When Gakupo and Kaito were aggressive with each other, the reason would most likely be Len. But when they cooperate with each other, the reason was most likely due to Len too.
And this time, Len had caught a cold.
When the two of them had found out, they reduced from screeching cats to docile kittens.
It was just a simple cold, but those two mother hens had kept him confined to his room, wrapped in layers of blankets, a glass of warm water, tissues and his cell phone on the table beside. Kaito had gone out to buy cold medicine, while Gakupo stayed at home to cook up some food for him.
Len sighed. Well, there was nothing he could do about this. He brought this situation upon himself after all. He just had to be glad that it wasn't Kaito who was cooking.
He grabbed his yellow phone, switching it on. Gazing at the temporary blank screen, he noted that his reflection looked tired. It must have been the amount of singing and traveling they did recently, especially with the release of the song Imitation Black. The amount of fangirls must have doubled, or maybe even tripled. When that happened, their workload increased in accordance too.
Weary from the continuous sneezing, he checked his unread messages. The amount of messages was overwhelming. Thirty-six unread messages had accumulated just from a day of rest. Sighing, he read the first.
It was from Rin, his twin sister. He grinned as he opened the message. There wasn't a dull moment with Rin, regardless of her presence. She was sometimes demanding, but other times, she was plain awesome, and he had never felt more grateful for a twin sister.
Rin
10-Dec-2009 10:13
Hey, I heard from those two that you caught a cold. You all right? If those two do anything to make you unhappy, give me a call or drop me a message. I'll go run over them with the road roller or something. :3
Len smiled, and replied.
Len
11-Dec-2009 13:22
It's just a minor flu. orz. Gakupo's making porridge and Kaito went out to get medicine. If anything really happens, you'll be the first person I contact. :P
While the message was sent, he cleared out the rest. Most messages were spams, or concern from anonymous fans. The rest were mails of concern from people like Meiko, Miku and Luka.
Hatsune Miku
10-Dec-2009 12:32
Are you okay? Kaito told me you had a cold. Take care of yourself, okay? You can't underestimate colds. I had a cold last time that made me sneeze and strain my vocal cords! Then I had to rest not just a couple of days, but a couple of months after that too! Please be careful with your own health all right? Drink more water and don't consume too much junk. :)
Megurine Luka
10-Dec-2009 20:00
If Gakupo is bothering you, feel free to tell me. I'll gladly kick his ass for you.
Meiko Sakine
10-Dec-2009 12:32
I'll beat you up if you come to work with that cold. Recover soon okay?
He chuckled. They were all worrywarts. Miku was just like Kaito and Gakupo, while Luka and Meiko worried about him in their own manner. He scanned through the rest of the messages. Most were from other fellow singers or bands, like Haku, Neru and Kaiko, Kaito's sister.
Whenever they mentioned Kaiko, it reminded him of the first time he met Kaiko. When he first saw her, he was delighted, had thought that Kaito had finally understood his plight, and decided to don feminine clothes along with him. The black boots, girly short dress, long silk gloves and the white headphones. It was the total shock when he saw Kaiko at the door.
He was plain disappointed to know that the actual Kaito had never even considered cross-dressing.
Kaito did offer in the end though, but when he considered the amount of stress build-up and competition that may be sparked from this, he reluctantly declined. He didn't want something so simple to give him a week of headache.
So instead, he got Kaito to wear one of those tiny hats that lolitas wore, and he thought that it fitted Kaito pretty well. Thus, the hat stayed, even though it was kind of random.
But still, Kaiko had looked so similar to Kaito; the short azure blue hair, the large, blue watery eyes and their love for ice cream. It was a freakish similarity.
Heck, she even had a similar scarf like Kaito's, just that it was of a light shade of blue, and hers was tied up in a ribbon, unlike Kaito's which hung loose on his shoulders. The only few differences was in their heights and personality.
Len swears, that if Kaito sang a couple of octaves higher, he would probably sound a lot like Kaiko.
Thinking about it, maybe he should get Gakupo to wear something like Kaito's hat too. A choker? Or perhaps stockings and shorts? Gakupo had such long legs too.
Len is envious.
Taking a peek under the blankets, he wriggled his toes to check his leg length, and sighed. He had to beat Kaito first before even thinking about Gakupo's monstrous height. At least he still had a couple of years to grow. He just hadn't hit hit growth spurt yet! That must be it.
Kaito was already almost a head taller than him. And Gakupo was taller than Kaito by a couple of centimeters, he supposed. Every time he talked about height, Kaito's face would turn sour and Gakupo would be grinning like a fool.
Sniffing and dabbing at his nose with a tissue paper, Len continued to scan through the rest of the messages with slight distaste. It was all just random jokes from Rin, or forwarded chain messages from Neru. Suddenly, he paused.
There was a message from an unknown number. A fangirl? Frowning, he opened the message.
XXXXXXXX
10-Dec-2009 00:00
die.
What the heck?
And what was with that timing? It looked like something out of a horror movie.
Len brushed his blond locks away from his eyes and examined the message again. It looked like a random spam. He stared at the short message for a moment, before deleting it. He slid the cover of his phone down and gazed at the screensaver of a dancing banana.
There didn't seem to be any special meaning in the message, right?
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