Well, welcome to my first Medabots saga. This story will be very very long, and if you guys are pleased with it, then I'll be doing its sequel saga. I have art up for this already, so if you'd like to see it, email me. Hope you can take embedded images, cause my zip up program is on the fritz. To start, this fic is about Yuii, a young (17ish) year old girl whom moves into the neighborhood. While this story is about her, it involves heavily another character...............Henry/Hikaru!!! I love him... ANYWHO, everyone is in this story/saga. Some stuff may be a bit guessed or faulted, but please bear with me. This takes place a little over a month before the WRT.
ENJOY!
Dis: I don't own Medabots, yet if I did, Yuii would be real, would be with Henry, and Rukaoru would be the star in a second series of Medabots, but I don't own it, so I'll take what I can get.
Riverview was never a dull neighborhood. There were usually constant robattles, constant world domination attempts, and constant disarray. However today was a calm, slow, hot day. And what better way to cool off than to go to your favorite hangout and relax with a nice tall smoothie.
" Oh it's too hot outside for any news." Erika complained.
" It's just too hot for anything." Ikki followed, slipping on his drink.
Ikki, Erika, Karin, and Koji, with their respective Medabots all sat on stools next to a counter at their favorite store hangout, the 24-Hopmart. It was an odd place to relax, but they didn't mind.
" I kinda like it." Said the store's on-shift clerk, Henry.
" You just like it cause there's no business." Erika scolded.
Henry yawned.
" Exactly, and that means more time for sleep." He sat behind the register and laid his head down on the counter.
" Did you guys hear that the house on Westwood was rented?" Karin told the others.
" Yeah, some girl rented it. She looks like a high-school student." Erika informed.
" You mean she isn't living with her parents?" Ikki asked.
" Nope. But she had a Medabot." Karin answered.
" That's cool."
Metabee looked up to Ikki.
" We should go check this out. Maybe she'd robattle us!"
" Yeah, we could use it. But maybe later, it's just too hot."
" Ahhh..."
A few minutes later, three others came into the shop. It was the Screws. PepperCat was with Samantha, but Spyke and Sloan didn't have their Medabots out.
" Ok, guys. Go get those parts you want. I'm getting something to eat."
" Right boss!" The two chimed.
As Samantha passed by Ikki Company, Koji tried to hide himself. Ikki and Erika snickered a bit.
SLAM!
" I DIDN'T DO IT!"
Samantha looked at Henry awkwardly for a moment, noting that slamming her items on the counter must have woken him up.
" I want to buy this. Or you could go back to sleep and I'll just.."
They yen Sam had in her hand was gone before she finished her sentence.
" Anything else?" The boy behind the counter asked.
" Whatever they're getting." Sam pointed behind her. Sloan and Spyke were debating on the parts they wanted. She then walked over to the other four and took an open seat next to Koji.
" Hi Koji." She smiled and leaned closely to him. Koji made a motion to back away while incoheaintly muttering something, but fell off the stool he'd been sitting on. Ikki and Erika laughed hard.
" Hey, lets go check out the house now, Ikki. I wanna get some pictures for the school newspaper."
" Alright. Come on Metabee."
" Finally!"
Ikki, Erika and Karin started leaving followed by their Medabots. As Koji was about to leave with them, he was suddenly yanked back by Sam.
" I could use some company."
" Nnnnnnnggggg..."
" But boss... what about us?" Spyke asked.
Sam looked at the other two annoyed.
" Go away. Can't you see I'm busy?"
The two boys sighed and walked out, leaving the two kids and a sleeping clerk in the store.
The old house was small, white and old. It had a cozy look to it, but it seemed a bit creepy at the same time. The group all watched the house from the far opposite end of the street. All seemed quiet.
" It still kinda looks deserted."
" I know. Man, I was hoping for an exclusive with the resident." Erika sighed.
" Yeah, and I was looking for a robattle." Metabee commented.
" Well, let's go. We're obviously not going to see her." Ikki said.
" See who?" Came a voice.
It startled the kids at first, but as they turned to look behind them, they found a young girl. She appeared to be in her teens. Her hair was kinda full, brown, and one lock was strangely blue. Her blue eyes seemed to sparkle, and her smiled seemed kind. She wasn't badly built either.
" Ah, uh, who are you?" Asked Ikki.
" My name's Yuii Amari. I just moved her from *___________*"
" So you're the one renting out the house, yes?" Erika questioned as she held out her microphone.
" Yes. It was the cheapest I could afford. It's quite nice actually."
" Is it true you have a medabot?" Metabee jumped up.
" Yes. His name is SwiftTalon, but I don't robattle much, and he doesn't like to come out in the day."
