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"To the live show! And Mafuyu's recovery!"
"Cheers!"
The glasses clanged together. Spilling small amounts of bear on the wooden table. Hana reels her cup back, and takes a big gulp up the crispy cold beer. Exchanging an exasperated 'ah' as the fresh liquid went down all their throats.
Taking a small amount of rice into her mouth shortly after.
"By the way, Do you people know what this is?"
The three teens and one older male bring their attention to Haruki who seemed to be holding up a USB. With a proud grin on his face.
Hana tilts her head.
"What's on it?"
"Well this Hana. Is the video from yesterday's show"
Silence takes over for a brief moment. Before everyone basically cheers with joy, at having some piece of evidence that a master piece like that really did happen.
"I've already transferred it to the laptop!"
Haruki cheers, pulling out the laptop from his bag. And placing it over the grill. So they all could see. His hand reaches over and pressed play.
The vocals and Instruments, glazing out the speakers. Hana feels her heart skip at the sight of herself. She couldn't even recognize that was her for a moment. Uenoyama and Mafuyu having almost the same reactions she did.
"W-we're awesome!"
Hana mumbles
"Hell yeah we are!!"
Uenoyama shouts
"I still can't believe it!!"
Mafuyu cheers
Haruki nods, taking the praises they were giving. He takes the tongs, grabbing some of the done meat from the grill.
"Not only that, but the guy who shot it is a bud from another live house and he apparently stopped by. He said we should try doing another live show"
"Woah!!"
They gasp at the the new big offer. Someone was actually impressed with them, enough to ask them to play again.
"But like where?"
Uenoyama questions, trying to figure out if this 'guy' was a as big of a bud, Haruki put him out to be.
"At a shibuya place. We go on first, then my senpai is doing a one-man show"
Uenoyama almost chokes on his beer
"That's pretty damn huge, isn't it!!??"
Kaji nods.
"So basically we're the opening act"
"Opening what?"
"We're like the warm up. The curtain raiser"
Kaji answers Mafuyu's question before sipping his beer.
"So, wanna do it?"
Uenoyama thinks for a moment. Looking at the pair. It was morally a question for them. If they were willing to do something like that again.
"Yes!"
Mafuyu answers with out hesitation
And if Mafuyu did something. Hana was for sure going to do it too. Of course for herself as well.
"Yeah, more then anything!"
Haruki and kaji share a quick glance. Before interrupting with the one thing they needed closure for.
"But, we pretty much did the show without much of a game plan. We've not much decided on stuff like our content or why were gonna do this, have we?"
Hana couldn't help but think. It was all very true. They did just go off of pure emotions. Everything happened so fast. And did she even have a definite answer as to why she wanted to do this.
The same thinking face on Mafuyu's as he himself thought about those things.
'What was their purpose for all of this?'
Haruki clears his throat
"Okay so, what do you two wanna do? And what do you want out of it?"
Everyone focused their attention on the vocalists. As they stared blankly at each other. Almost like Transmitting answer through space and time to one another's head.
Uenoyama starts questioning if they even understood what was being asked.
"It was really hot"
The three males stared at Mafuyu In disbelief.
'What's he talking about?'
Hana nods being the only one who knew.
"The lights. Did seem way hotter then I imagined they'd be"
"Yeah, and I don't think we really remember much apart from that. I just.....thought that I'll be forgiven for saying all that"
Hana pushes some of the hair from her face
" I think I was trying to just get closure for it all.....the sensation is very hard to put into words. How I felt standing up there"
"But We want to preform live again. And confirm that sensation again"
"And we wanna write songs again"
Hana adds. With the small slam of her hand on the table.
They couldn't help but be glued to the sparks and glints In their eyes. How they talked about it like it was the most magical thing they've done.
They sheepishly slide all the meat towards them. They deserved it after making them feel such a way.
Haruki clears his throat, as everyone started putting themselves together after that moment.
"Okay well that's settled. Now on to the next thing. We need a band name"
Hana puts the meat she had on her chopstick back down.
"I thought we already had one?"
"Well yeah we did, when it was the three of us we call ourselves 'the seasons'"
Haruki answers, still in thought about names.
Uenoyama nods and looks her way
"Cause all of us had names based on a season"
Kaji shakes his head. Taking out his notepad and pen.
"You guys are so simple"
"Ohhh"
Hanna nods now understanding.
"So now that theirs five members. It's entirely different and we should probably change it"
Kaji adds again. Crossing out the name 'the seasons' on his note pad.
Hana and Mafuyu nod. Over hearing them talk about other ideas. And things they could possibly use. They didn't wanna just move words around, they wanted an entirely different name. Something that described them.
