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Chapter 5
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Kaito's POV
""Wanna have a bite?" I offered her my glittering ice cream. Really, it's glittering.
"The girl stared at the ice cream like this is her first time seeing it. Without taking the cone from my hand, she licked the ice cream on the opposite side where I was licking it earlier. Is this considered as an indirect kiss? Well… whatever.
"Cold!" She suddenly squeaked as she closed her eyes tightly.
"Well it is ice cream," I muttered watching the girl quivering from the coldness of it. I don't blame her; ice cream is a bad combination for the weather. Yes I admit that. For me, it's nothing more than a gentle cold. But still, this girl's reaction is an exaggeration. She kept quivering there like a feverish hamster. It's like this is her first time she experience the taste, and here I thought it was a bluff. Then again, I don't think a person like her could do such a thing.
Now why am I on the roof, eating ice cream where there's cold breezes dancing around you ask?
It's the only place I can find quiet. When it's recess, the girls are always chasing me around. Here, it's forbidden for students to make a step. You could say Gumo and Nero is my partner of crime. No, I'm not a delinquent. But if I become one, Kaiko-nee will be worried. The other reason for the location is because the author is picking the place randomly. Well… ignore the last one.
"Ngh," I growled as I turned my head the opposite way from where she was sitting. I swallowed the ice cream whole and pulled the bright blue scarf away from my neck. "Use this," I offered her again, but from my way of speaking it's like I'm ordering her to use it.
"..." She kept quiet. Wondering what she should do in this like of circumstances. It took a while for her to understand. She gladly took the scarf away from me and began to wrap it around her white… pale… wait, what am I thinking? Get away stupid thoughts!
"Thanks…" she smiled. Not to mention her smile is so darn cute! Ugh, why the heck am I thinking here anyway? She's just another girl.
I didn't give an answer or even a reaction to her thanks. Anyway I have to say something. The atmosphere is kinda heavy. Plus I don't want her to get the wrong impression of me…
When I was busy thinking of something to do. A loud yet cute sound was enveloping my ear.
"Guu~"
I stared at the person who's sitting beside me. Of course it Hatsune. There's no one else on the roof beside us anyways.
"That's not me…" She said in monotone to cover the sound earlier.
"Guu~"
The sound was getting bigger this time.
"Err… by any chance are you?" I asked nicely but was quickly interrupted.
"No," Well that was she said. I know that was a lie though. Her stomach is asking for food even though her pride disagrees with it. Without thinking about the sequences, I laughed. It's been a long time I laughed this hard. Maybe about four years ago, no, I forgot. For some reason when I try to reminisce about my past I forgot about it. I don't know why but I don't care.
"Why are you laughing?" she said as she puffed her cheek in a pout.
"No reason… ha," I manage to say. Looks like the ice had been broken. Hatsune still watches me with her cheek all puffed out. Cute, I can't deny that. Kinda reminds me of Kaiko-nee when she was little. "Want something to eat?" I asked her as I held out my boxed lunch. Don't worry it's not made by Taito-nii. Since Kaiko-nee came home then she made all the lunch there is in the house right now. Besides, I don't want to eat Taito-nii's inedible substance.
"…m'kay…" she nodded in confusion.
"Haha, right…" I said in my last laugh and opened the lid of my boxed lunch. As the piece of plastic that covers the box was lifted, strange smell began to escape. It was a very bad smell. Since the smell was so bad, I closed the lid back to where it belongs in a light speed.
Besides me, Hatsune's eyes glitters like she saw something interesting. "Ne ne~ is that what I think it is?" she throws me a question sentence. Still the glitters were seen inside her eyes.
"…" I stared at her like I'm staring at an alien. Hey, is this a déjà vu? "Want one?"
"Can I?" she said half-shouted in excitement as she stood up from her sitting place. "W-well since you're having trouble eating it then lending a hand is okay I guess..." she quickly sits back as some shades of red formed around her cheek.
