I hate doing this for every chapter...

1) Yes this is a yaoi fic. Shonen ai, slash, boy love, whatever you wanna call it. So now you can't bitch and say I didn't warn you it was a M/M fic.

2) I don't care if you don't like the pairings I pick for this story. So don't start sending me reviews telling me to change the pairing before its too late or something. My story, my fanfiction.

Disclaimer: I own all the little characters you do not recognise from the manga or the shows of both Chobits and YYH. I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, that belongs to Yoshihiro-san. I do not own Chobits, that belongs to those wonderful CLAMP girls.

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Chapter 4- Yusuke Explores

Kuwabara flung open the door and grinned at the sight of his long time friend, the smell of the night air wafting into the house. The literal redhead returned the gesture, "Hello Kuwabara. Glad to see that you are in good health." Stepping aside Kuwabara allowed Kurama in, sneering at the shorter figure following after the green eyed boy.

It was Kurama's Persocom Hiei; the bane of Kuwabara's existence. No matter what Hiei and Kuwabara could not get along, which had resulted in Hiei being left at home alone a lot more often while Kurama went to visit the carrot top. The Persocom was a little shorter then Yusuke, who Kurama was taller then by a few inches. His hair defied gravity by sticking straight up. It was black and spiky with white streaks on the front and on the bangs that hung in his pale face.

Evil looking red eyes glared at those who dared to look at him, and large teddy bear like ears with blue on them served as his Persocom ears. He wore a completely black outfit, pants and a long shirt with long sleeves with a black top under it. The only part of his outfit that wasn't black was a white scarf wrapped snuggly around his neck.

Kurama needed no directions and immediately made his way over to the black haired Persocom sitting in the middle of the small apartment, a manga gripped tightly in his hands. Behind him Kuwabara and Hiei glared at one another before the carrot top pulled the door close and stepped off to the side to keep out of the way.

"He says he can't remember anything since before I found him in the river," Kuwabara explained, the crimson haired beauty nodding to show he was listening and would take the information into account.

Yusuke eyed the strange newcomer with distrust as he circled around him like a vulture, studying the Persocom carefully. Kurama ceased his unnerving circling to kneel down before Yusuke and looked him over more closely. Nodding to himself the redhead turned to face Kuwabara who was watching and keeping far away from Hiei at the same time.

"Well Kuwabara, it doesn't look like any model I've seen in stores, and it does not appear to be just manufactured either. I'd say this thing could have been made several years ago in fact."

"So this thing could very well be over 10 years old?"

"Probably," Kurama replied before motioning towards his own Persocom. "Hiei, would you please come over here." The short black clad android walked over silently at his owner's command, coming to a stop at his side to await his command. With slow movements as not to startle Yusuke, Kurama gently reaches up to touch one of his strange ears and pressed against a hidden button causing a piece of Yusuke's ear to slide back and reveal a socket.

Seeing this, Hiei automatically pulled a cord out from deep within his bush of spiky black hair and handed it to his owner who silently thanked him with a nod. Yusuke began to lean away from the human, nervous and unsure of what his intentions were. The redhead smiled at the action, instantly understanding.

"Its alright Yusuke, I'm just going to see if there's anything wrong inside of you that could be the reason your memory is gone." Yusuke nodded hesitantly, his hands clenching up into fists. His eyes instantly sought out Kuwabara's and the blue eyed boy could see the nervousness and fear shining within the brown irises, the eyes themselves begging him to help him. He started forward but stopped, the visible distress in Yusuke's eyes bugging him even more.

"This isn't going to hurt him right?" Kurama turned to look at Kuwabara with a puzzled expression on his face.

"Kuwabara-kun, Persocom's can't feel pain. They're robots." Chuckling nervously Kuwabara rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"Yeah," he forced out a smile. "I forgot it's a machine and not a person…" However when the ruby-haired teen turned away the look dropped and Kuwabara glanced back at Yusuke who was looking so helplessly at him. The Persocom's face instantly went blank as Kurama connected the cord between him and Hiei, Yusuke going offline as the other searched through his data and hard drive.

