Kaito's house was the kind of building you wouldn't be able to see in the year 2025. Mostly, people change the design of their houses into a modern building, but this one right here was a beautiful Japanese style building, traditional and beautiful.

Yet it let out a dangerous aura.

You can't blame the house; it's the people inside that are dangerous, it is the Yakuza we're talking about.

"I'm supposed to be watching anime at my home PEACEFULLY." Rinto gritted his teeth whispering to Len, "Not go into some dangerous fort of a crazy blue-haired guy!"

"Chill," Kaito smiled, not in a good way, "You are now forgiven for your acts. Like placing that damned Molotov on my bed last night and putting cockroaches in my shoes, Mister Rinto."

"It was nice meeting you, Len." Rinto sighed, "I will continue to bless your love life in heaven."

"Go to hell," Len said loudly, then proceeded to walk fearlessly even under the eyes of so many guards.

He was used to these kind of situation; eyes all on him, people whispering about him, appearing on the news…

He hated it.

"The design is amazing." Rin commented.

Len agreed. The whole house was beautifully made, every carving on the wood, choice of furniture and decorations, the lighting was indeed beautiful and flawless, a merge between ancient and modern.

Kaito lifted his hands up and signaled one of the guards. The guard hurried off and came back with…

A bulletproof vest, a helmet and a guitar.

Len was confused with the situation, staring at Kaito as he wears the vest and helmet. Judging by his expression, it almost looks as if he's going to go to war.

"Guys…" Kaito forced a smile, "I'm going to need you to step back."

Before Rinto could say anything, Len pulled him back while Rin quietly elbows Rinto.

Kaito slowly walked towards a door, gripping the guitar as hard as he could, with sweat falling down like beads. Slowly, he opened the door and peeked in.

The door flung open.

"This is…SPARTA!"

Len was really confused.

A girl about the same age as them literally flying-kicked out of the room and landed on Kaito. As Kaito helplessly struggles to get up and defend himself, the girl punched him in the guts while shouting, "You. Now. Owe. Me. Five!"

The girl had a crazy bright smile on her face, filled with joy and not even affected by the serious faces of the guards. She was wearing a traditional red kimono with a pink sash, clothing not really suited for yelling "This is Sparta."

Her short brown hair sways around as she punches Kaito, yet Kaito didn't even shout at her.

Instead, he laughed along.

"God, my hands hurt!" The girl got off, "What in the world are you wearing?"

"Bullet vest," Kaito smiled, "Got you this time!"

"I don't care; you still owe me the money."

"No way."

"Next time, I'm going to bring in the frying pan."

"Fine," Kaito reached into his pocket and pulled out a wallet, "5 Yen."

"No way, I want five Grand." The girl frowned.

"…Fine. What's for lunch?"

"Well, it's going to be salmon rice balls and your most hated soup with a side dish of 'eat it or starve'."

"…Best friend ever." Kaito smiled and turned around, "Guys, this is Meiko, my childhood friend and-"

"Protector of the universe!" She quickly cut in and shouted.

"AND possible former patient in a mental asylum."

"Hey!" The girl, Meiko quietly glared at Kaito, as if trying to kill him in her mind, then turned towards the three, "Meiko, Sakine Meiko! Nice to meet you."

"Kagamine Rin," Rin stepped forward and smiled, "I hope we're not bothering you. We might be here a few days."

"No, of course not!" Meiko laughed, "We rarely get any visitors. Well, we rarely get someone who dares to come in here. You guys are either really brave or really dumb. Also, Kaito has a possibility of having zero friends, I'm glad to see someone else other than me suffering from his stupidity."

"Meiko…was that really necessary?" Kaito sighed.

"Also, the last time I tried to introduce him to a girl; he literally blew up the kitchen and started a fire, just to get that girl out of the house. I'm telling you, this guy needs a girlfriend and I've been trying to help him for years. If anyone of you can help me with this situation, I'll give you that five grand that Kaito owes me."

"Meiko, I-"

"Also, there was this time…"

"Meiko, please-"

"We were bathing together in the shower, then-"

"MEIKO! Anything but that!"

Rinto was snickering behind Len the whole time, trying to hold in the laughter as he imagined Kaito and Meiko as children, bathing together in a little bath tub, along with a rubber duck.

"Nice friend you have there," Len, who was observing Kaito's face the whole time, finally said. "I am Len Strife, and the one back there laughing like a complete idiot is Rinto. It is a pleasure to meet you. I'm sorry for the disturbance that we may or may not make in the future, but I will try to help you on the situation you just said."

"…Why can't you be more like this guy, Kaito?" Meiko slowly asked, with a smirk on her face.

"Shut up!"

"Okay, someone needs to stop with the ruckus..."

