Eh… the more interesting stuff is coming soon… Review and this will go faster o.O… hopefully.
Chapter 3 –
"Ok, just plug that in there, and the red wire goes in the green socket." Kaito instructed, scanning over the notes in his hands just to make sure. Having Gakupo there was actually helping. Carrying Haku and getting her back in the egg had been much easier as well as the hard part, getting everything hooked up just how it was supposed to be. So far it had only taken a little over an hour, if he had been working alone it would have been three hours.
"This wire?" Gakupo asked, sticking a hand out from behind the egg so Kaito could easily see the bright red wire he was holding.
"Yeah, and then the large black one goes in the top." He replied.
"Ok!" Gakupo said cheerfully.
"Why did you make this one so weird?" Len grumbled peering up at the girl now held in the large glass egg. She was much taller than Miku it seemed, but still fit in the egg. She had long, wispy, white hair, seemed a bit paler, a bit older, than Miku and much curvier. Haku had a bit of weight to her unlike the tiny little green-haired girl. She looked albino to Len and it kind of freaked him out. She wore a leotard-like thing, similar to Miku's, only it was grey, had long sleeves and actual pants. She didn't look remotely normal with that white hair in Len's mind. She was still strangely beautiful though, just as Miku was although they looked nothing alike.
"It's one of dad's designs." Kaito replied stiffly.
That seemed to shut the boy up.
"There!" Gakupo declared, completely oblivious to the tension now hanging in the air, coming around from the back of the egg with a pleased smile on his face. His hands were dirty with oil and dust and the sleeves of his purple dress shirt had been rolled up, allowing him to work easier. "I believe we are ready to begin."
"Ok, I think it might take a minute for her to boot up after we turn her on…" Kaito explained, pressing the button.
They all looked to Haku expectantly… but, again, nothing happened.
"What the heck!" Len cried, throwing his hands in the air. "What's wrong with it?"
"I told you, it'll take a second!" Kaito snapped defensively, glaring at him out of the corner of his eye.
"It's been a second…" He huffed stubbornly, crossing his arms.
"Let us begin creating our lovely Luka then!" Gakupo cried, spinning around on his heel and trotting out of the enclosed area that held the egg. Len and Kaito glanced at each other warily. "So, Kaito, how did you do it?" Gakupo called eagerly.
"Here," Kaito came out, Len following close behind, and handed him a thick folder. "This is all of our parents work that was recovered from the lab, thankfully it's all that we need. We have to start out with a basic skeleton…"
"Ok Miku," Meiko sighed, opening her car door. "This is a car, I will use it to get us to the mall." She informed her, speaking like she would to a child.
Miku peered into the back seat of the car with curious blue eyes. "Ok." She said finally, looking up at Meiko for further instruction.
"Here, let me show you Miku." Rin declared, slipping past her to climb into the backseat. "Like this." She said smiling.
Miku climbed into the seat beside her and Gumi hopped up too. "This is going to be so much fun!" The green haired girl sang. Her and Rin had gotten together to clothe Miku in something a bit more appropriate than Kaito's favorite t-shirt. She now wore a skirt, a tank top, and some sandals. She didn't like it though, getting her into them had been a pain.
She had wanted to keep the t-shirt, and kept hugging herself so they couldn't take it off of her, whining "But I like Creator's clothes!". But with Meiko's help they had succeeded.
As Meiko drove she kept glancing in the rearview mirror only to find the robot giggling and talking with Gumi and Rin like a real human being. She had realized long before that she was learning from them, matching their hand movements, expressions, it kind of freaked her out. But she seemed to be the only one to notice. The other girls were acting as if… she was just another sister in their big, happy, slightly awkward, family. It was just strange.
She wasn't sure she wanted her brother making another. It was enough having one new… being in their home to get used to. And she really was starting to wonder if he was turning into a pervert… er, a bigger pervert.
The little girl was unnaturally beautiful… it was… simply shocking how perfect she was. And she was sweet too, maybe that was just how he had programmed her, sweet and innocent. The next girl, this Haku, was sure to be exactly the same, right? Sweet, innocent, and treating Kaito like some sort of god… But in a way was he not their god? He had given them life, so maybe father would be more like it, but the way the little robot looked at her brother was not the way a little girl looked at her father…
Meiko was becoming paranoid. Especially about that… But no one else seemed to notice. No one else seemed to understand that Miku's actions around Kaito… weren't… just friendly. The way she had hugged him and blushed when she had first woken, the way she clung to him, giggling and blushing at his every word, and then there was the T-shirt…
All together, Meiko was more than a little weirded out and nervous.
And taking the robot to the mall was starting to seem stupider and stupider by the second. How would she react to such a new environment?
A loud honk pulled Meiko's dark brown eyes from the mirror and back to the road. This was going to be a long day…
Again, having some extra hands and strength was proving to come in handy. At this rate Luka would be done in a little over a week, maybe even sooner if Len decided to stop whining and actually help and Gakupo would stop carrying on like an excited little girl… But they still were coming in handy. Gakupo had already come up with some new programming, not only would this Luka be able to speak Japanese but English too, she would also be able to cook… Maybe they would no longer rely on little Rin for their food… And if she could sing like Miku then they would have themselves a European star to go with their Japanese one.
