Chapter 5: Newborn Rivalry and love
We reached my house and it was midnight, we called Kaori's parents telling them that their dear daughter would be staying at her boyfriend's house for the night, her mom was in full support but she warned us to not do anything in the night, while on the other hand, Mr Miyazono was angry and screaming all over telling Kaori to come back home, he asked me to pick up the phone and threatened to murder me if I did anything to harm Kaori, that the news will show of a middle school piano prodigy boy found dead after being impaled by a knife 100 times in the heart. I gulped as soon as I heard that and reassured that I will not even harm a single hair on Kaori, he finally gave us permission to let Kaori have a sleepover.
I decided to lend Kaori the room which was free but Kaori she insisted that she wants to sleep with me together, not in the weird way. We slept on the same bed with me at the outer of my bed and Kaori inwards, "Hey Kousei, hold me, I want to fall asleep in your arms."
I freaked out and blushed but the next moment, I was hugging Kaori as we slept.
"You know Kousei, it was my dream to have to so close to me when I was young, now it has come true I am so happy."
"Yeah, I didn't think I would get myself such an obnoxious girlfriend like you."
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?"
"It just means that you are an amazing person Kaori…"
She turned silent for a moment and replied me in a shaky voice.
"ooo..ooh I…see you should have just said so."
After a few minutes, Kaori fell asleep and I am still wide awake unable to fall asleep due to this being my first time embracing a women in my arms as I struggle against my hormones, restricting my urge to go even further beyond than what I have now. Now, that I think about it, who the hell needs sleep, I play the piano every night non-stop, one night of me going sleepless is nothing, as I let my mind wonder off throughout the night, The next day Kaori woke up, she asked me about my eyes as I have dark rings under my eyes, when she saw me Kaori laughed, and her dad came to pick her up, He walked up to me and saw my dark rings and became very agitated.
"YOU BASTARD, I THOUGHT YOU WERE A GOOD KID, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY DEAR KAORI? HUH?"
"I did nothing Mr Miyazono! I am innocent!"
"THEN WHY ARE YOUR EYES SO DARK?! ANSWER ME YOU AS*****"
"I just did not sleep well last night!"
"WHAT DID YOU DO LAST NIGHT!"
"Nothing!"
"DAD! STOP IT HE DID NOTHING, I SLEPT WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING!"
Mr Miyazono finally calmed down after personally hearing the reassuring words from his daughter and apologized to me for wrongly accusing me. I said my farewells to the Miyazono family and studied for my entrance exams.
4 months later….
It has been 4 months after the competition, me and the gang are graduating, our exams are over and we are having our graduation ceremony, many events has happened after that fateful day, where Kaori told a single lie in April, that lie has brought us rivalries and love, there were a few mishap here and there, many tears were let out, but we overcame it together, and now, Miyazono Kaori is my girlfriend, Tsubaki and Watari are now officially a couple, My rivals are Takeshi and Emi while Kaori has her new rivals, Takeda and Fujino. Me and Kaori are going to Ohtsu Music highschool to pursue a career in music while Tsubaki and Watari are in Kaijin Highschool to pursue a baseball and soccer career respectively. The long and boring graduation ceremony is now over and we all left the hall.
"Finally it's over, man I had a nice nap." Watari said as he stretches his body.
"Yeah right, when our school student council president went up to stage, you immediately woke up and cheered for her you two-timer." Tsubaki jabbed back at him, it makes me wonder if their relationship is truly going to last long if Watari is going to continue this in High school, but a gut feeling in me tells me that it will.
"Hey guys since now its lunch time and we are already dismissed, let's go to the café!" said by my beloved Kaori. At this moment, my stomach growled, I was really hungry as I skipped breakfast, I was going to be late for the graduation ceremony so I ran to school, when I reached, Tsubaki and Kaori told me that I was really sweaty and that I should go to the school bathroom to shower, I found out that it was delayed by 30 minutes since the PA system was not working well. If I knew it was not working I would have just ate… damn what a horrible way to start the day.
The gang laughed at me and decided to head over to the café for lunch. We reached the café in 15 minutes and were surprised to see Emi and Takeshi there having lunch as well, come to think of it I had never seen this two together except during competitions, I wondered if they were going out as I accidently blurted out my thoughts, They blushed and Takeshi retorted,
"No! We are not going out we just met here coincidently since I skipped breakfast, Emi is here for the same reason! Wait why are you guys here in the first place?!"
