Golden-Blue Neko
Chapter 1 - Attraction at First Sight
"speech" [thoughts] {PET terminal stuff} ^caller/receiver according to POV^
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The Friday afternoon sun shone brightly without obtrusive clouds in its territory. Two acquaintances squared off in a match that was highly popular at this time.
Net Battles.
Two voices echoed concurrently, "Megaman! Jack in! Power up!!" "Kurohi! Jack in! Execute!!" The first was a male, of course. He was a brown-haired kid by the name of Lan. The second was also male, with black hair and astoundingly yellow-golden eyes. He was new to the school they went to, and came from America, but he was born in Japan. It was lunch-time, and what better time to Net Battle?
In the arena, blue eyes met green. The opponent of Megaman, Kurohi, had spiky brown hair that was crowned with silver near his forehead. Strangely enough, he wore no helmet of any kind, but he wore silver armor. A long tail was evident due to its bright color - orange with one black stripe and two blotches - one at the base of his tail and one at the tip. The stripe sat closest to the tip. Said tail swished back and forth in excitement.
(A/N: Kurohi. Means "black fire". Pronounced: "koo-rloh-hee", &, no, that's not a typo. All Japanese "r"s have a kinda quiet "l" roll, but it's definitely there.)
Kurohi grinned, showing a feline fang. "I've been waiting for someone like you to fight, Megaman." Slowly, he circled the Navi, eyeing him with large blue eyes. "I'll be nice and give you a friendly warning - I'm full of surprises despite my looks. Despite the fact that even my head is unguarded, I am not a pushover. However, there is one fact that neither my friend nor I love to face, and that is the fact we don't always win our battles. Then again, don't we all...?" He stopped wide-circling the Net Navi, and stopped a few meters away, in front of him. "Now, let's fight! May the best Navi win!"
Kurohi lunged at Megaman, who unleashed a flurry of energy shots. Kurohi dodged to one side. His friend quickly downloaded a plain sword, and it somehow took the form of a jagged blade. Was it a virus or a bug in his customization? The strange blade came down on the ground just in front of the Net-Navi, who flipped backwards and Lan downloaded an electric blade of his own. Megaman's blade was straight and it collided with the jagged one.
The opposing Net-Navigator smirked and broke Megaman's blade in two by adding more power to his push on his own sword with a sharp, "Haa!" The shards and the snapped blade disappeared from view like a deleted virus.
Megaman then used the M Buster, a long range weapon that could use a charged shot. The PET used it against the jagged sword, but it was simply no match for the other's uncanny speed and power. How he got so fast was beyond his comprehension. Again, maybe it was the customization that the Net-Navi underwent.
Kurohi lunged, but his opponent danced to the side. The blue-eyed one turned his head around to see that graceful, well-practiced movement and felt a wall collide with the side of his face a beat later. His eyes widened and he fell on his back, staring blankly to one side.
Megaman chuckled softly. Kurohi sat up and clutched one silver-gloved hand to his face. "Owwww......"
"If you had been given a helmet, maybe that wouldn't have hurt, Kurohi."
"Yeah, yeah. You win, Megaman." He rubbed the back of his head and started to fade.
{Kurohi, logging out.}
Lan's Personal Terminal paused a moment. [What's up with him?]
{Megaman, logging out.}
The gold-eyed boy, the one with Kurohi, retracted his cable from the slot and looked at his new friend, Lan Hikari. "Good fight, Lan. Kurohi and I just need more practice."
"Yeah! Megaman whipped me good!" muttered Kurohi, his chuckling appearance back against the PET's basic blue background. "Then again, *I* was the one who didn't watch where I was going!" He added another chuckle to his statement. "I had fun, though! Let's play again, Megaman!"
Lan chuckled and looked at his new friend. He fixed his hat. "Well, if you need to practice, I can see if we can go to Yai's."
"Em? Yai?"
"A nice girl, and she's really rich. She also has a few cool things... a few being an understatement!
"Anyway, it just occurred to me. What's your name?"
"Nekome."
"Cat Eye? Weird..."
