Last Time;; From Sasuke's position, his was unable to see the door and inevitably, the living room, where Itachi would soon be entering, most likely with the damn A.I. And from Sasuke's position, he could hear the door finally open, the calm greeting from the elder brother to notify his presence, and the shuffling of feet to where the sound of bending seat indicated that Itachi had seated himself.

And from Sasuke's position, the young Uchiha could see that during his distraction, his Miso flavoured Ramen had gone terribly cold.

Instalment 2wo;;

Artificial Intelligence

The Uchiha Corps [Uchiha Corporation] is a large company known internationally for its creation of high quality products, ranging from medicine to LCD plasma screens, from mobile phones to broadband connection, the Uchiha Corps have and had committed themselves to a wide range of products, and these wide ranges of products were spread out across the world, from Europe to Africa. Of course, with the inevitable diversity of production line across the world, it is obvious that most of the companies and business' were bought under contract and now harbour the Uchiha Corps logo and name, a normal part of everyday business dealings. Only natural. And of course, such big companies such as the Uchiha Corps had big rivals, rivals that were strong enough to almost equal the Uchiha's, and one of date is the Byakugan Bank, of which it was anything but a bank. The Uchiha Corps and Byakugan Bank were arch rivals, reaching back up to almost sixty years of fierce competition that had only grown more fierce over the decades. Alas, the rivalry wasn't contained only to the business side of dealings, and the main families behind both the U.C. and B.B. had always been known for being rather drastic rivals in almost everything they did. In fact, both companies' epic beginnings seemed to have stemmed from the epic beginning of the relationship between the father of Uchiha Sasuke and the father of Hyuuga Neji, who apparently just happen to be classmates in their University. Apparently, as the story goes, the two men filed a bet on who would become top of the business ladder in fifty years time for one dollar. Of which the Hyuuga's won... After fifty years, polls showed that The Byakugan Bank was earning just a tad bit more money than the Uchiha Corporation was.

The hopes of one dollar brought these two men to reach the top of the world. Truly an inspirational pair.

Alas, after ten more years, Uchiha Kensei [the father of Itachi and Sasuke] was able to get his dollar back, after yet another bet between him and Hyuuga Ren [the father of Neji] with the year span of ten years, in which the Uchiha Corps topped the charts over the Byakugan Bank. This was mostly abled due to the generous investments from other companies, banks, governments as well as personal donations. This only infuriated the Byakugan holders, also piqueing their interests as to why their rivals were getting such investments. Slight briberies, a bit of hired snooping and the Bank of Byakugan had to say they were... Impressed, if not slightly mortified at what the Uchiha Corps had been secretly working on behind the public's back for the last decade. Did those darn Uchiha's really think they could create Artificial Intelligence? This was the 21st century! You couldn't make robots that looked exactly like humans and acted exactly like humans without repercussion! Where were all the religious outcries? Where was the mere logic that you couldn't do it?!

But fortunately for both companies [ooh, the Hyuuga's weren't far off in their own A.I. research], there were no signs of any interference. And thus, a partnership between the Uchiha Corps and Byakugan Bank was forged, signed and permitted to history, stating that the two companies would act as one when it came to such research, at least, until... Making robots was a normal everyday occurrence. Then they'd split off and try and beat each other all over again. Now, both companies have their headquarters located in Asia, Japan to be exact. Nothing unusual, the greatest companies such as SONY and even Nintendo [at least, popular belief indicates Nintendo to be a Japanese company...] own their headquarters in the Oriental side of Asia. With the written treaty between the U.C. and B.B., a new building was created, housing tons of labs and research facilities completely open to both the companies, in where the Uchiha's and Hyuuga's were to work in perfect harmony into making more money. Here, the greatest and most talented scientists and engineers were brought from all over the world. Teams were assigned, each one with their own objective to complete, and somewhere along the lines the ownership of the Uchiha Corporation was transferred from Uchiha Kensei to Uchiha Itachi, the eldest son of Kensei.

And this, my dear friends, is where the real improvement came.

A sudden revamp on the treaty between the Uchiha Corps and Byakugan Bank was completed, one that tore an outcry from the latter company, thus nullifying all cooperation between the two useless. Not a day later, the half share of the research facility that the Hyuuga's owned was bought by the Uchiha Corps for a staggering price of 6.5million dollars, causing Uchiha Kensei to fall victim to four simultaneous heart attacks landing him in Hospital for a good two months. But Uchiha Itachi wasn't just merely a spender, he was an investor, and the money soon came flooding back in after pitching advertisement sales and nullifying plenty of jobs in the A.I. research facility and replacing them with what Itachi called "more efficient imbeciles" of which a certain man of notable expertise was among. This man was simply called Arashi. And this man [who was purely Japanese even with his questionable blonde hair] happened to be Itachi's colleague from a long time ago – where exactly from is pretty much unknown. And that was the last piece of information that the public [and Byakugan Bank] received about the research, thus effectively putting the whole building and its inside happenings shrouded under a cloth of darkness.

At least... Until a public announcement from Uchiha Itachi himself announced that the A.I –Artificial Intelligence- research was now in its testing stages, the last and final stage, and the Uchiha were "proud to present another high quality 'product' from the Uchiha Corps".

Product.

