Yay! Chap 8 is finally up! I hope there is no mistake in it cause I'm a bit rushing to finish this story, but anyway,enjoy!
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Fix that instrument!
Ritsu and Mio walk home together; they thought of just now, they are celebrating about the victory. But now there is another big, I mean very big problem!
Ritsu drum was trash up, the base drum doesn't make any sound anymore, and so does the snare drum. The cymbals and the hit hats drop down too. Tsumugi Korg Triton Extreme 76 Key keyboard spoil up too. She has been so down when they were celebrating.
Ritsu does look down too, she tried to smile in front of everyone, but only Mio knows the truth behind that face, she was upset as while. On the way home, both of them were not talking, every time Ritsu will definitely bumped on Mio with her cheeky face, but now...
"Ritsu, cheer up, your drum still can be fixed."
"Yeah... And that gonna costs me lots..."
Ritsu sighed and she arrived at her house, she was afraid to tell her parents about this, and...
"Ritsu, what about a sleepover at my house?"
Ritsu turns to Mio, her eyes were shining. "Really Mio?"
Mio nodded her head, Ritsu jumped on her and cheered, "Thank you so much! I love you!"
"Shut up! I'm not a homosexual!"
That night Mio text to Tsumugi, she tired to cheer Tsumugi up and suggests that tomorrow they'll go to fix the instruments. Tsumugi reply with a smile, Mio smiles too. Then she text to Yui and Azusa to inform them about tomorrow meeting nearby the music store that where they fixed their guitars that time.
Ritsu hugged her blanket while Mio sit beside her, "Did you tell your parents about that?"
"How am I gonna break this to them? That costs them much..."
"But you manage to bring down the price right?"
"Yeah..." Ritsu rub her hair with her left hand, she smiles to Mio.
"Thanks, I feel better right now, maybe tomorrow I'll see how much the fixing costs then..."
"Right, and let's sleep, it's getting late..."
"Okay!"
Yui received Mio text, she reply her with a bigger smile and one word. Okay!
Yui lay on the bed for a moment, she turn to the right, then the left, right, left, right... Alright already, it's getting dizzy around here! Yui leaped out from her bed, she sighed. 'I can't get to sleep...' She thought.
Then she looks at her Giita, leaning towards the wall, Yui then has a cheeky smile on her face... The next morning in front the music store, Mio and Ritsu were waiting for the others.
Mio look at her watch, it is almost like... ten o'clock or something, but there's still no trace of Tsumugi, Azusa and Yui. "Mio-chan!"
Mio turns to the opposite street where Tsumugi and Azusa were standing. Mio waved to them, Azusa waved back, and then they walk towards Mio and Ritsu. Azusa looks around them. "Um... Where is Yui-sempai?"
Four of them look each other. In Yui room, Ui was trying to wake her up. Yui was sleeping and hugging her 'Giita' whole night. "One-chan, one-chan, wake up!"
Yui turns her head around 'Giita', and suddenly, Yui phone rang. Ui pick up for her.
"Hello...Oh, please wait for a moment..."
Ui pass the phone to Yui who was still sleeping, "One-chan, your phone..."
Yui slowly opened her eyes; she picked up the phone...
"Hello?"
"Ohaiyo..."
Mio dangerous voice came from the phone scare Yui, "I was fully awake!"
Yui shouted to the phone, Ui sighed. Well, this is her one-chan attitude anyway... Yui rushes out from her house, with bread in her mouth. She reaches at the music store while the other four of them glared at her. "You're late... as usual..."
Yui rub her head with her hand. "S-sorry..."
The five of them went in the music store. Ritsu look at the drum sets they display, all are shiny and cool. Most of all it is all brand new!
Well Ritsu manage to tell what happen to her drum to her parents before she and Mio left the house...
-Flashback-
"Um... Mom..."
Ritsu call out to her mother, who was busying preparing breakfast. Her father and brother were in the dining room.
"Yes dear?"
"Eto... I-I..."
"You fall in love!?" Ritsu younger brother leap out from his chair. Ritsu father also look at Ritsu, "It is true?"
