Minoru Kokubunji was sitting in his study, running a search using all of his persocoms. He had heard from one of the people posting on the persocom message board that the government databank had crashed, and he had not yet gotten word of it being restored. "Have you found anything, Yuzuki?" He sighed.
"Not yet Master Minoru." She said, smiling.
"Take a rest, will you?" He smiled, looking at Yuzuki.
"Very well.," Yuzuki disconnected and looked around, " Wait…would you like me to contact Chitose Hibiya? She may know something."
"Brilliant…why didn't I think of that sooner?" Minoru smiled. "Call her up."
"Yes Minoru." Her eyes went blank as she dialed the call.
"Hello?" Ms. Hibiya said as she answered the phone, looking around at her trashed apartment. "Oh..Minoru. I think I might be able to help you. I'll be right over…and I'll bring Miss Chi and Hideki as well."
Fifteen minutes later, they were all sitting in Minoru's living room. Chi was playing with Sumomo, who had insisted she be brought along. Minoru finally spoke up. "I hear the national databank had an error." He sighed, drinking a cup of tea.
"Yes..it did. The computer and its defense unit. It seems the defense unit, Dita, was destroyed trying to protect the databank, Zima. It was those two kids who were after Chi, by the way." Ms. Hibiya commented. "But, on the other hand, they've been replaced. By two more persocoms. I didn't see them, but they wrecked my apartment. Completely tore it apart. I think they were looking for information on the Chobits project."
"I saw them," Hideki glared, "They tried to take Chi!" He appeared very angry.
"Is Hideki angry at Chi?" Chi asked.
"No." He said, softening greatly. Chi smiled and hugged him, tackling him to the ground. Sumomo hopped off of Hideki's shoulder at this.
"I saw them. Would you like their data?" she asked, spinning around in circles.
"Yes please." Minoru said. Sumomo's eyes went blank and she reflected an image into the room. Data flashed beside them.
Name: Leiko
Appearance: Purple eyes, purple hair, black balls on the end with bomb capabilities.
Purpose: Government persocom, national databank.
Notes: Programmed with an extremely arrogant nature, and impeccable financial abilities.
Name: Raven
Appearance: Black eyes, black hair spiked with purple tips.
Purpose: protect Leiko.
Notes: seems loathsome of his programming. Programmed with financial abilities and also with vast amounts of reasoning software.
"That is all." Sumomo finished.
"That told me quite enough." Ms. Hibiya said. "It looks like they were created to do something other than what they're doing now."
"That means…Zima and Dita probably could've been revived. I wonder what happened…to…them." Minoru said, trailing off as he saw to black clad figures jump through an open window. "And why they just jumped into my living room."
The crowd of people in the room stared at Zima and Dita. Zima started to speak. "I heard your question…I think we weren't revived for one of two reasons…." However, he was interrupted by a chorus of…
"You've got mail!" Said every persocom in the room with the exception of Chi.
"Read it, please. Just one of you." Minoru said suspiciously.
Yuzuki read off the e-mail that Kagome had sent. The one about turning persocoms human. Everyone was then sitting around dumbfounded, and then they looked at Zima and Dita. Zima continued what he was going to say. "One reason was to experiment on turning persocoms human. The other reason was that she needed someone she could manipulate. And what better than a persocom you made yourself."
"Don't they realize what they could cause by doing this!" Ms. Hibiya yelled, coming out of a state of shock.
"Yes...and I don't think they care." Dita sighed.
"You two have been a great help…but you must leave. I don't know if there is still security monitoring you. We'll keep you informed." Minoru said. Zima and Dita went out the way they came. They came to a roof in the center of the city.
"Well….this is going to be very interesting." Zima sighed, before pulling Dita into his arms. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of his heartbeat. She hadn't noticed it before, and now she found it fascinating. Zima smiled down at her, and held her more tightly. She sighed and turned over, preparing to fall asleep. He chuckled a bit and lay down, holding her on top of him gently. Soon, they were both asleep.
Meanwhile, across town, Raven and Leiko were getting rather frustrated. "Raven….we've looked everywhere…how are we supposed to find them! If you weren't so incompetent, we would have found them…because everyone knows if I was doing this alone, I would have already been successful." Leiko snapped.
"Just shut up, Leiko." Raven sneered, as he jumped to the roof of another building. "I'm resting now, and you are two. I'm not allowed to let you over exert yourself, as much as I'd love to see you crash." He finished, leaning back against a lamp post.
"Whatever." Leiko whined, lying down on the ground. "I'm going to find them…and when I do, I'll kill them. Slowly….and…painfully." Surprisingly, Raven laughed.
"That, Leiko, is the best idea you've ever had." Raven said, snorting with laughter. He really enjoyed torturing people. He wasn't even sure if that was programmed into him. It might just be….there.
Leiko smiled arrogantly, and looked up at the stars. This was going to be difficult…but when she succeeded, she would be able to be rid of Raven. Little did she know, he was thinking the same thing about her. He knew that all he would have to do is accidentally hack into her and use his defense systems…he would simply attack her instead of himself. He chuckled at the mere thought of it. "What is it, Raven? You interrupted my beauty sleep! Not that I need it…" Leiko smirked, twisting her hair around her gingers.
"Nothing, Leiko, my dear…nothing at all." He smirked and slid his sunglasses up over his eyes…completely ignoring the fact that Zima and Dita were now clearly visible on the lenses. When he woke up….he would be able to carry out his plans.
(a/n: Hellooooo? Is anyone reading this? Could you puh-lease review me...pleeeeease?)