a/n: Well, the internet's back :3 I'm updating from a different computer, one that doesn't have creppy connection. Anyways, please enjoy the next chapter ^.^ ! As a heads up, this one is preeetty long (not too long, but longer than the others). Also, there will be LenxLenka in this fic, but not enough to change it into Romance/Supernatural. I won't focus on it alot, if you don't like the pairing, but I added her in for a story element. Just you wait...

Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter Four: Not so "Mini" after all...

As Len's emotions changed, so did his life.

With the Vocaloid program, Len began to see a different part of music. Every time a note was sung by Rin, it was like a miracle. He sometimes felt afraid that one day, the miracles would stop. But in the meantime, it was all he cared about.

At school, Len would do nothing but make Rin sing. Her movements and interactions would never stop to amuse him, and added to the musical experience. He spend hours and hours on Vocaloid alone, making up songs of his own. Although he missed talking to Reboot, Mini-Rin offered her words too.

"Don't give up, Len! You can do it~~!"

Reboot was like the sincere, motherly side of Rin. But Mini-Rin in the computer acted as Rin's bubbly, playful side. She was his cheerleader, and diva. She strived to impress him, each and every time she sang.

Mini-Rin changed his mood. He began to feel as if a load is being slowly reduced, straightening his back and relieving his passion. Thus, Len's attitude improved tenth fold. He started putting up his hand, talking to people, helping out with school service, and speaking in class. The students seemed to notice that he in fact was not anti-social and brain-dead. Len Kagamine was a genius, and wasn't bad looking as well. More and more people started talking to him. Even more wanted his help on homework. He even caught a few girls in the hallways staring at him, but they were smiling.

After being trapped in a soundproof bubble for all his life, he finally felt like he was breaking out. Like a newly-formed butterfly from its cocoon, taking flight. And it was all thanks to Rin.

"I just want you to feel safe, Len-chan..." She would say to him, her spite swaying. With each passing week, Rin's pixelated body became more and more realistic. Then it disappeared from pixels altogether, making her look like a character from an anime show.

He wished so much that he could touch her. Embrace her. Breathe in her scent. But she was nothing but a soul in a computer program, with a voice and a conscious sprite.

"Rin-chan...don't you need a rest? Don't you want to rest in peace, like the others?"

"No no..." She'd squeak. "True happiness is with Len. As long as I can be with you, my little electron heart will sway~!"

When asked about the program's origins, Rin said it was a program she had created herself, although it was incomplete. And she had even planned to make one of Len too. For hours, in secret, she sat in her room recording those same syllables. But she didn't know that she would die before it could ever be finished.

And because of that, Mini-Rin would forget a song 24 hours after learning it.

Almost two months had passed, and it was almost Christmas. And Christmas meant their birthdays. Being twins, Len and Rin were both born on the same day: December 27.

"So much stuff to buy..." He had offered his help for the Christmas Dance, so he was also buying decorations as suggested by the committee. Also, he had to get a present for Iroha. And not to mention Rin-chan, for her birthday AND for Christmas.

The snow was slushy and the skeletonal trees waved like disgruntled fingers above. Len stepped into a random dollar store, festively decorated with tinsel and lights, with Santa and snowmen window stickers. A "Countdown to Christmas" calendar was on the wall, informing everyone that there were four days left to go.

When no one was watching, Len concealed himself in one of the aisles. He brought out his computer, which was now always on the Vocaloid program, and opened it. He moved the monitor around the shelves.

"What do you think, Rin?" He whispered. "What should I get Iroha?"

"Something special!" She said outloud, before quieting down again. "Or, you know. Chocolates. Girls love chocolates~~!" Rin licked her lips.

Len chuckled. "I guess we'll use chocolate as an alternative. This year, I want to get her something special. All I've given her so far was chocolate; after all she's done to me."

"Like all those glasses replacements."

Len nodded. All he wanted really were contacts. But Iroha said they were expensive, and glasses looked cuter on him. He still didn't believe that such a nerd icon would look good on him.

"Hey! How about that necklace?" Rin spoke up. It took awhile, but Len found the one she was talking about. It had a polished, silver chain and the charm on it was a yellow heart. On the heart, engraved in katakana, were three symbols.

"ココロ"

"Kokoro." Len breathed. "Heart. Nice choice, Rin."

Mini-Rin beamed.

Len took the necklace off of the rack, and looked at the price. 3000 Yen, or roughly $30.

"I thought this was supposed to be a DOLLAR store!" Len huffed. He sighed, slightly annoyed, as another ten minutes of looking around revealed nothing but cheap plastic snow globes and stale peppermint sticks.

