I Sing For You
By Seishinseii
Seishinseii: It helps if you download the song "only when I need you" by Nikki Webster, but if you really don't like her, improvise somehow.
To that Zero dude: Hi-ii! Um, yeah I realize I was blunt. But, that prologue was better than the one I had already written. I added bits, maybe I shouldn't've. And, it was a prologue. Aren't they meant to be short??? *.*
To the other reviewers: It was a PROLOGUE!!! Lol It was supposed to be short, wasn't it? I thought so… Oh well!
Anyway here's the first chapter!
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Chapter 1: Only when I need you
Only when I need you, and I need you all the time. Naru's hand scribbled across the page.
"When do I run and hide? When do I start to cry? Wanna leave it all behind. When do I feel alone? My heart is like a stone inside. And when does the hurting start? When do I fall apart, keep wishing that you were mine? Only when I need you, and I need you all the time." She sang perfectly. Because Keitaro left, and Naru hadn't got to tell him her feelings, she had taken up singing again, Kitsune as her manager. Naru wrote songs for Keitaro, hoping that Kitsune would be able to get her enough publicity to reach Keitaro, wherever he was.
'The baka probably won't get the picture anyway, he'd probably think I was singing for Seta or something…' Naru shook her head to stop thinking of her ronin. What? HER ronin? When had she started calling him that? Ah well.
"Hey, Naru! What are you doing?" Kitsune called from outside Naru's room. Naru quickly shoved the piece of paper she'd been writing on under her table, and brought a study book to sit in front of herself.
"Just studying. You can come in if you like." 'I still don't know why I try to hide it from her…' Naru thought to herself. Kitsune slid the door open and walked in, holding a letter out to Naru.
"Go on, read it!" She pushed. Naru swiftly opened the envelope and took out the letter, studying it carefully.
"Dear Miss Narusegawa," the letter said,
"We are delighted to inform you that you have been offered a record deal. Should you choose to accept this offer, you would be required to attend photo shoots, recording sessions, meetings with the public, so on and so forth, for the next few months. Should you choose to decline this offer, we shall not contact you again. Please, think this over and consider all options before making your decision.
Yours sincerely,
Hailee Hues,
LOPA records."
An attached piece of paper had all the company's contact information on it, just waiting for Naru to ring the Tokyo building. Naru's heart fell. She was hoping the letter would have been from Keitaro, stating where he was… but a record deal! Now her music would most definitely reach Keitaro, and as she thought this, a smile spread across Naru's face.
"I've been offered a record deal!" She bubbled excitedly to Kitsune. "What should I say? Last time I had to quit because all the publicity was too much… or maybe I got fired?" she bit her bottom lip, "But if I don't accept, how will I get my message to---" Naru stopped, remembering Kitsune was there.
"Message to who, Naru? Keitaro?" Kitsune questioned. "Come on, Naru. You love him, don't you?"
"No!" Naru was quick to deny it, but both girls knew it was true. "How could I fall for a baka like that?" Kitsune smiled and changed the subject.
"So, will you accept?" A strange look passed over Naru's face, as though she didn't know what Kitsune was talking about. Then she beamed, remembering what was on the pieces of paper she held in her hand.
"How could I not?"
"The publicity. If they see you with just one guy, you'd better watch out, you know." Kitsune grinned slyly.
"How perverted!" Naru scoffed. "You want me to bring someone home for you, or do you already have a boyfriend?" Kitsune had to look away.
"Now who's being perverted, Naru?" Kitsune's voice was sad, her heart tearing in two. She knew she still loved Seta, but how could she tell Naru that?
"Gomen nasai, Kitsune. I didn't mean to hurt you…" Naru trailed off, ashamed with herself for thinking so low of her best friend.
"Bah! It's nothing, you didn't do anything!" Kitsune denied, breaking an uncomfortable silence. She turned back to Naru. "Then let's get on the phone, Naru. You've got no time to waste if you want Keitaro to hear ya." She smiled impishly at Naru before turning and walking out of the room. Naru was left flabbergasted.
"I told you! It's not for him!" Naru shouted after Kitsune, who was already waiting at the phone.
~*~ Keitaro ~*~
"Oh, Kami-sama! Where do I go? Which way?"
Keitaro was in a busy airport, somewhere away from HinataSou. "Kami, how many trains did I have to catch to get to the airport?" he said to himself. "A bloody lot, that's for sure! Now my plane's about to leave…" Keitaro ran as fast as he could to the departure door thingy. He ran through the metal detector, and to his dismay it went off.
"Shit." He said to himself as he checked all his pockets, making sure there was no metal. "Ah, the HinataSou key." Showing the worker, he walked through again. It went off, and Keitaro produced some spare change. "Quickly, Keitaro! Everything that's metal!" He removed absolutely everything from his pockets and walked through again. Fortunately, it never beeped, so Keitaro grabbed all his stuff from the worker and ran through to the plane. Just in time, might I add, as the plane was about to leave.
