a/n: As you all may know, nothing stays perfect for long... ;_; Here's where the problems start, and the actual plot starts. Anyhow, updates after this will be fairly quick, although I need to find time to work on others. Busy busy busy...

I'm planning on changing the genre from this to drama, but idek... *_* If you could help me out that would be awesome ~ :))

Ah whatever, you dun want to hear me blabber~ :3 Presenting chapter six! ^-^

Chapter Six: Downhilling

"Now, how are we going to do this?" Kaito lowered his binoculars, with Ted and Piko doing the same. Len's house is in plain sight. Hidden in a patch of underlying bushes, the trio were plotting something.

Ted spoke up. "Simple. They say you only do this on Halloween, but it's too late for that. Piko, ya got the toilet paper and eggs? Piko?"

The tall, lanky male was apparently busy with his hair. Ted punched him in the shoulder.

"Are you even listening?! Stop playing with your bloody hair!"

"Sorry..." Piko mumbled. "It's just so white, you know."

"Gay~~" Kaito sang under his breath.

"Why you little mother-"

"Shut up, both of you! You fools are gonna get us caught! If you want to get Kagamine back, then it's now or never!" Ted spat on the ground, annoyed by his comrade's uncooperative rebuking.

"A month in juvenile detention wasn't worth this, you know." Piko grumbled.

Ted sighed. Being leader of the most feared but also the least-motivated people on the social ladder, he wasn't going to stop here, no matter what Piko thinks. A few weeks ago, his reputation was destroyed. That he was left senseless and stupefied by a nerd who looked like a girl. But tonight, he was on a roll. After the conflict between the police, and the whole deal with his family, he was going to egg Kagamine Len's house. And wrap toilet paper around it too.

"Piko, just get the damn eggs."

Night was falling. The three troublemakers stalked through the bushes, ending up in front of Len's kitchen window. Kaito hoisted Ted and Piko onto an overlooking tree branch, with the toilet paper in hand. Suddenly, the lights turned on, and voices were heard.

"Duck!" Ted hissed. Everyone took shelter, as they heard someone else speaking. This didn't sound right...didn't he live alone?

"Move up a floor." Piko directed. The three clambered upwards, reaching the second floor window. Ted, along with Kaito, started "wrapping things up".

"This will teach the punk not to mess with us." Ted thought, as they threw the rolls all over the roof. Down the walls, around the porch, everywhere. They even spun the paper around the fence. When that objective was completed, they started chucking the eggs.

"I hear someone! You guys, hide!"

The noise stopped. Ted cupped a hand around his ears, straining to hear a sound. Sure enough, an unfamiliar female voice was heard.

"Oh Len...when will you be back? Always out with her, it's worrying me. It's so...lonely without you."

Piko and Kaito looked over Ted's shoulders. When they saw nearly caused them to fall out of the tree. There was a girl in his bed. A GIRL. And she had what seemed to be angel wings.

"Yeah, I can still remember the day I first discovered you. And I thought I was supposed to teach you something, but you did. I loved you for that, but are you still going to love me?" She turned onto her back, looking up at the ceiling. There were no pupils in her eyes. "Whatever you decide on Len, I'll always be here. You can count on that."

The face of the girl dawned upon Kaito, as he remembered where exactly he had seen her. He turned pale, his heartbeat nearly leaving him.

"T-t-that t-thing nearly k-k-killed me!" He spluttered. "It's a ghost! It's a freaking spirit! Len is a necromancer!"
Terror filled Kaito's chest, while Ted and Piko just stopped and stared. Kaito made a bolt for his life, before it tries to kill him again. Before it tries to kill him and succeeds-

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?!" The girl demanded him, sitting up.

Kaito froze.

"Run, you idiot!" Ted and Piko shoved him, as they all fought to escape. But unfortunately for them, Rin caught up.

"You, you..." She stared at the three guys half-hanging from the tree. "You were the ones who hurt Len!" Her eyes turned to Kaito, glowing.

"RUN! F #*!ING RUN!"

It was too late. Rin, with her wings outstretched, zoomed out the window.

"There's no running now." Her eyes flashed red for less than a second. The males never looked so helpless in their lives, as they weakly ran to the car in attempt to flee from the electric angel.

"You are going to pay. All of you!"

Morning:

"Ah~" A certain blond male stretched in the light of the morning sun. It was Monday, but it didn't depress him. Life was good, and that was what mattered.

