My God... I deserve to be shot by a firing squad ;_; WHAT HAPPENED. I'M SO STINKIN LATE. GAWD.
I think one of the reasons (besides that byotch named writer's block) I didn't update this is because I didn't want it to end. I mean, this was my first Vocaloid story for Meiko's sake (hehehehehe see what I did thar?! XD)! I started this in, what, December? And now it's June. Not to mention, I got 128 stinkin reviews! I was expecting this to be one of those stories that only got, like, 20. Boy, I was wrong. I had know idea you guys would like this so much.
I'd like to say I've improved in my writing over the course of this fic. I went from writing a couple hundred word chapters to a couple thousand word chapters! Not to mention, my grammar had improved too -_-;
I'd like to thank all of you readers out there. You guys are the best. Now enough with my rambling. I would do review replies, but it's already way past the time I needed to go to bed, and I have basketball camp tomorrow. Just remember that reviews are my motivators, so be sure to write one at the end of the chapter!
My God, that was a long A/N. Sorry guys!
DISCLAIMER: I'm not even going to say it, because this is a nice computer and I kinda want to not chuck it across the room in frustration.
"Got any fives?" Neru asked, glaring at her set of cards.
"Haha. Got fish, guuuurl~" Miku said, taking another loud bite of her leek.
Neru, Miku, Gumi and Luka were sitting in a circle in the Hatsune's living room, playing "Go Fish" while Gakupo scavenged Miku's cupboards for eggplants in vain. "G-Guys? No one's worried that Mei-chan is over here, smashed and passed out on the couch?" Kaito asked, fanning the said brunette with a magazine and looking worried.
"Nope~" Miku said in an airy voice, yet behind it there was agitation.
"Kaitooooooooo~~~ Ya idiiiiiootttttt~~~~ I wuuuuuuuvvvv yooooooooouuuuuuuu~~~~" Meiko mumbled in her drunken sleep.
Miku just about ripped apart her queen of diamonds.
"S-So, Neru, besides Len, do you have any guy you think is cute?" Luka said, eying Miku with suspicion.
Neru thought as she drew another card from the pile in the middle of their circle. She leaned back on the couch and scanned her fan of cards. "Mm... Well, I think Nero is pretty cute..." she mumbled, her cheeks growing red at the thought of her genderbend.
"Ooh! I've only met Nero once, at that genderbend assembly a couple years ago, but he seemed perfect for you!" Gumi said, smiling at the dirty blonde.
"I remember that. That's when I met Luki. That guy is really quiet..." Luka said.
"Oh yeah! That's where I met my boyfriend, Gumiya~" Gumi said, thinking of her boyfriend dreamily.
"I saw Mikuo just this Wednesday. He acted really weird and nervous," Miku murmured, scanning her cards.
"Duh. That means he likes you, idiot," Neru grinned.
Miku opened her mouth to reply, but was interrupted by the opening and closing of the front door. Everyone whipped their heads in the doors' direction. What they saw was the two Kagamines hand in hand.
"Are you guys-" Miku started.
"Yup."
"Did you guys ki-"
"Yup."
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"...WELL IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME," Meiko yelled, bolting up from the couch and hitting Kaito in the head with her heel.
The two blondes blushed before kicking off their shoes at the door and joining the circle. Rin spotted Neru right away, who was trying to hide her disappointment. Neru caught her stare and scowled. "What'dya want, kid?" she snarled.
Rin's lips formed a sad smile as she said, "Thank you."
"Wha-" Neru started, but was cut off by small arms wrapping around her.
"Thank you," Rin repeated into Neru's hair, "for standing up for me."
Heat rushed to Neru's face. She bit back a mean reply, and slowly returned the hug. "A-Anytime..." she blurted.
Her amber eyes widened, not believing what she had just said. A smile creeped on to Neru's face. Ha. I certainly didn't expect to ever be hugging Kagamine Rin, especially since she's now Len's girlfriend, Neru thought.
Rin finally released her after a second and sat back in her spot next to Len. "So anything interesting happen while we were gone? Did Tei come back and harass you guys any more?" Len asked.
"Nope. Neru said she got a text from Teto saying that she came back to the Vipperloid mansion pretty pissed, though," Luka said.
"Honestly, how do they deal with her there?" Miku wondered aloud.
"Well, Ruko's usually asleep 90% of the time, Ritsu's usually out shopping, and Teto and Ted take Rook out for walks a lot," Gumi said.
They all laughed. The next several hours were spent getting to know Neru better (since she typically avoided the Vocaloids, a habit of hers), playing "I Never", and the Pocky game (which the Kagamines rocked at, but we'll leave that image to your imaginations ;D).
Now it was about 4 in the morning, and the only people awake were Rin and Len. Everyone else was passed out on couches or in chairs, except for Miku, who tried to reach her bedroom, but went out cold before she could reach it and was sprawled on the stairs.
