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I was given the go-ahead to continue the dreams, so I shall. If you don't like them... sorry...
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"What are you doing in here?" I asked Len as he walked into my room. I carefully marked my place in the Story of Evil book (even though I had finished the twins story, the book still contained short stories about all the other characters and what happens to them).
"By 'here' do you mean your room, or do you mean what we are doing on this vast planet humans call Earth? Because, truthfully, I am not entirely sure what humans on this planet exactly for. It seems like we are here to accomplish or do something, but I have yet to figure out what. However, I think-"
"SHUT UP," I screamed, and Len looked at me with a fake-hurt expression. "God dangit, Len. I just meant what you're doing in my room."
"Oh, okay. Well, you said that I could choose what we are going to do today, so I am. And that means that we are going outside."
"Outside?"
"Yup. There are apparently lots of things to do out in the back, and we've been here for, like, 3 days-"
"That's it?" I asked with a groan, but Len ignored me.
"-So I think we should figure out what's out there. I saw a pool and some other things, so I was thinking that we could go for a walk, and then go swimming," Len explained, and I nodded my head. "Oh, and I forgot to mention one other thing."
"Which is?"
"Since you said that we would do anything that I wanted, you are now my slave for today."
"Hurry up, slave! I've been waiting for, like, two WHOLE minutes," Len screamed as I struggled with the heavy basket that contained our lunches in it.
"Wait for a few seconds, Shota boy."
"You mean 'Master.' And, speak to me with more respect," Len said, a clear smirk playing on his lips.
"Please wait for me, Master," I said through gritted teeth, while mumbling some rather... bad curse words under my breath. "Although, Master should be more considerate because he packed it with who knows what." Seriously, the freaking basket probably weighed more than me!
"Are you back-sassing me?"
"No, Master," I said as I finally caught up to him. Len sighed to himself. "As fun as this is, I wish that you were Misaki, from Kaichou Wa Maid-Sama. That's where I got this idea in the first place. But, no. I'm stuck with Rin. And, she isn't even wearing a maid costume! I must tell my mother to make one..." Len rambled under his breath. And he complains that his mother is too obsessed with cosplay when he is himself!
"Anyway's, we're here," Len said. We stopped right next to a small river, which trees and berry-bushes surrounding it. It was a nice scene, I thought to myself. "Open up the basket, and set the blanket up," Len said. I opened the basket-
Only to have my mouth drop to the ground.
Bananas.
Freaking Bananas.
HE FILLED THE BASKET UP WITH BANANAS WHEN I WASN'T LOOKING! HE TOOK OUT THE ORANGES, AND PUT IN BANANAS! NO WONDER THE BASKET WAS SO HEAVY!
"Is there anything wrong?" Len asked, but I could tell that he was mocking me.
Calm down, Rin. If you kill him, you will end up in prison. I'm pretty sure that prison doesn't give you oranges. If you don't want to separate yourself from your oranges, then you will not murder Len. Simple, right?
Well, it wasn't that easy.
"Nothing's wrong at all, Master," I said with a fake smile. I took a deep breath, and allowed my acting skills to kick in. Two could play at this game. "Well, you should sit down, Master," I said with a soft smile, which was totally fake. "You wouldn't want to make your legs tired, would you? Let's sit down, Master."
"Rin, are you okay?" Len asked, obviously not expecting this.
"Of course I am, Master." I'm actually pretty terrible right now; I don't like being this nice to Len. "Anyways, sit." He did so. I opened the basket, and then took out a sandwich. "Say 'Ahh,' Master," I said, my smile cold. Before Len could do so, I shoved the sandwich into his mouth, causing him to bite off too much. "Oh, are you okay, Master?" I asked as Len began chocking.
Once he finally stopped, he said, "No, I-" I cut him off but shoving a water bottle into his mouth.
"Perhaps you should drink some more water, Master," I said, and then began coughing.
"YOU SADISTIC FREAK," Len screamed at me once he finally finished.
"Really, Master?" I asked. Even though I had a sweet smile on my face, a killer aura swirled all around me, deadly and dangerous.
"Let's... let's just have lunch, Rin. And, if you stop trying to kill me, you can also stop calling me 'Master.'"
"Good job, shota boy," I said as I unwrapped the cling off of my tuna sandwich. He glared at me, but neither of us picked a fight. Instead we enjoyed the good weather and relaxing scene in front of us. When I finally finished, I stretched purposlying whacking Len in the face as I did so.
