Chapter 3: Post -Traumatic Memoria

Approximately, 11:30 pm

Monday, San Fransokyo Streets

January 17, 201X

Dr. Michelle Almzicle, the second daughter of the Almzicle Family, and the Head Doctor of the Emergency Branch of the Almzicle Hospital. She was also the clinic doctor in sports events in San Fransokyo and whenever there's an injury, she would have the decision whether the player would continue or not. She's some sort of a little rebellious daughter of the group, not following the 'lady' etiquette of being pretty (and vulnerable), jumping over to emergency situations right before the Hospital does, and...she would hit a man. But despite of her behavior, she focuses on saving people no matter what happens.

As a matter of fact, Michelle was like a doctor of all doctors. She's the one who responds to most of the emergency services, and sometimes she's the one who would help her sisters in their branches. While her sisters were a Pediatrician, Cosmetologist, or even a Physician, she works on the ER or the TC if it's very serious. Most of the time she does most of the 'dirty work' for them, which is practically the reason why she isn't afraid of blood. Her sister, Lauryn, and her are the sisters who are knowledgable in the medical world beyond their assigned tasks, but they don't take some competitions when it comes to that. All they wanted is to help people, after all.

But there was something that Michelle didn't want to let know by everyone except for the people she could trust; Michelle was also an illegal street racer.

Street racing happens in San Fransokyo just like botfighting; the difference was the skill of the players and the risk of getting caught. While Botfighting arenas reside in the dark streets of San Fransokyo, Street Racing takes the risk of speeding throughout the city. Getting caught is mostly 30 - 70 for both illegal sports. Michelle always got in trouble when shaking off the police while racing at the same time. But no one was able to see her face through the window. She hid her identity in order to protect the company and well, street racing was just her merely stress breaking habit after all.

It was 11:30 in the evening and Michelle was driving with her car across the streets of San Fransokyo. Her car was roaring very loud because of the speed reaching beyond the speed limit of the road. It was another successful evening to her race when she beat an arrogant man who kept on teasing her that she was a girl who wasn't supposed to race. She beat him by winning the race even without breaking a sweat. The best part was that the guy was arrested by the police which was a double luck for her.

She was enjoying her driving while looking at the midnight sky. She could still see the stars even though it was blinded by the light pollution in the city. She cranked down her gear from 5 to 1 to decrease the speed of her car into the normal speed limit in the city. She even turned her music player to celebrate her win.

But it didn't last long when a small figure walked across the street without looking that there was a car ramming towards them.

Michelle had less time to activate her breaks as the car already bumped to the small being. She went out from her car and searched for the "body" that she might have killed. She would be in great trouble if it was a dead one already, and needed to dispose the body if ever she had no choice.

Michelle finally saw the person whom she crashed into, yet she had to look away the first second she had seen it. It was a little boy sprawled on the road; he had a fair skin and long messy black hair except there was one white streak on the side of his hair that was showing.

The reason she had to look away is because... well... the little boy didn't wear any clothes at all. His skin is covered with dirt, bruises, and blood from the crash, even the right side of his head was dripping with blood.

She placed her two fingers onto the little boy's neck. She already knew he was dead (Or so she thought) but it was somehow that she had to do it because of her way of the usual medical procedures she did that it had the first step in checking the pulse.

Good thing the little boy stirred from her cold hand that touched his neck, a natural response to the cold. She could even hear a soft squeak from him, and this could mean that he was still alive!

But she couldn't leave him dying and she had to save him. It was her job after all as a doctor, and not because she had to clean her name. All that matters was that she had to save the little boy from death.

She opened the compartment of her car and pulled out a white blanket. She wrapped it around the little boy so he would get warm and for the cold was slowly killing him. She gently carried the boy to the car and placed him to the front seat beside her. She started the car and drove to her home.

Approximately, 12:14 am

Tuesday, Headquarters, Almzicle Corporation Building

January 18, 201X

As on the cue, the two kids turned back their heads as they saw a short haired girl... who looked like tomboyish in her attire. They got alarmed when they figured out she was holding a sharp dagger.

A stare war happened for a minute and...

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The screams of the two boys reached the rooms of the people who were sleeping.

