After reading a lot of Fanfics I decided to write a short for myself. After all, I had been feeling rather creative these last few days.

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I do not own anything of the .hack series. All American franchise goes to Bandai.

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Tsukasa's Dreams...

By Derek Hernandez a.k.a. Zie

I, Tsukasa, unknown to the common, known to the uncommon, am a nobody.

How can one which is so unknown be known?

They can't.

No one can.

I have dreams, yet I cannot dream.

How is this so?

I was beginning to think I was AI, but can Artificial Intelligence actually dream?

Can they think on their own?

I heard of learning AI before... or was it that I was programmed to know?

I can feel, unlike Mimiru and Bear. They are alive, yet they feel not.

Am I alive?

I feel. I feel pain, but I do not know if I am alive... maybe the living don't actually feel, they just do?

But then does that mean that I am just a program, a code, after all?

That has to be.

After all, I cannot log-out.

But then "feel" comes into place yet again.

When Subaru is around, I feel... I feel happy.

I feel loved.

I feel warmth.

Can a computer feel such emotions?

If they can, could they actually make other people feel... happy, too?

I never heard of such things...

Or perhaps I was never programmed to know.

Why can't I log-out?

Why am I asking to log-out?

If I am just codes, what happens when I log-out?

Will I... die...?

Will I never see Subaru again...?

If I am alive, if I have a body to come back to, will she still like me?

Will she still love me?

She keeps telling me, when we are alone together, that she wants to see the real me, the real Tsukasa.

How can that be if I am only a code?

Is she seeing the real me?

Me... are there more like me?

No... Maha would have said so, but then again, is she a code as well? Or is she alive?

She can do things like me, like a code, yet she can express emotion like a person.

I am alone...

I am unknown because I am alone...

I can never become known.

I can't.

Dreams...

All of these ideas are just dreams.

I am not real...

But then, how can someone not real dream...?