Special Day, special chapter (It is 23:19 in Spain so I do have time XD)
Anyway, I do not own Vocaloid and you know the rest.
Enjoy!
Special Chapter: Birthday
The alarm sounded and Luka turned it off sleepily. Since the day Miku and her subjects, as she liked to call them, went to her school, she hasn't been sleeping well.
Not because of anything strange, of course! I am not like Lily! The thing was that, somehow, the little tealette managed to get all kind of information about me (not only her but also Miki, Yukari and Kaito) and we always stayed up all night to talk, send messages or chat.
Sadly, four days later Lily intercepted the messages and the calls and began to join OUR PRIVATE conversations. It wouldn't be a bad thing if it weren't for the fact that we always ended having some kind of argument which Miku didn't understood. Why? Because our arguments consisted in metaphors and ironies. Who would have thought that Lily woman had such an ability to fight so good against me?
Anyway, the point is that I do not want to get up.
Moreover, today is my birthday! And I have to go to school? In whose mind could be going to school good when you're going to celebrate the day you were born? It's more, school should be grateful someone has been born on that day! If it weren't for us to be born, school wouldn't have students, and if school doesn't have students there's no need for school at all -sorry for the faculty because they'll lose their job, but that way they learn to value a special day-.
So why, in MY birthday, should I go to school? Luka put an arm on her eyes, trying to cover them from the light entering through the window. I should just lay here saying I'm sick. Shame fate had another plans
"RISE AND SUN, MY SUNSHINE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LITTLE PINKY BABE!" Luka's mother put off -threw- Luka's blanket and began to shake her excitedly.
"Cold." Was the only thing her daughter said before turning to a ball, hugging her legs.
"..." Luka's mother, named Kimiko, just stared.
"..."
"..." Narrow of eyes.
"..."
"..." Penetrating look.
"..."
"..." Send of evil waves.
"... *snore*"
"Ah! You ungrateful daughter! Come here so your mom can give you a birthday kiss!" The bed bounced as Kimiko jumped on the bed -probably crushing Luka's body with her weight- and began to tickled the young lady.
"Ac-! ! M-Mom... H-Hurts!"The whine of her daughter were mistaken by the typical complains of a teenager and thus, the old woman didn't stop. "He-! Ow! Whaaa! I'm dying!" Well, maybe that could be more serious.
"Hahaha, you're exaggerating!" Her mother stopped considerately -luckily- because she was such a good woman -she was tired-. "Anyway, stop lazing around and get up. It's your birthday so expect a day full of surprises." Kimiko smiled brightly.
For a moment, Luka felt like the person in front of her wasn't her mother but some kind of clone of Miki. Not that something like that could be done, right? Right? You know, those beautiful kind pleasant and not scary neither creepy at all smiles, all around, following you, surrounding you, making you feel smaller and smaller... When that day comes I may as well throw myself out the window.
"Now, honey. I want you to go downstairs and open your present." Her mother added as brightly as before.
Luka looked at her suspiciously. Of course, everyone loved to be given presents and gifts, but this was strange... "What's with that look?" The older one asked completely oblivious.
Too easy... "What are you trying to hide from me? Is this another prank of yours?" Luka moved her body as she said this, trying to get away from that being called mother.
"What do you mean with that? Luka, I am your mother! Why would I want to jest you or anything alike?" Kimiko exclaimed completely dumbfounded by her daughter's thought of her.
"... Mum... Last year, to get my gift, you made me go to Grandpa's temple with the invention of some pilgrimage I had to do for turning fifteen - including its walking and the carry of many survival items- only to make me return home by train!" Luka almost wanted to pull her hair out remembering that journey.
"Hey, the trip wasn't that bad at all. Besides, you went to the temple from a very short distance. I still don't understand how did you lost in the forest. I mean, your father and I left you in the entrance of it." Her mother reasoned wisely.
"I know... And you know too." Luka shrank knowing this was a lost battle. "Oh, right! That's why we sent you there on Friday, so you could be home on Monday! Ehehe, my little daughter has got the disorientation of his father. What a cute little girl you are~!" Kimiko petted the head of the younger.
"W-Well!" She held her mother's hand to stop her from keeping treating her like some dog. "And what about my fourteenth birthday when you invited me to the amusement park only to tell me you had hidden my present in the Witch's House! I almost died there!"
