Okay! ^_^ Because of all you nice people out there, I finally found some time to update this story… which I was going to leave abandoned, but whatever, I'm continuing it anyway… xD I don't even know where I left off, so let's hope that this makes some sense… ok, here goes…
Chapter 3: Amnesia
(Narrator's POV)
…All 6 people heard the beep.
"What was that sound?" Yuma asked, "does that mean Shark is…" he trailed off. Suddenly, he was interrupted by a doctor who came out of the emergency room.
"Good afternoon, Rei-san, and other friends of Mister Reginald Kastle, he is—," he started only to be interrupted by Yuma now.
"IS SHARK OKAY?!" Yuma clenched his fingers around the doctor's "lab coat". Rei stood up and smacked Yuma down, and raised her finger up to her lips in a motion telling him to shut up.
"What the hell was that for?" Yuma exclaimed.
Rei shot him a glare, "This is a hospital, you're supposed to be quiet, so shut up and let Dr. Takahashi speak!"
"Thank you, Kamishiro-san," Dr. Takahashi spoke slowly, "well, Mr. Tsukumo, you do know that Reginald has been here twelve times in the last three months, correct?"
"…I had no idea!" Yuma answered, shocked, "why was he here so often?" he asked nervously.
"He tried to commit suicide… 10 times…" Dr. Takahashi divulged.
"Takahashi-san!" Rei exclaimed standing up, "you promised to keep that confidential!"
Yuma look up at Rei and slapped her across her cheek. She held it as it was slightly bleeding. "Shark is one of my new best friends, and you didn't even tell me that he tried to kill himself?" Yuma screamed. "What. You didn't want anyone to know that you didn't watch over Shark properly? That you disregarded him so much, that he wanted to kill himself, over your lack of maturity?"
Rei looked as if she were in tears, fighting them. "I didn't tell you that he tried to suicide because I have bad parenting skills; whether that be true or not. I didn't tell you because Shark asked me not to," she explained.
Yuma looked in shock. "But why… he could've asked for help…"
"Yuma… you do understand the impact that your win against him in a duel had on him right?" Rei asked him.
Yuma shook his head, "Yes I understand that, but he was also here three months ago, and that was way before our duel,"
"You killed his pride," Rei spoke slowly, "He was a wonderful duelist, until his sister was hospitalized, of course…"
"His sister was hospitalized?"
"Let me correct that, is hospitalized. She has been, for three months. Shark was desperate to help her, and then his opponent set him up at a dueling tournament, causing him to be disqualified,"
Yuma looked sorrowfully at Rei's grey misty eyes. "It must have been tough, having your sister go through all that and getting disqualified,"
"That wasn't even the worse part. After that, people starting calling him a cheater, moron, delinquent, and soon, he had turned into one; the school bully," Rei whispered.
"Is his sister okay?" Yuma asked.
"We don't know at this point. She's comatose. But Shark soon grew tired of his life being known for bad things, and tired of people calling him a cheater and useless. So he attempted to end his life. I tried to h-h-help h-him… b-b-b-ut…it was too late!" Rei burst into tears, "I'm such a failure! I couldn't even help Shark when he needed me there…"
Yuma patted her shoulder and looked straight into her eyes, "I see now…"
"What?"
"You really do care about Shark. Don't worry! I'll make sure he wakes up, you can leave it to me!" Yuma smiled.
Rei grinned, and then looked back at Dr. Takahashi, "So? How is he?"
'Goddamn, I can finally talk,' Dr. Takahashi thought to himself. "Well, he's in a semi-stable condition. He's currently in a coma, but he's breathing perfectly. You should try talking to him." Then the doctor left them.
Yuma, Tori, Bronk, Caswell, Rei, and Astral, sprinted into Shark's operating room.
"Shark…" Yuma said, slightly shaking Shark's hand, attempting to wake him up, "it's time to wake up now… please Shark… I understand I may have taken away your pride by defeating you, but I didn't mean for it to result in you taking your own life!"
"Yeah, Shark, erm — Reginald, please wake up, we miss you so much already!" Tori pleaded.
While the others were trying to wake Shark out of his coma, Astral questioned Rei, "How is it that you can see me?"
"Beats me…" Rei answered, "but I think I have more than just the ability to see you… I feel, similar to you,"
"Then you as well can sense Shark's current condition?"
"Yes."
"There is a way to wake up him, you know," Astral claimed.
"There is?"
"Yes, but it comes with a heavy price,"
"What is that?"
"Shark will lose all his memories…"
"I'm not sure I want to do that,"
All of a sudden, Dr. Takahashi came into the room. "He's not awake yet, is he?"
"No, he's not…" Yuma replied sadly.
*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*
The crew suddenly heard a long beep coming from one of the machines that was attached to Shark. Shark suddenly started gasping for air, the life support machine's cord had been pulled by someone! And now it was disconnected from the whole machine, and it was nowhere to be seen.
"Support staff! Quickly!" Dr. Takahashi ordered multiple doctors. "I'm sorry, but you kids will have to go," he slightly shoved Yuma, Rei, and Yuma's friends out the door, in order to have his staff keep Shark alive.
After 30 minutes of impatient waiting, Dr. Takahashi came out of the emergency room.
"Takahashi-san! How is he?" Rei and Yuma asked anxiously, simultaneously.
"He's uh… we… erm…" Dr. Takahashi stuttered, "we… have seem to have lost him…"
A tear dropped from Yuma's eye, followed consecutively by a plethora of salty drops.
Rei turned to Astral. "I'll take on your offer," she said tearfully.
"Final answer?"
"Yes."
Astral and Rei immediately ran over to the emergency room. The machines were discharged off of Shark and there he lie, just pale, and without pulse. Rei held his hand close to her cheek. "Shark… it's time to wake up,"
Astral raised his arms up and formulated a glowing plasma ball. He thrust the glowing ball into Shark's chest and there was a bright glow that filled the entire room. Everyone outside shut their eyes for a flash, and then opened them, only to hear Shark groan. They ran inside to the emergency room and witnessed Shark coughing up some blood. Rei rushed over and gave him a Kleenex.
"Shark, are you okay? Are you having trouble breathing, Shark?" Yuma asked him. Shark did not respond.
"Shark?" Rei asked, realizing Shark had lost his memory, just as Astral had said. But at least he lived on; it was worth it… right?
"Shark! Can you hear me?" Yuma asked him.
Shark looked at his own hand carefully observing the blood he had coughed up. Then he looked around the room at Rei, Yuma, Caswell, Tori, Bronk… "This Shark you speak of… is that me?" he asked, palely.
"Shark… you're joking right? You don't remember me?" Yuma asked.
Shark shook his head. "Who are you?"
Gosh! I'm so sorry I haven't updated this in so long, it's just that I've been so busy thinking of how to continue it! :P So I hope you enjoyed this chapter (even though it sucks), and uhm, yeah, happy summer everyone! ^_^
-byakuyakuchiki16 xD
