A/N: I know I know...I'm crazy for starting a third fanfic when my other stuff isn't done but I had this crazy urge to write this fanfic since I read 'Irrelevancy' by brunalbreeze... It's a oneshot and I had my heart ripped in two...seriously if you love beautiful sad stories of SasuNaru, I suggest you go read it. Also this story will be influenced by one of my favorite manga's known as Karakuri Odette.
This is as AU, it won't be exactly like real life since there's certain alterations to fit the story as I like. I don't want to say it's scifi since it won't have to much scientific words or explanations
This is SasuNaruSasu.
Let me know if you you guys want me to continue this story, I just need to get this idea out.
I was surrounded by life. The music, the smiles, the laughs. They were alive. But I wasn't. I watched them. And I felt nothing.
"Kakashi, to collect more data regarding humans, would it be abortive if I were to attend a school?"
Kakashi Hatake, a brilliant man of science had composed the perfect Robot. His discovery would have made him a legend in scientific history; However, Kakashi disagreed with the idea of exposing the world of his miracle creation, he wasn't a fool to believe the world would use his creation for 'good'.
It seemed others opinion for 'good' was setting war for selfish, and foolish reasons. Money, land, drugs, freedom.
Far too messy and unwanted for Kakashi, he wasn't the sort to boast over his prodigious achievement, he somehow couldn't help bragging about his porn, which often earned him a nice, sharp, smack from Iruka.
The real purpose of creating a computerized human was not for anything complicated like solving world hunger, or wars, or taking over the world.
Even though he capable to do all three at the same time, he simply wanted a child. A child to call his own, a child to watch them grow.
A child starts off as a blank slate, not knowing the truth and reality of the world.
Innocent and clueless.
They don't experience emotions until they understand what they are.
A Robot is very much the same, though it takes them longer to learn emotions, most people would argue that it was absurd to believe a 'machine' could learn emotion.
To be capable to feel.
But Kakashi labeled them as lazy for such biased beliefs, even though he himself was contradictory.
Kakashi had been married to a kind, gentle, man with chestnut hair and eyes. His skin was a warm, brown color, and he had a horizontal scar across the bridge of his nose.
His name was Iruka Umino. His husband that would forever hold his heart.
Kakashi and Iruka both desired a child just like any other pair of parents, but in their country, gay marriage were allowed, but adoption was not a possible privilege for gay couples. Currently there were protest groups causing riots to disturb the peace for their rights, but Iruka and Kakashi didn't want to get involved in such messy chaos, they simply wanted a child and a peaceful life, disturbances was a thing of the past that they were not eager to jump back into.
So Kakashi set out his planning. As much as he was an intelligent man, it took three difficult years to finish all of his 'child'. Kakashi longed to make their 'child' as human as possible. It was puzzling to find the correct materials to develop hair. He didn't want to use plastic hair known as synthetic plastic, wigs were usually made of that; So Kakashi tried experimenting real hair and guitar strings. He managed to make the hair remain thin, soft and shiny, but strong as metal wires so that the hair wouldn't fall out or stretch.
Of course the hair was originally a light brown but the chemicals led it to change to a pure golden color. Iruka insisted that the color was lovely and wanted to keep it, him never being too hard to please.
For eyes, Kakashi stuck with glass, he combined laser eye technology and camera recording technology. With the spherical point of view, it would remain similar to that of a human. The eye color was decided to be a evening blue that was highlighted with azure blue, a mix of blazing sapphire and icy topaz.
For skin...it was relatively easy since all Kakashi had to do was use stem cells taken from the umbilical cord to grow as a sheet of skin, naturally the skin shade came out golden thanks to Iruka's healthy tan.
Kakashi and Iruka used their own stem cells because then their 'child' would have something gained from their parents, it would truly be their 'child'. Skin took time to form and grow in their basement, it took about a year and a half to develop enough skin for the whole body, and some more for insulation against water.
Kakashi asked whether it should be a boy or girl. They agreed to a boy; but had complications discussing the dick size, Iruka smacked Kakashi for being silly, and Kakashi whined about the size being a serious matter.
The voice was also an easy process.
Thanks to Japan's Voice Synchronizers, Kakashi had managed to personalize the voice of their 'child.'
Iruka insisted he wanted the voice to be cheerful, and bright.
So Kakashi managed to create a voice that could be warm, gentle, and loving; It could have been excitable, happy and loud, and it could change into a low, husky, alluring voice. Kakashi wanted their 'child' to be colorful and unpredictable.
To act like he was full of life. To be able to express his joy of human company once he found what it meant to be a human.
The human body was the final process.
He combined everything he knew into the empty shell of a body. His 'bones' were metal, and his 'memory' was separated into two parts.
Ten percent temporary memory where Kakashi would check and decided whether to erase it or store it in the permanent memory. Ninety percent would he used to store useful information. When everything was completed in three years, Kakashi and Iruka had decided to name their son Naruto Uzumaki.
It was the name Kakashi's mentor would have named his son if his wife and him hadn't died.
