You now realize that I'm adding some DOAX fluff to this, right? Expect more, and maybe a return of Ran and company...but I tend to have a lot more fun writing this story when I put in some DOAX fluff to it. Consider it a stroke of luck to not have any lemons or limes in the previous chapter. Let's see how this turns out...
Once again, I don't own DOAX, that's Itagami and Tecmo's fault. Don't point any canon, because it will be ignored.
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Eyes Without A Face
Chapter 4:
Evading Voluptuosity
"Hey, Yuuya, you mad?" Jenn was conversing with his new friend at the entrance hall.
"No, but I feel like I've been had..."
"Been...had?"
"For believing some insane myth that isn't true."
"Hey, Yuuya, it's a fantasy. You know the ones you read in sci-fi books...think of Mami as...well, Frankenstein, for instance. Let's say, Frankenstein to break out of its prison, and wreak havoc outside the haunted house..." Jenn pondered in an Albert Hitchcock tone. "And what if someone were to take Frankenstein away?"
"Then its off to that demented research lab where your brains and guts get racked," countered Yuuya. Both laughed deeply, and then chuckled at the impromptu example.
"You like this stuff like the Dickens, eh, Yuuya?"
"Sure do, Jenn! But isn't it pronounced...Dick-ends?" Jenn cracked up insanely. "I'm sorry, I must have read too much magazines for people like me."
"Huh," Jenn chuckled.
"But, the thing is, it grows on you. You just think about human sexuality, and how the potential of lovemaking could create success like any other."
"As well as a wave of teen pregnancies, STDs, possibly AIDS, stillbirths, miscarriages, the whole lot..." Yuuya face faulted, and fell hard to the floor.
"Um...Jenn-kun...you're scaring our guest," cajoled Lei Fang.
"All in good time, Lei. All in good time. She's different hands down, right?"
"Doesn't match any company on my database," Lei said with a shrug.
Jenn shook his head. His Lei Fang was deemed the most well programmed persocon for four straight years. But, true to the old saying, "Nobody's perfect," not even persocons.
"Tell you what, Yuuya," Jenn said, stretching a bit. "I'm going to discuss this new issue on every message board that concerns persocons. Maybe that will save you some hassle, yeah?"
"Sounds great," he said, "But I don't have an e-mail yet, though I did purchase a new PC..."
"Phone number, perhaps?"
"Yeah, but I forgot to bring paper and pen."
"Just say it to Lei Fang."
"Okay, Zero two nine..." As Lei's eyes shut down, she automatically recorded. Again, Mami did likewise.
"All right. Save completed, buddy!" said Lei with a smile and a wink, a hand on Yuuya's shoulder. She even gave him the handshake that he uses with his friends at Meishou Daiichi. Mami copied all this down.
"Whoa, she knows everything," grinned Yuuya. "Ya know, I just don't get how Lei Fang can be so..."
"Cultured?" Another one in the brain book. "I've programmed Lei so that she can accurately fit in with her surrounding and people. She can speak up to 50 different languages, and she can understand fluently all languages of the world. I programmed her to have feelings as well, and talk like a normal Chinese-Japanese girl..." Jenn's eyes misted. "She can master even every martial arts move that I can do. So she can defend herself pretty well."
"How long did this take?"
"Mmmm...one month."
Yuuya's jaw dropped to the floor. "One month?"
"Quick learner, right down to the nanosecond."
"If she was a real person, she'd make a good wife."
"True that, Yuuya. Now, how about asking Mami for your phone number?"
"Mami, do you know my phone number?" asked Yuuya.
A second later, "02-9823-45617."
"Jesus!" exclaimed Yuuya. "You can talk after all! Wow!"
"She's a quick learner, too," analyzed Jenn with a nod. "Right down to the nanosecond." Yuuya grinned icily, like a weasel. "She was thrown out of a trash heap, yes?"
"Yep."
"The change set in when she was thrown out...but her learning program is working...if Mami can speak if she's taught, she should easily matriculate with the crowd with no barriers to deal with. If you teach her correctly."
"Matriculate?" Another one.