Tadashi sprang up from his bed when he heard Hiro and Chihiro's screams as he rushed out of his room with a lampshade on his hands. His focus were actually blurry and had to save the boys from danger so he had to pick something near to him.

"Don't you DARE hurt them!" he cried as he raised his lampshade to the intruder.

Sarah and Lauryn ran to the living room to see the kids unharmed while Tadashi was fighting with an intruder... or their sister!

"Tadashi?! Michelle?! What's going on?!" Sarah frantically asked while Lauryn was inspecting the little boy in the white sheet.

"A... boy?" Lauryn said as she inspected the boy's condition.

The others were alarmed too, so in result, they all rushed out to the source of ruckus.

Abby was scratching her eyes while holding Jebat on her arms as Corina appeared like a ghost again due to the white lotion spread out on her face.

Taichi's room opened while he was staggering; probably dreaming while walking.

"WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?!" The master of the house came last as his voice stormed out that holistically silenced the chaotic crowd. Taichi's senses became alive when he heard the master's lion-like roar.

Meanwhile, the two kids remained in horrified face and staring blankly STILL on the "object" or... "boy" on the table.

Michelle was the first to saw her father in the room asking his question. She still hadn't lay her guard down against Tadashi who was now fully awake from the boss' booming voice.

"Father, we have intruders in our house. We need to call the police or something!" Michelle stated while referring to Tadashi, Hiro, and Chihiro.

But Tadashi was vexed by her accusation against them, "Intruders?! Well, you're the one who's going to hurt them!"

Lauryn saw the two boys frozen in fear from the happenings as she gently shook them in order to snap themselves to reality.

"...Ehh... Ha?" Hiro blabbered out. He seemed still stunned from all the happenings today and seeing a horrible image before him just made him more "insane" at this point. Chihiro was able to snap by Lauryn as he brought himself to reality. The brown haired boy realized that he was hugging with Hiro as he yelped and jumped in surprise.

"THEY ARE NOT INTRUDERS, MICHELLE. I forgot you are not here earlier in my house because you've gone missing again. And if I may ask you, MY DAUGHTER," Donald scowled, "where have you been in these late hour?!"

Taichi had no ideas on what was happening. He was on a subconscious state until he was able to fully awake when his eyes landed on the "boy" placed in the center table. He accosted towards the middle area and stepped aback when seeing the pitiful image of the young boy.

"Where's the First Aid Kit?" Taichi turned behind as Lauryn was the first one he had seen he could count on.

"This is ridiculous really..." Corina rolled her eyes, "You always bring much trouble here, Michelle. You've destroyed my beauty rest."

"...Wafufufu... I wanna sleep..." Abby yawned as she slept on the floor. Chihiro obliged to wake the little girl as the seemingly "family argument" went on.

"I was in the basketball tournament! I was assigned to be the doctor there!" Michelle said with a half-lie and half telling the truth. She was in the basketball tournament, then she went to her street racing after.

"So no wonder you went home late! Next time, Michelle, tell us that you're going home late! You really caused a ruckus here." Sarah warned her sister.

Meanwhile, Lauryn had been asked to get the first aird kit to treat the boy's injuries. She rushed to where her room was since she had a first aid kit on her own. She came to get it quickly and returned to the living room where she bumped Tadashi a little.

"Thanks, Lauryn," Taichi took the white box from Lauryn as he began the first treatment. He frowned once again by looking on his injuries as he cleaned it with wet cloth and cotton with betadine next. He managed to clean some dirt and the boy looked even more innocent when he was partially tidied up. However, some bruises and wounds were severely remained in his body.

"Who dared someone to hurt an innocent child..." Taichi bite his lip by crossing that idea on his mind. He couldn't believe that someone would intentionally hurt a young and vulnerable kid.

Tadashi saw Lauryn running to where the kids and Taichi were; he even saw the boy laying on the table. He walked towards the two boys to see if they were okay or not, "Chihiro? Hiro? Are you two okay? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine," Chihiro said meekly, "But, I don't know that one." He pointed the black hair lad who seemed still drifted away. Chihiro shook the young girl as Abby's eyes fluttered up.

"Huh?" Abby drooled as Chihiro tried to raise her up. When she was sitting up straight already, "Miss Abby, please go to your room now, okay?" Hopefully, Abby nodded and went back to her quarters.

