He knew his brother would murder him later when he gets back home. However, Shintaro didn’t care less about his life for now, and he could always hide behind his senpais, or hitch-hike over to Yuma’s at Osaka. This was why the first thing after he stepped into the Jimusho was to run over to JUMP’s dressing room, a grin constantly on his face.

-

The door was slammed open, and nine pairs of eyes look at a panting Shintaro with curious eyes. The younger Morimoto has better manners than Ryutaro, though they are probably of the same level when it comes to pranks.

“Shin-chan, what is it?” It was Yabu that spoke up first, as he approached the younger boy, pulling him into their dressing room. Shintaro gladly took a sit, and properly thanking Hikaru, who had passed him a cup of water.

It wasn’t usual for Shintaro to just bash into their dressing room. The only reason he ever came would always be Ryutaro. And technically, for the JUMP members, the younger Morimoto had no reason to pay them a visit.

“I have something to tell all of you.”

For some reason, the atmosphere in the dressing room seem to be chocking, and Shintaro heard Yamada whispering to timidly ask if anything has happened to Ryutaro. It startled the younger boy a little, since he had never encountered the confident Yamada to be so scared. 

It was only now that he realized how close JUMP was. No wonder Ryutaro had that weird sleeping habit nowadays.

“Don’t worry, nothing’s wrong with him, except the fact that he’s listening to all of your voices to sleep at night.” 

No one made a move, and the first one that broke the silence was the loud outburst of laughter by Hikaru, followed by the rest of JUMP. Even the usually polite Keito was laughing. As if on cue, Shintaro’s phone rang, and picking it up, the whole dressing room was able to hear what the caller said, since it was practically shouted into the phone.

“SHINTARO. IF YOU DARE COME BACK TONIGHT, I’M SKINNING YOU ALIVE. YOU’VE TOLD THEM HAVEN’T YOU?” Shintaro didn’t even care about replying. Instead, he switched it onto loudspeaker, and the JUMP members started to casually talk, mentioning about how they missed Ryutaro.

-

On his side of the line, Ryutaro was sure that his brother would go to the Jimusho and tell the whole of JUMP. When the call was picked up, he had immediately shouted into the phone, embarrassed. It wasn’t in his calculation to be hearing the rest of the members talking about him.

They were even talking about some event that he himself has forgotten. All his anger and embarrassment was forgotten, as he sat on his bed, listening to the voices that he had grown up with.

“Arigatou, minna.”