The second chapter of the rewrite of Crazy Days, that I do hope gets just as popular as the first, considering the grammar in this one should be a lot better, hopefully. I know for a fact that there are some people who don't read stories that have terrible grammar, and really bad plotlines, but thank all of those who liked and favored the last one. I hope this once is to your liking.
I don't own anything besides the plot, but I'm sure you guys know that by now.
~~~Len's P.O.V~~~
I swear, if Miku thinks she's my superior just because she's older than I am, and that I'll listen to what she says to me, she has another thing coming! After our encounter in the art room, I got a plan to how this could all work in my favor. Of course, I'll make the Kagamine girl fall for me, obviously with my devilishly handsome good looks, and my princely attitude towards girls, she won't be able to resist me. I'm guessing we'll date for about… a month? Maybe even a month in a half, just to spite Miku, and get her upset. Am I going to sleep with her? No, not in the plan book; I'll never sleep with a girl just to settle a score, that's always been my rule… well, my cousin, Oliver, rule. He kinda taught me the fine line between being a player, and a dick, so yeah. That's a no.
I walked into the class room, and took my seat, the one in the middle of the row closest to the door. I leant back with satisfaction on my face. I just got a new fun game to play. I looked over as I saw my best friend, Ted Kasane, sit down beside me. As usual, he had his stupid, magenta colored hair in his long, low pony-tail that's curled at the bottom. "Guess who looks like a mess." He says, sitting in the seat next to me. Unfortunate for me, his actual seat is the seat behind the one next to me, and the one next to me belongs to that demon, Teto Megurine.
I look down at myself, seeing my sweater, tie and shirt were either wrinkled or out of place. I make it work, but geez, if my reputation wasn't getting out there before… I glared at his 'look at me, I'm an honor student' straight, ironed clothes. "Quiet." I mumble, smoothing out my pony-tail. Ted is so lucky he's my partner in crime- wait, no he's not. If I ever were to commit a crime, I'm sure he'd be the one to tell me how stupid I was, and call the cops because he 'just refuses to be a part of it'.
Geez, this guy is lucky he's my best friend.
He pulled out a puzzle book, and my mood brightens at the thought of the new puzzle I just silently declared as mine. But before I could do that, I'm sure I need some more info on the girl other than her name. "Hey, Ted, have you seen N?" I asked, getting his attention by patting his arm, nearly messing him up as he almost messed up a 'T'.
He grunted, throwing me a distasteful look before closing his puzzle book-with his pen in it- and pushed up his glasses. "I saw him at the vending machine earlier. I believe he was 'leaking' something to a client of his." He explained, opening back his book. Just so you know, 'N' is the nickname I gave my information guy. His name's actually Nero Akita, who like to call what he does info breaking. He's the second best at what he does; the first being his crush, Neru Akita, who is not related to him at all. Oddly enough, there're like twelve other Akita's at this school. "Why're you looking for him? A new playmate or a bet?" he says bitterly. Both the subjects are sour to Ted because he doesn't believe in playing with girls feelings, wither it's for your own, or someone else's amusement.
…And also because a bet in the past ended up requiring him to dress up, act like Teto, and kiss me on the cheek, but let's not get into that.
"Dude, I said I was sorry-" I started, trying to apologize, only to be cut off coldly by Ted's glare.
"Answer the question."
"I-I found another plaything." I looked down, suddenly feeling ashamed of myself after admitting it to Ted. Does that mean I'll stop? Course not; even though we're friends, we still do things that the other doesn't necessarily agree with. For me, I don't agree with him crushing on that twisty haired demon, Teto.
"Who is it?" he said, looking at me with a raised eyebrow. "Didn't you leave this morning for some girl?"
"Yeah, I did, but that wasn't all that fun. Not to mention, I didn't chase her, she chased me, and you know how I feel about being the chaser." He nodded, waiting for me to tell who I was chasing. "Oh, my new chase is a girl of the name of Rin Kagamine."
After I said that, his eyes widened, and he looked shocked for a moment. "Wait, Rin Kagamine as in Teto's close friend? That Rin Kagamine?"
"I'm not sure." I said, scratching the back of my head. "I don't really know what she looks like, but she's friend with Miku, so she might be."
