It took a while to finish, I'm sorry for the wait ^^;;
(-Final Chapter-)
The rain poured outside, the gray clouds not allowing a hint of sunlight to beam through. The sound of the chalk colliding against the board and the gentle sound of the rain against the windows were the only things that could be heard. Miku rested her cheek on her hand, she stared as two raindrops raced down to the bottom of the window. It seems as though the three days of non-stop rain started to wash away all the colors that her world held, turning it into a boring, black and white picture.
It's been a week since the incident at the cemetery; since Luka regained her memories. She hasn't come back to school, and without that cheerful ray of pink sunshine cracking a joke every five minutes, the class reflected the weather outside; gloomy. A part of Miku was worried about her well being. What was she going to do? Disappear again for another eight years? Shut herself in? Commit suicide from depression? Please no. But she had to admit that the other part of her... didn't want to know. She didn't want to see Luka in a corner crying and broken like an old doll, she didn't want to see her suffering in her lonesome, she didn't want to see her-
"Excuse me,"
Heads turned to the door at the familiar wooshing sound.
"Ah, Megurine-san. Welcome back, please take a seat you're quite late"
"Will do teach" Luka said, nodding her head.
Before the pinkette walked to her seat at the back of the class, she looked at all of her classmates. Some were worried, others had idiotic grins on their faces. Luka smiled,
"Did you guys miss me?"
"Heck yeah we did!"
Someone replied and the class erupted in laughter. Luka casually walked to her seat at the back of the class as the laughter quieted down. Miku stared at her in disbelief. Once the pinkette was seated she completely ignored the tealette and continued acting as though nothing happened at all.
"Aren't you glad she's back iinchou?" Gumi asked from behind Miku.
"... I guess." Miku turned back to the board without another word.
Gumi exchanged glances with Miki who sat beside her. They shrugged and turned back to the teacher without another word.
(-Lunch-)
As the bell rang most of Luka's classmates stayed behind to try and catch up with her. As several of them crowded around Luka's desk, Miku stared at her from the front of the class. She still can't believe what she's seeing. Despite the fact that she looks thinner and paler compared to a week ago, Luka is smiling, smiling and laughing without a care in the world. Maybe she never got her memories back in the first place. She should be happy that Luka is smiling instead of crying... right?
Miku shook her head. Luka is acting happy, too happy for Miku's taste.
(-The Next Day-)
"Morning peopolets!" Luka exclaimed as she walked into the classroom.
"Morning!" the class greeted in chorus.
Miku didn't even glance at Luka, to her surprise the pinkette didn't pay any attention to her either, just like yesterday. She made her way to the back of the class and started to talk to her nearby classmates. Miku fumed.
Wanna play it that way? Fine then.
Throughout class and pretty much the whole day, pink and teal payed no attention to each other. The other didn't exist in the others world. That didn't go unnoticed by the class of course, but no one said anything. When the bell rang for lunch Miku was the first to push her chair back and stomp out of the room like an enraged elephant. Looks were cast Luka's way; she shrugged and gave an awkward laugh.
Behind the school;
"Uhm... where's Luka-nee?" Rin asked the tealette currently chomping on a leek.
"Don't know don't care." Miku spat back.
"Err..."
The twins and two seniors sweat dropped at Miku's answer. Rin and Len glanced at each other; LQ?
Meanwhile at the cafeteria, Luka is having lunch with some of her other classmates. They're laughter blended in with the noise of the cafeteria as they told different stories.
"You should really hang out with us more Megurine-san!" one of them said.
"Yeah, it's kinda cool being around you"
"But... what about Hatsune-san?"
Heads turned to the redhead eating cherries. Heads were scratched at the realization that they may be stealing Luka from Miku. The class representative's crush on the delinquent isn't a secret from anyone but the delinquent herself. If they get on Miku's bad side then the classroom may just turn back into it's hellish state with the twin-tailed demon ruling over them.
"Don't worry about it you guys" Luka said
"Yeah but... iinchou might think that we're stealing you away from her." Gumi said.
"Stealing me away? What makes you say that?" she asked.
