Konnichiwa!! This is my first fan fiction! If you ask, yes I am Asian, note the name. Please enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own La Corda D'Oro!

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Soft music from a violin poured through the doors as people walked by the door. The violinist, Kahoko Hino. During her high school years, she competed in a musical competition. She began playing a magical violin given by a fairy named Lili. Now, she was an accomplished musician studying at the Kyoto Institute of Music.

"Hm.... I wonder where all the others are right now," Kahoko thought to herself. By the others, Kahoko meant: Len Tsukimori, Kazuki Hihara, Azuma Yunoki, Shoko Fuyumi, Keiichi Shimizu and Ryotaro Tsuchiura. They were all the other students that had participated in the music competition with her. Len played violin, Kazuki the trumpet, Azuma played the flute, Shoko the clarinet, Keiichi played the cello and Ryotaro played the paino. They all did exceptionally well in the competion, especially Azuma who got first place. She knew that Len had gone to Europe to study music in more depth and Keiichi, who loved the cello had traveled to someplace (which Kahoko did not know) to join some orhcestra (which Kahoko did not know the name of. But for the others she had no idea what so ever. Kahoko's daydream was shattered by the knocking of the door.

"Y-Yes?" Kahoko stuttered.

"There's a phone call for you Miss Hino," Megumi, a student at the school said as she opened the door.

"Oh, okay thank you," Kahoko said as she took the phone from her hand. With that Megumi left the room.

"Yes? Who is it?" Kahoko asked into the speaker.

"Hello, how are you doing Kahoko?" a vocie asked. Instantly she knew that it was Len.

"Hm? Len is that you?" she asked just to be sure.

"Yes," the voice answered. Kahoko was more than delighted to hear from someone. Every since she enrolled in the school, she had never spoken to her friends from high school. Keiichi and Ryotaro would call once in a while (from someplace that Kahoko did not know).

"Where are you?" she asked wondering.

"Hm? Oh I'm at the airport with Keiichi, Kazuki, Azuma and Shoko," he replied.

"Wait which airport, the one here or threre?"

"Here," he replied.

"Hm!! What are you guys doing here?" Kahoko said her vocie full of shock.

"We're here to visit you duh," said another voice, shich Kahoko presumed to be Kazuki's.

"Oh, okay then do you want me to come over?" she asked

"No it's fine, just give us the address of the institute and well be over soon," Len said regaining control over the phone. Kahoko described where to find the institute and gave them the address.

"Hm.. this is a first. They've never comr to visit before, oh well," Kahoko thought. She walked to the front of the insitute waiting for her friends to arrive. She saw a car stop infront of the institue and instantly she saw Shoko and the others exit. She waved to them and they walked over. She noticed that Keiichi was half sleeping and half draging himself.

"Great, he must of stayed up all night praticing or studying music theory," Kahoko thought since she knew that it was his habit to do that. Shoko reached her first and chimed.

"Konnichiwa, Kahoko -sepai" her usual greeting to Kahoko.

"Hello," Kahoko said and smiled.

The next vocie she heard was from Kazuki saying, "Kaho-chan!" which is a nickname for her that he had made up while they were still in high school. She replied and they all chatted a bit, until Kahoko realized that someone was missing.

"Wait, where's Ryotaro?"

"Oh, we couldn't get a hold of him," Azuma explained. Azuma, as Kahoko remembered, had a dark side to him, but now he was kind and pleasant towards Kahoko.

"Here let me show you around, though there's not much to see,"

"Fine with me," Keiichi said finally rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. Kahoko took them all aroudn the school campus and they were even able to see the courtyard. The courtyard was made by the students of the institute, so that all the students would be able to find a place where they could relax.

"Wow," Kazuki said as they entered. "I've never seen anyting this magnificent, it's really something."

"Hm.. Do you think we could go out for a bit and look around Kyoto?" Kazuki asked, eyes wandering everywhere.

"Sure, but I have to practice, so I hope you can get around without me,"she answered.

"It's find, I've been here before," Shoko said smiling as though remembering some memories.

"Okay then, I'll be going now," she said waving to them. She began to walk back to the institue, when she heard a voice say.

"Len? aren't ou coming with us?"

"No thank you, I' brought my violin with me and I think I should practice, for my next performance. You guys can go on without me," Len replied. The others just shrugged and walked on chatting. Kahoko waited until Len caught up with her.

"Okay, so I'll show you where the practice rooms are in that case," Kahoko said smiling. They walked down several hall, and stopped by Kahoko's room for a moment.

