Maybe We're Falling (Chapter 4)
Title: Maybe We’re Falling (4/7)
Pairing: Akame
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, Angst, Romance
Beta: carboncastel
Disclaimer: Please just let them own each other already. I don’t.
Summary: After 2 years of making the US his career base, Akanishi Jin is coming back to Tokyo and is rejoining KAT-TUN. Time has passed. Some things have changed, some have not. Maybe we’re fallin’ in the crazy love.
A/N: A multi-chapter song fic based on KAT-TUN’s Crazy Love. Time setting of the fic is 2013, so that’s 3 years after Jin officially left KAT-TUN.
A/N 2: WARNING: Still no present day Kame in this chapter. Chapter 5 shall reveal why it took so long. But for now, here’s the fourth chapter. Douzo! And another WARNING: This chapter is so short I wanna kick myself for it. *kicks self* There. LOL I’m going crazy, don’t mind me.
A/N 3: I don’t think I got to mention before that this fic is written to show that the KAT-TUN song “Crazy Love” was written by Kame after Jin left KAT-TUN in 2010. Does that make it slightly AU? :)
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もしも声が届いたら
俺はここで待ってるよ
一人じゃ消えそうな愛だから
二度と無いこの crazy love
In case my voice reaches you
I’ll always be waiting here
Because the love might fade as I am alone
This crazy love that won’t ever come back
Weeks had passed since Jin’s return, and he was happy to have spent it with KAT-TUN. He probably hung out with them more frequently now than before he left, and he thought that coming back was the right thing to do after all. He enjoyed the practice sessions and joined in chilling out after work. It was apparent that the group’s bond strengthened while he was gone, and he was lucky and thankful that, with his comeback, he was absorbed into that bond and was treated as their equal, like a brother. Like nothing ever happened.
“Ne, ne, let’s make another episode of the business drama!” Taguchi said.
He, Nakamaru, and Akanishi were seated around the dressing room, taking their water break on a practice day that was particularly being filmed. Jin bounded off his chair excitedly. He had not been in the mock drama that KAT-TUN always did on PV behind-the-scenes since 2010.
“Hora! High tension, ne, Akanishi?” Taguchi laughed.
“But there’s only three of us, the others are not here,” said the Nakamaru.
“It’s alright. They can catch up later,” Jin remarked, earning laughter from the two.
“You really are excited, aren’t you?” the beatboxer commented, grinning.
Jin was glad that mostly, it had been like that. Work was all fun and laughter, although they still haven’t gotten together as a group. And he still sorely missed Kamenashi. That was one of the inescapable truths of Jin’s life these days.
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After weeks of practicing and recoding, Jin found himself growing fond of a particular ballad, but it was last to be recorded, as stated in the rigid schedule that KAT-TUN followed. He was proud, too, that he had gone on just two night-outs within the time frame, a real achievement for someone who had always been known as such a party animal. Instead, Jin worked hard. He was so eager to have people hear him as part of a group again.
One would think that after four years as member of KAT-TUN and three years as a solo artist, Jin would have, by this time, run out of things to say. But as things played out, he had so much more to say, so much more to give that he had not given before.
“I don’t know… I hope nothing happens on the set,” Ueda said quietly, staring down at his food.
“I’m sure you two will get along just fine,” Taguchi answered, patting his bandmate on the shoulder. “He’s a nice guy, really,” he added, referring to his work experience with Nishikido for a drama a couple of years back.
On this particular day, Jin had lunch with the rocker and the KY guy. Ueda was talking about his upcoming drama with Nishikido Ryo, and Jin thought that Ueda was worried in light of his and Ryo’s history of weird bickering.
“If you two fight, that’s alright,” Jin said. “It just means that I’m really home,” he explained, laughing.
Ueda scoffed, and then smirked, but Taguchi chuckled. The two had not changed at all, Jin thought. Ueda was still a very deep (and sometimes weird) guy, and Taguchi was still, well, KY. Fine. Jin had to admit that he missed this. While the Jin Crew was definitely fun to fool around with, he missed these Japanese men’s quirks. It gave him so much opportunity to be the old Bakanishi.
“Hey, this is Kame’s favorite food!” Taguchi suddenly exclaimed.
He was holding a piece of buttered shrimp up with his chopsticks. Jin was about to take a bite of his own piece, but stopped almost immediately. Indeed, it was Kame’s favorite. How could Jin forget?
The table fell silent, and Ueda observed a slight and sudden change in Jin’s expression.
“Hey, have you heard about the new group that’s going to debut this year?” the boxer suddenly said, in the hopes that the two other men would just follow suit and move on.
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After having lunch, the three KAT-TUN members went back to the Jimusho. Jin was to continue recording vocals, while Ueda was scheduled to record some guitar solos. Taguchi was booked to have an indoor shoot for a product endorsement. Their work continued into the night, not that they weren’t used to it.
Everyone seemed okay and on the whole, no one was uncomfortable with Jin’s comeback, so he tried to just be natural about it and work hard as well. He needed to work hard anyway. Because when he was not doing anything, his thoughts would wander, and he would inevitably end up thinking of him… thinking about Kame. And it hurt to think about Kame. It hurt, now that things between them could never be the same again. They could never go back.
“Kimi no namae wo yobu dake de sekai ga midasareteita…”
Jin was finally recording his favorite on the list. It was the last song for KAT-TUN’s eighth album, but only Jin’s fifth album with the group. Definitely, a lot of things happened after he left. KAT-TUN had been successful without him. Not that he doubted it. He knew that the five men would be able to do it. As Kame once had said, they were in KAT-TUN for a reason. They were strong.
Jin didn’t think he would come back, neither did he think that he would be able and allowed to. He had rejoined them, however, and fans were quite okay with it. Despite the circumstances surrounding his return to KAT-TUN not being something anyone would have wished for, everyone, from the staff, to the fans, and to the members themselves, received Jin warmly.
Jin was recording alone tonight. Ueda was done with his guitar recording and Taguchi left right after finishing his commercial. The others had the day off. Jin wished Kame was there with him. It was, after all, Kame who wrote the song Jin was currently recording.
“Futari no kiesou na yakusoku wa omoi de no naka crazy love…”
The song Jin was recording was a ballad, and it turn out to be Jin’s favorite out of their upcoming album because it was heartfelt and the lyrics really moved him.
The song was written by Kamenashi Kazuya about a love that was lost.
/To be continued/
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No, I don’t know if Kame likes buttered shrimps. It’s just that when I think of food in the fandom context, I immediately think of “Car Shrimp.” Weird, I know. Don’t mind me. And no, I don’t know of any Ryo/Ueda drama. Is there? xD
And I apologize for the short chapter. It - I just - I had to - Gah. I won’t try explaining my weirdness. Chapter 5 is the chapter you all are waiting for! Sort of. Will post it next week, since I’ll be away for the weekend. Family things~
Thanks for reading! Any rants? /hides again/
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