Kv: draw a circle, that's the Earth...


Hope


At this point, hope was truly all they could have left. Even though it was all happening so fast, Mikuo himself did not knew whether they could survive this. He did not know where to really go, but he did know there had to be somewhere safe in all the destruction. He can't remember how long he had been running none stop, but he did know his speed was just barely over a 6 minute mile. He did his best to stay clear of ashes, but sometimes they would be unavoidable, and he would start coughing or slightly choking.

"Mikuo," Miku whined. Her face was buried in his chest and jacket, but he still knew she was crying and how tear stained she was. "I really don't want to die yet..."

Mikuo did not not respond though; he couldn't because of two things. One, he could not waste the energy talking and two, he could not answer the plead. He could not promise something so unsure but nor find it in his heart to kill her hope.

As he continued running, he began to slowly take notice of the details...especially the smells. When he breathed into his nose, he could smell the chemicals in the air that floated and covered the area. But another strong smell was the smell of flesh burning. When he was close to a building fire, it was overwhelming. It made him wanted to puke, but it was worse when he saw the few people who were able to get out burn alive. It seemed impossible not to be burning if you were in a building.

But another detail were the differences between the screams. Some would start out strong then become shaky before finally becoming very quiet. He knew those were the screams meant for lost loved ones. Another was hysterical crying mixed with sobbing. He knew those were of fear because it was what Miku doing. The last kind would start out loud and continue that way until a quick stop...Those he knew were the sound of death.

But there came a time when the tealette could no longer run. He collapsed, loosely clutching onto Miku, panting for a breath that seemed to never come. He kept her close though and through gasps of breath he kept whispering, "Don't listen, don't listen... God Miku, please don't listen to the screams..." Miku didn't listen though and tried to pull away from Mikuo and see the world around them. But he used whatever energy he had to hold onto her.

He wouldn't forgive himself if he allowed what was left of her innocence to be taken by the horror which was something no man or woman should ever have to witness in their life time. But the glass which had struck Mikuo's back during the house explosion were cutting deeply into his back and especially after the run, blood had traveled all the way down his back and through his jacket. He knew he was going to faint, but there was something coming toward them. A tall, slender silhouette figure of a man who Mikuo believed he recognized but couldn't be sure for he fainted all too quickly.


When Mikuo came through, he was somewhere else that took him a minute to recall. He was at the military base! Kaito smirked as he saw the young male tealette awaken from a desperately needed rest.

"Someone was tired," he teased lightly as he looked down at the clipboard.

"Kaito..." Mikuo said, slowly taking in what had just happened. "H-How did I get here?! Where's Miku?!" he questioned a bit too fast and a bit too demanding that the blue haired man smiled as he shook his head lightly.

"Look to your left, smart one."

Mikuo turned his head and saw that sleeping next to him on the same bed was Miku. He blushed slightly but didn't smile. He stroked her hair as he took notice in more and more details; his shirt was missing, but he had bandaged wrapped around him (some were slanted, going from his shoulder to his side while others were wrapped perfectly around him.), he didn't lose too much blood though, thankfully, so he didn't need to have blood put into him. Miku had only a plain white tank top and matching shorts while he noticed that for the first time, in a long time, she had her hair down.

He sighed but there was no negativity in it. He looked at Kaito, unconsciously continuing stroking his female companion's hair. "So... why were you there...?" Mikuo asked a bit quietly but very clearly.

"You act like you aren't grateful for it," Kaito said with a slight childish pout.

"I am, I'm very grateful," Mikuo said almost insulted. "It just...seems so impossible for you to be there at the right moment..."

"Mikuo, things get around way too quickly around here with so much technology to toy with," Kaito said very plainly and almost bored like as he sat in a chair and continued whatever he was writing down on his clipboard. "Besides... I was there to...to get Len, originally..."

"Originally?" Mikuo question for he was unable to pick up the sad tone in Kaito's voice.

"Um, yeah... But he died and I found you before I was about to board the helicopter back."

