Two Sides of The Same Coin - Chapter 7

Two Sides of The Same Coin Chapter 7 – When The Thunder Strikes Part I

"Sometime I'm tough and bold

Just sometimes I am frightened

Sometimes I'm dull and cold

But sometimes so enlightened

I made some old mistakes but still did what I wanted

Sometimes the right you turned into wrong"

Waiting For The Thunder - Helloween

School – Noon

The tsundere was walking in a very slow pace, walking to the table where Misao and Ayano were lunching. Misao seemed that she forgot everything that happened some days before, the kiss Konata and Kagami shared, which affected profoundly the usually happy and hyperactive brown haired girl. I'm going to tell her... Maybe even show her the concert video... No... That will be too much for her head... I will just tell her... No... No... What to do?! I feel like trapped under the ice!

The purple haired sat down by Misao's side and then started to eat, very quietly. Misao looked at the girl by her side and asked what was wrong with her. Kagami looked deeply at the brunette's eye and then slowly started to speak.

"Misao, is everything alright with you?"

"Yea! Why?"

"No, I thought, that... Because... Er... Last time we met..."

"Ah... That? I overcame it already! Congrats for the wedding by the way! You were very pretty in that picture!"

"Wait? WHAT? What picture? Do you mean... Wedding? You watched that concert?!"

"Yea! My brother was watching it, so I decided not to interrupt him... After some time he called me and showed me that you appeared in the concert!"

"Well... I have no words for this..."

"We have to commemorate! Here have a meatball!"

She is so childish... What a pure creature, already forgot any bad thing about that day... Thanks God she is like this, because if not we would not talk ever again. What weird thing is this?

When Kagami looked again, she was feeling something hot in her leg, and Misao was looking at her very worried and still blushing, the tsundere took some time to notice the brunette's chopstick in her hand holding nothing, when she looked down to her leg, there was a meatball there, which smeared her skirt as well.

Can't believe it...

"MISAO! BE MORE CAREFUL!"

The purple haired girl started to scream desperately, while searching for a cloth to clean her skirt, Misao tried to help, but she ended up smearing her skirt as well, Ayano was only looking at the two giggling in the other side of the table. Those two wouldn't be a bad couple, but that relationship they have now is the best that they can have.

"MISAO! Stop trying to help!"

"Sorry Hiiragi~! But I want to..."

"You're only worsening the things here!"

"Sorry~~!"

In the end Kagami hit Misao's head, and then Ayano gave them a little towel to help cleaning. She was still laughing about the situation, and she had no guilt about that, the scene was just way too hilarious to don't laugh, we are together since middle school, thinking that this is our last year together saddens me... And also Konata... What will happen if we don't continue together? I don't know if I will be able to support such pain... Stop! Stop! STOP THINKING IN THIS NOW! Come back to reality!

When Kagami "woke up", she noticed that the two girls were laughing about something, as always Misao was speaking while Ayano was only hearing.

"Hey Hiiragi! Hear that joke! There was a family of tomatoes going to across the street, the dad tomato, mom tomato and son tomato. Okay?"

"Hum."

"While they were walking across the street, the son tomato was too slow, so the dad tomato stomped him and said..."

"Ketchup."

"Ketch... Ahh... Hiiragi already knew about that one... You spoiled all the fun~..."

"Any other?"

"Hum... Yea... Actually... No... I ran out of jokes..."

"Good."

"Why are you so heartless Kagamin~..."

The way Misao said "Kagamin~" made the tsundere have a sudden feeling, she wanted to be by Konata side that moment, it was good to be with friends sometimes, but that exactly moment all she was wishing was to be by the otaku side. I imagine her all alone there, eating her chocolate cornet, while Miyuki and Tsukasa talk about... Well... Mindless stuff...

~~ Meanwhile in the other classroom ~~

Konata was finishing her chocolate cornet, the three girls were eating just like usual, except by one thing, Kagami wasn't there, she was lunching with her other friends. Tsukasa and Miyuki were talking, a moe talk... Just as expected..., meanwhile Konata was quiet, just eating.

