Author's note: After roughly half a year of writer's block, preoccupation, and general laziness and procrastination, part 6 is finally complete. While I want to continue this with the rest of the Vocaloids, I don't think I will. The main reason being a shortage of ideas with regards to how many are left, since there are only so many scenarios of a girl waking up and discovering she has powers. As a matter of fact, I actually planned on putting Zatsune in here, but chose not to because I literally couldn't think of anything.
Now that that's out of the way, on to more positive news. I'm not abandoning this idea, not by a long shot. The main thing I wanted to do to spread the idea of elastic Vocaloids is to have them use their powers in various scenarios. So, I shall begin a new series titled "Elastic Vocaloid Adventures", which will consist of little one-shots and shorts about the Vocaloids using and dealing with their new abilities. It'll be a direct follow-up to this and will have more extensive planning put into it, so it'll hopefully be of a higher quality.
And, that's it. I can't say when the new series will be up, since I'm working on other stuff, but it should be soon. So, as always, comment or rate, share, all that jazz. And of course, enjoy. Also, see if you can't spot the Smash Mouth reference in this.
Neru
Neru Akita lay wrapped in the arms of Akaito Shion, both of them resting peacefully in the red Shion brother's room, before abruptly starting a stirring fit that forced the red haired male holding her awake. Understandably becoming concerned, the red-head quickly sat up and began to gently shake the blond in an attempt to wake her up, and while Neru did cease her stirring fit, she instead snuggled closer into Akaito's red sleep shirt and wrapped her arms around the elder Shion's torso, still asleep. The red-head was taken back slightly, not by how heavy the girl was sleeping, but how the girl in question's arms seemed to extend as they wrapped multiple times around the male's chest. Now both confused and annoyed, Akaito began shaking Neru more violently while speaking loudly into her ear. "Neru. Neru, babe, wake up!"
At first, the blonde only fidgeted slightly, but she soon began to groan gently and slowly open her eyes. Neru yawned while trying to rub the sleep out of her eyes, but realizing that her hands were nowhere near her headcaused her to wake up fully by discovering the state her arms were in. While reeling one's head back is a common reaction to try and calm one's self, Neru's neck extending while performing the same action upon witnessing her coiled arms only added to her panic. Her initial reaction was to constrict her arms more, causing a slight "Urk!" to emit from the man they were wrapped around, but as soon as she found her hands and discovered that she still had control over them, the blonde began to calm down and reposition herself, before noticing the extra-long legs emerging from the bottom of her dark yellow nightgown.
Neru began by simply moving her legs around, getting used to the feeling and greater control requirement, before wrapping them around each other in a tight coil and watching them unwind. After getting more used to the new feelings, the blonde began retracting her legs and followed suit with her neck before excitedly turning towards the red haired man still wrapped in her arms. "Akaito, you have no idea how amazing this feels!" She began enthusiastically, accidentally tightening her coiled arms even more while staying oblivious to the man's obvious pain and discomfort. "Imagine all of the stuff I can do now, and how useful this could be, and how fun it would be to play around with, not to mention what we could do while have-"
"Yeah, that's great, Neru." Akaito interrupted her with a strained voice. "But think you can stop talking and start letting go of me? I think you're about to break my ribcage." The blonde immediately complied, and as soon as her arms loosened the red-head clutched his chest and released a few deep breaths.
While Akaito was recovering, Neru excitedly jumped off the bed and did a series elastic cartwheels and backflips to the closet and pulled out the yellow t-shirt and black jeans she put in there the night before. While she was fondling with the spare underwear she stored on top of his dresser, Akaito quickly snuck up behind the blond and put his arms around her waist, giving her cheek a quick peck in the process. "You know what I think is the best about this?" He whispered while the blonde leaned her head against his, "It means we can finally have your arms 'wrap around me twice'."
At first, Neru simply began to laugh so hard she had trouble keeping her shape, requiring Akaito to hold her up on her jelly legs. After she recomposed herself, she quickly turned to her partner, who had an obviously fake innocent look on his face. "OK, then, Casanova," She began, trying to keep an annoyed tone but letting a few giggles escape, "That was probably the cheesiest, dumbest, most unromantic thing you have ever said, and probably ever will say." Akaito's expression changed, this time to a fake look of sadness, before being caught off-guard by Neru firmly pressing her lips against his. "But it doesn't make me love you any less."
"… Does this mean I can do it more often?" Akaito asked sheepishly, forcing Neru to pull herself away in annoyance of him for ruining the moment.
"AHAHAhaha, no." the blonde replied flatly while stepping toward the bathroom on an extended leg, all the while thinking to herself 'but I know that that won't stop him. Hasn't before, never will.'
Once Neru squeezed through the narrow crack between the bathroom door and its frame, Akaito began rummaging through his dresser and closet for an outfit for the day, and had just finished putting on a pair of dark brown khakis and a red t-shirt when Neru emerged from the bathroom fully changed. They both grabbed their jackets, Akaito's being black with red accents while Neru's was striped black and dark grey, and shared a brief kiss before heading down to eat.
