Author : Midu Kagamine.

Disclaimers : I don't own Vocaloid. The characters belong to Crypton Future Media, Internet Co., Yamaha, and the other co-operating Vocaloid companies. I gain no profits from writing this fan fiction.

Genres : Fanfic, romance, science ( I guess…?), and drama.

Fandom : Vocaloid.

Pairings : RinxLen, RinxMikuo.

Warning : None.

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Oh god since when did my author's note become so serious LOL J))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

I don't know though J))))) Usually I would rant on and on about stuffs relating to my fan fiction and myself J)))))) Guess writing like this makes my work sound more professional :')

GATE 1 : Secret experiment and the sudden entry.

Definition of worry or sadness had never existed in Len Kagamine 's dictionary of life.

Since when the car accident took his parents away, he couldn't help but feeling like a heavy stone had been lifted off from his chest. He had never been happy with those two. Being born without their expectation, without their desire, he would never forget the cold, angry, full-of-hatred glare his mother always sent him whenever her husband was nowhere to be seen at those moments.

"You are our regret, Len" She always said with that harsh, icy tone of hers. "None of us wants your existence – if you hadn't been born, I wouldn't be stuck with this man until now"

Len just smiled sarcastically. He knew. He had already known that. His parents had no love at all for each other- their hurry marriage was just a way of showing their responsibility for the unwanted child, for the son they never wished to exist- him. Being brought up in the hatred and forceful care from both of parents, sometimes he wished he had been thrown into a random orphanage rather than growing up in this loveless family. Instead of receiving praises and loving hugs like all the other children, scolding, arguments, and offenses were the things that greeted him whenever he stepped into their house.

"Such kind of family… I never wanted in the first place" Len used to write on the paper when the teacher told her students to write an essay about their families. "I'd rather be a beggar lying on the street- at least I could receive sympathy from the strangers"

"What did you mean by writing this piece of trash, Len?" A slap crashed his cheek even before he realized- Len just remained his emotionless face, his dull gaze directed to the angry father. Actually, he did expect a low grade for the essay, but never did he expect the teacher to telephone his father and tell the man about what he had written. "We give you a house to live- we give you food, clothes, we take you to one of the most popular primary schools in the whole country. What do you want? You must know that we have given you many things that the other children never have!"

A weak smile found its way to Len's perfect, beautifully soft pair of lips.

The thing that he desired the most… would never belong to him.

The thing that every other child had… his parents would never give it to him.

He would even give away his expensive clothes or food, even accept to live on a dirty street, if that would help him receive at least one loving gaze from his own mother. But sadly, it would forever be a dream. Deep down his heart, Len knew that his parents would never accept his existence. Would forever consider him as an outcast. The reason they had to be stuck together in an unwanted marriage, the main cause of their ruined, pathetic life, the root of their unhappy family.

So Len was so relieved, and happy, even, when people told him that his parents were crashed by a car and died at spot with serious bleeding.

At first, Len Kagamine did feel guilty about it- he might be the only son in this whole town who could jump out of happiness at the death of his very own parents. But then, if the situation was opposite- if he was the one to die and his parents were the ones that still lived until now, they might also have jumped out of happiness like the way he did. I was no longer be a burden of you two, right, Len thought, putting the red roses in front of the two grassy, stoned graves.

This would be our last meeting.

I would have nothing related to you two from now on.

With the house his parents left behind and the great fortune from his rich uncle, Len Kagamine started the non-worry, relaxing life of his at school. Always surrounded by girls. Making out with them, feeling them up and then dumping them right at the day after. Everyone knew it- but none of them had enough ability to resist him and his smiles. Some people told him that he was such a heartless monster- but, after all, how could he know about love when he had never received it in the first place? Since the day he was born, Len Kagamine had been completely clueless about love. Hatred and falseness was everything that he had ever known about.

"Len…" Neru whispered, her fingers buried in his messy hair. "I love you…"

"I love you" Miki caressed his hot cheeks, her eyes sparkled in the dark. "So much"

"Len, you are the only one that I love"

"Do you love me, Len?"

Love.

Always love.

They always mentioned it whenever they wanted to claim their faithfulness for him. Even when they knew he would leave them afterwards. Even when they knew to him, they were absolute nothing.

What is love? How could it become so special? Why do the others so treasure it, so respect that word, he would never understand. But the hurt his parents left behind and the painstaking years he had to live in that family made him realize that he really didn't need love at all.

Without it, he could still be alive.

"I love you too" Whispering the false words in the girl's ears, Len smiled alluringly, his hands wrapping around her tiny waist, taking her in.

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"Dad" Closing the lab door, she walked through the items thrown carelessly on the floor, to the old man who was still busy with his own work. Her long blond hair flowed in the wind, the short bang spread across her high forehead. "Have you already finished?"

"Almost" The man smiled tenderly, his bright eyes shone under the darkness of the small lab. The daughter slightly nodded, turned her gaze to the watch on her wrist. 12.01 am. August 29, 2060.

