Innocence in Black and Orange

By Taiora Yaganouchi



Yes, yes, yes. insanity. for the love of Mobius! THIS is what I blow all my time on. a fic that no one will read because they probably won't understand it. Yes, I see it now. flames ablaze in poroi no mori and my mailbox!! This is a Slash or shounen ai warning. I don't know what to expect for this. Sonic the Hedgehog and all related characters and indicia are trademarks of SEGA. I don't own and have never played Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and thus have no idea of the storyline. If anyone knows where to get ISOs of the original Sonic Adventure or would like to tell me how to make my work better, please E-mail me at Jvangyzen@Yahoo.com and I will get back to you as soon as I possibly can. I also draw, so if you have any requests ask me that too! (By the way, those red things on Shadow's eyes are like ears right? My sister Pixie INSISTS that it is eye shadow!) And now, our story starts out on a dark and star filled sky.

The night was moonless being the beginning of the new moon but the stars lit the black figure's trail as he sped through the forest. There was a loud noise and an explosion suddenly filling the sky with flames. Fire swept through the forest and the figure went faster, not wanting to get caught up in the blaze. He was just about out of the fire when a small voice rang into his ears.

"Help! Please someone! Help!" The hairs on the back of his neck stiffened as he tensed up. It wasn't right to leave now. Someone was in trouble. It went against his nature to try to help, but it also went against his nature to let a helpless creature to die. So he spun around and ran back into the flaming foliage.

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A pair of crystal blue eyes opened in a small hut's bedroom. 'My house. but how?' The young male got up and looked around. It was a rough night, last night. 'Last thing I remember was that explosion and then I got caught by something on my way out of Poroi no Mori.' He examined his singed fur.

"Gee, I'm so lucky that I got out of there but who in the world saved my life? And the only part of me that hurts is my tails." He examined those too. There was a mix of ash and blood caked on to his tails. 'So that is where I got caught.' With all the excitement, he didn't have time to feel pain, just the numbing and venomous fear he felt. This had even let on some tears to be let loose from his eyes.

Miles "Tails" Prower headed to his back door. There was a pond in the back of his house and he looked at his singed fur once more before sitting down and un-buckling his shoes and slipping his socks off his feet. As he plunged into the cold pond water, his mind wandered to last night.

'I had been chasing my friends and having a fun time playing. That's when Flicky found a large black and round thing on the ground. Being an engineer, I went over to investigate when I saw it had a lit fuse I called to my friends and told them to get out of the forest. I began to run after them when the bomb exploded. I went flying from the blast and landed on my feet. So I ran being quite scared of the loud noise. this is where it gets blurry. I remember getting caught and yelling for help. I saw a figure coming towards me. I must have inhaled too much smoke and passed out but who saved me?'

He hadn't been aware of his surroundings as he thought. He was near the middle of the pond. Tails laughed when he realized this and decided to go under the water to see what he could find. Seeing nothing of interest except a few fish maybe and a bunch of sand and underwater plants, he was ready to push up to the surface.

He couldn't have been a meter and a half off the bottom when something grabbed his foot. He realized that he didn't have much air left and spun his tails to get away. But what ever had him wasn't letting go. He frantically tried to swim and flailed his arms, splashing water near the top. He heard another splash from nearby and looked towards the sound. He saw a dark figure enter the water as he let all his air loose. He was either going to drown or worse. He felt a pair of hands work at his foot as he drifted off into unconsciousness once more.

"Pr. pre. .ss b." was the sounds that Tails could hear through the water in his ears. He felt pressure being applied to his abdomen and then something warm on his lips as breath flowed into his overfilled lungs. Slowly, he began to cough up water. When he was done, he opened his heavy lids and his eyes met with bright crimson colored ones filled with a tinge of worry. Tails' eyes widened and he began to blush. Suddenly the crimson eyes snapped and Tails felt a pressure on the back of his neck. He went unconscious for the second time that day.

