9 1/2 Weeks - 26 - (Week 7 1/2: Saturday)
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Week 7 1/2: Saturday
Sara loves the duck.
Jin's rarely seen her so awestruck as when the giant violet-orange and spun sugar construction floats in on a cooling pad, and she wants to take a million photos of it and then never eat it and then make all her friends taste it. She's quiet as a mouse when she has her first bite.
"That was a success," Meisa grins at him when they're hiding out in the kitchen again to catch a breath, the pandemonium of children safely supervised by two grandmothers and Reio with his wife. Meisa told Sara to be nice to little cousin Haruki, even though he's only four and she barely knows him. Kids' birthdays are generally the only times they see each other.
Reio works a lot. He never got his big break, never had the chances Jin had, and when he got married he took a job that could support a family. Office, suit and tie, eight till late and drinks with the boss. He doesn't say much anymore about the fact that Jin barely works at all now, but Jin knows what he thinks about Jin's history and Jin's attitude; has it replaying in his head with a growing background chorus whenever he hits yet another bump, loses another job.
So Jin's glad to be out of the line of fire, and even Haruki liked the duck, particularly the feet, and Meisa understands enough to let him stay in the background for a bit.
It's never for long anyway; he enjoys playing with the kids too much.
Right enough, half an hour later he's crawling about on the carpet, being the camelephant monster from which they have to protect themselves and each other. He's tame while anyone rides him, but vicious when he can throw his rider off and tickle her.
He's got Yumi on his back and the others squealing around him when his phone rings, and with all the noise, it takes the first three rings until he hears it's Kame.
Already? he thinks and then that he won't be home in an hour, no way, and then he's blushing and trying to get his camelephant back. He bucks Yumi off carefully and roars, and then he fumbles for his phone. "Just a moment, okay?" he says.
But it's stopped ringing.
Damn.
"ME AGAIN!" Sara shouts, but Jin's lost his groove. He lets himself fall flat on his belly.
"The camelephant is sleeping," he says. "Camelephants need sleep or their trunks shrink."
Sara giggles, and explains to her friends that her dad likes to sleep. "When I was little, I once put his hat and his sunglasses on him while he was asleep and he didn't even notice," she says.
When she was five. She must feel so mature.
Jin makes a snoring camelephant noise, trying to shake the tension. When this conclusion to the camelephant adventure is accepted, he gently rolls up and excuses himself, finds Meisa.
"I need to make a call," he tells her. "Do you mind if I go into the bedroom?"
"No, of course not," she smiles, "go recover," and he pulls back from the noise and the kids, closes the sliding door behind him.
It's still their old bed. They made Sara in that bed, one of those drowsy afternoons they loved, when Akira was napping and her skin was soft under his fingers, and having free time wasn't a curse yet. Her nightstand's still full of the same things, hand cream and earrings and hair clips, and he looks away. He presses the return call button. To call Kame. Who may or may not answer and may be asking for whatever.
"Hello," Kame says on the second ring. "Where are you?"
"I'm at my daughter's birthday party," Jin says. No way is he going to be apologetic. "We're celebrating today."
"I need to talk to you about the girl," Kame says without even a pause. "Are you alone? Can you get alone?"
Girl? What? Kame calls him about sex. "What girl?"
"The girl you mentioned. Nakamaru's crack dealer girlfriend."
Right. Jin takes a breath and shifts tracks. "I'm alone," he says. "What's going on?"
"Did he tell you her name? One of her names? Or anything about her, where she lived or came from, what she did for a living? Did he still have a photo, do you know what she looked like?"
"No, no, no, no and no," Jin says. "He only said she was great, and she got him to do coke, and then she dumped him. She's an ex who screwed him, he didn't show me the photo album."
There's a pause. Jin squirms because it's not actually his fault he can't give Kame better answers. But what's Kame doing worrying about Nakamaru's ex anyway?
"They did the drugs together?"
"Yeah," Jin says, and it rings a vague bell. Not 'great'. "He said she was exciting." It... somehow felt more meaningful a second ago before he heard it out loud. Now it's just banal.
"Have you ever known Nakamaru to go for excitement?" Kame asks, and Jin snorts, because the irony...
But Kame's not kidding.
