Disclaimer: I do not own Twenty Mensuo ni Onegi orrrrrrrr..... Clamp Campus
Detectives! Because if I did I would not be posting my work on a fanfic
sight and would be filthy rich!!!!
.............And Japanese ^^;;
Nokoru: ~lifts eyebrow~
Writer: Well I'm not! And don't be mean, I'm still mad about Suoh stabbing
me in the leg. (Suoh is now duck taped to an armchair) So don't make your
case worse.
******
Nokoru leaned back against his chair from the private box as he watched
Amaya sing. He, Akira, Suoh, Nagisa and Utako had possibly the best seats
in the house, and he was pretty glad that Amaya had agreed to do another
concert at Clamp Academy. Since her first performance had gone awry. Not
that it appeared to have hurt tonight's attendance, leaning over the rail
he looked down at the packed house and noticed that more then a few female
eyes were more attentive to his box then the music. Leaning back he gave
his respective audience a smile and brushed his hands down his suit jacket.
Akira, Suoh and he had dressed up for the occasion, Akira looking
disconcertingly like Twenty Mensuo in his tuxedo (^^;) a fact which Suoh
just HAD to notice sometime. Though Nokoru's azure haired bodyguards seemed
much more interested in watching the eyes of his girlfriend Nagisa. Nokoru
did not think that he had heard a note of the entire concert, which was a
shame. Kobayashi-san sang so well.
Akira held Utako's hand and blushed throughout the entire performance his
eyes vacillating between his cousin and his girlfriend. "I think that was
simply lovely." Utako sighed as she rested her head on his shoulder, a
little tired after such a long concert, she blushed slightly as she did
this, her face mirroring Akira's.
"Your cousin sings quite nicely Akira-kun." Nagisa agreed. On her other
side Nokoru flipped open a fan to read 'Like an Angel.' Akira's blush grew
deeper even though the praise was not for him. Suoh, sitting between them
suddenly stiffened.
"Kaichuu! Down!" Diving to push his Kaichuu out of the way, a hole was torn
in the seat, which Nokoru had just exited, by a bullet. Suoh released three
shuriken, already knowing that they would not find their target. Whoever
the assassin was they were very good, he had not noticed any killing chi or
any suspicious movements until he had fired the gun and thus alerted Suoh
both by the flash of light and the immediate sense of danger to his one.
Despite what Nokoru might think he was attentive to more the just Nagisa's
eyes.
Even if he had not heard a single note of the concert.
Nokoru looked at the chair which he had just exited sighing at the
extreme situations he often found himself in. Another assassination attempt
at Kobayashi-san's concert nonetheless! It was an insult to have him
distracted from her performance! Thankfully they had waited until after the
concert but Suoh probably would not let him stay or be out in the public...
"Suoh." Nokoru said standing and brushing himself off. "I think we should
go greet the public." He looked around the box. Otaku gripped Akira's arm
who was wearing a strangely grim expression which he quickly hid behind
false naïveté and sweetness but the grimness still lurked behind his now
surprised eyes. Nagisa swayed slightly like a tree in the wind and looked
about to faint.
Suoh looked at grim as Akira not troubling to hide it. "Kaichuu..."
"No Suoh, we need to show that this attempt did not scare me. No. I
cannot hide." Suoh clamped (^^;;) his mouth shut, well aware that his One
would get his way one way or the other.
"Okay, let's go. Akira could you escort Nagisa and Otaku home?" Suoh
said, showing his deep trust in the boy. Though he would never admit to
himself that he trusted him that deeply, because his suspicion was always
lurking on the surface.
"Of course Takamura-senpai." Akira said and bowed his head to the
older boy. Suoh and Nokoru left the private box and made their way down
into the crowd.
******
Suoh ground his teeth together realizing that he must look really
aggravated. Nokoru had been wandering around talking to people and being
himself for an hour since the end of the performance. Now they were
backstage, heading towards the green room where Nokoru had said Amaya would
be meeting with reporters. "Kaichuu..."
"No Suoh I will go and meet with the nice reporters in a crowded room and
be surrounded by unknown people with strange equipment." Nokoru said
rolling his eyes since he been telling Suoh the exact same thing since he
had stepped into the backstage area and left the public eye. "Give it up
Suoh I cannot be talked out of this." Suoh hurried ahead of Nokoru to open
the door to the Green Room and let Nokoru in. The reporters in the room
turned from where they had been watching Amaya sip a something from a
teacup on the couch to face Nokoru. A hush fell over the room and then
several flashes of lights almost blinded Suoh as he fought down his
protective urges. He honestly wanted to step in front of Nokoru and break
all those damn cameras. Nokoru smiled his million-dollar smile and the
female reporters swooned, on the couch Amaya gestured for Nokoru to join
her.
