried Tegoshi in alarm as the three boys stared at him in surprise.
“Err… yeah. How did you know that was his name, Tesshi?” exclaimed Pi as Tegoshi gasped.
“He’s still around… I thought—it has been so long since I’ve heard about him.” Tegoshi started saying, as if he almost could not believe himself. “No… then that means, that time... what Hina-chan had been talking about… could it really be Ryo-tan?”
Now, even Ohkura and Masuda were interested as Pi spoke again. “What is it? Is there some problem with that guy or something?” he asked as Tegoshi shook his head.
“No,” he said as he apologised to the three of them. “It’s not like that. During middle school… Ryo-tan and I had been classmates. Ryo-tan had always been a quiet person… shy too, so he only had really few close friends. You can say we’re quite close… you see? And then one day, he stopped coming to school. Everyone… even the teachers were puzzled about it but we couldn’t find out why. Since we didn’t even know where he lived… or anything much about his family.”
“Ah… was this that person you’ve mentioned last time, Tegochi?” Masuda asked as he nodded. “That’s strange. Aren’t you supposed to give your address to the school when you’re applying for it? Why the school didn’t have any contacts of him?”
Tegoshi just sighed. “I don’t know. What I’ve heard… was that the address and contacts in the school records weren’t the actual address that Ryo-tan had lived in. Not sure if they had moved or it had been wrong from the beginning, but it really baffled the teachers. They had been saying it’s because of his brother… but they never heard it actually from Ryo-tan himself.”
“What happened to his brother?” Pi asked again as Tegoshi shrugged.
“He went missing. Ryo-tan had been so close to him ever since his father had died few years earlier. That’s why when he was absent for a few days later, we thought nothing about it. And then… suddenly there was this request about him quitting school.”
“Brother? But yesterday… I saw him with his older brother. The guy had been looking so worried when he thought Ryo had gone missing—“
“Was the brother a tall guy and looked like a hannya?” Tegoshi suddenly asked as Ohkura slapped his head for calling people names. Pi blinked at the description.
“Yes, so—“
“That’s his older stepbrother. His father remarried a few years earlier. The one that went missing was his real brother. Seriously… it was him! How was he—Pi-chan, when you met him?”
Pi shrugged. “He’s pretty much the same as you’ve described him to be, quiet… and a bit shy. It kind of puzzled me when the stepbrother had arrived and worried about him. As if he had never been out of the city before. He had some really big bandage on the left side of his forehead. Come to think, he did looked a bit frail. The brother had been taking him towards the nearby hospital after all—“
Tegoshi went quiet, as if he was thinking about something. Ohkura laughed nervously as the atmosphere seemed a bit tense around them.
“Aha… don’t tell me this old friend of yours was involved in some kind of abuse case?” he said as Masuda hissed at him for making such a lousy joke.
“That wouldn’t be so far off… Ryo-tan after all, ever since his father had died… he never did talk about his family much. The only times when he did was when he had been talking about his father… or his big brother. And Hina-chan did said something had been bothering Suba-san, the grocer that he had worked part time for. Come to think… why did I never think of this before?” Tegoshi mused as Pi shrugged.
“Whatever it is, we’ll have to discuss it later. Break’s over.” He said as the bell started to ring.
xxx
“Ah! That reminds me!” Tegoshi suddenly exclaimed as the four of them were about to leave class. “If I’m not wrong… Ryo-tan’s other stepbrother studied here too. What was his stepmother’s surname… ah! Toyama!”
“What’s this all about? All I’m hearing these few hours had been Ryo this and that, stepbrother this… stepmother that—are you trying to write a real life Cinderella story, Tegoshi?”
Suddenly Pi’s other friend Jin joined the four as Tegoshi made a face at them. “This was no joke, you idiot!” he cried as Pi and Massu hastily tried to calm them down as Ohkura shrugged at them.
“Come on… what’s the stepbrother’s name? We’ll go look for him.” He said as that distracted Tegoshi for a moment.
“Let’s see, I think his name had been Shige… or something—“, he mused aloud as Massu cocked his head.
“I think I heard there’s a Shigeaki in class 2-B. Wanna bet his surname was Toyama?”” he started to say as Tegoshi grabbed his arm and dashed off.
“Come on! We might miss him!” he hollered as the remaining three finally ran to catch up to them.
xxx
Shige frowned as he glanced behind him. He thought he heard whispers... nah. Might be some avid imagination of his or something. Who would want to even follow him around? Okay, he was not really handsome or ugly but then again... he was not the type of person girls would have fallen in love at first sight right away. Ryo was a likelier target... hehe, though it would not be so bad if he have his own swooning admirers, heh?
“Is he stupid? Why did he start grinning to himself?”
