Sakuchii: To think that I'm actually back! And it's been...
Aiko: A year.
Sakuchii: WHAT?
Yukiko: Right, it's been a year since you last updated this story.
Sakuchii: I wonder if anyone still remembers this story :(
Razel: We shall see it. (Be aware of grammar mistakes and typos. This person is too "busy" to check them.)
Roll Nine: Okazaki Airi
~ The youngest siblings of Okazaki family ~
arigatou sayonara (All)
hitokoto ga ienai (Aiko)
ima dake de ii watashi ni yuuki o (Yukiko, Yomi, Katsura)
"ano ne-" (All)
iikaketa kuchibiru kimi to no kyori wa zero (All)
...ima dake wa naite ii yo ne (Yukiko)
mou kotoba wa iranai (Aiko, Katsura)
onegai (Yomi)
gyutto shiteite (All)
Arigato (Aiko)
Sayonara (Yukiko)
rainen no imagoro ni wa (All)
donna watashi ga ite (Aiko, Katsura)
donna kimi ga iru (Yukiko, Yomi)
no kana (All)
When the outro ended the whole hall fell silent. No one of the six persons dared to move, they just stared at each other with enthusiastic smiles. Finally the song sounded right. And that was all thanks to the person who was sitting behind the drums.
"It's finally complete!" Aiko was the first one to break the silence. She put her microphone on the rest and jumped around in happiness. "Finally CoCo is able to make their come back with a new drummer. We can perform again."
"And you should remember who we are to thank for that." Yukiko switched off her keyboard and walked to get a drink. Aiko turned to Yuuya and let out a wide smile. The boy got creep out of her overly positive enthusiasm, but did his best to answer her with a smile.
"Thanks to Yuuya-chan, CoCo is back!" the indigo-haired girl laughed and threw her fist high in the air. Everyone else smiled at her. "Dakara… Please stop with the –chan already." they heard Yuuya mumbling and let out a laugh.
"But to think that our new drummer was decided in a singing battle." Katsura was amused. She had never thought that singing mattered in how one played drums. She found the whole situation amazing.
"Well, he was the drummer of KIOKU so he does have the skills and experience to perform in a band." Yomi stated. It amazed her that after all that refusal Yuuya agreed to join CoCo after all. It must have been hard for him to leave his old mates. Now he had to endure befriending new ones… and to add to that the leader just had to Aiko.
"Finally I'm out of this unneeded harem." Takuya let out a sigh of relief. He was glad to have another male in the band. Things got often boring for him, and he felt himself an outsider when he was hanging around with the girls. He just couldn't understand their way of thinking from time to times. Especially Aiko. Not only she was harsh on herself, she also made others to endure the pain with her. (Like the case with Nagumo Haruya).
"Oh, come on. Just admit that you enjoyed it." Yomi smirked at the boy.
"Did not!" Takuya immediately denied her words.
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
And the battle would probably have continued for at least ten minutes if they hadn't been interrupted. All of sudden the doors to the hall slammed open and two persons dashed in.
"Fall on your knees everyone! Her highness is here!" a light blue-haired woman wearing a maid costume yelled as she fell on her knee. Another person opposite to her did the very same thing.
"Okazaki Airi-sama is about to make her appearance." she was also wearing a maid costume. The woman knee-length lilac hair touched the floor when she bowed down her head.
Just after their words a little figure entered the practice hall. She was wearing black-kimono with phoenix pattern and her indigo-hair was tied up on a high donuts bun. A fire-red rose was on the side of her head to keep her bangs away.
The six of them stared at the trio with stunned look. None of them dared to make a move.
The little girl, who was barely the height of her maids when on their knees, exhaled loudly. She then made a deadly glare at the indigo-haired twins. Her bloody red colored eyes pierced right through them, not giving them any chance to escape from her glare.
"Ai-nee, Yu-nee. AIRI WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" the little girl cried her lungs out and then dashed away She wobbled a little to keep her balance as it was hard to move in Kimono. When she had her balance back the girl then looked back one more time and then dashed out.
The two maids stood up and turned to look at CoCos' members.
"You two heard it. Aiko-sama will never forgive you." the woman with lilac hair told as she pointed at Aiko.
"Forgive will she not. Do something and fast or her words will materialize." this time the light blue-haired woman was pointing at Yukiko. Without any further words, the maids closed the doors and ran after their master.
The members of CoCo stared at the closed doors. Aiko and Yukiko let out a desperate laugh. Katsura glanced at the twins.
"That was your…?"she didn't dare to continue anymore.
Yukiko let out a sigh. "You're right. That was our younger sister."
Aiko glanced at her sister. "But what is Airi doing here?"
