Vocalising Desires
Author: Christmas SPECIAL! Chapter 4!
White covers the ground
Showing the purity of winter
It also hides the fact that winter is cold
Why?
Because you are too captivated to realise it's cold
Chapter 4: Toluthin Antenna (Part 2: Christmas is Meant for Mistletoe)
So the year went on, passing everyone like a fresh breeze in the springtime morning, melting away the time like the sun did the morning dew on a cold awaking day. Soon those cold mornings turned colder, as winter was upon them. Snow had fallen like feathers off a bird. Light and moving with the winds direction and speed.
Miku sighed in her bedroom. Her parents were away on a business trip and her brother was also out of the country attending a surgical gathering on new techniques of fixing patients with damaged vocal chords. She was wrapped up in a blanket on her bed watching the snow drift downwards to the earthy and cold ground. Her teal blue hair reflecting her mood, blue. What taunted and sadden her more was that the Christmas tree downstairs was already up and decorated with wrapped up boxes under it. Still teasing her, reminding her that she would, most likely be alone for Christmas.
RING~RING~RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING! Went her home phone, rushing out of her blanket and off her bed. Miku ran to the phone, her reaction was the speed of a bullet leaving the barrel of a gun. She was hoping at least one family member would at least be home for Christmas. It wasn't. As she picked up the phone, her heart heightened but was not satisfied.
"H-hey Miku" Len said on the other side of the call.
"Hey Len" Miku said trying to keep a happy facade.
"Tell her" Miku heard on the other end of the line, Rin.
"Alright, wait why couldn't you tell her?" Len asked a little flustered.
"Because it was your idea dumbass" Rin replied and Miku winced as a thump was heard and the thud of a falling body.
"Um? Len?" Miku said worried.
"No, it's Rin, Len is...errrrr, sleeping right now, suddenly just collapsed" Rin said.
'More like K.O.'ed' Miku thought a little worried for the blonde haired boy.
"Anyways, our parents are working overseas over the Christmas break and Len had a great idea! Why not spend it with you and your brother?" Rin exclaimed excitedly.
"Yay!" Miku heard Len say a little muffled, probably from his face being buried in the floor.
"Sounds good, but Mikuo is actually out of the country at the moment but I am sure he won't mind" Miku said cheerfully, her spirits risen again to their usual levels.
"Alright then, we'll be over in about 10 minutes, it is only the 23rd of December and we will need to get presents for each other now" Rin explained and Miku nodded.
It made sense, if they were going to spend Christmas together they will need to get each other (excluding Rin giving Len something and vice versa), it was only polite.
"See you in a while then" Miku said but the call was already cut off.
10 minutes later...
"We are here! Merry Christmas!" Rin exclaimed happily as Miku opened the door to see Rin wearing her usual ribbon, a white parka, some pale yellow gloves, long denim jeans and white boots.
"Merry X-mas" Le said a little less cheerfully as Rin. He had grown his hair longer and it was seen from behind his neck. He had a camouflage beanie on, a black jacket unbuttoned with a white long sleeved shirt, denim jeans and black boots. He had a sack behind him, presumably with their gear in it.
"Hi guys!" Miku replied hugging Rin tightly before jumping at Len, which surprised him and because he was not prepared, he was more tackled to the ground than hugged. Rin smiled at the sight. The brother who still wasn't used to Miku's greetings and actions and the girl who wanted the boy who was she thought (as in Rin) was oblivious to girls until a few months ago when she said "hung up on love's antenna".
"Ah! Miku this snow is freezing my spinal cord!" Len exclaimed as the snow melted with his blushing face and soon water, freezing water was seeping into his clothing and onto his body.
"Opps, sorry" Miku said getting off Len and he stood up and exclaimed breathlessly as the water seemed to make his nerves spasm with the most unwanted feeling ever.
"May we please come inside before we all freeze into popsicles out here?" Rin asked rubbing her hands to get some sort of warmth into them.
"Yes come in" Miku said letting them inside before she closed the door.
"This is a nice place" Len said.
"Idiot, you have been here before" Rin said smacking the back of his head. Rubbing it he laughed a little embarrassed but before he was beaten up and he couldn't quite see the surroundings and details of the house...or more accurately, the two storey apartment. It was nice though, small and quaint.
"Len could you put the presents under the tree?" Rin asked Len who slung over the bag and took out three different sized presents. One for Rin from Len, the other to Len from Rin and the last to the Kagamine siblings from the Kagamine parents.
"Wonders what's inside?" Len wondered looking at the gifts.
"Idiot, wait 'til Christmas morning" Rin shouted smacking the back of his head again. Miku watched in amusement, they really did look like true blood related siblings.
