KAITO
DISCLAIMER: Vocaloid doesn't belong to me, and likely never will. That doesn't stop me from being a complete fantard for it, though.
A lot of people probably won't like this idea, but I just thought it up and ran with it (which seems to be the way most of my stories start :3). So, apologies!
What do you do when you wake up one day and someone unfamiliar is standing on your doorstep?
Katie let out a tired yawn as she shuffled over to the door, having been awakened a few minutes before by the gentle ding of the doorbell. Her lethargic brain asked several questions along the lines of "who's up this early?", "who's visiting this early?", and "why the hell am I still awake?" Nevertheless, she opened the door, dressed in her blue pajamas and a white bathrobe she'd flung on for the sake of doing so, and simply stood and stared.
The visitor glanced up as soon as he heard the creak of the door. While Katie's disheveled brown hair hung limply in her face, half-hiding her teal eyes, the stranger's bright blue hair was tousled by the wind just enough to add to his appearance, and his eyes (exactly the same shade, she noted) had a hint of good humor.. and desperation. His white jacket was marked with blue near the neck and on the hem of his sleeves, coupled with a yellow stripe cutting the sleeve-stripe in half around. A blue muffler was draped around his shoulders and looked like he'd never taken it off in his life, yet was somehow not dirty.
In short, he looked "straight out of the animes".
"Um.. hello." Katie bit her lip. Inwardly, her thoughts screamed at each other to be heard over the din they created. "Oh my god, what if he's going to kill me?" "Go call for Daniel, now!" "Maybe he's just a lost hobo-" "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD-" She shut her eyes tight for a moment, then gave herself a small shake and tried to smile at the visitor.
"Ohaiyo." Oh wow, he was even Japanese. Sure, anyone could just walk up and speak Japanese (or try to), but he definitely had the accent down. Once again, "straight out of the animes".
"Uh... who are you?" She glanced over her shoulder. Nope, Daniel wasn't awake yet. Goddamnit, if he started speaking Japanese-
"Boku wa Kaito," he introduced himself. Katie bit back a torrent of swearwords. Great, she didn't know Japanese! And the person who did know was still asleep. And she doubted that trying to speak in Spanish to him would help the situation. Well, it was worth a shot.
"Sorry, I.. I don't speak Japanese," she shyly explained. "Do you.. uh.. do you speak English? ..Habla es Espanol?" Her cheeks flushed red as he chuckled at her. Goddamnit it was too early to be doing this. "Stay right here," she snapped, then turned on her heel and stamped inside. "DANIEL! Wake up! Someone's at the door for you, and I'm going back to sleep!"
As it turned out, the "going back to sleep" part of that plan didn't work out. Daniel walked back in after a few minutes, smiling. Much to her annoyance, the blue-haired guy followed him. Katie let out a small sigh and flopped over on her bed. "So.. what's his story?"
"He's lost and needs a place to stay," Daniel explained, sitting down next to her. "He got kicked out of his old one.." Katie caught the visitor nodding in response to his words.
"Where's he from?"
"Hokkaido."
"Seriously?" She sat up. "I mean, it's sort of obvious, but.. really? What's someone from there doing all the way over here?"
"Said he was a singer."
"Is he famous?" Katie propped herself up on one arm. Daniel glanced at the newcomer, who merely shrugged in reply. "So he just.. came over here to do a gig, a concert, whatever, and got stuck? Can't get back, and he got kicked out of where he was staying before?"
"Yeah." Daniel sighed.
Katie stood up.
"Hey." She walked over to the blue-haired singer and looked up at him with a smile. "What's your name again?"
"Kaito." He said it a bit hesitantly, then looked away. Odd. He hadn't seemed shy earlier.. unless there was something else going on?
"Well, I'm Katie." She held out her hand and, to her surprise, he shook it. "You can stay here however long you need to, okay?"
Kaito smiled. Later, Katie would wonder if she regretted making that decision, but at the time she'd just been extending a helping hand to someone who desperately needed it.
Who would've expected all the stuff that came afterward, after all?
