Authors note: Hey there! Im pretty new to writing fanfictions (This is only muy second story!) I really wanted to write a vocaloid story! I love love love vocaloid!
I changed some of the names so please bear with me, I hope I manage to explain the changes well enough in the story but if I don't please don't be afraid to ask!
This is great cause since the vocaloids don't have set characters I can make them act how ever I want. MUAHAHA. Don't worry, nothing too extreme. I hope. We'll see how this goes. Thanks for reading and please review so I can know what you think!
Disclaimer: I do not own vocaloid!
I swallowed, trying to take in the view that was VocaloidAcademy. The huge campus seemed to go on for miles and even though it was just a high school campus, it was bigger than most the college campuses that were near my home. The large school building sat on top of a hill over looking the dormitories, with acres of fields and sports fields littering the campus. It seemed kinda silly having so many practice fields because VocaloidAcademy was mainly focused on music.
Allow me to introduce my self! My name is Rin Hatsune and I'm fifteen years old. I have blonde hair that goes down to my shoulders and blue eyes. My cousin Miku thinks I should grow out my hair like she does but I don't really know how I feel about that… Miku is a year older than me and she's the whole reason I get to go to VocaloidAcademy. My parents were really hesitant about sending me to a private school outside of the country, but thanks to Miku, her parents, and my violin, I was able to audition and then enroll in VocaloidAcademy.
Like I said before, Vocademy (Miku made sure to teach me the lingo) is a private school that specializes in music. And lucky for me I happen to specialize in the violin. I've been playing the violin since before I can remember. Once I was able to support the weight of the instrument my parents had me enrolled in countless numbers of violin lessons until I became one of the best violinists of my age group. Miku is also a great musician, she plays the flute. I guess you can say treble rhymes in our family. No? Well I think I'm punny.
I gathered my courage and walked through the gates and followed a path that hopefully would lead me to the dormitories. I was really nervous. Where was Miku? She promised to meet me!
Miku was going to be a second year, or I guess they call it a sophomore here in America. All the other grades had gotten here a few days ago, but today was the first day that freshmen could come. Today we were suppose to move into our dormitories and tomorrow we got to pick out our schedules for the coming school year.
I finally made my way to the freshmen and sophomore dormitories. 'Thank god.' I thought 'At least Miku and I will be in the same building.' Dorms were divided by male and female, and then again by lower and upper classmen, meaning there were four large dormitories in all. Unfortunately I wasn't sure which building was mine.
"Rinny!" I heard a girl's voice shout from above. I looked up and saw Miku waving from a third story window. "Go inside and check in at the front desk!" She called down. "I'll come down to help you carry your stuff." And with that she closed the window and I walked inside the doors.
Inside the building a woman with green hair sat at a desk with an annoyed expression on her face. She was examining her nails and I don't think she even noticed me walk in. I dropped my bags, maybe a little too loudly, hoping to catch her attention. She turned her eyes away from her nails and gave me an unhappy glance. "Name?" She asked, her bored tone catching my attention.
"Rin Hatsune, freshman, I play the-"I tried to tell her but she cut me off rudely.
"Yeah, I don't really care. Here's your room key, 22B. The first numbers the floor, second is the room, and B is the building. Any questions?" I opened my mouth to ask. "No? Good. Your roommate checked in a while ago. Have fun." She finished with a wave of her hand. I gave a huff and went to pick up my bags when I saw Miku running down the hall, her green hair trailing behind her. I tried to avoid herhug/tackle, but sometimes there was just no stopping this girl.
"Rin! You're here! Welcome! I hope Sonika wasn't giving you too hard a time. But psh, you know trumpets, am I right?" She asked giving me a nudge and a wink. I really didn't, but I nodded anyways. She grabbed the keys from my hand and led me off down the hall. We got in the elevator and went to the second floor. "Ohh the second floor… I hear the put a lot of theater kids on this floor. Good luck with that." She said, giving me a look of pity. I didn't understand and my face must have shown it. "Oh you don't know about THAT yet? I guess your just going to have to wait and find out!" Miku said with a giggle.
Know about what? I wondered. As I was thinking to myself how weird my cousin was we arrived in front of my room. From the depths with in we could hear the low beautiful sound of a trombone being played.
