honou_no_izumi: (Shinji)
honou-no-izumi ([personal profile] honou_no_izumi) wrote2010-02-02 05:48 pm

Tsunderella - Chapter 10

One of these days I need to buck up and make me a Takki icon XD

Title: Tsunderella
Chapter
: 10 - Unconditional
Characters: NEWS members, Tackey
Fandom: Johnny's Entertainment
Rating
: PG15
Summary: Everyone, at some point of life... wished to be loved.
A/N: Okay I lied... speed of updates gonna depend on my two favourite muse atm. Can't believe I actually finish this in 12 hours.
A/N2: TAKKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG YOU~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <3<3<3<3<3 I swear if Ryo's a Tsundere... you ARE a Deredere~

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Wonder why he would still come to visit the kid again? Shuuji sighed.

Perhaps for some reason, seeing that kid… brought again hope in his heart. That he would finally remember…

It could not just be mere coincidences. On that day when Ryo had his accident, he had been feeling very ill. It was not just him losing his appetite or something. His head had started to hurt, his chest had been feeling as if a knife has pierced through his heart—he had been feeling very, very ill that even Tsubasa’s mother was worried. So that was the real reason on why he had gone to the hospital for a check-up…

He wondered if there was any real connection between him and Ryo. He did feel it though, that connection. Whenever he had looked at Ryo… he always had this feeling that he had known this young man for a very long time. And lately, he had started to have some kind of random flashbacks. Were those images and pieces from his long lost memories? Or just something that he unconsciously had made up because he had strongly wished to regain his memories. Please god… let that be the former. He couldn’t stand it if it had all been false memories…

Shuuji entered the room to find Ryo looking back at him. The tube in his mouth had been replaced by another type of breathing apparatus as he was now conscious.

Oh… that must have been the cause for the alarm yesterday…

Shuuji glanced at his watch. Yeah, it was still early. The usual times he had chosen to come to visit Ryo. He grinned to himself. Those kids must have been baffled, they must have wondered who was it that had visited Ryo, mysteriously; besides themselves of course.

He grabbed a stool as he sat beside Ryo.

The position of Ryo’s head was leaning a bit towards the direction he was sitting at the moment, but he knew better. Ryo’s eyes might be open… but he’s probably not aware of his surroundings. Shuuji chuckled to himself bitterly. Well, there’s at least a bit of similarity between them. Shuuji himself had been suffering from a head trauma few years ago. It was not something that he was proud about… but perhaps that was one reason why he felt drawn to Ryo. Though he doubt the reason for his injuries was similar to Ryo’s.

He just hoped that Ryo could recover perfectly as he did. Though, he himself couldn’t say that he did recovered perfectly. His injuries might have healed… but he had lost every memory of himself that he might have had.

Shuuji glanced towards Ryo as he noticed beads of sweat lined the side of his face. He smiled as he took a piece of cloth from a nearby basin and wet it with water. He dabbed the cloth at the side of Ryo’s face before continuing to do so on the rest of Ryo’s face and neck. Ryo continued to stare at him as Shuuji could have sworn that the young boy had smiled.

“You liked it, huh? Being clean…” Shuuji spoke as he leaned closer to kiss Ryo’s cheeks.

“You have to get well… Ryo.”

xxx

Keii dropped the paper bags on the dining table before turning his glance towards the stair. He sighed. Hard to think that the incident had happened several weeks ago. Since it felt as if it had just happened yesterday. Keii bit his lips.

All of this happened just because of money. How stupid was that? Just because Ryo’s father had left him and his brother half of the family’s inheritance, she had kept Ryo imprisoned at her side to ensure that the second half of the inheritance did not slip from her grasp. And he thought when his mother had decided to marry Ryo’s father, that he and Shige would lead a normal life; having a proper father for a change. Their lives in the past for certain had been hard but what was harder were the taunts they used to get from the neighbourhood kids. They used to give Shige and him rude names just because they did not have a father. As if the fact that their real father had left them when Shige had not even born yet was their fault. At least after his mum remarried and they had transferred schools, the taunting stopped. They had a father now, even if they were not related by blood. But that’s still okay for him.

Ryo’s father had been a nice person. Hide used to say something like his father was his greatest superhero, his own Ultraman. Keii used to laugh at him about it. How come someone who had been older than him could still say something as silly as that?

