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"Miss Megurine."

Luka glanced up from her throne to find Kamui giving her a slight bow, with a packet labeled "UPDATE" tucked under his arm. "Is it a progress report on our girl?" she guessed.

Kamui nodded and handed the packet to her. She fingered it open and slipped out a piece of paper. She scowled at Len's messy handwriting and read it over.

Kagene Rin

Age: 16

Birthdate: December 27th, 1996

Parents: Kagene Lin and Ren (deceased)

Siblings: Kagene Rei and Rui

Race: Caucasian

Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Blue

Notes: Loves the sun, doesn't like the dark, despises mice, spiders, and other trivial things. Very stubborn; doesn't like being told what to do. Seems to experience severe pain whenever I take her blood or even when she gets a papercut. Does this mean something?

That was all she needed. Luka slipped the paper back into the packet and handed it over to Kamui. "It's definitely her," Luka confirmed, "without a doubt."

Kamui raised his eyebrows. "So what will you do now, then?" He asked politely, "Relieve Len's duty of watching over her?"

She sh ook her head and gripped the armrests of her throne tightly. "No, she needs to be kept under surveillance. If she finds out who she is, she'll want to flee as soon as possible. It'll be Len's duty to make sure she doesn't find out her identity and protect her."

"Are you going to share information with him?" Kamui raised his purple eyebrows yet again.

Luka stood up and brushed by Kamui, who followed obediently behind. "No. No matter how cruel and sadistic his tendencies may be, my young nephew still has a beating heart."


"Where are you going?" Len asked for the umpteenth time of the day.

"Like I said, out!" Rin snapped, tired of his nagging.

He'd followed her all around the house as she got ready to leave, asking her the same questions over and over. "Where are you going?" "Out." "What are you doing?" "Things." "Why?" "Because."

It'd been about a month since Len suddenly began taking up space in her shabby apartment. She'd grown fairly used to his presence, and though she'd never admit it out aloud, she sometimes even enjoyed his company. Sometimes. She had been lonely, to be honest.

At least she never had to cook for him. He said he couldn't even taste human food. He didn't need the food anyway, since it would just sit in his stomach and not make him any less hungry. Not to mention... his meals... were... frequent.

He'd leave the house late at night and pick off a random girl off the street. Maybe she'd be a girl from school. Maybe she'd be a complete stranger like a tourist or something. Hell, there had even been several 20 year old women on his list! He didn't care what the age was, as long as he got some food out of it. He only thought of women and humans in general as objects only for his benefits, it seemed.

Rin grit her teeth and slipped into her dark gray wool coat. She could practically feel his breath on her neck, which annoyed her yet exhilarated her at the same time. She pinched herself for letting him have such an effect on her. She was Rin Kagene, for God's sake! She didn't need a single man in her life, no siree.

"I'm off. If you go to... eat, that's fine, just don't bring any of your whores home again. I'm tired of being your 'jealous little sister' who kicks them out every morning after," she grumbled and slammed the door behind her.

Her first stop would be the flower shop. She knew the lady who worked there, Yukari. Yukari was a sweet young woman anyone could talk or complain to. She'd stand there and listen as you poured your heart out, giving understanding nods and the occasional piece of advice. After you left her shop you just felt... better. Yukari was like a walking and talking bowl of chicken soup.

At the sound of bells jingling as Rin entered the shop, the woman glanced up from her work of arranging dahlias, tulips, and ranunculus into a bouquet. She smiled and leaned on the counter. "Well if it isn't my little RiRi-chan!" she called happily and beckoned her over.

The blonde smiled and maneuvered through the rows and rows of flowers, until she finally reached Yukari. "How are you, Miss Yuzuki?"

She responded by whacking her with a bouquet of roses (thorns too, ouch). As Rin rubbed her head and scowled, Yukari pouted and said, "I told you, you're to call me Yukari. None of the 'Miss Yuzuki' junk."

Rin rolled her eyes and fought a smile. "Sorry, Yukari. Anyway, can I get the usual?"

Yukari smirked triumphantly and nodded. "I've got just the thing in the back. Just give me a sec, 'kay?"

Rin waited as Yukari disappeared from sight to go get her bouquet. She remembered the first time she came to the shop. It was a recommendation from Aunt Meiko, who'd been close with Yukari years ago.

The blonde's eyebrows scrunched together. She wanted to tell Yukari all her problems from the past month. It wasn't as if she'd tell anybody (if she believed her, that is). Rin could tell the woman she'd murdered someone, and she wouldn't tell a soul.

