NOTE: This Fanfiction begun while there was still not much information about Utatane Piko. His personality and all reactions to the many different things in this fanfiction were solely my choice.

Miku sighed and sat down on a public bench. She had been outside for two hours now looking for Piko but with no luck. Then again it would help greatly if she actually knew what the boy looked like. She had guessed that like with every other Vocaloid, Piko would have some sort of strange outfit that you wouldn't see everyday humans wearing unless they were cosplaying. Miku didn't think the outfits were strange, herself, since she saw everyone, and herself, wore them every day. It was for that reason they were easy to spot in the middle of the street and bombard them like they had earlier. The problem was though, that many people these days loved to cosplay and there were many strange characters with strange outfits that people liked to dress up as. Miku sighed. "We're never going to find him at this rate."

"Find who?"

Miku jumped up making a 'kyaa' sort of scream and quickly looked behind her and calmed down when recognizing that it was the male blue haired Vocaloid. "Oh! Kaito! You startled me," the tealette chuckled after regaining her composer.

The elder Vocaloid gave a smile of apology before licking once at the ice cream he held in his hands. "Sorry. So who are you looking for?"

"Oh-um..." Miku tensed, Rin had said not to tell anyone that they were looking for Piko as Master seemed strictly against it. And although she trusted Kaito, because of the male's...denseness is how it will be said...because of the male's denseness he has more than a few times slipped when he was told a secret. Like the time Rin and Len thought that the best way to get Meiko to stop drinking would be to hide all of the alcohol somewhere. At first they hid it in the house somewhere and were planning to get rid of it a little later but when Meiko complained that she couldn't find her drinks anywhere, Kaito had slipped up and told her the exact location. "I was looking for...um...Len! Yes! Len wandered off and Rin and I split up to look for him! But there are so many people out here and the city is so huge! It'll take ages before we find him!"

Kaito blinked, processing what she had just told him before smiling. "I'm sure he'll turn up soon. He can never hide from Rin for long."

"Hehe, yeah I guess you're right." Miku sighed in relief and sat back down on the bench.

Kaito sat down next to her and had another few licks of his ice cream. Miku didn't understand how he could have so much ice cream. For one his teeth would rot and not to mention that it was far too sweet for her taste. "You know," Kaito began, "When I heard you just before, for a moment I thought you were on about finding Piko." So the elder man wasn't as dense as everyone thought.

"What? No!" said Miku in an overly dramatic voice. "Master told us not to and concentrate on the concert."

"Well yes. But looking for him is the kind of thing people would expect you to do. Having such a big heart, and all."

Miku looked away and had a look on her face that said 'if only you knew Kaito...if only you knew'.

"I have actually been tempted myself, though. To go look for him." Kaito sighed and sat back, taking a bite at the ice cream cone. "But like you said, Master told us not to. I hope the kid is alright."

"It would be easier if we knew what he looked like," stated the tealette, looking at the many people across the street walking about their everyday life. "What if someone over there turned out to be him? We wouldn't know, would we?"

Kaito nodded and stood up, cupping a hand to the side of his mouth and shouted, "PIKO!" but was quickly pulled back by his scarf by Miku who had a look of horror on her face and making the ice cream lover let out a squeaky grunt.

"K-Kaito! What do you think you're doing!" she cried, looking at the bluenette, horror slapped on her face.

"But you said that one of them could have been Piko and we wouldn't know it," stated Kaito as if he thought it what he did was the best idea ever and rubbing his neck. "But if Piko heard us calling him then he should come over to us."

Miku sighed in exasperation, and letting go of the blue scarf when she realized she still held it in her hand. "What did Master tell us not to do?"

The male blinked. "Not to go looking for Piko?"

"Yes and what else?"

"Being rude and eccentric doesn't always get you free ice cream?"

"What? No, not that! About Piko!"

Again Kaito blinked before a look of realization washed over his features. "Oh! Not to randomly look for him and shout out his name because people may find out?"

"Bingo."

The bluenette chuckled nervously and sat back down. "Sorry. Sometimes I forget things."

"Miku!" two similar voices called out. The two Vocaloids looked up to find Rin and Len coming over.

"Ah! Rin! You found Len," Kaito said with a happy grin.

The Kagamines seemed confused for a moment until they saw the look on Miku's face that was just about begging them to go along with what Kaito was saying. "Um, yeah! I found him!" Rin said, putting on her cheery face.

"That's good." The elder turned to Len. "Len, you should know that it can be dangerous to wander off like."

Len scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, I know, I know."

"So what were you three doing before Len wandered off?"

"Uh..." Len looked at Rin.

"We were..." Rin looked at Miku.

"You see we...going to go shopping!" Miku quickly came up with.

Kaito gave a wondering look. "Shopping?"

"Yes! Rin and I wanted to buy some new outfits."

