Forgotten Memories
Disclaimer: All the Hana Yori Dango characters are owned by Yoko Kamio
Chapter 2: Aftermaths"Junpei," the name echoed loudly in the silent hospital room. Suddenly, her mind was filled with memories of him,
*flashback*
"Would you be my friend, Makino-sempai?" The nerdy guy with the specs said.
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"Here are two ants, one representing me and one representing you," then he threw the paper plane into the air, and suddenly her heart did feel lighter, as if she was on the paper plane, flying high up, far away from the pressure around her.
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He holding her body against him as the camera flashed away; she, the proverbial deer caught in the headlights.
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"Look out!" a warm body pushed against her body, causing her to fall to the ground, missing the flowerpot that had hit near them.
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He stood in front of her to protect her from the boys who had been chasing her. When she woke up in his arms, he helped her gently to a bench. She could see the concern and warmth in his eyes….
*end of flashback*
"Junpei!" Makino Tsukushi gasped. Then she tried to get down from the hospital bed.
"Makino! What are you doing? You're not well enough to get out of bed yet!" Doumyouji said, as he held her down on the bed.
Junpei also immediately came forward to calm her down; the rest of the F4 standing around Makino's bed in a defensive stance, ready to attack him if he tried anything funny. She pushed Doumyouji away and then held on to Junpei's hand. She pulled him to her and embraced him, "Thank goodness you're here." Soon, she realised that there was an audience around her watching her every move and she blushed, releasing him from the embrace yet still holding his hands.
There was a turbulence of emotions in Doumyouji as he watched her joyously greeting Junpei. He was hurt that she did not remember him, jealous that she could remember Junpei, the guy who had put her into this situation in the first place, and angry, at Makino for the same reasons.
"Makino," he said in a deceptively calm voice. "How come you remember Junpei?"
"I don't know…I just do…"
"I see…" then he stormed out of the room shouting "I'm gonna kill the doctor!" The F3 looked at each other in silent communication and then Akira rushed out after Doumyouji.
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"Please, Mr Doumyouji," the doctor whimpered in a trembling voice. "We can talk through this calmly." He was currently cowering behind the chair as Doumyouji loomed threatening over him.
"I am very calm!" Doumyouji shouted. "That's why I'm not kicking your butt now! I want answers and I want them now! How come Makino could remember that Junpei but not me!"
"Please let me examine her first before I can give you any answers," no amount of money was worth it was the doctor's verdict but if he abandoned this case, he was afraid of what Doumyouji could do to his career.
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"Well, it seems that Miss Makino has selective amnesia. She must have been undergone a lot of stress and trauma before her accident and apparently she can only remember the more carefree and relaxing things that she had experienced prior to the accident." The doctor's words echoed guiltily in Doumyouji's mind. When he had discussed this issue with the rest of the F3, they had reminded him of what he had 'done' to Makino so far…
Flashback
"This is ridiculous!" Doumyouji was off on his rant again, this time with the F3. "The doctor said that Makino remembered Junpei because of the pleasant memories associated with him! Her brain had blocked out all the bad memories. I could understand that…but why did she also forget me!? I mean, we have lotsa pleasant times together right?"
Rui, Akira and Soujiro looked at him with disbelieving look. "Hmmm…Doumyouji," Akira interjected. "I don't know how to put this in the gentle way to you…YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CAUSED HER TO HAVE ALL THOSE UNPLEASANT MEMORIES OF US!" His voice thundered down the empty hospital walkway and a nurse immediately stuck her head out and looked disapprovingly at him, causing him to cringe and whispered, "Sorry. Heehee." He lowered his volume, "You were the one who started the hazing on her in Eitoku." "You tried to get her expelled from school," Soujiro reminded him."Alright! So maybe we did have our bad times, but surely there were good times too." Doumyouji tried to defend himself
"You made her cry," Rui's matter-of-fact tone was the most damning. Doumyouji thought back to all those memories he had of Makino. More often than not, he saw more of her angry faces than her peaceful or happy faces. The worst was the fear in her eyes that fateful day in the school corridor, where he had chased her down, like a predator chasing down its prey…her fruitless struggle against his strength, her resistance, then her passive acceptance…it was horrible, her silent tears streaming down her face as in getting the inevitable over with. It seemed that Rui, Soujiro and Akira were right: he was the one who had made Makino's life miserable…End of flasback
He was the one who had made her life miserable, but he resolved that from now on, he would do everything that he could to make her happy, and then maybe she would remember him and everything would be alright again. With this thought, he drifted off into happy daydreams where he and Makino were having a good time together and she allowing him to hold her hand and…
"What do you think he's thinking about?" a male voice suddenly intruded into him pleasant dreamscape.
