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"Shindo-san—"
"No, I'm serious, Tohma!"
Tohma placed the dishes in the sink, then removed his apron. "Shindo-san, you may recall that I was in a band once, and we never became bigger than the Beatles."
"You were huge, though. And this time you'd be working with Bad Luck. That means two composer geniuses."
Tohma couldn't help but snicker. Was Shuichi really this unsophisticated? He's so much like Ryuichi. Part virtuoso, part innocent waif.
"We could work together composing brilliant songs. We'll become legends! You wouldn't have to perform with us. Just compose behind the scenes. At least think about it, won't you? Please? Pretty please?"
Apparently he really was this simplistic. Tohma said nothing, but smiled as he left the kitchen and went into the music room on the other side of the living room. Shuichi remained sitting at the kitchen table wondering whether he should follow, but Tohma returned a few minutes later with a thin briefcase, which he set on the table.
"These are most of the songs I composed that were never recorded before Grasper broke up," he explained while opening the case. "A few others I keep in a separate place, because they're favorites of mine and I'd never let anyone record them but me. But you're welcome to go through these and see if there's anything there you'd consider 'brilliant'. Personally, I didn't. Now, are you ready to return to work?"
Shuichi stared at Tohma with glazed eyes and nodded. Tohma was giving him Grasper compositions? This was like...like going through the private papers of the emperor, or maybe seeing secret documents from—
"Shindo-san? Are you coming?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah." Shuichi rose from the table and followed Tohma out to the car with the briefcase, clutching it the way someone might hold an attaché case full of money.
TBC
"Shindo-san—"
"No, I'm serious, Tohma!"
Tohma placed the dishes in the sink, then removed his apron. "Shindo-san, you may recall that I was in a band once, and we never became bigger than the Beatles."
"You were huge, though. And this time you'd be working with Bad Luck. That means two composer geniuses."
Tohma couldn't help but snicker. Was Shuichi really this unsophisticated? He's so much like Ryuichi. Part virtuoso, part innocent waif.
"We could work together composing brilliant songs. We'll become legends! You wouldn't have to perform with us. Just compose behind the scenes. At least think about it, won't you? Please? Pretty please?"
Apparently he really was this simplistic. Tohma said nothing, but smiled as he left the kitchen and went into the music room on the other side of the living room. Shuichi remained sitting at the kitchen table wondering whether he should follow, but Tohma returned a few minutes later with a thin briefcase, which he set on the table.
"These are most of the songs I composed that were never recorded before Grasper broke up," he explained while opening the case. "A few others I keep in a separate place, because they're favorites of mine and I'd never let anyone record them but me. But you're welcome to go through these and see if there's anything there you'd consider 'brilliant'. Personally, I didn't. Now, are you ready to return to work?"
Shuichi stared at Tohma with glazed eyes and nodded. Tohma was giving him Grasper compositions? This was like...like going through the private papers of the emperor, or maybe seeing secret documents from—
"Shindo-san? Are you coming?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah." Shuichi rose from the table and followed Tohma out to the car with the briefcase, clutching it the way someone might hold an attaché case full of money.
TBC
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Date: 2013-09-10 05:23 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-09-10 08:19 pm (UTC)From:I suspect that Tohma's going to realize that Shuichi's more like Ryuichi than he thought, and you know how he loves taking care of people. There's no one on earth who needs taking care of more than Shuichi, and Eiri did such a crummy job of it. But I'm thinking Eiri will do at least one nice thing for Shu before it's over. And now I'm rambling about the plot again. D'oh! Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how all this turns out. Even I don't know just yet!