Chapter 1 - Play list
Hey Lolli-naustic here, this is my first story on this site. SPOILER ALERT to those who have not read the complete manga series.
This story takes place in the future, three or so years into the future. Utau is now in her third year of high school and Kukai is in his first. Amu and the other Guardians are in middle school still (i am going by k-5 is elementary, 6-8 is middle, and 9-12 is high) So the others are in 8th and 7th.
Disclaimer- I obviously do not own these characters or Shogo Chara. Nor do i own any bands or songs mentioned in this fic.
((But i do own the character Lilly Hamilton, she's purely mine! though i don't think i mention her last name in this yet...))
Rate, review, and enjoy.
5:58
The green numbers dimly lit the room around her still body.
Utau lay unmoving as she watched the digits flicker with each second until the one number changed a minute later.
5:59
Almost there. The next sixty seconds stretched out for what seemed like an eternity. Her eyes slowly blinking, and her mind blank, she waited for the remaining seconds to go buy.
6:OO BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP!
Finally. Utaus hand immediately hit the off button on top the black alarm clock, silencing it.
She hastily slipped out of bed and out of her dim room as the sun peeked through the curtains behind her beds' frame.
Uatu had recently gotten into the habit of waking up ten minutes before she actually intended on getting up. Even during break she had gotten up, what seemed to her, ten minutes to soon. She'd lye in her bed motionless staring at the clock or at the ceiling for the next ten minutes, not a thought going through her mind. The alarm on her clock would be the only thing to re-awaken her censes.
Utau felt her way through the darkened hall, feeling up the walls until her hand caught the rim of the door that opened to the bathroom. She opened the door and nearly jumped when a warm fur ball rubbed against her ankles through her grey sweats. It was only that dumb cat Ikuto found and named after his chara that was now gone from their lives. Though Utaus' charas were still around. Somewhere.
She bent over and scratched behind the cats' ears, causing him to purr as he strutted down the hallway to Ikutos' empty room.
Paying no more mind to Yuro, Utau flicked on the lights in the bathroom as she shut and locked the door behind her. A moment after she flipped the switch the lights lazily flickered to life. The lights buzzed above her head, effectively annoying the hell out of Utau. She walked the short distance to the sink where a back dock rest with her Ipod touch third generation attached to it.
She pressed the power button on the top of her dock and her Ipods screen lit up with life. She pressed play on the screen and the last song she was listening to resumed from the begging.
The song playing happened to be one from the play list Lilly put on her Ipod. Lilly was an American exchange student who arrived at the end of last year and was going to be around for this year then leaving back to New York in America the following summer. Utau and her had become fast friends; the moment Lilly found out that Utau was THEE Utau Tsukiyomi she was all over Utau. It was a terrible experience but soon she found Lilly to be an interesting girl. She was a little younger than her and she had a ton of music to show Utau. All of the American bands were… incredibly strange to Utau. Some music she found repulsive. The screaming was deafening, but the lyrics some songs had were too explicit for Utau. Like in a certain band. What was it… she tried to recall the name of the band; Oh right, it was 'Blood on the Dance Floor'.
The music was fun and up beat but when Lilly translated the English into Japanese for her… God how could someone listen to such things? America was a weird place surely.
The music playing now was a song from 'Blue October', Utaus favorite English band.
After ten minutes of 'Blue October' she was just finishing her shower. Before stepping out of the shower, Utau ran her hand through her damp blonde locks to make sure she had washed out all of the conditioner.
Since the conditioner was fully washed out Utau reached her hand out to grab the towel hanging up beside the shower.
With the pink towel wrapped around her petite frame, she took a smaller towel out of the pantry underneath the sink to dry her hair.
6:26
As she reached for the blow dryer beside the sink the song playing changed to anger and screaming catching Utau by surprise. She jumped at the sudden change in tempo, slipping on her sweat pants, panties, and tee shirt that she had worn to sleep. Utau let out a hoarse yelp as she fell, the back of her head hitting the counter before landing on the floor with a thud.
"Oh oh oh oh ooooww" she hissed through her teeth while rubbing the back of her head.
Stumbling to her feet Utau grabbed the dryer, changed the song to something of hers, and finished drying her hair before moving on the do her light makeup.
6:48
Utau pulled her black uniform skirt up to her natural waistline and buttoned the shirt over her dark purple lace bra.
Her fingers played with the mesh outline of the skirt while she checked over her reflection in the full body sized mirror on her wall by the large window.
Turning to see her ass in the mirror she decided to put her hair up into high pigtails on either side of her head.
Her long blonde locks rested on her shoulders spilling from the mismatching hair-ties above. Satisfied on her look she glanced over at the clock.
