The Path to True Love is a Winding Mess [K-On!, Mio/Azusa]
Title: The Path to True Love is a Winding Mess
Fandom: K-On!
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Mio/Azusa, Ritsu, Yui, Mugi, (Ui, Jun).
Word Count: 1144
Prompt: Mio/Azusa, Out of all of Azusa's sempais, Mio-sempai is the only one she really respects.
Notes: Originally posted here @
yuri_challenge
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Bad enough that it takes Azusa two weeks to gather up the courage to tell Mio-senpai how she feels (although Ui is supportive all the way, smiling and ignoring the way Azusa squeaks in alarm when she thinks somebody might have overheard them talking about it, and Jun just smacks her on the shoulder, tells her she has good taste and wishes her luck, forgetting about it immediately afterwards to read her latest manga purchase), but the fact that Mio's response is to turn completely white and freeze up for five minutes is not the best of signs.
Azusa doesn't know whether to leave or try and talk Mio-senpai down even though the reply she is going to get from Mio-senpai after she has recovered is hardly likely to be a good one. Of course Azusa stays, but she can't help glancing at the door every other minute just in case the rest of her Light Music Club senpais come in. She can't bear the thought of explaining to them what has happened.
"Mio-senpai?" She asks hesitantly. "We can just... forget about it, if you like?"
There's no response. Azusa's mouth twists. She definitely isn't going to cry. But then Mio's eyes blink once, twice, and just her neck moves so that she is looking down at Azusa's face.
"Not Yui?" She asks hopefully. Her voice is scratchy, barely-there.
"Huh?"
"It's not Yui you like really?" Mio asks. Her voice is so full of hope but Azusa can't lie to her now. It would undo everything, and she's worked so hard to get to the point of confessing. Once she has made a decision that's it.
"No," Azusa says firmly.
"Ritsu?" Mio persists. Azusa imagines going on a date with Ritsu. After ten seconds her head is swimming.
"No!"
"Mugi?"
It's just getting ridiculous now. Azusa more often than not feels like the oldest one of all of them when she's actually the youngest by a fair margin, and she can't really blame Mio for reacting like this, exactly, but she's getting impatient.
"I don't even know Mugi-senpai that well really..." She says lamely. So much for getting angry. Strangely enough Mio nods along with her.
"I would have assumed it would be Yui, after all," she says. "You're her Azu-nyan. And she's always hugging you."
Azusa feels her cheeks heat up.
"I don't even like when Yui-senpai does that!" She bellows. Which isn't exactly true. Yui-senpai isn't so bad after all, and hugging or being hugged makes Azusa feel warm, her head always swims a little. These days she just wishes it wasn't Yui-senpai doing the hugging.
Maybe it's the yelling that snaps Mio back to reality, or maybe it's the flustered pinkness of Azusa's face, but whatever it is Azusa notices Mio's mouth curving into a small, soft smile. She sits down on the couch and pats the seat beside her for Azusa to sit down too.
"I just don't get... why it's me," she says. She looks at Azusa earnestly for an answer.
Azusa has to look away from that intense face. Mio-senpai has forgotten to be scared completely in the face of needing to understand. It's things like that which Azusa likes - because Mio-senpai is hardworking (generally), and smart (although the others do tempt her into dumb things now and then. Azusa too), and she really cares about everyone in her quiet way.
"I don't know why either," Azusa says eventually, shrugging. "I don't think it matters why, it's not going to change how I feel."
There's a bit of a silence after that. To Azusa it seems to stretch on forever. Mio-senpai is obviously just thinking about how best to let her down gently.
"Well just... give me some time to think, okay?" Mio replies, smiling a bit too widely. "After all, Ritsu-"
Azusa looks up sharply at that. Perhaps she's the only one in the club to have ever wondered, but that's mainly because Yui-senpai is too easily distracted to notice, and Mugi-senpai is happy so long as everyone else is happy.
"-Ritsu is a tough person to be friends with, and she takes up a lot of my time!" Mio says. "I definitely wouldn't want to upset her, even if it was just because I had less time to spend with her."
