Requested by koizakuraa and YukinaMizuki

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"Okay everyone, that's it for now. Let's back after an hour!"

I clapped my hands as the members of uta no prince-sama finished their rehearsal for their 4th live. What on earth was I doing watching their rehearsal? My father found out about what happened to me because Suzumura-san and Toriumi-san told him. Shimono-kun told me not to get mad at them, which I couldn't do since I knew that they did it for my own good. What if that happened again, right?

I stopped volunteering in that piano school. My father didn't let me find a job or volunteer. And let me go with him to his works and meetings.

This morning I was with my father when Suzuki-san saw us and asked me to go with him to their rehearsal. Everyone wasn't that surprised, except for one, Shimono-kun. His face was so red and for some reason, he was fidgeting and became awkward when he saw me.

I sat on the front row watching their rehearsal. As expected from Pro seiyuu, they did a great job even though it was just a rehearsal.

"So how was it?" Shimono-kun asked me as he sat next to me, still showing his awkward face

"You are all great." I told him clapping my hand "Your voices are all magnifecent!"

"That's exaggerating" he laughed and drank water

"So what should we do?" Morikubo-san asked as they all sat down on stage

"Let's play hide and seek!" Out of nowhere Miyano-san suggested that made everyone surprised

"Hide and seek?"

"Where?"

"Here in Yokohama arena." Everyone who heard it thought that it was a crazy idea. True, since Yokohama arena was so big "I'm serious"

"Shouldn't you guys rest?" The staffs asked them but they laughed.

Miyano-san was crazy enough to have that idea, but the other casts were also crazy to said okay to it.

I was having fun watching them pointing each other to who should be the seeker.

"Then let's have (F/N) join us!" Shimono-kun shouted then looked at me "sorry, I shouted" he said lowering his voice

"Do not worry about it, but why did you say that?" I glared at him but he just grinned

"Oh okay then Shimono-kun is the seeker" Suzumura-san suggested that agreed by everyone

"Eh why?!" As he complained, he held my hand and the two of us went on the stage "let's do janken"

We played Janken and luckily I won first along with Suzuki-san. And to their surprised, Shimono-kun was next to win along with Taniyama-san, Aoi-san and Suwabe-san. They continued playing, and it was down to Terashima-san and Suzumura-san.

"Then the two of you are seekers" Suwabe-san suddenly said that agreed by others "since Yokohama Arena is big"

"Wait until what time and where?" Maeno-san curiously asked

"Time limit is 10 minutes before our rehearsal will start again. Then anywhere, except for second floor area" Miyano-san explained

"So it is me and Terashi?! You are joking!" Suzumura-san tried to complain but in the end they agreed. "Then we'll count to 100 now! Ichi... ni..."

I didn't know what to do since the last time I played this was when I was in high school.

"This way" Shimono-kun grabbed my hand as we ran towards the exit. "Now where should we hide? Yokohama arena is so big"

"True so big" I agreed to him "but I wonder where we should hide?"

We walked on the backstage and found a small space beside the sound system and it was dark

"But it is too loud here." Shimono-kun asked me but I think it was a good spot to hide

"Where are you?" Suzumura-san's voice echoed since he used a microphone to say it

The two of us hurriedly sat down, then closed the curtain. It was packed and we were sitting so close to each other

"Sorry, it is packed here and so dark" Shimono-kun whispered, "why were we in this kind of situation?"

"Hide and seek" I whispered back and when I looked at my side where Shimono-kun was sitting, my eyes just widened as I knew that something was on top my lips. It was smooth and wet, and I felt a good sensation when I felt it "Was that-?"

"S-sorry, I-I didn't know you will move your head. That was my l-l-" he was so nervous that he was stuttering. I could feel it, since I knew what it felt

"No, don't apologize. It was my fault and it was accident" I shyly told him. "Let's pretend it didn't happen"

"Pretend it didn't happen?" He asked me and then I felt him moved closer to me "then if it is not an accident, it is counted?" I felt him moved and I felt his breath coming closer to me

"Eh, what are you two doing?" the curtain moved and Suzumura-san's face showed up. We both hurriedly moved back and so embarrassed to what happened "I'll pretend I didn't see anything, but I will not pretend I didn't see you"

"We'll go" Shimono-kun was the first one who got out then helped me.

