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I sat in the waiting room to the principal's office, staring at my feet and trying to figure out what had happened. I didn't have anything against Kaito! Why did I hit him like that?

What he was saying was awful. I groaned, earning myself an odd look from the secretary. I sighed, dropping my eyes again.

Wait... you were the one who hit Kaito? Oh my gosh! The voice in my head is taking over my actions, soon I won't be able to control it... The secratary's odd glance turned into a worried one as she saw me struggling not to hyperventelate.

"Miss Hatsune? Are you alright?" No, no, no, I was not alright! When voices in your head that tell you to kill people reaches out and smacks someone, that is not alright!

"I-I'm fine!" I tried to get my breathing under control as the voice piped up again, sounding soothing.

Of course I can't control you, Miku, not really. I'm a part of you. And this part of you got really angry when Kaito started talking like that. He sounded so stupid and ignorant that you couldn't take it. Well, he had sounded kind of dumb. But still, that was no reason to hit someone! The voice quickly countered the statement before I had time to think it out formally. I'm guessing that the stress from what happened with your mother must have gotten to you, dear. It made sense, in a weird way. Maybe if I explained that to the principal, he would let me go?

It was around that time that Luka walked in. "Luka? What are you doing here?" Luka looked up at me, and her eyes widened in surprise.

"I could ask you the same thing," she retorted, taking a seat next to me.

"I-I..." I didn't know how to finish that statement, but at that moment the door swung open, and the principal walked out.

"Miss Megurine. Miss Hatsune. Why are you two here?" The secretary piped up before either of us had a chance to speak.

"Miss Hatsune assulted a student in her Lit. class, and Miss Megurine assulted her history teacher." I winced-"assulted" sounded much more brutal than "smacked." Before I could dwell on that, however, another thought occured to me. Luka assulted her history teacher? That was... Hiyama-sensei!

"You two... explain yourselves!" I looked up at the principal, then dropped my eyes to the ground again.

"A-Ah... sir, could I speak to you in private, for just a moment?" After a glance over to Luka, I said, "Luka should come, too." The principal looked surprised, but nodded.

"Of course." He led us into his office, and I took a seat, looking at the ground. I decided to give the principal just enough truth, without giving away to many details.

"W-Well... you see, sir, my mother and I... w-we had a fight." I tried to swallow past the lump in my throat. "She threw me out of the h-house, and I h-had nowhere to g-go." My voice broke on the last word, and Luka took my hand in a friendly gesture. "Luka... she took me in. I didn't mean to hit Kaito, but the stress and everything... I think that's what made me do it. And the stress of it probably made Luka hit Hiyama-sensei, right?" I looked over at Luka, who looked surprised.

"Uh... yeah." She looked over at the principal. "We're both really sorry, really. It was just a... a really long night. What with all of this," she gestured to her injuries, "And all of Miku's problems, I just... I acted without thinking."

The principal looked perplexed. I fought back tears, realizing just how much I had cried over the past couple of days. "Well... that certainly is, ah..." At that moment, the bell rang, signalling lunch. "Since this is so unlike both of you, I'm letting you off with a warning this time. Go to lunch, okay?" I nodded, standing up quickly.

"Thank you, sir." With that, Luka and I walked out of the office. Luka turned to look at me as I wiped tears away from my eyes.

"Quick thinking, there." I only shrugged.

"Honesty is the best policy," I said, before we went to lunch.

Rin and Len looked at me as I sat down, realizing that I didn't have any food. "Are you alright?" Seeing the worry in their eyes made me feel kind of sad-I hadn't meant to make anyone worried.

"F-Fine. Just, ah... I'll tell you later, okay?" The two gave me an odd look, but nodded. I wondered just how much to tell them. Part of me wanted to spill the whole story, the odd feelings I felt for Luka and everything, but... I just couldn't.

"They went against God, they're dirty. Make them go away!" Would they really think that about me? I couldn't believe it, but a part of me couldn't not believe it. The conflicting emotions felt like a railroad spike driving into my skull. It was all I could do to keep from screaming.

