"Nēchan" means "Sis" in Japanese.
Also, just as a heads up, there is nothing happy about this chapter. Absolutely nothing. This is the memory of how Rin became mentally unstable and how Len died . . . Ah, and I don't own Vocaloid.
"Neh, Nēchan, let's play a game~" Kai says, tugging on Rin's sleeve. He looks up at her with big, innocent eyes, watching as Rin's expression transitions from surprise to affection.
Taking on the big sister role, a four-year-old Rin grins back at the boy who is only a couple months younger than she. "What game do you want to play?" she asks him, standing up from where they sit and rubs the snow from her skirt.
"Hide-and-seek!" Yuki chimes in, hugging Kai from behind. Ren stands a couple feet away, staring at the frozen landscape with a bored expression.
These three boys are triplets; identical appearances, Rin and Len took to them for their likeness – they felt a connection of understanding. Soon after becoming acquaintances, the twins and triplets became closer than their parents' had expected.
"Fine," Len answers reluctantly to Yuki, "but me and Rin are a team." Len hooks Rin's arm with his, and, glaring down at Kai and Yuki, sticks his tongue out at them.
"Nēchan!" the two complain to Rin, glancing at Len accusingly every once in a while.
Smiling, she responds, complying, "Brother and I will be 'it' first . . ."
"No!" Kai yells, "I want to be in a team with Nēchan, too!" He slams his fists against the ground, sending plumes of snow into the cold, distilled air.
"Too bad," Len hisses, pulling Rin closer to him, hugging her in a possessive manner.
Ren remains silent, but he flits his stare to the commotion the other boys are making. He then moves his gaze slowly to Rin, who is trying to calm everyone down. Sighing at the pitiful sight, Ren mutters, "Count to one hundred."
Sending Ren a thankful look, Rin closes her eyes and begins counting. Len follows her example.
"One . . . Two . . . Three . . ." Len and Rin murmur in unison, their voices just loud enough to intimidate Kai and Yuki into sprinting off to find a hiding spot. Ren, on the other hand, takes his time.
The snow would give away their hiding places anyways, so why bother playing hide-and-seek? Len thinks, suspicious of the trio. He slightly opens his eyes and sees the boys clustered together, as if they're heatedly debating something. Idiots . . . Len mentally scoffs at them. He was about to shut his eyes once more when he sees the brothers all go into the storage shed. The three boys glanced nervously at Rin and Len before closing the door to the small building, cutting off Len's vision of them.
"Ninety-nine . . . One hundred!" Rin calls loudly, signifying the search would begin. Turning to her brother, Rin asks Len with a questioning expression, "Why did you stop counting, Len?"
"Ah . . ." he answers, quickly coming up with the excuse, "I thought it was pointless having two people count . . ."
"Oh . . . I guess that's true . . ." Spinning around, Rin notices the footprints in the snow leading to the storage shed. "Aw . . . The snow . . ." she trails off, noticing what Len already knew would happen.
"Rin, it's cold; let's go inside," Len says. He has a bed feeling, as if following those footsteps is following a path leading to something scary . . . Something dark.
"But what about the others?" Rin asks over her shoulder, jumping carefully into the triplets' footsteps to leave no trail of her own.
Len says to her, a bit quieter now that they were approaching the shed, "They'll notice eventually."
"But they'll get cold, won't they?" Rin whispers back.
At this Len remains silent, for he can't counter her question with any logical answer.
Wrapping her numb fingers around the storage shed handle, Rin creaks open the door. Holding their breath as they enter, Len and Rin peer into the depths of the shadowed storage space. Edging in, each conscious, silent step at a time, Len and Rin make their way deeper into the little room.
Len's eyes narrow, the shadow of someone's movement seen in the corner of his vision being the only warning to someone's advancement before total blackness reigns his consciousness.
