You are my Champion
“Ne, Sou-chan...I’m not sure how much longer I can pretend to be happy about this” Marius breathed, looking around the colorful set and fighting back tears.
Sou nodded and looked around at the set also as they stood in the middle of it.
“A couple years ago when we debuted, I never thought we’d get to be apart of such a beautiful stage, and here we are standing on it, yet we’re not standing on it. It’s as if we aren’t here” Marius folded his arms and hugged himself as he tried to fight back tears he had been holding in since Real Sexy!
“We are here, we’ll get through this. Nakai-san said it right? Sexy Zone is 5 people and we’re all apart of this group, we’re going to get through this Marius” He said putting both of his hands on Marius’ shoulders and looking him straight in the eyes trying to comfort him.
“Are you not hurt by this Sou-chan?! You have gotten less work than I have over the past few years you know, you should be upset or crying or something” he threw his arms in the air knocking Sou’s hands off his shoulders and walked over towards the rainbow stairs.
Sou walked over and turned Marius around and grabbed his shoulders tightly “I am upset dammit, I’m furious. I want to kill that old hag for what she did to us, we were just starting to see ourselves as friends when she came in and ruined everything. I’ll never forgive her for that. And now because of her, you’re crying, I promise you I will get back at her one day when I’m stronger.” Sou gently whipped the tears away from Marius’ cheeks and smiled. “The reason I haven’t gone over to the Jimusho and already kicked that woman’s ass is because she might do something to you, I don’t care about myself anymore. I don’t want her to hurt you more”
“Sou-chan….” Marius whispered.
Just at that moment Marius could feel someone drape something on his shoulders at that moment and he turned around to find Fuma put his gold jacket on his shoulders.
“Onii-chan!” Marius exclaimed wiping his cheeks to make sure they were dry.
“Wear the jacket Marius, I had it made for you. One of the costume onee-sans is my fan and she did me this favor. I had one made for you too Sou, it’s in your bag back in the dressing room” Fuma said.
Marius took the Jacket off his shoulders and looked at it, it really was made just for him, the sizing and everything was perfect. He really wanted to wear it, he had been dressing like a Jr for over a year now and he wanted to feel like he was apart of the group again.
“Please put it on Marius” Fuma said softly.
Marius nodded and Fuma and Sou both watched as Marius put on his jacket and checked the way it fit him, he turned around and said “Well, how does it look?” Marius said looking at Sou and Fuma.
“It looks great” Sou said smiling at him.
Marius had second thoughts and tried to take it off.
Fuma stopped him and put the jacket back into place. “No second guessing”
Marius looked down at his arms and a part of him wondered to himself, Do these types of clothes even suit anymore?
Fuma seeming to understand his train of thought said “I have an idea, come here you two”, dragging them both back to the center of the set.
Fuma then interlaced his fingers with Marius and Sou and said “Now Sou, you grab Marius’ hand” Sou did as he was instructed.
“Give me your other hand” Sou held out his hand and Marius took it.
Fuma pushed on one hand and pulled the other imitating the opening circle of Cha-Cha-Cha Champion’s choreography. The other two were both confused for a second as to why Fuma was doing this and then he started to sing looking at Marius “Wo~ oh wo~ you are my champion~ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you are my champion”, Sou got the idea and started to sing with him for Marius.
Marius couldn’t help but smile and tears started to roll down his cheeks again. “Cha-cha-cha Champion” he whispered along through his tears.
Fuma squeezed Marius’ hand tighter, “Everything will get better Marius, I promise” he said in German.
Marius was thrilled that he used German and smiled but was still not convinced by his words “When onii-chan? when will it get better?” he asked.
Fuma sighed “I’m not sure, but I’m tired of this too. This shit isn’t fair. I’m tired of going on these vacations and dumb trips and pretending like it’s okay when you two are left here with nothing, we don’t even have our variety show anymore, she took it all”
“How is Kento-kun?” Sou asked carefully.
Fuma shook his head “Not good, he hasn’t been for a while. He doesn’t sleep, if he does he doesn’t sleep well and he shuts us out. The last trip we went on together he had to take a bunch of pills for stress, sleep deprivation, and pain relief before even trying to go to bed. I tried talking to him about it and he just said ‘I’m fine,... really’ and gave me one of his hollow smiles, I don’t know why he won’t talk to me...” Fuma said absently.
“Shori-kun told me that he talks to him about it sometimes, but he still doesn’t get very deep. Shori-kun said he couldn’t share what he knows about what’s going on with Kento because he feels like that’s betraying his trust, but he did say that Fuma, you should watch him more. Especially when he takes his pills, he has a tendency to take too many some nights and now that he’s drinking age, you should watch him even closer. Shori also said Kento wants to talk to you the most but feels like you’ll think ill of him” Marius said with tears still rolling down his cheeks as he spoke.
“Kento…” Fuma breathed and closed his eyes, letting go of both Marius and Sou’s hands to cover his face. “...You didn’t see this, okay?” Fuma said whipping his face and sniffing once.
“Hey! you guys can’t be in here, it’s time to go back home” said their driver stepping onto the set.
“Okay, we’re coming!” Marius said whipping his face with the back of his palm.
“Yes we are” said Fuma putting his arms around Marius’ and Sou’s shoulders and walked out with them to the car.
