Aishiteru Chapter 2

(a/n: once again, crappy writing is crappy. Sorry 'bout the long wait. Also sorry if Nitori's family calls him 'Nitori' it's hard getting used to writing him as 'Aiichiro')

"Nitori... Ni-to-ri... Oi! Nitori! Wake up!"

"Wha?" Nitori rubbed sleep from his eyes and looked around, he had just been roughly shaken awake from a pleasant dream he'd been having.

"Nitori" the tired boy turned to see his Senpai giving him a steely stare (which was much different from the look he'd been receiving in his dream).

"Y-yes Rin-Senpai?!" Nitori stood at attention.

"This is the stop you were talking about right?" Rin asked

"Hmm? Oh yes!" Nitori exclaimed and stood up, grabbing for his suitcase.

"I'll take it, it'll be faster this way" Rin told him as they clambered out of the train, so as to avoid the doors.

"A-alright Senpai, thank you" Nitori smiled.

"Lead the way" Rin gestured towards the doors.

"R-right" they headed outside and began the long walk, Nitori occasionally pointed out areas that held some kind of meaning for him. Rin just looked at the excitement on his kouhai's face and was thankful that he had been able to come along with him, it was worth it just to see his happy face. The farther they walked, the more Nitori talked and the more peaceful the streets seemed to become. Eventually they arrived to a rather familial looking neighborhood and Nitori pointed out his block.

"Over there's my house Senpai!" Nitori yelled excitedly as they approached "We used to live on that street but then during an earthquake a bookshelf fell and Dad claimed the house was haunted so he made us move. But here all the bookshelves are secured to the wall so it's not like anything like that is going to happen again! Though some creepy things do happen occasionally, but the probable has to do with Ayaka and Hina, not necessarily on ghosts." Nitori explained quickly then he suddenly switched tones and excitedly pointed infront of them"Oh look Senpai there's my house!"

When Rin turned, he was immediately takes aback and almost dropped the bags. The first thing that had caught his eye was the cherry blossom tree in the front yard. Now, obviously it was not in bloom but the large plant's beauty caught his eye looking so familiar like the one back in his elementary school days.

"Senpai? Are you okay?" Nitori asked him.

"Huh? Oh yeah. I'm fine" Rin shook his head as if to push away the memories.

"Ooh! Senpai look!" Nitori pointed again then raised his arm in a long wave "my mom, dad and my sisters!"

In front of the house stood 4 people, the man was tall and had messy spiky black hair which stood up at odd angles, he wore a poofy jacket but judging from his legs he was thin with light muscles. The woman looked small next to her husband, her hair was long, straight and the same shade as Nitori's, in fact as they got nearer the more she seemed to resemble her son. Both of the girls wore purple jackets though one was light and the other darker. The one with the lighter shade had grey hair worn in pigtails at either end of her head, she wore a knee length skirt with tights and flats. The one with the darker shade jacket has shoulder length choppy grey hair, with a green headband that just slightly pulled hair out of her face, she wore blue basketball shorts and sneakers.

From what he saw, Rin had no idea how Nitori's dad could possibly be all that's annoying, judging from his looks he looks the be the cool, stoic kind of person. So of course, he had to be proven wrong a moment later when a flash of black flew across his line of sight and his kouhai was wrapped up in the arms of the tall man.

"AIICHIRO MY SWEET BABY BOY HOW IVE MISSED YOU!" A voice blubbered dramatically as he laid kisses on the face of his teenage son "WHY DID I EVER AGREE TO LET YOU GO SO FAR AWAY FOR SO LONG?!"

"Dad! get off!" Nitori hissed trying in vain to push him off "stop it. This is embarrassing!"

"Shin! Let him go!" Nitori's Mom exclaimed, she had a very soft voice but it reached her husband who let go.

"Ah! So you must be Rin-Senpai?" He turned his attention to the red head "Aiichiro has told us so much about you! I'm Shin Nitori! It's a pleasure to meet you!"

