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Rockman: The Forgotten Link

Netto's telepathic communication 'blah'

Saito's telepathic communication "blah"

(Hylian Translation)

Chapter 2

When Netto got home from school that day he asked his mother to sign off on the form. "Where's Papa?" he asked not seeing his father anywhere in sight. It never failed that Yuuichiro would only be around when the world was facing catastrophe.

"Your father is in Creamland right now on some new project. He should be back in about six months if he finishes early." replied Haruka. Both she and Rockman could tell that it hurt Netto that his father was never around, but the brunette was too proud to admit it.

Netto just nodded and walked up to his room saying nothing more. It disturbed his mother and brother because he completely passed up the opportunity to raid the fridge as was his usual custom.

"Netto-kun what's wrong?" Rock asked already knowing the answer. At present he just wanted to get his little brother to admit what was bothering him.

'Nothing Saito. Just still a little freaked out by what happened earlier today.' replied Netto.

Now Rockman was confused. He thought for sure that it was the lack of their father's presence that was the problem. Using their link the navi gently probed his sibling's mind and saw that Netto was plagued by two problems. One was Yuuichiro, but the other Saito couldn't see. His brother was putting up too much of a fight to keep it hidden. "What freaked you out about it? The moves…or the fact that you were the one pulling them off?" he asked out loud.

Netto glared at his digital twin half-heartedly. "Hardy-har-har Very funny. Why does everyone think that I'm that bad?"

"Probably because last time you ran Enzan down.", answered Rockman. Scratching the back of his head he added, "He's probably still got the tread marks on his face."

Even with his current feelings in regard to his meeting with Link Netto couldn't help but snicker at that mental image. That release felt good and Netto visibly relaxed. "Sorry about being so uptight."

"Apology accepted, but…would you tell me what is bothering you?", asked Rockman. With Netto relaxed he thought that the barrier around his brother's mind might weaken enough that he could get in, but he quickly found out that he was wrong.

The young NetSavior sighed and thought about how his onii-san would react. Finally after a few minutes of awkward silence he spoke, "Saito you have to promise not to tell this to anyone. I'm not even sure if I'm losing it or not."

Rockman nodded. If Netto was in trouble then he'd do anything to protect him. "Whatever you say stays between me and you."

"Thanks.", he said with a smile. He waited a few minutes trying to figure out where to start and finally started at the episode he had when he almost ran over Meiru. He told his brother about the strange temple and the mysterious Link, but the part that seemed to have most of Saito's attention was Link's claim that some great evil was coming.

"Netto I think that we should try to make contact with Link again. I'd like to meet him myself if you'd let me.", said the navi.

The brunette replied uncertainly, "Uh…sure, but is it even possible."

"Of course. I can use the link to enter your dream state whenever 'Link' reappears.", said Saito.

After agreeing to his sibling's request Netto bypassed supper completely and went to bed.

The next morning when Netto awoke he and Rockman talked about his dreams. "I'm sorry bro, but this time Link didn't show up. All I saw was some crazed scaly woman who kept 'hitting' on me and a fat rock…thing trying to hug me and calling me brother."

"Yeah I was watching.", said Rockman. He gave Netto a funny look before adding, "You've gotta strange, warped mind Netto-kun. I mean where did you get some of those strange looking people?"

The younger Hikari muttered, "Don't look at me. Those crazy looking creatures didn't come from my mind." He felt that these images must be coming from Link or perhaps they were even some of Link's memories. "I mean who knows with this guy being connected to my mind. I've seen some of Saito's memories before, so why not Link's."

When Netto got to school he found Meiru waiting for him at the main gate. He stopped and put his skates away before walking up beside her. "Hey Meiru. What's up?"

She reached out with her hand and stopped the spikey haired teen from walking. "Um…Netto…", she began.

When the red head didn't say more Netto asked, "Meiru what is it? Are you ok?" He got a closer look at his childhood friend's face and could see a noticeable blush on her cheeks.

Rockman and Roll saw this as well and wanted to hit the NetSavior for not figuring it out.

"No, nothings wrong. I…I just wanted to…thank you for catching me yesterday." The blush on her face grew bigger as she looked at the clueless teen. "You'd think that after he turned thirteen he'd be a little less dense. I wonder if he remembers the kiss. Sure it was just for a brief second, but he still kissed me although it was an accident."

"Sure, no problem Meiru. I'm just glad that you weren't hurt.", replied Netto. "She's acting weird lately. I know that I…well Link save her, but it really wasn't 'that' big of a deal, right?" Netto could already tell that this was going to be the beginning of a very long day.

-You should know that I kissed her.-

Netto's eyes widened and he thought, "Who said that? Was it you Saito?"

Rockman looked at him confused and mentally replied, "Netto I didn't say or think anything." Which was partially true, he didn't direct anything to Netto. All he did was think that his little brother was really too dense for his own good.

