Chapter 1
The day was beautiful with its clear blue sky and golden rays of sun as a fifteen year old boy walked beside the lawns of green grass.
His messy brown hair framed his cherubic face as his dark amber eyes shined brightly. His skin was silkily pale save for a few freckles dotting over his button-like nose. He was dressed in a black shirt–a single white stripe went alongside his shoulders–along with a pair of dark blue shorts.
Humming softly, the boy turned a corner and began to walk up a hill, gently swaying the shoes that he was holding while looking up at the vast sky.
"What a great day this is!" He cheered softly while turning yet another corner and starting down a small hill before turning right into a park.
A small yawn left the boy's lips as he sighed and glanced around the empty green field before making his way towards one of his favorite trees.
Plopping himself down beneath the branches, the brunet pulled out a small dark red book and began to flick though it.
"Hm… These new robots… err… computers are really amazing!" He gasped with excitement as his amber eyes scanned the image-filled pages of various humanoids.
"But, then again, some are a little… out there." He sighed as he noticed a couple of the images were of young children around the age of thirteen, maybe even younger.
"I wonder what it would be like to have one… ?" He mused before choking a bit upon glancing at the price tags and scolding himself, "… Wishful thinking Kai!"
A sigh left his lips as his eyes roamed across the page again, "But still… These are all pretty high-tech stuff ne…? Hehe, Computers in the form of a human. It's amazing what they're coming up with these days!" Kai laughed as he pushed himself up into a sitting position.
Scratching the back of his head, the brunet stretched before slipping on his white sneakers and standing up. He glanced around the beautiful park once more before allowing his legs to carry himself out and down the sidewalk to his humble little home.
A click of his keys and a turn of the knob later, Kai entered his humble abode and grunted softly as he looked around the apartment. It was a simple two-room place in which everything connected.
Moving his arm around, he placed the small book down and began to clean–only to sigh when there really wasn't much to clean. After all, his apartment was always clean… The only difference was that he could make it cleaner. Another sigh left his lips before the brunet decided to flop down onto his couch.
His amber eyes began to droop as he yawned and rubbed his eyes before allowing the gentle darkness to claim his consciousness.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Kai jerked awake to the loud knocking on his door and fell to the floor with an equally loud thump before groaning softly.
Pushing himself up, the brunet limped towards his door and pulled it open. He blinked once, twice, and then a third time before Kai found himself staring at an older man with dark blue hair.
"Um… Hello?" Kai blinked in confusion, making the man smile.
"Hello, Kai Suzamiya?" The other asked as the boy scanned the man to see that he was dressed in strange outfit with a long blue muffler.
"Hai, that's me!" Kai nodded as his eyes raised up to look at the man's face.
"Here." The stranger said while holding out a small black box.
Kai blinked and stared at it with a confused look on his face, "Um… What am I supposed to do with this…?"
A low laugh left the man's lips as he answered with a smile, "It's to scan your fingerprint!"
Kai's lips formed a small "Oh…" shape before he pressed his index finger against the flat surface of the scanner; it made a gentle ping noise.
Confused, Kai blinked but the man simply smiled and placed the device away before nodding towards a large brown box, "By the way, that's for you."
Amber eyes widened as the brunet stared at the parcel, "When the hell did that get there?"
The blue-haired man merely chuckled as he began to leave, pausing only long enough to shout over his shoulder, "Make sure you use a computer!"
Kai blinked once more and glanced over his own shoulder to look at his old but trusty computer.
Looking back, the brunet yelped when he noticed that the man had already made his way down the hall far, far away from him.
"Hey!" Kai called out to the other, "Wait!"
Unfortunately, he was already gone.
Kai sighed for the umpteenth time and turned to the box. The corners of his lips tipped downwards into a deep frown as his eyes narrowed a bit.
"Stupid box." He muttered as he leaned down to grab it before beginning to pull it into his apartment.
Panting softly at having exerted himself, Kai leaned against the wooden box and kicked the door close before tilting his head back.
A yawn escaped his lips as he rubbed his eyes.
"I'm so tired…" He whimpered before chancing a glance over at the box, "… But I also want to see what's in the box!"
Nodding at his choice, Kai growled as he pushed himself up and raised a leg before giving the box a hard kick, causing it slide a little… just a little.
The brunet mumbled under his breath and shook his head before turning around to grab the top of the parcel. He tugged at it for a few moments before huffing at his lack of manly strength. Sulking for a few moments, he declared, "I need something to pull the top off!"
Looking around his apartment, Kai sighed at the lack of tools and decided to walk next door.
Shuffling his feet, the brunet slowly knocked on the door and waited.
A moment passed before a woman with short red hair open the door. She blinked upon seeing who her visitor was before smiling, "Oh… Hello Kai!"
Kai blushed and bowed in greeting before asking shyly, "Sorry to bother you but may I borrow a crowbar please?"
His female neighbor giggled but nodded in reply, "Just a minute, okay?"
She disappeared into her apartment for several minutes before reappearing with the tool in hand.
"May I ask why you need this?" She asked, passing the tool to the boy while tilting her head cutely.
"I–umm–have a large box to open." Kai shrugged as nonchalantly as possible.
"A box?" She blinked as the boy nodded and thanked her before quickly rushing back into his own apartment.
Slamming the door close, Kai pressed his back against the wooden frame and slid down to rest on the floor, panting slightly.