"I think we should go do the shopping for each other's gifts today before the Christmas Eve rush, that might happen tomorrow" Miku said butting in on the fight the siblings were having.
A little while later...
"Alright then we each have some money, so we'll all go our separate ways and meet back here in an hour" Rin said.
They were at a shopping mall in the middle of it actually where a fountain was and near it a massive decorated Christmas tree in the style of a blossoming sakura tree.
'Truly Japanese' Len thought sighing. Well at least he has a white Christmas unlike in Australia where they have beaches, barbeques and blazing hot summer sun that would give you cancer faster than that illness in the movie 'Contagion'.
"Alright then, let's go!" Miku shouted.
A few moments later...
Len was sitting at a table sipping a banana smoothie, inappropriate for this weather and a great waste of time when he should be hunting for a present for Miku. When the other two girls split off without him, he realised something.
He ain't no girl.
Hence his predicament. He didn't know what to get Miku. A bikini was out of the question, for obvious reasons, this included undergarments. Clothing? He wasn't the most fashion conscious person on the planet. Jewelery? Expensive and if he got something cheap, what is the point in that? Misc stuff like gift vouchers or whatever...made him look cheap. He racked his brain for ideas, anything when a familiar voice was heard.
"Need help?" the voice said, Len's head shot up to see Mikuo.
"Hey! Mikuo!" Len exclaimed recognising the teal haired brother.
"Hey, what's up? I can see that you are in a little bit of a prickle, eh?" Mikuo said smiling widely at him as he sat down opposite him with a stick of negi hanging from the corner of his mouth. Len had noticed that the Hatsune siblings had a strange obsession with the bitter vegetable sticks. He mentally shrugged, everyone had their preferences, his was banana's and his sister's: oranges.
"Yeah, wait, Miku said you were out of town" Len said a little suspicious.
"Yeah don't tell her that, I am coming in with a surprise gift for her and I can't trust her with the gift I have for her, it was something she always wanted" Mikuo said winking.
"Damn, well, I guess I am going to be frowned upon by her" Len said a little downcast. Mikuo cursed himself, he couldn't tell the boy that he was the present. Stupid as it sounds but he and Rin already had this planned in secret. When they met each other when Len was injured, they gave each other one another's numbers and kept in contact swapping information on their siblings behaviour and then they got the idea of spending Christmas with each other...that's when Mikuo had the idea to leave town to force the two families together. But again, he couldn't tell Len. He did have a physical present which was a negi shaped necklace, which she'd love but not as much as the boy across from him. Then, he got another idea, just to give him a little push.
"Len, you know about mistletoe?" Mikuo asked curiously leaning in slightly.
"Huh? No, I don't" Len replied a little confused at the change of subject.
"Well, there is a Christmas tradition where when a couple, as in boy and girl, are under hanging mistletoe, they kiss. In olden times in Europe, a woman who refuse to kiss the man is damned with bad luck" Mikuo explained to Len who brightened up at the idea then was downcasr again.
"Yeah but...what if she doesn't...you know...kiss me?" Len asked a little embarrassed and nervous at the idea.
"She knows the idea of mistletoe and she will...trust me" Mikuo said winking at the boy.
"Thanks Mikuo" Len said smiling.
"Hey no problem, but I would also do something else, like get her something or write her a song or poem" Mikuo added smiling at the boy. He generally liked Len, he wasn't like the other run-in-the-mill teenager boys. He was generally kind hearted and if he had captured his sister's heart...no other reason why not to help the kid.
"What would you suggest?" Len asked.
"Hmmmm...let me think" Mikuo said thoughtfully.
An hour later...
"Hey so we all got what we wanted?" Rin asked.
"Yep!" Miku said smiling.
"..." Len said nothing, his time with Mikuo had shaken him up a bit. His nerves were on edge.
"Len?" Miku asked as he stared off into space, thoughts rushing though his head.
'Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay' his brain thought frantically. Mikuo had some strange ideas.
They got back to Miku's place. Miku got her key out and found the door unlocked.
"That's strange, I swear I left the door locked" Miku muttered as she opened the door.
"Merry Christmas!" Mikuo exclaimed loudly as Miku opened the door.
"Mikuo? When did you get here?" Miku asked loudly.
"Cancelled the meeting and now I am here" Mikuo said smiling widely. He caught Rin's eye and she winked in confirmation. She had the discussion about mistletoe with her when she was stuck on ideas for Len.
"What should I get Len? A sports ball? No, he isn't the sporty type. An instrument? No too expensive and if I got him like a recorder or kazoo, I'd look kinda cheap. Maybe a book! No he could just get one himself" Miku muttered as she walked with Rin (after she got Rin's present, and Rin got Miku's).
