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Checkered: Chapter 5

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Sometimes, it felt like she couldn’t tell the Big Five anything without it turning into an ordeal. Case in point, the Big and Young Fives being gathered after an offhand comment Reika made to Lector about meeting Margareta Liebehenschel. It was the middle of the evening, but she really just wanted to go home - she’d driven to the Manor on her own for a reason.

“SchroderCorp is going into gaming too?” Lector asked, raising a brow at Reika later that night. “What an… interesting development. We already have quite the relationship with them, and here they are again, like an annoying mosquito that won’t seem to quit.”

“You’d know all about those wouldn’t you, Alden? Given those mosquitos in Louisiana you always talk about,” Crump snorted, a nauseating sound that made Reika question when the last time he’d blown his nose was. “Miss Liebehenschel is the daughter of SchroderCorp’s CFO. I have spoken with him multiple times. He is a very serious man, but one who likes to talk, and it’s rather difficult to get him to stop when alcohol is involved. I think I can get some good information out of him about this new turnover.”

“See to it that you do, Crump,” Gansley said. “We need to know if we need to remind SchroderCorp why it has always been second place, and why it will remain so even as the changeovers continue.”

Johnson adjusted his glasses. “The good news, at least, is that both of the Kaibas have already made waves with other major companies. We won’t be seeing Mister von Schroder making a deal with Pegasus for holographic gaming technology, for example. But yes… it is always so much fun to put them in their place.”

There was danger in his tone, and it sent a shiver down Reika’s spine, concealed by her turning away briefly to grab her alcoholic drink off the table next to her, sending a silent apology to Margareta in the process. She may have done the right thing for KaibaCorp as a whole, but what was the personal cost? Margareta hadn’t done anything but talk to her - she hadn’t threatened KaibaCorp, she hadn’t forced Reika to spill any secrets… why did SchroderCorp need any sort of reminder of their place in the world?

To her right, she saw Hideo frown into his own drink. Was she not the only one who thought the Big Five went too far sometimes?

“Good work, Reika. You’ve given us something else to work on besides that stupid amusement park,” Nezbit said, his face barely concealing rage before he took a long drink of his Manhattan.

“Yes, very well done. SchroderCorp won’t know what hit it,” Gansley agreed. “But we must be patient, and striking so quickly will backfire on us. Waiting until they manage to accomplish something is in our best interest.”

They were patient men, which worried her. As she’d gotten older, and with Gozaburo’s death, she had really been soured on the brutality of the business world, to the point where she wasn’t sure if she wanted to stick around. Maybe she should look more seriously at Tokyo, instead of Kyoto. A little distance might be for the best…

“Hey guys! C’mon, let’s go dance!” Noah said, peering into the room. “They finished the silent auction and now the orchestra’s playing. No one seems to want to dance though, so I figured we should start it off, right?”

“A marvelous idea, Master Noah,” Lector said, his lips curling into a smile that didn’t quite reach his eyes and had another spike of worry streak down her spine. Had Seto weakening their power started to make them crack?

Still, she followed the others out of the room.

“Shall we?” Seto asked. “The others have already paired up, and Katsuo already found his girlfriend.”

She smiled softly. “Well then, I suppose we shall.”

His touch was featherlight as they moved through the crowd, just two people (not a couple) following the rules of ballroom dancing. He led, she followed, and after a few moments of KaibaCorp’s next generation leading the way, the floor filled with other couples joining in on the fun.

But while Seto and Reika were fooling the adults and other guests in the room, there was one person that could see right through the charade:

Mokuba Kaiba.

“Have you been practicing Canon in D?” Reika asked a few weeks later, her school bag on her shoulders as she swept into Kaiba Manor’s large music room. The room only seemed to get bigger as she got older - maybe it was a reminder that she was planning to make a career out of music?

Mokuba nodded and grinned. “Yeah, I sure have! Do you want to listen to it?”

“Well, as your teacher, I think that’s rather important,” she said with a grin, taking a seat on the bench next to him. “Whenever you’re ready.”

Mokuba might not have been as outwardly passionate as Seto and Noah when it came to science and computers, but he loved the lessons with her, which made her incredibly happy. The whole reason she’d asked Gozaburo for the chance to teach him piano was because she’d seen the way Gozaburo ignored him in favor of the elder Kaiba brothers. She hadn’t been able to stand it.

Gozaburo had simply seen it as Reika paying a debt to him; one she hadn’t realized she’d even had. He had paid for the music lessons the Young Five had received as children, but she hadn’t anticipated being in debt to him. As much as she’d enjoyed teaching Mokuba, it had been nice to know the weight of Gozaburo Kaiba was off her shoulders. Now, she and Mokuba could simply enjoy themselves, which was what Reika always felt music should be.

“I think you’re going to be a really good music teacher in the future, Reika,” Mokuba said, which broke her out of her thoughts. “Do you know what you’re going to play for your university auditions?”

“Something from Bach, I think, but I don’t want to even think about that until I sit my exams and have my results back. Your brothers are lucky they don’t have to worry about this sort of thing.”

Mokuba laughed. “High school sucks, huh?”

“You can say that again. At least I can try and keep an eye on Yugi this year. Make sure no one bothers him.”

“Oh yeah? How are you doing that?”

She pretended to be fascinated with dirt under her nails. “I just reminded a new classmate of his what happens when he messes with someone with ties to KaibaCorp, that’s all.”

“That’s awesome! I bet he learned his lesson!”

Reika gave him a gentle smile as Canon in D began to fill the room. “I sure hope so. Elbows in, Mokuba.”

Mokuba shifted, adjusting his posture. “I watched some videos of this song last night. It’s used a lot in Western weddings.”

Reika hummed. “So I’ve heard.”

“Do you want to get married?”

Reika furrowed her brow and shrugged. What a strange conversation to be having with a thirteen year old boy. “I don’t know. Maybe one day.”

“To Seto?”

That got her attention, and her eyes widened. Mokuba didn’t notice her surprise, and instead kept his eyes on the sheet music in front of him.

“What are you talking about, Mokuba?”

“I saw you and Seto in the garden the night of the silent auction. Don’t worry - Noah and the Big Five didn’t see. I made sure of it.”

It was better knowing the Big Five hadn’t seen them, but knowing Mokuba had, well, it still left her a little uneasy as she tried to think of what to say to him.

“Everything regarding our relationship is too new. I don’t know if we even put a name on it yet,” she said. “There is more to your brother than he lets on, but still, it’s only been a couple of weeks. And besides, technically my school frowns upon relationships. Neither of us are ready for anything to be public.”

Mokuba frowned. “That’s a stupid rule.”

She smiled weakly. “Very much so. Now come on, finish Canon in D and I’ll let you read a new piece of music. This time it’s from one of your favorite video games.”

And that was all Mokuba needed to straighten his posture again, the conversation dropped, and hopefully, for good.

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Yugi was scared.

One moment, he was writhing on the ground in pain, listening to Ushio start another round of violence against Joey and Honda, and the next, he was standing upright, clutching the completed Millennium Puzzle and watching Ushio play in a pile of leaves and dirt and seemingly completely oblivious to what he was doing. His body still ached, but he wasn’t bleeding anymore which he supposed was a good thing.

“Wha - what happened?” he whispered, looking at Joey and Honda with wide eyes. He didn’t trust his voice right now, didn’t trust that the bile in his throat wouldn’t swallow him whole.

“Dunno. There was a flash of gold light when you finished that puzzle, and then all of a sudden Ushio was like that. Maybe you were right about that puzzle being magical,” Joey said with a shrug and a wince.

“We can talk about it later. Right now, we need to get out of here,” Honda said, hissing in pain as he clutched at his shoulder. “Ah man, my parents aren’t gonna like this.”

Nor would his, Yugi realized. He didn’t know how he was supposed to explain the scrapes and bruises on his body to his mom and grandpa…

Unless he called in backup.

Yugi staggered to his phone and quickly dialed Reika’s number. Her parents were out of town this weekend - maybe the three of them could crash with her until Sunday, when their wounds were, hopefully, a little less noticeable?

“Hello?”

“R-Reika? It’s Yugi. Can you come and get my friends and I from school?”

He heard a sigh on her end of the line. “It’s seven o’clock, Yugi. What are you and your friends still doing at school?”

“I lost one of my textbooks and I need it for my homework. They came to help me look for it. Just… please can you come get us?”

“Okay, okay. I’m about five minutes away. Wait for me by the gates.”

“My cousin is coming to pick us up,” Yugi said, sliding his phone into his pocket and grabbing his bag. “She’ll be here in five minutes.”

Joey looked at Ushio for just a brief moment before following Yugi to the gates. “Hey Yuge, uh, it ain’t Reika that’s comin’ to get us right? I don’t wanna be put on KaibaCorp’s shit list or something.”

Yugi stared at him in confusion. “Why would Reika be upset with you? It wasn’t you that beat me up. I would be more worried about Ushio.”

Ordinarily, Yugi would be concerned with what the power of the Big Five might do to someone like Ushio, but given what had happened, how he’d completely and utterly disregarded what Yugi had said to him about Honda and Joey, well, Yugi was rather curious… providing anything could happen to Ushio after he suddenly decided he wanted to play in the leaves thinking it was money.

Reika’s dark red sedan hurtled itself around a corner and came to a stop in front of them, the doors unlocking with a click.

“Hi Reika! Thanks for coming to get us!” Yugi said, trying to stop the scrape on his forehead from being too obvious.

“I’m surprised you called anyway, or is this more about your friends?” she asked, brown eyes sharpening as she noticed Joey get into the back seat. “Hello again, Mister Wheeler.”

She was using her Young Five voice. Yugi didn’t hear it often, usually not involved with KaibaCorp or the program, but he’d heard her use it before. A sharp, clipped tone, a look up and down whoever she was speaking to, and her posture perfectly straight. A warning for one to choose their words carefully.

It worked, and Yugi could see worry in Joey’s eyes. “Uhh, hey, nice ta see ya again Reika.”

Reika’s sharp look turned to confusion when a trickle of blood slid down Joey’s forehead “Whoa, okay, what happened here? I thought you guys were just picking up a book Yugi left?”

“Ushio. There was a misunderstanding that Joey and Honda were messing with me, so Ushio… took care of business after school. He demanded payment, twenty-thousand yen, to be brought to him. I didn’t know what to do so I was working on the puzzle and… there was a piece missing so I went back to the school and Ushio ambushed me instead,” Yugi explained.

Reika’s eyes narrowed. “Uh-huh…”

“And… I finished the puzzle and made a wish! For friends! And that’s when Joey and Honda jumped in to try and stop Ushio, but… he got the upper hand, and then… I don’t really know what happened after that. All I know is he’s running around the lot thinking the leaves on the ground is money. That’s why we called you. I was… sort of hoping we could crash at your apartment this weekend? So that way some of the bruises and cuts will start looking better? Please?”

She sighed. “Alright, alright. But I’m going to need you to get permission from all your parents. Yes, Yugi, that includes you. I’ll stop off at your places so each of you can grab an overnight bag.”

“You’d do that? Why?” Joey asked.

Reika shrugged. “I’m gonna be super bored this weekend anyway. Might as well harbor some teens who are trying to avoid telling their parents they got their asses kicked.”

“Hey that’s not fair I got one hit on Ushio!” Joey protested.

Yugi laughed a little. “It was a good hit, from how it sounded.”

Stopping at Honda’s was easy, with both of his parents working late all he needed to do was go inside, feed his dog, pack a bag, and leave.

Joey’s apartment, on the other hand, was a bit strange. He went in the front door, which was normal, but when he came back out, his knuckles were bleeding again, and he left down the fire escape instead of the front door.

“Ah man, Joey’s dad was home,” Honda said with a frown. “The only reason he even got a job was to be able to afford more booze. He’s supposed to be a janitor at KaibaCorp but… I don’t know if he actually does anything. Don’t… tell Joey I said that.”

Yugi saw Reika’s eyes sharpen again, but he shook his head quickly to try and dissuade her from doing anything rash.

Reika relented and poked her head out her window as Joey moved to put his bag in the trunk. “Joey. Open the black box to the left. There’s a first aid kit in there. You can clean up your hand on the way to the game shop.”

“Oh - thanks Reika.”

Looking down at his phone, he let out a small breath of relief. “Gramps is going to be the only one home when we get there. Mom’s at dinner with some friends of hers.” While it was difficult to sneak past Gramps, knowing he had Reika with him made Yugi feel a little more confident in him never finding out about what happened.

“So we go in, I distract him with a conversation, and we leave. Sounds simple enough to me,” Reika said as the car turned onto his street and came to a stop in front of the shop.

“Why Reika! I didn’t expect to see you today!” grandpa said in surprise when they entered the shop, Joey and Honda trailing in behind them. Gramps was closing up the shop as they walked in, the register was empty and most of the overhead shop lights were dark.

Yugi took that opportunity to sneak upstairs to get a bag packed, though he could still hear the conversation as he went.

“Hey gramps, uh, I ran into Yugi as I was driving home from Kaiba Manor. I was giving a lesson to Mokuba. He’s gotten so good!”

Kaiba Manor had always given Yugi a sense of unease. Gozaburo’s eyes had never seemed human, had been felt in every corner of the place, and Noah had only ever come across as a puppet to Yugi. It seemed to be changing now, with Gozaburo gone and Noah using his intellect for a better purpose, but Yugi didn’t know how she managed to still be involved after everything that had come to light, and everything that had yet to. The Young FIve were certainly more brave than he was.

Zipping his overnight bag up, Yugi also grabbed his backpack and put it on his shoulders before going downstairs to join the others, laughter erupting from the quartet he’d left behind just as he entered the room.

“Alright, I’ll see you Sunday night, gramps!”

“You be careful and make sure your homework is done!” Gramps replied, eying the backpack on Yugi’s shoulders.

“I will, I will!” he laughed, following the others out of the shop, the door locking shut behind him.

“There, see? Easy,” Reika said with a grin. “Now, who wants dinner? I can call Hashimoto’s when we get to my place.”

“Hashimoto’s? I ain’t never been there,” Joey said.

“Oh it’s great. They’re mostly known for ramen, but they also sell bowls and soup. Mister Hashimoto has been a family friend since before we were born. He went to the same university as Reika’s dad,” Yugi explained. “And the restaurant isn’t too far from Reika’s apartment, so it shouldn’t take too long for delivery.”

“Sounds good to me! I could go for some ramen!” Honda said. “Don’t worry Joey, we’ll find something you like there.”

“Sure, yeah, uh - alright.”

He could see something change again in Reika’s gaze, but no one said anything, and the trip back to the apartment was quiet, only the radio producing any noise.

After they settled into the apartment and dinner was ordered, Yugi took the puzzle out of his bag and stared at it. Was Honda right? Was the puzzle actually cursed with ancient Egyptian dark magic? Gramps had always said all the Millennium Items were, but Yugi had always written it off as a scary story told to children - Gramps had wasted no time in telling those stories to he and Reika when she’d spent the night at the game shop as a kid. It had been one of the reasons why she’d refused to wear the item gramps had brought back for her, a golden bracelet with the same symbol the puzzle had on it. Yugi couldn’t blame her for not wanting to wear hers seeing that now he had a blank spot in his memory.

“Yugi,” Reika said, sitting down next to him. “Do you remember that promise I made you when we were kids?”

Yugi nodded. “That you didn’t want to wear your bracelet until I solved the puzzle, so we could show them off together.”

She nodded in return and opened her folded hands, revealing the bracelet in her palm. “I’m making you a new promise now. Whatever happened with your puzzle, whatever might happen in the future, we are going to figure it out together. This is not something you have to do alone.”

He smiled and nodded, taking a moment to look at Joey and Honda (and Anzu would be there too, he knew), and felt his heart swell with relief, knowing Reika was right, and he wasn’t alone, not anymore.

Reika took a deep breath and secured the bracelet on her wrist.

Yugi looked at her with bated breath. “So…? Do you feel any different?”

“No… I don’t think so,” Reika replied, looking down at herself and flexing her hands like she’d suddenly start shooting out lasers. “Everything seems normal here.”

He sighed in relief. “Thank goodness. Maybe your bracelet has something different from the puzzle then.”

Reika shrugged. “Maybe.”

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“Osiris, it is time. A mortal has solved the puzzle and the bracelet is in place.”

Osiris looked at Anubis and nodded solemnly. The Field of Reeds was missing a king, and now, it seemed, it was finally time to right that wrong.

“Fetch Azila then. She knows what must be done.”

Anubis nodded and swept from the room.

#checkered #yugioh #fanfiction

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pain-suffering-even · 1 year

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headcanons: Sugimoto Reiji

content warning for murder and mentions of manipulation

Quick headcanons -

Name: Sugimoto Reiji

Age: 31

Gender: Male

DOB/Place: October 28th, 2029 in Sendai, Japan

Rank/Type: S Rank Assassin

Guild/Occupation: Draw Sword Guild Vice Leader

Past Occupation(s): Student at Tokyo university

Skills:

Weapons: Dagger

Family: Kato Miyoko (mom) (alive)

Sugimoto Jiro (dad) (alive)

Core headcanons -

Hidden talent: Good with the cello, guitar, and ukulele

Favorite food: Coconut cream cake

What motivates them: Feeling responsible for the guild and the team, wanting to please Matsumoto, his internal feelings of right and wrong which are questionable sometimes,

Treasured possession: The guitar he bought for himself when he was still in highschool

Deepest secret: Matsumoto asks him to kill members from other guilds if he worries they’re gaining too much power, and Reiji is too scared of him to say no

Best/Worst thing to happen to them: Learning the guitar/Literally his entire hunter career save for the special S rank team he made

Random memories: Studying german, french, chinese, russian, and korean throughout college and annoying the shit out of his roommates when he’d stay up all night, riding his bike without hands down a hill one night and getting fucked up, stealing some money from the register to add to his paycheck so he could buy himself a guitar, getting a crush on the orchestra teacher when he was in middle school, sneaking off to the club in his emo phase and sticking out like a sore thumb but having the best day of his life as he got all sorts of drunk and high,

Best friend/Worst enemy: Goto Ryuji/Goto Ryuji

Good/Bad traits: Responsible, thoughtful, sensitive, polite, /Emotional, spiteful

Things they’ve done/like to do: Get up early and practice the guitar as his coffee is made, doing covers of the songs the team will listen to whenever they have to drive somewhere, visiting his old neighborhood, ride his bike at night, visit the music and instrument store near his neighborhood,

Personality type: “Consul” ESFJ-A (64% extraverted, 36% introverted; 36% intuitive, 64% observant; 22% thinking, 78% feeling; 93% judging, 7% prospecting; 71% assertive, 29% turbulent)

Nervous habit: Fiddling with his hair, chewing the inside of his cheek/lip,

Things they’re afraid of: Heights,

Things they want to accomplish: Getting Ryuji to open up about the red gate, training Ippei and Minoru to be better assassins, figure out where Ryuji stays when not at the dorms, figure out how to play chop suey on the piano or if it's even possible,

Additional headcanons -

He's terrible at baking since he doesn't follow the instructions

He really likes opals

Extremely emotional about a lot of things, but due to his position and job, he bottles it up inside - he's prone to bouts of irrationality because of this, but its rare and contained

He has a tattoo underneath his left ear of a Molotov cocktail - it was an impulse decision when he was younger, and he regrets it horribly. It's mostly hidden when his hair is down

Matsumoto has asked him to... take care of other guild members sometimes. Since he's an assassin and all. No one else in the guild knows, and Reiji would like to keep it that way

He wonders if he should’ve pursued his dream of being a singer rather than settling for hunter

Their Timeline -

Age 18: Reiji leaves for college (his emo phase begins)

3 years pass

Age 21: Reiji is confirmed S rank + joins the draw sword guild

Age 22: Reiji is upgraded to group leader

Age 23: Ryuji joins the guild

4 years pass

Age 27: Tokyo's Red Gate incident + Nishimura Oniyuri (the previous Draw Sword Guild leader) dies + Reiji becomes vice (Reiji’s emo phase comes to a forceful stop)

