Neru growled at her alarm clock… it bleeped 6:07 in the morning at her. It was too early to wake up, even for a concert, which was at nine. Why should she wake up so early? The concert was local, and she only needed twenty minutes to get ready. She could skip breakfast, and still be ready for it. For the past five minutes, it's been screaming at her to get up and get ready go to Miku, Kaito, Meiko, and the Twins house make breakfast stop Rin and Len from running Kaito over text those five random people find Luka's octopus monster stop Luka from eating all the squid eat breakfast get hair done get into the car practice practice practice practice… She sighed. A week ago, if it hadn't happened, she wouldn't be afraid of the crowds, flooding them with endless questions about what had happened.

Three weeks ago, no one would have even predicted it to have occurred. Everything seemed normal. They wouldn't be thinking too much about those two new vocaloids…

3 Months ago

July18, 2011

Haku and Neru's House.

Neru stretched and reclined against the wall, texting several people at once at blinding speed. It was insanely hot out. There were extra funds from the last couple concerts, so she and Haku had outfitted their home with a twelve-foot-deep, waterfall pool. It was heated year-round, and one of the many benefits of being an *almost* world famous singer. Miku, Kaito, and the Twins truly held that distinction. Luka, Gakupo, Gumi, Teto, Meiko, Meiko especially, were almost there. Haku was near to semi-famous, and Neru wasn't. Sure, she still had a couple fans. Not nearly as many as Haku, and definitely nowhere near as famous as Miku. Maybe it was that she was a caustic? Or that she was blunt? Or that her voice sounded strange? She didn't know, but at least she was recognized by the company, unlike many other aspiring vocaloids.

A beep alerted her that someone had texted her back. She answered, then, surprising herself, she put it away and jumped into the pool. She didn't really like swimming, but it was really, really, really hot outside. She could almost feel the sweat from the heat dribble down her back. Her long, ponytailed hair was sticking to the back of her neck. She hated the feeling, but at least she could try to text and swim at the same time.

She reached for her phone and began to text again, asking Haku if anyone was going out to shop for food or something. She was hungry, and she had breakfast duty the next morning, meaning she'd have to wake up earlier than normal and she would have to walk next door to Miku's house. Technically it was shared by her, Kaito, Meiko, and the Twins, but everyone still called it Miku's. That was where everyone ate breakfast, anyways. They used to all live in the same house, but it got way too crowded way too fast. So she and Haku got a house to themselves, with three extra rooms built in, a pool, and a nice garage to keep a car or two.

Today she was on food duty, which meant she would be cooking everything today. She was usually on food duty, as she could cook on a decent level. She texted Haku, asking her about what they had as far as food went.

She needed to know if they were going to buy food, or if she would need to go by what they had in Miku's fridge, which wasn't much.

Yea Miku and Rin went out 2 get food should b back by dinner

Neru groaned, Miku and Rin mostly got Leeks and oranges, with the occasional exception of a box of ice cream and a can of tuna. They got bread, once, but decided that they didn't really like it and haven't gotten it since. She would need to go and buy food today. If she still would be able to nap first.

K ill need 2 get food 2day

She hit the send button, but her thumb missed, which shocked her in itself. She looked down sharply, and her phone slipped. She squeaked in surprise and horror as her precious phone fell down, down, into the water. For what seemed like several frozen moments it was in the air, for several frozen moments she could only stare in horror as it plummeted. With a sickening splash it began to sank.

"No!" she shrieked and tried to dive, she was in the seven foot area, and the phone was beginning to slip faster and faster to the twelve foot. She could barely dive to the bottom of the six foot area, let alone seven, or now, eight.

She kicked furiously, her lungs were already screaming for air. She was near the bottom, but a sudden instinctual need for oxygen forced her to kick off the bottom for the surface. Her feet, which were already tangled and sore from the amount of sudden kicking they had to do, found no purchase on the cement floor. She pushed, but only shot up around a foot. She scrambled for the surface, her phone would unfortunately need to wait.

