Nothing but Music

OMG, another chapter? So soon! Yes, here I am, with another one so fast. Or maybe not. Whatever. I just painted my finger nails black:)

Oh, by the way, this is the chapter where we first meet Reno, the obnoxious! Yeah, for any of you who play the game, he's based on a Final Fantasy character! Please consider him a good character, even though he's a jerk. He even has a crush on—

((someone covers my mouth)) Mmphh!((flails arms around pathetically))

Never mind, please just read! This chapter may be LONG. Or normal. I don't really care. It's your opinion.

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Hi! I'm Merodi! You may remember me from most of the other chapters. Yes, you can remember me from my characteristics. Your mom may be asking: "Isn't Merodi that spazzic little hamster, right?"

Bzzt, bzzt!

Nope, I'm just your average ham-gal wanting a meaning in life. I want to see why humans domesticated us. Why I'm alive? Why does Tsuna like to torture Pazu? Why did the French half-colonize the country of Canada?

Many of these simple questions run through my little head, like:

Why am I confused about some thing called love?...

"Mero Mero-chan? Are you ok? Are you still worried about your partner?"

Merodi jolted back to reality, looking up from her slumped position on her desk to see Tsuna looking worriedly down at her. Her eyes were filled with concern, and she was clutching her trademark necklace. Merodi only smiled warily.

"What? Is it inhuman to worry about some guy all the way from another country?" Merodi chuckled warily, making Tsuna giggle just the slightest. She then placed a small paw on Merodi's back. Merodi looked up from her groggy position.

"Well, just relax, ok? I'm sure he'll be nice to you…" Tsuna smiled, giving Merodi a good pat on the back. She then turned around to sit at her own desk. Merodi sighed and looked around the class. It was a very nice class, the windows could open and there was a lovely air conditioning for cold mornings.

But there were many posters about non-smoking, chemistry, and the human body, (ew) All over the place.

Merodi shifted her gaze to see Rose Hyde chatting with her many bitchy friends. She didn't even seem aware that people all the way from England were coming to visit, for she was chatting about what was last on the dokushindansei. Merodi swore under her breath with a "baka" and then hid her head in her arms.

But, yeah, here I am, absolutely loveless and in the nightmare I've been trying to ignore. Yeah, sure you can call me a wuss, but I'm still scared. Not if he's ugly, stupid or not here, but if he would like me.

I've always been squeamish when it came to buddying up, because I would always be picked last, or buddied up by teachers' choice. Then that buddy would completely ignore me or make me feel horrible.

So if I was bad-off in elementary school, I'm horribly nervous about high-school.

Merodi kept her head in her little bundle of arms, even when the sensei announced his speech of the day. "Chui suru! It's my very pleasure to announce that the students of Ayame private high have arrived and are waiting just outside the hallway…"

Blah, blah, blah, Just get it over with it already, would you cueball? Merodi thought to herself. She just wanted to get it over with already. Heck, she had already thought up a science project. How to drive someone to jisatsu or sepukku in a heart-beat.

She heard many footsteps come into the room, some girls squealing, like pigs in freaking heat. Ugh, it disgusted her. Flirting with a poor guy, even though he's NOT INTERESTED!

The room soon started to get very loud, 56 of the room's cost of noise was caused by mostly males then females. She groaned, knowing there was absolutely no hope in this hell. She lifted her head slowly, only to be greeted by the bluest eyes ever. It was pure cobalt blue, and so close up, Merodi could feel this guy's nose against hers.

"E-EEEYAAAH!" Merodi squeaked as she zoomed to the edge of her seat, far away from the guy in front of her. It was a hamham with pearl-white fur, yet shocking red hair that was messy and un-kempt. It reminded her of a person. On fire.

The only thing that kept the messy hair up was a small pair of goggles that were silver-ish. But those blue eyes…

Merodi then snapped out of cloud nine to consider something. WHO THE HELL IS THIS FREAK!

