~~I was going to update this earlier, but... Ehee~
"Neru, you know it's rude to run away from a person who needs help…" Miku said while sighing. She was just half-running with Neru to nowhere.
"But, we don't know what he wants. Besides, we don't understand even a bit of his words. And Miku, from where do you know that he's asking for help?" Neru said impatiently, still dragging Miku.
"Er, from his way of talking and he was showing a map, right? He must be asking for direction." Miku said a bit calmer.
"Gah! You're a way too kind, Miku." Neru said, receiving a smile from Miku. "We still have thing… Things to do."
"What things are they?" Miku asked innocently. "We just have to search for him, right?"
"…Have no idea. But I think we have to do something beside that. And Miku, you think finding him is an easy task to do? God, I think you're broken."
"I'm not a machine, I can't break." She giggled.
"Enough for the joke, Miku."
"So Neru, can you explain where are you going to bring me?" Miku grinned at Neru.
"Like I know. And I begin to feel sick of your strange, out-of-character smile…" Neru looked away.
Miku just ignored her after that.
"Okay, so where we're heading?"
The aura that was surrounding them suddenly became dark. "His birthplace."
Chapter 7
It's 6 in the morning. And just like usual, Rin woke up early even though it's Sunday.
"I hate being a morning person." She mumbled while walking to the kitchen. "Guess I have no choice but making breakfast now…"
She took a frying pan that has been hanging on the cabinet lazily and put it on the stove. She turned on the stove and left it for a moment to pick up an egg from the refrigerator. Then she walked back to the stove and fried the egg.
"I call this a breakfast… Yeah…" She talked to herself, hand holding a spatula and began to flip the egg. "At least making a simple dish is better than…" She ended it with a sigh and smile, remembering her failure on the previous day.
After she was done, she put the fried egg on the plate. She opened one cabinet taking something from it. Later, a toaster was revealed. She plugged the toaster and put some bread into it.
"It's Sunday, but I just don't know why I always wake up too early. I can't even enjoy my weekend break…" Leaving the toast, she went to the other side of the kitchen and began to make some tea.
After all things was done (the tea, toast, etc…), she went to the dining table to set up the things she had made and eat them up.
She just didn't expect to found someone sitting on the dining chair.
"GAH!" She exclaimed in surprise and jumped back, almost throwing her precious just made breakfast.
It took a minute for the poor Rin to realize, "O-oh, it's just you, L-Len…"
"Morning." He greeted sleepily.
"Eheh, morning…" She greeted him back and sat on the chair beside him, putting the meal on the table.
"Wait, I forgot to make another one." Rin said and ran back to the kitchen. Once she reached the kitchen, she sighed in relief.
"I totally forgot that he's here…" She muttered to herself and began to make another meal.
She went back to the dining table once she finished with her meal-making.
"Itadakimasu~" Rin cheered and began to cut the egg and ate it up. "Ah, this is better than yesterday's failure, but still… Not as good as oranges!"
Len stared at her, "So, yesterday's meal is a… failure?"
"Um, o… of course no! Th-that's my new in—yeah, invention!" Rin laughed. Then her fake smiling face gone. "Of course it's a failure, what else?"
They began to eat their breakfast silently (but not-so-silent, it filled with a slight clatter of the table…). Honestly, Rin never like silence, so she broke it up, "So, what wakes you up this morning? You woke up earlier." She said, still munching her food.
"A loud sound." He replied shortly and resumed eating.
"What sound?" Rin tilted her head and then realized something. "Oh, yeah. Something tripped me on the corridor. And I fell with a 'thud'! Yeah, forget that…" She trailed off when she realized something wrong. "Wait, wait wait wait… Len, you're mixing the tea and egg together?"
"Hng? Yes, why?" He asked back innocently.
"That's… Wrong. You still can mix bread and tea together but… This is… Wrong." Rin pace palmed.
Len stopped eating and waited for Rin's instruction.
