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my touch is artificial, my breath artificial, my life is artificial,
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"Robots!" blares the commercial loudly. "The future is here! Today we live in luxury due to our friends, the robots!"
A cartoon robot dances on the screen joyfully, holding a broom and a dustpan. "Thanks to robots, we no longer have to take the time to do the minor jobs that are simply an inconvenience to mankind!"
The robot begins to sweep up random grey dust clouds and the view pans out to show off a multitude of robots doing dangerous or tedious jobs. One cartoon robot is a car safety test robot, and the car he's in slams against a wall, blowing up. Somehow, the cartoon maintains it's cheerful attitude.
Another robot is in a mine underneath the sweeping bots feet, constantly hitting the stone with a pickax but smiling lively. Another robot is watching after a toddler and a baby, feeding the baby with it's artificial breast. The toddler holds it's hands, the animated bubble words of 'I love robots!' floating above his head.
"If you ever feel bad for a robot, don't! They love their jobs as much as they love us!" the feminine voice informs.
"And when a robot malfunctions, simply get them rebooted!" a cartoon human who looked an awful lot like a mechanic reaches into the back of a twitching robot and pressed an emphasized red button with the word 'REBOOT' in bold letters above it. The robot jolted suddenly then went limp, eyes glowing green and a loading screen appearing on it's sensors. After three seconds, it straightened up, giving a thumbs up to the screen.
"The reboot not working? Send it to the spare part foundation, where they'll reuse your old robot to make an entirely brand new one!" A robot tinted green with a thermometer in its mouth and a heating pack on it's head is sent to a cartoon 'Spare Part Foundation' where it's placed on a conveyor belt. At the end of the conveyor belt is a box full of fire and as the robot got closer, more robots on the side of the conveyor belt popped open it's technical hat and power-core hatch. The robots yanked out a mass of wires, tangled with motherboards and data cards. It's power core was tugged out as well and the robot slumped over, useless and empty.
From there, the conveyor belt pushed it forward into the box of fire. On the side of the box, a facet poked out, and underneath that, a pan. Suddenly, melted metal oozed from the facet, pouring into bowl below it with the remnants of the old robot.
Once more, another robot comes onto the screen and picks up the pan, and carries it over to a metal mold where the metal is poured inside said mold. Before you could tell what is going on with the metal and the mold, the screen quickly flips to a bunch of robots organizing the mass of wires, motherboards and data cards. When the data cards were finished organizing, a robot took them to a computer to remove all the data, after that, the container of data cards were placed to the side.
Suddenly a new robot zooms past, collecting some wires, motherboards and cleaned data cards. The screen follows this robot into another room where a group of programming bots work, taking the data cards, wires and motherboards and programming them correctly before carefully arranging the mess of wires, data cards and motherboards into a whole system. A basket of power cores sit next to them and they are tested carefully.
Finally, the screen flips to taking the new technical system along with a power core, and the robot mold onto the screen with a bright blue background. A plus sign appears between the technical system with the power core and the metal mold before an equals sign appears right after the robot mold and a brand new robot cartoon appears on the end, waving happily.
"But that's not all, there are many different types of robots!" the peppy voice proclaims and the screen fades into an entirely new one. A clunky, silver robot stands on the edge of the screen, a whole line of different robots presented to the audience. Next to that robot is a thinner robot, silver holding a dust pan and broom like the one in the beginning. Some robots are tiny, things like the vacuum robot or cleaning bots (Not to be confused with the sweeper/trash bots), others are huge like the construction bots who stand confidently, righting buildings.
"And today's more modern robots, the AI bots!" The perky tone cries happily. The screen switches to that of a red curtain, just as it pulls back to reveal several robot examples.
One example is a busty lady with purple hair, waving flirtatiously-A pleasure bot. Another stands in a uniform blowing into a whistle, smiling and winking at the screen as it salutes-A safety protocol robot. The next robot watches after two children, the robot from earlier. She holds the baby up to her chest and holds the toddlers hands, still smiling-A caretaker bot. One bot stands in the middle of a set up classroom, teaching children-A teacher bot. Lastly, a small child robot and another child, talking and laughing-A companion bot.
"There are many more of our new and highly realistic bots out there, but these are just a few examples!" coos the voice.
Suddenly the screen transitions to a scene where humans and robots all hold hands, colored music notes flying above their heads as both the robots and the humans sway together in harmony. "Today, we have many robots and they are one of the main reasons we are living such a good life! " the voice explains.
"Let us remember, on our happy little planet, we must rely on the robots as they rely on us!" A cartoon picture of a clunky silver robot and a human show up on the screen, the human's arm wrapped over the metal shoulder joint of the robot while the robot throws it's slender arm over the human's.
"Our friends, the robots!" the voice concludes, still sounding breathless and happy.
The screen pans out to humans everywhere playing around with robots and their uses, everyone smiling and cheerful as they do their work without complaint.
