Here's the continuation for the one-shot. Hope it's good enough.
“But… But…,” the younger Tomo pouted sadly and in a small voice she added, “but I want to be with you. It’s been a long time since the last time we’re together. Even though Sae-chan can keep me company, it’s not the same without you.” She shook her head and moved back to look at the other Tomo straight in the eyes. “We’ve different schedule now, much more so than before. And whenever we had the same schedule, you were always with Takamina or Miichan or Kojiharu or Mariko-sama or Yuko…or Jurina… or Yukirin…. Tomochin, were you avoiding me? You don’t want us to be friend anymore?”
“Wha-What? I-I’m not a-avoiding you….” Tomochin said while she looked away, unable to face her friend. ‘Damn it, she knows me too well.’
The other Tomo soon pouted at the blatant lie and she whined, “So, you did avoiding me! Why?!”
“I-I’m not…”
“… It’s okay…. Tomo understand….” The younger girl moved away and looked on the floor with her hair covering her face. Her eyes burnt with unshed tears. She was just hoping that the other girl would leave soon, just like she had said before, and after that she could cry her heart out. She didn’t want to cry in front of her.
Tomochin frowned at the sight of her best friend, who’s sat in the corner of the bed, legs up and bended in the front of her body, head down and her hair blocking her face from view. With a sigh the older Tomo stood up and walked towards her best friend and crouched down in front of the said best friend and cupped her face with her hand. After she saw the tears accumulated in the other girl`s eyes, she felt guiltier than ever. She chastised herself inside her mind, she of all people should’ve known how hard her friend`s life right now. Solo debut meant lots of workloads and also lots of media attention, and with that, lots of antis as well. She had gone through all of that, and now, it’s the other Tomo`s time. And she weren’t there when her friend needed her the most. Of course she had her hectic schedules to blame, but… It’s not a good enough reason for her to ignore her friend. She wanted to kick her own ass for her stupidity. She sighed again and gulped down the nervousness and shoved away the guilty feeling aside. There’ll be time for that later, for now, she would show her support to her friend.
“I didn’t mean to avoid you…,” the older girl said as she wiped some of the tears that has fallen on her friend`s cheek with her thumb, “it’s just that…. I was afraid…. I-I don’t know what to say to you. I was afraid that I would say the wrong things and put a burden on you even more. And-and besides… it’s not like you were alone anyway. ” She scowled at her memories from the recent events. Her friend was literally glued to a certain ikemen. And, to add more miseries on her, the two of them had to blogged their 2-shot pictures too, completed with the lovey-dovey explanations.
Amidst the tears, the younger girl smiled in melancholy. “Sae-chan accompanied me because she noticed that I was lonely.” She said, dropping the third person way of speaking, hinting her friend that she was serious. “She’s so kind to me… I love her…” She said with a faraway expression on her face.
At the word ‘love’, Tomochin felt her chest was hurt, just like there were thousands of knifes stabbing her non-stop. ‘Darn it. I know I failed as a friend. But now… I’ve lost even before I get my chance. No. Scratch that. I had my chances already. I just ruined it and wasted it.’ She retracted her hands and let her hands hang loose beside her. Unknowingly to her, both of her hand had curled up into a fist. ‘I should just go… there’s no need to stay here anymore.’
“She’s just like a nice and kind onee-chan for me. And I love her for that.”
The older girl was just about to stand up and run away when she heard the soft voice from her friend, called the ikemen girl as a sister.
“Or perhaps I should’ve said onii-chan, since Sae-chan is like a guy sometimes.” Tomo~mi added as she laughed. And then, she noticed that the other Tomo was only staring at her with her mouth and eyes opened wide. “Is Tomochin okay?” She asked her friend, concerned with her well-being because she knew how hectic her friends schedule these past days.
“Un…,” the older Tomo said with a dazzled expression on her face, “I thought you and Sae-chan…,“ she trailed off.
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you before.” Tomo~mi said with a pout and she slowly took her friend`s hand and held it.
“Oh.” The older girl said shortly and the cogs and wheels in her head started to run. ‘So, does that means… I still have a chance?’ Unknowingly to her, her duck-lips slowly formed a grin and her eyes shone brightly with utter happiness.
The younger girl saw that and she was confused as of why her friend grinned like that. And then, she remembered the mail that she received earlier from her Team A`s Captain. The email consisted of the usual birthday congratulations and some teasing, just like the usual. But, there was something that confused her in it. There was other thing written in it, ‘Enjoy your birthday gift from us. And please do send your gift back to us no longer than 4 AM, or else it’ll be too late and our Soukantoku would go on a rampage. And we want your gift come back to us in a better condition. So don’t ruin your chance.’ And the mails she received from Miichan and Yuko also consisted of similar things. Before, she was confused what did they mean by ‘gift’, but now, she knew what her ‘gift’ was. It was the older girl in front of her. ‘They must’ve know that Tomo miss Tomochin. But, does Tomochin likes me too? Is that why Tomochin’s looks so happy when I said I love Sae-chan like a sister? Well, there’s only one way to find out. I hope she won’t freak out.’
