DISCLAIMER: Love Live! School Idol Project is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. August 2010 / Love Live! School Idol Diary is Written by Sakurako Kimino. Copyright © 2013 ASCII Media Works / Words is Smiling Down by Pillar. Copyright © 2008 Essential Record. All rights reserved.
Tag Notes: Special Story of Love Live!: Super Idol Warrior, Nico Childhood, Family, No Pair, Friendship. POV: Nico Yazawa
Chapter 1: Niko puri | Joshi dou (Nico puri | Girl's Path)
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You make it so hard on yourself, But theres nobody else
That could ever understand, The feelings that you felt
I could hear you think about, All the time I was around
If you could only see me now, I'm right here looking down
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On Sunday morning, Nico wake up earlier than usual, it seems she was in a hurry to go somewhere. That day in her apartment there is only Nico alone. Her mother seemed to go along with her sisters without her in early morning. But it seems it does not disrupt Nico because she has her own agenda today.
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7 Years ago
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"Nico nii, nico nii, nico nico nii"
"Nico nii, nico nii, nico nico nii"
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"Mou... Dad stop it!... I'm not a kid anymore!" Said the little girl with twintail hair that look so annoyed by the act of her father who was beside her.
'Nico Nico Ni', it is a song that often sung by her father for his daughter Nico Yazawa, 10 years old, 5 th grade. That afternoon, Nico Dad went to pick up her daughter who was in the playground alone. With curiosity her father approached her and tried to comfort her.
"Hahaha... I'm sorry," the father said with a laugh. "Ermmm... Nico-chan, is there any problem at school?"
"Just tell it to me..." Her father with gently approached her and caressed her daughter warmly.
Nico then raised her head and looked at her father with a cold stare, "I do not want to go to school again starting tomorrow!"
"Ehh... why?" Said her father was shocked.
"They are evil... they mock me as shorty." Said Nico briefly with her face sullen. "I am annoyed!."
"Ohh... and then?" Her father also replied briefly.
"They were right. You were really short", Her father looked at her daughter with smiling eyes.
"Dad!" Response Nico angry
"Just joking... hahaha..."
"I'm really cranky ya know...!", Said Nico with exasperation.
Nico Dad then hugged her head into his arms gently. Nico could feel the warmth of the body of the father which is in contact with the skin directly.
"But you know Nico-chan?" Her father went on to say while still holding her. "You're a cute girl... Really!... That's why daddy love you."
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It is the umpteenth time my dad was always there to cheer me on when I feel sad. Today at school I was following sports lesson, the lesson I hate most. Actually, it does not mean I do not like sports, anyway. It's just this lessons that always makes me sweaty and smelly. That is why I often make an excuse to ask for permission to go to the infirmary every time the sports lesson begins.
Liar? Uhh... get caught, huh?. But really, I really really hated sports lesson until today. That afternoon, our sports lesson is about the relay race. Actually it's just the usual relay anyway, as usual we were divided into several groups squads, but that all changed when our sports teacher announced that there will be a prize for the fastest team group. As a result each group run become increasingly eager to be the winner and the instant sports lesson into the match race of life and death. And I'm stuck in this battle. Shit!
Long story short, my group was decisively defeated in this race and I were accused of being the scapegoat for this defeat. They blame me for my short body so that my running became too slow and detrimental to the team. Well, that's my life in school every day.
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After Dinner at Home
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"Ahh... Nico-chan, your mom will come home tomorrow." Nico's father said while cleaning the dishes in the kitchen.
"Really?!..." Nico shouted excitedly.
"Ehh, I mean... So what?" Suddenly her voice flat.
Nico's father who had finished tidying up the kitchen and then went to her daughter, she was busy doing homework in her room, "You still mad at your mother huh?"
"No, really!" Nico replied in a flat voice, without looking at her father.
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"Nico-chan, your mother is a strong woman, you know ..." Her father said, looking at a family picture frame on the Nico desk. "Indeed, she rarely went home but it was because of her job duties as a stewardess."