The boy frowned and tucked a spike of black hair out of his eyes. His frown evolved into a glare. He almost growled low in his throat.
"Oh, okay, okay! Jeez!"
"Lan!" shouted Megaman. "We were supposed to meet the others five minutes ago!!"
"Aww, man!" groaned the boy. Late again! "C'mon, Nekome!" He dashed off.
Nekome paused and sighed. He shook his head and followed, running alongside Lan. He clipped his PET to his belt loop and they soon came upon a shady area. Three people sat together in that darkness.
"Sorry I'm late, guys! Just getting to know the new kid from our class!"
"Oh, really? Hi there!" a redheaded girl chimed at Nekome. He blinked and sighed.
"Hello," he murmured softly with a gentle uncertainty. These people were... different. Different wasn't necessarily bad, but sometimes, it could get that way. "Again, my name is Nekome, and I apologize for delaying Lan-kun from your presence. I wanted to Net Battle him, so that's why he's late. Again, I'm sorry." He bowed his head politely.
"Eh, no harm done, cutie," replied the redhead.
[Cutie...?] He sat down. "So, who are you all?"
Lan chuckled. "The blonde is Yai, the redhead is Meiru, and the guy is Dex."
They greeted him verbally and some of them started back up conversation with each other. Nekome pulled out his terminal. "Ah, how about we let our Net-Navis get acquainted?"
~~~POV change~~~
"Yo!" chimed Kurohi, fussing with a spike of brown hair. It kept on flopping in the middle. "How's it hangin'? M'names Kurohi!"
"Of course you know me, Kurohi!" said Megaman. "These are friends of mine: Roll, Gutsman, and Glide."
He bowed his head once, which, surprisingly, fixed his hair-spike. "A pleasure to meet you all. I hope we can become great friends, ne?"
Lan's PET smiled. "Yeah, and you're one heckava Net Fighter. I almost thought I'd lose to you."
Kurohi shrugged and messed with a spiky silver shoulder pad. "So bothersome... ah..." He pressed a button with an eye on it on his chest and the armor disappeared. He was clad in a pair of jeans and a blue button-up shirt with a gray dragon on it. He stretched. "Much better... I still can't believe I'm a Net-Navi." He smirked then blinked widely at their confused expressions. He chuckled and shrugged. "What's the big deal?"
"We don't understand what you mean, Kurohi," said Megaman, striding over. He still wore his blue armor. "Us Net-Navigators are programmed and are used to it the day we are programmed into the terminal..."
"Ara! Ore! I was once a human." (A/N: ara = oh!, ore = that)
Megaman frowned. "Eh?"
The Net-Navi turned boy sighed. "I was hit by a car, and my brother, Nekome, being the genius that he is, had come up with a way to summon the consciousness and transfer it into a PET terminal. He had tried it on himself once and it had been successful.
"Anyway, after I was hit, and after I was shuttled into the hospital, there was nothing they could do to heal my wounds. I was going to die..."
"So, Nekome transferred your mind into a terminal?"
Kurohi nodded. "Hai." (A/N: hai = yes)
"But, if you're not used to it, how are you so good at fighting?" asked blue-boy.
"Oh, that's easy. Before I died, I liked to train at the martial arts in our room... Mostly my speed rather than power, though. It isn't my style. I'm also pyrokinetic, due to long hours of meditation."
By now, his eyes were half-shut. Megaman took note of a soft glistening in his eyes. Kurohi turned away to wipe his face, but he made it look like he was messing with his bangs. After a moment, he turned around.
"Oh! I think Yai's calling me! Bye!"
{Glide, logging out}
"Uh, yeah, um...Ja!"
{Gutsman, logging out}
"See ya later, Kurohi, I think it's time for me to remind Meiru to brush up on that test later today! Ja ne!"
{Roll, logging out}
Kurohi blinked, the gleam in his eyes again. He looked to Megaman. "W...what did I say? Did I say something wrong?"
The green-eyed one shook his head. "I don't think you did. I just think that they think you're a little too different to get used to at the drop of a hat. After all, a human's mind as a Net Navi isn't common."
