Shiawase

Band: Nightmare&Kalafina, mentioned Gazette

Pairing: Ni~ya&Hikaru, mentioned Hitsugi&Yomi, Ruka&Sakito, Wakana&Keiko

Rating: 17+

Genre: romance

Warnings: -

Note: "Shiawase" means "happiness".

And is Ni~ya really happier with Hikaru than with Reita?

 Ni~ya was sitting in the rehearsal room and watching his colleagues. Sakito, as usual, tried to evoke some feelings in Ruka and Yomi was fooling around with Hitsugi. He was looking stubbornly at the phone. He waited for someone to call him. That's why he asked Sakito to take a break. He knew, however, that it can't last more than half an hour, and several minutes have already passed...

"Stop it, Ni~ya" mumbled Ruka.

"She's probably bu..." started Yomi, but stopped, because suddenly they heard Kalafina's Aria.

"Hello?" Ni~ya answered the phone.

He heard a voice on the other side of the call, for which he was waiting for so long.

"Hi, Yuji. I'm sorry that you had to wait. The conference was terribly prolonged" the laughter of a loved one was what always calmed him. "I'll be home tomorrow. I miss you."

"I miss you too" Ni~ya smiled fondly. "Should I prepare something?"

"Wine and a good movie. You can order food. You won't notice me when you start eating after all."

"Hey! I'm not so focused on my meal, when I eat!" Ni~ya said indignantly.

"I would argue" said Hitsugi.

Ni~ya just snorted.

"White or red?"

"White. I get drunk with red too quickly. I have to go. I love you, bye!"

"Good night" Ni~ya hung up. "So we're continuing the rehearsal?"

"Yes" Sakito nodded. "Hey, Ni~ya?"

"Hmm?"

"You're happier than with Reita, you know?"

"Seriously?" Ni~ya was surprised.

"Sakito's right. Now you're radiant like a pregnant woman" Yomi patted him on the back.

"I still don't understand how someone can hurt someone like this" Hitsugi took his guitar and tugged at the strings. "Oh, how terribly untuned..."

Ni~ya, listening to Hitsugi tune his guitar, remembered that day...

* * *

Ni~ya returned home gladly. Sakito let him leave early, Gazette had a day off, so Ni~ya could spend more time with Reita.

When the bassist stepped over the threshold, he felt something was wrong. There was a jacket hanging on the hanger, and some shoes on the carpet.

"I guess Suzu has guests" thought Ni~ya and smiled, when he remembered the day, when Reita fell asleep between Ruki and Uruha on the sofa, watching some shitty movie.

He entered a kitchen. Ruki was sitting at the table and humming. He seemed pleased.

"Hi, Ruki!" Ni~ya greated him loudly, so that Ruki could hear him through the headphones.

Ruki jerked violently and looked up.

"Ni~ya?" Ruki was surprised, looking at the bassist, as if he were an alien. "What are you doing here?"

"I live here?" Ni~ya laughed. "Where's Suzuki? We finished the rehearsal earlier today, so I can spend more time with him."

"Yuji?" Reita stood in the kitchen door.

Reita was wearing only boxer shorts.

"Suzuki, why are you dressed so rudely in front of the guests?" Ni~ya looked at him and dropped the glass from his hand, as Ruki got up from the table.

He was wearing only Reita's long T-shirt, which was not visible when he was sitting, because there was a long tablecloth on the table.

"Since when?" Ni~ya asked slowly.

"For six months" Ruki replied for the stunned Reita. "You don't have to tell Uru, he knows. Anyway, we have an arrangement."

"What arrangement?" Ni~ya wanted to kill all three of them.

"I come here on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Uru on Mondays and Wednesdays" replied Ruki. "We're well behaved on weekends, my word of honour."

"A word of what?!" Ni~ya screamed. "You have no such thing as honour!"

"Ni~ya, take it easy" said Ruki. "It's only sex, nothing else connects us."

Ruki was surprised, when Ni~ya picked him up and pushed against the wall.

