The words that change my world
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The heavy door screeked as someone pushed it open. It made Netto want nothing more than to hide from who ever would come through that door. Sure, normally he wouldn't hide from anything. He hadn't even cowered when he had faced Enzan's blade. Challenging him to kill him. But that was different… At that moment he'd had Rockman by his side and the unwaivering faith that Enzan was ultimately his friend. Strange enough, he would have felt that way even if Enzan hand gone through with it. He stil did. "But it wasn't Enzan he would be dealing with now," he thought, "now he would be dealing with the officials. I wonder if I´ll ever see him again?" His question was awnsered when Enzan stepped through the door.
Enzan hadn´t expected Netto to be concious already. So when he opened the door to his ´cell´ and looked straight into a pair of brown eyes, wide with fear, he was starteled into standing still. This was one emotion he had NEVER seen this clear in Netto´s face. While standing frozen in the doorway he watched as different emotions joined the scared quality in Netto´s face. Apprehension, pain, relief and… happiness? While Enzan could somehow understand most of what he saw there, couldn´t understand the last emotion… When uncertainty and fear again became dominant and Netto began shaking however Enzan snapped out of his frozen state. And walked the rest of the way to Netto´s bed.
"Enzan hadn´t moved yet. His eyes were piercing through mine as usual. I tried to read them but I couldn´t. Why was he here? Had they send him to inform me of my faith? Was he the one who had to ´get Rockmans location out of me?" The thought of Enzan torturing him was almost to much for Netto. Still, he was happy to see him again. Even if it had to be like this. But what would happen now? His earlier thoughts returning to him Netto began to shake and he almost tried to flee as Enzan advanced on him. In fact… he did. But as he pushed himself up a terrible bout of pain struck his back. Almost screaming in agony, Netto fell back down and try as he might he couldn´t stop the tears from spilling. Looking up and seeing cold blue eyes look down on him, the young boy simply couldn´t take anymore and he closed his eyes in defeat. Only to open them again when he felt himself beeing lifted by carefull hands. "Netto, I´m going to turn you around so I can look at your wound, okay?" Netto, although starteled, nodded. He clenched his teeth together, not uttering a sound while Enzan helped him turn and looked at his wound. All the while his mind was racing. "Where was he? If Enzan had turned him in like he had suspected he wouldn´t be the one treating him. It would have been a medic or no-one at all. Was Enzan going to turn him in later? Or," Netto´s eyes widened, "was Enzan not going to turn him in at all? Was he going to help him?" Netto quickly turned his head, ignoring the pain this action brought him, to look at his friend. Aprehension filling him. The blue eyes were still focused on his wound but they turned for a second to send Netto a silent smile.
Netto sighted and relaxed as Enzan finished taking care of him. Everything would be allright…
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"What is all this noise!!!", yelled the man who just entered the hospital room. "It's your son dr Hikari.", a nurse said while tightening her hands over her ears, "he hasn't stopped crying since he was brought in…" "I thought you said his wounds, althoug serious, would heal perfectly fine?" Hikari Juuichiro tried yelled, trying to make himself understandable over the noise. "That is true, he was after all in a car accident, so he is lucky he made it out of it like this." The nurse looked kind of desperate now. "Whe gave him painkillers and he shouldn't feel anything too bad right now but every time someone asks him what is wrong he starts crying even harder."
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
"Hikari Juichiro put his hands firmly on his ears (which actually had started bleeding a little) and stepped into the room which held the center of all the noize. "NETTO, QUIET DOWN!!! WHAT IS WRONG?!" In truth, the world-reknowned professor wasn't really concerned with the answer. He knew Enzan hadn't had the time to fulfill his mission yet so whatever was causing this racket, it was probably something stupid his sons immature mind had come up with 'again'. In truth, the elder Hikari was somewhat worried about his son. It was just the fact that he was hardly ever home and whenever he DID see him Netto acted all happy and stupid. It hadn't registered in the man's mind that Netto, who didn't get to see him much, tried to be that way for him when he WAS there for him.
"NETTO, QUIET DOWN!! WHAT IS WRONG?!!"
Netto immediately stopped crying and started sniffeling. "Rock(snif)… Rockman is….
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!" Netto started wailing loudly again while throwing himself at his father. Hiding his awfully red eyes in his jacked and blowing his (wet) nose in it. "So Enzan had finished his mission early." Went through the professors head while he tried to free himself of his sons grip. That was when he noticed the completely crushed blue pet that occupied the table next to Netto's hospitalbed.
"ROCKMAN IS DEAD!!!!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"
"I'm terribly sorry professor Hikari as it seems I will be unable to fulfill my mission. You see, when the subjects operator was in the process of returning to my home he met unfortunatly with a car which removed itself from the scene immediately, leaving the operator wounded and his pet completely smashed. Seeing as the subject no longer excists I am unable to comply." Hikari Juichiro looked at Densans top netsavior with badly concealed irritation. He knew that already!!! Blast it. All his hard word that went into making Rockman was smashed, gone just like that! All because he just 'had' to give it to his stupid son who didn't know something that was too good for him when he saw it!!! Through clenced teeth he replied. "I understand Enzan-kun, you're dimissed." "Understood." Enzan had calmly walked outside before he allowed a wide grin to appear on his face. Entirely uncharacteristic, he couldn't stop laughing all the way to the hospital.
"And? Did it work?" Was the first thing Netto asked when Enzan entered his room. "Absolutely!!! It seems like you put up quite a performance too. I thought you'd burst into laughter halfway through. I could only help you with the tears afteral."
"Yeah, that stuff worked greal by the way, but it was really hard. I really DID almost loose it and I had to hug him to hide my face." Netto confessed with a cheeky grin. Enzan smiled back. Netto hadn't been broken again. He had been scared of that for a while. But it seemed that the final loss of his trust in his father and their own situation didn't hit Netto quite as hard as he had thought. Whithout noticing it Enzan had spaced out and Netto took his time examening his face before he starteled him out of it. "Don't worry Enzan. I lost my father lots of times already. It's just that this time is a little more permanent… I already knew what he thinks about me after all. I think that that was the worst." Enzan looked at him worriedly. "But this time I have Rockman and Enzan! Blues too… Who know me, who believe in me. And that is enough…" While he was talking Netto had gotten drowsier and drowsier… his head started nodding softly while he tried his best to stay awake. Enzan gently pushed his head back onto his pillow and smiled softly at the younger boy. He still didn't like the fact that he had avoided orders and lied. But it was worth it. He looked once more to the sleeping boy on the bed. His rival, his… friend… "Hey you! Visiting houres are over!!!"
"Yeah, I'm going."
And Enzan walked out of the room.
