LONG WAY HOME CHAPTER 1- WE LOVE UI
Greeting beloved reader. Time for a little story. I realized, I make a lot of K-On! References in my other fics. So I decided to go all out and do a full fic for K-On! So bear with me, and I hope you enjoy it. Oh yeah, tell me what you like about it and what I need to do better as I go along! Make sure I don't screw this up.
A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER...
"Working Man!" Ritsu adamantly said, and stomped her foot to emphasize her point.
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!" Mio argued back.
"Rush!" Ritsu growled.
"The Beatles!" Mio snarled.
"Neil Pert!" Ritsu stomped her foot.
"John Lennon!" Mio shouted and put her hands at her hips.
Then it was Sawako, their club adviser, who interjected. "Neither."
"But we all agreed on a cover in our next line up." Mio, the band's bassist, turned and replied. "I want to do a Beatles song."
"I'd rather be Neil Pert than Ringo..." Ritsu scoffed. "...or maybe Keith Moon or Danny Carey."
"What about Lars Ulrich?" Tsumugi, the bands resident keyboardist, suggested.
Ritsu shot her a look to kill, "Mugi-chan, don't even joke about things like that. Anyways, yeah let's do Rush! I bet Sawa-chan is on my side."
"I am most certainly not on anyone's side." Sawako huffed and stuck her nose up. "Neil Pert is overrated anyway."
Ritsu growled then collapsed on the Light Music Club room's couch next to Tsumugi. The keyboardist just sat there and smiled. She then decided to speak up and try to end the argument. "How about a cover of a Who song? I know that Ricchan like the band, and they have keyboard solo's. What do you think Sawa-chan?"
"I think you should do a cover from the band Rotting Christ." Sawako smiled, her eyes gleamed wickedly causing the Light Music Club to all back away a little in fear.
"That sounds...risky..." Mio meekly replied. Sawako laughed softly then put on a nicer face.
"I was just trying to help. What do you have against Greek folk metal bands?" She pouted. At that moment, the door flung open and the guitarist for their band, Yui Hirasawa, ran in while dragging Azusa Nakano, the secondary guitarist, behind her.
"Sorry we're late!" An exhausted Yui stammered and set her precious guitar down next Mio's bass. "You'll never believe what happened to us!"
"Yui-senpai locked herself in the washroom on the ground floor." Azusa instantly clarified for the rest of the band.
"It was sabotage, Ricchan!" Yui declared and crossed her arms. "Sabotage I say!"
"Actually the door stopper was down, by the time I got it up Yui had escaped out the window." Azusa went on, casually shaking her head in disappointment. "After that I had to chase Yui-senpai down, but after I caught up to her she pinned me on the ground and tickled me for ten minutes."
The rest of them eyed Yui angrily. Yui just smiled widely, exposing her bright white teeth and waved at them.
"Come have some tea, that'll cheer you up." Tsumugi said to Azusa and led her to the other side of the room where their table was. "I didn't bring any snacks today, I hope that's okay."
"It's fine." Azusa smiled and gladly accepted the tea. It was peach and Tsumugi had added half a spoon of sugar and a bit of honey. It was mild, but simply divine. The younger guitarist let her worries melt away as she slowly sipped away at the tea. The senior guitarist, Yui, frustrated Azusa to no end, but she found herself unable to harbor any grudge towards her. When she looked at Yui's simple innocence and care free life style, she couldn't help but smile.
"Rush!" Ritsu argued again.
"Beatles!" Mio snapped back.
"Rotting Christ!" Sawako threw her vote in. Azusa sighed at the arguing between her seniors. But she had to smile as Yui put her suggestion in.
"How about all three...at the same time!" Yui cried out, "Ricchan will play her song, then Mio-chan will play the song at the same time. Then I'll play Sawa-chan's song for her, and we can take turns singing the lyrics."
"No!" The other three shouted in unison. Still Azusa had to smile at Yui's simpleness. Even if her suggestions were never taken, they certainly were genius in her own way. Only she could look at a situation and come out with a completely different outlook than another group of people. That, Azusa believed, was a gift on its own.
"Keep trying, Yui-senpai." She whispered and finished the last of her tea.