Shin spoke quickly and bubbly like Nitori, but he drew out his syllables occasionally making him sound somewhat flamboyant. Up close, Rin saw that he also had a beauty mark under his right eye like Ai and his eyes were the same shade of bright blue, Shin's didn't shine like Ai's though.

"It's a pleasure to meet you as well Nitori-San, I'm Rin Matsuoka" Rin bowed.

"Such a polite young man!" Shin clapped approvingly "call me Shin!"

"Shin darling" Mother Nitori said "lets move this inside yes? Number 4 there will catch cold" she pointed to his jacket.

"Oh of course!" His voice regained its manly tone, "let me take Aiichiro's bag, this boy is always over packing isn't he? So adorable!"

"Says you! You once had three suitcases for a vacation, one was full of shirts, the other pants and the third, shoes and accessories!" Nitori sounded more annoyed than Rin had ever heard him.

"There's nothing wrong with caring about your appearance" Shin responded in the same tone.

"It was for a weekend getaway Dad" Nitori said through clenched teeth.

'Shit this is good!' Rin thought while laughing on the inside.

Nitori's Mom led them into the warmth of the house. Inside it was small and homely, very obvious that children of doting parents lived here. The rooms were full of pictures of family vacations, planned portraits, candid shots, school pictures. The living room had toys spilled all over the floor but the furniture was neat and clean. A large barren christmas tree stood in a corner of the room next to a heater with the image of a burning fire on it.

"I'll go get some hot chocolate!" Nitori's Mom (whose name Rin still didn't know) said.

As soon as the kids warmed up, their faces brightened and they jumped on their older brother giving him tight embraces.

"Onii-Chan! We missed you!" The one with the pigtails declared.

"Yeah Aiichiro! Ayaka sucks at everything active! I haven't gotten in a single minute of good practice!" The other one complained.

"Shut up Hina! Youre the one who is always having nightmares and climbing into my bed! Then when I have nightmares we have to go to Mom and Dad's room! It's waaaayyyy too crowded in there Aiichiro!" Ayaka said.

"Now now girls, Aiichiro just got home. Let him go upstairs to change" Shin said as he took off his jacket, revealing a baby carrier with a mass of pink synthetic fabric inside of it. He took out the child and stripped the thick jacket off of a toddler with chin length black hair, and sleepy blue eyes.

'What the fuck?! Since when was there a kid in there?!' Rin was taken aback.

The girls ignored their Father's command instead turning their attention to the tall newcomer looking up at him with their big brown eyes.

"Who are you?" Hina asked when Rin sat to take off his shoes, he noticed that she had a beauty mark the same as Nitori's on the right side of her upper lip.

"He looks scary" Ayaka said softly, partially hiding herself behind Hina, she had the same mark but on the left side.

Rin really didn't mean to scare them, he never planned on doing so but it always just happened. But this time, the opportunity was just too great and he found himself flashing the girls a shark toothed grin making them both shriek and run to another room.

"Sorry" Rin muttered.

"It's fine" Nitori smiled, taking off his shoes and jacket "they're always like that. You'll get used to it"

Once they'd shed their outerwear, Rin and Nitori went into the living room where Nitori's parents were setting down warm mugs on the table.

"Oh, forgive me Matsuoka-San, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Izumi Nitori, you can call me Izumi." Nitori's Mom said with a warm smile.

"It's nice to meet you Izumi-San, I can see that Nitori gets his manners and appearance from you." Rin bowed lightly and smiled. Izumi and Ai's eyes grew wide and their faces grew pink.

Suddenly, Shin's eyes turned steely and he gave Rin a very dark look.

"Ohh w-what a polite young man" Izumi held her face and Ai shook his head to clear it.

"Senpai is very polite when he wants to be!" Nitori smiled.

"Yes, of course 'Senpai' is" Shin said roughly "'Senpai' must be a king at maneuvering situations to his advantage it seems, hmm?"