"Mr! Mr!!! Mr… uh, Urashima!" A miscellaneous person called to him, running to catch up. "You forgot your backpack!"
"Shit! Today is not my day!" Keitaro muttered to himself. "Domo arigato…" he said to the miscellaneous person, who was getting on the plane, too.
"Come on!" This miscellaneous person was a very cheerful one that was for sure. "My name's Kiara!" She had dark skin like Su's, Keitaro noted, and eyes as blue as Sara's, that happily danced everywhere as she took everything in. Her hair was the colour of Kitsune's, just longer that that. She spoke with an accent Keitaro couldn't recognise, but you could tell she wasn't from Japan. She wore a green halter neck, and short white shorts to match. As they got on the plane, Keitaro asked how old she was.
"Sixteen!" She bubbled. "I'm going home from an exchange in Japan! I lived here for a year! I love everything about Japan! It was so fun to be here! I took a gazillion photos, hopefully Mum and dad will like them! I had to keep sending packages home, because I bought too much stuff here! Hey…" Kiara's face fell. "You haven't told me anything about yourself, Mr. Urashima! Tell me tell me tell me tell me!!!" The pair gave their tickets to the worker and went to find seats.
"Well, my name's Urashima Keitaro, I'm 20 years old, I'm kanrinin of an all-girls dorm…"
"All-girls dorm? But you're male!" Kiara interrupted.
"I know. All the girls had problems to begin with, too. But we're fine with each other now." He said, thinking of Naru.
"So do you have a girlfriend?" They sat down next to each other, and Keitaro wondered how he was going to be able to deal with this bubbly girl all the way to… hey wait! Keitaro didn't know where she lived.
"Where do you live, anyway?" Keitaro asked, changing the subject.
"Hey! No fair! You didn't answer my question!" Kiara was not as dumb as she looked. "But I live in…" The plane began to take off.
'Oh, damn it! That's where I'm going… Why…?' Keitaro thought, but then an idea struck him. "Hey, Kiara."
"Yes?" She looked up at him with her big blue eyes, full of destructive innocence.
"I'm going to your country, right? So… did you think that maybe…"
"I could show you around? Well, I don't know if you're going to my hometown or not, so I dunno. But I guess!" The smile plastered on Kiara's face grew a little bigger. "I love the feeling of flying! Ooooooh, look at the pretty birdies!" Kiara gazed in wonderment out the window, and Keitaro took the opportunity to look around the plane. The seats were in sets of two, in two rows down the plane. Looking back, he saw that himself and Kiara were seated in the middle of the plane, on the right side. Peering right to the back, Keitaro saw that the male toilets were on the left side, female on the right.
"Mr. Keitaro? Mr. Keita-ro?" Kiara tapped Keitaro lightly on the shoulder, causing him to whip around.
"I'm sorry Naru! SORRY!" Kiara just blinked at him.
"Who's Naru?" She asked, forgetting what she was going to ask him before this little episode.
"Uhh, no-one, just one of the girls at HinataSou." Keitaro answered nervously.
"Ooooooooooh! The one you're in love with!"
'She's too sharp for her own good!' Keitaro thought to himself, blushing lightly.
"Ah ha! Hey look, I win! Soooo… is she your girlfriend?"
"The truth is… I confessed to her and then ran away on this trip. I don't know for sure how she feels about me, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't like me too much." Keitaro's face fell and he sighed. "Only Mutsumi likes me… OH SHEET! I FORGOT TO TELL MUTSUMI I WAS LEAVING!!! Are there payphones at the next airport?"
"Sure! There are payphones at every airport along the way!" Kiara beamed at her new friend. She was fascinated by his life, it sounded much more interesting than hers.
"Do… you have a boyfriend?" Keitaro asked innocently.
"Uhh, not exactly. Back home there's no one special, but I met someone in Japan… I guess he was my boyfriend for a while, but then I had to leave…" Kiara spoke with a sadness that only Keitaro thought he could use.
"Oh, I'm sorry…" Keitaro felt genuine sadness for this girl, it was obvious that, well, she'd had her heart broken, just like him. Well, her heart had been broken, just… not in the same way.
"Yeah… hopefully we don't lose contact, ne? I taught him some English, dunno if he's ever gonna use it, but hey!" Kiara got her usual perkiness back A.S.A.P, she didn't like to be depressed.
"Yeah, I guess…" Keitaro finished the conversation and Kiara looked back out the window. 'Maybe she isn't as strange as I thought she was…' he thought, and actually started to look forward to going with her.
