Makoto's P.O.V

I look at my friends, they're all so happy, we have made it to being one of the greatest boy bands in Japan and we're famous in other places of the world like Korea and Singapore.

I look at my friends as we're about to walk on to stage in front of thousands of fans, mostly teenage girls. The screams are wild and the words coming out of Nagisa's mouth are lost within the noise. I can't help but smile.

As I smile I get the usual pokerface glare from Haru whilst Rei and Nagisa smile back at me. Even though Haru didn't smile I could tell he was just as happy to be where he is now. Although he rejected the scouting offers by hundreds of people he chose this, I don't know why exactly, he never told me. Maybe because they all looked at him swimming competitively and he didn't want that?

Rin's also in a boy band now, in fact we're under the same label so we often tour together at festivals. We're like the YG family in many ways but maybe not as good me thinks as they have BIGBANG and they're gods in my personal opinion.

I've never understood why Rin is in a boy band as he was really wanting to get scouted, maybe it was because Haru rejected and he wanted to follow Haru like the little dog he is….or shark..but sharks don't follow people but rather food….Haru is not food though, anyway i'm getting off topic here..

Our boy band name is the Iwatobi Splash whilst Rin's is Samezuka. It's weird as we have Gou as a manager, she manages with the label what tours we do, what track list we should perform and how we should work our next albums out, occasionally though she also managers her older brother's band which also has Nitori, Souske-kun and Momo-kun who I think has a thing for Gou but she never notices.. We're both four man bands.

Our concert tonight is just a routine one around Japan promoting our last album, FREE! Splash! As part of the music videos and album we wear our brightly coloured jackets, mine features green and blue, Haru's has blue and yellow, Nagisa's has some pink on his and as for Rei he has some purple on the sleeves.

As we walk out, I look at my best friend Haru, 'are you ready Haru-chan?'

'Mako, drop the chan and i'm ready.'

I keep forgetting to drop the chan and halve of the time he doesn't tell me to drop it when I call it him and the other half amount of times he does.

'I only sing Free.' I hear as I take the final steps out before appearing on stage.

I smile, Haru has brought being FREE into this now as he only sings as he enjoys it unlike Rin who is competitive, he wants to top the charts and so far he hasn't but hey we've only released one album and so have they. Who knows next week their album may top us..

Rei, Nagisa, Haru and myself walk on stage, as the crowd lays eyes on us the fangirl's screams increase in volume causing a deep smile to be carved onto my face whilst Haru looked calm as per usual. The fans loved him for that and they shipped him with me, I think the ship was called MakoHaru whilst Rei and Nagisa were shipped to make Reigisa.

As much I loved the fans being happy and making ships I didn't like it in a way as it was teasing me. I loved my best friend but I could never ever date him as i'm a boy and he's a boy. Also, we're famous and it would be so frowned upon if we went somewhere and maybe it was just a jokey thing the fans want to ship us? If I was ever to come out and be with Haru then our fans would hate us and our record label would get angry including Gou. Also presides, Haru doesn't' strike me as the gay type but then again he doesn't strike me as the straight type, he loves water and that's it. There's no use. I let out a small sigh that is not noticeable to our fans before smiling again.

''Hello Osaka!" Rei shouts.

'Hell Osaka!" Nagisa repeats causing Rei to turn and look at him raising a brow. 'I already said hello, Nagisa-kun?'

'Rei-chan I can say hello too you know?"

I smiled at them and our crowd seemed to like the chemistry between the two, maybe that was why they were shipped and sometimes they did fan service. Rarely Haru and myself do fan service but when we do the crowd erupts..

We all bow to our cheers in unison before breaking into song which was Splash Free."

As we sung we danced too, Nagisa was the lead dancer of the group whilst I was the lead singer with Haru, Rei was the rapper if we occasionally had a verse in our song that had to be rapped. Despite that our things were pretty equal apart from Haru's dancing. He wasn't the greatest to say and his movements we're slow so we usually let him incorporate a type of dance into the performance that suited him.

We performed for a few hours before leaving and going back to the hotel. Nagisa ordered pizza for the group and we all sat in a circle around a table.

'You have fun tonight Haru?'

'Yeah.' He replies.

I turn to look at Nagisa and Rei but it was clear that they did have fun and presides Nagisa had pizza down his throat so if he talked he was probably gonna die.

'Nagisa, slow down you're gonna choke.' I say causing Rei to move closer to him and make sure that he ate slower. The thought of those two being shipped crosses my mind, the fans are right about that ship.

Eventually Rei and Nagisa go to their room leaving Haru and myself in our room. I clear up and take things to the large bins outside whilst Haru remains in the room. As I get back I notice him gone. My heart beat begins to race and I check frantically around the hotel room for him just in case he was hiding but he wasn't. I go to pick up my phone to call Nagisa but as I do I see a note on a desk. I walk to it and pick it up.

'There's a pool. I'm going swimming.'

'Haru.' I utter whilst my eyes widen.

I run to the pool and there I see it is Haru floating alone in the indoor pool at the hotel. I scratch my hair, I thought the pool closed at this time of night but obviously not.

I strip off my clothes to my swimwear and enter the pool. I always wear swimwear underneath as Haru is so unpredictable. One time we were performing at a theme park and there was a waterside near the stage and naturally Haru walked off the stage, stripped and queued in the line to have a go. It caused a lot of commotion as many of our fans chased after him causing the steps to the slide being overcrowded and a small child to get claustrophobic.

As I enter the pool I slowly walk towards Haru.

'Hi Haru.'

'Makoto, you came down here?' Haru asks whilst standing up to look at me.

I nod. 'Of course.'

As I answer he smiles. My eyes widen. He's smiling. He rarely does that? Is it a big deal to him that i'm down here with him.

'Makoto, thank you.'

'Thanks for what?'

'Thank you for being a good friend!'

My eyes widen again for the seventh time of the day. 'Haru..you're welcome..'

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