Vocaloid POV: Kaito Shion

On the main street that leads to the station
The couples cuddling close together, looks fun
"Hey look, it's the first snow of winter!"
I wanted to be like this with you
The first that I made
A hand knitted muffler...

2nd Song – The First Snow

Before I knew it, it became dark. The snow was already covering the ground. It looks like it's here to stay. The first snow of the winter... I've always felt that it gave off such a magical feeling... but that feeling was now blocked by a feeling of queasiness.

I push open the door of my favorite bar and walked down to my usual table and sat down. It was already occupied by two people; my sister-in-law Meiko Sakine, and Haku Yowane, a fellow drinker we met at this place.

Meiko moved aside as I sat next to her.

"Hey, hey," why do you look so miserable?" She looked with concern the way an older sister would for her younger brother.

I just sighed and ordered some drinks.

Haku had her head resting sidelong on the table and was just looking up at me.

"I saw you talking to someone at the plaza..." she said in her dreary voice.

"Kaito," Meiko took a good look at me, "Where's your scarf?" she asked, "You don't go anywhere without that thing..."

I sighed heavily. It was time to tell them... It's a surprise that I've kept it to myself for this long...

"Okay, I'mma tell you, but you have to promise that you aren't going to look at me like I have six heads..."

Meiko's pursed her lips and her eyes narrowed. Heh, as usual she has such low expectations of me.

"You fell in love with a stripper, didn't you?" she hissed.

I just sighed.

"Aww fuck!" she chugged sake from the bottle itself and slouched back in her seat.

Haku was licking the bottom of her small cup and looking aimlessly in such a daze someone would expect her to be under the influence of some very strong weed.

These are my friends... I miserably thought...

"No, no... Mei, it's not that. Seriously, I'm beginning to get worried about your opinion of me," I gave her an apprehensive look, and then proceeded to pour myself my own drink picking from one of the five bottles that rested on the table.

And to think, there are people who imagine only men to be heavy drinkers...

"Then what's your story?" Meiko slurred, "I swear if you made a girl cry, I'm gonna grab you by the neck and tombstone you to the ground!"

"Hai, hai..." I replied nervously raising my two hands to show her my honesty, "It's not as bad as you imagine... I think..." I sighed again. I'm starting to remember why I wanted to keep this to myself in the first place...

Well, this is about two months ago, October, on Halloween. There was that Halloween party we went together Mei, remember?

Yeah...

I decided to go walking, since I didn't have money for a taxi. I was dressed like a police officer and just made my way on my own. I tugged and loosened the scarf around my neck... Ugh... My memory of that night was blurry. I could remember seeing her crying by herself on the corner of the street. She wasn't dressed in any costume at all.

Perhaps I was too drunk.

Perhaps it didn't look the way I saw it.

But it doesn't matter does it? Because that's how I saw it...

I saw her, crying with her hands pressed against her chest. She had hair up in pigtails, two long tails of green turquoise, flowing around her. It seemed surreal. Such frail frame surrounded by this haunting color. It wasn't exactly blue, nor was it green. It looked more green to me that night, as she cried.

I decide to walk up to her and I tripped over my own scarf and fell face-first into the sidewalk concrete.

She stopped weeping and ran up to me.

I could hear hear her calling out to me. Asking me if I was alright.

But I couldn't remember what I was saying. What she was saying. I just remembered seeing how her lips moved. I remember liking the sound of her voice.

So I smiled...

I paused in my story because I wasn't hearing anything from the both of them. When I looked up from my concentration I saw Haku who sat across of me with both hands holding up her head listening intently and Meiko shoved me harshly.

"Don't stop! What happened next?" she chastised.

My eyes went wide.

I wonder, was it weird for me to act the way I did? I was drunk that night after all... but it made me wonder. I've never been fascinated in a woman that wasn't in a sexual matter. When I looked at her... All I could recall was how beautiful she looked to me...

I took another drink from my cup.

When I came to, it was in a large room on a white sheeted bed with mahogany floors. White sheets and everything was plain black chic. The windows were covered by transparent white curtains. I slowly sat up and ran my fingers through my hair.

I had a raging headache that didn't let me see clearly. I look to my left and there was a small wheelie tray stand with aspirin and seltzer water. I didn't take it. I was confused on how I ended up there. But mostly I wondered about the woman I saw yesterday. I was getting ready to slip out of bed when someone walked in.

It wasn't her. It was another woman. Taller and more well endowed. I'm talking like D cups at least...

Oi! Mei, don't hit me!

Ahem... so, her hair was bubble gum pink and flowed down past her waist but not as long. For some strange reason, it reminded me like of the tentacles of an octopus or a squid... donno.

"Good morning, my name is Megurine Luka," she spoke with tact and poise. Right away I knew from her rather cold indifferent stare that she was a person of few words.

"H-hey..." I winced as I felt the pound in my head become more acute.

"There is medication, to ease your hangover,"

"O-okay... how... did I end up here?" I lean over and throw the aspirin in my mouth and swallow it with the water. I cover my eyes with my hand as I rested my elbow on the stand.

"You were picked up by the mistress of this household," She explained rather flatly.

"Mistress?" I lifted my head, failing to hide my interest.

"Luka? Is he awake?"

I look towards the door and I saw her enter. I realized then that I wasn't dreaming, but her hair under the morning sun now looked more blue than green. She wore a white baby doll top with blue short jeans and slippers. Her long hair done up in her usual pigtails.

"Yes, but I must warn you, you shouldn't go and pick up drunk men on the street."