"Ah, but Luka, think of that as a test to see if you have grown enough to not be scared of ghosts anymore! I mean, when you reached that age we made a deal of us treating you like an adult and you acting as one." Her mother frowned, a little frustrated at her daughter's blindness. Oh, come on! Don't put that face as if the one at fault were to be only me! Scary things are scary!, chibi inner Luka complained hugging her knees and making doodles on the sand of the ground with some stick (well, actually the 'sand' was black as everything around but Luka, and the stick was just some white line connected to chibi inner Luka's hand) "You know I would never do anything to angry you." Smile.
Luka felt some tears trying to appear from her eyes. "And what about the TUNA? Why I must be on a diet when the only one who needs it is you!" She replied dramatically. No one plays with MY tuna!
Freeze of time.
Sweat began to fall from Luka's forehead as she realized what she has just told to one of the persons she loved the most. M-maybe... I can let her play with my tuna a little...
Kimiko had a blank face, as if repeating inside her mind everything her daughter has shouted to her.
Tilt of head.
The young pinkette took an intake of breath expecting something painful. The way she's moving her head...I'm sure she's thinking something cruel and nasty
Grin.
The admired president of the Student Council couldn't do anything more than tremble and widen her eyes in surprise. This is bad. This is bad. This is BAD!
Raise of hand.
Oh my God! Oh my God! I'm going to cry! I'm almost crying! What is she going to do? Why is she raising her hand with such a slow pace? If she is going to punish me, please, let her do it quick! This is just so... And what I am thinking about? It's only normal for her to be angry! Stupid Luka, never call, try to call or make an allusion of a woman being fat! That's what you have been taught!
Ah, and of course, respect your mother. Ehehe, I almost forgot that one, inner Luka rubbed her head.
Anyway, this is no moment for that! You have to be worried about what your mother is going to do to you! I mean, she's my relative, there's no way she can watch me suffer for a long time. But that doesn't change the fact that I just called her... Still! She was the one who taught me to be honest with others! Then it should be her fault. However, that would mean I do not want her to teach me anything and her role as my mother, besides giving me food and shelter, is to raise me and educate me. So it's only good for me to trust her. If she punishes me is for the good.
Nonetheless, wouldn't that be illegal or something? I'm sure there must be some law protecting kids like me! The problem is that I'm not a kid anymore! What should I do?
Good grief! How much I hate to be a teenager and be so confused about my feelings for my mother!
And why the heck isn't that slap or whatever it was coming!
Luka blinked.
Kimiko still grinned. She has her hands on Luka's hips. She has her fingers holding... holding... spare tires! WHAT! HOW! Her mother seemed to notice her stare as she just giggled cutely and frowned. "Oh, Luka! I had you for nine months inside of me. I know you more than anyone in the world, and I'm sure these rolls of fat aren't just from my imagination." Luka was bewildered, but she didn't know if it was for her mother talking so naturally about her -when she was sure, and everyone agreed, that her mother was less healthier than her- or the fact that she had those things on her body!
"B-B-B-B... But I do exercise! And I am very healthy! H-How could this happen to me?" Kimiko looked at her skeptically. "W-Well, maybe I skipped some dancing classes, and I haven't been running outside as much as before... But that was because it was cold! And we were on holidays!" I'm sure I'm not the only one who has done this!
"Ah, and don't forget the food! All those sweets you have been eating lately with Miki-chan... Where does that little girl take the food from? Whatever, just go down already because it's getting a little late. I have work to do, you know." Her mother told her while pointing her wrist watch reproachfully. "I still don't know how you manage to distract me so much." Luka shook her head unimpressed until she got aware of the time.
Before she knew it, her mother was already downstairs opening the entrance door and saying 'goodbye and don't forget to open your present!'.
Luka blinked and looked at the time. If I'm going to late anyways may as well get some breakfast outside. A present from me to me.
This is pathetic...
Luka went first to the bathroom to wash her face. On her way there she believed she heard some strange noises downstairs but she paid them no mind thinking it was the washing machine or something.
However, when the noises grew louder it became something she could just avoid so she decided to go down, not before taking a hairdryer (don't be fooled by the movies, not everyone has a baseball bat in their houses) with her just in case it was a burglar. Not that it was probably to be that, I mean, it was half past seven in the morning, who the hell goes to sneak into a house at that time? Luka no, that's for sure.
