A/N: A really, really long and boring chapter. I decided to not use honorifics although I really should...

I just realized that in the previous chapters that all the meals were Western meals D: Ignore that and imagine that it was rice and miso soup or something.

Disclaimer: I do not own Vocaloid or anything else used in this fic.

BRING rang the alarm clock. Len groaned and rolled over in bed, pressing the button on his clock to shut the alarm. It was 7:30 – time to wake up and prepare for school.

He and Neru had spent yesterday finishing their summer homework and cleaning up their book bags. Len had been almost done with the homework while Neru still didn't start.

Len got out of bed, walking to the bathroom to brush his teeth and shower. In fifteen minutes, he was done. As he was coming out of the bathroom, Neru walked out into the hall, yawning.

"Good morning, Len," she said sleepily, heading for the bathroom.

"Morning."

He went back into his room to change into his school uniform. Seihou Koukou's (Seihou High School's) summer uniform consisted of a white, collared, button-down shirt with a gray tie and gray, plaid slacks. Len rushed, grabbing his book bag from the hook on the door and then running downstairs to eat breakfast. School started at 8:15, and he still had a ten minute walk.

Breakfast today was rice, seaweed, fish, some vegetables, and miso soup. Len was halfway finished with his breakfast when Neru came downstairs.

"Hurry up and eat, Neru. You're going to be late," Len said to her, talking around the food in his mouth.

Neru nodded sleepily, picking up her chopsticks. While she ate, she texted some of her friends on her cell phone.

Len quickly finished eating and started heading for the door. "Neru, if you don't hurry up, I'm going to leave without you."

Neru looked up from her phone, surprised that he was already done. "Wait!" she said as she finished her food at a frightening speed. Len didn't even wait a minute for her to finish.

Together, the step-siblings left the house. They took the shortcut to get to the school, which had involved some climbing over the fences, to get there on time. Luckily, Neru and Len weren't late and were just in time to see the class lists. Usually, there was a crowd around the bulletin board because students were so eager to see which class they got transferred to (if there were any transfers) or who would be new in their class. Now that it was so late, many of those eager students had gone to their classrooms.

Just like last year, Len and Neru were in the same class. They were in 2-A this term, which meant that they were in the top class again, along with Akaito and Luka. Their classroom was on the second floor, closest to the staircase. They didn't have enough time to skim through the rest of the list, though.

Len and Neru got to their classroom and opened the door. The teacher wasn't there yet, which meant students were fooling around and talking with friends. Len walked over to his seat, near the windows, and sat. Immediately, Akaito, sitting behind him, leaned over and began a conversation.

The teacher walked into the classroom, ten minutes late. "Hello, everybody and nice to see you again! This term, we have a new student," Mr. Tachibana announced to the class. "Come in," he said, gesturing to the student waiting outside.

In walked a girl, the same one that Len had glimpsed a few times in the past few days. She gave a little bow to the class and said, "Hello, I'm Rin Hatsune. I'm Japanese, but I was in America for the past years so my Japanese isn't too good. I hope we can all be friends."

Len and Neru both stared at the girl, gaping. It was Rin. Rin, as in Neru's twin sister; Rin, as in Len's neighbor; Rin, as in the girl whose body wasn't found in the accident, that Rin.

Neru blurted out, "You're lying."

Rin blinked, surprised. "No, I'm not. I was in America for the past six years."

"I'm not talking about that. I believe you there. I'm talking about you being Rin Hatsune. You're Rin Akita, my twin sister," Neru told her.

"Akita? Twin? I'm an only child," replied Rin, confused.

"You two, you can have your 'discussion' later, during lunch," Mr. Tachibana intervened. "Right now, it's time for math."

Len watched as Mr. Tachibana told Rin to sit in the seat next to him. She slid into the seat, taking out her notebook and pencil, ready to take notes.

His cell phone buzzed in his pocket – he received a new text message, probably from Neru. Flipping open his phone, Len read the message from Neru.

She's sitting next to you! Talk to her and ask her stuff!

xoxo Neru

Len sighed, and glanced over to where Neru was. Neru turned her head slightly to the right, signaling that Len should talk to Rin. Len decided to wait until the break between periods to talk to her.

Right when Mr. Tachibana left the room, Neru stalked over to where Len was sitting. In a low voice she asked, "Did she tell you anything yet?"

"Nope. Didn't even bother to ask," replied Len, in a voice as low as hers.

A crowd had gathered around Rin, everyone in the class curious about where she came from and how she grew up.

"Did you live in Japan before you went to America?" asked one person.

"Umm…I don't really remember much before I went to America," replied Rin. "My memory isn't that good, you see."

Akaito walked up to where Len and Neru were huddled together, deep in discussion. "Why so serious?" he asked the two half-siblings.

Neru glared at him, furious that she had been interrupted. Nonetheless, she began to tell Akaito everything about her twin sister.

