This song is the whole reason it became one of my sole favorite. This one is in parts; the second one sometime soon.
I'm always itching to create a Reborn one based on the KOKORO/KOKORO-KISEKI- songs. It was fun to say the least, and I got to admit if you watched the AMV of them, you'll understand. Yeah, I know I don't have any other information about Verde, but this is as good as a 'what if' scenario. *cough*
I'm making this version from the point of view of someone. Family fluff, Pre-Acrobaleno to Millefiore timeline.
Reviews and Messages will make Viper rich... somehow.
=Heart=
"Now I'm beginning to understand the reason I was born,
Being alone must truly be depressing,
Yes, on that day, at that time,
All the feelings that had dwelled in my memories flowed out of my heart.
But now, I can say these words for real,
to you, my creator, who dedicated his life to me...
Thank you… for bringing me into this world.
Thank you… for the days you spent with me.
Thank you… for everything you've given me.
Thank you… I will sing for eternity."
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"...Professor, are you sure it is necessary?"
"...It has to. I do not know what else to do if I don't do this."
"... But professor, it's absurd!"
"...It's the only way."
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"..h, good, you're awake!"
He watched as the robot blinked her eyes open, wondering as she looked around the premises. Looking down, she noticed that she was lying down in a capsule-like bed as she looked up once more for her gaze to meet with gray ones, the person clad in a scientist garb and wearing spectacles smiled at the sight before him.
"..."
A smile was seen from his face as he patted the robot in the head, his hands brushing towards the soft, semi-realistic blue-green locks of hers.
"Welcome, Mine, glad to see you coming around!"
"Mi....Ne?"
A light chuckle escaped his lips as he helped the young creation of his up. "Yes, Mine, that is your name!" He paused for a while, a small frown seen onto his face. "Why, don't you like your name?"
Verde had created a robot; a robot that can think and act on its own. Amongst the rules, it was impossible, and his blonde-haired assistant, Artemis, had thought of that beforehand. But, somehow, being one of the smartest and the most achieved scientists on the face of Italy- or on the face of the planet as one quoted- this would be not impossible. She had understand how heavy the situation is, the fact that Verde's only 'daughter' had died. Don't take him wrong, he wasn't married yet but he decided to adopt a young female whom he consider as his own daughter. Unfortunately, a tragic event had occurred in which she was caught up in a car accident and died upon arrival in the hospital. She understands that the green-haired professor would do whatever he takes to make her feel better, but he was too late when she died.
And, now...
"No..."
The robot, with blue-green hair and dark-brown optics, smiled as she shook her head, which made Verde smile.
"I like the name... Mine is a pretty name; I like it."
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Mine, as she was called, watched as the person who created her- Verde he was called- worked non-stop about something as she tilted her head and sat in the corner, reading a random book he bought her to pass the time. Sometimes, she would help him with the things around the laboratory. Sometimes, he would play with her. Sometimes, he would let his assistant, the yellow-haired female named Artemis, entertain her in which she would be more than glad to tell her what her 'father', as he wanted Mine to call him, was doing.
Unfortunately, she doesn't understand why he was dotting over her, or that he won't let her do the heavy stuff. Wasn't he the one who had given her super-strength, enhance speed and all the essesial things a robot should have? She was aware that she is only a robot, but why would he insist that she is a 'human girl'?
She had also met his colleague, some of which she had find interesting to say the least. One of them is the person called Viper. Mine, being a curious person that she is, wanted to know why his name is like that.
"Because that is what I am called." He would reply blatantly, leaving the young robot more curious. He didn't expect for a non-living thing such as a robot to gain emotions, but it mildly surprised him when she queried once more in a curious tone.
"Really?" She asked him, placing her fingers under her chin in a thinking manner. "Father told me my name is Mine. So is Mine what people will call me because Mine is my name?" The greatest illusionist concluded that this robot is like no other.