Yuuya smirked. "That girl reeks of trouble." Something was surely going to happen. He could literally smell it.
-OO-
"To think that she would come here all the way from Okinawa…" Aiko let out a depressed sigh as the members of CoCo walked towards their classes. Takuya had returned back to Raimon to continue his lessons.
"I don't even have a clue just why is she here! And why she was so angry?" Yukiko continued after her sister. Airi was known for her short temper but never had she gone as far as coming to Raimon from Okinawa. Not until this day at least.
"There must be a proper reason for her actions." Katsura stated as she tried to cheer up the twins.
She was still in state of amusement for the news of Okazaki's younger sibling. She did know about Yukiko and now she got to even meet the youngest Okazaki. It was as if she always got to know something new about the leader twins.
"You should try and ask Yukio-san about it. He might know." Yomi suggested all of a sudden. Aiko and Yukiko first glanced at Yomi and then at each other.
"That's what we'll do!" Aiko cried in excitement. After all, if someone knew about the reason for Airis madness then it would be their older brother.
While the twins were still all hyped up about the idea, the group suddenly heard a voice calling for them.
"Love Child!" Aiko immediately turned her head towards the voice. A wide smile appeared on her face. She knew who it was. After all there was only one person in the world who called her that.
"RAPUNZEL!" the indigo-haired girl cried. She then ran to hug her friend who was coming together with Miyu. Razel let out a light laugh and hugged Aiko back. Yukiko walked to the girls.
"What are you guys-" her question stopped when she saw the two girls wearing Ourora Jr. Highs school uniforms. Right, Razel had mentioned something about transferring to Ourora.
"Our transfer is finally complete." Razel smiled and spun around while showing off her new uniform. She really liked it. Katsura and Yomi smiled at the younger girl.
"So in which classes are you?" Katsura then asked. Razel took out a note from her bag and checked it. Miuy did the same. They had just got to know their classes so they still didn't remember them. Miuy was the first one to answer.
"I'm in 1-D it seems." the girl said and put the note back to her bag. A wide smile appeared on her face. Finally there was someone in the same class as her. Lucky!
Razel stared at the paper. "I guess there must a mistake with my class." the girl sighed and put the note back to her bag. "I guess I should re-check my class from Natsumi-san." she then added, not even telling others what her class was.
"Oh don't worry dear Razel-chan. I have never made mistakes when assigning classes." they suddenly heard Natsumi speak and the auburn-haired girl walked to them. Everyone turned to look at Natsumi. Razels eyes darkened for a moment. She then smirked.
"Then from now on I demand you to call me Razel-senpai." Razel laughed. Her innocent looking expression made her seem really dangerous. How could she pull of something like that?
"I would rather not have that." Natsumi said and left without any further words. Just as she was about to disappear behind the corner, the girl then glanced back at Razel. "Be sure to make it to your classroom. 3-A" she reminded the girl.
Razel sighed. So in the end it was going to happen. This was going to be loads of trouble.
"Wait. 3-A? You mean you're skipping like…" Yomi sounded to surprised. She couldn't even complete her sentence.
"Yeah. Two years." the girl who was supposed to be sixth grader answered. Why had they suddenly decided to let her skip two years? She wasn't that much of genius to be able to keep up with the studies of the graduates. This also meant that next year she would be a high school student.
"And here I thought that Yukiko was genius! Your just awesome, Razel-chan." Katsura laughed. She really admired people who were good in studies. Guitar lessons took so much time of her that she possible couldn't keep up with studies. Gladly Aiko was someone who was in more trouble than her. At least Katsura was good enough to not have worries about not advancing to second grade.
The blonde girl laughed. She was glad that Yukiko was there for her. I was so much better when she had someone to study with. At least they could keep each other a company.
"Yo! Mina-san here's tomorrows schedule…" a cheery voice shouted, but stopped in the middle. Everyone turned to look at the boy who had just frozen before their eyes. Only Razel was facing him with her back.
"Razel…" the girls' eyes widened when she heard Toramaru calling for her name. She turned around to confirm if it really was him. Big pearls appeared on the corners of her eyes when she saw him standing right before her eyes.
Razel gulped. "It's been a while… Utsunomiya." she refused to call him by his first name. It obviously hurt Toramaru, and hard.
Everyone could sense the awkward and heavy air between the two youngsters. Toramaru was glancing at the girl, covering his bleeding nose with his hand, but he averted his eyes as soon as their eyes met. Razel looked like she was ready punch a hole in the wall.
"I guess I should be going to my classroom now." the silence was finally broken with Razels announcement. Without further words the girl left, leaving everyone stared at her with stunned looks. Toramaru couldn't take his eyes of the girl. He stared at her till she finally disappeared to the stairs.