Corina crossed her arms and shot a death glare to her sister. "Dad, will you just tolerate her insolence against you again? I sensed she was lying and besides, basketball tournaments don't reach almost midnight." she snorted while keeping her eyes locked on Michelle. She had a feeling that something was not right. "Plus, who's that boy? Where did you find him?"

Donald narrowed his eyes down to her second daughter, "Well by any means. Where did you find him?" He interrogated her, showing a little mistrust to his daughter. Well, this kind of display of their father made Corina smirked smugly. She was hoping that Michelle would finally learn a lesson for being a "woman" since a woman should not come home late.

"Uh, well sorry I don't mean to be rude, but, help me here. I can't cure him alone. Some of his injuries are severe," Taichi intervened the upcoming war between the Almzicle Family. "Please, save your fight later."

On the other hand, Hiro was still frozen until he felt a tap from his brother as he suddenly shook his head and slapped both of his cheeks. "Ugh, what happened to me." He squeezed his face like a sandwich as he looked at everyone. "Ha? What's everybody doing here?" He asked to his brother.

Chihiro spanked his head weakly, "Finally back to the real world, Airhead?" Chihiro turned his sight in the short haired girl. He wanted to ask something to her, but her intimidating aura was restraining him to inquire her.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about him." Michelle said as she walked towards Lauryn for assistance. "So, what's the stitch? Get it? 'Stitch'?" she asked Lauryn jokingly.

The eldest sighed in dismay that she was joking around with an injured boy which she actually brought, "Maybe you can tell us why you brought him here in the first place."

"Ugh, uhhh, well, I accidentally rammed him with my car while I was driving. Of course, fresh blood and bruises came out because of the impact. By the way, I was in the speed limit. So I'm not in trouble with the speed. It's the kid's fault that he shouldn't cross the road without looking left and right." Michelle told Sarah her side of the story.

Lauryn noticed that some of the bruises were in the color of green or yellow while she was cleaning the blood on his body, "Michelle, look at this. His wounds around his body were mixed with fresh ones...and some are bruises that were in the stage of healing for some reason."

"You're right. His wounds, looks like he gained most of it from a long period of time." Tadashi said in which Lauryn have to look away in response.

"Which means... he's already been hurt before Michelle crashed into him." Sarah said as she clarified it. She received a glare from Michelle because of the "crashed" part of hers.

Hiro kept on staring everyone as his eyes landed on a new face in the crowd. "I don't get it," Hiro sneered. "and who's that woman?"

"Probably, Mr. Almzicle's another daughter. Her name is Michelle." Chihiro replied as he helped his fellow Japanese to stand up. "Well, if you are still clueless, Michelle is the one who bring that boy here, which we have thought like supernatural thingy."

"Really?" Hiro perked an eyebrow as they remained on the background while everyone was gathered in the center area. The two suddenly flinched when someone held their shoulders from the back.

"Are you alright boys?" They heard Donald's rambling voice, stiffening their posture furthermore. They slowly looked around to face the strict man and almost crumbled down, seeing the man's face was actually near at them.

"U-Uh... Yes!" Hiro bravely said while stammering. "W-We are just o-okay! Ah-hehe!"

Chihiro could clearly hear his heart; pounding like a jackhammer. He had a feeling that any seconds later, he would faint in no time.

The two 14-year old boys were behaved well while enduring a tremor inside, however, suddenly changed into a relief and small delight when Donald Almzicle smiled at them for the first time.

"Good to know that you are alright." he tapped their shoulders as he ruffled their hair, "Sorry to disturb your peaceful hours. My daughter is a troublemaker and I hope she didn't cause anything in your disturbance."

The master of the house left them dumbfounded as he joined the crowded area and began to ask on the boy's condition.

"I can't believe it." Hiro whispered, disheartened in some way. "He smiled at us."

"Yeah," Chihiro agreed, "But, maybe he just ask us because we are like wimpy kids earlier. I guess I should be ashamed of that."

Hiro became confused, "Ashamed what?"

Chihiro face palmed. "Airhead, we hug..." He slumped down, "Never mind."

For a sudden, someone hugged Chihiro from behind. He almost touched the ground because of the sudden weight that heave up on his back.