"As her owner, she will act in accordance to what you tell her. What you teach Mami."
"So...I WON'T HAVE TO BUY ANY SOFTWARE? NONE??"
"You may have to buy some..." Yuuya falls over. "...Just in case. As a chobits, Mami with have control over that decision. Or if she had a previous owner."
As Mami bowed her head in reflection, Yuuya says to himself. "Lonely? How...?"
"And whatever you do...and whatever she does...DON'T fall in love with her. You'll regret it," said Jenn in a grim tone. Yuuya acknowledged that off the bat. "Well, see you later, Yuuya!"
"Bye, Jenn!" he says, Mami following.
"Come again, and bring Ran, Miyu, Aya, and the rest of your folks with you next time!" shouted Lei Fang.
"Laterz, Lei!" he said, as the two left the mansion. 'Boy, Lei sure knows a lot about me and my friends,' Yuuya thought. 'But falling in love with a persocon...? I may be smutty, but I have self-respect, and...I also have someone that I love...but Mami looks really cute, though.'
After a while, Yuuya says to his pet, "What should I teach you?" As Mami's t-shirt falls off, Yuuya goes berserk yet again. "Must buy clothes for her...but I'm still broke..."
********
"Asou-san?" asked Rika, finished with sweeping, watching the two return back.
"Ishikawa-san."
"I have something for Mamirin. I hope she'll like it..." She handed Yuuya a bag that contained some clothes, and some hairpieces.
"THANKS A BILLION, Ishikawa-san!"
"Hope it turns out well."
"You saved me a great deal of trouble! Thank you!"
"Good luck with you exam tomorrow," said Rika, walking back to her quarters.
"Thanks again!" said Yuuya, as the two hightailed back to his room.
********
"Man, it is a relief to find someone who can play a safety net out here. Yeah!" he said to himself. Mami came out in a rose-decorated white halter-top, a long denim skirt with pink lace trim, and some flowery pink hair extensions. She looked like a kogal, all right.
"You look great, Mami," he said with a genki grin. At that point, she jumps on top of him, knocking him over, and squeezing him. "Oooh, oof. You're gonna turn out the way I teach you, hmm? I'll do my best to make sure of it, ne, Mami?"
"Mami..." she said happily. She jumps up, knocking him down, the skirt slipping up a bit.
"But first...let's get you some underwear, ne?"
********
The next day, Yuuya comes to class with a heavy heart. 'Once of those days,' he thought, 'just one of those days.'
"Auugh! A pervert!" screams a girly voice from behind.
"Wha? Who...who are talking about...I'm not..."
"Silly, it's me, the wench!"
"Jun...don't do stuff like that again, or else I'll kick you," he said icily, with a touch of a Capone-ish accent.
"You're early, man. Rei and Hideki ain't here yet, and they wont be for another..."
"...Second?" said Rei, coming in with a slightly upbeat tone.
"Ohayo, minna~~~," said Hideki.
"Ohayo," the other two said.
"Hey, Jun, what's the dealy-o on Minamori?" asked Hideki.
"Hey, that's my question!" said Yuuya.
"I'll answer both of your Q's," he said with a smile. "Took 24 hours to retrieve the lost data, had to live on 3 cans of Starbucks Doubleshot(tm) and bread, had no sleep...but managed to get here in one piece. Mina-chan, wake up, kid!" Minamori hopped out, dancing parapara on Jun's desk.
"I thought Minamori was a belly dancer," said Rei.
"I reprogrammed her to change her look to that of a true-blooded paralist. She has every parapara move known to man in her database. She is dancing her "Waiting Mode" routine.
"I'm not a paralist," said Rei with a yawn.
"No, you're a bookworm, and that's better," said Yuuya, patting him on the back.
"You know, Yuuya, that was the crappiest piece of sarcasm that was addressed to me. You need to try harder than that."
"Oh, so you've faced worse?"
"The majority of them female-does that answer your selfish imploration?"
"That's right...you don't want to be around girls, Rei," said Hideki.
"So I don't."
"Yuuya, you're lucky that I had backups of the data, but if Mina-chan needed repairs, I'd put it on your shoulders."
