The girl was known as Sasaki Rumiko to her friends, she was quite short for her age with a petite figure. She had waist length raven black hair with a shaggy fringe that covered the right half of her face. Her large pitch black eyes and small rosy mouth contrasted against her milky white skin. She hadn't been at Namimori Middle School for more than a week; she hadn't even been in Japan for over eight years. Her Japanese was quite rusty and more often than not she had trouble communicating with her friends, even though there was a language barrier, she was still quite popular among her classmates. From the first time they met her, when she introduced herself to the class, she was categorised as a person who was quite, approachable and kind. They all soon found out she was a very capable musician and athlete, making her even more accepted even though half the time she accidentally spoke some European language instead of Japanese.
The afternoon sky was cloudless and lit brightly by a warm sun. Rumiko sighed in relief as she finally completed her composition for music which was due the next day.
"I seriously need to stop cramming," she grumbled to herself, "this will do nothing for my lack of sleep." Ever since she started school in Japan the work had just been piling up, none of her home tutors from any of the many countries she had travelled in would have given her this much work. The inability to adapt and poor organisational skills lead to her having almost getting detention in the first two weeks of school. She sighed in annoyance at herself, and then began playing her composition one last time. After that, she decided, I will go and get something to eat.
A small yellow bird flitted across the cloud veiled sky. His feathers shimmered from the light that came from the white pearl that was the sun. He swooped around the rooftops of Namimori middle school once before breaking into song. As he sang he realised that his high, sweet voice was not the only melody he could hear. The bittersweet melody called to him and guided by the lullaby he arrived at the open window of one of the music rooms. By the piano he saw a girl with long black hair, he could not see her face but she seemed gentle so he glided onto the grand piano and stared at the girl. As he settled inform of the girl, the music came to an abrupt pause. The silence confused the little bird and it bowed its head to one side. From under a curtain of black hair, a little pink smile came through, the melody continued once again.
Kyoya Hibari, the cold and intimidating chairman of the Disciplinary Committee was napping on the rooftop of the school, just on the verge of sleep. He had enjoyed the past night hunting down the idiots who had vandalised one of the school walls. The lulling of sleep suddenly disappeared when he could hear nothing but silence. Hibird's singing had suddenly stopped as well as some other noise he did not bother to recognise before. It was too odd for Hibird to stop midway through the school anthem; it was not what Hibari had taught him to do. He lay there silently waiting for Hibird. But instead the noise from before started again, this time he heard it. He realised it was from a piano and intuition made him get up and investigate the sound. The person responsible for playing that piano was going to get bitten to death, he thought to himself.
Walking through the mostly deserted halls, the piano got louder and louder, the tune was vaguely familiar. Something stirred inside of him, like a sign of recognition but he just couldn't grasp what it was. This only annoyed him further. Then he reached it, from inside the room, the melody was pouring out of the open door, Hibari stared inside to find the new student playing the piano, Hibird was perched of the to of the grand piano his feathers were puffier than usual. He wanted Hibird to enjoy the rest of the piece; he also wondered how long it would take the new kid to notice him and the murderous intent that flowed from his annoyance.
Rumiko heard the footsteps from a long way away; she had a very good ear. She expected it to just pass by like a few other that she had encountered during the afternoon, but these footsteps just got louder and louder, then stopped. She was curious to see who it was, but she didn't want to stop playing, there were only a few more lines to go, and the finale was coming up, she was especially proud of this finale and she wanted the bird to hear it. Finally the melody came to a silent close. She looked up at the bird and ruffled its feather, she finally took a good look at it and she registered that it was extremely cute. She laughed to herself while turning around to see who was by the door. A greeting barely escaped her mouth when the little yellow bird flew across to the person by the door.
"Oh so this is your bird?" she instinctively said cheerfully finishing with a small smile.
When she saw him, it hit her: oh crap oh crap oh crap. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! She yelled to herself internally at such a high pitch that would have put a piccolo to shame. This guy really does radiate creepy auras, just like the others told me.
The piece was quite nice. He noted to himself as Hibird flew obediently to him. Hibari also noted that the girl didn't seem to know how much trouble she was in by the sound of her question. As she turned around, he was able to see her face clearly, a rather happy smile disappeared into recognition and then finally an expression worthy of someone who just realised they had stepped on dog poo. He stared at the girl, rather amused by her show of facial expressions. How interesting, he thought to himself.
"Hmph, you know your noise woke me up…" Hibari smiled slightly, the word 'noise' seemed to have a very bad effect on her.
"OIIII what-did-you-say-about-my music?!" the girl threatened in a murderous voice.
Hibari frowned; this girl is really getting on my nerves.
This is the first chapter of my first fan fiction. Hope you liked it, and even if you don't I will probably end up finishing it…maybe…because it might turn out to be a good story. ^^ anyways, please review and give me feedback. I'm new to this so I'm obviously going to make lots of mistakes, please excuse that and also, this is one of my interpretations on how Hibari's personality and mentality and stuff like that, so I'm sorry if you don't like him. Hehe but anyways, any feedback is welcome as long as it's not completely useless. TYSM for reading ^^
-K