The New Light Music Club!
An Anime Band K-ON Fanfiction.
Chapter 9: Ayano's Memory & Rena's Dinner Invite.
The doors to the car opened to reveal three young adult gang members. "What are you kids doing in our alleyway?" Asked the gang leader, who had black short hair, muscles and dark brown eyes. He had a beer in his hand. Ayano could tell he was drunk.
"We're lost," Kotonoha answered shyly as she took a step back.
Keiichi slowly stepped in front of her, his fearful eyes narrowed.
"We were just leaving," he said.
"Right." Ayano nodded and heard her boyfriend's voice in the backseat.
"Ayano." He crawled out of the backseat, coughing badly. Ayano gasped.
"Oh? Is this your boyfriend pretty girl?" Asked the second gang member as he chuckles. "He bumped into us earlier, so we had to show him who's boss around these streets."
A light flashed across the raven's dark eyes. She saw Taro tied to a wall, blind folded. He was waling in pain, his pale face stained with tears.
There was a psychotic laugh. It sounded to close to Ayano, as if was right next to her ear. "Isn't this great!? Now you and I can be together forever!"
Ayano recognized that own voice as her own. "A-Ayano." Taro's voice snapped her out of her vision. "G-get out of here," the older boy wheezed.
A large member of the grunts approached the group while cracking his large knuckles. "If you don't leave now, I'll have to teach you that this is our turf."
Taro struggled to look up, deprived of the strength to yell. Keiichi stood in front of the girls. "You guys are gonna have to go through me first." Ayano dashed past him. "A-Aishi-"
A small fist collided into the grunt's stomach. He bent over, his eyes rolling back into his skull, and his mouth hanging open from shock. He fell over on his side. Everyone's eyes widened, and seemed to be glued to the teen hunching over the brawny man. Ayano slowly looked up. Her emotionless eyes were staring at Taro.
"Taro ... senpai," she whispered as she stepped forward, still hunched over.
"Is he ok?" Kotonoha asked worried.
The rest of the gang backed away as Ayano stepped closer to Taro. She fell on her knees, reaching her hands out to his head.
"Are you okay, Senpai?"
"Aya-" Taro reached out his hand towards her face. "-no." His hand fell to the ground.
There was silence for a brief moment. Ayano put her arms underneath his body and legs, to levitate him off the ground. She turned back to her friends, and walked past them as she said,
"Let's go." She stopped walked, and turned her head back to the grunts. "Do not follow," she sneered.
The gang only stared. The rest of Ayano's friends began to trail after her once she started walking again. The gang leader was furious, how dare a girl make him look like a fool. He pulled out his pocket knife and charged Ayano.
He pushed Kotonoha to the ground. "I told you not to follow us!" Ayano roared.
Still holding Taro in her arms, she round housed the leader, knocking his head into the brick wall. She sneered at his unconscious body, tightly gripping Taro.
"Don't touch Taro-Senpai!" she roared.
The others stared at her in fear. Ayano was normally calm, and emotionless. This was the angriest they'd ever seen her.
Ayano cocked her head over to her friends. "Kotonoha," she said, "why are you on the floor? Get up, and start walking."
"Sorry." Kotonoha collected herself and stood up. The group continued their walk. Meanwhile, while Rena was pacing around her cell, Bacchus walked up to her with a smile on his face.
"Good evening, Ryuuguu-san," he said. "How would you like to join us for dinner?"
"Why should I?" She asked him, facing the wall and not his face.
"Because if you do, I'll finally answer your questions. Why you're here, why I call you a 'Yandere,' and most importantly, why you don't remember me."
Rena slowly turned to face the older man and nodded slowly.
"Great! I will have it set up in a moment. I will you call you through the intercom once it is done." Bacchus said and started to walk away. Two Guards guarded the door and they were going to make sure Rena did not escape.
"A-ano," Rena stuttered, "is this necessary?"
They glared at her. She sheepishly looked away, realizing the obvious answer. "By the boss, we are ordered to make sure you do not escape once we open this cell." Said one of the guards.
"I understand..." Rena looked down.
Bacchus's voice came from the intercom, "It is ready, you may release her."
The first guard unlocks the cell door with his key and opens the cell door. The other one handcuffed Rena's hands together and feet.
"We will escort you to the room." He said.
"Don't try anything funny, or you will be punished." Said the second guard.
Rena slowly nodded. "I understand." The guards escorted Rena to the exit.
The redhead nervously entered the dining hall, first seeing Sekai and Jojiro sitting at a long table. "Sekai?"
Sekai looked up at her for a brief moment before quickly turning back to her plate.
"Bacchus-san," Jojiro called, "she's here."
John Bacchus entered the room and took his seat. "Welcome Rena, I hope you will enjoy the food." Rena took a seat as the guards tied her to the chair.
"I'm not here for the food," she said, "you said you'd tell me why I'm here if I came."
Bacchus dismissed Sekai and Jojiro. "Indeed I did tell you. What would you like to know first?"
Rena was silent. There were too many things she wanted to know. "Wh-why am I here?"
"For testing purposes." Bacchus replied.
"Testing? What testing?"
"That's where your Yandere self comes into play."
"There's that word again, 'Yandere,' tell me what the hell is means right now."
"I told you before, you kill for love. But YOU, also kill for the heck of it. That's what separates you from the others. Anymore questions deary?"
