Straying Melody
a/n: thoughts are italicized! Enjoy!!
Prolog
I stood near the piano, my dark black hair pulled to the side by a silver crescent shaped pin.
My hands slowly skimmed across the surface of the black and white keys.
I looked around and closed my eyes, trying to tell if someone was there, listening.
"Come out, Ikuto… I know you're there," I whispered, my eyes still closed.
"How can you always tell I'm listening?" Ikuto asked, appearing next to the piano.
"The wind sings and its melody whispers it to me…" I said opening my eyes and showing my piercing light blue eyes to Ikuto, "The world is a symphony that can never stop playing…"
"Why don't you sing with it, Tsukiko? The world is waiting for your song as well as I am. So sing with all your heart. I'll play with you."
I deeply inhaled as I stood in front of the piano and lightly placed my fingers on the keys as Ikuto pulled out his violin.
I started playing a few chords, composing a sweet, dark, and mesmerizing melody as Ikuto played along, knowing the song by heart.
I started to sing my sad, yet beautiful song:
"It's so dark in here,
I can't breathe
Someone help me please
And tell me
Who am I?
Why is it that I cry?
Why is there always a dark sky?
And why is the ending
Never happy
And always ends with a straying melody?"
I stopped playing, my hands frozen in the air, before playing the next chord.
"That's all I've written, so there's nothing more…" I said closing my eyes again as the moonlight shone in through the small window of the room.
"You'll finish it. I promise you and you'll see not all endings are sad. Good night… and remember that starting tomorrow, you're going to Seiyo Junior High. If you need me, well, you out of all people can find me no matter where I am, but remember I go to Seiyo High, now. See ya," Ikuto said before disappearing out the window somehow.
I watched my curtains flutter inwards and the darkness behind it.
The moon, the only light visible, was casting lonely glow.
Loneliness was something I knew for all of my life, so I closed my window to try to stop myself from remembering, my happiness's sad ending.
Then I heard a knock at the door; a knock that always came right after Ikuto left.
"Tsukiko, did I just hear Ikuto? Was he here? Tell him to come back home, please," my aunt begged, but not even daring to open the door to see if her son was truly there.
"No, he's not here. You're imagining it… good night, Aunt Souko," I whispered, knowing that I wasn't completely lying to her.
Then I approached the door and locked it because, to me, the silence itself was a soothing melody.
Chapter 1
I stood at the door, waiting for, hopefully, the last introduction for me and the last time I have to be "new" student.
"Miss, you can come in now," the teacher called as I heard everything that my new peers were whispering about me even though I hadn't enter the room yet.
I took in a deep breath and closed my eyes as I turned the door knob and entered the classroom.
I could hear the thoughts of the classmates now that my eyes were closed, it was my curse; my curse allowed me to hear everything except thoughts when my eyes were opened then thoughts when my eyes were closed, and the only time I didn't hear anything but myself was when I sang.
And all I had ever wanted in my entire life was for silence, but I knew that would never happen.
Hey, she's pretty cute! I wonder what her name is… And what's her eye color? Is she single?
I opened my eyes and looked around the room when my eyes fell upon a smiling boy with messy orange hair and bright green eyes.
He was staring at me with wide eyes which made me smirk—can he see them?
"My name is Hoshina Tsukiko; I'm the cousin of Hoshina Utau—and Tsukiyomi Ikuto. I'm single," I said, smiling at the boy with orange hair.
The boys and girls of the class screamed something like "Kyaaaa! She's so, so, so HOT!", but I was trying not to listen to them.
"Tadase-kun, the new girl… she has a guardian chara," the orange haired boy whispered into his cell phone, which he got out while I was saying my name, "And she's related to Utau, the Easter girl."
I flinched when I heard that—Easter...—I started to walk towards him, well the only empty desk was behind him.
As I walked past him I whispered, "I hate Easter, and I like Ikuto, my other cousin better. And, yea, I do have one."
I smiled and sat down behind him, closing my eyes again—maybe being able to listen to thoughts isn't so bad…
…What the? How did she hear me? She was over there and I was whispering, too! Dang it…
I would keep listening, but my chara tapped me.
"Kisa, what is it?" I whispered opening my eyes and looking at Kisa.
Her hair was silver and her eyes were a light purple. She was wearing a light blue and white short tank top and black genie pants (very loose pants with a long strip of fabric in the middle).
"Well, I want to say that… that… I forgot. Sorry, Tsuki-chan!" Kisa squealed trying to remember what she forgot.
"It's okay, Kisa. Try to see if this boy can see you, and see if he has a chara too," I whispered to my chara, pointing to the orange haired boy in front of me.
"Ah, okay!" Kisa whispered back to me.
She floated over in front of the boy and examined him.
Then she sang:
"My heart is bursting with joy
And singing a lullaby
And the wind is like my toy
'cause when I sing it sighs
Then tune is everywhere
In the sky
And here and there
And the sun'll say hi
When I sing my lullaby
La, la, la, la, la
My heart is bursting with love
La, la, la, la, la
A wonderful gift from above"
She giggled and I heard the boy snicker and then suddenly burst out laughing.
"Hey, Souma Kukai," the teacher (female) said seductively.
"Uh…yes ma'am?" Kukai said laughing still.
"See if you can catch…" the teacher said going into a baseball pitcher's fast ball throwing form, "THIS!"
The teacher threw a piece of chalk which hit Kukai's head, hard—no, really hard.
"Now, Tsukiko, will you please take him to the nurse's office please," the teacher sighed as Kukai hit the floor unconscious.
I looked down at Kukai, his messy orange hair and his weird blue poncho/cape; I didn't want to end up on the floor like him.
"Yes ma'am…" I said, picking Kukai up on my back and started towards the door.
"Hey, Kisa, follow me, and did you see if Souma-kun has a chara?" I asked Kisa as soon as we were out of the classroom.
"Well, he can see me, so…" Kisa started but was interrupted by a chara with green hair and a headband with a star on it.
"Um… what happened to Kukai? I was…um…asleep, so I don't know what happened. O by the way I'm Dai-chi!" Dai-chi smirked, winking and giving Kisa thumbs up.
"I'm Kisa and this is Tsuki-chan!" Kisa exclaimed happy to have made a new friend.
"Hi, my name is Hoshina Tsukiko. Are you, by any chance, Souma-kun's guardian chara?" I asked Dai-chi.
"YEA!" Dai-chi yelled as we reached the nurse's office.
"So I was right… Souma-kun has a chara…" I smiled as I dropped Kukai on to a bed, which woke him up.