"So, you didn't even want to bother with us in the first place? You were going to-"

"MIKUO, SHUT UP." Kaito snapped. Mikuo almost went wide eyed at his co-worker for acting so out of his character and glanced down at Miku to check if she was still sleeping- which she was. "Mikuo... You're more than just the average soldier. We all know that," Kaito said with almost a hiss but his hidden sobs soon cracked in his throat as tears spilled out. "But not Len... not Len... He was always too innocent to be working here... God damn it." He began to curse under his breath as he covered his crying face with his face, sniffing and trying to calm himself.

Mikuo gulped and sat there in silence, unable to say anything but a very quiet 'I'm so sorry'. Miku soon woke up and let go of Mikuo whom she had been clinging to and looked at Kaito with a small smile before getting up. She slipped on her slippers and walked over to Kaito, hugging him and pulling his hand away from his face and wiping his tears away with her thumb.

"I could have swore I was the one who was crying not too long ago. When did we switch places?" she said with a smile that was so contagious, it made anyone who saw it want to smile too. Kaito nodded and patted Miku's head. Mikuo wouldn't admit it, but he was actually quite jealous that Miku had done that to Kaito but again, he wouldn't admit it. Miku sat on the end of the bed before continuing talking. "I'm really scared...you know. I didn't see anything, I could hear a little but Mikuo's heartbeat seemed to be overpowering it all... but, is it okay to be scared? Is it..."

Mikuo leaned up closer to her and hugged her tightly. "It depends really. Are you going to let that fear overpower you?" he asked with a small smile that Miku felt and warmed her heart before she shook her head a 'no' to his question. "Good girl," he said with a kiss to her head. Miku turned her head to Mikuo and looked at Mikuo in the eye. She felt no danger, and she felt as though that danger wouldn't return within him for awhile or at least, for now.

"Mikuo..." she said in a small voice, her big blue-green eyes staring start at him while forming tears. "I...I really want to thank you..." she smiled brightly as a tear rolled down her cheek, "but I fear I never can completely thank you." Mikuo chuckled at this small confession of hers and nodded.

"Don't worry, as long as I get to sleep in an actual bed from now on, we'll be even."

Kaito sighed with a smile as he spinned in his chair, "You two need to go get a room, seriously."

"Or maybe you need to leave."

'Point taken," Kaito said before smiling brightly and waving goodbye and leaving. Mikuo looked at Miku before leaning back on the metal headboard of the hospital bed. Miku was sitting up straight and looking directly ahead of her at the blank, white wall with an expression that made her seem as though she were in another world, but her body was left behind.

"Mikuo... I know why you saved me back there," she said in a quiet voice.

"You do?" Mikuo asked.

"The real reason, yes... I do..."

"What would that be?" Mikuo asked with a small, friendly smile, but that smile was not matched with the same friendliness as Miku turned to him and looked at him straight in the eye and for the first time, Mikuo felt as though Miku would be the one to kill him as she spoke those very simple words.

"You want to kill me yourself."


Kv: SO I HAVE DECIDED. This will officially be my last VOCALOID series story or whatever... I might do some one shots or something. But hey! Look for me in the Hetalia section. ;D and on FictionPress... I barely found out about that website... ahaha... ^^;; But this will probably be my last lengthy story for my Hatsune babies. Probably...Maybe... we'll see! hehe, I just have to finish this story... which only has like 2...3 chapters left...

Forene: Make him smile? It's almost impossible to make him smile... e.e

ImaginaryFlower: Ooh, I love your pen name! AND YES, A FELLOW HETALIAN! And omg, thank you so much for your review. I'm actually really touched someone would actually put that much thought into how I have portrayed my characters. QAQ LEMME GIVE YOU A HUG.

Charlotte and Rashka: Yay~ Another Hetalian~ x3 We shall take over this Beautiful World... And thanks for wishing me well. ahah... I actually just got sick again for like the 4TH TIME THIS YEAR. -sigh- 2013 is trying to kill me. ^^;; But if you ever wanna do a collab story, message me! I LOVE USUK. ^^ It's my OTP...besides Spamano... and RoChu...and FraNada...and RusAme... AND OKAY, I WILL SHUT UP NOW.

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I MIGHT GIVE YOU LEN.

Len: Just because you killed me, doesn't mean-
Kv: Bye~