Haku
HakuYowane found herself waking up to the most unusual feeling. Or rather, the lack of a familiar feeling. This is the first time in a few months that she woke up without a hangover, remembering that Dell Honne had requested she refrain from drinking the previous night. Sitting up to get a better view of her clock, she felt a very weird feeling in her midsection, as if her organs were pressing against the inside of her back. Once she stopped moving, the feeling went away. At first intrigued, she thought little of it after reading 7:00 on the nightstand clock and decided to start the day.
Starting with a simple stretch to help wake up, Haku removed to covers from her legs and positioned her arms over her head before pushing her limbs outward, still half asleep. Unbeknownst to her, her arms were indeed stretching, as were her torso and legs, and it wasn't until her hands grazed the ceiling of her room did she notice the current shape her body was literally in. Upon seeing the pair of extra long legs attached to the base of the extended torso emerging from the bottom of her dark grey nightgown, she panicked and quickly tensed her muscles, resulting in her body quickly snapping back to normal.
After releasing a light grunt from the shock, Haku sat on her bed in silence for a few moments trying to make sense of what she just experienced. After coming to no solid conclusion, she jumped off of her bed and quickly got dressed, changing into a plain black long sleeve and grey sweatpants. Once her long silver hair was tied into its trademark ponytail, she quickly made her way through the connected bathroom to get to Dell's room. Once through the door, Haku was caught off guard by the fact that the man was already awake and finishing getting dressed, and he, too, was surprised by Haku's sudden visit.
"Ah, Dell, you're... you're up!" Haku began after regaining her composure.
"I always get up early to go to work. The studio opens at the same time as the office, so just because I quit my old job doesn't mean I can be late to my new one." Dell responded, fixing the tie on his uniform.
"...But the studio is closed on weekends." Haku pointed out after remembering that it was Saturday.
Dell froze briefly while embarrassment washed over him before regaining himself. "So it is. I guess I'm too used to working on the weekends. Now, why exactly are you here?"
"Ok, brace yourself," Haku warned before holding her right arm out in front of her and taking a deep breath. At first, nothing happened, and after a few seconds of awkward silence Haku began to force her arm to extend. "ngh... come... on...uhh, hehheh." Throughout the scene playing in front of him, Dell had a look on his face that was a mix of confusion and mild annoyance. "Ok, ok, let's try this." Haku blurted out while approaching the bathroom door. After grabbing the door knob with her left hand, she held her right hand out and gestured for Dell to grab it. Once the silver haired male grabbed her outstretched hand, Haku began to relay instructions. "When I say 'Go', I'm going to need you to pull, and pull hard." Dell responded with a nod of compliance. "Ready? Go!"
As soon as Dell began to pull, Haku's arms and shoulders began to lengthen. It took Dell a few seconds to realize what was happening to the woman in front of him, as he needed to put forth a lot of effort to get Haku's arms to stretch. Once he did notice, however, he nearly lost his grip on her arm. After a few moments of pulling, Haku's shoulders had broadened to 3 ft and her arms were 5 ft long each. It was at this point that his grip began to loosen, and her hand began to deform while inside his closed palm. Eventually, her hand came free from his, and the sudden force sent both of them back. While Dell managed to keep his footing after stumbling a bit, Haku went flying toward the bathroom door, hitting it squarely with her face and chest. Instead of simply falling after impact, she ricocheted off of it with the same force she hit it with and was sent flying back... right into Dell's arms.
Once the two came back to their senses and found themselves looking into each other's eyes, flushes of red quickly formed on both of their faces, and they remained that way for a few moments until Haku finally spoke up. "Uh, Dell? You can let go of my now."
"What? Oh, oh, right right, sorry." he stuttered while removing his hands from her waist. It was another bout of awkward silence before Dell spoke p again. "Think you can wait outside for a sec while I change into something more casual? ...unless, of course, you want to stay and wa-"
"What? NO, No, no, I'll... I'll wait outside." Haku quickly spoke up before rushing to the door. She only needed to wait about 3 minutes before Dell emerged from his room, wearing a white undershirt underneath a dark grey jacket accented with purple, and a pair of black jeans.
"...What? Still to dressy?" the man asked after noticing that Haku was staring at him.
"No, no, you're fine." she replied calmly before heading down stairs with Dell in hot pursuit.
Kiku
"Ngh, Taito! No!" KikuJuon's head shot from her pillow, frantically examining her surroundings before calming down in relief that her nightmare was over. Genuine fear was something she almost never showed, mostly because very few things scared her. But if something was happening to Taito Shion, something out of her control, then her menacing yandere facade disappears almost instantly. Taito was one of the few people who cared for her, and she was one of the few that cared for him. As his brothers and her cousins would happily attest, they were meant for each other. As Kiku sat on her bed reminiscing about these facts, her train of thought was derailed by a bizarre sensation she only just noticed.
