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Title: Shifting Roles [Hasshi/Sanada/Nozawa]
Rating/Warnings: PG for Hasshi's oblivious nature.
Summary: After Kamei leaves, things change. But Sanada's just afraid they won't ever stop changing.
AN: Even though TOP3 is (maybe) not an official name yet, I think it's cute :) Also, Word wants to change "Takaki" to "teacake" and as [livejournal.com profile] jackoweskla says, that pretty much says it all.

[livejournal.com profile] snowqueenofhoth offers the following for visual aid:



Shifting Roles

With Kamei gone and the position of Leader up for grabs, Hashimoto and Sanada agree that they will have to shift roles a little. Because they are jyannis, they of course jankanpon for it.

Sanada emerges victorious because Hasshi throws 'ladybug.'

"But ladybugs eat paper!" Hasshi whines.

"Ladybug is not an option, and I hereby declare you the loser of janken forever!" Sanada snaps, rubbing his temples. "God, no wonder the senpai keep sticking things in your mouth!"

“Hey!” Hasshi pouts, and Sanada just clicks his tongue in disgust because that’s the other reason the senpai keep sticking things in his mouth.

The pout evaporates after a second, though, because Sanada points out that as Leader, Hasshi would have to focus on the good of the group rather than whether or not his hair was curling properly in the back.

“And we definitely can’t put you in charge of that,” Hasshi agrees, giving Sanada’s head a significant look.

“Stop that, there’s nothing wrong with my hair,” Sanada says, but he puts a hand up to feel before he can stop himself, and Hasshi just whistles innocently at his glare. “At any rate, the next thing we need is…”

At that exact moment, Koyama-senpai bustles into the warm-up, shoving a terrified-looking Nozawa-kun in front of him. He draws to a halt right in front of Sanada and Hasshi, and gives Nozawa a little shove forward.

“…a replacement for Kamei,” Sanada finishes. Hasshi hums a little, looking Nozawa over, and Nozawa stares at his sneakers.

“You three will be singing as a trio for this filming!” Koyama-senpai announces, giving them a big smile. “You all know each other, right? You’ll definitely get along!” he continues without waiting for an answer.

Just then, they are interrupted by Takada nearly knocking all of them down as he runs past, screaming at the top of his lungs. Right behind him is Shintarou, brandishing a baton and hollering some sort of war cry, and behind Shintarou is Taiga, who gives Koyama a panicked and pleading expression as he dashes by, snatching in vain at the back of Shintarou’s fuchsia jacket.

“Um, I’ll be right back,” Koyama says, and then takes off after the tinier, more violent juniors.

Sanada and Hasshi look Nozawa up and down some more, and Nozawa continues to stare at his shoes.

“It’s not really what I had in mind,” Hasshi says finally, but when Nozawa’s shoulders slump a little, he hurries to add, “but it’s okay! It could be worse!”

Sanada punches Hasshi in the shoulder, then says a much more polite, “Hello,” to Nozawa. He waits a beat, getting no response, before asking, “You talk, right? I’ve seen you talking.”

“Yes.” Nozawa lifts his head just enough to peek at them, and jumps when he finds Hasshi leaning in to examine him closely. He clears his throat and mumbles a shy, “Please take care of me.”

“He’s cute,” Hasshi reports to Sanada in satisfaction. “But not too cute. Let’s keep him!”

“He’s another junior, not a hair scrunchie!” Sanada chastises, but Hasshi just grins at Nozawa and gives him a little wave, as if he is a puppy they are selecting through the glass window of a pet store. “Ignore him,” he says to Nozawa, who is glancing back and forth between them with a mix of shyness and dawning comprehension. “He thinks he’s the cute one.”

“I AM the cute one!” Hasshi says.

“There’s only two of us, and you just made me Leader!” Sanada points out, rolling his eyes. He inspects Nozawa some more. “So, what do you do?”

“Um,” Nozawa lifts his head a little more. “I dance and sing, actually.”

“Clearly. You’re a jyannis.” Sanada elbows Hasshi when he opens his mouth, and Hasshi goes back to pouting at him. “I mean, are you the funny one? The mood-maker? The responsible one? In a group, what is it that you do?”

“I don’t exactly know,” Nozawa reaches up to scratch the back of his head. “I’ve never been in a group before.”

“Oh damn,” Sanada says. “I bet you’re the quiet one who secretly turns out to be the hottest one of all in the end.” He sighs while Hasshi and Nozawa blink at each other. “Well, I guess you better stick with us then.”

“But,” Nozawa turns to look in the direction in which Koyama ran off, “I think we’re just grouped for now, aren’t we?”

