Chapter 1: CrazySaying that you will keep something forever, may never ensue for you don't know what will happen in the future
I groaned hard as I heard another tock from the ticking device that was silently hung near the fireplace of the room. I couldn't help but to grunt furiously as I heard the same sound, piercing my ears from time to time; such resonance that made me grit my teeth relentlessly out of rage. But why am I pushing my anger towards the stupid timepiece that just does its work? Maybe that's because I've been sitting here like a derp for almost three hours now!
I didn't wake up so early just to sit here and hell knows how annoying my situation at this point doing nothing. Well, I didn't exactly wake up just to do nothing; it's actually our first day in our new school, so I have no choice but to pull myself out of the bed in an ungodly hour. Who knows that I'll end up like this? If I only knew that this would happen, I would had just probably woke up at seven-thirty in the morning, however there's no more sense of musing about that. I'm already here, no choice. But I wonder, what on earth is taking her so long like three hours!? Yeah. Her. My twin sister, Rui. She's the one who'd asked me to transfer schools and was so excited yesterday night for this day to come but it'd end up with me waiting for her for 180 minutes! That's too lengthy for a wait. Argh! Forget it! I crossed my arms over my chest as I sighed. Why girls do took a heavenly long time just to fix their selves for school? I couldn't understand them. Okay, slash that, I wouldn't understand them.
I mean it. I had never been close to any female specie here on earth, part from my mom and twin sister, of course; however, despite the fact that I am able to live for my whole fourteen years on earth with girls, seriously, I couldn't just get them. They're too flamboyant and err—you know. But again, I'm a guy so obviously, I wouldn't get what's running on their mind. Man and woman have different mindsets which were far too distant from each other. I sighed again with that.
Some trickling minutes passed and my patience was starting to kill me. I'd noticed the remote held in the side table of the living room. I grabbed it immediately and switch the tv on to hunt some entertainment but it was neither amusing nor mind grabbing. It was a total waste of time. I wailed before I brusquely threw the damn contrivance out of my sight, when suddenly, the door of her room flung open. She stood before it right away. At last… Thank god…She's done. I gave her a glance before yielding off a shallow sigh. She did really fix herself for school, eh? Maybe she was really that excited.
I closed my eyes and started to mount from my seat to look at her once again whilst she reluctantly smiled at me. "Hey, Rei… Sorry if I keep you waiting. Promise, it'd never happen again" I just nod at her apology and aversely answered whilst grabbing my bag. "It's okay. No need for apologies" Well, that's evasive; however I'm the guy here so as the law of mankind states, I must be a 'gentleman' even if it's a fraud. She grinned back before she pulled my left arm. "Wait…" Her right hand tugged on my folded sleeve, rested on my elbow. She's asking for attention. "Hmm?" Okay…What is it again? When I faced her, I saw how she beamed a bright smile at me before she twirled around and grinned. "How do I look?" I scanned her from top to toe before I hesitantly slithered around, blushing hard. "Y-You look good at it…" After those words came out from my mouth, I felt her arm clasped over my right one. "Happy you liked it!" After that we headed off to the bus station, leaving our home bare.
I ogled at my wrist watch whilst walking towards the station. The larger hand was set on the ninetieth degree, whilst the smaller hand rested on the one hundred eightieth degrees. There is no need for a second thought, it was already confirmed that we were already late for our first class. Nevertheless, I don't really care. It's much more fun having my sis than lending an ear to the boring lesson of my teacher.
We arrived at the bus stop several minutes after I checked the time. I raucously tapped my right foot whilst waiting there. It was sure that the school bus had already passed this station around eight this morning, so there is no other choice for us but to commute on a public bus. Around nine-thirty, a bus did stop in front of us and we immediately slipped inside to look for a good seat once its door had opened. We were able to accommodate the cottoned bench located amidst the vehicle. I knew that the trip would be definitely boring so I placed my headphone into my ear and listen to the music selected on my playlist. When I happen to tilt my head in the middle of the trip, I've noticed Rui's expression of great excitement. I just wonder what kind of students we will meet at that institute at the time we arrived there.
