Hello everybody! So this is like my third time trying to write a fanfiction! And hopefully my first time writing a successful one!

I've spent a couple months just reading and reviewing Love Live fanmade stuff so I decided to give it a shot of my own! I pray I don't screw up.

Disclaimer: I do not own Love Live.

µ's Music House!

It was a beautiful morning in the Akihabara neighborhood. The sun was shining from its position in the sky, gently but brightly lighting up the streets and sidewalks. The birds were already up and about, chirping excitedly for the day set before them.

All of this was lost on Kousaka Honoka, who was still slumbering peacefully in her bed, looking for all the world like she would stay that way for the rest of the morning. However, it appeared the ominous figure poised at the foot of Honoka's bed had different plans for the leader of µ's.

"Wake up, Honoka!"

Startled from her rest, Honoka rolled over in panic, managing to somehow get her foot stuck in her blanket, and, in a series of unfortunate events, landed on the ground by her bed face-first.

Looking up from her position on the floor while rubbing her head, Honoka managed to catch one look at the imposing and terrifying look on Umi's face before Honoka hid her face in her pillow.

"Umi-chan, maybe you're being a bit too harsh on Honoka-chan...?" came the reluctant voice of Kotori, who was standing in the doorway to Honoka's room, observing the scene from a distance.

Umi glanced back at Kotori. "It's 9 in the morning, Kotori! Honoka's been sleeping for far too long! If anything, I should've woken her up and hour ago!"

"An hour ago... uwa, you're so mean, Umi-chan!" Honoka said.

"It's only natural when moving into a new house to wake up early to unpack! Especially because you went to sleep early trying to get away from the unpacking!"

"But there's so many boxes, Umi-chan! It'll take forever to unpack all of them!"

Umi turned away from Honoka, crossing her arms with an angry 'Hmph'. "That's your own fault for packing too many things, Honoka!"

Kotori made her way over to Honoka, helping her off the floor and putting Honoka's bedding back onto her bed. "Don't worry, Honoka-chan! I can help you with your unpacking! I'm already done!"

"Arigatou, Kotori-chan! You're the best!" Honoka cheered, jumping up to hug Kotori.

"Honestly, Koroti... You spoil Honoka too much." Umi said reproachfully, looking at the scene with her hands on her hips.

"Don't worry, Umi-chan! Everything will be fine!" Kotori said while Honoka was rubbing her face against Kotori's.

"Hmph... well Honoka still needs to eat breakfast! Come on, Kotori, let's leave her to get ready." Umi said, hands still on her hips while she turned and walked away from both her best friends.

Kotori checked to see if Honoka was alright one last time before leaving with Umi. Honoka slowly walked over to her new closet, yawning and rubbing her eyes while doing so. She opened her closet to pick out an outfit for the day... only to realize all her clothes were still in the boxes.

...

"I HATE MOVING!"

Flashback- a week or so ago

After the graduation ceremony of the third years of µ's, the entire school idol group walked to the crosswalk together, and when it looked like it was time for all the goodbyes to be said, Hanayo ruined the moment by freaking out over something on her phone. In the process of her freaking out, she brought the whole group back to the club room, where she explained her distress.

It turned out that their performance at the Love Live! had caused many professional idol companies to take interest in the school idol group. However there was one offer that caught the music group's collective eye. It was an offer from an American company that was trying to expand its horizons, by investing in a music group in Japan. Considering it had only been an e-sports team in North America before, this was quite a large step for the company. All the same the offer was too tempting for µ's to pass up.

Under the offer given by Team Solo Music, µ's would live together in one house in Akihabara for as long as the offer stood. The only thing TSM asked of µ's was to continue doing what they enjoyed, making music and performing for their fans. It was a way for µ's to stay together even after the third years graduated, while getting handsome benefits doing so.

Honoka burst into the new living room. "Good morning, world!"

"Shut up, Honoka." came Nico's reply.

"Mou, Nico-chan is so mean!" Honoka slumped to the floor, depressed.

"Nicocchi's only mad because she had to leave her comfortable spot by Maki-chan to make breakfast for you, Honoka-chan." Nozomi slyly hid her mouth behind her hand when Nico whipped her head around to glare at her, blushing all the while.

Maki was surprisingly unresponsive to Nozomi's teasing, simply continuing to read her novel while sipping her morning tea at the kitchen table.

