Dislcaimer: As I believe everyone knows, but I should probably state anyway, I do not own the rights to Rockman or Megaman. Capcom does.

Cuts and Friendship

Enzan blinked. He was at Scilab for business, and, as he had a tendency to do, Netto walked in. Contrary to normal, however, he appeared to be sucking on his left pointer finger.

The eggshell boy could make out a "Hello Enzan" from the younger one, then some garbled something or other.

"..." Was all the older could say.

Netto maneuvered the finger in his mouth and said, "It helps."

"...helps what?"

"My finger."

Before Enzan could point out how obvious that statement was, Netto added, "Bloods tastes funny."

Ah. That was why.

"You got cut?" There was no concern, or even much curiosity, in his voice. Netto nodded.

"You should probably take care of it."

"I AM taking care of it. Besides, it's not bad."

"Show me."

Netto sucked hard, then took it out for Enzan to see before hastily shoving it back into his mouth in about five seconds. The tip was badly scraped up, and even before he put it back it started bleeding again.

"How did you get that?"

Netto looked... well, if Enzan didn't know better, he'd say annoyed... or embarrassed. He mumbled something incoherent, to which Enzan raised an eyebrow. Netto repeated what he had said louder.

"It was just a stupid accident."

"Around you, Hikari, I have a feeling stupid accidents aren't too unusual."

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Netto said, looking angry in case it was an insult.

"Nothing... I'm surprised Rockman hasn't forced you to take care of it."

"Don't think I haven't tried," Rockman piped up from Netto's PET. "But he won't listen to me. He keeps insisting it's fine."

Enzan hesitated for a moment, then grabbed Netto by his free hand.

"Hey!" The boy yelped. "What're you doing?!"

"Forcing you to take care of it."

Enzan turned on the water in one of the sinks in the men's bathroom.

"Here. Hold your hand under this, while I get some bandages and something to clean it with."

Enzan hesitated a moment before leaving, because of the strange occurrence of Netto doing what he was told... and silently at that.

"...What's wrong?"

"What?"

"You didn't argue with me."

"I... I just... didn't think you cared about me enough to help with something as little as this."

Enzan was silent for several moments. "...I'll be right back."

"Wait, Enzan!"

"What?" Enzan turned back again, slightly annoyed.

"Why... why do you care? I mean, you hate me..." Netto answered hesitantly.

The silent lasted a long time this time. Finally, Enzan sighed.

"Because... because you're my friend, Hikari."

"I AM?!" Netto's eyes widened.

"...yeah. I know I don't act like it, but you really are my friend... probably my closest, save Blues."

Netto hesitated, then grinned. "That's great! I mean, I always considered you my friend, even though we're always fighting and stuff... why didn't you tell me before?"

"I don't think you'd understand, Netto." Enzan smiled at his newly-proclaimed friend, something he did so rarely. "I'll go get the bandages."

The End

Authors Notes: Hmm... I'm not quite sure which of the three this is based off of. Well, it has a part from the manga at least. The inspiration for this, actually, was me getting my finger all banged up, and it was bleeding, so I stuck it in my mouth and commented how blood tastes funny. XP And I think the ending is really shoddy, so... sorry about that. Oh, and with the names. I use the Japanese names in this one, for while I write my manga and game based fanfics with the names in there, if it's not definitly based off of one particular semi-universe, I use Japanese names, since I think of them with their Japanese names.