Chapter 26:

Caring For The Hurt

The yellow kitsune ran to her front door and stopped to catch her breath. There must be something wrong with me. She thought. Tails smacked her head on the door once. The bang woke Sonic up. The blue hedgehog looked over to see his wife-to-be, she was not there. He lept from the bed and dashed to the door to go find her. Tails' head lean against the door and when Sonic flung it open the fox head butted him in the gut. He staggered backwards and rubbed his stomach.

"Geez Koko, what were you doing out?" Sonic coughed.

Tails blushed a deep embarrassing red. "I-I went to see my brother." She stuttered.

"Why?" Sonic asked, trying to stand up straight.

"Well, I couldn't sleep so I thought I could go talk to him for a while." Her blush was getting redder by the second as she played back the ecstatic event. Tails entered her apartment and shut the door.

"And?" Sonic said.

Tails looked back to him. "And...thats it." The fox concluded.

The hedgehog's eyes looked upon her slyly. "Right...why the blush then?"

Tails gulped. "I didn't actually talk to him."

"Huh?" At this point Sonic was beyond baffled.

"I...uhh...I can't tell you. Or...I shouldn't tell you."

Sonic thought it over for a minute, and tried out what Yoshirou does when he is thinking hard on a topic. He scratched the side of his muzzle with his pointer finger, then grinned devilishly, the answer came to him. "Sex then?"

Tails shut her eyes angrily, flipped Sonic the bird, and walked past him to the room. Sonic laughed to the gesture she gave him and followed her to the room. The golden kitsune was already under the blankets, wishing that she never perceived what she did. More or less take part in her own way. Sonic sat down next to the scarred kitsune. He set a hand on her back and petted it.

"Its okay, hon. It is apparent you didn't want to see that." Sonic comforted.

"Its not okay Sonic." Tails slid herself out from under the cover and held out her right glove to Sonic. "Feel." She said simply.

Sonic placed her hands on her fingers. "Oh."

"Ugh! I am disgusting..." Tails groaned.

"Well, you seem to have had fun. And I wo-" Sonic was cut off by the kitchen phone ringing. "Hang on a sec." Sonic said. He stood up and Tails pulled the covers over herself again. Five rings later the hedgehog picked up.

"Hello?" Sonic asked.

"Hey Sonic."

"Amy? Whats with the late night call?"

"Could I speak to Tails? I think there is something she needs to know."

Sonic started off to the room. "About?"

"Her brother." After those words she bit down on her thumb.

Sonic walked in the room and pulled the covers off Tails. "Its for you." He offered her the phone.

She snatched it from his hand. "Yeah?" Tails said rudely.

"Hey Tails, uh, I don't know how to put this." Worry was in Amy's voice.

"What, whats wrong?"

Sonic POV:

I sat down on the bed and tried to listen in on their conversation. Amy was quiet for once, usually she was a loud mouth, no offense to her. The way Ames was speaking had me a bit worried, had something happened to Yoshirou? I leaned in closer to the phone. Whispers became a little louder, but not much. Tails growled at me when my ear was pressed up to the phone. She shook her fist at me and I backed off. I truly think she is on her period. I did catch, however, that Amy was speaking fast. Like she was in a panic.

"Amy, calm down." Tails said.

It must be really bad. I thought. Tails eyes quickly darted over to the locket then straight forward again. She then cocked her brow. I was very curious to what they were saying. I wished Tails had a second phone somewhere in the house.

"Naniwoiutennen?!" Tails nearly shouted.

This quickly grabbed my attention. What was Amy talking about? I fidgeted a little, it was killing me. I watched Tails' eyes grow wide and her mouth hang agape. The phone slid out of her hand, it dropped on the bed, bounced, and landed on the floor with a thud.

I grabbed Kokoro by her shoulders and shook her gently. "What, what, what??"

Tails' shoulders fell slack. I thought she was about to cry, but her expression was that of great shock. I released Tails and picked up the phone off the floor.

"Amy? You still there?" I asked.

A long silence, followed by a quiet: "Yes."

"Something you need to tell me?" I asked, wanting to know the whole story.

Tails POV:

I watched Sonic walk from the room. I was so mixed up. I couldn't make heads or tails of anything anymore. I tried to expel the thoughts, I wanted to so badly. The truth was burned in my head though. I could have live in ignorance, truly, I could have. Amy, though, a part of me feels so thankful for telling me. But, what of Yoshirou? Would he have ever told me the truth? His secret?

"What?" Sonic said seriously.

This was way too much for me to digest. Sure the other's took it by surprise about my secret. Was his at a greater level though? I took a deep, shaky breath. Not to calm myself down, just to help my stomach settle. What was the world coming to? I thought. Sonic walked back into the room, the phone wasn't in his hand.

Normal POV:

"Tails...do you want to go see your brother?" Sonic gently asked.