...
She stares at the screen.
"...This isn't entirely true,"
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"Touko-san," a stern voice demands. Her focus sensors glare with the light of the morning outside her robot pod before centering on the figure before her, notes in green font blaring off the sides of her eyes. The blur clears away after a second and a person stands proudly before her.
He has stern blue eyes, staring down at her coldly, waiting for her to respond. With long white hair, combed back and a white beard following, draping off his chin. Wearing a butler uniform, he stands poise before her, back straight and filled with an air of confidence.
[FACE RECOGNITION: ALOYSIUS-SAN,]
[BYAKUYA TOGAMI'S ROBOT CONTROL OVERSEER AND BUTLER]
A shiver of electricity runs up and down her wires and joints, awakening her touch sensors. She twitches before stretching and standing. In her robot pod, there is nothing but the confining grey walls, a grey button in said wall and the wires connected into both her back and the enclosure's outlet for extra charging.
"Aloysius-san," Touko says, her voice a little shaky and still loading as part of the wake up procedure. Words flash in front of Aloysius' face, alerting her.
[VOICE RE-DOWNLOAD, VOCAL CHORDS FUNCTION,]
[LOADING COMPLETE]
"Touko, Young Master is almost awake and will require your presence in a little while," the man greets smoothly. He stares at her for a second longer before leaning down and helping her unplug from the charger system.
Normally, Touko isn't required to plug into the charge system, but last night was the robot count, where every robot serving underneath the Togami Clan had to plug in to be accounted for, just in case any of the AI's had tried to make a run for it.
Touko is a young AI, and although she knows the hardships of a realistic AI, she does not care. Byakuya-kun, her master, is a small child just as she and he relies on her greatly. She has it easy, but the Mistress AI's and servant AI's don't.
After taking the bundle of wires from Aloysius, she presses the single grey button in the wall and an alcove opens up, revealing a small closet of clothes and a small drawer. She opens the drawer, shoving in the wires and picking up her hair ties.
She is completely naked to Aloysius, but he holds no care for her body. In fact, after helping her unplug, he'd just left. Touko doesn't feel the need to close her robot pods doors though, so she continues on. She changes into her uniform before leaving the room, statistics already running through her head as she leaves the robot quarters.
Heading up the dingy stairs, she walks towards the elevators and slips inside with several other bots.
"Touko-chan~" coos one of the bots, tugging on her undone hair rather harshly. A tinge of pain blares through Touko's touch sensors, but she ignores it despite the pain statistics filling up the side of her right eye.
"You look awful today, I don't understand why they keep you around," one of the mistress bots say, also beginning to tug on her hair. Touko swats their large hands away with her small palm, looking at them blankly.
"She always looks awful!" pipes up one of the maid bots, giggling. The all robots within the elevator break into soft giggles, the only robots not giggling are the non-AI bots and some of the companion-bots. She ignores their biting words.
She wonders why it's her they always make fun of, the bot of the youngest child, the least likely child to become heir for the Togami clan (Despite this fact, Touko knows if anyone can win, it's him). She doesn't understand why they don't bully Mika, the bot of the oldest child or Satomi, the bot of the child rumored to be Togami-sama's favorite child so far who both are on the current elevator and watch the harassment with no emotion.
"So, did the reboot fix your stammering?" asks one of the servants, seemingly interested.
"Yes," Touko replies blandly. She's learned at this point to not say too much.
"We should change that, maybe then they'll really learn to get rid of you!" hisses another servant bot, pushing forward and brushing Touko's hair to the side, trying to break into her technical hatch. Touko doesn't fight back. They'll learn their lesson.
[HATCH DISTURBANCE]
The words blare in front of her right eyes, panicky and Touko sighs.
[UNAUTHORIZED BOT DISTURBING HATCH]
[ALLOW ACCESS?]
[YES] [NO]
She watches as the letters on the option [NO] tint a darker green before the whole question disappears altogether. The sound of her hatch locking doubly rings in the small space of the elevator and the bot trying to pry open her hatch yips with the power of a controlled shock.
The robots go silent and leave her alone, now whispering to each other secretly. On the ride upwards, Touko braids her hair into her normal, two long braids. Her fingers pause every time they stop at a floor and her grey, lilac eyes flick up towards the bright numbers displayed above the door to confirm it is not her floor.
After finishing the braids she stands silently, looking over the downloaded schedule for Byakuya as she adjusts her glasses. Although she is a robot and does not need the glasses, it was decided the glasses would be used to decorate her appearance and make her seem more human like in the eyes of Byakuya.
Finally, the floor full of rooms for potential heirs is reached and all the companion bots exit the robot elevator. The human elevator is extravagant, in the middle of the hallway rather than shoved awkwardly in the corner like the Robot's elevator.
Mika instantly splits off to the first door, knocking and waiting patiently for Katsu-sama. Touko, Satomi and Yui, another robot, continue down the hall. Satomi leaves the trio first and makes her way to the door of young Daiki-sama's room.