Couple of minutes had passed. I opened my eyes, learning that I loathly fell as sleep whilst we were on board. I let out a reluctant yawn before I rolled my eyes to check on my twin who was currently looking behind the vehicle's window, finding some amusement. I let a slight smirk be drawn in the corner of my lips before I quickly took them back when Rui had swung her eyes to my direction. She slightly chuckle when I swiftly glance off, trying to avoid looking at her as a blush suddenly crept across my cheeks. "Don't worry Rei. We're almost there." I closed my eyes and mind her comment. It's not that I'm bored why I suddenly did that. It's just I couldn't face you with a face glowing red. But why am I blushing over my twin? Maybe that's because I like her. It's not like of a normal 'like'. It is something that a sibling shouldn't felt for his/her twin. Yes, you can say that I'm utterly stupid with this heavy load in my chest. It is queer but this is how it felt and to tell the fact, it is too much to carry inside. Dammit.
I had really forgotten the exact time when I had started to be drawn for my own twin, Rui. Every time I looked at her, an awkward moment like of deafening silence pops out and the fact drives me crazy to the hilt. Nonetheless, as time came by, thankfully, I had managed to suppress this odd feeling and go to our normal flow as siblings; still, there was the glint of me, being over protective of her. Despite of this factor, I had never forced her to be unfriendly like I was. She is usually cheerful and even had a best friend who was her pen pal, the main thing why we're here, enrolling to a new school where the girl who she befriended was studying.
On the other hand, I didn't like the thing about the school. I really don't want to enroll there if it's just not for Rui. According to what I had searched in the net, the certain institute was known for selecting only genuinely music talented youths. Well, I really don't have a problem about the musical thing. Rui and I could fairly sing well and both of us could play the violin, including the piano. The only obstruction here was the students. Because of the fact that the school, named Crypton Vocaloid Academy, was excellent enough to be a known as a prestigious conservatory, definitely, there were a lot of activities here that concerns teamwork and the problem with that is we don't go well with the crowd. What's worst is it can make Rui shift into her alter ego who was scary enough to make me nervous. I just hope that time wouldn't come.
We arrived at the front gate of the school exactly ten in the morning. My eyes couldn't stand but to pore over the huge buildings that surrounded us. I knew that we came from a prestigious school as well, but this academy is set to the next level. Everything was so mind grabbing and eye catching. No wonder why many do dreamt to study here. Okay. Now ignore the place. It's not the reason why you're here…
Once we entered the facility, I found myself scrutinizing the students studying there. Like of what I had expected, they were numerous yet were surely different from one another. Some were darting their eyes towards us, probably realizing that we were new to the school. I sent them a glare as irritation started to stroke me and hissed once they withdraw their respective stares. Hnn… better to ignore them. Placing both of my hands inside my pocket, I've decided to get rid of my attention from the certain strangers and just continue to our way.
"This academy is surely enormous unlike of what I had expected. What do you think Rei?" Rui suddenly mused and looked at me. I gave the edifice a momentary glance before I let out a blasé sigh. "Yeah…moreover, students here were more irritating than the other one we had attended first" my guileless answer came. Well, I do like the conservatory's structure but that doesn't mean that its tyros were included. Hell, they do annoy me with their nonstop blabbing making them resemble stupid bees. They're crazy. I saw my sister giggled from the corner of my eyes. "Don't worry…we could adjust…somehow" she said and continues. "Wonder where she is…" she silently muttered. Hn. How on earth could I easily adapt to a place like this? However, even if I growl like an angry bull here, nothing would happen cause this is all for my twin, right?...so it'd really end with me bearing with the situation, huh? Oh well…
I couldn't remember how, but I happen to refrain from walking when I saw a glimpse of this grand piano held on a room. It was silently sleeping there with no one and I couldn't understand why my eyes couldn't let go from gazing at the certain instrument. It was like of a magnet that forces my eyes to just stare at them. Though no one is playing, I could hear a melancholic melody from it, wrapping my hands, pulling me towards the instrument's direction. The urge was there. I kinda feel like playing the piano… because it looks lonely being alone.
"Get out of the way!"
That scream did startle me. Right away, I brought myself back to reality and called for my twin.
"Ru-? Rui?"
Oh great! She had gone out of my sight! Damn, I shouldn't have stopped. Now my sister is missing! This is no good. We've been separated. God, what should I do!? This had never happened before. No. Don't panic. You should stay calm and collected. Breathe in Rei, and remember everything she had told you before you had totally forgot her… Wait! No...No… forgot isn't the right word. There's no way in hell I could forget my precious twin! Lost a sight would be a better term. Yeah, that's it; I had lost a sight of her… Now, recollect everything… Remember… Remember… ARGH! I couldn't remember anything she had told me right before she was gone! Dammit! What should I do!?