The sounds seemed to come from the kitchen so Luka crouched down as she saw in all those famous war video games the boys often play and approached the source of the noise. A pink little box with a ribbon and a label on the dinning table. Luka frowned and squinted her eyes. Her name was on it.
Suddenly, the box began to move as if something were hitting it from inside. It keep going straight until it fall from the table, the ribbon getting smashed by the hit. She could hear some whimper from inside it...
Okay...What the heck is this? That box is no bigger than my microwave, so what could be inside it? I am sure that has to be my birthday present but still... My mother would not be capable of... Oh my God! Does she know that putting animals inside boxes can kill them? I mean, where does it breath?
Yet... Maybe she meant to do that. It is not normal for her to give me my present so easily...Or maybe she had already thought that I'd thought this and so she was aware of me doubting resulting in the package being actually my birthday gift and me not taking it because of my suspects.
But if it were really to be a puppy wouldn't be cruel for my part not to try to save it? ….
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Well... If it is not dead yet... It hasn't made a sound for some minutes...
Luka carefully approached the package and took it in both her hands. She shook it a little with her ear near it. She heard something as if a strange creature were to be complaining and gasping. Well, if it is what I think it is, shaking it only will scare the puppy so let's just open it.
She took off the ribbon and next the cellophane tape when her vision was covered by something sticky. AGH! I JUST KNEW IT! I SHOULDN'T HAVE OPENED IT! Followed it some kind of shriek or scream. Anyway, the thing is that something was glued to her face. And judging by the texture, it wasn't something pleasant.
She tried to touch her face only to find that some kind of soft ball was the cause of all this. She grabbed it (with great difficult, it was so soft) with her hands completely outraged by this turn of events I just knew I should have listened to my instincts!
Luka managed to tear that thing off her face leaving her a feeling of someone ripping off her skull from her body. It burnt and she felt the need to cry and bang her head on the nearest wall. However she did not do it because it would be more comforting to just tear to pieces her birthday's present.
"Uh? What...?" Luka's eyes widened very shocked.
"... Tako?" The creature moved one if its hands to put them on its chin. (If you could call that hands and chin)
"An... Octopus?" She narrowed her eyes glancing at its tentacles. "You are my present?" Luka cocked her head only to be imitated by the animal/strange being.
"Tako?" The creature also rubbed her head with its tentacle.
"... Am I supposed to cook you?" She frowned intensely as if she were to figure the secret of the universe.
"Tako tako tako! Taaaaa!" The thing seemed to understand her as it began to tremble and trying to escape from her hold.
Luka stared at it and stood up ready to guide the octopus to its fate only to be stopped by the sight of some paper inside the box in which was written:
'Don't you think this octopus is super similar to you? It even has your face! Enjoy your present, Mommy."
Luka's eye twitched. Comparing me with this, aren't you? Really, what did I do to deserve this? She looked at the ceiling expecting some kind of answer only to be petted by the strange creature.
"Well... Thinking it slowly... It would be very bizarre to cook something that looks like myself, even if I do not agree on that last part." She smiled a tiny smile.
"Tako!" The Octopus smiled cutely.
-P- J-O-B
"Happy birthday, Luka-chan!" Miki squealed as she shoved her present onto the table making fall the other gifts Luka received since the morning -which were very few compared to last year. "Open it, open it!"
"Yeah, yeah." Luka replied calmly as she undid the wrapping.
"By the way," Miki continued her gaze fix on Luka's head as if to think. "I wanted to comment this to you before lesson began but I didn't have time and... Well... You have an octopus on your head." The girl pointed out referring to the creature which has been the last 5 minutes with two mini-fans dancing (if moving its tentacles was dance) and smiling.
Luka stared at Miki, then around her. Ohhh... That would explain why nobody approached me compared to other times.
"You know, this octopus really does look very alike you." She petted its head enjoying the smoothness of it. "Ah, right! Let's call it TakoLuka!" She chanted as she took the animal in her hands. The octopus looked curiously at Miki who has just stopped it from continuing its dancing.
Luka halted her movements to gaze at her friend with a blank face. Why does people compare me with an octopus? And continued to unwrap her present. Just how much packaging did she put on this? At this rate I'm not going to finish anytime soon!
"Ne, Luka-chan, is it a boy or a girl?" The red-haired turned the octopus to see under it only to scare the animal and making it go away from her claws and look for shelter under some chair, all the while with two tentacles covering its head.
