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~~~Rinto's P.O.V~~~

I yawned as I leaned back into my seat, waiting for class to start. It was going to take a while since Mr. Pulley is always late. For a technology teacher, you'd think he could run a proper clock and make sure he wasn't late to a class. I looked over at Lenka, seeing her play with her mixer on her own laptop. Mr. Pulley let the students bring in laptops from home as long as they'll let him check out their browser history before they leave the class.

I can happily say that more than half the class is using the school's laptop instead of bringing them. I shook my head as I paused the music on my laptop before leaning into Lenka's, she was so distracted with her mixing her music she hadn't noticed me getting closer. I laughed when she jumped as I kissed her cheek, nearly letting out a small squeal in the form of my name, "Rinto!"

"Yes." I say casually as I sit back in my seat, watching her pull off her headphone, letting them sit around her shoulders as she pouts at me. "Sorry, did I scare you?" I asked, knowing full well I did, and chuckling as she attempts to glare at me. Her expressions are just really cute.

"I didn't find that funny."

"You never did. That's why it's really funny to me." You'd think she'd use to it by now; we've been dating for nearly two years. She pouts before crossing her arms and looking away from me. "Awe, Lenka, don't do that~" I whine playfully, wrapping my around her shoulders, making sure not to brake her headphones; if I brake these, I'll have to buy her another pair, and these are the third ones I had to buy her. I pull her close, my nose brushing against her cheek.

When she ignores me, closing her eyes and turning her head away from me more, I pout before nipping at her ear, and she yelps, her cheeks heating up. "Rinto, what—?"

I cut her off, whispering in her ear lowly, "I hope I didn't make you upset, Lenka, because if I did," I give a quick kiss to her earlobe, making her shudder before whisper, quite sexily if you asked me, "I would happily make it up to you." By this point, her face was completely red, and she stumbled on her words, looking at me as she tried to come up with a reply to that.

"I—y-y-you can't—w-we were— I-I-I was just—!" she mumbled before putting her hands on my chest, trying to push me away from her. "W-we're in class!" she bellows as I laugh at her, pulling back to wrapping my arms around my stomach as I laughed hysterically. See, what did I tell you? Her reactions are hilarious. "R-Rinto, that's not funny!" this time, I sighed as I try to calm down my laughter, kissing her cheek gently as I apologized.

"I'm sorry, honey, but sometimes, you're just too adorable not to tease." I teased, watching her glare at me before sticking her tongue out at me. I run my thumb over her cheek before cupping her cheek and pulling her closer to me again as I leaned in, kissing her on the lips as an apology. She wasted no time in closing her eyes and kissing me back; she tries to be the dominated one, molding her lips to mine forcefully, and I bite back a laugh as my lips quickly, and quite easily, dominates hers. Look at her, trying to be all forceful and stuff; it's really cute.

"Um, not to ruin your moment or anything…" Gumo's voice reaches our ears, and Lenka pulls back with a red face and I turned to see Gumo coming into our isolated area in the corner of the class; everyone else on the other end of the class, talking about nothing. "But do I have something to tell you."

"Gossip?" I grimaced. I was never one for gossip, and neither was Gumo. He shook his head with a disgusted look as Lenka looked between the two of us, curiosity peaking on her face. "What then?"

"Len Kagane is targeting Rin." He says, a small frown on his face, but a bit of amusement is shown in his eyes as he sat in the seat next to me. I raise an eyebrow at him, and he goes into explaining. "He walked up to me and asks me a question about her, and I asked him if he was targeting her. He didn't say no."

"That doesn't mean he said yes either." I said, frowning at the thought of that boy playing around with Rin's feelings. "Are you absolutely sure he's targeting her?"

"Although I wasn't given an exact answer, his silence, not to mention his actions, speaks for itself." He said, bringing out a green laptop, putting in the code before getting online. "I mean, it is a bit suspicious that he would walk up to me, who he is obviously scared of, and ask me a question on my past with Rin."

"He asked that?" Lenka asked, shocked that the kid would actually ask something like that. "Len never seemed like that kind of kid."

Gumo and I looked questioningly at her, our eyebrows raised. "You know him personally?" I asked, frowning at her, thinking that by that she meant that he and her…

"Oh, Heavens; not like that!" she bellowed, sensing the meaning of my questioning. "Despite me being a year older than him, I used to babysit him as a kid." I physically relaxed, but still stayed on my toes. That kid was after my sister after all. "Though, I don't see any reason why Len would want to go after Rinny like that."

I shrugged, frowning as I looked over at the abandoned music I was listening to. The three of us were just sitting in silence for a moment. "I kinda want to see him try." Gumo said, breaking the silence while typing a message to someone, not really looking at either Lenka or me. I scoffed, and he retraced his steps after sending the message, finally looking at me. "I mean, c'mon, Rinto, wouldn't you like see how it'll all play out?"

"You mean with the possible outcome that my little sister could get her heart broken by a douchebag?" I questioned, the frown on my face intensifying as I all but send a glare his way. He chuckles, waving my glare off.

"You and I both know Rin's too smart to fall aimlessly into a playboy's tricks." He said, typing some more, "Besides, what if he actually falls for Rin? What would you say to that?"

"I'd say I've a man whore as an in-law." I turned back to my computer, searching up YouTube for a music video or something to distract myself from this conversation.

"Can't you give the benefit of the doubt?" he said, looking at Lenka. "I think he's being too hard on the kid, right, Lenka?" and although music beats were blasting out her headphones, she nodded, looking at me with a pleading smile. I cursed slightly under my breath, knowing she was going make me agree to whatever Gumo, and whoever else was involved, had planned.

"Len isn't necessarily a bad guy, Rinto, he just doesn't make the greatest decision sometimes." She pleaded, putting a hand on my arm as a way to somewhat sooth me. "Could you at least give him a chance?"

I sighed, knowing that all this would probably be more trouble than it was worth, but decided to just go along with it, because I'm sure neither of them were going to let me intervene like I'd want. "Fine."

I just hope I don't regret it.

~~~Rin's P.O.V~~~

I hummed, walking to the piano room where Len would be waiting. The bell rang not too long ago, and I had just left Rinto's club room; I had to tell him I was staying after as well, that way, he won't leave me. Once I got to the door, I almost opened it right off the bat, but remembering what happened last time, I knocked, making sure I could be heard, giving him about thirty seconds, and opening the door, sighing in relief to only see Len, leaning against the grand piano sitting in the middle of the room.

"Oh, thank goodness, you're clothed." I sighed playfully, putting my hand on my chest as I walked over to him. He cracked a smile, rolling his eyes as he took a seat at the piano, patting the seat next to him before sending me a croaked smile. "What? No wise crack?"

"Sorry, no, I think you pulled all of them out of me the last time we saw each other." He played, shaking his head a bit as if he was ashamed of me or something. "And you know I live for those wise cracks; what will come of my life if I don't have those?"

"Oh, poor you." I teased as I sat next to him, looking at the piano, confused at the keys before looking over at the opened, yellow binder he had opened, seeing the sheet music to Lacie. "Hey, where's 'F' on this thing?" I asked, reading the notes before scanning my fingers across the keys. Len looked confused for a moment, but still pressed down on a key, making the piano sing. I nodded, and with one hand, played the notes of the measure with a treble clef on it.

"Hold on, you can read notes, but not play the piano?" he asked smartly, and I rolled my eyes before looking at him with a pout on my face.

"I play the violin, Numb Nuts," I said in a voice that screamed 'duh' before continuing. "They notes are basically the same, smart one." This time, he rolled his eyes, amusement rolling in his eyes.

"Thanks for that insulting lesson, Miss Kagamine. It hurt my heart; intensely." He said, placing a hand on his heart as if he had been shot, looking slightly offended as he shook his head. "And I thought you were the nice Kagamine."

"Well, you were wrong." I whispered as I bumped my shoulder to his before he laughed and returned the action. "But, seriously, I'm pretty nice when I'm trying to be."

"Are you trying to be?"

"Not in the slightly." I sang as he disappointingly shook his head at me. We continued this banner for a while before we actually started working on the piece. I practiced the vocals after Len had perfected his playing. After I was done singing, Len applauded me.

"Not only can she read music, she can actually sing folks!" he teased, talking in an announcer-like voice, putting his hands out as if he was presenting me to other people, "Rin Kagamine, everybody." I shoved him as he laughed, and I replied by sticking my tongue out at him. "You did sound very nice though."

I bowed playfully, "Well, don't I feel pleasantly honored; being complimented by the Len Kagane. I'll remember this day fondly."

He rolled his eyes for the umpteenth time that day, collecting sheet music from the stand on the piano, putting it nicely in his binder. "You know, sometimes, your sarcasm hurts."

I hummed, nodding my head a bit. "I try." I looked at the clock, biting my bottom lip a bit, not thinking we'd be done within an hour. Rinto wouldn't be getting out of his club until an hour and a half later. I watched Len as he wrapped a red scarf around neck before putting a pair of red, cozy earmuffs on his ears and I played with my fingers. He must have noticed something was wrong with me, because he tilted his head as he stood and started walking towards the door with me following.

"Hey, is something wrong?" he asked, and I shook my head, giving him a small smile before skipping next to him. I could always go to the gym, and watch Rinto in basketball, maybe even chat with a few members, I don't know, but I wouldn't want to burden Len with the problem I was having. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah; nothing's the matter." I said, starting to walk ahead of him, tossing my bag to one hand and swinging it at my side as I took each step. "I just have a lot of time to spare before my ride gets here." I said before I could stop myself, and my eyes widened before I face palmed myself. "I… didn't mean to say that out loud." I mumbled against my hand.

"Oh, well, if you don't have anywhere to go… um, how about hanging with me?" he said as we stopped in front of my locker. He looked away, using a hand to bring his scarf over his face, which I presume was getting a bit pink. I looked at him shocked before I realized I had unlocked my locker already.

"Um, well, what do you have in mind?" I asked shyly as I reached into my locker, getting a pink scarf and similar color earmuffs, putting my bag down by the bottom of the locker door, slowly wrapping my scarf around myself.

"Well, there's a café not too far from the school. It's an ideal place to sit and relax on a cold day like this." He said, still not looking at me, seemingly embarrassed—well, it's either that, or really excited. "We could hang out and, y'know, talk?"

I shook my head at the possibility that this might be a date, and answered slowly as I put my earmuffs on hesitantly, "Um, yeah… s-sure…" I turned to look at him, a small smile falling upon my lips, "Just… just let me tell my brother first." He nods, motioning his hands in a 'lead-the-way' kind of way. He followed me to the first floor gym room, seeing various girlfriends standing just inside the door; Lenka was there, calming leaning against the wall by the door.

