Disclaimer: Chobits is by the wonderful, yet cruel Clamp.
Forever Yours
By Miyamoto Yui
Chapter 1 - �wouldn�t she?
Hesitantly, I asked her, �What did you say?�
�I couldn�t find my way home,� she repeated once again to me with her hands holding one another tightly.
The blow was just as harsh.
I knew I had heard correctly.
I took her hands and held them gently. If I didn�t, I feared that she wouldn�t know that she was damaging her skin by all the squeezing.
I was in a panic, but I wouldn�t show her. That�s how it always was.
I just couldn�t be anything but calm.
It was scary even to myself.
I took her to the couch and sat her down.
Pushing her hair over her ear, I connected her to the laptop that I had recently purchased.
Bowing her head, she was in standby mode. Then, I looked over her data.
Everything seemed to be intact.
I sighed.
She was custom-made�
If anything happened to her, what would she do? She would have to come to me naturally.
But I had feared the day, as with any human and their persocom, the day that I couldn�t repair Yuzuki.
No matter how much I studied or �fixed� her, I always tried to deny that there would be a day that I couldn�t do anything.
That I would just look at her one day and watch her deteriorate before my very eyes.
I shook my head as tears began to come to my eyes. I refused to let them fall though.
I was determined.
Only Yuzuki could make me love her so much that I could react so extremely.
I then squinted my eyes at the screen. �What�s this?�
The computer screen was blinking.
�Temporary storage. New information,� I read aloud as I clicked on it.
�Password,� the familiar message came on.
What question had Yuzuki wanted to ask me before she told me she was late?
�Paradise dream,� I said in English.
Confirmed.
Then, it replayed a video�
* Bustle, bustle. *
I must get all that is on the grocery list. The best route would be this way.
* A mental map with a red arrow appears to show Yuzuki�s route through the market *
* Picks everything from the list and places it into a basket *
* Bump *
�Excuse-never mind,� a housewife says.
I bow my head though I know I shouldn�t have.
This is a usual occurrence.
There are women who occasionally do this to comfort themselves. They believe that persocoms are trouble. Especially female ones like myself.
I can�t tell Minoru-sama though because he�ll get worried.
* Resumes going around and makes purchases *
I must get him his book also.
Will he be mad that I got him something without asking him?
* Looks around *
Why must people always whisper?
�There is that persocom again. She may be cute, but that boy never wants to have friends because of her,� one woman with a ponytail whispers to another.
* Picks up book *
The other one, the one with an old lady�s perm, answers back, �He�ll grow out of it. Don�t worry. Most of them do.�
What does this mean? �To grow out of it�?
I must ask this later.
* Takes book and looks at another one *
�There will come a time when a newer model will come out,� the pony-tailed one whispers while still looking at me even though she tries not to make it seem obvious. �They�re made everyday!�
�Boys are always so fickle,� the one with the perm replies. �Besides, persocoms can only do so much.�
* Decides to take the first book and proceeds to the register of the bookstore *
* Walks out after politely thanking the cashier *
I repeat in my head, �There will come a time when a newer model will come.�
No, Minoru-sama said he loved me.
Even though I don�t really understand this concept of love as humans call it, I know the way we are is like the way Chi and her master are.
I had wanted Minoru-sama to look at me the same way�
To help him in any way�
And then, he had looked at me that way.
No. Minoru-sama wouldn�t do that at all.
* Vision goes a bit blurry *
It is happening again.
* Goes on automatic mode *
Back up data accessed.
Kaerimichi.
Confirmed.
* Walks towards home *
End of data.
I took a deep breath as I looked at Yuzuki.
I had looked at your �heart� without your permission�
But it was for your own good.
Still in standby mode, I placed my slightly shaking hands on Yuzuki�s shoulders.
Her head still bent, I looked at the hair in front of me.
�Yuzuki�I didn�t know.�
That�s all I could say.
I didn�t know how to fix this glitch at the moment.
But to never know that she went through such discriminations�
At this day and age, people are still so cruel.
And that was just today�s data�
�What about before? I want to know. Why didn�t you tell me, Yuzuki?�
I shook my head knowing the answer too well.
I got up, took out the connections and she was out of standby mode.
Standing up, she blinked at me.
I then grabbed her face and looked at her intensely. Searching into her eyes, I wanted to find an answer to anything.
Even though all was hopeless to ask or find a response to.
After a moment of silence, I finally find my voice.
�I saw,� I whispered melancholically.
�You know my question,� she said as she folded her hands while looking down.
�Look at me please,� I pleaded.
She looked at me again.
�I can never grow out of you. That means to be tired of someone or something. But you answered your own question, Yuzuki.�
How can I say that there are few in your life that you meet, and when you do, you can�t live without them?
Even if you created them into reality.
You are a part of me, Yuzuki�
�Have I, Minoru-sama?�
I nodded.
�I love you,� I answered without hesitation.
Closing my eyes, I didn�t listen to reason.
I kissed her�
For the first time, in sixteen years that I�ve been alive, I finally had the courage to let myself be hurt by Yuzuki.
Profusely.
Confused, she looked at me with nothing to say.
I looked at her eyes. And they reflected me back.
With loneliness, my reflection was watching me back. The frown was still there and had never left.
I looked at Yuzuki.
No matter how I would grow older and older�
That height, those eyes, these hands�
Yuzuki would always look like that.
She would always be the same�
�wouldn�t she?
Tsuzuku.
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Author�s note: AWWWW�.dammit�I love them�
Prologue - Chapter 2