A Time For Two

Chapter 5

Its Our Anniversary

The days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months. It didn't seam like it but soon eight months had passed the two friends and they got very close. Tail would go and visit the hedgehog a few days out of the weeks. Most of the time he would come he would spend the night with him. If the kit was lucky he would talk Shadow to stay up a long time and they would play games or listen to music. Tails had found out so much about the hedgehog over the time.

Once the kit had came into the house to find Shadow listening to some music. What was more surprising was that it was a lot of what he listen to. He was happy when he came over the following day with some of his favorite cd's and he and Shadow listened to them. It was even cute to hear Shadow sing some of the words to the song. He thought it was very nice.

Now Tails didn't mind if Sonic was off running somewhere. He never felt alone thanks to Shadow. He always felt like he was needed and Shadow felt the same way. Tails found himself spending his time doing two things. The first was the much needed work on all his machines. The second was spending a lot of time with Shadow.

The Kit smiled softly as he whistled more as he was walking through the forest. It was his and Shadow's anniversary. It had been six months and Tails wanted to do something special. He was going to pick apples for a pie he was going to make. Shadow was always angry over the fat that store bought apple pies were bad. He wanted to make him a pie he would like. Not to mention he was going to make him a cake as well. It would be for the both of them. He smiled softly as he went and changed. It was a bit colder now since the fall had settled in. It didn't bother Tails though. He went and put on his green jacket that Shadow had bought for him. It had a hood that helped his ears so it wouldn't hurt and once again the sleeves were a tad long but he liked it. Plus it kept him warm as he would walk. He went and grabbed a basket and headed out to the forest once again on a trip

Shadow sighed softly as he closed the door holding a bag of groceries he had picked up. He hadn't seen Tails in a couple of days and was wondering if he should go and see him. He then smiled when he turned and looked at the calendar. He noticed that today was a special day. He had gone out in the first place to try and find Tails a nice gift. He knew a lot about the kit but there was still a lot to learn about him. So since this was the first anniversary that they would celebrate since the one month one he knew it wouldn't be too bad if he didn't get the perfect item but he still wanted it to be nice. He pulled out a small plushy. It was of him that he had gotten made for the fox. He had to look all over the city for someone who could make it the way he wanted it to be done. It came out very well. The little toy had all of the hedgehog's features down to a tee. The stitching was tight and well hidden. You could tell by looking at it that it was donw by a real craftsman or woman in this case. He had the same kind of shoes and even a little jacket to go with it. The woman that put it together he found on the far end of the city. She was a nice woman and when he came to her with his request she was more then happy to do it. It may have been because he came into the store a lot and looked around. He also would go and get things for her like items from the market or pick up her mail or even go and pay the rent for her small store. Also when it looked like sales were down he would buy something to help her out. Many of the items now darted around his small home made it cozy for him. Plus Tails enjoyed coming in and finding a new item to look and study for a while. He just hoped the mini version of him would be to Tails' liking.

Tails was picking apples now using his tails to fly up and reach them. He smiled happily and laughed. He looked over as the clouds blew past with the help of the wind. The sun was still shinning brightly. The yellow glow took over the sky. Even though it was cooler it was a beautiful fall day. Around him in some of the trees that did not hold apples the leaves were turning colors. He could see reds, golds, browns and his favorite orange. He giggled thinking of the time he had come over when the hedgehog was raking leaves. As a joke he jumped into it sending the leaves all over the place. Shadow was annoyed with him but managed to get the hedgehog to play in the leaves with him. He was happy to see him play.

"I know Shadow will like this pie. He just gotta." The kit blushed softly as he looked down. Over the months he had grown feelings for the black hedgehog. He wanted to tell him how he felt this time. He breathed out as he looked at the basket full of apples. He grinned as turned and headed to the hedgehog's house hoping that he would be there.

Shadow had put his food away and was wrapping the gift that he had gotten the fox when he heard the door open. He jumped up and shoved the box into a drawer and heard the fox call out for him.

"Shadow! Are you here?!" Tails looked around to see and soon got sat placing the basket on the small table. "Oh, he's not here." He sulked softly think maybe he was in town and it would be a while before he got back but soon perked up when he herd footsteps and saw the hedgehog walk in. "Shadow!" He ran over and gave him a hug blacking the basket on the ground beside the door. Shadow softly returned it smiling. The kit was shivering a bit to show how cold it had become outside. Though to him the fact he had on the jacket he had bought him a long while ago made him smile. He liked the way the kit looked in it. Tails smiled as he looked up at him. "Shadow, do you know what today is?" Apparently the kit was here for their anniversary; witch didn't surprise the hedgehog but for fun he would tease the fox.

"It is Wednesday is it not?" Tails looked at him weirdly. It wasn't like Shadow to forget important days.

"Yeah but something special happened on this day. You know." Tails looked at him wondering if he knew then. To Shadow it was cute to see him like this. The fox was smart no doubt about it, but things close to the heart threw him off sometimes. He just smiled looking at the kit as he gave him wondering eyes. He clearly showed his weak side in this.

"Hm, I'm not sure what you are talking about Miles."

"S-Shadow, it's been eight months since this day. You know it now?" The hedgehog shook his head no. The kit got a bit upset. "How could you forget! How could you!" He pulled away from him upset and the hedgehog laughed softly. "How can you laugh right now?" The kit looked he was about to cry. His eyes got glassy as they started to water. Shadow soon saw this and walked over and hugged him softly.

"Oh Miles, your so silly sometimes. I could never forget our special day. Happy Anniversary Miles." Tails smiled happily as he cuddled him. "I'm sorry; I didn't mean to get you upset like that."

"It's ok, as long as you remember." Shadow smiled softly as he held onto the kit a while longer.

"So what is that you have?" He looked over at the basket. Tails smiled as he let go and walked over picking it up and then coming back over with it.

"I picked these on the way here. I am going to make you a homemade apple pie for tday." He smiled happily at him. "I know how much you've been wanting one." Shadow smiled softly at him.

"You're so nice to me Miles." The kit smiled and his ears perked as he headed into the small kitchen to get to work. As time passed Shadow just heard a lot of noise come from the area. Tails was at work finding ll of the pans and tools he would need to make his pie. He flew up to the cupboard and pulled out a few things including a measuring cup a mixer and some spoons.

"Ok let's get started." He pulled out all of his ingredients and went to work. Shadow just sat in the living room and read his paper. He wanted to go and check but the kit always got mad if he poked is head in to see what was going on. He figured he enjoyed having that power over the black hedgehog right now so he allowed it. After a while though the smell of the pie floated through out the small house and it made Shadow hungry. It was the smell of fresh apples with a mix of brown sugar and cinnamon. It was a heavenly smell and it didn't smell of frozen apples like the other pies he had came across in the past. He really wanted some now. "Miles is the pie ready yet?" The fox hummed happily as he went to work on the pie. He then went over to the freezer and gasped.

"Shaodw? There is no vanilla ice-cream in here." He walked out. There was no way they were going to have pie without it. "Come on we have to go to the store." The kit walked over and took his hand. The hedgehog sulked.

"But Miles, I want some pie." Tails looked at him. It was the strange look that told Shadow that if he didn't do this he would be upset with him. "Fine let's go to the store." Tails smiled happily as the two walked out and got into the car to drive off to the city.

Tails looked around as they drove into the city in the car. His little hood was getting pushed back and forth from the wind Shadow just grimed.

"Do you see witch store you want to go to?' The fox kept looking around and soon pointed.

"That one; I wanna go to that store Shadow." Shadow looked to see a small store. It looked like they made homemade ice-cream. It didn't stick out like man of the other stores. It was tiny and had a small blue banner on the front of it. It was decorated like an old fashion store. He parked the car and soon the both of them got out and walked into the store. Shadow went to look around and Tails went straight to the counter. "Excuse me, can I have a quart of your homemade vanilla ice-cream?" The woman standing there smiled softly as she nodded and walked away. Tails just sat and whistled softly to himself as he waited taking a second or two to glance over at Shadow to see what he was doing. He saw the hedgehog looking at a small picture. Soon the woman came back out with his ice-cream. Tails paid for it and then turned to him. "I'm ready Shadow." He smiled back at the kit.

"You finally got your ice-cream you wanted for my pie." Tails nodded happily and Shadow sighed softly picking him up.

"H-H-Hey! What are you doing? Put me down Shadow!" Shadow just smiled as he walked out.

"Thank you very much miss." The woman waved happily as they walked out. She giggled softly at the two of them. Tails was still crying more of embarrassment as his face turned red.

"Shadow!!" He cried playfully. Shadow just kept walking chuckling to himself as he held the kit and felt him move around as he held him on his shoulder.

"Come on Miles lets go home." Soon he placed the kit in the passenger seat beside him and got in driving off.