Ness was a boy that was unlike many. He was known as a guardian angel. He watched over the people in a certain sector to make sure they lived the lives meant for them. Despite this important job, he had shown favoritism for a certain boy, Lucas. The lord of the angels, Palutena, knew about this. Ness didn't tell her, she could just simply tell by the way Ness would try to help Lucas compared to the rest of the people he's supposed to be watching. She knew that showing favoritism isn't good when being a guardian angel, but she loved how happy Ness would get whenever he saw Lucas smile. Unlike Ness though, Palutena could tell that Lucas's smiles were faked.
As weird as it sounded, there were annual "God-meets", where multiple different gods would meet with The Overseer to talk about what they have planned for the people to do. Palutena was scheduled to meet with The Overseer first. The meet-up place was simple, just a large temple overseeing the Ultimatum. Palutena entered the temple, with her only needing to be in the immediate area of the entrance. The Overseer, X, stood in the small foyer. Due to his stature, since he had the physical appearance of a ten-year-old boy, he stood on a table to be a similar height to Palutena. Palutena had always had the urge to pinch X's cheeks, but she knew X could defeat her with a single wink, so she never dared. Palutena stood in front of X. "So, update me on Ultimatum," he said. His voice also showed his physical age.
"Nothing too much, it seems everything is going swimmingly. And about the plans for—" Palutena ended up getting cut off by Ness, who rushed into the temple. Palutena looked back at Ness.
"Sorry sir," Ness apologized. His voice showed that he was scared and worried. He talked fast which made it somewhat hard to understand him.
"Now, Ness, you can't just barge—"
"Lucas tried to kill himself." Palutena's eyes widened. X was just confused.
"So, he's just a boy," X shrugged. Ness grew offended by the comment of him "just being a boy". Ness then went on a tirade about how Lucas isn't "just a boy" and how he's the best boy, among other stuff. Palutena backed up to X.
"He likes this boy...like a lot," Palutena whispered. X turned back to Ness, who was still in the middle of his tirade.
"He's got the most amazing smile and I swear on everything that is us, I will see it again. So, he isn't just a boy, he's—" Ness gets cut off.
"Then go help him," X said. Ness just looked at X, confused.
"W-what? I can do that?" X nodded. He walked over to Ness. They were closer in height than he was with Palutena. X smirked.
"We'll have Pit watch over Ultimatum, you go help your boyfriend."
"H-he's not my boyfriend," Ness shouted instantly. His face was in a blushed mess and his eyes were shaky. X shook his head.
"Just go on before I change my mind." Ness looked at Palutena, who nodded. Ness slowly grew a smile and bowed.
"T-thank you, sir, ma'am." He shot back up and ran out of the temple. Palutena walked over to X's side, showing the height difference. X was at least two feet shorter than his apprentice but was still ten times stronger.
Lucas was in the hospital. His dad had just left after talking to him. Lucas closed his eyes and thought to himself. He knew he hurt his dad. He knew that his dad, his mom, and especially his brother, are very hurt. Despite this knowledge, he couldn't help but think that he made the right decision and that the fact he lived was a simple oversight. Lucas sighed to himself. "Hey there Lucas…" a deep-voiced boy said. Lucas shot his eyes open and saw Ness standing at the foot of his bed. Lucas grew rightfully nervous.
"W-who are you? H-how do you know my name?" Lucas asked, frightened by Ness's sudden appearance. Ness held his hands out and tried to show Lucas he meant no harm. Lucas thought it over.
"I mean no harm. My name's Ness, and I go to school with you." Lucas tilted his head. "I saw you hurting and thought I'd come help." Ness's voice smoothened out. Instead of it being just simply deep, it's deep and relaxing. Simply by hearing the rather deep voice, although Lucas knew it was incomparable to his dad, Lucas was able to relax ever so slightly. Lucas looked down.
"You're...looking to help me?" Ness nodded and sat in a chair that was next to the hospital bed. "You are in way over your head." Ness chuckled.
"I'm always told that," Ness chuckled. Lucas heard this genuine chuckle and kind of liked it. Despite having no real memory of Ness, he couldn't help but feel like he knew Ness.
