Hello everyone! You're used to getting rather small DN fanfictions from me huh?

Well, here's a little something different. This fanfic was actually a request from a very good friend, and it was meant to be a oneshot. But a few days ago, I got way too many ideas, that simply didn't fit in a oneshot. In my head, there's a lot of potential in this story, so I decided to make it multichaptered ;D

For any questions you may have, please look at the bottom of the chapter first. If they aren't answered there, then feel free to ask me and I'll happily reply!

Please R&R if you like it! It will make me wanna write more, it's selfish human nature after all, huhuhu~ *chu*

So, Neuroid, this is for you! But it's also for me 'cause I really like how it's shaped inside my head...yosh! Enough small talk, on with the story!

Chapter 1: A faint wish

"Len, wake up!"

...I hate mornings...

"Len, come on! Wake up! We're running late!" Screamed my sister's voice next to my ear. I dislike mornings as it is, but what I dislike more is being awoken this way...

"LEN!" She yelled again, her high-pitched voice piercing my ears like someone had injeted a very thin, but sharp enough arrow to give me a headache for a week.

"Fine, I heard you..."... I opened my eyes with difficulty, dreading over the moment I had to get out of my warm bed and step on the hard, cold, unfriendly floor. I rested my eyes on her with a disapproving look and sighed. "Can't you let me-"

"NO!" She screamed, giving me no other choice but to grab the pillow underneath me and shove it on my head in an attempt to keep the disturbing sound of her voice out of my ears.

"We're running late! We've got professor Kamui first period! He's gonna kill us!" My sister yelled again. I must confess though, she was one hundred percent right. Kamui-sensei was quite strict on time. And it's not like he'd yell at us or anything, no. He'd do something much, much worse to torture us. It wasn't his style to simply lecture you, then let you off the hook. And I knew that well. I'd felt his wrath for the past year, and I'd felt it for good.

I nudged the covers off of me and sat up yawning. I looked at my twin's worried face. She was eyeing me with a pupish glance, practically begging me with her stare to make haste. I nodded and without needing to say anything else, Rin walked out of the room to let me get ready.

I didn't need more than 10 minutes to wash myself up, get dressed, and tie my hair up in a high ponytail, and rush downstairs to grab a toast on my way to the hall and head to the exit with Rin. The house was empty again...

I must admit, I had very loving parents. Workaholic indeed, but the fact they were never at home didn't get to my anymore, I had grown used to it. After all, seeing freshly prepared breakfast on the table every morning, did play it's part. Even if they were never at home in the mornings, mom would always prepare something for us before leaving for work. To her, it was like an oath. She'd be late any day than leaving without preparing something for us to wait in the kitchen in her place.

I rushed out and banged the door, running down the stairs by the porch, the toast still hanging from my mouth, in an attempt to hurry as fast as possible.

Rin was at the gate, holding it open for me, and as soon as I reached it, she shut it and locked it carefully, placed the keys in her bag and turned to me. "Your shoe laces are untied." She said softly and grinned at me, then poked my nose playfully, and I bit my toast slightly harder to hold it from falling off my mouth. She shook her head, croutched down and tied them up for me in a hurry, then grabbed her bag and ran off. I followed.

Rin was an airhead most of the time, but it seems as if we changed roles in the early mornings. She'd be the loving, caring sister who'd wake impossible me up, and I'd be the sleepyhead brother who wouldn't let go of his warm bed covers. Hey, don't get the wrong idea, I'm not irresponsible or lazy or anything. I'm a hardworking music student. My parents pay our school with all they have after all, slacking off would be a waste and a sin. I'm just...disfunctional in the mornings, especially when I know I have to deal with professor Kamui first period.

We both rushed in the victorian-looking building as if we were being chased by some monster who'd eat us if we stopped. Well duh, he might not be an actual monster but we only had 5 minutes left to get to the classroom. And that man was never, and I do mean, never late. He was also never earlier than needed. He was exacly on time. So, counting on that was useless.

You know, the outside of our school looked royal and victorian, but the inside was highly modlern and chic. I kinda liked that about it. It had style. And many, many resources and assosiasions, if you get what I mean.

