ELLO LOVLIES! Sai-chan here again, so the reason for me starting this one is that Angel-chan and I agreed that if she wrote a Virgil story I'd write one for Richie. I picked him because he's one of my faves. I mean REALLY, who DOESN'T love a techno geek? He's cute, funny, AND smart :3 so here's the first part. Of "Frozen Gears Are Only The Half Of It"

Btw, any one want a cookie? Bc if you review, you get one. X3

"talking"

"Japanese words"

~thoughts~

Chapter 1

The New Neighbors

The sound of the doorbell echoed threw the three story, baby blue with white trim house. A small girl with silver hair that came down to her shoulder blades ran down the stair-steps before she slid and hit the front door with a loud thump.

"I MENT TO DO THAT!... oh and I got the door!" her pale, almost white, blue eyes glinted hyper, before she got to her feet and pulled the door open to revile an African American family, a boy that seemed about her age, an older sister, and their dad. "HI! I'M Hikara!"

Her greeting was hyper, loud, and happy. She could feel the surprised looks that she was getting. The one that the small silver haired girl assumed was the dad seemed to chuckle, at this the small female tilted her head ever so slightly to the left in curiosity.

"Well hello to you too. I'm Robert Hawkins and these are my children, my son Virgil, and my Daughter Sharon. We're your new neighbors" he said. The small girls smiled wide at them.

"Come on in! My Dad's at work, but my mom's home! It's nice to meet you all!" she chimed happily, that is until there was a crash coming from the kitchen as she let them in, she closed the door behind them before turning. "MOM WE HAVE GUESTS!"

A woman about a head or two taller than her with black hair and dark brown eyes came down the stairs with a kind smile on her face, she was clearly Asian, though the girl didn't seem to hold the same looks. The woman laughed softly at her childish daughter.

"I can see that Kara."

There was another large crash from the kitchen. Hikara smiled at her mom and then at the Hawkins family.

"I'll be back in a sec" she then turned to the kitchen a firm frown on her face. "HIKARU I TOLD YOU TO STAY OFF THE KITCHEN TABLE WE EAT UP THERE BAKA!"

She shouted that as she walked toward the kitchen before kicking the door open and walking in. there was more shouting, more crashing, more yelling, and a loud thump.

"Sorry about Hikara, she's excited to be in a new town. I'm Miina Miyafuji. It's nice to meet you all." She then turned to Virgil and Sharon with a kind smile. "if you like you two can join the twins in the kitchen while you're father and I talk."

"No thanks. I'd rather stay out here" came Sharons calm reply. Virgil however got a look from Mr. Hawkins that said he'd better leave the room. As he began heading that way though, the words could be heard more clearly. There was another loud crash.

"HIKARU GET YOUR FOOT OUT OF MY BOWL OF RICE I WAS GOING TO EAT THAT!" came the voice of Hikara, which was shortly fallowed by a male voice.

"WELL THEN DON'T THROW THE SEAWEED AND PICKLED PLUMS AT ME! I WAS GOING TO EAT THOSE!" the more male voice had the same tone as Hikaras voice.

"WELL THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE THROWN THE CAN OF BEANS FROM THE PANTRY AT ME WHEN I WALKED INTO THE KITCHEN!" she replied angrily. However as he opened the kitchen door the sight that he saw and what he heard amazed him.

"GAH! YOU'RE IMPOSSIBLE! HEY! STOP IT! I SAID THAT FIRST! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M RELATED TO YOU!" there in the kitchen were two kids about his age, the first he recognized as Hikara, the second was a boy about the same age with the same silver hair and basic look to him, only his hair was styled in an almost emo seeming way, long in the front and layered slightly hanging heavily in his face and short and spiky in the back, however, unlike Hikaras pale and clouded almost white eyes, his were a pale electric blue. He was standing with one foot in what looked like a bowl of rice on the table, while Hikara stood at the head of the table glaring daggers at him, daggers he was GLAD to return.

Upon hearing the door open the two teens turned. Immediately Hikara smiled kindly and happily.

"Ello Virgil!" she greeted happily, the male of the pair just blinked at him blankly.

"…. Hikara why is there some random strange person in our new house?" he questioned slowly getting off the table. The small female silveret rolled her eyes.