The young one blinked and sat down on the digital ground. His tail swished left and right. "So, I'm different. Sheeze, all I wanted was some friends that I could talk to and play with! K'so!" (A/N: kuso (the "u" is whispered the way he said it) = Shit!, Damn it!) He pounded the floor with his tail.
Megaman, being kind of curious, grabbed the thrashing limb.
To his surprise, it went slack, and he heard a soft sound coming from the boy. He chuckled and petted the tail. "You like that?"
"Mmmmm... greatly..." his head fell against the warrior's shoulder; he breathed carefully to hold back louder noises. "Yameruna..."
(A/N: yameru = stop, na (at the end of a verb or something, I guess) = negative [aka: don't], so, "yameruna" means "don't stop")
"Okay..." he stroked the tip of it, and jerked with a start as Kurohi whimpered with a loud cry, back arching slightly.
"Boku no Kami-sama, Mega..man..." He breathed deeply and growled. The Net- Navi's scent fluttered against him.
(A/N: Boku no = my, Kami-sama = God)
He pried himself away, slowly. He turned to the Navi, tail arched into a question mark. "Why were you doing that?"
"I could see the sadness in your eyes. Did you lose someone?" he asked suddenly.
He shrugged and sighed. "Um, I had a... a boyfriend."
"So, you're..."
"Gay? Yeah."
Megaman blinked. "Oh. Okay."
[Hm? Just "Okay" not Oh gawd! A perv!"?] "You're okay with me, right?"
"Sure. Whatever you like."
Kurohi stood up, head cocked in a feline's expression of curiosity or interest. He grinned almost cockily and offered his hand. The other Navi took it in his firm grasp and was immediately hoisted to his feet.
The Navi-turned-boy released the hand and gazed softly at the Navi. He blinked once before mumbling his thanks and logging out.
***
"You planning on going to bed, Lan?"
The boy stretched and proceeded to change into his PJs. "Yeah. It's Friday night, and as much as I'd like to stay up, getting up early all school year and waking up late just to roller-blade really quickly to a class I'm already late for really drains me. At times, I'd like to be on time for classes for once. It's not MY fault I'm not a morning person."
"Okay, okay... But, Lan, it's only eight at night."
"Hm, maybe I'll just watch some TV before I decide to call it a night, then." When he finished changing, he proceeded his way downstairs, taking his PET with him.
A kind of shrill noise broke the silence. His mother had already gone to bed with his father, who only had minimal work to be done at the time.
Lan jacked Megaman into the phone and answered it. "Moshi-moshi?"
(A/N: Hello?)
^Is Lan there?^
"This is him. Who is this?"
^Nekome desu,^ replied the gentle voice. (A/N: It's Nekome.)
"Ne-Nekome?? How did you get this number?"
^I asked Meiru for it... I hope you don't mind,^ he replied sheepishly. On the other end, he grinned guiltily.
Lan frowned slightly. "Why didn't you just ask me?"
The other boy was silent. He frowned, then the grin came back. ^I guess it just slipped my mind?^ he offered.
The male sighed. "Jeez, just, next time, if you need a number, ask the person directly... It's rather odd to answer the phone to an 'unknown' voice."
^Oh, gomen ne. I'll do that next time.^
"Anyway, what's up?" he asked, lightening the mood.
^Nothin' much, but is your schedule open tomorrow? I'd kinda like to get to know the layout of this town with someone and I'm not too comfortable asking Meiru, Dex or Yai...^ He omitted the reason and blocked his own thoughts of "why" out of his mind.
"Sure, but, just so you know, I sleep in."
^Ha! So do I! Ironic, I thought you didn't! Jaa, how's one to two in the afternoon?^
(A/N: Jaa = So,)
"One's great! How about we meet at the park?"
^The one near the middle of town, kinda close to the school? Sure thing. I at least know where *that* is.^
Lan nodded. "Okay. Hey, Megaman! Did you get that time?"
"Hai! 'Meet Nekome at the park, one PM'."
The boy grinned. "Okay, we got it, Nekome! See you then!"
^Chotto matte yo! Kurohi would like to talk to Megaman, if that's okay.^ (A/N: Wait a minute!!)
