(A/N) I'M ALIVE! My goodness...I've been on hiatus nee D: You see, my mind is speshul. I can pump out chapter after chapter, then suddenly, it hits me in the face-the big wall of WRITER'S BLOCK. I got over it at last. Another thing is my schedule's been so tight lately I haven't had the three hours (yes, three) I need to write each chapter. So, I apologize profusely. I'll try shaking off the writer's block and pump out some more chaptas more often!


The sun fled behind the mountains far in the distance as the day dragged on. Rin and her brother shuffled through the familiar streets, heading back to their house, reticently averting their gazes from each other. Rin glanced at her twin every so often before timidly staring down at her feet scuffling along the gravel; Len merely shoved his hands in his pockets and pretended to be interested in the flaccid clouds seeping in the sky.

He suddenly snapped out of his daze, however, when he saw two shadowy figures dash across the rooftops in front of him. Between those figures, he could make out teal-colored locks of hair rolling through the air.

"Miku?"

Rin looked up, as did the shadowy figures, who craned their neck over to the boy. He could make out their details now; a girl that looked strikingly like Miku, yet more mature and with black and crimson clothing, and a man nearly identical to the mystery woman.

"Aa, damn, he knows her," the girl hissed, then snapped, "Let's hurry and get out of here!"

"Rin, Len!" Miku waved at the two, completely and utterly unknowing.

The mystery man smirked at the twins, who glared at him angrily.

"Len, why do they have Miku?" Rin gasped, and, knowing something was amiss, her brother replied hastily, "Let's go, we can't let them run away with her!"

As you may know, the two siblings were skilled at thievery and the masters of traps and escapes. They swiftly sprinted towards the houses, sprang onto a cluster of garbage cans and leapt onto the rooftop.

As they bounded towards the strangers and Miku, they only received malevolent sneers.

"Stupid kids," muttered the mystery woman as she nodded to her partner in crime and they both dove off the rooftop to the ground, and out of their pursuers' vision.

Rin and Len followed, yet that led to a dreadful mistake as they vaulted off the rooftop. The two robbers came into view, until the man kicked an open garbage can towards the twins' landing area and tossed them one last smirk before disappearing with Miku and the look-alike woman.

In horror, the siblings yelped before tumbling into the garbage can helplessly. It toppled over, them inside it, before crashing to the ground and creating puffs of dirt around it. The twins coughed, and by the time Len opened his eyes, the bandits had vanished.

"Dammit!" he beat the ground with his hand—another awful mistake. The can they were stuck in tipped over and began to roll downhill. As it picked up speed, the twins gawked at each other in horror, and screamed.


Meanwhile, their friends, Kaito, Prima, Miki, Gumi, Gakupo and Sonika were racing out of the school courtyard, hoping they could find where Miku was taken to. As they searched, Prima glanced at Gumi.

"I think those two people might give us a clue about our creators," she said through gasping breaths.

"Eh? How?" asked Gumi.

"Those two…looked an awful lot like each other, and like Miku. Haven't you heard…of the creators who base their designs off of other creator's ones?"

Miki gaped at Prima. "Eh? So those two were copies of Miku?"

"I have heard of that," replied Gumi, "So, you think that they might be taking Miku to their creator themselves?"

"Perhaps," speculated Prima, "So, this may be a hint to our pasts."

Kaito merely grimaced.


"Nice job," the raven-haired mystery woman praised the man next to her. "We lost those idiots."

They slowed and strutted through a dark forest, the man still carrying a perplexed Miku.

The woman snickered at the tealette. "Man, no wonder Jiji wanted you so bad. You have a nice body for that old perv."

"How cute," the man chuckled as Miku tilted her head in confusion. "And she's light, too."

He set her on her feet and backed her up against a tree, clenching her wrists and holding them up.

"I may just take you for myself," he hissed, grinning crazily and licking his lips.

"Hey, hey, Aniki, you'll get Jiji pissed again." The woman behind him placed a hand on her curvy hips. "He's already mad enough you didn't turn out to be a girl."

The man twisted his head over to her. "Not my fault, now is it?" he sneered.

"Who are you two?" Miku spoke up.

"Oh, would you really like to know?" the woman brought a hand to her chest and declared, "I am Miku Zatsune. This here is my brother, Mikuo Zatsune."

"Pleasure to meet you," the man, Mikuo, leaned even closer to the tealette, gripping her side. He stood a full head taller than her.

"We're taking you to see our master, who's always really wanted to see you. But of course, Hiroyuki-san wouldn't allow that."

