Chapter three:
The three walk into the city looking around as things seem so familiar yet they can't seem to really remember much. They keep walking and snapping out of their amazement at the city they try to get someone's attention.
Mello goes over to a woman. "Excuse me." He says but she doesn't notice and walks towards him. "Hey! Excuse me!" He speaks louder and moves forward to try to get her attention even if he has to bump into her…. Only she walks right through him as if he wasn't even there. His eyes widen and his breath picks up speed at his and he looks to Matt and Near who are also being walked through as if none of the three are actually there.
Matt and Near hurriedly rush to Mello.
"What is going on!?" Matt says panicked.
"This doesn't make sense." Mello agrees.
"There has to be an explanation." Near says. "Maybe we should walk around and we might find something that can help us."
The other two nod and they begin walking looking around themselves.
Sometimes people would walk through them but the three don't let it bother them anymore as they do their best to ignore it except unable to help the shiver that passes through them every time it happens.
Suddenly Near spots something ahead and feels a mental tug towards it.
Without thinking he rushes forward towards it with Mello and Matt calling out after him.
He skids to a stop now facing a certain place and he becomes frozen.
Mello and Matt catch up to him.
"Near what the hell!?" Mello snaps then the two follow Near's gaze when the other doesn't say anything.
The two also freeze as all of their eyes widen as they stare into the certain place.
…
Watari moves into the room setting the slice of cake down for L. "I have news." He says as L turns to him. "Earlier you asked me to check any disappearances around the time of the murder." He says. "And I found something intriguing." He looks at L. "There was certain reported disappearances that really caught my attention was the ones of..."
….
"Nate River." Near gasps.
"Mihael Keehl." Mello says on an exhaling breath.
"Mail Jeevas." Matt says to himself.
The three have finally begun to have their memories come back as their own real names pass through their lips.
The scene in front of them makes them start to get their memories back and it seems to come at them all at once so suddenly like someone is fast-forwarding it as it comes back in their minds.
They dash out of the city going to the outskirts of the woods stopping at a spot on a hill just outside of the woods where they can see the city. They sit on the hill catching their breaths as their memories start to calm down from coming back so suddenly.
"What the hell!" Mello gasps as he had dropped to his hands and knees not facing the city.
Matt curls up into a ball. "It happened all so fast." He whimpers.
Near is just silent as he stares at the ground only to raise his head to the others moments later.
Mello looks up from the ground to look to Matt for a moment then to turn to Near. "I can remember the first time I met you." He says to Near. "Before we woke up in the woods."
Flashback:
Mihael, Mello, is walking along down the streets of the city. He stormed out of his mothers falling apart home that literally looks like an abandoned falling apart very old building as it is turning out to seem like it except for being lived in.
His father is a rich bastard that moved away to be able to be with a bunch of whores and he would not take Mello, Mihael, or his older brother Michal agreeing to let their mother have custody.
Michal left saying he had enough of the stupid falling apart shit and became a whore himself to live on his own with a friend who is also a male whore.
Mihael is walking along when he turns a corner to take a short cut to the store. He hopes he can get something with what little money he managed to scavenge as his mother does sometimes sell her body while drunk thus allowing them a small amount of money for food and the rest his mother uses it to get what she wants.
Mostly being spent on alcohol.
Though she has enough of her mind to make sure to pay the bills to try to keep people knocking on their door to snoop.
Mihael is in the sixth grade and he stops as there is a voice behind him. He had heard about some gangs in the area that he goes to for food but he's never run into any before so he put it to the back of his mind. He turns around finding himself face to face with three guys that definitely look shady.
They all start to smirk.
"Squirt. What do you think you are doing in our alley way?" One of the guys asks. "Huh?"
Mihael wasn't scared to get into fights to stand up for himself though all of his fights had been against kids his age or maybe a year younger not anyone older like these guys. "Just going to the store." He says. "Now if you are doing bugging me I will be on my way."
The guys laugh.
"Oh you sure that you aren't looking for your mommy?" One of the guys laughs harder after making a mocking of a child crying for their mother.
Mihael clenches his hands into fists. "You are pathetic." He says.
Wrong thing to say.
The guys stop laughing turning to him with narrowed eyes.
"What did you just say?" The one that is most likely the leader of the guys standing in front of the others.
Mihael looks at him as if this is nothing. "I said. You. Are. Pathetic." He says in a tone like he is spelling it out for a dumbass.
The guys dashes forward with an enraged cry.
Mihael prepares to battle getting into his battle stance.
