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Some of the characters used in this story either belong to Crypton Future Media or any other respective owners of the fan-made Vocaloid characters.
Difference in Worlds
Chapter One – The Beginning
Brief pre-summary
The city of Karant, a city made on top of an artificial island a few kilometers off the shore of Tokyo. Karant became quickly populated by eager civilians attempting to either start a business or begin their life anew. The island currently has only one school that teaches from elementary all the way to high school. Scholarships were sent out throughout the globe causing the school to quickly become international.
Len Kagamine is one of these students. He's an average boy with average grades and a slightly above average physical condition. His slight feminine feature confuses people on whether if he is a boy or not. His trademark ponytail he'd always tie his hair back into doesn't help his case much either.
Across the world there are people known as the 'Holders', people who have special abilities. So far, there are only 30 existing Holders, all of whom were transferred under a project into the school in Karant. Len is one of these Holders, however, he has kept his ability secret from those around him in attempt to live a simple and normal life. Even if one of his closest friends is also a Holder, he still keeps his own ability a secret.
General POV
"Hey girl, you want to have a good time?" a scruffy looking man offered a 'girl' with white hair that reached the shoulders. He had an ominous feel around him as he and the 2 men behind him approached 'her'. Regardless, showing only a slight bit of nervousness, the 'girl' nodded and followed the men into a car.
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"Okay, Piko just messaged us the OK." A blonde girl with a long ponytail turned to face the group behind her.
"So I'll just walk in there and beat up anyone I see, right?" a girl with brown hair cracked her knuckles as she looked towards the run-down warehouse.
"Well, yeah, but please try to keep the damage away from the warehouse itself. You don't want any more debt, do you?"
"Isn't the warehouse abandoned?" the brown haired girl suddenly became cautious.
"It's not abandoned. That's why the owner of it sent us on this job." The blonde girl sent a message with her phone and turned back to the group. "Okay then, Teto, you and Gakupo go around back and make sure no one escapes. Meiko, you go straight through the front. Kaito you go in with Meiko and make sure she doesn't cause any major damage to the structure itself. Len, you and Miku go around to the sides and make sure none of them tries to escape through the windows." she gave each member of the group a role and nodded firmly. "Alright! Let's do it!"
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"Hehe, nice catch." A man wearing sunglasses despite being indoors smirked at the white haired 'girl' in front of him.
"She'll probably sell for a lot!" One of the men exclaimed rather joyfully.
"Hahahaha! Good job you guys." The man with sunglasses, who seemed to be the boss of the group, cackled loudly.
BAM!
"We're here to rescue you Piko!" a boy with blue hair and a long scarf around his neck declared loudly. The blue haired boy stood on top of the now fallen warehouse door next to the brunette called Meiko.
"So you guys are the thugs selling drugs and trying to sell our students off to the black market, huh?" Meiko smirked as she subconsciously started counting all the men in the room.
"Who the hell are you?!" one of the vandals shouted.
"It doesn't matter! We'll just tie you guys up and sell you guys too!" the man in sunglasses declared menacingly. "Get them!" Following his order the men all began to charge at the two.
"Heh, who are we? We're the Vocaloid! And you'll be thinking twice before you try to commit crime in Karant after this!" Meiko announced and charged at the men as well. One of the thugs attempted to throw his fist at Meiko but was quickly punched straight in the face with a devastating blow so powerful that it sent him flying back along with everyone behind him.
"W-what?! A m-monster?!" the thug boss was staring in shock at his now unconscious men lying on the floor.
"Where do you think you're going?" Meiko was now standing in front of the man in sunglasses, who was now trying to run away. Not allowing him to react, she quickly dealt a quick punch to his gut and knocked him out completely.
"Oi! Stop taking all the fun!" the blue haired boy shouted as he took on a group of the thugs.
"Damn kid! He's like a snake! Keeps squirming around and dodging all our hits!" a man grunted annoyingly as he tried to land a kick.