"Look, he was in love with her," Jin says. "You said it yourself. Men and their dicks." Then he glances over his shoulder. Thin doors and grandmothers abound. "What's going on, Kame?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out." Kame sounds impatient; in another man Jin might have called it frazzled. "I'm trying to find out if she could be—" He cuts himself short, takes a slow breath, and when he speaks again he sounds like a boiling pot with a very good lid. "I'm wondering if somebody else knows her. A photo would really help. And I'd like to find her, to ask her a couple of questions."
"I don't know anything," Jin says. Is Kame trying... "Are you going after Nakamaru? Is this about the drugs?" He feels cold suddenly, like staring at Koki and imagining tortured cats...
"What? No! For fuck's sake."
Jin breathes.
It's quiet. So quiet Kame can maybe even hear the ruckus in the background, Jin's kids.
"What is this, Kame?"
"I think," Kame says slowly, "that she may have screwed someone else. But I'm not sure. What you know isn't enough."
"I saw him to catch up with him, not to interrogate him about girls I didn't even know existed." He feels a guilty twinge when he remembers he actually saw Nakamaru to interrogate him about Kame.
"Can you ask him now? For a name, or better a photo? He won't tell me anything."
"I'm not a fucking investigator for you," Jin says, managing to keep his voice down. "Not with Nakamaru."
More quiet.
"I'm sorry I interrupted you with your family," Kame says at the end of it. "I hope you enjoy the rest of the party. I'll call you about our usual arrangement."
And he's gone.
Enjoy, right. Jin stares at the phone and is tempted to turn it off, but he's got a shift in a couple of hours and he wants people to be able to get hold of him. If Kame calls again, he'll just ignore him.
As if Kame would.
He stuffs the phone in his pocket and determinedly forgets about calls, and fucking, and Nakamaru, enjoys a hot dog and some fries, enjoys being scolded by his daughter and her friends for giving a spider six legs instead of eight in Pictionary, and enjoys quashing thoughts of Kame whenever they enter his brain.
"Sorry to be leaving you to the mess," he says to Meisa when it's time to leave for his box, but she smiles and shakes her head.
"You were great with them, I didn't have to do a thing until now." She flings a towel over her shoulder like a salute and grins at him. "I consider it my fair share." She looks so happy that for the first time Jin wonders if she's seeing somebody.
What the fuck? He quashes that thought too. It's dumb and not his business.
His taxi is on time. Two of his colleagues rib him a bit for arriving in style, but they smile when he gives them a short version of the birthday party.
His duck rocked the house.
Then he's changed and in his box. It's a shame he had to leave early, but he's looking forward to going through all the pictures he took today. He did well; gave his daughter a present she loved and was there for most of the party and now he's earning money. Everything good.
Mostly everything.
He's been in the box for an hour and a half when he thinks he's got his story straight. His palms still get sweaty while the phone rings and rings.
"Hello, Nakamaru Yuuichi here." It sounds so prim, Jin thinks it's a voicemail recording. "Hello?"
"Um, hi," he says. "It's Akanishi." Okay, okay, get it together. "How are you?"
"I'm fine. How are you?"
Blah blah blah, fine, good, work, family stuff. Jin feels guilty when he mentions the birthday party.
Maru mentions the weather, his own work, a miraculous conditioner with nano-whatnots, and the weather again, and then there's a pause.
"Uh, you must be wondering why I'm calling," Jin says. "The thing is, I have this friend."
Nakamaru chuckles. "And he has this girl he likes, and he needs some advice, and the friend is really not you."
"Dumbass," Jin says, but somehow this helps, even though it makes him feel worse. "He's got a club, right, and he was looking to hire waitresses and this girl applied and he heard her saying to the other girls that she's your ex. Thought she was bragging."
The silence on the line is full of wariness. Jin can't even blame the guy.
"So," he says, "I thought, if she's that ex, he probably doesn't want her working for him because who knows what she's involved in."
"True," Nakamaru agrees carefully.
"So is there a way to recognize her? Or do you still have a photo somewhere, that I could show him?"
Nakamaru takes a moment to answer. "What club is that?" But it doesn't sound suspicious, it sounds... forlorn.
"Man, don't do that to yourself," Jin says, feeling like a pig. "I just want to check it's her. You shouldn't even think about it." And then he hopes Nakamaru buys it.
