Title: Distance
Series: Love Song
Pairing: Kame x Yamapi x Jin
Author: J
Date: 09.02.2006
Notes: The prequel to ‘Realize‘ & ‘Take A Chance‘. Inspired by Lin Jun Jie’s Ju Li (Distance). This would probably be set quite a long time ago, way before Nobuta and everything, back when the three bakas did a lot of things together. XD
When the three of them were together, sometimes Kame felt like Yamapi never noticed his existance. Yamapi and Jin were best friends, you couldn’t have one without the other, while he was just the one who followed Jin around, and it didn’t really matter if he wasn’t there. When the three of them were together, sometimes Kame felt that if it wasn’t for Jin, Yamapi wouldn’t even look at him once.
“Ka-zu-chan! Why are you so slow?!”
Kame looked up at the voice. Jin, as always, smiling at him from where he was walking in front with Yamapi. Kame smiled back. But when Kame didn’t pick up his pace, still walking slowly behind them, Jin jogged back to where Kame was and pulled him by the hand to where Yamapi stood waiting for the two of them. Kame couldn’t help but notice the look on Yamapi’s face. He recognised the look immediately, knowing it as one of his own. Jealousy. It was what Kame felt whenever Yamapi only looked at Jin and no one else.
“Kame, are you tired?” Jin asked Kame, eyes wide like an innocent child. “Maybe we should sit somewhere and get something to drink?”
“Ah, okay.” Kame nodded, knowing that even if he said ‘no’ Jin would have insisted on it anyway.
“Baka, get me a drink too.” Yamapi said as he and Kame settled down at the nearest table.
“Can’t you buy it for yourself?” Jin made a face.
“I’ll pay. Happy?” Yamapi shoved some coins into Jin’s hand and pushed him towards the direction of the vending machines.
Silence filled the table after Jin’s temporary departure. Kame noticed that he was sitting at one corner of the table, Yamapi diagonally away from him. So near, yet so far apart. They were often like that, quiet with each other. It was comforting at times, being at peace without the noisy baka around. But more often than not, it felt excruciatingly painful for Kame. It felt like there was a boundary separating the two of them, one that he could never cross.
Kame was almost glad to see Jin bounding back towards them, cans in hand. At least with Jin around, he could pretend the rift never existed. With Jin around, he had an excuse to try to cross that boundary. With Jin around, Yamapi might notice him. Because Yamapi usually noticed Jin, but Jin would always take note of Kame and make sure he didn’t feel left out. If making Yamapi jealous of himself would get the other to notice him, a part of Kame didn’t mind doing that.
“This is for me, this is for Kame, and this is for that baka over there.” Jin started giving out the canned drinks. “Kazu-chan, do you need me to help you open the can?”
Kame chuckled as he opened his own can. “No need. I’m not a baby y’know.”
“No, but you’re such a baka that I thought you might not know how to open it.” Jin stuck his tongue out. Just then, Yamapi snatched Jin’s drink away from him. “Oi, Pi, why did you take my drink for?”
“Helping you open the can. Since you’re the biggest baka out of the three of us, thought that you might need the help.” Yamapi shrugged as he opened Jin’s can. For a split second, Kame thought he saw Yamapi smile at him, before passing the can back to Jin. “Here.”
Jin scowled as he snatched back his can, the violent action causing some of his drink to spill out and stain his shirt. “Ah!”
Kame and Yamapi couldn’t help but laugh at Jin, who had put down the can and was now busy trying to get the juice stain out of his clothes.
“Baka! That’s not gonna get rid of the stain.” Kame couldn’t help but grin.
“Mou… it has to. I like this shirt a lot…” Jin said with a pout.
“Jin, I’ll buy you another shirt. Same one if you want.” Yamapi patted Jin on the head, just like how one would try to pacify a child. “Now just finish up your drink so that we can get going.”
The three of them finished up their drinks and headed for the shops. As Kame observed the two of them, he felt like a stranger. Jin behaving like a child as Yamapi tried to find a shirt for him, eyes filled with adoration. Kame lazily picked out a random shirt for fun, throwing it at Jin.
“How about this one?”
“Ah, this one’s nice. Yappari, Kame has great taste.” Jin grinned like an idiot. “Pi, don’t you think so?”
Yamapi’s face noticeably darkened. “It’s okay.”
Kame always knew that Yamapi liked Jin, a lot. It was just that the latter never realised it. And he also knew that Yamapi probably wasn’t too fond of him. As Yamapi brushed pass Kame to pick out another shirt, ignoring the latter blatantly, Kame suddenly felt like the distance between them had widened immensely.
“Hey guys.” Kame interrupted Jin, who was complaining that the shirt Yamapi had picked out for him was too ugly. “I’m gonna make a move first, ‘kay? See you guys another time.”
“Kame! Wait!” Jin called out, but Kame didn’t turn back. Maybe if it was the other person, he might have stopped in his tracks. But it was never him. Kame had made a decision then, and he wasn’t turning back. To love was to let go, right? He was letting Yamapi go.
* * * * *
© Copyrighted by O-Baka! | Home
Rate the fic? :
(4 votes, average: 5.50 out of 6)
Loading ...
@REALISE
i read your fic haahah, awww it was awesome! but i wanted kame to reply instead of pi saying the last line lolz
nice nice nice XD
@TAKE A CHANCE
awww
yes you left me hanginn in Realize, thank god you made this continuation ^0^
hahhh i love it in kame’s POV b/c of his funny thoughts…
somehow i knew jin wasn’t going to pay his dinner… haha
@TAKE A CHANCE
I like how you plan on killing the world population with you fanfiction. Remind me to haunt you when my dying stops okay?
IAJSAJSLAJSAKJSAILOVEYOULAKJSLKAJSLKAS.
And suddenly, your title makes me think ABBA, but I’m sure PC don’t listen to ABBA maybe, so that just might be me.
@TAKE A CHANCE
just passed your site, and read your fanfic~~ is reallly nice, looking forward for the next chapter~~~ gambatte!
@TAKE A CHANCE
Aaaaah, for once I’ve been offline for some days in a row and now you’ve posted a sequel all of the sudden! *O* (maybe I should do so more often instead of bothering you all the time if we get to read more of your fics this way ^____^ *laughs*)
Do I need to tell you how much I love you for continuing this fic? (or writing more about those two in general?)
It’s so cute that you’ve decided to write about Kame’s thoughts on the entire situation this time ^__^ Guess it’s only reasonable he’d be rather confused with the recent turn of action. At least I’d be confused for sure! *lol*
When I saw you’ve brought in Jin as well this time, I was afraid he might get in between Kame and Pi, be it on purpose or not, but thank god that Bakanishi was being unusually insightful after all and left at the right time (even though the others had to pay for his kindness – in the literal sense *lol*)
Not that I’d mind some drama ’caused by Jin’s interferance either (I’m a sucker for drama *lol*) but getting Kame and Pi to finally end up together is sooo much better ^___^ Therefore we can only pray Yamapi truely managed to rid Kame of all his doubts with this sweet kiss at the end *O*
And now you may kick me for hoping there might be yet another continuation of this fic some time in the future ^.^~
@DISTANCE
……….T________T
baka yamapi..makes kame feeling so left out nad had to leave and never turn his head back >__