"Yuzuki!" yelled Minoru, leaping out of the chair in time to catch her as she fell. Her electronic
mind was racing, streaks of light scrolling across her eyes almost faster than Minoru could keep up
with watching them. Hideki was frozen in his chair, watching. Chu and Chii stood a few feet away,
both of them with their eyes nearly closed, the familiar lights also moving across the planes of their
eyes. They looked like they would pass out at any moment. Yuzuki's body jerked in Minoru's arms,
her eyes opening and returning to their normal state. "That..." she gasped. "Is not a picture...of me.
Or any persocon...I know." But her reaction had said otherwise.
"Minoru-kun..." stammered Hideki. "Look..." Minoru's gaze followed Hideki's pointing finger to
Chii and Chu. The blonde persocon was slumping, supported only by the raven-haired one, who was
also in bad shape. The lights were streaking across their eyes at an incredible rate. Minoru let go of
Yuzuki and dashed forward, grabbing Chu and shaking her. "Stop!" he screamed. "Stop it, Chu!
You're going to break yourself!" Yuzuki pulled the frantic boy away from the persocons, having
quickly regained her strength. "You can't stop this, Minoru-sama," she said. "You can't stop it...it's
not possible..." She then released him and stood in front of the two. "But I can," she snapped, and
pulled a cord from her ear. Releasing the catch on Chu's right ear, she inserted the plug end of the
cord into the dataport there, then opened Chii's left ear. The cord there, she plugged into her own
right ear. Her eyes closed halfway, the familiar clicking whirr of a working processor filling the air.
The lights in Chii and Chu's eyes slowed, then stopped.
Yuzuki caught them as they collapsed against her.
"What on earth was that?" Minoru sounded confused. Yuzuki turned to look at him. "I'm not sure
how to explain it," she said. "Except...let's just say, it would have taken a lot more for them to
break. They...aren't like normal persocons, Minoru-sama. I've never seen any this powerful...and
those pictures..." She stopped. Minoru eyed the screen, and the picture of Chobit "05". "Yuzuki," he
said, "why did you react that way to the picture?" She turned her face away. "It surprised me." Her
voice was flat, sounding not at all like it usually did. Minoru could instantly tell she was holding
something back. "Tell me, Yuzuki," he demanded.
"The voice I heard...that day, when all the persocons in this area froze," she started. "It was...my
own voice. And I saw...a persocon, like me. She...was my opposite, it seemed. Where my hair is
blue...hers is white. Where my eyes are purple...hers are orange. And her clothes...are different. She
wears..." Here Yuzuki used her hands to help shape the image. "A black dress, that fits tightly
around the shoulders and chest, with a short skirt that falls to about here." She put the side of her
hand just above the middle of her thigh. "Then...it's long, in the back, almost like a cape, and
brushes the floor. The top...is cut low." She traced a fingertip over the tops of her breasts, about two
centimeters above the nipples. "Then there's a translucent panel above it, with five solid lines of
black cloth running through, radiating out from a center point. And...long sleeves, that end in a
jagged cut, just touching the backs of her hands." She unhooked her cord from Chu's ear and instead
plugged it into Minoru's monitor. A picture of the other-Yuzuki came up. It was exactly like the
image of Chobit "05".
(Author's note: Yep, it's Black Chii's dress. Sue me. XD)
mind was racing, streaks of light scrolling across her eyes almost faster than Minoru could keep up
with watching them. Hideki was frozen in his chair, watching. Chu and Chii stood a few feet away,
both of them with their eyes nearly closed, the familiar lights also moving across the planes of their
eyes. They looked like they would pass out at any moment. Yuzuki's body jerked in Minoru's arms,
her eyes opening and returning to their normal state. "That..." she gasped. "Is not a picture...of me.
Or any persocon...I know." But her reaction had said otherwise.
"Minoru-kun..." stammered Hideki. "Look..." Minoru's gaze followed Hideki's pointing finger to
Chii and Chu. The blonde persocon was slumping, supported only by the raven-haired one, who was
also in bad shape. The lights were streaking across their eyes at an incredible rate. Minoru let go of
Yuzuki and dashed forward, grabbing Chu and shaking her. "Stop!" he screamed. "Stop it, Chu!
You're going to break yourself!" Yuzuki pulled the frantic boy away from the persocons, having
quickly regained her strength. "You can't stop this, Minoru-sama," she said. "You can't stop it...it's
not possible..." She then released him and stood in front of the two. "But I can," she snapped, and
pulled a cord from her ear. Releasing the catch on Chu's right ear, she inserted the plug end of the
cord into the dataport there, then opened Chii's left ear. The cord there, she plugged into her own
right ear. Her eyes closed halfway, the familiar clicking whirr of a working processor filling the air.
The lights in Chii and Chu's eyes slowed, then stopped.
Yuzuki caught them as they collapsed against her.
"What on earth was that?" Minoru sounded confused. Yuzuki turned to look at him. "I'm not sure
how to explain it," she said. "Except...let's just say, it would have taken a lot more for them to
break. They...aren't like normal persocons, Minoru-sama. I've never seen any this powerful...and
those pictures..." She stopped. Minoru eyed the screen, and the picture of Chobit "05". "Yuzuki," he
said, "why did you react that way to the picture?" She turned her face away. "It surprised me." Her
voice was flat, sounding not at all like it usually did. Minoru could instantly tell she was holding
something back. "Tell me, Yuzuki," he demanded.
"The voice I heard...that day, when all the persocons in this area froze," she started. "It was...my
own voice. And I saw...a persocon, like me. She...was my opposite, it seemed. Where my hair is
blue...hers is white. Where my eyes are purple...hers are orange. And her clothes...are different. She
wears..." Here Yuzuki used her hands to help shape the image. "A black dress, that fits tightly
around the shoulders and chest, with a short skirt that falls to about here." She put the side of her
hand just above the middle of her thigh. "Then...it's long, in the back, almost like a cape, and
brushes the floor. The top...is cut low." She traced a fingertip over the tops of her breasts, about two
centimeters above the nipples. "Then there's a translucent panel above it, with five solid lines of
black cloth running through, radiating out from a center point. And...long sleeves, that end in a
jagged cut, just touching the backs of her hands." She unhooked her cord from Chu's ear and instead
plugged it into Minoru's monitor. A picture of the other-Yuzuki came up. It was exactly like the
image of Chobit "05".
(Author's note: Yep, it's Black Chii's dress. Sue me. XD)
