Medabots Fan Fiction ❯ Just Here ❯ Chapter 1

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

O_o!!

I am SO going to get my ass kicked for this...

But I couldn't help it ^O^Uu!!!

They made me write it ¬¬!! *D' Points to her three alternative personalities*

Anata: Who? Me? °°?

Némesis: So? You know I'm the evil one >D stop complaining about it.

You: Huh? °°?

-_-; ... I don't even know why the hell they're part of me....

Némesis: Easy. 'Cause you're crazy...

-_-;;; Thanks... I guess...

WARNING!! This ficcie contains SHOUNEN AI!!(That literally means "boy's love") a little angst and a LOT of sappyness...

Don't ask me where this idea came from 'cause I don't even have the slightest clue...

Némesis: Yes, you do ¬¬... It came out before you saw that 24 hours marathon.

-_-;; Er...

Anyways... on with the fic!!! (I already made my will so there's no problem if you want to flame me to death after this=P)

Song's 'Thank you' from 'The Calling'

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Look around, the writing's on the wall
Don't you think we're all feeling crazed
In a world, where nothing's at it seems
Paved with broken dreams I found truth
My God, I should know you're right
I should know it's right to say I thank you for my days



The crowd screamed cheerily and the light from the reflectors illuminated the platform where a battle was taking place a few seconds ago, before the known golden blaze of the power known as the medaforce engulfed the entire stadium with its shining. The only thing on it now was the metallic body of the loser lying on the floor, immobile, and the outstanding figure of the champion.

I smiled to myself when the referee made the announcement of victory. That was the final battle of the championship with respect to this year. And the winner was the same since when the rubberobo gang took over the world championship eight years ago.

Since that time, the rules were drastically changed. The official battles weren't held in teams anymore and battles had a maximum length of ten minutes. But not even that could stop him. He trained harder than ever for four years for the incoming tournament and he, actually, became champion four years ago.

I remember it as if it had happened just yesterday... The final battle was between us...

He and I...

But in the end, he beat me. I couldn't win. After all... he's always been better than me. But he doesn't know it... and I'm not going to admit it in front of him...

I got out of my thoughts to see the person standing in the middle of the platform besides his Medabot, his loyal and inseparable partner... his best friend...

I smiled to myself again. He was no longer a kid. He was almost a man now, considering he was eigthteen years old, like me. But he still had the same look. The same messy black hair, the same deep blue eyes... the same look in them... the same cheerful and careless presence, the same pride that never let him give up, that never allowed him to surrender...

He was the same... the same Tenryou Ikki I always knew...



Come around and see the other side
Stepping stones, away from the limelight
Come around and breathe in piece of mind
And for it all, I thank you, I thank you



The stadium gradually emptied after the announcement of Ikki's second consecutive victory. Japan was the world's champion in robattles... no...

IKKI was the champion...

After the last attempt of the rubberobo gang in trying to repeat the ten days of darkness Victor left the battles, and with the money he had, he founded an organization that until today is in charge to prevent that horrible tragedy to happen again.

In my case... I left them for more painful reasons... ones that I don't like to talk about... it hurts too much...

"Kouji...?"Someone called my name. I got back to reality and noticed that the stadium was already empty and the lights were off.

I turned to where the voice came from, and I found myself looking straigthly into a pair of two big azure eyes.

They're... deeper than I remember...

"It's really you, Kouji?"he asked again. I couldn't help smiling at him.

"O-Hasashiburi, Ikki(It's been a long time, Ikki)"a wide smile appeared on his lips.

"It surely has... We haven't heard any of you since.. you know.. "I winced a little. So he knew why I quit robattling... I casted my eyes forward, losing my gaze in the empty darkness of the immense stadium.

"I couldn't go on, Ikki.."I started, but he interrupted me.

"Don't worry, Kouji... "he said to me. I still refused to look at him"You don't have to justify your actions, after all... I would've done the same..."I finally stopped avoiding his eyes, and when I met them, I saw silent understanding and a simpathetic smile that so many persons refused to give me without pity. I smiled at him again... happy and sad at the same time.

It had been a long time since I last felt so calmed, so in peace with myself since the accident three years ago... when I lost Sumilidon... when I lost the will to robattle...

"Thanks for understand... "I whispered. He smiled back. A heavy silence fell upon us.

Seconds passed, changing rapidly into minutes. But we couldn't seem to be able to speak. So many time without seeing each other. It was difficult to pretend things were the same as they were eight years ago... but we had changed so much... I changed so much...



Sit down, lose yourself in thought,
Then you might find out it's all we've got
Take a chance, the future's in your hands
Make it what you can before your time has reached the end



"Why are you here...?"Ikki broke the quietness of the moment so easily, yet with such a difficult question to answer.

"I just came to congratulate you... "I murmured, feeling miserable"You won again... after all our fights you ended up winning again... you won Karen... "I looked away once again, but now my eyes fell to the ground"I know she loves you, and that you were going to ask her to be your girlfriend tonight after the battle..."

I sighed, deeply, feeling in my chest the awful pressure of loss and closed my eyes... I lost her forever... I could say now that I had nothing left. But giving a second thought to that... I realized I never had her at all, I just fought for her, to see if I could make her notice me, but I was always at Ikki's shadow.

Ikki remained in silence for a while. And then I heard him answering, his voice calm, I could have said that was almost cold.

"Yeah... she loves me... "I felt my heart breaking, but he went on"But... the love she feels for me is no more than the love for a brother... "



Come around and see the other side
Stepping stones, away from the limelight
come around and breathe in piece of mind,
And for it all, you you'll make it-- on your own
Yeah, you're free...



I turned to him almost inmediately. I didn't expect that.

I looked at his face. Now he was whom didn't want any kind of eye contact. A smile was on his lips, but the sadness in his eyes made it look out of place. It was just so... strange... to see him sad. Of course that I've seen him cry, but... I never saw such sadness, such melancholy in his eyes before...

"You're right... I was gonna ask her tonight... but before I could even say something she asked me what to do to ask some guy out... "the smile on his lips widened a bit"And I just stood there, and I smiled reasurringly and told her to follow her heart and to do what it told her to do before it was too late... "

I remained silent, with my eyes still on him, on his sapphire eyes filling up with tears. A bitter laugh escaped his throat.

"And I just stood there, Kouji... smiling to her like some kind of idiot while my heart was breaking inside my chest... "he looked at me then, a couple of tears sliding down his cheeks. The smile had disappeared already from his face, and the look in his deep eyes made me feel much more sad that the thought of losing Karen.

I could not help it... What I did after that...

With my right hand I wiped one of his tears away, and locking my eyes with his I smiled. A smile I have never given to another being. A smile I thought I was unable to give.

"We're pathetic... "I murmured, tenderly, with that smile still on my lips. His eyes were caught in mines, and the look in them made me feel an enormous need to hold him right then and there.

"Yes, we are... "he said, barely above a whisper.

He smiled sadly again. But he didn't broke the link our eyes had, not even flinched when I cupped his cheek with my hand...

Not even when I leaned closer to take his lips with mines...



Stepping stones, away from the limelight
Come around, and breathe in piece of mind
And for it all I thank you, I thank you, I thank you, I thank you...



A/N:

........... So... ?

*Telephone rings. D' goes to answer*

Hello?

*Child-like voice* Seven days... you'll die in seven days...

.... Oook... ^^;

Tell me if I'm really gonna need my will or, in case you´d like to know, if I should post the next chappie, to see what happens >D