I am BACK! AndyNnimeFreak here! Sorry for missing out for so many months, was busy with other stories around like 5 more? Then I took a lot of time off to improve my writing and now! I bring you a new chapter! For those that stood around for so long I am grateful for all your support and hope this chapter will make you wait for more! THANK YOU and Now lets start!

School festival…. An event only held every once year in every single High school in Japan, It last for 5 days for Kousei and Kaori's school and on the last day, There will be a showcase of a piano and violin duet between 4 pairs of duettist from the first year to third year, the best of the best of the 4 from each year will perform in this. Kaori and Kousei obviously will attempt to become one of the pairs to perform, so they were finding a duet piece for them to play together, it was the weekends and they met up to find the piece they wanted but nothing went well for them as they searched every store they could and couldn't find a song of their liking.

"Ahhhh! Why is it so hard to find a good duet piece for us?!"
"Well…. Maybe it's because you are a runaway horse that never plays according to the score?"
"What did you say?! Hmph! I will confiscate this as punishment!"
"AHHH! MY ICE-CREAM!"

Kaori just took the ice cream kousei just brought from the convenience store out of his hands and started to eat it. Kousei whose ice cream was stolen began to sob a little as he watched as his favorite ice cream being eaten up by his girlfriend, after eating for a while, Kaori returned to her lovely and dazzling smile that she always had with the gang and pulled Kousei's hand as she drags him to another store.

"Wait up Kaori! You're going too fast!"
"Eh?! Kousei you are just too slow! Come on lets speed up I want to find a good piece by today!"

"Impossible! I am already going as fast as I can!"
"Then break your limit again like how you did when you rushed to see me that day!"
"Your unreasonable…"

That day that Kaori referred to was the day Kaori finished her operation and Kousei finished his contest. The day almost separated the two from ever seeing each other again and now, they were alive and well, even going to school normally. It was so nostalgic yet painful to remember, the two both suffered from a seemingly never ending pain and agony, yet it was also the memory they both treasure the most since their sweetest moments came from their despair as they battled against their fate and won. Kaori walked into another store searched it thoroughly and every single score they found didn't end up in Kaori's eyes and they left the store in a depressed manner.

"Kaori… let me send you home."
"Okay."

The two walked down the familiar street and walked past a familiar park, they stared at the park and began to recollect the memories for their first meeting. "Our first meeting was terrible huh?" "You can say that again" they began to talk about their memories and before they even noticed it, they already reached Kaori's house.
"See you tomorrow then."
"Ah wait Kousei! Come inside for a while! I want to show you something!"
"? What is it?"
"Just come inside!"
"Ok then…"

"I'm home!"
"Oh Kaori welcome home, ah Kousei-kun you came in as well?"
As usual the Miyazono couple welcomed her daughter back and Kaori's dad noticed Kousei and called out to him as well. "Good Evening Miyazono-san… Sorry for intruding you like this."
"It's fine, you are Kaori's boyfriend so you are welcomed to come anytime. I even hope you would come more often."
"Sorry for not coming often, I have been busy with practice and school."
They held a warm and short conversation; Kaori's dad had officially allowed Kousei to date Kaori and finally even encouraged her daughter to date him so he already recognized Kousei as a family member. Kousei firmly decided to visit as often as he can so he can know more about Kaori's past and get along better with her family.

"Kousei! Come to my room I want to show you the thing I've been treasuring the most!"
"Oh okay!"
"Kousei-kun let me remind you this, although I allowed you to date Kaori but if you do anything to her other than kissing… You get my point?" Kousei saw the Hanya holding sword figure behind the scary looking face of Kaori's dad and trembled in fear

"Y…Yes! I will never ever do anything Kaori doesn't want me to do!"

