InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Gravity of Love ❯ Insult Me Not ( Chapter 2 )

Gravity of Love

 

Disclaimer - I do not own Inuyasha or any of its characters. I borrow them from Rumiko Takahashi. Story Plotline inspired by Garret Jax's Hanyou.EXE. Song - Gravity of Love by Enigma.

 

Insult Me Not

 

Inuyasha let out a harsh groan as his alarm clock went off at exactly four-thirty in the morning. `Why the fuck did I set that thing this early for again?' He grumbled and practically fell out of the bed as his legs tangled into the sheets. Hard to believe that Inuyasha could have been capable of tearing the room apart gracefully in moments if he wished… and was awake apparently.

 

Glaring at the offending English book, he flopped down in front of his computer. Flipping his speakers on, he searched through his music drawer before pulling out a random CD and stuck it into the tray for the computer. After waiting several moments for his player to automatically pop up, instead he got a blank gray box. Blinking several times, he clicked his mouse over it once… twice.

 

`I can't believe you listento this kind of stuff.'

 

Inuyasha blinked once again at the box. It didn't even have an X at the top right of the box, or an `Yes', `No', or `Cancel' button. `Maybe I'm just too far tired for this…' The box suddenly disappeared before it reappeared again seconds later.

 

`Seriously do you want to blow an eardrum or something?'

 

`Okay now I know I'm… imagining things. Is my computer… talking to me?' He stared dumbly at his computer before looking back at the clock, and then back at the computer again, rubbing his eyes. The gray box had disappeared, and his player suddenly loaded up as usual. Shaking his head, he rubbed his temples and hit play… and no sound came out.

 

“ What the fuck!?” He snarled. He glanced at his speakers, tapping against them carefully with his claws before he felt a twitch start to settle into his eyebrow.

 

`It might help if you took the mute off baka…'

 

Oh his computer was not insulting him… especially not at this time in the morning. Un-muting his computer, the song came blasting out over the speakers. Growling lowly at his computer he pulled up his word program without much problem. Rubbing his eyes he started to type the essay. `I'm losing it.'

 

~-*-~

 

It was about six-fifteen in the morning by the time Inuyasha finished the essay without a problem or interruption from the little gray box. By the time he finished he was convinced that it was just his imagination at work trying to tell him he better not even think about getting up so early next time. Turning off the player, he leaned back against his chair with his hands behind his head with a yawn.

 

His ears twitched forward, then stood straight up on instinct at the odd sound that suddenly escaped his speakers. He couldn't quite describe it, but it sounded like… someone was trying scratch through his speakers. He sat up a little as the sound barely escaped the speakers yet again.

 

“ Okay… something is very wrong with this fucking thing…” He turned off the speakers; staring at them oddly before his screen blinked off for a moment, then back on.

 

`Oh that was just mean. Oh well, it doesn't matter anyways, it's not set up right.'

 

“ You've got to be… kidding me.” Inuyasha felt his eyebrow twitch as he leaned forward to stare at his screen.

 

`Why did you install me if you don't even know how to useme stupid?'

 

“ Install… what… the…?” Inuyasha growled sharply at his computer screen, feeling his claws flex as though he considered tearing the offending machine up.

 

`If you turn on your microphone I could hear you and you probably wouldn't have to stare at the computer like a complete idiot.'

 

For a moment, Inuyasha felt red seep into his glare, before he reached up and turned on the microphone, but suddenly found himself with a loss of words. Awe and anger had him choked up. Baring his fangs at the computer screen, he flopped back into his chair and crossed his arms over his chest. Silence filled the room before the gray box disappeared again. Moments later it reappeared in very large and offending letters…

 

`WELL STUPID!? Are you gonna sit there and say NOTHING? I can tell you turned it ON you know…baka…'

 

And that was the end of Inuyasha's patience, as he knew it. Jumping to his feet so fast that the chair was shoved so hard it went flying back against his bed. “ What do you mean stupid!? You're a computer, you aren't even supposed to be able to CALL me stupid or an idiot—you useless fucking excuse for a machine!”

 

`Great… looks like I get stuck with some baka with a temper fit for a two year old. Are you gonna answer my question or not?'

