I looked at the key. Kaito's room was room number three. I shoved the key into the slot and turned. The door easily opened. Kaito was walking into the kitchen.

His apartment did not look like I expected it to. It was really nice. Lots of room. As far as I could tell, there was one bedroom, one bathroom, a kitchen and a rather large living area. In the living room there was a giant flat screen T.V. with a couch, a coffee table and two arm chairs in front of it. Of course the furniture was black. Next to the T.V. was a big book shelf that housed more DVD's then I could count. There was also a giant drum set with a guitar and a bass on each side of it along with two pretty big amps. The kitchen was rather large. The stove looked really new and the fridge looked like the latest model. There was a large kitchen table with a bunch of chairs around it and a long counter that stretched along most of the outside of the kitchen. It had a few bar stoles in front of it. Behind the kitchen table was a wine rack but it didn't have any wine on it. Thank the heavens.

I walked in and took off my shoes by the door. "Who gave you a key?" Kaito asked. Kaito's eyes narrowed. "It was Mathieu wasn't it?"

I smiled and pitched the key to Kaito. "Now Mathieu doesn't have a key." I walked in. "Your apartment is huge." I walked over to the couch and sat down. "Must be nice to live alone like this. I've always wanted a big apartment just like this."

Kaito opened the fridge. "Want something to drink?"

"What do you have?" He pulled out two Coke's and walked over to me. He sat down next to me and handed me the Coke. "Thank you." I popped the top and took a long drink.

"I don't remember inviting you in."

"To late now." I smiled and kicked my feet up on the coffee table. He sighed and kicked his feet up as well. "Am I really imposing?"

"No." he took a long drink of his Coke and then set it down on the coffee table. "So where are you forcing me to take you tomorrow?"

"Who says I'm forcing you? If you have any honor at all, you'll show up and when you do show up were going out to dinner at a really nice diner I went to with my parents last weekend when we finally finished moving our things into our new house."

"A Diner?"

"Do you have a problem with Diner's?"

"Not at all. I was just expecting you to make me spend a lot of money on you." He explained.

"Well I'm not that cruel." I set my Coke down then leaned against his shoulder. He blushed a little. I half smiled and slid my arms around his arm. "Are you blushing?"

"No." He stated and looked away from.

I giggled and snuggled against him. I could see his face turning pink. "I'm pretty sure you're blushing."

"You must be seeing things."

This should be funny. I got close to his ear so my lips were brushing against his ear as I spoke. "I think you are."

He looked at me with his cheeks flaming pink and an angry look on his face. "Your messing with me aren't you?"

"Just a little." I whispered. We were really close now. Only a lips distance apart. Just as he was about to lean forward to kiss me, my phone went off. I smiled with amusement and pushed away. I answered on the last ring. "Hello?"

"Are you alright?" Kiyoteru asked.

I laughed. "Did you call just to check up on me?" I smiled. "I'm fine. Quit worrying so much. If you stress out to much your gonna break out."

"Miku! Are you alright?" Rin shrieked in the back ground.

"Quit yelling. She can hear you fine." Kiyoteru said.

"Miku can you hear me?" she shrieked.

"Loud and clear Rin." I said.

"Yeah!" Rin shrieked.

"Where are you?" Kiyoteru asked.

"Don't worry about that. Just know I'm fine ok?" I asked.

"Be careful."

"Hey Miku! Let's go get our nails done tomorrow! Ok?" Rin asked.

"Sure why not." I said.

"Yeah! Ok! Bye Miku!" Rin shrieked. They hung up.

"She's such a ball of energy." I laughed. "I can only imagine her hyped up on sugar." I looked at Kaito just in time to see him kiss me. My eyes widened but I slowly relaxed into him. He tasted like a little peace of heaven. I'd never thought my first kiss would be with a gangster but I guess life just loves to mess with me. He hesitated at first but his arms eventually slid tight around me and without knowing it, my arms were around his neck pulling closer. I felt the world kind of melt away until it was just us. It was like our lips were meant to fit together and that was a fantastic feeling.

Before I knew it, Kaito had me pressed down against the couch. His muscles felt nice wrapped around me. I felt so safe for some reason. I was obviously stronger then him but I felt just a little bit safer then usual. His hand brushed a few stray hairs from my face and rested just under my chin.

