Oranges and Bananas

by rinny02

Spring break has started, and now that means Len and Rin can hang out for the first time in awhile. Potential shenanigans and fluff, will probably go past spring break (description may change). Rated T just in case.

3. Miku's House

pilz: hey guys we finally finished! thank you for your lovely reviews . also, in the second chapter we forgot to acknowledge the reviews for the first chapter, oops. so thank you Lunamon3579, MIMI, and Rose Wreath! (Rose Wreath, i made an attempt to fit in your suggestion about the sandwich being gross haha). also thanks to everyone who faved / followed, i'm so glad you liked it!

Beluga: This chapter is one of the many great things in this world. Also, Kaito really is great and I loved writing him, but I still like my banana haired friend who has many fears more. Also, six thousand words? Yep, lots of 'em, even though this really could have been split into two parts.

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Miku unlocked the door to her home and stepped in. "Well, here we are, guys," she sighed, dropping her purse on a table by the door.

Grinning, Rin walked into the next room and immediately sat down in a very large chair. "Miku, have I mentioned how much I love your house?"

Miku sat on a similar chair across from Rin and laughed. "Yes, Rinny, I believe you have."

Kaito followed the girls with a smile on his face and happily chirped, "Heheh, it is a rather impressive house. Don't you agree, Len?"

Len had been following the rest of his friends silently from behind, a bit uncomfortable as he had never been here before. He didn't know where everything was and the building was much more massive than his apartment. "It certainly is larger than my own home."

Rin noticed that Len looked slightly uncomfortable, so she waved him over. "Why don't you sit next to me, Lenny? There's definitely enough room on this chair for both of us," she offered, scooting to the right a little and patting the space to her left.

Len walked over to Rin and sat down in the chair she was sitting in. He whispered to her, "Thank you. . ."

"No problem. You haven't been here before, right? Just stick with me or Miku and you shouldn't get lost," she replied quietly.

Len nodded. He knew Kaito would probably take him somewhere weird if he followed him.

Looking over to Miku, Rin asked, "So, what now?"

Miku looked up at Kaito. "Any suggestions? Should we start one of the games now?"

Kaito smiled, then spoke. "Well, truth or dare is always more fun late at night, so we should start with hide and seek."

"That's true," Miku said, nodding in agreement.

Rin perked up. "Ooh, who wants to be the seeker first?" she asked, looking back and forth between her friends.

When no one spoke up, Miku sighed. "I'll do it."

The moment Miku said she'd seek first, Kaito was out of the room. Nice, now I can eat all her ice cream, he thought to himself as he set out to go to her freezer room to find it.

Miku smirked as she saw Kaito leave. Good thing we haven't bought ice cream in months. She sighed and leaned back into the chair, covering her face with a pillow.

"Okay," Rin said. "Lenny, you should hide with me so you don't get lost."

"Okay, Rinny!" he said and got out of their seat, reaching for Rin's hands to pull her up.

Rin took Lens hand gratefully and pulled herself up; then she held onto his hand tightly and began walking quickly down a nearby hallway. Once they were far enough away from Miku and the sound of her counting grew faint, Rin said, "We're hiding in one of the guest rooms." They started walking up a staircase.

Len was still baffled by the length of each room and hallway and he wondered how Miku got anywhere in her home. "How large is the room we're hiding in going to be?"

"Huge, of course," Rin giggled. She pulled him up the stairs and down another hallway, then took a turn to the left and chose the second room on the right.

As she was walked inside, Miku's shout could be heard, "TEN!"

Rin jumped and ran into the room. "Let's go in the closet, it's pretty big in there."

"Ten?!" Just how slow is she counting? Len wondered, making his way to a door in the room he hoped was the closet. He assumed it was, as there were clothes on a few hangers inside, and waited for Rin to go in before he did. "Is this it?" he asked.

"Yep," Rin said and walked inside, shutting the door behind them. She sat on the floor and sighed in relief, "We made it!"

Len sat down beside Rin and smiled. "Yeah! Should we be quiet so she doesn't hear us?"

"READY OR NOT, HERE I COME!" Miku announced.

Rin nodded, "We should be quiet since she's looking now, but silence can wait until she's in the hallway."

"She'll probably look for Kaito first, anyway. She probably already has an idea where he is," Len said, chuckling.

"Yeah. Knowing him, he probably went to the freezer, but I think Miku ran out of ice cream a couple months ago. . ."

