krystalkatzficz | JoyBringer part 10

Nino growled with irritation as he was shoved into yet another locker pain rippling down his arm as another unintelligent person muttered fag into his ear. He was glad that the day was over but he was apprehensive about his lover’s date with somebody else. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Ohno but he was the type of person that went along with what other people wanted and he would trust Kudo-sensei only as far as he could throw her, which wasn’t very far. Ignoring the muffled comments around him he pulled out his shoes swearing when he noticed that the laces hand been cut and the insides were soaked through. He bit on his bottom lip and stuffed them into his bag pulling out his trainers instead glad that they were undamaged he slipped them on and started towards the exit. The two ring leaders from his day of torture, two that weren’t even ones from his class and Nino wasn’t even sure if he could remember their names, grabbed a hold of him when he reached the outdoors spinning him around.

“Oh if it isn’t the little fag…” The sneered and Nino rolled his eyes thinking ‘Oh here we go again’.

“Nino-chan!” A shrill voice sounded out and Nino turned slowly slightly nervous at what his friend would be wearing, her school had an official uniform but Masako was the type of girl that liked to tweak it into something that wasn’t ‘boring’. Thankfully though today she had gone for the proper uniform look with a navy blue and grey tartan pileated skirt, shirt and, as it was spring but still a little cool, a woollen vest over her off white blouse which was emblazoned with the badge for her school. The skirt hung down just below her knees, showing off just the hint of her long legs which were covered in socks there were definitely not regulation that came up to the point just above knee with tartan ribbons around the top matching the skirt and the bow around her throat.Her long waist length hair was half tied back with another bow of tartan. Everything that she was wearing was shaped to cling to areas of a girl’s body that Nino wasn’t used to looking at.

When he had first seen the school uniform Nino had known why his friend would want to go there though her argument that it was the perfect feeder school for the agricultural college she want to attend did have weight.

But the truth was she loved the fact that she looked like she had stepped out of a drama or anime and he was positive that when she gave a smile several of the guys around him were about to have serious nose bleeds. The two twits that were still close at hand and they grabbed him tightly by the upper arms and squeezed their fingers doing some serious damage on his skin.

“Who’s that?” They asked together their heads jerking at Masako who was walking towards them looking a little like an Amazonian goddess…A clumsy one, he amended in his mind smiling a little as he saw his only friend in the world almost trip, as her hair seemed to shine in the sunlight like a halo.

“My girlfriend…Aiba Masako…Idiots…” He snorted pushing away from them and walking over to the girl glad that she wasn’t wearing heels. He was short he knew that and she had the perfect model figure which was lucky since that was her second dream job, so her in any kind of heels would have made it look stupid. “Hey babe” he said as he reached her and Masako’s arms wrapped around him tightly her lips crushing against his before he could stop her. It was just a quick kiss but it seemed to last forever and all he could think about was that Jun was going to kill him and Ohno was going to be devastated if he saw.

“Hey Nino-chan” Masako breathed as she pulled away liking her gloss covered lips and smiling at him “I thought I would come and meet you from school today…”

“Where did you hire her? Cause after you’ve finished maybe we can have a go…” The two guys that had been taunting him all day and Nino was deeply offended for his friend and he turned angrily snapping;

“Excuse me?”

“Are you talking about me?” Masako asked slowly her head tilting to one side as she looked them over. Her expression was completely clear and innocent but Nino could tell from the harsh expression that had come to her eyes that she was just as irritated by them as he was. The guys snorted a little their rat like faces twisted into unpleasant smiles.

“Yeah, even if he’s straight the chibi git couldn’t pull someone like you…” The one on the right said their eyes moving over Masako who made no attempt to cover herself though her arms did move over her front her pushing her chest up.

“Because you couldn’t…?” She asked with a laugh her arm staying around Nino’s shoulders and Nino pressed into her hoping and praying that she wasn’t going to start fighting. He had no doubt that Masako could take them but he knew that Jun wouldn’t like it if she ended up bruised “You shouldn’t judge Nino-chan like that, just because you can’t get a girlfriend of your own…And for your information we’ve known each other for five years…And been dating for a year…”
“A…Year…How come we haven’t seen you before…” The crowd gasped and Nino smirked a little as he moved into the warm body of his friend almost tearful at how believable she was being. He knew that she wouldn’t let him down, she hadn’t before.

“I've been here before, it's not my fault that you haven’t been paying attention and…Not that it’s any of your business, but I go Rose Blossom Girls School…” Masako snapped with irritation pointing to the badge that was on the front of her woollen vest and Nino could tell that people were buying it, the school was eight stops away from there school after all it was rare from them to mix it was further made believable when Masako messed around with her phone for a second and then showed them all a photo from when they were in middle school both wearing the black and red uniform of St. Jonas middle school. Masako wasn’t lying when she’d said they’d more than likely seen her before either, she had been to a few of his game before and Nino could see the light of realisation dawning in the eyes of some of the those around him “See…That was when we met…I only came today because people were saying horrible things about my Nino-chan…”

“Masa-chan, you didn’t have to come, I told you that it wasn’t worth it…” Nino told her quietly taking her hand and holding it tight, trying hard not to show how different and awkward it felt against his. In the corner of his eye he saw movement and when he looked he saw the sweet tanned face of his lover watching him. Nino wanted to rip his hand away from Masako’s to push through the crowd and go to his lover but that wasn’t possible, he couldn’t even look at him for too long in case people got suspicious. He pulled his eyes away keeping a blank expression on his face as Masako shrugged and gave a laugh squeezing at his hand tightly.

“Well…I know, but I missed you and I thought that we could go play later you promised me that we could go to that new karaoke bar…” She said turning away from the crowd now and Nino allowed her to pull him away, away from those taunting him and away from his lover, it was a hard sinking feeling that crept into his heart as he moved to the school gate. “Hang in there, Nino-chan, I promise that we’ll make it through…”

“Thanks, Masa…You know that I…Love you right?” Nino asked changing what he was saying halfway through when some of the baseball team ran over to them.

“Aww…So cute, you guys are too sweet, no wonder we haven’t been introduced…” The deputy captain, Kamenashi Kazuya a boy in the year below him, said clipping him hard on the shoulder and Nino nodded biting his lip his cheeks blushing while he wondered if Ohno was still watching or if he had already gone off home to get ready for his date with Kudo-sensei. Jealousy and anger that they had to do this, that they couldn’t be together. “So you’re going to karaoke? We can come too right captain? Now that we’ve just met your girlfriend…You have to introduce us all properly…”

“Since I’m in love with her, why would I want to inflict that on her?” Nino growled playfully actually glad that they were acting the way they normally did though he wasn’t sure if that was because they didn’t care or because they believed that Masako was indeed his girlfriend.

“Aww come on, don’t be like that Nino-chan, I want to meet your friends…” Masako purred and Nino sighed giving a shrug.

“Well I guess it won’t hurt…” He mumbled guessing that he would have to carry on with the charade longer than he was intending today. This really was going to be harder than he thought.

TBC
A/N:…I really hope this was okay ^_^