"Gomen-nee, Luka, honest this will be the last time," I saw her smile sweetly and I couldn't help but smile. But that moment this Luka gave me a venomous look that almost instantly wiped the smile off my face. I chucked my head down and stared at my lap feeling like a little boy chastised at school.

"Luka! Don't be mean to him, he didn't do anything to deserve it," she then turned her attention to me.

"Hello, how are you feeling?" she asked.

I felt so fidgty, I rubbed my hand at the back of my head and tried my best to play it casual. But I was hung over. I was doomed to look like an idiot.

"Kaito uh, wait. Uh. Yeah, Ka—no... I mean..." I stopped and she started laughing.

I looked up at her and started to laugh as well.

"I mean to say, I'm fine. And that my name is Shion Kaito. I couldn't get the words right, at first." I smiled nervously.

"Oh that's okay," she sat at the end of the bed. There was considerable distance between us.

"My name is Hatsune Miku."

She looked much younger than how I saw her the night before, but I didn't think too much into it.

"So I can assume you where the one who picked me up last night?" I chimed. I tried to flash her a flirty smile, but I felt my head hammer the side of my skull and whined.

"You okay?" Her voice was feathery and light. A very soothing pleasant sound.
"Ah ahha... it's alright. This is what happens when you take a whole bottle of vodka to yourself," I joked.

But I was serious. I took a whole bottle and I drank it. Like a boss. Well anyways getting back...

"You shouldn't do that, it's not good to drink to get drunk..."

"I normally don't like to get roaring drunk, but it feels good sometimes..." I chuckled, "I just hate the hangovers."

"It's a reminder of what you shouldn't do," she giggled.

"Hahh.. well, have you ever gotten drunk?"

"No, I don't drink," she chirped.

"Oh really?" I blinked, I took a good look at her and considered on asking her for her age. But then I decided not to... I was afraid of the answer. Instead in that moment we stared at each other.

She crawled on to the bed until she was up to me and took a closer look at my face. At this point when she did so Luka was outside of the room. I never noticed when she left. And I was nervously imagining that she was somewhere out there spying on me.

I couldn't understand why I felt that way...

"Do I have something on my face?" I asked her.

"Your eyes are so blue... It's the same as you're hair..." she whispered.

"And so are yours..." I replied.

I felt like she grabbed my heart and she was squeezing it. I had this urge of just kissing her.

Okay, okay fine... alright Meiko shut up... please can I continue? No Haku, I didn't kiss her.

Instead, I just turned my head away and insisted that I needed to leave.

"Come and visit me," she said earnestly.

I stuffed my hands in my pockets, "Why?" I asked. I was at a lost for why she suddenly said so.

"Because you promised."

"Eh?"

I saw her pout and her eyes waver, "You didn't forget, did you?"

"Eh, eh, eh?" I looked around as a sweat started to build on the back of my head. I quickly began to piece parts of last night in my head.

She talked to me.

And I replied.

We were talking, after I fell to the ground... but the thing is, I don't remember what I had said. But I don't want to look bad. I wanted to impress her. I wanted her to like me.

"Sure! Why would I forget?" I grinned.

And then she smiled. It was a smile that showed a desperate longing. Like she needed to hear those words.

What the hell did I promise her?

I stopped and drank some more.

"Did you eventually ask her what was the promise?" Meiko asked.

I slowly shook my head, "No, instead, I kept seeing her. Spending time with her."

Haku tugged my sleeve, "Ne, nee... did you ever kiss her? Take her to your place, did you fuck?"

"No, no, heck no! I can't," I roughly chugged another cup. I was starting to feel the liquor get to me.

"Well," Meiko leaned back on her seat, "I haven't heard the BUT in this story," She looked me in the eye, "How old is she, Kaito?"

I drop my head to the table, just because I felt like shit. I didn't want to tell her... because I knew what she was going to say.

"She's sixteen..."

"You disgust me." Meiko tilted her head back as she emptied the rest of her bottle in her mouth.

"Meiiiii... don't look at me like that! Oh please! I didn't do anything with her! Honest! We just became friends..." I heavily sighed. Now it was my head resting on the table instead of Haku's.

"So why is your scarf gone?" she asked.

"And why were you talking to her in the plaza?" Haku added.

"I met with her today, to tell her that I didn't want to see her again," I said rather slowly. The words sounded strange coming out of my mouth, "She was cold, and it started to snow, so I gave her my scarf..." I felt my eyes water.

I didn't hear Mei or Haku say anything to me.

"She was upset. She said that I was important to her, she wondered if it was her fault..." My vision blurred, "I told her that I was going to text her... even though I don't ever plan on doing so... she looked so happy..." I couldn't talk anymore.

My chest heaved in a sob. I started to cry.

It was the alcohol. I always get emotional when I drink.

But I'm glad it was done in front of them. Could you imagine? A twenty-six year old man, crying over a teenager? It's pathetic, really...

END CHAPTER

Chapter 3 Preview

Cold, it was so fucking cold. Shit. I rubbed my gloved hands together. Music blasted from my headphones, it colored the world with a rocking melody. The walking pedestrians looked like they hopped to the beat. The cars the lights, everything flashed with vivid pulsing sound.

I adjusted the hoodie over my head as I brushed snow off my jacket. It's been snowing for a second day in a row, and school was tomorrow. I wasn't looking forward to it. But then again, I wasn't looking forward to getting home either...

I get to the skate park. And I saw some people hanging about. Some kids with boards sliding down shit. I looked about notice some of them stare.