Boku wa KAITO
Chapter 2
The First Day
Why am I putting another chapter up so fast? Because I'm still on a Vocaloid high :B
Disclaimer was in the first chapter.
The rest of the day passed without much incident. After a bit of discussion, the three of them agreed that Kaito could sleep on the couch until they were able to set something up for him. Katie noted that he didn't seem bothered by this, and in fact seemed willing to go along with anything they suggested. 'Aren't singers supposed to be the picky type?' Daniel didn't seem to notice, so she merely shrugged it off. Something in the back of her head nagged at her constantly, yet when she paid attention to it it vanished without a trace.
She didn't sleep that night.
"Ohaiyo," Kaito greeted her the next morning. Katie walked in with her laptop tucked under one arm, then plopped down on the couch.
"Ohaiyo," she answered absent-mindedly. "Did you sleep okay?" She flipped her laptop over and clicked the lid open as she spoke, only half-focusing on the conversation.
"Hai." Kaito hesitated. "Um.. thank you for letting me stay."
She nearly dropped her laptop, which beeped at her in annoyance as it started booting up. "You speak English?"
"I thought-" Kaito was cut off as Katie started laughing hysterically, putting one hand to her head.
"Why didn't you say that in the first place..? Oh man.. " She slipped back into her deranged laughter, oblivious to Kaito's startled reaction. Luckily for her, Daniel picked that moment to walk in and kept Kaito's attention long enough for her to calm down.
She opened her browser and bit her lip as she scanned the news articles rudely thrown at her. "Hey, Kaito?" She didn't glance up; one finger lightly tapped the back of her laptop's lid in a steady rhythmn of a song she couldn't remember the words to. "I has a question." The inner part of her that never shut up immediately unleashed a barrage of cusswords as she let her odd quirk slip.
"Yeah?" Kaito looked up from his conversation, seeming to not notice her odd phrasing.
"What's your last name?"
Silence. Kaito didn't reply. Katie bit her lip nervously; questions spun around in her mind as she wondered if she'd breached some sort of privacy. Or maybe...
...maybe Kaito didn't have a last name at all?
She doubted it. She doubted it, but still the little voice nagged her.
The day had passed by quick as lightning, and now the girl was sitting cross-legged on her bed, listening to Daniel and Kaito talk out in the other room. The room was dark- as she preferred it, of course- and the only light came from her laptop's screen as she continued her hopeless search.
"He's a singer..." She breathed quietly. "So why isn't there anything on him..? Not even a tiny bit of information.."
She'd looked everywhere. Wikipedia, Google, Youtube. Even the sites she'd heard of that weren't even in English. Yet still nothing came up on their mystery guest. It was a scary thought to her. What if Kaito lied to them? What if Kaito wasn't even his name-
The song came to mind again and she tapped it out, humming it under her breath. It was a familiar song, one she'd used to listen to a lot. Yet now the name escaped her, hiding in the depths of that little nagging that darted out of reach. And yet a seperate thought embedded itself, and budded and grew into a small flower that shone brightly in the dark corners of her mind.
The song was important. The song meant something... something she had to find out.