The boy smiled happily, making Merodi the more annoyed. First of all, her rule in ebing too close to a boy, scratch that, jerk was sounding off the alarm and she growled at him.

"Hey, buddy, why don't you go and jack off, you're in my personal space!" Merodi snorted, making her feel a bit more triumphant. The boy only gave her a surprised look, his lips making a silent "oh" and stepped back, leaning on the desk beside her own.

"You're a feisty one, Mademoiselle." He scoffed, adding a French sling at the end of his sentence. His lack-ness to being nice was awful, yet his classiness was perfect.Perfect enough, Merodi really wanted to punch this guy to heck, until he interrupted her.

"So, uh…do you always draw and voodoo-shit your binder like that, Miss?" he pointed out quietly, a picture of the science teacher in a very macabre situation. Merodi flushed neon pink and instantly plopped her arms onto the binder. "And, what's it to you? Aren't you supposed to be looking for your partner?" Merodi snapped, hoping to make the guy GO AWAY.

He only shook his head, the red hair bouncing to the rhythm of his head-movements. He seemed to not get the word annoyance. Merodi only growled in response, feeling sorry for the gal that gets stuck up with this jerk. The guy smiled as she started to doodle again, hoping to be noticed.

"Oh, and by the way, my names Reno Ainsland. I suppose we could hang out later on, after I find the mademoiselle who's supposed to be my partner…"

Merodi froze stuck to her desk. This guy, no, jerk was her partner? Reno smirked. He then placed a warm paw on her back and smiled.

"Well, I knew you would crack open sooner or later, Mero-Mero-chan! You're very yuki ga aru!" Reno smiled happily as Merodi started to think…

Tsuna must've been behind this…

Merodi turned her head to face Tsuna and to give her the glare of death. Tsuna only sweatdropped and gave her the look: I'm sorry, I'm very, very sorry! Please don't mutilate me!

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"So, Ainsland-kun, what do you have in mind for a science project? We seriously need to get started on this thing" Merodi groaned as Reno balanced a pencil on the tip of his nose. She felt that she really wanted to do that project she had in mind.

"Myaa, Mero-chan, just relax!" Reno sighed as the pencil fell off of the tip of his nose with a clik-clackity-clack! He made a pouty face and then gave up on the stick of tree and then rested his head on his hands and watched Merodi agonatize.

"I've already got one in mind, so just trust me!" Reno chirped, Merodi lifting an eyebrow. She gave him the look that said: You're saying for me to trust you, but I really can't, baka

Reno again made a pouty face and then got up. His chair made a "scootch" sound as he went behind Merodi. Merodi, before she could even go "eh?" she was thwacked over on the head with something hard.

:Dok:

"OW, ow, ow, ow, ow!"

"That's what you get for not trusting the master, young batta!" Reno yelled with a Japanese karate teacher accent from the movies. Merodi just held her head as hard as she could with her paws.

"Ok, ok! I'll listen to your stupid ideas!"

"I won't stop hitting until you call 'em genius ideas!"

"WHAT!"

Reno lifted up his weapon, which was a silver cane that had a leather handle. Merodi shut up. She didn't want to fail this project nor her head.

"Ok, ok! I'll listen to your genius ideas!"

Reno smiled. He seemed very proud of himself, as he lowered down his cane. Merodi couldn't take it anymore. If there was a God, he was probably laughing at her. Reno sat back down again in a laid back position, playing with the pencil again.

"So, Ainsland-kun, what is your brilliant idea of a science project worthy?" Merodi murmured underneath her folded arms. She just wanted to get this over with so that he would go away.

Reno smirked. "Well, for our project, we are going to do 2. One for the mark, two for fun…" Reno whispered in Merodi's ear. "The first one is going to be easy; it's only how the heart works at different ages. I've already started, so, you can only do the easy stuff. But the second one…"

Merodi, for the first time in her life about projects, was interested.

