This Is My Battleground

Chapter 22
Episode 4: Scene 5

"Yumi?" I asked, surprised. Neru gave me a wink and I thew my arms around her. "You bitch! You never told me!" Neru laughed and patted my back.

"Sorry, Rin," she apologized. "But I had to do it or else Len's hypnotism wouldn't work."

"...you get punishment," I snapped. "I'm calling you Neru from now on because it doesn't feel right calling you Yumi." Len coughed and commanded all of our attentions.

"Neru, Gumi," he called. "I want you two to go to the city and take the girls with you. It's just way too dangerous on the battlefield." He hugged SeeU and gently lead her to Neru. "This is you aunt Neru and her friend uh..."

"Gumi," I reminded him.

"Gumi," Len repeated. "Always stick with them and your sister, alright?" SeeU nodded and took Yuki's hand while walking to Neru. SeeU looked up to Gumi and frowned a bit. "I'm really sorry I haven't met you before. I'm Len Kagamine." Gumi nodded and spat her name out quickly, but I was focused on SeeU who's frown only increased. She turned to Yuki and whispered something to her, which got Yuki to frown as well and both of them ran to me.

"What's wrong you two?" I asked, in a whisper. "Don't you two like Gumi?" They shook their heads in sync and hid behind me when Gumi looked towards them. Yuki tugged on my jacket and I leaned down.

"I think Gumi likes..." Yuki looked at Len for a bit. "...can I call him Daddy?"

"Yes," SeeU said, nodding.

"Then I think Gumi likes Daddy," Yuki said, frowning. "It's bugging me and SeeU. I don't like it. We don't wanna go with her." SeeU tugged on Yuki's shirt and pointed to Gumi.

"She's blushing!" SeeU said. "See? Gumi likes him!" I looked towards the others and they were all focused on Gumi who looked extremely flustered. I coughed and everyone looked away a bit awkwardly.

"S-so, how are we suppose to get to the city?" Neru asked out of the silence. She waked to me and patted both of the girls' heads.

"Leave that to us," a voice chirped. I turned around and saw a blue hair boy and a red haired girl walk out from a building.

"Satsuki, Sakuya," I called. "It's been a while." Satsuki gave me a smile and Sakuya nodded. "So, can you lead them to the city?"

"I don't see why not," Sakuya responded. "After all, we were heading there. The escaped Vocaloid soldiers are in the building over there. Rose is leading them so if you need any more help, you can just call on them." I nodded and hugged both SeeU and Yuki.

"You two behave yourselves, understand?" I told them. "If Neru says one bad thing about you two, I won't be happy." They nodded and glared at Len before going to Neru's side. I turned my attention to Len and he gulped. "Hmm...you know what? I'll let you deal with Gumi's crush on you." I turned back to Neru. "On second thought, Neru, we're going to need you and the kids on the battle field. I took out my spare gun and tossed it to Yuki. "Honey, this is the big girl gun. You've had enough target practice. You'll be a sniper."

"Rin, I don't think," Gumi started.

"I want to be in the battle!" Yuki snapped, cutting her off.

"SeeU, you're also very important," I said, turning to her. "You can control the mutants." I turned to Gakupo and he threw me a cloak from his backpack and I slid it around SeeU, trying the string around her neck. "If anyone tries to shoot at you, I want you to curl inside this and commanded your mutants to get rid of the bad person, alright?" She nodded and I gave both of them a hug, before standing up. "Neru, I want you on spiner duty as well and Gumi, you're staying in the medical part of the battlefield."

"Rin, where should I be?" Luka asked, looking towards the direction of the Vocaloid building.

"Luka, I want you on my person team," I said, pointing to her gun. "Add the extensions to yours. You're going to be the main sniper. Len, Gakupo, and I will be the closest to the enemy. Meiko, Kaito, Miku you're the second wave closest since you're not as mobile as we are. Luka, you stay close to the medical base with Gumi, Neru, and Yuki and launch rockets from there. SeeU, I want you in the second wave, but start the mutants immediately. Got that?"

"Yes ma'am," they all said, watching me.

"Then let's save our base," I said. "Sat, Saku, take us to the hidden Vocaloid." They nodded and we followed them past the last two stand Utau buildings and to an abandoned hotel, about five stories high.

