Don't Take Wooden Nickles 5

Don't Take Wooden Nickles
A Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction.
5: Wit
NOTES: This one I found hiding in my computer. I don't remember much about what I was going for, but it's just the same. More Sonic and Tails goodness, because I love their brotherly relationship. Enjoy.

Sonic sighed as he walked his way into the living room, the morning sunlight streaming through the open window warming the whole house to a comfortable temperature. His socked feet made no noise on the carpet and his recently gloved hands were laced behind his head in a pose of pure relaxation. He was well rested all the way down to his bones and was currently filled with an extreme love for life and the simple joys it brought. The hedgehog moseyed his way through the house slowly, and the very nature of his movements would have seemed foreign to anyone who even knew him remotely but he was content and that was all that mattered really.

The scene he strolled into was one of familiarity. His little fox brother was sitting in the middle of the room, tail deep in a sea of electronic parts, the video game console Sonic had bought three days prior cracked open a few feet away as a silent witness. His young charge was currently tinkering with what looked like the motherboard for the complex system, his nimble fingers working their way through fragile circuitry with a kind of gracefulness that only he seemed to possess. His tails twitched appreciatively and animatedly, never stilling for a moment no matter what emotion the fox was feeling. His blue eyes shone with some hidden emotion, and a small smile graced his face as his fingers extracted a small piece of fiber optic.

A magnifying glass appeared next, held up to golden face with no space between it and a small black nose. The fox squinted at the small piece of hardware, his large brain easily categorizing each dip and curve in the chip before he placed the instrument down and replaced the piece before extracting another.

Sonic watched him for a half a minute before coughing deeply in his throat to get the kit's attention. Ears snapped to attention but there was no movement towards the blue one past that, as the fox seemed to be absorbed by his work. Hedgehog eyes narrowed and their owner wasted no time dashing around the room so he was on the other side of the couch and able to see over the fox's shoulder.

"What'cha up to, Tailsy?" The tone was nonthreatening and wistful, but the young one jumped just the same.

Blue eyes turned to the speaker, wide and innocent. "S-Sonic-kun…" The fox mumbled, affixing one of the honorifics he had learned from some human study he had read on the computer to his name. "I thought you were still asleep…"

"I was." The hedgehog answered, walking smoothly around the fox. "But I'm not anymore."

"I see…"

"So, do I wanna know what exactly our new video game system did to you? Don't tell me you got angry at a game…"

"Uh…" The fox mumbled his brain racing for excuses. "It… um… looked at me funny?" Seeing his companion's expression, he quickly amended with: "It's human made and I wanted to see how it works."

"Uh huh," was all he got in response. "I trust it will be fixed by the end of the day?"

"Well…" Tails' tone was dubious. "Depends on what you mean by fixed; it was pretty broken already before I got my hands on it."

There was a pause.

"I love ya, li'l bro'!" The fox yelped as he was suddenly scooped into an unexpected hug. "Especially when you're wit shines through!"