Chapter 7. Enjoy!

Chapter 7: The Warning

February 9th, 2011

8:00 A.M

I woke up, the last word live still alive in my mind... no, I still heard it. I glanced at Chiyo, his eyes were open and his mouth was closing.

"So…how was your sleep?" he asked.

"It was…a beautiful dream."

His eyes twinkled slightly. "Share," was his response.

"I was…wrapped in beautiful music. It soothed me in a way that is unexplainable as I was literally in heaven. I was standing on a cloud and I saw bright light and angels everywhere, then I heard beautiful singing; it was short but beautiful!"

I stopped when I looked into Chiyo's sapphire eyes. They were somewhat sparkling with happiness, but not one ounce of a smile on his lips.

"I see, I hope you enjoyed my song."

Whoa, what the heck? No way! Was it really possible? I did see his mouth closing as soon as I woke up...

"Chiyo…how long were you singing?"

No reply.

I repeated myself. "Chiyo...how long?"

"All night."

"You-"

I couldn't believe it. Had he really been staying up all night, singing away my nightmares into a beautiful dream just for my sake? Most of all, How did he do that? Did he somehow enter my dream while he was...conscious?

"Yes, I really did stay up all night while singing nonstop for you. But it still was an enjoyable night as it is not often I sing and usually I don't feel like it and yet for some reason I feel relaxed...but it's also good I don't go out of practice."

He had really done it. Without even realizing it, I moved a bit closer to him.

"I…I don't know what to say…Chiyo...thank you…"

I would have probably cried at the sacrifice he had given staying up all night, on the verge of sleeping but with a course to follow, but his music had touched me so much.

"Chiyo…the music…I understood every word of it."

The sparkle instantly disappeared from his eyes. He was speechless.

"Chiyo, what does it mean?"

After about a minute Chiyo answered. "That's unimportant. It is just a song after all; besides, we will all have to sing eventually. We will have our singles, our duets and group songs. Plus-"he paused.

I had moved closer to him but was completely oblivious to it. We were really on the same bed facing each other eye to eye. His gaze pierced through me and I felt a familiar warmth with another strange sensation. I had no idea what happened to cause this.

What was going on through Chiyo's mind at the moment, I could never tell, but I was sure something caused him to pause with out proximity to each other at the same time. Wait...for Chiyo to pause at a time like this, did this mean he was understanding...what I think it could be?

"Rise and shine lovebirds! Hope you had a good sleep!"

The door clicked and opened and Rin stepped in. She grinned when she saw us.

"D'awwwwww, isn't that SWEEEEET?" she said in a "cute Rin" tone. My face flushed and I instantly jumped out of bed.

"Sh-Shut up!" Dang it, I stuttered.

"Oh hey," Len said walking in, "Not a single bruise on Chiyo's face. What happened to Miss. Tsundere? Perhaps we were wrong…"

What the heck did he mean by "perhaps we were wrong?"

I scowled at him, but what he said caught me off guard. If I was tsundere, shouldn't I have hurt Chiyo? Isn't that why I hit Gakupo? No, I hit Gakupo because he was an idiot and took things too far. Chiyo didn't. He was mature and…wait what was I thinking?

But then again…why didn't I hit Gakupo yesterday? I had changed too.

A silent Chiyo interrupted my thoughts as he barely brushed passed me and walked out of the door.

"They are just going to get back at us if we want to get at them again. Besides, you had a pleasant dream so let this pass," Chiyo said just as he disappeared from sight.

I sighed. I wasn't in the devious mood anyway. We all need our relaxation days.

11:00 A.M

"Hey Luka! You and Chiyo will be wanted at the recording center tomorrow morning, at 5:30 P.M!"

I almost choked. "Ok… first of all Miku, 5:30 P.M is not in the morning and why would just the two of us be needed?"

"Oh, nothing," Miku gave a devilish grin while Len and Rin snickered behind her. "We just told them you two should sing together.

"…"

"Oh and by the way… you two will have a veeery special song! It's called MAGNET!"

You could have painted my face red, there would have been no difference.

Chiyo didn't look so happy. I'm pretty sure he was thinking 'what have they gotten us into.'

"MAGNET? ARE YOU SERIOUS?"

Miku beamed.

"So you just had to pair us together, and with all of the duet songs out there, you had to choose Magnet!"

