~~The visitor is Miku—although it's obvious, I forgot to mention her name.

Note that Rin's mom is a nameless person.

"Well, you may come in, of course," I say with a smile, although I have this little bad feeling when I'm saying that. Well, maybe it's just my feeling.

"Thank you very much, Rin-san!" she says excitedly while stepping her foot in. What's with the feigned politeness, anyway?

I lead her to the living room and ask her to sit. At the same time Mom finally goes out from the bathroom. "Who is it, Rin?" she asks but then stops herself from saying anything else when she saw Miku sitting in the living room. "Oh, your friend?"

Miku stands up from the couch and bows. "Um, I'm Rin-chan's friend. My name is Hatsune Miku. It's nice to meet you, Kagamine-san…"

Mom smiles at Miku as she approaches her. "It's nice to meet you too, Miku-chan. I'm Kagamine—"

When I think Miku's attention is handled by Mom, I slip my body into the bathroom (okay, that's not the best choice of words, but…) and quickly take a quick and fresh wash. I spend no more time doing unnecessary things and get out as soon as I finish, because there's this nagging feeling of discomfort, probably from leaving Miku there, in my house, by herself.

The living room's empty when I get out, however. No Mom or Miku in sight. And this is when my bad feeling reaches its maximum limit. Just imagine it like a thermometer—what will happen to it when it reaches the maximum limit?

I get a mini heart attack when I see Miku sitting innocently in front of my computer. And what makes it worse, she's looking at something in the computer. It can be seen from her movement and the fact that the said thing is turned on.

"Rin-chan." She looks away from the computer and turns to my direction with an innocent look. "There are so many interesting things in your computer, isn't it? Well… I know you're a singer, but I really didn't think that you have some embarrassing covers as well!" she says while giving me a psychotic-like smile that's successfully creeping me out.

Just for your information, the computer is password-protected. So if she sits there, looking at the files, then…

"From where did you know the password?!"

Chapter Ten

Survival Game, Okay.

Then, moments later, I find myself sitting on the couch while massaging my head with my fingers. It's only 10 in the morning, yet I'm already stressed out because of that… that creature who is sitting across me.

"You actually have many kinds of equipment that are certainly not cheap…" she mutters while looking to the computer's direction. Right, after I kept her away from the computer and turned it off, she started to look around my house and commented on things. I don't quite get the point, but at least it's better than having her opening my private files…

I don't think I can forget this day; the day where Miku found embarrassing things on my computer… Believe me, it feels like someone has seen a naked picture of me… I know I'm exaggerating, but…

"Kagami Sound's house is certainly different, isn't it?"

"It's nothing different, Miku. Besides, my father was the one who bought those things, along with some software," I say as a matter of fact.

Still looking around, she speaks again. "Well, maybe because the houses of those net producers are something I really want to see. But everything is just in high quality, and to think you're still 15, it's a fascinating thing, you know."

I look down to the floor. It feels different when someone complimented you right in front of you. Something I certainly wouldn't feel when I see someone's compliment on the net. She wasn't talking about my music, but it's still a compliment. "Thank you, Miku-chan."

"You're welcome," she says in return. "So, I have finished examining your house, maybe we should go now. It's past 10 already, sure you don't want to go to an already crowdy place, right?"

You were the one who started all of this this by coming to my house without telling me, and then opening my files without my permission, Hatsune Miku. "Yeah, let's go now," I say and stand up from the couch.

After saying goodbye to Mom (who gave Miku a normal-looking kind smile… I guess she didn't have any problem with that certain living creature), we head to the middle of the town where most shops and restaurants are.

"The weather… is good, isn't it?" I sat as soon as I notice that we are walking in a complete silence.

And then, the expected reaction came—she turns her head and faces me. But the unexpected thing is… that she accidentally swishes her hair. And you know how long her hair is, so it slaps me. "Ouch…"

"I'm so sorry Rin-chan I didn't mean it," she apologizes so fast that I almost can't catch it. And right when I'm going to say 'it's okay' to her, she continues, "But I really didn't think you were that nervous on our first date that you actually started that kind of topic. Apparently your brain has melted, so—"

Hearing that, I take a deep breath and release it slowly. Calm down, Rin. Somehow you have to survive this kind of situation. I don't have anymore idea how to tell her to stop because she'll do it again and again anyways, so I just sigh.