"Baka, if you were even LISTENING you'd know that our new neighbors came to welcome us to the neighborhood." She replied glaring at who Virgil could only assume was her brother. "Virgil, this is my twin brother, Hikaru."

"Yo" was the only thing Hikaru responded with. The sister of the two turned to her brother.

"Karu-kun, you have pickled plum in your hair and a piece of seaweed on your shirt….." her face was blank as she said this.

"How would you know kara it's not like yo-oh, there is." The silver haired boy seemed surprised. Hikara smiled at Virgil.

"Would you like something to eat? We're having rice balls for dinner tonight!" she squealed happily while smiling wildly, before saying in a sing-song voice "it's free fooooooooood"

Virgil smiled a bit.

"Sure I wouldn't mind trying some but I'm not exactly sure what to do." Hikara however just smiled.

"Just give me a sec. I'll make you one!" she then skipped over to the stove top and took out some of the rice, holding it in her hand before going to another bowl, taking some purple things out and putting them in the rice and then shaping said rice. "I hope you don't mind pickled plums, they're the best in onigure, it makes them sweet tasting! I love them, but the seaweed ones are really good too!"

She then held out the triangle rice-thing to Virgil who stared at it a moment, before taking it and eating a small bite.

"hmm…. Not too bad."

"Oh sure Kara-chan, make food for him but not your own brother"

"Why would I make any for you? You stood in my rice bowl! I was going to eat that!" Hikara commented pouting a bit. Virgil had to admit these two were interesting.

" So where is your family from?" Virgil asked. Hikaru smiled a bit at this.

"Just moved from Japan. Dad got transferred to his job's division here in Dakota so we were all moved here." He explained. Hikara nodded.

"Mmhmm! I'm really excited, but in Japan we spoke a lot of English! What most people don't know is that it's the most popular second language in Japan! Sorry, I'm just REALLY excited! Actually while we're here, we're trying to speak English ALL the time! It's fun!" she giggled out happily, doing a random little spin. Suddenly her eyes lit up happily "OH! What school do you go to?"

Even Virgil found himself getting caught up in the small girls happiness. He smiled.

"Dakota Union High School"

"Epic, same with us" Hikaru commented "Maybe we'll all have some classes together."

"Well Karu-kun and I have the same classes, but that's all we know" Kara said happily

"That'd be cool" Virgil said. Hikaru sighed as he got to his feet with a kind smile.

"Well I'm going up to Kara and my room. Video games here I come" his smile turned more sly at this. Hikara looked at her brother blinking.

"…. Kaya?" she questioned almost wantingly.

"Well it's not like you can play or anything, but most likely. Either that or ATV-Off-Road Fury 3" Hikaru explained almost boredly. Virgil blinked at the twins confused.

"Why can't she play? Is it because it's just yours or something?" He asked. Hikara simply smiled.

"Nope! You'd never guess it unless I told you, but I'm not sure if I want to." she replied happily. Hikaru sighed.

"She's blind." He explained with a smirk at his sister. Hikara pouted.

"Not fair! I wanted to surprise him." She whined. Virgil blinked in shock.

"No way man! I don't believe it" he said sounding as shocked as he looked. Hikara giggled.

"Mmhmm, completely blind in both eyes since birth!" she replied happily, clearly not phased by that fact in anyway, shape, or form.

"then how do you get around so easily?" Virgil asked. Hikaru responded this time.

"Echolocation of sorts, she uses the sounds around her and uses the reverberations of sound waves that come back to her to make a mental map of what's around her." He explained. Kara nodded with a smile.

"Mmhmm. Actually, just us all talking gives me a good view of how the kitchen looks." She added happily. "anyways, you wanna come up to our room? There's lots of room"

"Kara-chan? Don't you still need to go play fetch with your cat?" Hikaru asked confused. Hikara nodded calmly.

"ya but I can do that while we're up there" she replied getting to her feet. Virgil blinked.

"Don't you mean Dog?" he asked not really getting it. Kara shook her head.

"No, her Somali cat fetches for exersize." Karu replied calmly. In the few minutes he'd been talking to the twins he'd already noticed that, even though they looked a lot alike, they were both very different. "anyways, if we're going up to our room, you wanna play on my PS2 with me. It's been a while since I've had someone to play with."

"You have a PS2 {{remember, when this was out a PS2 was new and hard to get}}" Virgil asked in disbelief. The male twin nodded.

