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Title: Kiss Five: Beautiful Like a Rainbow [Ohno/Ninomiya]
Rating/Warnings: PG for Arashi loving Arashi.
Summary: Even Ohno isn't sure what made him start paying attention at exactly the wrong moment.
AN: For 26 birthday Kisses, Kiss Five: On-Screen Kiss. Posted quickly, so tell me about any typos and i'll fix when i'm back.

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Kiss Five: Beautiful Like a Rainbow

In the firestorm of meetings, blame, and threatened consequences that follow the incident, there is serious talk about Arashi being sent on hiatus. At first the rumor is that it will be all of them, then word leaks out that it might only be the two of them directly responsible.

The meeting with Johnny himself is particularly unpleasant, despite its brevity. Johnny only says that he's going to give them twenty-four hours to think on their situation before dismissing them, but everybody in the room knows, everybody in the entire Jimusho knows, that the worst part of all is the waiting and the uncertainty.

They kept Akanishi hanging on for six months, didn't they?

Ohno never wavers. Whenever he is asked about it, his response is always, "Arashi is five people." No matter how pushy the journalists and the paparazzi get, Ohno stays calm, and the other four apologetically say that Leader is the one to talk to about these sorts of things.

In private, things are less serene.

"WHAT were you THINKING?!" Jun demands the first moment they have alone. He seems to go through all the stages of grief all at once, anger, acceptance, and denial all rearing their heads in turn. "I always knew it would end like this…maybe nobody watched and everything will be fine…"

Aiba hugs Jun tight, pushing Jun's head down so that his words are all muffled against his shoulder, and pats his head soothingly. But when he looks up at Ohno, his eyes are dark with concern as well. "Ne, captain, what were you thinking?"

When even Aiba questions your sanity, Ohno thinks as he fidgets with the hem of his shirt, maybe you've gone a bit far. He doesn't have any words for Aiba, though, so he shrugs, helpless, and Aiba's eyes soften with worry and affection as he tugs Ohno in to squeeze him tight as well. It takes a moment, but Jun's arm creeps around Ohno's waist, and his fingers sink just as tightly as Aiba's into Ohno's skin.

Off to the side, Nino and Sho are having a hushed, but just as serious conversation. Ohno can't hear Sho's words, but knows what he is saying: Sho always lobbies for the cautious path, the one that will keep them all safe. He advises apologies and retraction, even lying if that's what it takes to protect them. Ohno feels a pang in his heart, because Sho's quiet, cautious, backstage love for Arashi is so fierce that it makes his breath catch sometimes, like now, and Ohno vows that next time he will try to be Leader first and Oh-chan second.

"I won't," Nino says, gently but firmly cutting Sho off, "I won't take it back," and Ohno's chest squeezes tight and he has to hide his relieved grin against Aiba's collarbone.

Because as much as he wants to stop Jun's panic and Sho's caution and Aiba's worry, he hopes that Nino never, ever, ever takes it back.

It's late when they finally go home, everyone's stomach unsettled from the ramen that none of them had the appetite for much of. Jun's stop is first on the subway, and he looks so small and alone on the platform by himself that Aiba dashes through the doors just as they are closing to press against Jun's side, and he turns to give the other's a sheepish wave as the train pulls away.

Sho turns to give Nino and Ohno an exasperated look when Nino makes no move to follow him off the train at their shared stop, but the exasperation is half-melted before he ever gets started.

"Get home safely," is all he says in the end, and Ohno punches him in the shoulder with a smile because hugging Sho like he wants to would make him miss his stop.

"I'm home!" Ohno's voice echoes through the apartment when they get in the door, even though there's nobody there to answer him, but Nino tries out the words himself, more quietly, as he kicks off his shoes, and Ohno shoots Nino a smile over his shoulder.

Nino makes tea, because both of them are too jangled to sleep yet, and they settle on the couch as Ohno flips on the television. The late-night entertainment news is on, and Ohno goes to change it quickly, but Nino puts a hand over his wrist.

"We should probably see it," he says, and Ohno puts down the remote.

And just then the segment changes, and there they are, the live footage from that afternoon apparently being replayed on the hour.

Watching it from the outside is strange, Ohno thinks, looking at the way his arm is casually around Nino's shoulders and the slant of their bodies towards each other, and wonders how, really, there can be anybody who looks at them and doesn't know.

