The next day Cassie and Akashi woke up rather early and got dressed, they looked in the door and saw everyone sleeping peacefully. Sarah and Aomine were still sleeping in the same bed as last night.
"So what did you want to go over anyways?" Cassie asked stretching her arms out.
"Well I was thinking since your good at poetry I want you too look over Kise's lyrics and tell me if anything's wrong with it," he handed her two sheets of paper with words written on them.
"Sure, just give me a minute," he nodded and rested his head on his hands then waited for her. After a few minutes she put the paper down. "Well for one thing are all of your songs about love to some extent?" he nodded.
"That's what's Kise says the girls like," she sighed.
"Well I'll tell him personally that we'll try something new, and also he wanted you, Midorima, and himself to sing this?" he nodded.
"That's what he told me," she shrugged.
"It's a good idea, but I just feel as if Kise should be taken out of this, but instead since five of you will be left you can make it where Kagami and Murasakibara are on your side while Aomine and Kise can be on his side, Kuroko can sing whatever part you or they aren't…" she wrote something on the paper. "Which leave everyone with at least one solo!" he smiled.
"That's smart, good job!" he patted her head.
"Hey don't treat me like a child, I am your superior," he chuckled.
"OK fine then, and also Kise explained that his first idea was to make me the Emperor while Shintaro is the Veteran King in this case," she nodded.
"Yeah that actually makes since, I think since I changed it to just two people you should…" she paused and gasped, "So that means I get to pick out your outfits right?" he nodded.
"You are our stylist after all," she sighed and dropped her head on to the table.
"Too much work~" he narrowed his eyes on to her.
"Cassie don't become lazy or else," she lifted her face up and looked at him with one eye.
"Or else what?" he sighs.
"Or else no more sweets for this entire month," she shot up and slammed her hands down.
"No, please don't!" he chuckled.
"Ok then, were on the same page now," he stood up as did she. "So let's let them sleep for now, I'll take you to where we practice," he said.
"So does your father own this building too?" he nodded.
"Yes, he does but he's allowed us to use it to practice in, and there's also dressing rooms in there too," she nodded and followed him out of the room and outside the hotel.
"So where does your clothing import come from?" she asked.
"My father," he spat out.
"You seem to not like getting things from your family," he nodded.
"Yes sometimes I honestly wish I was raised like you, without a care in the world or anything to look at in your past and a open feature," she looked at him.
"Did you want to do something else besides this?" he thought for a minute.
"Not in particular, but basketball was something I was interested in for a while, and so was everyone else, we've all wanted to try it at least once," she bits her lip then grabbed his hand.
"T-that a cool thing you want to do," he smirks and holds on to her hand.
"Well what about you, I'm pretty sure this isn't something you dreamed of as a child?" she nodded.
"Yeah I actually wanted to become a author, but I didn't think I would be cut out as one, then I saw how hard my mom worked and I wanted to be just like her!" she paused.
"But now I see why she's going to retire at sixty," he chuckled, she looked at him.
"Well at least you smiled," he nodded then stopped in front of a large building and opened the door. "Hey it's morning where is everyone?" she questioned.
"If your referring to the paparazzi we've made sure that if we do come separately only one person come first and then think we all come at the same time and they never think twice about it," she nodded.
"That's cleaver," he nodded.
"Well thank Kise for coming up with that one," she stopped
"REALLY!?" he nodded.
"Yep, now I'll show you to the dressing room," she snapped back to reality and followed him in the darkened path when he opened the door. She gasped at the large room with rows of clothes that they wore at concerts, signings, and other events, she sparked up in interest and felt around at the clothes.
"Whoa, this is so awesome, I remember this outfit, and this one, and this one too!" he sat down in a chair and watched as she fan-girled over the clothes. Once she finished she faced him. "So you got to be dressed as an Emperor right?" he nodded "Ok then how about this?" she showed him a dark red shirt with sewed to a long red cape with white fur along the top. The pants were white with a gold stripe along the side, she also managed to find a gold crown. "Is this good?" he shrugged.