A few moments of tense silence followed, Hiei's eyes flickering as he performed the search and diagnostic. It seemed like hours before the short machine's eyes returned to normal and he looked up at Kurama. "There didn't seem to be anything wrong really," Hiei droned in his usual bored sounding tone. "There does appear to be some data corruption in several areas but nothing too bad. It was mostly centered on his memory banks. No trace of the typical emotion simulator. I did find two large programs but could not access them due to password requirements." Kurama frowned, a hand rubbing at his chin in thought.

"Did you put a password on him, Kuwabara?" The blue-eyed boy shook his head in response.

"You know I barely know anything about these Persocom things. I didn't even know you could hook 'em up together like that!" Hiei unplugged the cable from Yusuke and instantly the Persocom's eyes sprang back to life. He quickly moved away from the human and his Persocom, seating himself in the corner. Yusuke growled lowly like a dog, obviously displeased with what had just taken place. Furious brown eyes met curious green and Kurama's mouth parted a bit in shock.

"His eyes….what…." Kuwabara smirked triumphantly and crossed his arms over his chest.

"See! I told you there was something strange about him!" Yusuke snarled at that and buried his nose back into the manga. Kurama and Hiei stood up, Hiei going off to wait by the door while the redhead went over to his taller friend.

"Well," he began quietly as not to draw the angered Persocom's attention. "I believe that one of those two protected programs maybe what is giving him the ability to learn and display emotions as a human would. In short it's teaching it how to feel."

"Is that even possible?"

"I heard a rumor on the net that supposedly technology like that was made a while ago but was never released to the public as it was dangerous and unpredictable. It was said that a Persocom might even be able to fall in love with this program. This rumor was also linked up to the Chobits one, however I seriously doubt Yusuke would be a Chobit; he just seems to be custom made."

Kuwabara stood quiet, trying to process and understand all the information he had just learned. He remembered the Chobit rumor; it had been cycling on the net for years, telling of a secret model of Persocom that had special abilities. It had never actually been seen by anyone so it was all speculation.

He was interrupted by an annoyed grunt from Hiei. Kurama smiled at his computer in understanding while Kuwabara merely give him a glare. "Well Kuwabara-kun, Hiei is getting impatient and I believe its time we returned home anyway." The carrot top nodded and walked his intellectual companion to the door. Opening it he waved his friend off, closing it once he was sure Kurama and Hiei were well on their way.

From the corner of the room Yusuke watched as Kuwabara prepared for bed, a futon tossed onto the floor messily followed by two pillows and a kitty comforter. Not even a minute later the bathroom door slammed shut and the Persocom was left to his thoughts. Just what had the strange man and crimson-eyed Persocom found that they had to be hush-hush about it? He carefully placed his manga down on the floor so not to bend it and waited for his new 'owner' to emerge from the restroom. Yusuke once again found himself lost in thought, pondering what they could have possibly found inside of him that it made Kura-whoever so dead quiet.

The sound of the door swinging open caught his attention and the carrot top stepped out dressed in a long over shirt and black boxers. He flopped down onto the soft pile that served as his bed, snuggling down into the comforter. Yusuke watched silently, the human slowly drifting to sleep after a few minutes.

As he stared at the sleeping man he suddenly felt an unexplainable need to be near the human. He stewed there for a moment, trying to ignore the feeling but finding it impossible. Sighing, the Persocom scooted across the floor and settled down beside the futon, lying so he was looking at the snoozing carrot top. Closing his eyes Yusuke managed a small smile when he heard Kuwabara snort in his sleep, the computer its self going into sleep mode.

Not far from the apartment complex Kurama stopped and turned back to look at the building with a sad smile on his face. Hiei grunted at the lack of progress homeward but stopped none the less. "Kurama?" he asked, though his face remained expressionless as it usually was. Kurama shook his head.

"It's nothing, Hiei," He whispered. "I'm just thinking about how lucky Kuwabara-kun really is." The Persocom just stared at him, not quite sure what the human meant.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because he has a Persocom so advanced that it can feel and think just like a human does…a computer that was built to resemble humans surpassing its original purpose of creation. Yusuke can understand emotions and feel them; he can hate, pity, and even love," he whispered the last part, his hands slipping into his jacket pockets. Hiei didn't respond, figuring Kurama was done and continued on home. If he had stopped to look at his owner more closely he would have seen the longing look the green-eyed boy had given him. But alas, the look went unnoticed and the duo disappeared into the night.

