Disclaimer: I don't own K-On!
Notes: Another random idea I got solely from Azusa's nekomimi/cat ears. I don't think there will be any Original Characters appearing, but there will certainly be Characters that are (extremely) out of character. As for pairings, you'll have to wait for Chapter Two.
This is an attempt at making a K-On without music, so wish me luck.
Disclaimer: I don't own K-On!
Another K-On?
Lightning!
So, shining Shinier Shiniest
Girls be ambitious and Shine…
"…And that's it for today!" Ritsu said after she finished the song with her drums, leaning back a little as she let out a cheerful "Woo!" as she looked out the rain-spattered window. "We really did great this session, huh?"
"You were rushing again, Ritsu-senpai." Azusa commented, turning to the now frowning girl as she silently felt her left hand's fingers. We did go over quite a lot of songs today.
"Meh…you always say that!" The older girl replied standing up as she stretched her arms, noticing the rain getting stronger. Come to think of it, it was stronger than it was this morning…
"Ritsu, she's right." Mio quipped, pausing to get her bass' strap over her head. "You were going a little too fast when we were playing Tsubasa wo Kudasai."
"Isn't the song supposed to be fast?" Ritsu raised an eyebrow as she walked over to the table where Tsumugi had already prepared cups of tea for them, sitting beside the happily drinking Yui, who was mumbling "Ah…hot tea is the best when it's raining!"
"Yes but-"
"Then my speed should be good enough for it then." The drummer paused to drink from her cup, putting it down when she was done. "Mio, you have to admit, that was the closest I got to the timing."
Mio paused to consider it, and sighed. "Geez, sometimes I wonder if you'll ever catch up to the timing if you were more disciplined…"
Ritsu pouted as she mumbled. "If I were a strictler for the rules like you I'd probably go too slow…"
Frowning, Mio was about to hit the other girl when Tsumugi piped in. "Mio-chan, it's been a long time since our last practice, so maybe Ricchan just got a little overexcited?"
"I guess…" The raven-haired girl scratched her cheek, frowning again as she remembered something earlier. "But honestly, I wish you were a little better-behaved! Don't sneak up behind me whenever we go out of the classroom!"
"I was only trying to get you to loosen up!" The drummer replied, triggering another argument.
As the two bickered with Tsumugi caught in the middle, Yui, having finished her cake and second cup of tea and was now satisfied, decided to tune in to what the others were saying.
"If you just concentrated on studying like you were supposed to do last night, we wouldn't even be late in the first place!"
"Oh, Mio." The air-headed guitarist saw Ritsu grin mischievously, a glint in her eyes as she waggled her eyebrows suggestively. "Who was the one who told me repeatedly not to stop each time I asked?"
Tsumugi immediately muttered an "Oh, my…" as she put up a hand to hide the smile on her face, chuckling. Azusa, being the perceptive girl she is, quickly realized what the older girl was trying to imply, and blushed a little despite knowing that the drummer was just kidding (She has to be…right?). Yui, as expected, made no comment, completely content that her friends were still close even if they do argue almost every ten minutes.
Mio, on the other hand, blushed twenty shades of red, hitting Ritsu on the head with as much force as she could muster. "W-We are NOT like that! Don't make them get the wrong idea, you idi-"
The raven-haired girl's words were cut off when lightning flashed and the lights suddenly flickered, the roar of thunder after the flash being accompanied by a rather high-pitched scream.
Ritsu grinned wryly, looking at the now shaking Mio who was now clinging to the front of her uniform. "…Right…and this isn't called 'making them get the wrong idea'?"
Mio blushed, but nonetheless did not let go of the other girl, much to Ritsu's chagrin and Tsumugi's delight.
"Say Azunyan?"
"What is it Yui-senpai?" Azusa turned her attention to the air-headed guitarist, who looked a little too deep in thought as she stared at the younger girl.
"What would you do if you woke up one day and found out that those cat ears were permanently stuck to your head?" She innocently asked. "You had them on for the whole practice."
"Huh?" Azusa blinked, reaching above her head and feeling the soft fabric of the ears. After a few more seconds of feeling, she realized what she was doing and immediately removed the headband, blushing a brilliant shade of crimson.
Ritsu, noticing Azusa's embarrassment, decided to switch conversations and snickered. "Somebody's getting used to cosplay…"
"I-I am not!" The younger girl replied, clutching the ears tighter as she frowned, blush evident on her face.
The drummer only laughed at the other girl's response, before seeing the clock on the far side of the room. "Ah crap…It's gotten pretty late." Ignoring the fact that Mio was still clinging to her, she hobbled over to where their bags were located, and slung both hers and Mio's over her shoulder. "We should head home before this storm gets any stronger."
Azusa nodded in agreement. "We should probably leave our guitars here. We can't risk getting any of them wet."
Yui's moan of disapproval instantly rang throughout the music room. "Nooooo...I don't want to leave my Giitaaaah~" She said, emphasizing it by hugging her guitar.
