Guys, sorry for the long wait :c I've been sick.
I don't own anything but the plot.
It was around noon when Len and I headed out to the stables. It turns out, the Yellow kingdom was a very eco-friendly place. They tried their best to prohibit the use of cars, there was rarely any trashbins, and the entire place had some form of wild life on every building. Was this some kind of utopia? Apparently, most people bikes, used animal transportation or plainly walked. Len walked down the stable and disappeared into a compartment, which left me alone to look around the stable. Each horse had a name. They were all different, but my favorite was the golden Palomino horse named 'Rillo'.
"Did you find one you want to take riding?" Len asked, leading out a pitch black colored horse. "Rin, this is Meri. She's my personal horse." Believe it or not, but I was taught to know the difference in horse breeds, so it was easily distinguishable to me that this horse was an Arabian. They were most known to bond with humans, so it's not surprising that Len chose such an affectionate horse.
"Um, I want to try riding Rillo," I said, pointing my thumb at the horse. Len scrunched his face a bit.
"Are you sure?" he asked. "Rillo's...wild. Not many people can tame his enough to put a saddle."
"Well, I can try, can't I?" I asked, grabbing a saddle. I walked into the pin and Rillo watched me as I set the saddle down and brushed his coat with his brush. He scooted away, but eventually relaxed and I carefully slipped the saddle on him.
"Lets go out so the horses can stretch a bit," Len said, leading Meri out. I gently tugged on Rillo and he followed me outside. I've been on a horse more times than Lenka goes on shopping sprees. I guess you can say it's my freetime thing. I took Rillo near the snack bins and gave him a sugar cube. Rillo nuzzled against me and I stroked his nose. "Are you some kind of horse whisper?"
"No, I just love horses," I said, climbing onto Rillo's back. "Anyway, you said that not many people could tame Rillo, right?"
"Yeah, the other people are Miki and the horse breeder," Len explained. "I guess it has to do with a person's personality. Rillo absolutely hates Rinta to the point where Rillo runs away from Rinta." I gently patted Rillo's head and he whinied. Len started riding his horse through the tracks, avoiding the obsticles instead of jumping over them. I heard Rillo exhale as if to agree with my idea of jumping the obstacles. Rillo was an animal with overwhelming pride, not even a lion could compare. I rode Rillo into a run and headed right for the first hurdle. I pulled up on the reigns and Rillo made a clean jump right over. Rillo and I continued jumping over the hurdles until we caught up to Len.
"Rillo's an amazing jumper," I said, riding next to him. Len looked at me in surprise, but it quickly wiped off his face.
"Ready to go then?" he asked, turning Meri around.
"Yeah," I responded. "But, are you sure this is really safe?"
"Of course, I've done this since I was like...five," he responded. We rode out of the range and to the gravel path of the mansion road. We passed the gate and started down the path into the town.
"Hey Len? I've been meaning to ask, but why aren't you...normal?" I asked. He looked at me with a strange look and laughed.
"So you call 'perverted' as 'normal'?" he asked. "That's a really strange point of view."
"Well, you've been all playboy pervert on me ever since we met, so I would- of course- assumed you'd continue acting that way," I responded.
"Masks suck, don't they?" he responded, with a smirk.
"What?" I asked. He waved me off and rode forward. "Len!" I caught up to him and he was checking one of his pockets in his saddle. "What are you doing?"
"I'm making sure I have enough presents," he answered, closing the pocket. "There we go."
"I think the Yellow Kingdom is some little girl's fairy tale," I started, when we were riding in silence.
"What?"
"Because everything seems so perfect here," I continued. "Everything. Everyone's nice, it's clean, a utopia, even. Also. You. You aren't the same and it's painfully obvious. Len Kagamine, who are you really?" He focused his gazed ahead and thought. The silence was heavy, but it wasn't tangible. Almost there, though.
