I'm But Only One Servant

Len glanced around the crime scene's aftermath. He gave a soft sigh, not wanting the memories to arise again. Luka had arrived earlier, only to resign Len from his position in her palace, and take Miku and Rin elsewhere. He was left with Lenka and Lily to clean out everything. Being a gentleman, he did the dirty work in place of the girls. Now, he was in need of some fresh air. Thinking so, he stepped out onto the balcony. Regrettably, that was where a huge, dry blood pool stain was, reminding of the inescapable reality. Len kept his face blank, kneeling on one knee, he clutched air in his hand on his chest and hung his head. As he did though, he noticed something shining near the blood stain. He bent over to get a closer look, it looked like a pocket watch. Very familiar, it was the one he'd seen Mikuo hold all the time when they were little. He scooped up the watch gently. Confirming the owner's identity, he opened it unhesitatingly with an easy click. Inside, it was the normal appearance of a pocket watch, to the left side of the clock was what caught Len's attention. It was picture folded up to fit inside the watch. A picture of him, Mikuo, and Miku as children. Somehow, hadn't felt saddened by this at all. In fact, opposite of it, Len instead cheered up a bit. Mikuo had truly treasured their memories. The picture was tuck quite tightly in, Len tried prying the picture out of the watch's frame in a careful matter. After loosening it up, a small piece of paper fell out from underneath it.

"What's this?" Len caught the fluttering paper before it touched the ground, inadvertently reading the small text written on it, "Ten...two...nine...eight? What're these numbers supposed to mean?"

"October twenty-ninth," Lenka popped in with an ominous voice behind him, leaning her chin on his shoulder. Then she switched to her regular tone, "Probably. You know the date, right?"

"Twenty-ninth?" Len repeated, shaking off the surprise of her arriving suddenly, "that's definitely... my birthday... but then what's the eight for? And what is this? A code? If so, for what?"

Lenka flicked his forehead, wearing an unchanged expression, "Enough questions, for now, we need to figure this out first."

Len nodded, rubbing the spot on his forehead with a finger, "Eight... eight... something related to my birthday..."

"So, what?" Lenka took a look at Len's face, which was full of realization.

"I have a feeling you already know, Lenka-san," Len remarked, "But so do I... Hey Miss Lily! Mind if we take a stop somewhere?"

Len took a step into the old, abandoned house of the once living Mikuo. The house he left behind to travel to another country. He left everything behind in this house, in hopes of starting anew. Len understood that, however, he still wanted to know. Know the secrets that have been kept from him. Looking at the nostalgic closed-off closet sent goosebumps down his arm. Lenka, too, felt it, shivering and clinging slightly onto Len's short sleeve. Lily, not wanting to get into the business, had volunteered to stay back. Now coming this far, there was no turning back. Len opened the closet door and in they went. Walking further in until they arrived at the end, where the empty bookshelf with the lone diary stood.

"I wonder... this code goes to what?" Len took a glance around. Nothing. Nothing to use a code on.

Lenka, on the other hand, was very curious, as she was never allowed in the closet. She bent down to pick up the diary, "This?"

"I doubt there's anything in that diary we can use a code on, Lenka-san," Len said skeptically.

"Of course not," Lenka muttered, pointing with her petite finger, "But... that..."

Len squatted down near her, taking a look, too. He hadn't seen it earlier, but there was definitely a well-hidden hole there. Len anxiously moved forward to dig out what was behind it. It turned out to be a safe with a number lock on it, "Makes much more sense now."

Len turned to Lenka, "How'd you know this was here?"

"I didn't," Lenka responded bluntly, "Just my intuition."

"Is that so?" Len placed the numbers on the lock, and sure enough it opened, "Jackpot!"

"Did you seriously just say that?" Lenka questioned, a little amused.

"What should I say?" Len asked, "'Booty!'?"

"I think that's worse, somehow."

Len nodded it off, letting the moment pass, before wiping off the dust to search the safe's contents, "All this junk... it looks familiar..."

"Junk looks familiar?" Lenka repeated in a comical way.

"This watch... these goggles... this, too... and that..." Len stated, moving through the objects, "They're all from when we were little."

It was silent for a moment as they both stared at the mementos. Abruptly, Lenka then swiped something dug deep in from the safe out. It was a a ripped portion of a document.

"What is this?" Len moved closer to observe what was on it.

