Title- Fading Dawn
Well it's a first attempt at writing a story that focus around music, hope you all enjoy it! Criticism is welcomed.
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At the age of five Raito had wondered into a music shop looking around bored. His mother had to stop at the pharmacy next store to pick up some cold medicine for Sayu. Sachiko allowed him free reign of Coffee Music(1) since it was next store. Raito had disliked the shiny brass instruments, but as he continued to walk down the aisle his attention was drawn to a violin. It was a sleek brown color with a long, slender neck. He picked it up slowly admiring the body of the instrument.
He had seen people play the violin a few times before and had the basic idea of how to hold it. Raito placed it on his shoulder and pulled the bow across the violin to get an idea of how it sounded in person. A low melody sound came from the violin and he was instantly hooked. Raito's eyes half closed as his hand began to move faster over the strings creating high and low vibrations throughout the small store.
A small group of people gathered around Raito and he didn't come out of trance until his mother placed a hand on his shoulder and awoke him from it. It was on that same day that Sachiko bought him his first violin.
Throughout the years Raito had find a solace in the violin that he could not replace with anything. The violin had become his life. As a child he had wanted to become a cop and follow in his father footsteps. But the violin allowed him an escape from the world and was much more effective than studying non-stop. His name had already became world renown and whenever he was able to do concerts the concert hall's would be sold out and a waiting list was made incase others who had tickets already could not make it for some reason.
Music had driven him to maintain being the best, but he had put all his competition to shame and even through maintaining the top was easy it didn't seems worth it when there were no worthy challengers. Only the mysterious pianist L was on his level. And yet the public had never seen him. The man created hits that rivaled Beethoven and yet L had never once had a live concert. Some say that L just didn't want to have stalkers, while others believed that L was just a hermit.
Raito believed that L was just possessive of his music. Not wanting to share the true sound in person. Listening to a CD and attending a live concert were two very different things. But ultimately Raito didn't really care. Like L his music inspired people.
Music came from the soul. The musician was showing a piece of his or her soul with the work they created. It was deep and personal, something that others could replicate but never feel the full effect. Only those truly great musicians could drag people down into their minds and allow others to experience the same passion they experienced while composing such a complex piece of work.
Raito liked to tease his audience. Pulling them into his world where he saw corruption and the decaying world. Hope was always on the horizon dancing with justice and the two were waiting to once again arise with the morning sun.
The audience were always abruptly pulled away unsure if the sun did rise or not.
Raito's most popular piece 'Fading Dawn' was believed, by most people, to be about a tragic romance that came to an abrupt ending of life. But his music was so much more than that.
It was that piece that Raito felt most close to. He knew that if he had ever found an object that would help him cleanse the world he would use it to get rid of all the people who were tainting it; making the world rot from the inside out. Through everyone he meet had no idea what that piece was truly about. The corruption of a rotting world and a young man who tried to play God while sacrificing his own humanity and his lover to achieve such a goal, but in the end he failed because no one can ever truly be a God when one has nothing but humanity to back them up.
There were people who often debated what the piece was about and everyone's response had been nowhere near it. His fans were beneath him and not one of them could truly appreciate his genius. Really all people thought about was love and even through that was a theme in his piece it was not the main focus.
His music had been his life, but now he couldn't think of anything to compose. His inspiration was no longer soaring in the sky like a free bird. Now it was trapped in a cage where the bars were holding him back, unrelenting on how much he truly wanted to leave.
It had been only a month since he had last come up with anything. He had three different violin pieces started but none seemed to be getting finished anytime soon. His manger was not pressing him at the moment but if nothing new came out soon then Raito was going to have to deal with some angry employers and he was not in the mood to deal with people who believed they knew classical music when they couldn't even grasp what his music was truly about.
Raito glanced outside to see the snow slowly falling as his hands wrapped around his Luke warm coffee mug that was almost empty. The winter months bought on more coffee than what Raito usually drank, but coffee sustained him and if he did not have it in the morning anyone around him would feel the wrath of it.
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was going off and Raito heard his song come on.
"Is that Raito's music?"
"Yeah it is!"
"I would so marry that guy"
"I heard this song is about two lovers who are separated by their families, but they still meet with one another because their love is too strong to be broken" a girl said sounding wistful.
"That is so sweet" two other girls said dreamily.
'They are beneath me' Raito thought annoyed that his supposed fans could not grasp what his music was truly about. Taking a small sip of his coffee and left his money on the table. He grabbed his violin case that was placed neatly besides him on the table and walked toward the door.
"Oh my god is that Raito!" a girl said in a loud whisper. Raito did not stop walking and exited the café without a backward glance. Being in the presence of idiots was tolerable for only so long. He moved to the parking garage a street away where his baby was, a silver '08 BMW M3 with 420 horsepower.
His car sprang to life and Raito drove out of there the garage at a neck breaking speed. If he was a police officer perhaps he would care about going over the speed limit and maybe he would have written himself a ticket.