I kept mussing and mulling over thoughts when I heard that rowdy screech again.
"Hey! I told you to move out!"
Okay… He's already getting to my nerves. I'm trying to control my patience here but that voice makes my ears twitched. That voice… Is making my eardrums… be deteriorated …
" SHUT IT Y-! UWAH!"
I was dumbfounded when I felt a tight clamp holding my right wrist stringently. The force was sternly dragging me into nowhere. I frowned at the action and act to give a bubble but the entity that was lagging me sped up on his feet, running down the hallways.
"What the hell are you doing, you jerk!?" I snapped at the guy who was pulling me as hell. But then, I receive no reply.
I attempted to slip my wrist off his hand but he was too damn strong. He really pisses me. I hate it. I then tried to clear my vision so I could find a way of escape but I found something else. I saw this very frail figure pulling me so vigorously, running into nowhere. Looking at his physical attributes, I could say that the entity was a girl, but I came up with the conclusion that he is a boy since he wears a male's uniform and might be just feminine looking. I did also notice his hair which was shining blonde in contrast with the blue vest that he was wearing.
...!
Wait! What am I doing? Stop poring over the stupid kid! Think of a way of escape. So he is frail… And could be damaged easily. Good…
I extend my hands and grabbed his wrist so tight that his veins might be torn apart of the force being used. However, it was useless… He's still not letting go… yet this time, I receive a reply from him.
" Ghah~! Loosen your grip, you deaf! I told you to move but you didn't pay attention, so if you don't want to get killed by the girls behind us, run as faster as you can!" Huh? What girls? I frowned at that and took a peep on what's at our rear. Just when I was startled to found tons of women running behind, trying to catch him, well maybe, now, it would include me.
I grunt at the scene and glowered at the guy ahead of me.
"Well hell, I was looking for my twin when you just pop up like a fucking rat, bastard, and why on earth are they trying to apprehend you!? Did you toy with them? We'll if you were that of a nuts being a womanizer, don't drag me with that mucky brains and ruins of yours!" In that moment, I pulled off from his hold and gave him a glare but when he saw the female students were nearing us, he once again locked his hand onto my wrist.
"Are you out of your mind!? Let go of me, you manic culprit!" I managed to exclaim more before he gave his retort.
"Shut up! I am not the kind of guy you were snitching about. If I am not mistaken, you're a newbie here. Now listen, those frantically lunatic girls behind us were some of my fans who were too aggressive to have my signature! I had enough of them so I break away and dash off when they happen to see me being alone without my sis! And that's how I did end up here, dragging you. So zip your big mouth if you want to live!"
Hell, it's true that I'd still want to throw some cautious words back to the idiot brainless blonde but I've realized that nothing would be changed and the only thing to do is to just sped up my sprint and look for a place of escape, when suddenly-
"Whoah!" we gasped in unison when something yanked us onto somewhere.
"Argh! That hurts". I rubbed my head which had gone a bit painful from the impact. When I gained back my senses and pulled myself together, I saw a figure of a man with blue hair, wearing an ocean blue scheme muffler. Examining the new guy, there is no doubt that he is from the high school division with his uniform and would probably in his senior year already since he looks like that mature enough to be in a university.
"Shh" he whispered to us while observing the crowd that we had caught. Now, who on earth is this guy who had just pop in nowhere? God, what kind of academy had we entered? I face palmed at that.
And in this heavenly moment, I saw the hysterical blonde burst out with great happiness in the corner of my eye. The frail guy's eyes were all over glued on the new comer, like he had seen an angel decent from the firmament. I let howl be emitted in my lips.
"K-Kaito-nii!" he woefully cheered as he felt teary and grabbed the man on his arms for a tight embrace. Tch! How pathetic! Crap this two gremlins! I'll slice them out of my sight if I ran out of mercy and decent soul. Grat, just vocalize more and we'll be caught again. TRASH.
The bluenette smiled and told us to keep quiet. Well hell. How on earth could he still manage to smile after we've been caught to that deadly catastrophe!? I shoved my head, starring to an empty space, trying to cool my head off from the daft mindsets of the two weirdoes. No wonder how close their friendship seemed to be. Hare-brained walking disasters.