"I don't...have...money."
"That's fine. At least I'm flexible...most days. You met with Jenn Lee-sama, right?" asked Jun.
"Duh. Aren't all ex-martial artists like that, owning battalions of persocon?"
"Hypothesis contrary to fact, maybe a tad non-sequitur, but I'd definitely live my life in a dojo from now on, maybe be the next Karate Kid(c)."
"Um, that's an Americanized movie, Jun," said Hideki, laughing. "And besides, you're better off hanging with us! How did you know about Jenn Lee?"
"Apart from being a 3-time martial-arts world champion (he got the black belt when he was 15), I met him at a citywide persocon convention in Kanagawa-ku a year ago, and we exchanged e-mail addresses afterward. We've been buds ever since. Did you find anything...hmmm?"
"Even using four of Jenn's persocons, nothing worked. Some protection on her. What we found out there was that she has a learning program."
Jun gave him some heart pats on the back, saying, "What a serendipity! Finding a persocon that can let the dogs out? Man, you've won the persocon lottery...and you didn't even know it!"
"Jun...does such a lottery ever exist?"
"Nah, I was just exaggerating a bit."
"Geh..."
"But that's really cool though..."
"Segiwara Jun, the optimistic wench," said Hideki, grinning. "Fitting enough." Rei only smirked in approval.
"Jun," said Yuuya, "I was wondering, my persocon needs some underwear, and, uh, is there a place where I can buy cheap ones?"
"Top...or bottom?"
"NOT ME, YOU ASSHOLE, MAMI~~~~!"
"I know, I know. Relax. Mina-chan, search Net for a ladies undergarment store, price range 500 yen and under.
"Right!" she said. After a few seconds, she hands a paper of results to Jun. "Attagirl, Mina-chan. Here you go, dude," he said, handing him the paper.
"Persocons...can write by hand?" asked Yuuya, perusing his results.
"You could use a printer, if one's hooked up."
"Then...why this?"
"Cause that is just C-U-T-E."
"Uh...huh." Jun put Minamori back into the bag, when the door opens, and out comes Kasumi-sensei.
"Segiwara-kun~~" she acknowledges, smiling. "And Asou-kun is also early as well and Motosawa-kun, and Otohata-kun."
"Ohayo," the four boys say in unison.
"You're early, Kasumi-sensei," said Yuuya imploringly. "There's still 45 minutes left before class starts."
"Mmm, I had something to take care of," she said, her dark orange eyes shining like rubies. "You're early yourself too, Mr. Number Two."
He choked, but managed to say, "So I am."
"That means I'll call on you today for a page from our Calculus textbook..."
"Eh~~~~?"
"It'll be good for you. I'm trying to get you to try and make a splash here, you know." Kasumi-sensei was giving Yuuya a pat on the back, alienating the others.
********
Coming back home, Yuuya's heart felt even heavier than when he left.
"Kasumi-sensei called on me, Jun, Rei, and Hideki were early," he pondered. "Wait a minute, usually he arrives slightly late, and so what's up with that?" Yuuya would have to walk over to the Valerie Stevens shop, which was 6 blocks down the street. It had a lingerie sale that day, and he swallowed his pride as he stepped in, made his purchase, and departed hastily home.
********
"Mami?" she said, hearing footsteps come up. The door opens, and as Yuuya inside, he got put the bag of bras and panties on the sofa, and goes haywire yet again. You'd swear a neighbor would call State Hospital right there, but no one was nearby, and those that were close to nearby didn't hear anything, if at all.
"DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT! I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THIS STUFF AT A 7-11 OR SOMETHING!" he yells. "I'M THE WORST PERVERT IN ALL OF JAPAN! WAAAAA~~~~~~~~H!! BECAUSE OF PANTIES AND BRAS! NO!"
"Panties?" asked Mami. She put a pair on her head, dancing around. "Panties, panties, panties..."
"WTF...NO! MAMI! YOU"RE NOT SUPPOSED TO WEAR THEM LIKE THA~~~~T!! WA~~~~HHH~~~!!!" howled Yuuya in a fit of painful, self-inflicted rage. You'd swear the paramedics would be coming out. After this series of fits, going to a mental institution may have some benefit after all.
