Allie, Kaito, Meiko, Luka, and Mr. Kitsune were discussing Rin, Len, and Miku when they were interrupted by a loud scream.

"What was that?" Allie asked.

"Sounded like it came from the vocaloid's room. Let's go see" Mr. Kitsune said, already opening the door. They all ran to the room. Len was sitting against his box when they got there.

"Len? How are you here?" Mr. Kitsune asked.

"No time… explain." Len gasped, struggling to speak. "Miku and Rin. Still trapped… here." A projection appeared in front of Len showing a building with the address bold and easy to read. Mr. Kitsune wrote the address down on a slip of paper and handed it to Allie.

"Go hand that to the next guard you can find. Tell them to send a search party to this address immediately!" He ordered. Allie nodded and ran as fast as she could out of the room. "Now can you answer me Len. How did you get here?" Mr. Kitsune asked.

"I… hitched a ride with the… virus." Len answered. "It had to… come back… to delete me." Len was interrupted by a grone of pain as his feet started to disappear again.

"By the looks of you I can tell I don't have enough time to come up with an antivinice but I can freeze you and the vince until we can make one. "Mr. Kitsune stated as he hurried over to Len's computer. He quickly pressed a few buttons before hovering over the last one. "Ready?"

Len nodded. He was frozen the moment Mr. Kitsune pressed the button. His eyes were closed as if he was simply sleeping, but his body was far too tense for it to be true.

"They left," Allie said as she opened the door again. "What happened?"

"We froze him," Mr. Kitsune answered. "This way I can stop the virus from deleting him entirely and hopefully get rid of it. As for the rest of you, I don't want anyone touching him until I say it's okay. I need time to learn how the virus works, until then, we don't know what it can do and I don't want a single risk."

Everyone nodded.

"Good. And you were saying the search team left?"

Allie nodded confidently.

"Good. All that's left to do now is wait."

The atmosphere in the room became tense as they all waited for something to happen. Eventually, footsteps could be heard in the hallway walking slowly towards the room. Mr. Kitsune left and found two guards escorting Rin and Miku to the room. He dismissed the guards.

Rin slowly looked up at Mr. Kitsune, tears still running slowly down her cheeks. "What took you so long?" She growled. "If you were just a little faster you could have saved Len. How could you let him just—" Rin couldn't finnish her sentence, nearly choking on a poorly contained sob.

Miku quickly pulled Rin into a hug. "Shh, it's okay Rin. It's not his fault. Take big deep breaths." Miku whispered, trying to comfort Rin despite the tears in her eyes.

Rin nodded. "I'm sorry," she apologized.

"You have no reason to be." Mr. Kitsune sighed. "You're right after all. We Should have been able to do something. To find you without Len's help. He shouldn't have needed to risk everything to save you."

"Len's Help?" Miku questioned. "What do you mean?"

"Len's not gone. We never would have found you without him, at least, not in time to save you. Come, but don't touch." Mr. Kitsune said, leading Miku and Rin the rest of the way into the room.

"Len," Rin gasped almost silently as she stared at him.

"Yes. I would love to say he'll be fine, but that's not true."

"Is there nothing you can do to help him?" Miku questioned.

"Fortunately, I don't think that's true either. I need to figure out how to eliminate the virus, but chances are high I'll find a way to do that. The problem will be whatever damage it's already done. Items I can probably restore with some help from you two. If his core AI is damaged I can most likely fix it. I still have all my notes. His memories are my biggest concern. Nothing I can do can bring those back. They're too complex to be stored elsewhere or recreated correctly. If that virus destroyed any of the backups stored here, they're gone."

"So, when you fix him, he may not remember things?" Rin whispered.

"If we're lucky, only small memories will be lost, or nothing at all. We'll just have to see." Mr. Kitsune sighed. "Unfortunately today has already worn me out, so I won't make any progress if I start now. I promise I will start first thing tomorrow though. For now, we could all use some rest. That means you should be going home." He said, looking at Allie.

Allie nodded and silently followed Mr. Kitsune out the door. Meiko and Luka had already left as soon as they learned Miku and Rin were okay, but Kaito remained. He slowly walked over to Rin and Miku.

"Are you two alright?" He asked, his tone soft and quiet.

"Physically? Yes." Miku answered, glancing between Len and Rin.

"Emotionally, not so much?" Kaito finished for her.

"Yeah. I don't think we've properly met yet. You're Kaito, right?"

"That's me. I've seen you around, but no, we haven't met yet. It's nice to finally meet you Miku, and Rin, although I do wish the circumstances were better."

"We all do." Miku sighed. "Was there something you wanted or did you just come over to say hi?"

"Actually. I was wondering if Rin would be okay without Len? Will she be able to sleep?"

"Why wouldn't I be able to?" Rin growled, causing Kaito to back up slightly.

"Whoh, sorry. I'm not trying to be rude, I just know Len said you can't sleep unless he sings to you. He asked me not to let you know he told, but I think this would be a good enough reason. I'm just trying to help."

Rin stared at Kaito for a moment before speaking. "Why would Len tell you that? When does he even talk to you? I've never talked to you." She asked, sounding slightly betrayed.

"We talk sometimes in the morning. I wake up early and tend to just sit in the hall. When Len found out, he decided to join me sometimes. As for the part about him singing, I accidentally squeezed that one out of him. He seemed upset and I wouldn't let it go till he said why. It sounded like he went to bed before you, but you didn't wake him so you could sleep till almost two in the morning. He just wished you'd woke him sooner because he couldn't properly get back to sleep after that. Guess he was too worried about how little sleep you'd be getting."

"And what are you hoping to do? Miku already tried to fill in for Len and that didn't work. That was probably the night you're thinking of. It took so long because I wanted to try and get to sleep without him. The answer seems to be no, so I don't know how you can help." Rin huffed.

"We won't know if I can help or not unless we try? Will you give me a chance? I know I'm not Len, but I'd hate to have to tell him I just left you when I knew you'd struggle to sleep. Not without at least trying to help."

Rin stared at him skeptically before giving in. "Okay." She sighed. "You can try."

"Thank you Rin. I hope for your sake this works out."

"I'll see you in my room. Good night Miku."

"Good night Rin."

The three vocaloids disappeared. Kaito quickly connected to Rin's room and knocked on the door.

"Come in!" Rin called.

Kaito entered. "So. How does this work?"

"I pick a song and you sing it, but I don't know what songs you can sing, and since you're not Len, slower would be better." Rin thought for a moment. "Sakura no ame. That one's pretty slow. Can you sing that?"

"I can actually."

"Good. Then I choose that. You just turn off the light and sing it. If it puts me to sleep then you have helped and I won't have to go without sleep till Len wakes up. If not, just go back to your room anyway. I'll hopefully find my own way to get to sleep, preferably without just running my energy down to zero."

"Okay then. Good night Rin." Kaito responded, turning off the light.

"Night." Rin mumbled.

Kaito started singing quietly and watched as Rin's breathing slowed to a steady peaceful pace. After he finished he walked up to Rin and checked that she was asleep. She was clinging tightly to her golden retriever stuffed animal and had tear streaks down her cheeks, but she was definitely asleep.

"Glad I could help. Sleep well Rin." Kaito whispered as he quietly left the room.