a Red String and a Green Sweater [Part 2]
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sanoyuukiThe post was too large and I had to split in two the story. Here is the Part 2.
a Red String and a Green Sweater – Part 2
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"Have you ever met him again?"
"No, I have never heard of him after that day. Actually, I didn't even try to look for him" I confessed.
"Why? You loved him so much..." he asked, due to his tone it was clear that he was confused.
"I think that I was, and I'm still, afraid"
"To see him after all these years?"
"No, that he would reject me. That he doesn't want to see me again" I hugged my knees and tried to hide a bit my face.
"I think that he is afraid too and that he is waiting for you, even though he started to lose hope years ago" he said being very confident.
"Why are you so sure?" I asked looking at him in his eyes.
"I'm sorry but I can't reply to this. The only thing I can say to you is to search for him"
"But where?" I questioned, my mind trying to find anything that could stop me from searching for him.
"You know where his parents' restaurant is, right? There is a very high possibility that he works there. You just have to go and talk to him" he replied fast.
I fell silent. Actually, I thought nth time about that restaurant and what would happen if I went there. I've never done it, due to the fear, but during the years I convinced myself that he worked somewhere else so there was no reason to go. But if Masaki worked in that place...
"Masaki..."
"Go to him Sho, you two suffered enough"
I raised my head, surprised at the other who called my name just like that. But before I could reply, the elevator's doors opened. I turned toward them, but to my surprise no one was there. No workers, no repairmen, as if no one knew that the elevator stopped working for quite a lot of time.
"I can't help you more than this, guys, now it's all up to you" I heard him saying before exiting the elevator.
"He said 'guys'? What does he mean?"
I got up quickly and went in the hallway but no one was there. Ohno was nowhere to be seen.
"What...actually happened?"
In my car on the way home, my mind couldn't stop thinking about Masaki. I did everything to forget him and not thinking about him again and now here I was, properly thinking about the possibility on visiting his parents' restaurant.
"Even though he is there, I bet he doesn't want to talk to me. After all, we didn't break up in a good way..."
It was a bad idea. There was no way that we were going to be together again. Probably the only one who was still stuck in this love was me. Yeah, all this was totally useless.
But before I could even realize, I parked my car right in front of the restaurant.
"I'm really hopeless" I laughed at myself.
Since I was already there, I should at least try, right?
With all the courage I had, I got out of the car and with the highest speed I could walk at, I reached the entrance. Taking a deep breath, I pushed the door to open it and I was welcomed by the most beautiful Christmas' decoration I had ever seen.
"Welcome!" I heard someone shouting.
When my eyes focused, I saw a guy coming near me. As soon as he came in front of me, my lungs stopped to work properly. That boy was so similar to Masaki, almost the same. It was then that a thought crossed my mind.
"Yusuke...You really have grown up" I thought like a proud brother.
"I'm really sorry but the kitchen is already closed since it's almost the restaurant's closing time. If I can help with anything else, I would be really glad to do it" he said very politely and with a big smile.
"I-I..." I stuttered, suddenly going into panic.
Yusuke was looking at me waiting for a reply but the only thing that I could say was the name that filled my life.
"Masaki..." I whispered at last.
"Oh are you searching my brother? Then I will call him for you"
"He was here all these years then..."
"Onii-san! A man is searching for you!" Yusuke turned and said loudly.
At that moment a loud sound came from the kitchen.
"I wonder why every time I tell him that someone is searching for him, he drops everything he has in his hands" a big frown appeared on his face.
"I-I'm c-coming!" I heard then.
If before my lungs had stopped working, now my heart joined them. That voice was his voice. The last time I heard it was more than 17 years ago and now my ears heard it again. And in less than some seconds I would see him again.
Panic won me over again and I decided to run away from there. Without saying anything, I opened the door and exited right when someone yelled 'Sho!'. I froze.
"Sho...it is you?" he asked, his voice faint.
My hand gripped so tightly the doorknob that my knuckles became white. Hearing again my name coming from those lips was something I wasn't prepared to. All my doubts crossed my mind again and just like 17 years ago, the same words came out from my mouth.
"Why am I even trying?"
As soon as I said that, my legs ran away and in less than some seconds I was already in my car, driving away. My eyes looked at the rear-view mirror, my heart silently hoping that he would come out from the restaurant looking for me. But no one did.
"As expected" I said.
What happened after was rather plain. Just like everyone sad and tired of life does, when I reached home I threw myself on the bed. What followed was rather plain too, I started crying since I fell asleep.
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The sun woke me up but since I wasn't in the mood of getting up, I just drowned in the sheets of my bed for continuing to sleep. Unfortunately this wasn't possible since my alarm clock started to ring soon after. Totally fed up, I got up and turned it off.
I let out a sigh, which will be followed by many more during the day, and took my phone to see if there were any new notifications. On the screen was showed only one message that had to be read.
"Let's see...'Take a good rest on your day off! I will work the double for replacing your absence!...Just kidding, you will find even more work on your desk...P.S: don't start to eat loads of chocolate as you use to, it's tiring to hear you whining about your stomachache'..." I read out loud amused.