Lan blinked at his PET. "Um, I guess. Megaman?"
"I'll be there. Your homepage, Lan?"
Lan nodded. "Nekome, you know where my homepage is?"
^I think I saw it before. Was it kinda close to ACDC Square?^
"Uh-huh."
^All right. Buh-bye!^
"Ja ne!"
Lan hung it up. "Go on ahead, Megaman. I'll still be up to get you jacked- out."
Megaman nodded. "Thanks, Lan."
~~~~~~
Kurohi paced around the area, tail swishing anxiously. Sure, in the real world, he had had a boyfriend, but somehow, things actually HADN'T felt all that right, but with Megaman...
He shook his head. [No! I need to know him, first! I'm still...]
"You wanted to talk to me?"
The boy stopped pacing and turned. He nodded. "Um, yeah, I did. Etou..."
(A/N: Etou = Umm...)
The Navi sighed tiredly. "Nani?"
"I wanna get to know you."
Megaman blinked. "That's all? Maa, what can I tell you?"
(A/N: Well,)
"Favorite color?"
"Blue."
"Cool! That's my fav! How about... part of the net?" asked Kurohi. His tail swished.
"There's an area that's linked to the park."
"Neat. Will you show me sometime?" the boy queried, tail flicking left and right.
The Navi smiled. "Sure thing! How about when your brother and Lan go to the park in the real world?"
Kurohi smiled wistfully. "Sure..."
An arm encircled his shoulders in a brotherly hug. "Look, it'll be okay. You'll eventually get used to this." Kurohi could easily feel the Navi's warmth through his shirt.
His smile brightened. "Okay. Thank you." [Nekome managed to download some of the designs of my old clothes right after I kicked it. I'll wear some of that nice stuff I got tomorrow.]
The Navi continued to smile. "You're welcome."
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Not too bad for a first chapter? Reviews welcome, but I don't appreciate flames. They make me get pissed off & I tend to flame right back in the next chapter, so, please, do not flame. I hate bitching @ others.
Started 12:49PM, 7/12/03
Finished:10:32PM, 8/16/03
Chapter 1 - Attraction at First Sight
"speech" [thoughts] {PET terminal stuff} ^caller/receiver according to POV^
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The Friday afternoon sun shone brightly without obtrusive clouds in its territory. Two acquaintances squared off in a match that was highly popular at this time.
Net Battles.
Two voices echoed concurrently, "Megaman! Jack in! Power up!!" "Kurohi! Jack in! Execute!!" The first was a male, of course. He was a brown-haired kid by the name of Lan. The second was also male, with black hair and astoundingly yellow-golden eyes. He was new to the school they went to, and came from America, but he was born in Japan. It was lunch-time, and what better time to Net Battle?
In the arena, blue eyes met green. The opponent of Megaman, Kurohi, had spiky brown hair that was crowned with silver near his forehead. Strangely enough, he wore no helmet of any kind, but he wore silver armor. A long tail was evident due to its bright color - orange with one black stripe and two blotches - one at the base of his tail and one at the tip. The stripe sat closest to the tip. Said tail swished back and forth in excitement.
(A/N: Kurohi. Means "black fire". Pronounced: "koo-rloh-hee", &, no, that's not a typo. All Japanese "r"s have a kinda quiet "l" roll, but it's definitely there.)
Kurohi grinned, showing a feline fang. "I've been waiting for someone like you to fight, Megaman." Slowly, he circled the Navi, eyeing him with large blue eyes. "I'll be nice and give you a friendly warning - I'm full of surprises despite my looks. Despite the fact that even my head is unguarded, I am not a pushover. However, there is one fact that neither my friend nor I love to face, and that is the fact we don't always win our battles. Then again, don't we all...?" He stopped wide-circling the Net Navi, and stopped a few meters away, in front of him. "Now, let's fight! May the best Navi win!"
Kurohi lunged at Megaman, who unleashed a flurry of energy shots. Kurohi dodged to one side. His friend quickly downloaded a plain sword, and it somehow took the form of a jagged blade. Was it a virus or a bug in his customization? The strange blade came down on the ground just in front of the Net-Navi, who flipped backwards and Lan downloaded an electric blade of his own. Megaman's blade was straight and it collided with the jagged one.
