HELLO, MY FELLOW SONADOW LOVERS! I hope you are enjoying Kingdom Hearts: The Story Continues! I decided to take a break from that, but I PROMISE that I will try to have it done before the summer is over! Same goes for this. Both of the stories are to be rather long, but DON'T FRET! The wait will be worth your while. ANYWAYS! Enjoy this story!

(Note: None of the characters or places in this chapter are under my ownership. They belong to Sonic Team Incorporated, Sega Incorporated, MPEG Sofdec Incorporated, ADX Incorporated, and/or RenderWare Incorporated.)

My father always told me, "In life, you must make sacrifices for those you love". He had already done exactly that for me. When I was only four years old, I was attacked by a demon. Just as it was about to land the final blow, my father jumped in front of me, taking the hit and satisfying the beast's lust. My father didn't speak to me again, no matter how much I cried and shook him. After an hour of trying this, I finally gave up. Tears had streamed down my face, and I had wrapped my arms around him. I cried myself to sleep that night, all the while clutching his body. I had no one left to take care of me, No one left to love me.

And that remained true, until that one day.

I was twenty-four when I met the other hedgehog. It started out like any other day, waking up with dried tears staining the fur on my face. I went to the bathroom to splash my face with water. I got a towel and dried my face off. When I pulled the towel away from my face, I just so happened to be looking out the window.

That was when I saw him.

His blue fur was shining under the bright sunlight. His emerald eyes sparkled, and his teeth shone so brightly as he smiled. He ran off, his legs a blur. I admired his speed. I remembered every aspect of him, even though I wasn't even looking at him for a full three seconds. Wait, an I falling in love? I thought. I was straight, wasn't I? Why did I feel so drawn to the blue hedgehog? I set the towel down, thinking about these feelings.

I decided to step out for a walk. I headed down the sidewalk, thinking about the hedgehog. The way his fur shone, the way he ran, the way he smiled, all of it gave him goosebumps. His taste in clothing didn't exactly please me, but he still made me shiver. I didn't even know his name... How could I be falling in love? Especially with the same sex of hedgehog?

I was lost in the thoughts of this hedgehog. So lost, in fact, that I didn't notice the streetlamp in front of me until I had smacked my face against it. I fell back and landed directly on my ass. I heard laughter from all around. I looked at the crowd surrounding me. But they weren't the ones that put me on the verge of tears.

The blue hedgehog was at the head of the crowd, pointing at me and crying from how hard he was laughing.

I got up and ran, crashing through the crowd, my feet smacking the pavement at a pace I had never seen before, not even from the blue one. I ran as far as I could from the crowd, I ran past what felt like thousands of buildings, knowing I had long since passed my house. I didn't turn, I just kept running in a straight line, not even caring that I had hit a good number of people. I didn't stop until the tears blurred my vision enough to make me nearly blind, at which point I fell to my knees, the tears making my face look as if I had just come out of a shower. No one stopped to see if I was okay, to comfort me, they just looked and walked off. That made me cry even more. I didn't stop crying for a long time, not until someone finally knelt down and asked if I was okay.

"I'm fine, it's just that-" I had looked up and saw a familiar face; I was looking at the same hedgehog I had seen out of my window that morning.

"I'm sorry about that... I really can be a jerk sometimes...," the hedgehog said. "I'm Sonic, by the way. And you are...? He-" Sonic the hedgehog was cut off by a kiss from the black hedgehog he had been comforting. Sonic was taken aback by this, shocked at my actions. Sonic pushed him away. "What the... I don't even know your name..."

I began to feel ashamed of myself. Until...

"And yet I'm falling in love with you." I looked up with wide eyes. Sonic smiled at my reaction. "Surprised much? You kiss well enough to convince me."

"Shadow. That's my name."

Sonic smiled. "Well, Shadow the hedgehog, why don't you come back to my house and see where things go?"

I couldn't believe my ears. I just nodded, dazed. Sonic helped me up from the ground and led me further down the sidewalk in the same direction I had decided to run. Sonic led me into a two-story building.

YAY! SONADOW 4-EVER BIITCH! Anyways, sorry there wasn't any action in this chapter, but I promise next one there will be. It's rated M, you think I'm not gonna add in any sex scenes? That would just be a waste of a rating, what the hell's wrong with you?

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