"Haha! I prefer to be called the wind!" the boy side stepped the kick and smacked the back of the thug's neck making the thug's body go limp.
"R-run! They're monsters!" a couple of vandals began to panic and ran out the backdoor.
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"Oh! No you don't!" a purple ponytailed person had swung his wooden sword and knocked back some of the thugs that were attempting to flee. However, one of thugs was able to avoid the blow and kept running.
"Stop right there!" a girl with pink hair chased after the thug. Her hair was in the shape of drills on both sides and she carried a naginata that was much longer than her own body.
"H-how is she catching up to me so easily?!" the man gritted his teeth as he tried to run faster. Regardless, the girl had already caught up to him and lunged straight at him, impaling her naginata into the side of his shirt and pinning him to the floor.
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Having witnessed his companions knocked out through the rear exit, a thug rushed towards the side window and pried it open, quickly crawling through it.
"Sorry about this." A blonde boy swung down a metal pipe onto the man's back causing him to groan in pain and fall over.
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"Good job guys!" the blonde girl greeted the group.
The police had appeared after the last thug was down and started apprehending the criminals.
"Are you okay Len? I tried giving you the safest job but it seems one of them got through." the blonde girl started examining the blonde boy's body.
"Yeah, I'm fine thanks." Len reassured her.
"But you were so brave taking on that thug! You're making me fall in love with you again! Please marry me!" the blonde girl pleaded while getting down on one knee.
"Thanks for the offer, Neru. But let's just be friends." Len brushed her off nonchalantly.
"Tch" Neru clicked her tongue and got up.
"Piko that look looks great on you!" the purple haired boy patted the boy with white hair, who was now taking the ribbon out of his hair.
"Ow, stop that Gakupo. And why do I have to do this role?" Piko asked, while fixing his hair.
"Because you look the part perfectly." Neru replied as she dusted her skirt.
"What about Len?!" Piko pointed towards the blonde boy.
"I can't let my future husband dress as a girl!" Neru quickly glanced at Len who was pretending to not pay attention.
"Haa… I'm sorry I asked." Piko slumped his shoulders.
"You should dress up like that more often." Gakupo patted him again.
"I'm not going to dress like this just to please your strange fetish, Gakupo." Piko responded, scooting away from him.
"W-what? I-I don't have any strange fetish like that!" Gakupo's face lit up red.
"Shut up Gakupo! We don't want to listen to your fetishes!" the girl with twin drills kicked Gakupo in the shin.
"Ow! Teto! I keep telling you that I don't have any fetish like that!" Gakupo tried to defend himself.
"Stop talking about disgusting things in front of us innocent girls!" Meiko shouted, kicking Gakupo in the side sending him flying. "Let's go get something to eat! Gakupo is paying!" Meiko declared. With a cheer of agreement from the girls we left the warehouse.
Len POV
The alarm blared waking me from my sleep. Reaching my arm out of my futon I pressed down onto the snooze button. I tried to get up but felt something latched onto my waist.
"Good morning Neru." I pulled the covers off of me and saw Neru with her arms wrapped around my waist.
"Good morning Len. I heard boys suffered from a thing called 'morning wood' so I came to take care of it!" she spoke as if it was something obvious for her to do.
"Well sorry, after living in the same dorm as you for a year now I'm able to restrain that." I got her off and started putting my futon into the closet while Neru sat in the middle of my room. "Okay, let's go eat breakfast." Ignoring the previous incident I left the room with Neru tailing behind me. It's pretty easy ignoring Neru's assertive behavior since she's been doing it for the past 5 years.
"Morning Len! Neru!" Miku greeted us in the dining room.
"What brings you here, Miku?" I took my seat at the table as I asked.
"Auntie invited me in." the tealette replied while setting down the plates.
"Where's Obaa-san anyways?" Neru asked as she obviously sat beside me.