"Hiroyuki-san?" wondered Miku.

"Eh? You don't know?" Mikuo's smile vanished for only a moment before he subtly smirked once again. "He's your creator, of course."


"WHAT!" explained Meiko, who dropped her bottle of sake on the floor. "MIKU WAS KIDNAPPED?"

Rin and Len nodded profusely. They had raced all the way to their home, where Meiko, Leon, Lola, Miriam and Sweet Ann were all preparing dinner in the kitchen. They were wheezing for air, and plastered in dirt and mud, as the garbage can they were trapped in rolled down a dirt hill before flopping into a giant mud puddle at the bottom.

"They…fled to a forest right by the neighborhood a few blocks away…" Rin gasped.

"We…have to go find them…" finished Len.

The panicking group in front of them agreed, as they grabbed their coats and shoes. Yet Leon pondered, "Er…You guys…why are you so dirty…?"

"Well—" Rin began, but her twin cut her off, gesturing his hand proudly towards Leon.

"It was an all-out battle," Len proclaimed, "There were punches flying everywhere. I tackled him to the ground, and his blood mixed with the mud. Rin and the chic were having a hissy fight off to the side, though."

"Oh, did you really? How many bones did you break?"

"I believe four. And a tooth. It was pretty ugly. Even some of his hair was falling out in clumps, though I never pulled his hair, that's what sissies like Rin would do."

"LIAR!" Rin shouted, "I can punch better than you, Len!"

"Yeah the hell right you can!" her brother countered, "The only thing you can punch are letters on your cell, you stupid girly girl!"

"You wanna bet?" Rin shrieked before the two attacked each other yet again.

"Wow, those two youngsters…" Lola said in awe. "The fights they get themselves in…"

"They sound a lot like you when you're on your perio—" Leon was unable to finish, before he received a lethal sock to the face. "—Blachk!"

Meanwhile, however, Meiko fell to the floor and sobbed over the shattered remains of the sake bottle she dropped. Sweet Ann stood, completely confused at the site she was seeing.

All was chaos until a loud SMACK echoed throughout the room.

In the deathly silence, everyone looked over at the one who created such a sudden noise—Leon looked up as he lied on the floor, his nose gushing—Lola craned her neck behind her, her fist still in the air—Meiko, with tearful eyes, glanced up from the mess on the floor that Sweet Ann was attempting to clean, though she halted as well—Rin and Len tilted their head over, the brother pinching one of his sister's cheeks and the sister tugging at his hair. All was silent, all was frozen.

Miriam created a crack in the wall when she slammed her fist against it.

"You all." She muttered. "Miku has been kidnapped by some strangers, and who knows what their intentions are."

She glanced up, her eyes glaring menacingly. "And yet you decide to cause havoc in this room rather than saving her?"

The world continued to be hushed, so she proceeded. "Do you think we have time? Miku could be killed right now, for all we know. They took her in a forest, for the love of God. And we sit here and fight about make-believe fights?"

Rin paused, before peeling her brother off of her and stammering, "Y-Yeah! Miriam's right! We gotta go save Miku! She could be dead, dead! Let's go guys, we have no time!" she raced to the door.

As she swung the door open, however, she halted in shock. A woman was standing at the doorway, her rose-colored hair flowing in the chilling winter breeze.

"Eh?" Rin stuttered. Meiko gasped.

"You're…!"

"Everyone." The woman began, "I know where the two bandits are heading with Miku. I saw them as I was passing by. Follow me."

As she turned to lead, however, Len snapped.

"Like hell we'll follow you! I don't even trust you!"

Irritated, Luka snapped back.

"Do you want Miku safe or not? This is your only chance to rescue her."

Len paused, and looked away, focusing his glare to the ground.

"M-Maybe…" Rin stammered, gazing at her brother. "It's for Miku…"

"Well? Are you coming?" the lady stared impatiently.

"Fine," Len grumbled, then shouted, "But if this is a trick, you're done for!"

The rose-haired girl placed a hand on her hip. "I assure you otherwise," said she, "And please, call me Luka."


(A/N) Oooh, deepening plots. Fun fun. Stay tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuned owo and lol Hiroyuki-san

Random end-of-chapter babblings with Koe:

I found them. Those pieces of heaven on earth. They were at Fred Meyer-that place has EVERYTHING. In chocolate creme flavor...by god, they were BEYOND HUMAN'S COMPREHENSION OF DELICIOUS. Those things...TIMTAMS.

Thank you Rosary-Bead for helping me discover such beautiful things ;w; /shot