I opened my eyes. I saw that I was laying on the bottom of a ravine. How did I get here? Or even better: Who am I? And what was dripping onto my head? Did it start raining? No, there was too little liquid dripping on my head for rain. Then what was it? Wait! The droplets looked like… like.. like tears? But who's were they? The thought faded my mind as soon as something came falling from the sky. It looked like some kind of note. I caught the note out of the air. It said:

You are dead

Do not look behind you

"Ha ha ha" I laughed sarcastically but a bit insecure. Of course I wasn't dead. Why would I be dead? I slowly turned around to check if there was somebody standing behind me with some kind of weapon. I closed my eyes and I had now fully turned around. I was too scared to open my eyes. Why would I be scared? Of course it's just a prank from some kids trying to scare me.

I opened my eyes and screamed. There was a dead body in front of my eyes. The body was smashed into pieces and there was blood everywhere. How could it be that I hadn't noticed the body yet. Why wasn't the stench unbearable? Then I froze in fear. The colour of the victim's hair was teal. Teal!

"N…N…NO…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed. There was no way that that thing was my body! But I was pretty sure that there was no one in the world that had exactly the same hairdo, hair colour and hair length, right? Right?! Oh my God? I died. The words filled my head. I died. I died. I had just DIED! But then why was I still aware of my existence? How could I have opened my eyes and screamed just now? And I still didn't know who was crying above me.

Then someone screamed. "Miku!" It was a scream I had heard before. But how did I know that when I didn't even know my own name. Another note came falling from the sky. It said:

Your name is Miku

Okay. This was becoming really creepy. I had just died yet I was still alive. And strange notes that were able to read my mind kept descending from above. How did the note know my name? Could I trust it? Well, it was all I had. So my name was Miku. Now I had to find out who was screaming my name. Was it someone I knew? But who could possibly be missing me so much? And how was I supposed to get up this cliff?

I could at least just try to climb this wall made out of rock. I tucked my hands in a small hole in the wall and tried to pull myself up. It was surprisingly easy to climb. I had only been climbing for a few seconds but I was about 30 feet above the ground. I continued to climb and it only costed me two minutes to get to the top. I could now climb on the edge. There I saw a boy crying and screaming my name. He had beautiful blue eyes and fair hair pulled into a tiny ponytail. "Len" I said. He didn't hear me. Wait! How did I know his name was Len? Was he my… boyfriend? Yes, he was.

My memories were starting to come back to me. I remembered everything. It was like my whole life was flashing by in a few seconds. Oh yeah, it really was. I was dead already. These were the memories of my whole life. Because my life had ended the moment my body had hit the dark bottom of the ravine. "Len? Leeeeheeen!" It was of no use. Len couldn't hear me in his state. Then I saw a shadow moving behind a tree. The shadow belonged to one of HIS men. Were they still trying to take revenge because he got killed. But it was not Len! It was me. And I had already given up my life and died so they wouldn't have to take revenge by killing my boyfriend. He was not the culprit!

Oh Len! Why aren't you able to hear or see me? Maybe he could feel or smell me! But I wasn't able to smell my own corpse, so he probably wouldn't be able to smell me as well. I softly kissed his cheek. It was as I thought. He also couldn't feel me. How on Earth was I going to save him from those scary, big men? I felt tears welling up in my eyes. How could I prevent his death when he didn't even know I still existed?

"Aaaaaaargh" I said slightly irritated. "Did someone just sigh" the boy next to me whispered. Had he actually heard me? "Len" I screamed. "Len, Len, Leeen, Leeeeen, LEEEEEEEEEEEN!" I tried my mightiest. It felt like my head was going to burst. Did it work? Or had it been for nothing? Complete silence. Then Len said something. "M…M…Miku? Is that you? Now I'm sure I'm going crazy! I really have the feeling that she was just standing next to me and saying my name." So he had heard me. If my message was clear enough he could hear me. Was that how it worked?

Then another note fell from the sky. This time it was a list:

Want to see your friends for the last time?

-leek

-orange

-banana

-octopus

-ice cream

-sake

What did it mean? A leek, an orange, a banana, an octopus, ice cream and sake? Did I have to collect all of these objects? Eh, okay… Let's see if something happens if I can gather all of them. I thought about how I was going to do that. Len didn't seem to notice my touch, so would that be the same for objects? I picked up a small rock. It immediately turned transparent in my hands. I threw the rock at Len. But the rock went right through him. I screamed. Had he died and been transported to some other world just like me? No, then the shadow wouldn't have been hiding behind that tree.

