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"Sorry, but I can't hire a 13 year old. Come back once you reached 15." The man went back to help out customers. I drop my head down in defeat. I picked up the newspaper crossing out the fourth place that was hiring in the classifieds. I pick my head up and walk to the next place that was hiring.
"Come on I need this job, you can even pay me half. I'll do what ever you say. "I beg the man Infront of me. This is the last place that posted an add on the classifieds. I really need this job to pay for the medical bills and utilities I think to myself.
"Look I said it before, you're too young and weak for this type of hard labor. Go play with your dolls or something." The man walks away from me and into the back. My stomach begins to grumble. It was already late afternoon , I haven't eaten anything all day. I didn't have to worry about my father getting fd since he was at the hospital treating an infection in his dialysis tubes.
"I hope he gets better." I wonder into a restaurant and sat in the far right right next to where a piano was. I take a seat, a waitress comes up to me and hands me a menu. I take it and start reading what they have.
"What would you like?"I checked to see how much money I have and saw I only had 80 ryo.
"Can I just have some Jasmine tea and a rice omelette." I tell her while giving her back the menu
"Sure coming right up." She smiles and walks away. I slump and hit my head on the table, it has been over a month and I still haven't gotten a job. At this rate I'll be homeless and fatherless. Tears were about to fall. Pulling me out from my sulking was a sound of calming music.
I lift my head and it towards the piano to see a black haired guy playing it. I saw how fluenlty he moved, how soothing and comforting the melody was. Once he finishes playing, he gets a round of applause and looks up. My eyes met his to see his deep sky blue eyes. He smiles at me and to everyone else, he continues to another piece.
"Here you go. One jasmine tea and rice omelette." She places the food Infront of me. I thank her and continue to look at the guy playing. She fallowed my sight to see the guy playing. She just chuckles. Shaking her head and walks away. I never heard the piano being performed live and yet with every piece he played I loved every second of it.
" Hey! We don't like free loaders, are you going to buy something else or what." The women scolded me. I didn't realize how much time past. I felt embarrassed and I was about to get up until someone calls out.
"She is with me, I hope that's not an issue." The guy playing the paino looks up while continue to play at the woman, only to have her blush and nod.
"Of course s-sorry about that." She stutters
"Don't worry about it." He half smiles and turns to look at me.
"Order anything you like it's on me." I shake my head refusing. He finishes the song,
"You like chocolate cake?" He asks still sitting at the piano. I look down at my clasped hands and nod once. Pretty sure I was turning red,
"Alright, two chocolate cakes please." The women just nodded and turned back to kitchen. I hear the chair being pulled back. I look up to see him sit down Infront of me.
"Why did you do that?" I ask him, he just waves his hand back and forth.
"Ah, I saw how sad you looked and thought to brighten your evening. I also noticed how interested you where by what I was playing, I liked that." He give a small smile at me ,I smile shyly back at him. I felt eyes were on me. I turn around to look at the other girls around the restaurant, and see I was getting hateful glares
"Uhh" I turn back around and look down at the table.
"Haha don't worry about them. They only come by for my looks, not my music." He shrugs his shoulders and lazily leans back on the chair. I haven't really payed attention to his appearance till now. He was fair skin with shaggy black hair. He had some bangs on his face that enhances how clear his skin was. Finally a pair of blue eyes that compaired to looking at the sky on a clear day. I'll admit he was nice to look at, but the music was the only thing I noticed.
"Such a shame you played so beautifully." I say quietly.
"Thanks" he gives me a small smile. The waitress returns and places the cake Infront of us.
"Here you go. Will there be anything, I mean anything else" She bats her eye lashes at him, but it makes her look like she has something is wrong with her. I try to hide a laugh with a cough. He just shakes his head,
"No thank you."
"Just let me know." she walks away.
"See what I mean." He let's out a long breath.
"Yeah I do. Thank you for the cake umm... I don't know your name." I chuckle awkwardly.
"Oh sorry about that. It's Yuuma Tsubaki and yours."
" My name is Rina Hiroshi. Thank you for the cake Yuuma-sama." I bow my head to him.
