Title: Finding you
Pairing: Nao x Izumi
Rating: PG -15
Theme: Childhood
Status: Complete
Summary: The childhood memories of Nao and Izumi that they will remember forever.
Comment: I didn’t own anything again!!! I’m such a failure… ok but anyway this story I made it up just a few hours ago. Now is morning… I hope I didn’t mess up the story.


The crowd along the street was busy and the noise made Nao even sweat more. He tipped his toes every few steps he took and looked on every directions but it made him almost got dizzy. “Izumi.. Izumi…” he called his name in his heart. He had scanned every place that his eyes could reached while holding on to his mobile, then he decided to call Izumi.

“Truut… Truut…”

Nao was surprised to find that Izumi’s phone was ringing in his own pocket. “Oh shit. Izumi left his phone with me…”. This made him even more nervous, actually just a few moments ago, they were still together. Nao blamed himself for being such a curiosity guy and had made him wander off which lead him to a complete unfamiliar place. Never in his mind came the idea of asking someone for direction and went home straight away. Nao won’t leave the place without Izumi. “Izumi… where are you?? Izumi…” Nao kept on searching and he didn’t realize that the time was ticking so fast that the moon had took over the sky. He then came upon a park and he walked towards an empty bench. As he sat down, his tears started to roll down. The park was silence, Nao felt even lost and helpless. He didn’t stop a moment for calling Izumi’s name in his heart hoping that they could have some telepathic. He was not afraid of the creepy things at night anymore but he could not stop thinking about Izumi’s where about. He curled up his leg and buried his head to hide away those tears then he took put his phone again and dialed Izumi’s number again. Though he knew that the phone was ringing beside him, he kept waiting for it till it sounded.

“Izumi desu. Tell me your problems, if I can’t solve it, call the police.”

Izumi’s voicemail made Nao giggles and cheered him up a little bit. Then Nao spoke with his unclear voice.

“I… Izumi… where are you?................... I want to see….”

He quickly turned off his phone and cried bitterly, he doesn’t want his ugly voice to be heard by Izumi. Nao then remembered his childhood times and wished that he was hugging him right now.

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Little young Nao in his 12 was preparing to wear his shoes. His mum had asked him to get something over at the grocery store just a few blocks away. He left the house and things was fine till his way back home. Nao saw a few of his schoolmates playing soccer on an empty green field along the river, he knew that it was a bad idea to let him mum waits but, when he saw those boys playing, he wanted to join in too.

“Hey guys! Could I join for awhile?”
“Who are you?” one of them stopped and looked pissed off.
“Isn’t it. Yamada???” the other one said.
“Oh you mean that Yamada girl?” another one asking the other two confirmation.
“Eh…. I’m Yamada from class 6-B. So can I join??
“NO WAY!!!” the leader looked guy said rejecting Nao as soon as he got nearer.
“You are a girl… how can we let you play with us.”

Nao was hurt but he was unsure about the conversation. “What do you mean? I’m a boy!”
“You are a boy?? Ha ha ha… even your name is a girl name!” one of them laugh and followed by the others.
“How could you say that! My name have nothing to do with my gender!”
“Oh really?? Ok why not we prove it. If you could swim across this river, we will play with you.”
“It’s autumn now! No one will swim in such a weather.” Nao voice out but he knew that he must accept the challenge.
“Why?? So indeed you are a girl… then get away from us!”
“Ok, you just wait!!” Nao took off his t-shirt and jumped into the river and swam without stopping.

When he almost reached half of the distance, he made a stop and looked back but he was shocked that no one was there. He wondered if the river current had brought him away but he tried not to think about anything and concentrate to get to one of the side. Then after a few meters, his leg suddenly had a cramp and that left him in a struggled.

“I must not give up… I’m a man!!”

Nao took his last energy to swim with his might, he had no idea which direction he need to land on but he must got out from the water before he drown himself in the cold. After he managed to get on the land, Nao was freezing. Even it was autumn but the cold weather took away all his energy to shout. Nao tried to look around and when he saw the opposite side, it was not where he came from. He dropped to the ground and blamed himself for being such a fool. Now he had no one, and his body was shivering down to his spine. He wanted to cry but his ego stopped him and he continued to walked.

Nao found himself on an empty park, creepy and dark with no sign of humans. He didn’t thought about calling for help nor did he make any effort to look at the surrounding fearing off meeting with some kind of non-human. Nao sat down on an old wooden bench and since no one was around, his cried was clearly heard. He couldn’t stand on the night wind that blow on him, so all he could do was just curled up and hugged his own leg to warm himself.

