Chapter 1- Len

Present day

I jumped slightly as the bell rang, signaling the end of class. I opened my eyes slightly and slowly gathered my stuff.

"Fall asleep in class again, Kagamine?" I jumped slightly. I guess I didn't get enough sleep last night to make it through the day.

"I'm sorry about that Kiyoteru-sensei," I said as I bowed and quickly exited.

I ran to the school's gates to meet Miku, my neighbor and childhood friend. We met when I was 9. From what I remember, my mother had already died from a stroke and my father had left me at home by myself. I was living alone since then. Miku, who is a couple years older than me had always given me company and checked on me from time to time. She was like the sister that I never had.

As we started walking away from the school, she seemed to have noticed how tired I was looking.

"Len, were you falling asleep in class again?" she asked. "You know you won't pass exams if you keep dong that!"

She continued scolding me as we walked in through the door of the ice cream shop.

"Um, K-Kaito has cleaning duty, so he said that he would catch up with us as soon as possible. In the meantime, why we look at today's flavors?" she asked as she shyly looked down.

I noticed how she stuttered when she said his name. Typical. She's had a crush on him for quite a while. However, Kaito seems to fails to notice her feelings for him.

It was nearing the end of the semester and I had to worry about about exams, so normally, I wouldn't be freely hanging around at ice cream parlors. It was Miku's idea for the three of us to come here though. But no matter what, Miku was my friend and as long as she was happy, then I had no problem with it.

Scanning the menu, I was quite disappointed when banana wasn't one of today's flavors. I looked at the rest of them and decided to settle for orange, my second favorite flavor, when I heard the bell attached to the door jingling. Expecting it to be Kaito, I watched Miku's face which had lit up at the sound of the door opening. I noticed her expression drop though, for it wasn't Kaito who had walked in.

I turned around to look at who had just entered.

Instead, it was a girl with short blond hair and large, light blue eyes, similar to mine. She had a white headband with flaps resembling orange leaves on her head. She was walking with another girl who had short unique green hair. Brightly colored goggles rested on her head.

They both seemed rather energetic and happy. For some reason, I couldn't take my eyes off the blond one. There was something about her that was just, familiar. I felt a slight poke and turned back around.

"Hey Len. You think that girl over there's cute?" Miku asked softly so the two girls wouldn't hear. She had somewhat of a friendly smirk on her face.

"N-no that's no it!" I said in a hushed tone. She didn't seem to be listening though. She continued giggling when I suddenly heard the bell ring again. This time Kaito walked through the door. I sighed as I watched Miku jump up instantly to greet him. I took another glance at the blond haired girl. There was definitely a familiar feeling about her. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I could tell that this most likely wasn't the first time we met.

"...Over there," I heard Miku say as she pointed her finger towards the girl, who was at the counter with her green haired friend, ordering their ice cream.

"Eh? What'd I miss?" I asked as I came back to reality.

"Staring at her again, Len?" I glared at Miku who was smiling. "I was just telling Kaito-kun about your love at first sight," she chuckled jokingly as she ran her hand through one of her cyan pigtails.

I sighed. I'm not in love with that girl, but there was no hope in convincing Miku otherwise. The two girls looked at me for a second, but then were wrapped in their own conversation. I could have sworn our eyes met for a second. As my friends and I stepped up to the counter to order, I watched as she walked out the door with her friend eating her orange flavored ice cream.

Sleep didn't easily to me later that night. When I did sleep however, I found myself to be dreaming.

I could see two figures. They were both children and they were both playing together. The girl was unmistakeably a younger version of the one I had seen in the ice cream shop, right down to the white headband. She was running around with a smile on her face, laughing.

"Len! Your such slowpoke, you know we have to be home soon!" she said. "If we get in trouble for being late for dinner, then it's your fault!"

She had called my name. Did I know this girl as a child? There was something in my head that made me think that this really happened and was not just a dream.

I tossed and turned in my bed when suddenly I rolled in one direction too much and ended up falling off the bed. I hit the floor with a thud.

"Ow, that hurt," I muttered under my breath.

I lay there for a couple minutes when something caught my eye. A small box? What was it doing there? I reached my hand under the bed and pulled it out. The initials R.K. were carved in there. In fact, this wouldn't have been the first time that I have seen things around the house with those initials. I assumed that it was mine, since the first letter of my name was interchangeable. Peering into the box, I opened it all the way after making sure that it wasn't a bomb or anything like that. I reached my hand in and took out a picture. It was a picture of me and... that girl?

It was unmistakeably that blond girl from earlier. Her eyes and hair were the same. Heck, she was even wearing that same headband.

Freaked out, I dug through the rest of the pictures. They were all of the two of us together. T-this was impossible. Impossible! I'm pretty sure I would have remembered her if we were this close. I flipped through some more until I saw a note. My eyes widened as I read it aloud.

"My brother Len,

Here's your birthday present. Normally mama or papa would buy me something to give you, but since they are not here...

Anyways, never mind that. This is a collection of pictures of the two of us. I know that papa left us soon after mama died, but that doesn't mean we have to remain sad. We have each other, and we'll remain strong, rite? That's why I don't want to be scared. And I don't want you to be either!

Happy birthday brother! Happy birthday to the both of us!

Love,

Rin..."

W-what? My sister? I didn't know what to think. Maybe that would explain my waking up one day to see a closet full of girl's clothing five years back. But regardless, that girl was my sister? Maybe this was a joke? Was someone pulling a joke on me or something? I didn't know what to think anymore. Checking the clock, I saw that it was still three in the morning. I decided to fall back asleep. I kicked the box under the bed and tried to salvage whatever sleep I could get for the remaining night. However... that girl wouldn't escape my dreams.

Author's note: Okay, when my friend read this, she was rather confused with the character's ages. I decided to change them a little. Some of them are the same, but Kaito's and Luka's are slightly different by a few years. The Kagamine's are 14. Miku is 16 in this story and Kaito is around 18. Also, when Luka kidnapped Rin, she was around 18-19 at the time. So that would make her 23 or so when the story takes place.