/*Author's notes
This is my second K-ON fan fiction. It begins after the second season of the Japanese anime at the J. Women's University. This will follow very closely to the manga (the manga after the anime) though so be warned when nothing new happens very much (if you've read the manga.)
I have no idea how the university is laid out so I'm following the manga and making it up as I go along basically.
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Music blaring in the black darkness with coloured streaks of light piercing down from the lights above. Reds and blues, yellows and greens, the illuminated faces of the roaring crowd bounced up and down to the sounds and feelings that exploded out of her guitar.
"Fuwa fuwa time!" she sang at the top of her voice and the people echoed her as the adrenaline kicked through her. Raising her arm up, she began swinging it round in large circles. Round and round, strumming her guitar causing ripples through her audience as they threw their arms in the air in time. As the last wave reached the back, some clunky heavy doors burst open casting the silhouette of someone into her performance.
"Time to wake up!" the shadow screamed and a chill wind gushed through the door, blowing away the darkness, her lights and her audience. The cold cut through her, killing the music.
Ritsu, "Okay, time to wake up."
"Whoa!?" Yui shouted out as her duvet was pulled away from her.
Mio, "Come on Yui, wake up."
Mugi, "If you don't wake up soon, you'll be late."
As she was waking up, her misty eyes couldn't spot who was saying what. She recognised the voices of her music band though.
"If you're going to be like this right from the first day," said Ritsu, their drummer, "I'm really worried about your future." Yui could make out her putting the duvet back on the bed.
Mio cut in with a sigh. "Look who's talking, I had to wake you up too."
"So," said Yui, the first thing she had said since her dream was interrupted and all three people in the room looked at her. "Why are you guys at my house?"
Ritsu squished her face together. "This is the University dorm! Wake up!" As Yui got her face back together, she looked at her three friends. Mio sighed in the background, playing with her raven black hair. Next to her, a blonde Tsumugi gazed intently at her, presumably watching how to wake up Yui. The third person, who was closest to Yui, frowned at her as she still hadn't properly gotten out of bed.
"Ric-chan!" Yui cried, leaping at her with a hug.
"What's wrong?!" she shouted back but then Yui slumped in her arms, dozing. "Don't go back to sleep," she said, knocking the girl on the head.
"Wow! That's some serious bed hair!" cried out Yui, excited as usual. She turned towards someone. "Steamed towel please."
"I don't have a steamed towel," replied Ritsu.
"But Ui would always have one ready." Yui began searching for a comb.
"Ui-chan's amazing," commented Ritsu to Mio.
"Ric-chan, change of clothes please."
"Just go home already."
Somehow, they had ended up in the same dormitory together. It was like they were living together, thought Yui, as the group headed down the stairs. The only one missing was Azusa, their little junior of their music group. Being a year below though, she was still at their school in her last year. As Yui's thoughts lingered on her little kohai, they reached the cafeteria.
"I wonder how Azu-nyan's doing," though Yui aloud, queuing for their breakfast. Idly piling rice onto her plate, her thoughts trailed on towards the club they had left behind. After graduating, they had left the club in Azusa's hands but being the only one of the club not graduating, currently she was the only member.
"Don't worry, I'm sure Azusa is going to find more members," Ritsu comforted her friend but her eyes were on the mountain of rice that was crumbling under its own weight on Yui's plate. Quickly, leading her away from the food, the group found a table to sit together.
"Ui and Jun will look after her too." Finding an empty but comfortable table in a small corner, they began to discuss the day's events.
"We have to go to the entrance ceremony in an hour but it seems we have the rest of the day free," said Mio. She seemed to be enjoying the food, as she didn't stop eating to say this.
"So what shall we do afterwards?" Mugi politely wiped her mouth, considering the day's plan.
"We must join the Light Music Club!" Ritsu shouted. The room was fairly empty but Mio still ducked her head down and hit Ritsu over the head. It was the first day so she didn't want to stand out very much.
"How are we going to find it? There may not even be a light music club here."
"If there isn't then we'll make one." Mio could tell Ritsu was imagining herself as the club president again.
"I guess we could try out other clubs," suggested Mugi. "There must be other kinds of music clubs or we could try something new."
Ritsu, "I want to try martial arts!"
Megu, "How about aciting?"
Ritsu, "Football."
Megu, "Arts and crafts."
Ritsu, "The Mio Fan club, ow!" Mio brushed her hands after dealing another blow to the back of Ritsu's head.