Len stood up. "Eh, Len? Where are you going?" Of course he couldn't hear me. Then he started talking to himself. "Well, if there's no reason to be staying here, I could better go home." No Len, wait for me! I had to protect him. There was no choice. I had to follow him home. Hmmmmmm. How was Len going to get home? He wasn't old enough to drive a car. And we couldn't ask the man behind the tree if he would be so kind to take us to Len's house. Oh wait, there was no we. I didn't exist in Len's world anymore. He wouldn't be able to ask, not we.

Len stood up and started walking. I walked next to him, but only I was aware of that. Then Len put his hand in the pocket of his jacket. A cute, blue jacket I had given him for his birthday. His hand came out of his jacket with some paper money and some coins. So he was going to take a taxi. When Len stepped inside the taxi he grabbed the door and tried to shut it. He couldn't. He still hoped that I would appear out of nothing and shout to wait for me. Aaaw. That's so sweet. But there was no time to think. I climbed in the taxi and Len shut the door. The cabdriver started his car and left.

When arrived at Len's house. Actually, you couldn't call it a house. It was more like a mansion. The mansion he had inherited from his parents. They had died when Len was still an infant. He had been raised by the personnel that worked for the Kagamine family at that time. Len was still living with his personnel. So that had stayed the same. The only thing that had changed was the fact that there was one room that wasn't going to be used for a while. And that room had been my room. Len had rented rooms in the mansion and I had rented one of the rooms. That's home we came to know each other.

I didn't notice that Len had already gone inside the mansion. Oh no, I left my keys inside. So how was I going to get inside the house? Len would have some of the objects I had to collect. Maybe I had obtained special powers. I had been able to climb really fast and easy. Would I be able to transport myself? I tried my mightiest. Oh darn it! It didn't work. Maybe I could fly. I tried and tried and tried. I concentrated as hard as I could. But, of course, I was still not able to fly.

"The garbage!" I am a total genius. Gumi, one of the maids, would throw away the garbage. Therefore she needed to open the door! I walked to the garden and climbed over the fence. The guards wouldn't notice me anyway. I waited there until Gumi came outside to throw away the garbage. When she opened the door I sprinted inside. But how was I going to get to the kitchen? I tried to open the door to the living room. It worked! So I was able to open doors when I had succeeded in going through the front door that worked as some kind of barricade. Now it would be all become easier.

I walked to the kitchen and opened the fridge. I found a leek, a banana, an orange, ice cream and sake. I knew that Luka, a girl that had rented a different room in the mansion, loved octopuses and kept some in a special aquarium in her room. I went upstairs and opened the door to her room. It opened. Something was missing. Oh no. The thing that was missing was Luka's aquarium. Did I collect all of these objects to find out that I wouldn't be able to succeed my mission?

I went downstairs. There I found Luka. A smile formed on my face. There was a reason the aquarium had disappeared. Luka was cleaning it. I opened one of the cupboards and took a big bowl. Of course Luka didn't notice it. She lived in a different world. The world of the living. The thought made me sad and I started crying. "Is someone crying?" Luka said. Was Luka able to hear me? "Luka, it's me! Miku! Can you hear me?" Luka didn't react. "Oh, it must have been that stupid Neru." Luka said. Stupid? Did she just call Neru stupid? But those two were like the best friends you could find! I had to find out what happened. Later, because my first priority was to rescue Len.

I filled the bowl with water. Then I turned to the squids. Wait! Where did the squids go? And where did Luka go? She must have taken them upstairs again. I walked to her room. But before I arrived I heard Neru talking to herself. I tried to open her door. But I couldn't open the door. Why? What happened? Then a note appeared in front of my feet.

Her heart is locked

So is her door

If you open her heart

So will her door

Open her heart? Right. As if I know what that's supposed to mean. And if I did, I wouldn't be able to communicate with her. But I first had to get an octopus from Luka's room. I walked to Luka's room and went inside. There was no one there. But there were no octopuses either. Did she take them somewhere else? Oh no. Neru hadn't been talking to herself, she had been talking to Luka! And now I had to open her heart to open her room. But Neru never opened up to someone except for Luka. And now she wasn't even opening up to Luka. Well, there was another way that always worked. Whenever Neru was sad I would sing for her. But the only problem was that she wasn't able to hear me. Or was she…

"Please Neru, open up for me" I said. Then I started singing.