So the Uchiha's believed that they were finally able to place them self on the same level as God himself. Knowing those prideful bastards, they were probably already changing all their name tags and logo's to have GOD in front, especially that son of Kensei's – after all, the apple never falls far from the tree. Those snotty children, they had no idea that the Hyuuga's were only right behind them, and after a day or so, they too had the pleasure of announcing their Artificial Success. In fact, Hyuuga Ren felt a spice of pride as he went further into the announcement by taking personal interviews with the biggest names, Fox, CNN, even BBC. There, he took his time explaining what A.I.'s were and what they were intended to do. Of which was to make basic life more... Luxurious, to say the least. They were perfect for those that were too busy to socialise, and usually lived or worked alone, they were perfect to help around the house, being efficient in cleaning, cooking and even able to help the children with their homework. There were several packs that could be downloaded from the internet [for a certain fee of course] that would further expand the A.I.'s knowledge, language packs, sports bonus, even full degree's of mathematics, if one was in need of a math expert. On feeling satisfied [in front of millions of viewers], Hyuuga Ren was subject to one question; "Nevertheless, all this will reach us through the Uchiha Corps first, right?"

The Hyuuga's were not pleased.

Which only amused Itachi to no ends, just like the amusement he received on seeing his little brothers face twist into a rather stupid expression on finally turning around to greet Itachi and his... Companion. Poor young Sasuke, expecting something sleek, shiny and metallic to be sitting on his sofa got the shock of a lifetime when he was faced up against a young man of his own age, bright blonde hair and tanned, human looking skin. The boy's eyes were closed, as he seemed to be slightly slumping on his seat on the sofa, his head bent downwards, chin resting on chest as if asleep, and his chest slightly expanding now and again to indicate soft breathing. Itachi raised a delicate eyebrow, not at all perplexed as to what he'd just drove from the A.I. research facility to his brothers rather messy apartment, and thus proceeded to brush off some non-existent dust of his Prada suit – black, since it seemed to be an Uchiha trait, what with the black eyes and black hair.

On seeing that his clock read 21:37 signalling that he had a business meeting in one long hour, Itachi decided to start a conversation that maybe wouldn't further damage the in-shock status Sasuke was in. And what better way than to start a loving conversation by commenting on what your brother was about to eat? At least, Itachi would if he could. The poor food looked as if it had been blended, scraped, squashed and dumped into far non-edible mixtures that did little but sicken the elder brother. "I hope that isn't the expired Ramen that was kindly left here by the old tenant, dear brother," the calm brother said, an underlying tone of 'you shouldn't eat everything you simply see' as the figure next to him continued to 'sleep'.

The reply of just a small grunt that sounded oddly like how a cavemen would grunt made Itachi shake his head in dismay as he patted the blonde figure next to him, slightly angling his seating so that he was facing the blonde boy. This small movement of his seemed to finally snap Sasuke out of his remedy, and the widening of eyes and the uncharacteristic stuttering brought a small smirk to the elder Uchiha's face.

"A-a-a-a... A-a... I... ii?" Did Itachi just see a rodent scrambling behind the television?

"Yes, Sasuke. This is your new personal A.I." Itachi answered, dislodging his mobile phone from his breast pocket, keying in some numbers until a satisfactory BEEP! sound made itself heard. As soon as the sound reached all occupants of the room's ear, the blonde haired boy's breathing stopped for a split second, silence suffocating the room, only then to be replaced by the movement of the blonde's head that picked itself up to face straight ahead, now sitting properly on the blondes shoulder and neck. Itachi took this moment to ask, "Have you learnt how to cook yet, Sasuke?" as the blond haired boy's eyelids opened up to reveal the deepest, brightest pair of blue eyes, so incredibly blue that it seemed to hold countless depths and untold hidden truths about the world, the universe and life itself, other than the jested answer of '42'.

"Because if you haven't, then by all means, you are lucky." Sasuke didn't bother to pay heed to his elder brothers rambling. What he was witnessing... What he was seeing was absolutely... IMPOSSIBLE. Was he to believe that this boy [actually a man, since Sasuke thought of himself as a man] was actually made of metal and wires and iron and steel? He was so... Perfectly made... His hair looked real, absolutely real and his eyes... They were looking at him in the cutest way, as if curious and just about to ask a question... The blond boy was staring at him, at Sasuke, nowhere else, just straight at Sasuke, and it was then that the forever to be dubbed 'Blondie' decided to ask;

"Are you my master?"

And once more, Itachi couldn't deny the rush of pure and utter amusement at what was unfolding before his very eyes.

To Be Continued

Next Time;; So after the initial shock was over, and ooh, that took one hell of a long hour spent by 'Sasuke' [as the blond had derived] and 'Itachi' [Blondie was gewd~] conversing, the blond haired boy had yet not received the answer to his initial question, but on seeing that an input of his own wasn't technically wanted by the other occupants of the house, he decided to take time on actually looking around at his surroundings and taking in the atmosphere. Even his unformatted brain could pretty much figure out that the house that he was in was absolutely filthy. Feeling the need to, a small subconscious voice decided to whisper a comment into his ear; 'Whoever owns this pit hole better not be my master' of which the boy fully agreed to. The walls were nice though, two side walls of a creamy white, one dark red, and the last wall being absolute, complete glass, a small door in the centre where one could exit to the balcony. Outside the glass wall, Blondie could see that the balcony was small, where a small table and two chairs were present, looking out across the pitch black night scattered with... Shiny little white diamonds... "There's diamonds in the sky...!"

The poor little boy didn't even notice 'Sasuke' go back into shock.

I think I've spelt a lot of 'blond' wrong, but I cannot be bothered to search through the document. Well, here's the first chapter after the Prolouge. Hope it's alright, not sure about the length [it was about 3 pages long on Word, font size 9!] but even if it turns out to be short the next chapter is longer. Warning; Although I have internet NOW, I might not like three days later. o.o

Now you got a Next Time to satisfy your urges. Dont know what else to say, other then after strawberries, I hate mango's [but would love a review~]. :3

EDIT: Sorry, I just dont know Sasuke and Neji's dads names. o.o" [[~young]]