Hey everyone! -no i havent abandoned my 1st fanfic..i'm just tryna work through a rough patch in it at the mo..
i'm sorry i suck at summaries but i hope you like my 2nd story and i might rewrite that terrible summary...
enjoy (:
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach. I do not own any of the lyrics from any of the following songs: Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's. The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars. The Only Exception by Paramore.
A slim girl with raven hair walked up to the huge iron gates of the enormous school in her new school uniform composed of a short grey skirt, white blouse and red striped tie, a dark grey (near black) blazer, black knee-high socks and dark brown shoes. Her figure merged in with the crowd of students making their way through the gate into the school for a new semester.
The girl stopped to survey her surroundings: Deciduous trees surrounded the courtyard infront of her which was currently flooded with excited students. Bright red, orange and yellow autumn leaves were scattered on the ground. Her chocolate brown eyes glanced up at the big school sign reading:
Sereitei Academy
::Competitive School of the Arts::
A light breeze blew past her, blowing her bangs and high ponytail while picking up a few autumn leaves with it too.
The young girl walked through the automatic glass doors of the tall modern building on the other side of the courtyard. Many curious stares were sent in her direction as she made her way towards the school office. The now nervous girl clutched her folder tighter as she approached the front desk.
"Hinamori Momo?"
The raven haired girl turned around to see another girl her age, 17, standing infront of her.
"Y-yes?" the girl, Momo, replied nervously.
"Hi, I'm Senna, nice to meet you," the other girl smiled as she introduced herself and held out her right hand to Momo.
"Nice to meet you too, I'm Momo," Momo replied as she shook Senna's hand and smiled nervously.
"Ok Momo-chan, I've been assigned to be your guide so I'll take you to your locker now," Senna said cheerfully as she motioned for Momo to follow her.
Momo began to feel a bit more at ease now having met her lighthearted guide. Senna was the same height as Momo; she had dark purple hair tied up in a ponytail with a red ribbon. Senna's big orange eyes which were bright and friendly, making people feel comfortable being around her.
"Senna!" a busty strawberry-blonde screamed down the polished hallway that Senna and Momo were walking along.
"Ohayo Rangiku!" Senna called back to the girl and waved as Rangiku ran down the hallway towards them.
"Ohaaayo! –ooh, who do we have here?" Rangiku said as she looked Momo up and down curiously.
"This here's Hinamori Momo. Momo, this is my friend Rangiku," Senna introduced the two girls to each other.
"Ohayo gozaimasu Rangiku-san, it's nice to meet you-" Momo's words were cut off as Rangiku's smile suddenly widened and before she knew it, Rangiku had Momo in a bone-crushing hug.
"Kyaaaah! You are so cute!" Rangiku squealed as she twirled Momo round and round.
"Oi Rangiku! Stop that! You're gonna kill her!" Senna screamed and ran up to unwrap Momo from Rangiku's arms.
"Oh –oops! Sorry Momo-chan." Rangiku said as she let go of Momo.
"Eheh, that's ok Rangiku-san." Momo said, blushing as she patted down her short skirt.
"Here, let's start again. I'm Matsumoto Rangiku, nice to meet you Momo-chaan!" Rangiku chirped as she shook Momo hand.
"So, have you got your timetable yet Momo-chan?" Rangiku asked as she walked with Momo and Senna to Momo's new locker.
"Oh, I have it," Senna said as she handed Rangiku Momo's timetable.
"Hmm, let's see here," Rangiku muttered as she scanned Momo timetable. "Wow Momo-chan you're in like..all the advanced classes?"
"What?" Senna said as she scanned the timetable too. "WOW. Momo-chan you must be a genius!"
"Ooh you're taking art and design this year?" Rangiku asked. Momo nodded shyly. "Yay! So am I, let's hope we're in the same class ne?"
"So, I guess you'll be more on the arty side of the school huh? Not the performing arts side?" Senna asked.
"Uh..hai, I guess," Momo replied.
"Great, coz we're all more of the arty type too! –Well, except for Orihime, she does drama but we still love her –you'll meet her soon. I'm sure you'll like her." Senna said again. They were now at Momo's locker helping her with all her books.
"So, do you sing or play any instruments Momo-chan?" Rangiku asked.
"Well, I don't really sing..." Momo began.
"You play anything?"
"…Umm, I can play…guitar," Momo finished saying. As she said this she started to think back to the summer 3 years ago when her bestfriend had taught her how to play the guitar…
-Flashback—
It was a hot summer's afternoon, a young 14 girl was sitting on the porch of a small cottage in the country. The porch looked out to a stream running past the cottage.