“I love her, but she’s not the person that I’m in love with.”
“EH?” The older girl blinked at what the younger girl had said. ‘She’s in love? With who? How could I didn’t know that?! Damn it!’ She frowned and she grumbled to her friend, “W-who? When?”
Tomo~mi put her hand on her chin in a thinking gesture with her eyes casted up on the ceiling and all. “Hmmm…. It’s since… 2007? Or 2008? I’m not sure. As for who...,” she looked at her friend with a playful grin, “Why don’t you guess who?”
The older Tomo frowned at her playful friend as she thought every possible person in her head. ‘Since 2007 or 2008? That’s means… a lot of person…’
“I give you another hint… She is an AKB member.”
‘AKB member? Wait at that time, Team K had its fourth stage… Don’t tell me…’ The older Tomo features darkened at her own thought. “Is it Ohori?”
“I said IS not WAS. Meetan isn’t in AKB anymore.” The younger girl said as she rolled her eyes in exasperation to her sometimes-airhead friend.
“Oh… Right…”
“Third hint, she’s in Horipro.”
“Eh!?” Tomochin frowned even more at the third hint. “Mai-Mai?” She asked her friend hesitantly. When her friend narrowed her eyes at her, she immediately added, “Oh, right… IS in AKB right now, not WAS.” She tilted her head to the side in a thinking manner. ‘But, then who? The other AKB`s girls in Horipro weren’t AKB member yet in 2007. The only one left is…. Can it be…? But….’
Seeing the aghast look on the older girl`s face, Tomo~mi smirked and decided to added, “Fourth hint, they usually put me and her together in the same room whenever we had to stay in the hotel when we had out-of-town works.”
‘What?! B-but… she was often in the same room with me. So it might be…’ The older Tomo blinked and slowly said, “Me…?”
Instead of answering, the younger girl only leaned down towards her friend, who looked like she was paralyzed on her spot on the floor, and leaned closer, and closer, to her friend. When the older girl realized what about to happen, her eyes widen and when she saw the younger girl closed her eyes, she also closed her eyes in response. And their lips met. It was not the first time they kissed, they had kissed before, but it means so much more. It wasn't a friendly kiss or a playful kiss or the kind of kiss that drips with passion. But, it felt overwhelming to both of the girls that somehow brought tears to their eyes.
It weren't like the playful kisses that the younger girl able planted on the older girl`s lips for a few times before.
After they’re apart, Tomochin raised her hand to wipe the tears in her friend`s eyes, and when the said friend did the same to her, she chuckled a little. Her friend looked at her questioningly, made her grinned wider and pecked the younger girl lightly on her forehead and she moved to sat back on the bed beside her friend, or was it girlfriend now?
The younger girl immediately wrapped her arms around the other Tomo and nuzzled her nose her neck while she said, “ureshii… chiyuu~~~.”
The older girl only smiled and wrapped her arms on the younger girl`s waist. And she frowned as she remembered that she had to take another Shinkansen to go back to the shooting location.
“Tomochin? Why are you so silent?
The older girl opened her mouth to say what was on her mind, but a small beep sound interrupted her. The younger girl gave an apologetic smile to the other girl as she grabbed her phone. It was an email from the Team A`s Captain. Her apologetic smile turned into an amused smile after she read the email. When she saw the questioning look the older girl gave her, she gave her phone to the other girl.
“Tell your gift that she only has two hours left before she has to get back here…. So use your time well.” The older girl read the email out. And then she frowned and looked at the younger girl questioningly. “What did she means?”
Instead of answering, the younger girl snatched her phone back and opened the other email that her captain had sent earlier. “Read this,” she said as she gave her phone to the older girl, “Yuko and Miichan had sent similar emails too.”
The older girl read the said email and after a while her eyes widen and she mumbled, “They know I’m here….” And all of a sudden, she stood up and gritted her teeth and grumbled, “Minami…. I’m gonna kill you.”
“Acchan will be mad if you kill her, and not to mention Akimoto-sensei and the wota.” Tomo~mi said as she pulled the older girl to sit back on the bed. “And why do you want to kill her anyway?”
“Because she was the only one who knows that I was going and I told her to keep it as a secret!” the older girl growled, “Because they put Minami and I in the same room and I couldn't leave without her knowing. I had to tell her. And now Mariko knows. If Mariko knows, that’s meant the others know about it too. And you know how irritating they are sometimes. They would tease us forever now.”
The younger girl smiled at her outburst and she embraced the older girl again. “You’re getting closer to Soukantoku lately. Too close.”
