Sound of Silence Chapter 12
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yume_to_ameTitle: Sound of Silence 12/13
Pairing: Sakumoto, guests appearances by the rest of Arashi (maybe with a surprise side-pairing ;-)), and some others
Rating: up to R
Genre: AU, romance, maybe a bit suspense
Plot: It's in the middle of the night when Sho, a wealthy young business man, stumbles over an unconscious young man, beaten up and curled up in a dark alley. Tired from the way his life goes Sho decides to do something good and takes the man home. Once he wakes up however Sho realizes that the young man has forgotten all about his past, everything he is, and has lost his voice too. Everything that remained from his existence is his name: Matsumoto Jun. But who is he? What happened to him? Why was he lying on the street, beaten-up? And what kind of trauma did he encounter to loose his voice?
Note: This is the story that won the poll on my journal ^^ So, I had started writing it before the poll, kind of lost motivation in the middle of it and then with everyone's encouragement I picked it up again, and voilà :D I hope this is going to be really interesting for you! There is some suspense in it, and we'll gradually uncover Jun's past.
The chief’s eyes are sparkling in fury when he hits Jun’s stomach, making him cough at the impact, tears appearing in his eyes from the sudden pain. He tries to cover his face to protect himself from these guys’ wrath, but to his surprise nothing is coming.
He blinks slightly, carefully removing his hands to take a look at what is happening. To his utmost surprise he sees Toma with a baseball bat in his hand, their chief unconscious on the floor and the fisher recovering from the shock. The latter is about to get back on his feet to probably knock Toma unconscious, but Toma just huffs angrily. “You have so lost today,” he spats out. “Or were you too preoccupied with your dirty game to listen what’s going on.” He smirks. “I let them in~” he singsongs.
Them?
Jun blinks, just like the fisher who is pulling the chief up again. Only now Jun is able to hear the noises, apparently coming from the next room. Before any of the guys can even react, the door flies open, another man storming into the room, eyes widened in panic. “Police!” he yells. “They are here…”
For a moment Jun is afraid that they would take him and Toma with them or do something to them before they try to escape, but apparently they are all too much in shock to even think of him, and Toma is still swinging his baseball bat dangerously. Once they chased away, Jun sits up a bit, robbing towards the wall and leaning against it. His breath is still going irregularly, his hands trembling and his face wet with tears. Damn it. He looks at Toma helplessly.
“Your boyfriend called me,” Toma explains, his voice shaking slightly. Jun’s heart makes a sudden jump. Sho? The fact that Toma calls him Jun’s boyfriend makes Jun even happier. “He told me the police are coming to save you, and he made me work together with them, and let them in.”
Jun nods weakly. When he hears footsteps he looks up nervously, his heartbeat going faster. He almost cries in relief when he realizes that Toma was right, and it really is the police rushing into the room. He just points at the direction the men left. Some of the policemen immediately rush into the direction, taking their chance to hunt these dirty guys down, two stay behind, obviously to check on him.
“I told them were the emergency exits are before they raided the place,” Toma explains, his voice shaking. He drops the baseball bat down now and sits down at the other side of the room, his body shaking. “Shit, that was close, Jun-san.”
Jun’s ears are still ringing from the beating he received and the fear of almost being raped. “Are you alright, Jun-kun?” A tall man with warm eyes approaches him all of a sudden. It’s Nagase. Jun recognizes him immediately. Jun half-shrugs and half-nods. It’s not like he is feeling good, but he could have been hurt much worse. Nagase seems to understand, and nods knowingly. He kneels down next to Jun, rubbing over his shaking arms. “You don’t need to worry. You are still looking pretty,” he says softly, taking a tissue and wiping Jun’s face clean. Then he takes off his jacket, wrapping it around Jun’s body. “Let’s go, your lover-boy is going crazy already. He basically intervened with our work and contacted your friend there.” He points at Toma. “If I don’t get you outside immediately he will probably raid this place too and create an even bigger mess.”