"Imonayama-sama! I am glad you managed to come!" Suoh followed Nokoru over
to the couch and hovered protectively to the side.
"Kobayashi-san I am equally delighted that you invited me to meet with you
and the press." Several reporters were scribbling down how they greeted
each other or using a tape recorder. Amaya flipped her hair, which was now
tied back into a braid that rested on her right shoulder. She was dressed
in a loose blue dress shirt and a pair of designer jeans. Her grey eyes
seemed to sparkle with every flash of the cameras. Suoh tried to tone down
the glare he was sending the reporter's way after Nokoru shot him a look of
his own. One of the reporters turned back to Amaya and asked.
"Kobayashi-san is it true what we heard about you moving to Japan?" Amaya
smiled while Suoh hoped he was managing to hide the extreme surprise he was
feeling. Nokoru did not appear to be the least surprised but he was a
superb actor after all.
"Well Tanaka-san you should never listen to rumors. However this one is
true." Amaya smiled and this time turned her head slightly so she could
look at Nokoru. "Because of the, incident, at my last performance here I
managed to make contact with my cousin and aunts who live here in Japan. My
parents have been pushing me to connect with my heritage more and they
believed that moving to Japan and staying with my cousins would be a good
way to do that. I believe that Clamp Academy has received my transfer
papers from its sister school in America?" This last question was addressed
to Nokoru.
"Yes Miss Kobayashi, and Clamp Academy is looking forward to having you
join us." Nokoru said, still smiling his million-dollar smile. Suoh almost
had to physically restrain himself from strangling his Kaichuu. You would
think that Nokoru would have told him that Akira's cousin, who had been
kidnapped by Twenty Mensuo, and was an international superstar, would have
told him that that WOMAN(who irritates him ever so much) was transferring
to Clamp Academy. That was basically the gist of the news conference until
a quiet sounding male reporter in the back of the room asked.
"Kobayashi-san we heard that he reason you are moving to Japan is because
of the multiple kidnapping attempts. Is that true?" The reporters froze
slightly, and this was lucky for Amaya who had also frozen for a second.
"Of course not, someone in my position has threats of kidnapping often
enough but I haven't exactly received quite enough to force me to move
halfway around the world." She said and laughed it off. From the look in
Nokoru's eyes Suoh could tell that the reporter had hit his mark, Nokoru
knew why Amaya was transferring schools.
*******
Nokoru strained against the ropes binding him to the arm chair and turned
to look at his azure haired bodyguard/secretary/best friend. The
combination of those three roles made a rather annoyingly overprotective
and work oriented companion. Nokoru started struggling against the ropes
again. As soon as he had entered the Student Government office that morning
Suoh had trussed him to the chair and forced him to work on the giant
mounds of paperwork that he had let accumulate in the office. Now while
Nokoru had to admit that there was a large amount of paperwork in his
office that needed doing there was no need for Suoh to tie him to the
chair! Well at least not in Nokoru's eyes.
Suoh however had more then one reason for tying Nokoru to the chair. Sure
the most notorious and obvious reason would be to have him finish the
paperwork, of which he truly had been neglecting, the other was dealing
with something that not even Nokoru knew. The arm chair he was sitting in
was bullet proof, since it contained a good solid inch of Kevlar material
((o_O Did they have Kevlar back then? Can't remember when the damn stuff
was invented... Anyways it's a super strong super lightweight material to all
who didn't know)) and Suoh would be able to protect him more securely in
this room then if he was out in the open. Another reason was that Suoh was
still mad about Nokoru not telling him Amaya was transferring to Clamp
Academy, of course he should probably be mad at Akira too because Akira had
known Amaya would be transferring and had not told Suoh. Still Nokoru was
easier to project anger at then Akira, the poor boy was so....happy? Still
Suoh could not have Akira untying Nokoru and had already had to send him
out for tea and refreshments when he nearly broke down under Nokoru's
steady pleading. Deprived of his favorite playmate and helper Nokoru had
been driven to try for pity.
"Suoh..." Nokoru started and was cut off.
"No."
"But what about..."
"If I promise..."
"NO Nokoru!" Suoh said forcefully. "No I will not untie you, no I will not
let you leave yet, no I will not allow you the chance to get yourself
killed. N. O. No!" ((Okay, so I'm too lazy to look up the Japanese word for
no, so sue me. I'm writing this at 11:08 after a stressful and backbreaking
and LONG day. But the muses command and I obey. -_-)) Suoh counted up the
number of words he had used and subtracted them from the amount of words he
allowed himself to speak to Nokoru when mad at him. Damn, he'd have to work
on expressing himself more quickly, otherwise he'd run out of words.
