Drabble no. 6

[scottishlass]

tsuristyle requested SMAP fic - something with Shingo and Tsuyoshi or with Kimura and Goro


After his incident as the Jimusho so euphemistically called his drunk and disorderly - very disorderly - arrest, Tsuyoshi found himself confined to his own apartment. Not that he minded. He liked being alone, reading and learning Korean on his off days but with every forced break, this particular break really got on Tsuyoshi's nerves. For days he had not seen anyone apart from his manager-san's personal assistant who had brought him provisions. No alcohol mind you, but then again he had had enough of that already, being responsible for his current fall from grace.

Tsuyoshi looked around his spotless apartment and sighed. For half of the day he had cleaned and scrubbed and straightened an already impeccable apartment but at least the strenuous work had made him comfortably sleepy. He would sleep tonight at last, he thought and was pulled out of his reverie when his cell phone started to ring. The first notes of a Kylie Minogue song came from somewhere behind or beneath his sofa so he scrambled over, looking and searching, eager to get to his cell phone before it turned the call to voice mail.

"Moshi?" he asked breathlessly and waited with baited breath. His band members had not called for days but he knew they were far too angry at the moment to talk to him. Especially Nakai and Kimura. No scratch that, especially Kimura who would give him quite an earful as soon as he was allowed to come back. He just didn't know when this time would come. He had heard nothing from his band members or the higher ups and it made him feel edgy.

"How is my Tsuyopon today, ne?" a voice inquired in a cheerful tone and Tsuyoshi grinned for the first time in days, his mood considerably lighter when he recognized the voice.

"Shingo-kun," he replied and for a moment he had to get his bearings. Sudden tears gathered in his eyes and with a sigh he sat down on his couch, almost on the brink of bawling into the phone.

"Don't get all girly on me, Tsuyopon," Shingo breathed, his voice catching. "I'm at work, so let's be manly about this," he tried to sound sternly, but Tsuyoshi heard that Shingo was just as concerned and scared like he was himself. "So, how is your apartment? Squeaky clean and polished? Did you soak your plants and dust them off lovingly?"

Grinning despite the tears, Tsuyoshi grunted in the affirmative. "The apartment is done, and I was about to soak the plants."

Shingo clucked his tongue. "Good thing I didn't put a wager on it, I had thought you'd start with the plants, potting them all anew and then cleaning your apartment."

Tsuyoshi wiped at the traiterous wetness in his eyes and forced a laugh. Trust Shingo to know what he would do. He knew him so well.

"I potted them only around New Year's," Tsuyoshi provided and swallowed hard. For moments both men remained silent until Tsuyoshi sighed. "Thank you, Shingo." He could hear a scratching sound and he just imagined that Shingo had nodded in reply.

"You are welcome, Tsu," he said and made a distracted sound when someone close-by talked to him. "They need me for shooting. I'll call you tomorrow, okay? And don't forget, we are SMAP! It's five guys, not four ... and we ALL know that, okay?"

"Okay ..."

After they had disconnected, Tsuyoshi sat on the couch for a long time. While he was overwhelmed and tears still threatened to well, he also felt strangely comforted and relieved, knowing that Shingo kept into contact with him. He could just imagine Shingo calling Kimura right now, telling him how Tsuyoshi was managing and when he hit the reply button and got the busy sign, he smiled. They might all be angry at him now, but he knew their friendship was still going strong.

- end -



One more to go ... and while the last drabble is about my FIRST ever fandom, it is somehow also the hardest to write. *sigh*

Comments

[little-witch27.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!! That was wonderful! My own eyes teared over.

[nekotakuya02.livejournal.com]

I loved it!!! Thanks a lot for sharing!!
...it's a pleasure to read such a delicate story about our SMAP guys and their strong bond! (*.*)
...moreover, recently I'm in love with ShinTsuyo, it's my no.2 fav pairing after ShinTaku (of course^^)!!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

You are welcome and thank you for liking this little ficlet :)

My fingers are itching to write more but the right inspiration is always missing.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked this little ficlet. :)

I hope you like this Shingo ... a little bit silly, a little bit serious and totally a friend :)

Oops, I just remembered I still owe you a Ni~ya fic, sort of. :)

[tsuristyle.livejournal.com]

Yayyy! Aww, they're so adorable :D Thank you so much for writing this!

Now I have to finish my own ShinTsu fic :P

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it ... that is actually my first ever finished and posted SMAP fic LOL
I have this huge HET/OFC Kimura fic on my HDD, that is still waits to be finished.

I'm looking forward to your ShinTsu fic :)

[tsuristyle.livejournal.com]

I'm honored to have requested your first SMAP fic :) But you should write more! So that I'm not the only one :P

(I'd definitely be curious to see what you'd write for interaction between Kimura and Goro. But don't mind me :D)

There's also a bunch of onsen stuff I'm writing that's turning crazy epic (I keep getting ideas!) but it'll be a while before any of it's ready for posting :P

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough ... I can't write Goro/Kimura so well. I know they are close friends and more times than not Kimura is his champion but somehow writing Goro is a difficult task.

A friend of mine wrote two wonderful Shingo fics last year, they were briefly posted to je_fic but as they were not slash they were not well received. I pimp them to you, because I love them and I love little_witch27's Shingo in these two fics. And that girl can write!
The smap fics are called Shoya pt 1 (http://novelcuisine.livejournal.com/6333.html) | pt2 (http://novelcuisine.livejournal.com/6593.html) and Sayonara pt1 (http://novelcuisine.livejournal.com/7732.html) | pt2 (http://novelcuisine.livejournal.com/7959.html) | pt3 (http://novelcuisine.livejournal.com/8459.html) | pt4 (http://novelcuisine.livejournal.com/8796.html) | pt5 (http://novelcuisine.livejournal.com/9133.html) | pt6 (http://novelcuisine.livejournal.com/9264.html)

[tsuristyle.livejournal.com]

I think the fics might be friends-only? I can't seem to get to them.

Goro is definitely an enigma. He and Nakai both give me a lot of trouble to write, I suspect because they both tend to put on more of an image when they're on TV, and show less of their natural personalities. Or something like that :P

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Oops, she unlocked them now :)

I guess so ... though I think Goro also has tried so hard to keep up the gentlemnaly, elegant image, that when he cracks up and gets silly sometimes it is always such a surprise. What I love about the Kim-goro combo is that Kimura is always quick to chastise him when Goro snafu'd something but is even quicker championing and defending him.

[tsuristyle.livejournal.com]

ShinTsu posted! Quality not guaranteed, though.

Haven't gotten to the Shingo fics yet, since I wanted to get the above posted first, but will definitely check them out now :)