"Well?" The boy asked in his whisper voice.

He turned his body a bit around so that he could look at Myde. His head was tilted to the side still, and he gave Myde a very small smile.

Myde finally examined the boy, and was a bit shocked; he wasn't in a straight jacked or a white shirt and blue sweat pants like he'd imagine. In fact, he was far from the real thing. Little Ienzo was dressed in nothing but a thin white tank top and blue boxers that had chocobos romping around on them. The boy's hair was short and a bit messy, and Myde took note at how thin the miniscule boy was, for his legs were merely twigs! He had a bowl of cereal (Honey nut cheerios!) in his lap and a few attached legos in his free hand that wasn't for holding the spoon. He was sitting on a couch pillow, cross legged, as he daintily ate his cereal and watched Courage the Cowardly Dog.

When the commercials came on, Ienzo silently got up and walked over to Myde. He looked up at him and gently took his hand, before pulling him over to the television. Both sat there now, but with Ienzo resting on Myde's side, his head on his shoulder.

Finally, the silence was getting to him. "I love this show! I didn't know they still had it on!" Myde said, causing Ienzo to look at him. "I like it too, it's my favorite. I love the sarcastic computer," The small boy replied. Myde smiled and nodded. "Yea, I love him. Have you ever seen Invader Zim?" He asked, and the boy nodded his head excitedly. "I love that show!" He said. And with that, the two continued their conversation for what seemed like hours.

-x-x-x-x-

Someone opened the door and walked in, half naked. Ah, Reno. "Hey, it's time for school, get ready," He said, smiling slightly. Ienzo sighed and nodded, before getting up to go get dressed. Reno followed him, in case Ienzo was really Malachi and did something drastic. Hey, it's happened before, with a hangar!

Myde heard Reno say "Can't get it on? Are you—Fine, here," At one point. Myde was about to stand up and go in after them to see what was taking so long, but luckily they came back out right then. Ienzo's hair was now combed neatly, and his face washed. He had a form fitting suit on that had suspenders and a nice tie. That was probably causing all the trouble, having to tie the tie. "He has to dress up for the school here?" Myde asked, tilting his head.

Reno laughed. "Nah. Too smart. Ienzo goes to a private school, as does Beau. All of his personalities go to different schools. Gilbert goes to a day care, with one of us around when its nap time to make sure no one too… Smart or Malachi shows up. Lucius goes to Elementary school, and Malachi doesn't go to school at all," He explained.

Myde nodded in understanding. "I see… So you just take him to school and pick him up?" He then asked. Reno nodded. "Yup," He looked at his watch. "We gotta go. I'll be back later, you can go find Lae and hang with him or whatever," He said, and with that him and Ienzo left, the latter holding Reno's hand the whole time.

x-x-x-x-x

Things went on like this for a while (A year! Wow-ee, time sure flew!). He would come to work, check his other patients then hurry over to Ienzo's room to hang out with him. Both males were quickly becoming close friends.

One day, when Myde was heading towards Ienzo's room, he could hear screaming and yelling that was unlike Malachi's. In fact, it sounded much like Gilbert!

So Myde zoomed to his room and barged in. "Gilbert, what's wrong?!" He shouted. He turned to look for him, only to find a sobbing Gilbert in the arms of both Reno and Lae.

Gilbert had in fact been screaming, "NO! WALL-E, NOO!" At the top of his lungs, repetitively. Reno and Lae were whispering comforting things to him as they watched the movie.

Myde quickly joined them in their group hug, and all three were happy to know that as soon as Wall-e became ok again Gilbert stopped sobbing—

Until Wall-e didn't know who Eve was. Then he went off again, and this time Myde even started crying with him. Both in sadness and happiness when Wall-e got his 'memory' back. Both children—Sorry. Both Myde and Gilbert screamed with joy and hugged each other until the end of the movie.

By this time, Reno and Lae had left, having better things to do than sit around with two sobbing children over an animated Disney movie.

Eventually, Myde got Gilbert to fall asleep (Yay Saturdays!). He himself also fell asleep with Gilbert in his arms, and it was then that he realized that he had found his real bestest friend in the whole wide woild.

x-x-x-x

And then he got the letter.

'Dear Myde Highwind:

You are being promoted to another hospital in Olympia, Washington. Your new pay will be $5,987 every two months. We expect to see you at the Vivitar Ibus Insane Asylum by Monday the Twenty first of September.

Sincerely,

CEO of C.O.I.A'

And it simply tore his heart apart, and sent it through a paper shredder twice. He would have to leave Ienzo behind, and Reno! And Lae! And he had to leave in three days…

He worried most about what Ienzo would say. Would he be angry, or… Sad, or happy? Myde didn't know or want to. He just wished none of this was happening.

When he told Reno and Lae, they became depressed temporarily. "How long do you think you'll be gone?" Lae asked. "Probably… Until I get promoted or demoted, however long that will be," Myde answered, sighing sadly.

Unfortunately for all of them at the asylum, Myde would be gone for a huge period of time; much longer than he had anticipated or wanted.

x-x-x-x

Ienzo didn't take the news well. He may have taken it better, if say, someone told him that Myde was leaving. But no, they neglected to do so entirely.

That had been a week ago, when he left, and now all of his personalities were really acting up. Lucius was wanting lusty comfort for a broken heart every day, Gilbert started asking for his father again (a habit he had stopped after a year, when he realized that he was to never see him again), and Beau was playing hide and seek in the rafters much more often. Ienzo was just more quiet than usual, and Malachi was more… Frequent. And violent. That last two times he showed up he broke his right arm and had to get stiches in his forehead.

Myde had actually softened Malachi up a bit, within the year he had been there. He rarely ever came out to 'play', and was nowhere near as violent. But then out of the blue his comfort up and disappears on him? That's bound to stir something up.

x-x-x-

A few years had passed; Ienzo was now eleven years of age. He, in that period of three years, had managed to say that he had forgotten Myde. He acted as if he never knew him, ever. But honestly, his didn't. Everyone knew this, judging by his actions. He had found tons of new hiding spaces to play hide and seek with, even when it wasn't Beau. Malachi had even managed to send himself into a coma, twice.

All the personalities ate less and less, and Gilbert became the next Ienzo, lacking all his energy and happiness. Yes, the boy was acting as if his whole world revolved around Myde. But in all honesty, Myde was the first person ever in his life to show that he truly cared for him. Reno and Lae were there sure, but they weren't as caring.

Lucius was starting to get… Scary. He wanted intimate kisses for his broken heart; not cheap little pecks like from when he was little. Much like Reno and his brother feared, he was becoming the horny little preteen that they had hoped would not show up. At this point it was undeniable that he would be wanting intercourse as a solution when he was around… 14 or 15.

It seemed as if Ienzo was plunged so deep down into depression that he was slowly rotting away, letting himself die because he knew he had no purpose in life. He was just one useless person in the world, one, uncared for person who took up space.

-x-x-x-x-

And then, he just had to come back. Like it was earlier stated, it had been a long period of time.

Seven years ago, he had left, and seven years later he was returning. That's almost a decade—

Axel and Lae would be thrilled, no doubt about it! But, what of Ienzo?

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