Author's Notes

- This chapter was completely revised in any way possible. Please excuse this and enjoy. Kurisu Otomo, the OC in this series, was rewritten to be more useful to the story. He's been changed from a 'hard-core gangster' into someone more reliable than just writing material.

Touched by an Angel!

Chapter 1 – Prologue, Coffee or Ice Cream?

"Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship." – Helen Fisher

Yo! I'm Satoshi Tainaka, a first-year at Osaka Prefectural Shimizudani High School, but let's call it Osaka High for short. I'm currently in Osaka High's Literature Club, with my friend and mentor, Kurisu Otomo. He transferred to Osaka just last year all the way from California! Our Literature Club recently entered the Kansai Region Novel Contest, of course Kurisu-senpai and I both teamed up together to squash our opponents.

"Oi, Satoshi," my senpai waved at me before he took the computer seat next to mine.

"Hey, senpai," my eyes were glued onto the screen of a new novel my senpai and I are both working on, titled 'Full Fledged Orchestra', which tells the story of a young violin player and his dreams of becoming a professional violinist when he grows up.

"What chapter are you on?" he asked as his computers monitor turned on with life. He typed in his username and password to the schools login system and the screen lit up with icons of the many programs that were piled into the computer.

"Uh…" I scrolled up in Word with my mouse, "Chapter 14. What about you?"

"Pssshh… chapter 8…" he turned away from me as I chuckled.

"Eh? How are you so far behind?" I asked, raising an eyebrow at him.

"It's this stupid tie!" he groaned as he loosened the blue tie around his neck. I looked down at the red tie I wore and I wasn't bothered by it at all.

"Excuses, excuses…" I shook my head in disappointment and took a sip of the coffee that sat in-front of me.

"Hey, remember who the senpai here is!" he yelled at me, which made me chuckle at how easily angered he can become and how easy it is to calm him down.

"Want some coffee?" I asked, pushing my cup towards him.

"Yes, please!" his grey eyes lit up with stars as he took his own sip of my decaf coffee. "Satoshi…"

"What is it, senpai?"

"Is this… decaf?" he asked as he pointed to the cup, which now sat in the middle of the table.

"Yeah, it is. Is there a problem, senpai?" I heard him sigh and turned back to Kurisu, seeing him run his hands backwards in his slick-backed black hair.

"Nothing… I don't really like decaf…" he said as he clicked the icon to open Word.

"Neither do I. I don't want you all hyper again, so I got you decaf," I said as I revealed a cup hidden behind my monitor that was filled with regular coffee.

"What makes you think I'll drink it?!" he nervously laughed.

"Because I know you hate wasting anything related to food or drinks!" I smiled.

"Fuck…" he swore and picked up his cup of decaf coffee and sipped it. Kurisu-senpai then made a face that acted like he hated it, but I knew that he enjoyed free food and drinks, "You know I can't resist free food."

"Don't swear, senpai. It makes you look bad."

"Huh? What did I say?" he asked, raising his eyebrow in confusion.

"Don't act like I can't hear you," I shook my head in disappointment and faced my screen again.

Before my senpai could retaliate, I checked the time on the computer screens monitor. 4:46 PM,"I have to go now, senpai," I said as I turned off the computer and unplugged my headphones from the tower.

"But I just got here!" he cried out.

"Then come early next time!" I scolded him. He always came at 4:30 and stayed until whoever knows, I've never seen him leave before me or anyone else. I heard that he's always the last one in the computer room, mostly goofing off and playing games on his computer.

"You know I had to go to a contest! Look!" he dug through the pockets of his navy-blue blazer and pulled out a ticket, "See! I won a year supply of calendars! All I had to do was pay a couple guys 1500 yen and boom! I win!"

"Senpai…" I rubbed my temples at how stupid he can be sometimes, "That would be one calendar…"

"Yeah, right! Oh…" he stopped for a moment and looked at me as he thought, "You've got to be kidding me! I lost 1500 yen!"

"… You mean 3000 yen?" I corrected him.

