Missing Out
Sonic the Hedgehog and all related characters © SEGA and Sonic Team
Any characters you don't recognize belong to me
Chapter 7: Complicated
Matsushita Kano
6:12 PM- Station Square Mall
"Kano-kun, I'm gonna go in that shoe store over there for a sec. Be right back!" Autumn informed me, as she perkily kissed me on the cheek before skipping off.
My satisfied smirk quickly turned to an annoyed frown as I laid my chin on the two palms of my gloved hands, releasing a distressed sigh.
Why am I here anyway? I don't even like shopping. There's no thrill in buying hundreds of dollars of useless accessories. Yet, here I am sitting in a dense, urbanized mall with my girlfriend blowing my money on useless junk.
Jeez, I should've stuck with Ames today. At least she doesn't go overboard with shopping sprees...
Speaking of Ames, she doesn't even know I have two girlfriends. I don't see a problem with it. If you love two girls with the same affection, why can't you just have 'em both?
"Some boyfriend you are, cheating on Amy like that! Amy's my friend, and I won't allow you to break her heart like this!"
"Ugh..." I grunted just at the reminder of that outburst.
Just the sight of seeing his pissed glare, his jade orbs flaring from the anger he was containing, made me just want to punch him back just as hard.
It's all an act of blind rage, that's what's so aggravating about it. The idiot doesn't know a thing about love, he's just jealous because he can't stand to see her with some other guy besides his sorry ass. He thinks love is a game, and since he's "Sonic the Hedgehog", victory is easy to obtain.
Two weeks ago, I was kind of surprised when Amy took my offer to go to Twinkle Park together so easily. I mean, for all she knew, I could've kidnaped her and did whatever to her.
'Naive fool' and 'idiotic bastard' were the only two things that went through my mind as we rode the colorful elevator to the popular theme park.
"I'm no idiot. I know fairly well what dangers I could be getting myself into." Amy smirked, blowing one of her long sakura quills out her face. "I can tell you're a good guy though, so I don't think I'll have a problem."
I remember I just shrugged and retorted with my coy smile and comment.
"Why exactly did you come with me here anyway? I mean... this isn't a date or anything like that, but..."
"I'm here to clear my head." she stated, in more lower and melancholy tone though.
"Clear your head?" I repeated, trying not to sound too anxious for a response.
"From an egotistical, cocky jerk who doesn't know the first thing about a girl's feelings."
Never in a million years would I thought that 'egotistical, cocky jerk who doesn't know the first thing about a girl's feelings' to be Sonic. I mean on the news and the media, all I hear is 'a free-spirited teenage hedgehog with a strong sense of justice and a passionate heart of gold.' No big ego or jerk attitude there.
"It's funny how-
"What's so funny, Kano?"
Scrunching my nose in confusion, I looked up to see a primrose-orchid cat and a magenta pixie standing before me.
"Hey, I know you guys." I smirked, nodding my head. "You two are Amy's friends. Nagi and Lumina, right?"
"Right." Nagi replied, placing a hand on her hip. "So, what are you doing here? I didn't know you liked to shop at Victoria's Secret, Rainbow, and JCPenny's."
I blushed at her sarcastic comment, seeing the ten huge shopping bags surrounding me like a mini fortress. Ha, let's see that Robotnik dude beat this.
"Those are all the shops Ames likes to shop at." Lumina added in a coy tone. "Is she in that shoe store, over there?"
Oh jeez... they're onto me. I knew I saw them back at the Emerald Coast.
"Well...uh..."
"Kano-kun!" Autumn exclaimed, waving her free hand carelessly as her other hand held the pair of blue patterned Timberland boots she had just bought... with my money.
"Ehehehe, hey Autumn!" I nervously retorted, mostly due to the nasty glares Nagi and Lumina were throwing me.
"Autumn, eh?" Lumina murmured in wry tone. "Who is she?"
"Who Autumn?" I laughed apprehensively. "Oh, she's just my girl... cousin... girl cousin-in-law!"
I swear, right at that moment I wanted to step out my body and just slap myself silly. Really, girl cousin-in-law?!
"Girl cousin-in-law?" Nagi questioned suspiciously, lightly playing with her grey tie. "A female echidna your girl cousin-in-law?"
"Yeah!" I exclaimed wrapping my arm around Autumn and flashing the two the most convincing smile I could muster. "My girl cousin-in-law, Autumn!"
"Girl cousin-in-law?!" Autumn asked confused. "Kano-kun, what are you—
"Oh you! Ha ha ha ha!" I laughed playfully, giving my bewildered girlfriend a noogie.
