Sorry.
I don't own and any of Nakamura Shungiku's works. I do own my OC's though.
"You seriously need to stop!" Takafumi pleaded in a grouchy manner during their dinner.
"Ehh, why?" Shouta smiled mischievously. "Did Kirishima-san use your gift I left on your des-"
"Shut the hell up! You made it even worse when you suddenly decided to grab my ass and saying that line!"
Shouta turns to everyone else. "You should've seen everyone's faces! Haha!"
"It's not funny!" Takafumi roars to everyone else as Shouta says the line and they laugh.
"Did you like my gift?" Ritsu asks, and Takafumi stares at him a bit before looking away in embarrassment.
"Yes... Thank you. Next time though..." Takafumi trails off.
"What?"
Takafumi couldn't hide his slight blush. "Please don't bring it to me when I'm working."
"Why not? There's nothing wrong with people looking..." Ritsu blushes slightly.
"Still though, it's embarrassing..."
Shouta looks between them warily as the girls and Chiaki laugh at their expressions. "What are you guys talking about?"
"N-nothing!" Both men say, before looking at each other blushing at their sync-ness and then to the side.
"Sure..." Shouta says, unconvinced.
"Oh yeah," Shinobu speaks up, "Kisa... um... Your boss emailed a request for you guys."
"W-what...?" Shouta answers warily. "Isaka-san?"
"He said like, what you did at work wasn't good enough cause when you recorded it he only appeared for 10 seconds-"
"WHAT?!" Takafumi shouts at Shouta, "You recorded that?!"
"Wait!" Shouta stares at Shinobu. "Since when did he watch what we do on my-our blog thing?"
"I don't know-"
"Akihiko." They all look at a now pissed off Hiroki.
"What?" asks Shouta.
"Oh, he did come in that one time..." An trails off, and everyone looks at Kazuto.
"How many times do I have to say I'm sorry?!" He slouches down in his seat guiltily, averting his eyes tearfully. "I'm sorry..."
"It's not your fault..." An leans against him.
"Anyone could've made that mistake," Ritsu soothes.
"Yeah, especially since you don't really know him that well..." Sumiko mutters, looking through her cell phone under the table.
"Wait," Misaki gasps at an realization. "That means..." He sank in his seat mortified.
"What, Misaki?" asks Shinobu, concerned.
"Over the phone a while ago he made references to my choice of underwear... the one from that questions video..."
"What? Why?" Sumiko laughs, "That video was made when you moved in months..." her eyes widen, "...ago."
"How much did he watch?!" Kazuto shouts in a panic. "I never even got to watch all of them!"
"Misaki?" Shouta voices, and everyone watches as Misaki thinks for a bit.
"I really haven't seen him that much since Aikawa-san's been keeping him in his study, and last time she scolded him for not even getting anything done and asking him what his excuses were- I didn't think that he..."
"That means he probably watched them all then," Shinobu deduced, "Or at least all of the ones with Misaki in them, which was mostly all of them."
"And I can't keep track how frequently Isaka-san comes over but," Misaki frowns, "He could have found out about the blog when Usami-san finished, or fainted and he or Aikawa-san had to check on the computer-" he pauses for a moment before looking up at everyone. "Aikawa-san, she could have..."
"Oh man," Chiaki looks around at them in a lost, "We all had so many moments together... And she's part of Sapphire, right?"
"Crap," Shinobu laid his head on the table after moving his plate aside. "What should we do, Kisa? We're going to be possible material."
"I can go in and try to erase part of the history in Usami-san's laptop," Misaki offers.
"I can sneak over to Sapphire and try to get Aikawa-san's laptop," Shouta says, "I've never actually seen her though, what does she look like?"
"When," Everyone looks at Shizukesa, who speaks so adorably, "When you look at her, you wonder why she isn't married or with anyone yet cause she's so pretty."
"Oh, Shizu-chan," Shouta goes over to pat her head. "That's mostly everyone at work." He gets in idea and turns to Hiroki, "Hey, can I-"
"No."
"But I-"
"You aren't sneaking her into work with you."
"Geez," Shouta turns to Shinobu and Misaki. "What are you guys gifting him with? I thought he'd break like Yokozawa-san would." At this, Takafumi glares at him.
"Come on, we all know that's you and occasionally Succhan," Shinobu says, before saying proudly. "We've been gifting him with songs."
"I also make him breakfast," Misaki says.
"They... actually sing pretty well," Hiroki shrugs. "I'm actually liking this week if it wasn't for Akihiko."
"Wait..." everyone looks at Chiaki, "Isaka-san knows too, right? How are we going to get into his office?"
"Oh," Sumiko puts her hand up, "I'll take care of that." She turns to Hiroki. "Can I take Shizukechi with me when we do this?"
"Fine."