"Oh you got a band kid! Lucky you!" Miku cheered, adding her own little happy dance at the end. So far all I understood from her was that theater kids were bad and band kids were good.
"Why is that so lucky?" I asked. "Trombones and violins don't exactly make a great match. We can't exactly practice together." I explained to Miku as she opened the door. Inside stood a girl about the same size as me with light green hair that was a little shorter than mine. She hastily put away the silver trombone in it's case and walked over to help me with my bags.
"Hi! Im Gumi Megpoid! You can call me Gumi, or Meg, or Gum, basically whatever floats your boat." She said with a grin
"Rin Hatsune, and this is my cousin Miku." I said referring to myself and Miku. I did a quick look around the room. We had entered into a small hallway that had two doors facing each other. I later learned one was a bathroom that we shared with our neighbors and the other was a nice walk in closet to hang our clothes. Once you entered the room there was two desks and two beds, separated by a window that overlooked one of the many tennis courts.
"Well Rin, I'll leave you here to talk to your roommate." Miku said with a small wave and then left. I carried my bags and violin to the unclaimed bed and began unpacking. Gumi said crossed legged on the other bed and watched me curiously.
"A violin?" She murmured. "Alright, I gotta ask, have you decided which group your going to join?" Gumi asked me excitedly.
"Group?" I questioned. I put some papers and pens in one of the drawers of my desk. I brushed a stray hair out of my face, wishing I had packed my hair ties at the top of my suitcase.
"Mhmm. Since this school is music based, its mandatory for every student to choose one physical activity, so we can be active and stuff I guess. There are four different activities for students to choose from. Choosing your group is really important because it basically determines your social life for the next four years." Gumi explained to me.
"Oh wow. Miku never told me that part." I told Gumi, silently cursing my airhead of a cousin. "What are the four activities? Er groups or whatever their called." I asked.
"The first activity is athletics. When you sign up for athletics then you play a different sport for fall, winter, and summer. The best get to travel and around and compete. If you're good at sports it's a really good choice." I thought about all the P.E classes I had been forced to take during middle school and how horribly I had done in them. I shook my head no, I would definitely not be an athlete.
"Alright next would be the dance teams. The school offers at least twenty different kinds of dances that compete against other schools. Ranging from hip-hop to salsa, they have it all. It's mostly an all girls group if your into that kinda stuff." Gumi said, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively. I rolled my eyes. Whatever it's not like I could dance anyways.
"Then there's the theater group. Every year they do two big musicals, on in the fall and one in the spring, and then a play in between. There's a lot of singing, dancing, and acting involved." Well. I still couldn't dance, I was never able to trick my parent's into believing I was sick when I didn't want to go to school, and I couldn't carry a tune to save my life. I sighed, feeling totally defeated.
"But wait! There's more!" Gumi announced, her eyes starting to sparkle. "The great Vocal Academy Marching Band! It's almost a 200 piece marching band that travels to compete all over the country! They perform at every home football game and the band has lots of parties!" After hearing Gumi talk about her beloved marching band, it was obvious which group she was going to join.
"That's great Gumi." I said collapsing on my bed, "But I don't play a band instrument so I guess that's out." I said hopelessly. Maybe I could squeak by in theater, were you aloud to get kicked out of a group? Maybe Gumi knows. Wait a second, "Gumi how do you know about all this?" I asked "Aren't you just a freshman too?"
Gumi laughed. "Yeah I am, but my big brother used to go here and he was in the color guard." Gumi jumped off the bed, startling me. "That's it!" She shouted.
"What's it?" I asked her curiously.
"You should go color guard!" She said grabbing my arms and spinning me around the room.
"Wait a minute!" I said, now laughing too. "I don't even know what a color guard is!" I said trying to calm my obviously excitable roommate.
"It's the visual of a marching band! It's flags and costumes and weapons and it's sooo cool! My brother is going to be the guard instructor this year!" Gumi told me, catching her breath and looking hopeful. "I really think you should try it!"
"It's worth a shot." I said with a shrug. Gumi squealed and tacked me off the bed I had been currently sitting on.
"This is going to be so much fun!" She cried, latching herself onto me.
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The next morning we went down to the breakfast hall to get something to eat. The café was filled to the brim with hungry students, but after getting our food, Gumi and I, along with the girl who lived in the room next to us, Teto finally found a place to sit down. At the table next to us a bunch of boys were banging different rhythms into the table with drum sticks. Gumi gave them an irritated look.
