K-On! - Shattered Dreams
By MidniteBleuCrusader
Summary: AU - After their one and only live concert was cut short, the girls of Hokago Tea Time went on their separate ways. Yui and Azusa seek to find answers as to how Akiyama Mio took over Tokyo by storm. Ritsu wants to find answers as to why she went to prison, and Tsumugi is nowhere to be found. Armed with both the powers of the Legends Guitar and the powers born within her, can Yui set the record straight? Or are the HTT gone for good?
Disclaimer: I do not own K-on or any other Tokyo Entertainment production. If I did, I WOULDN'T BE HERE NOW WOULD I?
Author's Notes: If you happen to have any questions about what's going on, feel free to ask me in a PM or in the reviews. Most likely all questions will be answered in the later chapters. And don't complain how OOC they turn out to be. It's AU, they're MEANT to be OOC.

A/N: For those who are asking, this is what they're wearing:-
Yui – Modified Listen! Outfit (with paperboy cap)
Ritsu – Don't Say Lazy! Outfit
Mio – No Thank You! Outfit
Tsumugi – Modified Listen! Outfit (without sailor hat)
Azusa – Listen! Outfit

Chapter 12: Save My Sister

Many hours have passed since Mio Akiyama's assault on Tainaka Ritsu.

Ui Hirasawa didn't know what to do. The chains were debilitating her. Her powers were null at this point. She thought of herself as 'harmless', but neither Mio nor Nodoka thought so. She kept tugging the chains in a vain attempt to pull the shackles off of her, but after the abuse that she was given at the hands of Nodoka, she was weakened greatly. The bruises on her face were the result of Nodoka's punching. Even the slight gash around her neck was thanks to her torturer. She had been tortured for days, yet she stood resilient and defiant to the duo's demands. Most of the demands were to reveal her sister, Yui's weaknesses, but as the younger of the two Hirasawas, she wasn't about to expose her sister to her captors.

Her thoughts were disrupted when she heard the door to the dungeon unlock. The lock was loud, so she could hear the unlocking even from when she is. Then she heard the familiar footsteps closing in on her location. 'Here we go again…' she thought to herself, unsurprised. Sure enough, the familiar sight of the bespectacled Student Council president nearly made Ui feel sick to her stomach, as she stood outside her cell, not coming in this time around.

"I keep telling you this, Nodoka… but you sold your soul to the devil." She said in between breaths. "You sold out…"

"No, I think you're quite mistaken, Ui." She interrupted her. "I never sold out. In fact, I sold IN, but you probably knew that by now."

"Tch…" She grumbled. "Whatever it is you want to know, you're not getting it from me… there's no point hurting me anymore. I'M NOT TELLING YOU ANYTHING!"

"Your stubbornness is really annoying me, Ui. I could easily beat you up again… but I have more important matters to attend to. Something along the lines of, oh, I don't know…" Her voice suddenly went soft and cruel. "Wiping the Hirasawas off the face of the Earth?"

"As if… Yui's far stronger than you, Nodoka. You'll never beat her." The bespectacled one just smirked.

"That remains to be seen. Don't worry. I'll bring her here so that I can kill you both at the same time. Your heads would be a nice decoration for this Tower."

"You're nothing like the Nodoka we know… what's gotten into you, huh? When did you become so heartless! When did you start caring only about yourself?" Ui yelled at Nodoka, which only brought her to snap back at her.

"SHUT UP! You wouldn't know what it's like to have lost EVERYTHING! You still have Yui. But what has she done for ME? All she's done is abandon me and go after Mio, because 'she's more threatening' than me."

"That's not true! She wouldn't dare abandon you! She's your best friend and she's known you for so long… ever since you were kids, Nodoka. There's no way she'd abandon you…" Ui hoped to get this fact into Nodoka's head, but it was to no avail.

"Best friends? Yeah, right. She's out there living the high life, and I'm stuck doing this. So you know what? Mio's gonna make my life a LOT easier. As of now, Yui has completely betrayed me. So her head is MINE." She stomped off, leaving Ui after being angered by her words.

"NODOKA, WAIT! YOU'RE MAKING A BIG…" Before she finished, Nodoka had slammed the door shut on her, preventing Ui from reasoning with her anymore. All Ui could do at this point was let out a heavy sigh. "I have… to tell onee-chan… I have to reach her…" She focused her power. Unbeknownst to everyone else, Ui Hirasawa possessed the possibly the most powerful ability known to mankind.

