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Chapter List
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I apologize in advance for the length of this chapter and
Hikaru�s story� if it upsets you.

I will have you know that I am spoiling you � I highly doubt
all my chapters will be as long as this one or the last one, and my updating
will not necessarily be frequent. There
shouldn�t be too long of a wait
between chapters, however.

I meant to say this last chapter: what Sai says is in bold. That way it sets it off, so you know that
it�s not something all the characters can hear.
Hikaru, however, talks to Sai out loud, so all characters can hear him,
unless otherwise noted.

The orphanages are named St. John�s
and St. Mark�s despite being in Japan
because� I was lazy. ~hangs head in shame~ I didn�t feel like looking up common
names of orphanages in Japan,
and so I just threw in two generic names and put St. in
front of them. Let�s just say
Christianity peaked in the Neo-Orient era some time ago, and so these names
became common, but then it dropped out, so the names were left, but there�s no
longer any meaning attached. I�m very
sorry if my Western naming of the orphanages caused anyone grief.

The events of this chapter actually take place the day
before the last chapter. The headmasters
waited at least 24 hours after noticing the boys were missing to call the
police.

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Bionic � Flight

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Their plan had been simple: Get out, then get to the closest
Go Institute. There had been a few more
details then that, but it captured the basic gist of things.

That explained why twelve boys huddled together in the rain across
from the Institute one Monday morning, soaking wet and waiting for the building
to open.

Kaga had been the one to bring up a huge flaw in their plans
to escape. �So we get out. Then what? We�re still twelve orphans with no place to
go, and no source of income.�

Hikaru had been the one to come up with a solution. �We pool our money and let Touya take the pro
exam. He�s amazing � he�ll be able to
bring in enough money to support us all, if we tighten our belts and do odd
jobs for a while. And Saeki, Ashiwara,
and Kurata are almost eighteen, they�ll be able to sign stuff.�

It had been a good plan.
Or so they thought. Kurata was
the only one who kept saying something felt off. �Look, guys� if the police come, we need to
run. We can�t be caught, under any
circumstances. None. At all.
That would be very very bad. Just
trust me on this.� The look on his face,
one of complete seriousness with a hint of fear, was one none of the other
eleven had ever seen.

�Why?� Mitani asked.
�We snuck away from the orphanages.
We didn�t do anything bad.�

Hikaru looked over at Kurata, meeting his gaze for a long moment. Without looking away, he said, �There�s more
to the story then you guys know.�

Hikaru! Sai poked Hikaru. You�re
not supposed to talk about that!

�I think Kurata�s one.�

That doesn�t matter! Touya�s most certainly one, but you�re not
supposed to tell him either!

�One what?�

Hikaru shook his head. �It�s not
important� just do what he says. Police
come, run away.�

�Wouldn�t that get us into more trouble?� Isumi questioned.

�No,� Kurata answered.
�It will probably save our lives.�

Touya felt uneasy about all of this talk about running from
the police. He looked across the street
at the Go Institute. �Oh! It�s open!�

The twelve boys darted across the street and into the
building, then went over to the closest desk, and Touya stepped up. �Um, excuse me.�

�Yes?� A middle-aged man with thick
glasses peered down at Touya.

�I would like to sign up to take the pro exam, please,�
Touya said.

The man nodded, pulling out some forms. �Very well.
What�s your name?�

�Touya Akira.�

Both the man and the secretary froze at the name. The man suddenly looked angry, and the
secretary leaned over to look at the boy.
He seemed the right age. She
picked up her phone and quietly dialed a number.

�Touya Akira? Not related to the late Meijin, I suppose?�
the man demanded.

Touya nodded slowly, wondering why the man seemed so
upset. �He was my father.�

�Out!� the man shouted, pointing toward the door. �Out, get out! You�re the fifth Touya child to show up this
week � it�s absolutely disgusting how you dishonor the Meijin�s name! You�re just trying to float by on his fame�
well, it�s not going to happen!�

�But� but�� Touya was speechless. Touya was his name, the Meijin had been his father! How could there be other kids?

The man behind the desk was furious.
There were rumors that Touya Meijin had had a child, one he kept away
from the media that surrounded him. After
Touya�s death, the rumors grew � many were saying that the child hadn�t been on
the plane with the Meijin and his wife, that he was still alive. This, of course, led to many fake Touya
children coming in, claiming to be the heir to the great go player. None of them seemed to realize that they
wouldn�t be able to float through on the Meijin�s name alone. Very few of them knew much about go, and
those who did weren�t very good players.
The officials at the Go Institute had all but given up on ever finding
the real Touya Jr.

Hikaru stamped his foot.
�You, sir, are sorely mistaken!
This is the real Touya Akira! I
know, I�ve played him before!�

Saeki settled back, crossing his arms, scowling at the man who had yelled at
Touya. Ashiwara saw him moving his
fingers slightly and smiled, placing his hands on Saeki�s shoulders. Pages of books began flipping, computer keys
moved, typing out He is Touya He is Touya
He is Touya. This was something
Saeki had discovered he could do � he could move inanimate objects that were
already capable of motion. He couldn�t
move the book itself, but he could flip pages.
He could roll pens and pencils off the desks, and cause chairs to
spin. When Ashiwara touched him, he
could make even more stuff happen at the same time, and things farther away
move.

Hong watched as stuff started moving, and got an idea. His lips curled up in a smirk, and then he was
gone, racing around the room faster then should be possible, knocking things
over, tearing things up, and generally making a mess of things.

Hikaru stood next to Akira, calm in the center of the chaos that was causing
even some of the other boys to look a little frightened. Inwardly, he was laughing maniacally. �This is Touya Akira,� Hikaru said. �The spirit of the Meijin is furious you are
calling his beloved son a liar and a fraud.�
Touya edged closer to Hikaru, wondering if this really was the spirit of
his father doing all of this.

