How it works
Summary: "You're real, I know you are, tell them that you are! Tell them so I can have my life back!" He shook his head apologetically. "I'm sorry, but that's not how it works." Loosely based on iNSaNiTY.
I AM SO SORRY. I JUST- THIS JUST- THEY JUST-
Kaito x Miki needed more love. I have no idea what you're talking about.
"I'm not crazy!" Miki screamed, trying to thrash her way out of her cousin's arms. "Piko let go of me!" she kept screaming as he pulled her closer to him, not afraid to be scratched by her long nails. He had a nonchalant look on his face as he held the girl close to him, as her parents were busy planning her future with a man wearing glasses. She glared at all of them, spitting out defensive remarks as they all ignored her and sat at the couches, talking as if she wasn't there. The white-haired boy merely dragged her back a foot whenever she made an inch of advancement.
She wasn't going to let them take her away.
She wasn't about to lose her home just because of a misunderstanding. There was no way she was going to let them do that. No freaking way. She was being wronged! That man with the glasses was lying to her beloved parents, using their paranoia against her! It was bad enough that her parents believed the lies that stranger was telling them, but he had to go beyond that and smooth talk her cousin into restraining her? What kind of world was she in? She wanted out. She wanted out!
"Don't believe him! Mom! Dad!" she cried, feeling her throat giving out. Her eyes were misty with tears and no matter how much she tried to slip her arms out from under his hold.
"Now, Mr. and Mrs. Furukawa, I think that your Miki will fully enjoy our Vocaloid Institute," the man informed with a mysterious smile as he adjusted his glasses. His eyes seemed to have that gleam of mischief that rubbed Miki the wrong way, especially with how he slipped a glance at her and how a smirk danced on his lips for a split second. Her blood boiled at the sight of him.
"Are you sure that you'll help our Miki?" her mother questioned, fearing the decision. Miki felt some hope swell in her heart when her mother stopped to disagree. A smile was forming on her lips, full of glee that she was seeing the light. She wasn't crazy! There was no way she was!
The man gave a gentle smile, winning over her parents and that's when the smile died on her lips. "At our Institute, we take care of all of our guests as if they're family. I'll be sure to let you see Miki any time you want, at least when the boss let's me let you in." The tone in his voice didn't evade Miki's speculative nature, but it did avoid any suspicion from the rest of her family. Unfortunately, for Miki, her parents breathed in relief at this and leafed through the papers once more, detailing the life at Vocaloid Institute.
"No! Mom! Don't! Please!" she wailed, feeling her world falling apart. Her ears started buzzing, as if the reality she knew it was cracking apart the moment her parents whispered to each other with agreement dazzling their eyes. No…Please no… Dear God…no…
Then the scene flashed in her eyes, engulfing her in pure horror. Her heart was racing, erasing the sounds and voices of her parents. The muttering of her cousin asking her if she was alright and the sympathetic tone of the man in the business suit sitting directly across her parents. And then…the worst scene of all, the sight of her mother picking up a pen, and signing the dreadful line at the bottom.
Her life was now in the hands of people who didn't care about her…
…and her own parents gave it away.
"Miki?" Piko's voice questioned as she felt her energy drained. Her body felt heavy, her eyes were blurred with heavy tears and soon she broke down.
"I'm not crazy… He's real… He's real!" she babbled, falling to her knees and bringing her cousin down with her.
She kept repeating the same thing, even after hearing papers drop to the floor and the sound of her parents running to her. She could feel Piko's arms retract from hers and she fell down to the floor, bawling her eyes out. Her parents betrayed her, her cousin betrayed her and now…now…
"Miki, it's okay." She looked up, wiping away the overflow of tears to glare at the source of the voice. The man who deceived her parents, who finagled his way to their home, and wrecked it to a torn family and a broken girl stood there with a faux concerned face. He was a devil in a business suit and Miki wanted nothing more than to gorge those deceitful eyes from his skull. He's destroying her life. He's destroying it with pleasure. He's destroying it because he can. "We'll take good care of you, I promise."
She undeniably doubted it.
There was actually more to this chapter, about two more pages to be exact. I thought this much would perfectly introduce the idea.
So I've been writing fics that are based on songs and iNSaNiTY is one of my favorite ones (because I mean, c'mon, I never really listened to one of Miki or Kaito's songs so this was pretty amazing), so I wanted to write one. I've seen the number of people write remakes, but this one has a twist. You'll see in the next chapter, that's when the plot gets rolling.
How many chapters do you want this to be? (Please don't say something huge like twenty. I'll probably only get up to ten or so chapters.)
Fun facts:
-Originally, this was going to be a story of Miki being a lost soldier, still consumed by war, and Kaito being a doctor who took her in.
-This wasn't beta-read.
-When my brother saw me writing this he commented, "Don't you have enough stories going on?" to which I blankly replied, "Sure do."
-Iroha was going to be her cousin who held her back instead of Piko.
~Ventus