"I don't have a lot of photos," Nakamaru says quietly. "Never did. We didn't really do that."
It gives Jin a jolt. No photos, no trace. Exciting.
"Just, it would be good to make sure..." Not a lot of photos, Nakamaru said.
"I'll see what I can do," Nakamaru says. "No promises."
Jin wants a shower after he's hung up. Well, it's hot, too. The hours crawl on. He takes his gloves off and fans himself when he's sure nothing is approaching.
Then, shortly after eleven, his email buzzes. Nakamaru's sent him an attachment of two photos. Hope it helps, nothing else. They're photobooth pictures, a little blurry, and distorted with big eyes and sparkling hearts. Under the effects, she's probably pretty.
He forwards them to Kame with his own cover note. Stop getting me to do your dirty work for you.
Week 7 1/2: Saturday
Sara loves the duck.
Jin's rarely seen her so awestruck as when the giant violet-orange and spun sugar construction floats in on a cooling pad, and she wants to take a million photos of it and then never eat it and then make all her friends taste it. She's quiet as a mouse when she has her first bite.
"That was a success," Meisa grins at him when they're hiding out in the kitchen again to catch a breath, the pandemonium of children safely supervised by two grandmothers and Reio with his wife. Meisa told Sara to be nice to little cousin Haruki, even though he's only four and she barely knows him. Kids' birthdays are generally the only times they see each other.
Reio works a lot. He never got his big break, never had the chances Jin had, and when he got married he took a job that could support a family. Office, suit and tie, eight till late and drinks with the boss. He doesn't say much anymore about the fact that Jin barely works at all now, but Jin knows what he thinks about Jin's history and Jin's attitude; has it replaying in his head with a growing background chorus whenever he hits yet another bump, loses another job.
So Jin's glad to be out of the line of fire, and even Haruki liked the duck, particularly the feet, and Meisa understands enough to let him stay in the background for a bit.
It's never for long anyway; he enjoys playing with the kids too much.
Right enough, half an hour later he's crawling about on the carpet, being the camelephant monster from which they have to protect themselves and each other. He's tame while anyone rides him, but vicious when he can throw his rider off and tickle her.
He's got Yumi on his back and the others squealing around him when his phone rings, and with all the noise, it takes the first three rings until he hears it's Kame.
Already? he thinks and then that he won't be home in an hour, no way, and then he's blushing and trying to get his camelephant back. He bucks Yumi off carefully and roars, and then he fumbles for his phone. "Just a moment, okay?" he says.
But it's stopped ringing.
Damn.
"ME AGAIN!" Sara shouts, but Jin's lost his groove. He lets himself fall flat on his belly.
"The camelephant is sleeping," he says. "Camelephants need sleep or their trunks shrink."
Sara giggles, and explains to her friends that her dad likes to sleep. "When I was little, I once put his hat and his sunglasses on him while he was asleep and he didn't even notice," she says.
When she was five. She must feel so mature.
Jin makes a snoring camelephant noise, trying to shake the tension. When this conclusion to the camelephant adventure is accepted, he gently rolls up and excuses himself, finds Meisa.
"I need to make a call," he tells her. "Do you mind if I go into the bedroom?"
"No, of course not," she smiles, "go recover," and he pulls back from the noise and the kids, closes the sliding door behind him.
It's still their old bed. They made Sara in that bed, one of those drowsy afternoons they loved, when Akira was napping and her skin was soft under his fingers, and having free time wasn't a curse yet. Her nightstand's still full of the same things, hand cream and earrings and hair clips, and he looks away. He presses the return call button. To call Kame. Who may or may not answer and may be asking for whatever.
"Hello," Kame says on the second ring. "Where are you?"
"I'm at my daughter's birthday party," Jin says. No way is he going to be apologetic. "We're celebrating today."
"I need to talk to you about the girl," Kame says without even a pause. "Are you alone? Can you get alone?"
Girl? What? Kame calls him about sex. "What girl?"
"The girl you mentioned. Nakamaru's crack dealer girlfriend."
Right. Jin takes a breath and shifts tracks. "I'm alone," he says. "What's going on?"
"Did he tell you her name? One of her names? Or anything about her, where she lived or came from, what she did for a living? Did he still have a photo, do you know what she looked like?"