“We are always close.” The older girl said as she relaxed herself in the younger girl`s embrace, not rejecting the hug though not made any attempt to hug her back.
The younger girl pouted at the flat comment. “You know what I mean…”
“It’s for Atsuko. She asked me to look after Minami since she can’t do it by herself now. You know how much of a man Minami is. That’s why Atsuko asked me to guard her from getting too close to our kouhai.” The older girl explained with a grim smile. “And, to kill out all the crushes from our kouhai that directed to her. Hhh… I started to feel like a watch-dog.”
The younger girl giggled cutely as a response and she looked at the clock on the wall. It was almost two in the morning. She put her hand on the girl`s head and pull her so that the older girl was laying on the bed with her head on her lap. “Sleep. I know you have to ride the Shinkansen at four to get back to the shooting location, right?”
“Yeah, I had bought the ticket when I arrived.” Tomochin said as she moved her body into a more comfortable position.
“Go to sleep, I’ll wake you up thirty minute before the departure time.” She said as she pat the older girl`s head.
“You need to sleep too. You have a theater performance tonight.”
“I’ll get my sleep after you left. Now, sleep.” Tomo~mi said as she looked at her phone and started to call someone.
“Who’re you calling for?”
“I’ll order a taxi to pick you up later.”
“Oh.”
By the time the Tomo~mi finished the call, the older girl was already sleeping peacefully on her lap. She was stroking the older girl`s hair for a while and then she lifted the older girl`s head slowly and moved away, grabbed her one of her pillow and put it under the older girl`s head. She lifted her Chi-chan and moved the cat to the corner of the bed, so that she could lay beside her. She moved closer to the older girl until they were only inches away.
“Itano Tomomi-san, aishite…”
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“So…,” the older girl said slowly while she was facing the younger girl near the front door of the younger girl`s home, “see you later?”
Tomo~mi nodded and moved to hug her
bestfriend girlfriend. And when they’re about to kiss, a voice from inside of the house could be heard.
“Tomomi-chan? You’re still awake? Who’s that?”
The younger girl instantly turned back to looked at the caller. “Ah… Mama… Tomo just… um….”
“Eh? Isn’t that…” Kasai-Mama said as she squinted to be able to see better in the a bit dark corridor, “Tomochin? Why are you here?”
“Er… I… um…,” The older Tomo stuttered and after seeing the younger girl`s mother smirked at her she hurriedly added, “… here to say happy birthday to Chiyuu.”
“I thought you said she was out of town?” Kasai-Mama asked her daughter.
“Yes, that’s why she has to come back to the shooting location now.” The younger girl said. “Did we wake you up?”
“Ah, no, I was up because I’m thirsty. Then I heard some sound so I came here to check.” The older woman said as she waved down her hand and then she stared at her daughter`s friend and she frowned. “Tomochin, you didn’t bring a coat?”
Tomochin only stared back at her and after a few seconds she face-palmed herself as she said, “Ah! I left it in Chiyuu`s room,” and she hurriedly ran inside and climbed up the stairs to grab her coat.
The mother and daughter chuckled quietly as they stared at the direction the other girl disappeared into. “She’s still an airhead it seems, even after she got so famous now.” The mother said, and her daughter nodded while still smiling softly. “Truly a gap-moe, right?”
“Un~”
After a while the said airhead came back while breathing heavily after her run with her coat hanging on her shoulder. “Hh… Hh… Has the taxi come yet?”
“No, not yet.” Tomo~mi said while she was tucking a few strands of hair that has fallen on her friend`s face to behind her ear, smiling softly all the while. The older girl smiled back at her friend, showing off her fangs, and unknown to her, made her friend melted inside. Unbeknownst to both girls, the mother saw their every gesture and knowing that the nature of their relationship has changed.
“Alright, I want to go back to sleep. I’ll leave now so you have your proper goodbye.” The older woman said with a teasing smile. “And Tomochin, have a safe trip.”
“Ah… er… yes… Thank you. Sorry for intruding.”
“You never were and never will.” The elder women said as she walked back inside the house. “I have two daughters already, adding another one won’t be a hindrance.”
Her daughter giggled at her mother`s comment while the older girl only looked at the woman`s back with eyes opened wide in shock. Then, the shrill sound of a car`s horn could be heard by both girls. The younger girl opened the window`s curtain slightly, she saw a taxi right outside her house.
“The taxi is here.” She said to the older girl with a shy smile.
Tomochin wore her coat and picked up her bag and she said a “see you later” when she walked to the door, but before her hand turn the door knob open, she felt herself was being pulled back and suddenly a pair of warm lips connected to hers.
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“So… where’s Tomo? She hasn’t come back yet?” Miichan asked her fellow Minami when she met her on the dining room for breakfast.