"Maybe Makino."
"Definitely her. Look at his loony grin."
"Oh, Doumyouji, thank you for taking care of me when I was not myself."
"Anything for you my dear, anything for you."
"Let me show you my gratitude with a kiss."
Doumyouji blushed at the playacting of Akira and Soujiro. 'How come they know what I was daydreaming about,' he thought. He immediately went on the offensive, "Keep your minds out of the gutter! Did I ask for you opinion?"
"Woooo, he's blushing. Guess we must have been more perceptive then we know. Isn't that right, Tsukasa?" Soujiro teased him.
Doumyouji blushed even more and then shoved his fists in front of Soujiro's face, "Do you wanna taste of chuckles sandwich?"
"It's knuckles sandwich, Tsukasa," Akira corrected him. He mockingly sighed, "When would you ever learn?"
Doumyouji glared at him and tried to change the subject, "The doctor says that Makino is well enough to be discharged from the hospital. Since her parents are not around, I am thinking of bringing her to my house to recuperate."
"Emm, Doumyouji, won't your mother be coming back for your birthday next Sunday?" Akira asked. Doumyouji replied in the affirmative. Akira continued, "Don't you think that your mum would find it strange that some girl that she don't know about staying at your house?"
Doumyouji considered this and answered, "Well, I could take this opportunity to introduce her to Makino. She would like her."
Hearing this, the F3 groaned. Doumyouji had a bit of a blind spot when it comes to matters concerning his mother. They could remember a childhood incident when they were gathering at Tsukasa's house. His mother had come into the room where they had gathered and she told Tsukasa coldly not to hang around with them too much or his intellect would deteriorate. He had been greatly amused that time but they knew that she really meant what she said.
"Do you think that this would be a suitable time, Tsukasa?" Rui asked. "After all, she could be a bit intimidating."
"The greatest understatement of the year," Akira muttered to Soujiro who nodded in agreement.
"I guess you're right," Tsukasa reluctantly conceded to Rui. "But where can she go?"
"Well, she could stay at my house." "Or mine," both Akira and Soujiro offered.
Tsukasa vehemently shook his head, his worm-like curls moving as if alive, "No way! Both of you are renewed womanisers. If Makino had her memories, it would be fine, but now that she's all vulnerable and defenceless…"
The F3 sighed in defeat as Doumyouji used another wrong word. "It's renowned not renewed, Tsukasa," Rui corrected him.
An I-could-care-less wave of Doumyouji's hand dismissed this matter.
"Maybe she could stay at my house," Rui proposed.
"Definitely not!" was Doumyouji's immediate reply. His green-eyed monster was on full alert. He did not want Rui anywhere near Makino, not with Makino's propensity to be attracted to Rui.
"Tsukasa, be reasonable," Akira said. "Where else could she stay? Back at her own house where there would be no one to look after her?"
"Well…"
AN: Sorry for the long delay in uploading this 2nd chapter. I had writer's block. (scolding) Bad block! Bad! Anyway, hope you have enjoyed this chapter. I decided to make this a more interactive kinda story as in you can participate in where you want the story to go! Hope this will make the story more interesting. As you have noticed, I've left a cliffhanger going on as to where she should stay. It's up to you readers to decide where you want her to go. She could go to any of the F4's house, or her own home. Don't forget, there's Junpei waiting at the sidelines too *snigger*. But keep in mind what I have set up, for instance the fact that Doumyouji's mother would be coming back for his birthday. So leave your reviews on how you like the story's progress so far and ur vote on where she should stay. Thanks!