Reviving Memories (rewrite): Chapter 1 - Amnesia
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Summary:AU REWRITE - an old memory is reviving in Shinichi's mind. What secrets will be revealed?
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Warning(s): ...scratches, bruises, and a gash. Nothing too graphic though.
Pairing(s): None
Spoiler(s): not much. Just Sera Masumi.
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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
Flashback and Dreams
A/N and etc
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Disclaimer: I don't make money writing this fanfiction. The characters belong to Gosho Aoyama.
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A/N: I'm rewriting this story, yay!
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"And why am I supposed to go with you to, as you quoted, 'eat with your friends'?"
Ran sighed. "Because there have to be at least four people, how many times do I have to repeat this?"
Shinichi shrugged. He fumbled through his pocket to take out his Suica [0].
"Shoot! I forgot my Suica at home!" Shinichi said as he emptied his pocket.
Ran sighed the millionth time.
"You forget everything," she said. "And hurry up, the train might come!"
"Yes, yes," Shinichi muttered. 'Train ticket, one, adults, 310* yen,'
"Shinichi!" Ran yelled.
"Coming!" He pulled out the ticket and crammed the change in his pocket as he inserted the ticket in the machine [1]. "I think I hear the train coming,"
Wrong move.
Ran grabbed Shinichi's arm and pulled him up the stairs [2] to where everyone was standing.
"Phew, the train didn't come yet," Ran breathed out. She turned around and glared at Shinichi. "Why did you say that the train came? It wasn't here yet!"
"Oi, I just heard a train, and remember? I said, 'I think I hear the train coming', not 'The train we're supposed to get on his coming!', see?"
The two continued to banter as the announcement rang out.
"Keiyo Line is stopping. Please stand behind the yellow line."
"I see it!" Ran said. "Shinichi- SHINICHI!"
Everything was in slow motion. Shinichi slowly falling towards the train, the train approaching Shinichi, the driver's shocked face as he pulled the brakes. Everything went slowly until the train completely stopped and Ran didn't see Shinichi anywhere.
"Shinichi? Shinichi?"
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"So let me get this straight, you two were running to the station because you were running late and when you got to the train station and went up the stairs-"
"-someone pushed Shinichi on the train tracks?" Sera finished.
Ran nodded. "The driver stopped just in time, but he had a few cuts and scratches."
"Wait," Sera said. "Where?"
"...what?" Ran looked at Sera curiously.
"The cuts and scratches I mean, as far as I know, there were no ripped clothing, so I'm guessing on the face, legs, hands? And what about bruisings?"
Ran shook her head. "That's what the doctors are talking about. For someone who fell on the train tracks, he only had minor cuts on his hands, but no bruisings, and then he had a gash on his back,"
"A... gash?" Sonoko asked. "From what? I didn't see any blood on Kudo's clothes,"
"I think the culprit somehow jumped down while there was chaos and tried to take Shinichi somewhere, or someone was under the station train track in the first place," Sera deduced. "The fact that there was a gash on his back, and blood on the tracks, but no blood on his clothes means that the culprit pulled him. And there's the fact that he was facing upwards. Normally, when you get pushed, you fall on your face right? But Shinichi was upright meaning that someone turned him over. I think that was the same time he got scratches on his hands,"
Ran looked deep in thought. She asked. "But what if Shinichi himself turned himself upwards? And... why do you think someone pushed him?"
Sera smiled bitterly. "Out of all the people in chaos, when we got there, there was someone that caught my eye." She said. "A man who was smiling as Shinichi was on the stretcher was wearing black, he also had some dirt and rust on his clothes, meaning, he was on the tracks-"
"Then why didn't you take him? Why did you let him go?" Ran yelled as she grabbed Sera by the collar. Sera made no attempts to get away.
"Because he was gone before I could run up to him,"
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"..ichi..."
"-inichi..."
"Are you okay Shinichi?"
Shinichi's eyes opened as he looked around. His eyes landed on a brown haired girl looking at him.
"Shinichi?" The girl repeated.
The black haired girl behind her narrowed her eyes.