The man behind the desk looked frightened as things started
moving all around him, and the secretary was whispering into her phone,
sounding alarmed and excited. �Multiple
children,� Hong heard her say as he passed.
�Sato-sensei�s child, and psychic ones!�

Kurata suddenly stepped forward, tugging on Hikaru�s sleeve.
�Um, Shindou? We need to get out of
here.�

Hikaru waved him off. �Let him take the
exam,� he told the man. �Let him become
a pro, and you will see that he is no
fake.�

�Shindou, now, we need to go now��

�Fine, fine, he can take the exam! Just
stop with the moving stuff!� The man
shoved a form and a pen at Touya. Saeki
smirked, uncrossing his arms and letting everything fall still. Hong stopped at Ko�s side, grinning up at his
older brother, who placed a hand on his shoulder approvingly.

�SCATTER!� Kurata shouted, running for the door. He barreled into several heavily armed
police, knocking them aside with his sheer mass as he raced for the exit.

The other boys chased after him, Kaga in the lead, forcibly shoving others
aside. Waya leapt at Isumi, taking a
bullet in the arm. �Get ahead of me!�

Hikaru grabbed Touya�s arm, pulling him behind as he ran for the door. Touya had frozen in fear when Kurata
shouted. �Hurry, Hikaru, hurry!� Sai
cried. �Don�t let them get you!�

�It�s MACPR!� one of the police shouted, pointing at
Hikaru. �Don�t let him get away!�

�That�s the Sato boy too!� the secretary offered helpfully, pointing at Touya.

�Shoot them both!�

Hong was the first out, pulling Ko behind him.
The two fled into the night, easily outstripping the police.

Once out of the building, the rest of the boys split
up. Hikaru kept running, pulling Touya
along behind him, Sai at his side. Kaga,
Tsutsui, and Mitani went another way, staying close together. Saeki, Ashiwara, Kurata, and Isumi started
going off in a third direction, but Waya hung back, distracting the police.

Isumi looked behind him in time to see Waya shot at
pointblank range.

�WAYA!� Without a
thought to his own safety, Isumi turned, intending to go back for Waya, but
Saeki caught him, jerking him away.

�We need to get out of here!�

�I�m not leaving Waya!� Isumi
concentrated and passed right through Saeki�s arms.

�Oh no you don�t!� Saeki cried, catching Isumi again. �Come on, we need to get out!�

Waya was back on his feet somehow, jumping in front of
another police in time to take another bullet.
�Isumi-san, go!� he called. �I�ll
be fine! Go!� Another shot, another bullet. Waya was purposely throwing himself in the
line of fire, trying to protect his friends.
�Get out of here, Isumi-san!�

�You heard him, come on!�
Saeki dragged Isumi off with the others.

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Several of the police had gone after Mitani, Kaga, and
Tsutsui. The trio had a head start, but
soon found they had made a wrong turn somewhere, as they stared at a dead end
in an alley. Kaga pointed up at a fire
escape, the closest end still too far away for them to reach. �Can I throw to that, Tsutsui?�

Tsutsui made some rough measurements and mental calculations before
nodding. �Yeah, if you do your
best.� He put his hand on Kaga�s
shoulder, and Kaga reached over to Mitani, picking the smaller boy up easily.

Mitani curled into a ball and took a deep breath. �Ready.�

�Three, two, one � go!� Kaga threw
Mitani at the fire escape with all his strength.

Mitani uncurled and reached for the bars as they drew close,
catching it with one hand. One hand was
enough though. He swung and flipped up
onto the metal stairs, twisting his body in the air to land on his feet. He then dropped to his knees, bracing
himself, and held out his hands.
�Tsutsui, come on!�

Kaga picked up Tsutsui next. He threw
the second boy, and Mitani caught him, barely.
He pulled Tsutsui up and then reached down for Kaga. �Come on, you can do it!�

Kaga went to the wall, intending to climb it, when the police appeared at the
other end of the alley. �Go,� Kaga
hissed up to the other two. �You can get
away � go!�

�Kaga, come on!� Mitani stretched his
hand toward Kaga. �There�s time, come
on!�

Kaga dropped into a fighting stance.
�No, there isn�t. Get out before
they shoot at you. That�s an order!�

�Kaga!�

�Come on, Mitani,� Tsutsui said quietly.
�He�s right, there isn�t time.
Not if they have guns.�

They did have guns. And they didn�t
hesitate to use their guns. Kaga didn�t
even have a chance to swing before he dropped to his knees, having taken
bullets in his legs. The police weren�t
aiming to kill him. They wanted him
alive.

Mitani and Tsutsui watched, huddled in the fire escape, as
three police tried to subdue Kaga. Even
on his knees, Kaga managed to beat them off him.

Mitani winced at the sound of another gunshot, seeing Kaga
jerk slightly, now clutching his right arm.
His lips were pulled back in an angry snarl as he faced down the
half-dozen police who were slowly closing around him. Mitani considered jumping on top of them, but
Tsutsui grabbed his arm and shook his head, as if he knew what Mitani had been
thinking. �It won�t work, we need to get
away,� he whispered. �We can�t do
anything for Kaga now.�

�I�m not leaving Kaga!� Mitani hissed back. �You don�t understand, you don�t-�

�Mitani, just shut up!�
Only then did Mitani see the tears in Tsutsui�s eyes, shimmering behind
his glasses. �We can�t do anything. Not
right now. We need to get away. That�s all we can do. Don�t think I don�t want to help Kaga � I do,
I really do, but I can�t. You can�t.
It�s impossible, right now.�

�You!� One of the police pointed his gun
at Kaga, looking shocked. �You�re a Bionic?�

Kaga�s snarl flickered briefly into a look of surprise. �Dad?�

The officer moved forward, cracking his gun against Kaga�s temple, taking
advantage of his momentary surprise. Kaga
crumpled to the ground.

Mitani and Tsutsui looked at each other. Bionic?
Kaga�s dad? What was going on?

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�I think we lost �em,� Su-Yeong said as he released Yong-Ha.

�You�re too fast for me,� Yong-Ha replied, out of
breath. It was all he could do to stay
upright when Su-Yeong dragged him like this � if he fell, the results would be
the same as if he was being dragged behind a car.

Su-Yeong grinned over his shoulder at Yong-Ha. �But I got us away.�

�Yeah, and you also got us into trouble.�
Yong-Ha frowned disapprovingly at the younger boy.