The younger girl sighed and shook her head. "Senpai, we can't take them home with us. They might get wet."
Tsumugi watched the pair with pleasure as they argued, then turning her attention to the still clinging bassist and the hobbling drummer. She smiled to herself in glee.
Much later, the five girls assembled at the doors of the building, preparing themselves to get through the heavy rain. Azusa and Tsumugi already had their umbrellas in hand, with the younger girl seeing a raincoat-wearing Yui. "Senpai, please don't tell me you're going to go home wearing only that…"
"Of course not, Azu-nyan!" Yui frowned, shaking her head. She then unbuttoned the coat, showing her school clothes. "I've got my uniform underneath, see!"
Tsumugi chuckled at the guitarist's antics, while the younger girl didn't reply as she rubbed her temples. "I guess I'll have to walk you home. I have to borrow something from Ui, anyway…"
"Copying notes this late, Azusa?" Ritsu snickered as she entered the shoe locker area with Mio following close behind, making the young guitarist blush and frown. "Of course not! I was going to ask for the seventh volume of the light novel I was reading!"
"Ehh…I thought you just finished the last volume Azu-nyan." Yui put a hand on her chin trying to remember, before nodding to herself in recollection. "Yep, I even remember you saying the ending was such a—"
Before the brown-haired guitarist could finish her statement, Azusa yanked her arm and practically dragged her out of the building. "W-we really should be going, Yui-senpai! Ui might get mad!"
Yui's reply was blocked out by the wind, leaving the three (or rather, two, since Mio was still too scared out of her wits to notice) girls grinning to themselves. Ritsu laughed as she joked. "Well, that cat's out of the bag."
"Indeed, Ricchan." Tsumugi replied as she chuckled. "Now, I think we should—" Her blue orbs caught sight of a familiar car at the school gate, making her frown slightly. How many times do I have to tell them…she thought darkly, despite the smile she flashed Mio and Ritsu. "I'm sorry, but it seems my father sent me some…" Tsumugi winced. "…transportation."
Ritsu smiled. "That's okay, Mugi, you go on ahead. We were going in the opposite direction anyway."
"See you tomorrow." The keyboardist smiled apologetically before opening her umbrella and heading towards the vehicle, leaving the bassist and the drummer.
Ritsu watched the car drive away before turning to the raven-haired girl and handing her her umbrella and school bag. Mio timidly stared back at her childhood friend, who merely ignored the look and opened her own. "C'mon, Mio. We have to get home too."
=-Lightning!-=
"Geez, that Ritsu-senpai…I was just going to get the textbook I left." Azusa said to herself, watching Yui playing in the rain. Noticing the younger girl was watching her, Yui smiled as she did a pose. "Look, look Azunyan! I'm the statue from the park!"
"Yui-senpai! You're too old to be playing in the rain!" Azusa frowned. We better get home quickly. The rain's much stronger than it was when we were in the clubroom. "Senpai, the storm is getting worse. We need to get home as quick as possible!"
Unfortunately for her, the brown-haired guitarist didn't hear a word she said, since Yui seemed preoccupied with a big puddle on the side of the street. Slightly irked, Azusa approached the raincoat-clad girl and grabbed her arm, dragging her away from the puddle.
Seeing a flash in the cloudy sky, Yui then remembered something: a theory she and Nodoka somehow pieced together when they were kids. "Azunyan?"
The younger girl turned back but didn't stop walking and pulling. "What?"
"Am I an airhead?"
Azusa stopped walking and stared at the other girl.
I take that as a 'yes' then. Yui thought to herself as she then asked another question. "Is it true that airheads are human lightning rods?"
Azusa continued staring her right eye somehow twitching. After a few seconds of twitching Azusa rubbed her temples, giving up on figuring out Yui's thought process. Ritsu-senpai is right, Yui-senpai's mind is a mysterious and scary thing. "Yui-senpai…How in the world did you come up with such a thought?"
"Well…" Yui tapped her chin. "Nodoka-chan and I used to watch a lot of cartoons and we noticed the bad guys always get hit by everything, including lightning!"
"So the bad guys in cartoons are…airheads?" Azusa raised an eyebrow as she tried to relate the so-called explanation to the conversation.
"Yep!" Yui grinned. "You know how they're always talking to themselves and stuff…and they keep laughing by themselves! They don't even notice that something is about to hit them until they get hit!"
"Those are just cartoons, Yui-senpai. They're supposed to act that way." Azusa turned around and started walking. "We really should head home. The rain is getting stronger."
Sighing to herself when she didn't hear a set of footsteps following, Azusa looked at the older girl, who seemed intent on finding out. "Senpai, please tell me you're not thinking what I think you're thinking…"
Yui mentally repeated Azusa's words in confusion before nodding in understanding. "Of course I am! It's a good time to test the theory out, isn't it?"
