Summary: Zakery had his heart broken by Kyoko Mogami and thinks he'll never be somebody. But who would have thought from his heartbreak comes a new life.
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"Um, do you want to play?" said, Zakery asking out his crush at only 8 years old.
Kyoko Mogami who was 7 blinked before saying. "Okay. We can play dolls"
He was so blinded with love, that he agreed to play dolls with her.
And then Shotaro appeared and said. "Who the hell are you?"
"The guy who is playing dolls with Kyoko-chan" said, Zakery.
"But that's for the girls" said, Shotaro.
"And" he said, before saying. "Would you like for me to put you in a dress?"
Shotaro felt a shiver go down his spine, what was this feeling?
Zakery played dolls with Kyoko for an hour and thus their friendship began.
Zakery learned from a young age that if he acted like he was flirting with guys, he could ward off any guy who happened to catch sight of Kyoko.
Whenever he was there, Sho mysteriously didn't stay for long.
They entered middle school together and he was Kyoko rock as Sho discovered girls weren't so yucky after all and began to realise how good looking he was.
He would help her with the inn and help her in her training to become a bride.
And then Kyoko vanished into thin air, apparently she ran away to Tokyo with Sho.
Damn!
To think the guy would strike there!
But then Zakery looked at his bank account and saw almost zero so he started working and asking for more shifts to get himself a place in Tokyo, meanwhile he was always scouting for news about the two.
He was 18 years old, when he finally had enough to get himself a small apartment in Tokyo and now all he had to do was find both of them.
Wasn't Sho being encouraged to be a singer or something?
With a literal google search in a public library, Shotaro who now changed his name to Sho Fuwa, lit up his screen.
His shinning success was for all to see and it was hurting his eyes, it was as if Sho was laughing at him beyond the screen.
He tried to find Kyoko, even going door to door until the police were called.
But then one day, he looked up above a jumbo screen and thought how an orange haired girl looked so much like Kyoko.
He ended up searching her up and know that smile and golden eyes anywhere, apparently Kyoko had become an actress.
We'll, he was going to support her.
He brought the box set of Dark Moon when it came out, with posters and CDs before buying anything else she was in and being their for her debut onto tv.
But soon it wasn't enough to support her from the shadows, he wanted to support her from close up.
He decided to try out for LME.
But boy was auditions hell on earth.
He couldn't dance because he had two left feet.
He couldn't sing because he was tone death.
His good looks were nothing to be praised beside other males.
But he still tried and failed horrible each time, until he tried out as a regular staff member and got a job as a lighter.
It took him several days to find her when he started but he finally did, it was at a tv set and he waited for her break.
He was outright staring at her this whole time, he was sure everybody but her could see it.
Koun Hizuri instinctively moved to protect her.
When that break was called, he was on a move.
"KYOKO-CHAN!" He yelled.
The woman jumped and so did everybody else, he came to her.
"W-Who?" she said.
"Its me Zakey" he said, "Zakey from home"
Her confusion soon gave way to recognition and she screamed.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"
To everybody else, it was a confirmation that they knew each other, Zakery could just see the air getting lighter.
"We'll, I decided to move to Tokyo" he said, "I'm so glad I finally found you" he put his hand in hers.
There was a large cough as Kuon said. "Mogami-san, who is this?"
Kyoko hand was removed from his and said. "Zakery, this is my boyfriend Koun"
Huh?
What.
Boyfriend?
The look on his face was as if he had just been slapped, every single person could see that.
Kyoko oblivious said. "And Koun this is my friend, Zakery. He's gay"
Huh?
The look on Zakery face when she said, told everyone he was as straight as pole.
"Huh? What Gay?" he said. "I'm not gay"
Kyoko confused said. "But then why did you agree to play dolls with me and dress up? Why did you get all flirty with guys when they were around. You didn't show any interest in other girls accept for me. Why would you do that unless you were..."
Finally it came through Kyoko head what exactly she was saying and she looked at him with wide eyes.
"Y-You like me?" said, Kyoko.
Zakery heart hurt as he said with a good vibe. "It was a childhood crush. You promised to go out with me if things didn't work out with Shotaro. But I made you promise that when you were 7 so it was unrealistic" before he said. "I'm be rooting for both of you. Good luck, your boyfriend is a heck of a lot better then Shotaro"
He then turned around.
Kyoko opened and closed her mouth, shocked that she was so slow on his feelings.
With a heavy heart, Zakery just smiled and did his work, if he and Kyoko made eye contact he would just smiled and then went back to work.
He worked the whole day and went back home.
The moment the door closed, he went on a tantrum, flipping everything he could before sobbing in a full bathtub about how unfair the world was.
He should have know that because he who was born with nothing he couldn't possible get that kind of girl, but it didn't hurt any less.
He felt like his reason for living was gone and just slid his whole body under the water not caring if it spilled over.
All he could think about was Kyoko and how much his heart hurt.
There was no way she would break up with the best guy in the country for a guy like him.