"Rin and I are twins. We went to Len's birthday party together and his house caught on fire. Rin ran to the house and we saw her go into the house. A minute or two after, there was an explosion. The firemen came right then and after they put out the fire, they told us they had gotten everyone out of the house. They didn't find Rin or anything else in there. She disappeared and now she reappears, saying that she's someone else," Neru summarized to Akaito. Luka was walking toward them too and heard half of the story.

"So, basically she's your twin sister and she doesn't know it," Luka mused, deep in thought.

"Len? You haven't said a word. You do recognize Rin, right?" Akaito asked, a bit suspicious.

"Of course I do! It's just that I find it kind of shocking that she doesn't even remember her own twin," Len replied.

"Yeah," agreed Akaito, "especially when they say twins have a very close bond with each other."

The teacher for the next class walked in and the school day continued. After a monotonous day of English classes, which Rin excelled at since she was in America for a long period of time, Japanese class, science class, and history, it was finally time for lunch. Len, Neru, Akaito, and Luka headed downstairs to where the school cafeteria was to buy lunch.

Gumi, Kaito, Meiko, and Gakupo were waiting for them at their usual table, the one near the window that overlooked the park. They put their bags down at the table and went on line to buy lunch. Today's menu was ramen, udon, various flavors of onigiri, and sandwiches.

Len got into the line for onigiri. Rin was waiting on the same line and was directly in front of him.

Rin turned around and smiled at him. "Hello! You're in my class right? I recognize you. What's your name?"

"I'm Len Kagamine. Nice to meet you," he replied to the outgoing girl, turning slightly pink.

"Nice to meet you, too, Len," Rin said, the line moving forward. Just a few more people, and then she would be able to get lunch. "How was your day so far?" she asked him.

"Oh, it was alright. Just a normal school day. Is high school like this in America too?" asked Len.

"Not really. It's a bit different here. In America, the students moved around and not the teachers. Also, you didn't have to change shoes unless it was gym and you weren't wearing sneakers. You don't have to help clean classrooms either," she replied. Rin noticed that Len was looking at her strangely and blushed slightly. "Is something wrong?" she asked him, noticing his stare.

"Oh, nothing," he replied smoothly, turning even more pink. "School in America seems really similar except they don't really care about cleaning. If the students don't do it, then who does?"

"Custodians, usually. We try to help out by picking up paper and stuff from the ground but that's pretty much it." It was Rin's turn to get lunch now. She moved toward the window and ordered an umeboshi onigiri (rice ball filled with pickled plum). After getting her food, she sat down with a girl with two long, teal ponytails.

Len ordered a shiozake onigri (rice ball filled with salmon) and walked over to where his friends were sitting.

"Were there any new people in your class?" asked Gumi.

"There was one in mine," replied Gakupo. "I think her name was Miku Hatsune or something like that."

"Eh…? Really? The new girl in our class was named Rin Hatsune," said Luka.

"Could they be related?" asked Meiko, picking at her food.

"No way! They don't look alike at all. Well, except for the blue eyes," Neru chimed in.

"It's possible," said Kaito. "It's just not likely, that's all. I feel as if I recognize that Rin girl though…"

"Those two are not sisters," Neru said firmly. Len put a hand on her shoulder, telling her silently that she should calm down.

"And what makes you so sure of that?" asked Gakupo. To Kaito he said, "Yeah, she does look kind of familiar."

"Because she's MY sister!" shouted Neru to everyone.

Six pairs of eyes at the table turned to look at her. They all talked at once but the meaning was clear. They were wondering how she was so sure.

"Obviously I would recognize my own twin, right?" she replied to them.

Len stared out the window, listening to the conversation. Through the reflections in the window, he could see Rin point at their table and say something to the teal-haired girl sitting next to her. The teal-haired girl just smiled and said something back.

"Remember that fire at Len's birthday party a couple of years ago? Yeah, that girl that was with me," said Neru. After Neru told the whole table about that, they all suddenly remembered. Whispers were going throughout the whole table.

"Didn't she run into the house?"

"I heard that they never found a body."

"Her parents died, didn't they?"

Len tuned out the whole discussion and stared at the reflection of Rin through the window. 'She still looks as pretty as she did back then…' he thought dreamily. Suddenly a hand waved in front of his face, bringing him back to Earth.

"Hello? Anyone in there?" asked Meiko, in a sarcastic tone.

"Yeah, but he's not here now," Len replied with just as much sarcasm.

"Well, Len, do you think that Rin Hatsune is really Rin Akita?" asked Akaito.

"Maybe. She probably hit her head on something and lost her memories. Did you see that faint scar on her forehead? That wasn't there a couple of years ago."

"Maybe you could ask Miku something, Gakupo," said Luka. "Ask her if she and Rin are sisters and then remark on how they don't look alike. That should give you some clues."

"That's a good idea. I'll try during one of the breaks or during cleaning," Gakupo told Luka, heading off to his classroom.

"See you after school everyone! Let's meet near the front of the school under the willow tree and go somewhere after school," Gumi suggested. They all agreed, needing a break after a day of classes.

Akaito, Len, Neru, and Luka walked back to class together, talking about the homework and some problems they had trouble on. The teacher for their next class, social studies, was already there, waiting for students to come back from lunch.

