Chapter five – Memories
This chapter was rather difficult to write. I had to make some hint, that would be so obvious, id almost get sick thinking of your responses. Anyway, tnxx for reading this, and thanxx to Maus and TimeIncursion, who give me advice, as always.
"Chobits. Shutdown and prepare for maintenance." With these magical words from mother, Chii felt strange suddenly. She could feel her back open up. There was no other way to put it. It opened up. A hatch opened. In her back. Wow. She could softly hear Hideki's voice, asking someone what they were doing. Takumi said he was going to insert the data disk in the reader. And he did. Chii felt him put it in. It was: strange. Uncommon, though not unpleasant. She could feel herself fading away. She suddenly remembered the shut down. She didn't want to die! No! Hideki, help me, she cried out silently. As if he could hear her, he took her hand. Or, she thought he did, her eyes didn't seem to work to well. She could hear him wisper it was going to he alright, she didn't need to worry. It calmed her a little, but she still had the fading feeling. Then, she heard mother say what she did, and didnt want to hear. "Read data disk, ignore personality files, input all data. Execute."
Silence.
"Now what?" Hideki asked Takumi. "We will have to wait. It could take her some time. Normally she just copies everything, but now she has to be very selective. I'm guessing an hour of 3, maybe a little more." Takumi replied. Minoru looked puzzled. "miss Hibiya, how much data is on that disk?" he asked. "Little over 9 Terra-byte."."So, assuming she works in a logical order, it would take her about...3 and a half hours." Said minoru to himself.
Takumi en Chitose sat down at a small table at the diner down the street. "You know, at one time i was jealous at Freya and Elda. They were so perfect, unlike me.". "You shouldn't be" Chitose gave back. "Everybody has something wrong with themselves. Someone told me, that everybody is broke somehow. They were no different."."i know now. But there is more to it than you know. Do you know why elda left you?" Takumi asked with a bank face. "no, i could never ask her."."i've done some digging on Elda, and i found out she was feeling guilty. She has a dark side, you know? Having her sister in there with her did her no good.". Chitose raised an eyebrow in wonder. "Guilty? For what?"."I think ill let her tell you that. But did you know, that she had combat skills? Father gave it to her. I don't know why, but he trained her in several martial arts, and various military related combat skills. He didn't want her to be defenseless when the syndicate would come after her, which they would eventually.". "i see the wisdom in that. I knew there was a lot he kept hidden from me regarding the chobits project." The waiter brought her a cup of tea, and Takumi a cup of coffee. After Takumi paid, the man left, and the conversation continued. "Speaking of the syndicate, my contacts tell me the're on the move again. They want to suppress the possible humanity of persicoms all over the world. Most likely they will target Chii, because she was the match that lit the fire. Perhaps father was more foreseeing than he thought.". "Perhaps he was, perhaps he was." Chitose mumbled to herself. Suddenly her phone rang. Minoru told her that her eyes moved, which meant she was coming to.
-System restart, Diagnostics all green.
-Motion processor online.
-Sense processor online.
-Main processor online.
-Rebooting sub processors 1 through 19 successful. All sub processors online.
-Logics processor online.
-Booting personality Chii, all systems online.
-Connecting.
-Connected, opening pipe-line.
She could feel her eyes opening. Really, she could feel it. In this silence in her mind, she could feel the servo's moving her eyelids, her lenses focussing, images being inputted. The recording of what she saw, heard, and felt was starting. Images. Out of the blur, she suddenly recognized Hideki. She remembered how afraid he was that he would lose her love if she would change because of this. She smiled. "Chii" she said soothingly. No, wait. That was wrong. She knew so much more now. It was almost laughable compared to who she was before. But she was still herself, and she was going to show him. She moved her body, slowly towards him. He was ready to catch her, she could see it. He was still worried. She lifted her arms, and put them around his neck. Her cheek rested against his. It felt good. "Don't worry, Hideki, i still love you. Now, and for ever" She whispered. He said nothing, but she could feel him tense his arms around her. She looked up, and saw mother. Memories came rushing in. I overwhelmed her. What had she done! As dear as Hideki was to her, she let him go, and gently pushed him aside. "Mother" she whispered. Tears welled in her eyes. Her throat was tight suddenly. She felt like blacking out again. She realized she crawled to mothers feet, and put her forehead on her feet. She started to cried uncontrollably. "Noo. Please forgive me. Please. I didn't meant to. Please!".