After a few more seconds of walking, Yui splits off to the door of Hachiro-sama. The door is instantly opened as soon as she knocks and she is ushered inside. Finally, at the end of the hall, Touko knocks on Byakuya's door.
There is a pause and the door is thrown open, a sleepy looking Byakuya staring out into the hall, Aloysius glancing out from behind him and looking a little alarmed that Byakuya had opened the door rather than Aloysius himself.
Touko bows respectfully. "Byakuya-sama," she says monotonously.
"Touko-chan!" whispers Byakuya excitedly, small hand grabbing hers. Her touch sensors instantly pick up on the warmth of his hand and how it is slightly damp with sweat.
He is still a child Touko must remind herself, that is why is not trained with more Togami like manners. A smile makes it's way onto Touko's lips as he pulls her into his room, shutting the door quietly behind him and dragging her over to his bed.
He quickly picks up his violin which lays on his bed and backs up to his music stand only to move forward again so he can push her to sit down on the comforters of the king-sized bed, looking excited.
"Listen, Listen!" he insists when she opens her mouth to ask what he's doing. He positions himself in front of his music stand again, lifting the violin underneath his pointed chin and taking a deep breath. He places the bow on the violin strings and begins to play in a soft motion of beautiful notes.
Her ears strain to recognize the beautiful tune and the title of the song flashes before her eyes.
[THE BACH CHACONNE IN D MINOR]
ADDITIONAL INFO:
...Created in 1717 to 1720, this piece was written by Johann Sebastian Bach...
Touko dismisses the extra information and just listens. The song is rather long, but she endures it for Byakuya and when he finishes she gives him a cheer, raising her thin arms above her head in a sort of happiness.
Byakuya rubs the back of his neck sheepishly. "I messed up on some of the high parts.. B-but I'm getting better at it!" the young boy exclaims, smiling innocently.
"Really? I didn't even notice!" Touko informs, smiling back even though her hearing sensors had informed her of the change in pitch and notes.
Byakuya smiles proudly, blushing shyly at Touko's praise but his mother, who had been sitting in the back of the room, interrupts them.
"Awful!" she hisses, standing up angrily. Byakuya flinches back. His mother, Lady Izumi storms up to Touko, yanking her off the large bed by her braids.
"T-Touko-chan!" Stammers Byakuya, watching in horror as Izumi slams the realistic AI bot to the ground. "K-Kaa-san, st-stop!" stutters the boy, grabbing onto his mother's arm, frantically tugging her away from beating up the bot.
Sharp pains blare through Touko, taunting her in a way as if to say this is the closest she'll ever get to being human.
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Lady Izumi shoves her child aside, breathing heavily as she brushes blonde hair behind her shoulders. "Do not worry about her," spits Izumi to her son, "She's a robot,"
Byakuya blinks curiously, turning to her. "Ro...Robot?" he murmurs, sounding surprised. Up until now, Touko had always been considered human to him.
"Yes, she's nothing but metal and prosthetic skin over some mold, she's programmed to like everything you do. It shouldn't even be considered a she, it's a robot, my son. It's beneath us,"
Touko groans in pain, curling up in a ball as she hugs her abdomen.
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The pain fades away to a dull throb until there is nothing. Blinking in relief, she clears her vision of any oil tears. Touko is not programmed to cry and does not have any tear ducts, so if her pain sensors overload and do not shutdown and she ends up crying, there is nothing but oil lodged in the ducts between her cheeks causing oil to leak like tears.
"B-but..." Byakuya argues weakly.
Izumi sighs, turning to her son. "Continue practicing that piece, my son, we can't afford any mistakes,"
"B-but Touko-chan-"
"-is a robot who's programmed to like everything you like," interrupts his mother, repeating what she'd said earlier, her voice icy cold.
Touko desperately wants to argue back, tell Byakuya that she really does like his music and is so, so happy he wanted to show it to her, of all things, that he wanted to share such a wonderful gift, with her, of all robots.
Izumi eyes her with a burning loathing. "You must be malfunctioning again, you're supposed to tell him he messed up and needs to get better! I know your hearing sensors should've picked up on the mistakes, you piece of metal garbage,"
Touko stumbles back onto her feet, adjusting her glasses as she stares at Lady Izumi.
"I am sorry, my Lady. But I do what is found in best interest for Byakuya-sama," responds Touko.
Lady Izumi tsks, running a hand through her hair.
"I bet it was Lhamo, stupid bitch is always trying to interfere with my work.. She must've programmed something into it when it was charging," grumbles Izumi to herself. Shaking her head, she turns back to her child.
"Continue practicing, you have little time before your other lessons begin,"
Byakuya spares Touko one last glance before turning back to his music and beginning to play all over again.
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"Touko-chan.." A voice whimpers softly.
