Author Notes:

I had this fanfic written 6 months ago. Bear with me if I can't upload frequently, English is not my original language, so you can expect anything but perfect grammar from this. Enjoy. In my deviantart account, horouka, are the covers for each chapter ;D


Green eyes narrowed as soon as they noticed a storm was coming. Dang, just when he decided to take a walk around Green Hill Zone. Clearly dissapointed, Sonic took a seat before the TV, trying to distract himself with anything.

Blue blur's house was big and warm, but kinda... lonely. Tails had just gone to his own place, leaving the azure hero alone. Oh, how he hated that. Loneliness wasn't for him, in times like these he could do nothing but remember old times when he kicked Baldy McNosehair's robots and saved the world.

Now Earth was safe. Peaceful. Eggman's megalomaniacal plans to conquer the world were less often. Sonic was lucky if he got to kick his ass at least once a month.

Old pals where still there: Amy, Knuckles, Blaze, Espio and the Chaotix, Cream and his mother, Big and Froggy, yeah...

But there were two beings he hadn't seen in a couple of years. Rouge... and Shadow, the self-proclaimed Ultimate Life form. E-123 Omega wasn't there either. Team Dark was gone.

Everytime Sonic though about them he felt odd. Surely they wouldn't appear again unless the World was in serious danger. Oh boy. Was the blue hedgehog wishing that? Was the bue hedgehog wishing the world to be in peril just so he could see them? Just so he could see Shad—

He shook his head, trying to erase that though from his mind.

Suddenly, someone or something knocked the door. Sonic chuckled, realizing that scared the crap out of him. Oh well, maybe it was only the wind...

Sonic yawned. It was late already and he didn't have anything left to do. Soon as the speedster reached the first step, man, he could swear someone knocked on the door.

"No big deal, just go to check it", he encouraged himself. He sighed before turning the knob.

What was behind the door really shocked him.

Before him was standing a black hedgehog, with an uncomfortable grimace on his face.

"S-Shadow...!", Sonic gasped as he noticed that the black hedgehog wasn't alone. He carried in his arms a little white hedgehog. The infant's golden eyes were filled with curiosity.

"So long," Shadow's eyes met Sonic's for a millisecond, before he averted his red eyes. "...Faker", he added between clenched teeth, as if calling Sonic that felt wrong to him. He seemed very tense. Suddenly, he took a step inside the house. Sonic was too surprised to yell at him. What the hell was Shadow doing there? And most importantly... Why?

The blue hero stared in awe as Shadow left the little boy on the couch and asked for a towel.

"Don't stand there like an idiot, can you handle me a towel?" Shadow sounded annoyed, as if he had been forced to be there with Sonic.

The poor baby sneezed, letting out a cry of discomfort.

"Of course, Shads!", the cobalt hedgehog ran to his bathroom, and soon he came back with some blankets, too.

"Hmm, fine." Shadow growled, as he started to dry the little hedgehog carefully.

Sonic could do nothing but stare at them, more than amazed.

Was he really the Shadow he met? Now he looked so caring, so...

"Hey, faker", crimson eyes stared at him.

"Yeah, Shads?" Sonic answered. He tried to hide his discomfort at being called Faker after all those years. Was Shadow just being defensive?

"... Nothing", Shadow gaze went down.

"Actually, I had some questions for ya, if you don't mind", Sonic added, his emerald eyes stopping on the white baby hedgehog.

"But I do," Shadow snarled. Sonic sighed in discomfort. "The only thing that you need to know is that, from now on forward, we'll be staying here", he wrapped the young boy with the blankets and headed upstairs.

Sonic was at a loss of words. He was glad Shadow was back, but everything was so confusing. He tried to put up a cool facade so Shadow wouldn't notice his thrill. He didn't want Shadow to know how much power he had over his emotions.

"If that makes you happy...", Sonic followed him. "At least... could you tell me his name?", he asked.

Shadow growled again, clearly annoyed.

"He's Silver."

"And you kidnapped him or...?", Sonic teased, having no time to regret his unnecesary joke as he instantly received a punch in the whole face, courtesy of Shadow.

"Don't you dare to say something like that again." With that threat, he closed the door of the guest's room, declaring the end of the chatter for that night and leaving Sonic more confused than ever.


17/03/2017: I fixed some typos and added text to make it look pretty and less like "a 14 year old wrote this".