Nino always managed to make me laugh and that day I needed it more than anything else. And almost surely Nino knew it or he wouldn't bother himself to send me a message this early in the morning, since he sent it at around 7:00. His mood was horrible in the mornings after all.
I replied his message with a 'Thank you' but when I sent it and returned on my phone's home, my eyes couldn't help but look at the date.
"24th of December..." I said sighing soon after.
Everyone loved Christmas' Eve but to me, it was the hardest day. But this year, I didn't want to 'live' it at all. After what happened yesterday, I just wanted this day to go as faster as possible.
"I will just sleep off throughout the whole day" I declared and returned to bed.
I knew that it was the lamest thing to do but I didn't care at all. I wanted to sleep and run away from the reality.
A sudden sound made me jump on the bed. I looked at the clock and saw that it was past 18:00. The sun had already set and from the window I could already see the stars in the sky.
"I slept for quite a long time it seems..."
Then I heard the same loud sound that woke me up. When I heard it for the third time I realized that someone was banging at my door. While I got up wondering who might be, that someone started to bang continuously so much that I feared that he would knock down the door.
Quickly I reached the door and opened it and as soon as I saw who was, I felt like I was going to faint.
Right in front of me there was Aiba Masaki panting and sweating while grasping the doorframes with his hands, as if he could stay on his feet only thanks to them. Some tufts of his hair were in front his eyes, making hard for me to look properly at them.
I didn't know what to do and he wasn't saying anything which didn't help me at all. I bit my lips, wondering on what to do, before deciding to step aside and open the door, silently inviting him in. He gulped and entered.
"Aiba Masaki is in my apartment, stay calm Sho. Everything will be fine" I tried to calm myself down.
But when I came in the living room and turned, I saw him still looking at me with that same expression of before. The expression of someone who wanted to say many things but fail to say a single word.
While looking at him I realized the height difference between us, which before didn't exist. That made me fully realize how many years had passed since the last time I saw him.
"You've grown up a lot. You're even taller than me now" I said smiling lightly.
"You got chubbier instead" he replied.
I was taken aback by that and my sulking face appeared immediately.
"Don't worry, I like it. You're cuter this way" he said chuckling.
My heart skipped a beat hearing that thus I wasn't able to say back anything at all.
"You came to the restaurant yesterday" he started turning serious in a second.
I could only nod at that.
"Why did you leave without talking to me? Why did you run away?" he asked and I could hear from his voice that he was hurt.
"I-I...I thought to have the courage to face you but then I realized that I didn't" I replied back and then continued saying "But you didn't run after me. You let me go, just like you did years ago..."
"Actually I wanted to do that, but then I thought that maybe you regretted to have come to me. Even though I waited for you to do that since I came back to Japan, I let yourself go without doing anything. I'm sorry" he admitted while lowering his head.
"It's me the one at fault. I should have talked to you instead of going away. You called me but I...was too afraid" I said but then I realized what Masaki had just said and couldn't help myself from asking "Were you...waiting for me all these years?"
He laughed, probably at himself, and raising his head he looked at me.
"I thought of going to you when I came back but I realized that I didn't have the right to. I was the one who broke up with you and it seemed selfish to me to return to you saying 'Hey let's get back together'. I thought that you had already move on and I was just a vague memory for you, and I didn't want to mess up your life again...Since I already did once" he confessed with a sad smile.
"You're...you're really an idiot"
A frown appeared on his face and when my eyes started to get teary, his eyes widened.
"Even though I tried, I couldn't move on because I kept on thinking about you. Every relationship I had it failed, because after you I wasn't able to love anyone else. You took my heart the first time I saw you and you kept on having it for all these years" some tears started to fell from eyes making my sight blurry.
"Sho-"
"I know that it may sound stupid and crazy to still hold on this love, but I can't forget you. I love you too much for doing that. I still believe that you're my soulmate after all..."
Finally I let out everything I had. I didn't know what was going to happen but if this was going to be the end, at least I knew that I had said everything I had to. Finally my heart could be at peace.
Even though I couldn't see properly, I noticed how Masaki dried some tears from his cheeks with his hands and looked up trying to not burst into tears, like I was doing.
"You know you really influenced me, because now I think that too" he laughed and I did too.
Then he took a big breath, closing his eyes, before opening them again and ask "Do you think that...you can give me a second chance?"
The time stopped when I heard that. He asked...for another chance? Did he really ask for it? Did this mean that...
"Do y-you mean that you l-love me?" I asked stuttering.
"Didn't I say that I waited for you? And that I wanted to return to you back then? God you are so slow" he said smiling widely.
I still couldn't believe what was happening, maybe I was still dreaming, but all the doubts and fears I had were swept away when he moved toward me.
"I love you Sho. No matter how many days, months or years have passed, I still love you like...no..." he shook his head and then said "I love you even more than before" a tear escaped his eye.
My hand went to dry it and soon his hand caught mine, tightening around it, while his face leaned on it.
"Wait here" I whispered and moved away from him.
I went to my bedroom and opened the wardrobe. Digging for some minutes in all my clothes, I finally found what I was searching for.
With my hands behind my back, I returned in front of him again, smiling as never I did before.
"Please cherish it for real this time" I said and gave him his green sweater, which meant my heart.
