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Author: Did you know that Miku's next concert is just a few days away? I wanna go there sooo BADLY! KYAAAAA! D'X

Chapter 10: "A Show of Emotions"

After a few minutes of unresponsiveness, Len finally realized that Ayaka wasn't just being quiet and still. She was really unconscious and when he did, he panicked a lot on what to do.

"What the? Ayaka!" he shook her body a bit but she still wouldn't budge. He started breathing heavily, as he raked through his hair, thinking of what to do. But he couldn't because he was freaking out like there was no tomorrow.

"Okay, calm down Len. Don't think about it being your fault just yet because you won't be able to help her if you do," he told himself out loud and calmed down a bit. Then, he gulped in some air and checked her temperature with his right hand.

"Hot," he muttered when he retracted his hand from her forehead. She did look red when he suddenly blurted out that stupid sort-of confession a while ago. He should have known that she wouldn't be able to handle everything seeing as she had the innocence of a newborn baby bird. He slapped himself hard for saying something like that so early when he should have waited a few more years or so to confess.

But he shook his head and threw those thoughts and punishing himself aside as he tried to carry Ayaka with both his hands. He crouched beside her, scooped her up and tried to lift her up. It was a lot of effort but he finally got her off of the ground after a few tries. Then, he immediately went to go to the clinic. They passed by it when he was dragging Ayaka behind him before and he could still remember where it was.

He opened the door with his elbow and looked for the nurse inside the room.

"Uhm, excuse me," he called out when he found a figure sitting on the desk a few meters away from the door.

The nurse, a young lady in her middle 20's or so looked at Len and then stared at him. She coughed to bring herself back to the world as she asked, "What's wrong with Takashi-san, Kagamine Len-san?" she signaled Len to place the girl in his arms on one of the beds in the right side of the room.

"She...," he stopped and froze when he finally had Ayaka on the bed. He couldn't tell her that he confessed to her and that made her brain explode which lead to her passing out. "Err... She got too hot and passed out," he said as he covered her body with the blanket provided on the beds.

"Got too hot? How?" the nurse asked from behind them.

He tensed up and started sweating more than he already was from carrying her all the way to the clinic. He wasn't the athletic type after all.

"Uhm...," he struggled to find an excuse. He just realized that what he just said earlier sounded wronger than if he just told the truth. "F-From the sun. You know, how the sun is hot and all," he answered; refusing to look at the nurse, fretting that she might notice that he was lying.

"Hmm," she started rubbing her chin as if she was thinking of something. From her desk, she watched just how Len fidgeted and flustered while he stood beside Ayaka. "I see, if that's all, you should just leave her here to ... cool off," she said and went to finish her paperwork.

"Uhm, is it okay if I stay here with her? I'm really worried," he asked as he peeked at her and smiled halfheartedly. He used his shota powers and everything cute about him so she would allow him to stay.

"O-Okay," the nurse, being taken aback by the sudden moe-ness of Len Kagamine, couldn't help but allow him to.

"Thank you," he gratefully said and pulled the curtain separating them from the rest of the room close and then he sat at the chair beside her bed.

He groaned as he thought of what would happen when she finally wakes up. She could do a LOT of things, trust him, but in the end, it would only all lead to her accepting his feelings and reciprocating them or her rejecting him and just plain ignoring it. Well, there was also the chance of her forgetting what happened but it was mostly unlikely.

Just then, Ayaka stirred a bit, making Len both relieved and nervous. But she only stirred. She didn't wake up so he was kind of left off the hook for the time being.

"Oh Ayaka," he whispered as he took a lock of her loose hair in his right hand and began stroking it. "You seriously make me go crazy. Literally. Look at me. I'm talking to an unconscious girl," he chuckled at himself and went back to staring at her sleeping face.

She was beautiful just like he said so earlier. Luna could go put on the most expensive dress and make up but would still fall behind Ayaka if he was to judge. And he would love to let her feel that she was if he could.

From what she said before, he could easily see that she had no self-confidence whatsoever. It could've come from her childhood experiences and the fact that anime otakus were considered dirt all over Japan but she had no reason to feel so inferior. Heck, if Len were a girl, he'd envy Ayaka's perkiness and innocence all at the same time. And who knows, he might still even like her even as a girl. Who cared if it was forbidden? That's what makes it so much more exciting, right?

He slightly blushed when he unconsciously just confirmed that he would still like and love Ayaka in whatever form he may be. Just like how those characters in romance novels would say it.

