Disclaimer: As usual disclaimer

A/N: Sorry. Supposed to be 2 shots. The main reason I make this story short because I don't have the time and confidence to update it regularly and add 1 more collection to my half way stories. As for the story Black n White......(laughing nervously), it's coming soon. (I think...)And thz for the reviews.

She opened her eyes. Then they were applauses and cheering. She took the surrounding slowly. The crowd were watching her every movement with anticipation on their face. One of them went to her side.

"Welcome back to life, Tenoh Haruka. Im Dr Takahara Kurushi." Kusrushi smile at Haruka.

Haruka looked at Kurushi with a blank face. The crowd started to feel anxious and murmured among themselves.

Kurushi raised her right hand to silence the crowd. "Don't worry. Giver her some time to 'load'. Every machine needs some loading time, don't they? After all, she had been 'sleeping' for quite some time."

A moment later Haruka let the first words came out from her mouth. "Where's Dr Takahashi?"

"Great." Kurushi smiled widely. "You remember Professor Takahashi. I assume currently, you are able to function normally."

Haruka cringed internally at the word function. She didn't need this word to remind her true form.

"Professor Takahashi had passed away."

"Passed away….." Haruka repeated the word to herself. Haruka was certain by now, some time had passed since the last time she set her eyes on this world. "What is the year now?"

"Year 2133."

"Means, I had been sleeping for 134 years."

"Yes. At last we are able to find replacement energy for you."

"Not for me. It's for you. You need me more than I need you. Now I'm awake, I'm well aware of my own role, Professor."

Kurushi felt annoyed with the words. The smile disappeared from his face. "I'm proud with Professor Takahashi's creation. Just like the creator, you are unexceptionally smart."

"What do you want from me?" Haruka asked.

"We will run a few tests on you. Afterwards, we will retrieve some information from the chip……….."

"You can do what ever you want." Haruka intercepted in. "But with 1 condition."

"Are you trying to negotiate with me? Do you know who brings you back to life?"

"I don't want and I don't need this life." Haruka replied calmly. "But…….." Haruka's cocky face had been replaced by pleading one. "……can you do this favour for me?"

Kurushi was surprised Haruka was actually begging for her. Furthermore, Kurushi was curious with a robot's request. Every action from Haruka was important to the development of this experiment. "What is it?"

"I want you to find someone for me. She may be………." Haruka lowered her head to cover her own sad face. "……..dead. But I want to know anything about her. Her life after year 2009 and…..the generations after her…."

Haruka stared intently at the person in front of her. Haruka was searching for any resemblance between the girl in front of her and Michiru. She found none. It's not strange. They are not biological related.

"I'm Tenoh Masaki. How may I help you?" The girl introduced herself.

Haruka didn't understand why the girl's family name was Tenoh instead of Kaioh. "I'm Tenoh Haruka. I came here with the purpose……."

"I know you and I think I know why you are here today." Masaki cut in. She smiled.

Haruka looked at her with curious eyes.

"Please wait for a while." Masaki disappeared into a room. No long, she came back with a CD on her hand and back to her own seat. "I'm Kaioh's fifth generation after my ancestor Kaioh Michiru. Kaioh Michiru had adopted my great great grandmother when she was 25 years old and named her Tenoh Hotaru. My ancestor passed away when she was 45 and she never gets married. Before she died, she insisted every generation after her must have a child bear the family name Tenoh. The child who carries the family name Tenoh must keep this CD with them until someone with the name Tenoh Haruka appeared then they must pass the CD to her. After all this had been done, the Kaiohs are totally free from this strange family tradition. I don't know how my ancestor can foresee the future but the truth is, you, Tenoh Haruka is sitting in front of me now." Masaki passed the CD to Haruka.

It took all Haruka's might not to break down in front of Masaki. The cover of the CD album was a bouquet of hand draw roses. The same roses that were drawn by Haruka herself. And the title for the CD album was 'Us'. Haruka trailed her fingers along the album's cover. The pain from the past memories was almost unbearable even for a robot.

"I don't how you are related to my ancestor, but we both have the same family name. Is there by any chance we are related?" Masaki asked.