Len sat down in his seat, staring out the window with thoughts of Rin swimming around in his head. Time flew by for him and he took notes when he was listening. Soon, it was time to meet his friends down by the front of the school.

Neru was frantically texting Gakupo on her phone. Luka and Akaito were having a debate about one of the class work problems. Len just walked silently with them.

"Eh…? Looks like Gumi is ditching us with Kaito and Gakupo," Neru said suddenly. She held up her cell phone, the screen showing the latest text message she received.

Went to save seats at the new bubble tea shop down the block. See you there.

Luv, Gumi

"Come on, guys. Let's run!" shouted Len, taking off at full speed. He ran through the crowd at the front gate, gaining lots of dirty looks and glares. Neru, Luka, and Akaito kept up behind him, so the gaps he made in the crowd wouldn't close up and leave them behind.

The four of them got to the bubble tea shop, already crowded with students from their school. Gumi had miraculously found a booth. She waved them over. The four dropped their bags and volunteered Len to wait on the very long line to order a drink. Len wanted a banana-flavor bubble tea; Akaito wanted strawberry; Luka wanted watermelon; and Neru had wanted cantaloupe.

Len waited on the line. He saw the two Hatsune sisters ahead of him. Rin glimpsed him out of the corner of her eye and waved. Len waved back, grinning at her.

Miku was arguing with the cashier about them not serving leek flavored bubble teas since they had so many other flavors. The cashier retorted with something about leek not being a very popular flavor. Rin was trying to calm her sister down and dragging her away from the cashier.

Finally, it was Len's turn to order. He ordered banana, strawberry, watermelon, and cantaloupe bubble teas. When he got the drinks, he headed back toward the table, hands full. Suddenly, someone bumped into him, causing him to drop the drinks. Luckily, they were all sealed and nothing had spilled.

"I'm so sorry," apologized the person that had bumped into him. It was Rin.

"No, it's alright. Nothing spilled," replied Len, bending down to pick up the cups of bubble tea. Rin gathered two of them and handed them over to Len.

"I'll get some more straws for you. Wait here," she told him, before running to a side table where the straw dispensers were. Rin came back with four straws in her hand and gave them to Len.

"Were you able to find a seat in this crowd?" asked Rin, surprised.

"My friend found it. I don't know how, but she did," he replied.

"Can me and my sister sit with you guys then? Each booth can hold like twelve people."

"Sure. The more the merrier," Len replied.

Rin went back to find Miku. She half-dragged Miku to where Len was standing, waiting for them. Len led Miku and Rin to where his friends were sitting, waiting for drinks.

"I'm back!" he told everyone. "And I have two others with me."

"Hello, Miku," greeted Gakupo. "Is that your sister?"

"Yeah," replied Miku, sliding into the seat across from Rin. "She's my adoptive sibling, but it feels like we've known each other forever!"

"Yeah! Although I haven't been in your family that long," Rin chimed in.

"If you don't mind me asking, what happened to your family before that?" questioned Luka, putting down the book she was reading.

"I don't mind. Because I don't remember anything before the Hatsunes adopted me. I only remember being in the hospital for severe burns and a gash and that's when they adopted me. The doctors said I also hit my head pretty hard to get a cut that deep."

"Is it possible that you had amnesia then?" asked Neru.

"I'm not sure, really. The doctors never told me anything…" replied Rin, thinking.

"Why are you guys so curious? What's past is past. Focus on the present," Miku interrupted. "Have you guys known each other since you were kids?" she asked, changing the subject.

"Since forever, literally," replied Kaito.

"Except me," Neru said. "Since I was home-schooled and I never knew any kids around our neighborhood besides Len."

They all talked and chatted for half an hour more before Meiko realized that she had dance class in five minutes.

"I got to go! I'm going to be late!" she said, as she rushed out the door.

"Neru, we also have to go home. Mom said not to stay out so late since it's a school night," said Len.

"Oh, alright. We'll see you guys tomorrow then!" Neru waved to them. She turned to Len. "Hey, do you really think that Rin really did forget everything?" she asked once they were out of the shop.

"Yes, I actually do. Rin was never the type of person to forget people, especially people close to her like her twin."

"Hmm…I guess so. She was pretty forgetful though," replied Neru absentmindedly, text messaging someone.

"Who are you texting now?" asked Len, curious. He glanced at the LCD screen of Neru's phone, not recognizing the number.

"It's just Miku. I got her number while you were all listening to Rin's life story."

"And you two are already the best of friends?"

"Not exactly. It's just text messaging. Heck, even telemarketing strangers text message people now."

The two had already gotten home. They walked to the dining room and dumped out all their books from their book bags and began doing their homework.

'Tomorrow's going to be another long day,' thought Len, sighing inwardly. 'At least I'll get to see Rin tomorrow too.'

A/N: I think that's enough. I rushed the ending since I realized it was so long.

Thank you all for all the positive reviews I got. That made me finish writing this in a day. 8D I feel like Superman.

Next chapter is going to be about another day in school but it should take place a few days after this one. I think this will be the last update for this week.