Shige looked behind him again as he thought he heard voices again. Was he imagining things? Shige shook his head silly. He was getting too paranoid...
He paused in front of his house gate as he searched his pockets for his keys. He cursed at himself when he could not find it.
“Maa... Ryo, should be inside right?” Shige said to himself as he hesitated to call his name aloud. But what if his mother was at home too? Wouldn’t she get suspicious if she saw them being nice to each other? Should he just ring the bell... he should, right?, he thought again before jumping in surprise as he heard the sound of the gates being unlocked.
Ryo opened the gates before him as he stared at him, puzzled.
“What are you doing... Shige? Forgot your keys again?” Ryo asked as there was a hint of amusement in his voice.
“Yes—“ Shige replied, embarrassed before looking at him in concern. “Was mum home?”
Ryo shook his head as he let Shige in.
“No... she went out earlier, not sure where. I was just about to go to sleep before seeing you outside—“
“Ah! Really... sorry about that. It totally slipped my mind today—“
“Nah... it’s because I’ve just taken my medicine earlier—“
Shige appeared worried. “Are you all right?”
Ryo laughed it off. “I’m okay! Geez... you worried as much as Keii-nii! I’m fine... just feeling a bit feverish. I guess it’s because the cut in my forehead got infected somehow, that’s what the doctor yesterday said... and I took a long time to get it checked—“
Shige nodded it off before noticing the new bruise on Ryo’s left arm. He frowned.
“Ryo... did mum hit you again?” he asked as Ryo immediately denied it.
“No! I’ve just fallen off the stairs earlier, so I had tried to break my fall—“
“That was the same excuse mum had used to explain to the neighbours—“
“No really... it’s true. I have been feeling light-headed earlier—“
“Seriously?”
“Seriously! Ah... you guys worried so much! Auntie wasn’t even in her awful mood lately so there’s nothing like that.” Ryo exclaimed as Shige shrugged.
“Then... you shouldn’t have overworked yourself as well. You’re still not well enough, yourself—“
“And risk having her with her unpredictable tantrum thrown at you? Nope!” Ryo replied at once as Shige threw his bag towards the house before loosening his uniform. “Then I’ll help out. You still had some chores left, isn’t it? Let me finish it while you rest for a while... mum not going to be back for a while anyway.”
Ryo shrugged as he let the argument die. “Suit yourself...” he said as Shige already sped towards the back of the house, where he spied the still unfinished basketful of laundries. Ryo snickered before glancing back towards the gates. Did he imagine it? The road in front of the gates had been empty but he swore he saw something earlier...
Seeing nothing, he shrugged as he picked up Shige’s bag before entering the house.
xxx
“Ryo-tan looked even more skinnier...” Tegoshi said softly as Massu patted his shoulders. “I never thought... it had been this bad.”
“We’ll do something...” Pi said as the other three friends nodded their heads.
It had been just an instant, seeing Ryo at that distance and to see him actually tried to be strong despite it was clear that even Jin was worried about his safety. And he didn't even know Ryo before today! But somehow, all five of them vowed to at least do something for this new friend—old friend for Tegoshi—whom they had just accidentally came to know about...
Title: Tsunderella
Chapter: 5 - Beautiful Eyes
Characters: NEWS members, Tackey
Fandom: Johnny's Entertainment
Rating: PG15
Summary: Pi still could not stop thinking about that young man he had stumbled to the day before.
A/N: Time to drag in the rest of the gang as well as potential 'fairy godbrothers' and 'prince charmings'
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That time, Ryo had looked at him as if he was about to do something that could hurt him. He really acted as if at the very presence of himself, that he would be punished. What kind of joke was this? Ryo was older than him by almost a year. Instead of him treating Ryo with respect since he had been the younger, it was the other way around. And that also had been out of fear.
Somehow, he was unsure how to react to that.
Although now, even after Ryo had found out the truth... he still had not been able to relax in that house. How many times, when he was at home... Shige noticed how Ryo had been acting very cautious. Of course at times, he would still rebel and scream at his mother whenever his mother tried to make him do something Ryo did not want. But most of the times, Ryo had always been restless in that house.
And even though there had been no more big incident happening at home since that day, Shige could not help noticing at times how Ryo would limp for a few days sometimes. Or there could be a new cut on his arm another day. Anyhow, it was hard for him not to worry for his stepbrother.
Wonder how Keii was handling this...
“Toyama-kun...? Toyama-kun? Are you still in this class or not?” Miyake-sensei suddenly spoke as Shige snapped back to reality. Apologizing for his behaviour, Shige sat back on his chair as he reluctantly tried to forget about Ryo for a while and focus on the lessons.
xxx
Pi sighed to himself as he stared blankly towards the sky.