When the bluenette knew the coast was clear, he gave a signal to the two of us that it was already safe to stand.
I stood before the midget blonde. Well 'midget' coz he's unbelievably small, frail and top of it, a bit effeminate. I stretched out my numbed legs and dusted off my clothes from both tiny leaves and dirt. The two soon to follow and took a peep at the surroundings, checking if it's really alright to come out already. Once they had confirmed it, the two let out a shallow sigh and smiled at each other.
"Kaito-nii! I thought it was already my end there. Thanks for helping us" This stupid blonde's squeals really made my patience short to the hilt. There's nothing to be thanked off. I should better make a distance from these weirdoes before I burst out of anger.
"If you're finish with your drama, I'll be going now. Well thanks for the nuisance… bastard." I walked away with this feeling of stinging eyes stabbed onto me. Tch. I don't care.
LEN no P.O.V
"Just let it go Len" Kaito-nii told me and smiled. "He might be in a bad mood so he's kinda brusque" he added and ruffled my hair.
I sighed and smiled back at him before I took my phone out of its sheath. Still haven't got any calls from her, not even a text message. I wonder where she had gone. Erm. Well maybe she's already with her foreign friend, huh? I heard that the friend of hers will start here today. I wonder what does she looks like.
In a moment, I felt my cheeks being poked. It hurt a bit. I looked at Kaito-nii who was just gliding with his grin as I continue to stare at him in an annoyed manner.
He just chuckled, making me a bit pissed. "Sorry, I didn't mean to harm you" he apologized and grinned after. I glanced at him, feigning ignorance. "But you did…"
All of a sudden, he grabbed my cheeks and pinched it.
"Hey!" I clamored over out of displease.
" Just making you sense the real world. Haha. Your too hot headed earlier. So by the way, today was the arrival of your twin's oversea friend, right? I wonder what she look like. I'm quite excited to meet her" Kaito-nii inserted the topic as he pulled his hand away from my face. Thankfully.
"And where did you learn that, huh?" I scratched my head and adjusted my position to give my tired and worn out muscles some stretches.
"Ah. Miku told me. She said that Teto had informed her about it."
Of course. Why didn't I have thought of that? Well basically, aside from the gossip queen, Neru, Teto had been also a frequent source of gossip.
"Why don't we look for them?" I asked Kaito-nii who just nodded instantly at my suggestion.
"Good idea! " He replied after the nod and we started to walk away from that place.
REI no P.O.V
Ten minutes more and it'll be noon. I still hadn't found Rui. Thanks to that bastard, I have to skip my lunch to search for my twin. That freakin' walking jinx. Hn. These thoughts kept on circulating on my mind as my energy was starting to be dissolved from the tiredness my body was going through.
After several minutes, at last I saw my sister's figure sitting on one of the school café's table. As I ran towards her, I've noticed that she was talking to someone. Hmm…
"Rui!" I hollered to catch her attention which did easily registered to her mind.
She stood up and kinda bid an excuse to the person she was speaking with. Rui ran towards me and grabbed my hand, pulling me to the table where she was sitting.
Once we got there, she patted the seat beside her, giving a sign for me to settle there.
"Oh. This is my twin, Rei." Rui splattered to the girl adjacent to us.
"So you're Rei. Rui had always mentioned you in her letters. Well, it was really true that you were good looking" the little woman cocked and smiled at me.
" Hn. I see. And for you, Rui, where on earth had you been!? I was looking for you all over the place." I couldn't take my irritation and scoffed those words to her.
Like of what she'd always do, Rui scratched her head and looked at me.
"See, when we were strolling around, I found you endearingly attracted to a room with musical instruments, so I've decided to walk a bit far to see more. Then suddenly, Rin popped up and introduced herself. Once we were together, we had decided to go back from where I had left you, but you were gone. I thought you were still strolling so I've decided to just call you, but it seemed that it's no need anymore" Rui explained her words. Quite confused of the story, I set it aside and lay back to the foamed chair of the café.
"Oh yeah, I must introduce myself to you properly. My name is Rin Kagamine and I'm a student here in the middle school division. I'm in my second year now. I also have a younger twin brother who was enormously popular here in school, especially with the girls. We look identical though we were fraternal twin. By the way, where had you gone lately, we were searching for you? Rui was quite worried." Rui's pen pal gave those words in one drop. Remembering what happened lately made my eyes twitched in rage and burn inside with so much anger.