"Hey, Miku...have you heard of mistletoe?" Rin asked curiously.
Mikuo nodded slightly to Rin to confirm his conversation with Len. He had been with Kaito for the past 4 days to make the plan work. And it had.
Two days later...
Everyone was asleep. After a long day yesterday of laughing and telling stories, watching movies and playing games. They went to sleep tired and excited for this morning to arrive.
Len was sound asleep with his headphones on, seeping out some soft music. He was oblivious to the evil Rin and just as evil Miku sneaking into the spare bedroom he was given. He was dreaming about bananas and being a banana chef.
'Just look at how many bananas I get to use to cook!' Len dreamt. He smiled as he was making a banana cake, five layers high with banana confectionary of it.
Miku and Rin carefully got out his MP3 player and searched for a song. They both pointed at a song. They both laughed silently. A Day to Remember: City of Ocala. Which started with the line: "FUCK YEAH!"
Pressing play without turning up the volume, they waited for the right moment and Miku slid the volume to FULL BLAST!
'Ah! Perfec-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!' Len thought as the dream was interrupted by a loud 'FUCK YEAH!' and rock instrumens playing loudly. He jumped up and smacked both girls in the face by accident as he jolted up. Miku got hit by a frailing hand and Rin who was looking over at his face from above got her face smacked by te top of his head.
"OW! MY HEAD! INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY!" Len shouted painfully. He swore his head was dented and his eardrums bleeding. Rin thought her nose was broken and Miku thought her chin was cut.
"Damn it Len why do you have such a hard head?" Rin asked painfully.
"Rin that was your fault" Miku said clutching her chin.
"You turned up the volume too suddenly!" Rin retorted.
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF YAMAHA HAPPENED?" Len shouted loudly unable to hear his voice. Meanwhile Mikuo was downstairs sipping a perfectly hot cup of coffee, listening to the commotion above. He sighed. Maybe his Christmas drink would start soon. Extremely soon.
"Merry Christmas Mikuo!" Rin and Miku exclaimed. As Miku handed her brother a neatly wrapped present.
"Rin why are you involved? You didn't even know Mikuo was here until we got back two days ago and I am pretty damn sure we didn't leave the place yesterday" Len said sighing. Rin laughed a little nervously. Mikuo shot her a quick glance as Miku was shoving the box up to his face. The look said: don't screw this up.
"Thanks Miku" Mikuo said thankfully unwrapping the gift to reveal a white box. He opened it and he smiled warmly. It was a engraved scalpel with the words: 'For my brother and doctor, I love you! Hatsune Miku'. He actually wiped a tear away from his eye. It was a sweet gift, even though he may use it to cut open people. But he hugged his sister tightly.
"Merry Christmas Rin!" Len said smiling. She looked at Len curiously, the gift was quite small. She opened it to see a smaller version of the white box that Miku gave to her brother.
'Must be a smaller scalpel' Rin thought jokingly. She opened it to see a piece of paper with a smiley face with 'Jokes on you' written on it.
"LEN!" Rin said angrily seeing him rolling on the ground with laughter but she saw the piece of paper was cut with scissors, and pretty badly that she could see something shining underneath from the jagged edges. She crumpled the piece of paper and took out a silver chain, and predictably with an orange gemstone as the amulet.
"Christ" Rin muttered. She estimated the cost to be...well pretty freaking expensive.
"Remember when I forgot your birthday? Well I was actually saving up any money I could get my hands on and brought that for you" Len explained scratching his head. He remembered that day vividly, she had backed him up in his room. But now the reasoning was clear.
"..." Rin was speechless.
"I actually had the guy keep it away for me about 8 months ago" Len added.
"You shouldn't have" Rin said breathlessly.
"I should have" Len corrected. Rin was annoying, mean at times but she had loved him as a brother and that was enough reason to put himself under physical harm that day.
"T-t-t-thanks Len!" Rin sobbed hugging her brother tightly, cutting off his air supply.
'Even so, she still manages to harm me unintentionally' Len thought wryly as she let him go and he made sure his ribcage wasn't crushed.
"I got this so you Len" Rin said giving him a medium sized box, he had noted it wasn't wrapped. So he undid the sticky tape and opened it. He saw a three-piece hand made flute and a piece of paper which read.
To Kagamine Len,
We at the Australian-Japanese Institute of Music
Hereby welcome you to our family for enrolment after you finish your High School Education
You have been accepted after Kagamine Rin handed in your recorded music into us several months ago
We also hereby accept Hatsune Miku as well after accidently being handed a recording of her singing
It seems like the tape was mixed into your tapes
Anyways, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
P.S. Thank your sister, she had worked extremely hard to get you into a future of music and performing arts. Also we got approval of your teacher Asano- sensei and your parents Kagamine Takeshi and Kagamine Katherine. Also Miku's letter is part of yours...so tell her yourself, okay?
