A/N : first of all, I want to say my thanks and loves for you nice and wonderful people who had reviewed the first chapter. Thank you so much! 3
second, apparently I forgot to give you the characters' info last time. My bad then, I beg your pardon guys. Len, Rin, Miku are sophomores here. So they're around 15 or 16 year old. Kaito is 24 (yhea, quite young for a teacher huh? but I did have a teacher that young back in my middle school.) about the others will be explained as they appear in this fic. The school system that I'm using here is Japanese school system where all the kids in the same year are devided into classes. And the time-schedules work per class, not per person. If you aren't really familiar with it or confused, please feel free to asked me about anything. now, please, enjoy the show, Ladies and Gentlemen.. ;)
Disclaimer : I don't own Vocaloid.
World in the Colour of Ash
Chapter II : The School's Queen
Len was woken up from his blissful sleep on the rooftop by the buzzing of his cell phone inside his pants' pocket. Yawning and stretching his stiff limbs, he blinked and shook his head several times before fishing the phone out with almost-frozen fingers groggily. The blonde squinted his eyes and peered at the name showed on the tiny black and white screen at the phone's front. It was Rin.
With his thumb, he flipped the phone open and brought it to his ear. Pushing the tiny device up with his shoulder to keep it in place, he rubbed both of his hands together in order to lessen the coldness.
"Yhea, Rin?" White puffs forming from his warm breath as he spoke.
"Len! Where are you!?"
"Somewhere at school, what's wrong?" He rubbed his eyes sleepily and got back to his former relaxed position.
"Geez, Len! You'd been missing since the lunch break! Lucky you though, I told the teachers you were at the infirmary from eating too much."
"Thanks Rin," Len chuckled lightly. "I love you." His pair of sapphire eyes softened in fond, followed by the corner of his lips pulling into a small smile at his own words. From the other side of the line, a short 'huff' of mild annoyance could be heard from his sister, causing his chuckles to extent.
Rin might take the words as a playful one, or thought that Len said it out of his thanks as she had covered for his absence at class. But Len was nothing but saying the truth. He just couldn't help but smiled and let his eyes to glint in amusement at how dense his sister was to his words. It was like smiling after reciting his own personal joke, really.
"Anyway Len, I- I'm going home with Kaito-sensei since he had offered me a ride home, so… well, is that okay with you?" Rin informed her twin quickly in one take of breath. Blushing furiously after.
"Oh…" In a second, the glint in Len's eyes immediately faded away as his face fell a little. He could practically hear how she blushed and stuttered just at the mention of the Shion guy's name. "Okay." He answered in a crisp tone none too gently.
The conversation died down for a few seconds before one spoke slowly in her feminine voice.
"Len?" a hint of reluctance and worry laced Rin's voice as she asked uncertainly.
Sensing the hesitancy in the girl's voice, quickly Len gave another response. "Yhea, sure. No problem Sis'." He spoke to the phone in fake cheeriness.
"You… sure?"
"Really, Rin. It's all right. You just have fun, 'kay?" the blonde boy softened his tone and smiled—albeit forced. He was sure even though his sister on the other end of the line couldn't see it, she could 'hear' his smile.
"Okay, then… Bye-bye,"
"Bye-bye," right after the line was dead; Len clicked his phone and stared at the blinking clock on the corner of the screen. 03.30 p.m. School had just ended for the day 45 minutes ago.
'Have I really slept that long?' he shrugged it off and collected himself to his feet. With both hands tucked inside his pockets to keep them warm, he walked back into the school building and walked down the stairs to the floor where his classroom was located. Looked like the class was already empty. Hell, even the entire building was lack of the usual noise of foot-steps and people chit-chatting.
Just as he gathered his belongings and threw the bag across his shoulder, he caught a glimpse of teal-green strands. And all of a sudden, the proud girl who seated on the first place of 10 hottest girls at school, Hatsune Miku herself, was standing in front of him, arms folded in front of her curvaceous body. Anyway, Rin was on the 4rth seat, because while adorable, she wasn't curvy enough—not like Len minded though.
"Hi, Len-kun, do you have a minute or two?" the girl shifted her legs, her long twin pig tails waving back and forth down her sides.
"Um, sure…" the blonde answered offhandedly. Len, raised like a true gentleman through and through that he was, couldn't turn a young woman down despite the fact that no one could imagine just how he missed the comfort and warmth his bed provided and how his stomach was rumbling like an angry dinosaur, from the lack of food. For heaven's sake, he hadn't eaten since this morning! Sleeping in the cold was doing bad things to him, really. Maybe he should stop doing it. Or maybe not.
"Am I disturbing you?"
Again, despite himself, the boy offered a small smile and shook his head politely. His inner mind begged that the girl would finish quickly though. The freezing temperature and the whole Rin-going-home-with-the-lucky-Shion-bastard thing were really getting on his nerves.
"Ah, great…" Miku smiled in satisfaction. "Well, the thing is… don't you think that we're kinda… close, lately?" she batted her eyelashes at Len.
At this statement, Len only nodded with the forced-smile still lingering on his lips. But even with his calm façade, his inner self was frowning a little. 'Close?'