"What was that?" Tsumugi asked, then poured a cup of her own.
"Er, nothing." Azusa stuttered and blushed.
THAT NIGHT...
"Onee-chan, dinner's ready!" Ui Hirasawa, Yui's younger sister, called from the kitchen. Yui was happily sprawled across the living room floor with her beloved Giita in hand. Her fingers gracefully played across the higher frets with her pick working in perfect harmony with it. It was a simple arpeggio, but it made her feel more like a rock star. Her mind was a one track road when she played guitar, all Yui could think was, 12 13 15, 12 13 15, 12 14 15, 12 14 15, as her fingers played across the corresponding frets.
"Onee-chan, I said dinner is ready!" Ui called again. Yui briefly stopped playing than made an attempt to sit up. It felt short though.
"I don't wanna get up..." She groaned then collapsed again.
"If you don't come get food then I'll give it to Giita." Ui smiled and threatened. Before she could react, Yui was standing there with a plate in hand.
"Ui, you know that Giita can't have spicy food." Yui said in an extremely maternal tone, she then lowered her voice to a whisper, "He'll get the diarrhea!"
"That's..." Ui stuttered and tried to think of a way to reply to that. "Well, eat up Onee-chan. I have good news after dinner!"
"Seconds!" Yui commanded and raised her now empty plate Ui's face. All that was left on it were bits of crumbs and sauce. She had eaten about a pound of food in under four seconds, both science and physics wept at that. Her metabolism rivaled that of the author writing this fanfiction, the guy who likes to break the fourth wall.
"Go right ahead..." Ui said in utter disbelief. She made a plate of food for her self then proceeded to sit at the living room table.
"Ui, can we get the kotatsu out tonight?" Yui asked while shoveling more food down the bottomless abyss that was her stomach with chopsticks.
"But it's April, and warm out." Ui pointed out.
"I know, but I was reading a manga that had one, and now I want ours out." Yui chuckled, in hindsight it wasn't a great idea. "Oh, Ui, what was the good news you had?"
"Oh, right!" Ui suddenly remembered. She stood up then jogged to her room to retrieve something. Yui sat there twitching in excitement, this didn't stop her from stealing some of her sisters sukiyaki. Ui returned after a moment with three envelopes, she promptly handed one to her sister. Yui took it and shook it next to her head.
"What is it!" Yui nearly tackled her sister and asked.
Ui manage to shrug her sister off and explain, "I entered a lottery a few weeks ago and ended up winning. So I decided to share my prize with you and someone else!"
A smile formed across Yui's face and her eyes began to water up with tears of joy. "I love you Ui!" She squealed and tackled her sister into a hug.
Ui laughed and managed to fend off Yui's furious kissing of her cheeks. "But Onee-chan, aren't you going to ask what we won?"
Yui stopped her onslaught of affection right away. "Can I open the envelope?"
Ui nodded. That was incentive for Yui to furiously tear open the envelope and let its contents fall on the table. A ticket of some kind, and three 10,000 yen notes. Further inspection revealed that the ticket was for one Aya Hirano concert, an artist both of the sisters liked. The ticket was dated for the 27th of May in Tokyo. Almost exactly a month away. The money was to be used for any traveling expenses, food while staying in Tokyo, and any programs at the concert.
"Ui..." Yui squeaked, tears were forming at her eyes again. "I love you!"
So began the onslaught of affection once more. Then a random thought popped into Yui's mind, "Who gets the other ticket and 30,000 yen?" That let her mind wander...
"Give it to me Yui-chan!" Ritsu demanded, "Or I'll melt you with my forehead beam!"
"If you give it to me and I'll let you eat as many as my eyebrows as you want!" Tsumugi offered. She raised a bowl of rice with several of them adorned on top to punctuate her point.
"I'll burn your house down and take it." Mio threatened.
The Azusa of Yui's mental image was dressed like a cat. She was laying on her back playing with a ball of yarn.
"Onee-chan..." Ui said again, her sister was lost in a day dream.
"Uh, what, where, why!" Yui gasped and quickly looked around the room.
"Why don't I go to the club room with you tomorrow and we can all discuss who should go with us." Ui suggested.
Yui thought for a moment then agreed.