Rin shook her head and decided against it. It wasn't worth it. Even if Yukari did believe her, there'd be nothing that she could do. As far as she knew, Yukari was human. Then again, most people she'd thought of as human are slowly being revealed to her lately... so...

Yukari re emerged before the girl could debate any longer. She smiled and handed her a bouquet of yellow and black roses. Rin dug around her coat pocket for money, but Yukari waved her hand. "Free of charge. In honor of... today."

Rin opened her mouth to protest, but the woman shook her head again. She smiled sadly. "Thank you," she bowed her head and left the shop.

Gray clouds covered the city. She hoped it wouldn't rain. It'd just make her visit gloomier than it already was. Her footsteps seemed to be silent as she entered the cemetery.

Her feet took her where she needed to go, knowing the path by heart. She stopped in front of two twin graves with crosses on their tops. She frowned at their crookedness, but set the flowers in between them tenderly. Her eyes lingered on the epitaphs for a moment.

Kagene Lin/Ren

"What is done, is done."

She sat down on the grass cross legged and folded her hands in front of her. "Hey, Mom. Hey, Dad."

Silence.

"I haven't come to see you in a long time, huh? Sorry. As you've probably seen from up there, I've been kind of busy lately," she laughed bitterly.

"I'm living amongst monsters, guys. Ha. Remember, Dad, when you'd joke that a monster was hiding under my bed that would come out if I didn't brush my teeth? Were you really just joking?"

"Len's annoying. It's like he's bipolar. One moment he'll be happy and joking and teasing, then he's cruel and scowling at me and seeming to hate me. I don't know why it bothers me so much.

"Teto's a chimera. A bat/human thing. How could I have not have known? I love her all the same, but does she really enjoy our friendship? Am I only a burden?

"I miss Rei and Rui and Aunt Meiko. I want them to come visit, but Meiko says her work laid her off. I may have to leave Japan and go back home. I'm not sure if that's possible anymore.

"I miss you guys, too. When Len moved in, I realized how lonely it was living alone. So I guess he's not all bad.

"Hey, guess what? I haven't cried at all. Isn't that what you always told me, Dad? 'Straighten up that bottom lip, little soldier. Crying's for babies. My little Rinny's no baby, right?' Mom, too. 'Don't you cry little Miracle. Those tears are as valuable as gold, you know.'"

And she hadn't. Not when she said goodbye to her siblings and her aunt at the airport before she left for Sapporo. Not when she'd felt so alone her first days of school before she met Teto. Not when Lily harassed her countless times. Not even when she tripped down the stairs and broke her ankle.

If her parents didn't want her to cry, she wouldn't. Never. She'd never cry again after the funeral, no matter what.

"'Miracle.' What does that mean, Mom? I keep being referred to as that. Am I not human either? That nickname you always used for me, was there a greater meaning behind it?"

She sat back and let herself be immersed in a memory.

Rin had always stood out. A bright blonde haired, blue eyed girl in a black haired family. Her parents, Lin and Ren, had stormy gray eyes. Her little brother and sister, Rei and Rui, had curious amber eyes. She was like a dove amongst a flock of ravens.

Her family was never rich. Her father, Ren, worked in a soda can factory. Her mother, Lin, worked as a teacher in an elementary school. Feeding a young Rin Kagene at home was already hard enough. Then they had the twins. Ren had to double his hours at the factory, and Rin had to constantly baby sit her siblings. She didn't mind, though. She loved the twins with all her heart, and would do anything to protect them.

"He died. He gave her the inheritance of solitude. And, he entrusted her the Key to the miracle. But the miracle lasted only a moment. The "Heart" was far too big for her. Unable to withstand that weight, the machine shorted and was never to move again. However, her face was filled with a smile. She looked like an angel."

Rin, aged 13, closed the story book and looked over at her siblings from her perch at the end of their bed. Rui had big blue tears forming in her innocent eyes, and Rei stared at the blonde as if to ask, "That's it!?"

"The end," Rin confirmed.

Rui wailed in protest. "How can it be over?! They didn't even kiss or anything!"

Rin frowned. Hadn't the scientist's dedication been enough of a sign of love? She liked stories like that, love shown through thoughts and actions rather than just eating each other's faces whenever they got the chance. Not to mention, reading the scientist and robot kissing aloud to her seven year old siblings would be extremely uncomfortable.