While Nao was lost, at the neighboring house, Mrs. Yamada was worried about his son. She made every call to his friends but no one knows where he had been. She even looked around and waited up outside the house. On this cold evening, everyone on the blocks looked as worried as Nao’s mother. They all love Nao and he had been known as the “good-boy” but no one had seen him since that afternoon.

On his bicycle, Izumi was on his way home after studying at a friend’s house. When he passed by, he spotted an unusual feeling about his neighbors so he decided to take a different path way home. As he rode on his bike slowly, he heard about Nao’s missing. At that time, Nao’s name was still a distance for him but he had to admit that he was worried when he heard about it.

“Excuse me Ma’am… what happened here?” Izumi approached some ladies which one of them happened to be Mrs. Yamada.
“My son… my son, Nao had not been back since afternoon. Have you seen him?”
“Eh… no… but have you tried calling his friends?”
“Yes I did…. But no… no one knows his where about. My husband had went to make a police report and I’m still waiting…” then the poor lady cried.
“I… I’m his classmate but… I’m not too close to him. If you need my help…”
The lady suddenly grabbed Izumi’s arm and begged, “please…please help me find him… he was scared of the dark… please...”
“I got you Ma’am but please rest at home and wait inside. It’s cold tonight. I will search around and get back to you.”
“Tha.. thanks… you are…”
“Izumi… Izumi desu.”

Izumi was back on his bicycle and he left the ladies. He had no idea where he was heading but somehow in his heart he felt that he must find this unknown friend. Riding through the cold air, Izumi’s mind filled with images of Nao. He kept thinking about him and tried to remember every part of him in his memories. The more Izumi thought about him, his heart felt more anxious than before but before he let his mind wonder further, he kept his cool and remembering his mission. After a few hours of searched, Izumi finally decided to stop. He tried to remember his way here, it won’t be funny if he get lost too.

“Hiks… hiks…”

Izumi turned around, he heard a soft sound of cry. The park behind him was dark and the bushes had been uncared for years. He decided to go down from his bike and pull it along side with him and searched for the sound. As he went into the park, he didn’t hear any cries anymore except for the dries leaves that he stepped. Izumi started to think that he might heard wrongly and he finally made up his mind to turn back and continued to search somewhere else. Then again he heard the cries which was more clearly now so he tried to look for the source where that noise came from. Izumi found himself standing in front of a little boy, his body was shivering and his face was hidden away. Not sure whether he had found his friend, Izumi parked his bicycle and he took off his jacket. When he walked closer and found out that the boy was crying, somehow he felt that his heart start to ache.

Nao finally woke up from his darkness and emptiness when he felt the warm from a jacket that was worn over his cold, freezing back. Though he finally relieved that he got his warm back, but Nao was still afraid to look up, then an unfamiliar voice called his name calmly yet sounds a little puzzled.

“Nao??.... You are Nao right???” Izumi bend his body trying to look under Nao’s covered face.

Nao was shocked to hear his name called, but at the same time, the fear had not left him. So he slowly lifted up his face and he saw a guy, not far different in age with him.

“You are…?? I… Izumi???”
“Yes! It’s me… are you ok? Why are you here?? Everyone is looking for you…”
“….”
“Nao… Nao-kun… are you alright?” Izumi knew that there was some thing that made his friend ended up in such a state. He sat down beside him and gave him a tap on his shoulder and he said, “We may not been so close before but you could tell me…”

Before Izumi finished off his sentence, Nao slipped in his words.
“I hate my name… *hiks* I knew that everyone thinks that I’m a girl when they hear my name…*hiks*…”
“Eh… no… did someone made fun of you?”
“I met a few guys from the school *hiks* I only wanted to play with them but… *hiks* but not only they made me swim in the river, the worst is they called me a girl…” Nao started to cry again, he didn’t mind about Izumi looked on his weakness.
“That was bad! How could they…Nao, don’t bother about them. They are just being childish. Don’t get those words in you, I believe that one day you will be a great man, better than those guys… so… snap up ok!” He swing his hand and gave a loud clap on Nao’s back.
“Ouch!!! That hurt man…”
“Oops sorry…”

Nao finally smiled, even there was no joke in between their conversation, he felt that Izumi’s presence had bring him back to life. Izumi didn’t make him felt special but he knew that moment that his heart was touched deeply by him. Without thinking too much, Nao finally break open his arm and threw it over Izumi who was sited next to him. Nao wailed like a baby, he was just letting go all the sadness.

Izumi was stunned by Nao’s sudden hug, not even a blink on his eyes, he was just staring at the empty air and heard Nao’s cries. He couldn’t stop thinking what must he do.

“What must I do? Push him away? Hug him back? Scold him? Shout for help???”