"Is that headache still bothering you?" Rin grabbed onto my overly-large sleeve, and I had a sudden urge to grab the hand and tilt it backwards until it snapped.

Voice! If you make me hurt anyone else today, I'll... make you sorry! What kind of threat could I give a voice in my head. I nodded tiredly. "Yeah. It's pretty bad."

"Maybe you should go home." I actually laughed at Len's suggestion, making both of them look at me like I had lost my mind. At the moment, it felt like I had.

"That would not be a good idea." They both gave me questioning looks, then looked at eachother and nodded. They looked like they were about to say something, but then Luka walked up, with a tray that looked like it had too much food on it.

"I bought you lunch." She sat down beside me, looking uncomfortable. I really didn't have much of an apitite, but I smiled and took some of the food anyways.

"Thanks." I picked at the food, trying to will the headache away. It seemed a bit better, since Luka was there.

It's because you love her. She's so perfect for you that she makes your pain go away. I almost groaned aloud, before realizing that Rin and Len probably already thought I was crazy. Rin piped up soon, though, so she must not have noticed anything.

"I'm happy you're sitting here, Luka. There's something you two should know." I looked up, startled by Rin's unusually serious tone. She looked to Len, who continued for her.

"Gumi's been spreading rumors about you two." I felt my heart drop to my stomach. "Not many people believe them, since she lied about Luka and all, but we still think you should know..."

"It's a lie! We weren't in that allyway, I swear!" I blurted out, trying to keep the wave of nasea I felt at bay. I felt like everyone was staring at me, and it made me feel sick. I couldn't think straight.

"... We didn't say anything about an allyway." Well, crap. Luka was giving me an odd look, I thought it was worry and exasperation.

"A-Ah..." I felt my face flush. As if this day couldn't get any worse!

"They're dirty. Make them go away!" Rin was staring at me with open disgust, and I-

"Miku..." At the sound of Rin's real voice, I looked at her. There was no disgust on her face, only concern. At that moment, everyone stood to go to class, and only shook my head, rushing away.

I rushed to the bathroom, splashing water on my face. "Oh, God, I think I'm going crazy." And, deep in my mind, I heard the history teacher's voice, telling me that He'd never help me, not after what I did.

"Miku?" I spun around to see Rin walking into the bathroom. "Hey... I just want to let you know... whatever you're going through, Len and I are here for you, okay? We're your friends, and we're worried." I felt a lump in my throat, remembering the odd thoughts I had about Rin earlier.

"L-Let's go to class. I might tell you later, really... But it's not only me who's involved, and I don't want to..."

"Tell secrets that aren't yours?" I nodded, and she smiled, taking my hand. "Come on, then. Len's waiting outside."

We walked to music class. Luka was already there, as well as Kaito and Gakupo. Kaito took one look at me and quickly spun around, making my feel so guilty that my stomach hurt. Rin, Len, and I took our normal spots. Eventually, Sakine-sensei walked in.

"Morning, class." She took a seat at her desk. "Your assignment for the next week is to write an original song." Whispers immediately broke out.

"Can w-" Sakine-sensei cut Rin off.

"Yes, Kagamine, you can have partners. Groups of two only though." Rin grinned and grabbed Len's hand, before smiling sadly at me.

"Sorry. Len and I always work together on these sorts of things." I gave a small smile, trying to look like I meant it.

"No problem."

"Kamui! Groups of two only!" I spun to look at Gakupo, who was looking from Luka, to Kaito, then back again. He hesitantly took one step towards Luka, only to have Kaito pull him back.

Luka walked up to me. "Uh... I guess this makes us partners? If you want to be, I mean." I felt relief-being her partner would be much better than being Kaito's after what happened.

"Yeah, that would be great!" I smiled, and she smiled back.

We spent the rest of the class working. We didn't get really far. Luka was having a hard time with lyrics, and so was I. Usually I'm a decent poet, but the voice kept putting lyrics in my head that would not be appropriate.

