*~~* Songbirds *~~*

What simple joy it brought chaos, to hear the hymn of songbirds in perfect harmony. The flew from branch to branch above him, never breaking their song. He held out one hand, to gladly welcome any of them willing to approach him. Only one came at first, mainly blue, beautifully mixed with yellow, white, and a little black. It came to him without an offer of food, just for his company. The tiny feathered creature looked at up him with its beady eyes, and whistled four notes. Smiling, chaos tried to repeat the tune, not doing nearly as well as it did. The songbird chirped, then sung two notes. These were much easier for chaos to echo back, and as he thought, it proved no difficulty to him.

It made a complex combination of whistles and chirps, such a combination that chaos (or anyone for the matter...) could hope to repeat. A few more songbirds flew down, a red one next to the first on his hand, two yellow ones on his one shoulder, and a black one on his other shoulder. They all begun to sing for him, creating a peaceful and calming song.

The song abruptly concluded, and four of the five birds immediately flew back up to the branches. The one that remained, the blue songbird, left seconds after it noticed all its friends had flown away.

chaos stared at his empty hand, then looked up. His scarlet-eyed angel, bathed in the sunlight, stood before him. How he wished he could call her... "his."

He felt something in his heart every time he saw her face, heard her voice... The greatest feeling was so rare, something touched his very soul when the two of them were alone. It was a feeling that could take over himself, and he could feel it right at that moment.

"Hi, KOS-MOS," he greeted her with his smile, "What are you doing out here?"

"Captain Matthews has requested that I inform you to return to the Elsa at 17:30:00."

"Oh... what time is it now?"

"15:48:32," she repsonded instantly. The ability to answer a question, even this simple, that quickly and accurately, always reminded chaos...

She was not human, techinally, it wasn't even correct to call KOS-MOS "she." Anyone could tell, just by looking at KOS-MOS, she was designed as a woman. Yet, what she has been bestowed was useless. They were exactly... as what men saw them as.

chaos put that aside, "Then there's still lots of time," he offered his hand to KOS-MOS, "Why don't you sit down?"

KOS-MOS did not take his hand, but did accept his offer. She sat down beside him and leaned against the tree. It wasn't very often KOS-MOS was so close to him.

Before chaos could take his hand back, the blue songbird flew back into his hand. It whistled the same two notes over again, as chaos whistled back. It chirped happily and flew back up. KOS-MOS couldn't comprehend what just happened, even though she just saw it. It was almost like communication, but that was impossible... She put her hand out, as chaos had did, and awaited the songbirds. Not one even came near her.

Neither of them spoke, neither of them knew what to say. chaos sighed, and once again, just this last time, he whistled. The little blue chick flew back down, but with chaos' palm not open for it to land on, the only place it could land was KOS-MOS' hand.

KOS-MOS was so careful with it, you could see she didn't want to scare it away. As another song began overhead, the blue songbird joined along.

It was like she was lost in the melody, taking notice of every peep they made. In an absence of any logical thought... simply staring at this bird... like she was devoid of any senses.

How could anyone call her emotionless... when she was paying such close attention to something that should be "insignificant" to her? This was a gentler side of KOS-MOS that few people ever saw, and chaos would give up anything just to see her like this... all the time.

He laced his fingers through her empty hand, she didn't react at all. chaos wished once again she was human, so there could ever be a chance of sliding a ring on this hand. But of course, the possibilty was slim... regardless of her being human or android. There were just so many things he longed for, so many things he had to do without. KOS-MOS was the only one he wanted.

The feeling that was taking over... was it love? Whatever it was, it had taken over chaos' entire self. Everything he did from that moment onwards, was only a means of expressing that tremendous feeling deep inside of him.

chaos laid a gentle kiss on her cheek, easily taking her attention away from the songbird. It flew away, like it knew chaos wanted them alone. There was complete silence, no need for words. With their hands still linked, chaos immersed himself deeply into a rather short, but sweet kiss. KOS-MOS couldn't even move, it was like... she was frozen, with fear, confusion. It felt like a million strange and new emotions washed over her, each discomforting to a human being. Albeit, the strangest and newest one was the least discomforting... affection.

If she had a heart... this would be where she would hear it beating.

chaos set KOS-MOS down on the carpet of fallen leaves below them. Lying next to her, their lips met. KOS-MOS had rid herself of fear and confusion, and only being left with affection, was deeply involved with the kiss. Still... she did not understand, but neither did chaos. It did not matter how this started, what mattered is that it happened. Up until this moment, KOS-MOS never felt.

Whatever happened thereafter, was only witnessed by the songbirds.

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Disclaimer - Xenosaga. Namco. Understand?

I started this purely to rid myself of writer's block from my Saifuu fanfiction(s). However, I started to have too much fun and kept going on and on and on. This is very pointless and random, I just felt the need to write something that had something to do with birds. My titles suck -_-. It takes place on Second Miltia, after the ending, though I have no explanation on how it got to this. -_- Anyway, it does need some work, but please review! I don't mind (and would gladly welcome) creative critiscm. This does NOT mean you can give me a review saying "You suck," "please kill yourself," or "I'd rather hang myself than read this $^%&." If you REALLY like this, I'll make this the prologue to a short (but longer than one chaper -_-) KOS-MOS/chaos fanfiction. So... hope you enjoyed!

KOS-MOS/chaos forever!

Buh-bye

MZF