To Reviewers:

Grandmasterp: Thanks! But… What's 'beaucoup'? . God knows how –beep- I am with computer language…

MysticalMizu: You have short time memory loss? For me, I don't really forget anything but I can have a hard time getting them into my brain. shudders I'm doing Chinese History now; It just wanna bait me!

Anonymous: Thanks for reviewing! I got a real bolt from the blue when I saw a whole page of your reviews. Anyway, maybe I can call you ChibiDranzer for now? Oh, and you're a special reviewer; not many use dubbed names but I'll rather stick with the Japanese ones. Thanks for reviewing!

Blues-lover: Nooooooo! Enzan-kun AND Blues-chan are both MINE! (Enzan: Since when? Blues: "Blues-chan"?)

Nakarame-Scarlet: I'd like to see your story when it's finished! Do post it up, okay?

DarkloidBlues: Blues needs Enzan-kun, but it's the same with Dark Blues. Oh well, one will have to do something in the end. Something real great. Let's just continue with the plottie!

Rose Kitsune.EXE: Thanks for wishing me luck in the exams. Do well in yours! As for the navis skipping sleep cycles: I guess if Enzan-kun were totally out of his mind, Blues wouldn't be napping. Maybe it's in the programming that they cannot skip static cycles… You'll know in the end! Just read on:)

Random Irony: I like your name this way! I think Dark Blues is out of character in the chappie but I am preparing for a little plot twist –not actually, not really planned too nicely. Thanks for being there all the time! I'll try my best in the exams!

My Name is Ijuuin Enzan: (Chapter 8: Truth Unveiling)

He looked at his operator.

"Enzan-sama, you programmed him when you're a little kid?"

"…Yes."

"I thought he was given to you at his mother's funeral."

"He was."

"But you said you programmed him."

"I did. End of discussion."

Dark Blues fell silent. Mingling confusion was at his mind; he was not supposed to feel like this. He was the remnants of the dark chip, he was to solely feel hatred and power. He was supposed to feel like the first time he was awakened.

Yet it was different. He could feel the dark chip losing grip more and more often. Excluding sudden bursts of hatred towards mankind, he knew, he was starting to think like Blues.

He was getting out of the limits of his Artificial Intelligence –which was partly constructed by the dark chip– and the idea was thrilling.

Nonetheless frightening.

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"Ijuuin-sama."

Ijuuin-san looked up from his paperwork, and saw the red navi at the corner of his desktop.

"Blues. EXE. You have not been given permission to access to my computer. I trust Enzan hasn't sent you."

Blues bowed, just as anyone would when seeing the president of IPC.

"He hasn't, Ijuuin-sama. But I have received a data split recently, and Enzan-sama has disappeared with the 'counterpart'."

Blues chose his words carefully, but his efforts were wasted as Ijuuin-san pounded his fists onto the desk, shaking the computer as Blues' world vibrated.

"He ran off!" Ijuuin-san roared, and Blues refrained himself from wincing.

"I must find him…" Ijuuin-san mumbled under his breath, pacing around the room. "I must send people out right now and drag him back to my–"

"Excuse me, Ijuuin-sama." Blues said clearly. "My counterpart is controlling Enzan-sama, as so it will not be an easy job to find them. If you can supply me with information of how I was created for me to analyze my counterpart, it will help."

Ijuuin-san narrowed his eyes, stopping in his pace. "Are you, a navi, prying information from me?"

Blues replied in a monotone voice, "I only need information to track down Dark Blues, as only I, as far as I know, have a chance to bring Enzan-sama back."

Ijuuin-san sat down on his costly chair, his fingers tapping the desk softly. "Are you threatening me, Blues EXE?"

Blues refused to shrink under the gaze; instead he answered, "I wish to help in anyway I can."

Ijuuin-san took a deep breath, and murmured, "I might as well as tell you about it."

Behind the visors Blues' eyebrows knitted in confusion. Ijuuin-san giving up in this manner? He decided not to say anything.

"A navi's emotions and behavior are programmed in their AI, and no matter how much they may want to, they cannot escape the limits of their AI. A navi that is not limited by their AI is what I need to work for IPC." The man paused, gathering his thoughts.

"Since Enzan was small, I have clearly shown him that anything I gave to him could be taken away if he didn't behave. I knew he had wanted his own Net Navi for a long time, and when I found that he was reading books about advanced navi programming, I was stunned; he was six at that time, and I figured out that it may be my chance.

He was too young to program an AI at that time, so I offered to give him one to start with. He wouldn't take it at the beginning, but one night, he came into my studies, and demanded for the AI. I knew this would come sooner or later; he couldn't create a navi without my help.

I told him it would be ready in a week.

That night, I took his DNA while he was sleeping –it was the easy part, a little flick with a cotton stick inside his mouth –and I worked on the DNA, to change it into data."

"It was tough work, but it worked splendidly. I was just about to enter rules of obligation into the new AI made from Enzan's genes, the news of her death reached me."

Blues said nothing. He knew very well whom 'she' refers to.

"She passed away in Russia, died because of a severe heart attack. She was on a business trip for me."

Ijuuin-san paused away, and closed his eyes. He opened them again and continued, "I stopped working on my projects and the new AI was put away. Until that night when I saw Enzan, I remembered.

He was mourning. The staffs of IPC were looking at him, pitying him." Ijuuin-san's eyes narrowed.

"So I forbid him to cry in front of others. When he didn't stop crying, I told him that the new AI was finished." Ijuuin-san looked out of the window; Blues waited for him to continue.

"And he answered, 'I have prepared the navi's frame and other essentials.'