The rest of the day went by pretty quickly, and soon it was the end of the day. Luka and I had started to walk home, when a voice stopped us. "Oi! You two, hold up a sec!" I spun around to see Tekuno, as well as several other students. Many of them had gray hair and red eyes, making me think they were part of that Voyakiloid gang.

I stood my ground, trying not to look frightened. "What do you want, Tekuno?" Luka glared at him.

"Chill, girl. I just wanna talk. Healing up nicely, I see?" There were a few chuckles at that, and I swore that I saw a shadow of fear cross Luka's eyes. It was quick, though.

"Well, we don't want to talk to you, okay? Leave us alone." Luka grabbed my arm and tried to lead me away, only to bump into a girl with purple streaks in her short silver hair. Judging by her red eyes, she was a voyakiloid.

"Hold up there. You got my brother thrown into jail; the least you could do is answer our questions." She glared at Luka.

"So, I hear it's true that you two are dating now? No wonder you always turned my cousin down." Tekuno laughed meanly.

"You know that's totally gross, right?" A girl that I recognized as Neru said. "I mean, seriously. Is it true? Because that's just messed up."

"Leave us alone!" I spun around, trying to find a way out, but the students had made a circle around us. Luka and I were back-to-back, and a feeling of de-ja-vu rushed over me-like we had been in this position before.

"Not yet," Tekuno said, smirking. "Why don't you tell us, new girl? Why-"

"Hey!" A familier voice sounded, and I looked up in surprise to see Sakine-sensei. A few students began to walk away. Sakine-sensei took in the situation, eyes narrowed. "I'm going to close my eyes and count to five. Anyone still here is going to get a detention. One... two... eighty-six..." The students scattered, and Luka and I rushed off.

"That was close!" I looked worriedly over my shoulder. If all of those guys were as strong as Annie... that was a scary thought. I shivered.

"Hey... let's go home, okay?" Luka looked about as worried as I was.

"Okay, but we should stop at my house, first." Luka looked at me as if I had gone crazy. "Mom won't be home until late, and I should get some clothes or something." Luka blinked, then nodded.

As I expected, my house was empty. I let myself in, and grabbed one of my suitcases. "I don't know exactly how long I'm going to stay with you. I mean, my parents are going on a business trip next week, so the house should be empty then..."

"Stay as long as you need to. Don't worry about it." I nodded and went to pack. When I came back, Luka was dozing off on my couch. I giggled, shaking her shoulder lightly.

"Luka? Time to wake up..." Luka jerked awake.

"Mic-ah... Miku. S-sorry." She rubbed the back of her neck akwardly, and I giggled again.

"Don't worry about it. I didn't get much sleep last night, so I feel your pain."

We walked back to Luka's house. "So, are your parents going to be home at all?"

Luka shrugged. "Mom rarely comes home, she's really busy. Dad's out of the picture."

I frowned. "Oh. I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it." There was an akward silence then, until we got back to Luka's house. My headache was back, and worse than ever. Just thinking about... everything. The voice, Kaito, the dreams... it was driving me crazy. When we entered the house, I sat on the couch, holding my head in my hands.

"What is wrong with me?" Luka looked over at me in surprise.

"What do you mean?"

"Ever since I moved here, I've been... weird. Different, you know?" I drew my knees up to my chest, sighing. Luka sat next to me, her face kind of red.

"In what way?" I looked at Luka. Well, if there was anyone I could tell...

"It started out with these dreams, you know? I couldn't remember them, not at first, but now they're haunting me. And then there was that thing with Kaito, and there's this v-" I swallowed. This was the hardest part to tell. It made me seem like I was crazy.

"This voice in your head?" I looked at Luka, surprised. Her face was pale. "Telling you to k... telling you to do things that seem crazy?"

"Yeah!" I nodded quickly. "How did you know?"

Luka sighed. "I think we need to talk."

Oooooh snap! I feel that... the end of this chapter is bad... but I can't figure out why. Odd. Review, anyways?