Ship/Character: Inui/Kaidoh Fandom: Prince of Tennis Major Tags: None Other Tags: Futurefic, Robot AU, Uhhhh...allusions to fucking robots? Word Count: 495 Remix Permission: Sure!
I threw in a Star Trek quote because I just can't ever help myself.
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SI-31459 was staring at him again. Kaidoh stopped after his fifteenth crunch and sat up to stare back at it.
"Do you…need something?" Kaidoh asked.
SI smiled, which was kind of creepy. It was always impossible to see its eyes clearly through its glasses. "I do not have needs," it said.
Really creepy.
"Then…." Kaidoh didn't really know how to finish the sentence. He settled on, "Can you stop watching me?"
"Of course." It turned around, but didn't leave the room. Instead, it just stood in the doorway, facing the other direction. Kaidoh hesitated, then gave up and went back to doing crunches.
Everyone had made fun of him for holding out so long to get a house android. "Even my grandma is on her second model!" Momo had said. But now Kaidoh wished he'd stuck with his old-fashioned holographic assistant. At least it disappeared when you didn't need it. SI was always just…there.
"Why do you wear glasses if you're an android?" Kaidoh blurted, stopping his crunches and sitting up again. He felt himself blush a moment later; was it rude to ask androids about their appearance?
SI turned around, looking pleased, not offended. Kaidoh relaxed a little. "The SI-model was designed to be as realistic as possible," it explained. "Physical imperfections help us to appear flawed, and thus more human."
"Do you actually have bad vision, then?" Kaidoh turned his whole body so he was facing SI fully.
"No," SI said, and then it surprised him by removing its glasses. "My vision is fine—far superior to a human's, in fact. For example, I can count each of your individual arm hairs from here."
Kaidoh frowned down at his arms and decided against asking how many hairs he had. He looked back up at SI instead, studying it with its glasses off. It had green eyes, and it seemed a lot less creepy now that Kaidoh could read its expression. Kind of nice-looking, even. Suddenly, Kaidoh wondered why he'd been thinking of SI as it and not he.
"What else can you do better than a human?" Kaidoh wondered. SI raised an eyebrow, which made Kaidoh suddenly realize how the question had sounded. All the blood rushed to his cheeks. "I didn't mean—that's not what I—"
"I'm fully functional, if that's what you're asking. And programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring." It seemed as if there was a flash to his glasses when he said it, but that might have been a trick of the light.
"That's not—" Kaidoh stammered, but he couldn't manage anything more. He couldn't manage anything at all, except to bury his face in his hands and desperately will his blush to fade. It felt like he sat frozen for a million years, but when he dared glance up again, SI was still watching him, and he was still smiling steadily.
FILL: Team Grandstand, Teen
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Futurefic, Robot AU, Uhhhh...allusions to fucking robots?
Word Count: 495
Remix Permission: Sure!
I threw in a Star Trek quote because I just can't ever help myself.
***
SI-31459 was staring at him again. Kaidoh stopped after his fifteenth crunch and sat up to stare back at it.
"Do you…need something?" Kaidoh asked.
SI smiled, which was kind of creepy. It was always impossible to see its eyes clearly through its glasses. "I do not have needs," it said.
Really creepy.
"Then…." Kaidoh didn't really know how to finish the sentence. He settled on, "Can you stop watching me?"
"Of course." It turned around, but didn't leave the room. Instead, it just stood in the doorway, facing the other direction. Kaidoh hesitated, then gave up and went back to doing crunches.
Everyone had made fun of him for holding out so long to get a house android. "Even my grandma is on her second model!" Momo had said. But now Kaidoh wished he'd stuck with his old-fashioned holographic assistant. At least it disappeared when you didn't need it. SI was always just…there.
"Why do you wear glasses if you're an android?" Kaidoh blurted, stopping his crunches and sitting up again. He felt himself blush a moment later; was it rude to ask androids about their appearance?
SI turned around, looking pleased, not offended. Kaidoh relaxed a little. "The SI-model was designed to be as realistic as possible," it explained. "Physical imperfections help us to appear flawed, and thus more human."
"Do you actually have bad vision, then?" Kaidoh turned his whole body so he was facing SI fully.
"No," SI said, and then it surprised him by removing its glasses. "My vision is fine—far superior to a human's, in fact. For example, I can count each of your individual arm hairs from here."
Kaidoh frowned down at his arms and decided against asking how many hairs he had. He looked back up at SI instead, studying it with its glasses off. It had green eyes, and it seemed a lot less creepy now that Kaidoh could read its expression. Kind of nice-looking, even. Suddenly, Kaidoh wondered why he'd been thinking of SI as it and not he.
"What else can you do better than a human?" Kaidoh wondered. SI raised an eyebrow, which made Kaidoh suddenly realize how the question had sounded. All the blood rushed to his cheeks. "I didn't mean—that's not what I—"
"I'm fully functional, if that's what you're asking. And programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring." It seemed as if there was a flash to his glasses when he said it, but that might have been a trick of the light.
"That's not—" Kaidoh stammered, but he couldn't manage anything more. He couldn't manage anything at all, except to bury his face in his hands and desperately will his blush to fade. It felt like he sat frozen for a million years, but when he dared glance up again, SI was still watching him, and he was still smiling steadily.
Well. Maybe he wasn't that creepy.
After a beat, Kaidoh smiled back.