"No, no, no, no and no," Jin says. "He only said she was great, and she got him to do coke, and then she dumped him. She's an ex who screwed him, he didn't show me the photo album."
There's a pause. Jin squirms because it's not actually his fault he can't give Kame better answers. But what's Kame doing worrying about Nakamaru's ex anyway?
"They did the drugs together?"
"Yeah," Jin says, and it rings a vague bell. Not 'great'. "He said she was exciting." It... somehow felt more meaningful a second ago before he heard it out loud. Now it's just banal.
"Have you ever known Nakamaru to go for excitement?" Kame asks, and Jin snorts, because the irony...
But Kame's not kidding.
"Look, he was in love with her," Jin says. "You said it yourself. Men and their dicks." Then he glances over his shoulder. Thin doors and grandmothers abound. "What's going on, Kame?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out." Kame sounds impatient; in another man Jin might have called it frazzled. "I'm trying to find out if she could be—" He cuts himself short, takes a slow breath, and when he speaks again he sounds like a boiling pot with a very good lid. "I'm wondering if somebody else knows her. A photo would really help. And I'd like to find her, to ask her a couple of questions."
"I don't know anything," Jin says. Is Kame trying... "Are you going after Nakamaru? Is this about the drugs?" He feels cold suddenly, like staring at Koki and imagining tortured cats...
"What? No! For fuck's sake."
Jin breathes.
It's quiet. So quiet Kame can maybe even hear the ruckus in the background, Jin's kids.
"What is this, Kame?"
"I think," Kame says slowly, "that she may have screwed someone else. But I'm not sure. What you know isn't enough."
"I saw him to catch up with him, not to interrogate him about girls I didn't even know existed." He feels a guilty twinge when he remembers he actually saw Nakamaru to interrogate him about Kame.
"Can you ask him now? For a name, or better a photo? He won't tell me anything."
"I'm not a fucking investigator for you," Jin says, managing to keep his voice down. "Not with Nakamaru."
More quiet.
"I'm sorry I interrupted you with your family," Kame says at the end of it. "I hope you enjoy the rest of the party. I'll call you about our usual arrangement."
And he's gone.
Enjoy, right. Jin stares at the phone and is tempted to turn it off, but he's got a shift in a couple of hours and he wants people to be able to get hold of him. If Kame calls again, he'll just ignore him.
As if Kame would.
He stuffs the phone in his pocket and determinedly forgets about calls, and fucking, and Nakamaru, enjoys a hot dog and some fries, enjoys being scolded by his daughter and her friends for giving a spider six legs instead of eight in Pictionary, and enjoys quashing thoughts of Kame whenever they enter his brain.
"Sorry to be leaving you to the mess," he says to Meisa when it's time to leave for his box, but she smiles and shakes her head.
"You were great with them, I didn't have to do a thing until now." She flings a towel over her shoulder like a salute and grins at him. "I consider it my fair share." She looks so happy that for the first time Jin wonders if she's seeing somebody.
What the fuck? He quashes that thought too. It's dumb and not his business.
His taxi is on time. Two of his colleagues rib him a bit for arriving in style, but they smile when he gives them a short version of the birthday party.
His duck rocked the house.
Then he's changed and in his box. It's a shame he had to leave early, but he's looking forward to going through all the pictures he took today. He did well; gave his daughter a present she loved and was there for most of the party and now he's earning money. Everything good.
Mostly everything.
He's been in the box for an hour and a half when he thinks he's got his story straight. His palms still get sweaty while the phone rings and rings.
"Hello, Nakamaru Yuuichi here." It sounds so prim, Jin thinks it's a voicemail recording. "Hello?"
"Um, hi," he says. "It's Akanishi." Okay, okay, get it together. "How are you?"
"I'm fine. How are you?"
Blah blah blah, fine, good, work, family stuff. Jin feels guilty when he mentions the birthday party.
Maru mentions the weather, his own work, a miraculous conditioner with nano-whatnots, and the weather again, and then there's a pause.
"Uh, you must be wondering why I'm calling," Jin says. "The thing is, I have this friend."
Nakamaru chuckles. "And he has this girl he likes, and he needs some advice, and the friend is really not you."