"You should get some sleep, Dad" She sighed, once again gazing at the incomplete gate in front of her eyes. "You have worked too hard these days- I think you must have been exhausted"

The old man quietly shook his head. His long fingers slightly touched the red button, ready to get the invention started. Under the watchful eyes of the moon outside the windows, a bead of sweat was rolling over his cold cheek, touching the hard ground beneath their feet.

"Rin…" He said in a low tone, the uncertainness and slight worry crossed his blue eyes. "Are you sure you want to do this…?" Indeed, the man was really worried. Not only her; even him wanted to find out the answer… but if this invention was a failure, if his daughter never came back, he would forever live in regret just like how he did during the last 40 years.

"I am" The girl said firmly, her hands balled into tight fists. Shining blue eyes and soft red pair of lips made her even more beautiful under the dim light of the room. "If I don't get the answer, I will forever be stuck in regret and pain until the day I leave this world… Dad"

The old man silently looked at his daughter. Despite being only 16, the girl was pretty more mature than most of the girls in her age, with abnormally great height, adult voice, and a perfect personality. I will never give up until the answer is discovered, her big eyes and determined balling fists seemed to tell him those words. Sighing the last time, the old man lifted up his fingers, then pushed them down again, pressed on the red button below the gate. An incredibly large amount of light shone through it, blinding the eyesight of the two for a while. Then everything faded away, and an image of a familiar road appeared in front of them. The road was covered with leaves, and the late sunlight of the day ran over the road, pouring out on a few people who were crossing it. The same road she took every day, the same road she went to school and then went back home ; however, the image she was looking at now, was the road from 40 years ago.

The road from the past.

She was going to take a time travelling, went back to the past, went back to 40 years ago, to find out the answer she needed….

Through the gate right in front of her.

"Rin, are you ready?" Her father whispered, scare and worriedness filled his mind. He didn't know if this decision was right or not.

If his daughter never came back…

" I am more than ready" Rin said, trying to be confident although her arms were shaking. This was her only chance. If she didn't make use of it, if she let it pass by…

Regret would torture her until the last breath left her lungs.

"I'm so glad to hear that" The old man nodded, a hint of sadness in his low tone. "Now, Rin, you can…"

None of his words came to Rin's ears at the moment. Hitching, she closed her blue eyes, then slowly leaned her body forward, taking a small step through …

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"I'll meet you the next day, Len"

Len was passing a shortcut to head for his house, Gumi's words after the make out session still echoing in his messed up brain. Like I would agree, he smirked, shaking his head lightly at the girl's innocence. There was no exception in his taste for girls. Dating them for one day, dumping them on the day after, and then finding a new one. That was a familiar routine he could hardly get rid of. Did that Gumi seriously think he would come to her for the second time? Shaking his head again, Len closed his eyes, letting his body relax a little bit at the tender touch of the cool wind. This road was almost unknown to every person in this area, which he found comfortable with. Finally he could have some private time on the way home without being disturbed by any noise or some of his crazy fan girls craving for his attention.

His eyes slowly closed, but then snapped up once a blinding flash of light crashed his eyes, stabbing into his orbs like a sharp knife and made him wince out of hurt and frustration. He struggled to open his eyebrows. Where could this flash of light come from? There was no way it could be the sunlight, because the sun was on the way of going down and darkness was starting to take over. So where was it from? He turned his head to the left, then to the right, still struggling to fight against the blinding light, to find a gate-shape creature was standing behind the bushes along the road, finding its way through the darkness and shining right into his eyes.

What the hell is this? Still having the question in his head, Len came closer to the creature, trying to ignore the amount of light and looking at it closely. It was hard to believe that there was such kind of thing on this empty road, he thought, quietly admiring the gold and silver attached on the creature. Whatever it was, this thing must have been carefully made up, obviously. With overwhelming curiosity, he lightly touched at the gate, leaning his body forward at the same time to see if the source of the light was hidden inside.

Everything happening afterwards was like a fast dream.

He felt himself being pushed hard inside the creature, the light made everything around him fade away, and his eyes seemed to be exploding. He was falling down to nowhere. The light swallowed him, took him in, white covered his eyesight and he felt his consciousness starting to leave his mind. What the fuck is this? Where am I? His mouth gasped in horror, and his arms reaching forward, as if he was going to look for a help. This wasn't a freaking science-fiction for God's sake! All he did was touching the gate… and then…

One second… Five second… Ten… Twenty… and the white suddenly disappeared.

Len slowly opened his blue orbs, just to find the greeting darkness around him. This place… it seemed to be a small lab, which, however, was much more modern than the usual labs he always saw at his school. Everything was neat and tidy, and he could even see some human-size robots standing at the corners of the room, giving him emotionless, cold stare. Len unconsciously stiffed. Where exactly was he now?

"Anybody's there?" Despite the horror and shock, his voice was still calm and normal, echoing through the room. A small gasp rose beside him, and he turned his head, seeing where that sound came from.

Finally, Len Kagamine realized two things.

First, he wasn't the only one in this place. There were two other people, an old man with glasses and a pretty blond-hair girl, looking down at him, their eyes widening in surprise.

And second, various pieces of gold and silver was laying around him, stabbing into his skin. From the small injuries, blood started flowing.

That gate-shape creature was broken.