"Well there was Go Google It, but I don't think you would even raise a finger to even harm your precious Chiyo!"

Gakupo shifted uncomfortably hearing that.

I looked at Chiyo but he didn't react to anything. Besides, when did he ever look happy? I guessed and hoped he didn't understand the concept of what they were trying to say.

I had always heard this saying "Don't feed the troll". I decided to shut up and let them say whatever. Besides, it may be easier. Wasn't this what Chiyo did? Let people say whatever so you don't even have to have the effort of opening your mouth in response? Being like Chiyo is easy on yourself if you could master it but really? Magnet? Wasn't that a little too far? It didn't matter to Chiyo because he didn't understand it but I did.

Forbidden love? It was too early… and also, what's the point? I was always surrounded by idiots...

I sighed. Chiyo was going to have a lot of Gakupo x Luka fans on his back.

2:00 P.M

"M-Master?" I gasped.

What I was just seeing in front of me was...master? Was this even possible? Master was almost twice as tall as the figure in front of me. This could only be an imposter!

"Ah. Luka!" the "Master" exclaimed with glee. It definitely was an imposter! When it opened its mouth to speak I could see the metallic and sharp teeth in its mouth.

"Come here Luka!"

The imposter had everything master had besides the height and teeth. It had the same composure, build and relaxed face.

The miniature Master offered a hand which somehow made him look extremely suspcious. The suspicion was due to its other hand being behind its back

I didn't take the hand, I only stepped back.

"Master's" mood darkened into a glare.

"Well then, I'm just going to have to kill you the hard way!"

It started running forwards towards me, his concealed hand now outstretched, holding a knife.

I screamed and started to run away from it around the house, adrenaline pumping through my blood. I ran towards every opening of the house I could find. I wasn't even thinking, just as long as I got away from the imposter. Where was everyone? Couldn't they hear me?

Fortunately, due to the imposter's short size, outrunning it was no problem. But the main problem was that I was in a house so I couldn't run and hide forever. If one of these were inside the house there could have possibly been more outside. Knowing this I finally stopped running and looked around me. I was in the kitchen.

There was a frying pan on the counter so I grabbed it. Not much of a weapon but it was still a weapon. Fortunately, I had also taken martial arts. How else could I be a tsundere if I hadn't? I took a combination of Ju-Jitsu and Tae Kwon Do. Unfortuntely, it was only a last resort if I lost my weapon. The rapists earlier were too much to even think about attempting a fight on, but this was a freaking single midget I was up against.

Suddenly the imposter was in front of me but I had braced myself for this. The imposter's sneakiness was how he suddenly appeared in front of me in the first place.

Whatever it really was, it was grinning like a psychopath which made me nervous. Training in a Do-Jang for a while had prepared me for something like this in case weapons weren't necessary, but I never had my life at stake before.

It lunged at me.

The speed I had gained at tae kwon do allowed me to do a swift dodge and I hit the knife out of its hand with the frying pan. Adrenaline really pumped me up. I threw a roundhouse kick to its head…and recoiled in pain. It was not human, or at least, not completely. Thank god that, whatever it was made of, it wasn't too hard; otherwise my foot would have been broken for sure. The kick however, did appear to stun it so I gripped the pan firmly and started whacking it. Due to quick thinking at the time I kept whacking and whacking it. I finally stopped when I saw it was covered in blood. My heart skipped a beat at the sight.

I almost felt like I had just murdered a person. Imposter or not, whatever this was it would NOT be wandering around anywhere anymore.

But still, I was in shock, what had this all really happened for? Why was this thing's goal to kill me?

I snapped out of it when I saw Kaito running to me.

"Hey Luka, you are TOTALLY not going to believe what just happ-" he stopped once he saw the imposter.

"Kaito," I mumbled sadly, "It's not what it looks like."

"It is... I was attacked by one of those things to."

No way! Had he really been attacked by the same thing?

"When?"

"Just now."

Oh no! If he was attacked just now like I was then how about the others? Miku and the Kagamines were the most vulnerable! I could possibly lose my best friend!

"Oh my god, we have to warn the others!"

Kaito and I bolted upstairs and ran into Miku's room. The sight was something I would remember.

It was one of the imposter's on top of Miku; she was apparently struggling with it and she appeared to be red-faced from crying.