He took it and nodded saying "I promise to do so, I will for real this time because I realized how I can't live without you"
Then he took something from his pocket and put it in front of my face. I stared at it and realized that it was the same red string he gave me long time ago.
"How stupid am I, right? Thinking that I don't need you by my side..." I laughed and took it.
I looked at it and while raising my hand, I shook it making the bell rang. We both laughed at that and, as we were used to, we brought ourselves closer and kissed.
As our lips parted and our tongues met, I could feel Masaki's tears wetting his cheeks. I took his face with my hands and tried to wipe them out but I was stopped by him.
"It's useless, I have too many tears to shed right in this moment"
After chuckling a little, our lips met again. Without breaking the contact he put the green sweater on the sofa next to us, before taking from my hands the red string and place it on the sweater.
I took his hands into mine and, still kissing, I guided him to my bedroom. He raised me up by my thighs and leaned on the bed after placing me on it.
We broke the kiss due the lack of air and started to undress each other. When he removed my t-shirt his eyes widened.
"Since when are your abdominals so firm and sexy? They weren't like this years ago" he exclaimed while lowering himself and licking them.
When his head was raised up again, I took the chance for removing at the same time his jumper and his shirt and I went speechless at the sight of his upper body.
"And what if I said to you that I started to work out in the gym because of you?"
I frowned and he explained "Since I didn't know if you still loved me or not, I thought to at least improve my body shape so that I could still seduce you with it, if I would ever meet you again"
"As if you need to do that. Just for your information, you could seduce even just with your hair"
He chuckled at that but stopped right after when I put my hands on his body while licking my lips. Before I thought that he was a cute boy, but now that same person turned into a sexy man. And hearing that he did it for being liked by me...My heart melted at that thought.
My hands reached his trousers' belt and opened it. When I was going to lower them, he stopped my hands and removed them himself before doing the same with mine.
"Remove even our boxers, I can't wait anymore. I'm waiting this since too long" I said, almost ordered to him, and he did so right away.
When the both of us were naked and he leaned on me again, my heartbeat started to fasten and even more when he started to kiss my neck, leaving red marks anywhere he could. In the meanwhile his hands went to my buttocks and squeezed them.
"Is it okay for you?" he questioned.
"W-what?" I asked back.
"To be the bottom. If you don't want it's okay for me. I can bottom for you, even though I've never did it before" he stated serious.
"I had never been at the receiving end too, but if it's for you I don't have any problems. I just want you to make love to me" I replied sincerely.
He smiled and kissed me before asking "Do you have lube?" to which I replied "Yes, in the bedside table's drawer. We are lucky that the last time I had sex with a man it's pretty recent-"
"Don't even dare to talk about this stuff when I'm with you" he interrupted me and kissed me deeply.
When he parted away from my lips, he took the lube from the drawer and opened it before starting to spread it on his fingers. When he was ready to put the first finger in me, he stopped and looked at me. When I nodded, he continued.
At first it wasn't really bad, it was just a weird sensation since I was feeling it for the first time. The pain started when Masaki put in the second finger, and it just got worse with the third. Fortunately, he was paying attention to me to the fullest and he was doing it slowly and carefully.
When moans started to come out from my mouth, he removed his fingers and placed in front of my entrance his member, which he covered with some lube.
"Is it really okay for you?"
Like before, I didn't understand what he meant so he had to explain again to me "To continue it. It will hurt like hell-"
"I don't care. I just want to feel you as closer as possible" I declared and grasped his forearms.
He smiled and kissed my forehead before entering in me gently and gradually.
"How are you?" he asked when he was fully in.
"It h-hurts...But I-I will be f-fine soon" I replied trying to smile to reassure him.
It took me several minutes for giving Masaki the okay for moving and during the first thrusts, I had to close my eyes and bit my lower lip. I couldn't ever imagine that the pain would be this much. But the more time passed, the more I enjoyed it.
"Sho y-you feel so...good" he moaned.
"Masaki..." I could only say while whimpering.
He bit my earlobe before whispering an 'I love you' and then kissed me for the nth time that night. He then took my member in his hands and it was then that I started to lose control.
I intertwined one hand in his hair, trying to bring his lips closer if that was even possible, while the other one was on his shoulder right on his birthmark. My legs wrapped his waist tightening around it trying to make him go even deeper.
I bit his lip when he hit my sweet spot suddenly. I had to throw my head on the pillow and break the kiss since I couldn't contain my moans and shouts.
One of Masaki's hands touched my cheek kindly, caressing it before being placed near my head. At that moment Masaki's thrusts became faster bringing us closer and closer to the edge of pleasure.
We both shouted each other's name and before he could do anything else, I brought his face close to mine and kissed him. As our lips touched each other and his thrusts went deeper and deeper, we came while moaning loudly in the kiss.
We parted but our faces were still near. He looked at me and smiled, joy written all over his face, and I did too. Then he hugged me and placed his head on my neck, smelling it.
“What are you doing?” I asked laughing a little.
“Smelling your scent. I always loved it and you can’t understand how much I missed it. And also, it’s still surreal that you are in my arms now so I want every possible proof that you are real, and not some kind of allucination” he explained, his breath brushing my skin.