Haruka shook her head lightly. "No, but if you take Michiru as your ancestor then you can see me as the same too."

"I don't understand"

"Please tell me more about Kaioh Michiru." Haruka asked, totally ignored Masaki's last comment.

Haruka went back to her room with CD on her hand followed by Kurushi.

"Now you get what you want. Can we head on with out test?" Kurushi asked impatiently.

"I need a CD player."

"How can I find a CD player for you in this century? For your information CD player had become an antique. People nowadays use a device not bigger than a thumb to listen to music."

"I want a CD player." Haruka repeated.

Kurushi sighed angrily. "Ok." Kurushi then stormed out from the room. "Once I get her on the experiment chair I will take out the 'stubborn' device from her body." Kurushi grumbled to himself.

Haruka had locked herself in the room for almost 1 week. She had been listening to the same CD for 1 whole week. She recognized all the songs from the CD. Those were the songs that she rehearsed with Michiru and Michiru had compiled it in a disc as an album.

Everyday at the same time Kurushi would visit Haruka and demanded her to do the test. All Kurushi got was the same silent treatment from Haruka.

"Haruka oh Haruka………." Kurushi sighed, circling the room with both hands in his coat pockets. "You are giving me headache, do you know that? Why can't you just cooperate with me obediently?"

"………. Not anymore." Haruka whispered.

Kurushi's footsteps immediately came to a halt. "What do you mean?"

Haruka took a deep breath before answered. "I'm sorry Professor Kurushi. I think I can't help you."

"I don't understand."

"I don't want to have those tests."

"I still don't understand."

"It's not difficult for you to make another robot. I think Professor Takahashi had left the formulae for your new chip also. Why don't you remake the whole thing and get on with your experiment? As for me……….can you just 'kill' me off and delete the data in my chip? I'm no use to you. I refuse to cooperate with you and I just trap myself in the room. So, maybe you should just erase me from this world." Haruka was desperate by now.

"What are you babbling over there?" Kurushi's patient had almost reached his limit. "You are our first generation robot. Your every record is very important to our future development. Not just for us but for the world."

"Then can I ask you why you want to become a scientist?" Haruka suddenly popped out the question.

"Is it if I answer your question then you will go with me?" Kurushi started the negotiation.

"You answer it first."

"Ok. It's simple. Everything we do is to improve human's standard of living and quality of living. The creation of phone has brought the whole world closer. Electricity can help human to perform just like day time. Everything that we do is for the world, for human's better future."

Haruka chuckled sadly at the word 'for a better future'. "Allow me to tell you a story." Haruka stared at the ceiling, rewinding the memories inside her artificial brain. "150 years ago, a robot got lost in human world. A girl pitied this robot and took this robot under her shelter. They stick together for 6 months and surprisingly, they fall in love. That robot never knew her own true identity. Not until 1 day a scientist showed up in front of the girl's doorstep and claimed back his experiment robot. The worst is yet to come. The energy inside the robot's body will run out in 3 days time. At that time, the scientist is unable to find replacement for it. 3 days later, the robot fell into a long… and deep sleep. Do you know what had happened to the girl?" Haruka asked no one in particular. "She never gets married. Few years later, she adopted a girl and let the girl bear the family name Tenoh. At age 45, this girl was diagnosed with kidney cancer. It was a mild one. The technology at that time was advanced enough to cure it. But she refused to do the treatment no matter how hard her daughter tried to persuade her. Her reason was she never felt happy before. Not since the day the robot was away. Her life was miserable. She couldn't take the torture anymore. She rather ended her life than staying in this world like a living corpse. Before she past away, she insisted every generations after her to have a child to bear the family name Tenoh and to keep this CD album with her." Haruka's gaze fall on the CD player. "Until someone with the name Tenoh Haruka appeared in front of them, then they have to pass the CD album to her. The title of the CD album is Us. The pieces in the CD album are the duet of violin and piano. Those were the songs that she always forced me to rehearse with her. Otherwise there will be no TV for me for the day. Everything that a scientist does is for the benefit of human being. If this is the real truth then why Michiru refused to receive treatment? Why she rather choose to end her life than to enjoy few more years of life? Why she never gets married? Never have own child? Never have own family like any other normal woman? Why?" Haruka's fierce teals eyes lock on Kurushi's one.

