Disclaimer: See first chapter.
(AN: Hayate has been visiting Ryu over a short period of time, before he wakes up...)
Another thing, I don't like Ayane all that much except when I am kicking ass in DOA, and that's it. So there is some Ayane-bashing in here.
Hayate felt numb. Ryu...has amnesia? But that was like saying Ryu wasn't a ninja. It was absurd. It just couldn't be possible. "I'm afraid it is." The doctor said. Hayate realized he must've spoken out loud. "Can...can I see him?" The doctor nodded. "He may not recognize you." Hayate felt his throat hitch. Ryu not recognize him? He felt hot tears prick at his eyes. How the hell did things go from perfectly fine to worse then hell in less than eight hours?
Hayate immediately rushed out of the room, intent on seeing if the doctor's words were true...he just prayed that they weren't...
(Ryu's POV)
Blurry emerald green eyes looked around in confusion. Where was he? He didn't recognize this as the room he was staying in at Lorelei, but he wasn't sure, since he couldn't really make anything out.
He heard a door open, and looked in the direction of the sound. "Mr. Hayabusa, are you feeling any pain?" Pain? That's when it hit him full force in his lung. He gasped a little loudly then he intended. He made no indication that he heard the doctor. "Mr. Hayabusa, are you alright?" That's when Dr. Clark saw his patient look up at him with is emerald green eyes, confusion clearly written in them.
'Oh no...tell me he knows who he is...' Dr. Clark thought praying against fate that the young man recognized who he was. "Who are you?" "I am Dr. Clark, I oversaw your surgery." The confusion deepened in his eyes and young face. "Surgery? What surgery?" "You fell off of a building and had some really bad injuries." "Oh." he said unsurely.
"Do you know who you are?" Dr. Clark asked, and Ryu froze. He didn't say anything, mulling it over. Should he say yes? No? He didn't know. If he said yes, then everyone would know that he was still alive and knew what happened. All the more reason for DOATEC to send more assassins after him. If he said no, then he could begin anew. A "New" self perhaps and show the "real" side of him without anyone knowing any difference. If he said no, then he could figure out who tried to kill him while acting like he didn't know anything that happened...he decided on his answer.
Dr. Clark noted the blank face. 'Oh dear.' he thought. 'This is bad.' "Who?" The doctor hung his head slightly. Damn! He was hoping and praying that young man knew who he was! But it seemed if his hopes and silent prayers were in vain.
"You are Ryu Hayabusa." "Oh." Another blank face. "I'm gonna go tell your friends that they can see you now." "Oh...okay..." Dr. Clark left. Shaking his head sadly the whole way.
Several minutes later, Ryu's door opened again, and this time Hayate came inside. Ryu nearly fainted at the look on his face. 'But he can't know! I'll tell him when the time is right...' Ryu thought trailed off.
"Ryu?" Emerald green eyes looked up and at him, a blank look etched on his face. "Who?" Hayate felt his heart stop. He closed his eyes. Ryu saw a tear fall. Overwhelming guilt flooded through him. He wanted to tell him so badly...but he just couldn't. "You are Ryu Hayabusa...and my best friend..." Hayate trailed off. He turned around and walked over to the window. He didn't want Ryu to see him crying. "Who are you?" Hayate felt like he just got punched in the stomach repeatedly. The air abruptly left his system. The truth hit him hard. Ryu didn't know who he was.
A couple more tears fell down his cheeks. Hayate turned back around. Ryu decided to break the silence. He had to act superbly, or else someone would catch on. "My name is Hayate." "Hay...ate?" Hayate nodded, a small smile forming on his face. "Why are you crying?" Ryu asked in a soft voice. "I don't know." "Don't you have to have a reason to cry?" Ryu asked Hayate with a curious look. "Do you need a hug?" Ryu asked gently. Surprised dark-auburn eyes swiveled to meet emerald. Hayate laughed quietly. "No...no, I don't." 'Liar' Both their thoughts echoed within their minds.