It was a while before we finally stopped. We just looked at each other breathing heavily like we had just run a mile in 100 degree weather. I usually knew exactly what to say in any situation but right now, I just couldn't think of a word to say. My heart was pounding in my chest.

"It's late." I whispered. That was all I could say? That's so pathetic.

He pressed his forehead against mine. "It's only 6 Miku." He chuckled.

"It feels like its midnight." I blushed. "I guess my idea of time is a little off."

He sat up. "You're not happy are you?"

"What? No that's not–"

"It's fine. You can go." He stood and headed for the door. I got up and grabbed his arm. He looked at me and I kissed him. He didn't hesitate this time. His arms slid immediately around me.

"If I'm not happy, you'll know." I kissed him quickly then slid out of his arms. "Now sit your ass back down." I walked back over to the couch and pick up my Coke. "Did you know that Coke owns Sprite?" I shrugged. "I think that's weird, don't you?"

He chuckled and sat down next to me. "Yeah, that's weird."

I got up. "I'm gonna pick a movie." I walked over to the book shelf and began to scan the wall for something good to watch. Kaito sat there on the couch watching me with a smile of his face. I don't get why guys do that. They just sit there smiling with satisfaction at women. It's so weird but for some reason I really liked the way he was looking at me. Not with lust like most guys but love almost. I blushed and continue looking.

I finally decided on Summer Wars. I honestly couldn't believe he actually owned this movie but I guess he might have just gone to some movie store and bought the first couple in every letter of the alphabet. That sounds like something that he'd do. I walked over to the DVD player and placed the disk in. Minutes later I was snuggled up next to Kaito watching Summer Wars with his arm around me. It felt nice. You know…to be loved…just like this.

I had fallen asleep at some point during the movie. When I woke up it was around midnight sleeping on Kaito's shoulder which definitely wasn't good. My parent's probably has a search party out for me right now. I looked at my phone as Kaito slowly woke up. I had three voicemails. I listened to the first one.

It was my mother and boy was she angry. "Miku when you get home I'm gonna take a frying pan–"

My father got on the phone. "Come home when you feel like honey."

I listened to the second. It was from my mom but all I got was the sound of my parents fighting over the phone. The last one was basically the same thing.

"Your parents freaking out?" He asked.

"My mom is." I chuckled. "She worries way too much."

He half smiled. "I'll drive you home."

"Alright." I got up and stretched. "What time is it?"

Kaito looked at his phone. "A few minutes until one."

"Damn it. My mom is gonna kill me." I shrugged. "Oh well. I'll just say I fell asleep at my friend's house. She'll be happy I made any friends at all."

"Friend?"

"If I said boyfriend she'd kill me for real." I elbowed him. "Beside's, the more handsome you are, the more my mother will really want to kill you for keeping me so late. She always assumes the worse."

"I could just drop you off."

"If you do that, my mom will never let you into my house ever." I slid my shoes on. "You'll just have to explain that we fell asleep watching a movie. At which point I will clarify that I was sleeping in an arm chair and you were on the couch. That should at least win you some points."

Kaito slid his feet into his shoes and we headed out the door. The restaurant was closed but Kaito had the pass code that turned off the alarms just long enough for us to slide out of the restaurant without setting off the alarm. Kaito's car was really nice. It was a black truck and it looked like it was fresh out of the shop.

"Shot gun!" I shrieked as I ran around the side of the car. Kaito chuckled and got in as I climbed into his car that was huge by the way. We drove in silence for a minute but Kaito finally broke the silence.

"I guess I canceled your dinner date tonight with four eyes." He said.

I shrugged. "I actually didn't have any plans to begin with but I hate being hit on by men so I sort of blew you off with a false story. However, me and Kiyoteru are going to a café to eat crap loads of ice cream and then were gonna go play at the park and then were going out to dinner. Now that Rin and I are friends, I'm assuming she'll be coming with us as well. It's gonna be super fun." I smiled. Kaito looked a little smug. "It's not a date so quit making that face." I patted his arm. "Kiyoteru and I are just friends so don't worry your extremely blue head about it." I crossed my arms. "You should trust me more."

"Yeah whatever." He looked at me out of the corner of his eye. "So you like this Kiyofu?"

