Walk Away... ft. Nino
This fic (Nino centric) is partly based from Christina Aguillera's song "Walk Away"
Disclaimer: I don't know/own Arashi, Johnny's Jimusho or anything else... I've also never been to Japan so most of the places here are invented and Arashi's personalities are based from my assumptions to fit the story...
enjoy!
Walk Away
Chapter 1
HIM ~ HER
"I guess both of us are lonely tonight huh?" He looked to his left as he spoke to a half-conscious girl who was finishing her shot of vodka for the umpteenth time. His head felt heavy and he don't know for how long he was having a chat with the exotic looking girl beside him.
She was heavily drunk as well.
Her black curly hair were spread all over her face with little beads of sweats forming on her forehead. Cheeks were slightly pink due to her drunken state and lips moist red because of the liquor and consistent wiping.
"You're drunk..." The girl's speech slurred as she stared at him with sleepy black eyes. He chuckled at this statement and drank his own shot of vodka.
"Maybe I am. I may look like a mere shadow to you right now."
"No...I can see your face clearly. Your eyes are sooooo small." She smirked at him and licked her lips.
Though the movement was unconsciously done by her, it was enough to ignite some fire to him.
"Yeah? Well yours is a bit...lustrous." His face came nearer to hers as she stared back at him. Both minds were dominated by the effects of alcohol as their bodies instinctly respond to the call of each other.
"Yeah?" Her breath tickle his mouth as it close its distance.
"Yeah..."
Mouths slowly caress each other, matching the movement of their hands.
She tasted vodka in his lips as her tongue lavished him, memorizing every corners of his mouth. Her head, too heavy to think and too intoxicated to be rational, she gave in to this man's demands as she felt his fingers feeling her warm skin underneath her shirt.
The next thing she felt was a soft mattress on her back.
The last thing on her mind was to panic regarding the place where she was taken and giving a damn about whether to ask him some questions if she was taken into a motel was the farthest thing on her mind. Both of their lust have taken them over and what only matters most is the warm mouth that is travelling on her chest. He has a firm grasp on her waist as he continue to worship her body with kisses.
'Tomorrow, all of this will be soon forgotten.' She thought as she elicited a moan.
She was quite proud to think a bit clearly eventhough she was sedated by the charm of the man on top of her.
Chapter 2
The Aspirin did not Work
"Have you done the survey of the girls?" Jenisha asked Minamoto Tendai who instantly searched inside his huge brown pouch which he refer to as his 'business bag' and gave her a blue folder with a three page letter sized bond papers clipped inside.
"Those are the result of the survey. We got 500 girls to ask what do they want to see in the next release of the DVD and have computed the results. They have a weird sense those girls, ended up giving the same answers."
"That only means these girls desperately wanted to see whatever the outcome of this survey in the next DVD." Jenisha replied and opened the folder.
"Oh no..." She whispered as she scanned the pages.
"Told you, its quite a surprise but at the same time expected."
"85.67% wanted to see some nude photos... we certainly can't give them that. I'm directing a concert not a porn movie." Jenisha sighed frustratingly.
"At least there are still quite a number of girls who wanted to see the boys in their most personal and intimate ways like more interviews talking about their private lives or maybe short clips of their personal interactions with their love ones."
"Are you sure these girls are fans?"
"Yeah. Hardcore." Tendai said and Jenisha chuckled.
Jenisha Salvior is definitely looking forward to this new project she was about to do. At 21, she was offered by a man who owns a big entertainment agency in Japan to direct a concert tour for his boyband that will be released throughout Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. This project is the biggest thing that came to her and it will be a make or break for her career as a young director who wanted to establish a name in the Japanese movie industry. She graduated her four-year college degree of AB International Politics and immediately started her studies in film school located in a province in the Philippines. From then, Jenisha's expertise was hone through directing music videos of rock bands from the Philippine underground music scene gaining recognition in her own country.
She came here to Japan to try her luck in the film industry and was working on production agencies when the man called 'Johnny' saw one of her rock music videos being played in the production agency when she was once working. The offer was made to her and she complied, for this will be a whole new experience. Jenisha have never tried to direct a video for a boyband or 'idols' as they call it in Japan, because there aren't local boybands making it big in her own country. She will be with the band for the rest of the tour because it will be a fusion of documentary, concert and movie so, it means she will be travelling around Japan for free.
"But I'm still thinking that this project is too big for an amateur like me." Jenisha whispered.
"Yes it is but take this as a challenge. Johnny trust you in this."
"Hell yeah. Maybe that's why they wanted me to direct this thing because I'm a girl and I reflect what the fangirls would like to see so that this DVD could sell like hotcakes." Jenisha said sarcastically and heard a chuckle from Tendai.
"That could be another point, aside from your skills." Tendai teased.
"This is where commercialization begins. They start it now with the director going down to the artists."
"Well, Johnny has good gimmick skills. You're the youngest director in Japan and most especially, a girl. People can't help not to raise their eyebrows or talk about it ever since the news came out who was chosen to direct the band's concert tour." Tendai said.
"Yeah you're right. I'm young and I'm a girl so, judgments and apprehensions are inevitable coming from the people and from the idols themselves."
"You got a point there but those boys are open to suggestions and plus, you're the over-all boss there so they have no choice but to follow you!" Tendai and Jenshi both laughed.
"Shit. Headache's still there..." She massaged her forehead as she handed the folder back to Tendai.
"The aspirin did not work?"