The hostess asks the question just then, "What kind of person is Ninomiya-kun's ideal person?" which all of them have answered roughly thirty-seven thousand times during their career, and he really has no idea what made him look up just then, having decided to pay attention at the worst moment possible.

"I like Oh-chan the best," TV-Nino declares, voice pitched so that the audience will laugh along with the joke.

Ohno couldn't explain it, what had made this time different, what made him turn his head and capture Nino's mouth, in front of a studio audience, on live national television, with the hostess making a terrified squawking noise behind them. Ohno hadn't been thinking about all that though, he had only been thinking that Kazu-chan was his favorite kind of person too.

"It goes on awhile, huh?" Ohno giggles nervously as he watches Nino bring a hand up to bury in Ohno's hair, and the way they grin at each other, stupid and happy, when they finally pull back.

Nino slips a hand into Ohno's and squeezes his fingers tight. "Oh-chan is my favorite kind of person."

They both turn their heads at the same time to grin at each other, happy and stupid and maybe about to get fired, but Ohno has never been more sure that Nino is his favorite kind of person too, and neither one of them will take it back.

Date: 2008-04-05 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karadin.livejournal.com
Oh yay, this makes me all happy and warm inside, Arigato!

Date: 2008-04-05 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daisy-chan.livejournal.com
When even Aiba questions your sanity, Ohno thinks as he fidgets with the hem of his shirt, maybe you've gone a bit far.
LOL.

Ohno vows that next time he will try to be Leader first and Oh-chan second.
*wibbles*

Because as much as he wants to stop Jun's panic and Sho's caution and Aiba's worry, he hopes that Nino never, ever, ever takes it back.
heee~

This is sooo cute. They were bound to slip up eventually, right? XPP


hugging Sho like he wants too
->wants to


Date: 2008-04-05 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xxlithiumflower.livejournal.com
Aww, you are demonstrating a real knack for writing things that seem like they should be sad but end up oddly cute and sweet anyway, you know that? And for some reason I really love Sho in this, but they're all such sweethearts in their own way. I love how you write them all. ♥

Nino slips a hand into Ohno's and squeezes his fingers tight. "Oh-chan is my favorite kind of person."

D'awwwwww. ♥

Date: 2008-04-05 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coldsnap.livejournal.com
Oh Arashi, the love is almost tangible between them. I love all of them in this, Nino's defiance, and Ohno of course, but also Sho's caution, and Aiba's jumping out of the train.

Date: 2008-04-05 11:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] waxrose.livejournal.com
Eeeeeee. ♥ Arashi (and your writing!) is just so beautiful.

Date: 2008-04-06 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
thanks! I love arashi ♥

Date: 2008-04-06 01:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
Dude, i have an official picture of them kissing, like the for real kind, and sometimes i wonder if JE is testing out the response to an openly gay JE couple.

arashi ♥

thanks for the typo catch. I'm glad you liked it!

Date: 2008-04-06 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
you know, it happens the other way around pretty often too. I'm putting off the akame for that reason, cause it always turns out so sad.

thanks! i'm glad you enjoyed it.

Date: 2008-04-06 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
thanks! i feel that way when i watch Arashi too ♥

Date: 2008-04-06 01:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
thank you! Arashi ~ ♥

Date: 2008-04-06 02:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daisy-chan.livejournal.com
What. Seriously? A planned photoshoot thing? I think I need to see this.

Well, that would certainly be one explaination for all the rainbows. Oh, Arashi <3

Date: 2008-04-06 02:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
well, it's from a tour pamphlet (http://pics.livejournal.com/mousapelli/pic/001wweh6), so i don't think it was planned, but every time i look at it, i boggle a little more.

i mean...there's nothing else they can possibly be doing in that photo. and the quote down below is talking about love, so...

Date: 2008-04-06 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anamuan.livejournal.com
oh, how bittersweet.