"It's not up to me," she looked at it then nodded.
"I think it's good, now I'll just find outfits for everyone else OK?" he nodded and stood up.
"Well I'll just go wait in the warm up area, if you need me," she hummed and response then he left the room. Cassie sighed and looked down.
"Just remember, this is what you want… right?" she shook the thought and went back to looking around.
Back at the hotel everyone woke up and is now walking to the same place where Akashi and Cassie are. Along the way Aomine and Sarah start talking about a few things. "So you've never see that before?" she asks him.
"Well it's not that I just never had any thought to learn it, so I don't remember it," she giggles.
"Well I might as well teach it to you then," he looks at her.
"You would?" she nods.
"You seem pretty enthusiastic about dancing too, why not," he smirks.
"Well same to you, I bet you that it's not just that whole mom teaching you thing that makes you like this," she shakes her head. "It's not" he looked confused.
"Then what is it?" right when she was about to speak Midorima's voice breaks in and they look up.
"Stop talking and come in already," they both nod and walk inside and get a cold chill on their exposed arms.
"Sarahcchi, I'll show you to the practice room!" Kise grabs her arm and starts pulling her Kuroko, Midorima and Atsushi follow behind them. Kagami and Aomine stayed behind and started talking.
"So it seems you've taken a liking to Sarah-senpai," Aomine scoffed.
"What does It matter to you?" his personality seemed to change suddenly.
"Well it's just that I wouldn't want you distracting her, I want to learn just like everyone else," he rolled his eyes.
"Butt out of my life OK?" he furred his brow.
"So it's something personal huh?" he faced him once again.
"And what if it is, you goanna tell on me or something?" Kagami smirked.
"Not unless you do something stupid," Aomine growled and held up his hand when Sarah called out their names.
"Kagami, Aomine, you guys coming?" they stared at one another then looked at the door.
"Yeah!" they went over and joined everyone, after everyone stretched out they looked at Sarah and waited for her instructions.
"OK now, you've guys have done this before so I'm just going to show you a few moves for now then we'll work on the songs dance number after, alright?" they nodded as she turned around and started dancing to the music. They watched her as her body moved around, they were all impressed by her grace a beauty as she danced, she turned off the music and faced them once again. "Ok so now show me what you remembered," they nodded then started fumbling around as they tried to remember what she did, she giggled and watched as some of them ran into each other and tripped around the room. Once the music stopped they all looked at her with flushed expressions. "Ok well at least you got the rhythm down, so now I'll actually teach it to you guys," they smiled and listened to what she had to say. Time had passed and they only managed to learn about half of the new moves she wanted to teach them, they all just wondered around the stage singing the new song under Akashi and Cassie's new ideas. Aomine wanted to ask Sarah if she could continue teaching him before it got to late, so he decided to ask her. He walked over to the room when he heard singing, 'Is that Sarah?' he peaked through the cracked door and saw her back facing the door and her slightly moving to the music. 'Her voice is really pretty' he listened to her words as she sang.
Momma was a bit naïve
And her daddy was a blinded thief.
He went and stole away what was left of the remains of a family.
She paused and touched her hand with her other one.
She's hide away behind a door she kept locked.
But the walls weren't thick enough to block out angry noises of the voice that once soothed her to sleep
And she lies tonight.
Underneath the caving roof.
And she cries tonight,
Wondering what she can do.
And she tries, tonight, remembering who she once knew
But they've died, inside
Another empty bottle takes a life.
Aomine starts feeling something, he doesn't quite know what it is, but he just listens to her soulful, and hurt words.
This world can be so cruel
She lives her life as a broken tool
And she believes she's unable to fix this broken machine,
And what's the use
To throw your self at love
If in the end it seems enough
To be able to get though all of life's broken dreams
She watched her father live in regret
Heard her mother cry in an empty bed
And she swears
This is the best life gets.
