Author's note : Hello, this is my first fanfic ever. There might be some grammatical error, so please bear with it. Hope you'll give some reviews so I can make it better.

Disclaimer : I don't have La Corda D'Oro...

CHAPTER 1 – An Important Rendez-vous

Monday…

"BEEP…BEEP…BEEP…"

"Mmm…" Kaho groaned, stirred in her bed, couldn't ignore the demanding sound produced by the alarm. She woke up slowly, started preparing for school ; washed up, changed to her school uniform, and grab her violin case.

She entered the kitchen and saw that her mother was already there. Her mother jumped a little when realised she was there " Ah, Kaho-chan, you're early today. That's good… so you can have your breakfast properly" she gestured toward the meal she'd been prepared. Kaho took a seat and start her breakfast.

Meanwhile, her mother clutches a letter in her hand, slightly thoughful and worried, but immediately shrugged the frown look off her face before Kaho notice anything, started" Kaho-chan, this afternoon, I want you at home before 6 pm. There'll be some guest coming and I expect you to meet them."

"Guests? Who are they Okaa-san?" Kaho asked, a little confused since they're rarely have guest at home. "You'll find out later. Just don't forget and don't be late!" Her mother made it clear that she won't say anything further.

"Hai" Kaho said, more confused than before. Her mother's acting strange… and she really doesn't know why. Try to shrug it off her mind, Kaho finished her breakfast and went to school early.

Arrived at school Kaho saw a commotion in front of the school gate. Everybody's gawking at a fancy car that was just stopped. It's definitely not Yunoki-senpai's car, he's already inside the school yard a few pace away from her, surrounded by his bodyguard as always. The door opened swiftly and came out from the car a girl, a very pretty one, and obviously very rich.

The new girl looked around and catch Kaho's curious glance. She stared back at Kaho intensely, captured her eyes for a very long time. She made Kaho feel uneasy and finally made her looked away nervously. At last the new girl proceeded, entering the school yard and headed to the music department. The new girl is a 3rd year music dept student by the look of her uniform.

A familiar voice snapped her out of her daydreaming "Ohayou, Hino-san" Suddenly Yunoki-senpai's by her side, smilling sweetly to her. Kaho feel alarmed by the tone, her senpai always makes her feel uneasy when he's around. Kaho stuttered "Ohayou, Yunoki-senpai." Then start to head for her class room as soon as possible before her senpai can do anything further. Behind her, she can hear her senpai chuckled, laughing at her reaction towards him.

Before class end-up that afternoon, there's an announcement through the speaker, Kanazawa-sensei said,"For all concour participants, you are expected at the music room number 3 after class dismissed." Kaho groaned,"I hope the meeting's short, or I'll be home late".

The bell rang, the class dismissed. Kaho was walking towards practice room to attend the meeting when she's joined by Tsuchiura in the hallway. Both wondering what's the meeting is all about. When they arrived, everybody's already there except for Kanazawa-sensei. Kaho sat next to Fuyuumi-chan, chatted with her while they're waiting for the sensei.

Suddenly Kanazawa-sensei entered the room with the new girl that Kaho saw this morning. Her hand's holding some sheet of paper. Kanazawa-sensei turn his attention to the waiting participants and said, "Before I explained to you why we're gathered here, let me introduced you to a new student here in Seisou. This is Mizuno Tomoko-san, she's a violinist, she's just transferred here from France. Although she's a violinist, she'll be major in piano here in Seisou."

The new girl smilling and said, "Douzo yoroshiku, minna-san!". One by one, the councour participants introduced themselves to the new girl, except Yunoki-senpai and Hihara-senpai who's in the same class as she is.

Kanazawa-sensei continued his explanation, "She's one of the heir of Yamazaki enterprise, one of the principal donatur of this school. In 2 months time, Yamazaki clan will held a grand ball to celebrate a big event in their family. They have specifically asked for the councour participants to perform at the ball. It's going to be a very important performance, since a lot of people from music industry will come to the ball. You can catch a good opportunity to have someone sponsor you, or even better some maestro might be interested in tutoring you personally". Everybody got excited by the news. "Mizuno-san had already prepared a program for your performances, Mizuno-san please explained the program to the others" He said.