"Where do you work?" The abrupt question snapped Hayate out of his thoughts. Should he tell him that he was a ninja? How much did he remember? "How much to you remember?" Hayate asked instead. "Why do you answer a question with a question?" Hayate full out laughed. One thing was for sure, he still had his intelligent comebacks and smart remarks.
"I am a ninja." He saw his best friend's eyes widen in surprise. "Those exist!" he asked clearly amazed. Hayate mentally sighed. Now he'd have to tell Ryu everything. Not just about him, but about everything.
"Yeah, and I am a clan leader." "Whoa! You must be really powerful to be a clan leader!" Hayate blushed at the praise. 'If only you knew' as opposed to Ryu's thought: 'Is...is he blushing...?' Ryu nearly laughed out loud. Hayate was blushing! But why? "Do I have any family?" Ryu asked. Hayate's dark-auburn eyes darkened a little bit and hatred filled them. He saw Ryu shrank back a little. "Are...are you mad...at me?" Ryu asked. Hayate saw that Ryu was afraid of him. Just great. Just bloody damn great. 'Not only does he not know who he is, but you go and scare the shit out of him. Pat your self on the back asshole.' Hayate thought, while trying to stop himself from banging his head on the railing of Ryu's bed. Repeatedly.
"No...I'm not mad at you." "No, you don't have any family...Living family that is." A partial truth at least. Hayate didn't want to discuss everything here...a place more private...like home or something...would be more ideal for this sort of conversation.
"Do I live with you?" "No, but you will." He saw Ryu give him a soft smile and he nearly fell out of his chair in shock. Ryu was smiling! But he quickly chided himself that this wasn't the same Ryu, it was his "new" self you could say.
"Where do you live at?" "Right now, I am staying in Lorelei here in France...it's like a hotel sort of. My real home is in Japan." "Am I Japanese?" Hayate almost rolled his eyes. Almost. "Yeah, you are." Ryu looked down at his blanket. "Oh." "When am I going to get out of here...I don't like it..." Hayate saw the pouting look on Ryu's face, and promptly burst out laughing. When he was done, he noticed that Ryu was staring at him. "You have a nice laugh." The smaller man in the bed said. Hayate flushed a brilliant red color. 'Did Ryu just say that?' "You should laugh more...I like it." Hayate's eyes nearly bugged out of his head. 'Did Ryu just hit on me?' Hayate thought, gazing at Ryu's face.
"Did I say something wrong?" The 18th Mugen-Tenshin Leader shook his head. "No, it...just wasn't expected that's all..." Hayate trailed off. On the inside, Ryu was rolling around on the invisible cloud of air within his body and was laughing really hard. He struggled not to laugh aloud.
"There are some other people here who want to see you..." "Oh? And who are they?" "Is it okay if I bring them up?" Hayate asked. The man before him shrugged his shoulder in an answer, and Hayate went downstairs to tell the others.
Hayate opened the door to the private lobby/waiting room. He was met by a horde of curious stares. "Is he okay?" Kasumi asked. Hayate nodded. "He...he has amnesia though. He doesn't know who he is...he didn't even know who I was..." the young man trailed off, feelings of guilt, frustration, and exasperation came back full force.
He heard several gasps, but wasn't really surprised. What the hell did they think he felt when he heard those damning words? It sure wasn't like he felt happiness or anything even remotely close to that. He had felt a strange feeling of loss, fear and disbelief. Now, he knew the doctor's words were true. If only they weren't.
"I'm here to take you guys up there to see him. He was quite curious when I said he had visitors." Hayate said. Everyone got up, and silently followed the auburn-haired young man up the stairs, each person lost in their own thoughts...
When they got there, they saw Ryu laying back against his bed, asleep. His golden brown bangs fell over his closed eyes. All in all, he looked peaceful and...cute.
Hayate walked over and gently nudged his arm. "I don't wanna," he slurred. Hayate laughed.