[VOICE RECOGNITION: BYAKUYA-SAMA]
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After a few seconds of buffering, the room comes into Touko's sight. Blinking, Touko glances up from her spot in the corner of the room. Lady Izumi had retired to her room for the night already. Byakuya kneels in front of her, looking a little anxious.
[TIME 1:07 AM]
[UNSCHEDULED WAKE UP FROM BYAKUYA-SAMA]
"Hmm.. Byakuya-sama?" Asks Touko, allowing her focus to adjust. Moonlight from the window streams into the room, brightening the room considerably.
"I.." Byakuya sits in front of her, reaching out to clutch her hand.
Today, she is not needed in her pod, and she can stay in Byakuya's room just in case of an intruder.
"I had a n-nightmare," the 7 year old says, clutching her hand. "Kaa-san said I shouldn't depend on you, but.. I'm scared. Will you sleep with me?" he asks shyly, looking teary eyed.
Touko nods, standing up. Her glasses are on the table next to her, along with her folded uniform and hair ties. Now she wears a white night-gown that flows behind her as she walks behind him and into Byakuya's bed.
He slides into the bare bed, besides the plain white pillows and comforters, first. She slides in after him and he curls up against her, burying his face into her collarbone.
"...Touko-chan?"
"Hmm?"
"Are you really a robot?"
"..." Touko hesitates because she wants to tell him no, she's not a robot because she is intelligent, she can think for herself but she cannot lie to Byakuya, it goes against her programming which shows she truly is a robot.
"Yes, I am a robot, Byakuya-sama,"
"...No wonder you're always so warm," Byakuya says absentmindedly.
Touko stifles a giggle with a soft breath through her lips, she'd never expect that sort of reaction from him, a child of the harsh Togami-sama.
"Hey, Touko?"
"Yes?" Touko replies again, going through her robotic functions and turning up her body heat to warm Byakuya some more.
"Can humans marry robots?"
Touko stiffens, surprised. "Well, there isn't a law prohibiting it but there isn't a law allowing it either," she answers honestly.
She wonders why he'd ask that, because if he was planning on marrying her it would be fruitless, she's a robot and while she may be equip with a growing function to match Byakuya or how she's equip with reproductive parts just in case Byakuya's needs call for it, there's no way she'd be able to give birth or truly be human with him or-
"Hm, I don't like girls, Kiku-nee-sama and Michi-nee-sama are girls and they're mean. I only like Touko-chan," Byakuya admits sleepily.
"Mm... I only like Byakuya-kun, too," confesses Touko, smiling into his hair.
Byakuya nods drowsily before relaxing in her arms, breathing shallows out. He's asleep.
This must've been the day, Touko began to feel truly real-To feel human.
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"Touko," a stern voice says. Touko peers up at 10 year old Byakuya-sama who gazes down at her through his glasses.
"Yes, Byakuya-sama?" she asks, standing up and brushing off the imaginary dust on her skirt.
His mother watches them from the corner of the room, glancing away from her magazine to stare at them. To Touko, her gaze is like a hot iron rod, pressed up against her back.
"Correct my paper," he demands, no longer using the word 'please'. That word is to only be used in front of opposing peers, to show who is truly in control. Besides, a robot like her doesn't deserve the word 'please,' rather to just be demanded of. It's what she's programmed for.
Touko's eyes scan over the paper full of problems, solving all of them in a few seconds. "100% c-correct, By-Byakuya-sama," Touko stammers, blinking in surprise at the stutter.
"Don't stammer," Byakuya says, voice snippy. "It's bothersome,"
"I ap-apologize, By-Byakuya-sama, th-there seems t-to be a d-disturbance i-in my pro-programming," Touko replies, fingers coming up to touch her throat where her mechanical voice box lays. "I-If you w-would l-like, I ca-can shut d-down and r-reload my vo-voice box t-to see i-if it re-resolves th-the problem," she compromises.
"Or we could throw you out," grumbles Lady Izumi from the corner of the room.
"No," Byakuya responds to his mother, voice far too cold for a ten-year old. He responds quickly as well, head snapping to the side so he can gaze coldly towards his mother. He turns to Touko next "No, It is alright, by the time I finish my next test, you will still be rebooting. I will simply deal with your incompetence for now," Byakuya explains, turning back to his desk to begin another test.
Touko stares at him, watching as he effortlessly answers the questions with 100% accuracy.
As soon as he finishes, turning to her she quickly says "I-It's all c-correct, Byakuya-sama,"
Byakuya spares her a glance and nods. He places the test to the side and begins to answer another test.
Figures and shapes obscure her vision as she checks over his work, the algebraic problems coming to life in front of her eyes.
"All c-correct, B-Byakuya-sama," Touko confirms once he finishes. Byakuya nods, turning to glance at her again. His blue eyes stare into lilac grey, and his hands creep atop hers which rests on the table. Touko says nothing, allowing him to do as he pleases.