But deep inside, he had been a bit jealous. Hide and Ryo’s father had been such a great man. He wondered if he ever could be proud of his real father like that. Probably not.

He saw it, after those people had taken Ryo to the hospital. He saw the folder containing a copy of Ryo’s father’s last will on the floor near the place Ryo had fallen. His mother had probably pushed Ryo down when she had tried to get that folder back. He also found a bloodied knife in his mother’s room and remembered the long cut on Ryo’s arm. Mother must have tried to kill Ryo as well.

Wonder when his mother had turn into this kind of person he did not recognise? Inagaki-san had told him several days ago that they might put her on trial but also to announce her mentally unstable.

Mentally unstable...

That should explain a lot. But he wondered since when she had been like that? Could it be after his real dad had left him... or after Shige had been born? Why did Hiroshi-san have to fall for someone like his mother? If he hadn’t... Ryo and Hide would have had led a different life. Then again, so did both him and Shige.

Perhaps it had been fate...

Keii sighed. He’d better prepare dinner early if he wants to go visit Ryo today. Shige would probably throw a tantrum if he comes home and finding the house empty of ready-to-eat food. He glanced towards the clock on the wall. Four o’ clock. Well, he still had a lot of time. He grinned to himself; it was very amusing to see Shige acting close to being spoilt... perhaps because he had been paying more attention to Ryo for the time being.

Ahh... sibling love. How he loved it to bits...

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He felt happy. He never thought he could be feeling so happy like this. Strange as to how seeing Ryo every day could brighten his day like sunshine on a clear spring day.

Of course, it was not because Ryo remained bedridden being the cause of his cheery mood. But more to the fact; to him, Ryo’s condition seemed to be improving every day. Somehow, that lightened his heart. Talking to Ryo as well, for some reason... he just loved to do so. Not sure what made him kiss Ryo’s cheeks earlier but somehow, he could not help himself.

He loved Ryo. It seemed so strange; he had only seen Ryo just in these few weeks. The only thing he knew about Ryo was that of his own name and how did he ended up in that state. Yet he had loved him all the same.

Shuuji frowned.

What would happen next once Ryo finally become aware of himself? What would happen to him? Could he see Ryo again after that? What would Ryo think of him then, a stranger who happened to care about him purely by chance?

Should he stop visiting Ryo at his room then?

For some reason, even thinking that thought alone had already given him such a painful feeling inside his heart.

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It has now been two months and half. Ryo’s condition had continued to improve. Whether it was because of their collective effort of visiting him every day and/or the visit from the unknown person who had always left behind a single Carnation flower by Ryo’s side; by this point, neither of them had cared about it. All that really mattered was that Ryo had gradually become aware of his surroundings. Keii had noticed it, a few days earlier. That Ryo had shown a slight reaction to his presence or when he had called his name.

Pi also had noticed it, and Tegoshi had been overexcited when Ryo had blinked at him when he had called his name. They had consulted the doctor about it, fearing it was just them being too hopeful. But even the doctors were optimistic about Ryo’s condition. It was not really common yet not too rare for head-trauma patients like Ryo to exhibit such a speedy recovery. It could either be a miracle... or Ryo had a very strong will to survive, to allow himself to heal so rapidly.

It was certainly a very good news to hear.

Or at least, it supposed to be.

Lately though, Pi had noticed. The presence of that single flower on the vase inside the room had slowly becoming scarce. He had wondered if that person that he once saw before had decided not to visit Ryo so often anymore. He wondered what the reason was. Then again he had been wondering why the person had started to visit Ryo in the first place, but that answer was no longer important to him.

He wished he could meet that person properly one day, if only to thank him for cheering Ryo for so long.

Pi sighed as he turned his attention towards Ryo. To his surprise, Ryo had been staring at the empty vase as well. A stray tear slid pass Ryo’s cheeks as Pi gently wiped it away.

“You missed him as well, did you Ryo?”

Ryo’s eyes slowly moved towards his direction as Pi saw the saddest expression that he had ever seen worn on Ryo’s face.
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[identity profile] cipherstar.livejournal.com 2010-02-03 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ahh... sibling love. How he loved it to bits..." ->>haha kyoudai ai pulak..keii is cuute! ^^

*gasp!* ryo knows it's his hide-nii!!

*runs to read the next chapter XDD