This chapter is optional, if you just wanted to see a small glimpse of what happened after the concert. It's sort of a bonus chapter, because it really isn't necessary to the story, it's just fun. Enjoy, the final final chapter.
"Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi h-"
The hi's were abruptly stopped as Miku put her hand over Kanon's mouth.
"What is this?" Rin asked, standing next to Miku.
"A surprise-welcome-back-good-job-you're-awesome-party," Momo said happily. "Kanon named it."
Miku took another look at everybody that was crammed into her room. It was basically everyone she knew, and outside in the halls, apparently all of the other Vocaloids and Utauloids stood.
"So...let me get this straight," Miku started. "I packed up my stuff and left the concert, came back here, and suddenly was confronted with this...scene... when I might want to get some rest?"
"Oh she's just being picky," Rin said. "She slept a LOT during the time we were at the concert."
"Well what do you guys plan to do for my surprise-welcome-back-good-job-you're-awesome-party?" Miku asked.
"Well, I thought we should give speeches for you but I guess people are lazy around here or something..." Kanon said. "But your friends wanted to have a GIANT go-fish tournament."
Miku narrowed her eyes and looked straight at Kaito. He smiled, not looking regretful. "Yes," Kaito said, pausing to cough. "Her friends suggested that. It was a group effort."
"You guys are terrible at coming up with party ideas..." Miku mumbled.
SeeU walked over and nudged her. "Don't act like that. We all know you love this attention," she said, winking.
"So, the tournament will be at the stage. Everyone, out!" Yuki directed, from somewhere in Miku's room.
"Why go-fish? Just...why?" Miku asked Rin and Len in exasperation as she walked down the hall, carried by the movement of everyone else.
"Well, it seems like a funny idea to me," Len said. "There's really not much else to do around here, you know."
Miku shrugged. "I guess so. I wonder if Kaito had some sort of major go-fish lessons while we were gone," she said with a small laugh.
The three friends finally arrived at the designated area, complete with tons of tables set of with decks of cards.
"Come in and find a table, please," came a voice from onstage. Kaito had somehow already made it to the stage, and was directing everyone around. "As soon as everyone's seated, I'll explain how this will work, and we can get started."
After about fifteen minutes, everyone found a seat and the talking had died down sufficiently, and Kaito once again picked up the microphone. "Now, this is how we'll do this. Each table should have four people, and out of those people, there will be one winner. That winner must find three other winners and join them at a table," he instructed.
"The other three that didn't win will each find a winner to support. If the person they choose to support doesn't win the next game, they must follow that person to whoever he or she chooses to support. This way, we should eventually have one final game with plenty of supporters for each person," Kaito continued. "And...start!"
With that, the silence finally ended and everyone began to play. Miku had found herself at a table with Rin, Len, and Teto.
"It's a shame we all ended up at one table, because we can't all win," Miku said with a smile and a competitive edge to her voice.
"Yeah well you can't win, because that'd be too predictable," Rin taunted.
"Well then if you win, I'm sure not supporting you," Miku joked.
They began playing, and within the next thirty minutes, Len had been declared the winner.
"That's definitely not fair," Rin said, pouting.
"Well I'll be supporting him," Miku said. "Are you both going to?" she asked Rin and Teto. Teto nodded.
"Ha, I'll be supporting Yuki over there. She seems to be winning, and it looks like her game's almost over," Rin said with a playful smirk in Len's direction. "I bet Yuki will get further than Len."
"I'll take you up on that bet," Len said indignantly. "What are we betting?"
"Oh dear," Miku mumbled.
"Loser must sleep in the hallway," Rin declared. Len nodded.
Miku shook her head slowly. After a couple more minutes, it seemed that everyone had finished the first game, and Kaito walked to the stage. "Can I get all the winners up on stage, please?"
Len joined the other winners up on stage, and Miku watched as they agreed on who would play against who. Everyone watched the winners, and after they had found their way to tables, Vocaloids and Utauloids immediately went to support their winner.
Len had ended up with Defoko, Gumi, and a pink haired Vocaloid who introduced herself as IA. Miku spotted Momo and Mako behind Defoko. She caught Momo's eye and smiled, and Momo beamed in response.
"OK everybody, you have to let Len win here," Miku announced. "He'll have to sleep outside his own room if he doesn't."
Defoko gave Miku a funny look. "I'm kidding," Miku added. Then she leaned down to whisper to Len. "Channel all your go-fish talent...you must win!"
Len laughed. "OK, but you're not the one who has to sleep on the floor so I don't know what you're so worked up over."
Somehow Len and IA ended up tying, and Miku ran around trying to find Kaito to see if that counted as winning. When she found Kaito, he confirmed that Len and IA could both go on, and Miku felt triumphant.
After that game, there were only 16 winners left, as there were supposed to be. Len, Yuki, Haku, SeeU, Miki, Ran, IA, Kaito, Piko, and Makoto had made it, along with Vocaloids named VY1, Lily, and Iroha, and Utauloids named Sora, Ted, and Ruko.
