Hiya! I'm back! Thank you so much to all who reviewed, you've made me confident oh yeah, I forgot the disclaimer last chapter, here you are:
Disclaimer: I don't own any DNAngel characters, except . The dashes are the name of my character. Can't go giving it away!
Now, on with Chapter 1!
Forgotten
Uh… yeah, this was inspired by Rave Master and Elie and an X-Man… and all that…
Chapter One
Help
Daisuke was coming home from school as normal when he saw her. She was huddled behind a dustbin, her long turquoise hair trailing on the floor. She was wearing a jumper and a long skirt. Her face was hidden in her arms.
Dark was urging him to talk to her. Come on, Daisuke. You know you want to.
"I don't know…" Daisuke replied uneasily.
But she's in such a state! You have to help her.
Daisuke sighed and walked over to her. He bent down and put a hand on her shuddering shoulder. She looked up immediately with scared eyes. They were turquoise like her hair, and were large and watery. Daisuke smiled reassuringly. "Are you Ok?"
The girl looked terrible. She didn't answer his question, but instead said, "Do you know me? Please say you do."
Daisuke frowned. "I can't say I've seen you before…"
That was the wrong thing to say. Her eyes filled with tears. "Why not…? Why doesn't anyone know me?" She burrowed her face back into her arms.
Oh, now look what you've done. She's crying! Dark said mockingly.
Daisuke tried hard to ignore him. He lifted her back to her feet with a lot of struggle, and noticed she wore gloves. "Look… I'm very sorry…" he paused. "Uh… what's your name, anyway?"
The girl looked up from the ground, her eyes wide. "I… I don't know…!"
"Oh… oh Ok…" Daisuke looked at the front of her jumper, where there was a picture of a flower and the letters Y, U, R and I were printed.
Dark saw them too. Hey, that spells… Yuri…?
"Hmm… well it says Yuri on your shirt… is that your name?" Daisuke asked. When the girl didn't answer, he added, "Oh, well, you need a name, so I'll just call you that, Ok?"
The girl, now Yuri, nodded.
"Well… my name's Daisuke." Daisuke smiled. "So… do you know anything about… anything?" he asked, not meaning to sound offensive.
Yuri didn't seem to notice. "No… not really…"
Daisuke sighed. "I guess you don't have anywhere to stay either, huh? Well, I suppose neither Mom nor Dad nor To-To will mind another addition to our 'family'…"
Yuri blinked twice and looked up. Her eyes brightened. "You… you really mean that?"
"Ah ha ha… yeah…" I can't believe I just invited a girl home… he thought. Although luckily I don't think she thinks of it like that…
Daisuke, stop thinking that way! Dark warned him spitefully.
"Where's your house?" Yuri asked him brightly.
"Oh, th-this way…"
Yuri had never been happier. Or at least she couldn't remember being happier. She walked by Daisuke with a spring in her step, just happy to know something. She now had a name and a place to stay.
"Here we are," said Daisuke at a gate. He opened it and let Yuri and himself in, then closed it again. He went up to the door, Yuri following, and knocked.
The door was opened straight away. A woman with hair as fiery red as Daisuke's was standing in the doorway. "Daisuke! Where have you been? We've been worried sick!" she said. Then she caught sight of Yuri. "Who's this? Who have you brought home?" Yuri felt a pang of sadness when she saw that the woman didn't know her either. "And what about Riku?" the woman continued. Yuri stared blankly, not having any idea who this Riku was.
"Ah… mom, this is Yuri," said Daisuke quickly, blushing slightly. "She doesn't have anywhere to stay, so could she stay with us? Please?"
Daisuke's mother raised an eyebrow, suspicion written all over her face. "Oh? Why's that? Don't you have a house to live in?"
Yuri's face fell. Daisuke's mother didn't have to be so mean about it. "No…"
"She… uh…" Daisuke was trying to explain the situation. "Mom, I think she's lost her memory."
Her memory? Of course! That was the thing that she hadn't had. When she had woken up those few hours ago, she hadn't had any memories. The things that made up who you were. Without them, you were nothing.
But now she had some.
The woman's face changed. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Yuri. Of course you're welcome here. Please, come in!" She moved back to allow them passage inside the house.
Yuri walked past her into the hallway, amazed but grateful at how the woman's attitude had changed so fast.
She was ushered into the living room and was asked to sit down. Then Daisuke sat down next to her, and his mother brought some other people in as well. When everyone was settled, she sat down as well. "Now. Everyone, this is Yuri, who will be staying with us until we find her family. Yuri, this is the Niwa household. I'm Emiko, that's my son Daisuke, my father, known to everyone as Grandpa, my husband Kosuke and To-To, our maid." She gestured to everyone in turn. "Now tell us everything you can about yourself that you remember."
Yuri told her what had happened so far – how she'd woken up, all the people, running away and meeting Daisuke. She carefully avoided the part with the brown haired man with the ponytail and the yellow eyes, not wanting to drag them into anything. "…and Daisuke offered for me to stay here, and here we are."
Kosuke nodded. Emiko smiled and said, "Ok. We luckily have a spare room for you to sleep in, so that's not a problem, and we have enough food. But we need to do something about school."
"Yeah," To-To agreed. "Yuri, do you know anything… schoolish?"
Yuri tilted her head to the side. "Um… I can read… I think…"
"Well, we'll test you. What does it say on… on the front of this book?" asked Emiko, picking a book up and passing it to her.
Yuri stared at it for a full minute. "A… Al… ice… Alice… I… In… Wo…Won… der… la… land…" she looked up, smiling. "Alice In Wonderland!"
Emiko and Kosuke looked at each other. "That'll have to do," Emiko said. "Can you write?"
She passed her a notepad, and Yuri scribbled unusually big letters onto the paper. "I… I'm sorry," Yuri apologized. "My writing seems to have gone with my memory…"
"Never mind," said To-To.
"I'll explain it to Daisuke's teacher," Emiko told her.
Daisuke caught on before Yuri did. "What…? You're sending her to school?"
"Huh? Me? School?" Yuri said, surprised.
Kosuke replied to both of them. "It's against the law not to send a child to school."
"Oh… oh, Ok…" said Yuri, a bit overwhelmed. But it seemed that she was going with Daisuke, so it would be at least a little better.
Yeah! I'm done! Did you like it? It's not very exciting yet, but every story has to have long-winded backgrounds! Next chapter will be more mysterious…
It sounds stupid for Daisuke's grandpa to be known as Grandpa, but I don't know his name! It's not my fault! Anyways, keep reading! R&R!
