Frost: I am so sorry it has taken this long to get this chapter up, I've just been swamped with school work!

Sonic: But you don't do any work

Frost: Not true, I wrote one page of work today

Shadow: What did you do for the rest of the day?

Frost:...Read fanfictions...

Silver: Shame on you

Frost: School's boring!

Sonic: You still have to do it

Frost: Not for long I won't *holds up a lighter*

Shadow: WHOA! No burning down buildings Frost!

Frost: Why?

Sonic: One word...Jail

Frost: *sigh* Fine

Silver: Good boy, Frost doesn't own us, Sega does

Shadow: Please review and send in requests

Sonic sobbed as he sat under a large tree deep in the forest. His tears flowed like a river down his face and his heart hurt terribly. He felt like someone had punched a hole right through his chest and it made it hard to breath. A small part of him felt bad for snapping at his friends like he had, they didn't know about his childhood so he shouldn't have taken out his anger on them but another part of him was just so angry at them.

"They don't understand what it feels like to be alone" he muttered darky to himself as the sobs died down to just a few sniffs. "They always got love and care while I had to struggle to stay alive"

But it's not their fault a voice in the back of his head argued making Sonic sigh and his anger to vanish. He really wished he hadn't woken up this morning and had just stayed in bed. Brushing the last of his tears away he buried the pain inside once again like he always did. He didn't even feel the pain anymore and he didn't even want to try and get over it cause it just hurt too much.

"You know, I never thought I'd see the day where a hero would cry" a voice said making Sonic jump and turn his head to the right in shock. Leaning against a tree was none other than Shadow the hedgehog. A scowl worked its way onto Sonic's face and he bared his teeth in anger.

"What do you want?' he snapped making Shadow raise an eyebrow but otherwise keep a blank face.

"The others sent me to bring you back but I had a feeling you needed to get some things off your chest. Care to explain?" Shadow questioned as he walked closer and Sonic felt his walls that he built up around his heart and soul rise in defence.

"I don't need to tell you" he growled. Shadow didn't even react to the others anger and just sat down in front of him and stared right into his eyes.

"Your right, you don't need to tell me, but I think you should. Doesn't help if you keep it all lock up" Shadow said gently and watched as Sonic seemed to explode.

"Oh like you know? Do you know how it feels when I see everyone with their families and knowing I will never get to feel the same love? Do you know how much it hurts knowing that I don't have a mother or a father? And do you know how hard it was growing up on the streets for me, struggling to survive while they all lived the life of easy going and good times?" Sonic ranted as he stood up and began to pace back and forth.
Shadow remained silent throughout it and just watched as the child got all his pent up emotions out. Sonic slowly began to calm down from his anger and before long he was breathing slow and deep and looking much calmer than he had before.

"Feeling better?" Shadow asked with a small knowing smile making Sonic send him a sharp look.

"Yeah actually, I do. How'd you know that would help?" he asked making Shadow scoff and roll his ruby red eyes.

"Remember, I lost Maria and went through a very dark part of my life. I might not know how it feels to live all alone for a while but I know how it feels to know something is missing" he explained before standing and walking towards where the house was. Sonic watch carefully with a frown and making Shadow turn to face him with a raised eyebrow.

"Well, are you coming or not faker?" he snapped making Sonic smile slightly and scowl at him as well.

"I'm not the faker here, you are!" he yelled before taking off back to the house. Shadow watched him go with a small smile before his trademark scowl was back and he raced off after the boy. When he reached the house he saw the others apologising to Sonic who brushed of their kind words quickly saying he wasn't mad anymore.

"You guys didn't know so I don't blame you" he said with a smile.

"We're still really sorry Sonic" Tails said.

'Yeah and I shouldn't have said those things about your parents and you" Knuckles said sheepishly while rubbing the back of his neck. Sonic watched him with his bright emerald eyes before he felt something inside him shift and he gave a small smile.

"I don't remember them you know. I think they were shot because if I think hard enough I can hear the gun shot and a scream buts that's all" Sonic explained making them all look slightly horrified but more sad than anything, "But while it hurts knowing I will never get to know them or see them I still have family, it just took me a while to see it"

They all smiled at his answer and surrounded him in a big group hug. Silver even managed to drag Shadow into it much to the ebony's annoyance but he didn't fight it, just scowled angrily but if you looked close enough you could see a small smile playing on his face.

"We're each other's family now" Tails beamed up at everyone as they all nodded in agreement.

"And family looks out for each other" Blaze smiled while ruffling Sonic's quills making the child give a shout and pull away from her while a playful scowl worked its way onto his face.

"Blaze" he whined making everyone laugh in joy. Sonic smiled as well because for the first time in his life he finally knew what it felt like to have a family and feel loved. He finally knew what everyone else was feeling and he loved it and was going to do everything he could to make sure his family was safe and happy. He had finally found that missing piece, he was finally whole again.