The opposing Net-Navigator smirked and broke Megaman's blade in two by adding more power to his push on his own sword with a sharp, "Haa!" The shards and the snapped blade disappeared from view like a deleted virus.
Megaman then used the M Buster, a long range weapon that could use a charged shot. The PET used it against the jagged sword, but it was simply no match for the other's uncanny speed and power. How he got so fast was beyond his comprehension. Again, maybe it was the customization that the Net-Navi underwent.
Kurohi lunged, but his opponent danced to the side. The blue-eyed one turned his head around to see that graceful, well-practiced movement and felt a wall collide with the side of his face a beat later. His eyes widened and he fell on his back, staring blankly to one side.
Megaman chuckled softly. Kurohi sat up and clutched one silver-gloved hand to his face. "Owwww......"
"If you had been given a helmet, maybe that wouldn't have hurt, Kurohi."
"Yeah, yeah. You win, Megaman." He rubbed the back of his head and started to fade.
{Kurohi, logging out.}
Lan's Personal Terminal paused a moment. [What's up with him?]
{Megaman, logging out.}
The gold-eyed boy, the one with Kurohi, retracted his cable from the slot and looked at his new friend, Lan Hikari. "Good fight, Lan. Kurohi and I just need more practice."
"Yeah! Megaman whipped me good!" muttered Kurohi, his chuckling appearance back against the PET's basic blue background. "Then again, *I* was the one who didn't watch where I was going!" He added another chuckle to his statement. "I had fun, though! Let's play again, Megaman!"
Lan chuckled and looked at his new friend. He fixed his hat. "Well, if you need to practice, I can see if we can go to Yai's."
"Em? Yai?"
"A nice girl, and she's really rich. She also has a few cool things... a few being an understatement!
"Anyway, it just occurred to me. What's your name?"
"Nekome."
"Cat Eye? Weird..."
The boy frowned and tucked a spike of black hair out of his eyes. His frown evolved into a glare. He almost growled low in his throat.
"Oh, okay, okay! Jeez!"
"Lan!" shouted Megaman. "We were supposed to meet the others five minutes ago!!"
"Aww, man!" groaned the boy. Late again! "C'mon, Nekome!" He dashed off.
Nekome paused and sighed. He shook his head and followed, running alongside Lan. He clipped his PET to his belt loop and they soon came upon a shady area. Three people sat together in that darkness.
"Sorry I'm late, guys! Just getting to know the new kid from our class!"
"Oh, really? Hi there!" a redheaded girl chimed at Nekome. He blinked and sighed.
"Hello," he murmured softly with a gentle uncertainty. These people were... different. Different wasn't necessarily bad, but sometimes, it could get that way. "Again, my name is Nekome, and I apologize for delaying Lan-kun from your presence. I wanted to Net Battle him, so that's why he's late. Again, I'm sorry." He bowed his head politely.
"Eh, no harm done, cutie," replied the redhead.
[Cutie...?] He sat down. "So, who are you all?"
Lan chuckled. "The blonde is Yai, the redhead is Meiru, and the guy is Dex."
They greeted him verbally and some of them started back up conversation with each other. Nekome pulled out his terminal. "Ah, how about we let our Net-Navis get acquainted?"
~~~POV change~~~
"Yo!" chimed Kurohi, fussing with a spike of brown hair. It kept on flopping in the middle. "How's it hangin'? M'names Kurohi!"
"Of course you know me, Kurohi!" said Megaman. "These are friends of mine: Roll, Gutsman, and Glide."
He bowed his head once, which, surprisingly, fixed his hair-spike. "A pleasure to meet you all. I hope we can become great friends, ne?"
Lan's PET smiled. "Yeah, and you're one heckava Net Fighter. I almost thought I'd lose to you."
Kurohi shrugged and messed with a spiky silver shoulder pad. "So bothersome... ah..." He pressed a button with an eye on it on his chest and the armor disappeared. He was clad in a pair of jeans and a blue button-up shirt with a gray dragon on it. He stretched. "Much better... I still can't believe I'm a Net-Navi." He smirked then blinked widely at their confused expressions. He chuckled and shrugged. "What's the big deal?"