"She went to the big sale at the market." Miku who was the cousin of the dorm owner started putting out a couple of toasts.
"Oh, I was going to ask her about the new tenants." Neru took a bite out of a piece of toast.
"Oh right! I asked auntie about them earlier! She said they were both girls."Miku settled down on the other side of the table.
"It doesn't matter! Since none of them could beat my undying love for Len!" Neru declared with her mouth full of bread.
"Who says they're going to love me?" I questioned her but was ignored.
"You know, despite being our strategist, you sure are head over heels when it comes to Len." Miku mused as she watched Neru's enthusiasm.
"Of cou-" Neru was about to start talking about her feelings towards me so I decided to cut it.
"Well, we're probably going to be late if we eat any longer." I finished the piece of toast and stood up.
"Oh you're right." Miku stood up and helped put the dishes into the sink.
"Hmph…"
"Let's go then."
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"My name is Danchez Stephan! I am best boxer in my home country! I am here to challenge you Sakine Meiko!" a bald man with a dark tan stood on the riverside path.
"Hah, how convenient I wanted to stretch a bit." The brunette stood a few yards in front of the boxer with a smirk on her face.
"When you're ready." A boy in a school uniform stood in the center acting as the referee. "Ready… FIGHT!"
"Hup!" the boxer rushed forward, holding his arms against his chest in a defensive form. "Take this!" stretching out his right arm he aimed a right hook at her.
"Ha…" Meiko let out a sigh. "Too slow." With one swift motion her first collided square in the face of the boxer sending him barreling back and into the river.
"Victor Sakine Meiko!" the referee announced the winner followed by cheers from the people that gathered to watch, which mostly consisted of students of Karant.
"You're so amazing!"
"So beautiful and strong!"
"Please go out with me!"
The latter cry was from a female student since the guys were usually too scared of her to actually confess.
"Sure~ I'd love to go anywhere with cute girls~"Meiko had already wrapped her arm around the girl's shoulder and was lifting her chin to face herself.
"Quite the lady killer, aren't you, and so early in the morning at that." I commented as Neru, Miku and I got our way through the crowd.
"What's so wrong with a beautiful girl like me being with such cute kouhai(1)s like her?" Meiko took her arm off the girl and turned to face us.
"You're just leeching off them." I remarked.
"No I'm not. I can't help it if they offer me so many things!" she tried to justify her actions. The crowd had dispersed after they noticed Meiko's childhood friends approach.
"Ah! The girls left…" Meiko groaned as she noticed them disappear and turned towards me. "Len! You owe me a parfait!" she lunged at me and latched her arms around my neck putting me in a choke hold.
"W-why? You still have that debt you know!" I struggled against her overpowering hold but for only a moment.
"Such a nice weather we're having…" Meiko was instantly off me and was now nonchalantly walking ahead.
"Even if you do that I'm not going to forget the money you owe me."
"Eeeeeeeh. You're so stingy, Len." Meiko whined.
"Why not get a part-time job? Physical labor would probably be easy for you."
"Because it's boring!" she complained. I let out a sigh and gave up.
We continued walking along the river side towards the school and met up with Gakupo and Piko who were ahead of us.
"Yo"
"Good morning." Greeting each other briefly we continued our way to school.
"Where's Kaito?" Meiko spoke up as she looked around for the absent blunette.
"He said something about a new ice cream shop opening up at Izu." Piko recalled.
"Only Kaito." I laughed.
"How's that Ice cream-maniac even going to get all the way there?" Gakupo wondered as we left the river side and got closer to school.
"Probably hitch a ride like always." Neru, who was texting with her phone beside me, guessed.
"Well we're here now. See you later Meiko." We separated from Meiko since she was a year older than us and had to go to the upperclassman building.
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"Len! What took you guys so long?!" a pair of drills came and confronted me once I entered our class.
"Meiko had another challenger down by the river." I placed my bag on my desk.
