"Is everyone done with their food?" Miku asked in a lilted tone.

"Yeah!" Rin said cheerfully.

"Yeah." Len said in an even tone.

Good, Miku thought. The sooner this dinner was over with the better. It wasn't that she didn't enjoy eating with a friend (plus Len), but Miku really just wanted Len to go home so she could have some peace of mind and silence. For her night consisted of two things, eating, and arguing with Len.

"Well I'm going to wash the dishes, so after that you'll be free to go home." Miku stated while approaching the kitchen sink.

As if a light bulb went off in Rin's head, she yelled loudly "WAIT! Let Len help you with that Miku!" Rin grabbed Len's shoulders and hurriedly ushered him towards Miku.

Len frantically waved his arms about, and in and urgent tone, whispered to Rin, "Rin what are you doing? I never said I wanted to help!"

Rin replied in the same tone, "Shut up Len, you know you want to. So I gave you a little help, that's all."

Len was speechless for a moment and was about to argue back, but Rin gave him one last hard push towards Miku. The sudden force cause Len to spread his arms open, and wrap his arms around Miku as they collided into each other.

Miku squeezed her eyes shut as a reflex. After a moment of silence, her eyes fluttered open. Her eyes widened as she realized the position they both were in.

Close enough to feel each other's body heat, Len had his arms wrapped around Miku. The position was similar to that of a hug, but Miku held her arms down. Behind them, Rin could be seen smirking.

"W-what do you think you're doing?!" Miku sputtered out, her face once again warming up. For some reason, she was rendered unable to move, for Len was surprisingly warm, and she felt secure in his strong arms. Miku felt compelled to hug him back. She raised her arms a little and almost wrapped them around Len. She slowly closed her eyes.

Wait..., what was she thinking? Miku retracted her arms in a flash and her eyes suddenly flew open. She looked up at Len's face. A hint of red could be seen as he also seemed to have realized their close proximity. His arms lingered for a bit longer, then dropped back to his side slowly.

"I, uh...ahem, let's wash the dishes...?" Len said while furrowing his brows. He scratched the back of his head, feeling awkward, and a bit embarrassed.

"Ah, right..." Miku replied a bit dazedly. She willed her blush to go away. Miku pondered why she was blushing so much recently, but she eventually concluded that it was due to embarrassment. Why else would she get so flustered?

Len observed Miku's face for a moment, his eyes roaming her face. Miku looked down in a split second, she hoped he didn't notice the red staining her cheeks. That would have probably added to his already overflowing pride, and Miku wasn't going to let him think that she was blushing just because of him. Eventually Len turned around and took a step forward, Miku followed him from behind.

As Len led the way to the kitchen, Miku glanced up at his face. The red on his face had already subsided, but she thought she saw the corners of his mouth turned slightly up.


Len tried to rid the thoughts of Miku as he dried the dishes that she handed him. He tried to not focus on the way their hands touched briefly every time she handed him a dish. He didn't know how she did it, but this girl was slowly creeping her way into his heart, and she was there to stay. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing, in fact, it was great. But there was one problem. She hated him. Len thought...just like Rin said, he really would have to win her over.

Len's train of thought was interrupted when suddenly, the sound of a plate breaking could be heard.

"Oh no, get it together…" She silently whispered. Len figured he wasn't supposed to hear that, so he disregarded that.

As Miku bent down to pick up the broken pieces, a soft "Ow" was heard. Len bent down to check if Miku was hurt, and saw that she had cut her finger. Len let out a sigh of relief, for it was nothing serious.

"Aren't you a clumsy one," Len said in a soft tone.

"It's not my fault," Miku pouted. It was pretty adorable. "I was just washing the dishes when suddenly I thought of-ah actually never mind about that." Miku started, but stopped mid-sentence.

"...What did you think of?" Len asked curiously. What's got her so distracted that she would drop a plate? Len wanted to know.

"Ah...erm...OWWW!" Miku suddenly shouted.

"What's wrong Miku?!" Len was worried again, forgetting all about his unanswered question.

"It's just that, my finger really hurts." Miku exaggerated.

Tension filled the room, and Miku began to sweat. She wondered if he noticed how she blatantly dodged his question. After a moment of silence Len spoke.

"Well we can't have that now, can we?" Len said with a mischievous smirk.

"Huh, what do you mea-W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Miku blurted out.