"Fine then," Len said as he began taking his bananas out. "If you hate me so much"-Why does he sound almost... hurt?- "Then I guess that I won't give you the orange I brought for you."
"You brought one for me?" I asked, wanting to eat one so badly.
"Yup."
"May I please have it?"
"Well, I dunno."
"Pretty please Len?" I leaned closer to him. "Please, please, please?"
"Well, why should I? You already tried to kill me."
"Well, I'm your motherfu-"
"Language."
I tried again. "Well, I'm your slave, so pay me in oranges instead of money."
"Slave, not servant. You aren't paid." I sighed, and looked the other way. "This is impossible," I mumbled under my breath. Len sighed, and handed me the fruit. "You better as hell not complain for the rest of the day."
"THANK YOU, LEN! THANK YOU, THANK YOU!" I began unpeeling my fruit, and then quickly bit into it. "Ah, I love you, Len," I said, my eyes closed.
"Um, what?" My eyes flew open when I realized how that sounded.
"Um, not like that. Like, I love you for giving me the fruit. I'm not attracted to you," I said, ignoring the voice inside of me that said, "What about karaoke When you almost kissed? What about your dreams? What about the way your heart beats faster when you're with him? The way your legs shake?"
It's a stupid voice. I ignore it for the most part.
"I don't understand how you aren't," Len said, and I rolled my eyes.
"You give your charm too much credit." Len sighed, and then rested his head on my lap. "What are you doing?" I asked, although I didn't mind. This gave me a chance to play with his silky hair. His beautiful, golden, silky hair.
"I like sitting like this, okay?" Len said as I took his hair out of it's ponytail, and began playing with it. "Let's sit like this some more," Len murmured, half asleep already.
"I don't mind," I said with a small whisper. Not soon after, Len fell asleep. I stayed away, thinking about different songs and lyrics, enjoying the nice scenery around me. Every now and then I would pop a red berry into my mouth, the sweet juices exploding into my mouth. A song, one that I had never listened to or wrote before, came to mind, and I began singing. As I sang, a title popped into my head.
Winter Sky. (A/N: Rin/Len Append! It's beautiful! BTW, I can't find the English lyrics, so that's why I didn't post it)
After the first stanza, I paused slightly, trying to figure out what to sing next. Suddenly the sleeping boy on my lap began singing.
His voice was just as beautiful as I remember, if not more.
We both paused slightly, and then set into the chorus, our voices molding together into one incredible one. We both made lyrics up on the spot, that practically matched the others perfectly. It was nice, and we were perfectly in sync. My fingers curled, and I imagined playing the background music onto the piano. Gosh, why is there never a piano when you need one?!
The song ended too quickly. Len's eyes fluttered opened, and we both just stared at each other for a few moments. Wordlessly, Len got up, and then offered me his hand. I grabbed it, and got up, but he didn't let go of it. We walked back to the house, now empty basket in one hand, Len's hand in the other.
"RIN, DON'T!"
"TOO BAD, SHOTA BOY!"
"RIN, LET ME GET TO THE SI-"
"RIN CANNONBALL OF DEATH!" I screamed as I jumped into the pool, almost landing on (a now very angry) Len.
"THAT'S THE THIRD TIME YOU'VE TRIED TO KILL ME TODAY," Len screamed, and I shrugged innocently while saying, "Whoops."
"Gosh, I hate you." I rolled my eyes, knowing that he wasn't actually serious.
"I hate you, too."
"Good." We both blew raspberries at each other, and tried to walk away, but that ended up not working since we were in a pool.
"So, what do you want to do?"
"Race? To the end of the pool and back."
"What does the winner get?" Len considered the question, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "Um, they can command the other person to do anything they want." I nodded my head, and we both swam to the side of the pool.
"Ready..." I started.
"...Set..." Len continued.
"GO!" We both screamed, and took off. Len did freestyle while I did butterfly. I swam my heart out, but it still ended in a tie. "Damnit. Now what?"
"We both get to tell the other person to do something. Okay, so I want you to play the piano after we are done swimming," Len said, a slight blush on his face.
I snickered. "You really wanna hear me play, don't ya?"
"Shut up," Len mumbled. I laughed.
"Okay, I want you to... RUN AROUND THE MOUNTAIN, NAKED!" I screamed, laughing my head off at the mere thought. Suddenly Len pinned me against the walls of the pool, and I stared at him in confusion, a slight blush on my face. Even though the water was cool, his chest was warm. I blushed even harder. "W-What?" I finally managed to ask.
