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Magnet
Chapter 25
~Len's POV~
Yuu didn't tell me who the 'unexpected visitors' are. He just kept on wearing his smile…
"We better go back", Yuu said after we both heard the signal that says that the concerts about to start. He fixed his hair and we both left the dressing room.
We arrived at the backstage. Yuu's friends are not there anymore and the only people that were there was the organizers and some musicians and a group of orchestra.
The first performers were the orchestra. They played a Piano Concerto and the pianist that played there was Yuu.
The next performance was a duet with Yuu.
I entered the stage and when I reached the center, Yuu who was standing next to the grand piano, gave me a wink and a small smile. Is that a good sign?
Yuu stood beside me and then both of us bowed down to the audience. The audience clapped.
"You ready?", Yuu asked.
"Yes".
"Have the spirits to play?".
"No".
"Too bad… still have that rumor in your head?".
"I think", I replied. Why is Yuu asking questions now that we're on stage?
"Better do your best 'cause your inspiration is here", Yuu said smiling.
"What?". What does he mean? Inspiration? Huh?
Yuu went back to the grand piano and positioned himself. I positioned my violin under my chin. He nodded and started playing the introduction, I followed him afterwards.
Yuu is good at playing the piano only that he plays by ear. He seldom uses a music sheet. When he was seven, mother and father were surprised to see Yuu playing the grand piano at the living room in the middle of the night, even I was surprised to see him play and especially the piece he was playing was Waltz of The Puppies which was difficult for me to play on either the piano or violin at that age. Since then, mother and father decided to take him to the same music school I attended for piano and violin lessons.
I majored the violin while Yuu insists on learning other things not just music, insisting not to major any instrument but major science, math and others he mentioned that were too many to mention instead. Our parents ended up wondering if Yuu was like any other child who likes to play with toy cars but to me, I already knew Yuu was not an ordinary kid since I first met him holding an algebra book. I mean, you don't often see a six-year-old boy solving algebra problems while enjoying it. I don't even know what algebra was back then.
At that time, I was only twelve and I find math, science, history and other subjects boring and I hated them for being complicated than music. I thought that, why would I need to study these when all I need to know are things about music. But as I grow old, and as Yuu explains to me the importance of those subjects, I appreciated them.
We ended the duet with a soft vibrato. If I remember correctly, the next song is a piano and violin version of Servant of Evil Classical Version from Vocaloids. Yuu suggested having some non-classical performances and that's one of the pieces we chose. Yuu made his version of Servant of Evil Piano and Violin Version. He made it in less than a day. I saw the making of it…
Before we started, I noticed him look at the audience and for some reason I feel like he wants me to look at the direction where we was looking.
I positioned my violin and looked at the direction where he was looking. Yuu started the piece. What a joke, making me look there and then starting the piece.
While playing, I looked at the audience to where Yuu was looking. After a few moments I saw someone familiar, a familiar black haired girl sitting with the director of Seiso Academy. Was that what Yuu call my inspiration? As far as I'm concerned, all I know is that that kiss was an accident and that there's nothing between me and Sakura Kira. What was Yuu thinking?
After the performance, we both bowed and then took a break, making the orchestra perform outside.
"What have you found?", Yuu asked then took a sip of his bottled water.
I sighed.
"Well… I wanted to tell you to look at the right side of the concert hall and look on the fourth column, fifth row", Yuu said. "But never mind".
"Sakura Kira", I said the name of the person I saw. "You call her my inspiration?", I asked.
I saw Yuu's eyes widen a bit for a second then he closed his eyes. "I didn't know she's here", he mumbled. Yuu opened his eyes. "No, she wasn't what I meant. Your inspiration… they're here", Yuu said.
What the hell do you mean? Was the question on my mind but then decided to leave it be.
"Never mind what I said", he said then turned to face his personal butler where I don't know how he became Yuu's butler from the start. "And you, never mind about me", he said and with that his butler left him.
~Yuu's POV~
After five minutes of the orchestra's performance, Len and I were to perform again. By the way he thinks and acts, he doesn't care about what I just said. I sighed and let fate do the job.
While in the middle of our performance, I remembered Len saying that he saw Sakura Kira and he was right, she was sitting beside her uncle and someone I know from the past… way back in the past. Why is he here? And while trying to hear his thoughts, which made me deaf by all the thoughts that suddenly came to me from hundreds of people here; he claims to be Sakura's father while it's unknown to Sakura.
I didn't know his highness can play the piano so beautifully, I heard him thought. Especially while not using his supernatural abilities. It just made proof that he was really that person.
He caught me looking at him and with a smile and his hand waving a little he thought, Hi your highness, long time no see. It seems you're doing well.
I continued playing the piano and just thought, Yes, and it seems that you too are okay… why are you here? And seriously, you claim yourself to be HER FATHER? In what way are you two related? Well, never mind. And with that I tuned my mind reading down. Not wanting to hear the truth… though I know perfectly what is true and what is not.