Len put Miku's finger in his mouth and shot her a teasing smile. "Well you're bleeding so it's only natural to do this, right?" Len said matter-of-factly. He looked up at Miku and said in a husky voice, "I'll make it all better for you."

Miku flushed a thousand shades of red and looked anywhere but Len's face. "W-what kind of logic is that?" Miku sputtered.

Len grabbed Miku's chin and turned it to face him. Miku averted her eyes and tried to find someplace else to look. If I look into his eyes, I'll be helpless, Miku admitted. Her gaze eventually settled on the doorway.

Just then Miku's face fell. Her eyes widened considerably and she looked like a deer in headlights. Len noticed this and asked "What's wrong Miku?" The worry seeping back into his eyes.

"M...M...Mi..." Miku tried to say.

Len look around to see what would cause this but stopped immediately as his gaze settle on something terrifying. Len began sweating profusely, and a dark red appeared on his face.

On one end of the kitchen, standing in the doorway, was Mikuo raising one eyebrow. On the other, there was Rin, who looked more smug than she's ever been. They both opened their mouth and spoke at the same time.

"Am I interrupting something?"


Miku pulled her finger away from Len, flung him somewhere behind her, and forced a smile onto her face. "Ah brother~ I thought that you were sleeping over at a friend's house, if you were coming home, you really should have called."

"Hmm yeah, I wanted to come home to give my dear sister company, but it looks like you've got that covered." Mikuo said quite casually.

"Hahaha, yeah…" Miku replied feeling awkward.

Len landed on his bottom, near where Rin was standing. They looked at each other wondering if they should go home, but before they could even take one step, Mikuo spoke.

"No don't leave, I want to meet Miku's boyfriend." Mikuo said.

Miku stood up immediately and denied it. "Brother! That creature over there is not my boyfriend! I don't like him, and he doesn't like me."

Len interjected and raised one finger, "Well…"

Miku shot a glare at Len and he immediately froze up.

Silence filled the room, as an uncomfortable tension arose. Everyone was sweating except for Mikuo, who looked quite nonchalant.

After a long while, Rin laughed uncomfortably and said "Miku it's getting pretty late so Len and I are going to head home."

"Ah, time sure does fly! See you tomorrow!" Miku said abruptly..

Rin took that as the signal to leave and grabbed the frozen Len with one arm. She escaped Miku's house. "See ya' at school tomorrow!"

"Wait!"

The front door slammed shut and Rin's footsteps disappeared into the night.

"Aww man, they already left." Mikuo sighed. "Anyway, are you sure that wasn't your boyfriend? I'm one hundred percent sure that was your finger in his mouth."

"Yes, brother, he is absolutely not in a relationship with me, and that...that didn't mean anything." Miku averted her gaze.

"Hmm...okay, I'll accept that answer for now. Anyways, it's late so I'm going to sleep, you should too." Mikuo said as he was heading up the stairs.

Miku exhaled a breath she didn't even know she was holding.

Mikuo stopped in his tracks and said in a quiet tone, "You know Miku, you don't look very convincing. Especially when you have an expression like that."

"Wha-" Miku started, but Mikuo kept talking, "You know, they say the eyes are the windows to one's soul."

Miku was confused, where did the immature Mikuo go, and what did his words mean? Miku was speechless, and didn't have anything to say.

And with those last words, Mikuo disappeared upstairs.


Beep, beep, beep, beep.

Len's slowly opened his eyes, and raised his arm to turn off his alarm clock. A bit irritably, he arose from his bed and sleepily walked to the bathroom. While brushing his teeth, Len observed his reflection. His hair was down and messy with cowlicks here and there. His eyes still half closed, due to him just waking up, but everything was the same as ever. He thought back to last night's events, and blushed a bit. He couldn't help but tease Miku and see her adorable flustered face. Though now she probably hates him even more now.

Feeling annoyed, he splashed his face with cold water and went to change into his uniform.

Downstairs, he saw Rin drinking a glass of orange juice, while he himself grabbed a banana. He plopped down on the couch next to Rin and saw that she was watching some kid's television program.

Rin noticed Len's presence and her eyes lit up. Len had a bad feeling and scooted further away from Rin.

Though Rin negated that by scooting closer. She said with a teasing tone and sparkles in her eyes "Leeen~ care to explain what I saw yesterday?"

Len played dumb and said "What? I don't remember anything special."