"If you wanted to see me naked so badly, Rin, you could have just asked," Len said, his voice low and alluring. "I mean, I do know that I am sexy, but not to this level. Wow, you must be rea-"
"RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN-"
"What?"
"CHOOOP!" I screamed while slamming a heavy book onto Len's head, Maka-style(*).
"OW," Len screamed while holding his head. "Bitc-"
"Language," I said calmly.
"WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET THAT BOOK FROM?!" I shrugged my shoulders, and said, "A girl has her ways. Anyways, you can just, um, make dinner tonight, I guess. I don't feel like cooking."
"Noooooooooo!"
"Suck it up."
I took my place on the piano bench, my hair still wet from my shower, my heart racing wildly for some weird reason. I didn't know why I was nervous; it's just Len. I don't care about his opinion about me.
Right?
"Len, have you seen Angel Beats? Wait- of course you haven't," I said while rolling my eyes. "Well, we can watch that tonight, after I'm done playing," I said. "This song is called 'My Soul, Your Beats,' and is the opening to Angel Beats." Len nodded his head as I adjusted the sheetmusic I had printed off from online.
After taking a deep breath, I began. I allowed the music to take over, wrapping around me like a warm blanket. At one point- I'm not exactly sure when- I began singing along, remembering just about all of the lyrics. Memories of watching the anime with Luka and Gakupo overtook me, and I felt a deep pang of sadness, wishing that my two best friends were with me right now.
I finished quickly, and Len burst into applause. "You sounded really good," he said sincerely. "Seriously, you never told me you were so good." I shrugged, blushing a little, forcing myself not to show how touched I was by his words.
"Thanks. Anyways, let's just go and watch some anime."
"Rin, what's wrong?" My eyes opened, to find my partner standing right next to me. His messy blonde hair was underneath a cap, his azure eyes shaded by sunglasses.
"I'm perfectly fine. Anyways, let's get going already." As head of the police officers guarding the precious 'Pandora's Crown', I had to stay focused and alert. Yet, every time I saw the crown, I had the overwhelming urge to take it...
"Make sure everything is locked up so tightly that not even a mouse could get in," I said while speaking into my walkie-talkie. We had just gotten a tip-off from someone telling us that a well-known heist group was going after Pandora's Crown tonight.
I turned to my partner. "Stay by side."
"Of course." We had been through much together, as partners. We meet in training school, and have been together ever since.
The lights suddenly turned off, and I barked orders out loud. My partner remained quite, knowing that I was a better leader than him under pressure. Sweat trickled down my back, and suddenly there was a loud bang. I told everyone to remain silent, and to stay calm.
I took a deep breath, afraid that the heist group would get the crown, instead of me.
Wait.
Instead of me?
A burning desire for Pandora's Crown pulsed through me.
I know where it is.
I can just reach for it, in the dark.
Run away.
No one would ever know; they would blame the heist group. It was too perfect.
So I took it out of it's box, in the dark, and then slipped out of the room.
I ran up, instead of down, knowing a good place where I could store it in the hotel. I raced to that room, my breath hitching and heavy.
What did I just do?
"Rin!" A voice said behind me, and I jumped, then froze. I turned around slowly, to see my partner behind me. "What are you doing?"
"Honestly, I have no idea. How did you know I was here?"
"Because I figured something was up. Are you okay?" I shook my head. "I don't know what's up with me," I explained. "I'm supposed to want- should want to protect all of these precious items, but..."
"But?"
"I want it for myself," I said with a greedy smile. "For myself, all for myself."
"You realize you could go to prison?"
"Yup." My partner sighed, and then walked forward. He suddenly wrapped his arms around me, a small smile on his face. I looked at him like he was crazy. "We'll be fine, however. We know how the police work, and we are smarter... faster... perfectly in sync... we'll be okay," he said.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Let's ditch, if you want jewels and gems so badly."
"W-What?!"
"And, let's mess with everyone. For everyone of our heists, let's dress up as cats."
"You would be willing to do this for me?" I asked, and he pulled me closer.
"Yes. And, finally, we need new names. Our alias... Peter and Jenny?"
"Rin, wake up," Len said tenderly to me. It was the first time he had spoken to me so sweetly. I took him in.
"STAY OUT OF MY DREAMS, DAMN IT!"
(*) Reference to Soul Eater.
Okay, the dream was basically a prequel to the song 'Phantom Thieves Peter and Jenny.' Weird, but I really wanted to write one.
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