OI'm Not Alone AnymoreK

"Reikkun..." Reikyoku gave his friend the attention he wanted "...This is Mi, you know, the one you helped me to get." after he said it – quite awkwardly – both Zhou Mi and Reikyoku laughed at Henry's cuteness. Actually the past months Reikyoku helped Henry to make his advances on Zhou Mi, their senpai. He had the urge to encourage others to go after their loved one since he couldn't gather the courage from the beginning and made it too late, entering in a small depression. These events made him afraid of not helping his close ones and being forced to see them in the same situation.

"Well then...Let's eat shall we?" Prompted Reikyoku an both joined him, soon after they stared at the silvery landscape of the university in awe. The snow falling smoothly adding to the calm atmosphere of the cafeteria allowed them to have a nice chat. It didn't took too long for Reikyoku's smart phone to ring.

"What's this?" Asked Mi.

"It's a message...'When spring comes, I want to invite you to a swimming club. Would you accept? - Geishō'...Ah, i'ts just Geishō, finally I'll see how he looks like."

"What if it is some kind of freak? You know, that kind who likes to murder beautiful boys?" Henry said while freaking out, Mi rolled his eyes.

"And why would he act in a public place?"

"Thanks for the compliment tough."

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Yūri and Reikyoku, since it's friday and this day they have a day off, decided to make a little tour in Kyoto, mainly in Nakagyō, the ward they worked in. They went to two places: a music store and the international manga museum, and Reikyoku finaly discovered what Yūri meant some months ago. Now exhausted, they went to a Okonomiyake house to fill their bellies.

"Reikkun, do you know that day, when I said I went to the Jidai Matsuri?"

"Yes. I went too, but I didn't saw you." He protested.

"Sorry..." She made the hand expression for sorry "...So...I invited Junga[Yoona], we had a lot of fun." Reikyoku's interest in the conversation went 50 to 100 when he heard the name 'Junga'. It has been one year and a half since Yūri is trying to win her heart, and logical, she always tells everything to Reikyoku, from the fact that Junga is already dating to the fact that she can't live without her. "...She said that she broke up with her boyfriend, so I asked her out. We had a lot of fun, never though Kyoto would be so beautiful at night..."

"Aaaaand? You two are together?" He asked, squealing like a fangirl.

"Wer're working out. I hope we can be togethe at least. What about your plan to go to Tokyo? Do you know where he lives?" Later she munched her okonomiyake "This is so delicious!"

"No. But I have a friend that is his closest friend, and I still needs money, my father says I should give up on him...but I know it is because he is afraid of seeing me in depression again."

"I can understand you father, and you're the younger one and the nearer son too."

"Yeah..." He said nonchalatly.

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After hanging out with his friend Yūri, they both went to their houses. However before entering the residential area he remembered he had to buy some igredients for his bento, so Reikyoku went to a near market in his ward. There, while choosing the igredients, he received a message from Shōmin, saying that they hould meet – urgently – he had no choice, even if it's 9 pm, maybe he found something about Keiken, who knows.

He went to the place texted in the message, it was a comfy looking restaurant. He sat on a chair near the window, as he intructed, and waited Shōmin.

"If he was inviting me I was the one supposed to be late...crap." He murmured, but he didn't knew Shōmin was already there, taking his orders. When Reikyoku saw him, though, he was amazed by his looks, Shōmin was so gorgeous now.

"Hi, Rei-chan, I bought some cakes and tea." he said smiling.

"At this hour in the night?!"

"Shhh. Ahah, Rei-chan...you always scold me. But this is not the case..." He paused his sentence to sit, he placed hi order on the table and resumed his talk "...I want to tell you...do you know why I asked about your family that day?"

"On the graduation ceremony?" He asked and sipped his tea.

"Yes! Actually I...like your brother...a-"

"How I never knew that?! And you were so obvious, was I so spellbound by Keiken?" Shōmin stared him annoyed, because he cut him off in the middle of a confession.

"As I was trying to say, I love your brother. Actually in school I was just interested, but some months ago I was in the Jidai Matsuri and..."

"You met him again, because some people shoved you and you stumbled on him."

"Yes! How did you know?"

"I'm his brother, and he tells everything to me?" Shōmin rolled his eyes at the snark statement his friend gave him, Reikyoku later expressed a 'sorry' with his hands. "DO you want his phone number?"

"W-wh-why this all of a sudden? And wouldn't your brother ignore me? I'm a complete strange to him."

"Then I'm going to call him." Shōmin entered in a state of panic, and tried to take Reikyoku's phone away from him. While Reikyoku's was having fun fighting over the phone, both didn't noticed that they were scandalous. They little fight just stopped when Inkō answered. "heya, Onii-chan! How are you?..." Shōmin was bemused by their idly talk and gazed at he window, remembering about Keiken, his childhood friend. He returned to pay attention to Reikyoku when he heard the following: "There is a friend who wants to talk to you...yes, he is here with me."