"Ah, yes," Azusa nods in agreement, because Mio makes it sound like the end of the discussion. So that does mean there really is nothing between she and Ritsu after all?
"Shall we practice?" Mio asks, brushing off her hands on her skirt. Maybe her hands have been sweating. Azusa's definitely have. But suggesting practice is the one guaranteed way to get Azusa to stop thinking, stop worrying, and bounce into action.
They both have their guitar straps settled onto their shoulders, picks in hand ready to pluck the first strings-
Ritsu and Yui choose that moment to push open the doors to the clubroom in a mad rush and promptly trip, falling over one another and rolling into the room in a tangle of limbs and shrieks of surprised delight. Mugi appears behind them, tilting her head in consideration, and then jumps on top of them both, giggling as an audible "Ooof!" makes it way out of Ritsu's mouth.
Azusa glances over at Mio with a look on her face that she hopes quite pointedly says, 'this is one reason why I like you better than all of them'. Mio rolls her eyes at them all at first, but then she smiles fondly. Azusa can't help but realise she's doing exactly the same thing.
Later on, once they have had tea (Oolong) and cake (Lemon Meringue), and Azusa has her guitar firmly in her hands again as she strums the strings to warm up her fingers, she realises something.
Mio-senpai never did say she didn't like Azusa back. What Mio-senpai actually said was that she would need to carefully balance a relationship against Ritsu-senpai's demands on her attention. So what Mio-senpai actually meant about having to think was that she needs to think about how to talk to Ritsu about it, and about how she would portion out her time.
Which means she never said no to dating, or an, 'I don't like you back'. In fact, although Azusa has no previous experience to go on, she's pretty sure that what Mio said is practically a yes.
She stops her strumming mid-rhythm, throwing Yui completely off. But Azusa is too busy to notice the way Yui-senpai fumbles and whines, apologizing to Gitah for 'hurting' him. She glances round to look at Mio with new eyes, and Mio smiles back at her - a secret smile surely only meant for Azusa.
When Azusa thinks back to the afternoon practice that followed that moment she knows it is the absolute best she has ever played in her entire life.
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This entry was originally posted here on Dreamwidth. Comment there if you'd prefer!
Fandom: K-On!
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Mio/Azusa, Ritsu, Yui, Mugi, (Ui, Jun).
Word Count: 1144
Prompt: Mio/Azusa, Out of all of Azusa's sempais, Mio-sempai is the only one she really respects.
Notes: Originally posted here @
yuri_challenge
-
Bad enough that it takes Azusa two weeks to gather up the courage to tell Mio-senpai how she feels (although Ui is supportive all the way, smiling and ignoring the way Azusa squeaks in alarm when she thinks somebody might have overheard them talking about it, and Jun just smacks her on the shoulder, tells her she has good taste and wishes her luck, forgetting about it immediately afterwards to read her latest manga purchase), but the fact that Mio's response is to turn completely white and freeze up for five minutes is not the best of signs.
Azusa doesn't know whether to leave or try and talk Mio-senpai down even though the reply she is going to get from Mio-senpai after she has recovered is hardly likely to be a good one. Of course Azusa stays, but she can't help glancing at the door every other minute just in case the rest of her Light Music Club senpais come in. She can't bear the thought of explaining to them what has happened.
"Mio-senpai?" She asks hesitantly. "We can just... forget about it, if you like?"
There's no response. Azusa's mouth twists. She definitely isn't going to cry. But then Mio's eyes blink once, twice, and just her neck moves so that she is looking down at Azusa's face.
"Not Yui?" She asks hopefully. Her voice is scratchy, barely-there.
"Huh?"
"It's not Yui you like really?" Mio asks. Her voice is so full of hope but Azusa can't lie to her now. It would undo everything, and she's worked so hard to get to the point of confessing. Once she has made a decision that's it.
"No," Azusa says firmly.
"Ritsu?" Mio persists. Azusa imagines going on a date with Ritsu. After ten seconds her head is swimming.
"No!"
"Mugi?"
It's just getting ridiculous now. Azusa more often than not feels like the oldest one of all of them when she's actually the youngest by a fair margin, and she can't really blame Mio for reacting like this, exactly, but she's getting impatient.
