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Authors note: Hiya everybody, As you seen I have chapter 3 up now. I already finished it together with chapter 2, but I thought updating so fast would lead to conclusions that I will always update this fast. Well about this chapter. If you compare this chapter to chapter 2 of my original story you'll see a lot of things that are in common. Like I said I'm rewriting it but not entirely changing it. I changed in chapter 2 the format, because people asked me to do it. And even though I don't get much reviews I still keep tabs on how many people read it. At the moment I have 13 people who placed it in their favorites, thank so much for that(bows). 16 people have it on alert, thank you for that too(bows again). Also I also keep tabs on how many visitors I get and in my opinion that's good enough.
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Prince of music - Chapter 3

"Nooooo~!" With a scream Ryoma flew up from his bed. His hair was damped with sweat, some sweat drops trailed down his face to his chin.

"It was just a dream, It was just a dream." Chanted Ryoma to himself as he pushed the covers away and positioned himself on the bedside with his head in his hands.

'It had all looked too real, his eyes, his mouth, his hands, everything of him. The most painful thing was I couldn't do anything about it. He just dragged me back, even though I struggled. All my struggles died as he kissed me. Am I this weak?' Ryoma looked at his hands that shivered of the memory.

He made a fist, 'No I can't believe that, it was just a dream. I will stand strong, I will defeat his grasp over me. Yes that's it.' Ryoma nodded once to himself as it he had made up his mind. Ryoma stood up and walked to the bathroom, he was in desperate need of a shower. He locked the door behind him and pulled down his boxers and stepped into the shower. He opened both the cold and hot water, with his hand he felt if the temperature was okay and he let the water come over him washing away the dream.

He felt refreshed after the shower he looked at himself in the mirror and decided the uniform looked good on him. He got his schoolbag from the bed and walked downstairs, he still had enough time before he had to leave for school.

A small meow made him look down, "Good morning Karupin," he smiled loving at his cat. Karupin had arrived yesterday since he needed to get checked by the vet before he could fly to the other side of the planet.

"What shall we eat?" Ryoma asked nobody in particular as he stalked off to the kitchen with Karupin trailing behind him. Ryoma opened the fridge, he shivered involuntary he brother had nothing really edible in the fridge, it wasn't that strange though since Ryoga was away most of the day and mostly ate out. He knew there was still bread, but he hated western food.

"Well there is nothing else so what can one do." Said Ryoma as he took a plate out of the cabinet and got the bread. As he made himself a sandwich, he also made food for Karupin. This way he could eat in peace without begging from his cat.

"Okay, good you're up already." Said Ryoga as he entered the dining room, "I'm a bit in a hurry, you can take care of yourself right?"

Ryoga didn't wait for Ryoma to answer, "Oh yeah, there is shopping money in the cookie jar, use it to get food, I'll be home late so don't count on me for dinner. And if you need me you have my phone number right?" Ryoma just nodded and wondered if his brother was always like this.

"Then I'm off, bye." And with that Ryoga stepped in his shoes and ran out the door.

'Why the cookie jar? Of all the places where he could have left the money he chose the cookie jar. I'll never understand him.' Ryoma shook his head.

-

Ryoma walked onto the school grounds and took a deep breath. 'let's get this show on the road.' Ryoma thought as he took steady steps towards the entrance.

"Let's see where I have to go." Ryoma said to himself as he took out a piece of paper. It said, Principal's office first floor.

"I'm sorry, could you tell me where the principal's office is?" asked Ryoma as he tapped on the shoulder of a girl.

The girl jumped a bit at the tap on her shoulder she turned around and saw one of the cutest boys she'd ever seen and she started to blush scarlet red. "Principal's office?" asked Ryoma again as he wondered why the girl was acting so weird.

"Yeah, Uh, hmm, Ano, go up the stairs and then turn right and it's on the end of the hall." Stammered the girl as she look down as if there was something interesting on the ground.

"Arigatou." Said Ryoma and walked towards the stairs.

-

It took Ryoma a while before he actually found the Principal's office, since the girl had pointed him into the wrong direction. But when he was actually in the office he wished he'd never found it. The woman had gone on and on about school spirit and his father. It wasn't like he heard enough people rave about his father as it was. And she said something about that he should join the music club. But before she could start all over again he blocked her voice from her thoughts. Lucky for him without letting the principal notice that he wasn't listening at all he was already out of her office and on his way to his new class.

"Yes enter." Ryoma heard a voice say after he knocked on a door. He opened the door and walked inside and gave a note to the teacher.