"Rin can't blame Nico-chan, nya! Rin would be sad if she had to leave Kayo-chin right now, nya!"

The orange haired girl was currently curled up against Hanayo's side on the couch directly across the TV... or where the TV would be if it had been unpacked.

The living room was a mess at the moment, with boxes scattered everywhere and furniture left to be assembled. The kitchen, which was separated from the living room by a counter, still had boxes that also needed to be unpacked.

Looking around the room, Honoka realized just how much work there was left to be done. "Uwa... this is going to take a while."

Kotori and Umi came down the stairs behind Honoka. "Well, we have all day Honoka-chan! If we all work together, it won't be long! It might even end up being kind of fun!" Kotori's positivity shined through the dark clouds in Honoka's thoughts, cheering up the ginger haired girl immensely.

Eri finally spoke up from her position next to Nozomi at the kitchen table. "Kotori's right. As long as we don't quit, we should be able to be done with the unpacking by dinnertime."

"Yosh! Let's get to it, then!" Honoka's stomach let out a large growl. "After breakfast, of course, hehe..."

"Geez, Honoka! What do you have in these boxes?" complained Nico.

"Well, I had to bring my clothes, some stuffed animals..." replied Honoka, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.

"But mostly it's her manga. Honestly, Honoka, you never learn..."

"But Umi-chan-"

"No buts, Honoka." Umi lectured, hands magically finding her hips again. "You'll have to take some of this back the next time you visit your family."

Umi was glad Kotori wasn't in the room. If she was here, she would say Umi was being too harsh on Honoka, and if Umi tried to disagree, Kotori would just give her large, teary puppy eyes and Umi's resolve would crumble in seconds. Thankfully, the taupe haired girl was off helping Rin unpack Hanayo's things, leaving Maki to deal with the antics of Nozomi and Eri (mostly Nozomi).

By noon, all of Honoka's manga was put on shelves, after being organized critically by Honoka ("Not there, Nico-chan! It has to go with the rest of the romance section!" "You just told me to alphabetize them!"). The three members of µ's walked downstairs to the kitchen to get themselves a well deserved drink, finding the rest of their friends there.

"About time." Maki said, twirling the ends of her hair. "The rest of us have been done for at least twenty minutes."

"Well, if it wasn't for this dummy-" Nico paused for a second to flick Honoka's forehead, eliciting a small yelp from the leader of µ's. "-and her books, we would've been done an hour ago."

"Let's take a break for lunch, then?" Kotori said, clapping her hands together cheerfully. A chorus of agreement came from the music group, Nico and Hanayo moving into the kitchen to prepare the meal while the rest of µ's filed out of the room to stay out of the way.

"Say, Maki-chan. How did your parents take your coming here, nya?" Rin asked of the crimson haired pianist, who was resting on a chair in the corner of the room. The other girls appeared intrigued as well.

"I never thought about it, but... Rin-chan's right! I thought Maki-chan's parents were really strict." Honoka mused aloud.

"Hm? Oh, well Papa said that as long as I wasn't distracted from my studies and I visited the hospital at least twice a week, he would be fine with it. And Mama just- ah, well, never mind what Mama said!" Maki ended with a bashful blush, looking away from the rest of the group. "The point is they were fine with it."

"And how do you feel about coming to live with us?" Hanayo asked shyly from the kitchen.

"E-eh?"

"Well... Maki-chan always seems so distant... I thought maybe Maki-chan preferred to spend her time alone?" Hanayo seemed to be shrinking into herself with every word, embarrassed at having to tell the group about her assumptions about Maki, especially since they appeared to be incorrect.

"W-well... It's not like I mind living here with you all-"

"Don't be silly! You know you wanted to live with Nico-Nico-Nii since you first saw Nico!" Nico shouted from the kitchen, striking her signature pose while somehow peeling onions at the same time ("How did she not cut herself?" Eri whispered to Nozomi. "Nicocchi just has a lot of practice cooking and distracting people at the same time, Ericchi.").

"W-what?! B-baka! As if I would want to live with you and your stupid catchphrase!" Maki's retort was embarrassed and completely unconvincing, the blush on her face not being hidden behind the hands she tried to cover it with.

"Hey guys, have you noticed the garden in the back?" Nico's shout rang out all through the house, from Eri setting up the downstairs bathroom to Kotori putting the finishing touches on her stuffed animal collection.