What little interactions he could remember having with the teal-haired girl standing in front of him was simple short-lived talks about the school project they were—with some other students— assigned together. The teacher had made groups of five for the assignment, and coincidentally the two of them had been put in a same group, that's all. Aside from the project-talks, well, they were just out-of-formality exchanges of greetings when one ran into another on the school's corridors. Oh, but if he thought of it more closely, there were several—actually, quite often— times when their eyes met in the middle of the class. But that happened just because the girl sat next to Rin in class. And Len spent almost 65% of his time at school gazing at his sister so it couldn't be helped if their eyes met quite frequently.
'Ah, she must've thought that I'm staring at her all the time,' the thought dawned to his mind. Len fought the little frown that was threatening to form in his face and instead, replied casually.
"Well, if you said so," the boy offered another friendly smile.
"Sure, sure…" the school queen chuckled confidently and twirled a strand of her teal locks with her index while leaning her form back against one of the tables. "Well, Len-kun… I too have been thinking of you—no, even better, of us— recently… you know?" she slurred her voice a little bit. Trying to sound sexy apparently.
"Pardon me, Hatsune-san?" Len tilted his head a little and asked politely though he knew perfectly well what this girl in front of him was talking about.
A loud, girlish giggles had immediately erupted from Miku, like Len had told her some kind of a joke. "Please, Len-kun… don't play all innocent with me. We know it only makes you even more.… irresistible," she batted her eyelashes again and reclined from her former sloppy pose.
Suddenly the school queen was already at his side, whispering breathily on Len's ear. Their cheeks almost brushing from the proximity. "I know that you've been stealing glances at me too,"
Len blinked twice and immediately took a step backward to provide the much needed personal space between them. "Well, Hatsune-san, I do believe that—"
"Shhhh…" the stubborn girl pressed her two fingers on Len's lips just as he was about to tell her that he wasn't interested in her—in a polite way, of course.
"No, please… don't say no just because you're too shy to admit it. You'll regret it Len-kun," the twin-tailed girl shook her head again while letting out 'tsk-tsk' sounds between her lips. "You can answer me when you are perfectly ready, okay? Take your time, Len-kun, I'll be waiting for you patiently," she winked suggestively, "Oh! And don't worry, I won't move my eyes to other men while I'm waiting," Miku let out another set of girlish giggles and darted out of the class room, still giggling. "Until tomorrow, Dear!"
The blonde only stood in silence, dumb-struck. No to boast, but Len had got quite a lot of girls confessing to him about their feelings, and even asking him out. But with an apologetic smile and sympathetic words—though fake as it was— they would all back off and worshipped him even more for his kindness and gentlemanship. But this girl… He had never seen a girl with such confidence—bordering to arrogance— along with just as much density and boldness.
'Does she think just because she's rather beautiful then she gets all of the men's attentions!? Oh, please,' Len shook his head in disbelief and wiped his lips roughly with the sleeves of his shirt. Trying to get rid of the hints of bitterness from Miku's perfume-coated fingers.
Kagamine Len heaved a tired sigh as he walked out of the class room to go home. The silly girl could think as she pleased, he wouldn't care whatsoever. Everything could be cleared up tomorrow. At the moment he was hungry, no, starving and shivering from spending almost 5 hours sleeping outdoor at this temperature. All that he needed was a really hot shower, a plate of warm, delicious foods, and —after having such a school drama earlier— maybe some aspirin too.
-end of Chapter II-
Well, it isn't as long as the first chapter, but i hope you like it. I've chosen to update this instead of doing my biology paper (20 pages of bone diseases and disorders, oh the joy!) So it's rather rushed and I didn't proofread it. I hope I didn't mess around with many mistakes.. *gulp*
Lol, a seducer!Miku !!! I wrote about her more harshly in my draft-notebook, but I'm affraid it would offend her fans if i posted it raw just like what i've written, so i edited it a bit, and it turned out like this. Not so bad, i think... Maybe because the first Vocaloid PV that i saw was 'Servant of Evil', or maybe it was just something else, but i can't say that i like her too much. She's okay, but seeing her stealing Len's attention from Rin in the 'Evil Series' had grown some antipathy towards her in me. LOL! poor Miku! I don't hate her though, so don't worry.. xD
Oh, and since I can't reply to Anonymous reviewers privately, so I think I'll just reply here. I hope you don't mind? :)
Anonimus : you're not alone, buddy.. I like it too, and I take it most of my readers here love twincest too? :D
Varth : Well, Varth dear, this is just a suggestions, but please don't force yourself if you can't stand this fic 'kay? It won't be good for your health, you know.. :)
BloodStainedMoon : I'm glad you like it ^^ but i can't take the parents away.. I want to keep the fic as real as possible, so we need parent figures here, though yes, they won't be showed much in the fic.. As for Len's twisted feelings, well, it's a secret only he himslef know at the moment, so.. it's not much of a problem (yet) right? :)
Phew, I think that's all for now.. Now I'm going to make my abandoned Biology Paper and the other piling holiday-homeworks (or not, who knows? ;D)
With all the love of the world,
BlackBitterRoo.