“I’m real and I won’t let you go anymore. Just try to go away again and I will kidnap you and tie you up”
He laughed but after a smirk appeared on his lips and he whispered “I don’t mind being tied up if the one doing it is you”
I blushed immediately and tried to look away, but Masaki prevented it taking my face in his hands. Then he looked straight in my eyes and said firmly “There is no way in hell that I will leave you again. Finally I found you and I will hold on you forever”
Useless to say that those words moved me but before being able to say anything back he kissed me gently.
After several seconds he withdrew from me and lied next to me. Masaki took the tissues on my bedside table and cleaned our bodies, before putting the sheets on us.
"Masaki" I called him gaining immediately his attention.
"What?" he asked, sweetly hugging me.
"Happy Birthday" I said and left a kiss on his nose.
"Thanks Sho-chan" he replied returning back the kiss.
After that we closed our eyes, tired due to the lovemaking, ready to sleep. But before doing that, I whispered an 'I love you too' to him. He didn't reply but I heard how he chuckled and brought me closer.
If this morning I hated today, now this became the best Christmas' Eve I ever had.
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5 days later...
"What does it mean that he is moving in with you?!" a suddenly shout was heard from the front door that was open.
Nino barged in the apartment and looked at us bewildered.
"Oh Ninomiya-san, I'm happy to see you again. I wanted to thank you again for what you did for me" Masaki said walking up to him and bowing to him.
"Yeah yeah no problem. The main point is, what does it mean that you two are going to live together?"
"It means that, Nino. I even thought that I wrote a pretty clear message to you..."
"What should I have replied to your 'Masaki and me are going to live together from now on'?! 'Congrats!'?! It's normal that I have to rush here and check what's going on"
"Nino, please it's early in the morning, don't talk fast and loud like that" I whined and then asked "Why don't you tell me what you did for Masaki instead?"
"He came to our company and I gave him your address since he was desperately searching for you" he explained.
"That's why you knew my address! I was so focused on you that I didn't even think about that!" I said looking at Masaki.
"But another question has to be answered. How did you know the company in which Sho-kun worked?"
"A man came to our restaurant and asked for me. He said that one of his co-workers told him about my restaurant and so he decided to come. When I asked for his co-worker's name, he said that it was Sakurai and immediately I asked for the company's name, thinking that maybe I could go to you. Coincidentally, on that same day, you came to me"
"What? That is impossible, Sho-kun has never talked about you or your restaurant to anyone" Nino exclaimed.
"Did he say his name to you?" I asked then.
"I think it was Ohno Satoshi..."
"WHAT?!" I yelled.
Masaki and Nino looked at each other surprised and immediately asked me what was wrong. So I explained to them what happened to me and the man I met, Ohno Satoshi, who disappeared right after exiting the elevator.
"That is really...creepy guys" Nino stated.
"I see, maybe he was some kind of God of love or of soulmates. Yes he came to us for bring us together again. As expected, soulmates can't be separated from each other"
"There he goes again" both Nino and Masaki sighed.
"No guys really, you have the proof! It's real!" I said trying to persuade them.
"Okay Sho-chan okay, it's true. Now, let's go to take the other boxes in the car or we will never finish" Masaki said, taking my face in his hands and squeezing it.
"Okay but I'm telling you, I'm going to talk about this a lot from now on and you have to listen to me" I warned him pouting a little.
"I will listen to everything you say, don't worry" he smiled and pecked my lips.
"For telling you the truth, you're really making me believe in love" Nino confessed.
I smiled widely right away but before I could even say something, Nino ran away from me knowing what was waiting for him.
"This is such a good day" I exclaimed happily.
Masaki laughed at that before kissing my cheek and going out for take the remaining boxes left in the car.
I looked around myself, staring at my stuff and at all the boxes that were on the floor. If one week ago someone had told me that I was going to meet Masaki again and then live with him, I would have replied that he was crazy. Who could have imagined this developing?
But my heart had always believed that one day I would meet Masaki again. Because we were soulmates, and our love was written in the destiny.
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"I'm so relieved...It's been 20 years since I started to deal with those guys. Finally I can move on to the next target"
"Are you complaining against Fate, Satoshi?"
"I'm not doing that, it's just that everytime it's me the one dealing with these cases...Can I have two soulmates that get together within a year or two?" he whined while throwing himself over the white cloud.
"Of course you're the one doing those because, even if you don’t believe totally in soulmates and what you do, you are one of the best!"
"But you are good too Jun. They could give them to you"
"Point one, you know that I'm in charge of those rare case in which people don’t have a soulmate. Point two, do I have to remember you that I'm still stuck with that Kazunari? No matter which person I made him go out with, their relationship would always end" this time it was his time to complain.
"It means that you still haven't found the person with whom he has a high percentage to get on well"
"You know, I feel like the only person he gets on with is Sho. Maybe I should just put them together-"
"DON'T EVEN TRY TO DESTROY MY SHIP. YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW MUCH I STRUGGLED"
"Mmh~"
"JUN DON'T YOU DARE-"
"Let's see how could I do..."
"I'M TELLING YOU, I WILL GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP"
The End
a Red String and a Green Sweater – Part 2
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"Have you ever met him again?"
"No, I have never heard of him after that day. Actually, I didn't even try to look for him" I confessed.