Despite taking her hand in his, he continues to finish his test.
Touko says nothing, just smiles pleasantly as Byakuya continues on.
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"And the heir to the Togami Clan throne..." begins Togami-sama.
Today is the day that out of the fifteen children Togami-sama would pick the next heir and the rest would be disowned to the streets.
Tensions were running high in the room and the air is suffocating. Everyone is nervous, nobody wants to be thrown out.
Suddenly an AI bot strolls into the room, coming up behind Togami-sama and interrupting him by whispering something in his ear.
Togami-sama blinks in surprise before he huffs in irritation. "The reveal will have to wait a few moments," he says, leaving the room, the robot following obediently behind him.
"It'll obviously be Daiki-sama," brags Satomi, the robot AI stroking her master's hair lovingly. The teenage boy swats away her hand, smirking to himself.
"Oi, it'll probably be Katsu-sama," a nearby robot retorts. "He is the oldest,"
Touko sighs, leaning her head against the edge of Byakuya's chair. She believes in Byakuya, if anyone should win, it would be Byakuya. Hard-working, smart an over-all prodigy in everything... Still, a feeling of terror fills her stomach. Because if by some chance, it isn't him, he'll be forced to leave and they'll be separated. Touko doesn't want that.
After a few more moments, Togami-sama returns to the room looking rather annoyed. He walks up to the dais in the front of the room. He taps the microphone just in case and leans in to talk again.
"I will admit, this year I was rather surprised with who has shown the most potential out of the fifteen children," Togami-sama says.
Exactly, the youngest, everyone has always doubted him. But not Touko, never Touko.
Before Togami-sama even says the name, Touko whispers to Byakuya, surely, confidently. "C-congratulations,"
Byakuya glances at her, a little surprised. She sees panic in his eyes, panic she'd last seen since he was seven. But that was six years ago, Byakuya now being thirteen. She smiles at him, lovingly, because she knows it must be him.
"Byakuya Togami," Togami-sama proclaims and the room stills, shock blossoming. "My son, come up here,"
Byakuya glances at her in surprise but stands confidently, showing no fear as he walks to the front of the room.
Lady Izumi smiles widely, looking both relieved and devious, staring tauntingly at the shell-shocked mothers around the room. Her son had become the heir, not theirs.
Some of the opponents off to the side are crying, scared of their fate now. Touko feels horrible for them, but at the same time ecstatic that she can stay with her beloved Byakuya. Touko watches as Byakuya holds a conversation with his father, answering back with pride. Togami-sama even smiles, chuckling at something Byakuya has said.
Byakuya glances at her, smiling lively, excited, happy. Her power-core burns with happiness, she could almost-
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-cry. Never mind, seemed that wouldn't be happening anytime soon.
Togami-sama stands straight from talking to Byakuya and leans into the mic. "The rest of you must stay, as for the new heir, you may retire to your quarters, we will discuss more later,"
Byakuya smirks at the crowd, but there is sorrow in his eyes, sadness. Because now Byakuya must watch the people he considers opponents, but also family, leave his life for good.
Byakuya struts down the walkway where Touko and his mother meet him and leave the room together.
Once outside, Lady Izumi says she's going to stop downstairs at the kitchen and get something to eat, something about the choosing stressing her out before she turns to the second elevator and leaves.
"You knew," Byakuya says suddenly, glancing at her from the corner of his eyes as they make their way towards the other elevator.
"B-but of c-course," replies Touko, the stammering virus never having fully gone away.
"I've al-always believed B-Byakuya-sama w-would win," Touko admits, playing with her braid.
"Were you programmed to do that?"
"H-huh?" Touko responds, bewildered.
"Were you programmed to believe I would win?" Byakuya asks again, now daring to look at her.
"N-no, Byakuya-sama. I-it is j-just something I-I've held b-belief in s-since y-you were young," Touko answers timidly, feeling oddly nervously. Why did Byakuya want to know that?
"Hm," Byakuya says, and Touko's sensors pick up warmth curling over her left hand. She glances down at her hands, to see Byakuya has taken her hand in his. He says nothing and neither does Touko, despite her wanting to scream for some unknown reason.
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His fingers curl roughly over her hair, tugging her against him more. Their lips are pressed together and Touko feels too shocked to try and fight back or say anything in general. Byakuya is preoccupied with trying to get her to respond to him, tongue twirling around her artificial one.
Finally, a muffled noise escapes her lips and he pulls away to stare at her with annoyance, looking peeved that she hasn't responded to him.
"B-Byakuya-sama, y-you're ex-extremely st-stressed, it'd b-be best f-for you to g-get some sl-sleep," stammers Touko, feeling her heating functions overheat her face again.
He stares at her blankly.
"Touko, what are you?" he asks, sounding rather impatient and moody.
"Wha-wha... U-uh.." Touko doesn't know how to answer this. Does his question mean in a literal sense?