Rin and Len sat in front of the TV, watching some anime and cuddling under a blanket (that had a big picture of a leek on it, FYI). Rin found herself occasionally wanting to nod off, but always managed to catch herself before she fell asleep. "What time is it?" Len asked, speaking Rin's thoughts.
She lazily reached over and grabbed her phone off the floor and turned it on. She groaned when the bright light of the phone hit her in the eyes. "4:12 AM," she said, turning it back off and throwing it on the couch behind the two.
"Ow. THERE IS SOMEONE SLEEPING UP HERE, DIPSHIT."
"Oops! Sorry Meiko-chan-"
Rin was interrupted by the sound of Meiko's resumed snoring, as if nothing ever had happened in the first place. "-forgot you were there..." Rin sighed, smiling and leaning against the couch once again.
"So Rinny, getting sleeeeeepy~?" Len grinned, wrapping his arm around her shoulder again.
"You wish. Better get your credit card ready, Lenners, cuz' I'm going to kick your sorry little shota-butt."
"Neh. You're no fun~" Len whined.
"Uh huh. Suuure. I'm hungry," Rin said, stretching out her toes and yawning as she leaned her head against Len's shoulder.
"What'dya wanna eat?" Len asked.
"I'm craving... Ice cream," Rin said.
"Miku doesn't have ice cream," Len reminded her.
"...But Kaito does," Rin said, much to mischievously for Len's comfort.
"You wouldn't."
"Oh, but I would."
"You're despicable."
"They don't call me the Daughter of Evil for nothin', hun."
"You just sang a song-"
"ENOUGH DAWDLING. WE MUST STEAL KAITO'S ICE CREAM NOW."
"I've got a bad feeling about this..." Len muttered as Rin wiggled out of his arms and threw the blanket off.
"C'mon darling~ Let us go~~~" Rin sang, holding out a hand to help the boy up.
He accepted it, and Rin yanked him up and immediately made her way to the kitchen. She yanked open the freezer door and was greeted with an icy breeze. Inside, just as she had expected, sat a huge tub of vanilla ice cream with a sticky note on the lid. "Kaito's. Hands off or die. :D"
Len shivered; he'd never seen something so threatening from Kaito before. Rin licked her lips as she reached in the freezer, but was disappointed to have Len gently grab her arm. "What?!" she snapped impatiently.
"Do think we really should be doing this?" Len asked timidly when he saw the glare Rin was giving him.
"Oh Len. Always the less confident of us two. It'll be fine. This is Kaito we're talking about. What is he going to do if he finds just a little of his ice cream gone?" Rin said gently, putting her hands on his shoulders.
"But-"
"Len. You want ice cream, don't you?" Rin asked.
"I- Well... Yeah. Yeah, I do."
"Then let's just have a little bit, okay? Not even enough to be noticeable."
"But- Alright, fine," Len sighed, hunger getting the best of him.
Rin let go of him and clapped her hands, grinning widely. She reached into the freezer again and swiped out the tub. She plopped it on the counter and twisted off the lid. "Get two spoons, will ya?" Rin ordered, gesturing to the silverware drawer.
Len did as told, passing Rin a spoon and keeping one for himself. Rin hopped up onto the counter and swung her legs back and forth, scooping a large portion of the frozen treat and stuffing it into her mouth. Len copied her actions, slowly relaxing and forgetting about Kaito with each scoop.
"What a night, huh?" Rin murmured, taking another big scoop.
"I know, right? A lot has happened over the past 12 hours," Len agreed between scoops.
"I know about the dares, you know," Rin said, looking over at Len.
Len almost spit out his ice cream. "You what?! How?!" he asked, bewildered.
"You guys were pretty loud," Rin giggled.
"H-How much did you hear?" Len asked, blushing furiously.
"Just the dares. I hadn't known you liked me that way, though," Rin said, blushing slightly herself.
"Wow... And you didn't say anything either! Were you expecting me to follow through?"
Rin giggled again. "No, not really. As I said, I didn't know you had liked me in that way. I thought you would've just wimped out because you wanted to just be friends," she explained.
"Huh. Well it doesn't matter anyway. You know my feelings now," Len grinned and winked.
She laughed, eating another scoop of ice cream. She thought for a moment. "You know, I'm kinda grateful for Tei's actions," Rin murmured.
"Eh? Why? She made you cry!" his fists clenched at the thought of his beloved crying.
"Yeah, she did say some hurtful things... But, she is the reason we confessed, you know. If you hadn't came after me after I ran out, we might've not gotten together."
Len pondered this a moment. "I guess so. Either way, I'm glad I finally manned up and kissed you."
Rin laughed again and set down her spoon. "Me too. Mind doing it again~?" she winked.
"Don't mind if I do~" Len grinned as he leaned in to kiss her.
Their lips had barely brushed when they heard an inhuman growl near them. The separated and froze when they saw Kaito standing there with an aura of rage around him. "What... do... you two... think... you're doing?" Kaito seethed.