"Well everyone knows that iinchou has a cru—ouch!" the two people next to Miki elbowed her before she could finish that statement.
"What...?"
"Nothing!" the table exclaimed in unison.
"O...kay?"
(-The Day After That-)
"Yola peeps!"
"Yoh!"
The bright ray of pink sunshine skipped into the classroom just before the bell rang. Miku again completely ignored the existence of the other just as the other did the same. The twin-tailed demon didn't bring back her tyrannical rule but you could still sense a feint heaviness in the atmosphere of the room. While Luka chatted with nearby classmates Miku jotted down words in her notebook that made no sense whatsoever. They weren't even words. They were lines. Squiggly lines.
"Alright people please quiet down!" Kiyoteru immediately said as he walked in the room "Now as you know the cultural festival is coming up in a few days. We will be utilizing this period and the rest of the days before the festival to plan for our booth. Hatsune-san, please take over."
"Hai," Miku stood up and took over the planning "Any ideas for the booth you guys?"
"Cafe!"
"Haunted house?"
"Game booth!"
As the class said what they wanted Miku wrote everything down on the board and eventually had everyone vote for their favorite. In the end they ended up doing a haunted house. Since the class has a lot of crafty hands and fashion freaks it shouldn't be too hard. They divided the class into several departments. The props department is in charge of building the haunted house and Luka is one of them; the costume and make-up department, the ghosts and ghouls, and the people for advertising and handling the ticket booth and what not.
(-School Festival, A Week Later-)
Class 2-B (Haunted house)
"Please come again~!"
Miki waved goodbye to the couple that just came out of their classroom, white as sheets. Compared to everyone inside the maze with terrifying and realistic costumes she's wearing a white sheet over her head with eye holes cut out of it. Gumi stared at her friend, shaking her head.
"Really Miki?" Gumi asked.
"What? The costume people were busy with the monsters! They just threw this sheet at me." Miki said.
Gumi sighed as another one of their school mates crawled out of their haunted house as white as Miki's sheet.
"Please come again~!" Miki exclaimed.
"Oh hey, have you seen iinchou anywhere?" Gumi asked.
"I think she's looking for Megurine-san."
Class 1-A (Maid Cafe')
"Here you are Miku-nee" Rin said as she placed a parfait in front of Miku.
"Ah... thank you."
Miku took the spoon and started poking at the ice cream, not really eating it. Rin sighed as she stared at her senpai.
"If it's bugging you so much then why don't you just talk to Luke-nee again?" the blonde asked.
"Wh-what makes you think that's what's bugging me-"
Rin raised an eyebrow.
Miku sighed in defeat.
Of course it's been bugging her. Since Luka decided to play the cold shoulder Miku decided to play along by ignoring her as well. Of course she didn't really last long and eventually she started trying to talk to Luka again. But the pinkette avoided her. Not just her but Rin, Len, Meiko and Kaito as well. That of course didn't escape her class's radar, they completely mistook it for an LQ.
"Hey there!" Meiko exclaimed as she walked in through the doors.
"Welcome- Ah Meiko-nee! Kaito-nii!" Rin said as the two seniors sat down at Miku's table.
"Hey there, you guys did a pretty good job here" Kaito said as he looked around a bit.
"Haha, thanks! It's all because I was the one who-"
"RIN! Stop slacking off and get back to work!" someone yelled from their makeshift kitchen.
"Esh, I'll just see you guys later okay?" she said before running off.
Meiko and Kaito laughed a bit as she left.
"Hey, where's Len?" Kaito asked.
Miku pointed to a blonde in a maid outfit taking down orders at the other side of the room. It's Len, in a neko maid outfit, surprisingly he's pretty popular with the guys and he even looks like he's enjoying his job.
"Woo! Looking good Len!" Meiko exclaimed.
"M-Meiko-nee!" The blonde blushed as several of the class's customers chuckled a bit.
He ran to get another set of orders and two parfaits were placed at their table. Miku sighed as she finished her parfait.
"Wow, you must'ave been hungry" Kaito said.
"Or depressed," Meiko said "What's wrong Miku-chan?"