Jun feels tears brimming in his eyes when he hears it again – this time from Nagase – that Sho obviously was searching for him and didn’t give up. And he is here? Jun’s heart beats faster, he wants to see him so badly! He lets Nagase help him up, clinging to his arm while he does so. Every muscle of his body aches, but he couldn’t care less now. He limps outside, Nagase’s huge jacket keeping him warm. It’s so huge that probably two Juns would fit into it.
The whole area in front of the brothel is covered with policemen and police cars, their blue light lightening the whole area. He doesn’t know how many people are running around. He sees some hosts, treated by an ambulance and carefully questioned by the police. And he sees some members of the cartel being dragged to police cars. He smiles grimly when he sees the two men who tortured him before. Both the fisher and their chief are in a police car, already getting driven to another place.
Jun doesn’t care for the mess around him though, he is just looking for a certain someone with a rather small stature, pouty lips and chocolate brown hair. And- Ah, there he is. Sho is looking around too, basically rushing up and down like a nervous chicken, like he is searching for someone. Jun’s stomach clench when he realizes that Sho is probably looking for him. He waves wildly, wanting Sho to look at him, but that idiot is too busy rushing around and panicking. Sho!? Jun opens his mouth, only a gurgling sound escaping it. He coughs lightly, hands grasping his throat for support. “Sho-san?” he manages to breathe out.
His eyes widen when he hears his own voice. “Sho!” he tries it again, his voice hoarse. It hurts a bit to use it.
This time though Sho heard him, spinning around and looking into his direction. His eyes widen and then he is suddenly in front of Jun, wrapping his arms around him tightly. “Thank god,” he whispers, his eyelashes feeling wet again Jun’s cheek. “I’m so… I can’t… I mean… just so glad to have you back.”
Jun hugs him back, clinging to Sho helplessly. “Me…too,” he manages to rasp out.
Sho draws back a bit, his hands carefully touching Jun’s face. “You found your voice,” he says softly.
Jun nods, something behind his eyelids burning. He feels how his body is going limp all of a sudden, shaking like crazy. Sho wraps his arms around him again, holding him up. “It’s okay, my love,” Sho says softly. “It’s okay. It’s over. You are with me now.”
~~~
Sho basically drags Jun to one of the ambulance cars, making him sit down there first. The others join them, and Nino is immediately in his doctor-mode. “Hospital, check-up!” he orders. “Sho broke his thumb too. I’m not going to let the both of you get away just like that.”
Jun doesn’t want to go to the hospital at all, but Sho squeezes his hand and looks at him insistently. “Just a swift check-up, Jun, my love, okay? We’ll just do the necessary, so that we know if something is broken. Everything else we can do at home.”
Jun agrees, because he can’t possibly say no now. Before they can leave though, he looks at Sho carefully. “Can… I have…a minute?” he asks.
Sho blinks. “Of course.”
Jun nods, carefully limping towards Toma who is looking kinda lost in the whole mess. He has a warm cup of tea in his hands though. “Toma-kun,” Jun manages to say.
“Jun,” Toma looks up at him, then he shakes his head, eyes shimmering in tears suddenly. “Yuki-kun.”
“You knew…we were the same person?” Jun says, annoyed that speaking is still kinda hard for him.
Toma stays quiet for a moment, then he looks up, eyes shining in a desperate way. “I lied to you when we met,” he suddenly says, his voice shaking. “I said I hate you, but I didn’t. Never did. All this time you were my only friend. And then we fought because you wanted to protect me, and then they beat you up because you stood up for me. Then you were gone. I thought you were dead, I thought…”
Jun lets the information sink in. He has recovered most of his memory, but glimpses are still missing. This is one of these glimpses. “I’m glad… you don’t hate me.”
“You were always really kind to me. Sure, you had to protect yourself behind a stoic mask too, but you were good to me and to the others. We all respected you so much. I-” He pauses. “I didn’t want to tell you that I know who you are. I knew you weren’t lying to me, that you probably lost your memory. I just couldn’t let go of you. They found out I was meeting you and then wrote the message from my phone. It’s my fault, I should have left you alone and-“
“Toma,” Jun says softly. “Without you I would have…” he coughs. “Never retrieved my memory. Now I can finally leave the past behind. And you are also my friend.” He couldn’t let Toma down, which is probably why his subconscious told him to meet him regularly.