"Maybe the effects went off."
"Where were you last night anyway? Tried to call you many times but you weren't answering the phone."
Jenisha bit her lip at Tendai's question and stared out in to the car window.
She can't tell him she drank so much last night just to welcome her first night in Yokohama and ended up waking in a motel near her accomodations with nothing but a blanket to cover her body. She sighed as the memories of last night came crashing in. She knew his face really well, memorized each forms of his body when they were together but that was it. They don't even know each other's name.
It was one of the best she ever had and all she have is his face and the sound of his voice. She certainly couldn't tell Tendai that she just had a one night stand with some Japanese stranger just because she was way way too drunk. Never did she allow any situation for her to lose any rationality. Just last night.
Just last night.
"Well... I was... preparing my application in Tokyo University for my Graduate studies. I've been writing my essays all night in a coffeeshop and left my phone in my hotel room." Jenisha replied.
It was the half-truth anyway...
She was indeed writing her application essays in a coffeeshop when she decided to have a drink alone. She brought her phone with her but it was left ignored when the stranger came to her.
At least all will be forgotten... that's one of the benefits of having to spend a night with a stranger, you can immediately move on...it would be pretty embarassing to see him once again...
"Oh...how will you juggle all of that?"
"I'm going to start my studies after this tour. Right now, I need to focus."
"Exactly. You'll be meeting them now."
"Looking forward to it."
Chapter 3
Too Drunk to Think
"Nino!!! Ninomiya!" Sho Sakurai kept on banging on the hotel door of his friend and bandmate who is certainly oversleeping.
"What's wrong? Your voice is all around the place." Matsumoto said who walked towards Sho together with Ohno and Aiba.
"It's almost noon and Nino's still sleeping. Anyone knows what time did he arrived last night?" Sho asked and his patience is starting to lose as he was knocking or rather, banging on Nino's door.
"Have no idea." Ohno replied and tried knocking himself.
Arashi will be having their concert tour all over Japan, a part of promoting their latest album, Arashic. They just arrived yesterday in Yokohama for their first concert of the tour and went directly to a bar to wind themselves up before working the next day. Nino, who said that he was only going to buy some drinks, disappeared for the rest of the night.
"Seems like he won't wake up with what you are doing to his hotel door. Let's kick it instead and gave him a good shake in his bed. That would work!" Aiba exclaimed and Matsujun gave him a what-the-hell-are-you-thinking glare but considering the number of times Ohno and Sho knocked on the door with no response from Nino, Matsumoto welcomed the Baka's suggestion.
"You do it." Matsumoto stepped aside and so did Sho and Ohno.
"Okay! This is fun. Breaking hotel doors at noon huh?" Aiba said and rolled up his sleeves.
"Come on, just do it. We'll be late for lunch." Matsumoto sighed frustratingly.
"Yay! One..." Aiba raises his right foot ready to kick the door.
"Two..." Raises his foot even higher to exert more force.
"Three! Aaaahh!!!!" A Masaki Aiba crashed into a carpeted floor with his face down first.
"Why do you keep making those noises on my door?" A Kazunari Ninomiya with puffy eyes, sleepily said.
"Aiba what are you doing in there?" Nino asked and scratched his head as Sho and Ohno helped the wincing Aiba stand up.
"Oww...that hurts..." Aiba rubbed his cheek.
With a perfect timing Nino opened his hotel door just as Aiba was about to kick it. Leaving Masaki kicking the air and ending up falling on his face infront of Nino.
"You overslept, move your ass now for we will be late for our practice." Sho, Matsumoto, Ohno and Aiba went passed Nino and entered his room.
"What time is it?" Nino closed the door and rubbed his eyes as he slumped back to his bed.
"11:26, you should really get up and prepare." Matsujun said and frowned slightly when he saw two handphones on Nino's table.
"Oi! Don't. go. back. to. sleep." Aiba dragged Nino by his feet until he land himself on the floor with a soft thud.
"Oww! Dammit Aiba! You don't have to do that!" Nino sprang up from the floor and rubbed his head. Aiba just laughed heartily at him.
Nino stood up to get his towel and started heading to the bathroom.
"Wait for me, I'll be fast." Nino said and ran to hit the showers.
"What's up with the two phones?" Matsujun asked when Nino went out from the shower and was dressing himself.
"Huh? What pho-" Nino looked at his table and saw a black flip phone beside his silver one. He shut his mouth as he continue to button up his shirt. He knew very well whose phone is it and what happened prior to this day.
"Where did you go last night? We were worried when you didn't came back." Ohno asked and suddenly the atmosphere in his room became too much to bear for Nino. Usually, he would just be his usual sarcastic self or maybe as genki as Aiba but right now, he can't even give a proper answer for his friends.
"Uhh... I saw a friend last night, I wasn't able to tell you because he kind of dragged me immediately. My phone was off that's why I haven't returned your calls." Nino said and his head pound inside him. Hangovers are definitely total bull@$%^.
"Too drunk to think huh?" Sho smirked at him.
"Uhh...yeah..." Nino's reply was lame but it remain unnoticed by the rest of the Arashi as all of them went out and started heading downstairs for lunch. Aside from his pulsating headache, what's remaining him speechless is what happened last night. He couldn't tell them that he had one of the most amazing nights last night because that night wasn't even spent with his girlfriend.
Yes, he has a girlfriend and he just had an amazing sex with an exotic looking girl he clearly remembers the face but not a single letter of her name last night. That's why he couldn't tell Arashi because Nino knew they will rub it on his face on what kind of a selfish cheating bastard he is.