~*~ Naru ~*~
"All of that? In a week? Kami-sama, that's a lot of your study-time gone, Naru. And we have to pay them!" Kitsune said, looking at the schedule Naru had just received.
"Ugh, I know. But it'll be worth it, ne?" Naru asked uncertainly.
"Yeah, especially if it's for Keitaro. He's bound to hear you singing or see you being publicised sometime." Kitsune said, ducking below a punch from Naru. "Hey! I'm only joking, Naru! You're the one who decided you wanted this!"
Naru sighed. "You're right. About me deciding to do this. But you're wrong about Keitaro, though…"
'Yeah right.' Kitsune thought to herself. 'I'd bet my life that it's because of him that she's decided to do this.'
Knock knock. Knock knock.
"Hello? Who's knocking?" It was coming from Keitaro's room, down below. Naru walked over and lifted the board up. Looking down, she saw that it was Mutsumi down there, not Keitaro as she hoped it would be. She sighed, and Mutsumi called out to her.
"Did you know that Keitaro has gone out on holidays? He asked me to look after HinataSou for him!"
"Nani?" There was no way Keitaro would leave HinataSou to Mutsumi while he was away… Or maybe he would… Keitaro was just one of those guys you couldn't predict!
"Keitaro asked me to look after HinataSou for him! Ummm, what are you doing, Naru?" Mutsumi called.
"Looking at my new schedule. Hey, why don't you come up, Mutsumi? Kitsune's here too."
"Hai. Be there in a minute!" Mutsumi disappeared from view and reappeared in Naru's room a few minutes later.
"Schedule for what, Naru?" Mutsumi asked, still as ditzy as ever.
"Didn't you hear? Naru's going back to singing. I'm her manager." Kitsune stated.
"Yeah, I have so many public appearances to make in so little time! And I have recording sessions, and a few photo shoots!" Naru cried.
"Whoa, that's a lot of study time down the drain…" Mutsumi said. "How are you ever going to do it all and get into Todai?"
"I don't know. But it'll be worth it. Wanna hear what my first single's going to be?" Naru asked.
"Sure!"
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Naru was on a makeshift stage in front of a miscellaneous mall that's not got any future role in this story. She was going to sing "Only When I Need You" for the crowd of people in front of her. This would be her thousandth public appearance since her career change; already she had recorded her single and was halfway through her album. Dressed in what she wore on the "date" with Keitaro, Naru smiled at her audience. The music started and she began to sing.
"Oh, when do I run and hide?
When do I start to cry?
Keep wishing that you were mine?
Only when I need you, and I need you all the time.
Seeing you
Reminds me once again
Of memories
I know I can't forget
I can tell the whole world
I'm over you
And the future is looking bright.
Oh, when do I run and hide?
When do I start to cry?
Wanna leave it all behind.
When do I feel alone?
My heart is like a stone inside.
And when does the hurting start?
When do I fall apart, keep wishing that you were mine?
Only when I need you, and I need you all the time.
Maybe I'm
Not strong as I might seem
'Cause without you there's
An emptiness I feel
So before you start to say
I'm looking fine,
Just ask me one more time
Oh, when do I run and hide?
When do I start to cry?
Wanna leave it all behind.
When do I feel alone?
My heart is like a stone inside.
And when does the hurting start?
When do I fall apart, keep wishing that you were mine?
Only when I need you, and I need you all the time."
Naru visualized Keitaro was standing in the crowd, the only person in the whole world she wanted to hear this song.
"Won't come a day
When I feel
That I'm over you
'Cause a heart
That won't beat
Will feel the need
That's when I'll stop needing you…
Oh, when do I run and hide?
When do I start to cry?
Wanna leave it all behind.
When do I feel alone?
My heart is like a stone inside.
And when does the hurting start?
When do I fall apart, keep wishing that you were mine?
Only when I need you, and I need you all the time………" Naru finished.
The audience clapped loudly for Naru and hurriedly lined up for Naru to sign her single for them. Naru sighed, grinned and pretended she was happy. Kitsune was standing somewhere inconspicuous, watching Naru from a safe distance. She sighed along with Naru and silently asked: "Why?"
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Seishinseii: Well, I finished that chapter in a total of 3 days! Mwahahahahahahahaha! I'm so happy with myself! Lol as if people actually care! Anyway! Gimme 3 reviews for this chapter and I'll write faster! (But more than 3 reviews is good, too!) Mwahahahahahahahaha! BTW, I dunno how many planes Keitaro has to take to get to his destination, but you can take guesses if u want… in email or reviews I don't care. But don't make a mockery of my crud geology skills, okay? Lol This is probably the longest chapter I've written~ 7 pages! Oh well if I don't stop blabbering it'll be just over 7… REVIEW!!!
=+) Love Ya, Seishinseii