PIku!   von Sareru
                               (TomaPi-OneShots)
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                            Kapitel 4: #7 - Friend
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Prompt table: #7 - Friend
Author: Sareru
Rating: PG
Genre: slight Angst (?)
Soundtrack: Vanessa Carlton – A thousand miles
Notes: so try number 2 on my prompt xD yoroshiku ne  tomapi-time again! Yay!
oh, and please be gentle, cuz my dear beta's left me behind and went into
vacation xD


Friend


“Let's be together forever!” This was what they'd agreed on in an
interview.
“If we talk about love, in the end it’ll turn into joking around.”, was
what Toma had stated back in 1999.
“A long history together.” Again Toma.
“Ikuta-kun, I have to take this chance to apologize to you. Even though
you’re my sempai, I’m always crossing the line.” This time Yamashita.
“Even though I’m like this…please continue to wake me up when I’m
asleep.” And again.

In their Junior days they'd been so lively and sound, but then the big change
came running.

Yamashita was told to be in the “1 month temporary unit”, News. It hadn't
been a big to neither him or Toma, since they'd thought they were to continue as
4TOPS after that 1 month. But fate wasn't calling upon them.

“I'm... you know...”, Yamashita sighed on the phone, talking to his friend.
“Ah... how should I start this?”
“Doesn't matter, just go ahead. It can't be that bad, right?”, Toma said in
a chipper voice on the other end.
“Actually... yes... it can.”, Yamashita mumbled, a long pause following.
“Yamashita? What... what do you mean?”, Toma asked, worried.
“This... this 'News' thing, it's... not... temporary... you see?”, Yamashita
pressed out between his lips.
“What? No... that's not true, right? You're just joking...”, Toma replied,
laughing nervously. “Right?”
“Toma...”
Toma's voice had dropped dead. Yamashita leaving him behind? That couldn't be.
That's not what the two had been planning. They'd agreed on graduating from
Juniors together. Not Yamashita first, with some random kouhais put together to
form a group.
“Where... are you now?”, Toma asked, gulping right after the sentence.
“Eh? I'm... I'm home... Why? … Toma?”
But Toma wouldn't answer. He'd cut off the call and put the phone in some random
pocket in his trousers, starting to run like a lunatic. During the run he was
bumping into numerous people, not looking where he went. He couldn't even take a
calm seat in the train but either got up again or let his foot bump on the
ground in a constant agitated rhythm. Trying to coordinate his feelings? Failed.
He didn't even know if he was angry or sad or both or none. All he knew was that
this news was extremely disturbing and that he had to meet Yamashita. Now.

So he even started to run in the train in the direction of the exit he had to
take at the station. Almost falling outside the train and in the tiny gap
between the train and the ground, he left the vehicle and hurried towards the
exit, almost running into a police officer.

Just as he'd left the station, Yamashita called again.
But Toma wasn't paying attention to the vibration or the tone. All he could
think of was running.
As he'd finally reached Yamashita's house, he ran towards the door, punching his
fists against the wooden entrance and crying Yamashita's name.
As his friend opened the door and looked at him in confusion, Toma had already
taken a step inside and continued punching against Yamashita's chest.
“You idiot! Why?!”, he cried. “Graduating without me! Is that how you
treat your sempai? And moreover I'm your friend, dammit!”
Toma continued punching but Yamashita eventually cold a hold of his arms and
forced Toma to look into his eyes, speaking up again.
“You've... promised that we'll be together forever. Remember?”, he sobbed.
“Toma...”, Yamashita said, desperately searching for words to calm the other
boy down.
“Don't leave me... what am I supposed to do without you? We've been together
for so long already... I don't think that... I can...”, Toma said and tried to
go on but couldn't.
His words gave way to the sobbing and crying he'd tried to suppress for so long
already and he leaned his head against Yamashita's shoulder, his hands grabbing
he other boy's shirt tightly.
“Shh...”, the other boy whispered, hugging Toma gently. “It's okay... cry
if you feel to.”
Yamashita pulled Toma inside and closed the door, finally leaning on the wall
with a crying Toma in his arms, patting his hair lightly and whispering soothing
words into his ear.
After a while the heavy shaking of Toma's body had stopped and the sobbing had
turned into a light sniffing, but still the older one was clinging onto
Yamashita tightly.
“I... hate Johnny... if I can't be with you anymore... then there's no reason
for me to stay any longer. I'll leave. “, Toma mumbled.
“Don't be silly, Toma! You can't. What would Jimmy and the others think? And
didn't you want to stay in showbiz forever? There's no chance if you're against
Johnny and aren't successful yet. So stop saying that, okay?”, Yamashita tried
to convince him, still rocking from the right to the left side lightly.
“Yama-...”
“Okay? Promise!”, Yamashita insisted.
Toma thought for a while, then nodded lightly, whispering: “Okay...”
“Okay...” Yamashita smiled. “And we're still friends after all, right?”
“Yeah...”, Toma said, pulling back now and wiping his wet face with the back
of his hand. “Friends. Forever, right?”
“Forever.”, Yamashita smiled and so they got upstairs and to get a cup of
tea to celebrate Yamashita's graduating from Juniors. As friends.


A/N:
ah~ i'd planned on writing some really~ desperate smut but failed *drops*
next time definitely! òó
A/N2:
and DAMMIT! this isn't even slight romance, wtf? DX'

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