"Kousei! What is taking you so long?!"
"Right! I am coming! Please excuse me now Miyazono-san"
"Just call me Yoshiyuki and Ryouko Ryouko"

"… Okay then. Yoshiyuki-san Ryouko-san please excuse me."
Kousei left for Kaori's room while excusing himself from the miyazono couple. He knocked on the door to Kaori room as he waited for Kaori to open up the door for him. When Kaori opened up the door, Kousei first noticed that she changed her clothes into a frilly dress that she normally don't wear unless on a date with Kousei and she nervously let Kousei into her room and then when he entered the room, Kaori shut the door close and began to take out something from her closet and what seemed like a teddy bear with black hair with glasses, it look surprising familiar…

"Me?"
"Y…yeah I made this back when I was in the 5th grade, back when you stopped competing in competitions."
"Why?"
"Ca…cause I missed seeing you…"
"Kaori…"

Kousei felt as if something in him awakened as he walked up to kaori and embraced her, her warmth could be felt very clearly by Kousei as he wrapped his arms around Kaori's waist.

"Thank you Kaori… for loving me for so long."
"Hmm!"
" Why are you giving me though?"
"Because… I feel that something might happen soon, you know how accurate my instincts are and I am just giving you this for blessings."
"I see then… I will gladly accept your gift."

They chatted for a long time and it was 8 pm at night, Kousei stayed for dinner as he borrowed the kitchen to cook a meal for the Miyazono family, for Kaori to enjoy her meal and to repay her parents for all they have done for him. They were surprised at the cooking talent of Kousei and even teased him about opening his own restaurant, of course Kousei blushed at their teasing and Kaori stood up for him which made her parents tease her about being so lovely and dovely with each other.

Once they finished their meal, Kousei cleaned up for them and left for his home. Kaori followed him till the street area before going back home. Once he reached home, he thought about what Kaori said before and decided to be more cautious since her instincts were often on point, he laid on his bed and was going peacefully throughout the night, or so he thought until he realized that he and Kaori didn't complete their objective and phoned Kaori up.

"KAORI!"
"What is it Kousei?!"
"WE DIDN'T MANAGE TO FIND A DUET PIECE!"
"…AHHHHH! I FORGOT!"
"Honey what's wrong?" in the background, Ryouko san was talking to Yoshiyuki san and when Kaori suddenly screamed, she got worried and quickly ran up to check on her.

"MOM! I FORGOT THAT WE HAVEN'T FOUND A DUET PIECE TO PERFORM YET!"
"Ah… for the School festival? Then if you cannot find that you like why don't you two make one? Just like how your dad creates new desserts to sell."

"…"(Kousei/Kaori)

"THAT'S IT!"(Kousei/Kaori)

The next day, Kaori went over to Kousei's house with her violin in hand. They were arguing about what songs they are going to play and are still arguing

"As I said we should base our piece on a sorrow! We play sorrowful types of song best!"
"No! It's too sad! I don't want a sad piece for our first composition music! Let's make it romance themed!"
"But it's embarrassing!"

After a few minutes, they ended deciding to make the song romance themed but sorrow will take over the first part.

"Kousei do you know how to compose music?"
"I do, I learnt it from mom in the past she taught me everything I needed to know about the piano."
"Then will you compose your part and my part?"
"No… you will compose your own part after I do mine."
"Eh?!"
"I mean you are a runaway horse that I cannot tame well, might as well let you play what you want and I'll follow you."
"Muu!" Kaori kicked Kousei in the shin and Kousei jumped up and down in pain. Kousei decided to use A minor E minor and f minor for the base and the melody will start off slowly, Kousei played the beginning slowly and gently, he already had an idea for a long time now, just that he didn't use it to compose anything, he was basing off his playing on the encounter he had with Kaori, the journey they been through and how they ended up now.

"Kousei… that was really good!"
"Hahaha… it's not that good yet but it will be good as a base."

"I think I have an idea as well!"
"Hoh?"
Kaori took up her bowstring and violin, rested her head on the violin and started to play, her violin started out slowly as well but this time it was very surprising high and suddenly it became very tense out and as if sakura cherry flowers started to bloom and scatter around the music turned soft and beautiful, but suddenly things suddenly took a turn, just like Kousei Kaori suddenly went dark and like one would feel as if their spirit would be wore down by the raging ocean waves, suddenly, everything changed and the song now sounded so joyful and cheerful the notes were slowly dancing in the air and Kaori made the last note to be a fermata and let the sound end after 5 counts of fermata. The music ended and no one spoke a word for a while until Kaori started to talk.