Reikyoku handed his phone to Shōmin and watched the scene in utterly amusement, this was the first time he saw his friend acting so awkwardly, then he remembered he had to prepare his bento for tomorrow, but soon forgot about it and decided to finally buy something from the cafeteria. It wouldn't hurt right? He heard later Shōmin saying goodbye and took his phone again.

"Talking with your crush is so hard...Ah, Rei-chan, Keiken talked to me yesterday on the phone." Reikyoku started to pay full attention to what he was going to say, his heart pounding like crazy. "He said he was going to Nagoya, to study the city, because one of the games he have to illustrate is set in Nagoya, he just didn't said when. I though you would like to know, ah, and he still have your letter." Reikyoku flushed and recommended them to go home.

At home Reikyoku stored the food he bought and went to his bedroom, istening his parents talking to Inkō, later both talked again.

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After three months of winter, Spring finally came to warm everyone. The flowers are starting to bloom, it is also know as the season of reviving and the most famous – and loved – season of Japan, with a lot of festivals in the season.

Reikyoku was walking down the streets of Kyoto, following the map Geishō showed him on an e-mail. He was now going to a club. It was on the golden week, so he had an week off of school and work, and there's a better place to go other than a swimming club?

But.

The place looked very upper-class and he was hesitating.

"Is this the right place?" He stared at the map in his smart phone, double checked the sign, yes, it is here. Whilst he entered the building he wondered who must be this Geishō fake.

He was amazed by the place's beauty, he showed his invite and entered de facto in the place. After getting lost two times he managed to find the place listed in the message. However some security guards were blocking him, claiming that no one should be entering in this area, he tried to explain his reasons but they wouldn't listen to him. Then appeared a tall, slender young adult, with milky skin and raven colored hair, he wanted to know what was happening.

When he laid his eyes on Reikyoku he figured out who he is.

"I invited him. Sorry for not notify you." And he dragged Reikyoku to where he was before. When he loosened his grip, information sank, he was indeed Geishō, not a Geishō fake.

"W-Wait, you're Geishō, the real Geishō, that idol with a wonderful voice?"

"Yes I am."

"Bu-but, why were you saying you were a fake."

"You wouldn't believe, and if you did, you would freak out, and I hate that...What about we go there and swim intead?" He prompted, while Reikyoku thought that his reaons were fair "Let me introduce you to my friends..." He drew their attention when he shouted their names. "The taller one is Shigen[Siwon], the cute there is Shunben[Joonmyun], but he preffers to be called Shūko[Suho]. Boys, this is Reikyoku, say hi to him."

"You're Reikyoku? Reikkun right?" Shunben.

"Hello, nice to meet you." Shigen.

"Hi! Pleased to meet you all." He said and bowed. Geishō grabbed both of his hands, softly, ang guided him to the beach chairs, Reikyoku was wondering what he wanted but stopped when the idol said he wated to have a private chat. When both sat he offered a drink.

"I must thank you for creating that blog. After some years working as an idol I was becoming tired of hearing people who wants to control my life, forcing me to date other people I barely know. Having almost everyone around me with the same view of love was sickening, I wanted to find someone, even if it was in the internet, that saw love the same way as I see. But then I found your blog, I must say that your love is more pure than mine. How you never gave up on him...it inspired me to go after the person I love, and also to write some lyrics to my new album." His confession made Reikyoku blink a lot of times, before replying back.

"Wow...thank you...and you're welcome too. It must be sad, to be controlled by everyone. But say, who is your love interest?" He said interested, maybe one of these two guys? Or another person and they are just helping him. He took a closer look at Shigen and noticed that he was a model, he remembered because of the magazine he works on, I got even more susrprised. "But celebrities are normally friends with other celebrities I think."

"My love interest? It's Shigen. Want to swim now?" He prompted again. This time they really swam.

But they don't just swam, they played too, volley, race, everything to keep Geishō de-stressed because of his busy schedule. They stayed in the club for a couple of hours, sometimes Reikyoku would mentally squeal with every skinship Geishō and Shigen made. He also get to know more about Shunben, and discovered he was a relative of Shigen. Later they would return to their daily routines, Geishō offered a ride to Reikyoku's home, since they were weary for playing too much.

At home he chatted with Shunben by his computer. There he said that he liked a friend of his, but he don't want to assume that he is homosual, Reikyoku advised him to give his friend his space, and that he should wait, that one day he would accept himself. Before going to bed he decided to bathe, and, once submerged, started to mediate, reflecting about all the things he did after his graduation and upcoming depression.

"I managed to do a lot of wonderful things for my friends after I lost Keiken...but I did nothing to myself..." suddenly he remembered what Shōmin said that day, that Keiken would go to Nagoya "I wonder if I have a chance of finding him...maybe I should express all my feelings until now, but how..." That's when he thought of a song.

