Reflections

Dawnfire: *peeks in the doorway and ducks all the stuff being thrown at her* Ok, gomen nasai for the long update but I was drafted into working and I haven’t been feeling that great lately, but i felt guilty about not updating so here i am!

Duskfire: Time for review responses:

Evilchild: Thanks, i hope that you continue to find it interesting. Sorry about the confusion, but for some reason i prefer the Japanese names so those are the ones that i used, and there will be some major Chaud/Lan stuff, 'specially the last two chapters.

Frost of Egarath: Ok, here’s the next chapter. As for your advice and criticism (which was very helpful): I tend to forget which contexts I’m referring to people in, so sometimes i would say, completely by accident, boy, then in the next paragraph call him young man, its just my spaztic nature. Secondly, i was too lazy to write out the numbers, so i just used the numeric form. Lastly i change my POV on whims, i don’t mean to but its hard for me to keep them straight sometimes, and also ill suddenly get inspiration and i don’t have time to fix all the inconsistencies. As for clever literary emphasis, that would be giving me far too much credit, since i have very little experience writing. Now, for that Forte plushie you wanted *digs through her piles of plushies and finds a Forte down at the very bottom* Here ya go, i don’t have very many of him but there are those who like him so i hold onto a few.

Mu-chan: 0_o what the? "...I think I love you..."? where did that come from? anyway, thank you for saying so.

Kat: thank you, here’s what’s going to happen next.

Dawnfire: Ok, for those of you who asked about the lemon: yes there will be a lemon, but not in this chappy, it’ll probably be in Enzan’s chappy, and also the epilogue. Also, it probably wont be that great, but it’ll be my first try at that, so be nice...

Duskfire: We don’t own anything, cuz we iz just poor girls who live on a secluded rock (Dawn: oh my god, the irony of it all). This includes Rockman, or any of the songs seen in this fic. This disclaimer stands for the whole fic, I'm not going to say it twice. There may be some spelling errors in this, but my hikari's word program, for some reason, doesn’t have spell check, so it makes it kinda hard to check spelling.

Dawnfire: A couple other things, before this gets started. One: according to one of my favorite Rockman fanfic writers, Neko Salosa on fanfiction.net, Netto and Rockman are twins. I haven’t seen anything in to that effect yet, however, I’ve only seen about half of Axess, so my knowledge about this is slightly limited and I’m going to trust Neko-san in this and say that Netto and Rockman are twins and have a psychic link. If you have a problem with this, I’m sorry, but this is the way I’m writing this fic. Two, this story, in parts will seem like the story I don’t wanna know by JOSHIE, which was actually the inspiration for this fic, this is not, however, intended to be a copy of that very good story, which I would recommend to trustshipper (Chaud/Lan) fans.
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Chapter Summery: Netto remembers spending a weekend at Enzan's house while his parents are out of town
Netto's POV
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The thermometer stated that the temperature in Den Tech City at midnight was in the lower 80s.

Upstairs in the Hikari household, 17-year-old Hikari Netto tossed and turned in his bed, trying to get comfortable, but the heat that refused to relent made sleep almost impossible, even though all the windows in his room were open, there was no wind to relieve the humidity.

Finally giving up on sleep, Netto got up and went to the kitchen to get something cold to drink and sit in the window seat in his room. The movements around the house awakened Netto's Net Navi, Rockman. Seeing that his twin was awake, Netto set his drink aside and moved to greet him.

"Hey Rock, what’s up? Why are you up?"

"Hey, the temp in Den Tech, I could ask you the same question, but i know why, so I’m not going to. As for why, well, you tend to get into trouble without me, so i might as well stay up to keep an eye on you."

Netto just looked at his twin while one of his eyebrows disappeared up into his hairline.

Rockman cleared his throat and asked, "So what are you going to do now that you’re up?"

Netto sighed, "There isn’t much i can do without waking up Mom and Dad, so i think I’m just going to listen to music, its something i can do quietly."

Now it was Rockman's turn to raise his eyebrows. "You feeling ok Netto-kun? Its not like you to just sit around."

"I’m fine, just a little bit depressed."

Rockman laughed quietly "Ahh, missing Enzan-san are we?"

Netto blushed and retorted "As much as you're missing Blues."

That shut the little blue Navi up, fast.

Seeing that his twin was going to let up on the subject of the two-tone haired boy, Netto turned on his CD player, found a song that he liked, and sat back to listen.