"We have a garden in the back?" Honoka was the first to reply, being the closest to the back door from her position cleaning out the room between the back door and downstairs bathroom.

"Well it's not so much a garden as it is a large dirt patch..." Nico said, staring out the sliding glass doors at the 'garden'. Nico was right, as the backyard consisted mostly of dirt, with a concrete walkway along the side of the house.

"That's okay! We can work on the garden together! It'll be fun planting flowers and vegetables together!" Honoka cheerfully began thinking of the future.

The window above the backyard opened. "You two know it's snowing right now, right?" Maki yelled down to her two upperclassmen on the ground floor.

"Ah... that might pose a problem." Honoka said, scratching the side of her face with a finger.

"Get back in here, Honoka! There's still a lot of boxes to open and sort out!" Umi's voice came from the room Honoka had been in.

"Mou, Umi-chan's like a slave driver..."

Nico snickered at Honoka's misfortune until a pillow fell on her. Maki leaned out the second floor window, smirking at Nico while holding two more pillows. "You still have to set up the table out there, Nico-chan!"

Nico scrunched her face up at Maki, then quickly dodged out of the way of another pillow.

"Nozomi, have you seen..." Eri's voice trailed off as she entered her best friend's room, noticing the mood.

Nozomi was holding a picture of µ's, and it appeared she had just taken it out of the box. She was smiling at the picture, small tears at the corner of her eyes.

"Nozomi?" Eri asked again. Nozomi seemed to hear this time, jumping slightly as she turned to Eri, smiling all the while.

"We've really come far... haven't we, Ericchi?"

Eri returned Nozomi's smile. "Yeah... we have."

"When µ's was born it was just the three of them. Then there were six. Then Nicocchi joined. Then..."

"Then it was us two." Eri finished.

"And then we were complete. Nine of us together..." Nozomi said, clutching the picture to her chest and standing up.

"Just like your dream." Eri said, walking up to Nozomi to embrace her.

Nozomi giggled a little. "I thought I told you it wasn't as big as a dream, Ericchi."

If nothing else, Eri thought it was so big it could only be a dream. Nozomi, who had been alone for all her life, only finding companionship in Eri herself their second year, now had a family she could stay with. After years of only having her parents for companions, Nozomi finally had people her own age she could be around. Even better, Nozomi knew that they all had the same feelings, passion and feelings stronger than those of others. And now, Nozomi, who had been living on her own for a year now, was living with these people under the same roof, making this house theirs together. There were bits and pieces of each member of µ's scattered around the house, signifying it was a home made as nine. Umi's quiver, one of Nico's special pink wristbands she wore to practices, and Rin's untouched homework for break. It was, quite literally, a dream come true for Nozomi. And Eri couldn't be happier for her best friend and "secret" love.

A crash sounded throughout the house. "HONOKA!" Footsteps thundered through the hall. "I'm sorry, Umi-chan! I didn't mean to come into Kotori's room while you were-" Another crash. "Rin-chan, are you okay?" "Of course, nya! I just tripped, that's all!" A thump this time. "Nico-chan, what are you doing?!" "Maki-chan just looked so cute in her cleaning apron!" "G-get off me!"

Of course, it wouldn't be µ's unless there was complete chaos at least once a day.

Omake:

Maki was packing her things into boxes when her mother came into her room. Maki, for the most part, was doing a pretty good job of hiding how excited she was to be going off to live with Nico/the rest of µ's.

"Now, Maki, I want you to promise me nothing... too serious will happen when you go to live with your friends." Maki's Mama said, making her daughter pause in her packing to tilit her head curiously while looking at her mother.

"Serious? What do you mean, Mama?" The red head questioned.

"Well... I was young once too, Maki-chan. And if I had gone to live in a house with eight other pretty girls when I was your age, I know some... undecent... things would have happened."

Maki, now blushing madly, began to furiously deny her mother's accusations. "M-mama! It's not like that! We're all just friends!"

"Are you sure? You and that girl in twintails always argue. And I know arguing is your form of showing love."

"M-mama!"

"Oh? You're blushing! Does that mean I was right?"

Maki threw herself on her bed, while covering her face and rolling around. "Mamaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Well, there's the first chapter! I didn't completely butcher it, but I definitely didn't have the interactions and thought-exploring I wanted to have. Oh well.

Just so were clear, nobody's dating at the moment. That would be too simple.