"A Love Story" Kaede and Shuichi

Chapter 8

Kaede's POV

I woke up the next morning feeling very refreshed. I smiled to myself, knowing that today was going be a good day. I got up as the Monokuma announcement played. I didn't even remember the night announcement playing. I must have slept through it. I gave it no further thought and jumped in the shower.

I hummed in the shower to myself as I got myself all clean. I promised myself I wouldn't go trying to impress Shuichi today since he had told me I was beautiful no matter what. I began to blush thinking about it, so I just let my face blush. Maybe if I blush a lot my body will get tired and not want to blush anymore.

After getting ready I headed to the dining hall, a certain skip to my steps. I entered to see Kirumi setting the table full of biscuits and gravy, waffles, omelets, salad and like usual, rice balls.

"K-Kirumi! You outdid yourself!" I say in awe. She looks up at me and shrugs.

"Believe me, I'm used to worse," She said. I gave no further conversation as my eyes lay on a certain human being, someone important to me. Shuichi.

"Good morning, Kaede," I smile.

"Good morning, Shuichi," I sit next to him and Tenko stares at me.

"No good morning for me?" She asks with a pout.

"Sorry!" I exclaim. "Good morning, Tenko."

"Good morning," She says and continues to eat.

Ryoma, Himiko, Angie and Miu come in, which makes all of us in the dining hall. We ate and enjoyed some laughs. Still no Monokuma, but I tried not to consume my mind with the worry it really caused me.

After everyone ate breakfast they all went their separate ways. Shuichi and I left. After we hit the hallway, we started talking.

"What do you want to do today?" I asked him. He thought to himself before replying.

"I don't know, really. What about you?" I frowned.

"I don't know either..." I responded. I didn't know where we were walking but we were walking down the hallways. I looked over at Shuichi periodically to see his face as if he was deep in thought. I didn't disturb him.

"I know!" He said after a while. His enthusiasm made me jump in surprise, but I shook it away.

"What?" I asked.

"I want to hear you play the piano," He said. I smiled and of course I blushed.

"Oh, alright. Let's go to my research lab then," I say. He smiles and we walk together to my research lab.

After a little while, we reach my lab. I open the door to see a glorious sight behold me; the grand piano. I sighed in awe as it seemed every time I looked at it, I couldn't help but be in love.

"I wonder what song I should play for you..." I thought to myself. I didn't want to play something cheerful, as my favorites were sadder, moving songs. I'm a happy person, but I always favor those melodies more. I also needed to be able to remember it by heart, as all I seemed to see were CDs, not piano music surprisingly.

I sat at the piano and thought to myself. What's the perfect song to play. Then, it dawned on me.

"Ah, this one is perfect," I say, smiling to myself. I clear my throat, even though I'm not preparing to sing, and stretch my fingers. I take a deep breath before playing the first note.

My hands elegantly stroke the keys as I smile to myself, a soothing melody echoing in the room.

Shuichi's POV

I felt my body soak in every note as she played that beautiful song. It was slow and moving. I could feel the chords touching my heart. I had sat down and closed my eyes, enveloping in the music. Every key was played beautifully. The song not only touched my heart, but also pulled at it. I could feel the emotion in it.

Once it ended, I didn't want to move. My mind was swimming with emotions I couldn't even explain. All I knew was that Kaede knew how to play the piano beautifully and that the song she played was expertised.

"Kaede... That was.. Beautiful," I say softly. I hear her get up and walk to me. She sits down next to me.

"Thank you," She says, answering my soft whisper.

"What's the name of the song?" I ask.

"Clair de Lune. It's by Debussy. It's one of the prettiest melodies I have ever heard," She said. She gets up shortly afterwards and starts searching through the CDs.

I sit there for a minute or two, not saying anything before I turn to Kaede. "What are you looking for?"

"The song. It should be somewhere around here...." I continue to hear her flipping through CDs before..

"Ah ha!" She said and cheerfully walked to the CD player. I heard her stick the CD in and then the soft melody started to ring out again. She came back to me and sat. I felt her lay her head on my shoulder as she listened to the music. I turned over to her to see her eyes closed, a small smile on her lips.

I smiled and softly entwined her hand with mine. I leaned my head against hers and I also closed my eyes. I slowly felt myself drifting from reality with the soft melody echoing in my ears. I didn't want it to end.

(Okay, sorry I haven't written a lot of this story today. But I've been working on another danganronpa story that is a cute character X female reader. I'm pretty excited about it so stay tuned for that!)