Su-Yeong hung his head.
�I didn�t start it though� somebody else started making things move. I just thought I could make it even cooler by
knocking stuff down. And we needed Touya
to make money for us.�

�Somebody else? So
we�re not the only �special� people?�
Yong-Ha sat on a bench. Su-Yeong
cuddled next to him.

Yong-Ha knew he was different from a very young age. When most kids were struggling with their
first words, Yong-Ha was already fluent in five languages. By the age of five, he could communicate with
anyone native to Neo-Orient (although Japanese was the �official� language,
very few outside of the Japanese province spoke it, at least natively. Most preferred the original language of their
own region) By ten, he knew every living
language. Now, he knew over five hundred
dead languages, including Latin and Hawaiian.
He was very good at reading and writing the various languages too �
although he wasn�t quite sure how he had learned everything he did. He just knew it.

Su-Yeong had always been different too, except his speed was
not with languages, but rather physical.
However, many years of being called a freak for being able to run at
speeds over 97 kilometers per hour caused Su-Yeong to slow down. He only ran fast around Yong-Ha now, who
never scorned him for it. Sometimes,
like now, that speed was useful. Other
times, Su-Yeong just liked to show off.
It didn�t matter though � Yong-Ha never really scolded him, too much.

�We�re out,� Su-Yeong said.
�What now?�

�Now we find someplace to stay,� Yong-Ha replied. �Maybe even try to hook up with the others
again.�

�Why did the police shoot at us? What
was that all about? We just broke out of
an orphanage! That�s hardly anything
bad!�

Yong-Ha shook his head. �I don�t know,
Su-Yeong. I don�t know.�

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�They�re right behind us!
Why are they right behind us?� Ashiwara whimpered, running alongside
Saeki. Kurata was in the back of the
little group, Isumi sandwiched between them, in case he tried to go back for
Waya.

Isumi was just running blindly. All he could think of was Waya, his little
Waya, turning to look at him, bleeding from a dozen different gunshot wounds
and shouting at him to go, that he�d be fine.
How could he be fine? He was
going to be killed! And for what? Why?
Why was this happening to them?

�Ne, Saeki, you can move stuff, right?� Kurata asked,
huffing slightly. Despite being severely
overweight, he was keeping up with the others very well. �We�re gonna need that soon � you�ll need to
turn their guns on them.�

�I can�t do that!� Saeki cried. �I can
only pull the trigger � not move the gun itself!�

�Use Ashiwara � and hurry!�

Ashiwara and Saeki looked over at each other, then Saeki
grabbed Ashiwara�s hand and stopped running.
He turned to face the police, taking a deep breath, and held out his
hand as if stopping traffic. �Come on,
come on,� he whispered.

�You can do it,� Ashiwara told him, eyes wide as he squeezed
Saeki�s hand.

The police chasing the four slowed to a walk when they saw
Saeki and Ashiwara had stopped. �Come
on, boys, we�re not going to hurt you if you come nicely.�

�You shot Waya!� Ashiwara shouted. �How
can we trust you?�

The officer who seemed to be in charge stepped forward, lifting his visor. �Yes, we did shoot the other boy, and we�re
really sorry about that. We were told
that you kids� would be� dangerous�� His
voice slowed, almost stuttering, as his hand turned to point his own gun at
himself. �Hey� stop that!� The other officers were finding that they too
were pointing guns at each other.

Saeki was trembling slightly from exertion. �I�ll do it,� he said, his voice hoarse. �I�ll pull the triggers� just give me a
reason��

�This is bad, bad, bad,� Ashiwara said, staring at the police. �Saeki, you aren�t going to kill them, are
you?�

Saeki�s hand was shaking as he started to back away, pulling
Ashiwara with him. �Go back. Go down the alley, go back to where you were,
and I won�t shoot.� The trembling of his
body was present in his voice as well � he didn�t know how much longer he could
hold this, even with Ashiwara�s help.

But then Ashiwara moved his hands to Saeki�s shoulders, half-hugging him, and
Saeki felt a fresh surge of strength. He
stopped shaking, and he glared at the police.
�Go. Now.�

The police were still able to move their legs, and most of them did as Saeki
said, moving away, fleeing the alley.
They were prepared to capture some escaped Bionics, but they hadn�t been
expecting a child to turn their weapons on them.

Soon, the only officer left was the one in charge, still
staring down the barrel of his own gun.
�Please go,� Saeki said quietly.
�I don�t want to shoot you. I
really don�t.�

The officer laughed, watching the two. He was trying to call Saeki�s bluff. �Come on, kid, you don�t want to become a
murderer, do you? All you have to do is
come with us, we just want to ask you some questions.�

Kurata must have yelled �SCATTER!� for a reason. He wouldn�t have told them to scatter if
going with the police would cause less trouble � Kurata was rather lazy, and
always went with the path of least resistance.
For him to run� his intuition must have told him that the police were
not safe this time. He had actually said
as much before they entered the Institute to begin with. Saeki would trust that. �I won�t go with you. I have no reason to. Just leave.�

The officer had been watching the pair.
He didn�t miss how Saeki seemed to have become reenergized when the
brown-haired kid hugged him. It seemed
to him like the brown-haired kid was the one with the real power, and Saeki was
just the tool through which it was wielded.
�Look, boys, I�m not a bad guy.
I�m just trying to do my job.�

�We haven�t done anything wrong,� Saeki protested. �And we�re both over eighteen � adults. We�re allowed to be on the streets
unsupervised.�

While the officer was distracting Saeki with his words, he was moving his free
hand to a small gun hidden in a holster on his back. Just one shot � he�d just get one shot. He had to
hit the brown-haired kid. �Still, I need
to take you two to the station, it�s what I�ve been told to do.�

�Why?� Saeki demanded. �Why can�t we
just go on our way?�

�Because you�re Bionic,� the officer said.

�Bionic?� Saeki had no idea what a
Bionic was. He turned to look at
Ashiwara, who looked back at him and shrugged.

This was the opportunity the officer took, when both were
looking away from him. He pulled the
gun, flipped the safety, and shot at the brown-haired kid.

