Chapter 14: Teto Holmes and Len

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Rin POV:

After my embarrassing display at school, Len and I earned new nicknames. I was banana girl and Len was Lucky Star boxers. Not that anyone teased us. Some guys in Len's gym class comforted him by even saying that they had Sailor Moon boxers. That was an awkward moment for all of us at lunch.

But I noticed something wierd. Teto and Len seemed more...close than usual. Len told me he wanted nothing to do with Teto because he didn't want to get arrested. But lately...

" Hey Miku, " I asked one day. " Do Len and Teto seem a little...cozy to you?"

She laughed a bit. " Cozy? They seem pretty friendly with each other. Why?"

" I'm worried," I said biting my lip. " Len...you don't he's cheating right?"

Miku rolled her eyes. " Teto is crazy for Kaito. What makes you think she's interested in Len?"

" Who isn't?" I pointed out.

" Touche..." she said nodding.

" Len-kun! Come on! The rooftop! Me, you, now!"

Oh no. The rooftop was our place. I didn't care who went up there, as long as it wasn't with Len.

" No!"

The class looked at me as the bell rang. I laughed nervously and sat down. Out the corner of my eye, I saw teto pout and come over to sit in her seat. Len sighed in what seemed like relief. I turned my attention to Kiyoteru-sensei, trying to not figure out what was going on.

Len POV:

Man, Teto. Will Not. Leave. Me. Alone. Everyday it's all " Where should we meet?" or " What do you think we'll find?" I mean, Teto's my friend, but there's a reason I saty as far away form her as possible. Her crazy plans. Just think of how differently things would've played out between me and Rin if things went her way.

And then she tried to take me to the rooftop. Of all places! That would've led to so many misunderstandings that I would've died trying to fix them all. And then Rin, not knowing Teto's plans, would've misunderstood big time. Considering that was our place. seriously, why couldn't Teto be one of those girls that didn't get kicked out of the library? Then again...she's like a pink Miku.

" Kagamine-kun?"

I abruptly stood up hearing Kiyoteru-sensei's voice.

" Yes sir?"

" What's the answer to the problem?"

" Page 47, question two," Mikuo whispered.

I nodded and mouthed thanks.

" Eighty-two," I said.

" Good job."

I sat down and and exhaled.

" What's up with you?" Mikuo murmured. " You never space out during math."

" Yeah, " Ted whispered behind me. " That's Mikuo's thing."

" Shutup!"

" Just thinking guys, don't worry about it," I whispered quickly.

I caught Rin satring at me and she quickly looked down back to her textbook. Yeah...she's suspicious.

Rin POV:

" Mikuo-kun? Could I talk to you for a minute?" I said sweetly batting my eyelashes.

" Uh, sure Rin," he said shrugging.

He followed me outside and I grabbed his jacket in a threatening way.

" What were you, ted, and Len talking about in math?" I growled.

" Nothing! We just asked what Len was thinking about and he said it was nothing!"

" What's going on between Teto and Len?" I snapped.

" I have no idea."

I let go of his jacket and smoothed out the wrinkled fabric, smiling sweetly.

" Thanks!"

I left Mikuo, and walked down the hall, my thumb pressed to my lips in concentration. I ran to Neru, who was staring at a photo of Len in her locker.

" Neru...you wanna spy on Len with me Saturday?" I asked.

" Len! I'll be there! Text me!"

That was way too easy.

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~Saturday~

Len POV:

I can't believe this. I can't believe this. I cannot believe this.

" Rinny-chan! Teto wants to spend the day with Lenny!"

" Shhh! I thought this was going to be top secret!" I whispered.

" What's going on?" Rin asked. She looked confusedly between me and Teto.

" Me and Len are going out!" Teto exclaimed.

Rin looked at me and raised her eyebrows. The soda can in her hand made a crunching sound.

" No! Not like that!" I said quickly. " We're going to hang out with, um, Mikuo today. And Miku. They're dating and didn't want it to be awkward."

" Wouldn't people normally do that on double dates." Another crunch.

" Look Rin! I'm taking Teto to Rui's house!"

" Yeah!" Teto finally decided to chime in. " Besides Rinny, I like Kaito-senpai. Len's cute and all, but..."

" But what?" Was she trying to offend me? Well, at least Rin relaxed a bit.

" You're just...shota."

My jaw dropped and Rin burst out laughing.

" Alright, get out, I'm hanging out with Neru today anyway," she said to my relief. Thank goodness. With Neru, she might get distracted. Or Neru might try and sniff me out, and then Rin would know about Teto's illegal plan.

" Come on Len, Rei and Rui are probably waiting."

As soon as we walked out, Teto gasped like she'd been holding her breath.

" Jeez, you cannot handle yourself in these situations," she said shaking her head.

" Hey...I get that you like kaito and all but, because I'm a shota? Really? Couldn't you have just said you didn't like the fact I put my hair in a ponytail or something...?"

Teto shook her head, drilled ponytails shaking.

" No can do, Teto Holmes has to be undercover!"

Then I noticed she was dressed as Sherlock Holmes. Great.

" I suppose that makes me Watson?" I muttered.

" Nope!" she pulled a black outfit from a bag I could've sworn she never had. " That makes you a ninja!"

"What the hell Teto?" I groaned. She inched the outfit closer and pointed to the bushes.

" You're kidding right?"

" Do I look like I'm kidding?"

I growled and walked to the bushes, undressing and quickly pulled the black clothing on. I walked out, turning my head quickly to make sure no one had seen, and walked over to Teto.