"In some aspects, that's good; he'll get sick if he ate a mansion's worth of ice cream," Len laughed quietly. His phone made a noise, so he checked it. It was a message from Kaito: I am so disappointed, there is no ice cream here.

Len laughed again, "You're right, there isn't' any ice cream." Len accidentally scrolled up the message list when he wasn't looking and when he went to lock his phone, he saw the message Kaito had sent him when they were at the park the day before. His cheeks turned pink.

Rin laughed, "I thought so. But seriously, how has he not gotten sick yet?"

Len thought for a second, and then jokingly said, "Maybe the Shion family is a different type of people who can tolerate that much ice cream."

"You know, I wouldn't be surprised. But at least it's ice cream. I don't know how Miku can stand leeks," she said, making a sour face. Her phone vibrated. She'd gotten a text from Miku: Found Kaito in the freezer, you guys are next.

"She's looking for us now," Rin told Len.

Len's heart began to race; he was somewhat excited. It's like a murderer is coming after us, but only not, he thought. "Well, there are a lot of rooms here, so it should take them awhile to find us."

"Yeah. Anyway, the freezer's on the other side of the house, so it would take her a few minutes just to get to this floor unless she ran."

"So, what should we do until she gets here?"

"I'm not sure."

As they were waiting for Miku to find them, a scratching sound came from the door. Rin quickly turned her attention to the door. ". . .What was that?" she breathed.

Len crept towards the door, quite frightened. Then he backed away, scared, hoping it was just a dog or something. "I'd like to hope it's a dog, or Kaito and Miku trying to scare us," he whispered to Rin.

Rin sighed in relief. "It's probably Miku's dog, Miki," she said, then slowly opened the door to reveal an Afghan hound. Miki walked into the closet and lay down on the floor while Rin closed the door again.

Len petted the dog. Suddenly, he began hearing faint voices and he put his finger to his lips and looked at Rin.

Kaito sighed deeply, "So why does your family not have any ice cream again?"

"We'd rather spend our money on something more delicious and healthy-leeks," Miku replied. "Besides, I'm glad we didn't bother getting any more. If we did you'd probably be in the bathroom throwing up. You actually just had ice cream for lunch!"

Rin snickered and covered her mouth as the voices grew nearer.

Len got close to Rin and whispered to her, "I really don't th-"

The door opened, quickly hushing Len up.

All Kaito saw was a boy kissing a girl, and he just laughed quite a bit. "Alright kids, seven minutes in heaven's over, you've been caught!"

Rin blushed. "Kaito! I-it's not. . . we didn't. . . why would you think that?" she said, frantically waving her arms around. "Th-this is just a m-misunderstanding!"

Miku only sat on the bed, petting Miki and watching the show.

Len couldn't do anything; he just sat there. Maybe it wouldn't've been so bad if it had been a murderer after all, he thought. He tried to at least formulate some sort of coherent words, but all that came out was, "W-we. . . n-no."

Kaito had a wild grin on his face. "Well, you got caught whether you were kissing or not-which you definitely were-so come back when you two lovebirds are done." He then slammed the door shut, walked over to the bed, and laid down on his back with his legs hanging off the the side of it.

Rin groaned and flopped down on her back. "What's with him and his need to embarrass us? We didn't even do anything!"

Len sighed and began to think out loud, "He probably thinks he's-" Realizing what he was doing, he abruptly ended the sentence. "I mean, I don't know. . ."

"What were you going to say, Lenny?" Rin asked, sitting up a little.

Len grabbed at his hair and face; he hoped that if he answered she wouldn't ask him any more questions about it. "I was. . . going to say he thinks he might be. . . helping. . ."

"Helping? With what?" she asked, cocking her head.

Len decided to lie. He knew he shouldn't and that she'd see through it, but he did it anyway, "Uhmm, I don't really know."

"Come ooooon, Lenny, you can tell me."

He groaned, then sighed and looked down. Speaking quietly, he answered, "I-I, might've told him I liked you once. . ."

Rin was taken aback. "E-eh?" she managed to choke out, her face turning red. "W-what do you mean?" I really hope he can't see my face. . .

Len crawled back into the corner of the closet and put his head on his knees. "It doesn't really matter, we should probably get back with Kaito and Miku. . ."

Still flustered, Rin nodded. "U-um, okay," she whispered and stood up. She opened the door of the closet and looked around the room. They're gone. . . Sighing in relief, she waited for Len to come out.

Len sat in the corner for a few more seconds, then pawed at the wall and raised himself up. He half stumbled out of the room from tripping on objects on the ground and noticed that Kaito and Miku had left. Great, how lucky I am, Len thought. "Where did they go?"

"Who knows. . . But I'm going to get revenge on Kaito someday," Rin muttered with a slightly bitter tone. She looked at him, suddenly cheerful again, and said, "So, we should probably go find them."

Len sighed as he grabbed his phone and began to text Kaito; Hey, where are you two, you kinda left. "I texted Kaito, so I guess we can wait till he texts back," he told Rin.

Rin sighed tiredly and flopped onto the bed. "Geez, I'm pretty worn out. . ." she murmured, then fell asleep.

Kaito replied after about ten minutes and said they were in the room they had been in before they all split up. Len turned to Rin who was on the bed, "Hey, they're in the room we were in before." He then noticed that she was sleeping and sighed. He sat on the bed and shook her shoulder a little, trying to wake her up.

"Mmm. . . Oh! How long have I been out?" she asked, quickly getting up and heading toward the door with newfound energy.

"It's been ten minutes, and Kaito says they're where we were before we started playing hide and seek," he said while walking out the door.

"Okay," she said and continued to walk down the hallway, but not so fast that Len wouldn't be able to catch up.

Len was still sluggish with his steps, as he was still thinking about what he told Rin, even though he shouldn't have been worried about it. She already knew anyways, it's so obvious, he thought.

As she walked down the hallway, she looked up toward the ceiling and thought about what Len had said. Did he really say he likes me? Her thoughts were interrupted as she slammed into something.

A wall; she had walked straight into a wall. Embarrassed, she giggled nervously. "Oops. . ." she said quietly, blushing, then continued her way down to the front room.

When they arrived at the room Kaito and Miku were lounging in, Miku looked up. "It's about time," she said with a smirk.

"Mikuuuuu! It wasn't like that!" Rin whined.

Kaito had a silly grin on his face and a suggestive look in his eye when he saw Len. He rubbed his hands together and said, "So now, are you two ready for truth or dare?"

Len got a shiver from Kaito's look. Just what does he think we did? he thought, but got over it and replied, "I guess I am. . ."

Miku got up from her chair. "Let's go to a different room, then," she suggested, walking past Rin and Len.

"O-okay? Wait, it's the one near the kitchen, right?" Rin asked as she caught up with Miku.

"Mhm."

Len and Kaito followed the girls to said room near the kitchen. Len was still sluggish, but he managed to keep up with the others without getting too far behind.

While Rin plopped herself on a chair, Miku walked into the kitchen to grab some snacks.

"Are you getting some pretzels?" Rin asked, then summoned Miki with a whistle.

"Yup, and some juice. . ."

Looking at Kaito and Len, Rin stroked Miki's soft locks and asked, "So, who's starting?"

Kaito rose his hand first and then loudly said, "RIN! Truth or dare?"

"Um, truth?" Rin answered uncertainly.

Kaito smiled a bit evilly, "Is it true that you really love Len?"

Rin jumped. "E-eh? Heheh, umm. . ." She cleared her throat. "Yes?" she replied awkwardly, then quickly added, "LEN! Truth or dare?"

Len jumped at the shouting of his name and he quickly answered. "Truth?" he said, more unsure than he was definite in his answer.

"What did you mean by you 'like' me?"

Len's face turned pink. "I uh, I mean, like, rom-" he stopped; he knew he'd have to answer it because it was truth or dare. ". . .mantically?" he finished, more quickly than he had begun.

Rin gasped. "Really?!" she asked, blushing.

"Hey, you two, not now! You had your time in the closet. Len, who are you going to ask?" Miku interrupted.

"Miku, truth or dare?"

"Ehh, dare I guess."

Len thought about what he could get her to do, but nothing that wasn't bad came up. "Uh, I guess sit on Kaito's lap."

Miku groaned. "It's always something weird!" she complained, then sat uncomfortably on Kaito's lap. "Truth or dare, Kaito?"

Kaito, always the brave, answered, "Dare."

"I dare you to eat a leek," Miku said, handing him one from the plate of snacks.

He took the leek, put it in his mouth, and chewed. He seemed unaffected by it, earning a groan of defeat from Miku. In truth, however, he still wished it was ice cream. "Now, Rin, truth or dare?"

Well, since I already chose truth. . . "D-dare."

Kaito gave Len an evil look. "Now Rin, come and sit on my lap with Miku."

"What? But there's barely any room!" Rin protested.

He pushed Miku off a bit and looked at Rin. "There is now."

"What the heck, Kaito?" Miku groaned.

"I'm going to get revenge on you, Kaito!" Rin said, sitting on his lap next to Miku. "Truth or dare, Miku?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to get off Kaito's lap while you can."

"Thank you," Miku said, getting up and leaving more room for Rin. "Truth or dare, Len?" Miku asked.

Everyone else has done a dare, but. . . ". . .Truth," Len answered.

"Why have you not asked Rin out yet?"

"Miku!" Rin scolded.

"It's too late, Rin, he has to answer."

"Because. . . because. . ." Len was red all over because he didn't know how to answer. "I-I don't know, maybe because she might like someone else? Or it could make her not want to be friends. . . ?" He was pretty scared and he didn't want to be the victim of these sorts of questions anymore.

"Guys! Stop being so mean to him!" Rin said, glaring at Kaito and Miku.

Miku sighed. "Okay. . . Len, I'm sorry, but thank you for answering." Then she whispered, "But I don't think she likes anyone other than you."

Rin playfully kicked Miku's shin. "Anyway, Len, ask someone."

Len sighed and looked at Kaito. "Kaito, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"Well, I dare you to, like, I dunno, choose truth next time you're picked on."

"Laaaaaaaaame," Kaito mocked. "Miku, truth or dare?"

"Truth."

Kaito smirked as he asked his question, "Who's the most good looking person in this room?"

Miku shifted uncomfortably, then answered, "Me!" She laughed at herself. "Truth or dare, Rinny?"

"Ehh. . . dare?"

"Mm, go sit on Len's lap instead."

Rin sighed and did as she was told. "I hope I'm not too heavy, Lenny."

Len let Rin sit on his lap and put his arm around her. "No, you're not."

Rin leaned into him. "Kaito! Truth or dare?"

Kaito sighed. "Well, since I was dared, truth"

"Tell us your feelings on Miku."

For the first time that day, Kaito was cautious as to how he did things. "Well, I don't not like her."

Rin rolled her eyes, "Of course you don't not like her."

"Hee hee, now Miku, truth or dare?"

"Truth I guess."

"Whose company do you enjoy the most of?"

Miku sighed. I'm tired of dodging these questions. "Why, you, of course," she replied somewhat dramatically.

Rin giggled. "It's about time!"

Miku glared at her.

Kaito clapped his hands together and said, "I knew it!"

Miku ignored them and asked Len, "Truth or dare?"

Len felt like he had to say dare or he'd be pressured into saying it. "Dare," he replied.

Miku began to think with an evil grin. "I dare you to-"

"Miku, I swear-" Rin tried to warn her.

"-kiss Rinny."

"MIKU!" Rin threw a pillow at her.

Len was stunned. Trying to process the words spoken to him, he looked at Rin with uncertainty. He put his hand on the upper part of her back and pushed her down lightly until their heads were at the same level, then forced his lips against hers for half a second until he pushed away. "I-I'm sorry Rin, I was dared to. . ."

Rin blinked, her face flushed red. Did he really just. . . ? "I-it's fine, Lenny! I actually kinda liked it, y'know? Anyway, make them pay," she said, pointing to Kaito and Miku with a glare.

Did she say she liked-? Len looked at Miku with an enraged kind of face that made him look like he was plotting something. "Miku, truth or dare?"

Miku had been snickering too much to see Rin's glare and mistakenly answered, "Dare."

Len put a finger to his lips in thought, then smiled. "I dare you to ask out Kaito, then kiss him."

Rin snorted when she saw Miku jump.

"Wait, what?"

"Did I stutter? Ask out Kaito and kiss him." When Kaito's attention was regained, he shook his head at Len, but Len simply just didn't care.

Miku awkwardly turned to Kaito. "Heeey. . . So what are you doing tomorrow afternoon?"

Kaito decided to bring some sort of humor back and replied with, "You."

She snorted. "Excuse me?"

He laughed. "I'm joking. No, I'm not doing anything."

"O-okay, then do you want to maybe. . . go somewhere with me?"

"Yes."

"Oh, okay. Cool. . ." She glanced over at Rin and Len, then back to Kaito, motioning for him to come closer. When he did, she leaned closer and quickly brought her lips to his-just as quickly separating. "Rin. Truth or dare?"

"Mm, I'm gonna have to go with truth this time."

"Was that your first kiss?"

"Heh, actually, yes. Truth or dare, Lenny?"

Len sighed. No one can do anything worse. . . "Dare."

"I dare you to. . . sing something!"

He rubbed his face, and then began: "When I was young, I admired / That invincible, red-caped man; / In these immoral times, / A hero like that is just what we need. . ." Len had finished, "That's all I have."

Rin clapped. "Nice!" She checked the time; it was almost 5:00 pm. "Oh, wow, it's almost five. Are we staying for dinner, Miku?"

Miku nodded, "Sure. If you guys want, you can even sleep over; my parents are out until Tuesday."

Len nodded. "I pretty much told my dad I was staying over, so. . ."

Kaito giggled, "I'll tell my parents right away that I'm staying the night." As he said that, he got his phone out and began to walk away, calling his dad. A moment later, he came back and told Miku, "Order some ice cream," then left again.

"Not a chance!" Miku shouted after him, then got up and walked into the kitchen. "Rinny and Lenny, what do you guys want to eat?" she asked them from the other room.

Rin got up and followed her into the kitchen. "I don't care, as long as it's not as gross as those leek sandwiches," she replied, making a sour face at Miku. "What do you have, anyway?"

Miku began rummaging through the refrigerator and pulling out dishes. "Leek soup, fruit salad. . . Oh yeah, and if you'd like you can make a sandwich. There's some lunch meat, cheese, peanut butter, jelly. . ." She placed everything on the counter and called Len, "Hey, what do you think about a peanut butter and banana sandwich? There are also some bananas in the fruit salad."

"I think that sandwich sounds nice," Len said, still at the entranceway of the kitchen looking out for Kaito who came back with a somewhat disappointed look.

"Why won't you get ice cream, Miku?!"

"Because you're going to get sick! You've already had ice cream, like, twice today. You don't need anymore," she replied, throwing some bread at him. "Make yourself a sandwich."

Rin spooned some fruit salad into a bowl and walked back out to the other room.

Kaito groaned disappointedly. He walked to the counter, got out two pieces of bread, grabbed a knife from a drawer, put it in the peanut butter, messily slathered it onto one of the pieces of bread, then put the other bread on top of it.

Len waited until Kaito was finished to walk over to the counter. He got out two pieces of bread and went for the drawer he thought he saw Kaito open, but all he saw there were spoons, so he opened another one; forks. By then he just gave up. "Miku, where are your knives?"

"You're almost there, it's the drawer right next to that one."

[Len pulled on the next one, revealing the knives, and took one, and grabbed a banana, slicing it a few times, and putting the slices one piece of bread, and then he put the knife in the peanut butter and then carefully smoothed it out onto the other piece of bread. Len finally put the bread with the banana slices on top of the one with peanut butter, and then stepped away from the counter and started eating]

Rin groaned from the other room. "Guuuys, I'm bored. What are we doing after this?"

"I don't know, why don't you figure something out, Rinny?" Miku replied, putting her hands on her hips.

Len hovered towards Rin, and quietly suggested, "We can hide and seek again. . ."

Kaito rested his head on hands and looked up at Miku from his place in a chair with large glowing eyes. "If they don't make up their minds, truth and dare was fun."

Miku raised an eyebrow at him, then walked past him and sat on the arm of a chair.

"Yeah, we could play hide and seek again," Rin said tiredly; she didn't really want to get back into truth or dare. That was a dangerous game. "Kaito, I think you should seek this time."

Kaito frowned at this. "I'm only playing if you seek, Rin."

This sort of worried Len, but he kept a straight face as he looked back and forth between Rin and Kaito.

Rin rolled her eyes. "Fine. Someone take Len so he doesn't get lost."

Again, Kaito was out the second he heard "fine". He headed for the basement again, although surprisingly not the freezer. This made Len somewhat uncomfortable that he'd have to walk with Miku, unless she had already left as well.

Miku quickly threw a pillow at Rin's face, looked at Len with a somewhat apologetic face, and ran down the hall snickering.

The pillow throw to her face prompted Rin to begin counting. "Thirty, twenty-one. . ."

Len walked away with a puzzled and amazed look on his face. Did they just. . . leave me? He heard Rin counting and picked up his pace, going to the main room and up the large set of stairs. After half running through a few hallways with countless doors (he was sure he had seen some before), he finally choose a door at random. It was a room filled with green, both more furnished and a bit messier than the guest room he had been in before with Rin. He fell onto the bed face first and muffled his shout in the blankets, "I'm lost."

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"Three, two, one. . . Ready or not, here I come!" Rin removed the pillow from her face and got up from the chair. I wonder where they could be. . . Miku would probably be on the other side of the house in an unexpected room, but she knew Kaito had gone to the basement-he always does, freezer or not. Deciding this was the easiest way to go, Rin walked carefully down the long hallway to a big blue door. She opened it and was immediately covered in a blanket of darkness, so she felt around for the light switch. Come on, it's around here somewhere. . . up a little? No. . . there! The fluorescent light pouring out of a fairly large and fancy ceiling light lit up the staircase, revealing the soft turquoise carpet and polished mahogany railing. Rin quietly walked down; once she saw another light switch, she felt an urge to flick it on, too, but knew she shouldn't because it would signal to Kaito that she was close. I'll just go check all the rooms. . . She tiptoed past the light switch and entered a dim hallway with lots of doors.

Nope, nope, no, no one. . . Rin sighed as she neared the end of the hallway, where the freezer door was located. Maybe he's just hiding in there. She cracked open the door a little, feeling a rush of cold air on her face. Shivering, she opened it a bit more only to find. . .

No one. Okay, so maybe he's not here. Should I start checking closets. . . ? Just then, she saw a flash of movement and gasped. She looked in the direction of the source, however, it was not her blue-haired friend. Instead she saw Miki. She sighed and whispered, "Hey, Miki, what's up? Wanna help me find Kaito?" Miki barked and Rin shushed her; she quieted, however ran down the hallway.

They stopped at the door to the wine cellar. "What are we doing here?" Rin asked the dog. Almost immediately, she heard a noise from inside. She swiftly opened the door and saw Kaito. "Kaito, I found you! What are you even doing in here, anyway?"

Kaito quickly tried to hide the bottle he had been sipping on, only causing it to spill on him. His face was red from embarrassment; he looked down to see a darker shade of red on his blue clothes. "Well, I am most certainly not test tasting the wine that Miku's parents have stored away."

"Kaito, you're not even old en-you know what, never mind. Put that wine back and help me find Miku and Len."

Kaito sighed, "They should be together. Len shouldn't be alone here." He tried to rub out the stain as he made his way towards Rin, but only ended up making it worse.

"Well, I sure hope so." Rin pulled out her phone and sent a quick text to Miku; i found kaito. len's with you, right? -rinny. "Well, do you have any ideas?"

Walking up the staircase alongside Miki, Rin sighed and said, "Well, I have my doubts. She can be pretty tricky when she wants to. . ."

Kaito scratched the back of his head. "Miku probably has, like, twenty secret tunnels with a mansion this large. . . But I think she'd still play fair." To be rather honest, the first time he saw Miku do anything very unfair was when she made Len kiss Rin.

Her phone vibrated. Haha, nope, sorry. Maybe this way he'll win? Anyway, you and I both know my home quite well, so we'll definitely find him! Rin groaned. "Nope, he's not with her."

Kaito also groaned. "Great, we get to find another one." He dragged his feet for a dramatic effect in order to show his disdain as he walked through the hallway. "Well, if you want we can split up to find them faster. . ."

"We probably shouldn't. Anyway, my bet is that Miku's in one of the lived-in rooms on the other side of the house. Does that sound like a fair guess?"

"She'd probably go there, or else she'd get bored."

"Yeah." Rin walked through the door, turning the light out on the way. "I wonder where Len is, though. . ."

Kaito smiled. "How do you feel about Len?"

"Why would you ask that?!"

"Why wouldn't I? I mean, it's obvious he loves you!"

"I-I. . . Does he really?"

"Now, would I ever lie to you?"

"W-well. . . okay." She smiled. "Um, well, that's great! I mean. . . honestly, I. . . l-love him, too. . ." Rin frowned. "Why am I telling you this? I can't trust you with anything."

Kaito chuckled. "You're right, you can't," he said as he got his phone out and pretended to type on it, all the while giggling.

Rin gasped. "Kaito! What are you doing?!" She wrenched his phone out of his hands, only to find a blank screen, and gave it back to him with a glare.

Kaito sighed as he saw the set of stairs and walked up them with Rin. "So why don't you just tell him you like him then?"

She rolled her eyes. "I actually just found out he likes me tonight. Give me a break."

Kaito tilted his head. "Really? And how did you learn that?"

"Well, he said it during truth or dare and you just stated it quite clearly."

"And you didn't find out that he did when you two were kissing in the closet?"

"We were not kissing!"

Kaito threw his hands up in disbelief. I saw what I saw. "I come here almost every week and I still don't realize how big this building is!"

"We're past halfway there, you big baby." As they passed the entertainment room, Rin heard the piercing sound of a television that was turned on. "Do you hear that?" she whispered to Kaito as she slowly walked to the entrance of the room.

Kaito sneaked about, walking on his toes instead of the bottom of his foot, and looked around the room. There was a certain green haired girl there. He whispered back to Rin, "Well, it's Miku."

Rin followed and decided to shout at the girl whose attention was focused on whatever show was playing. "MIKU! FOUND YOU!"

Miku jumped and turned around, dropping the leek she'd been snacking on. "How'd you find me so quickly?"

"Well, the sound of a television is kind of hard to miss. Anyway, why would you even watch it during hide and seek?"

"I was boooored!"

Kaito let them talk. When they finished, he asked in a more serious tone, "Why would you leave Len alone in this labyrinth of a house?"

Miku shrugged. "I don't know, I guess the evil within my soul has finally made an appearance," she said, then made a laugh that slightly frightened Rin.

"Well, you have to help us find him."

She groaned. "I know, I know. Good for him, though, he won."

Rin sighed and walked out of the room.

Kaito walked out of the room and began opening random doors, hoping Len would be in one of them, but to no avail.

Rin knew the only way to find him quickly was through texting, so she pulled out her phone again. She typed out a message-hey lenny do you have any idea where you are? at least describe the place pls, it will give us hints. we will find you, i promise! -rin-and sent the message to Len.

Len had finally gotten through his fit of screaming into the bed when he heard his phone beep. He reached for it and texted Rin back. It's green, it's messy, and it has more stuff than the room we were in before.

Rin blinked. "Umm, Miku, I think he's in your room."

Miku sighed. "Figures. I guess that's what I get for abandoning him. Anyway, I know he didn't do it on purpose I'm sure he hasn't snooped since he has no idea where he is."

"You mean you're not upset? Or feeling evil?"

"Nah, I was just trying to be playful before. I guess that was pretty mean, leaving him behind like that."

"Pfft, yeah!"

Len began to go through the things in the room; mostly out of boredom. He texted Rin. I'm bored. I'm going to look through the room.

no lenny, that's miku's room!

Nope, she should've come with me. Besides, it's not like I'm going through her clothes or anything.

Rin groaned. "Um, Miku, he's going through your stuff. He says he's not stopping, but that he's not going through your clothes."

"Ehh?!" Miku, embarrassed, ran quickly in the direction of her room-which was, thankfully, only a couple hallways away.

Once she arrived at the door to her room, threw it open and shouted, "LEN! What do you think you're doing?!"

Rin arrived shortly after with Kaito and looked inside, cocking her head and waiting to see what would happen.

Len held up a composition notebook and looked at Miku with much more of a straight face than he really should have given in the situation. "You know, this thing has a lot of incriminating stuff. Here Kaito, catch." He tossed the notebook over to Kaito, who did not catch it; instead, it dropped to the floor. Kaito looked a Miku with a somewhat inquisitive face as he bent down to pick it up and started to open the cover of the notebook.

Miku blushed and waved her hands frantically about. "Kaito! N-no, stop that!" She slowly sank to the floor and lay on her back. So this is what I get for leaving Len. . .

Why are all these words so blurry? Is this what I get for drinking alcohol? Kaito thought. He pretended to read the notebook for a few moments before tossing it to Miku. "Your handwriting sucks. I can't read any of it." It'll hurt her feelings, but it'll have to do. Kaito did not want to reveal that he had been drinking.

"What?" Miku asked in disbelief, sitting up. "But my parents always told me I had really nice and clear handwriting! Len was able to read it, weren't you Len?"

Len was also in disbelief; he knew something was up with Kaito. "Yeah, for what I read of it, it was very clear,"

Rin face palmed, then looked up at Kaito with a glare, silently saying, This is what you get for drinking wine!

Kaito sighed, and said quietly to Rin. "Whatever you say, Len." Then Kaito was out of the room.

Rin raised an eyebrow and looked at Len. "W-was he talking to you?" she asked, confused, and pointed in the direction Kaito had left in.

