Disclaimer: I do not own Vocaloid and Utauloid. This story is inspired by Hojo-sama so if you like this story, then all credits are for her. But, if it is not very good, then I am the one to blame.
Ten years has passed, I have been taking care of Hatsune-san since then. Her father does not have much time to stay at home and spends some quality time with his family because of his work. But he can still stay at home for a whole day in some occasion.
Hatsune-san has turned into a fine young lady. Hatsune-san has grown. Her height has surpass me but her weight is still five kilos more light. Her skin is still as pale as when I met her at the hospital and as soft as baby's skin. She lets her hair grows until it's length is the same as her. But it does not gets in her way because Hatsune-san's hair is always tied in high pig tails and her hair is twin braided when she goes to bed. Most of her facial appearance is still the same but her body figure changes. Now her waist look so small because of her hips.
Even tough her appearance has changed, her behavior has not. She is still very childish. I am like that too so I do not have the right to judge. But I still want her to grow up a little.
Hatsune-san has been training her voice. She has a tutor to teach her the ways of singing. She can sing high note perfectly but her voice range is still not wide enough. She has also created some cute song like Hajimete no Oto, Electric Angel, and PoPiPo. All of those songs shows how much she loves singing.
Hatsune-san needs to go to the hospital in the 24th and she stays there until the 26th of every month because of her weak heart. If there is an important exam coming up on those date, then it would be before the original date.
Right now, all of us are at an airport. Mikuo-san and brother are going to America. Hatsune-san, Megurine-san, and me are going back to my home so we could go to the
Mikuo-san is so smart that he has been accelerated a couple of times. Now, he is going to America for college. My brother is coming too. He is not as smart as Mikuo-san but his grades are enough to accelerate with Mikuo-san.
"Bye, Mikuo. Don't forget to come back and visit when you have the time."
"I've been calling you Little Sis all my life. Aren't you going to pay it back by calling me Brother or something?" Hatsune-san pouted and look away.
"Come on now, your plane is already here, Mikuo." Hatsune-san's father said.
"Okay dad, bye everyone, take care of Little Sis for me, Momo." Mikuo-san was going to walk away but Hatsune-san stopped him by holding his sleeve.
"Bye... Brother." Hatsune-san lets go of his sleeve and Mikuo-san patted her head before going away.
"That was such a cute scene Miku." Megurine-san said.
She is Luka Megurine-san, a student from Vocaloid. Actually, she is now the best student in Vocaloid. She has beautiful voice, looks, and appearance. She heard Hatsune-san's singing voice in new year. She introduced her self and wants Miku to come with her to Vocaloid academy.
Our plane arrived a little after Mikuo-san's. We said our good byes and hurrily walk to our plane. I make Hatsune-san comfortable while she is having a conversation.
"You do know that it is easier to go to Vocaloid by recommendation from a member of the academy, right?" Megurine-san asked.
There are two ways to get accepted in Vocaloid academy. The first way is quite complicated. It is by recommendation. If someone under the age of twenty three got a recommendation from a member of Vocaloid academy then he or she will immediately got accepted into the academy but he or she will still has to take care of some things. That is why Vocaloid academy members rarely go out around this time of year. While the second way is to go to Utauloid, after one month, Utauloid would held an exam for those who wants to go to Vocaloid.
"But what if I ruin the chance of other students from Utaloid academy to get accepted?"
The maximum capacity of Vocaloid academy is twenty students per generation. So, the number of students that got accepted from Utauloid will be decreased if the number of students that got accepted by recommendation increase.
"Even if you go to Utauloid, you would still get accepted. If you go by my recommendation, you would be able to meet the other recommended students like the Kagamine twins, I'm sure you'll get along with them."
"It's just that, I want to see the other competitors."
The flight went on smoothly. Hatsune-san and. Megurine-san keep on talking about Vocaloid school. My ears are getting a little bit tired from listening to their conversation. I am glad that Hatsune-san has found someone to talk to. But I wish that she would stop talking for a minute. Ah, they stopped talking.
Megurine-san is waiting for a bus at a bus stop. "I need to go now, Miku. Momo, take care of Miku, alright?"
I nodded. They would always says the same thing. Will anyone acknowledge me as a normal person?
"Well Mo-chan, let's go to your old house." Hatsune-san said as she starts to walk.
We are living in my house because it is closer to the school and the neighborhood is quieter. My uncle decided to not sell the house because he thought it would be useful for something in the future. The out side of my house has not change one bit.
