K-ON!: Shattered Dreams

Chapter 1: Yui & Azusa - Fallen Birds

'It was just a routine concert... how did it end up like this?' Yui thought to herself as she ran for her life. Alone in this very hostile environment she was in right now, all she had was her battle fan and her guitar slung over her back. The screams of "GET HER!" and "KILL THEM ALL!" echoed through the field. All she could do was run, and run, and run. She ran as far as her legs could carry her, until she hit a dead end; an alleyway between 2 shops. 'O-oh no... I'm screwed now!' Her thoughts rang through her head. Her assailants, with the letters 'S.E.S.' printed on the back of their jackets, were the ones who had crashed the concert.

"Hehe! Look what we have here. Little Yui Hirasawa from the HTT." This man, obviously the leader, bellowed. Yui stood her ground, but still scared for her life.

"W-who're you people? What do you want from me?" She screamed at them. All the leader gave her was a disgusting smirk.

"We ain't interested in no kid like you. We just want that guitar. Heard it's worth a lot more than the bounty on your head, Hirasawa." She looked a bit confused, but still defensive about giving anything to these people.

"This is MY guitar, and none of you are getting your hands on it!" She whips out her battle fan in defense. The group of men tries to swarm her. "Come at me whenever you like!" The men accept the invitation, but one at a time they all fall down to Yui's prowess with her new weapon. Spinning around elegantly, slashing her attackers at the neck one at a time without using much lethal force.

It all went well, until one of them smashed her head with a beer bottle. "UNGH!" She groaned, the impact of that hit causing her to hit the ground hard. "N-ngh... cowards..."

"Tch... feisty little... forget the girl, just grab the guitar and let's go!" But before they could do so, though, a gale blows in, knocking the men back. "T-the hell!"

"Lay your hands on Yui-senpai OR the guitar and you'll get it from me." The helper, holding a polearm and raring to go, is none other than Azusa Nakano, Hokago Tea Time's 2nd guitarist. She leaps up from where she is, landing right where Yui's downed body is, leaving a minor whirlwind right where she lands. "Yui-senpai, wake up! Wake up!" She tries to fight off the attackers one at a time, still urging her senior to wake up. "SENPAI, WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" The words keep echoing into Yui's head......



"Senpai, wake up." Azusa's voice had stirred the lead guitarist from her slumber. She woke up, yawning and stretching. They were under shelter from the heavy rains that have hit Japan for the past couple of days now.

"E-eh... Azu-nyan, what time is it?" She asked.

"It's just 10 to midnight, Yui-senpai." Azusa replied, looking at her watch as the raindrops fall onto it. "Is it time yet, senpai?"

"No... not yet, Azu-nyan..." She rubs on her temples, feeling a bit of pain from her dream. "Ngh..."

"Senpai, are you okay?" Azusa asked, concerned about her senior.

"I-I'm all right... I just had that dream again." Azusa immediately knew what Yui was talking about.

"Right... that day......" She sits right next to her senior and leans her head against her shoulder. "How did it end up like this, Senpai...?"

"It's probably what Sawa-chan-sensei said... 'Things can often go wrong during concerts'. I think Sawa-chan was right... just that things went wrong and out of hand quickly..."

"Now... we don't know what happened to Ritsu-senpai, Mio-senpai and Mugi-senpai..." Azusa clings onto Yui's arm. "I'm worried about them..." All the lead guitarist of the HTT does is pat Azusa's head, calming her.

"Now, now, let's not give up hope too easily, okay? They can't have just disappeared like that, so chin up, okay, Azu-nyan?" Hearing those words of encouragement, Azusa smiled at Yui, getting up and carries her guitar case on her back, slinging the straps around her arms.

"Let's get going, shall we?" Yui nods, getting up as well and carries her guitar case, albeit slightly dangerously. "H-hey, be careful, senpai. We don't want it to break like it did THAT time. Do you know how much work we put in for Sawa-chan to fix it?" Yui was then reminded of another memory she recalled...



~Flashback~

All she could do was stare at the harsh reality that had hit her. All she could do was hold the pieces of her most prized possession and hold them close.

Yui just sat there, tears trickling down her eyes, as she held both halves of her prized possession, Gitah, in her arms. "Why...?" All she could do was ask herself that. Who would do such a thing to her and her new-found passion for music? And with the concert just days away, it was a crisis she didn't want to face. Not NOW of all times.

The tears didn't stop flowing as she ran to Azusa's house, holding the broken Gitah with her. She almost crashed right into the door of Azusa's house, knocking at it frantically and screaming, "OPEN THE DOOR! OPEN THE DOOR!" The guitarist kept banging against the door, almost as if she wanted to break it open. Luckily, Azusa managed to open the door in time.

"W-what is it, senpai? What is it?" She saw her own senior crying her eyes out in front of her, holding that guitar case tightly. She immediately knew what was wrong as she took Yui up to her room.

It took just one look at the damage to nearly break Azusa's heart as a fellow guitarist. She saw the guitar completely busted in half.

"What... who would do such a thing?"

"I-I don't know... the moment I got home I wanted to play it... then... then this... this happened..." Azusa could just feel what her senior is going through. She hugged Yui, trying to comfort her.

"T-there there... it's no use crying now... come on, let's go consult Sawa-chan. Maybe she can help." Yui nodded, though still distraught at what's transpired. She continued to be hugged by Azusa, who was always there for her when she needed her.



Azusa seemed to notice that there's a grin on Yui's face. "Senpai... what're you smiling about?" She asked, curious.

"H-huh?" She seemed to be snapped back into reality. "Oh, nothing... just when you mentioned that... it was sort of funny... anyway, let's keep moving. The closer we get to our destination, the better." She smiled at Azusa, but Azusa felt something coming their way.

"SENPAI, LOOK OUT!" she grabs her senior and dodges from the incoming attack. Yui had no idea what was going on as she fell to the floor.

"Ungh! W-what was that?" She shook her head as she looked up, as a tall dark figure stood on the railing of the building.

"Oh boy, I never thought I'd see you two again... especially when both of you had SO MUCH FUN together on the outside, right, Yui-chan, Azusa-chan?" The all-too-familiar voice caught the attention of the HTT Lead guitarist.

"I-it's you!"