" Okay, now what?"

" Now, I just realized, that if Rin wasn't upstairs, she would've seen you. But that's not it. Now, we need to make sure that Rui and Rei aren't home."

" ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU DIDN'T THINK THIS THROUGH AT ALL KASANE?"

"...Yes."

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" Okay, we now have a ladder!" Teto pulled a step ladder from behind her back and held up like a prize.

We had reached Rei and Rui's house with no problem and thankfully, they were out today, according to their parents. Yes, we actually went in and talked to their parents. Teto said it would " throw them off our scent". What are we doing, hunting?

" Did you take that from their shed?" I asked accusingly. " And isn't that a step ladder?"

" Yes and what's the difference? They're both same right?" Teto hastily positioned the step ladder underneath their window and began climbing.

" No, a step ladder is kinda like two ladders combined ya know?" She motioned for me to lift her up and I reluctantly did.

" So you admit it's a ladder!" she said triumphantly.

"...You know what, I'm not about to have this conversation. Just open the window."

Teto reached for the latch and flicked it open, raising the window andgrabbing the ledge.

" O-okay Len, now I need you to jump! No, jump like you're at a track meet, not like you're jumping over a rock. Okay, higher...higher...yes! Okay, now don't let go!"

Teto used all her strength and crawled in with her elbows.

" Be quiet, their parents might hear you!" I hissed.

Teto nodded and grabbed my hands, struggling to pull me. Somehow I managed the same way she did and crashed to the floor.

" Hide! Someone's coming!" Teto whispered. She tossed a lamp on a nearby sidetable to the floor and ushered me to the closet. We held our breath as Rui and Rei's mom walked in a muttered a few words about the lamp falling and left after fixing it up.

Teto and I silently pushed out of the closet and sighed.

" Nice prop work right?" Teto said smiling. " Now, let's get to work."

She began rummaging through Rei's drawers and stared at her in wonder. Maybe I should get involved with teto more often.

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Rin POV:

" Okay Lily! Me and Neru are going to the mall! Call if you wanna bother us!"

" Kay!" she yelled back.

As soon as we were out the front door, I pulled Len's banana scented shampoo from my bag and held it in front of Neru's face.

" See this Neru? This belongs to Len," I smirked as here eyes followed it intently.

" I kinda want to find Len and this is pretty much how he smells right now."

Okay, let's get one thing straight. I don't actually smell Len. I just happen to catch the scent of his hair every now and then. Neru gave me a military salute and inhaled the bottle. As if she was a radar, she closed her eyes and pointed in the direction of the ice cream store. Awesome.

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Teto POV:

" You find anything?" I muttered.

I was sick of finding Rei's fancy looking clothes. But I did find a violin and was so tempted to play it, until Len reminded me tha their parents were home. Also, I knew that thing would've been so broken by time we left.

" No," Len sighed. He leaned against rui's white furniture and I stared at it. The furnitures designs were so pretty! Black roses swirled around on the sides and the edges of their petals were a deep red. Small purple tulips could be seen on the dark green vines that wove on the edges.

" Hey Len, did you open that drawer? The one you're leaning against."

Len opened it obediently and pulled out something. A flyer? Intrigued and excited that we had finally found something, I scooted closer to him and studied the flyer.

Crypton Media Entertainment

Idol Auditons

November 27, 2011

Ages 13-17 only

I gaped at Len and he was just as surprised. Idol auditions? Why would Rui have something like that?

" Rui always wanted to be a singer..." Len murmured. " But I didn't think she still would."

" Wait, November 27? That's next week!" I exclaimed.

" And Rin had no idea," Len said softly.

" This must've been what was going on!" I concluded. " She must've been anxious about the idol auditions and practicing somewhere with Rei! Okay! I have a plan!"

" A plan?" Len said with a bit of dread in his voice. Seriously, why did people dread my plans so much?

" I'm auditioning too! I like to sing! What did you think I was going to say?" I asked putting my hands on my hips.

" Nothing," Len stood up and folded the paper, putting it in his pocket. " We might wanna leave Kasane, Rei and Rui could come back any minute."

Teto began to climb out the window and I proceeded to follow. Idol auditions huh...this outta turn out to be interesting.

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Rin POV:

" Kaito! We know Len is here! Just tell us!" I begged. " Neru sniffed him out here!"

" Come on Rin, I'm here all day and suprisingly I don't gain weight, but anyway, I think I would've noticed if shota showed up here with pink drills by his side."

I groaned and plopped into the booth, Neru sitting next to me.

" But I smelled him here!" she pouted.

" Oh! You must've smelled my banana split!" Kaito motioned towards the ice cream in front of him.

I rolled my eyes and took his spoon, spooned out some vanilla, sticking it into my mouth.

" Hey! At least ask first!"

" You would've said no anyway," I muttered.

Neru picked the cherry off the top and popped it in her mouth. Kaito glared at us a mumubled something about how stupid first years were. The bell signaling new customers rang when I heard the familiar voice of Teto. She and Len ran up to us, Teto taking a spoonful of vanilla ice cream from Kaito and Len taking one of th bananas.

" Seriously, what ever happened to manners these days?" Kaito snapped.

Len handed Teto a paper and she unfolded it for all of us to see.

" We knew Kaito would be here, so we thought he'd tell you guys later, but great," teo exclaimed. " We've got more people to spread the news! Idol audtions are happening next Friday!"

Author's Note: Yaaaay! I got past this! Finally. the next chapters will probably be fillers, just to stall for the big auditions. :P I'm that mean. Review!