And she lies, tonight
Underneath a caving roof
And she cries, tonight
Wondering what she could do
And she tries, tonight
But she's out of memories
That she once knew
And she dies, inside
Another empty bottle takes a life
He starts thinking about the only reason she could possible be thinking this way, but act the way she does. It makes him think how she really feels about everything, and it makes him fell the need to learn more about her.
And every little bit, every little bit
Of her wants to see that light
But every single night
Another little bit of her dies inside
She's trapped in her mind
She feels more alive
She feels more alive
In her own dreams
And she's wondering
What's beyond the sky
Could she see the light
If she fall asleep
Cause she feels more alive
In her own dreams
So tonight, she lies
Lifted up through her own roof
Dried eyes, tonight
There's nothing more
That she could do
And they cry tonight
A daughter that they hardly knew
And she's lost, in time
Another empty bottle takes a life.
She stops singing and opens her eye, she looks in the mirror and see someone at the door, she slightly gasps and walks over to it and the person ducks away.
"Aomine?" slowly he steps up to the door and shyly scratches the back of his head. "What are you- did you hear that?" slowly he nods, her face become red as does her eyes.
"No, but you sounded beautiful," she looks up at him.
"But-" he cuts her off. "You did to be honest, and I could feel those words actually meant something more the just a song you love, so don't tell me that," he hold on to her shoulders making him face her. "Sarah I want you to tell me what that meant to you, and I won't leave until you do," he looks at her with a determined look. She sighs and rests her head on his chest.
"You don't give up easy do you?" he shakes his head and hugs her.
"Nope," slightly she looks up at him.
"OK I'll tell you and only you," he smiles and waits for her to start talking.
At the same time, Akashi and Cassie were also doing something similar to them, Akashi held on to her as they sat in a corner of the room. Her breathes came out in staggered motions as he rubbed her hair. "You know you could have just talked to me about this," she shakes her head.
"I know that, but I just didn't know how to, plus I didn't expect it to be like this either," he looks down at her.
"I don't know why, your voice is amazing, why hide it?" he asks.
"Well for one thing I don't take complements, and I didn't know how to just randomly start singing in front of you," she paused then looked at him.
"Can I hear it again, I really liked it," she blushed and looked down.
"But I-" she cut her self off and then took a deep breathe and rested her head on his chest and started to sing again.
Can you tell me,
Softly
How you always hunt me?
Can you help me?
Hold me
Come to me now,
Slowly
You caress me,
Smoothly
Calm my fears and soothe me
Move your hands
Across me
Take my worries from me
I will sacrifice,
I will sacrifice,
All I have in life to clear my conscience
I will sacrifice,
I will sacrifice
All in have in life
Sacrifice, Sacrifice
She sang the last two words slowly and softly, he smiled and held his arm around her. "So is that why you act like that around us?" she looked up at him.
"What do you mean, I act normal around you guys?" he shook his head.
"I don't mean normal I mean like what we were expecting you to be, I already knew you as that type of girl but I didn't think it was true," she blushes.
"Well how about you, aren't you the same way?" he shook his head.
"No because I have to do it, you have a choice but you pick other wise," she sighs then punches his arm playfully.
"Would it kill you to just let me win for once?" he nods.
"I think it would," they both chuckle then go back to cuddling.
"So if I ever need you will you be there for me?" he nodded and kissed her forehead.
"Yes I will, as long as you promise the same for me," she smiles and pecks him on the lips.
"I promise!" he smiles then just holds her.
"We should just stay her for a while," she nods. "OK," and they go back to the silent moment together.
Sarah explains a bit of her life to Aomine and he better understand her way of thinking. "So do you still have cuts anywhere?" she nods.
"But you can barely see them anymore," she rolls her shorts to above her knee and he sees the faint cut on her thigh, she puts it down then looks at her hands.
"But it wasn't all bad, I still had my friends, and Cassie there to comfort me, but I told them not to do anything about it, since I knew it would pass over," Aomine gritted his teeth.
