A/N: Hey guys! So I made another Rin x Len story xD. I wanted a fic that was a little bit more sad. Don't think I managed that yet xD. Anyways, enjoy having two Rin x Len fics to read!
Rin finished putting the last box in the new house. The house was small, only taking up a corner lot, but it would do for her, her sister, and her mom. They didn't have much stuff, anyways, and having moved to a rural area, they wouldn't need much anyways. She was lucky to have gotten into this high school, although she was upset she made them relocate again (the 3rd time in her life, to be specific).
"Rin," Her mom called. "Can you start unpacking your room?"
"Of course." Rin had been about to that, anyways. She only had two boxes for her room, and most of that was her books, and her clothes. She finished putting the clothes away and was about to throw the empty box away when she realized it wasn't so empty. She picked up a silver chain and untangled it. She hung it by her hand. It was a necklace: one with a treble clef hanging from the bottom of it. She didn't remember ever wearing this, but she took it anyways, putting it on the small desk in her room.
She crawled onto her futon and stared up at the ceiling once she was done. Her room was a white color. She didn't expect anything fancy, anyways.
A dull thud made her look over at her desk, across from her futon. One of her books had fallen to the ground. She wondered how as she put it back, because her books were in the middle of her desk.
The sheets on her futon had suddenly straightened out when she got back to it. And now she was wearing her new treble clef necklace when she hadn't even touched it.
A cold feeling passed through her. It made her want to run, but if she was going to live here, she had to know what was doing this.
"Hey, look behind you," An echoing voice whispered in her ear. Nervously, she turned her head to glance behind her, but all she say was air.
"Oh yeah," The voice reprimanded itself. "I forgot. There we go."
Rin turned around fully to see a boy with blond hair and blue eyes, wearing what seemed like a yellow and white school uniform. On his head were headphones with a bass clef on the right side.
But, unlike a normal human being, he was transparent, and he only had an upper body: where his lower body should've been, there was just wisps of a smoke-like air.
"Hello," He greeted. "I'm Len, the ghost of this house. Nice to meet you."
Rin tried pinching herself, but she didn't wake up. This was real. But ghosts were fake. She thought someone was messing with her, but who would be?
"I see your doubt," The ghost interrupted her thoughts. "It's okay. Everyone is skeptical about me at first. But see-" He held his hand to her shoulder, and it went right through, giving her cold shivers. "I'm real."
"But... how?" She asked, still unsure about this. Maybe the previous house owners left a projector here and it projected this... Then what explained the cold feeling? The Placebo Effect?
"When a person dies and still has an unfulfilled wish, they stay on Earth as a ghost until that wish is fulfilled. That's what the legend here says."
"Then what's your wish?"
"I don't know. I don't think I have one."
"Um, how did you-"
"Die? Not important. Anyways, call me Len. Just Len, no honorific. If we both live here we're basically family now."
"Uh... I'm Rin Kagamine. I guess you can call me Rin... Do you have a surname?"
"I guess it's Kagamine now. I can't remember what it was before. Plus, we look similar."
"I guess..." Len faded from Rin's view. "W-Wait, where are you-" Another book fell from Rin's desk. "Can you stop doing that?"
"You can't make me," Len teased. "I'm a ghost." Rin growled. Len only laughed. "I hope you have fun living with me!"
"Rin, dinner is ready!" Her mom called from downstairs.
"Sorry, Len, I have to leave." She opened the door. "Bye."
She felt emptier inside as walked to the dining area. She had left her friends for this school, and it was already taking a bit of a toll on her. She had their numbers, sure, but she wasn't one for texting, and neither were they. She had basically left them.
At least she had a ghost to talk to.
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"Hey, Rin." Lily, Rin's older sister, faced her at dinner. "What was all that noise in your room? I was unpacking and all I could hear was thuds."
"Books," Rin answered vaguely. She had forgotten that their rooms were right across from each other's. Hopefully she hadn't heard the talking. Her heart thumped, hoping she hadn't heard it, and if she had, she would lie.
"Well, you're awfully clumsy if you knocked over your books THAT many times." Rin felt a wave of relief.
"Lily," Their mother warned. "We don't talk like that." Lily just rolled her eyes and went back to eating. Lily could be rude- Rin should know herself- but Rin knew she tried to be a good older sister. Sometimes that didn't work so well, but who was Rin to judge her?
"How do you two like the area?" Their mom asked, changing the subject.
"Crap!" Lily exclaimed. "I forgot to look around!"
"It's nice," Rin explained. "There's a forest, and a lake."
"I'll have to see for myself."
"You can look after dinner." Their mom, to Rin, had a way of answering a question in a soft voice but a demanding way. They were all silent until dinner was over. Rin watched Lily fly out the door before she went back in her room.
"Len," She called out warily, still thinking she was crazy.
"Hey," Len greeted. "I'm still real."
"So... I guess I'm not crazy," She whispered to herself, closing the door and sitting down on her futon.
"Since when were you crazy? Did you not believe me?"
"I've just... never seen a ghost before."
"I bet. I'm also the coolest one you've ever seen, then."
"I guess."
"You know, you could, like, try to talk more."
"Oh yeah, I have to ask you something... Can other people hear us talking?"
"They can hear your voice, not mine. Kinda sucks that ghost powers don't do anything. All I have going for me is I can make myself visible to anyone I want and I can do the same with my voice. I could be invisible to you and still be able talk to you. But there's really no use to that besides scaring you since no one else could see me anyways."
"But why did you choose me instead of Lily?"
"This was my room when I was alive."
"Did you die in here?"
"What's with all the questions? And I told you before, nothing about my death matters."
"Sorry."
"You don't have to say sorry either! Anyways, who's Lily?"
"My older sister. She's kind of rude but I know she probably wants to be a good older sister. I mean, she does ask me about stuff involving me."
"She's rude, that's for sure. I heard you guys talking at dinner."
"She's not that bad."
"I guess."
"...Anyways, you said you'd disappear eventually, if your wish is fulfilled?"
"Yeah. I don't believe the wish part. I won't last forever, that's for sure. I mean, I didn't die that long ago; and if you must know, I died earlier this year. I'm not telling you anything else."
"Well, I hope we have a good time together. Until you go away."
"Yeah, I'll try not to make your life too bothersome."
"I'm home!" A voice announced, echoing in the house. "The area wasn't that great. I guess that scenery was nice..."
"It's Lily," Rin whispered. "You have to go."
"Actually, you just have to not respond to me," Len remarked matter-of-factly.
"Well, if you don't talk to me, it would make that easier."
Before their 'argument' could go any further, Lily walked past the room. Both of them fell silent as she walked past, her footsteps just audible. They went away as they heard a door shut.
"Goodnight, Len." Rin shooed Len away as she noticed the time: 9:00.
"Okay, fine, if you want me out that much." The ghost disappeared. "Goodnight, Rin."
The feeling of emptiness opened up inside her again. Maybe it was loneliness, or despair... She didn't know what it was. She sighed as she changed into her pajamas and turned off the lights, lying down on her futon and drifting off into a deep sleep.