Kurushi was unable to utter a single word.

"I totally can understand Michiru's feeling now. The emptiness in her heart. Just 1 week without her already feel like hell to me. I don't know how she can survive the torture for 25 years."

Kurushi rooted at the same place with mixed emotion. New invention was supposed to improve the world and not caused sorrow.

"Can you please help me now, Professor Kurushi?" Haruka pulled her knees up near her chest and wrapped her arms around it. "Can you please take the chip out and erased the inside data? I can't stand the pain in my heart anymore. It's unbearable." Haruka rested her forehead on her knees.

Only human will crave for death. That's why they have this project. But why the robot in front of him was not fascinated by everything in this world? Why a person can have such an impact especially to a robot? Kurushi didn't need a second thought to reach for his decision. "I can take the chip away but I can't promise I can delete the data inside. It's too valuable for us as a scientist. I only can guarantee we won't use this chip for experiment anymore. The data inside we will use it only as reference. Is it ok?"

"…………Thank you."

"I ask you for one last time. Do you really want to do it?"

"Professor Kurushi, no matter how many times you ask me again, you will get the same answer from me."

Kurushi stared at the darkened teals eyes. Since Haruka came back from Tenoh Masaki's place, her teal eyes had lost its sparkle. It was a very unusual phenomenon for a robot. "Then we shall begin now."

"Professor Kurushi, do you believe in reincarnation?"

"I'm a scientist. I don't believe in spiritual thing."

"But I do. Pity, even though I believe in it, it will never happen to me. I'm not a human. I'm just a robot without a soul. Without a soul, how can I reincarnate again?" A sad smile formed on Haruka's lips.

Kurushi opened his mouth slightly and then closed it back. The words caught in his throat, unable to come out.

"You know what Professor. After today, I won't have the chance to set my eyes on this world anymore which means………" Haruka took a deep breath before she continued "……….exactly 134 years ago, on the date 20th April 2009, was the last time……… I saw Michiru and……. we will never ever see each other again."

Kurushi eyes were fixed on the chip in front of him. The last sentence from Haruka had brought a realization to him. The world doesn't need this experiment. Kurushi took the chip with him and went to toilet. He stared at the toilet bowl in front of him with determination. With 1 swift swing, Kurushi threw the chip into the toilet bowl then flushed it. Next, he went back to the experiment room and make an unexpected announcement. "This project is terminated." In an instant, Kurushi had become the other scientists' center of attention. Kurushi took off his coat and tossed it away. After that, Kurushi walked out from the laboratory.

The water flowed along the sewage pipe, carried the chip along with them. The water started to soak in the chip and the data inside was started to get corrupted. If Haruka's heart beat was controlled by this chip, then it means………..

72, 46, 25, 18, 5, …………………………. STOP.

Ending Song.

独家记忆 (The only Memory)

忘记分开后的第几天起 (Forgot how many days had passed since our separation)

喜欢一个人 看下大雨 (Like to watch the rain alone)

没联络 孤单就像连锁反应 (It's ok. Alone is like being chained)

想要快乐都没力气 (Want to be happy but doesn't have the strength to do so)

雷雨世界像场灾难电影 (The world in storm is like a disaster movie)

让现在的我可怜到底 (Make the current me look so pity)

对不起 谁也没有时光机器 (I'm sorry, everyone doesn't have the time machine)

已经结束的 没有商量的余地 (The things that has come to an end, there's no room for negotiation)

我希望你 是我独家的记忆 (I hope you are my only memory)

摆在心底 不管别人说的多么难听 (I keep it in my heart, doesn't care the harsh words from the others)

现在我拥有的事情 (The things that I have now)

是你 是给我一半的爱情 (It's you who give me half of my love)

我喜欢你 是我独家的记忆 (I like you are my only memory)

谁也不行 从我这个身体中拿走你 (No one can take you away from me)

在我感情的封锁区 (At my prohibited love area)

有关于你 绝口不提 没问题 (Everything about you, will never be mentioned, it's ok)