[Fic] What You Are - Chapter 1
Chapter 1
The man looked at his glass with attention, cleaning with more dexterity than someone. He slowly gaves it a wipe but with strength too, removing the water and the lather, then, the fact achieved, he slowly put in with the others glasses being behind him. This glass achieved, he raised his glance towards the room, verifying that everything was well. But of course, everything was calm. That could be strange for a nightclub to be so calm. Every nightclub's owners would be worried about this calm. But not him. He knew why the customers were so calm. And he didn't blame themselve. Especially when he heard a soft melody's sound. Then, suddenly, in the surrounding silence, a beautiful voice, a man's voice, rose :
Moshi kimi ga warau koto o wasureta nara
Soba ni itte tonari PIERROT no furi de hashagu
The voice of his belove nephew. Of course, he would have recognized him between one thousand. After all, he heard him everyday.
Kibou ni michita (DON'T LOOK BACK)
Asahi ga ima (STEP BY STEP)
Yami o yabutte (KEEP WISHING)
Others voices as magical as the one of his nephew were heard, slowly following the song's beat, singing with the more softness they could. His nephew's four friends, of course. Always together, what happens, playing the fools, arguing themselve, teasing themselve. And even singing. "Friends for the life" they promised when they still were in elementary school.
Hitori ja nai yo
Nakama ga iru yo
Tachiagare ima furi mukai ga zuni
The customers were quiet, keepping their breath, their glances on the five men who sang. He hanged his dish towel and leaned on the bar. He could always count on the five men to liven things up. At the beginning, it was strange for the customers. Foremost, music like all the nightclub and then, suddenly, at midnight, five persons came to sing. He had been afraid but the next day, the customers were come back and asked him if the five men would be here. Since that, his nephew and his four friends sang every Saturday. And it was not for his and the customer's displeasure.
Kikoeru kai ? WE WILL MAKE YOU SMILE waratte
Sukoshi zutsu yasashi sa atsumetara hora yuuki no hana ga saku
Sou kimi no tame sou tooku made todoku you ni hana o sakasou
He glanced at the young woman who stopped herself to take the customers' orders for glance at the young men's group, a warm smile on her lips. Yumeko. She was in the Highschool with them, and in the end, she wasn't able to pay the University. That were them who took her to him. Since that, she worked here the week-end in full time and all the week, the night, because the nightclub was a café too. It was three years ago and he was proud of her, see her mature and become a young woman self-confident, with these little smiles whose she had the secret. He was happy that she could continue her studies.
Hanarete te mo kokoro hitotsu onaji azu o yumemiru
Te o toriatte kataku tsunai de nidoto hagurenai de
Not like his stupid nephew. He looked at him whereas he continued to sing with his friends, a big smile on his lips. He lived with him since...Three years. In other words, he didn't see the time pass with him by his side. But he would really like that his nephew continued his studies rather than work here in full time with only a day of rest. But no, Kazuya was stubborn and he knew it very well.
Tanoshii koto (DON'T LOOK BACK)
Souzou shite (STEP BY STEP)
Kimi no egao (KEEP WISHING) mirai yo
It was not nevertheless for lack of having suggested him paying its studies. But he had refused, categorically. Ueda suggested him too. To pay would not have bothered him, especially when it was about his best friend's future. But he had refused too.
Sonomama ii yo
Aseru koto nai yo
Kono kimochi de tsutsumikomu kara
"I prefer to enter in the work's world rather than to make this moment of my life late." He had declared. The man remembered having sighed further to the statement of Kazuya. Really stubborn.
Mou ichido WE WILL MAKE YOU SMILE waratte
Kyou made no namida o nuguttara hora yuuki no hana ga saku
Sou kimi no tame tooku made todoku you ni sou doko made mo
But he leaved it to him. Was it a good decision ? His place was it not on the University's bench with his friends Yumeko, Ueda, Taguchi, Nakamaru and Tanaka ? To make new friends, new loves, new stupidities ?
Doko made mo
Doko made mo
"My place is here, with you, to help you" He had say, shrugging off. Quite simply, like if this simple fact was an obvious fact.
Ima doko ? Nani shiteru ?
Kikoeru yo yuuki dashi te WE'RE WITH YOU
WE LOVE YOU
And by what right he had to judge the decisions of his nephew ? After all, he didn't know him as well as he though it. They lived together only for three years. And the boy had many secrets, he knew it. Ueda had not insisted to know and to propose his help, it was the same for the three others. Yumeko had not search to understand. For her, it was an obvious fact that Kazuya was a rebel-born and that we had to leave him live his life like he would. He would come back on the right way when he would have decided it. And him...Well, with all this stubborn men who were on his nephew side, he had give up. He would have never won, after all. Never. Sometimes, he asked himself if anybody would be able to stand up to Kazuya and to change his mind when the need would be here.
Kikoeru kai ? WE WILL MAKE YOU SMILE waratte
Sukoshi zutsu yasashi sa atsumetara hora yuuki no hana ga saku
Sou kimi no tame sou tooku made todoku you ni hana o sakasou
The song came to an end, the last note resounded. Then, a thunderous applause follow it, the five young men taking a bow the public who supported them since the beginning. While seeing the smile which showed Kazuya, he known that he had done well to give up. However, he knew well that sooner or later, Kazuya was going to have to face his decisions.
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So here the first chapter of What You Are, an Akame fic. I hope you enjoyed it ! ^o^ I don't know where I go with this fic but...we will see it soon !
And sorry for all the language's mistakes, English is not my native language >w<