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Title: Disbelief and Desire (6/6)
Pairing: Akame
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Angst, Smut, Romance
Summary: Kame still has not dealt with the fact that Jin left KAT-TUN. Now that the soloist is back in Japan, Kame has to confront his own thoughts, as well as the feelings he had kept hidden for years.
oOoOo
Jin’s mind raced with years’ worth of forbidden fantasies now made completely welcome with just two words from Kame. His voice was hoarse but not retiring, and Jin could think of nothing but willingly obeying the command. Jin laid Kame down on the bench and gave him a heated kiss, allowing Kame to savor his own cum, before running his tongue down Kame’s jaw, neck, and chest and trailing pecks and small, delicate nibbles that were sure to leave hickeys everywhere later on. Jin’s soft tongue paid careful attention to Kame’s nipples, causing the younger man to arch into Jin’s touch.
Kame felt Jin’s fingers at his lips and he took them, sucking and swirling his tongue as if pleasing Jin’s manhood. Jin withdrew his fingers from Kame’s mouth and put them into his own, staring seductively at Kame as he lathered his fingers with saliva. Kame fuzzily thought to himself that it will be painful without a doubt, but their saliva would have to suffice for the absence of lube.
Jin benignly prepared Kame by massaging the smaller man’s arse and, soon, readied the entrance with one finger, and then two. Kame’s hands gripped the edges of the cushioned seat and he bit at his lower lip.
“Sshhh…” the older man appeased, aware that the sensation was completely unfamiliar to Kame.
Kame failed in stifling a whimper when Jin inserted a third finger, but endured it anyway. Jin brushed his lips and one hand on Kame’s smooth abdomen as he gently pushed in and out, becoming excited as he felt Kame’s warmth and slippery tightness. Jin hungrily observed as Kame’s gasps became less pained with each thrust and pulled his fingers out when he was satisfied that the KAT-TUN leader was ready.
“This is going to hurt,” Jin said in a hushed voice against Kame’s skin, worried that the younger man would change his mind on what they were about to do.
“I know,” Kame replied, breathless. Jin stopped tracing kisses down Kame’s stomach and looked up.
“How do you know?” he asked, eyes narrowing in suspicion.
“Akanishi,” Kame began, bringing his hands to Jin’s hair and letting his fingers lace among the brown locks. “I may be a virgin, but I’m not ignorant.”
Jin looked at him with a frown, as if deciding whether to believe him or not, and then spoke.
“Don’t call me ‘Akanishi.’”
Kame beamed at the childlike pout and lightly pulled Jin’s head up for a slow, fervent kiss. Kame put his arms around Jin’s neck and broke the lip lock.
“Now, Jin,” he said against Akanishi’s lips as he closed his eyes.
Jin hurriedly and clumsily lathered his cock with his own precum before slowly sliding his member inside Kame. His eyes flickered shut as he was overcome with absolute pleasure. It seemed like the further he went in, the more Kame tensed up, causing Jin to let out a strangled cry.
“Relax, Kazuya,” he muttered through slightly ragged breathing. “Or I’m going to come early.”
“You’re fucking piercing through my body, Jin. How can I reumphf - ”
The rest of Kame’s retort got lost as Jin kissed him roughly once more, beginning to move in and out of the younger man. Kame’s hands grasped Jin’s shoulders, nails digging into skin with each excruciating shove that the man on top of him made. Not long after, the pain gradually introduced a tinge of ecstasy as Jin hit a particular spot within, and soon, that same ecstasy made Kame yearn for more, matching Jin’s movements with his own thrusts.
For the first time, Kame made love, and he did it with the only person he ever wanted. For the first time, they savored and enjoyed each other, just as both had been covertly dreaming of since god knows when. An unwelcome thought, however, crept into Kame’s consciousness through the waves of bliss as Jin continued to hammer into him.
