An update 2 days after the previous one. Hm… not bad in my opinion. I'm writing these at school as well as home, so I'm probably spending all of my free time working on this story. YOU BETTER ENJOY IT!... please. And this is a decently long chapter, so you better thank me! (Note from author 1 year later: Hah, 'long chapter', longest chapter I've written for a story is 16,000words now!)
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Delinquent Life
Chapter Three – Why me?
Len POV
I was in a dire situation. I was currently concealed in a dark room enjoying the warmth of a comfy fabric. My body was at peace and it did not want to move from its current position, but I knew the owner of the distant footsteps outside my room wouldn't allow me to. As the footsteps drew closer my mind began to go on edge. Every step would make me flinch as if the footsteps were deafeningly loud to me. The door opened and the steps approached my bed. It felt like every single nerve in my body was tensing up. Just leave please… 5 more minutes! I begged desperately in my head but to no avail.
"Get up!" a voice ordered as my covers were pulled off of me.
"I'm up already." I groaned into my pillow.
"Breafasu is reafi" the words were muffled as if the person was talking with their mouth full.
"What?" I turned to look at my assailant.
A girl stood at my bedside. She had long blonde hair, which reached down to her hip. It was a similar color to my own, except hers was a darker shade. She wore a white t-shirt and yellow training shorts. This was my older sister, Kagamine Lily. She's 2 years older than I was and was in college. We rarely ever bonded since I was always at a gym or a dojo, but she'd always made the time to get on my nerves somehow. For example, right now.
"Breakfast is ready." She repositioned the toothbrush in her mouth, which explains why she was talking so strangely.
"Okay… I'll be down in a bit." I muttered and pulled my sheets over myself again.
"You're going to be late for school if you don't get ready now." Lily informed me, still brushing her teeth.
"Kay." I replied, not paying any attention now.
I thought she had given up since I could hear her heading towards the door.
"Mom! Your so called 'kind son' grew up to be a deli-"
"Wah! I'm up I'm up!" I sprang out of my bed in panic.
"Good boy." She smirked and turned to leave. "Oh, I almost forgot." She paused and turned back towards me. "Mom left a note on the fridge, saying she and dad got invited by one of dad's acquaintances to France. She said they'll be back by the end of the month." She informed me and left.
"Wait… what?" I took a moment to process what she said. That means mom isn't here, but Lily called out to her earlier… I just played into her hands, didn't I? I came to the realization and rubbed the bridge of my nose.
Afterwards, I washed up, changed into my uniform, and tied my hair back into a small ponytail. Once I came downstairs, I immediately made my way towards the kitchen for breakfast.
"This is what you meant by 'Breakfast is ready'?!" I felt my eye twitch as I looked at the content on the kitchen counter.
Laid out on the counter was a box of cereal, a carton of milk, a glass bowl, and a spoon. I mentally scolded myself for actually expecting something better from my sister.
I got to school rather early today, because of the whole morning incident, so I was one of the few people already in class. Surprisingly, Rin was already at her desk by the time I got to the classroom. Since there were only a few people in the class, the already quiet atmosphere became one with a lot of anxiety once I entered the room. People would send me nervous glances, as if they were worried that I was looking at them. This was the situation that I hated the most; total silence with people glancing at me constantly. Not being able to withstand it any longer, I decided to just ignore everything and rest my head on my desk.
"Len!" my rest was short lived.
"Huh?" I turned to face Rin, who was standing next to my desk.
"Help me with my homework!" she requested and placed her printout on my desk.
"What?" I looked at her confused. "Why would I do that?"
"You must have finished it already, right? I mean, you're trying to sleep, so you must have already done it." Rin assumed.
"Do I look like someone who cares about homework?" I asked rhetorically.
"You should!" Rin shouted persistently.
While our conversation was going on, our classmates were starting to arrive. I noticed them giving us odd looks, wondering what the transfer student could want from the delinquent.
"Since when did you two get so close?" Kaito asked as set his bag down on his desk and turned to face us.
"W-what? No we're not!" his comment caught me off guard and made me stammer.
"Shion, did you do your math homework?" Rin asked him.
"Hmhm." He laughed through his nose and showed us his paper.
"It's blank." I stated, after giving it a quick scan.
"Exactly!" he said proudly. "Help me with mine too." He turned his chair around and sat down, so he was facing me. Rin followed his example and brought her chair as well.