********
End Chapter 4
Feedback would be nice.
Once again, I don't own DOAX, that's Itagami and Tecmo's fault. Don't point any canon, because it will be ignored.
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Eyes Without A Face
Chapter 4:
Evading Voluptuosity
"Hey, Yuuya, you mad?" Jenn was conversing with his new friend at the entrance hall.
"No, but I feel like I've been had..."
"Been...had?"
"For believing some insane myth that isn't true."
"Hey, Yuuya, it's a fantasy. You know the ones you read in sci-fi books...think of Mami as...well, Frankenstein, for instance. Let's say, Frankenstein to break out of its prison, and wreak havoc outside the haunted house..." Jenn pondered in an Albert Hitchcock tone. "And what if someone were to take Frankenstein away?"
"Then its off to that demented research lab where your brains and guts get racked," countered Yuuya. Both laughed deeply, and then chuckled at the impromptu example.
"You like this stuff like the Dickens, eh, Yuuya?"
"Sure do, Jenn! But isn't it pronounced...Dick-ends?" Jenn cracked up insanely. "I'm sorry, I must have read too much magazines for people like me."
"Huh," Jenn chuckled.
"But, the thing is, it grows on you. You just think about human sexuality, and how the potential of lovemaking could create success like any other."
"As well as a wave of teen pregnancies, STDs, possibly AIDS, stillbirths, miscarriages, the whole lot..." Yuuya face faulted, and fell hard to the floor.
"Um...Jenn-kun...you're scaring our guest," cajoled Lei Fang.
"All in good time, Lei. All in good time. She's different hands down, right?"
"Doesn't match any company on my database," Lei said with a shrug.
Jenn shook his head. His Lei Fang was deemed the most well programmed persocon for four straight years. But, true to the old saying, "Nobody's perfect," not even persocons.
"Tell you what, Yuuya," Jenn said, stretching a bit. "I'm going to discuss this new issue on every message board that concerns persocons. Maybe that will save you some hassle, yeah?"
"Sounds great," he said, "But I don't have an e-mail yet, though I did purchase a new PC..."
"Phone number, perhaps?"
"Yeah, but I forgot to bring paper and pen."
"Just say it to Lei Fang."
"Okay, Zero two nine..." As Lei's eyes shut down, she automatically recorded. Again, Mami did likewise.
"All right. Save completed, buddy!" said Lei with a smile and a wink, a hand on Yuuya's shoulder. She even gave him the handshake that he uses with his friends at Meishou Daiichi. Mami copied all this down.
"Whoa, she knows everything," grinned Yuuya. "Ya know, I just don't get how Lei Fang can be so..."
"Cultured?" Another one in the brain book. "I've programmed Lei so that she can accurately fit in with her surrounding and people. She can speak up to 50 different languages, and she can understand fluently all languages of the world. I programmed her to have feelings as well, and talk like a normal Chinese-Japanese girl..." Jenn's eyes misted. "She can master even every martial arts move that I can do. So she can defend herself pretty well."
"How long did this take?"
"Mmmm...one month."
Yuuya's jaw dropped to the floor. "One month?"
"Quick learner, right down to the nanosecond."
"If she was a real person, she'd make a good wife."
"True that, Yuuya. Now, how about asking Mami for your phone number?"
"Mami, do you know my phone number?" asked Yuuya.
A second later, "02-9823-45617."
"Jesus!" exclaimed Yuuya. "You can talk after all! Wow!"
"She's a quick learner, too," analyzed Jenn with a nod. "Right down to the nanosecond." Yuuya grinned icily, like a weasel. "She was thrown out of a trash heap, yes?"
"Yep."
"The change set in when she was thrown out...but her learning program is working...if Mami can speak if she's taught, she should easily matriculate with the crowd with no barriers to deal with. If you teach her correctly."
"Matriculate?" Another one.
"As her owner, she will act in accordance to what you tell her. What you teach Mami."
"So...I WON'T HAVE TO BUY ANY SOFTWARE? NONE??"
