The hallways were flocking with students. Some of them were outside, at the cafeteria, or just basically by their classroom talking to their friends with their food-bentos or just bread-on the table, by their laps or just holding them while they talk about their day.
Everything was doing fine, when the sound of the piano coming from the second floor surprised them. "Classical music?" One student asked.
"It's the piano again."
"We've been hearing this for three straight days now."
A girl with straight azure hair falling up to her shoulders, her bangs were kept to the left side with a plain green clip. Her turquoise eyes were fixated on the piano as her fingers ran on the black and white keys with immense speed. Chopin's Etude in C sharp minor Op. 10, no. 4.
Her playing was cut off by a person sliding the door open. "Hoshiki-san," a female classmate of hers calls for her. "Lunch time's almost over. Have you ate?" Hoshiki Taiyou shook her head as a reply, carefully closing the piano then walking out of the music room without saying anything to her classmate who actually gave the time to call her.
It's not that she's being rude on purpose, it's just that she never knew how to talk to people. Her life revolved around piano, violin, studies. Sure, she goes to school, but making friends with people was never her priority. She never learned how to talk to strangers, making her a shy kind of person.
Hoshiki Taiyou's parents are world-renowned musicians. Her mother is a British violinist and her father is a Half-Polish and Half-Japanese pianist. They were the people who put their daughter into the music world. Taiyou didn't hate it. Music was the only thing she could express herself.
Unfortunately, not everyone understands classical music.
Tsukishima Kei took another spoonful before glancing at his best friend, Yamaguchi Tadashi who was looking up for who knows what reason. He took his headphones off before asking, "Why are you staring at the ceiling?"
Yamaguchi looked at the blonde before going snapping back to normal. "O-oh! It was just that the piano playing."
Tsukishima raised an eyebrow. He never actually heard anything because he's mostly wearing his headphones while break time. "What about it?"
"Someone has been playing the piano since the start of school. I was just wondering who it was. The person was really good too." Yamaguchi retorted and took a hotdog from his bento and took a bit. "You're into music, Tsukki. You should listen sometime. It's relaxing." He added.
The blonde shrugged. "I don't care."
The door suddenly slid open revealing Taiyou walking up to her seat. Her face was blank as usual, looking like she is very uninterested in the people around her. She never thought of talking to anyone, which gave her the aura of being an antisocial person. Nobody thought of walking up to her.
Tsukishima cleaned his bento up and placed it inside his bag before resting his chin on his hand, looking at the azure haired female who was just about to eat. His eyebrows met as he watches her take a spoonful of rice. "Man her every move just irritates me." He muttered with only his best friend hearing him.
"Isn't it your fault in the first place? I've never seen you irritated for this long." The seaweed haired said, then they started remembering the first day of school.
"Shut up, Yamaguchi."
The cherry blossoms trees were very pink as the students start walking to school for their first day. A certain azure haired female casually walked inside the gates of Karasuno High. She glanced at a group of students in front of her happily laughing and talking about how their vacation went. Her eyebrows furrowed as she asks herself, how can people be so open to others?
Of course, she didn't ask herself that out loud.
Being lost in her thoughts, she snapped back to reality when she felt something tall bump into her, making her fall down. "Lamp post." She muttered before looking up to see that it was a person rather than what she thought. Oops, she thought.
The male blonde wearing black spectacles gave, "What did you just say, midget?" The seaweed head right next to him pulled his sleeves telling him to stop and just leave the female, but he refused. "At least this 'lamp post' is taller and more convenient than that height of yours." He smirked and looked down, by accident as she wasn't still standing up.
"Ooh, strawberry prints."
The female's face turned beet red and quickly stood up and fixed her skirt. "Y-You... Pervert!" She yelled. That was probably the loudest she has ever raised her voice in her entire existence in this earth. Instead of fighting back, she chose to return to her composure and start walking away. She won't waste her time with a pervert like him.
"What's wrong, strawberry prints? Too chicken to fight back? Midget." The blonde smirked once again, the female getting irritated making her turn and walk back to him. Giving him a good kick down below. That will be the last time she'll ever get involved with him.
Or so she thought. Unfortunately, she's in the same class as him.
"Tomorrow's the day we're going to pick out a club, right?" Yamaguchi asked when it crossed his mind. Tsukishima nodded.
The door suddenly slid open arriving a teacher. "Everyone back to your seats, it's English time."
"Hey!"
Taiyou flinched and looked at the person who surprised her. She was a girl that looked like a third year holding a flyer. "Are you athletic? Come join our volleyball club!"
