PROLOGUE

Every time she walked by that mansion, and saw him on the porch, anger struck Rin Kagamine. Her fury would flare, and she'd stalk by him furiously.

What was so charming about him? So many girls had been lost to him. So many! And now her best friend, Gumi, was gone to his seductive smile. Well, Rin couldn't take it. She wanted to catch him red handed and she wanted to get him arrested. Girls were going for him willingly, so no one could get involved. As though in trance, one girl at a time, one new 'victim' as Rin called them, would wander towards his abode as though lured. Stupid! He wasn't even that handsome.

Okay, maybe he was.

Purple hair hung in locks around the man's youthful face. Blue eyes sparkled with mystery and fate. He'd sit lazily on the porch, watching her as she walked by. Which was almost every day, because that's how she got home from school. Gah! He was so weird. Beautiful, handsome, but weird. And a rapist. And Rin was going to catch him.

~PURE MADNESS~

He watched her.

It was true that every day she'd glare ahead, deep, intelligent blue eyes focused on anything that could be proved as a distraction. Her gold spun hair was straight until it curled delicately at the small of her back. She was the one girl who actually ignored him with hatred and not fear or embarrassment.
He sighed.

Was it that girl, Gumi? He'd noticed their friendship every day until he couldn't resist using his power to lure Gumi in. And now this girl was pissed. He could practically read her like an open book.

This girl, this undeniably beautiful girl, wasn't going to be easy to take, and he knew it. So he did the best he could do: Sit on the porch and watch her escape again.
He'd already tried his powers. But while most girls wandered naturally to him, she turned away. His power only worked if the Kagamine girl (What was her first name? Her books said Kagamine...) was near him. Already wanting him. And there was nothing less she wanted to do, unfortunately for him. One day, he was going to talk to her. And then: She would be his.

Hopefully.

PURE MADNESS~

Chapter I

Rin examined the shiny blade critically and looked up as her brother, Len, walked in.

"Whoa. Hey. What are you doing with that?"

"Huh?" Rin looked down. "Oh. I was just thinking."

"About what? Suicide?"

"Um." Rin looked at the blade and laughed slightly. "No." She gripped her hair in one hand and pulled her hair away from her head. Taking a deep breath, she swung the blade upwards. The beautiful curls that she'd worked so hard to attain soundlessly hit the floor.

"What the hell?" Len shouted. "Are you nuts?"

"It's a school project." Rin lied. "I have to know what it's like to be a boy. Endurance."

Len just stared at her as she washed off all the blush, make-up, and mascara. She looked at herself. Still too girly. She looked at Len, then herself.

"Jeez." She grumbled. "I'm using you to look like a boy, but I never realized how girly you look." Ignoring Len's seething, she clipped two white clips into her hair, paled her skin, and squinted at the computer at her cropped hair, which swung lightly above her ears. It actually felt nice, like a weight taken off. If her parents were alive to see what she'd done, they'd surely scold her.

Then, she pinned up her hair and used water to spike it a bit.

"Perfect," she grinned. She looked like a boy. Well, a girly-looking boy. But any boy would do.

"Well." Len said, critically scanning her. "You look like a boy, but you're wearing a dress."

"Oh," Rin shrugged and held out Len's old school uniform. "It fits me." But then she frowned. "But I need to work on my voice."

She experimented with her voice, making it go lower and lower until she hit the pitch she wanted. She practiced talking with it, and Len shrugged, nodding.

"Yeah. You play it perfectly. You even have a flat chest! That says a lot about you, actually."

Rin threw the blush kit at him and he dodged, leaving the room with a backwards wave.

"I'm going to the city for a few weeks with Teto!" she told him. He turned.

"Really? Since when was Teto your friend?" He frowned. "This is really short notice. You need a ride?"

"Nope. Since we got assigned a report on city life and her brother worked in the city."

"Oh." He came over and kissed her head. "I guess it's good you look like a boy. I don't want my precious sister getting raped."

"Yeah, Len." She hugged him.

"Be careful."

"I know."

She slipped a messenger bag over her shoulder and looked forward as Len left. This wasn't the first time Rin was 'going to the city' and she didn't know when she'd be back.

"Bye, Len. Bye, Rin." She whispered. She didn't know when she'd see both of them next. She looked in the mirror, then smiled a reluctant half-smile.

"Hello, Rinto Shion."

~PURE MADNESS~
Gakupo raised his eyebrows, leaning against the door as he stared at the boy on his porch. He had clips and golden hair pinned and spiked up. He was surprisingly feminine, with a feminine build, too. But he must have been a boy, because he had no chest, and he had a boyish voice. A messenger bag was over his shoulder.

"Hi. I'm Rin...to Shion."

"I'm not interested." Gakupo said, making to close the door.