Suzumura-san patted his back as he left the two of us

"(F/N), I'm sorry about what I was about to do" he said then grinned at me "but, please don't pretend that it didn't happen"

"Shimono-kun, should I ask something?" He looked at me while tilting his head "do you like me?" I knew that what I asked would make it more awkward, but this time I would like to ask, I would like to hear it from him

"You are still here, you two?" Suzumura-san with Morikubo-san came, and once again I lost my chance to hear from him "let's go back, only Aoi-kun is left"

"Eh? You found the others already?!" We both asked and Suzumura-san made a peace sign

"They don't know how to play hide and seek!" He answered as we followed them. I didn't have a chance to hear his answer.

As time passed, the hide and seek game ended and they failed to see Aoi-kun.

He was actually hiding with their stylists and they let him wore a wig. Pretty convenient to be a beautiful man.

The rehearsal continued and my eyes just followed Shimono-kun.

It was that time, my father called me and I needed to go back to the agency. I stood up and went to Shimono-kun, since he was on stand-by

"Shimono-kun" I stood beside him and he was startled

"You surprised me"

"Sorry, I need to go back to the agency"

"Eh, wait, I'll-"

"No, I'm fine. I'll take a taxi. Once I got there I'll message you" I told him

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, do not worry, I'm fine"

"Everyone, (F/N)-chan is going now!" He shouted that made them stopped "sorry, I again shouted"

They wanted Shimono-kun to send me there but I insisted not to, since he was in the middle of work.

Instead he called a taxi for me and sent me off. We just said good bye to each other.

I sat down on the taxi and I couldn't help but smiled. Even though it was winter, I could feel so hot from what was happening to me. Happiness filled up my chest. I could feel that the next time we would see each other, our feelings would connect.

Perhaps I should at least asked him to send me but it was good idea that he didn't. At least, Shimono-kun wasn't involved in the messed that happened to me.

Because the next thing that happened to me, season already changed. Summer had just started.

I opened my eyes slowly and immediately saw a white ceiling. I roamed my eyes around, without moving my head at all. I was in a room and the curtain was blocking the light coming from the sun. I couldn't feel my lower body, and I felt that there were needles inserted on my body.

I saw my mother entered the room and she was holding a vase of flower. When she looked at me, I totally saw that the vase fall from her hand. Tears flowed on her eyes as she ran towards me. She hugged me, I knew she was crying, I knew she was saying something,

But I couldn't hear anything. Everything was muted. The sound of the breaking vase, the cry of my mother, the surprise voice of my father and nurses who came in after, none, I heard nothing.

Tears ran down on my cheeks as I slowly comprehend my situation and remembered what happened last,

I was on my way back to the agency when a bright light from the side blinded me. I got into accident.

Mom gave me a netbook so that I could type what I wanted to say. Once they gave it to me, there was a note explaining things. They explained what happened, and what could happen to me. Even though without explaining, I knew what my situation was.

Because of the accident, my ears were affected, especially my left ear on which I couldn't hear from my left ear anymore. The doctor said that I still could hear through my right ear, but not clear. I could still talk if I could hear through my right ear, but I couldn't control the volume of my voice. However, time to time I could hear nothing, and I would lose my balance. My lower body became numb because I was asleep for months.

Mom also told me that the accident was because of Kurosawa-san. He was the one who bumped the taxi I was riding on. I asked what happened to him, but she didn't bother to tell me. I got it from her reaction.

But the one I was surprised was when she told me that the cast of uta no prince-sama somehow felt responsible on what happened to me especially Shimono-kun and Suzuki-san. But they didn't do anything to feel responsible. They often visited me, mom said. Especially Shimono-kun who visited more than the others. Though recently because of their works, they sent flowers for me.

As another month passed, slowly I could hear a buzzing sound from my right ear. I told my parents not to tell anyone about my condition. I was afraid. I didn't want them to feel responsible to what happened to me. I didn't want them to feel pity towards me.

I had low motivation to move on. I regret lots of things that I knew I couldn't do now.

I should at least confess.

I should at least let him hear what I felt towards him in my voice.

I wanted to hear his voice.

But, I honestly forgetting things now.

