Author Notes: Well, due to all the reviewers asking me to continue, I am indeed going to continue the story! Yay!
Disclaimer: I do not own Vocaloid! If I did, there would be an anime and a video game in the works.
Singing for You
Miku walked down the hallway of the Vocaloid center building slowly. She was thinking. She loved to sing, but that's all she and her friends ever did. Was that all they were there for? This troubled her. She didn't want something like singing to be her only purpose. She loved it, but she was a person too. At least that's how she considered herself. She looked enough like a regular person, even if her voice was computerized. So she thought that she should be treated like one. But so far, other than her friends, everyone else had only asked her to sing. Never any questions like "How are you?" or "Are you free later? Maybe we can hang out." from regular people. But still, at least she had her friends. Although, as she walked, that one fear still lurked in the back of her mind. Was she really a machine, built for only one purpose?
"Never mind," she whispered to herself. "I don't need to worry about it. I'm just as normal as everyone else." She walked into the lounge and spotted Kaito. She smiled and walked over. He was eating ice cream again. Was that all he ever ate? Miku wondered about Kaito's eating habits cheerfully as she sat down.
"Hi, Kaito," she greeted him.
"Oh, Miku," he turned to her. "Hi there."
"Eating ice cream again, I see," she smiled wider.
"Yeah. It's chocolate this time. Do you want some?"
"No, no, I'm fine…" Miku's mind drifted back to her previous thoughts. Kaito noticed that something on her face said that something was wrong.
"Are you…okay?" Kaito asked, putting his bowl of ice cream down on the table. "You seem a bit down."
"Well…I was thinking…" Miku decided that if she didn't talk to somebody about it, it would just make it worse. "Why are we here, Kaito?"
"Why are we here?" Kaito was a bit surprised by the question. "Well…we're here for the same reason why all people are on earth, I suppose. Each of us has our own reason."
"But…I was wondering," Miku fidgeted a little bit as she spoke. "Are we only here to sing?"
"Not only to sing," Kaito said. "Wait, are you worried that we were only made to sing, not to enjoy the rest of life or something like that?"
"A little," she admitted, giving him a weak smile. "I just…I don't want to be considered as a machine with only one purpose. I want to be considered human, just as everyone else is."
"I consider you as human," Kaito replied. "And so do Len, Rin, and Meiko, and everyone else in Vocaloid. We're ALL human."
"But everyone outside of Vocaloid," Miku continued, trying to explain. "Have any people outside of Vocaloid ever asked you anything except to sing for them?"
"Well…" Kaito thought a bit. "Well, no…but that's just because…" Kaito couldn't come up with an answer. He sighed. "You see, Miku…even if people might see us as just computer programs, or robots, or whatever else…we ourselves know that we're more than that, right?"
"Yeah, I guess you're right…" Miku nodded. A small beeping noise suddenly sounded on the electronic panel of Miku's arm warmer, and also from one of Kaito's headphones. The two of them were being called to record a song. They stood up and started to walk down the hallway together.
"Miku…" Kaito said. "I don't like it when you're sad like this. It doesn't suit you. It's much better when you smile." He offered up a small smile, hoping that she would follow suit. Her facial expression didn't change, and Kaito was a bit disappointed. "I'm sorry."
"No, it's not your fault at all!" Miku said quickly. "I just…well, I'm just a bit confused is all. Were we only made to sing, or are we here for other things too?"
"We're here for everything," Kaito answered.
"Huh?" Miku looked at him questioningly.
"Well…everything that anybody outside of Vocaloid can enjoy, we can enjoy too. We aren't machines. At least, that's what I that what I think. After all, if we were just machines, wouldn't we be a lot more primitive? We have free will, actions, and thought. There's no way we're machines, Miku. We're just as human as everyone else."
"Alright, thanks," Miku smiled. "I just didn't want singing to be our only purpose. Of course, I love to sing though."
"Me too," Kaito agreed. The two of them reached the recording room. The twins and Meiko were in there already.
"Hey, we came to listen to you guys," Len said as Kaito and Miku walked up to them. Meiko smiled knowingly at Kaito, and he grinned awkwardly.
"Come on, let's go," Miku said. "We'll keep on singing! And this one will be our greatest song yet!" Miku ran into the recording area, and Kaito followed.
The song sounded magnificent.
"Wow, they're amazing!" Rin smiled. "And they sound so great together. They're voices go together like peanut butter and jelly!"
"They sure do…" Meiko agreed, smiling gently.
Later that night, Kaito was heading back to his room to go to sleep, when he passed Miku's room. He stopped for a moment, and stood across the hall from her door. He assumed that she was asleep.
"We'll keep on singing, right Miku?" he said quietly, not wanting to wake anyone. "I'll keep on singing. Singing for you." And with that, he continued on his way down the hall, a content smile upon his face.
Miku had been standing next to her door and had just so happened to hear what Kaito had said. She sat down on her bed, smiling widely out of happiness.
"Thank you, Kaito," she whispered. "Thank you."