" Cool! You have to let us see him sometime!" Ikki beamed.
" Well, let us be the first to welcome you to Riverview." Erika bowed.
" Thank you so much." Yuii bowed back.
" Do you think you could help me? Being that I'm new, I don't know my way around, and the first thing I need to do is buy some..."
" No problem! We have the best store here you can buy anything from. And it's not too far away." Ikki cheered, obviously showing off. Erika sighed, while Karin laughed lightly.
" Boys will be boys."
" Help me!!!" Koji ran into Ikki, as he walked in. Sam still had her claws into him, and peeled him away.
" That's Koji and that Samantha. Guys, this is Yuii. She just moved here."
Both of them waved before Samantha began to ensnare the poor boy again.
" Well, this is it. This is the 24-Hopmart. It's got just about everything."
" Thank you, Ikki." Yuii said as she began to look through the store.
The gang took back their seats and went back to resting like before, until Ikki, who had been staring at the register counter for five minutes, began to look around.
" Hey, where's Henry?"
" He went out back." Sam informed.
" JUST LET ME GO, AND I WON'T RUN AWAY!" Koji screamed.
Sam let him go, and he let out a breath. As promised, he didn't run away, but he didn't exactly stay where he was. Yuii finished her shopping, and put her items on the counter.
" Where's the clerk?"
" He's lazy and a slacker so my guess is that he fell asleep out back." Ikki retorted, lying back with his eyes closed. A small down pour of water in his face was an answer back.
" You try working here almost everyday, almost all day." Henry muttered to the choking boy.
" I- cough- was-cough- jo-joking.."
" Yeah, right."
Henry started to walk back to the counter, but stopped when he saw Yuii. Yuii in turn felt her-self catch her breath. She felt her check getting warm, but shook it off.
" Can you help me with these?"
Henry blinked and stood there for a moment, before realizing what she had asked.
" Oh, yeah, sure."
He got behind the counter and rang up her items. Every time he glanced at her, he couldn't help but stare. She was very cute. Kawaii? That's the best I can think of? No, she very....
" It might help to ring up all the items and not just one, Henry." Ikki teased.
" Wha?! " Henry looked to see the items he rang up. He still had the third item in his hand, and he'd rung it up four times already. He flushed furiously and bowed in apology.
" Gomen Nasai!" He said.
Yuii laughed lightly.
" Actually, this happens a lot." She smiled.
" So, Miss Yuii, I'm doing an article in our school newspaper about your recent move here. Can I ask you a few questions?"
" Sure."
" Ok. First, are you married or seeing anybody?"
Yuii shock her head.
" No."
Erika jotted this down on a notepad, while in the back round, Henry seemed quite pleased. Yes!
" Secondly, you said your Medabot's name was SwiftTalon. What kind of Medabot is he?"
" He's a really old Medabot. Wolf-Type. He wasn't mass produced, and is.. well, I'd rather not say anymore." Yuii shift a bit.
" That's ok." Erika noted.
Wolf-Type, that wasn't mass produced?.... hmmmm.....
" Let's see. Why did you move here, and why did you come alone? Did your parents kick you out?"
" My parents died." She said quietly.
The place itself seemed to also get a bit quieter too. Yuii's mood flickered from happy to sad, but only for a second. No one saw, except for Henry.
" I moved to get away from a lot of the hassle. But I'm ok. Please don't feel bad for me." She smiled lightly.
" Maybe that was wrong of me." Erika stated.
" No. Sometimes, getting good reports, require hard questions to be answered."
" Ok, let's continue. Are you currently in school?"
" No. I sort of graduated. I was in a special program for a while, that compiled 12 courses each year."
" Oh wow." Erika mused. The others looked amazed.
" Well, it's not all that great. I kinda failed twice. You normally are suppost to pass at 14. I graduated at 16." She said, embarrassed.
Everyone face-faulted.
" Moving on. Anything of interest in your life that you'd like to share with us. Like things you might remember from your past, secret crushes unexplained occurrences?"
" Now that you mention it. Yes. It was when I was ten."
Yuii seemed to get a little lost in thought. She looked kind of sad.
" Darkness."
The kids blinked. They looked entranced.
" Everything was, so dark."
"Yuii!"
A young ten-year old girl looked frantically for her mother.
" Okasa-san!"
Everything was so dark. It was getting so cold. People were going crazy.
" Yuii-Chan!!"
Medabots of all kind seem to go on warpaths. One medabot, that looked like some kind of monster demon, stopped in front of Yuii.