"Ahhggghh..."
Miku slumped her head into her arms and groaned. The two seniors exchanged looks and sighed.
"Look Miku-chan, maybe you should confess to her at the bonfire tonight." Kaito said.
The two girls stared at the boy in blue with their jaws dropped.
(-Outside-)
The school campus is open and there are tons of booths set up and families roaming around the place. There's a festive atmosphere and people are really just having fun without a care in the world.
"Mikuo! Get me another grilled eggplant!" yelled a purple pony tailed man sitting under a tree.
"Oh come on boss I'm broke!"
"Phhtt fine, here, buy me three more" Gakupo said as he tossed his wallet over to Mikuo.
"You said you forgot your wallet!" Mikuo exclaimed, a nerve pumping on his forhead.
"Oh I did? I'm sorry kiddo, now go before they run out!"
"Augh!"
Mikuo stomped off and Luka came by just as he did. The pinkette looked at Gakupo stuffing his face with the eggplants. She shook her head with an amused smile on her face.
"How's it going boss?" Luka asked.
"Ah, long time no see princess! Doing good, thanks for the invitation by the way." he said.
"Glad you're enjoying yourself..." Luka said, glancing at the stack of sticks next to Gakupo's leg.
"So how have you been?" he asked.
"Well... I kinda figured things out."
"Ah... why don't you come here and tell me all about it kid?"
(-After the Festival-)
The moon is full, and a huge bonfire is flaring in the middle of the field. Young couples danced around the fire exchanging partners as the music played. Miku is dancing with a couple of her classmates, but her concentration is fixed on the crowd around her. She's scanning their faces hoping to see Luka somewhere, to no avail. She didn't notice when her partner stopped dancing and switched to another girl. She stood outside the circle and seemed to stare into nothing.
"iinchou," Gumi called.
"Hah?" she snapped out of her little trace.
"she's in the classroom if you need her" Miki said.
"Err... I.. uhh-" Miku smiled, "Thank you" she bowed a bit before she ran off to the school building.
There's almost no one in the building now since everyone is around the bonfire. The hallways are dark and the slightest sound not made by herself would make Miku jump. She'd have weird thoughts of monsters in the dark just waiting to jump at her, in a state of paranoia she made a dash for the stairs and into her classroom. She sighed in relief when she saw the curtains drawn, letting the feint light of the moon in. Luka sat on top of a grave stone with a white flower in her hand. Skulls, bones and blood splatters are scattered at her feet, she almost looks like a ghost sitting on top of her own grave. Upon a closer look Miku saw that the white flower in Luka's hand is actually a Lily.
"Luka-"
"I wonder if she ever sat on her own grave like this..." Luka said, stroking the petals of the white flower in her hands. Miku's eyes widened a bit.
"So... you do remember." She said.
Luka nodded her head as she continued on toying with the petals. Miku hesitantly approached Luka, she saw her as a frightened rabbit that would run away at any second.
"Why... did you ignore me all this time?" she asked. Luka didn't answer.
"not just me, but Rin and Len, even Kaito-nii and Meiko-nee!"
Luka refused to say anything. She hopped down the grave stone and looked at Miku. She's thinner compared to before, her skin is so pale that she looks like a literal ghost next to her grave. She looked at the flower in her hand and placed it on the prop stone. She kept quiet.
"Please say something... anything!"
The pinkette refused to open her mouth, she just looked at Miku who was on the verge of snapping.
"How can you be so selfish...?" she snapped, the tears started cascading down her cheeks.
"You're acting like you're the only person who lost her..." her voice started shaking.
"Miku..." Luka said.
"Shut up!" Miku yelled."W-We were her friends too!"
"Miku..."
"We loved Lily-nee j-just as much as you did!"
"Miku..."
"So stop acting like you're the only one who-"
"Miku, she will never forgive me!"
The tealette flinched at what Luka said, but for some reason she just snapped even further.
"What the heck Luka!?"
"Miku you don't-"
"She wasn't just your friend you know!"
"Miku please-"
"Just because she died in front of you you think you're the one who has it the worst-"
"Miku that's not it!"