Reno smiled triumphantly. "We are going to be nakodo's!"

(a/n: the word nakodo, means match-makers…((cough, cough))

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It was 2 hours before the end of school, most people getting ready for home anyways, leaving early for either clubs or game-practise. The hallways were filled with cheerful voices, the conversations of others like a soft humm of a bumble-bee.

Spat was walking around, his hands stuffed in his pockets. He had no classes yet, and he was very bored. Absolutely nothing to occupy him. He looked around to find a cute couple hugging and murmuring cute thing to each other like: "I love you" "I will never leave you" "Please be there for me?" "Ok…"

Spat felt himself staring at the couple and the words Stan had said at lunch. "Oh, Spat. You have no shame and girl!"

Spat then sighed and kept on walking. What did that matter to him? He didn't want anyone. He wasn't interested, and he wasn't intended to keep promises he knew he couldn't keep. He then heaved in another sigh and shoved his hands back in his pockets, sliding his eyes closed.

He felt his feet move. He felt the thumps of the ground as he moved. He suddenly felt his feet stop and someone bumping into him. Not only that, but he felt something warm on his lips. When the warmth went away, he felt himself open his eyes and found a girl staring right back at him.

She had white fur and the most innocent eyes ever. Spat felt his face grow hot when giggled. He had a bad feeling that the warmth on his lips was…He felt himself touch his lips thoughtfully as he stared at the girl. She started to talk, a melodious voice escaping her lips.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, sir! I should watch where I'm walking!" her face was pink and she was giggling. The people around them only took a glance or passed them, as if they didn't even exist. Spat only nodded as she helped him get up, her hands as warm as the up-coming spring.

"Hee-hee, I'm so sorry, yet again! I don't even know if you'll even speak back, Mr!" the girl giggled as Spat only stared again. She gave him an innocent smile and carried on:

"Well, I'd better get going, Mr. I hope we see each other again!" the girl laughed to herself again. It seemed as if heaven itself was her background. She was just plain kawaii. Spat felt his head tilt into a dumb-ass nod.

The girl winked, but before she could walk off, she added: "Oh, and by-the-way, Mr. my name is Harmony!" she then walked off without even looking back. She seemed to be skipping through clouds made out-of cotton candy, it appeared to Spat.

Once she was out of sight, Spat felt his lips again. They were still warm from that incident. He didn't want that weird feeling at the pit of his heart to go away. He didn't want her to go away either. A soft smile spread across his face. Maybe Stan was wrong…

I don't quite know how to say how I feel…

Those 3 words…I said too much.

In my head…

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Bijou sat at the rim of the water fountain in the courtyard of the school, looking up at the clouds. She could see many shapes, like a baby lamb, a lollipop…

Hamataro…

She felt her heart sink. She knew he only wanted to be friends and stay friends. That was it. Nothing special, just friends. The wind blew softly on her hair as it made the silver locks blow in the wind like a sad flag. She knew she was going to be alone for awhile…

If you can't hold on…

She put her hair back in place once the wind stopped blowing. The only word that ran through her head was doshite…?

She then got up to go back to class until she saw Boss walking towards her. She flushed and walked to him too, fiddling her fingers. Boss had a worried expression on his face. "'Jou-chan, are you ok? You've been so depressed lately…" Bijou sweatdropped and rubbed the back of head.

"W-well, I was just in a faze lately, thank you for worrying about me…" Bijou trailed off. Boss flinched he didn't like Bijou so upset. He put a worried paw on her shoulder and sat her down on the fountain's edge.

"You can tell me…"Boss whispered

If you can't hold on…

"You can tell me who is it that broke your heart, 'Jou-chan…" Boss murmured, rubbing her back solemnly. He knew she didn't love him; she only loved him as a big brother. He was told this a year ago. He accepted that, even though he cried. Now he needed to comfort her.