"... Actually..." Miki opened her eyes expectantly as she saw the taller girl thought deeply about it. "I don't know and I don't care." The other girl sulked between angry and disappointed. "Now, to more important things... Are you sure your gift is something different than... A lot of paper?" She sighed, too stressed with that never-ending unwrapping.
"I won't say anything." She giggled trying to catch the little octopus who was running away from her avoiding the legs of tables and chairs.
"..." Luka stared at the half-present which have reduced its size to the half. "Is it flammable?"
Miki stood up from where she was, under the teacher's desk. "Er... Not quite... I think..." She narrowed her eyes. "Why?"
"May as well burn all the paper and then try to save whatever was left from the present." Miki panicked.
"How can you be so cruel?" Said girl paid her no mind already opening another box, and why not, another of chocolates one. Do they know the 14th of February does exist for something? Anyway, they clearly think I am going to eat all of these. She glanced a bag of chocolates that she had received since this morning -and the ones that she wasn't given yet. She was sure the moment TakoLuka was away she would be pursued by a horde of fans. Not a good thing to think of. Not when I'm in an urgent need of losing weight! I mean, I would be mocked by Kaito if that were to happen! And I DON'T want to buy new clothes just because the ones I own don't fit me. Overall when I'm sure mom would make me pay everything with my pay... It IS a need and as a mother she should pay them for me, like when she pays for my school books!...
Ara? Where is Tako-chan? (I refuse to call that thing Tako"Luka"!)
"Lukaaaaa- OUF!" Oh, there it is. Luka got up as she hurriedly neared Kaito, who had a hand extended in the typical fashion of a tragic movie where someone who doesn't deserve it is left for dead.
"Here you are, Tako-chan. Don't get too far away from me." She said as she hugged lightly the creature. "Kaito? What are you doing on the ground? You know that's full of filthy bacterias and who knows more. If I remember correctly, someone stepped on an excrement and he didn't noticed until he reached here -he was late- and all of us began to smell... Well... You know, that." The pink-haired woman shivered at the thought... For the good part, she has heard that meant good luck. Maybe that boy had a great day that day, even with that on his shoe.
The boy lying on the ground blinked and stood up quickly, groaning at the thought of his beautiful blue scarf touching something like that. By the way, when did Luka grow two heads? And how was that she could just take one off her neck?
"Tako-tako!" The octopus smiled taking its position on Luka's head again. "Yeah, yeah. Be a good octopus from now on. We don't want you in someone's dinner." The president calmly talked to it new found friend.
"Eh..." The man glanced at Miki questioningly. The girl shrugged her shoulder telling him telepathically and moving her mouth to just enjoy the presence of the new creature. "..." He blinked as if processing the information. "What do you mean with 'have to low the essence of the lewd literature?"
Miki face-palmed. "Never mind." They turned to Luka who has just gone away without leaving trail. "Luka-chan?"
"The president has gone to buy something for the octopus thing one... I think she may have gone to a fish market or a restaurant, I don't really know." Both persons frowned when a classmate said this, but it is unclear if it was for Luka leaving them behind or for the fish market and restaurant part.
"Kaito-kun..." The treasurer put this time a very serious tone. "I think Luka is going to do something stupid..."
"What?"
(Add tragic music) Miki turned, her eyes watery and her lips pursued. "I think she plans on killing herself!"
"Eh? What makes you think that?" Kaito replied startled by the grave -silly- situation revealing in front of him.
"You don't know?" The little girl grabbed his friend's shoulder, hard. "If she cooks poor Takoluka-chan is the same as if she were to cook herself! Do you know the implications of all that? She could be accused of cannibalism! And what's worse, she was trying to eat herself -if you cook something I'm sure is for eating it-; I don't know what does that mean but I'm sure sensible people as you and me wouldn't do that! We have to find her!"
-.-.-
"ACHO! Ops, sorry, Tako-chan. Maybe it should be better to held you with my hands. Up there you're going to fall." Luka commented to the animal seeing it slipped from its position when she sneezed. "It's strange. I don't think I have caught a cold, but the last minutes I haven't stopped sneezing. Am I allergic to something? What do you think?" She asked to the little creature who was sitting (let's difference with stand up when it supports itself with it's tentacles and sitting when it's lying on its base of the body/head)
"Tako tako, tako tako!" The being replied as it pointed a vending machine with drinks.