"Hum~" I hummed as sign of understood. I stretched out my arm with the boxed lunch on the extended hand towards Hatsune. Without any warning she took the material that enclosed the unreal ingredient and opened the lid allowing the familiar smell to travel around the deck. Hatsune took a deep breath from the lunch savoring its taste. As for me, I closed my nose with my little two fingers. Just to explain, I forgot that Kaiko-nee prepared some rice with green leeks inside. I officially call it the 'Out of the world taste'. Believe it or not I repeated the name in front of the cook herself but she accepts it like a compliment.
"… quite delicious, you're really good at this stuff aren't you!" she manage to say with her loaded mouth.
"For starters, please talk before you finish eating." With that being said, she took one of the leeks from the lunch and ate it like a beaver—no, it's even faster than that. Fast!
"Thanks for the meal!" she said in satisfaction. I didn't gave her an answer nor looking back at her. Staring at the front is the only thing I did the whole time.
"…" no one said anything. It was very quiet for recess. It's as if we're competing as if someone who speaks first loses.
"Hey," she finally let out a word. "Have you heard the story of a robotic girl who's made by the lone scientist?" Every word that left her mouth seems to be having its own meaning. Robotic girl… lone scientist… it doesn't resembles us in anyways, but why is she bringing the topic now? Mysteries are meant to be cracked I guess. I've got two options here; yes or no. Yes means I did heard of the story. No means I've only heard a half of the story. I don't know the real ending is like.
"Yes," I answered. It's neither a lie nor a truth. The word just slipped out of my tongue. If I'm being usual here, I would choose no. I have no attempt on making the conversation long. It's sickens me.
"I see. It's not fair isn't it? The scientist died in the end and also the girl. She died because she couldn't handle the heart." So she died. I don't know where she's going with this but her eyes are very distant. I don't know why but I'm irritated by this robotic and reasoning.
"Why would you care? You're a human not a robot. Besides in this world, there's not robot that's alive. All of them are dead and soulless. Robots that contain human soul are only imagination that's created by us humans. They only move because we instruct them to. They only talk because we instruct them to. Just like the story you said earlier, we humans could only dreams and as a result, we wrote a fictional story about it."
Hatsune stared at me with widen eyes. I couldn't differentiate whether it's shocked or painful ones. "Sorry, I spoke too much…"
Guilt.
"Ha— it's okay…" she spoke. Within that very moment, the ringing of the school's bell saved her. "We should leave or the teacher will find out that we're here. This place is out of bound for student right?" Just like that she dashed out the deck towards the entrance door. Stop her? Why? She's not related to me at all. She's just some acquaintance that by chance came to my house and then to my school nevertheless my own classroom. Hatsune ran leaving me behind watching her back from a distance, at long, it vanished.
"Kaito-chan you should have been following her," a voice I familiar of suddenly appeared behind me. It was none other than Gumo. Nero was beside him with his eyes fixed onto his yellow phone.
"Why are you here may I ask?" I growled at them in a low voice. Well these two doesn't mean any harm, in fact, they're the only friends I could trust of. Ugh I failed.
"No reason, just watching the entertainment~" he replied in a merrily tone. Strange but no matter what I could never get mad by these weirdoes. Wait, entertainment? Am I that of a kind to you?
"Do you know that girl?" Nero asked out of the blue. Finally someone asked the most common question ever made! But yeah this could be troublesome.
"No," I answered his common question in a monotone.
"As I thought…" he nodded leaving Gumo and I turned our head sideways in 45 degree in confusion. "Try to stay away from her."
I don't know what the real meaning behind that current word but I decided to let it by the flow, "You don't need to tell me that."
"Good," he sighs and placed his beloved phone into his pocket, "by the way, your neck is kinda empty…" At that moment, I felt as if the world is really stopping.