"Miku?" Ted asked, and I nodded. "Whelp, you might mean that Rin Kagamine. I don't think you want to do that, dude."
"And why not?"
"Because, that fact that you haven't met Rin, is the first, not to mention her brother and sister might just kill you if you hurt her, and all her friends. There's also the possibility that if you meet her, she might just turn your cricket road straight."
"I highly doubt it."
"Okay, remember how much trouble that kid, Gumo, used to be? The green haired boy with the stoic face and goggles that used to get into fights all the time because of his bad attitude."
"Yeah, I remember him. Why bring him up, didn't he transfer?"
"Where'd you hear that he transferred?" I shrugged.
"It's just no one ever talks about him anymore; that was the first thing that came to my head."
"Well, he didn't transfer, he still goes here. What happened was that he and Rin's older brother, Rinto, got into a fight- an actual fist-fight, too-, and somehow became friends. After that, he met Rin, and she talked him out of being a delinquent, and he mellowed down ever sense."
I scoffed, and rolled my eyes. "And you think she's just going to make me stop the things I do?"
"I don't think you understand the amount of delinquent this guy was. He beat the senior class president half to death because he told him he needed to go talk to someone about his problem." I shuddered, that was him? "Yet, he obediently talked to Rin about his life and hugged her near the end."
"I hardly think one person could actually do that."
"You'd be surprised at what 'one person' can do, Len. All it takes is a kind soul, and pure intent." I looked off into the side, thinking about what he said. I mean, that's true, it always, only takes one person. But… my will is too strong to just be broken by some girl. If anyone's going to be influenced by someone, it's going to be her by me.
"Whatever." I said, pulling out my phone and checking the time. Where's Nero? We still have about half an hour until class starts; he usually stops by this time of the morning.
I was about to send him a text, and tell him to stop by this class, but I stopped when an arm slugged its way around my shoulder, and a shoulder bumped into mine. "S'up, bitch, how's my favorite client doing this morning?"
"Impatient. You're kinda late, and I need info." I said, putting my phone back in my pocket. He chuckled as he pulled the seat that was in front of me in between Ted and me.
"But of course, I do expect payment for my services." He says, pulling a pink, medium-sized notebook out of his book-bag labeled 'Girls'.
"What are you, a hooker?" Ted laughs, writing some letters into the puzzle. Nero rolled his eyes before kicking the leg of Ted's desk, making him mess up. Ted clicked his tongue. "Shit head." Nero smiled, acting as if he did nothing wrong.
"Shame. So, my payment this time will be…" Nero said, looking at me, trailing off the end of the sentence so I could finish.
"How about I pay for your lunches for three weeks?" I said, racking my brains to think about what he would want. He rocked side-to-side in thought.
"As much as I would freaking love that because, you know, free food and all, but you paid me like that last time, Kagane. I want something new, and fresh, and something you didn't bribe me with before." Something fresh, new, and something I haven't used before? Can do.
"Well, I recently got the number to Neru's phone because of her sister. I could give you that." Course, she doesn't know I have it, and also won't know why you have it, but what he doesn't know won't kill him.
"You lie." He said, sitting straight up, looking at me with twinkling eyes. "You don't really."
"I do. And you can have it as long as you give me some good info on Rin Kagamine."
"Rin?" he says in disbelief before he throws his head back in laughter. "Oh man, are you stupid or something! You're going for her!"
"Okay, stop laughing." I said, glaring as he leaned over the back of the chair, laughing his freaking lungs out. "And Ted, don't you start." I saw him; the smirk on his face was evident enough that he found this as amusing as Nero did. "Whatever! So are you going to give me the info for the number, or not!"
"Yeah, yeah, don't start crying, girlie, I'm getting there." He says, wiping away a literal tear as he flips through the book. "Okay, Rin Kagamine; although you may be stupid, you have a good eye for ladies, Kagane. She's artistic, A and B honor student, and pretty wealthy."
"Wealthy?" I asked, and he nods.
"Her mom, Lola Kagamine, is a very well-known fashion designer. She's very well known for her Vocaloid collection. Her dad, Leon Kagamine, is a world renounce doctor."
"So, she's a rich girl."
"Yeah, pretty much."