At the sound of laughter, Ryu opened his emerald green eyes, and looked straight into Hayate's dark-auburn ones. "Lo' Haya." He said, blinking the sleep out of his eyes. Hayate blinked. 'Ryu used to call me that...' he thought, thinking of the old Ryu.
Then he looked toward everybody else, confusion shining in his beautiful green orbs. "Who are all of you?" Kasumi had tears run down her cheek at that sentence. Ryu noticed however, and on the inside, his heart broke. He didn't want do to this...especially to people like Hayate and Kasumi, who didn't deserve none of it. But his sub-conscious, which sounded suspiciously like Hayate, told him to keep going through with it, and that everything would work out in the end. He just hoped it would. No one answered immediately, so Ryu asked again.
"Umm...who are all of you?" Kasumi stepped forward. "I'm Kasumi." Before she could say anything else, Ryu asked his next question. "Are you Hayate's little sister or something? Because you look a lot like him..." Kasumi nodded a soft smile on her face. Ayane scoffed. Ryu then turned his attention toward her next. His head cocked to the side, a curious expression etched on his face. "You look weird...did you dye your hair purple?" Several people laughed openly at this, while Ayane gave him a death glare. She noticed that he looked around confused. "Did I say something wrong?" "Yeah, my hair is not dyed, this is how it is naturally-----" "And your eyes?" "Their also natural you idiot." "Ayane!" "What?" Hayate pointed his finger over to Ryu, who was looking at her with a hurt expression, and tears in his eyes. Fake tears that is, but it worked nonetheless.
Ayane looked momentarily surprised, before mumbling about stupid people who didn't remember anything. Ryu however heard her. And that pissed him off. Everyone saw his emerald green eyes narrow. Hayate gulped slightly. He knew that look. It was his I-am-pissed-off-and-your-gonna-die look. They all saw him raise his right arm, the one that wasn't broke, and pointed it at Ayane. He slowly started to lift his hand in the air. Ayane followed the hand up in the air.
Everyone gasped. Ryu could do telekinesis!
"What the hell are you doing to me? Put me down right now!" Before she could react, Ryu instantly let her go. She crashed to the floor with a thud. That was when they heard laughter. Ryu had tears running down his face, because he was laughing so hard. Everyone in the room blinked, except Hayate who was chuckling himself.
"You never told me you could do that!" A light pink tint appeared on his cheeks. "I just found out I could, a little bit before you showed up." "That was not funny." Ayane said, disrupting their conversation. "No, maybe not to you, because you were the targeted one, but it was priceless." He said grinning at her. She flipped him off, which sent him into peels of laughter again.
Ayane growled, before stalking out of the room in a huff. "Well, somebody obviously got up on the wrong side of the bed today!" he called out after her. Kasumi laughed slightly. This Ryu was way more fun then the other one!
"Dude, are you okay?" Zack asked. "Well, let's take a look at my day. I wake up to find myself in a bed and I'm talking to a doctor who told me I have fallen off a building, which inconsistently left me without knowing who the hell I am. Yeah, I've had a typical day." He said sarcastically. The way he said it, set everyone off laughing again. Zack looked slightly offended, but didn't say anything.
That was when the door opened, and Dr. Clark stepped in. He saw that everyone was laughing, and wondered why, before he caught the annoyed expression on his charge's face. "Seems like everyone is in an okay mood." Ryu's head snapped up, and the first question that was out of his mouth, was if he got to go home today. They all saw Dr. Clark sigh lightly, an over-exaggerated edge to it. "I can't possibly be that annoying now can I?" Ryu asked, flashing him an innocent grin.
"Yes, yes you can be." "Hey!" Dr. Clark chuckled. He rather liked this young man. He wa so full of energy, even for someone who was hiding the pain, so the others wouldn't see it. Oh yes, he could see it, he had dealt with patients like this before. None of his friends' seemed to have noticed, and Mr. Clark was pretty sure that Mr. Hayabusa wanted it to stay that way.
