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Revelation

One could call Unit 777, known as Yuki Nagato, many things— unique, intelligent, freaky alien-robot thing from outer space— and they would all be true.

Except for inattentive, for who could possibly imagine such elegance to be flawed?

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Ryoko first noticed it exactly 2 weeks, 3 days, 9 hours, 49 minutes, and 32 seconds ago. Unit 777, now known as Yuki Nagato, had been staring quietly at a spot on the wall for approximately 10.6 seconds before blinking and refocusing her attention on her novel. Curious to what had made her partner freeze like that, Ryoko tried staring at the exact same spot, trying to see if there was anything curious, like new Defense data or if they were in another Entity's data jurisdiction space.

She could find nothing amiss.

Puzzled, she had resumed observing the observer for the next 24 hours, creating a small database within her brain to note the precise time, date, and subject. To her astonishment, she realized that this strange behavior repeated itself quite constantly, only with different subjects, both organic and man-made, to be the object of her scrutinizing gaze.

Her first guess was that a virus had struck, leaving her on standby mode for minutes at a time. But still, there had been no contact with harmful data recently and in their last synchronization, she noticed that none of her files were corrupted.

Many hypotheses were formulated and discarded rapidly, quicksilver mind calculating different possibilities. Subjects were compared, data analyzed, controlled experiments executed. After all her evaluation, she had come to a realization: there was no definite conclusion.

It drove her to the brink of insanity. There was always the option of direct confrontation, but Ryoko was much too stubborn for that; however, after 283 hours of intense observation, she admitted defeat.

Staring sullenly at Yuki, who was drinking tea, she frowned as she realized the gold-eyed Entity was doing it again.

"Yuki," she called, observing as her partner blinked as if snapping out of a deep trance.

A surprised gleam shone in her azure eyes. A definite conclusion had been reached.

Yuki Nagato, emotionless Data Entity, was a hopeless daydreamer.


A/N: woot~ another drabble! Gave up on word count this time...but I will reach 100 words exactly! One day...

Almost forgot to post it today...but I remembered! :D

Written: 2/20/09 Posted: 3/13/09 (Friday the 13th! lol)

ja ne!

mimi-chan