He got all the decorations he needed for less than three dollars, which left him with 2000 Yen.

The store manager guy looked at him and said, "That necklace had been attracting lots of attention lately. But since it's the holidays, I'll sell that to you for 1500."

"Just my luck!" Len thought gratefully. "Thanks!" He paid what was left of his money for the necklace, and let the guy keep the change. The brown-haired man tipped his hat in thanks, as Len left the store.

"Len! Len!" Came from the laptop. Len took it out of his bag, and opened it to find Rin's face take up half of the screen.

"Look Len! I'm a fugu fish!" Her cheeks filled up with air, and her eyes crossed. "EAT MEE LEN KUNNN..."

The blonde laughed, as he continued his slush-filled walk back home. "Who knew such a stupid creature could kill so many people?"

As their conversation continued, Len wondered what on earth he should get Rin. Definitely not a plastic snow globe. A necklace might not serve so well, since she was technically IN the computer. Something special. Something from the bottom of his heart. He was still thinking, until she came down from the street.

She, as the well dressed, popular, creature wrapped in a scarf from a prestige company. She, as in the long haired, sleek-bodied innocent angel that had left him. Yes, her.

Down the street came Lenka, Len's ex-girlfriend.

"Crap!" Lenka's eyes were up and admiring the trees, so he took this moment to bolt. Too late.

"Hey, Len."

He froze, his back still turned. He didn't dare meet her eyes.

"Len, it's me, Lenka. You know."

Len nodded. "Yeah?"

She smiled, something that he didn't expect her to do. "Well, it's the holidays huh? What are you doing out here?

It was like they were random people having an everyday conversation. "You know, buying presents and whatnot."

Lenka raised her eyebrow, digging her hands into her cream-coloured trench coat. "At the Dollar store?"

"Uh, yeah. I was j-just stopping by, but I'm heading to the..." He looked across the street. There was only one store in the direction he looked. "Barber Shop?"

That excuse was even more horrible. Lenka raised her other eyebrow.

"Um...alright. Well, it was nice seeing you, Len. I guess I have my own shopping to get to. See you around." She continued her way, and Len did too in the opposite direction. He noticed that he was sweating rivers in the cold air.

"And Len?"

"Yeah?" His heartbeat quickened again.

"We're okay, right? I mean, I hope you're doing okay, with everything. You seem to be more...out there lately. Are you still mad at me?"

She didn't anger him, she saddened him. "No. I'm not." He murmured.

"Good." She smiled warmly. "You're still my best friend, Len. Even if things don't work out, I'm always here."

With a swoosh of her hair, she was gone. This time, Len watched and made sure that the blond ponytail had completely disappeared before speaking again. And it wasn't HIM who spoke first.

"Who was that?" Mini-Rin questioned him. "Did she hurt you?"

"Yeah, you can say that." He sighed. "That was Lenka, my ex. Don't worry about her."

Rin squinted her eyes. "I don't like her. Just the way she smiles, the way she talks, it looks fake. I hate it." Then she looked at Len. "Oh, I'm so sorry Len. I've just...I've just met better people than her."

"It's alright." Len smiled sadly. "I'm not surprised, actually. When you were alive, you didn't like her as well. You'd always watch us when we were together, and give her the 'If-you-want-him-you-have-to-go-through-me' look."

Rin reflected upon this and smirked.

"I wish I could remember everything. I wish knew all the memories you have told me. You've told me over and over again how I died, and who I died with. But I keep on forgetting!" She ruffled her hair in frustration. "At midnight, I forget everything you have said to me. Rebooted back to default. Everything I learned, each song I sang...they are there in my quantum heart, I know they are. But why can't I sing them? I just want to remember. I want to remember what I was like, so I can act that way to you. I want to be the Rin I was a long time ago."

Len pondered over her words. He knew what he was getting her for Christmas...

"Rin." He brought the monitor right up to his face, smiling. "I know-"

Then a scream broke through the chilled air. And Len recognized who it came from.

"LENKA!" He slapped the laptop shut, and raced down the street. The ice cracked from under him, but he didn't slip once. Another scream broke out, from a spray-painted alleyway. This isn't good, it can't be good.

"LEN-"

Three heads turned. And they were heads he knew so well.

As Ted and his gang sneered at Len's appearance, he instantly felt tiny.

"Well well well. What better person to show up than the nerd himself?" Ted smirked. "Gag her."

"Len, please-"

Kaito and Piko did as they were told. They also tied up her hands, and heaved her onto the ground. She landed with a muffled cry.

"Don't push her!" Len stormed up to Ted, looking up to meet him in the eyes.

