A Romance's Awakening
A Vocaloid Fanfic
By Eriol Ishtal Fuuchoin
~Chronicle Three~
Okay, so we're still inside the gym storage room of Crypton High, where Kagamine Rin and Len were having a talk, a serious one, for the first time in two years...
"Len. I really want to ask you this." Rin began, hesitating. She wasn't sure if she could accept Len's answer...and so she began playing with her sailor uniform's tie in order to get rid of the tension which was building up inside of her.
"What the heck is it, Rin?" Len impatiently asked, starting to feel that this talk was going to get them nowhere.
The brunette then took a deep, heaving breath, and managed to choke out, "What exactly...have you been acting like a bastard for? Why was it that...ever since we were fourteen, you began making friends with delinquents, skipping school whenever you felt like it...and...and...using women as playthings...? I don't see a trace of the Len who came to our house ten years ago..."
That was it. So she had been wondering...Len felt contentment well up inside his heart now that he had proof that Rin truly cared. She had said so herself earlier before he had left for school.
And all of a sudden...
"I can't take this anymore, Len...if you k-keep on being like that I...I don't think I...can l-live with you anymore..."
And that did it. Len then began to feel pity...guilt...regret...all at the same time. He had actually been hurting Rin so badly...his Rin. But whatever could he do to make up for everything...? He had even tried to break her arm earlier...
Without warning, he then decided to take the crying Rin into his arms.
Shocked, Rin could only utter, "I want the old Len back...please..." without doing anything to resist him. She just cherished the feeling of security and comfort which came from Len's warm, loving embrace...
"Rin...I know that these words...really won't be enough." Len whispered lovingly into his cousin's ear, "But...I just...wanted to tell you that...I'm truly sorry..."
"It really...won't be that easy to forgive you..." Rin replied, her voice still shaking. "But...umm...I guess I can...try, right?"
"I'll wait, Rin. I'll change myself and wait for your forgiveness...even if it took my entire life to make up for everything I ever did to you..." Len continued, stroking Rin's smooth, golden blonde locks gently. He was starting to feel an irresistable urge to kiss her...but since Rin was currently with Mikuo, he had to learn how to control himself...
"Hey Len, you know what?" Rin remarked, laughing softly, "If anyone sees us like this...we could be mistaken for lovers."
That's really what I would love to happen, Len told himself. He tried hard not to say anything like that out loud.
"And...umm...Len?"
"Wh-what...?" Len curiously replied, his hand still on Rin's head.
His princess smiled slyly and murmured, "Even if you don't think you're showing it, even if you stop yourself from saying it out loud...I know now. You don't need to answer my question."
Len stared at Rin, dumbstruck. What was it that she found out?
"Len...you're in love with me, aren't you?"
~o~
"Umm...could you...repeat what you just said...Rin?"
"I asked you, dummy...if you are in love with me." There. She repeated it. And still, he couldn't think about how to answer her.
"Why the hell are you asking me that, idiot!" Len replied, laughing nervously. "I mean...you and I...we're cousins! Why in the world would I be...i-in l-love with...you?"
Rin pouted and mocked Kit Kat's cooing. "Len-kun, who you fall in love with cannot be helped, can it? You know that perfectly well yourself."
Len swallowed the sickening dread in his stomach which was now climbing up his throat. This wasn't going well. If Rin kept on asking him, he would give up eventually...and when he told her the truth, what would happen? She'd probably avoid him and start going out with Mikuo more than ever...or worse...she'd probably find him another place to live in, and-
"Len! If you won't tell me this way..." Rin piped up with a determined tone of voice, "...then probably I need to speed things up a little."
"R-Rin...just what do you mean...?" Len asked weakly.
No answer. For about five seconds there was silence...until Rin slowly removed her tie and began to unbutton her blouse, revealing her B cups under a red lacy bra. Len could only stare in awe while Rin began blushing in her embarrassment.
"Okay...so I know these ain't much...I mean...compared to Kit Kat, I seem like a p-preschooler, don't I...? I don't understand why M-Mikuo would even want a thing like me..." Rin muttered, turning her face away from Len's and moving her arms up by instinct in a desperate attempt to stop Len from staring at her almost totally naked self...
"You don't have to hide from me at all, Rin." Len said sternly, slowly moving her arms downward. "I really don't mind your body...almost every girl you see nowadays have C's or Double D's like Luka-sensei...girls like you are pretty rare. You don't really...need a voluptuous body to find love, I guess..."
"Er...you sound like a ditz, Len...it's funny...b-but I kinda like it." Rin giggled, approaching her blushing cousin and pressing her lips onto his without warning.
For a moment, Len didn't know how to react. He somehow managed to wrap his shaking arms around his Rin. His Rin...no one could stop them now...
Until he distinctly heard the storage room door slam open...and a man's voice came floating in from outside.
"So...this was where you were."
The two cousins broke apart and, to their horror, discovered that a livid Mikuo was framed by the doorway, smirking evilly.
