Mechanics 101

Summary: Kagome was lifted with little effort and the grip on her arm loosened slightly. He stared at her for a few moments and she watched as his eyes died a bit, as if he were gathering information, before he spoke again, in a very deep and spine-tingling voice. "Mine." He said before crushing her body against his and locking his lips with the squirming computer genius's.

Disclaimer: I don't own either YuYu Hakusho or InuYasha. They belong to their rightful creators Yoshihiro Togashi and Rumiko Takahashi! I make no profit off of this story, only on the knowledge of a job well done!

Pairing: Unknown to you all

Setting: Year 4289

HBWD's Corner: I love these kinds of fanfics! They're so interesting and intriguing and... and... OMG! (squirms and dances happily) I haven't abandoned my other stories, I promise, but I also wanted to get this out of my head and onto my computer before my Mech-i-muse kicked my ass with her super-raygun-thingie-majiger XD LOL! So, here we go! Hopefully you guys won't be too angry at me... (hides in corner)

- Loading Circuits –

"-that'll be 265 disks please." The adorable brunette said and giggled softly. After swiping the glittering card through the reader, she nodded her head and handed it back, a playful wink directed at her customer. "Hope you enjoy the pizzas!" Twirling away from the amused redhead, the girl slipped into her ancient oil-powered car and drove away.

Minamino, Shuuichi (Kurama to his friends) stepped away from the holo-door and opened up the top of the pizza box. Steam rolled off of the tasty disk of cheese and bread, making the male salivate.

"Are you gonna eat all of that, or are you gonna give some of that to Kagome-chan?" A deep voice said. Kurama scowled suddenly at the intrusive LC.

"Why don't you go fluff your tail in a corner, Youko?" His LC grinned broadly and flicked said appendage. "I'm going to the lab so keep a good lookout on the house." He nodded to the foxcom and hit a few buttons on the wall in front of him.

The cloaking device shut down and two large metal doors stared back at him. He knocked lightly on it and widened on of his eyes to let the iris scanner do its job. "Name." An animatronic voice said and Shuuichi quickly obliged.

"Kurama." He said. There was a quick clicking sound before mechanical whirs filled the air.

Youko sidled up to the hungry redhead and flicked one of his large ears towards the wall, more than likely listening in on the raven-haired computer genius. "She's gonna be pissed off at you, you know." He said matter-of-factly. "You know how she is when she's starts a new project. And this one sounds like a one hell of a project too."

"I'll take that risk, Youko. Thank you for your concern but I think I can handle a cranky Kagome-chan."

His foxcom gave him a perverse grin and wiggled his silver eyebrow. "Bet I could handle her better." He made a rude growling sound and winked at his master. "Don't rough her up to much, Red, cause I want a piece of that ass."

"I really wish she hadn't programed you that way." Kurama muttered softly and had to hide a grin when his LC growled at him.

"Yeah, well fuck you too." The foxcom stormed off, silver tail fluffing out in his anger.

Shuuichi chuckled to himself and stepped through the whooshing doors. "Pizza!" He called out and squinted his eyes into the nearly pitch-black room. "Kagome-chan?" He called out and stepped forward.

"DON'T MOVE!" A stressed voice called out. "You'll activate the security system." Loud clicking quickly followed the voice before a whirring sound alerted the redhead that the system was down and he could enter the premises. "What do you want?" The bodiless voice questioned.

Kurama moved towards the middle of the room, eyes trained on the multiple holo-screens that stood out in the dark room. "Pizza. And it's your favorite."

"Later, I'm nearly done with his skeleton." A form quickly materialized and the male had to keep himself from chuckling at the crazy get-up his best friend wore when she was 'working' on her projects.

A stark white lab coat hung over a pair of baggy cameo pants and tiny doll-like shoes covered her body as a thin headset like devise sat on top of her mess of black curls, a wire-spec lens stationed over her amazing blue eyes, making them a sickening green color. Thin biker gloves wrapped around her tiny fingers, the ends glowing a soft green.

Higurashi, Kagome moved her covered hands over several holo-screens that were situated in front of her, mumbling techno-babble to herself as she examined the multiple files that were pull onto the surfaces. "What should his main attribute be...?" He heard her whisper before she started to type rapid-fire over the holo-board.

"Come on, Kagome-chan. You need to eat something besides the energy pills." He set the three pizza boxes on the sterilized table beside him and sat up on it.

"Don't do that." She turned her goggle-eyes onto him and scowled angrily.