"Shin!" Izumi hissed

"What?! It's not like I'm implying anything at all." Shin continued, glaring at Rin "Although being a player wouldn't exactly bode well with your future in-laws would it?"

Rin's face went red, Izumi and Nitori gasped, the latter's face going red as well and Shin's eyes widened at the realization of what he'd just said.

"That is not at all the way I meant it to come out!" He declared "do you really think I'd ever let someone like you have my sweet baby boy?!" Shin grabbed his son and held him close to his chest "Aiichiro is going to marry a kind and smart person! One that even his beloved father will approve of!"

"Shut up already shut up shut up shut up" Nitori chanted very softly, his face beat red, biting on his bottom lip and digging the heels of his hands into his eye sockets.

"Shin! Stop being such a fool and embarrassing your son!" Izumi pulled Shin away from Aiichiro "Aiichiro, Rin, just go upstairs and change, ill deal with your father".

"Mhmm" Nitori nodded but didn't look at Rin as he stood up and headed upstairs.

Rin followed Nitori blindly up the stairs and into a room whose door had a wooden sign that said 'Aiichiro' on it. Nitori walked quickly and splayed on the bed, his body sagging into the thick comforter and the thinner parts of his body seemed to be buried by it.

"Uuuuuuugggghhhhh" Nitori sighed into his pillow.

Rin looked around the room, it was relatively small, probably the smallest room in the house and as he thought about it, it occurred to him that Nitori might have chosen the room for that very reason. He had a desk, a bookshelf and a set of drawers, all of whose surfaces were completely covered with random trinkets that probably had an incredible amount of meaning to Nitori. To name a few objects: a ring made of pink beads with a rabbit face on one end, a small string voodoo doll, Pikachu cell phone charm, and a Totoro hand puppet. The walls were painted a dark blue, decorated with a couple posters of random chibi characters, a few small posters of idols or dancers and a large cork board full of pictures of Nitori at various ages with various people. His bed was surprisingly large and had a very thick and puffy purple comforter on it aswell as numerous pillows. On the floor next to the bed there was a futon and a purple blanket with flowers decorating it.

Rin sat on the edge of Nitori's bed and laughed "you know I get what you were saying about him, your dad I mean"

Nitori sighed again "he's an idiot" he sat up "but he's also a pretty cool Dad" he smiled fondly "he's a stay-at-home-Dad you know, he gave up an extremely successful modeling career so that my Mom could continue her career without worrying about me. I'm happy because now that we're older, Dad can get back to his career" then he groaned and laid back down "but every time we get older he begs my mom to have another kid. In a few years ill probably have another little sibling".

For some reason, Rin found this incredibly hilarious and he broke out into fits of laughter to the point that his face started to turn red.

"What's so funny!?" Nitori asked

"Nitori- hahaha, I-I hate to break it to you" he wheezed "but I think you really are related to him"

"No! I'd never do something like that! I want 1 child, 1. And I plan to stick to that" Nitori crossed his arms and puffed out his cheeks.

"Yeah like that plan is gonna go through" Rin laughed and had to kneel on the ground.

"Hey!" Nitori grabbed one of his pillows and started to beat Rin with it.

"Okay! Okay! I surrender!" Rin tried his best to control his laughter and sat back up "hey that's my Mom's art style right?" He walked over to a set of posters.

"Y-yeah it's a set of posters of her most famous works: Uterus Partners, Girls Change (a yanki love story), Things aren't that simple (yaoi), and Ravens in the Mist (an action story). Actually they're all on hiatus right now but I heard rumors that Ravens in the Mist was gonna be turned into an Anime" he said.

"Huh, pretty cool." Rin stroked the poster and was reminded of seeing his Mom work on some of these. But his favorite wasnt among them, it was a really really stupid one about talking foods: Bun Buddies.

"Aiichiro! Rin-San! Dinner's gonna be ready in 15 minutes!" Nitori's Mom called from downstairs.

