[fic] UJin Drabbles for Cora

[moon_catcher]

A couple of UJin drabbles I wrote for Cora (wintersdancer) during our msn chats... Posting it here only on the purpose of her cute flailing /bricked


Title: Size Matters
Rating: G

Yu is taller than Jin. He has always been. And Jin hates how Yu keeps making fun of him for every damn inch Jin lacks to reach Yu's height. Jin actually hates people mocking him in general but that's another story. As well as the one that Jin sometimes makes the same lame jokes when with Ryo.

"One day, I'm gonna be bigger and then we will talk," Jin pouts and pretends he doesn't see the grin in Yu's face.

It takes a couple of years of trying and hundreds and hundreds of another jokes from Yu but then it's here, only Jin can't see it because he is not in Tokyo at the moment.

He doesn't see Yu walking down a street one morning and spotting a poster promoting Jin's new single; a poster huge enough to be visible from the other end of the street, hanging down a high building.

Yu needs to tilt his head backwards a little to see the whole poster. And only then he realizes what Jin must have felt like for most of their lives.

-the end-

Title: Keeping Old Promises
Rating: G

Jin still remembers when Yu told him he was going to visit his relatives in Spain together with his family. All Jin knew back then about Spain was that the country is in Europe and a few curses he and Yu heard occasionally from Yu's Mom when she didn't think someone was listening to her.

Jin spent the few following days sobbing and sulking and missing his best friend. Not that he didn’t have anyone else to play with but playing with Yu had its pros. Like the fact that they could move freely around the neighborhood without being afraid of older and bigger boys picking up on them as Yu looked a few years older and no one dared to get closer to him.

Without Yu though, Jin was sentenced to hang around with Ryo and Pi, and suddenly it was him the one to act protectively towards the other two, especially Ryo.

When Yu came back eventually, full of new exciting experiences and with even more messed up Japanese than before – but Jin wasn’t the one to correct him because he could hardly tell when Yu made a mistake anyway –, Jin gave him a welcome glomp and a promise that the next time either of them would go abroad, the other would travel along in a suitcase. Jin demonstrated Yu it wouldn’t be a problem for him, promptly fishing a bag from Yu’s wardrobe and crouching into it that only his head was sticking outside with a wide grin.

A few years later, Jin calls Yu telling him the big news about him leaving for LA and babbling about the trip not being only a trip or vacation but something like a moving in there for a couple of months and how amazing it is and how much he can’t wait to live there and see everything… Jin doesn’t notice the sudden silence falling on his friend on the other side of the line.

What he does notice though, as it’s impossible to miss it because one simply can’t overlook Shirota Yu, be him alone or in a crowd, is Yu standing at his doorstep later the day, a huge trunk lying at his feet.

“What is this?” Jin is confused and tired. Mostly confused though.

Yu grins. “You didn’t think you would just forget the promise and go without me, right?”

“I’m afraid my case is not big enough, bro,” Jin says lightly because he kind of expects Yu is joking. Of course Yu must be joking because they are supposed to be adults now and it’s not possible to keep all random childish promises you made when you were eight – well, unless you are Nishikido Ryo and your promise went along the image of becoming someone who no woman could resist… Ryo yet hasn’t given up on the thought and it’s fun to watch him trying at times.

That’s when Yu pats the trunk and his grin grows even wider. “Mine is. I’ve already checked it.” And in the next moment, Yu shows a surprised Jin he really can fit into the suitcase and thus Jin has no more excuse not to take Yu to the States along.

Later, Jin is rather desperate to remember what else he and Yu agreed on in the past because Yu seems to be more than determined to make their promises come true one by one.

-the end-

Title: Help Me, Jin
Rating: PG-13
Warning: character's death

The last week before Jin leaves the country, his apartment is already rented and he stays at Yu’s. One evening they sit in the living room, drinking and chatting and bringing up memories of all the years they have known each other and have been friends. Neither of them can later tell whose idea it is to go into the bedroom, open a wardrobe and rake through an old suitcase in which Yu keeps all the important stuff he wants to remember, letters and postcards and an empty package of the first cigarette he has ever smoked.

They are going through the stuff, having fun and recalling the past. They are getting more and more tipsy because one of them has brought another bottle and it’s now almost empty, and Jin talks half in Japanese and half in English and Yu speaks Spanish and something close to Japanese and they can understand each other just fine.

That’s until Jin finds something fluffy at the very bottom of the case and pulls it out through the mess of other things, and only then their eyes lay on a little plushy toy from Yu’s childhood, a puppet of Elmo the Muppet Yu was given by one of his Spanish relatives.

Jin giggles and pushes the toy right into Yu’s face then Yu is trying to snatch it from Jin and they end up rolling on the floor, Elmo between them, until Yu’s back hits a wall. Then Jin has a little moment to jump up, a bit staggering but able to reach the bed and put Elmo on the top of the bedside table. Then there’s a bet and Yu loses and is to keep Elmo there for all the time Jin will be away.

Jin leaves and Yu thinks of throwing the toy back into the wardrobe because he is old enough not to have a toy next to his bed, but not old enough not to have a weird feeling when the night lights come into the room and draw creepy shadow outlines of Elmo’s crouching form on the wall.

It’s the third week of Jin’s American staying when his phone starts ringing.

“Jin, help me,” Yu’s voice pleads. It’s low and something is rattling in the background.

“What’s wrong? I have to be at set in a minute.”

Yu hangs up and when Jin’s work is over, he is completely exhausted and has no thoughts of calling Yu back. If it was important, Yu would call again after all.

And so Yu does, a couple of days later, the call catches Jin in the middle of a party and he is a little tipsy and not in the mood for jokes.

“Jin, help me,” Yu whispers but the music in the club where Jin is roars loud and Jin can’t hear a word.

“Call me later.”

Yu calls later.

And later.

It goes for weeks.

Three months.

Then one night, Jin is woken up by a ringing of his phone. “Jin, help me,” Jin recognizes Yu’s voice. “Please. You have to help me.”

“It’s not funny, creeper,” Jin says drowsily.

“Creeper,” a croaking voice replies mockingly and then the line goes deaf.

Jin frowns, stares at the display and sees the light dying, then dials Yu’s number to scold the other for stupid jokes in the middle of night.

No one picks up though.

A few days later Jin gets a call, not from Yu as he has been expecting, but from Yu’s brother. Jun tells him something bad has happened. Jun tells him Yu’s funeral is the following day. Jun apologizes for not calling sooner but everything has been a mess since Yu’s body was found.

Dead.

In his apartment.

On his bed.

Jin takes the first possible plane but doesn’t make it on time for the funeral anyway. He visits Yu’s family though, as soon as possible to offer his sympathy and assure Yu’s mother he will help anytime if she needs anything.

He gets a faint smile and a carefully wrapped package with an envelope attached to the ribbon. Jin opens it and reads the little card he finds inside. It’s Yu’s handwriting.

- Who will YOU turn for help to? -

Confused and not getting the point at all, Jin unwraps the package. Inside, Elmo is sitting in the box and his open mouth looks like a grin.

-the end-

Comments

[moon-catcher.livejournal.com]

:D/

don't push yourself ^^
I can keep poking you forever /bricked

[wintersdancer.livejournal.com]

I'll find some nice prompt for you as well then 8D

[moon-catcher.livejournal.com]

who said I'm writing upon prompts?? xP

[wintersdancer.livejournal.com]

I know you will 8D