Tails woke up again and he found that it was about four in the afternoon. That means that he was out for about an hour. He looked around. The person who saved him wasn't there. He was in his bed and completely dry, fur ruffled. The damp towel hanging on the open windowsill explained that. Tails blushed to think that someone had taken the time to dry him off.

"Who was that?" Tails thought aloud. "I really owe that person big time. That's it! That must be the same person who saved me in Poroi no Mori! Wow," he said, "I have a guardian angel or something. How lucky I am that I do or I would be dead!" Tails grinned and blushed.

Suddenly, there was a knock at Tails' door. "Yes?" Tails asked as he opened the door. Standing there were his friends.

"Tails! Tails its Flicky! He is in trouble! Hurry, follow us!" They ran off in the direction of what was left of Poroi no Mori. Tails heard smashing sounds followed by cries for help from his birdie friend. Tails decided to go and beat the bad creature doing this terrible thing. So he ran into the clearing and jumped on top of the egg shaped creature. It sweat-dropped and went to hit Tails off. Tails jumped from the creature's head and that the thing managed to do was put a dent in its chrome dome. Flicky took this opportunity to fly away. A large clang and popping noises emitted from the robotic creature. A screw landed at Tails' feet and the robot began to sway. Tails looked up at it and realized he had no rings on him at all and that he might not be able to get out of this one. He began to run as fast as he could but too late. The thing was almost on top of him when he was pushed out of harms way. Tails kept his eyes closed when he realized a very heavy weight on him. Fortunately for the young fox, it wasn't the robot. Tails opened his eyes and saw black fur on him.

Tails immediately blushed at the fact that someone was on top of him in this kind of position. Never being in this kind of situation was one of the reasons he was uncomfortable. The others all mostly had to do with not being able to move. Although Tails had been training with his best friend, Sonic the Hedgehog, all his life, he was still far from being as strong as the ambitious hedgehog teen. And he was just fast enough to keep up with him if he pushed himself hard.

"Hey. umm. wake up. please?" Tails asked the creature. He felt stirring and then a groan. The creature lifted up its head and looked down at little Tails. Tails gasped.

"You're a. a hedgehog! Was it you? All those times?" Tails asked as the blushing hedgehog got off him. He offered Tails his hand. Tails took it and got up. "You saved me?"

"Yes." the black hedgehog replied reluctantly.

"Thanks! My name's Tails! What's yours?" Tails said happily.

"I'm Shadow the Hedgehog." the teen said.

"Oh. You're the one who." Tails eyes were wide. Shadow nodded. "Sonic told me all about you." Tails hung his head. "We all thought you died."

"I survived, but just barely. I am still recovering. I'm not nearly as strong as before."

"Oh? So now you have moved on to saving people instead?" Tails teased.

"No. I felt bad for you." Shadow said.

"You felt bad?" Tails asked. "About what?"

"You are so accident-prone." Shadow smirked.

"Hey! I'm NOT accident-prone! Listen, I think that someone is out to get me. That bomb definitely wasn't an accident and the pond wasn't an accident either. In fact, I don't get into accidents very often." Tails stated matter-of-factly.

"Oh? Is that so?" Shadow said. "Okay."

"Hey Shadow? Can you come with me to Station Square? I need to find Sonic." Tails asked.

"Sonic? Hmm. okay." Shadow looked down at Tails.

"Umm. Shadow? If it isn't too much trouble. could you. be. my bodyguard?" Tails blushed and looked down.

"Huh? Oh. why?" Shadow's eyed widened and he blushed a bit.

"Because you already have been anyway." Tails looked up at Shadow. Shadow blushed and looked away.

"Well, what's the fastest route to there from here?" Shadow asked Tails.

"Through those trees and across the bridge." Tails told him. "And then you keep going straight to get to the city limits."

"Alright. Lets go then." Shadow said, getting ready to take off. Tails twirled his tails together and let them fly him to a hover. Shadow had never seen anything like that before but they sped off anyway.