"Do you want one?" TakoLuka looked up smiling cutely. They approached it. "Okay, which one?" The little one began to rub its chin thinking staring the one of the brand Loca-Cola. "... Can octopus drink and eat things with sugar? I don't want you to end like Miki whenever she eats some sweet..."
TakoLuka pouted and then pointed at one tee. Luka frowned. "Wise tea? What kind of name is that? Well, if you want it..." She put out her wallet. "You had to choose the expensive one..." She grumbled a little at her pet's choice. "Take the money, Tako-chan." She said to it as she had her hands full.
"Ah!" Luka looked at the source of the voice to find... "Shit!"
"Lily-san? H-Hey! Where are you going? Don't run!" She shouted at the blond girl who had just avoided her in the most obvious way. If it weren't for the fact she was holding TakoLuka and her wallet at the same time, there might have been a little possibility to follow the woman. What is she doing here? If she's here... Miku-chan too! She's trying to distance me from her! There's no way I am going to let her!
"Tako tako~" Luka blinked. She has lost its attention to her pet to find she had already a can on her tentacles... And that didn't looked like a soft drink.
"What are you drinking?" She asked taking the can, which was empty by now, to read the alcoholic drink 'Heidi's'. "What do I do with you now?" She whimpered seeing that Lily has escaped from sight, she was going to be late to return from the break and that she will have to take with her a drunk octopus.
Perfect! Just perfect!
She smiled a insane smile.
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"Finally finished... I should get Tako-chan from the infirmary. I wonder if they knew what to do with an octopus there. I doubt it's usual to bring animal patients there... And for other part..." Luka stared at the other bag of presents she has received while her animal friend was away. Note to self, bring Tako-chan everyday from now on.
She reached the infirmary and went to the bed TakoLuka was lying only to find the blankets in a mess and her friend nowhere to be seen. "What th- MPFHH" Shit, shit! What is happening? Who is grabbing-! I-Is this chloroform? Oh... No...
Luka opened her eyes slowly, rubbing her head feeling the beginning of a headache. What has happened? Her vision was blurry so she just laid there waiting for the headache to go away or her vision to clear, whatever comes first. At least I'm on a bed...
Wait... Why am I on a bed? She bounced a little with her hips. I-Is this... A water mattress? She sat up and began to touch the bed. Oh, heck! It is! It is! Where I am? Is this some kind of rich house? She looked around to see a bedroom of a girl filled with stuffed toys. The walls were colored in blue, the ceiling trying to resemble the night sky and there was a huge rug on the ground that covered almost all the room. Its texture, this time, looked like the sea with some white spots resembling sand. She found a Gender guitar with its amplifier near t he bed, but there were more guitars than that from classic to electrical guitars including the electro acoustic ones. There was also a CD player and many more things she wasn't going to tell. In short, a rich girl bedroom.
What caught her attention was a big plush of a leek next to her which she didn't if it was used as teddy bear or as pillow. Perhaps both things at the same time. This seems familiar...
She heard the door being opened and some teal-haired girl timidly looking out the door.
Luka's eyes widened and she couldn't help but grin stupidly even though she didn't know anything about her whereabouts.
"You are awake..." She said softly or more like...
"Is something the matter, Miku-chan? You seem scared of me." Luka offered a smile when she was trying hard not to deepen the frown which was making its appearance.
"W-Well..." The girl looked to the ground. "Are you okay?" The girl finally asked after some minutes.
"Why would you say that?" Luka gazed at her eyes confused. Skipping the part where I don't know where I am or how did I reach here, yup, everything alright!
"Y-You know! I was against using chloroform but Lily-senpai insisted and so she went there with Yukari-san a-and... And... It wasn't my intention to get you hit yourself on the head... I just wanted them to bring you here to give you a surprise..." Her eyes watered as she explained -tried to explain- everything.
Chloroform... She was the responsible of... No, wait, it was Lily-san and Yukari... However, hit on the... Huh? Oh my, I have some bandages! Since when? That would explain my headache! And what does she mean with surprise? Luka stared at the now sobbing Miku.
LUKA! No is no moment to worry about that! Angel Miku-chan needs your help! You have to-
"Miku, what's happening? I sensed you crying!" Oh... Great... Pikachu here... "Oh? Yo, Luka! Glad to see ya' 'wake!" Said girl blinked. Has she just called me by my name? "Sorry for that... Hehe, we gave ya' quiet a bruise there! Sorry. Go downstairs! I have something to compensate you!" The blond said taking Miku with her.
