it wasn't every year that students were accepted late into the year at gakugei academy for the musically gifted, but it seemed like kitamura y/n was able to sneak her way in at the last minute.
well, "sneak" in the fact that all it took was for her to post where she had decided to go for people to talk. it was hardly unknown that she had been thinking about where she wanted to be once she had graduated high school, and any academy in the country would be lucky to have her.
she was raised in a world of rock stars. her entire family dating as far back as the 1800's were musically-inclined entertainers, and the kitamura name was so clearly recited in the history books. to put it fairly, when she had finally picked up a guitar and played her first soft chord, she held the weight of her bloodline and had part of the future of the music industry resting on her shoulders. fortunately, her mother was supportive of her every move.
after y/n's father had passed while she was in her second year of high school, there had been an empty hole in her and her mother's lives. y/n filled it with music, and her mother filled it all the love that she could offer to her daughter. in fact, she couldn't stop reminding all of her friends and distant family that y/n was practically a younger, female version of her father, and that she'd be a superstar.
y/n tried to act like all the support made her sick, but she would have never had the confidence to make her first song had it not been for the endless conversations over breakfast and dinner, where her mother nearly begged for her to try something out and reassured her that the expectations for her to be able to pick up where her father left off were hardly far-fetched. her mother didn't have many real connections to the industry like y/n's father did, however people trusted her when she said that y/n had talent.
y/n's first song was a small thing, hardly something that she thought would grab attention. she posted it across her few socials and barely talked about it after then, but that was enough for people to take interest.
the striking and aggressive guitar layering over itself mixing with her rather raspy and unique sounding voice made for a combination that people hadn't heard in at least a few decades. still, that didn't even measure up to the fact that a seventeen year-old girl was the one to create it.
the song then became the catalyst for y/n to find out who she really wanted to be, and she began to build up her image from there.
while it was theorized at first y/n wasn't the one who sang the song because of her gentle nature that was all wrapped up into a modest private school uniform, those theories went away with her second and equally as explosive song.
she reappeared with the roots of her dark hair dyed a bright red and her makeup began to look darker and sharper every day. while she swore that she just hadn't had the confidence to stand out that way, and even y/n's mother supported that fact by saying that her daughter never felt entirely comfortable until now, people still talked.
they called her a product of the industry, a child of nepotism, and a poser.
but part of y/n's new image was to not really care about whether or not people believed if she was real. by the end of her third year in high school, she already had a name for herself, and that's when the offers began to roll in.
she waited for a while, building up suspense and taking humor in how her fans speculated on her decisions and those who had come to hate her hoped that she would fail wherever she went.
soon enough, after a month of waiting, she let the news spread through a single post of her own beat up guitar, with the caption, "gakugei, here i come."
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experimenting with shorter chapters to hopefully make my writing a little more consistent :P