"Ah! Ah! Kano-kun, stop it!" she whined frantically. "What are you doing?!"
I glanced at Nagi and Lumina whom looked just as confused as my victim.
"Kano," Nagi begun. "What's going o–
"Oh, would you look at the time! Thirty till already haha! Well I guess we ,as in my girl cousin-in-law and I, better go now, bye-bye!" I exclaimed rather rapidly as I retreated the scene dragging Autumn along with me. (The shopping bags too.)
"Kano-kun!" Autumn panted rapidly as we ran through the crowd. "Who were those girls? Why are we running from them? And why did you call me you girl cou–
Before she could even finish uttering the word 'cousin', I came to an abrupt stop, pulled her closer to me, and engaged her into a passionate kiss.
Nothing too 'dirty' just a fresh, chaste kiss.
After a few minutes, we broke apart, staring dreamily at each other momentarily.
"I don't know what that whole scene was about with that neko and pixie back there, but next time could you please avoid the noogies?" my auburn girlfriend asked me in that clear, tenor voice of hers.
"Yeah..." I replied relieved, gently wrapping my arm around her as we continued our walk.
I criticize Sonic the Hedgehog on not knowing a thing about love. Yet, here I am confused on what to do with two loves. If you love two girls equally, what's wrong with being both their beaus? Why should I have to run because I don't want my girlfriend's friends to find out my ways? Why do I feel that I have compare myself to a world renowned hero?
Maybe I am just as naive at this very complicated game of love...
Rouge the Bat
7:11 PM- Coin Vault of Casinopolis
"We've been here since five-thirty, Rouge." Kiyoshi smirked as we walked down the bronze hallway. "Think we made enough bread?"
"Didn't know you talked slang Mr. Psychic." I retorted flashing him my own slick smirk. "Since everybody in place is sucking bad at all the hardcore games tonight, I'd say we have at least over 1,000."
With that, the automatic door for Kiyoshi and I, the sight we were witnessing almost made our jaws fall right into the sewer!
'Congratulations! You have won a total of 100,000,000 coins!'
Kiyoshi and I started at each other awestruck.
"Ah yeah baby!" I yelled enthusiastically gliding into the air and swimming in my big mountain of coins. "This is what I'm talking about!"
"I can't believe we actually won this much..." Kiyo muttered still in disbelief. "We weren't even here that long to win even a hundred coins. Maybe there was a miscalculation?"
I rolled my eyes at that pixie's doubts.
"Kiyoshi, come on, live it up a little!" I shouted, throwing my hands up in the air. "We're fucking rich!"
"Guess there's no arguing with that." he grinned cheekily as he fell back into the mass sea of coins.
"That's more like it." I giggled, stepping on Kiyo's face with my heel.
For the next few hours, we just laid there on our "mountain of gold" just talking about... well random stuff really. Hell, we even talked about why every human Sonic gets emotionally attached with is red-haired.
"Say Rouge..." Kiyoshi murmured. "This is a kind of personal question, but I've been really interested in knowing the answer for quite some time now..."
"Shoot away, ESP." I retorted nonchalantly as usually.
"If you had a choice to love either Knuckles or Shadow, who would it be?"
I was about to retort with some smartass comment, but then the question really hit me. If I had a choice between Knuckles and Shadow?! Well the answer is pretty simple.
"Neither." I replied half-heartedly. "Both of them are way too complicated for a glamourous chick such as myself. Knuckles is too hard and hot headed to realize love, and Shadow... I can't even explain Shadow, but he's complicated too."
"Yet you still flirt with both of them."
I cast my magic companion a dangerous glare.
"I do not flirt with Knuckles, let alone Shadow."
"You flirt with them all the time, Rouge." Kiyoshi stated. "Especially Shadow, since you're always with him a majority of the time."
"Me? Flirt with Shadow?!" I exclaimed, pointing an accusing finger towards him. "Why the hell would I do that?!"
"C'mon Rouge, I've been on a good share of adventures with you, and there is no way you can persuade me that you don't like either Knuckles or Shadow in a romantic way."
"What if I said I loved you Kiyoshi-kun?"
"Don't even try that crap on me, Rouge."
I huffed irritably. Shit, if there's one topic I really hated to talk about... it's would be my love life. So many people expect you to just flat out tell them how complicated or simple your love life is, when obviously it's not nearly that simple to just let out. Had love actually been that easy, we wouldn't have shows like Springer or Maury. The whole damn subject is fucking complicated. And to me, talking about it just makes it worse.
I'm still only seventeen... I'm going to get wrinkles if I keep thinking about these frustrating matters all of the time.
