This story is for Wakko's minion, someone I met a few days ago and that is being a great support for me and my crazy ideas, specially for He is more than a neko, one of the craziest fics I've ever written.

Thank you Wakko!

I hope you all will like it!

Matt was cleaning his house and he was almost finished when his cell phone rang. Jeff. He answered the call. "Hey Jeff, what's up?"

"Hum… Could you pick Ruby at school?" He sounded a bit hesitant, like he didn't want to be an annoyance for his brother.

"Sure. You know I don't mind spending time with her." And he really didn't mind, he loved his niece like she was his own child.

"Thank you Matty. I don't want her to… to see how things are at home." He replied, sounding sad and down and Matt, internally, sighed, he didn't know what was tearing Jeff's marriage apart, but it killed him to see his baby brother suffering like that and not being able to stop it.

"It's okay. Tomorrow is Saturday, why doesn't she stay with me for the weekend? We'll go visit Daddy and on Sunday afternoon I'll bring her back." He suggested.

"Is it okay with you?"

"Of course it is. I don't need to be back until Wednesday." He answered. "When are you due?"

"Next Sunday. Thank you Matty."

"No need for baby brother. Just prepare her bag and I'll come to pick it up before I get her." He said. "See you later."

"See you later."

Matt took a shower and then headed to Raleigh to his brother's house. When he arrived Jeff received him with a big smile that didn't reach his eyes. The older Hardy hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.

"Do you want to come too?" He gently asked.

"I would like that but…" He mumbled.

"It's alright. You know you are always going to be more than welcome at my house." The brunette whispered. "Where are her things?" He asked and Jeff handed him a pink schoolbag. "Will you be ok?"

"Yeah. Don't worry."

Matt caressed his cheek and kissed his forehead paternally. "If you want to talk or anything you know where to find me."

"Yeah. I'll see you on Sunday." Matt nodded and then walked out of the room. "Love you."

"Love you, too." The brunette replied and then left the house. He drove to Ruby's school.

And as usual, when he closed the door of his car and leaned against it most of the woman started to look at his direction, not even bothering to be discreet. He wasn't stupid, he knew all of them were after the money he had earned and was earning after years spent in the ring and that some of them were looking for something more, bad thing he already had feelings for someone.

And, as usual, when the boys saw him they ran to him to get an autograph or something. He knew that this one of the reasons why Beth didn't like him, he didn't want her baby daughter to believe that she was important because her father and uncle were wrestlers. Beth wanted her to go to a private boarding school but Jeff completely refused to put his daughter in a boarding school, he knew how it felt to not have your mother near and he definitely didn't want that for Ruby.

"Uncle Matty!" She squealed when she spotted him signing some autographs to some kids that approached him.

"Hey there princess!" He said, ruffling her blond hair. She was four years old now and the sweetest thing Matt had ever seen. Besides his brother. "You are coming with me to Cameron and tomorrow you'll come back with your parents."

"But Annie was going to sleepover at home…" She looked so sad and heartbroken that it melted Matt's heart.

"Ask her if she wants to come too, then." He suggested and she nodded before taking off and running towards her friend. After a few minutes she came back with Annie, a red-haired girl with pigtails and bit taller than Ruby, and her mother. "Good afternoon." He greeted, stretching the woman's hand.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Hardy." The female replied. "Your niece asked Annie if she wanted to go to Cameron with her and I agreed only after I talked with you." She said, smiling sweetly. "I wouldn't want to create any trouble for you."

"Don't worry, please. Is my pleasure to have such a lovely ladies at my house." He said and Ruby laughed. "I'll bring them back at Sunday afternoon, sounds this right?"

"Lovely." She smiled and kneeled next to her daughter and kissed his head. "Be good and do as Mr. Hardy says, all right darling?"

"Yes mummy." She smiled at her and then at the tall man. "You are so tall…" She expressed and Ruby laughed.

"Uncle Adam, Uncle Taker and Uncle Kane are taller than him or my Daddy!" The blond girl exclaimed as they climbed on the car. "We need to go home, Uncle Matty."

"What for?"

"My clothes." She said with a matter of fact tone.

"I already got them." He said and gave her the pink bag. "You dad chose them." He said and then smiled.

"Okay."

As Matt drove back to Cameron, the girls talked endlessly, telling him how was their day at school. "And then Damien tried to hit me but I hit him in the stomach." Ruby said proudly and Matt had no doubt that she had a lot of Hardy blood running through her veins.

"Well done baby, but don't tell your mother that." He said.

"Why not?"

"You know she doesn't like it when you hit your classmates." He reminded her and she nodded, looking deflated. "But I'm sure your father will be proud of you." He said and Ruby smiled brightly.

"Mr. Hardy?" Annie called him.

"Yes?"

"Is it true that you and Ruby's daddy are wrestlers?" She asked.

"Yes it is. There we are." He said as he parked his car in front of his house.

"Wow… You house is so big!" She exclaimed and Ruby went to find Lucas, calling him.

"Who is Lucas?" The taller child asked.

"He's my dog. Ruby, Lucas is inside." She told her and she took her keys to open the door.

"Does it hurt, Mr. Hardy?" Annie asked.

"Who? Lucas? No, he's a good boy." She said and then took the bags of the children.

"I meant the fights. Does it hurt?" She asked again.

"Well, it sure doesn't tickle!" He exclaimed, chuckling. "Yes, they do hurt sometimes, but it's a lot of fun, you know?" The male said. "Come inside, please."

Matt let the girls play with Lucas for a while before he told them to do the homework they had while he started to cook the dinner. After that, he was in the phone with Vince while they watched TV for about an hour and a half.

"Uncle Matty?" Ruby opened the door of his study and Matt motioned her to come inside.