"Do you know how much of an owl you resemble right now?" He covered his mouth with his hand and coughed to hide his laughter.

Kagome's jaw tightened and she sniffed before turning back to her screens. "Do you know how gay you look on that table, legs wide open like that?"

Kurama chuckled at that. "You wish I was gay, don't you."

"Sure, I've always wanted to see two guys make out." She said with a sarcastic roll of her eyes and moved out three screens, only to replace them with six more. "Let's see... How tall should he be?" She asked and pressed her gloved fingers against her chin.

"Taller than you, that's for sure." He said and rested his own chin on his raised knee. "Hm... around 5'3"." Kurama pulled out a large slice of cheese pizza and bit into it. "Come on, Kagome-chan." He said around his mouthful. "Eat or I'll stuff this piece down your throat and feed you like a baby." He waved the slice at her. "Don't think I won't. Remember last month?"

Kagome sighed heavily. "Just give me twenty minutes! I need to finish his skeleton, then I can do what you want, Shu-chan." She clicked away at her holo-board for a few more minutes. She pushed away almost every screen once she got what she needed done and proceeded to piece together every portion of metal she had at her disposal to make her LC's skeleton.

More than thirty minutes passed but Kurama let it slide as she gave a triumphant squeal and pulled off her headset and gloves. "Done so far. Did you get my pizza?" She moved her seat over to him and pushed aside his pizza box.

"Of course. Sardines and onions. Just the way you like it." He grinned at her before wincing in pain. "Ow." He said and rubbed his pinched leg. "That was a joke, Kagome-chan."

"Yeah, and that pinch wasn't hard, you big baby." She shot right back as she bit into her black olive and pepperoni pizza with a pleased moan. "Ah, grease, how I've missed you!" She cried out and continued to consume her medium-sized circle of cheesiness.

The two sat in silence for a few minutes, each lost in their own thoughts. "So, what type is he gonna be?" Kurama asked while kicking his legs back and forth. He leaned forward and stared at the blue-eyed beauty with his incredible emerald eyes.

"A guardian." She said offhandedly, waving her hand as if to dismiss the topic. "Pretty basic stuff, I guess. I'm experimenting on a few things though. Adding some chips here, taking away some servos there." Shrugging her slim shoulders, Kagome bit into a fresh slice. "I already have a vision of what I want him to look like."

"What are you basing him off of?" He asked.

"My own design this time." She said, surprising the redhead.

Kagome always gave her LC's a unique yet super-famous look. No two computers that she made were the same. Youko, for instance, was based after the fabled Fox Thief of Japan that ran around thousands of years ago in Feudal Japan. He was used mostly as a Guardian and an information gatherer/stealer.

She added a few things to him, though, like fox ears and a fox tail, but kept most of the legend's attributes. God-like beauty and a sex-drive only a nympho could keep up with. Of course, Kurama never let the fox out of his site outside of the house, unless he was going in for his monthly check up at the Higurashi Labs in downtown Tokyo.

The computer whiz had three other LC's around the compound. Kagura, who was built after the wind sorceress anime Kagome used to love as a child, was a housekeeper but was used as a go-between, too. She had lightning-quick Internet phone connections that were constantly getting updated. She was the best cook Kurama had ever had, and that even beat his mother's sensational cooking.

Kanna was a Laptop LC that modeled the child movie star who played in a few of Kagome's favorite movies, The Void and Legacy of the Damned. She was used for business purposes and was the fasted calculator Kurama had ever known. The mirror she carried with her was nothing but a large reflective screen that showed Kagome whatever she needed to see or what time she needed to be a meeting.

Kouga was molded after the biggest male model in all of Japan, Hasagawa Kouga. He was a Guardian, like Youko, but was far stronger and had a louder, more boisterous personality that grated on everyone's nerves but Kagome's. She simply adored the brash, uncouth LC and never went anywhere without him at her side.

Kurama had another fox-like LC, though his was a handheld. Shippou was the cutest little foxcom he had ever seen... Or so Kagome had told him. Shuuichi just saw an annoying little kit that thought he could get away with anything because of his puppy-dog eyes that only worked on Kagome. Kurama hadn't yet thought of a station for the kit but he was working on it.

Kouga stepped forward and stared at the holo-screen. "Why are ya makin' another Guardian, Kagome?" He turned his pupil-less ice blue eyes onto the humans and scowled darkly. "Aren't I good enough?"