"But what if someone comes in? They might get the wrong idea!" Suoh did not
even take the time to counter that one. Of course Akira managed to walk in
and hear the entire sentence, causing the youthful boy's eyes to go round.
Wheeling the tea tray up to his Kaichuu's desk, which meant maneuvering
around several teetering stacks of paperwork, he asked "What do you mean by
that Kaichuu? How could someone get the wrong idea?" He poured the tea and
handed Suoh a cup along with a plate of delicacies.
"Well you see Akira, when two people love each other very much..." That was
as far as Nokoru got before Suoh managed to choke on his tea, inhale almost
the entire tea cup, turn an alarming shade of red and have a long and very
painful sounding coughing fit. Akira, eyes wide as dinner plates with
worry, hurried over to his senpai's side.
"K-Kaichuu!" Suoh finally managed and look up at his One's baby blue eyes.
Or, to be more precise, where his One's baby blue eyes should have been...
And weren't.
Somehow during all the commotion Nokoru had managed, and Akira and Suoh
would try to figure out how he managed this later, to push his chair away
from the desk to the door open the door roll out, roll out of the student
government offices and significantly down the hall. "----!" Suoh cursed and
Akira's dinner plate eyes got even wider, if that was possible. "C'mon
Akira." Suoh said and stormed out into the hallway, glaring around trying
to find his Kaichuu. Technically the bond that tied them together should
have told him but Nokoru was not in danger and he had gotten surprisingly
good at hiding his aura when he wanted to. However he was still Nokoru
Imonayama and his two best friends would have caught up with him
momentarily if then fan clubs, always hovering around the Student Body
Government's office had not spotted them, and if they had not run.
******
"Wheee!" Nokoru squealed happily as he pushed himself down the hallways of
Clamp Academy, looking for all the world like a large three year old, happy
and content with the world. Suddenly his chair stopped with a 'thump' and
he turned his head up fully expecting to meet a pair of angry gold eyes.
Instead he met a pair of amused grey ones. "Kobayashi-san!" He said
happily, genuinely pleased to see her.
"Imonayama-senpai." She said and he felt the ropes loosen and then fall off
of around the chair. Standing he stretched and she continued to watch him
fairly amused. "I assume, from the chair and you not being shadowed by an
angry gold eyed, blue haired, and astonishingly handsome young man that you
are making one of your famous 'escape attempts'?" Nokoru flashed his fan at
her, the writing on it saying 'Brains and Beauty'. Amaya flashed a fan of
her own reading 'Flatterer' and Nokoru found himself very surprised. She
used her fan the same way he did?* Suddenly a slightly panicked and quite
pretty expression crossed her face, she grabbed his arm and dragged him a
little way down the hallway and into a broom closet. She also entered the
closet and closed the door.
"Um....Kobayashi-san...." Nokoru said all to aware that the closet had not been
designed to hold two nearly grown people and all to aware of what a 'grown'
person Amaya Kobayashi was.
"Shh!" She said, placing her index finger against his lips and winking at
him. Nokoru gulped, completely unprepared for what happened next.
A herd of footsteps thundered by.
"My fanclub." She said sardonically.
Another herd of footsteps thundered by, heading from the direction he had
come from.
"Your fanclub."
Then two very quiet pairs of footsteps that would have been nigh un-
hearable if they hadn't been running.
"Suoh and Akira."
From what appeared to be another large group of people.
"Their fanclubs." All giant fanclubs and best friend detectives gone she
opened the closet and helped him out. "So, now that you're completely free
of all entanglements would you like to go have some fun?" Nokoru smiled
down at her, vaguely surprised that he was taller, and said in a very happy
and incredibly suave voice.
"Hai."
*******
Writer: Phew! ~wipes brow~ Glad that's finished! The muses for this chap
have been rather fickle and annoying but I'm F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D! And Nokoru's
fans got screen time, and Akira got to act innocent, and Suoh got to act
pissed.
Suoh: ~lunges at writer, stopped by Nokoru, Akira and Amaya~
Amaya: Bad ninja! Sit! ~pats head~ Good boy!
Suoh: Don't get me started on you!
Amaya: Try it pretty boy.
Writer: Guys cool down, that doesn't happen for another 3 chapters or so!
Oh and with the whole * at the star thing? I had been planning on having
them both talk with their fans since the beginning of Amaya's development
but I only just managed to write it in! Also did any of you ever watch
Sesame Street as a kid? Well they did this one episode on sign language and
there was a song that went like 'hand talk hand talk, talking with your
hands..." and whenever I think about this all I can hear is "Fan talk fan
talk talking with your fans..." Its TRES ANNOYING! Please review!