krystalkatzfics | Scattered Flowers (part 5)

Title: Scattered Flowers

Author: krystalkatz

Rating: G(for this part)
Length: chaptered
Genre: Au,

Pairings: Sakurai Sho/Aiba Masaki, Matsumoto Jun/Ninomiya Kazunari

Disclaimer: I only own the plot.

A/N: Aiba and Nino are older than the others in this. Teacher/student relationships,

After Sakurai had left Aiba played with Chika and the flowers for a while still unable to believe that she still was smiling. What seemed like too soon though he had to collect himself and head back to the infirmary. Strangely he wasn’t surprised when he saw that Nino was sat on the windowsill in the room. The window was open but there was no smell of smoke so Aiba decided to give him the benefit of the doubt that he had kept his word about not smoking. Chika hid around the back of his legs and peered at him doubtfully

“Yo” Nino said giving her a quick salute, “So you’re Chika-chan, ne? Nice to meet you… I’m Nino…”

“Nino…” She repeated slowly coming out from behind Aiba’s legs.

“Yep” He grinned holding out a lollypop that Aiba knew he must have stolen from his cupboard. As Chika reached out and took it Aiba was surprised how good the math teacher was with kids and told him so “My brother has two boys, twins about the same age” Nino explained with a shrug

“Ah I see… I didn’t know you had a brother…” Aiba said, though there was a lot that he didn’t know about the teacher, mostly what it was that he had over the delinquent students of the school he found any new information festinating. Just like with Sakurai though Chika responded to the teacher straight away happily sucking on the lollypop there wasn’t a smile there had been with Sakurai but she lost her scared expression.

“Half-brother, he’s a police officer lives in Hokkaido” Nino smiled and Aiba almost choked

“Policeman? Your brother is a policeman?”

“Yep wow does that ruin some fantasy you were having about me Aiba-sensei?” He teased letting out a loud laugh when Aiba blushed thinking about all the things he had been picturing about the teacher. Having a policeman for a brother though did ruin some of the images of Nino, like him being the head of a crime family “And I thought you liked younger guys…”

“Younger guys… Like Sho-nii” Chika said looking up at them with a sticky strawberry face,

“Oh, does Chika-chan like Sho-nii?” Nino asked and Chika nodded quickly

“Chika said that Sho-nii could share her papa and papa would kiss him when he’s sad… Sho-nii seemed sad… Chika is sad because her mama is gone… But Sho-nii… he said he only has ‘Aniki and Jun’… Papa will make him happy though, like papa makes Chika happy…” She said with all the innocence in the world and Nino smiled

“Chika’s very clever that she knew that, Sho-chan is lonely ne? Do you know who Sho-chan’s favourite person in the whole world is?” the teacher said looking at the little girl but Aiba knew that he was talking to him. Chika shook her head and Nino continued “Two years ago, some bad men beat up Sho-chan, he was in a lot of pain and the school nurse didn’t care about him so his aniki took him to the hospital… The nurse that looked after him there was really nice to him and Sho-chan started to like him and now I think that nurse is Sho-chan’s favourite person… Do you know who that nurse was?”

“Was it papa? Papa is a nurse!” Chika said excitedly

“I knew you were clever!” Nino said ruffling her hair and handing her another lollypop. “Sho-chan is a really nice person and he deserves someone nice… Somebody that doesn’t mess him around ne or his aniki won’t be happy…”

Aiba blinked torn between amazed and terrified aware that in the gentlest way possible he had been issued a threat. He was even more aware of it when Nino turned quickly and gave him a bright smile that didn’t quite reach his eyes. “Ah I’d better go, it was nice to meet you Chika-chan, see you later sensei” He said as the bell rang.

“Nice to meet you uncle Nino” Chika said waving a sticky hand at him, leaving Aiba dazed and confused. He believed that Nino was nice deep down but there had to be some reason that Nino was feared by most of the school staff and students. When he finally managed to pull himself out of his thoughts he saw that Chika was completely covered with the sticky juices from the finished lollypop and was wrapping a bandage around her hand with a proud smile on her face.