"Please!" she cried. "Don't kill me!"

The imposter was succeeding in whatever its goal was to probably kill Miku.

"Miku!" I yelled as I ran forward. I beat the living hell out of the imposter with the frying pan. I took it off Miku and opened my arms as a crying Miku ran into them.

"That thing! It…it tried to kill me!" Miku cried.

"Shh Miku, it will be all right, we are all here for you."

She was just...so fragile in my arms. So young and yet...she had to face something like this?

Miku just cried making me decide I couldn't let her go but I did notice Kaito running away, probably to save Rin and Len if they were being attacked by imposters…Kaito could sure savely them. Gakupo was a samurai…he could handle one no problem and Chiyo...I actually felt pity for an imposter if it attacked him.

I just held Miku in my arms. How could I have been to stupid to forget about everyone with a midget on my trail? "Miku," I sighed and hummed a soft tune. It was a song of sadness but one of Miku's favorites. Can't I Even Dream.

"Please…I just want this nightmare to go away. If they attacked us, surely more are…coming!" Miku was weak in my clutch. I stroked her hair and continued humming.

"Miku, as long as me and the others are here, I promise you that nothing will happen to you...I promise."

I'm such an idiot...how could I live up to such a promise?

Miku finally relaxed at those words. She was just in shock and would be silent for a while.

"Come on Miku, we have to check on the others."

She nodded weakly and holding my hand we walked out of the room. We went to Rin and Len's room to find them crying, embraced by Kaito. Another imposter's body was right behind them. As much as I cared about them, I really cared about Miku more...I almost felt like I had true feelings for her during our making of Magnet. Everything seemed so true then.

I had to get the thought out of my mind as I needed a clear head for everyone.

We walked to Gakupo's room and as if he predicted us coming, a very seriously looking Gakupo opened the door.

"I was just attacked by Master!"

I looked at him with a blank expression. What else could I expect from the baka? Of course he wouldn't even notice the height difference.

"It seems that we all were attacked Gakupo...Rin and Len are ok thanks to Kaito who also fought one of the "Master" imposters. Miku here…oh it was so scary; I managed to save her but this is going to burn in her memories."

"What about Chiyo?"

"I was going to check on him, but I decided to check on you first."

Gakupo brightened. "Ah, I knew my precious Luka would return to me! I just knew it!"

'Idiot,' I thought.

But wait...was there a second meaning behind the "return to me?" It gave me an uneasy feeling.

We came to Chiyo's room and put my ear on the door.

Not a single noise at all. Miku put her ear on Chiyo's room door as well and hearing nothing, she paled. "Is Chiyo…alright?" Miku squeaked. It broke my heart knowing how scared she was.

"Miku, back away now," I said, firm as steel. She followed my order immediately.

Slowly, I turned the knob, heart pounding and I kicked the door open.

"...You have got to be kidding me."

Chiyo was sitting on his desk, small light on and he was writing something. Before I could open my mouth he pointed behind him.

I looked and saw two… no, one imposter behind him...and it was cut in halves which caused me to shiver at the sight. I know I had seen some gore movies before but this was entirely relistic...I was actually looking at a real "body" cut in half.

I was right to feel pity for an imposter that attacked Chiyo.

Chiyo got up. "Now then, it looks like we have some things to prepare for."

3:00 P.M

"What are we going to do?" "What are they?" "Will they come back?"

I had a headache from the questions Rin, Len, Kaito and Gakupo were asking.

I decided to speak. "We need to really be on guard now. If more of those things come to us, we will have to be on guard to survive... But we also need to get our sleep so we need backup plans."

I'm going to be honest, I felt ridiculous. I was giving orders like some sergeant especially when I didn't even know if this was just going to be a one event thing.

Rin spoke. "We need to set up some sort of trap system. But the problem is creating a trap that can capture the…whatever they are. Let's just call them grunts!"

"Someone has been playing too many video games…"

"Shut up Len! You know you love attaching sticky grenades to them and watching them blow up the brutes!"

I sighed at the stupidity in the change of the subject and spoke.

"Please, we need to have some sort of weapon at our disposal, but we also need to figure out who or what is behind this."
Everyone nodded in agreement. "We can't just be unaware like some drunkards."

The room suddenly became quiet. I wondered why but I had a huge feeling of dread that was a reason for it.