"Konata-san, is everything alright?"

"Yea, yea... I'm just not too talkative today... It's just a bad day, you know?"

Kona-chan is probably sad because onee-chan isn't here... Wait... What? Where's onee-chan?!

"Where's onee-chan?!"

"Tsukasa? You only noticed that now *laughs*"

"Er... Um... Yea..."

Konata laughed at the purple haired, then she looked at a empty place, where Kagami should be, and a sorrow took over her body, the last moments laughing were a little forced. All I wanted now is to be by Kagami's side...

After some seconds, Konata said she was going to the bathroom, and she exited the classroom, the small girl looked around the corridor to try finding someone, but she didn't manage to find anyone. I see... Kagami's not here... How silly I was, expecting her to be here. She has good friends. Why would she come over my classroom for such ridiculous thing, we will walk back home after all.

While Konata was walking, she bumped in another girl. Who was coming from another classroom. Konata looked down and then started to apologize the girl.

"Sorry! Sorry! I-I didn't mean!"

"That's good! But I will still do one thing to you..."

This voice...

The girl then hugged the blue haired, when Konata looked up, there she was, the magnificent Kagami. The tsundere approximated her face to the otaku's and kissed her. One time... Two times... Three times... They were together again, finally. It was only some minutes, but that minutes made a huge difference to both. As a couple they wanted to share every single moment together, and that lunch made them be separated for some minutes more than the expected.

Some other students were looking at the two in that affectionate embrace, some looked surprised, others looked happy, others disgusted. But there was no one who didn't stop to see what was going on.

"Konata." - Kagami whispered.

"What?" - Konata whispered back.

"They are looking at us."

"And what's the problem?"

"Nothing."

Kagami then kissed the small girl another time, a long French kiss, just to intensify even more the feelings of people nearby. Some of them run away from the couple, they were too traditional and conservationists to accept something like that in their front, some perverted boys were enjoying the occasion too much, some of them took a photo, and the rest was just like a scenario there, standing still, just looking the scene.

"I have to go."

"Me too"

"So... See ya after school?"

"Yea."

"See you dear."

"Till later."

The two then walked up their paths again, Kagami was heading back to her classroom, while Konata was in the bathroom. They weren't able to resist anymore the separation, being far from the other for too long was just too painful.

I hope Konata is well.

I hope Kagami is well.

Can't wait to go with her shopping after school *giggle*

Can't wait to go with her shopping after school *giggle*

I wonder what she's thinking right now.

I wonder what she's thinking right now.

That, my dear reader, is a "in-love" person, he/she can't stand being far from his/her love for too long. I was philosophizing back then. Who is the one I care, the one I feel like protecting? That one is a girl, someone who I want to be helpful in every way, and viewing her smile is just too good. My dear reader, do you know the power of a smile? When someone is smiling naturally, you feel his/her happiness spreading, and all the "in-love" person wants is to see his/her "dearest" smiling, feeling good and happy. Again, I'm taking your time with some stupids philosophies, that you may think really useless to the story flow. But. There's a huge BUT there. Yes, it is useless for the story flow, but that feeling inside my heart has to be liberated in some way. Anxiety is bad for your body as well, so don't hold things inside you, let them be free in the appropriated occasion. If you want to skip it, my dear reader, skip without looking back, because taking a next step in your life is not hard, what you'll leave behind is the where the pain is located. You will think that if you didn't take that step things would be really different, but you took that step and it can't be undone, so after you take a step, don't look back, just continue and think the new great things you can do with this wrong step. Thanks for not skipping.

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Seoul – Many hours after the band rocked Kyoto

"Finally Seoul!"

The fans were all inside the airport, waiting anxiously for the band to arrive, as always they were in a normal commercial plane. After the successful Kyoto concert they got even more fame, achieving a level never seen before by the band.