"Well… That… Ah, okay. Eat your breakfast whatever method you use and… Help me to clean the dishes." Rin said straightly with some-sort-of serious tone.
"Rin-san."
"Yeah, what?"
"Where is the suffix?"
Rin froze.
More accurately, her brain froze because she didn't understand.
"Wait, I don't get the meaning of your question." She said truthfully.
"Ah, forget it." He said.
They were washing the dishes together in one sink, close to each other, leaving some awkward feeling for one of the person who was washing the dishes.
She felt that the thing that they were doing just became awkward. It's just being close to each other, but she felt it really awkward because she didn't get used with being close with another person. And this one was even worse, different gender.
She didn't know, should be feeling glad or disappointed because he didn't even complain anything.
And she was sure it was because he didn't understand.
"God, why we're washing this together, anyway?" Rin took a step back from the sink, allowing Len to get more free space.
"Uh, you were the one who asked me to wash the dishes. But you followed me so…" Len said unsurely.
"Uh, oh, yeah! I-I mean, now you can sweep the floor or doing something useful for me, I'll wash the dishes!" Rin stammered, pushing Len out from the kitchen. Practically, she didn't want to care about what he was going to do at that time, her mind was too full of random thought and panicked as well.
"Think of it Rin, I begin to regret for my wish of getting some trouble…" Rin let out a long sigh and continued washing dishes.
That's before she heard something sounded suspicious from the outside of the kitchen.
She let out her head to give a peek to the living room and its surrounding—that was now clean without even a single dust.
"Eh? How did he do that… So fast?"
"So the cleaning is finished, then I can—FINALLY!—enjoy some oranges…" Rin said, sitting on the couch, relaxed. Her left arm began to trail to the fruit basket, reaching for some oranges on the table.
"Rin-san, will you die if you do not have any oranges for… A week?" Len asked, slowly, cautiously.
"You don't need to wait for a week, just a day—maybe 2, I'll give up of my life." Rin answered lightly, sounded like she just let out some random word from her mouth.
Len just kept staring at her.
Rin eyed him back, "What? You want some?"
"No. Thank you." He replied shortly.
Rin thought of something seriously (not-really-serious, though). "Len-kun, can you make your sentence at least… longer?"
He tilted his head, "Longer?"
She explained, "Yeah, like… More than 5 words in one sentence… You're a way too silent for me."
But seems like that word just didn't work, he stopped talking after that.
Rin sighed, knowing she failed, again.
She failed in so, many things. She began to think that she's a somewhat, failed human being.
She shooed that thought away and focused to the clueless person in front of her. "Okay, let's practice."
"Speaking?"
"No, eating. Of course speaking and nah, that 'Speaking?' is the reason why we—I mean you—need this." Rin said sarcastically. "Now, tell me about yourself."
Len thought something for a moment than said, "Name, Len."
Rin waited for some continuation, but that didn't come after a minute. And maybe more.
Enough to make Rin face palmed. "…Seems like I asked you to do the wrong thing. You… you can't tell me about yourself, of course." A sigh. "Maybe I should ask you to—wait, your name is… Len? With an L?"
She got a confused look from pair of emerald eyes, "Um, yes?"
"…I thought it was something sounded like 'Ren'… Continue. Tell me about… Me! Kagamine Rin!" Her voice increased at the end of the sentence.
"Orange-loving, active girl." He began. "With a huge bow put on, you can see her looked like an orange, probably."
"Er, I never thought that you have that useless line in your talk as well…" She mumbled in an almost whispering voice.
"A kind person who can not tell the difference between R and L."
"Wait wait, I think you're getting better now. Ironically, you know me more than you know yourself. But please, stop telling me strange things about tongue or head or fruit…" Rin protested.
"…Orange-loving, active girl." He repeated the sentence that he had said before.
"You're going to tell the whole thing all over again. Stop it." She said, stopping him off. "This is going to nowhere…"
Tired of his talking useless things about her, she decided to ask something else. "Tell me about yourself." Without realizing that she repeated it, she said.