"Wait!" He said, panic in his voice. "I was hoping you'd hire me... I need to make money for my family. My sister and my mother."

"As who? Boys don't really come here."

"As a servant. Personal servant. Cook. Anyone you want me to be."

Gakupo sighed. He was an exceptionally bad cook, but he didn't want this boy to know his secret.

"Well. If you work here," Gakupo began. "You're not allowed out of your room after 7:00. You'll wear earmuffs to sleep because I watch TV really loudly."

"Okay," the boy kept his head bowed. Funny, he was a bit familiar. Gakupo racked his mind, but nothing came up.

"I don't know." said Gakupo. "I don't really work well with servants."

"Please, Duke, Sir. I need the money." The boy pleaded. For a boy, he sure was cute.

"All right. Come in." Gakupo said sharply. "I will be strict, though. And any time I call for you, you must be there within thirty seconds." He pointed upstairs to the right with a purple fingernail. "Your quarters are there. That's where you sleep, shower, everything. And you are allowed nowhere near the basement. Nothing you need is there. If I catch you there, you're fired. The kitchen is there," he pointed to the right.

"Yes, sir. Thank you, sir." The boy said, coming in. Awe flooded his face as he looked around the mansion. Gakupo looked away to chuckle. He handed the boy a wristband with a little button.

"The button will glow when I call for you and below, it will say where I am." The boy took it and fastened it around his skinny wrist.

As the boy climbed the stairs and headed to his room, Gakupo looked to the basement.

"Hmm...Luka tonight."

Rin POV

Rin threw herself on the bed and grinned. This was the life!

The place was gorgeous, but she remembered her purpose: Find Gumi and get out.

Suddenly, the button glowed and Rin hopped off the bed. Living room, said the button, and Rin darted down the stairs and skidded into the living room.

"Yes sir?"

"Address me as Master," the purple-haired man told her.

"Yes Master?" Idiot.

"Here's a map of the mansion." He handed Rin a scroll. She took it and turned.

"Rinto?" he called.

"Yes S-Master?"

"The dishes should be clean in about ten minutes, please."

"Yes Master." Rin trudged to the living room and stared at the gargantuan pile of messy dishes. She groaned and grabbed the dishwasher soap and a sponge.

Ten minutes later, Rin was done. She collapsed in the seat, panting. That was record time. Suddenly, the button glowed again.

Dining room.

Rin peeked at the map and ran two doorways down to the dining room. He sat on the couch and looked at her.

"I'll need tea, please. Ginger-honey is nice, but any will do."

Rin nodded and ran back to the kitchen. She prepared the tea and tasted a little bit. Hurriedly, she carried the platter to her 'Master.'

"Here, Master."

"Thank you. Are the dishes clean?"

"Yes, Master."

"I want you to clean the kitchen, please. All the utensils go in a drawer. Pots and pans in another. Thirty minutes at the most."

"Yes, Master." Rin raced back to the kitchen. Hurriedly, she threw the pots and pans into a large cabinet and the utensils in one more. Silverware went into another. When she was done, Rin sat, exhausted. It had been fifty minutes, and Rin was dead tired already. It was good she had experience with this. The button glowed yet again and Rin groaned. This was becoming a test of endurance.

Bathroom.

Rin tore to the bathroom, which happened to be all the way upstairs.

"Y-Yes M-Master," she almost fainted.

"It appears that the bathroom is a mess. Please organize the cabinets, including the medicine one." He ordered.

"Uh-huh." He raised one eyebrow. "Master."

Slipping on gloves, she began to work on the cabinets.

~GAKUPO~

He was overworking the boy, and he knew it. The poor kid was dying by the time Gakupo got his dinner. Sternly, Gakupo commended him for taking so long.

"I'm so sorry, M-Master."

"You are dismissed. Stay in your room, remember. Don't come out, and you're allowed nowhere near the basement."

"Yes Master," the poor child almost collapsed on the floor.

"Go."

He traipsed up the stairs, head high, and slammed his door shut.

Gakupo finished the delicious food and wiped his mouth. He checked the kid's room, then slowly descended the stairs to the basement.

Luka greeted him, her purple tinged eyes wide. She grinned as he kissed her, distracted. The rest of the girls in his harem were asleep, for now.

"Oh, Gakupo. Are you still thinking about that girl?" Luka pouted.

Gakupo was lost in thought.

"Yes, I'm afraid. I didn't see her today." Hmmm. "Her or her brother."

"Perhaps they're gone."

The one girl I never got.

"She hates me."

Luka gasped, eyes horrified. "How?"

Gakupo smiled humorlessly.

"Because I have Gumi," he gestured to the pretty green-haired girl on the bed.

"But she belongs to you, now."

"And soon, so will the Kagamine girl." Gakupo promised.