"N-Ness, was it?"
"Mhm." Lucas looked down, trying to search his memory for that name, but found nothing.
"You…" He couldn't find his name, but he still couldn't shake that feeling that he knew Ness. "You really want to help?" Lucas looked at Ness. Ness saw the emotion in his eyes. Lucas's deep blue eyes are surrounded by red skin, this told Ness he's been crying a lot. Ness stood up and walked over to Lucas's side. He hesitated to put his hand on Lucas's shoulder but decided to do so anyway. Lucas's body felt a wave of warmth. Lucas looked up at Ness. Lucas tilted his head. "...why?" Ness smirked.
"Don't worry about why just know I'll be waiting for you when you get out of the hospital." He turned around and walked to the door. He looked at Lucas as he opened it. "See ya soon, 'K?" Lucas sat up and looked at Ness. Lucas's mouth struggled to form a smile. The edges of his mouth were shaking.
"Y-yea...see you." Ness giggled then walked out. Once the door closes, it didn't take long for the door to open back up. Lucas's dad, Flint, popped in. He tilted his head.
"Lucas, who were you talking to?" Flint asked, worried. The worry made Lucas confused, but he decided it'd be best to allow Ness to do what he wanted, even if it was in secret.
"J-just a friend."
"A...friend?" Flint rubbed the back of his neck before shaking his head. "I-It doesn't matter, the doc says you'll be able to leave tomorrow morning." Flint grabbed the doorknob and started to close the door. Before fully closing it, though, he looked at Lucas, who was looking at him too. Flint opened his mouth to say something but seemed scared to go through with it, so he decided to not tell him. He closed the door, leaving Lucas to himself.
Lucas lied back down and thought to himself. "Ness…" he said to himself. "...we're in the same school?" Lucas thought back to the students of his school, Smash High. None of them looked like Ness though. This confused Lucas, but he decided to just bring it down to the fact there were so many students in the school. He was able to fall asleep.
The next morning rolled around. The doctor, Dr. Mario, did some final checks on Lucas, giving him antidepressants, then allowed him to leave with his Flint. It didn't take long for them to make it out of the rather small hospital. Once out there, Lucas saw Ness. Ness seemed to be hiding slightly. Lucas stopped walking and looked over at Ness-who was standing on the other side of the corner of the hospital-this prompted Flint to stop as well and look in the same direction. "D-dad? Can I walk home?"
"Uhh." Flint was hesitant. He was mainly scared that Lucas may attempt to do something to himself. "S-sure, but you better be home by noon, got it?"
"Mhm," Lucas said as he started to walk toward Ness. Flint just sighed and walked away. Lucas made it to Ness, which made Ness smile.
"You actually came?" Ness asked. Lucas crossed his arms.
"So, what did you want?" Ness grabbed Lucas's hand and ran away from the hospital with him. Lucas was feeling some pain from Ness's grip but decided not to bring it up to Ness since he looked like he was having fun. And Ness was. He was really happy that Lucas gave him the chance of day. Ness didn't truly have a plan for where to bring Lucas. He kinda just wanted to run with Lucas in his hand.
Eventually, they did get somewhere. It was a simple park. Nothing about this park was too outlandish, it was an average park. There were slides, swings, poles, etc. Lucas tilted his head as he entered the park grounds. "What...what're we here for?" Ness looked down. He never truly got a chance to hang out with a friend.
"I...I want to swing. I've never done it before." Lucas looked at Ness, who was still looking down. Lucas chuckled and put his hand on Ness's back.
"Want me to show you?" Ness looked up at Lucas.
"You'd...you'd do that?" Lucas motioned for Ness to follow him to the far end of the park, where the swing set was at. Lucas sat in the furthest one with Ness sitting in the closest. Lucas looked to his right-where Ness was on his swing-and looked him up and down.
"OK, pay attention to what I do?" Ness hesitated to give Lucas a nod. Lucas planted his feet on the ground and walked back, ensuring he was still on the swing. He then picked his feet up and he swung forward. He swung back, and he fully commenced into the swing. Whenever he went up, he moved his legs out and his back down, nearly on the verge of falling back out of the swing. Lucas planted his feet back to the ground as he swung back and looked at Ness. "Ok, you got that?" Ness didn't. He was just focused on Lucas's face and how he looked like he was having fun. He thought Lucas looked cute with the wind flowing through his hair, his smile, in the end, he only confirmed his feelings for the boy. "Ness?" This broke Ness from his dirty thoughts.
