I guess you could say this was a filler chapter, since I was just introducing a new character in this. From the next chapter and on the story will start progressing. However, it might take a longer period of time between updates because I'm planning to write a decent amount before uploading. Longest period would probably be a week. Anyways, enjoy the chapter ;D

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Delinquent Life

Chapter Four – Aniki?

Lenn POV

On my way to school the following day, a worrying question popped up in my head.

What if a rumor about Rin's past starts spreading? The senpai from yesterday knew about her so he could have easily spread the word by now. I know it's a bit too early to be assuming this, since the incident only happened yesterday, but it can be scary how fast a rumor can spread. I don't know what kind of reputation Rin had in her previous town, but she's currently doing her best to fit in now, so that's all that matters. I don't care if my own rumors get worse, but I won't forgive anyone who starts treating Rin like an outcast. Nevertheless, if hanging around me makes people avoid Rin as well, then I'll have to start avoiding her. I don't want to end up being the reason why she couldn't enjoy a normal school life.

That final thought caused a compressing feeling in my chest. It wasn't the same feeling I'd get when I'm with Rin, but a more painful one.

These thoughts spun around my head until I finally reached the classroom. I opened the door and my sense of worry was instantly expelled when I saw Rin chatting with one of our classmates. Our eyes made contact and she gave me a smile in greeting. I nodded my head in reply.

I guess I have nothing to worry about for now.

…

Someone was following me. I didn't notice it at first, but when I left the class to use the bathroom I felt eyes staring at the back of my head the entirety of the way. At first I figured it was just people looking at the infamous delinquent, but when I rounded a corner the feeling of being watched would disappear momentarily before appearing again. I grew suspicious so I walked at a faster pace and kept turning corners, and just as I had suspected I was soon able to hear the sound of someone's feet clattering on the floor behind me. Deciding to confront my pursuer, I rounded one more corner and stopped, and sure enough the person rushed around the corner and into sight.

It was a boy. He had long silver hair, which could probably rival the length of Rin's and had bright green eyes. I'm surprised I've never seen him around before, since he has such an eye-catching appearance.

"Why are you following me?" I straight out questioned him.

"Huh?.. Ah!" he seemed confused at first but then became startled once he realized who was asking him the question. "I-I wasn't following you! I was uh… was uhm… Oh! I was looking for my friend! Yeah, that's it. My friend was here somewhere." he nodded to himself as if he was feeling proud of his obvious lie.

I didn't say anything more, but instead simply glared down at him menacingly. Something I picked up while being a delinquent for so long.

"Eep!" he let out a shriek and shrunk back. It didn't take long before he finally cracked. "I'm sorry…" he mumbled and lowered his gaze. "I was following you." he finally confessed.

"Why?" I asked again.

"Well… I thought if I followed you around then I could learn how to be like you." He muttered.

"What? Why would you want to be like me?" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"It's because you're famous!" he exclaimed; his previous anxiety completely gone now.

"Infamous," I corrected him with a sneer.

"You can express yourself freely!"

If I could do that then I wouldn't be a delinquent in the first place

"You're good at fighting!"

I guess

"You don't care what people say about you!"

I actually do

"People even say you rebelled against the teachers!"

Not on purpose

"Please teach me how to become a delinquent like you!" he requested.

I was busy mentally fixing his statements and didn't realize he was actually requesting something from me.

"Wait wait wait. What did you want me to do?" I asked.

"Let me be your underling!" he pleaded.

"Why would I do that?!" I didn't understand why he'd want to be a delinquent so much. It's not even a good experience.

"Because being a delinquent is awesome!" he exclaimed.

"What? No, it's not awesome." I tried to convince him otherwise. "Everyone is afraid of you!"

"That's why it's so great!" he insisted.

"Everyone gives you scorn!" I reasoned.

"It's a price I can pay!" he declared.

"Th-… uhm…" I couldn't really think of anything else on the spot. This kid was dead-set on becoming my underling.

"Why not?" Rin appeared out of nowhere and said.

"Wah? Why are you here?"I stumbled forward, startled by her sudden appearance.

"You left the classroom and didn't return for a while, so I went to see where you had gone and noticed you running down the hall, so I followed you," she replied.

"Okay then, but what do you mean by 'Why not'?" I turned to ask her.

"You should let him be your subordinate." Rin suggested.

"Why?" It feels like I've been asking a lot of questions these days. Most of which, received unreasonable answers.

"He wants to do it, so you shouldn't hold him back." She replied.

