THE OBLIVIOUS AND THE DENIER
The story is based around the famous four panel manga, and anime K-On which centers around the lives of five exquisite members of the Keongaku Club or directly translated into Light Music Club.
The characters, setting and start-up plot are from the original material and all belongs to their respectful creators and producers.
CHAPTER I: THE WANTED GIRLFRIEND AND THE WANTING FRIEND
I hate it when people ask me again and again about that day
I don't like to remember what happened that day
"Come on already Ricchan! You promised to tell if I can play the song correctly!" Yui insists the carefree drummer who was still sitting in front of her drums.
The group has just finished playing another song that Mio has recently composed, it's been a long time since they've played together after the school festival, and Yui's forgetful nature has taken its turn already. Ritsu was fine with just having tea for the afternoon, but Mio just shot her with a bump when she suggested this, Azusa was also on the side of practicing and Mugi, well she's not on anyone's side. The self-proclaimed president didn't had a choice now, she forced herself to stand up from the chair she always sat on by the table, the right chair next to hers was also occupied by a kindred soul, Yui was still seating at her chair while everyone else was already preparing their instruments. Ritsu noticed this and called her to prepare too, but Yui doesn't move or say anything at all until Ritsu drags her out of her chair to the practice area; she fixes the tune of Gitah and waits for the start. Ritsu raises her drumsticks and taps them 3 times, everyone then starts to play except Yui who has obviously forgotten her tabs once again, Ritsu stops the playing and asks Yui to remember her tabs first, everyone then re-prepares while waiting,. Mugi takes this time to make some tea, Azusa continues to practice with Mio, Ritsu on the other hand seats on the wooden sofa at the front of the practice area, she sighs there while wiping her sweat with her hand, Mugi puts the tea down the table when she notices what Ritsu is doing. Mugi walks to the sofa and suddenly wipes Ritsu's sweat in the face with her handkerchief; much to Ritsu's surprise that now has a pink hue of embarrassment, Mugi smiles and folds her handkerchief before calling everyone for tea.
After their short break, Ritsu was in for another surprise, Yui has just finished her cake and suddenly takes her guitar, she then looks at Ritsu and asks her with a serious face
"Ricchan, if you were a boy who would you date from the four of us?"
"Huh?" Ritsu is dumfounded by Yui's question, she didn't find it very weird but it was absolutely out of the moment.
"It just came to my mind because I saw a movie last night and…." Yui was cut short
"I don't need to answer a silly question like that" Ritsu barges in before Yui could add more.
"Then, let's have a deal Ricchan, if I can play this whole song correctly, you have to answer my question!"
Yui was serious with knowing the answer and it somehow fueled her up to do the practice which at the time was Ritsu's only concern. Ritsu half-heartedly agreed thinking that Yui would let her slip but that's not until the song ended perfectly, with no mistakes coming from the lead guitarist.
"Wow Yui-senpai, you were perfect!" Azusa exclaimed happily, feeling that it was the first time Yui got it right from the start.
Everyone sits at the table for Ricchan's answer; the five of them are at their usual places in the table, Mio and Mugi are at the left side of the table facing parallel to Ritsu and Yui, and at the head seat is Azusa. Everyone's eyes are on Ritsu's who is now finding a way to get out,
" Really, Yui, you and your crazy antics" Ritsu crosses her arms while looking at Yui
"Well, I accidentally watched a weird movie last night where two girls were doing things that lovers only do" Yui also crosses her arms while looking at Ritsu.
" And why am I connected to what you watched?...It's yuri too by the way!" Ritsu blushes on Yui's indirect reference to a yuri film,
"Well, the protagonist looked and acted a lot like you, from the hairstyle to the way of talking!" Yui pouches her lips as if to emphasize her reason, a bit of red crossing her cheeks
"look like her?... and so what If I look like her! I'm not a Les for friggin out loud"
"It's not like that Ricchan! I'm just really curious with the thought that if we were to become boys, who will date who?"
"Then why am I the only one at the hot seat?"
" Datte…You look like the girl from the movie, so I had to ask you first"
"Well, how about you? Who would you prefer?"
"Azu-nyan!"
What a quick response. Everyone thought.
