50 First sentences, Arashi-style!
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1sentence challenge table; theme set Gamma
1: Ring
It's a plain gold band, very simple, and Nino thinks that it suits Ohno perfectly even he isn't the one who put it on his finger.
2: Hero
The song—like all of 24hrs—had broken Jun wide open and he grabbed Aiba, needing to hold somebody as broken open as he was while he put himself back together.
3: Memory
Ohno is sure that he knew Nino in a past life because only that could explain why he's kissing a boy he has just met (properly) two hours ago.
4: Box
Some days Aiba felt trapped in his life as an idol star.
5: Run
At their ten-year celebration concert Jun sings the song he wrote for the fifth and he feels like his heart might burst, feels it so much that he chokes up on the last line and he can't finish it, letting the others sing it for him.
6: Hurricane
Nino had known from a very young age that a storm had the power to rip one fragile kid wide open; he just hadn't known that a storm could be four guys with the power to do the same thing to that kid's heart.
7: Wings
Ohno draws Jun with wings: angel wings, bat wings, beetle wings, any kind that strikes him as he draws and Jun never asks so Ohno never tells him that it's because he thinks Jun is beautiful like that.
8: Cold
Sho reached Nino first, dragging him into his arms and whispering 'it's okay, it's okay, it's okay' until Nino collapsed against him.
9: Red
"Sho," Jun smiled, holding up the coat and helping Sho slip it on.
10: Drink
Even Ohno was refusing to touch the glass of A no Arashi.
11: Midnight
Sho twisted his fingers with Nino's, tangled his legs with Ohno's, and slept as one year became another.
12: Temptation
Aiba was practicing the choreography for 'Truth' and Jun watched the twist and roll of his body, the way the black shirt came untucked and flashed little glimpses of pale, smooth belly, and he wanted.
13: View
Nino's voice was cheerful as he said, 'hey, Captain, did you know that MatsuJun has a scar on his—' "STOP LOOKING," shrieked Jun.
14: Music
Aiba leans against Ohno, lets Ohno lean back into his arms, and they listen to Nino pour his soul out to an empty auditorium.
15: Silk
"Please," Jun whispers as Aiba's lips skim over his cheek, "Masaki, please…"
16: Cover
At Nino's house, Ohno doesn't listen to the radio; Nino listens to it and Ohno listens to Nino.
17: Promise
Nino linked pinkies with Aiba and they shook on it, grinning madly at each other.
18: Dream
One day: a wife, a baby, a home and still, still and always, his friends somewhere close.
19: Candle
They're not the sentimental types—not any of them, not really—but they buy the cakes and sing the songs every year.
20: Talent
"Please pick any angle," Sho instructed the cameraman, "any one can perfectly capture my dishwashing technique."
21: Silence
When Nino is in California he learns that 'silence' is having nobody to share the quiet with.
22: Journey
"Will you miss us?"
23: Fire
Sho reaches for Aiba even though he knows it's stupid but he excuses it to himself by thinking that even sunlight burns.
24: Strength
You're wrong, Nino thought, staring at his hands clasped between his knees, you're wrong because Oh-chan was always stronger than me.
25: Mask
The cameras are on and so Aiba laughs it off, laughs it off, laughs it off.
26: Ice
Jun pulled into himself when he was hurting, aloof and untouchable and cold as deep-winter ice.
27: Fall
It's not that it's sudden or dizzying—it's actually a long, slow, affair—but Ohno realizes it all at once and THAT is dizzying to the point that he turns to Nino and ("I love you!") says it on air.
28: Forgotten
Sho put his arm around Ohno's shoulders, talking to distract him from the fact that the scandal wasn't over yet no matter how hard Sho was trying to make it that way.
29: Dance
Ohno does the choreography because he's paid to, because he's good at it, because that's what a Johnny's boy does but he dances because he can't help himself.
30: Body
Jun didn't realize that Aiba was sleeping with Nino until he saw them dancing together and realized that Aiba danced in a way that said he knew exactly where Nino began and ended and how it all fit together to move to the beat.
31: Sacred
They are Arashi and not one of them thinks it's anything less than a miracle.
32: Farewells
They can't sing loud enough, can't scream hard enough, can't touch anybody enough, and in the end it takes everything they have just to leave the stage.
33: World
Who has time for the planet, thought Jun with a snort as he went to protect Aiba from the kangaroos.
34: Formal
"They put me in shorts," Nino was wailing and Jun glared murder at the crew and suggested, very calmly, that he could overlook it one time but that the live performances had better have full suits for everybody, every time.
