Bad chapter title again. It makes sense afterwards though. I mean, it should.

From here on out, I start making up more and more stuff about songs and popularity levels. Just go with it ^.^

Also, I'm unsure about the rating. I rated it T just to be safe, but I never swear, this is obviously not violent, and there shouldn't be any suggestive stuff, so should I change the rating?


Days passed quickly. Kaito had to start teaching the new Vocaloids and Utauloids again, and Miku gained popularity very quickly. She noticed posters and pictures of herself appearing on her once blank ceiling. Sometimes she wondered if the room thought she was getting full of herself. She probably was, but she enjoyed it.

Rin and Len were gaining attention too, but not nearly as much as Miku. Sometimes, when feeling a little bit overly proud of herself, Miku liked to think their popularity was due to being associated with her. A lot of times, they would sing covers of songs that were original to her.

They didn't have any trouble getting along with each other, and Miku felt her life couldn't get any better. She was envied by many, her voice had developed beautifully, she could play almost any role perfectly, and she still had time to enjoy the company of her roommates.

One day, she read through the lyrics of a certain song. "It fits me perfectly!" Miku said out loud in joy, sitting in the recording room. She didn't actually know if it was the best idea to be proud of that, since part of the song indicated that she was a bit bossy and demanding. However, she was almost tired of songs that portrayed her as cute and innocent, because she didn't feel that way. Her voice just gave that implication.

She did the best she could, and, satisfied with her performance, went to go tell Meiko, like she always did when she completed a song. She then returned to her room, pleased to find that she didn't have another song on her bed and she would get a break for a little bit.

"How did you do?" asked Len, as he had made a habit of doing.

"Perfectly," said Miku, her tone airy and melodic. Rin and Len glanced at each other. Miku had changed from just a few days ago. Rin and Len were finding that she was less and less fun to be around. Rin partially wished that Kaito would get a break again; he seemed to be able to bring Miku back down to earth pretty quickly.

"Well, that's good," said Rin halfheartedly. Miku looked at her with her head tilted to the side.

"Is anything wrong?" Miku asked curiously. Rin shook her head quickly. Miku resumed her almost haughty look as she laid down in bed to read. A few minutes passed of utter silence, and then Len sighed. He glanced at his side of the bed and spotted a song.

"Hey Miku," he began, and Miku looked up, "Isn't this the song you just sang?" he asked. Miku got up and looked up at the paper.

"Yep," she said shortly.

"Wow, that was quick," Len stated. "This song must be really popular," he decided, emphasizing the word 'really.' "I guess I'll go sing it now, then." Miku went back to her bed.

"Good luck," she remembered to call after him. She heard the door close and went back to her book. About ten minutes later, he came back.

"How did you do?" asked Rin, mocking Len's common question.

"Just fine, thank you very much. If you're wondering, the song was in fact about you being the number one princess. You're welcome," he said, smiling. He then turned to Miku. "Hey Miku, Meiko said she wants to talk to you." Miku got up.

"Something about your song," Len added, but Miku was already out the door. He shrugged and looked at Rin. "So, number one princess, do you want me to bow really low for you now?" Len asked, referencing the lyrics of his song.

"Yes please, do it now," Rin demanded, smiling sweetly.

"Ah! it was a joke!" Len protested, but Rin pointed down. Len narrowed his eyes and bowed dramatically. Rin laughed, but stopped abruptly.

"My laugh sounds kind of alone without Miku," Rin said sadly.

"You think too hard about things," said Len. "But yeah, I do wish Miku spent more time talking to us. I mean, we were having the time of our lives just last week."

"Maybe once the week is over, Kaito will get another break and we can have more fun," said Rin hopefully.

. . .

Miku had run to Meiko, who hardly ever specifically requested to talk to someone. Out of breath, she stopped in front of Meiko. Meiko stifled a laugh. "In a hurry?" she asked Miku. Miku nodded plainly, shifting her weight to one side.

"Well, I was going to talk to you about an offer I got from someone important. You know how Vocaloids never actually talk face to face with humans?" Meiko asked, though it was rhetorical, so she continued. "It's been decided that some Vocaloids have enough attention that they could actually start making live appearances. After all, it's not impossible for a Vocaloid to come across a human."

Miku's eyes widened. "Are you saying I could be in a concert?" she asked excitedly. Meiko nodded.

"You would sing your most recent song, since it's so popular, though I must admit Len gained quite a lot of attention with it too. But since it's original to you, you get to sing it. If I can, I'll arrange for Len and Rin to sing in the concert also. They seem like they'd be good at live appearances."

Miku couldn't believe it. She would be the first Vocaloid to star in a concert. A small part of her was mad at Len, because she felt she deserved all the attention for that song. "It was only because I sang it that it got so popular, and only because it was popular did Len get to sing it," she comforted herself.

"OK, I can't wait," Miku said. "When is it?"

"About a month after Christmas," replied Meiko, "Plenty of time to pick out other songs to sing there. You'll need at least five, and you can sing duets if you want. Go ahead and tell Rin and Len too, though it's not official that they're in the concert yet. It depends on their appeal between now and Christmas."

Miku almost couldn't contain her excitement. She rushed back to her room, momentarily forgetting her calm, on-top-of-the-world attitude. "Rin! Len!" she yelled, and the two looked up from a sheet of paper, frozen in fear.

"Guess what?" Miku said excitedly, and Rin and Len relaxed. "We could be in a concert!" Rin and Len's faces brightened up immediately.

"Are you serious?" asked Rin. "So what do we have to do to be in it?"

