So far, I've got 3 reviews. Not bad for a start, right :))) I discovered that there are so many Rin and Len's fan fictions telling stories about time traveling, but most of them are about tracing back to the past, so I suddenly came up with the idea of letting Len go into the future :)))) I also have Rin with long hair at first chapters, 'cause I think I'm kinda interested in her future style :3


GATE 2. The beginning of the future

Following Len into the empty shortcut, Gumi hitched, her feet walked noiselessly behind the tall trees and some overgrown bushes. So this was the reason Len was always nowhere to be seen afterschool. This road was almost unknown to the students, and with overwhelming curiosity popping up inside her head, Gumi decided to silently follow the blondie, seeing where he would go whenever their school finished. Sometimes, as if sensing another human being was trailing behind, Len turned his head around, his eyes suspiciously wandered around the area. She would quickly hide herself behind a bush, sigh of relief escaped her lungs as Len turned back and continued his small trip, not finding out anything about her appearance.

Where are you going?

Continuing her silent stalking, Gumi took another soundless step, her hands shaking a little bit when she realized there were less and less trees on the way. If he suddenly turned back to check again, where would she hide herself now? She never wanted to be called a sick stalker, and she would never want Len to hate her, too. Actually, she didn't really want to stalk him. She was just curious about the boy she took interest in, that was all.

Len was always hard to decipher. An alluring mystery. Maybe that was why every girl in their school fell for him deeply even when they knew he would dump them on the day after. It was nearly impossible to resist Len's attractiveness, after all. Gumi didn't think she would have a high change with Len- like all the other girls, she knew he would leave her sooner or later. But the green-haired couldn't help but keeping a small flash of hope in her heart. What if she was different from the others? What if Len finally saw through her true feelings for him and decided to give her a chance? Unlike some slutty girls, Gumi truly had some hidden romantic feelings for the boy. Her heart always fluttered whenever he was around, and at the moment she gave him her first kiss, the rest of the world didn't seem important to her any more. Len was her dream, her hope. Although he was so far from her reach, Gumi still kept and kept trying. He doesn't need to love me back, she thought, still looking at Len's back while trailing after him from far distance. I just want him to consider me as someone different from all the other girls, and nothing else.

For a moment, Len turned his head and Gumi stiffed. There were no trees for her to hide herself now. What would she do? But then the girl sighed in relief, her balling fists untightening when she realized Len was taking notice of a gate-shape creature on the right of the road. From far distance, Gumi couldn't see it so clearly; but it seemed to have been made from gold, silver and iron mixed, she guessed, with a large amount of light pouring out from inside. Len got closer to the thing and touched it lightly. Tilting head to the side, Gumi looked at the boy, her blue eyes sparkled in interest. Never had she seen Len so curious about things like that. Quickly fastening her steps, Gumi bit her lips, before an incredibly great light blinded her eyesight, made everything around her fade away. The green- haired covered her eyes with one hand, the other reaching out to grab anything on the way, but finding nothing. She ran forward to Len despite the fact that she couldn't see anything at all. If she got so blinded even when standing from far distance, then how did Len's eyes hurt under the attack of the light? Gumi stopped to gasp for breath, the sound of horror and surprise reached her ears before the light vanished and she realized she was standing in the empty road. Again. But this time, the girl didn't see Len anymore.

His pocket clock was left behind with broken pieces of gold and silver. The late sunlight of the day poured out on the road, shining on the green-haired 's pale face and hard- bitten lips.

He was gone.

But to the question How? , Gumi balled her fists tight and her eyes were on the verge of watering. She came up with no answer.

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Len Kagamine still kept himself cool despite the fact that he was completely clueless.

The pretty girl looked at him with widening mouth and her eyes blinked twice as if she wanted to confirm if his appearance was real. Len couldn't help but realizing that compared to all the girls at his school, this girl was absolutely a God-like beauty. Her long blond hair flowed silently in the cool freezing wind, reaching her knees, and the small, soft hands spreading out for the stranger in front of her, her lips curled up into a small smile of worry and concern.

"Are you Ok?" The girl asked, nervously signaling to his injuries. "You are bleeding"

Len looked down at his injured legs. Small cut from broken pieces still stabbed into his skin, producing more blood pouring out, but he didn't really care about it any more. The later shock and horror was still visible in his mind, and he couldn't make any sense about what had just happened. A few minutes ago, he was still heading for his home, taking a secret small shortcut, and then by touching that strange creature, he was suddenly moved into a completely different place, a dark lab with modern robots and stuffs, with the coldness running in from the large window nearby, and the two strangers looking at him in the dim light of the room, asking if he was okay.

So many questions he wanted to get replied, but instead, none of the words were coming out from his dry mouth. Len just looked at the girl with clueless eyes, silently hoping that she could give him at least one reasonable explanation. He had no idea what the hell was going on.

"Rin" Another voice reached his earshot, and Len looked up, to the old man who was leaning down, examining the broken pieces in the dark. The girl immediately averted her gaze from Len, her fingers tightening in worry. "The gate… it is broken"

"No way…" Rin whispered, her whole body shaking with tears. She sorrowfully leaned down to touch the pieces. "We have taken long months to invent this… just to find out that it is an absolute failure"

" Don't worry" The old man shook his head, giving the blondie a comforting smile. "We can re-invent it at any time you want. What we need to worry about now is the boy accidentally coming here from our broken creature"

Len stiffed when the girl's attention turned to him again. No, he wasn't the type of boy who was afraid of girls, obviously, but having no idea about who she was made him feel somewhat uncomfortable. Unsafe. He needed to go back home now. He needed to leave this place right now.