Haruki pans over to them. Curious about what they thought.
"Mafuyu, Hana?. Any words come to mind that you'd like to put in?"
"Uhh"
Hana scratches the back of her head. Thinking about something that would describe her. Anything that related her life to start with. What's gotten her to this point?
Mafuyu taps Hana's shoulder. Pulling her to come closer. He whispers something in her ear. And Hana nods and whispers something back. The boys look at each other, wondering why they were whispering in the first place?
They give each other confident smiles and looks back to the confused trio.
"How about.... 'give'?"
"I got this guitar from my late boyfriends mother. I thought it seemed like a curse at first, but I guess it became my starting point"
Hana nods
"I was given the opportunity to sing and invest in music by my brother. Before him, I didn't even glance at a sheet a music like I do now. I never thought I could grow to love something this much".
Uenoyama and Haruki were shocked at how open they were. They felt proud a little inside. While kaji concentrated on his notepad. Scribbling away at what popped in his head.
"Hmm, 'give' Huh?"
"When you put them together you get 'givens'"
He writes something finale and looks up at them all.
"How about given?"
"Oh, sounds good"
"No objections? Okay, it's decided then. Let's get more meat"
Hana widens her eyes. As she glances over at Mafuyu.
"Huh? We're just gonna go with that?"
"That was pretty fast"
Hana adds
Uenoyama nods. Looking at the menu.
"It's fine we got everyone's input. I heard of bands coming up with names on the spot. If we applied that rule, we'd be 'salted tongue'"
He adds referring to kajis order.
They sigh in defeat. It was the best they were gonna get at, and they knew that.
"Let's get a twitter account right now using 'given'. We'll leave it to you, Haruki"
"Let's also add the performance on a video site. Thank you Haruki-San!"
"Let's enter for lots of things too"
Mafuyu adds staring at Haruki
"I want cute group photos, as well~~"
"I GET IT! I'll DO IT!. But you guys better do your part later!!!"
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"Rock,"
"Paper,"
"Scissors!"
Uenoyama growls in defeat at his losing choice, scissors. Standing up.
"I want yakisoba bread!"
Itaya cheers. His orange hair flowing in the wind as he throws his fist in the air. Reaching in his back pocket for the bike keys.
"I'll take any kind of rice ball"
Ueki adds, leaning back. Relieved it wasn't him who had to go buy lunch.
They all sat in a circle. On the roof. This kinda became their eating spot after a while. Especially since Hana and Mafuyu started getting close with Ueki and Itaya.
"What about you guys?"
Itaya smiles as he hands Uenoyama the keys
Mafuyu thinks for a minute
"Tea"
Hana stretches a bit. Thinking what her cravings were this time.
"Uh, Hokkaido Cheese Mushi Cake. A coffee. A rice ball would be nice as well. Oh and yakisoba bread also would be really good right now. And a hypercup, the vanilla kind"
She yawns. Leaning on the concrete wall.
They all stared shocked at her.
"What? Did I say something bad?"
She nervously responds.
Itaya laughs. Pulling her in by the shoulder
"Aw our Hana-San is hungry today. You heard her Uenoyama, and make that two hyper cups"
He growls sending a glare to them.
"Okay, fine!"
Hana nervously chuckles. Scratching the back of her head.
'Maybe I should of ate dinner last night. Sorry Uenoyama~'
Mafuyu thinks for a minute
"Itaya-kun ? Is that your bike?"
He shakes his head. Releasing his death grip on Hana's shoulder. Which she didn't mind, it just hurt a bit.
"Nope"
"We don't know who the original owner is"
Ueki shrugs. Helping Hana massage her arm, that he knew was probably a sleep by now.
"You don't?"
"So who's is it?"
Hana adds
"That bicycle has been handed down for generations, since before we even started at this school. You guys can use it when ever you guys wanna go to the store as well!"
He chimes happily, puffing up his chest a bit.
Mafuyu nods
"Thanks"
"That's actually pretty cool, thanks"
Hana adds
Itaya burst and grabs her cheeks
"Of course it is Hana-San~!"
Squeezing the life out of them.
"Ah! Itaya!! Too....tight!"
While he violated her cheeks (I cackled) . Ueki decides to check up on Mafuyu .
"Sato, are you feeling better now?"
He gives off a soft smile
"Yeah, I felt better after I slept"
He states taking another bite of his bread.
Itaya sparks up
"Your show was insane! Ueki was even crying!"