"Wha-… why?!" I looked at them bewildered. "I probably don't even have my printout anyways." I told them, hoping I'd be able to get out of this. I wasn't lying about me not having my printout, since I most likely threw it away once I received it.
"Oh, don't worry about that. I have a spare." Rin placed another printout on my desk.
"I-… w-... th…" I was trying to say something, but nothing I could say right now could get me out of this situation. I sighed in defeat and leaned back on my chair. "Do what you want."
"Alright! With the 3 of us working together we're going to breeze through this assignment!" Rin said enthusiastically.
…
Class ended and the teacher gave us back our homework with our scores on them. 4/10 eh, it's good enough. I shrugged and shoved the paper in my desk. I couldn't tell what grade Kaito got since his back was blocking my view, so I glanced over at Rin. She was gazing down at her paper with a sullen expression and her mouth slightly agape. I leaned over to see her score. 2.5/10
"Pfft!" I tried to stifle a laugh. It was funny because she was the one who was pestering me to study with them, but she ended up with the lower score. I thought she'd be good at studying. After having seen Rin's score I became curious about how Kaito did, so I peeked over his shoulder. 10/10 … I think I hurt something inside of myself when I saw that. It was something between irritation and disbelief.
"I'll ace the next text!" Rin stood up and declared.
"You know that wasn't a test. It was just homework." I pointed out.
"I don't care… I'll just ace everything." She mumbled, while pouting.
When I saw her pout, I felt the throbbing in my chest again. It came at me stronger than before. What's going on with me? I put my hand on my chest to feel my heart beating at an irregularly high pace. This started happening ever since I met Rin. I'm not sure what it means, but I know the main reason for it must be her.
The break ended and the next class had begun, but the thought didn't leave me until later into the day.
"…" I was eating yakisoba bread on the roof with my eyebrows furrowed in annoyance.
"Mmm…" Rin was sitting on the bench in front of me, eating from her bento box.
"So why are you here again?" I ran out of patience and asked her.
"Mmg." she took a moment to swallow down her food. "What's so wrong about eating with your friend?" she asked once her mouth was empty.
"I don't recall ever agreeing to be your friend." I said.
"Then you don't want to be friends?" she asked, looking me straight in the eye.
Her deep blue eyes were staring directly at me. I felt like I was melting under her gaze, and my heart was racing faster than before.
"I-I… don't mind." I mumbled, barely audibly. I was somehow able to turn my gaze away from her; my heart still beating like mad.
"I'm glad then." She smiled and resumed eating.
We ate our lunch in peace, not really having anything to say to each other at this point. It took a while for my heart to stop racing, but after it did, I was able to think more clearly.
Today was a half day because the teachers had a meeting in the afternoon. So, all the students were allowed to leave after lunch. I was already done eating, but Rin was taking her time with her bento. I didn't want to seem rude and just leave her, so I waited patiently. My eyes wandered around for a moment before I noticed something underneath Rin's bento box.
"What's that stack of paper?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Hm?" she peered down at what I was pointing at. "Ah!" she sprung up from her seat when she noticed it as well. She had placed her bento down on the bench, and was now holding the stack of paper towards me. "I remembered now! You were the only one in class that didn't hand in your future plan survey sheet, so the teacher told me to get it from you!"
"What? No way. I'm not going to write something like that." I declined.
"But you have to! Everyone else already turned theirs in!" she insisted.
"I don't want to. Even if I did, I don't have something like a 'future plan', right now." I told her.
Not wanting to be pestered by this any longer, I grabbed my bag, which I brought with me from class, and put it over my shoulder. I walked towards the door, but I noticed a group of people out of the corner of my eyes.
"Huh?" I got closer to the fence to see who they were.
Down by the front entrance of the school, there was a group of 10 rough looking upperclassmen gathered by the gate. I recognized one person in the group, and it was the messy haired senpai from yesterday.
"That's just great." I groaned. It's pretty obvious they were looking for me, because of what I did yesterday.
Rin walked over and looked at what I was glaring at. She gasped once she saw the upperclassmen.
"W-what? Do you know them?" I asked.
"No… it just surprised me that you had friends other than me." She said, getting over her initial shock.
"Please don't look down on me." I felt my eyebrow twitch.
"Oh! If I get them to leave, then will you fill out the survey sheet?!" she perked up and asked.
"What? That's impossible!" I told her.
"You won't know until you try." She replied and hastily rushed down the stairs.
"Wait!" I tried to stop her, but to no avail. She was already too far to hear me.