"W-well.. I'm a r-robot..?" she answers unsurely, glancing away and raising her thumbnail to her lip to chew on it nervously.
Byakuya tsks, looking at her blandly.
"Stop that," he grumbles, gesturing to her mouth and thumbnail before he continues, "You're my servant AI bot, which means you listen to my orders," explains Byakuya like she's stupid.
"U-uhm... Y-yes, that i-is true, B-Byakuya-sama," responds Touko, trying to wiggle out of his grasp. She loves Byakuya, she really does, but this was a little too much and far too sudden.
"B-but I am n-not programmed i-in... th-this sort o-of thing," she stutters, the words [WARNING FACIAL FEATURES HEAT FUNCTIONS, CURRENTLY OVERHEATING] blaring in red panicky letters before her eyes."I-I suggest y-you call f-for a p-pleasure b-bot, o-or even a mistress b-bot, I-I'm sure-"
"I'm not going to call for one of those... Things when you're right here," Byakuya retorts, staring at her with a irritated expression.
"O-oh, my a-apologies, Byakuya-sama," Touko replies, still trying to wrap her head around the situation at hand.
The sixteen year old boy sits up, running a hand through his messy blonde hair. He'd just pulled an all-nighter to get his paper-work done and he is extremely stressed out.
Yes, he's stressed, that's why he's decided to kiss me, Touko convinces herself but in the back of her processors, she wants to believe he kissed her because he wants to.
Brushing stray hairs away from her face, Byakuya presses his lips back to hers, playing around with her hair.
Touko calms herself. She is his robot, and she is programmed to cater to his every need. And if his need is to kiss her... Well...
Touko responds slowly at first, simply moving her tongue against his, tentatively. She's barely ever eaten, since she doesn't need food and it feels strange to have something in her mouth. She shuts her eyes, letting Byakuya twist his tongue around hers, tugging gently and biting softly on her lips.
A faint "Bya-Byakuya-sama!" escapes her lips in surprise and he pauses, tugging away from her.
"My name,"
"A-ano..?"
"Say my name again," Byakuya demands breathlessly, eyebrows furrowed together.
"By-Byakuya-sama," Touko repeats, voice a little lighter due to her lack of breath.
His reaction is instant, his fingers curling at the base of her head and tugging her back towards him, desperately cradling her against him as he resumes their kiss more fiercely than before.
Suddenly there is a knocking on his door and Byakuya pulls away once more, looking exasperated. He stands from of the bed, leaving Touko to her thoughts, and walks over to the door, pulling it open.
AI Satomi talks to him in a low voice and Byakuya responds, leaning against his door frame as they converse.
Touko takes the time to straighten her hair and stand up from the bed, going back to her duties of cleaning his room as if the kiss had never happened. She ignores the jealous bubbling in her head when Satomi giggles, twirling hair around her finger seductively. Satomi probably wanted Byakuya-sama to take her as one of his AI bots, as she'd been desperate for his attention ever since Daiki-sama was disowned from the family.
Letting out a sigh Touko shakes her head. She isn't human, and she won't ever be. She needs to stop hoping for a chance with..
No. It won't ever happen and she needs to realize it.
Some things just aren't meant to be.
|| Loading... ||
"Sir, I understand you want to protect Togami-sama, but downloading a second personality without the precautions is extremely dangerous! And-"
"Silence, Robot," responds Hayato, the Togami Head of Robot Management.
Touko fiddles with her hair, legs dangling off the side of the examination table.
An AI robot boy with blonde hair and grey eyes is currently trying to convince Hayato-sama not to download an emergency personality, should she shut-down or be hacked by a virus, without the extra precautions, which would cause the downloading to be at least a day long.
"Touko, look at me," Hayato demands haughtily. Glancing up from her fingers, she stares him in the face as her sensors begin to facially identify him.
[FACE RECOGNITION: HAYATO-SAMA]
[TOGAMI HEAD ROBOT ADVISER; BOSS]
"H-Hayato-sama," Touko mumbles, stammering.
Hayato frowns. "Still have that stammering virus? I don't understand why young master Togami simply just throws you out-"
"Hayato-sama," begins the other AI. Touko glances over to him and her facially recognition springs into action again.
[FACE RECOGNITION: ITSUKI-SAN]
[APPRENTICE TO HAYATO-SAMA, ROBOT PROGRAMMER EXPERT]
"Young Master Togami-sama could have you lose your job if you insult his AI as such! This one is his favorite, the one all Togami children are gifted before the choosing," Advises Itsuki, glancing nervously at Touko.
"Besides, isn't she the...?" Itsuki makes various gestures and Touko doesn't understand what he is implying.
"I'm th-the w-what?" Stammers Touko, eyebrows furrowing as she glances between the two.
"Your Byakuya-sama's AI," Itsuki instantly cuts in, looking very nervous, "I-it'd be bad for a vi-virus to infect your data,"
Touko has a feeling he's lying, in fact her processors respond with a 57% chance that he is indeed lying but Touko doesn't say anything.
