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Chapter 2
1 year earlier September
I looked at the map again and then back at the large building in front of me. Andromeda read the shining gold plaque placed on the small amount of brick wall between two entry doors. This couldn't be right. There was no way I was on the complete opposite side of where I was supposed to be. I turned the small map in my hands growing increasingly exasperated as I did so.
"This is so aggravating!" I threw the map on the concrete and stomped on it with my black Jordan sneakers. It was probably pointless and a waste of my time to take out my anger on a map but I felt better seeing the map torn to pieces on the ground.
"You shouldn't litter?" a monotone voice made me tense catching me off guard. I looked to the right of me to find a short, pale, light blue haired boy standing before me. Where did he come from? I know I was a little lost in my own world but I had keen senses.
"Jeez you nearly gave me heart attack don't sneak up on people like that" I scolded looking into his expressionless face. There's something wrong with this kid.
"Sneak up? I've been here the whole time" he disclosed peering up at me from behind his bangs.
"Uh-" I was about to tell him how impossible and creepy that sounded but a loud outbreak of screams and people running past me heeded my attention. Instinctively I twisted around trying to make out what the gathering crowd at the front gate was for.
"What's going on?" I wondered out loud still observing the raging group of students.
"They're here" stated the indifferent voice of the kid that I forgot was stagnant beside me.
"Who's here?" I pivoted back but the boy was gone. I checked all over making a perfect 360 but sure enough he was nowhere in sight. I felt a cold rush of air race down my spine making me shudder. Was it possible I'd just seen a ghost?
I brushed off the odd incident and picked up the crumpled map placing it into my workout bag that held my dance clothes. Then slinging my bag over my shoulder I marched across the grass and paved walkways to see what all the commotion was about.
Upon my arrival at the iron barred front gates I was thrust into the crowd by people pushing up behind me. Struggling I tried to fight my way through but that just made things worse. I tripped over my own loose shoelace as I made it to the very front. Face planting into the sidewalk was never pretty but what made it worse was blocking the open path made for whomever it was arriving. The roaring onlookers stopped immediately making the area eerily silent as they waited for a scene to unfold.
Dang that hurt, my head was spinning and when I pulled up from the ground I gazed hazily into a pair of white and blue Adidas sneakers. A hand came into view but I didn't take it, instead I hurriedly gathered my bag and stood up brushing off my jeans. I stared face to face with the person belonging to the offered hand and nice shoes. He was tall around the same height as me I guessed since our eyes were at the same level. His face was framed by medium length blonde hair with bangs falling a little over his smiling caramel colored eyes.
"Wow you're as tall as I am and not too scary looking. I hope you're not on the music track because I'm not sure I can compete" the guy commented patting my shoulder. The girls around lost it shrieking 'No Kise you're the best' and 'that guys way below your level'. All their comments were beginning to piss me off as well as the guy who started it all. What did he mean 'not too scary' and then saying it with a smile like that was a compliment.
"Kise, stop socializing I'm not going to be late because of you! You know how Akashi gets" A dark-skinned guy with short indigo hair growled coming up from behind the boy. He pinched Kise's right un-pierced ear and dragged the blonde away not apologizing as he brushed past me.
"Ow Aominecchi let go" Kise whined following along. Aominecchi? What type of name was that? It was unfathomable to me that this entire mob racket was over two people. Who were Kise and Aominecchi and why did they command the attention of this prestigious school's student body.
Well I guess I would have time to think about it seeing as I was alone now. The group of students had followed the two boys still yelling their heads off. They weren't too far away though yet. Actually I should be following the boys too. There was a good chance they were going to the audition if they were talking about being late. After all it was, I checked my watch, 11:50 am and everyone auditioning had to be registered by 12 pm.
Making a quick decision I chose to catch up with the slow moving throng of people. I had no choice anyway my map was pretty much useless after earlier.
I made it to the registration table with just minutes left before closing. I thought the crowd outside was big, that was nothing compared to the inside. I didn't know the max occupancy of this regal hall, but I was pretty sure it hit its mark thirty people ago. Instrument cases were strewn about their owners hovering closely by. Little cliques had already started forming made up of kids coming from the same school or who had the same private teachers. Kagayaku Hoshi Academy auditions were like nothing I'd ever seen. It was controlled chaos.
Back in America I had taken some voice lessons and auditioned for small competitions and actually placed in most of them, but none of those were on the scale of this school. For this school I had to fill out a rigorous application that involved what track I selected, where I've studied music, awards, and a two minute audition video of a song that represented the theme of hope.
If selected they assigned you one of the three auditions days to attend for final judgment. Because and I quote from the actual letter I received "Anyone can play to an empty room we want to see you in person". Hoshi Academy didn't know it yet but I loved challenges. There was something that just got me pumped about performing for the best to study with the best.
Pulling my water bottle from my bag I took a big swig before doing some voice warm ups. I was number 54 but that didn't mean anything. All the numbers were drawn at random to keep it fair or maybe it was to keep everyone on their toes. Seeing as people paced nervously back and forth only paying close attention to the flat screens broadcasting audition rooms live to size up the competition. The Judges included the dean of the school, two heads of the music department, two heads of the dance department and special guess idol Ayumi Hamasaki.
