Chapter 4
"Uhh," Mrs. Meiko breathed as she stood at the front of her class. She was staring down at her morning class. "It might just be me but," she smiled. "Isn't there an additional person in our class? It just seems bigger."
"That's what she said," Kaito mumbled under his breath. A pencil pierced through the apple he was eating. Any further and it would have went right through with deadly precision. Returning her focus to her students Mrs. Meiko noticed the girl sitting in Len's lap on her scan through the room. The facial expressions of her students were all either blank or looking dead straight at her. Not a single soul spoke.
"Guys?" She repeated. That's when everyone either looked away or avoided eye contact hoping not to get called on to speak the truth. Some were chewing gum while others played with their hair. "She's rather cute and sitting in Len's lap." That struck everyone's attention. Finally. All glanced at Len and the mysterious girl sitting in his lap smiling broadly.
"Who are you?" Mrs. Meiko questioned. Len took note of that. She was ruining his almost fool proof plan.
"She's always been in this class," Len answered staring his teacher straight on.
"Len, I know my own students and I haven't seen her before. Not even last year," Mrs. Meiko stated matter of factly.
"She was here," he said as the bubble he blew with his gum popped and resounded throughout the silence of the classroom.
Mrs. Meiko grimaced. Looking extremely skeptical as she was. She still knew the truth. This student she vowed she had never seen once in her whole life and she prided herself on knowing her students personally. So she decided to try again. Len would surely tell her the truth he was an earnest and honest student, just like the rest of her class. Smiling she asked, "Well, if she is in my class why didn't I see her?"
"She had a cold."
Meiko's smile was beginning to fade as she fought back the annoyance that was building inside her. Her eye twitched at how Len could sit there and say such words. Again she searched the class for some answers. Again she found none. Everyone was staring at Len. She wondered if there was some silent and unspoken code among her class that required nobody told the teacher anything. Even if something someone else did was so obvious it'd be impossible not to notice. So she turned back to him.
"How can a cold keep you out of school for that long?" Mrs. Meiko asked meaning no real offense.
"She has a weak immune system," Len said firmly.
This didn't make any sense. Mrs. Meiko's hands twitched. She was trying to keep herself from snapping. She laughed a bit, just a little bit. However this laughing was cut off by Len.
"Mrs. Meiko, a weak immune system is not something to laugh about. It's impolite to make short of someone's illness." He hadn't said it rudely at all and yet that was her snapping point.
"But she's not on my attendance! Care to explain that?"
"Now that's just cruel..." Len said with a shake of his head. He looked back at her with a straight face and a simple flourish of his arm to the attendance book. "She's right there on the attendance."
"Oh really?" Meiko snorted. "What's her name?"
"Rin, Rin Kagamine. No relation if that's what you're wondering."
After one last glance at Len, Meiko sauntered over to her desk and swiftly flipped open her attendance. Looking down at the attendance Mrs. Meiko was baffled. There her name was right under Len's name. Next to it a small note written as to why she had not been in school and doctors papers to support the info. Meiko's hands shook as she read through them. All were authentic.
"Forgetting your own students are we?" Len said shaking his head as his hands were about shoulder height shrugging. His plan after all had been fool proof. All his plans were. Then he smiled. He was a genius after all. It was to be expected.
"I'm so sorry!" Mrs. Meiko yelled out to Rin and him. Then she returned to her smiling self. "Well, thanks to my blunder we have wasted precious class time. Rin why don't you tell the class about yourself."
Shyly Rin got out of Len's lap and walked up to the front of the room and wrote her name on the board. Len could only hope she wouldn't ruin his fool proof plan and end up blowing their cover. She spun back to everyone with such timid grace that Len couldn't help the comedic thought. She was an innocent rabbit in a school full of wolves.
"Um, sorry I'm not that great at introductions," Rin mumbled and looked at the ground. She looked so shy. So immensely unsure of herself in front of everyone. Len almost laughed at her situation. How exactly did you tell someone about yourself when you didn't even know who you were? Literally. His expression grew stern. Mostly because even if she didn't know she'd better come up with something. He'd gone through the tedious liberty of setting the stage for her after all.
"So, erm, here goes. My name is Rin Kagamine. I am not related to the mas–I mean Len Kagamine. I'm actually a childhood friend of his. We just have the same last name. I've been quite ill until now so I haven't been in school. But I'll still try my best. So, please take care of me."