“I like him!” Hasshi tells Sanada. He makes a face of self-sacrifice. “It’s okay if he turns out hot later. I’ll tell Koyama-senpai that we’re keeping him!”

Hasshi beams at Nozawa, who looks confused and a little bedazzled, and Sanada tells Nozawa that he’ll probably be stuck with them for a bit.

A bit later, when Nozawa tells them that what they’re singing together is “LIPS,” and Hasshi’s face lights up like fireworks, Sanada wonders exactly who is stuck with who.

*****

Nozawa, as it turns out, is indeed the responsible one. It’s hard to tell at first, since his reluctance to go along with Hasshi’s every half-baked notion could be shyness or dislike or even self-preservation, so it’s ages later on the Hi! Hey! Say! set before Sanada knows for sure.

“Don’t,” Nozawa says when Hasshi goes to dash thoughtlessly after Hikaru-kun, and his voice is soft as usual, but he catches the back of Hasshi’s collar, and Hasshi turns, head cocked like a confused puppy.

“I was just…” Hasshi starts, but Nozawa shakes his head.

“I think they want to be alone for a bit,” Nozawa says, and Hasshi glances from Hikaru-kun to Yabu-kun, leaving the stage in opposite directions, neither one of them saying anything to either bandmates or crew as they disappear into the bustle. Sanada understands then, and gives Nozawa a thoughtful glance for having seen it right away.

“Because of the song,” Sanada helps explain when Hasshi goes on staring at them.

“’Ikujinashi?’” Hasshi asks, looking even more puzzled. “But why? It’s a good song! And it turned out really well, didn’t it?” He starts to look nervous when the others don’t respond right away. “Didn’t it?”

“But it isn’t their song, Hasshi,” Nozawa tries again, still in that same patient, soft voice. “How would you feel if Takaki-kun sang ‘Back in Time’ without you? How would you feel if you had to do it alone?”

“Oh.” Hasshi chews on that for a few seconds, and Sanada realizes that it’s the first time Nozawa’s used Hasshi’s nickname instead of ‘Hashimoto-kun.’ Hasshi offers Nozawa a sheepish smile. “I think I get it now. Thanks, Nokkun.”

Nozawa wrinkles his nose at the nickname, which makes Hasshi give an immediate shout of “CUTE!” and Sanada hopes that Nozawa doesn’t mind being called that forever.

*****

Sanada doesn’t see the first time Hasshi kisses Nozawa, but he knows exactly when it happens. Before break everything is normal, and after they return from the vending machine, Nozawa is pink-faced, tripping over himself, and refusing to look anybody in the eye.

Sanada sighs, because he was really hoping it would take Hasshi longer to figure out how to incapacitate the responsible one, and pulls Hasshi aside for a talk.

“You can’t do things like that!” Sanada scolds. “You have to think!”

“Sanadaaaaa,” Hasshi whines, fidgety since he can see others dancing but isn’t himself in motion.

“No, it isn’t fair to Nozawa.” Sanada crosses his arms and refuses to let Hasshi’s pout have its way. “Because you’re just screwing around, and I know you don’t mean anything when you play like that, but I think Nozawa…” There’s a crash as Nozawa takes several tiny juniors to the ground along with him, and Sanada grits his teeth. “Look, you can’t tease him like that.”

“But what if,” Hasshi fiddles with the hem of his shirt, “what if I maybe don’t not mean anything, a little?”

“Oh no,” Sanada’s breath catches at the hopeful smile Hasshi turns up at him, and the way his gaze darts towards Nozawa’s tangle of kouhai. “Hasshi…”

“Don’t worry!” Hasshi beams, throwing his arms around Sanada in a quick hug and kissing his cheek. “I like Sanada-kun too!”

“HEY!” Sanada shouts in protest as Hasshi scampers off to help Nozawa up. “Are we that kind of unit ALREADY?!”

*****

Sanada feels his heart skip every time schedules are handed out or posted, always aware that they aren’t really a unit yet, even a junior unit, always afraid that their names won’t be side-by-side when he finds them.

But Summary schedules are out, and so far so good. Sanada thinks that maybe he can stop worrying, just for a little while. Especially when they get a look at the tour goods and they have their own photoset. Along with some other goods.

“It’s my face,” Nozawa murmurs, holding his own uchiwa and staring at it like he can’t make any sense of what he’s seeing. Sanada laughs, because he kind of feels the same, and because Hasshi is practicing kissing with his own uchiwa.