Age 28: Reiji creates the S rank team (Kenzo, Kanae, Tatsumi, Mari, and later, Akari)

Age 29: Atsushi, Kei, and Ippei join the S rank team

Age 30: Minoru joins the Draw Sword Guild

Age 31: now

#tw // murder #head canons #reiji sugimoto #character: reiji sugimoto #mentions of other characters #minoru hoshino #goto ryuji #original characters #solo leveling #fandom: solo leveling #only i level up #long post

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techhy-simpson · 3 months

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chrancecriber · 2 years

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Radio NET Bulgaria (November 26, 2022)

23:59 MICHAEL SILVERMAN, ERIC MARIENTHAL - In These Times 23:54 MIKAEL - Trippin Over You 23:51 NAI SOUNDS - Can't Deal 23:47 SHAKATAK - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 23:42 KENNEY POLSON - Black Swan 23:38 NILS - Nine2Five 23:34 VINCENT INGALA - Ready Or Not 23:30 CAROL ALBERT - Sol Ipanema 23:25 MARCUS ANDERSON - Bless The Lord 23:21 DREW DAVIDSEN - Silent Night 23:16 EUGE GROOVE - Silhouette 23:12 VINCENT IOIA - First Time (feat. Ricky Peterson & Gerey Johnson) 23:08 JACKIEM JOYNER - Later Tonight 23:04 WILL SUMNER - A Last Dance 23:00 GREGG KARUKAS - Welcome Home 22:59 TOUCH & GO - Straight To...Number One (Dreamcatcher Mix) 22:52 TORNIKE - Night Steps (Original Mix) 22:46 STAN CROWN - Not Invented Love (Original Mix) 22:44 SPOR - Pacifica (Acoustic Version) 22:38 TONY IGY - Astronomia (Chillout Mix) 22:35 ASKERY - With You 22:29 SIMON LE GREC - Decisions (Delor Mix) 22:24 ASTRID SURYANTO - Distant Bar (Original Mix) 22:21 SOUND BEHAVIOUR - Arena 22:16 D-PULSE - Velocity Of Love (Original) 22:12 SKYE - Feel Good Inc 22:07 SINOPTIK MUSIC - Black Islands 22:03 SOTY - Circle (Original Mix) 21:59 SIMON G - Crazy (Original Mix) 21:56 TRACEY THORN - Night Time (Original Mix) 21:49 TRENTEMOLLER - Miss You (Lulu Rouge Feat. Asger Baden Remix) 21:43 TRANZLIFT - Heaven's Shore (Magdelayna's Chilled Remake) 21:38 SMOOTH DELUXE - Dream Of Insomnia 21:34 TOKYO COUNTERPOINT - To The Sky (Lemongrass Free Bird Remix) 21:31 HIATUS & SHURA - Fortune's Fool 21:26 HESS IS MORE - Yes Boss 21:21 HEIKO - Miles Away 21:16 CAFE DEL MAR - Mandalay (Beautiful) 21:10 GREEN POINT ORCHESTRA - Miriam Dub 21:06 YORK, ASHENI - Iceflowers (Original Mix) 21:01 CHAKRA - I Am (Vox Mix) 20:56 REY SALINERO - Total Delight 20:51 CHICANE - No Ordinary Morning (Original Mix) 20:44 VITODITO, SARA POLLINO - The Song I Promised You (Chillout Mix) 20:41 CHICANE, KATE WALSH - Playing Fields (Original Mix) 20:38 MOTIF, LENA BELGART - Halo (Original Mix) 20:32 BEN GOLD, SENADEE - Today (Chilled Datt Remix) 20:28 POCHILL - Constanta 78 20:24 PIXALEND - Maritime Sadness 20:19 PETE MURRAY - So Beautiful (Acoustic Version) 20:16 VITO FOGNINI, CARI - True To Myself (Original Mix) 20:10 VLAD ZHUKOV - Nothing (W&D Chill Out Vocal Mix) 20:05 TITIYO - Come Along (Naid Remix) 19:59 RED - Pieces 19:53 PREMASARA COUNCIL - Sensual Ecstasy 19:48 PAUL ADAM - Backwards (Original Mix) 19:43 NUAGE, N4M3 - Sunday Morning (Original Mix) 19:40 MODJO - Lady (Acoustic Version) 19:37 CLAES ROSEN, NATALIE PERIS - Stay (Original Mix) 19:32 GABRIELA MENDEZ FUENTE - Romance In Ibiza (Orchester Lite Edit) 19:26 20SABANCI - As Faces Fade (Domenico Cascarino & Luca Lombardi Chill Out Remix) 19:22 PAROV STELAR - You Got Me There 19:18 HARD GREY, HOUSE REPUBLIC - Music Sounds Better With You (Eat More Cake Remix) 19:14 GUSHI, RAFFUNK - Travel (Lemongrass Couch Remix) 19:12 HARDWELL, COLLIN McLOUGHLIN - Call Me A Spaceman (Unplugged Version) 19:08 OCEAN DRIVE, DJ ORISKA - Without You (Acoustic Version) 19:04 COSMIC GATE, EMMA HEWITT - Be Your Sound (Live Acoustic Version) 19:00 NOMOSK - Don't Hold Back (Soty & Seven24 Chillout Remix) 18:56 CUEBRICK - Safe (C-Systems Alternative Mix) 18:50 NO HORIZONS, SHEEMA - Summer Son 18:45 NITIN SAWHNEY - Breathing Light 18:42 NIK LLOYD - Number 1 (Acoustic Cover) 18:33 RED BUDDHA, LINDA WONG ENSEMBLE - Stone Buddha 18:28 REUNITED - Sing It Back (Shazz Man Chill Mix) 18:22 RAYAN MYERS - Pleasant Calmness (Original Mix) 18:17 POLISHED CHROME - Secret Of Sound (Album Version) 18:12 RICHARD MARX - Right Here Waiting 18:08 RUSSELL SIMINS - Comfortable Place 18:05 RUTH ANN - Beautiful 18:01 DJ CHART, DOBA, PRINCESS LARISSA - Danger Games 17:55 BRAVE - The Muse (Chill Out Mix) 17:52 DISCO FRIES, NIKO THE KID - The Light (Acoustic Version) 17:49 DEEP'N PURE, RADBOY - R We Ever Gonna Be (Original Mix) 17:45 MAX MILLION - Do You Believe (Original Mix) 17:41 ZAZA, JORGE NAVA - Broken (Chill Mix) 17:38 ZARA, SNATT & VIX - No Angel (Zetandel Chill Out Mix) 17:34 JIMMY ROQSTA, THALYA HILL - Endless Summer Dance (El Gambrero Remix) 17:28 ATB - Remember That Day 17:24 FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - Seven Devils 17:18 TENISHIA, KIRSTY HAWKSHAW - Falling (Original Mix) 17:13 YIRUMA - River Flows In You (N-Drew Fate Remix) 17:09 YIRUMA, RUVIN - River Flows In You 17:04 LEO ROJAS - Friendship 17:00 KENNY G - My Heart Will Go On 16:59 SONIX - Cloud 9 16:54 KIRK FISCHER - Shades of Gray 16:51 JOYCE COOLING - It's Feeling Like Christmas 16:47 DAVID GARFIELD - Ticket to Pittsburgh 16:42 PETER WHITE - Promenade 16:38 RICHARD ELLIOT - People Make The World Go Round 16:33 EDGARDO CINTRON - People Get Ready 16:28 CHUCK LOEB - Cotton Club 16:24 JAY ROWE - The First Noel 16:20 DANIEL CHIA - Cali Style 16:16 BOB COATE - Super Smooth 16:12 ED CALLE - Faces in the Clouds 16:08 MARCOS ARIEL - Second Chance (feat. Lulu Joppert) 16:03 WILL DONATO - You Got This 16:00 PAUL BROWN - For What It's Worth 15:55 DREAMING IN COLOUR - Keepsakes 15:51 DARRIUS JAMAR - Heaven 15:46 MICHAEL LINGTON - Oh Holy Night 15:42 DOMINIC CAMARDELLA - 4ever More 15:37 LES SABLER - Esselle's Dance 15:33 MARION MEADOWS - Twice as Nice 15:28 NORTH 2UNES WOODALL - In the Mood 15:24 BROOK ALFORD - New Day 15:20 NICK COLIONNE - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town 15:16 NILS - Tangie 15:12 VINCENT INGALA - Gimme Some 15:08 CAROL ALBERT - Gemini Sun 15:03 MARCUS ANDERSON - This Is My Prayer 15:00 THREESTYLE, MAGDALENA CHOVANCOVA, ROBERT FERTL - Better Days 14:59 SAM BASSMAN JENKINS - Bassin 14:53 EUGE GROOVE - Rise 14:49 JUSTIN YOUNG - Silent Night 14:44 THE V.I.P CLUB - Night Move 14:40 JACKIEM JOYNER - I'm Waiting For You 14:36 TERRENCE RICHBURG - Treasures 14:32 GREGG KARUKAS - Nightshift 14:27 TONY LINDSAY - Fixed 14:23 RONNY SMITH - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 14:18 PETER WHITE - For The Love Of You 14:14 ZACH BRIDGES - These Hands 14:10 PAUL BROWN - Nothin' But Love 14:05 RICHARD ELLIOT - Elegant People 14:00 U - NAM 13:59 BIRDS OF A FEATHER - In The Shade 13:55 ADAM HAWLEY - Risin' Up 13:52 ALEX FALDIN - Comfortline 13:48 SYLVIA BENNETT - Silver Bells 13:44 DERRICK HARVIN - When You Say 13:38 BOBBY WELLS - Count It All Joy 13:34 DANNY LERMAN - You Take My Breath Away 13:30 ERIC MARIENTHAL - Dance With Me 13:26 ANDRE DELANO - Footsteps 13:22 SMOOTH SOUL HOLIDAY - Come All Ye Faithful 13:18 FOURPLAY - Aniversario 13:13 ANDREW NICHOLS - I Love the Way You Love Me 13:09 JEREMY HECTOR - Flow 13:05 ERIC DARIUS, NORMAN BROWN - Just For The Moment 13:00 NILS - Call Of The Sirens 12:58 VINCENT INGALA - It Is What It Is 12:54 CAROL ALBERT - Angels Watching over Me 12:50 MARCUS ANDERSON - Krystle Clear 12:45 MARION MEADOWS - Little Shepherd Boy 12:42 DAVE BRADSHAW JR. - Jumpstep 12:36 EUGE GROOVE - From The Top 12:32 BEN TANKARD - Still Here 12:28 RICHARD BROWN - Stars In My Eyes 12:24 JACKIEM JOYNER - J Time 12:21 CHRISTMAS CAROLS - E' Nate Il Redentore (Piva Piva) 12:17 GREGG KARUKAS - Cruisin' Your House at Midnite 12:13 FREDDIE FOX - Thank You 12:10 PAUL BROWN - Sweetness 12:04 PETER WHITE - Time Never Sleeps 12:00 ANDREY CHMUT - Night Ride 11:58 GARY MEGGS - Autumn Leaves 11:54 RICHARD ELLIOT - Camelia 11:50 BACH & A. KILLIAN - No Next Time 11:47 DR. SAXLOVE - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 11:41 DEMETRIUS NABORS - Sensuality 11:37 GABRIEL MARK HASSELBACH - Heading North 11:33 JUSTIN KLUNK - Dive 11:29 MISZ - Our Place 11:25 NATE WHITE - Feels Like Love 11:21 DAVE KOZ - My Grown Up Christmas List (feat. Heather Headley) 11:17 RONALD BOO HINKSON - Making It Easy 11:13 STEVE COLE - Living Out Loud 11:09 ALTHEA RENE - Barbara Mae 11:05 HANK BILAL - Glass Slipper 11:00 BONEY JAMES - Second Nature 11:00 SAN GABRIEL SEVEN - Moment by Moment 10:56 NILS - Casablanca 10:52 VINCENT INGALA - Can't Stop Now 10:48 JODY MAYFIELD - Christmas Time is here 10:43 MOTOWN MOE - Living My Best Life (feat. Nick Stone & Nils) 10:39 CAROL ALBERT - Fire & Water 10:36 FRANK SUTTON - Travel Forecast 10:32 MARCUS ANDERSON - Espresso Shot 10:29 SEAN U - Key West 10:23 BRIAN BROMBERG - Wonderful Christmastime 10:17 EUGE GROOVE - Straight Up 10:13 JACKIEM JOYNER - When The Time Is Right 10:09 PAUL BROWN - Wine Night 10:05 STEVE WATSON - Happy Evenings 10:00 GREGG KARUKAS - Club Hopping 09:52 PETER WHITE - Endless Journey 09:47 BRADLEY LEIGHTON - Little Drummer Boy 09:43 GERALD ALBRIGHT - Hope 09:39 CHRIS GODBER - Meant 2 Be (feat. Hawc Griffin) 09:27 UNDER THE LAKE - Old Friends New Grooves 09:21 SHIN GIWON CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLECTION - The First Noel 09:17 PHILLIP DOC MARTIN - Black Shoebox 09:13 BILLYRAY SHEPPARD - Take Flight 09:08 KONSTANTIN KLASHTORNI - Look Around 09:05 MARK CARTER - Swingtown 09:00 MARCHIO BOSSA, RYU ZEE SU - Somewhere 08:58 LISA ADDEO - Deep Blue C 08:54 LINDSEY WEBSTER - I Didn't Mean It 08:50 KIM WATERS - My Gift to You 08:45 KIRK WHALUM - Inside (feat. Shanice) 08:42 WADE C. LONG - Happy Go Lucky 08:37 NILS - Red Wine & Sunsets 08:33 VINCENT INGALA - Fire And Desire 08:29 ROCCO VENTRELLA - Stay Close to Me 08:24 STEVE OLIVER - Deck The Halls 08:20 CAROL ALBERT - Sapporo Dream 08:14 MARCUS ANDERSON - I Surrender All 08:09 DAVID PETROSYAN - Feeling of Breath 08:05 PAUL BROWN - Toast And Jam 08:00 EUGE GROOVE - Summer Stroll 07:57 GERRY SMOOTH - Let's Dance 07:54 JACKIEM JOYNER - That Good Thing 07:50 NORMAN BROWN - Peace Of Mind 07:45 SHAKATAK - Christmas Time Again 07:40 GREGG KARUKAS - Summerhouse 07:36 EARL KLUGH - Crazy For You 07:32 PETER WHITE - Venice Beach 07:28 RICHARD ELLIOT - Ricochet 07:24 MARQUEAL JORDAN - Behave to Love 07:21 JOYCE COOLING - Christmas, Christmas 07:17 MARC ANTOINE - For A Smile 07:13 JAMHUNTERS - Eurabian Fantasy 07:08 GTF - Spanish Steps 07:04 GINO ROSARIA - Ride Along 07:00 HIROSHIMA - Always Tomorrow 06:57 JAKOB MAGNUSSON - Hook, Line & Sinker 06:53 JAREZ - Together Forever 06:49 KEITH ANDREW - Bayon 06:46 JAY ROWE - Joy to the World 06:41 KEN POWE - First Love 06:36 REZA KHAN, JEFF KASHIWA, MATT KING - It's About Time 06:31 YULARA - Shakti Dance 06:28 GHOST JAZZ TRIO BAND - Looking Good (feat. James Morgan) 06:23 RODNEY GREENE - Real Close 06:21 DREW DAVIDSEN - Away In A Manger 06:17 NILS - Step Into the Beat 06:12 NAJEE - Sumthin' Sumthin' 06:09 VINCENT INGALA - What Does It Take (Vinnie's Take) 06:05 LARRY CARLTON, PAUL BROWN - Miles And Miles To Go 06:00 MEZZIFORTE - Nightfall 05:56 BONEY JAMES - Detour 05:52 CAROL ALBERT - Crashing 05:48 MICHAEL LINGTON - Silent Night 05:44 MARCUS ANDERSON - Believe In Yourself 05:40 RON KING - Cascade 05:35 EUGE GROOVE - Dirty Dozen 05:31 SLIM GAMBILL - Up (feat. Charlton Singleton) 05:27 JACKIEM JOYNER - Evolve 05:24 NICHOLAS COLE - Let It Snow 05:19 NORMAN BROWN - West Coast Coolin' 05:15 GREGG KARUKAS - Walkin' in Time 05:09 PETER WHITE - Turn It Out 05:05 RICHARD ELLIOT - Sake For Two 05:00 SONNY EMORY - Latina 04:58 EJAZZ ARTISTRY - Never Too Much 04:52 JEFFERY SMITH - Visions of Love 04:48 BEN TANKARD - A Guitar for Christmas 04:44 DONALD HAYES - Front Ground 04:40 DWIGHT SIRLS - The Pawn 04:36 DIDIER LABOSSIERE - VTB Wings 04:31 JULIAN VAUGHN - A Feeling 04:27 SKINNY HIGHTOWER - Now Or Never 04:22 HERB ALPERT - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 04:18 TIM BOWMAN - Friends 04:13 SHAWN RAIFORD - Good Vibrations 04:08 SPECIAL EFX - Beautiful Gold 04:04 EARNEST WALKER JR - Palm Avenue 04:00 PAUL BROWN - Food For The Moon 03:57 NILS - Hey Joe 03:53 NAJEE - One Note Love 03:48 NICK COLIONNE - We Three Kings 03:43 BRENDAN ROTHWELL - Drifting 03:40 VINCENT INGALA - Ridin' The Wave 03:36 BONEY JAMES - Sway 03:32 CAROL ALBERT - Sometime 03:28 MARCUS ANDERSON - Coffee Cocktails 03:22 JUSTIN YOUNG - Merry Christmas 03:17 EUGE GROOVE - Sneak A Peak 03:13 FOSTINA DIXON - Good Vibes 03:08 JACKIEM JOYNER - Elevation 03:04 PATRICK LAMB - I See it in Your Eyes 03:00 NORMAN BROWN - Sunset On Chandler 02:55 GREGG KARUKAS - Simone 02:51 MICHAEL ROSS - Four Seasons to Cross 02:46 RONNY SMITH - O Come All Ye Faithful 02:42 PETER WHITE - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 02:37 RICHARD ELLIOT - Boom Town 02:33 MAX HIGHSTEIN - Open To Receive 02:29 MICHAEL MANSON - You Go to My Head 02:24 NOTEWORTHY BAND - Surf to Smooth 02:20 SYLVIA BENNETT - Winter Wonderland 02:17 J3 - Hela 02:12 ILYA SEROV - My Funny Valentine 02:08 A Sultry Summers Night (feat. 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𝘿𝙀𝘼𝘿 𝙂𝙄𝙍𝙇𝙎 𝙏𝙀𝙇𝙇 𝙉𝙊 𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙎

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PAIRING : Bonten! Rindou Haitani x reader / Bonten! Ran Haitani x reader.

SYNOPSIS : " 'cause two can keep a secret if one of them is dead ".

" Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. "

" What if their first love came back ? What if everything they thought had happened that night was a lie ?"

WARNING : 18+, Minors DNI. Violence, murder, sex work, sex trafficking.

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( what is written in bold and italics are flashbacks)

Chapter 04 :

The orchestra began to play the next symphony, Kokonoi watched the dancers gradually disperse from the observation balcony, he swore he had spotted Rindou's hair somewhere in the middle of the dancing room, but he was too focused in his conversation to even care about that one.

A champagne glass in hand, he was standing there with both Takeomi and Benjiro Ito, who happened to be a bank manager secretly involved in La Compagnie's money laundering. Very few people knew about his involvement in there, though most of the people in that ballroom knew about Hiroto Mori's secret.

In the middle of his conversation with the shady bank manager, Kokonoi felt the skin of his back growing colder, a familiar uncomfortable feeling settled on his shoulders, his throat felt dry, something was definitely odd. He turned his head to the left, eyeing the observation balcony just next to him and his gaze fell on his boss, Sano Manjiro, in a deep discussion with La Compagnie's vice president. Indeed, Mikey was there to warn them about not stepping on Bonten's toes, in other words, to stop prostituting their girls on their territory. When Mikey discusses, he actually threatens, which he could clearly tell from the face the vice president was making, how uncomfortable he was, but that was not the thing that was bothering Hajime.

