A/N: Well! Thank you everyone for the positive feedback. Yes this is based loosely on "Absolute Boyfriend" by Yu Watase, but since I've only read a little it's only going to be for the first few chapters.
Constructive criticism is highly encouraged but flaming is not.
Disclaimer: No one belongs to me, except Ceres (my Halloweentine)!
Short Circuits
Recharging: Startup
Morning dawned as early as ever in the Niwa household and Daisuke was somewhat regretting what he had done the previous night. A fake boyfriend? Why was he so pathetic? Boyfriend... his chest ached and he felt cold inside, finally it had sunk in. He had been rejected.
"Niwa, I am honored you think this way about me and I'm truly sorry but my heart belongs to someone else."
He wondered to himself, whom did Hiwatari love? Maybe it was Risa, she always talked to him, not that he said anything back but it was always a possibility. He sighed, oh well, might as well get ready for school.
Running to school seemed to be his new forte since he did it almost every day now. Wisely, no one was waiting for him today. He was still in an 'alone' mood. Sadly without anyone there, all he had were his thoughts for company. Mind drifting to the previous days events he sighed as he jumped onto the almost immediately leaving train.
His friends were all sympathetic towards him once he got to school.
"Are you okay Niwa-kun?"Questioned Risa softly. He could tell they were doing their best not to hurt him anymore. He forced his lips into a smile and winked at them.
"I'm fine Harada-san!"
"Alright Daisuke...if you say so." She turned her back and rolled her eyes; they weren't close friends for nothing. She stopped when she reached her group of friends.
Towa nodded her head in greeting, "How is he?"
Shaking her head and frowning she answered, "Bad."
To make this situation worse, Satoshi chose this moment to walk in the door. Daisuke glanced up and him and froze as their gazes met. Quickly averting his eyes as soon as they met Daisuke lowered his head. Satoshi shook his head and took his seat. Girls all around them exchanged glances with one another and shrugged when no one could produce an answer.
It was to be expected, he had turned down the red haired boy, but really! He should have had plenty of time to get over it. It had been unexpected when the boy had confessed to him; he had known that Daisuke was in love with him but he hadn't expected such a bold confession.
He knew he shouldn't have encouraged the boy with small hints that were merely acts of friendship. How could he even think about the boy with ever looming threat of his cousin?
The day at school had been... for lack of better word, painful. He had kept seeing Satoshi wherever he looked and his friends seemed to want to talk about it. He glanced up at the stoop as began up the walk to his door. His mother was outside examining a large box that had just been left by the postman.
Oh shit.
"Dai-chan! Welcome home! What do you think this box is?"
Hmm... Somehow he doubted no matter how well his mother took it the response, 'A robotic boyfriend' would not be the best one.
"He- It's an...uhh, it's a trial robot I got online! It's cleans and...stuff."
"Oh good! We could always use help with cleaning!"
Phew, crisis avoided. Now that his mother had settled for dragging the box up to his room he was left to think about how he would have the robot clean. He doubted something made for sex would know much at all.
He quickly jumped out of thinking when his mother called for his help and ran to help her. When they had finally gotten it up the stairs and he had convinced his mother that, 'Yes he could open the box by himself and no he wouldn't be making out with it (yet)' had she finally left him to 'assemble' it.
A body wrapped in plastic came out of the box as he pried it open. Falling gracefully out of the box and into a heap on the floor, he arranged the body shaped bagged so it looked somewhat human-like.
Daisuke looked in the box for directions and found a small manual, "Caring for the 'Nightly Series'"
Psh that wasn't important, he couldn't care for it if it wasn't even on. A switch...a switch, where would the switch be? He pulled back the plastic from the face and began to search. Ears? No. Neck? No. Legs? No. Where was the dammed switch!
Daisuke spotted and proceeded to pick up the manual and flip through it. Washing...clothing...pleasure...wait what?"
No... this wasn't what it was for...was it? Pleasure! And then it clicked, as if a switch had been turned on it now all made sense, Nightly Series, of course it meant sex. Maybe he didn't i have /i to use it for pleasure.
Turning on your Nightly Series model. Ahh, there it was. His eyes scanned down the page and took in the information.
Blah blah blah Model must be kissed to activate blah blah blah. Wait... hold up. Kissed? There was kissing involved? Well, there was when you had a significant other but...still.
He bent down and took a deep breath. Looking at the lifeless yet lifelike man he quickly brought his lips down on the others. As quickly as the lips had been touched he retracted and looked at it expectantly. Nothing happened. He knew it had been to good to be true, I mean really who gave away robots for free!
Daisuke turned around, despite everything he couldn't help but feel sad. He really had no one to hold him close. Then he heard a sound from behind him, a sound like the stretching of limbs.
Daisuke turned; eyes wide open to see a gorgeous (not to mention naked) man sitting straight up looking straight at him.
"Hey lover."
Man. Shirtless. Talking. Must. Spontaneously. Combust. This is what first came to Daisuke's mind.