"Aw, lookie here guys." He gestured to Len. "This little guy here still loves her. However, if I am correct, wasn't she the same lass that duped YOU a few months ago?" He pushed Len, hard, on the chest, as he fell helplessly in the snow.

"Look, dude." All three guys were now surrounding him. "We've all had a long day today, and we just wanted to have a little fun. Who could blame us? This babe is ours, now SCRAM."

A type of rage he never known raised in his chest. With the anger channelling from his fist, he let it out on Piko, who was standing the closest to him. "That's what you were trying to do?! You sick, perverted animals!"

Piko was stunned for a second. Then his snarl returned, his eyes bursting in flames. He returned the punch, but Len managed to dodge it. However, in his moment of vulnerability, Piko kicked Len in the chest. On the ground, he kicked him back on the shins, bringing him down as well.

It was on. Ted had Len in a headlock, but he elbowed him across the back. As Ted buckled, he uppercutted him right after. Len himself didn't know he was capable of such power, he just knew he was extremely angry.

The scrimmage continued. Besides his first few moves, Len spent most of his time countering attacks instead of starting them. Blood ran down his nose as Piko smashed him into the brick wall. Len didn't give in though, with the adrenaline coursing through his body. Kaito however, didn't join in on the fight.

Eventually, Piko was left slumped against the wall, and Ted face-down and bloody in a pile of garbage bags. Two down, one to go.

Kaito threw off his jacket, exposing his well-toned muscles. He cracked his knuckles, and walked up to Len in an almost calm manner. Then with a cry, he unleashed his fury. It was impossible for Len, as Kaito smashed him across his face over and over. Unlike Ted or Piko, who took pauses between intervals, Kaito was a turret. In less than a minute, Len had enough.

"Kaito, don't..."

Kaito didn't look like he broke a sweat. He grinned, an insane smile plastered across his face. From nowhere, he pulled out a metal rod as he prepared to finish him.

Lenka lay tied up and helpless, thrashing wildly. Len wanted to crawl over to her, but in his current condition, stars and blood ran across his vision. He hoped that it would be quick.

"Goodnight, Len Kagamine." He brought the metal rod down.

"NO!"

The entire alleyway burst out in electricity. A force field of static covered him like a dome, and as Kaito's rod connected with it, it traveled up into his arm. Kaito was shocked, and he fell over, paralyzed.

His sight was blurred by the energy of the electricity field. But he could just make out a figure bending over the metal rod, with feathered wings extended. They too, were filled with static.

The angel turned around to look at Len, her feet never touching the ground. Her eyes had no pupils, and they were glowing with rage.

It was the last thing he saw before passing out from the lights.

"Crap, my head..." Len thought, coming to consciousness. He opened his eyes slowly, monotone songs of beeping monitors all around him.

Right in front of him, sitting crossed-legged in the air, was the angel.

'"Hey, Onii-chan."

"Rin?" Len tried to move, but it caused pain. "Where..where am I?"

"The hospital." She said. "The ambulance had to be called. Ted and his gang were arrested, and Lenka's in the waiting room. You've been out for seven hours, forty-one minutes, and twenty six seconds. Don't worry, you're not in any trouble against the law. You were only defending yourself and Lenka."

Len took all the information in. He could see that it was nighttime outside. Very nearly midnight, in fact.

"Rin...you saved me, from Kaito. You're an angel..."

She was just like how she looked in real life, except her entire body was pale and opaque. Her pupils were gone, but they showed the same life they had before. Rin's hair and bowtie were waving slowly to a rhythm of their own, from the electrical currents shifting through it. The cuts were still visible on her arms. She wore her black and yellow sailor clothes, one that was nearly identical to Len's. Lastly, her magnificent wings sparked with energy, fibres moving along with her hair. There were wires connecting them together, leading to a spot on her heart, which had a glowing "power" symbol on it.

"You're an electric angel..."

Rin shrugged modestly. "I'm sorry...that I didn't help you earlier. It was difficult to get through the computer, since it was closed. When I had finally appeared, it was almost too late." She didn't meet his eyes, as she floated down onto his bed sheets. "That will never happen again, I promise. Ted's gang will regret the day they were born."

"Rin, it's not your fault. In fact, because of you I stood up for Lenka. Before I had met you, I would've surrendered and retreated. And still get beat up because of that." He looked outside the window, the city lights way down below him. "I have a reason to fight for the ones I love, and it brought out a part of me I never knew existed."

"Is that true...?"

He held out his hand in front of him, almost like giving a high-five. Rin stared at it, her wings flapping passively. She tentatively brought her hand out as well, reaching across to join it with his.