"What?!" Shouta pouts. "Why not me?"
"Cause it'd be unhealthy!" Hiroki sighs, getting up and grabbing a silent, curiously-watching Arashi out of her playpen. "We're heading to bed."
Next Day...
"Let me get this straight..." Takafumi gives Shouta a wary look while they entered the workplace, "Isaka-san requested that Onodera and Yoshino wear bunny ears and I have to find and catch them in here while I have to wear," he points to his head, revealing wolf ears, "This."
"Yes-that's our cover and you have until Succhan and I manage to erase the data and I won't mess with you for the rest of the week."
"You really mean it?"
"Yes," Shouta holds out his hand, "We got a deal?"
After some hesitation, Takafumi nods and shakes Shouta's hand. "Deal."
"Oh, and also, Shizu-chan's wearing bear ears and a orange tutu, catch her and I guarantee we won't be each other's Secret Santa this year."
"Deal."
"Okay, now," They get into the elevator as Shouta says this, "Let's do this."
"Why am I the distraction?!" Misaki complains as he lets An, Kazuto, and Shinobu into Akihiko's home.
"Cause you're the lover!" Shinobu says. Everyone quietly goes upstairs and after Misaki directs them, Shinobu nudges Misaki towards Akihiko's room. "Now do your stuff if he ever wakes up. He also might have info in his cell phone so..."
"Got it." Misaki took a deep breath. He turns quickly to Shinobu. "May I ask one question though?"
"What?"
"Why am I in this bear costume?"
"Improv. Now go."
Sighing, Misaki closes the door behind him, also putting on the bear head, and quietly, he approaches the still slumbering author. He goes to the author's side and snatches his cell phone, opening it and looking around for any sign of the blog.
'Good, nothing...' Smiling, he puts the phone back on the nightstand, jolting in surprise as a hand grabs his wrist. Slowly, he looks to see the drowsy, and angrily suspicious author.
"You..."
Quickly, Misaki retreats to the door, but not before being knocked to the ground and hissing in pain as his wrists are gripped hard and almost twisting above his head.
"How did you get in?" Akihiko growled.
"It's me! It's me!" Widening his eyes and now fully awake, Akihiko lets go as Misaki manages to get to the door and crouches down, soothingly rubbing his wrists. 'That really hurt...'
"Misaki?" Akihiko bent down close as he reaches out for Misaki. "Are you okay?"
Twitching, Misaki presses closer to the door. "Go sit back on the bed."
"But," he tries to grab Misaki's wrists.
Slapping his hand away, Misaki shakes his head. "Don't touch me! Go sit back on the bed!"
"I'm sorry," Akihiko says quietly as he sits down, looking over at Misaki and wanting to take the bear head off and see Misaki's face.
'Okay... okay...' Misaki sighs, 'Got to distract him for another how many minutes... but how?'
"Misaki?"
"W-what?"
"I'm sorry."
"Oh, that- it's okay..." Misaki stands up. "It just hurts..."
"Let me see."
"It's probably not that bad, Usami-san. I'm sorry I yelled at you like that."
"That's fine. Can you take off that head?"
Obliging, Misaki takes off the head, shaking his head and then fanning himself. "I didn't realize it had become so warm in there."
"Come here," Akihiko opens his arms to Misaki, "I'll unzip it for you."
Masamune groaned as he looked through his cell phone again. Nothing from Ritsu.
All this week so far, he hasn't seen or heard from the brunette. And Masamune himself had been working non-stop for the past few days.
Getting up from his seat with a couple of papers, he goes to make copies. He didn't see the familiar figure rushing past him to go hide under his desk.
"Oy, Takano." He turns to see Takafumi.
"What?"
"Have you seen Onodera?"
"What?" Masamune asks, slightly alarmed, "Did he not come home? Did he get-"
"No! No..." Takafumi runs his hand through his hair in frustration. "Nevermind..." He walks off.
Frowning at the now distant figure, Masamune makes his way back to his desk and sits down with a tired sigh.
"Ta-Takano-san..." He looks around in confusion. "Takano-san?" Blinking, he backs slightly and looks under his desk.
"Ritsu?"
"Shh..." Ritsu shrinks back against the desk. "Don't let Yokozawa-san find me yet."
"Why are you wearing those ears?" They were cute yes, but Masamune refused to eye it in their current setting; in this strange situation with people still around it was not the time to be aroused.
...Maybe a little bit aroused.
Ritsu looks up at him. "Did you not see Yokozawa-san wear ears?"
"No, I," Masamune rubs his face tiredly. "I didn't notice."
"Okay then..." Ritsu pauses for a bit. "Do you need help with anything?"
"No, I-" he pauses in thought, and slowly, he reaches for Ritsu's hand and brings it to touch his growing arousal.