"Why would you way something like that, you could have died at that rate, Sarah I'm sorry to say, but that's probably the dumbest thing you could have done," she looked at him honestly shocked. "I don't care about what you think, self harm over how other people have treated you is something that has to be taken care of," he paused. "Your drunk parents aside, you still had to deal with bulling right?" she nodded. "Well I don't really want to say this, but if it's still happening now, please tell me," he walked in front of her and moved aside her dark blue bangs showing off more of her face, her cheeks were dusted with pink, she looked down then sniffed.
"No it doesn't, it stopped about last year after I moved," he sighed with relief then brought her into a tight embrace.
"Well I'm glad then," she hugged him back tears poking at her eyes, once they broke apart he looked into her eyes. They had a lost look to them, not like her usual go lucky self that he had commonly seen. Without thinking he closed his eyes and leaned his face closer to hers and kissed her, her eyes went wide for a moment, then as she got used to it she closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck crying slightly. Once they broke apart they hugged once again and just stayed like that.
What they didn't know was a more then jealous Kagami stand at the door mortified at what he had just seen.
~~~~~~~~~~Extra~~~~~~~~~~
Today the Miracles have decided to have a free day and just relax, so of course Aomine decided to take Sarah on a date, as does Akashi with Cassie.
"A date?" Cassie questions, he nods.
"It'll just something simple," she pulls her legs up to the bed and looks at him.
"Well what if someone finds you and thinks were dating or something?" he sighs and sits next to her.
"Well for one thing it's nearly eight now and no one's outside, plus I go out all the time around this time and nothing happened so far," she sighs then pouts.
"Fine then, but only for a while then I want to come back here OK?" he smiles and nods then stands up along with her.
"Do I have to change?" he looks at her outfit, a short white lace shirt and a orange tee shirt with a cute white rabbit design on it.
"No that's fine," she smiles then leaves the hotel with him. Once they arrived at their distention Cassie sits furious at the point.
"Is something wrong?" she looks up at him.
"Yes, I figured you were going to take me out somewhere really fancy or something, with the way you begged me to come out here!" he looks around confused.
"500 yen is a lot for just one meal," he says seriously, she looks at him angry.
"Shi-chan!" he smiles and chuckles while eating more of his fries.
"Will you just enjoy your self and plus…" he paused and drank some of his soda.
"I just wanted to spend some time alone with you," she blushed at the look he gave her when he said that, she groaned then looked down at her food and picked up her dripping cup filled with a chocolate shake, childishly she drank from it then looked back up at him.
"Me too," he smiles then leans over and kisses her slightly chocolate tasting mouth.
"Hmm sweet," she blushes harder then stuffs her face with off as he watches her contently.
Around the same area Aomine and Sarah wonder around the shopping mall and find them selves in a music store. "Oh how about this one?" she points to a dark blue and black guitar.
"Nah, I like this one better," he picks up a gray and black on and plays a few cords on it, she smiles the nods.
"It does suits you better… but why don't you learn the bass or something?" he places it back on the display and looks at something else.
"Because as long as Akashi already knows how to play it I don't think I'll every need to play it,+" she smiles.
"That's Akashi for you," Sarah glances at a near by restaurant and see Cassie making some kind of shape with her arms and fingers with Akashi across from her smiling at her comedy.
"I still can't believe their dating though," he looks up at her.
"Well their both crazy at one point or another, and plus ever since he first met her he hasn't been too strict on us during performances," she nods, then blushes.
"So um… is this a date or something?" he looks at her, a faint blush on his cheeks.
"I mean I didn't mean to ask that I was just wondering," she looked away from his gaze when she hears him slightly laugh.
"Only if you want it to be, but either way I'm enjoying being with you," he goes back to looking at the different guitars around the store. She nods.
"Oh," she smiles 'He is really nice to me but I can't say for sure if I like him or not' she shakes her head then bends over next to him and kisses his cheek.
"Well thank you then, I'm enjoying this too," he grunts then looks away flustered, she giggles and looks at other instruments until their 'date' was over.
Finally finished, I hope you enjoyed reading it, and sorry if it seems a but rushed. Still review and fave! and the songs are Another Empty Bottle by KatyMcAllister and Sacrifice By t.A.T.u