Ueki sends him a glare
"Stop exaggerating"
Hana innocently stares back
"Theirs no shame if you were Ueki"
"I-I wasn't crying!"
"Come on Ueki I saw you"
Itaya chimes with a devilish smile
"Itaya!"
Mafuyu smiles warmly at them. Happy about the conversation to start with. And even if Hana didn't show it, she felt warm knowing they enjoyed it as well.
She looks towards Mafuyu and sends him a thumbs up. And a bright smile.
He sends one back with a small giggle.
Another non verbally way of talking to one another.
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It was late at night. And they band was all in the studio. Surrounding Haruki and the computer.
Haruki drags the mouse to the upload button and clicks it. Their video now showing as uploaded.
"It's uploaded"
He states probably. Staring at his hard work.
Uenoyama and kaji bow. Synchronizing a 'thanks'. While Mafuyu and Hana stare amazed at such a simple action. They really enjoyed when they did things that promoted them more as a band.
"Let's go ahead and tweet about it. Post sometimes too Hana and Mafuyu, okay?"
Haruki smiles their way.
Hana stares confused she lifts her hair up. Her hair tie held between her teeth. Which caused her lack of speech.
"We can do it, too?"
Mafuyu ask for her. Also wondering as well.
Haruki nods
"Of course. We're all gonna be sharing the account"
Kaji stands back from afar. Holding his phone horizontally. Trying to get a picture of everyone's head. But as he pressed the camera button. Haruki turned around. Which resulted in a cute picture none the less, so kaji posted it anyway.
Captioning it
'We've started a social media account'
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They all stood by the entrance getting ready to say their farewells . Mafuyu chatted with kaji about making him a playlist of songs. Which kaji would send to him later on that night.
Haruki chimes excitedly as one of his senpais already followed their social media.
And Hana was on her phone as Uenoyama peers over, trying to help her find the account.
"This one?"
She peers over her shoulder to look for Uenoyama's reassurance.
"Yeah, just press the follow button. And I'll send you the password later on tonight, so you can start posting whenever you want"
She smiled, excited about having a band social media. Quickly pressing the follow button. And liking the picture kaji posted a few minutes ago.
Uenoyama couldn't help but stare at her. How her hair glazed nicely across her face. And how her piercings twinkled in the street lights. He ruffles her hair.
"You going home with Mafuyu today?"
She nods. And melts into his touch.
"Yeah"
He looks over at the ginger. And how he talked with kaji. He was so invested in music. He'd do this a lot. Uenoyama loves the way his eyes glints when he saw the slightest reference to music.
"Text me when you arrive, that means you too!"
He shouts to the ginger who just wrapped up his conversation with kaji.
Mafuyu looks over and nods
"I will"
"Be Safe you guys!"
Kaji shouts to the pair. As the three other boys get ready to separate.
"We will"
They chime inSync. Before walking off into their own path.
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The store lights lit up the night streets. As people chattered and walked off in groups. Heading home from work or having fun with friends after school
"To be honest I don't really know what to post, I think I might just post pictures of Aki"
Hana answers the question Mafuyu asked not long ago
"Me neither, I don't even know if I will post"
Mafuyu sighs. Putting to much thought into it.
Hana goes on about ideas for him. That he was listening too at first, but then the music store caught his attention pretty fast. He quickly grabs Hana's arm.
"W-Wait can we go in there?"
He points to the lit up store. The doors made out of glass, so you can see all the repair stuff and instruments. Everything they held in that store was visible.
The store was like a candy shop to Hana. But she can't help but feel reluctant about going in.
"Mafuyu I'm kinda tired~ can we go tomorrow?"
He pleads with puppy eyes
"Just for a second, I wanna grab us some new strings. So we don't have anymore accidents again"
She melts at the sight. She can't help but say yes to him. Plus she can't say she herself wasn't thinking about getting some spare strings. They were left kinda vulnerable the last show.
"Fine, but just for a second. I swear I think I'm gonna pass out and sleep right here~"
Mafuyu chuckles and drags her into the store.
They looked around for a bit. More then a few seconds. But Hana didn't realize, she was so glued to everything in the shop. She just wanted to see what it all did, and how it helped instruments. If her wallet was stable enough she would buy it all.
After a while they found the string section. As they both aimlessly looked at the different colored packaging.
"Man I wished I asked Yuki what kind he used"
Hana groans to herself as she tried to look for the most sturdiest one.
"Hey Mafuyu have you-"
A stinging pain was felt at the top of her head. As someone had hit her with the side of their hand. And by the look of Mafuyu rubbing his head, they did the same to him.
Hana hisses as she turns around. Hand glued to her head as she tried to rub away the pain.
