I've been waiting at the door of the music room for quite a while now- I skipped out of science and hung out in one of those unused rooms, I found another student in there who had the same idea.

He was strange with green hair and golden eyes- he was an older student but unlike other sophomores, he was pretty mellow. But then again, he was high off his rocker to give shits.

I heard footsteps coming near and I didn't make the move to see who it was and I stood there, waiting with the unknown being besides myself.

"Aa, Shirou-san! You came, good, good!" I hear Iruka speak up.

I open my eyes to see the brunet teacher and... the Uchiha, he was the other person besides me waiting.

I don't understand his deal to always be this calm, collective person or just someone who acted twice his age. Everything about him made me tick, that's all I had to say.

"Being that I haven't come in a long while...What piece are we doing?" I asked.

"Allegro from Piano Sonata." The Uchiha had answered instead, I just nodded in return and took a seat before the piano- There were two things I excelled at, and that was piano and violin.

I take a second to glance over to the Uchiha, seeing him assembling a flute together.

"You play a flute?" I questioned, my tone sounding quite condescending than I assumed.

"Yes." He growled, glaring back at him.

"Sasuke, Kairai will now be attending these practices from now on, so I hope the two of you will, at least, be civil and cooperate with one another." The man sighed, we were known to have large, overdramatic arguments with one another if we had the time and patience to deal with each other.

"She'll only slow us down." He stated.

If I had held something, it would have snapped in half- but seeing I was behind a piano, there were no possibilities of breaking that.

"Now, Sasuke." Iruka started.

"You're not the only one who's smart enough to play a few notes, Uchiha..." I disliked him greatly.

But before he could have a chance to say something, we heard the voices of a couple of girls' and I groaned inwardly, they always seem to be tailing Mr. Cool.

"I'm telling you, the answer is six..."

"I know for a fact, Ino-pig, that it's eight!"

"Six!"

"Eight!"

"Six!"

"Eight!"

I watched them as they entered the room whilst arguing but once they spotted Sasuke, they had burst in giggles- I notice him wincing as either had latched on an arm.

"Sasuke-kun," Ino purred, "The answer to question number 10 on last night's math was six, right?" She had batted her lashes for effect.

The pink-haired one tugged on the arm of the Uchiha, "No, it's not! It's eight, tell her it was eight, Sasuke!" She cooed.

The teenage boy face looked strain, trying to keep his composure- He really was annoyed with those two girls' but he was polite to people who didn't deserve his sass, like myself.

"It's fifteen." I thoughtlessly answered and the two had noticed me.

"Who asked you?" Ino shouted.

I didn't paid mind to her, she was always snappy when she spoke to me. Sakura too, was the same as well.

"She's right, it's fifteen..." Sasuke muttered.

"Oh, of course it is!" Ino cried, "I only said it was six to confuse Sakura!"

"Liar!" The pinkette screeched, "You told me the answer was eight so I'd look like a fool in front of Sasuke-kun!"

They forgotten me easily again.

There was a great reason why I made no means to befriend any of the girls' in my class- or my year for that matter, everyone liked Sasuke and I didn't find anything about him attractive.

I had a few friends I suppose; there was Shikamaru, Kiba and a few other guys'...

But they wouldn't really call me a friend either, what with our heated talks of why I was awful or some other thing- They only tolerated me since I disliked Sasuke.

I suppose this was how it would be like- or it had been like this whole time.

"What are you doing here, anyways?" I hear the Yamanaka ask, she was glaring at me.

"Iruka has been asking me come for a while now..." I mutter, I never spoke up against other girls'. "And being the nice, caring person that I am, I thought I'd teach him how proper gentle people play an instrument."

"You'd just ruin our hard work, Shirou..." Sakura grumbled.

"Yeah, Sakura's right, you'll never catch up, since your dead last besides Naruto!"

I could feel the love in the air- I ignored them, it wasn't unsual to be called something useless or something of that level, seeing I was, in fact, one of the lowest scores besides a certain Uzumaki.

I wasn't really striving to be anything and neither did I have any, I suppose, dreams or goals.

"Hey, don't ignore me!" Ino called out, she was fuming from the sound of her voice.

"Stop it, Iruka said we should try to be civil with her at least during band practice." Sasuke coolly said.

I was surprised to hear the Uchiha say anything on my behalf.

But it wasn't long before I was forgotten again...

I don't know why but I placed the cover over the piano keys, Iruka was in his office and I looked around, students were beginning to trickle in.

People noticed me and gave me strange looks but soon turned away, doing their own thing. I felt small as always...

And I made my way out the doorway, I had no place here; Why did I even bother? I asked myself and soon, I was standing in front of my locker- I've haven't really been here all that often.

I put in the number and opened it, inside was a case- it was specially made for me by my parents' when they came to one of my plays.

I heard the sounds of music as I walked closer to the music room, Iruka had great hopes on seeing me play- So, I might as well play for him at least once.

I would have stepped in but-

I held my violin by my shoulders and placed the bow on the strings of the instrument in my arms, I haven't practiced in a long time and I closed my eyes, listening to the melody they played and soon I was playing along with them.

I was never good at anything and I pretty much failed at everything I tried at- I was weak, I wasn't skilled in very much, that's why I was so grateful that my parents' gave this to me. That they so much as believe that I was good at something that they went and bought something expensive as this.

I treasured it.

It had been my life during junior high and then, my parents stopped caring and so did I... I stop playing altogether a few weeks into this school year.

And I finished the song and realized I heard no other instruments were being played along with me-

I open my eyes to see Iruka smiling down at me and a flock of students, stunned by what I assume was my performance.

I couldn't but feel somewhat happy to see that look on Uchiha, it was a strange look on him- unusual, seeing he was always brooding or melancholic.

I left immediately once Iruka had dismissed us but before doing so, he said seeing that I was now finally joining them, there would be practices in the morning. You can now tell that everyone began to dislike me once again, as good as vioinist as I was- By the sounds of their groans, they didn't want anymore practices as it is.

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