Stories of Soukoku

Chapter 13) Duet

A/n: I just feel like Chuuya would play the violin and Dazai the piano while Atsushi the flute and Akutagawa Clarinet or Oboe.

A few music terms you might not understand, if you do, just skip it.

Piece= song but without singing, so therefore is called a piece.

you'll probably know this one but duet= a piece performed by two people.

upright piano= normal piano that's a rectangle shape

bar= sections throughout the piece that are most of the time, numbered. So bar 1, bar 2, etc.

I've tried my best to explain it to you, if you don't understand, google it maybe.

I'm sorry to anyone who feels like this chapter is annoying, I'm just trying to make this chapter a memory sorta thing.

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Today was a Saturday, so Chuuya was practicing his violin in his big, but quiet mansion.  While Chuuya was practising in one of the rooms that he built for practising music only. The room was simplistic, there was a grand piano in a corner of the room, with a bookshelf with lots of music pieces in it, and some sound-proof foam on the walls, with a stand in the middle, his violin case on the chair. Chuuya actually didn't really play the piano, sure, he knew a few simple pieces or so, but that usually won't make a person buy a grand piano and put it in a room.

Normally maybe a keyboard or an upright piano, but even if he was really rich, why would he buy a whole grand piano? Easy, he wasn't in his right mind at the time, he was in love. The room was specifically made so that when Dazai came over at times, they would play a duet together. Chuuya thought about selling or throwing out the piano before, or even just buy another one.

But he couldn't bring himself to do so, so the piano that has been sitting in the corner of the room for about 8 years now, has a lot of dust on it, he couldn't even bring himself to touch it, let alone let anyone else clean it. 

After finished the piece that he was playing on the violin, he decided to take a break. He went downstairs, drank a bit of water, then went back upstairs. He slowly looked at the room, memories flashed in his mind. 

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'Chibi, you're too fast, we're on bar 48 not 52."

'No, we're on bar 52 and not 48, you're just too slow.'

'Well I can't play that fast, my fingers don't move that fast.'

'Fine, Mackerel.'

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Chuuya stopped moving as the memories flashed in his mind.

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'Did you know that Für Elise meant For Elise in German?'

'Yea?'

'Well, there's a story behind it, wanna hear it?'

'No.'

'So Für Elis was originally written for Elise, as the title says, but it was actually for Therese, because it was translated wrongly, anyways, (a/n I'm not sure if this is 100% true, but heard it somewhere, correct me if I'm wrong) while composing the piece, Beethoven and Therese were supposedly going to marry, and composed this piano piece for her, Therese was a intermediate piano player, so Beethoven originally made it simpler for her to play it. But upon finding out that she was meeting with another man, he made the piece intentionally harder so that she couldn't play it.'

'I said no.'

'Well now it's in your head.'

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Chuuya slowly went up to the piano, and slowly played Für Elise, one of the few pieces he knew off by heart on the piano. Chuuya didn't really like this piece, he think that it's too overrated, but Dazai insisted that he should learn it, because he knew he hated this piece, so he did, hated it while learning it but learnt it still. Dazai thought that he just forgot about it, but Chuuya, someone who didn't play the piano, let alone memorise pieces of the piano, learnt the piece that he hated because Dazai said once that he should learn it.

Chuuya played the last note and lifted his hand off the piano.

"I thought you hated that piece." Dazai said, appearing at the door.