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Back with another fic!
This fic is dedicated to meiswota (who had requested it) and arisa03 (who ships Acchan/everyone 
) It's an AtsuYuu this time. LOL. Dont say I didn't warn ya.
There are implied KojiYuu/Atsumina as well, if that will make you happy.
If you have decided to give this fic a chance, onwards with the story! Enjoy!
Story: Something Unspoken (AtsuYuu)An impatient Oshima Yuko paced about in a small, dimly lighted room. The room lights had long given out except for the emergency lighting which was not shining as bright as it should be. It was getting stuffy and warm in that confined place, evidenced by the small beads of sweats forming on the petite girl’s forehead. Yuko’s eyes glanced at the door at every few seconds for any signs that that it will open soon but so far, all she saw was two pieces of metal firmly glued together in their place.
Luck was not really on her side that day.
Yuko’s sole companion in the space too little to anyone’s liking was Maeda Atsuko, who was sitting down on the cold floor with her legs stretched out in front and a bored expression on her face. The younger girl watched as Yuko moved back and forth in front of her, stopped after a while, folded her arms and tapped her foot like there was no tomorrow.
“Doing that won’t get us out of here, you know.” Atsuko pointed out the obvious.
The elder stopped whatever she was doing and sighed. She turned around and walked toward Atsuko before slumping into the space next to the younger girl.
“Damn, how much longer will it takes for them to fix this thing?” Yuko complained.
Atsuko shifted her eyes from the girl beside her to stare at the metal door that wouldn’t budge. How long has it been? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? Or was it 30 minutes? Atsuko was not sure but it certainly did feel like forever since the elevator broke down and left the two of them stuck in it. Waiting sure had its way to make the time move slower. They had already asked for help and the operator had said that the elevator would be fixed ‘soon’ but that promised ‘soon’ was apparently not soon enough. Damn liars.
“Beats me.”
Atsuko let the weight of her body fell on her side as she rested her head on Yuko’s shoulder and closed her eyes, allowing her drowsiness to take over. If they were not going to be rescued anytime soon, she might as well make the best of their situation and catch some sleep. Work really had her drained and there was inadequate time for her to rest. She had photo shoots, drama filming, variety shows, rehearsals, concerts and tons of other activities listed on her schedule that she was deprived of a proper sleep lately.
A few moments later, Atsuko felt a weight on top of her head. It seemed that Yuko had also leaned onto the younger girl. They stayed just like that in silence and Atsuko could feel her consciousness slowly slipping away as the time passed by.
“I hate this.”
Before Atsuko could drift off to dreamland, Yuko’s voice pulled Atsuko back to reality. Her face scrunched up before she groggily opened her eyes. The ace still wanted that much needed sleep but sleep would not come easy if Yuko was going to keep on talking. They needed entertainment and the only form of entertainment they have was each other.
“You said it like you experienced this plenty of times before.” Atsuko commented lazily, still remained in her position. Yuko sighed again as a reply.
Another minute passed and both of them were now staring dumbly into spaces.
“I wonder if the others had already known that we’re stuck here.” Yuko spoke up once more.
“I think they should by now, since we already informed the security. Besides, how can they not realize that their number 1 and number 2 are missing?” The ranking joke earned a grin from Yuko. The senbatsu sousenkyou had always been a serious business within the group and hearing Atsuko cracking up a joke about their placing was refreshing. Atsuko thought for a short moment and then decided to tease the older girl.
“Don’t worry. I’m sure that Kojiharu would definitely notice that her favourite squirrel is not there.”
The shoulder that Atsuko leaned on shook slightly as Yuko stifled a laugh. Atsuko was one of the selected few that knew about the true nature of KojiYuu’s relationship.
“Yeah… I think so too.”
Atsuko didn’t see it but she knew that the elder girl was probably smiling to herself, with her dimples showing and everything. Atsuko smiled as well, she liked seeing those two together. They have something that Atsuko wanted to have too. Her mind briefly travelled to a certain short captain and her smile vanished. Would Minami notice her absence? Or would she be too busy taking care of other members to realize that Atsuko did not show up?
Atsuko’s heart was hit with a pang of jealousy.
“Must be nice, to have someone worrying about you.” Atsuko tried to say it in a nonchalant manner but the envy in her voice was obvious. Yuko peeked at the younger girl from the corner of her eyes and saw a sad expression on Atsuko’s face. The older girl knew that Atsuko had her eyes set on the AKB captain but as far as Yuko can tell, Atsuko’s attempts to woo Takamina had not yet resulted in them being in the state of relationship such as Haruna’s and Yuko’s.
“What about you and Takamidget? Any progress?” Yuko asked tentatively.
