||Kasane Residence. 3:58:17 PM ▇

The two friends came home merrily with the instrument at their grasp. Teto opened the door of their house but she found nothing there, a sign that her sister had already gone at her work at the city.

Not having a second thought, they went in and Teto scoured the kitchen hoping to find something to eat while Neru was sitting at the long wooden chair at the living room, looking at the instrument at her hand with sparkling eyes.

Neru glided her hands gently at the colorful ebony and ivories on the synthesizer they've took home, still can't believed that they've got an instrument just by Teto's excellent performance back at the shop.

"Oh... These sparkles in the body, I love them!" she said in joy while waiting for Teto to return.

Neru's phone rang, she picked it up and saw the screen posting a new message. "The heck? What's wrong with this girl!" she said then opened the inbox to check the message. Her mood was somewhat ruined, painted on her face.

Teto returned from the kitchen carrying a cheese dip, a bowl of french fries with fine specks of chili on it, some chocolate coated long bread sticks, and omelette with minced leeks - all in a large serving plate.

"SeeU again? The wannabe 'girlfriend' of yours?" Teto said, sounding sure on her guess, sitting beside Neru.

Neru deleted the message, turned off her mobile and sighed. "Yeah. She is.... Again." then hid her phone on her jeans' pocket. "I don't know how she was able to know my number. It creeps me out. I mean, 'Hello! I'm a girl and you're a girl too... Are you blind?' I told her about that and.."

Teto picked up some fries and dipped it in the cheese pit. "...and?" then ate it.

Neru grabs a bread stick, and takes a bite of it, she continued in a tone of complaining on something else. " SeeU said to me that 'So what if you are a girl. All I know is that I liked you at the first moment we've crossed our paths down that hood of mine.' sorta like those creepy things and..." before she continued further, she freaked out on her place like she's thinking of nasty things.

Teto just looked at her, knowing that she - even a try - won't be having help from anyone else for a long time. Before Neru could destroy the instrument or the furnitures at her house, she took away the synthesizer from her.

"Hey! NERU! calm down." she patted her back, still chewing the fries, speaking in with a food at her mouth.

Neru settled down. Made some huge gasp of air with widened eyes, still not free of the dirty thoughts, then talked again with reddened cheeks. "Okay. Okay. Ca-lm do-wn Neru- it will pass soon. Just think that she's just been hit with a pipe on her head and gone nuts!"

"Yeah. Just think of that thought. SeeU is our awesome ghetto in the block and we loved her - as a good friend just to clear - just the way she loves us back. You can't be that freaked out."

Then as Neru was settling down her freakish mood, Teto continued in a calm voice. "Those attitude, those bling-blings she have around her neck, those cool cream jacket she wears and those cool things she has.. those are all included in her personality. Just let her be like that. Okay! Maybe she just playing games on you. I mean, SeeU won't be serious in having you as her 'girlfriend' - right?"

Neru practically nodded in traumatic stare at the plate of snacks. "Maybe it's just a game she is playing at me." she told at herself, takes a slice of omelette. "As long as she's not talking about that 'thing', Neru is convinced at Teto's good explanation."

Teto grabbed several chocolate coated sticks at the plate, raised it up and held her friend's back. "Let's just eat that worries away, shall we?" she cheered, looking up at the snacks at her hand.

|| Vocaloid Lounge, Miku Tower. 4:15:01 PM ▇

Luka and Gumi arrived at the lounge, being Gumi had removed those weight at her chest that she bears for some time that remained at her soul. Luka opened the door and only found some of their fellow members there.

"Oh.." she just said, entering the lounge, looking at Meiko.

Rin suddenly appeared from the kitchen, making nimble steps towards Luka. Rin greeted her. "Welcome back, Luka!" then she saw Gumi behind her, silent and just having a sad stare. "Hello Gumi!"

Gumi greeted her back in a flat tone then with Luka, both of them went in the lounge, completely closing the door. Gumi heads straight at the room at the left side of the lounge, still having the gloomy aura she had. Rin noticed it right away.

"What happened to Gumi?" Rin curiosly asked. "Why she's so sad today?"

Luka went towards Meiko. "She remembered the past again. The sweet Miku she had back then." then she fixed Meiko's sleeping position at her sofa.

"Ah. I feel really sorry for her. Even the rest of us accepted that Miku is really starting to fake herself in front of our fans, that she was still the 'Nicest Diva in the World' you could compare to none." she said, dropping herself loose at the couch.

