Sorry I've slowed down so much. Bit of a rough Christmas season for me. I had planned on releasing this on Christmas but then I kinda just lost the motivation to do it. I'm not dropping this story but updates won't be as fast as the multiple times a day they used to be unless I get into a groove again lol. Hopefully I'll be able to do a few times a week tho, idrk.
Keigo took out the AirPods with a grin on his face. Kyoka looked at him with curious eyes. "So?"
"I-"
Before Keigo could speak he got a phone call. His eyes lit up as he looked at the notification. "Hold on!"
He put the phone to his ear. "Yu is that you?!"
"Hey!"
Keigo laughed and sat down in a seat. "It's been so long, what made you call?!"
"I heard you were in Japan, the girls and I are off of tour right now so I thought it'd be great if we could meet up!"
Keigo had a huge smile on his face. "Hell yeah!" He looked over to Kyoka and then muted himself on the phone.
"Hey kid."
Kyoka tilted her head a bit. "Yeah?"
"Do you wanna be an artist when you're older?"
Kyoka looked away but nodded, she was a bit embarrassed.
"Cool." Keigo unmuted himself. "Yo remember the Jiro's shop?"
"Yeah! Oh my god we haven't been there in so long!"
Keigo chuckled. "Well im there now, swing by we can talk."
"Alright! See you in a few Taki!"
Keigo laughed. "See ya'"
He hung up the phone and put it back in his pocket. Taki was a nickname he was called by his closest friend in high school. Yu Takeyama; who was now a pop star in Japanese culture. The two made songs when they were younger and quite quickly Yu was picked up by a label. Keigo on the other hand went a different way.
They hadn't spoken since they graduated, so it was nice to hear from her. There was never a falling out they just grew apart.
"Who was that?"
Keigo looked over to Kyoka and smiled. "My old buddy from high school. You might actually know her."
Kyoka raised a brow. "How would I know her?"
Keigo stands up. "She's a part of an idol group here."
"Oh, which one?"
Keigo shrugged and laughed. "I don't know but she's doing well so I'd assume a popular one."
Kyoka rolled her eyes. "What's her name?"
"Yu Takeyama."
Kyoka's mouth gaped open slightly. "Wait like THE Yu Takeyama?!"
Keigo grinned and nodded. "Yup, the one and most likely not only, Yu takeyama." Keigo chuckled to himself as Kyoka started to fangirl.
"She's coming here?! Oh my g-"
Keigo put his index finger into the air. "Ahhuh stop."
Kyoka stared at him. "What?"
"Don't get all giddy, if you treat her like she's a pop star she'll see you as a fan not a normal person. So if you wanna actually get to know her then don't do all this when she's here."
Kyoka slowly nodded at him. "Okay..."
"Speaking of,when will she be here?"
Keigo shrugged. "No clue, probably soon but not soon enough to sit around waiting. I wanna check out the shop so let's go." Keigo turned toward the door to the main shop.
"Wait;wait, what did you think of the song?" Kyoka followed close behind the man who stopped in his tracks.
"Oh yeah." Keigo chuckled as his own bad memory. "I actually really liked it. I can send that to my wife to get it mixed for you if you'd like."
Kyoka raised a brow. "You have a wife?! How old are you?"
"22, don't clown on me I know I'm still young to have a wife but; hey, I'm happy."
Kyoka shrugged. "Fair enough."
Keigo chuckled as he opened the door to the front portion of the shop. "Yo! Mr.Jiro."
"Hey kid. Was it something I wouldn't wanna hear?" The man asked referring to kyoka's song.
Keigo chuckled as he looked around the shop. "Nothing you'd condemn but I guess I can understand why it's embarrassing for her." The man spotted some electric guitars and his eyes lit up. "Ooh show me around!"
Before the man could continue Keigo's phone went off again. "Damnit who the hell!" He ripped his phone out of his pocket.
"Oh! Hey Kyoka it's your buddy Deku."
Kyoka didn't reply, she didn't feel the need to.
"Yo! Deku what's up."
Izuku sat in his car, the call was connected to his Bluetooth. "What's up man, I just saw Kota a little while ago. I assume you're in Japan as well?"
"Yeah man! You should pull up where I am."
Izuku looked in his rear view mirror as he pulled out of his driveway. "Which is? Also you're on speaker in the car and Ochako is here."
"Ohhh, hi Ochako."
"Hi!" The girl giggled before Keigo continued. "Anyways I'm at Jiro's shop. You know where that is?"
"You mean Kyoka's parents shop?!" Ochako said before izuku could reply. "Yeah! Are you guys friends?"
"Mhm! Let me talk to her!"
Keigo chuckled as he looked back at Kyoka who raised a brow at him. "What?"
"Ochako wants to talk, here." He held out his phone to the girl who hesitantly took it. "Hello?"
"Kyoka!"
"Hi Ochako, what's up?"
"I just wanted to say hi! I didn't think that you knew Keigo. Small world right?" She giggled and Kyoka chuckled. "I guess, it's not really me who knows him it's more my dad. Apparently he came around the shop when I was younger. I don't really remember it though."
"Still cool though." Izuku interjected making Kyoka confused. "Midoriya? How can you hear me?"
"Oh Keigo didn't tell you, you're on my cars speaker. We're on the way to the shop now." The boy chuckled as he pulled onto a Main Street.
"Oh okay, well I guess I'll see you guys soon then."
"Mhm!" The two hummed in unison.
Kyoka chuckled. "Alright then, I'll give you back to Keigo now." The girl told the two. "Alright see you soon! Love ya' Kyoka!" Ochako said making Kyoka chuckle a bit. "See you soon." She said before the phone could be heard moving away from her ear.
"Damn she didn't even say it back!"
Izuku chuckled while holding his hand up to his forehead making an L with his index finger and thumb,Ochako scowled. "Hey! You guys on your way right?" Keigo was heard putting the phone to his ear.
"Yup! Give us like 10 minutes alright?"
"Yeah alright, see you guys."
"Alright see you!"
Izuku hung up, they were at a red light and izuku looked over to Ochako who was bobbing her head back and forth. "You okay?" He chuckled and the girl looked over to him with a smile. "Yeah, just excited to see Keigo. I wanna thank him in person again and stuff. Plus maybe you'll randomly make a new song or something!"
Izuku snorted as the light turned green, he started to drive again and spoke. "You know I can't just do that consistently right? After all I've only made like 1 or 2 songs since then. Both unfinished."
Ochako shrugged. "It would be cool though, plus whenever you make songs they remind me how much I mean to you. Which is always nice."
Izuku put one of his hands over the center console and held onto one of Ochako's. "I don't think you need a song written for you to know how much I love you. I mean come on."
Ochako giggled while squeezing onto his hand. "Yeah I know, in your own words. I'm the light;right?" She chuckled at herself and Izuku rolled his eyes. "That wasn't even my song. That was Tamaki's song."
"Yeah;yeah, I know. Still, you sung it in front of the school for me."
"And compared to how it was in front of thousands of people it was pretty damn easy."
Ochako laughed as izuku turned onto the road of Jiro's shop.
"I couldn't imagine. Just standing on that stage had me frozen! If you weren't singing I would've lost my cool!" Ochako continued to laugh as they pulled into the parking lot of the shop. "Yeah, trust me it was stressful." Izuku put the car in park and turned off the ignition.
"Alright, you ready?"
Ochako nodded eagerly while unbuckling her seatbelt. "Yeah;yeah! Let's go!"