"Oh really," Rin snorted. "I'm pretty sure I saw Miku's finger in your mou-"

Len interjected Rin quickly, a small tint of red appearing on his face "Okay, okay, I'll tell you. Just don't bring it up again."

Rin smiled triumphantly.

Len sighed. "It's not whatever you're thinking, so don't give me that look. All that happened was that Miku dropped a plate, and while picking up the pieces, she cut her finger." Len got up to escape the awkward situation but Rin pulled him back down.

"That doesn't explain why her finger was in your mouth." Rin said stubbornly. In truth, Rin saw the whole thing, but she just wanted Len to get embarrassed.

Len stuttered, "T-That doesn't matter, but ummm...anyway...Oh! We need to get going. School's about to start!" Please forget the topic, Len thought.

"Ah! That's right! Okay, let's get going." Rin stood up and put on her shoes.

Len let go of the breath he had been holding, he hoped that Rin would forget all about that event. It was already embarrassing enough, but he did admit, he enjoyed teasing Miku a lot. As Len and Rin made their way to school, Len couldn't help but wonder what Miku thought of yesterday's events.


Miku was actually early for once and was wondering the school hallways. She didn't want to confront Mikuo, because she felt it would be awkward. His words last night replayed in her mind. They were so cryptic, so ambiguous. What did he mean by that? Miku believed she wasn't making any sort of face, other than one of disgust, when concerning Len. In the midst of her thoughts, Miku bumped into someone.

She was pulled out of her daze and glanced up, "Oh I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to..." Miku was speechless. A pinkette with a sense of maturity and elegance turned around. She was beautiful with long pink hair and crystal clear blue eyes. Miku was stunned.

"Oh dear, it's okay. Don't mind it." She spoke. Even her voice held a tone of calmness and serenity. "Are you perhaps a ninth grader?"

"Ah, yes, again I'm sorry that I was distracted and bumped into you." Miku apologized. Just then a brunette and a person with blue hair appeared from behind the pinkette.

"Luka who's this?" The brunette asked.

"Oh just a cute freshman who bumped into me." Luka replied. "Her name is...?"

"Miku Hatsune." Miku finished Luka's sentence.

"Nice to meet you Miku, I'm Meiko, and the blue one over there is Kaito." Meiko replied.

"Guys~ let's get going. I want ice cream!" Kaito complained.

Meiko lightly pushed Kaito in the shoulder and said "Wait, you big baby." And although it was a light punch from Meiko, Kaito was knocked into the school wall. She then grabbed Kaito like nothing happened and dragged him across the school hallway.

"Errm, is he going to be okay?" Miku asked a bit worriedly.

"He should be fine, this is normal after all." Luka replied still as calm as ever. Miku figured she didn't have a quick temper, and was hard to anger.

"Anyways it was nice to meet you!" Luka said and followed after the other two.

Just then, loud footsteps were heard and someone pounced on Miku. Miku turned around, and Rin had her in a tight bear hug. She let go of Miku and greeted her cheerfully, "Morning Miku!"

Miku giggled, "Good morning Rin. You're excited today huh?"

"Yup, I just had a great idea. Let's all eat lunch together in the cafeteria today. I wanna introduce to some people." Rin said excitedly.

"Okay, sure," Miku said, meeting new people would be nice. Hold on...a thought ran across Miku's mind. She said after a moment of silence, "Uhh, will Len be there too?"

"Of course!" Rin replied.

Miku groaned. She looked down at her finger, and stared at it. Rin noticed this and asked, "You okay Miku?"

Miku replied brightly, "Yeah! Perfectly fine, I just need to go to the restroom." Miku then disappeared into the nearest ladies' room leaving behind a confused Rin.

As Miku scrubbed her hands as hard as she could, she remembered back to last night. The all too familiar heat rose upon her face. Miku looked at her reflection in the mirror.

Click.

Miku finally realized what Mikuo's words implied. Her fucking traitorous eyes explained everything. Whenever Len was mentioned, her mind might have felt disgust, but her heart said otherwise. It was evident the way her eyes lit up.

Goddammit, she thought. Just what did she get herself into?


A/N: Wooo, another chapter down! Bet you guys forgot about Mikuo huh?

On a side note, this fanfic might not be as short as I intended. While I was writing, I came up with a lot of 'firsts' that could happen for Len and Miku. I'm excited for the upcoming chapters now that Miku has some sort of hint on her feelings, so look forward to it!