Nishizawa Ryo… was it?
Not sure why… he could not seem to keep from thinking about that young man he had stumbled into yesterday. His first class yesterday had been PE, so he had thought of getting to class a bit late for the day. He did not feel like doing any kinds of sports activities yesterday anyway. Who would have thought he would have another reason to skip class?
That Ryo person, he seemed to be around his age. Maybe a bit older… he did have that kind of feel, despite he seemed to be a bit short. Then again, that older brother of his… seemed to be treating Ryo-san as if he was still a small child. Strange. And that bandage on his head, that almost covered his left eyebrow fully; it did not seem to be a normal injury.
Pi shook his head. Why did it bother him so much? Could it be of the strange manner Ryo had acted? The peculiar things that he had spoke?
“There you are, Yama-kun! We’ve been wondering where you’ve been wandering…” cried one voice as Pi turned around to see who had called him. He shrugged to himself as it had only been Tegoshi, Ohkura and Masuda.
Tegoshi sighed. “Answer when you’re being called, Pi-chan! Jin had been looking for you… but he’s lazy to look for you so here we are.”
Pi grinned. “You guys shouldn’t have bothered then. It’s not like I’m running away after the break is over.”
“So what are you doing here, Yama-kun?” Ohkura asked as Pi shrugged.
“I was wondering about some guy I met yesterday… Ryo-chan. He had a cute name…,” Pi snickered to himself as Masuda turned towards Tegoshi curiously, as the lad had become quiet suddenly.
“Ryo… was his name Nishizawa Ryo-tan, Pi-chan?” cried Tegoshi in alarm as the three boys stared at him in surprise.
“Err… yeah. How did you know that was his name, Tesshi?” exclaimed Pi as Tegoshi gasped.
“He’s still around… I thought—it has been so long since I’ve heard about him.” Tegoshi started saying, as if he almost could not believe himself. “No… then that means, that time... what Hina-chan had been talking about… could it really be Ryo-tan?”
Now, even Ohkura and Masuda were interested as Pi spoke again. “What is it? Is there some problem with that guy or something?” he asked as Tegoshi shook his head.
“No,” he said as he apologised to the three of them. “It’s not like that. During middle school… Ryo-tan and I had been classmates. Ryo-tan had always been a quiet person… shy too, so he only had really few close friends. You can say we’re quite close… you see? And then one day, he stopped coming to school. Everyone… even the teachers were puzzled about it but we couldn’t find out why. Since we didn’t even know where he lived… or anything much about his family.”
“Ah… was this that person you’ve mentioned last time, Tegochi?” Masuda asked as he nodded. “That’s strange. Aren’t you supposed to give your address to the school when you’re applying for it? Why the school didn’t have any contacts of him?”
Tegoshi just sighed. “I don’t know. What I’ve heard… was that the address and contacts in the school records weren’t the actual address that Ryo-tan had lived in. Not sure if they had moved or it had been wrong from the beginning, but it really baffled the teachers. They had been saying it’s because of his brother… but they never heard it actually from Ryo-tan himself.”
“What happened to his brother?” Pi asked again as Tegoshi shrugged.
“He went missing. Ryo-tan had been so close to him ever since his father had died few years earlier. That’s why when he was absent for a few days later, we thought nothing about it. And then… suddenly there was this request about him quitting school.”
“Brother? But yesterday… I saw him with his older brother. The guy had been looking so worried when he thought Ryo had gone missing—“
“Was the brother a tall guy and looked like a hannya?” Tegoshi suddenly asked as Ohkura slapped his head for calling people names. Pi blinked at the description.
“Yes, so—“
“That’s his older stepbrother. His father remarried a few years earlier. The one that went missing was his real brother. Seriously… it was him! How was he—Pi-chan, when you met him?”
Pi shrugged. “He’s pretty much the same as you’ve described him to be, quiet… and a bit shy. It kind of puzzled me when the stepbrother had arrived and worried about him. As if he had never been out of the city before. He had some really big bandage on the left side of his forehead. Come to think, he did looked a bit frail. The brother had been taking him towards the nearby hospital after all—“
Tegoshi went quiet, as if he was thinking about something. Ohkura laughed nervously as the atmosphere seemed a bit tense around them.
“Aha… don’t tell me this old friend of yours was involved in some kind of abuse case?” he said as Masuda hissed at him for making such a lousy joke.
“That wouldn’t be so far off… Ryo-tan after all, ever since his father had died… he never did talk about his family much. The only times when he did was when he had been talking about his father… or his big brother. And Hina-chan did said something had been bothering Suba-san, the grocer that he had worked part time for. Come to think… why did I never think of this before?” Tegoshi mused as Pi shrugged.
