Hello...uh...This is embarrassing. I forgot to put down the disclaimer on the first chapter of this story. Well, here it is. I, moonlightmaiden15, do not own Rockman, Netto, Blues, Roll, Forte, or any characters found in the Megaman NT series. I do own Alicia, Saphire, Ruby, Hero Academy, and any other original characters unless they are supplied by other people. I also own the plot and the idea for this FanFic.
Forte: Well that's obvious.
Mealtime Memories
Time passed in this mannor untill lunch. Lunch marked the end of general classes and the start of Heroics classes, when the students started learning how to control their various poweres. Eveyone split up into groups for the fourty-minute lunch perioud. Rockman, Roll, and one other person in red ate lunch together. Saphire assumed this person in a purple and black jumpsuit and red boots must have been Blues, Rockman's freind and rival. Forte and his sister, a girl in a purple jumpsuit, skirt, and boots by the name of Alicia ate lunch together. She was more than beggining to feel like a third wheel in this class, so she decided to go to the roof instead of staying in the room alone and sticking out like a sore thumb. After she said goodbye to Forte, his sister, and her brother she left the room.
As she sat on the roof by the rail, she stared out at the sky, looking for clouds and thinking about...things. Well, one thing in particular. She had grabbed her sketchpad and it lay next to her unopened lunch at her side, pages flipping in a breif gust of wind. Slowly she opened her lunch and began to think about why she had felt like making one of her brothers' favorite meals that morning. Something she hadn't done in five years. Not since that day...
"Your names Saphire, right?" A voice she recognized snapped her out of the like a shot from a gun. Her face shot up to look at who had spoken to her, only to find that it was Forte, the man who sat in front of her. He was looking at her strangely, as though looking for a weakness. That's when it hit her, he was her brother's other rival, known as the king of the dual swords. "Why aren't you inside?"
"No reason, I just felt like eating outside is all..." She said as quietly as ever, but there was a contemplative tone to it this time. Forte noticed this and decided not to press into it. Instead he sat down near her, so that he could look at her face as he talked to her.
"You mind if I keep you company?" He said in a bored tone, but it seemed to say "Why aren't you with your brother?" instead. She almost answered his unspoken question untill she realized that would be presumptuous of her.
"No, go right ahead." She went back to looking at the sky, and Forte got a glimpse of sadness inher crystal-blue eyes before it was covered up again. "I was just thinking about some things..."
"About what?" He asked and was immedietly sorry when she visibly flinched at the question. Obviously it was a private matter and none of his buisness. Silently he cursed his inability to read peoples moods. And he asked himself why he bothered to talk to his one and only rival's little sister. Aloud he said, "You don't have to answere that question if you don't want to, you know."
She nodded, "I know." She used her chopsticks to take a bite, and as she chewed she thought about how much she should tell him. How much she could, without bursting into tears. Finally she decided to say as much as she could and not worry about the consequences untill later. "Do you know what I'm eating? It's curry. My brother's favorite meal."
"I thought Rockman was a vegitarian." Was all Forte said. He knew this must have been hard for her to say, but was honestly confused. Saphire noticed this and spoke once more.
"No, he just likes salads. And I wasn't talking about Rock-niisan." she clarified. "I was talking about his twin Netto."
"I didn't know he had a twin." He silently thought about what kind of person Rockman's twin must have been like, and inwardly shuddered.
"He doesn't...not anymore." She said.
"Oh...I-i'm so sorry..." He finally got her point. The look of sadness had returned to her eyes. And her body language screamed of anguish. Her head was bowed and she was staring at her lunch again. She took another few bites and seemed to collect herself as she did. Once she had finished he decided to risk re-opening the wound in the hopes of more information. "H-how did it happen."
"He and another brother of ours, Ruby, went to this school. They were the best of the best of the best. The top two students." She looked at the sky again. This time searching for the right words. Forte let her collect her thoughts. When she spoke agian her voice was broken and cracked, she was barely holding back tears. "They were sent to stop a group of villans, but when they went, they went missing." She started to whimper. One deep breath later she showed some semblance of control...albeit shaky. "They found Netto's body in an alley. They never...never..."
"I-i get the idea, you don't have to continue." Forte left her to her thoughts.
"Netto...Ruby-niisan..." She whispered when she had herself under control once more. A memory started to take form.
"Hey, Saphire..." A boy who looks like Rockman says. He is wearing a white long-sleved shirt with an orange vest on over it. His shorts were black with yellow stripes along the sides going down, he also had on a blue bandanna with Rockman's emblem on it that kept his brown hair out of his equally brown eyes. "Do you know how to make curry?"
"Curry? Yes, why?" She had asked the day before he left for his mission with Ruby. He started to jump up and down with excitement. They were in a kitchen, it was as close to spotless as could be when someone was preparing a going away feast. At that moment Rockman walked in. He was waring a white shirt and pants. His socks were pale-blue, as close as he would get to wearing white socks. They were celebrating, after all.
"Probably becaouse he wants curry for dinner, right bro?" Rockman, or Rock as his freinds and family called him, said light-heartedly.
Saphire laughed. "Oh, is that all? I'm a little disappointed in you, Netto!"
"I must admit that she's right, I expected a much better alterior motive from you." Ruby walked in as well, he was wearing a red buisness suit, his red hair was neat and orderly, just like Ruby himself. But his blood-red eyes shone with mirth. "Next time hide it better at least."
"Next time, but for now, it's time to eat!" Netto replied. He was already drooling, and it was so comisal that eveyone laughed at the spectacle.
"How you ever got to be the top student at Hero Academy I'll never know, Netto-kun." Rockman teased his brother.
"HEY! I can be a good student when I want to!"
"Hahaha, Alright everyone, I've got a lot of things to do before dinner if we're gonna have my world-famous Curry Surprise, so eveyone out of the kitchen!" Saphire told them after the laughter died down.
At dinner everyone started to eat. Saphire decided a little conversation was needed. Needless to say at this point in time she was happy and her voice was rather loud and commanding. "So, Netto, Ruby-niisan, if you succeed you'll graduate from Hero Academy early, right?"
"Yes, that's right." Ruby told her. Netto was too busy eating to hear her. "Why?"
"Oh, nothing. Just thought we ought to add a little something special to your last night as students!" She said while revealing a cake as high as the table from somewhere. "Congratulations!"
"But we might not succeed." He pointed out.
"You will! I beleive in you!" she told him confidently.
When the bell rang to tell everyone that class was starting and she was jerked from the past, she found that she had been crying.
Wasn't too bad... It took me less than an hour to write that, and about 12 hours to get inspired for it. I never plan my FanFic's beforehand soo... I need to know where I need to improve on people! Oh, and before I forget, thanks to LatinoHeartBam for favoriting my story and thanks to Azure-Link for reviewing!