She broke the surface, gulping mouthfuls of air. Her eyes were watering, she couldn't see. Seconds later she was diving again, and seconds after that she was forced up. Her phone was lost. There was no chance, she would need to buy a new one. She felt tears in her eyes, not only would she have to get food, but a new phone, and regaining all of her contacts would be next to impossible. She looked down again, the phone was slipping and soon would be in the deepest part of the pool.

That phone had the most amount of contacts on it she had ever accumulated in her life. 547 of them, to be exact.

"Neru?" Neru glared up at whoever said her name. Haku stood in the doorway, a questioning look on her face, "You never texted me back."

"That's because my phone is at the bottom of the pool," Neru growled through clenched teeth. Haku opened her mouth in silent shock, "Why?"

"I missed the send button… and it slipped from my hand into the pool," Neru said. She lifted herself out of the pool, but froze when she saw three people standing at the gate to their backyard. Haku looked over and raised an eyebrow.

One of them was clearly an agent from Crypton. Black suit, despite the heat, and sunglasses.

"Neru, Haku, I'd like to introduce your three new co-workers, Maiki, Korona, and Yumei," The agent said, dipping his head a little, "They will be living in your home, I trust you have enough room?"

Neru glared, of course they did. When Crypton had built their house using their infinite budget, they had purposely built an extra three bedrooms. The tall Vocaloid's face was blank and tired-looking, with large circles under her violently purple eyes. Her long black hair was tied into two loose ponytails, which flowed down to her knees. The other, extremely short one, grinned at the agent as her older sister pushed her glasses farther up her thin nose, "Technically, Maiki and I are only co-workers, as she doesn't sing, eh?" She flicked a strand of red-orange hair out of her eyes.

The taller one smiled at her younger sister and said quietly, "I'll still be working, just not onstage."

Neru growled, "Hey, noobs? Mind introducing yourselves? And where's the third?"

The short one looked at Neru. Her brown eyes glittered angrily, "Sendaki Yumei, anything else, blondie?" Neru hissed at the short girl, yellow eyes sparkling dangerously. The tall one smiled timidly and said, "I'm Sendaki Korona, pleased to meet you? Oh, and Maiki's back by the car, getting her stuff out…" Haku, slightly oblivious to the confrontation between Neru and Yumei, smiled back, "Haku Yowane and this is Akita Neru." Yumei snickered when Haku said Neru's name.

Neru glared at Haku and heaved herself out of the pool. With a final glare at Yumei she stormed into the house, dripping water everywhere. Haku's smile faded, "She just lost her phone, it fell to the bottom of the pool."

Korona frowned, "Why is that such a bad thing?"

Haku eye's widened, "Neru loves her phone, losing it is like losing her best friend!"

Korona scowled, "Phones suck," and lugged her suitcase towards the house. Yumei followed suit and began to pull hers as well. Suddenly, a girl flew over the roof of the house, three overstuffed suitcases in her arms, "HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII—YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

She flipped in the air and skidded down the side of the roof, gracefully landing on the patio, "Maiki, pleased to meet ya!" She waved with both hands, dropping her suitcases.

Korona and Yumei sweatdropped and smiled nervously at their companion. Haku paled slightly, then smiled, "I'm Yowane Haku. Neru is in the house somewhere, sulking, but you'll meet her eventually." Maiki grinned widely, then gracefully span in a circle, landing on one cat-boot clad foot, "Course, I mean, I'd understand it if someone just randomly burst into my home and started living with me I'd be all sulky too. 'Course, I've never had a home as all three of us are fresh out of the test tubes, ha-ha, just kidding, they don't really use any test tubes anymore, we'd now because, like I said, we're complete newbies!"

"I uh— we should—" Korona began. Maiki cut her off, "Right-o, Capitain!" She lifted all three of her suitcases over her shoulder, "C'mon!" and sashayed into the house.

"So… what kinds of singing do you two like?" Haku asked awkwardly as she helped Korona lift her suitcase into the house. They dragged it to the steps, and began to haul it up. Maiki was already waiting at the top, chewing on one of her nails. Her pigtails quivered slightly with unreleased energy.

"I can't sing, I'm not programmed for it," Korona said through clenched teeth. Her glasses slipped down her nose again. Haku noticed that on her arm, printed in black, was 'A-1'.