Though she would never admit it, Azusa was slightly curious herself. Well the odds of an average person being struck by lightning would be around 576,000:1 according to Jun. Azusa tapped her chin, but then frowned slightly. Then again there is a 2,320,000:1 chance that Ui might murder me for letting her sister get killed, not to mention the K-on club's loss of a guitarist…
"Oneechan! Oneechaaaaan…" Ui wailed in front of a picture of Yui with black ribbons at the top corners, a slice of tea and cake conveniently placed as an offering. "Azusa-chan, how could youuuuuu…"
"I-I tried to talk her out of it!" Azusa reasoned. "And we didn't actually expect it to…" The guitarist trailed off, not knowing anything else to say.
Suddenly, everything went black and Azusa found herself seated with the spotlight shining on her.
"Regardless," Ritsu then appeared, standing behind a podium with her arms crossed, giving her a 'high and mighty' vibe. "There shall be consequences! Mugi, what's your verdict?"
The seemingly nonexistent spotlight turned to the said keyboardist who smiled and held up a sign. "I think we should let the executioner decide, shouldn't we, Ricchan?"
Executioner? ! Azusa's eye twitched as she gaped. Is this even a proper court hearing? !
"Excellent idea, Mugi!" Ritsu boomed, and then pointed to the still unlit section of the room. "Executioner!"
Azusa gulped, hearing a menacing tune as the spotlight moved from the drummer to a bloody guillotine, its blade giving off a deadly glint. However, there was no person beside the death machine, rendering everyone silent, except for Ritsu. "Erm, Executioner?"
Silence.
"I didn't see anything…I didn't see anything…"
The spotlight moved to a corner, revealing a crouched Mio, who was covering her ears despite the black mask over her head. "That wasn't a real guillotine just now, that idiot Ritsu probably stole it from some set to scare me…yeah…and it's not real blood…the painters probably did a bad job in repainting the thing…"
Through with watching the executioner's frightened rambling, Azusa turned just in time to see Ritsu slap her forehead and drag it down to her face, a wry smile playing in her features.
The smile then turned into a grim one as she leaned towards Azusa. "Then I'm afraid we'll have to hand you over to the substitute executioner."
"Substitute? !" The light flew to another part of the room, revealing a frowning Sawako, who was holding a big black bag. "Why am I a substitute? !"
Azusa paled.
"Because, Sawa-chan, you were too busy deciding on Yui's outfit to handle the last execution!" Ritsu rubbed her temple with one hand, and then used the other to point to Yui's coffin, where a nurse-uniform-clad Yui lay. "Now can we please get this over with? I still have to copy Mio's homework before this day ends."
"With pleasure." Sawako smirked, fingers flexing as she headed menacingly towards Azusa.
Gah. Yui-senpai's thinking is infectious! Azusa shook her head furiously as she snapped back to reality, concern crashing to her in waves. We really should get back before Yui-senpai gets hurt.
She turned to the said brown-haired guitarist, who seemed to be flapping her arms while running around.
Azusa gaped. "Yui-senpai. What the heck are you doing?" I take that back. I shouldn't be worrying about her; I should be claiming that I don't have anything to do with her!
"It's the lightning dance, Azunyan!" A smiling Yui said as she continued to flap her arms and run around.
"Senpai, that looks more of a chicken—" Azusa watched as Yui then switched 'tactics' by kicking in random directions. "—dance. Please stop that before you slip and hit your head!"
"Don't worry, don't worry! I hear the lightning gods like it when they're feisty!" Yui remarked as she continued the strange display.
And where exactly did you hear that? ! Azusa closed her eyes as she rubbed her temples with her free hand. "I really don't think this is going to work—"
"Curse you, Kami-sama! !" Yui shouted upwards, stopping all her movements as she formed a cup around her mouth. "You big dummy~!"
Now she's cursing the gods? ! Azusa frowned. "Yui-senpai, you're going to get yourself in trouble if you keep this up—"
On cue— as if it really was a form of divine intervention— a bolt of lightning came from the sky, cutting off Azusa as it struck the brown-haired girl shouting curses at the heavens. "YUI-SENPAI!"
Thunder roared as Yui fell down, unconscious. Azusa rushed to the older girl, dropping her bag and umbrella as she kneeled down beside her. "Senpai? !"
Azusa hesitated a little before putting a hand against Yui's chest and sighed in relief to find her breathing. Thank goodness the raincoat was made of rubberized cloth. She looked around, seeing no one around aside from the brown-haired guitarist and herself.
Ah, right! Ritsu-senpai and Mio-senpai use this route home as well! The younger girl wasted no time in taking out her phone, before cursing under her breath to find that her phone had no signal. This isn't good. I should get us to shelter for the meantime.
Spotting a nearby waiting shed, Azusa stood up and grabbed both their bags, oblivious to the small light blue sparks weakly pooling on the tips of Yui's fingers.
Kneeling down, Azusa reached out to pull the other girl up, and was shocked when her hand made contact with Yui's.
What in the…Azusa blacked out, landing on top of Yui in the rain.
Another K-On?
To Be Continued!