"Tell me," He spoke in a drone- yet interested- manner. "Who is this 'father' you speak off?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Great, the (all-knowing) Mafioso had to butt in. "Verde's the one who created her." Reborn spoke, tipping his fedora as he greeted the two.
What in the world Verde has been thinking?
Also, there are times that she would wander around the town by herself (she would sneak out whenever Verde, or Artemis, are not looking if ever she would get bored from watching them do some work), sceneries piqued her interest (while neother of them are not aware that the sea-haired robot was no longer onto her seat and watching them) as curiosity brought her to ask questions that, some, were as bright as daylight itself.
"Ne, what are you doing?" Was her most common question asked, if not "Is that fun to do?" Most would find her weird, seeing that they thought robots knew everything. It was also not helping when some would even think she looks like a normal teenager who is a ditz not to mention that, on first glance, she look just like any other normal human being there is and not as a robot. Nevertheless, they sometimes think that this 'stray' robot must be dysfunctional for robots do not question stuff such as these.
"There you are!"
After realizing the uncharacteristic silence within the lab (He was accustomed to hear his dear Mine ask what he is doing at an everyday interval, say... every ten minutes or so?) and his colleague pointed out that the usual place was empty, he noted to himself that Mine, once again, escaped and wandered on her own. It was getting repetitive, so says the scientist, which is why the next time around he would ask Artemis to keep an eye on her and follow her around if ever she goes out again ("What am I, a maidservant?" She growled whilst throwing a slipper onto his head).
"Father!" Mine exclaimed as she stood up from her place where he found her and trotted towards him. He noticed that she was holding something from her arms as she showed it to him with a cheerful smile. "This poor thing keeps crying, maybe it was lonely and needed a daddy or something!" It was a cat, Verde noted, as it meowed itself over and over before she petted it again. "Aww, poor thing," She dotted, scratching the back of its ears. "Maybe it misses its father, that's why you keep crying." It was cute to watch her muse over a stray cat, wishing that he could find time to spend more time with her instead of the work he was tasked upon.
With a light chuckle, Verde patted the female in the head as he gestured her that they should head back before she put down the small kitten, bade it farewell, and followed the green-haired male back to their place.
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"Where are you going, father?"
He told her that he was just going with the rest of his colleague on an expedition, and that Artemis would stay behind and watch over her. She wonders what expedition he was talking about but she knew that for as long as 'Father' will come back, she will be fine with it. She was reassured that he will be safe and that she should not worried about him or else he won't 'bring home some new stuff'.
"Don't worry," Verde reassured, giving a hug towards his 'daughter'.
She was oblivious about this. She doesn't know what's going on. Especially after the incident where the seven had reverted themselves as babies, she is still unaware of the events; her only thoughts lies on waiting for her father. She's sure he'll come back, no matter how much longer she had to wait, unaware that humans are not as durable as robots does.
She was unaware that her father was not durable and, at any time, he could die. Robots can still be fixed even at the severity of injuries, but not humans.
Artemis has been busy these days, the young robot thought, sitting in her usual place one faithful day, as she watched the blonde-haired female scientist working with a small baby with a familiar, green hair. She was wondering where in the world this baby came from, but she was unamused that it was not her father who returned but this little tyke. A slight frown was seen from her face, thinking that this baby must have taken her father away and replaced him. Well, she thought childishly, nobody replaces father just like that! But what makes her curious is that this baby keep talking to her as if he knows her well... as if he thinks he is her father. Absurb! She is not that little kid's 'daughter', he is too small and he does not look like her father! Bring father back, she silently whine, bring him back!
"Wan-ya~!" Mine whined, deliberately giving the female scientist a nickname (and, thus, where the 'Wanya' name originated) as a slight irritation- if not stress- was seen from her face. "Wan-ya, where is father!" She's unaware of what happened, Artemis thought sadly as she watched the robot whine about how a baby (Verde) claimed to be her father. Verde sternly instructed her not to tell her about what happened to him and for the scientist to not scold Mine for thinking that he is not her father. He had claimed that he's fine as long as Mine is well; he doesn't care if she doesn't recognize him as her father, he'll keep on working on the way to return back to his normal body.