"Yeah! 3000 yen!" he slumped down in his chair, "There goes a week's worth of allowance…"

"I'm going to go home now, senpai. I have drum lessons," I said as I checked the watch on my left wrist. It had been almost two months since my older sister, Ritsu Tainaka who was a second-year at Sakuragaoka High School, which was a private school for girls, began to teach me how to play her drums. Today would mark the very first day she would stop teaching me the basic beats and move on to playing a song!... of her choice.

"Yeah, yeah. You go to your precious drum lessons and leave me here to write. You watch, Satoshi, by tomorrow I'll catch up to you!" he raised his fist in the air, "I swear on it!"

I looked around to see that everyone else in the computer room were watching us with confused and annoyed faces by our antics… which happened almost every day, "Well… later, senpai!" I waved to my idiotic mentor and walked out of the computer room and down the hallways of Osaka High.

"Wait, Satoshi!" I heard my senpai yell from the computer room, he had enough energy to yell but he couldn't walk to me without begging me to drag him. Kurisu-senpai is lazy… "I get to keep the decaf right?!"

I heard shouts from the other members of the Literature Club as they scolded him and told Kurisu-senpai to shut up, which he did before he began to yell about how awful the coffee tasted… but I knew he was lying.

As I opened the main door to my school, I felt a vibration on the left side of my body. I dug through my navy-blue blazers pockets and pulled out my white flip-phone. I checked the caller and it was my sister, Ritsu. "Yo, sis, what's up?" I asked as I walked down the schools courtyard to the gate.

"Ouch, Satoshi-kun~" I heard her whine, "It hurts that you don't call me your 'onee-chan' anymore."

"Idiot! Just tell Satoshi-kun what to do!" I heard a familiar voice that resembled Mio-senpai's in the background, then a loud thump.

"Owie, Mio-chuan~ is mean!" I heard my sister cry out.

I sweat-dropped and looked at my watch, "Ritsu, it's 4:51,I'll be home soon."

"Wait, Satoshi-kun! I need you to get something for me!" she cried.

I groaned as I exited the gate of the school and turned to walk down the street, "What do I have to get you, Ritsu?"

"Can you, like, go to the grocery store and buy some… tampons?" I heard her giggle, but she hid it.

"T-tampons?!" I blurted out as I felt my face began to heat up, "Why do I have to do it?!"

"It's not for me, Satoshi-kun… it's for… Mio," she whispered.

"Ritsu, you idiot!" I heard another thump and my sisters whining. I sighed as I heard a new voice on the phone, "Satoshi-kun, it's Mio. May you buy us some ice cream, please? It's scorching over here."

"Sure, Mio-senpai…" I dug through the back pockets of my khakis and pulled out my wallet. "What flavor?"

"Hmm… Ritsu, what flavor do you want?" I heard Mio-senpai move the phone away from her mouth.

"A flavor that will make the pain go away!" my sister cried. I sighed as I continued my stroll to the local grocery store. I heard constant bickering before Mio-senpai returned to the phone, "Get your sister a strawberry cone and get me a vanilla cone, please. I'll be sure to pay you back, Satoshi-kun."

"No need, Mio-senpai," I smirked before I remembered what she had just asked for, "Wait. You guys want ice cream on a cone? Not in a bucket from the grocery store?"

"No, Satoshi-kun! Get me a chocolate cone!" I heard my sisters voice erupt again as she yelled into the phone. By instinct, I pulled it away from my phone as her yelling annoyed me. I placed the phone back on my ear when the yelling stopped.

"Could you get us cones please, Satoshi-kun?" Mio-senpai begged.

"Sure, sure… I'll be home in a bit…" I said as I pressed the off button and stuffed my phone back into my blazers pockets. Turning around, since I was on the way to the grocery store, I made my way to the nearest ice cream parlor… which was 25 blocks down the other way…

In a matter of half-an-hour to forty-five minutes, I found myself standing before the ice cream parlor. I opened the door and entered, hearing the bell sound as another consumer followed me in. I lined up behind a middle-aged man in a business suit and in-front of a girl who wore the same school uniform as my sister, except a red tie replaced Ritsu's blue tie. Her brown hair was tied into a ponytail by a yellow ribbon and I gotta say, ribbons are where it's at.