"Kuruu~," Ayaka mumbled as she turned her body sideways that faced Len, her hands in front of her face and her mouth slightly agape. Because of her sudden movement, the hair that Len was stroking in his hand slid down from his grasp, leaving him with nothing to hold onto as he waited.

He simply smiled and stood up intending to go ask the nurse if he needed to go tell their teacher that Ayaka was in the clinic.

He slipped through the curtain and looked around the room. But there was no one there. He raised his brow in confusion as he muttered and went back in Ayaka's cubicle-thingy, "What a strange school."

"L-Len," Ayaka mumbled as she stared at his eyes. She was sitting on her bed and her hair was in a mess.

Len immediately went pink and asked as he seated himself to the chair again, "You okay now?"

She nodded and stretched her arms out with a yawn. "How long have I been out?"

He shrugged and answered, "Just a few minutes. Maybe thirty or so."

"Oh. Did you bring me here?" she asked as she turned her head to look at him directly.

That just made Len fluster some more as he replied, "Y-Yeah. You weren't really heavy so don't worry about it." Yeah right. He was clearly gasping for air when he was carrying her all the way to the clinic.

She threw him an 'Oh really?' look that made him laugh. "I swear it's true," he assured her, making her stop asking so much.

"We're late Len," she stated blankly like she was just saying it without any worry whatsoever.

"Really? How long are breaks in here anyway?" he asked, trying to keep the conversation going.

She paused for a moment to think and answered, "Less than thirty minutes."

He sweat dropped and asked, "Are you sure you go to school every day?"

She pouted and answered, "Well sorry for not making a habit of counting how many seconds our recess breaks are," she stuck out her tongue at him.

He waved his hands in front of him defensively and said, "I wasn't saying it like that."

"Then what was it?" she asked, throwing him a curious look.

He looked away and stuttered, "N-Nothing. It's really hot today, isn't it?" he tried to change the topic.

Ayaka frowned cluelessly at him and said, "Yeah... No wonder I passed out, huh?" she asked but then suddenly got all panicked when she realized just what she said, "I-I mean... I-It's really summer uh... And it's only November err..."

Len looked at her in surprise as she babbled on and on about how early summer was this year. So now he knew that she was aware that she passed out because of his confession. And now, she was trying to divert the topic from that.

Simply put, she was trying to ignore his confession.

He frowned at the realization and stood up after saying something about washing his hands but honestly just wanting to go cry his heart out or something.

"Len wait!"

Ayaka grabbed his arm before he could get out of her reach. Len looked back at her with shock clearly in his eyes.

"I -uh... Your hands don't seem dirty to me," she blurted out and forced a smile at him.

He forced out a smile too and said, "Yeah, but I'm sure you need to rest a bit more and you can only do that when I'm not here," he said and headed back to going out when Ayaka's grip slackened a bit.

She frowned at herself with her head hung low. She wanted so much to punch herself then and there. She hated the fact that she couldn't tell him anything.

"Len...," she called out in a whisper, not expecting him to stop because of it.

And he didn't. He pulled the curtain open and went out before closing it again behind him. She heard his footsteps fade away until they were completely gone.

She clutched her chest where her heart was as if she could stop the pain if she did so. But it wasn't working. It still hurt.

"Stop hurting will you?" she exclaimed to herself as she continued to clutch it. Then, just suddenly, tears came threatening to fall from her eyes when she realized that she couldn't make the pain stop. Why was she even hurting, anyway?

"I...," she sobbed as she let go of her chest.

She had always felt something when she was with Len. It was the same kind of feeling that she felt whenever she was watching anime but just slightly different... because when she was with him, she wouldn't just imagine that she was in another world. She would really feel like she was living another life. She would just suddenly have the urge to hug him out of nowhere, when she would see that he looked the tiniest bit troubled. She hated seeing him sad. She wanted him to smile whenever they were together. She hated it when other girls would look at him with something of lust and wanting in their eyes. She liked being with him and hated it when it was time to go home to their respective homes. She...

"I love you," she whispered just as a tear rolled down her cheek. She wiped it away with her arm and sniffed.

"I have never felt anything like this in the span of my stupid life time... And now that I have, this is what happens. Great, just great," she told herself and went to go to the bathroom and look at how she was a wreck by then.

She grabbed one end of the curtain separating her from the rest of the room and pulled it open only to be greeted by a pair of familiar arms wrapping themselves around her, making her squeak in surprise.

Then, she was pulled out by that pair of arms and was pushed towards a soft body that she knew all too well. And that scent. She breathed it in and instantly relaxed.

She sniffed once and looked up, "L-Len?"

He had his eyes closed and his lips were forming a nice smile as he buried his face into her hair. "Hmm?"