Ashiwara jerked away from Saeki with a cry of pain and Saeki
reacted immediately, squeezing the officer�s trigger with his mind before the
officer had a chance to turn the gun away.
Ashiwara cried out again as the corpse wobbled a little before falling
backwards � the gun had still been pointed at the officer�s face.

Saeki�s eyes were wide as he stepped backwards. �Oh shit� I killed him� I killed him�� He
pressed a fist to his mouth, unable to take his eyes away from the dead
man. �I killed him��

Ashiwara went over to Saeki, pressing his hand over his right shoulder where he
had been shot. �Saeki� Saeki, we need to
get out of here� we need to get out now, or we�re going to get in so much
trouble��

Saeki stared at Ashiwara.
�I killed him� Ashiwara��

Ashiwara stepped closer to Saeki, nudging his shoulder with his nose. �Come on, Saeki� we need to get out,
now�� There was a hint of desperation in
his voice � how long would the other officers stay away? Especially after hearing the two shots?

Saeki still didn�t move, and Ashiwara tried walking away from the scene, in the
direction Kurata and Isumi had run.
Saeki eventually stirred and followed, several steps behind. �I killed him��

�Yes, you did,� Ashiwara confirmed. �But
he shot me first � it was self-defense.�
He was fighting his own panic down � one of them had to be
rational-minded in order for them both to survive this. �Just run, Saeki, come on, let�s just run,
and get to Isumi and Kurata, and then everything will be fine.�

�He�s dead��

�Ashiwara, Saeki! Over here!� Kurata was crouched between stacks of soggy
boxes, managing to hide much of his bulk.

Isumi then came out from behind Kurata, looking
stunned. �It�s empty,� he said, his
voice dull.

�Let�s go in then!�

Isumi shook his head. �I can�t. I can�t take other people with me. You�re all too big.�

�Too big for what?� Ashiwara asked, glancing behind him, wondering how long
before the police showed up.

�Isumi can walk through walls,� Kurata informed the other two. �He�s weird like that � just like how you�re
weird, Saeki, and you help him be weirder, Ashiwara� hey, Isumi, do you think
Ashiwara can help you take people with you?�

Isumi just looked blankly at Kurata, not comprehending. Kurata sighed. �Ashiwara, take Isumi�s hands and go stand in
the wall facing each other with your arms over your heads.�

Ashiwara pulled his hand away from his shoulder and grimaced at the blood
there. �I don�t think I can move my
arm��

�Just go touch him and stand in the wall then.�
Kurata was beginning to sound a little impatient. �Whoever shot you will come back to finish
you off, probably!� Kurata kept seeing
these terrible scenes in his mind, where people he knew, like Waya or Kaga,
were locked in tiny cells and being hurt, judging from the screams he could
hear. It sounded worse than anything
they had endured at the orphanages, and Kurata did not want that to happen to anyone.
At least Waya had died � he kept getting shot at until he fell. He wouldn�t have to suffer like that.

Ashiwara tried to wipe his bloody hand off on his pants
before taking Isumi�s hand. He took a
deep breath and tried to step into the wall like Kurata had told him.

Much to his surprise, the wall molded around him with a
sensation like being wrapped in mashed potatoes. Isumi had stepped into the wall as well and
was now facing him. Ashiwara felt a lump
in his throat when he met Isumi�s eyes � the younger boy looked absolutely lost
and confused without Waya�s bright life to focus on.

�In!� Kurata pushed
Saeki to the wall and under Isumi and Ashiwara�s joined hands. Saeki fell through what he thought was solid
concrete. Kurata squeezed his way
through next, and then Isumi and Ashiwara passed all the way through, releasing
their hands.

Kurata looked around, rubbing his hands together. He could see absolutely nothing. It was pitch black in the room. �This is good.�

Ashiwara sat down and leaned against the now-firm wall, reaching up to hold his
shoulder again. �How so? We can�t see anything.�

�Which means not even a crack of light!
Not even a crack to let the police know we could have gotten in
here!� Kurata sounded triumphant.

Saeki felt his way around for Ashiwara. He tripped over the other�s legs and quickly
dropped to his knees, then laid down beside Ashiwara, wrapping his arms around
Ashiwara�s waist and resting his head in his lap. �He�s dead,� he whispered.

Isumi whispered the same words to himself, closing his eyes
and remembering Waya. He tried to think
of only good times, only happier memories, like their first (and only) kiss in
the tree, or the times when Waya would poke his head into Isumi�s room just to
say good night when they were both at St. John�s. No matter what he thought of, however, his
mind kept returning to how he last saw Waya, blood on his lips, his face, his
body, as he screamed at Isumi to leave.
Waya�s last words to him, false assurances that he�d be fine, just go,
rang in his head. Isumi sank to the
ground, pulling his knees to his chest and releasing a choked sob. He didn�t care that the others were in the
same room, could hear him. Waya was gone.
There was no way he would be fine.
He may have been nigh indestructible when he came to falling out of
trees, but no human could survive taking bullets, so many bullets, at such
short range. Isumi didn�t bother to hold
back his tears.

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�I�ll be damned� kid�s still breathing.� One officer nudged Waya�s body with his foot.

Waya was slightly curled up on the ground, stained red from
head to toe. His arms were tightly
curled around his stomach and his eyes were closed, a grimace of pain across
his face. He was still breathing, making a harsh, rasping sound with every
breath he took.

Another officer crouched next to Waya, prodding him lightly
with the butt of his gun, using it to roll Waya onto his back. Waya hissed in pain. �Kid�s not even unconscious!�

�What was on that list again?� The first officer pulled a scrap of paper
from his pocket and scanned it over.
�Only two Rs, FCLR and FARS. He�s not either � definitely not female.�

�Idiot,� the second said, getting to his feet again. �We�re dealing with the progeny of the
Bionics, not the Bionics themselves � those are all dead or recaught. They�re all accounted for.�

�No� see here? The FARS
never came back.�

�And he�s not the FARS. He�s probably her kid, or the FCLR�s kid.�

�Or just a normal human.�

The second just shook his head and took the paper from the first, shoving it
into his own pocket. �Check some of the
locations of those wounds. He�s got a
couple lung shots, at least one stomach, one at his throat � unless he�s got
some R in him, he�d be dead. There�s no
way this one�s human.� The second one
then pulled out a communicator. �We have
an injured Bionic at the Go Institute, need transportation and medic.�

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�Shindou!�

�Don�t look back.� Hikaru ran, never
letting go of Touya�s arm. Ahead of him,
Sai peered around corners and investigated alleys, reporting back to Hikaru.