"What?! And no one told me?!" I watched as the drills threatened to literally drill someone. Okay well no, Teto's hair wasn't going to commit murder, it just looks so menacing bouncing around like that.
"We didn't have any bread to call you out." Neru explained while setting her bag on the table next to mine. Despite the fact that her seat is 2 tables away.
"What does bread have to do with it?!" Teto began to pout.
"It's the equivalent of a dog treat for you." Neru had already taken out her phone and was texting away.
"Waaah. Miku! They're treating me like a dog!... again." Teto clung onto Miku who was taking her books out of her bag. Coincidentally all of the Vocaloid members in the 2nd year are in the same class, so it's really convenient for us.
"Don't worry about it. I'll buy you something at the bakery on our way home." She patted Teto on the head.
"A baguette?!" Teto perked up at the mention of a bakery. Attach a tail on her and it'd be wagging like crazy right now.
"Like a dog…" both Neru and I sweat dropped at the sight.
"Hey Len, have you heard about the transfer student?" a boy with red hair came up to me.
"Hey Akaito. And yeah, I did." I sat back on top of my table.
"I heard the person is foreigner!" Akaito spoke excitedly.
"Isn't almost every student in this school a foreigner?" I gave him a quizzical look curious on why he was so excited.
"Tsk tsk tsk." The red head waved his finger at me. "The person isn't JUST a foreigner, but a person with a high status as well!" he raised his arms up in exaggeration. "So it could be a princess of some far away kingdom and she could be coming here because she's in search for a worthy husband!" Akaito's eyes were sparkling brightly with hope as his mind wandered off.
"Suuure." I decided to play along.
"Okay everyone, settle down." A woman with long silver hair entered the class. Seeing her enter the entire class scurried to their desk. "I know you guys are excited about the new transfer students, but please try to not disturb the classes next door." She gave us a light scolding.
"Sorry, Miriam-sensei…" the class murmured in unison.
"Alright then, now that that's settled. You may come in." the teacher gestured towards the door.
The door slid open and revealed a tall man with blonde hair. His apparel didn't look anything like our school's uniform but more like something a military person would wear.
"Yes! I knew it'd be a guy!" a girl shouted in glee, having had made a bet with her friends a while go.
"Quite down." The teacher hushed the students and turned towards the man. "Excuse me, may I ask who you are? The paper here says the new student is a girl."
"Oh sorry." The man cleared his throat. "I am General Leon of the France army. I am the girl's father and I'm here to see her new classmates beforehand." He took a glance around the class, making most of the students tense up. "I hope everyone can be good friends with my daughter. However, if I get news that a boy approached my girl with love intentions…" he didn't finish his sentence and simply flicked his wrist and a hunting knife appeared in his hand. The message was sent perfectly to the boys, seeing that they tensed up even more.
"Can you please put the knife away?" our teacher asked in a rather kind manner, not paying any heed to the heavy atmosphere.
"Pardon me." He flicked his wrist again making the knife disappear somewhere into his sleeve.
"So where is your daughter?" Miriam-sensei leaned to the side to look behind the General.
"It seems her flight was delayed so she'll be attending school starting tomorrow. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience." He bowed his head to her.
"No no! There's nothing we can do about it, right? Then it's fine." She was flustered that someone of such high status would suddenly bow to her.
"Thank you for understanding." He raised his head. "Unfortunately I have urgent business to attend to back in France. Even though it pains me to not be able to see my beloved daughter, I'll take my leave. Excuse me." As abrupt his entrance seemed his departure was the same.
"What a nice man." The class sweat dropped at the teacher's comment.
After homeroom ended the class began bustling again with talk about the mysterious transfer student and the intimidating father.
"There goes your idea." I walked over to Akaito's desk.
"Nope, this is even more exciting!" he stood abruptly from his chair. "A relationship with a girl and a powerful father who rejects that relationship. You have to show the father how serious you are about his daughter and earn his approval!" he was swooning over his own thoughts again.