“What am I going to do now?” Toma asks, eyes wide in fear and worry. “I’m free. But I don’t know what to do.”
“You can find out what you like…” Jun smiles. “I’ll help you.”
Toma reaches out his hand. “Friends forever?”
Jun nods and shakes his hand.
~~~
Jun doesn’t like hospitals. Mainly because now he knows that when they had rough nights in the brothel they worked at or got beaten up by their supervisors, they would be brought to some sort of shady hospital that stitched them together again without much effort or sensitivity. Jun is afraid of doctors because the doctors there were just the same scumbags than the people running the brothel.
Nino and Sho keep their promise though: Jun gets checked immediately, as fast as possible, and Sho doesn’t leave his side. There are a few ribs broken and Jun gets a tight bandage around his upper body. Nino winks at him when Sho has to wait outside for a moment while they scan his body. “You are allowed to have sex,” he says casually. “As long as you lie on your back. But nothing too wild. Save the really wild nights for later. Two weeks.”
Jun blushes furiously, but really, he has no problems having light vanilla sex with Sho. When Jun comes outside, Sho is already waiting for him, his right hand wrapped in white bandage as well. Aiba is meanwhile half-asleep, resting his head in Ohno’s lap.
Sho gets up immediately, hurrying to Jun’s side to grab his arm in support. Jun bows deeply in front of all of them. “Thank you,” he says, his voice still hoarse.
“Don’t forget what I told you about talking too much,” Nino intervenes from behind. “Your voice needs time to recover. Don’t use it too much.”
“Listen to the man,” Aiba points out with a grin. “Because I need you to recover fast. All my regular customers are already whining because you aren’t here.”
“Well that’s of course highest priority,” Sho grumbles.
Aiba smirks and winks at Jun. “Of course.”
Jun smiles at that, happy that Aiba needs him and that he can continue to work there.
Before they leave Nino gives them around fifty more instructions. “He needs some food in his system, and liquid,” he says to Sho. “He ate a chocolate bar right now, but that’s not enough. Make him eat properly. And here are a few things you need.” What follows is a ten minute lecture by Nino about the crèmes and salves they need to use for the bruises on Jun’s body, and how he is allowed to wash himself carefully and how to change the bandage in case it rips open.
Jun feels so relieved once they are in the taxi back to Sho’s apartment. His ears are ringing weirdly from exhaustion and from his loose nerves, and he can’t wait to be home again and to just be able to let his nerves relax.
“We are home in a minute,” Sho says softly, his thumb rubbing over Jun’s hand soothingly. He doesn’t need to do more than that and Jun already feels his tears close to spilling by this soft gesture of his. “Just a little bit more,” he whispers against Jun’s cheek, like he realized that Jun is close to breaking down.
Sho doesn’t let go of his hand until they are finally at home and he closes the door behind them, and Jun finally can let go of it all. Sho pulls him in a warm hug and just lets him cry, hands rubbing over his shaking body and his voice saying soft encouraging words to Jun. At one point he manages to get them to the sofa where they can sit down, and Jun appreciates that Sho just hugs him and is there for him without any rush or complaints.
~~~
Jun wakes up by the smell of rice and soup in front of him. He hasn’t even realized how he fell to sleep. He feels a bit embarrassed for crying on Sho like that but when he wants to apologize Sho just grumbles something, not having any of it.
“You… cooked?” Jun rasps out, his voice even more drained from all the crying.
Sho smiles and presses a kiss on the top of his head. “I want you to eat, hence I decided it would be better to order something in for us. There is more of everything.”
Jun smiles, feeling exhausted, but after letting all his bottled up emotions out he also feels kind of relieved and calm. And hungry. He hasn’t even realized how hungry he is. He would have even eaten something Sho cooked, but the fried udon noodles, gyoza, ramen and all the other stuff Sho ordered looks a lot better to be honest.
“You only get the food if you kiss me,” Sho jokes.