Just then, the door opened. Iroha and Lenka burst through, with Iroha screaming his name.

"LEN!"

She gave Len a huge hug, crushing the life out of him. She talked and crooned, about how she heard about everything and assured him that everything was alright. Rin had disappeared the second the two came in.

Iroha said that he may be staying for a day or two, for his injuries were great but not life-threatening. After planting his face with get well soon kisses, she gave him the shopping bag which held the stuff he bought. Len was aware that the entire time, Lenka was standing off to the side, looking extremely depressed.

The room grew dark and silent without Iroha's babbling. Lenka walked right up to his bed. "I-I..."

Then in a second, she broke down onto her knees, tears streaming down her face and her hands clenching the sheets. Len reached over to pet her hand.

"I'm sorry.."

Len didn't say anything as Lenka continued to sob. That was one of the things he hated most about himself, how he seemed to be at his point of awkwardness when someone else needs his comfort.

"How could you do that...after the way I had treated you?" She stood up suddenly, almost angry at herself.

"Lenka...regardless of who you are, I'll always stand up for someone in need. Those guys are disgusting and immoral."

"It was all my fault..." She started to cry again. It took a lot of patting, but Len finally managed to get her calmed down.

"It's over now. Ted and people have been arrested. And I'll be out of here in a few days!" He encouraged.

"Thanks, Len..." She smiled faintly. "I've misjudged you. You aren't weird at all. In fact, you're even better. I wish...I wish I had never hurt you like that. I wish that I didn't leave you."

"Feeling the pain now, aren't we?" Len couldn't help but think. "It's alright. Things may turn out different in the future, right?"

Lenka nodded, smiling. She wiped at her eyes with a tissue, giving him a hug. "I wish."

They stayed like that for several seconds, until Lenka's cell phone rang.

"Mom? I'm at the hospital...What? Oh, okay. I'll be there in twenty minutes. Bye." She hung up, sighing. "I'm sorry, I have to go. I can't thank you for what you did today, Len. Stay safe."

"Same to you." He answered, as they exchanged waves. After leaving, Len began to feel depressed, until Rin reappeared with his laptop in her hands.

"That was her, wasn't she?" Rin mumbled. However, she faced him with a grin as he handed the computer to him. "Here. I managed to smuggle this out from the doctors. They didn't notice a thing!"

Len chuckled. "You're awesome, Rin."

Rin saluted, and he could see a cable was attached to her, linking her to his laptop. Apparently, Rin was fettered to the computer.

"So, Electric Angel. Explain." He gestured to the cable, and her wings.

Rin's face brightened. "Oh, this is my angel form! The closest thing to a human/ghost I can be. This cable here binds me to the computer, which sucks. But the bright side is that it can move to anything else powered by electricity!" She demonstrated, disappearing from sight. Then the machine that measures Len's heart-rate started glowing in yellow light. The lines that ran across the screen in jagged lines formed a heart with each beep.

"See?" Rin emerged, with the cable now binding her to the machine. "This is my new fetter. I can move anywhere I wish, as long it is an electrical appliance. Also, I have the ability to manipulate it. Not a lot of work, if you ask me."

"That's...that's amazing..." Len was awestruck. Now that he thought about it, Rin didn't always have to stay in the computer. She can also inhabit his phone, TV, anything. But why was she suddenly capable of so much power?

As if reading his mind, Rin answered. " It's because of you, Len. Your love, and your songs give me energy. Each time you talk to me, each time you use me shows me how important I am to you. That makes me feel happy and loved. And I live on love, Len-kun. Remember, my sprite in Vocaloid became clearer and clearer each day, right? That was part of it. Thanks to you, I've been running this whole time."

Speaking of the time, Len glanced at the clock. 11:58 pm. Two more minutes and Rin will forget everything that had happened to her today.

Rin noticed the time too. She sighed, sadly. "Well, it's a matter of seconds before I reboot again. But before that, I want to sing a song. I spent all of today writing it, so I would be devastated if I forgot it before I could share it with you. And it's dedicated to you, Len.

"A song...for me?"

"I love singing, isn't that how I came to being?

Saying that you love my voice, makes my electrical heart ring!"

Besides 1's and 0's, my world was filled with "Why"?

But it was you who taught me the meaning of "I" (Ai).

From that day on, since my birth from sparks,

You filled the space that is my heart.

And as long as I can be with you,

My digital heart will sing with me too.

Almost like a quantum wind,

My heart will shiver from within-"

The clock struck 12:00.

a/n: Disclaimer: I don't own the song Electric Angel, but the lyrics shown in here is my version. :)

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