Where The Light Comes During My Time of Need Chapter 2: Miracle 2, a love live! school idol project fanfic

Author's Note: This will be a special type of fan fiction, I require that you, the reader, must play the song(s) of U's through the Net, or in your head. As such I will be placing links of the songs (you-tube) here and the lyrics as well, both in romanji and english. Whatever you prefer. Thank you for your understanding.

Miracle 2: Start!

Saturday, School

Ever since our first performance, students wanted to meet us for our autograph. It was very embarrassing and awkward at first but I'm struck with euphoria ever since I was able to use my voice. It was quite the miracle indeed.

I retreated to the student council room in order to get my bearings.

"Man. Being a school idol sure is hard!" A familiar voice entered my ear

"Well, I'm way more happy to keep hearing your cute voice~" Yuki appeared before me and grins at me

I smiled at her and pinched her cheeks "Ow! What was that for?"

I still smiled at her "You making that stupid wish."

She pouts at me "Aw... You didn't have to do that."

She turned to face the desk and sit on it "We don't have any student council work today. So do you want to sing once a week in this school?"

I turned to face her "It's not a bad idea after all. People loved our performance"

She turned to face me, grinning like an idiot "Yeah."

Her eyes blinked again as she smiles at me "Hey, I want to join an idol appreciation group competition"

Curious, I asked her "Idol appreciation group competition?"

"Yup! It's a minor competition in Love Live! It's where the fans dedicate their love for their favorite idol groups! It's happening during spring break! Meaning we can work it out to our heart's content!" She squealed sqeezing her own body

"So we can enter just the two of us?" I grinned

Yuki sat down and slouched on the chair, clearly showing that we can't with just the two of us.

"Saki, as much as I want too, we need at least three people to join the competition." She sighed "I wonder who else is willing to join us"

I sat down beside her and brought out my phone and typed in the words and showed it to her

"I don't think that stopped us"

Yuki grins at me "Yeah, nothing has stopped us." She looks at my phone "Classic you."

"Well, I don't want to just keep relying on my voice. Since you knew me without of a voice and I'm happy for that." I grin widely and she did the same as we hugged each other

"Hey, we should go back to Kawachi Fuji Garden. We might be able to find another special person like you" Yuki teased me and I nodded "Sure, let's go"

After school, we immediately went to Kawachi Fuji Garden and sat on a nearby bench taking in the beautiful scenery.

"There are many people here but where can we find the special girl?" Yuki sighed

"Maybe you used up all of your luck in advance just to find me" I teased

"Very funny, I hope anyone we find someone soon." Yuki said

"Yuki? Saki?" A familiar voice entered our ears and we looked at the source. We smiled seeing her

"It's been a long time Miki." Yuki walked to her and hugs her "Yeah nice to see you too." Miki turned her gaze to me "How've you been?"

"I'm fine" I said and Miki looks at me with a weird stare

A long awkward pause stopped us from doing anything "YOU CAN SPEAK?! OMG! WE HAVE TO CELEBRATE!"Yuki chuckled hearing Miki's reaction "If you want to celebrate it, join us in the Love Live Appreciation Festival Competition!"

Miki's curious gaze was directed to Yuki "Love Live Appreciation Festival Competition?"

Yuki impishly grins "Would you want to see and meet the U's and A-RISE?"

Miki started to tremble and her mouth wide open. "You're kidding right?"

I stood up and walked to Miki "Nope we aren't kidding. Now, let's do it together Miki."

I placed my hand forward and Yuki placed her hand on mine. We both smiled at Miki who is still shocked, in a good way. She placed her hand on ours "I'm joining you guys!"

We all laughed to our hearts content.

"We'll have to send one video online because that's our entry to LLAFC" Yuki said

"I see, so where should we film it?" Miki asked

"How about our school rooftop?" I chimed in

"That would be perfect!" Yuki embraced me

"Can I ask something?" Miki grabbed our attention "Do we have to be in the same school to participate in this?"

Yuki chuckled a bit looking at her while slightly teasing her "What do you think APPRECIATION in LLAFC is?"

