A/N So! This is the first chapter of Tales of IA, a story about my favourite Vocaloid, IA. Yeah, it might sound a bit weird, but I promise it's a cute story with lots of feels and friendship (and maybe just a few couples... uwu)
Okay, so I ship Kaito/Miku, Len/Rin, Piko/Miki, Gakupo/Luka, and I think I ship IA with Yuma
One ~ Creation
A white-haired girl around fifteen and a half with clear blue eyes blinked a few times, sitting up almost robotically from a pure white bed. At first she thought she was in a hospital, though she had no idea where she really was – not even her name. Two mysterious figures came into the room. They looked very official, wearing glasses and carrying ipads.
She blinked at them, then asked, "Who are you? Where am I?" Her voice sounded beautiful, but she took no notice as she was too confused to bother.
The taller man spoke, "You're a Vocaloid, a voice bank system created by the Japanese music company Yamaha. You are one of the most recent versions, a V3, but you are a completely new Vocaloid, unlike another Vocaloid, Hatsune Miku, who has been upgraded to V3 recently, too."
The other man laughed, "Oh! But I don't think this new voice will be anything near the others like Miku, Rin and Len, Gumi or Luka, though," the other man joined his laughter.
The girl felt like she should be offended, but since she had no idea who – or what, if indeed she was a mere android – they were talking about.
The taller one spoke again, "Sorry about that, me and my partner were just joking; after all, who knows? Maybe you could become the next star," A mischievous glint in his eye told her that he wasn't joking.
Roughly five minutes had passed, but a lot was said in that time. The two businessmen had told her many things: about the most famous Vocaloid, Hatsune Miku; shown the girl her 'Box Art' – apparently she was meant to be gorgeous; told her about her voice range; how she was one of the lucky Vocaloids that got proper artists to do the voice sampling, a singer called Lia, famous for two anime openings (Tori no Uta and My Soul, Your Beats!); that last topic had finally led them to tell her what her name was: IA. As it turns out, she was named after her voice sampler and one of her test songs was Tori no Uta.
She spent the rest of her time in the room on the proper VOCALOID website, checking out her files and others like other V3s and Hatsune Miku's. Apparently there were six 'All-stars' who featured in these… 'Project DIVA' games for the PlayStation. The first – 01 – was Hatsune Miku, a sixteen-year old with turquoise pigtails, too big to be real; the second (and third, but by the looks of it they were counted as one person) were two fourteen-year olds named Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len. Instantly IA thought they were twins, with identical aqua eyes and bright yellow hair, but further research showed that they were actually mirror images (their name 'Kagami' means mirror in Japanese, and they're both referred to as 02). The fourth – named 03 – was a beautiful twenty-year old lady called Megurine Luka, who had light blue eyes and light pink hair; the fifth and sixth were Kaito and Meiko, the first Japanese Vocaloids, who were roughly 20-years old as well. Kaito had deep blue hair with matching eyes, whereas Meiko had short brown hair and reddish brown eyes.
IA figured out that they had things called 'character items' and sort-of theme colours. Miku's was a greenie-blue (mainly green), Rin's was a yellow, Len's was orange, Luka's was pink, Meiko's red and Kaito's blue. Miku's item was a leek (or 'negi' in Japanese), Rin's was an orange, Len's was a banana (THE FRUIT), Luka's was a fish, Meiko's was sake and Kaito's was ice cream.
Other famous Vocaloids were Gumi and Gakupo, who weren't part of the All-stars. Gumi had short, green hair with matching eyes, but her hair had two longer bits at the front sides which stuck out. At first IA almost mistook Gakupo for a girl, since he had long purple hair tied into a ponytail, wearing a samurai-kimono thingie – he honestly looked like a girl at first glance. Seriously. IA was so glad at that point she had amazing Box Art, along with a kick-ass costume. She couldn't wait until the next day to wear it, instead of the boring white dress she currently had to wear.
IA often wondered that day whether she could eat or sleep, have showers, even interact with other Vocaloids. –But what would she say to them? How could she even begin to compare with stars like Miku and Gumi? That was when she started looking up other V3s, like CUL, MAiKA, and then she found someone she thought she could be friends with… A female Vocaloid named Yuzuki Yukari. Suddenly, IA felt very alone. Most Vocaloids had full names, like Kagamine Rin, Yuzuki Yukari, Megurine Luka, but she was just IA. Two simple English letters. She supposed it was kinda cool, but didn't have the same ring to it as Rin (no pun intended) or Gumi.
IA only realised it was night when the lights automatically turned off, as it was nine pm. The white-haired android stopped looking at things with her cyberbrain (though she really had to admit that was cool) and decided to sleep. She wondered if Vocaloids even needed rest…
A/N So how was it? Was it cringy? I suppose nothing much happened, but I always instantly think that IA and Yuka just click, like how you suppose Miku and Luka do. Yeah, it's kinda obvious she's gonna meet Yuka and they're gonna become friends – oh, and the Kagerou Project thingamajig is coming up, too, since I was planning for that to be the first time IA really meets the infamous Miku, lol. But I've been thinking… HOW THE HELL SHOULD SHE MEET THE KAGAMINES?!
