~ Day 16- Hearts ~

There were people with good hearts and people with bad hearts. They were hard to determine for an average person, but if you had seen and heard and felt all kinds of hearts already, then it wasn't all that hard anymore.

Seto Kousuke had the ability to hear people's inner voices. Their thoughts, conscience, feelings, past, present, maybe even their future, if they could determine it. But despite that uncannily useful skill, he never made use of it on humans anymore. He'd come to know people without needing to hear their minds and had experienced kindness radiating off of them despite them obviously doubting him from time to time. But that was human, he knew.

And yet, despite all his restraint and claim that he wouldn't make use of it, sometimes, when sleepy, exhausted, frustrated or pained, he'd be unable to hold it back. He'd caught small snippets of his friends' minds often enough, but their voices were usually just as gentle as they treated each other. Well, maybe gentle wasn't the right word for everyone, but...

There were two people amongst them, however, who were irregularities in that aspect. Ene was a programme, and yet, she had a completely normal mind. The things he'd heard from her, they were painful- broken-hearted, regret, sadness, fear... it all was strange, considering the cyber girl's bubbly personality. Yet, Seto wouldn't pry.

The other odd one out was Konoha. He was as unexpressive on the inside as on the outside. There was just... nothing. No real feelings, just occasional thoughts and most times, it would have been more pleasant to listen to elevator music than the silence in his head. It was involuntary, Seto had to remind himself, though. Searching for something inside the android's head would be the same as ignoring his principles.

But then, one day, those two irregularities were talking to each other by chance, Ene more so than Konoha. Just briefly, Seto felt the waves of melancholy that Ene had sent out as she spoke through the speakers of Shintaro's phone in her usual cheerful tone.

Yet, the surprising part was that he picked up something of Konoha's as well.

He'd been wondering ever since where he'd already heard the name "Takane" before.

A/N: Yeah. Losely. Screw it. Sleepy.