Congrats, Yamaha Gin, Head of the Enrolment Centre.
"..." now Len was speechless. This was a very hard place to get into. The acceptance was hard to get and now he and Miku were accepted. What a strange and unusual world they live in. Sometimes things get good for you.
"Rin..." Len simply said after a while and he hugged her tightly.
And so the gifts went on. Miku got a lovely bracelet from Rin. Rin got a similar bracelet from Miku.
Great minds think alike. Soon though the gift giving was over but two noticeable presents weren't given to two people from each other. A variable the other two didn't think of. Where the hell were they going to get mistletoe? They looked at each other and groaned silently. They had forgotten the MISTLETOE! THE ONE thing they needed and they forgot. Then Rin had an idea.
"Hey, Len didn't you say that you would give your present tonight at the park? Where the mistletoe is hanging around from tree branches?" Rin asked Len. Thank god for Len's worry and he played along.
"Yes, I did" Len replied a little slow.
"And Miku had the same idea too, didn't you. With the hanging mistletoe and everything?" Mikuo asked. Thank god for Miku's worry and she played along.
"Yessss, I did!" Miku said slowly.
"Good then go to the park tonight at the spot you rearranged" Rin said smiling.
"Don't forget to wear warm clothing!" Mikuo exclaimed adding on the vital piece of information. Miku and Len looked at each other. Something was up with their siblings, and it seemed extremely suspicious.
That evening...
Miku and Len stood under a tree with hanging mistletoe. They both had small gifts behind their backs. They both had the same idea and both had no idea that the other two were watching nearby.
"So..." Len said slowly.
"Yeah, so" Miku replied awkwardly.
"Merry Christmas!" Len said suddenly turning his head away and closing his eyes as he pushed the present out in front of him.
"Thank you Len" Miku said taking the gift. "Merry Christmas to you too"
Len took her gift and they both unwrapped it and opened the small box in sync with each other.
"Things are going to plan" Rin said to Mikuo. Unaware that they were also under mistletoe.
"Yep" Mikuo said smiling.
Len lifted out a silver chain, small enough to get his wrist through. It had a musical note as an ornament and he smiled as he saw the second arnament, a yellow banana.
Miku lifted out a gold chained necklace with treble clef as an ornament, silve and extremely pretty, she noticed it was beautifully crafted and she giggled at the second ornament, a negi.
Mikuo smiled, he had given Len the gift he was going to give Miku and he instead got her a beautifully made scarf and a negi style lamp at the last minute, which she loved.
"By the way, you were accepted into the Institute as well as me" Len said suddenly.
"What?" Miku exclaimed.
"Yeah seems like Rin, took one of your recording and sent it off by mistake" Len explained.
"But...that's amazing!" Miku exclaimed and Len smiled and rubbed the back of his head. Then Len noticed something.
"Hey is that Rin and Mikuo?" he asked pointing at the other two siblings.
"Crap he noticed us!" Rin exclaimed and Mikuo thought quickly, he spied mistletoe above them and he took Rin and kissed her and turned his head in to hide his face and hers.
"MMMMmmmmmMM!" Rin struggled as Mikuo suddenly kissed her. Miku and Len stood there watching.
"Didn't know they were in that sort of relationship" Miku said sweatdropping.
"Yeah, I think Rin is a little to young to be in a relationship with Mikuo" Len added laughing softly.
"Hey look up" Miku said pointing at the mistletoe above them.
"Mistletoe" Len muttered.
"That sneaky sister of yours" Miku said laughing.
"So Rin told you about the mistletoe too?" Len asked curiously.
"Yeah, and I am getting the feeling that my brother told you" Miku said pointing at him. Len nodded.
They both reflected on their siblings actions.
"So, will you-" Len began.
"Kiss you?" Miku asked.
"Yeah, guess so" Len confirmed awkwardly.
"Say it" Miku said, hands on hips.
"Will...you kiss me?" Len asked. His answer: Miku bringing her lips upon his and kissing him. Firstly confused then happy, as he returned the feelings he felt through that one action, and they stood there, for what seemed like an eternality.
Author: Yes, somethings were made up and things such as the Letter of Acceptance would never happen but still. I wanted to make this romantic. So there you go guys!
Vocalising Desires will be back after Christmas! On the 27th or on Christmas for a New Years special (cause I will be away from the computer for a while for New Years)
Merry Christmas! Guys and if I don't get the New Years Special up or get it done
HAPPY NEW YEAR! TOO!
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