As soon as the plane landed, a limo went up and picked the guys to transport them to their hotel, there was no way to them to go through inside the airport without being stopped by a huge mass of people, specially because of King, who was in a wheelchair.

"Hey King."

"What, Madman?"

"I sent an email to Saitama prefecture, and they don't mind of us playing there in some days. I already scheduled up, they will take care of the fliers for us, then we will only need now the site announcement."

"Wow! Those are great news. I can put it on the site, I will do that when we arrive the hotel, okay?"

"Good enough for me."

Two men in a suit exited the limo and went to the plane chair, they were the band's bodyguards inside Seoul, to them there was no need for it, but their manager insisted so they just accepted. Them all exited the plane, and approached the limo.

"Hey Savage!"

"What?"

"Can you help me with that?"

"Oh... Yea, just gimme a second."

The drummer picked up a chocolate bar inside his bag and swallowed it, why do you only think in food?! Then he helped King to enter the limo, and off they went, to an isolated luxury hotel, so no one could be problematic for them, while they were playing and such, it was a few kilometers away from the concert place.

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A Luxury Hotel in Seoul – Some minutes later

The band stopped by the front of the isolated hotel, where there was only a few celebrities, many of them was well known musicians, people who they met in previous concert trough the band history and it was always an amazing experience play with them.

There was some great metal names in the hotel as well, they were all in the main hall talking. This day was just like the day when Children of Hell achieved their first multiplatinum album, and also the announcement of the Gemini Guitars, which was an amazing masterpiece, now in the hand of two "anonymous" girls in Japan. When asked about it, the members in the band said that it was given to someone else, someone who would make good care of the artworks.

King was sat down in his wheelchair, looking inside the hotel, there was many famous guitarists there, people who influenced the band initial moments. Keeper and King looked to each other and then started to talk.

"Keeper, does this remember you a scene from years ago?"

"Yea... The Gemini Guitars... Our first muiltiplatinum in the "pop" world... It was so amazing... Now here we are again, in the same hotel as those Metal legends."

"This will be an amazing festival. Playing again with legends, and them all at once! It never happened before... Is this a kind of a dream? *laughs* There's no way we're all that lucky!"

"First that amazing concert in Kyoto, now we're playing with all those amazing guys! I guess this is really a dream *laughs*"

The other guitarist laughed as well, Mr. Madman was already looking at the two, as well he was wondering why he has to be the "Madman" if the others are crazy as well. They then started to walk inside the hotel. Only some noticed their presence, just looked and let it go. When they achieved the receptionist, Savage got their keys, four bedrooms, one for each. All of them in the 11th floor of the hotel, the same floor where Megadeth and Helloween were in, the two bands which most influenced King's playing style.

King looked around and found a good old friend, who also became a guitarist. His stage name was Cobra, a not too tall man, with some beard, a strong fella, with military style hair, he was wearing a green jacket and white t-shirt, normal jeans and a skater's shoes. Just like the old days, heh?

"Hey guys, I'm going to talk with a friend there, you can go before."

"No problems King! See ya later!"

He started to roll his wheels to come close to his old friend, he was talking with the bassist of his band, a Punk Metal band called "Assassins Of The Queen". Cobra used to play a little on Children of Hell initial stages, when they still had three guitarists, but then he exited to start his own band, after some weeks "Assassins Of The Queen" was formed, Cobra plays the guitar and also sings, the bassist changed some weeks before Seoul concert, so King had no idea of who he was, and the drummer was no one else than King's young brother, a man known for very dexterous movements, however he was clearly different from King, no too tall man, short brown hair, not overweight, but for sure heavier than his brother. King often calls him "Boy". Boy used to play on Children of Hell initial stages as well, but he exited to form a new band with Cobra, there was no misunderstands between any of the sides, King had already found a replacement drummer by that time.

The Children of Hell leader came by Cobra's side, who was sat down in a sofa, talking with a short white man, with some acne marks on his face and short reddish brown hair, I know him from somewhere... Wait... Quentin is that you?! The other guitarist noticed his friend on the wheelchair and started to talk with him.