We also performed Ave Maria on stage. I was just an accompaniment. We started and surprisingly Len's music changed into a much less him performance. His performances are normally more on technique, but while playing this song, his performance was free and heartwarming to the point that it's near to perfection. He wore a calm expression and a small smile formed his lips.
It seems that he was thinking of Kahoko while playing, after all, it's his and Kahoko's theme.
After the concert, Len and I were given a hand of applause. We ended up being surrounded by musicians at the backstage and we both just nodded and thanked them for their kindness. After that, we both headed for the dressing room and changed.
"You seem to be happy after playing Ave Maria", I said as I buttoned my polo shirt and wore my glasses.
Len wore his jacket and said, "I was?".
Then we heard a light knock and by the time I said "come in", and the door opened, surprise Len, your inspiration, our parents came in and behind them was-
"You were awesome!". And there goes the hug–romantic meeting…
Len ended up surprised and looked at me with an expression that says why-is-she-here? I just shrugged.
Kahoko's arms were wrapped on Len's waist. "You too were awesome Yuu! Your performances were really amazing", Kahoko said while giving me a thumbs up.
"And you showed up in a romantic way", I said. Kahoko blushed, looked at Len then released him.
After a few minutes of Kahoko admiring Len's performance and mother and father being happy at the result, we left.
Outside I saw Sakura and her uncle and their so called guest talking about which restaurant to go to. Sakura's uncle, Akihiko was not happy but still remained to stay silent about the fact that he hates the guest.
Mother and father approached them to greet Akihiko, while we follow.
"How great fate has led us to meet again" your highness, their guest smiled at me.
I just remained indifferent and said, "Yeah… drop the formality and honorifics". He nodded.
I saw Sakura taking a peek at me then looking back on the ground. "Hey, never thought I'd be bumping on to you today", I said.
She nodded.
I came closer to her and leaned towards her then I whispered, "Something wrong?".
I saw her blush and she shook her head and said, "No-nothing's wrong".
I leaned away her then reached behind her ear. And as to make her happy, which really made her happy; I gave her a red rose that I got behind her right ear.
"How?", she asked as she takes the rose from my hand.
"Magic", I said.
She gave me a look then continued admiring the flower.
While everyone was busy with their own thing, I stole a glance at the guy who was with Sakura… since this morning. He was staring at me and that made me uncomfortable.
What? Want me to leave your daughter alone?
'No, actually, I'm amazed that you're attracted to her'
I'm not… well I'll admit, a little but if she really is your daughter, I'll stop…
'I'll be more than happy to have you as my son-in-law, though not now', he smiled.
Something snapped inside of me. I was angry for no reason… yet. There was a part of me that says that he was also playing with me and my fate, like what I'm doing with Len and Kahoko, twisting it to be with Sakura.
'Calm down Silverylle… I mean Yuu, better cool down. What you're thinking is not my intention at all. It never crossed my mind and if it did, I wouldn't risk making her involved with you, but it seemed, without my notice, you came to her life. I wouldn't risk making her sad just for my own happiness and I wouldn't want her to end up the same fate as Sarah'. And with that something stabbed me to the point I want to kill him for bringing it up.
I looked at Sakura and saw her staring at me and her father then Kahoko came to her side and chatted. I looked back at the guy and sighed listening to his thoughts.
'I guess its fine to get mad at me since you're much older than me and you're more powerful but please be angry with a good reason. I can say that I've controlled you in some times but it's not for you to get closer to her. It's for you to stay away from her and not harm her'. With that he gave me a smile that didn't reach his eyes. He was protecting Sakura while he was far away. He considers me as someone dangerous. I can see that in him even though he tried hard to hide it. Yet… he's concerned about my wellbeing?
You can just simply say, 'Stay away from her' and I'll do so. I'm not that hard to talk to.
He sighed and walked closer to me and laid both of his hands on my shoulders. "I'm fine with you having an attraction towards her, it's good for you. It'll help you move on. Go fall in love like other people do. You're old enough and you have suffered too long. Your revenge already is finished. The Shizuka's are now humans, all of them. You keep on convincing yourself that you have those powers because your job is to make this world peaceful but it's not. You're only giving yourself something to do so you can keep yourself from remembering your past but you were unsuccessful… you failed plenty of times", he said. I gave him a glare but it didn't affect him.
"I think you know me better", I said. What he was doing was reading my past till now. I blocked him from my mind and just took both his hand away from me.
His eyes widen. "You're not serious, right? You think you're doing the right thing?", he asked, hiding his anger for the others not to notice, his black eyes burning with anger.
I turned and faced the dark. "You said I failed. I plan everything I do. I don't fail… not until I say so", I said with a smile.
"Len, Yuu, we've decided a place to eat!", mother called while waving her hand and all of us started walking.
Okay... another update since there are no classes today as well XD hahaha...
ugh... tomorrow I have to wake up early 'cause there are classes again D:
hehehe...
Thanks for reading! Hope you guys like it...