"Ha, just Yuuma is fine and your welcome Rina-chan." he returns the bow. I just nod my head and begin to dig into the chocolate cake.
"So what are all those pieces called." I put another spoonful of delicious cake in my mouth.
"I composed them myself." I swallowed and my eyes widen.
"No way. They're amazing. The sound, the style I never heard anything like it before. I'm also compose too, but I only play violin." I say with stars in my eyes.
"You don't say, I'll like to here you play one day."I brighten when he said that.
"Really! I would love to play for you but..." I remembered something and my face falls.
"But?" He raises his black brow at me.
"Um.. my violin ...it broke." I say softly looking down.
"Oh, what happen to it." He asks concern,
"Nothing. I think I should get going." I shake my head. I was about to get up, he reaches over and grabs my hand giving it a squeeze.
"Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger than someone you know. Tell me." I look into his eyes. He looked like he actually wanted to here what happened. I sighed,
"It's a long story."
"I got time." He let's go of my hand and leans back on his chair,
"Well it all started when my mother past away from an illness, after that my father became an alcoholic to cope with everything. The way I coped was to play the violin like she always did. It was her violin she gave me when she past away. One day I was playing on the day of what should have been her birthday. My dad didn't even give me a warning to stop and he took it a smash it. I cried a lot that day telling him to stop, but he just kept breaking it and told me I will never be good as her."
"That's fucked up, it almost sounds like he blames you for her death." He sounded irritated. I shake my head
"No, I just reminded him of her alot that's all. Since already look like her. Playing like her didn't help."
"Dose he still drink?" He asks worried
"No, he has an illness too and once he began drinking it got worse. I thought I would never forgive him for what he did, but the day when his life hanging on by a thread I forgave him and he apologized. We both thought he was on his death bed and we prepared our goodbyes, but a miracle happen. He got better and still feels guilty about it ever since."
"Has he bought you a new violin?" He takes a bite out of the cake. I shrug my shoulders.
"I don't care about that. If I were to choose him or a simple piece of wood with strings, I would choose my father, he is the only one I have left of my family." I give him a bittersweet smile
"We're about to close up soon, so I would have to ask you two to leave." The waitress says and she gives Yuuma the check.
"Thank you." He pays it and we walk out of the restaurant. Outside was already dark and Yuuma turns to face me.
"I'll walk you home. The night is not safe for you."
"You don't have to." I shake my head at him.
"I don't want to be a burden." I tell him.
"Nah I won't take no for an answer. lead the way." I spend some time debating if I should. I guess it will be alright I think to myself. I look at him and he gives me a smile. I returned the smile and begin to walk the direction to my house, he fallows beside me,
"So are you from here?" I ask him.
"No im actually from kirigakure." Yuuma says.
"I have never been there. what is it like?" I look up at him with my hands behind me.
"Very humid, surrounded by the ocean,but it has really amazing beaches." He kept looking ahead of us.
"Sounds nice."
"Yeah, but when the civil war broke out its like hell over there. Everyday you would be on edge hoping your home didn't turn into a battlefield" his face turned hard when he said that.
"I'm sorry to hear that, is that why you are here."
"Part of it yes, but I also like to travel I want to go to all the five main nations someday. I'm trying to make a name for myself with my music."
"Really, I have the same dream." I beam a smile at him.
"You don't say. I guess it was destiny for us to meet then." He looks at me and chuckles.
"Maybe it was." I giggle. We reached the front door of my home.
"Anyways my home is right here, thank you for walking me home Yuuma-san." I face him and bow.
"No problem Rina-chan, thanks for being a fan of my music, if you want to hear more you know where to find me." He ruffles my hair. I try to fix my hair while looking at the ground turning red. He laughs,
"See you around, goodnight." With that he turns to leave. I look up.
"Goodnight." I call out. He smiles over his shoulder and smiles. I smile in return and go inside my home.
"Here are more dishes that need to be washed." Ame dumps the dishes into the sink making the water splash on me and the floor on purpose.