Rin ran full throttle in the classroom and stopped only when she reached her desk, gushing in deep breaths of relief. I rolled myself to my seat and rested my head on my own desk, gasping for breath. We made it, we were in time, we had one more minute left. Thank god...

I turned my head to check on Rin, who had been hugging her desk with the grateful, but trademark happy-go-lucky expression she had every time we were saved this way. And it's actually been a lot of times.

If we'd been late, we'd be killed for sure. I'm not sure about Rin, but I definitely forgot to do our assignments for today...hey! I'm not lazy or anything! It's human to forget about things now and then right...? right...?

I felt a hand squeeze my shoulder tight, which snapped me out of my train of thoughts. I knew that squeeze, I knew it well. My head turned around automatically and grinned stupidly at my friend's worried expression. He lifted an eyebrow which was hardly visible by the blue bangs that adorned his forehead.

"Here." He set down a grey notebook to my desk and his lips pulled to a smile of relief. "I copied my notes to u, with adjustments here and there. The similarities to mine shouldn't be noticeable."

I grabbed him by the waist grinning happily and squeezed him in a tight hug. "Damn it Kaito, what'd I do without you?"

And I wasn't exaggerating. I don't know how he did it, but every damn time I forgot my assignments, he magicaly knew. And my best bud was always there to save my ass from getting punished by the monster. Oh, speaking of monsters...

"Shion-san, what time is it?" I heard the characteristic voice of my sensei speak out behind my back.

Kaito freezed and stared at my teacher straight-faced. He lifted his wrist and looked at his watch with an empty face. I knew that face.

"8:30 sir." My friend replied, with his head titled downwards to his watch still. But I knew. He wasn't faithfully staring at his clock or anything. He was scared outta his mind.

"And what are you doing, standing in the middle of the lesson, causing an uproar?"

Middle of the lesson he says...What middle of the lesson, the guy just entered the classroom out of nowhere! I mean, come on!...Not that my thoughts matter at all but, hey, whatever...

"I apologize." I heard Kaito say, and glanced at him only to see my friend's bowing figure of apology. Damn, this was all my fault...

"Apologizing won't change the fact that you ignored your teacher's rules. Or am I wrong? Have you not made nothing of my rules? Have you obediently listened to the rule that says that you must be sitting by your desk by 8:29?"

I turned around fast and hurried to speak, to explain that it was all my fault, that all the poor guy did was save my own ass, but didn't get the chance. He spoke again and squeezed my shoulder tactfully.

"I apologize. I ashamed my teacher." He said and bowed again. My heart squeezed in my chest, and my teacher's arrogant stare only made me want to stand up and punch the heck out of him. But I knew I couldn't do that. I was nonexistent. I was nothing. Who was I to stand and rebel against a teacher?...After all, it would only cause my parents pain... Damn it man! Don't act this way...

Kamui-sensei shaped a smirk to his lips and and crossed his arms, walked to Kaito and left a small chuckle. "Very well." He said and walked to the front of the class, where various musical instruments stood on top of a small, but sufficient for lessons, stage.

"I shall forgive you this once. You see, I am in a good mood today." He chuckled and stepped on the small stage, grabbed a long, silver, sharp conducting baton from the black shieth that stood on his desk and turned to us, smirking.

Kaito bowed once again in gratitude and rushed down to his desk which was located next to mine, never looking at Kamui in the eye.

I do see a reason to respect the man, I really do. He's a world-renown singer after all.

Kamui Gackupo. Has signed with many different record companies, due to his lack of temper most probably. That though, doesn't cut back from the fact that his career has been freaking successful. He had seen things we hadn't, felt the stage the way we hadn't. Knew facts we didn't. He was standing many steps above us, too many to count...I know he is one respectful man and all. But truthfully? His rotten personality sickens me...

I glanced at Kaito frowning and mouthed a "thank you" without letting any sound out. He merely smiled and nodded, then finally rested his eyes back at the teacher. I did the same.

"Has everyone done their assignments for today?" He said, wearing a poker-face of a smile that simply looked down upon each and every one of us.

The whole class muttered a half-hearted "yes" in synch.

My class you see, isn't too big. It consists of a few people.

