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Chapter 9: "A Day With Ayaka"

Knock knock knock.

Len was right in front of the Takashi's front door in his black and gray shorts and white shirt under his black and yellow vest. He had the famous white headphones where they should be and his G-Clef necklace was in place too. The only thing that was quite disturbed was his confidence.

You see, he asked Ayaka if he could spend a whole day just being with her since he would only usually spend a few hours with her everyday so that he'd get some kind of inspiration on writing a new song. But secretly, he just wanted to know what goes on in her life whenever he wasn't with her. And she happily accepted this proposal with an excited smile a few days ago.

He already asked the school if he could attend just one day of school with her and they gladly allowed him to. Being famous surely had its perks.

Today was Monday and was the first day of school for the week. Len wasn't sure what was going to happen if he followed her all the way to her school. Thoughts like 'Would her friends like me?' and 'Does some other idiot have a crush on her like me?' and other stuff floated through his head just as the door opened to reveal the two girls in identical uniforms ready to go out.

"Good morning Len!" Ayaka chirped as she smiled at him and rushed out to where the sun would shine down on her. They had the common green-themed sailor uniform and the brown bag. Somewhat like Seigaku's uniform from Prince of Tennis, he compared.

Yuuki just walked past him without any recognition whatsoever.

He could only smile back at her and say, "Good morning to the two of you."

Then, they started walking towards their school which was Sakura Middle School just a few blocks away from their house. During that time, they talked about a lot of stuff. How Len would be harrassed by a lot of guys because he looked so cute, how classes would again bore Ayaka out and other insignificant things. Yuuki kept silent althroughout though, only talking whenever Ayaka would ask her something and as usual, would completely ignore Len if he was the one asking.

But after a few minutes, they finally arrived at the school which was pretty much average in terms of how school was supposed to look like.

Students from different directions were heading towards it too, after they took a glance at Len, remembering the deal Master had struck with them. But girls staring all around was very inevitable so Len felt quite uncomfortable when they got to the two's classroom.

"Well~ Yu's classroom is right beside mine so this is my stop," Ayaka stated in a much unenthusiastic tone as she went into the classroom marked as '3-2' after waving sweetly at Yuuki.

But he saw that Yuuki had an angry look on her face when the door closed behind Ayaka. He wondered about the reason for that kind of look she had.

Len stared at her and noticed that there was a flock of girls two or so meters away from him staring at him but keeping a respectful distance. He was a bit surprised but thought that it was entirely normal and just sweat dropped. He just forced a smile at them and waved as he nodded at Yuuki and followed Ayaka in her classroom. The flock started squealing altogether which broke throughout the hallway even after Len closed the sliding door behind him. But still, more stares awaited him inside.

He sweat dropped again as he leaned against the door and started looking for Ayaka.

He didn't need to though because she started waving at him from the corner of the room, already seated on her desk. He instantly went over to her and ignored the lingering stares that he got from the students inside the classroom.

"You sit here Len!" she exclaimed and patted the armchair next to her with a half smile.

He stiffly nodded his head and made his way to sit at where she stated. Then, he looked around the room and saw that everyone was still staring at him. But this time, it was different. They looked confused and a bit ... disgusted?

There was no doubt about it. They looked at him in slight disgust like he was releasing a foul aura onto them.

Then the whispering started.

"Kagamine Len's here in our school and he's sitting with that weirdo?"

"I think he's even friends with her!" Someone shrieked.

"No! He can't! He deserves much more!"

The others were a bit foggy but he was sure about one thing. He was definitely not welcome. Or at least, the one he went in with.

His eyes found Ayaka who he saw had a frown on her face and was shrinking in her seat by the second. He panicked on what he should do as he tried to think of some way to cheer her up and to clear things up with this weird school.

Ayaka's POV

There. They started. Len is so not going to get any inspiration for songs like this.

I shook my head and felt that Len was staring at me. I slowly lifted my head and noticed that he had a troubled look on. He's probably thinking of ways to make me smile right now. I gently smiled at the thought.

"Len," I called out and successfully caught his attention.

He looked at me with eyes that were filled with worry. "Y-Yeah?"

I smiled, a bit embarrased and asked, "C-Can you move closer to me?"

He looked shocked for a bit before his face lightened up considerably and he started to pull his armchair closer to mine until there was barely any space for me to move around.

I squirmed in my seat and gave up with a sigh. At least I lifted Len's mood up a bit.

"So," he started, making me look at him with a questioning look, "W-What's your first subject?" Was it just me or did he look a bit red then? And I think he wanted to hit himself.

I puffed my cheeks up as I thought hard. I never really did memorize my class schedules. All I knew was that we go to school in the morning err... seven-ish and went home in the afternoon at about three o'clock.

"Uhm... I think it's English," I answered, half-sure and half-not. Yey! English! I happen to like that subject very much!

His face fell a bit as he said, "O-Oh. I see."

"What's wrong?" I asked, wondering if he didn't like the subject himself. Aw, that would be disheartening.

"Nothing, nothing," he answered in a flash as he looked out the window behind me and started whisling some tune.