“Stop it, you freak,” he tells Hasshi, kicking at his leg, but Hasshi just grins at the interruption and goes for Sanada’s uchiwa instead, lips puckered. Sanada fends him off and whacks him on the head with it, and Hasshi turns to a Nozawa, who proves to be a much easier target.

“But, um,” Nozawa says after Hasshi has been distracted by some of the senpai coming in and has run off to show them his uchiwa. Sanada looks up to find Nozawa staring at his own, now defiled, uchiwa. Nozawa is chewing on his lower lip. “What’ll they do when Kamei comes back?”

It’s something Sanada and Hasshi talk about, sometimes, when they’re alone and sharing a hotel room or waiting for the train, sometimes when it’s dark and quiet and lonely even with the two of them sitting shoulder to shoulder. Hasshi seems like he’s getting to the point where he’s accepted the fact that Kamei probably isn’t coming back, and they talk about it less often, recently.

But now Sanada realizes that maybe they should have been talking to Nozawa too.

When Sanada doesn’t answer right away, Nozawa looks up, and the expression on his face reminds Sanada powerfully of the day that Koyama dropped him off in front of them, nervous and lonely and just enough hope to break Sanada’s heart.

He drops his uchiwa with a clatter and grabs Nozawa, pulling them tight together in a fierce hug. Nozawa’s uchiwa is dangling at his side, but his other hand comes up to grip the back of Sanada’s shirt.

“If Kamei comes back,” Sanada growls, and he can feel the hitch of Nozawa’s chest against his own, “he can find his own unit.”

There’s another soft clatter and then two hands twisting tight in the back of Sanada’s shirt, and shit, Sanada hadn’t meant to say something that was even more dangerous than Hasshi’s scattershot kisses.

But maybe, he thinks with Nozawa’s heart pounding against his own, it’s okay to be hopeful sometimes, even if you are a jyannis.

“Hey,” Hasshi bounces back up to them, oblivious and high on senpai hair-rufflings, “are we having a group hug? Let me in!”

Nozawa lets go of Sanada with one hand to hold it up for Hasshi, and Hasshi drops his own uchiwa on top of both of theirs without a second though before wriggling under Nozawa’s arm and getting arms around both of their waists.

“Not so tight,” Sanada grumbles, because Hasshi’s muscles aren’t just for show, but Hasshi only squeezes them tighter, and when Sanada sees the look of concentration on Hasshi’s face, he thinks that maybe Hasshi isn’t totally oblivious.

Nozawa leans up on tiptoe and kisses Hasshi’s check, and Hasshi flushes bright red, mouth in a shocked ‘O’ as he stares at Nozawa’s shy smile.

Sometimes, Sanada amends, and then leans up to kiss Hasshi’s other cheek, since apparently they’re going to be one of those units.

Date: 2008-08-05 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kenaressa.livejournal.com
I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE

Why do you do this to me Mousie? WHY?!

Date: 2008-08-05 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] procreational.livejournal.com
HAHAHHAHA I LOVE YOU. YOU MADE HASSHI THE SLUTTY ONE. ♥

This is really sweet.

Date: 2008-08-05 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
hasshi's the one who looks like baby jin, only hot. *icon*

you love it, deep inside.

Date: 2008-08-05 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
I always do have a special soft spot for the aibajin moron. They're so cute and squishable.

CAPSLOCK IS NECESSARY

Date: 2008-08-05 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chiharu.livejournal.com
fkdjsfkl;asdjf s I LOVE YOU. YOU KNOW WHAT? I TOTALLY LOVE YOU. THIS BETTER LEAD MORE MORE TOP3 FICS OR I WILL SERIOUSLY PUNCH SOMEONE IN THE FACE (most likely Johnny, because I still miss Kamei)

fsdkafj OH GOD HASHI REALLY IS JIN. Caring about his hair, crushing peopel in hugs, and making out with himself. Very nice. He's always so smug whenever he shows up last in the TOP3 trio on Shokura.... I'm 80% sure he's the leader, though, because there's always dressing him in something distinguishable. Like, when Nozawa and Sanada wear black, he wears yellow. And when Nozawa and Sanada wear yellow, he wears black.

fsdafj SANADA. NOZAWA. HEY.. I think I can tell them apart now. Like, really. I stared at their outfits and memorized their hair for a good ten minutes. Aren't you proud?

“I like him!” Hasshi tells Sanada. He makes a face of self-sacrifice.
HASSHI. SO NOBLE.

will spazz more later. Rereading it now

Date: 2008-08-05 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com
Ahhhhhh, Ahhhhhh, MOUSI. ♥

Taiga trying to stop Shintarou!
Yabu and Hikaru!
Nozawa being all responsible!
Hasshi being... Hasshi! XD
Hasshi's muscles? Uh oh...
LADYBUG?!