A squirrel smirked behind her. “I hope she didn’t miss the Shinkansen.”
“She certainly won’t.” AKB`s GM said. “Just hope they weren’t bickering all the time again.”
“They always fight lately. And it was affecting their mood greatly,” the new Team A`s Captain said.
“Yeah,” her fellow Captain piped in, “I’ve had enough of the Tomorage.” She stopped and frowned a little, “But, the strange thing is, our kouhai in Team K started to look up to her more than ever because of it. If only they know the reason why she’s being so serious and uptight all the time….” Yuko smirked again and then she leaned back to the person behind her and said softly, “Nyan-Nyan, I'm still sleepy…”
“You’re not the only one,” Mariko said with a sigh, “we’ve had enough with the Tomo~rage too, right? Minami?” she looked to Takamina for confirmation, and after the GM nodded, she added, “though her Tomo~rage was more like I’m-sad-and-lonely-and-why-the-hell-did-Tomochin-ignoring-me-Tomo~rage.”
“Yeah, they’re-“ Takamina had started to said something but a loud “MINAMI!!!” interrupted her. All of the person in the room, staffs and members alike, turned their head to looked at the source of the voice. Five persons that were seated in the middle of the room smirked at the fuming girl who’s stomped to their direction.
“Hi, lover-girl!” Miichan yelled loudly after the fuming girl sat at the empty chair in their table.
“What are you talking about!?” the fuming girl yelled back at her with a red face.
“So…,” Yuko piped in as she smirked, “how’s the other Tomo?”
Tomochin turned to look at her captain and with a slight smile on her face, she said, “She’s fine, a little sad that she’s not here with us, but fine.”
“So…,” Yuko said again, this time she grinned mischievously, made the other girls knew that she was up to no good. “Did you two chuu~~…,” she said as she was puckering her lips forwards, mocking the new-comer, “or did you two sle-…”
“WHAT!?” Tomochin yelled, cut out Yuko`s words and glared at her team`s captain who’s also happen to be the hentai-Ojii-san of AKB. And when she saw a cat knocked the hentai-squirrel’s head down, she smirked inwardly.
“Itaiiii~~~” Yuko-san as she rubbed her head.
“Stop it, we’re eating here.” Kojinyan said flatly, but then she patted her squirrel`s head.
“Ah! That’s remind me.” Tomochin said and she glared menacingly at the GM, “Minami, I want to talk to you.” She stood up and grabbed the collar of the banana motive jacket that the GM wore, and dragged her outside the dining room.
“Tsk tsk tsk… Poor Takamina…,” Miichan said as she shook her head, “she has to face Tomorage because of us.”
“Ah, enough of that, she can handle it these past seven years and she can handle it now,” Mariko said, “by the way, did you all see the smile?”
Kojinyan nodded, “yeah, it has been a long time since I saw Tomo smile like that.”
“So, I take it as a success then?” Mariko said as she smiled and looked at her friends whose smiled back at her.
“Operation TomoTomo Part 1, success!!” Yuko said as she lifted her glass for a toast with her friends.
“BANZAI!!” The four girls yelled happily, earned them a confused looks from the other occupant of the room.
@takaminaBG: thanks for reading. I'm waiting for your update
@Minami-chan: Yeah, I don't like it too. I know it was stupid and all, but I still like her. She's my ni-oshi after all
@BbSis: thank your for reading
yeah... we'll see what happen to Minami and Maeda later, as for spacing out Shibuya, she did spacing out in the latest episode of MG 1.
and of course, the person who played Shibuya is also an airhead in real-life. You'll know it if you watch Tomochin carefully. Or read the AKB members` interview,
like the conversation of Acchan and Tomochin in the PB, and Team K members also voted her as the my pace King.
@songbac, kahem, haruko: here's the continuation. Sorry for the wait. Aish... I took longer time to update lately...
Now... after this story was out of my head I can continued my MG fic...
Thanks for reading, commenting and the 'thank you', guys. Sorry for the grammar errors and miss-spellings.
Till next update
Addition:
"So.... what's the next operation?" Yuko asked her friends, "should we make sure that they're... you know..." She wiggled her eyebrows playfully.
"Yeah! We can lock them up in the same room and all." Miichan said as she stood up and made a fist pump. "Complete with booze. Tomo is so tsundere that she wont act on it without our 'help'."
"If she drunk... She might..." Yuko trailed off and she grinned, "Yeah, nice idea Miichan."
The two more mature girls sighed at their friends pervy acts. With another sigh, Mariko said, "As much as I like to troll them too, if it comes to that thing, I'm not backing the two of you up when you to have to face the Tomorage afterwards. Even though their progress is as slow as a snail, let them be. You can't rush things when it come to that."
"Haaaaaiii... Ba-san." Miichan said, and earned herself a glare from Mariko.
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