"Eww. Kissing is gross. What would the scientist want cooties for anyway?" Rei asked and saved Rin from explaining to Rui that love was more than just kissing.

Rui smacked her brother on the arm and stuck out her jaw defiantly. "Hey, Rui, that's not nice. Tell your brother you're sorry," Rin demanded.

The girl turned to Rei and gave him a smoldering glare that belonged to both her mother and sister. Then she smacked him again, only on the forehead. She then hopped out of bed like a Mexican Jumping Bean and sped out of the room, crying, "You can't make me do anyyyythingggg!"

Rin rolled her eyes and pat Rei on the red spot on his head. She strolled out of their bedroom and called, "Daaad! They're impossible to put to bed, you know that?!"

Ren shuffled up stairs and sighed with bags under his eyes. Lin followed behind, holding a suddenly snoring Rui in her arms. "I'll get em. You do it every night anyway, so you can have a break," Ren grumbled and scooped up Rui and carried her into her room, shutting the door behind him.

Rin rubbed her eyes and leaned against the wall. Her mother opened her arms and pulled her in. "I'm sorry things have been so hectic lately. I know you don't get a lot of time to spend with your friends anymore."

That might be the understatement of the year. Ruko kept threatening to kidnap her if she kept refusing her requests to hang out, and Rion was giving her the silent treatment. And Oliver...

"It's okay," Rin murmured against her mother's raven black hair. It smelled like cinnamon and lilacs, very comforting.

"No, it's not... To be weighed down with such duties as running a household and raising two children at such at thirteen... It's not what I wanted for you at all. All I want to do is protect you, but I just end up pushing you away..." Lin whispered, embracing her even tighter.

Rin giggled and slipped out of her mother's arms. The girl smiled. "Protect me? From what? As long as I've got you and Dad and the twins, I'm safe as can be. Goodnight, I'm tired. See you in the morning, okay?"

As she turned and padded back to her own room, completely missing the troubled look Lin gave her.

"If only you knew, my little Miracle..." she whispered.


"Dad, where are we going?!" Rin cried, and clung to her father's neck as they sprinted through the forest, her mother not far behind.

"Just a little farther baby girl, I promise," he panted and propelled himself forward.

They raced through the brush, branches and thorns cutting her arms and drawing blood. She winced from the pain. Why did losing blood hurt that much? Was it this way for other people? "What about the twins?!" she shrieked, remembering that Rei and Rui were still at home, in their beds, completely unaware of the strange figures chasing their parents and sister.

"They'll be fine. She has no reason for harming them. As long as you're not there, nothing will be done to them," huffed Lin, whipping her head over her shoulder to see if the figures were gaining on them.

"W-Who's she? And what would happen if I was near the twins?"

"I'll explain everything when we get there, okay?" Lin sighed and ripped out a pistol from her jacket.

She fired several shots behind them. Rin shuddered when she heard several cries of pain a few meters back and squeezed her eyes shut. This had to be a nightmare. Why would people be attacking her family? When had her mother learned to fire a gun?

Her heart slowed when she heard a gunshot that wasn't from her mother's pistol. Her father shouted out and fell forward, dropping Rin and sending them both tumbling in the grass. Ren clenched his jaw and held his now bloody right leg. Rin watched in shock as her mother caught up and held her husband's hand as she ripped off a piece of her shirt to wrap around the wound. She tried to help Ren up, but he took a step and stumbled, only to collapse yet again. The sounds of their pursuers became louder and louder.

Everything happened in slow motion. A man with silver hair pointed his gun and fired. Rin's eyes widened and breathing stopped. A single silver bullet pierced her mother's skull as she cried out. She fell to the ground, completely still.

"LIN!" Ren choked, with newfound strength and running over to pick up his already lost wife in his arms.

"Give it up. You know what we want, Kagene. Hand your precious daughter to us and you and your other children will be spared from more bloodshed," a girl with silver hair like the man's and psychotic red eyes cackled.

Rage filled Ren's face. "Never! Rin won't leave with any of you! You can't use her only for your own selfish benefits!"

The girl's smirk widened as she took the gun from the man. "Selfish, eh? Such a brave thing for a human to say. What a shame, you'd be great as one of us," she sighed dramatically.

Then she shot him straight in the heart.

A shudder went through Rin's spine. She was brought back to reality by the sound of thunder cracking in the distance. The graves of her parents stared back at her. Guilt rushed through her, causing a lump to rise in her throat.