The front gate is quite tall, about two meters, it is to keep burglars away. The tall walls cover my house so my house can not be seen from the outside. There is a sign on the front gate that says 'Momone Residence'.
Hatsune-san was amazed when she saw me open the gate by myself. I was shock with the view that is in front of me. The soil in front of the garden is ruined. The house wall has lost it's color and it is now very dirty. Some of the windows are broken and some are filled with fungus. The door is barely a door anymore. The roof are still good but it still needs to be checked.
"What happened in here?" I ask. Hatsune-san seemed to be shocked and confused.
At least the house is still standing. I can change the windows and paint the wall. But the soil, it will take months or maybe years for the soil to be the way it was before. The roof, I think I can just ask brother how to fix a roof.
If the outside of the house is already this bad, I do not think I want to know what the inside looks like. What if there are cockroaches? My body is shaking. How am I going to deal with the cockroaches?
We walked inside the house. It was no better than the outside. Everything, including the air, is filled with dust. Some of the floors need to be changed. The stairs can still stands. The inside wall has some scratches but it is still good.
Uncle has taken all of the furniture away ten years ago. Hatsune-san and I can just ask for the furniture because Hatsune-san's father has already taken care of them a couple weeks ago. Uncle has taken care of the electricity and water too, so we could just use the house after it is cleaned. I need to thank both of them later.
Now, to take care of the rooms. I have already asked Hatsune-san, she said she would prefer a shared room. We would also need a kitchen, a bathroom, a dining room, a living room, and a place to do the laundry. So we only need six rooms but that does not even cover half of the house and a laundry room will not use much space. The first floor has eight big rooms while the second floor has fourteen rooms. The rooms on the second floor are about half of the rooms on the second floor.
Most of the rooms on the second floor are my father's private rooms. He always change his hobbies. When he likes doing something, he would lock him self in a room for the whole day. When he is done, the room he just used would be a mess. Mother never complained about it tough, she said that father can lock himself in a room whenever he want, as long as he does not try to do suicide.
There is nothing here for me to use. I can not clean anything until uncle comes with the furniture. It is still only one in the afternoon. Uncle said that he will come at two. Maybe we should get something to eat and walk around the neighborhood a little to pass the time.
"Hatsune-san, what do you want for lunch? We could buy some,"
"Ice cream!" Hatsune-san said immediately. She has been wanting ice cream for a couple of days. It is still cold around here because it is only a day after new year.
"Okay, let's buy it in the small store behind this house."
The store does not have many customers because there are very few houses around here. We walked into the store. "Good afternoon. Oh, I have never seen you two around here before." The cashier said. He must have been working in this store for a while because he could memorize the faces of the people around here.
"We've just moved to the house behind this store. I'm Hatsune Miku, nice to meet you."
"Welcome to the neighborhood, Hatsune-chan. What are you going to buy?"
"Ice cream!"
"You can find it on the corner over there."
"Thank you, Cashier-san."
Hatsune-san can make friends with people older than her easily. She seems very happy when she saw all of those ice cream. She picked a vanilla flavored ice cream. I can not find a strawberry flavored ice cream. I really want strawberry flavored ice cream now. It reminds me of my brother. We walk back to the cashier.
A blue haired boy has just finished paying. He has yellow eyes and he wears a monocle. His face shows that he is about Hatsune-san's age. He wears a butler suit. He holds a bag of plastic in one hand and a black coat in the other. His posture is very straight. I feel like I know him from somewhere.
My face feels warm. My stomach feels like there is a butterfly in it. My heart beat is racing. What is this feeling?
"Momone-chan, why didn't you buy any ice cream?" The cashier asked.
"E-eh? W-well, it is just t-that the s-strawberry flavored ice cream is s-sold out."
"Excuse me," The blue haired boy touched my shoulder. I turned to face the blue haired boy. My, he is tall. Maybe he is a senior. Will he go to Utauloid too? "I would be very happy to give Miss Momone my strawberry flavored ice cream."
Eh? How did he knows my name. Well, maybe Cashier-san told him. But, why is he giving me his ice cream? I want to accept but I barely even know him. "B-but, it is yours."
"It is okay, it can be considered as a present. Miss Momone have just moved to the house behind this store, am I right?" He asked as he took the strawberry ice cream out of the plastic bag. He is offering his ice cream to me.
"Y-yeah." I hesitatingly move my hand to reach the ice cream. When our hands touched, I felt a spark. The spark is flowing through our hands very quickly. I grabbed the ice cream. The boy bows before he leaves. Wait, I have not asked his name. How clumsy of me.