"Sorry, I'll need to grab some music that I left, you can go on without me," she explained.

"It's fine, I'll come with you," Kahoko nodded and opened the door to her room. Inside there was a short stack of sheet music. On the other side of the room was a single picture frame. Len walekd over to it and picked it up.

Kahoko turned around, "What's this?" Len asked.

"Hm..?" she said looking at what he was holding, "Oh that, it was a picture that I got after the final selection in the conpetition." What Len was holding was a picture frame that held a picture of the seven of them all smiling. Len smiled, after all those years away from Japan, Kahoko had still remembered him.

"Okay I'm done. ready to go?" she asked.

"Yes," he said still smiling. they walked out o her room and down more hall until they finally reached row of rooms.

"Hm.. why was he smiling," Kahoko thought as she opened the door to one of the rooms. The two of them practiced in their seperate room for what seemed like an eternity. Until knock s on the door broke their concentration.

Kahoko opened her door, "Who is it?" She saw Shoko outside along with everyone else.

"Are you guys done yet?" Kazuki asked. "You've been playing for three hours already," he said in annoyance.

"Really, whoops." Kahoko said turnign slightly pink. "Don't worry I'll just pack up my violin first and then we can go somehwere else."

"Okay let's go to eat then," Kazuki said. Kahoko went back and packed away her violin. She came out and saw that Len was waiting there along with everyone else already.

"So where do you want to go?" she said smiling.

"Anywhere's fine," Azuma replied, being polite.

"Okay then let's take a walk down there and see what there is," Kahoko suggested. Everyone else agreed. They had a nice dinner, and then they decided to wander around the streets more.

"Sorry, I have to go back now. See you guys again," Kahoko said.

"Wait!" Shoko shouted. She handed Kahoko a piece of paper with their names and lists of numbers. Kohoko just put up a confused look.

"We're only here for one night, so here's out phone numebrs, so you can always call us." she said smiling as Kahoko took the sheet of paper. Kahoko thanked them and then began walking back to the insitute.

When she got home, she sighed.

"Well great it was fun while it lasted, I guess I won't be seeing them in a long, long time,"she thought. Kahoko had a habit of walking up to the roof of the institute when she was lonely or sad, which is what she did. Kahoko had brought her violin with her, so when she reached the roof, the first thing she did was take out her violin.

She closed her eyes and began to play Ave Maria, by Franz Schubert. She had played this at the Seiya Music Competition and still remembered it.

Len was walking around the school's campus trying to find Kahoko to say goodbye. out of the blue, he heard soft music drifting from a high place, and reconigized the piece of be Ave Maria. He wondered where it was coming from so he bagan searching. He finally wounded up on the roof, and saw Kahoko. He was careful not to make a loud sound to distrurb her and jsut stood there listeing to her play. When Kahoko was done, she sighed and turned around to put her violin away and saw Len.

"Len!?!" she said in surprise. Len himself was caught by surprise and stumbled backwards. Kahoko laughed silently.

"Well? What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I heard you playing so..." he stumbled for he could not find words to continue it. Kahoko smiled and sat down.

"Aren't the star pretty tonight?' she asked changing the subject. Len nodded in agreement. He walked over to join her and for several moments they just sat in silence. Len saw Kahoko slightly dozing off, and tried to wake her up before she would tumble over and off the roof.

"hm..." Kahoko said rubbing her eyes, Len checked his watch and saw that it was nearly 11:30 pm.

"Kahoko, let's go it's really late," Kahoko nodded and began walked alongside Len. They walked back to her room, and Kahoko laid down on her bed, falling instantly to sleep, but she muttered one sentance before that.

"Goodbye Len, visit again. Please," with that Kahoko fell into a deep sleep. Len just watched her for sometime, and decided that he would leave her a gift. He walked back to one of the practice room and took out his violin and tape recorder, which he kept in his violin case. He pressed start on the tape recorder and began playing Ave Maira. When he finished he smiled, he checked his watc again and saw that it was 12: 10 am. He didn't want to disturb Kahoko during her sleep so he decided to wait until morning and leave the tape in her room.

Morning came and Len dropped off the tape in Kahoko's room with a note that read: Dear Kahoko,

Thank for the pleasnt visit. I'll visit again during the spring.

Your friend,

Len Tsukimori

With that Len boarded the plane and left. When Kahoko woke up the first thing she saw was the tape. She read the note and felt grateful. She realized that there'd be no way to catch him now. So she decided to wait until the spring for his visit. Little did she know, but Len was the only one who she could truly open her heart to.