Just another pairing Vocaloid story that I wanted to type up. By the way, Kinsora and the other masters have no connection to this whatsoever. Therefore, you won't be seeing them in those big roles here. Hope you still like it!

I DO NOT OWN VOCALOID.

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Her name was Haku Yowane, a singer. Well…not quite a singer. Not too many people want to hire her these days, not when the ones with big talents like Miku Hatsune and Kaito Shion were still running around. She's just trapped being background singing. And when no one even wants her for that, she's doing the job as a waitress at the small restaurant near her home. She lives a pretty miserable life, but the money that she gets from the "singing" career has allowed her to keep the home. Plus, since she has those connections, she could go to their concerts whenever she wanted, and she's good friends with them.

However, part of her just wanted to have her own career going. She wanted to be a star as well. But no one wanted her. They considered her a failure, nothing more than a copycat of the ever-so-popular Miku. After a while, she realized the connection as well, and accepted it as her very own. Now a days, she drinks at the bar every once in a while to get her sorrows down.

But the truth is, her life is about to change forever.

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"Ah." The bartender looked up. "Welcome back, Haku! The usual?"

"The usual." She answered.

He headed to the back as she sulked at her usual place at the bar. After a few seconds of silence, she heard the chairs next to her move, and she looked up to see Meiko and Neru sliding up next to her. The bartender came back and placed the glass bottle in front of her.

"Back here, huh?" Meiko sighed, grabbing a nearby sake bottle.

"Yep." Haku complained. "The guys back at the audition didn't want me."

"WHAT?! Are you serious?!" Neru jumped. "But I saw the competition! You were a perfect choice!"

"I know. That's what I thought." She sighed. "But then Miku auditioned. I was booted out before I knew it."

"Wow…Miku sure knows what you're thinking." Meiko downed the bottle.

"So you didn't get the movie role, huh." Neru sighed.

"They didn't even offer me a part as an extra." Haku grabbed another one. "They offered it to the others, though."

"All of them?!" Meiko jumped. "But the majority of them suck!"

"Not really…" Haku sighed. "Most of them have acting experience."

"On low-budget movies." Neru corrected. "Just forget that. They're all morons, anyway."

"Thanks you guys…" Haku grumbled. "But I might as well give up the star career…"

"NUH UH! Not happening!" Meiko slammed her hands on the table. "Look, you have more musical talent than me and her combined! You just have to find out the part of you that isn't a part of Miku, that's all!"

"I've tried that." Haku sighed. "We even have the same taste in men. The only thing that I don't have is the fetish for leeks."

"Lucky…" Neru grumbled.

"Well, find something!" Meiko grinned. "There has to be something!"

"I hope you're right…"

Haku downed another bottle before turning her head towards the window, watching the small groups of people walk by, either hand in hand or as overjoyed as ever. One was even swinging his paycheck around and screamed how he obtained a raise. He looked like a neighbor of hers.

That's when she saw him.

At first, she thought she saw Kaito walking by. They looked so similar. But at another glance (as quick as that was), she saw that it was a totally different person. He had red hair, which was a bit spikier than Kaito's. His jacket was black, and whatever was supposed to be originally blue was now a bright red. But there was something weird there. She couldn't care less on Kaito's looks. He wasn't cute. But this guy…whoever he was, it just captivated her. Her heart skipped a beat as the air around her slowed down. Before she knew it, he turned toward her, and they locked eye contact. It was then that she felt herself burning in his crimson red eyes.

"What are you looking at?"

Haku blinked, and saw that the figure had vanished into thin air. Panicking, she found herself scrambling out of the bar and darted out the door, much to their shock. She ran down the sidewalk and looked everywhere for the stranger, but only found surprised crowds of people and total darkness. She took some deep breaths and stood up.

Who was that guy? She thought.

"Haku!"

She turned around and saw Meiko and Neru running to catch up with her. It was only then that she saw how far she ran. It was a pretty long distance (almost two blocks!), and yet she didn't feel like she ran a mile, which was the normal reaction that she felt when she ran a similar distance. They stopped in front of her.

"How drunk ARE you?!" Neru asked, heaving in gulps of air.

"I'm not drunk. I'm…buzzed." Haku looked around. "And I thought I saw someone out here."

"Someone?" Meiko looked around. "Take your pick."

"No! I mean…" She looked around. "I thought I saw Kaito."

"You were chasing Kaito?" Neru asked.

"No. Someone that looked like him." She answered. "Oddly similar, and yet…not."

"Yep, you're drunk." Meiko laughed. "C'mon. We better head back to the bar. Bartender's probably pissed that you didn't pay your tab."

Haku looked around for a few more seconds before slowly nodding and following her buzzed friends back to the bar. Unbeknownst to her, a figure was watching her from behind an alleyway, smiling at how confused she was. He turned to follow her, but when Haku turned around, he was gone again.

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Neru had to drive her home. She wasn't that drunk, but Meiko couldn't walk out properly.

Haku stumbled into her home, turning on the lights to her small tatami house as she said her goodbyes and sat peacefully in her living room. She turned to the door and opened it, staggering into the garden and sitting at the side. She stared up into the sky and smiled at all the countless stars that were sparkling over her head. She laughed.

"Heh. Geez, the stars remind me of celebrities for some odd reason."

"The first one you see is always the one that everyone sees. Only to the avid watchers can everyone in the sky be truly appreciated…"

"Yeah, similar to that. Hey, how'd you-"

She turned her head to the source of the voice, only to see that no one was there, save for a few flowers and what seems to be a firefly. It was then that she realized that she was in a sealed part of the garden, an area that no stranger can enter without going past her first.

"…Know?"

She concluded that she was definitely drunk, and then headed back into the house to turn in for the night. But unbeknownst to her, the figure was still there, watching her from behind a tree, smiling as the door slammed behind the gray beauty.

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End of the first chapter. You probably know who the stalker is, but for those of you who don't know…well, expect a fast update.