~o~
"So. This was where you were." He repeated, now beginning to laugh menacingly.
Rin uttered a sharp, frightened gasp and immediately buttoned up her blouse, with her back still turned on her boyfriend, whose fists were now curled up in rage. Len, in the meanwhile, tried his best to manage a look of bravery as he took in the sight of Mikuo...
"M-Mikuo...you see...th-this...I-I can explain..." Rin began, approaching her livid boyfriend nervously.
Mikuo smirked as he replied, looking down towards Rin's hurriedly buttoned blouse and disheveled tie, "You don't need to explain anything, Rin. So this is why...why you wouldn't even want to think of spending the night with me...it's because you actually...want the first man to violate you to be your delinquent of a cousin..."
"N-No wait! Y-you've got it all wrong, Mikuo...you see...Len...Len and I...we..." Rin stammered, unable to think of the right words to say. She didn't want this to happen...
"Don't you dare say that you were not up to anything, Rin. I saw you. You two were making out in here like lovers. The few people I had asked around for your whereabouts reported seeing you...and Len... heading towards the storage room. The storage room is, as you know perfectly well, off limits... unless you are asked to enter it for returning gym equipment by your respective gym teachers. Anyhow, you weren't carrying any...so...as expected of two healthy young high school students...well...if I hadn't come here...who knows what could have happened between the two of you."
Tears of desperation and regret began to fall down Rin's face as Mikuo leered upon her menacingly, trying his best to stop himself from hitting the woman he loved. He knew perfectly well who deserved to get beaten down...
"Hey, you bastard." Len finally remarked, having summoned up his courage. "How dare you make Rin cry...you're going to have to pay dearly for that." He then began to approach Mikuo, his fists also curled up in rage.
Rin then tried to wipe away the tears as she gained understanding of what was about to happen.
"N-No! I...I wasn't crying! You two...c-calm down...there's no need for violence! I...I'm the one who tried to seduce Len, it wasn't his fault-!" Rin cried out in desparation, blocking the two boys' paths toward each other.
However, the two boys only smirked and replied in chorus, "Rin, if you don't want to get hurt...stay out of this."
The brunette then gulped nervously as she backed away from the two and witnessed, for the first time in her life, how men fought over a woman they loved.
~o~
It was now six in the evening, and practically everyone who went to Crypton High had gone home. Rin and Len's classmates and remaining teachers for that afternoon never noticed their absence. Mikuo's student council buddies also failed to notice his disappearance...
...and so, not a soul besides Rin knew what was going on. Or, what had been going on...for the past two hours.
Two hours. Rin cried to herself silently as she watched Len and Mikuo battling by the gym storage room...as they punched each other silly, broke a few bones, strangled each other's necks, and rolled around on the ground trying to break each other's faces.
And so, by this hour, the two boys, now totally exhausted, lay on the hard ground panting. It was now impossible to tell who had been more injured. Both Len and Mikuo were sporting black eyes, a tattered lip, broken arms, lumps on their heads, swollen cheeks, and various scratches, wounds, and bruises. Mikuo's head then began to bleed profusely as Len muttered, "Hey, bastard. Where's Rin...?"
"She...she's still here, you ass..." Mikuo replied weakly, feeling the world around him fading away by the second.
"Wh-what's she doing then...?"
"I...I dunno. Probably watching us..."
"Hey...dumbass..." Len replied mischievously, trying his best to manage a smirk. "...you...you're a m-member of the student council, ain't ya? You're dead...when the prez...finds out you'd been...fighting..."
Mikuo then laughed weakly in reply, "Sh-shut up, idiot...I don't really mind...the student council...they're a bunch of blokes who want to make money...off the students...they...they're still working on a good gimmick for that..."
Rin was disturbed by what she had just heard. Did what Mikuo say hold any truth to it...?
"Ehhh...s-so why the hell did you...j-join?"
"I never knew..."
"So now...you're...okay with the fact...that...they'll be kickin' you out...?"
"Yeah, you bastard."
Rin's tears then started to flow out again. How could these two have hurt each other so much just for her...a miserably stupid thing like her...
"You two..." Rin cried, approaching the spot on the ground where the two lay half-concious, "...you two are the stupidest idiots...that I had ever had the misfortune to meet..."
"Yeah, Rin, we know." Mikuo replied, mustering the last of his strength and consciousness. "We happen to be idiots...because we love you. We'll do...anything for you...even if it means...that we would seem like one..."
After the word "one", the last of Mikuo's conciousness faded away. So did Len's. Rin was now left alone with two boys in a life threatening condition.
What was she to do?
"Oy, Rin-chan! What's that you've got there?"
It was , the school's janitor, who happened to be patrolling the grounds with his fat yet gentle bulldog, Takasu. His flashlight then shone on the crying Rin with both Mikuo and Len's bloodied bodies lying right beside her.
- Exciting? Stupid? Boring? Senseless?
Well, since you're here anyway...proceed to Chronicle four! :)
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