"Are you alright, my prince?!" Corina asked hysterically as Chihiro's face was flushed in red. "Are you hurt?!" She asked once again.

"Ehhh?!" Chihiro exclaimed in more confusion. This made Hiro brought back on his usual mischievous mood again.

"Ohh I see..." Hiro acted like a serious person and nodding endlessly.

"See what?!" Chihiro asked furiously.

Meanwhile, Taichi kept on assisting everyone by handing them the expert's needs and couldn't help but feel brokenhearted by staring at the boy. He wanted to learn on what might happen more on him...

"Miss Michelle, can I know where exactly the place you have found him?" Taichi asked Michelle for his self-investigation.

Michelle was about to open her mouth before she closed it again. She was still remembering of where she got him. "I can't remember the exact street or place because it was dark, I only remember him walking across the street like some naked guy until I crashed into him. When I walked out of the car, it was stinky, like I was in the dumpster city or something." Michelle explained to the man with the glasses.

Lauryn put some ointment onto the boy's wounds before Tadashi put bandages; it seemed the two were working together without noticing it. Only Sarah noticed the two working together and couldn't take the smile on her face while watching them.

Taichi once again frowned. A dumpster? He couldn't remember any place... However, he got some idea on his mind but still unsure if it was really that place. "I see..." He murmured before putting his hand on his chin.

"What a pity child... He seemed like abused or what. We will immediately report this to the police tomorrow, how's the boy now?" Donald stated then asked to his daughter, and to Tadashi.

"Well, he's stable. Good thing the wounds aren't deep nor severe as much as we thought." Tadashi said to the boss.

"We still have to keep an eye of him, just in case... He might trigger a panic attack himself when he sees us..." Lauryn said in worry for the boy.

"Cut it out, airhead!" Chihiro exclaimed while reaching out for Hiro who was teasing him. Corina was still hugging him, daydreaming that Chihiro was her "prince".

Hiro was keeping on bugging his fellow friend about the, "RED! Red, red, red! RED!" on his face.

Chihiro was about to retort but was cut off by a good news.

The little boy began to move as his eyes began to squint and opened them.

"He's waking up!" Taichi proclaimed as everyone in the room excitingly gathered around the boy. And in Chihiro's relief, Corina left him and joined the crowd.

It was dark at first, but then it was bright. The boy fully opened his brown eyes to see people around him, yet it was blurry so he couldn't see them clearly. He sat up until he felt a very sharp pain from his side, and could only release a soft squeak in him.

"Oh no, you weren't supposed to sit up just yet." Tadashi said as he gently lay the boy down. The little boy went stiff when Tadashi touched his bare chest as the older one quickly pulled his hand away from the boy.

The little boy looked at each one of the people he was seeing as he only stared when he saw the the two boys in curiosity.

Hiro seemed to find the little boy's gaze at them, "Is he looking at us?" Hiro whispered to Chihiro.

"Obviously." Chihiro shot back as he stared at the boy. Their almost similar eyes met as Chihiro felt some odd yet familiar feeling towards him... It was indecipherable... Even the young programmer couldn't tell what was it.

Whilst Chihiro was quietly solving a mystery, Hiro abruptly broke the ice. "Hi! I'm Hiro Hamada! Maybe you are looking at me, because I look cool, right?" He even knelt down to have the same height level as the young boy. He even showed his teeth, his usual grin when he was being so cocky again. Well, it was Chihiro's opinion about him.

Taichi sighed in full relief because the boy was now awake. It removed some worry on his heart, but, his identity was still unknown. Taking this as a cue, Taichi smiled at the boy good-naturedly. "Hello, son. Can you tell us your name?" he asked with his softening voice, gentle for the ear to hear.

Name.

Did he had a name?

What was a name?

Oh yeah, that was right!

Name!

Wait, how could he say it?

The little boy wanted to sit up once more, as Lauryn helped him sat up when she noticed his need of help.

He took a deep breath and moved his mouth with effort to speak up, "A... An... Andrew... Andrew..." He stared at the two boys again in desperation, and "Andrew" was all that he knew.

"Andrew... Oh, so that is your name!" Hiro exclaimed as his grin grew wider. "Nice to meet you friend." Hiro said in a cocky way as Chihiro nudged him, like having enough of his "airiness" already. Hiro reacted, however Chihiro ignored him already.