Turning his head toward many directions, he finally spotted what was making him that uncomfortable, and Hajime's back straightened immediately. There, in the corner of a room, a masked woman and a man were standing next to a pillar, and Koko could easily tell they were staring at him and not even trying to hide it. The woman was leaning against the pillar, a champagne glass on hand, the man was facing her and had his back to Koko, yet he could feel his eyes looking at him from the corner, from time to time.

Now he was used to people's admiration's glances toward him, he was used to women and even men staring at him, who wouldn't anyway ? The famous money genius, yet, he had a bad feeling about it, and If Kokonoi trusted something in this world, it was his intuition.

Quickly putting an end to his conversation with Benjiro Ito, nodding faintly toward that one who made his way across the room, he hurried to turn toward Takeomi who was leaning against the balcony railing, eyes roaming around the room since he was too bored to listen to their discussion.

- " That woman " Takeomi's attention was brought to Kokonoi when that one spoke, he quickly followed his gaze and his eyes fell on what he found a sexy woman on a designer dress.

-" She gives me the creeps".

The corner of the Akashi's lips raised slightly, mischievous eyes sliding toward his co-worker.

-" Man, worry 'bout your sex life if that vigilante scared you of every woman ".

Dramatically rolling his eyes, his co-worker cursed mentally at how his friends did not took him seriously.

-" I'm fucking serious, old fart. She and her man have been staring here "

Takeomi scoffed and straightened himself, turning to completely face his friend.

-" Maybe she found you attractive?"

-" what about her husband?" The other wearily inquired.

- " well maybe both of them found you attractive? "

- " God-"

-" What ?" That one rapidly took a look at whoever was around him before slyly taking a cigarette from his pocket and lightening it up. " A lot of married couples like to make it spicy".

Hajime took a step back, wincing because of the cigarette smoke and hoping it would not stick on his so precious suit.

-" you seem to know what you're talking about".

Takeomi who was about to take a new drag of his cigarette stopped right away and made a half weary half offended face, peering at Kokonoi.

- " I don't need to make it spicy. I am myself spicy ".

His face turned even more offended when that one scoffed.

-" Yeah yeah, Tell it t-" Kokonoi's words were cut off when he glanced once again at the spot where both of the woman and the man were standing, only to find it empty now. The man frowned immediately and his body stiffened, his reaction alerted his co-worker who followed his gaze again.

-" Where the hell are they ?" He asked, Takeomi approached the railing and started to look around the room, but as he was doing so, they both were startled by a familiar voice behind them.

-" Have you two seen Ran ?"

A startled Kokonoi and a disturbed Takeomi turned to curse Rindou, but they both frowned again when they saw his state. He was breathing hardly, as if he just ran a marathon, his cheeks were red, his tie was undone, but most importantly, his eyes. His eyes were... Different, both of them couldn't tell what changed in some minutes on their friend's gaze, but it was definitely not the same. More urgent, more full, almost... more alive.

-" Fuckers I'm talkin' to ya " he snapped them both out of their thoughts, they stared at him questioningly. " Where the hell is Ran ?"

Takeomi expeditiously looked at Hajime, sharing a conniving look before answering.

-" Last time I saw him, him and Sanzu were raiding the buffet ".

-" Yeah " Koko nodded. " They were devouring all the petit fours ".

They watched as that one muttered incomprehensible words, turned around and started heading to the stairs again. Both of them peered at each other, one raising his eyebrows and the other drinking from his glass.

-" I think Hajime Kokonoi spotted us " Conor muttered, leaning against the corridor's wall. Just in front of him, you leaned against the other and looked inside your pouch for all that you needed.

-" I don't fucking care, all he had to do was to not speak to that scum".

As soon as the symphony you danced on finished, you had to collect yourself as hard as it was and both of you and Conor disappeared in the crowd, avoiding Rindou who has been searching for you since then. Your hands were shaking around your weapon, your heart was still thumping in your chest but for the sake of the mission you had to push it aside for now.

You viciously slipped out of the room, out of sight of all the guests and hid in a corner of the hallway. Now it was time to put your plan into action, Conor was just as necessary as you since you had to act at the same time.

Because of the recent events, your father hired more security personnel to guard the hotel, which was just as expected, although they might give you a hard time you hoped to be prepared.

-" Okay" he put his gun back to his hostler. " Be careful to not be seen, be careful with the plates, and-"

-" And be quick, I know Connie " you rolled your eyes, straightening your back. He sighed and made a step toward you.

-" I need you to understand that this is more dangerous than any of your previous missions, we could get caught at any moment".

-" I do know that !" You declared reassuringly. " You just need to trust me there. And you also need to be careful, I'll join you as soon as I'm done, in the meantime try not getting knocked out " you ended up saying with a slight mockery in your voice, the man rolled his eyes and turned around to start making his way to the elevator, followed by you.

-" I wonder who taught you all that you know"

-" sometimes the student exceeds the master " you smiled and didn't had the time to hear what he answered, since you took the stairs down.

As you quickly descended the stairs to the kitchen, you suppressed the feeling of unease that came over you. You never were a regular at your father's hotel, and the last time you'd been there, that's where the downward spiral had begun. Sometimes you couldn't help but wonder what would have happened if you had chosen to keep it a secret, to keep quiet like everyone else, but now it was too late.

Moving quickly to the reception floor, you were relieved to see that the receptionist was not there, although you would have to deal with him later as well. Ignoring the marble counter, you headed for the next stairs at the corner of the large room again and started descending them, quickly finding yourself in front of large double doors.

Anxiety began to crawl inside you, you could hear through the door the last chef present there working hard . You had exactly five minutes to act before the waiters started to show up in the kitchen to serve the food. Taking a deep breath, you furtively closed your eyes, gathering all your courage before kicking the double doors open with a bang.

•••

The receptionist returned to his post after being called to the main room, his feet numb from walking so much all day.

The bald-headed man turned around the reception counter and took the door behind it, leading to his office where he hoped to have five minutes of respite from the madness of the masquerade ball organized by his boss.

All these rich men and women were unbearable, they had looked at him like a nobody during all the evening, he was longing for a moment far from them, in the soft comfort of his office.

He closed the wood door behind him once he was inside, paying no attention to the black desk or the rolling chair facing the wall, he moved to the cabinet in the corner of the room to pour himself a glass of bourbon.

-" I've always dreamed of doing this" You spun on the swivel chair that was facing the wall so now you could watch the frozen man from behind his desk, a large smile on your face.

Happy to have reproduced a movie scene by your oh so dramatic action, you watched with a grin as Oda slowly turned his body toward you, hand clenched around the glass. His face was pale, he has been startled by a woman voice and when he turned around, he caught a glimpse of a woman in a black gown sitting in his previously turned over chair.

-" M-miss, you can't be here this is the staff's room " he managed to stop his hands from shaking before putting the glass back on the cabinet and making few steps toward the desk, watching the masked woman who didn't moved an inche. " Would you like me to walk you to the ballroom? They must be serving dinner."

He watched as your smile grew wider, white teeth contrasting with the black mask covering half of your face.

-" Oh, the show will start soon then. "

He frowned even more, making another step to turn around the desk, getting closer to you. Your words didn't made any sense for him, he tried looking for any sign of intoxication or drunkenness that could possibly push this woman to act this way but you looked perfectly fine, Oda closed the distance between both of you and gently offered you his hand, which you looked at with cold eyes and an everlasting grin.

-" Let me guide you there, my lady. "

You rolled your eyes dramatically at his gracious language, ignoring his statement and bringing your eyes to his desk. Oda's brows furrowed when you lifted your head and with your chin, gestured to the frame placed on the dark desk, a family picture of him with a woman probably his age and two young children.

-" Cute family, do they know ?" You inquired, tilting your head to the side so you could stare at his face growing impatient. " 'f course they don't, as long as the fridge's full, no one cares".

-" Excuse me but who are you ? And please leave my office immediately before i call the security " joining his words, his hand wrapped around your forearm to yank you up from the swivel chair.

A very bad idea, since as soon as your first foot touched the ground, the second flew high to his crotch, in an agonizing scream he fell on his knees, hands around the latter.

-" The fuck ? Security!" He screamed, face clearly in pain as he tried to get up, only to be thrown to the ground again by another kick to his face.

His nose started bleeding, eyes watering and widened, eyebrows furrowed. He was trying to get up, elbows pressed against the floor while you made a step toward him, eyeing him as if he was nothing but scum under your shoes.

-" Get up and fight, man. " You commanded, getting closer and before he could do anything, kicking his ribcage so hard that your toes hurt inside your shoes. Another bloodcurdling scream left the man's mouth, as well as a small blood spit. His hands left his crotch to rest on his sides, turning on the safe side, he fell completely limp on the floor, dragging his body as far as possible across the floor as you walked towards him slowly.

-" Security!" He kept on screaming, attempting to reach for the bourbon bottle on the cabinet and aiming it at your face, which you avoided by a graceful spun, your dress flowing around you. " Who the fuck are you ? Security! "

-" I'd say they are quite busy for now " you faked a wince, clicking your heels on the parquet when you made another step and he tried getting away from you by dragging himself further away.

-" You're gonna regret this ! Fucking slut you are-"

- " bla-bla tell me something I don't know ".

You threw your foot once again to his side, making him cry out another scream coming out as a sob before placing both of your feet at each side of his body, having him on the ground between your legs now. Through his agonizing pain, the man started pulling at your dress with one hand, trying to make you fall on the ground, your eye color darkened when you saw how his bloody hands stained your perfect dark gown, your blood boiling in your veins at the sight.

Out of you and of a firm gesture, the edge of your pumps settled on his trachea, turning his body on his back and pressing hard on his air duct.

The receptionist's eyes widened, his hands left your dress to settle on your ankle now, scratching it and hitting your leg as much as he could so you would let go.

-" S-Stop... C-can't breathe... ! "

-" Maily the point of choking someone" you sarcastically uttered, dark eyes burning holes in his face while your shoe was still pressed on his windpipe. You were not doing him wrong, you were convinced of it. He was well aware of what was happening inside this hotel, in the dreamhouse. No one but him knew about the girls being abused in the secret floor , no one but him provided the rooms, and you swore to kill anyone who has a hand in this organization.

His face got more and more blue as the time passed, he struggled like hell under your foot, moving to his side, scratching you, groaning and crying but nothing would ever make you let go.

-" Why-... Who the hell are you ?" He managed to ask with a strangled voice, eyes starting to lose focus around him because of the hypoxia.

Limb numb, stern face, you pressed your shoe harder, letting all the murderous instinct you struggled with since years take control of you.

-" I am... what happens to the princess when there's no prince to save her. I am the dragon ".

But he was way too far gone to even focus on your words, you weren't even sure he heard them before his hands slowly left your ankle to fall over his body, his tongue rolled outside his mouth slightly, and his head fell to the side.

Suffocated, he died where he killed the dreams of so many young girls.

Lucid dreams.

Where someone knows they are dreaming, where they somehow have control on their character.

That was the exact way Rindou was feeling. Stuck in that ballroom as if stuck in a lucid dream, except he did felt no control over himself, or over anything else. The figures around him were moving too fast, talking too far, he felt robbed from reality, as if he was too detached from everything around him, being everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Sitting at one of the tables at the dinner for Hiroto Mori's birthday, all his friends and co-workers were there yet he was alone in the crowd, surrounded by thoughts and not souls. Surrounded by just one single soul.

Was it intuition or overthinking?

Was he hallucinating?

It was a dream, it had to be.

In no way his intuition would have turned real, it had to be about him overthinking. But god, it felt real. Every dead part of his soul ignited when he touched her, and when she looked at his eyes, he was back in the past, right before all of this madness happened, and when he heard her voice...

That wasn't exactly how you sounded, years ago. But now that he thought about it, it was exactly how you would've sounded, if nothing happened. If they confessed earlier, if you stayed the night, if you grew old together.

Some few years would weight on your vocal cords, and your voice would have turned a little more mature, exactly how it sounded now.

He ran a shaky hand through his hair, under his friend's odd looks. He has been numb to any feeling for so long, and now everything he suppressed fell on him in one night, and he had to undo his tie because he was internally suffocating.

His thoughts were too slow, so much slower than anything around. While conversations went by around him at an incredible speed, he was stuck knee deep in that one single thought. You, You, You...

Was it real ? Were you real ?

It had to be, it was your eyes that he saw, their color, their shape. He would have recognized them everywhere, for it was the face that haunted his heart and dreams for years.

But it couldn't... ? You were gone, six feet under with a non-beating heart, they buried you...

Yet he didn't get to see your body... ?

He was turning crazy, he knew it. The headache he was aching could be nothing else than his neurons exploding inside his head. If he hadn't learned years ago, thanks to you, how to control his breathing, he would be having a panic attack, there, in a table with all his co-workers and La Compagnie's money launderer and their vice president as well.

Ran's hand on his shoulder didn't helped to release him from his thoughts.

-" You good ?" His brother had a worried look on his face, his usual smile gone. Rindou forced himself to gaze at the latter and his breath got caught in his throat.

His mind raced and he stumbled on the thoughts, what could he be saying ?

She's alive, our fucking angel is alive, I saw her, I promise.

Ran would rip his throat open, as cruel and detached as they were, everyone knew the one boundary of the Haitani brothers, you. All their friends or co-workers who knew about you know how dangerous it could be to talk or joke about you, let alone telling Ran something like that. Something he wasn't even sure about, moreover.

It was her, I'm sure. The voice in his head echoed. He couldn't be mistaken when it came to you, it had to be.

- " Rin, I'm talking t'ya " his brother moved his hand in front of his face, and Rindou's eyes focused finally on that one.

-" We'll need to talk, later."

Ran looked at him suspiciously yet Rindou just ignored him, this way he would have time to think about it and to figure out a way before the end of the night, but for now, he had to find that damn woman.

After they danced together, she disappeared from the crowd as well as her "man" , he shivered to the spine when he thought it might have been you with another guy. He searched for her everywhere, but she was no where to be seen, as if everything was just a fucking dream.

Every one was gathered in the dinning room of the hotel but that woman was not. Where did she suddenly go and why did she disappeared right after showing her face and saying something like that ?

He couldn't even tell if what she said was ironic or not, dressed to kill, could it be the woman vigilante ? Could you be the vigilante?

And he was panicking, again. Overthinking, he always had a good intuition, but this was just crazy. It made sense but it didn't at the same time.

He has been so lost in his thoughts that he didn't even noticed that the waiters were done serving the dinner, the hors d'oeuvre and the frog legs.

Ew, he winces, he hates those, as well as most of the french food, therefore he just pushed slightly the plate in front of him and kept looking around the room, just in case he spotted her again. There was a lot of people, laughing and talking in the background, he searched and eyed everywhere, yet he was stolen from his thoughts and startled when a scream pierced the joyful atmosphere around.

Cutlery falling to the ground, glasses crashing, women screams, people suddenly getting up from their tables, Rindou looked at Ran but that one had his eyes widened and stared in front of him, he followed his gaze and it fell on Benjiro Ito, La Compagnie's money launderer, coughing blood, turning blue, hands gripping the table.

The sight before them was macabre, so much so that even those who were used to inflicting death found it disturbing. Everyone stood up from their tables, everything was messy therefore none of them could have figured out how many people were in that state. Dying, dying, literally dying.

Benjiro Ito was dying in front of them, as well as some men here and there, and they knew they were parts of La Compagnie. Waiters hurried their way, calling for help but it was too late, they already started to have arrhythmias, some men had their head already falling on the table.

Women started crying, men yelling and grabbing the waiters by the collar to know about what was in those damn plates, which plates were " infected" and which were not, the hotel staff came running their way, starting to evacuate people, though the staff was strangely less than before ?

It was essential to evacuate the whole hotel now, there was general panic, Hiroto Mori's bodyguards were escorting him out while some waiters were checking his dishes, Ran was starting to push Rindou forward to get out, but he only had one thing in head.

Dressed to kill.

•••

Everything hurt.

His nose was bleeding, his mask was long gone now, and the stab he received from one of the security guards burned like hell. Every breath he tried to take burned like hell, and soon, all he could think about were the guard's hands around his throat, pinning him to the wall and strangling him to death.

How did all of this happen ? Well, he had thought he could manage to knock down six guards on his own, and he almost did, but some were just stronger than the others, carrying knifes and backstabbers, one thing led to another and he was literally suffocating under that stranger's grip.

Where were you ? You should already be done with the poison and the receptionist, what was taking you so long ? He scratched and kicked the man in front of him but nothing helped, that one got an angry grip on him, cursing things he couldn't really tell what.

Now Conor worked as an agent for years, he already found himself in more dangerous situations than this and made it all alone, but this time, he could have sworn it was the time.

He was beginning to see black dots obstructing his vision, his chest no longer hurt now, his fingers felt cold and numb at the same time. And he could have sworn he saw her face.

His beautiful little girl, the same green eyes she got from him, the same blonde hair, except this time, she wasn't smiling, she didn't seemed happy.

She was talking, what was he doing ? She was saying it was too soon, to hold on.

But he loves her.

And she loves him, she assured. But she said he still had things to do, that he couldn't let you down, that he couldn't let her down, what was he supposed to do ?

He kicked like he just has been possessed by a demon, he reached for the guard's tie and pulled at it, fought with the last oxygen particles in his body, and suddenly, the guard's hands were not on him anymore.

Conor fell to the ground, eyes watering, hands against the floor while he filled his burning lungs with air.

Through his confusion, he lifted his head and saw you staring down at him, a worried look behind your mask, he saw you gripping a taser you probably used on the man's body lying down, and caught a glimpse of how your knuckles turned white while you gripped it tighter.

His daughter was right, you needed him.

-" Y-You saved me " he panted through his burning throat, you offered him your hand that he gladly took and helped him on his feet.

-" Yeah, saw you dying and I was like, why not ?" You joked, Conor rolled his eyes and regained his balance, ignoring your bad sense of humor during serious situations.

-" Is he dead ?" He gestured toward the guard lying down. You shrugged, yourself didn't knew how to use a taser or at what voltage was the electroshock, you stepped over the body and turned to look at Conor who had a raised eyebrow.

-" What am I supposed to do ? Tickle him ?" You inquired, he snorted and did the same as you, following you through the corridors that you only saw once in your life.

But you would never forget.

That day, that damn day. You just came there because you couldn't reach your father's phone, and decided to pass by his hotel since you needed him. Ran and Rindou got in trouble again, a fight where the cops ended up coming and arresting everyone, you remembered how desperate you were when you learnt about it.

Those guys never learn.

You went to his office but he wasn't there, none of the staff saw him neither, you decided you might find him at home for dinner, hopefully and got inside the elevator.

You remembered the doors were about to close, and that a girl was running toward them in a tiny little red dress, you frowned at her unusual outfit and stopped the doors so she could come in, and she thanked you with a smile before she stepped inside.

Something was off about her smile, it was dull and forced, and what was she even doing there alone ? She had barely your age, you could tell.

Observing her a little more, you caught a glimpse of something at the end of her skinny arms, around her wrists were a round red mark, as if something did cut her endlessly. You used to see those ones, and you quickly figured out it was the same ones you saw after freeing Rindou and Ran from incarceration by bailing them out.

Handcuffs, you gulped down and peered at her face again, she was biting her lower lip, eyes stuck somewhere on the closed door, yet she seemed too far gone already, and you frowned. Your eyes trailed down from her eyes to her nose, then back at her eyes.

She strangely had... Something familiar, an odd feeling assaulted you, where did you see her ?

Was it even her ? Maybe it was just some kind of a déjà-vu ?

The doors opened for her and she walked out the elevator, only then you figured out.

This looked nothing like the other floors ?

You would always remember the day you found out about the secret floor, what they called the dreamhouse. After many research and investigations, you understood they kept the girls they couldn't sell to worldwide ships and secret auctions there.

You indeed found out you knew the girl, or at least already saw her. Her face and name has been everywhere on TV for weeks, her mother crying for anyone who saw her daughter to call the police, she was fifteen when she was last spotted.

