Face The Music (A Saimatsu Story)

Talking To You

-Kaede Akamatsu's POV-

"Okay... so, who's going first?" I ask, not really sure where to start as we make our way to the park.

Kaito started grinning. He and Maki were walking side-by-side, a very rare contented look on her face.

"You guys must be very close, huh?" I ask, looking back at them. Shuichi and I were walking next to each other, too, a bit in front of them.

"Oh, that's right, you don't know!" Kaito exclaims.

"Don't know... what, exactly?" I ask, really confused.

"They're d-dating," Shuichi says, a small stutter in his voice.

"Ohhhh..." I say, my voice trailing off. Maybe I could get a boyfriend or girlfriend in Hopes Peak some day...

"So, what's your deal?" Kaito asks me. Maki smacks his arm. Well... she punches it, and when Kaito says "OWWWWW" she says it was "just a smack".

"It's fine, Maki. Well... I'm Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate Pianist. I really like piano. In my old town, they called me a 'piano freak'. I've kind of adopted that as my nickname now. Other than that, let's see..." My voice trailed off and Shuichi turned to look at me and asked a question.

"Hey, Kaede, would you maybe want to play piano for us at some point?"

"Of course!" I squealed, "Let's see... how would this afternoon work?" 

"Kaito and I can't come this afternoon," Maki said, almost cutting me off. Weird.

"Yeah, I guess it'll just be you and Shuichi then. You can play for us some other time, though!" Kaito said. 

-Kaito Momota's POV-

Kaede and Shuichi were slightly ahead of us, and were kind of walking in silence. I leaned over to Maki and whispered

"Hey, Makiroll, do you think we might be able to get them together?"

"What makes your idiotic brain even think that'd be remotely possible? They have shown no liking for each other, as far as I've seen," she responds. Idiotic? That hurt. 

"Makiroll- remember when we stopped in on Shuichi and Kaede while she was blacked out? He looked at her briefly, and the look in his eyes was very in-love," I replied.

"You're crazy," Maki glared at me.

"Crazy in love," I said with a wink. She let out an audible groan at how cheesy that was. 

"We can try, I guess. But if anyone asks, I had NO PART in this," she said, a small grin playing on her lips.

"What made you change your mind so fast, Makiroll?" I was confused, usually she's more obstinate. 

"I'm just looking at the way she's looking at Shuichi. It could work." I look ahead at them. Shuichi's eyes are on the ground, but Kaede's had shifted to him. She almost walked into a tree, but Shuichi looked over just in time to drag her out of the way. He blushed. She blushed. This hair-brained plan of mine might actually work.

A/N: I promised Marshtompz I'd get this thing out soon, so here ❤︎ I will get to the fluff, but I enjoyed writing this chapter. It felt more calm than the last few. Kaito is an idiot, Maki's a cynic, Kaede's a bubbly piano girl, Shuichi is a shy boy, all the mains! And I wanted to add some KaiMaki ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! And I'm sorry for no April Fools special, I had NO IDEAS.

Published: Friday, April 2.