A young boy with snowy white hair sat next to the girl playing his guitar and singing along to 'Hey There Delilah' by Plain White T's.
"Hey there Delilah what's it like in New York City
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you look so pretty, yes you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you do, I swear it's true…"
The girl looked over to her friend and smiled as he sung. She loved it whenever he played his guitar and how he would get lost in the music as he sang along to it.
The white-haired boy turned to look at his friend, his aqua-teal eyes met with her chocolate brown ones. The girl's face turned a slight tinge of pink when their eyes met and she hurriedly looked away. A smirked played across the boy's handsome features.
As he carried on singing the next verse, the young girl slowly turned back to see him looking at her. This time, the girl didn't look away; instead she smiled as he kept singing. She was happy; it felt like he was singing those lyrics to her.
"…Hey there Delilah don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely give this song another listen
Close your eyes, listen to my voice it's my disguise
I'm by your side.
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me…"
As her friend continued to sing the chorus the girl turned to face the sun and closed her eyes as the warm sunlight splayed across her face. She smiled as she sat on the sun-warmed wooden porch, listening to her friend sing.
"Hey there Delilah…"
The boy continued singing and looked over at his bestfriend sitting next to him with her eyes closed, smiling at the sun. A gentle breeze swept past them. It ruffled his snowy hair a little and blew her bangs and ponytail slightly. A strand of raven hair came loose in the process and fell across her face.
As the boy kept singing he studied his friend's tender face, her pretty features accented in the sunlight.
"Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me"
The girl turned to look at him with her bright chocolate brown eyes and smiled again.
"Can you teach me to play the guitar Shiro-chan?" she suddenly asked interrupting the music. He stopped playing.
"Are you sure you'll be able to handle it Bedwetter?" the boy teased.
The young girl pouted. "Mou, Shiro-chan, don't call me that. And if you can play it so can I!"
"I won't stop calling you that until you stop calling me 'Shiro-chan'. But fine, I'll teach you …Bedwetter" he replied. The young girl pouted playfully and he smirked back at her.
"Ok hold it like this," the boy gestured with his hands after he handed his friend the guitar.
"Good, now hold down these 3 strings over here, then strum it, that's G chord," he said and pointed to 3 separate strings on the guitar.
"These ones?" the girl asked as she moved her fingers over 3 of the strings.
"No, those ones there" the boy said again.
The young girl cocked her head to the side in confusion and the boy sighed.
"Like this," he said as he moved over and sat behind his friend then put his arms around her slim figure. He placed his hands over the top of hers and strummed the guitar while holding onto her hands.
"That's G, now this is D," the boy said as he adjusted her left hand fingers onto different strings. The girl's face turned pink as his breath fanned across her ear.
"Good. Now, we'll play them again," the boy said as he strummed the guitar, his hands never letting go of hers…
"Oi Momo-chan!" Senna called, snapping Momo out of her daze.
"Ah! –oh, uh-umm, what?...sorry," Momo blushed in embarrassment.
"Rangiku just asked you if you still played guitar, but anyways, you just started daydreaming so…" Senna trailed off.
"Sorry Rangiku-san. No, I don't play guitar anymore…well, I don't have a guitar to play anyway," Momo finally answered Rangiku's question.
"Aww, that's such a shame! I think you should keep playing, don't worry the music rooms are always unlocked so you can probably go and borrow one of their guitars and play in the theatre during break, don't worry we'll show you around." Rangiku replied. "But jeez Momo-chan you sure got caught up with whatever you were thinking bout just then…was it a boy? Hmm?" Rangiku smiled slyly.
"Rangiku! She's only been here for like what? 20 minutes? And you're harassing her already?" Senna scolded.
"I was just kidding…anyway, we better go to home room soon, the bell's bout to go." Rangiku said as she started dragging Senna and Momo down the hallway.
"Ooh! That's my locker right there!" Senna pointed to a locker 2 down from Momo's.
"That's good we're all close to each other then! Mine, Orihime and Tatsuki's are up there." Rangiku gestured to the row of lockers on the opposite side.
"Which class are you in Rangiku?" Senna asked as then turned a corner.
"3-1, you?"
"3-1. Yay! We're all in the same homeroom then!" Senna cheered.
"Ohayo minna!" Rangiku hollered at everyone as she flung open the door to their home room.
"Ohayo Rangiku!" a pretty caramel haired girl screamed back as she ran up and hugged Rangiku. Everyone else in the room had turned to look at the new additions to their homeroom. A few boys had silly grins on their faces as they muttered something about being in the same class as Matsumoto and Inoue
"Yo Rangiku, Senna! Over here!" a girl with short spiky black hair called from the other side of the room.
