krystalkatzficz | Aiba Masaki and the Lost City

Pairing: Ohno Satoshi/Ninomiya Kazunari, Sakurai Sho/Aiba Masaki

Rating: pg-nc17

Genre: Adventure, romance, fluff, rivalry

A/N: Based sort of on the Tomb raider games with Aiba as Lara/Indiana Jones and Nino as his assistant

Rain fell in a swirling cascade over the tent that Ninomiya Kazunari and his friend/boss Aiba Masaki had made. He had known that it was a mistake to follow the young explorer into the centre of a jungle on the hunt for buried treasure in a lost city that nobody had ever heard of, more so after the last time when he had been up a mountain with his fingers almost freezing off, but he had been swayed by the pleading look in Masaki’s eyes and the fact that Masaki had offered to pay him well. Knowing that the eccentric billionaire could afford the vast sums promised and Nino had been dazzled by all the zeros that had followed the six. Now he knew the true meaning of think in haste repent at leisure. They were only four days into their six-week expedition and already Nino wanted to be warm at home away from the beetles and the bugs that slept with them every night and all the creatures that wanted to eat him. Already he had almost been killed by three snakes and a cat that was about the same size as a dog but with razor sharp teeth.

Masaki had laughed at his misfortune and had even fed the cat creature some of their food. It was alright for the explorer. He had been raised by his equally eccentric parents who had thought it fun to force their son over a swimming pool filled with alligators. When Nino had first met the young man at university he had thought he was joking about his expertise until he had watched him in the gym when he thought nobody else was around. He was also extremely well trained in all kinds of weaponry and had an encyclopaedic knowledge of history and many world customs. But somehow even with all of that he was an endearingly adorable idiot.

He floundered in most social interactions and almost broke his neck tripping on his own shoelace. He had a bright and bubbly personality that was almost as infectious as the sun and Nino had found it impossible to not be his friend even if he was completely insane and opposite to himself. It didn’t hurt that he had been introduced to a sexy but sleepy museum owner back in Japan and he was more determined than ever that he would, maybe, one day, if he survived, ask him out.

“Nino-chan! Look at the rain!” Masaki shouted excitedly from somewhere by the tent flap and Nino wanted to growl that he had seen more than enough rain to last him a life time but there was that Masaki note in his voice that made him sigh and get up from the stool to stand beside his friend and look out. They had set up their camp by the edge of a large ravine which Masaki was hoping to scale down tomorrow determined that there would be a clue to the whereabouts of the lost city they were looking for. Why there would be a clue on some remote mountain side was any bodies guess but Masaki’s hunches were normally right so Nino knew that he had to go along with it.

One look, out of the flap however left Nino with no doubts as to why he was being summoned to look. It was breath taking, as though all the trees had been touched by the sun and were glowing brightly in the ravine. There was a huge rainbow over all of it and Nino found himself smiling despite his low mood. It was impossible to do anything else. “It’s pretty right?”

“Yeah, I guess, though I don’t know if you’re going to be abseiling down the side tomorrow with all this rain” Nino nodded his eyes going to the drop which was looking almost like a waterfall. Of course, Masaki didn’t seem worried and merely slapped him heartily on the back saying in his chipper tone;

“It will stop soon and it will be hot tomorrow! Don’t worry so much!”

“Worry? Of course, I’m worried you brainless idiot! If you die how am I going to get paid?” Nino growled hiding his genuine fear for his friend with a joke. Masaki gave him a smile throwing his arm over his shoulder.

“I already paid you, you’ll be fine Nino-chan! You just need to keep the jack stabilised up here and be the voice in my ear” He told him and Nino gave a sigh. He knew that the man would be okay, he had probably been doing this kind of thing since he was in nappies but that didn’t stop him from being a bag of nerves. He had no idea what to do if something went wrong and Masaki plunged to his death in the middle of a jungle. “If anything goes wrong” Masaki continued as though he was reading his mind “Just radio for a helicopter and they will find you based on the tracker in your coat”

“You bugged me?”

“It’s just a tracker, just for safety! I have one too! It’s completely harmless and none intrusive! I can’t hear you or anything it just lets people know where you are if you’re in trouble” Masaki shrugged in an offhand way as though he thought it was perfectly normal to bug your friends. Though knowing the life he had lived with his parents it probably was a sign of affection.

“Did your parents bug you?” Nino asked and Masaki nodded quite happily as he answered;

“Yup! All the time! I was always wandering off, Dad thought it best if they could track me”

“Your parents were weird” Nino muttered being very careful. Masaki’s parents had only died a few years ago in a freak helicopter incident and Masaki was very quick to get upset at least when they were at home now he just continued to smile saying;

“Perhaps but they enjoyed what they did. Tomorrow will be clear! I promise Nino-chan! So, we should head to bed and get plenty of sleep! Soon you will be back to make goo-goo eyes at Ohno-san”

TBC

A/N: I hope that this is okay ^_^