It took a while for her to speak a response. "I think we should."

"Okay then."

The blue hedgehog picked Tails up into his arms. Tails' chin rested on his shoulder, staring blankly at the world around her. Sonic gave her a scratch behind her ears.

"It'll be okay, Koko. I promise, we all have our secrets. It is just someone else's turn to open up." Sonic started out the bed room and then out the apartment. "Yoshirou is still the same person. Just, a bit different than you thought." Sonic forced a small smile.

He walked over to the elevator. Tails wrapped her arms around his neck. "Sonic, do you have any secrets?" Tails asked in her sweet tone of voice.

"Who doesn't? No one is an open book Tails."

"Then, could you name one for me?"

"Uh, er, hmm...Well, this was a really long time ago. It was the time I first rescued Amy. I actually had a thing for her, way back when. That is, until she became clingy. That doesn't matter anymore though. I have you, my love." Sonic said, pressing the button to go down.

hearing such things made Tails' concern evaporated slowly. She smiled and kissed his neck. "I am eternally grateful. Sonic."

"Me too, sweetheart." Sonic lovingly replied.

The elevator doors opened and Sonic stepped in. It was quiet all the way down to the lobby and outside. A chilling cold throughout the city. Why was it so cold all the sudden? Sonic thought. He knew this was going to be cold, but it was for Tails. Sonic dashed of into the streets of the city. The cold pierced beneath Tails' second coat and nipped at her skin. Sonic was tearing in his eyes, for the cold weather was drying them out. To Sonic it seemed like it had taken a lot longer to get to Amy's house. Even though it was only a short, thirty second run. Sonic set the yellow fox down and Quickly rubbed on his arms to warm them up.

Tails stopped him from doing that. "Easy Sonic, we're right here." Tails took his hand and went to knock on the door. It took a few knock, but Amy answered the door. The expression on her face was surprise.

"I didn't expect to see you two over." Amy said ushering them in the house.

They stepped in. Tails looked to the dinning room table. Yoshirou sat at the table with a cup of coffee in his hands. The white and double red striped cup rattled against the wood table. The golden kitsune's initial thought was on a caffeine hype. The expression on his face, however, said otherwise. The blue kitsune's sister gingerly walked over to his side.

Tails cleared her throat. "Big brother? Yoshirou? Are you okay?"

The yellow fox noticed that Yoshirou was sitting on his tails and from his crotch they were wrapped around his waist. Tails set a hand on his shoulder and rubbed on it. This then turned into a hug. Yoshirou hugged her back and picked her up in his arms. Tails' tails smacked the cup on the way up and spilled the black coffee over on the table. Yoshirou started to cry over his sister's shoulder.

Sonic took a seat on the couch. Amy went and got him a blanket, seeing how his arms had a tin layer of frost on them. She tossed it over his shoulders and from the point Sonic wrapped up in the blanket. The pink hedgehog sat down next to Sonic, taking the occasional quick glance up to Yoshirou.

"God, he's terrified." Amy whispered.

Once Sonic warmed up enough her turned to her slightly and spoke. "Have you talked to him yet?"

"Could you? Right when I mentioned what I had discovered, he turned into this."

Sonic closed his eyes. "I never would have guessed."

Amy gulped, and set her palms over her eyes. There would be no sleep tonight. Tails pat on her brother's back trying desperately to calm him down. This is one of the heaviest blows the fox ever thought she would see.

Yoshirou clenched his teeth together. "God I'm sorry." He whimpered.

"Its okay, big bro. I have secrets too. Don't beat yourself up over this one. We are the only ones who need to know about this. Its okay." Tails was pinching off a few tears herself.

After about ten minutes or so more, Yoshirou at last calmed down. He was still very shaky, but that was just about it. Sonic stood up, with the blanket still wrapped, he walked over to the kitsune and patted his shoulder.

"You'll be fine, Yoshirou. This secret is safe with us." Sonic said.

Yoshirou nodded slightly.

Amy stood and came to his side. She kissed him tenderly. "Yoshirou, this is nothing more than a bump in the road. I still love you." She reassured him.

"But, this changes so much about me...and...I don't see how-" Yoshirou stared.

Amy put a finger to his lips and hushed him. "I. Love. You." She said smiling.

""So...were you born like this?" Tails asked.

"No, Dr. Robotnik tested on me with chaos radiation, from the emeralds. He was planning on finishing the job until I escaped."

"What do you mean by, 'finish'?" Amy put in.

"I'd rather not say, it might be worse than what I have right now." The blue kitsune said without making eye contact.

"Well...this just make it a little more interesting for me." Amy blushed.

Yoshirou's heart sank, he knew what she was implying. That dildo of Amy's was about to find a new home in the accursed chasm of his. He now holds a grudge against Robotnik.

Yeah, I know, weird. But, you don't have to read it. I'll keep going, however, regardless.