Christmas morning came and Miku had managed to stay in one of her good moods. She awoke to the sound of Rin and Len running around with jingle bells and singing Christmas songs. "How do they manage to wake up so early every morning?" Miku wondered sleepily. "What time is it?" she asked out loud, sitting up in bed.

"I dunno," Len said. "Maybe 5:00 a.m. by now."

"5:00! Are you serious, Len?" Miku asked, now wide awake. "Why'd you get up so early?"

"We're excited, of course. Why else?" Rin said plainly.

"Well, I know it's Christmas, but do you have any clue what we do on Christmas?" Miku asked, still not knowing what the big deal was.

"Kaito says that humans give each other presents on Christmas. We can pretty much get anything we want, so that wouldn't be much fun. So instead, we play games all day with the other Vocaloids and Utauloids, I think. It's sort of a gift, right? I'd take fun as a gift any day," Rin said, smiling.

"Right," said Miku. She picked up a bracelet of jingle bells off the table, noticing the curtains of the window had become red and green striped, leaving the whole room feeling bright and Christmas-y. "Jingle bells, jingle bells," she started singing as she shook her bracelet.

Rin and Len joined in, shaking their jingle bells on all the wrong beats. Miku started doing a random dance, but started laughing when Rin and Len made weird faces at her. Rin and Len continued to sing, but when they tried to sing in English, it was Miku's turn to laugh.

"I'm pretty sure that is very un-English," she said, poking fun at their pronunciation. Miku had picked up a few songs in English over the Christmas season, and she knew they definitely did not sound like that.

"So...what are we going to do for three hours until the rest of the normal people wake up?" asked Miku, a little bit annoyed that Rin and Len woke up so early just to shake jingle bells.

"We could...do this!" said Rin, and knocked on the wall that split their room from Kaito's.

"Rin!" Miku almost shouted. "Gakupo's in that room too! You don't want to ruin their Christmas!"

Miku stared at the smiling Rin, who had pressed her ear to the wall. Soon enough, they heard a returning knock. Miku rolled her eyes as Rin dashed out the door, apparently going to visit Kaito. She looked at Len, who shrugged his shoulders, his calm, 'whatever' smile never leaving his face.

The two left the room to go figure out where Rin was, and found her in Kaito's doorway, she and Kaito in some competition to see who would be the last one to say 'Merry Christmas.' After about ten alternating Christmas greetings, Miku coughed. Rin and Kaito seemed to notice her for the first time, and moved aside so she could come into the room.

Gakupo was apparently reading, as always, and Kaito seemed to be just as awake as Rin and Len. "Wow, we got really lucky on our neighbors," Miku thought, surprised. "But then again, I shouldn't be surprised. Rin and Kaito do have similar personalities."

Miku noticed that the sun, which had been barely peaking over the horizon when she woke up, was now nearly half-risen. She looked at the clock. "6:30.IguessLenranaroundwithjinglebellslongerthanhethoughtwhenhetoldmethetime."

"So Kaito," Miku said abruptly, "Do you know what we're doing today?"

"Actually, I do, but," he winked, "I can't tell you. I'm sure you'll like it though. Just don't get all scary-Miku on us."

Miku had no clue what he was talking about, but she guessed he was probably serious about her self control. She made a mental note to stay calm; it was Christmas, after all. "Can you at least tell us when whatever we're doing today starts?" she asked hopefully.

Kaito gave a fake sigh. "No, you'll know when it's time. You just have to wait. Most people don't get up at 6:00 in the morning." He grinned.

"Well, any idea what we can do for now?" Miku asked.

"Read?" came Gakupo's voice.

Kaito, Miku, Rin, and Len looked at Gakupo. He was smiling. "I hope we're not disturbing you," said Miku. Gakupo shook his head.

"Not at all. But reading is still a nice pastime," he said. Miku agreed, but she knew Gakupo was joking. The four stood awkwardly trying to figure out what to do, when they heard a knock on the door.

"I'll get it," said Len quickly. He opened the door and saw Haku, her silver-white hair flowing behind her from under a red Santa hat. Haku smiled.

"I knocked at your room," she said, talking to Len, "But you weren't there. No one told me the party was in here!" She exclaimed, looking up at the others in the room.

"Does everyone in the world wake up at the crack of dawn?" Miku asked out loud in an exasperated voice.

