I know, I know, I said I wasn't going to update today, but I couldn't resist! I guess it's for the best anyways, I made this chapter EXTRA long too~! ^^
A little bit about the twin's and Miku's past is revealed, as some of you have suggested, but not too much, because I'm just not ready to give their secrets away yet. So as a general message, I'm starting with IA's past, then I will move into the rest of the back stories.
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"I can't believe it."
"Get over it we lost." Meiko spits as she finishes washing away the blood stuck to her hair. Luka stands, clenching her bruised fists together.
"Because of your carelessness!" She spits at her.
"Oh ple-ase." Meiko says, pushing her aside and walking to the other end of the hotel room.
"You're reckless, uncontrollable, you don't listen to your superiors and your under qualified for this assignment in the first place! Lilly should have never put you on this team if she had wanted it to succeed. You are going to be responsible for everyone's death, you and your insane little boy friend!" Luka hisses, gesticulating wildly.
"I'm not wasting another breath engaging you in this petty little argument Megurine." Meiko slams the door behind her.
Yowane is standing out in the hall, leaning against the side of a soda machine and lazily playing with the pop tab on her energy drink. Her right eye is covered by a gauze bandage, and her entire left arm wrapped in a thin cloth. A large cut is on her right shoulder.
"You two need to bury the hatchet Sakine." She states simply.
"What did you just say?" The brunette hisses.
A hand on her shoulder stops her from knocking the fizzy purple drink right out of Yowane's hands. She turns slowly and sees a blue haired man with a sling surrounding his left arm. The arm is covered in excessive amounts of gauze and small drops of red soak through. Upon seeing him in this condition tears slowly creep into Meiko's eyes, but she quickly pushes them away. She plants a delicate kiss on Kaito's cheek. His skin tastes like sanitizer and peroxide. But Meiko doesn't care.
"Kaito…"
"I'm fine, really I am." He says, using his good arm to pull her into a hug.
"No you aren't. They- I can't believe what they- I'll make them pay. I will make them pay for what they did to you honey. I swear I will." Meiko spits, using her hands to gently stroke the side of Kaito's ghastly pale skin.
"I will make them pay myself Meiko, there's no need."
"I don't like to take no for an answer Kaito." She says, glaring at him. "They shot you. That won't be forgiven."
"I'm not asking you to forgive them darling. I'm asking you to let me be the one to choke and drain the last bit of demonic life out of their small, shattered forms, and feel their bones break in my hands, and lastly, taste that sweet, sweet blood as it leaks from their eyes."
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IA outstretches a hand full of sunflower seeds to a sparrow bouncing around a small pond.
"IA stop giving our food away, birds can get their own food." Rin calls over to her as she helps Miku out of the van and to her feet. IA outstretches her fingertips to the small sparrow. It flies away to the nearest branch and watches her from there. She sighs, eating the seeds herself and sitting down on the rocks surrounding the pond.
Rin, having realized they couldn't possibly roll into a town in this condition, pulled over into a forest about an hour ago. They drove around on this dirt path that they now stand on until finally they found this small pond.
IA kicks her feet back and forth in the chilly but comfortable water. A lily pad floats across the surface of the water, and brushes against her ankles.
It feels like something familiar, but familiar in a bad way. It felt just like that time where a rat brushed up against her ankles in the darkness of the cold room. She shivers, remembering how when she finally got the courage to move it away from her feet how it was already dead. It starved to death in the unforgiving darkness in which IA lived.
But that was a while ago, and things were different since Len. Len showed her light, and she will never let that go.
Miku inches towards IA, until her shoulder brushes up against the girl's head. She follows the little girl's example, also dipping her feet in the cool water. A koi fish with brilliant gold and orange fiery shades nibbles at Miku's blood soaked toes.
She yelps and pulls her feet out of the water, terrified.
"It doesn't hurt, watch." IA puts her feet deeper in, allowing the fish to swim over. She giggles as the fish's small mouth pecks away at her toes.
Rin comes up behind them with Len under her arm. He is slouched over painfully, one arm gripping his steadily bleeding side, the other slung lazily over Rin's shoulder. His feet drag uselessly behind him, his head hung so low his eyes are invisible, covered by the shroud of blonde and red hair.
Rin gently sets him down in the water, and begins to try and pull his shirt off. Len cries out, then shakes his head slowly no.
