A/N I've got school tomorrow, so please forgive the rushed-ness(?) of this chapter.
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"Damn, damn, damn, damn," grumbles Miku as she waits for the elevator, "so, so, so," she growls in the back of her throat, "Stupid!" she cries as she kicks the elevator door, angry tears running down her cheeks fast and hot.
"Miku, kicking the poor elevator doesn't make it come any faster," a feminine, husky voice with a gentle tone remarks from behinds the tealette.
Miku growls and kicks the door again for good measure before turning to the pinkette who was stood around four metres away from her.
With a sigh, Luka takes a single step towards Miku, "You know, I have nothing to do with the 'prank' you accused our brothers of a moment ago," she pauses briefly as she glances at the beige-carpeted hallway's floor, and receives a curt grunt from Miku to let her know she's acknowledged her point, "I think we should actually hear them out though,"
Miku's face contorts itself into an unbelieving grimace, "What? You want me to listen to them spewing rubbish? I mean it's extremely far-fetched and-" Luka puts a hand on Miku's shoulder after closing the distance between them, "Far-fetched enough to be true," she whispers to the younger girl, who stands in silence for a moment while her expression goes from somewhat disgust, to a wide-eyed poker face, which served it's purpose as Luka couldn't read a single thing from Miku's face.
"I- Miku, I think we should go back and give them a chance to explain," the pinkette states, which Miku nods to with her eyes downcast.
"I guess," she mumbles as she drags her eyes up Luka's glorious figure to her deep, ocean-coloured eyes, "It kind of makes sense as to why Mikuo has been going away for months at a time over the past three years,"
Luka gives a small toothy smile and a nod of agreement, "Come to think of it, didn't our fathers' go on their annual fishing trip in October as well?" With wide eyes, the two girls stand and ponder. Thinking over their past, it was true; their father's always went on their fishing trip on the first of October and returned on Halloween, pretty late into the night, but never after or on midnight of November the first.
Miku blinks a few times before giving Luka a sly smile, "Why, isn't that… fishy," she says with a voice hinting at… something, and that something got her an extremely long sigh from her pink-haired companion.
"You're like a middle aged dad," the older giggles, her hand raising itself to her mouth.
"Hey now, that's completely ignoring my gender," Miku scolds as Luka leads her back to the apartment. Luka opens the door and holds it out so that Miku can enter first and then tails her into her home, "Sorry for intruding," Miku says while walking to the living room.
"Hey guys, I'm back," Miku says guiltily with a sheepish smile and raising her hand slightly in greeting, "I'm sorry that I yelled," Mikuo looks at her in anticipation to say something else while twirling his hand in a 'carry on' action. "I'm sorry that I ran out. Ah, and swore at you guys. That was unacceptable," Mikuo nods at Miku who nods in return.
Luka leads Miku to sit in the chair they shared before, letting Miku sit down as she looks at the three people before her, "would anyone like something to eat? A drink? Me?" she says the last one with a seductive wink in Miku's direction, which makes the girl blush a pale pink.
Luki shakes his head in disapproval and tuts at his younger sister, "just get some water, Lu-baka,"
The younger sighs dramatically, putting a hand to her forehead and leaning backwards slightly in a 'woe is me' position, "You're no fun, Lu-jerk," she giggles as she struts into the kitchen.
"Hey!" Luki shouts, seemingly offended. Mikuo simply shakes his head while laughing slightly, "Luki, that didn't even make sense, there's no point getting offended,"
The pink-haired man sniffs lightly and sticks his nose in the air in a snobbish manner. Miku didn't know if he was actually snobbish or he was just acting it. She decided to leave that matter alone as she didn't want to pre-judge him.
"So Miku-" Mikuo starts but Luka comes into the living room, holding a jug of water and four plastic cups. Conversation stops as the three turn with open mouths to stare at Luka like she had grown another head.
"What are you wearing?" The rhetorical question came from Luki's mouth as he scowled at his younger sibling, "T-this is dumb, go take it off,"
Luka looks down at herself, she was wearing a maid's apron that she had found whilst looking for a jug. She had put it on to see if she could make Miku blush more, just by looking at the tealette, she knew she had succeeded. 'so cuutee!' she thinks to herself as she sets the jug and cups on the stained-wood coffee table in the middle of the room.