MIIIIKUUUUUUU-CHAAAAAAAN! NO! THE WITCH HAS KIDNAPPED HER!
With the little strength she had left, motivated to save her princess in distress, knight Luka stood up from the bed, walking to the door. After 5 minutes the girl has managed to walk through the corridors without staggering.
What down floor? I only see more and more corridors! How do rich people do it to live in these houses? I'm sorry for the kid who plays in here, it has to be lonely. And I don't want to imagine the nights. My God, what would that be, a scary child lost in his own home... Kind of sad. Luka frowned. Well... No solution. I'll have to call them.
-P- -J- -O- -B-
Five minutes later, when Luka managed to find the elevator.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" A mass of people was the first thing her sight caught when the doors opened. There were her friends, Miku's friends, her parents (?) and more people she didn't know. More important, TakoLuka was being held by her Miku-chan, the animal clearly giving her a hug.
Luka got closer to her teal-haired girl with a huge grin, grabbed her pet's head and shoved it away somewhere. "What a great surprise..." Miku blushed, which made Luka also redden. What is this?
"Bubble-gum! Bubble-gum! Here! Here!" The president turned at the call a little angry. Again that Pikachu monkey? The blond woman put an arm around her neck. "I know I don't like you and you don't like me buuuut! I'll give you this as a present." She told her as she showed her a table full of all varieties of tuna. "I've heard your mother has punished you. She's over there, by the way. I' got her permission, eat to your heart's content!"
She opened her eyes not believing bad evil Lily could do something like that for her. "And what's more! Today I will let you enjoy Miku's company. You know, a comrade favor. Now enjoy!" She exclaimed while getting away, chillingly serene.
Luka tilted her head as she saw the blonde go next to a certain red-haired girl who looked at her, said her goodbye and then wrote something on the mobile phone.
Her phone vibrated and she saw a message from her: Really! First, being late to school, then having TakoLuka-chan drunk and, after that, bump your head with God knows what! The problems you cause! Good grief Lily is her for something!
Luka smirked. That girl... I wonder... Do I smell love here? She thought as she was looking at Lily talk animatedly with Miki.
After eating some of that banquet, receiving congratulations and a explanation of what were her parents doing there (in which she was told Miku and Lily contacted them to make her a surprise, well... I'm sure they come for the food, everyone goes to parties for the food! I do that!, and in exchange they will give more freeness to their daughter as long as she stayed in the territory, just how big is the land they own?), she felt a tug on her clothes.
"Yes, Miku-chan?" She asked seeing the little girl blush a little and shift uncomfortably.
"C-Could we go to my room?" M-Miku-chan? D-Don't you think is to soon for that? W-We're young! We have a long life to ahead! I want us to do it in a more romantic situation! Not in some party like this! "I don't feel very well with so many people around here."
Ah.
It was that.
Buu.
"Also, I have to give you your present." Miku-chan! That's so~! I'd never thought you-! Ah! You're going to be my dead! You naughty girl~!
Wait! No, no! Calm down Luka! She doesn't think about those kind of things. She's too innocent.
Baka-Luka, of course she doesn't! She probably confuses it with talking about the weather as she confuses kisses with rewards to persons like you.
But that would mean Lily-san... She... To her... Oh, no! Princess of mine! How much debauched is the people, how hard try them to deceive you! However, you shall no fall into those traps as I, Luka Megurine has come to your rescue without wanting anything in reward other than your safeness! I shall cut witches in half and lock that Pikachu up. Your honor will not be shattered as I give myself to you when the time comes to the fight! I shall protect you so you will do, as you wait for my arrival, my arrival to your side. For as long as I know you are safe, my will to fight will not cease; for as long as I know evil exists, all my courageousness will not leave; for as...
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Oh my God, that's what happens when you have to read that novel, the Don Quixote one. At this rate I will end up like that man. Wait and see...
"I see... So this was your room, after all. I knew that leek reminded me of something." She smiled as Miku blushed and took the stuffed toy, hugging it as it reached her knees.
"Take a seat. I'll promptly give you your present." The girl search for something inside her wardrobe and returned sitting next to Luka. "Here, open it." It was a cubic package.
"Miku-chan." The pink-haired woman turned to her. "Before unwrapping it I want to tell you I'm really grateful about all this and that you didn't have to buy me a present." She smiled sincerely. Yay! Yay! I have Miku-chan's present! Not only that but I have been sleeping on her waterbed (even if at the moment I didn't know it) and now the two of us are together in her room! I want more! Chibi inner Luka jumped from one imaginative bed to other.
