DISCLAIMERS: I will just clear myself, I do not own PoT… cause if I do… I will surely shrink Ryoma Echizen into small and always put him in my pocket so he'll be with me all the time… (so selfish of me!!!)

NOTE: when the words are inside the (parenthesis) that means it's just playing in the characters mind

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December 10, 2008: (14 days before Ryoma's b-day)

While Ryoma was playing the piano in his school's auditorium he heard a beautiful yet familiar melody. He knew that melody very well, it's his favorite. But, though he was playing the piano, what he heard was coming from a violin. His feelings were mixed up, he feels cold yet feels very hot, and he feels excited yet afraid of what will happen next.

Ryoma opened his eyes slowly. But then, all he could see was a white door, everything else was black Ryoma opened the door. But then, the door was lock. He tried his best to open it, he applied force, but it's hopeless. He pulled and pulled, pushed and pushed, but still, nothing happened. Suddenly a girl appeared. She is holding a mysterious key. The key is silver, it is medium sized, and its handle forms the symbol of the musical symbol Da Capo.

"Huh? What are you doing here? And what is that key?" Ryoma asked the girl "it's the key to that door!" the girl replied pointing to the white door. "What's behind that door?" Ryoma asked "Open it and you'll find out!" "Then, give me that key." "No I cannot, this is mine and you have your own. Get it!" "How?" "Move on Ryoma… Move on!" "I'm trying! I'm doing my best to forget you!" "You cannot move on by forgetting me!" "Then how?" "Ryoma, why don't you go back from the start?" the girl asked Ryoma "No! I don't have enough strength to go back again!" Ryoma replied. "But…" the girl started "No! I will not go back. Not now, not now that I am starting to forget you! Not now that I'm nearly at the end!" Ryoma said. "Ryoma, you'll never reach the end." The girl replied in a calm voice "Here, take this!" the girl continued while giving the mysterious key to Ryoma. "Hey! Wait…" Ryoma shouted. But a great white light blinded his eyes for a couple of seconds.

Ryoma closed his eyes and when he opened it, he found himself playing the school's white, grand piano. Playing the melody that he had heard a while ago, water starts dropping onto the piano's keyboard, he's been sweating really hard. He looked at the seat for the audience, there he saw his classmates, some of his teachers, some of his seniors, and all the tennis club members, including the regulars and their coach. They looked like they saw a ghost. They looked surprised on what they are seeing. Then he saw his music teacher, she is crying, now he look closer to the audience, he was surprised to see that almost three-fourths of them are crying too! Now he realize, he was not sweating at all, the water that are flowing down his face are TEARS!! ("What happened? Why am I here?") Ryoma asked himself. ("Ah! I remember now!")

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About an hour ago…

"Ryoma! Hurry up or else we'll be late for our music class!" Horio said dragging him towards the auditorium. "Let go of me! I can go there on my own!" Ryoma replied. "Ju…st… sh…ut up!" Horio replied obviously trying hard to catch his breath. "We are lucky we arrived here on time!" Horio said still having a hard time catching his breath ("just shut up!") Ryoma thought.

15 minuets had past yet, the teacher is still discussing about, the right finger positioning, and the right posture. ("this is useless, senseless, simply boring")Ryoma thought. And just after another 5 minuets, Ryoma was already dreaming.

He was dreaming about his twin sister, her name is Yuki. For Ryoma she was the most important person in the world. She was the exact opposite of Ryoma. She hates to play tennis since she considered it a father stealer. She hates hamburgers since it has a lot of calories. She hates white caps since she considered it as plain. She hates cats since she has an allergy with them. She hates serious people since she was a happy-go-lucky person. She hates to sleep during classes since she feel sorry for the teacher. She hates any kind of soft drinks or soda since they are acidic. She loves milk since she believes it is good for her. She loves to play the violin since this is her way of expressing her feelings. And she loves America since she had a lot of good memories there with the most important person in the world for her, Ryoma. Yuki was the exact opposite of Ryoma yet they still love each other.

