That's The World?!『A Hetalia FanFic』

Chapter 44~ Grateful Love

Kimiko-chan left the next morning with a hearty goodbye. I was really sad that she had to leave, but she said that she would come over again to visit.

Kiku-san let me watch more of Power Puff Girls Z along with other anime that he suggested to me. I asked him about Shingeki No Kyojin but he told me that I would have to be a little older to watch that. I ended up watching a few episodes of Ouran Highschool Host Club, Lucky Star, and he even introduced me to some main stream anime like One Piece and Dragon Ball.

Afterwards we took a break and started a conversation. We talked about anime characters and manga. He told me that he would show me some manga that I would like. Although, there was one thing on my mind from yesterday that bugged me.

"Kiku-san," I asked, "D-Did you know about th-the fight before I told y-you? I mean... how did--"

"I know when to take the picture? Shitsurei shimasu for interrupting," he answered, "I have speciar senses for ships and rerationships. But I did not know about the fight untir you tord me about it."
(Excuse me/I'm sorry)

"Oh... okay, th-that's all I wanted to kn-know."

A silence passed us as he went to the other side of the room to retrieve something. When he returned, he had a pair of anime styled headphones. He set them in my lap and pulled out his phone. Then he plugged the cord into it. I'm not sure what he was doing but he politely told me to put them on.

"You can understand Japanese, right?" he asked.

I nodded, since nothing was playing I could hear him. He did something with his phone then some music started playing. There was a girl singing in Japanese, but her voice sounded different than a human's. She could hit notes higher and lower than any human I know. Although her words were meaningful and they were soothing to me. I couldn't help but to smile sadly when the song ended, I wanted to hear more of her.

I took the headphones off of my head and asked Kiku-san for the name of the singer.

"Her name is Hatsune Miku, she's a Vocaroid," he explained.

"Wh-What is Vocaloid?" I cocked my head to the side.

"Vocaroid is a singing voice synthesizer computer program. There are many different Vocaroids that have been created over the years. The most known today are Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Len, Megurine Luka, Gumi Megpoid, Kaito, and Meiko."

"So... p-people make these s-songs... and th-they sing them?"

"Hai, some of them can sing in Engrish too. Personarry, I prefer to risten to Kaito. I arways berieved in him from the start."

"Did s-something happen to m-make people not b-believe in him?"

"Kaito is a comprimentary mare vocar for Meiko. When he first came out in 2006, he was acknowredged as a commerciar fairure and had poor sares compared to Meiko. But, I arways berieved that he wourdn't be the fairure that the media carred him to be. Soon, his sares spiked up and peopre began to rove him. With the herp of Amerika-san, Kaito became more popular and cherished."

I was astonished that something so different could exist. Even though they weren't human, they could sing like one. I could easily understand them and hear what they had to say. I accepted them for what they are and was eager to hear more of their songs.

"Wourd you rike to risten to some of Kaito's songs?" He asked as he searched through his phone.

"Yes please~!" I chimed.

~ After venturing into Vocaloid ~

"You are a rearry good singer," Kiku-san caught me singing along.