The little boy didn't come to visit that day.

Kazuma? Concern.

Or even several days after that.

Confusion. Distress. Kazuma?

No cheerful squeak of "Usuke!"

No happy babbling about the day's events. No quietly whispered secrets followed by a fit of giggles; secrets that only had value to the teller and the listener. No muffled scratching noises as a pencil messily drew on a blank piece of paper. Just silence.

Kazuma…

With a sigh Kuwabara shifted a bit in his blankets, slowly awakening to begin the new day. However when he felt something under the covers with him, his eyes flew open to see Yusuke halfway onto the futon still in sleep mode. Annoyingly loud snores escaped the Persocom's mouth, the function to cause him to snore obviously on. With a quiet squeak the carrot top slipped out of the comforter and backed away from the warm futon and the Persocom, instantly wishing he could have at least taken the blanket as he was assaulted by the cold that had accumulated in the apartment over night.

Rubbing his almost bare arms to get warmer, his sleep fogged mind tried to make sense of what the hell had just happened. He went to bed earlier then usual after Kurama and the shrimp Persocom had left. Yusuke was in the corner doing that weird staring thing he does. He woke up; Yusuke was practically on top of him.

Shivering he stumbled up onto his feet, grabbed a towel and some clothes off the top of a small dresser and locked himself in the bathroom for a warm shower. The noise of the door closing aroused the computer from his sleep. He sat there for a moment, his electronic innards whirring to life as he lazily glanced around the room for the familiar shock of orange hair. The tall-tell sound of the shower going a alerted him to Kuwabara's location and he quickly lost interest in the matter.

Pushing the cat decorated blanket off his upper half Yusuke got onto his knees and moved his arms around, checking to make sure his joints still worked and that the cold has not affected them. After the quick test he knee walked over to the window and pushed back the blue curtains to look outside. The sun beamed down into the room and just by being near the window Yusuke felt a bit more energized then he had before. Ever since he had arrived at Kuwabara's apartment he had never once gone outside again, and for the past few days he felt run down.

Shrugging it off he pushed himself up onto his feet and began poking around the apartment looking for something to do. Doe brown eyes landed upon a stack of magazines stuffed under the TV stand, Yusuke kneeling down and reaching to pull them out. Looking at the one at the top of the pile he grinned as he saw a cute kitten and puppy scrawled out on the cover sound asleep. It was a pet magazine and its nauseating cuteness was hard to resist. So with that he set himself down in front of the TV and began to flip through the magazine, cooing at the adorable pictures of baby animals.

While turning the page Yusuke suddenly realized what he was doing and froze. He glared at the magazine in his lap as if it had some evil power over him and hurled it across the room, the magazine fluttering like a dying bird as it fell to the ground. Already nosing through the next magazine which was about technological advancements in the last years, Yusuke was moderately surprised over what the humans had accomplished in a few short years.

Kuwabara came out of the bathroom a few minutes later, a torrent of fog billowing out of the room behind him. He was dressed in green boxers, a bright blue outfit flung over his shoulders. Rubbing the damp towel on his head to try off his hair, he paused when he saw his Ultra Pet Lovers magazine tossed haphazardly on the floor. Blinking he turned his head to see the raven haired robot looking through his monthly magazines. After watching for a few moments Kuwabara debated speaking up, but figured it was better he kept quiet and he began to go about getting ready.

Tossing the towel into a hamper near the bathroom door Kuwabara began to pull on the long blue pants, stumbling a bit as his foot got caught in the pant leg. Yusuke was still engrossed in the magazine and hadn't noticed the carrot top yet and Kuwabara wanted to keep it that way; he really didn't feel like bickering with the computer at the moment. The pants were followed by a light white under shirt, and then a jacket that matched with the pants. Glancing at the digital clock which read 6:37 the orange haired boy concluded there was no time to make breakfast so he quickened his pace and finished dressing. Socks slipped snuggly over his feet; Kuwabara snagged a comb off the top of his dresser and tried to fix his curly hair up the best he could, slapping some gel in it to keep it under control.