"She isn't programmed for singing, but instead she is a killer artist!" Yumei called from the bottom of the steps.

Haku raised her eyebrows, "Artist?"

"Crypton is… experimenting. I'm their first success," Korona said softly. She looked over Haku's shoulder and glared. Maiki giggled, "Don't forget yourself, Yumei, you can outsing everyone! And myself, dancer extra-ordinaire!" Korona rolled her eyes.

Finally they managed to lift Korona's and Yumei's suitcase to the top of the steps. Haku led them down the hall, "There are three empty rooms you can use here. Erm… I guess after you unpack I'll take you to meet everyone else." Haku shifted her weight from one foot to the other, "I'll… um, go find Neru." Haku left, her long gray hair swishing behind her. Maiki did a random handstand, then said from the ground,

"Finally, I'm so glad we'll finally meet some new people!" Korona and Yumei glared at her. "N-not that you guys aren't good, cool, people, heh-heh…" She flipped back up and pulled her suitcases into her room, "I'm calling the ocean view!"

"We all have the ocean view!" Yumei called from her room.

"Shuddup!" Maiki called back. Korona smiled and pulled out an easel. She set it up by the large window that occupied one entire wall. She pulled out several books and spirals as well, followed by a small laptop. She dumped her clothing in a pile into her closet, she'd sort it later.

She reclined on her new bed for a couple minutes, letting her sore muscles relax. Finally, they had reached their new home. She was programmed to be slightly antisocial, but she couldn't help but feel a slight thrill that they would finally meet someone new.

So eh, first Voca-fanfic. Sorry if Neru seems a bit mean, but ya know, she's a trollish person lol. If anyone seems OOC, just let me know and tell me what I could do to fix it. If you go to my Deviant art profile, you might see art for Maiki (dancer, cat is her item), Yumei (Singer, the little doll thing on her hip is her item), and Korona (Artist, paint brush is her item). I'll post Maiki first. She'll come with chapter two. Korona with chapter 3, and Yumei with 4. Their names used to be different, so I apologize if any random name crop sup in the middle of my story… I've been reading through it like a hundred times and ever since I first thought of this storyline I had known them by these names. I changed them because I realized all vocaloid's names have meaning, and their names didn't. So I spent like an hour figuring out each name XD. Korona's comes from a Corona, which are several rings of color around a sun, so y'know… artist... Color, right? Yumei's name actually is the only one I choose because I just liked it lol and Maiki's name comes from Mai (dance) and ki (energy, which is also written as chi). Anyways, this fanfic might not contain every Vocaloid you know, because… well there are so many out there and it's kinda hard to keep up with who's who and who sang what and who likes to sing what etc. The fandom is just so enormous! Anyways, Miku Hatsune is up for the 2012 Olympics opening thingie! Yay! Kinda. The thing is, she is a computer/robot. If they want someone to sing for the OLYMPICS, the largest sporting event in the world, they should let a real person do it. I love Vocaloid, and Miku, but they should bestow the honor to a human, rather than a computer. For the 2020 Olympics (which will probably be in Tokyo) it'd be a perfect idea. That would be amazing, if Vocaloid is still as popular then as it is today.

Now, moving onto bigger, more important than fanfiction itself things… If you've been paying attention to the news lately, you might have heard some news anchors mentioning something about two, very controversial laws that mey or mey not be passed. These laws not only affect the US fan community, but the world. SOPA and PIPA, the latest threats to the internet.

They essentially will limit the internet's right to expression and free speech and press and everything, they are taking copyright to an extreme. SOPA, the more volatile of the few, was thankfully 'shelved,' but PIPA is still alive. It needs to be shot in the head like a zombie, then double-tapped for good measure. I'm not really going to go into any details, but you really should look it up on Google. Even if you don't like this fanfic, please, please, just sign the petition, write to or call your Senator/Representative after you research them, because if you love fanfiction, deviantart, youtube, Wikipedia, facebook… SOPA and PIPA are legitimate threats to these websites and can destroy them. Neru is begging you… she won't have any fan site to troll on anymore! :O You can't let that happen!

I don't own Vocaloid…*bangs head on laptop keyboard* hyhbhhnjjnmhnjgh

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