Telekinesis.

Unfortunately, thanks to the special chains and shackles around her hands and feet, she wasn't allowed to do much in the means of escape. However, her head had not been sealed. She wasn't able to focus enough power to escape, but as far as communication goes, she had the ability to do so. She focused her power into contacting her sister, hoping to at least get some message across.

"Onee-chan… please, if you can hear me…"

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Yui prepped herself up, checking her equipment over and over again. She knew the situation was grave at this point. The recurring nightmares that have been going through her head every night weren't just nightmares to her. They were visions, visions of her sister repeatedly getting herself beaten up, visions that were far too gruesome for her to picture anymore. She got out of her seat in her room, and went out towards the front door. However, she was greeted by a rather concerned Tsumugi. Jun had a rather unsurprised look on her.

"You're really going, huh?" The Earth user asked.

"It's something I have to do, Mugi-chan. My sister is in danger. If I don't help her… well, I'd rather not talk about what comes next unless it happens."

"Well, I'm not gonna stop you this time… I'd help, but there are some other concerns I need to attend to. More specifically, Ritsu-senpai hasn't returned. She went missing since last night." Jun informed.

"What about Azu-nyan? Where is she?"

"She apparently decided to look for Ritsu since this morning. At least, that's what she told me." Tsumugi told this time around. "Yui… I know this is for Ui and all, but… do you really think it's wise to go out there by yourself?" Yui raised an eyebrow to her.

"…Are you afraid, Mugi-chan? Afraid that Mio might just show up and destroy everything?" Tsumugi, though taken aback slightly by her question, just shook her head. "Then don't worry. I'm only going there to get Ui back…" She turned towards the street. "If it goes off without a hitch, I'll be back here with minimal injuries. If I don't come back, however, you guys better find safety." The both of them nodded, as they watched Yui jump from one roof to another roof.

Yui's thoughts began to streak through her head.

'What kind of sister would I be if I didn't even TRY to rescue her?' Next to Gitah, her sister was the most important thing in her life right now. Their mother and father went missing, so Ui is the only family she had left. Take that away from her, and Yui has nothing.

The guitarist made her way towards Akiyama Towers, the only looming tower watching over all of Japan. However, in order to not cause a ruckus in the vicinity, she waited 10 blocks away from the Tower, resting in an alley.

"Ui… wait for me. Onee-chan's coming to rescue you."

It didn't take long, however, before Yui felt another presence. It seemed dangerous at first, but after who she's been exposed to, it could have been anyone she knew. She kept her guard up in case it was a hostile. However, the all-too-familiar cry for Yui instantly dropped it.

"Yui-senpai!" Azusa, who had been searching for Ritsu all morning, was calling out for her.

"Azu-nyan, what are you doing here?"

"I heard from Tsumugi-senpai… you're really going, aren't you?" Yui noted the concerned look on Azusa's face.

"…I have to, Azu-nyan. If not, my sister's gonna die, and it'll be my fault entirely…" She looked away from Azusa. She knew this was too important, and Azusa knew that as well. "What about Ricchan? Did you manage to find her?"

"No…" She answered, worryingly. "I've been searching for her all day, but I couldn't even detect her. She might have been attacked last night, though."

"We can't jump to conclusions just yet, Azu-nyan. She may have been attacked, but this is Ricchan we're talking about. She wouldn't be stupid enough to get herself caught or killed."

"…You're right." Azusa reassured herself. "Ritsu-senpai's strong. So she wouldn't get caught." However, she had digressed too much, and got back on topic. "B-but still, Yui-senpai, you're not that crazy as to march into that Tower just to get Ui! That's pure suicide! You'd walk right into their trap and…" Yui, however, placed a finger on Azusa's lip before she could finish.

"Azu-nyan… you need to trust me on this. I'm not going in there like it was a suicide mission. Once I find Ui, I'll free her and bring her back to the house. We can plan our next course of action later." Azusa, though she still had that sliver of worry in her, was convinced by Yui. She then rummaged through her pocket and took out what looked like a pack of pills.

"Well, if you're gonna go in there then I'm not letting you lose control of your power, so you'd better take it." The pack of pills Azusa was holding were the suppressants Yui had been consuming for some time. Azusa confirmed that Yui had not been able to control her power, and has once or twice allowed her power to go astray, just like when Yui destroyed Ritsu. So Azusa took it upon herself to acquire these suppressants to help her.