" Ah.. "
It roared loudly and opened its mouth wide. Energy seemed to pull into it. Yuii was frozen. She couldn't move. This semi-giant medabot was going to kill her! Suddenly, a missile hit the giant medabot in the side of the mouth, causing it to waver to the left. The energy blast shot out past Yuii and damaged a far war.
" Get out of here!" Shouted a boy, as he pushed her, and himself out of an exit.
" Yuii!"
" Okasa-san!"
Yuii ran to her mother, and embraced her tightly. She looked back at the building they had just been in. People fleeing, Medabots going crazy. They seemed to be in a sort of deadly riot.
" Just forget it, Yuii. Forget everything."
" Forget, everything. . ."
Erika looked at Yuii and gasped a bit. The girl had considerably paled, and she had only said about three things.
" Miss Yuii?"
" I think that's enough with the questions." Henry stated from behind Yuii.
" I'm sorry. I probably worried you." Yuii told them. She was slowly regaining her color.
" Just a bit." Ikki commented.
" Well, I got everything I need." Yuii looked back to her groceries, to get her mind off the former.
" Hey, let's go out for lunch, and we could do some site seeing, since you've never been here before." Karin invited.
" That sound's great." Yuii smiled.
" But I have to take these home first."
" Allow me to assist you with that." Henry offered.
" Thanks, but can you carry all of that?"
" We do deliveries sometimes, so I have a motorbike in back to use."
" Since when do you deli-mmm." Henry clamped Ikki's mouth shut.
" Great." Yuii looked back to the kids.
" Where shall we meet you?"
" Meet us at Lotus Park. Henry knows where." Erika said.
Ikki and the rest waved goodbye, heading for the park. Henry took Yuii's things, and put them in the compartment of the motorbike.
" Uh, here. I only have one, so you wear it."
Yuii took the helmet and put it on, but it slipped over her eyes.
" It's too big."
Henry chuckled.
" You have to fasten it."
" I did, but it's still too big." She took it off and handed it back.
" You wear it."
" Are you sure? I don't want to-"
Yuii cut him off.
" Wear it, I'll be fine." She grinned, and sat far back on the seat.
Something told Henry, that this girl couldn't be persuaded into anything she didn't feel was right. He grinned just a bit.
" Ok, hold on to me, so you don't fall off."
He started up the bike, and sped off. Yuii pointed where to go every now and then.
" Can't you go any faster?"
" Faster? You want to be thrown off?"
" I can handle it!"
" If you say so." Henry said, as he cued the speed, just by a couple of miles. He couldn't do any real speed, but it was pretty fast. Yuii laughed a bit, as slowly stood up.
" N-Nani?"
" Don't worry!" Yuii laughed.
I haven't had this much fun in years. Still, it doesn't beat jumping from rooftop to rooftop.
Yuii shook herself out of her daydream and looked at the street coming fast.
" Oh it's here!" She shouted as she plopped back down to sit.
Henry was able to slow the bike down just enough, to make a sharp curve. He stopped right in front of the little house, and waited for her to get up, before himself.
" Well, that was fun." She smiled.
" So you bought this old place?" Henry asked as he gathered Yuii's groceries.
" I plan too. Right now I'm just renting. One day, I hope to have it fixed up; maybe add a second story."
The house interior was quiet and still. It felt cozy upon entering the little place. Its decorations seem to complement the painted walls, and the furniture. All in all, it felt like a very loving home. Henry momentarily slipped into a state of comfort, before Yuii shook him out of it.
" Hu?"
" Would you like a drink?"
" Oh, Hai. Arigatou."
Yuii smiled and nodded, disappearing into the kitchen. Henry set down the bags, and took the moment to look around. In the family room, there were many little trinkets and odd artifacts on shelves and tables. Along the walls hung pictures, presumably of Yuii at a young age. She seemed happy in all of the pictures, except. .
Henry looked at the farthest off picture in the room. It wasn't hung with any of the others, nor was it very open to sight. As he looked at it closely, he studied it. She looked about ten or eleven. He guessed that the person next to her was her mother. Yuii was smiling in the picture, but the look she gave seemed fake. As he continued to stare at it, the back round suddenly registered in his mind. Yuii was standing in front of the World Robattle Tournament Center. The various people in the back round seemed to be flocking towards the center. Along with respective medabots.
Henry sighed lightly as he recalled his long past memories. He never liked to think about them openly, when he could help it, but sometime. .
' Matte. . .'
He caught sight of something in the picture. He carefully took it off its hook, and looked at it closely. Off to the left of the picture, in the slight fore round, was a KBT medabot running towards the crowd, yet looking back at something else. There was a hand, that seemed cut off the end of the picture.
' Iie. . '
" Henry?"
" Kya!" Yuii startled him, and he dropped the picture.
The picture landed on the floor with a clatter, as the glass broke into many pieces.
" Oh no!"
" Gomen Nasia!!"
Yuii bent down and began to pick up the glass shards. Henry helped her.
" I didn't mean to, I'm really sorry."
" It's ok. I can buy another frame." She smiled lightly.
" I didn't mean to pry."
" You weren't."
" We sell glass at the 'Mart. I can-Ah!" Henry winced.
" What happen?"
Yuii looked down at his hand. While picking up the pieces, Henry had grabbed one at a wrong angle and cut open his finger slightly.
" I'm fine, just wasn't paying attention." He grinned.
Yuii took his hand in hers and gently kisses the wound. Henry instantly felt his face get hot, and felt a bit of a shock go up his spine. He knew he was blushing furiously. Yuii stopped after a moment and looked up, the same thing seemingly registering with her. She jolted up and laughed.
" AH... Habit, eh.. My okasa-san always did that when I got hurt.. I guess I got use to it. I.. I'll got get you a band-aid." She turned as took off for the bathroom.
Henry sat there in shock for a moment, before looking back at his cut. The bleeding has slowed a bit and the pain had gone. He felt himself get more flush as he thought about it and shook it out of his head. As he went back to picking up the glass, he looked over at the picture. It had been knocked out of its little pocket in the frame. He gently picked up the picture and looked back at it. As he examined the left side again, he noticed that the picture had been slightly folded over. Carefully, Henry unfolded the folded portion into it original place.
He froze.
" Here you go." Yuii came back, band-aid in hand.
" Oh, Arigatou." Henry took it, putting it on over the cut.
" Again, I'm really sorry."
" Don't worry. The picture is the important piece, not the glass." She smiled.
They continued cleaning in silence. After they were done, they headed back into the kitchen. Yuii put away her groceries, and Henry finished up the drink she had poured him.
" Well, I'm done. Now, where is this park?"
Henry smiled.
Lotus Park was a beautiful sight in the middle of the day. Whether it was to go exploring, play games or just relax, the park was there for it all. The wind lightly rustled the trees and bushes, and gave a soothing comfort to the otherwise hot day. It has cooled somewhat considerably since an hour ago. Ikki and the gang were lounging in the shade, relaxing. Well, it depended on who you were, that is. If you could relax having a girl hanging onto you, then you'd be a pretty relaxed person.
" Just let go of me!" Koji yelled!
" You're so kawaii!" Samantha hugged him tightly.
Koji sighed, and fell backwards as Sam lay down under the tree. He sighed and solemnly stared at the sky and clouds.
" Man, I'm getting hungry now. Who brought the lunch?"
" Oh, I have it right here, Ikki." Karin said as she produced a lunch basket from behind her. Upon laying out all the foods, there was enough for a whole army.
" Wow Karin. Get a little into your cooking again." Erika grabbed up a rice-ball.
" Yeah. But there will be more of today, so it's not that bad."
" Speaking of which, where are those two?" Ikki chomped on some Takoyaki.
Erika laughed.
" I'll be there getting to know one another more personally."
" What are you talking about?" Ikki grabbed for his fourth Takoyaki ball.
" You didn't see it?"
" See what?"
" The instant chemistry! Am I the only one that pays attention to details?"
Before Erika could go on with her ranting, someone called out to the group.
" Hey, save some for us!" Yuii called.
" It's Miss Yuii, and Henry."
" Just in time. What took you so long?" Erika questioned innocently.
" Oh, just an accident. Nothing to worry about. Oi, Takoyaki."
" Oh really?" Erika countered, until she was shot a warning look from Henry.
" Kya! Sugoi! This had to be made!" Yuii looked to each of them.
" I did at home." Karin said gently.
" Karin, it's all so great!"
" Thank you." Karin smiled.
For about an hour the group talked about anything, and everything, but mostly about Medabots and Robattling.
" Rintaro literally praises the ground that Medafighter walks on. I wonder if he's still around."
" Odds are yes, but no one hears of him or if he robattles anymore."
" To be the top Medafighter in the whole world, at ten. If he can do it, so can I!"
" But Ikki, I'm sure he had a lot more training that you." Karin interjected.
Ikki sighed.
" I wish we could remember his name. Rintaro had told us his name, but I can't remember." Erika sighed. " And I've been wanting to do a report on him all this time."
" Funny, I can't remember his name either." Ikki scratched his head.
The kids all looked at each other.
" Agata, Hikaru."
The kids all looked at Yuii. Henry chocked on a rice ball he'd been eating.
" Miss Yuii?"
" His name was Hikaru Agata. I know this, because, I use to love him."