Only when Daisuke had found a large shirt to cover the nude man was he able to relax.
"Hey Boyfriend."
"H..hey."
Daisuke was red in the face from the almost too gorgeous man sitting in front of him. He looked at the handbook and noted the title of his model. Nightly Series...what was his 'boyfriend's' name?
" What's your name?"
The 'man' turned his head and cocked it. " Hmm, I'm not quite sure. How about a name Boyfriend?"
"My name is Daisuke and yours is Dark. So don't call me boyfriend anymore."
"As you please boyfriend."
"My name's Daisuke!"
Daisuke decided that he would just have to bring Dark down to dinner with him, but Dark didn't even have clothes yet, how would that work out?
And so, with the request of the man to stay in the room Daisuke closed the door and walked to his parent's room, hoping to have a conversation with his father. Hopefully things would work out well.
"Oh hoho! Daisuke you never told me that the robot would be so handsome!"
"Mom!"
"Emiko-san!"
Emiko was staring starry eyed at the new 'robot' and was looking at him very curiously. Dark stared back at the slightly insane woman equally as curious.
"Mom, this is Dark. Dark my mother."
"Nice to meet you Dark!" She hugged him tightly in greeting.
"N-Nice to meet you?" Dark said while awkwardly patting her back.
Kosuke and Daisuke exchanged glances and Daisuke spoke up, "Mom, Dark is currently unavailable." Daisuke's heart was beating fast. What if his mother thought badly of him? Sure his father had been accepting...but it was his mother!
"Really? Congratulations!" She released Dark from her hold and proceeded to scoop Daisuke up instead.
"You're not disappointed?" He was overjoyed! His mother still cared!
"Of course not! I already new about your secret, it was quite a giveaway when I heard you moaning 'Satoshi! Harder!' in your sleep!"
He was mortified...his mother had heard him! Right about now would be a good time to sink into the ground.
Dark bent over next to him, "Would you like to call me Satoshi?" murmured the deep voice in his ear. If possible he blushed harder.
"No- No thank you! I'd rather not call you Satoshi!"
This outburst resulted in Kosuke, Emiko and Daichii (who had just entered the room) to burst into laughter.
"Thanks a lot Dark!"
"You're quite welcome."
Daiichi, who was in the kitchen decided it was time to save his grandson before he died from embarrassment.
"Emiko-san, we're out of tea."
He chuckled to himself as he hid a bundle of tea leaves away.
"Daisuke! Would you go to the shop up the street? We ran out of tea and your Grandfather would like some."
"Yes mom!" Emiko smiled at him and latched herself on to Dark again.
Daisuke grabbed his coat off the rack and the money that his mother had put down on the table, "Dark! I'm going down to the shop, I'll be right back!" He stepped out the door and into the afternoon and began to walk down the hill towards town. As he began to turn the corner, lost in his thoughts he suddenly stopped when he heard his name.
"So...what happened?"
He caught sight of Satoshi's back and stopped in his tracks, who could blame him for wanting to know? A shop's bell rang and he couldn't hear the conversation but when he caught wind of it again what he heard shocked him.
" Can you believe that he confessed!" this is wrong!
"Ha what a dork, what happened next Satoshi?"
"He just stood there staring, can you believe it? He's a fag!" Daisuke doesn't deserve this!
Daisuke came out from where he was hiding and stood in front of them. He was angry, something he rarely felt.
"Oh look the fag decided to join us! What are you going to do Niwa? Run home crying?" I can't believe I'm saying this!
Daisuke trembled with anger and opened his mouth to retaliate. Only no words came out. No!
"What's wrong Niwa? Cat got your tongue? Make out with so many boys you got sick from it? I'm surprised no one figured out your secret, I mean all your friends are girls!"
No! Stop it! Stop trying to come out tears! Daisuke was trying as hard as he could to not cry when he felt a pair of arms wrap around him from behind.
"Did you make Daisuke cry?"
The two boys who had been talking about Daisuke stood frozen, the man behind Niwa was handsome, and intimidating. Dark retracted his arms and moved to stand in front of Daisuke in a protective stance. An arm shot out and fist collided with skin.
Satoshi stood; shocked that someone had actually had the nerve to hit him.
"Don't you ever hurt my boyfriend again. Or worse will happen to that pretty face of yours, got it?"
He wrapped an arm around Daisuke "Come on boyfriend lets go."
Daisuke followed but then spoke up, " Hey! I thought you weren't going to call me boyfriend anymore!"
Ahh, so it seems that things have been progressing nicely my little toy. You won't be so lucky next time though. Anyone who meddles with the matters of artificial love learns there can never be peace.
I'll enjoy seeing what happens next my pawn. The man looking down on the two boys holding hands smirked and jumped down from his perch, disturbing the leaves lying there.
Standby: Preview
Clothes shopping is always fun, but with four teenage girls and one robotic boyfriend you can't really expect things to be all that normal.