(A/N): Thanks for the positive response last chapter. Here's the next part, two out of three,
Songs: Paradichlorobenzene, Antichlorobenzene
Song Artists: Kagamine Len, Kagamine Rin
Author: Emi (macchi-chan)
Disclaimer: I haven't owned Vocaloid since I lost that bet with Crypton…
- - - L e n - - -
The blonde teenager sat in the principal's office while being lectured by the principal, tightening up his ponytail and humming to himself.
"Mister Kagane, why did you do it?"
"They were evil."
"Who was?"
"The couple, the one that drank and the one that ate the ice cream in P.E."
"Why were they evil?"
Len smiled, thinking about it. The older students, both with short hair and odd obsessions, had always doted on him. Too much, in his opinion.
Then it had struck him.
They were bad people. They needed to be punished, so that they didn't hurt anyone like they had hurt him that one night at the party. He'd been having so much fun, and they dragged him away from it, telling him that it was for his own good.
He hurt them.
"They needed to be punished."
"But why?"
"I don't know."
The principal sighed and looked at Len, then sat down in a big comfy chair, reaching for a piping hot cup of coffee and sipping from it tentatively.
"Go home now. I don't want to see you come back until this quarter is over, and by then you had better have shaped up."
After he walked out the door, Len stopped for a second and waved at the two hunched-over silhouettes visible through the infirmary window. He waved cheerily at them, and one of the figures turned to him. Maybe she was glaring at him? He didn't really care, so he went on home.
That night, after he made sure that his parents were asleep, he snuck out of the house, to finish up dealing out justice to the city. Heavens knew they needed it. With all the innocent seeming people who were the filthiest of all...it disgusted him.
In one of the alleys, he came across a cat. He knelt down next to it and stroked its back. "Hey, cat. Why am I alive? What's my purpose?" The cat's contented purring was masked by the sound of a group of teenagers roughing about. Len stood up.
"Well, I suppose I found it."
A couple of minutes later, he walked over to a shop and bought a small coffee. He spit it out immediately and glared at the cloudy sky. "What am I capable of? Should I be doing this?" A moment later, he laughed. "What am I saying? Of course I should be doing this!"
Len drained the cup of revolting coffee and walked down the street to where he always slept on nights like this. As he lay on the pile of pillows pilfered from the local donation center, he thought about what he had actually done over the past few months.
Len had been pretty normal. He had good parents, friends at school, and average grades. There was a girl that he'd had his eye on, that he'd been planning on asking out, but she had been transferred out of school just a little while ago for trying to kill someone, the girl with red corkscrews that was always nibbling on bread.
That incident had opened his eyes. She was the most beautiful being on earth, covered in scarlet blood and smiling gently at the girl cowering in the corner. He would have left her, but the couple had passed by and seen her through the open door.
As the police led the blonde girl out of the room, he had leaned over and kissed her quickly on the cheek. She had turned around to look at him, a faint blush visible on her cheeks and an almost innocent gleam in her eye.
But he knew better. And so did she.
She had smiled hesitantly at him, and then had turned away at the beckoning of the police, tucking a strand of gold hair behind her ear with stained fingers and leaving a streak of rusty dye to contrast with her hair. She waved one last time at him before he couldn't see her anymore.
And then Len swore that he would eliminate the evil brooding in her place. He saw people, labeled them as "evil," and then punished them with justice. He did this all in her name.
Rin Kagamine.
Len curled up on his makeshift bed. However, he neglected to notice the pair of blue eyes studying him from above, pondering on whether he should be alive or not.
(A/N): Well…That seemed a whole lot longer when I typed it on my iPod Touch…nothing I can do about it now. The chapter told me it was done, and that was that.
I borrowed a book on writing from my library, seeing as how I am of the opinion that my writing style leaves….something…to be….desired. I'm pretty sure that I'm right, Hopefully, I'll be able to fix up my writing, write longer, and maybe even get out of my dark, depressing author's rut, right?
Anyway, thanks to my 5 reviewers, two of whom are my collab partners.
TsundereMe: Naw, I bet more people than that would fight for Miku. Elizabeth, for example, did. A lot. Did you see the review she sent me over the fact that I shouldn't have used Miku as the princess in To Eternity?
CluelessLeaf: Oh, hi! New reviewer! Thanks for stopping by, reading this, and taking the time to review.
Elizabeth: YESH! YOU FOUND ME! Do you have any clue how much your reviews mean to me, and how much I look forward to your input on anything that I write? Anyhew…um…about Len…I have almost no clue what's going to happen to him. ^.^ whoops.
KYUUxKYUU: STOP WRITING SO MUCH! *sobs* It's freaking me out and putting me on writing overdrive! More I write now, less I can later! And your output isn't helping! (Yes, dear readers, there are many things that come along with doing a collab with writers that are always writing. It is stinkin' HARD!
Campanella: OMJNN1. Thank you. Thank you for reviewing. *eye glints* It's fun writing stories with one or two legally (or illegally) insane characters. Even better if they're the main characters.
So now that that's done and over with, I'm going to procrastinate on writing (part of the source of my plight when it comes to KYUUxKYUU and TsundereMe) and go back to catching up on Shaman King, Soul Eater, Kuroshitsuji, and possibly a few other things.
I am still looking for other songs to do. Otherwise I'll have to go work on Chivalry.
Please review.
Thank you.