Flashback to the night before...

"Hideki! Hideki! Welcome home!" Chi cried out, hugging my waist. It was 9:30 at night, and I had just returned from working at Club Pleasure. "Chi missed Hideki!"

"I missed you too," I replied, grinning at her beautiful, innocent smile. She reached up to touch my cheek in a tender gesture that was surprisingly mature for her (and sensitive for a robot. But I must not stereotype her, after all, she is special.). I stopped smiling as I hardened and cramped up.

"Chi?" she asked, puzzled, pulling her hand away to press against my chest. "Hideki is sick? Does Hideki's heart hurt?"

I smiled, with much effort. "It's not that kind of hurt, Chi. I'll be fine," I said, stroking her lips with my finger. Her lips parted expectantly. I bent down cautiously, and pecked her lips. As I was about to pull away, though, she deepened the kiss and began exploring my mouth. It felt like a human was kissing me, not a persocom. It's amazing how persocoms are made, especially Chi, a Chobit. I hardened completely in desire for her. I let go of her waist and pulled away reluctantly from Chi, reaching down to unzip my pants, and ran for the bathroom.

"Hideki!" Chi cried, reaching out to tug at my elbow worriedly. "Chi did something wrong?" I stared down at her naïve face, scrounged up in concern. When I did not respond, tears started welling up in her eyes, and she said, "Chi is a bad girl, Hideki?"

I stroked her cheek tenderly, deciding it was time to teach her why I sometimes got "sick" when she did something. "Of course not. You see, Chi, sometimes when you do something...you, well, you turn me on and..."

Chi looked at me with understanding dawning in her eyes. "Ohh...Hideki has on/off switch? Like Chi does down here?" she asked, touching her "on/off switch."

I gulped nervously, and said, in a strained voice, "Y-yes, just like t-that, except mine is...different."

"Chi?" she asked, tilting her head to one side and giving me those sweet, adorable puppy eyes. "Hideki is different from Chi?"

"H-hai," I answered haltingly. "See, mine is...well, it's longer and it's outside of my body, and when...you, well, "turn me on," it gets hard and...if I don't, um..."

"Chi? Hideki's hard?" she asked as she moved closer to me. She raised her hand from her side to touch...let's say, down there. I gulped noisily as she looked up at me and said in wonder, "Hideki is hard."

Oh dear, I was thinking. What do I do next?

"Hideki? What does it do?"

Oh dear God, what do I say to that? "Uhh...uhh..." As I began to run out of options (at least the ones that sounded smart), I decided not to risk myself getting overly aroused and ran for the bathroom.

I shut the door in relief and removed my pants and began to masturbate in the bathtub. As I moaned with self-inflicted pleasure, I heard knocking on the door and thought, Ms. Hibiya. I should probably turn down the pleasure a notch. As I tried to shut my groans inside my mouth, I heard the lock turning as Chi let Ms. Hibiya in.

"Chi!" Chi cried happily at the sight of her "mother."

"Why, hello, Chi," Ms. Hibiya said. "Would you like to try out some clothes? I made some more for you that I'm sure Hideki will like..."

I began groaning more from imagining the sight of Chi taking off her clothes and then her bra, slowly and luxuriously, and then...Then I felt Ms. Hibiya's eyes on the door of the bathroom, smiling in that unnerving calm aura she had when these kind of...instances came up. I attempted to muffle myself more by stuffing a nearby towel into my mouth.

"Chi...? Hideki is sick, Ms. Hibiya. Chi should not leave Hideki alone," Chi said, a bit reluctant.

"It's okay, Chi. Hideki's a big boy and can take care of himself," Ms. Hibiya consoled Chi, her voice hesitant on the "can take care of himself" phrase. "Besides, you'll be right back."

"Okay..." Chi said. Then, at the thought of new clothes, "Clothes, clothes, clothes!!"

"That's right, Chi. Clothes!" Ms. Hibiya's mood lightened considerably at Chi's adorable randomness as she left with Chi, closing the door with a resounding click.

I sighed in relief and began cleaning myself up. As I washed, I wondered why Chi, a persocom, was given the power of being loved by me and why Ms. Hibiya's husband made her so her love and my love could not be completed. As I thought more and more, I became more and more morose.

"Damn it," I screamed out into the world, the water from the shower sprout raining down into my mouth. "I need a drink..." I whispered as an afterthought, crying along with the whole world that was washing everything away.

::Later::

"Reality is a joke," I murmured, smoothing my still-wet bangs down on my forehead to block out the light that drifted into my vision from the seducing overhead, its soft glow slowly drying and warming me subtly, along with the many drinks I had had.

"What was that?" Minoru asked, sipping at a Coke in his immaculate high school uniform that caused many (sluts) to turn and stare, only to receive a chillingly remote stare from him.

"Reality..." I paused and drank deeply of the beer that the bartender had put in front of me. I choked and sputtered, spraying beer across the counter. As Minoru patted me nonchalantly on the back, I spat out the rest. "...is a joke."

"Hmmm," Minoru hummed intelligently. "Why?"

"Because...because..." I repeated, losing my train of thought as I began seeing bright blue dots scattered in front of my eyes, a side effect of too much alcohol. I shook my head to clear it, and took another long sip of the drink. It burned all the way down. As I swallowed continuously, Minoru watched me unconsciously, lost in his own thoughts.

"Minoru?" I asked, the burning sensation traveling up my throat again and into my mouth, escaping as a loud burp of the satisfied drinker as I pronounced his name.

Minoru wrinkled his dainty nose and waved his hand politely in front of him. "Excuse you."

"Excuse me," I echoed, feeling more and more drunk by the minute. I shifted my body so that my right arm dangled from the counter and the other grasped at the beer bottle like the only salvation from falling from a cliff. "What were you saying?"

"Nothing. As I recall, you were the one saying something. Please continue."

I attempted to take another long drink, only to find there was nothing left at the bottom. "Yo, man, gimme another one." The bartender hard-facedly slid me another beer, only the bottle was stopped from reaching me by Minoru.

"You've drunk too much. Anyways, won't Chi worry about you if she sees you like this?"

"No...gimme more," I said, groping for his arm to reach the bottle, missing it by a mile. My arm lay limp on the counter, spasming spontaneously in the attempt for the beer.

"Motosuwa, go home to Chi," Minoru demanded, tossing the beer back at the bartender.

"I hate her."

Minoru stared at me, open-mouthed, not knowing what to say.

"I hate the bitch, that bitch's first 'daughter', that son-of-a-bitch, and me, this mother-fucker."

"Hideki!" Minoru cried in disbelief, abandoning all respect.

"And you know why? They took everything from me before I even had it. One stupid choice! One stupid promise! Why? W-why?" I choked out. "It's not faaaiirrr!" I whined like a child. "It's not fair. I love her, Minoru, I love her. But do you know how hard it is to keep away from her? How long it's been? You should know, you're in high school now, but look at me! I'm still a virgin! I'm in my twenties! In a couple years, I'll be in my thirties! And for the rest of my life, I'll never have her! I NEED sex, my body cries out for it! But I love her, Minoru; and that'll be my ruin."

"Hideki..."

"No, don't talk, Minoru. I don't want you to. I just want..." I felt myself falling, falling, falling into darkness.

"Hideki!"