"Okay, is there something I could use to get her to fall for me?" Nero sighed, shaking his head in disappointment. I don't know what his deal is. It's almost like he expected that to discourage me. Not a chance, once Len Kagamine starts a chase; he doesn't stop until he wins.
"Your death wish, fine, just don't blame me when you have to get in witness protection. Okay, Rin likes the arts, so I think if you have some knowledge of it, it should help. She likes oranges; they're her favorite fruits and desserts, so that's nice to keep in mind for dates, and that stuff. Um, she hasn't dated anyone, so I don't have any reference for you there, but she watches anime and Korean dramas, so no cheesy stuff, because she'll see right through that shit… or she'll think it's cute depending on what. Plays on the volleyball team, and she's a tomboy."
"Is that all you have?" I asked, frowning. I can work with it, but that's a little to work on. It's alright if I wanted to befriend her, but I'm trying to make her fall for me before the end of the school year. Dating her won't mean a thing if she and I don't have any classes together.
"That's all I can get. She's one of those girls who people know, but don't know. She doesn't talk about herself a lot."
"Is that so?" I said, leaning on my hand after resting my elbow on the desk. "Well, that's a bummer." The three of us got quiet for a moment, and watched the door as that demon Teto came in, dragging a cute blond girl, and my eyes followed her as she walked across the class.
"That's her." Ted said, pointing to her. And my mouth formed an 'o' and I tilted my head in thought. Haven't I seen her recently? I know for sure we haven't done anything, but her face seems familiar-
You wouldn't mind closing the door, would you, sweetheart?
"Shit." I said, palming my face. Couldn't have been anymore shameless at that particular moment, could I? I pinched the bridge of my nose as Ted and Nero looked at me with curious eyes. I forgot Miku mentioned she'd walked in on me this morning.
"What's wrong with your face, Len?" Ted said as Nero laughed and lightly began patting my back.
"Fallin' in love already? You've only just seen her, stupid face." Nero chuckled, and I glared at him, swatting his hand away from me. "No need to be so sour, it happens to the best of us." He smirked as I stood up. "Going somewhere, lover boy?"
"First of all, fuck you, and second, I have to apologize." I said, Ted raised an eyebrow, and Nero looked at me with mock shock. "She kind of walked in on me, you know, after activities with some sophomore girl."
"Kinda serves you right." Ted said, shrugging his shoulders, and I sent a glare to him. "Don't look at me like that; I warned you about doing that at school, but did you listen? No, you didn't, and let me just say, you're an idiot."
"Thanks, you're such a supporter. You make my heart super happy." I said sarcastically as I made my way over to Rin. As I walked away, I could still hear Nero laughing at me, and my face turned red with irritation. "Bite me, Nero." I whisper hostilely as I scanned the area, making sure Teto wasn't anywhere in sight. I let out a sigh of relief when I didn't, and quickened my step to get to the other blond. Don't get wrong, I'm not scared of that girl; Teto's just not normal.
Rin was sitting on a desk close to the window that had a wonderful view of the autumn trees, and got a wonderful breeze every once in a while. She was currently reading some manga called Fly High, and listening to music with really big headphones- the ones that go over your head too.
Well, it's now or never.
~~~Rin's P.O.V~~~
"Um, Rin Kagamine?" a boyish voice called, and I feel a tap on my shoulder. I read the last line of the page before looking up, meeting the face of the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy from earlier. Before I could help it, I jumped away from him, pulling my arms up in front of me, and squealed, shocked to see his face. I actually never expected to see him after that moment, and to have him here, in front of me, looking and asking for me just seems too surreal.
Though, my shock caused me to jump too high, and I fell off the desk. Still on the floor, I leant up, rubbing my poor back. "Ouch, ouch, ouch." I moaned. "Smooth move, Kagamine." I mumbled to myself. Of all the times to make a fool of yourself, you pick this one, how nice.
A hand suddenly appeared in front of me, and I look up the arm to find blond kid's face staring back at me. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He says, concern and amusement written of his face. My face takes on a red color, and I scoot myself up, and take a few steps away from him. "Hey, are-"
"I'm sorry." I cut him off, bowing my head a little as my head starts to spin, and mouth starts running. "I'm really sorry, I mean, it was rude of me to just assume no one used that room but me, I should have knocked. I'm really sorry, it'll never happen again, I swear-!"