Jin was leaving in the morning. Whatever happened tonight was going to be a secret, and it was going to stay that way for a very long time. They were idols, and it was simply preposterous to consider coming out with an announcement that “Hey! We’re gay and we’re dating!” The fans might just love that, but the management and the rest of the show business would sure as hell not.
Tonight was, Kame was to convince himself, a wild fantasy that he would have to learn not to crave for. Their fingers interlocked, bodies moving together rhythmically, and with the contact, Kame willed to imprint every move and every touch they made that night in his and Jin’s memory, and even in their souls. Kame warmheartedly told himself that he was now Jin’s and equally, Jin was finally his.
He tried not to think of the difficulties that lay ahead as consequence of taking each other. Hell, he tried not to think about Jin leaving in a few hours. But to no avail. Kame wept silently, unable to contain the hurt.
“What’s wrong…” Jin half-groaned, his pace faltering as he noticed the tears emerging from his partner’s eyes.
“No - Jin - just… uhngh…” was all the reply he got, but Kame reached and pushed at the small of his back in an attempt to restore the rhythm.
Jin was worried, but he complied with the action, returning to pounding into the small frame underneath him. Kame’s hands fell back on the bench, but Jin caught one and placed it between them, wordlessly telling Kame to touch himself. Kame followed and cried in delirious passion of his own doing. Jin brought his own hand to join Kame’s in stroking the wet, throbbing cock, their lips meeting with clumsy French kisses.
“Come with me, Kazuya,” Jin managed to say.
The last thing he saw before his mind went blank was Kame’s impressive face and hair drenched in sweat, eyes clamped shut as he rode his second orgasm that night. Jin felt Kame’s warm cum seep through their hands at the same time that Kame’s walls pulsated around his cock.
“Kazuya,” Jin said after a few minutes of listening to his and Kame’s heavy breathing in the stillness of the dark. He was still on top of Kame, not quite able to pull out and get off just yet.
“Un,” Kame replied sparingly.
He kept his eyes closed, knowing how it would become obvious that he was crying if he looked Jin in the eye. Jin, however, touched his cheek and wiped the trail of still wet tears.
“What is it, Kazuya?” Jin asked softly.
“Don’t you think it’s unfair,” Kame started, still not opening his eyes. “That all we get after all those years of frustration and last few months of hurt and confusion is just one night?”
Kame’s voice cracked as he spoke. Jin shared the sentiment, but tonight was something he did not dare expect. Kame, being the mature, forward-looking individual that he was, saw the problems they would inevitably have to face later on. Jin preferred to see this night as a threshold to a promising future. Tonight was the first night of not having to conceal his feelings anymore, at least from the KAT-TUN leader.
“It’s not just one night,” Jin replied in a sad but soothing voice, so that Kame finally looked up at him. “From this night on, I’m yours.”
Jin brought his hand back to Kame’s face, raising his chin. He stared the smaller man in the eye, and Kame fondly thought that the imploring, persuading look was back in Jin’s adorable, honest eyes.
“Wherever I go, I’m yours forever, and yours alone,” Jin said before kissing Kame.
Kame kissed back, tears still in his eyes, but believing the older man’s words. At any rate, there was no other way to get through the sadness except through believing in Jin.
Finally, Jin slid out of Kame and sat on the floor beside the bench where Kame still lay.
“So,” the soloist began as he looked at Kame, the familiar naughty smirk on his lips again. “Is it true that you get all the girls now?”
[Love is over tonight]
oOo
Kame drove to the studio, humming to himself and tapping his fingers on the steering wheel. His body hurt in places and he barely had time to sleep (it was almost dawn when he got back to his house) but he woke up feeling energetic for the day ahead. He had in mind the last lines of the song he was working on, and was sure to start a demo that day, just before he goes to his TV guesting with the rest of KAT-TUN.
Taking his usual route to the studio, he again passed by and saw Akanishi’s billboards and smiled. Somehow, he was growing fond of seeing those advertisements now. He spotted Jin’s sexy pose with the American dancers and abruptly felt a pang of jealousy, but he confidently shot his eyes back on the road.