"Well its very true that we - or I just say that some of us - had already faced that wall of truth that we lost the 'Miku' that Gumi knows a long time ago." she said calmly, looking after Meiko on her sudden movements. "You know that we are only next to nothing in status before we are hired by Miku's father, I was a tailor at Enbizaka and you and Len were orphans at a chapel just outside Kasigura. We can't just say quits at this business, even we're sick at her attitude."

"Yeah. Indeed Luka. We do not have the power Miku has." Rin agreed, Luka sitting in beside her, looking at space. "We are just puppets of her delight."

"So at this rate, we can only swallow our pride at this kind of game." she explained further, placing her arm at the kid's back. "I'm not talking that much outside because if they ever found out the truth about her, we surely lose our life, our dignity and most of all losing this group that had been loved by me. I can't let this group being destroyed, so even if Miku was hurting anyone constantly, all I can do is comfort the one who needed it most."

"I wish that she realizes what pain she had done at Gumi because of her attitude." Rin sadly said, pulling out the keychain she got at the shop.

"Where is Len? You two are always together right?" asked she, standing up from the couch and moving towards Meiko again.

"Bri--ng those liquors ri--ght here! They're mi--ne!" Meiko sleep-talked, swaying her hands in the air lazily.

Luka just sighed at Meiko and put down her arms back. "You gone too much of liquor I suppose?"

Rin responds, still looking at the keychain. "Len got a bad day."

"What do you mean 'got a bad day?'"

"You see this Luka?" she answered, looking at her while jiggling the mini french bread. "This is the reason why! The owner of this keychain had beaten my brother's high score at the shop. Len can't get over on what he saw, when we arrived here, he went to the wardrobe and went to a corner to sob."

Luka face became worried. "Oh. Now there are more members of the house getting emotional. I need to see Len now. That's bad for him to sob in a corner for that nonsense game."

"Nah. Don't bother my brother, he's fine there at the corner." Rin said, pinning back the keychain at her belt.

"How much does Len connected to that game?"

"Very much Luka, very much." Rin jumped out of the couch and approached Meiko as well. "That's the only game he boasts to have his unbeatable score posted."

"What was Len's score there?"

"Sixty-nine thousand plus."

"And the current new score?" Luka asked.

||Kasane Residence. ▇

"Eighty-four thousand, six hundred twenty-three points." Teto proudly said to Neru, while both of them watching an animé in the television.

"That's way too far Teto, I can't reach that score even if I try." Neru said, munching a new set of snacks brought by Teto. "Great job. Now we have enough instruments to perform more at our gigs and recordings."

"It was a lucky shot I guess." Teto said, holding the instrument.

"You think so?"

Teto gave the synthesizer to Neru. "Wait, I'm gonna call my sister." then she grabs her phone from a secret side pocket of her skirt, Neru still her eyes glued on the animé show.

She dialled her sister's number and made a call. After that, she placed her red phone at the table next to the large plate of snacks. She was about to grab a donut on the plate when suddenly she noticed that her keychain was lost.

"Neru?"

"Yeah?"

"Have you seen my keychain? The bread thing...?"

"No."

"Maybe it's just around here somewhere, maybe misplaced?"

"Yeah." Neru said, still focused on the show. "Forget about it."

Teto picked again the instrument from Neru's lap and tried to find her accessory on it. She thought that it clinged at the synthesizer.

She inspected every nook and crannies of the item. She may have failed in finding her beloved item but she found something written faintly at the lower rightmost side of the synthesizer. Her eyes grew big when she read the text but she remained to be calm. She then shakes Neru excitedly from her seating to show something onto her friend.

"Teto.. I'm busy right now." Neru irritatedly said, not giving a short glance at Teto. "What's that shaking me all about?"

Teto blocked the back side of the instrument at Neru's sight, aligning the written text with her vision. When Neru paid attention on the back of the instrument and read the text, she screamed into so much fangirling. Neru's eyes were smiling so bright making her excitement shoots up, that she almost flipped the table in front of her.

Neru faced Teto wearing a happy face that her friend had never seen before. She shakes Teto on both sides of her shoulder. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE!"

"Yeah. Yeah. Neru. You don't have to yell those to me, I already know. We have a free instrument at hand."

"It's not just an instrument," then she freaked out of joy, "IT'S LEN KAGAMINE'S PERSONAL INSTRUMENT!"

"I'm really glad that my sister wasn't here. If so, she'll go all ballistic on us about this." she thought to herself, letting a sigh of both stress, gratefulness and weirdness. A thing that she must embrace in order to know her friend Neru a little more.