Hello guys,
Just finished Chapter 11. I decided to focus more on the Azusa x Shou pairing for now, since I ran out of ideas for Mio x Keima.
Anyway, please don't forget to review, positive or otherwise.
Disclaimer: I do not own, or claim to own the series K-on!
Chapter 11
"Where am I?" Azusa sat up as she looked around. Everything was dark around her.
Suddenly, a bright light flashed from behind her catching her attention. As she turned towards the source of light, she saw Keima looking at her.
"Keima-kun!" Her face lit up as she hurriedly stood up and went towards him.
Strangely, as she got nearer to him, he started to turn his back on her and walk away. "Wait!"
Azusa broke out into a full sprint as she reached out for the boy. "Keima! Wait for me!"
As she continued running, the boy seemed to get farther and farther away. Seeing this, the tried to run faster, but ended up tripping.
Azusa glanced at the boy as she lay there in the darkness. "Why?.."
"Why won't you look at me?"
Shou glanced at the girl as she was delirious from her fever. Taking off his jacket, he placed it over her to get her warm, even just a bit. He was surprised when Azusa started to cry in her sleep. Sighing, he leaned on the cave's walls as he watched the moon rise over the horizon. "What's wrong with you, man?"
Mio slowly opened her eyes and was surprised to see herself lying down on an old sofa. The moon's light managed to reach the floor under the hall where they fell from. It was a steep drop, probably almost 20 meters. She looked around and saw many pieces of furniture, making the room seem like an abandoned lounge of some sorts. A huge pile of rubble barred the only exit out of the room. After a few moments, she began to notice something missing.
"Keima-kun?" She said in a shaky voice as she tried to look around for the boy. She was immediately filled with fear as soon as it sunk into her that she was alone.
"Keima!" Mio screamed out in frustration as she waited for a response from the boy.
"He couldn' have... left me could he?" She thought as she bit her lip. From the darkness behind her, a pair of hands suddenly covered her eyes.
"Kyaaaaa!" The scream echoed in the entire hall as Mio quickly gripped the arm behind her and threw whatever touched her into the floor with terrifying force.
Mio began to relax as she glanced at the person in front of her. It was Keima, and he was knocked out cold as he sprawled on the floor where Mio forcefully planted him.
"Keima-kun? Oh no.. Hey!" She hurriedly grabbed him by the collar and tried to shake him. "I'm sorry! I thought..." Keima responded with a groan as he grabbed his head and darted forward. Simultaneously, Mio tried to move in closer to check if he's alright.
In a cliche-ish moment, the two accidentally made their first kiss.
Keima froze as he realized what was happening. Mio moved back quickly as her heart began to pound in her chest. "W-was that.. was that.." She whimpered as she started to blush.
"A kiss?" Keima said in an entranced tone as he continued to stare out into nothingness. Not knowing what to say, he just kept his mouth shut.
The two kept silent as they kept their distance as Keima sat on the floor, and Mio leaned on the nearby bench. Breaking the ice, Keima laughed.
"What a very memorable first date, don't you think?" He said as he looked up to the glass roof.
"I won't forget this anytime soon, if that's what you mean." She giggled as she looked at the boy.
The evening breeze blew through the hall and into where the two were. Mio rubbed her arms as she shivered from the cold. Seeing this, Keima walked over to her and took off his jacket.
"Here." He said as he handed his white jacket over to her.
"How about you?" Mio said in a concerned voice. "You might get sick from the cold."
"Better me than you." He said as he sat down beside her, crossing his arms.
Mio put on Keima's jacket backwards, making the back part of the jacket cover her front. "Its still warm.." she thought. She glanced at Keima. Keima began to cough as he shivered. Mio sighed. Moving closer to Keima, she wrapped her arms around his arm and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Eh?" Keima jumped as he felt the warmth of her face on his shoulder.
"Don't go all heroic on me again." Mio said as kept half of her face covered with the boy's jacket.
"Last time you did you almost cracked open your head."
"But the most damage I got was from absorbing your weight from the fall!" Keima then jumped as Mio pinched his arm.
"Idiot." She said as she looked away from Keima.
Keima sighed as he glanced at the blocked door. "Looks like we won't be getting out anytime soon. I tried to look for a way out, but the only way out's blocked."
"What do we do now?"
"We wait until morning, I guess. I can't contact anyone through my phone. The signal's pretty weak here." He said as he glanced at his phone.
"I'm scared." Mio said as she tightened her grip on Keima's arm.
"Don't be." Keima said with a reassuring smile.
"I'm here"
Azusa woke up feeling heavy. She felt her forehead and sighed. "Of all the times to catch a fever.."
"Enjoy your sleep?" Shou said as he glanced at the girl as he leaned on the cave walls.
Azusa's eyes widened as she rushed to the boy. "Your head! Are you-"
"I've had worse." The boy said as he wiped the blood off his face with a wet handkerchief.
"You, however.." The boy then said as he poked her forehead. "..are either incredibly brave, or incredibly stupid to do what you did earlier."