"I'm just asking..." Miki slumped a bit in defeat

"You are such a lawful person Miki. You never change" Yuki teased her

We all paused after feeling the breeze

We all sat on the bench together, reminiscing about our past. The time that we became friends here in Kawachi Fuji Garden

"We all met here for the first time right?" Miki asked

"Yeah. We all have" Yuki said

-Flashback 10 Years Ago-

"Tag! You're it!" Yuki ran after tagging Miki

"Yuki, you're mean!" Miki whines in place

They ran about until Yuki bumped onto me as Miki stops in her tracks

"I'm sorry!" Yuki immediately bowed towards me but I couldn't say anything to regular people like her, since she didn't hear a thing, she looked at me who's looking at her "Hello?"

My head immediately faced the ground and just waved my hand.

"What's wrong? Can't you speak?" Miki asked and I could only reply by shaking my head

"No huh?" Yuki said and looks at Miki

I feared that they will insult me so I stood up to save myself from verbal abuse but Yuki grabbed my hand. I immediately turned to see Yuki holding my hand

"You're it!" Yuki said as she ran away from the me.

I was simply awestruck about what just happened. Tears cascaded down to my neck and I could only grin. I chased them as they ran away from me.

-Flashback end-

"I'm glad to have best friends like you" I teared up looking at them, they directed their gaze at me, also tearing up "Thank you for being my friends even when I didn't have voice"

We all embraced each other and crying to our hearts' content "I forgot to give this to you guys"

Miki said as she brought out her phone and showed us a picture

"That's us when we graduated in middle school." I said with eyes wide

"Yup, We took our picture here." Miki smiled at the picture

"That's me on the right, Saki in the middle and Miki on the left." Yuki stated

"I want to sing a song now. I want to sing it with you guys." I smiled at them and they smiled at me

"How, about we sing and dance here?" Miki suggested "I brought a video camera with me" she added

"That's great! Let's do it Saki!" Yuki's euphoria is clear as day as I nodded in response

"So who's center?" Miki asked

Another long pause falls on us. But I see Miki and Yuki smile and nod at each other then placed their gaze on me

I think I know where this is going...

"Saki, you're our center!" They both declared and I gave them a smile

"Ok ok, if my best friends are going to make me center then I will be the center!" I replied "We'll call ourselves K-I" I added

"K-I" Miki smiles and nodded

"I know where you got that. It comes from our the last two letters from our names, right?" Yuki smiled impishly again

"Ah, wow I didn't expect that!" Miki smiled

"Alright! Let's do this!" I declared

Play the song "START:DASH!" here either in your head or through the net ( watch?v=JGT6nw6nCLI)

Romanji Lyrics

I say
Hey, hey, hey START:DASH
Hey, hey, hey START:DASH

Ubuge no kotoritachi mo
Itsuka sora ni habataku
Ookina tsuyoi tsubasa de tobu

Akiramecha dame nanda
Sono hi ga zettai kuru
Kimi mo kanjiteru yo ne
Hajimari no kodou

Ashita yo kaware
Kibou ni kaware
Mabushii hikari ni terasarete kaware
Start!

Kanashimi ni tozasarete
Naku dake no kimi janai
Atsui mune kitto mirai wo kirihiraku hazu sa
Kanashimi ni tozasarete
Naku dake ja tsumaranai
Kitto (kitto)
Kimi no (yume no) chikara (ima wo)
Ugokasu chikara
Shinjiteru yo... dakara start!

Hey, hey, hey start dash
Hey, hey, hey start dash

Ameagari no kibun de
Takamaru kitai no naka
Tsumazuita koto sae mo
Omoide ni shiyou

Ashita ga saku yo
Kibou ga saku yo
Tanoshii merodii kuchizusami saita
DASH!

Yorokobi wo uketomete
Kimi to boku tsunagarou
Mayoimichi yatto soto e nukedashita hazu sa
Yorokobi wo uketomete
Kimi to boku susumu darou
Sore wa (sore wa) Tooi (yume no)
kakera (dakedo) itoshii kakera
Kanata e to... boku wa dash!

Mata hitotsu yume ga umare...