The guy keeps advancing at an alarming rate.
Mihael throws a punch but the guy catches it with a single hand as if Mihael tried to punch a wall. His eyes widen as he realizes that this is too high of a level of fight for him to win in.
The guy pulls back a fist and slams it right into Mihael as he lets go of Mihael's fist.
Mihael is thrown against the wall and he looks up to the guys that begin to advance towards him. His heart sinks as he realizes that this is most likely the very end for him as the leader of the guy raises a hand holding a gun he must have gotten out of wherever he was hiding it until Mihael was thrown to the wall.
The guns barrel aimed right at him and Mihael tries to scramble away but is trapped by the wall behind him.
The guys all laughs at his attempts to scramble away.
"Who's pathetic now? Bitch!" The one holding the gun snickers.
"You are bitch." A new voice speaks at the entrance of the alley way.
Mihael and the guys turn to look to the entrance of the alley way.
There stands a boy about Mihael's age.
The one with the gun lowers the gun turning to the new comer. "Get out of here twit." He says. "This bitch is ours."
The new comer shows no signs of backing down. "You should get yourselves heading on out of here pathetic bitches." He says.
The guy with the gun glares at the new comer. "Oh you asked for it." He raises the gun to be pointed at the new comer.
The new comer doesn't seem fearful of it all. "Don't you know that you're in the territory of the Shadows?" He demands.
This makes the guys pause.
The Shadows is like the mafia but kinder or with more pride however you wish to call it but they are still quite feared by other gangs.
These guys are no exception as they are afraid of the Shadows.
"Fine we'll leave." The guy with the gun says.
Mihael smiles thinking that the group will leave now but he gets his hopes up too soon.
"Right after we off you two." The one with the gun says as he starts to pull the trigger.
Mihael reacts fast and pushes the guys arm knocking the shot off into a nearby wall.
"Why you little!" The guy turns to attack Mihael.
That's when the new comer rushes in and slams into the guy knocing him off balance in surprise.
The gun slips from his grasp and Mihael rushes forward grabbing it only to toss it to the new comer when the group tries to grab it back.
The new comer points the gun at the guys as Mihael moves to stand at his side looking strong since now they have the upper hand. "Leave now or I will call the Shadows here right now." He says.
Mihael looks to the new comer as confused as the guys.
The new comer hands Mihael the gun who holds it pointed at the guys. He pulls out a necklace with a button on it as the necklace was tucked into his shirt. "With the press if this button will alert the Shadows to my location and they'll come as fast as they possibly can."
The guys back off as if realizing something like what they thought was fake is the real deal but is something they wish was actually fake.
Mihael comes to understand that the Shadows must care for this person who is saving him from death.
"You're the rumoured kid who is a part of the Shadows." The original owner of the gun gasps.
The new comer smiles. "That should have been obvious when I explained that you're in the Shadows territory."
One of the guys puts a hand on the previous guns owners shoulder. "They aren't worth it anymore." He says. "We should get going before any Shadows members finds us."
Grudgingly the group turns fleeing down the alley way.
The new comer lets the necklace fall back into place now outside of his shirt. He opens his hand expecting something to be put in it. "Gun." He says to clear any confusion.
Mihael hands it to him.
The new comer closes one eye once securely gripping the gun, calculating the throw quickly in his mind then tosses it at the guys managing to hit the one in the rear of the guys head. He does a small fist pump in front of his body at the success of hitting the target.
Mihael is impressed by this new comer. He leads the new comer out of the alley way. "That was cool." He says.
The new comer smiles. "Thanks. You were not too bad yourself." He says as they continue to walk just walking enjoying each other's company now. "You were pretty calm and relaxed even when you knew it would probably end up in a fight."
"Thanks." Mihael smiles. "I'm Mihael Keehl. What's your name?"
"Nate Rivers." The new comer responds.
"Nice name." Mihael says in truth.
"You too. It's quite unique." Nate responds.
"Wanna be friends?" Mihael asks.
Nate smiles and let's out a quiet short laugh. "How could we not be friends?"
Mihael smiles at this.
End of flashback.
Yes. That day was truly a nice day as the two hung out together for most of the remaining day.
On that day Mihael also learned that Nate's hometown was destroyed by a fire and he was taken in by the Shadows raised by them since he was about six when he escaped and ran to the city where the Shadows saved him.
Nate, Near, smiles at the memory. "Good times." He says.
Mihael nods. "Yes. Good times." He agrees then pauses flinching as he seems to start to have another memory pop out from the rest of his memories that he has regained.