And yes, he is definitely a bastard and he deserve all the words that will come out from his friends' mouths the moment that they will know.
First night in Yokohama and he did an amazing load of shit, although there are benefits that a one-night stand could give.
...I could just consider last night as one amazing memory and bury it so that I could continue wiht my life. Spare me the trouble of being called a bastard, breaking up with my girlfriend and shaking the whole situation. Good thing I never knew that girl and there's a little possibility of seeing her again since she's a foreigner. I might fall into a sinful addiction if i see her again...
"We will be meeting our director this afternoon huh?" Aiba said excitedly.
"Yes definitely. Are you excited because its someone different?" Matsumoto raised his eyebrow.
"Yay! The director should be hot..." Aiba replied with a big grin on his face.
"I don't know. All we know is that the director's a girl that's it." Sho said thoughtfully.
"Kind of a little spaced-out huh?" Ohno bumped Nino into the shoulders and smirked as all of them were going out from the elevator. Nino stared at Ohno and didn't quite catch what the others were talking about.
"Ah, good assumption Riida. I'm hungry as you are and I will devour the food just like what you always do." Nino grinned at him Ohno as Aiba can't help letting out a giggle.
"Stop it Aiba-chan. You giggle like a girl." Nino said and Aiba looked at him quite stunned.
"Eh?! I do not!" Aiba lightly punched Nino as they headed to the hotel restaurant.
"Do to." Matsumoto muttered and rolled his eyes at Aiba. Sho gave out a laugh as Aiba shook his head towards Matsujun.
Chapter 4
Eh?????!!!!
"Is your phone off? I've been calling you but its always unattended." Mutshito Kiichi, a staff who is working directly with Johnny, said to Jenisha the moment that she arrived in the concert venue.
"Huh? Hold on, I think I have turned it off." Jenisha tapped her pockets but felt none and then searched inside her bag.
Where the hell is it? This is the same bag I used last night. She did not found her phone inside her denim body bag and she instantly paused when she remembered about last night.
"Umm... J-jen?" Kiichi tapped her shoulder.
"Huh? Uhh... I think I left it in my room... or maybe I lost it." Jenisha said and whispered the last part. She have to buy another phone and gather everyone's number once again. One night stands are definitely a hassle.
"Okay, never mind. Come on, let's go to the dance hall where the band is currently rehearsing their steps right now."
"Were they just starting to rehearse?" Jenisha asked as she, Tendai and Kiichi walked inside the building heading to the dance hall.
"Nope, they went in after lunch. They are pretty excited to meet you." Kiichi grinned at her.
"Hmm... why should they?" Jenisha wondered.
"I told them you're a girl."
"Hey, she's a real girl Kiichi not a new half." Tendai said and all of them laughed.
"You make it sound like I'm a new half." Jenisha said and smirked.
"Haha! You got it wrong... they were pretty excited because they don't get to have female directors in Japan. Very rare actually. I haven't told them your age because I wasn't quite sure how old you are. What's your age again?" Kiichi asked.
"I'm 21. Now they might think I'm an okasa."
"From new-half to okasa huh? Maybe that's why the boys are excited, different images of you are playing in their heads." Tendai chuckled.
"Here we are." The three of them stopped in front of a metal door. Jenisha read the paper posted in front of the door.
"ARASHI dance hall." She whispered and Kiichi opened the door for them.
"By the way, here's your itenerary for the whole night. You will make your own agenda for the next days to come." Tendai handed her a folder
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"Break!" Sho exclaimed as Matsujun collapsed on the floor while Ohno and Aiba leaned on their knees as he panted, Nino wiped his sweats with his towel and Sho drank the water greedily from his bottle.
"Thank...god...that was really tiring..." Aiba continue to pant and his hair wet from sweats, drops of it went to the floor.
"At least we're doing good. Less mistakes Aiba, you're improving." Sho grinned at him and gave him a thumb up. Matsujun was massaging his foot while Nino was searching on his bag.
"Are we going to practice at the stage tonight?" Ohno asked.
"I want to." Nino said who was still searching for something on his bag.
"How are you doing?" The door opened and Kiichi, entered in to the hall.
"Kiichi! We're good." Ohno smiled at him.
"Konnichiwa Nino." Kiichi teased Nino who did not looked up when he entered.
"Hai, hai." Nino waved his hand without looking up and was still digging on his bag. Arashi chuckled at Nino's behavior then most of them became quiet when they saw a girl together with Tendai entered the hall.
"Anou...uhmmm...is she...?" Aiba said as he stared at the girl who was reading a folder while entering the hall and walking towards them.
The girl was about 5.3" tall. The long curly jet-black hair which was tied in a half pony spread on her shoulders and she wore a black vintage shirt matched with her denim jeans that reached her knee and a pair of black high-cut Chuck Taylors. Her tan skin shines as the flourescent light hits it making it into a sun-kissed bronze color. She was intently reading something on folder as she and Tendai walked towards the members of Arashi.
"Yes, she is." Kiichi replied.
Nino zipped his bag and stood up from sitting as he was wiping his face with a new towel that he found inside his duffel bag. He was about to ask the others what's the fuss about because they have gone a little quiet and Aiba is sounding too eager, which is either because of food or girls.
Eh?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shit! Big shit!!