"Tora-chan!" the blue-head finally snapped out of it when he heard Aiko yelling at him.
"Yes! What is it?" he asked, panicking. He tried to wipe the blood away with his arm, only to have his shirt stained. Katsura offered a handkerchief to him. The girl thanked her and smiled.
"It's not 'what is it' to us. What were you saying about tomorrows' schedule?" Aiko scolded the boy. There was a pause and then a wide smile suddenly appeared on his face. He had completely forgotten the reason why he had come in the first place.
Katsura was staring at Toramaru with worried look. She walked to Yomi. "What was that thing earlier?" she asked and Yomi glanced at her. The girl tried to come up with a good answer, but ended up only saying.
"Unnecessary overflow of emotions."
Katsuras eyes darkened. She had been right. It clearly obvious that Toramaru had feelings towards Razel. She could tell it easily after all he was the person she loved. She wasn't sure about Razel, but her woman intuition told her that in Razels heart Toramaru was more that "just a friend". But why they were both looking so sad?
One thing was for sure. It was going to be hard to capture Toramarus heart.
She was in unrequited love.
-OO-
"Whoa! Look at the time! Could it be that we're actually late?" Oyasumi Naru asked from the idol she managed while the duo was hurrying towards Arakawa directors office in the Shippo agency. They had been summoned to be there at 3 pm straight but it was already quarter past the supposed time.
"That is the very reason I hate when he summons us unexpectedly; especially when it's school day." Aoi Yuki who was also known LOVE cursed while pulling back her snow white hair. There was no way she could manage to arrive in 10 minutes. What was that man thinking?
Naru sighed of relieve when they finally arrived at the corridor where the directors' office was. She rushed as fast as she could, pulling Yuki along with her. They needed to be there as fast as possible. She couldn't afford to lose any more minutes – even every single second was precious.
"I'm sorry that we're late!" Naru yelled while slamming the door open. The persons in the room turned to look at the duo with widened eyes. Director Arakawa stood up from his chair and smiled.
"You got here faster than I thought. Well done." the complimented the duo how was catching their breath. They didn't even have enough strength to stand up anymore. The director walked around the room a little and then returned back to his seat.
"Do you guys have any ideas why I summoned you here today?" he asked.
The three idols glanced at each other. There was Aoi Yuki, Amaterasu Shizuka and finally Kanashiimi Yume. They stared at each other in awe and no one dared to answer. Arakawa smirked at their expressions and crossed his fingers. He had thought that the case was obvious.
"Yesterday Whitetail called me and told that she wants to re-group Mienai Tsubasa for the group contest. She asked for my permission to have you in the team." the director told and the three idols finally seemed to realize something.
"I, of course, gave her my permission. So I'm just gathering you guys that we can plan the future a little." Arakawa smiled and then continued after a short pause. "Till the contest starts in few months you'll schedule will be normal. Once it starts, I'll drop your concerts to one in a month. You have to fully concentrate on winning the contest. Do it for yourselves and especially for Mimi." the man told kindly and turned away.
Shizuka and Yume glanced at each other. Since he turned away this meant that he had told everything he wanted to. They then turned to Yuki. The girl showed a wide smile and stood up. "Thank you director Arakawa. We surely won't disappoint you!" the girl laughed and then bowed.
Shizuka and Yume followed after Yuki.
"We will surely win the contest and make you proud." the former girl told.
"Surely we will win!" Yume followed their example. The other two had already said all the good parts so she wasn't sure just what she could say to it anymore. With that the idols managers bowed as well and then the trio left the room.
Yuki glanced at the two girls. "How about we go and get something to eat?" she suggested. She was so hungry that she could probably eat a whole cow if it was up to her. Shizuka and Yume agreed with her. Laughing out loud the three girls left.
Arakawa director turned around and smiled kindly as he watched the girls going. "Go and make me proud, my girls."
-OO-
Aiko was smiling the whole time waiting for the bell to ring. When the school bell finally rang as a sign of last lesson ending, she immediately packed her stuff to bag and headed off; or at least wanted to. She was cut off by Yuki and Haruka.
"Where are you in such a hurry?" Haruka called for the girl. Obviously not to the music club, sometimes she had to be forced to go there. She just didn't hit off so well with certain Fudou Akio. But let's not go so deep to that topic.
Aiko turned to the girl not being able to hide her grin. He smile could almost reach her ears. "We're going to Nii-sans place. Airi-chan appeared out of nowhere and seemed to be very angry. We hope that Nii-san will know the reason why." the girl explained and dashed off when she spotted her younger sister walking towards her classroom.