Haku laughed. "No, but I've spent enough time with Rin and Len to know that they get up pretty early. I figured they would be pretty excited on Christmas morning."

"Yeah, well you're only two hours late," Miku said, glancing at the clock. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on what to do either?"

Haku shook her head.

"Well, for it being a holiday, there sure isn't much to do. I blame you guys," Miku said, pointing to Rin and Len. "You woke me up too early to enjoy this."

Len pointed to Rin quickly. "Her fault. She stole your alarm clock and set it really early."

Kaito laughed. "Now, let's not start an argument. It's already nearly 7:00, you'll make it another thirty minutes."

"Thirty minutes?" asked Rin and Len together, excitement evident in both of their voices.

Kaito glanced at Miku and Haku. "Oops. Prepare to have them bouncing off the walls for the next thirty minutes," he said. Miku and Haku giggled.

"How about this," Haku started to suggest, "Since you have so much energy, see how fast you can run from here to the recording room and back." Haku didn't think it would work, but before she could start another sentence, the two small Vocaloids were out the door. Haku turned to Miku and Kaito smiling.

"Well...that was easy," Miku said. "How long do you think it'll take them?" Kaito shrugged.

"It has to take at least five minutes, even if they were sprinting as fast as possible," Haku guessed. "Do you think Len will win because he's a boy, or Rin because she seems more energetic?"

Miku laughed. "I'll take my chances and say Rin." She turned to Kaito. "What do you think?"

"I have to disagree," Kaito said, but didn't give any explanation as to why. "How about we bet on it? If Len wins, I get to make you do something in the activity we're doing today. You don't know what we're doing yet, but it's not terrible. Just funny," he said smiling. "If Rin wins, you can make me do something in the game." Miku agreed to the bet.

The three stood waiting for Rin and Len to come back. Five minutes passed, then ten, then fifteen. Miku started to get worried. Then, to their surprise, Len opened the door and calmly walked in. "Did you walk the whole way?" asked Miku. Len gave a quick nod. "So where's Rin?" Miku asked slowly, wondering why Len hadn't already told her.

Len smiled. "She just had to greet every single person she knew when she passed their doors. I don't even know if she's made it to the recording room yet," he said. Kaito turned to Miku.

"I win," he said triumphantly.

"That's not fair though," Miku said indignantly, "You know Rin's personality better than I do!"

"Do I? You would know her personality during the holiday season too if you had spent more time with her," Kaito said, and playfully poked Miku on the shoulder. Len stood watching.

"What did you win?" he asked curiously.

"A bet," was all Kaito had time to say before Meiko's voice seemed to come from the ceiling. Miku looked around for a speaker in the room but couldn't find one. She went out into the hall, followed by everyone else in the room.

"...To the stage that we have prepared for this special occasion," Meiko was saying. "Just look at your map and you'll find it labeled. Make your way there as soon as possible, and we can start our game."

Rin still hadn't come back yet, but Miku just had to assume she had heard Meiko and was making her way to the stage at the moment. Haku, Miku, Kaito, Len, and Gakupo walked together to the stage and crowded around it along with every other Vocaloid and Utauloid in the building.

Meiko was on the stage. There were five microphones set up, and a big screen facing the stage as well as on the back wall of the stage. Meiko looked around, and, apparently seeing everyone present, began to explain what was happening.

"Today, as you all should know, is Christmas!" A cheer went up from the Vocaloids and Utauloids. Meiko continued. "Today we're going to have some fun, and for the rest of the day and all night, we're going to have a karaoke session! That's a common thing among humans; they sing a song while only the instrumental is playing, while reading the words off a screen. We have every song anyone has sung, and the only rule is that you can't sing one of your own songs. Also, please be courteous to others and don't go fifty times in a row."

Silence settled in as no one wanted to be the first. Then Miku saw Rin bound up on stage. Rin said something to Meiko, apparently the title of the song, and Meiko went backstage laughing. A piano intro that was very familiar to Len started playing. Len hid his face as Rin innocently sang the first words. "Somebody took my pants..." Miku had to try extremely hard not to laugh.

Rin finished the song and the crowd cheered and laughed. Eager singers went up on stage, one after the other, singing their favorite songs by others. Miku still didn't go up though. Kaito tried to talk to her in between songs over the noise of the cheering. "So why haven't you gone up yet?"

"You won the bet, remember? I was waiting for some instructions." Miku said loudly over the audience.