She was greeted with two figures.
Hiiragi
And
Shizusumi or shizu for short
"Hey"
Hiiragi states. A stern look on his face.
Hana rolls her eyes
"Wow, what an entrance"
She wasn't mad at him. But she didn't fully forgive him either. They were just, neutral. Plus his cocky behavior Irked her soul sometimes. Especially if she was tired.
"What?"
Mafuyu asked this time.
"Heading home from practice?"
Shizu asked looking at the pair.
Hana nods releasing a yawn.
"Yeah, I'm exhausted"
She didn't have much issues with shizu on the other hand. If anything he stayed back the most out of them. He was just as laid back as her anyway.
Mafuyu nods, looking back at the strings
"Which one of these strings won't break?"
It was an oblivious question but he was serious.
Hana leans on Mafuyu's shoulder. Looking at them with him.
"We're kinda new with this stuff"
"Huh? There's no such thing"
"Oh"
Hiiragi groans. Staring at the disappointed two.
"What? Why?"
The conversation was getting cut short a lot. And he wanted to continue it. He wanted to carry a conversation with them.
"Hana's broke the other day, even after we just changed them."
Mafuyu answers. Still glued to the string packaging.
"Huh? What do your hands have razors in them or something?"
She glares at the obnoxious teen
"Of course they don't, I swear you ask the dumbest question"
"It's rhetorical"
Hiiragi barks back
"It's dumb"
Hana states not paying attention to him anymore. As she watches Mafuyu pick up a purple packaging.
Anger boils in hiiragi's chest at how snarky she's become. But he pulls himself back from getting upset. He can't blame her after all.
She moves her hair behind her ear, and the side view of her face just melts away all that anger.
"You gonna continue with your band?"
Shizu ask. Popping in the conversation from time to time.
Hana leaves it to Mafuyu to answer, as she crouches to look at the guitar pics below. Picking up a handful and examining them. Dropping the ones she didn't like back into the bin.
"Yup. We're going to do another show too"
Hiiragi feels his words stop in his throat at the sentence. He looks at the crouching girl and the back of the gingers head. He slowly goes back to his cocky behavior.
"Well, I guess I wouldn't mind checking it out if I have time"
He grins, crossing his arms.
"Nah, that's okay"
"Huh?"
The grin whipping right off his face.
"You don't have to come if you don't want to"
Hana adds, leaning up with five pics in her hand.
"What-"
Hirragi is stunned by their blunt answers. As he's ready to defend himself. Really close to Hana and Mafuyu's presence now.
"Well, you just said you were busy"
"What are you delusional are something?"
Hana scuffs, but she could feel a tickle of laughter wanting to be let out.
"I just said I'll go if I have time!"
Shizu watches the ordeal from a few inches away. Watching their interactions. He was definitely an observer.
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Hiiragi angrily stomps Down the sidewalk as shizu follows behind.
"Dammit....their so not cute"
He growls to himself. But shizu is close enough to hear.
Shizu couldn't help but reminisce the day after the live show.
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(Flash back)
Shizu leans back on the poll. Hands dug deep into his pockets as he waited for his friend, who said he wanted to speak to a certain duo before they left. It was taking him some time but he finally heard the footsteps of his friend. Turning to see him standing in front of him.
"Hiiragi, were you able to talk to the-"
His friend bursted out in tears. Running right into his embrace. Holding him tight. Bawling into his chest.
"I'm so happy Mafuyu and Hana were able to sing"
He cried into his chest.
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Shizu stares at his angry friend walking ahead of him.
"I'm glad you guys can talk normally now"
"Huh? What are you-"
He stops, figuring it was useless to play the stupid card. He grunts looking towards the ground.
Shizu walks over and gets his hands lost in the boys hair.
"J-just shut up"
Hiiragi grumbles. Taking in the comfort.
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"Huh....I guess you upload your own live footage nowadays. I thought all band guys were low-tech"
Ugetsu states watching the computer kaji set in front of him as soon as he got home. Kaji nods with his hand leaning on his shoulder. As he anxiously watched their live performance with him.
"What do you think?"
He hums. His cigarette close to his face as he used that hand to prop up his chin.
"It's not bad, but it's not great, either"
He thinks for a minute
"I know what it sounded like live, so this really doesn't compare. You don't get 1/100th of what it sounded like live"
Kaji groans
"Don't say that"
"Music is all about seeing the actual live performance. I mean....it's not bad, though"
Kaji glares daggers into the side of his face
"Gee, thanks"
Kaji starts asking ugetsu about dinner and other random topics. But ugetsu starts to go into thought. Kajis words not seeping in his head just yet.