"Don't be stupid Len, I have to take your shirt off to deal with your injuries."
With a reluctant wordless agreement, he allows his twin to try again. He moans and yelps with pain as the fabric seemingly bonded to his skin is slowly pulled off, breaking dried and clotted blood that is attached to his skin, which sags painfully onto his shattered ribs, which jab painfully into his lungs.
Rin mutters almost silently under her breath, "I'm sorry." About ten thousand times.
When the once white T-shirt is removed, Miku sees the extent of his injuries. His skin lies unevenly over his nearly entirely shattered skeletal frame. Blood seeps through his skin, showing severe internal injuries. Clumps and bunches of black, hardened blood cling to his nearly non-existent blonde chest hairs. Rocks and pebbles from the asphalt are imbedded in his skin.
"Len…" Rin sighs, tearing a section off of his ruined shirt to use as a washcloth. "You reckless bastard, How many times am I going to have to play nurse?" She groans, starting to wipe away the blood clumps.
"As long as-" He winces in pain, his voice coming back strained and shallow. "- they're chasing us."
Rin laughs a little. "We both know it will be quite a while until that's over."
Miku sits up. "Why are they after us?" She asks, refusing to even glance Len's direction out of shame towards what she caused him.
"We're actually not really sure. Ever since we were young and our parents first found out we're- well ya' know, they called the church and rushed us to the priest. He told them to call this little 'effed up mad house where we were locked away for a few years, until we figured out we can beat them and run away. We've been kinda' doing the same thing ever since, we're just trapped in this crappy little loop. You two are the only other's alike we've ever even heard of. As for the reason why they want us in the first place, well that's pretty self explanatory. We're basically immortal freaks. They have the perception that when released into the public we'll cause mass hysteria and chaos. Which is pretty accurate, people do tend to run away from red eyed demon twins and etcetera. But something else has been bothering me about the whole thing. Almost everywhere the 'researchers' (code word for total sadistic sociopaths) seem to always mention God, and the judge meant. I dunno anything about that. Honestly I just think their off their god damn rockers. Oh, sorry IA, forget that word. Anyways, in short, I have no idea."
"Oh." Miku sighs, kicking her feet back and forth in the water.
Soon she catches herself looking up, and accidentally meets eyes with the boy who she caused so much pain. His gauze, unreadable. But then again having only been around kind people for not even a full week, Miku is pretty bad at reading others.
She turns away, her face turning crimson red.
IA stares off into the distance, watching the clouds roll by the sun. This day is just like that one. She thinks wistfully. Without realizing it she was almost about to start crying.
"Ok Len. Now we just have to wait until your bones and organs finish repairing themselves." Rin says, slipping her feet into the water and lying down in the grass for a break.
"The weather is so great today!" Rin shouts, using her hand to shield her red eyes from the sun.
Miku sits in the water, watching Len silently. His movements are painful, his expression is painful, his whole situation is painful for her. Especially knowing she caused it.
"I-I'm sorry!" Miku cries suddenly.
Len raises his head slowly, and a smile crosses his face.
"If you honestly thought he was mad at you, then you don't know Len at all." Rin says, skipping a stone across the surface of the water.
That is the hot headed blonde girl's way of comforting people. Honestly, it isn't the best way to go about it, but it's a lot more effective than you would think.
"Sheesh Rin- you-could've been nicer." Len chokes out.
"Y-y-you aren't m-mad?" Miku snivels, looking up at Len with her shimmering red eyes.
"Wh-why on earth would I- be mad?" He says painfully as one of his ribs un-breaks itself.
"I-I-I did this, I did everything!" Miku sobs. "Everything, everything since I was born is all my fault, and I don't mean to do any of it! I don't know, I don't know, I don't know!" she screams hysterically. "I don't know why I killed daddy, I don't know why everyone is afraid, I don't know why everyone looks at me like that, I don't know why I don't die, why isn't I don't die! It's all so confusing! I don't want to feel like this anymore. I've never been happier in my life but yet I'm so sad! How is that even possible? I don't want to be alone anymore!"
"Don't you ever say that again." Len says angrily. Miku stops, horrified. "Don't you ever say you're alone, ever again. Because you're not. No matter how alone you think you are, we will always be here. We will always be on your side, so you're never alone again."
She continues to cry, but a different type of tears this time.
Tears of joy.
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IA: 5
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