Slipping on his glasses from the bedside table, Len looked around his room. Something was missing, he observed. Something important.

"Where is Rin?"

Usually, she'd be the first face he saw as he opened his eyes. The first thing, actually. Rin had an odd habit of staring at his face, in front of his face.

"It's so that whenever you cry in your sleep, I can be there to wipe the tears away for you~" He blushed, as he remembered that. Even though his life in daylight seemed perfect, the past still haunted him in his dreams.

"I guess she's downstairs." He concluded. He threw off the covers, tying his hair up in the signature ponytail. He looked out the window, seeing spilled eggs and toilet paper on the ground. Weird, he thought. He'll check that out after school.

After several minutes in the bathroom, Len made his way downstairs for breakfast.

Sure enough, the electric angel was in the den, fettered to the TV. She sat a bit too rigidly on the couch, flipping the channels with her mind. She didn't seem to notice him as he came in.

"Good morning, Rin-chan~!"

"Ah! Oh, morning Len." The TV switched off, as she turned to face him. There was something off about her expression. For once, it didn't look like she was happy to see him. "How did you sleep?"

"Great, thank you. How long have you been up?" He turned to the TV, which was off. However, Rin still stared at it like something was hidden in the darkness.

"Rinny, are you alright? You're acting strange..."

"Er, yes, what made you say that?" She broadcast her perfect smile, and the tension in Len's chest drained a little.

"You're so...quiet. And you're staring at the TV like something is showing. Obviously, something's on your mind." He walked over, turning on the said TV. "Is it because of the time I'm spending with Lenka?"

Rin's wings tensed. "Ah, well...it makes me wonder whether or not I still matter in your life. She's consuming a large part of your time." She emphasized "consuming". "It kinda makes me feel neglected. I run on your love, you know. And these days, I'm feeling like...a broken circuit."

Len shook his head rapidly. "No! Of course I'm not neglecting you! You mean more to me than everything else on this earth. You got that? Don't think that I'll ever abandon you for her. Even though I spend more time with Lenka now, I'll always have room for you. Oh god, I'm so sorry I worried you this much." He removed his glasses, rubbing his eyes.

"Thank you Len. It makes me feel much better~" She gave a warm smile, her wings flapping softly. He tried, for the millionth time, to touch her. To comfort her, in some way. However, his hand always passed through like the wintry winds.

The news report came on. Rin shut off the TV a second after it started, in an agitated manner.

"Heh..that's enough TV. We should get going, or else you'll be late."

Finally, he left the house, with Rin inhabiting his earphones. Rin always followed him to school, either in his laptop or cellphone, but Len had created the headset so that Rin could speak to him without anyone else knowing. It always worked wonders whenever he turned it on, making his voice sound ten times better.

"Darn, I forgot the keys." He put the headphones/Rin in his bag, and rushed back into the house. The keys were on the couch where they had sat before. But as Len picked them up, he saw something where Rin was previously.

Somebody's cellphone.

"Huh?" Len palmed it, turning it on. The screen was cracked. The phone had ten missed calls, fourteen text messages, five voicemails, and 20% battery life. There was also a password on the phone, so Len couldn't access it. He tried to think of who on earth would have owned it. Not to mention an explanation of its horrible, yet vaguely suspicious state.

"Len-chan? Are you coming?"

"Yeah, just wait!" He could easily use Rin to hack the phone, but decided not to tell her. Besides...it was wrong, right?

"I'll give it to the school office, simple." He thought.

But upon arriving at school, the entire atmosphere changed. Something had happened last night...

"All dead! All of them, dead!"

"Ah, this is horrible! They were so young, and handsome!"

"To be honest, I don't really care that they died. Now that they're gone, we won't have to worry about bullies anymore."

"Hey, does anyone know how it happened?"

"I heard that they were drunk and drove their car off of the bridge!"

"No! They didn't do it by themselves! Someone did."

Several faces turned to Len on that sentence. The hallways were chaos, as students ignored the class bells. Everybody was speaking at the same time, some giving him looks. Len was baffled, but gathering the snippets of conversations, this was what he got:

Ted, Piko, and Kaito had died yesterday night. Police had said that they had driven their car off of the suspension bridge, in downtown. Why were they in downtown, which were miles from the school?

