Rin awoke in a large white room. On the wall opposite to her was a large mirror, and to her left was the single door. Already knowing the outcome, she stood and tried the door. It was locked.
"So, Rin….how does it feel? Now I'm the one on the outside, looking in. Don't bother trying to escape…I'll just have my two new friends track you down and bring you back." Len laughed heartlessly, sending chills down Rin's spine.
"Len…you won't get away with this." Rin said with little hope.
"Will I?!" Len snarled from the other side of the glass. "You forget yourself…or you position anyway. No…I already have. No one will come to save you, Rin. You, and everyone in this facility, are at my mercy. But I'm feeling generous…I won't kill anyone else…yet."
"Len?!" He wouldn't… Then it hit her. "Anyone else?!"
"Yes, Rin…anyone else." Len chuckled. "Did you not think I knew? Look up, Rin." Rin did so, and gasped, tears coming to her eyes. Pinned to the ceiling, covered in blood, was Kaito's scarf.
"You should have seen his face as he died…he died knowing he was killed because of you. And guess what? He was cheating on you. Miku Hatsune. Ring any bells?"
"Please Len….please tell me you didn't…" Rin whispered, tears in her eyes.
"What? Kill Miku? No. I didn't." Len said. "Koji did. Don't worry, her death was quick and painless, unlike Kaito's. He almost seemed to want to disobey…I don't think she even knew what happened."
"Why Len? Why are you doing this? They never did anything to you…" Rin said, drawing her knees close to her face.
"Never did anything to me? NEVER DID ANYTHING TO ME?! You…you….YOU FOOLISH IMMATURE CHILD! There were no better than you…" Len's voice went low, almost growling. "My life is hell now…they were your friends. My name is now slandered on a daily basis now…"oh, did you hear? Len raped Rin!" "No way! He raped his twin sister? What a sicko!" "I know! That bastard…I always knew he was a sick guy…"…No, Rin…you destroyed my life…and they helped." Len scoffed. " 'When can he leave?' What kind of retard are you? My life ended years ago…you saw to that. Even if I could leave, what would I return to? It would be smarter just to commit suicide."
"Len…." Rin whispered, horrified.
"I'll leave you with that thought…you know us sick, rapist, sociopathic, psycho types…so many people to kill, rape, etc…so little time. Oh, maybe I'll take over the world while I'm at it, hmm? I love having the power of angels on my side…."
"Len, wait!" There was no reply. "Len…please…come back…" Tears were running down her face unhindered. "Len…please change back…please go back to being the way you were before…." Rin hugged her knees to her chest and cried herself to sleep.
An unknown amount of time later….
Rin awoke feeling hungry, cold, and disorientated. "What? Where…" Then it all came rushing back as tears came to her eyes again. "Len…" Her stomach grumbled, but she paid it no mind.
"You should eat…" A voice came from the other side of the room. Rin looked up. The black haired boy from earlier was sitting in the corner of the wall opposite to her. "I don't want you to starve…"
"Eat what, exactly?" Rin snapped harshly. "You're the boy from earlier." She stated coldly.
The boy pointed to the floor in front of her without looking up. There was a tray with a bowl of warm soup and some bread, accompanied by a glass of water. "Please eat, Rin…"
Rin pushed it away, knocking the glass over and spilling the water. "Why should I trust you?"
"Please Rin. It gets cold in here…at least eat the soup. You need to keep warm." The boy looked up, his dark brown eyes meeting her blue ones. "Most people working here don't care about the comfort of the prisoners, so you won't get any blankets or anything…Len won't change anything for you to make it better."
"What do you know?" Rin spat. "Who are you, anyway?"
"My name is Koji-"
"You killed Miku!" Rin started to get up, but her legs folded beneath her.
"You need your strength." Koji said.
"You killed my best friend, you monster!"
"I didn't have a choice!" Eight black wings tinged with blue exploded out of his back. "Len specifically ordered me to kill her…I couldn't disobey."
Rin was in shock. "What…what are you?"
"Exactly what I appear to be…" Koji mumbled.
"You…you did this to Len! You corrupted him!"
"You truly are a child. Koji didn't make him the way he is now, You did." The girl walked into the room and glared at Rin. "You should thank Koji for trying to save him. I would have been too happy to let Len have his revenge on you, even at the cost of his humanity."
"Yuna, don't. Yes Rin…this is partially my fault."
Rin snapped out of her shock. "You bastard…what did you do to him?!"
"You little!" Yuna moved toward Rin, only to be stopped by Koji. "Koji…let me go."
"Let me explain, Rin…."
"Why should I listen to you?"
"Because Len isn't Len."
Rin looked confused. "What?"
"That…abomination…that's only half of Len."
"Explain." Rin demanded.
"What happened to 'why should I listen to you?'" Yuna growled. Koji gave Yuna a pleading look, and she rolled her eyes.
"I won't go into the details, but a deal was made between the two of us and Len, making us basically his slaves. If he orders us to do something, we are bound by our honor as angels to obey. Our word is our law. Break it, and you have no honor. It is as good as death to an angel."
"Is there a point to this?" Rin asked impatiently.
" Len was hurting, Rin. He was hurting a lot. Every time you visited, he sank deeper into depression. You were out living your life, living off his sacrifice, while he was stuck here."
"Something you never seemed to care about, seeing as you kept bringing him lower in the eyes of your friends and family. 'Nightmares'? Really? Don't you mean 'wet dreams'?" Yuna added scornfully.
"You didn't seem to care. You dated and slept with Kaito, played the 'rape victim', and only worsened people's opinion of him. He finally just gave up on the hope for a normal life if he was ever allowed to leave."
"Aren't you proud, Rin? Hope is hard to destroy, but you managed to do it." Yuna asked. Koji gave another pleading look.
"He was reduced to living here with no human contact outside of therapists. No hope, no love, and a constant reminder of his sacrifice…" Koji seemed close to tears at this point, his voice cracking at times. "He was growing bitter, and it scared him. He was beginning to hate you, despite his love. One day, he decided he'd had enough. He demanded I end it. Take away his feelings, kill him, or take away his conscience."
"And you, as usual, decided to play the hero, yet again, and did as he asked." Yuna said, annoyance obvious.
"I took away his heart…or part of it, anyway." Koji mumbled softly.
"You did what?!" Rin yelled.
"I took away his feelings of love for you…I took away everything that made him a good person."
"You're no angel…you're a devil." Rin snarled, savoring the pained wince that flitted across Koji's face.
"And you're the one to judge, aren't you, bitch." Yuna spat out.
"Yuna, please!" Yuna was silent. "I couldn't take something from him without giving something of equal value back…so I gave him my anger. I gave him my rage, my pain, my fear, my hate…and he gained powers equal to mine in the process. Taking over this world…he may be able to achieve it." Rin opened her mouth to let loose another scathing remark, but Koji wasn't finished. "Len's humanity isn't gone, though…" Koji fisted his shirt over his heart slowly. "I took it all…One day…after it's healed…I will break my promise to him, and give it back."
Rin was torn. "So then he'll commit suicide over the murders he committed because of you. Smart. Really smart."
"No…he won't. He will be guilty only for his own sins…because right now, I am guilty for the sins Len committed, which are few. When I make him whole again, he will feel guilty for only the sins before the trade. The sins after will be mine to bear."
"So, in effect, Koji right now is the combination of Koji and Len's good side, and Len is their bad." Yuna summarized. "Do you get it?"
Done...
And "Len"…I can't. I'm not you. Only you can make your future.