"You may have to buy some..." Yuuya falls over. "...Just in case. As a chobits, Mami with have control over that decision. Or if she had a previous owner."
As Mami bowed her head in reflection, Yuuya says to himself. "Lonely? How...?"
"And whatever you do...and whatever she does...DON'T fall in love with her. You'll regret it," said Jenn in a grim tone. Yuuya acknowledged that off the bat. "Well, see you later, Yuuya!"
"Bye, Jenn!" he says, Mami following.
"Come again, and bring Ran, Miyu, Aya, and the rest of your folks with you next time!" shouted Lei Fang.
"Laterz, Lei!" he said, as the two left the mansion. 'Boy, Lei sure knows a lot about me and my friends,' Yuuya thought. 'But falling in love with a persocon...? I may be smutty, but I have self-respect, and...I also have someone that I love...but Mami looks really cute, though.'
After a while, Yuuya says to his pet, "What should I teach you?" As Mami's t-shirt falls off, Yuuya goes berserk yet again. "Must buy clothes for her...but I'm still broke..."
********
"Asou-san?" asked Rika, finished with sweeping, watching the two return back.
"Ishikawa-san."
"I have something for Mamirin. I hope she'll like it..." She handed Yuuya a bag that contained some clothes, and some hairpieces.
"THANKS A BILLION, Ishikawa-san!"
"Hope it turns out well."
"You saved me a great deal of trouble! Thank you!"
"Good luck with you exam tomorrow," said Rika, walking back to her quarters.
"Thanks again!" said Yuuya, as the two hightailed back to his room.
********
"Man, it is a relief to find someone who can play a safety net out here. Yeah!" he said to himself. Mami came out in a rose-decorated white halter-top, a long denim skirt with pink lace trim, and some flowery pink hair extensions. She looked like a kogal, all right.
"You look great, Mami," he said with a genki grin. At that point, she jumps on top of him, knocking him over, and squeezing him. "Oooh, oof. You're gonna turn out the way I teach you, hmm? I'll do my best to make sure of it, ne, Mami?"
"Mami..." she said happily. She jumps up, knocking him down, the skirt slipping up a bit.
"But first...let's get you some underwear, ne?"
********
The next day, Yuuya comes to class with a heavy heart. 'Once of those days,' he thought, 'just one of those days.'
"Auugh! A pervert!" screams a girly voice from behind.
"Wha? Who...who are talking about...I'm not..."
"Silly, it's me, the wench!"
"Jun...don't do stuff like that again, or else I'll kick you," he said icily, with a touch of a Capone-ish accent.
"You're early, man. Rei and Hideki ain't here yet, and they wont be for another..."
"...Second?" said Rei, coming in with a slightly upbeat tone.
"Ohayo, minna~~~," said Hideki.
"Ohayo," the other two said.
"Hey, Jun, what's the dealy-o on Minamori?" asked Hideki.
"Hey, that's my question!" said Yuuya.
"I'll answer both of your Q's," he said with a smile. "Took 24 hours to retrieve the lost data, had to live on 3 cans of Starbucks Doubleshot(tm) and bread, had no sleep...but managed to get here in one piece. Mina-chan, wake up, kid!" Minamori hopped out, dancing parapara on Jun's desk.
"I thought Minamori was a belly dancer," said Rei.
"I reprogrammed her to change her look to that of a true-blooded paralist. She has every parapara move known to man in her database. She is dancing her "Waiting Mode" routine.
"I'm not a paralist," said Rei with a yawn.
"No, you're a bookworm, and that's better," said Yuuya, patting him on the back.
"You know, Yuuya, that was the crappiest piece of sarcasm that was addressed to me. You need to try harder than that."
"Oh, so you've faced worse?"
"The majority of them female-does that answer your selfish imploration?"
"That's right...you don't want to be around girls, Rei," said Hideki.
"So I don't."
"Yuuya, you're lucky that I had backups of the data, but if Mina-chan needed repairs, I'd put it on your shoulders."
"I don't...have...money."
"That's fine. At least I'm flexible...most days. You met with Jenn Lee-sama, right?" asked Jun.