"You didn't happen to hear that, did you?" she asked, a bit nervous.

"I'd say no if you wanted me to," he answered and pulled away from her but he still had his arms around her. He smiled gently at her like he was the happiest person in the whole wide world.

She instantly blushed into a crimson color as she tried to break free from his grasp. "L-L-Let go! Waa!" she squealed like a kid before she successfully broke free from him.

He pouted at her and asked, "Don't you want me to hug you?"

She looked away from him, trying to dissolve her blush and answered, "N-Not right now..."

He smiled happily and asked, "Then how about later?"

She blushed some more and said, "L-Leave me alone."

He knew better than to feel bad about what she just said. He knew that she was only embarrassed.

He began walking closer to her as he said, "Hey Ayaka."

" What?"

He leaned his mouth just beside her ear and asked in a low voice, "Will you be my girlfriend?" He himself was blushing but now, he found his confidence when he heard what she just said a few minutes ago.

She choked and looked at him in surprise. "W-What? Y-You're asking me to - what?" she couldn't believe her ears. She had always convinced herself that no human being would want to ask her that certain question because as she found out from anime, only cute girls were the ones who get to choose to answer that question.

He pulled back and smiled in embarrassment at her, asking again, "Be my girlfriend?" his cheeks were full-on red by that time.

"I-" she didn't know what to say! THE Len Kagamine just asked her to be his girlfriend. What did you expect she'd do? Jump for joy and say yes?

Close, but not quite. She kicked him. Right in the stomach. HARD.

"Ow!" Len stepped back as he clutched his stomach in pain.

Ayaka gasped and went to crouch beside him as she asked, "Are you okay? Sorry Len!"

He smiled at her and muttered, "Do you think you'd be okay if I kicked you on the stomach?" She soon found out that his smile was a complete fake and she slowly backed away from him.

She forced a laugh out and said, "Honestly, yes. Since you're really bad at P.E. Len."

He glared at her, slowly recovering from her attack. "So I take it that that was your 'yes'?" he asked, trying to bring the pace back to his.

She looked clueless at him for a second before she became flustered again. "I-I dunno," she muttered and shrugged.

Now, the pain on his stomach was completely gone and he was back to being his normal capable self. "Come on, please?" he pleaded to her with big, puppy dog eyes.

She looked at him and resisted the urge to pinch his cheeks. "What about Luna?" she asked, searching for some kind of doubt in his eyes.

But he just looked at her in disgust. "Why would I choose her over someone like you?" he asked but she just gave him an 'Enlighten me' look.

He sighed and began flicking each of his fingers with each reason, "You've been with me for ... three months now and me and Luna have only met for what, about twice?" his thumb shot up.

She tilted her head a bit as if saying that that didn't prove anything and urged him to continue.

His index finger joined his thumb as he said, "I have a lot more fun when I'm with you," he blushed a bit as he said that.

She blushed too but just kept silent to let him continue.

This time, his middle finger joined the other two, "I... No. You. You just light up my day...," his earlier pink blush turned darker as he scratched his cheeks to ignore his cheesiness.

She chuckled at his expense and said, "Yeah right. You know that's cheesy."

He pouted but then regained his serious facade as he said, stepping closer to her and flicking his ring finger next, "You're really stupid, stubborn, annoying, mean at some points, incredibly weird, musically disabled, lazy, annoyingly friendly with other people who are basically strangers to you and you cause so much trouble for the people around you."

She only frowned at him and said, "What? You're not making any sense Le-"

He cupped her cheek once more, their faces only inches away from each other as they stared at each other's eyes intensely.

"And yet you still made me like – no, love you. Don't you think that's reason enough?" he asked her in a hushed tone as he leaned his head slowly towards hers.

"L-Len! What are you-"

He shushed her silently which made her stop talking and focus on his eyes alone.

"Ayaka, you're my girlfriend now, right?"

"Y-... Yeah."

"So I can kiss you now."

"W-Wha-"

"Ya! Are you okay?" Yuuki came bursting from the door, looking tired and sweaty like she had run all the way from the other side of the school, and found the two of them in that position. Len cupping Ayaka's cheek while their faces were only an inch apart. Not to mention the glazed looks and deep crimson blushes they had when she first caught a glimpse at them. "What the..."

"Y-Y-Yu! Y-You're h-h-here! H-How'd you know that I was uh...?" Ayaka said shakily as she separated herself from Len in a matter of a few meters or so. She was absolutely embarrassed and ashamed to be caught by Yuuki of all people in that kind of situation.

