For my UtaPri enabler Khamsin, a bit of gen fluff featuring Tokiya and Otoya at the STARISH debut concert.
Inspired by this fanart piece. [ khamsin DOT tumblr DOT com / post / 49099167125 ]
The debut concert was wrapping up, they were still on stage, running about, leaning fingers out to meet the outstretched tips of new found fans across the void between stage and audience. It was like magic. After months of work, years of dreams, and a kismet series of events that lead each member of STARISH to Nanami Haruka's music — they were all on stage together and had just completed a debut concert. He felt blessed.
Otoya raised his mic again to shout another thank you to the crowd, and they screamed back in reply. No one seemed ready to leave, himself included. The energy rapport between audience and stage seemed infinite. Even as he thought that, he felt a bead of sweat slide own his face. It wasn't really infinite, and they'd all crash hard the moment they got off stage. A quick glace showed the stage hands waiting just out of sight of the audience, water bottles and towels at the ready.
He didn't think he'd ever stop smiling. He looked back towards the audience, and he found Tokiya coming towards him from a corner of the stage where he'd been flirting with fans alongside Ren. Otoya reached out a welcoming hand to him, expecting that Tokiya wanted access to a mic, or was going to tell him they needed to wrap up and get offstage. He'd reprimand Otoya for over-doing it and organize a graceful exit via the mic. Tokiya was the experienced one among them, having been working as Hayato before he ever came to Saotome Academy, and he probably knew where to stop. Debuting probably wasn't as huge and earth-shaking an experience for Tokiya, but he stood with them anyways.
But when he got close, Otoya saw tears in Tokiya's eyes and his grouchy roommate's mouth stretched in a smile that was as joyful as his own.
"I forgot," Tokiya placed a hand to steady himself on Otoya's shoulder. "I forgot it could feel this way."
He feels it too. Otoya ruffled his hair before pulling Tokiya in for a hug. The crowd erupted into fresh cheers and both boys turned to wave at them, arms around each other's shoulders. There was something infinitely comforting knowing that Tokiya was there with them in heart as well as mind and body, and he laughed for the joy of it, "It's going to be like this every time from now on. I just know it!"