I love your group dynamics. And they're going to be one of those units. Ahahahahaha. Oh, god, so much love!

Re: CAPSLOCK IS NECESSARY

Date: 2008-08-05 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chiharu.livejournal.com
THIS IS THE PART WHERE I QUOTE EVERY OTHER LINE IN THE FIC.

Sanada emerges victorious because Hasshi throws 'ladybug.'
Cheating is a necessary part of being a Junior.

Sanada snaps, rubbing his temples
... If Hasshi is Jin, then Sanada is Kame... Nozawa is so not Yamapi, though... Unless there's a darker (lol or not) side of him we're not seeing on shokura... But judging from those catears, I doubt it.

Right behind him is Shintarou, brandishing a baton and hollering some sort of war cry
I don't know who's more BOSS, Ryutaro or Shintaro. Shintaro already has Nakayama wrapped around his fingers, though. I EXPECT TO SEE A LOT FROM THIS KID SOON.

and gives him a little wave, as if he is a puppy they are selecting through the glass window of a pet store.
Definately Jin. Have you been watching NATURAL THANG LATELY OR SOMETHING? Lol you're the only one that writes slutty!Hasshi in fandom right now.

Nokkun... DO WE OFFICIALLY HAVE A NEW NICKNAME NOW? Quick, fandom! Take notes!

always afraid that their names won’t be side-by-side when he finds them.
This line is so precious, like little kids, hoping to be seated next to their friend in class fdksjf

sometimes when it’s dark and quiet and lonely even with the two of them sitting shoulder to shoulder.
;A; my heart can't take this

oblivious and high on senpai hair-rufflings
or mouth stuffing 8D

Sometimes, Sanada amends, and then leans up to kiss Hasshi’s other cheek, since apparently they’re going to be one of those units.
fsdafskdfjsd MY HEART. They officially have my heart.

Re: CAPSLOCK IS NECESSARY

Date: 2008-08-05 03:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
I'm pretty sure you're going to see more of them, esp if they are really going to start being a unit for real instead of just in our hearts.

you know, i'd feel bad for just painting him broadly with the jinbrush, except as i watch his lives, i am totally convinced he's doing it on purpose. And as for him being leader, he might be! He doesn't read that way to me. But he's certainly the most popular, so I think what they're playing up is that he's the lead, and the other two are a tiny bit interchangeable backing him. It's been a little more even lately, but that's what i see. During their interview about how they spend their time though, Sanada seemed to take the lead, and Hasshi sort of sat there poking his cheek with his tongue. like Jin. i swear to god he practices it.

YAY. i am proud of you!! it's hard to learn group dynamics when you don't know who you're looking at.

Re: CAPSLOCK IS NECESSARY

Date: 2008-08-05 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
see, kamei was so kame to sanada's pi and hasshi's jin, but that all sort of broke down, and now i'm not sure if nozawa is channeling anybody in particular. He's adorable though, so I don't care. He can be himself.

Shintarou. And i'll tell you how I know: because when they show them together on shokura, Ryu always looks scandalized by what Shintarou is up to. I bet their mother is this tiny, gorgeous, but totally mild lady.

Lol, it is cute, but i didn't make Nokkun up! it's on his wiki. although I always wonder where those nicknames come from, anyhow.

Hasshi's had my heart for ages, and nozawa and sanada won it through game victory. Hey, look up at the top of the post, Rachel's offering visual aid!!

Date: 2008-08-05 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
Nozawa totally comes off to me as the responsible one in various bits of magazine interviews lately. But that's only based on my limited skimming, so who knows.

Taiga will never stop Shintarou. He'll just be very, very pretty and long-suffering.

*THROWS LADYBUG*

Re: CAPSLOCK IS NECESSARY

Date: 2008-08-05 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chiharu.livejournal.com
Seeing more of them on shokura doesn't necessarily translate to having more passable fanfics in fandom D: I cry to sleep every night knowing this fact.

But at least they're letting Sanada and Nozawa lead in the Jr. league challange now 8D IDK if it's just temporarily, or JE is really handing them Yabu and Hikaru's old position (which is still weird to me, because yesterday they were still there, laughing like idoits and getting golden hulas laid on their shoulder)

LOL You were right. Nozawa has smaller eyes and Sanada has longer (more puffier?) hair. Hasshi, on the other hand, only has to look smug to get noticed.

Re: CAPSLOCK IS NECESSARY

Date: 2008-08-05 03:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chiharu.livejournal.com
LOL. Ryutaro is so threatened whenever Shintaro shows up on stage. He'd rather spend his christmas with Senga than his little brother 8D

Nozawa's face is lopsided D: This saddens me greatly.