"Len!" Rin screams in terror. She watches as Kai drops the shovel to the dry floor, next to Len's unconscious, bleeding figure. Rushing over to his side, Rin is suddenly pulled backward by her forearm before she can reach him. Yuki pins her to the ground violently, but Rin's eyes never leave Len's injured face.
"Ren, what do we do next?" Kai shouts at his brother anxiously.
Ren moves from the confines of the dark shadows, stepping before Rin with eyes as cold as snow.
"Well," Ren says eventually, "we do what Mom and Dad did, right?" Removing his pants, Ren flashes Rin a cruel, triumphant smile.
So Ren . . . Was like this? Then . . . Those two . . . Must . . . Scared . . . Rin thinks.
Staring up at the manhood Ren bore to all those present, Rin's eyes begin to tear, obscuring her vision to outlines and blurs.
"Hold her down," Ren barks at Yuki, whose shaking hands jump from fear before tightening their grip on Rin.
Ren goes up behind her, and before she knew what he was doing, her lower half felt a sudden exposure to cold before a terrible pain lead to her final scream of awareness.
Pain . . . Rin thinks, her consciousness going in and out, so much pain . . .
Rin slowly moves her blue irises to look at Len, but her brother was no longer there. Gathering the strength to weakly prop herself up, Rin looks around wildly for Len. She finds herself outside, someone having dragged her from the storage shed. Crawling to the door of the small building, Rin meekly grasps the bottom edge of the door, and pulling it open, is greeted with a terrible stench of rusted metal.
The tools need cleaning . . . Rin notes to herself, a ghost of a smile curving her lips.
And then the scene sank in, the horrid truth of what she saw leading to a high pitched scream. In the distance, Rin can hear the approach of shouting, worried adults.
Len stands in a mass of red, his body so covered by the color that he almost blended in with his surroundings. In his hand, the shovel used on him earlier is full of something, holding a putrid mass of what seemed like hamburger meat.
She hears the soft chimes of Len's laughter, and, noticing her watching, sees Len give her a warm smile. He walks over to her carefully, avoiding the remains of the triplets as he went. Reaching out to her, Len caresses her tear-streaked face in his sticky hands. Kissing her lightly on the lips, Len pulls Rin to her feet. They lean on each other, giving each other the strength to leave that terrible room.
The light on that cloudy day seems so pure . . . So bright, that when a shrill screech pierced the sky, followed by a loud bang, Rin didn't notice when that strength left her. Toppling to the snow covered ground, Rin turns her head with a grin to look at her brother. Her brother stares, motionless, at the sky, an identical smile on his lips; in the middle of his forehead, a bullet hole lead into the remains of his head, the place of penetration covered by his blonde bangs.
Rin's eyes widen in horror, and, still holding hands, the two twins remain motionless together. Rin's lifeless eyes just barely see the gleam of a gun in their mother's hands, the only difference from then on between her brother and she being Rin's heart was still beating while Len's was not.
Waking with a start, Rin shot up in bed. Her eyes are blinded by that same pure light of a cloudy, snowy day; their butler, Tanaka, had just opened the curtains.
"Good morning, Miss Rin," Tanaka says, nodding to her, "Please eat and get ready for school today."
Basically, to sum this chapter up, Len protected Rin from Ren, Kai, and Yuki (Kai and Yuki were afraid of Ren, so they followed what he told them to do; Ren walked in on his parents doing /that/ and decided it looked fun because their mother was in "pain", so he wanted to try it out. Sadistic little bitch, isn't he?). Len killed the triplets with the shovel when he woke up and saw Kai and Yuki helping Ren rape an unconscious Rin, and when Len and Rin walk outside the shed, their mother is so scared to see Len covered in blood that without thinking shot Len, her only son. No on knows about this, though, other than a select few individuals; those identities will be later released in the ff.
Then Rin wakes up, and her family believes she's eaten the medicated food, thus "Len" isn't around (but in truth, she hasn't eaten anything in at least three days to avoid that). So now her family is sending her to school, thinking Rin is mentally stable again, which, obviously, is completely not the case.