She was unsure if the issue would wound the ace’s feelings. Yuko waited nervously for Atsuko’s reply and even thought of changing the subject after not getting any but stopped when she felt the younger girl moved. From the movement that she felt on her shoulder, Yuko could tell that Atsuko was shaking her head.
“Minami is as dense as ever.” Atsuko finally expressed her irritation over her captain’s obliviousness. She sighed and then continued. “You know, sometimes I wonder why I fell for her in the first place.”
The defeated tone made Yuko felt sorry for the younger girl. It had took Yuko at least three years before Haruna and her were officially together and Yuko thought that was already hard enough, but Atsuko waiting for Takamina made that duration of three years looked like it was nothing. Suddenly, Yuko found a whole new respect for Atsuko. One usually would have given up long ago if they were in Atsuko’s situation.
“She’ll come around.” Yuko tried to defend her fellow short comrade. Atsuko fell silent for a couple quick seconds before muttering a quiet ‘I hope so.’
“Love is tough, huh?”
“It sure is.” Atsuko nodded, agreeing with the older girl’s comment. She lifted her head from Yuko’s shoulder at last and slumped in her seat.
“Why can’t I have a love life like in those sappy romance doramas? Meeting that person, fall in love, get together and then live happily ever after.” Another sigh came out from Atsuko’s lips. If Atsuko’s life was really a drama, it would take several seasons of the drama just to get Takamina to agree going out with her. It was really THAT long.
Yuko snorted at the childish wish.
“That’s because they’re doramas. Real life doesn’t work that way.”
“At least you still have that whole meet, fall in love and end up together part.” Atsuko retorted. Somehow, she was sure that KojiYuu would end happily ever after too. Yuko laughed.
“Actually… Kojipa was not the first AKB girl I had a crush on. I didn’t end up with the one I wanted in the first place.” Yuko embarrassedly admitted. Atsuko’s ears perked up at the revelation. The younger girl didn’t know that there was someone else in Yuko’s heart before Haruna.
“Who was it?”
Yuko mentally facepalmed herself. She never planned to let anybody else knew about that little crush of hers. The laugh turned into a nervous chuckle and Yuko immediately looked away, finding the ceiling interesting all of the sudden. Atsuko raised a brow at the odd behaviour. Yuko was not going to be a spoilsport now, was she? Now that the elder had slipped out that interesting piece of information, there was no way Atsuko could be blamed for being curious. Atsuko kept her stare on the older girl, making Yuko squirmed uncomfortably under pressure. Finding Atsuko’s gaze was too overwhelming, Yuko yielded.
“Fine, fine. I’ll tell.”
Atsuko grinned triumphantly when the Yuko’s words reached her ears. Her heart beat wildly in excitement that she got to know something that others never did.
“It was you.” Yuko said queasily, her eyes casted downward on her clasped fingers.
Out of all the names that she had listed in her head, Atsuko did not write down her own name as one of the possibilities. Therefore when Yuko had said that, Atsuko was shocked. Totally and extremely. She waited for Yuko to spring out a ‘Just kidding!’ or a ‘gotcha!’ but Yuko never did. The air became considerably awkward between them. Atsuko loosened the collar of her shirt and gulped, feeling the small room had risen several degrees in temperature. Was that what they meant curiosity killed the cat? Atsuko wished that she had not been so persistent in asking that question because at that moment, she did not know how to respond to the answer.
Yuko, who seemed to notice the younger girl’s uneasiness, quickly saved the situation.
“It’s just a thing in the past. Don’t worry about it. I have Nyan Nyan now. Even if you came on to me now I won’t replace her with you!” Yuko joked, causing the ace to form a smile. The older girl then rubbed her chin in a thinking pose.
“Now that I think about it, I think it would be difficult if we did end up together anyway.” Atsuko frowned at the sentence. Why? She thought to herself.
“Just imagine, Oshima and Maeda joining forces. It will be too much for the world to handle.” Both girls burst out in a fit of laughter at the end of the joke. After they had somewhat calmed down, the younger girl laid her head on the older girl’s shoulder once again.
“Thank you, Yuko” Atsuko spoke out softly. Yuko only smiled in return.
As she sat there, Atsuko wondered about what could have been if she had noticed Yuko’s feelings for her earlier in their younger days. If she was not too fixed on Takamina, then maybe, she would be in Haruna’s place right now, enjoying the older girl’s attention. Instead of being in a stagnant ‘more than friends but less than lovers’ relationship like she currently had with Takamina, she could be in a real one. Atsuko was sure that Yuko would make her happy too.
When the ace made a comparison between the older girl and the captain, she honestly believed that there were more reasons to choose Yuko over Takamina. Yuko was just as caring and kind as Takamina (just a little bit perverted) but cuter, more affectionate and slightly taller (Atsuko laughed silently at this). Besides that, having tasted the top placing, there were some things that Yuko would understand Atsuko better than Takamina did. Atsuko knew that because of the fact that Takamina was the de facto leader of such huge group, Takamina had a lot of things on her mind and not just Atsuko. That was why no matter how much of an understanding person Takamina is, she could never understand fully what Atsuko felt.