 

Inuyasha snarled at the insult, turning away from the computer to fetch his chair. “ I wouldn't be calling me that as I'm the one capable of tearing you to bits in seconds. And what question would that be exactly?” He stopped after a moment as he turned to grab his chair and blinked at the wall behind his bed. `Am I really… fighting with my computer? My god I really am fucking losing it!'

 

`You know… why you installed me! I mean I'm missing vital parts to my code because you don't even knowwhat you're doing…'

 

The twitch was back in his left brow. Growling low in his chest, he showed an amazing amount of restraint by not throwing his chair at the computer. “ What do you mean install you? I haven't installed anything in weeks… unless you've been lying dormant in my computer. What are you some kind of hacker program or something fucking stupid like that?” The computer didn't respond for several moments, the fan kicked on in the back.

 

`You mean to tell me YOU aren't the one who installed me… but it's your computer?'

 

For simple text, it sure was starting to get on his nerves by point out the obvious. “ Yes and yes… I think. What are you anyways?” The fan kicked on again in the back and he hadn't noticed it had stopped at some point.

 

`Me? Oh I'm Project Miko! Nice to meet you… I think. Are you sure you're the one who owns this computer?'

 

The computer doubted him!? Biting his bottom lip until he drew blood, Inuyasha flexed his claws once again at his side, momentarily wondering how badly his mother would ground him if he tore apart the computer using the excuse `it kept insulting me'. “ Yes I own the computer damnit! And by the way… I asked what you are… Project Mieko or whatever the fuck you just said doesn't tell me much…” The fan in the back of the computer started to hum even louder than it had before.

 

`Good grief—stop cursing at me would you? I'm an AI project of course. You know… as in Artificial Intelligence. If you don't even know what I am, or even who installed me then what are you going to do with me?'

 

No there was a perfectly good question. “ Erase you I suppose. After all I didn't even put you on there.” Inuyasha grumbled and reached for the mouse. The fan in his computer suddenly seemed to hit max, and for a moment he could have sworn it was the entire computer coming undone.

 

`No you can't do that! It'd be like… like… killing me! Oh please don't erase me!!!!'

 

Inuyasha blinked at his screen weakly before moving his hand away from the mouse. “ You plead like a girl…” The fan in the back suddenly slowed down to a quiet hum.

 

`Well that might be because I ama girl baka…'

 

“ You aren't `anything'. You're a computer stupid!” Inuyasha seethed at his computer, watching the screen do an odd sort of fuzzy motion wave across the screen.

 

`You were writing an essay… don't you have something better to do, like—oh I don't know—school?'

 

For a moment all Inuyasha could process was `huh'? Then it hit him like a ton of bricks. Whirling around to glance at the clock, Inuyasha literally fell out of his chair. “ SHIT. It's almost eight!” Inuyasha pushed himself off the floor to scurry around the room, grabbing his stuff and shoving it into his backpack.

 

`You really dohave a cursing problem you know that right?'

 

“ Shut up you piece of metal! When I get home you are so going to be erased, even if I have to fucking tear the computer physically apart.” He snarled and bolted out the door. Several moments of silence went by before the little box popped up with one word.

 

`Bye?'

 

~-*-~

 

“ Man… are you sure you're computer was uhh… `talking' to you?” A boy questioned as he leaned over the same computer that had been insulting Inuyasha earlier that day. The screen was now blank, void of any unusual boxes or words. Inuyasha was sitting on his bed Indian style watching the boy work around his computer.

 

“ Yes Falx… I'm quite positive the computer was er… `talking' to me. The program said it some sort of AI.” Falx raised a brow at the silver haired boy before giving a slight shrug.

 

“ Got me what it is then, cause I searched the logs for anything unusual, even the installation logger and I got nothing. No abnormalities or glitches. Hell not even any hacker traces.” Crossing his arms over his chest he stared down at the tower as if he expected it to talk to him like Inuyasha claimed it had. “ Well anyways I fixed your speakers at least.”

 

“ They were broken?” Inuyasha raised his brow, remembering that this morning they had been playing music just fine. Falx shrugged again and turned to face Inuyasha.

 

“ Not really. They weren't picking up all the info from the computer though. They're all up to par now though. Did you uhh… let Sango and Miroku know that your computer was talking to you?” Inuyasha couldn't help the glare that came across towards his friend before rolling his eyes slightly as Falx flipped the speakers on.

