A.I. Love You Not
I thought this would be a good story. Not a great one, but a good one. I took some elements from Chobits, but I have crossovers so I melded some of their elements to this story. I do not own Naruto or Chobits.
"She is of the highest forms of Artificial intelligence, a model I've been working on for years now."
"Really now, what's her name?"
"I thought I'd leave that to you, come and see."
They entered a large complex with screens along the walls and a large cylinder in the middle of the room.
"Go on, take a closer look."
The woman went toward the cylinder. She touched the glass lightly, which caused it to retract to the ceiling.
The girl was a blonde with smooth, tanned skin and cute little marks on her face that resembled whiskers. Her eyes were closed and her arms were crossed over her chest. She looked innocent that way.
"Hello……..my Naruno-Chan."
At once, the girl's eyes opened. They were a crystalline, cerulean blue. The young girl smiled at her and extended her arms.
"You are my mother? You hug me now?"
The woman, overwhelmed by joy, took the young girl into her arms. "I am your mother! Oh Rai, you made my so happy!"
Sasuke bopped his head to the beat of the music. He was a student at the nearby tech college, when he wasn't ditching that is. His parents were dead and his brother decided to kick him out five years later. Ever since then, he was a loner and no one could tell him otherwise. All the other tenants avoided him whenever possible and even the landlady wanted nothing to do with him.
"Let's see…..I have two thousand for my weekly allowance." Sasuke counted the money carefully. "If I starve, I can get those new upgrades for my Xenon."
He looked lovingly up at the tiny female computer.
His laptop, dubbed Roxas, was a tiny brunette with dark hair and bluish eyes. She wore a short, black dress with white tights and a ribbon in her hair. She was lying in her own little bed in sleep mode.
Xenon were computers with the shape of humans. The more expensive the Xenon, the more emotions they came with. Normally, no one wanted emotional Xenon, but they sold anyway, partly to show off how wealthy you are.
Roxas was one of those Xenon, but personally primped and tailored to suit Sasuke's taste. In a way, Roxas was the girlfriend he'd never have. Nonetheless, he preferred her company to anyone else's.
Sasuke turned up the music after her heard someone banging on the door. His favorite pastime was to piss off the other tenants just as they pissed him off. So far, no one dared top him, but that didn't stop him from making each prank more vicious and harsher than the last.
Sasuke returned home on a dark, windy night. A year later, he managed to pass the tech school, only to return to take more courses in Xenon technology.
His teaches were not happy about this and did their best to ignore him. Sasuke took this as challenge and made certain they did acknowledge him. A few horrible pranks and an arrest later, there wasn't a student or teacher there who didn't rise of bow when in his presence.
"I hope Roxas will like this; new upgrades always make her happy."
He took the route down the alley, navigating though like a stealthy master thief.
As he made his way to the latter, he tripped over something.
"Aah, son of a bitch!" reaching down to inspect his foot, he touched something smooth and soft. "The hell…….."
He took out his mini-light and looked around. It was then that he saw her.
"Hey Roxas, you up yet?"
"I am; I have been waiting for you Sasuke."
Roxas sat on her bed, running through her files for modification. Her hair was now in ponytails and her dress was a midnight blue.
"Well, wait no longer." Sasuke dropped the girl onto the bed and quickly rushed over to her. "I got you a new upgrade. You'll be able to become a full-sized Xenon in a few weeks with this."
"Thank you Sasuke, you always think of me." Roxas smiled and hugged his finger.
Sasuke always wondered what if would feel like to have her hug him the right way.
"Sasuke, who is that Xenon? Do we have another guest?"
"No; I found her in the garbage. I thought I could salvage her for spare parts to keep you up."
"How kind, but I do believe you should wake that girl."
"What for? It's just another dumb blonde Xenon."
"Maybe, but it would be terribly rude to take her apart without her consent."
Sasuke sighed and looked back at the Xenon in mild interest.
"If I must, but I'm only doing it for you."
After a few minutes, Sasuke was close to chucking to Xenon back out.
"Where the heck is that button? It's not where it's supposed to be or anywhere else!"
"You haven't tried between her legs." Roxas read a book way too large for her. "That's the one place you haven't looked."
"That's stupid and unreasonable." Sasuke peeled back the fabric the Xenon was wrapped in and peered inside. "But what the hell? This is what you get looking in the trash."
Sasuke reached inside and flipped a switch.
Suddenly, the wrapping dissolved and the Xenon's eyes fluttered open.
"……….Who are you?"
"Xenons don't ask questions when they are turned on. You must be broken."
"I am broken? I do not feel broken." the Xenon stood up. "I must know the name of my new master. You are my new master?"
"I am your nothing. I need your parts for Roxas, that's all."
The Xenon frowned, "If you do this, I will die; I do not want to die."
"This one is strange Sasuke." Roxas turned to the Xenon. "What is your name? Were you programmed with one?"