Never give up happiness,

Never give up your life,

Never give up,

Never give up,

I want to always see your smile,

I want to always hear your laugh,

I could never miss you,

So never give up happiness.

It was her favourite song. 'Never give up happiness'. It always cheered her up. Suddenly her door opened. I smiled and stepped inside. "Thank you, Miku!" Neru said. "What did you just say?" Luka asked the girl. She responded with a confused: "Huh? I didn't say anything." "Then I must be going crazy." Luka said. The girls laughed. I walked over to Luka's aquarium and took an octopus.

I had gathered all the ingredients. I waited. Nothing happened. Then another note appeared.

Did you have fun gathering food?

I…I…It had been a joke? A joke? Are you kidding me?

No. I'm serious. Did you have fun?

"Oh yes, I had a great time!" I said with a sarcastic voice.

Try to think about who these things could refer to.

Who it refers to? I hadn't thought about that yet. Leeks were my favourite food, so that must refer to me. And Len loves bananas, and Rin loves oranges. I knew who these objects referred to. But what did I have to take from them? Did I even have to take something from them? Maybe I needed to bring them the things I had collected. Maybe I had to… There were too many options to even think about. Only then I noticed how hard it had become to keep my eyes open. I felt sleepy. The world slowly faded away and I closed my eyes…

When I opened my eyes I found myself lying inside Neru's room. So it hadn't been a weird dream or something. I had really died. I stood up and walked over to Neru who was still sleeping. I sat down next to her on her bed and waited until she would awake. It was only six o'clock and Neru usually woke up around seven. I waited for a few more minutes. But you need to know that I'm not exactly what they call a patient person. So I walked to Luka's room. Luka was sitting behind her desk. She was combing her hair. I sat on her desk. One of her hairs fell on my foot I picked it up. Before I could throw it into the trashcan, a note appeared on her desk. It was the list from before, but the octopus had disappeared from the list. So I had to collect DNA from the people the objects referred to.

I put the hair my pocket. Hmmmmm. Who should I get DNA from next? Neru was still sleeping! Maybe I could get a hair from her as well. I walked back to Neru's room. She wasn't there anymore. Where did that girl go? Maybe she woke up very hungry and went downstairs for breakfast? I walked down the stairs. Neru wasn't there. But Rin and Len were sitting at the table. Perfect. I could get some hairs from both of them. I stood next to Len. My sweet Len. Maybe they would feel it if someone pulled their hair! I carefully pulled his ponytail. He didn't notice it. How could he not have noticed that! I pulled out one hair and put in in my pocket. I did the same with Rin's hair.

"Did someone just touch my hair?" Rin asked. "Of course not. I'm sitting at the other end of the table. I can't even reach you. And besides, there's no one else here." Rin looked confused. I bet my face must have been exactly the same as her's at that moment. Did she just feel me touching her hair? I hope this means that I am coming closer to the solution. As I thought, a note appeared on the table. This time it was missing the octopus, the banana and the orange. This is going great! "Hey, where did that Miku go?" "Uh, do you know that Miku's parents got lost in America? Her dad has been found and Miku went to visit him. She didn't even have time to pack her bags. She said that she would probably be staying there for at least a few months." Aaaw, that's so sweet. Len made up this story so that he didn't have to brake their hearts. He's such a cutie!

So I still needed to get DNA from Kaito, Meiko and Neru. Meiko is probably the easiest target right now. I think she's still drunk from all the sake she drunk. Good thing I didn't have to collect all the sake that was somewhere inside this mansion, because Meiko hid her sake all over the place. She said she had to be prepared for the day that Len would prohibit drinking alcohol inside the mansion. He found it irritating that his personnel had to find and get rid of all her empty sake bottles.

I was right. She was sleeping in her room. Her breath smelled awful. Just like litres of sake. How much did she drink last night? The bottles in her room told me enough. Her hole room was filled with them. How is it even possible that she's still alive. I hope she will stop drinking huge amounts of sake like that. It's really dangerous. She could even die. And being dead is not funny. That's something I can tell you. It feels like you're all alone though you are being surrounded by people. And every time you think you finally got out of the lonely darkness, a new obstacle approaches right in front of you.