"Thank you, sensei" Mizuno said,"This is the copy of the program that I've been prepared for you"

"Hino-san, please pass these programs to everybody, thank you…" She said

"As you can see, there'll be a group performance, some duets, and solos" She continued, "In group performance, we will play together. In duets, I will play with onii-san, and Hino-san will play with Tsukimori-san. Everybody will play solo, you don't have to worry about accompanist since my family will provide one for you, you'll just have to inform us the piece you will play at the ball. For the group performance we will play Piano Concerto no. 23 III Allegro assai, the music sheet attached at the program."

"For the group performance, I propose for us to practice together once a week in my house, every Saturday" She said, "Is there any objection?" When there's no objection been made she continued, "Is there any question for me?"

"What instrument does your brother play Mizuno-san? Will he play with us too?" Kaho asked.

"Well, he's not exactly my brother, he's my cousin to be percise. And to answer your question, he plays piano. And he won't play in the group performance, he'll only perform a duet with me." She said, "You'll soon meet him Hino-san." A mysterious smile spread across her face.

"I think it's all for today. Thank you for your cooperation, and see you Saturday at the front gate. I'll pick you up here at 9 o'clock in the morning." She said in a cheerful voice.

When the meeting finally finished Kaho headed home hurriedly, she really didn't have that much time. The meeting took much more time than she expected, Tsukimori-kun urged her to decide the piece they'll play on the duets performance right away. Well, they haven't decided until this point… she sighed…

When she got home, her mother immediately told her to prepare herself. "So, Okaa-san, we'll be having dinner with our guest right?" Kaho said, "Let me help you prepare the food…"

"It's not necessary Kaho-chan, they're not going to have dinner with us. We're only going to talk about some important thing." Her mother told her. Kaho felt very anxious about the meeting… Something very wrong took place and she didn't know anything about it…

A few minutes later the door bell rang. She stood up to answer the door. When she opened the door she saw 3 people out side the door. The first one she recognised as Mizuno Tomoko, the new girl. The other 2, both are men, one in mid 40's, and the other several years older then herself, she definitely doesn't recognise them. "Mizuno-san, it's nice to meet you here. I'm very surprised to know that you're my guest this evening" Kaho exclaimed, "Please come in" She stepped aside to let them in.

Mizuno-san smiled, "It's nice to see you too, Hino-san"

Her mother acknowledged the guests with a slight bow and a short greeting, "Yamazaki-sama" then indicated them to take a seat.

After they're comfortly seated, the man in mid 40's spoke,"It's been a long time since I last saw you Hino-san. You've been hiding so well, it's been very difficult to track you down." He spoke in a calm tone, but nevertheless, the temperature in the room drop extreemly.

Her mother blushed deeply, looked very much irritated, and spoke, "Let's make things short… What do you want from us?" She indicated herself and Kaho.

"What do I want?" The man spoke,"What I really want is to see my own daughter Hino-san, or do you forget that Kahoko is my daughter too?"

That was a big blow Kaho thought, she was shocked with the statement that man gave to her mother… She stopped breathing… and stare in horror. After a while she remembered that she needed some air and gasped for it. For the next hour she felt like she's under some charm, she felt like seeing a movie scene from far away… A movie scene that explained about some shocking thing about herself.

So it seems that, the man, named Yamazaki Takeshi, is Kaho's father… Her mother and his father divorced years ago… And mother took Kaho away from him, hide her from him all this years. Kaho doesn't really know what happened between them, they loathe each other very much. And so it seems that, she's not the only child after all, she's got a brother, his name is Yamazaki Yuki and apparently he's the cousin that Mizuno-san implied to Kaho before at school.

Kaho face blanked, she was deep in her own toughts, how could this be… how could everything turned out to be so wrong… She started to cry...

Her father slowly embraced her, "Shh… Little Kaho… Everything's going to be alright, sweetie." His voice is so calming, Kaho dimly remembered that long long a go when she cried and felt so sad there would be somebody craddled her and called her Little Kaho… A little fragment of memory about her father, that she believed already passed away. She whispered, "Otou-san… I missed you so much…"