"Well, I think I'm already in it, but Meiko said that depending on how much appeal you had by Christmas, you could be in the concert too!" Miku smiled, already trying to decide on what types of songs she would like to sing.

"Well, I think we may have the song we need right here," said Len. "We were just looking at it. Remember that song Rin got a little bit ago that was about her being an evil princess that we thought was really weird?" Miku nodded.

"Well, we just got another song that looks to be just like it, except I sing it. I'm apparently her servant," he paused to stick his tongue out at Rin, "And I die in her place. I also kill you," he said, smiling jokingly at Miku. Miku narrowed her eyes at him. "Only because Princess Rin wants me to!" he defended, pointing to Rin. "Wait, why do you always get to be the princess?" he asked Rin, getting sidetracked for a moment.

"Why? Do you want to be the princess?" Rin asked, laughing.

"No! That's not what I meant," exclaimed Len, looking from Miku to Rin. "Oh, never mind. I'm going to sing this song now."

"Good luck!" Rin said cheerfully, glad that Miku was in a good mood and Len had a song that told a good story.

"I'm going to take a nap," Miku said, a little bit tired from her lack of sleep ever since she had started getting a lot of songs. She got in bed and set the alarm clock so she wouldn't sleep too long, which made her remember Kaito.

She didn't like like him, but he had become a good friend before he got busy again. She hoped it wouldn't be awkward to see him again, but part of her guessed she'd probably find a way to make it awkward. Ignoring her nap, she made up her mind to go talk to him right away.

When she got to him, he was at his desk, looking at his computer. He heard her walk in and looked up. "Hey," he greeted her with a grin. "You wouldn't believe the song I had to sing the other day. It was about you being my wife and pretending to be dead every time I came home from work. I really hope this doesn't happen to humans, because that would just be a little bit weird."

"Yeah, it would..." Miku agreed, and then to herself, "Cheerful as always."

"So, what are you looking at," Miku continued, indicating the computer. "Does every teacher have a computer, or just you?"

"Just me. I am partially in charge of getting the songs out into the public, after all. I'm not really looking at anything; I was trying to find Rin's song, the one that went with Len's, to track how popular it was, since you guys have a chance of being in a concert," Kaito said happily. "Rin's song wasn't popular at all when it first came out, but now that Len just sang his part to it...wow," he added.

"Ah, so, you already knew about the concert?" Miku asked, partially disappointed. Then she realized what he had been saying about Rin and Len's songs. "And, their songs are really popular?" Kaito nodded. "As popular as...mine?" Kaito nodded again.

"Since when do you care though? I thought you loved when your 'siblings' did well," Kaito observed, his smile disappearing for a moment.

"Ah, I don't know," Miku admitted. "Every time I hear that they got really popular, part of me gets really mad at them. It's like a game. If I win, I'm happy; I want to win again. If they win, I'm mad; I still want to win the next time."

Kaito almost looked disappointed now. "Have their personalities changed?" he asked. "I think yours has."

Miku tried to think for a moment. "They seem to act the same way with each other, and when I wasn't being mean they went back to being normal to me..."

She realized she too had a weakness. The twins couldn't stand when someone tried to force a relationship on them, and that made them feel hurt. Miku couldn't stand not being popular. She decided her problem was probably worse. She ended up hurting other people when she felt hurt. "But it's impossible for me to avoid!" Miku thought desperately, "When I sing and know my song is going to be popular, I can't help but feel invincible and queen of the world. Number one princess, actually." She almost laughed at her own joke.

"Still here?" Kaito asked, staring at her changing expressions. Miku focused on him and realized she was still in his room. She sighed.

"I'm sorry, Kaito. I'm being a jerk to people when I should really be encouraging them, but I just can't help it! I can't, can't, can't!" Miku burst out, her easily angered side coming back. She stomped out of the room, angered by her own apology, as if Kaito had been the one telling her she was being a jerk.

Kaito sighed. "I thought maybe you might come back to normal, just for a little bit," he said to the empty room, and went back to looking at his computer.

She got to her room and sang her note to open the door with force. She stalked to her bed, ignoring Rin and Len, only to see that the curtain on the window next to her bed had become thin and red, so that the sun shone through it and left flaming red light on her bed.

If she had been in a better mood, Miku would have admitted that it was kind of cool, actually. In her present mood, however, she thought her room was making fun of her. She was also mad that she had wasted her nap time for that. "Kaito's not a good friend at all," she thought angrily, even though she couldn't actually remember what he had said.

All she could think about was, 'I think yours has.' He said it in such a calm voice, as if he knew it had, but didn't want to anger Miku. "Well, that didn't work, now did it?" Momentarily, Miku wondered why her roommates hadn't said anything. "They must be ignoring me," Miku assumed, without even bothering to go look on their side of the room.

In reality, Rin and Len were taking a nap, like they thought Miku was, hoping they would wake up and find Miku still in a good mood.


Ok, I made some pretty obvious song references. Daughter of Evil, Servant of Evil, World is Mine, and When I Get Home My Wife Always Pretends to be Dead.

Also, conflict! Yay! Or not yay. I had to rewrite this entire chapter because I was listening to "The Wooden Girl -Millenium of Wiegenlied-" and it was finally posted with English lyrics so I was getting depressed over it and I was like, "No! Miku can't be bad!" and then I realized I made my story really stupid -_- So I rewrote it and sorry if it's a little disconnected anywhere.

So now that I think about it, I don't think I'm good at writing romance, or anything funny, or anything serious, or conflict, so am I good at anything? If you read this, and have any idea, please tell me. I'd like to know. You know, confidence boost and stuff. Anything that's terrible, I'd also like to know about.