"It's too early for this! Stop with the noise and let me go back to bed!" She complained. I learned very quickly that Gumi wasn't a morning person.
Teto laughed. "It's eight o'clock! It's not that early! And you can be too mad; all those boys are really cute." Teto said, watching the group of boys quiet shamelessly. Teto was also in our grade and she played the trumpet. I heard her practicing last night before we had gone to bed. As I thought about this I played with the tie around my neck. I had never been good at tying them, and this morning I had gotten so frustrated I made Gumi tie it for me.
Speaking of the uniforms, I really liked them. The skirt was a dark blue that went to the mid thigh. On top of that was a matching blue blazer that went over top of a white button down shirt and a tie. Depending on what grade you were in, you had a different tie color. I was a freshman so my tie was green. Sophomores had yellow ties, juniors had blue, and finally seniors had red. Teto complained that the ties would show off how old we were, but I didn't really mind. Dating really wasn't my top priority.
"Earth to Rin." I heard as a hand flew in front of my face. Any ideas what classes your taking? Other than the ones we have to take I mean." Gumi asked me. Right. Today we were choosing our classes. We took six classes every day, one reserved for the activity you chose. Then you have to take English and math. Luckily for me you got to choose between music history or science, and since I was no good at science, I was going to go with history.
I held up my fingers. "Well math, English, and music history are three, then there's my activity so four, and I'm taking orchestra so that's five… Hm. I need one more." I thought aloud.
Gumi nodded. "We don't get a lot of choices since we're freshmen, but I was thinking about the cooking class. Do you wanna take it with me?" Gumi asked. I thought about it. Being able to cook good food in our little door room? Sounded great!
"Sure! Sounds fun!" I agreed. "Teto do you wanna take it with is?" I asked the pink haired girl.
She shook her head no. "Sorry, but I'm going to sign up for swimming. Boys in Speedos? There's no way I'm missing that!" She said excitedly. Gumi and I sweat dropped.
After this conversation we were ushered from the cafeteria and into a computer lab in order to choose our classes. We had to fill out a little survey and after about ten minutes I finished. I waited for my scores to be printed and as I did, a young teacher walked through the rows, asking every student what activity they were going to choose. I heard many people proudly call out athletics and a few girls pick dance. Finally the teacher walked up to the boy next to me and he chose theater. The teacher approached me and smiled.
"Well? Have you decided which activity you would like to pick?" The teacher asked. He was really young. And he seemed pretty kind too. I hoped that I would have him as a teacher at some point. I could see he was waiting for my answer and I took a deep breath.
"Marching band." I heard myself say. The young teacher looked shocked but then beamed.
"Excellent! I can't wait to work with you!" He said and then moved onto the next student.
Huh.
Guess I just met my new band director.
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That night Gumi and I received letters, officially declaring us members of the marching band and that starting tomorrow we would have a week long camp lasting all day in order to get our bodies in shape.
"Gumi, this seems pretty time consuming. When am I going to have time to work with my violin?" I asked her nervously.
She easily brushed off my concerns. "This is just where we learn the basics. After this week school starts and practice becomes a lot more manageable." She told me as we got ready for bed.
"I hope your right." I said, glancing at my poor neglected violin. I changed into my pajamas. Cute pajama pants covered with little oranges and a plan white tank top. I got into bed and burrowed under my covers. Then Gumi jumped on my bed, or more precisely, my stomach. "Ow! Gumi!" I cried.
"Here! I got you a present!" Gumi said, shoving a small box at me, still sitting on top of me. "In honor of us become roommates, and friends, and now band mates!" She explained to me as I opened the box. Inside was a white head band with a ribbon on top. It was really cute.
"Aw Gumi it's so cute!" I said holding onto the gift. "Thank you! I'll wear it everyday!" I told her. She laughed and jumped off of me and went to her own bed.
"Night Gumi. See you bright and early." I said smiling.
"Yeah. Bright and early. I can't wait." I heard her groan from across the room.
Author's note: Hello there! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter on My Marching Song! I know nothing really exciting happened, but this was mainly to introduce the main characters and sorta explain what is going on. If I don't have school tomorrow you can expect an update!
Thanks for reading!