"Yes, you'll be leaving today-------" Ryu whooped, and punched the air with his non-broken arm. "But..." In the background he heard the audible voice of Ryu say: "All man! They always say that!" He laughed himself, despite the stern expression on his face. "As I was saying, you'll be leaving today, after the tests are done." "Tests?" "Tests for your lung, and your arm, and then you can grab your stuff and go." Another whoop reached his ears before he closed the door. He sighed heavily.
There should be more people like him in the universe. People like him, that hide their true selves so that others wouldn't suspect that anything was wrong... And people who would do that, so that the people that is important to that person, wouldn't get hurt...
Several hours later, the tests were done. Ryu's left arm was in a black sling. His face had turned out nicely from the plastic surgery he had undergone. There would be no scars left. And the rib was healing nicely. All in all, Ryu was very glad that he didn't have to stay in that forsaken white fortress anymore than he had to.
Now he was on his way back to Lorelei. He was riding in a van. Hitomi was driving, Hayate was seated back with him, since he couldn't move for long periods of time, and everyone was else was either slouched in their seat or looking out the windows; bored.
Ryu mentally chuckled at the bored expressions on everyone's face. Ryu noticed Christie, and decided to strike up a conversation with her, just to see how long it would last before she got annoyed with him.
"Christie is it?" Christie's head whipped around. She rolled her eyes at him. "Yes, it is. What do you want?" "Just wanted to talk, now is that so wrong?" "No, but I don't particularly like you, you know." "Why?" "Because your a bastard." Surprising to everyone who was listening, Ryu laughed. "I know I am!" After he was done laughing, he voiced his next question. "No, really why do you not like me?" "Because I just don't." "That's not a reason." Everyone saw Christie's look. She looked murderous. "Do you ever shut up!" she yelled exasperated. "I can annoy you now that I know how!" They all heard several thumps. Christie was banging her head on the window and muttering about pesky ninjas that needed to leave her alone.
"Your too easy to rile up. You need to relax chick." he said. Christie glared at him. Ryu merely smirked. "Don't call me chick," she said through gritted teeth. "Yes, dearest." He heard her growl and smothered a smile behind his hand when she turned her head back around to look at him. Hayate was having a harder time and laughed...loudly... Christie glared at him instead. "No need to act all bitchy...just relax." Ryu said as if he was talking to a anger-management patient. "Shut the hell up." "Goosefraba." He repeated over and over before Christie had enough and slammed her fist right where Hayabusa's head was supposed to be. But it wasn't there. She looked over, and noticed Ryu had his cocked to the side. He had deftly managed not to get hit. "Well...that wasn't very nice." he said.
Christie thought she was going to scream. She was pissed, exasperated, and not in the mood. She didn't whether to scream or laugh.
"I'm not a nice person," she replied. "I know." She sighed, thoroughly exasperated. Did he always have a smart ass remark to say? "Your no fun. Fine I'll leave you alone." "Wouldn't have it any other way." "I'm sure." Ryu relaxed into his seat. "I can't believe you! You actually got Christie riled up!" Hayate whispered slightly amazed. Not even he could do that. Leave it to Ryu to do the seemingly impossible. Ryu flashed him an innocent grin, which looked more predatory then innocent. Hayate felt his face flush. Good thing, it was night time, or else Hayabusa would have seen him blush.
'Why am I acting like a school girl that has a crush?' Then his eyes widened in realization. 'Am I falling for him? I can't! That's wrong!' You know what happens when people deny their feelings...they always come back stronger ten-fold. And the first stage of falling in love is always denial. And Hayate was at that stage...
That was when they pulled up in front of the gate that led to the castle, Lorelei...he'd worry about these feelings later..right now he had to make sure Ryu made up to his room...better yet, why didn't he just let Ryu stay with him? If not to keep watch on him...
AN: For those of you out there actually reading this, this is more than likely going to be slash, but only slightly, it's not like I'm gonna make them have sex or anything...Only kissing and hugging or something minimal like that...besides that's all how I see Hayabusa and Hayate. For those of you who do not like slash, you have been warned. Please don't complain to me in later chapters about them kissing each other or something, cause this is your warning.