"Oh yes, boys and girls, this will be your new classmate," The teacher said, "Go on, introduce yourself Echizen-kun."

"My name is Echizen Ryoma, I'm seventeen years old and come from the united stated, Yoroshiku." Said Ryoma as he made a small bow to the class. The class started to whisper and Ryoma just acted like he didn't hear it.

"Echizen-kun you can take place there in that empty seat next to Fuji-kun." Ryoma started to walk towards the empty seat, while the class was still whispering. He was sure he heard the word 'cute' a lot which made him winch involuntary. Ryoma saw the boy next to his place chuckling, he acted like he didn't saw it and sat down.

"I knew this year was going to be interesting." Whispered the boy next to him and he shivered of the breath that flew by his neck.

"And you are?" asked Ryoma acting indifferent. He heard Fuji chuckle again.

"You already forgot me Echizen-kun? You just met me this Saturday." Fuji's voice sounded dangerous, Ryoma looked at him and knew there was something familiar about this guy but he couldn't really recall it.

"So you have really forgotten?" said Fuji, Ryoma heard that his voice was more normal now.

"Should I have remembered you then?" shrugged Ryoma.

"Well not really, but you have helped us with our song." Said Fuji nonchalant.

Like a light bulb went on above Ryoma's head and his eyes widen. "Oh you were that singer of that bad band." Said Ryoma thoughtless.

Fuji chuckled with a cough, "I don't know if we're bad, but yeah that's the one." Fuji looked at the boy next to him who had his eyes fixed on the teacher.

"You were that bad, but you all could improve." Ryoma smirked as he kept his eyes on the teacher.

"Saa." Said Fuji and he turned his attention to the teacher.

-

When the first break started Ryoma was surrounded by his classmates that wanted to know everything about him. He saw Fuji chuckle and knew he wasn't going to get any help from him. He tried to dodge as many questions as possible and he was managing it until a guy with red hair came flying at him.

"Fujiko, you know this boy?" asked the red head.

"Saa." Said Fuji dodging the question.

"Meh, don't be mean Fujiko. You can tell me, I saw you two talking." The red head had puppy eyes that would make some people feel guilty.

"Echizen-kun, this is Kikumaru Eiji, one of my best friends." Said Fuji smiling.

"Yorushiku." Said Ryoma indifferent.

"Yorushiku Ochibi." Kikumaru gave Ryoma a hug of death.

"Let me go." Said Ryoma irritated. 'Ochibi?!! Where did that bubbly guy come from.' Ryoma glared at Fuji who just kept smiling. Not long after that class started again, Ryoma was thanking the heavens for that.

-

When lunch break started he got dragged along by Kikumaru, Fuji followed them. Kikumaru had said something about that he needed to meet their friends. Momoshiro was the guy they met first, he was waiting in line to get food.

"Yo Echizen." Said Momoshiro, Ryoma just nodded.

"Baka, you're keeping up the line. ssshhh." Said the guy that stood behind Momoshiro.

"Mamushi, what you call me." Yelled Momoshiro and the two started to argue about everything and nothing at once.

"That's Kaidoh, he and Momo don't get along that well." Said Fuji as he pointed to the other guy.

"Fighting is not good, you musn't fight." Another guy came between Momoshiro and Kaidoh.

"That's Oishi, he's like the mother hen of everybody." Said Fuji as Oishi came into the scene, "Here you go Kawamura." Fuji handed something to the guy, who he hadn't even noticed, that was standing next to Fuji.

"Momo and Kaidoh sitting in a tree…." Kawamura started to yell singing but his words we muffled by the hands of Kaidoh and Momoshiro.

'Somebody kill me now, I'm getting a migraine.' Thought Ryoma as he rubbed his temples.

"This is a pretty ordinary day so far, but you even haven't met Tezuka and Inui yet. Inui makes really good juices and Tezuka…. Hmm well I think you'll like Tezuka, he's like you. Doesn't talk much either." Said Fuji smiling as he looked at Ryoma, who looked like he was looking for an escape route. In the end they found a table to sit and eat their lunch. Ryoma was happy that everybody was a bit more quiet. It wasn't that he didn't like the guys, but he wasn't an open person he liked being quiet.

-

After class ended Ryoma tried to sneak away so he could go home, but fate wouldn't let him or rather Kikumaru wouldn't let him as he saw the red head coming right at him taking him in a death hug.

"Kikumaru let go." Said Ryoma trying to get out of the hug.

"Ochibi is it true, Fujiko said that you helped his band with their song?" asked Kikumaru with droopy eyes.