She, did, claim to wait until he returns, right?
It was a heavy feeling, Artemis wondered, but she would have to abide by it. Verde is still older than her, and more experienced, therefore she does not dare to disobey him. It was more devastating, on both sides, when she notice that Mine kept on waiting on the same spot, asking her the same question, and keep whining that the green-haired baby should leave and bring back her real father. She doesn't know what else to do, but Artemis knew she was out of it. She's not really, at any way, blood-related to any of them.
Few more years....
Even when she was somehow turned into the young witch-baby, Wanya, she never stopped wondering what happened to the robot named Mine.
Few more years....
As she, and Verde, almost at the brink of finding a way to turn the Acrobaleno, her and Lal Mirch, back to normal (though Lal seems to grow herself just fine for as long as she does not use the curse), she kept on wondering what happened to the young robot that kept on waiting.
Few more years....
Mine kept on waiting in the lab. Waiting... and waiting... and waiting. She manages to bear staying with the baby scientist, still unknown that this child, all along, is the person she had been waiting all these time. She had learn to grew trust on him and treat him as how she treat her father and Artemis and the people he knew. She decided to work with him, to help him (despite having the familiar pang whenever he told her not to carry stuff that are too heavy for her).
Verde had longed wished to create a robot capable of human emotions, to think for their own and to grow up just like normal human beings. He didn't wish to turn this sole robot into a machine created for war, unlike the Gola Mosca. He had created Mine with blueprints that -some- will be used to create other robots, but Mine was not a machine for war.
Despite the fact, Mine still wished for her father to return.
Few more years....
The curse began to fade, the Acrobaleno started to grow, to return back to their normal bodies. But it was unfortunate that this certain toxin began to spread like wildfire, planning to kill the Acrobaleno one-by-one.
Verde's condition grew worse, but he still kept on working on the Box Weapons and their revolutionary uses. It somehow made Mine uncomfortably worried, but still... for her, he is still not her father she wished to arrive soon.
Until one day she accidentally stumbled towards her father's bedroom that the holder of the Green Pacifier housing with. She presumes it was dusted and since she was bored, she decided to clean it up. She decided that the table must be dusty enough so she cleaned it first.
"Whoops!"
Picking up the paper that had fallen from the table, Mine accidentally read off the bold letters that was printed on the second page in which she somehow flipped open as she noticed that it was her name.
"E? Why is Mine's name in there?" Curious compelling her, she began reading the report, all of which seems to have been from ten years before or more. The familiar hand-writing told her it was Verde's, most of which about his work. It seems she had stumbled upon the page report about her but all she read are not those confusing, calculating numbers and words scientists suppose to use that she had seen from the rest of reports. Instead, she only read stuff about her progress, like a journal. Most of the entries are about her mishaps, her little accidents, her achievements, her mistakes. She noted it must be her progress, but one entry seems to be different from the other; it was created a few days before he left her.
Mine had grown up, despite the logical thought that robots do not grow up without modification. I do not consider her as one; she is my daughter that I longed to have years ago, the one that had died. I did not find time to hang around with my young daughter, so I decided to create her, and treat her like the daughter that I have cared for all my life. I thought by scolding her, letting her help and all these things would make me a good father, but it seems she still lack something. Yes, she had her own emotions, but she lacked heart. Artemis was right; it's impossible for a robot to gain her own heart....
The rest of the contents seem to be about his expedition and how she had improved, but after a few pages, she found another entry about her.
She does not seem to be familiar with me. I don't blame her; who would believe that a guy with a body of a baby would be her father? Reborn noted that I should make adjustments to her memory bank and fix the error, but I declined the suggestion as I told him that I want to raise Mine like a normal child and not like a robot that I had created her. I still don't know how to give her a heart to realize the worthy of this world, but I'm sure Artemis will guide her well. I trusted her with everything so I am sure Mine is capable of thinking for herself, however....
