(fan fiction) hearts break
hearts break
HSJ, Yaotome/Inoo
au, angst
pg
time is the greatest healer.
an: /shrug it started with random lines and became something like this. i don't know how it happened.
i.
it is the final stage. the final time they get to do this together. they've talked it over and yes, they'd like to remain with johnny's, and yes, this doesn't mean that hey! say! jump is ending forever, but it means that they're ending for now.
yaotome calls the members forward and yabu gives the final speech and there are sad faces reflecting off each other. the 7 members and arioka clutch at each other looking like the babies they once had been and takaki is quiet as tears run down his face. inoo leans into yaotome, wanting to borrow his strength and yaotome wraps one strong arm around the leaner boy.
they cry.
they cry in their circle formation, arms crossed over each other. all of them will miss this. miss the people they've worked with for more than fifteen years. but as for now, it's time to grow.
they promise to each other that after ten years, they will be on the same stage again. they promise it to each other and they promise it to the fans who are just as sad, just as pained.
they all hold hands after they turn their mics off and yell their final thank you. they sing ten encore numbers, songs they will remember for the rest of their life and after the last 'we can try, fly high...' they go to the backstage and cry even more.
they're drained but they stay together for as long as they could. it's going to be the last.
ii.
it's not that they avoid each other. they just never have the time to meet.
iii.
it is five years until inoo bumps into yaotome. it is coincidental - at the backstage of one of the television studios. yaotome has a schedule for a music show and inoo has one for a variety show.
it is an awkward two minutes before inoo is called by the director. they exchange numbers quickly and promise to meet again some day.
iv.
inoo doesn't think 'some day' will come.
v.
it does.
vi.
inoo wakes up early instinctively. he wonders if he has any schedules so he checks his smart phone and there's none; so he checks his calendar and there's also nothing. it's when he realizes that today is the the day that yaotome set that things seem to sink in. he isn't sure if he's ready.
time seemed to move slower as he waited for six in the evening to come. he fusses over his appearance in a way he hasn't done in a long time and he leaves when he decides that this is about as good as he's going to get.
when inoo arrives at their meeting place, he is two hours early. he brings his books and his laptop and he arranges them on the table. he pores over them, taking down notes furiously for his thesis paper. he doesn't remember when he falls asleep but he does and when he wakes up, yaotome is watching over him with an amused smile on his face. inoo blushes and wipes the trickle of saliva off from the corner of his mouth.
'that's sexy,' yaotome jokes and inoo glares at him and yaotome laughs and inoo smiles back.
they spend the entire night together.
they catch up on things, like how inoo is tackling his masters while being on separate variety and news shows and how yaotome produces tracks for younger artists and how they're both happy. they reminisce about their group and they laugh at shared experiences and they share secrets like who did this during what which would have irked them then but now just make them laugh.
inoo doesn't share his biggest secret - he doesn't think it's important anymore.
vii.
five years ago, inoo wanted to confess. five years ago, he had been ready to. five years ago, he thought about consequences - what-if's and what-could-be's that scared him.
now, he doesn't know if he should.
if he did, he would have said, i used to.
viii.
ten years pass quickly.
ix.
when they meet again, there is no awkwardness.
there is the familiar feeling of being at home, being with family, being one again.
no, no awkwardness here.
x.
ten years pass quickly but they start meeting in secret in the ninth year. it was going to be a surprise, it had been a surprise. showing up in the president's office together and bowing deeply, so deeply, for another chance.
they put the next group on hold for hey! say! jump and the media eats it all up.
they cry at the first concert. there is no sadness, just overwhelming joy of being at home again.
epilogue.
on the last day of the concert tour they cry again - not because it is the last, but because they're going to last forever.
HSJ, Yaotome/Inoo
au, angst
pg
time is the greatest healer.
an: /shrug it started with random lines and became something like this. i don't know how it happened.
i.
it is the final stage. the final time they get to do this together. they've talked it over and yes, they'd like to remain with johnny's, and yes, this doesn't mean that hey! say! jump is ending forever, but it means that they're ending for now.
yaotome calls the members forward and yabu gives the final speech and there are sad faces reflecting off each other. the 7 members and arioka clutch at each other looking like the babies they once had been and takaki is quiet as tears run down his face. inoo leans into yaotome, wanting to borrow his strength and yaotome wraps one strong arm around the leaner boy.
they cry.
they cry in their circle formation, arms crossed over each other. all of them will miss this. miss the people they've worked with for more than fifteen years. but as for now, it's time to grow.
they promise to each other that after ten years, they will be on the same stage again. they promise it to each other and they promise it to the fans who are just as sad, just as pained.
they all hold hands after they turn their mics off and yell their final thank you. they sing ten encore numbers, songs they will remember for the rest of their life and after the last 'we can try, fly high...' they go to the backstage and cry even more.
they're drained but they stay together for as long as they could. it's going to be the last.
ii.
it's not that they avoid each other. they just never have the time to meet.
iii.
it is five years until inoo bumps into yaotome. it is coincidental - at the backstage of one of the television studios. yaotome has a schedule for a music show and inoo has one for a variety show.
it is an awkward two minutes before inoo is called by the director. they exchange numbers quickly and promise to meet again some day.
iv.
inoo doesn't think 'some day' will come.
v.
it does.
vi.
inoo wakes up early instinctively. he wonders if he has any schedules so he checks his smart phone and there's none; so he checks his calendar and there's also nothing. it's when he realizes that today is the the day that yaotome set that things seem to sink in. he isn't sure if he's ready.
time seemed to move slower as he waited for six in the evening to come. he fusses over his appearance in a way he hasn't done in a long time and he leaves when he decides that this is about as good as he's going to get.
when inoo arrives at their meeting place, he is two hours early. he brings his books and his laptop and he arranges them on the table. he pores over them, taking down notes furiously for his thesis paper. he doesn't remember when he falls asleep but he does and when he wakes up, yaotome is watching over him with an amused smile on his face. inoo blushes and wipes the trickle of saliva off from the corner of his mouth.
'that's sexy,' yaotome jokes and inoo glares at him and yaotome laughs and inoo smiles back.
they spend the entire night together.
they catch up on things, like how inoo is tackling his masters while being on separate variety and news shows and how yaotome produces tracks for younger artists and how they're both happy. they reminisce about their group and they laugh at shared experiences and they share secrets like who did this during what which would have irked them then but now just make them laugh.
inoo doesn't share his biggest secret - he doesn't think it's important anymore.
vii.
five years ago, inoo wanted to confess. five years ago, he had been ready to. five years ago, he thought about consequences - what-if's and what-could-be's that scared him.
now, he doesn't know if he should.
if he did, he would have said, i used to.
viii.
ten years pass quickly.
ix.
when they meet again, there is no awkwardness.
there is the familiar feeling of being at home, being with family, being one again.
no, no awkwardness here.
x.
ten years pass quickly but they start meeting in secret in the ninth year. it was going to be a surprise, it had been a surprise. showing up in the president's office together and bowing deeply, so deeply, for another chance.
they put the next group on hold for hey! say! jump and the media eats it all up.
they cry at the first concert. there is no sadness, just overwhelming joy of being at home again.
epilogue.
on the last day of the concert tour they cry again - not because it is the last, but because they're going to last forever.