Two people walked out of the door. One of them has his hair dyed purple, face bandaged like he just had a fight. And the purple-haired guy clearly looks like he was in a bad mood. The other one, instead, looked the total opposite. Red hair and a smiley face, the only one thing similar about them were their looks.

Takaito and Akaito, brothers of Kaito Shion.

There was an immediate mixture of anger and happiness on Kaito's face.

The one with the bandaged face, Takaito shouted when he saw Kaito, "You miserable little…I thought you're at school in the middle of bacon land!"

Bacon…what? Len thought to himself, with Rin sharing the same expression.

"Aww, come on, Tak, he came back! We're going to need a lot of wine tonight. Be happy!" Akaito smiled and turned towards Kaito, "We're glad to have you back."

"…I'm out of here." Takaito spitted as he walked away.

"Clearly that 'we' doesn't include Tak. He hates me for no reason." Kaito sighed for the fourth time. "We have a problem too."

"What problem?" Akaito asked.

"Well, remember the sword we used to play with?" Kaito asked.

"Yeah?"

"Well, it's a national treasure and the thief of the century wants to steal it."

While Kaito explains the situation to his two brothers (Although one of them didn't really paid any attention), Rin and Len decided to spend some time talking about the universe, a few possible theories and math.

"Okay, that question was a bit hard. How about this one!" Len cleared his throat and started, "If you have to choose an answer randomly, what are the chances of you being correct are? A. 25 percent. B. 50 percent. C. 0 percent. D. 25 percent."

Rin thought for a few seconds before saying, "The answer C is definitely wrong. Because for C to be true, none of the answer can be correct. But then that makes the whole answer incorrect, including C. It can't be 0 percent because that would make it right; which the answer will be 25 percent. A and D would be correct, but then that would make B correct (25% +25%+ =50%). But because of C's paradox, one of them has to be the answer. The problem is, if they're all correct, none of them are. Because that means the answer is possibly 75%. But the result would be the same and we'd be back at 0%. This is a question without an answer, am I correct?"

"Why are you so clever?" Len laughed. "Your turn."

"Make a sentence, where every word is a letter longer than the previous one."

"…I might need some time for this…Let's see." Len quietly thought for a full 30 seconds before saying, "I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes…intercommunication's incomprehensibleness."

"My mind stopped for a while," Rin smiled, "That was genius!"

"I know." Len stared at Rin for a while, "What do you think of human beings?"

"Most irrational things on earth." Rin replied without even stopping to think.

"Why?"

"Let's see…Oh, hey, there's a mammoth over there! It's at least 70 times larger than us; let's attack it with our sticks!"

Len couldn't help but laugh.

"Now, use two words to sum up crime." Rin challenged.

"…Why not?" Len answered.

They spent about a whole two hours inside a room, talking about things that no one would ever understand. While Rinto quietly sat outside the room, playing with his PSP.

True love is in the air, Rinto thought, and it stinks.

"Due to Akaito insisting that we have something special for dinner, I proudly present to you 'you guys better eat it or I will kick the living hell out of you." Meiko smiled.

It was an all you can eat ramen, a bowl of green tea ice cream and a whole giant plate of sushi.

And by giant, Meiko meant one hundred and sixty-four self-made sushi, with at least thirty of them being Sashimi.

"Are we really going to eat all that?" Kaito asked.

"If you want to die immediately, of course not!" Meiko smiled, "Now sit down like a good dog and eat!"

"I'm going to sleep now." Takaito interrupted, "Do not disturb me."

Akaito wanted to protest, "But-"

"I don't care if it's a welcome-back party or his birthday celebration," Takaito glared at everyone, "Go find a dictionary, and search for the fucks I give. None."

He walked away.

"Your birthday?" Rinto asked, staring confusingly at Kaito.

"Congratulations to being one year nearer to death." Meiko smiled, "Dinner's on me tomorrow."

Kaito simply smiled at her. Yet there was something in his eyes that were expressing happiness and the feeling of warmth. Something Kaito rarely feels.

Len grinned; he just found something to tease him with. And Kaito actually find Len's love life interesting? He should really take a look at his own.

Love birds, Rinto quietly mocked, they're everywhere.

"I'm starving, guys." Akaito muttered annoyingly, "I. Want. Eat."

Meiko giggled and started setting up plates. Len observed her for a while; she got happier and happier as she did her chores. It was almost as if she lived to work. Len watched as she ran into the kitchen and started pouring drinks for them.

"I'm going to the bathroom for a while," Kaito said, "I'll be back quickly."

With Rin, Len, Rinto and Akaito left at the dining room, they started talking.

"I'm sorry about Takaito, he's been in a bad mood ever since dad decided to split the property evenly into three and give it to us. I mean, Takaito's definitely the oldest, so he should have gotten more than both of us, but Kaito really didn't care, he didn't need any of the money." Akaito explained it bluntly, "Also, he never liked Kaito anyway."

