Holidays are here, and I'm very happy about that, means I have time to write. So let's continue with the next chapter.
Thanks to everyone who read my story. And of course a big thank you to all reviewers!
I don't own Vocaloid
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Rin p.o.v (Yes, a different p.o.v)
"Len, you seriously think she'll be an asset to our team." I looked at my brother, we didn't have to talk, he knew perfectly well what I wanted to say, but sometimes I like to talk, to hear his voice. Today he didn't feel like talking to me, instead I saw the words in my mind. (1) Why wouldn't she?
At that precise moment Miku took a jump from one "building" to another, and fell face first on the ground. "Because she's hopeless."
We had taken Miku to the training course for starters, which meant we had taken her to a deserted gymnasium where some huge blocks stood, each was about five metres long, and between each of the blocks was a huge gap. The objective was to keep running while jumping from block to block. It was meant as practise in jumping from building to building, but if you fell, you would fall only 50 centimetres. The purpose of the training was to strengthen your stamina, to improve your ability to jump and to stop yourself from hesitating.
Miku wasn't good at any of these, and as a result, she came to know the floor quite well.
"Len, do you think this is enough?" I asked, we were busy for almost an hour now, and Miku hadn't improved as much as I would've hoped, actually, she hadn't improved at all. My bored brother looked up and nodded. "Miku, that's enough, come over here for a sec'!" The tired girl gave us a bright smile when she stood up and walked over to us as quickly as she could.
"Listen Miku, you're not a part of Vocaloid yet, you see, Rin and I, we're not the leaders of the organization, we're just members. Whenever someone wants to introduce a new member, he or she is given one week to train that person, just like we're doing now. I expect you to come and train with us every day from now on, and no, I don't care about your homework, friends or whatever you do after school or in your free time.'
I smiled, how I loved my brother when he was like this. I could see Miku's pouting expression, and I knew I had to act like a nice friend for her, for now at least. "Come on Miku, it's not that bad, Len just wants you to pass the test, and if you practise with us everyday, I'm sure you will." I looked at Len, but as always, he stayed quiet. He never argued me, not unless I wanted him too.
Miku thought about my words before she nodded in agreement. "Can I go home? It's almost seven o'clock." "Fine, but don't forget, tomorrow after school." Len answers before I can, I can sense a slight feeling of joy from his side of our mental link while he looks at her, could it be?.. I have to pay attention, I can't allow him to fall in love with Miku.
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When Miku left there was no reason for us to stay, so we left as well. We were walking down the sidewalk, the sun shone faintly at this hour, and it would soon disappear behind the horizon. I looked at Len, his blonde hair seemed golden in this light, while his normally bright blue eyes seemed dark because they reflected the sunlight. He was beautiful, I know it's weird to say that of your own brother, but I did.
"What is it Rin?" I yelped in surprise. "What? What is what?" I asked, trying to act as normal as possible at that moment. "Well, you were looking at me, so what is it?" I shook my head. "Nothing, I thought I saw something behind you." He said nothing and we continued on our way.
We were quiet, even my mind was, which I was quite thankful for. We walked past some shops when suddenly Len stopped walking. "What is it Len?" Now it was my turn to ask. He didn't answer and kept on staring towards a few men further down the street.
It was a small group, only four of them, and each had an instrument. One was playing a guitar, while another had a violin. Another one played a bass, and the last man had a keyboard on his lap. Quite a crowd had gathered and everyone was laughing and dancing while the little group played some music.
Len smiled while he took my hand and dragged me towards the little group. When we came closer I recognised the song they were playing, it was Fire Flower! Of course Len had recognised it before I had, he knew the song inside out.
As much I wanted to join the people in dancing, laughing, and maybe even singing, I knew I couldn't, and it made me feel sad. Suddenly Len stopped and turned around. "Wanna dance?" I couldn't believe it, why didn't I feel that he wanted to dance, no, I wanted to, and he must have sensed that and asked me.
I gave him my biggest smile. "But of course." He smiled back, and we began dancing, we didn't have to think, or talk, we knew the movements of the other so well.
Len placed his hand on my back while we started to waltz. Occasionally he raised his arm and I would spin before continuing without missing a beat. People around us stopped with their awkward dances to look at our graceful movements.
It's not like we're the best dancers around, but we looked like the only people around who actually knew how to dance. The song ended too soon and when they continued with another, our movements became more elegant, more complicated and even more people stopped to look at us.
In the last light of the setting sun Len gave me a faint smile, and I smiled right back at him. It was the best moment of my life, I forgot all about the government, Vocaloid, our parents, everything, as long as Len smiled at me. Then realization hit me, hard. "He's my brother..." I told myself. "I can't love him, only as a brother." Len didn't hear me, we just kept dancing, song after song.
Suddenly someone started yelling, and immediately we stopped dancing, everyone's faces were in shock. "What do you think you're doing?" An agent asked us. "It's against the law to make music, I'll have to arrest all of you, for dancing, for playing and for watching." He took his PCD and pressed a button. Everyone was too scared to run, even I was, but Len's voice in my head woke me up. We have to run, now!