"I've been dragged by a walking or what should I say 'running' disaster out of the hallway." The only words came to my mouth for my blood was boiling in deadly heat.
"My… That's awful. Speaking of running, I wonder where Len could be. Hope that he's still not running from his fans" running away from fans? Hmm…
I stir the coffee right in front of me as I muse on that one. So her brother is popular here.
"And how come you weren't being chased by those fans of yours, or the thing is you don't actually have one?" I asked her that surprised Rui a bit since I am not really that friendly or sociable at the least. The truth is I'm sensing something eerie here.
The blonde giggled first before she sipped some of her tea and looked at me. "Well, I am also popular, but I know how to handle my fans unlike my twin. Well to be honest, he had more fans than I have. Maybe it's because of his shouta and cute appearance. Many who were also new here always had mistaken him as a girl because of his feminine features." Shouta appearance. Feminine features. I think I know who 'he' was.
"Well. What do you know? Speakin' of the devil, here comes my brother" The girl stood from her feet and walk towards a blonde guy who was approaching. When I happen to see her twin's figure clearly, my eyes started to sting and my fists were curled up into a tight clench. Like what I had thought of earlier. It was the damn bean bastard.
The two walked towards our table together and Rin started to introduce her hysterical twin, well to my dismay and smear rage which I've tried to conceal.
"Hey guys. This is my younger twin, Len" She commenced and looked back at her brother. " So Len, these were the Kagene twins. My pen pal is the elder half, Rui" Len looked at her and plastered an irritating grin into his face.
"Hi there! I'm Len. Rinny always told me lots of things about you. Like she had said before, you're really pretty." Tch. Trying to be a gentleman eh…Let's just see…
I stare at Rui for the moment and watch her as she thanked the bastard for his complement.
"And this is her younger twin brother, Rei" Rin pointed me out. Once the bastard's eyes and mine were locked together, there was an obvious hint of seethe and wrath carved on it. Both of our orbs were twitching and burning in fumes. Fangs were sewed into a fine churned grit and hands were folded into a taut clasp.
"Y-YOU ASSHOLE" that were the only words that came out of our mouth as we gave each other a fierce glare.
"What are you doing here, you idiot!?" he started and grabbed my collar.
"I'm in a school what do you think I am doing here… Short-brain" I stabbed back that made him glower to my delight.
"Do not call me by that, you freak!" the idiot snapped which I answered with a yawn.
I grasp at his wrist that grappled my collar and forcefully move it off. "Oh what do you know, you're not only manic but also short tempered..."
The figure before me raised his feet to make our eye level in equal state and pushed his face nearer into mine; maybe centimeters were the only gap.
"Zip it with your derision mindset, you creep" He sneered back, now gritting his teeth with greater force.
I just mocked, trying to make him drove like crazy with his rage. "My my… Look how very red the poor little blonde is. Oh yeah. What do they call you again? Ah~ is that 'shouta'? Am I right?" I spat off an evil smirk and scoffed at his expression; his face is glowing red because of anger, eyes were hot red, steaming.
"Y-you…" I watched him twitching his eyes even more and brows tied up in a deeper frown.
In just a split second, I felt a strong palm hit my face which was marked by the guy before me. I give off no reaction and just scrutinized how damaged he was. Did I over done it? Hn. That's just enough.
I seized my eyes off him and place both of my hands on my pocket. "Let's go Rui. We shouldn't be absent to our next class" I looked at Rin who was still astonished off the scene before we left the twins on the café.
Once when we were distant to the twin blonde, Rui started to shower me with her numerous queries.
"Hey! What was that earlier? You do know her brother? How and why? Another thing, why did you do that to him? Did you see how furious he was and he did even slap you? You shouldn't have insulted him like that, Rei. That's too rude." Sigh, is it me or my twin's remark was just too remorseful. It kinda hit me with tons of smashing guilt. No… no, I shouldn't be regretful of what I had done. I know it was just right for idiots like him. But do I really have to apologize to him when I happen to see that brat again? Hmp… Nevertheless I think that he deserve such slur, that daft-brained nuts. Yeah I shouldn't say sorry. And that's final!