"Oh, right," Kaito said, a smile spreading over his face. "I know what I want you to sing." He didn't get to tell her though, because the next song started. Miku looked up and saw Len, glaring at Rin. He put on his toughest face and began the song. Miku almost started laughing as she recognized the song Rin had told her about once. Then it got to the chorus and she almost had to stuff her hand in her mouth.

"Now I can..." the lyrics went. "Take off my panties, take off my panties, take off my panties alright!" Miku wasn't sure if he was trying to get revenge on Rin, but it sure wasn't working. If anything, it was making Rin even happier because it embarrassed Len. Miku did have to admit the two were brave to sing those songs in front of everyone.

The song ended and Kaito continued talking. "How about you do that one I told you about before you got mad at me that one time?" Miku looked confused, so Kaito gave her the title and Miku reluctantly got on stage. She told Meiko the title, and Meiko looked at her strangely.

Miku sighed as the music began. "When I open the door there's my wife collapsed..." Suddenly she started laughing. She tried to continue singing, but it was interrupted by her own laughter. Haku ran up on stage and grabbed a microphone. She helped Miku get back on track and they continued their duet happily. Miku put a lot of effort into her part, even trying to deepen her voice temporarily. It didn't really work though.

The crowd cheered again and Kaito clapped sarcastically as Miku came down off stage. "Bravo," he said, "Quite a show. You and Haku pulled that off nicely."

"Alright," said Miku, "But now it's your turn." Kaito grinned. He waited until after the next song and then went up for his turn. Miku waited impatiently to see what he would sing.

Then, in his girliest voice, which was not very girly, he started to sing enthusiastically. "The number one princess in the world..."

Miku had been working hard to control her laughter on Rin and Len's songs. This was just cruel. She bit down hard, but when Kaito tried to scream halfway through, Miku lost it and had to run out of the area and get rid of her laughter. She could still hear him singing though, and had to stay away until the final high-pitched shriek.

She came back when she heard the cheering at the end, finally being able to laugh without being heard. "Good job," she told Kaito. "That wasn't nearly as good as my impression of you though."

Kaito looked at her with a skeptical smile. "Yeah, because I definitely required assistance while I was singing. You, Miss, have a laughing problem." He really didn't mind her laughing at all though. It was much better than her parading around silently like she was in fact the princess of the world.

After about three hours, everyone had gotten a chance to sing, and round two began. Apparently the goal was to find five singers who all wanted to sing the same song and do their best to harmonize. Kaito, Miku, Rin, Len, and Haku instantly agreed to sing together. "What should we sing, though?" asked Rin.

"Well, something we all feel the same about," Len said, though that much was fairly obvious.

"Maybe something that's already a duet by a guy and a girl, so that we all have ranges we can reach?" Haku suggested.

"Ah! Kaito! Remember that song that Rin and Len sang together and then you and I sang together, and it was the same tune but different song?" Miku asked excitedly. Kaito nodded. "We could sing that! We can ask for our song, and Haku can read the words for my part; Rin and Len should know their song, and we can sing it all at once! It could sound pretty cool," Miku decided.

"OK, I like it," Rin said happily. "Shall we go up there now? No one else has gotten a group together yet." The fours others nodded and they went onstage and Miku told Meiko what song they wanted. They began singing and found that Miku was right, it sounded really good. At the end of the song, as they were getting off the stage, Meiko smiled at them.

"Clever," was all she said.

"I wonder if this is what a concert is like," thought Miku. "I'm not becoming scary-Miku yet, so maybe that was just a phase, and I won't have a problem with it again," she thought happily. Scary-Miku seemed to have become the name for when she acted like she hated everyone.

As the afternoon turned into evening, and the evening turned into night, the karaoke session just became a free-for-all, and no one ever got tired of it, because singing was what they were all made to do. However, Rin and Len, who had been up for almost twenty hours straight without ever having done that before, started to get tired. Miku agreed to go with them back to her room, and said her last good-byes of Christmas to Kaito and Haku.

Rin and Len, now giddy with exhaustion, trudged their way back to the room. Before they fell asleep in their beds, Miku asked, "So, did you guys have fun today?" She wasn't completely sure if she'd get an understandable response.

"Oh definitely," said Len, "I love singing about taking my panties off."

There are two types of people: those who can tell a joke with a straight face, and those who laugh at their own jokes. I would be the latter. I thought this chapter was hilarious, but you know, that's just me xD

Merry early Christmas?