A/N: Well it's my #1 Muse's Birthday and really I should update for that occasion. Unfortunately I'm quite busy so expect releases today… then I'll do day-to-day releases starting from the first to the fourth of July. Do enjoy and send a warm review so I at least want to write the next chapter. See all of you in a couple of days!


aNiMeLoVeRs21- A new poll will go up and we'll see how everyone feels

MARYLOVER- I'm trying new views for sure because the general ways just feels so boring sometimes. This will put a twist with a theme I've wanted to do this one for a while now and we'll see how it turns out because it will probably move a bit slower than my usual stories to set the plot.

NDebN- Well that's good to hear because the people are leaning towards the other one but we'll see… it's only the beginning after all.

TeNsHi No ToIkI- Well it would have to be my OTP for it to be coming from me right?


Emotion

Rated: M

Summary: Fuji and his childhood friend have just agreed to put their "love" to the test before taking the plunge into marriage. Would they regret their Uncle's challenge?


Chapter II: Awakening

Recap~

Renji nodded with a smile. "Then let me introduce you to my challenge." Standing he headed to the door and looked back at the two following behind. "Hopefully it'll do the same thing it did for me to you both."

"And what was that?" Aikawa asked following his uncle to his garage.

"Teach you love as you shall teach it." Renji said with a smile.

xXx

Tokyo, Japan

Aikawa Residence

March 25th

"These are dolls I've created,"

Syuusuke looked at Saito as they both remained speechless as Renji unveiled their challenge. There was a reason why they were close… it was the ability to be able to read one another's thought with one look rather than speaking. Both were slightly regretting accepting but would not back out now due to pride. Perhaps that's why they always got into trouble together… they had too much pride, too much ideas... too much of everything according to the people around them.

"Don't give me those poker faces," Renji said with a slight frown as he watched the silent exchange. "I know you two are being prideful at the moment… I was too when I decided to test myself against my deepest longings."

"I suppose this was before Aunt Ishtar right?" Saito asked looking at the closest doll to him. It had black hair that blocked its flawless face but despite the fact if it was attractive or not, he wasn't falling for the whole 'robot can give me more pleasure than woman who can think for herself' plan.

"Ji…" Saito started but before he could finish, his uncle had already lifted the doll and was handing it over to him with a smile.

"Backing out?' Renji asked as Saito refused to accept it.

If he was thinking of pricking pride, he did. Saito immediately reached out and was surprised that it felt so human… without heat of course. Then there was the fact that it wasn't breathing and wrapped in plastic.

"Huge Barbie doll…." Syuusuke said finishing his thought as he looked at the doll that was handed to Saito. "Is it heavy?"

"It should weigh about as much as a normal girl… around one fifteen pounds… though Syuusuke will weigh about twenty pounds heavier. Renji said not looking at the two but digging through things in his car.

"How do you expect us to explain their presence in our lives?" Saito asked looking at the girl in his arms. She was quite cute in her dreamlike state and did it feel like real hair and skin brushing against him or what? Could dolls be this real?

"I'm afraid I don't understand how this is supposed to test my future with a real girl…" Syuusuke said with a slight sigh. "I really don't want to be one of those sad Otakus' who end up married to a mannequin… or their pillow-"

"Or in this case, a doll." Saito finished bluntly.

"You'll understand soon," Renji promised as he handed a ring to his nephew.

"I don't want to marry it," Saito said immediately.

"It's an identical one to the one she wears on her right," Renji said ignoring his fuss. "This is yours to wear as an imprint so they recognize you as their friend and protector. The doll activates once you slip the ring on and give it a name."

"Or master…." Saito muttered as he viewed the top of the breasts of the doll that was viewable above the plastic wrap.

"They are designed with a basic background of living and a solid character but the personality is made through your interactions with you and the people they'll meet." Renji said with a smile. "I've perfected it…"

"You could make a lot of money off these-" Saito started thinking of all the rich perverts who wouldn't mind forking over a fortune for a doll to please their every whim.

"They'd be misused," Renji said softly as he looked at the one he handed to his nephew earlier. "Even they deserve more than that as an artificial intelligent being."

"Ji….this is a bit crazy…" Syuusuke said looking at the leftover doll he assumed was for him.

"For now it is but you'll understand soon what it could be." Renji said with a smile. "Your Aunt Ishtar helped me create these two before she died and I have put them away after she died but I thought I'd pull them for the two of you at this point in your life."

"Is it not complete?" Syuusuke asked.

"No… it's not a full product of your aunt and my dream yet but-"

"You two wanted a child didn't you…." Saito said softly as he stared at the doll in his arms.

Renji swallowed and nodded slightly. "The one you're holding was to be her… but it wasn't to be…"

"Why didn't you just adopt?" Syuusuke asked.

"Because we wanted a piece of ourselves within her," Renji said with a small smile. "These dolls can eat and talk and drink like normal. They filter it out of their bodies by themselves and can even with care think and see the world for themselves but-"

"But?" Saito and Syuusuke asked. They were amazed that this was being told to them…. This could break open the way to a perfect robot for the future.