He just laid there and didn't even come up when he needed to breath when he suddenly heard.
[Your Broken heart has activated the Prince of the Mermaid system]
[Prince of Mermaid: A being who's will be desired but his heart will never belong to one]
He got out and took a deep breath, wondering if he had hallucinated it.
And that's when he saw it.
A giant white fish tail sticking out the other end of his bath tub and just chilling there.
He looked down at his body and wouldn't be shamed to say he screamed like a little girl.
His legs were gone but its place was a beautiful fish tail that seemed to be fused to his pelvis, he looked and saw his own reflection.
That wavy short black hair he had, was now long, white and flowing as if it belonged in a cheesy romantic sitcom, his face was longer, his eyelids more delicate and you could say he was perfection.
Holy crap, he never knew his face would one day give Koun Hizuri a run for his money.
His face was almost enough to not make him freak out about the tail.
Almost.
He tried flopping out of the bathtube and it was hell on earth, he finally knew what fishes felt like flopping onto land and just wiggling.
Luckily the transformation didn't last long and he had his old appearance back and two wet feet back.
Was that a dream? He thought, before putting fresh water into the bathtub and trying again.
He transformed.
Got out.
Became normal.
Got back in.
Became a merman.
Cool!
But Zakery also knew he could not show the world this transformation, unless he was going to spend the rest of his life as a fish.
The next day, he came in and was glowing despite the blows to the heart he had recieved yesterday.
"Good morning, Kyoko-chan" He said, sparkling as everybody eyes hurt. "Good morning, Kyoko-chan boyfriend and manager"
Yashiro was wondering who was he.
"Isn't it a wonderful day?" he said, before he began saying good morning to everybody he came across with a sparkling aura.
"That is some guy" said, Yashiro wondering if he was a little bit crazy.
Where ever he went, Zakery was sparkling.
Going to the toilet?
He was sparkling.
Going to eat?
Acted like he was a member of nobility.
Saying hi to his superiors.
He was like the star.
Just setting up lights?
He acted as if he was the sexiest person in the world and was showing it off.
He became known as the sparkling man of LME, having dethroned Koun in that.
But seeing Kyoko with Koun hurt like hell but he kept it in, he would often go to war with the fans who were against Kyoko and Koun relationship on the web.
But of course, they didn't need to know that.
He was soon hired to go to a place with a lake that was nowhere nearly as deep as the ocean but it was fairly deep.
This lake was famous for its lovely view and fish.
Perfect for shooting.
Kyoko was there having fun with her boyfriend as they shot the scenes and extras were made to walk past.
The rails were there to make sure nobody falls over the edge, he was there too of course to make the actors and actresses look good in light.
He didn't know what happened, one moment Kyoko looked panicked, the next moment she was leaping off the bridge into the water like a lunatic.
When they all looked, they saw she clearly had a clearly broken ankle due to the rock, she struggled to swim to get something.
However, they all knew that when she grabs hold of it in that condition, there was no way she wouldn't sink like a rock.
Koun body moved but Zakery was way faster.
All he could think about was not letting Kyoko drown, so when he hit the water he transformed before those who were looking down from the bridges, eyes.
Because the water was shallow, he was very close to surface.
Everybody looked on with absolute shock even the director and her boyfriend.
Zakery swam to Kyoko and she was already below water, he took her, sucked his breath in and then blow a giant round bubble before her eyes, and then put it on her face.
Kyoko found that she could now breath, he then carried her princess style and swam to the nearest shore.
He got very close to the shore when he motioned for her to move.
She did not.
She was staring at his tail, luxuriously moving hair and pretty face.
Cameras were at this side as well and in full view of them.
"Z-Zakery. You're a mermaid?" said, Kyoko, if she had know she would have dated him.
And he knew it.
He gave her the sadness smile she had ever seen and said. "If I had told you, you would have only loved the mermaid part of me." Before he said in utter garbage but made it sound like some ancient language that spoke wisdom.
"Zame Jasgue nes Badma"
"What does that mean?" said Kyoko as she got off him.
"Be with the other you love, not the one you want to love" he said, to Koun who was coming. "I lied. I came to Tokyo because I wanted to be with you. But you clearly don't see me as anything beyond a friend"
He looked like puppy, but he trusted Koun with her.
Both men came to an agreement between each other.
He tried to turn only to realised one thing.
Damn, he couldn't turn around without poking his body out of the water.
Well, since he couldn't go back.
He suddenly lept out of the water, his whole fish body in mid air far beyond the bridge for all to see and then did a back flip inside the water and through the terrible Japanese Sewage pipe, which they all could see him going.
Goodbye Kyoko. He thought going through it.
Meanwhile on land, everybody still wasn't out of shock.
The director made sure the camera rolled through all of it.
It was.
"Koun..." said Kyoko. "My best friend was a Mermaid"
But Koun was more concerned about the merman who was now loose in Japan.
Going through Japan water system couldn't be comfortable.
Did he even know where the sea was?
And scene!
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