I was conflicted on whether if I should go after her or not, but better judgment told me to put some trust in her and wait patiently. They wouldn't do anything to a girl out in the open like that.
…
"I'm back!" Rin announced as she came through the door. I sighed in relief now that I knew she was okay.
"Did you get rid of them?" I asked as I got up from the bench and went over to the fence; surprised that she could pull off such a feat.
The area by the front gate had way more thug like students near it than before. Some even had baseball bats and iron pipes in their hands now.
"Oh, I'd say there are about 40 of them now." Rin said, peering out the fence beside me.
"Ho…How'd you increase their number?!" I shouted in disbelief. "I'm pretty sure there is four times the amount of people that SHOULDN'T be there!"
"I only had a word with them." She shrugged.
FLASHBACK
Rin approached the group of boys in front of the gate in a calm posture.
"Excuse me, I have a message from Kagamine Len." She got their attention.
"Who the hell are you?" one of the senpais looked at her suspiciously.
"I'm just a friend." She answered.
"Alright then, what's the message?" the upperclassman with messy hair asked.
Rin then took in a deep breath before answering.
"Fuck." (note: everyone is talking in Japanese, but Rin said that in English)
FLASHBACK END
"WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT?!" I yelled at her furiously.
"I don't know what it means, but I heard someone say it in a movie I watched yesterday. After the person said it everyone started running away, so I thought it was appropriate thing to say." She shrugged again.
"That's a movie!" I facepalmed. "Now how am I supposed to get home…" I grumbled as I looked around school for any other way out. "I guess I'll have to sneak my way out." I muttered under my breath.
"I'll help you!" Rin spoke up as she grabbed my hand and started dragging me along.
"Eh? And how on Earth are you going to do that?" My face felt warm. The only thing my brain was processing was the warmth of Rin's hand pulling mine.
...
"How'd we end up like this?" I asked the girl who was in the same position as me.
Rin's idea of 'sneaking' was getting down on all fours and crawling through the school.
"Shh… we don't want to get spotted." She said in a hushed tone.
"By who?! We're in the corridors so they can't even see us from outside. And if they were inside, then we'd have been spotted by now!" I was complaining, but I wasn't really mad at her; I was more upset that I willingly let myself get dragged into Rin's pace all the time.
I was thankful that most of the student had already gone home by now, but I could still feel eyes staring at the backs of the two kids, who looked like complete idiots crawling on the floor. I'd rather have people terrified of me than have them laugh behind my back. Anxious glances were much better than the ones drilling into my back right now.
"What are those two doing?" a boy whispered to his friend.
"Are they okay?" a girl asked in a somewhat worried tone.
Oh god kill me now.
We went like this the entirety of the way to the first floor, other than the stairs, because that would have been awkward. We reached a corner, which if we rounded we'd be able to see the exit, but I stopped Rin from doing so.
"Stop." I grabbed her by the shoulder and took a step ahead of her, poking my head around the corner. At the end of the hallway were two upperclassmen standing by the exit. They appeared to be on guard, since they were not talking to each other, but rather eyeing the corridor.
"They must have all the ways blocked." Rin said. She was crouching below me and peaking around the corner.
"Damn it." I clenched my teeth, getting more irritated by the situation.
"Let's go out the window!" Rin proposed and started unlatching the windows.
"We're going to have to make a run for the fence. Make sure they don't notice us." I told her and stepped onto the window sill.
"Alright!" she nodded in affirmation.
"Okay then, on 3. 1… 2… 3!"
…
We had jumped the fence and ran for a good 3 minutes, before we felt like we were at a safe distance.
"That was exciting!" Rin exclaimed with a wide grin.
"Ha… I don't want to go through this again." I groaned.
"Let's celebrate this at a café!" Rin suddenly suggested. "It'll be my treat!"
The next thing I knew, we were in some nearby café and had ordered 2 smoothies. We didn't have the appetite to eat something, so the beverage was enough for us.
"This smoothie has such a pretty color." Rin was leaning down and marveling her orange smoothie.
"Kuh… my money." I was sullen because I had paid for both our smoothies.
"Ahaha." Rin laughed, embarrassed. "Sorry, I forgot my purse." We found out about her purse after the smoothies were done.
"It's too late now." I sighed and took a sip from my cup.
"This tastes amazing!" Rin exclaimed the moment she took her first sip.
"You know if one of them noticed us when we were jumping the fence back there, we probably wouldn't be here getting smoothie." I started saying.