"Ta-Takano-san!?"
"Please?"
"But... There are pe-people around- and I..."
"Please?"
A little later...
"Damn it!" Takafumi sighs, getting up from his desk again. He hasn't been able to find Ritsu or Chiaki yet.
"Did you hear? A little girl walked into the Sapphi-" Immediately hearing that from a babbling Henmi, he made his way to the elevator. Sighing in relief as he entered the elevator and going to press a button, he does a double take as he finds Chiaki standing in with him most likely heading to the same floor.
"Soo..." Chiaki looked around awkwardly, "I guess you caught me." He pats Takafumi's back. "Did you find Ricchan yet?"
"Not yet."
Chiaki shrugs. "I think he went to hide under someone's desk. I thought I'd meet up with him- but Tori's on the same floor and I so don't want to bump into him."
Not really knowing what to say, Takafumi thought for a moment. "Hatori's a good guy."
"Yeah... But I just can't talk to him just yet. Or Yuu."
"Yuu?"
"...It's complicated... Maybe..."
"Maybe...?"
"Well, you know me. I... I'm not the best person..."
"No, it's not like that... you're just very...dense."
"Dense?"
"Dense."
Chiaki sighs. "Ugh, I'm just like one of my heroines..."
"Guys, guys," Shinobu goes through Akihiko's laptop while An and Kazuto flip through notebooks. "Come look."
"What is it?" asks An.
They go through pictures of Misaki.
"Wow, he even got some childhood ones," Kazuto commented.
"How many are there exactly?" An asks. "He took so many..."
"Nah, not that much, just about 738- How he took these without Misaki noticing is what I'm curious about though."
...
"Misaki, what are you doing here?"
"Um... No reason..." Misaki occupies himself by folding the bear costume. "If you want to go back to sleep you can if you want."
"No, I'm wide awake now." Akihiko gets up and heads for the door.
"No!" Misaki blocks his way. "Don't go out there!"
"Why?"
"Be... Because... You finally got to rest after these past few days!" He pushes Akihiko back onto the bed. "Rest a little more!"
"Oh?" Akihiko studies him for a bit and smirks before pulling Misaki to him. "Rest a little more? Okay." He begins to run his hands under Misaki's shirt.
"Wait! I didn't mean this! I meant-"
"Oh, don't worry..." He kisses Misaki along his neck, "After this we can rest even more..."
...
"Gyaaaaaahhh!"
Shinobu, Kazuto, and An look up at the sound. "Dang it Misaki," Shinobu huffs, "That was supposed to be plan C! Now he can't come back with me to sing to Kamijou!"
"It was bound to happen," An giggles, reading through some of Akihiko's notes.
"Okay, I think I erased all of it," Shinobu closes Akihiko's laptop. "Let's go."
Kazuto holds up one of Akihiko's newest works. "Hey, doesn't this look like Ritsu-kun and Takano-san?"
"Whoa, what?" Shinobu grabs it and looks it over while An looks over his shoulder curiously. "It does!"
"Okay..." Sumiko glances around before sneaking into Ryuuichirou's office. "I'm-" She looks into the room, turns on the lights, and freezes.
Opening her mouth but not making a sound, she points at the two half naked men on Ryuuichirou's desk.
And she sort of spazzes out a little excitedly. "Oh... my-"
"Say nothing!" Ryuuichirou says, surprised that she came in. "Nothing!"
Taking rapidly deep breaths, she walks slowly, step by step, to the end of Ryuuichirou's desk. Her eyes go back and forth from Ryuuichirou to the laptop to Kaoru to the laptop again.
Seeing that Ryuuichirou's cell phone was also near the laptop, she grabs both and runs out quickly before anybody can say anything, turning back off the lights and shutting the door.
...
"Takano-san?" Hatori looks over at him, worried at the strangeness that was the head editor leaning back in his seat looking relaxed and half-lidded despite the mess around the department. "Are you alright?"
"I..." Masamune sighs, "I'm good... I... I just really want to go home..."
"I see. Are you sure you aren't hungry or anything? It's almost lunchtime anyway."
"I'm fine. Just go back to what you were doing," Masamune says, not noticing how Hatori and some other people give him weird looks.
"And you say you'd be bad at this..." Masamune whispers as one of his hands feel through the soft hair that was Ritsu's under his desk. "You're amazing..."
"Did you say something?" Hatori asks.
"No. Don't mind me."
Shouta sighs in irritation as he goes through the history within Eri's laptop. She, along with the other women, were currently fussing over little Shizukesa as she twirled and sang for them in all of her cuteness.
The history was a pattern of his blog's videos, then to something important, and back to the blog. It was like sorting colored straws by color and if they were damaged or not.
'Delete. Delete... Don't delete- damn, I deleted that one...' Shouta sighs. He was sick of this. '3 pages to go...'