"Vince, can you wait a minute please? I'm baby sitting Ruby today and she want to ask me something." He asked. "What is it, darling?" He asked.

"We are hungry. Can we have dinner?" She said. "Say hi to Mr. McMahon."

"Okay. Ruby says hi, Vince." He smiled. "He says hi back." He stood up and the blond followed him. He kept talking with Vince while he served the lasagna for the girls and a ration for himself. "Ok, I'll tell Jeff to come with me on Wednesday." He said. "Yes. Ok. See you then, boss man." He said before he hung up.

"Where are you and Daddy going, Uncle Matty?" She asked, smiling brightly.

"Chicago." He replied and the girl nodded.

"And when are you coming back?"

"In two months. It's going to be a long one, darling." Ruby shook his head and then smiled.

"I like watching you and Daddy on TV." She said and Matt knew she was trying to seem happy to not to worry him, but the man knew how hard it was for her to only see her father just a couple of weeks after two months. "But mom doesn't let me watch it." Annie grabbed her hand and smiled at her.

Matt sighed. Before Ruby, Beth didn't mind at all that Jeff spent most of the time away from home, but when they got married and after Ruby's birth, six years ago, she started to say that Jeff should spent more time at home but she didn't want to start living a less glamorous life and pressed Jeff to find a 'job that wasn't a bad influence for Ruby' which always led them to an argument. Matt had witnessed some of them and even though he always tried not to get involved, some punctual times he had to, because they asked his opinion, and of course, he always picked Jeff's side, not because he was his brother but because Jeff was the right one.

And Beth changed his behaviour towards him. While she had always seen him as a big brother, a close-friend and whatnot now she didn't even talked to him unless it was really necessary, she didn't even want Ruby to spent time with him which led Jeff and she to argue more.

After they finished eating, he let the girls play with Lucas some more while he called his brother to let him know about the change in their coming back and then put them to bed. Thank god they were small and fit perfectly in Ruby's bed.

"Where is Ruby?" Was the first thing Beth asked her husband when she crossed the doorframe and she didn't hear Ruby singing filling the house.

"At my brother's." Jeff replied, not even bothering to take his eyes off the TV screen.

"With Matt?"

"I didn't know I had another brother beside him." The man replied, eyes still glued on the football match he was watching.

"You know I don't like Ruby spending time with him."

"And I don't like your parents and I still go to every fucking Thanksgiving dinner, smile and listen how they say I don't work. Besides, Ruby loves him as much as much loves her. She doesn't have another uncle, you know?" He said.

She tossed him the phone. "Call him and tell him to bring her back."

"It's 10pm, Ruby is already sleep and probably so is Matt. And I'm not going to wake him up because you want him to bring her back. He'll come on Sunday to bring her." He threw the phone to the other sofa and then made himself comfortable on the sofa before growling something to one of the players.

"Jeff…" She started, menacing voice.

"I said I'm not calling. You want to call, there's the phone." He replied and turned the volume of the TV louder.

And this is how they spent the last two years of their life, discussing, ignoring at each and fighting.

"At what time does you flight leave?" Beth asked as she started to make a sandwich for her.

"I'm leaving on Wednesday. I don't know the hour. Matt said he was going to pick me up." He said.

"Of course." She took her food, ate it and then went to the master bedroom. "Are you coming?" She asked, not looking at him.

"They are doing some old matches after that, I'll come once they are finished." He said and she made her way upstairs.

At the beginning it hurt Jeff to see how their love was dying at an incredible speed but now, right now, he couldn't care less, they became perfect strangers that only lived under the same roof because of the one thing that they had in common, their beautiful daughter.

Looking back to their past, he realised that they started to tear apart when Matt helped him with Ruby. Since Beth was working from 12am to 8pm and slept the whole night without waking up once to attend her daughter, Jeff was the one who stayed with her the whole day and was doing not so good so Matt asked, begged, actually, Vince to give him two months to help his brother. And since Vince had seen the boys grew up both in personal and professional life and that Hunter and Stephanie asked him to let Matt go back to North Carolina he had agreed with the only condition that he had to go to the North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee events.

He would go from Cameron to Raleigh and then back everyday, not minding the journey since he knew the road as good as the palm of his hand and where the radars weere he would do it in about forty minutes or so. He would put Ruby to sleep, feed her, change her, bath her while his brother was sleeping on the couch. Sometimes he would put the child next to her father, knowing that Jeff wouldn't hurt her while he cooked lunch.

Jeff smiled at that: his big brother was the best in the States, in the whole world, actually. He always took care of him, since he was a child from now, always making sure that he was always happy. He sighed and stared at the ceiling, tracing the pattern of his bracelet, one that Matt had given to him many years ago, when they started as jobbers.

Jeff wasn't stupid, he did play he was because then no one would pin anything on him, but his closest friends or the ones that knew him better, knew that he was highly intelligent, and he realised that when Matt was around his daughter, she would pay no attention to her mother, always asking Matt to tell her stories about him and Jeff, or to tell him about their mother or about his latest match. She would always ask Jeff about his matches and if he was hurt when they talked on the phone. So he came to the conclusion that Beth was jealous of his brother, but hey, while the brunette always cared for his niece and, sometimes, when Jeff was injured or sick he would stay at their house to take care of her during the night, her mother barely payed any attention to her.

How could a mother not attend her child's needs? He would bet all his money that between Matt and Beth, Ruby would prefer to have Matt as a mother rather than Beth. That's why he always wanted Ruby to be with Matt. He only wanted his little princess to be happy and since he couldn't make Beth demonstrate that she loved her (in case that she did) he wanted to be happy with her Uncle.

Uncle… what a ugly word.

So, this is all for now, but don't worry, I'll update as soon as I can! Please review and let me know your thoughts!

I apologise for spelling, grammar errors, as you know, I'm far from being English.