"Aaah~…" Rin was happily sipping her drink; mesmerized by the taste.
"I don't want to admit it… but it was pretty fun…" I openly admitted.
"Mm…" Rin had a look of pure bliss.
"You aren't listening to a single word I say, are you?" I hunched my shoulders as I asked.
"Hm?... did you say something?" Rin finally looked up from her smoothie.
"No… nothing. I didn't say anything." I brushed it off and sighed.
"Sorry, it's just that it's my first time in a café, so I'm nervous." Rin admitted. "Cafés always have those atmospheres to them, so I could never go in one."
"What about with your friends?" I inquired.
"Er… they weren't the type to go to cafés." Rin told me. "That's why I'm glad I came here with you, Len." She smiled at me full heartedly.
My body froze. I felt a blush crawling up my face and tightness in my chest again. My heart was beating so rapidly, that it felt like my heart was pumping right next to my ear. I was in complete daze. Rin, on the other hand, was calmly finishing her beverage. Once she finished, she stood up from her seat.
"Thanks for the meal!" (note: she's saying the phrase Japanese people would usually say after eating a meal)
"Uh… I mumbled. My mind was still blank, only full of a strange soothing feeling.
"Well then, I'll be going first! See you tomorrow Len!" Rin left the café, leaving me here by myself.
"Hm…" I sat there sipping my banana smoothie absentmindedly.
Wait… I snapped out of my trance and shot up. I hurriedly ran after Rin and burst out of the café.
"What about the survey?!" I shouted at Rin, who was only a few meters away.
"Ah!" her eyes opened wide in realization. "Why didn't you tell me earlier?! The deadline is due today!" she ran back to me. "This isn't the time to be just standing around! Get a pen or a pencil! Something!" she started to panic.
"Am I interrupting something?" someone asked.
"Huh?" we turned to glance at who it was.
Standing in the middle of the road was the senpai with messy hair. He had 4 people behind him, looking equally as vandal-like as the senpai.
"You're still looking for me?" I took a step back in disbelief.
"Was a real pain in the ass finding you." He sneered in annoyance.
"Well, I was trying to avoid you for a reason." I retorted.
"You little prick." He clenched his teeth.
"Rin, get out of here. I'll meet you back at school." I urged her to leave.
"No, I can't leave my friend behind!" she didn't budge.
"I'll beat you right here, and tell everyone how weak you actually are!" the senpai declared.
"Just go! NOW!" I shouted at her.
The group behind the senpai rushed at me. Tch… sending his minions after me first I didn't want them to have the upper hand and charged at them as well. I ducked under the punch from the first guy and clocked him on the chin.
"Hurry up and go to school!" I yelled at Rin, who still didn't leave. "This is my problem to begin with!" because I was trying to shout and fight at the same time, one of them was able to land a solid kick on my back.
"Len!" Rin called out my name.
"I'm fine so just leave!" I shouted between my teeth, bracing my leg for support. I took a punch to the gut this time, but I didn't back down. Another kick came towards me, so I stepped towards him and grabbed his leg, making him only stand by his other and I quickly swung my right foot against his remaining leg, forcing him to lose balance and topple over.
"What do we have here?" the messy haired senpai grabbed onto Rin's arm.
Damn it! I told her to run! I cursed.
"Why is a cute girl like you hanging around such a dull punk like him?" he asked with a smirk.
"Let go!" Rin started to flail her arms; the stack of printouts flaying around in her hand.
"What's this?" the senpai snatched the papers from her.
"Ah! That belongs to our class!" Rin reached up for the papers in vain.
"Future plans survey?..." he started skimming the paper.
"That one's mine!" Rin exclaimed, trying desperately to get it back.
"Wait… Kagami Rin?" the senpai's voice started to shake as he read her name. "THE Kagami Rin?!"
"I said, GIVE IT BACK!" Rin suddenly did a high kick, making her foot powerfully uppercut the senpai's head.
"Wah?" I watched the senpai fall back onto his back. I had already taken care of the other 4 and was about to go and help Rin.
"S-since when was the Demon friends with the White Fang?!" the senpai tried to crawl away from us.
"There's no way we can take them both on!" his companions scurried away.
"W-wait! Don't leave me by myself!" the senpai scrambled onto his feet and ran after them.
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"… What?" I didn't understand what had just happened. I feel like I've been getting into situations similar to this one frequently now. "What was that all about?" I turned to ask Rin, who was fixing her clothes.