He unconciously dropped the towel on his side and froze on the place where he was standing on. He felt his heart began to stop for a while then loud and fast thumps followed. His mind race in parallel with the beatings of his heart.
"Let me introduce to you Arashi one by one." Kiichi said to the girl who was still concentrating on her reading.
"J-jen? This is Sakurai Sho." The girl finally looked up at Kiichi then to Sho who held his hand and shook it.
This can't be happening... this can't be hap-
"Nino, could you hand me my water bottle please?" Aiba said to Nino. Nino just stared back at him blankly then back at Jenisha.
"Nino? Could you han-" Aiba said again and Nino reached out to the water bottle and walk towards Aiba to give it to him while staring at the girl.
"My foot really hurts." Moans Matsumoto and stretched his right foot just when Nino was about to walk to Aiba.
"Yay!" Aiba shouted when Nino tripped on Matsujun's foot. Nino fell into Riida spilling the contents of the bottle to him, Ohno slipped because the water spilled on the floor and grabbed Aiba's shirt for support but he also lost his balance as all three landed on top of Matsujun's body and on his sore foot. Aiba gripped on Sho's pants and he too almost lost his balance but got hold of Jenisha's arm and gripped it tightly to be able to remain standing. The domino effect never fails to be absent in times like this, especially in front of greeting new people such as their new director.
"Itai..." Matsujun whimpered.
"Tsktsk...still accident prone guys?" Tendai shook his head while Kiichi laughs.
"Are you okay?" Jenisha said and assisted Sho to stand up.
"Yeah I'm alright. Shit, this is way way embarassing. Sorry. " Sho looked at her apologetically. Jenisha just bit her lip to restrain her laugh.
She stared at the four boys who were struggling to get up. The guy beside Sho was the first one who stood up and was brushing his pants, the guy beside him who was all wet because all the water was spilled to him, was squeezing out water from his shirt.
"Get off! All of you are heavy. I wonder if I can still dance." The one on the floor with his foot stretched out was angrily trying to push the guys off him.
"You're alive that's what's important." The guy with a short black hair, his uneven haircut hung loose on his face because of sweat said sarcastically.
Jenisha blinked her eyes twice before she instantly froze on her spot and stared at the guy with the uneven haircut.
Oh shit!
Nino pushed his hair away from his face and also squeezed a few water off his shirt when his eyes met Jenisha's. All movements from his body stopped, except from his wild racing of thumps of his chest as he saw recognition in Jenisha's eyes.
Will she say 'hi', will she greet me or ask me 'hey, are you the guy i'm with last night?'... Shit! All rationality left Ninomiya's brain.
Chapter 5
Certainly Not!
"Le'ts go back to the introduction, Jenisha this is Aiba Masaki." Kiichi said.
"Jen." Tendai tapped Jenisha's back when she didn't even move.
"Yabai!" Jenisha suddenly exclaimed when she felt that tap.
"Yeah, when you're with Aiba something not good will always happen." Matsujun joked and all of them chuckled, except for Nino and Jenisha who were still staring at each other.
"Hey! It was Nino who started it!" Aiba shouted and threw a towel towards Matsumoto which hit him on the face.
So, I'm not the only one who's thinking that this is not good... Nino thought.
"Nice to meet you, Aiba." Jenisha reached out her hand.
"This is Satoshi Ohno, the leader of the group which is the eldest."
"Kazunari Ninomiya." Kiichi referred to the guy Jenisha was staring at. Nino reached out his hand and Jenisha looked at it for a couple of seconds before hesitatingly taking it.
The little physical touch brought them back to last night. The warm skin sent that familiar feeling which they perfectly knew eventhough their minds were clouded by the effects of alchohol.
"And right here is the youngest of all Arashi, Matsumoto Jun." Jenisha broke the eye contact with Nino and shook hands with Matsumoto who was still nursing his foot.
"It doesn't look bad Jun." Ohno said as he took a look of his foot.
"I guess its fine." Matsumoto muttered.
Jenisha just wanted to sprint a run out of this room or just disappear into a mere smoke so that she could just get out from Nino's proximity.
Nino...that's his name...
"And Arashi this is Jenisha Salvior, your director for your upcoming concert DVD."
"Hajimemashite." All of them bowed shortly to her and grinned. Nino secretly heaved a deep sigh to let himself breath. A while ago they were engaged in a stare battle but right now, they seem to avoid each other's gaze.
Guess she doesn't have any plans of talking to me...
"This is exciting! We never have a female director before! Promise we'll be good to you." Aiba grinned.
"Well, you should." Jenisha teased as they laughed.
"Looking forward to work with you too." Jenisha said and smiled.
Nino, seeing her smile for the first time, was just staring at her recalling each features that he remember last night. She was smiling smugly at him last night most of the time and she looks different between smiling sexily and giving a warm innocent smile.
Does she always transform into someone else whenever she's drunk? Oh shit...this is not good, I'm curious on everything about her...
"Umm...hey, tomorrow I would like to talk to you guys about some plans for the DVD, is that okay?" Jenisha said.
"Of course! You're the boss here!" Ohno saluted her.
Nino was just quietly sitting on the floor observing her while Jenisha try to act normal and do all that she can to stay professional.
"Sorry boys, she has to meet the rest of the staff and crew right now." Kiichi patted Jenisha's arm.
"See you at dinner in the hotel then." Sho said and shook her hand once more.
"Sure."
"Come sit with us okay?!" Aiba exclaimed.
