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Chapter 4: Dangerous Personality Change, WHY?

Sango walked passed the Yoshikoro Performance Hall and glanced inside the wide open doors. Elegant, rich, and sophisticated people crowded around in a cozy lobby. She peered in and squinted at a shorter person in the center. Stepping into the richly decorated lobby obliviously, she stared at the girl in the center. Sango smiled. "Kagome-chan!" she called to her.

Kagome turned, her curls bouncing around her head. She was much shorter then any of the people in the hall and much less sophisticating looking even in her ballet outfit. A short frilly white tutu and a white frilly matching leotard. Most of her hair was up in a bun at the top of her head with curls streaming out from the bottom and curls framing her face as well.

"Sango-chan!!" Kagome pushed politely through the crowd happily. "I'm so glad you came! Come here, I'll get you a great seat!" she pulled her best friend through some private looking doors and out into the dressing area of the big performance building.

Other girls were dressing for their performances later on. But then they rushed through the men's dressing area. Sango dug her heels into the ground and snapped a glare in one certain direction.

"Hentai-Houshi-sama!!" she yelled and pointed.

Kagome jumped. "Sango-chan, please, we gotta get out or-."

"Higurashi-sama." The tall man whose face was not shown scolded her.

"H-Hai, sensei?" Kagome turned around slowly. "Oh…dear."

"Come with me."

"Hai, sensei."

Sango hadn't noticed her friends' leave but glared unblinkingly up at the man trying to slip into tights. Quite a reputation scarring picture that the man behind her took as she charged forward and strangled him. "How dare you show your face to me again???!!!" she yelled.

"B-But, yo-your th-the one th-that barged i-in on m-me!" he protested and reached a hand up and latching onto a very inappropriate section of her upper body.

"H-Hen-hent-hent…"

"Hentai?" Kagome offered behind her.

"DIE!!"

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"And now, presenting Ballet Company 6735, Higurashi-san!" the announcement roared out of the little speaker boxes next to the stage.

Sango stared up at the stage. This is the first time I've actually seen her in a performance. How long has she been dancing? What…4 years and I haven't been to one performance? What kinda friend am I?

The lights dimmed and Kagome walked out in a practiced fashion. The music started up lightly.

I don't recognize this…I wonder what song this is. It's kinda uppity if you ask me. Wow Kagome dances well. It's a change from her usual clumsiness. I wonder is Inuyasha's here. He probably is. They're like steel together. What a great couple…

Her thoughts went on and on as she observed her friends foot work and the odd angles she could put her legs into. She stood on the tips of her toes for most of the performance and every so often Sango caught her foot trembling and the strained look on her face.

Sango glanced at the girl next to her. She seemed normally absorbed in the performance but something buzzed in her pocket, pulling her from her previous attentive state. Sango narrowed her eyes as she girl read the text message on her cell phone and placed it in her lap. Sango leaned over unnoticed, trying to read the message on the phones screen. It was in a different language, that's all she found out.

The girl's short-cropped hair shimmered slightly as she pulled something else out of her pocket. The song ended and Kagome got into another backbreaking position.

The girl pressed the small silver button on the face of the remote she had pulled from her pocket. All the lights flickered off.

Sango jumped up and looked around. Everyone was whispering things to the next person but the place was still in order.

Wh-What's going on? Kagome-chan?

Sango squinted up at the stage. A metallic glow surrounded her best friend as she stood.

The only light was now coming from Kagome. Electricity seemed to surge around her as she stood, imaginary wind surrounding her.

"Kagome-chan!" Sango called up to her. She glanced back at the girl next to her. "What did you do to her?! Tell me!" Sango shook the girl who stared up at her with an unfeeling look.

"I shut her down."

Sango gaped at the girl. "What are you talking about?"

"I shut her down." The girl repeated in a monotone voice.

"Shut her…down?" Sango turned back to the stage and watched as the dancer fell to the ground. "Kagome-chan…"

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"How are you feeling?" Sango asked softly as she lifted the wet washcloth off Kagome's forehead and dropped it into a bowl of water.

"Scrambled." Kagome muttered as she sat up. "I'm so sorry, Sango-chan…that I didn't tell you."

"It's alright. You didn't need to tell me. It was one of those secrets…you can't tell anyone." Sango smiled softly. "You freaked me out there."

Kagome looked down. "The only way I can be shut down…is by shutting me down…manually. My creator made it that way…but…then again he had his secrets as well."

"Who created you?" Sango asked curiously as she helped Kagome out of bed and change into different clothes.

"I don't know. He left paper work with my family. I've only seen him once but even then he was cloaked in shadows. No one has ever seen him and no one knows his name."

"That's reassuring for the future." Sango muttered flatly.

"He had a deep voice and the only feature I ever caught of him was long black hair." Kagome slipped on her uniform skirt and shirt as did Sango and they started out of the building. "He said, in his report, that I was one of a kind. Feelings, thoughts, actions, movements. I was the only one who could process these things out of all his…creations." The last word seemed had for her.

"Kagome-chan…" Sango stared at the ground. "You're a robot…then?"