"We don't understand what you mean, Kurohi," said Megaman, striding over. He still wore his blue armor. "Us Net-Navigators are programmed and are used to it the day we are programmed into the terminal..."
"Ara! Ore! I was once a human." (A/N: ara = oh!, ore = that)
Megaman frowned. "Eh?"
The Net-Navi turned boy sighed. "I was hit by a car, and my brother, Nekome, being the genius that he is, had come up with a way to summon the consciousness and transfer it into a PET terminal. He had tried it on himself once and it had been successful.
"Anyway, after I was hit, and after I was shuttled into the hospital, there was nothing they could do to heal my wounds. I was going to die..."
"So, Nekome transferred your mind into a terminal?"
Kurohi nodded. "Hai." (A/N: hai = yes)
"But, if you're not used to it, how are you so good at fighting?" asked blue-boy.
"Oh, that's easy. Before I died, I liked to train at the martial arts in our room... Mostly my speed rather than power, though. It isn't my style. I'm also pyrokinetic, due to long hours of meditation."
By now, his eyes were half-shut. Megaman took note of a soft glistening in his eyes. Kurohi turned away to wipe his face, but he made it look like he was messing with his bangs. After a moment, he turned around.
"Oh! I think Yai's calling me! Bye!"
{Glide, logging out}
"Uh, yeah, um...Ja!"
{Gutsman, logging out}
"See ya later, Kurohi, I think it's time for me to remind Meiru to brush up on that test later today! Ja ne!"
{Roll, logging out}
Kurohi blinked, the gleam in his eyes again. He looked to Megaman. "W...what did I say? Did I say something wrong?"
The green-eyed one shook his head. "I don't think you did. I just think that they think you're a little too different to get used to at the drop of a hat. After all, a human's mind as a Net Navi isn't common."
The young one blinked and sat down on the digital ground. His tail swished left and right. "So, I'm different. Sheeze, all I wanted was some friends that I could talk to and play with! K'so!" (A/N: kuso (the "u" is whispered the way he said it) = Shit!, Damn it!) He pounded the floor with his tail.
Megaman, being kind of curious, grabbed the thrashing limb.
To his surprise, it went slack, and he heard a soft sound coming from the boy. He chuckled and petted the tail. "You like that?"
"Mmmmm... greatly..." his head fell against the warrior's shoulder; he breathed carefully to hold back louder noises. "Yameruna..."
(A/N: yameru = stop, na (at the end of a verb or something, I guess) = negative [aka: don't], so, "yameruna" means "don't stop")
"Okay..." he stroked the tip of it, and jerked with a start as Kurohi whimpered with a loud cry, back arching slightly.
"Boku no Kami-sama, Mega..man..." He breathed deeply and growled. The Net- Navi's scent fluttered against him.
(A/N: Boku no = my, Kami-sama = God)
He pried himself away, slowly. He turned to the Navi, tail arched into a question mark. "Why were you doing that?"
"I could see the sadness in your eyes. Did you lose someone?" he asked suddenly.
He shrugged and sighed. "Um, I had a... a boyfriend."
"So, you're..."
"Gay? Yeah."
Megaman blinked. "Oh. Okay."
[Hm? Just "Okay" not Oh gawd! A perv!"?] "You're okay with me, right?"
"Sure. Whatever you like."
Kurohi stood up, head cocked in a feline's expression of curiosity or interest. He grinned almost cockily and offered his hand. The other Navi took it in his firm grasp and was immediately hoisted to his feet.
The Navi-turned-boy released the hand and gazed softly at the Navi. He blinked once before mumbling his thanks and logging out.
***
"You planning on going to bed, Lan?"
The boy stretched and proceeded to change into his PJs. "Yeah. It's Friday night, and as much as I'd like to stay up, getting up early all school year and waking up late just to roller-blade really quickly to a class I'm already late for really drains me. At times, I'd like to be on time for classes for once. It's not MY fault I'm not a morning person."