35: Fever
He hears the song on his mother's stereo and gets nostalgic for five young men, barely more than boys, who were just starting to really fall in love with each other.
36: Laugh
It starts with Sho, sets off Ohno, spreads to Aiba who gets both Jun and Nino, and it's Nino's helpless flailings and Jun's bent-double clutch that gets the staff laughing too, even as Sho tries to gasp out that he didn't mean to.
37: Lies
The fans always said that what they liked most about Arashi was how real their relationships were and Ohno hated the fans for the way they made it all turn into lies.
38: Forever
"Oh, god, why didn't you guys tell me I was looking at you like that," Jun says as they watch the promotional video for 'One Love' together.
39: Overwhelmed
The air was heavy with the scent of lust and need and hunger and satisfaction—in short, sweat and sex and Aiba backed out of the room slowly, calling out to Jun as he pulled the door shut, "I don't think Nino and Leader want to eat with us tonight."
40: Whisper
"We have to be up and on stage in four hours, you two!"
41: Wait
"Not yet," Aiba panted against his ear, "not yet, not yet, not yet."
42: Talk
Sho watched Ohno laying with his head on the armrest of the couch (as close to the speaker on the phone as he could get) not saying a word, for nearly fifteen minutes before he broke and asked, "How can you and Nino sit there and just breathe at each other?"
43: Search
Jun folded his arms and glared at all of them, "If I have to pants all of you to find that ring, I will...and you had better hope none of you has it someplace delicate."
44: Hope
"I love you, you know."
45: Eclipse
Jun can always tell when Aiba's smile is fake because when it's fake it's only bright around the edges.
46: Gravity
Arashi makes him fall.
47: Highway
"Without us," Aiba says thoughtfully, quietly mindful of the late hour and sleeping staff, "without us this would be a pretty lonely thing to see, huh?"
48: Unknown
Ohno fixed his smile in place and ignored the non-reaction from the crowd as hard as he could.
49: Lock
"There isn't a key," he tells his wife and he's only lying a little bit because there isn't one; Aiba took it away with him.
50: Breathe
He can feel the heave of their bodies, working against the adrenaline and the song, and he's right there with them and it's all he needs, even more than air it's all he needs.
1sentence challenge table; theme set Gamma1: Ring
It's a plain gold band, very simple, and Nino thinks that it suits Ohno perfectly even he isn't the one who put it on his finger.
2: Hero
The song—like all of 24hrs—had broken Jun wide open and he grabbed Aiba, needing to hold somebody as broken open as he was while he put himself back together.
3: Memory
Ohno is sure that he knew Nino in a past life because only that could explain why he's kissing a boy he has just met (properly) two hours ago.
4: Box
Some days Aiba felt trapped in his life as an idol star.
5: Run
At their ten-year celebration concert Jun sings the song he wrote for the fifth and he feels like his heart might burst, feels it so much that he chokes up on the last line and he can't finish it, letting the others sing it for him.
6: Hurricane
Nino had known from a very young age that a storm had the power to rip one fragile kid wide open; he just hadn't known that a storm could be four guys with the power to do the same thing to that kid's heart.
7: Wings
Ohno draws Jun with wings: angel wings, bat wings, beetle wings, any kind that strikes him as he draws and Jun never asks so Ohno never tells him that it's because he thinks Jun is beautiful like that.
8: Cold
Sho reached Nino first, dragging him into his arms and whispering 'it's okay, it's okay, it's okay' until Nino collapsed against him.
9: Red
"Sho," Jun smiled, holding up the coat and helping Sho slip it on.
10: Drink
Even Ohno was refusing to touch the glass of A no Arashi.
11: Midnight
Sho twisted his fingers with Nino's, tangled his legs with Ohno's, and slept as one year became another.
12: Temptation
Aiba was practicing the choreography for 'Truth' and Jun watched the twist and roll of his body, the way the black shirt came untucked and flashed little glimpses of pale, smooth belly, and he wanted.
13: View
Nino's voice was cheerful as he said, 'hey, Captain, did you know that MatsuJun has a scar on his—' "STOP LOOKING," shrieked Jun.
14: Music
Aiba leans against Ohno, lets Ohno lean back into his arms, and they listen to Nino pour his soul out to an empty auditorium.
15: Silk
"Please," Jun whispers as Aiba's lips skim over his cheek, "Masaki, please…"
16: Cover
At Nino's house, Ohno doesn't listen to the radio; Nino listens to it and Ohno listens to Nino.
