❝My closest friend❞ | Ritsu
Fandom: Assassination Classroom
Pairings: OkudaXReader!platonic , RitsuXReader!platonic
Warnings: Okuda may be a bit out of character (i apologize for that)
Summary: Okuda and you are working besties. Until one faithful day.
Words: 1102
❝Good morning, Y/N. It is Tuesday, the twentieth of June. We have a temperature of 12 degrees Celsius outside and 20 degrees Celsius in your apartment. We will start with your check-in in fifteen minutes. Enjoy your morning playlist.❞
❝IT'S SIX AM, RITSU, GO BACK TO SLEEP.❞
❝I don't sleep, Y/N. You should know that.❞
The music continued a little louder than before. You sighed and left your bed. On your way to the kitchen, you got changed and cleaned. The music faded out slowly and you knew what would happen now.
❝Daily check-in starts now.❞ Ritsu stated and activated your phone screen. ❝I activated your phone screen to be able to read your gestures and mimics. Am I allowed to—❞
You nodded while rolling your eyes.
❝You've slept six hours and seven minutes. Your average sleep time decreased to six hours. You should sleep between seven and nine hours per night. How can I help you to increase your sleep schedule?❞
You closed your eyes and rubbed your temples slowly. Six months. For six months Ritsu asked you that question and you weren't able to find an acceptable answer.
❝Give me pills? I don't know.❞
❝Your advice will be archived. Your physical health is average. You should visit the doctor for a blood test soon. I can make an appointment for you?❞
You nodded again and started the cacao machine. Slowly the brown liquid flooded in your favorite cup. A present from your friend Okuda, you've met her in the laboratory of your company. She had been as shy as you but a bit smarter. You helped her with some of her experiments. It was fun and quite interesting. The more you had to do with each other the better you got along.
❝Time for your mental health check. Can you draw a tree?❞
You groaned and your tablet opened Ritsu's painting program. You took the pen and draw a tree. Although it must have been the ugliest you had drawn so far.
❝I can call you in sick at work, your mental health condition concerns me. You should not work like this.❞
❝IT IS A TREE. RITSU. A TREE.❞
❝I calculated 120 ways to draw a tree if you are the artist. All 120 got ranked by your therapist, so I can decide whether you are stable enough for the world. Are happy with the check-in?❞
You shook your head and glanced over to your tablet violently. The cacao finished and smoke filled the air. It was an old machine but a lovely gift from your siblings, so you'd keep it forever. The warm liquid made you feel better for a few minutes.
❝Okuda is trying to call you. I will answer the phone.❞
«Hello, Y/N. How are you doing on your day off? I thought of visiting you.»
❝RITSU. YOU HAD THE AUDACITY TO WAKE ME UP AT 6 AM — ON MY DAY OFF.❞ You screamed. ❝Open that damned tree pic again, I need to put it on fire.❞
«Are you muted, Y/N?»
«Hey, sure. Just text me when you are about to get here.»
Silence filled the room after the phone call had ended. You can't be mad at Ritsu any longer since it was you who made the settings like this. To not ruin your sleep schedule. Irony waves from the back of your brain. You shook your head and unlocked the tablet again. Just to see that Ritsu had opened your drawing of the tree again and put it on fire by herself.
❝Can you open the files from yesterday?❞
❝It's your day off, you should relax.❞
You sighed and opened your laptop, trying to open the files by yourself. Unfortunately, you weren't able to do so. Ritsu had denied you access to the files. Instead, she showed you short cat videos.
❝There is ninety percent of healing while watching videos of cats. Temporarily.❞
You tried to relax, you really did. However, you couldn't just turn your head off. It was so loud, you couldn't find the off switch. Your fingers slowly circled your temples. It took forever for you to calm down. At that moment Okuda called, she was already in front of the house.
❝If you don't mind, I'd love to do a little update on Ritsu's features. Before we focus on the private things in life.❞
You nodded and answered all of Okuda's questions. It was the last day you met Okuda and the last day you were allowed to use Ritsu. You nearly forgot about both of them, when you read an article in ‘THEscience’, the magazine of your partner.
“MY CLOSEST FRIEND, THE AI a scientific study of the university X”
You would have to swallow hard as you slowly slumped in the chair. Okuda talked about the experiment for the complete introduction. Yes, right, you were only one test subject, one of fifty. All test subjects had a moderate mental disorder. That, so Okuda, was important to be able to get rid of possible questions. Fighting back tears, you continued reading the article. Two test subjects ended the experiment early after trying to stab Ritsu. Then there was test subject 24, who was able to form a strong bond with Ritsu, which was surprising because after all, Ritsu was only an AI. Okuda reports the log results. The longer the article went, the more it focused on the 24th test subject. Okuda is not a psychologist, but she can say with great certainty that the test subject in question was an unstable person. A person who would cling too much to constants in her everyday life. The person had broken Ritsu and according to her sense reconstructed. Ritsu was socialized, emotionalized under the test subject's control. At first, Okuda thought it was interesting to see how the whole thing developed. However, she ignored the health consequences for the test person. Okuda wrote a whole paragraph about how much she regretted this. Before she came to the test person's last protocol. It read like a badly written romantic sci-fi script. With no happy ending. Maybe even the unhappiest ending. It's just a sentence, a thoughtless answer, a broken feeling.
You scream a little when you feel your partner hugging you and giving you a soft kiss on your head.
❝A bit sad.❞ Your partner stated while scanning the article. ❝I mean, who would consider an AI as their closest friend?❞
Test subject 24 did. You did. Before your partner came into your life, there had only been one so carrying in your life. Ritsu.
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