Their bodies weren't found yet, as they had pummeled into the ocean. However, witnesses reported that they heard screaming and voices yelling "Please! Make it stop!" before the car drove off the bridge. A hobo claimed that he was right next to the place where the accident occurred, and close up it looked like the car was controlling itself. He also said the car was glowing.

That hobo, however, was on crack at the moment. His assumptions were not proven to be true, but gossip still spread around. Since it didn't look like the three were responsible, they thought Len did it...because he was the same person who defeated them before. He could have easily implanted a bug in the car that made it spin out of control, or tinkered with the machinery.

Within 24 hours, the school had changed. Some blathered about conspiracy theories for the cause of their death, while some just stared at the ground and walked on. Gossip queens like Neru Akita pounded on their phones, tweeting the trio's deaths and messaging their friends about the news.

"Neru!" Len caught the tall blond as she was tapping at her phone maniacally. Like everyone else, she knew who he was.

"Oh, Len!" She exclaimed. "Have you heard?"

"Yeah. Neru, since you hang out with them a lot, where have you last seen them?"

"Well, me and some other friends saw them in the parking lot of a grocery store. When I asked them what they were doing, they ran off saying they had 'business' to take care of."

"Anything else?"

"Er, the white-haired one had eggs with him."

Eggs...and toilet paper were outside of his window! Ted and his gang wanted to vandalize his house! But then why were the contents in a pile, then? What had made them retreat? Unless...

Unless Rin had something to do with it.

"Neru...do you happen to have their numbers..?"

"Oh, yeah. I don't know why you would need them though."

She handed him her contacts list, and it took a considerable time scrolling to find them. Len called two of the numbers, which were Kaito's and Piko's. Since the list was in alphabetical order, Ted's number came last.
The mysterious phone in his pocket was vibrating.

"I have to go. Thanks!" He immediately felt sick. He ran through the hallways, everything a blur to him. Len bolted for the library, passing the office along the way. A red-haired girl was crying, as she sat on the chairs of the see-through room. She turned, giving him a look of death. Len knew her as Teto Kasane, Ted's sister.

He was already missing three minutes of class. Whatever. He needed to get somewhere quiet, somewhere he could speak to her.

The librarian, as usual, was asleep at his desk. Len entered the old-fashioned rotunda, cocked-full of books.

"Rin! Come out! There no use hiding."

He waited. Thirty seconds later, Rin emerged. She didn't meet his eyes.

"Tell me what happened. Now."

Her eyes were glowing behind her saffron bangs. "They asked for it."

No. It can't be true. Rin didn't just-

"It was quick though, I assure you. No blood, no pain. There was a great amount of screaming though. I could have killed them the painful way, but all I did was fetter myself to their car and drive them off the bridge. The doors were locked, lights turned off, and their cellphones were disabled. I swear, it was painless. I knew you wouldn't want me to eradicate them in gruesome manners, Len."

"Rin...why..."

Did she actually expect him to feel proud that she single-handedly murdered three teenagers? Even though they weren't friendly people, this wasn't the way he remembered her. Rin would never kill someone, not to mention THREE people. Rin would never-

"It was the last straw. They were bothering you, vandalizing our house. It was a small price to pay."

This wasn't right. Even though Ted and his gang were bullies, and had served in juvenile detention, it wasn't something noble.

Even though she had done it for him.

"You just went ahead and killed them! Don't you think that's going too far, Rin?! They are still humans, people with feelings. They had caused pain for me, but it doesn't mean that they haven't gone through pain themselves! They didn't deserve to die. Nobody should."

Rin's eyes teared up. "But I died! They hurt you, Len! Before, when we went to the same school, they were there to cause misery in your life. I didn't want them to harm you, or anyone else. So I ended it."

Len couldn't believe he was hearing this. His gentle, kind sister...was killing people? "It doesn't make it right! You were the one who told me to forgive and forget! I stood up for myself because I believed in those words. Death is like a ripple, Rin. It effects everyone!" His voice echoed through the room, as he screamed the last word.

"When you died, I felt like my life was falling apart. And it was! You came back, teaching me how to live again. It was ironic, but aren't you forgetting yourself?"

Rin stiffened up, a desperate look on her face. "It is my job to protect you, Master."

Len's eyes glazed over, hidden in the darkness of his bangs. His nails dug into his skin, and he felt like his veins were going to explode.

"I'm not your master, I am your brother. Your equal."

