1 My first fanfic! I was inspired by my favorite author, amyrulz4eva! She rocks! Please don't flame! I'm so new at this! You don't have to review, and don't be hard on me! (whimpers) ALSO PLENTY OF DESCCRIPTIONS SO IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ONE SHOTS OR SHORT RANDOM OUTBURSTS THERES NONE HERE!

This is all in Knuckle's POV or in Normal POV, pretty much both! Switches a plenty! I'll try to keep them as IC as possible!

Disclaimer: I don't own Knuckles, Rouge, Sonic, Amy, or any of Sega's other brilliant creations! But if I owned

Knux, I would make him give me a piggyback ride! Whee!

Knux mumbling: I am SO glad she doesn't own me!

Me: One day I'll work with Sega! Mwahahahahaha! So then I'll own you and Rouge and make you two make out!

Knux talking sarcastic: Phooey! Sheesh, like I don't want to!

Me and Rouge: What's that supposed to mean?

Knux blushing: Err...nothing?

Me: Oh wellpokes knuckles for wasting our time, Enjoy!

Chapter 1: A Sight too Splendid

Knuckles groaned as he plainly sat on the steps of the shrine of the master emerald, eyes closed, just resting. Really, he's groaning from sheer boredom...and practically his whole life, if he had one. Day and night he just sits doing nothing (except breathing and thinking how miserable his life is and staring at the sky all psychotic feeling) and watch after the large, green emerald that he had to sworn to protect with his life. (He scoffed and regretted the Word to watch the emerald.) Well nothing except daily duties on sleep, eating, going to the bathroom… (Somewhere, who knows where), and tempting his nerves to burst while doing a quarrel with the white batgirl. Rouge the Bat, thief of jewels and spy for the government, her main goal is to steal the master emerald, but of course Knuckles had to stop her. Ironic, right? She works for the government and steals jewels! How retarded is that? Even more surprising, Rouge gave Knuckles another purpose other than protecting the master emerald.

He knew that he shouldn't think about her, especially her, but he would rather gladly choose her over thinking about the emerald and his life (who would?)! Plus, Knuckles had no choice anyway because he couldn't stop thinking about her, which he always kept it his secret, not like he likes her or anything... Knuckles had no house or anything else he would love to have! All that Knuckles possessed are: the island, the shrine, and the emerald. Knuckles crossed his arms over his chest and pouted ignorantly just thinking about what he had. Three things...

It was another day of guarding the large gem. Today is not any different from any other day, except a few scattered clouds and the wind blowing east, chance of rain: 70. 'Yep, that's what I do…become the weatherman for a few seconds. Well, at least it wastes 2 minutes of my time.' I thought, 'When is she coming, though? I'm bored out of my wits! I'm hungry!' I also randomly thought, rubbing my growling tummy, 'Why are you mad at me?' I mumbled out of boredom, knowing that I can't move unless it's and emergency, or something like that. 'Anyway, I'm just too lazy to get off my ass.'

Knuckles then looked at his shadow that cascaded the area directly under his body. It was almost 12:00 p.m., seeing that he has no watch he could tell by his shadow. Immediately and almost randomly he said calmly, facing forward and talking to nothing in front of him..., "So, what's the occasion this time, Rouge?" Yes, Rouge was sitting a few steps behind him, Knuckles was trying to play cool by speaking with his eyes closed.

"How did you know I was here?" Rouge whined.

"Umm, because exactly at twelve o'clock, you arrive here?" I guessed.

"Well, I was just wondering if you wanted some company," she responded, "Don't you ever get lonely, Knuckie? Bored? Hungry?" Rouge said in a friendly, seductive voice, trying to irritate him. She still wore her tight, black overalls, but without the heart over her chest, replacing the heart was a white tank top and she then wore a black elbow-sleeved vest over it, she also wore leather 5-inch knee-high boots with purple streaks for a design. As her makeup she wore violet eye shadow, clear mascara, and reddish-pink lip gloss that smelt of strawberries.

Knuckles knew that she didn't come for the emerald; after all he knew both of them seek company in each other. He was ravenously hungry, and bored out of his wits, so he just said, playing her game, in his most obvious sarcastic voice and smirking, shaking his head and looking down, "No, rouge...no. I am definitely not hungry from sitting on this stupid shrine, too fucking lazy to stand up! And yeah, sure! The trees and the emerald are giving me plenty of company!"

"Oh well, I brought lunch anywa--"

At the word lunch, I turned around sharply to face her, but Rouge wasn't as far as I thought! So practically Knuckles and Rouge sat staring face to face, blushing. Rouge's scent almost close enough to smell. 'Mmm...Strawberries, almost as sweet her lovely face…' he thought blushing 'Wait! What am I thinking? Err; um...think a bad thought about Rouge...um! Umm...she has nothing bad though...I'm fucked up…' I actually physically slapped my forehead (well it was supposed to be mentally) for being so desperate and Rouge leaned back in shock with her eyes full of laughter at the sudden 'Knuckles-with-his-slapping-issue'. I just looked at her and chuckled, "So...you said lunch?" I said rubbing my forehead with the palm of my hand; I was able to make a fake smile at her to hide the embarrassment.

"Oh yeah, I hope you like strawberries, strawberry jam sandwich, hmm...I've got more...Oh! This time I brought a strawberry sheet we could sit on and strawberry themed napkins!" Rouge said while searching her picnic basket. We have done this plenty of times to have a different 'theme' every time.

'Oh boy, the strawberries. Strawberries...I like strawberries, Rouge smells like strawberries...' I thought hazily and not even paying attention to my thoughts, 'I like the smell...Rouge…strawberries…smell…rouge…I…'

"I like Rouge," I mumbled accidentally out loud and clasped a hand over my mouth...sweat dropping. Luckily Rouge was still talking about strawberries to have heard me. I sighed thankfully while she was still blabbing about the food and why she picked it and stupid crap.

"Okay Knucklehead! You get to pick the picnic spot this time!" She said, surprising the shit out of him.

I snapped back to reality again, from spacing out, and didn't even have to think about the question, knowing exactly where to have their picnic. I sighed knowing that the spot I was soon to choose was the only place that I could finally relax out of the emerald's watch, and that ignorant, immature hedgehog, Sonic who seemed to stalk me so we can go on this crappy mission or to hide him from Amy.

"There is one place that I've always wanted to show you, Rouge," I responded crossing my arms and pretty much muttering, but loud enough for Rouge to hear.

"Oh great, Knuckie! Would you mind leading the way?" She said in the sweetest way with her big puppy eyes. She put a hand on top of Knuckle's hand, careful enough to avoid the spikes.

Knuckles looked down at his hand and looked back up and stared at Rouge's beautifully big eyes and blushed wildly, but didn't have the reaction to turn away. He nodded and lead the way still holding Rouge's hand, Rouge smiled happily holding the basket and skipping like little red riding hood. He swore he could have heard her singing about old people and cookies and a wolf that stalks.

"Here we are! My little piece of Angel Island, not that I'm saying everything else is not," I smirked, swinging our arms and used my other arm to show the clearing, trying to make it dramatic.

The 'paradise' was mostly consisted of trees surrounding a clearing which contained in the center a small, quiet waterfall, a rainbow near its bottom, with stone steps in the clear water underneath the splashing current, pebbles round and perfect that sparkled like jewels. The grass was as soft as fur, sprinkled on the layer of the thin grass was dew from the waterfall. The trees provided a calming shade and the whole clearing was isolated from any other sound other than the waterfall and the whistle that the trees played that sounded like a symphony. Flowers of different varieties swarmed the smooth grass in different patches of colors. From the looks of it, Rouge was more than delighted and she held my hand tighter and pulled me towards her in an embrace. I felt like I was suffocating!

"Oh my, Knuckie! It's absolutely beautiful!" Rouge exclaimed, her hands over her heart with the expression similar to the expression you would see as if she were proposed.

I got myself out of her breathtaking embrace and stood myself in front of her, well slightly aside because she was still taking in the sight around her. Then I felt something squeezing my hand. 'Rouge is still holding my hand! Not like it's something to be excited about…! Hey…why am I still holding her hand in the first place?' I thought bewildered. I tried to pry my hand away, but I couldn't seem to move my hand, like it was detached from me and held on to Rouge's hand like it was glued together. I gulped and looked hesitantly at Rouge and almost choked on my own saliva. 'She is beyond words beautiful and elegant,' I thought instantly hypnotized. It was as though the light the trees isolated from the forest harvested their glory unto her. The soft spray of the waterfall dampened her fur slightly making them look glossy, while the wind played with her hair and tickled her ears making them twitch playing their game.

Rouge looked at Knuckles standing slight in front of her and was shocked to see Knuckles gaping at her with half closed eyelids, his mouth slightly agape, his arms limp and his back forward and his face holding a flabbergasted expression? "Just what are you looking at, Knucklehead?" She giggled softly, almost pleased.

Though, the answer was something she expected differently and it took her breath away.

Ha Cliffhanger! I barely had to try! Sorry it's short, or is it? Well, I did try...please don't make it too hard on me! I'm 13! But I'm mature, don't worry! Anyway! Reviews could help! Thanks for supporting me Tanika, amyrulz4eva! Updates my take 3 days per chapter! Sorry, but I don't have much privilege! SonAmyShad possible later, should I do a TaiReam?