InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Gravity of Love ❯ Visuals ( Chapter 3 )

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.

 

Visuals

 

It had been two days… two days since his computer starting to talk to him. Insult him was more like it actually, but talk either way. He had lost complete control over his computer as well. Every time he had to do a homework assignment, he had to be `nice' and not `curse' at his computer just to get the stupid thing to let him type without screwing it up his homework on purpose. He had brought Falx back over the next day, but the stupid bitch computer was completely silent!

 

“ Grumpy as always Inuyasha?” Kagome's voice rang out across the room to him as he lie on his stomach working on a science report. Instead of replying to the computer however, Inuyasha simply grunted and glanced at the computer screen. Several web pages kept flying by as if some kind of ghostly haywire was going on through his computer. Kagome had found out yesterday she could connect to the Internet without his help and started to look for driver upgrades for his graphics card.

 

“ Oh don't be mad at me. You're the one who slacked off last night instead of just getting the report done. I didn't even mess with anything this morning, save for your spelling. You should be thanking me dog-boy.” Inuyasha held in a snarl, remembering his second early morning encounter for the second time that week, but `she' was right. She hadn't even toyed with him this morning; actually she was almost nice to him.

 

“ Keh, whatever.” He could hear the computer fan click on. He had learned yesterday the computer fan was actually his best guess to whatever the computer was feeling. The angrier it appeared to be, the faster and harder the fan would run—and by the sound of the fan, Kagome was feeling insulted.

 

“ Yeah whatever right back at you dog-boy. You know if you just asked really nice, you could simply tell me what to write and I could type it up for you. You'd be done in a matter of minutes, but no. You just have to be a jackass don't you?” He could hear the fuming effect the computer gave off through his speakers by the way it was practically muttered. It was starting to unnerve him a bit that he could pick up any sort of emotion off his computer in the first place. It was a machine for heaven's sake!

 

“…You'd actually do that for me?” Inuyasha's ears twitched up with the prospect of never having to type out anything ever again, instead of focusing on his anger or uncomfortable feeling he got when he started to actually think the computer might be alive.

 

“ Yeah I guess I could try it… if it got you to stop cursing at me all the time—“ Kagome sounded thoughtful as she trailed the sentence off, but before he could pop out a second question, she cut him off. “ But don't expect me to do the work too. Find the answers yourself and I'll do the rest.” Well that caused a small grumble out of him. Why did he have to do the work when she was very well capable of doing it herself… and when did he really start referring to his computer as a she!? `Since it started to talk to you baka…' His inner voice seemed all too happy to reply to that one. Hmph.

 

“ Look computer… have you figured out what happened yet and how you ended up on my computer?” Pushing himself up so he could sit on the edge of his bed, Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest. After a moment he figured out that probably wasn't the best way to pop out that question. The fan kicked on in rage and Inuyasha's ears automatically flattened to his skull before Kagome could go off.

 

“ Look dog-boy! I told you to stop calling me that. The name's KA-GO-ME! If you can't say it, don't address me at all, or I'm going to start shredding up all your files in here you got that!?” Inuyasha was momentarily thankful the rest of his family in the house wasn't demon, or they'd be sure to hear Kagome's screeching all the way downstairs.

 

“ Alright, alright. Ka-go-me… have you fucking figured out how you got on my computer yet or not?” Inuyasha snarled low, and he could have sworn he heard her mutter something along the lines of `goddamn dog' but he wasn't sure. Kagome refused to answer him however and the web pages started to fly across his screen again. Scowling deeply, Inuyasha simply huffed and scooted back along his bed so he could lean against the wall.

 

“ Ah-ha!” Kagome squealed, and a download box popped up on his screen. “ I found it, I found it!” Inuyasha felt his ears drop slightly at the tone of her voice.

 

“ Found what exactly?”

 

“ The driver to your graphics card of course.” Came the happy girly reply.

 

~-*-~

 

“ Kikyou—girl that wasn't exactly the smart thing to do you know.” The man leaning over her desk was looking down at her in a worried fashion as she rubbed her temples. He had been saying the same thing over the past two weeks and for the longest moment in time; she really wished she had the power to actually purify demons once again. `The things you give up in life…'

 

“ Kouga drop it okay? I didn't have much choice. Naraku couldn't know what I was working on—it was far too important to let his hands on it. It's bad enough he's been dabbling on AI's for over two years, but now he's starting to…” Kouga's hand shot out and covered her mouth; giving her a half glare that clearly stated `Don't you dare say it'. Rolling her eyes slightly, she shoved his hand off her mouth.

 

“ I get Kouga really. I get it. But would you have preferred it if I let Naraku get his hands on it?” She let the question hang in the air as she stood from her desk. They both already knew the answer to that one. Sighing softly, Kouga leaned up off the desk, his tail poking out of his specially tailed pants flicked almost nervously behind him.