"Dumbass," Jin says, but somehow this helps, even though it makes him feel worse. "He's got a club, right, and he was looking to hire waitresses and this girl applied and he heard her saying to the other girls that she's your ex. Thought she was bragging."
The silence on the line is full of wariness. Jin can't even blame the guy.
"So," he says, "I thought, if she's that ex, he probably doesn't want her working for him because who knows what she's involved in."
"True," Nakamaru agrees carefully.
"So is there a way to recognize her? Or do you still have a photo somewhere, that I could show him?"
Nakamaru takes a moment to answer. "What club is that?" But it doesn't sound suspicious, it sounds... forlorn.
"Man, don't do that to yourself," Jin says, feeling like a pig. "I just want to check it's her. You shouldn't even think about it." And then he hopes Nakamaru buys it.
"I don't have a lot of photos," Nakamaru says quietly. "Never did. We didn't really do that."
It gives Jin a jolt. No photos, no trace. Exciting.
"Just, it would be good to make sure..." Not a lot of photos, Nakamaru said.
"I'll see what I can do," Nakamaru says. "No promises."
Jin wants a shower after he's hung up. Well, it's hot, too. The hours crawl on. He takes his gloves off and fans himself when he's sure nothing is approaching.
Then, shortly after eleven, his email buzzes. Nakamaru's sent him an attachment of two photos. Hope it helps, nothing else. They're photobooth pictures, a little blurry, and distorted with big eyes and sparkling hearts. Under the effects, she's probably pretty.
He forwards them to Kame with his own cover note. Stop getting me to do your dirty work for you.
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Date: 2013-02-02 03:56 pm (UTC)Oh Jin. It's way too easy for his kids to make fun of him~ He's so good with them I'm melting ;;______;
And ahh, I wonder what Kame's up to. Maybe the girl was just one of Julie's evil plans D: That'd hurt pretty badly. I hope Nakamaru will be fine :<
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:28 pm (UTC)Glad you liked Jin being victimised by his kids. :DD
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Date: 2013-02-02 04:25 pm (UTC)and in regards with yuichi's ex, who could be her next victim?could she possibly under julie's employment and what happened to yuichi was part of the plan to hurt kame?
thanks for the update!!!
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:29 pm (UTC)Stay tuuuned. :D And thank you!
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Date: 2013-02-02 04:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-03 01:29 pm (UTC)LOL! Yeah, we feel we were very #evil there too. Glad you liked Jin with the kids!
You know, you have a point about the duck. POOR KAME. HIS LIFE, DUCK-DEPRIVED AND EVEN SADDER.
♥
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Date: 2013-02-02 05:02 pm (UTC)He never got his big break, never had the chances Jin had, and when he got married he took a job that could support a family this is kind of heart wrenching even though we know he has a family he loves. It's such a contrast between the 2 brothers, they both made sacrifices for family but had such different lives. Jin was a success in the beginning with KT, doing something he loved (initially) but then took a gamble for family and lost it all and never recovered. Reio on the other hand wasn't successful doing something he loved, but for a family he sacrificed that dream, took a possibly mundane job and is doing OK. It probably helps that Reio left the business by choice but Jin's career crashed in a very public manner. Does Reio wonder what he might have done with Jin's opportunities? Like, he'd be able to keep his private life discreet, be famous and eventually get married and have a kid (if his kid is 4, he didn't have a kid till after he turned 30) with his management's blessings...Anyway, I don't think Reio would approve of certain aspects of Jin's money-earning activities at the moment...
Already? he thinks and then that he won't be home in an hour, no way, and then he's blushing...I don't think I should find it quite this funny that the first thing that Jin think's of when he thinks of Kame is sex...Jin should never play the word association game with anyone other than close friends.
"I think," Kame says slowly, "that she may have screwed someone else as in she cheated on Maru or as in she screw someone else over as well? This is sweet in a way, the day after Kame finds out the truth abt Julie forcing Maru to leave he's investigating (maybe Maru was set up and the girl was sent by Julie?) and
definitelypossibly planning revenge.She flings a towel over her shoulder like a salute and grins at him it's probably harder for Meisa to be super enthusiastic and energetic with the kids because she's picking up after them pretty much 24/7. Now that Jin's worn them out, they'll probably be calmer too. Meisa and Jin make a great team!
