tightrope (part 4)

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Title: Tightrope

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

Pairings: Ohno Satoshi/Aiba Masaki,   Matsumoto Jun/Ninomiya Kazunari

Disclaimer: I only own the plot

“Dating? You and Me?”

“Yeah… Or do you have a problem with that?”

“Yes! You don’t even like me, why should I start dating you?” Aiba cried

“Because even if you’re a clumsy idiot that can’t sing you’re pretty cute… And I think it would be interesting to find what kind of things you’re actually good at…”

“But you’re in love with Nino!” he said quickly his cheeks flushing hotly, he regretted it when he saw the pain in Ohno’s face

“Nino’s with Matsumoto…” Ohno said in a soft surprisingly calm voice

“It doesn’t stop you being in love with him…” Aiba mumbled pulling his eyes away from Ohno’s and staring at his shoes.

“You’re right it wouldn’t stop me, if I was in love him but I’m not…” The trapeze artist said and although Aiba thought he could tell he was lying he didn’t contradict him “And before you get any wild ideas I’m not in love with Matsumoto either…”

“So you want to date me? How’d you even know I’m gay?” He asked and to his complete amazement Ohno laughed loudly. It was a very musical sound that rang around the backstage area and Aiba had to admit it made his heart beat a little faster against his ribs

“You know when you try not to look at guys in the shower you shouldn’t move your head so much…” He said still laughing “So will you date me?”

“I um…I don’t even know you…”

“I don’t know you either, so date me, and then we can get to know each other…”

“Oi, psycho, what are you doing to Aiba-chan?” 

Aiba wasn’t sure if he was thankful or disappointed when he heard Nino’s high pitched voice. When he looked towards the door he saw Nino and Matsu still half dressed in their costumes

“I was just asking him on a date” Ohno shrugged and both of the other two guys eyes bulged with disbelief

“What? Seriously?” Nino shouted looking at Aiba for confirmation and Aiba nodded quickly “Woah… Now that is weird… You… Going for an outsider?”

“Kazu… Shut up” Matsu snapped hitting him on the back of the head and for once Nino did as he was told shut up.

“So I’ll wait for your answer” Ohno said and walked off quickly not even giving the odd couple a backwards glance. Both of the MatsuMiya pair stared at him and Aiba knew he would be blushing like an idiot. He couldn’t believe that Ohno had just come out and said something like that, it seemed completely out of his character but he couldn’t deny that he wasn’t affected by the smaller man. He had been so mean to him though, and he wasn’t completely convinced that his asking him out wasn’t another way of teasing him.

He came back to his senses when Nino shoved a sweeping brush in his hand and motioned to the deserted ring

“Come on we have to clean and dismantle this thing before tomorrow” The clown said as his boyfriend wondered off in the direction of their caravan. That was one of the things Aiba found so amazing about living with this community was the way everything was done smoothly and flawlessly. The acts had just finished a show and the audience had just left but they were already getting ready to move onto the next town.

“Is it a bad thing to go with an outsider?” Aiba asked Nino as they started clean the ring and without even stopping his brush Nino answered

“Hmm… I wouldn’t say it was but then I’m a fag and in most travelling communities that’s considered wrong… We tend to stick to our own, you know… Outsiders don’t really get our lives and we don’t get yours. I mean it does happen…”

“So are you all inbred?” The animal trainer asked without thinking the clown turned to face him slowly, an almost harsh glint in his eyes

“Anyone else and they would have had this brush stuck up somewhere very uncomfortable” Nino mused thoughtfully rolling the brush in his hands dangerously and Aiba realised what he had said

“Eh… Sorry… I didn’t mean it…”

“I know that’s why Sakurai isn’t taking you to the hospital to have this brush removed… We’re not the only travelling community around here… We meet up with others and fall in love and whatever…And sometimes people to marry outsiders… But I never thought Ohno would be interested in one… He’s very ‘anti-outsider’”

“Um… You and Ohno…” Aiba asked blushing when Nino gave a smirk

“Wow… Maybe you do like him…An idiot with the psycho… That should be interesting… You can relax though, I’ve been with Jun since forever… He’s the only guy I’ve been with…I know there were rumours but none of them were true…”

“So how did you keep it a secret for so long?” Aiba asked in amazement and Nino leant against the sweeping brush and stared at the floor.

“Because we had too… Before when I said that you stick by your family that’s true but it’s also true that fag’s aren’t welcome in the travelling life… And the old ringmaster he wasn’t as accepting as Sakurai is… And well… let’s say being queer wasn’t an option…”

“But you and Ohno-san had rumours…”

“We did… I used him to deflect any attention from Jun… People saw me holding hands and touching Ohno while fighting with Jun, nobody knew the truth… And then Jun fell and I lost it…I blamed Ohno because… Jun’s a complete perfectionist, every little detail of a show has to be right or he won’t do it, that day though something about him was off when I saw him fall… You understand right…I realised that he was the only person I couldn’t live without…Why the hell are you grinning like a simpleton?”

“Eh? Ah… Because Nino-chan sounded so cute! It’s better then when you’re just being flirty…”

“Hey I have a heart… But only when it comes to my Junny-Jun-pon” Nino laughed his eyes dancing for a few minutes before becoming more serious than Aiba had ever seen them before “If you are really interested in Ohno… In spite of everything between I’d say go for it… He might be crazy and a complete psycho but maybe you can get through to him…”

“What do you mean?” Aiba said and was baffled when Nino just shrugged and moved away to start cleaning the other side of the ring. They worked well into the night and Aiba was baffled where the acts got the energy from though he did realise that only half of them were actually working, most of the woman and some of the men were asleep and when Aiba asked Nino about that he said it was because they would be driving the van’s the next day while the ones that were working were asleep.

It was about 5am when he had finished checking the animals were ready for travelling that he finally managed to drag himself into the caravan he shared with Sakurai and fall to sleep. His mind replayed the show, mostly Ohno on and his trapeze act, at some point he even dreamt that he was doing some of the tricks. As always though the dreams became slowly darker, a shadowy man with fiery eyes stood in the centre of the ring filling his heart with fear as he took out a giant pair of scissors and cut the wire.

When he woke up with a small scream his heart thumping against his ribs he realised that they were moving. e sleepily looked out of the window and saw they were travelling through the countryside. Quickly grabbing his phone from the shelf next to his bed he switched it one for the first time since he had gotten here, it took a minute to load and then a message flashed on screen ‘INBOX FULL’ with a sigh he pressed delete all and rested back against the pillow again deciding that even if Ohno was just using him it was better than the dreams. Slowly he opened the window and threw the phone out onto the road hoping to never see it again.

TBC

A/N: I hope you enjoy ^.^