"I don't even know Mugi-senpai that well really..." She says lamely. So much for getting angry. Strangely enough Mio nods along with her.
"I would have assumed it would be Yui, after all," she says. "You're her Azu-nyan. And she's always hugging you."
Azusa feels her cheeks heat up.
"I don't even like when Yui-senpai does that!" She bellows. Which isn't exactly true. Yui-senpai isn't so bad after all, and hugging or being hugged makes Azusa feel warm, her head always swims a little. These days she just wishes it wasn't Yui-senpai doing the hugging.
Maybe it's the yelling that snaps Mio back to reality, or maybe it's the flustered pinkness of Azusa's face, but whatever it is Azusa notices Mio's mouth curving into a small, soft smile. She sits down on the couch and pats the seat beside her for Azusa to sit down too.
"I just don't get... why it's me," she says. She looks at Azusa earnestly for an answer.
Azusa has to look away from that intense face. Mio-senpai has forgotten to be scared completely in the face of needing to understand. It's things like that which Azusa likes - because Mio-senpai is hardworking (generally), and smart (although the others do tempt her into dumb things now and then. Azusa too), and she really cares about everyone in her quiet way.
"I don't know why either," Azusa says eventually, shrugging. "I don't think it matters why, it's not going to change how I feel."
There's a bit of a silence after that. To Azusa it seems to stretch on forever. Mio-senpai is obviously just thinking about how best to let her down gently.
"Well just... give me some time to think, okay?" Mio replies, smiling a bit too widely. "After all, Ritsu-"
Azusa looks up sharply at that. Perhaps she's the only one in the club to have ever wondered, but that's mainly because Yui-senpai is too easily distracted to notice, and Mugi-senpai is happy so long as everyone else is happy.
"-Ritsu is a tough person to be friends with, and she takes up a lot of my time!" Mio says. "I definitely wouldn't want to upset her, even if it was just because I had less time to spend with her."
"Ah, yes," Azusa nods in agreement, because Mio makes it sound like the end of the discussion. So that does mean there really is nothing between she and Ritsu after all?
"Shall we practice?" Mio asks, brushing off her hands on her skirt. Maybe her hands have been sweating. Azusa's definitely have. But suggesting practice is the one guaranteed way to get Azusa to stop thinking, stop worrying, and bounce into action.
They both have their guitar straps settled onto their shoulders, picks in hand ready to pluck the first strings-
Ritsu and Yui choose that moment to push open the doors to the clubroom in a mad rush and promptly trip, falling over one another and rolling into the room in a tangle of limbs and shrieks of surprised delight. Mugi appears behind them, tilting her head in consideration, and then jumps on top of them both, giggling as an audible "Ooof!" makes it way out of Ritsu's mouth.
Azusa glances over at Mio with a look on her face that she hopes quite pointedly says, 'this is one reason why I like you better than all of them'. Mio rolls her eyes at them all at first, but then she smiles fondly. Azusa can't help but realise she's doing exactly the same thing.
Later on, once they have had tea (Oolong) and cake (Lemon Meringue), and Azusa has her guitar firmly in her hands again as she strums the strings to warm up her fingers, she realises something.
Mio-senpai never did say she didn't like Azusa back. What Mio-senpai actually said was that she would need to carefully balance a relationship against Ritsu-senpai's demands on her attention. So what Mio-senpai actually meant about having to think was that she needs to think about how to talk to Ritsu about it, and about how she would portion out her time.
Which means she never said no to dating, or an, 'I don't like you back'. In fact, although Azusa has no previous experience to go on, she's pretty sure that what Mio said is practically a yes.
She stops her strumming mid-rhythm, throwing Yui completely off. But Azusa is too busy to notice the way Yui-senpai fumbles and whines, apologizing to Gitah for 'hurting' him. She glances round to look at Mio with new eyes, and Mio smiles back at her - a secret smile surely only meant for Azusa.
When Azusa thinks back to the afternoon practice that followed that moment she knows it is the absolute best she has ever played in her entire life.
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