Kanashimi ni tozasarete
Naku dake no kimi ja nai
Atsui mune kitto mirai wo kirihiraku hazu sa

English Lyrics

I say
Hey, hey, hey START:DASH
Hey, hey, hey START:DASH

Even newborn baby birds
Will soar through the sky someday
They'll fly with great, strong wings

Don't ever give up
The day will definitely come
You can feel them too, can't you?
The beats of the beginning

O Tomorrow, change!
Transform into hope!
Transform, illuminated by that brilliant light
START!

Being closed in by sorrow
And just crying - That isn't you
With your blazing heart, you definitely can clear the way to the future
Being closed in by sorrow
And just crying is boring
I'm sure (I'm sure)
Your (dream's) power (right now)
Can set things in motion
I believe in you, so START!

Hey, hey, hey START:DASH!
Hey, hey, hey START:DASH!

The mood after the rain
Amidst growing expectations
Even the times when we stumbled
Let them become memories

Tomorrow will blossom!
Hope will blossom!
A humming fun melody blossomed
DASH!

Grasp the happiness and
Let's form a connection between us
We've finally broken through and found our way
Grasp the happiness and
You and I will push on forward
Those are (those are) a distant (dream's)
Fragments (but they're) precious fragments
Towards beyond the border... I'll DASH!

And again, a dream is born

Being closed in by sorrow
And just crying - That isn't you
With your blazing heart, you definitely can clear the way to the future

We took a break after finishing our performance. Miki walked to where the video camera was and the phone behind it playing the off-vocals version of START:DASH.

"I'm surprised that we finished that in one take" Miki said slightly shocked

"I bet we're the copies of Honoka-san, Umi-san and Kotori-san" Yuki joked

I laughed a bit awkwardly "If anything, Yuki is Honoka-san, I'm Kotori-san and Miki is Umi-san"

Miki shook her head looking at me "I think it's more appropriate if we think of it this way, I'm Umi-san, Yuki is Kotori-san and you are Honoka-san" I widened my eyes

"I don't think I'm like Honoka-san" I sheepishly smiled

"Yes you are! Remember how you jumped on stage to save me from my embarrassment? That's something that Honoka-san would do!" Yuki declared

"How do you know that Yuki?" I became curious

"Well, I watched an interview that they had right after their Love Live performance a year ago." Yuki stated and I just simply nodded

"Oh before I forget, We'll be going to Akihabara if we pass the preliminaries. Miki, post that video tonight. We'll be getting our results after the end of the school year." Yuki said

Miki sighed "I think that Honoka-san personality fits you well."

We parted ways and I went home. I really do wonder if we'll pass the preliminaries. However, I was flattered when Miki and Yuki thought that someone like me is like Honoka-san. I'm given such a big responsibility to lead my group as the center.

I want school to end already and know the results if we passed the preliminaries or not.

Times skip to the end of the school year, graduation ceremony of our third years

"As an upcoming second year in our school. I'll take all the responsibility along with my other student council members who are still attending in our school next school year. You don't have to worry about us senpai. We will take care of everything. Thank you for being our upperclassmen, we learned so much from you that we will put the knowledge you imparted to us to good use." Yuki said her simple speech and bowed before them

"Good luck to you guys!" One of the graduates said

"We maybe graduating but we're behind you girls!"

"I'll watch your performance in the LLAFC!"

The crowd of graduates showed their support for us. Yuki and I began to tear up and smile. Even Miki who was in the visitor's seat watching her friends take responsibility as the student council is also tearing up.

"Thank you everyone. I guess we have to look up if we passed the prelims." Yuki said wiping her tears

"Yeah! Show pride for our school!"

"Nothing will ever stop you guys!"

"Tell us the result already!"

I looked it up on my phone and looked at the result. I ran to Yuki and showed her the result. She smiled at me and looks towards the graduates "We have the results of the preliminaries. K-I..."

Yuki paused for a while, anticipation filled the air. Everyone tensed up. All of them, in suspense of the result that their own school idols got.

"Passed." Yuki said

It take everyone a moment to process what Yuki just said then everyone began to applaud for our idol group.

Miki joined us on stage.

"This is our group, K-I. We'll be perfoming one song for you graduates!" I said gaining an applause

...

The song cued in as we sang and danced to START:DASH for our graduating seniors.

Author's note: The picture that they were talking about is the cover photo of this fanfic. So you can get an idea of how they look like at least.

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