Disclaimer: I do not own Megaman (oh how i wish i did), Lan (i still wish i did), Chaud (now i REALLY wish i did), or any other original Megaman characters. I DO, however, own Sayuri Megami and her navi, Sapphire. Because they match Lan and Megaman, and I wanted twinsies.
A/N: Yes, I'm adding two OC's this chapter. I order you to be impressed with my speed in updating.
I wrote basically this whole chapter last night in bed, in my journal. I accidentally left my (long, brown -) hair in a clip before going to bed, and when I let it down, it just looked so cool. I was inspired. (crickets) I order you to be impressed with me being able to be inspired by hair. Not many people can do that well.
Reviews for last chapter: wow! i can't believe i already got 3 more! it's so amazing...(sob) my fans really do love me! (crickets) um...hello? meh, on with the reviews.
Rose Kitsune.EXE: (gets hit with brick) you can take Protoman. Chaud's mine. muahahahaha. ok so a) it's not a fire as you find out not this chapter but next chapter, and b) they're in the hospital, so neither can go now. at least for a while...(throws another fluff ball with Rose Kitsune's name on it -)
RandomRathFan: yes it shall. yes it shall. the smoke will be explained later, but you are kinda sorta right! they just want him out of the picture for a while. oh, and i am kinda getting a little sorta better! i drank some really freaking cold water and it helped my coughing. now whenever i cough i just drink really freaking cold water. go fig. and to reply to your songfic review. NO! don't hug my chaudykins, he's mine! i thought the songfic was pretty nice too. sad, tho. the song is sad. (throws giant fluff ball at you)
grandmaster p: (sweatdrop) oops...sorry...it is kinda sorta hard to tell by your name...sounds kinda like what a guy would put...so sorry! anywho, thanks! i felt kinda bad that it was just a filler, and i couldn't really think of anything to make happen, but it turns out that it wasn't really a filler because it leads into the next 2 or 3 chapters! woo and stuff! (throws humongous fluff ball at you)
Oh, and by the way, Lan and Sayuri are pretty much identical twins. So are Megaman and Sapphire. This is going to get interesting...
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A light summer breeze blew through long brown hair as if it were marshmallows. (A/N: No, it's not Lan's hair, he's in the hospital, 'member?)
Click, Click, Click, Click...
The hypnotizing rhythm of a PET hitting a belt buckle (?) rang quietly down the street. (A/N: What, you thought it was heels? Get real, mate!)
A tall building soon came into view.
-Dentech City General Hospital-
This is the place Grampa said she was at…the brown-haired maiden thought. Her pace quickened a bit, and more and more of the building was in sight.
"Um…Sayuri-chan…" (A/N: YES I know the name is Japanese, but it's PRETTYFUL!)
The young girl stopped, picked up her light blue PET, and sighed. "Do you have to say the "chan" every time? Why can't it just be Sayuri?" The rather short looking blue navi looked at her feet. Her long black hair fell to the middle of her back, and most of her outfit was composed of different shades of blue. Only her eyes were a bright, sparkling green. (A/N: You match Megaman, you baka! I want to match him! I WANT TO!)
Sayuri seemed to finally notice her netnavi's silent apology, and gave one of her own. "I'm sorry, Sapphire. It just bugs me when people always add -chan to my name." Sapphire looked back at her operator's dark brown eyes as Sayuri continued by asking, "Anyway, what were you going to say before?"
Sapphire looked a little less happy than before; she seemed to weigh her words within herself for a moment before saying, "We just got an email from the hospital…"
Sayuri's eyes got wide. The hospital…not now! "What…did they say?"
Sapphire opened up the email, read it at light speed, and summed it up in two words.
"It's Mom."
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"I've had this weird feeling for a while now, Lan."
Lan was now taking full advantage of the "perks" being in a hospital could offer. He got to sit in a comfy bed all day, watch TV, eat whatever he wanted, and best of all, no school!
But no school meant no escape from Megaman's constant nagging.
"Aw, just forget about it, Megaman. Nothin' weird's gonna happen. Trust me."
Megaman rolled his eyes so Lan couldn't seem. Good ol' Lan…doesn't care about anything other than himself…and netbattling.