"But…" I started saying something but only ended up opening and closing my mouth like a fish. Trying to persuade him to not become a delinquent was practically impossible for me now; even more so, since Rin was insisting on it as well. Rin was the last person I'd expect to tell someone to become a delinquent. I mean, she was an ex-delinquent herself so she should know how bad it gets.

Knowing I couldn't convince them I took in a deep breath and sighed.

"Fine… do what you want." I hunched my back in defeat.

"R-really?!" the silver haired boy's eyes began to sparkle.

"Yeah yeah…" I nodded. The main reason I was so reluctant of this was because if I got an underling then I'd be fully acknowledging the fact that I'm a delinquent.

"Please let me call you Aniki from now on!" he put his hands together as he asked for permission.

"Whatever…Do what you want. I'm going back to class." I couldn't handle any more of this and decided to head back.

"Ah! Don't leave me behind, Len!" Rin called out and ran to my side.

This day couldn't get any worse…

…

I stand corrected.

"Aniki would you like some juice to go with that bread?" my so called underling offered me.

"So, what's your name?" Rin asked him, realizing that we never found out his name.

"Oh, it's Utatane Piko!" he introduced himself.

"It's good that Len was able to make another friend." Rin said happily.

"Okay, what's going on here?!" I abruptly exclaimed.

It was lunch time and we were on the rooftop eating. This was originally my relaxation spot, where I'd enjoy the peace and quiet, but now it became more of a gathering location. Rin, I didn't mind since well… she was my friend… is what I think the reason I wanted to be near her was. Piko, on the other hand, had his mindset firmly on doing my bidding. Instead of trying to be a delinquent right now, he was more focused on proving his own worth to me. I told him that he didn't have to, but he's pretty damn determined. But there was also…

"What's wrong, Len?" Kaito asked.

"I get why these two are here, but why are you here as well?!" I questioned the blunette.

"It's because you kept leaving me to eat lunch by myself." he complained. "For the past few days you've been ditching me. I was being considerate yesterday so you two could have some privacy, but then I find out today that you have some underling with you as well!"

"Wait, what was that about giving us some privacy?" His statement piqued my interest.

"Me, Kaito your best friend. How could I be lower than a subordinate?!" he ignored my question and went on. "We've been friends for so long too." He faked a couple of tears. "Did all those times we spent together mean nothing to you?!"

"What are you talking about?" I rubbed the bridge of my nose in frustration.

"Len… I didn't know you could be so mean." Rin was also sniffing, as if she had also shed a few tears.

"W-wha-? N-no! Nothing like that ever happened! He's just making things up!" I started waving my arms in front of me in panic. He's making Rin misunderstand!

"Pfft." Kaito tried to stifle a laugh, but couldn't hold it for long and ended up breaking down in laughter. "Ahahahahaha! I'm sorry, Len! Hahaha! I'm just messing around!" he confessed midst his laughter.

Rin's tears changed into tears of laughter, as she began to giggle. "I'm sorry too. I couldn't help but go along with his story." She explained.

"W-wait… So… that was a joke?" I asked, still not getting what happened.

"Yeah." Kaito said as he wiped away a tear, which had formed while he was laughing.

"First step to be a delinquent… be… gullible." Piko was writing down on a small notepad.

I sent him a quick glare and he quickly scratched that out.

"I miss my peace and quiet…" I grumbled.

"Cheer up, Len! I'll treat you to some ice cream after school." Kaito offered.

"No! Do you know how long it took for you to choose what flavor ice cream you wanted?!" I instantly declined.

"Don't worry, I won't take that long this time." he assured me.

"Like hell I could trust you. You took almost 30 minutes to decide the flavor of ice cream and then another 20 minutes for the type of cones." I accused him.

"What can I say? I'm picky about my ice cream." He shrugged.

"Even I agree that's a bit weird, Kaito-senpai." Piko admitted.

"Senpai? You were younger than us?" I asked a bit shocked.

"Yes, I'm a 1st year." He told us.

"Oh, I thought you were in the same year as us." I confessed.

A couple minutes passed with us talking light heartedly and Kaito occasionally teasing me. Piko kept trying to do things for me like offering me a drink and trying to massage my shoulders. However, I would always refuse him because I didn't want to take advantage of him. After I was done eating my curry bread, I crumbled up the plastic wrap it came in and threw it away.

"Ah." Rin noticed something and came over to me.

"Hm?" I looked up at her curiously.

"You missed some on your cheek." She informed me, pointing out a bread crumb or curry that was on my cheek, but didn't give me the opportunity to wipe it off because she had done it herself.

"See?" she showed me her finger with a piece of crumb on it.

I felt blood rush straight up to my face; my body having realized how close Rin was to me right now.

