Thump-zap. Thump-zap.

It was the first time he heart his kokoro beat. His kokoro kept at this rhythm. He was still asleep. No, asleep was not the word. He was still... Adrift. Consciously, he was very wide awake. However, he was not used to his surroundings. Or even his own self.

"Is he awake?"

"No, he isn't."

"He... He doesn't look alright."

"Nah, it's fine. I've seen this happen to each of you all."

"Okay..."

"But I can't wait much longer..."

"Be patient. Wait, no-"

THWAP!

Len opened his eyes, feeling dizzy. Slowly, he forced himself to sit upright on the ground. His hand scraped the newly-cemented floor. He did not know what he was doing there in the first place. Where exactly was he? He saw endless rows of red-roofed bungalows. In between every two rows was a road. The sky was clear sky-blue. He nearly got blinded by the bright sun. He quickly averted his eyes away. Instead, he looked around him.

Crouching at his side was a teal-haired girl with a huge fringe and very, very long pigtails. Her green-blue eyes bore into his... What? Blue eyes?

"Are you okay?" she anxiously addressed him.

Was he okay? Maybe not. He did not feel very comfortable as his head throbbed.

"I... I'm alright. Thanks," He told her, hearing his own voice for the first time. It sounded quite high and soft, like a girl's, but still boyish.

The teal-haired girl let out a sigh of relief. He caught breathe of vegetables. Did this girl just have her lunch?

As she stood up, he saw that she wore a grey sleeveless shirt with a dark blue tie, which clung onto her shirt with two bold black clips. She was wearing a skirt, too. It was way too short. However, she had on a mega long pair of shiny boots, black, to match her skirt.

She turned to talk to another girl next to her.

"He's alright," she told her.

Her companion was a brunette. She seemed older than the teal-haired girl and had shorter hair. She was wearing a rather tight vest and a short skirt, like the teal-haired girl's, but they were more tight-fitting than hers. Well, she looked quite menacing.

"Good," the brunette told the teal-haired girl. "Get Rin."

Rin?

"Oh, he's up!"

Who was that?

Len turned his head to his other side, only to be taken aback by a mop of dark blue hair.

"I'm Kaito." he introduced himself.

Well, at least this guy had some manners. He looked a bit... retro-ish though. What was with that long, scarf with that weird looking coat and those long-but-still-a-bit-short pants?

Kaito stood up and offered to pick Len up. That proved a little insulting, seeing that Len was also a guy. However, he was so feeble that he trembled when he tried standing up. So Kaito voluntarily picked him up and carried him inside. Inside where? Inside the house where Crypton's vocaloids live in together.

Len did not know what exactly was happening. He did not even know how he came to end up at the entrance of this house, let alone realise that he was a vocaloid. As he was carried in Kaito's sturdy arms inside the house, he spotted a flash of light yellow running down the empty hallway.

"Len!"

She was talking to him. How did she even know his name? Then he suddenly felt that she knew all about him inside out. Somehow, despite not knowing any of the other's names, he knew this one right from his heart.

"Rin?"

"Finally! You're awake."

Was he asleep or something? He let that comment pass.

She took his hand. He could feel her hand tingling with excitement.

"Come on, let's check out our room!"

What room?

She tugged too excitedly at his hand, causing him to fall out of Kaito's arms and tumble onto the ground.

Ouch.

In an instant, Rin pulled him up and started to drag him down the hallway. Usually, it will hurt being yanked up by somebody and then being dragged around. Amazingly, Len did not feel anything. It was as though he was a piece of plastic.

"Wait, wait, wait," he told her. "Where... Exactly are we doing here?"

Startled, she dropped his hand.

"What are we doing here?" she echoed. "Why, don't you know, Len?"

How did he even know what his name was in the first place? His name, although he never had the chance to get to know his name, it already came to him as a second nature.

The puzzled look on his face proved her right.

"Len," she told him kindly. "We are the Kagamines."

"Yeah, I know our names."

"Then do you know what we are?"

"Uh... No?"

"What? He doesn't know who he is?" thundered the brunette from behind.

Len jumped. Literally jumped. Yep, she was definitely menacing.

"Dear Len," she said to him, turning him around to face her. "You are a vocaloid."

Oh... So that was what he was.

"Wait... I'm a what?"

But he was not very sure.

"A vocaloid. We are synthesizers programmed to sing songs composed by people."

"By people? Then, we're not people?"

"Technically, no," piped up the teal-haired girl from behind. "But that doesn't stop us from being like them."

This was... Weird...

"Look, I say we give them both a break first. They can ask us whatever they want during dinner," suggested Kaito.

Dinner. They take dinners. Okay, that's people-like. Besides, Len's tummy felt dull and empty inside. He would not mind something to fill it up.