It was very late when we arrived in my mansion that night, but Enzan didn't sleep. He worked till dawn to complete his navi, merging the frame with the AI.

He fell asleep with his head resting on his desk, and suddenly I remembered about the rules I have forgotten to enter into the AI.

I let the servants carry Enzan to his bed, as so the computer will be free for me to enter the rules.

It was then I found that Enzan had put his signature code on the completed navi code, and I could not change anything."

The man paused again, looking at Blues, but the navi didn't flinch the slightest bit.

"I could not do anything against it, but let Enzan finish the navi and activate it. Blues. EXE was created."

"Why don't you program the navi yourself? Why go through all the trouble?" Blues asked slowly, keeping his tone neutral.

Ijuuin-san got to his feet, the slightest trace of a smirk tugging at the corner of his lips.

"A navi not bounded by AI can be dangerous, and it may be too much for my business partners to keep up with. What if anyone found out about it? The status of IPC's president would surely be smeared away."

"So you baited Enzan-sama to create it for you." Blues hissed through gritted teeth, trying not to let his anger show.

"If anyone found out, Enzan-sama's life would be ruined."

Ijuuin-san raised an eyebrow at the navi's reaction.

"Would anyone look into a six-year-old kid's laptop to find a new AI?"

Blues said nothing.

"I used Enzan's DNA, so the navi can be genius; I'm telling you so much because I trust you."

Blues knew what he was going to say, and he couldn't help but turned away.

"I trust my son, Blues."

Blues avoided the man's eyes.

"You will help your father, won't you?"

"I…" For the first time since his activation, Blues had nothing to say.

"The rules of obligation does not exist in you, so do you think this counterpart that has Enzan in its hands is bounded by the rules?" Ijuuin-san pressed on.

Blues stood shaking for a moment, and when he finally found his voice, he found himself shouting crazily at man in front of him.

"IT'S ENZAN-SAMA YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! YOU BAITED HIM WHEN HE WAS SMALL, AND NOW HIS LIFE IS HANGING BY A THREAD AND YOU ARE SO INDIFFERENT! YOU SAID YOU CARED FOR HIM WHEN HE WAS LYING UNCONCIOUS IN THE HOSPITA –"

"SILENCE!" Blues opened his mouth, and then closed it again after a better thought.

Ijuuin-san has evidently lost his patience, and the cold black eyes turned back to the red navi.

Taking in a deep breath, Ijuuin-san persistently continued, "Of course I care for him. He is the bearer of the Ijuuin name and fame, the heir of IPC. Of course I care."

Blues turned away. "You care, and love him so dearly. Just like a princess loving her jewelry, a businessman loving his money…" He trailed off, and Ijuuin-san carried on.

"I love him in a different way than you do, but it's the same being we both care for. That's why I am telling you all of the above, Blues. And if you care, maybe you can recite the rules of obligation for me? I am sure you're heard of it millions of times everyday…"

Blues logged out, not replying to the man.

The man was right; he could recite it in his static cycle, after hearing it for so many times, from both navis and humans. He knew very well the danger Enzan was in.

Rules of Obligation:

1. Never cause harm to humans.

2. Never offense the laws of the Internet.

Blues linked to a familiar homepage. Not for the first time in his life, Blues feel the yearn to be comforted.

'It's all too much…'

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"Yuriko-san."

"You're here, Dark Blues. How is it going?" The woman smiled at the navi.

"Enzan-sama is fit enough," Dark Blues replied.

"Good… We can go into action, anytime. Is his mental condition at risk?"

"The medical support he is having is sorting things out. However, humans are unknown factors." Dark Blues answered tonelessly.

"Bring Enzan to me; I will run a test on him, and add the doses of the drugs if necessary." Yuriko smirked.

For a moment Yuriko waited for the navi's response, and when none came, she glanced at the navi.

"What's up with you?"

The navi said nothing.

"Answer me!"

Hesitantly Dark Blues started, "I happen to know the drugs you've been giving to Enzan-sama is harmful to him; it's only helping in short run. I'm concerned about Enz-"

"You know what you are for. You can lose everything, you can even lose Enzan if you don't follow my plans. Anyway, I am just like your operator; I thought you must follow the rules…"

And why wasn't he following the rules?

Dark Blues said nothing.

"You have two choice: Stay with me, and have Enzan as your operator. Two: Go spill the secrets and get deleted. And losing Enzan in the process. Do you know your choice, because I do…?"

A sudden unexplainable wave of jealousy washed over him.

"Affirmative, Yuriko-san."

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"Enzan-sama…"

The wave of rage and hatred had streamed away at the sight of the weary white-haired boy.

"Yuriko-san wants you in the labs tonight to run a health check…"

"I'll be there."

The voice was weak, and the determination in the blue eyes had long ago drained.

Why had he lied?

Why did he cause destruction?

…Was that nature?

"Dark Blues, we're going to train." The strained voice chased away his thoughts. "Affirmative, Enzan-sama."

I rushed at life with hopes all burning,

Along a road that had no turning.

My selfish dreams had so inspired me,

I could not see the folly of my way.

I reached one goal and then another,

Alas, but only to discover

That true fulfillment had escaped me,

And earthly treasures lasted but a day…

…Was there a reason?

AN: Okay I know that was strange, but I need that for the rest of the story. Anyway, schoolwork is really wearing off my sanity. I dunno how bad it is, but do tell me if it's really unbearable; I will try repost it if anyone requests the chapter to be rewritten. (Personally I cannot vouch for this; after hours of studying and type a story till midnight? Err… I wouldn't vouch.) SORRY! REALLY SORRY!

-Solitude Sky