"What is it then?!"
"I killed her!"
Miku flinched.
Luka's shoulders started shaking and soft sounds of sobbing and sniffling were emanating from her form. She buried her face in her hands as she fell on her knees.
"I killed her... I killed Lily, Miku!"
(-Flashback-)
"Luka-chan! You shouldn't be playing near the streets!" Lily exclaimed to Luka running about near the sidewalk with a ball at her feet.
"Oh come on, I'll be okay!" Luka exclaimed, bouncing the ball on her head. "Besides, there are too may people back there..." Luka bounced the ball into her hands, scratching her cheek.
Lily's expression softened and she smiled. Luka isn't much of a party person so she tries to avoid social gatherings such as birthday parties. Luka started to kick the ball between her feet as she walked down the sidewalk. Lily grinned and ran forward, stealing it from Luka.
"H-Hey!" Luka exclaimed.
"Well it's no fun playing alone" she said.
Luka grinned at her friend and they started to play, kicking, throwing, passing and catching the ball. 30 minutes of playing and Luka's been having a tough time stealing the ball from Lily, the second she found an opening she kicked it away from Lily's hand and it landed in the asphalt.
"I'll get it!" Lily exclaimed as she ran after the ball in the middle of the street.
She was unaware of the truck speeding out of control towards her.
"No! Lily wait!"
"What-?"
The truck veered out of control and ran right into Lily's small, delicate form.
Luka stood there, her eyes wide with shock. She staggered next to Lily's body. The sky turned dark and the rain started to pour. Her joints are a mess, her arms and legs don't even look like they're attached to her body, she has a nasty open wound on her head and the blood spilled out onto the streets and it stained her blonde hair and white dress a crimson red hue.
"Lily...?"
Luka took the girl's broken form in her arms, her young mind still trying to process what just happened. Lily's eyes were open but they weren't blinking. Luka softly patted her cheek, trying to wake her up. Her blood stained Luka's clothes as well.
"Lily-chan...? please... wake up! The adults will be looking for us soon!"
By standers started to run towards the scene and someone yelled for an ambulance.
"Lily-chan! It's time to stop playing! Please wake up!" Luka pleaded, the rain water mixed with the blood and the tears falling down her cheeks.
Someone started to pull Luka away but she didn't want to let go. She held onto her best friend and repeatedly yelled out her name, trying to wake her up. It took three adults to separate her from Lily. When the ambulance arrived Luka was standing in the corner, watching as the people in the white brought her friend in the ambulance.
"Luka-chan!"
The pinkette saw Miku in the corner of her eye, and then she felt someone pick her up and carry her away. She kept her eye on the ambulance as she identified the man who carried her away as her father.
"Papa...? Lily-chan will be alright won't she?"
He didn't answer her.
A day later it was official. Lily was dead. In her death certificate it said that she died of an accident via a drunk driver. But Luka knew the truth. It should have said; murdered by Megurine Luka. She knew that she was the reason why she died. Luka didn't tell anyone. She was afraid that she would be blamed for her death, and she should be! But she was still scared. She didn't tell anyone and the guilt ate her from the inside out.
On the day of Lily's funeral Luka got into a car accident with her parents on her way there. Her mother died and her father became distant. Luka got amnesia in that accident and she couldn't identify where the waves of enormous guilt was coming from. She needed a distraction and that's when she met Gakupo.
"Luka... why..."
"You hate me now don't you?"
For a moment neither of them said anything. Then Luka heard Miku walking towards her. She expected the tealette to slap her or hit her but instead- Miku wrapped her arms around Luka.
"What-"
"Why... on earth didn't you tell anyone?"
"You lived with that guilt... why Luka...?"
The pinkette pushed Miku away and blue met teal in a state of confusion.
"You-you should hate me! Why on earth-" Luka tried to reason.
"Why should I hate you? It wasn't you're fault that she-"
"It was my fault!" Luka insisted. Miku backed away.
"I'm the reason why she died! I killed her! If it wasn't for me then she could be with us right now!" Luka exclaimed.
"Luka..."
"It's not fair that time stopped for her yet we're all still growing and living!"