"I-I know... But I-I wanted to..." Is it me or she seems more nervous than usual? "J-Just open it... This is embarrassing you know..." Luka looked at her questioningly but said nothing.
Inside the box were big earphones who looked more an accessory than actual earphones. The sash was brown with two yellow curves that entwined and the part of the ear was yellow with three brown rectangles and a blue half-circle.
"You said you liked music and as I've always seen you with hair-bands and so... I thought you will like it..." Miku commented hugging the leek plush.
Luka turned and hugged Miku putting an arm between the toy and Miku so she could hug her properly. Miku reddened furiously letting the big leek fall and returned the action, snuggling into her friend.
Surprisingly, the first to leave the hug was the birthday girl. She saw Miku's bangs covering her eyes but not her blush.
"Miku-chan is something the matter?" And before she knew it, the distance between their faces closed. She blushed. "M-Miku-chan?"
"... H-Happy birthday." Miku said shyly as she closed the gape separating their lips.
For some unknown reason, this kiss didn't feel like the others Miku has given her. She realized she enjoyed it but not in the same way as the other times where pervert thoughts invaded her mind. This was timid and gentle, scared of hurting someone, like a feather but a feather of an angel. She knew Miku's lips were trembling, as if asking her if whatever she was doing was good or not, letting her control of the situation.
Then, she felt the girl shiver and look away, her face all red. It wasn't a long kiss, in fact, it was more like the peck she received on Christmas; but it left Luka all dazed.
"I-Im s-sorry... I-I sh-shouldn't... I..." Miku tried to explain herself but the pink-haired stopped her. Luka knew her cheeks were pink, but still, she kept on gazing into Miku's eyes.
"It's okay..." She replied softly. "It isn't like if it were to be the first time you do that right?" She told her expecting her to giggle a little. Miku did not disappoint.
"I know... But... It was... Different." The look on the tealette was so sincere Luka thought she would faint from cuteness. "I don't know. It's the first time it happens something like this to me." She laughed rubbing her head.
C-Could it be... That she...? "I just... Well, want to be with you, today. Is your birthday. So just the two of us..." She mumbled the last part and Luka had to listen closely to understand it.
Maybe she... She doesn't know what is it... It might be... The nervousness... The kiss...
"Could we repeat it?" Luka's mouth opened before she could order her brain not to.
Miku blushed and bit her lower lip, her eyes watery. "B-But it's strange..." She whispered and took an intake of breath seeing Luka's pleading expression. Well, now I've reached here, there's no turn around. "I do not want to bother you or make you uncomfortable..." Luka smiled to herself. So innocent.
She caressed her cheek and cupped her chin making the tealette look at her. She closed her and could feel Miku's ragging breath. Just a little more.
"Lu-Luka-c... I-I... W-We..." The girl still tried to resist, probably, thinking this was bad or wrong, or too confused to think straight.
"Ssh..." Nearer. Closer. And a sob. This awakened her. "Ah! M-"
"MIKUUUUU! I HAVE SENSED YOU CRYING!" Pikachu opened the door followed by Cherry one.
Instantly, Miku was away from her, clutching Lily's dress. "Hey, hey, what happened? C'm 'ere. That's good. Let's go to the bathroom, ne? Tell me what happened." Lily soft tone calmed her down and she took her away not before telling Miki to ask Luka's version.
"Emm..." Luka looked at everything but her friend.
"Cool thing, right?" Miki began.
"What?"
"The 'I sense Miku crying', actually, it was the spy video and microphone you have on you."
Luka's face turned blank. "What?"
"Your present birthday. Remember when you said my gift was all paper? Well, in reality it was a spy item. Very cool! When you fainted due to your head's hit, I opened it and put it on your clothes. That's why it is so small! And that's why Lily knows everything you do." Miki explained.
Her phone vibrated. A message.
Lily's message.
'What have you done to Miku?'
"You know, Lily wanted to connect it with her phone." Miki said as she saw the sender.
Luka felt a shiver run through her spine. What have you done?
Another message.
'I think Miku may be... With you...
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I'm going to kill you.'
"Ehehe... Miki... Is this meant to be a joke?" She asked to her dear friend who shrugged her shoulders.
"Who knows. By the way, where is TakoLuka-chan?