Because I'm a Persocon

Chapter 5: Thief

By Rose Shadow

Rose Shadow: Sorry for the long update! It takes a long to figure out the precise time to sneak on my brother's computer.

Inuyasha: That's translation for, 'My brother's going to be home in fifteen minutes.'

Rose Shadow: Wrong! He's going to be home in a half-hour! I would also like to apologize for the weird 'superstition' I stuck in the story down there. '' In fact, it's not really a superstition... oo I ran out of words... Also, forget what I said back in Chapter 2; they didn't collect all the shards yet. Now... ONWARD!!

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Minoru flipped the book open, strangely to the same exact page to where Chii was. "Motosuwa... do you know about a small superstition spreading?" Hideki shook his head in a 'no' gesture. Minoru then continued, "There is a rumor that someone has created a time portal, even though it has been scientifically proven time travel was impossible. They say he or she had hid the portal in a book when it was created last year... Motosuwa, when did you receive this book?"

"Uh... last year, I think..." Hideki replied, scratching his head. "You don't think the portal was hidden in here, do you?"

Minoru shrugged. "It may be the only reason."

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Chii slowly opened her eyes, her eyes searching her surroundings.

"Just open your eyes, look in a yellow bag and you will find what you were searching for."

She nodded, remembering Freya's words. 'A yellow bag...' Chii thought to herself. Her amber eyes scanned the room, finally landing on an over- stuffed bright yellow bag. Chii rose from the bamboo mat she was sitting on, pacing her feet to the bag. Her hands carefully lifted the opening and spilled out many various items. Surprised, Chii began placing the items back into the bag. When Chii's hand reached for a small glass bottle, she hesitated placing it back. Images of the Shikon no Tama flashed in Chii's programming.

"This... this is the Shikon no Tama," Chii stated to herself, staring at the soft lavender colored crystals. "The jewel of four souls... that will make me human... like Hideki." Chii smiled at the thought of Hideki, tightening her grip on the bottle. However, something seemed strange. The jewel. It wasn't complete; it was very close to being complete, but it was not.

"I want to be human like Hideki..." Chii repeated to herself softly. "I want to be human like Hideki... I want to be human like Hideki." She hoped that is how she would make her desire come true. To Chii's dismay, it hadn't worked. She didn't know the jewel had to be complete. Her eyes saddened; She had come all this way... and her wish wouldn't come true. Chii felt like crying, but not one tear shed. After all, she was only a persocon and persocons couldn't cry. They didn't have real emotions, but Chii knew she was different- Hideki said so himself. As long as Hideki thought Chii was special, she knew she was special.

But the thought of being human tugged at Chii's mind, teasing her at every moment. Without realizing it, Chii stuffed the jewel fragments into her dress pocket and resumed to sulking on the bamboo mat on the floor. After a few quiet moments, Shippo sat up, stretching his arms and legs out. (a/n: Just picturing it makes Shippo looks so cute!)

Shippo sniffed the air a couple of times, then saying, "Everybody's back!" He jumped off the futon and rushed to the door, but was kicked away by the doorway curtains. Then entered, Kagome (I hate her, too...), Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha, who particularly looked calm.

"Welcome home," Chii said quietly, out of habit. She was so depressed, she forgot about the jewel fragments she took. Chii was more on the thoughts of going back home with Hideki now. She hardly didn't even notice Kagome rummage frantically through her bag, looking for the jewel fragments.

"Where is it?!" Kagome yelled, now throwing her belongings on the floor carelessly.

"You mean you CAN'T find it?!" Inuyasha shouted. I guess we can't be calm forever. Inuyasha dropped a jewel shard he just found outside on the floor, running over to Kagome, searching for the fragments as well. "Don't tell me you lost them!"

"I DIDN'T!" Kagome argued, not looking up at Inuyasha.

Chii looked at the jewel shard rolling towards her and, almost in a trance, placed the jewel shard in her dress pocket. She returned to staring at the wooden floor. Just suddenly, two feet stepped angrily in front of her. Chii looked up with her innocent face.

"Hey, it's not like I'm blaming you..." Inuyasha said, trying not to yell. "But you COULD help us look!"

Chii still stared at Inuyasha as if she didn't hear a word. "I have no need to search," Chii said, but her voice sounded more mature that time.

Inuyasha just walked away from Chii, mumbling profanities under his breath.

'I possess the jewel fragments now.'