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Raito stared up at the concert hall feeling detached from it as he walked into the back stage area. He had used to be able to feel like this place was a second home but now it was just another place. Everywhere he went was just another place to him.
The halls were bright and empty and a small wave of relief hit Raito as he walked to his dressing room. The employee's here were nice but they asked such stupid questions, like if Raito was performing or not. Why else would he be in the back stage area.
He opened his dressing room door and flickered on the lights before he hanged up his beige coat. Moving gracefully to a small table, that was only a few feet away, Raito placed his violin case down on the table and took a seat.
Raito could act like his music symbolized his life when he was at the concert halls. After all it might become his reality again one day.
He was glad he did not have to deal with other musicians. His music was solo and no other instruments were played during his performance.
There was a few times that Raito longed to use other instruments besides his own, but it was only a fleeting thought. His music didn't need other instruments to make it great. His one violin did all the work he ever needed for his concerts.
A small knock was heard at Raito's door before the brass knob twisted.
"I'm glad to see you back Raito-san" an elderly gentleman said from the doorway. "It is nice to be back Quillish-san" Raito said making a hand small gesture allowing the elder gentleman to enter his room.
"How has your travel's been? I heard you recently got back from Europe" Quillish asked as he sat across from Raito. "It went well" Raito said crossing his legs under the table. "I thought it would be. But I have heard a rumor going around saying that you have not written anything for over a month now" Quillish said, his thick eyebrows crinkling in concern.
Raito looked a little taken aback. "I did not know that such a rumor existed. Once again Quillish-san your next network is quite impeccable" Raito said letting a small smile grace his features. "My old ears are just good at hearing" Quillish responded and Raito's smile became a little bit bigger. "I'm sure they are, through I must admit I heard an interesting rumor myself" Raito said as he straightened out his black tie. "Oh and what is that?" Quillish asked releasing a small smile of his own.
'That you know the mysterious pianist L" Raito said looking a little disinterested.
"Raito-san does indeed hear interesting rumors" Quillish said not giving anything away in his expression.
"It would seem that I have not been mislead about such a thing" Raito said opening his violin case.
"Such a thing is best left unsaid" Quillish responded and Raito nodded his head in agreement. "I will not say anything about it. After all you haven't completely confirmed it" Raito said letting a small smile grace his mouth that was aimed at Quillish in a peace treaty.
"Are you looking forward to your performance?" Quillish asked changing the subject with ease. "As much as I can" Raito said vaguely. "It would appear you only have fifteen more minutes to yourself. I shall leave you to do as you will" Quillish said standing up slowly from the table his legs not working as well as they used to. "I hope you enjoy the show" Raito said as Quillish
placed his hand on the doorknob. "It is always a pleasure to watch you play" Quillish said showing Raito one more wrinkled smile before he exited the room.
Raito's skills would allow him to play the piece flawlessly but to anyone with a musicians ear they would notice the lack of passion and as much as Raito respected Quillish he couldn't bring himself to care on whether or not Quillish approved of his performance because Raito was selfish and really he had never met anyone whose opinioned mattered to him.
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The five minute mark passed and Raito found himself interacting with yet another employee who kept ranting on and on how much they loved his music. He supposed that lesser people enjoyed the praise to raise their self esteem, but it was not needed in Raito's case, since his ego was already the top ranking in the world. No people with low self esteem would love the praise, but Raito just wanted the man to shut up so he could get in his music zone, which was going to be a tad more difficult than usual but ultimately it would be easy, after all he is a genius.
Raito entered the back of the stage area and saw the crew running around making sure everything was perfect. This happened every time he came here and if he had not seen the final results of the lighting and sound Raito would think that this place was severally lacking in efficiency.
Three boring moments passed before he was given the ok to go ahead and stand in the center of the stage. Raito placed the violin against his shoulder his other hand loosely gripping the bow.
The curtain began to rise and the whole theater was incased in darkness when a bright light shined down upon Raito. The audience silent and Raito's eyes half closed as his left hand rose placing the bow on the strings and with a sharp quick pull of the bow Raito created a quick paced song enticing the adults to really listen. After all he was a genius and even if he lacked passion for what he was doing he would always be brilliant at it.
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End of first chapter.
What did you think of it? Good bad a-ok? L will be in next chapter and the chapters will get longer this is kind of a trial, to see how it goes.
Ok so I apologize for not updating a few of my other stories quicker but I have had many story ideas and I am going to put a poll up so vote and tell me what you all want to read first. I am
looking for a beta and if anyone wants to I would really appreciate it if someone would agree to do that for me. If anyone wants to send me a message.
About Coffee music it is the only instrument store that I know about, so it won with being used. I just realized that I hadn't said anything about the store, my apologies to all those who read the story before this was up and if you already knew then awesome!
Please review! You don't have to, but it will be nice to know what all you think.
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