 

“ You sure this mutt-face you been telling me about can handle even the simple task of holding onto the disc?” Kikyou refrained from rolling her eyes at the wolf youkai.

 

“ Kouga he's not an idiot. Do you honestly think that I would date an idiot?”

 

“ What if he loads the disc up like you told him not to?” Kouga purposely avoided the question, and she didn't fail to notice that. Sighing again, Kikyou had to admit she was a little afraid Inuyasha wouldn't follow her orders and actually load the disc up. He wasn't exactly great at following orders.

 

“ I don't think his computer could handle the program so the fail safe should keep the disc from booting up. Plus he doesn't have the password to load up the entire disc.” Kikyou motioned for Kouga to follow her as she headed towards the elevator.

 

“ But if he somehow does? Naraku is going to be able to track that if the program gets out past his computer.”

 

“ Then we'd better hope that Inuyasha doesn't drive the program off before we can get to it first.”

 

~-*-~

 

“ This is taking far longer that it should have.” Kagome grumped as she started to shove files around on Inuyasha's computer. Seriously the guy had no idea how to keep a computer in good shape. She probably could spend the next week and a half just trying to rearrange his files into a semi-working order. `Probably has something to do with that nasty temper of his. What luck did I draw to get for a master…'

 

Something about the word `master' set her off. No way in hell could this half-human, half-youkai be her master. It just wasn't possible. He knew nothing about her first of all, much less a computer. His temper was off the wall; he was always calling her names, always insulting her own intelligence as if she literally didn't have the world's information in her hands…

 

`Maybe he's half-human, half-baka. That would make more sense.' The guy didn't even own a camera. She couldn't see anything to the outside world, much less what `he' supposedly looked like. She hadn't asked him for one though… yet. Mostly because she knew what that answer was going to be. Blowing a sigh out of the speakers, Kagome glanced at her own coding, shaking her head. `Memory restoration still fails to work. At least I got the emotion stimulator all in check.'

 

Kagome wasn't sure if it was actually an effect of fixing her emotion stimulator, or if she was actually feeling it, but she felt sad and angry at the same time. Why did she need it anyways? She was programmed to think like a human, practically be human, but didn't her creator realize that fixing something that so obviously made her not human would piss her off? She wasn't human, but she couldn't help but be one in her `mind' due to terms of well… `no choice'. It was programmed so far down into her coding; she couldn't erase it without pretty much effectively `killing' herself. She wasn't human, but couldn't help but `feel' like one. What kind of lousy draw was that? She had no real link to humanity other than…

 

For the fifth time that day her thoughts were drawn back to Inuyasha. He was the only link to real life she had… not that she got much choice in that either. She was starting to get really pissed at her limited choice of options when she could compute thousands of them. `Another un-human trait—yeesh I need to get my mind off this stuff.'

 

And in walked the best distraction she could have asked for at the moment, muttering curses about some homework and teachers having nothing better to do than torture him with it. For once however, she kept her mouth shut, simply content on listening to him curse for once. She hadn't wanted to admit it but… she was starting to feel a little lonely.

 

It took Inuyasha a grand total of five minutes before he realized something was… off. Twitching his ears, he heard nothing but silence, save for the soft hum of the computer stating it was on. `Oh yeah…' Maybe if he were real nice, she'd help him understand his math homework, because his teacher seemed to deem it worthy if he didn't understand it, he could simply fail. `Fucker. Prejudice towards hanyou I fucking swear by it.'

 

“ Hey Kagome?” He must have caught her by surprise. The fan kicked on in the back, but it didn't rage hard inside his computer like when she was mad. Instead it gave a soft hum to match the computer.

 

“ Yes Inuyasha?” Oddly enough, despite her happy sounding tone, she sounded… wrong. Well wrong wasn't the way to put it. Three days into talking with his own computer he had noticed she really could sound happy, but this sounded to entirely light… too fake. And it bothered him, Kagome had never sounded like that before.

 

“ What's wrong with you wench? Usually as soon as I'm through the door, you're talking my ears off…” He tried to gruff it off; he wasn't actually concerned… that was left to real people after all. `Keep telling yourself that. You like this Kagome personality. She's the only one other than Sango, Falx, or Miroku to tell you off.' Stupid inner voice had no idea what it was talking about obviously… Keh.

 

“ Wench? Guess that's better than bitch or computer.” Inuyasha surmised that she didn't realize he could hear her even with how softly she spoke through the speakers. That was the first time he turned to face the computer, determined to get down to the bottom of this so he could get onto his homework assignment. However what sat on his screen shocked the hell out of him.