"I didn't help them, I just pointed out that they were bad." Shrugged Ryoma.

"Brat." Said Momoshiro.

Kikumaru was totally oblivious to Ryoma's statement, "You need to join the music club!" He practically yelled.

Ryoma wanted to refuse, it wasn't his thing would be his explanation. "First take a look before you refuse, ne?" said Fuji smiling before Ryoma actually could.

"Sure." Sighed Ryoma, he doubted Fuji would let him refuse even if he wanted to.

"Ochibi you are so cute." Exclaimed Kikumaru.

"Kikumaru cut already with the Ochibi, it's annoying." Glared Ryoma, but the glare had no effect what so ever on Kikumaru.

-

Ryoma got himself dragged all through the school, they stopped in front of a door. Kikumaru opened the door, there were different students in the room that stopped talking when the door opened. After they saw who entered they continued talking again.

"Do you actually what the music club is about?" asked Kawamura shyly as he stood next to Ryoma while the other were doing others things.

"Not really." Ryoma looked around the music room, it was a quite big room for so many people to actually fir in it. He noticed that the walls were thicker than normal and were probably sound proof.

"I'll try and explain it a bit, The music club was originally the school band and orchestra club, so it was just for practice and stuff. But one day someone came up with the idea to make the schools compete against each other. That created the high school concourses, in the beginning only talented violinists, pianists and such could compete and present themselves to the public. But that changed as one school sent in a group, a band. Soon other school began to do the same, sometimes a lonely violinist or pianist appears, but mostly doesn't reach the finals. Because music is such a big deal everywhere in Japan it is a big thing to have a band competing in the high school concourse. Our school takes great pride in the music club and that's why it's so big. Most first years are standing there." Kawamura pointed to a group of boys and girls that were talking nervously amongst each other.

"They are most likely not yet in a band, throughout this school year new bands will exist within that group, some don't even get in a band and will leave the club next year, some still stay and find other things to do within the club." Explained Kawamura as he smiled.

"What kind of things?" Ryoma found himself asking and he was shocked that he was actually interested in what Kawamura had to tell.

"Some have a talent for writing lyrics or have talent for composing songs even though they aren't good at playing. Some even find that they have a talent for organizing things and they organize places for our bands to perform, so that we can see how the crowd react on our songs. The second years and third years they mostly already established a band and try to get better and try to get place to perform so that their name is known. The seniors, which we are, already have some band awareness and are focused on the music concourses, especially this year it's going to be excited, because we have two bands that would be good enough to enter and only one band can go to the music concourse." Kawamura finished his explanation, Ryoma just nodded.

Not much later a Guy with glasses and an older woman appeared in the music room and the music room suddenly had gone quiet.

"Good afternoon Ryuzaki-sensei and Tezuka-Bouchou." Said everybody and made a bow, Ryoma figured it was best to join them.

Oishi walked up to Tezuka after formalities were done and they started talking.

"Oishi is the vice captain of our club." said Kawamura who still stood next to Ryoma, Ryoma didn't notice that Oishi pointed at him. Tezuka's eyes widen a little at the familiar face and walked with Oishi over to where Ryoma was standing.

"I heard you are thinking about joining our club." Said Tezuka as he looked at Ryoma.

"Maybe." Said Ryoma indifferent.

"I see, which instruments do you play?" asked Tezuka while he studied Ryoma.

"I play the bass, guitar, piano and the Violin." Said Ryoma answering exactly according what Tezuka asked.

"Do you sing, compose or anything else?" asked Tezuka trying to get more information.

"You know I sing, I also compose and write my own lyrics." Said Ryoma pointing out the obvious. The others started to gather around them because they wanted to hear what the Captain and the new kid were talking about.

"I see." Everybody was slightly disappointed that the captain didn't ask for more information. "I want the first years to go with Ryuzaki-sensei, She will train you for today. The Second and other years can choose one of the music rooms down the hall to practice. Happy Goody and EnSLaved stay here, the other seniors can also choose a music room. If anyone has questions they can ask us, just remember to knock." Said Tezuka and within a short time the music room was empty.

-

"When we look into each other's eyes, it's too early to go steady." Miyako really tried to get her heart into the song, but she couldn't get it quite right.

"Let's take a short break." Said a man through the loudspeaker into the room where Miyako was standing Miyako nodded and walked towards the door.

"I'm sorry Echizen-san and Yukari-san, I don't know why I can't get it right." Sighed Miyako in shame.

"It's okay Miyako, just take a rest for a while." Ryoga smiled and Yukari nodded, Miyako just felt worse because of their kind words.