"Kiyoshi, listen. I really don't—
Just then, the red automatic door that separated us from the outside casino party, bust open onto the mountain, coins sputtering everywhere.
"Freeze!"
Kiyoshi and I glared at the two "party-crashers". Both of them were dressed in black camouflage, wearing black ski masks to hide their faces. However, I could tell one was a lynx and the other a raccoon. (Just look at their tails.) They both looked about Vanilla's age, in their mid-twenties.
"My, my look what we've got here." I smirked slyly, folding my arms across my chest. "Didn't see this one coming."
"Shut up!!" the raccoon snarled, aiming his pistol towards me ad Kiyo's heads. "We do the talking here!!"
"So just be good little kids, and hand over the loot." the lynx ordered in an odd polite tone.
"And what if we don't?" Kiyoshi responded, obviously urging the thrill of a challenge.
"Then we shoot yall fucking heads off!" the raccoon shouted rowdily, shooting a shot into the air. "Starting with you first broad!"
"Oh please..." I frowned jokingly, shaking my head side to side. "This is ridiculous."
"Ay, Travion!" the lynx yelled from the doorway. "I hear the cop's sirens close by!"
"Shit!" the raccoon cursed, amusingly pissed off. "That's it! If ya give us the loot we'll just have to take it from ya by force!"
And with that outburst, that crazed rodent went haywire with that pistol of his. Just enough to get Kiyo and I riled up for a fight.
"'Bout time sugar." I grinned slyly as flew into battle, heading for the 'vulnerable' lynx. "Now I have a reason for beating the mess out of you."
I dodged the many bullets the lynx tried to aim at me... not that I needed to dodge, they were already off target...
"A nine-year-old could shoot better than you, you amateur." I scoffed almost angry at how unprofessional the robbery was. Hell, Cream could've done better than these buffoons!
"Time to end this..." I muttered as I spun into a rapid white and magenta spiral, ready to land my 'Tornado Kick' on the lynx bastard.
And just like I said, it only took one hit.
Just as the lynx fell, 'Travion' the Raccoon fell at Kiyoshi's feet as he landed on the ground beside me.
"Aw, that sucks." Kiyoshi said, snapping his fingers in disappointment. "I was kind of hoping for a intimate battle."
"Well at least the money's safe." I shrugged, not really caring.
"Freeze!" another bunch of voices bellowed.
Only this time, the Station Square Police crept into the Coin Vault, guns and hand-cuffs ready.
The 'Chief', as I like to call him, made his way to the front of the crowd.
"Culprits right here, Chief." I said before he could even mention anything.
Kiyoshi picked the two "robbers" up by their collars and handed them over to the chief and police squad.
"You Sonic Heroes never cease to surprise me." Chief stated, as a content grin began to fault on his aging face. "Great work as always."
And with that, he saluted along with the squad and left the scene with the criminals.
Once they were out of sight, Kiyoshi and I looked back at our 'hard-earned' 100,000,000 coins.
"We should probably put this up somewhere..." I murmured, leaving the idea hanging. "But both of our accounts are so full from the debts the mayor and president have paid us from our 'civil duties'."
"I got a place, to keep this." Kiyoshi smirked, taking a step towards the 'mountain'. "Just watch."
"Feh."
Within a few seconds, Kiyoshi begun to glow a jade green and with a sudden thrust of his hands the money was gone!
That teleport trick of his still gets me to this day, and I've know Kiyoshi for a little over two and a half years now. It sure does beat Sonic and Shadow's usual 'Chaos Control'. Question is... where'd he hide the coins?
"I hid it in my secret hiding place..." Kiyoshi snickered in a low tone. I knew he read my mind, the bastard.
"Um, hello?!" I questioned loudly. "How the hell am I suppose to know where it's at?! For all I know, you've could've hidden it during the Meiji Period!!"
"It's not as far away as you think..." he smirked as he walked past me and out the vault.
I was getting pissed.
"Not as far away as I–
Ring! Ring!
Actually, my ringtone was a midi version of "Song of Four Seasons" by MINMI.
"Hello?" I answered, not bothering to look at the caller ID.
"Rouge, this is Shadow."
"No shit Sherlock."
"Nevermind that. I'm up on Angel Island right now along with Knuckles and Tikal, and I was curious if you had anything to do with this whole sudden mountain of coins falling onto the altar?"
I felt a sweatdrop go down my ear.
"Ya don't say..."
w00t! I finally finished the chapter. Jeez, I had a bad writer's block on this chapter, but after playing Sonic Adventure DX for a few hours, I got some crazed ideas. (sweatdrops) Anyways, yall know the drill. Leave meaningful reviews and I'll come back soon.