Len nodded at Rin in brief approval. Her introduction had been short and to the point. There weren't any details in it that anybody could prove wrong in the statement. The class still stayed painfully silent as Rin ended her introduction. It wasn't anything new. No one had grovelled at Len's feet when he'd introduced himself. Still he had gotten a few claps. All introductions had been this way, nobody really cared. Suddenly the whole class rang out in screams and hollers, especially the boys.
"Rin! Rin! Come sit here next to me! There's an open seat. I'll take care of you." One boy yelled at the back of the room.
"No Rin, sit here I'll give you my window seat!" Another boy called waving his hands frantically in the air.
"Hey stop flirting with Rin! She's sitting next to me." Another boy yelled threatening another.
"What you? As if! You're too lame! Rin wants a cool guy!"
"Rin, your hair is so pretty and silky how do you do that?" A curious girl asked in the front.
"Hey Rin, tour the school with me."
"Rin, are you a model?" Those and more things were shouted her way. But she only stood at the front smiling and looking around bewildered. Her cheeks were rather flushed as she was blushing.
Len concluded that he had just been too cool for anyone to make such statements when he had introduced himself. He wanted to strike fear into them after all, not make friends. Who would want to do such a pointless thing? As far as he was concerned there were no benefits to having friends that he needed or desired in any terms. Other people were a nuisance. Their friendship was a total waste of energy and time. As far as he was concerned, friendship was only something needy people desired. Something people who weren't comfortable and sure of themselves wanted. Len was neither the former nor the later. He knew exactly who he was.
Then Mrs. Meiko dragged her nails across the chalkboard to quiet the class, the sound ripped through the room. Shredding its way through all the chatter. Everyone covered their ears at the noise and silence returned to the classroom.
"Calm down! Rin will decide where she wants to sit! All other questions can be asked after class. Do I make myself clear?" All nodded "All that precious class time has been wasted! Reflect on it!" Then her anger simply vanishing she smiled brightly at Rin and the rest of her students.
"Rin, pick a seat." She asked politely waving her hand out at all the desks. Glancing around, Rin looked at all her choices. She gripped her satchel's shoulder strap pretty tightly while doing so. That's when Kaito raised his hand.
"Mrs. Meiko there's a free seat next to me!" He yelled cheerfully, checking out Rin. Len smiled to himself.
"No, there isn't." The guy sitting next to him said. In the spot Kaito claimed was empty.
"Yeah, well you can move," Kaito suggested. His tone more of a command. "Take one for the team man."
"You ass!" The guy next to Kaito spat. He grabbed his books and moved anyway as Kaito had instructed.
Rin shook her head to stop him. "It's fine you don't have to move, I don't want to intrude." Kaito smiled tossing some of his hair out of his face. Then he shrugged his shoulders.
"There is no way you would be intruding, Darling. This is a seat especially for you. In fact it's been yours since the second you looked at it."
"But someone was seated there earlier." She pointed out looking at Kaito who only smirked.
"Minor details, Baby." All the guys in the class shot their looks at Kaito. It seemed as if she was going to settle for the seat next to him and in Mrs. Meiko's class once you chose a seat it was permanent.
Rin looked at Mrs. Meiko "So I just choose a seat?" Meiko nodded.
Kaito was patting the seat next to him as Rin took a few steps into the rows. Len, at this point was grinning so wide he thought he might have committed a crime, and got away with it for that matter.
He placed a hand over his mouth deftly trying to hold back his laughter. He couldn't ruin this moment, the one where he swore he would hear Kaito's heart shatter. Rin had walked right over stopped a single desk diagonal in front of him. This is where she had placed her things and shifted over, sitting right dead center in Len's lap again.
Everyone shot glares of death at Len as he could feel the ominous aura of it all. But his head was so far in the clouds that it bounced off and dared not enter his "flying high" aura. Then he shoved Rin off and into her seat next to him. He had lifted her satchel so the things in there did not break. He was never going to share his things, so he had gone out and bought her some of her own. In terms of supplies anyway.
The aura grew deadly as if all of his classmates had wanted to throttle him. Still they stayed silent throughout all the teachings. Len couldn't imagine what his face looked like. He imagined it was a cross between desperately holding his laughter back and a broad smile from thinking how wonderful it had been to crush Kaito.
Just like this he could do it a thousand times over, and soon enough he would have Kaito under his foot. Crushed like the annoying bug he was. Like this soon he would have everyone under him like he deserved. Rin was a wonderfully useful underling indeed.