Chihiro brought out his pleasing smile, "Hello. I'm Chihiro Fujisaki. Chihiro will do." From the side, Corina was secretly admiring his smile and drifted on her daydreaming again. "Nice to meet you, Andrew." he smiled at the young boy once again.

Taichi smiled once again, "Good to know that we have known your name. Where do you live?" He asked next.

Donald remained silent while watching everyone's behaviour. He had something in mind to work on, and he needed more observations in all of them.

Live?

What did he meant by that?

An address?

Where was he anyway?

I don't know!

What kind?

A house or a castle?!

There aren't any castles in San Fransokyo!

That was so 21st centuries ago!

You don't even know when the castles were built in the medieval times!

Heck, we don't know where he is right now!

How could we even tell to them?!

Andrew was silent as he remained on staring at the two boys. It was either he couldn't respond to his question or he actually didn't know where to live.

"A-Ah... I guess I'm being hasty..." Taichi chuckled nervously as he gained his composure again, "I haven't introduced myself yet... I'm Taichi Fujisaki, Chihiro's father."

The two boys pondered about Andrew's unresponsiveness. This was unusual, or maybe the boy was only stunned or shocked because there was a lot of people surrounding him that cause him to stay silent.

Chihiro knelt down before the kid as he smiled once again for him. He should try a hypothesis. "Well, Andrew, do you have any parents?" Chihiro asked in hopes that if Andrew didn't know his residence, maybe learning his parents would at least give them a lead to where he was belong. "Can I know?" He smiled with a slight tilt on his head.

Parents?

Parents?

Parents?

PARENTS?!

Andrew opened his shaking mouth again to make a response, but it was an alarming response. "P...pa...ren...parents?" he asked Chihiro.

Michelle ran her fingers across the locks of her hair. She feared to know what happened to the boy. "Oh no. Amnesia." she said with a fearful conclusion about the boy's state.

"Andrew is all that he knows, no surname or anything." Tadashi said in pity that the boy forgot everything, but his own name.

"Amnesia?!" Taichi voiced out in disbelief. He looked at the crude figure of the young boy who had no the slightest idea who he was. It felt like all the things in the world was taken out from the child, since memory was the most important aspect of one's life.

Hiro couldn't say anything. He never faced a serious matter like this before. The least thing he could only do for now was too feel bad for him.

Chihiro gasped in shock as he suddenly broke down in tears. He really do felt sorry for the kid. This situation was difficult to handle.

"Oh boy." Donald lifted his chin up and brushed his face. "...Well this one sure hard. A boy with amnesia."

Everyone's faces saddened down. Amnesia? It was too horrible. It was too frustrating. And it was too...

"Uhh..." Corina meddled out of the blue, "...If you'll ask in my opinion, may I suggest that you should dress him up for awhile... Uhm... You know... He is uhm..." Her eyes were moving uneasily as Taichi gasped by realizing that the boy was actually bare.

The girls were aware that Andrew was... well, to the point of completely naked. They forgot after all of the bad things happening right now and they forgot that he was naked.

Tadashi was even embarrassed as he covered the nearest girl; Lauryn. To her surprise that her eyes was covered by the hands of Tadashi, she blushed in red.

"Um... Maybe the boys should dress him up, he might catch a cold sooner of later." Sarah said to the boys while the girls were remained looking at somewhere else, as long as she didn't see Andrew.

Andrew was completely clueless why the girls had to look away, though.

"Yes, yes! Chihiro, could you please assist me?" Taichi began to panic as he diverted his gaze to Hiro, "Hiro, come with us too."

Taichi gently wrapped his hands to the fragile young boy while covering him with the white sheet as he carried him carefully. The two reluctantly followed him as they strode towards the boys' room.

"Kids, please find some clothes for him." Taichi instructed. He gently laid back Andrew on the bed as Hiro immediately checked on his drawer some small cloths that would fit for the young boy.

"I can't find any..." Hiro was building a pile of clothes on the floor while searching a wardrobe that would fit on him. He just only saw a small white sando on the bottom and underwear.

Hiro twitched. "Brings back memories." he murmured as he stood up and quickly gave it to Taichi.

