AW MAAAN! All the drama over the corpse party fanfic fandom at the moment D: if you follow most of the corpse party stories, you'll know what i mean...

Meanwhile, I am sorry for not uploading in a while. I always used to get annoyed when my fave fanficts weren't uploaded daily, but i now know how difficult it can be to reach that deadline. I am finding this story very difficult to write, as you can probably tell by the lack of updates and I am sorry. But some people will say that 'oh thats easy, and AU?"

Well for this you have to come completely a fresh, like you are writing your own story. Just with the characters, obviously.

ENJOY ANYWAY :3

Yoshiki had insisted on all accounts that he accompany her to the collage meeting, even though she had protested that she could do it on her own; she had gone plenty of times before by herself with no problem! However he was so determined, that she didn't bother trying to brush him off, so met him by the station before the train arrived. He was grinning, hands in his pockets as always, making Ayumi feel a little calmer at his own relaxed body language. She still had no idea why there was a meeting, but she had her doubts. What if it had been a mistake, choosing her over someone else, someone better maybe? She had worked so hard to get the place, going to extra classes after school just to improve and refine her skills. What if all that effort was for nothing?

Yoshiki noticed the furrowed brow on her face and nervous expression, wondering what was on her mind. Perhaps she was worried about the sudden meeting? Or maybe it was...him being there.

"You alright, Ayumi?" he asked, waving his hand in front of her face with a nervous smile. "Your miles away!"

"Uh, it's nothing don't worry," she insisted, though her eyes had drifted far away from his. "I'm fine!"

"If you say so!" he replied, with a careless shrug, but inside he was curious and also concerned as well.

Ayumi glanced at the train as it came into view, getting larger the closer it came to the platform. There was ten, twenty people around her including herself and Yoshiki. Sakura must have gotten another train, after all she didn't live in the same neighbourhood as Ayumi and the others. The fairly large train came to a halt, thrusting it's doors open hurriedly, almost greeting the new passengers and bidding farewell to the leaving ones with a merry whistle. They waited politely for everyone to leave, before joining the other passengers as well as the remaining ones on the middle carriage.

For most of the journey the two were quiet, Ayumi lost in her thoughts, where as Yoshiki was feeling rather bored and had hoped that she would of at least made an effort to make conversation with him as he had taken time out of what he could be using to work to travel with her. Thinking about it, she hadn't even asked him to come, he had kind of invited himself along, reckoning she would like it and be secretly pleased. However this didn't seem to be the case unfortunately.

"Are ya gonna talk to me or what?" he eventually broke the silence, with a half grin, half glare. "I'm not gonna sit here in silence the whole time, ya know..."

'Sorry..." she sighed, turning away from the window to face him. "I've just got a bad feeling about the meeting!"

Yoshiki celebrated silently in his head. Of course he was worried that she was worried, but he was relived that he wasn't the reason!

"Oh yeah?" he perked up. "What's up?"

"It's a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach," she explained, looking thoughtful. "I only get this feeling when something bad has happened, like when I got those...and when I confronted Nakashima!"

"Are you upset?"

"No. But I can't come up with a logical reason why I feel this way!" she said, frustrated.

"Well, you don't have a reason!" he told her, edging nearer towards her. "I'm here, right? That makes it perfect!"

Instead of the smile he expected from her, she shot him a poisonous glare like daggers flying through the air.

"Sheesh! I was only joking, you know!"

"Whatever. What are you going to do whilst i'm at the meeting, Yoshiki?" she changed the subject.

"How long is it exactly?"

"It doesn't specify. I'll text you though..."

"Alright." finished Yoshiki, slightly annoyed at her harshness as they reached the stop they had to get off. "I'll have a look at the music shops then."

Ayumi nodded in approval as she left the train and Yoshiki, wishing she hadn't been so harsh. She couldn't help it though, since she really did have a bad feeling about the whole meeting. No one had even mentioned it, it didn't even say on the paperwork that there was additional problems that required a group meeting! But things could change quickly, she knew all too well!

