A/N: Feeling this anime lately. Lots of love for all parings. First time for it~ Enjoy? :)
By the way...
Warning: yaoi, cursing, innuendos and sex not presented. TakanoxOnodera and YokozawaxOC
"Ritsu."
"Sa-Saga-senpai?"
"… I love you."
"I-"
There was a table banging and door closing from downstairs. The two naked forms stayed still in the older one's bed, with the younger gasping lightly in fear, until…
"Masamune? Are you home, Masamune?" a female voice called out from below them.
Ritsu froze in his senpai's arms, but the older one from the two of them chuckled, "Don't worry…" he whispered, kissing his forehead gently, "It's just my sister," he added. Then, taking his arms off of the younger boy for a moment, he stood to open the door a bit and yelled back, "Up here! Don't disturb me unless it's dinner! I've got a visitor!"
The only thing Ritsu remembered hearing from the girl was:
"Okay~ Make Ritsu stay for dinner, please?"
X.o.X
Onodera Ritsu opened his eyes, rubbing them before completely sitting up, "She… Knew who I was?"
It wasn't unusual that he was getting these dreams, especially since he began working at Marukawa Shoten, under Emerald's Maiden Department, with the great Takano Masamune – the same man who haunts his dreams (or nightmares, as forced himself to call them), who was coincidentally his first love, and first heartbreak (under an honest, but huge misunderstanding).
Onodera groaned. It was going to be a long day.
Entering the building of the office, he found the 'wild horse' of Marukawa Publishing, Yokozawa Takafumi, yelling at a girl with long black hair and bright amber eyes, dressed like the very description of sunshine: a yellow, knee-length dress, with a little bit of lace wrapped around the midsection; on top of it was an open brown coat, and on her head was a brown beanie. As he passed, Onodera noticed how tall she was, seeing her yellow ballet flats, and he only came up to her ears. The conversation she shared with Yokozawa was hardly private:
"You can't keep me from seeing him this time, Yokozawa! You're the only one under the illusion that there's something wrong with him, so shut it!"
And just as Onodera entered the elevator, the young woman stormed towards him, closing the door on Yokozawa, who was just about to enter. Then, looking at him, she smiled in embarrassment, "Sorry about that, sweetie,"
Shocked at how she acted towards Yokozawa, of all people, Onodera chuckled nervously as he pressed the button for their floor of the building, "It's no problem," he said uncertainly.
She sighed heavily and closed her eyes, "That guy just frustrates me so much,"
"Um…" he didn't know why she was supposed to be of his concern, "What floor are you going to again?"
"The fourth," The girl opened her eyes and grinned cheekily, "Same as you,"
The elevator doors opened and Onodera was left inside for quite a few moments before he followed after the girl, who walked straight into the rack for their coats, dropping hers into a spare hanger, then into their office. Who is this girl? She can't be new and yelling at Yokozawa like-
"Good morning, you guys!" she greeted into the office. Many gasps were heard all throughout the room just as Onodera came in after her.
"Ana-sensei!"
"Congratulations!"
"Takano-san, your sister is here!"
Eh? His-?
But just as Onodera sat on his desk, he saw the girl pranced towards Takano's desk, "Masamune~!"
To Onodera's surprise, Takano stood up and smiled. Yes, the man smiled, "Nee-chan," he said and just as he held his arms out, the girl named Ana jumped into his arms and half-tackled him, "It's been a while,"
Jumping off from Takano's arms and sitting on his desk, the girl grinned, "Yeah," she started, "It definitely has… Promoting the book's been too much work, seriously, and I deserve a break,"
Takano laughed, startling Onodera a bit, "A break? You asked for this when you wrote a best-selling novel, sis," he countered, sitting on his chair and leaning into it.
"You've read Times, haven't you?" she asked with a raised eyebrow and Takano only laughed again, "Darn! I was gonna surprise you!"
"Well, I still haven't gotten a copy for myself, so I can't agree or disagree with Times," the editor began, with insinuating tones.
Ana giggled, "You're in luck," Then, from within her bag, an earthen colored tote, she took out a paper-back novel, still wrapped in plastic. Onodera had trouble reading the title from afar because from what he could see, it was in English. He continued to watch as the girl handed the novel to his boss.
"And they said you couldn't print a novel in Japan and turn it into a world-wide phenomenon," Takano chuckled as he took the book, "Against all odds, huh?"
Ana shrugged, "You believed in me,"
Takano smiled at her again, "I did," he began slowly, sitting up from his chair, "… But I'm family – I'm not counted. That's bias,"
"When were you ever biased, Masamune?" she demanded from him teasingly. Something dropped in the pit of Onodera's stomach.
Never.
"Never," And she and Takano shared a laugh.
Onodera looked around at his workmates who were either trying to work or lazing around, but mostly the latter. Then, clearing his throat, he called out to the one beside him, "Ano… Kisa?" he began.
The brunet he called perked up, "What is it, Ricchan?"
"That girl," he glanced back at the girl Takano was talking to, "… Who is she?"