"Hey, it's ok. The guy who did this probably doesn't deserve such a pretty girl like you anyways." Boss murmured, trying to get a smile back on the small trembling form beside him. He'd be there for her forever.

Hold on…

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Tsuna got her stuff ready for the end of the day, smushing them into her knap-sack. After she was done this stupid chore, she was going to wait for Crystal and Mero-Mero-chan to come and walk home after school.

Everyone in the classroom had gone, and she knew Merodi was probably busy saying good-bye to her partner before he was to leave for their hotel. Those students were pretty rich, she had figured out, for they were staying at a 5 star hotel. Plus, they had arrived early. On their own jet. How snobbish was this?

This must be a field trip to them.

Tsuna sighed and finally finished shoving the last of her stuff into her stupid knap-sack. She was frustrated, but already her partner and she were on a roll with the project. She heaved the knap-sack and slung it around her shoulder. It felt like holding on to 3 small dogs.

She groaned and started to make her way towards the door. There she saw Pazu waiting for her there. She gasped at his surprising appearance. He laughed nervously and started to walk with her.

"Pazu-chichi, you really surprised me, you know!" Tsuna growled and playfully punched him. Pazu chuckled and handed her a sack of something. Tsuna already knew what it was. "You really love these, Pazu!" Tsuna exclaimed, opening the small sack. The two decided that they would wait underneath a sakura tree.

Inside the small sack were little sugar crystal stars that gave off a sparkling effect in the sun-light. Tsuna handed Pazu some and they both ate them for awhile. The sun gave them pleasant warmth and the wind at some points gave off lovely breezes.

Tsuna started to hum a soft lullaby and Pazu chuckled. He wanted to hum along too, but he had no idea what she was humming. It was very nice though. Tsuna giggled and the humming came to a stop. She looked over to see Pazu asleep, breathing softly. Tsuna had no choice but to keep on humming until Merodi and Crystal were to come.

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Stan walked down the cold hallways, carrying the new script for Crystal. He had adjusted it himself, figuring out that the script earlier was a tad bit too uncomfortable. He smiled at the small amount of paper and held it firmly.

He really wanted to see her reaction for this, and it made him very excited. He started on his way and decided he would try to find her in the courtyard first. The windows made a luminescent glow on the floor of the school as he made his way to the doors of the court-yard.

It was then he saw out the last window, Sandy was with some guy! Stan looked out the window suspiciously and studied the guy. He seemed to make Sandy laugh and he was very handsome. This must've been that Kether guy she was talking about…

Stan forgot all about the script and ran out the hallways right after Sandy left. If there was one thing he didn't want, it was that guy around his sister.

He could feel the cold-solid wood door against his fur as he opened the door to where that Kether guy was. He knew that what he was going to say was not going to come out of his mouth pretty.

He had to adjust his sight, for the sunlight out there was so very intense. He just felt his body leading him, to the blurry figure just ahead. He felt himself come up to the figure and grabbed onto its collar, making sure his grip was as firm as he had held Crystal's script.

His vision cleared to show him a boy his age who was staring at him; not in fear, but in curiosity. Stan felt his temples grow hot and he shook the guy, as if he was a doll made of pure cotton.

Stan knew he was only going to leave this guy with a warning. "Stay away from my sister, punk…" Stan growled. The boy smirked. It was like this was only a game to him as Stan let go of his collar roughly, stomping off.

Kether chuckled to himself and murmured, "Over my dead body, dude…"

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"Well, Ainsland-kun, I guess I'll see you tomorrow then…" Merodi groaned, her arms heaving. She was exhausted from doing project number 1 even though they were already finished. For someone who goofed off a lot, Reno sure knew his science and logic good.

Reno shook his head and laughed. " Nuh-uh! Mero-Mero-chan, even though I don't know your schools own schedule, I still know that tomorrow, you don't have science!" Reno laughed heartily.