To make things clear, right after the agreement in both parties earlier, the room was already set for them as Donald called some of his agents to fetch all the necessary things they owned. But, it was only down on basic ones like clothes and such.

"Well, I found a brown shorts here." Chihiro informed as he promptly gave it to his Dad. Taichi tenderly dressed him as he was not intimidating to look at. Especially, well, for the girls.

He stared at the three people who gave him something to wear. It was a little ticklish when the man with glasses dressed him up.

After they finished dressing him up, he looked down to whatever he was wearing.

Andrew is now wearing a brown jacket with red orange rims by the sleeves under his orange hooded vest with front pockets along with a lightning bolt emblem as the zipper puller. He also wears brown baggy shorts — well, pants, since he was small and it appeared to be pants than shorts — as he felt warmth when he wore them for the first time, in a good way. Aside from holding the white sheet for the whole time anyway, though.

He attempted to go to the two boys and say thank you, but he fell down by the time he moved forward.

"A piece of paper!" Hiro yelled in surprise as the two automatically rushed him towards him. The older man held his arms upward and seated him at the edge of the bed.

Taichi moved his head in concern, "I guess you are still weak to do some any movements. Take some rest, okay?" he said to the kid who seemed speechless.

Meanwhile, outside of the room, the rest were gathered behind the door while waiting.

The CEO suddenly twisted the knob of the door. It was evident on his face that he was growing impatient now.

Tadashi, Lauryn, Sarah, Corina and Michelle came in along with the CEO... more likely they were peeking in to their room to see if the boy was alright or not.

Andrew held on to his sheet tightly as the sound of the door began to creek. He was stiffened as he looked to the two boys.

"H... Hi-Hiro... Ch-Chihiro..." Andrew said softly.

"Hm?" The two immediately responded on the young boy's call.

"I see! The boy is alright already!" Donald rejoiced. "Well, we are fully relieved."

"Yeah... Finally. Maybe I can take my beauty rest now. Good night." Corina turned back to retire on her room, but glanced for awhile to see Chihiro. She put a small smile on her lips and left the crowd.

"Well, yes. Maybe we can rest for the night now. Everything is fine already," Donald said, "I apologize Hamada and Fujisaki for this kind of mess that my daughter have created."

"Oh nonono, Mr. Almizcle," Taichi quickly said, "We're glad to help anyway. We're part of the company anyway so this isn't a big deal, Mr. Almizcle."

Donald smiled on the side, "Well, let us all retreat now... We will take care of the rest tomorrow."

"I'm going to sleep as well, I have lots to do tomorrow anyway." Lauryn said as she walked to her room.

Tadashi noticed that she was going back to sleep, "Well, good night then Lauryn." he said to her.

Lauryn blushed in red when Tadashi said good night to her. It was a once in a lifetime for her to hear his voice. "G-g-good night too, Tadashi." she said as she ran back to her room and shut the door quickly with the sigh of relief.

"I better sleep too, you boys take care of Andrew." Sarah said as she walked to her room.

"Hiro... Chihiro..." Andrew said it for the third time. Tadashi noticed that he kept on saying their names, "Hiro, Chihiro, I think Andrew needs you or something."

Hiro and Chihiro looked at him. "Uhh, yes?" Hiro asked to Andrew. Chihiro was just staring at him and was waiting for him to speak up.

"You know, how about you should go near him because he can't?" Michelle said to the two boys in annoyance that they were oblivious of whatever Andrew wanted from them.

"Just how many kilometers you drove before you crashed into him?" Tadashi said while interrogating the source of Andrew's accident.

"30! It's like the slowest speed already, I was even following the speed limit and it says 30!" Michelle irritatingly answered that it seemed everyone was judging her when she was saving the boy to his death.

Andrew was reaching his hands to them as he tried to move forward without making himself fall again.

Chihiro noticed that Andrew wanted to reach out for them so he obliged himself to hold his hand instead. "Andrew, right?" he paused, "Want to tell something?"

Taichi watched them as he patted the bed. "Well, I guess you can conjoin your beds together when you'll sleep." He looked on the other bed as he signed to Tadashi to help him up on pulling the other bed on the side.