"Of course not! Go spit that word out from you in the toilet!"
Ritsu brother poke out his tongue, he then sit back down to his chair. "Then what is it?"
"Well, my drum... my drum is... broken..."
The part broken she said it softly until her mother can't even get what she said. "Yes dear? Your drum what?"
Ritsu mother was holding a tray of soup to the table. Ritsu clenches her fist, "I-I... My drum is broken!"
Ritsu nearly shouted, Ritsu mother almost drop the tray of soup, Ritsu father, who was taking a slip of coffee almost spits out, Ritsu brother almost fell down from his chair, then three of her family members gathered around her. Ritsu mother seems serious; Ritsu father is examining Ritsu and Ritsu brother was tapping his feet.
"Well...?"
Three of them walk closer to Ritsu... "Oh my god! How on earth did you broke the drum!?"
Ritsu father spoke first. "Maybe she had gained weight..." Ritsu brother added in.
Ritsu mother nodded and slam her left fist on her right palm. "Then we'll get you a new one!"
The three of them almost fainted especially Ritsu; she thought they were gonna say something else but this...
Well, she was still lucky though...
-End of flashback-
Ritsu look at her pocket fill with over thousand yen, well she hopes she can buy a new drum set somehow. The five of them enter the music store. Ritsu went to the drum set section and look at it.
At the edge, there is a drum set which is the same model and brand as Ritsu old drum set. She looks at it, then the price, 300,000.00yen.
Her soul almost ran out from her body, but Mio and Yui quickly grab it back. Tsumugi looks at the price, "So... shall we bargain?"
Mio look to Ritsu, who was half dead right now. "Ritsu, how much you got?"
"15,000.00yen..."
Azusa shook her head, "Too less..."
"Well, because that is what my mom give..."
Mio turn to Ritsu, "Don't your mother knows that a drum set were not that cheap compared to electric guitar..."
"Yeah, she knows that... But..."
-Flashback-
"Ritsu-chan! I know you can bargain it until it was lower then 15,000.00yen!" Ritsu mother pat Ritsu shoulder.
"Yeah sis! Go get them!" Ritsu brother cheered.
"Um... but... this is too less..."
"It is enough, good luck on your bargaining!" Ritsu father cheered as well.
-End of flashback-
The four of them have a drop of water in their heads, 'What a calculative parents Ritsu have...' They thought.
"What am I going to do!?" Ritsu cried. Mio checked her pocket, and then she sighed.
"Here, I have 50yen; I don't think it help much but..."
Before Mio can say anything, Ritsu already grab Mio hand with her shining eyes. "Thank you Mio-chan!"
Yui checked her pocket as well, so does Azusa and Tsumugi. "Here, I have 50yen too." Said Yui.
"I have 60yen." Azusa said.
"Thank you so much minna-san!" Ritsu grab their hands.
"Now we have only 15,160.00yen." Ritsu counted the total money. Tsumugi turn her head to Ritsu, her eyes were worry.
"I have no money left but..." She took out her premium credit card from her purse. "I only have this; they won't mind using credit card right?"
The four of them were stunned for a while, then Ritsu grab Tsumugi hands. "I'll return all the money as soon as possible! Please borrow me that..."
"Thank you."
They went out from the music store and stop by a café nearby. Mio looks at Tsumugi, "Aren't you going to buy any new instrument?"
"Oh no, I realized that I still have one spare keyboard at my house. I do have a keytar as well..."
"What!? A keytar!?" The three of them shouted. Yui was filled with question marks, "A keytar? What's a keytar?"
"A type of keyboard that almost looks like an electric guitar, it can hang on your shoulder like the electric guitar, only it is a keyboard type." Azusa explains to Yui.
Yui nodded then she stood up. "No matter what! We still have a competition to go on! And it's next Sunday! So let's practice okay?"
The four of them cheered and yell, "Alright!"
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Done! Yay! Thx 4 all your R&R ^^, sry 4 updating slow cause I'm busy with my exams! T.T sry sry~