WOOT. Another chapter! I would have written this earlier but my teachers decided to pile me with homework. Yay... But today I have no homework so I thought "why not make another chapter?" So here it is! You don't know how many times I actually tried to start this. Maybe 57. Possible 63. No more than 78 though. Anyways, enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal
Chapter 6, Recognize
Yuma burst through the door with everyone else behind him. He scanned the room quickly and found Kaito sitting on the hospital bed. His eyes had a distant look to them as if in deep thought. He was staring down at his lap where his palms were facing up.
"Kaito...?"
Said teen snapped out of his thoughts and looked up. He stared at the group for a minute then looked out the window. He stared for a moment then looked back down. Yuma frowned and walked over.
"Is there... Something wrong, Kaito? I mean, what happened back there?"
"Excuse me..."
Everyone turned around and came face to face with the doctor. He had short green hair and orange red spiked glasses with a white coat on. Right behind him was Yuma's parents, breathing hard as if they sprinted a mile. The doctor was the same doctor that helped Kaito when he was at the hospital.
"I expected this would happen." the doctor said and scribbled something on his clipboard. "Everyone here knows that he has an unknown disease, right?" Everyone nodded. "Good. Well, we researched a bit more on his disease and it's... different. This disease triggers memories. Painful memories from a person's past even if they were a peaceful memory.
"What this does is that it makes one relive that memory but instead of just going through their own thoughts, they can explore and find out what happened during those times. It might last for a short amount of time, it might last a long amount of time... One thing's for sure, as they relive the memory, the 'virus' would start eating away his brain and slowly destroying his mind.
"While in the memory, the body on the person who has the disease would do... Strange things. Like having a seizure or, what Kaito had done, collapse and gasped for breath. Since the virus is destroying the brain, it will break the nerves and unexpected things will happen. When the virus eats too much, however..."
He paused. His face showed as if he was struggling to suppress a grin.
"The holder of the disease will... Die."
Everyone was in shock but Kaito seemed to expect it. He looked up at the doctor with a blank expression. His true feeling was of complete loathing. He hated the doctor with all his heart. He hated how the doctor freely talked about him, freely said untrue words of comfort, freely said anything at all.
A flash of blue flashed across his mind. His mind started drifting away from everything around him. He close his eyes. Everything seemed to disappear. He didn't even hear a scream from the real world.
…
Kaito was holding Haruto's hand as they walked towards a river. He and his family lived in a grassy plain area with a small steam a couple yards away. It was a peaceful place to relax and play.
Haruto let go of Kaito's hand and started jogging slightly to the river. Kaito watched as Haruto kneel down to look into the water. The boy was smiling happily and reached into the water. As Kaito made his way next to his brother, there was a loud splash and water sprang up and everywhere.
"Fish!" Haruto giggled.
The young teen smiled and got a glimpse of a fish swimming away. He sat down next to his brother and they were playing with the water and fish. The sun shined quite brightly that day. A small breeze brushed against the skin of the brothers.
"Hello there."
Both brothers look up and saw a man. He was quite tall with long silver hair. Blue eyes greeted gray and gold. Haruto stared at the man, smiling slightly, while Kaito responded with a short "hello."
"You two boys seem to have fun here. What are you doing?"
Haruto happily responded with; "We're playing fish!"
"Well, with fish." Kaito corrected.
The man looked in the river and back the brothers. "Where are your parents?"
Kaito didn't respond right away. He stared at the man with curiosity. Who was he and why was he here? He didn't want to respond but he didn't want to be rude. It was his parents rule. Always be kind to other people even if you don't know who they are. After a moment of hesitation, he quickly responded with;
"They aren't home."
"Oh? Where are they?"
The teen gave the man a slight glare. "Why do you want to know?"
He smiled. "I just wanted to know why you two are here by yourselves. It really has been quite dangerous here. I was watching the news and found out a group of murder's were around this area. You two should get going."
Kaito stood and Haruto stood also. The boy grabbed his older brother's hand. Kaito nodded and quickly thanked the man. He turned and lead the boy back to the little house. He peaked over his shoulder to find the man gone, as if he was never there.
…
Kaito opened his eyes. The room was dark and he was on the ground. He stood up and looked around him. There were no windows nor a door. The room was quite empty but there was a chair. He stared at it for a moment then looked away. Where was he?
There was a distant noise. He tried to follow it but the wall blocked him. He put his ear against the wall and tried to listen. It sounded like a person trying to call out to someone. There was a moment of silence and Kaito was about to walk away from the wall but the noise came back. It was louder this time. At least it was audible now.
"... Kaito! Kaito!"
It sounded like Yuma and Haruto.
"He must have seen another memory. That's the only reason why he would run off like that."
He paused. He didn't have time to hate the doctor's voice. The only thing that went through his mind was his actions. What did he do? He ran off?
"But 'where to' is the question..."
Kotori...
He wanted to bang on the wall so they would hear where he was. Or at least he hoped. He only managed one bang until someone grabbed his shoulder. He froze. He didn't notice the whispers beyond the wall. He felt hot breath against his neck and his heart started to pound so fast when he heard the voice.
"I finally found you at last..."
Another cliffhanger! I was gonna continue writing but then I didn't feel up to it. Some of you might be wondering "where does the school and bullies thing come in?" or "it's only been two days! How can all this happen?" or whatever. The school thing will come in soon enough (maybe) and the two days thing... I don't know. Imagination! -makes rainbow appear-
I also discribed more characters in this chapter. Can you guess who they are? I think I made it a bit obvious but we all love these guessing games! So yeah.
This might be the last time I update before my exams but who knows? I might write another chapter right after I post or I might make another one tomorrow. Just to let you know. And apologize if there are any mistakes. So I hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review!