Kagome shook her head and stood up. The chair, which had been floating slowly settled on the ground and locked itself in place. "No, Kouga-kun! You're the best! But... Well... I just thought... That well..."

"Kagome-chan can't keep her imagination locked up and this is the only way to express herself, Kouga-kun. She'll still use you the same amount. This one'll probably be put up for sale anyway, right Kagome-chan?"

The Guardian glowered at the redhead, who internally shuddered. Even though he wouldn't harm him, Kouga was still terrifying when he was angered.

And he was pretty damn mad right now.

"I wasn't talkin' ta you, piss-head." He bared his inch-long fangs at the redhead before his pointed ears twitched and drooped at Kagome's startled gasp.

"Kouga-kun! That was very naughty language! Where did you hear such bad words?"

Kurama's fear was quickly replaced by bubbling giddiness. Kagome was so innocent sometimes. "He has access to the net, Kagome-chan. He's probably been on chat rooms and read it."

The computer genius pouted and plopped down in her seat. It instantly came to life under her talented fingers and zipped over to her sleeping holo-boards. "VALC?" She said. Slipping on her headset and activating the specialized glasses.

"Yes, Kagome-san?" A computerized voice asked her. "Are you ready for the body to be made?"

"Yup. Let's get to work."

Kurama loved watching Kagome work. She was so animated when she was on a project that was for herself instead of a commission from some rich asswipe that had to have one of the Higurashi models.

"What race shall he be, Kagome-san?" The Voice Activated Living Computer asked.

"Fire." She said simply.

Shuuichi and Kouga looked at each other before a thrill of excitement raced through Kurama's lithe body. Fire models were the most volatile yet the most fun to make, in his opinion. She really is going all out for this. Kurama thought and tapped his fingers on the metal beneath him.

"Fire it is, Kagome-san." VALC chirped before a room to the left lit up. "So your guests may watch." The computer said simply when Kagome paused mid-stroke.

She smiled softly, her 'green' eyes glittering happily. "Good thinking." Kagome mumbled and clicked away at her holo-boards.

Kouga shifted his weight to his left foot and narrowed his icy eyes. The LC was already worrying that he might be replaced. His jealousy meter quickly skyrocketed and he scowled deeper.

The legs were formed slowly as the tiny skin-like nano's crawled and meshed over the wiry mess that looked similar to a human skeleton.

"Hand me a slice of pizza, will you?" She said to the two, her right hand held out backwards towards them.

Kouga snatched her the last slice of her pizza and handed it off to her. She ate it after removing her sensitive glove. "Thanks..."She mumbled distractedly, blue eyes narrowing at the numbers on her holo-screen.

"That can't be right..." Hitting a certain button, the floor opened up next to her and she dropped the half eaten piece of pizza in it. Kagome rubbed her hand on her pant leg before pulling her glove back on and typing madly on her keyboard. "Kouga-kun, go in there and check out the nano's. They're acting weird."

"On it." He assured her and moved into the creation unit.

"What's wrong, Kagome-chan?" Kurama asked and walked over to stand behind her. His quick green eyes scanned over the flashing numbers and he blinked in surprise. "Well that can't be right..." He mumbled and took the specialized gloves from Kagome's waiting hand and slipped on his own headset. "How can he already be turning himself online?" He questioned and activated the wire-specs.

"I don't know." Kagome whispered and he could hear the excitement in her bell-like voice. "But I want to find out!" She gave a giddy little giggle and slide over two new holo-boards for Kurama's use. "Check the nano's for me, would you? I want to look at his wiring." And with that said, Kagome lost herself as she immersed herself in the computer babble.

Kouga strolled up behind the two and flicked his clawed fingers. "Nothing's wrong with 'em but the little shit's wakin' up." He said with a sharp edge to his normally easy-going voice.

Kagome nodded her head. "Thanks Kouga-kun! That's exactly what I wanted to hear." She moved her chair across the room and brought up twelve new screens. She moved them around and closed a few, only to open up others in their place.

It was a good ten minutes before Kurama located the problem. "A few hundred-thousand nano's have invaded his chest circuits, Kagome-chan. They're loading themselves into him as we speak and more are coming as his skin is being made." He hummed to himself. "This has never happened before." He looked at the tiny screen that had Kagome's excited face on it and gave her a grim look. "We may have to terminate him if he gets out of control, Kagome-chan. Don't get to attached to him."