"Uh, yes, I would like to suck on it…"
"Uhh, what?" Ness's face heats up. He said the last thing he thought about. He put his hands over his mouth.
"N-nothing. C-could you show me again?" Lucas tilted his head as he looked at the now red boy. He giggled.
"You're different from the people I know...heh, I like that."
"I like you too…" Ness said, but Lucas started back on the swing. That, mixed with the fact his hands were still over his mouth, means Lucas didn't hear what Ness said. Ness slowly lowers his hands as he focused on Lucas's movements, and how he did them effortlessly. Lucas soon stopped and looked at Ness.
"You go." Ness nodded and looked forward. He gulped as he walked back. He picked his feet up and swung forward and back. As he swung forward he extended his body as Lucas did, but he didn't stop it while going back so he slammed his head into the wood chips in the ground and fell. Lucas flinched as Ness gave a painful groan. Lucas jumped from the swing and kneeled next to Ness. Ness started to pick his head back up but just had it get attacked by the swing swinging back. Ness gave another painful groan, making Lucas stop the swing and put a hand on Ness's arm, helping him up. Lucas saw some wood chips in Ness's face so he walked over to the nearby bench and both of them sat down.
"Owie ow…" Ness sounded like he was on the verge of crying. Lucas softly placed his hand on Ness's right cheek, despite being on his left, and forced Ness to look at him. There were only three woodchips in his face.
"Hold still, 'K?" Ness nodded. Lucas reached for the small woodchip in Ness's nose and ripped it out with little trouble. He then took the one out of his left cheek, but then that left the one in Ness's lip. It looks like it's the worst and almost seems to go fully through the lip. Lucas puts his fingers around it and looked into Ness's purple eyes. "This is gonna hurt." Lucas started to try and rip it out but stopped as soon as he heard Ness's pain infused screams. Luckily, it didn't seem like people heard him, despite Ness screaming rather loud. There were some people looking at Lucas, but they didn't do much else. "Ok, maybe we should take you back to the hospital?"
"NO, n-no. I-I don't uh, I don't like the hospital." Lucas looked at the wood chip and sighed. That's when an idea popped into his head. He balled up his hand and moved his forearm in front of Ness's face. Ness tilted his head. "What's this?"
"Bite down on my arm, I don't have much else for you to bite on."
"B-but—"
"Just do it, I don't want you to get an infection. Who knows where that chip has been." Ness looked down at Lucas's arm and gulped. He did as Lucas told, and bit down on it slightly under the joint for his wrist. Lucas winced in pain but obviously dialed it back. Lucas placed his hands back on the wood chip and started pulling it out once more. When he did, however, Ness bit down hard on Lucas's arm. Ness forced his eyes open to look at the arm he was biting and he saw stitches at the base of his wrist. Seeing this made Ness go deeply into thought. He loosed his bite on Lucas's arm to just think about why he'd do what he did. Lucas seemed relatively happy with what Ness has given him. His thoughts were broken up by Lucas confirming he pulled the chip out of his mouth. Lucas reached into his pocket and grabbed a band-aid, and placed it over the small hole. Lucas then backed up and looked at Ness. He smirked. "Boom." Ness tilted his head. Lucas can tell something is on his mind. "Something wrong?"
"W-why?" Ness asked. Lucas raised an eyebrow. "Why'd you do it?" Ness didn't need to explain what he meant. Lucas sighed and looked straight at the playground. He then rested his head on the back of the bench and closed his eyes.
"I don't…" Ness scooted closer to Lucas and put his hand on Lucas's. Lucas didn't open his eyes, but he had a warm feeling from Ness's hand.
"You don't have to tell me."
"..." Ness grabbed Lucas's hand and looked out at the playground.
"I have no clue how you feel right now, but trust me, I know how it feels when you're separated from someone you love." Lucas opened an eye and looked at Ness, who was still looking out at the playground.