As a last minute idea, Kakashi programmed a learning system in Naruto so that he could learn emotions. Kakashi was a man of science and shouldn't believe that a human android could 'feel' things.
But Kakashi believed it was possible for Naruto to learn emotions.
To 'feel' and truly 'live'.
To be alive.
They of course programmed Naruto to have basic information down. Such as understanding math, science, and human behaviors.
A small addition of a morality compass couldn't hurt, just to give Naruto a way to understand that if an old man in a bunny suit wanted to give their child a drive, Naruto would know to say no and run away.
Naruto would be able to function as long as he absorbed the sun's rays or plugged himself into a energy socket by a extendable wire behind his earlobe.
It would take 9 hours to maintain normal functions for every three days until his next charging session.
Naruto was finally complete; his day of completion and awakening was on October 10th.
Today marked Naruto's fourth birthday since he was created. For his birthday present Naruto asked to attend a school.
A public school.
With humans.
"Pardon Naruto? Why do you want to go school again?" Kakashi inquired, not sure if he misheard Naruto's sentence, he snapped his book of Icha Icha Paradise Volume three closed.
The young android normally never asked for much, the only time he asked for anything was to recharge when his battery was low or to have a maintenance check.
This was an unexpected question, a good sign of growth in him, but Kakashi wanted to check just in case, not wanting to jump the gun, raise hands in joy, and fuck Iruka; well scratch that, He'd do the latter either way.
Iruka was just irresistible.
With a second that had passed, Naruto
Naruto was becoming curious about humans? This was a very good sign.
The blond boy nodded "I noticed based on my observations that human teenagers experience the most emotions...You created me to learn to be human. Humans learn in school. They create bonds, so it would make sense if I were to attend to school."
Kakashi let out a disappointed sigh at the answer, but all hope was not lost.
"Alright, but why the sudden realization?" He asked, as he began to comb his hair.
Kakashi knew a friend who was a principal of a high school. Her name was Tsunade Sannin.
Naruto was also confused as to why.
Perhaps it was because the amount of teenagers holding hands, kissing each other, laughing together, and fighting together. Naruto had seen Kakashi and Iruka do that all the time.
He didn't understand why there was so much touching and kissing when it came to couples.
They had intense emotions for each other, that much Naruto knew, but why? They knew they loved each other so wasn't that it enough? No questions left to ask how one felt about the other.
'Love'. What was it anyway?
Naruto looked into his dictionary:
-1. feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone).
"do you love me?"
synonyms: care very much for, feel deep affection for, hold very dear,adore, think the world of, be devoted to, dote on, idolize, worship; More:
antonyms: hate-
It still didn't make sense. If love was romantic and sexual, how would one see the difference between infatuation and love?
Naruto knew he wasn't human but he would have felt curious if he was. He didn't 'feel' curious,he just wanted to know as much as he could, just like how he was programmed.
"I would like to know the difference." He plainly stated, blinking plainly at Kakashi as if it was that obvious.
"And what difference are you looking for?" He asked quietly, taking note of this new side of Naruto.
"I look at my hands." Naruto's arm stretched to just be in front of him. Not tearing his eyes off the back of his tanned hand.
"Then I look at Kakashi's, Iruka's, and stranger's hands. They're all different." Naruto looked to Kakashi. "Humans are different every one of them. One might have different skin, hair, eyes, body shapes...even twins are different when it comes to their personality. There are always differences in everyone. But what is the same, are that humans can feel emotions." Naruto explained with a dull expression, staring blankly at Kakashi.
Naruto turned head to the window, gazing at the children walking home from school.
"Humans grow to be different. They are meant to be different. And I am different." He explained.
Naruto's expressionless glazed, eyes were now staring at Kakashi. Naruto's eyes were empty and cold as usual, but something was new in his eyes.
Kakashi stayed silent, wanting Naruto to continue on with his persuasive speech (He was already going to say yes, but he just wanted to hear more).
"Am I really any different from a human? That is why it is important to attend to school, to socialize with humans, I'd like to know how to feel joy and pain, so I can share it, and support myself and others." He explained.
Kakashi gave a half smile. This was a start, Naruto may be turning human after all...
"No you are not, you're human Naruto. You're my son." Kakashi agreed with Naruto with a happy smile, sitting up to place a hand on Naruto's head.
"I'm feeling old, you're growing up so fast."
Kakashi was awake at 6 in the morning–which was surprising considering how much of a lazy bum he was– on the first day off school for Naruto.
He helped Naruto comb his hair back, but due to the metal content in Naruto's hair, it refused to mold into the direction Kakashi wanted, his locks of hair continued to stubbornly point in every direction.
With a dishearten sigh he moved to other things, like dressing him properly. He gave a change of clothes for Naruto to change into.
As soon as Naruto finished changing Kakashi immediately drove to them Konoha High. It was where Kakashi had met Iruka, where he met his lifetime friends, so he had faith that Naruto would learn how to feel.
He just needed to fix one problem.