"Don! Hey bro! How's things going?"

"Cobra! I'm great! *laughs* You still remember that nickname from years ago?"

"*laughs* Of course I remember! Hey, did you already meet my new bassist?"

"It may sound weird. But I remember studying with him at Highschool! *laughs* Right Quentin?"

"King! Hello! It has been a long time huh?"

"For sure. And to know we all would meet here... In Seoul... So far from home!"

"Hey Don, what did you do to get in this state? Did you get in a fight *laughs*?"

"Nah... I was shot by a robber at a hotel in Kyoto. My knee still hurts though."

"Holy shit. How did you get that?"

"Long story... I will tell that in the end I was only protecting a girl from being killed, and instead of the robber hitting her chest, it hit my leg."

"Ah... I see..."

"So, what have you two doing? It was so long that we talked! Quentin wasn't even in your band yet. And how is Boy? I didn't talk with him for a while as well."

"Boy is upstairs playing a game on his laptop... And about us, we released a new disc some days ago, did you get the opportunity to listen to it?"

"Not yet. But coming from you guys, it's probably amazing, just like... Er... Always *laughs*!"

"Aw c'mon Don! You're the Children of Hell leader! You don't need to compliment us like that *laughs*"

And their talk continued like this for some more minutes, then King went upstairs, where his bandmates were already preparing their instruments to play, all except Savage, who would use Megadeth's drum, which was already mounted there. Keeper and Madman went down. Keeper was using Dimebag Darrell's signature Dean along with a Pantera t-shirt, while Madman was with his signature six-string bass, a brown one, with some circles in some parts of the body, and a Megadeth t-shirt. Savage was with his normal drumsticks and wearing a black t-shirt.

As soon as King arrived to his bedroom, he picked his guitar case, changed the shirt to a Rush one and picked a pick inside his "Picks Treasure Box".

"Done King?"

"Yea Savage. Just let me pick my guitar and let's play a little to these folks here."

"Rocking like always, heh?"

"Yea. I will use Ibanez, just to be a little different from the usual *chuckle*"

The drummer chuckled as well and then the two went downstairs, they then went to the stage located in the hotel's bar, and started to rock some instrumental songs by the band itself. Just heating up, almost every band who was there already played in that stage. Children of Hell was no exception.

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Front of School – Classes just finished

Kagami and Konata were waiting for the other two girls in the front of school, Kagami was blushing, just like every time she was by Konata side. The otaku was staring blank, while eating another chocolate cornet. Both were quiet, Konata was making some weird noises, while Kagami, was only staring blank. No one wanted to talk, being by the other side was already enough.

"Ko-Konata... Let's... Er... Hold hands?"

"Yep. No problems."

Konata started to hold the cornet with only one hand, her other one was left by her side, touching the air, Kagami looked at the loose hand, she hesitated a little and then touched it, but quickly she held back. Konata finished her cornet and then looked at her girlfriend.

"Anything wrong, dear?"

"No... *blushing*"

"Aww... You little liar. Come here!"

Konata then hugged the tsundere, she started to shiver a little as she felt small girl's arms around her waist, Kagami didn't think anything, all she could do was hug her back, it was weird to do this in the street, but she worried nothing anymore, yes they still could find some people who really disliked that, but what can she do? She was bisexual and nothing could change that, Konata was her love and she preferred to date a simple otaku girl over a world famous millionaire rockstar.

They were still hugged when Tsukasa and Miyuki arrived, the two other girls weren't surprised when they found out her friends in that romantic embrace. Kagami looked to the two, and then stopped hugging her girlfriend, looking to them embarrassed, Konata looked to the purple haired girl in a malicious way, laughing a little. Kagamin~ is so funny...

"So, everyone is here. Will we go shopping! I want to walk with Kagami-nyan!"

"STOP CALLING ME WITH STUPID NICKNAMES!"

Konata laughed and then the four started to walk to the "Gamers" shop.

~~First Part End~~