"So, what's your answer Ricchan?" Mugi happily dips in the conversation,
"Well… " Ritsu's embarrassment is more visible now by the redness of her cheeks.
She stares at the four girls who were waiting for her answer,
Yui? No, too childish
Azusa? Hmmm, too young, and she's already Yui's
Mio? Dangerous queen
Mugi?... hmm Mugi's alright
"I think I'll chose Mugi" Ritsu smiles brightly while looking at Mugi
"Is that so?, I'm honored Ricchan" Mugi is now fidgeting in her seat, taking no notice in this Ritsu then looks at Yui again, arms still crossed. "Well then Yui, I've answered your question, anymore to add?" Ritsu looks at Yui who seems to be thinking of another question, when Mio suddenly asks from the adjacent seat
"Why Mugi?"
"Why Mugi?..." Ritsu is now looking at Mio "well she's just the kindest, Gallant, caring and sweet type from the four of us."
"You're not fit for someone like that you know" Mio looks at Ritsu with a nonchalant expression.
"What an awful way to put it Mio, hidoi" Ritsu frowns at Mio, The two of them then change glares, waiting for a next exclamation, but Yui suddenly said " Ah!", Ritsu glares away from Mio and asks Yui
"What's with the eureka exclamation?"
"Ricchan, if Mugi –chan were to be your girlfriend if you were a boy, would you marry her?" Yui's face is serious as she says it.
"What? Marry?, Yui, your questions are really becoming something" Ritsu's arm crossing is gone now as she holds Yui's shoulders,
"Come on, Ricchan, you answered the first one, this is just a continuation" Yui just smiles at Ritsu not minding the hard grip of Ritsu's hands in her shoulders. After a while though Ritsu let's go of Yui's shoulders and just falls lean on her chair.
"Mou, If it's marrying, then Mugi is really not a choice, I could imagine the burden of marrying into a really rich family, I not cut-out for that kind of lifestyle" Ritsu, then scans the other four again and abruptly stops her vision at Mio, who is now lifting her an eyebrow
"What?" Mio says in an obviously annoyed tone
Ritsu, exclaims some "hmm's" now and then, accompanied with a bit of chin stroking and head scratching until she stomps her right hand fist to the palm of her left hand,
"It's definitely Mio, If there was someone I know I could live with forever, It's no one but Mio, She might be a hassle sometimes, and a little hard on me but I….!ahh!"
Ritsu's sentence hang midair when Mio steps on her foot, it was clear in Ritsu's scream that the step had an utter force applied to it.
"What the hell! Mio! That hurt!"
"I'd do it again if you tell things like that!"
Ritsu doesn't answer back to Mio anymore; she just looked at Yui and said
"This is all your fault"
Yui looks at her "Why?" "I didn't tell you to choose Mio-chan"
Ritsu's face then turns into a reaction that shows speechlessness and just sighs, she then looks at Mio again, for a couple of seconds she just stares at her, she then sighs and shortly after, just smiles and stretches her hands up
"Well then, I think that's all for today, let's go home"
Everyone quietly stands up and fix their things. The five of them separate at a street bound by the Train rails, Yui, Azusa and Mugi goes straight from the previous street while Mio and Ritsu turns to the left.
Ritsu's house is first from Mio's, as they arrived near it, they say their goodbyes and Ritsu runs to her house while Mio will walk on her own for another 5 houses. After passing Ritsu's house she notices a big truck parked halfway in front of Ritsu's and their neighbor's house, Mio dismisses what she saw and just continues to reach her own home.
The Next Day-
it was just the start of the morning when Mio was already looking for Ritsu, The two of them goes to school together every day but Ritsu already left when Mio went to her house, Ritsu's mom told her that Ritsu said something about accompanying a new friend .
A new friend?...Mio thought while looking for Ritsu in the classroom, she still wasn't there, but after a few minutes, Ritsu appears from the front door and goes to her desk, Mio thought of this as a chance to talk with Ritsu, but Ritsu quickly left after putting her bag down, Mio becomes more curious of what's happening and decides to follow Ritsu outside of the classroom.
