CREATION

Winter of 2007

The sound of black boots tapping against the cold, white, tile floor echoed throughout the halls of the labratory as a teenage girl sprinted, her long, teal ponytails flowing

behind her like two kites. The girl's eyes widened and her pace quickened as she saw her destination come into view. She flung open the door and stood in the doorway, her

breath heavy with exhaustion. At the sound of the door being opened, all the artists and producers looked up to see who interrupted their session. A man with dark, inky

black hair and glasses stood up. "Miku? What are you doing here?" he asked. Hatsune Miku meet her Master's deep brown eyes. "I'm sorry Master, but I had to come

see the new Vocaloid!" Before anyone could stop her, Miku ran up to the glass overlooking the observation room. Everyone in the room shifted in their seats

uncomfortabley. "Master... I thought you said there was only supposed to be one new Vocaloid." Miku's voice was soft, confusion evident in the way she said it.

"There was," her master sighed. "Then why is there two?" Instead of Miku's master answering, a man with sandy blonde hair and thin glasses stood. "We're not sure

how, but somehow in the process of creating Rin, the boy was created as well. We think it must've been a flaw in the program or maybe a bug. We are still

trying to decide what to do." Out the corner of her eye, Miku saw a pale man lean over to whisper something to another man. "Perhaps...we could just delete one," he

whispered. Miku frowned as she heard this. "Hey, hey, hey! Haven't we been through this more than once? No one gets deleted. They're part of our family now!"

She left the room in a storm of rage. 'How could they even consider that?' she thought to herself as she descended down the plain white stairs.

The two newley created Vocaloid sat in silence, their blue eyes staring at the ground, their fingers entwined. At the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs from the

observation room, the two averted their attention to the opposite side of the room. Miku meet their eyes, a smile coming to her face. "So you're Rin and Len? Whoa, you

two really are identical!" She bent down in front of them to get a better look. "It's really hard to tell you two apart. Hmm... we need a way to tell you two apart,

besides your voices. Miku's eyes lit up as she got an idea. She turned away from the twins and began to mess around with whatever was in her hand. Out of curiousity,

both Rin and Len leaned forward to look over Miku's shoulder. Though, before they could get a good look, Miku turned around and placed something on Rin's head. "There!

Now we can tell you apart! And plus, it maks you look really cute Rin-chan!" Miku held out a small mirror for Rin to look at herself in. Rin blinked as she saw the

crisp, white bow perched on her head. She stayed silent, the only hint of emotion was the small frown on her lips. "You don't like it..." Miku concluded sadly. Rin shook her

head. "No, it's just..we no longer match." Miku laughed, startling the two. "Well, in that case..." She started to play around with Len's hair, styling it in a way that

resembled Rin's bow. "There! Now you both have something sticking out from your head!" She smiled at the two who were examining each others new addition

. "Now, let's sing with each other! You guys will probably know this song... Aki no yuuhi..." Rin and Len looked at each other, recognizing the traditonal Japanese

Children's song. "...ni teru yama kouyou!" They continued singing the children's song with Miku, their voices blending together in a beautiful harmony. All the producers

and artists in the observation room grew silent as the noise drifted into the room. They all moved up to the window out of curiousity. The three Vocaloid were singing, a wide

smile on each of their faces. They knew then, that no one was going to be deleted. This mistake, was actually a miracle.