SouMako Week 2015 [Day 4: Musical Melody]: In which Makoto is a cellist/part-time exorcist desperately looking for a piano accompanist. Sousuke begrudgingly offers his help.
Written for SouMako Week 2015 | Day 4: Musical Melody
Fandom: Free! Iwatobi Swim Club
Genre: Orchestra!AU; fantasy/supernatural, romance
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Sousuke/Makoto
Summary: When his accompanist has to leave school for a family emergency, Tachibana Makoto – second year student at Musashino Academia Musicae majoring in cello performance, and part-time exorcist – scrambles to find another accompanist in time for his performance examination. He’d never expect to find himself asking for help from the always brooding but undeniably talented pianist Yamazaki Sousuke, who’s fighting an internal demon of his own.
A/N: This is part of an AU that I was working on with a friend, and it was originally meant to be a multi-chapter fic, but then neither of us are inspired or have time, so I’ve only ever written the first chapter, which I’ve still yet to post.
Music References/Inspirations:
1.) Title and concept inspired by “Symphonic Dreams”, by Sodagreen (「交響夢」-蘇打綠 ).
2.) “Icelandic Ballad”, by Tanya Anisimova
3.) “Romance en la majeur”, Op. 69, by Gabriel Fauré
Cold teal eyes glance up briefly to meet startled green as the man flips to the next page of his textbook, and Tachibana Makoto takes a small step back in alarm at the quiet hostility emitted from the man sitting before him.
He hasn’t looked away yet though, or fully ignored him, and Makoto takes that as a positive sign.
“U-um,” he stutters, fingers fidgeting around the notebooks he’s holding, and a stray lock of auburn hair falls into his eyes when he lowers his head in embarrassment. “Y-you’re Yamazaki-kun, right? Rin told me I should ask you myself, so –– ”