Inhaling sharply, you gulped down the knot in your throat. This place was a nightmare, the downfall. Everything started here, all of your trauma. But hopefully, and what kept you walking around those corridors with Conor was the hope.

That tonight would be the last breath of the dreamhouse.

You and Conor stopped at the end of one corridor, hiding behind the wall since you saw two big guys guarding a giant double door.

The gates of hell.

- " God, a lion would take a year to devour them " you eased the stress of the situation while eyeing the two giant guards, Conor winced. " Think you can fight with this ?" You gestured to the injury on his sides.

-" I can. It's not bleeding anymore, just a scratch."

You nodded, and started planning how you two would attack. For now, there were only those two, but you doubted they would leave even if the hotel were to be evacuated after Benjiro Ito's death, they have orders not to leave this floor under any circumstances.

Probably to avoid repeating what happened with you. To prevent anyone from seeing what you did.

-" one of us must-"

You two were startled as well as the two guards, screams started to echo between the walls, sounds of glass crashing and footsteps hurrying above your heads, your lips curled in a smile while Conor closed his eyes in relief.

-" It worked " you whispered as you were eyeing the two giants having an argument about whether they should check what happened or not.

-" You always make it work " he smiled at you, you squeezed his hand slightly. " We gotta be quick now, the girls can't be spotted in the middle of the crowd hurrying outside".

You nodded, he straightened and you rapidly threw your high heels away from your feet, gaining the men's attention.

-" The fuck you two doing here ?" One of them shouted while the other walked toward you, you peered at Conor who nodded, then looked back at the man and started running faster in his direction, which got him confused for a second just for you to jump and kick his face as strong as you could, landing a little further away from his body now stunned and lying on the ground.

-" You're gonna regret this " the other ran toward you, the one you kicked got up and faced Conor.

He kicked his foot in the air, aiming at your stomach but you easily avoided it, sliding to his side and gripping his arm that you locked behind his back. He couldn't make out anything before a bloodcurdling scream left his mouth with how you broke his arm with a swift movement.

- " How's it going Conny ? " You inquired while looking at him over the guy's shoulder.

-" walking on sunshine " he grunt and grabbed a vase on a piece of furniture next to him and aimed it at the guard's head, making him scream in pain.

Your minute of inattention was enough for the one you were holding to pull out his taser and you were forced to drop his arm when an electric current ran through your body, making you fall to the ground, shaking.

Your heart was now racing, you were no longer under the grip of the shock but you could still feel its effects in your burning limbs.

-" that was dirty " you squatted hardly and helped yourself up with your hands on the ground, while making some steps back. The man smiled devilishly and made a step toward you.

-" lemme guess, vigilante ?" Your smile grew wider, you straightened your body and peered over his shoulder at Conor who seemed to be having some trouble, the footsteps and the cacophony on the floor above hadn't stopped, which meant you still got some minutes.

-" I have fans, I see. "

He walked toward you again, aiming his taser back at you but this time you avoided it and found yourself behind him, you two turning around each other like animals in a cage.

-" gotta admit I didn't believe you were a bitch " you ignored his words and focused on his body gestures, making sure to not miss any of his attempts while holding your hands in fists in front of your face. " indeed you fight like a man ".

Rapidly and taking him aback, your leg flew to his knee's joint, stronger than any of your other kicks. He fell to the ground in a scream, holding his probably broken joint since it made a horrible cracking sound, his fist crashed against your stomach, making you curl slightly before you grabbed his hair and crushed him against the ground.

-" I fight like a girl " you proudly smirked, placing your foot on his neck and kicking him in a last bloodcurdling scream, his limbs finally relaxed, neck twisted under your blood stained feet.

-" b-behind you !"

Your joy was short lived, you turned around as fast as you could under Conor's command but unfortunately, you already felt hands tugging at your hair and in no time at all, a stabbing pain ran through your head to your neck.

Your vision became blurry, bloody tears staining it, your head grew heavier and your eyelids tend to close on their own, you really didn't understood what happened until you caught a glimpse of the bloody piece of furniture under you just before he smashed your head against it once again.

You winced in pain and started scratching his hand that held your hair, almost screaming at how painful your head already was without your hair being tugged that way. Conor manged to get up from the ground, his sides starting to bleed again and made his way toward you two, yet before he could do anything, you elbowed the guard's diaphragm and he fell to the ground holding his lungs and having trouble to breathe.

-" motherfucker" Conor squatted next to him, avoided his upcoming kick and grabbed his hair to twist his neck just the same way you did with his friend, ending his life here and now.

He then let it fall limp and got up, running toward you and grabbing your arms to steady you.

-" Fuck, your head's bleeding " he remarked then placed his hand on your injury, you sobbed in a breath and pushed his hand away. The pain was unbearable, even if you were standing up, your eyes were watering way too much and the world around you was spinning, you shook your head from left to right slightly to chase the dizziness and breathed heavily as the ache increased.

-" Wow wow , you should rest for a minute " he stopped you with a hand on your shoulder that you shoved again, starting to walk clumsily toward the double doors.

You grabbed the handle and opened it, revealing a long corridor with many opened room doors, some scared girls peering over them at you two. You turned toward Conor, smiled as best as you could and stepped in the corridor.

-" ain't got time to bleed ".

It happened all too fast, just like you have planned it though the guards gave you a hard time, the girl did not. They accepted to follow you both out of the dreamhouse oddly quick, they probably heard about " the hunter" everywhere in the news, and to be honest, they couldn't think someone could take them in a worse place than the one they have been for years.

You preferred to avoid the elevators, hinting that it would be crowded and you were right, all the elevators were full of worried and panicked people, the stairs however were not empty but at least you didn't crossed way with any of La Compagnie's members who would recognize the girls, and that was great since the last thing you needed was to be spotted.

On the other hand what was not great was running down all those stairs, panting from the fight you had and hearing endlessly the sound of screaming, your heart was beating incredibly faster every step you made, you were the first of you to show in the middle of the crowded reception room, you fisted your dress and eye scanned every face around, but no one of La Compagnie members seemed to be around, they must have been evacuated before anyone else, you deduced.

You turned around and looked at the girls panicked faces, some of them were holding their chest from how much they ran, others were standing a little further away, terrified that anyone would recognize them. You ignored the pain you felt while seeing their fear and locked eyes with Conor, he nodded and started making the girls move down the stairs to the reception where you started to walk.

No one really paid attention to all of you, most of the waiters and the staff were asking people to stand in the line in order to exit, but no one listened. Those rich and " well mannered" people were fighting like animals to get out of the hotel, almost breaking the doors by the same time, you could almost have laughed to this.

-" take the lead" you asked Conor once he's made his way to you. " I'mma stand behind and make sure no one's left. "

-" Okay but don't be late, once I start the van-"

-" I know, Connie. Take them out, now. "

He nodded, then both of you started to push the girls out, helping them while pushing away women or men who were fighting for the doors. You watched carefully as every girl stepped out of this hell, then you stiffened, your heart missed a beat when you heard your name.

And his voice, again.

Now isn't human's brain strange ? You knew it was his voice the second you heard it but there has been nothing you could have done to prevent your body from turning around and peering at him, feeling as if the sky fell on you when his amethyst eyes met yours.

Shit, you cursed and digged your nails in your palms when you figured out you had reacted to your name. Later, you would probably regret acting so dumb, but now, you had no time for this.

-" I know it's you ! " Rindou from upstairs shouted, trying to make his way to you by pushing the people out of his way. You rapidly turned toward the doors and sighed when you saw that Conor managed to get all the girls out. You start to pick up the pace, but so does he. His heart was pounding, he was pushing people out of his way a little too hard, his body was burning but it didn't matter.

The woman turned, the woman reacted to your name.

-" Fuck, stay, please ! "

Your heart squeezed in your chest, he was getting closer and through the mayhem around you still could hear the way his voice got suddenly huskier, you bit your lower lip and turned to look at him, and everything seemed to disappear for a second.

Everything got muffled, voices. Everybody disappeared, you weren't even in this hell of a place. For a minute, there has only been you and him, his face and your masked one, his burning gaze on you, gripping the railing hard until his knuckles turned white. His breath got caught in his throat, now he was sure, only you were in his mind, in his heart, and in front of him. No matter how many women were around the room, only you, he only had eyes for you.

He was closer to where you were standing now, and made another step, speaking to you while standing next to the railing and avoiding to get pushed by the crowd behind him.

-" jus' a minute, I- I'm fucking begging. Don't...don't leave me again ".

Hearts beating, hearts breaking.

Your heart was aching so much in your chest, manifesting its need to be close to him, crying blood that boiled inside your veins, yet you knew It was too soon, and with teary eyes, you whispered a " sorry " you knew he could read on your lips, through his eyes passed a flash of hurt, as if something broke inside him just before they widened, and he picked up the pace as if he has been possessed.

-" No no no shit, wait !" He shouted, but you were so damn good at disappearing...

You managed to slip between the multiple bodies, through the exit, and Rindou had to watch the love of his life disappear again, he had to feel his heart breaking again, had to feel his hands shaking again.

But now he knew.

You have always been there.

His breathing became a mess the minute he found himself outside, it seemed as if he was in the middle of an earthquake field with all the chaos around him and inside him. Left, right, behind then right again, he checked everywhere, but no sign of even a black gown.

His chest grew tighter, he pulled angrily at his hair and cursed, he could feel his eyes watering and he hated it, he hated how betrayed he felt, the weight of realization was now finally falling on his shoulders and he started to figure out you gave up on him, you left him behind, it was you, the same you, the same him, yet years passed by and you ran away from him now.

-" The hell you doin'? Everyone's waiting in the car ! "

Once again, Ran has been the one to snap him out of his thoughts with a hand on his shoulder. A strong, solid hand that would always be there, and when he looked into his brother's hues, so similar to him and filled with worry, he couldn't help but let the words spill out from his mouth in a broken voice.

And he saw it, the pain, the anger, the disbelief, the denial, he saw a nightmare going through those eyes.

-" She was here, Ran. "

Just how many heart beats and parts of them would you steal ?

-" Our baby was here, and she was alive. "

•••

-" Do you want a herbal tea maybe ?" He tried, he was shivering, the man in front of him didn't even grant him a look, he could feel the anger radiating from him through heat waves and he was afraid if he came any closer, he might seriously explode.

- " Fucking leave. "

No sooner said than done, the assistant left his boss's place with a knot in his stomach, leaving him alone in his office with his vice-president, his nephew, and the one he knew as doctor Endo.

The three of them looked at each other curiously from time to time, gauging the silence of their superior. He was not a very talkative person by nature, but this time it was close to mutism. His face was so red that the doctor was sure his blood pressure must be at its highest.

That one cleared his throat, earning a death glare from the raging boss.

-" I think it's not that bad " he started, then startled when the latter immediately pulled out his gun and pointed it at him.

-" I think you wouldn't be that bad either, with a bullet in your damn brain. "

The doctor gulped down, then peered at his co-workers, silently asking them for help. The vice president sighed and as he was standing up next to Hiroto Mori's who was sitting behind his desk, he calmly pushed down the gun, earning himself another death glare.

-" That's exactly what she wants, the chaos. Let's not allow the pressure to mess with our heads".

-" He's right, Don. " The nephew agreed, sitting in front of the boss. " It's not that bad, you denied knowing about the dreamhouse-"

-" And who said the fucking media believes us ?" He slammed his fist against the table, making his nephew shiver. He always admired his boss and uncle, but he never saw him this angry and that was literally frightening.

-" you put it all on Oda's back, and he had been killed. I think they would believe you " doctor Endo added, making the nephew, Ichiro Mori, nod in response.

-" it's not all about the media, bitch killed Benjiro ! She took the whores, she destroyed my fucking empire ! " His voice could have made the walls around them tremble, and if they had to be honest they could only understand his wrath.

The vigilante hit even harder this time, a bold move, again. Not only have you managed to get inside his own hotel and kill the one who supervised the dreamhouse, you made him lose billions in a night by stealing the girls that worked for him, killing the one who made his money laundering, and had the authorities closing his hotel for sanitary problems.

In one night, La Compagnie has lost billion yens, Hiroto Mori had his reputation stained, and his money launderer killed. He couldn't do anything with his organization now, you froze it.

-" Nevertheless, the fact that she used batrachotoxin on frogs' legs to make it look like sanitary incompetence and not poisoning is surprising. "

You did. The main reason why you used a poison that could come from frogs was to make the authorities close the hotel, to gain more time, and it worked.

It put Hiroto Mori in more than a tricky situation, he was forced to sit and watch his main sources of income be taken from him, you wrecked him.

-" I'm gonna fucking rip her throat open. " He promised in a cold tone despite burning from inside. The men all nodded, they all agreed that this woman must be stopped as soon as possible, she turned out to be way more dangerous than what they initially thought.

Still, one thing struck the doctor's brilliant mind, and he couldn't help but to tell it, watching his boss' face turn even scarier.

-" I can't help but to think... Only one outsider knew about the dreamhouse, a girl-"

-" another word and I'll blow your brain out. "

His blood ran cold, the doctor licked his lips and lowered his head, he couldn't even sustain what was inside Hiroto's eyes, the rage, the hatred.

Hiroto understood immediately what he was implying, he made it clear years ago that he didn't wanted to hear about that girl anymore, his daughter.

The minute you thought about betraying him, he kicked you out of the family and punished you, made you a lesson for all his men that no one should play games with a man like him. He knew you hadn't told anyone about the dreamhouse, they didn't even gave you the time to do it, therefore he couldn't even think about his man's suggestion.

-" all I was saying is, her tongue might have slipped-"

-" Endo" the vice president warned, making a step toward him but the latter didn't listened.

-" only her knew about the secret "

-" and she took it to the grave. " Hiroto's voice cut like a knife, making the doctor startle. " Dead girls can't speak, doc. Dead girls tell no tales. "

His men went silent, noticing how dull and firm his voice turned. Since that day, no one talked about you, Mori made it clear for his men, he never had a heir, his only one being his nephew. Your name became a sin in that house, and they knew if the doctor wasn't that useful for him, he probably wouldn't be breathing by now.

-" Fine, what can we do now ?"

He took some minutes to think about the question.

-" I might have an idea. "

•••

Triggered.

A wounded animal, he acted just as. The only way Ran Haitani coped with the emotions that wouldn't stop coming was violence.

That was what got him pinning his brother against the wall, hand around his throat while both of them had been trying to punch the other since the minute they got home.

With that simple sentence, it seemed like Rindou pulled his trigger off on Ran. This got him going silent the entire way home, listening to whatever Rindou was blabbering with a distracted ear.

The minute they got inside Rindou's apartment, he couldn't take it anymore. He was talking about that other woman as if she was you. He felt insulted, his fist flew to his brother's jaw by its own, and soon they found themselves in this position.

He didn't even thought about believing him, beating the shit out of him for drinking or taking whatever shit that got him saying such bullshits. Damn, he was saying he saw you, he talked to you, didn't he knew he was stirring a knife in a damn old unhealed wound ?

His head felt dizzy, his blood was boiling and he really caught himself thinking about killing his own family because that one wouldn't just shut up.

-" The hell's wrong with you ?" Rindou grunt and moved like a beast under his grip, he grew older now, it wasn't as easy as it was to keep him still.

-" You're the one asking ? D'ya hear yourself talking you bastard ?"

Rindou squinted his eyes, he ignored how insulted he felt when he understood his brother didn't believed him and took that one by the collar.

-" I'm telling you. It's her. I know it's her".

-" Careful Rin, I've never wanted to fucking kill you this mu-"

-" The fuck asshole ? Think I'm a dam' kid ?" He pushed himself off of the wall and switched the positions, having his elder pinned against the wall now.

-" They could rip my fucking eyes that I'd still recognize our princess ".

He couldn't, no, he couldn't take it anymore. His breathes were harder to take, and it was all because of the honesty he could read in his brother's eyes.

You, their princess.

He was saying you were alive, he was implying you left them purposely, you would never have done that.

He was meaning you were the one who killed so many people, you wouldn't even hurt a mosquito?

He was in a raging anger, he felt guilty but the idea did crossed his mind, that Rindou lied about it only because Ran talked about moving on the last time. Rindou was his only family, his most trusted friend and the one he would give his life for, he shouldn't even consider thinking about something like that.

But he just couldn't, when it was about you, they would go off the deep end, and it was not the first time they did.

Years ago, right after their hearts have been ripped out of their chests. After days and nights being so high and drunk until they forgot about their own names, after creating fights with anyone they could just to get their anger out, after losing pounds, losing money, friends just because your loss turned them into an unbearable mess, not knowing made them this way.

Just as everyone started wondering why the assault of the daughter of such an influential man as Hiroto Mori was tuning into a cold case, the police and media claimed everywhere that they found the one who did this.

Families were relieved such a dangerous person couldn't harm anyone anymore, your father seemed to be finally coming to term with your loss, but not them.

It had to be one of their Roppongi acquaintance, a delinquent, just like them. Ran took the chance to pay him a visit in prison, scaring the shit out of him even from outside. He had many friends in prison, he knew they wouldn't hesitate to take care of the asshole for him if he asked to, but what he said to him, how he said it, he would never forget.

-" Ran, fuck. I'm not as dumb as to do this. "

Sure , he didn't thought about believing him.

-" She was yours, everyone 'round there knew she was under Haitani's protection".

But he had his intuitions too, and it felt odd, after all, how quickly it turned from a cold case to finding the criminal so easily. He told Rindou about it, and he remembered his brother had him in the exact same position as Ran was doing for him now, punching him for even thinking that this " motherfucker " could be innocent.

You always has been the only one to be able to make the Haitani's fight, but strangely, they only fought when you weren't there anymore, as if you were the one who maintained them together, their strength, and their kryptonite.

He asked Rindou to talk to him during his next visit to the prison, that way maybe that one too would see what he did see.

But.

Suicide, they said.

He couldn't handle prison, they said.

He got himself a razor blade, they said.

That was the only thing Rindou needed to understand the things were deeper than what they tried to make them believe. As luck would have it, he took his own life after talking with Ran.

an odd feeling of guilt assaulted the elder, Rindou had believed him, he accepted to give him a chance and he was right, your death was nothing but planned.

Yet he couldn't bring himself to think you were still there, not when you could have came back years ago.

God, if he truly listened to what Rindou was saying, you ran away from him. You would never have done that, you would never have tortured them this way and this long if you were still alive, nothing in the world would have stopped you from coming back to them.

-" If I hear this shit again-"

-" the fuck's going on here ?"

Hearing Kakucho's voice echoing through the room, Ran stopped talking, Rindou rolled his eyes and let go of his brother's collar, not shifting his eyes away from his, nevertheless.

Kakucho eyed both the men with a suspicious eye, they rarely fought and when they did, it never went that far. He hasn't been there all along but he could clearly see the blood on Rindou's lip, and Ran's eyebrow being slightly cut.

-" you're telling me we could've died in that damn hotel and the first thing you do coming back here is to fight ? Damn glad ain't got a brother ".

-" it's just a harmless argument" Ran turned toward that one and sighed when he saw him raising an eyebrow at him. Ran respected Kakucho a lot, he was the one he would go to everytime Rindou wasn't there, a true brother, but he couldn't just trust him with what Rindou was assuming, you being the vigilante means that Mikey would finally be able to put a name of the one he has been searching for, he couldn't allow something like that, even if it was false.

-" you know it wouldn't have been the same if Mikey was the one to come here, Ran ".

-" what is it about anyway ?" Rindou switched the conversation, making a step toward Kakucho who was holding his laptop, the man rolled his eyes and decided to ignore both of them, they were grown-up adults and knew how to deal with their own problems anyway.

What he was about to say was more important, something none of them would have predicted.

-" Mikey wants us all to see this. "

The Haitani's walked toward Kakucho and stood behind him, peering over his shoulder at the laptop, and stiffening when they heard his words.

-" it's about her, guys, you have to see this. "

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myelocin · 4 years

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Redefining You | Kuroo T. , Miya A.