Dammit… Homeroom's going to start soon you baka
Mio gets annoyed as she chases Ritsu who was walking slightly fast, she suddenly stops at a corner and takes out her cellphone, it seems that she was hurrying to answer a call,
" moshi moshi, Ricchan speaking"
Mio has now stopped walking too, she is just a few distance from Ritsu. She stands there hearing bits and pieces of Ritsu's communication with someone on the cellphone.
Who could she be talking to?
Mio, was wondering, she waited for the call to stop, she was going to ask Ritsu when she was suddenly pulled by the hand, Ritsu was now running back to their classroom holding Mio's hand, Mio was surprised, and tried to ask Ritsu about the caller but Ritsu doesn't answer, Mio could feel Ritsu's grip on her hand beginning to get tighter but before they could crush Mio's fragile Hand, Ritsu let go's, Mio is again surprised and see's that they're in the classroom already,
I was too fixated about Ritsu's grip that I didn't realize we were back already….
wait now's my chance to ask her,
"Ritsu, who were you talking to in your phone just now?" Mio asks quickly
"Ah, that, you'll soon meet" Ritsu just smiles and goes to her seat, Mio continues to stand at her position.
"So I don't know the person yet" Mio looks at Ritsu from afar who was now merrily talking with the others, she stops to worry about the matter and just went to her seat too.
Lunch break comes and the Hoka-go Tea Time eat their lunch together at the classroom, from Yui's seat, the four of them joins their tables together to form a bigger one, with all four of them including Nodoka .
Mio is seated at the head seat parallel to the window, Ritsu is at her left side, talking with someone again in her cellphone, the call lasts shorter now,
"Ok then, dya ne" Ritsu hangs the call
"Oy, you should at least go outside if you need to talk with someone, were eating here" Mio scolds at Ritsu,
"hehe, gomen" Ritsu answers while scratching the back of her neck, she then dugs to her own lunch, Mio stares at her for a moment,
Just who is it that she's been talking to since this morning?.
When everyone was done eating they started to separate the tables and arrange them back, before moving her own, Mio held Ritsu's sleeve who was pushing her table,
"What is it Mio?" Ritsu stops pushing the table.
"Something's definitely up, just who have you been talking to?" Mio now seems desperate for an answer, Ritsu understood and was now opening her mouth to tell her but their next teacher has already arrived and ordered them to go back to their seats now.
Ritsu looks at the front door, but she suddenly feels a thug in her sleeves again, she remembers Mio and looks back at her,
"I guess my answers here" Ritsu smiles at Mio, she then continues to push her table to its original position, seconds later, the classroom is now back to normal, when everyone was properly seated the Teacher started an introduction to someone who would be joining their class from now on,
"Well, it's already half of the school year, but we have a transferee who will be a part of this class from now on"
Everyone seems surprise, except Ritsu who is obviously excited, and only Mio noticed this,
The front door then becomes the star of the moment as everyone's attention is focused to see who exactly is going to enter from it, a few split seconds pass as they hear footsteps until enough figure is seen from the emerging person, time seemed to become slower as the new student comes in, a beauty in the eye of any, the transferee was like Athena herself going down to earth from the gates of heaven, The new girl was undeniably gorgeous in every sense. She stops from walking as she reaches near the teacher's table and faces in front; the reaction of everyone was speechless and amazed, whispering of how beautiful she was went on between seatmates and a great feeling of excitement was felt inside the room.
"Would you like to introduce yourself?" The teacher, a middle-aged woman asked the new girl, The girl nodded to the teacher and started her introduction.
"Good Day Everyone, My name is Miyu Yamaki, I'm really excited to attend this school and I hope that we can all get along well." Miyu smiles through the whole introduction but she kept on switching her eyes to different directions like she was looking for something… or someone, everyone replies to her introduction with encouraging and friendly response's and she continues to smile at everyone, but a moment later her eyes stop wandering, a rapid enlargement of her pupils is noticeable and her smile becomes even wider, she was staring at only one direction, to where everyone seemed to follow, Mio on the other hand was confused because even before everyone could follow Miyu's direction of sight, Mio knew where Miyu's eyes were focused, even if it was a bit far from her and even if she didn't think twice, there would be no mistaking that Miyu's eyes were fixed to Ritsu.