"Oops." She snickers walking away. I don't know what I did to her to make her hate me I only have been working here for only two months. Since day one she has always been like that to me. I already have a warning to get along with here and I don't want to push my luck. This is the only place that hired me, I let out an exhausted breath and pick up the plate to start washing it.
"Don't look so gloom she is just picking on you, because you're really cute. She just gets jealous she has to share the spotlight. She is all bark and no bite trust me." The kind chef pats my back in comfort. I don't know what she meant by I was cute. How can she be jealous of me. I just have dark grey eyes, dark brown hair and just plain pale skin. She had these beautiful emerald eyes, long silky black hair and her skin a nice caramel color. She was beautiful, but her personality was hideous. I just look at the kind chef and forced a smile.
"thank you." I say quietly.
"No problem." She smiles at me.
"Thank you again chouko-sama for this opportunity." I bow at her at the end of my shift.
"Just make sure you don't slack and to get along with others alright." She raised her brow at me. I already knew who she ment and I forced a smile.
"Alright." I hide the irritation in my voice.
I walk into town and go into a restaurant to find Yuuma playing. He was surrounded by fan girls I roll my eyes at them and make my way to sit beside him, I already got use to them glaring at me, but they wouldn't dare hurt me, because it would ruin there chances with there "Yumma-kun". Yuuma offered to teach me piano for being his number one true fan and I've been learning from him ever since.
"There you are. Ready to continue your lesson." He smiles at me and I give him a nod in return. He shows me the song he wants me to practice today.
" I want you to read this and try your best to play it." Looking at the sheet music I mesmerize all the cords and tempo. I begin to play only to mess up a couple times turning more red in each mess up. He says it's good to have an audience, it's to get rid of my stage fright. Once I finished I put my head down as i hear the women around me snicker.
"Not bad for your first time." I look up at him shocked that he complimented me, he gives me a warm smile.
"I'll show you how to play it, here watch me." He begins to play, I watch his hands move to each cord trying to remember each of it while moving my own fingers on my lap.
" See now you try, and don't worry about mistakes. That's how we learn to get better." He squeezes my shoulder comforting me. Already feeling better i set up straight.
"Ok" I give him a close eye smile.
"Yuuma-san what are you doing here." I asked shock to find him here after my shift.
"Hey Rina-chan I got curious where you worked, so I decided to pick you up." He shrugs his shoulders and gives a sheepish smile. I walk up to him to give him a hug. When I let go he ruffles my hair. I laugh, being already use to him doing that.
"Hey my little nii-chan, who is this." My heart dropped to my stomach as Ame gave me a hug from behind and stands beside me.
"This isn't your boyfriend is it, because if it is I'll break him like a twig if he ever does anything to hurt you." She raises a fist at him. I was pink in embarrassment about Yuuma being my boyfriend. I was about to say something, but Yuuma beat me to it.
"Haha nah I'm just her friend. I'm Yumma." Ame let's out a sound of relief. I knew she was faking it, but why.
"Oh thank kami I got scared that my cute innocent nii-chan was dating someone older than her. How old are you anyways." She raises a eyebrow at him.
"I'm seventeen." He gives her sheepish smile.
"Really I'm sixteen." She gives him a blush. I roll my eyes at both of them and ignore the wired feeling in my stomach.
"Oh, I almost forgot chouko-sama wanted to tell you something before you left." She leaves and I fallow her once we were out of Yumma sight she grabs me by my shirt.
"If you tell him anything negative about me I will ruin your life get you fired, you and father will be begging on the streets understand." I just nod rapidly in response scared on the threat she just made.
"Glad we have an understanding." She gives me a wicked smirk.
"Where were you yesterday?" I asked Yuuma as I sit next to him.
"Oh, I was with Ame-chan." While smiling like crazy. Ever since they met they been seeing each other. I have no i idea what she telling or doing to him to make him act like this. He tends to even skip on our lessons at times and it bothered me alot more than its suppose to. Something in me turns really sour when I even think about them being together.
"I guess you really like her." I ask him hiding the urge to let out a annoyed grunt.