She looked up at us, scanning Len and me before smiling. "Hello, Rin, Len; how are you doing?" she asked, pulling the earplug out of her ear, and turning down the music on her IPod. I smiled and waved, seeing Len nod respectfully from the corner of my eye as we stopped.

"Hey, Lenka." I said as I looked into the gym room, trying to see over the heads of the girls lining at the door. "Are they still in practice?" I asked, looking over to her with a small frown on my face. She nodded, a sympathetic look on her face.

"Sorry, Sweet Pea, they just started a practice game, and it's going on longer than they thought it would." My mouth formed an 'o' before I nodded. "Anything you need?"

"Oh, right." I said, smiling gently, "Len and I wanted to hang out with each other." I explained, "We were going to go to a café close to the school, and hang out." Lenka looked very amused for a moment before she nodded, rustling both Len and my hair.

"I'll be sure to tell Rinto, then." She said, "You two go have some fun." I nodded to her, sending her a thankful smile before grabbing Len's hand and leading him to the entrance.

We walked side by side, talking about a lot of other things. I hardly knew where one conversation started, and another ended. I honestly hadn't known Len was such a cool guy. It was really fun, it was like Len and I were best friends in another life because we automatically clicked.

"I hadn't realized the walk from the school was go long." Len complained, rubbing his arms with his hands, shrugging his shoulders so his scarf covered his ears. "It's too cold for this."

"I love this weather." I said, doing a small skip before looking over at Len. "Don't tell me you're actually cold." I whined, swinging my arms at my side. "We've been outside for at least fifteen minute!"

"Look, Rin, not everyone is a reptile like you; some people get cold sometime." I rolled my eyes.

"Ha, ha, aren't you clever." I said, crossing my arms. "How long did it take you to come up with that one? Three days?"

"Three days? Aren't you giving me too much credit?"

"A month seemed a bit mean." I smirked at him and he scoffed, rubbing his hands against each other. All teasing aside, I asked, concern in my tone, "Are you alright?"

"Just freezing my ass off, it's no big deal." He laughed, holding his own hands, hoping to get some warmth in them. "I had a little intolerance to the cold. I can't really stay warm during weather like this."

"That's why you don't like the winter?" he nodded, "Oh." I hummed before reaching for his hands, wrapping my small yet warm hands around his larger ones. He looked at me, shocked, before a small blush came on his already reddened cheeks. "I usually stay warm in the cold seasons," I took a step closer to him, my shoulder touching his shoulder. "I'm like a body warmer." I said excitedly.

"Um, yeah…" he said, moving one hand to put in his pocket, the other keeping my hand in his. I swung my now empty hand at my side. "Hey… are you this close with everyone?" Len asked not too long after and without thinking, I nodded my head. "Oh."

"Something wrong?" I asked as he looked up before pulling me to a door, opening it and letting me walk in first before following right after me.

"No, it's nothing." He said as we found a table close to the window. The waitress came and took our orders, I order a hot chocolate in a to-go cup, and Len order an espresso, also in a to-go cup, and a hot cinnamon roll. "So, Rin, let me about yourself." He asked after the waitress left.

"Well, I don't know who 'yourself' is, but I heard he's a real swell guy." I giggled as Len glared at me, but laughed it off. "Okay, I'm done; seriously this time."

"Finally, I thought I'd die if I heard another one of your awful attempts of making a joke." He sat back in his seat, draping an arm over the back of it, making me scoff and cross my arms.

"What are you talking about? I'm hilarious."

"Yeah, right, and I'm the queen of England."

"It's nice to meet you, milady—"

"—I thought you said you were done—"

"—Well, you got me started again—"

"—How mature of you." He said, leaning the table with his arm, looking as if he's won the little, kind of, debate we were having. I stuck my tongue out at him and looked away, the look on his face making me blush a bit. "Just farther proving my point." He said, leaning back again in his seat, laughing straight out. I had the urge to stick my tongue out at him again, but decide against it since it would just prove his point.

We continued to socialize with each other, laughing and joking, sharing sarcastic remarks and information about each other. Apparently, since birth, Len was musically talented; he also has an unhealthy obsession with bananas, and doesn't seem to think of himself as a shota.

"You're delusional." I said, rolling my eyes as the waitress finally came back with our order—after almost five minutes, but I didn't want to give the lady a bad day, so I said my thank you and let her go. I sipped my hot chocolate before reaching forward and stealing a piece of Len's cinnamon bun.

"Excuse me?" he said, raising an eyebrow as he pulled his cinnamon bun out of my reached, and I pouted.

"If you don't think you're a shota, you have to be delusional—I mean have you seen yourself?"

"Yes, and this drop-dead gorgeous, devilishly charming face does not scream shota." He said, caressing his face, admiring himself before taking a bite from his cinnamon bun. I scoffed, raising an eyebrow at him. "All this coming from a Lolita herself; how hypocritical."

I pretended to look offended, placing a hand on my chest and gasping loudly. "What- a Lolita! How dare you!?"