"Ricchan!" Miyu exclaims from her position, as if finding treasure, Miyu quickly runs to Ritsu and to everyone's shock, Miyu hugs Ritsu with all the might that she had, Ritsu who was the most surprised almost falls back with her chair if not for a quick reflex of her body to balance the situation. Ritsu kind of pushes Miyu away, Miyu notices this and let go's from the hug too,
"Ricchan! We're classmates now! Were classmates now!" Miyu shouts happily while holding both of Ritsu's hand, The whole scene is a confusion to everyone, who are now asking on what's going on,
" Are the two of you close to each other?" Ritsu's seatmate asks her.
"Well in a way, yeah, she's my neighbor" Ritsu answers, Miyu then hugs her from the back and barges in
"And Ricchan's new friend"
"Eh?" everyone bellows, Many of which can't accept that Ritsu is actually close with their new goddess of a classmate.
"Surui da (your unfair) Ritsu" some would tell Ritsu who is still wrapped in Miyu's hug.
While these events were happening, one person in the room was in her own world, Mio just sat at her seat while looking at the scene, a thousand questions running through her mind.
She's the new friend? Do new friends even hug that much?
She's Ritsu's neighbor?
Why is that Ritsu blushing?
Ughhh! That baka has a lot of explaining to do!
The day's class has ended and everyone is now frolicking in Miyu's seat which is just at the right of Ritsu's, Miyu is really beautiful but she is also shy like Mio, She keeps on holding onto Ritsu's right hand while talking with everyone,
Are all beautiful girl like this? Ritsu contemplates on the moments resemblance when Mio is also the center of attention.
From all the girls that have clustered in front , Mio emerges and goes straight to Ritsu, She and Miyu closes into an eye-to eye contact but Mio breaks free after a few seconds, she then stares at Ritsu
"We have club activities buchou" Mio states, arms crossed with a condescending voice.
"Hai, be right there, but it would be faster if you help me through this crowd" Ritsu sounds pleading,
"It'd be easier if you let Yamaki-san leave first" Mio then looks at Miyu, Mio might not show it but she's bothered by the way Miyu is haggling onto Ritsu's right hand.
"You can call me Miyu-chan, Mio-chan" Miyu smiles at Mio, and an evident tightening of her hold on Ritsu's right hand doesn't go ignored by Mio.
"Your names sound similar, it's confusing somehow" some of the girls from the crowd suddenly choruses,
"Yeah, yeah, and not to mention that they also resemble each other" Another group adds on
"It's almost like a requirement to be beautiful and shy if your name is a form of Mio" The others continue to add, now laughing at their conversation, and with all these busy chatting. Ritsu, Mio and Miyu were able to escape.
"hah…hah…(panting) good thing we escaped but why is Yamaki-san still with us?" Mio looks at Ritsu who has trouble running because Miyu was still holding onto her right arm, and it seemed that Miyu wasn't really the running type too.
"I told you that you can call me Miyu-chan, Mio-chan!" Miyu barges while panting very hardly, slowly stopping to run, Ritsu senses this and soon stops running too, Mio, who was further ahead stops too and comes back to them,
"It's awkward to call you that when our names sound so alike" Mio answers Miyu
Miyu was now sitting in the floor, her hand has let go of Ritsu's arm and she was now panting while sweat dripped from her forehead,
"But, Ricchan says that calling each other…ahhh…by the first name makes you become closer….ahhh"
" I see" Mio says and turns to Ritsu who is sure of what will happen next, she gets bumped in the head and Miyu sees this, she quickly stands up and grabs Mio's hand,
"Don't do that to Ricchan!" Miyu yells at Mio, Mio is speechless. It's the first time someone has stopped her from hitting Ritsu, it felt like she was hurting Ritsu, Mio felt an uncomfortable guilt welling up in her, but Ritsu makes Miyu's hand let go of her grab, Mio's free hand falls to her waist, and her head is kept bowed. Ritsu knows this is bad, so she tells something to Miyu, Mio stands there at their back, she doesn't hear what Ritsu is telling Miyu. A quite minute passes, Miyu approaches in front of Mio and says sorry and that she understands now, but Mio doesn't reply, seeing Mio's reaction, Ritsu sighed and lifted her hand to Miyu's shoulder
"I guess tomorrows a good deal, could you wait for me in the classroom?" Ritsu tells Miyu
"O…kay, …." Miyu answers, she then looks back at Mio "I'm sorry again Mio"
Mio still doesn't replies, Miyu's face becomes confused and worried so she just leaves the two and goes to back to the classroom.
