Annime: Hello!

Chiro: ….Am I still kidnapped?

Annime: Yep!

Chiro: oh snap…oh by the way, where is your yami, Kristy?

Annime: She is for Yugioh, WHICH I DON'T OWN! She takes naps when I write this stuff.

Chiro: So, who helps you?

Annime: You do, Chiro! XD

Chiro: Oh yea… How did I get myself into this, Antauri?

Antauri: I'm not sure Chiro.

Chiro: Sh**…

Chapter 9

Chiro walked through the Citadel of Bone still wondering why this was so easy. As he walked, his mind drifted to his conversation with Skeleton King. He knew it wasn't a wise thing to do, especially since he could be jumped at any given moment, but he couldn't help the fact that his mind was leaving the subject of his surroundings.

'I was going to give you anything you wanted. I would have given you half the city! Don't you understand that?' Skeleton King's voice replayed in Chiro's head.

"Yea," Chiro said bitterly. "I wanted love, care, peace, happiness. Did you give me that? No, you didn't." Chiro scowled as he continued to walk down the empty halls. "That's not what I wanted; that's not what I NEEDED. I need a loving family, a great group of friends, people around me who don't hurt me like you did." Chiro gripped his hands into fists and stopped walking. He suddenly looked up. "What's that noise?" Chiro mumbled.

The sound didn't resemble the marching of formless…it resembled the sound of…rockets?

Chiro walked to the wall and put his ear against it. The sound kept getting louder. Chiro's face took one from curiosity to fear as he realized something was about to smash through the wall. Chiro raced to the turn of the hallway, dropped to the ground, and did the position people would do in a tornado.

BOOM!

Chiro kept his head covered until the crashing sound had diseased and freebee stopped flying through the air. Chiro looked up to see what had smashed through the wall. He was excited as he saw five robot monkeys exiting the Super Robot right in front of him.

"Where is he Gibson?" Chiro heard Antauri ask.

"He should be very close," Gibson replied.

"I'm over here!" Chiro shouted with excitement. The whole team looked over at Chiro. At the sight of Chiro, their faces held a smile. They raced towards him and tackled him with hugs.

"Are you ok?" they asked.

"Did he hurt you?"

"I'm going to beat the crap outta him for this!"

But Antauri didn't ask questions or say anything; he checked Chiro for scratches and combed his fingers through his hair a couple of times. Chiro smiled at these actions and answered the rest of the team's questions.

"Where is he?" Sprx asked angrily.

"Who; do you mean Skeleton King?" Nova asked.

"Yea, I wanna give him a piece of my mind!"

"Oh, just go down the hall make a right at the second door; then go down that hall and make a left at the big huge doors," Chiro said pointing down the hallway he was just in when he was ducking.

The whole team looked at him.

"Wow, kid… you know EXACTLY where he is?" Sprx asked.

"Yea; remember: I used to live here." Chiro looked at Antauri.

"Chiro, do you mind leading us to him?" Antauri asked.

"No prob." Chiro started to walk down the hallway and motioned for the team to follow him. They could tell he had a smirk on his face as they followed him down the halls to Skeleton King's thrown room. When they finally reached the door, Chiro took the knob to his hands and pulled. The team was surprised when he opened it like it was nothing.

"Hey, Gramps, is it nice seeing me again?" Chiro said in a sarcastic tone of voice. Sprx chuckled and looked at Antauri.

"I think the kid knows how to press Skeleton King's buttons." Sprx chuckled again while Antauri smiled.

"Chiro, how did you get out?" Skeleton King shouted in anger. "It was those filthy primates, wasn't it?"

"No," Chiro said. "You'd think you would know by now that I know this place like the back of my hand, and I also know how to get out of every single one of your cells." Chiro crossed his arms and had a mocking smirk placed on his face.

Skeleton King just stared at Chiro. He didn't know what to think: Did he want to hurt the child and get him out of his way for good, or just let the child go and let the last piece of his other daughter do what they wanted to? He didn't get the chase to choose before Valina started to attack.

"He would have given you anything!" Valina cried as she started to throw dark energy balls at the monkey team. Chiro was the only one who was hit. He dodged pretty well until that one blow and then he was sent flying through the air.

"Chiro," Antauri cried out. He tried to run to the boy but Valina got the way.

"Valina," Skeleton King shouted. "I never gave the order to fire!" But Valina didn't stop; she kept firing at the monkey team and then she would turn to Chiro and fire at him. Chiro was doing pretty well again, but sadly he was hit more than once this time and was soon on the ground in pain.