That one�s a dead end, there�s a mean
looking dog down that one, over here though, turn left! See, a crowd you can get lost in. Go right now, there, straight, keep going�

With Sai�s eyes, Hikaru was able to keep himself and Touya
moving away from the police. Eventually,
Sai deemed them far enough ahead to point out a dumpster. Hikaru opened the lid slightly and told Touya
to climb in. Touya looked at him like he
was crazy. Hikaru scowled and climbed in
first. �Come on, Touya, we have to
hide!�

Touya looked behind him, then reluctantly eased his way into the trash with
Hikaru. Hikaru closed the lid, feeling
Sai settle in beside him. �Now we
wait. Quietly.�

Touya tried not to breathe very much, wondering if his nose
would be permanently wrinkled by the time he emerged. He couldn�t hold back a gasp, however, when
something scuttled over his hand.

�What�s wrong?� Hikaru�s voice was
barely above a breath.

�I felt something move,� Touya whimpered.

�Probably just a cockroach, or a mouse, or a rat,� Hikaru
whispered back. �Just don�t move around
too much unless it tries to get up your clothes.� He heard Touya make another sound, a
frightened squeaky noise, but the other boy obeyed him and didn�t move.

Sai would poke his head through the side of the dumpster
every now and then, watching for trouble.
After what seemed like months (but was really only 90 minutes), Sai
smiled at Hikaru. I think we�re safe, for now. I
saw some police a lot earlier, but they didn�t stop, they just kept
running. We may still want to hide, but
we can maybe open the dumpster and talk a bit � I think now it�s only fair to
explain what�s going on.

�You keep watch then,� Hikaru said. �And
let me know if I forget anything.� He
pushed the lid open and gestured for Touya to move into the slightly fresher
and less-revolting air.

�Shindou, what�s going on?�
Touya looked up at Hikaru, hugging his knees. He had been accused of lying about his name,
shot at, and forced to hide in a dumpster with who knows how many bugs and
other crawling things (Kaga and Mitani had given him a fear of small, moving
objects). He was sad, scared, and dirty,
and more than anything, he wanted to know why
he was suffering like this.

Hikaru took a deep breath, immediately regretting it as he
gagged on the stench. When he recovered,
he leaned back against the wall of the dumpster and looked up at the grey
sky. �What I�m about to tell you is
going to sound relatively unbelievable and will probably turn your world upside
down � but it�s completely true. And
you�re going to just have to believe me, cause I don�t know to prove it right
now.�

Touya just pulled his knees tighter to his chest. �I don�t see how anything you could say could
make my world any more crazy then it has become today.�

Hikaru rolled his head to the side to look at Touya. �What if I said I wasn�t human? And you were only half-human? Would that make it crazier?�

Touya looked at Hikaru, feeling slightly frightened � maybe he should be scared of Hikaru�s
oddities. �No, I�d say you were just
making it up. It can�t be true � how can
I be half-human? There�s no creature alive that can mate with
humans and have a successful child. And
you�re human. I know you are, I can see
it with my own eyes.� He poked
Hikaru. �You�re skin and muscle and
bones, just like me. Human.�

�It would depend on your definition of human,� Hikaru said. �In every definition, neither of us are fully
human. In a select few definitions,
we�re both human, or you�re human.�
Touya opened his mouth, about to protest again, but Hikaru shook his
head. �Why don�t you let me explain
first, okay?�

Touya paused for a moment, then nodded, slowly. �Okay��

Hikaru closed his eyes. �Where to
start? Probably� fifty years ago.�

Almost seventy now,
Hikaru. Sai sat on the edge of the
dumpster, watching for trouble and keeping an ear on the conversation.

�Sorry, almost seventy years ago.� Hikaru opened his eyes and folded his hands
in his lap. �Almost seventy years ago, a
bunch of scientists were appointed to a committee. Their job was to find a way to save the human
race. This was around the time when lots
and lots of plagues were running everywhere and food crises were going on, and
pollution was at its worst. Humans
weren�t adapting fast enough to thrive.
Among the scientists gathered there were some who specialized in cloning
and others who preferred robotics. They
both came up with a similar idea: create a new human. The cloning scientists wanted to clone and
manipulate genes to manually evolve humans, while the robotics wanted to build
artificial humans.� Hikaru closed his
eyes again. �These scientists had all
been hand-picked because they were A) Good at what they did and B) Enthusiastic
about their work and trying new things and experimenting and dreaming and
inventing.� He opened his eyes and looked
over at Touya. �Had they been less
creative and enthusiastic, neither of us may have ever been born.�

�What happened?� Touya asked quietly. �What did they choose?�

�One young scientist, Dr. Kuwabara, was barely more than an apprentice. He worked with genetic stuff. He came up with the solution: build a human. Not a robot, with an artificial intelligence
that does only what you program it to and no more, and not a manipulated clone,
with its DNA just slightly twisted from already-existing DNA, but rather almost
a mix. He suggested building a DNA
strand from scratch, using human DNA as a guide, but building in all kinds of
things � like the ability to function on less food than normal humans. That�s not something that any amount of gene
manipulation would be able to achieve with a clone.�

�Why not just robots then?�

�Dr. Kuwabara suggested making organic humanoid creatures
similar enough to humans so they could mate with the humans and pass on their
genes, thus bolstering the original human race.�

�That doesn�t sound so bad.�

�It didn�t stop with just manipulating to need less food and create less bodily
waste,� Hikaru said. �One scientist was
exploring the supernatural and psychics and such. He said that he and his team believed they
had actually narrowed down psychic abilities to a few select genes, and wanted
to include that in the new humans � let new humans be psychic.� Hikaru shook his head slightly. �As you can imagine, it didn�t stop
there. Once he suggested one thing,
other scientists began piping up with their own ideas. Eventually, nine �super� traits were decided
upon. Some seemed too fantastic to be
plausible, such as the �morphable� trait.�

