Missing: Shounen ai, A/G *Stream 40 spoilers*

[Neko]

Wow... a dark fic from Neko. This is for Planty, it's a SeikoxFlashman. She wanted it, and I warned out about it so no yelling. Enjoy :3

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Seiko sat in his room with his PET on the small table next to his bed. He was on his bed with his legs tucked under his chin and an intent look on his face as he gazed at the newspaper. The headlines read “Neo WWW members arrested! Will their reign on terror draw to an end?” underneath were pictures of Narcy and Inukai. They may have annoyed him, but he would never wish jail on anyone who has helped him.

“Seiko-dono, are you all right?” he heard from his PET.

Seiko sighed and crumpled the newspaper in his hands throwing it into a corner of his room. “I’m fine,” he said bitterly.

Flashman gave him a wan smile, and even though Seiko couldn’t see the smile because of the permanent mouth guard, he knew it was there. “You don’t seem fine.”

Seiko glared at the PET with hard eyes. “I’m fine,” he said again with more force. Flashman felt as if he was trying to convince himself of this face and not him. “As you say, Seiko-dono.”

Seiko glared at his PET some more. Amazing how his navi could always tell what he was thinking. “Do you think we’re next?” he asked softly. There was silence. “The article says that Beastman and Videoman were deleted.”

“I do not know, Seiko-dono,” Flashman said. “But if our time has indeed come, then I am glad to have been with you.”

Seiko looked away from the PET and his eyes fell on the dimensional chip resting on a table on the far side of the room. He glared at it, hating it and Flashman for him being in this mess but, yet.

He sighed and crossed the room slowly, picking up the chip with trembling fingers. He looked at it and his gaze softened. “Seiko-dono?” Flashman asked.

“It’s amazing how something so small can cause so much trouble,” he said to the chip as he walked over to his PET. He gazed at Flashman and slotted in the ship. In a rainbow of color the navi appeared in front of him, twice as tall yet somehow smaller then Seiko had ever seen him. “You’re afraid,” he murmured.

“The future is something I cannot change, yet that does not mean I don’t fear it,” Flashman replied.

Seiko went up to the navi and put his arms around him. “You’re not the one who’s supposed to be afraid,” he said almost in a whisper. “Why are you scared? You’re not alive, you don’t breathe!” his voice grew louder.

Flashman put his strong arms around Seiko, “No, but I am afraid of what will happen to Seiko-dono when I’m gone,” he replied.

Seiko pulled away and tried to adopt his normal saucy attitude. He crossed his arms and looked at Flashman through a sidelong glance. “Afraid, for me?” he scoffed. “Don’t forget I got along fine before you got here!”

“I know, but can you get along after?” Flashman asked.

Seiko’s grip on his clothing tightened. “I will be just fine.”

“Then I have nothing to worry about,” Flashman replied.

Seiko looked at his navi and felt the urge to put his arms around him again. To be held again, to know that everything would be all right, even if it wasn’t. Just for a little bit.

Flashman saw Seiko second glance him and guessed what he was thinking. He took one stride and placed his arms around Seiko, the man melted like butter. “You’re not real,” he whispered.

“I’m sorry for that,” Flashman said almost sadly.

Seiko closed his eyes and allowed himself to be held, just for that moment. Everything was all right and everything had a place, and the world could do whatever it wanted because for those precious few seconds he wasn’t apart of it.

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“We’re going!” Tesla barked.

Seiko and Suyanama exchanged nervous glances and followed their boss out of the large building. They each took a separate car to avoid detection. On the way there Flashman was unusually silent.

“What’s wrong?” Seiko asked.

“Nothing, Seiko-dono,” Flashman replied.

Seiko’s mouth twisted and his hands tightened on the steering wheel. “Really?”

“Yes,” Flashman said.

“I don’t want to do this,” Seiko said. “I want it all to go away and pretend all of this never happened.”

“Like meeting me?” Flashman asked.

“Yes,” Seiko whispered but the end of the sound died on his lips.

“I’m sorry to hear that,” Flashman said.

“I’m sorry for a lot of things, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t happen,” Seiko said tightly and drove along the highway.

“Seiko-dono?”

“Yes?”

“I’m sorry for any trouble I’ve caused you,” Flashman stated.

Seiko’s heart began to ache for those arms again. To shut out the world and pretend none of it ever happened. “I know.”

“And, whatever happens in there, I want you to know something, Seiko-dono,” Flashman said.

“Yes?”

“I love you,” Flashman said gently, almost too soft for Seiko to hear.

Seiko’s grip tightened again, “I know,” he said.

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Seiko saw Flashman get tossed into the air time and time again but each time it hurt more and more. They could never win against Netto Hikari and Rockman. The kids were just too strong, any animal would have the sense to run away, but he was a human and as such ran into danger. Flashman sailed across the room and Seiko heard his voice scream out Flashman’s name.

The battle raged on.

It wasn’t like him to give up, but when you knew your world was going to end, you tended to go into some kind of shock whether you willed it or not. He saw Flashman take another swan dive and this time he knew this was it, the final blow, the end of his world. Time stood still, and for a second he heard in that voice in that way, “Seiko-dono,” whispered. Then he saw his world blow up.

“FLASHMAN!” he screamed.

He grabbed his head and collapsed. Nothing else mattered, Flashman was gone. It was inevitable he knew but still. Why did it have to end, like that, why?

He felt some men seize his arms and when he didn’t resist they loosened their grip, stunned. “Is this the guy?” one of them asked quietly.

“Yeah, he’s the operator all right,” another one replied.

One man handcuffed his hands behind his back, “All right buddy, time to go,” he said in an almost apologetic voice.

“Flashman,” Seiko whispered, almost on the verge of tears.

The man glanced at where the navi had once been, “You know, even though you’re a net criminal for all it’s worth, I’m sorry.”

Seiko nodded numbly and gazed at the floor. It hurt less to look at the floor then what was going on. The floor was nice and simple, nothing startling or scary, the floor just was.

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Seiko sat in his cell in apparent shock on the outside. On the inside all hell had broken loose. He wanted to cry and sob and let it all out but the only one that let him do that was Flashman. He wished for the big, strong arms again and the voice to tell him that he had the power to fix anything. He was that power, and now it was gone.

Everything was gone.

A blue light flashed in front of his eyes and he looked up to see a light blue cylinder that he recognized as a dimensional converter. “What in the world?” he asked himself.

It glowed a bright blue and shot lightning out all over the room. He shielded his eyes for a second and…

“What am I doing here?” he asked himself. He was in a prison cell, in prison garb and he had no clue what he did. “Hello?” he called out.

What am I doing here… he thought. What am I missing?
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[Midnight]

Hmmm....

[Plantman]

Ah! Neko, that fanfic was beautiful. It wasn't sappy, it wasn't 'zomg the angst'. I liked the way you portrayed Saiko's feelings -yes, his name is Saiko, not Seiko XD- that mix between loving and hating. It was all very well written, some minor typos I found but overall, I loved the evolution of the fanfic.
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[Plantman]

Ah! Neko, that fanfic was beautiful. It wasn't sappy, it wasn't 'zomg the angst'. I liked the way you portrayed Saiko's feelings -yes, his name is Saiko, not Seiko XD- that mix between loving and hating. It was all very well written, some minor typos I found but overall, I loved the evolution of the fanfic.
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[Nazne]

;_________;

That was saaaad. Especially so when it's a lesser-shown character, and the way you've written it seems to match the guy so well ;_; Excellent work, btw. XDD

-BMA