"Well it can't reproduce and it's delicate like a real human. " Renji said pointing out the obvious. "Nonetheless they'd make a good companion as long as you care for it as it'll care for you."

"What's the lifespan?" Saito asked.

"I don't know… Ishtar and I never got the chance to see them live more than a few years." Renji admitted.

"Do they retain memories of their time?" Syuusuke asked.

"Yes… but I've cleared all that so they can begin again with you two." Renji answered with a small smile. "I'd be painful for me if they retained who they were to me and acknowledged it. Remember, their mind is like a clean slate, a beginning only you can write and complete."

"So if I write her as a sex toy?" Saito asked with a smirk trying to lighten the mood that seemed to be getting heavier.

"She'd be that if you wished but I know you won't," Renji said with a smile as he finally turned to Syuusuke and handed his doll to him.

"Why do I have to take the experiment too?" Syuusuke asked amused that he always gets strung along when he's not stringing people along.

"Because I adore you as much as Saito sadly and there was two." Renji said as Syuusuke obediently accepted. "I had to finish this one after I heard of your impending marriage."

"Ah…. Renji-ji…" Syuusuke asked looking at his doll to Saito's.

"Yes?" Renji asked turning to hand a ring to Fuji as well.

"Why is mine a guy?"

"Isn't it your preference?" Renji stated with a similar smirk as Fuji had given him when Fuji had boldly told him that he preferred men years ago.

Syuusuke didn't answer though he could hear Saito's cough of amusement.

"Deadline is a month boys.. Get cracking" Renji said with a smile as he shut the trunk of his car. "I have to head off to another place."

Both didn't know what to say but stared as their uncle got in his car and drove away leaving them with their challenge.

xXx

Tokyo, Japan

Aikawa Residence

March 25th ~Later that night

Saito sighed as he unwrapped the doll from the plastic. He was amazed at how perfect the anatomy was as he ran his hand down the length of her smooth arms. She was perfection yet knowing she was only to follow orders irked him. He liked his woman a bit headstrong yet soft, witty yet not bitchy….

"Can you really change my mind?" Saito asked the doll out loud staring at the doll. Sitting beside the doll, he held it up in a sitting position as he slipped the ring on and watched the doll's face to see if it'd actually activate as his uncle clamed.

She awoke all right… and Saito had to admit he held his breath when the cold body suddenly warmed and the lips parted to draw breath as if she really was human. Still, what blew him away the most was the moment she opened her eyes to reveal blue eyes and with such innocence. Innoncence was a time that was far from him as night and day was to each other. The trust that lay in those eyes was definitely something he thought he'd never see again after his first love but here it was looking at him. Here it was blinking in expectance…

"I want to have a little girl one day Saito… and then I'll name her Sawa… so she can connect two very different sides together."

"Sawa…"

"Hai?"

Saito froze as the soft voice came from the doll's lips. She stared in wonder at him and in that moment he wondered what he was going to do with this girl. For the first time in ten years he had no idea how to react to a girl.

xXx

Tokyo, Japan

Fuji Residence

March 25th

Syuusuke knew he was putting off; he knew he was making excuses in his head of why he didn't yet have time to see to the doll. Yet he couldn't take not looking at it either… he was looking at his work but yet his mind and eyes kept straying to the doll draped on his sofa… as if it was beckoning the curiosity in Syuusuke.

" Or I could be just losing my mind" Syuusuke uttered as he pushed his chair away from his oak office desk and walked towards the doll. Surely the cat didn't die of curiosity the first time since it had nine lives. Kneeling to remove the plastic, Fuji studied the sensual lips that slightly curved even in its restful slumber… could it be the doll was used to teasing? Smiling? Or simply just using his mouth?

'Sex toy'

Syuusuke shook his head trying to remove Saito's opinion of the doll from his mind… yet he couldn't help but feel a bit irked that the good looking doll was going to awaken and call him master or something.

'It's now or never' Syuusuke thought as he slipped the ring on and felt warmth fill the ring and meld with his own body heat. His eyes slightly opened in shock as the still doll suddenly twitched and the breath that once was not there was present. Syuusuke stared as the doll stretched as if he had been asleep only for a short while and even when the doll's golden eyes bore into his, Syuusuke could find no words.

"Who are you?" A slightly irritated voice said as the sensual lips he had been admiring turn downward in displeasure. Was his heart supposed to race his much for someone who couldn't even be considered human?

xXx

Elsewhere

Renji sighed as he leaned against his chair in exhaustion. He had worked long and hard trying to finish Ishtar and his dream that he had abandoned when she drew her last breath but now…

"They'll come to appreciate it right Aisai…" Renji said softly as arms wrapped around his neck from behind.

"Aa…" the woman answered with a smile as she caressed the man she loved.

Renji merely smiled and closed his eyes as he hoped his cute nephews would appreciate the pre-programming he did to interest them.

"It'd only be right if my favorite two boys get to experience the love I got to." Renji said justifying his actions aloud. "They are without a heart until you can give them one boys…"


A/N: Anyone interested in the story yet? I'm still thinking of putting some of my stories on the shelf for a while and this may be one of them… despite that though do review and gimmie your inputs :]