There were very few students coming into the infirmary throughout the day so Aiba spent most of it playing with Chika while thinking back to two years ago trying to remember something about a school student, he had never claimed to have the best memory in the world and it took a while for things to flitter back into his mind. It was nearly 1 in the afternoon, just as Chika was having a nap when the door slid open and Sakurai came in.

“Is everything okay Sakurai-kun?” He asked trying to keep his voice as calm as he could while looking at the student

“Sensei… Will you go out with me?” Sakurai asked and Aiba realised that he had decided to be straight with what he wanted this time. The nurse flipped into a mild panic his eyes widening

“Eh? Wha-? I can’t do that! I’m the school nurse” He stammered backing away but trying not to disturb Chika who was asleep on the sickbed.

“So, Aniki and Jun…” Sakurai shrugged, and the nurse almost laughed at how uncaring he was about that.

“I’m not Nino!” Aiba said quickly training to act like a professional, though he knew that he was already wavering. What Nino had told him about the student was still fresh in his mind and it had made him remember two years ago. He had only trained in the hospital for two weeks and then he had moved to a private clinic to finish but he did vaguely remember Sakurai from then he had been really sweet even then, but it was impossible that Sakurai would remember him, no matter what Nino said.

“I know… But you could try it…”

“You make it sound easy…” Aiba said looking at his daughter who was snoring softly under the white coat he couldn’t wear.

“Sensei if you can’t go out with me, can you at least let us get to know each other?” Sakurai asked and Aiba wondered if he could read minds of somehow sense that Aiba was weakening like a tiger or a lion going in for the kill.

“Okay… But we’re not dating! And you’re not allowed to tell anybody that I agreed!” He said after all, somehow Sakurai had gotten his daughter to smile so he felt like he owed him something at least.

“I promise” Sakurai said with a happy grin plonking himself down on the chair and looking at him. “So… I know you’re cute and you love your daughter but how…”

“How was Chika born?” Aiba finished for him looking down at the little girl that was making snuffling sounds.

“Yeah…” Sakurai nodded

“Maki, my best friend… Three years ago I was drunk and moaning that I couldn’t have a child because I was gay so she said ‘why don’t we have one?’ it seemed like the simplest arrangement and we had Chika”

“As easily as that?”

“No, not really but I really wanted a kid…” Aiba shrugged there was a lot that of other stuff that they had to go through but even if he did have a sort of deal with the student he didn’t want to tell him everything.

“I see… So your turn…”

“Huh?”

“You get to ask me a question” Sakurai told him and Aiba chewed his lip wondering what he wanted to ask.

“What is Nino to you?” He asked eventually and Sakurai nodded seeming to have been expecting that question.

“My really is like my aniki… A good friend, he saved my life more than once, gave me somewhere to live… More than that though he’s a legend to gang members…”

“Nino is?” Aiba mumbled thinking about the small cute teacher, finding it difficult to believe that he was a legend no matter how the school reacted around him

“Yeah he doesn’t look it ne?” Sakurai laughed and Aiba thought how cute he looked and his heart fluttered against his ribs though he did start to take that veiled threat from Nino earlier even more seriously now. Sakurai’s laugh was pretty loud and a few minutes later Chika opened her eyes and looked at him sleepily. As soon as some of the sleep cleared she gave a wide smile crying out,

“Sho-nii!” happily

“Hey, princess Chika…” He said and Aiba stood up grabbing a hand cloth and washing her face

“Are you hungry?

“Yes, papa” She nodded

“Come on then princess” He said picking her up hoping the cafeteria staff wouldn’t mind him taking her into the kitchen.

“Ah sensei can you look at this?” Sakurai asked and Aiba turned and saw that his eyes were shining. Trying to ignore his thumping heart he looked at the paper the student was holding out

>What kind of guys do you like?< Aiba gave a small smile taking a pen out of his pocket

“Bleached hair can be cute but you would look better with black…” He wrote wondering why he was doing this. He had made such a big fuss about Nino and Matsu and here he was heading down a similar path.

TBC

A/N: I hope you enjoy ^.^