"Yui, what about you?" Mio asked her, curious about her silence. "You haven't said anything in a while." She was gazing at her rice. "Have you lost your appetite?" Ritsu then realised that Yui had eaten all the rice.
"It doesn't taste the same as Ui's rice." She got up and walked away. Three pairs of eyes followed her.
"She's going for seconds!?"
Now dressed up in their university uniforms, they seemed ready to head out.
"Ritsu, you're leaving your headband on?" asked Mio. Mugi held up a mirror to let Ritsu see that it didn't seem right with the suit. After taking it down though, it looked weirder.
"How about now?" she asked.
Mio and Yui, "That looks weird too."
"So what am I supposed to do?!" she barked back.
All lined up and sitting quietly in the west hall, the head of the university was making a congratulatory speech about their success. Sighing, Ritsu's eyes began to wander. As the seating order was alphabetical, she had been separated from the others. They were each on different rows; Mugi was in front of her who was close behind Mio who was behind Yui. As usual, the former two were listening to the speech. However, she couldn't see Yui. It was fairly dark around the students so she could only see rows of silhouettes but she thought she knew where Yui was. A slight movement caught her eye and she saw Yui's head on resting on a shoulder.
Wait; if none of us are next to her then whose shoulder is that, thought Ritsu. Quickly whipping out a pen and paper, she wrote a message to pass along to Mio who was closest. After the note passed through some hands, Mio shot several glances at Yui and desperately wanted to shout at her. Unfortunately, being so far away, they couldn't do much about it.
"Nadoka-chan, thank you," said Yui, or so Mio thought she had said. Was she asleep?
"We are terribly sorry!" said Mio, looking terrified. Outside the hall, Mio and Yui were facing a scary woman. Her black spikey hair was very short and untamed and allowed an earing to be seen clearly. Whilst her new suit was very clean and smart, a spot of drool could clearly be seen on her shoulder.
Mio pushed Yui's head down into a very low bow. "Come on Yui, say you're sorry too."
Yui, "I-I'm sorry (Ow)." Mio let the girl raise her head back up.
Mio, quietly, "Why did you have to fall asleep on such a scary person?"
The scary person in question started having a go at Yui. "How can you fall asleep in the entrance ceremony? Do you even know how to be nervous?"
"Hehe," replied Yui with a childish grin on her face, "My mum often tells me that too. She says it's amazing I can sleep anywhere I want." Mio sighed at her.
Scary person, "That was not a compliment!" She turned and stormed off and two people followed her, giggling. They were presumably her friends.
Yui looked curiously at the three, wondering. "So there are people like that too."
Before Mio could reply, a swarm of non-uniformed people arrived.
"Congratulations on your admission! We're from the tennis club!"
"Are you interested in our anime club?"
It seemed like paper was flying everywhere as fliers were handed out or forced onto them. Mio struggled to refuse them, managing to shake her head and ketp her thoughts on the light music club.
"No thank you," she managed to some people and tried to find Yui.
"It's hard to say no," Yui answered as Mio found her. There were enough sheets of paper for a textbook in her arms.
"How did you get fliers stuck in your hair?" was the next question.
"I couldn't carry any more."
"It seems we've lost the other two," said Ritsu, trying to look over the large crowd that had swarmed them. "Well as long as they're together they should be okay." It seemed like all the new freshers of the university had clashed with the army of clubs, each trying to recruit new members. "There are so many people…"
Mugi nodded in response. "We should try and find the light music club." Somehow, these two had avoided being crushed in the crowd and stood idly outside the hustle of people. Where to start looking for the club was easier said than done though.
"We're from the anime and manga society, would you like to join us!"
Ritsu waved her hand at the girl handing out fliers. "We're not interested."
"Thank you!" cut in Mugi, taking the flier. Ritsu raised an eyebrow at her.
"Mugi, I thought we were looking for the light music club." However, she seemed to be in her own little world as she wandered off towards some dressed up people.
"You'll never defeat me, Bohan," one of the dressed up people cried. She raised a sword up into the air, deflecting a blow from the other character. "An ugly tyrant such as you I will never succumb to."
There was a small audience watching as Bohan, a second person overly dressed in royal male clothing pressed on her attack with her sword.
Ritsu tried to drag her friend away. Just as Mugi began to move, Bohan was suddenly disarmed, the sword flying off to the side with the metal sounding on grass.