"52 report to audition room B" the loud announcement came over the speakers.
I let out a sigh of relief that was close. Going to start practicing again I halted seeing as everyone in the room had also turned silent. Not again I looked at the nearest flat screen just in time to see that Kise kid stroll into the audition room an electric guitar in hand.
"Number 52 Kise Ryota Teiko Middle School" He bowed. An assistant handed him one of the ten selections of sight reading as he finished attaching his instrument to the amp.
"You have 30 seconds to look over the music your time starts now" a small countdown clock appeared in the upper right hand corner of the t.v. screen. It wasn't even five seconds down when Kise said "Ready" placing the sheets on the ground. The judges looked surprised as he immediately started playing the complicated piece. His hands glided smoothly over the instrument with near mastery of what he had just read. I was mesmerized there was no way he was that good. When he finished the judges all turned to consult each other. The Dean slid a paper to the idol Ayu to read.
"Congratulations you have been accepted to the Kagayaku Hoshi Academy's music track, co-chair of the music department" the camera zoomed to him and he smiled "Would like to note that he was impressed, watch some of those transitions, and he looks forward to working with you"
"Thank you all, I promise to work hard" Kise proclaimed with a bright smile before bowing again and exiting.
"G-O-M isn't disappointing after all" A girl spoke sitting in a leather chair next to me.
"What's G-O-M?" I asked looking at her. She had short chestnut hair and huge brown eyes I observed she was wearing an academy uniform so she must be an upperclassman or was accepted early.
"Are you not from here how could you not know about the Generation of Miracles?" She gasped.
"Yeah I just moved here from America actually" I told her. I didn't know who the Generations of Miracles were but they already sounded interesting.
"America wow you're really REALLY not from here so I'll let you off. I'm Aida Riko management track by the way" she said holding out her hand for me to shake. I shook it but I thought it was weird so I had to ask.
"I thought they didn't do handshakes in Japan"
"As a management track student we have to study international customs so not to embarrass ourselves when meeting foreign clients; but that's not important. Generation of Miracles or as referred to by management track, your new best friends, we're all competing to get them. They're basically a dream team established in middle school. Six top scale students that obliterated all the teams in Hoshi Academy's Rising Star competition. The one you just watched wa- "
"Kise Ryota I heard and met briefly outside at the front gates."
"I bet that was fun" she said sarcastically and I decided I liked her a little.
"He's the part time male model slash copycat musician. He not only can duplicate any piece practically perfect from reading the music once but also the style of the person who wrote it"
"That's a little scary"
"Ha" she laughed "he's not even the best one" Now I was really listening because if he wasn't the best one after all that then who was.
"Aomine Daiki" She pointed to the audition room and I saw the indigo haired boy from earlier.
"Met him too sort of"
"You've had a busy morning. Aomine is a completely self-taught musician. I'm talking reading music and everything. With no teaching he's developed a unique playing style not even Kise can even touch, just observe."
I watched the screen and he was partly through the sight reading piece. She was right though his hold on the instrument was strange and I didn't know if it was the pressure from his fingers holding down the notes or his strumming but there was something strangely intriguing about his playing style.
"That's it just those two right"
"No bakagami" I hope that name didn't stick "Weren't you listening I said six. There is also Midorima, Murasakibara, Akashi and the phantom sixth player Kuroko Tetsuya though I hear he went yesterday which is weird because the school was going to put them all together for the ratings you know. That's why I'm here anyway their numbers were told to the judges already and they will be called in order."
"Kise and Aomine have gone, Murasakibara Atsushi is in now" I again turned back to the screen.
"Whoa he's huge! How tall is he?"
"208 cm or 6 foot 8"
"That's ridiculous and creepy that you know that" I earned a slap to the arm for that "What does he play?"
"Sound mixing" she smiled "He's like the Skrillex of Japan"
"Interesting" I watched as he too got accepted and a new number was announced over the speakers. A guy with jade hair and glasses came into the room. The assistant helped set up a keyboard for him as he took off bandages? on his fingers.
"Who's he" I asked Aida my expert on the Generation of Miracles.
"Midorima Shintaro clearly a keyboardist. His hands are like magic you see he wraps them just to preserve them until he plays. he never misses a note, cue, pause anything really"
"Congratulati-" I didn't have to hear the rest to know he was accepted so I turned back to Aida.
"Isn't it a little messed up that the School set it up so they could all go in order?"
"Maybe, but its 'random' right so you know what that means?" Her air quotes confused me more.
"No I don-"
"Number 54 please report to audition room B" the announcement came making me gulp.
"They place some poor sucker in between so it doesn't seem planned" She finished after the announcement. I twisted to show her the number on my back. Turning back I saw her eyes widened. I started to walk off in the direction of the room but she grabbed my arm.
"First you're going the wrong way and second I hope you're good"
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