Ryoma dreamt about Yuki. And the things he used to do with his twin sister before in America. But Ryoma's dream was interrupted by his music teacher's loud voice.

"Mr. Echizen, wake up!" Ryoma's teacher was really angry with Ryoma. "Huh?" Ryoma is still half a sleep when he said it. "Mr. Echizen, why are you disregarding my class? Just as I expected from all athlete, you are all thinking just about sports ("wrong!") , maybe while your sleeping, you are dreaming about the day you defeated your greatest opponent ("wrong!") , maybe the most important person for you is the one who taught you how to play your sport, or your first opponent, or your idol. "WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" this time he actually said it aloud. The teacher cannot believe in what she heard. "Wha…what?" the teacher was still surprised since this was the first time that a student actually talk back to her. But she was not the only one who was surprised, all of her students and even Ryoma himself was surprised as well. Ryoma was really surprised that he actually talked back his teacher. "What?" the teacher repeated herself, this time she had already recovered from shock. Ryoma don't know what to say, but he knew that he must not lower down his pride, but at the end he said "I'm sorry! I dreamt about losing to my opponent because of a really bad and wrong strategy. I didn't mean to say it all aloud. It is just that I find all my strategy wrong. And I feel disappointed about me, losing that game. I'm really sorry ma'am I'll try not to do it again. "

By this time the auditorium was already full because the news had already reached all Seigaku students and teachers. And all of them are there to know what will happen next. All of Seigaku tennis club members are also there, since they are also surprised about what had just happened.

"You disappoint me with what you just did in my class today Mr. Echizen. You are doing well last meeting. Are you not interested in my class?" the teacher asked Ryoma, now she looked calmer. Ryoma don't know what to do so he just remained silent. "Well, why don't you go up stage and show us what you got? I believe that you knew how to play the piano." Ryoma's teacher continued. "How'd you know?" Ryoma replied. "I can tell it by the way you touched the piano last meeting" she replied. "I promised myself not to play the piano again." Ryoma said.

The bell rang and the class was finally ended. The teacher bid goodbye to all the students and the teachers, seniors and other people inside the auditorium started to evacuate the room. Ryoma was also about to leave, when suddenly he heard a familiar melody on stage. He turned to look who was playing, but he saw no one. Then suddenly he heard a familiar voice calling his name. Ryoma knew the person who owned that voice, Yuki.

Yuki had died about one year ago 1 day before their birthday. She died because of a terrible earthquake. She was in stadium that time, practicing a piece with Ryoma when a sudden earthquake occurs. She was able to go out from the building with Ryoma. But when Ryoma turned around to look for an open place, Yuki was gone. The stadium collapsed after the earthquake. And Ryoma was still looking for Yuki. After days of searching, a rescuer called Ryoma's family, he said, Yuki's body was found under the collapsed stadium. It seems that Yuki went back inside just after they were able to go outside. Ryoma's heart was broke into pieces when he saw Yuki's body, she was holding the necklace that he gave to her that day as an advanced birthday gift. Yuki went back into the stadium because she looked for the necklace. It must have fallen while they are running towards the exit.

Ryoma find it hard to get over that tragic part of his life. He tried everything to move on but he can't. So he decided to forget about her and start another life where he will never remember a thing about Yuki. But here she is. ("What are you doing? I thought you love me? You must let me go! You must help me forget you! Why are you doing this to me?") Ryoma thought

Yuki smiled, and said "Come Ryoma play the piano while I play the violin! I want to tell you something, and I want to give you something." Ryoma can't do anything. It seems like his feet has its own life. He started to come up the stage and play the piano.

Everyone stopped from what they are doing. Ryoma closed his eyes looked up and started to play a piece that nobody had ever heard before. The piece was a jolly kind, yet everyone felt as if all the sadness in the world was carried by the one who played it. They look up the stage and saw Ryoma playing the piano. He seemed to be a god or spirit from the other world. He seemed to be glowing, his face was as emotionless, yet tears are starting to roll on his face. Everyone can't do anything but to relax and absorb the sad story behind the happy melody.

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