Golden Sun: World Jump

By: Padfoot-chan

Thanks for the reviews, they were so sweet :3

Warning: Shonen-ai has landed. Don't like, don't read but you sure as fluff better not flame me because you don't like it. I warned you so you better not read it and be a baby about it. If I get one "Eww, gross, two guys kissing" review, I swear I'll unleash the dogs of war on said reviewer. I'm not a Venus Energist for nothing.

Read and review please. No flames, as said before, but constructive criticism is always welcome. In addition, Japanese names for people and places are used. Keep forgetting to say that.

Chapter three: Nostalgic talk

"However, something is going on, something that happened one hundred years ago. There was no more time left to wait for Sheba so they summoned you away from your world to help us."

"I see…" I whisper softly, looking down at my hands lying in my lap, "And the reason the Voice needed me so badly? Why they could not wait for Sheba?"

"Weyard is being eaten up again." I widen my eyes, staring at Robin, hoping that he would say this was all a joke. I do not understand any of this, it is too much for me to handle but it all seems to…familiar, every little thing. The Voice, Robin, Picard, Weyard…being eaten up. How could a world eat at itself, though? It makes to sense to me at all. Robin turns away from the window, leaning against it a little as he watches me struggling to understand all of this. "I wish that it did not have to be this way, I wish that you could have stayed in your own world. I am sure that you had friends there."

I turn away, smiling bitterly to myself, "It isn't like I am missing anything, really. Both of my parents died when I was younger. My only other family lives a couple of hundred miles away from me and would rather not admit that I am alive. To them, I died with my father in that plane crash." I stare down at my eyes as they grow blurry, my eyes filling with tears. Why? Why am I crying? Why can't I stop telling him this? It isn't any of his business. He did not ask about my life. So why…?

"They sent me some money to help me get on my feet because it was in my father's will for them to do so. When they money started running out, I had to get a job to make sure I didn't lose the apartment and could keep going to school and keep eating." I feel something strange emitting from Robin. Is it sadness? Anger…? Why am I feeling his emotions…? Is that part of my powers…I have powers…? This is too weird. I don't want to feel his emotions, do I?

"I couldn't get much sleep because I was still going to school. I had to go to work until 1-2 in the morning on school night and even later on Sundays when I wasn't at school." I push my hands into my eyes to try to stop the tears, messing up my bangs as I try to brush them out of my eyes. "I had to maintain top grades and I never had time for friends so I had to act cold at school because I never had enough energy to try to make people like me. I didn't have enough energy to be nice so everyone thought I was stuck-up." The tears keep flowing now and there is nothing I can do to stop them. I hate this. Why does talking about things always to this to me?

I hear Robin's heel on the wooden floor as he walks towards me and then he sits down on the edge of the bed. Before I can look up or make a move to wipe the tears that are streaming down my cheeks, he wraps his strong arms around my thin frame. I fall limply into his arms, my head resting on his chest as my tears stain his the soft fabric of his tunic. He smells familiar, something faint but sweet at the same time. Strange, I feel so safe and protected in his arms. "It is going to be all right, Ivan. From now on, you have friends. Picard and Felix are your friends, they were in the past and nothing has changed between us." He pauses, one of his arms moving slightly as his hand plays with my hair. I close my eyes, leaning in to his embrace a little more. "Most of all, I am your friend. You do not have to try to hard to keep us as your friends, we care about you, Ivan. Please remember that, no matter where you are, no matter what you do, we will always be your friends and we will always care for you."

You are too nice, Robin. You're the type of guy who gets his heart broken by women because he is too nice. Why are you being so nice to me? My body is slowly growing numb, Robin's gentle heartbeat pounding in my ear is starting to fade as I slip from consciousness. However, I still have the feel of Robin's arms around me, even though everything seems to disappear as I fall asleep.

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Robin smiles to himself as he watches Ivan sleeping in his arms. "I think I can remember doing this before." He whispers happily, brining his lips down to kiss the top of Ivan's messy hair, "You would wake up from a nightmare in our bed and you would be crying, thinking it was a precognitive dream or something. You would talk about it until you fell asleep in my arms again." His expression turned solemn, "I just don't know…if you would be willing to be with me like that again. Picard may think you haven't changed…but…how you? Are you still my little Ivan?"