"Why? You loved him so much..." he asked, due to his tone it was clear that he was confused.
"I think that I was, and I'm still, afraid"
"To see him after all these years?"
"No, that he would reject me. That he doesn't want to see me again" I hugged my knees and tried to hide a bit my face.
"I think that he is afraid too and that he is waiting for you, even though he started to lose hope years ago" he said being very confident.
"Why are you so sure?" I asked looking at him in his eyes.
"I'm sorry but I can't reply to this. The only thing I can say to you is to search for him"
"But where?" I questioned, my mind trying to find anything that could stop me from searching for him.
"You know where his parents' restaurant is, right? There is a very high possibility that he works there. You just have to go and talk to him" he replied fast.
I fell silent. Actually, I thought nth time about that restaurant and what would happen if I went there. I've never done it, due to the fear, but during the years I convinced myself that he worked somewhere else so there was no reason to go. But if Masaki worked in that place...
"Masaki..."
"Go to him Sho, you two suffered enough"
I raised my head, surprised at the other who called my name just like that. But before I could reply, the elevator's doors opened. I turned toward them, but to my surprise no one was there. No workers, no repairmen, as if no one knew that the elevator stopped working for quite a lot of time.
"I can't help you more than this, guys, now it's all up to you" I heard him saying before exiting the elevator.
"He said 'guys'? What does he mean?"
I got up quickly and went in the hallway but no one was there. Ohno was nowhere to be seen.
"What...actually happened?"
In my car on the way home, my mind couldn't stop thinking about Masaki. I did everything to forget him and not thinking about him again and now here I was, properly thinking about the possibility on visiting his parents' restaurant.
"Even though he is there, I bet he doesn't want to talk to me. After all, we didn't break up in a good way..."
It was a bad idea. There was no way that we were going to be together again. Probably the only one who was still stuck in this love was me. Yeah, all this was totally useless.
But before I could even realize, I parked my car right in front of the restaurant.
"I'm really hopeless" I laughed at myself.
Since I was already there, I should at least try, right?
With all the courage I had, I got out of the car and with the highest speed I could walk at, I reached the entrance. Taking a deep breath, I pushed the door to open it and I was welcomed by the most beautiful Christmas' decoration I had ever seen.
"Welcome!" I heard someone shouting.
When my eyes focused, I saw a guy coming near me. As soon as he came in front of me, my lungs stopped to work properly. That boy was so similar to Masaki, almost the same. It was then that a thought crossed my mind.
"Yusuke...You really have grown up" I thought like a proud brother.
"I'm really sorry but the kitchen is already closed since it's almost the restaurant's closing time. If I can help with anything else, I would be really glad to do it" he said very politely and with a big smile.
"I-I..." I stuttered, suddenly going into panic.
Yusuke was looking at me waiting for a reply but the only thing that I could say was the name that filled my life.
"Masaki..." I whispered at last.
"Oh are you searching my brother? Then I will call him for you"
"He was here all these years then..."
"Onii-san! A man is searching for you!" Yusuke turned and said loudly.
At that moment a loud sound came from the kitchen.
"I wonder why every time I tell him that someone is searching for him, he drops everything he has in his hands" a big frown appeared on his face.
"I-I'm c-coming!" I heard then.
If before my lungs had stopped working, now my heart joined them. That voice was his voice. The last time I heard it was more than 17 years ago and now my ears heard it again. And in less than some seconds I would see him again.
Panic won me over again and I decided to run away from there. Without saying anything, I opened the door and exited right when someone yelled 'Sho!'. I froze.
"Sho...it is you?" he asked, his voice faint.
My hand gripped so tightly the doorknob that my knuckles became white. Hearing again my name coming from those lips was something I wasn't prepared to. All my doubts crossed my mind again and just like 17 years ago, the same words came out from my mouth.
"Why am I even trying?"
As soon as I said that, my legs ran away and in less than some seconds I was already in my car, driving away. My eyes looked at the rear-view mirror, my heart silently hoping that he would come out from the restaurant looking for me. But no one did.
"As expected" I said.
What happened after was rather plain. Just like everyone sad and tired of life does, when I reached home I threw myself on the bed. What followed was rather plain too, I started crying since I fell asleep.
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The sun woke me up but since I wasn't in the mood of getting up, I just drowned in the sheets of my bed for continuing to sleep. Unfortunately this wasn't possible since my alarm clock started to ring soon after. Totally fed up, I got up and turned it off.
I let out a sigh, which will be followed by many more during the day, and took my phone to see if there were any new notifications. On the screen was showed only one message that had to be read.
"Let's see...'Take a good rest on your day off! I will work the double for replacing your absence!...Just kidding, you will find even more work on your desk...P.S: don't start to eat loads of chocolate as you use to, it's tiring to hear you whining about your stomachache'..." I read out loud amused.
Nino always managed to make me laugh and that day I needed it more than anything else. And almost surely Nino knew it or he wouldn't bother himself to send me a message this early in the morning, since he sent it at around 7:00. His mood was horrible in the mornings after all.
I replied his message with a 'Thank you' but when I sent it and returned on my phone's home, my eyes couldn't help but look at the date.
"24th of December..." I said sighing soon after.