“From this night on, I’m yours,” he recalled Jin’s words last night. “Wherever I go, I’m yours forever, and yours alone.”
Kame smiled, reassured. Bakanishi belonged to him now. Kame continued to sport the silly grin as he recalled pieces of their conversation the previous night (or was it already morning?) such as when he mentioned that he was writing a new song (“Are you talking about me here?!” Bakanishi childishly protested upon reading the lyrics sheet), and when Kame asked how Jin knew that the KAT-TUN leader liked him.
“I didn’t,” Akanishi answered proudly. “I just guessed. And hey, I was right, wasn’t I?”
Kame chuckled as he thought of Jin’s baka-ness.
“But Kazuya,” Jin said, his face turning adorably serious for the nth time that night. “About me leaving KAT-TUN - ”
“What about it?” Kame asked with a yawn, sorely tempted to just fall asleep on the bench in the dance studio.
“Are you okay with it?”
“Oh Akanishi, get over yourself already!” Kame replied, feigning annoyance.
“Hey!”
“Jin, okay! Jin!”
Both men laughed warmly.
“Jin, a five-man KAT-TUN is different. It’s different without you. Personally, I wish you didn’t leave, but you had to, and you did. Through time, the group has learned to cope with that. And look where we are now, you and the rest of KAT-TUN. I hope you don’t take it the wrong way when I say that we’re happy with where we are right now. We’re making it worldwide, like what we promised when we were younger. We’re just doing it differently.”
Jin held on to Kame’s hand pressed against the soloist’s cheek. This young man always had the wisdom and maturity Jin seemed to lack at times.
“Just do us five a favor,” Kame paused as he stroked the hair out of Jin’s eyes, which were fixed intently on Kame’s own. “And succeed, ne?”
Jin nodded, as if indicating that it was both a challenge and a promise he was more than willing to take on, for his friends and for the one he loved. He smiled and kissed Kame softly.
Kame raised his fingers to his lips as he remembered the kiss, but realized what he was doing and drew his hand back. As he got off his car to the dim lighting of the underground parking lot, he remembered the last thing he said before parting ways with Jin the previous night.
“I love you.”
[Try living without me, yeah]
oOo
“You ready?” Nakamaru asked. He and Kame shared the dressing room for the TV guesting that evening. Koki, Taguchi, and Ueda shared the next room.
“Yes, just a bit more,” Kame replied vaguely as he carefully adjusted the red bandana he used as wristband, taking care for it not to cover his beaded bracelet.
“Hey, Akanishi called me up before leaving this morning,” Nakamaru suddenly said.
“M - maji de?” Kame replied awkwardly.
“Yeah, he was nice. I mean, he didn’t seem to change much, ne? Still same old Bakanishi. Ano… he said you two were together last night?” Nakamaru inquired naively.
“H - hai.”
Kame kept himself busy with his clothes, trying to hide the furious blush showing on his cheeks. Nakamaru thought Kame was being weird (Maybe he’s still not okay about Akanishi leaving the group?, the beatboxer thought) so that he decided not to press the subject.
“You’re done with the demo of the new song?” the oldest KAT-TUN member asked again, checking his hair in the mirror.
“What? Oh, yes,” Kame said, now preoccupied with his feather necklace.
“What’s the title going to be?”
Kame paused before answering.
“Go Away.”
“Eh?”
Just then, Kame’s message alert rang.
I’ll watch out for that new song you’re writing, and make sure you make it clear to the press that it’s not me you’re talking about. You’re not telling me to go away!
Kame grinned as he read a message sent just seconds ago from the US country code by a certain Akanishi Jin.
[Sadness is only for now, boy]
~end~
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1 赤西、ＫＡＴ-ＴＵＮ脱退へ！社長が断言 (page 2 of 2, article on Akanishi leaving KAT-TUN) dated July 17, 2010, found here.