"Kiyoteru" I corrected. "And he's my friend. Quit making fun. He's a nice guy. I could say that about you if you weren't such a jerk to everyone." I sighed. "I guess I'm the only one who gets special treatment."

"Yeah that about sums it up." He looked at me. "But I guess I could be nice to four eyes for a little while."

I smiled. "Start by calling him by his name smart ass." I punched his arm. "Rin too. She's a sweet girl."

"You know you just met these people today." He pointed out.

"I could say the same about you but you don't see me complaining." I smiled expectantly. "You want me to take back today and have us start over?"

"I don't like that plan."

I laughed. "Then quit complaining."

"Why exactly did you agree to come with me today anyways?"

"You dragged me down the street." I pointed out but I knew he was picking up on my trail.

"Bull shit. You and I both know you could have gotten away if you wanted to. So why didn't you?"

I shrugged. "I don't know. I was curious. You obviously had your reasons for stealing me away so I figured I'd play along."

"And at what point did flirting come into your mind?"

I laughed. "That was your fault. You brought that on yourself." I leaned over the center consul and kissed his cheek. "And I was messing with you when I whispered in your ear."

His eyes widened. "So when I –"

"When you kissed me I was completely caught off guard. I'm very impressed you had the balls to do that." I giggled.

"You sneaky little bitch." He said angrily.

I smiled. "But I'm really glad you did kiss me." I laid my head on his shoulder. "Cause it made me realize how much I really wanted you to kiss me."

He smiled like he just won a million bucks. "Yeah well I hear that all the time from the ladies."

"I'll believe that when I see it." Seconds later we were in front of my house. I kissed him. "That's your good night kiss." I smiled and slid out of his car. Kaito followed me up to the door. I went to get my keys but the door swung open with mom standing there looking like a demon holding a frying pan. Looks like she wasn't kidding about the frying pan.

"Now Kiku." Dad said touching mom's shoulder.

"Shut up Mikuo. Let me handle this." mom said with a demonic look on her face.

"Mom, I just fell asleep on Kaito's arm chair while we were watching a movie. I promise I came home a virgin. Don't be so over protective. I can handle myself." I smiled at Kaito. "Thank you for treating me to Ramen."

"No problem. See you tomorrow for practice." Kaito half smiled at my parents. "You both have yourselves a good night. Sorry I brought her home so late. We were both passed out for a few hours." Kaito headed back to his car. Mom glared at him as she shut the door.

"Is that really true Miku?" mom asked.

"Yes, I just fell asleep. That's it. Just because Kaito's really sexy doesn't' mean I had sex with him. Geez." I crossed my arms. "Do you trust me at all?"

"Miku, what happened to your hair?" dad asked holding a chunk of my hair in his hand.

"My heavens. Don't tell me you got your hair cut while you were out with that boy." Mom said.

I sighed. "During class, I have to sit in front of these gangsters. One of them cut my hair as a joke so I had to cut the other one to stay balanced. There in detention for the week so I shouldn't hear from them anymore."

Mom hugged me. "My poor baby. Do you want to transfer again?"

"No mom. I like this school. I've already made three friends." I whined.

"I don't want my daughter going to school with a bunch of juvenile delinquents." Mom petted my hair which is something she does when she's being an over protective parent.

"Why do you always do this to me? You're not over protective of Poiyo." I moaned.

"Poiyo's a fully grown adult." Mom pointed out.

"Who's still living with his parents." I added.

"You know why he does that. He likes to protect his little sister." Mom laid her head on top of mine and continued to pet my hair.

"Doesn't everyone in this family." I mumbled.

"Honey, maybe you should give Miku a little more freedom. She is in high school now. Don't you think 9 pm is a little early for a high school student's curfew? I remember when I was in high school; my friends would make fun of me because I had to be home by 10 while the rest of them could stay out until 1." Dad explained.

"Fine. 9:30."

"Mom, seriously?" I asked.

"Fine you may stay out until midnight but if you're a millisecond late, you're grounded for a whole week." Mom said.

I shrieked and hugged her. "Oh thank you." I hugged dad and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I love you guys." I ran upstairs and into my room. Sadly Poiyo was sitting on my bed.

"Where have you been?" Poiyo asked. He had been reading one of my girly magazines. "Did you know that the cucumbers on the eyes thing does absolutely nothing? I thought they hydrated the eyes or something stupid like that."