-

Kikumaru had set up their equipment, he had told Ryoma that he, Momoshiro, Kaidoh, Inui and Kawamura were the band Happy goody. And exactly like the band's name had said they were the kind that sang happy pop songs, but there were a few things that just didn't make sense. After they finished a song EnSLaved set up their equipment, they played the same song they had been practicing on over the weekend.

"Ne Echizen-kun, what did you think?" Fuji asked, he knew what answer he would be getting but still.

"Mada Mada dane." Said Ryoma with a smirk on his face. Tezuka's eyebrow twitched and Inui started to scribble in his notebook. The other looked shocked with the exception of Fuji who just kept smiling.

"You brat." Momoshiro wanted to hit Echizen.

"Stop it Momoshiro." Said Tezuka looking stern, "Let him explain himself."

"You really want me to break it down for you?" wondered Ryoma out loud, the other nodded in confirmation.

"Okay, Happy Goody is an okay band. And their songs really stick in the listeners head, but Momoshiro, Kaidoh and Inui don't really look happy about the songs they are playing and with Kikumaru moving around so much it's not easy to keep your attention to the song. EnSlaved, well that's an entire different story." Ryoma sighed, Ryoma turned his attention to Tezuka.

"Have you ever heard of the words, Facial expressions?" Said Ryoma, the comment made Fuji chuckle, "Fuji you sing a sad song with an happy expression, that's really weird," Ryoma shivered lightly, "And Oishi you know when something goes wrong in a song it's no big deal, but you look so worried that it almost makes me want to comfort you."

"Well if that's it then now I can go home." Said Ryoma while he stood up from the spot where he had been sitting and walked towards the door.

"Why don't you show us then how it should be done." Said Momoshiro he hadn't totally forgiven the guy for criticizing them.

"Sure, can I borrow your guitar?" smirked Ryoma, the others wondered where that confidence came from. Momoshiro nodded and gave Ryoma his electric guitar. Ryoma first checked if everything was in order. Then he started to play.

Lost in time I can`t count the words
(I) said when I thought they went unheard

Ryoma's voice sounded so sad, but Fuji wasn't listening he was looking at Ryoma's eyes that were trying to avoid everything.

All of those harsh thoughts so unkind
'Cos I wanted you

Ryoma's eyes looked like they were looking for something, something that nobody could see. Fuji found a feeling in himself that he dismissed very fast.

And now I sit here I'm all alone
So here is a bloody mess, tears fly home

Ryoma knew his emotions were good enough, and while good playing was needed when performing. Making the listener feel what the singer felt was also a part of performing. That's what you needed emotions for.

Weak as I am, no tears for you
Weak as I am, no tears for you
Deep as I am, I'm no one's fool
Weak as I am

The refrain had sounded more angry, but as soon as the refrain ended it had changed back to the searching and sad person. The rest of the song had little surprises.

"So?" asked Ryoma while he smirked. The guys all agreed that Ryoma was good.

"You haven't played much lately, have you?" asked Tezuka.

"No I haven't." said Ryoma and was impressed that Tezuka had seen his few mistakes. The rest of practice wasn't really eventful and Ryoma wished he had gone home. Instead he stayed helping them.

-

"Echizen." Said a voice and Ryoma turned around he saw the entire senior group standing there.

"Yes?" asked Ryoma, he wondered what Tezuka wanted.

"We would like it if you joined the music club." Said Tezuka, but he felt Ryoma's hesitation and added, "You don't have to give an answer right away, just join us a few times with practicing and give us your answer next week."

"I'll think about it." Said Ryoma and he walked away. 'It's not like I don't want to join them, but I don't know, should I join them? I could at least practice a bit more if I joined them, because most of them are solo really good players. But I think their difficulty is more because they are trying to form a band. Why am I already thinking about really joining them?' Ryoma sighed.

To be continued…

Authors note: Well I hoped you enjoyed this chapter it's a bit longer then normal but I just couldn't stop typing(sweatdrops). Leave a comment if you want. Also I have some general information(points down), this way you know what everybody does.

Everybody is about 17 years.

EnSLaved:
Tezuka Kunimitsu: drums and guitar
Oishi Shuishiroh: Bass
Fuji Syusuke: Keybords, guitar and vocals

Happy Goody:
Kikumaru Eiji: Guitar and vocals
Momoshiro Takeshi: Guitar
Kaidoh Kaoru: Bass
Inui Sadaharu: Keybords
Kawamura Takashi: Drums

Ryoma Echizen: Guitar, Bass, Piano, violin and vocals.