Kaito went by Gakupo's design for the girl, she would be tall and slender with long coral pink hair. A beautiful being but no match for his Miku.
Kaito was hunched over his worktable, carefully piecing the metal parts together like a puzzle, while Gakupo was typing quickly on the computer, creating new programs in a matter of seconds, occasionally digging through the file holding all that was left of his parent's work, and Len, well, Len was sitting in a swirly chair sipping a coke while reading one of those Mangas he had stashed under his bed for safe keeping…
"Hey… Kaito?" Gakupo called hesitantly, peering at the paper in his hands with his brow furrowed.
"Yes my lovely assistant?" Kaito teased but did not look up from the skeleton he was creating.
"Our parent's old lab… the one on the other side of town that burned down…" Saying it was a bit more painful than he had thought it would be. It brought back many memories…
"What about it?" Kaito tried to sound carefree about the subject but, like Gakupo and Len, who was now eyeing Gakupo warily, it was a painful subject.
"How many levels were in it?"
"Like… stories? There were two I think. The main floor was where they built everything and the second floor was where they had their offices… I think… It's been a long time, I'm not sure any more." Kaito replied. "Why?"
"No reason…"
None of them noticed the red-eyed albino that slipped out from the curtained area of the room. Haku gulped, eyes darting around the room like a caged animal. She knew what she was, it… was just something she knew, like common sense, she wasn't sure how she knew it, she just did.
The blue-haired man was her creator, she was sure. So she carefully made her way over to him, hoping that her bare feet would make no noise on the cold floor of the room. She was too nervous to say anything…
"Hey!"
"Eep!" The poor girl practically jumped out of her skin when the purple-haired man sitting at the desk behind her Creator hopped up, pointing at her so the other two males would also look to her. She opened her mouth to speak, eyes darting from the grinning purple-haired man to the surprised blond boy to her proud looking Creator. Had she made him proud? She hoped so. "Cre-creator?" She managed to squeak out.
"Hello Haku," he replied stepping around the table he had been working at and slowly walking towards her. "How are you? Do you feel alright?"
"Oh, uh, ye-yes…" She murmured, clutching her hands to her chest nervously. "Who are they?" She demanded, pointing to the other two boys.
"She's different from the first…" Gakupo said thoughtfully.
"Of course she is, they have minds of their own Gakupo." Kaito snapped before looking back to Haku to give her a small smile. "Don't worry Haku, they helped create you. That's my friend Gakupo and my little brother Len."
Haku blinked at the other two men, relaxing slightly. "Ok…"
"It's alright Haku," Kaito soothed, finally close enough to rest his hand on her shoulder. She was almost as tall as him, only an inch or two shorter. Her bright red eyes flickered to his face. "This is your home, just relax."
She gulped, nodding slightly. "Yes Creator…"
"My name's Kaito, you don't have to call me creator." He said smiling at her.
"Oh… I see… Kai-to…"
"Oh! This is just brilliant! We're going to be rich!" Gakupo laughed. "Let me try something!" He snatched a paper from the desk and bounded over to them making Haku take a step back, afraid of the larger man. "Don't worry my dear!" Gakupo chuckled, handing her the paper. "Here, sing this."
Haku blinked, looking down at the paper in her hands. "Sing?"
"Yes, sing it."
"I…"
"You have special programming, if you tap into that it will allow you to understand." Kaito explained. "Do you think you could try and do that?"
"Uh…" Haku gulped, closing her eyes. But she did not simply see darkness behind her closed lids, her mind was suddenly filled with a bright white screen. In less than a second she had Wikipedia's definition of "Sing". Her red eyes snapped open. "The act of producing musical sounds with one's voice."
"Amazing!" Gakupo gushed.
"Very good Haku, now do you think you could try and do that?" Kaito added.
She bit her lip instinctually, looking down at the wrinkled pages in her hands. The writing was slightly messy but she had no problem reading it. "Daughter Of White…?"
"I thought it was fitting," Gakupo replied with a shrug, referring to the girl's cotton colored hair.
"Ok…" Haku took a deep breath. "'Ikite ite gomennasai...' itsu no ma ni ka kuchiguse… Yowane bakari haite ita… tsumaranu dake no jinsei… Mura no hitotachi wa mina… kirei na midori no kami…" Haku found her lips turning slightly upwards as the words flowed from her mouth making her Creator's eyes shine with pride, Gakupo laugh, clearly delighted, and Len just continue to stare at her.
"You can stop now Haku, you've done fantastically!" Kaito laughed.
"I… Like that very much." She informed him, still slightly smiling.
"Would you like to sing to get money?" Kaito asked eagerly.
"Money… yes, I would like to sing for any reason." Haku decided.
"Fantastic! I'll go call Meiko!" Gakupo declared, bounding off to do just that.
Len eyed Haku curiously. She was different than Miku both physically and mentally it seemed, if you could even say a robot has mental and physical attributes.
She was still very nervous, red eyes darting about as she shifted her weight foot to foot. "Hey," Kaito wrapped his arm around her shoulders, making her jump ever so slightly. "You shouldn't be so scared, this is your home, our home." She didn't say anything. "You wanna' know what always makes me feel better?"
She glanced at him nervously, feeling unsure about the physical contact. "W-what?"
"Ice cream."
"Uh…"
"I have a feeling you would need something a bit stronger though…"