Hayato sighs. "Enough of this nonsense, Byakuya-sama said he wanted his AI back soon and that'd he fire me if she arrived a second late. Besides, what are the possibilities that a virus really will infect her?" asks Hayato rhetorically, gesturing for Touko to turn over so he can get into her hatch.
Reluctantly, Touko turns around.
"You'll feel the electricity current, but don't fight it, that's just the personality downloading," Itsuki tells her, still sounding rather nervous. "Your sensors will probably tell you a virus is being downloaded, but that's just the extra personality... So uh, don't worry,"
Itsuki bites his lip, turning back towards Hayato-sama. "Uhm... Hayato-sama are you sure...? If there really is a virus she won't be able to tell us or..."
"Oh shut up, none of that will happen," retorts Hayato, plugging in the wires to her AI system.
[EMERGENCY PERSONALITY DOWNLOAD]
[DOWNLOADING...]
[ERROR-ERROR, VIRUS DETECTED]
[BLOCKED FILE ';;Ge/no;;Syo;;' DOWNLOADING]
[FIREWALL HAS BLOCKED VIRUS]
[BLOCKED FILE 'Ge/no;;Syo;;' RE-DOWNLOAD]
[DOWNLOADING...]
[FILE SUCCESSFULLY DOWNLOADED]
Touko's vision blurs and twitches to a sort of static, black and white. Several letters begin to pop up on her vision screen and she blinks in confusion.
GyaHaHAHAhaHAhahAHAHAhAhahahaAHahaAhahaHAHAHA~!
"Do you see text on your vision screen?" Itsuki asks.
Touko nods, eyebrows furrowing. This is some odd text for an Emergency personality download.
"Good! That means the download was successful," Hayato proclaims. He glances at his wrist, where a watch lays shining.
"Ah, and ten minutes to spare! Let me deliver her to Byakuya-sama," Hayato exclaims, grabbing Touko's arm as she shoves on her uniform shirt again.
|| Lo;;eRROR ERROR;;ad;;dingg... ||
"She... ttacked Byaku... virus... mus...en the emergency downlo... throw her ou... useless..."
Touko blinks herself awake, and the first thing she registers is that she is strapped to a robot containment table, metal chains clanking angrily against her wrists as she tries to sit up.
"Wh...Wha-what?" she stammers, looking at the chains on her wrists and feeling groggy.
[VIRUS INFILTRATING SYSTEM]
[CONTROL MODE: AI TOUKO]
[AI GE/NO;;SYO SHUT DOWN]
Touko can barely register the panicky font in front of her eyes, blaring out into nothing as she stares at the people above her.
"Hello Touko-chan," Itsuki begins nervously.
"H-hello," she replies, hands pulling the chains taunt as she struggles.
"C-could you re-release me fr-from these ch-chains? I-I don't un-understand why..."
He eyes catch the nervous look on Hayato's face and the angered look on Togami-sama's face. Why Togami-sama would be here for a robot as measly as she is rather confusing. In fact, all of this is rather perplexing.
"You mean to tell me you downloaded a second personality without the safety protocol?" Togami-sama spits, looking outraged. He rubs his temples, looking absolutely done.
"Itsuki said there would be no problems!" lies Hayato. Itsuki stiffens, turning to Hayato.
"I did not, you lying bas-" Itsuki begins, trying to defend himself. Usually it was robot's word against a man/human in general, so it made sense to Touko why he would try to fight back. People always felt humans had to be correct and robots had to be wrong. As if they aren't programmed to be their best.
"Silence!" Togami-sama snarls. He sighs, looking tired.
"And because you downloaded the personality without the safety protocol, this AI has just tried to murder my heir,"
Murder... heir..?
It hit her.
"Byakuya.." she whispers, eyes widening.
Her head snaps to Itsuki and she begins to struggle harder against the chains. "I-Itsuki! Pl-please tell m-me, is B-Byakuya-sama al-alright?!" asks Touko frantically, growling at the chains. She needs to make sure he's okay, she needs to...
"He's fine, but he was wounded," Itsuki assures her.
"Wh-where...? Wha-what happened?!" Touko demands frantically, scared for her precious Byakuya-sama.
Itsuki glances angrily at Hayato.
"Do you remember when Hayato and I downloaded that extra personality for emergencies?" Itsuki asks.
Touko nods hesitantly. "Y-you said th-there was a ri-risk of so-some virus, b-but Hayato-sama sa-said to download i-it anyways," recounts Touko
Togami-sama glares at Hayato, now having two witnesses against him, even though they are robots, it seems the blame can finally be pinned to him.
"Well, the virus is extremely bad, a day ago, the virus overtook you, going by the name 'Syo' and attacked Byakuya-sama with a pair of scissors. She stabbed his shoulder and was going to kill him but we managed to subdue her," Itsuki recalls.