Yuki and Haruka glanced at each other.
"Nii-san." Yuki's expression turned into a grin.
"Airi-chan." Haruka sneered.
"Wait! We're coming with you!"
After all something interesting was definitely going to happen.
Also so they arrived at the steps of Okazaki Yukio; the five of them.
Yes, Aoi Yuuya was also dragged along.
The boy sighed, unsatisfied. "So what exactly am I here too? Can you guys do this on your own?"
Yukiko glanced at the boy with murderous look. "You're also a member of CoCo Yuuya-chan, that's why."
"Dakara… stop with the –chan thing already..." the boy complained and wanted to continue, but was interrupted when Aiko pressed the door bell. Soon an indigo-haired male opened the door. He looked surprised to see his younger sisters waiting at the doorstep.
"Nii-san, good day!" Yukiko greeted her older brother as the group entered the apartment. The indigo-haired man was astonished. Never had his sisters bothered to visit him, so why appearing so suddenly. And without a warning.
"Yukio, who is there?" they heard a female voice asking and Tori walked to her husband. Just like Yukio she was surprised to see Aiko and Yukiko visiting them all of a sudden. The twin sisters smiled widely and then Yukiko spoke.
It was the easiest to get straight to the topic. "Well actually, Airi-chan appeared today out of nowhere and she seemed to be very angry. Do you know what the reason might be?" the younger twin asked with Aiko kept nodding her face. The room fell silent as everyone waited for Yukio to answer.
"Do you know what day it was last Saturday?" Yukio asked without hesitation. His expression was serious and everyone could feel it. It was rather scary as they had never seen him behaving this way.
Yukiko and Aiko glanced at each other. "Last Saturday?" they asked from each other, trying to remember just what kind of a day it could've been. Had they really forgotten something important? At least it felt that way? But what exactly was it?
Yukio sighed. He had been right, they had really forgotten it and now Airi was angry. "Last Saturday was Airi's birthday, but from your expression I guess that you didn't remember it. Most likely that is why she's so angry at you two."
Aiko and Yukiko turned to each other with widened faces. How can it be, they had forgotten their own sisters birthday? Just what exactly had they been doing that day? Aiko started to curse. "We've been so worked over about finding a drummer that we completely forgot her birthday!"
"What do we do now? She will never forgive us!" Yukiko started to panic. Yukio smiled lightly at his sisters, at least they regretted. Maybe he should give them a helping hand. After all they are a family, he can't have Airi hating her own sisters.
"How about this?" the man suggested and whispered something into twins ears. Aiko and Yukiko kept nodding and then they laughed happily. "That's what we do!" Aiko celebrated and started to jump around in excitement.
"Yukiko call for everyone to meet at hall. Yukio you take care of Airi." the indigo-haired girl ordered while already striking out of the apartment.
Yuuya glanced at the sisters in confusion. "What are you planning on doing?"
Aiko flashed an enthusiastic smile. "We're going to hold a birthday concert to Airi-chan."
-OO-
The day had been very boring. Reni Torumi, who was also known as Eikyo Warui, sighed as she looked out of the window. They were still high in the air. What one could possibly do, while flying for eleven ours while landing twice?
The day had been full of flying, departures, check-ins and so on. They were even late three hours due to rain in Italy which delayed the take off. Really, she despised world tours. Could she just travel around Japan by train? That would make things a lot easier. And someone lives and nerves could also be saved.
To all that bad, there was still one thing that she did like. Reni glanced at the sleeping man next to her and blushed. She then turned away and looked outside the window.
Yes. Even though she didn't like travelling at all, what made things joyful for was this very man. For months she had wondered why she got this weird feeling when she was with him. The world trip finally opened her eyes and she came to only one conclusion.
She was in love with this man.
Yes. She was in love with Tsunami Jousuke who (just happened to be) also her manager.
Reni glanced at sleeping Tsunami and blushed. How one could make such lovely face when sleeping? Wait? What had she just thought?... Lovely? … Him?
Reni started to panic. Her feelings were overflowing. The final blow came when Tsunami leaned against her to have support. Her heart started beating and breathing fastened. This was bad for her health.
The girl had no other choice but to lean against him. She closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep. It was impossible as soon as his scent naught her nose the heart beat fastened. Most likely she wouldn't be able to sleep at all.
-OO-
"Onii-san, why are we here?" Airi asked from her older brother who was taking her towards the schools hall. She knew what the place was as she had been there just earlier. Also, her older sisters studied in the school.
"Just wait a little, you see it soon." Yukio smiled at his younger sister. The Okazaki duo was followed by Airis loyal maids. Tori had also decided to join them. She wanted to see how CoCo was able to pull this sudden concert off.