The Xenon strangely grasped the hair that covered her chest. "I do not have a name. This person will name me?" she pointed to Sasuke. "This person will give me a name?"
"I will give you nothing. Do what you want; I need to upgrade Roxas." Sasuke went over to the minute Xenon. "And don't touch anything!"
The Xenon looked questionably at the human before sitting down on the floor. A strange feeling swept over her. The circuitry in her head was somehow moving at a slower pace.
"I feel strange…….like everything is slowing down, and the circuits in my chest are tightening."
"That feeling is loneliness." answered Roxas, "You feel alone; by yourself."
Sasuke grunted, but continued to give his Xenon a full synopsis.
"I shall give you a name……." Roxas searched the internet at rapid speed until something caught her eye. She couldn't slow down to see all of it because she was going through her examination.
"I shall call you……Naruno. Would you like that?"
"So….you found a Xenon in the trash? What's the story on that?"
"Someone just chucked it by my apartment. Figures; thing was useless! Had no data or anything!"
"Well…..what are you going to do with her?"
"Don't know. I should just scrap her for parts, but that wouldn't make Roxas very happy."
"You are head over heels for that Xenon. If I weren't so sure you hated body contact, I'd assume you'd marry Roxas."
'That doesn't sound too bad……' thought Sasuke
He and Shika were walking to his home from school.
Shika was a protégé known all around town as the go-to guy for Xenon technology. Though he was not as smart as Sasuke, he held his own, having six full-sized Xenons at his disposal. Sasuke didn't envy him one bit, Shika did the same.
"Wanna come up and see it? We can't open her up in front of Roxas, but we can tinker with her a little."
"Sure, why not? Going home to a bunch of moody women is such a drag."
They entered the apartment building and took the stairs up to his floor. When he entered his room, he was greeted with a strange sight.
Naruno was doing aerobics in the nude with a dress shirt tied around her waist.
"Up…….up……up……..up…….down……down…….over……..over………."
"……..she broken or something?"
'That's what I'm thinking. Didn't I tell you to not touch my stuff?!"
Naruno stopped, then turned to him with a happy-go-lucky expression. "Up is this way,"
She pointed to the ceiling, "Down is that way!"
"Fascinating………Sasuke, fix her up with at least some dictionary software."
"None of my money is going to something I just fished out of the trash."
Naruno's smile melted into a frown. She didn't understand exactly, but the tone he used suggested that she had done something wrong.
"Naru do bad? Naru is a bad girl?"
Shika couldn't help but feel a little bad for her. Sasuke, however, could.
"Do not touch anything, do you hear me?"
Sasuke went over to Roxas and took her out of sleep mode. "Hey there…….ready to test out some of that new software?"
Naru's frown crept into her eyes. Shika saw this and gave her a small pat on the back.
"Don't worry, he's always like this."
"He likes Roxas."
"She has been with him a long time."
"He hates me?"
Shika didn't know what to say, but gave her one more pat and exited the apartment. Naruno looked back over at Sasuke and saw that he had forgotten all about her. Hurt, Naruno crawled into a small corner.
Roxas seemed to be the only one who saw her and silently felt for her.
"Going out again Sasuke?"
"Since when do you care? I told you not to follow me!"
Naruno, still bare, hid behind the landlady.
The landlady gasped, but stayed silent.
Without a word, Sasuke left, chatting idly with an upset Roxas.
"I know Sasuke is unreasonable at times, but it will get better."
"Sasuke hates me. I do not exist to him."'
"Oh Naruno……..I wish I could take away your pain, but he would not like it."
Naruno looked all around the room. The décor was cream and brown; fresh and sophisticated.
"I have some clothes for you and some books if you get lonely. You will be able to melt his heart; I know you will."
Naruno looked around. "His heart does not belong to me."
"It will Naruno, it will."
Naruno nodded, then looked over at a desk. It held an overturned picture.
Curious, Naruno picked it up.
"These books will teach you the basics and these clothes should keep you. I'll bring the rest later."
Naruno quickly placed the picture back down and accepted the clothes.
"Thank you landlady ma'am."
"Please, call me Tsunade."
For some reason, Naruno's face lit up. "Tsunade ma'am!"
That night, Sasuke came in, a little drunk and dragging a chick on his arm.
"Oh my god that was a great party!" she girl swung a bottle of tequila around.
"……..Get your crap out of the way! Go read in a corner or something!"
Naruno, clad in a pink, velvet dress, quickly scuttled out of the way. She read about this behavior in an old romance novel. "Drunkenness" I think they called it.
Huddled into her usual corner, she watched Sasuke and the woman as they went through a series of activities and movements. Checking the novels for reverence, she came to an innocent conclusion. Well, innocent to her.
"Is is sex?"
After watching them for sometime, she went back to her books, choosing one with a solid black cover. Opening it, she was sucked into a world of wonder and memories.
"I am the voice that quells your fears……."
"I am the sound that brings you sleep……"
Roxas (borrowed name)