MGR: What I left behind.

Disclaimer.
I own nothing of the amazing Metal Gear series. All the characters and stories belong to the wonderful Hideo Kojima and Konami. Please don't sue me.

This is my take on what happens after MGRevengeance.
This will contain Sunny x Raiden, although no graphic scenes or anything like that. It will have cute, warm like romantic scenes in future chapters. If you are not into that, then don't read.

Raiden 35 years old

Sunny 18 years old

Year 2025

Try to read it with a raspy voice, just like Raiden's in MGR.

Chapter 1 - Prologue

It has been 7 years since the World Marshals Incidents, 7 years since I went into hiding.
After all that mess, a constant flurry of mercenaries came after me, again and again, my own personal war. Nothing I couldn't handle but still, it was dangerous for anyone to be close to me, they could be taken hostage, they could be killed or tortured, or worse, so I decided to leave everything and everyone behind.
It wasn't an easy choice, I have a family after all. My dear Rose and John, my wife and son.

Knowing the danger they would face if they stayed with me, I took the most painful decision in my life.
Believe me when I say it was painful. I finally got together with Rose, after all those years we spent apart. I had a son too, my son, I would not be able to watch him grow up, or take him to his first day at school, or on his first date, or to his first sports lesson. So many firsts I will miss, I wouldn't be there for him when he needs me.
After all the pain I went through, I had a family of my own at last, I finally could settle down, but now that has been taken from me.
I could not bear to watch something happen to them, so I left without saying goodbye.

I asked Boris, a good friend of mine on Maverick to stage my death so they would not look for me. I told him to make it look like I died in my final battle against EXCELSUS, at least that way little John would believe his father was a hero and not a wanted man. After that, I cut all contact with Maverick and my family, for good.
I travelled around the world, never staying in one place for more than a week, never eating in the same place twice or using large amounts of money, they had many ways of tracking me, I didn't need to give them a couple more.
Eventually, most mercs gave up, they stopped following after me. My training as a ninja paid off in the end, I would leave no trace of my existence wherever I went. There would be some enemies here and there, but nowhere near as many as they used to be.
I thought I could finally go back to my old life, to my old friends and family.

But, who knows I'm alive?

Otacon and Sunny, my oldest friends, surely they know I'm alive. I never was too close to Otacon, I admired Snake, and Otacon was one of his best friends,
so I just tagged along and we became good acquaintances, but nothing more. Now, Sunny, the little girl I saved so long ago, she must be around 18 by now,
last time I saw her was right before I fought against Armstrong. I never said goodbye to her, I should have. I know she feels some kind of atachment to me,
I saved her after all, just like her mother saved me all those years ago. She has been like a little sister to me, but I never actually thanked her for being there for me. She must be really mad at me, I never actually paid for that door after all.

The guys at Maverick of course, they helped stage my death in the first place. I thought about contacting them, see if they can give an old friend a job, but I realized that if I go back to a private military company, my movements would become predictable, and my enemies would try to kill me again. It took a lot of effort and time to get rid of them all and I would only cause trouble to the friends I once had.
It is then that I decided to go back with my family, to Rose and John, only to find that they don't need me anymore.
John is already a teenager, he probably resents me for leaving him and his mother alone all those years.
Rose found another guy, he is a good man, he cares for her and John, a good father figure, Rose is happy with him and the guy doesn't go on suicide missions like a certain someone. I thought about just going for it, knock on the door and wait, wait for their astonished faces as they see a man who was dead.
What would i tell them?
Hey, remember me? I'm your late husband, I've been dead for the last 7 years but now I'm back, sorry I took so long but now we can be a family again.
Yeah right...
They are better without me.

Who do I have left? Who can accept me for who I am? Who will not be afraid of being near me?
No one. I'm trouble with a pair of legs and a sword. With the advances in technology, I can hide my cyborg body under my clothes, and my (artificial) skin looks like it's real. I could get a job, live alone for the rest of my life.

No, I already tried that, I'm no good for anything other than killing.
Wanna know the worst part? The nightmares never stopped once in the 7 years I spent hiding.
They were always the same. Someone close to me dead, be it Rose or John or my friends at Maverick or Sunny, everyone died, every night for the 2557 days I spent alone.

Hello everyone:
This is my very first fanfiction, I know it seems a bit rushed but I have no experience writing anything, much less fanfiction.
That is the reason why this chapter is so short, I just put everything that came to my mind on paper, it's not refined or as good as other fanfiction out there, but i think it's a good start. What do you think?
Next chapter should be Sunny trying to find her hero, Raiden, after he went missing.
I always thought that Raiden and Sunny made a cute couple. Just like Snake had Otacon, Raiden has Sunny (or at least that is how it's in my mind).
Please leave a Review, as a new writer it would help me a lot, really.
Also point out any grammar mistakes, I will correct them ASAP.
I'm a big fan of the Metal Gear series, but as a below-average-in-intelligence-kind-of-person, it's difficult for me to keep up with every character and it's complex story.
I'm trying to keep this story as close to the canon as possible in terms of dates and stuff like that, so if you see a blatant canon or continuity error, tell me so I can modify the story.
I will eventually modify slightly this story to make it better, add some content and corrections. Minor stuff.

That's all, sorry for the long outro. Hope to see you in the next chapter.

Bye