A/N: *smiles sheepishly* I don't really know what to say… Just wanna tell you that this story is like a wine, yeah a wine. Because it was fermented/stored in my mind for a very long time though I don't know if it tastes good enough… The great grand writer's block was keeping me away to write this. But you know I was inspired to write this down after reading the Hatsune mix manga. Though I don't know why. :3
Another thing, I don't own the super duper ultra mega magnificent -man.
Prologue
Forever…
…such a powerful and profound word…
…its true meaning is beyond infinity…
…immeasurable and endless…
Forever.
"Love is the beginning of forever."
-Anonymous
Lenalee Lee, 21 years old. A fresh college graduate and a very promising scientist. A woman of beauty and brains. They say she's almost perfect. She has the face that every girl would wish they had, the body that the boys would chase after for, and the knowledge that only a genius would had. Many girls envy her. For if you think carefully, the future for a girl like her was written already. Fame, Wealth, and Love is surely just waiting for her; lurking around and waiting to be noticed. A perfect life for a perfect girl. Isn't that great? Some will do anything just to achieve those things. But for her, they are already beyond her reach. And now it is only up to her if she will take them.
Unfortunately, she didn't. She missed the chance of having a dream like life. Because she's too weak, too weak and tired that she can't even raise her hands and reach for them. And she was devastated. Her life was messed up.
She flopped down on her bed wearily. Her appearance was like of a flower slowly wilting. Dark circles surrounded her eyes and that's because she's extremely sleep deprived. Her before clear and beautiful violet eyes were now awfully red and swollen because of crying. Grief and depression embraced her. Bad thing she let them do that to her. Courtesy of Komui, his brother, she was stuck in their house like a lone princess trapped in a castle.
The grip on her right hand slowly loosened to reveal a shining diamond ring. She clutched it again and placed her hand at where her heart is supposed to be. She closed her eyes and squeezed them, thinking a tear would come. But nothing came; even a drop. Maybe it's true that the eyes produce only a limited amount of tears, and she already used up all of she has.
She bolted up when a sudden crash of something like a chinaware breaking was heard from the kitchen downstairs. Thanks to it, she was back again to the real word from her self-made world of desolation. She rushed to the kitchen, leaving the ring on the bed. When she got there, she saw Walker v.8 sweeping the shattered pieces of the broken plate.
"What happened?" Lenalee asked while her forehead scrunched.
Walker v.8 turned to her.
"Oh, it's you doctor. I am certain that this is already the sixth time that I broke a plate. I am very sorry but I think incidents like this are just unavoidable for me. My body lacks sensory receptors to feel the things that I touch."
Walker v.8 is the latest robot Lenalee made. It was installed with an upgraded artificial intelligence that Lenalee devised herself. It takes an appearance of a man who was more or less than twenty one years of age. It looks like a real man who has a fair skin, white hair that goes past his nape, gray eyes and a red star was adorned above his left eye. And for some reason, she made its left arm color red. Lenalee really did a good job in making and designing it. Though, it took her eight tries to almost perfect it, thus, its name Walker v.8. She made its features very human-like; from the way it thinks and talks to the way how its skin was soft when touched. You wouldn't realize it's a robot unless you knew it from the start.
"Sensory receptors. Yeah, I believe you need them. Let's go to the lab."
Lenalee replied with a sigh and started walking to the lab which was basically the basement of their house. Walker v.8 just left what it is doing and followed Lenalee.
Beside the stairs, was a clothes rack and she grabbed a lab coat from it. She wore it then she entered the password for the basement door to open and they entered. Inside the laboratory, different machines and computers of many kinds were placed. She led Walker v.8 on a swivel chair and ordered it to sit. Lenalee turned on the supercomputer and flashing lights came on the monitors. She turned the rotating chair around so that Walker v.8 is facing opposite to her.
"Turn into sleep mode Walker v.8."
She ordered and the robot obediently followed by just closing its eyes. Then she placed a wire which connects to the supercomputer on both the robot's temple. Then she started downloading the sensory receptors to Walker v.8's system. After the successful download, she noticed a tab on the bottom of her screen and opened it. It was the self destruct program she made for Walker v.8 but she hesitated on adding it to its features from the start.
She looked at monitor. Written in bold white letters was 'Self-destruct Walker v.8'. She concentrated and thought hard whether she will click the download or the cancel button. After a few more minutes, she finally clicked the download button. Who knows, it might be useful someday. Destruction isn't always a bad thing.
This was 3 days before Lenalee Lee died and Walker v.8 was deactivated.
A/N: Update might be up in a few days or so, depending on my mood :)