We were all surprised, we had just coincidentally decided to came here to eat since I skipped my meals, I didn't expect that they were here for the same reason.
"Um… we are here to eat since I missed breakfast. Coincidentally and shockingly the same reason as you two."
It was the other two prodigies turn to be shocked, Watari then remarked "Wow does all pianist have the same thought line, I mean all three of you are here to eat cause you missed breakfast, man you guys are in sync. Hahaha."
I turned to look at Watari as he apologizes. We decided to join tables and have a small conversation between us. People were staring at us, it was no wonder, Me, Kaori(she became famous after the Kiza Hall competition), Takeshi and Emi are the musical prodigy of our generation, Watari was a soccer superstar and Tsubaki was the females baseball superstar, we are a group of famous people in sports and in music, we drew the attention of many, some people walked up to us, Mostly Watari and Takeshi, since they were the best looking ones in the group and asked for our autographs.
After we managed to get some peace and quiet, we started to order a lot of food, we chatted as we ate and even exchanged phone numbers with one another, we left the store and parted ways with Takeshi and Emi. Tsubaki and Watari had to leave for an open house to Kaijin Highschool as recommended by their teachers, so now it was only me and Kaori, it was only 2pm in the afternoon so we took a stroll at the park, holding hands, our fingers intertwined with each other and Kaori hands feels so soft, during the 4 months after the competition, we had went on many dates, on those dates I had held Kaori's hands many times, even though I held her hand so often, it always feels so nice and warm, a feeling that I will never get tired of.
"Hey Kousei?" Kaori asked as we sat down on the bench.
"Yeah?"
"Do you remember what today is?"
"Yeah I do…"
How could I forget, today was the day when I first met Kaori, it was the day where spring arrived after 2 long years of winter. When I first met her, she was an oppressive, selfish and unreasonable person, even though she is still one, but I grew to love that side of her, she forced me against my will to go back on stage once more to perform with her, then all of a sudden she became ill and was about to die, leaving me like how my mom did, but she prevailed and now, a year has passed and we are now together as a couple.
"Kousei, back then you were a pervert who took my stockings and shoes."
"Wah!? As I said at that time it was an accident, it just fell on me after slipping of the tree branch you hanged it on."
"Hehehe, did you know? I actually planned it all out to make that happen!"
"Seriously? How did you managed to make it fall on me so accurately?"
"A secret… Didn't you watch Detective Conan? A secret is what makes a women women"
"Sorry I don't watch anime."
We could hear kids playing with the swings and slides, all of a sudden, Kaori blurted out,
"Will we have children like them? Energetic and lively."
I turned red in embarrassment and Kaori followed suit after realizing the meaning of the words she spoke. Well we had not planned for the future yet, I did not want to restrict Kaori on her marrying me since she might fall in love with someone else, if that happened I would do my upmost to support her decision, but Kaori words makes me happy, as if she read my mind, she told me "Kousei, are you thinking about whether if we will still be together in the future? If you are planning to let me go if I ever fell in love with another man, you can just forget it, I told you didn't i? I had fallen in love with you ever since I was young, feelings does not change so easily, I love you truly from the bottom of my heart, it makes me kind of sad if you just gave me up to some random man."
My feelings came out bursting, I hugged Kaori tightly, embracing her warmth within me, I was stupid, of course I was not willing to let Kaori go, but I felt like Kaori was going to fall in love with another man, Kaori is the women I love and my savior, I thought that if she were to ever fall in love with a man other than me, I would had did everything I could to support her, but I knew my feelings were stronger than that, I would never give Kaori up, not even to my best friend.
Our face drew closer to each other and we kissed, heat entered our bodies rapidly and heated up brain, I could feel ecstasy flowing in me and my body hair were standing up , our kissed tasted like honey and we let go after a good 30 seconds of kissing. Kaori's face was red and her lips were bright, she rested her head on my shoulders.
"Hey Kousei?"
"Yeah Kaori?"
"Please promise me that you will not easily give me up to some random person okay?"
"Yeah I promise you, I wouldn't give you up so easily anymore, this time I will be more selfish, you are mine and only mine."