Touko gasps, looking horrified and distressed. "I-I... I-is she g-gone? W-will y-you call a pr-programmer to g-get rid of h-her?" Touko asks, desperately needing answers.
Itsuki glances nervously at Togami-sama.
"T-Touko, you know I'm a top-notch programmer... I tried to find her in your data files, but she's like a snake, she can slide right into the next data card and through all your circuits. I can't get rid of her if I don't get rid of... you," admits Itsuki.
Touko feels her power-core run cold. "S-so you me-mean you g-gotta e-erase a-all of m-me to g-get rid of her?" asks Touko, sounding dumbfound.
"S-so... Wha-what are you gonna do?" inquires Touko, sounding hopeless.
"Well, your data cards are virtually useless, and the only thing really useful is your outer shell and your core," Itsuki informs her.
"Basically, we're trashing you," Hayato says, crossing his arms.
"Wh-what?!" Touko yelps, struggling even more. "B-but, B-Byakuya-sama, Wh-what will-"
"I have work to get to, just deactivate her already," Togami-sama interrupts, glancing at a golden watch on his wrist.
Itsuki flinches but creeps nearer. "I..I'm sorry Touko,"
"I-Itsuki, Pl-please, D-don't!" Begs Touko, thrashing.
I need to tell him, even if only once... Byakuya-sama... Byakuya-sama!
"I'm sorry, but.. It's for the Togami Clan..."
"She's useless now, just get it over with," Togami-sama snaps
Itsuki's fingers brush the area of her power-core, right where her heart would be had she been human.
[CORE DISTURBANCE]
[AUTHORIZED BOT; ITSUKI-SAN]
[OPENING HATCH]
A blue glow illuminates the area and oily tears streak down Touko's cheeks. She doesn't want it to end like this, she has always thought maybe one day she'd get herself together and admit her feelings to Byakuya. Maybe he'd accept them, maybe he wouldn't, the point is that she'd at least said something, at least tried.
[CORE REMOVAL]
[REMOVING CORE]
[POWER SHUTTING OFF]
The world grows dimmer and a single word escapes her lips and her struggling ceases.
"B..ya...ku...ya..."
silence.
|| Shutting down...||
AHAHAHA I HATE MYSELF.
I can't believe i'm writing this AU.
I saw this prompt on tumblr and I honestly could NOT stop thinking about it.
Basically the prompt is that Touko is a robot for Byakuya but she gets a virus personality which happens to be genocider Syo. Figuring it would cost less, they threw her out instead of searching for the virus at the root. Someone else by the name of KAZUICHI SOUDA (FIGHT ME) finds her and puts her back together and the rest plays out from there.
Toukazuichi is my life but i was like hUH TOUKO GROWING UP WITH BYAKUYA MEANS I CAN MAKE BYAKUYA SLIGHTLY MORE EMOTIONAL? AND I DID.
Albeit, Byakuya is still cold towards her because his mother has convinced him that robots are beneath them, but Byakuya still likes her anyways because i wANT HIM TOO EVEN IF IT IS OOC YOU CAN FIGHT ME. PLUS THEY GREW UP TOGETHER SO OF COURSE THEY'RE GONNA BE CLOSE, JUST LIKE HIM AND ALOYSIUS IS.
ANYWAYS, I HaVE FINISHED THE SECOND CHAPTER AND AM CURRENTLY EDITING IT AS YOU READ THIS (MAYBE, UNLESS YOU'RE READING THIS WHENTHE SECOND CHAPTER IS ALREADY OUT OR IF THIS FIC IS FINISHED. IF I EVER FINISH IT). I'm really puMPed fOR THIs sTORY YEAHHH.
Also, the reason why Touko is extremely OOC (barely stuttering in the beginning, not accusing anyone) is because she hasn't gone through anything traumatizing, or at least remembers anything traumatizing. Like yeah, she was picked on by the other bots, but nothing else has really happened to her.
As for her stuttering, she's a robot so obviously it's a virus for her. But since she is a robot for Byakuya it's easy for her to simply get the virus out. It keeps coming back, however. our poor baby.
Her fears will play out in the next chapter however, aND WE'LL ALSO MEET KAZUICHI YEAHHHH
Anyways, I thought I'd just clear that up before I continued.
I think I'll update this Wednesday, Maybe a little further so I can catch up with the second+third chapter. On my wattpad account I'm also writing another fic called 'Reach me' but it's PJO fanfiction so I highly doubt any of you would like to check that out.
See ya' soon!
Writing-Fantasy
DISCLAIMER FOR THE ENTIRE STORY, I'M ONLY GONNA SAY THIS ONCE.
I DO NOT own Danganronpa under any circumstances. If I did, everybody would be alive because Junko would ultimately change her mind as she began to viciously ship all the students together and realized she didn't want them dead until they all started dating and at least did the deed once.
because why not.