He was running, that was all he knew. Running fast as he could, away from...
Something.
Anything.
Everything.
Who was he? Why was he running? Where was he going?
He couldn't really think; everything was fuzzy. It was like his memories were on a movie tape, and it was being slowly unraveled, floating away into oblivion until he couldn't remember what he had been doing, where he was born, what he was good at, or even his name. He just knew one thing...
He had been inside of a small white room, with his eyes closed, and his senses started coming in slowly. First it was sound, the crackle of electricity (he knew it was, but he didn't know how he knew) and a soft, constant thumping noise from within him.
My heartbeat.
After that had been feelings, he was lying on something cold and smooth, and the air was still but cold. Something was pricking his left hand. After that it was the smell similar to that of a doctor's office, and then he opened his eyes.
He couldn't really look around, but it was gray and it had the feeling of being underground. There was a girl with long blue pigtails standing on his left, doing something with his left hand. She noticed him awake and quickly finished; the pricking feeling in his hand disappeared. She pat him on the head and helped him stand up by holding his shoulders. After that, she thrust a silver chain with a pendant on the end around his neck and then, once he was steady on his feet, she told him one word that changed his life forever. He could tell she didn't want to from those dark green eyes, but she told him anyways.
"Run."
She said it with such seriousness he didn't doubt her. There was a dark tunnel to his right, and he bolted towards it. However, he stopped at the opening.
The woman, who was about twenty, still had the heartbroken but serious look on her face. "I love you. Run."
And so... he did. He didn't know the girl, but he was pretty sure she was supposed to be important to him. And even though he knew absolutely nothing, not even his name...
He knew that, somehow, he loved her back, in the sense a son would love his mother.
He ran for who knows how long through that tunnel, until it started sloping upwards and ended up running towards the light. He was tired beyond belief, he wanted to rest, but he had to keep running for that woman down there. At least until he got out of the darkness. He didn't like it, but he didn't not like it either. His chest ached, and he put a hand to the fabric on it in an attempt to stop his racing heart.
The light enveloped him, and he was suddenly out in the open, surrounded by color. He had to blink several times to get used to it, but he did eventually. He was in a green grass field. The wind was hot, and he was glad the clothing he wore was thin. There was a row of buildings to his right, and there was something crossing the field in front of him to another row of buildings to his left. It was a girl, he knew that much.
He didn't know what to do. He looked behind him and saw the door he'd run through was a hole in the grassy terrain, and it was closing. He didn't mind, he had a feeling he didn't want to go back. Though he felt sorry for that woman...
"Heyyy! You!"
He turned around and saw the girl running towards him. She had yellow-blond hair that was short and tied with a bow. A pair of headphones adorned her ears, and he wondered why she was wearing them out here. Her eyes were a mix of teal and cerulean, and she was looking at him questioningly. She wore a white tank top with a black jacket over it, black shorts with a gold chain, and white and yellow sneakers. As soon as she saw his face, she gasped and skidded to a stop.
"L-Len?"
He tilted his head. Len? What was that?
The girl dropped the bag that was over one shoulder and ran towards him at a high speed, and he barely kept his balance when she ran into him, giving him a bone-crushing hug.
"Len! I knew you were okay! I knew it!" She looked up at him, beaming, until she saw the thoroughly confused look on his face. Her happy face turned into a sad one. "Len? It's me. Rin? Remember? We're..." She looked down at his neck and saw the pendant on the necklace. "Hey, where'd you get this? Did Dr. Hatsune make some new thing for you and the others?"
Man, this girl was confusing. She said her name was Rin though. He looked down at the pendant around his neck with her. The chain was made of silver - probably real, too. The pendant was a rounded, 3D oval that was made of pure white marble, with a streak of gold through the center like a bolt of lightning. On his left was a pink-tinted wing attached to the side, and on the right a blue-tinted one. When Rin turned it over, the numbers 02 were engraved on the back, and underneath was the words Kagamine Len.
"See? It's yours," Rin said, pointing to the name. The boy - now known as Len - frowned. He didn't know anything except the woman with blue hair from the underground room and this girl, who was a height of 4' 9", and himself, who was 5' 1". Just for the record. And the order to run, but he thought h was safe for now.
Rin looked up at him. "Len? Is this you or is it a copy...?" Without warning, she pulled his left sleeve off his shoulder. He made a little grunting noise and then gasped as he saw what was engraved into his skin: large red letters - 02 - with the same name below in capital letters, KAGAMINE LEN. It didn't hurt, but it looked like the words were printed on his skin in the same manner as ink to a piece of paper. Rin sighed in relief, and Len took a step back.
"Len? What's wrong? This is the real you, but you haven't said anything yet. What happened? Did something happen with Dr. Hatsune?" Rin asked him a flurry of questions. Len opened his mouth, then closed it, then opened it again, not knowing what to say. Like, cool it, dude, I just woke up thirty minutes ago and I've spent most of my waking moments running from something. Sorry.
"-And lastly, why the heck are we still standing here, we should go home, come on, we're leaving, I don't care about you until we get inside our house, gimme your hand and follow me," Rin finished, reaching out and grabbing his right hand. He stumbled as she settled for a hard jog and grabbed her bag off the grass as they passed it. Len could only think of all the things that had happened that had happened. First, the woman from the underground room - he guessed she was the Dr. Hatsune that Rin kept mentioning - that had told him to run away from something, which he had done. Second, this Rin girl, who apparently knew him, but the movie tape of his life had unreeled and he couldn't really remember much except No. 02 and the events of the last thirty or so minutes. Third, the pendant, which he knew was important, so he had better not take it off.
Speaking of other strange accessories you shouldn't take off, Len realized he was wearing a set of headphone things just like Rin. He opted to not take those off either.