I forgot the melody of the pieces I used to play.

The laughing sound of my parents.

The sound of the flowing river, pouring rain, whirling wind, and chirping birds.

The voice of the person I loved for the first time.

All of them, I already forgot.

I couldn't help but cry in pain, in agony, and I couldn't even know if I was crying loudly or not. I just wanted to end everything. My mother was just there to comfort me

Winter came, I finally got out of the hospital. They heard that I already woke up and few of my friends, and even the uta no prince-sama cast came to visit me. Shimono-kun too, he came with either Suzuki-san, Terashi-san, or all of them. He was always with someone.

But none of them knew that I lost my hearing. They kept on speaking, but I couldn't hear what they were saying. I just stayed quiet and pretended that I had a sore throat.

Smiling pitiful in front of them.

I could hear not just buzzing sound but a faint sound. Slowly as I spent my days silently, I totally forgot what were the sounds, voices, melody, everything. Time to time I could hear sound if it was loud enough, but I already lost my hope.

Though I knew that my parents still not.

My father brought me to the agency. I told him to bring me to the piano room. I was sitting on the wheelchair and I was just gazing outside.

From the reflection of the window, I knew that Shimono-kun entered the room. He was smiling widely and I just smiled back. He was saying something, but I couldn't hear it.

His eyes just widened and went towards me. It was then I realized that tears were running down on my cheeks. He wiped my tears. Shimono-kun was saying something. What was he saying? I wanted to hear his voice.

His facial expression changed. His mouth wasn't moving. He brought out his phone and I wondered what he was doing. It was then, he showed me the screen

"(F/N)-chan couldn't hear me, right?"

My eyes widened as I looked at his eyes. I slightly nodded and closed my eyes

He tapped me and again showed me "Sorry" I shook my head and on his phone I told him

"It is not your fault. Please, don't feel responsible" as if I had no choice, I typed on his phone my condition. I told him that I could still hear, through my right ear. I told him that I already lost my hope since I couldn't hear that much anymore

He suddenly pushed my wheelchair, and I didn't know where we would go. We went first to my father's office, and I was curious to what he told him. We went out of the agency and arrived at a wide open park. He left me on the middle of the park and left me his phone, though on the screen it said

"Once I waved at you, scroll down"

He walked and walked and he was so far from me. I saw him waved at me. I scrolled down and my eyes couldn't believe on what I just read.

"From there, shout what you wanted to say to me. Shout and think if I can hear you. Shout, (F/N)-chan! (^▽^)/!"

What I wanted to say? Shout it?

I took a deep breath, gathered all my courage and looked at him, even though he was so far away. Can he hear it? No that wasn't, should I be able to say it?

"I LOVE YOU SHIMONO HIRO!"

Did he hear it? No, first of all, was I able to say it?

I couldn't get from his reaction. He ran back towards me and he had a serious face

"I ALSO LOVE YOU, (F/N)-CHAN!"

I could hear him! Eh? What was going on?

Was I imagining things? But, just now

"You can hear me, right?" I could really hear him. I nodded and my tears just kept on falling "I am using my usual voice. My loud voice. For now on listen to me." he crouched down and smiled "Pretty convenient, right? My voice. Sorry, I will speak like this from now on" he wiped my tears "I heard your voice, loud and clear. I also love you."

The cold breeze touched my face as my whole body shivered because of the winter gust. But everything became hot as I felt Shimono-kun's lips on top of mine. It lasted long and my tears were overflowing. The sound of the pieces I played before, the laughing voices, everything I forgot before, their melody their sound, I could remember them, his voice echoed to my ear

"There's still hope, right?" he grinned and I smiled. Somehow a miracle just happened. "A while ago, I was telling you about my new single that will be released next year" my eyes widened and I couldn't help myself, I embraced him tightly. "So, don't lose hope. You will eventually hear everyone's voice. Even though in your situation, you still have importance and you can still do something. You are so important to me. And for now on, I will use my voice so you will be able to hear me."

As my lowest time, I lost hope. But the one who lighten up my way back was him. His voice still echoed on my ears as I stood up and move on with the new life he showed me. 

~The Voice of Shimono Hiro Part 2~Fin~

~To be Continued~Listen to me Hosoya Yoshimasa Part 1~