Miku's POV
"Miku, where on earth did you go!" my annoying older brother shouted directly to my ear in an angry tone.
"Nowhere…" I replied half heartedly. Sometimes I wonder why this male version of mine always worries about the simplest thing. Well if I'm gone it could cause a riot in the company. Not that I'll be gone for good anyway, I just went to Kaito. Thanks to that I had a very good meal.
"I think that's quite inaccurate answer," The female blonde grins as she placed her hands under her chin like a detective while her twin brother sighs heavily besides her.
"So where did both of you go?" I asked narrowing my eyes in attempt to change the subject. Arguing with Mikuo is not an option.
"We went on the roof," Rin sang innocently. "It's the only place where it's human-less…"
"Really? But I didn't see you there!" I said half shouted. Oh yeah did you realized we're whispering right now? Currently we're gathering behind the school building. Surprisingly there's no human here. I was running towards my classroom until the Kagamine twins abducted me. Well the teacher won't be mad if it were us who are late for class anyway. I hope…
"Of course we were hiding. A ninja must conceal its true self."
"Yeah I can understand that but the last one is so wrong if you ask me…"
"No one asked you anyway!" she puffed her cheek. Okay enough… that was cute…
"So you were on the roof huh?" Mikuo asked poking his head behind me.
This is bad… I heard Rin laughing quietly on the background with Len's loud sighs. Wait, if she's on the roof then has she been eavesdropping my conversation with Kaito? But why? She could have just pop out from their hiding place and say hello.
"Probably… or probably not," I said with a smile. Giving him riddles should slow down his thinking phase. After all, Mikuo' brain is slow anyway. As I thought Mikuo's face turned into this confusion state. "So how was your class?" I asked them sweat dropping.
"So-kay," Mikuo chuckled annoyingly.
Topic changed!
"It was strange…" Neru said as she forming a layer on her forehead in a deep thought.
"Oh yeah that was really weird!" Mikuo went back into the conversation and had a good laugh. Of course Neru didn't let that happen, "Ouch!" Imagine the rest if you may.
"What was weird?" Rin asked in excitement along with her twin brother beside her.
"She had a doppelganger," my brother laughed again all by himself although there's nothing funny to be understood around here. The pony tailed girl clicked her tongue in annoyance. "I mean there's a male version of Neru-sama in our class…" he repeated formally with sacred look on his face. I want to learn that slave capture skill from her…
"Hey there's mine too in my class!" Gumi popped out her head from behind Neru's back. "Err… what was his name again… yeah that's right Gumo! Quite a coincidence huh?"
"I don't know what the guy name is though, but I saw he was texting on his phone all the time when the teacher was in front," Neru said.
"Che~ I want my own male version!" The twin tailed red haired girl whines as she rolling around the pavement.
"You already got one you know that?" Her brother stopped her rolling as he sweat dropped.
"Oh yeah… I forgot… hehe… sorry," she laughed dryly.
"Where's Luka?" I asked again.
"Unknown, she seems to found her own hiding place. I tell ya that girl's a ninja! I saw her disappeared into thin air!" Mikuo yelled dramatically like it's the end of his vocaloid career. Not that he is official anyway.
Okay let's summarize this. Mikuo, Neru and Luka are in the same class; class 1-B. Gumi, Teto and Ted are in the same class; class 1-C. And lastly Rin, Len and myself are in class 1-A. That was simple. Meiko and Haku are at home. They don't have school and they are older than us. Right now they're probably having a sake drinking competition going on.
"By the way Miku, I've been wondering the whole time," Mikuo started. The atmosphere turned serious all of the sudden. All eyes are fixed on to me. Rin was giggling at the back. "When did you have that blue scarf?" he asked, the trigger had been clicked.