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Picard leaned against the wall, listening to Robin before he heard a door opening and slamming in the other room. The Lemurian moved away and crossed the kitchen until he bumped into Felix, the Venus Energist holding up a bundle of herbs in his right hand, smiling playfully up at the older man. Picard shook his head, smiling at Felix as he took the herbs. "I am glad to see that you came back in one piece, Felix. Are these the herbs that we needed?"

"Yeah, has the kid woken up yet?" Picard nodded, turning his head back around to say something when Felix surprised him with a quick kiss on the lips. Felix watched Picard's golden eyes, his cheeks turning crimson. The older man smiled again, laughing sweetly.

"You haven't changed a bit, you know that?" Picard turned back to the herbs, setting them down on the counter, "Ivan woke up a little while ago and Robin has been looking after him. I am a little worried, though. What if he chooses to return to his world once all of this is over? What would that do to Robin? I remember when Lady Layana asked him to stay in Karei Town when our journey was over. Robin acted as if it was the end of the world, to him, I suppose it was, though. Ivan was his whole world, I think he still is even after a hundred years."

Felix glanced over to the door where he could see his friend's back. "If I know Robin, and I do know Robin…he'll take matters to the extremes and probably kill himself. From what you say, he couldn't bare living without having Ivan by his side, even if they were on the same continent."

"Ivan wouldn't want that hanging over his head, though. He would stay just to prevent that from happening, even if he wanted to stay in his own world."

"Picard, what did Robin do to get Ivan to stay with him in Haidia?" Picard smiled, scratching his cheek as he started to laugh.

"Well, he stormed Hammet's Palace, demanded to see Ivan or he would kill all the guards in the throne room, then when they did let him see Ivan, he got down on his knees and asked him to marry him, or at least run away with him." Picard shook his head. "Sometimes I wonder if all Venus Energists have some mental dysfunction that makes them act irrationally when it comes to just about anything really."

Felix stuck out his tongue, "I doubt that I have done anything that stupid."

"Oh, do you know? I can recall some pretty stupid things that you have done yourself, Felix." The Mercury Energist turned away, brushing his bangs out of his eyes as he opened the window over the sink, "You running through Haidia Village completely naked, while proclaiming your undying love for me at the top of your lungs so everyone could hear. I am pretty sure that you were not drunk, however, it could have been a dare by Gerald, I'm not sure about the details of that little incident."

Felix opened his mouth to say something but when nothing came out, he closed it and opened it again, hoping he would be able to say something then. He turned crimson before he was able to say something to the older man, "Y-you're making that up, aren't you, Picard? I would never do something like that if I weren't drunk!" Picard smiled, leaning forward and kissing the tip of Felix's nose.

"You can't remember what happened that night so you wouldn't know. Ah, but you should have seen the expression on poor Ivan's face when you ran past him and Robin. Then that whole thing with the elders…I don't think any of the villagers who saw you that day were ever the same after that."

"You are lying!" Picard patted Felix's shoulders.

"Keep your voice down, Ivan is sleeping." They heard Robin say in the other room. Felix walked over and stood in the doorway, watching the two younger Energists sitting on the bed. "So you're back? Did you get the herbs?" Felix nodded.

"Yeah, I got them. How is the squirt doing?" Robin tilted his head to him before looking back at the boy resting in his arms.

"He's really tiered. It sounds like he had a rough life back on his world. I wish…" Robin fingered Ivan's hair, "I wish that I had been there with him. I wish I could have taken care of him or something. It sounds like he has had it really rough, a lot worse than us at the very least. I feel guilty now."

"Maybe it was a good thing that we didn't find Sheba before Ivan." Sighed Picard, watching them as well now, "From the looks of it, Ivan would not have been able to take much more. Robin, I want you to stay with him until he wakes up again, and don't let him get out of that bed until he is fully rested, okay? We will continue your training once he is back to full health." The Venus Energist nodded. "Well then, I guess we should all take a break. I can continue your training whenever you want, Felix. I think you should eat first, though."

"Yes!" cheered Felix, "Do you know how hard it was to find your herbs? Hours of searching."

"What? Do you want a treat for your good job?" asked Picard, rolling his eyes.

"Maybe…"

"I'm getting too old for this."

-TBC-

A little short, a little stupid but oh well. Hope everyone enjoyed it. Until next time we'll wonder where Felix's pervy mind is in all of this XD

Robin: He is so going to kill you.

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