A/N: HAHA!I do believe this is my first VOCALOID FANFIC! And what's this? It's Neru and Len! Also, I wanted to include Haku and the rest of the Vocaloid family, bonding. GASP! Hope you like :)
Neru's bright eyes were the only things shining in the darkened room. The curtain was drawn and her door was locked. She was not interested in what happened in the rest of the Vocaloid base after 11 o'clock. She also didn't care to know what phase the moon was in or whether the stars were out.
She rested on her bed, her eyes sometimes drooping, but always snapping open as the phone that rested on her pale stomach vibrated lightly, lighting up the name of whoever it was that was texting her. Most of the time it was Haku in the unintelligible sub-language she spoke when she was drunk, or Teto when she, like Neru, was too lazy to take the trip downstairs to have their conversation face to face.
Tonight however, it was the loud-mouthed Rin, whom Neru just barely tolerated. The next day the Vocaloid family would be putting on a Super Love Love concert, and in the Vocaloid household everyone was scrambling to get the last few lines of their love songs written down and rehearsed, the last of their custom outfits to be picked, and the final touches to be put on gifts that would be hidden under beds the next morning for good luck.
Even Neru's almost-deaf ears (from the amount of time she used her bright colored earbuds) could hear the bustling outside the door she almost always kept locked.
Rin had started out innocently asking what songs she was singing, the outfits she would be wearing, but Neru could tell that she was leading this somewhere when Rin tried coaxing her from her territory.
Y dou text sooooo much?
Y not?
Come out and play with every1 else!
They are NOT worth the time girly
:( Not even Len? (wink wink)
Neru?
Neru-chaaaaan...?
That's it coming after you! ;P
Neru had let the phone vibrate on the pillow next to her. Len-kun...yes...he was worth her time, but she couldn't show that. He would laugh at how red she would get in her cheeks and how cold her hands would get. Her eyebrows were too thick, her long hair was a mess, and she wasn't even the type of girl who cared about how she looked, except when it was around him...compared to the other Vocaloid girls, she faded in every way possible, from singing range, to personality.
She felt her colors being colored over by Miku's bright green, Rin's perfect yellow-oranges, Haku's drunken purple, Meiko's passionate red, Gumi's leafy green, Luka's easy pastels, and Teto's eccentric pink- all of them were drowning out her techy and her tacky, yellow. Len could see this easily, and he'd pick someone who would definitely be worth his time, someone who would give him the time, unlike her.
A few seconds later, Neru heard a soft knock on the door.
"Rin if that's you, I swear I'll-"
The door opened and Len walked in, complete with his full suited yellow banana pajamas. Neru couldn't really see him well in the dark, but he stood at her door cautiously.
Len's POV:
"Woah, it's dark in here" I switched on the light, but it seemed to blind Neru, so I turned it off quickly. I ran over to her window and opened the shutters instead, letting in the moonlight that Neru had viciously cut off. I wasn't very comfortable in the dark, I'm...kind of scared of it.
"Len..." she started before cutting herself off suddenly.
"Neru..." I could feel the heat on my cheeks and was glad I was in the darker portion of the room. I carefully put the screwdriver I had taken from the garage behind my back.
What was I doing here anyway? We stared at each other for a few moments before she sighed exasperatedly.
"WHAT are you doing in my room anyway? Do you know what time it is? Don't you have something else to do than bother me?" she flicked her long bangs upwards so I could make out her yellow eyes.
"Why wouldn't you answer the text?" I said awkwardly, my guard a bit thrown off by Neru's interrogating stance. It dawned on me how foolish this mission was.
"What text?" she asked, clearly annoyed.
"Am i worth your time?" Seeing her darkening expression I quickly added—
"I was in bed with Rin and watching her text you. You're a very different person when you text." I said, almost shyly. I'm not THAT good with girls. Girls might like me...but that doesn't mean I know how to woo a girl that I do like...I just want to know if she might feel the same way, you know?
Neru's POV:
"Umm..." I didn't know what to say, he was closer to me now, and the moon shone on his face, making it glow with promise.
"Please say yes." he whispered, moving closer to me. I snorted in disbelief and pushed myself as far back as I could against my wall. I cursed myself for wanting my bed against the wall, where I wouldn't fall off on a restless night...but there was no escape in moments like these. I suddenly felt myself getting weak inside, doubtful, unsure, and scared, like I always do when I get around him. Then, all that comes out my mouth are questions, and a biting sarcasm. That's what happens with everyone I care about. I won't trust them.
Nuetral POV:
She pushed her way past Len, fighting back tears. Why would he play with her like that, ESPECIALLY the day before their Love Love Concert? It was so painfully ironic. Her small body ushered all the force it could to find the door and rush out onto the staircase.
She rushed to Haku's room and jiggled with the door. It was open, meaning the silver-haired girl wasn't there. When Haku was there, she would drink bitter wine until she fell unconscious. At times like these, Neru would pick the lock and nurse her back to sanity until another bottle passed Haku's way.