"Did not you supposed to be proud to have a mother who often get on a plane and traveling abroad?" Said Father Nico with a smile. Nico quiet for a moment after hearing the words of her father.
"But... But she was never there for me !" Nico replied with a trembling voice.
"I HATE MAMA !" Nico ran out of her room to leave her father in tears.
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Mama, all this time I rarely saw her present in my life. She worked as a stewardess on an international aircraft company because of that she rarely went home for months. In fact she did not come on my birthday yesterday, I wondered if she had forgotten to have children because of her busyness of work.
She also did not attend to my school on the mother day. when my school friends came forward to give a gift to her mother, only I were handed a gift to my father. Actually, I already told my father to not come to school, but he still insisted on coming. He said that because he is a parent too then he is entitled to come to the school as represent my mother. Honestly, I'm actually embarrassed because of my father's behavior.
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In front of the Gate School
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"Dad?", Nico surprised to see her father being in school during school hours.
"Hello, Nico-chan ...", Greeting her father.
"Dad, why you here?", Asked Nico with wonder. So far, Nico is always back to home alone therefore she was shocked upon seeing her father to pick her up at school.
"Here, it is..." Her father handed her two pieces of paper tickets.
"This is it? Don't tell me!" Nico surprised to see the sheet ticket on her hand. It is the ticket concert of her favorite idol group, "SP-A! (called: Special A)" Which this weekend will hold a concert tour near her home.
"Yes, this is a concert ticket "SP-A!"! Your favorite idol group, right? Hehehe... "Her father replied with an odd laugh.
"Isn't this tickets already SOLD OUT?! How come you can get it?", Asked Nico curious.
"It's.. It's not a big deal... hahahaha..." Her father replied with a grin. "So, are you want to watch it? It VVIP tickets you know!"
"OF COURSE! I LOVE YOU DAD ", Nico jumped hugging her father in happy.
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After concert SP-A!
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"Come on, Baby! Dancing dancing higher... Let's Go! Sweety, Love is waiting now... ", Nico repeat to sing that song in all the way to go home.
"Hmm... You really liked that song, Nico?", Asked Nico Father.
"Hehehe..." Nico laughed. "Umm, Are you also enjoyed this concert, dad? It is one of my favorite idol group you know!"
"Of course... that's why I took you there, Nico.", Her father replied with a smile.
"Although I did not understand their song anyway... hahaha..."
"Dad, you old..." said Nico with sound cynical.
"It can't be help!... Hahahaha..." Her father replied with an awkward body gestures
"Hoaaaeeemmm..."
"Sleepy?" Asked her father. Nico nodded silently. "Come on up to the Dad back."
"Thanks Dad..." Nico then picked up by her father during the return trip.
"Good night, my sweet heart."
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At Nico House
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"You're late coming home", says one woman who was standing at the front door of the Nico house.
"Well, There are very much additional Encore songs in that concert, thats why...", Nico's father replied.
"So, are she liked it?" ,Asked the woman.
"VERY... VERY LOVED IT!", said Nico Father excited.
"Ssshhhh.. Keep low your voice down... I just lull Kokoro and Kokoa." Replied that woman.
"Thank goodness, then." She smiled. "I was lucky one of their idol group members who boarded with my plane and give me tickets to their concert for free"
"So, are you going back to work right now?" Asked Nico Dad. That woman only nodded her head.
"At least you should hand over the ticket by yourself. you're her mother, after all?!"
"It's okay.", Replied Nico Mom. "After all, she already hate me."
"I leave now, honey." Nico's mother left home late at night to get back to work. She not forget took time to kiss her husband and her children that had been dormant.
"You are wrong, my dear.", said Nico Father with a somber voice.
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That was the last time I and my father went along to go to a concert together. Not long after that I learned that my father was diagnosed have blood cancer leukemia by doctors. Mama decided to stop being a stewardess and work at home while caring father. At that moment, I could feel how it feels to have an intact family. I guess...
a/n: Name "SP-A!" is the only name of my main group in LL!SIF. Do not mind at all... XD