Prologue
Bringing in the Rain
This road stretches forever to our dreams
As our lives once and again come together
_Bringing in the Rain
Len Kagamine
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Outside, in the rain, the little girl waits. She's cold and soaked through and trembling in the rain. But she waits…and waits. Finally he comes, and he is soaking wet too. She stretches out her small pudgy hands to him, and he takes them, warming them with his breath. He smiles.
"Rin-chan should have waited inside." The little girl shakes her head and begins to cry.
"Onii-chan forgot about me…he forgot…" her words die away into coughs and her big brother scoops her into his arms.
"I didn't forget Rin-chan" he says smiling, pressing his cheek against hers.
"Don't cry Rin-chan, you're almost a first grader."
Rin doesn't stop pouting, but she feels a little better. She is almost a first grader, and once she's in first grade she can go to the same school as her Onii-chan, they can walk to school together everyday, Rin smiles. Her big brother takes her hand in his and begins to lead her home.
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"I'm sorry I ever married you!" the words explode out of the kitchen. Rin and her big brother stand hand in hand by the front door. They exchange glances, but neither one of them is surprised. Mother and Father are always fighting.
"This is YOUR fault Lily!" yells father,
"You always start fights around the children. Len is failing math now, and I have no doubt that it's because of you."
"Len." Rin whispers, and her brother gives her a playful smack on the head.
"That's Onii-chan to you." He says, towing her back out of the house.
"Do you want to go look for a four leaf clover?" Len asks. Rin looks up at him with bright eyes and nods, the big white bow in her hair bouncing like rabbit ears.
Len takes her down to the riverbank, where the clover grows in thick clusters. He watches quietly as she digs around frantically for a four leaf clover. Rin is too little to know what her parents fighting could mean; Rin is too little to understand things like divorce and separation. He balls his six-year-old hands into fists; he doesn't want his sister taken away from him.
Suddenly the little girl cries out and runs to her brother, clutching a four leaf clover in her hand. Len smiles and holds it up where the sun is peeking through the clouds.
"You can make a wish Rin." He says brightly. Rin takes the clover back and thinks for a long time.
"I want me and Onii-chan to be together forever." She says.
Rin's wish doesn't come true.
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Rin watches, teary eyed as her father and brother drive away in a moving truck. Her mother is happier than usual, and isn't paying attention to Rin at all. She doesn't understand how Rin can be sad, when she herself is so happy. She doesn't even notice when Rin leaves the house by herself to go and find another clover.
She picks her way along the soggy river bank, looking for her clover. She searches and searches and searches, but she comes up with nothing. With tears in her eyes, she begins to head back home. Her feet ache, her nose is numb with cold, but she doesn't notice. She swipes her arm over her eyes to wipe up the tears that are beginning to fall again. She shoves her cold hands into her pockets.
Suddenly, the sidewalk beneath her turns uneven, and she falls flat, bloodying her hands and knees. She lies there frozen for a second; waiting for her Onii-chan to hug her and tell her it's alright. But her Onii-chan is gone with her daddy. She wipes the tears from her eyes, smearing blood on her cheeks, and looks back to see what she tripped on. There is a large crack in the sidewalk, and crowing out of the crack is a single four-leaf clover.
A/N: I made Len one year older than Rin in this story, just because it works better with what I have planned for future chapters. I hope you like it! Please review and tell me what you think!