Authors Note: Why, hello there, young fanfiction goers!

The story goes on... but this time...

Luka and Gakupo's breakfast scenes are back! I thought, that if I worked so hard on shaping and molding this relationship into something perfect in the last book, why abandon it? So... Luka and Gakupo are going to be a major plot point now... buuut Haku still takes the lead. I'm not sure where the whole "Rin and Len" thing you'll see here is going... that part seems to be writing itself! :3

Anyway... DISCLAIMER: ME NO OWNY VOCALOID OR CHARACTERS IN THIS OR ANY DIAPERS. because if i still owned diapers, that would scare me. Wouldn't that scare you too?

Chapter Three

Luka was making eggs when Gakupo walked in through the door.

He peeked over her shoulder. "Watcha makin?"

"Fried squirrel. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?"

Gakupo frowned. "It just looks like eggs to me!"

Luka huffed and flipped an egg. "There's this leeeettle thing called SARCASM. GET... USED... TO... IT!"

"Why do you always make the same foods?" said Gakupo.

"What do you mean?" asked Luka angrily.

Gakupo started to think that saying that had been a bad idea. "Uh... well, you know...the same foods... eggs, and waffles, and rice...!"

"MAYBE I SHOULD JUST FRY YOU. HOW 'BOUT THAT?" said Luka angrily.

Gakupo laughed, dispelling the tension in the room. Luka softened.

"No need to get mad!" said Gakupo, wrapping his arms around her. She eased into him. "Oh, quite the contrary!" she said, smirking.

And then they kissed.

Gakupo pulled away, his head spinning. So did Luka.

I'm never going to get used to that! they both thought.

"So." said Gakupo. "What do you think of the new kid... Haku?"

"She seems nice." said Luka. "After all, she risked herself to help us save you..."

The horrible memories of that day filled her mind. "I don't want to lose you like that again, not ever..."

"Don't worry, I won't leave you." said Gakupo, smiling. "I'm trying to be careful!"

"Good." said Luka, dumping more eggs onto the pan. They sizzled there.

"Well, anyway, we already gave you your amulet." she added.

They all wore their amulets all the time, except for bedtime, showers, or other occasions like those.

Gakupo had activated his amulet soon after his recovery period had ended. He had big, thin, intricately swirled on purple wings, and his weapon was a pair of suspiciously eggplant-shaped nunchuks, much to Luka's amusement.

He had stood there with the nunchuks dangling from his hand, staring at them, as Luka rolled around laughing on the floor, and banging her fists on the tiles. "OMIGOSH STOPPIT!" she had said, tears of mirth leaking from her eyes. "ITS TOO MUCH...!"

Gakupo had then spun one of them around, and it flew out of his hand and crashed through a window.

"My bad...!" he said meekly as Hiro's eye twitched.

Luka, who'd started standing up, had a new wave of laughing and had smacked back onto the floor where she'd resumed rolling around giggling uncontrollably.

"Yep. I THINK that I just MIGHT remember that." said Gakupo. He crossed his arms. "Well, you have a FISH! Oh! I got you NOW!"

"No matter what you say, YOU still have eggplant nunchuks!"

"You're never going to let me forget that, are you?" said Gakupo, depressed.

"Not on your life, my purple friend." said Luka contentedly. She then grabbed the pan and her spatula and dished out all the eggs. "There!"

"And just in time, too." said Gakupo. The footsteps of everyone could be heard on the stairs as they thundered down. They all grabbed plates and ran off to the table. Gakupo waved. "Gotta run and have some fried squirrel!" he then winked and walked off with his plate.

Luka was about to wash the plates, when she noticed there were two left.

BRS walked in, yawned, grumbled something about penguins, then went to sit down.

So then... who was the last plate meant for?

Luka heard a small noise, and turned. Standing in the doorway was Haku, her gray hair undone as she dragged Soft behind her. She stared at Luka, then suddenly remember the words Hiro had taught her.

"Good... morning." she said, then stood there and waited. Her grip around the bear's paw tightened slightly in nervousness. What do I do, what do I do? What now? Why is she staring at me like I'm stupid? I'm not stupid. What does she want from me? What does everyone want from me? Why-

"Aren't you going to take your plate?" said Luka, wiping her hands with a cloth.