Finally aware of the carrot topped boy Yusuke stuffed the magazines back into place so not to hear bitching about keeping the apartment clean. Standing up to full height the android was met with a questioning gaze as he picked up the pet magazine. Yusuke sneered in response and put it back with the others, his mess officially cleaned. Still the blue eyed looked at him oddly, irritating the Persocom greatly.

"Stop looking at me like that! It was on top of the pile and the puppy was cute!" He snapped, looking a little flustered. Kuwabara raised an eyebrow as he wiped the hair gel off his hands.

"I didn't say anything."

"Hmph!" Yusuke crossed his arms cover his chest, a sour expression forming on his face. He finally realized what the human was doing and blinked curiously, "Where the hell are you going?"

"I got classes. Breaks over, classes back in session and so is work," Kuwabara responded walking over to the door, stooping down to slip on his black shoes. Before Yusuke could say anything he spoke again. "And you can't come." Yusuke's face went from shocked to upset to angry in a few short seconds.

"What do you mean I can't go!"

"You can't bring Persocoms to school or colleges," The taller of the two calmly explained, grabbing his backpack off a coat rack on the wall.

"That's a bunch of bull! What am I supposed to do all day while you go to college and work?" He demanded angrily, stomping his foot on the floor to further express his rage. Kuwabara looked back at him with annoyance, unhappy with the Persocom's show of immaturity.

"I dunno! Watch TV or something!" Unsatisfied with the answer Yusuke stormed over to the door as Kuwabara stepped outside, his backpack slung over one shoulder.

"Don't you even think about leaving that apartment!" Yusuke stopped halfway out the door and scowled.

"You don't tell me what to do, you fucking ape!" The Persocom brayed angrily at the human as he walked down the hall towards the elevator. "Hey! Are you listening to me!" His only response was a rude hand gesture from the carrot top which only served to enrage the Persocom further. "Fine! I hope you get hit by a car or something, you son of a bitch!"

"Fuck you!" Kuwabara hollered back, pressing the down button repeatedly as if that would make it get to that floor faster. And with that said Yusuke slammed the door shut, and squatted down, muttering darkly as he listened to the elevator open and close, going down to the bottom floor and taking the craggy faced young adult with it. Sighing he leaned bag against the door, shifting into a sitting position as he tried to focus on something else other then that dumb stupid ugly head. Disgusted with that particular pathetic attempt at an insult Yusuke reached over to pull on the sneakers Shizuru had bought him.

"I don't have to listen to him," Yusuke muttered, tying the laces just as the Kuwabara siblings had taught him. "I'm gonna go out just to spite his ass." Using the wall as a brace he got up and hiked his pants higher over his hips. Turning the door knob he swung the door open with a little more force then necessary and stepped out, closing the door behind him. Not bothering to check if it was locked or not, Yusuke started down the hall he had seen Kuwabara leave down and pressed the down button on the elevator.

The doors dinged as it reached the floor, sliding open and allowing the Persocom inside. Hitting the ground floor button, Yusuke jumped a bit as the elevator lurked a bit from the machine's weight but moved on down to the bottom floor silently after that. With another ding the doors opened again and the Persocom raced out, determined to explore the city and piss off a certain carrot top as much as he could.

It was around noon, lunch time, when Kuwabara realized he had forgotten his wallet back at home. He was supposed to meet his friends Kurama and Keiko at a sushi place near the college for lunch in 17 minutes and he would be embarrassed if he couldn't even pay for his own meal. The embarrassment would be even worse in front of Keiko.

Keiko was one of Kuwabara's more recent acquaintances and hung around with him and Kurama, though she was mostly there for the green-eyed beauty. Kuwabara could tell she didn't really like him too much, but kept quiet about it so not to anger Kurama on the matter. With a heavy sigh Kuwabara began to speed walk back to the apartment, listening to the sounds of the crazy traffic and blaring horns as he made his way back.

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