"KAAAYYYY!" Nitori called back "we should change Senpai, if you want I can go change in the bathroom-"

"Nah, we've seen each other in much less than underpants" Rin shrugged as he pulled off his shirt.

"R-right" Nitori blushed and took off his own.

They changed and walked down to the dining room where Izumi was setting the table and Shin set down a hot pot.

"Hot Pot!" Shin declared "your favorite!"

"Ooh!" Nitori smiled "do you like hot pot Senpai?"

"'s okay I guess. I like everything spicy so even if I don't ill just smother it in hot sauce" he smiled.

"Mhmm" Shin said through pursed lips "girls!" he yelled.

"-my god I cannot believe it. I almost forgot to ask you Aiichiro!" Hina said, running into the room carrying a large book in her hands "have you met her yet?"

"Met who?" Nitori asked with furrowed eyebrows.

Hina gasped and almost slammed the book down on the table as she kneeled on the chair across from him.

"I can't believe you did forget! You promised you wouldn't!"

"Oh, ohh, Natsumi, right." Nitori nodded "not yet, she hasn't come around or at least I haven't seen her. Captain has mentioned her a couple of times though not by name so I'm not sure if its her or another little sister he may have"

Hina nodded along to what he said and held the chair next to her as Ayaka climbed up onto it.

"Who?" Rin asked.

"Natsumi Mikoshiba!" Hina said "she's the coolest!"

"Please no Natsumi talk right now sweety" Shin said "put in what you want to eat" he gestured to the pot.

"Apparently she's this girl who's like 14, but she's a really strong martial artist who's on her way to going to the Olympics" Nitori began explaining as he put in what he wanted.

"She's 15 now! She's a total kick butt kind of girl! #1 in the country in Taekwondo, Judo, AND Karate! Some people say that she's likely to surpass her Dad soon!" Hina bubbled excitedly and Rin saw the relation.

"Her Dad?"

"Hiroshi Mikoshiba, 5 time olympic medalist, 2 silver, 1 gold in Taekwondo and 1 gold, 1 bronze in Judo." Izumi said.

"Mikoshiba? As in... Captain Mikoshiba? Woah, I knew he'd gone to the Olympics last year (I mean it's part of the reason I chose Samezuka) and actually medalled but I didn't know his Dad was in the Olympics too" Rin's eyes widened.

Light laughter went around the table as the food heated.

"What?"

"Senpai, the Mikoshiba is an olympic family. All of them have been in the Olympics, Captain's Dad, Mom, 2 older brothers and himself, Natsumi is on her way to meet them" Nitori informed Rin.

"Of course, we know all of this because Hina won't stop talking about Natsumi and the other Mikoshibas" Shin ruffled his daughter's hair.

"Anyway, when Hina found out that my new school's swim team captain was a Mikohiba, she demanded that I make an attempt to meet her. But none of us have met her yet, right Senpai?" Nitori said and Rin nodded "so I'm sorry Hina"

Hina shook her head, shrugged and looked down slightly "it's fine Aiichi, I know you must've tried"

'Oh no' Rin thought, whenever Nitori felt like he'd disappointed someone he got really sad and turning to look at him, his suspicion was confirmed seeing Nitori pouting. On the other side of the table Ayaka patted Hina on the shoulder. Taking advice from a 6 year old, Rin put his hand and Nitori's shoulder and smiled one of his old smiles across the table.

"You know, I think I heard Captain saying something about his sister coming to practice every year after the holidays with cupcakes and on Valentines Day with chocolate. If not this month we'll definitely see her next" Rin assured her.

"Really?!" Hina smiled.

"Yea, hahahaha Seijuuro seemed to be pretty annoyed at the thought though, not sure if its cause his sister's bringing fatty foods around or that she's gonna be glomped by half naked guys." He laughed and rubbed Nitori's back.

Nitori raised his head and smiled at Rin, Rin smiled back and removed his hand, almost immediately missing his kouhai's body heat.

"You really like this Natsumi don't you?" Rin asked Hina.