Everyone loved Christmas' Eve but to me, it was the hardest day. But this year, I didn't want to 'live' it at all. After what happened yesterday, I just wanted this day to go as faster as possible.
"I will just sleep off throughout the whole day" I declared and returned to bed.
I knew that it was the lamest thing to do but I didn't care at all. I wanted to sleep and run away from the reality.
A sudden sound made me jump on the bed. I looked at the clock and saw that it was past 18:00. The sun had already set and from the window I could already see the stars in the sky.
"I slept for quite a long time it seems..."
Then I heard the same loud sound that woke me up. When I heard it for the third time I realized that someone was banging at my door. While I got up wondering who might be, that someone started to bang continuously so much that I feared that he would knock down the door.
Quickly I reached the door and opened it and as soon as I saw who was, I felt like I was going to faint.
Right in front of me there was Aiba Masaki panting and sweating while grasping the doorframes with his hands, as if he could stay on his feet only thanks to them. Some tufts of his hair were in front his eyes, making hard for me to look properly at them.
I didn't know what to do and he wasn't saying anything which didn't help me at all. I bit my lips, wondering on what to do, before deciding to step aside and open the door, silently inviting him in. He gulped and entered.
"Aiba Masaki is in my apartment, stay calm Sho. Everything will be fine" I tried to calm myself down.
But when I came in the living room and turned, I saw him still looking at me with that same expression of before. The expression of someone who wanted to say many things but fail to say a single word.
While looking at him I realized the height difference between us, which before didn't exist. That made me fully realize how many years had passed since the last time I saw him.
"You've grown up a lot. You're even taller than me now" I said smiling lightly.
"You got chubbier instead" he replied.
I was taken aback by that and my sulking face appeared immediately.
"Don't worry, I like it. You're cuter this way" he said chuckling.
My heart skipped a beat hearing that thus I wasn't able to say back anything at all.
"You came to the restaurant yesterday" he started turning serious in a second.
I could only nod at that.
"Why did you leave without talking to me? Why did you run away?" he asked and I could hear from his voice that he was hurt.
"I-I...I thought to have the courage to face you but then I realized that I didn't" I replied back and then continued saying "But you didn't run after me. You let me go, just like you did years ago..."
"Actually I wanted to do that, but then I thought that maybe you regretted to have come to me. Even though I waited for you to do that since I came back to Japan, I let yourself go without doing anything. I'm sorry" he admitted while lowering his head.
"It's me the one at fault. I should have talked to you instead of going away. You called me but I...was too afraid" I said but then I realized what Masaki had just said and couldn't help myself from asking "Were you...waiting for me all these years?"
He laughed, probably at himself, and raising his head he looked at me.
"I thought of going to you when I came back but I realized that I didn't have the right to. I was the one who broke up with you and it seemed selfish to me to return to you saying 'Hey let's get back together'. I thought that you had already move on and I was just a vague memory for you, and I didn't want to mess up your life again...Since I already did once" he confessed with a sad smile.
"You're...you're really an idiot"
A frown appeared on his face and when my eyes started to get teary, his eyes widened.
"Even though I tried, I couldn't move on because I kept on thinking about you. Every relationship I had it failed, because after you I wasn't able to love anyone else. You took my heart the first time I saw you and you kept on having it for all these years" some tears started to fell from eyes making my sight blurry.
"Sho-"
"I know that it may sound stupid and crazy to still hold on this love, but I can't forget you. I love you too much for doing that. I still believe that you're my soulmate after all..."
Finally I let out everything I had. I didn't know what was going to happen but if this was going to be the end, at least I knew that I had said everything I had to. Finally my heart could be at peace.
Even though I couldn't see properly, I noticed how Masaki dried some tears from his cheeks with his hands and looked up trying to not burst into tears, like I was doing.
"You know you really influenced me, because now I think that too" he laughed and I did too.
Then he took a big breath, closing his eyes, before opening them again and ask "Do you think that...you can give me a second chance?"
The time stopped when I heard that. He asked...for another chance? Did he really ask for it? Did this mean that...
"Do y-you mean that you l-love me?" I asked stuttering.
"Didn't I say that I waited for you? And that I wanted to return to you back then? God you are so slow" he said smiling widely.
I still couldn't believe what was happening, maybe I was still dreaming, but all the doubts and fears I had were swept away when he moved toward me.
"I love you Sho. No matter how many days, months or years have passed, I still love you like...no..." he shook his head and then said "I love you even more than before" a tear escaped his eye.
My hand went to dry it and soon his hand caught mine, tightening around it, while his face leaned on it.
"Wait here" I whispered and moved away from him.
I went to my bedroom and opened the wardrobe. Digging for some minutes in all my clothes, I finally found what I was searching for.
With my hands behind my back, I returned in front of him again, smiling as never I did before.
"Please cherish it for real this time" I said and gave him his green sweater, which meant my heart.
He took it and nodded saying "I promise to do so, I will for real this time because I realized how I can't live without you"
Then he took something from his pocket and put it in front of my face. I stared at it and realized that it was the same red string he gave me long time ago.
"How stupid am I, right? Thinking that I don't need you by my side..." I laughed and took it.