Hey. Wait a minute. I KNOW that tune. Lalalalala la la la~

"Is that Discotheque Love?" I guessed, making him stop and smile at me.

He nodded his head and said, "Very good Ms. Takashi! It seems that you've been studying up on your Kagamine Len songs! Bravo," he said, sounding like a teacher to tease me.

I smiled as I flushed and said, "I just asked to listen to Yu's CD's of your songs, that's all," I answered and looked away when I added, "And I liked your voice the most so I listened to them the most." Why was I feeling so flustered? Wasn't it normal for me to like his voice since he was the one I was closest to among Vocaloid?

I felt my cheeks go red and looked to see that he, like me, was blushing. I couldn't help but laugh at our situations and after a while of being surprised, he laughed with me too.

After our funny moment, he stopped and said, "Ne, Ayaka."

I looked at him and asked, wiping a tear away from my eyes, "What is it Len?"

He started looking nervous before he said in a gentle voice, "I don't need you to answer this but...," I waited patiently for his question but actually, I already knew what he was going to ask, "Do you ... not get along with your classmates?" He looked at me, curious and a bit worried.

I forced a smile to put on my face and looked at him from the corner of my eyes saying, "N-No. They just think that I'm someone that should be eliminated from society so that they won't lose precious oxygen on a person like me. Nothing too serious."

He looked broken and bit hurt at my words. Wait, shouldn't I be the one to look like that?

"Y-Yeah, but Ayaka," he said. I groaned. I just spoke that last thought out loud ... again.

I shook my head at him and grabbed his shoulder, "You don't have to pity me! Didn't I tell you that already? Sheesh Len. You're not as smart as everyone says after all! Heck, I just might beat you in class today!" I said with fake arrogance, just trying to cheer him up. Really, I should be the one being cheered up in here.

He laughed at my statement which made me glare at him playfully. He was kinda insulting me and yet why don't I feel the least bit angry? If it were Rin who laughed at me like that, I would probably be down.

"Bring it on!" he smirked and was about to grab my textbook from my bag when he suddenly stopped and asked, "Wait, don't you fall asleep at class all the time? So how can you even beat me?"

Good point. Oh well. "I'm gonna stay awake for your sake! Isn't that obvious?" I grinned proudly at him just as he looked away in embarrassment. Len is really fun to tease. Hehe.

Just then, the teacher, Ms. Kimura, went in and ordered the class to settle down. I was right! It IS English! I was so proud of myself.

We stood up, greeted her and then sat down with Len as the one saying "Stand. Bow. Sit." since he was only here for the day. The girls were happy enough so it was okay.

"Okay, okay. Listen up. Today's lesson is about someone really interesting," she paused and created a mood of suspense in the class before she said in utmost excitement, "Shakespeare!" The class groaned while I put on an excited smile.

Len looked at me in confusion. Heh. I bet he thought I was some dumb girl or something. Well sorry Len! I'm actually really good in English! Didn't you find that out from the other day? Never never, dude!

We listened to Ms. Kimura as she blabbed on and on about this guy who was really good with poetry. Then, she would sometimes let us read lines of some of his work.

I was mostly the one to volunteer and whenever I did, my classmates would throw me a glare. I ignored them the best I could like how I always have for six whole years and just read the lines out loud with Ms. Kimura applauding and praising me when I was done.

And I would always grin proudly at Len whenever she did. He would always chuckle at me though. Then I would frown at his unpissed off-ness and sit back down.

Nothing eventful happened after that and class went smoothly with probably just me and the nerdy ones listening to the teacher. Len himself wasn't listening. But I did notice that he kept staring at me when he didn't have anything better to do. Sheesh, that jerk. That made me all conscious for the whole period.

The next subject was Math. Ugh. Math. I hate Math. Math, Math, Math. Gaah!

"Is Math the next one?" Len asked, his head on top of his right hand that was seated on his table.

I nodded silently and pouted.

He laughed at me. Jerk. And asked as he straightened up, "What's wrong with Math? You're not ... bad at it, are you?" he guessed, intending to tease me. Well, he should be happy because I looked away in embarrassment.

I muttered, "N-Not really."

He laughed again, attracting the eyes and ears of the people around us. I wouldn't blame them. Len's voice was always so~ ... GOOD, to put it simply. With whatever he did or said, it would always sound music to my ears and the others were probably feeling the same right then too.

He poked my cheek with an annoyingly arrogant look and said, "You won in English but nobody, I repeat, NOBODY beats me in Math," he smirked and got up when the teacher came in. You know, the usual Math teacher. Greasy haired, black haired, pointy nose, boring eyes behind thick glasses. And yes, I sometimes get judgemental too.

I was about to counter him when he added, "And Chemistry. And Kanji. And History. And everything else. Especially Music. I think that one is in the bag." Then, he got up, ordered the class to greet the teacher and sat back down.

I frowned at him but inside, I was kind of excited. I always knew that Len was smart. Just not HOW smart. And I was going to find out in a few minutes.