�Morphable?�

�The idea behind morphable was �Let the new humans mold themselves to fit their
environment as needed. Why have a
toolbox if you can turn your hand into a screwdriver, or a hammer? No more lost tools, and you�d never not have
what you need.�� Hikaru shrugged. �It�s a fun idea, to say the least.�

�What other traits were there?�

�Let�s see�� Hikaru counted them off on his fingers. �Morphable and psychic, that�s two. Regenerative, calculating, linguistic� five
now, umm� speed, strength, flexibility� and connective. Nine.�
Touya looked confused. Hikaru
smiled. �You know what morphable is
already. Psychic actually shows itself
in different ways. I have psychic
traits, so I can see Sai, and hear him, and interact with him. I think Kurata has psychic traits too � he
can see the future. That�s his
intuition.�

�Kurata�s not human?�

�He�s most likely half-human, like you,� Hikaru said. �Anyway� regenerative, that�s just
healing. It�s actually a mis� mis� not
the right name for it.�

Misnomer.

�Yeah, it�s a misnomer.
Regenerativeness doesn�t let you regenerate lost limbs, just heal
injuries and diseases and stuff. But
it�s still useful. Calculating � very
very quick minds. Calculating lets you
be good at planning and strategizing and math.
Linguistic is similar, but linguisticness only deals with
languages. You basically learn and
understand all languages really quickly, even if you�ve never been taught the
language or heard it before in your life.
I think psychicness bled into that trait. Then there�s speed � we�re not talking
sprinter fast, we�re talking vehicle fast. Super-human.
Speedy people have been clocked at 75 kilometers per hour in the lab.�

�Wow.� Touya�s eyes were wide. �That�s fast.�

�Very. Then there�s strength � really
really strong. Beat up anybody type
strength.�

�Kaga strength?� Touya asked quietly.

Hikaru shrugged.
�Maybe � I don�t really know how strong he is. Mitani�s probably got flexibility though �
very agile people. Flip around a
lot. Mitani�s flippyness helped us get
out of the orphanage.� Hikaru paused,
thinking. �Morphable, psychic,
regenerating, calculating, linguistic, speed, strength, flexibility � what one am I missing?�

Connective.

�Connective.� Sai and
Touya answered at the same time.

�Ah, yeah, right, connective. That�s an
odd one, another hard one to make real.
Connective isn�t really a skill on it�s own, like calculating or
flexibility, but it just helps other people.
If a connective person touches somebody with another skill, then that
other person�s skill gets a big boost.
If somebody connective touches me, I can see all kinds of ghosts, and
talk to the ones around me, not just Sai.
Otherwise, I can only get a feeling that there�re other ghosts around,
but I don�t even see shadows of them.�

�So� it worked? The
scientists made new humans with all these traits?�

�Yes and no.� Hikaru grinned. �This is probably where they showed the most
intelligence. First they gave the new
humans a name � Bionics � and then somebody said, �Hey, if we give every single
Bionic all of these super traits, then we�ll be dealing with a potentially
invincible race that could wipe out humans rather than bolster them.� So the scientists decided to give only three
traits to each Bionic, with a total of 84 different combinations. It took them a really long time to get
everything right, but they decided that they were going to make 168 Bionics,
two of each combination. Then they were
going to see which Bionics worked the best and which didn�t, and make more of
the good ones. At this point, all
Bionics were boys, but basically androgynous.�

�Why androgynous?�

Hikaru shrugged again. �I guess it�s
because the scientists also liked pretty things, and wanted to make girl
Bionics, but had already decided that it would probably be best for the actual
baby-making process to take place in human girls, since human girls already
have tried and true ways of making babies.
So most of their Bionics � the first few batches at least � were all
very girly in appearance, but they all had� penises.�

Touya blushed when Hikaru said �penises.� Hikaru himself giggled a bit at the
word. Bionic or not, they were both
twelve-year-old boys.

Sai just rolled his eyes.

�Sai�s one of the first Bionics,� Hikaru said. �He�s actually in the second batch � they
made twelve batches of fourteen each.
That�s why he�s really pretty and girly.�

I am not girly.

�Just look at your hair, Sai, and your dress.�

This is the fashion of the Heian court, I�ll have you know! I was considered extremely masculine!

�Yeah, whatever. Sai
looks like a girl,� Hikaru informed Touya.
�Just in case I didn�t tell you that already.�

Touya smiled a little.
�What happened next?�

�Yeah, okay. Yeah. So, the scientists are growing bunches of
little baby Bionics in test tubes and stuff.
It takes years and years to get everything right, and some scientists
leave the project, and some scientists join the project. One to join after the Bionics are all just
little baby sized is Dr. Sato Kouyou � your father.�

Touya�s eyes widened. �But my father�s
name was Touya��

Ichikawa-san, Sai said. You
said Ichikawa-san called him Dr. Sato, and Ichikawa Harumi was the name of one of the Bionics.

�Ichikawa-san,� Hikaru repeated. �Sai says that Ichikawa Harumi was the name
of one of the Bionics, and you said she sometimes called your dad Dr.
Sato. He probably changed his name.�

�But if he was a scientist, then he�s human, not Bionic,�
Touya said slowly. �Does that mean��

Hikaru grinned. �Lots of the girl
Bionics love the love story between Dr. Sato and Akiko the Bionic.�

Touya just stared at Hikaru. When he
found his voice again, he said, �But I thought Bionics were all boys...� It was the only thing he could think of to
say.

Hikaru raised one finger.
�And that�s where your dad came in.
He looked around at the Bionics and asked �Where are all the
girls?� Then he was told there weren�t
any, and he just looked thunderstruck, according to the stories. �Why aren�t there girls?� he asked. �Did you ever want to make more pure Bionics
after the originals? Wouldn�t it be
cheaper to let them reproduce then to manufacture new ones?� He�s a smart one, your dad.� Hikaru grinned again. �The other scientists just kinda were quiet,
and then one asked, �How hard would it be to make half of these girls?� They eventually figured out a way � used a
virus thingy to make half of the Bionics � one of each type � have a slight
mutation which made them develop girl parts.
Except not really all that well.�
Hikaru nodded. �Not-Bionic girls
are a lot bigger on top, I noticed.� He
gestured with his hands to show Touya he was talking about breasts.

