Disclaimer- I am not CLAMP. I am not anyone you will recognize. I have no relationship with Chobits, and have no claim to it. This is not written for commercial distribution, it is written for fun and recreational purposes. To stress the point I have no claims to anything related to the anime/manga Chobits.
Title- Love is just a word.
Summary- It is four years after Chi declares Hideki as her 'One just for me'. Hideki and Chi have married. The world around them seems to have returned to a normal pace. Of course, they consider adopting a child. But, when they do adopt a child, they are given a traumatized six-year old who hates persacoms.
Character Histories (Since the anime's final episode.)
Motosawa Hideki-(after two years of struggle) graduated college, becoming a mechanic, specializing in persacoms. He did this for Chi's benefit. He married Chi three weeks after graduating. He managed to save up enough money to buy a home for he and Chi, with no rent, only a few blocks away from Hibiya's apartment complex.
'Motosawa' Chi- married Hideki after he graduated. Hibiya, who technical mother, decided to relieve some pressure on their relationship by giving her a refit, giving her human ears and replacing the old ears with a panel in the back of her head. Other than this, she continues working at the Ueda's bakery and living with Hideki. Chi has actually matured quite a lot, and shows an addicting aura of happiness,
'Motosawa' Kenichi- is a traumatized six-year old boy whose parents were killed by a malfunctioning persacom. Just after killing his mother, the police arrived and shot it in the back. He is ironically adopted by Hideki and Chi.
Hiromu Shimbo and Takako Shimizu- wed and moved out of Tokyo, taking Sumomo with them.
Minoruu and Yuzuki continued their life as they had before meeting Hideki and Chi.
Omura Yumi and Hiroyasu Ueda- wed, continuing to run the bakery.
Kotoko stayed with Hideki, as an 'official' gift from Kojima.
Yoshiyuki Kojima continued with his life as normal, staying 'friends' with Hideki.
'Thought.'
"Speech."
"Written Messages, Intercoms, etc."
AN: Now all that's over, how about I actually start writing.
Chapter I- Sono Toko Mugen (The Endless Rain)
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It was a typical Motosawa dinner in the dining room. The polished wood floor and light green walls were draped in silence while the occupants ate, until one of them interrupted the silence's reign.
"Hideki?"
"Yes Chi?" He replied distractedly.
"Can we have a child?"
"Eh-heh heh. Chi..-"
"I mean, can we adopt one?"
"Well.. yeah, if you want. Taking on a child is a big responsibility you kn-"
"Chi is up to it!" She said, smiling with an enthusiastic nod. As if to try and erase her cheer, it started raining.
"Well, let's at least wait a while. We're not exactly prepared to take on a child. I mean, first off, we don't even have the fridge stocked up, and the extra rooms are dusty, even the guest room.."
"Can we visit the orphanage at least?" She asked, she and Hideki had talked about it before.
"Well, I don't see why not. 'It's normal for couples interested in adoption to visit the orphanage at least a few times, right?"
And so they left the house, carrying a large umbrella between their hands as they walked to the orphanage. "I don't think you're ready to teach a young child, so let's look for one at least five or so."
"Okay."
They were spared the odd looks a human/persacom couple would normally be given by the fact that Chi didn't really look like a persacom anymore, and didn't when they were wed. Before they knew it, they arrived at one of the city's orphanages, and as the rain still fell, they walked inside.
It was a kind of dank place, but that was probably just the rain. There was a group of children in the corner, circled around a young woman who was telling them a story. She apparently heard them enter, no doubt courtesy of the creaking door. She gave them a signal 'Just a minute' and finished the book, before ushering the children into another room, which was quickly filled with laughter and such sounds of happy children at play.
"Keep It down, the little ones are asleep!" She scolded as she walked towards Chi and Hideki, who had been waiting patiently. "Hello, I'm Suzuki Miyouri! How may I help you?"
Miyouri wore a light purple night gown shirt with a long white skirt, and had long black hair which was tied into a braid, starting at the back of her head. Her eyes were forest green and full of life as she waited for an answer from Hideki, who realized he was staring, Chi looking at him curiously.
"Ah-haha, we were interested in adopting a child." He said shakily, gaining a light chuckle from Miyouri.
"What kind of child are you interested in.." She trailed off as Chi had disappeared, to Hideki's dismay.
"Chi? Aw, why do you always do this!" He shouted as he looked around the room, until he noticed the door to the room Miyouri had taken the kids to was open.
Hideki and Miyouri walked to the play area, where all the kids were staring at a corner where Chi was talking to a boy, sitting in the fetal position, his head up to look Chi in the eyes. Chi said something and the boy smiled. Chi noticed Hideki and walked over, the boy trailing her like a shy child, hiding behind her legs. "Chi thinks we should adopt him!" She declared excitedly.
Hideki sighed, obviously not expecting to end up doing this so soon.
Miyouri intervened timely, "Well, if you'll just follow me.. there are some papers to fill out.." She trailed off as Hideki and Chi followed her, going through the procedure and eventually leaving, with the boy following them.
Soon, they arrived at the house. "You can stay in the guest room for now, we haven't furnished any of the extra rooms." Hideki started. The boy nodded and was led to his room by Chi, who cleaned it up a little for him.
..And so Chi and Hideki become the adopted parents of a young child.
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AN: Sorry if I ended a little badly, but its past midnight here, so yeah. Well, please review. If you read any of my other stories, you'll know this is obviously something I don't do a lot.