The Last Days of Arima (A Your Lie in April fanfiction)

Passing of the Legend

A/N:

1. Prepare your tissues.

2. Due to the military background of this story, I took "Amazing Grace" in Bagpipes as video cover, as it was popular in United States military and emergency services (police, firefighters) funerals.

3. The symphony I mentioned was chosen by random, but the 1812 Symphony by Tchaikovsky was due to it's epicness (with artillery pieces used in the climax. You can search in on Youtube, which has many orchestra covered it using army howitzers!)

4. This fanfiction inspired me to create this death-themed story. Credits for the author: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12535687/1/After-April

5. As the "Symphony of the Sky" has characters imported from school idol-themed franchise Love Live!, so are this "closing" sequel.

Enjoy!

Arima's Mansion, somewhere in Hokkaido, State of Japan, February 18th, 2084

An old man, a war hero and legendary pianist can feel that the day which his first love left him will also the time when he will joined her and many other people he loved who had predeceased him, which included a fellow musician and war veteran, and most importantly, his wife, fiery and passionate Emi Arima, perished six months ago due to congestive heart failure.

Four days before, almost the entire Arima clan visited him and stay in the enormous mansion, normally occupied by Kousei, an assistant android named Saki in tribute of his mother, built by an AI expert Ryo Takeshima, a personal friend of Kousei which he had met in his thirties, and Emi before her passing as they grow old.

He remembers his only 6-years old great-grandchildren, Kenichiro Arima, asked in the previous day. "Hii-ojiisan, let me show you my piano!" and proceeded to play "Symphony No. 40 (Mozart), K.550" and "1812 Overture", greatly brought joy into the former fighter pilot. Kenichiro was dubbed as another prospective heir of his legend, after his eldest daughter, Kaori Arima the first, a violinist and cellist, and two of his grandchildrens, Sadao Yamazaki, with jazz as his primary engine, son of Kaori the first, and classical-aligned Fumihiro, son of Natsume, Kousei's third son.

Kaori, with her husband, Renzo Yamazaki, a surgeon, has two more children along with Sadao, by the name of Hikari and Takami Yamazaki.

Natsume was interested in politics in his younger days, and as a professional diplomat, had a distinguished career with the Liberal Democratic Party, still dominated the nation's politics in the mid 21st century, and currently, at 59, after two periods as a Representative, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Along with 28-year old Fumihiro, he was blessed with a fraternal twin; Keizo, a cadet in the Japanese Naval Academy in Yokosuka, and Keiko, an aspiring idol.

His second son, Taki, was a fusion-power nuclear scientist, which compared to his siblings, had most troubled family life; his marriage almost collapsed due to his only daughter, Kaori the second, a band singer, was a drug junkie in her college days and had twice been committed to rehab before the extended family's intervention finally helped Taki rearrange his household in order.

In addition, after the Korean War he had also adopted two war orphans from Northern Korea: Pung Do-yeon, lived a quiet life as a typical Japanese salaryman, passed away in 2077 of cancer, and Su-Yeon Hee, which later took Korean citizenship and was killed in a Maglev train crash in 2047 in Seoul. Some of their descendants, either Korean or Japanese citizens, also visited him to pay their respect to one of the man who help reunify the peninsula back in the day as a pilot.

Then he remembered his fellow pilots, especially former idols Major Honoka Kousaka and Captain Kotori Minami, and his other friends, war veteran or not, both with happy moments such as the time when Makoto and his wife, former idol Koizumi Hanayo have their first child, Haruka obtained gold medal with Japan's softball team in 2024 Olympics, or Jiro's twin children graduated from university, and heartbreaks such when he performed in Sydney, he learned that Major Honoka had passed away due to pneumonia.