The feeling was across her entire body. Her arms, legs, back, hands, nose, ears, everywhere. She began investigating her body, feeling around to try and make sense of this strange anomaly. Her body, primarily her arms, felt more sensitive to touch, while her skin felt unusually soft. Since she was now wide awake, Kiku decided that a closer inspection in the bathroom would be the best bet. When trying to exit her bed, however, she failed to notice right her leg still caught in the sheets, resulting in her falling to the ground when she tried to stand up. While lying on the ground, the first thing she noticed was how she could feel the bed across the entire front of her leg, along with the rather strange feeling her leg was giving off itself. Craning her neck around to see, which she found suspiciously easy to do, her eyes grew wide at what they saw.
Her leg, to put it simply, was bent backwards, with her knee joint around the edge of the mattress. Her femur also seemed to be elongated, as the height of her bed was supposed to be longer than her thigh. Scrambling to turn around onto her back, she watched as her thigh began stretching with her waist as it rotated, and how the skin began to twist as her leg refused to align with the rest of her body. The main thing that surprised Kiku, however, was the feeling. Aside from some mild pleasure, the complete lack of pain shocked her more than the sight. Recomposing herself, she moved to a sitting position and began reaching for her leg, showing surprise but not shock as her right arm began to extend much like her leg did.
With her thigh in her grip, Kiku tensed the muscles in her extended arm and watched as it returned to its original shape, dislodging her leg from the bed in the process. As her leg flopped around realigning itself, Kiku sat on the floor of her room, trying to figure out if she was still dreaming. When the door to her room opened, and she saw who came in, she deduced that she was not. Still standing in the door frame, dressed in a dark purple wool robe, was Taito Shion. Whenever Taito appeared in her dreams, he never appeared looking tiered or casual. He always looked combat ready or like a handsome dark prince, something he clearly wasn't right now. His hand still on the knob, the Shion brother began to slowly walk into the room, reassuringly asking if Kiku was ok. "Kiku, you alright? I heard you fall, and I wanted to see if- …what's wrong with your leg?!"
The red head quickly glanced at her right leg and noticed that it was still slightly twisted and bent unnaturally. However, since she wanted to show Taito all of this eventually, an idea popped into her head. "Here," she beckoned, holding out her left hand. "help me up and I'll show you." The purple haired man complied, and as soon as he grabbed her hand, Kiku let the muscles in her arm relax. Taito's face filled with shock when her arm stretched as he pulled, much to Kiku's amusement.
"Kiku, what happened to you?!" Taito exclaimed, bending down to grab the red head by her torso. Thinking quickly, she let her abdominal muscles relax as soon as he grabbed her, so that when he tried to pick her up, her midsection would stretch upwards, connecting her rising midsection with her grounded waist. Taito's reaction was rather predictable, with Kiku letting out an amused giggle in response. "I'm starting to think you're doing this on purpose." Taito replied, expressing his suspicion, before tossing the upper body of the girl in his arms onto the bed in front of him and having a seat himself.
As Kiku straightened herself out, Taito kept looking over her irregularly shaped body, and watched with great intrigue as her torso retraced back to its original shape. It wasn't long before the red head noticed his bewildered expression, and decided that she had had enough fun watching him seep further into confusion. "Confused?" she asked playfully, which Taito responded with a simple nod. "Don't worry. I'm not sure of what's happening either. Here, come with me." She explained as she grabbed his hand before heading towards the connected bathroom, her arm extending slightly when Taito had trouble keeping up.
Once they were both in the bathroom, Kiku immediately began examining herself in the mirror, lifting up her white nightgown to get a look at her stomach and stretching her arm to get a better look at herself when using her new powers. All the while, Taito sat on the toilet with the lid down, getting the feeling that the girl in front of him isn't entirely satisfied with her current condition. "Kiku, I just want you to know, I don't think you're a freak. If you don't like your powers, ju-"
"Don't like my powers?!" Kiku whipped around to face the purple haired man. "Taito, I LOVE my new powers! I mean, look at this!" She extended her torso and arms to form a large Y shape, with her hands pressed against the ceiling. "Why would I hate this?" Taito's only response was an exasperated shrug, for which Kiku replied by wrapping her arms around him in an exaggerated hug, delivering a kiss on the cheek when done. "What I want to know is, what do you think?"
"… I think I like it." He replied, returning the hug and nuzzling his head against hers. They sat there for a few moments, lost in each other's embrace before Kiku released Taito as they both returned to her room. "I'll go get dressed and see you out in the hall." Taito ordered before leaving through the main door, leaving the red head to her privacy.
While she was tempted to use her new powers for more mundane tasks, like getting dressed, Kiku decided to wait until she had time to practice first. After putting on a red accented white long sleeve and white jeans, she exited her room while fumbling with her hair ribbon just in time to run into Taito, who was wearing a black t-shirt underneath a dark purple jacket and black jeans. After exchanging a brief hug, the two made their way down to eat.