Touya smiled a little again.
�What happened next?�

Hikaru wiggled his fingers in front of him. �Well, the scientists had the Bionics in a
sort of sleep thing. They grew bigger,
but they weren�t aware of the world around them. The scientists built a big dome thing to put
the Bionics in. It was designed to be as
real world as possible, but still carefully controlled. Until they knew how the Bionics would act,
they didn�t want to put them among lots of humans. Basically, the dome was a huge cage.�

It had little cages in it.

�Yeah, that�s right.
The scientists were also curious � is it possible for someone from the
modern day to survive in the past?
Without the technology we have now?
So they set up little environments in the dome to be different time
periods, and they put Bionics in those environments and had them act like they
were in that era and thought they were really there. Sai had been placed in a Heian era
environment, where he was a go tutor to the emperor.� Hikaru snickered. �Then Sai and another Bionic messed up and
made the scientists panic.�

Hikaruuuuu! I did not mess up!

� okay, maybe I did
mess up, a little�

�What did he do?�

�He didn�t do anything, at
first. See, the scientists set up two go
tutors to the emperor, who was actually a scientist. But the other go tutor got jealous, and
challenged Sai to a game to see who was the better go tutor and thus the only
one deserving to be the emperor�s go tutor.
Long story short � he cheated, accused Sai of cheating, Sai got
flustered, lost, and killed himself.�

�He killed himself!?� Touya looked
horrified.

Hikaru nodded. �Drowned himself in a
river � he lost all his honor and stuff.
They had a really strict honor system back then!�

You don�t need to
sound so cheerful about it.

�Yeah, the scientists supposedly were all freaking out,
because two Bionics showed jealousy, dishonesty, flusterdness, and suicidal
tendencies � two Bionics living in one of the other eras. So they stopped the other era projects, and
moved all the Bionics to the modern-day dome.�

�What about my parents?� Touya asked quietly. �If my mother was a Bionic, as you say, how
did she get out of the dome?�

�That was in the rebellion,� Hikaru said.

�Rebellion?�

Hikaru nodded. �It was way before my
time � 2213. That�s the year the Bionics
were being �woken up,� fourteen every 2^nd of the month. Your mom and my mom and my dad were all in
the first fourteen woken up. They were
all given names according to what gender they were � F or M � and what three
traits they had. A for connective, C for
calculating, F for flexibility, L for linguistic, M for morphable, P for
psychic, Q for speed, R for regenerative, and S for strength. Your mom, for example, was��

FCMP.

�FCMP. That means
Female Calculating Morphable Psychic.�
Hikaru nodded. �My mom was FCPR,
and my dad was MACP. I�m an oddball �
MACCPPR, or just MACPR for short. I�m
the only Bionic with more than three traits.�
He grinned. �Oh, and Sai was MCLR.�

Touya looked away, digesting this for a moment. �If those were the names, then how did my mother
get the name Akiko? And Sai get
Sai? And you get Shindou?�

�Your dad,� Hikaru answered. �He saw
Bionics as humans, while most of the other scientists saw them as test
subjects. Dr. Kuwabara was the only
scientist left from the original team by then, and he saw Bionics as his
babies. But anyway, your dad saw Bionics
as humans, and he gave them all human names.
The Bionics loved their human names and started calling each other by
the human names rather than the letters.
The other scientists got mad at your dad and refused to acknowledge the
human name of the Bionic. Time
passed. Your dad would interact with
Bionics, ask them questions like �How are you?
How�s your brother?� and treat them like they were people worthy of
respect. The other scientists didn�t,
except Dr. Kuwabara, who just loved that his idea had become real.

�Bionics were really smart though. They quickly figured out that the scientists
were observing them, and they pretended to be stupider and more submissive then
they really were, in order to observe the humans and figure out what they
really wanted. They also figured out
there was a pattern � every second of the month, fourteen new Bionics showed
up.�

�Did the Bionics have families?�

�No, because they weren�t allowed to have kids.
Not yet, at least. The scientists
wanted to watch them for a while before introducing a new factor � kids. Each Bionic did have either a sister or
brother though, according to your dad.
Remember how all Bionics were boys at first, and there were two of
each? There were 84 twins. Then half were turned to girls, and so each
girl has a brother and each boy has a sister.
Except me.� Hikaru sounded a
little sad at that. He then shook his
head. �So, yeah. Your dad really liked one of the first batch
Bionics, one he had named Akiko, and she really liked him. He would talk to her, tell her about the real
world, and he told her that it wasn�t fair to keep the Bionics locked away like
animals, and he asked her to run away and live with him. According to the stories Mom told me, she
refused, saying she wanted to, but she wouldn�t leave her fellow Bionics. So, one day, he gave her a whole bunch of access
cards to get out of the dome. He told
her to let them out.

�The Bionics planned a rebellion. On May 2^nd, another 14 Bionics
joined the first four batches. On May 5^th,
they suddenly dropped what they were doing and revolted. They got out of the dome and started running
through the laboratories. They tried not
to hurt humans, but they had two goals: wake up the other Bionics and get
out. Except the scientists called security,
and fights started.� Hikaru turned his
face down. �Mom and Dad were in charge
of finding the sleeping Bionics and waking them up. They did a good job� but then they were
cornered. Dad can�t use the left side of
his body very well. Mom doesn�t have
feet. They got those injuries in the
rebellion.� He took a deep breath. �Lots and lots of Bionics were killed, so
every May 5^th, we have a memorial service for them, and Mom and Dad
tell stories about Dr. Sato and the first batchers. Mom and Dad are the only first batch Bionics
in the dome, probably the only ones left alive.�

�What happened to the others?�

�Eleven of the first batch Bionics and one second batch Bionic escaped. Mom and Dad were caught, and the fourteenth
first batch Bionic was killed. All but
the one second batch Bionic died too, and most of the third, fourth, and fifth
batch. The few that survived were really
badly injured, like Mom and Dad. The
other Bionics, batch six through twelve, were modified similar to how the guy
Bionics were turned into girl bionics.
Except they weren�t turned into girls, they were turned into robots,
basically.� Hikaru scowled at his
feet. �Sixth through twelfth Bionics do
anything humans tell them to do. They�re
not faking their submissiveness. They do
like to listen to stories about the first Bionics though, and they love stories
about your dad, and the outside world.

