Chapter 8

Catching up

Masami didn't get another call from the Supervisor. She wanted to talk to Yui, but it turned out that she was off doing her first concert as a Vocaloid 4. IA was also out, and Masami discovered that IA had chosen a home close to Gumi. As she was searching the city, she heard someone call to her.

"Masami! Masami, what are you doing today? Got any plans?" Miku asked her.

Masami shook her head, "No, not really. How about you?"

Miku smiled, "No, I'm not doing anything either. Actually, I'd like to show you around the city, if you want."

Masami nodded, smiling, "Yes, please Miku."

Miku turned, and gestured back at her to follow. "Alright, right now you're in the industrial section of the city. See that skyscraper? Right behind it is Teto-chan's house. She's a cool person. Teto-chan knows some jokes that could make you roll around on the ground for hours. We're also around where Neru Akita lives, but I don't talk to her much. Kinda superior attitude sometimes. I tried to be friendly and all, but the only person she listens to is Luka. If you haven't already figured it out, Luka sort of keeps everyone together. No one fights around Luka. Continuing on, over that way is the hospital, where Gumi lives. She's an amazing person, and a great singer. Over that way, near the market, is where the V3's live. They're really good people, but Len doesn't like that they chose to live so far apart from everyone else. He's a bit exaggerative at times. Over that way is our neighborhood. That's pretty much the entire city, at least all the places that are populated."

Masami nodded, not certain she caught all of Miku's spiel. Miku could really talk!

Miku looked up at the sun. "I think it might be time that Yui is back. I can sense that you two had a lot to talk about. How do you guys know each other? Did you meet when you were alive?"

Masami shook her head, "No, we met after we died."

Miku tilted her head, "But… how did that happen? I mean, you died! How could you meet after that?"

"Long story." Masami sighed.

Miku nodded, "Okay. You can tell me later though, right? Masami-chan is such an interesting person!"

Masami laughed, "Thank you. I'll see you later, Miku nee-chan."

Masami knocked on Yui's door, and sure enough the girl was there. "Hey Masami! What's happening? Hey, I just did a concert! In front of hundreds of people! It was awesome!"

Masami nodded, "What song did you do?"

"The first song I did with GlDeMo, and the last song you wrote, Thousand Enemies!"

Masami tilted her head, "Hm? You did a song with GlDeMo?"

Yui nodded enthusiastically, "I was the lead singer and guitarist for a while! Just like you, nya!"

Masami nodded, "So how are Hisako, Irie and Sekine?"

"They're all doing pretty well. We haven't done much of anything since you passed except for causing Angel to lose her position and a baseball tournament! It was really fun though. Then there was High Tension Syndrome, which… wasn't so fun in the end as it was in the beginning, and we caught the stream monster, well, Angel did, and we fought off a ton of Angel clones! They were all really mean. But we had to go down into the guild to save the real Angel, there was lots of screaming and sacrificing and that kid whose name I never can remember died, and Hinata died, haha it was kinda fun to push him into that sword…"

Masami knew there was more after that, but it all blurred into one insanely confusing prattle that couldn't have been pulled off by anyone but Yui.

"Wait, I just got a thought… did you get obliterated too?" Anything to stop the drabbling girl.

"Well, sort of. That's what we used to call it, right? Well, it's not so much getting obliterated as it is passing on to the next life. I must say this isn't what I expected in the least when it happened."

"Really? So… how did you pass on, Yui?"

"Otonashi-kun helped me. See, when someone passes on, it means they fulfilled their last wish from life. I was completely paralyzed in life, so my only wish was to be strong. I had so much fun with Otonashi-kun! And Sempai said he would marry me! It was all so fast, but I loved all of it!"

"Sempai?" Masami asked.

"Oh, Hinata, of course."

"Well… didn't know he could talk to girls, much less propose."

"Yeah, he's a bit awkward like that, but he was really sweet." Yui giggled.

"That sounds more like the Hinata I know." Masami laughed.

"Yeah. I wonder if more people we know are going to appear. That would be great!" Yui smiled.

"Yeah, it would, but it's also really improbable. I mean, you being here was probably a coincidence." Masami sighed.

"I don't think so." Yui blurted.

"How could it not be? The Supervisor had no idea of the afterlife's existence. How could he have known who was there? Just watch, the next V4 will be a complete stranger."

"I think the Supervisor is hiding something. I don't know what, but something about him is amiss. I aim to find out, or my name isn't Yui, nya!"

Masami laughed, "I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of it, Yui."

"You betcha!" Yui barked.

"Hey, now that we're on the same page, how's about we go see about these V3's everyone's always talking about?" Masami asked.

"Sure! We should probably see Gumi first. She sounds the most sociable. Then Monaca. I want to get her out of her shell!" Yui smiled.

Masami nodded, "You'd probably do the best with that."

Yui gave a small grunt of agreement, and they went off to see the Vocaloid 3's.

Yui monologue xD gotta love it whenever Yui is in the story.