"And of course you know that we wanted to drag Len along to try some of those outfits on for us. And Lenny hates it when we do that to him," Rin added.

"Sometimes I wonder if that's the reason why you always drag me along," Len mumbled to himself. Now that he thought about it though, if Piko happened to be 'cuter' than him then maybe the girls would drag him along instead. Suddenly Len liked Piko.

Miku sighed and stood. "Well then Rin, Len, we should get on with that shopping!" Miku cheered, the gleam in her eyes obvious meant that she wasn't kidding as a part of the act.

"Yeah!" Rin squealed happily. "We can get Len to try on so many outfits!"

"What!" cried Len.

Kaito chuckled, finishing off his ice cream. "Alright then. I'll leave you three to it," he said, standing up.

"W-wait! Kaito! You can't let them drag me with them!"

Miku and Rin gripped and Len's arms. "Come on Len," Rin said happily. "Let's go get some clothes!"

"Nooooooo!"

Kaito just gave a small wave as the two girls dragged him away.

Piko stretched, having being sat down for a while and fell backwards so that he lay on the snowy ground. He was busy taking a small break, finding that too much walking at once equaled achy legs. He stared up at the sky, eyes half lidded. A part of him wished that the clouds would go away since apparently during the day the sky was a bright blue, went an orange around evening, then was midnight blue at night. He had also picked something out about strange small lights in the sky called stars. After seeing the images, Piko had declared that these stars were in fact quite pretty. And then there were sunsets, the cause of the orange colored skies. Those just looked beautiful. Piko smiled. He couldn't wait to find his way home and have his family show him all the wonderful things in the world.

But that would only happen when he reaches his home.

Heaving himself up off the ground and stood up straight, the silvery haired boy once again found himself brushing snow off of him, only resulting in his hands becoming cold again. He bit his lips and rubbed his hands together, having done this a little earlier and found it warmed his hands up a little. Only for a short time though and he found that hiding his hands in his arm warmers almost immediately after helped keep them warm just that little bit longer.

After stretching his legs Piko began walking again. From his internal clock Piko knew that it was now sometime after dinner and night would soon fall. His eyes looked around the area, trying to pick up any form of shelter. He bit his lip and a slight anxious look washed on his face. Would he have to sleep out in the open again? Outside was so cold at night. The temperature had only dropped over the past couple of days, meaning that it would be colder than the other time he had slept outside. What if parts of him became frozen and badly damaged him? Like if the freezing temperatures froze a chip in him that messed with his functioning? Piko shuddered at the thought. He didn't want to break down before reaching home. He wanted to at least meet the rest of his family before that. Even if they didn't like him, he just wanted to meet them at least once before he shutdown.

Piko's arms clung tightly around himself and he closed his eyes for a moment as an icy wind blew in his face, snowflakes smacking rather harshly in his face. He clenched his teeth against each other, trying to brace the cold that felt as though it was biting at any revealed skin. Perhaps it would have been wiser to ask the farmer if he had anything that he could put on himself that would help keep him just that little bit warmer. But no. He just had to leave almost right away. Piko rubbed his cheek once the wind died down a little and winced. The harsh weather was now making his skin hurt. This wasn't good. "Darn," he muttered, wrapping his arms around himself and attempting to pick up the pace. His legs were starting get weak again, slowly turning dumb from the thin material covering them. "I have to keep going...I have to keep going..." the boy repeatedly told himself.

It wasn't long before Piko was starting to get tired again, and the sudden increase of wind wasn't helping the poor boy keep on his feet either. The snow was falling hard now, not only making the Vocaloid appear to blend in with the frozen stuff but also making it hard for his teal eyes to see what was in the distance. His chest was feeling restricted, most likely from the way he was breathing, the wind blowing in his face making it harder than normal. Sure he was a machine and didn't necessarily need to breathe but like with the pain/temperature sensors, Master insisted that the models try to be as human as possible, and humans had to breathe. A few more steps forward Piko's legs collapsed under him, he fell to his knees and hunched over and USB cord wrapped around him, trying to conserve any warmth he had left as a giant red 'WARNING' flashed before his eyes. "No!" he gasped, gripping his head as his system was attempting to go into an emergency automatic shutdown in attempt to save him. "Cancel! C-cancel!"

Teeth bit down on his lips, fighting to stay awake, or a losing battle rather. He understood why his body was trying to force him into shutdown mode, but his parts could be frozen overnight if he did. "What do I do?" his voice quivered with worry filled eyes. Before he even had time to attempt to decide what to do, the emergency automatic shutdown took over his body, making him go slightly stiff for a moment. The only sound that was heard was the wind howling, and the dull thud of Piko's body hitting the floor, his empty looking eyes slightly open.

Kyaaa~ Piko could be at risk of breaking! And you poor guys have to wait until the next chapter to find out what happens to him! I feel so evil :3

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