"Okay then…" I backed away from him and left him to his fantasies.
"Hey Len, you look really handsome today~" Teto came over with her arms behind her back.
"Teto, I don't have any bread." I turned to face the girl with the rather cheesy smile on her face.
"That's not it! I need to copy your notes for class!" she got straight to the point, which made me let out a sigh.
"'You know Neru's the smart one." I turned towards Neru who was sitting at the desk next to mine.
"Yeah, but she won't show me it! So I figured she'd obviously have showed you hers." She kept pressing forward towards me. It pains me to admit but I did have Neru's notes; since we made conditions that I can copy her notes as long as I don't lock the door of my dorm room. It was a price I was willing to pay.
"Do you know why she isn't showing you her notes?" I asked while turning back to Teto who was now invading my personal bubble.
"She did say something about me studying…" the pink haired girl cocked her head to the side in thought.
"And that's my answer." I pushed her away so she wasn't in my personal space anymore.
"What?! Len, pleaaaaase!" Teto reentered my bubble and started giving me the puppy dog eyes.
"Ha…" I let out a sigh and pulled on her right drill to get her away.
"Ow ow ow ow!" she yelped.
"Fine, I'll let you copy my notes. But next time you need to pay attention to class." I flicked her forehead.
"Fine…" she grumbled and snatched my notebook.
"You shouldn't spoil her like that." A pair of teal twin tails came up to my side.
"Says the person who offered to take her to a bakery." I said jokingly.
"What could I do? She just looked so adorable when she latched onto me like that!" she said dreamingly.
"You know sometimes I think you're like Meiko."
"I-I don't like girls! I just really like adorable things!" Miku got flustered.
"Yeah yeah." I chuckled and returned back to my seat.
As I took my seat at my table Neru instantly turned towards me.
"Did you switch seats again?" I was the first one to talk.
"Yeah, but that doesn't matter."
"Does to me…" I muttered but she pretended to not hear.
"What do you think about the new transfer student?" she looked me directly in the eye.
"Uhm… I wouldn't know until I've actually met the person." I replied.
"Don't go and get attached to her. You have me you know." She pointed at herself reassuringly.
"Yup, I'm really glad I have such a good friend like you around." I gave her a smile.
"Tsk." She clicked her tongue in disappointment.
She was about to continue her advances but stopped once the first bell rang, signaling the start of class. Letting out another click of her tongue she decided to give up for now. Having noticed this I turned to look forward as well, drifting into my own thoughts. 'A mysterious transfer student, huh?'
"Things are going to get interesting…"
CHAPTER E-
"Did you say something?" Neru turned to look at me.
"Huh? What? Oh no… nothing." I turned away embarrassed.
CHAPTER END
A/N – Ahahahaha~ What an ending for the first chapter! I hope you enjoyed it! Let's hope you begin waiting anxiously for my next update! And for those of you who feel like they know this story sort of, you may be right since I did use a Visual Novel to base this off of. However, I'll be doing my own spin offs and side stories.
At first I planned to continue writing and make this chapter longer, but, I'm right now writing this at 3AM and I felt like I've wrote enough. I need some criticism!... Please refrain from hurting me… mentally.
Oh, and for those of you who're wondering if there is going to be romance in this. The answer is 'Yes'. But, I'm still conflicting on how I should do the match up. Should I write this like a VN and go down a heroine's route? Writing this up to a split point and writing separate stories for each heroine?... Hm… I feel like that'll require too much work, but if I must, I'll try. If I do end up having to do this, I may need to recruit helpers to assist me.
Okay so to wrap things up! Please leave your review! Tell me if you want more of this or should I attempt to write something else?! You guys decide! Leave me that review with yooooooooour opinion. Or you can just leave me a nice comment… It'll raise my self esteem 'cause I lost that long time ago.
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(1)Kouhai - an underclassman