This is going to be the first in a series of character monologues involving Chobits (Since I just read the last Manga) This is basically their thoughts, their hopes, and their opinions. I wanted to get an after-the-manga- series perspective cause it made me cry.
Disclaimer: I-do not own Chobits. I wish, I did, and for the record I wish humanoid computers were real. Sadly, they aren't. Credit goes to clamp, this series was sad! Lets make the next one happy hm?
Title: Chi- On Love, Life, and Dish soap
Today, Chi is washing the dishes.
Chi made Hideki dinner, and Chi volunteered to clean up. He's in his room studying-after he showed Chi how to use Dish Soap, cleaning these dishes is easy. It is like the work that Chi does at the bakery.
Hideki was worried.
He said, "I don't want anything to happen to these hands."
Now, Chi washes the dishes with the green soap, and feels warm. Outside snowflakes are falling, and the heater in our apartment is broken, but Chi is warm on the inside. When he came home from his job, and saw What Chi had made him for dinner, Chi felt warm then too.
Chi likes this warmth.
Chi…I do not remember what happened a few weeks ago. Hideki doesn't tell me. We woke up in a puddle of water, and I felt-complete.
Whole.
How lucky humans are! I mean, Chi remembers being incomplete, knowing that her programming was not fulfilled. But now that Chi's programming is fulfilled-it is rare for me to be unhappy.
That makes me sad.
I see many people, while working, on the street-who look unhappy. Look! Down they're at the man in the overcoat and hat. His face is bent; he looks like he is downcast, crying. People pass him by on the street and do not ask him why he is sad. At his side he leads a comm.…
She's broken!
Now I know. She is broken, that must be what makes him sad. People develop such attachments onto machines. There is something reassuring about that, knowing that we won't be abandoned.
I don't want to be abandoned.
Just thinking about Hideki makes me warm inside. I want to be beside him, to help him, to be with him for as long as I can possibly be. Knowing that I will be accepted somewhat by others-because I am a machine…
Somehow, I find that a good thing.
It is nice to know that I am appreciated.
Yet at the same time…
Hideki says that this feeling is called envy. Envy is what turns people green. I did not understand, for I have seen no green humans walking down the street-only green dish soap. And dish soap does not walk down the street.
But he says this is true.
And What Hideki says, I believe.
I wish I were a human, so that…I could help Hideki more. This feeling of warmth inside is so wonderful…so precious…
I want it to last.
Hideki is calling me now; he rented a movie for us to watch. I smile as I put the dishes back into the rack, and head into the other room to join him.
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A/. N: Did you like it? Chi is a hard character to capture. The next chapter will be easier.