"ya, you're welcome to join me while Kar plays fetch with her cat if you want" Hikaru offered with a bored shrug. Hikara was already making her way out the door to the stairs, soon joined by a long haired, yet smoother coated tabby cat, who was eager to fallow her up the stairs to the third floor, soon fallowed by the boys. Virgil turned to Hikaru.

"I'm going to guess that that's the cat then" he more stated than asked. Hikaru nodded.

"that's the one, watch this" Hikaru said as the twins, Virgil, and the cat walked into the hallway on the third floor.

"Aruk, may you please get our bedroom door?" Hikara asked the cat. The large long haired tabby walked on ahead of the three teens and up to the door at the end of the hall on the left wall, the only door on the left wall of the hallway. After finding the right door, the cat stood on his back paws, and pulled down on the door handle while leaning on the door, forcing it open. Virgil was surprised to say the least. The cat then turned to Kara. The small sliver haired female then reached her arm down and the cat ran and jumped up to her arm before moving to stand with two paws on each of her shoulders. She then walked into the bedroom petting the cat. "That's my boy Aruk-neko-kun."

"I've seen it all" Virgil managed to say as they walked into the twins bedroom. The room itself was pretty big. He now knew why there were no other doors on the left wall. Everything on the other side of that room was dedicated to the twins' bedroom. There were two beds next to one another with a walking space between them and two nightstands at the head of the beds, and a window. One bed was Green and blue and the other was a pastel version of the other bed and had poodle stuffed animals on it while the other was just plain. Past that they were just beds with a single pillow on each. The other half of the room was dedicated to activities and pass times. On one side of the activity part of the bedroom was a mini-library with shelves that most would only see at a store like Hastings, with several colorful books, and lots of thick books as well as a couple of mushroom chairs. The other part was a couple of computers and two tv's, one with a PS2 hooked up to it. All in all, it was a nice room with lots of space.

"We had to remodel to make it work for our family, but we closed off the other door and knocked out the wall that made this into two rooms, but it makes a GREAT room for us." Hikaru explained, noticing the slightly stunned expression Virgil wore. Hikaru moved over to one of the many mushroom chairs around the room, clearly the favored seating of the twins.

"I'm gonna go read Manga in my space Karu, and you better not have eaten any of my pocky either Onee-kun" she seemed to growl softly before vanishing among the bookshelf aisles on the other side of the room.

"I didn't Kar-chan" Her twin replied as if it were completely normal as he turned on the larger tv and started up the game system. He dug around in the drawer under the tv and pulled out a couple of PS2 controls. Hikaru plugged them in and tossed one to Virgil. "Don't mind Hikara. My sister can be hyper and weird at times, but she has her calm, serious side to her too. I know she seems like a bit of a goofball, but she's not that bad"

"You two seem pretty close for siblings" Virgil noted. Hikaru nodded as he got the game set up so that they could play.

"Hai, yes, we are. We're twins, two parts of one whole. We've been together since before birth and we'll be together for a long time more before we're forced to be apart. That's how it's always been and how it always will be." Hikaru explained "race mode or freestyle tricks mode? Anyways, ya, we're really close"

"race. I can tell."

"And I can hear you both" Came the female twins voice from the distant depths of the bookshelves, before a small jingle of a cat toy hitting the wall by the beds came, and the tabby cat dashed across the bedroom, picked up the blue and green cat toy ball, and dashed back, disappearing among the bookshelves again. Virgils pocket rang before a voice came from it.

"Virgil. Richie to Virgil, you there V-man?" came a voice. There was a giggle from the mass of books.

"better answer that 'V-man'" came Hikaras giggled voice. Virgil pulled his Shock-box out of his pocket with out taking his eyes off of the game as he continued to use his other hand to play the game.

"hey rich, what's up? I'm at my new neighbors' house" Virgil said.

"Nice walky-talky thing Virgil" Hikaru said with a small smile "your friend can come over if you want. I have another controller."

"I have dibs on answering the door!" Came Hikaras distant and slightly excited voice. Virgil and Hikaru looked at one another. Virgil was giving Hikaru an odd look before they turned back to the game.

"She likes to answer doors" Hikaru explained as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Virgil nodded in understanding, slowly getting used to the twins. He picked up the Shock-box and pushed the side button.