Two of his colleagues rib him a bit for arriving in style Yay, Jin has (sort of) friends again! Obviously not on the level of Pi but people who aren't always awkward around him.
I'm really happy Jin and Maru are able to talk and laugh but But it doesn't sound suspicious, it sounds... forlorn...Maru!!! I hope he meets a lovely, sensible girl and they go become eco-warriors together!
And Jin doing Kame's dirty work...Jin should know better than to think he can say no to Kame! And if there's a hint that someone was targeting Maru, I'm sure Jin wants to get whoever's responsible too.
...Kame didn't even appear in person in this chp and this comment is still so long...
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:33 pm (UTC)He can add it to his sizeable collection!
Does Reio wonder what he might have done with Jin's opportunities?
We think so, yes.
Anyway, I don't think Reio would approve of certain aspects of Jin's money-earning activities at the moment...
Oh god no. :-| Jin may have found his inner zen on the whole thing but he'd definitely not want the info shared with friends & family.
Reio definitely underestimates how hard Jin is trying now for a mundane job; Jin underestimated for too long how had he'd have to try for a mundane job. It's sad, and we feel guilty, but...
Jin should never play the word association game with anyone other than close friends.
LOL! Definitely not.
as in she cheated on Maru or as in she screw someone else over as well?
Screwed someone else over. :)
Now that Jin's worn them out, they'll probably be calmer too.
This is very true! Great division of labor between the two. *g*
...Kame didn't even appear in person in this chp and this comment is still so long...
BLAME THE DUCK! ALWAYS BLAME THE DUCK! ♥
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Date: 2013-02-02 05:13 pm (UTC)Maaaaan, I hope he really is like that irl. I don't think he's a motherfucking jerk, but I hope he's just like that and that he's enjoying his daughter a lot while he's on suspension.
Are you going to tell us the sad story of Reio and Jin's fall-out in the future or this is the only thing we are going to get?
This is getting (more) interesting. I wanna know who is the fucking bitch.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa, he can't resist Kame, he went to the extent of lying to Yucchi to get him his photo. I hope Yucchi never finds out or else I'm afraid I won't be getting much NakaNishi in the future >:
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:34 pm (UTC)I hope he's just like that and that he's enjoying his daughter a lot while he's on suspension.
We have no doubt he's enjoying her! Well, nobody knows what sort of baby she is, and he might be enjoying her in between bouts of OMGWTFBBQ WHAT HAVE I DONE OMG WHAT IS THIS SLEEP THING I ONCE KNEW ABOUT, but, yeah. :D
This is, we think, all you'll get on Reio. :-| There was no huge falling-out. Just judgment (some fair, some not) and different life paths and people dealing with different sorts of frustration in their lives.
Glad we have you interested! :D
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Date: 2013-02-04 05:47 am (UTC)Okay ;________; </3
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Date: 2013-02-02 07:00 pm (UTC)[i'll be back..]
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Date: 2013-02-02 11:34 pm (UTC)[meep - there was a pause between starting this and continuing. in between i succeeded in plastering yoghurt ALL OVER myself - chin to knees. and floor, and sink, and cupboards. grrrr. someone had left the lid on, but not ON, (if you get me), and i had the good idea of shaking, not stirring the yog, before eating. for once. and went at it with gusto. bad idea. it was a 1l pot *sighs*. one entertained hub, one cleaning session and one wash load later, i'm back.. again.. shift over jin, i'm moving up on the baka scale daily.. now i just need to check the ceiling. no, i really do..]
XDD jin as camelephant - no, a blushing
kcamelephant XDDDD. love his thots. uh, the graduate is on in the background, and as i typed that, the line just drifted over : "mrs robinson, you are trying to seduce me." apt. jin, there is no kame in sight - you are being seduced all to [& by} yourself, lol #kameseductionpowers. awesomeevenwhenabsent..interesting. how kame's mind does work. can he never rest? and maru? "I don't have a lot of photos," Nakamaru says quietly. "Never did. We didn't really do that." owww. again. maru needs some loving here. anything in the pipeline? and as for julie? well, whatever's coming really. #keepthelex/kamefaith.