"My... my plate?" asked Haku, confused.

"Yeah!" said Luka. She seized the last plate and brought it over. "This is your plate. When you come down, you take it."

Haku stared hungrily at the plate. "Yes." she said, then grabbed the plate and walked to the breakfast table.

Luka was immediately overcome by cuteness.

AWWWWWW, SHE'S SO CUTE! The way she drags the bear around like that... adorable! Well, she is the youngest vocaloid after all. We should enjoy cuteness when it comes around.

Luka then stood up and went to join everyone else at the table, her own plate in hand.

Haku was sitting next Rin and Len on one side, and BRS on the other. Rin and Len, who were both staring, turned to each other, and had a small whispered conversation.

"We have a chance here!"

"A golden opportunity!"

"She's still young... we can still teach her!"

"We can still imprint our knowledge into her mind!"

"Our experience combined... she can be UNSTOPPABLE! We'll be the ultimate praksters!"

"Let's do it!"

They both turned to stare at Haku, who was... already done with her eggs. Everyone else was just starting.

"Hey, Haku!" said Rin, elbowing her. Haku looked up.

"Yes?" she asked.

"Come with us." said Len, and she followed them out of the room.

"So... we have a proposition to make."

"We want to teach you!"

"To train you!"

Haku frowned, confused. "Teach me... teach me what?"

Rin and Len looked at each other and shared and evil look before turning back to her. "You seem to have nothing much to do... so, we were thinking..." said Rin-

"That you should partner up with us!" Len blurted out.

"So much for dramatic suspense." muttered Rin.

"Partner up with you? For what?"

"To learn the ways of annoying people."

"Come on, it'll be fun!"

They both stared at her pleadingly. "Pleeease?"

Haku was still pretty confused. Join them? What could this mean? Joining them to... play tricks on people? Haku herself had never pulled a prank on someone. Well, I don't think it can hurt...

Haku nodded silently.

"Yes!" shouted the twins, then jumped up and high-fived. "Now, your first lesson starts on the bus!"

"Be reeeady!" they called as they walked off.

What have I just gotten myself into? Thought Haku. Well... only one way to find out, I guess. She followed them out to the bus.

BRS watched her go. "Huh." she said, cocking her head. "Maybe she'll make some friends now." Then, she turned back to Miku to talk to her about the latest gossip about the new substitute.

Haku got onto the bus, and looked around. "Over here!" she heard, and looked over. Rin and Len were waving at her from a seat near the back, but not quite. She sat down next to them.

"Now, lesson one." said Rin, smiling. "Make fun of Al's hair gel. Just follow our lead!"

"Hey, Al!" she called.

"I'm ignoring you." grumbled Al.

"But it's IMPORTANT!"

"All right, what?"

Rin smiled. "See, now he's in her trap!" Len whispered to Haku. "See how she lured him in?"

"You probably shouldn't go to the lice inspector five days from now." she smirked.

Al sighed. "Why not?"

"BECAUSE I BET THEY'RE ALL IMPALED ON YOUR SPIKES!" she doubled over in laughter.

"Hey, everyone look out! It's Al the impaler!"

They both turned to Haku expectantly. "Say something mean!" they said. "Something making fun of his hair gel!"

Haku suddenly felt a burst of something she couldn't identify. But whatever it was, it felt... good. She used it, and it gave her an idea.

Everyone was listening and chuckling by now.

"I'm surprised you haven't impaled yourself by leaning against the wall with those spikes." he mouth twitched into a... a...

BRS slumped down next to Miku. "She sneered. She sneered before she even smiled. I don't like where this is going."

Miku punched her shoulder. "Oh, you're just worrying to much!" she said.

"Ya think so?" said BRS hopefully.

"Nope!" said Kaito, who walked by. "It's reasonable to worry! She's going down the same path that the twins did.

Miku shook a silent fist at Kaito as Rin and Len patted Haku on the back and congratulated her.

"She's got promise, real promise!"

"And, she's in our class with the substitute today...!"

They cackled and rubbed their hands, but Haku had her mind on something else.

The feelings that she had tried so long and hard to conceal were coming out again.