"Why?" Rin asked, curious about the whole situation.

"I'm guessing it's because dad likes Kaito more." Akaito smiled in a sad way, "Both Takaito and Kaito have good grades, they do quite well in school, and they're also talented at a lot of things. But Takaito uses power, words and skill to conquer people, Kaito uses brains more. I think that's what father likes about Kaiky-koo."

Kai…what?

"Yeah, if you're wondering about the nickname," Akaito sneered, "They're made by Meiko for Kaito. There's Kaiky-koo, Kai, darling, ice cream freak and blue bitch."

That last one was a bit harsh, Rinto quietly thought to himself.

Meiko peeked out of the kitchen, "Only I can use those codenames! You guys are forbidden to use it on Kaito!" Then she asked sweetly, "Tea or Sake?"

"Sake!" Rinto shouted almost immediately, like his life depended on that drink.

"I'm guessing those two over there want tea," Meiko laughed a bit at Rinto's actions, "We got all sorts of those things, which one do you guys want?"

"Earl Gray," then Len looked at Rin, smiling, "And herbal tea."

"You remembered," Rin smiled back.

"Oh, look at me," With a phone on his hand, Akaito giggled sheepishly, "It's out of battery, I need to charge it, be back in five minutes."

Meiko skipped out with the drinks after Akaito left, asking, "So, what do you guys think I should get for Kaito?"

"Anything's okay, I guess," Rin replied, eyes still focused on Len.

"Well, I've given him chocolate ice cream, dolls, hairpins, a diary, a notebook, a cheap laptop and some books before, I'm really out of ideas this time."

What kind of person would give boys hairpins? Rinto stared unbelievably at Meiko.

"Maybe you should just go out and have fun for a day," Rin commented, "He looks a bit stressed lately."

"Really?" Meiko exclaimed, "Do you think he likes Chinese food? I know one that he might like."

"Girl," Rinto called out, "Everyone loves Chinese food, they're awesome."

"But I'm not really sure, I mean…" Meiko frowned, "The last time he ate a fortune cookie, he just went into total depression for four days."

"Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, not China," Len interrupted, "It has nothing to do with Chinese food. It just gives out random words from Confucius."

"Oh…" Meiko then asked, "Did I tell you the time where Kaito…"

Meiko started ranting about how Kaito managed to wreck a computer when he was six, slapped the school bully when he was eight, made a sixteen year old teenager cry with a paintbrush when he was ten (Detailed information was not given and won't ever be.), broke the windows with a flute when he was twelve and got away from all of the above.

After seven minutes and forty-one seconds of Kaito's life, Akaito came back, shouting, "Food!"

"Yeah, we should start eating…" Meiko got up, "Hey…Where's Kaito?"

It has indeed being a long time since Kaito went to the bathroom, approximately about ten minutes and twenty-nine seconds.

And something was wrong, Len could feel it. His highly accurate intelligence was telling him.

"I'll go check on him," Len volunteered.

Instead of walking, he moved quickly and almost started jogging away.

Kaito's room has a bathroom inside, which is probably the one he went to. Len has already scouted the whole house and calculated the distance and time to travel between places. Walking from the dining room to Kaito's room takes no more than twenty-five seconds.

And one thing was bothering Len, the way Takaito came to the dining room and left was suspiciously strange. Why would he go to the dining room if he didn't even want to eat at the first place?

He reached Kaito's room, a door with a sign saying, 'Keep out unless you have ice cream or a flamethrower for me'.

He opened the door.

Kaito was sitting on the floor, leaning on the wall…

And blood everywhere around him.

"Kaito!" Len ran to him and checked.

He was still breathing, his pulse was weak but he's going to live. It only took a short ten seconds for Len to find out where the blood came from. A stab on the stomach and a hit on the head.

Then something caught Len's attention. There was some blood on Kaito's right hand's fingertips, underneath it; on the floor was a word…

Lily.

Len wanted to solve the mystery right there and then; he wanted to know why Lily's name was on the floor, in a crime scene…

He quickly ran to the dining room, panting and although he didn't want to admit it, panicking. He slammed open the door and shouted to Akaito, "Call…the ambulance…Your…brother…he…"

"What happened?" Akaito asked out, startled by Len, "Oh god…Kaito…No…Meiko! Call the ambulance! Now! Someone go get Tak!" Then he turned around and asked, "Where is he?"

As he ran back to the room with Akaito, Len's mind started working on his own.

Takaito was more suspicious, but both the brothers weren't there, so they both don't have an alibi.

A possible motive would be for the money divided between them.

Lily's name was written, the words were under Kaito's right hand. And that's the main problem…

Kaito's left handed.

Someone framed Lily.

And Len is going to get that foolish, worthless and naive weakling arrested.

So...I was drunk...this came out...Good luck.