"Luka... calm down-"
"I would feel better if you and everyone else hated me-"
"I can never hate you Luka,"
"Why on earth no—mpphh!"
Miku pressed her lips against Luka's, silencing the taller girl. Luka's mind and heart started racing a hundred miles an hour and the kiss seemed to last an eternity. Outside, the fireworks started going off, signaling the end of their school festival, in a short while the whole campus will be empty. Luka felt something wet dripping down their cheeks, when Miku pulled away, she saw that she was crying.
"I love you Luka... I've always loved you."
Luka was too stunned to say anything.
"Even when you and Lily-nee had feelings for each other, I loved you," Miku said, her voice cracking
"I'm surprised... even at the passage of time I still have feelings for you..." she said "...in the same way that you still have feelings for Lily-nee."
Miku ran out of the room and left Luka standing there dumbfounded. The pinkette stared at the Lily flower on top of the tombstone. The rain started to pour and the thunder cracked. Meiko, Kaito, Rin and Len, and even Gakupo and Mikuo silently walked into the classroom.
"How much did you guys hear...?" Luka asked, staring at the flower in her hand.
"Everything." Meiko said.
"After all these years..." Mikuo murmured under his breath.
"Miku-nee... has always loved you." Rin said.
"We knew, even back then." Len added.
"I think she broke just as much as you did when you disappeared from her life" said Kaito.
Silence took over until Gakupo broke it.
"So are you really going to let her go?" The samurai asked.
Luka looked the man, and she made her decision.
The rain poured and blinded Miku as she ran as fast as her feet could carry her. She didn't know where she was going and she didn't care. She finally confessed her feelings to Luka only to find out that she still has feelings Lily. She was so bitter about it back then that when Lily died a part of her was happy because she could finally get close to Luka, but even in death Lily still has a hold on her heart.
I'm horrible... Lily-nee, I'm so sorry...
"Miku!"
The tealette heard several voices calling out her name, she identified Luka's but it just made her run even faster. In her desperate attempt to escape from something she didn't know, she didn't realize that she was running in the middle of the street. Luka chased after Miku's fading form.
"Please Miku, stop!"
Miku did stop, and Luka was relieved. She ran up to her, but as she was running she noticed two balls of light speeding towards Miku's form.
"No... M-Miku! Run!"
The tealette turned, just as she did a speeding car crashed into her and sent her body flying.
Thunder cracked.
The events from eight years ago replayed in her mind and Luka made a desperate dash to reach Miku. The car just sped away, leaving behind Miku's body in the asphalt. A hit-and-run. She could see a pool of red forming under Miku's head.
"M-Miku!"
Luka gathered the tealette's body in her arms trying to shake her awake. Luka couldn't tell if it was the rain, or the fact that Miku's dead that's making her body cold.
"Miku, please no..."
The scene was all too familiar, just a little less bloody. Luka yelled out her name trying to wake her up, but Miku wasn't moving. Thunder cracked and the two seniors together with the twins and Gakupo and Mikuo ran up next to them. The purple-haired samurai quickly called for an ambulance upon seeing the scene.
"She'll be okay Luka-chan." Meiko said, her hand on the pinkette's shoulder.
(-Hospital-)
Miku was rushed to the E.R. while the others were made to wait outside. All seven of them are soaked to the bone as they waited in deafening silence for the news to come. Luka walked back and forth pacing, eager to know whether Miku was okay or not. Meiko sat next to Kaito fidgeting with his scarf for the news. Rin is leaning on Len's shoulder, she'd fallen asleep waiting. Gakupo and Mikuo stood on either side of the bench.
Eventually the light of the E.R. Sign turned off. The doors opened and the doctor came out with several nurses. Everyone stood up in a rush.
"Doctor!" Luka rushed to the man.
He took his hat and mask off and handed them to a nurse before looking at the pinkette with sad eyes. Luka recognized that look, it was the same one that her father gave her when she asked about Lily. She knew what he was was going to say, but she pleaded in her mind that she was wrong.
"I'm sorry... Megurine-san..." he said
"We did everything we could to save her... but there was nothing we could do."