After a brief respite, he sighed and crawled over to the box before hooking the crowbar into the crack between the top and the bottom and pulling. The box let out a loud cracking noise. "AH!" Kai yelped as he fell onto his back with a soft thump.
Groaning, Kai sat up and rubbed at his sore back before moving to look inside the parcel.
His eyes soon widened as he let out a loud cry and jumped to his feet, staring at the box with horror visible on his pale face.
Hidden inside was a blond boy.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Cried Kai before he spun around and rushed out of his apartment. Looking around frantically, the boy searched for any signs of the blue-haired man only to despair upon seeing none.
Slumping his shoulders, Kai hesitated before punting a desolate rock and slowly making his way back into his home.
Still shuffling across the floor, the brunet inched towards the box and peered down at the boy before noticing that he wasn't moving.
Placing a finger under the boy's nose, Kai paled when he felt no air being breathed onto his skin and shakily moved his fingers to feel the still boy's pulse.
There was none.
Now, Kai is not so prideful that he would deny what happened next but he would still like it very much if you kept it to yourself.
And so, the fifteen-year-old fainted right on cue.
"Nngh…" Groaned a soft voice as amber eyes fluttered open.
Kai moaned gently as he slowly sat up and rubbed the back of his head before blinking a bit as his mind slowly filtered through his memories upon seeing the wooden box.
Stifling another groan and rubbing harshly at his eyes, the boy whimpered to himself, "Please, please, please tell me that that was all a dream!"
Crossing his fingers in a prayer, Kai turned around and crawled towards what seemed to be the bane of his sanity and cautiously peered into the box before whimpering pitifully as his eyes landed on the face of the blond boy.
He was about to slam his head onto the wooden surface in an attempt to knock himself out once more when he caught sight of a blue manual and a CD.
"Huh…?" Blinking once at the items, Kai cautiously took the book out and read aloud the title, "Vocaloid: One of a Kind…?"
Curiously opening the paperback, Kai sat back and continued to read aloud, "Thank you for purchasing from our catalogue of Vocaloid: One of a Kind! As our policy states, each of our designs is one of a kind. In other words, your Vocaloid is completely unique and thus no one else will have the same model. To see which model you own, please look for the song code located on your Vocaloid."
The brunet tilted his head in thought, "Song Code…?"
Kai slowly turned to the boy in the box and stared for a few moments before letting out a sigh. Placing the book down, he crawled over to the boy-model and gently laced his arms under the other. A soft grunt left his lips as Kai struggled to pull the boy out. A few pulls later found him to be successful as the blond boy popped out of his white plastic coverings.
Standing up straight, Kai wiped away the sweat on his forehead before leaning down and wrapping his arms around the boy's torso. He dragged the boy over to his couch and dropped him with an annoyed huff. "Geez! For a little guy, he sure weighs a ton!" Kai grumbled to himself while cracking his back and relaxing.
After rubbing his sore neck, the brunet leaned down and scanned the other once more as a blush slowly made its way onto his cheeks.
"He's so cute!" Came his exclamation before he quickly shook his head to clear his mind of such thoughts.
Turning back to the task at hand, Kai straightened out the boy's position on the couch and began to look for his Song Code.
"Where is it? I've looked everywhere on this blasted model…" Kai murmured to himself as he allowed himself to fall down onto his bottom. Crossing his legs, the brunet rested his chin on his palm and gazed at the blond before sweat-dropping when he noticed the bright yellow numbers printed just under his wrist.
"How did I miss that?" Kai gasped before pulling the arm up and reading the numbers, "Zero-zero-zero-four? … Is that his code?"
He blinked at the simplicity of it before crawling back to his book and flipping though the first couple of pages until he found the page about Model 0004.
"Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of the only Model 0004! Make sure that you take good care of him!" Kai read out loud in a squeaky voice before he giggled, feeling better than before upon knowing that he was not in possession of an actual person or a dead body.
Relaxing now, the brunet pulled out the computer disk and turned back to the book. Holding the CD out in front of him, he continued reading, "To activate the model, please insert the disk and connect the model to the computer–everything from there on should be simple!"
"Sounds simple enough." Kai shrugged and crawled over to his computer.
After waiting for it to boot up, the brunet slipped the disk in and turned to the screen as a black window popper up.
"Welcome to the start-up wizard for Vocaloid: One of a Kind!" A female voice rang out from the computer, "Please connect Model 0004!"
"Connect?" Kai mumbled and crawled back to Model 0004, scanning the boy over before–"Oh!"–smiling and pressing the small square switch on the back of his neck. A small skinned door swung open, showing a retractable wire attached with a plug. Pulling out the wire, Kai blinked in surprise upon noting that the wire was long enough to reach the computer without having to move the boy again.
Shrugging in acceptance, the brown-haired boy plugged the model in.
"Thank you! We will now begin to boot up the main system and functions…" The female voice said as Kai turned around and yelped, "H-He's vibrating!"
Staring at the strange phenomenon for a few moments, Kai had to jump in surprise when the female voice chimed, "Booting complete! Please enjoy your One of a Kind Vocaloid!" A soft ping later, the window automatically shut down.
Hearing this, Kai jumped to his feet and spun around in time to see dark blue eyes snap open and blink before the blond slowly sat up.
A soft sound left the nameless boy's throat as he scanned around the small apartment before his gaze landed on the frozen brunet.
And, well, can you guess what happened next?
… Yep.
That's right.
Poor, poor Kai…
Fainting really isn't becoming of him.