"She is amazing Rina I don't know what it is, but she just gives me this feeling." When he said that It felt as a nail went through my heart. I don't know why, but I just ignored it and forced a smile at him.
"But she says you are mean to her sometimes." My face fell when he said that and I try to control my anger.
"What?" I say calmly as possible.
"She thinks you're jealous of her getting all my attention." He leans closer to my face teasing me.
"Is that true my cute Rina-chan." All the irritation I had before now gone. I felt my face burning and thought I was going to faint.
"W-what. S-sh-e is j-just crazy. W-why would I-I be jealous." I look away from him to focus on the piano keys.
"Haha I'm just messing with you Rina." He bumps my shoulder with his. I still focus my attention on the piano keys. Why did I react like that with him being so close to me. Do I... no. I reject that thought from my head. We are just friends.
"Hey, you are finally here." After missing almost a week thinking to myself. I look up at him he gives my hair a ruffle.
"Yup. I can't forget my student." He sits next to giving me a grin. I forgive him for missing our lessons this time. Smiling I pulled out my music sheet I have been writing on.
"I composed a song." His eyebrows shot up and his eyes widened.
"Really?" I just nod excited for him to hear it.
"I want you to here it." He gestures his hand to the paino. I place the music sheet down and taking a big breath to calm my nerves. I placed my fingers and begin to play. I make sure I try not to mess up, but I was hard with the feeling of his eyes on me the entire time. Once I finished the piece I here him clap. I face him to see that he actually enjoyed it.
"It's amazing Rina-chan." He gives me a bright smile that made my heart skip a beat.
"Hey Rina-chan I got you something." I turn to see Ame there holding out a box. She hasn't insulted me or done anything to me lately. I think being with Yuuma is finally changing her. I give her a true smile and take the box.
" I'm sorry for being rude to you when we first meet." She says quietly.
"It's alright, thank you for apologizing." I look inside the box and see it was a strawberry cake.
I don't know why, but in the morning I felt terrible. I had a fever and I woke up vomiting. I was shaking like crazy.
"What did I eat or do? I was fine yesterday." I say to myself as I walk to the kitchen to get a glass of water. Then I saw the box that contained the strawberry cake on the table. I didn't leave it there. I checked inside it to only see what I saved for later, now gone. I had a suspension on to why I was feeling like this.
"Fuck." I rushed into my father's bedroom and found him sweating in his sleep. I touched his forehead it was warm. I realised my suspension was right, it was the cake.
I heard a knock on the door. I put my book that I was reading down and go answer it. I opened the door to find Yuuma there holding a pot.
"Hey." He says.
"Hey." I reply
"You missed a couple lessons, you never do that. So I went to see if you were at work, but they told me that you and your father got sick." He was worried about me I thought. I give him a half smile.
" I'm fine I just got a stomach bug, but I should be better by tomorrow. My father is doing fine too. I guess it's something we ate." I lift my shoulders like it wasn't a big deal.
"Ame wanted to be here too, but she had to work." I just nod my head. I didn't tell him anything ,because I knew he wouldn't believe me, not to mention she will denied everything. Some goes for everyone else. The only person who would believe me was the chef at the restaurant, but she left to go live with her daughter in Suna. It was useless and confronting her myself scares me.
"Well I made you some miso soup." He hands me the pot and I take it from him.
"You made this." I ask to make sure I don't repeat the same mistake twice.
"Yeah. Just because I'm a guy doesn't mean I can't cook." He laughs.
"I hope you get better." He ruffles my hair and bends down to kiss the crown of my head. I stiffen and take a sharp intake of breath. I hear his footsteps fade as he walks away. I try to understand the why my stomach was in knots. Blaming it on the stomach bug I walk back inside my home
"Hey Rina I got you something." Ame holds out a big rectangular shape box with green ribbon wrapped around it. I was on my way to meet up with Yuuma, but she stopped me on my way there. I look back at her and the box, Is this her idea of a joke. Her last present sent my father to the hospital. Everything from the past months of torture finally spill out. I force a smile and take the box from her hands.