"I'm Len Kagamine, son of the Duke of Yellow," he answered. "I'm not a prince nor am I anyone of actual importance. The prince of Yellow rarely shows and when he does, he brings hs aura around as if he was always surrounded in sulfur. No one liked going near him, because his aura repeled them mercilessly. I met him when he was seventeen and I was five. Needless to say, I wanted to hide. He was this person that no one dared to look in the eye."
"You're not answering my question, dumbass," I snapped. "You're creating a bio of the prince! Len, I'm going to ask one more time. Who. Are. YOU?"
"Len Kagamine," he repeated. "I'm the son of the Duke of Yellow." This time he looked around us before lowering his voice. "And I'm suppose to marry a Vicereign, but not many people know that."
"Then why are you marrying my sister?" I snapped.
"This isn't the place to talk about this Rin," he answered. "Can we just drop it for now?" He looked somber and exhausted. As if he had been fighting some sort of mental battle with himself.
"Fine, but this is a horrible birthday week," I responded. We rode into town and were almost bombarded with little childen, all yelling for Len. He immediately stopped and dropped down from his horse, greeting all of them as if he were the Santa Claus of the Yellow Kingdom. The smiles on their faces and of their parents around us showed how much they enjoyed Len's visit. It was then, something struck me. Maybe this is what Len was really like. Maybe he wasn't all bad. After all, people do have good sides.
"Big brother!" one kid asked. His chubby little finger pointed to me and a wide eyed look startled me. "Who's that girl?" Another girl elbowed his stomach.
"Duh!" she snapped. "That's Big brother's wife! She's so pretty big brother! What's her name?" A series of encouraging 'who' and a few angry 'I wanted to marry him!' appealed from the group. I hid a blush by waving a in front of my hand and turning the other way.
"You'll find out soon enough," Len answered, talking as if he was reading from a book. "She's a really special gi-"
"IS SHE A PRINCESS?" one of them yelled.
"No, no," Len quickly corrected. "She's just a really close friend. Now, who wants presents?" I leaned on Rillo while watching as Len passed out small boxes, but I thought about what he said. It sounded to me as if I was a secret, but by now I was used to that kind of thing. It really didn't matter to me. I decided it was time I explore a bit, but not to far from Len. I lead Rillo to a near by music store and hitched him up before walking inside. A light jingle from the door alerted the clerk to my arrival and I waved before proceding through the store. I headed to the back and saw what I really wanted. A simple violin. I've learned to play a violin through years of lessons, but I've never owned one. Lily says it isn't neccesary and Lenka never learned how to play the violin, so what if I was caught playing? She'd be forced to play as well.
"That's a pretty good violin there." I turned around and saw the clerk, a young man, maybe about mid twenties, walk up to my side. "Would you like to try it out?" I nodded and he removed the violin from it's glass case, handing it to me along with it's bow, a block of rosin, and a shoulder rest. "There's a piano right here to tune it, Miss."
"Thank you," I said, with a smile. I set up the shoulder rest to the violin and rubbed rosin on the bow. After a few minutes of tuning, it was ready to play. I placed my fingers on the familiar strings and started playing one of my favorite songs by the pop idol Miku Hatsune. It was a song called Melt and it was a cheesy love song, but it was my favorite. I played through the first half before placing it down for a minute to rest my fingers.
"That was really good," he said, clapping a bit. "Have you played before?"
"Yup, many times," I admitted. "But I've never actually owned a violin."
"Tell you what," the clerk said. He pointed outside to the children and Len. "If you impress them, I'll give you that violin for free."
"...seriously?" I asked, shocked. Okay, utopia, no one likes mary sues.
"Yup," he answered. "And honestly, I've seen you ride in with Len. It's great advertisement." Oh. That made sense.
"Alright then," I said, walking out.
"Rin, where'd you get that violin?" Len asked, seeing me walk out.
"Music shop right over there," I said, pointing behind my back. "Who wants to hear a song?"
"You sure?" Len asked. I nodded and the kids just turned their attention to me. I got into position and began to play.
What song did she play for the kids? 8D LEAVE A REVIEW WITH A GUESS~