La Corda Effect

Chapter 3 - The Past?!

"Do you wish change it?" Said a voice that came from a tiny person who was hovering over Hihara.

"What-are-you? I must be dreaming, I can't be seeing a small flying dude!" Yelled Hihara, backing away from the small flying person.

"FOR YOUR IN-FOR-MATION! I'M NOT A DUDE, I'M A GIRL! A FAIRY OF MUSIC! And I'm here to help YOU! Dumb brain, do you want to change your situation are not?" The fairy was appalled by his disrespect of acknowledgment towards her.

Hihara calmed down a bit. "What are you talking about? Change what? What is there to Change!?" He snapped back, sadly facing down in defeat.

The fairy moved closer to him. "You love her right? Well, I can help you win her over, before Tsukimori even gets close to her!" The fairy was smiling upon Hihara, trying to lift his spirits.

"How can you do that? It's impossible! She's going to marry him, there's no way I can win her over now." He didn't believe her and stood to his feet, walking away. "Thanks, but no thanks."

The fairy quickly flew ahead of him, zipping around his face to make him stop as he swatted around for her to stop. She was determined, "You may not be able to win her over now, but in the past you can! You can change it all around to where she ends with you and not Tsukimori!"

What she was saying was syncing into him, really syncing in. At first he shook the idea away, but his heart begged him to open his mind. His eyes went wide looking at her. "The past? You mean! Wait are you serious? You could do that for real!?" A sharp, guilty pain shot through his chest. "But would it be right to cheat like that?"

The fairy ignored his question and moment of guilt. "All you have to do is say yes, and I can turn back the time to when Hino never understood the meaning of love. Before she even knew Tsukimori! All you have to do… is say—"

Over by Yunoki, Len and Hino.

Yunoki came running out the door, eyes in search for a certain frantic friend of his, but instead finding Hino and Len talking. "Hino, Len. Do you know where Hihara went?" Said the panting Yunoki.

"No. Why? I think he ran home. Is something wrong Yunoki?" Hino was worried about him.

Hihara knew what he had to say, but saying it wasn't the problem… feeling okay about it was. How could this be a good thing to do?

How was losing the girl he loved a good thing?

It wasn't.

"YES!" Hihara shouted.


TWIST OF TIME


"Where are we?" Hihara asked, looking around.

"You dummy! This is your school, yu'know, you're HIGH SCHOOL!" Yelled the fairy to jog his memory.

"Wait you mean that we're really back in-" He took a real good look around him. He was standing in the hallway, other music students were passing him by, but it felt like time was frozen, until he heard his friend Yunoki from behind him and snapped his body around, landing his shocked eyes on him.

"Hihara, where have you been? We're going to be late for class."

"Oh DUDE! Yunoki, why are you wearing your school uniform from high school!?" Hihara sounded like he was panicking.

Yunoki gave him a strange look. "Hihara… what are you talking about? What else would I where to school, my kimono? Come on, we're going to be late." He walked ahead down the hall to class, Hihara passed out for 2 seconds..

Then bounced back to life.

"Oh-my-holy crap! We're really back! What is today's date?" Hihara asked the fairy.

"Actually, this is the first day you meet Hino. I had rewind time all the way back to when nobody knew she existed," She said.

"That's cool, but how am I supposed to, when Hino, I mean if I wasn't able to win her that time? Are this but-forget it! You know what I mean." Hihara's brain was frying trying to grip the new reality.

The fairy laughed in amusement. "Yes, I know what you mean. Listen, the only reason Tsukimori was able to win her heart was because they both played the violin. They don't call it Violin Romance for nothing, and then she heard him play Ave Maria, the first song that inspired her to play the violin. So she just admired him and from admire turned into mixed feelings, then to a secret crush she wasn't even aware of."

"So then… how am I going to when her over!" Hihara asked in a worry mess.

"Don't you worry about that. Just meet me in practice room 12. Okay? Then we'll talk some more, now go to class! Shuuuuuuu! And don't forget, you're in high school again."

Hihara just smiled and nodded. "Thanks, oh! Before I go, what's your name?"

She smiled. "Cordinala. Now go!" She flew away.

"I hope this works... Kaho-Chan."


"Oh no, I'm going to be late! Why does this place have so many hills?" She forced herself to hop scotch up a flight of stairs, panting. "AND STARES!" Hino ran through the school gate and bumped into someone hard. Hino looked up and saw something blue, she then noticed it was a boy. He turned around rubbing his back.

"Hey! Who did that?" Said the blue headed boy, but stopped his angry rant, realizing a girl on the ground was hugging her leg. He clicked his tongue. "What a pain… Are you alright? You should really watch where you're going. Someone might get hurt if you keep up your blindness towards others around you," He told her coldly as he was giving her a hand to stand up, Once she was stable on her feet, he walked away.

She fumed in disgust towards his attitude. "Ouch! Who is he? And what does he mean by 'blindness to others'? He was the one standing still in the way of the gate!" She winced. "Ouch…that really hurt, his back was like a brick! What a jerk!" Hino shook it off, and resumed trying to not be late for her class.


From Tsukimori's Side of It

"I can't believe I stayed up late practicing the violin, now I'm late for class." Tsukimori said running through the gate but stopped suddenly. "I could've sworn I just saw something fly in front of me." Len was clueless when suddenly something bump into him hard.

"Ouch! What the? Hey! Who did that?" He stopped his angry rant when he realized a girl on the ground was hugging her leg.

"What a pain… Are you alright? You should really watch where you're going. Someone might get hurt if you keep up your blindness towards others around you." he said coldly giving her a hand to stand up then walked away.

Len came back down from thinking of his thoughts of the girl. I really don't have time to be getting caught up in my thoughts, I have to get to class before it's too late. Len thought, running through the halls.

He ran in his classroom.

"Tsukimori!" Yelled the teacher in a scolding tone.

He approached his teacher. "Just… great..."


"Kaho-chan! Where have you been? Class ended seconds ago," Asked Mio, handing her a piece of paper.

Hino looked over the note. "What's this about?"

Nao shrugged. "We don't know, but when we came in the class room it was just lying there on your desk."

"And we may have took a peak," Mio sheepishly added.

"Mio's the nosy one, not me, she read it, then you came in the class and she handed it to you." Nao completely snitched on her without a care in the world.

"How could you! Rat me out like…..like that!" Mio fused at her, but then quickly cut around back to Hino with a shameless nosiness. "But now since the cats out of the bag…Tell me Kaho! Who's the guy that want's to meet you in practice room 12? I never knew you had an interest," Said Mio in her love fantasy. "HAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa," she exhaled. "It has to be L.O. !" Mio went on and on and on AND…. Oooooon!

"Ok that's enough Mio! Kaho, you get going to meet whoever left you that note," said Nao, doing her best to tame Mio.

Hino was so confused. "Uh… O—okay?" She left the classroom.

Practice Room 12

Hino was in the practice room waiting for whoever wrote the note to come. "Hello? I received the note you left me. Is anyone here?" She wondered, but then shook her head. "What am I saying? Where could he-she possibly hide in this square room? It's obvious that no one's here, maybe it was a prank note." Hino was about to leave the practice room until something revealed itself to her, making her go silent. She didn't move a muscle. Just still like a rock and quiet like an empty house, well, that was until it decided to speak to her.

*-*? -Hino

"Hello, my name's Cordinala. I'm the one who left you that note and to my surprise you're taking this better than I thought," She said with a friendly smile.

*-*?

"Anyway then, I'm here to talk to you about the school con—"

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Hino screamed.

"—Curs…" Cordinala watched Hino go through a panic attack like a fish out of water and face palmed. "Really?"