Disclaimer: All digidestineds, digimons and Kurama and other YuYu Hakusho characters are not mine. Masaru, Anako, Himaru, Kana (not Inuyasha's), Shinta, Taki and Liu are mine but if you want to use them just ask!!! Sorry for the distorted version of Digimon in the prologue and Van (Escafolwne) but I had to adapt them to the plot of the story!!!! Hope you enjoy reading it. Comments and death threats are welcome!! The rest of the Urameshi team will appear later on in the story. Please, please review and any suggestions are welcome!!!!!!
Prologue
She sighed. She just couldn't get hold of her life. For three years she had believed that she lived in an island called Malta, and that she was a digidestined and had saved the world a couple of times too. But somehow it wasn't the truth. It is hard to explain; she remembered the day this whole mess had started.
Flashback.... 2 days before....
Digiworld. A place completely created through a computer. The live forms on this planet (or whatever it is) were strange creatures, which mildly resembled animals, called digimon.
Thirteen humans were there in this precise moment. They had been called to protect Digiworld from evil and succeeded and now were having a well-deserved break, playing football in a vast green area with their digimons. Liu, a digidestined, though was not with them. She had been called upon by the ultimate supreme of the land. This thing had to remain a secret and therefore she had to keep all the problems and worries to herself. Van was dead serious when he told her. He was the digidestineds' guardian and his attitude was very strange as for the three years she had been here she had never seen him upset once, yet now it seemed that something terrible had happened and that she was involved.
She stopped. The huge iron doors of the supreme' s palace slowly opened to admit her. Walking soundlessly she arrived to her destination. Van was floating around as always. He was a bizarre guy. He had jet-black hair, which was never tidy, large brown eyes and had this odd habit to leave his body behind and float around like a spirit.
A peculiar horse like creature appeared from thin air. It was enormous, black with a white star-like mark on his back. Hinutawamon, the supreme above all the others. Van straightened up and walked to his side. Hinutawamon spoke in a soft, determined voice.
" Tell me girl, who are you?"
The question was quite singular but she answered.
" Liu Mallia, 15. I live on the island called Malta in the human world. My
digimon's name is Vegamon and I..."
" Stop. Is this the truth?"
Why was he asking such stupid questions? I'm not dumb, I know who I am much better than him that's sure!!
" Of course, what! You have something else to suggest?"
" Yes." Was his simple answer. Liu was confused, what was he trying to tell her? She just didn't have a clue where this conversation was going to end.
" What do you mean?"
" Van, I want some explanations about this. Why haven't you told her?"
Van bowed deeply.
" I'm sorry but it was stronger than me. I couldn't tell her..."
His voice trailed off into an inaudible whisper.
" I understand"
" I don't!!!! What's going on?"
Hinutawamon spoke again this time his voice was somehow softer than
before.
" You, who claim to be Liu Mallia, are not who you think you are! Your real name is Takenaka Matsue, daughter of Himaru and Anako Matsue. "
" What!!?? But that's impossible!!!!"
" Do you have any memories of your past?"
" Of course I have!!!"
" Of when you had less than 12 years old?"
" I...I..."
Now that she thought of it, she didn't remember anything of when she was young. And inside the house there were no photos or videos, nothing.
" The fact that I don't remember my past doesn't mean I'm an impostor or
something. It just means that I'm very forgetful, that's all."
" No. You can't remember just because your past does not belong to that family."
" I'm not going to hear anymore of this none-sense. It's ridiculous, impossible. How can it be, that I live with a family that is not mine and that my real family that Matsue or something never came to look for me???!! I don't believe you"
" Girl, you come from another dimension, faraway from ours. You have been missing from there exactly 3 years."
" So, correct me if I'm wrong. You are saying that I came from another dimension and have been living here with a group of strangers that somehow think I'm their daughter?? How can this be???"
Her anger rose..
" Can't you see that what you're saying is ridiculous!!! Van, please tell him something!!! You believe me don't you???"
She looked desperately at him trying to get some comfort, reassurance that her life was not just a lie. He looked away, unable to take her stare.
" You think so too...You think I'm a liar as well"
She sank to the floor face down.
" No. You're not"
She looked up at him hopefully, when Hinutawamon spoke once more.
" Nobody here said you are a liar"
" That's false, you have been saying so from the first moment I entered this room."
Van went next to her and put his arm around her shoulder (sort of, remember he is a spirit).
" Listen to the whole story"
Van started to narrate her what happened.
" A few days ago I was on one of my usual journeys through the dimensions, you know to check that everything keeps going how it should. When I was tired I stopped in one of the dimension that is very similar to ours, just.... how can I say...more magical. When I was walking a paper came right into my face and I was about to throw it away when I looked at it closely. It was a poster of a missing person. It was a girl of about 11 and I was sure I saw her before. So I brought the paper here with me. I showed it to Hinutawamon and went to check in the central computer."
He looked at Hinutawamon, who nodded.
" Liu, do you remember the fight you had not very long ago?"
" We fought so many times, I don't know..."
" The one where Vegamon was dying?"
" Oh, that...."
She looked even more miserable than before.
" Do you remember what happened? How Vegamon survived?"
" I don't know...there was a blinding white light.... and then I don't remember anything else"
" Come with me"
He helped her to stand up and took her to another room in the basement of the castle that had a huge computerised plant with various screens, each of which showed a different part of digiworld. One showed Tai and the others, still playing football.
" What!!! You spy on us?? How can you do this??"
" This is just a precaution so that when something happens I can come to tell you "
He went over to the command centre and gestured her to do the Liue.
" Look press that blue button there, I would do it myself but I'm a spirit remember"
She looked uncertain.
" Have I ever failed your trust?"
" No, Van but...."
" Please trust me, press it"
She did. One of the screens' images started changing. It looked as if the images were moving backwards, which probably was true. The image suddenly stopped. And once more Liu was forced to live the near death of her best friend. Vegamon was about to be killed when the blinding light appeared and silenced her shouts, but now she could see what came next.
She saw herself floating a few inches in air, surrounded by a white glowing light. Liu couldn't believe her eyes when she saw herself changing, and then with a strange language she couldn't understand she set something that looked like thunder towards their enemy. The image stopped on a kind of close up of her face.
She looked at Van but realised he wasn't there anymore. He reappeared a few moments later with a folded piece of paper in his hand. He gave it to her. Liu opened it with trembling fingers and in front of her she saw the Liue girl that was on the screen at the moment, on the piece of paper. Underneath the image were written something she couldn't read and a telephone number.
Could Hinutawamon really be saying the truth? But how could this be real?? How can she be somebody she doesn't recognise as herself?
Van's voice brought her back to reality.
" Hinutawamon wants to see you"
She nodded unable to speak, still clutching the piece of paper.
Hinutawamon was waiting for her in the yard. Van was gone.
" So do you believe me now?"
She could barely speak.
" How??"
" It is something that you have to tell us. All I know is that when I sent Van back there to check how this had happened, all the people were able to say was that a fight had just occurred and that some witnesses say that they saw a kind of black hole that sucked the girl inside. I believe that when you found yourself in an unknown world, you were afraid and the first family that approached you, were made to believe that you were part of them. Maybe it was one of your powers, maybe not. But while you grew up you forced yourself to forget your past in order to stop suffering."
Van reappeared a few seconds after Hinutawamon finished his speech. He looked at Liu. Silent tears flowed down her cheeks as she stared in front of her. She closed her eyes.
" I understand"
She left without saying another word.
Van was about to stop her when Hinutawamon stopped him.
" Leave her alone for a while."
" Ok"
A.N : From now on the girl named Samantha/ Sam will be Liu.
