sry I haven't written but its March break so more chapters so YAY! anyway enjoy, warning a little bit of fluff here.
After their last encounter with the baddies Tiger thought it would probably be a good idea to teach the kid how to defend himself. Genki was always getting better but he still had a lot to learn.
"C'mon Genki, show me what you got," Tiger said.
The boy threw himself at the blue monster who easily dodged the attack causing Genki to fall on his face. Quickly regaining himself he kicked Tiger in the face with his skate when he wasn't looking.
"Good, you're getting better," Tiger said rubbing his sore face with his paw.
"Sorry," Genki said feeling bad for hurting the monster.
"Don't apologize stupid, is that what you are going to say to the baddies when you fight them again?" Tiger growled.
Genki shook his head quickly and Tiger just rolled his eyes at the silly child before he said," go sit by the fire before I hurt you."
The boy quickly obeyed and left the monster standing there but didn't see Tiger following him with his eyes as he did the wolf kept noticing that Genki really kept his distance from the fire.
"It's not going to eat you kid, move closer before you get sick," Tiger said to Genki but the child refused making the monster concerned.
"Suit yourself then," Tiger said as he walked off towards the river to get some fish, when he came back he found the kid passed out where he left him before.
Tiger left the fish by the fire to cook in case he woke up and began to drift off himself and before the wolf knew it he fell into a dreamless sleep. He was suddenly awaken when he turned to see Genki panting in his sleep and it looked like he was crying with beads of sweat formed all over his face. The monster decided he better wake the kid up because whatever he was dreaming about was scaring the crap out of boy and he didn't like it.
He barely nudged Genki when the boy shot straight up smacking heads with Tiger, he was going to yell at the boy for hitting him until he noticed his heavy breathing and glazed eyes.
"Kid are you ok? calm down it was just a dream," Tiger said concerned for Genki but he just continued panting.
"Kid, look at me, breathe," Tiger said making the boy snap out of his daze and his breathing slowly went normal but he couldn't stop the tears from falling down his face.
"Genki it was only a dream its ok-"
"No it wasn't a dream, it was a memory and I want it to go away but it won't and it hurts to remember, please make it go away," Genki said and just continued to cry with Tiger helpless of how to comfort him.
"It couldn't have been that bad, I can't believe I'm saying this but c'mon tell me what happened maybe I can make it better," the monster said gently.
Genki just shook his head and mumbled," nobody can make it better, you can't bring them back."
"Bring who back?" Tiger asked.
Genki just looked at him with his tearstained eyes and whispered," do you really wanna know?"
Honestly Tiger didn't know if he really wanted to know what happened to his little friend but he didn't like seeing this either. Sensing the boy needed to get it off his chest he simply nodded.
"I used to live in an apartment with my parents and older brother Tanaka, we used to do everything together for my birthday they got me my first pair of roller skates. Tanaka said he would teach me how but a couple nights later there was a fire. All I remember is that we could hear it from our room, my mom yelled at us from somewhere telling us to get out of the house and then she and my dad started to scream. I grabbed my bag and skates and Tanaka grabbed my hand as he grabbed his hat. We ran out of the room but as we got out all we could see were the flames, we tried to get to our parents but found they already burned to death. When we tried to get back to our room it was already covered in flames, I was scared and so was Tanaka but he didn't want anything to happen to me so he threw us to the floor and covered me with his body. He put his hat on my head and told me it would keep me safe and that everything was going to be ok but the flames got to us and we both started to scream. He told me that my guardian angel would look after me and then he smiled at me and that made me feel better but then I blacked out. When I woke up my whole body hurt, the doctor said I had really bad burns that would scar. Tanaka took the worst of it, he and my parents had died in the fire and all that was left off my house were my bag, roller skates and Tanaka's hat. I've worn it ever since and stayed clear of fire of any size; now I live in an orphanage and it sucks, all I want to do is go home."
Genki just pulled his knees up to his chest and laid his head on them as tears continued to fall down his face.
Tiger stood there shocked thinking 'he's family was burned alive right in front of him, poor kid.'
He was at a loss for words, for some reason it killed him to see the kid like this.
'You see he needs you, help him...and don't screw up.'
Grey Wolf's voice boomed through his head and he hated to admit it but he was right, Genki needed him and he wasn't going to screw up this time.
Genki suddenly felt something soft and warm cover him he looked up to see Tiger hugging him.
"It'll be ok, I know how you feel but you are lucky that there's people who will always look out for you. There's Holly, Moochi, Golem, Hare, Suezo and I'm here to, remember that," the monster explained staring into the child's sad eyes.
"I thought you hated me though," Genki said quietly looking at the monster shocked at the affection Tiger was showing him.
The blue monster shook his head," naw I'm just ruff around the edges."
The boy suddenly had this giant smile on his face," you must be my guardian angel then."
"Ya, something like that," Tiger replied with a hint of a smile.
Genki suddenly punched Tiger in the side and demanded, "What took you so long?"
Tiger just chuckled and replied, "somebody forgot to tell me you were around."
Genki suddenly got tired and started to fall on Tiger's side but forgot he didn't like that so tried to move over, noticing this the monster stopped him.
"Where do you think you're going? Get over here," he commanded and cautiously the boy crawled over and cuddled up to the monster.
As Genki drifted off, he thought he heard Tiger say," I'll protect you."
awwwww I thought that was so cute but sad anyways review and tell me what you think hope you liked it. c ya ladies and germs