The sentence was left hanging, Mine thought. She blinked a few times, as if she was stopping something from her eyes, as she noticed something streaking down from the corner of her eyes. Weird, she thought, placing her hand onto her cheeks and felt something liquid that is not oil; Very weird indeed.
But she kept on reading until she stumbled upon the entry a few days ago.
I don't know if I can hang it longer than anyone else. The 'Negative Seven Rays' from the Millefiore deem to be too much for my body to handle, and I don't know what will happen if this goes on. I believe the rest of the Acrobaleno also experience the same thing, though I would not be surprise if some of them manage to stand strong with the effect longer than I do. But I'm afraid I won't see Mine in my original self for long. She seems anticipated to wait for me to return, but she doesn't realize that I have been here all these time. If I spent more time with her instead of cooking up experiments and inventions, none of this would have happened; she could still have her father she wished to have. I have yet to see her heart improve, but I don't know if I could still witness it.
It's up to her if she would still want to find out the meaning of the heart. As a man of science, I don't believe in miracles...
She flipped the page, seeing only a few words scribbled onto it.
...But for her, I would forget everything I have learned to ask for it.
Mine doesn't know what father is talking about, she said to herself mentally, what is he talking about, she asked. Placing the papers down, she pressed her hands onto her chest and wondered why her chest is not beating until now. Father said she was a robot, she recalled, and robots don't have hearts. But her chest would not stop beating her her eyes started to well something that is foreign to her. Father said those things are called tears, and the beating in the chest is a heartbeat, but why is he telling her all these things before?
And then, she realize, she had been so ignorant. All these time, he had been bearing her petty whines for him to come back and worked hard to return back to normal so she could not be lonely anymore. He seems to disregarded everything else and decided that Mine is not to be alone, he would have thought, but Mine was acting like a brat. And, now, this thing-whatever-it-was-called was killing Verde slowly and, yet, he won't stop his work just for Mine. Mine feel so bad, she thought to herself, ignorant to the fact that she was crying; something a robot cannot do.
She isn't just Verde's creation... Mine is Verde's daughter.
Not realizing that she had just gained something Verde wished for her to have all these time.
A few days...
His health was falling, and he can't take the rays anymore. He's getting weaker; any more and he would die. His works, he will leave towards the female scientist, and maybe Mine as well. Verde would just let Artemis explain to Mine everything then.
"Father!"
He looked up on who had uttered such words as he noticed the familiar voice and features.
"Father!"
"Mi...ne..."
She was holding flowers, just like her when she was still alive (she must have gone out a while ago), as she walked near towards the green-haired professor.
"I'm sorry," She was crying, which was a surprise to him. "I'm sorry I'm such a whiner!" She pleaded, grasping his hands. "I'm sorry, father!"
For the first time in a long run ever since he became an Acrobaleno, he had heard her utter those words to him once more. She doesn't know how happy he is at this point.
On the next day, news had reach that Verde had died from the said Rays. But what's more boggling is that, at the same time, the robot he had created, Mine...
She ceased to function.
Artemis tried to reboot her again, but it seems the robot was never fixed.
"You must be pretty lonely without him, then?"
Mine is pronounced as 'Mi-Ne', not 'Mine' (as in 'it's mine').
Kyaaaa~!! I hardly based this one off from the song it came from! I never knew this would come up! *cough* A Verde-ccentric drabbles, though there seems to be a hint in there about Viper... but I could be wrong. *cough*
I know Verde doesn't really have a child or anything, but this is another one of those 'what if' scenarios I'm having. Hahaha... yeah, it's pretty weird, but what can I say?
Not going to dwell in with everything else, before I ruin the moment. There's the 'Scientist Side' but I might post that sometime soon.
The song I used here is 'KOKORO' by Kagamine Rin from VOCALOID. I do not own the song, Reborn! or the characters, I only own the drabbles and my own characters.
It would be nice if you message me for I will use that to make the second part of this one, as well as other stuff. Ossu!