"Rin-san, the thing that I know about myself is my name and…"
"And?"
"And…"
"…Yeah."
"Rin-san, I can not do this. I can not remember anything."
"…Yeah, I know."
"So why did you ask?"
"…Honestly, I don't know. I know I better shut up than talking about… A thing that leads to nowhere."
Suddenly Rin exploded, "Yeah! I know what to do now!" With those words, she stood up from the place she had been sitting at and pulled Len's wrist. "Let's go out!"
"Oranges?" He asked. Rin rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"No, this is for… Erm, probably not for oranges, I still have some…" She said. "Or you want some oranges?"
He shook his head, saying something, "Rin-san is the one who wants it."
"Eheheheh, really… This is not for the oranges' sake…" She grinned sheepishly and pulling him out.
"That's a building! A tall one!" Rin exclaimed excitedly, pointing at some huge and tall building.
"Um, I think I know that…" Len commented.
"Oh God, pleeeease Len-kun, I'm just trying to help you." Rin pouted, feet ready to head to the other place. "I found it annoying when you asked for almost every single thing, so this will fix it. Probably."
"Probably…" He repeated after her.
"Aa, probably. Because I'm not really sure of that." Rin said truthfully.
They passed some shops near the streets. Rin chose to ignore the most things on the street (she just don't care about the things on the shop, they just selling unimportant things for her) and continue to drag Len.
Until they reached another street, still with shops. But for Rin, those shops were more interesting than the shops at the previous street. She began to slow her walking speed, deciding to look at the shops more closely.
Antique shop, by the way.
Rin doesn't even care about history, but she just didn't know why she looked at the things there with interest.
"Maybe there is something interesting here, like… what?" Rin muttered something but became confused with her own words.
Rin still looking at the things with some strange, great interest ("Uooo, an old orange peel! They have something like that as well? Cool!"). Her (amazing) random thought stopped suddenly when she felt something tugging at her sleeve.
Someone, to be more accurate. And of course, that someone is Len.
"Rin-san." He called out, the pointed at something on the shop. An old clock. "Does the time stop?"
Rin looked at the clock, and gaped. She really wanted to laugh out loud at his (dumb, for her) question. But that would be rude, so she looked away from him and let out a giggle (or chuckle).
Too bad that Len realized Rin's strange attitude. "Am I… Asking the wrong thing?"
"I… It's just, you're too innocent… No, I mean plain." Rin said, still giggling a bit. Then she took a deep breath, "Len-kun," She started, "The clock is just showing the time. The clock will stop but the time won't… At least, hasn't. See? I'm still talking, we're still moving along with all the living people around the world. That means that the time still moving."
"So we halt if the time stops?" He asked.
"Exactly!" She exclaimed, "You're a good and smart boy!" Without knowing, she patted his head.
Which was strange, since he's taller than her.
"Rin-san… This is… You know, embarrassing." Len said, straightly, honestly.
Because Rin could see some kind of blush form appeared on his face.
"Oh well… Sorry for that~ I just couldn't help it!" Rin said, took a step back from him.
Rin just smiled after that, thinking of what she's doing and what he's doing right now. Teaching something like this to someone who you didn't even know before is just fun for her. Deep in her heart, she felt happy. Happy… Because he was happy. She loves seeing him happy.
"Well Len-kun, let's go somewhere else!" Rin said, pulling him by the wrist once again.
'Being with trouble brings happiness?'
~~What's... Wrong with this chapter...?
R and L is the same in Japanese... Right? *unsure*
Aaaaanyway, thank you so much for everyone who have clicked, viewed, read, reviewed, and favorited this story ・ω・ I love you all~
Oh, the next chapter will be... Telling about Miku and Neru... No Kagamine(s), sorry. I don't understand why I made something like that at the first place... Because their story doesn't catch up with the Kagamines? Maybe.
Once again, I love you all~