Music started to flow into the room through the speakers attached to the player.

Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I'd just stare out my window
Dreamin' of what could be
And if I'd end up happy

Listening to the song, Netto's mind started to drift as he looked up at the full moon outside.

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"WHAT!?!?!"

The voice shouting could be heard clearly outside the Hikari home. Inside, a very unhappy 13-year-old Netto looked at his parents like they were out of their minds.

"What do you mean you're leaving town, and you’re not taking me with you?"

"Well, your father and I are going out of town to visit some of his colleagues and taking you with us simply isn’t an option. I’m sorry dear, but you cant come, you’ll have to stay here."

"How long are you going to be gone?"

"Only for a weekend dear."

Seeing an advantage in this Netto asked, "And you’re trusting me with the house until you get back?"

"No, you’re going to stay with your friend Enzan. It's all been arranged."

Netto's face paled. They had to be kidding. They just had to be, because it wasn’t possible for them to be serious. HIM? Stay with Ijuuin Enzan? There was no way that he was going to do that. Him and Enzan weren’t really rivals anymore. They both were Net Saviors, and they were often paired up together because they made a good team, but that didn’t mean that Netto was ready to spend a weekend at the Ijuuin mansion.
Rockman sensed his twin was having a hard time dealing with the fact that he was going to stay at Enzan's house and did his best to calm Netto's nerves. /Look at it this way Netto-kun, you wont have to go through it alone, I'll be there with you./
/Yeah, that’s true, but still, I don't want to stay with Enzan, he's such a wet blanket sometimes./

/I see your point, but its what our parents have arranged, so we just have to go with it. And besides, it could end up being alright. Maybe Enzan-san wont be an idiot and he'll see that hanging out with you can be fun. We'll just have to win him over./

Netto started to smile very much like the Cheshire Cat (D: don’t own Alice in Wonderland) as he started to think of all the pranks he could pull on Enzan.

Rockman felt the turn in his twins thoughts, and started to get very nervous. It never worked out well when Netto started to plot pranks.
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The next morning, Saturday, Netto arrived at the Ijuuin mansion with his bags packed for the weekend. Looking at it, he just stared. It was enormous. His whole house could fit into it and there would still be room to spare, a lot of it. Rockman was just as dumbstruck as his twin when he saw the cyber version.

"Wow..." they said, in perfect unison.

Enzan, who had come out of the house just in time to hear them, looked at them as if they were slightly addlebrained. "Are you coming in or not?"

Grumbling mentally to his twin about egotistical workaholics, Netto tried to be polite, but was having a very hard time because of Enzan's lack of social skills. His parents remained blissfully unaware of the tension between the former rivals and thanked Enzan for his willingness to host Netto while they were out of town.

Rockman was having a slightly easier time being welcomed to the cyber version of the Ijuuin mansion, which, of course, was done by Blues who, while still being an antisocial navi, managed to be much more gracious than his netop. Blues, from inside the house network, whispered to Rockman, "Your Op seems to be much more polite than usual."

Rockman laughed and told Blues not to get used to it, because it wouldn’t last.

With his parents gone, Netto felt very much out of his element. Everywhere he looked, he saw expensive living space that didn’t look very lived in. It was like the whole house was there for show, and that Enzan, the only occupant of the house, lived someplace else. Having tired of trying to be polite just like Rockman said, Netto asked, in his usual blunt fashion, "How can you live in such a cold place?"

Enzan looked at him coolly and said "I don’t spend much time here. Most of the time, now days, I'm traveling, so there’s no point in giving it 'homey' touches. Come on, I'll show you to your room."

Netto picked up his duffle bag and motioned for Enzan to lead the way. /Gah! I'm about ready to strangle him! And we haven’t even been here for ten minutes!/ Rockman giggled at the thoughts going through his twin's mind as he followed Enzan up the stairs and into the third room on the right. When Blues looked at him questioningly, Rockman just shook his head and motioned that he'd explain later.

"Is there anything else you need?" Enzan asked politely.

Netto replied promptly "Yeah, a map of this place so I don’t get lost."

Rockman burst out laughing, Blues had a look of somewhat amusement on his face and Enzan and Netto traded the Death Glares.

After the glaring contest was over, Enzan showed Netto around the house, so that the map Netto requested wouldn’t be necessary. Netto saw the living room, dining room, kitchen and other important rooms.