"But…Lan…I just know something's got to happen…I can feel it!" Lan shrugged his shoulders. "I'm supposed to stay in bed until I get better, so even if something does happen, we can't do anything about it."
Sigh. Lan had a point there. Megaman was about to go link into Chaud's PET when he and Lan heard a shriek from down the hall.
"ONE NIGHT!"
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"Whaddya mean, one night? Can't you-"
The doctor held his hand up to tell Sayuri politely to please shut the hell up.
"No, I'm sorry, there's nothing more we can do. Tonight is most likely her final night."
Sayuri plopped down on a red chair with her head buried in her hands. Sapphire tried to console her. "Sayuri..."
". . ."
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Lan crept through the barely-open door and immediately slipped behind a rather large potted plant. He slid down the wall silently until he was sitting right behind the ceramic pot and un-seeable.
Megaman started to tell Lan off, but was shushed immediately. Now all Lan saw was Megaman's crossed arms and his blazing, angry green eyes.
(A/N: Yes, I am the world's biggest fan of Megaman's eyes, thank you. They are big and round and green and wonderful, ya know.)
Lan's fierce brown eyes held the gaze until he felt it was safe to look around and move from the safety of his shrubbery.
(A/N: Are you fed up with me and my eye descriptions yet? Well too bad. Someone once said the eyes are windows to the soul. They are very important, ya know. -)
Megaman sighed, rolled his eyes (again with the eye thing!) and tried not to giggle as Lan looked for the source of the scream he had heard earlier.
Lucky for him, the Dentech Hospital decorators liked plants, as there was another, taller plant to hide behind, and it was near a large group of doctors and nurses. They seemed to be debating over something.
"We can't administer more medicine...it'll only kill her faster..."
"There seems to be nothing more we can do for her but wait for tonight..."
"The girl will be so upset if we don't at least make it look like we're doing something..."
"It's hopeless...what else can we do?...They said she's only got one night left..."
Lan listened harder at the mention of the words "one night".
What do they mean by "one night"? Surely not...it couldn't be?
He looked at Megaman, and without a word he knew he was thinking the exact same thing.
Lan stayed hidden and waited until the doctors left to ask Megaman, "What do you think all that was about?"
Megaman looked over at the door they were near and said, "I think...I have an idea."
Lan heard the sadness in that sentence and knew just what it meant.
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Sayuri paced the room, glancing only at the clock and the woman in the bed beside her.
Sapphire had stopped trying to talk to her, it was useless.
Finally Sayuri stopped and looked at her navi. "What should we do now? They say she won't make it through the night."
Sapphire thought for a minute, then said, "She's your mother, Sayuri. Whatever you want to do about this is perfectly fine with me."
Sayuri looked past the bed and out the window. It was raining.
"Let's go watch the rain from the balcony. I love rain."
With that, she jacked Sapphire into the hospital's home page to watch the rain from there.
"Don't go anywhere, 'kay?" A flicker of a smile crossed Sayuri's face.
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Lan looked out the nearest window. It was raining. (A/N: De ja vu?) Lan loved rain.
"Megaman, why don't you jack into the hospital's homepage? If you ask some of the nursing navis, maybe they can tell you something about the patient in this room. Meanwhile, I'll go in and find stuff out myself."
Megaman agreed and jacked in, and saw a blue navi with long black hair watching the cyber rain from the balcony. The hospital's homepage was so well designed that it could perfectly mirror the weather in the real world.
As Megaman tapped this girl on the shoulder and Sayuri opened the door, Lan, Megaman, Sayuri and Sapphire all looked into the matching eyes of their opposite gender, yet completely identical twins.
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1, 2, 3, SQUEEEE! Wasn't that extra gooey and awesome and sweet and sour and cute and cool and nice? I mean, who (other than me -) would have thought of giving Lan and Megaman perfectly identical twins? EEEEE! (cough, cough) Ugh. That again. Gots ta get me some really freaking cold water. R&R, or else Sayuri's gonna slap Lan for intruding! (think think think) Well, maybe she'll do that anyway, but STILL! Ch. 9 coming real soon, I promise! (I hope...)