"Hey, hey." He said, putting a hand out to stop my talking. "All of that's not necessarily your fault." He said, scratching the back of his head. "It was really wrong of me to not close and lock the door… and doing those kinds of things at school." He sent me a shy smile, and I returned it with red cheeks.
"Um, yeah, that's… true. But I was still very rude. So, yeah, I'm sorry for making you think I was a teacher." He chuckled, and I smiled along with him.
"Yeah, well, I didn't really come over here for an apology, but thanks." He said. I tilted my head.
"Well, why'd you come over here, then?" I asked, and a smirk came unto his face. I gulped and stepped back, laughing nervously. "W-well, why?" he slowly reached up and gently caressed my cheek with the back of his hand. "Um…"
"Well, that's quite simply, my dear." He inched closer to me, and I gulped again, color coming back to my cheeks. "What I want from you is-"
"-You better say 'to do well in school', because if not, you have just signed your death certificate, Kagane." The boy shivered, and turned quickly, coming eye-to-eye with the light magenta of the eyes of a murderer.
Scratch that, his murderer.
"Teto…" I said cautiously, looking between the boy and Teto. Teto looked at me and smiled, holding out an arm to me, beckoning me to come to her.
"Come here, Rinny. Get behind me, I don't want you to get hurt in any kind of way." I gulped, but walked around the blond boy-Kagane, as Teto called him- and stood behind Teto, looking around as the four or five students in the class looked at the two. "Kagane."
"Kasane, is all well?" he said, sweat dropping from the side of his head, and he put his hands in his pocket, smiling nervously as Teto glared. I smell murder and as much as I want to help this kid, Teto scares me as much as Lily. Not more, but it's really close.
"Are you really that much of an idiot to make Rin your target?" Teto folded her arms. Kagane rolled his eyes.
"Is everyone going to call me an idiot today?"
"It's written all over your face, so yeah."
"How nice and considerate of you to tell me that, Teto. Could I borrow your napkin so I can wipe it off?"
"Are you being a smartass just to die faster, or just because you think you could take me."
"Well, when you put it that way…" he said, a smirk crawling on his face. I gasped loudly; does he really want to die?! My head turns when I hear the sound of a chair scooting out, and that Ted guys slowly makes his way over here, but those two don't seem to notice.
"You know, you banana-munching, perverted, heart-less jerk, I could easily end you at this very moment." Teto said, crossing her arms as she stepped closer to him, standing toe-to-toe with him.
"Take a number, and a place in line, Teto, I'm sure there're many other people that want to end me." He laughed as Ted silently, kind of creeped his way into the little area the three of us created.
"Len." He warned as Teto, who was too busy glaring at Kasane to notice the new addition, grabbed his collar, pulling his smirking face closer to her, their noses coming in contact. What a fearless boy to be able to face a raging Teto like this; how brave and stupid. Before Ted and I could go into action to stop Teto, the door opened and Gumo walked in.
Ted and Kagane shuddered as he stopped next to me, and took my hand. "Rin, we're late."
"Late?" he nodded, and not long after my eyes widened in realization. "Late! Gumo, we're late!" he nodded again as I dragged him towards to door. "Teto, we have to go! We're late."
"Hmm." Gumo grunted, nodding and letting me drag him as out the door. "Mikuo was getting really impatient. And Rinto and Lily were getting worried."
"I'm sorry! Let's just hurry!" I yelled as we hurried down the hallways.
~~Time skip~~
"That was some day at school." Rinto yawned, stretching one of his arms, the other arm holding the covered canvas of the picture I made. "It was too long."
"Yeah, and the day hasn't ended just because school has." Lily said as she yawned into her sleeve. "The children at that school don't know how to act."
"You do know you only have to take care of the junior part of the student body, right?" I asked as I skipped next to her, and she dragged out a sigh.
"I'm talking about the junior part of the student body. They act like they don't have any goddamn sense! I swear, if my junior 'almost there' dance doesn't get clearance because of someone from this graduating class, I can guarantee they won't be graduating from this school."