17: Promise
Nino linked pinkies with Aiba and they shook on it, grinning madly at each other.
18: Dream
One day: a wife, a baby, a home and still, still and always, his friends somewhere close.
19: Candle
They're not the sentimental types—not any of them, not really—but they buy the cakes and sing the songs every year.
20: Talent
"Please pick any angle," Sho instructed the cameraman, "any one can perfectly capture my dishwashing technique."
21: Silence
When Nino is in California he learns that 'silence' is having nobody to share the quiet with.
22: Journey
"Will you miss us?"
23: Fire
Sho reaches for Aiba even though he knows it's stupid but he excuses it to himself by thinking that even sunlight burns.
24: Strength
You're wrong, Nino thought, staring at his hands clasped between his knees, you're wrong because Oh-chan was always stronger than me.
25: Mask
The cameras are on and so Aiba laughs it off, laughs it off, laughs it off.
26: Ice
Jun pulled into himself when he was hurting, aloof and untouchable and cold as deep-winter ice.
27: Fall
It's not that it's sudden or dizzying—it's actually a long, slow, affair—but Ohno realizes it all at once and THAT is dizzying to the point that he turns to Nino and ("I love you!") says it on air.
28: Forgotten
Sho put his arm around Ohno's shoulders, talking to distract him from the fact that the scandal wasn't over yet no matter how hard Sho was trying to make it that way.
29: Dance
Ohno does the choreography because he's paid to, because he's good at it, because that's what a Johnny's boy does but he dances because he can't help himself.
30: Body
Jun didn't realize that Aiba was sleeping with Nino until he saw them dancing together and realized that Aiba danced in a way that said he knew exactly where Nino began and ended and how it all fit together to move to the beat.
31: Sacred
They are Arashi and not one of them thinks it's anything less than a miracle.
32: Farewells
They can't sing loud enough, can't scream hard enough, can't touch anybody enough, and in the end it takes everything they have just to leave the stage.
33: World
Who has time for the planet, thought Jun with a snort as he went to protect Aiba from the kangaroos.
34: Formal
"They put me in shorts," Nino was wailing and Jun glared murder at the crew and suggested, very calmly, that he could overlook it one time but that the live performances had better have full suits for everybody, every time.
35: Fever
He hears the song on his mother's stereo and gets nostalgic for five young men, barely more than boys, who were just starting to really fall in love with each other.
36: Laugh
It starts with Sho, sets off Ohno, spreads to Aiba who gets both Jun and Nino, and it's Nino's helpless flailings and Jun's bent-double clutch that gets the staff laughing too, even as Sho tries to gasp out that he didn't mean to.
37: Lies
The fans always said that what they liked most about Arashi was how real their relationships were and Ohno hated the fans for the way they made it all turn into lies.
38: Forever
"Oh, god, why didn't you guys tell me I was looking at you like that," Jun says as they watch the promotional video for 'One Love' together.
39: Overwhelmed
The air was heavy with the scent of lust and need and hunger and satisfaction—in short, sweat and sex and Aiba backed out of the room slowly, calling out to Jun as he pulled the door shut, "I don't think Nino and Leader want to eat with us tonight."
40: Whisper
"We have to be up and on stage in four hours, you two!"
41: Wait
"Not yet," Aiba panted against his ear, "not yet, not yet, not yet."
42: Talk
Sho watched Ohno laying with his head on the armrest of the couch (as close to the speaker on the phone as he could get) not saying a word, for nearly fifteen minutes before he broke and asked, "How can you and Nino sit there and just breathe at each other?"
43: Search
Jun folded his arms and glared at all of them, "If I have to pants all of you to find that ring, I will...and you had better hope none of you has it someplace delicate."
44: Hope
"I love you, you know."
45: Eclipse
Jun can always tell when Aiba's smile is fake because when it's fake it's only bright around the edges.
46: Gravity
Arashi makes him fall.
47: Highway
"Without us," Aiba says thoughtfully, quietly mindful of the late hour and sleeping staff, "without us this would be a pretty lonely thing to see, huh?"
48: Unknown
Ohno fixed his smile in place and ignored the non-reaction from the crowd as hard as he could.
49: Lock
"There isn't a key," he tells his wife and he's only lying a little bit because there isn't one; Aiba took it away with him.
50: Breathe
He can feel the heave of their bodies, working against the adrenaline and the song, and he's right there with them and it's all he needs, even more than air it's all he needs.
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Date: 2009-03-18 10:49 pm (UTC)You know you are a beautiful writer when one unexplained sentence can make your reader cry. Thank you.
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