Chapter 14

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

I'm.

So.

Bored.

Nara and Giichi had gone to school, leaving me at their small apartment. I remember Nara telling me their mother almost never comes home, and their father had died in a work-related accident. Now I was sitting alone. Waiting for them to come home.

"Giichi gets home first, Aratana," Nara had said, "I have to help the Drama Club set up props for a play."

Now I began to think. About the future. School, the same place that girl on the monitor was going, according to Suisei.

Suisei. Was he in on it with Nobu as well?

I hadn't seen him for days before the experiment, and he didn't come to see me afterwards either. Odd.

It has been approximately thirty minutes since Nara had left with Giichi. I knew they would not return for a while. Today will be a long day.

"Tana-San," Nara said before she left, "Don't leave today, not when there's no one with you at least."

I decided to leave Nara's room and go to the front room, with a television, a small table, and a small couch behind it. I sit on the couch and pick up a small black object and examine it. It seemed to connect to the television using infrared. It has several buttons on it that have different commands, the first one I notice reads POWER, which I press. The television powers on, and a moving image of a woman in a suit like the ones Hiroyuki Ito wore when he came to visit me.

She was saying something about how a child had wandered into an intersection, and was saved by a man on a pizza delivery scooter chasing a truck with a deceased driver. She then looks down then back up and moves to a different topic.

"The company known for its trademark pop idol, Hatsune Miku, Crypton Future Media Incorporated was broken into last night by a group of three American men through a building directly adjacent to it, apparently attempting to make off with some form of object the company was holding in the basement of the facility."

That was me, they were trying to make off with me.

The woman continued.

"Now, today, the same company is experiencing trouble with a virus that the company's CEO, Hiroyuki Ito, has claimed has the capability of spreading through the internet to consume an object entirely. Who has created this virus? And how can it be stopped?"

The program switched to a brightly dressed woman attempting to sell some sort of food object to be chewed for long periods of time that would not run out of flavor for the entire duration.

A virus that can spread to other computers. I should be careful.

I had charged myself while Nara and her brother slept, and had put myself in standby mode.

I decide to press the CHANNEL+ button, and the image changes to a different image. This one looks a lot like the plastic objects in that building I had gone into, where I first saw Giichi. The people on the screen were talking very dramatically, and unconventionally. Sometimes, it would seem like they weren't even speaking a language at all.

The character talking the most was small with impossibly long white-blue hair. She was saying something about how the male, with short black hair glasses and a white button-up t-shirt, was a wimp and had no backbone. That's rude. He is being respectful and this girl is treating him as if he didn't matter.

The girl had stopped talking, and was looking away from the male and blushing much more than a normal human would. Now she is acting as if he is the best thing that has ever happened?

I decided to continue watching this program, and to continue trying to determine why the not-human humans were acting so very odd.

After approximately fifteen minutes, it seems the program ended. I stood and turned the television off. What do I do?

I went to the window, to stare down at the people busily passing through the streets. I enhanced the zoom and watched young humans busily hurrying to a stairway that led underground. I looked to the left and watched a group of three men, carefully picking through the crowd. Moving their heads as if looking for something. The one in front was wearing a short sleeved shirt that showed the majority of his arms, one of which had a large contusion. It was possibly made by a large or heavy object being thrown at him.

It took a few moments but I quickly realized that these three men were searching for me. They were the ones who had tried to take me from the lab. John, the one in the front, did not look happy.

I stepped back, so I could see him, but the reflection of the glass would render me nearly invisible to the outside. As I did, the third man looked up. Based on the angle of his head, he had seen some sort of movement in my direction.

That's impossible. I thought. No human could have seen me from that far away.

I cannot afford to be taken by them. I will do whatever I can to avoid this. Even if it means doing the very thing I myself had refused to do.

AUTHORS NOTE:

Hey everyone! Thanks again for reading. The next thing coming up for this story is a Character Directory. It will include everyone who has been in the story so far. And if I hadn't said their last name, then I will include their last name as well. It will include a short backstory on everyone, but not so much so it takes away some of the mystery.

Also, be watching because I might be starting a new story (possibly a crossover) soon.

I'm also looking for someone to possibly illustrate my story for me. I kinda want to make it into a web comic or something. So if you're interested let me know. And yes person who shall remain anonymous, you may translate it to French. But for personal reasons, don't be posting in on the site in French.

Thanks again!