I looked at it and while raising my hand, I shook it making the bell rang. We both laughed at that and, as we were used to, we brought ourselves closer and kissed.
As our lips parted and our tongues met, I could feel Masaki's tears wetting his cheeks. I took his face with my hands and tried to wipe them out but I was stopped by him.
"It's useless, I have too many tears to shed right in this moment"
After chuckling a little, our lips met again. Without breaking the contact he put the green sweater on the sofa next to us, before taking from my hands the red string and place it on the sweater.
I took his hands into mine and, still kissing, I guided him to my bedroom. He raised me up by my thighs and leaned on the bed after placing me on it.
We broke the kiss due the lack of air and started to undress each other. When he removed my t-shirt his eyes widened.
"Since when are your abdominals so firm and sexy? They weren't like this years ago" he exclaimed while lowering himself and licking them.
When his head was raised up again, I took the chance for removing at the same time his jumper and his shirt and I went speechless at the sight of his upper body.
"And what if I said to you that I started to work out in the gym because of you?"
I frowned and he explained "Since I didn't know if you still loved me or not, I thought to at least improve my body shape so that I could still seduce you with it, if I would ever meet you again"
"As if you need to do that. Just for your information, you could seduce even just with your hair"
He chuckled at that but stopped right after when I put my hands on his body while licking my lips. Before I thought that he was a cute boy, but now that same person turned into a sexy man. And hearing that he did it for being liked by me...My heart melted at that thought.
My hands reached his trousers' belt and opened it. When I was going to lower them, he stopped my hands and removed them himself before doing the same with mine.
"Remove even our boxers, I can't wait anymore. I'm waiting this since too long" I said, almost ordered to him, and he did so right away.
When the both of us were naked and he leaned on me again, my heartbeat started to fasten and even more when he started to kiss my neck, leaving red marks anywhere he could. In the meanwhile his hands went to my buttocks and squeezed them.
"Is it okay for you?" he questioned.
"W-what?" I asked back.
"To be the bottom. If you don't want it's okay for me. I can bottom for you, even though I've never did it before" he stated serious.
"I had never been at the receiving end too, but if it's for you I don't have any problems. I just want you to make love to me" I replied sincerely.
He smiled and kissed me before asking "Do you have lube?" to which I replied "Yes, in the bedside table's drawer. We are lucky that the last time I had sex with a man it's pretty recent-"
"Don't even dare to talk about this stuff when I'm with you" he interrupted me and kissed me deeply.
When he parted away from my lips, he took the lube from the drawer and opened it before starting to spread it on his fingers. When he was ready to put the first finger in me, he stopped and looked at me. When I nodded, he continued.
At first it wasn't really bad, it was just a weird sensation since I was feeling it for the first time. The pain started when Masaki put in the second finger, and it just got worse with the third. Fortunately, he was paying attention to me to the fullest and he was doing it slowly and carefully.
When moans started to come out from my mouth, he removed his fingers and placed in front of my entrance his member, which he covered with some lube.
"Is it really okay for you?"
Like before, I didn't understand what he meant so he had to explain again to me "To continue it. It will hurt like hell-"
"I don't care. I just want to feel you as closer as possible" I declared and grasped his forearms.
He smiled and kissed my forehead before entering in me gently and gradually.
"How are you?" he asked when he was fully in.
"It h-hurts...But I-I will be f-fine soon" I replied trying to smile to reassure him.
It took me several minutes for giving Masaki the okay for moving and during the first thrusts, I had to close my eyes and bit my lower lip. I couldn't ever imagine that the pain would be this much. But the more time passed, the more I enjoyed it.
"Sho y-you feel so...good" he moaned.
"Masaki..." I could only say while whimpering.
He bit my earlobe before whispering an 'I love you' and then kissed me for the nth time that night. He then took my member in his hands and it was then that I started to lose control.
I intertwined one hand in his hair, trying to bring his lips closer if that was even possible, while the other one was on his shoulder right on his birthmark. My legs wrapped his waist tightening around it trying to make him go even deeper.
I bit his lip when he hit my sweet spot suddenly. I had to throw my head on the pillow and break the kiss since I couldn't contain my moans and shouts.
One of Masaki's hands touched my cheek kindly, caressing it before being placed near my head. At that moment Masaki's thrusts became faster bringing us closer and closer to the edge of pleasure.
We both shouted each other's name and before he could do anything else, I brought his face close to mine and kissed him. As our lips touched each other and his thrusts went deeper and deeper, we came while moaning loudly in the kiss.
We parted but our faces were still near. He looked at me and smiled, joy written all over his face, and I did too. Then he hugged me and placed his head on my neck, smelling it.
“What are you doing?” I asked laughing a little.
“Smelling your scent. I always loved it and you can’t understand how much I missed it. And also, it’s still surreal that you are in my arms now so I want every possible proof that you are real, and not some kind of allucination” he explained, his breath brushing my skin.
“I’m real and I won’t let you go anymore. Just try to go away again and I will kidnap you and tie you up”
He laughed but after a smirk appeared on his lips and he whispered “I don’t mind being tied up if the one doing it is you”
I blushed immediately and tried to look away, but Masaki prevented it taking my face in his hands. Then he looked straight in my eyes and said firmly “There is no way in hell that I will leave you again. Finally I found you and I will hold on you forever”
Useless to say that those words moved me but before being able to say anything back he kissed me gently.