"Hai! Nice meeting you Aiba, Sho, Ohno, Matsumoto, Nino..." Jenisha nodded her head at Arashi. Her voice went an octave lower when she mentioned Nino's name. Nino noticed it too an nodded shortly at her.
"Same here, Jenisha." Nino said and stared at her eyes.
Jenisha smiled thinly at Nino before she, Kiichi and Tendai headed for the door. She finally released a deep exhale of relief the moment that she went out of the door.
"Kawaii..." Sho whispered after Jenisha was gone.
"Yes she is. I asked Tendai a while ago and he said that Jenisha's 21 yrs. old." Ohno said.
"Eh? How come she's a director already?" Nino immediately exclaimed. Now he is becoming more and more interested to her even though he tried to avoid it.
"I don't know, we could ask her later. She seems nice." Ohno smiled.
"21 ne? and she's a foreigner too. Haha! Riida, maybe that's why you like her!" Aiba messed Ohno's hair and he slapped Aiba's hand away.
"Shut up Aiba. She's way too young, 5 years younger than me and seems like our role here is to be her older brothers." Ohno preached. Although Sho rolled his eyes at what Riida said, he couldn't agree less.
"Hai." Matsumoto said.
No fu*@ing way! Nino screamed at his thoughts. After what happened to them last night, how can someone think of a girl as a younger sister when she was the most amazing thing you experienced last night?!
Certainly not!
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Chapter 6
Forget About It
"Hello!" Aiba greeted every crew he met as he and the rest of Arashi went into the dining hall of the hotel where they were staying. First nights are always spend having dinner with the whole staff and crew to the hotel where the idols are staying.
"Let's eat Arashi!" One of their choreographers invited.
"Yeah, can't wait. We've been dancing our asses off, we're quite hungry." Sho said.
"I'm really hungry..." Ohno dragged Aiba with him as they headed to the buffet table.
"How's the foot Jun-kun?" Sho asked Jun. The three Arashi left by Ohno and Aiba, already picked a table as they brought their duffel bags with them. From the concert venue, they headed straight to the hotel to have their dinner. They still have a Mago Mago episode to shoot tonight and fortunately, the episode will all just be talking and does not require to go to other places or to do tasks. They were pretty exhausted after the extensive rehearsal they made a while ago, practicing so many new dance steps that their choreographer and Ohno taught them.
"Fine, it wasn't that bad." Matsumoto replied while pinching his foot.
"Told you. You're still breathing so that's got to be good." Nino stretched out his arms and put his hands at the back of his head as he leaned into his seat.
"Shut up Nino. You were the one who looked like an idiot when you tripped in front of Jenisha making you, Riida and Aiba fall into my sore foot." Matsumoto rolled his eyes at him.
Nino's heart jumped when Jun mentioned Jenisha's name. His eyes automatically searched for her in the dining hall and saw her talking with some crew and with their male back-up dancers.
"Good evening!" Aiba greeted the people on Jenisha's table while holding his plate full of food.
"Hello, Aiba." Jenisha grinned and gave Aiba a high-five.
"Aren't you going to eat?" Ohno asked her who also slapped her palm.
"In a while, the line is starting to shorten though. I'll be up in a minute."
"There's Jenisha." Matsumoto pointed to the table where Aiba and Ohno were standing.
"Hi Jenisha!" Sho waved at her when she turned to look at the Arashi table. Jenisha also waved at them and let her gaze passed across Nino.
"Come sit with us!" Nino suddenly exclaimed. Jenisha's eyes immediately went back to Nino the moment that she heard him said that.
What the...did he just...?
Jenisha's mouth almost hanged open when Nino talked to her but forced a smile with a combination of a small frown on her eyebrows.
Did I just...? Dammit! I have to normalize things between the two of us! Nino thought.
He noticed that Jenisha became awkward because of his unexpected invitation and turned to grin at her.
"Yeah, come sit with us for a moment!" Aiba urged her.
"Sure, sure. Go ahead, I'll just get some food." Jenisha stood up when she recovered from her shock.
"We'll just borrow her okay?" Ohno bowed shortly to the people on the table.
"Let's get something to eat." Nino said to Sho and Jun.
"You go ahead." Matsumoto replied.
"Sakurai?" Nino asked.
"Go first, have to rest for a moment."
Nino shrugged his shoulders as he stood up after Aiba and Ohno arrived in their table.
He headed to the buffet area, glad that the long line of people a while ago was gone. In fact, there is only one person in the table looking thoughtfully at the food and Nino felt that same thumps in his chest again.
Jenisha was staring at the food in the buffet table seriously thinking what she was going to eat when she heard someone cleared his throat. She caught her breath at the sight when she turned to look who it was.
"Hi." Nino said and stood beside her and scanned the food.
Jenisha let out a slow deep breath becoming aware of their close distances. Her quick glance made her noticed that Nino changed into a blue shirt and khaki shorts plus a pair of black flip flops. That quick glance also made her take note of the small beads of sweat forming on his forehead with his dark brown growing hair tossed in every direction.
"Hello." Jenisha smiled thinly at him and frowned back to the pure Japanese foods on the buffet.
Nino kept glancing at her when he began to pile food on his plate. The atmosphere around the two of them is too much to bear. He needed to make it normal so that they could work together properly. Fortunately, they were only the two of them in the buffet area.
"Jenisha." Nino started as both of them continue to pick up foods from the table. Well, Jenisha was mostly scrutinizing the food and just taking a piece or two by her fingers.