"I was out with a friend and I fell asleep in his arm chair at his house." I said setting down my school bag. I was lucky the only homework I had to do was print out those music sheets or I'd really be regretting going to Kaito's house.

"You two must be close." Poiyo said looking at me with suspicion.

"What makes you say that?"

"I saw you two. In his car."

I shut the door. "You saw nothing." I pointed at the door. "Now get out."

"Is he your boyfriend now?" Poiyo asked.

I crossed my arms. "Yes…No…I don't know. It's not like we've worked hard on specifying what we are to each other." I rubbed my arm awkwardly.

"I see." Poiyo thought about that for a second. "Well I'm gonna talk to him. Maybe rough him up a bit if I don't like his answers to all of my questions." Poiyo cracked his knuckles. Poiyo's very strong. Just about as strong as I am if not stronger. He could definitely do some damage on Kaito and I'm pretty sure that Kaito would lose.

I tackled him and pressed him down on my bed. "If you do anything to him, I'll never speak to you again. You hear me Poiyo?"

"I hear you loud and clear baby sister." He smiled. "Glad to see you've found someone that makes you act crazy. You're to wound tight baby sister. You need to relax more."

I blushed. "He doesn't make me act crazy."

Poiyo laughed. "You're lying through your teeth and you know it."

I groaned and fell back on my bed. "Shut up."

Poiyo crossed his arms. "He looks strong. I think I can leave you alone with him knowing he'll protect you."

I sighed. "I can protect myself you know. I got into a fight today and I easily handled myself."

"I know you can protect yourself but the point I'm making is you shouldn't have to. Let the men in your life take care of you. If they need help go right on ahead and jump in but if they can handle it, you don't need to get involved. Sometimes it's better to let other people take care of you instead of you taking care of yourself. Do you get what I'm saying?"

I groaned. "Loud and clear."

"Good." He looked at me. "Get some sleep. I'm gonna take you out for ice cream after school tomorrow ok?"

"I guess that's ok. Can my friends come? I made two friends today. Kiyoteru and Rin. There super nice. I think you'd like them."

"Sure. I need to scoop them out anyways. I don't trust that school. It seems weird."

"Fine." I said.

He kissed my cheek then got up. "Good night." He left my room and shut the door behind him. I sighed and got up. As I changed into my pajamas, I thought about what happened today. I can tell that breaking through this gang is gonna be like banging through a brick wall with a chopsticks but I have to try. I don't know why but I feel like I really need to help them. Maybe it's because I want to have a peaceful high school life. I don't know but either way I'm gonna help them become better people or at least normal students. I can at least do that much. So I slid into my bed and slowly drifted to sleep as I planned my course of action for tomorrow.

Tomorrow morning as I walked through the schools gates, someone pulled me to the side. It was Luka. That wasn't something I expected. Of all people to pull me to the side, Luka was at the bottom of that list. I'd put Akaito over her in that list. I wonder what she wants.

"How'd you know?" Luka demanded.

"How'd I know what?" I asked.

"How'd you know what happened to my parents? Did you cyber stalk me or something? Bribe someone to tell you? Who ever told you, I swear I'll–"

"No one did." I answered.

She stared at me with shock for a second but went back to anger. "Your covering up for someone aren't you you little–"

"I just knew." I shrugged. "You may have a tough exterior but the eyes are the windows to the soul. So when I looked into your eyes…I just sort of…knew. Sorry if I embarrassed you."

Luka stared at me blankly for what seemed like forever but then she just shattered. She fell into me hugging me tight crying into my shoulder. I definitely wasn't expecting that from her. She was even easier then Kaito. I awkwardly wrapped my arms around her.

"I didn't kill them. I swear. They were dead when I found them." She sobbed. Now that I really wasn't expecting. I'll have to see if Kiyoteru can pull up her case file so I can try to understand her better. I don't want to stir up bad memories for her. That'd be rude.

"I know you didn't kill them. You'd never kill anyone would you Luka?" I asked. She shook her head on my shoulder. I smoothed her hair. "It's alright. You can rest easy."

"No I can't. No one believes me." she sobbed.

"I do." I whispered. She froze for a second but then she went back to crying.

"No you don't. You just want to make me feel better."

"Your eyes say you didn't so I believe you didn't." I reached into my bag and handed her a tissue.