"...Shin... ichi," He spoke, confusion evident in his voice. "Is that my name?"
The brown-haired girl looked at him in shock. The door opened and the doctor came in.
"Kudo... Shinichi, yes?" The doctor said.
Shinichi looked at his hands and shook his head.
"I... don't know, is that..." He trailed off.
The doctor nodded and took out a clipboard.
"I'm going to as a series of questions." He said. "It's just going to check how much you know."
Shinichi nodded and faced the doctor.
"What's nine times nine?" [3]
"81"
"What's the capital of Japan?"
"Tokyo,"
"Please write heart in hiragana, katakana, and kanji."[4]
Shinichi nodded and wrote on the piece of paper from the doctor.
The doctor nodded and faced the three females.
"He has, retrograde amnesia [5]. He has no problems learning new things, but he has forgotten, or locked events deep into his mind."
Sonoko looked at the doctor.
"Do you know why he forgot everything?"
The doctor shook his head.
"I doubt he's forgotten everything but you had said that he was pushed into the train tracks, yes?"
Ran nodded.
"He probably had retrograde amnesia in the first place and the incident made him remember something painful to make him forget everything,"
"Thank you, doctor," Ran bowed.【6】
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[0] Suica is the same thing as a Pasmo. It's a prepaid card-ish think where you can use it at some shops at the station, but mainly used to ride the train and the bus. It's a simple card where you... I guess tap it on the sensor on the machine and then you go through and you're able to ride the train! Also, when you get off the train, in order to get out of the station, you need to go through the machine again and tap it onto the sensor. By then, it takes money out of the card. The reason why you do it when you go to the train station is to know what station to what station you went to. (google it)
[1] The ticket is a really small thing that you insert into the same machine where you tap the card. You insert it and it goes out from the other mouth. When you get to another station and you insert the ticket, it doesn't come back... I'm so horrible at explaining. (google it) I've used these machines, tickets, and cards all the time but I still can't explain them.
[2] most train stations are either underground or a story up, if you know what I mean, so most times, you use the stairs to go down, the escalator or stairs to go up.
[3] idk how to say multiplication problems at all. In Japan there are 2 ways to say the table. One is kyu kakeru kyu wa hachijyuu ichi which is 9 times 9 is 81. Another is kuku hachijyuu ichi. I don't know why we say it this way, but this is how I was taught.
[4] Hiragana is... the most easiest way to write in Japanese. Katakana is usually used when you write an english term like ladies and gentlemen. レディースアンドジェントルメン like this. Also Hiragana is like this (also using the ladies and gents stuff) れでぃーずあんどじぇんとるめん kanji is the more... harder type of writing japanese. I can't use the ladies and gents stuff here, but I could write heart in katakana, hiragana, and kanji.
こころ
ココロ
心
[5] retrograde amnesia (note this is c+p from wiki because I'm too lazy)
Retrograde amnesia (RA) is a loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease. It tends to negatively affect episodic, autobiographical, and declarative memory while usually keeping procedural memory intact with no difficulty for learning new knowledge. RA can be temporally graded or more permanent based on the severity of its cause and is usually consistent with Ribot's Law: where subjects are more likely to lose memories closer to the traumatic incident than more remote memories. The type of information that is forgotten can be very specific, like a single event, or more general, resembling generic amnesia. It is not to be confused with anterograde amnesia, which deals with the inability to form new memories following the onset of an injury or disease.
[6] In japan you bow when you thank people, greet people (etc) I've done this in america at school once and everyone laughed.
A/N: Shorter than my average type, but the problem about this story is, is that I wrote the complete plot a few years ago and it was deleted so I have no idea what kind of story this is, although I do know the ending (hint hint Shinichi regaining his memories lol) I have no idea what to do with the rest since when I first wrote this, not many things from Shinichi's past were revealed, especially his kindergarten time, but now that it's revealed and stuff... one thing. AU alternate universe.
This story will be an alternate universe where Shinichi never shrunk and... you know.
But the funny part was that I thought Sera's first name was Sera a few years ago, isn't that funny?
Until Next Time,
-Sako