Taiyou immediately shook her head and quickly walked away from her. As much as possible, she must avoid people that are unnecessary to talk to. Music club, that's the only club she wants and nothing else. Since she can't ask who the president is, making her decide to just walk to the classroom. Later, she'll find her later... If she can.
She stopped her tracks when she heard a beautiful piano playing coming from upstairs. She closed her eyes and her mouth curved into a smile as she listens to the beautiful piano playing. She leaned her back on the wall as she picture sunflowers under the sun. The trees' leaves were swaying because of the wind. In the middle of the field of sunflowers was the piano with a person playing it.
"I like her playing." She muttered opening her eyes and ran to where the sound is. She quickly arrived at the music room, the door closed. She peeked through the glass panel and saw a girl, must be a third year, gracefully playing the piano. Her eyes were blue and she had long brown straight hair.
The girl stopped playing when she noticed Taiyou peeking throw the panel. She smiled and stood up, opening the door. "The piano was loud wasn't it?" She said. Taiyou looked down with a faint blush on her cheeks. "May I help you?'
"... Canon in D. By Pachelbel." Taiyou said, trying not to stutter. Her hands started playing with the hem of her skirt as she doesn't know how to act. "It... Was... Beautiful."
The girl smiled, "Really? You have good ears! Thank you." She held out her hand, asking for a hand shake. "I'm Yoko Miwako. The Music club's president!" Once she realized that Taiyou was too shy to shake hands with her, she took the female's hand and shook it. "You are?"
Taiyou was having a bad time with eye contact making her look down again. "U-um. Hoshiki. Taiyou. Yo-yoroshiku." She stuttered. And then she realized that Miwako was the person she needed to find. She mustered her courage, making her take a deep breath.
"A-um. Can I please... Uh... Join the Music club?"
Miwako's eyes sparkled. "Of course you can! Where's your club form? Ah, you are most certainly welcome!" She beamed, shaking Taiyou's hand once more in a more exaggerated way. Taiyou handed her form and it was official, she was now part of the music club.
Miwako scanned the club form to get to know Taiyou much better. "Hoshiki, huh? I've heard that name before..." She said while scanning, and then it hit her. Her eyes widened as she stared at her last name.
"HO-HOSIKI!? FROM THE WORLD-RENOWNED MUSICIAN FAMILY, HOSHIKI!?" She literally screamed, staring at Taiyou who nodded shyly. She scanned her features. "It's true. You have Hoshiki Takeru's eyes and Hoshiki Arabella's azure hair color. Turquoise and Azure sure is extraordinary! You're so pretty."
Taiyou blushed, "U-um..."
"Don't tell me, you were the person who kept going here from the first three days of school?" She asked, Taiyou nodded. She only did because they said any student is free to do so. Miwako smiled. "You truly are a virtuoso."
"Magnificent playing, Hoshiki-san."
Taiyou thanked her in a whisper way. This was the first time she has ever had a conversation with someone this long.
"There aren't any classes today because of the club recruiting. Can I hear your playing?" Miwako glanced at Taiyou's hands carrying a violin case. "I see you brought your violin."
The azure haired nodded, holding her case up to show her. Miwako stretched her arms and said, "I'm good for accompanying on the piano. Why don't we play a little something, shall we? What piece do you know? Maybe I have the music scores somewhere."
"...Mozart's Violin Sonata No. 17 in C Major?" Taiyou answered and then she shyly smiled, "I feel, really happy today."
Miwako smiled, "You associate what you are going to play with your mood?" She started finding the sheet music from the drawers, "K. 296, right? I played this years ago, accompanying my friend who joined a violin competition."
"Found it!" She beamed and handed the sheet music to Taiyou who refused.
"I memorized this piece long ago." She answered making the brown haired third year's eyes widen.
Minutes later, they readied themselves. Taiyou counted to three and they started amazingly in sync. They weren't able to be in perfect sync for long because they have zero practice, but they were giving out a beautiful and happy melody. Taiyou was smiling to her ears as she was gracefully playing her violin.
Students, as well as curious teachers, crowded the outside of the music room watching in amazement Taiyou and Miwako's playing. And for just a short five minutes, they all saw Taiyou's rare smile.
"Isn't that Hoshiki from our class?"
"Wow! She's amazing! Wait, never mind that! Look at her, she's smiling. Hoshiki Taiyou who is so antisocial, is smiling!"
Somewhere from the crowd stood a familiar blonde with glasses and right next to him was the freckled seaweed green haired best friend of his. Tsukishima watched her graceful violin playing, but what he gave most attention was how her smile was like the sun's.
"So that's where she got her name."