2 Nakamaru said this in the Tour 2007 Cartoon KAT-TUN II You concert DVD.
3 Kamenashi introduced Akanishi as “My best friend, Jin,” in the Okyakusama wa Kamisama concert DVD.
4Warner Music Japan official write-up dated December 9, 2010, found here.
5 Purple Sky interview with Akanishi Jin dated November 28, 2010, found here.
6「カートゥンKAT-TUN」variety show hosted by KAT-TUN, aired on Wednesday nights from April 4, 2007 to March 24, 2010.
7赤西 仁 全米ツアー 凱旋ライブ3011 (Akanishi Jin concert dates for January 2011), found here.
8 Credits to kazuchanakanishi, Plastic Tears (solo by Kamenashi Kazuya, performed in Shounen Club November 15, 2010) audio recording found here.
9 Credits to pulangpagong, photo found here. Tumblr account no longer active, find the image here instead.
10「Change Ur World」13th KAT-TUN single, released November 17, 2010. Who wouldn’t know about this? xD
11 Credits to danalovesakamenew, Murasaki (performance by KAT-TUN in Break the Records concert series, not included in DVD), fancam video found here.
12 Credits to respective owners, photos found here, here, and here. LOL
13 Credits to loveakanishitroop, photo found here. (This is turning into picspam, ne?)
14 Weekly Jangle interview with Akanishi Jin dated November 3, 2010, found here; Credits to annatanhe for translation, found here.
15 1582, solo performance by Kamenashi Kazuya in Break the Records concert DVD.
16 Credits to iiBabyDoll, video of Akanishi freaking out for his collarbone’s safety found here.
Reference for Go Away (2ne1) English translation found here, credits to Kawen-chan.
Please note that cited references do not necessarily reflect author’s point of view/opinion on any issue, and that webpages cited are linked for informational purposes only, and there is no intention of violating anyone’s privacy. (Pages cited are, as of the date this was uploaded, open for public viewing, anyway.) If a page you own has been cited and you wish for it to be removed from the list of links, please kindly notify me. :)
Pairing: Akame
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Angst, Smut, Romance
Summary: Kame still has not dealt with the fact that Jin left KAT-TUN. Now that the soloist is back in Japan, Kame has to confront his own thoughts, as well as the feelings he had kept hidden for years.
oOoOo
Jin’s mind raced with years’ worth of forbidden fantasies now made completely welcome with just two words from Kame. His voice was hoarse but not retiring, and Jin could think of nothing but willingly obeying the command. Jin laid Kame down on the bench and gave him a heated kiss, allowing Kame to savor his own cum, before running his tongue down Kame’s jaw, neck, and chest and trailing pecks and small, delicate nibbles that were sure to leave hickeys everywhere later on. Jin’s soft tongue paid careful attention to Kame’s nipples, causing the younger man to arch into Jin’s touch.
Kame felt Jin’s fingers at his lips and he took them, sucking and swirling his tongue as if pleasing Jin’s manhood. Jin withdrew his fingers from Kame’s mouth and put them into his own, staring seductively at Kame as he lathered his fingers with saliva. Kame fuzzily thought to himself that it will be painful without a doubt, but their saliva would have to suffice for the absence of lube.
Jin benignly prepared Kame by massaging the smaller man’s arse and, soon, readied the entrance with one finger, and then two. Kame’s hands gripped the edges of the cushioned seat and he bit at his lower lip.
“Sshhh…” the older man appeased, aware that the sensation was completely unfamiliar to Kame.
Kame failed in stifling a whimper when Jin inserted a third finger, but endured it anyway. Jin brushed his lips and one hand on Kame’s smooth abdomen as he gently pushed in and out, becoming excited as he felt Kame’s warmth and slippery tightness. Jin hungrily observed as Kame’s gasps became less pained with each thrust and pulled his fingers out when he was satisfied that the KAT-TUN leader was ready.
“This is going to hurt,” Jin said in a hushed voice against Kame’s skin, worried that the younger man would change his mind on what they were about to do.