"Speaking of drunkards," Kaito said. "Where's…..Meiko?"

The room was silent and my blood ran cold. We had all forgotten to check on Meiko.

"No please no!" I felt close to despair. If Meiko had been attacked and survived, wouldn't she have told us about it already? I realized I would have to take responsibility for this. "I'll check on Meiko…" was all I said. I hope I didn't sound too hopeless.

"I'll come with you," Chiyo offered.

As we walked up the stairs, Gakupo and Kaito kept staring everywhere, just in case a possible "grunt" might attack.

The staircase seemed to stretch on forever. Each step was a step closer to Hell...both of us did not want to see the results of what was close to the top. I was shaking uncontrollably by the time I reach the top.

We approached Meiko's room.

Feeling my fear, Chiyo wrapped a gentle arm around me and held me close to him and approached the door. He put himself out in front to take an attack if a grunt came charging out. He opened the door.

It was silent.

I guess the blinds were up and were really effective at blocking out the sun because it was dark.

Chiyo moved his hand to the switch and flipped it. I closed my eyes.

I opened them.

I first saw the dead grunt on the ground. There was broken glass around it and a little bit of liquid surrounding it. I looked to the right and saw Meiko...sleeping peacefully? She was lying down on her bed, facing up and holding a broken sake bottle in her hand. She breathed peacefully.

I could hardly believe my eyes. The baka! Meiko was drunk when she was attacked. Right then I truly felt bad for the grunt. Death from interrupting a drunk Meiko from her drinking surely was not pleasant. Possibly even worse than being...either cut or...ripped in two...

Perhaps Chiyo...wasn't the entirely peaceful person I knew him as?

Probably after killing it in her drunken glory she decided not to warn anyone and finally came down to the decision of getting beauty sleep! The nerve!

The grunt was lying down, dead of course. No doubt about that after messing with Meiko. I slowly turned it over and saw the expression of absolute terror on its face.

No surprise there. It had chosen to mess with a drunk MEIKO.

"Dang it, she's drunk. We better not wake her up, otherwise we'll end up like that grunt," I sighed.

Chiyo nodded. Together, we went back downstairs.

Pale with fear, Miku asked if Meiko was ok.

"She's perfect. She beat up a grunt and is drunk and sleeping."

Kaito and Miku sighed with relief while the Kagamines snickered at the stupidity of it.

All we have to do now is wait for her nap to end and then we can discuss things."

I received nods of agreement.

7:40 P.M

No grunts were spotted as the group huddled together in the living room. Meiko had finally woken up and joined them...unfortunately, she had a hangover.

"Mastuh uhtaked meee toodaey," Meiko slurred. She was barely even understandable.

"What?"

"Mastur ataked me todaye!" Meiko slurred, impatient.

I groaned. It would take a while getting the information into her head properly.

1 hour later.

"I'm pretty sure we may need traps then?" Len asked after Meiko finally understood what really happened.

"Yes Len... and I'm pretty sure you and your sister will easily come up with something," I replied.

"I'm afraid you have no need for traps."

We all stared at Chiyo, who hadn't spoken for the past hour.

"You can leave that to me, but unfortunately splitting up into separate beds will be a problem. We should combine our beds and sleep together and yes, before you ask any questions, I mean all of us."

Kaito and Gakupo agreed earnestly, probably stirred by the fact they could be sleeping next to me, Miku, or Meiko.

Especially because of the prank Chiyo and I pulled, Kaito would probably accept Rin as well.

"What? This is madness!" Meiko argued.

I instantly opened my mouth to speak after that. I knew that 300 was one of the Kagamine's favorite movies, but Chiyo beat me

"Not madness at all. This is partially survival and we need to stick together; just sleep peacefully and I will take care of everything."

"What exactly do you plan to do?"

"That does not have to be answered but I promise I will keep you all safe."

Meiko grumbled something about perverts but stayed silent nonetheless.

"Ew, as long as I'm not sleeping next to Gakupo I'm fine!" Len declared.

"Oohhh Len," Rin smiled. "Why just Gakupo? How about your dear Kaaaaaiiiitooo?"

Len flushed and was too embarassed to speak but Chiyo saved his life.