'No seriously, it's not bad at all. That's why it's such a waste'
He leans his back on the edge of the bed. Glazing the two figures he couldn't help himself from looking at. Taking a long drag of his cigarette.
'These two could really be something big if they had the right kind of trigger....'
His eyes switched to the familiar stringy blonde hair. Her hazel green eyes. How her hands move diligently on her strings like it was water.
'And you.....your just mesmerizing. I wanna see you rise to the top more then anything.....'
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'It's almost nerve-racking being alone with them...'
Uenoyama thinks to himself as his cheeks glaze with a light pink shade.
Mafuyu and Uenoyama stood holding onto the trains bars. As Hana sat in front of them on one of the chairs. Her guitar case rested Nicely in between her legs.
"Hana-San, Uenoyama-Kun?"
Hana adverts her attention from her phone to Mafuyu.
"After this, do you..."
'What!'
Uenoyama shouts in his head. As he quickly turns his head straight.
"...have any plans"
Hana herself felt a bit taken away by the sudden question. She swallows the lump in her throat.
"No, not really"
"No, I don't.."
Uenoyama's voice coming off shaky. And very vulnerable. Hana feels the second hand embarrassment from her seat.
'Man you really can't hide your emotions can you?'
Mafuyu brings his gaze to him. Which starts to make Uenoyama nervous. So he resorts to the only way left. Pretending like it didn't happen.
"What if you have something to say, out with it. Is there somewhere you want to go?"
'Get your shit together, me! If your too pushy they'll think your over bearing!'
"I mean, I don't have the money to go very far. But I'll take you two wherever you wanna go"
His tone soft now. And more dialed down.
Hana couldn't help but softly smile at him. He really was faltering his tough image just to get on their good sides.
"Well, I think Mafuyu has a place in mind right?"
She chimes staring at the ginger
Mafuyu quickly nods
"Mmhm"
After a few stops on the train. And a couple blocks of walking. They finally reached the familiar destination.
'So....why did we come to Yokohama Minato Mirai?'
'What do they want to do here?'
Hana and Mafuyu looked around with big doe eyes. Turning side to side. Looking at where they wanted to go. Mafuyu and hana's eyes meet then advert back to the trailing where the ocean met. Mafuyu sprints off, holding his hand out for her to take. She giggles and accepts it. Running with him.
"Huh!?! What the hell!!"
Uenoyama books it after them. Not knowing their intentions as they ran hand in hand towards the ocean.
"Oi!! Don't be a psycho and jump into the ocean or something!!!"
He yells trying to gain on them.
"Mafuyu!!! Hana!!!"
Their hands meet the cold railing. As they stop peering over. The smell of salt water filling their noses.
Mafuyu giggles. Turning around, pushing some of his hair out of his face. Hana loved the sight of him happy. She jumps pushing the hair out of her face, with a laugh.
"T-that was fun!"
Uenoyama almost broke at the sight. His heart doing 360s. As he meets them at the railing. His hair covering his eyes. As he stood fairly quiet. His teeth gritted tightly together.
Hana already knew where this was leading. On the way home yesterday, her and Mafuyu had a pretty deep chat. About the feelings surfacing the three teens. It didn't go unnoticed. Mafuyu confessed to her that he like Uenoyama. Which she quickly reverts and says she liked him and Uenoyama. And that if he wanted him to himself she'd back off immediately. But Mafuyu was quick to kiss the girl, confessing that he liked her as well. And then they planned this little arrangement. To confess to the raven haired boy.
Hana smiles at the beautiful scenery.
"It's really pretty out here"
Mafuyu nods quickly with a smile
"It's my first time here"
"I've been here a few times before for school stuff..."
The raven grumbled out. Not making eye contact with them.
"It seems like a pretty date spot"
"I could totally agree on that.."
Uenoyama chokes on his words
"YOU-"
They just were so mesmerizing to him. How their hair flowed. The tints on their cheeks. Every bit of them, drove him insane. They've became so much to him. And it was itching at his skin how he felt about them.
They noticed the pause and decided it was the right time.
"We.....like you, Uenoyama-kun"
Hana leans her head on the railing. Looking at the two figures beside her.
(すき だよ) "I love you.."
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This is the longest chapter I've written in my entire life😭. But it was worth it. I actually think I did well here. Not to toot my own horn 😌. But I hope you guys enjoy this. Thank you for the support In generally I really appreciate it my loves. ❤️💖❤️💖💖❤️💖❤️💖💖❤️. 🥺