“I know,” Kame replied, breathless. Jin stopped tracing kisses down Kame’s stomach and looked up.
“How do you know?” he asked, eyes narrowing in suspicion.
“Akanishi,” Kame began, bringing his hands to Jin’s hair and letting his fingers lace among the brown locks. “I may be a virgin, but I’m not ignorant.”
Jin looked at him with a frown, as if deciding whether to believe him or not, and then spoke.
“Don’t call me ‘Akanishi.’”
Kame beamed at the childlike pout and lightly pulled Jin’s head up for a slow, fervent kiss. Kame put his arms around Jin’s neck and broke the lip lock.
“Now, Jin,” he said against Akanishi’s lips as he closed his eyes.
Jin hurriedly and clumsily lathered his cock with his own precum before slowly sliding his member inside Kame. His eyes flickered shut as he was overcome with absolute pleasure. It seemed like the further he went in, the more Kame tensed up, causing Jin to let out a strangled cry.
“Relax, Kazuya,” he muttered through slightly ragged breathing. “Or I’m going to come early.”
“You’re fucking piercing through my body, Jin. How can I reumphf - ”
The rest of Kame’s retort got lost as Jin kissed him roughly once more, beginning to move in and out of the younger man. Kame’s hands grasped Jin’s shoulders, nails digging into skin with each excruciating shove that the man on top of him made. Not long after, the pain gradually introduced a tinge of ecstasy as Jin hit a particular spot within, and soon, that same ecstasy made Kame yearn for more, matching Jin’s movements with his own thrusts.
For the first time, Kame made love, and he did it with the only person he ever wanted. For the first time, they savored and enjoyed each other, just as both had been covertly dreaming of since god knows when. An unwelcome thought, however, crept into Kame’s consciousness through the waves of bliss as Jin continued to hammer into him.
Jin was leaving in the morning. Whatever happened tonight was going to be a secret, and it was going to stay that way for a very long time. They were idols, and it was simply preposterous to consider coming out with an announcement that “Hey! We’re gay and we’re dating!” The fans might just love that, but the management and the rest of the show business would sure as hell not.
Tonight was, Kame was to convince himself, a wild fantasy that he would have to learn not to crave for. Their fingers interlocked, bodies moving together rhythmically, and with the contact, Kame willed to imprint every move and every touch they made that night in his and Jin’s memory, and even in their souls. Kame warmheartedly told himself that he was now Jin’s and equally, Jin was finally his.
He tried not to think of the difficulties that lay ahead as consequence of taking each other. Hell, he tried not to think about Jin leaving in a few hours. But to no avail. Kame wept silently, unable to contain the hurt.
“What’s wrong…” Jin half-groaned, his pace faltering as he noticed the tears emerging from his partner’s eyes.
“No - Jin - just… uhngh…” was all the reply he got, but Kame reached and pushed at the small of his back in an attempt to restore the rhythm.
Jin was worried, but he complied with the action, returning to pounding into the small frame underneath him. Kame’s hands fell back on the bench, but Jin caught one and placed it between them, wordlessly telling Kame to touch himself. Kame followed and cried in delirious passion of his own doing. Jin brought his own hand to join Kame’s in stroking the wet, throbbing cock, their lips meeting with clumsy French kisses.
“Come with me, Kazuya,” Jin managed to say.
The last thing he saw before his mind went blank was Kame’s impressive face and hair drenched in sweat, eyes clamped shut as he rode his second orgasm that night. Jin felt Kame’s warm cum seep through their hands at the same time that Kame’s walls pulsated around his cock.
“Kazuya,” Jin said after a few minutes of listening to his and Kame’s heavy breathing in the stillness of the dark. He was still on top of Kame, not quite able to pull out and get off just yet.
“Un,” Kame replied sparingly.
He kept his eyes closed, knowing how it would become obvious that he was crying if he looked Jin in the eye. Jin, however, touched his cheek and wiped the trail of still wet tears.