"You know already?" Ness shrugged.
"I kinda assumed." Lucas stood up and looked back at Ness. Ness was still holding Lucas's hand so he stood up too. He decided to let go of Lucas's hand. Lucas looked around and verified that no one was looking their way now.
"I-I didn't say to let go of my hand." Ness chuckled and grabbed Lucas's hand once more. Ness tilted his head as he looked at Lucas.
"Are you blushing?"
"Sh-shut up, let's just go."
"Go where?" Lucas looked up at Ness. Ness's eyes showed that he was really paying attention to him. Lucas sighed before looking away from Ness. He tugged Ness's arm to follow him, and he did.
While they walked through the city, Lucas and Ness were given some confused looks. Lucas didn't see them though, he was too focused on his own thoughts. They walked for nearly an hour and made it to a part of the city that was less populated. The main part of this place was the graveyard. This is when Ness found out where Lucas was taking them.
They entered the graveyard. This was when Lucas let go of Ness's hand and walked on ahead. He soon got to the graves for his mom and brother. He kneeled in front of them and sighed to himself. Their graves weren't too far from the entrance to the graveyard, so Ness was able to see it without going too deep into the graveyard. Ness looked around at the few buildings and saw a certain shop. He chuckled to himself and ran toward it.
Lucas stayed at the graves. He placed his head on the grave of his brother. "Hey, Claus...I don't think I'll be able to see you as I promised. This Ness kid seems to be too stubborn to leave me alone." Lucas chuckled. During the chuckle, a tear fell. He sighed and looked at his mom's grave. He sniffed and just shook his head. "I'm sorry…" He stayed there for close to ten minutes, not even noticing that Ness didn't go there with him.
Ness made it back to the graveyard and gave a sigh of relief when he saw Lucas was still at the graves. Ness ran over with a gift in his pocket. He ran to behind Lucas, heard his cries, and cleared his throat. Lucas slowly turned around. "Ness?" Ness grew a smile. He reached out his hands for Lucas to grab, and with a little hesitation, he did. Ness let go of Lucas's hands and reached into his pocket. He then brought out the gift but had his fist around it so Lucas didn't see.
"I got you something…"
"You...you got me something?" Ness grabbed Lucas's wrist, the one with the stitches, and gently placed the gift into it. Ness then made Lucas ball up his fist around it but didn't take his hands off of Lucas's. Ness looked up at Lucas.
"I've been looking out for you…" Ness then let go of Lucas's hand. Allowing him to look down as he opened his fist. He saw a sunflower necklace. Lucas's eyes beamed at the sight of it. He shot his head up at Ness.
"You...got this for me?"
"Yea, try it on." Lucas did. The necklace was a little loose around his neck, but the emblem of the sunflower was perfectly placed in the middle of his chest. Lucas looked away from the necklace to look at Ness but saw that he was nervous. He was rubbing his neck, he seemed to be somewhat sweaty too.
"Ness?"
"Uhh, well, I kinda had a question." Lucas raised an eyebrow, preparing himself for the question. Ness, in his head, was pumping himself up to say what he was going to say. He let out a deep breath. "Could I, perhaps, have a chance, potential, to go on a date with you, maybe?" Lucas just burst into laughter. This nearly broke Ness's heart. Lucas's laughing fit soon ended when Lucas turned to the graves. He wiped the tears from his laughter. He stepped aside to be right in front of his mom's grave. He gave a faint look at the heart-broken Ness.
"Step up, I've gotta introduce you." Ness hesitantly did as Lucas told him to do. Lucas turned back to the graves. "Mom, Claus, this is Ness. He's...he and I...we'll be dating so please wish us luck." It took a moment for what Lucas said to drain into his brain. He slowly turned his head. Lucas did the same and just smiled. "What? You thought I was gonna deny, I was just laughing at how you asked." Ness looked at the grave of Lucas's brother-Claus. The one thing he couldn't prevent, no matter how hard he tried, was the deaths of Claus and Hinawa.
Lucas told Ness that he should be introduced to his dad. Ness was hesitant, but he knew it'd make Lucas happy, and thus, making his job complete. Lucas walked Ness to his house. And when they entered they saw Lucas's dad looking at the door, slightly concerned. He stood up and walked over to Lucas. "Lucas, where were you?" Flint asked strictly. Lucas smiled and gripped hard onto Ness's hand.
"I was with Ness….we're, uh, we're dating," Lucas said as he turned to look at Ness. Flint looked in the direction Lucas did too but didn't see anyone.
"Who?" Lucas shot his head toward his Flint.
"What do you mean, who? Ness, he's right here." Lucas lifted the hand he had held onto Ness's. Flint looked and only saw Lucas gripping onto the air.
"There's no one here."
"What? Of course, there is, he's right here. Ness?" Lucas asked as he turned to face Ness.
"Look…" Flint said. He stuck his hand out in front of where Lucas was looking at, and nothing happened to him. But to Lucas, Flint stuck his hand through Ness. Lucas let go of Ness's hand and just looked at him, shocked.
"What….Ness?" Ness looked down before turning to Lucas.
"I'm sorry...I have to go now...bye Lukey…" Ness then starts to float up, leaving Lucas. Lucas starts to tear up. Flint tried to comfort Lucas, but it didn't work, and Lucas ended up running to his room.
Ness floated back to his home, the area overlooking the city. He wasn't happy though. He instantly saw Pit. Pit smirked. "Yo, Ness, what's the matter?" Pit asked, noticing Ness's sad expression. Ness simply sighed and walked away, not giving Pit even a hint of an answer. Pit watched as Ness walked away. While he did ask Ness what was wrong, he already knew. Not only are they floating above Ultimatum, but they also know every little thing that happens there. Pit knew that Ness had to leave Lucas. Which is why he called Palutena over to him before Ness came back. Palutena just arrived. She stood next to Pit, looking at Ness.
"What'd I miss?" Palutena asked.
"Look at him…" Palutena tilted her head and watched as Ness pouted on the invisible ground. She thought for a moment before turning to Pit.
"Would you mind watching over Ultimatum longer, at least until we find someone new?" Pit shook his head, prompting Palutena to walk toward Ness. She arrived at Ness's side and kneeled. She placed her hand on Ness's back. "You really do care for him, huh?"
"...of course I do," Ness said, fighting back tears. Palutena looked at what he was looking at. It was Lucas's house. "He's crying...because of me."
"...Ness...there is a way to see him again, but—" She got cut off by Ness shooting up.
"I'll do it." Palutena slowly stood up.
"But, if you do, you won't be immortal anymore. You'd be susceptible to anything a regular human is." Ness balls his hands into fists.
"I DON'T CARE...I want to see him again."
"You also won't be able to see us anymore." This caused Ness to look down. This was the only place he truly knew. These people were the only people he truly befriended. That's when he turned to see Lucas's house.
"I-I have to…" Palutena smirked. She put a hand on Ness's shoulder, making him look up, and then pulled him into a hug.
"That's what I expected." Ness melted into the hug. He suddenly felt his eyelids grow very heavy. He was forced to close his eyes. When he reopened them he saw himself in Lucas's room, with a surprised Lucas looking at him. Lucas stood up. Lucas looked at Ness up and down.
"N-Ness?" That was when there was a knock at the door. Flint was there. He didn't even wait for Lucas to answer before opening the door.
"Lucas I—" Flint stopped. He saw Ness. "Are you...Ness?" Lucas looked between Ness and Flint, having to absorb what was happening. He decided to then slowly walk toward Ness. Ness grinned.
"I'm back….for good." Lucas pulled Ness into a big hug. Ness turned to Flint, who was just giving him a smile.
"I'll just leave you two be." He stepped out of the room and closed the door. Ness ruffled Lucas's hair and chuckled.
"What's wrong? I was only gone for a few minutes."
"Sh-shut up." Ness chuckled.
"Ok ok, but is our date still up."
"..."
"I'll take that as a no then." Lucas looked up at Ness's face, despite still being in a hug.
"No you idiot, it's still on." Lucas then tucked his head back into Ness's chest. "Don't leave me again." Ness put his own head on Lucas's.
"I promise I won't."