"Sorry" The boy nervously spoke up. Both of the strangers looked straight into his face, guilt and sympathy swam in their eyes. "I don't really have any idea what happened… but please, let me return to where I have been"

The girl dramatically sighed. Throwing her hands into the air, she gazed at him, hopelessness and tiredness was written all over her face. "Boy, what is your name? "

"Len" He replied coolly. "Len Kagamine"

"Same last name as me" She was taken aback a little bit, surprised. "Anyways, Len, listen. We really want to take you back now, but you see, our invention, uhm, the time gate for exact, is broken. We will definitely take a lot of time to re-invent it, then, and during that time, I'm afraid that you have to be stuck here with us. There's no other way for you to return to your world"

Your world…? "So where am I now, exactly?" Len asked. The girl widened her eyes to the boy in silent amaze. Despite being clueless to everything, he still managed to keep his attitude calm and unaffected.

"The creature that you have just gone through…" She smiled warmly, trying to explain all to him. "is a time gate. A thing that you use to travel from time to time, you know? Let's say you are in the future right now. It's the year of 2060, 40 years later compared to the current time in your world"

"I'm sorry that we have pulled you into this mess" The old man continued, his lips bitten in regret. "We never want any other person to be involved with our experiment. You can stay with us now. We will give you food, clothes and stuffs like that until the gate is completely fixed"

Len looked at the two with poker face. He didn't really get what they had said, but one thing he knew was that… "So until this gate-shape creature is fixed, I have to stay with you two and can't go back to my home?" He asked again, his fingers relaxing a bit on the hard ground.

The girl nodded quietly. Len just shrugged back as a reply.

Actually, it didn't really matter to him. To someone who never really had a happy life in his world, every place was kinda the same. He didn't mind spending time with these two people, as long as he was given food, clothes, and freedom to go anywhere he wanted.

"Well, I guess you can stand up now" The girl said, letting out a small chuckle. Len realized that he was still sitting on the ground, blushing a little bit, and standing up. In this position, he could see Rin more clearly. She was quite outstanding with abnormally great height, shining blue eyes and soft skin. And somehow, her face was a little identical to his own.

"Rin, you can find a room for him to sleep now" The old man said, turning back to clean up the pieces. "I guess that spare room at the end of the last hall can be used"

"Alright, Dad" The girl turned to Len and signaling him to go after her. He walked behind her quietly, silently surprised at how large and magnificent the hall was. This house seemed to be much wider and richer than he'd expected. Some black cameras were hidden at the ceiling, watching every of his moves from far distance.

"I'm quite surprised, Len" Rin said, breaking the deadly silence between them. "You don't seem to be sad at all when I told you that you had to stay here with us for a long time. Why?"

Len smirked behind her back. "I have my own reasons" He said. The girl stopped at a small room in the end, putting the key inside the lock and turning it around, letting him go in. She pointed to the single bed at the corner of the room and sighed.

"Temporarily, you can stay here" She said. "If you need anything, just go and ask my father in the lab. He will stay there for the rest of the night"

"What about you?" Len asked, finding a comfortable position on his new sleeping place.

"I won't be home tonight" Rin walked to the door, her hand resting on the silver knob. "Actually, I don't really like the idea of having a new member staying in this house, but since our experiment is the cause for your accident, I think we should be responsible for you, after all. You can consider this place as your temporary home, okay? My father and I will always be there to help you"

This girl was strange, Len thought, watching the door closing in front of him. Warm, then cold, and then warm again like a thermometer. The thought of not being home for a long time did make him shudder, though; but he was also glad that he was welcomed to this house.

Resting on his arm, Len lied down comfortably on his new bed, gazing at the starless sky outside the window. He wasn't sleepy, actually, as in his current world it was still afternoon. So instead of falling asleep, Len just lied motionlessly, his mind wandered back to his old memory, to his heartless parents in the days they were still alive, to the dolly girls he had been going out with at his school.

The moon just stared at him blankly with its watchful eyes.

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Meanwhile, inside the large mansion of the Hatsune, Rin quietly closed the door behind her. A person stood in front of the girl, taking her small face in his palm and smiling warmly.

"What have taken you for so long?"

"Nothing. Just some small troubles with my father" Rin sighed loudly, taking a quick glance around the room. "Are your parents home?"

"They are all on a business trip" The boy leaded the blondie to a green sofa and turned the TV on. "I also invited Miku to come here tonight, but she said that she was busy"

"Ugh. Finally we have some privacy" Rin leaned back and rested comfortably with a thick blanket wrapped around her small body. "Those reporters never leave us alone even in just one minute"

"I never mind their appearance, as long as you are pleased with our relationship" The boy stopped and looked at the girl intensely. "Do you?"

Rin blushed a little bit. Besides her own father, this boy was the only one she had ever shown her true self to. "Not… not yet. But don't worry, I will slowly learn how to love you then"