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The Secret Diary of Motoko
Chapter 4:
(How about just plain English, that's a language that no one uses anymore. It's all Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese now.)
Ah hell, if you're still reading my diary, you're either desperate, or you're studying ancient civilizations and I've been dead for a millennia.

Chapter 31:
Actually slept pretty well last night, first night back in my cube since the "domestic terrorism" event (BTW, Aramaki made me downgrade it from terrorism to simple B&E, now some jackwad is going to get his/her hands on the case and my plastic parts will have decomposed before it gets resolved). Alarm system will be on-line tomorrow…peace, sweet peace.

Chapter 32:
Kicked Batou out of his bed. His damned fault anyways. Got my new handy-dandy alarm system installed and hooked up. Batou HAD to come over and point out two different ways someone could hack around my system and break into my cube without anyone being the wiser. That's when I packed my 'shack-sack' – minus the shack, it's is Batou after all- and told him HE was sleeping on the damned couch until we both agreed my place was secure.

Chapter 33:
Section 9 unanimously voted Togusa best coffee maker of the year. As a result of the award, he is privileged to come in 20 minutes early and make coffee for the squad. He's so cute when he gets mad. Still has the ability to blush. If I was even the least bit inclined…but I'm really not up for experimentation right now.

Chapter 34:
While zoning last night, ran into a contact that had some information on the battery cult. He's a little weird, talks only in monotone, but he's wick…er…really funny when doing British humor. In exchange for an old ratty copy of The Silmarillian I had sitting around the place (actually, Batou had it sitting around his place. I didn't think he'd miss it, it was BORING!), I learned that this Neo is actually being hunted for various cyber-crimes. This brought up a discussion about an entity called Morpheus, named for the god of dreams. He's apparently the cult leader, and much destruction has been done in his name. He's not sure this person exists in reality, actually suspects that he's a burner who got fried while in the system and cannot offline and function as part of society. My contact said it'd be real nice if I caught Neo because Neo keeps calling him "Agent Smith," and it's ticking him off, his last name is Martinelle.

Chapter 35:
Batou finally got off his lazy ass and secured my place to his specifications. I asked him what his deal was. He said as much as I'd been zoning lately, he wanted to make sure I had a body to come back to. Said it was hard as hell to break in a new commanding officer. Awww, almost makes me feel bad for drinking straight out of his milk carton this week.

Chapter 36:
Damned alarm went off twice today. Second time I took Ko with me to investigate. Once, setup problems. Twice, issues. Found said issue. It was black and furry. I was ready to stomp the thing when Ko informed me it was an endangered animal. Now it's found a treasured spot just beneath the halogen light on my drop-down desk. It's curled up in a…cute?…little ball of fur (damned ghost sentimentality). Has sharp little claws too. I thought 'spot' might be a good name since it has one white spot on its head, but Ko looked through historical records and stated that was a name typically used for a dog. Ko recommended 'fluffy.' Nah, I'm just not THAT sweet. Kuroneko came to mind, but Ko said it was not original enough, and had already been used in at least 1 legal anime series. Maybe the guys at work will have some ideas…and maybe they'll know what I can do with this creature long term.

Chapter 37:
Sleep…blessed sleep. Something that evil one didn't let me get much of last night. Hey, EO, not bad! I'll bounce it off the guys; but I think I have a name. I left my robe lying on the bed, EO found the sash; and proceeded to pull it off the robe and bring it up to my face and drop it. I could have gone back to sleep, but then it had to sit there with all four paws gathered all close together, as if trying to take up the least possible square space (my ghost thought it was particularly cute). It blinked at me, then it opened its mouth, and the most horrifying yowl spewed forth. Played 'fetch the sash' for an hour before EO decided to crawl up onto my chest and go to sleep. My inner child wouldn't let me bother it, so I sat with it in my arms forever. It even dared to growl when I put it on the bed so I could get up and go to work.

Chapter 38:
Woke up to a vibrating back massage. EO was asleep in the middle of my back, purring. Cute trick, I might have to learn it. I could definitely see times when that skill could be used to my advantage. Ko asked me today how EO was getting along without facilities…bad thoughts. I rushed home to realize the damned cat was intelligent too. It had figured out how to evacuate the waste chamber in the room. I scratched its belly, it actually liked it. The guys liked the name, but wondered why I keep it. I would rather have taken a slow walk through four cloning chambers filled with generated bodies of male sexual offenders than to explain that my inner child wouldn't let me get rid of it. Did a few minutes of zoning to meet with "Smith" (ha ha), and learned that Morpheus had sub-systemed into hiding yesterday.

Chapter 39:
I was sitting here watching EO groom tonight, very impressed with the cat's fastidiousness, when Togusa cut into the silence. "Major, just learned some important news." Go ahead I responded. "EO has an owner…a very worried owner." I didn't respond. "The owner's name is Shiori. She's five, and very, very upset about her missing Shadow." Damn, even my ghost couldn't argue with a five year olds' pain, it understood only too well. "Major?" Go ahead and give the family my contact information. So here I sit…alone…an hour after EO happily bounded out of my arms and up to the little girl who picked it up like a ragdoll and squeezed it tightly. Note to self…never speak to a certain cybernetically modified human for as long as I exist.

Chapter 40:
No more fun and games for Motoko. Section 9 was just given the green light to find resolution to this battery clan issue. Today Hyanuku Yoshirou, the retired mayor, was hacked by a member of the clan. When the member was apprehended, he kept saying that we all were just batteries, the machines had our bodies, and we were not truly alive. When they checked his brain out, they found unusual alpha patterns but were unable to investigate further because his linking structures suddenly melted, leaving him in a cybernetic void.

A/N: RaynaDarkstorm, Devilman666, Amourwolf, thank you for the reviews! DM, to answer your query, the woman's a natural flirt. She runs around in lingerie for heaven's sake. She knows what she's doing to the male populace; so yeah, I think she finds herself flirting on occasion. Does she mean it? I haven't seen any evidence of it in what I've watched, she tends to stick with her own kind (if you get my drift). If she was to break out of her norm, I feel she'd go after Togusa, he's still human. I think her ghost makes a connection with him. What do you all think?