Ritsu goes closer in front of Mio
"It's not your fault, she's just a bit off….you know?, a bit too innocent, more than Yui" Ritsu tries to comfort Mio,
"No, she's in a whole different world, I'm sorry too, I kind of ruined her first day" Mio's head is now lifted and her eyes are now on Ritsu's.
Mio felt better seeing Ritsu's eyes didn't look mad or angry, instead Ritsu's eyes were really warm to the feeling, it might be because of its hazel color but to Mio, she knew that it was because this were her best friends eyes. The eyes that never failed to see through her, the eyes that got attracted to her since their childhood, the eyes that were always curved to go with her best friend's big smiles and laughs. Mio loved to stare at Ritsu's eyes, she always felt warm in their sight.
Ritsu sees that Mio is starting to feel better, so she gives her a big smile and holds her hand, she then shifts to lock their arms together, Ritsu's right arm on Mio's left arm,
"Milady is easily upset, you know its ok with me if you hit me, but reactions like ouch and itai are really an unconscious response, so it really doesn't hurt me" Ritsu explains while walking, doing her best to make Mio feel better.
"Really?" Mio answers with an unsure voice, she knows that Ritsu is just comforting her, but she does consider that Ritsu is saying the truth.
"yeah, really, really!" ritsu responses determinably, while also thinking that this might make Mio more prone to hitting her, but she doesn't care so much about it for the moment, right now she needs to make Mio feel better.
Mio was happy with Ritsu's effort to comfort her but she notices that something is wrong.
"What about the club?" Mio then asks and stops walking when she notices that they're heading back to the classroom.
"I need to accompany Miyu home today, it's her first day and she needs a guide to the streets"
"Then I'll come with" Mio replies
"Huh? Then you better tell the others first, they might wait for you" Ritsu tells her
"What about you? Have you informed them already?" Mio quizzically asks
"huh? Oh yeah, I haven't too! I was thinking of making you tell them"
"Then why didn't you tell me from the first place, before we ran to the hallway!?" Mio is now back on her bad vibes and is struggling to let go from Ritsu's wrapped arm on hers.
"Because I was really planning on taking Miyu there today, but after what happened in the hallway I thought that tomorrow would be a better choice, which ended up in me comforting you so that you'd help me tell the others that I have to go early today!" Ritsu spoke so fast, her arm was now separated from Mio's, it looks like the drummer was also embarrassed to tell the true reason why she wanted to comfort Mio, Mio was now mad, her eyes were showing her anger as her brows bend down to the maximum and her teeth grind in position.
"Inform them yourself you baka!" Mio shouts at Ritsu and hits her again in the head, she then walks out and leaves Ritsu holding her head in the hallway, Mugi then shows up and see's Ritsu
"Ricchan, you have a bump on your head" Mugi stares at the victims head, it seems that Mugi was a little late to see what Mio just did.
"Yeah, looks like I made Mio mad again"
Mugi understands this and looks at Ritsu's bump again, telling in her thoughts
Yeah, from the size of that bump, Ricchan must have crossed Mio's limits again .
Ritsu looks at the hallway where Mio just passed through and sighed, she then turns to Mugi, who was still staring at her bump; Ritsu finds this awkward and just stares away while asking Mugi.
"Ne, Mugi, I need to accompany Miyu home today so I can't come to the clubroom, can you let Yui and Azusa know?"
"No problem Ricchan, take care going home" Mugi smiles and stops staring at Ritsu's bump after realizing that the drummer wasn't looking at her anymore.
"hehe, Hai, Thanks" Ritsu then goes to their classroom and calls for Miyu, she sees Miyu saying her goodbyes with relief, and while waiting for her to come, Ritsu calls out to Mugi who was still not far,
"Ne, Mugi"
Mugi stops from walking and looks back at Ritsu " What is it Ricchan?"
Ritsu stares at Mugi, somehow deciding if she is to tell what she wants.
Chapter One End.