Her heart dropped a thousand feet.
Miku is dead.
She died, just like Lily did.
"No... no no no..."
The look of shock, terror, and desperation on her face grew as Luka shook her head in denial. She started yelling incoherently as the tears started to fall. Meiko and Kaito tried to calm her down.
"NO!" she yelled.
"Luka-chan!" Kaito said as he tried to restrain the pinkette, failing to stop his own tears from falling.
"Miku! MIKU!"
"Luka-chan! please! calm down!" Meiko pleaded with her as her own tears cascaded down her cheeks.
"No... no no..." Luka eventually stopped thrashing, but she didn't know how long it's been. She sank down to the floor like a broken doll and sobbed like she did back then. She killed Lily, and now Miku as well.
You can't be dead! You can't be... you just can't be... how can you leave me like this Miku...?
I'm sorry Luka-chan... I'm really sorry.
Luka-chan...
Luka-chan..
Luka-chan!
"Wake up!"
The pinkette gasped awake.
What the...?
Luka looked around and found herself in a hospital room with Meiko shaking her awake. Miku is lying down on the bed, her head bandaged but her vitals showing that she's okay. She blinked before she realized that it was just a dream.
"I'll go and check on the others" Meiko said in a silent tone before she left the room.
Luka grabbed a stool and sat down next to Miku, moved a strand of the tealette's locks away from her face. She has a few bruises on her cheeks, arms and legs but otherwise she's okay. Her own hair and clothes are still a little wet from the rain, but she didn't want to leave Miku until she woke up.
"I'm sorry... please forgive me..."
Luka said, gently pressing her lips against Miku's hand. She found that a few tears fell down her cheeks. If Miku died because of her, and of the same way that Lily did, she'd go insane. Who can take loosing the people they love in the same way all the time anyway?
"Luka..." the tealette stirred.
"M-Miku! You're okay..."
Miku weakly nodded her head with a soft smile on her face. But then she pulled her hand away from Luka when she realized she was holding it.
"Wh-what?" Luka asked, wondering if she'd done something wrong.
"I-I'm sorry!" Miku exclaimed, turning her head away from the pinkette "I know that you still have feelings for Lily-nee-"
"What? No I don't." Luka said plainly.
"...Hah?"
Luka scratched the back of her head.
"Well yes, it 's true that I did have a crush on Lily back then... but how can I still be in love with a dead girl when I have you around?" she said.
"W-what...?"
"I-I mean- that is-" the blood rushed to Luka's face as she realized what she just said. "T-that is I-I-I- uhm-"
Miku giggled at the sight of the pinkette blushing and fidgeting in front of her, it's quite... cute.
"Come here you,"
"Wha-mmphh!"
The tealette pulled the taller girl in pressed her lips against hers. Luka was stunned for a second but then she returned the kiss. Miku pulled away with a their cheeks flushed.
"I love you, Luka"
"I love you too... Miku"
"WOAH!" four people crashed through the door, eavesdroppers.
"Y-You-you-how much did you guys hear?!" Luka exclaimed, her face a darker shade than her hair.
"We heard everything~!" Kaito exclaimed.
"You guys are finally official!" Meiko added.
"Way to go Miku-nee! You finally did it!" Rin exclaimed.
"Finally after all these years!" Len added.
"Y-You-get over here all of you!" Luka chased the four out of the room, Miku just giggled at them.
She looked at the vase of white Lilies near the window. It's been over a day since she was brought to the hospital and the sky is finally clearing up.
Thank You... Miku-chan...
Miku didn't know if she was hallucinating or not, but in the ray of the sun that entered her window, she thought she saw Lily. A sixteen-year old version of Lily smiling at her. She's even more beautiful than she used to be, her golden blonde hair flowed with no wind and her eyes are still as blue as the sky itself.
"You can rest now... Lily-nee."
Lily smiled at her and waved goodbye, her body finally fading away with the wind to Nirvana.
(-Fin-)
Well that does it for this story, I hope you guys enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing/typing it.
Please leave a review if you have the time, thanks again. ^-^/