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:34 pm (UTC)We'd also like to point out that Kamelephant was YOU not US, since we have amassed enough guilt here already. *g*
Glad you liked! :DD
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Date: 2013-02-02 07:07 pm (UTC)But also a little hilarious.Anyway, I'm so glad the duck was a huge success! I was a little scared, tbh, about what Meisa or the other adults at the party would say, but it seems like it went great! And Reio was there too, I didn't expect that! Not that I didn't think he wasn't in touch with Jin anymore, but since he clearly had a (good) opinion about Jin's work (finding) ethics I thought they wouldn't meet up so easily. Well, I'm sure Jin wouldn't forbid his brother from seeing his kids just because he has opinions. But still.
Jin playing with the kids, oh God, just imagining him crawling across the carpet pretending to be some animal is just... so freaking cute.
I like that Kame called for something other than sex. Well, he doesn't have much of a choice with the way no one's telling him things he needs to know. Jin is, however, right that Kame shouldn't let him do his dirty business, but in the end Jin did him this favor anyway. I wonder if he's going to tease Kame about it next time they meet, or if he's too curious to find out which other Johnny has been had by some girl. I know I want to know!
This was short but stuff happened, and not just Sara's (second :P) birthday party. You girls know how to keep things interesting! :D
(And look, I didn't write anything in capital letters so that must mean I'm over my shock of Friday's chapter!)
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:35 pm (UTC)But yes, pretty hilarious. *g*Oh, Jin would never try to keep Reio from his kids. He actually finds it a shame that they (and their respective kids) aren't closer. Just, it's always a bit of a downer to have to deal with Silent Brotherly Disapproval.
I wonder if he's going to tease Kame about it next time they meet, or if he's too curious to find out which other Johnny has been had by some girl.
Hah haha! Tune back in and find out! *g*
Yeah, the absence of capital letters was really weird, we'll have to work on that... :p
Thank you for the comment! ♥
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Date: 2013-02-02 09:28 pm (UTC)I can't decide what makes me love this fic even more, the sweet/sad family stuff with Jin or the Kame vs Julie stuff with all the conspiracies LOL *_* XXDD so excited about what Kame is looking for, wonder what's up XD looking forward to the next chap!!!!♥♥♥♥
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-02 10:35 pm (UTC)XD
i wonder why, in the end, he will do anything for kame, he does anything kame ask him to...
i guess, i'll figure out the answer soon.
thanks for this, bb :))
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:36 pm (UTC)It's a good question, isn't it! :-) Thank you for the feedback!
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Date: 2013-02-03 05:04 am (UTC)Yay!!! Points for Jin! I hope grandma Kuroki approved.
Anyways... Kame's got someone new to do his dirty work. But I guess Kame is just trying to help Maru and find something discriminating to completely get rid of Julie.
Thanks for the update!
Btw, I want to eat the ice cream and spun sugar duck, too!!!! (^_____^)v
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Date: 2013-02-03 01:36 pm (UTC)And sorry, no ice cream left, the kids ate it all! :-) Glad you enjoyed, and thank you for commenting!
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Date: 2013-02-03 06:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-03 01:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-07 01:50 pm (UTC)THE DUCK WAS A SUCCESS! 8DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD HAPPYHAPPYHAPPY XD <3
Jin is so good with the kids! And so adorable XDD I can see him playing with them like that. <3
And... he's investigating for Kame. JIN. YOU REALLY CARE, DON'T YOU. ihihihi ♥
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Date: 2013-02-10 11:13 am (UTC)Jin loves playing with the kids, he's just a big kid himself. :D
JIN. YOU REALLY CARE, DON'T YOU.
Pfffft, not at all. AT ALL.
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Date: 2013-02-10 11:11 am (UTC)But what's Kame doing worrying about Nakamaru's ex anyway?
You got me completely unprepared with this nice plot twist. ♥
He forwards them to Kame with his own cover note. Stop getting me to do your dirty work for you.
Please continue involving Jin. :D more information for me!
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Date: 2013-02-11 07:40 pm (UTC)It had to happen. :) Good call!
Ha ha, we are happy we caught you unawares! Plotters-R-Us! :DDD
You information hound, you!
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Date: 2013-02-24 06:45 pm (UTC)Of course the duck is a success! *___* And I still would’ve loved to see the look on Meisa’s mother’s face. *g* Anyway this is great and I guess Jin is more than happy that the kids loved the duck so much.