Me and Rin, my best friend Kaito. The always serious-looking, Megurine Luka.

She's always serious about her job, kinda closed up to herself. Doesn't talk much. Out of all of us she seems to respect Kamui-sensei the most. I can see why. Her skill is kinda admirable. I bet she's serious about making it big...

Then we have, the school's upcoming star... Hatsune Miku.

Miku-chan has a very cute figure, is soft-spoken, sings well...that is her image after all. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against her, but the girls seem to be hating on her... Honestly, probably the success has been getting in her head...which seems to be far above the clouds, and that teachers are favouring her isn't helping at all. the You'll understand what I mean soon.

Then, we have Piko-san. He's a transfer student, who's only just joined the class a week ago. I don't know much about him but he seems to be a relatively happy kid. He has a few friends outside class, and when he's with them he's all outspoken and stuff. I guess he's still cautious around us. To be expected.

And lastly...

There is Nakajima Gumi. We've been in the same class for a year, though I don't think I have anything to say about her, other that she is constantly in her own little world. Sure, she does all the assignments on time, and seems pretty hyper about every job you give her, but still...if you ask me, she's plain weird...

She dresses weird, talks weird, acts weird. I mean come on, when we're practicing on instruments she's sitting on her desk, making cranes. How sane is that? I mean, how the heck does she even know how to sing if she constantly slacks off...? Music is 1% talent and 99% hard work after all...

"Good then." My teacher's voice snapped me out of my trance. And I noticed I'd been staring at Gumi-san for quite a while. And she was...staring back at me? The girl smiled to me softly and turned back to her cranes. Oh no...the last thing I needed was to be liked by a weirdo...even worse, be misunderstood! I wasn't really staring at her, I was just deeply lost in thought...oh man...

"Throw all of your notebooks to the trash bin." I heard Kamui speak out, and automatically turned my head to him, eyes widening, my mouth gaping.

Do-do what? What does he mean by that?

"Throw all your assignments to the bin, or esle you'll reseve a nice zero for a mark."

I never understand what's in this guy's head...I mean, Kaito probably stayed up till late to copy his notes in this...and now I had to simply throw it away...? I didn't have a choice though, did I?

So I obeyed like a good kid, like I obeyed every time, and so did the rest of my classmates. In two minutes time, all their hard work, along with Kaito's I had been holding, was rotting in the trash bin, as if it was of no importance.

"I have a new assignment for you. A bigger, and much more pleasing one than simply writing down essays on your notebooks."

I lifted an eyebrow. Sure man, okay, but couldn't you at least look at other people's hard work first...?

He lifted his batton with an airy movement horizonally to his head and pointed it at us, then started swaying it around, in synch with his head and other hand, humming some song i didn't recognise. Then he stopped out of nowhere and smirked at us.

"A concert will be held in our school, in a month." He spoke and rested his behind on Megurine-san's desk, sat on it, and turned to look at the rest of us. "A student concert. A concert each class will have to complete to attend."

Like, what? I blinked twice and arched my body slightly forward in interest, my hands under the desk, tightly gripping at the fabric of jeans on my knees. Kamui chuckled once, probably by our shocked expressions and crossed his arms, setting the baton down on Luka-san's desk.

"On the 15th day of this month, there will be a small...tournament, so to speak. Each of you will compete in pairs. The pair that wins, will compete against the other classes winning pairs at the end of the month."

"And what happens with the winning pair of the last round..?" Luka-san finally spoke out, eyeing him carefully, eyes full of expectation, with her arms crossed in frond of her.

Kamui-sensei smiled softly at her, grabbed his baton and pointed it high at the ceiling, and our eyes followed mechanically.

"The pair that wins, gets to have a debut single duet." He smiled at us. "Can you see the star of fame blinking at you?"

What...? A debut single...? ... I looked down at the desk in frond of me and gripped my jeans tightly, my hands shaking as if I was standing in the middle of Syberia, barefoot...

A single...a single...

Hey, I'm not dreaming, am I?...Do I have to pinch myself like an idiot to make sure...?

I bit my lips smiling faintly, in a struggle to keep any possible rush screams of happiness carefully shut in, then bit them harder in place of pinching myself, until they started hurting.