"Whooo! We're all in the same homeroom again!" a petite, black-haired girl cheered.
"Ohayo Orihime, Tatsuki, Rukia," Senna replied with a smile. Momo peered over Senna's shoulder to look at the people in the room.
"Ohayo Senna-chan! –Ooh! Who's this?" Orihime asked as she pulled Momo from behind Senna. "Kyaaah, you're soo cute!" Orihime squealed as she hugged Momo, who started to blush, then held her by the shoulders at arm's length.
"I know, isn't she?" Rangiku squealed in agreement.
"Ohayo, I'm Kuchiki Rukia, nice to meet you," Rukia said as she held out her hand to Momo.
"Arisawa Tatsuki." Tatsuki nodded towards Momo.
"It's nice to meet you guys," Momo said as she shook Rukia's hand.
"Everyone!" Rangiku hollered again getting the attention of the other students in the room. "This here is Momo-chan! She's new so be nice kaay?"
"Matsumoto Rangiku! That's my job not yours, now sit!" their homeroom teacher, who had just walked into the room, yelled at Rangiku. "Class, quiet down and take a seat please!"
As the class quieted down and took their seats, the teacher walked over to Momo. Momo's homeroom teacher was very young, she wore glasses and had black hair clipped up in a bun and a sideways bangs.
"Ok, everyone, most of you probably already know who I am, but just incase you don't, I am Ise Nanao, your homeroom teacher. This is your final year of high school so...firstly I'd like to say welcome, everyone to the start of your senior year!" the teacher addressed the class. "Ok, we have a transfer student starting at Sereitei Academy this semester. This is Hinamori Momo, and Senna is her guide, please make her feel welcome."
Momo had art first period and Senna was in her class. Their teacher was a middle aged man called Kyouraku. The man was very…peculiar, he wore a floral pink coat and was sleeping in his chair with a straw hat covering his face when Senna and Momo walked into the room.
When the man finally woke up half the period had gone by.
"Ok, class sorry for that little..umm…delay. So, let's start." Kyouraku start to speak. "This semester our theme in art is all based around love. So, before we start, we've obviously gotta understand what love is. So what do we believe love is?"
An array of hands shot up straight away.
"Ooh, that's a little hard to choose from. Hmm, ok let's see, who should we have…" Kyrouraku said as he scanned the names on his class list. "Oh, well, look at that, we have a transfer student in our class! Miss Hinamori Momo! Ok well let's have this lovely young lady answer for us. Miss Hinamori?"
Momo reluctantly raised her hand up for Kyouraku to see.
"Ah, there you are! Alright, Miss Hinamori, what do you believe love is?" Kyouraku asked.
Momo gulped, she was hoping she wouldn't be asked. Momo opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out, Senna looked at her worriedly.
"I-ah…uh-umm…I-I don't …believe, in love…" Momo finally said quietly. The other students in the class shot weird glances her way. Kyouraku looked surprised.
"Oh, well then, you'll have quite a hard time this semester then huh? But don't worry, I'm sure we'll uh…work around that." Kyouraku said nonchalantly as he continued the lesson. "Alright then, let's have someone else answer the question…"
Momo's face was heating up in embarrassment as she looked down at her hands on the table. She kept quiet for the rest of the lesson.
For the rest of the day Senna showed Momo to her classes since she was in most of them. At lunchtime Momo sat with Senna and Rangiku's group of friends in the cafeteria. Momo recognized a lot of the faces from her earlier classes and homeroom but the rest introduced themselves to her.
So far, Momo's first day at Sereitei High was going smoothly – except for the little moment back in art that morning. Momo had made a few friends already and everyone had been friendly to her. She and Senna were also getting along very well.
"Hey Momo-chan are you busy this afternoon? Rangiku said we could all go over to her house if we wanted," Senna asked as they made their way to the music building to get Orihime's choir music.
"Oh, actually I have to move my stuff into the dorm this afternoon, I'm boarding here." Momo replied.
"Really? Oh, ok then, I can come stay and help you. My house is just round the corner of the school so we can go get something to eat afterschool and then I can help you with moving your things into the dorm." Senna said.
"Are you sure?" Momo asked.
"Yeah, it's fine, I'll just text Rangiku. –Oh we're here, just wait Momo-chan, I'll go get Orihime's music."
They had stopped outside one of the music rooms. Momo looked around her. There was a recording studio opposite the room, Momo looked through its windows. She could see a microphone set up infront of a stool. There was an acoustic guitar sitting on its stand in the corner of the studio.