"Encounter!"

"?"
"Our piece shall be called encounter!"

"Encounter? Unexpected meetings?"
"Yeah! We both played it based on our meeting right and it was so unexpected so it should be called encounter! What do you think?"
"The name is not bad and it really suits the song well! You really outdid yourself Kaori!"
Kousei said to Kaori with his eyes brimming with shine and luster.

"See! I told you I'm the best!" Kaori said that with a smug on her face, Kousei was so intoxicated with her that something in him made him act and he pulled her into a kiss. Kaori was so shocked that widen her eyes during the kiss but closed it to enjoy the sensations between lips to lips Kousei started to twirl his tongue with Kaori's and began to lightly suck it, soon they released each other and there was a string of saliva still connected between them.

"Where did you learn to kiss like that Yujin A?"
"Experience is needed right? you out of control violinist…"
"Oh… my man is growing up…"
"I love you Kaori…"
"I love you too Kousei…"
They kissed again and then began to giggle to each other as they held each in their arms. They continued to create their piece for their performance in 1 month time. Kaori slept over at Kousei's house for the day, she told her dad about it the day before, since there was a week holiday for them due to the school's anniversary and Kaori wanted to use all her time she can to practice for her piece. Although reluctantly, Yoshiyuki-san allowed her to stay, Kousei feels that after the day he began to call Kaori's dad Yoshiyuki-san he has become much more nicer and more tolerant.

The next day when the idiot couple woke up, Kousei took a bath first and cooked up a meal for the two of them. Kaori soon woke up and took a bath before eating. They clasped their hands together and routinely said "Itadakimasu" before digging into their meal. Kousei cooked up a western breakfast for them, it consisted of French toast, sunny side up eggs and bacon wrapped in cabbage leaves and added tomato sauce to Kaori's bacon while he had chilli sauce, Kousei found out that Kaori hates spicy food during a date when they tried eating curry.

"Kaori, I am going to go for Nagi's piano lessons, so are you going with me or staying home to practice?"
"Hmm… I think I will stay here to practice for our piece. I had a few more inspiration and I want to try them out."
"Okay then."

Kousei left the house and rode on his bike to Hiroko-san's house, on the way he went past a stall selling Meat buns and decided to buy some as a souvenir for Koharu, Nagi and Hiroko-san. He arrived at Hiroko-san house and heard someone playing Claire de lune, the playing level of the song was very high and Kousei thought that Hiroko-san was playing it for Koharu and Nagi to hear. He knocked the door and Koharu opened the door for him, when she saw that the person standing before their door was Kousei, she ran into his arms knocking Kousei into the ground as he was unprepared for that. She called out his name.

"Kousei onii-chan!"
"Koharu! That is dangerous! What would have happened if you fell?"

"Hehehe… I knew Kousei onii chan would catch me and not let me get hurt."
"You… little brat."
Kousei flicked her forehead and gently rubbed her head. Koharu winced in pain and said cutely.

"uuu… it hurts Kousei onii chan…"
"That's your punishment."
"Muu…"
After helping Koharu up, Kousei walked in to see Nagi playing the piano, he was shocked and surprised, Nagi was playing the ending of Claire de lune and was playing it magnificently. 'So the one who was playing Claire de lune was Nagi… she sure has improved." Kousei thought to himself as he walked towards the side of nagi with a smile on his face. When Nagi ended, Kousei clapped his hand for her and shocked nagi as she didn't realized Kousei was so close to her.

"Beautifully done Nagi-san."
"Hehehe! Thank you Arima-sensei!"

"You have truly improved a lot and I don't think there is anything else I can teach you…" when he finished saying that, Nagi's face turned black and she looked very angry, and she was as she angrily said to Kousei.
"No! You still must continue teaching me I still have things I can improve on!"
"I see… Sorry sorry I was so happy at your improvement I didn't think about your feelings. Here have this as an apology." Kousei handed Nagi a Meat bun which Nagi quickly swiped from his hands and happily ate it. He also handed Koharu one and noticed that Hiroko-san was not around, so he took the opportunity to ask.