“What is it, Kazuya?” Jin asked softly.
“Don’t you think it’s unfair,” Kame started, still not opening his eyes. “That all we get after all those years of frustration and last few months of hurt and confusion is just one night?”
Kame’s voice cracked as he spoke. Jin shared the sentiment, but tonight was something he did not dare expect. Kame, being the mature, forward-looking individual that he was, saw the problems they would inevitably have to face later on. Jin preferred to see this night as a threshold to a promising future. Tonight was the first night of not having to conceal his feelings anymore, at least from the KAT-TUN leader.
“It’s not just one night,” Jin replied in a sad but soothing voice, so that Kame finally looked up at him. “From this night on, I’m yours.”
Jin brought his hand back to Kame’s face, raising his chin. He stared the smaller man in the eye, and Kame fondly thought that the imploring, persuading look was back in Jin’s adorable, honest eyes.
“Wherever I go, I’m yours forever, and yours alone,” Jin said before kissing Kame.
Kame kissed back, tears still in his eyes, but believing the older man’s words. At any rate, there was no other way to get through the sadness except through believing in Jin.
Finally, Jin slid out of Kame and sat on the floor beside the bench where Kame still lay.
“So,” the soloist began as he looked at Kame, the familiar naughty smirk on his lips again. “Is it true that you get all the girls now?”
[Love is over tonight]
oOo
Kame drove to the studio, humming to himself and tapping his fingers on the steering wheel. His body hurt in places and he barely had time to sleep (it was almost dawn when he got back to his house) but he woke up feeling energetic for the day ahead. He had in mind the last lines of the song he was working on, and was sure to start a demo that day, just before he goes to his TV guesting with the rest of KAT-TUN.
Taking his usual route to the studio, he again passed by and saw Akanishi’s billboards and smiled. Somehow, he was growing fond of seeing those advertisements now. He spotted Jin’s sexy pose with the American dancers and abruptly felt a pang of jealousy, but he confidently shot his eyes back on the road.
“From this night on, I’m yours,” he recalled Jin’s words last night. “Wherever I go, I’m yours forever, and yours alone.”
Kame smiled, reassured. Bakanishi belonged to him now. Kame continued to sport the silly grin as he recalled pieces of their conversation the previous night (or was it already morning?) such as when he mentioned that he was writing a new song (“Are you talking about me here?!” Bakanishi childishly protested upon reading the lyrics sheet), and when Kame asked how Jin knew that the KAT-TUN leader liked him.
“I didn’t,” Akanishi answered proudly. “I just guessed. And hey, I was right, wasn’t I?”
Kame chuckled as he thought of Jin’s baka-ness.
“But Kazuya,” Jin said, his face turning adorably serious for the nth time that night. “About me leaving KAT-TUN - ”
“What about it?” Kame asked with a yawn, sorely tempted to just fall asleep on the bench in the dance studio.
“Are you okay with it?”
“Oh Akanishi, get over yourself already!” Kame replied, feigning annoyance.
“Hey!”
“Jin, okay! Jin!”
Both men laughed warmly.
“Jin, a five-man KAT-TUN is different. It’s different without you. Personally, I wish you didn’t leave, but you had to, and you did. Through time, the group has learned to cope with that. And look where we are now, you and the rest of KAT-TUN. I hope you don’t take it the wrong way when I say that we’re happy with where we are right now. We’re making it worldwide, like what we promised when we were younger. We’re just doing it differently.”
Jin held on to Kame’s hand pressed against the soloist’s cheek. This young man always had the wisdom and maturity Jin seemed to lack at times.
“Just do us five a favor,” Kame paused as he stroked the hair out of Jin’s eyes, which were fixed intently on Kame’s own. “And succeed, ne?”
Jin nodded, as if indicating that it was both a challenge and a promise he was more than willing to take on, for his friends and for the one he loved. He smiled and kissed Kame softly.