As Momo stared at the guitar intently, more memories of her summer 3 years ago flooded back into her mind…
-Flashback—
"Today I don't feel like doing anything
*whistle*
I just wanna lay in my in my bed…"
A young boy and a young girl sat on the grass beside the stream behind a small cottage. The raven-haired girl was playing the guitar as she and the white-haired boy sang along together to 'The Lazy Song' by Bruno Mars.
The young girl giggled as the boy attempted to whistle in tune to the music. The sun was beginning to set but it was still warm outside. Both of them glanced over at each other smiling as they sung.
"…Oh yes I said it, I said it
I said it 'coz I can
Today I don't feel like doing anything…"
The girl stifled a laugh as her friend failed yet another attempt at whistling.
"…I just wanna lay in my bed…"
Finally, the young girl couldn't hold in her laughter any longer and she burst out laughing as her friend tried to whistle again.
"Oi Hinamori!" the boy growled, annoyed as her laughter interrupted the song.
"Haha, sorry Shiro-chan," the girl replied still recovering from her little laughing fit.
The young boy smirked. "It's not like you can do any better Bedwetter," he teased as he pulled a fistful of grass from the ground and dumped it on her head.
"Shiro-chaan!" the girl whined. She suddenly started smiling slyly then put the guitar down on the grass and reached down to the stream and splashed her friend.
"Alright that's it," the boy growled as he stood up. The girl jumped up too squealing as he splashed her with water.
An old lady stood at the porch smiling as she watched the two of them having a water fight in the stream.
"Shiro-chan?" the young girl asked as she looked up at her friend who was staring intently at the sun setting.
"Hmm…?" the boy replied as he turned his gaze onto his friend who had her head on his lap. They were on the porch now watching the sunset as they dried themselves off, from their previous water fight, in the warm summer air.
"Is your mom coming to get you tonight?" the girl asked sadly. The boy looked away and nodded slowly.
"I'll miss you…" the girl whispered.
"I'll miss you too Momo…" the boy replied. Then he smirked and said "…well, at least there won't be anyone wetting the bed anymore."
The girl sat up and pouted. "Promise you'll write and come back to see me and Granny?" she asked.
"I promise."
"Shiro-chan? Can you please play that song again?" she smiled at him. The boy picked up his guitar and started playing.
"Hey there Delilah…"
The 2 friends sat there watching the sunset as the boy continued singing. After awhile the girl lay back down on the porch as watched as her friend played and sung. He looked down at her as he started to sing the last bit of the song.
"…Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do.
You know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This one's for you…"
The boy watched as his friend's eyes started to flutter close as sleep overtook her, he began to sing the last chorus.
"Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me"
The boy set his guitar down and bent over to pick up his sleeping friend. He carried her bridal-style back into the house and to her room where he tucked her into bed.
A car horn beeped outside the cottage. The old lady stood at the door of his friend's bedroom.
"Your mother's here Toshiro," she said softly.
"I'll be there soon," he replied. The old lady nodded understandingly as she walked away.
"Goodbye Hinamori Momo…" he whispered to his bestfriend in the dark. He lightly brushed her bangs out of her face then bent down slowly and kissed her forehead. He placed the guitar beside her bed before walking out of the room and closing the door behind him…
"Ok, Momo-chan let's go!" Senna called as she walked out of the music room, snapping Momo out of her daze again.
That afternoon Senna brought over food for herself and Momo while they moved Momo's belongings into her dorm. After Senna had left, Momo went downstairs to the dining room to get her dinner and brought it upstairs to her room. After she ate, it was night time already and since she had no homework, she decided to sleep early. That night Momo dreamt about her past again…
-Flashback—
The 14 year old girl sat up in bed, her loose flowing raven hair fell over her face. It was late at night and she looked beside her bed, at the guitar which the moon was shining on. The girl picked it up and thought of her friend as she sobbed.
Then she started to play and quietly sang along.
"When I was younger I saw, my daddy cry
And curse at the wind
He broke his own heart and I watched
As he tried to reassemble it
And my momma swore that
She would never let herself forget
And that was the day that I promised
I'd never sing of love if it does not exist…"
And it was at that point that the young girl realized that she, who did not believe in love and didn't want to believe in it, had fallen in love…with her bestfriend.
"…But darling, you are the only exception
You are the only exception
You are the only exception
You are the only exception…"
So i hope you like it..its only the first chapter and i'm sorry Toshiro wasnt in it..i promise he'll be in chapter 2 - if you want me to continue with the story.
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thanks so much! (: