Chapter 22: The Orange Alliance

Rin's POV

We arrived in the Kagamine house, after we have bid goodbye and thanks to Gumi. We took separate cars on the way to the house. I decided to have the talk with Meiko and Akaito, since they might have the information we needed.

When they arrived, Miku was with Teto in the living room.

"Miku-nee, we're home. We have company." I said, calling out.

Miku and Teto went out and welcomed us. Teto sees Meiko and suddenly glomps her.

"Meiko-nee chan! Akaito-nii chan!" Teto cheerfully said.

Meiko crouches to Teto's level and pats her head. "Have you been okay? Are you not hurt?"

Teto smiled and nodded. "Yup! Rinto-nii and Lenka-nee have brought Teto here and Rin-nee and Len-nii have been nice to Teto! Miku-nee also took care of Teto!"

Akaito smiled. "Good thing Princess is not hurt. Thank you, Kagamine."

I nodded. "It's nothing. She's been good to us anyway."

"Oh, please come in. I'll prepare food and drinks." Miku said.

They entered the house and proceeded to the living room. I went to Miku, who was in the kitchen, for a while.

"Miku-nee, could you call Aunt Luka? Please tell her not to come, I have a very important appointment right now. Tell her we'll meet tomorrow after school. Make sure she doesn't come today, okay?"

"Sure thing, Rin-chan. Take care, okay? If something bad happens, the men here will act." Miku said worriedly. I nodded and thanked her before going back to the living room.

Meiko, Teto, Akaito were seated together on one couch, Rinto and Lenka on another. I sat beside Len on the couch across Rinto and Lenka. Teto was wearing earphones and playing with a red cell phone, probably Meiko's or Akaito's, in order to distract her from the sensitive talk.

"So, what is this agreement you're talking about, Sakine?" I began to ask.

"In exchange for the truths we're holding, we would want to form an alliance with you."

An alliance? So they really weren't going to us as enemies?

"But why? Aren't you guys mad at us for Teto being crippled?" Rinto asked. True, the first time Akaito appeared to us he was really mad.

"I'm sorry about that, but I didn't know the truth yet back then. Meiko just told me about this, too." Akaito said in an apologetic tone.

"Truth? What truth are you talking about?" I ask.

"Both Kagamine and Hagane are not at fault for what happened to our princess." Akaito answers.

"How did you know it wasn't from our men?" Rinto inquires. I'm kind of curious. How do they know so much from everything?

Meiko winced before answering. "I witnessed what happened to Teto. I tried telling Akaito, but when he didn't believe me I was forced to shut up until I had my plans of revenge finished behind the scenes. I know who's causing all of this. The one who did it to Teto is the same person who separated Rinto and Rin."

"So you're saying that you want us to help you in that plan?" Len asks.

Meiko and Akaito both nod. "I know that cooperating with you is the only way we'd have justice for what happened to Teto." Meiko says firmly.

I looked at Rinto, Len, and Lenka and asked them. "Should we agree to this?"

"We'll know the truth once we agree with them right?" Rinto says.

"We're not plotting anything against you. Our intentions are the same: to give the right punishment to the one who did this and ask her why she did it." Meiko convinces.

Should we really trust her? Is she not acting?

"I think we can trust them." Lenka says. We all looked at her because of what she said.

"How could you tell?" I mustered to ask.

"Because I saw how relieved Meiko-san and Akaito-san were when they saw Teto again." Lenka answered. "I believe they have genuine intentions."

Meiko smiled. A smile that reached her eyes. "Thank you for trusting us, Lenka-san."

I smiled at Meiko. "You know, if you smile like that often, you'd look very beautiful." I giggled. "I think she's telling us the truth. That's the first time I ever saw you smile like that."

Meiko blushed. "T-that's not true! Umm.."

"Seriously, Meiko. They're not lying. You only show that when you're with Teto and me." Akaito comments. It made Meiko blush more. Oh, so Meiko seems to like Akaito-san.

"Alright, we're convinced. We'll form an alliance with you." Rinto says and Len nods.

Meiko and Akaito both grinned. "Thank you! We appreciate your trust very much!"

"In exchange, you have to hold your side of the deal. We need to know the truth." I said. Of course, nothing comes free these days. We give them assistance, they give us information.

"Oh, of course. We'll tell you right now. I presume you're all ready to hear the truth?" Meiko asks.

The four of us nodded. Meiko's expression turned serious and began. "There's only one woman behind all of these incidents. And we all know her very well. She's been at our sides since the beginning." she paused and looked at us. "Megurine Luka is the one behind all the incidents. Rin's aunt, and she's known as Lady Pink in our Red Family. She's been using us in her plans."

"So Haku-nee was right... Luka-san is someone bad..." Lenka muttered.

"But how come you followed her?" Rinto asks.

"For the sake of knowing what her plans are. I'd been acting behind the scenes. And I know exactly what we should do in order to push her into a corner." Meiko answers.

"Wait, first of all, why did she separate me and Rinto?" I asked.

"It was the first step of her plan for revenge. She stole Rinto when they were born, and gave him to one of our men to keep. After a month, when Lenka, who was the legitimate child of the Hagane, was born Luka stole her and gave her to Mr. Honne, her grandfather who was away from her parents. She then gave Rinto to the Hagane, and told the Hagane that the Kagamine were the ones who stole their child. This is what enraged the Hagane and made them hate the Kagamine. And the Kagamine thought it was the Hagane that stole their child. It was all a plan to make you fight yourselves to death so that when the bosses are dead, she'll claim everything." she paused for a while to look at Teto who leaned at her. Teto had fallen asleep, so Akaito carried her to his lap and made Teto rest her head on his chest. My, they look like a father and daughter.

Meiko continued. "But many years has passed, you were all 14 year olds when the tragedy finally happened. The two families had desperately tried killing each other, especially the bosses. Luka thought what she wants was finally going to happen two years ago, when Lily and Luki Kagamine were assassinated, and when Rui and Rei Hagane died as well. But then, Rinto came back to Japan for the Hagane, and Rin stepped up to be the Kagamine family's boss. Then she needed another plan in order to make you kill yourselves again."

"Why... just why did she have to go to this extent?" Rinto says, anger hinted in his voice.

"They even got innocent people involved..." Lenka mumbled. I looked at Len with a sad expression in his face.

"I don't know of the prime reason, but I know she wanted revenge. She had us follow her because we didn't want anything bad happen to Teto. And I used it to my advantage to know what she is planning."

"So, what do you need us to do? We'll assist you in what we can." I said, determined to give justice to everything. "Another thing, before I forget, I think you guys need to know this. My mom, Lily Kagamine, is alive."

"She's alive?!" Meiko gasped. "I see. This would make it more complicated but easier at the same time."

"What's the plan, Meiko-san?" Rinto asks.

"You have to keep Lily-san a secret from Luka. She'll be the witness." she paused and looked at us seriously before continuing. "The four of you have to act according to what Luka wants to happen. You see, we didn't tell her that you've reconciled. And I presume you haven't told her, right?"

I nodded. "I was supposed to meet her today but I called it off. We'll meet tomorrow."

"Alright. So she's thinking of this. Rin, your men will kidnap Lenka after school, leaving a letter of challenge to Rinto. Then Rinto, being Lenka's lover, will be enraged and decides to save Lenka. Rinto goes to that same warehouse to fight Rin who is with Len. Rinto comes with his men, and Rin has hers too. Luka would probably go with you, Rin, so act like you're really mad at Rinto. I know that the four of you act very well, so you could pull this off. Your men have to pretend killing each other, and some could pretend to die or be unconscious. Then it will be left with you four and Luka. You pretend to kill each other with one last hit, Rin's tonfa on Rinto's neck and Rinto's gun on Rin's neck. Len moves to Luka's back and has his sword on her neck. Then we'll confront her with everything."

She's good in planning. No wonder she deceived us that last time.

"Sounds good. No one's going to die on this, right?" I asked. I need to make sure no deaths will happen.

"I'm sure no one would. I'll make sure everyone would just be acting. You need to tell your men about this, too."

"Lenka, are you sure you're going to be alright being the bait?", Rinto worriedly asks.

Lenka smiles at him and nods. "I can do it. For my parents, and for you."

I'm not sure why, but there's something off about all this. I really can't see Aunt Luka to be a person motivated by revenge alone... She was just a model before my parents died. Why was it her? But then again, I can't leave the situation like this. We had to hold up our end of the bargain.

"Alright. We'll do it." I finally said.

"Thank you for assisting us. We'll make sure justice will be served.", Meiko says with a bow. "You have tomorrow to prepare. The operation will happen the day after tomorrow."

"Roger that. I now call this, the Orange Alliance.", I said and smiled.

Aunt Luka, why did all these happen?