Well, I guess it's safe to say Don't Eat Chao Fruit was pretty successful for its first chapter!. Thank you so much for all 24 reviews! I love you all! I'm scared this chapter isn't good so, I'm sorry. Just be prepared to read Mr. Shadow a lot. Ha, well I guess I should get on to Chapter 2! Enjoy!

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I'd also like to point out that this is an ORINGAL ShadAmy, so Sonic won't randomly yell at Amy or become the antagonist. And Shadow will still be, well Shadow.

Dedication: This chapter goes out to Platonic because without her, I doubt that I would have posted this without her reading over it, so this is for you!

Don't Eat Chao Fruit

The red streaked hedgehog raised his right eyebrow and glanced upwards, questioning whether he would be able to handle this task. He, the Ultimate Lifeform, could handle anything from nuclear explosions to a whole fleet of raging war crafts, but now he was becoming troubled that perhaps he truly wasn't ultimate. This might be the first challenging thing he had ever done, and for the first time in fifty years, Shadow the Hedgehog was uneasy.

"C'mon," he said, keeping his voice at a quiet demeanor. Most definitely, they would have to travel to the inner forest due to all the branches that covered over head; the sun never scorched the exotic fruit inhabited there.

Shadow turned to leave, but the chibi whimpered in a whiny tone that caused the hedgehog to look back at her with a questioning look implanted in his flaming eyes. Amy ran over to his legs and looked up at him with her adorably cute jade eyes and raised her arms over her head. Once again, the male raised his eyebrow in surprise at her action and waited just like the girl. And they both started at the other, waiting for someone to initiate an action.

"What?" he finally asked, breaking away eye contact with the child.

Chibi Rose tilted her head to the right at an angle and shut her eyes as a gleeful expression made its way across her features. "Pick up!"

"Pick up whom?" The older hedgehog wasn't exactly sure what Amy was getting at. She couldn't be talking about her. She had legs and could walk. He was nobody's delivery man.

The pink hedgehog giggled in her soprano infantile voice as she wrapped her arms around the male's left leg. "Me silly! Pick me up!" Her voice carried a huge emphasis on herself.

"No," he stated simply in a monotone key. He wiggled his leg that was confined by her grip free and turned leave into the jungle.

"Please…"

"You can walk."

Amy, who was completely unsatisfied with that statement, was a bit shaken by his crude remark, so she frowned slightly and griped, "But my legs huwt, and-and my belly is hungwy, and I'm ascawed of the dawk…"

"You'll just have to deal with it."

"But…"

"No!" he barked back for the last time as his tone went sharp. He immediately regretted his short temper waning thin as he witnessed her lip poke out once again.

The tiny hedgehog bowed her head and salty tears escaped from her orbs as she dropped to the ground. The tears rushed past her cheeks and interweaved once again at the chibi's chin before dropping to the dirt with a spat. She ascended her balled-up fist to her face, and her shoulders shook uncontrollably.

Shadow gently centered his index finger between his crimson eyes and shook his head with aggravation. As much abhorrence that he did have for tears, he couldn't help but feel a prick of culpability in his closed off heart. A very petite prick, but a prick nonetheless. He did cause Chibi Amy to weep because of his inability open up with anything living other than himself and that was on a rare occasion. You can't go around talking to yourself all the time or you'll find yourself on a one-way trip to the mental ill home.

The hedgehog's expression softened a bit in his eyes as he released the air in his lungs and a sweatdrop found its way to his head. It's not like he hated kids, it's just they always cried, and whined and are little demons with no purpose in life but to seek and annoy. Amy came with this full package, however she was…different somehow.

Shadow walked over to the toddler and knelt down onto his right knee, drawing out his hand hesitantly. What was he afraid of? This girl couldn't do anything to him, but his dignity knew otherwise. He timidly patted his hand on her messy quills as a "soothing gesture".

The chibi felt the comfort in her friend's movements and her tears slowly began to subside and her breathing became convulsive as she attempted to stop crying. Her cheeks scarlet and tear streaked as she rubbed away the waterworks. She returned to normal, he couldn't help but notice that frown still smeared on her face.

The chibi kept her bottom lip poked out and turned away for the raven hedgehog. She was mad at that big meanie, Mr. Shadow. He wasn't very nice to her, and he wasn't her friend no more. Yet…

Amy curved to look at him once more, eyes still infuriated with hurt but her face also contorted with betrayal. "You huwt my feelings."

The one known as the Ultimate Lifeform took a step back, and the muscle in his cheek began to twitch vehemently. No way was this child actually mad at him. All he did was tell her to walk and now if he comprehended what the girl wanted correctly, she was waiting for an apology. No way was he, Shadow the Hedgehog, going to apologize to a two year old over something so trivial! But…as much as he hated to lose to anyone, especially to a little pink hedgehog, they weren't ever going to get anywhere and with the look she was giving him; she wasn't going to let up until he said the magic words.