The crowds around each contestant were much larger, and Miku followed Len to a table where SeeU, Lily, and Ted were also competing. After staring for a moment, Miku realized that Ted looked like Teto, and they were probably like Rin and Len.
"Teto, why didn't you go support Ted when he won?" Miku asked.
"It's a big room, and I honestly didn't know he had won," Teto said, giggling. "Rin knew Len had won, and she didn't even support him."
Miku saw SeeU trying to get her attention. "MIKU! I'm your roommate, and you couldn't come support me?" SeeU pretended to look her. Miku smiled and shrugged.
"Len was my first roommate, remember?"
SeeU stuck out her tongue, but turned back to the game as it started. Some supporters cheered for their winner, but Miku just watched in silence. She tried to catch a glimpse of Yuki's game a few times, but there were too many supporters in the way.
The tension started to build as the game advanced and it became obvious that either SeeU or Len would win. Miku glanced in vain at the other table, where supporters were also starting to cheer. A shout came from one table. "Kaito won over here!" A small round of cheers came from his supporters. Miku rolled her eyes.
The game ended, and Len came out victorious once again. Miku jumped up and down with excitement. She pushed her way through the crowd to see how Yuki's table was doing. Just as Miku got to Rin, Yuki stood victoriously. Miku sighed as Rin turned and laughed when she saw Miku. "If one of them doesn't win, the bet won't be any fun!"
It was unnecessary to announce the winners, since everybody seemed to know. A table was carried up on stage, and Kaito, Yuki, Len, and the fourth winner, Ruko, sat down around it.
Kaito got up again and grabbed the microphone. "Since we can't all fit on stage, each winner can pick two supporters to come and stand behind them, so that they don't get lonely," he announced. "For my two supporters, I'll have Haku and Gakupo."
As his two choices hurried up on stage, Kaito handed the microphone to Yuki. She stood up. "Rin and Luka," she said, smiling.
"Neru and Ritsu," Ruko said.
Len took the microphone. "Miku and SeeU."
Miku walked up on stage and met SeeU behind Len. "So you decided to support him too, hm?" Miku asked quietly, and poked SeeU playfully.
"Only because you're supporting him!"
"Why do you sound so defensive?" Miku taunted. She turned to Len. "Remember, if you win this, Rin will have finally lost to you!" she said optimistically.
"Finally?" Len rolled his eyes. The game began, and SeeU and Miku watched the four players. The rest of the Vocaloids and Utauloids watched eagerly from offstage.
"Len, do you have any fives?" Kaito was asking.
"Go fish."
"Yuki, do you have any aces?" Ruko asked. Yuki handed her a card. "Kaito, do you have any aces?"
"Go fish," he replied.
"Yuki, do you have any fours?" Len asked. Yuki handed him a card. "Ruko, do you have any fours?"
"Go fish."
Ten minutes later, Len and Kaito had collected two books each, Ruko had one, and Yuki still had nothing.
"Kaito, do you have any threes?" Yuki asked. Kaito handed her two cards. "Yes! One book," she said victoriously.
Miku and SeeU both cheered when Len got yet another book. The deck was getting smaller, and the game would have to be ending soon. When Kaito got another book, his supporters cheered. Miku looked up at Haku, who smiled and shrugged.
Suddenly all of the cards that Yuki had been drawing found their matches. She collected three books in a row, pushing her into the lead. The only cards left were in the hands of Kaito and Len. It was Kaito's turn next.
Kaito smiled. "Sorry Len, do you have any jacks?"
Len groaned and handed Kaito the two cards he was holding. Rin cheered along with the rest of Kaito's supporters as Len glared at her. She giggled. Miku patted Len on the shoulder as he walked down offstage.
"It's OK Len. I'll sleep in the hallway so you don't get lonely," she said, laughing.
"Wait what about me?" SeeU demanded. "I'm sleeping in the hallway too then."
"Miku's having a sleepover?" Yuki asked. "Sounds like a good idea to me."
"No no no..." Len said, but no one was listening to him.
"Hey Haku, do you want to have a sleepover with us in the hallway?" Yuki was asking.
Too many invitations later, Len had indirectly convinced Miku, SeeU, Yuki, Haku, Kaito, Gakupo, Ran, Momo, Defoko, Kanon, Mako, Makoto, Piko, Teto, and finally, Rin, to have a 'sleepover' in the hall outside his room.
Miku sighed as she watched Rin run off to find Meiko and ask for sleeping bags. She nudged Len. "It's kind of fun to be so famous sometimes, isn't it?"
-Crying- ...don't mind me...just being emotional...about the end of the story...
Good news though, I'll probably end up writing a sequel, and it'll probably have more romance in it. It won't be centered around the same group, though. So you can look forward to that, though it'll be a while before I write that. For now, thanks for reading [and reviewing, if you did] my story!