"One chocolate and one vanilla, please…" I smirked at the female employee behind the counter as she nodded at my order. Soon enough, two freezing ice cream cones were in my hands after I paid her, "May I get a container, please?" I asked as I shivered from the freezing cones.

I placed the chocolate cone on the table in-front of me and placed the vanilla cone in the container for the ice creams. I was about to pick up the chocolate cone before I soon found it on the floor, apparently when I wasn't looking, the girl behind me toppled it over by accident.

"Oh, oh! Please forgive me!" she cried as she bended down to pick up the cone. When she stood back up, my brown eyes met with her light-brown eyes and I remembered who she was! Ritsu would always tell me stories about her adventures with her Light Music Club and band, Houkago Tea Time. She mentioned having a close friend named Yui Hirasawa, whose appearance matched the… oddly detailed description Ritsu gave me.

"That's fine… Yui-senpai?" I asked, still confused if this was the right girl or not. Her face matched the appearance, but her tie was red and her hair was tied into a short ponytail.

"Oh! You must have me confused with my nee-chan! I'm Ui Hirasawa, her younger sister," she warmly smiled at me. My heart melted and I was entranced in how beautiful I found Ui to be. "You must be Satoshi-kun? Ritsu-senpai's younger brother?"

As if I had died and was brought back from the dead, I found myself staring at Ui like an idiot. "Y-yes, I am! It's a pleasure to meet you, Hirasawa-san," I stuck my hand out.

Ui took my hand and shook it, making me feel even more light-headed as I came into contact with her, it was like touching an angel, "Please, call me Ui-chan, since I called you Satoshi-kun," she smiled again.

"Right!" I said as she pulled her hand back, "What brings you here, Ui-chan?" I asked, forgetting all about the chocolate cone that was spilled on the floor, which Ui had cleaned up already.

"Onee-chan wanted me to bring her home some ice cream since I was already out," she looked down at the strawberry cone in her other hand and gazed back at me. Those eyes, man…

"I see. Same here! Ritsu and Mio-senpai wanted some ice cream and boom! Here I am!" I nervously chuckled. Ui giggled and opened her mouth to speak.

"Ah, well—one moment, please," Ui held up a finger and searched through her schoolbag, only to pull out a violet cellphone, she turned around and flipped it open. "Hi, onee-chan!"

I could hear loud whining even though I was on the other side of the table. "Yeah, I'm on my way home now! Bye!" Ui closed her phone and placed it back into her schoolbag, "I have to go now, Satoshi-kun! We should hang out sometime!" she waved to me before exiting the parlor and walking down the street.

I picked up my ice cream container which only held Mio-senpai's cone and walked out the parlor to see Ui about to turn the corner the other way. I waved to her and she waved back, smiling. She turned the corner and was gone as if she wasn't even there.

"Ui Hirasawa…" I mumbled to myself. Did I just meet an angel? I walked turned the other way and walked home, checking the time I saw it had been little over an hour since I talked to Ritsu and Mio-senpai. Completely oblivious to the single ice cream cone in the container, I marched on with a smile like an idiot that has been on my face since I met Ui Hirasawa.

"I have to go now, Satoshi-kun! We should hang out sometime!" she waved to me before exiting the parlor and walking down the street.

That moment replayed in my mind many times as I neared my house. She wants to hang out with me another time? This will be an awesome school year!

I opened the door to my house and placed the container which had a half-melted ice cream cone sitting in it on the table and closed the door behind me, "I'm home!"

"Satoshi-kun!" I heard my sister yell, I looked up to see her and Mio-senpai walking down the stairs, "Where's my ice cream?!" she folded her arms and stared at me with that rare look of anger.

"Thank you, Satoshi-kun…" Mio-senpai smirked before she picked up the ice cream cone. There were many trails of the melted vanilla ice cream on the cone, so she placed a napkin around it and licked the top of the ice cream while she stared at Ritsu and me.

"Well?!" my sister hissed.

I sighed at the predicament I was in. It was going to be a long day of whining and nagging.

Touched by an Angel!

Author's Notes

- There were some parts of this chapter that had some pretty bad continuation to later chapters, but I fixed it. See you all in the next chapter.