"Yao-senpai…" Kiku thought dreamily.

Ever since he saw the handsome young Yao Wang, Kiku's mind was taken over by the utter perfection of him. He also spent more time in the music room, playing songs on the piano like "Liebesträume (Dreams of Love)," No. 3 in A – Franz Liszt, which perfectly described his situation with Yao. He was like a young maiden, hopelessly in love with a man who was unavailable, or so he thought. He started getting better and better at piano, and was made the second 1st chair piano, next to Roderich Edelstein, the Austrian representative. "Hi, Kiku! What's up?" A voice, a girl's voice rang in Kiku's ears. He returned to reality and looked to who was speaking to him. Two girls giggled. The more feminine and louder one, Mei Xiao, the Taiwanese student, batted her eyelashes at Kiku, to which Kiku wearily smiled at. Mei squealed at this, making Kiku blush furiously. It almost took away Kiku's interest in Yao. Almost. A little voice in Kiku's head kept on knowing at his sanity. You love him, it said. You will always love him, my dear. Mei's friend, the cooler and tougher (but still beautiful) Vietnamese girl, Công Phạm, sighed in an irritated manner at Mei and Kiku. Kiku was still blushing at this point, but he looked towards Yao, which Mei was oblivious to, but Công was not. Yao looked back and smiled slightly at Kiku, winking at the Japanese boy. "The boy's actually kind of cute, aru," Yao thought to himself. He smirked to himself. "Maybe I should try and seduce him, aru… actually, that wouldn't be a good idea. He probably doesn't like me, aru." He sighed and the little boy's image stayed in his mind. "Ok, it's time for art class now!" The kids all rushed out of the science teacher's room and into the art room, something that every Asian student enjoyed because they were all good artists, but some were better than others. "All right, everybody! Take your seats! Honda, you sit next to Wang! Now, now!" Mr. Blum, the art teacher, yelled. Kiku was ecstatic to hear that he was sitting next to his beautiful Yao-senpai. Yao greeted Kiku happily with a slight blush on his face. Yao was unaware of his genuine crush on Kiku. Kiku blushed pink from ear to ear and smiled. Mei huffed and Công tried to comfort her angry friend. "All right, today's assignment is to draw anime sketches of your tablemate!" Mr. Blum shouted. He then went back to watching his porn on his laptop while his students did something that would keep them from talking to him. Yao groaned. He was upset because he was horrible at drawing anime. His freshman friend who he knew since he was 6 and he was 3, Im Yong Soo (Freshman, 1st chair bassoon), was an expert at drawing anime and manga. After all, Yong Soo WAS a perverted kid who liked to draw hentai anime scenes. Yao noticed that Kiku was a diligent boy, taking out paper and drawing Yao immediately. Yao reluctantly took out a sheet of paper and started to draw Kiku as an anime character. After merely 2 minutes passed, Kiku was done with his drawing of Yao. Kiku had drawn him as a cute chibi boy sitting in a bamboo forest, hugging a panda and eating Chinese sweets. Kiku even added some watercolors to add some color and depth in it. Nevertheless, Yao was completely shocked. He had never seen such skilled anime work in his entire life. Even Yong Soo and his older brother, Im Hyung Soo (He is a junior, 2nd chair bass) were almost nothing compared to this. "Aniki!" Yong Soo shouted as he draped himself on Yao. Speak of the devil, Yao thought. "Oh, hi Kiku!" Yong Soo patted Kiku's head as if the Japanese boy were a dog. "H-hello, Yong Soo…" Kiku stuttered from embarrassment and surprise. Yong Soo looked from Yao to Kiku and back again. "I didn't know you and Kiku knew each other, Aniki!" "Well, we just met, Yong Soo. He's a nice and sweet guy, to be honest with you." Everybody gasped in stun at this. The girls were disgusted by this, and the boys were bewildered at their idol. Yao-sama liked a guy? Even Yong Soo was shocked into silence by Yao's bold remark. Realizing what he had just said, Yao covered his mouth and blushed crimson from ear to ear. He felt a tear of embarrassment and shame flow down his face. I probably disgusted and shamed Kiku. He'll hate me forever, Yao thought. The guilty tears kept on flowing down his face until he saw a hand on his shoulder and felt somebody embrace him. Yao looked up, shocked at what he saw. Kiku had a hand on his shoulder, trying to soothe his crying. Kiku smiled warmly at Yao and he told his senpai to not worry about it. Deep inside, Kiku was crying tears of joy that his senpai accepted him for who he was. Mei and Yong Soo were both hugging Yao, and Mei was saying comforting words to her brother in Chinese. "Mei-mei, aru…" Yao was surprised by his little sister's affection for him. She was NEVER this nice to him, due to Yao's family disowning Mei and sending her to Taiwan and Yao agreeing with his parents' decision. Mei grudgingly faked a sappy smile. "Yao-ge, I want to reconcile with you. I want us to be loving siblings again. Our parents might never accept me, but I hope that we can make up this year and be siblings again, just you and me." Yao almost fell for this, but he knew his little sister better. She herself was one of the disgusted girls who didn't appreciate his tiny amount of affection for Kiku. He saw into her eyes. He saw truthful and hopeful eyes. Yao smirked. Mei, like him, was an actress (Yao is an actor). Not only could they realistically portray a character in Chinese opera, but they could also hide their true feelings behind walls of lies. The smirk was quickly wiped off by a genuine look of mistrust and malice. Mei trembled under her brother's gaze as Yao put two fingers between Mei's eyes and mumbled something. The mumbo-jumbo that Yao whispered was an ancient spell that he had learned from his parents in case Mei ever lied, and the spell brought pain to Mei's mind and sanity, bringing out her true feelings. Yao pried deeper into Mei's mind and saw deep indigo, the color of unfaithfulness and faking. He gently pushed his fingers into Mei's head, sending an excruciating pain over her and causing her to scream and fall back. When Yao returned to reality, Công and Yong Soo were shaking from fear and hugging each other, Kiku had just turned white, and people were shrieking in fear or really angry at Yao for hurting such a pretty and popular girl. Yao caressed Mei's cheek gently, causing Mei to start trembling from anger and fear. "Mei, you are nothing but a cold-hearted slut who wants nothing more than to have me, your own brother, humiliated and broken. I do not accept your proposal, nor will I EVER return to you." Yao walked out of the room just as Mr. Blum screamed at everybody to get out of his room for their concert meeting. Mei was livid at the rejection of her brother. It would've been the PERFECT WAY to get her brother's dirty information on the school paper, which would make him completely seem like the douche-bag that he really was. She thought hard for a while then gasped in realization. She made her way through the sea of people and found Kiku, who regarded her with suspicion. She would get the dirty information from Kiku, who would get it from becoming close to Yao. "Kiku, would you like to go out for coffee? Just you and me?" Mei asked Kiku sweetly. Kiku was skeptical about this. She had made her brother angry to a very high and unknown degree (He was too angry for words). He, unlike Yao, could see no malicious intentions of this date, so he accepted. Mei's eyes became dark with malevolence. She would get her revenge through this naïve and innocent child. She faked happiness and dragged Kiku with her to music, Kiku blushing the entire way. Yao saw Mei and smirked. If she thinks I'm an idiot, then she's completely wrong. Yao thought to himself as he carried his clarinet case to the concert hall.