Neru's POV:
Now, as I locked the door behind me, I looked at the strewn bottles and suddenly became angry. Haku was going to DIE if she kept drinking that crap all the time. She was going to leave ME, if she keeps doing this! That's why I can't trust people, with all the things they do, they can't help but leave you! I picked one half-empty bottle up and peered at the mixture of liquid inside, disgusted. I threw it against the wall where it shattered; the sound of the rushing wind made me excited. I threw another one, and another one, until the wall shone with residue wine and sweet sake as it dripped down, and the floor beneath it was a tall pile of glass. Len was pounding on the door now. Why'd the little playboy follow me?
Len's POV:
"Neru! What are you doing? Are you okay?" All I could hear was glass shattering. This was Haku's room...why was she breaking those bottles?
Neru's POV:
I scoured Haku's room for her hidden supply of liquor, I knew she had one. I needed to get it, and terminate it but I almost laughed out loud. What was this…destruction, going to do anyway? Did I really think Haku was going to stop the alcohol abuse just because I destroyed it? Well, if nothing else, Haku would need to save up a sum of money to get this much liquor again.
When I slid open Haku's closet I looked at all the bottles lined up neatly in their shelves. Alphabetical order, color coded…no one would expect this neatness from Haku. I tore a glance at the floor where Haku's clothes were piled in a corner messily, almost forgotten—ripped, damp, and reeking of booze. Exactly like Haku.
I pulled every bottle from the shelf and gathered them into my thin arms, against my heaving chest. I threw them out the window to the backyard. I watched them crash in a spray of glass and clear colored liquids. I relaxed and breathed in the night air, wincing softly every time I heard a bang on the light door. Len was still out there, what a waste of his time. He might as well have left me. I'm not leaving until I fixed Haku! Haku…
After five minutes of making sure I had gotten every bright bottle, I opened the door, my fingers bleeding slightly, but nothing that stung too much. Len jumped up and grabbed me by my shoulders.
Len's POV:
"What were you doing!" I shook her lightly. I looked past her expression and into the room to see the destroyed bottles. Haku was definitely going to kill someone tonight.
"She's...she's too... it needed to stop" she sniffled. I looked at her surprised. She tried to pull herself away but I held her to me.
"Neru...I'll help you clean that up."
"What makes you think I'll pick that up? She needs to learn her lesson. She's wasting away every day. Let her work for a change." she said calmly, but sarcasm frosted some of her words gently. I saw through it though. She was worried about Haku, and it was no wonder. Haku was the only one who could do nothing better than Neru could. Haku was a mother and sister to Neru…
"You're a good girl Neru, you should act like it more often." I tried to comfort her.
"You wretched little boy! Always making fun of me" she struggled against me.
"How? I wouldn't dare make fun of you! You'd go crazy on me!" Why was she so desperate? And since when did she have temper tantrums? She was never one to let her anger turn into whines.
"Leave me alone!" she cried.
The other Vocaloids started appearing in the doorways and down the hall, so I let her go gently.
"Neru...trust me." I pleaded. She didn't seem to understand that all I wanted was to understand her. She's always been that way though, dodging things the best way she could, the only way she seemed to know how.
"Just shut up, you jerk" she turned from me and ran to her room, her blonde hair waving behind her.
Neru's POV:
I slammed the door shut. I closed those stupid blinds and jumped into my bed, it was time to sleep anyway. I have to pretend nothing happened. Just another night. I covered myself with my thin yellow blankets and rolled around for a while. My fingers had stopped bleeding and my heart had slowed. Haku was going to kill me...Haku was going to kill me…and…I don't even want to think about Len.
Len's POV:
I still stood at the open door. Rin slipped next to me and wrapped her hand in mine.
"Len...what happened?" I had left her waiting for a reply text from Neru.
"I...I tried to talk to her, she ran here, destroyed the room, and then...ran out."I was still shocked by all the damage that little girl could do.
Neutral POV:
Kaito laughed suddenly at the damage in the room.
"She's worse than Teto on one of her rampages!" Teto, in her pink nightgown growled behind him. Kaito squealed before dashing back to his room. The other Vocaloids stayed on the scene and watched as Len let go of Rin and start cleaning up the bottles.
"Len! You don't have to do that!" Rin objected.
"Yeah, I think he does..." Miku smiled warmly and went to help him. The other Vocaloids entered the room one by one and helped with the scrubbing, mopping, and sweeping. They were all focused on protecting Neru and helping Haku. No one had wanted to say anything to the silver-haired girl when she lurched into the base sometimes, her shirt flung open, her eyes red and bleary, and her hands shaking and covered with bruises. Neru...in her fit of rage, had opened a door to the Vocaloid family. They needed to truly love each other, and love meant trusting each other. Haku had to trust them: they agreed with what Neru had done because it would be the best for her.