"Hey, Richie, you wanna come over? We're playing on the PS2" Virgil said as the race finished, he came in third.

"not bad for a first race." Hikaru said

"No way! A PS2? I'll be there in a sec, I'm just down the road. I was on my way to your house anyways" came the voice of the one the twins assumed to be Richie. The cat toy flew across the bedroom, shortly fallowed by the cat, which retrieved the ball and ran back to the mass of books. This went on for about another minute and a half, before the silver haired female emerged from the books as the two boys kept playing she walked to the bedroom door before turning to her cat.

"Aruk, stay, I'll be back in a second hun." She reached down and scratched behind the cats ears. The cat then sat down, seemingly understanding what the silver haired girl. She then opened the door just as the doorbell rang. "I'LL GET IT!"

There was thumping as Hikara ran down the stairs before that was a crash and a louder thump.

"I MENT TO DO THAT!" her voice rang threw the house.

"… I have to admit your sister can really put a smile on a persons face" Virgil said. Hikaru nodded in agreement as they kept playing.

With Hikara;

The small silver haired girl opened the door, rubbing her now sore head.

"note to self, I can NOT go threw doors….. at least not yet…" she muttered. The blond headed boy just blinked at her.

"uh…. Hi there." He said. She smiled at him.

"Hi! I'm Hikara, you must be Richie, Virgils friend." She replied cheerily.

"Ya, that's me," Richie answered.

"Come on in." she said, before closing the door behind him.

"MOM! WE'RE GONNA BE IN KARU AND MY ROOM!" Hikara yelled in Japanese to her mom.

"Alright Kara, just don't break anything, and remember, ENGLISH Hikara, not Japanese." Her mom replied in English. Hikara nodded.

"Hai, mama" Hikara replied just as cheery as ever. She turned and smiled at Richie, even if she couldn't see him. She did know however, he was about a head taller than her, had shortish hair, glasses, and was wearing a hoodie and jeans. "Virgil and Hikaru are upstairs, come on!"

She grabbed his hand and began leading the way. Er… Dragging him up the stairs to the room she shared with her male twin. She went to kick the door open, but it was pulled open instead, so she fell forward, letting Richie go, and falling flat on her face. Hikaru laughed from where he was standing after opening the door.

"That was AWESOME!" Hikaru laughed out. The smaller female twin then leapt at her brother tackling him to the ground, seemingly letting out a small growl.

"HIKARU MOM TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT ANYMORE!"

"SO worth it Hikara, SO worth it!" Hikaru laughed out in reply. Eventually Hikara realized she wasn't getting anywhere seeing as she wasn't as strong as her brother, and simply sat on his back pouting.

"Hiiiiiiiiiiikaaaruuuuu you're so mean!" Hikara whined. Virgil laughed a bit at the sight; he had to admit it was kind of funny to watch the two. Richie reached down to help Hikara up. Even though she was blind she reached up and took the offered hand, standing up, before her Silver and black long haired tabby leapt up and stood with his back paws on her left shoulder and his front paws on her right shoulder. The cat purred and touched his nose to her cheek before looking at Richie and mewing once. Hikara looked at her cat for a moment, before giggling for a second, and then smiling at Richie. "thanks for helping me out."

"uh… no problem." He replied blinking at her with a light blush to his cheeks. She giggled softly once more.

"well you boys have fun, I'm going to go read more manga." She said smiling before vanishing behind the bookshelves, talking to her cat that seemed to understand. "Let's go Aruk, we can play more fetch in a minute"

The cat mewed once, causing the girl to smile

"I know." The boys heard her say. Virgil and Hikaru were just watching Richie, before Virgil laughed a bit.

"Dude, Rich, close your mouth you're starting to drool" he laughed out. In no time the boys were all playing Video games, talking and joking like old friends. Every once in a while there would be a jingle, a cat dashing across the room, picking up the cat toy, and then running back into the depths of the tall bookshelves. Richie blinked at the cat for a second after a few races.

"… that is one weird cat"

"Yup."

"Hai."

SO much better than the first one I did. I know, I COMPLETELY changed the plot and everything, but a couple of things will be the same, anyways. Hope you all liked this one better.

I'll start rewriting the next one tomorrow. Anyways here ya go lovlies. Hope ya liked it!