Nao didn’t realize that he had hugged Izumi more closer and this made Izumi much more in confused. But worst things happened, Izumi got more surprised when his heart started to beat faster. He tried to calm himself so that Nao won’t hear about his heart’s beat but the more he tried to hide, the more he felt the burning sensation.

“Sorry… I… I hugged you…soo sorry.”
“Eee… i… it was… alright…”

The two kept their silence in the awkward situation. Izumi was still struggling with his unbalanced heart but he managed to said out, “Le… let’s go back…. It’s late…”
“Ah… yes yes…”
Izumi quickly got up and hopped on his bicycle, Nao followed him behind. Wearing Izumi’s jacket, Nao noticed that the guy only had his t-shirt.

“You.. you can have this back…” he handed back his jacket to the owner.
“No no… I’m fine… you need it more than I do. Don’t worry about me ok” he just replied with a bit of smile.

During the journey, they just kept silence. Is this what they called chemistry?? Each of them had their own mind searching, none had ever expected that they will encounter each other in such a situation. And strangely, though they had been classmate, why haven’t they found out each other till today??

*Hatccihh* hatcciiih*

“You ok?? I’m warm enough, you should had this back if not you will get sick,” Nao worried about Izumi’s body.
“No worries… anyway we are arriving soon…”
“….” Nao knew that he was such a bother, he felt so guilty. With his two hands holding on to the bicycle’s back, he kept looking on Izumi’s back. Then he slowly placed his hands over Izumi’s body and he leaned forward covering the cold shoulder.

Then Nao said awkwardly, “Will you be fine with these??”
Again, Nao had made Izumi stunned, but this time Izumi felt even worst. He tighten his lips so that his heart won’t jumped out and he just gave him a nod.

Finally the two made it back before midnight, Izumi stopped just right in front of Nao’s house.

“Th.. thank you… Izumi..-kun”
“That’s no problem…”
“And thank you for this.” Nao returned Izumi’s jacket and he slowly walked away from the bicycle.
“… Thank you too…”

Izumi waited awhile and when he saw his friend safely walked back to his house, but then he suddenly let out his voice.

“N.. Nao-kun…”
“Yeah??” Nao eagerly waited for Izumi’s next words.
“Eh… if you don’t mind… may be… tomorrow we could hang out… together”
“Yes... yes… sure!”
“Ok … see you then…”
“Ok… bye…” Nao still hold back his steps but he gradually made it up to his door. But before he opened up, Izumi shouted a crossed.
“And… I just want to tell you… that you have a very beautiful name!” Izumi left those words to Nao and he hurriedly cycle off.

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“Nao??”
“Izumi!!!” Nao sprang up from his hiding position. He completely forgot his mind when he heard those words and pouched on Izumi. Hugging him tightly, Nao finally had his heart smile back.

“Izumi!! Izumi!!! Izumi!!!!”
“Nao… you are hurting my neck…”
“Ah…. Sorry…”
“You cried??? Are you ok?”

Nao wiped away his tears, “Uhmm yes… I’m fine,” he sat back down again while he was doing that, trying to hide away his childish looked.

Then Izumi sat beside him, “somehow this reminds me of something…”

“Me too… I still remember that day very clearly,…. Again you found me.”

Izumi had a blush but this guy sure knows how to hide it away, “Ok let’s go back.”

“Huh!!!! SO fast??.... No… I want to stay here… with you.” Nao deliberately lower his voice down on the last two words and he glued his hand on the bench.

Izumi stood up, “oh come… It’s late… I’ll walked you back ok…”

“Noooo…. The atmosphere is so lovely now, won’t you accompanied me tonight??”
“Nao…” Izumi whisper softly as he handed out his hand, “Nao… give me your hand.”

Nao automatically placed his hand out.

“Good boy! Now… Stand Nao.” Izumi smiled.

Nao realized that Izumi had tricked him… so easily….

“How dare you… you tricked me!!!!”
“Ha ha ha… you are such a good boy as always.”
“I’m not your dog!!!”
“Ha ha ha….”

Both of them did a little chase game, happily playing like small kids. After they gave up on the game, Izumi got closer to Nao.

“Ok… enough of the game… I’m tired… let’s go back ok…”
“I’m not done with you…”
“Ha ha ha… ne~ Nao… give me your hand.”
“I’m not going to be tricked again!”
“Pleasee~ … I really want to hold your hand.”

Nao suspiciously reached his hand out and Izumi grabbed it before Nao could pull back.

“I’m not going to let go this hand… ever again… trust me.”
“……I… Izumi… I’m sorry… I wonder off myself just now… and you had to find me again.”
“That’s alright, I never failed finding you. But… I failed to hold on to this soft hand of yours.