But that was not important right now. I needed to get her DNA. I walked over to Meiko and took a hair from her. And again the list had gotten rid of its former sake. Yes! I only needed to get DNA from Neru and Kaito right now. But Kaito had been travelling through Europe. He would come back here tomorrow. So I needed to obtain Neru's DNA.

I walked to Neru's room. She wasn't there. I searched the house, but she was nowhere to be seen. Oh no! OH NO! Neru must have gone to her secret place. Her secret place was a tree house in the middle of the forest. It wouldn't take me a lot of time to get there, but there was the possibility that she wasn't there. Maybe she went to visit a friend. And if that was true, I wouldn't be able to get back before six in the evening. I would have to come back together with Neru, because Rin and Len had planned a film marathon and Meiko would probably stay in bed because of her hangover. But what difference would it make? I only had to get Neru's and Kaito's DNA. And Kaito wouldn't be at home until tomorrow. So I decided to follow Neru.

I had been right. She was at her secret place. Only we knew that the place existed, because we had built it together. I climbed up the tree house. There she was, writing in her diary. I looked over her shoulders and read what she had just written down. Something shocked me.

…stupid, right? There's something I need to tell you. Today I had a weird dream. It was about Miku. She fell from a cliff and died. Then we were in my room. I had just had a fight with my best friend Luka. My heart was broken. But then something weird happened. I heard Miku's voice. She was singing my favourite song 'never give up happiness'. Then it felt like all the darkness had suddenly disappeared from my heart. Isn't that creepy? But later something really funny happened. Len and Rin were…

Did she remember what had happened? It was not really remembering, because she thought it had been a dream, but it was something. I grabbed one of the pages of her diary and Neru pulled it out of my hands. Of course she didn't do it on purpose, because she couldn't see me. I had accidently ripped off a piece of the paper. Oh oh. I didn't mean to do that. I felt ashamed. I had just destroyed a part of her diary and she wasn't even able to notice what I had done. I took one of her hairs and I walked away.

I arrived at the mansion. There I waited for Neru to come home. It was really hot and it felt like my brain was melting, so I decided to take a nap. When I woke up it was completely dark. Great! Neru was already inside. I hadn't even noticed it. Why did that keep happening? Was it some kind of side effect? They couldn't notice me and sometimes I didn't notice them? Being dead was so frustrating.

Then a miracle happened. A cab arrived in front of the mansion. A dark figure stepped out of the car. He was tall and his hair was blue. "Kaito!" I shouted. Of course he didn't hear me. He payed the cabdriver and walked to the front door. He searched for his keys. But before he even found them the door swung open and a bunch of people shouted "Welcome home, Kaito!". I quickly stepped inside.

I pulled a hair from Kaito's head. I had done it! I had just collected everything I needed to! But nothing happened. The people around me still couldn't see me.

What did I do wrong? Then a scary thought crossed my mind. What if it had just been a joke? What if nothing would have happened if I had completed my mission? I froze in terror. Everything changed. I saw the faces of my friends. But they were angry. "Why did you do that! I HATE YOU!" they shouted to me. It became hard to breathe. Or at least it felt like it became hard to breathe, because I didn't need to breathe anymore. I was dead. They couldn't scream at me anymore, because I no longer existed in their eyes. This made it even harder to think. I felt like I was going to burst. Tears fled my eyes. I opened my mouth to scream but I was unable to make any sound at all. I wasn't important anymore, but I had to save Len. Then everything went black.

I had a weird dream. Random things were floating in the air. Wait! They weren't random. These were the object from the list. Ice cream, a banana, an orange, an octopus, sake and a leek. Huh? A leek. So that's what I did wrong. The list had never been referring to Neru. Neru didn't like leeks. It was me who loved leeks.

I opened my eyes. So the only thing I needed was my own DNA. "Get it together, Miku!" I said out loud. I pulled out one of my hairs. I reached inside my pocket and took the other hairs. I spread them on the ground. A note appeared in front of me…

Yeah! That's chapter TWO for YOU!

Thank you all for reading my story. I especially want to thank Rolling-Chan for his/her review. Your tips really helped me out. I hope I'll be able to upload chapter three really soon, but I think it will take a while. Thanks for reading,

HatsuneMikuLover