What am I doing wrong in this Mongoose unique pre-save validation?

I'm trying to create a User model, that has an unique username. Here's the code for it:

var mongoose = require("mongoose");

var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

var UserSchema = new Schema({
    username: String,
    password: String,
});

UserSchema.virtual("password_confirmation").get(function() {
    return this.pw_conf;
}).set(function(value) {
    this.pw_conf = value;
});

UserSchema.path("username").required(true);
UserSchema.path("password").required(true);

UserSchema.pre("save",function(next, done) {
    var self = this;
    mongoose.models["User"].findOne({username : self.username},function(err, user) {
        if(user) {
            self.invalidate("user","username must be unique");
        }
        done();
    });
    next();
});

UserSchema.pre("save",function(next) {
    if(this.pw_conf !== this.password) {
        next(new Error("Must specify the password confirmation"));
    }
    else {
        next();
    }
});

module.exports = mongoose.model("User",UserSchema);

I was also testing to see if the uniqueness works:

var User = require("./users"),
  mongoose = require("mongoose");
var u = new User();

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/my_database');

u.username = "me";
u.password = "password";
u.password_confirmation = "password";
u.save(function(err) {
    if(err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
    mongoose.disconnect();
});

Problem is, it doesn't. Each time I run the code, I get a new object created. I am aware that there are probably other ways of ensuring uniqueness, but I'd like to do it in this way. Shouldn't I be calling done after I handle the result of the findOne method? Am I calling next wrong?