'This is absurd,' he thought, losing his eye contact with the little hedgehog. He swallowed all the pride he had built up over his fifty years of existence as he mumbled, "…I'm sorry…"

Young Amy's eyes flashed happily as a smile graced a way across her lips. She ran up and hugged his leg as a sign for his atonement, which made Shadow tense up on his guard again.

The child had forgiven him almost instantly without a second thought and was comfy around him as if she'd know him her whole life. Why would she give so much affection to a crude hedgehog like him that didn't deserve? He would continually put up his unbreakable barriers, yet she would always come back, determined to tear them down and awaken the true Shadow, who was pronounced dead. Why was she so trusting and innocent; so angelic and pure? And why, why was he growing attached to Amy?

He snapped out of his reverie of questions as a constant finger drove in and out of his leg. The midnight hedgehog instantly shot out and grabbed her wrist as gently as possible. "Would you stop?"

"Sorwy Mr. Shadow, but you look sad. Are you okay?"

He stood as he hoisted the chibi into the air and placed her on his right; her legs wrapped around his side, and his arm placed on her back for support. A small yawn leapt out of the little hedgehog mouth, and she laid her head down against his neck and snuggled closer to his body.

"…It's nothing," he lied, brushing off her concern as it wasn't of importance as the duo walked deeper into the forest.

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The nightlife of the Mystic Ruins was anything but dull in the climax of its activities. The moon gave off its ivory glow high above, yet the shady leaves up above absorbed the light, giving the jungle a sapphire hue. Not only was it majestic but also the exotic inhabitants added to its glory.

Shadow glanced down to see why the chibi hadn't said anything since they left to find she was fast asleep. Her soft breath caressed his neck tenderly which caused him to become flushed in the cheeks. He had never had anyone ever be so close to him were he could feel their breath upon his own body, but he quickly released that thought.

Finally, the Ultimate Lifeform made it to his destination and just as he remembered, it was loaded with ripe fruit due to the lake in the vicinity. He brushed passed the food and found a pallet of soft grass then slowly put the sleeping child down, careful not to wake her. Shadow sat down next to her, preparing to lie down as well but stopped as a snivel came from Amy. The hedgehog cocked his head to the side as he found her scratching her arms.

'Great, Amy's allergic to grass.'

So he wouldn't hear Little Rose complaining in the morning about having a rash on her arms, Shadow picked her up as he laid down and sat her on his chest; her head on his furry patch of plush fur. He placed his hands under his quills and recorded the day's events over in his mind. His head began to clear and slumber took over almost in an instant.

Unbeknownst to the ebony male, he wouldn't be getting much sleep that night.

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"Up!" the girl complained, her brow crossed with intolerance. Amy stood up this time and began to pounce on his chest. "Wake up!"

Two gloved hands shot out and grabbed the chibi in midair before she landed on his abdomen again. "What do you want?" he managed to breath out, winded by the current assault.

"I gots to pee," she whispered as if there where others out there. Shadow sat up and placed the little hedgehog down on the sponge-like grass, mouth slightly agape.

"Then go."

"B-but its dawk out, a-and I'm ascared 'member." Amy squirmed and shuffled her feet in the dirt, bending down a bit to keep from having an accident.

The hedgehog groaned in repugnance as he got up and looked for a proper spot for Amy to urinate, a tree. She started to jump, uncomfortable with the pressure in her lower waist.

"Hurwy Mr. Shadow!" Her voice began to get desperate with each passing second. He scoped her up in slender arms, powered up his jet style skates, and zoomed off into a well wooded area.

As they arrived in the instant they were gone, Shadow mentally slapped himself for he was sure the toddler had told him to hurry at least fifty times.

He placed her down and watched the chibi waddle to the branched plant as a confused expression spread its way over her face. Turning back to him, she raised her eyebrow to him and asked, "Whewe's the toilet?"

Shadow was unsure whether she was being serious or sarcastic, but at that moment he found himself on the ground, completely dumbstruck. Finally regaining his composure, the male answered, "Does it look like we're in a house?"

The girl just merely shrugged. "No, but that's because we're inside it wight? You don't have a house in your house do you?" Her eyes widened with wonder as she imagined her current statement. "But you can see the stars so your house don't have a roof, what do you do when it rains?"

The raven hedgehog blinked twice as he tried to register exactly what she talking about. Maybe sarcasm wasn't the best way to go with a two year old. "Amy, just go to the bathroom."

"But what about-"

"The tree," he pointed to the one she stood in front of, "is the toilet!"

