Sugar-Coated Accident
Chapter Thirty-Five
"So That Makes it Okay?"
"Are you guys sure this okay?"
"Of course."
"Seriously?"
"Absolutely."
"B-but…" Miku stuttered, staring at Rin with disbelieving eyes. "T-this feels a little bit like voyeurism."
Rin shrugged. "You worry too much, Miku-chan. Just shut up. It's all for a good cause."
"What good cause, exactly?" Miku hissed from the corner of her mouth.
Rin wouldn't answer.
"…I like French bread~" muttered Teto absent-mindedly, for fear she was being ignored.
"Hey, Kaito…"
"Hmn?"
Len and Kaito were sat next to each other, shoulders bumping. Len was staring off somewhere in the distance. Kaito, meanwhile, seemed just about ready to fall asleep. His head was hanging limply like a marionette's. Every so often he would yawn, and his eyelids would flicker shut- then, suddenly, he'd jolt back into awareness… Only to loll against Len some more, even more listless than the last time.
Kaito seemed to be fighting a losing battle.
Sooner or later, he'd collapse in a heap, and Len would have to…
What?
Well, it's not like I could pick him up or anything. Len scoffed at the idea. So, I'd just… leave him here?
"You're not falling asleep, are you?" Len asked (more like stated the obvious), prodding the blue-haired man in the side. "Because if you are, there's no way in hell I'm giving you a piggy-back ride home."
"Get off me…" Kaito whined, batting Len's hands away. "M'tired."
"Well, un-tire yourself, before I punch you."
"Ffff." Kaito made a funny noise- perhaps it was a laugh, or a yawn, or a noise of disbelief- or maybe it was some weird mix of all three. "You're such a romantic, Len-Len. You learn that offa Meiko?"
"This has nothing to do with being romantic, and everything to do with you falling unconscious out here, in the dark, in the cold, and catching hypothermia and dying – if somebody doesn't mug you and beat you to death first."
"Heh." Now, this sound really was a laugh. A feeble, tired laugh, true, but still. The noise was unmistakable. "So you really do care. M'flattered."
Thunk.
Kaito's head fell against Len's shoulder. Len flinched just a little, as Kaito's breath ghosted across his neck.
Len narrowed his eyes, although the effect was entirely lost on Kaito in the dark. "I wasn't joking about punching you, you know."
"Go on then. I dare you," Kaito murmured childishly, wrapping his arms round Len's middle as though he were a pillow, or some Len-shaped plush toy. "I double dare you."
"Alright then." Len's glare hardened. He clenched his fists. "You asked for this."
"I wha'? Y-you- ow! G-get off!"
Len's had managed to successfully prise Kaito's arms from round his waist. In doing so, the violent motion had managed to unbalance the already limp and lifeless Kaito, who went tumbling onto the floor in an undignified heap. Now, that had been bad enough – the ground was now pretty cold and wet, and the shock had shocked Kaito back to the land of the living more effectively than a triple espresso and a kick in the head.
But then Len just had to go and start tickling him.
"H-hey! N-no!" Kaito squirmed, trying to bite back his laughter- and failing quite miserably. Or should that be cheerfully? Whatever. Being forced to laugh against your will was cruel, so logically meant Len was cruel, and the world was also cruel and why did everything in Kaito's life seem to be out to get him? It wasn't fair. "L-Len! S-stop it! I'm awake! I'm awake! C-cut it out!"
"Uh uh. No way." Len smirked, his fingers skittering across Kaito's neck and shoulders like demented spiders. The blond was enjoying this feeling of power most immensely, and felt no way inclined to stop. "You should've thought of this earlier before you decided to be all childish, huh?"
"I was sleepy! Y-you get sleepy too huh, Len? P-please stop!"
"Yeah, I get sleepy. But I generally don't try to take a nap on a hill at the end of a fireworks festival, where I could get mugged or stabbed or stepped on or eaten to death by bugs. You need to get some common sense, Kaito."
"L-len! Haa…" Kaito's voice was fragmented with pained-sounding laughter, short gasps and a few splutters. He tried desperately to grab hold of Len's hands, to little avail. "L-Len, you're killing me! P-please stop, please! I'm sorry I'm sorryI'msorrypleasestopgetoff!"
"Well…" Len relented his assault, kneeling beside the fallen form of Kaito. "Since you asked so nicely…" He grinned. "But I suppose you're awake now?"
"Yeah…" Kaito winced. He tried to heave himself up- Len saw his plight, and extended a hand to help him up. Kaito accepted the hand, but not before pouting, and generally looking displeased. "You're mean."
"Who, me?"
"Yep." Kaito nodded. "Incredibly, horribly mean." He grinned teasingly, and knocked against Len with his shoulder. "And I thought Rin was bad. Must run in the family."
Len stuck out his tongue in response.
"I thought you were meant to be the 'mature' twin?" Kaito asked, the smile not leaving his face.
The blond boy shrugged. "I changed my mind. When I'm with somebody as childish as you, it must rub off on me, Kai~to~"
"And now you insult me. I'm heart-broken."