Summary: The three times you realize you love Tetsurou, and the fourth where you finally say it. A redefinition of the love that came to you, unanswered.

Characters/Pairings: Kuroo Tetsurou, You, (Miya Atsumu comes on ch 2)

Warnings/ Genre: Mentions of alcohol (beer?), tattooed!Kuroo, Angst, Unrequited Love, Healing, Slice of Life

Word Count: 3.2k

a/n: I felt some things last night and thought about some songs, so therefore here is an angst that is near and dear to my heart.

[Part 1] | Part 2 | Epilogue | Bonus

The first time the thought came to you was at age 13. You didn’t know what love was, never really felt it before, but as you stared at the way he hid behind his bangs and shuffled closer to his black jacket- you felt it. The first tap on your heart, first flutter of the butterflies, and the first kisses of an oncoming blush blooming onto the apples of your cheeks.

At thirteen, Kuroo Tetsurou said his hellos through cheeky smiles and light laughter. When he didn’t have volleyball, he’d be seated next to you in your orchestra class sharing a music stand, and engaging in small talk. He scoffed at your weird jokes, but he looked straight at you when you talked about your day.

You remember thinking about him in the school bus on the way home.

In him, you saw happiness; felt it even. During movie “dates” where the two of you watched Bridge to Terabithia while video calling at one in the morning because actual dates at the movie theater weren’t allowed by your mom just yet. Now, in your older years, you still often think back to those moments and laugh to yourself at how you turned beet red at Tetsurou typing ‘ur cute.’ on the chat box.

And so at thirteen years old, though still innocent towards the idea of love, through your own definitions you decided that the only explanation was that you loved him. And so love him you did.

The second time was four years later. You had moved abroad after your mother’s passing, and hadn’t really thought about the boy with the seemingly eternal bedhead. You flowed into your new routine quite easily despite the stark difference in culture and environment. At this point, though you still had moments where your thoughts ghosted over Tetsurou, you concluded it to be the stage where it had become just a funny memory.

Except, of course, there was that one vacation your dad forced you to go on (it being his hometown), the one where you literally knew nobody and didn’t speak a word of the dialect, in some weird turn of event you found yourself pressing the call button next to his name. Long story short, there was a really awkward conversation about why you were calling him at five in the morning but he eventually cracked a joke that was so like him, that the conversation with him just flowed naturally afterwards.

A call turned into two, and then before you knew it, despite on standing in the opposite sides of the world, a deeper friendship between the two of you grew.

Phone calls between the two of you became a regular fixture of your day, something that you eventually looked forward to. Still keeping in contact with the same group of friends you and Tetsurou grew up with, sometimes it felt like you never left at all. You found out that he eventually left orchestra and instead devoted his time to the volleyball team in his highschool along with Kenma. It seemed like a natural choice for him to leave. After all, you saw him often scowl at the orchestra teacher during breaks.

At seventeen, you had that feeling again. You felt the familiar flutter during every goodnight and good morning call Tetsurou slipped within your day. Snapshots within your day included a random selfie Tetsurou had sent you and various other text messages that updated you about his day. For almost three years, you saw him through a screen. You saw Tetsurou falling asleep while flipping through an algebra textbook, yelling with or at Kenma with a game controller, or just laying back in his bed tossing and catching a volleyball while you flipped through your own notes. The distance didn’t mean much to you because despite being thousands of miles apart, it felt like Tetsurou was right there.

Your favorite moments had to be the summer of your final year in highschool.

It became a routine where Tetsurou, knowing that you completely trashed your sleeping schedule, you were more than awake at three in the morning for him to call. That summer he finally got his license and developed the habit of driving around with you, plastered on the screen of his phone, your voice blasted on the speaker instead of playing the music you knew he liked driving to.

He’d stop by a convenience store to buy ice cream and eat it with you (having your own midnight snack) at a quiet parking lot some distance from the city. And the two of you would stay like that for hours. You’d muse about the three a.m. thoughts swimming around your head that night and he’d listen, with the occasional snarky comment (that became endearing to you over the years), and he’d talk about the three p.m. thoughts swimming in his.

And despite being on opposite sides of the world, you managed to watch the sun together. Though, the only difference was that as it rose on your corner of the world, he sat and watched it set in his.

“We’re watching the same sun, though,” he’d say, and in a way, it made the distance feel a little absent.

So your heart decided to beat again, during a Saturday evening that autumn: when you accepted the skype call at seven p.m. and waved a good morning to a sleepy Tetsurou. He replied with a good evening before settling back into his bed with a mug of coffee and his fleece blanket wrapped up to his head.

“If you were here we could have actually gone on a date instead of that shitty video call, you know.”

You looked at him, pouting into his mug of coffee, eyes still a little bleary from sleep and figure enveloped in a giant blanket. “I know.”

“I bet we’d look cute together, (y/n).”

You pressed your face into the heels of your hands and scrunched your nose towards the screen. “Tetsu, I would look cute. You’d look slightly cuter next to me.”

He scrunched his nose and retaliated with an equally snarky comment, but you didn’t mind. The same flutter in your stomach told you that you didn’t mind. The way your heart pounded a little faster as you looked at your best friend bathed in the morning light, hit the final nail in the coffin with the assurance that you absolutely did not mind.

The third came in scattered moments.

For a while you had kept it as a secret for yourself, but eventually coming clean to Kenma one night as he drawled about how annoying Tetsurou had gotten over his new girlfriend. The blonde gave you a look through the screen before groaning, “My God, (y/n). I was rooting for you two.”

You couldn’t find it in yourself to hate the girl. Next to Tetsurou, she seemed like sunshine and you could see it. In the way his smile tilted a little higher and the way his eyes shone when she spoke. He often replied to her with a voice as soft as hers, so you yielded. “He’s happy, Kenma.”

Kenma looked at you with a flat look, so you took his silence as his response. Huffing out an exhale and pushing the controller to the camera’s line of vision, you met Kenma’s stare. “Another round?”

The realization didn’t come as a completed that came to you at once.

Slowly, even as you told yourself that you were okay, and whatever this was is okay, you knew convincing yourself was another story. The dynamic between the two of you didn’t change, or at least on Tetsurou’s part he genuinely thought that it didn’t.

The mornings and evening calls were still constant even though the duration had become shorter. Gone were the nights you’d idly sit and watch Tetsurou fight sleep during homework. But it was fine. You knew she must have kept him awake enough to finish the worksheets.

Jealously was an ugly emotion, you thought.

You knew it didn’t suit you, but you couldn’t help but feel it bubbling during that one Sunday night he’d rang you up at five thirty in the morning, because he knew you wouldn’t hesitate to answer (you didn’t), and waved a hello before flipping the camera and showing his girlfriend shyly waving at you from the passenger seat of his car.

Your throat tightened when you looked at the watch, then looked at the screen where he forgot to flip the screen, showing the setting sun’s light cast on the two.

You laughed out your excuse of needing to catch up on a little more sleep before you clicked your phone off and turned towards the window.

The sun had risen, and your heart may have clenched a little at the thought that he was watching the same sun set with someone who wasn’t you, but Tetsurou smiled in that special way with the twinkle in his eyes, so even as you watched the sky light up from the first peaks of the sun’s rays, you decided that because you loved him—you didn’t mind.

The next year continued like that. The friendship stayed although the dynamic you two shared changed. As the year progressed, you took note of the dwindling calls, and hasty text messages. You didn’t bother to keep up with how their relationship deepened, but still had the heart to like every Instagram post either of them posted during anniversaries. You held on to the birthday messages or songs he randomly sent you and listened to the words that you sometimes imagined were what he meant for you. Once in a while the conversation would last longer than the occasional greetings and things felt like they clicked back into place again. But the next day, there never came the nostalgic good morning, or the sight of him with bleary eyes in the morning light, so you tucked that little piece of memory and listened to the same three songs you imagined were for you.

And because you loved him—for that time it was enough.

Before the autumn of the following year began, you found yourself seated on a twelve hour flight back to Tokyo where for the first time, in over seven years, you stood in front of him. Tetsurou was beaming, and you felt choked up.

Tetsurou’s hello was made known through a tight hug and a, “Glad you’re home.” So for that short while, you wrapped your arms around him and breathed the scent of his jacket, because for the first time in seven years, in a way he felt a little like home.

So as he sat across from you and said, “You would’ve loved her! She had to go somewhere that’s why she can’t come. But maybe you can meet another time!” you didn’t have it in you to let your smile crack and instead reached forward to clap him on the shoulder.

“Tetsu, you’re whipped.”

He laughed but nodded at your comment, but again, you took note of his happy smile so you let yourself try to mirror the emotion he held in his. And because you loved him, you thought of the tunes of the songs you imagined were for you and searched for the momentary peace in that.

That one time where you finally broke your silence was when he walked into your apartment with a chipped smile.

Another two years had passed where you watched Tetsurou grow into a new identity. He still cracked the same jokes from years ago, that you remembered, but his change was first subtle with the way he liked his coffee made to the resolve hardening in his eyes, and to the ink that wrapped around his arms. But he still had moments that made him reach out to you, and in those times you’d catch him animated about the most mundane things in early sunlight— you allowed yourself to love him quietly in silence.

“I have beer,” he said as he shrugged off his coat and rolled his sleeves up.

From your spot standing in the kitchen, you eyed the fresh ink on his arms. “New ink?”

Tetsurou placed the pack of beer in the middle of your table before taking a seat in the couch. He threw his head back and looked at you. “Yup. Got it earlier. Come sit,” he patted the empty space next to him with a little extra emphasis, “I really need a hug.”

Grabbing the bowl of chips from the counter, you made your way to where he was and sat at the empty space next to him. Automatically he slumped against your form and began picking at the chips.

Your hands patted the spikes in his hair and you leaned back, Tetsurou warm against your side.

“I feel like I’m dying,” he mumbled in your side.

“You’re not dying, Tetsu. Your heart just hurts.”

“I really love her,” his voice didn’t crack like you expected it to but his hand fisted the hem of your sweater a little tighter, so you sunk your hands into his hair and began smoothing out the wilder pieces. This had always distracted him, so you hoped it worked this time around.

You gestured for him to sit up and follow you as you grabbed a can of beer as you sat up. “Let’s get you some fresh air.”

Tetsurou grumbled a little before grabbing his own can and following you to the balcony. You leaned against the railing, cracked the tab open and took a swig. Tetsurou joined you by the railings and clinked his beer against yours before taking his own sip.

Tokyo’s skyline looked beautiful in the night. You peered at the man standing next to you, his own can pressing against his lips. “What made you get a new tattoo?”

He shrugs. “Don’t know.”

He paused to sigh. “Just felt like it.”

“You know you’re a good person right?” you ask.

“I’m not as much of a saint as I wish I was.”

“None of us are saints.”

He tipped tipped the can back and gulped down the remainder of his beer. “Not many people have broken a person either.”

And after a little pause in silence, you reassured him, “You’re gonna be okay, Tetsu. In time.”

“I don’t think I’m in that mindset yet.”

“Yet.”

He looked at you and sighed again. You thought even with tired eyes he looked beautiful. “Yet,” he repeated back.

And somehow along that night, the hours stretched into a comfortable silence.

This felt a little like déjà vu. With Tetsurou settled behind you, chin on top of your head as he enveloped your form in his, the both of you facing the east. Little specks of yellow lights began to dance around the sky.

Tetsurou’s voice broke through the silence as he said, “Have you ever loved someone?”

You closed your eyes and leaned into his warmth, already rehearsing the tunes of the song that brought you a false blanket of serenity over the years. “I have.”

“You did?” he asks, and his is tone sounded a little shocked, but you felt it in you that deep down he must have known, or suspected something even.

“Yeah. Eight years. I saw him in everything.”

“How,” his tone was a little more tentative his time, considering he was now dancing on unfamiliar territory, “how did you let go?”

“I haven’t yet.”

He stayed silent but he squeezed you a little tighter.

And then the two of you watched as the yellow of the sun finally broke through.

Slowly, the morning light illuminated the outline of Tokyo. You truly felt like you were in some sort of déjà vu as you looked at Tetsurou, for the first time, bathing in the same light, from the same sun, where you fell in love with him all those years ago.

You thought back to when your friend had told you that experiencing déjà vu meant that it was the universe’s own way of telling you that you’re going down the right path. And looking up Tetsurou, who felt the warmth of the sun with his head tilted back and eyes fluttered close, you knew you were right where you’re supposed to be.

Which was why you traced the ink on the side of your wrist and in a steady voice spoke, “I love you.”

He stepped back and looked at you. “What?”

His expression looked a little confused and you smiled. Holding out your wrist to him, you spoke again, “I began to tell myself that every day.”

“I realized because he made up such a big part of my life, when he moved on I felt missing and stuck. Kind of like being in a loop.” You giggled and willed yourself to remember the meaning of déjà vu again before continuing, “So like, the times where he’d be gone, I just decided to replace them by telling myself that I love me. I told myself good morning, and goodnight, and kept snapshots of my day to remind myself that I’m living this life and moving forward.”

Tetsurou looked beautiful in the morning light. Confused, but still beautiful.

“I realized in those eight years, I lost so much of myself. And he looked so happy. His eyes were literally sparkling, Tetsu! I thought that shit only happened in anime. But that kind of love happened to him so I thought I deserved that too.”

“I got this tattoo a few weeks ago, see?”

You turned your wrist to the side and watched as he traced over the inked bundle of baby’s breath. “I read somewhere that it meant everlasting love. I was in the middle of another sad girl hour moment so I thought why not give it to myself? It’s a start, right?”

Tetsurou’s lips quirked up at your words before he looked at you. “I’m proud of you.”

You looked back and met his gaze. It didn’t hold the same sparkle that it did for her but you didn’t mind. The feeling of déjà vu never went away so you inhaled a sharp breath. Tetsurou truly did look beautiful in the morning light, more so as he stands in front of you with a gentle look in his eyes. More than five of the eight years that you knew him had you spent dreaming about the morning like this where you’d stand with your hands in his own, eye to eye in the same side of the world looking at the same sun that lay witness to your growth.

You took him into his arms and buried your face in his chest, inhaling his scent. He smelt as familiar as he felt. And the moment still feels like déjà vu you feel like you could cry. Your heart constricts in the way that kind of hurts but also kind of doesn’t, and you feel his hand rub circles on your back, so you speak, “You’ll find peace, Tetsu. We’ll get there.”

His cheek presses against the crown of your head as he murmurs, “In time.”

And in that moment you realize that even though you love him, first you tell yourself a silent ‘I love you’ , and then echo, “In time.”

proceed to part 2 here!

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valentines has passed and i am fully aware of that buttttt!!!!! small, cute, special moments (it doesn’t have to be elaborate or anything) with suna/reader and samu/reader ???? i need it for research ✍️✍️✍️

um, actually i have some nsfw stuff in mind ehehehehe i'll just mix it up~

suna/reader

every year, suna would gift her sunflowers, because they're her absolute favorites. and if valentine's falls on a weekend, they'd go on a date somewhere within or outside hiroshima.

one valentine's date was of them driving off to a hillside view, eating the bentos they made earlier that day.

another time, the two had a date at the salon (to get nails done bc yes hygiene), and later went out to a pretty classy dinner.

for their first valentine's date, suna surprised reader at her university gate with a sunflower bouquet in hand, phone out to record her walking towards him, realizing it's him in front of her, the bouquet, and eventually her face turning red. they later had dinner at a nearby food stall.

(suna makes sure to send his mom, airi, reader's mom, and her sister, mika, flowers for valentine's, too)

suna's socials would sometimes be filled with reader ALL DAY with some kind of valentine's filter. he just loves showing her off.

because valentine's falls on winter season, the two would always drive to work via suna's car, and without fail, reader would be surprised by the bouquet each and every time.

on their 5th valentine's, reader gave suna a heartfelt letter, which he kept to this day.

suna HATES romance movies, but thanks to reader, he found that he's an absolute sucker for wong kar-wai films and before trilogy. so every year, they'd tune in to any of those films with some wine and chocolates.

komori, being the menace that he is, gifted reader some valentine's lingerie to suna but decided to directly give it to reader. she was so mortified when she realized his gift. however, she did want to spice things up ifywim ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

morning after valentine's would be the worst for reader because of how much concealer she'd have to use to cover up all the marks suna would leave behind. also, she'd be limping because the man goes hard on her (especially seeing her in that lingerie komori gifted her hekhek).

suna may or may not have a secret folder in his phone, password encrypted, full of videos and pictures of them having sex ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

osamu/reader

almost every year, without fail she would sneak in some chocolates in osamu's bag to surprise him.

but ha, two can play at that game, and he'd also surprise her with a delivery of flowers later that day at her work (she works for an orchestra that's often hired to make game soundtracks).

dinner dates would usually be at onigiri miya, and the two wouldn't mind! actually, that's also how their first valentine's went and osamu was super insecure that he couldn't take her somewhere special. reader would kiss his cheek and assure him that it was okay.

the two would bake treats for valentine's, which would be a special at onigiri miya for the first 100 customers (reader tends to make a lot).

they once went to tokyo disneyland, too!

in some occasion, they'd have a double date with suna/reader. they went to tokyo disneyland, disneysea, sanrio puroland, to name a few.

bait, their chihuahua, would be with reader's friends or dads. osamu or her would try to dress him up as their little cupid.

i see them as the type of couple to wear couple shirts (osamu has no shame. any way to prove and show his love)

osamu would coax his love to serenade him for valentine's, and he just swoons each and every time.

for some reason, the two almost always celebrate valentines having sex. and then the morning after they'd realize, 'oh, it's valentine's day!'

reader would try to buy some lingerie herself, complete with bunny ears ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

one time, they were at hyogo for valentine's, and with osamu's parents away, they did it in his old bedroom. atsumu was mortified when he heard about this, begging his parents to cleanse his childhood room.

#alicemitch09 answers #outsider looking in drabble #most unlikely drabble #fluff #smut #smuff #maybe

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2021 Grammy Awards: The List.

