Fic: somebody new
Title: somebody new
Author: Rinny
Fandom: Arashi
Characters: Aiba
Word Count: 182
Rating: G
Summery: Aiba checks the magazines whenever they have a photoshoot with his shirt off.
Aiba checks the magazines whenever they have a photoshoot with his shirt off.
Those shoots are frequent and Aiba's careful that none of his bandmates catch him perusing the pages of Wink-Up or Non-No. He doesn’t like to hide it from them. He doesn’t like to hide anything from anybody.
He just doesn’t think they’ll understand.
Sometimes, in the pictures, he's wearing a shirt that's folded just so over his chest, hiding the faint scar that trails over his skin. The surgeon did an impeccable job, Aiba thinks someone must have told him who he was and that he sold his body as well as his voice.
Still, the scar was not invisible and Aiba scours every picture, looking for that hint of puckered skin that has shaped so much of the last six years of his life. That maybe someone wasn’t so diligent with the airbrush or decided for just a moment that an idol was allowed to be less than beautiful. Less than perfect.
He never found it. Not once.
All he saw was the lie.
Himself; hale and whole.