Electronic Emotions(Completed)

9

Hours has passed. It's now 3am, and he couldn’t sleep. He sat outside of the operating room for God knows how long. He was waiting for Karma to be wheeled out, he dreaded the worst. His heart couldn’t take it if he lost Karma...

The doors opened, and a whole team of doctors and mechanics left the room. Doctor Horibe was last to leave.  

 "Where's Karma?" Gakushū stood up.

The shorter man threw him a look. "He's recovering in a private room, you may see him now. He's in room 570" Horibe informed him. Gakushū dashed to the elevator towards the fifth floor, and rushed to room 570. He wanted to see Karma emmadiately, he wanted to see if his AI is okay.

The red haired AI was still unconscious when he got there. There were tubes hooked into his body and head.

"Karma! Karma are you alright? Please wake up!" He shook the red head desperately. "Please..."

The robot's eyes fluttered open, his processor was whirling loudly. "I jumped off a cliff...I was laughing crazily....my best friends screamed my name...my life, flashed before my eyes, and then everything went dark..." He looked at Gakushū. "I was dead"

Gakushū's heart dropped, and his blood ran cold. His worst fears has come true. The donor brain overrode the AI's personality, his Karma was gone forever

"I am Akabane Karma...." Tears rolled down his artificial skin. But despite crying, he managed to smile. He cupped Gakushū's cheeks and pressed their lips together

"But I'm still Gakushū's Karma..."

Gakushū felt the colors return to him. He smiled as he kissed the cyborg back. "I have two sets of memories now: One is from Akabane Karma, and the other is of AI Karma. I remember everything we did together Gakushū, but now I have empathy and experience to match my memories" Karma explained.

Gakushū was shaking like a leaf. He thought....he was sure he had lost his Karma.

"Gakushū gave me a lot of first times and second chances too. Akabane Karma never experienced love, he was always alone, he was neglected by his parents and his friends didn't understand him. He was miserable, lonely, and he purposely got into trouble for attention" Karma felt the pain that the human Karma felt, his sadness and anger.

"But Gakushū's Karma has experienced the love and care Akabane Karma always wanted, I'm so happy I met you Gakushū" Karma hugged the strawberry blonde tightly.

"I love you Karma" Gakushū kissed the top of Karma's head.

"I love you too Gakushū" Karma kissed his neck.

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After leaving Karma to recover in the private hospital room, Gakushū  quickly called the lead doctor, Horibe  Itona.

He was led to one of the offices in the building. The doctor was flipping through a report while typing into a computer.  

"Hello-"

SLAM!

Gakushū slammed his fist on the desk. "How is this possible?!" He yelled at the Dr. Horibe. "The donor was also a person called Karma?!"

Itona gave him a nonchalant stare. "I didn't tell you why your base model had a compatible donor. Karma's donor brain was also the person that donated the personality software for the model. We did a trial program before this pilot, all of the donor brains rejected the AI model since the brain didn’t match the body"

Gakushū hated how fucking calm and bored Itona looked and sounded.

"Akabane Karma, age 16, provided the personality sample. He was an only child, his parents were practically non-existant, and he was always getting into all sorts of.....disasters" Itona read through a file.

"Disasters?" Gakushū echoed.

"Oh, you know just the classic case of a child desperate for the attention--any form of attention-- from their unavailable parents. Purposely getting hurt, near-death-experience-accidents, that sort of thing"

"So you're saying he kept trying to kill himself hoping his parents would stick around?" Gakushū growled.

"Basically, yeah" Itona showed him Akabane Karma's folder.

"When he finally succeeded in killing himself, his family donated his brain for this project after his funeral"

"What the fuck?!" Gakushū yelled. "You never said there was a program before this!"

"Because it's much easier to tell the public that this is the first time we had a trial program like this" Itona explained.

"What about the donor's family and friends?! What are you gonna tell them?" Gakushū was seething.

"As far as everyone is concerned, the kid, Akabane Karma, is dead. And the AI 'Karma' will take on your surname"

"I'm going to make this right"  Gakushū stated angrily. "Karma's family and friends deserve to know!"