Forgiveness Is Hard To Ask
A/N Here's the next chapter.
Mahalo as usual to those who reviewed.
Nabu is thirteen now in experiment years along with Miko while Sukai is nine and his sister Mai is four but Brianna is six.
I hope Reuben can reconnect with Miko after all this time.
Kaimi saw sadness in Rueben's eyes as he entered the kitchen and wondered what was wrong seeing him not eating which was a rare sight for the ohana to see as the sandwich lay in front of the golden brown experiment on a plate.
"Nothing's wrong Kaimi.
Trust me." Reuben said about to leave.
"Okay but you know it's better to talk about it than bottle it up inside, right?
We know you hide how you truly feel." the orange red experiment told his friend.
Reuben nodded as he left but wanted to be alone.
He went upstairs and into the spare room where Miko was sleeping and smiled watching his estranged son sleeping soundly.
"Amore hurt you and it's hurting me seeing you like this.
I don't hate you.
I love you, I always have but I missed you.
I want us to be close again." he thought stroking Miko's fur and leaving the room.
He then went back downstairs but saw Nabu packing things into his back pack. He wondered what was going on.
Nabu was having trouble getting along with Moopey and furious about sharing Leroy with her and Yuri so had decided to leave the ohana and be on his own.
Leroy was feeling sad as he was in the Big Red Battleship but he was feeling sad about Nabu. His son was now thirteen and a teenager but wasn't happy about him being with Moopey or having Yuri as a sister and tried getting her in trouble and fighting with Moopey but Jumba saw it as Nabu having trouble adjusting to all these changes in his life but also afraid he might lose his father because of the virus that was inside him, making him ill and weak as he saw Leroy taking his medication.
"Don't worry Leroy.
He'll come around in time, I hope." the Quanta Quaglian told him.
"Ih I hope so too.
I love Moopey with my heart but Nabu doesn't understand that we're starting our own ohana and nothing will stop that." Leroy said but saw Rueben run in with Kaimi with worry on their faces.
"What's wrong?" Leroy asked them.
"It's Nabu.
He's run away." Kaimi told his brother.
Fear was in Leroy's eyes at this.
"How do you know this?" he asked them.
"We found an note in his room." Rueben said to him as he handed it to Leroy.
Leroy felt heart broken reading it as he felt weak.
Tears fell from his eyes as Kaimi hugged him.
"Don't worry brother.
We'll find him, I promise." he reassured him but Jumba looked frightened.
He knew this would cause a relapse but hoped that wouldn't happen.
He then saw Rueben leave but saw Brianna playing with her doll which Marina had made for her.
He needed to go see if Miko was okay.
Nabu was hiding in the forest in Leroy and Moopey's old tree house figuring out what to do now. He didn't want to go back to the Pelekai house but decided to leave Hawali and Earth where nobody would find him. He smiled seeing Gantu's old ship and entered it.
He then started the engine and it took off.
He laughed engaging hyperdrive.....
Miko saw Reuben enter the kitchen as he was making a sandwich. It'd been a while since he'd seen him since that fateful night he and Gantu had been suckered into working for him again but wanted to be a part of his life again. Miko was silent but wanted to talk to him.
"Umm...... hey Miko.
It's been a while huh?
I missed you." the golden brown experiment told his son as Miko looked shocked.
"Y-You did?
Mom told me you forgot about me and would never come back for me but I knew it wasn't true.
I missed you a lot too.
I see you married Marina.
She seems nice.
What happened to Mom?" Miko told him.
Reuben smiled hearing that.
He wanted to cry but was holding it in.
"Yeah she is nice.
You and Krista have an new sister.
Her name's Brianna." he told him as Miko chuckled.
"Yeah she's a lot of fun to play with.
We've been playing all morning." he told him.
"Mom was put back in her experiment pod by me." he told him.
Miko gasped at that but understood.
"Wow that must've been hard to do.
I want you back in my life Dad.
I missed you a lot." the teenage experiment said as there was silence but Rueben hugged him.
"I want you back too.
I'm sorry." he told him.
"There's nothing to be sorry about Miko.
Your Mom was not herself and mean to me and hurt Marina but we can be ohana again.
Would you like to be part of it?" the golden brown experiment told him.
"Yes I would Dad." he said hugging him.
Marina smiled seeing that.
She wanted to get to know her estranged son after hearing from Rueben about him.
She hoped that Moopey would be okay as she knew that Nabu had ran away.
They were good friends.
But Pleakley was a little worried about Jumba because he knew he wasn't feeling too well but he was hiding it but didn't want to worry anybody but he was working in the lab. He hoped Leroy would be okay but was angry at Nabu for running away but understood.
He hoped that the young experiment would realise his mistake and return to the ohana but heard Leroy cry in his sleep......