"Ah, that's Hideyoshi Ana-sensei," replied Kisa, with a knowing smirk at Onodera, "He used to be in the same high-school as Takano-" Onodera's eyes widened at this, "-and she's acted like his big sister ever since they met in middle-school, people said," Kisa's eyes still focused on Onodera just as Onodera's focused Takano, "They separated over college, but she still visited him even as she worked on her Master's. Then, she became an author for Marukawa – the first one to write in pure English…"
"That's cool," Onodera said, still looking at her.
Kisa coughed, "Yeah, but you might break her with all that staring,"
Onodera turned red and looked back at him, "Was I… Was I staring that long?"
Across him, Minou chuckled, "Long enough for her to probably notice that you were staring,"
And true to that statement, once Onodera turned back to Takano and Ana, they were both looking at him, the former with an amused smirk playing upon his lips.
X.o.X
After sharing a laugh with Takano, Ana beamed at her 'little brother', "How have you been, Masamune?" she asked, "Because Yokozawa refused to let me see you again, saying you're in some kind of shit…"
"When you talk to Yokozawa, I'm always in some sort of shit," countered Takano, taking a cigarette from the desk in front of him, "But I don't really see what he means, do you?"
Ana took a lighter from her pocket, as though it was the most natural thing to do, and lit her brother's cigarette, "Never did," she whispered, "He thought there was something wrong with me too, somehow… Just because I've got some strange "family complex", he thinks that everything is dysfunctional…"
Takano took in a puff before blowing it out with a grin, "That only began after, you know… That. But, maybe it is?" he began, "That doesn't really matter, now, does it?"
Ana laughed hollowly, "He doesn't understand what matters, Masamune," she started, "Not everyone does," she looked down, however, with a sad smile, "He used to,"
Takano puffed out a bit of smoke again, "Your editor seems to understand though,"
The girl flushed in the cheeks before she replied, "Yeah, well," she bit her lower lip, "Until he returns from America to finish the last bit of marketing, you can't confront him about that,"
Takano only grinned at her, "At least he loves you," then looked at something from behind her.
Ana raised an eyebrow, then turned to find the one she shared the elevator with staring intently at them, "Masamune," she began, "Is it me or is he turning jealous eyes towards us?"
A smirk prowled upon Takano's mouth, "Onodera!" he shouted, startling the rest of the room.
Immediately, the brunette came up to them, his emerald eyes shining nervously, "Onodera," Takano began softer this time, "This is Hideyoshi Ana. She is the writer of the best-selling novel 'Reasons why I like Coffee', under the pen name E. Sunshine," And he handed him the paperback that she gave him. Turning to her, Takano jerked his head at the smaller man, "This is Onodera Ritsu,"
Suddenly, Ana's eyes gleamed, "Really?"
Onodera could see that there was some connection between the other two that he wasn't really a part of, "Um… You know me?"
Ana grinned at him, "You probably wouldn't remember me…" she started but she shook her head, "But Masamune sent me an email about you a couple of weeks ago~"
"He-he did?" Onodera looked at Takano with his shocked green eyes and a blush tainting his cheeks. Was that when I started?
Takano raised an eyebrow at him and didn't reply to that, but instead gave him something to do, "You want to be a good editor, right?" he started, "Read that novel. I'll send you the manuscript and tell me how and why the editor chose to edit those specific parts,"
Onodera was beginning to get annoyed and was about to snap when Ana added, "This is only on your free time, Ricchan," she said, "It's not part of the job. Masamune isn't requiring you,"
Surprised, he looked at Takano, who nodded. But… It wasn't how he understood what he said. How does she know him that well?
"Oh right!" Ana suddenly exclaimed, making Takano cock an eyebrow at her, "I have no place to stay for the next week, Masamune. My hotel was booked for only the stay I have with Mi-chan and, well-'
"Stay at my place," Takano said it without hesitation, shocking Onodera, "You've always welcomed me so it's time for me to welcome you…"
Ana looked extremely pleased, "Thank you so much, Masamune!" and to Onodera's surprised, she kissed him on the cheek.
Why did she just-?
"Oi! Where is she?"
Yokozawa had caught up with them and Ana glared at him from Takano's side. Looking at the intense battle of stares, Onodera seemed to join the rest of the Emerald Department in staring at them until Ana said, "What? Are you jealous?"
His eyes twitching, Yokozawa decided to say nothing of it, "Since you're going to be a bother for a while, why don't you stop wreaking havoc in other departments and just act like how normal authors spend their days off – having "fun"!" he added the quoting gesture to boot.
Ana looked at Takano who jerked his head towards Yokozawa and she did something the rest of the department didn't expect: she headed towards him and locked her arms around him. After a few moments of being shocked, the head of sales eventually wrapped his arms around the young author and even bent down a little to accommodate her smaller frame.
"If you missed me, you could've just said so, Takafumi," she whispered only for him to hear
"Tch," he muttered under his breath, "And what would that give me?"
Ana pulled away and pecked him on the cheek as well, "That,"
She then began to walk away, waving her hands above her head, "I'll be back at around lunch time to bring you some food – don't you go hiding from me!" And she grabbed her coat from the rack and exited the room, right into the hall.
A/N: For some reason... I'm excited XD
