Love And Hate
Chapter 3

~First off, I would like to thank everyone who were kind enough to reply to me with mice comments. For all you people that flamed me. CAN'T YOU READ? There was a warning in the summery, for crying out loud!!! Now, onto the importent stuff. Only four of the characters in this story belong to me. Nanami, Gindion, Twelve, and Thirteen. They are MINE. The rest belong to Capcom, and any other companies that have rights to them. My interpretations of these characters, is just that. And interpretation. It is not the actual ideas of the companies that own them. And now, onto the story!~

It had been weeks since Zero's disappearance. X spent every moment he could, searching the ruins of Sigma's fortress....for any sign of Zero...or the two Mavericks.....
He sighed lightly....the first day...of the fourth week,....he was beginning to lose hope.....
"Maybe I was wrong....maybe I don't love him...."he said to himself...."Maybe I shouldn't love him....he'd never except me....." He laid his head down in his hands, trying not to cry again.....then....a the soft sound of Reploid boots....off in the shadows.....
X snapped to attention, peering off into the shadows...."Zero?"
A flash of emerald glow in the shadows.....and the crimson clad Reploid stepped into the open.
"Zero!" X jumped up, running over to him, hugging him, "I thought you were dead!! Where have you been?" He shouted, happiness blinding him.....Zero just stood there, looking down at X with hate in his eyes....a emerald glow flaring up into his eyes.....and then with one quick motion of his hand.....X was smacked away.....
"Do no touch me, Hunter." a monotone voice....like Zero's....yet unlike....
"But....Zero....it's me....X...."the surprise in X's voice was evident.....as he sat there, where he landed.
"I know this. You are a fool X. You, and your petty emotions. All you Hunters are alike. You aren't human. You can't feel! You can't love!" A smirk formed on Zero's now cruel face.... "All Hunters deserve to die!" With that, Zero leapt into the air, beam sabre ignited, and held up into the air......
X rolled away, just in time....as the tip of Zero's sabre pierced the ground where he had been. "Zero?! Why....I don't understand!!" His hand retracted into his buster....power charging into it.
"Why?! Because of who I am! What I am! Does the glow not tell you anything, fool!" He swung the sabre towards X....a deep slash forming across X's midsection....and X fell backwards....but still...he charged up the buster.....
"...you're.....Maverick....." He growled through clenched teeth....
"Hmmm.....you win...." he turned off the beam sabre.....walking towards X.....
X held the buster ready.....but....did he really want to hurt Zero.....Maverick or not....he still loved Zero.....
When Zero reached X, he held out his hand.....helping X up....and then he stood there....looking into X's eyes.....
X blushed slightly....those feelings rising up again.....and he thought..."Why doesn't he kill me....why is he just looking at me like that.....?"
Then....Zero's arms were around X's waist....his lips upon X's.....X's eyes went wide with shock....but....then he gave in....this is what he had always wanted.....he returned the kiss....his arms going around Zero's neck.
And that's how they stood....arm in arm....until...out of the shadows.....
X's eyes went wide again.....a muffled scream of pain.....a Zero let go of him....the smirk back on his face.....and X slid off of Gindion's claws....which had been slammed into his back.....
"Good work...Zero..." Gindion stood there.....his boyish face covered by an evil grin
"But.....Zero....I....." X lay on the ground....bleeding.....
"You are a fool...." Zero sent a kick towards X's midsection....causing more blood to fall from the wound.....then...he walked off into the shadows with Gindion.....
And there X lay....coughing up blood.....the wound to great...even for his autoheal....and he cried....tears mixing on the ground..with the fallen blood....

~Well....what do you think? Poor, poor X. It makes me sad, and I'm the one that wrote it. Oh yeah....sorry about it taking this chapter so long to be put up. I was away for a looonnggg time.~