He took my hand and we started running. The agent was too busy calling for reinforcements to notice us slipping into a nearby alley.
"Len, I-I can hear them." I heard them screaming, people, they were screaming. Our public, too scared to run was screaming for their lives. "It's just like that day isn't it?" I couldn't believe it, we wanted to free our country from it's terrible government, but here we were, too scared to fight.
"Isn't it funny? We're probably the only ones who are able to help them, and we're hiding." He knew what I was thinking, and gave me smile. He removed his glasses and looked at me. "Do you want to help them?" I nodded. "But we can't go dressed like this, they'll know how we look like!" We had to change, which we take us some time, but we didn't have any real choice. "I've got two dark cloaks with me, and our masks, would that do?" I couldn't help but smile. "That would do just fine."
We both put on our cloak quickly before adjusting our masks. Mine was black in the middle, while it became blue towards the edge. The blue seemed to give light, it was made to resemble my artist name, Meltdown.
Len's was made to resemble his artist name, FireFlower, and it looked like it was on fire. Both covered only the upper part of our face, but that was alright, we need to be able to sing even with our masks on after all. You're done? The words formed in my mind, and I sent him my response. Let's go. We walked out of the alley, back to the street we came from.
It was pure chaos, I could see agents arresting people violently everywhere, while a lot of people ran around in panick. I took a deep brief before looking at Len. We both minimised our mental link, not wanting to be distracted. "Let's go." We were gone.
I ran around, my knife was fast to slice an agent in his arm. The man hadn't expected my slash and yelled in pain, while releasing the man he had arrested only moments before. I knew we could do only so much, but we had to keep it up.
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I sliced another agents leg. They were with so much, I had to wound them quickly before running to the next one. They didn't stop coming, but we were able to free a lot of innocent people.
I had to stop for a moment to regain my breath when an agent hit me, and I fell to the ground, in pain and exhaustion. Len! The agent pinned me to the ground. "I guess you work for Vocaloid, seeing your colourful mask and all." I didn't answer, instead I sent another call for help towards Len.
"So, who are you, let's see..." He got up a little, and I tried to knock him off, but he just put his elbow in my back, and I groaned in pain. "No tricks." He said, well, I was just trying to push him off, wouldn't he try the same? I saw him reaching for his PCD and he called someone. "Boss? I got one, I think it's a girl, and guessing from the efficiency of her and her partner, I'd guess they're vocals. Arrest her? Okay, should I get her mask of? Okay, give me a sec'." He put his PCD away, and removed his elbow, which was holding me down while he called.
"Now, turn around." He took me by my shoulders and gave me some space while trying to flip me on my back. LEN! I screamed in my mind, if he didn't hear that, I was going to kill that bastard, for sure! Well, if I wasn't killed first.
The agent tried again, and I fought him, suddenly I lost all of my power, I couldn't move my body anymore, it became black for my eyes. This meant one thing, Len had opened our mental link completely. Colour returned, and I knew I was looking through Len's eyes now. I saw a man, he had a girl trapped in his arm and he was licking... Her face. The girl was trembling in fear. Remember him. Suddenly he turned around, and I could see my own body on the ground. A few seconds later a weight was lifted from my body, at the same time I regained control of my own body. Thanks.
But as I got up, I could see barely any people were left, even the agent Len had targeted had gotten up and disappeared. The fight was over. "We're done here, I believe." My brother said, before taking my hand and taking me home. We hadn't been able to save them. "Yeah, let's go." I felt guilty, I hadn't tried my best, and they had to pay the price.
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Another chapter done, since I didn't want to spend a whole chapter on training, I put in a fight. Rin got kinda owned, I know, it won't be the last time, but she's sure to kick some ass! And no, this fic won't become LenxRin! If my brother was Len, I was sure to think of him as beautiful too.
I don't want to spoil anything, but I have a really nice idea, and some hints have been dropped this chapter, I don't think you're able to guess my idea yet, but maybe you've got an idea of what will happen in the future. :)
It wasn't written that well, I know, I'm tired, had a busy week, and I 'm bad at writing fighting scenes, so it's the best I can do for now. This chapter is sure to end up on the need-to-fix-list.
as for Miku's artist name, I prefer using one word, Meltdown, FireFlower, dunno, but I like it better that way. First thing coming up in my mind is Packaged, but as an artist name, it's not that great. :/
(1) They're twins! Twin-telepathy is something I strongly believe in! Whenever any twins are featured in any of my stories, they'll be able to read each others mind. The Kagamines are able to share what they see with each other, but it will mean that the other isn't able to move as long as they're sharing their field of vision. Besides that are different levels of telepathy, from only faint thoughts, to talking with each other in full sentences. it also explains why they were so quiet in the former chapters, they were talking with each other through telepathy, but since it was Miku's p.o.v you couldn't know, and yes, it will happen again in the future.