"I'm sure that's the school board's decision." Rinto chirped in, rolling his eyes as Lily smirked.
"I wasn't talking about grade wise, little brother..." Rinto and I shuddered. Lily rubs her hands together evilly, and walks ahead as Rinto and I trial back. I swear, this girl could scare Hell Boy with the things she thinks about sometimes.
"Please, nothing illegal." Rinto whines silently as Lily suddenly turns back to… well, whatever it is it's not scary, not necessarily saying it's 'normal' either.
"Speaking of illegal," Lily starts, making it a point to look at Rinto. Although I can't see her face, I'm sure she's giving him that 'look at me be better than you' stare. "How's life been for you, Rinto?"
"Why does things that are illegal automatically results in my life?" he asked, glaring at Lily as she starts to giggle evilly.
"Because you were born in Area 51, and mom accidently adopted you instead of going to an actual adoption center."
"Ha, I'm telling mom." Rinto countered. "You just technically called her stupid." He chuckled as Lily punched him in the arm. I smiled as they began to argue with each other; better them than me i always say.
"Are you guys sure mom and dad are going to be out long enough for us to get everything ready?" I asked as we turned the corner to our block. We looked at our driveway, seeing mom and dad's car gone, and sighed happily.
"Yep." Lily said as she unlocked the door to the house and walked in, dropping her school bag at the door, and messily taking off her shoes. "Now, I'm going to go get the banners Rinny made out of my room, and you guys start with the balloons." She said as she began her ascend up the stairs.
Rinto sighed as he took his shoes off neatly and headed into the house, commenting silently about how Lily acts like a man sometime. I shook my head as I put Lily's shoes to the side nicely, and followed Rinto in the house after taking off my shoes. I sat down on the light peach couch as Rinto came into the living room with a large handful of balloons. He sat them on the glass table as he lazily took one and started to blow it up before grabbing the remote and turning the TV on.
I happily took one and began blowing it up myself as Lily ran down the stairs carrying a box full of the banner I made and some confetti. She sprinkled some on the floor before filling three small bowls of it and putting it on the table next to some unblown balloons. "Rinto, help me put these up in the hallway, and Rin, take these outside and hang them on the front door, 'kay?"
Rinto sighed lazily, taking his foot off the table and grabbing two banners and walking towards the kitchen door frame. I grabbed some of the banners and some tape before skipping outside and hanging it on the door.
The banners weren't anything special, but I made them with my heart and soul… and glitter, but they were perfect, and Lily and Rinto agreed. I stepped back to enjoy my work, but something looked like it was missing. I ran to the side of the house where some forget-me-nots Lily had planted were growing. I grabbed two of them, ran back to the front, and wove them into the ends of the banner, and nodded as I thought how the color blended nicely with the back color of the banner.
I opened the door, seeing Lily had finished off with the balloons, and Rinto had started fixing up the kitchen while Lily cleaned around the decorations, making sure everything was in order for mom and dad. "Lily, I took some of your forget-me-nots from the side to put in the banner on the door." I informed her, making sure she wouldn't blow up a building if she found out someone was messing with her flowers again.
"My forget-me-whats?" she joked. She made up that joke when she was younger, and still uses it now. I giggled a little as she shined up a picture of her, Rinto, and me when we were younger. "Okay, I just hope you didn't take all of them." She says finally as she sets the frame down and flops on the couch. "Are we going to clean their room tonight?" she called to Rinto and me.
"They're probably not going to be here tomorrow, so we'll do it then." Rinto said as he walked to us, carrying a three-layered lemon cake, mom's favorite type of cake. "Aren't they going out or something tonight?"
"Oh right, dad always surprises mom on today but taking her out really late, doesn't he…" Lily said, crossing her arms as she threw her head back. I frowned; as excited as I was, it don't think it'll last long. By ten o'clock, I'm sure I would crash and fall asleep. I hope they come back before then.
It was about six fifteen when Rinto and Lily decided that we would make pizza to eat before mom and dad got home, and for several hours after that, we kind of just played around or watched TV, and by nine fifty, I had fallen asleep.