I could hear slight sniffs from Kaori as I felt my shoulder getting a bit wet, but I don't mind, it was my fault, I made Kaori feel like this and I decided to do everything I can to prevent Kaori from crying anymore, we have cried too much in our lives and now we will move on, our futures are bright now, catastrophe has struck us many times, now it was all over, we are here together.
"Mom is that what people call a couple?" A young boy asked out loudly to his mother, we finally took noticed of our surroundings and people were staring at us, if we were a normal couple it would had been fine, but since we are famous now, people were surprised to see us kiss.
"Arima? Hey that's the piano prodigy Arima Kousei!"
"Wah! It's really him and he is with Miyazono Kaori the out of control violinist!"
"What are they doing here? And were Kissing?! Miyazono Kaori and Arima Kousei are a Couple?!"
We could hear people commenting about our relationship and we became very embarrassed, we quickly left the park and headed for a safety area at a nearby music store. We rested for a while and caught our breath, I was very unfit and panted heavily.
"We managed to get away from the people *pant* *pant* right Kaori"
"Yeah *pant* but why are so out of breath?"
"I am not a sports person*pant*" as I finally caught my breath and breathe normally, we decided to look at the scores available to see which ones are good for a competition, even though we have a lot of scores, but it doesn't hurt to take a look.
"Ah Kousei look! Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy!"
"What where?"
Carmen Fantasy was a really rare score piece especially if it was a Sarasate's version, It was legendary piece and I couldn't believe that it was in a store like this, Kaori indicated where the piece was and I reached out for it, Just then, a hand came in contact with mine and we turned to look at each other.
A girl with azure blue hair appeared shocked, she became flustered and backed off, Kaori immediately noticed who it was and called out her name "Ah! Its Fujino-chan!"
"Miyazono Kaori-san? Wait why did you call my name with a chan."
"Ehh? You don't like it? It's so cute!"
"No… No one has ever called my name with a chan…. Other than him…" I could barely hear her mutter as she moved back slowly and accidently knocking the shelves on score, as she was about to trip and fall, I managed to catch her in my arms, she fell in a posture as that of an elegant ballerina finishing her dance with her partner, her left leg was high in the air, her hands gently touching the air as if it was a fur and her other leg tiptoed in a word elegance could not hope to describe.
"WA!? GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME YOU PERVERT!"
"Ah! I am sorry!"
I let her down and she held herself tightly, I could feel a deadly aura being emitted from behind me, Kaori blared with rage and her eyes blazing flame of anger, she shouted at me "KOUSEI YOU TWO-TIMER!"
"NO WAIT YOU SAW IT WITH YOUR OWN EYES, IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" I panicked at her words, thinking that Kaori now hates me, Fujino-san screamed at me "You better take responsibility for this!"
She then walks out of the store quickly, soon after, a male with dark blue hair runs into the store, held me by the collar and raise me in the air, he was pretty agitated as he asked me angrily "You bastard! What did you do to Kanade-chan?!"
"I am innocent! Actually wait, why do you care?"
"HUH?! Uh it's cause we are childhood friends! Yeah That's why!
He was so flustered but I couldn't understand why and then I remembered about Kaori and turned to her,
"Kaori, please listen to me it was an accident, she was going to fall and I helped her out so please forgive me."
Kaori pouted for a while and finally decided to forgive me.
"Fine then , I will forgive you, but don't you ever dare do that again okay?"
"Yeah okay"
I gave Kaori a slight peck on her cheek and we giggled together.
"erm, Arima-san are you and Miyazono-san going out?"
"Yeah we are"
I can finally respond to others proudly about my relationship, Takeda-san looks very awe as Kaori asked him
"Are you in love with Fujino-chan?"
He turned red almost immediately proving Kaori's point as I stand there finally understanding the conversation
We chatted throughout the day and Takeda-san or rather takemaru , we decided to call each other by first name. We learnt many things about them and how madly in love Takemaru was in with Fujino, we supported him and after buying that rare score we left.
We reached Kaori's house and the family invited me for dinner, which made me happy, it looks like after 4 months of patience and waiting, my love for Kaori has been passed to her father. Everything was perfect so I wondered in my heart, what will be the future challenges we will be overcoming.