"You shouldn't waste food like this." She told me and ate the bread crumb off of her finger.

"Eh…" words wouldn't come out of my mouth. My body felt like a statue, frozen in place and the only movement coming from the rapid beating of my chest. If I could see myself right now I would guess my face looked like a bright red balloon; the blush having consumed my entire face.

"Are you okay, Len? Your face is completely red!" Rin looked at me with a worried expression and put her hand under my bangs and against my forehead.

"Wha…" I still couldn't form any words. The contrast between her cold hand and my burning skin felt somewhat relaxing.

"You're burning up!" Rin stated and pulled her hand back.

"Okay, Piko, let's leave these two alone." Kaito stood up and started ushering Piko away.

"But I'm worried about Aniki," Piko uttered while being pushed away.

"H-huh? What?" I was finally able to talk. "D-Don't just leave us behind!" I stumbled to my feet and got up. I was coming back to my senses and my body was feeling way too embarrassed to stay in that situation any longer. I'll probably explode if I do.

"Wait, Len! You have a fever! We should to take you to the infirmary!" Rin tried to convince me.

"No, I'm perfectly fine!" I started doing a couple of stretches in demonstration. "See?"

"No no. Len, you should listen to Rin and go to the infirmary with her." Kaito said with a sly grin on his face.

"I'm fine! Here, I'll go running a bit to prove I'm healthy!" I decided and broke off into a sprint. I felt Rin and Piko's worried gaze and heard Kaito sigh as I ran off.

As I ran I realized a couple of things had happened. My school life has drastically changed ever since Rin came. I wouldn't mind the glances people would usually send me and I became more talkative. I would rarely ever converse with anyone at school, but Rin changed that. I still couldn't talk to most of my classmates since they were still cautious of me, but they weren't that afraid of me anymore. The atmosphere that'd come out when Rin, Kaito and I were talking, made people have second opinions about me. No matter how stressful or frustrating it may seem, I was still having fun. For the first time in my entire school life, I was actually looking forward to coming to school.

CHAPTER END

A/N – Okay what do I have to discuss about this time… Oh, right. I introduced Piko's character to you guys in this chapter. Originally I was planning to make Teto have the role of Len's subordinate, but after a second thought I realized she didn't look like the type to 'follow' someone. Thus, I made Piko, who looked innocent, into a person who desires to be strong, so he isn't made fun of by his childish looks. Well that's the gist of his character. You can't really tell by reading this one chapter though.

Next topic is the class system. I should have probably mentioned this in the previous chapter, but I'll do it now. The school system is different to the U.S as I obviously stated previously, so I'll give you the basic idea on how the classes work. It's simple actually. There's 20~40 students that consists in one class. The people that move around are the teachers who go to the student's classes instead of the students going to the teacher's classes. If you watched enough anime, then you'll understand.

Ohright, there are 3 years in high school in Japan, so yeah, keep that in mind. Len is in his 2nd year.

There are still some characters that are yet to come out, but if you guys have any suggestions for which Vocaloid should come out next, feel free to say so in the review.

Proofreaders! More the merrier! Come on and help me~ 3 I do plenty of rereading to make sure some sentences make sense, but I don't look at a paragraph as a whole, so there could be a lot of mistakes.

So thanks for reading this chapter and leave me a review and show my your undying love!... or just some love… LOVE ME DAMNIT… too much?

Review the review (Hm… feels like I'm getting less and less reviews)

Jessi-chan9867 – Their both much too new to the whole 'love' thing to even know what it is 8D Yeah, I always imagined Rin as a total badass when I read other people's fanfics… so it influenced this

AquaBluey – Was it really that much of a surprise for Rin to be a delinquent? O-o… I didn't expect it to surprise everyone so much.

Troubled Windchimes – Yup, it's always great reading your reviews. I didn't think Rin being a delinquent was much of a plot twist at the time, but I guess it was for the readers. Len's going to have a lot more of those moments . Rin dropping the F bomb was something I saw somewhere else, and thought it'd be funnier to make her say that than anything else in that situation. I may be in Korea, but I may be moving to the U.S sometime this summer, so… I guess I'm going to also be stuck in 'boring US' o; If I ever go travelling, Japan is my number one on the list C: Character development chapters! Makes good fillers 8D! I'm just kidding, they have meaning to the main story, so it's not technically fillers :P

Adorable Reader – Yeah, it was sort of hard wording everything out. I already had everything pictured out, but it's always writing it down that's the problem. I'm glad I didn't do that bad for Rin :D Len has a symptom called 'denselikacrazia'. Or more like 'dontknowwatluvis' And as requested I updated within 24hours of my previous chapter. C: