The Father I Never Knew

By Ms. Kinnikufan

Disclaimer: Still don't own the characters.

Dub Note: Minch died in the Japanese version, not get his hip broken.

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I should be helping Mantaro, as a good coach should. But I can't. I know what I have to do, but I can't do it. My mind. Said to be one the greatest minds in Kinniku-history, can not do the logical thing. I tell myself that this is not the time to cry, there will be plenty of time to cry later, that Mantaro's fighting now and it could be fatal if I don't help. But I still can't bring myself to leave my father's side.

I didn't know him. I didn't spend a lot of time with him. I thought the worst of him. But now that he's gone, I want him back. I want Minch, my father to be alive. I want him to answer all the questions I have. I want to know what kind of baby I was. I want to spend time with him so I can get to know him.

I hate Bone Cold for killing him. I hate myself for believing Bone Cold was telling the truth about my parents selling me for money. I hate God for giving me extraordinary intelligence I hate King Mayumi for taking me away from my parents. I hate my father for suddenly dying when I just found him.

I sobbed. Unfair! Why! Damn It! These words wring though my mind. My cries get louder and louder. I can't stop. Why! Oh God! Why! Father! Why! Every sad feeling I've ever repressed comes out.

Telling myself I'm crying for someone I never even knew doesn't help at all. It doesn't help any, not at all. He still is dead. He still iswas my father. I loved him, even though know nothing about him at all, and didn't know anything about him at all.

I often wondered what my parents were like. The King and Queen told me I was an orphan. Another pair of people to be angry at. But it doesn't make me any less sad. It doesn't distract me from my pain. I wonder if they were rich or poor. Smart or normal. What our home life would have been like. If I would have had any little siblings.

I find my answer, then minutes later it's gone.

Gone.

GONE.

GONE!

GONE!

GONE!

Gone forever, taken away by a mercenary named Bone Cold. A mercenary that probably never loved his own father, or thinks twice about that he took mine.

A son who-

"Meat..You have more important things to do...you have to help Mantaro!" a old familiar voice says.

"Kin-Kinkotsuman?"

Afternotes:

Kinkostsuman=Skulduggery (Bone Cold's dad.)

This is my first time writing something focusing entirely on Meat. He never gets any attention, yet he's a very central character. And damn, he looked positively adorable in that panda shirt he was always wearing in the Generation 1 magna.

Anyway, I always wonder what his feelings were after his father died. So this fic came out. I feel this fic probably would come out better and more accurate if I had a better memory of the Bone Cold/Mantaro saga. So any inconsistencies are the fault of my poor memory of that saga.