"I'm just speaking the truth here."

"That's just an opinion of yours."

"My opinion is truth."

"You've got that wrong!"

He rolled his eyes, drinking at his espresso. I followed him by sipping at my hot chocolate some more. I reached forward to take another piece of Len's cinnamon bun. He pulled it out of my reach before I could rip it. "Do you plan on stealing my entire cinnamon bun, or…"

I hummed before scooping up some more, and snatching a piece of the fluffy goodness. "It's how I show affection; you should be grateful."

"Oh, I think I'd rather you'd hate me then."

"No you don't"

"And why's that?"

"Cause then I'd steal all of them." I laughed as I put the piece in my mouth, watching him chuckle a bit, a half smile growing on his face as he took a sip of his espresso. We sat in a comfortable silence with small smiles on our face, enjoying each other's presence.

I opened my mouth to say something when a squeal from outside interrupted me. I looked to see a girl with dirty blond hair—it was a bit on the brown side actually—in a side ponytail with honey yellow eyes, the same color as Neru's. She was wearing our school uniform, but it seemed a bit… exposing, even in this kind of weather. She really shocked and excited before she made her way to the café doors.

"Oh my God, what the fuck…" I heard Len groan, putting his head in his hands, slumping over the table as the dirty blond ran over to us, throwing her arms around him somewhat lovingly. I rolled my eyes as she began to squeal, and I threw apologetic looks at the customers who looked over at her, annoyed with her behavior. Len sent me a distressed look, leaning over and putting his hand on the girl's face as she made it a point to press her make-up caked face against his, and I stifled a laugh at his misfortune.

"Oh, Lenny, I missed you so much!" she squealed, trying to move Len's hand off her face. "Did you miss me too!? Oh, of course you did! Awe, Lenny~!" I cringed as she continued to yell before releasing him, pulling a chair from another table to our, sitting very close to Len. I looked at the waitress that was serving Len and me as she raised her eyebrow, raising her pen and paper, silently asking 'Do I serve that too?' I silently laughed into my head before shaking my head to her, and she gladly went to serve someone else.

I wouldn't blame her.

"Okay, yeah, not to be rude and cut you off, but I'm kinda doing something that's not listening to you babble about your day." Len said, snatching his sleeve out of the girl's hand, resulting in her pouting, reaching for it again. "No really, leave."

"But Lenny; I want to spend time with you." She cooed, wrapping her arms around Len's shoulders and burying her face in his scarf. Len raised his hand as if he was weighing something, probably wanting to hit her, but looked at me instead, silently asking 'What the fuck?' I shook my head, rolling my eyes, sliding the napkin with his cinnamon bun on it over to me and ripping a piece off for me to eat.

"Nera, don't you think you should go to the bathroom and pretty-up—I mean, powder your nose?" Len asked, putting his espresso on the table to unwrap 'Nera's' arm from around him. "That would make me very happy." After he said that, I did the throw-up thing when I was sure neither of them were looking at me. She smiled happily, nodding her head before cupping his cheek.

"Anything to make you happy, Len." She said, trying to be seductive. Once she was out of our view, Len quickly snatched the cinnamon bun from me, glaring at me.

"I was being assaulted and you decided it was a good idea to steal my food?" he said, looking at the large cinnamon bun pitifully. I rolled my eyes. I don't see what he's complaining about, even that half of a cinnamon is more than he could fit in his hand.

"It was the perfect moment. You were distracted; my moment to strike was at hand."

"Speaking of moments to strike, we should get out of here before she gets back." He said, standing grabbing his espresso in on hand, pulling out his wallet in the other. I nod my head, putting on the earmuffs that I took off earlier, and grabbing my hot chocolate as he put a twenty on the table, grabs my hand, and heads outside laughing.

"So, who was that girl?" I asked as we made our way back to the school. We'd put some good distance between us and the café, I hardly doubt the girl noticed, but I really hope she was taking some time in the bathroom. Len sighed once the question left my lips, taking a huge gulp for the espresso that was probably lukewarm by now, breaking his cinnamon bun in half and offering me a piece. I happily took it as he started talking.

"That was Nera Akita, Neru's cousin or something."

"Any reason she acted all…"

"Like a fan girl?"

"I was going to say like an obsessed junky, but whatever." I shrugged, biting into the cinnamon bun as Len laughed, shaking his head a bit at me.

"You know, some of the things you say takes my breath away."

"Is that a good thing?"

"Definitely." He smiled a smile filled with mutual trust and understanding, and I returned the smile, bumping my shoulder to his, he returned the action before continuing to talk. "I used to date Nera." He stated, shuddering as he thought about the relationship. "I broke up with her before she got what she wanted, and it resulted into that."

"Ah, she wanted to elope in Vegas, but you wanted to get married on a beach in Mexico to a beautiful bride…" he stiffened a laugh, covering his lips with his espresso.

"Y'know, Rin, I'm sure we're going get along better than I thought we would." And I smiled.

~~~CHAPTER: END~~~