"They're in here," Satsuki said, pointing. At the front were two guards, both with guns, pointed at us. Satsuki and Sakuya approached them and they placed their guns down, letting us into the building. The entire place from the outside looked absolutely horrible, but the inside was alright. Rose approached us, with an understanding look.

"We'll rescue the building tomorrow," she said. "Right now, everyone needs to rest up. Even the Utau aren't attacking at the moment. It seems that they're trying to find a weak point in the barrier."

"That's a good idea," I said, relaxing my shoulders a bit. "Thanks for taking care of me back at Utau, Rose." She nodded and lead us to the spare rooms on the third story.

Around ten o' clock, Len and I placed the twins in bed and walked to our separate rooms at the end of the corridor. We silently headed into my room and I closed the door, placing my back against it and looking back at Len. He looked straight back at me and he knew exactly what I was thinking because he immediately took a seat in the chair next to the desk.

"You know I love you," he stated in the silence. "Why are you looking at me so skeptically?" He leaned forward in the chair, folding his hands, place his elbows on his kness, and his lips to his hands.

"Yuki is a smart girl," I spoke up. "And I doubt SeeU is any different. Yuki's always had the uncanny ability to see the outcome of things. I don't want to make another mistake Len." He chuckled and stood up, walking to my side.

"You're a stupid little girl, you know that?" he asked. I glared at him, but a smirk spread across his face. "If I didn't love you as much as I do, do you think I'd go through the trouble of making you go through cryostasis, hypnotising you, altering your entire life just to go with some girl I just met? And plus, with my true age, I'd be arrested for pedophilia." He placed his arm above my head and his forehead to mine. "You still haven't answered my question from before Rin."

"...what was it?" I asked, gripping on to his shirt.

"Will you marry me?"

"Will you stop calling me stupid?" He smiled.

"Deal." He placed his lips to mine and I happily circled my arms around his neck.

Neru's POV

I smiled to myself, walking away from Rin's door and down to the twins' room. I opened the door and saw the two talking to themselves. They looked at me in surprise and I walked in, closing the door behind them.

"Hey there you two," I said, with a small smile. "What's going on? You two need your sleep for tomorrow." Yuki sat up and climbed on top of her blanket.

"I have a bad feeling about Gumi," she said, frowning. "Neru, can you please see what's wrong with her? I...just don't feel safe with her." I frowned, but nodded and watched as SeeU got up and headed for the window. "SeeU?" She pushed open the window and looked at the battle field's peaceful night. She looked up to the sky until she saw a 3 headed bird like thing hulding straight for her.

"SeeU!" I called. The bird thing landed on the window sill and she stroked on of it's heads.

"There's a girl with green hair and eyes," she told it. "I want you to keep an eye on her. Her name is Gumi and I think she's not good. I think she wants to hurt Mama and Daddy. Can you please watch her?" In sync the bird's heads nodded and flew off without another word from SeeU. She closed the window and headed back to bed with a worried look on her face.

"Neru. Check on her," Yuki said...actually, it was more like commanded.

"Excuse me?" I asked. She stood up on her bed and flashed her rank neckless.

"I am the junior leader of Vocaloid," she said, like a boss. "And I want you to check on Gumi." I smiled and saluted.

"Yes ma'am," I said. I walked out of the room and closed the door, heading towards the stairs to the upper floors. To get there, I had to pass Rin's room and I'm going to tell you right now that they were probably making a younger sibling for the twins in there. Cough. Cough. Wink. Anyway, I carefully climbed the stairs onto the fourth floor and made my way to Gumi's room. I knocked on the door before entering and Gumi was practicing with which medicine did what.

"Hey there Neru," she said, looking at me with a smile. "What's up?"

"The twins are upset," I said, sitting across from her at the table she was using. "The think you have a crush on Len." Gumi blushed and looked away, switching the medicines around as a distraction.

"W-what makes you say that?" she asked, stuttering.

"It's okay you know," I said, pulling my hair out of its side ponytail. "I used to have a crush on Len too." She looked at me in surprise.

"You did?"

"Yeah, but it was useless," I said, combing through my hair with my hand. "That boy is flirtatious, shrewed, and dangerous. It seems like he's all looks, but he's not. There's a reason he's second in command and not just-"

"Because he's Rin's brother?" Gumi finished. "Yeah I heard about that from the others." She looked around the room, suspicious if anyone was listening other than me. "And I heard he likes her in the incestuous way too..."