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May 15^th, the day of Aoi Matsuri, a festival of the two Kamo shrines in the city, it's roots date back in the Heian period and it's also a long festival. Reikyoku's family went to watch the "parade", like they do every year, not to say that both shrines, Shimogamo and Kamigamo, are both very beautiful shrines. Reikyoku went just to relieve his stress and also to find some kind of inspiration to finish his love song. When they arrived home he decided to finish the lyrics according to the melody he already created weeks ago.

"I think it's good. Time to post in my blog." When he posted the lyrics plus the piano melody in his blog, it became one of the most famous posts made by him – the most popular being his first one – even his brother found about this music, and wanted his brother to visit him in Nagoya, finally his chance came.

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In Tokyo Keiken was preparing his luggage to travel to Nagoya, he took a time to check his requests and saw a fan wanting an doujin based on an love song that was attatched to her e-mail, along with the genre – school romance:

Have you ever, even now
Believed
That love matures with just one person
Even just wishing for it
I can’t do it well,
but, still
I know

Not Alone
Not Alone
Even if these feelings don’t have an “answer”
Not Alone
Even if all the love songs seem to disappear
I’m the flower that blooms for you
That’s right, I’m not alone

Why am I
Still so afraid?
Was there also such a powerless me here?
Reverting back to a child
I still can’t express my words
I can’t move forward if its only a fairytale

Not Alone
Hey, Not Alone
To think of somebody
Not Alone
The moment I found the truth
What should I call
This feeling?
Precious things in me

Thank you, you gave me
This strength
I’ll be there for you
If I’m needed, I’ll always
Reach out with both hands
Life goes on…

Now I see, that’s right,
Because I wanted to try
Loving somebody forever and ever

Not Alone
Not Alone
Even in a place without lights
Not Alone
Even with tears flowing
I’m the flower that blooms
For you
That’s right, I’m not…
That’s right, I’m not…

I’m not alone anymore

"What a beautiful song..." He then searched for the original lyrics and found Reikyoku's blog. There he found also the melody accompanying the lyrics and also a lot of posts regarding his love experiences. He felt like crying, knowing someone loved him this much and still didn't gave up on him, his heart skip a beat when he read that he wanted to go to Tokyo to go after him, maybe he liked Reikyoku too but didn't knew, or this feeling just came now, that he know that Reikyoku still love him even after everything that happened. "You're welcome Reikyoku..." he said before dialing Shōmin's number, he wanted to know Reikyoku's whereabouts, he was eager to meet him. "Since he can't go after me I'll."

After a whole hour talking with Shōmin he discovered he was going to Nagoya too, he asked his friend to know what time he was going, even if this was asking too much he couldn't let this chance slip from his hands, he had to se Reikyoku, no matter what. After gathering all the information his friend could get he finished his luggage and took Reikyoku's love letter with him.

"First I need to take Jōetsu shinkansen towards ōsaka then I will meet Reikyoku if I go 'towards Tokyo'.direction..I will need to take two trips, and do it three hours before he does." He kept repeating his plan in his head the entire day, and notified Minkō that he would go to Nagoya one day before the scheduled day.

And he did as he planned, taking Joetsu shinkansen towards ōsaka, and stopping at the Matsumoto terminal, when he landed on the plataform, he checked on the clock, he still have 30 minutes to take the other train, so he decided to find him.

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Reikyoku on the other hand was buying some souvenir in the station, he noticed that there was 10 minutes left for the train to go to Nagoya so he decide dto embark already, but he didn't noticed there was someone following him. He sat near the window and opened it, he was listening to music and remembered that Keiken was going to Nagoya, deep inside he was wishing to meet him at Nagoya station.

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Keiken was walking near the shinkansen when he saw Reikyoku embarking on one of the platforms, smiling, he embarked on the one the latter went, scaning inside the train he couldn't find him until he almost reached the end, there he saw the petite male almost sleepy, listening to music and holding an fancy looking leather diary, his hair was darker than before and he looked more pale, he approached him and tried to caught his attention.

"Can I close the window?" Reikyoku snapped out of his drowsiness and faced his interlocutor. The shock when he noticed it was Keiken is undescribable, Keiken satisfied by his expression.

"I-it can't be...Ke-keiken...? It can't be! It can't be you!" He said unbelievably, tears flowing, his crush was finally beside him, his heart pounding as if it wanted to break free. Keiken smiled warmily after he sat on the couch and brushed his thumbs on his skin.

"You don't need to cry. You're not alone anymore." and the train started to move.

When he arrived at Inkō's apartment his mother said that the kakitsubatas have bloomed more beautiful than ever.

It's official, I don't know how to express the joy of reencountering someone, even if I already felt that (it was about a videogame though).

This is my first finished story ever. :D I'm very glad this ended (actually I posted all of them together because this is a oneshot, but I divided it in four parts because it is 15 pages long.) I hope you like this story and I must thanks lolita26 because if it wasn't for her invitation to her writing contest I wouldn't make this fics, so thankssies lolita26. :D