Date: 2008-04-06 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daisy-chan.livejournal.com
jksfdlafkl;ajfj;sfa;f;jas
I CANNOT EVEN THINK OF A RESPONSE TO THAT

Obviously the feedback must be pretty insanely positive if they're printing it on promotional material. <3

*goes to rewatch that bit with them in Yamada Taro*

Date: 2008-04-06 02:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skadihelias.livejournal.com
D'AAAAAWWWWWW *rolls around happily*

Ohmiya is definitely my favorite kind of couple X3

Date: 2008-04-06 03:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhythmia.livejournal.com
I...I...*wibbles* Gonna slip up for real eventually, hmmm? I really liked this, that it was so...bittersweet. It's a nerve-wracking situation, but through all the tension I could feel the love of the members weaving through and around each other. That's what I like best of all in your Arashi fics, I think. It's Ohmiya, but it's also about Arashi, like how you have Ohno saying that Arashi is five people...that just hit me in the gut. I love all the quoted bits that other people put already, too!

Grammar/spelling nazi!
give them twenty-fours twenty-four hours?

In short, afjoairjaoigaf ♥

Date: 2008-04-06 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhythmia.livejournal.com
And I saw that AibaJun there! *glees*

Date: 2008-04-06 03:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
whoops, good catch *fixes*

thank you! I love arashi so much, it's crazy. but one thing i'm sure of is that nobody loves Arashi as much as Arashi do.

Date: 2008-04-06 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silverrangel.livejournal.com
This makes me flail less than usual, because the thought of Arashi breaking up, even fictionally, makes me want to burst into tears. :( But I loved how you portrayed everyone, how Sho is quietly and cautiously loving Arashi, and Jun slipping up and being vulnerable for once with Aiba coming to his rescue all the time. ♥ Gah. How can 20-somethings be so cute. D:

Date: 2008-04-06 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] helzfyah.livejournal.com
this was sweet, but it made me sad! Especially this:
Jun's stop is first on the subway, and he looks so small and alone on the platform by himself that Aiba dashes through the doors just as they are closing to press against Jun's side, and he turns to give the other's a sheepish wave as the train pulls away.

But the end, i love how it's all worth it ♥

Date: 2008-04-27 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] longleggedgit.livejournal.com
Did I mention I've read this about 384595838495695 times and it's like the cutest fucking thing ever. ♥

Date: 2008-04-29 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] honeyswallow.livejournal.com
It is as someone has already said, it feels like it should be sad, but all it makes me feel is happy for two people so in love. Wow, I haven't felt this painfully in love with them just after reading a fic in a long time. &hearts

Date: 2008-04-29 08:56 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Oh Im glad you posted the index because I would have missed your lovely drabbles.

This is my favourite so far, so I thought I'd take a small break from making my way down your list, to leave you a little note.

I would have loved a RyoDa or a Nishikato, but I get the impression that those are not your usual Ryo pairings right?
No matter, it's all good! I'm looking foward to reading the rest of your list. Thanks for writing and sharing.

-- Hana

Date: 2008-04-29 08:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
awwwwww *pinches your cheeks*

This is actually one of my favorites too, because the whole thing is about the kiss but the kiss isn't actually in the story.

Date: 2008-04-29 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] longleggedgit.livejournal.com
OK I HAVE AN APPROPRIATE ICON.

Date: 2008-04-29 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
AWWWWWWWW where did that come from?!!

Date: 2008-04-29 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] longleggedgit.livejournal.com
I found it here! (http://jesseski.livejournal.com/22893.html) :))) It was kind of too adorable to pass up.

Date: 2008-04-29 10:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ohmiya-sg.livejournal.com
Cute Ohmiya is my favorite. They're just so squishable!

Date: 2008-04-29 10:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ohmiya-sg.livejournal.com
*pokes Hana*

Date: 2009-01-20 06:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phantom115.livejournal.com
wooah

no words

m( )m

d(^_^)b

Date: 2009-08-21 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insipid-paragon.livejournal.com
So, so bittersweet. I am concerned for the boys! But ah, their reactions coupled with Ohno's ready response of "Arashi is five people," ah. Hurts so good!

Date: 2009-08-28 05:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soft-rain11.livejournal.com
Oh, if that ever happens I hope they know they have fans who'll support them no matter what. Ohmiya forever!

Thanks for writing. It was short and sweet.

Date: 2010-07-06 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ggumilgeoya.livejournal.com
this has made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside ... and then again sad ... because of the consequences an innocent kiss can have when given in the wrong situation ...

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