"Uh...Gumi?" I asked, trying not to burst out in laughter. "Where did you hear that?"

"Oh, Yuuma-"

"That explains it," I said, bursting out in laughter. "Yuuma tells that to everyone. Rin and Len aren't related in the slightess. In fact, they look alike and in many ways they seem like they were siblings, but they're definitely not siblings."

"O-oh..." Gumi said, blushing even more. "M-my bad!"

"As I was saying before, Len's second in command because of his skill," I said. "And it's as if he was perfect...except for one little thing." Gumi looked in my eyes and frowned. I knew Gumi was oblivious, but she wasn't stupid and picked it up almost instantly.

"It's Rin, isn't it?" she asked. "He likes her, doesn't he?"

"It's a long story from the past that's been hidden for years," I told her. "Len doesn't like Rin. Len's in love with her. This entire war was started over something in their past." Gumi looked at me with a nod. I told her their story and during that time, she kept silent, taking in every detail.

"It's sad," she said, placing her hands above her heart. "How much love can hurt. How much love is war."

Rin POV

The battle of Vocaloid was definitely one of the hardest battles I've ever fought in my life. Inward, outward, it was something that I wish to never relive. Ever. The screams of the opposing forces as I lead them into this fierce battle, the look of the wounded and the dying. The Vocaloid building, shield destroyed, almost about to come crashing down. The blood splashed around, so much to create a river of it. It all had to stop. This war had been going on for too long. Someone had to stop.

I forced my way into the Vocaloid building, smashing through the lobby's windows with chunks of the broken wall. I no longer had my bow, my jacket was in pieces, and I wielded a gun that belonged to a fallen Vocaloid. My left arm was screaming in pain from a wound I had to dig a bullet out of. Len was beside me as we ran through the building, taking down what ever was in our way. He wasn't in any better shape than I was. His ponytail was shot off and blood ran down his face as well as his mouth. His clothes showed the underarmour and part of his skin underneath and his shorts were singed in several places.

"Well, don't you two look horrible?" Ren asked when we got to the top office of Vocaloid. He wore a smirk on his face and an evil look in his eyes. "You're still hot as ever, Rin."

"Fuck off douchebag," Len snapped, he lunged for Ren, but Ren lifted a button to his fingers.

"See this, Kagamine?" he asked. I was stupid and let my guard down as someone grabbed me from behind and placed a knife to my neck. "It doesn't do anything, dumbass."

"Len!" I screamed. He turned around and I looked at him scared.

"Aw, what's wrong Kagamine?" Ren asked. "Sad I might kill your little girlfriend?"

"Let her go, Haine," Len growled.

"No way, she's my payment for my bestfriend's death," Ren said, walking to me. "You remember Rein, right? After all, you did smash his brain out." He looked at me with a smirk and planted a kiss on my lips, making me scream in terror. Ren backed off and laughed. "You've always been such an idiot, Len. After all, it is your fault this entire war started."

"...Let Rin go," Len ordered again. "Do it!"

"And why should I do that?" Ren asked. "After all, I have-"

"AHHHH!" a yell erupted from behind me. The person who held me captive dropped the knife and fell forwards as I ran to Len's side. Acid burned through his skin and stopped his heart in a matter of seconds. In the doorway was the culprit; SeeU and two acid shooting mutants. A thud was heard and a click of a gun followed.

"Don't move asshole," Yuki said, placing her gun right next to Ren's head. "I know the truth now and I'm tired of being called your daughter!" She pulled the trigger and blew Ren's head to pieces, scattering the bloody chunks everywhere.

"Yuki...what did you mean by that?" I asked. Her eyes started turning a light blue color and her dark hair lightened to blonde. "What the...?"

"I learned it from a disk SeeU had," Yuki said, dropping the gun and walking to me. "We had Neru analyze it before the battle. When SeeU was given to Utau, I was hypnotized by the nurse and she turned my hair black and my eyes brown, making everyone think I was that man's daughter. I'm Daddy's real daughter too..." She hugged Len and I and bursted out into tears. I beckoned SeeU to come over and included her in the hug. Len held Yuki as I walked to the intercom on the desk. I pressed the button and placed my lips to the microphone.

"Attention everyone," I said. "The war's finally over. Vocaloid won."