Chapter 1
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Rhythm of the Heart and Soul
The sun was beginning to set as a teenage boy walked across the river bank with a dog following him. WOOF! WOOF! Takashi Komuro turned and smiled at his dog. The dog barked again and laid on the ground wanting to be rubbed. Chuckling Takashi walked over to his loyal pet and gave him a belly rub while the dog's tail swished across the sand.
"Good boy Sukai, you're a great dog." Takashi suddenly stopped as he heard and felt his phone going off in his pocket.
RIIIING…..RIIIING…..RIIIIIING. He fished it out of his pocket and glanced at the screen. He frowned as he answered knowing she was just going to make him feel like shit.
"Hello?" He answered in a flat tone.
"Takashi before you hang up I want to say-"the voice began
"Shut up Rei…..just tell me what you want." He snapped. Rei Myamoto was the girl who he had promised to marry years ago but recently she had broken his heart and treated him like shit. To make things first she had started dating his best friend, Hisashi Igou. Huh some best friend. Takashi thought.
"What the hell is up with you? I thought you were my friend Takashi! You don't talk to your friends like that you jackass! I was trying to check up on you because I was worried about you!" Rei yelled on the phone.
Suddenly something in Takashi's mind snapped and before he realized what he was doing he ws practically screaming at his friend.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU CARE ABOUT ME?! HUH?! YOU WANT TO BE A BITCH THEN BE A BITCH TO SOMEONE ELSE BUT ME GODDAMNIT! IF YOU CARED ABOUT ME YOU WOULDN'T HAVE HURT ME BITCH!" Takashi roared into the phone the slammed it closed.
He whistled for Sukai who was happily chasing the waves oblivious to what just transpired between his owner and a friend. But as the dog got closer he noticed tears had started to fall from his owner eyes.
Takashi watched the sunset and let the tears fall. He was about to turn and leave when on the wind he heard the sound of a guitar being played. As he drew nearer to the sound he heard a voice singing. A girl's voice that seemed to carry the essence of angels. As he drew near a large set I stone stairs he finally found the girl who was singing. She sat on the second from the bottom step facing toward the ocean with a guitar in her hands.
Takashi stopped and stared in wonder of the girl. She was slightly tanned with long dark red hair that was in a ponytail that seemed about shoulder length. She wore a long-sleeved white shirt and faded jeans that were torn in one knee. She wore a pair of sandals that seemed to be made from reeds.
The girl continued to play her guitar as she began singing another song. Takashi recognized this one, it was and American band called Lifehouse and the song was You and Me. He started to sing quietly because he had listened to this song repeatedly with a few other American love songs when Rei broke his heart.
"You just going to stand there like an idiot or re you going to say hi?" Takashi's eye shot open as he realized that the girl had spoken to him.
"Uhh….umm….h...hi….I'm Takashi Komuro." He blushed as he spoke to her.
"Heh you're kind of cute Komuro-kuuuun." The girl gigged as Takashi's face turned even redder after hearing her say his name. "So what brings you here?"
Takashi regained the thin shred of composure he had and spoke
"My dog and I were walking along the bank heading home when I heard you playing and singing." He sighed "I heard you playing and got curious so I walked over here."
The girl looked at him for a moment as if she didn't quite believe him. The she suddenly smiled. "Can you play guitar or bass Komuro-kun?" she asked.
"Hai. I am fair at the guitar but I'm better at the bass." Takashi seemed to relax a little.
"Yay! Finally I have someone to play with!" the girl seemed to glow s she reached behind her and pulled a black and red bass from the case behind her. Smiling she handed the bass and a pick to Takashi.
Takashi took a seat on the second step and began to play a tune on the bass. He started with basic rhythms and chords. But as the girl started placing a strange but simple melody Takashi began to settle into the rhythm and flow of the sound. The tune rose and fell in volume and speed. For a moment the rest of the world seemed to vanish and the weight of his problems floated off of his shoulders. There was just him, the girl, the song, and of course Sukai. As the duo finished their tune Takashi was no longer upset or angry. He was happy.