"Of course!" Hina's eyes shined "not only is she an amazing fighter, but she's also beautiful, funny, nice, and incredibly smart! She took so many advanced classes that really now at school she only has 2 classes a day and the rest is spent on training! Everyone that meets her days that she is an awesome person that tries to help all of her fans! If even my brother is able to meet her ill be ecstatic! I'd be even happier if he was able to date her!"

Rin felt a twinge of anger at the last sentence and his eyebrow twitched, he struggled to keep the smile on his face. "Haha, hear that Ai? Looks like you have a shipper!" Now he felt a twinge of regret, throwing around fangirl's words, damn his mother!

"What's a shipper?" Hina asked.

"N-never mind! Just-uhh keep telling me about her" he smiled.

"We'll! I heard that she incorporates strength training into her everyday life, wearing weighted accesories like headbands! That's why I have this headband even though my sport's basketball I think it could help me in some way which I why I also have my sweatbands weighted."

Hina spent the rest of dinner blabbing about this Natsumi Mikoshiba, and after dinner she dragged Rin into her room to look at the big poster that she had of her and made him look through the scrapbook full of Natsumi. It wasnt until Shin declared bed time that Rin was freed. Now it was his turn to walk quickly and splay on the futon while groaning into the pillow.

"Sorry, Hina is pretty stoic most of the time but when you get her started on Natsumi... You've lost her" Nitori smiled kneeling on his own bed.

"It's fine. It's more tame than my Mom making me take off my shirt to use me for drawing reference and my sister poking the separate muscles" Rin unbuckled his pants.

"They've done that?!" Nitori gasped.

"You tell me" Rin took off his shirt and stood next to the boys love poster.

"Woah" Nitori laughed.

"This was at 4 in the morning the first day I was back in Japan by the way" he pulled on a light shirt.

Nitori turned off the light and they both laid in their separate beds and Rin was pleasantly surprised to find an electric blanket folded under the purple one.

For a few minutes they laid in silence but something kept chewing at the back of Rin's mind and he couldn't help himself from speaking.

"So... What do you think of Hina wanting you to date Natsumi? She's kinda hot" Rin asked.

"Eh? I don't know Senpai. She's pretty but not really my type plus I doubt she'd want to date someone like me" Nitori said.

"Huh? Why?" Rin couldnt help the smirk that appeared on his face "You're good enough, any girl would be happy to date you".

"I-I guess but like I said, she's not really my type. And I like someone else" Nitori muttered.

"What is your type then?" Rin asked "and who do you like?

'Ill tell you one thing, the person I like doesn't have breasts' Nitori thought but chose to instead start snoring.

"Ai" Rin said "Ai"

"Don't you dare say you're asleep" he nudged Nitori's bed "Ai. Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai" he grabbed his pillow and started to smack Nitori with it "Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"

Eventually he gave up and laid back down "this isn't over Nitori" despite the use of his surname, Nitori couldn't help but smile at his Senpai.

When Rin was almost falling asleep he heard a small kind of pitter patter in the hallway as well as whispering.

Nitori groaned "of course, my first night home and the girls insist on sleeping with me. Oh well".

The door creaked open and light feet maneuvered the darkness. Rin felt a tugging at his blanket and opened his eyes to see the two crawling to his side from the bottom of the blanket. He lifted the blanket and they easily laid down next to him, Hina burying into his side and Ayaka wrapping her arm over Hina.

Even in the dark, Rin could feel Nitori's glare, and he was sure that Nitori in his angry state could see Rin sticking out his tongue at him.

Rin pulled the blanket up to the girls' chins and laid down yet again, this time he was finally able to sleep. Even with Nitori's glare staring at him for most of the night.

A/N: So... Yeah I'm really sorry about the long wait but it's really tiresome to write stories on mobile which is the only way I can write.

Hot Pot was the only Japanese food I could think of...

Also what'd you guys think about this Natsumi character? I'm thinking about having her show up later on but I'm not sure.