She glared at him through the little camera before promptly shutting down his systems... If only momentarily. "Kagome-chan, you know as well as I do that nano's are sometimes unpredictable. Remember that one time with Toguro?" At the mention of one of her first LC's, Kagome gave a saddened huff but continued to click away at her station.

"Well that won't happen. We'll just have Kouga-kun take care of him before he gets out of hand if he does prove to be... difficult." She sighed softly and moved herself to a new spot. "Alright, his skin is almost done. Soon I'll have to work on him manually."

Kouga growled softly and moved towards the creation unit. "He's moving, Kagome."

"I see that, Kouga-kun. Thanks for telling me."

"I don't like it. Not one bit."

"Your just jealous, Kouga-kun. Settle down and let us handle it, okay?" Kurama said distractedly and shoved a large amount of screens out of his way.

Kouga growled louder but didn't say anything else.

Kurama whistled loudly. "Well, look at that! The nano's are doing some real good to this one." He zoomed in on a few different displays before moving his chair onto another station.

"Alright! We're done with the Creation State!" Kagome cheered and stood up. She deactivated her headset and pulled out the wire-specs from the larger system. Slipping them on, Kagome tapped the on switch. "VALC, move project 55-689-4487-2 into the Finishing Station."

"Watch out, Kagome-chan." Kurama warned her. He took off his own headset, unhooked the wire-specs and moved over to stand behind her. "He's awake but not functioning correctly. He may-"

"I know what could happen, Shu-chan!" She snapped and slowly walked up to the groggy looking LC. He gave an electronic warble but did nothing when she stopped in front of him. "Good morning, 55, how are you?" She said and blinked up at the crossed red eyes. "Well isn't that cute!" She squealed, quickly snapping a shot with her wire-specs. "Now let's see what I can do to wake you fully up." She reached for his belly, only for a surprisingly warm hand to clamp around her wrist.

The newborn moved his mouth, clicking and whirring sounds emitting from the LC's throat.

"I'm not going to hurt you." She purred and tried to pry his fingers from her wrist. "Ow... But you're hurting me..." Kagome looked up at the flaming red eyes and gave a startled gasp. She could see the intelligence hidden in the electronic red orbs and watched as the pupils shrank and grew to let in the correct amount of light to see her properly.

"Rrrrrchhhaahhhhhh..." He chittered. Kagome shook her head and winced as the hot hand tightened. "Chhhchhhhchhchhh." He said.

"Let me work on you and I'll be able to understand what you're saying." She pleaded and felt tears prick her eyes as the grip became bone-shattering tight.

Kagome was lifted with little effort and the grip on her arm loosened slightly. He stared at her for a few moments and she watched as his eyes died a bit, as if he were gathering information, before he spoke again, in a very deep and spine-tingling voice. "Mine." He said before crushing her body against his and locking his lips with the squirming computer genius's.

- Download Complete –

HBWD's Corner: YAY! I got it done! Hopefully you guys won't be pissed that I started a new story but... I had to! This idea just wouldn't leave me alone and I had to get it out! (dances happily) Betcha can't guess who the LC is! ^_^ And the first person that can will get the next chapter dedicated to them! WHOO!

Translations:

Disks – the currency used in this story.

Foxcom – common term for fox-based computers.

Holo-screens – similar to a TV or computer screen but hast to have a holo-base to work.

Holo-board – similar to a keyboard but has to have a holo-base to work.

Headset – used as a communication devise some times, but in this case used to give her a bigger space to set her wire-specs on and give them more juice.

Wire-specs – canary-yellow sunglasses-like holo-screens that send information straight into the brain from the screen, very useful for making LC's.

Holo-gloves – gloves that allow you to touch any holographic object without going through it.

LC (living computer) – computers that have human characteristics and personalities, similar to an android or robot.

Desktop – the biggest, full size LC available. Ranges from teenage-adult females and males.

Laptop – the second largest LC's available. Rang from pre-teens to 8 year olds.

Handheld – smallest LC you could possibly get. Some can come as small as your pinky finger, or as big as a foot.

Guardian LC's – protectors, have a large range of weapons to protect masters.

Housekeeper LC's – cook and clean the house. Can double as a Guardian but are much weaker in strength.

Go-between LC's – similar to phone or email but much faster.

Calculation LC's – Like your own personal accountant and calendar and planner.

VALC (Voice Activated Living Computer) – every house has one, like your own personal maids that do everything from cook to clean for you, depending on your money.

Model – there are different LC's you can choose from, fox being the most common since it is the cutest (or hottest).