"…Come on now, Azu-nyan. Do I REALLY need to take these?"

"You remember what happened last time, Yui-senpai." Azusa asserted. "If you don't control yourself, that power is going to be the most destructive power here. So take them!" She handed the pills over to Yui, with the guitarist reluctantly accepting. "Now I'm gonna keep looking for Ritsu-senpai… you do what you have to do and come back home, okay?"

"…Don't worry, I'll be back." With that, she watched Azusa leap up to the rooftops. Yui smiled, seeing that she got Azusa's trust on this situation. Now, all she had to do was wait to enter the Dead Hour…

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Yui had nearly fallen asleep, so when she stirred, she almost didn't realize she had entered the Hour. Nonetheless, she got up from her current position, and then peered from the alley, staring at her destination, Akiyama Towers.

"Ui… just hold on a bit longer, okay?" Though she was confident that she could take on anyone, she felt the prospect of facing her oldest best friend, Nodoka, and the person she's trying to save as well, Mio.

However, her thoughts were cut short when she felt a sharp pain ring through her head. "A-AGH!" She groaned, clutching her head in a vain attempt to stop the pain. "W-what's going on?" She dropped to her knees. Then, she heard a voice in her head again.

"Onee-chan! Onee-chan, please! Nodoka's after you next. Please, bring her back as well!" Yui immediately recognized the voice.

"U-Ui! Ui, where are you? Please, answer me!" She tried to call out, but as quickly as it came, the voice immediately died off. She wasn't hallucinating. She had really heard her sister's voice, which only motivated her to go off and rescue her. Immediately, she decided to leap up to the rooftops to get closer to the Tower. She only stopped because she was as close as she could get without getting spotted on the rooftops.

However, on the last rooftop she stopped on, she stared once more at the Tower. She knew Ui was inside. But she felt another presence on that same rooftop. She didn't look back, however, because the aura which surrounded her opponent was far too familiar.

"I'm surprised you'd show up." Yui asked, her back still turned away.

"I should be the one to tell you that, Yui." Her opponent walked towards her. Yui recognized the voice immediately.

"Nodoka… I should have known you'd buy in to Mio's demands." She mentioned, disappointed with her 'friend'.

"No one asked for your opinion, Yui. I walk my own path. You've walked your own path, but I'm not part of that, aren't I?" Yui remained silent, though slightly interested in what Nodoka had to say. "And here I thought you were my best friend, Yui. But guess what? I'm now an obstacle in your path."

"Is that so?" She turned towards Nodoka. "Then I'll just have to remove that obstacle, no?" She drew out her battle fans from her pocket, positioning one on her side, and the other covering half of her face, but Nodoka had other ideas.

"Now now, don't be hasty, Yui. I'm in no mood to fight." She said as she stepped closer to Yui. The guitarist kept her guard up in case she tried anything sly. "I… just want to rid you of any troubles now."

"Huh?" Yui was confused. She didn't think Nodoka would try to reason things with her at this point.

"It's just like I've said. I can completely get rid of all your troubles. You don't have to worry about the Dead Hour, your friends dying, all that." She placed a hand on Yui's shoulder. Her voice suddenly turned cold and vindictive. "All you have to do is join Mio… and I'll make sure your friends don't die…" Alarm bells rang in Yui's head, and in an instant she grabbed Nodoka's hand and proceeded to shock her. "AAAGH! G-GH!" Nodoka fought out of it quickly, shoving Yui back.

"If you think I'm going to abandon my friends like that, you've got another thing coming!"

"You've already abandoned me… so I think you're a bit too late for that." Nodoka said, stretching her arm out in front of her. In a flash of light, a scythe materialized in her hands. Yui managed to spot the 'VIII' on the handle of the scythe.

"I should have known… you were a Number from the beginning."

"So now you know… and now, I have to capture you… and then I'll kill you and Ui." The mere mention of Ui's name made Yui's eyes widen slightly.

"Don't you dare speak her name, Nodoka! She's not going to die… not if I have anything to say about it!"

"Then come at me, Yui! Try and stop me now!" Yui, with her mission in mind, immediately ran straight for Nodoka, her battle fans in hand. However, little did she know she was falling right into Nodoka's trap…

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To Be Continued

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