Hey everyone... I'm back again, and after half studying and half writing all day, I finally wrote this chapter.

Yeah, it was my birthday last week, so I got this super rocking Bluetooth keyboard. Now that I'm finally used to it, I type anywhere and everywhere, coz my phablet has now upgraded to Phlaptop... Geddit? Lol... that was a bad joke.

In any case, I would have updated this sooner had it not been for some tests and my mind insisting that my OC be well thought out. Ah well.

In any case, this chapter introduces what I am hoping is my only OC... Technically, she was created by Tamiki Wikaki-Sensei during TWGOK's run, but nothing was ever done with her.

In any case, I'll explain it properly at the bottom Author's note... Enjoy

Chihiro sighed before laying her head on the desk... damn, this lecture was boring. She pulled out her phone from her pocket, considering trying Flappy Bird again...

Or maybe not... she still did like this phone... it was new too.

In any case, she dug out her headphones from her bag and plugged them in, so she could listen to some music. That would be better than than listening to her droning lecturer.

As she was skimming through her songs, she passed a nameless track which she couldn't remember, so she had to turn it on.

Her eyes closed when the rush of new, yet familiar notes burst into her ear... it had been the song she'd sung, once upon a time.

You see, this song had been really special for her. It was her first completed song, which she had performed at her first live, and it was about her first love... it was about him.

Of course, he said he'd been listening... so much for that... especially because she actually liked the song.

"Whatcha listening to?" a voice interrupted her. Chihiro glanced to her side, where her friend was looking over at her with curious brown eyes.

"Nothing really," Chihiro turned the screen away slightly, "just some old stuff..."

Her friend completely missed that cue, and took the earpiece that was hanging off the table and put it in her ear.

Chihiro sighed... she just didn't get her.

This girl, the one who missed social cues and would get into Chihiro's personal space a bit too much, was a new friend Chihiro had made in University. Her name was Kako Nonaka, and she was cute and shy and just plain difficult to understand... Her name was fitting, because like the past, you can only make sense of her after a couple of years of thought.

Oh, and she's got the singing voice of an angel... Chihiro felt a bit self-concious of her song after remembering that. With any luck, Kako wouldn't pick up that it was Chihiro singing.

"This is you singing, isn't it?" Kako remarked plainly, killing Chihiro's hope completely. She didn't even wait for a reply, "your voice wavers when you're holding a note... though someone else is singing as well... Kanon-chan? Her voice is much stronger than yours..."

Oh yes, this is why she never showed Kako this song... she's pretty tactless.

Chihiro only spoke once the mp3 had played through completely, and even till then, she was scratching at her nails. That critique had only been the start of it.

"So what do you think?"

"After class..." Kako whispered. Chihiro was relieved at the fifteen minute reprieve... She actually started taking notes during that time.

After class, Kako pulled both straps of her backpack over her shoulder and waiteed patiently at the end of their bench for Chihiro to leave.

"Was that actually Kanon Nakagawa?" she asked, her face nonchalant.

"Yeah... she wanted to sing with me."

"But why? You're just Chihiro..." Chihiro did feel a stab at that, but Kako was dead right... She was just Chihiro. Why would an awesome teen idol even want to sing with her... She really didn't understand what had happened that night... or that weekend, for that matter.

"Kanon-chan was in our class... we said we would meet on stage, but it would be more as rivals, than friends..."

Kako snorted.

"You... a rival of the most popular idol in the Narasawa area, and a rising star in Japan?!" she laughed properly... If it wasn't such a cute laugh, the tactlessness of that comment would have annoyed her a lot more. Chihiro was getting way too used to her.

Well, Chihiro wasn't exactly sure, but music wasn't the only thing they had in common... they also both liked a certain annoying Otaku in glasses... Wel, maybe... like she said... that whole week had been really odd.

During the last mid-term test, Kanon jumped on said Otaku, Keima Katsuragi, whispering something... then, while they were still supposed to be writing, he grabs her by the wrong hand and walks her out, so they can talk outside. She didn't hear much, but the confession at the end was something everyone heard. Before he could even give her an answer, she jumped away and high-tailed it. Needless to say, they didn't come back till the next day, and by then, Keima was the pariah of the school, because he was going out with everyone's pure and beloved Kanon-chan.

Chihiro had been pretty mad then... at herself for being so affected by the news, and at him for actually going out with Kanon-chan... He's an Otaku, dammit! He should go out with someone more suited for him... like Chihiro...

That whole week, save for a few snatches on conversations that the two of them had, Keima was pretty hard to find. Chihiro had to prepare with her band anyway, so she didn't make too much of that.

Besides, she had a plan... maybe, just maybe... she would tell him how she felt during the Campfire on the Festival's eve... it was rumoured to be a good time for couples, and she really could use that luck... She was scared out of her mind, but recently, he had been awfully receptive... He'd hinted that the Kanon thing in class had been a misunderstanding... they'd even bumped into each other in the music store at Inazumart, where he admitted that her music sounded nice... Chihiro was definitely getting a good feeling about that.

Of course, the thing that convinced her was when she came to his house under the guise that she was dropping something off for Elsie, Keima's little sister... Keima, who usually acted a bit off, was actually really sweet... acknowledging their somewhat odd friendship by making fun of how she was taking care of him and complimenting her completed song. Needless to say, Chihiro was certain... she wanted to be with him... It was fun... their odd friendship of name calling and peashooting, but she wanted more... she wanted him to like her back... he already liked her music, so it was only a matter of time.

"I like you," she spoke through his bedroom door. The reality of what she'd done only settled in then, but she didn't regret it. With her heart beating all over the place, she stuttered out her invitation... too bad he'd fallen asleep for that, and she didn't have the nerve to say it again.

