Just a little spamfic I whipped up in all of five minutes.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this has been done before.

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"The Beginning"

Disclaimer:  I own nothing.   The copyright information is at the bottom.
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    The artist slumped to a sitting position on his "stage".  He wiped his brow and sighed.  Yet another performance done.  They drained him, but...he'd never give them up.  He'd done that before.  He knew what that led to.  He leaned his head back and closed his eyes.  He was drawn from his revere by a female voice.

    "Assistant head Tanaka?"  Tanaka opened his eyes and smiled at Yuki.

    "Yes?"

    "I was wondering...."  Her voice trailed off.

    "What is it?"

    "You know, we've been...working together for several weeks now, and I was curious about something...."  Yuki's voice trailed off again.

    Tanaka sat up a bit.  "What?  What is it?"

    "How did you get started playing?  Did you just decide one day to pick up a guitar?"

    Tanaka laughed softly to himself.  "My name wasn't always Tanaka, did you know that?"

    "What?  Why does that matter?"  Yuki asked in a puzzled voice.

    "Before I changed my name, I was named Naota."  He paused.  "As for how I started?  I suppose I started at a bridge, with a guitar and a girl named Haruko."
    
    Tanaka threw his head back and laughed, then spoke one more sentence.

    "And then things got...interesting."

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Author's Note:

    A 1961 Ebson EB-Zero guitar kicks ass.  "Little Busters" is addictive.  And FLCL is indescribable.

    Watched the whole series in one shot.  And when I saw the shot of Naota standing with the guitar slung across his back in the final episode (anyone who's seen it KNOWS the shot I'm talking about), the ONLY thing running through my mind was  "It's Black Heaven."  From there, this wrote itself.

    If anyone wants to do anything with this idea, feel free to.  I know I'll never do anything more on it.  (If you do, please drop me a line.  Great for my ego.  ^_^)

Ja Ne!
Slacker
(Who's hoping this thing is formatted correctly.  He's still not used to using Eudora.)

PS.  I'm still alive.  And I am working on the next chapter of "All the Small Things."

Black Heaven (A.K.A. Hard Rock Save the Space), belongs to Pioneer LDC.
FLCL (AKA FuriKuri)...belongs to Gainax, I believe.
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