The Queen of King's
Chapter Ten
The Duet
As silence befell the group, Kourai found her thoughts roaming to a few nights before. She had been working on a new song to record in the studio, but she could think of the second verse. Nothing good had been coming to mind; that is, until Mikoto came into her room just to chat. He sat with her and tried to talk her through her block, bouncing ideas back and forth until he said something that triggered an idea in her mind. "Hey, why don't you come up with the second verse? Write this song with me, and we'll do a duet?" The conversation started like that. He was strongly against it, so that caused quite the heated argument between the two. The argument slowly came to blows, as they knocked each other around the room screaming at each other about how much time they had left together. Eventually though, they ended up silent; Mikoto was holding her while she cried and he finally gave in. "Fine, I'll finish it and we will record it together. But it's just for us, not for the world." Kourai happily agreed to that and as per their usual, they made up. As she remembered that night, it clicked. She smiled and looked at the three of them. "What do ya say we go to the studio? I think I have an agreement on a duet, and it needs recording." Her eyes locked with Mikoto's now shocked and angry expression before he took in a deep breath and nodded.
They all headed to the studio together, and knowing that today was the day no one would be there; it was a good time to keep her side of the promise as well. "Since no one's here, it'll be easy. This song is special, so it won't be recorded for the public. Just for us." She said as she opened the locked door and led them into the studio before preparing it. She pulled the song out of her cleavage, where she stored almost everything when she was wearing clothes without pockets and unfolded it. "Mikoto and I wrote this song, and we will be singing it together." She said softly, but the pained look on her face had Totsuka and Anna worried. Before they could start questioning, she grabbed Mikoto and dragged him into the recording room with her, leaving the copy of the song in front of him and explaining when and what parts he would be singing. When he nodded in understanding, she headed out of the room once more to explain to totsuka how to do the recording and music, and of course he asked if he could record it in video too. She agreed, but made him promise not to show Mikoto or anyone else for that matter. He promised he wouldn't so she headed back in and closed the door before Totsuka gave the countdown to recording. "Okay guys; 3, 2, 1, and recording!" Both musically and video wise.
Kourai -
"I couldn't take it, couldn't stand another minute.
Couldn't bare another day without you in it."
All of the joy that I had known for all my life,
Was stripped away from me the moment that you died!
To have you in my life was all I ever wanted,
But now without you I'm a soul forever haunted.
Can't help but feel that I had taken you for granted,
No way in hell that I could ever comprehend this!"
I wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone,
I was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong!
How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?
Now I'm trapped inside a nightmare every single fucking day!
It's like a movie but there's not a happy ending,
Every scene fades black and there's no pretending.
This little fairytale doesn't seem to end well,
There's no knight in shining armor who will wake me from this spell!
I know you didn't plan this!
You tried to do what's right!
But in the middle of this madness,
I'm the one left to win this fight!
Together -
Red like roses,
fills my head with dream that find me,
always closer,
to the emptiness and sadness that has come to take the place of you!"
Mikoto -
"I know you're broken down by anger and by sadness.
You feel I left you in a world that's full of masness!
Wish I could talk to you if only for a minute,
to help you understand the reasons that I did it!
I wanna tell you that you're all that ever mattered,
want you to know that for eternity I'm shattered!
I tried so hard just to protect you but I failed to,
and in a prison of abandonment I've jailed you!
I never planned that I would leave you here alone,
I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home!
And all the times that I swore it would be okay,
now I'm nothing but a liar and you're thrown into the fray!
This bedtime story ends with misery ever after,
The pages are torn and there's no final chapter!
I didn't have a choice; I did what I had to do.
I made a sacrifice but forced a bigger sacrifice on you!
I know you've lived a nightmare!
I caused you so much pain!
But baby please don't do what I did!
Together -
Red like roses,
fills my head with dreams that find me,
always closer,
to the emptiness and sadness that have come to take the place of you!"
Once the recording was finished, the two of them stood in silence locked in a staring war. Neither were blinking, or backing down but both were smiling sadly. Anna couldn't figure out why they would write such a sad song, but it was a beautiful one nonetheless, but Totsuka had an idea in his head that he had decided then; he would take to the grave. When the staring contest finally broke and they both walked out of the recording booth together they were holding hands. Anna moved to grab Mikoto's free hand and Totsuka grabbed Kourai's. Together they exited the studio, which would be the last time they all four spent time together. It was a good thing Tatara had recorded the whole damn thing!
[ Hello beautiful readers! This is a very, very short chapter but I wanted to have all four of them spend a day together before the happenings to come! This song is originally from the RWBY soundtrack and is called Red Like Roses. I do not own the song, nor either show or and of K's characters or anything! Just to repeat that again for the first time in forever. I felt this song sit the two of them, and another song will be sang later in Kourai's story which will probably be in my other fanfic, The King's Return. I hope you're enjoying this so far, cause shit's about to get really real! Love you all, RxR please? ]