Of course, four years into the story, she knew how that ended... she asked him face-to-face the next day, they went on the date and he brutally rejected her... then the next day, despite him saying they weren't going to talk anymore, she was once again, dragged against her better judgement into accompanying him on whatever mission he was on. They said their goodbyes once it was all done, she sang her song with her bandmates, then everything was done.

"You know..." Kako waved her hand in Chihiro's face, "you literally have just been sitting with a dazed look on your face for all that time."

"Have I?" Chihiro turned to look at her friend, who was, once again, way too close to her face. Chihiro pulled back.

"Sorry... I was thinking about something," Chihiro apologized, scratching the back of her shoulder length hair.

"About your song, right?" Kako nodded empathetically, despite Chihiro not replying to that, "all songs have stories, even if the listener's don't know it."

"Is that so?" Chihiro mumbled, putting her head on the desk, "even your songs?"

"Yeah... like in Hikari no Kiseki, it had been Summer, and all the seagulls were gathering at the beach, where me and an Wataru-kun were playing on the pier, kicking up the waves and enjoying the sun..."

"That sounds nice..."

"It was... it was very yellow," Kako nodded, as if it made perfect sense to her. Well, probably to her, it did make sense.

"You know, colours and emotions aren't the same thing," Chihiro said in a matter-of-fact tone. Kako shook her head.

"Actually, colours do have emotions connected to them... Besides, songs have colours in them too..."

"Sure they do..." Chihiro replied, dead-pan. Kako didn't pick up the disbelief.

"Indeed... all songs can be linked to a colour and a time..." Chihiro smirked, pulling out her phone.

"If you seriously think so, shall we play a game?" Kako's eyes narrowed a bit, "why don't you tell me what colour and time all these songs are?"

"Okay, we can do that till class starts..."

Chihiro brought out her playlist with all of Kanon's songs. First song that came up was Romantic Aijou, one of Kanon's more recent songs. Kako just had to listen to the introduction.

"Deep purple... It's a night song... so maybe at 8pm in Fall..." Chihiro whistled, a little impressed. Kako knew what she was talking about.

Maybe she couldn't put it like that, but that song did have a more mature feel to it... like something you'd play at a club.

"How about this one?" she switched to the next one, "Hitomi kara Snow."

"It's going to be white and snowy..." then it started playing... It took Kako till the chorus to decide, "it's sadder than I expected... more like the dull slushy snow just before Spring begins... and at midnight..."

Chihiro was definitely impressed. Her answers weren't very vague... In fact, she was a bit curious to get her own song in those terms... She opened that unnamed file again.

"What about this one?" she hoped she would like the answer...

To her annoyance, Kako ended up listening to the whole song fully, unlike the previous two times...

"This song is confusing!" Kako complained, breaking from her semi-stoic way of speaking, "there's too many feelings behind it..."

"What does that even mean?" Chihiro asked, her heart sinking.

" I can tell that it's a 9pm song during Fall or Winter... just, the colours are like fireworks... sometimes rainbow, and sometime light blues or reds... and this instrumental part doesn't even have fireworks at all... It just sounds like you're chasing someone on the festival road..."

"Chasing..." Chihiro mumbled, but she knew full well who it was... "do I catch them?"

"No... the next verse feels like you've stopped running and just accepting that you've lost them..."

Chihiro gulped... if it was emotions Kako was capturing, just from the words, she was a genius... Her words hit really close to home...

"Well, I may be wrong, but I think the words meant something... It's almost like a lit candle, illuminating a dark world in its own small and clumsy way..."

Chihiro nodded, before it actually occured to her that Kako totally insulted her song... By attachment, Kako totally insulted her too... The latter, however, didn't seem to care at all... She just flipped back her open hair and smiled at Chihiro.

"So what is the story behind this song... other than that Kanon Nakagawa sang with you?"

"It wasn't much," Chihiro lied, "it was just the first song I wrote..."

"Alright then..." Kako leaned down, pulling out her statistics book, "I'm just going to say one more thing then..."

"What..."

"The guy you were chasing... you shouldn't give up on him yet..."

"Why?"

"That rollercoaster of a song... that kind of love you sang about there... You're probably never going to find it again..." and with a slight, knowing smile, Kako pulled out her Z-table and started working before the Lecturer started talking.

"Duly noted..." Chihiro smiled.

True, Chihiro didn't believe that herself. She'd grown out of that love story quite long ago, but her thoughts did remind her that she still understood nothing about that time... She had Keima's number, so maybe it was about time she went back to the past too...

Hey again... there you have it... No Keima conversations today, but I swear there will be next time.

In any case, meet Kako Nonaka... She was actually created by Tamiki Wikaki-Sensei as part of the Eyelis Pre-production Albut, where Eyelis's vocalist (most of the time, anyway) covered some TWGOK songs, like Koi no Shirushi, Love Call and Happy End... Also, Eyelis performed both ending theme songs from the Tenri-hen OVAs...

I actually really like the name she was given. Kako Nonaka actually means 'in the past', so it kind of helps in this story about memories... As for why I wanted to use her character... Why the hell not!? Eyelis is friggin' awesome!

In any case, I would definitely suggest checking out Eyelis' albums... My personal favourite song was Mirai no Tobira from the second Tenri OVA. However, after two years of not releasing any new songs, she sang last season's Akagami to Shirayuki-hime's ending, which was also brilliant. Right now, my favourite song has to be 'Boku wa Ima' from that new album.

Well, personal advertising of my favourite stuff is done now. Thank you so much for everyone who's reading this, and special thank yous to all who reviewed. They always make me feel super happy.

Ja ne... Don't worry... I'm still updating TFPD. Those chapters are just way longer than these ones.