"Soomebody solve this problem on the board," Mr. Shibuya said gruffly, sitting on his chair in front of the class as he pointed at the difficult-looking problem he had written on the board.

"I'd like to solve it, Shibuya-san."

- Or in a few seconds.

Len got up and went over to the blackboard with everyone's eyes following his every move which included him going there, getting a chalk from the chalk board, easily finishing the difficult problem written on the board and going back to his chair beside me. Oh, and he was smiling at me too.

That evil, arrogant smile that could easily become a smirk with few tweaking.

I glared at him just as Mr. Shibuya said, "That is correct. Ten points for Kagamine Len-san." What? He's not in Hogwarts now, is he? ... Don't judge. Harry Potter has an anime version, you know.

Others applauded him, some said "Woah!" in awe and me? I just stared at him blankly much to his dismay.

"Oi, aren't you amazed at my intelligence?" he smirked encouragingly at me but I continued to just look at him.

I shrugged and faced front. "What's there to be amazed about?" I said and I swear, I think he gaped at me.

The class went on with our teacher just throwing hard questions at us that would either be answered by Len or our top classmate, Shiro but mostly it was just Len. And everytime he would answer a really hard question, everyone would praise him. But the weirdest thing was, no matter how many praises he got from the others, he still wouldn't look contented with it. Wasn't he supposed to have a really big ego? Being a famous singer and all that.

Math ended and the bell for recess break resonated throughout the school. I quickly grabbed my wallet and went to the door to wait for Len there.

I was waiting...

Waiting...

Waiting...

What the heck? Where's Len?

I looked at our seat and saw all of my girl classmates flocking in there. And in the middle of every head that I saw was a spiky-haired yellow head. That should be Len. I bet he was enjoying the attention. Tch. Stupid insensitive shota. He should be thinking about how I would be feeling if I saw him with all those girls all over him. I swear, he's such a- What did I just say? I-I... No! I feel very uhm ... bad? No. Left out? Not exactly, a bit maybe but that wasn't just it. There was something else in this feeling that I couldn't quite grasp just yet.

As I kept looking for that certain feeling, someone suddenly grabbed my arm and dragged me all the way to the field under the shade of a tree where we stopped, out of breath. I fell on the grass because of exhaustion but the person who grabbed me was just leaning on his knees and was gasping for air.

Hey... I know that heavy breathing...

"Len?" I asked cautiously as I slowly stood up and looked to see who it was.

"Yeah?" he asked back, looking like a wreck as he tried to hold himself up on his knees. He was still gasping for air too.

I internally sighed in relief. If it wasn't him, I'd certainly freak out and do ninjutsu on him. Literally. Like Kagebunshin no Jutsu or something.

I wobbly stood up and leaned on the tree and scolded him, "You didn't have to drag me like a stupid animal, Len."

"Eh?" he asked and looked closer at my state and smiled guiltily, "Sorry 'bout that but those girls were getting REALLY annoying and well ... fangirly," he scrunched his face up in disgust, "around me and I couldn't take anymore of it!" he went beside me and leaned on the tree too.

Then there was silence with just the sound of us catching our breaths to be heard, but after a while, we finally did and it was completely silent again. Then, in unison, we slid down and sat under the tree instead of standing and leaning on it.

"Ayaka, are you mad at me? Because back there, during Math, you weren't ... responding when I tried to tease you and I was really worried," he said, looking at me. I looked back at him and saw worry in his eyes.

I smiled and said, "I swear. If you say 'sorry' to me one more time, you are going to be titled as Len 'The Troublemaker' Kagamine."

He was still for a moment before he started laughing, making me join in and laugh too. We continued to do so before we suddenly stopped when we looked at each other at the same time.

His face ... was so ... close. And with this kind of view of it, I saw just how perfect he looked. Not a single blemish on his skin, not one tiny pimple. His eyes were huge and was in between of being blue and green. His nose nicely complemented his entire face and his lips looked so soft. Like that of a baby's.

Uh-oh. Just as my face went warm, I realized that as I was examining his face, he also was looking at mine. That made me instantly look away. Comapred to Luna, I would possibly be in the negative level that could be buried deep within the ruins of Atlantis and would still be asked to be pushed deeper.

"No way. You're really pretty Ayaka. I mean it," he suddenly said with a cute blush on his cheeks. He cupped my cheek gently and turned my head to his even though I struggled a bit.

"W-What? You heard that?" I asked in embarrassment as I realized yet again that I just voiced out my thoughts. "I'm such an idiot," I muttered to myself as I looked at the ground instead of Len's perfect face since he was still cupping my cheek.

He chuckled softly and whispered, "Maybe," he shrugged and smiled gently at me, "But that's why I like you so much."

Okay. That was so weird. Len just said that he liked me. I felt my face go hot, as in HOT HOT.

Then I fainted.

End of Chapter

Author: I can't decide... Miku or Meiko? Waaa... Oh, and take note that that above is somewhat of a filler. I dunno. Review and uh ... yeah. Point out the mistakes that I accidentally typed. I have done no proofreading with this whatsoever.