"Eh? This?" I flustered as I held Kaito's scarf which he lends it to me earlier. Mikuo doesn't seem to remember whose it belong to and the others haven't met Kaito in person either so they didn't know what he looks like or what he wears. Also why didn't I give this thing back to him in the first place anyway? Ah~ I shouldn't have run away… Eyes are on me. Should I give them the false information? After all master did say that there are times lying are to be forgiven. "It was cold o I brought it from home," A Vocaloid's body is sensitive to temperature.
Before they could give a response, a voice was heard throughout the area, "KORAAA!" It was the PE teacher patrolling for those who skip class during lessons, in other words 'us'.
"Crap, we have to evacuate!" Rin said half yelling and half whispering. Just like that she grabs hold of her resisting brother's hand and vanishes into their hiding place. Neru disappeared, I don't know where so don't ask me that. Gumi ran into the school building from the window. As for the Teto and Ted, I spotted a hole on the ground. Mikuo followed the red headed sibling in to the hole. That leaves me alone with the dusts that were made by the runaways.
"Eh?" Without any warning, the teacher grabs me by the arm and dragged to the room that begins with a letter 'D'. Yes, it's the discipline room. I heard from Mikuo that it's the place where students are forced to kneel down on the cold pavement with a human-like monster in front of you. The monster will chants some kind of spell that will make you tired and eventually fell asleep. Once you're asleep you will receive a blow from a word. Scary!
Approximately 20.5 minutes later.
"Oh Hatsune welcome back, how was your trip?" the homeroom teacher asked with a smile on her face as I entered the classroom.
"There was no human-like monster!" I shouted half shocked. When I entered the discipline room most of the teachers asked me for their autograph!
"Excuse me?" The teacher put on a face which seems to be a what-the-heck kind of face along with the other onlooker, aka the whole classroom. Well I might be exaggerating but it's one of the factors that keeps the story fun now isn't it?
I peeked over to a certain twin's desk and there' no sign of them. They probably escaped. The mastermind is always Rin, Len only follows her sister wherever he goes, and the sister doesn't like it when her little brother is not beside her. Their bond is stronger than a normal sibling. Sometimes I'm envious of those two. No… I don't want that kind of relationship with Mikuo… I'm 100% sure I'll die before then.
I took a deep sigh and travelled to my desk. As I recognized the scent of smell from the material around my neck, I turned to where 'that' person is sitting at. But 'that' person is nowhere to be found. "Erm, now that Hatsune is here, there's still three people left," The teacher began catching my attention as my name was said, "The twins should be okay and Shion should come here any minute now. That guy is always late to class I tell ya!" She snapped as she performs the table flipping skill out of nowhere. Anyways, Kaito is still absent from class even after minute came. 30 minute passed and soon the bell rang to indicate the end of the school day.
I knew what comes next so I dashed out of the classroom, "Where is she!" I heard one of the male human's wail. Looks like my action didn't capture any of the crowd's attention. I walked hurriedly along the hallways. You're not supposed to run in the hallways right?
I went to the entrance door and changed my indoor shoes. Fortunately there's no one around me. I bet they're still searching through the hallways or tracking the other vocaloids. "Ok now to find Kaito-kun..." I said quietly.
"You called?" I heard a soft voice. At that instant a figure came out from the shadows.
"Whoa I didn't see you there!" I flinched. It's not everyday to see someone you're searching for came searching for you from the shadows.
"Yeah, I suppose you're trying to give me something," he said giving a hint to return his scarf.
"...oh yeah..." I said and gave his scarf back. I miss the scent already... whoa, what am I thinking about? "Sorry for handiling it too long."
"Actually I don't want to hear that from you," he replied and smiled.
"Thanks for lending it to me," I corrected.
"That's better. I'm not really good with someone who apolagizes to me." He stated as he gave off another smile, but it seems like sadden smile. I wonder what happened to him in the past.
For some reason I had a feeling that I should end the chapter here. If you want to blame someone blame that feeling of mine kay? ^^"
Look forward for the next chap. I could update it anytime~ (half of it is already finish so yeah ^^)
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