Merodi flushed red. Why is it that this guy almost knew everything! She huffed and started to walk to Reno's bus. "Well, then, lets get you to your bus then!" Merodi called.

Reno laughed and started to follow Merodi until he stopped dead in his tracks.

Merodi kept on walking until she noticed Reno was being awfully quiet. Too quiet even. She whizzed around to find him left behind. She growled. This guy was going to be the death of her. She stomped around and went back to look for the dunce.

Reno, on the other hand, snapped out of it and started to walk, looking for Merodi. She was so going to have his throat for sure. He sweatdropped at the thought of that and found her.

"Well, excuse me, Mr. Reno, but you're the one who is going somewhere, not me!" Merodi threatened, making Reno gulp. He laughed nervously. "Gomenasaii, Merodi-chan! I was a bit too side-tracked, sorry! I saw something really pretty and it caught my attention!" Reno laughed.

"Well, I'll see you in a bit! We'll work on the second project after, ne?" Reno called from the bus's doorway. Merodi only nodded and turned off, listening to the bus driving off. The sound of the engine far away made Merodi feel a bit more relieved. She then covered her sight from the sun and started to walk.

"Merodi-chan!" Merodi heard someone call. She looked up and once her sight cleared up she could see Crystal running towards her. Merodi smiled.

"Crystal-chan! What's up?" Merodi chimed, trying to forget about earlier. Crystal smiled and they both started to walk to their meeting spot. Crystal seemed very un-ease and finally she spoke out her worries.

"Th-that guy you were speaking to…at the bus-stop…was he your partner?" Crystal asked meekly, looking down at the ground. The pebbles and the grit on the earths surface wasn't enough and she had to look up at Merodi.

"Yeah, he's my stupid science partner. He's a klutz, isn't he?" Merodi laughed, opening a bean-cake for her snack. Crystal still seemed at un-ease. The sun shone brightly as Merodi munched on the bean-cake.

"Why, Crys-chan?"

Crystal made a small "oh" and started to fiddle her thumbs. She stopped, making Merodi brake on her steps and go back to stand beside her. She cocked her head to the side and gave her friend a look of confusion.

Crystal looked at the ground once again, a butterfly resting on the flower beside her. "Well, he was looking at me…"

Merodi froze and remembered what Reno said…

I was a bit too side-tracked, sorry! I saw something really pretty and it caught my attention!...

Merodi gulped…could it be that?...Nah…

She turned the thought down and caught up with Crystal. There, they met up with Tsuna and…Pazu?

The two were sound asleep, the sack of sugar crystals spilled and they were both leaning on each other. Crystal giggled and Merodi tried ever so hard to stifle a laugh. It was a once in a life time thing, because Tsuna would never let a guy near her in her life.

"I think it might be dangerous to wake them up…" Crystal giggled, and Merodi nodded.

They decided they would take a picture of it instead.

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INDISTINCT:

-Dokushindansei: Bachelor. I don't know. I got it from the name of a TV series!

-Baka: Calling someone either a cow or an idiot.

-Sensei: Teacher or master. Like a superior to you.

-"Chui suru!": "Pay attention!"

-Ayame : iris plant or flower, standing for cunning, wit and fame.

-Jisatsu : suicide. ((o.o))

-seppukku : A type of Japanese suicide, where you run a sword through your abdomen.

- "yuki ga aru!": "You're spunky!"

-batta: grasshopper

-kawaii: cute, or adorable

-doshite: "Why?"

-sakura: Cherry tree, blossom or cherry fruit.

-Gomenasaii: "I'm so sorry!"

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There! I've finally finished the eighth chapter of this thing! I'm on a roll! I can't wait to get on with the seasons. By-the-way, this season right now is early autumn, so our characters should be getting on to the over-coats and the fur-trims soon.

Let the winter, begin!

I hope this was a good apology chapter for you, and I hope it turns out long on the page! Well, better start working on the next chapter!

Ciao!

-Morrigan