“Whatever it is, we’ll have to discuss it later. Break’s over.” He said as the bell started to ring.
xxx
“Ah! That reminds me!” Tegoshi suddenly exclaimed as the four of them were about to leave class. “If I’m not wrong… Ryo-tan’s other stepbrother studied here too. What was his stepmother’s surname… ah! Toyama!”
“What’s this all about? All I’m hearing these few hours had been Ryo this and that, stepbrother this… stepmother that—are you trying to write a real life Cinderella story, Tegoshi?”
Suddenly Pi’s other friend Jin joined the four as Tegoshi made a face at them. “This was no joke, you idiot!” he cried as Pi and Massu hastily tried to calm them down as Ohkura shrugged at them.
“Come on… what’s the stepbrother’s name? We’ll go look for him.” He said as that distracted Tegoshi for a moment.
“Let’s see, I think his name had been Shige… or something—“, he mused aloud as Massu cocked his head.
“I think I heard there’s a Shigeaki in class 2-B. Wanna bet his surname was Toyama?”” he started to say as Tegoshi grabbed his arm and dashed off.
“Come on! We might miss him!” he hollered as the remaining three finally ran to catch up to them.
xxx
Shige frowned as he glanced behind him. He thought he heard whispers... nah. Might be some avid imagination of his or something. Who would want to even follow him around? Okay, he was not really handsome or ugly but then again... he was not the type of person girls would have fallen in love at first sight right away. Ryo was a likelier target... hehe, though it would not be so bad if he have his own swooning admirers, heh?
“Is he stupid? Why did he start grinning to himself?”
Shige looked behind him again as he thought he heard voices again. Was he imagining things? Shige shook his head silly. He was getting too paranoid...
He paused in front of his house gate as he searched his pockets for his keys. He cursed at himself when he could not find it.
“Maa... Ryo, should be inside right?” Shige said to himself as he hesitated to call his name aloud. But what if his mother was at home too? Wouldn’t she get suspicious if she saw them being nice to each other? Should he just ring the bell... he should, right?, he thought again before jumping in surprise as he heard the sound of the gates being unlocked.
Ryo opened the gates before him as he stared at him, puzzled.
“What are you doing... Shige? Forgot your keys again?” Ryo asked as there was a hint of amusement in his voice.
“Yes—“ Shige replied, embarrassed before looking at him in concern. “Was mum home?”
Ryo shook his head as he let Shige in.
“No... she went out earlier, not sure where. I was just about to go to sleep before seeing you outside—“
“Ah! Really... sorry about that. It totally slipped my mind today—“
“Nah... it’s because I’ve just taken my medicine earlier—“
Shige appeared worried. “Are you all right?”
Ryo laughed it off. “I’m okay! Geez... you worried as much as Keii-nii! I’m fine... just feeling a bit feverish. I guess it’s because the cut in my forehead got infected somehow, that’s what the doctor yesterday said... and I took a long time to get it checked—“
Shige nodded it off before noticing the new bruise on Ryo’s left arm. He frowned.
“Ryo... did mum hit you again?” he asked as Ryo immediately denied it.
“No! I’ve just fallen off the stairs earlier, so I had tried to break my fall—“
“That was the same excuse mum had used to explain to the neighbours—“
“No really... it’s true. I have been feeling light-headed earlier—“
“Seriously?”
“Seriously! Ah... you guys worried so much! Auntie wasn’t even in her awful mood lately so there’s nothing like that.” Ryo exclaimed as Shige shrugged.
“Then... you shouldn’t have overworked yourself as well. You’re still not well enough, yourself—“
“And risk having her with her unpredictable tantrum thrown at you? Nope!” Ryo replied at once as Shige threw his bag towards the house before loosening his uniform. “Then I’ll help out. You still had some chores left, isn’t it? Let me finish it while you rest for a while... mum not going to be back for a while anyway.”
Ryo shrugged as he let the argument die. “Suit yourself...” he said as Shige already sped towards the back of the house, where he spied the still unfinished basketful of laundries. Ryo snickered before glancing back towards the gates. Did he imagine it? The road in front of the gates had been empty but he swore he saw something earlier...
Seeing nothing, he shrugged as he picked up Shige’s bag before entering the house.
xxx
“Ryo-tan looked even more skinnier...” Tegoshi said softly as Massu patted his shoulders. “I never thought... it had been this bad.”
“We’ll do something...” Pi said as the other three friends nodded their heads.
It had been just an instant, seeing Ryo at that distance and to see him actually tried to be strong despite it was clear that even Jin was worried about his safety. And he didn't even know Ryo before today! But somehow, all five of them vowed to at least do something for this new friend—old friend for Tegoshi—whom they had just accidentally came to know about...