 

“ Don't be stupid. Miroku would have never dropped it and Sango would have probably been scarred for life figuring her brother was indeed a fucking nut as everyone claims.” Falx chuckled and grabbed his schoolbag before taking another glance at the computer.

 

“ Well if it starts to act up again, just give me a call. I swear though, if you got some kind of new virus that has got to be one of the weirdest ones yet… I mean a computer virus that starts to call you names—“ Falx winced before giving a way and made his way out of the bedroom, closing the door behind him. Sighing roughly, Inuyasha flopped back against the wall, slumping down slightly.

 

“ Maybe I really was just tired or something. I mean… my computer picked a fight with me.” He grunted and closed his eyes, the ears on his head drooped down slightly as he relaxed.

 

“ Well actually… you picked a fight with me. Didn't I tell you earlier that you have a serious cursing problem? Then again I really shouldn't be surprised that would be fixed over the course of a few hours…” Inuyasha let out a yelp and leapt up off the bed and hit the floor. The sound of a girl's voice had appeared out of nowhere!

 

“ Yeesh what was that? You sound like a dog…” Inuyasha blinked several times before he realized the ghostly voice was actually coming from his computer speakers. Growling low in the back of his throat, Inuyasha shoved himself off the floor and stalked towards his computer.

 

“ What the fuck? You can talk through the speakers now!?” The girly voice giggled and Inuyasha felt his ears twitch at the sound.

 

“ I told you that they weren't set up right. You left the microphone on, so I knew when you brought that boy by. At least that kid was able to fix up the speakers for me. It's no fun not being able to actually yell back at you. Text is so overrated.” The voice giggled again, and Inuyasha found his ears drooping slightly at the sick fact his computer could now insult him directly.

 

“ Didn't I tell you when I got home I was gonna `erase' your ass even if it required me to tear my computer apart with my bare hands?” Inuyasha growled out, but his ears remained low on his head. `This is so sick it's not even funny…'

 

“ Oh come now. I spent all day working on your computer, and you're going to `erase' me? How are you gonna do that huh? Not even the computer genius could find my programming. And don't even think of pulling the plug! I'll shock your ass into next year.” How'd she know he was going to do that? He knew if he tore the computer apart his mother would kill him, and that bloody voice was right. If Falx couldn't find it, he sure as hell couldn't. Slowly Inuyasha pulled his hand away from the plug, which actually gave a spark from the wall as if it was warning him.

 

“ Come on now… tell me your name will you? Or would you prefer I call you dog-boy after all those noises you make. Don't think I can't hear you growling over there.”

 

“ Keh! No fucking way bitch.” The voice sighed and grumbled something so low in the speakers not even his ears could pick it up, before the voice snapped back at him, in a higher pitched tone than before, causing his ears to mash up against his skull.

 

“ Don't call me bitch dog-boy. You're stuck with me. I control just about every function on your computer by now. Anything you do to it I'll pretty much be allowing. Until we can figure out how and why I'm on your computer I'm not going anywhere.” Inuyasha started to inch his hand back towards the plug, which sparked from the outlet several more times. Inuyasha pulled his hand back for fear that somehow his room might catch fire. Now that one he could never hope to explain.

 

“ After I finish up rewiring your graphics card, I should be able to uhh—manifest—myself on your computer top. You know you really could do with an upgrade; it would make this sooo much easier.” The voice almost sounded happy now. The tone was light again, almost playful.

 

“ Oh yeah… and suddenly I just have the urge to help you bitch.” Inuyasha seethed at his computer as he made his way across the room to his book bag.

 

“ Oh come on… this is only going to be as bad as you make it. Tell me your name already dog-boy.” Inuyasha twisted an ear towards his computer while searching out for his math book. `Why me?' Though in the back of his mind, he wanted to find out too. Just what this `voice' was and why it was on his computer.

 

“ Inuyasha.” Somehow he managed a bored tone despite the fact he looked ready to tear his books apart in frustration.

 

“ Well now… `Dog demon' huh? Tell you wouldn't happen to actually be a dog demon now would you?”

 

“ Gee whatever gave it away?” Inuyasha rolled his eyes before settling himself on his bed with his notepad and math textbook. “ Only half actually…” Now why had he gone and said something like that?

 

“ I see—a hanyou then. Well Inuyasha, it's nice to meet you. As I told you, I'm an AI… Project Miko. However you my dear companion… you may call me Kagome.”