"Well… I guess I can't keep it a secret anymore." She decided to come clean. "I used to be a delinquent in my previous town. I'd always get into fights and wouldn't care about my grades. But after a while, I grew tired of constantly fighting and wanted to live a normal life. It wasn't possible in my previous town since everyone already knew about me. So… that's why I came here." She summarized her story.
"You were a delinquent?" I asked in surprise. I wouldn't have been able to tell she was one if she never told me, but this does explain a lot of things. I guess her desire to be 'normal' actually paid off.
"Mhm" she nodded.
"That explains the kick." I said.
"Yeah…" she heaved a sigh. "Even though I promised not to be violent anymore… I ended up flying into rage again."
"You couldn't help it." I shrugged, trying to comfort her.
I noticed the future plans forms next to my feet and picked them up.
"Anyways, shouldn't you be taking these to the teacher now?" I asked, as I handed them to her.
"Oh! Did you fill out your paper?" she questioned and took the sheets.
"Yeah, I did it earlier on the roof." I fished out the piece of paper from my pocket, and handed it to her.
"Alright then! I'm going to go submit these to the teacher straight away." She grinned ear to ear, feeling proud of herself. "See you tomorrow, Len!" she gave me a farewell before making her way back to school.
"Heh. An ex-delinquent who's eager to do errands for teachers." I chuckled at the thought.
Now that I think about it, Rin was similar to me. Except the fact that she didn't unintentionally become a delinquent like I did. She straight out became one. But either way, we both thrive to become normal students and be accepted by the people around us. She's a bit strange, but that's probably because she doesn't have any basis on what 'normal' is. I can't really say much about her, since I'm probably the same. Maybe being her friend wasn't a bad thing after all.
With that thought, I made my way home.
CHAPTER END
A/N – Okay a reasonably long chapter. This was also a character development chapter, but for Rin this time! I hope it didn't turn out bad. I know I promised a lot of 'fluff' scenes, but I can't really get into that right now, because I need to add in more characters into the story since I only got Len, Rin, Kaito, and Lily right now. Maybe you guys could drop me some suggestions on future characters to come out :D
Ohright, I wanted to make a couple things sure for you guys. Those of you, who think Rin's personality is really weird, then keep in mind that she's an ex-delinquent trying to act normal. But she has no fundamental on what 'normal' is so she doing stuff that she thinks is 'normal'.
Also, people might be confused on the school layout, since people usually picture their own school when reading the story. However, my story is based in Japan, so you have to imagine schools in Japan. The schools in Japan and in Korea are practically the same so I used my school here in Korea for reference and watching anime for the rest. The school I had picture when writing this was a 4 stories tall school building in the shape of an L. There is a brick fence going around the school in a big square with two gates in the front and on the back. The school building is close to the back wall, because the center needs to be wide and open for the field. I'd go into a deeper explanation, but then that'd become its own story.
Still looking for proofreaders, so I can try and give you guys a perfect version of the story before updating it. PM me if you're interested 3
I'm really thankful for all of you who are reading my story and hope you guys keep on doing so. You guys are great! C:
So leave a review if you enjoyed the chapter, and if you have any character suggestions to add to the story.
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Jessi-chan9867 – I'm not sure if it's a 'chance' or not, but it is a good opportunity for Len to get closer to her ;D Len has a crush and is too dense to know it~
44Anifreak44 – What'd you expect? He's been practically alone his entire life, so he hasn't had enough experience or social interaction to know what he's feeling. ;
Guest – Like I said on the other review~ He's just uninformed. OuO
miranlin – I focus really hard when writing these, but my concentration cuts off sometimes, so if the story seems a bit inconsistent, then I'm sorry D;
Juzinha80 – It's the start of almost every story in fanfic 8D. Well, you had a decent look at Rin's personality in this chapter. Kaito's personality is just REALLY friendly. Like the type of person who'd talk to everyone in class. A difficult situation for Len to face… I still need to think about that one.
Troubled Windchimes (Chapter 1) – Thanks for complimenting my writing style~ I never was really that confident in it… ; Fighting scenes are something I've been trying to get better at writing, for a while now. So I'd say I'm a bit decent at writing those now :P I really love reading reviews like yours because it leaves me with the impression that I did well in writing those part of the stories. So thanks! :D
Troubled Windchimes (Chapter 2) – The romance shall start! Really slowly… painstakingly slowly ;D Character development comes first! I'm pretty sure you wrote a long enough review on the previous chapter o don't over exert yourself.