Yeah, I was awake.

A single...a debut...

The moment I heard that, my parents images flashed through my head. Both standing next to each other, as if in a picture, smiling happily at me. My mother's brown hair skillfully tied back in a high ponytail, letting the beautiful features of her face shine. My father's sometimes strict, but still caring figure, holding my mother by the waist, his platinum hair combed back like he always did, wearing his trademark suit, his soft eyes looking straight at me with pride.

That was the image I wanted to see. My overworking parents happy. Their tired face features shining from happiness and pride...I lifted my eyes slowly and rested them on Rin, who seemed to be sharing similar thoughts to mine. She was looking back at me, smiling softly, curled up in her seat. I knew we shared the same thoughts. I knew Rin's hopeful smile.

I didn't want to lift my eyes and look at my classmates' expressions. I knew each of them was probably like mine. Hopeful, daydreaming, expecting faces. If I looked up, I'd naturally feel bad to compete against them. Isn't one man's happiness another man's misery, after all? But I had to. They had their reasons, so I had mine. I wanted to make mom and dad smile again...not the forced, tired, careful not to upset us smiles we usually get. But real ones. Smiles filled with happiness.

"I shall declare your pairs then." Kamui-san's voice broke the expecting silence, and once again brutally pulled me out of my deep thoughts. He walked to his desk and pulled a black folder out of his bag, then slipped out a piece of paper, held it high and looked at each one of us.

"Let's see..." I looked at Rin and smiled, hoping we would be paired together. I mean, we'd be fighting for the same reason! We'd gain our parents smiles together...I knew she was thinking the same. Her hopeful gaze spoke so.

"Hatsune pairs up with Megurine."

Both girls looked at each other, Luka-san seemingly unaffected, and for some reason, Miku-san pouting all frowned. I bet someone wasn't happy with their pair...ouch.

"Shion-san, with Kagamine Rin."

Kaito turned his gaze at my sister and blinked once, then looked at me, so did my sister.

Damn...So it seems I wouldn't be with my sister...She looked rather...defeated...and tired. I knew my sister wouldn't want to compete against me, even so win if we didn't do it together. But still...no, wait a second. Who does this leave me with?

I glanced up at both the newcomer and the weird girl. You must be kidding me right...?

Kamui-san smiled and walked to my side. "Piko-san is new and has no experience, therefore we can't expect of him to compete."

Shit. Plain shit.

"So that leaves Kagamine Len with Nakajima-san." He folded his A4 piece of paper and flashed his poker smile again. "Work hard." He stood and walked back to the front of class where his big, black, royal desk was located and sat down to his seat, pulled some more papers out of his bag and started scribbling something down. "Class dismissed." And the bell rang, as if it was obeying him and not the other way around.

God, do you hate me...? It's not that I have anything against the girl but...she's weird and doesn't listen to anyone...there've been so many times she's refused to work on an assignment just because she didn't like the song, and got 0 for a mark. Then again, if she does like the song it's definitely above 90%, which is rather soothing. But... What if she dislikes the song we're given again? What am I to do? If I fail because of her...oh come on, is there even a chance I can win with this outcome?...and even if I won...it won't be with Rin...what good is it anyway?..

I sighed and tilted my head downwards, lifted my bag and stood up, suddenly feeling the gravity pull me down rather brutally. It's as if all hope and expetation had fled my body, and all I was left with were the remnants of my dreams...like sharp glasses that I didn't even dare think of touching anymore...

How did it turn to this...?

Phew, this was the first chapter! It's not too long, and not very revealing, but I hope it wasn't boring and promise the next ones will be...very angsty and stuff!

So, to any questions you may have.

-Why are Kaito and Gumi's surnames, Shion and Nakajima?

As it seems, Kaito and Gumi don't have official surnames. I searched around, and one supposed surname of kaito is Shion, I liked and kept it. About Gumi, I found nothing so I used her voice actror's surname, which is Nakajima.

-Where are the rest of the Vocaloids?

There will be more of them as the story progresses. For example, Meiko is a teacher, along with Gakupo, who was the monster teacher of the chapter, lol.

Title song of chapter 1: A faint wish:

That's about it, for any further questions, feel free to ask!