Once the tour was done, it was time for lunch, and much to Enzan's surprise, Netto insisted on cooking it. Seeing as how his mom was a very good cook in her own right, it wasn’t much of a surprise that Netto had picked up on that particular skill, especially since he liked to eat a lot.

Netto made his mom's famous spaghetti and wolfed down quite a bit of it. Enzan just stared as Netto went for his third helping. "How can you eat that much?"

Rockman laughed and said, "Netto's stomach is like a titanium-plated black hole. It can take just about any kind of abuse."

Netto sent a mild death glare to his twin, who happened to be occupying a monitor in the dining room.

After lunch, Enzan told Netto not to destroy the house while he went to work for a little while. Left with nothing to do on his own, Netto headed to the game room. It was a massive room filled with all kinds of games: board games, pool tables, pinball machines, and much to Netto's delight, video games and a state-of-the-art network for net battling.

Most of Netto's afternoon was spent trying to beat all of Enzan's high scores on all of the video games, and actually beating quite a few of them. Enzan returned home in the late afternoon, and called out Netto's name. Not receiving a response, Enzan went to look for him. Following his nose, he went into the kitchen, and found dinner already made, along with desert, but the lack of dirty dishes suggested that Netto hadn’t eaten yet. Continuing his search, Enzan found the brown-haired netop curled up on one of the couches in the game room, sound asleep.

Enzan woke Netto up and the two of them had dinner, and then retired to the living room to decide what to watch. The four of them agreed on a popular new movie that had just come out.

After the movie was over, the two boys headed to their rooms and went to sleep. Netto slept like a rock, completely unaware that he was talking in his sleep. Enzan on the other hand, had a hard time falling asleep because, though they were separated by more than a few feet, he could hear Netto's one sided conversations with himself.

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In the morning, Netto was dragged out of sleep by his insistent twin and went downstairs to start cooking. Surprisingly Enzan didn’t make any rude comments about Netto doing the normally feminine chore of cooking.

Since it was Sunday, after a wonderful French Toast breakfast courtesy of Netto, Enzan decided to let Netto decide what the two of them would do that day, within reason. Upon hearing this, Netto dragged Enzan to the arcade, where the two of them had a friendly competition between them about how many of the games they could beat the other at. After that, they hit the beach and boardwalk. Netto ran excitedly into the surf while Enzan watched from the security of the beach blanket they brought along.

Seeing that his temporary housemate wasn’t out in the surf with him, Netto went up to the blanket and hauled Enzan into the water. The navis, who had been watching from their PETs, laughed along with Netto at the expression on Enzan's face as the cool water splashed up on him. This started up a massive water war between the two netops. After grabbing lunch on the boardwalk, the group headed back to the mansion. Along the way, the two Net Saviors discussed the latest missions they had been on. Enzan had to admit, Netto was a very good Net Savior, considering the number of difficult missions that he had taken on.

Once arriving at the mansion, the boys proceeded to log into the battle network and have a friendly, but fiercely competitive, net battle. Neither one of the teams wanted to lose, and both were determined to make the other one eat their words.

The battle ended with a draw, both navis unable to continue battling, and both netops out of battlechips. At the end of the day, after an amazing curry dinner, it was mutually agreed upon that the two Net Savior teams should do that more often, and the two boys made plans to do something of the same thing the next weekend. Which they did, the next weekend and every weekend after that.
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Netto looked back at the PET, and saw that Rockman was opening up the IM system that he and Blues had discovered. Seeing that Enzan was on, Netto sent an IM to him, and almost instantly got a reply. For the rest of the night, the two sent messages back and forth, expressing feelings of love, happiness at hearing from the other, and loneliness because the other wasn’t there with them. As this happened, a cool breeze started to float through Den Tech City.
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Ok, the song in this one is the beginning of Kelly Clarkson’s Breakaway.

Dawnfire: More plushies for everyone who reviews. *Goes off to huggle one of her many Enzan plushies*

Duskfire: ok…0.o um, yeah, reviews and constructive criticism is welcome, flames will be used to heat our rooms when it gets cold in the middle of the night, which is when we write these, so if they seem a little strange, its because of lack of sleep. Later everyone!

Dawnfire *on a sugar rush*: PLUSHIES WILL RULE THE WORLD! evil laughter

Duskfire: 0.0 ok, I really need to get her to see that psychiatrist… then ill burn all the sugary foods in the house… *drags her hikari off in a straight jacket*