...
"Where are your parents?" asks one of the women to Shizukesa. "Do they work here?"
"No... But Uncle Takafumi does... And Uncle Shouta..."
"Eeh? Takafumi? Shouta?"
"Yokozawa... Takafumi? Kisa Shouta?" Shizukesa says, watching their reactions.
"What?" says another lady. "Yokozawa-san from Sales? And Kisa-san from Emerald?"
"We're playing a game!" Shizukesa twirls around. "Uncle Takafumi is a wolf and I'm a bear!" She then growls at them, but has her hands gestured in front of her like a cat.
"Soo cute!" They all continue to coo over her.
"Got it all!" Sumiko fists in the air as she closes the laptop. Then she looks through his phone. "Now let's see..."
"Hey," she looks up to see Ryuuichirou glare at her. "Can I have that back?"
"Soon... soon," she clears his memo about the url of the blog and gives it back to him. "Here."
"So..." she begins. "I won't say anything."
"You won't?"
She nods. "Just... how long have you guys known each other?"
"Since we were little."
"Ohmygosh, you guys are so cute!" she hands him his laptop and runs off. "See you!"
...
"Kamijou!" Shinobu rushes into his office. "I'm ready to-" He stops mid-sentence seeing only Miyagi in the room. "...Where's Kamijou?"
"...He went to lunch with his-"
Shinobu turns. "Thanks-"
"Shinobu, wait!"
"No thanks!" Shinobu runs.
To his horror as he made it out of the campus, he looks behind him to see Miyagi going after him. "Wait!"
"No way, old man! Let me live my life!"
...
"Got you," Takafumi sighs as he puts a hand on Shizukesa's head. "Now it's just Onodera..."
"Haha," Shizukesa smiles up at him. "Uncle has pretty ears!"
He, along with Chiaki, avoid eye contact with the staring women. Chiaki grabs one of her hands and tugs. "Let's go find Uncle Ritsu!" says Chiaki.
"Who are you?!" The women crowd all around Chiaki and pet his ears.
"Please... I don't like crowds..." Chiaki tries to speak over them, looking at Takafumi with pleading eyes for help.
'1 more page...' Shouta thinks, all the while ignoring the chaos behind him from Eri's desk.
"Yokozawa-san..." Takafumi turns to see Ritsu walking to him still wearing his ears.
"Where were you?" he asks, and pokes him on the head once. "I caught you."
"N-no comment," Ritsu says, embarrassed. "Anyway, Succhan and An-chan texted me and they're done. Is Kisa-san done yet?"
"No, I don't think so."
"Then you win?" Ritsu smiles at him. "Feel relieved?"
"Yes... Do you think we can take off these ears now?"
"Not yet." They turn to see Ryuuichirou behind them. "Aww, you guys look cute!"
"Why us?!" Takafumi glares at him.
"Just felt like it," he waves as he walks off. "Now I have to go to lunch, bye!"
"That bastard..." Takafumi mutters.
Shouta goes up to them, exhausted. "I did it."
"And I win."
"Can we go now?" asks Ritsu.
"Yoshino?" They all turn to see Hatori with a surprised expression as he looks at Chiaki.
'Oh yeah, Sapphire and Emerald are sort of neighbors...' Shouta remembers.
"U-uh..." Chiaki grabs Ritsu and they both run off into the conveniently open elevator.
"Who are they?!" The women crowd around Takafumi, Shouta, and Shizukesa now. "How do you know them? Are they your brothers or something?"
"Uncle Ritsu and Uncle Chiaki...?" She looks up at Takafumi. "Why did they go?"
"Ah, Shizukechi..." Sumiko comes over and beckons her close. "Let's go see your Papa!"
Shinobu sighs as he arrives back to the apartment, finally managing to lose Miyagi. Shutting the gate behind him, he looks to see Aito sitting on the grass with Arashi.
"You guys didn't tell me what was going on when Ane-ue and Kamijou-san called me to babysit," Aito says, helping Arashi stand.
"Usami and two other people found our videos so we split to erase the evidence."
Aito sighs. "You guys..."
"Hey!" Kazuto greets as he and An come in and go to them. "We bought some lunch for you guys."
"Did you feed her yet?" An asks Aito.
"Yes. We're just playing now."
...
"Yoshino-san, are you alright?" Ritsu supports Chiaki as he leans against him. They had thrown away their bunny ears.
"So... tired..."
"We'll be home soon."
"I... hate today..."
Sorry I took long and it probably wasn't to your expectations.
If you're wondering what Ritsu gave Takafumi, you can imagine what you like. Those two are just being two embarrassing losers in the most affectionate way. It's like, they never imagined being friends so they're being weird about it half the time...
I found myself having homework and having bad procrastination skills. DX