Len sighed, "Maybe he found some ice cream that has alcohol in it." He chuckled. "He's probably just sick." Len wasn't too worried; Kaito's always a bit weird. Now, however, he was being more weird than he usually was.

"Whatever. Found ya, Lenny. C'mon, let's go downstairs."

"Awhh," Len whined while leaving the room. "So what are we doing now?"

"Hmm. . . Miku, what do you think?"

Behind them, Miku smirked. "I think we should ask Len. He hasn't really had much of a say in anything today," she said, then looked at Len. "Try to go with something different, though. We've already done hide and seek twice and truth or dare is just annoying."

Len began to feel how tired he had been. What time is it? he thought as he checked the time on his phone; it was nearly eight. How he was tired this early was simply beyond him, though his day had been exciting. "I dunno guys, I'm actually starting to get a bit tired."

Miku nodded. "I can understand why. Today's been. . . eventful."

"I'm getting tired, too. We can stay in that guest room hallway from before, Lenny-is that okay with you, Miku?" Rin asked.

"Yes, that's fine, Rinny. Have a good night, you two. I'm going to find Kaito and find out what's up with him."

"Okay." Once Miku was gone, Rin looked at Len. "Let's get over to that hallway now. How soon do you want to go to bed?"

"I don't really know, it depends on how late you keep me up," Len said with a smile. He was hoping, as well as half dreading, that she'd talk about him liking her. He followed to Rin into the room they were in before.

Flopping onto the bed first thing, Rin sighed deeply. "So. . ." She sat up with a peaceful smile and patted the spot beside her.

Len understood the gesture and sat down in the spot she had been patting. "Yes. . .?"

Her smile wavered; soon she was left with a slight frown. "So, um, you l-like me, right?" she asked awkwardly.

Len sighed. I thought we were through this, he thought. He told her after hide and seek, during truth or dare, and who knows what Kaito told her. "Yeah, I do," he said with less anxiety than he had before, as he's said it multiple times and he realized it would be silly to freak out over it.

She smiled excitedly. "That's awesome, Lenny! Because, you know, I-I like you, too!" she admitted, blushing.

"Wow, I. . . I didn't expect you to. . ." Sure, there were signs that said she did, but he just pushed it off as the closeness of their friendship. He folded his hands over a few times. "But, that really is nice." He didn't know what to do; he could ask her if she wants to date, or kiss her, but he didn't want to do too much. His face showed such deep thinking.

She nodded, still smiling. "Well, then, um. . . would you maybe be okay with. . . going somewhere with me this week? You know. . . just you and me. . . Kinda like a, um, d-date?"

The sound of her voice broke him from his thinking. He smiled. "Uh, yeah, I'd like that. . . Do you have a place in mind?"

Rin shrugged. "I don't know, but we can figure that out another time. We should probably go to bed now." She yawned and got up from the bed, hesitantly walking in the direction of the door. "I should probably. . . sleep in the room next door," she said, subtly pointing to her right.

Len quickly spoke before she left the room. "Well, I mean if you want you can sleep in here, I don't really mind. . ." He had hoped she wouldn't leave-even though he knew how weird it would be and that Kaito would certainly have a laugh over the situation if he found them like that. But he didn't really mind.

She looked at him, surprised. "Really?"

He rubbed the side of his face. "Y-yeah, really."

"Umm. . . okay, then." Rin stepped back inside the room, shutting the door softly behind her, then walked back to the bed. "Good thing the bed's so big. . ." she sighed as she threw back the covers and slid underneath. "I'm going to turn off the light soon," she warned, slowly reaching for the lamp on the nightstand.

Len got underneath the covers after the lights turned off. It's great how comfortable this bed is, he thought while resting his head on the even more comfortable pillow.

"G'night, Lenny," Rin murmured.

"Good night Rinny," Len whispered back.

Then they fell asleep.

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pilz: phew, that was a lot. 6705 words. anyhow, i like how this turned out. i didn't really expect rin and len's relationship to happen already but we'll adjust. have a wonderful day / evening and please review!

Beluga: Will Miku ever find out Kaito drank the wine? No one may never know…... And those teenagers, they grow up so fast, kissing and playing truth or dare in mansions, it's really wild, while all I do is drink orange soda and eat candy. Although lately, I've been noticing I've been eating more ice cream….. I just hope I don't get sick from it, even though I don't eat it in the same mass Kaito does.