"Duh. Aren't all ex-martial artists like that, owning battalions of persocon?"
"Hypothesis contrary to fact, maybe a tad non-sequitur, but I'd definitely live my life in a dojo from now on, maybe be the next Karate Kid(c)."
"Um, that's an Americanized movie, Jun," said Hideki, laughing. "And besides, you're better off hanging with us! How did you know about Jenn Lee?"
"Apart from being a 3-time martial-arts world champion (he got the black belt when he was 15), I met him at a citywide persocon convention in Kanagawa-ku a year ago, and we exchanged e-mail addresses afterward. We've been buds ever since. Did you find anything...hmmm?"
"Even using four of Jenn's persocons, nothing worked. Some protection on her. What we found out there was that she has a learning program."
Jun gave him some heart pats on the back, saying, "What a serendipity! Finding a persocon that can let the dogs out? Man, you've won the persocon lottery...and you didn't even know it!"
"Jun...does such a lottery ever exist?"
"Nah, I was just exaggerating a bit."
"Geh..."
"But that's really cool though..."
"Segiwara Jun, the optimistic wench," said Hideki, grinning. "Fitting enough." Rei only smirked in approval.
"Jun," said Yuuya, "I was wondering, my persocon needs some underwear, and, uh, is there a place where I can buy cheap ones?"
"Top...or bottom?"
"NOT ME, YOU ASSHOLE, MAMI~~~~!"
"I know, I know. Relax. Mina-chan, search Net for a ladies undergarment store, price range 500 yen and under.
"Right!" she said. After a few seconds, she hands a paper of results to Jun. "Attagirl, Mina-chan. Here you go, dude," he said, handing him the paper.
"Persocons...can write by hand?" asked Yuuya, perusing his results.
"You could use a printer, if one's hooked up."
"Then...why this?"
"Cause that is just C-U-T-E."
"Uh...huh." Jun put Minamori back into the bag, when the door opens, and out comes Kasumi-sensei.
"Segiwara-kun~~" she acknowledges, smiling. "And Asou-kun is also early as well and Motosawa-kun, and Otohata-kun."
"Ohayo," the four boys say in unison.
"You're early, Kasumi-sensei," said Yuuya imploringly. "There's still 45 minutes left before class starts."
"Mmm, I had something to take care of," she said, her dark orange eyes shining like rubies. "You're early yourself too, Mr. Number Two."
He choked, but managed to say, "So I am."
"That means I'll call on you today for a page from our Calculus textbook..."
"Eh~~~~?"
"It'll be good for you. I'm trying to get you to try and make a splash here, you know." Kasumi-sensei was giving Yuuya a pat on the back, alienating the others.
********
Coming back home, Yuuya's heart felt even heavier than when he left.
"Kasumi-sensei called on me, Jun, Rei, and Hideki were early," he pondered. "Wait a minute, usually he arrives slightly late, and so what's up with that?" Yuuya would have to walk over to the Valerie Stevens shop, which was 6 blocks down the street. It had a lingerie sale that day, and he swallowed his pride as he stepped in, made his purchase, and departed hastily home.
********
"Mami?" she said, hearing footsteps come up. The door opens, and as Yuuya inside, he got put the bag of bras and panties on the sofa, and goes haywire yet again. You'd swear a neighbor would call State Hospital right there, but no one was nearby, and those that were close to nearby didn't hear anything, if at all.
"DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT! I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THIS STUFF AT A 7-11 OR SOMETHING!" he yells. "I'M THE WORST PERVERT IN ALL OF JAPAN! WAAAAA~~~~~~~~H!! BECAUSE OF PANTIES AND BRAS! NO!"
"Panties?" asked Mami. She put a pair on her head, dancing around. "Panties, panties, panties..."
"WTF...NO! MAMI! YOU"RE NOT SUPPOSED TO WEAR THEM LIKE THA~~~~T!! WA~~~~HHH~~~!!!" howled Yuuya in a fit of painful, self-inflicted rage. You'd swear the paramedics would be coming out. After this series of fits, going to a mental institution may have some benefit after all.
********
End Chapter 4
Feedback would be nice.