Disclaimer! Rurouni Kenshin doesn't belong to me, but to Nobuhiro Watsuki. Darn, maybe some day x
Well, here's my newest story, enjoy! I plan to have pretty short chapters, because I've realized that I don't like writing longer chapters anymore.
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If you've ever been in a musical ensemble, then you probably know that you get to become friends with the people around you. I guess you can say the same for me, though, I'll have to admit, it's much different than what I usually mean.
And if you really want to know the whole truth, then I'd have to start from the beginning, the way way beginning. But I don't want to get into that, so I won't. Besides, it doesn't really matter too much anyway.
It was the beginning of my senior year. I didn't even have to look at my schedule. Orchestra first, as always. The same old orchestra room; the old broken door. I'm kind of offended already; why didn't the school fix the door yet? And why didn't they fix up the orchestra room anyway. People still call it the old band room. And when it's raining it sounds like we're being bombed.
I swear, even if we were being bombed, Hiko-senei wouldn't even flinch, we'd just keep playing, thinking it was the rain.
Besides, if the school can fix all the doors and have almost all new bathroom, why can't they fix up the orchestra room already?
I checked my watch-10 to eight-perfect amount of time. I went to the cafeteria to buy a bagel for breakfast. Then I went to the orchestra room, eight minutes before the bell and there's only one person already there.
Well, it's as expected. He is the concermaster and totally into music.
He's also my stand partner, Shinomori Aoshi.
"Hey Aoshi."
He glanced up at me. "Misao."
"How was your summer?"
"Not too bad, yours?"
"It was good, thanks! I practiced hard. Let's see who comes out on top this year, eh?"
"We'll see."
Aoshi and I have a bit of a rivalry, you could say. I've known Aoshi for ages. Violinist from the beginning, the both of us. And even though we're competitive, we're still friends. He is my stand partner after all. Aoshi and I actually became friends beginning of high school and we've been stand partners since. Freshman year, we were in the middle of the firsts; sophomore year, Aoshi was concert master and I was second stand, first chair. Junior year, we were first stand, Aoshi concermaster; and this year, it's the same. But auditions are coming up soon, and we'll see who's better.
It really does mean a lot to be his stand partner. I hardly have any other classes with him.
"Hey Aoshi, let me see your schedule." I scanned his class list and to my surprise, "Hey! We have lunch together. But that's it, well, except for orchestra of course."
"Good to hear."
"Meet me here, okay? We can find a table together."
"Sure."
We sit there for a few minutes, tuning our violins. I played the D string. Horrible! Half step flat! And I just practiced yesterday, too. Would someone please enlighten me? I just tuned it yesterday and already a half-step flat! Very strange...
The five minute bells rings and the orchestra room is flooded.
Kaoru comes chattering in with Megumi. Himura and Soujirou come in not too long later. as for the rest of them, I don't know them too well at all. Hiko-sensei sits at the podium, waiting for the bell to ring, so he can finally start rehearshal.
Ten minutes into the rehearshal, Sano walks in. Typical Sano, always coming in late, at least Hiko-sensei is lazy and doesn't mark up stuff like that. Sano's really quite lucky.
Wondering what they all play? Kaoru and Sano are part of the percussion, Megumi, flute; Himura, clarinet; Soujirou, viola.
This is going to be an awesome year!
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Welp, here's my newest story! I'd like to finish The Inevitable, but I'm not really into it right now, so this will hopefully occupy me.