"Uhh, well if you'll say to me that I'm cool. You'll be needless to say it." Hiro ran on his airy side again as he received a hard nudged from Chihiro. He crouched down a bit and glared at him.

Chihiro smiled at the young boy again, "I want to know what's on your mind."

While Tadashi was helping Taichi from fixing the beds, Michelle was watching Andrew on whatever he was going to do with the kids. She just met him, who would know what he would do to them. Might be hurt them or eat them or whatever, she just needed to know.

When Andrew was able to reach Hiro and Chihiro, he pulled them close to him... in which he actually embraced the two in a hug.

"T... Than... Thank... You... Thank... You... Thank You!" Andrew said to the two.

"Awww...he's trying to say thank you. Isn't that cute?" Tadashi said. It was clearly reminding him of Hiro when he was young. It was a sweet memory to him.

Michelle, however, had her jaw dropped. She was not amused when Andrew was just thanking Hiro and Chihiro, and nothing suspenseful for her. "That's it? That's all he got to say? Sheesh, to think he has efforts to say those. I'm going to bed!" she said as she walked out of their room. Tadashi had to roll his eyes in dismay from her.

The two young boys stared at each other in confusion. One, why he was thanking them? Two, they had done something to him to be thankful of? It was flooding their minds with these questions as Hiro released from the hug when he felt that Andrew was letting them go.

"Uhh, why are you thanking us?" Hiro couldn't contain his words as Chihiro chose to be silent again.

Tadashi sighed and shook his head when Hiro and Chihiro were oblivious why Andrew was acting like that to them. "You know the thing about the mother duck and the baby duck that was hatched? Whatever the baby duck sees think that it's their mother duck, it's the same way Andrew was like. He's the baby duck, while you two were the mother ducks. It's the trust he had when he sees you two worthy enough to take care of him. It's called Imprint." he explained to Hiro and Chihiro. Hopefully, it was making more sense now.

Taichi chuckled, "Well I guess you found a baby brother now, I think." he ruffled the three boys' hairs. "Well, we are going back to our rooms, too. Sleep tight. Chihiro, Hiro and...Andrew."

Hiro still never understand a thing and just looked at the younger boy. Chihiro did the same as he sat beside him.

"Little brother..." Chihiro thought as he observed the pure innocence of the kid. When he looked at the child bandaged head, he accidentally saw the white streak on his hair and curiously touched it. "I like your white hair, so cute." Chihiro smiled like a kid.

Hiro, meanwhile, was feeling puzzled again as he slumped his head on the bed.

Andrew looked up to where Chihiro's hand was when the programmer touched his hair. It felt weird, but in a good way. He was still holding his white sheet and feeling comfortable when he had it. The same way Chihiro did that to him.

For the first time, he felt safe that he had to smile in joy.

Taichi smiled by knowing that the young boy was having fun together with the boys. Even he was not still sure who really was that kid, he got a good feeling for him. For the last time, Taichi ruffled the boys' hairs. "Good night boys. Take care of Little Andrew, hm?" He looked at Andrew, "Sleep tight, okay?"

"Good night Dad," Chihiro responded as Hiro just returned a weak smile at him.

Hiro fixated himself and sat in the bed as he stared at the older guys. "Good night, Uncle and Nii-chan."

Taichi opened the door and took one last glance again. "Let's go Tadashi," he beckoned the other Hamada to leave the room now.

"Good night guys." Tadashi left the kids and followed the father as they went to their own rooms. He looked at the clock to check the time and it was 1:30. "Wow, things just happened in just 2 hours." He sighed, "What a crazy day in this crazy place..."

Meanwhile, in Michelle's room, the second daughter didn't have any traces of her feeling sleepy after what happened hours ago. It was a commotion for the normal family to have arguments, until Andrew came along in a time that was somehow strange for him to appear.

A young boy was found naked from the streets, and had a severe case of Amnesia when he got crashed by her car. He looked like he was severely abused by someone and dumped him; an innocent child had to go through such harsh procedures of abuse until he was no use to anyone else.

But at the cost of his memories that he had to take the challenge of remembering his past, the problem was how.

She had a lot of questions for him, but he couldn't answer because he DIDN'T KNOW.

The only way to get his questions was to make him remember who he was.

"Just who are you, Andrew?"