6:52
She still had an hour or two until school legitimately started. Utau lazily brushed her pearl white teeth and pulled a piece of mint gum out of the packet on her nightstand than headed down the stairs out the door and down the street. Even though she still had plenty of time to get to school, and it took only about ten minutes to walk there, she still skipped out on breakfast. It was important to be thin with Utaus carrier.
Even after leaving Easter Utau continued her singing carrier, she had many offers for movies and record deals, so nothing really changed for her singing wise.
This was Utaus third year in high school, and as she rounded the corner she saw the very familiar building. Walking through the school grounds she noticed that hardly anyone other than teachers were in the school. A few eager freshmen were walking around in small groups, trying to find their homeroom before classes started to avoid the hassle of rushing around the school in fear of being late or being picked on by the higher ups. Utau walked over to the main entrance where the homerooms were posted on a large white board. Four boards in total for each year. Before searching for her name on the third years board, she scanned the freshman's names. Her two orbs stopping as she reached a name on the list for class B-2.
- Souma, Kukai
A memory flashed in her head. The day almost three years ago, when she was still a freshman in high school and he was in sixth grade and the rest of the Guardians in fifth or fourth. On the swing set where Souma Kukai kissed her. Kissed her!
It was a sweet memory, followed by a bitter one. The media caught hold of the relationship and it was relentless torture from there. She was called a pervert for dating a younger boy along with pedophile and numerous other things. It was like taboo for them or something. They weren't even that far apart age wise! Her stepfather strongly disliked the attention she was receiving and so did her agent. They had to break it off and were forbidden from seeing him again.
It was ridiculous! But that was years ago. Yet Utau found herself feeling sad just looking at the name printed on the paper pinned to the coloured wood.
She still had feelings for him, weird-confusing feelings, like back then.
She pulled her Ipod out of her bag and put the black buds into her ears, drowning out her thoughts as the music blasted and she continued searching for her name on the correct board.
After finding her homeroom on the paper she started her way through the halls, up the stairs and through more halls.
A girl in a higher grade was walking around the halls with four other girls and a boy, likely her boyfriend by the way they acted. Avoiding them Utau walked as close to the window as possible, running her hand along the glass as she walked. Utau noticed that someone had opened on of the windows wide open. She approached the window the close it but as she was a few feet away she felt herself being pulled, or push rather, to the ground. Her bag went flying out of her hand and out the window, tugging the headphones from her ears as her Ipod, which was in her school bag as it went flying out the window. It felt like time slowed down just to torture Utau further as her bad went through and down from the third story. To the Second, then as she shrugged her way off the floor she watched in horror as it hit the water in splashing the walkway around the fountain.
"NOOO!" Utau screeched as it hit.
She cursed wildly as she started to climb out the window; someone was pulling her back shouting in practiced Japanese that she was sorry, then breaking into English apologies.
"Lilly you bitch!" She shouted turning around "My IPOD was in there!"
"I am so sorry Utau!"
"That wont fix my ipod! You dumb-" she cut off as she noticed a certain orange head bobbing around outside. She turned as the boy fished Utaus bag out of the fountain. Her turned and gazed up to where the bag had fallen from, and, to see who was shouting.
Utaus eyes widened with horror as her shouted up her name
"Utau?" he asked loudly, but to late Utau had dodged under the window and out of sight. Kukai was holding her bag up confused.
"Lilly! Lilly say it's yours"
"What? Why? What for Uta-"
"Shhhhhh, just do it! And I am NOT here" she whispered loudly up at the pale American blonde with pink dye in the under layer of her hair.
"Ok" she hissed then leaned out the window "HEY! That's my bag; I tripped and out it flew! Sorry bout the uh yelling. That was me to" she said doubting the red head would be dumb enough to believe that she was shouting at herself.
Even though Utau couldn't see him she knew Kukai was dumb enough to believe that white lie Lilly just spun.
But apparently he'd gotten smarter.
She heard his voice shout back up "No, I saw Utau. Tell her that I'll give it to her, and only to her personally. Not you uh…" his voice faded, unsure what he was supposed to call Lilly.
Lilly shrugged and bent over slightly to make it obvious that she was talking to someone on the floor. Smirking as she spoke "Hey that boy said-"
"I know what he said!" Utau hissed. Then started crawling across the hallway to be out of anyone's view beyond the window. She stood, dusted herself off then headed for the stairway.
"Oh yeah!" the American called after her "we have homeroom together, I'll tell the teacher you can't make it to first and I'll get your schedule for you"
Utau answered in a sweet voice "Thanks and since I'm headed down stairs should I drop by the nurses and tell them to prepare a bed for you?"
"What do you-… oh… You're a bitch"
Well this was going to be fun.
So what do you think?
I crave you opinions, good or bad. Please rate and review. If someone rates/ reviews i will have the next chapter out by New Years (which is coming up... less then a week people!) thank you so much for reading my fic! ~ Lolli-naustic