New age

Best New Age Album

More Guitar Stories – Jim "Kimo" West

Songs from the Bardo – Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith

Periphery – Priya Darshini

Form//Less – Superposition

Meditations – Cory Wong & Jon Batiste

Jazz

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

"All Blues" – Chick Corea, soloist

"Guinnevere" – Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, soloist

"Pachamama" – Regina Carter, soloist

"Tomorrow is the Question" – Julian Lage, soloist

"Celia" – Gerald Clayton, soloist

"Moe Honk" – Joshua Redman, soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Secrets are the Best Stories – Kurt Elling featuring Danilo Pérez

ONA – Thana Alexa

Modern Ancestors – Carmen Lundy

Holy Room: Live at Alte Oper – Somi With Frankfurt Radio Big Band

What's the Hurry – Kenny Washington

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Trilogy 2 – Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade

on the tender spot of every calloused moment – Ambrose Akinmusire

Waiting Game – Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science

Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard – Gerald Clayton

RoundAgain – Redman Mehldau McBride Blade

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Data Lords – Maria Schneider Orchestra

Dialogues on Race – Gregg August

Monk'estra Plays John Beasley – John Beasley

The Intangible Between – Orrin Evans and The Captain Black Big Band

Songs You Like a Lot – John Hollenbeck with Theo Bleckmann, Kate McGarry, Gary Versace and The Frankfurt Radio Big Band

Best Latin Jazz Album

Four Questions – Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Tradiciones – Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra

City of Dreams – Chico Pinheiro

Viento y Tiempo - Live at Blue Note Tokyo – Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola

Trane's Delight – Poncho Sanchez

Gospel/contemporary Christian music

Best Gospel Performance/Song

"Movin' On"

Darryl L. Howell, Jonathan Caleb McReynolds, Kortney Jamaal Pollard & Terrell Demetrius Wilson, songwriters (Jonathan McReynolds & Mali Music)

"Wonderful is Your Name"

Melvin Crispell III, songwriter (Melvin Crispell III)

"Release (Live)"

David Frazier, songwriter (Ricky Dillard featuring Tiff Joy)

"Come Together"

Lashawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Lecrae Moore & Jazz Nixon, songwriters (Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins Presents: The Good News)

"Won't Let Go"

Travis Greene, songwriter (Travis Greene)

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

"There Was Jesus"

Casey Beathard, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, songwriters (Zach Williams & Dolly Parton)

"The Blessing (Live)"

Chris Brown, Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe Carnes & Steven Furtick, songwriters (Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes & Elevation Worship)

"Sunday Morning"

Denisia Andrews, Jones Terrence Antonio, Saint Bodhi, Brittany Coney, Kirk Franklin, Lasanna Harris, Shama Joseph, Stuart Lowery, Lecrae Moore & Nathanael Saint-Fleur, songwriters (Lecrae featuring Kirk Franklin)

"Holy Water"

Andrew Bergthold, Ed Cash, Franni Cash, Martin Cash & Scott Cash, songwriters (We the Kingdom)

"Famous For (I Believe)"

Chuck Butler, Krissy Nordhoff, Jordan Sapp, Alexis Slifer & Tauren Wells, songwriters (Tauren Wells featuring Jenn Johnson)

Best Gospel Album

Gospel According to PJ – PJ Morton

2econd Wind: ReadY – Anthony Brown & group therAPy

My Tribute – Myron Butler

Choirmaster – Ricky Dillard

Kierra – Kierra Sheard

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Jesus Is King – Kanye West

Run to The Father – Cody Carnes

All of My Best Friends – Hillsong Young & Free

Holy Water – We the Kingdom

Citizen of Heaven – Tauren Wells

Best Roots Gospel Album

Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) – Fisk Jubilee Singers

Beautiful Day – Mark Bishop

20/20 – The Crabb Family

What Christmas Really Means – The Erwins

Something Beautiful – Ernie Haase & Signature Sound

Latin

Best Latin Pop Album or Urban Album

YHLQMDLG – Bad Bunny

Por Primera Vez – Camilo

Mesa Para Dos – Kany García

Pausa – Ricky Martin

3:33 – Debi Nova

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

La Conquista del Espacio – Fito Páez

Aura – Bajofondo

MONSTRUO – Cami

Sobrevolando – Cultura Profética

Miss Colombia – Lido Pimienta

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

Un Canto por México, Vol. 1 – Natalia Lafourcade

Hecho en México – Alejandro Fernández

La Serenata – Lupita Infante

Bailando Sones y Huampangos con Mariachi Sol De Mexico De Jose Hernandez – Mariachi Sol De Mexico De Jose Hernandez

Ayayay! – Christian Nodal

Best Tropical Latin Album

40 – Grupo Niche

Mi Tumbao – José Alberto "El Ruiseñor"

Infinito – Edwin Bonilla

Sigo Cantando al Amor (Deluxe) – Jorge Celedon & Sergio Luis

Memorias de Navidad – Víctor Manuelle

American roots

Best American Roots Performance

"I Remember Everything" – John Prine

"Colors" – Black Pumas

"Deep in Love" – Bonny Light Horseman

"Short and Sweet" – Brittany Howard

"I'll Be Gone" – Norah Jones & Mavis Staples

Best American Roots Song

"I Remember Everything"

Pat McLaughlin & John Prine, songwriters (John Prine)

"Cabin"

Laura Rogers & Lydia Rogers, songwriters (The Secret Sisters)

"Ceiling to the Floor"

Sierra Hull & Kai Welch, songwriters (Sierra Hull)

"Hometown"

Sarah Jarosz, songwriter (Sarah Jarosz)

"Man Without a Soul"

Tom Overby & Lucinda Williams, songwriters (Lucinda Williams)

Best Americana Album

World on the Ground – Sarah Jarosz

Old Flowers – Courtney Marie Andrews

Terms of Surrender – Hiss Golden Messenger

El Dorado – Marcus King

Good Souls Better Angels – Lucinda Williams

Best Bluegrass Album

Home – Billy Strings

Man on Fire – Danny Barnes

To Live in Two Worlds, Vol. 1 – Thomm Jutz

North Carolina Songbook – Steep Canyon Rangers

The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 – Various Artists

Best Traditional Blues Album

Rawer than Raw – Bobby Rush

All My Dues are Paid – Frank Bey

You Make Me Feel – Don Bryant

That's What I Heard – Robert Cray Band

Cypress Grove – Jimmy "Duck" Holmes

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? – Fantastic Negrito

Live at the Paramount – Ruthie Foster Big Band

The Juice – G. Love

Blackbirds – Bettye LaVette

Up and Rolling – North Mississippi Allstars

Best Folk Album

All the Good Times – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman

Thanks for the Dance – Leonard Cohen

Song for Our Daughter – Laura Marling

Saturn Return – The Secret Sisters

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Atmosphere – New Orleans Nightcrawlers

My Relatives 'nikso' Kowaiks – Black Lodge Singers

Cameron Dupuy and The Cajun Troubadours – Cameron Dupuy And The Cajun Troubadours

Lovely Sunrise – Nā Wai ʽEhā

A Tribute to Al Berard – Sweet Cecilia

Reggae

Best Reggae Album

Got to Be Tough – Toots and the Maytals

Upside Down 2020 – Buju Banton

Higher Place – Skip Marley

It All Comes Black to Love – Maxi Priest

One World – The Wailers

Global music

Best Global Music Album

Twice as Tall – Burna Boy

Fu Chronicles – Antibalas

Agora – Bebel Gilberto

Love Letters – Anoushka Shankar

Amadjar – Tinariwen

Children's

Best Children's Album

All the Ladies – Joanie Leeds

Be a Pain: An Album for Young (and Old) Leaders – Alastair Moock And Friends

I'm an Optimist – Dog On Fleas

Songs for Singin' – The Okee Dokee Brothers

Wild Life – Justin Roberts

Spoken word

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow

Acid for the Children – A Memoir – Flea

Alex Trebek – The Answer Is... – Ken Jennings

Catch and Kill – Ronan Farrow

Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) – Meryl Streep and Full Cast

Comedy

Best Comedy Album

Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish

I Love Everything – Patton Oswalt

The Pale Tourist – Jim Gaffigan

Paper Tiger – Bill Burr

23 Hours to Kill – Jerry Seinfeld

Musical theater

Best Musical Theater Album

Jagged Little Pill – Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding, Lauren Patten & Elizabeth Stanley, principal soloists; Neal Avron, Pete Ganbarg, Tom Kitt, Michael Parker, Craig Rosen & Vivek J. Tiwary, producers (Glen Ballard & Alanis Morissette, lyricists) (Original Broadway Cast)

Amélie – Audrey Brisson, Chris Jared, Caolan McCarthy & Jez Unwin, principal soloists; Michael Fentiman, Sean Patrick Flahaven, Barnaby Race & Nathan Tysen, producers; Nathan Tysen, lyricist; Daniel Messe, composer & lyricist (Original London Cast)

American Utopia on Broadway – David Byrne, principal soloist; David Byrne, producer (David Byrne, composer & lyricist) (Original Cast)

Little Shop of Horrors – Tammy Blanchard, Jonathan Groff & Tom Alan Robbins, principal soloists; Will Van Dyke, Michael Mayer, Alan Menken & Frank Wolf, producers (Alan Menken, composer; Howard Ashman, lyricist) (The New Off-Broadway Cast)

The Prince of Egypt – Christine Allado, Luke Brady, Alexia Khadime & Liam Tamne, principal soloists; Dominick Amendum & Stephen Schwartz, producers; Stephen Schwartz, composer & lyricist (Original Cast)

Soft Power – Francis Jue, Austin Ku, Alyse Alan Louis & Conrad Ricamora, principal soloists; Matt Stine, producer; David Henry Hwang, lyricist; Jeanine Tesori, composer & lyricist (Original Cast)

Music for visual media

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Jojo Rabbit – Various artists

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Various artists

Bill & Ted Face the Music – Various artists

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Various artists

Frozen II – Various artists

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir, composer

Ad Astra – Max Richter, composer

Becoming – Kamasi Washington, composer

1917 – Thomas Newman, composer

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams, composer

Best Song Written for Visual Media

"No Time to Die" (from No Time to Die)

Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell (Billie Eilish)

"Beautiful Ghosts" (from Cats)

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift)

"Carried Me with You" (from Onward)

Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth (Brandi Carlile)

"Into the Unknown" (from Frozen II)

Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Idina Menzel featuring AURORA)

"Stand Up" (from Harriet)

Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo (Cynthia Erivo)

Composing/Arranging

Best Instrumental Composition

"Sputnik"

Maria Schneider, composer (Maria Schneider)

"Baby Jack"

Arturo O'Farrill, composer (Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra)

"Be Water II"

Christian Sands, composer (Christian Sands)

"Plumfield"

Alexandre Desplat, composer (Alexandre Desplat)

"Strata"

Remy Le Boeuf, composer (Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly Of Shadows featuring Anna Webber & Eric Miller)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

"Donna Lee"

John Beasley, arranger (John Beasley)

"Bathroom Dance"

Hildur Guðnadóttir, arranger (Hildur Guðnadóttir)

"Honeymooners"

Remy Le Boeuf, arranger (Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly Of Shadows)

"Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Alvin Chea & Jarrett Johnson, arrangers (Jarrett Johnson Featuring Alvin Chea)

"Uranus: The Magician"

Jeremy Levy, arranger (Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

"He Won't Hold You"

Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier featuring Rapsody)

"Asas Fechadas"

John Beasley & Maria Mendes, arrangers (Maria Mendes Featuring John Beasley & Orkest Metropole)

"Desert Song"

Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (Säje)

"From This Place"

Alan Broadbent & Pat Metheny, arrangers (Pat Metheny featuring Meshell Ndegeocello)

"Slow Burn"

Talia Billig, Nic Hard & Becca Stevens, arrangers (Becca Stevens featuring Jacob Collier, Mark Lettieri, Justin Stanton, Jordan Perlson, Nic Hard, Keita Ogawa, Marcelo Woloski & Nate Werth)

Package

Best Recording Package

Vols. 11 & 12

Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto, art directors (Desert Sessions)

Everyday Life

Pilar Zeta, art director (Coldplay)

Funeral

Kyle Goen, art director (Lil Wayne)

Healer

Julian Gross & Hannah Hooper, art directors (Grouplove)

On Circles

Jordan Butcher, art director (Caspian)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Ode to Joy

Lawrence Azerrad & Jeff Tweedy, art directors (Wilco)

Flaming Pie (Collector's Edition)

Linn Wie Andersen, Simon Earith, Paul McCartney & James Musgrave, art directors (Paul McCartney)

Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991

Lisa Glines & Doran Tyson, art directors (Grateful Dead)

Mode

Jeff Schulz, art director (Depeche Mode)

The Story of Ghostly International

Michael Cina & Molly Smith, art directors (Various Artists)

Notes

Best Album Notes

Dead Man's Pop

Bob Mehr, album notes writer (The Replacements)

At The Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines From The Studio, 1894-1926

Tim Brooks, album notes writer (Various Artists)

The Bakersfield Sound: Country Music Capital Of The West, 1940-1974

Scott B. Bomar, album notes writer (Various Artists)

The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us From Joplin To Jazz And Shaped The Music Business

Colin Hancock, album notes writer (Various Artists)

Out Of A Clear Blue Sky

David Sager, album notes writer (Nat Brusiloff)

Historical

Best Historical Album

It's Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers

Lee Lodyga & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Mister Rogers)

Celebrated, 1895–1896

Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Richard Martin, mastering engineer (Unique Quartette)

Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936–1943)

Zev Feldman, Will Friedwald & George Klabin, compilation producers; Matthew Lutthans, mastering engineer (Nat King Cole)

1999 Super Deluxe Edition

Michael Howe, compilation producer; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer (Prince)

Souvenir

Carolyn Agger, compilation producer; Miles Showell, mastering engineer (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)

Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions

Béla Fleck, compilation producer; Richard Dodd, mastering engineer (Béla Fleck)

Production, non-classical

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Hyperspace

Drew Brown, Andrew Coleman, Shawn Everett, Serban Ghenea, David Greenbaum, Jaycen Joshua, Beck Hansen & Mike Larson, engineers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer (Beck)

Black Hole Rainbow

Shawn Everett & Ivan Wayman, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Devon Gilfillian)

Expectations

Gary Paczosa & Mike Robinson, engineers; Paul Blakemore, mastering engineer (Katie Pruitt)

Jaime

Shawn Everett, engineer; Shawn Everett, mastering engineer (Brittany Howard)

25 Trips

Shani Gandhi & Gary Paczosa, engineers; Adam Grover, mastering engineer (Sierra Hull)

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Andrew Watt

"Break My Heart" (Dua Lipa)

"Me and My Guitar" (A Boogie wit da Hoodie)

"Midnight Sky" (Miley Cyrus)

"Old Me" (5 Seconds of Summer)

"Ordinary Man" (Ozzy Osbourne featuring Elton John)

"Take What You Want" (Post Malone featuring Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott)

"Under The Graveyard" (Ozzy Osbourne)

Jack Antonoff

"August" (Taylor Swift)

Gaslighter (The Chicks)

"Holy Terrain" (FKA Twigs featuring Future)

"Mirrorball" (Taylor Swift)

"This Is Me Trying" (Taylor Swift)

"Together" (Sia)

Dan Auerbach

Cypress Grove (Jimmy "Duck" Holmes)

El Dorado (Marcus King)

Is Thomas Callaway (CeeLo Green)

Singing for My Supper (Early James)

Solid Gold Sounds (Kendell Marvel)

Years (John Anderson)

Dave Cobb

"Backbone" (Kaleo)

The Balladeer (Lori McKenna)

Boneshaker (Airbourne)

Down Home Christmas (Oak Ridge Boys)

The Highwomen (The Highwomen)

"I Remember Everything" (John Prine)

Reunions (Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit)

"The Spark" (William Prince)

"You're Still the One" (Teddy Swims)

Flying Lotus

It Is What It Is (Thundercat)

Best Remixed Recording

"Roses (Imanbek Remix)"

Imanbek Zeikenov, remixer (SAINt JHN)

"Do You Ever (RAC Mix)"

RAC, remixer (Phil Good)

"Imaginary Friends (Morgan Page Remix)"

Morgan Page, remixer (Deadmau5)

"Praying for You (Louie Vega Main Remix)"

Louie Vega, remixer (Jasper Street Co.)

"Young & Alive (Bazzi vs. Haywyre Remix)"

Haywyre, remixer (Bazzi)

Production, immersive audio

Best Immersive Audio Album

The judging for this category was postponed.

Production, classical

Best Engineered Album, Classical

"Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, 'Babi Yar'"

David Frost & Charlie Post, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua"

Bernd Gottinger, engineer (JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus)

"Gershwin: Porgy and Bess"

David Frost & John Kerswell, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

"Hynes: Fields"

Kyle Pyke, engineer; Jesse Lewis & Kyle Pyke, mastering engineers (Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion)

"Ives: Complete Symphonies"

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, engineers; Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, mastering engineers (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Producer of the Year, Classical

David Frost

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9 (Jonathan Biss)

Gershwin: Porgy And Bess (David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

Gluck: Orphée & Eurydice (Harry Bicket, Dmitry Korchak, Andriana Chuchman, Lauren Snouffer, Lyric Opera Of Chicago Orchestra & Chorus)

Holst: The Planets; The Perfect Fool (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Muhly: Marnie (Robert Spano, Isabel Leonard, Christopher Maltman, Denyce Graves, Iestyn Davies, Janis Kelly, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 845, D. 894, D. 958, D. 960 (Shai Wosner)

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, 'Babi Yar' (Riccardo Muti, Alexey Tikhomirov, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)

Blanton Alspaugh

Aspects Of America - Pulitzer Edition (Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony)

Blessed Art Thou Among Women (Peter Jermihov, Katya Lukianov & PaTRAM Institute Singers)

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9; Copland: Billy The Kid (Gianandrea Noseda & National Symphony Orchestra)

Glass: The Fall Of The House Of Usher (Joseph Li, Nicholas Nestorak, Madison Leonard, Jonas Hacker, Ben Edquist, Matthew Adam Fleisher & Wolf Trap Opera)

Kahane: Emergency Shelter Intake Form (Alicia Hall Moran, Gabriel Kahane, Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony)

Kastalsky: Requiem (Leonard Slatkin, Steven Fox, Benedict Sheehan, Charles Bruffy, Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, The Saint Tikhon Choir, Kansas City Chorale & Orchestra Of St. Luke's)

Massenet: Thaïs (Andrew Davis, Joshua Hopkins, Andrew Staples, Erin Wall, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Toronto Symphony Orchestra)

Smyth: The Prison (Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, James Blachly & Experiential Orchestra)

Woolf, L.P.: Fire And Flood (Julian Wachner, Matt Haimovitz & Choir Of Trinity Wall Street)

Jesse Lewis

Gunn: The Ascendant (Roomful Of Teeth)

Harrison, M.: Just Constellations (Roomful Of Teeth)

Her Own Wings (Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival)

Hynes: Fields (Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion)

Lang, D.: Love Fail (Beth Willer & Lorelei Ensemble)

Mazzoli: Proving Up (Christopher Rountree, Opera Omaha & International Contemporary Ensemble)

Sharlat: Spare The Rod! (NOW Ensemble)

Soul House (Hub New Music)

Wherein Lies The Good (The Westerlies)

Dmitry Lipay

Adams, J.: Must The Devil Have All The Good Tunes? (Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Cipullo: The Parting (Alastair Willis, Laura Strickling, Catherine Cook, Michael Mayes & Music Of Remembrance)

Ives: Complete Symphonies (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

LA Phil 100 - The Los Angeles Philharmonic Centennial Birthday Gala (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Langgaard: Prelude To Antichrist; Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony Orchestra)

Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 & Symphony No. 2, 'The Four Temperaments' (Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony)

Elaine Martone

Bound For The Promised Land (Robert M. Franklin, Steven Darsey, Jessye Norman & Taylor Branch)

Dawn (Shachar Israel)

Gandolfi, Prior & Oliverio: Orchestral Works (Robert Spano & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)

Singing In The Dead Of Night (Eighth Blackbird)

Whitacre: The Sacred Veil (Eric Whitacre, Grant Gershon & Los Angeles Master Chorale)

Classical

Best Orchestral Performance

"Ives: Complete Symphonies"

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

"Aspects of America - Pulitzer Edition"

Carlos Kalmar, conductor (Oregon Symphony)

"Concurrence"

Daníel Bjarnason, conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra)

"Copland: Symphony No. 3"

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

"Lutosławski: Symphonies No. 2 & 3"

Hannu Lintu, conductor (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording

"Gershwin: Porgy and Bess"

David Robertson, conductor; Angel Blue & Eric Owens; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

"Dello Joio: The Trial at Rouen"

Gil Rose, conductor; Heather Buck & Stephen Powell; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Odyssey Opera Chorus)

"Floyd, C: Prince of Players"

William Boggs, conductor; Keith Phares & Kate Royal; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Florentine Opera Chorus)

"Handel: Agrippina"

Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor; Joyce DiDonato; Daniel Zalay, producer (Il Pomo D'Oro)

"Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg"

Donald Runnicles, conductor; David Butt Philip & Elena Tsallagova; Peter Ghirardini & Erwin Stürzer, producers (Orchestra Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chorus Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin)

Best Choral Performance

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yessuah"

JoAnn Falletta, conductor; James K. Bass & Adam Luebke, chorus masters (James K. Bass, J'Nai Bridges, Timothy Fallon, Kenneth Overton, Hila Plitmann & Matthew Worth; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus & UCLA Chamber Singers)

"Carthage"

Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing)

"Kastalski: Requiem"

Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Charles Bruffy, Steven Fox & Benedict Sheehan, chorus masters (Joseph Charles Beutel & Anna Dennis; Orchestra Of St. Luke's; Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Kansas City Chorale & The Saint Tikhon Choir)

"Moravec: Sanctuary Road"

Kent Tritle, conductor (Joshua Blue, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Dashon Burton, Malcolm J. Merriweather & Laquita Mitchell; Oratorio Society Of New York Orchestra; Oratorio Society Of New York Chorus)

"Once Upon a Time"

Matthew Guard, conductor (Sarah Walker; Skylark Vocal Ensemble)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