"Hmm?" Jenisha said without looking. She was still concentrating on what food to eat.
"Anou... about last night..." Nino began to say and he anticipated her action.
She swear her heartbeat stopped for a couple of seconds when she heard Nino starting to bring up what happened between them last night. However, she just remain her composure and just calmly picked up two pieces of an orange-ish stuff which she recognized as tempura and put it on her plate.
"Hmm?" Nino slightly frowned at her reaction but it gave him the encouragement to continue.
"Forget about it." Nino finally said.
He saw Jenisha just stared into the plate full of gyoza not giving a single blink. She slowly turned to stare at him and given their close distance, Nino fully noticed how black her eyes are. Those eyes which reminds him of a dead night sky was staring at him blankly.
"Uhmm... I said forget about last ni-"
"I just did." Jenisha did not even gave Nino the chance to finish.
Nino's eyes are lighter brown than I thought...
Her mouth said what she must say but her thoughts sure said of another thing.
It was Nino's turn to stare at her a bit dumbfounded. He was quite caught off guard with her response.
"What do you call those?" Jenisha suddenly pointed to out to the plate of gyoza she was staring a while ago. She needed to push away any emotions that were threatening to spill within her.
"Huh?" Nino stared at her curiously and followed her finger.
"Uhmm...that's gyoza."
"Are they good?" She asked again.
"Yes they are." Nino found her behavior weird. Her moves were rather calculated and awkward or maybe cold a while ago then she completely changed into acting...normal. Like he did not brought up a sensitive topic that just happened last night.
Maybe she really did forget about last night...
Nino just scratched his head and let out a small sigh. She was opening a pack of chopsticks and was examining for a moment before she put it aside on her plate.
"Excuse me, do you have a fork?" Jenisha asked one of the attendants.
"Yes ma'm, I'm going to get one for you."
The dining hall was reserved for the whole crew and staff of the Arashic tour for that night and since most comprised of Japanese, the hotel only provided chopsticks and spoons in the table.
"You don't know how to use those?" Nino asked Jenisha.
"No and I haven't eaten lots Japanese food before." She said as she was testing the chopsticks herself.
"Let me teach you." Nino grabbed her hand and guided her in using the chopsticks.
Jenisha swallowed on her throat when she felt Nino's hand on hers. His warm skin was gliding on her fingers as he was lecturing her on how to use the thin sticks. She find breathing rather difficult.
"You only move the stick that your thumb and your index finger is holding."
And he wants me to forget about it?!
"I cannot learn how to use it just like that." Jenisha pulled her hand quite harshly away from Nino.
He stared at her quite taken aback by her sudden movement of pulling her hand away. Nino could see that she was a little irritated and pissed.
"Well you could do it if you'll listen closely and follow closely." Nino said. His usual cocky self surfacing as he looked at her with slight arrogance and a little playful smile on his lips.
What the...
Jenisha frowned at him. He sounded like a know-it-all punk when he said that and looked like a spoiled brat when he was giving her that stare.
"Ninomiya! Your phone's ringing." Aiba shouted.
"See you." Nino gave her a salute and went to the Arashi table.
This is one way to get things normal between us. Nino thought as he walked away from her.
What the hell... he's a lot different when he's drunk from sober... and how dare he touched me after he just asked me to forget about it?! Is that way too Easy for him???!!! Bastard! Jenisha thought and let out a sharp breath as irritation took the best of her.
Her fork hasn't arrived yet and since she couldn't get to use the chopsticks properly, she took one of the stick and stab the piece of gyoza to put it on her plate.
"Let me get that for you." Sho chuckled, who arrived together with Matsujun beside her to get food, got another piece of gyoza to her plate by using chopsticks.
"Thanks." Jenisha muttered.
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Chapter 7
I Prefer You Drunk
Nino rubbed his eyes as he put aside his game controller after playing. After the shoot of the episode for Mago Mago Arashi, they headed out for a short drink then went back to their own rooms to get ready for tomorrow's rehearsal and sleeping will be hard for Nino if he won't have a game of playstation first. He had been playing for two hours when he sensed his tiredness settling in. He finally turned off the television and plopped down to bed when he happened to glance by his table.
He saw the black flip phone still lying there and Nino immediately got up to take a look at it.
He turned it off a while ago when the phone kept ringing as he took a cab to go back to the hotel. Nino had not realized that he had brought her phone by mistake. He flipped the phone open and turned it on, there were 11 missed calls and 20 messages on her phone right now as Nino was getting lost in his thoughts.
Who am I fooling? It's not easy for her or for me to forget all about what happened last night. She must be thinking what an ass I am right now...
He decided to go further and clicked on her Gallery-Images. He saw pictures of her with her friends, 4 girls and a lot of different boys, and there was one weird folder which labeled as 'Maje' all containing different pictures of a black racing car. He was about to open another folder called 'first of summer' when the phone suddenly became battery empty.
Nino closed the phone and stared at it for a couple of seconds. After battling with his thoughts, he suddenly made a decision and got up from his bed.
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He's an ass!
Jenisha thought angrily as she stretched her neck when she was inside the hotel elevator. After dinner, she went back with the crew and staff to the concert venue and polished some of the stage settings. She also has her inputs regarding the stage designs after she has listened to some Arashi songs that they will be playing for the concert and therefore they finalized the set-up for tomorrow's stage rehearsal.