After several seconds he withdrew from me and lied next to me. Masaki took the tissues on my bedside table and cleaned our bodies, before putting the sheets on us.
"Masaki" I called him gaining immediately his attention.
"What?" he asked, sweetly hugging me.
"Happy Birthday" I said and left a kiss on his nose.
"Thanks Sho-chan" he replied returning back the kiss.
After that we closed our eyes, tired due to the lovemaking, ready to sleep. But before doing that, I whispered an 'I love you too' to him. He didn't reply but I heard how he chuckled and brought me closer.
If this morning I hated today, now this became the best Christmas' Eve I ever had.
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5 days later...
"What does it mean that he is moving in with you?!" a suddenly shout was heard from the front door that was open.
Nino barged in the apartment and looked at us bewildered.
"Oh Ninomiya-san, I'm happy to see you again. I wanted to thank you again for what you did for me" Masaki said walking up to him and bowing to him.
"Yeah yeah no problem. The main point is, what does it mean that you two are going to live together?"
"It means that, Nino. I even thought that I wrote a pretty clear message to you..."
"What should I have replied to your 'Masaki and me are going to live together from now on'?! 'Congrats!'?! It's normal that I have to rush here and check what's going on"
"Nino, please it's early in the morning, don't talk fast and loud like that" I whined and then asked "Why don't you tell me what you did for Masaki instead?"
"He came to our company and I gave him your address since he was desperately searching for you" he explained.
"That's why you knew my address! I was so focused on you that I didn't even think about that!" I said looking at Masaki.
"But another question has to be answered. How did you know the company in which Sho-kun worked?"
"A man came to our restaurant and asked for me. He said that one of his co-workers told him about my restaurant and so he decided to come. When I asked for his co-worker's name, he said that it was Sakurai and immediately I asked for the company's name, thinking that maybe I could go to you. Coincidentally, on that same day, you came to me"
"What? That is impossible, Sho-kun has never talked about you or your restaurant to anyone" Nino exclaimed.
"Did he say his name to you?" I asked then.
"I think it was Ohno Satoshi..."
"WHAT?!" I yelled.
Masaki and Nino looked at each other surprised and immediately asked me what was wrong. So I explained to them what happened to me and the man I met, Ohno Satoshi, who disappeared right after exiting the elevator.
"That is really...creepy guys" Nino stated.
"I see, maybe he was some kind of God of love or of soulmates. Yes he came to us for bring us together again. As expected, soulmates can't be separated from each other"
"There he goes again" both Nino and Masaki sighed.
"No guys really, you have the proof! It's real!" I said trying to persuade them.
"Okay Sho-chan okay, it's true. Now, let's go to take the other boxes in the car or we will never finish" Masaki said, taking my face in his hands and squeezing it.
"Okay but I'm telling you, I'm going to talk about this a lot from now on and you have to listen to me" I warned him pouting a little.
"I will listen to everything you say, don't worry" he smiled and pecked my lips.
"For telling you the truth, you're really making me believe in love" Nino confessed.
I smiled widely right away but before I could even say something, Nino ran away from me knowing what was waiting for him.
"This is such a good day" I exclaimed happily.
Masaki laughed at that before kissing my cheek and going out for take the remaining boxes left in the car.
I looked around myself, staring at my stuff and at all the boxes that were on the floor. If one week ago someone had told me that I was going to meet Masaki again and then live with him, I would have replied that he was crazy. Who could have imagined this developing?
But my heart had always believed that one day I would meet Masaki again. Because we were soulmates, and our love was written in the destiny.
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"I'm so relieved...It's been 20 years since I started to deal with those guys. Finally I can move on to the next target"
"Are you complaining against Fate, Satoshi?"
"I'm not doing that, it's just that everytime it's me the one dealing with these cases...Can I have two soulmates that get together within a year or two?" he whined while throwing himself over the white cloud.
"Of course you're the one doing those because, even if you don’t believe totally in soulmates and what you do, you are one of the best!"
"But you are good too Jun. They could give them to you"
"Point one, you know that I'm in charge of those rare case in which people don’t have a soulmate. Point two, do I have to remember you that I'm still stuck with that Kazunari? No matter which person I made him go out with, their relationship would always end" this time it was his time to complain.
"It means that you still haven't found the person with whom he has a high percentage to get on well"
"You know, I feel like the only person he gets on with is Sho. Maybe I should just put them together-"
"DON'T EVEN TRY TO DESTROY MY SHIP. YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW MUCH I STRUGGLED"
"Mmh~"
"JUN DON'T YOU DARE-"
"Let's see how could I do..."
"I'M TELLING YOU, I WILL GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP"
The End
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Date: Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 15:13 (UTC)I loved this story so much.. I really like how you spell
Thanks for sharing... waiting for another SakurAiba love
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Date: Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 22:46 (UTC)Thanks! I'm really glad to hear that! Really, it makes me very happy ^^
I have already some started projects + I'm planning to write a sequel about this so...let's see when I will be able to write (since uni gets me really busy)!
Thanks for reading and commenting!! <3