Still it’s a bit sad to hear more details about Jin and Reio. :/ But then again it’s very reasonable. For Reio to get mad at Jin, because he’s been throwing away all those chances and fucked up his life and probably never wanted to hear what his brother had to say to him, even when things were not that bad yet. And well, Reio’s the more responsible one of those two anyway. But I still hope they’d get along better again when and if Jin should be back on his feet.
Jin playing with the kids is just really cute, as is Sara when she explains about Jin’s sleeping habit. *g*
Already? he thinks and then that he won't be home in an hour, no way, and then he's blushing and trying to get his camelephant back.
This sounds a bit like Jin is thinking ‘1 hour is impossible, but 2 hours might work’. :P In theory at least, but he doesn’t really seem to mind Kame is calling and well at the moment he still connects calls from Kame with Kame wanting sex from him. Which is only normal. But still it’s nice to have some more hints that Jin doesn’t seem to mind at all. :P
Weird to picture Jin in their old bedroom with all the old memories and Kame of all people calling.
But what the phone call actually was about did come as a little surprise. Although… so the thing with the girl was really just an act? Julie’s plotting and scheming to give Nakamaru a reason to leave KAT-TUN and the agency and put the blame on Kame, so he actually is the one who suffers from his? So him and KAT-TUN will surrender to her? If that’s the case, this is a pretty disgusting move of her. Especially the thing with the drugs and oh God… poor Nakamaru. T___T
If Kame calls again, he'll just ignore him.
As if Kame would.
Honestly… as if Jin would ignore him. >__>
But either way it’s always nice to see how Jin doesn’t put up with everything Kame wants him to do. And that he still talks back. Well at first. :P
But even though he tried to distract himself from Kame’s call, he’s still worrying about the whole thing, mh? I wonder if he thinks that he might really help Kame by trying to find out things, so he can contribute to Kame being less paranoid and getting more sleep in some way. And I guess he knows Kame would investigate himself anyway, only it would probably take him longer than Jin. It’s cool he helps Kame out anyway, although it must be pretty painful for Nakamaru. (But I love how Jin and Maru sound like everything is great between them and nothing has ever happened.)
"I don't have a lot of photos," Nakamaru says quietly. "Never did. We didn't really do that."
Yeah, because why would she allow evidence that it was her. Why would Julie allow evidence about who it was who got Nakamaru in that mess. >___>
He forwards them to Kame with his own cover note. Stop getting me to do your dirty work for you.
Sounds like Jin is a little annoyed with himself, mh? And I bet Kame is satisfied now. Might save him from a lot of work himself.
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Date: 2013-03-04 08:46 pm (UTC)Yes, and chances which Reio feels he himself never got and could have used, and then he wouldn't have had to give up his own career to support a family. :-/
Especially the thing with the drugs and oh God… poor Nakamaru. T___T
He got a rough deal in this story. Well, most people did, in some way. At least Nakamaru had his degree to fall back on and got a successful other career. But yeah, it was a creepy disgusting move.
Yeah, because why would she allow evidence that it was her.
Exactly! U so clevah! :D
Jin's hating himself a little. But, well. Kame. #noresistance
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Date: 2013-02-25 12:50 pm (UTC)He doesn't say much anymore about the fact that Jin barely works at all now, but Jin knows what he thinks about Jin's history and Jin's attitude; has it replaying in his head with a growing background chorus whenever he hits yet another bump, loses another job.
That was a nice tie-in; somewhere in the beginning, Jin had all those voices in his head in one sentence and one was his brother's, so it was good to hear how that voice came to be. It's sad, though, I can't imagine they'd still be close after a falling-out like that, and if the kids only see each other at birthdays..... Good that Jin's got Kame and Pi back now.
Jin as camelephant, just awwwww. ♥
Already? he thinks and then that he won't be home in an hour, no way, and then he's blushing and trying to get his camelephant back.
LOL.
Jin wants a shower after he's hung up.
it says a lot that he did this for kame in spite of all the guilt and self-disgust that went with it. I hope it won't get in the way of a potential future Nakanishi friendship. >.>
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Date: 2013-03-04 08:46 pm (UTC)The voices... Reio, and the mother in law, and industry people and paparats and and and and. Yeah.
We're happy you like the camelephant! Sara was delighted with it too. :D