When they finally arrived at the door and Yukio opened it something exploded and all of sudden papers and other stuff were flying in the air. The hall had been decorated beautifully and even food and drinks had been prepared. There were also seats for quests.
Yukio took everyone to the seats. When they had sat down, the concert could finally start. The other members of CoCo were already stand by when Aiko walked to her microphone. "One, two, check, check." she decided to make the final check that the microphone was working.
Aiko then turned to her sister. "We were really surprised today when our younger sister suddenly appeared before us. She looked angry and it looked that we had done something to make her angry. We asked help from our older brother and he told us that her birthday had just passed; and we had completely forgotten about it." Aiko spoke as if she wasn't talking just to Airi but everyone in the room.
"We are horrible sisters," Yukiko started speaking. "We had been so determined to get a drummer that we completely forgot what dear to us. Our family. Airi we really are horrible for forgetting your birthday, you have all the rights to be angry at us."
"But we want to give out gift to you, even if it is late. I hope that one day you will stand on stage and debut with this song that we had composed just for you." and it wasn't a lie. Aiko and Yukiko together with Tori and Yukio had worked on the song for long time. They had decided to present it to her later, but the situation had changed.
Aiko smiled happily at her younger sibling and then turned to everyone. They nodded and she did the same. After that Yukiko counted to three and the intro started.
Aiko was the one to sing first.
Saita no no hana yo
Aa douka oshiete okure
Hito wa naze kizutsukeatte
Arasou no deshou
The second part was sang by Yukiko.
Rin to saku hana yo
Soko kara nani ga mieru
Hito wa naze yurushiau koto
Dekinai no deshou
Twins united their power in the chorus.
Ame ga sugite natsu wa
Ao wo utsushita
Hitotsu ni natte
Chiisaku yureta
Watashi no mae de
Nani mo iwazu ni
And so passed the second verse with Yukiko starting and Aiko singing the second part. What surprised everyone was that during the chorus first Yomi and Katsura joined them and finally even Yuuya and Takuya sang. Unlike they had planned, the group ended up singing the chorus for the second time as well. But it felt right.
"tame." Aiko ended the song alone. She then opened her eyes and glanced at everyone. They gave her a big smile as an answer. It had been perfect. It was really the best to have a drummer. Only then Aiko dared to turn to look at Airi.
The indigo-haired girl was weeping like a little child. She jumped from her seat and ran to her sisters. "Onee-san! Airi is sorry! Airi will never be angry at Onee-sans' ever again! This is the best birthday present Airi has ever received." the girl continued bawling to her sisters sleeves.
Aiko and Yukiko glanced at each other and smiled. Their sister had forgiven them. This was just what they had wanted. "Then how about you sing with us?" Aiko suggested while pulling out her tongue.
Airis eyes started to shine like two pearls. "Can Airi?" she asked. Aiko nodded and the younger girl immediately hugged her and thanked her sisters. This really was her best birthday ever.
-OO-
Anami Akira stepped into the practice room and glanced at the duo of 'Line of Fairytales.' When Miuy and Razel smiled at him, the boy showed them a piece of paper. "It has been decided." he announced, trying to sound excited, but his tone immediately told him off. He wasn't happy at all that it was going to be their last concert. After all he had been their manager for such a long time already. He loved those two.
Razel and Miuy glanced at the paper and then glanced at each other. Bitter smile appeared on their faces as they tried to keep things happy. So it had been announced and the date was set. They could stand on the same stage as the members of same group for one another time.
"So director agreed to our conditions, right?" Razel asked, turning to Akira.
The red-haired man smiled. "Yes. The fact that this concert will be the last one, and after you guys break up will be only announced in the concert. You guys take care of it." he told to the girls and Razel couldn't help but to feel relieved. This was exactly what she had wanted.
"Good." she let out a light smile. But then her chest tightened. Just thinking about it made her feel bad.
The Line of Fairytales was going to hold their Sayonara-concert next week.
Sakuchii: Next time we will have the Sayonara-concert, which is also the last chapter before major time skip. After that we can get down to business.
Aiko: Yeah, well all the people to submitted OC to this story aren't active anymore.
Sakuchii: (FUCK)
Razel: Well you can say that it's good that your going to have an OC submission to minor characters.
Yukiko: What even more OCs!? Please bear with me...
Yukio: These are the songs used in this chapter!
When The First Love Ends - Vocaloid
Euterpe - Egoist
Aiko: See you guys again... in a year.
Sakuchii: I'll surely be back before that!
Razel: I'd love to see it. (smiles)
~ deshii