Title: Our Day in Summer

Author's Note: Goodness! Thank you guys for sticking around! This, right here will be the final installment for Our Day in Summer. What are you waiting for?! Go read! More from me later!

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Pairing: Nezumi/Shion , One-sided Yoming/Shion

Rating: T/PG-13

Warnings: AU, OoC, Yaoi(hints)

Summary: Shion is stuck in a monotonous job as a company employee, and has no real aims in life. One day, he meets Nezumi, a street musician and aspiring artist, and things in his life begin to change.

Disclaimer:

No. 6 does not belong to me. All rights belong to Atsuko Asano-san. These boys, how I wish I could own them but, they will never be mine.

He was expecting disaster to strike at any moment, but his resignation and the rehearsals with Nezumi that followed it went more smoothly than he could've imagined. It was fun, learning to harmonise with Nezumi, learning breathing and singing techniques. He was still unsure about performing in front of a huge crowd – he'd never really been good with being in the limelight – but Nezumi assured him it would be okay, just to try his best. And for Nezumi, he'd do almost anything.

The day of the first tour almost snuck up on him, suddenly looming out of nowhere. When it finally arrived, it didn't feel real. He knew he was only going to be on stage for a grand total of six minutes, but it was still terrifying to think about.

When he saw the line of fans, mostly girls, some boys, waiting outside the concert hall, it was hard to believe that all these people were coming here to see his Nezumi when; not when, only two years ago when the two of them first met, no one had even known his name.

"You ready?" Nezumi asked before the concert started, looking far too calm and collected for someone who was doing this for the first time.

Shion wasn't sure he was, but Nezumi's smile was warm and reassuring, and it made him feel a little more prepared.

"I'll be okay," he said, and with that, Nezumi offered him one more nod and a flash of a smirk before he disappeared to finish getting organised.

It was all so surreal, when the lights went down, when the first screams began, cascading into a roar. And then the band started to play, the screams swelled, and Nezumi finally began to sing.
At last, it was happening, Shion thought, misty eyed and digging his fingers into his palms. Everything Nezumi had worked towards, everything they'd waited for; it was finally beginning, right here and now.

His heart lurched when Nezumi reached the first MC, because Shion knew it was almost time. He listened as Nezumi thanked everyone for coming, talking about the concert for a while, how happy he was to see so many people here, before he inevitably steered the talk towards a surprise he had planned.

"I guess you might have heard me talk about my best friend, S-kun, in interviews," he said, then laughed a little, the confidence in his voice strong and proud. "I guess it's a bit weird to invite your best friend out onto stage when no one knows who he is, but we have something special planned, so please bear with us. Shion!"

His body walked out of its own accord, on numb legs and shaky feet, but he tried his hardest to put on his best composed mask.

"He… hello." His own voice boomed around him in the concert hall, and it was so strange that he didn't say anything for a moment, until he remembered he should introduce himself. "I'm Shion. N-Nezumi's friend."

"He's nervous," Nezumi supplied for him, reaching over to squeeze his shoulder. "He gets stage fright, so please watch over him with a very kind heart."

A giggle ran through the audience, and Shion felt his cheeks burn bright red.

"Nezumi is always so mean to me. If any of you can explain why you like him so much, please help me understand," Shion heard his own mouth say, and the giggles escalated. It made him feel better about himself.

"He doesn't mean that," Nezumi said, brushing the insult off. "Anyway, the reason Shion is here is because I wrote a duet, and I needed someone to help me sing it. And I couldn't think of a better person. Right?"

He glanced at Shion, flashed him the bright, radient smile he'd fallen in love with, and Shion felt himself smiling back. That was followed by a few seconds of awkward silence in which the two of them realised they had nothing left to say, and they broke into nervous chuckles.

"So please listen to our song, 'Our Day in Summer'."

The band started again, a slow but uplifting tune that still made Shion's heart swell with emotion each time he heard it. Nezumi joined in after the introduction, turning to catch Shion's eye, and Shion took a deep breath and began to sing.

He let himself forget about his nerves, about the audience, thinking solely of Nezumi and the lyrics he had written, about a chance meeting beneath a bridge by the river, and how it had changed two lives in a single moment. As he sung, voice lifting and soaring, melding and harmonising with Nezumi's, he felt light as air, free, as though with each word that left his mouth, things were falling further into place.

And when the music faded away and the last note was sung, the audience burst into applause and shouts, and Nezumi took Shion's hand – took his hand and clasped it tight, right there in front of tens of thousands of people – and they bowed together.
And Shion thought, as he stood beside Nezumi under the dazzling lights, with their fingers entwined and their futures stretched out ahead of them, that he had finally begun to live.

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