Empathizing and experiencing is different after all.
“Ne ,Yuko?”
“Hmmm?”
“If there was no Kojiharu, would you still have given up on me?”
“I don’t know…. Would you give up on Takamina?”
Atsuko couldn’t answer the question. She didn’t know herself if she would do such thing. The human heart works in an odd, unpredicted way. Although it knew what was better for you, sometimes it still yearned for something that was harder to reach. Atsuko’s heart still wanted Takamina, regardless how much she had suffered in that unrequited love.
The younger girl’s silence had caused Yuko to turn her head in Atsuko’s direction and their eyes met. Something strange happened afterwards. There was no fluttering of hearts of any of the sorts that people used to describe cheesy romantic situation but somehow, the distance between them lessened until their lips touched. Perhaps it was the lack of air circulation that impaired their judgement or perhaps it was the dim lighting that influenced them to act that way.
Or perhaps, they just couldn’t help but wonder of the ‘what ifs’.
Just one kiss, they thought. That should be sufficient to satisfy the lingering question that was playing in their head. But one became two, two became three, three became four and four became many that they lost count exactly how many times they had kissed. Despite knowing the situation was so wrong in so many levels, neither made a move to stop. It was when Atsuko felt a sharp tug on her hair only did she pulled away from the passionate kiss.
“Ow, ow, oww!” The younger girl moaned in pain. Yuko instantly regained back her senses and looked over at the ace worriedly. What in the world had happened? Atsuko pointed at Yuko’s hand which was on the left side of her head. The bracelet that Yuko wore that day had several strands of Atsuko’s hair tangled with it. The older girl carefully removed the tangled bits until her hand was free to move again. Atsuko rubbed the part of her head that was hurting a minute ago and breathed in relief. Yuko didn’t look at that relieved however; a guilty look was on her face as she played with the offending bracelet.
“This bracelet… Nyan Nyan gave it to me.”
Atsuko’s heart fell. Guilty was not enough to describe her feelings. She felt absolutely horrible. Too caught up in the moment, she had forgotten all about Kojiharu. Such friend she was.
“Yuko.. I’m sorr-” Yuko cut her off before Atsuko could apologize properly.
“I guess this is a sign that I shouldn’t cheat, huh?” Yuko smiled weakly. It was clear that the older girl was trying to brush off the incident by making a humor out of it. Atsuko knew that it was probably to prevent their friendship from falling apart too. Yuko is really an amazing person to be able to think quickly like this. If Atsuko was in that kind of pinch with anybody else, she was a hundred percent sure that their friendship would go down the drain.
“Probably. You better not.”Atsuko punched Yuko’s arm lightly in a playful manner and the top two senbatsu members exchanged smiles. The tension between them dissolved into thin air.
The two girls squealed in surprised when the room jerked suddenly. It became bright once more and the elevator started moving.
“Finally!” Both of them thought. They stood up just in time before they heard a ‘ding’ and the door opened, revealing worried members and several strangers.
“Are you girls alright? We’re really sorry about what happened. We promise that this will never happen again!“ A man whom Atsuko recognized as the building staff bowed his head and apologized. Atsuko politely bowed back and dismissed it like it was nothing. An idol should not curse in public, although the face of AKB wanted to. It took them too long to fix the darn elevator!
Atsuko’s eyes scanned the crowd and disappointment washed over her when she saw that the one she was looking for was not in them.
“Hey.” A voice called out from behind, startling her. Atsuko turned around and standing in front of her was her unrequited love, whose look was full of concern.
“Hey.” Atsuko replied with a smile.
“You okay?”
“Well, I’m still alive.”
The captain took it as a sign that Atsuko was fine and pulled her into a hug. Atsuko hugged back, happy that Minami was actually worried about her. Still in the embrace, Atsuko threw a look at the other victim of the incident. Unsurprisingly, Yuko was already clinging onto her tall girlfriend. Though Haruna seemed unfazed about what had happened, her hands were firmly wrapped around the smaller girl’s body, not showing signs of letting go anytime soon. Atsuko giggled at the scene.
“What’s so funny?” Minami asked. The ace shook her head.
“Iie. It’s nothing.”
Yuko overheard the conversation and looked at Atsuko’s direction. One last knowing glance was shared and the incident was never brought up between them ever again. Both Atsuko and Yuko had already picked somebody else to be on their side – A captain and a cat-like girl. That one fact was not going to change because that was what their heart had decided on in this life. If there was an alternate reality where Takahashi Minami and Kojima Haruna did not exist, then yes, Maeda Atsuko and Oshima Yuko would definitely be together.
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