Len ran through the forest as fast as he could, endless tears streaming down his face. He couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. Why would Kaito kiss Miku? Surely he knew that Miku had been the one who had broken his heart. So why…? Len had no idea. He just wished he had never seen Kaito and Miku together.
Len stopped finally after what he had guessed was about half an hour of running. He sat on the floor and leaned against a tree, panting hard from running so much. "Aww man…" Len said to himself. He realized he was still wearing the naughty Christmas outfit that Taito and Kikaito had put him in. He was too busy crying to even notice. Well… Now he was fully aware of it. Especially since he was sitting in a deep pile of snow and there was a very strong wind blowing against him.
"Fuck… Just my luck…" Len said aloud to no one in particular and hugged his knees to his chest. "It's so damn cold…" Len began shivering violently once he noticed just how cold it actually was. He could see his breath clearly, though it was pitch black and he could no longer see the lights from the cabin. Fuck, he was lost.
He suddenly saw movement in the dark. 'What was that?!' Len thought and strained his eyes to try and see in the darkness that surrounded him. When his vision started to focus, he found himself face to face with a bear. Not just any bear though. A polar bear. With a squirrel sitting on its head. Len was so frightened that he pushed himself against the tree, trying to get as much distance between him and the bear as possible. What the hell was a polar bear doing out in the middle of nowhere?!
The squirrel jumped off of the bear's head and jumped up on top of Len's head. It sniffed Len's hair for some unknown reason until it curled up into a ball on Len's head and fell asleep.
"What the…?" Len picked up the squirrel and held in in his hands, staring at it. He watched its body slowly move up and down as it breathed. "Aww… You're so cute…" Len said and gently hugged the squirrel to his face. Len tensed when he felt the polar bear's fur against his skin. He looked at it and saw that it was snuggling up to Len, trying to warm him up with its fur. "You're… Trying to help me…?" Len asked. The polar bear only licked Len's cheek with its warm tongue in response. Len hugged the bear and smiled a bit and soon fell asleep.
Meanwhile, Kaito sat on the couch, staring at the front door. Man, he was sleepy. But the guilt was eating away at him in the pit of his stomach. He felt terrible for making Len cry. 'I HATE YOU!' is what was repeatedly playing in Kaito's mind. Why had Len gotten so mad? Kaito didn't have the answer. But soon, sleep overtook the bluenette and he fell straight into a nightmare.
When Len awoke, it was light out. His body was numb because of snow that had piled on top of him. Len suspected that it snowed while he was asleep. He shakily got up, careful not to wake the polar bear and squirrel that had accompanied him. He looked around and only saw white. He walked a little distance away, but not far enough that he would lose sight of his animal friends. "Hello?" He called out, hearing his voice echo.
Suddenly, he heard and felt rumbling. "What the…?" Len looked up to see snow from an avalanche he had caused hurdling toward him. Len screamed and before he knew it, he was buried underneath a monstrous amount of snow.
Kaito quickly sat up from the couch, sweating and panting. He thought he heard Len screaming… Kaito just dismissed it, thinking it had been a dream. Kaito turned his head to see Rin running towards him.
"Kaito! D-did you hear screaming?!" Rin asked, worry clear in her voice.
"I did… But I thought it was just a dream…" Kaito told her.
"Oh god… Where's Len…?" Rin began to panic when she didn't get an answer from Kaito. "Where is he, Kaito?!"
"I-I don't know! He never came back!" Kaito almost yelled, starting to panic himself.
"M-Meiko!" Rin ran towards hers and Meiko's bedroom, repeatedly shouting Meiko's name.
Len never came home… Kaito remembered Len telling him that he gets cold easily when he's outside and how he would freeze to death if he wasn't bundled up. Len probably meant it as an joke, but Kaito had to be sure.
Kaito got up and rushed out the door, only to see a polar bear and a squirrel in front of the cabin. Kaito froze in place and stared at the animals. He noticed that the squirrel had a small piece of red cloth in its mini paws. Suddenly, Len wearing that naughty Christmas dress that his brothers put him in popped into his mind.
The animals began walking away into the forest and Kaito- for some reason- followed them. They walked a far distance until they reached an avalanche sight. He saw that there had just recently been an avalanche. "Why are we…?" Kaito began but stopped when he saw the animals trying to dig through the snow. He was a bit confused as to what they were doing, but ended up helping them dig.
About an hour later, Kaito gave up. He was supposed to be looking for Len! What the hell was he doing, digging through snow just because a couple of animals were. The polar bear suddenly roared in Kaito's ear, making him jump in surprise. "Okay, okay! I'll keep digging!" Kaito said and began digging again.
A few minutes later, Kaito saw some blonde hair in the snow. "What the…?" Kaito kept digging until he discovered a body under the snow. But it wasn't just anybody… "Len!" Kaito yelled in fright and pulled the small boy out of the snow. "Oh my god, Len…" Kaito looked at Len and saw that he was as white as a sheet and his lips were unnaturally blue. Kaito hugged the boy's limp and frozen body. Len was breathing, er… Wheezing was more like it. "Don't worry, Len… I'll get you warm…" Kaito carried Len in the princess lift and ran back to the cabin.
When Kaito walked through the door, everyone was waiting for them. "Len! Oh my god, Len!" Rin pulled Len away from Kaito, causing him to accidentally drop Len. Rin hugged her brother and cried.
"Rin… Get ahold of yourself…" Meiko said, holding back tears. "We have to warm him up…"
"R-right…" Rin nodded in agreement.
"Oh! What happened? Is he alright?" Miku asked in an obviously fake worried tone. She almost sounded pleased.
Rin glared at Miku and suddenly got a very serious tone. "That's none of your DAMN business! Shut the fuck up- No, I said shut the FUCK up you son of a bitch and get the fuck out of here!"
No one was expecting that to come out of Rin's mouth and just stared at her, wide-eyed. Rin huffed angrily and picked up Len, giving Miku a cold glare before walking to the bathroom and slamming the door. There was an awkward silence left in the room. Even Miku was surprised.
Rin started a hot bath and set a now naked Len in the tub once it was full. Rin sat on the toilet lid and watched Len until she was his eyes flutter open.
"R-Rin…?" Len said in a raspy voice, looking at his sister but only seeing a blur of yellow.
"Yes… It's me, Len…" Rin said, reaching her hand into the tub to grasp Len's.
"W-Were you the one who rescued me from the avalanche…?" Len asked, barely audible.
"A-Avalanche?!" Rin screamed, but then regained her composure when she saw Len's frightened face. "Umm… What do you mean avalanche?"
"A bunch of snow fell on me…" Len said simply.
"Oh…" Was all Rin could say. "Well, you're starting to get your color back… You were pale a few minutes ago…"
"Yeah… I'm feeling a lot better than I did… You know I hate the cold…" Len said.
Rin chuckled. "Yeah, you complain over little things. But why the HELL did you go out there in a dress?!"
"I…" Len looked down.
"O-oh, never mind." Rin could tell it was something that would bring Len to tears. And he didn't need that right now.
"Rin… I need some time alone to think…" Len said softly.
"Oh, okay… No problem." Rin got up. "I'll check in on you later…" And with that, Rin left the bathroom.
Len just laid back, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.