Clones experiment ~part 2~

Experiment completed. Upon this day, we have successfully created gender bent clones using DNA from the princesses, Miku Hatsune and Rin Kagamine. Along with servant/twin, Len Kagamine. Great step taken. Deprived from past failed experiment. Mikuo Hatsune. Status: Stable. Created with fast growth, grown older than original. Lenka Kagamine. Status: useless, sent into imprisonment. Rinto Kagamine...

That was all left of the ripped up document, it rest was nowhere to be found. However, this was enough information. Len was sure he knew the rest. But the one thing that shocks him...

"Clones? Does that mean... Mikuo, and even you... and Rinto, too. You're..." Len put his hand to his head, "Clones... it can't be... how could that be possible."

Lenka also sat solemnly, hugging her knees close, speechless. Len gave a sigh as he closed the safe, locking the contents in it once again, "This stuff... we don't need."

"Why...? Mikuo was kicked out... but... because he was a clone!? Because he was useless?" Len turned to Lenka, "But, the thing written about you... the... imprisonment?"

Lenka nodded, burying her head into her legs, "I don't remember much, but I remember the feeling of being cold, unwanted, and lonely... It was terribly hard... painful... sorrowful..."

Len stood up and walked behind her as she finished, "Mikuo saved me, though... As he was abandoned, too, he came for me... I had ran away into the streets freely, but I had nowhere to go. Though he also had his harsh times, he took me in... and took care of me..."

At this point, her voice started cracking, and she couldn't speak anymore. Len stood by her with comforting presence as she sobbed, "You've also been through a lot, haven't you? I apologize."

Soon as she was crying, she fell asleep, fatigue taking over her. Len carried her out to Lily.

"Everything okay?" she asked, looking at Lenka in particular.

"Don't worry, she's not dead," Len replied, smiling as usual, "So, where are we going?"

"I called up Rin-chan whilst you guys were in," Lily stated, "She's willing to accept all three of us, come on. If we start now, we'll get there before sunup."

Len nodded, following her out a few miles to the nearest town.

"After we cross this town and past Luka's, we'll arrive at Rin's," Lily explained to Len, who was lagging a bit behind, distracted with the unfamiliar town. He'd never taken this route before, it looked all new compared to some of the other towns.

"Was this recently established?" Len asked.

"Now that you mention it, yeah, I think it is," Lily answered him, "Well, not recently as in the last month or something. Actually two to three years, but that's new compared to all the other old fashioned rundown towns.

"It's not like this is any better, though," Len rebutted. Though he said that, the place really enchanted him. There was a much more colorful and warm atmosphere going on. It was almost time for the sun to barely rise, yet a bunch of the townspeople were already out and working.

"Hurry, now," Lily turned to wait for the wandering Len. He was distracted, and in result, accidentally bumped into someone. With Lenka in his arms, he was unable to keep his balance and tipped backwards.

"Wah! Ah! Oh, I'm sorry! Sorry!" the person he'd bumped into shrieked in a panicky matter. Len stayed rooted in place as struggling to get up with Lenka in his lap was not an easy task, "No, it's okay, I wasn't paying attention, my apologies."

"Well, are you okay? Here... wait, you're..."

"Hmm?" Len lifted his head to find himself staring at a familiar face. The face of a girl he had thought gone, "Gumi...chan?"

"Len! Where have you been? What are you doing here!?"

"That's what I should be asking you!" Len remarked, standing up with the help of Gumi and Lily, "I've been worried sick, I thought you'd gone."

"Like that could happen, silly."

Lily cleared her throat, loudly to get their attention, "Hello, I feel a little left out here."

"How rude of me, Miss Lily," Len said.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Gumi!" Gumi introduced herself.

Len continued for her, "Whilst out to a new country, I made acquaintance with her."

"More than that," Gumi mumbled.

"We're in a bit of a rush, so let's get going," Lily dropped in, ignoring Gumi.

"Gumi, what are you planning to do?"

"Well, I was just walking around this area before I met you too here. I have no destination... or... place to stay for that matter..."

Len grinned, catching her hint, "Alright, come with us, won't you? I'm sure Rin would accept you. Won't she, Miss Lily?"

"Of course," Lily added, with a change of mood, "You're welcome to join us."

"I guess we should stop the small talk," Len stated, "Let's go."

School is over for me, finally...

Now what? ^-^'

Anyways, hope I will see you, if not, then fine.

Enjoy, I demand so!