"Contemporary Voices" – Pacifica Quartet

"Healing Modes" – Brooklyn Rider

"Hearne, T,: Place" – Ted Hearne, Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods & Place Orchestra

"Hynes: Fields" – Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion

"The Schumann Quartets" – Dover Quartet

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

"Theofanidis: Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra"

Richard O'Neill; David Alan Miller, conductor (Albany Symphony)

"Adés: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"

Kirill Gerstein; Thomas Adès, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

"Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas"

Igor Levit

"Bohemian Tales"

Augustin Hadelich; Jakub Hrůša, conductor (Charles Owen; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks)

"Destination Rachmaninov - Arrival"

Daniil Trifonov; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

"Smyth: The Prison"

Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton; James Blachly, conductor (Experiential Chorus; Experiential Orchestra)

"American Composers at Play - William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto"

Stephen Powell (Attacca Quartet, William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto, Charles Neidich & Jason Vieaux)

"Clairières - Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger"

Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist

"Farinelli"

Cecilia Bartoli; Giovanni Antonini, conductor (Il Giardino Armonico)

"A Lad's Love"

Brian Giebler; Steven McGhee, accompanist (Katie Hyun, Michael Katz, Jessica Meyer, Reginald Mobley & Ben Russell)

Best Classical Compendium

"Thomas, M.T.: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditations on Rilke"

Isabel Leonard; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Jack Vad, producer

"Adès Conducts Adès"

Mark Stone & Christianne Stotijn; Thomas Adès, conductor; Nick Squire, producer

"Saariaho: Graal Théâtre; Circle Map, Neiges, Vers Toi Qui Es Si Loin"

Clément Mao-Takacs, conductor; Hans Kipfer, producer

"Serebrier: Symphonic Bach Variations; Laments and Hallelujahs; Flute Concerto"

José Serebrier, conductor; Jens Braun, producer

"Woolf, L.P.: Fire and Blood"

Matt Haimovitz; Julian Wachner, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

"Rouse: Symphony No. 5"

Christopher Rouse, composer (Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

"Adès: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"

Thomas Adès, composer (Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Adès & Boston Symphony Orchestra)

"Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua"

Richard Danielpour, composer (JoAnn Falletta, James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus)

"Floyd, C.: Prince of Players"

Carlisle Floyd, composer (William Boggs, Kate Royal, Keith Phares, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)

"Hearne, T.: Place"

Ted Hearne, composer (Ted Hearne, Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods & Place Orchestra)

Music video/film

Best Music Video

"Brown Skin Girl" – Beyoncé, Saint Jhn & Wizkid Featuring Blue Ivy Carter

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Jenn Nkiru, video directors; Lauren Baker, Astrid Edwards, Nathan Scherrer & Erinn Williams, video producers

"Life Is Good" – Future Featuring Drake

Julien Christian Lutz, video director; Harv Glazer, video producer

"Lockdown" – Anderson .Paak

Dave Meyers, video director; Nathan Scherrer, video producer

"Adore You" – Harry Styles

Dave Meyers, video director; Nathan Scherrer, video producer

"Goliath" – Woodkid

Yoann Lemoine, video director; Horace de Gunzbourg, video producer

Best Music Film

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice – Linda Ronstadt

Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, video directors; Michele Farinola & James Keach, video producers

Beastie Boys Story – Beastie Boys

Spike Jonze, video director; Amanda Adelson, Jason Baum & Spike Jonze, video producers

Black Is King – Beyoncé

Emmanuel Adjei, Blitz Bazawule, Beyoncé Knowles Carter & Kwasi Fordjour, video directors; Lauren Baker, Akin Omotoso, Nathan Scherrer, Jeremy Sullivan & Erinn Williams, video producers

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme – Freestyle Love Supreme

Andrew Fried, video director; Andrew Fried, Jill Furman, Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sarina Roma, Jenny Steingart & Jon Steingart, video producers

That Little Ol' Band From Texas – ZZ Top

Sam Dunn, video director; Scot McFadyen, video producer

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The Game Awards 2020 Nominees

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The Game Awards return in 2020 to celebrate the best titles of the year. The ceremony will take place on Dec. 10 and will be hosted once again by executive producer and presenter Geoff Keighley. Gamers will be able to watch the festivities via live stream.

Due to restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s ceremony will take place across multiple cities instead of one venue. According to a press release, the event will be streamed live in “4K UHD from studio locations with no in-person audience in Los Angeles, Tokyo and London. The three host cities for The Game Awards will be digitally connected for an innovative celebration with live award presentations, musical performances, and spectacular world premiere game announcements.”

Favorites at this year’s award ceremony include The Last of Us Part II, Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, Half-Life: Alyx, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

“In 2020, video games have connected and comforted us more than ever, and that makes the 2020 edition of The Game Awards our most important show ever,” Keighley said in a statement earlier this year. “Our team is working hard to deliver an innovative and thoughtful program that celebrates excellence, previews the future, and amplifies important voices that are shaping the future of this medium.”

The Game Awards 2020 will also kick off “a weekend of instantly playable game content, in-game drops, demos, and live streams that celebrate the exciting future for video games across PC, console, mobile and mixed reality experiences.”

Fans should expect “Game Award Sales” on various digital marketplaces. It’ll probably be a good time to buy those games you’ve been putting off all year.

BAFTA and Emmy nominated composer Lorne Balfe is returning as the Music Director and conductor of The Game Awards, and will be conducting the world-renowned London Philharmonic Orchestra from London’s famous Abbey Road Studios.

“Being a part of The Game Awards is truly a wonderful experience ,and I’m thrilled to again be celebrating the incredible games of 2020,” said Lorne Balfe in a press release. “There is nothing quite like music in video games and with the phenomenal talents from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, I look forward to bringing the scores from this year’s ground-breaking titles to viewers around the world from the legendary Abbey Road Studios.”

And of course, the ceremony wouldn’t be complete without some HUGE announcements regarding upcoming games. Last year’s event brought us the reveal of the Xbox Series X. How will The Game Awards top that this year? Fans will just have to wait and see!

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For now, here are all of The Game Awards 2020 nominees:

Game of the Year

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)

DOOM Eternal (id Software/Bethesda)

Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)

Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)

Hades (Supergiant Games)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE)

Best Game Direction

Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)

Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)

Hades (Supergiant Games)

Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE)

Best Narrative

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (George Kamitani)

Final Fantasy VII Remake (Kazushige Nojima, Motomu Toriyama, Hiroki Iwaki, Sachie Hirano)

Ghost of Tsushima (Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs, Jordan Lemos)

Hades (Greg Kasavin)

The Last of Us Part II (Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross)

Best Art Direction

Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)

Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)

Hades (Supergiant Games)

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE)

Best Score and Music

DOOM Eternal (Mick Gordon)

Final Fantasy VII Remake (Nobuo Uematsu, Masahi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki)

Hades (Darren Korb)

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker)

The Last of Us Part II (Gustavo Santaolala, Mac Quale)

Best Audio Design

DOOM Eternal (id Software/Bethesda)

Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)

Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)

Resident Evil 3 (Capcom)

The Last of Us Part 2 (Naughty Dog/SIE)

Best Performance

Ashley Johnson as Ellie, The Last of Us Part II

Laura Bailey as Abby, The Last of Us Part II

Daisuke Tsuji as Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima

Logan Cunningham as Hades, Hades

Nadji Jeter as Miles Morales, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Games for Impact

If Found… (DREAMFEEL/Annapurna Interactive)

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (Cardboard Computer/Annapurna Interactive)

Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)

Tell Me Why (Dontnod Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)

Through the Darkest of Times (Paintbucket Games)

Best Ongoing

Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)

Destiny 2 (Bungie)

Call of Duty Warzone (Infinity Ward/Activision)

Fortnite (Epic Games)

No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Best Indie

Carrion (Phobia Game Studio)

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic/Devolver)

Hades (Supergiant Games)

Spelunky 2 (Mossmouth)

Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)

Best Mobile, Presented by LG WING, Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon

Among Us (InnerSloth)

Call of Duty Mobile (TiMi Studios/Activision)

Genshin Impact (miHoYo)

Legends of Runeterra (Riot Games)

Pokémon Café Mix (Genius Sonority)

Best Community Support

Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)

Destiny 2 (Bungie)

Fall Guys (Mediatonic/Devolver)

Fortnite (Epic Games)

No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Valorant (Riot Games)

Innovation in Accessibility

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Grounded (Obsidian/Xbox Game Studios)

HyperDot (Tribe Games)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE)

Watch Dogs Legion (Ubisoft Toronto/Ubisoft)

Best VR/AR

Dreams (Media Molecule/SIE)

Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)

MARVEL’s Iron Man VR (Camoflaj/SIE)

STAR WARS: Squadrons (Motive Studios/EA)

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (Skydance Interactive)

Best Action

DOOM Eternal (id Software/Bethesda)

Hades (Supergiant Games)

Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)

Nioh 2 (Team Ninja)

Streets of Rage 4 (DotEmu)

Best Action/Adventure

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch/SIE)

MARVEL’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games/SIE)

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios)

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Respawn/EA)

The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/SIE)

Best Role Playing

Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix)

Genshin Impact (miHoYo)

Persona 5 Royal (Atlus, P Studios)

Wasteland 3 (inXile Entertainment/Koch)

Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/Sega)

Best Fighting

Granblue Fantasy: Versus (Arc System Works/Cygames)

Mortal Kombat 11/Ultimate (NetherRealm Studios/WB Games)

Street Fighter V: Champion Edition (Dimps/Capcom)

One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (Spike Chunsoft/Bandai-Namco)

UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe: Late[cl-r] (French Bread/Arc System Works)

Best Family

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (Toys for Bob/Activision)

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic/Devolver)

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Velan Studios/Nintendo)

Minecraft Dungeons (Mojang/Double Eleven/Xbox Game Studios)

Paper Mario: The Origami King (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)

Best Sim/Strategy

Crusader Kings III (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox)

Desperados III (Mimimi Games/THQN)

Gears Tactics (Splash Damage/The Coalition/Xbox Game Studios)

Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo/Xbox Game Studios)

XCOM: Chimera Squad (Firaxis/2K)

Best Sports/Racing

Dirt 5 (Codemasters Cheshire/Codemasters)

F1 2020 (Codemasters Birmingham /Codemasters)

FIFA 21 (EA Vancouver/EA Sports)

NBA 2K21 (Visual Concepts/2K)

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (Vicarious Visions/Activision)

Best Multiplayer

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo)

Among Us (InnerSloth)

Call of Duty: Warzone (Infinity Ward/Raven/Activision)

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic/Devolver)

Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Debut Game

Carrion (Phobia Game Studio/Devolver)

Mortal Shell (Cold Symmetry/Playstack)

Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads Games)

Röki (Polygon Treehouse/CI Games)

Phasmophobia (Kinetic Games)

Content Creator of the Year, Presented by Adobe

Alanah Pearce

NickMercs

TimtheTatman

Jay Ann Lopez

Valkyrae

Best Esports Game

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Raven/Activision)

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)

Fortnite (Epic Games)

League of Legends (Riot Games)

Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete

Ian “Crimsix” Porter / Call of Duty

Heo “Showmaker” Su / League of Legends

Kim “Canyon” Geon-bu / League of Legends

Anthony “Shotzzy” Cuevas-Castro / Call of Duty

Matthieu “ZywOo” Herbaut / CS:GO

Best Esports Team

DAMWON Gaming / League of Legends

Dallas Empire / Call of Duty

San Francisco Shock / Overwatch League

G2 Esports / League of Legends

Team Secret / DOTA2

Best Esports Event

BLAST Premier: Spring E2020 European Finals (CS:GO)

Call of Duty League Championship 2020

IEM Katowice 2020 (CS:GO)

League of Legends World Championship 2020

Overwatch League Grand Finals 2020

Best Esports Host

Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere

Alex “Machine” Richardson

Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez

James “Dash” Patterson

Jorien “Sheever” van der Heijden

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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra Lyrics: Good Morning～Blue Daisy feat. aiko (Good Morning～ブルーデイジー)

English translation and romanization below the cut. Thank you so much to parasmichael for the coffee!

ENGLISH

It’s been one of those mornings where I can’t seem to remember The dream I was having just a little while ago

I feel like I’m living life with one eye shut Whenever you’re not around

I could walk around with my other eye shut But I don’t think I could keep my balance

I noticed right away That something had happened that made you sad We were so happy then

Blue Daisy Good Morning Happy Day Blue Daisy I loved you so The sadness I feel is the curtain of destiny Let’s welcome in a new morning No such thing as night that doesn’t end in morning

Don’t you feel unprepared When you only think about the future to come? I kissed you that day Despite my heart not being ready for it I stood on my tiptoes So you wouldn’t notice Was that all a dream?

Blue Daisy Good Morning Happy Day Blue Daisy I was so happy then A Blue Daisy that blooms in secret Even when it’s partly cloudy and windy

Blue Daisy Good Morning Happy Day I’ll save over my memories Continuing where the dream I once had left off

I don’t mind having nothing I’m not holding anything at all So we can hold hands, you know?

Blue Daisy A blue flower Blooming to this very day Blue Daisy There are daisies here too So very innocent and pure

Good Morning Happy Day Come get me Good Morning Remember The melody Good Morning The curtain call Say, “Good Morning” Good Morning Happy Day I’ll be waiting

ROMAJI

hon no sukoshi mae ni mite ita yume wa mou omoidasenai asa

anata ga inai to katame wo tojite kurashite iru mitai desu

katame tsumuttemo arukeru keredo baransu ga torenai no kana

kanashii koto okosu tte sugu kidzuita no watashi-tachi shiawase datta

Blue Daisy Good Morning Happy Day Blue Daisy daisuki datta kanashimi wa unmei no ka-ten atarashii asa mukaeyou yo asa ga konai yoru wa nai wa

shourai no koto dake kangaeru toki youi mo dekite’nai kimochi desho? ano hi kokoro no junbi mo naku kisu shita kidzukarenai you ni senobi wo shite’ta yume datta no ka

Blue Daisy Good Morning Happy Day Blue Daisy shiawase datta Blue Daisy sotto saku no kumori nochi hare kaze no naka demo

Blue Daisy Good Morning Happy Day omoide wo uwagaki suru no itsuka no yume no tsudzuki

nannimo nakute ii nannimo motte’nai dakara te wo tsunageru deshou?

Blue Daisy ima demo aoi hana saite’ru Blue Daisy mujaki ni hinagiku koko ni mo

Good Morning Happy Day mukae ni kite Good Morning merodi- omoidashite Good Morning ka-ten ko-ru ohayou tte itte Good Morning Happy Day matte’ru kara

#tokyo ska paradise orchestra #東京スカパラダイスオーケストラ #aiko #tokyo ska treasures #translation

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Yoshiki @ JAPAN EXPO 2019 (Paris)

The showcase began with a short introduction movie outlining Yoshiki’s career (since it took place within a convention, I guess it was meant for people who might have come to the showcase out of curiosity. I believe most people present were fans though.) in which I personally learnt that he has supervised the music of the 2005 World Expo in Tokyo, and directed the orchestra for the opening, which I had somehow never heard about before (contrary to everything else in that short movie).

Then Yoshiki came out on stage and greeted us with “ça va ?” and then “how are you ?”. He said he was honored to have been invited for the 20th anniversary of the festival and wondered how many time he had come to JAPAN EXPO by now, and joked that it might be the 50th. He also said that Paris was a hometown to him~

The first song he played was Hero, that he wrote for 2014 Saint Seiya movie. He played on a grand piano and was accompanied, if I remember well, by two violins and a cello. Katie Fitzgeral had come with him and sang to the songs she has recorded the original vocals of.

The following song was Red Swan, and since Hyde wasn’t here for this one, he asked the audience to sing along (which is adorable of him, but actually quite difficult without a singer to follow 笑). But before that, he asked what was the name of Attack On Titans in french, and since everyone shouted out of sync and he didn’t catch it, he climbed off the staff to hand the mike to one fan to reply “l’Attaque Des Titans”, which Yoshiki nodded to with “that’s the french name”, and carefully avoided trying to repeat it 笑. Then he walked a bit in one alley to look at the audience; one guy had bought a pair of Yoshiki drumsticks so Yoshiki took one and started whirling it with his fingers (you know how drummers do), and asked the dude if he was a drummer (he wasn’t). Then Yoshiki returned to the stage, but there was no stairs on this side of the curtain, so he just climbed back on it 笑. He also asked what it is that we like about Attack On Titan, whether it was because they ate humans, and said that as long as they didn’t eat him, he was fine with it 笑.

After Red Swan, he made the ~surprise annoucement~ JAPAN EXPO had advertised he might do during the showcase, and that is that he has started shooting a new biopic three weeks ago !! He explained again how he had refused all offers of documentaries about X or himself for a long time because digging up his memory would have been too painful for him, but had eventually let himself be convinced to shoot We Are X when he had realised that telling his story could help people going through a rough time, which has been confirmed after the movie was released. Since receiving so much love and support in response to We Are X, that he said “has just scratched the surface”, he has decided to shoot this new movie that should go more in depth in his own story (prepare your tissues, folks).

We got to see a very first very short trailer of the movie (which of course didn’t reveal much besides, like I said, ‘have your tissues ready’) and then he introduced the next song and soundtrack of that future movie, entitled Red Rhapsody. He is “also working on X JAPAN’s new album still, so don’t worry, but anyway” (I feel like he has given up on giving us a release date at this point 笑) he has written Red Rhapsody over 7 or 8 years ago now, but it was so meaningful and personal to him that he decided against releasing it at that time and kept it for himself instead. But just like after hide’s death he had considered quitting the stage because playing the piano systematically reminded him of him and Yoshiki’s father, yet decided to face his pain and kept on with his musical career, he has now decided to release this song, and played it live just for us for the very first time~

Katie Fitzgerald sang Red Rhapsody, and Yoshiki mentioned that they had been working together for about 13 years now, and joked that he must have been 10 years old when they had met 笑. It is a very beautiful and emotional song as you can expect it, one of those poignant ballads Yoshiki has the secret of; he compared it himself to X JAPAN’s Tears, Forever Love and Endless Rain.

He explained afterward that the lyrics are very dark and convey all the pain he’s been going through in his life, but he acknowledged that he’s not the only one who has gone and is going through such pain. He got very emotional when he explained that the break up of X JAPAN had felt like the end of the world to him, and that he had hidden within his sadness and created walls around him afterward, but thanks to us [his fans] and our unconditional support, he had been able to come back on stage, and tell his story; he thanked us and he said he “wanted to go to the future together, we are friends.” (did I cry ? I might have cried) “Because X means infinite possibility, so nothing’s impossible.” We then proceeded to scream “X !!” in response to his “We are ?”, and he commented, “that feels good, uh ?”

He played Endless Rain as the last song, which he dedicated to hide, Taiji, his father, and all of us, and asked us to sing along again (which I think much more people managed to this time~). He exited the stage waving right after, but then came back to wave some more, and touch the hands of all the people who had gotten up and gathered at the foot of the stage, thank us, and touch everyone’s hands again in the other direction, before eventually leaving for good.

I came out of this with even more love and respect for this man than I already went in with. He’s a truly wonderful and inspirational person, and I am so happy I got to share such a beautiful and emotional evening, that also somehow felt like a casual chit-chat with an old friend. Yoshiki is just so genuine and true, he makes every meeting feel intimate, no matter the scale of the audience, and that’s something wonderful that I like a lot about him. I’m looking forward to this new biopic even though I know it means more tears, and I’ll keep waiting as patiently as I can for that next album.