"I managed to annoy Rin-chan again…" she mutters to herself as she smiles. What the, she's playing around with me—I mean she's always playing around with me, and not that I'm having any problem with that, but it's just…

"Does that make you happy?" I ask while not realizing that something like that coming out from my mouth.

"… Eh?" she slowly asks. Although I don't see her face, from her voice I can tell she's not expecting that question. Only then I realize that the question sounds mean, as if I said a sarcastic thing by purpose. That would hurt her, somehow, I think.

Luckily her phone rings after that, and she suddenly gets busied in finding her phone inside of her bag. Moments after that, the phone is in her hand and she picks up the call.

"Hello?" she says into the phone. "… No, actually… Yes…" And suddenly her expression changes into an annoyed one. "Why don't you do it by yourself? I'm with my friend right now… You're the one who wants it, what do you think I am, an errand girl?!" she yells in a hushed tone.

Uh, well, I think she's having an argument with whoever she's having a call with.

After some minutes of arguing, she sighs in defeat. "Fine… Alright, alright… Well, bye." And with that she ends the call and looks at me… who is looking at her.

"… What is it?" she finally asks after having that awkward staring moment.

"No, I'm the one who wants to ask that—what was that?" I asks back. "Not that I want to butt into your private matters, but you sounded kinda upset there."

"Who… Oh, the call? That's a little unimportant, there's no need for you to know that~" she answers in a singing voice. "Oh, I understand! I know you're afraid that maybe it was a call from some boy, but I won't do anything in your back—I'm only and completely yours, Rin-chan!"

I'm seriously holding the urge to roll my eyes. "Stop your sick joke, Miku-chan! You already have a boyfriend!" I yell in annoyance.

"I've said he let me if it's you!" she retorts while smiling.

"But then I'm not completely yours, right?"

… I should have thought before I speak, seriously.

"But that means, at least half of me is still yours!"

~~I didn't mean it, it's just the internet decided to stop working since... some days ago.

And to clear things for people who are wondering about the large number of Rin-Miku moment: girls' friendship is just cute, undoubtedly cute. And that makes me think about this site's population—most of the reader and author is female, right? I wonder how many males read this... *shot*

Another thing: I don't know whether lyric-sharing website really does exist or not (too lazy to browse the internet), but Piapro is the site that I think while writing this. It's a site made by Crypton to share Vocaloid things. It can be illustration, song, lyrics, 3D model... Things like that (wait, what am I doing, advertising?), so yeah, I was inspired by that.

Replies?

RPR-san: Handgun, actually. Why are you asking? Hm, I thought it's obvious that Miku will do more strange thing in Rin's house... Well, thank you for the review and peace!

Emanon-san: I'm the uncreative one here *waves hand* The reason... will be explained later, it isn't like what you think (or so I thought). It's EV, anyway... And actually AV reminds me of AVTechNO, okay this is unimportant. Um, girlish as in shota-sounding voice? That happens a lot, doesn't it? I'm not really fond of that kind of Len (?), I prefer his low voice which people usually make using the power append... What am I talking about... Thank you for the review and sorry for the long reply...

Lynn 'Ne'-chan: I hope you're not waiting too long...

Orange Utaite-san: I found writing this kind of Miku is fun, I'll scare you even more. And you're welcome! Oh, I see, you're really an utaite... (And yes, I've opened the site from your profile, ahaha~) Of course she will borrow the lyric from him soon... I don't know when, I haven't wrote it yet.

blatantlyorangetiger-san: Ah, I'm glad to know that you're reading. Actually I was thinking about the long author note in your stories when you mention the rambling... Well, thank you so much! Oh, AVTechNO's NEL, I love that song... Isn't it 'sound flow'? Ah well~ But Nel... Nel, Neru, sleep... orz About Rin and Len's relationship... maybe later, writing that kind of relationship is hard for me.

Thank you for the reviews, and for the readers, thank you for reading.