THE NEXT DAY
"So only one of you can go?" Sawako confirmed, then stroked her chin with a look of deep concentration on her thought. "One of you including me, of course."
"What do you mean 'one of us including you, of course'?" Ritsu snapped at the teacher. "Who decided you automatically get to go with us!"
"Because you need someone to drive you there." The teacher explained, "It all works out since I was going to a concert in Tokyo that day too."
"Wow, what a coincidence!" Yui gasped. "Are you going to see Aya Hirano too?"
Sawako chuckled at that, "Oh no, I'm going to see a western band that's touring here. But I'll drive the three of you up there. Speaking of which, we need to decide who's going with the two of you."
"Count me out." Mio said and raised her hand. "I have plans the weekend after that Friday."
Ritsu was up on her in an instant, "What is it! Is it a boy?"
"Why would I schedule a date a month ahead of time!" Mio yelled and smacked Ritsu on the forehead. "If you must know, I have to go to my cousin's wedding."
"A wedding? That's sounds wonderful." Tsumugi sighed, her eyes were sparkling with various fantasies. Only Azusa noticed that she was eying Sawako.
"So that only leaves me, Mugi-chan, and Azu-nyan left." Ritsu thought aloud and sat back in her seat. "We should have a competition to see who gets to go! A game of Killzone 2 will determine the winner!"
"Don't pick a game only you're good at!" Mio scolded. "And don't turn this into a competition, or try to buy them out either. Yui and Ui should decide on their own without any outside influence."
"Outside influence, who me?" Ritsu said with the most innocent looking face she could muster.
"What do you think we should do, Azu-nyan?" Yui asked the younger guitarist.
Azusa shrugged, "I think Ritsu or Tsumugi-senpai should go. They've been in the club longer that I have."
Much to Azusa's surprise, Yui ran over and hugged her, smushing their faces close together. "Azu-nyan's so modest! It's so cute!"
Azusa had learned not to resist, resistance only made Yui hug you harder. "Shouldn't Ui-san decide since she is the one who won the tickets?"
"Right." Mio agreed. "I've heard things about her concerts too, I hope you guys have fun."
"I like her voice acting more than her singing." Ritsu added. "If I go, I'll try to get my Haruhi manga signed."
"If you go, get her to sign my Endless Eight box set." Mio asked Ritsu. The entire room went silent and everyone glared at Mio menacingly. "Did I say something weird?"
Ritsu leaned in towards Mio and bared her teeth, "Mio, we don't ever talk about Endless Eight. It didn't happen."
"What do you mean it didn't happen? I thought it was pretty-" Mio tried to say.
"It didn't happen." Yui, Ritsu, and Tsumugi said in unison.
"Not you too, Tsumugi!" Mio groaned.
"Mugi-chan is on our side!" Ritsu triumphantly declared.
"With her help we will rule Ferelden!" Yui cheered.
"Ferelden!" Ritsu joined along.
"Fere- Wait, I don't know what that is." Tsumugi began, and ultimately stopped.
"Back to the subject at hand..." Azusa interjected. "I think Ui and Yui-senpai should talk it over between themselves and figure out who most deserves to go."
Yui looked at Ritsu and briefly remembered the various times that the drummer had beaten, insulted, and choked her. Then she looked at Tsumugi and thought of all the times she had brought her tea, snacks, and haggled guitar places. The odds were in Tsumugi's favor.
"Would you like some more tea, Yui-sama?" Tsumugi asked and took Yui's empty cup. "How about some cake for you Ui-sama?"
"Sama?" Ritsu said and raised and eyebrow.
"Hey Yui-chan, and Ui-chan!" Ritsu yelled out and waved her arms to their attention. "Want to come to the mall later and buy whatever you want with my money?"
"You two are ridiculous." Mio sighed and shook her head. "My respect for Azusa-san is raising by the second and she isn't even doing anything."
"She is too doing something, she's feeding Ton-chan." Yui corrected.
"I didn't think Yui would remember so I went ahead and fed her." Azusa answered back.
"How dare you think so lowly of me!" Yui said with mock anger.
"Oh, so you were going to feed her?"
"No..."