#live report #yoshiki #x japan #japan expo 2019

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Radio NET Bulgaria (November 16, 2022)

23:58 EVERETTE HARP - Wait 4 U 23:54 PIECES OF A DREAM - In Too Deep 23:50 DEAN JAMES - Planet Smooth 23:46 COOL SPRING JAZZ QUARTET - Angels We Have Heard On High 23:43 JS FLOYD - Sunrise 23:38 LIN ROUNTREE - Release 23:35 BENNETT B - Above The Clouds 23:30 ROB SABADO - Spice Of Life 23:26 BOB BALDWIN - Unthinkable 23:22 DEAN GRECH - What Do You Want This Year For Christmas 23:18 TOM BRAXTON - The J Factor 23:13 PETER WHITE - Our Dance 23:09 BONEY JAMES - Fortuneteller 23:05 BK JACKSON - Feelin' Saxy 23:00 EUGE GROOVE - Gimme 6 22:58 STAN CROWN - Not Invented Love (Original Mix) 22:56 SPOR - Pacifica (Acoustic Version) 22:50 TONY IGY - Astronomia (Chillout Mix) 22:47 ASKERY - With You 22:41 SIMON LE GREC - Decisions (Delor Mix) 22:36 ASTRID SURYANTO - Distant Bar (Original Mix) 22:33 SOUND BEHAVIOUR - Arena 22:28 D-PULSE - Velocity Of Love (Original) 22:24 SKYE - Feel Good Inc 22:19 SINOPTIK MUSIC - Black Islands 22:15 SOTY - Circle (Original Mix) 22:11 SIMON G - Crazy (Original Mix) 22:08 TRACEY THORN - Night Time (Original Mix) 22:01 TRENTEMOLLER - Miss You (Lulu Rouge Feat. Asger Baden Remix) 21:55 TRANZLIFT - Heaven's Shore (Magdelayna's Chilled Remake) 21:50 SMOOTH DELUXE - Dream Of Insomnia 21:46 TOKYO COUNTERPOINT - To The Sky (Lemongrass Free Bird Remix) 21:43 HIATUS & SHURA - Fortune's Fool 21:38 HESS IS MORE - Yes Boss 21:33 HEIKO - Miles Away 21:28 CAFE DEL MAR - Mandalay (Beautiful) 21:22 GREEN POINT ORCHESTRA - Miriam Dub 21:18 YORK, ASHENI - Iceflowers (Original Mix) 21:13 CHAKRA - I Am (Vox Mix) 21:08 REY SALINERO - Total Delight 21:03 CHICANE, TRACY ACKERMAN - No Ordinary Morning (Original Mix) 20:56 VITODITO, SARA POLLINO - The Song I Promised You (Chillout Mix) 20:53 CHICANE, KATE WALSH - Playing Fields (Original Mix) 20:50 MOTIF, LENA BELGART - Halo (Original Mix) 20:44 BEN GOLD, SENADEE - Today (Chilled Datt Remix) 20:40 POCHILL - Constanta 78 20:36 PIXALEND - Maritime Sadness 20:31 PETE MURRAY - So Beautiful (Acoustic Version) 20:28 VITO FOGNINI, CARI - True To Myself (Original Mix) 20:22 VLAD ZHUKOV - Nothing (W&D Chill Out Vocal Mix) 20:17 TITIYO - Come Along (Naid Remix) 20:11 RED - Pieces 20:05 PREMASARA COUNCIL - Sensual Ecstasy 20:00 PAUL ADAM - Backwards (Original Mix) 19:55 NUAGE, N4M3 - Sunday Morning (Original Mix) 19:52 MODJO - Lady (Acoustic Version) 19:49 CLAES ROSEN, NATALIE PERIS - Stay (Original Mix) 19:44 GABRIELA MENDEZ FUENTE - Romance in Ibiza (Orchester Lite Edit) 19:38 20SABANCI - As Faces Fade (Domenico Cascarino & Luca Lombardi Chill Out Remix) 19:34 PAROV STELAR - You Got Me There 19:30 HARD GREY, HOUSE REPUBLIC - Music Sounds Better With You (Eat More Cake Remix) 19:26 GUSHI, RAFFUNK - Travel (Lemongrass Couch Remix) 19:24 HARDWELL, COLLIN McLOUGHLIN - Call Me A Spaceman (Unplugged Version) 19:20 OCEAN DRIVE, DJ ORISKA - Without You (Acoustic Version) 19:16 COSMIC GATE, EMMA HEWITT - Be Your Sound (Live Acoustic Version) 19:12 NOMOSK - Don't Hold Back (Soty & Seven24 Chillout Remix) 19:08 CUEBRICK - Safe (C-Systems Alternative Mix) 19:02 NO HORIZONS, SHEEMA - Summer Son 18:57 NITIN SAWHNEY - Breathing Light 18:54 NIK LLOYD - Number 1 (Acoustic Cover) 18:45 RED BUDDHA, LINDA WONG ENSEMBLE - Stone Buddha 18:40 REUNITED - Sing It Back (Shazz Man Chill Mix) 18:34 RAYAN MYERS - Pleasant Calmness (Original Mix) 18:29 POLISHED CHROME - Secret Of Sound (Album Version) 18:24 RICHARD MARX - Right Here Waiting 18:20 RUSSELL SIMINS - Comfortable Place 18:17 RUTH ANN - Beautiful 18:13 DJ CHART, DOBA, PRINCESS LARISSA - Danger Games 18:07 BRAVE - The Muse (Chill Out Mix) 18:04 DISCO FRIES, NIKO THE KID - The Light (Acoustic Version) 18:01 DEEP'N PURE, RADBOY - R We Ever Gonna Be (Original Mix) 17:57 MAX MILLION - Do You Believe (Original Mix) 17:53 ZAZA, JORGE NAVA - Broken (Chill Mix) 17:50 ZARA TAYLOR, SNATT & VIX - No Angel (Zetandel Chill Out Mix) 17:46 JIMMY ROQSTA, THALYA HILL - Endless Summer Dance (El Gambrero Remix) 17:40 ATB - Remember That Day 17:36 FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - Seven Devils 17:30 TENISHIA, KIRSTY HAWKSHAW - Falling (Original Mix) 17:25 YIRUMA - River Flows In You (N-Drew Fate Remix) 17:21 YIRUMA, RUVIN - River Flows In You 17:16 LEO ROJAS - Friendship 17:12 KENNY G - My Heart Will Go On 17:08 IIO - Rapture (Lametta Made 2 Chill Remix) 17:04 RADIO KILLER - Lonely Heart (Kenny Hayes Nitelite Mix) 17:00 OXYGENE - The Ocean (Goldtripp Remix) 16:58 MEKIEL REUBEN - Zoraida (A Feel for Hope) 16:54 CAROL ALBERT - Love Again 16:50 2UNES - Rock Steady 16:46 MICHAEL MCDONALD - This Christmas 16:42 DARRYL WILLIAMS - Now or Never (feat. Jonathan Fritzen) 16:38 JOHN NOVELLO - Shuffle the Deck 16:33 RON OTIS - That Feels Good 16:29 JAZZ IN PINK - Roll Out 16:24 NORTH 2UNES WOODALL - 102 Degree 16:21 TOM SCOTT - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 16:17 FUNKTASTIC PLAYERS - Glad I Met You Tonight 16:13 RICK HABANA - White Sand 16:08 LOWELL HOPPER - Unconditional 16:04 JOHN E. LAWRENCE - Take Em by Storm 16:00 CHILLAXING JAZZ KOLLEKTION - Send My Love 15:58 PETER WHITE - Lovely Day 15:53 KEITH SLATTERY - It'll Be Alright feat. Everette Harp 15:49 KENNEY POLSON - Innocence 15:45 JUSTIN YOUNG - Sleight Ride 15:41 VINCENT IOIA - All Day Music 15:37 EDGARDO CINTRON - Together Again 15:32 CHUCK LOEB - John Leslie (For Wes Montgomery) 15:28 DANIEL CHIA - Life's a Beach 15:24 WILL DONATO - Will Power 15:21 K.VIO, TIM TONIC - Little Snow Flake, Little White Coat 15:17 BRYAN LUBECK - Smoocha 15:13 BONEY JAMES - Drumline 15:09 BK JACKSON - Sounds Of Love 15:04 EUGE GROOVE - Push It Forward 15:00 DREAMING IN COLOUR - Back in the Day (feat. Michael Scherer) 14:59 DARRIUS JAMAR - Back To Love 14:55 DOMINIC CAMARDELLA - I Long 4U 14:51 LES SABLER - Keep Pushin' 14:48 HARPER, GUS AND GOMEZ - Christmas Dream 14:44 SAM BASSMAN JENKINS - Northbound 14:40 SEAN U - Sunburst 14:36 U - NAM 14:31 BIRDS OF A FEATHER - See You Soon 14:27 ADAM HAWLEY - I Don't Mind (Feat. Euge Groove) 14:23 MORGAN JAMES - White Christmas 14:18 DERRICK HARVIN - New Found Love 14:12 BOBBY WELLS - Bella's Pier 14:08 DANNY LERMAN - Snoopy's Dance 14:04 ANDRE DELANO - When Jadon Smiles 14:00 ERIC MARIENTHAL - 21 Ocean Front 13:57 JEREMY HECTOR - I'll Remember 13:53 DAVE BRADSHAW JR. - West Coast Jammin' 13:49 PETER WHITE - How Does It Feel 13:44 RONNY JORDAN - Silent Night 13:41 BEN TANKARD - Like the Dew 13:36 FREDDIE FOX - Sensual 13:32 ANDREY CHMUT - Song For A Friend (feat. U 13:28 GARY MEGGS - Having A Good Day 13:23 DEMETRIUS NABORS - Overjoyed (feat. Doobie Powell) 13:21 SYLVIA BENNETT - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 13:17 BRYAN LUBECK - Vineyard Romance 13:13 BONEY JAMES - A Little Attitude 13:09 BK JACKSON - Wait For You 13:04 EUGE GROOVE - Religify 13:00 GABRIEL MARK HASSELBACH - Chill@Will (Raincoast Mix) 12:58 NATE WHITE - Kupenda 12:53 STEVE WATSON - Playtime 12:48 DANA FIELDS - O Holy Night 12:44 RONALD BOO HINKSON - How Can I (Smooth Instrumental) 12:40 ALTHEA RENE - Rock with You 12:35 CHRIS GODBER - Soul Searchin 12:31 FRANK SUTTON - Its Gonna Be A Lovely Day 12:22 SMOOTH SOUL HOLIDAY - Oh Come All Ye Faithful 12:17 UNDER THE LAKE - Diego Nuevo 12:13 CHRIS 'BIG DOG' DAVIS - You Just Smile 12:09 PHILLIP DOC MARTIN - After the Rain 12:04 BILLYRAY SHEPPARD - On My Way Now 12:00 KIRK WHALUM - Desperately 11:57 ROCCO VENTRELLA - Where is The Love 11:54 MAYSA - Joy To The World 11:47 PETER WHITE - Ramon's Revenge 11:43 DAVID PETROSYAN - Dancing with My Soul 11:38 CHASE HUNA - Can't Take My Eyes Off You 11:35 LOUIE FITZGERALD - Keepin' the Groove On 11:29 GEREY JOHNSON - Missing You 11:24 DR. SAXLOVE - Little Drummer Boy 11:19 GERRY SMOOTH - Shifting Gears 11:13 BRYAN LUBECK - Nothing Can Come Between Us 11:09 BONEY JAMES - The Moment 11:05 BK JACKSON - Before I Let Go 11:00 EUGE GROOVE - A Summer's Nights Dream 10:57 EARL KLUGH - I'm Ready For Your Love 10:53 MARQUEAL JORDAN - Come Ride with Me 10:50 CHRISTMAS CAROLS - Christmas Bells 10:47 MARC ANTOINE - Groovy Sunday 10:42 GINO ROSARIA - Pool Party 10:38 GARY MEEK - Midnight Sky 10:33 HIROSHIMA - Brighter Days 10:29 JAKOB MAGNUSSON - Caption This 10:25 DANIEL D. - Let It Snow 10:20 JAREZ - Mr. Sexy Saxy 10:16 KEN POWE - Wish You Were Here 10:12 YULARA - Bridges To Shambhala 10:07 EJAZZ ARTISTRY - Need You Now 10:00 JEFFERY SMITH - Smooth Jazz Soul 09:56 DONALD HAYES - Anytime Anyplace 09:52 DWIGHT SIRLS - In Black & White 09:45 NATHAN WOODWARD - O, Holy Night 09:40 PETER WHITE - Mission 2 Mars 09:35 CHASE HUNA - Into the Sun 09:30 BUTCH, RHONDA COLEMAN - Bean's Groove 09:26 JULIAN VAUGHN - Waiting For You 09:22 GEREY JOHNSON - Like We Used Too 09:19 TON SMITH - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (feat. Preston Smith and Oliver Scott) 09:15 DON VINO - Worried (Feat. Tye Platinum) 09:11 SKINNY HIGHTOWER - Force 09:08 BRYAN LUBECK - Top Down 09:04 BONEY JAMES - Hand In Hand 09:00 BK JACKSON - Believe That 08:54 EUGE GROOVE - Knocki Knocki Who's There 08:50 JACK JEZZRO - Happy Holiday 08:45 MICHAEL ROSS - On the Beach with You 08:40 TIM BOWMAN - Rapture 08:37 SHAWN RAIFORD - Magic Man 08:32 SPECIAL EFX - Deep as the Night 08:27 EARNEST WALKER JR - Bourbon Chill 08:23 BRADLEY LEIGHTON - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 08:17 MICHAEL MANSON - Sundance 08:13 ILYA SEROV - Heat (feat. DAVE KOZ) 08:09 A & MARK R. HARRIS - Westside Memoirs (feat. Ignacio Nunez & Dean Rickard) 08:03 DARREN RAHN - Give 'n' Take 08:00 SPONTANEOUS GROOVIN' COMBUSTION - Guaruja 07:57 AVENUE BLUE - That's the Way of the World (feat. Jeff Golub) 07:53 PEET PROJECT - Heavy Rain 07:49 GARY METZ - Cruisin' 07:45 SHIN GIWON CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLECTION - Winter Wonderland 07:41 ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY - The Crossing 07:37 BRETTINA - New Day 07:32 PETER WHITE - Reunion 07:28 CHASE HUNA - Mirage 07:23 BUTCH, RHONDA COLEMAN - Train 07:21 JONATHAN BUTLER - Deck The Halls 07:17 GEREY JOHNSON - Silk Dress 07:12 DON VINO - They Were Here (Feat. Vicky Sampson) 07:08 CHRISTIAN DE MESONES, DEBORA GALAN - Sweetnight 07:04 BRYAN LUBECK - Noon Groove 07:00 BONEY JAMES - Futuresoul 06:57 BK JACKSON - Find Your Way 06:51 EUGE GROOVE - Faithful Central 06:47 PEGGY DUQUESNEL - Christmas Is Here 06:42 JAY ROWE, MARION MEADOWS - The Reunion 06:37 CHAZZY GREEN - It's Time to Play 06:33 GARY PALMER - Misunderstanding 06:29 JEFF LORBER FUSION - Mind Reader 06:25 EVAN CARYDAKIS - Will I See You Again 06:22 ART MORRIS - Silent Night 06:17 J. WHITE - Keep Shining 06:13 PAUL TAYLOR - Countdown 06:08 POP'N BOSSA - It Will Rain 06:04 MARION MEADOWS - On the Uptown 06:00 CAL HARRIS JR. - The Touch 05:55 LISA ADDEO - What Cha' Know About That 05:51 JOE MCBRIDE, THE TEXAS RHYTHM CLUB - Oi Gata 05:46 MARK ETHEREDGE - For Your Love (Feat. Chuck Loeb) 05:42 YOLANDA RABUN - Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas 05:38 ERIC DARIUS - Broke Down 05:35 PAUL TUVMAN - Here Comes the Sun 05:31 JEANETTE HARRIS - 12 57 (feat. Marcus Anderson) 05:27 MARCIN NOWAKOWSKI - Give And Take 05:24 DAVE KOZ - Summertime in NYC 05:20 AARON BING - White Christmas 05:16 JODY MAYFIELD - Sunshine and Rain (feat. Heidi McLaughlin) 05:12 AL DEGREGORIS - Tranquility 05:08 PETER WHITE - Mister Magic 05:04 ROB TARDIK - Let's Get Together 05:00 QUINTIN GERARD W. - Candlelight Flight with Me 04:57 EUGE GROOVE - Another Sad Love Song 04:52 JOY RIDE - Bisso Baba 04:49 VANN BURCHFIELD - Being With You 04:45 SHAKATAK - Blue Christmas 04:41 WALTER BEASLEY - Barack's Groove 04:36 WARREN HILL - La Dolce Vita 04:32 DAVID BENOIT - Long Journey Home 04:27 JOYCE COOLING - Mm 04:23 DANCING FANTASY - Bon Voyage 04:21 JAMES BOWMAN III - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 04:17 WILL SUMNER - Pier Groove 04:12 DIRK K - Blu Sky 04:08 BRAD ALEXANDER - Sunrise on I15 04:03 KIM WATERS - Easy Going 04:00 BRIAN SIMPSON - Whisper To Me 03:59 PAOLO RUSTICHELLI - My Geisha 03:54 PATRICK YANDALL - You're Never Alone 03:50 THREESTYLE - Vision (feat. Magdalena Chovancova & Robert Fertl) 03:44 KIM SCOTT - Butterfly 03:39 JEFF KASHIWA - You're The One 03:35 ANDRE CAVOR - Without a Doubt 03:31 ZOLBERT - Something 03:26 RAGAN WHITESIDE - Call Me (vocal) 03:22 TONY SAUNDERS - My Real Love 03:18 R.L. WALKER - Only Have Eyes 03:13 ROBERTO VAZQUEZ - Between Two Worlds 03:09 GERALD ALBRIGHT - Where Did We Go Wrong 03:04 PETER WHITE - Pedro Blanco 03:00 WAYMAN TISDALE - If You Want Me to Stay (feat. Kirk Whalum) 03:00 ANDY SNITZER - September '79 02:55 LAWSON ROLLINS - Quest 02:51 ROBERTO RESTUCCIA - Arrival 02:47 ENNY - What's Love Got to Do with It (feat. Marcus Anderson & Matt Cusson) 02:42 TERENCE YOUNG - Love Ballad 02:38 JACKIEM JOYNER - Addicted 02:33 RICK BRAUN - Far Away Places 02:29 ROBERT CHRISTA - Goblins' World 02:25 MARCUS ANDERSON - A Brighter Smile 02:20 PATRICK BRADLEY - Song of May (feat. Darren Rahn) 02:17 DREW DAVIDSEN - InnerSpace 02:12 JACOB WEBB - My Feelings 02:08 JOEL THIBAULT - Summer Vibes 02:04 CHRISTOPHE GOZE - Bossa Roma 02:00 BLAKE AARON - Drive 01:58 THE SMOOTH JAZZ ALLEY - Smooth Jazz Alley 01:54 JAMES LLOYD - Play It Forward 01:50 DR. DAVE, THE HOUSECALL BAND - Almost Trinidad (Revisited Version) 01:45 JAZMIN GHENT - Work Wit' It 01:42 DARRON COOKIE - Pressure Point 01:37 JEFF RYAN - Blue Wave 01:33 RONNY SMITH - Forever Friends 01:27 EVERETT B WALTERS - It's Yo Time 01:23 FRANK MCCOMB - Just Ride (For George Duke) 01:17 JAZZ FUNK SOUL - Fall Departs 01:13 MEZZOFORTE - High Season 01:09 GERALD ALBRIGHT - The Gospel 01:04 PETER WHITE - Kinda Sweet 01:00 CINDY BRADLEY - The Little Things 00:58 GREGG KARUKAS - Your Sweet Smile 00:52 NELSON RANGELL - Like No Tomorrow 00:48 MARK JAIMES - Midnight Rendezvous 00:44 CHRIS STANDRING - Have Your Cake And Eat It 00:39 JIM ADKINS - Passing Through 00:34 GREG MANNING - Bahia 00:30 DANIEL DOMENGE - Patchwork 00:26 BRIAN BROMBERG - Never Give Up 00:21 NAJEE - Isla Hermosa 00:17 ALEXANDER ZONJIC - Motor City Sway 00:13 DEE BROWN - Surrender 00:09 RICHARD ELLIOT - Living Inside Myself 00:04 REZA KHAN - Imaginary Road 00:00 DEON YATES - The Night

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