[open] get out yozora you're not from k-on

[playerkills]

Who: Yozora and YOU!
What: Electric guitar practice when no one else is around... or so she thinks.
When: Day 123
Where: Draupnir, Freyr district.
Rating: PG-13 for Yozora's potty mouth.

[ "You have friends. Joke's on you. Please take care of it." It's only been a few days, but the note England left along with the guitar he entrusted to Yozora on the day he left still stings her just as much. Who knew his disappearance would happen so soon? Yozora did, but she didn't want to think about it. She still doesn't. Although the time they spent together was short, forgetting about a friend like him was the last thing on her mind. To remind herself of him, she has started a new routine. Packing the electric guitar in its case and carrying the amplifier in both hands, she quietly closes the door to her apartment and makes her way to Draupnir in the morning, just before everyone wakes up.

You'll never be good at something once you try, right?

At a studio, you might overhear her during one of the following... ]

[ A Yozora's always going on about air friends and air guitars. It should be no mystery that she knows how to play one. That loud instrumental music you're hearing from the room isn't coming from her, but from a boombox. Yozora's just playing her air guitar along with it. After the song, Yozora puts her hands on her hips with a smile on her face. ]

If I can play an air guitar, a real electric guitar shouldn't be any different! Right, Tomo-chan?

[ WHO THE FUCK IS TOMO-CHAN ]

[ B Actual practice this time. Yozora is sitting down on a chair as she tries to play a song. There will be pauses and mistakes here and there, but her voice is what makes the listening experience bearable. ]

Your lovely smile floats and fades away into the ever-changing clouds...

Comments

[playerkills]

Th, then I'll leave it to you. [ Yozora gets her guitar ready and takes a few deep breaths. What if she screws up? She glances at Itsuki behind her. ]

[deputychief]

Excellent.

[ To the keyboard! That doesn't require too much tune up or anything. He will always manage to be just a little bit worse than her. That's part of his tsundere management plan. Inspire confidence as much as possible.

Also, he's genuinely bad so it's not hard to be convincingly so. Here's an intro section that he'll stumble his way through a little haltingly, and then...]

1/2

[playerkills]

[ Between his awful piano and her mediocre guitar, how bad can it be?

Very. She pauses to talk to him again. ]

Itsuki. [ YOU'RE TERRIBLE is what she wants to say, but since he offered to help her, she can't bring herself to do so. ]

Ugh, nevermind. Let's play the first verse.

[ Alas, she resumes her horrid guitar playing until they get to the chorus. After the chorus, though, she puts down her guitar and falls on her knees with her hands on the floor. ]

[playerkills]

... We suck...

[deputychief]

[Yes, they suck, Yozora. But--!]

Ah, yes, I'm sorry I'm dragging you down a bit. But we can't allow ourselves to be discouraged, Mikazuki-san. Though a hundred trials beset us, we'll get through them, and all the faster the more we keep at it.

Let's give it another shot. Just the first verse.

[And incidentally, what a nice voice she really does have. He won't comment on that yet, though. Only once it sounds a little better and they stop sucking... which, incidentally, he will put less effort into doing this time. It'll be less awful and more just ... not good.]

[playerkills]

There's something about that optimism I can't stand.

[ But she nods and agrees to do the first verse with him again. And how nice it sounds! Well, compared to the first time around, anyway. Yozora lets out a big sigh once it's over. ]

... We did it, I suppose. Was that good enough, England?

[deputychief]

Ah, you're doing this for someone in particular, Mikazuki-san?

[playerkills]

Hmph! It's more like he asked me to do it. [ no, she's doing it on her own ] Seriously, what does that man want me to do with an instrument I can't even play?

[deputychief]

Well, learn it, I suppose. Are you interested in learning it?

[playerkills]

I don't want to.

I have to.

[deputychief]

You have to, because he asked you?

[playerkills]

No, he didn't say anything about it. It's something I just know I have to keep doing, so I won't forget. [ Forget a friend, that is. ]

[deputychief]

Forget? Hm -- ah, has he left Asgard?

[playerkills]

I don't want to talk about it. [ Which means yes.

It's such a sore topic that she quickly packs up her things and gets her guitar back in its case. ]

[deputychief]

[Which means yes.]

Then we won't talk about it at all, Mikazuki-san.

[playerkills]

Thank you for your consideration.

[ Without looking back, Yozora wears her guitar case on her back and carries her amplifier with both hands and walks to the door, but she stops a step before exiting the room. ]

And... thank you. For today, I mean. It was fun.

[deputychief]

It was fun for me too, Mikazuki-san.

[much to his surprise.]

Later, then.