"Not exactly." Kagome said wisely. "More like…hmm…how should I put this…" she was deep in thought now, which gave Sango time to stare at the figures waiting by a small clump of trees. One had long hair; the other's hair was…pulled back.

Goddamn that Houshi-sama… she thought viciously as she followed her best friend in the other direction.

"I'm a companion." Kagome's voice broke through her thoughts.

"A companion?" Sango stared at her friend.

"Whenever you need me, I'm there. I can do anything and more that a human can." Kagome smiled sweetly. "As long as you're happy, I'm happy, Sango-chan."

Sango smiled as well. "I'm just glad…your okay." She wiped her eyes. "I hate this…sappy stuff."

The girls shared a good laugh and continued home.

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Sango stared down worriedly at her friend. After talking to Kagome's family and finding out a lot of this she probably never would've learned from her friend she had settled over the "operation table" to watch her friends memory be toyed with.

"Being shut down reluctantly isn't the best thing you could do to her. She didn't have time to back up any of her memory." The doctor informed her.

"Oh…so she…doesn't remember anything?" Sango asked quietly.

"It all depends on how much she tried to remember."

"Oh…"

"You better go home. You'll need your strength for tomorrow." With that said, the doctor left.

"Y-Yeah…I guess your right." Sango stood and walked towards the door. "Feel better, kay, Kagome-chan?"

There wasn't a response so Sango left reluctantly.

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Sango's POV

That was such…a quick…experience. Kagome-chan's a robot and…now her memory is being tested. What if she doesn't remember anything? What if she forgets who I am, Inuyasha, her family, or-

"Sango."

I continued walking. "I'm not aloud to talk to strangers."

"I'm not a stranger." His voice tormented. Damn was he persistent.

"You are to me." I replied. Okay, so this was one conversation I could handle. "You touch me and your flying into that tree." I added as I noticed his rather close proximity to me.

"But…" he stopped walking. I didn't. "I wanted to say…sorry."

Now I stopped. "About what?" I still hadn't looked the houshi in the face.

"That Kagome-sama…was shut down…that you're sad…that I upset you."

"I barely know you, why are you-."

"Then let's get to know each other." He stood in front of me now and I noticed the…normal look in his eyes.

"Uh…" I blushed! No!!

He smiled and grabbed my hand. "Quite a new personality you've obtained." He smiled wider and stood back, still holding my hand. For once…I wasn't quite in kill Hentai-Houshi-sama mode. I blushed harder. Damn…he's got me in a tight spot, I thought as I watched him turn to leave. I fell to the ground, holding my "diseased" hand to my chest.

He turned again with that charming smile…Shit. I said something nice about him.

"Tomorrow at 11:00 at Shiba Park tomorrow. We'll get to know each other." He smiled innocently at me.

"Uh…okay…"

"See you."

"Alright…"

"Tomorrow at 11. Remember! Don't blow me off!" he waved, I waved, and he left.

I sat there on my legs, dumbfounded. My first date. The first guy to ever…officially ask me out…

Well…it wasn't the best guy to be asked out by but it'll have to do. Kagome-chan can't make fun of my anymore.

Kagome-chan…

I guess I shouldn't have thought of her. The events that just took place strike needles in my heart.

I stood, finally, and stumbled off toward my modern home, away from the "army base" Kagome called her home and to the normalcy of my little ranch house.

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"Hello…Inuyasha?" I twirled the phone cord around my finger.

"I tried to stop the girl but…okay Steamy-san, hold on…I know, I know…wha…tell her yourself!" I held the cord tight.

"Just tell her…no…her house is-wait…you don't know?! You airhead! How many times have you not been to her house?" He was pissing me off now.

"She's you girlfriend and you haven't even been in her house?! What kinda overprotective guy are you!" I paused and listened to his pathetic excuses.

"Listen, if your going to…no…I-wait…don't change the subject you jerk! Just go to her, propose, try and help her-…yea…propose…of course that means marriage, you idiot…yes…no-Why do you keep asking me! I'm not going out with-." I stopped. Of course I was going out with someone. Houshi-sama was going to meet me at Shiba Park tomorrow at 11. It was written in pink ink on the front, side, back and finger tips of my hand. It was written all over my laptop desktop and screensaver and my walls were covered in little memo's to remind me, y'know, those Post-it's (don't own 'em)-

"Quite a new personality you've obtained."

I gasped.

"A…new personality?" I whispered. "No I wasn't talking to you, Inuyasha…"

"Of course I was listening!" Not. "Just go to her, okay? Bye…no I said…yeah Bye…bye."

I hung up finally and sunk back into the chair next to the phone. "Stupid Houshi-sama…he's screwed up my thinking." I held the hand he had held before to my chest once again. It felt tingly every time I remembered the kind look in his perverted eyes.

Today's one of them nice day's ain't it…I narrowed my eyes. Why today?

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Okay…so was that a horrible chapter? Was it???

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Anyway, I hope it was enjoyable! Next up is Sango-chan's first date!! Hee hee! Can't wait!!

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Chapter 5: First Date and Unexpected Kisses