"Oh," she said holding out the word for a few seconds. Then she turned back to him, eying her hero warily.

"What?" He really getting fed up that she had to go to the restroom so bad and now wanted to hold up a conversation.

"I can't pee if yous watchin' me," Amy said in a matter-o-factly way, crossing her arms as she mimicked what she had seen him do before.

Shadow huffed and turned around so the child could have her privacy. It's not as if he was going to actually watch her handle her business because that would be so wrong.

"Mr. Shadow!" the little pink hedgehog cried out after she finished what she had to do.

"What," Shadow replied back, getting really tried of her saying his name.

"I need some tissue…"

The hedgehog dropped his head and growled inwardly. He was actually glad that he himself didn't have the function of have to use the restroom. If it took all that, it wasn't worth the hassle.

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When they arrived back to their resting, Amy hadn't shut up yet and Shadow was mentally recording for next time. He would take the girl to pee BEFORE she fell asleep, so she would sleep through the night.

Shadow plopped down firmly on the grass and cast a Chaos Sphere attack at a stem of a fruit above him, so Chibi Rose would shut up and eat, hopefully. It swiftly fell into her arms, and she tried to munch on it the moment it popped it her hands, unsuccessfully.

"Mr. Shadow, it's too hawd for me to eats," she whined as she attempted to bite into the fruit, but once again, it was a failed endeavor. "Umm…can you bites it for me," Amy held up the fruit to him, "'cause that's what my mommy does."

The midnight hedgehog just sighed a launched another attack at the food, splitting in half as it landed back into her hands. The little chibi examined the fruit to find it was perfectly divided.

She continued to look at the fruit astonished before clapping her…um…fruit together since her hands where preoccupied. "Wow! How'd you do that Mr. Shadow?" Her eyes admirably scanning him all over causing him to smirk vaguely. "Can you teach me how to do that!"

"Maybe some other time," he stated, lying on his back again. Which was basically short for 'no'.

The rose hedgehog nodded and glance down at a food, to Shadow, and then back at her crop. "Mr. Shadow?" she questioned as she hovered over him. He opened one of his eyes so she would continue. "I have two fruits now, and I can't eat the whole thing, so you c'n have my other half okay?" She placed it on his stomach.

"…"

"I don't eats much and you ain't eats anything either, so now we both c'n eats!" The moonlight reflected off her face as she smiled at her friend.

"…No, you eat it. You need your strength."

Amy shook her head defiantly, "So do you! You're weally stwong, not like me! I don't want my friend to be hungwy!" She wrapped her arms around his head the best she could without being stabbed by a quill.

'Yet for one so small, you seem so strong.' He grabbed the discarded fruit and took a small chuck out of it with his mouth then swallowing. If he ate it, she would shut up right? Wrong.

Finally satisfied, the infinite bundle of joy sat down next to the male, leaning onto his side with her back. "Mr. Shadow, how come you have trees in your house?"

"I don't," he stated. "I live outside."

"Oh, cause if you want you can live with me and my mommy, if you don't has a house."

Shadow shifted a little to get more comfortable and took another bite out of his food. "…I'll think about it."

"Okay but Mr. Shadow, since you don't have a house, do that mean you gots no friends?" she inquired with her fruit spewing out her mouth.

"I…had a friend once, but that was a long time ago."

Amy oblivious to the sorrow in his voice, turned to face him with intuitive eyes. "Well, I'll be your friend now okay! S-so you can have a friend now, okay? Is that okay Mr. Shadow!"

"…Do whatever you please."

Amy moped at his lack of optimism but continued on with her barrage of questions, "How come you don't ever smile Mr. Shadow?"

"I would assume that I don't have anything to smile about."

"Why not? There are bazillions of things to smile about. The sun, the clouds, the birds, being alive, having friends-"

"Amy! Why don't you go to sleep?"

"'Cause I'm not sleepy silly!"

"Then get sleepy," he groaned, tried of playing twenty one questions.

"Okay…" she grumbled as she climbed on his stomach and plunked her head on his chest.

About five minutes later…

"Mr. Shadow?"

The midnight hedgehog was tempted not to answer, but fought the inducement and answered as calmly as possible, "What?"

"How come you don't have fun?"

'Of all questions to ask,' he thought but then answered with, "Because I don't."

"Is it because you don't know how?"

Oh he knew how. Although blowing up stuff, shooting people, and the occasional arguments with Sonic, didn't seem like the kind of fun Amy was aiming at. If he had learned anything about her, it was that all of her ambitions were untainted.

"Because I c'n show you tomorrow, 'cause I want you to be happy!" Amy responded back after receiving no answer from the older male.

"Don't hold your breath," he scoffed rather bitterly.

