Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months. In that time, Nobita soon was able to do his homework without anyone telling him to and get a lot of the questions right. He was also scoring in the 70s to 80s mark in his exams regularly.
One day, he came back and finished his homework while Doraemon sat on the floor, reading a comic book. He looked up after awhile and saw that Nobita had finished his work.
"I'm done!" said the boy cheerfully, lying down on the floor.
Doraemon smiled. "That's good, Nobita-kun. Why don't you go out and play? It's not good for your body if you sleep too much."
"But it's such a nice weather to sleep…"answered Nobita, yawning.
"NOBITA!"
Nobita and Doraemon jumped. Nobita quickly scrambled over to his window and looked out. His heart sank at what he saw.
It was Gian and Suneo in their baseball gear.
"We have a game today!" shouted Gian. "Get your gear and let's go! We have to win!"
He gave Nobita a look that clearly said 'or else'.
Nobita trembled from head to toe and quickly scrambled to go get his baseball gear.
"Do your best, Nobita-kun," said Doraemon anxiously as Nobita ran down the stairs.
DDDDD
Doraemon watched as the sky turned from a shade of bright blue to a golden red as the sun went down. Nobita should be arriving home soon.
He heard the door downstairs open and a heavy thud followed.
Doraemon quickly ran down to see Nobita sprawled in front of the door, his face a beaten and bloody mess.
"Nobita-kun!"
Doraemon quickly carried Nobita into the house and into the bathroom. He washed Nobita's bloody face and proceeded to bandage the boy's wounds. If it had been another person, they would have wondered who would have been responsible for such a brutal beating. But for Doraemon and Nobita's little world, there were no prizes for guessing who.
Takeshi Goda aka Gian.
Doraemon felt anger surge through him and wanted to take out one of his many gadgets to punish Gian for hurting his ward. But Sewashi's words were still fresh in his mind. He knew this was the next hurdle for Nobita to overcome, to stand up for himself with his own strength.
But how should he go about it?
Nobita was inherently a coward, preferring to run away when confronted rather than face it head on.
But as Doraemon delved deeper into his own thoughts, he realised that this was not true. There had been many times when Nobita had shown that courage he had deep down inside his heart. Like when they faced the underground Dinosaur civilization like when they had saved the Earth from global flooding from the Sky Kingdom, like when they had rushed to saved Pisuke from Dinosaur hunters…
As he tucked Nobita into bed, he realised that in those life-threatening moments, Nobita had shown no signs of fear. In order to protect those dear to him, Nobita had thrown his life into harm's way.
He was brave when it mattered.
But how would Doraemon get Nobita to dig that courage up so that he may face Gian without fear?
Doraemon thought long and hard all the way into the wee hours of the morning.
When the early rays of the sun came through the window, something occurred to him.
Hopping up and putting on the Take-copter, he flew out the window.
"I hope this works," thought Doraemon as he soared through the early morning sky of Japan.
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