Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Kyo Kara Maoh, this is purely fan-made.
Note: Yes, you guessed it, I'm doing a sequel to 'Forgotten'! You ever have one of those moments when random inspiration hits you and you just have to go with it? That's what happened to me today and I just had to get this started right away. I also have another one of this 'series' I guess we could start calling it that's going to be from Conrad's perspective and possibly a mixture of the thoughts from some other characters showing how they dealt-or were still dealing-with Yuri's amnesia from the first story. So anyway, please enjoy the prologue introducing this new story about our beloved Yuri as he deals with some unexpected repercussions from where we left the story last time...
Prologue: Nostalgia
(A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton)
Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces pass
And I'm home bound
Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making a way
Through the crowd
And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder...
If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight
It's always times like these
When I think of you
And I wonder
If you ever
Think of me
'Cause everything's so wrong
And I don't belong
Living in your
Precious memories
'Cause I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder...
If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight
And I, I
Don't want to let you know
I, I
Drown in your memory
I, I
Don't want to let this go
I, I
Don't...
Making my way downtown
Walking fast
Faces pass
And I'm home bound
Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making a way
Through the crowd
And I still need you
And I still miss you
And now I wonder...
If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass us by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you...
If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
If I could
Just hold you
Tonight
Yuri Narrating:
I've already lost my memories once, and now I find myself trapped once again. Only this time, it's within my own mind. Although it's not like this hasn't happened to me before, like when the Great One pushed me into one of the deepest darkest place of my own heart.
But this time, I'm not alone.
There's someone else with me in the darkness, someone that wants me to stay there...
Someone, I had forgotten a long time ago…
It's been almost a year now since the accident when I lost my memories. Or at least, I think so because it's kinda hard to tell sometimes when you are a part of two worlds where time passes at a different rate in each one. Still, you could say that I've really grown up since then in more ways than one...
This year I'm finally a senior in high-school, and of course that means Shori is already using his newly found influence-mostly thanks to Bob-to get me into what he considers an 'acceptable college'. Preferably one that's close to home. Because ever since I came back from the Great Demon Kingdom with him once I remembered everything, Shori had shown us just how serious he was about never letting me out of his sight ever again.
That's right, Shori had finally been able to afford his own car.
And now, Shori was personally driving me to school every single day even though it was only a few blocks away. Surprisingly, even Murata was going along with all of it too. Ever since we came back Murata's been uncharacteristically quiet which for us usually meant he was hiding something. But then again, I guess for the first time in his life Murata had felt like his cleverness wasn't enough to protect me either.
He really cared a lot about me, Murata even said so to my face that he's always thought of me as family. Not that it surprised me all that much given how often he usually came over to eat with us rather than at home with his own folks. Then again, his parents were very busy people anyway from what I've seen from the last few times we met. But they were very nice people, I mean, look at how Murata turned out? They just didn't have a lot of time to spend together, that's all. And when they did, I can honestly say that the next time Murata comes over, he's glowing from the inside out like a full moon at its highest zenith.
Yeah, I may not be a genius like Murata is, but I know some smart things too believe it or not.
Still, Murata's been acting a lot more carefully around me lately. It's almost like he's afraid that I haven't completely recovered from the accident and might suddenly just forget who he is. That's why I've caught him going out of his way to reassure me whenever I start feeling like there's something I should still remember but don't.
For instance, there was this one time that a girl in my class asked me if I still had the pen she lent to me and I honestly couldn't remember if I did. It was such a small thing to worry about but I began to feel the rising panic swelling rapidly in my chest and I started asking myself the stupidest questions. Was I starting to forget the important things in my life all over again? Was I going to go back to the way I was back when I had a hard time even remembering some of the most recent things I had done like when I had left a room or where I had left my photo album that I had been sifting through just an hour before?
It wasn't until I dug out the stupid thing from the bottom of my book-bag that I had stopped acting like an idiot. I knew that wasn't going to happen, not again since I had everyone back home and in the Great Demon Kingdom to remind me of the things and people that meant the most to me. But still, I had only just come back after what happened in the tower and sometimes my old fears couldn't help but find their way back to the surface. So it was understandable that I might have still felt a little uneasy about things that I couldn't remember, even the stupid stuff.
I have gotten a lot better since then though. Just like before like the doctors told me to do, I started keeping a journal that I wrote in every night. And yes, I wrote everything in there, even about the stupid little stuff I had been freaking out about. It made me feel a lot better to have a tangible record of my life behind this time so if-heaven forbid-I did somehow get amnesia again that I could find myself again in those words. Because even without memories, I still had my own voice, my own beliefs, and a way that I felt about people. There was no way that someone could trick me into thinking something that wasn't true like they might have been before. I even left myself clues that I knew even someone like me could figure out if something like that did happen...
I made sure to hide my journals though since I knew that Shori or my mom might start snooping around to check in on my mental health. Of course there was no hiding anything from Murata, he saw right through everything I did so there was no point in even trying. Besides, I told him nearly as much as I wrote in my journals anyway because duh, he was kinda my best friend.
Still, there was one thing I've been hiding from him because I'm not sure yet what it means. Lately I've been having strange dreams about being in the hospital again. It's just like when I saw Julia at my bedside the last time I was there, holding my hand and the room had turned completely white just like the blank canvas that my memory had become when I forgot about her and everyone else. Only, I wasn't sure if it really was a dream or an actual memory from the hospital that I still didn't remember...
In the dream, I'm out in the hallway of the hospital when I starting hearing the soft beeping pattern of someone's heart monitor and I start searching for the source of the sound. And when I came closer and closer to where its coming from, I started to hear their heartbeat too beating in perfect tempo with my own. It was a strange feeling, but I felt drawn to that specific room where the soft thumping of their heart kept causing my own to race as if I was either scared of what I would find on the other side, or relieved.
As I reached for the door handle however, a hand gently shook my shoulder before an oddly familiar voice asked, "Yuri? Is that really you…? I can't believe you're actually here…"
Before I could turn though to see their face, a sharp jolt jostled my chest and I staggered, stunned. A second later, it happened again and suddenly my body began to convulse so badly that I fell to the floor. Finally, it happened a third time and I gasped sharply when the same person from before-though my vision was so blurred that I couldn't make out any details except for their voice-stood above me and smiled.
"Don't be scared, Yuri," they whispered gently, reaching down to cover my eyes with their hand once my body stopped thrashing, "We'll see each other again soon, just like we promised…"