"I wasn't Mr. Shadow, but I will if you wants." A big yawn escaped her lips and not before long she had dozed off. She nuzzled her nose deeper into his chest hair to gather warmth

"Good night Mr. Shadow…" she mumbled in her subconscious state.

He grunted at the comment and made no effort to respond back. He wouldn't get close to this child; he refused. All he had to do was make sure she stayed out of trouble for one more day and take her that blue hedgehog and be done with it. It was as simple as that, and then the scarlet orbed male could get on with his life. He would not return her affection no matter how much she was like Maria. He'd just ignore her like every other shadow he'd run into.

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Shadow was never one to sleep in past dawn for he hardly rested but the current predicament had caused him to snooze until the sun was clear shining radiantly in the sky. The sunlight beamed through the trees and relaxed on his eyes which made his sleeping form stir. His eyes slowly fluttered open as his vision cleared to meet four pair of eyes.

His mind finally comprehending what his eyes were seeing, he shot up in an instant causing the duo to topple over unto the ground. As he grumbled under his breath, inquisition took over as to what Amy had found and dragged back with her.

"Yay," the hedgehog cheered, "you're finally up!" She ran up to her new found pet. "Wook Mr. Shadow, I found a doggy!" Amy held up her creature for him to him to inspect. Shadow's face faulted.

As little as he did now about earth creatures animals, that was no dog. The first clue was it did look anything like he remembered dog looked like however the blob thing did seem like it was rough around the edges. Perhaps it had been outside for a while, yet it did look spoiled. Secondly, it was too adorably cute. But whatever, he really did not want to argue right now.

"See Mr. Shadow," the ecstatic chibi continued, "Bob has wings so he c'n fly too!" The chao just looked with query eyes at his younger master and then at the raven hedgehog. With the same expression on its face, the chao once known as Phooey flew up to a tree and plucked the fruit off the branch.

The Ultimate Lifeform inwardly thought why she would name that thing Bob. Honestly…

"C'mon Mr. Shadow, let's go play in by the pond!" she exclaimed with a huge grin planted on her face. She ran off and started yanking flowers out the ground, creating a bouquet colors. Shadow on the other hand went to go sit under a tree, away from the heat. It was basically pure suicide for him to be out in the sun at this time in day.

As she continued to gather the weeds, a shimmering object caught her eye. The infant grabbed it and gasped in amazement. The red gem shone luminously in the sun and the color illuminated the shaded area.

"Ooh, wook what I found Mr. Shadow!" Amy ran up to her friend and held the emerald in his face while she cradled the daises in her arm.

'A Chaos Emerald?'

"This Time Stone wooks funny," she acknowledged, making a face by curling up her nose. "But, I want you to have it 'cause it look like your eyes. Here." The hedgehog held up the item for him to take.

Once he had, he couldn't help but stare into its features. It was hard enough to find a Chaos Emerald while looking for it but to find one unwillingly, was slim to none. It had a little dirt smudged on it, so he stood to wash it up in the pond with Little Amy in tow shortly afterwards.

Shadow plopped the emerald in the ankle deep water, and it sunk sluggishly to the bottom. But as the midnight hedgehog, that always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, bent down to retrieve the jewel, he was sent tumbling into the lake. It appears that Amy had lost her footing and fell on him which had a domino effect.

As he emerged from the watery accident, Shadow had on any look but joy. Ignorant to enraged hedgehog, Amy figured her friend wanted to play in the water with her after all, so she jumped on in as well to quickly resurface.

"That was unnecessary…" the older hedgehog said glancing at the chibi as he wiped his tray quills and water away from his eyes.

Instead of receiving a verbal response back, Amy released all the water out of her mouth in a water gun type move right into his face. If looks could kill, let's just say the pink female wouldn't be breathing anymore. To increase her "good luck", she splashed beads of the blue liquid his way.

Chibi Rose finished her assault with a sheepish grin thinking that Mr. Shadow was having fun. "Did you have fun Mr. Shadow?"

Using her method of answering, Shadow dunked her back underwater before exiting himself. Rising from the natural pool, the girl smiled at her friend and figured she had gave him too much fun, but then a thought stuck her. Where was her mom, because she would've loved this?

"Hey Mr. Shadow, where's heaven?"

Shadow walked back to his tree, mumbling uncensored words and obscene swears until her question struck him short of words. "…What?"

End of Chapter

Ha ha! Cliffhanger! Well I'm glad I finally got this chapter out. I hope I'm keeping Shadow in character! I know I said I would have Metal Without A Heart updated, so I'm a compulsive liar or just a procrastinator. Either way, I apologize. Just so you all know, I update when I get responses from my readers good or bad. Also the next chapter might have action or it'll be in Chapter 4. So I see ya when I do! Sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes. Bye!

Next chapter- My Special Friend, In you I Trust.