Kakashi was sitting in the office of Tsunade Sannin, he was normally a tranquil and laidback man, but he was anxious in the presence of her, especially when she was glaring at him; she had an intense air around her, it was very clear with a 'I will crush you of you step out of line.' message.
But she wasn't too scary, she was a soft-hearted woman from Kakashi remembered as a teenager. Sipping her coffee, she glanced indifferent eyes at Naruto; he looked human, but…
"So this is Naruto Uzumaki? You're..." She looked at the papers regarding Naruto and his information.
"...Son." said she, raising her eyebrow as she stared at Kakashi in disbelief.
Kakashi nodded, normally he was carefree but he knew Tsunade was a woman to respect.
Silently he wished Iruka was here with him instead of Iruka traveling to England to teach, he was the only one who could ever simmer down Tsunade's fierce temper.
But Kakashi made a mental note to email Iruka of this new development in Naruto. Naruto politely greeted the principal, but never said a word to her which was odd, Naruto usually said a brief hello when introduced with strangers.
With a sudden bang, her hand slammed in the table, her eyes scaring Kakashi.
Naruto simply raised an eyebrow at Tsunade's expression.
"He's an android! Not a human! Teenagers are reckless enough and a pain to deal with but adding a Robot too?! He could be a potential threat to the students! How do we even know if he won't malfunction and begin slaughtering my students?!" She shouted.
Tsunade didn't want believe in her words since she knew Kakashi was not a reckless man, but as a principal she needed to put she feelings away and treat this as if she never knew Kakashi. Her students were her responsibility, and under no circumstances would she ever put something else in front of that. She needed a drink badly.
"Naruto is the newest model of androids. He is programmed to be unable to harm humans in anyway, if there is any sign of malfunction in his system that might threaten the safety of other students, there is an automatic security shutdown that will turn off all functions and give me time to locate him through G.P.S." Kakashi reasoned, hoping Tsunade would take the bait.
Naruto decided it was not his place to speak considering he was the object they were discussing about, it would do no good if he spoke up.
However he noticed a fly that was in the room. Automatically deciding to get rid of a bacteria-infested insect that might have carried lice, Naruto took off his shoe and watched the insect fly around for a few moments before he was able to predict which area the fly would decide to land on.
It's body settled itself on the edge of Tsunade's hot coffee.
His arm stretched behind him as he threw with all his strength to hit the fly.
He killed it. There was no doubt. His throw went 25 miles per hour and the fly definitely died.
But there was the unexpected incident when his shoe had bounced and had hit a student. In the eye.
And put a hole in the wall.
"Naruto, you have any idea how difficult it was to get Tsunade to finally agree?" Kakashi scolded Naruto, whimpering with the loss of his money in his wallet to pay off the damages, and buy Sake to calm her raging temper.
Thank the higher powers that Kakashi knew Tsunade was low on alcohol.
"I am sorry Kakashi." Naruto apologized with an even tone and with a dulled expression to match it. Kakashi narrows his eyes at that, he wish Naruto would smile, to truly smile like he felt emotions.
Not yet, but Kakashi knew one day Naruto would smile. And when he did, Kakashi knew it would be the most beautiful sight.
"Don't apologize if you don't mean it...It takes away the meaning of it. But do not break anything! You got that? And remember your strength!" Kakashi warned, he was still comprehending that.
Naruto nodded obediently, of he was to refrain from using his strength, he would do so.
"Kakashi, would it not be easier to turn off my strength or at least minimize my strength range?"
"Well yes, but I don't want to to do that Naruto."
Naruto blinked, his program was unable to understand Kakashi's response as to why he would not do such an obvious thing.
He began to browse the internet as to why Kakashi refused.
Nothing.
Asking questions was a last resort Naruto would use. He chose not to trouble Kakashi and Iruka with his troublesome questions. Although Iruka and Kakashi insisted any question Naruto had for then would never be considered troublesome.
But if that were true, why did Kakashi and Iruka stumble over their words and answer in broken sentences when I asked certain questions. It seemed they were all of a sudden nervous or scared with their heartbeat picking up speed.
A good example was that there were loud moaning, begging, thumping, and yelling from Iruka and Kakashi's bedroom at night.
They had both flushed a bit red, Iruka considerably darker than Kakashi.
They gave vague responses and Naruto could only label the data of that moment as 'unanswered, unknown answer.'
"Why do you not want to? Are you tired? I am able to assist you by adjusting my strength for you if that would please you. I am sorry that I am troublesome." Naruto apologized, though he did not see the problem of his strength since he was specifically designed not to harm or destroy anything in anyway.
But if Kakashi had trouble because of his strength then it would only be appropriate to apologize for whatever issue he had caused.
"No...you're not troublesome...Don't apologize Naruto." Kakashi insisted with a heavy heart. Naruto was still learning.
Kakashi was a knowledgeable man of science, but he knew nothing of teaching a robot to feel and think like a human, but he had faith.
He believed Naruto would one day understand humans and emotions.
He was his son after all.