-He can't hear me unless I let him. Sorry about that, but I prefer to talk with you privately.-

"No way. If you're not going to include Saito in this conversation then I'm out of it too.", Netto shot back at the voice that he recognized as Link's. "Hey are you still there?" Only silenced greeted Netto's mental question. "Fine be that wa-" Netto collapsed falling on top of Meiru.

Netto awoke in the same temple as before and saw the sword in the same place as before. He growled out in frustration, "L-I-N-K! What do you think that you are doing!"

The Hylian cringed hearing the shrieking teen. When he emerged from the shadows he said, "Sorry, but I wouldn't have to do that if you would be a little more cooperative."

"Cooperative! Who could be cooperative when you're trying to call all of the shots! This is my body and you have no say over it!", shouted the NetSavior. Of course he knew that Link was able to have say over his body as he'd just demonstrated.

"Oh really? Then what do you call what I just did? I for one certainly would believe that I just demonstrated that I do have say over your body.", said Link. The Hylian was smirking and knew that Netto was getting madder by the second.

"Fine! Two can play this game. If you're going to pull me in here I'll just ignore you until you send me back.", said Netto.

Link thought, "You've gotta be kidding me. He doesn't actually believe that he's more stubborn than I am, does he?" The Hylian walked towards Netto backing him into a corner. "I didn't pull you in here to fight with you. I wanted to tell you that you're going to need a special weapon to counter Ganondorf."

The NetSavior looked worried and asked, "What exactly am I going to need? Why is it that you can't tell Saito too?"

Link looked away with a guilty look on his face. "Well we're going to have doing something that you're not going to like to get it."

"Oh no, I'm not going to do anything until you tell me what the heck is going on!", shouted Netto.

Link sighed in defeat knowing that he didn't have a choice right now. "Fine, but you have to promise me that you'll do whatever it takes to save your world."

The brunette looked at the Hylian with an aura of confidence. "I'll do what I have to save those that I love. Just remember there is a line that I will not cross."

The green clad teen gave the young Hikari a funny look. After several minutes Link chuckled and said, "That's a bit of a contradiction. Tell me Netto what happens if the only way to save those that you love...is to cross that line? Hmm? Do you really expect me to believe that you would just sit by and watch innocent people suffer because you wouldn't do something that went against your morals." The warrior saw the angry look the other teen was giving him and threw his hands up. "I'm not saying go about killing everyone to get what you want. What I'm try to get through that thick skull of yours is that sometimes we have to do things that we don't like in order to save people."

Netto took a moment to consider Link's words carefully before looking back at the Hylian. "What is it that I have to do...exactly?"

"You have to steal my sword from the Museum.", said Link.

Netto's eyes bugged out and his jaw dropped. "NO WAY! I'm not a thief!" He was really starting to hate this elf-like guy in his head and wanted nothing to do with him.

Link tried to think of a way to make it acceptable for the teen. Finally he came up with a solution. "Well if you think about you won't be stealing it. You see the sword is mine and I'm giving you permission to take it. If anyone is a thief here, then it's the museum for taking what is mine. I might not have a body, but the sword is still my property."

"Well he's right there. It is his sword, but still I don't like the idea of doing this.", thought Netto. After several more persuasive arguments made by Link the NetSavior agreed to get the sword. "But what if I get caught? I've never stolen anything before and it's not like I can just walk right out the front door with it."

The Hylian smiled and replied, "That's exactly what you are going to do. It's not going to happen exactly like you're thinking though. All you really need to do is get into the museum and find the sword. I'll handle the rest from here."

"And what can you do from here?", asked Netto as his curiosity kicked it into high gear. How did even this guy plan for Netto to walk right out of the front door with a sword that was probably as big as he is?

"You'll see...", said Link before sending the NetSavior back to the conscious world.

When the boy woke up he found Yaito and Dekao trying to get Meiru out from under him. "Oh, I'm so sorry Meiru.", he said jumping up and offering the red head his hand.

Meiru took Netto's hand and found that she couldn't hide her smile at the fact that her childhood crush was acting somewhat like a gentleman. "Maybe there's hope for us yet?" When she was back on her feet she asked, "Netto are you ok? You just passed out there for some reason."

The NetSavior laughed nervously and then said, "Yeah, I'm fine. Probably just something that I ate this morning. Don't worry about."

Knowing how much the boy ate Meiru gave him the benefit of the doubt and they rushed into the classroom to find their teacher and the other students waiting on them. As soon as the two entered the door everyone's mouths dropped to the floor, except for Dekao...in his case a giant vain appeared on his forehead. The two followed everyone's eyes to their hands and found that they had been holding hands. Meiru guessed that they had been do so since they entered the building.

Netto quickly released his hand and took off running with Dekao hot on his trail. "WHY ME!"