BETWEEN YUI AND UI
"Who do you think we should bring with us, Ui?" The older Hirasawa sister asked as they walked home together.
"Hm, I had an idea. But Tsumugi-senpai is so nice, I would feel bad if I didn't include her." Ui sorrowfully answered.
"Yeah, Ricchan is probably the best choice. She seems like the type who would legitimately try to kill me if we didn't invite her." Yui replied and stroked her chin.
"I wasn't talking about Ritsu." Ui explained.
"But Mio-chan said she can't go." Yui said, perplexed by her sister's reasoning.
"Not Mio either..."
Yui stared at her sister for a moment before her brain finally put the pieces together, "Azu-nyan, that's a great idea! She's the only one we're both really friends with, because you don't know the rest of the Light Music Club that well."
"That was my logic." Ui nodded, "Plus it's her last year with you, I thought this would be something the special the two of you could do together."
"You too." Yui smiled and wrapped her arm around her sisters shoulder. "It'll be something special the three of us can do. And Sawa-chan..."
"And Sawa-chan..." Ui sighed. Something about that idea didn't sit well with her.
THE VERDICT...
"I'll kill you, you ungrateful bastard!" Ritsu shrieked and lunged across the Light Music Club room table, her fingers reaching for Yui's throat. Yui screamed and fell backwards onto the floor.
"Help, we've waken the demon in Ricchan!" Yui screamed and shuffled backwards until she was up against the wall. Mio wrapped her arms around Ritsu's waste and pulled the drummer back.
"With behavior like that, it's no wonder they didn't choose you to come along." Mio scolded. Ritsu was still growling and trying to wiggle out of the bassist's grip. Tsumugi didn't seem the least bit affected by not being chosen. She sat contently and watched Ritsu accidentally pull Mio's shirt up with her thrashing, briefly exposing her bare belly. Tsumugi smiled, knowing that all was well across the land.
Azusa barely managed to speak over the noise Ritsu was creating. "T-thank you, you two. I'm honored you chose me out of everyone. I'll do my best to make this a pleasant and happy trip of you all."
Yui saw Azusa's blushing face, nervous grip at the hem of her skirt, and the overall cuteness that was radiating off of her. Yui couldn't hold it in, and pounced, "Azu-nyan's so cute!"
The merriment was short lived. "Ritsu got free!" Mio warned them.
Tsumugi, with a placid smile on her face, watched Ritsu spring at Yui. The drummer pinned the guitarist and unleash a fury like a death metal drummer on crack.
"She's biting me!" Yui screamed and tried to get away. "Quick, Azu-nyan, find me a red and green herb!"
Tsumugi, with that same placid smile, watched the events unfold in front of her. Yui's shoe flew across the room and landed next to Tsumugi, who was lost in her own world. Her thoughts more or less like this...
"Sometimes, I like to pretend my bass, Elizabeth, is my beard." Mio told the rest of the Light Music Club as she stood on a stage in front of them. "And then I like to play it, so it feels like I'm playing my beard instead. If I were a dog then I could grow beards all over."
In reality, Mio was crossing the room to drown out the war going on between Ritsu and Yui by playing her bass.
"And so it was that Mio brought peace to the land by playing her beard..." Tsumugi smiled. Azusa shot her a curious look, then decided to go help Yui. Ritsu had pulled off her shirt and was using it to strangle the guitarist. Tsumugi was okay with that.
ONWARD TO TOKYO!
Tastychainsaws here. First off, those bands I mentioned earlier ARE popular in Japan. Just want to clarify that. Can't say the same for Rotting Christ, I just added them because they're extreme black metal and it seemed to fit Sawako.
I hope you guys liked this first chapter. It was heavy on the dialogue I know, but that's what K-On is right? Anyways, I hope you'll read the next chapter and the ones after that! Expect more silliness and crazy antics as Yui drags into Azusa into a very "interesting" situation.
May or may not be any pairings. For now, don't count on it.
Oh yeah, standard rights belong to all the references I made. K-On(of course), Rush, The Beatles, The Who, Tool(I mentioned their drummer), Metallica(drummer also mentioned), Rotting Christ, Killzone 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Resident Evil and The Devil Wears Prada. So yeah, I don't own the rights to any of those.