The dinner a while was a kind of interesting and at the same time a disaster. After Ninomiya said straight to her face to forget about last night, her mood was definitely at its worst level towards him, if it weren't for professionalism's sake she would have said what her thoughts contain.
Sitting with Arashi during dinner was fun but she and Nino would constantly swiped at each other, throwing sarcastic remarks here and there, mostly containing inuendos of last night's one-night stand.
Nino: Eh? You're ticklish Jen-kun?
Jenisha: Why do you sound so surprise? You should know that.
She earned some weird stares from Sho, Ohno, Aiba and Matsujun while Nino's eyes got wide and was staring at her dumbfounded. He knew perfectly from last night that she was indeed ticklish and he was quite shock that she was giving this implication about what happened to them for Jenisha was giving him this knowing look.
Matsujun: Huh?
Jenisha: You should know that because you're skinny. Usually, skinny people are ticklish.
Sho: Hmmm... I'm not that ticklish.
Jenisha: You don't look skinny to me Sho.
Nino: Oh yeah, they are. Maybe you're ticklish in your waist and on the knees ne? Am I right?
Jenisha nearly choked on what Nino said and saw him smirking at her. Nino could still remember what body part is her weakness and he was also moving along with the game.
Jenisha: You missed out another part.
Nino: I forgot! The ears!
Nino exclaimed and grinned at her. Jenisha glared at him and tried to hide the pinkish color that is crawling on her cheeks. She glanced at the others who were thankfully oblivious about their conversation.
Aiba: Really? I'm ticklish in the ears too! Especially when someone's blowing it!
Nino and Jenisha turned to stare at each other the moment that Aiba said this and quickly resume to eat quietly.
Jenisha sighed and leaned her head on the elevator wall.
And he's asking me to forget about it? How can i forget it when he was the most amazing lay that I have. Her thoughts echoed once again. That's basically what she wanted to say in front of Nino when he asked that damn favor. She understood that he did it so that it would normalize their relationship as a director to idol but
Why does he have to put it so bluntly?
Nonetheless, the dinner went well and she grew fond of the Arashi members. She just couldn't believe that they are way older than her, with Matsujun being 2 yrs.older and Ohno with a five year age gap. Its a blast to be with them acting like idiots and just being immature. Their real age shows when she was able to have a chance to talk to them regarding work. Each of the Arashi's working ethics are great. No wonder they have successfully reached this stage of their career.
And speaking of work, she was able to forget about the whole Nino-issue after dinner when she went back to the concert venue together with the staff and crew who are also equally fun to work with. The back-up dancers that she was able to have a chat with before dinner, some of them are even the same age as hers. They remind Jenisha of those rock bands she have directed their videos and got to be her close friends.
She finally reached her floor as the door of the elevator opened and started heading to her room.
I think I'll have fun working on this project, just as long as I don't screw things up for myself I'll be extremely fi-
Jenisha's thoughts were cut off and she suddenly stopped in her tracks when she saw someone standing in front of her hotel room.
She swallowed as he turned to look at her.
"Hi."
"How did you kn-"
"The reception area." Nino immediately answered like he was expecting the question.
"What are you doing here?" She asked once again. Her face betrayed her firm voice as she stared at Nino, her expressions were soft and nervous.
Nino was leaning beside her hotel door and brought out a black flip phone from his pocket.
"That's my phone." Jenisha walked towards him and got her phone.
"Did you take a look at it?" Jenisha asked suspiciously.
"Nope, the battery went empty before I could even take a peek." Nino said and raked his hair by his fingers.
"Thanks. Goodnight." Jenisha muttered and was about to enter her room when Nino held her arm.
"Can we talk?" Nino asked and was staring at her eyes intently. His were determined to make her say yes.
"Fine. Let's talk here." Jenisha crossed her arm in front of her.
"If you don't want someone from the staff or crew or from any Arashi members to see us then we should not talk here." Nino said.
"Where do you suggest then?"
"Inside." Nino pointed at her door. Jenisha raised her eyebrow at him and frowned suspiciously.
Nino rolled his eyes and got the key from Jenisha, he opened the door as he gently pushed her inside her room.
"I'm lazy to drive and go outside just to find some place to talk." Nino said as he closed the door behind him.
"Well you're the one who wants to talk not me." Jenisha shortly glared at him.
Nino can't help but to scan her room. He has to admit that hers was quite messy for a girl. Her laptop was in the middle of her bed together with lots of books. He saw Arashi cds spread on her bedside table and another stack of random cds on the dresser. A suitcase just beside her closet was left open, two pairs of high-cut Chuck Taylors (one was green, the other is brown) and was surprise to see a playstation 3 on the floor in front of the television.
"What games do you play?" Nino asked.
"Huh?" Jenisha frowned curiously at him.
"Playstation. What games do you play?"
"Oh. Assassin stuff. Sometimes I play Dawn of the Dead on my laptop or The Punisher. Anything that involves killing...RPGs..those stuff." Jenisha replied.
"I see."
Anything that involves killing people? Interesting.
"I thought you want to talk."
Nino sighed and scratched his head.
"Well in that case, let me start. That was so kind of you to say that I should forget about what happened last night." Jenisha said. Her chest was starting to pound inside her as of the moment.
"I just want to make it normal between us. So that you won't feel unease working with me and vice versa."
"How can I actually forget about last night when you were the most amazi-"
Dammit! I can't say that to him!
Nino blinked his eyes when Jenisha cut her words off. His breathing stopped for a couple of second when assumptions start to form inside his head regarding what she was about to say.