"Oh well." There was a small pause; Kaito looking down at his shoes, Len idly picking at the blades of grass by his feet. Then, quite quickly, Len moved his head forwards and gave Kaito a quick kiss. When he pulled away, he said, softly; "I'm sorry, then."
At that small gesture, however, several things happened.
Kaito jumped as badly as if he had been electrocuted- but that wasn't because of Len's chaste 'kiss', far from it. No, it was more to do with the fact that they were – quite definitely – being watched.
Kaito had heard noises.
His mind instantly recalled all the various horror movies he'd watched with Meiko, and came to a quick conclusion – it was always the shorter people that died first! Len was small, so the killer would go for him…
"Don't hurt Len!" Kaito called out, feeling at that moment quite brave, and rather nervous. He clutched the smaller boy in his arms, and shot a wavering glare into the undergrowth.
It was only then that he noticed the supposed 'killer' had a giant, oversized hair-ribbon.
"Ohohoho! Look at that! That's so cute! Was Kaito-nii scared for Len-Len?! Ohohoho!"
And a spoilt-princess-sounding, evil laugh.
A heavy blush spread across Kaito's face, and he darted backwards away from Len – only to crash into a tree.
Stars swum about his vision; multi-coloured stars that were making him feel sick and dizzy, and not at all like the hero he'd felt five seconds ago.
"R-rin!" came a stuttering cry. Kaito felt someone kneel by his side. A cool hand was placed against his forehead, checking for a fever. "You could have almost concussed Kaito-nii-san!"
"Don't worry about it," said Rin confidently. A new person knelt by Kaito, and an intrusive finger prodded at his cheek. "He'll be fine."
"Nghh… Gerrof, Rin," Kaito mumbled through a haze of pain, shakily opening his eyes. "And…" He caught a flash of sea-green to his left. "I'm okay, Miku."
"See!" Rin cried triumphantly, jumping to her feet. "Kaito-nii-chan's fine~ I guess he's got such a thick head it cushioned the blow! Kikikiki!"
Len blinked up at his sister, confusion etched onto his face. He wondered if they'd seen anything between… between him and Kaito.
Urgh. Now that would be embarrassing. The blond winced. He knew Rin would hold something like that over his head for weeks.
And then, another thought struck Len, one even more terrifying than the last: What if they tell Haku? She'll be really upset!
He scrabbled to his feet, and stared down at his sister. He tried to look calm and collected, but in actuality his hair was messy, his face was red, and his heart was hammering in his chest.
"W-what are you doing here, Rin?" Len tried to control the stutter in his voice.
It didn't really work.
"Welll~" Rin sang, "I was with Neru-chan and Mii-chan and Teto-chan. We were trying to find a signal for Neru's cell phone, when we heard this peculiar noise that sounded an awful lot like two of my lovely big brothers makin-"
"N-no, it wasn't like that!" Len retorted defensively.
"Oh?~" Rin titled her head, smirking. It was a smirk that clearly read 'you're dead.' "So what actually, truthfully happened? Did Kaito-nii get something stuck in his throat, and you were trying to suck it out for him? Really?"
Len cringed.
Why did Rin have to be so good at arguing? Couldn't she have been programmed with more useful functions, like being able to bake without burning the house down, or a penchant for quantum physics?
"Rin-chan, don't tease them!" Miku said, looking equally (if not, more) embarrassed than Len and Kaito themselves. "Please don't be cruel…"
But asking Rin not to be cruel was like asking the wind to stop blowing.
Len had first-hand experience.
"Hey~" cried an overly-enthusiastic red-head. Teto ran forwards from seemingly nowhere, and tackled the already-dazed Kaito, causing him to fall onto the floor again. "Teto-chan thinks you and Len are so cute~ And so will everybody on the internet!"
"I-i-internet?" Kaito asked, voice shaking.
He turned to Len for help, but his 'friend' was currently being accosted by his older twin, and seemed in no fit state to help himself, let alone anyone else.
"That's right," said Neru, the last (and final) person to walk into the clearing. She held her fancy cell phone in one hand, and flipped it open with an impressive-sounding 'thwap'. "I managed to record it all. Well, most of it…" She rolled her eyes. "Teto was squealing in some parts so the audio's a bit funny, but it should be okay."
Len dared but ask. "What's the recording for…?"
The other questions left on Len's 'to ask list' all included numerous exclamation marks and the word 'WHAT?!', shouted at increasingly louder volumes.
"Why~" Teto giggled, "It's going to make you two famous~"
a.n: Another super-late update D: Please forgive me… No? I guess not *sigh*
Although, I still really love Vocaloid XD I'm just slower at updating because I really do have a lot of work to do~ And I'm lazy.
So, yeah.
Please don't hurt me ;A;
But so you know, this story will never be abandoned! It's nearly done! Look, see?! ^_~
I'd guesstimate that there are 2, maybe 3 more chapters left.
Hnnghhhh let's go C: I will have a completed story on my account!
~renahhchen