Jun smiles brightly and pulls Sho in his arms, kissing him almost shyly. When they draw back, Sho smirks. “We can do that better,” he teases, pulling Jun in another much deeper kiss.
Actually Jun wants to do a lot more with Sho but it seems like Sho is in his mother hen mode and doesn’t want to do anything until Jun didn’t eat properly. He only realizes that Sho is right with his concern when he feels how the fog in front of his mind gets a bit clearer after eating a few bites, and soon his body feels stronger again by the much needed kick of energy.
Sho plants a kiss on his forehead, before taking the bag Nino gave him and roaming through all the bottles. He uses a disinfection sponge to attend to Jun’s bruises on his arm and face. Nino has already attended to the once on Jun’s stomach and chest.
Sho looks at him in worry and raises Jun’s chin with his finger, eyeing his face. “There is an angry spot,” he says, carefully touching Jun’s right cheek. “It’s going to become a bruise, I fear.”
“They hit me pretty hard,” Jun says without thinking much. Only when Sho’s eyes flash in anger, he realizes that he said too much. “I’m sorry,” he stutters.
“Don’t apologize,” Sho says with emphasis, eyes still dark in anger. “You did nothing wrong. These scumbags did.” He lets his right hand rest on Jun’s right cheek, his thumb stroking the sensitive skin under his eyes. “You did nothing wrong,” he says softly.
Jun feels fuzzy by his warm touch and equally warm words. He grabs Sho’s hand to keep it where it is.
“You’ll stay with me, won’t you?” Sho says hopefully.
Jun nods. Of course he will. He lets Sho hug him carefully. “Can we go to sleep?” he finally asks, slowly realizing how exhausted he is.
Sho smiles. “Of course.”
A/N: Jun is safe again! Thanks to Sho and Nagase, and maybe also Toma. And Jun has his voice back :-)
It will take him a while though to geeet over the awful things that happened to him, but he has Sho to help him through it, right?
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Date: 2017-07-02 07:32 pm (UTC)Toma really is a wonderful friend. He took a very big risk to help Jun out like that. I hope he can find a way to a better future too.
Only one chapter to go? I am sad already. They make such a cute couple.
*hugs*
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Date: 2017-07-09 05:29 pm (UTC)Thanks so much for reading, dear! Yes, there is only one more chapter to go for these two cute guys :-)
♥
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Date: 2017-07-02 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-09 05:30 pm (UTC)Thanks so much for your lovely comment! ♥
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Date: 2017-07-02 11:14 pm (UTC)Thanks for the update. *kiss
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Date: 2017-07-09 05:31 pm (UTC)Thanks so mcuh for your lovely comment! *huggles* ♥
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Date: 2017-07-03 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-09 05:32 pm (UTC)Thanks so much for your lovely comment! ♥
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Date: 2017-07-03 05:16 pm (UTC)Nino doctor-mode is very cool too...
And as always, i love gentle Sho more than anything
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Date: 2017-07-09 05:33 pm (UTC)(I have a thing for gentle Sho too ^^)
Thanks so much for your lovely comment! ♥
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Date: 2017-07-04 01:50 am (UTC);w;
This chapter makes me very happy, really!
Thank you for the update! Can't wait for the final chapter!!! ^^
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Date: 2017-07-09 05:33 pm (UTC)Thanks so much for reading and commenting, dear! ♥
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Date: 2017-07-05 07:23 am (UTC)Now they can go on with a new life.
Thanks for the update. 💜❤
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Date: 2017-07-09 05:34 pm (UTC)I think he can truly walk forward from now on!
Thanks so much for reading, dear <3
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Date: 2017-07-06 03:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-09 05:35 pm (UTC)Thanks s much for reading and commenting!! ♥
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Date: 2017-07-07 02:58 pm (UTC)Toma came at the right moment to save Jun, and it's relieving to know that they were good friends after all.
My heart melt when Sho calls Jun 'my love' Awww babies <3
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Date: 2017-07-09 05:36 pm (UTC)I think Jun will now finally be able to walk forward with Sho's help ♥
Thanks so much for your lovely comment, dear! ♥