She took it and blew her nose then wiped off her cheeks with her sleeve. "Thank you." She took in a deep breath. "I'm sorry I cut your hair."

"It's ok. I needed a hair cut anyways."

She chuckled then sniffled and wiped her nose. "Why are you so nice to me?"

I shrugged. "Because I believe you need to be nice to people before there nice to you." I smiled. "Someone told me that sometimes it's better to let other people take care of you instead of you taking care of yourself."

She looked at me in complete shock for a while but then she relaxed and wiped at her face with her sleeve. "I'm…I'm gonna go to class…thank you pig tails."

"No problem." I smiled. "If you ever need me, I'm here for you ok?"

She nodded. "Ok." She turned and walked towards the school.

I smiled. "I didn't expect that at all." I walked class slowly pondering what Luka had said. Maybe I should invite her to do something with me. Try to become better friends with her…but that might make the gang suspicious and I don't need that. I guess I'll let her come to me. That might work better. I highly doubt that this will be the last time I see her.

I didn't see any of the gang today. During my classes, they didn't even look at me let alone bother me. I might have either scared them off or they might be waiting for the perfect time to do something really awful to me.

During our end of the day free period I went straight to the lunch room. Kaito was there of course but he was with Luka and some kid with white hair. The kid looked scared and nervous. I bet any person at this high school would look just like him if they were forced into this situation.

I walked over to Kaito and sat down. I tossed the sheet music onto the table. "Printed it out last night. Learn it or I'll kill you."

Kaito chuckled and took his copy of the music. He looked it over. "Why am I singing more then you?"

"Cause I said so. You need to pick up your grades anyways." I crossed my arms. "No objections."

"Fine." He smiled. "We still on for tonight."

"Of course we are. You're not skipping out on your part of the bet."

"I didn't expect you would let me off so easy." He half smiled.

"Mrs. Hatsune. Maybe you shouldn't talk to him so forcefully." The white haired kid said.

Luka grabbed the collar of his shirt. "Miku, is this bacon bit bothering you?"

"Put him down. He was just giving me advice." I ordered. Luka let him go. "Thanks for the advice but I can talk to him any way I want. It's not like he's gonna fight me back." I kissed Kaito's cheek.

The kid looked scared and confused at the same time. "Did you guys pick a song yet?" I asked.

The kid looked at Luka nervously then looked away really fast. "I don't know."

"What about Magnet? That's a good song." I asked.

"But that's a romance song!" Luka objected.

"It's a duet. Beside's, it's just an act. No romantic strings attached." I said.

"Well I don't know. If it's ok with Luka." Piko said nervously.

"Fine whatever. Just don't expect anything romantic kid." Luka warned.

"I wasn't expecting any emotion from you period." Piko muttered under his breath.

"Oh I'll show you emotion kid." She grabbed him by his shirt. "This performance is gonna be so hot that the officials won't agree to show it in the performance." Luka smiled evilly. "You know what I think I might actually enjoy this."

The kid looked so scared I thought he might pee himself. "Luka, can't it just be a romantic star crossed lover's thing?" I asked.

Luka thought about it for a second. "Yeah ok." Luka let go of the kid and he fell to the floor.

I held out my hand to the kid. He took my hand and let me pull him up. "Thank you Mrs. Hatsune."

"You know you can call me Miku..." I waited for him to fill my pause with his name.

"Piko Utatane." He finished for me.

"Didn't you win the contest last year?" I asked.

"Yes. Mizki and I performed a great performance. I was offered a lot of spots by a bunch of labels but I turned them down. I'm not interested in creating an album just yet." Piko explained.

"Hot shot." Luka mumbled. She crossed her arms. "Well at least I know you don't suck at singing."

"Well, shall we get practicing?" I asked.

"Yeah whatever. Come on Pito. Let's go find some sheet music." Luka grabbed him by the collar and pulled him along.

"My names Piko." Piko whined as Luka pulled him along. Kaito and I laughed as she they left the lunch room.

"Is it just me or does she like him?" I asked.

"Oh completely. Akaito won't be happy about that though. Luka's his girl." Kaito pointed out.

"Looks like there gonna be in a love triangle."

"That should be hilarious." Kaito picked up the sheet music. "So let's practice."

I smiled. "I'm ready when you are."