Rena fought back the urge to yell. She knew she had to remain calm. "Why don't I remember killing?"
"That I have no idea. I suppose it was from the testing we did on you before you escaped long ago."
"Well, then tell me," Rena slowly continued, "what did I do?"
"You killed a girl because she was bullying you, and messing with your boyfriend Keiichi. Your parents took you here to seek help, although they made the wrong choice. After that, I started 'helping' you along with your friends. But you and the others escaped with help of your boys. Of course your family didn't beleive you. They thought you were crazy. They came to me asking what else I could do. I decided to give you the pills you take every morning. While they did help a bit, they also made you forget this ever happened. Same goes to your friends."
There was a silence. "How do I know I can believe you? How do I know you're not just some pedophile?"
"What more do you want? I already told you everything."
"I want proof you're telling the truth. Fingerprints? A photo? Anything?"
"I do have a picture." Bacchus pulled out a picture and gave it to the guard to show Rena. Rena slowly took the picture. Her eyes widened when she saw its contents. It was her on a bed, hooked up to wires and needles inside her arms and legs.
"Wh-what is this?"
"It's you being tested. Now do you beleive me?"
Rena puts down the photo.
"I-" She paused, looking for the right thing to say. What she managed to muster was the worst question she could ask. "I haven't killed anyone since I lost my memory, and I never want to ever again. So I'm okay now, right? Right!?"
Bacchus laughs at the question. "You're not ok, there's a chance you could snap again and kill again. After all, you're a bad girl, Rena."
The redhead attempted to stand up, forgetting the ropes that bounded her left hand to the chair. She slammed her right hand against the table, screaming and crying. "Get me out of here! I'm just a kid, I shouldn't be here! I want to go home!"
"Escort her back to her cell. I will have a word with Sekai and Jojiro." Bacchus said and finishes his drink.
"Yes sir." One guard responded.
He and the other untied Rena, and began to pull her by her ropes. "Insane!" Rena shrieked as she was hauled out of the room. "You're all insane!" The guards threw her into the floor of the cell, then locked the metal doors.
Rena saw a hole in the wall, not being covered very well from a broken piece of wood. Would this be a way out?, she thought. Thinking she had nothing to lose, she slowly descended into the hole. To her surprise, there was a long and empty corridor with small lights further down the wall. Rena didn't think twice about it. All she knew was that it was a chance of freedom, and to get away from an old perverted man. She dashed down the hallway, a large smile stretching towards her eyes. "I'm free! I'm free!" Rena thought out several minutes, she found the exit behind the facility. She dusted her skirt, looking around nervously.
She saw a path that led into the street. Where she was didn't matter, if she could only find a phone to call the police, that would be enough motivation to run wild. "Got to find a phone," she mumbled to herself. Rena walked around the finding a phone, however, she saw a group of familiar faces walking down the sidewalk. She gasped happily and ran to them. "Mina!"
"Did you hear something?" Keiichi asked Ayano.
Before she could reply, arms tightly wrapped around the back of Kotonoha's neck. Kotonoha shrieked as she realized who was behind her. "R-Rena!?"
"It is Rena!" Yuno exclaimed.
The redhead sobbed into Kotonoha's long black hair, trying to get words out of her mouth.
"What happened to you!?" Keiichi pressed as he held her shoulders. "Where were you!?"
"I-I-I was Kid-kidnapped," She managed to get out.
"To my house." Said Ayano. Once the group headed to Ayano's house, everyone went to the living room to talk with Rena, who was on the couch.
"Wh-what happened to Taro?" Rena asked shakily.
"He's all right," Ayano replied quickly. "What happened to you? Where's Shion?"
Shion," she said. "I was locked up by this pedophile that-"
"Pedophile?"
"Yes, his name is John Bacchus." Rena looked at Keiichi.
Keiichi winced. "What'd he do to you?"
"He showed me a picture. I still have it," Rena took out the picture from her skirt pocket slowly and gave it to Ayano. "H-here." Ayano looked at picture closely, she gasped as she saw what was on it. She showed everyone else.
"What the hell?"
"Rena, when was this photo taken?" Kotonoha asked her.
"I don't know, exactly. He- he said it was when I was with him the first time."
Ayano looked at the back of the photo and saw the date on it at the bottom. "This was taken months ago." She said.
"This is obviously fake," Keiichi snapped. "He clearly photoshopped it to try and screw with her."
"I don't know about that Keiichi, it looks pretty real to me," Said Satoshi.
"But how do we know it's real or fake?" Yuno pondered.
"Was Shion in the same building as you Rena?" Asked Ayano.
"No, I didn't see her."
Back at the facility, Bacchus was angry and yelling at two guards, while Sekai and Jojiro eavesdropped. "What do you mean she's not there anymore!?" Bacchus yelled out.
"We don't know, sir," a guard stuttered, "she- she was just gone."
Bacchus growled as he sat down, holding his face.
"You must have put her in one of those secret rooms without realizing."
Back at the facility, Bacchus was angry and yelling at two guards, while Sekai and Jojiro eavesdropped.
"Sounds like Rena escaped." Sekai said.
"This is not good."
"What do we do? If Bacchus-san finds her, he'll surely kill her."
Jojiro looked her in the eye. "We'll have to find her before he does."
