Stay With Me Chapter 18

Chapter 18
Leave Me in the Summer, Yet You're Still in my Fluffoughts
<LEN POV>

(I recommend you read the description first)

It's been six months since that day. That day back in the summer when she left us. When she left me. I've tried erasing that day from my hard drive, but it hasn't worked. Everything is permanent. Nothing is ever able to be deleted forever. I had to learn the hard way.

We had to postpone the New York City concert. Those millions of fans that had bought tickets now mourning the loss of one of our own with us. Crypton and Sega never let us hold a funeral. They never let us see Neru after the day she passed on. I haven't even heard from the upper workers at Crypton about Neru. There was this one rumor that went around twitter that Neru's creator had purposely made her fragile so she would die. Like she was never supposed to be a Vocaloid or even a Boukaloid. I got banned from twitter quickly. When I tried tumblr and other social medias it ended up the same way.

I haven't been going out a lot lately. We are back in Japan, back home. It's not the same without a short blonde teen following me around on her phone. The other Vocaloids that aren't with Crypton haven't even been aloud to talk to me recently. Probably because Rion came to visit Crypton to do a big collaboration with Miku. She mentioned Neru and how her voice was annoying and just a copy of Miku's, I flipped, next thing you know I'm grounded and Rion or anyone hasn't been over since.

Finally Crypton has allowed other companies to visit us. It seems like everyone is here, basing on the voices I can hear outside my room. Not like I want to leave the safety of my yellow room. I open the door a tiny bit and see a rainbow of neon colors from all my friends. There are even some Vocaloids I don't remember or they've probably been created in the months I haven't been allowed to visit or leave the company

I open the door wider and see a familiar (btw I'm trying my hardest to make this as fluffy as possible) black and yellow skirt. The long yellow hair tied into a side ponytail that reached the knees that were covered in black and yellow thigh high socks. My blue eyes widen in shock, why is she here? I slam the door against the wall. Everyone in the other room quiets down and looks my way. She turns her small head and her goldenrod eyes lock on mine of cerulean. They widen and her face brightens up like I never saw before. She looks so cute and adorable. I start to run towards her, but Meiko steps in front of me. She had gotten out of jail when Crypton came to take Neru's body back to Japan. That was the last day I had saw her.

"Neru!" I call out to her from behind the older brunette. Meiko laughs and pushes me away from the shorter blonde. I look over to her and see that Haku is doing the same thing with Neru.

I'm brought to a back room that was being renovated into a bedroom, but Crypton mysteriously stopped funding the renovations so now the six of us just use it as a second living room.

"Now Len since you've locked yourself in your room, only coming out every once in awhile, then you should be informed of what has been going on secretly." Meiko started to explain to me. My sister, Miku, Luka, and Kaito were also in the room. "We ourselves have only found out about this earlier today. But, in addition to making my V3 update. They've been working on a little side project with Sega and Smith Hioka to make a V3 update for Neru too, using Miku of course." Miku waves.

"It was a difficult procedure, I had to go into surgery so Crypton could use me again to fix Neru. The doctors at the hospital didn't do a good job with the wiring in Neru." Miku calmly tells. My eye twitches as I try to hold in a yell.

"But there was a slight problem..." Luka says, her voice trailing off.

"What problem?" I angrily say glaring at my friends and sister.

"Well..." Kaito looks out to the small blonde who is making her way towards the room. She runs in and hides behind Rin.

"Is that blond shota your brother onee-chan?" Neru whispers to Rin. I'm not sure if Neru is joking when she calls Rin her sister or just being frigging adorable.

"Yeah...that's Len alright, he's in a bad mood right now." Rin tells Neru.

"Why?" I'm starting to question why Neru is being all sweet and cutesy. This isn't like her normal tsundere self.

"Somethings happened with you and he's a bit heartbroken and mentally scarred that's all." Rin seems a bit uneasy telling Neru this.

"What happened to me? Why is he heartbroken because of me? What did I do?" I blink, frozen in shock. Why would Neru forget us? How could she forget her big accident? I take a few steps backwards into a table and fall to the floor. I hide my face in my hands, ready to fall apart all over again.

"Well let's just say your old self and him were dating and then you had an accident." Luka sweetly says. Neru's face scrunches up.

"Him and me dating? Ugh!" Neru turns her face away from me in disgust. She doesn't even seem remotely similar to her old self. She isn't even acting like a 17 year old anymore. She seems like Yuki and Ryuto's age now.

"Neru. Could you come here?" I don't even know why I said those words. I just want to curl up and die. But at the same time I don't because I love my life as a Vocaloid too much. Neru slowly inched her way towards me and sat down on her knees and looked at me as if she was a 10 year old waiting to be told the magical story of wizards or some really weird 12 year old who wants to obliterate an entire species for vengeance. I leaned close to her and whispered. "Neru I love you and I miss you."

Neru's face started to blush. Maybe what she said earlier was her being the tsundere I know and love. She quickly looked away and whispered baka under her breath. I felt some color return to my face. I was so happy that I couldn't contain myself. I grabbed Neru and hugged her tightly like I used to. She made a cute noise like a kitten and froze.I could hear Miku and my sister sqee with delight. Even though I hated how Neru didn't remember anything from her life before the accident, I felt at peace finally. I feel like I could finally take a breath and calm my nerves down to the point where I wouldn't be freaking out about her every second of the day.

I looked at the small blonde android whose face was on my shoulder and I moved away to look at her big golden eyes. They sparkled like a fire on a winter night. I pushed her bangs out of her face and then kissed her on the forehead. Neru, I'm so happy you stayed with me.