Azusa turned red as she turned away. "What do you care? Nobody asked you to tag along anyway!"
Shou looked at her with a blank stare as he kept silent after hearing those words.
"Alright, since I'm not really needed here. I'll be going now." He said as he struggled to get up. Azusa was speechless as she watched the boy disappear into one of the many passages that were in the cave. "Good luck with your life." He said in the darkness.
"Shou?" She said after a few minutes. "Shou-kun?" There was no response.
"Hey, I was joking! Shou.." She struggled to stand up as she followed the boy. "Shou-kun!"
Her voice echoed in the cave as the waves were the only sound that she heard.
"Don't leave me alone..."
She fell to her knees as she realized that she was on her own. Sobbing, Azusa tried to pull herself together and get out of there.
"Idiot." Shou said as he patted her head from behind. "As if I'll really leave you to die here."
Azusa looked at him all teary eyed, not sure how to react to his words.
"You heard me." He said as he cleared his throat. "Besides, didn't I say earlier, I won't let you do anything stupid?" Shou held out his hand to the girl.
"Chasing after someone who already loves someone else.." Azusa said as she avoided Shou's eyes.
"..is there anything more stupid than that?"
Shou sighed as he gestured her to follow him. "At least I didn't let you do it alone."
Azusa paused when she heard those words.
"Come on, lets find your precious Keima."
The two made their way through the passages under the shore cliffs. With the cliff being all mossy and slippery from so much exposure to water, going back up through there would be suicide. Luckily, Shou managed to keep his phone functioning, even after being dunked in seawater. The girl followed Shou through the passages by following the faint light from the phone.
"Say.." Azusa said as she navigated her way through the cave's craggy floor. "..have you ever liked somebody before?"
"Of course I have." The boy said as he came across a fork in the tunnel. "I am young, and I am human, after all."
Azusa laughed. "I wonder what she looks like. I bet she's speaks weird too."
"..she's taller than you, that I'm sure." Shou said in a flat voice as he picked to to on the right path.
"Whatever." The girl sneered as she kept close to the boy.
The two continued on following the paths that Shou picked, which he hoped lead to the surface. They continued on for almost an hour, before Azusa started to weaken from her fever.
Shou helped her lean on to the tunnel's wall as he felt her neck and forehead for her temperature.
"This isn't good. You're burning."
"..sorry.." Azusa said weakly as she began to experience chilling.
"There's no helping it then." Shou turned around and glanced at Azusa. "..get on."
"Eh?" She said as she became flustered. "A piggy back ride?"
"If you don't want to die from that fever, then you'd better hurry up." Shou said as he looked away.
"Okay.." Azusa awkwardly got on Shou's back. "..be careful with me, alright?"
"Fine." Shou said as he stood up. "God, you're heavy."
"Hmph." Azusa puffed her cheeks as she wrapped her arms around Shou's chest.
Shou glanced around and saw a bit of light down the end of the tunnel. Figuring that's the way out, he walked his way towards it.
Shou walked out of the tunnel and looked around. It seems he made it out into the open. The cave's opening were surrounded by trees, and a path led towards a nearby building, seemingly the one where Keima and Mio went to earlier.
"Finally" Shou said in a weak voice as he continued walking.
Azusa's eyes widened as he realized that they were out of the tunnel. "You did it, Shou-kun!"
"Yeah.. I sure did.." He laughed as they neared the building. They entered a room with a few old cushions lying around. Shou set Azusa down on one of the cushions, before sitting down next to the wall beside her.
"We're pretty close to the train station..we should probably get home.."
"No! You should rest." She said as she pulled on the boy's arm.
"Nah, don't need it.." He said. "relax.." He slowly closed his eyes as he spoke.
Azusa thought it was just from exhaustion, but when she looked at him in the moonlight, she knew there was something wrong.
The girl quickly took the boy's phone and shone its light on him. Her eyes widened in shock at what she saw.
Shou was very pale, with blood still dripping from his head. She glanced around the room and saw a trail of blood leading from the outside, he was injured all along.
"No.." Azusa then shook Shou as she tried to keep him awake. "Why didn't you say you were bleeding?" She was beginning to panic.
"..'cause I don't want you to be scared.."
Azusa tried to look around for any piece of cloth that she may use as a bandage. Anything to stop the bleeding. It was her fault he got mixed into this in the first place, so it would stick with her for the rest of her life if he died.
"..come on.. I won't die like this.. chill out.." The boy said as he watched the girl search the room. Out of options, Azusa tore a part of her skirt and pressed the cloth into Shou's wound.
"Stop telling me to chill out!" She screamed as she continued to hold the pressure on the wound.
Later that evening, Shou'd bleeding eventually stopped. Azusa fell asleep on the cushions beside Shou, still gripping the cloth in her hand. Shou glanced at her as the moonlight lit her face.
In the next chapter:
As Azusa and Shou enter the same building as Mio and Keima did, will they meet each other? Also, the worried members of the light music club begin to get restless and search for their friends.