[title] Oatmeal
[author] gimmick_game
[rating] pg-13 (for language)
[fandom] Arashi
[pairing] Ohmiya
[genre] must you ask??!
[disclaimer] So not mine, but I’d like them to be.
[author’s note] For darkeyedwolf because she just had to mention Ohmiya with chickenpox in her pic spam comments and a rabid little bunny attached itself to me and refuses to let go until I write it. So here. :p




The call came three days after shooting a kodomo segment of Mago Mago Arashi. Little Chie-chan had the chickenpox. This wasn’t an issue for Sho, who’d been like every other normal child and gotten them when he was young.

Ohno on the other hand, was already scratching absentmindedly at his arm.

Two days later, Ohno was covered in small red dots, immersed in a tub full of oatmeal, lovingly prepared by his bio-hazard suited boyfriend.

For you see, Nino was another who’d never known the joys of chickenpox. And he was damned if he was going to get it now. (Aiba had told him horror stories of the effects of adult chickenpox. In graphic detail. With photographic aids.)

Carrying a can of Lysol with him at all times through the apartment, he avoided touching Ohno or anything Ohno touched. He slept on the cough (though not very well) and made Ohno eat off of paper plates.

He had to stop himself several times from coming home and just flopping on Ohno, as was customary.

Jun wasn’t much help at work either, draping all over Aiba and making little “Nah nah nah nah nah nah, I can touch my boyfriend and you can’t!” faces at him.

Sho just reminded him how painful it would be if he contracted the disease as well in his scholarly manner. Nino wanted to tell him to shove the textbook up Jun’s ass. (Since he liked Sho a bit too much to wish that upon him, but Jun, Jun was just being fucking annoying.)

After a week and a half, and a particularly bad day at work, (He’d spilled coffee on his lap while driving, misplaced his favorite game, and Jun again had decided that not being able to touch Ohno wasn’t nearly enough torture in and of itself and made it worse by molesting Aiba in the dressing room.) he cracked.

He found Ohno sitting in their room, sketch pad on his lap. He was trying to hold a pencil in his oven-mitt clad hand (which had been placed by his mother) and failing horribly.

Giving up on avoiding the chickenpox, Nino launched himself from the doorway and promptly curled up in Ohno’s lap.

Ohno gave a surprised yelp but just held him closer. Maybe Nino had stumbled upon a magic vaccine for chickenpox while experimenting with Aiba? Eh. It didn’t matter. Whatever the reason, he just pulled Nino closer.

The next day, Jun found a box of oatmeal and a suspiciously dirty t-shirt on his front porch. A small note was attached.

“You’re next, fucker. –Nino”