"This is what I think of your crappy gift." I slam the fucken box to the ground and begin stomping on it as hard as I can. Jumping on it breaking what ever there was in there.
"Stop! What are you doing!" She tries to stop me, but I slap the bitch.
"Yuuma!" She cries out and I freeze. He comes out from hiding behind a building and rushes to Ame's side.
"W-what. Why were you hiding" I look at him shocked. He was comforting Ame and turn his head to give me a hard look that made me flinch.
"I wanted to see the look on your face once you saw what Ame got you, but she told me to go hide since she didn't want me stealing any credit from her idea. " He explains. I was shocked and look back and forth at them. She planned this there's no way she would ever do something this nice to me. She wants to make me look bad Infront of Yuuma.
"I wanted to surprise you and this is how you thank me." Ame says with tears out of here eyes rubbing her red cheek. I roll my eyes at her knowing full well that those tears were fake.
"She is right Rina you are mean to her. I never thought it was true." He looks at me with disappointment in his eyes.
"No she lying, Yuuma you have to understand she is not right for you. She's evil, mulipative and a down right cu-"
" Enough! Don't talk to about her like that. Are you that jealous of her." My eyes widen.
"NO I AM NOT!" I yell out l. I couldn't believe that he was taking her side.
"She tells me that's why you hate her, because im with her and not you." My head was spinning my eyes were beginning to water. He just shakes his head at me.
" Goodnight Rina. Let's go Ame I'll take you home." He puts his arm around her and leaves. I look down to see the broken pieces of wood, strings and wrapping paper. I look back at thier disappearing figures. My heart begins to ache so terrible. I drop to my knees and my tears fall. I finally realised all my feelings I had for him. It came and hit me like a gaint ocean wave. I love him, but at the end he chose her.
The next day after that night I walk into the restaurant where Yuuma always played. I wanted to tell him how I felt even if he wouldn't chose me. He wasn't there, It wasn't surprised. He probably still mad. I was about to walk out, but was stopped by a waitress.
"Here he told me to give you this yesterday morning." She hands me a letter.
"What do you mean he left." My ask in disbelief.
" Yeah he said he was leaving town with some girl. That's all I know." She shrugs her shoulders and walks away. I open the letter and found a note and a music sheet.
Hey Rina-chan. Sorry for no longer teaching you. I will be traveling with Ame, I hope you liked the violin she got you. Anyways I wrote a song for you. You are very talented I see you going places Rina. I believe in you.
Love,
Yuuma Tsbaki
I look at the sheet music and walked up to the paino. Making sure I read everything correctly I placed my fingers and started playing it. It quickly became one of my favorite pieces to play.
(End of flashback)
I look at him frozen in my spot. My anger builds up and I walk up to him. He thinks I'm going to hug him, he stretching out his arms and I slap in the face. I made sure I held back, I didn't want to leave a bruise.
"I deserve that. I'm sorry, you were right about her." He turns his head back to me
"Yes you do, so she finally showed her real colors."
"Yeah, ow ow you slap a lot stronger than you look." He messages his cheek.
"Hmph serves you right." I cross my arms and lift my chin at him
"Can I still get a hug." He open his arms. I forgave him a long time ago I wanted him back in my life, I knew Ame wouldn't put up the fake act forever and you never forget your first love.
"It depends, do I get some chocolate cake." I smirk at him
"Depends is that place still open." I nod at him
"Then yes." His arms still waiting I shake my head.
"After cake" I tell him.
"Nope or no deal. Come on you know you missed me." Its true I missed him so much I would dream about him at times. I finally sighing in defeat I gave him a hug.
"Come on there's a lot we have to catch up on." He ruffles my hair like old times. I giggle, I missed when he did that.
"Ok" I smile and let him pull my hand.
Shout out to MyNameislaura, paparika6, Hashirama 1710, Kyrie twilight,fortheloveofb and mvue for fallowing, commenting and favorite. You guys are amazing. If you are curious on what Rina played look up kiss the rain from yiruma and the song that Yuuma made for Rina is kiss the rain from yiruma. Till next chapter. ^_^