The monkey team couldn't get to their leader because Valina kept firing at the poor raven haired boy.

"How dare you turn your back on us?" Valina cried again.

"A-aunt Valina; calm the freak down!" Chiro shouted. He called her 'aunt' to hopefully get her to stop firing at everything like a manic.

"Don't you EVER call me that again," Sad, Chiro's plan backfired as Valina raced towards him and slammed him against the wall. "I disown you as a nephew! You better be comfortable with those monkeys, because you are not welcome here any longer!" Chiro was turning blue from lack of air, and the monkeys were now finally able to help him.

"Monkey Mind Scream," Antauri yelled. Valina yelped in pain as the shot hit her and scrambled to the ground clutching her head. Chiro fell to the ground and started to breath heavily. Antauri and Gibson raced to Chiro to see if he was ok while Otto, Sprx, and Nova made sure Valina stayed down.

"Valina," Skeleton King spoke. "I never gave you permission to fire at my grandson!"

Antauri looked at Skeleton King with confusion. Then he realized: Skeleton King had always loved Chiro, even in his own sick and twisted way.

"Hyper Force," Skeleton King continued. "Please go and make sure Chiro is taken care of; I'll take care of Valina. The monkey team was very surprised by this, but did as Skeleton King asked and left for the Robot.

Once the team had left, Skeleton King looked over at Valina. He levitated her towards him and made her look him in the eye. She was scared, he could tell.

"How DARE you attack the boy?" Skeleton King shook Valina.

"Why do you still care for him?" Valina asked. Then, a scowl fell upon her face. "Is it because he's the son of your favorite daughter?"

Skeleton King went silent. He then slammed her against the wall, very hard, and said,

"You fire before I tell you to again, I will REALLY punish you." He dropped Valina to the ground and ordered her out of the room.

"Yes," Skeleton King muttered when he was finally alone. "He is my favorite daughter's son."

At the Robot:

Chiro lay in the sick bay past out from all the harsh hits that landed on him during the fight with Valina.

"Do you think he will be ok?" Nova asked Gibson.

"He will be fine," Gibson said with a neutral voice.

Antauri looked at the child with sympathy. He wouldn't have understood how a boy with that kind of environment could be so very sweet if had never meet Chiro. Antauri sighed, which caused Nova and Sprx to look in his direction.

"What's the matter, Antauri?" Sprx asked. Antauri looked from Sprx back to Chiro and sighed again.

"His grandfather; he loves the boy but…he just shows it in the only way he knows how." Antauri looked from Nova to Sprx, then back to Chiro. He was able to see the shocked look on Nova's face and strong denial and aggravation on Sprx's.

"Antauri, I respect you, but you must have lost your mind," Sprx said. "He wanted Chiro to learn his ways just for his advantage, not because he loved him. He probably NEVER loved Chiro." Sprx crossed his arms stubbornly but Antauri didn't look at him.

"I'll take Chiro to his room," Antauri said. He started to levitate the young leader and took him out of the sick bay to his room.

"Sprx," Nova muttered angrily.

"What?" Sprx questioned.

Nova just shook her head and left the room.

"I'm going to bed. It's 12 o'clock in the morning, and I'm exhausted," Nova said as she walked into her tube and shot up to her room.

"Agreed; we could all use some sleep." Gibson nodded and walked to his tube as well. Otto followed, leaving Sprx in the sick bay.

'Maybe Antauri was right,' Sprx thought. The crimson monkey shrugged and walked to his own room for some much needed rest.

With Antauri and Chiro:

Antauri laid the hurt boy on his bed and tucked him into the covers. He sat on Chiro's bed and thought about the happenings of today. He shook his head. EVERYTHING bad was happening to Chiro, and Antauri was stressed about not being able to help him. Antauri lay down next to Chiro and looked at him. He smiled at how innocent Chiro was when he slept and soon drifted off next to the child.

Annime: Am I repeating crap or something?

Chiro: (Shrugs.) Why does everything bad happen to me in EVERY Srmthfg fanfic you write?

Annime: Cause, I like putting the main characters into angst…..XD

Chiro: Oh F**k!

Antauri: Chiro!

Chiro: (Nervous laugh.) Sorry Antauri!

Gibson: Please Review! And Annime doesn't own Srmthfg.

Antauri: (Sternly and lovingly scowls Chiro for bad language.)

Annime: …