No, she wouldn't let a tear fall. Not now. Not ever. It'd be disrespectful. She'd be going against her late parents' wishes. Doing as they said was the least she could do.

But her body still heaved with sobs she could not let out. Her shoulders rose and fell as she let out a strangled cry. But no tears fell. Her eyes stayed dry.


Len kicked the stones at his feet. Outta my way, he thought and kicked some more, make way for me. He stuffed his hands in his pockets. Rain fell lightly at first, growing heavier and heavier until it poured in buckets. He pulled his gray hood up and looked around annoyedly.

Now just where was that girl?

It wasn't as if he cared for her or anything. It was just his job- right? If she got sick or something, Aunt Luka would have his head on a platter. He certainly didn't enjoy her company either. She was annoying, with all her questions on her identity or her clumsiness-which wasn't cute at all. Or so Len told himself.

He ignored the dreamy stares from girls around him (he wasn't that hungry yet) and sniffed around a bit. He cursed the rain for possibly washing away her scent. He was so distracted by his search for Rin that he knocked right into Yukari, who was picking up a bouquet she dropped.

"Oh- Sorry!" she apologized and bowed, blushing with embarrassment.

Len shrugged. "No problem. My fault," he said and began to walk away.

Yukari grabbed his sleeve. "Hey, you kind of look like a friend of mine. Do you know Rin Kagene by chance?"

His eyes widened. "Yeah, I do. Would you happen to know where she is, actually?"

Yukari's eyes saddened. "Don't you know? She's at the cemetery. Today's the anniversary of her parents' deaths."

Len registered that. He'd taken a good guess that her parents were dead, but still. He suddenly felt a twinge of guilt for pestering her this morning.

"... I see. Thank you. I'll go find her now," he said and headed in the direction of the cemetery.

Yukari stared after him. Now just who was that handsome young man? Would he be an admirer of Rin's? Or better yet, her boyfriend? The woman smiled at the thought and returned to her work.


Len grumbled as he passed row after row of tombstones. What was the point of it anyway? He could just leave her and let her catch a cold. Colds didn't kill humans, right? Yet something made him keep searching, even though the lazy side of him protested.

He caught a glimpse of blonde hair out of the corner of his eye. He turned to see Rin sitting in front of two graves, her head down and her bangs covering her eyes. Was she crying? Her shoulders shook and her body rocked, so he supposed so.

Len flinched. It felt as if someone was poking his heart with a hot metal rod. He didn't want to see her cry. Why? She's just a pest. Just a chore.

Yet that poking feeling stayed. He grunted in annoyance and shuffled over to her.

She didn't seem to notice his approach. The noises and rocking continued. Weird. He didn't hear her sniffling or anything of the sort. Was she really crying? Was she having a panic attack or something? He sure as hell didn't know. How was he to know about human events like this?

So instead he did something he didn't expect. He shrugged off his jacket, leaving him just in his hoodie. He squatted down and set it over her shoulders. "Come back soon," he said gently.

But by the time Rin had turned around in shock, no tears or red eyes, he was gone.


"You dumb bastard."

The blonde boy kicked the excuse of a tombstone before him. It was crumbling and barely legible, but you could still barely make out the name of 'Kagamine.'

He stood in the midst of fog and mist. The rain had finally stopped when he left the cemetery Rin was at, but the doom and gloom for him had not changed since he entered a different resting place, the vampire graveyard.

Vampires lived a long life in the eyes of humans. Even someone like Len, who'd live half the normal lifespan of a vampire, had the gift of longevity. However, in the eyes of the very people, some lives are cut terribly short.

200. That's how old Len's father had been when his string of life had been cut. Terribly short for a vampire; like a 20 year old dying. Rinto had been 180 when he'd met a young Lenka Haine, who was 16 at the time. In short, the two met and fell deeper and deeper into their forbidden love.

Lenka was eighteen when she and Rinto had committed the ultimate taboo. His conception and birth were kept a secret. It was only when he reached 20 years old-in human years 4- that they were exposed. Their trial was quick and unfair. The day of their execution landed on a bright sunny day in the middle of August.

"Mom! Where are we going?"

"We're just going on a short trip, Lenny. Mom and Dad will be right back, don't worry a bit."

Lenka's execution was short. The guillotine was dropped, workers cleaned up the mess, and then moved on to Rinto, who was still in a state of shock from seeing his lover die before his very eyes, when he could do nothing to stop it.

