Hello friends! This is my first story, so I hope it doesn't suck too badly. I'm a huge fan of K-On and the Mitsu ship so I figured that I should share my heartbreaking imagination with you all. So here we are! Please review this story so I know how I'm doing. Motivation always helps!
Disclaimer: I do not own K-On or any of it's character's etc.
Chapter 1: Death
Rin Akiyama walked into his daughter's room, holding his wife's hand tightly as tears silently streamed down her face. Mio didn't notice the two at first, for she was listening to music, Afterschool Tea-Time's "Fuwa Fuwa Time", and studying for her upcoming college entrance exam to J. Women's University. But when the young girl did look up from her study, she immediately realized that something was wrong. Staring upon her parents' mourning faces, she pulled her ear buds out with the look of confusion sporting her own face.
Her father looked at her sympathetically, "Mio," he took a long pause, making the said girl impatient, "It's about Ritsu… she," again, he paused looking from his daughter to his wife, then back, "Something happened and Ritsu…"
Mio's eyes widened and her pencil dropped from her left hand. Her father didn't have to finish what he was trying to tell her. By her dad's gloomy look and her mother's crying, Mio figured it out on her own.
"No," the girl denied forcefully while looking at her parents sternly.
"Honey," Mrs. Akiyama managed to choke out as she stepped closer to her daughter.
Mio shook her head violently, "No!" she repeated louder, tears streamed down her face as she sobbed loudly, "Ritsu promised that she'd never leave me! She said that she would always be my knight… that she would always protect her princess!"
Mrs. Akiyama rushed forward to comfort her daughter as the dam broke and their tears flowed freely. Mio's face was now covered by her hands as she shook violently in sobs.
Rin stood by the door with his head down. He, himself was extremely distraught by the death of his daughter's friend. Ritsu had come around so much that she had pretty much become part of the family and the same went for Mio and her relationship with the Tainaka's. The young Tainaka had somewhat brought his daughter out of her extreme shyness. Ritsu had given Mio a friend.
He watched his wife hold his daughter close as they grieved in each other's arms. Mr. Akiyama knew that Yoko had cared for Ritsu as if she were an Akiyama, for he did as well. He had briefly spoken to Satomi Tainaka, Ritsu's mother, on the phone, as she bawled and choked out the news.
Rin clenched his fists remembering what Mrs. Tainaka had told him, "She went to the convenient store… to pick up some things… I guess… she got into some trouble on the way home... they shot her."
"Who the hell would do this to her?" Rin thought has he mimicked his daughter by briefly covering his face with his hands, "That bastard!"
He heard Yoko softly speaking to Mio, telling her that everything would alright. But all three Akiyama's knew that her words were a lie. It wasn't going to be alright. Ritsu was dead. Murdered. Mio was to go on living, while her best friend couldn't. Of course she'd have her friends from the Light Music Club, but it'd be different without Ritsu. Without Ritsu, Mio was nothing.
Mio slowly lifted her head off of her mother's shoulder and softly spoke, "W-what… what happened?"
Rin looked at his daughter in the eye. It was painful to see her like that. So vulnerable. So… broken, "She was shot," he informed his wife and daughter honestly.
Again, Mio hugged her mother, burying her head into the crook of Yoko's neck as she cried a river. That was one thing Mio didn't want to here. She had hoped that it had been an accident… but Ritsu was murdered, "Why?" she thought, "Why'd you have to go and take Ritsu away from me? From us?"
Mio looked up at her father with her sad, grey eyes, "Papa? The police. They're going to catch the person who did this, right?"
"Yeah. Yeah, Mio. They'll catch 'em."
"And Ritsu…?"
Rin looked to the ceiling and then back to his daughter, "I don't know, Mio. She's up there somewhere… watching you. Always keeping an eye on her princess."
So... what do you think? I know this first one is short, but the others will be longer. This was more of an introduction. Please review!
PJatO98