"Take off what?" The pinkette feigns innocence and puts her hands on her hips, bending forward slightly at the waist as her back was facing Miku, who quite obviously had a crush on her. She could imagine just how red the petite girl was getting from that small action.
Luki points toward her current attire, in the general chest area of the apron, "That." He states firmly.
"But brother, we have guests!" She says in an overly exaggerated dramatic voice, whilst reaching behind her back as if she was about to unclasp her- "Luka! No! The apron! Take. Off. The apron!" Luki waves his arms around exasperatedly, trying to stop his sister from stripping in front of them.
"You really are no fun," Luka grins as she sits next to Miku on the arm of the chair, not bothering to take the apron off. Miku sat, paralysed and red from what had just happened before her, which brought a smile to her pink-haired friend's face.
Mikuo clears his throat, "Well, can we get down to business now?"
Two hours had passed and the group had relocated to the farm-style kitchen/dining room where the two boys sat at a large circular table with six seats around it, and the girls were attempting to cook. The keyword here being attempting.
"Hey, Luka if you eat all the tuna now, there'll be none in the salad!" Luki complains to his younger sister, who was steaming the tuna. Luka broke a bit off a large fillet and pops it in her mouth, making 'mm's of delight, obviously trying to tease her brother.
Miku, on the other hand, kept dropping the spring-onion she'd been slicing on the floor, with an exclamation of, 'five second rule!' she'd retrieve it from the ground before gobbing it up. The exasperated 'that doesn't mean five seconds until it's in your mouth!' from Mikuo was completely lost on her.
The two men looked at each other and nodded in unison. A silent agreement.
"Guys, go sit down we'll take it from here," says Mikuo as he stands up and walks towards the two girls. They span around and with a shrug from Miku, and a groan from Luka, they switched places with their brothers'.
There was a comfortable silence while the brothers made the dinner and the sisters had a match of 'rock, paper, scissors' on who was washing and who was drying. Drying being the winner, respectively.
With a triumphant fist pump into the air, Luka sat back into her chair, grinning at her kouhai. Miku pouted at the pinkette and glanced over to their brothers' and sighed, "You never told us what direction this 'World's End Dancehall' was, guys," Luka looked up and hummed in agreement; they both wanted to know.
Mikuo chuckled quietly, it sounded warm and inviting, and it made Luka relax a little; she had been very stressed since the guys had started fully explaining what exactly her and Miku had to do in a few weeks. If Luka had calculated it correctly, they had exactly five weeks to prepare for their journey, as the date was the 27th of August.
Luki seemed to wait for his partner to speak, but after ten seconds of waiting, he awkwardly elbowed the awkward, teal boy, mind you, he had crutches, and he was cooking tuna with one hand.
Mikuo looked surprised, but realised that Luki wanted him to talk when the pink-haired man tilted his head to gesture to the two girls. Mikuo cleared his throat awkwardly – it was a long time habit, he had quite a high voice for a guy and he had thought that clearing his throat made him sound deeper. Silly belief, he knows but habits die hard he would say.
"Well – when midnight comes around on October the first, we'll wake you u-" Mikuo tries to explain, but is cut off by the two girls bursting into a private performance of 'When September Ends' by Green Day.
Luki half turns, half bends to scowl at Miku's and Luka's rude interruption. They automatically shut up, and Luki smiles at Mikuo to continue.
"A-ah, so – you wake up, you get all your gear, you come here, and-" Mikuo looks at Luki for something that seemed like approval. Luki shakes his head, "That's all we can tell you for the moment,"
Luka and Miku scowl but Luki finishes dishing salad and tuna onto everyone's plates and gestures for the girls to come collect it.
The four of them sit at the table, and the younger girl grins with a 'thank you for the food!' before digging into the large portion of leek and welsh-onion that had been put upon her plate. Luka, likewise, thanks the boys for her food and starts to eat the tuna on her plate, which was the second largest portion in the room (the first being Luki, as he claimed that fish makes bones better. No-one bought it but the only complaint was from Luka, who quickly shut-up when her brother threatened to show the video of Luka being a kid and being so 'Toeto' that she looked as if she would explode).
After lunch, Miku and Luka washed up before the teal-haired siblings thanked the Megurines for having them and made their way home.
Miku and Luka had a lot to think about.
Review? :) Forgive the Green Day ref
Longer chapter next time I promise!