"I don't see Hiroko-san anywhere did she go out?"
"Yeah she did! She went to perform in Kyushu and would be back in 6 days and she told me to tell Arima-sensei to take care of Koharu while she is gone."

"I see…"
Kousei decided that it couldn't be helped, after all Hiroko-san is still a performing pianist and although she doesn't perform as often as she used to be, she still needed to perform once in a while. Kousei turned to look at Koharu who was still eating a meat bun and asked her.

"Koharu you want to stay at my place until Hiroko-san comes back?"
"Yes! I want!" Koharu showed me a very happy expression and was looked eager to go.

"Then you better pack your bag and prepare yourself okay? I'll bring you to my house after my lesson with Nagi-san."
"Umm… Arima-sensei… can you not use honorifics when saying my name? I feel very stiff hearing it"
"Then what you want me to call you?"
"Nagi! Just Nagi!"
"Okay then, I will call you Nagi then."
"Hai!"
Nagi smiled gleefully at Kousei making him think 'Did she wanted to be called Nagi so badly?' Kousei is stupidly dense after all, he doesn't realize the feelings of nagi wanting to be closer to Kousei.

The practice ended after 4 hours and Nagi left early saying she needed to go for a friend's birthday. They bid farewell and Kousei brought Koharu to his house while she rode on his laps as he rode the bike. When they entered the door, the two could hear Kaori playing her violin, it was very sorrowful as Kousei could hear her play in A minor scale and switching to F minor scale. Then the sounds of the violin started becoming joyful and the joyfulness lasted the whole song and ended with a high G. Kousei walked in along with Koharu and saw Kaori grinning away and as if something in her burst out, she yelled.

"Yosha! That will be my part! Hahahaha! I did it! Now I can shock Kousei with my skills!"
"No I am already shocked Kaori that was amazing!"
"Wa!"

Kaori heard Kousei's voice and turned around, when she saw my face she got shocked and screamed unintentionally. Kousei was thinking how cute her little scream was but he couldn't take the time to flirt with her since Koharu was with them. Kaori seemed to have noticed Koharu and smiled gently at her.

"Hi Koharu-chan. Do you remember me? I'm Kousei's girlfriend Kaori!"
"Onee-chan you are amazing! Ne play it again!"

"Amazing… Yosh I will play once more for Koharu."
"Wait let's play together, I have something to try."

"OK sure but hurry it up!"

Kousei quickly walked towards the piano and and adjusted the seat to be what he liked and played the piano to tune it just in case it was out of tune. After checking the notes to be in tune, he gestured to Kaori stating he was okay and Kaori nodded to him. Koharu sat on floor, anxious and excited for the performance to start.

Kousei and Kaori played their piece and started out slowly as what they practiced but this time Kousei changed his playing style and used the chords for Claire de lune to start the sorrowful meeting. Somewhere in the middle Kousei changed his chords once again to be chopin ballade op 23 in g minor and melody he was playing love sorrow. Kaori was shocked at the playing but kept her composure and continued on playing, at the end Kousei changed his playing to be Rondo cappricioso Melody and ended the song. Koharu clapped her hands and said

"Wah! Kousei onii-chan Kaori onee-chan that was so nice!"
"Hehe. Of course we are the ultimate duo after all!"
"Wahh… Kaori please don't say that in front of her it's embarrassing…"

"But… I didn't like some parts of it."
"Huh?" (Kousei/Kaori)

Little Koharu stated the parts she didn't like and told Kousei and Kaori all about it, it surprised them as they themselves felt like these few parts didn't sound nice in this almost perfect song. Some parts they themselves didn't even realized that they were off. To that the two muttered in silence together.

"She's a genius…"

How was it everyone? Was it good? Better than before? I had rewritten this for a long time now and this is the best I felt I ever wrote for a long time now. I hope you all would forgive me for all the wait I let you guys wait and hope this would do as an apology, now thanks for reading and I will see you all next time!(Though I cant actually see anyone:P)