"Okay, okay... But, Lan, it's only eight at night."
"Hm, maybe I'll just watch some TV before I decide to call it a night, then." When he finished changing, he proceeded his way downstairs, taking his PET with him.
A kind of shrill noise broke the silence. His mother had already gone to bed with his father, who only had minimal work to be done at the time.
Lan jacked Megaman into the phone and answered it. "Moshi-moshi?"
(A/N: Hello?)
^Is Lan there?^
"This is him. Who is this?"
^Nekome desu,^ replied the gentle voice. (A/N: It's Nekome.)
"Ne-Nekome?? How did you get this number?"
^I asked Meiru for it... I hope you don't mind,^ he replied sheepishly. On the other end, he grinned guiltily.
Lan frowned slightly. "Why didn't you just ask me?"
The other boy was silent. He frowned, then the grin came back. ^I guess it just slipped my mind?^ he offered.
The male sighed. "Jeez, just, next time, if you need a number, ask the person directly... It's rather odd to answer the phone to an 'unknown' voice."
^Oh, gomen ne. I'll do that next time.^
"Anyway, what's up?" he asked, lightening the mood.
^Nothin' much, but is your schedule open tomorrow? I'd kinda like to get to know the layout of this town with someone and I'm not too comfortable asking Meiru, Dex or Yai...^ He omitted the reason and blocked his own thoughts of "why" out of his mind.
"Sure, but, just so you know, I sleep in."
^Ha! So do I! Ironic, I thought you didn't! Jaa, how's one to two in the afternoon?^
(A/N: Jaa = So,)
"One's great! How about we meet at the park?"
^The one near the middle of town, kinda close to the school? Sure thing. I at least know where *that* is.^
Lan nodded. "Okay. Hey, Megaman! Did you get that time?"
"Hai! 'Meet Nekome at the park, one PM'."
The boy grinned. "Okay, we got it, Nekome! See you then!"
^Chotto matte yo! Kurohi would like to talk to Megaman, if that's okay.^ (A/N: Wait a minute!!)
Lan blinked at his PET. "Um, I guess. Megaman?"
"I'll be there. Your homepage, Lan?"
Lan nodded. "Nekome, you know where my homepage is?"
^I think I saw it before. Was it kinda close to ACDC Square?^
"Uh-huh."
^All right. Buh-bye!^
"Ja ne!"
Lan hung it up. "Go on ahead, Megaman. I'll still be up to get you jacked- out."
Megaman nodded. "Thanks, Lan."
~~~~~~
Kurohi paced around the area, tail swishing anxiously. Sure, in the real world, he had had a boyfriend, but somehow, things actually HADN'T felt all that right, but with Megaman...
He shook his head. [No! I need to know him, first! I'm still...]
"You wanted to talk to me?"
The boy stopped pacing and turned. He nodded. "Um, yeah, I did. Etou..."
(A/N: Etou = Umm...)
The Navi sighed tiredly. "Nani?"
"I wanna get to know you."
Megaman blinked. "That's all? Maa, what can I tell you?"
(A/N: Well,)
"Favorite color?"
"Blue."
"Cool! That's my fav! How about... part of the net?" asked Kurohi. His tail swished.
"There's an area that's linked to the park."
"Neat. Will you show me sometime?" the boy queried, tail flicking left and right.
The Navi smiled. "Sure thing! How about when your brother and Lan go to the park in the real world?"
Kurohi smiled wistfully. "Sure..."
An arm encircled his shoulders in a brotherly hug. "Look, it'll be okay. You'll eventually get used to this." Kurohi could easily feel the Navi's warmth through his shirt.
His smile brightened. "Okay. Thank you." [Nekome managed to download some of the designs of my old clothes right after I kicked it. I'll wear some of that nice stuff I got tomorrow.]
The Navi continued to smile. "You're welcome."
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Not too bad for a first chapter? Reviews welcome, but I don't appreciate flames. They make me get pissed off & I tend to flame right back in the next chapter, so, please, do not flame. I hate bitching @ others.
Started 12:49PM, 7/12/03
Finished:10:32PM, 8/16/03