Len, on the other hand, was just plain terrified. Not just because Yuuki was currently giving him very VERY scary and deadly death glares but because of the things that his brain just instinctively came up with how Yuuki would be punishing him for making Ayaka his girlfriend. He was soo dead.

"I-I can explain Yuuki-san!" he stuttered as he put up his hands in front of him defensively when Yuuki started stepping closer to him. If there were a fourth person, he would probably think that Len cheated on Yuuki by flirting with Ayaka but no, quite the opposite really. It was because Len stole Ayaka from Yuuki.

"You little-!" she was about to claw his face off when an arm suddenly blocked her target. It was Ayaka's arm and she was trying to protect Len from Yuuki.

She was trying to protect him. With a very serious face aimed at her best friend and step sister.

"Ya, what are you doing?" she asked incredulously as she stared at the arm in front of her.

It took a few moments before Ayaka could gather her courage and stand up to her beloved best friend and say, "I'm sorry Yu but you must know that... that... that! ... uhm...," her face started going red, "... that you were about to hurt my b-b-b-boyfriend. Which is Len. And I'm not going to let you," she finally said with her eyes tightly closed in order to avoid seeing Yuuki's outraged face like how she anticipated her best friend would look like. She gulped, expecting the worse to come.

She was going to get it now.

Just wait, here it goes.

Three.

Two.

One.

Groar!

...

Uhm... Did she have to count to zero too?

Ayaka took a peek at Yuuki's face to see if she was distracted by something. That was the only way she wouldn't have released her wrath to the world by now. But what she saw was far from what she had imagined.

Yuuki was… crying.

As weird as that sounded, it was true. She was weeping silently with her back facing them and her hands covering her face.

"Y-Yu! What's wrong?" Ayaka quickly exclaimed when she saw this and went to face her friend. Her voice was so full of worry like her most important possession was going to be taken away from her.

Yuuki just sobbed in response before she sniffed. Then, she looked up to see Ayaka's face and immediately wrapped her arms around her friend, burying her face onto her chest at the same time.

"Ayaka...?" Len asked from behind Yuuki, wanting to know what was wrong. He too looked shocked and disbelieving when he saw how Yuuki was dealing with the news.

She just shook her head in response and told him mentally to just stay quiet. Luckily, he understood this and backed away from the two of the girls.

"Yu... Please stop crying. You're breaking my heart," Ayaka whispered sincerely with a shaky voice to her friend who just kept on clinging onto her. Usually, she was the one doing the clinging because Yuuki was always the strong one of them both. But now, she was just so fragile in Ayaka's arms.

"Ya… Is it really true?" she asked as she tightened her embrace on Ayaka, squeezing her a bit.

"Kh-… Y-Yeah. You're not against this, are you?" she asked her, a little part of her afraid that Yuuki wouldn't approve of her relationship with Len.

Yuuki kept silent before she lightly punched her arm and said, "Are you kidding? I'd gladly push that shota off of a cliff if I had the chance to," Ayaka sweat dropped at her words, "But. Yes, there's a huge but. But do you really think that my decision could stop you from being with him? You're as stubborn as a mule, Ya," she chuckled with Ayaka accompanying her.

Then, she let go of the light brown haired girl and straightened herself up. After which, she approached the blonde haired boy who had been watching everything from a safe distance away from them, making him panic.

"Oi Kagamine," she called out in a very rugged voice, successfully scaring the peeps out of him. She laughed icily at his reaction and continued, "If you harm anything on my Ayaka, you will surely pay. Got that?" she kicked him on the leg.

Len vigorously nodded his head as he hid from behind his hands.

She only laughed at this and walked back to Ayaka, saying, "Come on. Let's go back to the classroom. We have music together, right?"

Ayaka nodded cheerfully and went side by side Yuuki to the clinic's door and out, leaving a hanging little Len alone.

He groaned. And he was expecting to get a simple kiss from Ayaka too. But he didn't think about it too much. Just being able to call Ayaka as his girlfriend was enough to last him for the whole year.

He blushed when he mentally replayed what happened before Yuuki had come crashing their moment. He might have seemed really confident then but in truth, inside he was melting too. But he would rather eat a leek before he would admit it. It just sounded too girly for him.

He shrugged and proceeded to following the two girls who went ahead of him. Yuuki said they had Music, right? He grinned evilly.

This is going to be fun.

End of Chapter

Author: Yey! Done. I would just like to clear something up. The past two chapters are so NOT fillers. Apparently, I have mistaken the meaning of fillers. Hehe~ Oops? :D Well anyway, review everyone! I won't update without at least five reviews just because I get really tired when updating. :D