"He's Taya Shion, the younger brother of Kaito Shion. He comes here everyday and he would always buys a couple of ice cream. You, my friend, is the first customer here that has ever gotten a gift from him. Oh, and you also need to know that he knows your name from me. So don't go thinking that he knows your name because you guys are fated to be together or something." The cashier said. It is as if he has met lots of girls like me.
"Does it happens often?" Maybe Shion-san was just treating me like how he treats the other girls. I should not get so excited.
"Well, he knows every customer that comes here almost as well as I do. He would always asks the name of new customers and introduce him self politely. Most girls doesn't listens to me and said that it's fate or something alike."
Oh, so I am just like the others. What was I thinking? There is just no way that anyone would take an interest to someone in just one meeting. Besides, he probably already have someone he would spend the rest of his live with.
I blushed at my own thought.
I fantasize too much. He is still very young, there is no way that he would have a fiance. A girlfriend is much more suitable for any boy around his age. Tch! Memories from when I was a child is coming back to me.
Cashier-san looks like he notice the unhappiness inside me. "Don't worry, you're the only one he gives a present to. You still have a chance to catch your crush." He said to cheer me up. I smiled at him. That was not exactly what I was thinking but his words lightened my heart.
"Mo-chan likes someone?" Hatsune-san said suddenly with a high voice. I do not think she understands the situation. "Who is it, Mo-chan?" Hatsune-san's face shows her curiosity.
"Let's just walk around the neighborhood so we would not waste any more time. The faster we get out, the faster we can eat our ice cream, Hatsune-san." I open the door for her. I realized that I have forgotten to do something just when I was about to close the door. I walk back to the store and into the front of the cashier. "Thank you very much for your help, Cashier-san." I said as I bowed to him.
"Al,"
"Huh?"
"My name is Big Al, just call me Al." I smiled at him.
"Well, I must get going, Al-san. I can not let my friend wait for too long." I bowed once more before going to the door.
"You know," I stopped right in front of the door to let him finish what he wanted to say. "There aren't many female that's like you and Hatsune-chan. Especially Hatsune-san, she seems unique for some reasons. Take care of her."
I smiled to my self. My smile is not because of happiness. Instead, it is from the effort of hiding my negative feelings. Being with Hatsune-san makes me hide my negative emotion. Most of my fears has gone so Hatsune-san would not have any fear. I would always hold back my tears and anger if I am in front of her.
Hatsune-san and I are eating our ice cream while walking around the neighborhood. We need to understand what is around us so we could plan our activity better.
There are not a lot of stores around here. There are only a DVD rental and a fruit store around here. The market is quite far from here that means we can not go shopping everyday, it would waste a lot of energy, we have to do it weekly.
There is also a garden that is filled with sakura trees around here. It is quite wide so it is probably very crowded here when the sakura trees are in full bloom. Hatsune-san seems pretty excited. She said that she wants to see the sakura trees when it is in full bloom.
Hatsune-san is always excited about everything. Seasons and weather does not stopped her to be happy. I kind of envy her. But, always being happy and never experience hurt. It seems fake. Is Hatsune-san hiding something from me? If she is, then I would need to know about it as soon as possible. I do not know what I would do if she was actually hiding her emotions. It could cause some horrible things. I hope I could stop that from happening.
A crowd of girls is passing by. Jugging from their looks, they are about Hatsune-san's age. I can understand why Hatsune-san stopped going to a normal school and starts home schooling. If there are lots of girls like this then even I could loose my patience.
Those girls look like they are surrounding something...or someone. Shion-san! Should I call out to him? No, it would attracts lots of attention. Maybe I should just stay quite. I do not think that calling out to a person that you have just meet once is proper. I waited for the crowd to pass by sitting on a side of a tree that can not be seen by the crowds. I can not even have a simple conversation because of their loud voice.
They really took their time. I have waited until I have eaten all my ice cream. Even tough I have eaten my ice cream as slow as possible. Maybe I should just ask them to leave. But, that would be rude. This is public property so I can not just ask them to leave.
"Mou, I can't bare their voice anymore! Mo-chan, let's just go back. I'm sick of those girls." I am very amazed of those crowd. They could even annoy Hatsune-san. Hatsune-san would usually be very patient with people other than her family. I guess her suggestion is right. There is no use in waiting for an unmoving crowd to leave. And the coldness of the winter is not very nice to our health. Besides, uncle should be in our house right about now.
We stand up and dust our self from the snow.
"Achoo!" Hatsune-san sneezed. Well, I do not think that I should blame it all on the crowd. Hatsune-san is only wearing a long sleeve grey jacket, a light blue mini skirt, a pair of stockings, and a pair of boots. Not to mention that she has just eaten ice cream. I should be more strict to her. I can not let her do as she pleases, she will surely dies if this continues.
I cover Hatsune-san's body with my dark green coat and her neck with my muffler. All that is left on me is my long sleeve blouse, my knee length skirt, a pair of socks, and a pair of shoes. At least Hatsune-san is warm, I do not want her to catch a cold in her first day here.
When we walk out of the garden. I saw the crowd still standing and talking on the sides of the street. Are they not tired of standing? Ah, Shion-san, he is smiling while looking at my direction. I wonder who he is smiling to.
I turn my head to see the person he is smiling too. Ouch. I did not notice my change of walking direction. I have to the direction of a pole. I fell to the ground. It hurts. My nose hurts.
The crowd is suddenly quiet. I can only hear the footsteps of the person that is coming because I shut my eyes close while rubbing my nose. I felt a hand touches my cheek. I open my eyes to see Soune-san is sitting right in front of me.
"My apologies for
"A-ah i-it is alright. I-I was clumsy." Shion-san offers me his hand. I accepted it. I do not know when but the girls from the previous crowd has gathered around me and Shion-san and they do not look like they like seeing me holding Shion-san's hand. I let go of his hand the second I can stand straight again.
There is one girl. She has purple eyes and hair. She seems calm but her eyes send chills to my spine. I can not look at her directly more than five seconds. I so not want to have any connection with this girl. But, for some reasons, I felt like this is not the last time I have to meet her.
A cloth is hugging my neck. It is Shion-san's muffler. The muffler's warmth comforts my neck. My neck slowly gets warmer. "W-what about y-you?"
"I can not let a girl wanders around without any warm cloth to protect her from the coldness of winter."
"T-thank you." I stare at his eyes. His yellow eyes make my chest tighten and my heart beat running.
"Mo-chan! Where are you?" Hatsune-san is searching for me in the garden. I do not think she knew I hit a pole.
"Ah, thank you again." I bow and try my best to walk pass the crowd. "Hatsune-san, I am over here!" I called out to Hatsune-san. She walked over me and notice the scarf I am wearing. I cut her before she could say a thing, "Uncle is waiting for us. We can not waste anymore time." I know that I am the one to blame but I do not want her to ask me any question that is related to Shion-san. Because then, I would remember the purple girl again.
I was right. Uncle is waiting for us. He started fixing the house while waiting for us with about twenty men. My aunt and grandmother is here too. My aunt would take care of the cleaning. She could clean really fast because she used to be a cleaning lady in a hotel a couple years ago but stopped when my uncle's business is a success. My grandmother missed me as much as I missed her.
I told my uncle the main rooms that we are going to use a lot. Four hours is more than enough to fix and clean up six rooms so my uncle and his men cleaned the rest of the rooms in the first floor. My aunt did not have the chance to clean it up tough, it is getting dark and they need to take my grandmother home. I wave goodbye as I watched the truck and the car leave.
It is getting really cold. I need to get inside. The first floor is almost complete. The last two rooms does not have any furniture because I have not thought of what room it is going to be. The land outside would be fix in spring.
Hatsune-san is taking a bath, I must not disturbed her. I am sure that she is very tired. I walked to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Aunt has brought us some ingredients that I could use. But it is not that much so I would need to buy some more at the market tomorrow. I think that some soup would be best to prevent Hatsune-san from catching a cold. Hatsune-san does not like it if I use instant but I have no other choice, I do not have much time to prepare the ingredients.
"Mo-chan, you are using instant again." Hatsune-san could tell easily just by looking at the bowl of soup in front of her. "Can we have grilled fish for lunch tomorrow?" Hatsune-san asked before she stars eating the soup.
"Alright, Hatsune-san." She would always decided what to eat for lunch so I just need to cook what she wants.
Hatsune-san said that she wants to wash the dishes this time. I think that washing the dishes will not harm her. She only has to wash two bowls and a pot.
I went to the bathroom to take a bath. It is really relaxing. I stare at the scarf that Shion-san gave me. Wait, how am I going to give it back to Shion-san? Maybe I could ask Al-san about Shion-san's house.
Klang.
It sounds like the dishes fell. Hatsune-san was never good with house chores. I walk out of the bath and hurriedly wear my pajama before running to the kitchen. There, I saw Hatsune-san carrying a pot with pieces of the bowls she has just dropped around her. I told her to stay away from the pieces so I could clean them up.
I think that living here with just Hatsune-san would be very interesting.