"A commoner with blood as soiled and dirty as yours will never best the pure nobles. Bring her out!" With a snap of her fingers, a beautiful, young lady was dragged onto the stage by two guards.
"Amaterasu!" the main character screamed, seeing the beaten up girl, bleeding at the mouth. Hopefully it's fake blood, though Ritsu as some of the crowd gasped.
Ritsu tried again, only to see Mugi's eyes lighting up as the characters began making love speeches to each other.
"So this must be the acting society," thought Ritsu, taking a flier. Distracting Mugi with it, she managed to get them both away.
Yui was swimming through the crowd, Mio close behind. It seemed as though the entire university was there handing out fliers.
"Must find Mugi and Ric-chan," shouted Yui, pushing past surprised faces that saw a small girl with bits of paper sticking out of her hair. Mio was apologising on the way. Suddenly, Yui's ears caught some words she recognised.
"We're from the light music club!" quickly changing direction, almost knocking some people over, she swam towards the voice.
"Yo." Yui stepped back to see the scary person again. She was taking a flier off someone.
"We- we meet again…" Yui grabbed a flier and fled.
Mugi was sifting through the pile of fliers Yui had collected as they sat in a circle.
"I wonder what the light music club is like here," said Ritsu to the group. "Let's check it out tomorrow." Mugi seemed happy with the idea but Yui and Mio objected.
"But that scary girl took a flier too. Do you think she's going to join too?"
"She's going to get mad at me again," Yui put in, thinking about what happened after the entrance ceremony. Mio took a pillow from her bed and hugged it as Ritsu joked about the club.
"This is the university light music club, nothing like our fluffy one from school. It's probably full of those kind of sempais too…"
"On second thoughts lets just not go," whimpered Mio.
"I'm kidding, they'll have some great people like Sawako." Ritsu paused, wondering why she said their old teacher's name.
There was a knock on the door.
"Excuse me," said a voice and a head popped round the door. "It's getting pretty late so could you please keep the noise…"
It was the scary girl from before and she just spotted Yui.
"Ah! You, that girl from this afternoon!"
Yui, surprised, "M-me? Who are you?"
Upset, the black haired girl pulled out her uniform. "I'm not going to let you forget!" She pointed at the drool stain on the shoulder. "It still won't come off!" Even though she was shouting, it looked like she was almost crying.
Yui saw this as something else somehow though. "So cute!" Yui dived onto her with a hug.
"Whoa!?" The scary person couldn't seem to grasp the situation. "Huh, wait… What the hell?"
Jus then, her two friends entered the room. "Wow, they made Akira her toy." The blonde friend was laughing out loud. Her eyes looked at the other people and she spotted the light music club flier. "Hey, are you guys joining the light music club?"
Mugi distracted herself from Yui and the spikey haired one. "Um, yes we were planning to."
The blonde clapped her hands together and smiled. "I'm Yoshida Ayame and this is Hayashi Sachi." She pointed at the tall, brown haired girl with them. "We're joining too so let's all be friends!
"Oh, and the one being molested is Wada Akira." Mio began to wonder why the sudden declaration of being friends but Ayame said something to Sachi.
"To be able to mess with Akira like this, these girls must be really fun to be around!"
Ritsu sat there, nodding in agreement to all this. "I see potential for some entertainment right here."
The blonde bounced up to her. "Someone who understands us!"
"You two," shouted Akira over the noise, "don't just watch, help me!" Her arm reached out to them but was ignored. "I'm- I'm not going to call you friends, ever, you hear me?!"
Ayame, "There's no need to be shy."
Yui seemed to be attached around Akira's neck in a hug. Akira, "I'm not being shy, dammit!"
Meanwhile, Mugi remained unnoticed in the corner with a video camera. Chuckling to herself, she wondered whether Yui was missing Azusa and was releasing her energy onto Akira. Why Akira, she didn't know.
Akira, "I'm never going to accept this, never!"
/*Author's notes
So this is one volume of the manga +extras I've put in. As you can tell, I'm following the manga very closely because I want to get used to the characters and the number of characters in one scene. I will start introducing things, slowly but surely. Characters will probably be paired up eventually but I'm going to have to develop the characters to that point since this fan fiction follows immediately from the anime.
I hope you enjoyed reading this; there's an awful lot of speech in the manga but I guess I shouldn't be surprised when that's how manga's communicate to their readers (and with images. This being writing is slightly different :P)
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