Rinto's was dragged out much longer than his love's. He received no such mercy as the guillotine; instead he was to be held in the sunlight, the most painful of deaths for a vampire. Len had to watch that one, as an example. "Never fall for a human," his newly introduced aunt had said, "it will only cause pain. For the both of you, and those around you."

His other aunt growled and turned, walking away briskly. "You could have been a prince."

It was no secret that he despised his relation to humans. It showed in every one of his actions. And why wouldn't he? His blood relation to those lesser beings; that was what was keeping him from actually being something of worth. He could have been royalty. He could have not been shunned by everyone of his own kind. If only he hadn't been human.

But he still couldn't bring himself to hate his mother. He somehow never saw her at fault. She knew what she had been getting into from the beginning. She had known that there would be major consequences if anyone had ever found out. She knew. She always knew.

So why couldn't he resent her?

The reason was simple. She was his mother. Even though he had only known her for such a short time in his eyes, his memories were filled with a soft smiling face looking down at him, a gentle hand ruffling his bangs, melodious laughter that filled an entire room with music, and bright blue eyes that told him that she'd love him no matter what with just a simple look.

It was his father, that was at fault. He should have been stronger, he shouldn't have let himself submit to falling in love with such a wonderful person like Lenka, someone who never be sentenced to death. He could have easily went with an arranged marriage, raise Len as a normal vampire child and lead the life of royalty. Everything would have been so much easier. Len wouldn't be an outcast, Lenka wouldn't have had to die, and Len wouldn't have had to be charged with watching over a tiny human girl that might not be the person they're looking for.

Thunder rolled in the distance, and Len assumed that another round of rain was coming soon. He'd have to leave, and make sure that Rin had returned to her apartment safely. He was about to turn around and go when he sensed the presence of another living body. He stilled and waited for another movement.

His hearing was weak compared to that of a full vampire, but his ears still twitched when he heard the sound of a revolver's trigger being pulled. A shot fired, and he dodged just in time for a bullet to miss his heart, and lodge instead into his shoulder. He growled. Pain shot down his left arm, and he instantly knew the bullet had been made of silver.

His eyes, now red as the wound in his shoulder, searched the graveyard for the gunman. His gaze set on a man dressed in black, with white blonde hair flowing freely down his shoulders. Len's throat closed with recognition. "You," he said.

Yohio smiled. He stood yards from Len, still holding the revolver pointed at Len. "Ah, so it's true. Your regenerative powers don't work."

"How did you find me?" Len asked through gritted teeth. His arm wasn't moving, no matter how hard he tried. His only option was to try and stall Yohio.

"It's kind of cliche, isn't it? A boy visiting his parents on a rainy day such as this?" Yohio drawled, and rain sprinkled the ground once again.

"Even so, this place is supposed to repel mortals. How would you even be able to enter?" asked Len, who was still searching for a quick escape that wouldn't get him shot.

The vampire hunter smiled wickedly, rubbing a ring on his middle finger with a red diamond. Len thought he had seen it somewhere before, but couldn't remember where. "I have my connections."

It dawned on Len. "There's a spy. Someone's trying to get me killed."

"Precisely. Now, if you came with me, no one else could get hurt. I suggest you stop looking for an exit," he said.

Len cleared his face of all emotion, even though inside he was furious. "Who else would get hurt? There's no one I care about, anyway."
And it was true. His aunt Luka hated him, so the feeling was mutual, or at least that's what he tried to make himself believe. He hasn't seen his other aunt in years, so it was likely that she had died or just was not coming back. He didn't have anyone else. He had no weak point.

"Ah, are you sure? Because, even if you leave, I can still follow you. If you return home, I'll get to meet that girl you're guarding. The one with the pretty long hair and the miracle blood, am I correct?" he said smoothly.

"You leave her out of this. She doesn't have anything to do with me, other than my job of keeping her out of the wrong hands," Len hissed, suddenly seething with anger for some reason.

Yohio shrugged his shoulders in mock innocence. "It's your choice. You come with me, and she doesn't get involved, or you run away and she comes with me. Either one works in my favor."

Len's fingernails dug into his palms from clenching his fists too tight. There had to be a change for him to get away without Rin getting hurt by the consequences. And why did he care if she got hurt? He could blame it on Yohio, and he would be home free. He had no attachments to her, whatsoever.

Yohio waited patiently, tapping his thumb on his sword's scabbard.

"Fine. Where are we going?" Len growled.

Cliffhanger- dun dun dun. I guess that's nothing new for me, though.

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