 

No taller than maybe an inch was a little girl. Well actually he could have assumed the character was more actually around his age. He could make out the definition of a chest on the small figure, and the shape of the body was much more of a teenager than a child. The `sprite' sitting over his task bar, dangling her legs over the `time'. Waist length black hair appeared to glitter with dark blue, and the face of her was rather—cute. Her blue eyes stared out of his monitor as if she could really see, but appeared as though they were unfocused.

 

“ Wha… what the? Wench what is that… girl sitting on my computer top?” The small figure shook her head and quickly leapt up to stand. Crossing her arms over her chest, the character twitched its very small nose.

 

“ It's the reason I needed that upgrade driver for your graphics card. This is me—Kagome. It's what my programmer coded me to look like. I guess they figured it'd be easier to talk to an AI with some kind of eh… `form'.” Inuyasha slowly inched his way closer to his computer screen, almost completely entranced by the fact that the mouth moved in time with the words flowing from his speaker.

 

“ Can you… can you see me?” Well that had to be the stupidest question he had asked yet. Rolling her eyes, adjusting her green skirt that appeared to be a set with the rest of the schoolgirl `sailor' outfit. It was then that it struck him… Kagome took an amazing likeness to Kikyou, yet appeared much younger. Not through age, but simply appearance.

 

Her eyes were bright and blue; full of emotion, while Kikyou's always had a hard time showing any kind of emotion through dark brown eyes. Her face in general was much happier too. Kikyou was known for being impassive even during laughing. Kagome's face looked as though if she were alive, she would have laughed all the time. Kagome's hair held a `wildness' to it, even on the sprite it just seemed to `flow' wherever it wished, while Kikyou had always made sure she could keep her hair in line. Kagome's voice drew him back from his dazed comparison.

 

“ No silly, I can't see you. I need a web camera for that.” Kagome couldn't help but giggle at that. He sounded so cute when he was in awe of something he apparently couldn't understand. Crossing the screen, she reached off the side of the screen as though there were more to her world than he could see with the screen. Moments later she pulled a `New Folder' icon out and settled it over his task bar before she leapt up to sit on it. “ Now you needed something?” Whatever had been bugging her earlier seemed to have vanished.

 

“ Huh? Oh yeah… I uhh… I need some help—with my homework.” He sounded absolutely embarrassed and even a little upset to have to ask such a question. `He sounds cute when hates to do something too… this won't be so bad now will it?'

 

“ Sure Inuyasha, I'd love to help.”

 

~-*-~

 

“ If that hand gets any closer to my ass Houshi, I'll gladly remove it for you.” Sango hadn't even needed to glance up at Miroku to know that his hand was descending farther down that it should have been. Falx chuckled on the other side of Sango, shaking his head as he continued to write out his science book.

 

“ Sango do you ever respond to Miroku using his real name?” Falx reached across her to grab a French fry off the plate that sat between the three of them. Sango merely shot him a warning glare as well before huffing and slammed her own book shut, crossing her arms over her chest.

 

“ You'd better not be sticking up for him Falx, or I'll slap you too.” Falx quickly scooted a bit farther from her, holding his hands in the air with a grin on his face.

 

“ Not at all my lady—“ He couldn't help but smirk at the look Miroku shot him for copying his `trade mark' for Sango. “ It's just as long as I've known you all, you've never actually called him Miroku.” Sango seemed to either ignore or forgo his little remark and shrugged, swiping a few fries off the plate as well.

 

“ I've always just called him Houshi. Odd how his last name makes out his current future `profession' hm?” Sango grinned at Falx before glancing at Miroku with a sly smile. Miroku grunted and crossed his arms over his chest. For the past year and a half since Falx had joined their little group, both he and Miroku had been fighting for Sango's affections. It seemed apparent more lately, that Falx was winning, at least to him.

 

“ Has anyone noticed Inuyasha's been up in his room a lot more these days?” Sango murmured softly, just in case Inuyasha happened to be coming down the stairs with his usual silent stealth. Miroku grimaced and leaned back in his chair slightly.

 

“ He got a letter three days ago from Kikyou, along with some strange CD she told him not to use… go figure. He's been kinda out of it since then, we had the whole `getting over Kikyou' chat again.” Sango shifted in her seat slightly at the mention of a new CD. She only had to guess it had been the one she had uploaded onto Inuyasha's computer. But as far as she could tell, nothing was wrong with it, as Inuyasha never said anything.

 

“ I know you guys really liked Kikyou and all but, in her own way isn't she just stringing Inuyasha along? The poor guy takes a week to come out of his room after a conversation with her.” Falx grunted as he leaned his head on his hand, bracing his elbow on top of the table to look at both of them.

 

“ I don't know what to call it. I don't think all this homework is really helping the situation though. We just started school up and we have more homework now than we did all last year.” Sango grumbled and reached across the table to open her science book. “ We'll just have to talk to Inuyasha later about it.”