The brunette and the teal-haired girl agreed and let him and Rin settle themselves in their room. Len followed Rin up the stairs. They did not have any luggage. All they had with them was a set of clothes which they were wearing.

Rin stopped at an orange door and opened it. She enthusiastically stepped in.

"Oh wow!" she cried.

Stepping in after her, Len entered the room which they both would be sharing in this household. It was just the right size. They had a little balcony outside with glass doors. The room was divided into two parts. They looked like mirror images; a coincidence it was. However, one half of the room was orange while the other, yellow. Each side had a bedside table with a lamp on top, a single sized bed, a rug, two boxes for storage and a wardrobe. Why would they have so much storage space, considering the fact they did not have anything with them? The only thing they owned was whatever that they were wearing. So what was there 'to settle down' about?

Immediately, Rin flung herself onto the orange bed and jumped up and down.

"Come jump with me, Len!" she called out to him.

Instead, he walked over to his side of the room (he did not have much of a choice anyway) and sat down on his bed. He looked to his side. They even had alarm clocks.

He crossed his legs on his bed and just looked at Rin scurrying about her half of the room, opening drawers and boxes. She looked ecstatic. He probably would, too, if he knew what he was doing here.

"Check this out!"

Rin shut the door of her empty wardrobe and stood still for a moment. Then she opened it again and took out a dress. It was a pretty dress. It had such pretty frills and lots of puffs from the waist down. It was fit for a queen.

"Oh! So pretty!"

She hugged the dress to her chest and turned around to face Len.

"Why don't you try getting some clothes?" she asked him.

Although he never saw or met Rin before, he could easily recognise her anywhere (seeing that she looked like him somehow, but still).

"Okay." he resented, getting off his bed.

He walked towards the wardrobe. Rin did not tell him how she did it, but he could hear her telling him in his head how to do it. He just had to think about what he wanted to wear and open the door. And so he did, taking out a plain top and a pair of jeans from the wardrobe. How did he even hear Rin inside his head? Was that normal?

Without a word, he changed out of... Hm, what was he wearing in the first place? The wardrobe door had a full-length mirror. He stood in front of it. He was very yellow. He had yellow hair with a big fringe. His hair was tied up at the back of his head. He had big, bright blue eyes. Sticking out his tongue, it was reddish-pink (he had nice white teeth, thankfully). His eyebrows were even yellow. And his nails, well, he saw Kaito's nails painted in the same colour of his hair, but it did not occur to him that he also had his nails painted yellow. It did not look as though they had been painted, though, they were natural. Okay, that's a bit girly... But if Kaito had them, fine.

He donned on clothes similar to Rin (must be something about that mirror-image thing). However, instead of short sleeves, he had sleeves (they are a bit puffy) with a cape tied around his neck. He had a tie, unlike Rin's bow. His pants were longer than Rin's, stopping at his knees. He had detached black arm sleeves from his elbow down (Just like Rin and the teal-haired girl's, he recalled) and also from his knee down. He was wearing shiny white shoes. He suddenly imagined himself wearing Neko ears (I look like a cat). That was pretty much it. The detached sleeves were odd, but he would get used to them soon. However, there were some details which struck him.

On his arm sleeves were buttons, switches, speakers, and lights. They seemed to be embedded permanently on them. They did not look like they were for aesthetic purposes.

Len randomly turned a knob and felt a jolt of energy traveling to his chest.

"Oh!" he gasped, then he stared at himself in the mirror.

He sounded lower.

"Uh..."

Okay, that was interesting. He turned the knob the other way round, testing his voice out as it did so. He got even higher as he turned the knob.

"Squeeee!"

Now he did sound like a cat.

Okay, enough of that. He adjusted back to his default voice. Next, he punched one of the buttons. ZZP, another jolt of energy. It did not hurt much; it kind of tickled. He said a word.

"HiiiiiI."

So this button was for intonation of the words.

"HIIIiii."

"HiiIIIii."

"What are you doing, Len?"

He punched the button back to the original and whisked around. Rin had been to the bathroom and was wearing that dress.

"Testing out these," he frankly told her, lifting up his arm.

"Oh. Cool. What does it do?"

"It changes how your voice sounds like."

"Wow! I want to try!"

She stood next to him and lifted up her right arm.

"How do you do it?"

Len shrugged and walked away to the bathroom, telling Rin how he did it his head.

Turn the knob on your left arm clockwise to get a higher pitch.

Okay.

And anti-clockwise to get a lower pitch.

Got it!

Then the button next to it changes the way you speak a word.

OKay i GOT It.

By then, Len had changed into his new clothes. As he left the bathroom, he dropped his laundry into a tube where it vanished. He would probably get them back later somewhere. He was not too worried about that.

He was only worried about what will come during dinner.