"I'm gonna kill you first, then my already ex-boyfriend and then your filthy boyfriend" said Ni~ya. "I let you choose: I should do it with a knife or with a spoon?"

"How can you kill me with a spoon?" Ruki laughed.

"I can just stick the reverse side in your eye" Ni~ya smirked, and Ruki turned pale. "Don't worry, I won't do it. Now."

Ni~ya let Ruki go, walked to still shocked Reita and punched him in the face.

"You're a slutty cheater" said Ni~ya and walked to their bedroom.

Yuji packed his stuff in fifteen minutes and left Reita's apartment. He needed a drink.

A few months later, he went with Yomi and Hitsugi to a Kalafina concert. Because he was having a great time, he decided to congratulate his colleagues in the industry personally.

He remembered that Keiko was sitting on Wakana's lap and braiding her hair, and Hikaru was bustling around the wardrobe. When she saw Ni~ya, she wanted to say "hi" to him and tripped over the carpet, landing in the bassist's arms.

"Hika-chan found her prince from nightmarish fairy-tale?" asked Keiko, chuckling.

Hikaru flushed and looked like a strawberry.

Later everything happened fast. Ni~ya met Hikaru, when she visited her aunt. She was living nearby.

Ni~ya helped Hikaru with shopping for her aunt and Hikaru gave him her phone number.

"Nee, Hikaru-san, do you have time today?" asked Ni~ya, when he finally called her after a month.

She had some free time this day. And another day. And another one...

And then...

"Hikaru-chan" started Ni~ya, walking with her to her home. "I have a question..."

"Wait a minute" Hikaru jumped on the wall. "Hey, Ni~ya-san? Could you catch my hand? I don't want to fall."

He caught her. As she jumped down, he caught her in his arms and looked straight into her large eyes. He could see the answer to his unasked question in them, as in the blush on her cheeks.

He kissed her.

* * *

Ni~ya came home. He placed the candles on the table. Yellow, because that was Hikari's favorite color, as he affectionately called her.

Ni~ya was pouring wine into glasses, when he heard the click of the lock on the door.

"Yuji, could you take my bag?" he heard Hikaru's voice.

Yuji put the bottle on the table and went to the door. He looked at his beloved one. She had snowflakes in her hair. She looked beautiful.

As always.

"Welcome home" Ni~ya picked up Hikaru, turningaround  with her in his arms and kissed her. "I'll take your bag to the room later. Now come with me."

He took her hand and followed her to the 

He led her by the hand into the room, pushed her chair away, and pulled her closer as she sat down. He poured the wine into the second glass and clapped them with Hikaru.

"To Nightmare and Kalafina, so they won't disband" he said.

"And for us, so that our relationship won't fall apart too" Hikaru smiled fondly. "What movie are we going to watch?"

"I chose one of the classics" Ni~ya handed her the box. "Food will be in half an hour."

"That's great" Hikaru looked at the DVD cover. "Black and white melodrama with a beloved, white wine and a meal from your favorite restaurant. What more could a woman ask for?"

"A gift?" Ni~ya handed her a small box. "Open it."

"Yay, how lovely" Hikaru pulled out a chain with a gold pendant with a blue pebble set in it. "Cute. Thank you."

She sent a kiss to Ni~ya. He cought it and pretended to cuddle with it, at which Hikaru chuckled.

"I'm glad you like it" Ni ~ ya said.

"Of course I like it" Hikaru smiled radiantly. "Hey, Yuji? Can you help me put it on?"

Ni~ya got up and walked over to Hikaru. He took both parts of the clasp in his fingers and pressed them together.

"Thank you" Hikaru stood up and kissed him.

She took the glass with her and sat down on the couch.

"Should we turn on TV?"

"Yes" Ni~ya agreed, and at that moment the doorbell rang. "At least let's eat something first."

"I told you it would be like that" Hikaru chuckled maliciously.

"Hikari!"

"I didn't say anything~"

After the meal, the singer returned to the couch, and Ni~ya turned on the movie and sat down next to his beloved. When after some time Hikaru rested her head on his shoulder, he knew that his bandmates were right. He was happier. He was the happiest man in the world.

The end