"U-Uh," Len said, terrified.
"Well?"
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"... You're on your own, Lenny!" Rin shrieked, hopping off the counter and beginning to run in the other direction.
"WAIT FOR MEEEEE!" Len shouted, beginning to run as well, but was yanked back by the collar of his shirt and up into the air.
"Not so fast, blondie~! Now where's the other one~?" Kaito in the darkest voice he'd ever used.
"Rin! Save yourself! Run!" Len shouted.
"Don't have to tell me twice!" Rin shouted from some other place in the house.
"I'm coming for you Rinny~!" Kaito shouted, stalking in the direction of the small girl's voice.
Rin cowered in her spot under Miku's desk in her bedroom, hearing the pounding footsteps of the older male. Crap, crap, crap, CRAP!
She froze when she heard the bedroom door creak open and Kaito's loud breaths. "You can run Rinny, but you can't hide~!" Kaito sang.
Rin silently listened as Kaito searched around the room noisily, careful not to breathe. It suddenly became very silent. Rin sighed in relief.
"GOTCHA!"
A had suddenly grabbed Rin's ankle and yanked her out from the desk, greeting her with an enraged Kaito with Len over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!"
"Well? Do it," Kaito urged, grinning ear to ear.
"K-Kaito, can't you beat us up like a normal person?" Rin whined, clenching the can of shaving cream nervously.
"Aw, but what would be entertaining about that?" Kaito chuckled, lounging in the recliner happily.
"But-"
"It really would be a shame if I put this video of you two snuggling from a few years ago on NicoNicoDouga, wouldn't it? Though, maybe we could prevent a million people from seeing such an adorable sight if you did as I said~"
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"Kaito, you sir, are truly the devil," Len groaned.
"I try."
"I salute you," Rin said sadly.
"I know, you all love me, but you have duties to attend you. Have fun~!"
Rin sighed and turned back to the sleeping form of Meiko. She glanced at Len before twisting off the cap of the shaving cream, her fingers trembling. She located Meiko's hand, which was holding her empty sake bottle. Rin gently and cautiously took it out of the brunette's hand, setting it to the side quietly.
She gulped as she sprayed the shaving cream into the older woman's hand, being sure to get a large amount. She looked over at Len, who was visibly shaking, much like the feather in his hand. She jerked her head at Meiko's sleeping form. Len sighed in disappointment before hesitantly bringing the feather up to Meiko's cheek. He quickly wiggled it, and whipped it away when she shifted. She groaned something intelligible, but didn't make any other motions.
Rin and Len both inwardly groaned. Len lifted the feather again, wiggling the feather across her cheek again, longer this time. He jumped away when Meiko swung her hand up and slapped her own cheek with the shaving cream.
The cool sensation immediately woke her up. Red eyes snapped open, finding a terrified looking Len right away. She sat up from the couch, cupping her cheek and being met with something wet and creamy. She took her hand away and looked at it, finding the shaving cream all over it. She slowly registered the situation and became infuriated. She loomed over the Kagamines, who were clinging to each other in fear.
"You two... YOUUUUU DID THISSSSSSSSS?" She yelled.
"W-Well-"
WHAP!
Rin and Len finished putting ice on the bumps on the tops of their heads and made their way back to the living room. "Stupid Kaito... What a jerk..." Rin whined, lying down on the carpet and curling into a ball.
"And I bet he'll act all innocent tomorrow and pretend it never even happened," Len grumbled, picking up a blanket and laying down next to his girlfriend, throwing it over them.
"Probably. Geez, it's just ice cream..." she sighed, closing her eyes.
"Yeah... So you're admitting defeat? Going to sleep already, my princess?" Len smirked.
Rin checked the time on her phone. 5:03. The sun isn't supposed to rise until 6:46...
"Pft... Nooooo... Are you, shota-boy?" Rin mumbled groggily.
"You kidding? I could stay up for hoouuuurs..." Len said tiredly.
"W-Well... I could stay up for like... days... or months!" she said and yawned.
"Oh yeahhh? What if I... What if I did thisssss?" Len mumbled.
He wrapped his arms around the girl, pressing her close to his chest. She blushed. "S-So whhattttt? Ishhhhh noottttt likkkke thattttt makkesss meeee sleeeeeeeppyyyyyy..." she lied.
"Wellllll, me eitttheeeerrrrr..." Len yawned.
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"... Are yooouuuuu stillllll awakkkkkkeeeeeee?" Rin asked, barely keeping her eyes open.
"W-Wiiiiiiiiiiide awwwwwaaaaaaakeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." Len mumbled.
"Meeeeeee tooooooooooooooooooooo."
After a moment of silence, snoring could be heard from both blondes.
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Jump in the moe, my friends.
The final chapter! Keep your eyes out for the epilogue that should be out soon! Remember, your review makes me faster!
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