She walked past the familiar shops, towards the large building in front of her. Glancing at the front display of one music shop, she was sure Yoshiki wouldn't have much trouble entertaining himself for half an hour or so, or however long the meeting would taking. All the while, she could be studying at home!

The steps of the grand building were just a few steps away, but two familiar voices, one posh and one bubble, snapped her out of her daze ever so slightly.

"So Haruka, whats this about anyway?" Sakura asked, her voice bright though inquisitive.

"Ugh! Don't ask me, I know i'm highly intelligent, but I cannot answer all the worlds questions Sakura!" the other replied with an obvious tone of cockiness underlying in her dismissive words.

"Sakura!" called Ayumi, instantly getting the two girls' attention. "Hey!"

"Hey there Shinozaki!" greeted Sakura with a smile, though Hakura shunned her with a straight face. "Oh," she continued, glancing at the girl beside her. "Have you two met?"

"Yes, actually," the girl said with a smirk, looking Ayumi up and down, as if scouring for her flaws. "We know each other very well!"

"We do?" echoed Ayumi, glaring at her. "I barely remember you complaining about the air conditioning..."

"Oh, ah, Shinozaki...This is Haruka Tsuji, If you, um, forgot." introduced Sakura quickly, trying to avoid tension between the seemingly already acquaintances.

"Yeah, I know."

"And your Ayumi Shinozaki, I presume? Shame on missing out the scholar ship!"

Ayumi glared at her fiercely striding away from her as well as Sakura.

"I got it, by the way!"

"Of course you did," laughed Ayumi, running now. There was something about Haruka that made her feel unsafe and uneasy, almost like a weird presence.

"Ah come on guys! We all got in!" Sakura said, trying to smile, though she felt like slapping Hakura; she had always been an arrogant so and so, making people feel bad about themselves, ever since she could talk she had expressed her own interest in herself.

"Why are you friends with her anyway?" spat Ayumi, close to the entrance. "Doesn't she upset you?"

"I don't have a choice," Sakura told her, leaving Hakura behind to catch up with Ayumi. "It's not like I can't hang out with her, no matter if I like her or not?"

"How come?"

"We're cousins, and my mother and hers are very close twins," she sighed, panting as she caught up with Ayumi. "We've been forced to attend loads of family events together, and let's say I hate it."

"But your nice to her..." said Ayumi, leaving against one of the large podiums that supported the building. "You don't have to be friends!"

"Oh it's easier to be nice then mean," Sakura stated wearily, standing back up straight as Haruka approached. "Don't take her words personally, she's like this to everyone, even me and my brother so don't get worked up about it Shinozaki!"

"Who said I was getting worked up?" Ayumi laughed it off shakily. "I'm just a bit nervous. Do you know what this is about?"

"I don't have a clue!"

"Oh. By the way, how did you cousin...Get the scholar ship?" Ayumi couldn't help asking as she entered the door.

"I actually have no idea," confessed Sakura, looking at the floor with worried eyes. "She is awful at art!"

"What?!"

"Hakura is very gifted academically, especially with maths and computing. At school though, she was extremely competitive amongst the students, even me."

"Why on earth would she apply for this collage then, anyway?" Questioned Ayumi, very confused indeed. "If she had no talent for art at all?"

"Well, a couple of months ago she found out my brother was writing his children's book, and I mentioned he needed an illustrator, and that that was my dream. Instantly just like with anything, she presumed that she was perfect for the job, and came out here just to prove my brother wrong." she explained, with multiple hand gestures, as she followed Ayumi into the large hall.

"What did your brother do to make her like that then?"

"Don't you like your questions, Shinozaki," Sakura said, testily, getting a little irrupted. Sakura just wasn't the person to speak badly about other people, or relay the past to anyone.

"Please?"

"He told her that she was 'useless at art, and that she should stick to computer programming like a good little nerd and stay out of his way'. She blew up after that, ran all the way home. Then she came back like a different person, all fired up just to spite my brother!"

"How pathetic, when It's your dream that you've worked hard more!" said Ayumi clenching her fists. "I know, but I have to deal with it, Shinozaki!"

Bam bam bam, betcha didn't see that coming.

hint hint.

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