Kame raised his fingers to his lips as he remembered the kiss, but realized what he was doing and drew his hand back. As he got off his car to the dim lighting of the underground parking lot, he remembered the last thing he said before parting ways with Jin the previous night.
“I love you.”
[Try living without me, yeah]
oOo
“You ready?” Nakamaru asked. He and Kame shared the dressing room for the TV guesting that evening. Koki, Taguchi, and Ueda shared the next room.
“Yes, just a bit more,” Kame replied vaguely as he carefully adjusted the red bandana he used as wristband, taking care for it not to cover his beaded bracelet.
“Hey, Akanishi called me up before leaving this morning,” Nakamaru suddenly said.
“M - maji de?” Kame replied awkwardly.
“Yeah, he was nice. I mean, he didn’t seem to change much, ne? Still same old Bakanishi. Ano… he said you two were together last night?” Nakamaru inquired naively.
“H - hai.”
Kame kept himself busy with his clothes, trying to hide the furious blush showing on his cheeks. Nakamaru thought Kame was being weird (Maybe he’s still not okay about Akanishi leaving the group?, the beatboxer thought) so that he decided not to press the subject.
“You’re done with the demo of the new song?” the oldest KAT-TUN member asked again, checking his hair in the mirror.
“What? Oh, yes,” Kame said, now preoccupied with his feather necklace.
“What’s the title going to be?”
Kame paused before answering.
“Go Away.”
“Eh?”
Just then, Kame’s message alert rang.
I’ll watch out for that new song you’re writing, and make sure you make it clear to the press that it’s not me you’re talking about. You’re not telling me to go away!
Kame grinned as he read a message sent just seconds ago from the US country code by a certain Akanishi Jin.
[Sadness is only for now, boy]
~end~
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1 赤西、ＫＡＴ-ＴＵＮ脱退へ！社長が断言 (page 2 of 2, article on Akanishi leaving KAT-TUN) dated July 17, 2010, found here.
2 Nakamaru said this in the Tour 2007 Cartoon KAT-TUN II You concert DVD.
3 Kamenashi introduced Akanishi as “My best friend, Jin,” in the Okyakusama wa Kamisama concert DVD.
4Warner Music Japan official write-up dated December 9, 2010, found here.
5 Purple Sky interview with Akanishi Jin dated November 28, 2010, found here.
6「カートゥンKAT-TUN」variety show hosted by KAT-TUN, aired on Wednesday nights from April 4, 2007 to March 24, 2010.
7赤西 仁 全米ツアー 凱旋ライブ3011 (Akanishi Jin concert dates for January 2011), found here.
8 Credits to kazuchanakanishi, Plastic Tears (solo by Kamenashi Kazuya, performed in Shounen Club November 15, 2010) audio recording found here.
9 Credits to pulangpagong, photo found here. Tumblr account no longer active, find the image here instead.
10「Change Ur World」13th KAT-TUN single, released November 17, 2010. Who wouldn’t know about this? xD
11 Credits to danalovesakamenew, Murasaki (performance by KAT-TUN in Break the Records concert series, not included in DVD), fancam video found here.
12 Credits to respective owners, photos found here, here, and here. LOL
13 Credits to loveakanishitroop, photo found here. (This is turning into picspam, ne?)
14 Weekly Jangle interview with Akanishi Jin dated November 3, 2010, found here; Credits to annatanhe for translation, found here.
15 1582, solo performance by Kamenashi Kazuya in Break the Records concert DVD.
16 Credits to iiBabyDoll, video of Akanishi freaking out for his collarbone’s safety found here.
Reference for Go Away (2ne1) English translation found here, credits to Kawen-chan.
Please note that cited references do not necessarily reflect author’s point of view/opinion on any issue, and that webpages cited are linked for informational purposes only, and there is no intention of violating anyone’s privacy. (Pages cited are, as of the date this was uploaded, open for public viewing, anyway.) If a page you own has been cited and you wish for it to be removed from the list of links, please kindly notify me. :)