Chapter 10
Five Minus One Equals Four?
"All right, we're here…" Meiko said sadly.
She parked at the house driveway and turned off the car.
"Okay, remember, Kaito is going to take care of you two." she said to Rin and Len.
"Awesome, I'm in charge!" Kaito making his little celebration dance while getting off the Mini-Van.
"Aw, Meiko how come…" whined Len.
"…he's in charge?" Rin added with him.
"Because he's older and responsible - oh, I don't have time for this, I need to grab some information on Miku."
She paced quickly into the house and Kaito, Rin, and Len were taking the groceries out of the car, trying to help the slightest bit.
The Kagamine twins were placing the items from the store to their appropriate spots as soon as they reached the kitchen, but Kaito was heading in Meiko's direction.
She was gathering a few updated pictures of Miku and she snatched a piece of her hair from her special comb. He was flabbergasted realizing that one thread-like strand of Miku's hair was that long. He didn't really pay any attention to her hair until now. Meiko soon noticed that Kaito was with her. "Kaito, can you please check on the twins?" she inquired in a stressed manner.
"Right away." he said in a low, unhappy tone. As he was walking away, Kaito was thinking about those nice, enjoyable times he had with Miku in the past years. An unforgiving, heartless person instantly took away all of those peaceful memories just like that.
"Oh, they'll pay for this," he said to himself.
"Who will pay for what, Kaito?" the twins appeared by him.
He became startled and thought at high-speed. "Oh um, the person or people that might have possibly kidnapped my Miku,"
Rin and Len looked at each other and blinked several times. "Um, your Miku?" They stated to him if he made an error in his sentence.
His cheeks flushed trying not to expose anything, which he already did. "I meant, our Miku!"
"Whatever you say, you're in charge." they were shrugging and shaking their heads, pretending to believe him, but they had two teasing determined looks, aiming directly at him.
Kaito made a timid reaction. "Stop looking at me like that!"
"Alright, we'll stop, only because of you - my Miku." Len taunted.
Rin broke out laughing with her arms crossed tightly to her stomach. "Good one, bro!"
They exchanged high-fives and ran off the room knowing that Meiko was already out the door and their troublesome sides came in the door.
However, before they caused trouble, Rin decided to turn on the T.V. "Hey, the news is on!"
"Awww, I want to watch some cartoons!" Len pursed his lips while crossing his arms by the couch.
"Later, bro - oh look, isn't that the officer security dude that we saw at the store?" she asked.
"What, that fast? I guess this situation is that urgent." Kaito stated. He then hopped beside Len on the couch.
"Shhh, listen!" Rin told them.
There was a newscaster explaining the story and the security guard was getting interviewed. "This is serious, there were no witnesses at the time but I have heard that were other children kidnapped around the area, especially those with vivid hair. Unfortunately, none of them have been found ever since."
"You think that there are other Vocaloids other than us?" Len asked Kaito.
"I don't know but maybe there are; we probably haven't met them yet, though."
The interview was then over. "Which brings us to the next story about how a man became murdered just because he refused to give a dollar to the suspect." informed the newscaster.
"Well, that kind of helped knowing that Miku wasn't the only one kidnapped." Len noted.
"Yeah, well, I'm getting a little hungry; I'm going to get an orange." Rin walked to the counter.
Len silently snickered and then -
"Whoaaaohhh!" Rin slid across the kitchen with a banana peel gliding beneath her foot until she collided against the sink.
"LEN!" she shouted angrily.
"That was for Kaito not for you!" He laughed on the floor kicking his legs hysterically.
"Lies! Complete Lies!"
"You guys, quit fighting." Kaito said, trying to break up the dispute.
Len even had his eyes closed while crying out tears of joy due to his non-stop laughing. Rin was so steamed that she walked very carefully and stood in front of Len.
"Oh Le-en!" she called.
"Yeah sis?" he opened his eyes. Rin dropped the banana peel on top of his face.
"Oh you'll get it for sure, Rin."
"Bring it, banana boy!" Rin taunted.
Something tells me that this will really be a pain in the hindquarters… Kaitothought.