Story 5 Concept #1
Ao no Exorcist (xover Avengers?)
At 5 yrs of age, there were two things stuck in the child's head constantly. The first was his familial relationships, the second was the music that echoed through the monastery in ringing rivulets. Sunday's were his favourite, as it guaranteed music for the whole day for the church services, no matter what. When the musicians that volunteer for the Sunday services practice in church, the boy would always sit beside them, his eyes closed as the notes hit his ears.
Sometime in that year, where Rin made his first attempt to run away from his mistakes (he had beaten some children when they bullied his brother), he had run into one of the regular volunteers that played in the church. The events happening next was blurry for the five year old then, but he remembered notably beginning his music lessons with that person.
Maybe it was the constant music in his head that had Rin jetting through his musical lessons, soaking up all the skills offered like a shark to water. But that person couldn't teach him all the time as he was only a volunteer, that didn't mean he was the only one, and so he had other teachers, mainly teaching him piano, but some had other skills they taught the young child.
The monastery only knew he was able to play piano, since all the other instruments were at his teachers' house and they thought he went there for more music lessons as well. It was true, but he wasn't only learning the piano there.
On the day Rin discovered his family's enormous debts and edging financial bankruptcy, the child was 10, his teachers having declared unable to teach him anymore and he was left on his own with his music.
Desperate to keep his family off the streets, Rin researched maniacally for a job to help pay. He found one in the form of a flyer informing of a song writing competition. The top three were to be made a record, the sales earning them at least 25% income per sale. The winner would also win 500,000 ($6031.82 aus), the runner up won 100,000 and the third had 50,000.
Looking at the prizes, Rin didn't need to read the flyer to know it was for professionals, and were really only for those who was way above average. The competition was a nationwide event, and Rin knew he had no chance against seasoned song writers, but he needed to try, for his family, for his brother.
For the 6 months leading up to send his music for the competition, Rin hardly concentrated on school, his ears were stuffed with earphones as much as he could, a notebook and pencil in his hand. When the bullies decided to avenge themselves by ripping apart his notebook and chucking it into a puddle, only his brother and the music teacher at his school knew why he went ballistic.
He ran away again and ended up at his first teacher's house with his head down, white knuckles and crying. For the last three months before he had to hand in his music, Rin visited his teacher as often as he could, figuring that he would write his music at her house. Rin went before school, straight after school, on weekends and coming home late at night. His teacher sang the lyrics for him and recorded it, fixing what he could with the time he had. Rin sent his recording two weeks before the due date, and had to wait for a nerve wracking two months before the winner was announced.