I am the most amazing...? at what? His mind race with thoughts.
"When you said it so amazingly blunt straight into my face. Do you think that was too easy? I was expecting something, like 'sorry' or something proper..."
"Well I never expected that it would turn out this way. I never expected that the girl I had sex with last night would be our director the next day." Nino uttered.
"So do I. Did you think I planned this out?"
"A lot of girls would."
Jenisha's eyes squinted the moment she heard that from Nino and took a deep breath to calm herself but to no success, she was already pissed off.
Nino saw the reaction on Jenisha's face and instantly thought of a way to calm her down.
"The coincidences overwhelmed me so it cros-"
"You're such an arrogant, conceited, egotistic, pompous ass bastard! From those behaviors, I prefer you drunk than your normal self if you wou-"
Nino was now staring at Jenisha in a different way that made her stop in the middle of her ranting.
"You prefer me what?"
"I prefer you drunk." Jenisha repeated. She remembered that kind of stare. The way Nino was looking at her right now was just exactly the same when he was staring at her last night.
"From what I remember, the first and last time that you saw me drunk was just last night." Nino was slowly walking towards her and Jenisha just kept walking backwards as her back touched the door of her closet.
She was trapped.
"Nino-" Jenisha said warningly.
Nino closed in their distance with their faces an inch apart from each other.
"You're right, we can't easily forget about it." Nino stared at her eyes.
Somehow, the dead night sky got some flicker of fire in it.
"Yes...w-what do you suggest then?" Jenisha asked. Concentration is difficult to do with his eyes staring like that, his face that close and his warm breath fanning on her skin.
Nino's fingers began to trace her jaw with his face slowly coming to hers.
The familiar warmth of moist skin was felt once again as Nino's mouth enclosed hers moving it sensuously. Jenisha automatically closed her eyes to feel his lips demanding more from her. She opened her mouth to grant access to his tongue as her hand played with the strands of his black hair and gave it soft forceful tug.
Nino proceeded to move further with his hand crawling inside her shirt to feel the warm skin of her stomach while he pulled her waist closer to his body.
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Chapter 8
Wrong reasons and definitely hard to correct.
Oh my god, oh my god, let it be a dream, oh my god, please...
Jenisha opened her eyes and saw the familiar design of the ceiling of her hotel room.
I'm in my hotel room... that's good right?
She rubbed her eyes as she saw the clock striked 4:00 am and suddenly the thought of her naked came rushing in. She was now fully awake as she took a peek under the blanket and saw a hand wrapped around protectively on her bare waist.
She slowly turned to her right and saw a sleeping Ninomiya who was equally naked as well.
Shit...we did it again.Great.
Their noses gently bumped with each other when Jenisha turned to stare at him. He was sleeping really peacefully, with his mouth slightly open and his little moles on his face looking quite attractive. She wasn't able to see him sleeping the first time and he looked like an innocent kid rather than the spoiled brat she saw last night during dinner.
He is irritatingly cute... She thought.
Jenisha slightly froze when she felt Nino's hands slowly moving up and down on her body beneath the blanket.
She gently got the pillow beside him and smacked him hard on the head.
"Nani?" Nino groaned as he struggled to open his eyes.
"Get up. If they don't see you in your room, you're dead. You're suppose to have a meeting with me at 8 before your stage rehearsal." Jenisha said and pulled out Nino's hand fom the blanket.
"Uhh... gomen..." Nino looked at her while slightly blushing. Jenisha tried so hard to hide her smile when she saw him blushing.
"What time is it?" Nino asked as he slowly gathered his clothes and started wearing it. Jenisha took small and fast glances at Nino while he was doing that.
"4 o' clock. I have to go to the venue by 5 anyway." She replied and yawned.
"That's too early. Why do you have to go there at that time?"
"Have to double check everything so that we could finish early today and can solve any problems earlier if one occurs. Tomorrow's the concert ne? You should do good." Jenisha said and was staring at Nino who just finished wearing all of his clothes.
"Of course." Nino was also staring at her too. They both know what they did and they do not have the alcohol to put the blame on. They also know that what happened tonight will lead to many things that both of them might regret. However, as they look at each other, they want to watch and wait for things to unfold infront of them, together.
"Seems like we can't forget about this easily huh?" Nino said before going away.
"Seems too" Jenisha whispered.
"Are you ---" Nino started to say hesitatingly.
"What?"
"Are you willing to hold on into this with me?" Nino asked.
Jenisha stared at him not sure what to say.
"I want to" Nino said and was looking at her hopefully.
"Well...might as well join the club" Jenisha uttered and Nino smiled and leaned forward to peck her lips.
"You're a guilty pleasure Ninomiya." Nino grinned at what she said and started heading to the door.
"Its suppose to be like that. See you." With that, he closed the door.
"Jenisha you idiot!" She cursed and wanted to hang herself for agreeing with Nino's proposal
"Are you willing to hold on into this with me?" Nino asked.
"He just asked me to engage into this sin and I just said yes! Great!" Jenisha muttered. Her head was buried on her hands as guilt began to take over. Once was enough for her conscience to explode because not only did she engaged in one-night stand but she rather enjoyed it. Twice, its the end of the world for her. She knew that if it will happen again, she'll fall into a dangerous addiction and it did happened again, for the second time.
Maje...shit...I'm so sorry...
She can't help it if he is charming.
Wrong reasons and definitely hard to correct.
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