Re: CAPSLOCK IS NECESSARY

Date: 2008-08-05 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
I think it's a sign that JE wants them to be more visible that they're in the games, esp repeatedly. it doesn't seem to me though that anybody is team captain right now in the games or anywhere else, but I'm pretty sure that Nozawa and Sanada are just seating in the vacant seats, not taking over in the sense of actually doing yabu and hikaru's jobs. If anybody's the co-captains of the jrs at this moment, it's Fujigaya and Kawai, who have been doing all the talking and announcing at the KAT-TUN cons.

it's tough to tell during the summer, though, since the shokura are so underpopulated and everybody's so busy.

I have so much identification fail. If i can tell them apart, anybody can.

Date: 2008-08-05 04:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kenaressa.livejournal.com
You are so evil to me. *gives you great unconvincing pout*

Date: 2008-08-05 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bu-yao-ren.livejournal.com
Shintarou. And a lot of Nozawa scrunching up his face. I. I liked it.

Date: 2008-08-05 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kinomoto-narika.livejournal.com
-SQUEES-

Sometimes, Sanada amends, and then leans up to kiss Hasshi’s other cheek, since apparently they’re going to be one of those units.
My favorite line. I absolutely love those units. XD♥

I hope they last as TOP3. I really, really like them together.

Date: 2008-08-05 07:56 pm (UTC)

Date: 2008-08-05 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
haha, i think all of JE is one of those units, except maybe KAT-TUN, and even then i guess the only difference is that usually the sex is kind of angry.

I hope they stick around too ♥

Date: 2008-08-07 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silverrangel.livejournal.com
you know i love juniors and the way everything is so uncertain but they hope things'll work out anyway. there's something so heartbreaking and endearing about it. oh nozawa. he is so cute i can hardly stand it if he gets taken away. ;~; this line in particular made me wibble: the expression on his face reminds Sanada powerfully of the day that Koyama dropped him off in front of them, nervous and lonely and just enough hope to break Sanada’s heart.

also, this one made me LOL! XD

“HEY!” Sanada shouts in protest as Hasshi scampers off to help Nozawa up. “Are we that kind of unit ALREADY?!”

Date: 2008-08-12 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kira-shadow.livejournal.com
I died laughing at the ladybug jankenpon
XDDD

*sigh*
I still miss Kamei but these 3 are totally growing on me...though admittedly, I like Sanada and Hasshi better than Nozawa still =(

Date: 2008-08-13 03:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shimizumiki.livejournal.com
SO SAD. But so cute.

I don't know if you have other TOP3 fics, but I'm going to check.

Can I friend you?

Date: 2008-08-13 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mousapelli.livejournal.com
Thanks! Just one other one here (http://mousapelli.livejournal.com/501787.html) so far, but I'm sure there'll be others.

Sure thing.

Date: 2008-08-13 06:43 am (UTC)
ext_5724: (Johnny is crazy)
From: [identity profile] nicocoer.livejournal.com
I feel like a dirty old woman. and I want Top3 to stick around a lot now. ♥

Date: 2008-08-14 05:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 5254.livejournal.com
dshfosdfhsdofh LOVE IT. ♥♥

Date: 2008-08-22 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chokingday.livejournal.com
“Oh damn,” Sanada says. “I bet you’re the quiet one who secretly turns out to be the hottest one of all in the end.” He sighs while Hasshi and Nozawa blink at each other. “Well, I guess you better stick with us then.”

AND AND AND

hen leans up to kiss Hasshi’s other cheek, since apparently they’re going to be one of those units.

SANADA!LOGIC WINS THE UNIVERSE ♥!!!

Date: 2008-08-23 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcmelly.livejournal.com
omygosh!!!
this is just beautiful!!!
the friendship and bond they've formed ><
this makes me love them even more !!!

more top3 fics pwease :D

Date: 2008-09-06 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marchechizen.livejournal.com
. “I bet you’re the quiet one who secretly turns out to be the hottest one of all in the end.”
ASDFGKHSAJSHFHGGF. TOO CUTE.

YOU MAKE THE AWESOME-EST FICS EVER~

Date: 2008-12-20 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] knowmonsta.livejournal.com
"But ladybugs eat paper!" Hasshi whines.

"Ladybug is not an option, and I hereby declare you the loser of janken forever!" Sanada snaps, rubbing his temples. "God, no wonder the senpai keep sticking things in your mouth!"


LMAO. Poor Sanada. . . . and Hasshi. XD

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