�The Bionics that escaped disappeared for a long time, but
eventually they were all tracked down and killed. The plane crash that killed your
parents?� Hikaru looked over at Touya,
looking sad. �The government planned it,
to get rid of Dr. Sato, who Bionics had come to see as a god. They planted the bomb and had it
explode. You were supposed to be on it
too, if you existed at all.�

Touya looked shocked at the news � his father had been murdered? �I was really sick, and so Mother and Father
thought it best for me to stay home, watched by a nurse, rather than take a
long flight.�

�The Bionics liked to imagine that Dr. Sato married Akiko and had a
family. There were rumors that he
actually did have a real child � you.
When the plane blew up, the scientists showed the footage to the
Bionics.� Hikaru smiled slightly. �That was
cool � not the explosion, but what we did.
All of us Bionics just dropped what we were doing and we bowed our heads
and we sang a lament for your dad, and for Akiko, who was probably with him,
and for the rest of his family.� Hikaru
bowed his head and sang a few lines, to show Touya what he meant. �Ar
sindarnoriello caita mornie, Ar ilye tier undulave lumbule��

�What does it mean?� Touya asked in a whisper.

�Umm� I don�t know.
I�m not linguistic. Some
linguistic Bionics came up with it.�

Out of a grey country darkness lies, and
all paths are drowned deep in shadow�

Hikaru repeated what Sai had said, and Touya swallowed thickly. �They all sang that for Father and Mother?�

�Yeah,� Hikaru said. �Every single
Bionic sang. I almost didn�t, �cause I
didn�t know what was going on, but Mom told me to bow my head and pretend to
sing if I didn�t know the words, because a great man had died and I needed to
show my respect.�

�Thank you,� Touya whispered.

Hikaru shrugged. �I
didn�t know him, but I heard lots of stories.
Mom named me after one of the second batch Bionics who died, and Sai
would play go with him all the time � he was really good at go. Becoming a go pro after he ran away from the
science institute was probably a good thing.�

He leaned back, looking over at Sai. �I
think that�s the end of the story � no, wait, there�s me. Okay, so the scientists decided that enough
time had passed, and they were ready to make more Bionics. They asked Dr. Kuwabara, �cause he�s the only
original Bionic person still working at the Institute � they asked him which
two Bionics were best to breed to have the best possible child. Dr. Kuwabara said, �If you want a nice,
submissive, docile little pet, pick any two from batch twelve. But if you want a Bionic, a real Bionic, as Bionics are meant to be, take the two
from the first batch.� Hikaru
grinned. �Being the senior-most
scientist on staff, Dr. Kuwabara eventually got to choose which two should have
a kid, and he picked my parents, the first batch. And so I haven�t been virusized to be
docile. I do have to have tests
sometimes, to see how much of my parents� abilities I have, and it seems like
everything melted down to me. I have two
Cs, so I�m a good calculator � though lacking in common sense, Sai says, and I
have two Ps, so I�m able to touch Sai and stuff � he�s solid to me. Most psychic Bionics can only talk to ghosts,
I�m the only one able to feel him without needing a connective Bionic helping
me.� Hikaru stretched his legs out. �As far as I know, only one thing about me
was tweaked. They would run tests on me
and Mom before I was born, to make sure I was going to be healthy, and the
realized that I was developing a uterus.
So they virusized me there to stop it, so I wouldn�t be a boy able to
have babies. Anyway, Mom asked Sai to
guide me, so when I was born, he attached himself to me and now I wouldn�t be
able to lose him if I wanted to. And
then Mom and Dad kept plotting ways to get me out of the dome � they didn�t
want me growing up as a test subject my whole life. And two years ago, it worked, and they broke
me out, and then I went to St. John�s
and met all of you guys.� Hikaru
grinned. �And now we�re running from the
police who want to catch you and me and maybe Kurata too, and run tests on us
and stuff. But they�d probably just kill
you.�

Touya gasped at that. �Kill me?�

�You�re Dr. Sato�s son.� Hikaru tucked his
hands behind his head. �You could be
dangerous. After all, Dr. Sato led the
first revolution.�

�But, but, that makes no sense! Just because Father helped them escape
doesn�t mean I will, or even can!�

�So you believe me?� Hikaru turned to
Touya, staring steadily at him. �You
believe all the stuff about Bionics?�

�I�� Touya didn�t know. To be honest, he had forgotten Hikaru had
claimed what he was saying was true. It
had just sounded like a story someone would read from a book. �Maybe� I don�t know-�

�You�d want proof?� Touya nodded, and
Hikaru sighed slightly. �I really don�t
know how to prove it, except showing you the labs and dome, and that�s just
stupid. You can�t see Sai, and quick
thinking or connectiveness can�t be seen either. I do heal faster than humans, but not fast
enough to be obvious. Bionics are
designed to blend in with humans.�

It�s starting to rain again.

Hikaru looked up, catching a raindrop in his eye. �Ugh.
We may want to close the lid.�

�Stay here?� Touya looked at the trash
in disgust.

Hikaru shrugged, standing up to pull the lid closed. �It�s pretty dry, and we�re hidden. It�s good enough.�

Touya looked around warily, scooting closer to Hikaru. Hikaru wrapped his arm around Touya, pulling
him closer, and Touya rested his head on Hikaru�s shoulder. The two boys fell asleep like that, huddled
together in a dumpster, listening to the rain.

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Right. Now this story
caught up to the ff.net one. I�ll post
new chapters at the same time, but worse stuff will happen to the boys, and
ff.net is a buttmunch that doesn�t allow NC-17 situations.

The song Hikaru sings is an elven
lament in Lord of the Rings. I believe Galadriel sings it.

~Crawler
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