"Don't worry everyone, I assure you that the people you will be sleeping next too won't be so bad. Now, I recommend we all go to sleep now...yes I know it is early but due to today's events it may take hours to fall asleep."

We all mumbled in agreement. As Miku's room was the biggest, we all took our beds out of our rooms and layed them side-by-side with hers.

It was big enough for all of us to lay down comfortably by Chiyo who wanted us to lay close together. Much to their sadness, Gakupo and Kaito lay at the ends of the bed.

Rin slept between Kaito and Len, in which Miku slept between Len and Chiyo who slept next to me. Much to Gakupo's horror, Meiko slept between Gakupo and I. He was really scared that if a grunt didn't get him, Meiko surely would.

Some of us had weapons near us as well. As Kaito and Gakupo were at the sides of the bad, Kaito had a really long kitchen knife under his pillow while Gakupo slept with his trusty katana by his side. Meiko had the most dangerous weapon in the room, a sake bottle. Miku had a freaking leek under her pillow... What a child she was as the grunts wouldn't even budge at a leek-slap.

Though knowing Miku, if she could shove the leek in their mouths, the grunts would surely die.

This is why I didn't have a weapon along with the Kagamines. Besides, a raw tuna would stink up the room anyway. I also slept next to Chiyo...I just felt really safe around him as I'm sure the Kagamines did.

I could hear sighs as everyone fell asleep one by one. They had been trying to fall asleep for a while and they finally got bored to death of trying.

I guess the boredom alone made them fall asleep. It would be a long night.

I lied in bed for an hour wondering what would happen over the course of the next few days. It didn't matter much tomorrow as I had to sing with Chiyo; even though the clones of master might still be after us I still had to sing for Master, wherever he may be. I prayed for his safety.

I finally felt myself fading away to dreamland as my eyelids soon grew too heavy to stay open.

Noticing everyone was asleep and sensing that danger was nearby, Chiyo soundless got out of bed. He moved so quickly but also so carefully as for the movements of the bed to not wake anyone up.

As soon as he was out of bed he heard extremely light movements outside of the door.

He had to be as quiet as possible.

The boy groaned while clutching his stomach.

He was applying pressure to a wound, a big cut in his stomach.

I realized that this dream was almost an exact continuation of the last dream, with only a possible minute difference in time.

What was his name again? I forgot. Was he perhaps the baby from before?

He was walking slowly, his dirty rags covered in red; his limp was terrible, yet there were no signs of pain on his face.

Then I got to look at his eyes.

Ruby red eyes...but unlike any other. I could see flames in them but not from determination or the will to live as he shows no signs of that either, his expression was too solemn for that. His eyes were just... on fire.

"Oh so you live! I thought that you would have just been lying on the ground bleeding to death but I guess I was wrong."

The voice came from the right of the boy. I looked and in horror realized that it was the same man that had stabbed that boy before. He had just come to check on him.

In the man's right hand is a knife still dripping with fresh blood.

The man charged as fast as he could towards the boy.

The boy just stood there and...did he just smile? While it was barely noticeable, a small hint of a smile was shown on his face.

As soon as he was close enough to the boy the man raised the knife and brought it down. Almost immediately the boy raised his left hand and caught the knife slicing through his left hand.

The man looked at the boy in shock. He could not believe that the boy blocked his death by allowing him to cut into his hand!

With the knife still piercing through his left hand, the boy gripped the man's right arm.

The man was frozen in fear and the boy looked up at the man straight in the eye.

"Well, surely I could treat my hand for saving my life...a good exchange don't you think? But unfortunately for you, I don't think this exchange will work out well. So please, allow me to enjoy this."

The man looked as if he was having a heart attack.

"I'm sorry!" was all he could utter.

"I accept your apology. Unfortunately I cannot have you following me all the time now." His grip on the man's hand tightened and his right hand tightened into a fist. "I surely hope that your fiance...can find love in another man."

He swung his fist at the man hitting him dead center on the temple.

The power of the punch made a small crater in the man's head. The man's eyes slowly rolled up until the eyes were completely white.

Power by fire.

I got one last looked at the boy's eyes, expressionless, as if he was used to seeing death. His smile gone as he stripped the man of his clothes and money and walked away...slowly.

For some reason this scene seems familiar to me in a way, but I can't quite point it out. Either way I enjoyed making it. Hope you enjoyed it to :)