He walked closer to her glowing figure, voice breaking. "So if you were to commit a crime, what would happen to me? I would've committed the crime as well. You're my sister, and I loved you so much that I lost my voice. And if you kill someone...I would be a part of it. If you are hurt, I am hurt. If you died, I would die. But I didn t, Rin. And you are taking advantage to that?"

"Don't worry about me! My death was my own fault. The cuts ran too deep, and I was stupid enough to run out in the snow wearing hardly anything. Death does weird things to you, Len. And now that Ted, Kaito and Piko are dead, they can only bother me now. You're free, and I did that to make sure you are safe. Do you feel safe, Len?"

"Knowing that a spirit is murdering people under my nose really does make me feel secure, Rin."

That insult hurt more than he had intended it to. Rin broke down, transparent tears running down her face.

"I-I failed...I failed to make you love me."

The tears leaked onto the fine wires that weaved into her heart. Sparks flew, static causing the wires to convulse. A flash of light filled the library, and then the power was out. The electric angel was gone.

"RIN!" Len ran to the spot she was before. But in its place was a piece of paper with more binary letters on it. He flipped open his computer, translating the digits.

The note spelled out "TETO". He stared at the capital letters on the monitor, before knowing exactly what it meant.

Len whipped out Ted's cellphone. He punched in "TETO", and was granted access into his phone. He looked at the missed calls, which happened at one am this morning. Two were from Neru, and the rest were from Teto. Again, with the messages, more than ten texts were from his sister alone.

(20/1/14) 1:45 AM: Teddy, u back yet? Its so fricking late wat were u thinking

(20/1/14) 1:45 AM: Ted, where r u? answer pls (20/1/14) 1:46 AM: dude, we have school tmmrw. COME HOME

(20/1/14) 1:47 AM: U said it was only until 10. Where r u?! answer my calls! *~*

(20/1/14) 1:47 AM: im giving u until 2 to answer. Or else im calling the police

(20/1/14) 2:00 AM: tedtedtedtedtedtedtedtedtedtedtedted!

(20/1/14) 2:01 AM: ted? :(

Len stared. Then he stare some more.

Finally, he blinked unwittingly and the tears fell. The drops spattered on the cracked screen, reminding him when he wore the glasses Ted had smashed. He didn't know why he was crying for the sibling of the one who had caused him so much torment, but he knew the feeling. Teto was a sister, just like how Rin was to him.

Close your eyes and imagine. See a young teenage girl staying up awfully late on a school night, tentatively texting her brother over and over about his location. See her face taut, lined with worry, biting her lip, as he doesn't pick up to her calls. Her knuckles are white from clenching too long, as one sentence replays over and over in her head like a fearful mantra: "Please let him be okay, please let him be okay, oh please let him be okay..."

Except he's not.

See that same girl in the morning, having fallen asleep with her phone in hand. See her rush to her brother's room, discovering that he was not in his bed. Terror rises in her chest, and she runs downstairs and grabs the phone, preparing to call him again. Then it rings in her hand.

She lets a smile stretch on her face as she thought that her brother didn't abandon her after all. She answers it, relieved that he was alright and was probably drunk at the club or something. See her face loosen into a frown as there was a solemn, sombre man on the other line. See her eyes widen, and then contort, as she drops the phone. The news was brought to her. Her brother had died the previous night, and he was nowhere to be found. He was never coming home.

Her only brother. She didn't even get to say goodbye...

Now, open your eyes.

Ted was a brother, just like how he was. As he had lost Rin, Ted's sister lost a sibling as well. What if fate was somehow changed? He imagined if he was the one who had died instead, with Rin messaging him again and again, never learning the truth. And what if he was the one to come back as an angel, with no memories of his past besides a few sentences of brief information? It must have been hard, yet Rin had taken that position for him. She always does.

Then she should understand that taking someone's life breaks another's. She was lost to self-harm and maybe even suicide. So why murder another human being? Was it to release anger that stayed with her through death, hidden behind her cheeky smile and empathetic demeanour? Why would she do that?

Unless it wasn't really her choice. Maybe she loved him too much. WAY too much. Maybe it was a programming error, or bug.

Len scrolled through Ted's photos, most of which consisted of him and his sister. He stopped himself, because he had his own to get back to.

His sister, the angel with blood drenching her hands and wings.

a/n: And there you have it. Chapter Six. '_'

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