~~~Lily's P.O.V~~~
I sighed as Rinto carried Rin up to her room, and looked at my wrist watch, seeing it was just ten minutes after ten o'clock. I'm sure dad would bring mom in at about eleven, and then get ready to take her out to a cruise that go every year. Unless he takes her somewhere else nowadays…
I slumped on the couch as Rinto came back down as plopped down next to me, putting his feet on the table. "Rinny's going to miss it when mom and dad get home, isn't she?" he said. I nodded, looking at the weather channel. "Any reason we're watching the weather channel?"
"I have a date tomorrow with Rei tomorrow. I want to make sure the weather's alright." I explained then narrow my eyes as he gets that overprotective look on his face. "Get that look off your face; I'm the older sibling here."
"But Rei pisses me off sometimes." He says as he crosses his arms. I roll my eyes; as if it wasn't obvious enough when you threw a knife at him when he walked in the kitchen a year ago. "Why do you want to date that guy anyways?"
"Would you rather I dated a girl?" I say. He gets this 'I can't believe you just said that' look on his face as he shakes his head.
"As much I care what you do with your spare time, I just don't like Rei, because, once again, he pisses me off sometimes."
"Keyword: sometimes; meaning every once in a while, you tolerate him." I said, smirking as he looked away. I smiled fondly because I know that's this is just his way of showing he cares. "You don't have to worry about it, though, little bro, besides, Rin likes him."
"Rei's actually nice to Rin, though."
"He plays with Rin just like he plays with you." I said, rolling my eyes again. Rinto's being a baby; I get that, but no reason he shouldn't like Rei because he gets along with Rin-wait. "This dislike for Rei wouldn't have anything to do with Rin, would it?" he froze and I knew I caught him. "Oh, so you're one of those jealous big brother types; how cute."
"Like I care wither Rin likes Rei more, that's the least of my worries." He pouts, turning back to me, his cheeks a bit flushed. "Another thing-"
"We're home!" mom's excited voice comes from the hallway. She must have seen Rin's banner hanging on the door, and got really excited; she's usually really tired when she comes home at this hour. Rinto and I walked over to them, and gave her and dad a hug. "Thanks guys." She said while hugging us tightly. "Um, where's Rin?"
"She fell asleep just before you got here." Rinto said with a smile full of sympathy as mom frowned, sighing as dad walked around us with a box of leftovers from wherever he took her. "Sorry about that; I'd walk her but…"
"No, it's fine." Dad said, taking off his shoes and putting his and mom's coat on the coat hanger. "I'm sure she's very tired from all the work she's done." He smiled tiredly as he looked back at the door, and I'm sure he was talking about the banner on the door; if he thought that was hard work, he's going to flip out once he sees the picture. "We'll only be here for an hour and a half, so I guess it would be pointless to wake her."
"Well, I guess." Mom said as she leaned one of her hands which arm was rested happily in the other. She sighed before turning to Rinto, "I'm sure you made a cake, hun, so where is it?" Rinto shrugged, leading mom and dad to the living room where Rinto had placed the cake on the table.
Rinto and I sat them on the couch as we presented their presents to them. I felt really bad about showing Rin's present off to them without her, but mom had her camera already on her-in which she had taken pictures of the door before entering the house-so I took many pictures. After cutting the cake, and presenting my speech, I placed the covered picture in front of them, making sure Rinto was recording as I took the covering off.
The look on their faces was priceless; they were so amazed. The picture almost brought them to tears, and Rinto and I smiled at each other. Dad took the picture from me, and studied it fondly as mom ran her fingers over the small 'Rin Kagamine' in Rin's cursive at the bottom right of the picture. Mom got up and hugged Rinto and me before making her way to the stair. I motioned for Rinto to stay with dad as I followed after mom.
She made her way to Rin's room quietly, and crouched down next to the head of the bed, right next to Rin's face. She started brushing Rin's hair back before kissing her on the forehead. "Thank you, baby." She whispered, pressing her forehead against Rin's. "I love you so much." I smiled fondly before crossing my arms behind my back and making my way down the stairs.
~~~Chapter End~~~
The best thing about a remake is that you can change the things didn't really like in the original. What I tried to do in the original was give Rin a kinda misunderstood relationship with her parents, but when I read over it, the relationship in the first one didn't really… cut how I wanted the relationship, so… yeah.