Ta-daaaaa~ Chapter 1 of this story... I don't really know about Tokiya's history even though I'm his biggest fan. If there are mistakes in the story or plot or anything that I wrote, please comment! I'm just a beginner~ Thank you ^^

Where It All Starts

From a far, there's a voice beautiful as the melody of a piano. He walked towards the sound, into the school hall. There, on the stage, stood a young girl, singing the cover song, Shin Ai by Mizuki Nana. Her voice was luring everyone into the hall. It was her, Sasagawa Sayuri, his neighbor when he was still living in Fukuoka. When she finished the song, everyone clapped, including the dark-blue haired young boy. He was impressed by her voice.

While she was bowing to the audiences, she spotted him standing by the door of the hall, he was smiling. She smiled back and started to shout using the mic.

"Ichinose Tokiya! Come join me on the stage!"

The young boy startled hearing his name being called and made the center of attention. The girl on the stage pointed straight at him and smiled cunningly. Tokiya narrowed his eyes showing how pissed he was, but the girl wasn't affected by it and continued smiling.

After a few minutes, Tokiya decided to do as she told him to. He walked towards the stage. Everyone clapped, cheered and tried to support him. His view fixed onto the girl on the stage. Why did she has to do this to me?

At last, he walked onto the stage and stood beside her.

"Good job, Ichinose-san~"

She was talking like an MC at that time, trying to promote the young boy next to her. It was actually a rehearsal for tomorrow's Christmas Eve Party and there's not much people in the hall except for the ones in charge for the party, and that included Sayuri. She was supposed to sing for the party. And now she treated it like it was the real thing, trying to tease Tokiya.

She looked at the little audiences in front of her.

"Alright, who wants to hear Ichinose-san sings?!"

She shouted and the little audiences responded to her by shouting too.

"Wait..."

Tokiya whispered to Sayuri, trying to stop her. She turned her view and looked at him. Without the mic near her mouth, she said,

"You'll be fine~"

She winked at him and turned her views back to the audiences. Tokiya sighed, admitted defeat.

For the first time they've heard it, the voice of a student named Ichinose Tokiya. Everyone saw him as a nerd since all he did was reading books here and there. But now, all they could see was a talented student with powerful voice standing on the stage like a star, hypnotizing all of them in the hall.

Below the stage, stood the young girl, smiled at his performance, satisfied. Look, you're fine. She knew he had a beautiful voice but he never did admit it. Everyone gave the temporary star an around of applause when he finished. He looked at the girl below the stage, she was smiling and winked at him, showing the 'what did I say?' sign. After that, he smiled back at the creamy haired girl as a 'thank you'.

He walked off the stage and went toward the girl. Other performers were taking their turns on the stage. The dark-blue haired young boy that was in his third year of Junior High stood beside his childhood friend.

"How was it?"

The wavy creamy haired girl asked him with a grin. He let out a sigh and looked at the stage.

"It was the craziest thing I've done..."

The girl gave out a puzzled look. I though you liked it.

"But... It was fun,"

The boy looked at the girl and carved a smile on his face. Seeing that, the girl smiled back. Yeah... it was fun.

"Sayu... I'm going to be an idol."

Sayuri was stunned after hearing Tokiya's confession. They were outside of Tokiya's house and she thought of giving him his birthday present.

"EEEEE! What?!"

Tokiya made a face.

"I know you're shocked, but at last year's Christmas Eve Party's rehearsal. I could feel like, I was born to be an idol. It felt so good and I've never felt like that before. Seeing those around me happy for what I've done on the stage..."

Sayuri widened her eyes, shocked. I never thought...

"Wait, Toki."

Tokiya tried to listen to what she had to say.

"You can do much more than being an idol. Singing as a hobby is acceptable but as a career? Have you thought about this through? This isn't like you..."

Hearing those words, Tokiya felt down. He made an unsatisfied face, looking straight at her. Sayuri became confused at the way he looked at her.

"You're just like my father, Sayu... I thought we're friends..."

Sayuri stunned hearing those words from Tokiya himself. Tokiya excused himself and entered his house with the present she gave him. After that, Sayuri found out that his father left him and his mother because of his dream.

After a few months, Tokiya's family were cleaning up their belongings as they were going to move to Tokyo. The house was full with boxes, different sizes and colours. Sayuri and her mother went into the house to help them tidy up their things.

"Sayuri-chan, Tokiya is upstairs. Go help him."

Tokiya's mother informed Sayuri about Tokiya's whereabouts. She nodded and went upstairs to Tokiya's room. She stopped in front of the opened door and saw Tokiya was putting things inside a box on a floor and was about to finish with it. Realized that she was there, Tokiya looked at her, expressionless. Sayuri embraced herself as a respond. A second afterwards, Tokiya changed his view to the box in front of him. He put his hands around them and started to lift it up.

He walked passed Sayuri out of the room, without a word. Sayuri leaned her left shoulder on the door after he was out of sight. She let out a sigh. I think he's still mad at me...As she stood there, she could see some things that were not packed yet, so she decided to help. She took a box, and put Tokiya's books from the shelf one by one, into the box. After a while, Tokiya came back to his room. Their eyes met, but there were no words exchanged between them. Tokiya went across his room towards his study table and started to put the things on the table into another box. Sayuri continued her works quietly after that. Then, while packing up, Tokiya voiced out,

"I'm sorry, Sayu..."

Sayuri turned her head to look at Tokiya, who was still packing up the things without even looking at her.

"It's okay..."

She continued with her works. It was silent again.

"So... I heard you're going to be an idol now. That must be cool."

Tokiya took a long time to respond.

"Yeah..."

Sayuri finished with her part and put the box on the floor. She squatted there, thinking of something to say. Then, she noticed that Tokiya too was finished. She lifted up the box when Tokiya was holding the box and faced her. She smiled.

"I hope to hear you songs, Toki,"

Hearing that, Tokiya felt happy. He carved a little smile on his face, looking pleased.

"Yeah..."

Everything was inside the truck but the Ichinose family took some time before they took off with their neighbors.

"I have to go, my friends asked me to accompany her to the library..."

Sayuri informed Tokiya after she put the last box into the truck. She then faced Tokiya, and he did the same.

"Okay,"

They stood there like statues, didn't know what to say anymore. At last, Sayuri held out her hand asked Tokiya to shake them as goodbyes, and he did.

"Well then... go chase your dream, Toki,"

She smiled, and let go of his hand. After that, she went her way and left him there, alone. Tokiya just looked at her and then he smiled and whispered,

"Thanks, Sayu..."

He then looked at the boxes inside the truck and spotted something in one of the boxes. He reached out to take it. It was a photo of him with a girl in a Christmas party. He smiled looking at the photo. In the photo he was wearing a black tuxedo with a purple bow tie and the girl next to him was wearing a white dress and a purple flower accessory on the side of her hair. Purple looks good on her...

"Alright, Tokiya. We're leaving."

His mom brought him back to the reality.

"Oh, before that. Go say goodbye to Sasagawa-san."

He looked at the photo and took it with him before he went to Sasagawa's residence. He saw Sayuri's mother was showering the plants.

"Oh! You're going?"

Tokiya nodded. He looked at the photo in his hand for a while and handed it to her.

"This is?"

She looked puzzled.

"Could you please give this to Sayu?"

She looked at the photo for a second and looked at the young boy in front of her.

"Sure... I will,"

She smiled and Tokiya did too. He bowed as a thanks and went his way to the car. Now, his journey as an idol began..

What do you think? HahaxDDD Flashbacks are a bit difficult but I've managed to finish it up! Anyway, do comment~ Thank you