Rip It Like a Bandaid (a short mikan x ibuki story)

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Ibuki POV

        "WATCH OUT!!" I hear one of my band mates yell from across the room. I turn around to see a cymbal flying towards me like a frisbee. I didn't have enough time before I felt it hit my forehead and knock me to the floor, leaving a sharp stinging pain where it hit. I sit up and look around as my band mates look at me in panic. "Ouchies... hm? What's wrong guys? You're all looking at me as if I'm-" I touch my forehead, feeling something sticky and wet. I pull down my hand to see blood on my fingers. "-bleeding." I say, shocked at the fact that it was able to cut through my skin. "I-I'll take her to the nurses office! It was my fault anyways." Said my band mate, Ryoko, as she looks at me with a guilty expression. She gets a tissue from the band class bathroom as my other band mate, Rocco, helps me off the floor. "Wow, that really packed a whack at your head, huh Mioda?" He said laughing a little. "Yea yea, laugh all you want mister 'I used to play tambourine in first grade'! At least I wasn't crying each time a pair of zills fell off mid performance!" I said, laughing as well. He looks at me with an annoyed expression "Hey! It was one time! And I wasn't crying, I was whining!" He says pushing me away. I chuckle a little "Yea, whining with tears in your eyes!" I said teasingly.

        I laugh a little bit before Ryoko comes back with tissue, placing it on my cut. "Come on Ibuki, before you pass out from blood loss." She says, walking me out the classroom. "Y'know, you really don't have to take me. I can go myself." I said, grabbing the tissue from her hand while still keeping it in place. "But-" she says before I cut her off "no buts! Go practice! We only have a month left and you haven't even gotten the first half down yet. Go go!" I tell her, pushing her back towards the direction of the classroom. She nods and runs off, leaving me a corner turn away from the nurse's office.

As I walk into the nurse's office, I catch sight of the most beautiful being I've ever seen. "Hey Mikan! Kinda busy in here. Need a hand?" I ask, hoping she wouldn't notice the gash on my forehead and the tissue full of pink blood. "Oh! Ibuki, I'm so glad you're here! I'd love some help around-" she stops as she sees exactly what I hoped she wouldn't see. My cut and the bloody tissue. "-here..... IBUKI WHAT HAPPENED?" She asks loudly, gaining the attention of the other students. "Hey, Mioda" a boy calls out "you break your forehead from the dumb music you play? Or maybe one of your band mates hoped to send you to the hospital so they didn't have to hear your horrible singing?" He said and started laughing, the rest of them joining into the giggle fit. "Alright now, everyone" Mikan says turning and looking at them sternly "That wasn't very nice!" She scolds as she turns back to me. "I'm so sorry about that, Ibuki. I personally think you have a wonderful singing voice, and I think you're music style is very unique." Said Mikan with a kind smile. She takes my hand and sits me on a chair, taking my other hand with the tissue down. "Ouch, that looks like it hurts! Don't worry though, I'll patch it up so it can heal nice and quick before the tour." She claims as she starts to clean it. As she takes care of my cut, I can't help but smile. She's so kind and caring, just like her mother. She's always been like this, ever since we first met in second grade...

Flashback...
Third Person POV

Ibuki cries as she sits on the floor with a scraped knee. She had just been pushed to the floor by a group of boys. "Waa waa, look at baby Mioda crying. I told you not to take the guitar and you took it anyways. Girls don't play electric guitar, they play piano."  A boy says, laughing. "B-but you weren't using it, you were using the drums!"  Says Ibuki, holding herself up on the floor. "I don't care! Girls don't play boy instruments!" The boy screams as he kicks Ibuki in the arm, making her fall. They laugh as they walk away. Ibuki lays there before hearing small running steps towards her "are you ok?" Says an unfamiliar voice. Ibuki looks up to see a girl with short, uneven dark purple hair and lilac colored eyes. She's wearing a nurse's uniform with her polo over it. "U-uhuh. I'm okay." Ibuki says, standing up." Let me take you to my mommy. She can fix you up, and you'll be good as new!" The girl says with a kind smile "by the way, I'm Ibuki Mioda! What's your name?" Ibuki asks her. "oh, uh my name's Mikan." "Mikan what?" She looks at me....

"Mikan Tsumiki."

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Making this is gonna be fun. I'm gonna update my Saida book soon! No idea how soon, but it's gonna be real soon!