Chapter 6: Shattered Memories

Disclaimer: I do not own code lyolo. Honest I don't.

Ulrich P.o.v.

"Sigh, it was a beautiful day." I thought to myself "another week and we are outta here for the summer, and finally no XANA to mess anything up." I smiled and pulled myself out of bed and surveyed the room around me. "Well all I could think was it was empty" Since odd had left for the states a week earlier. I went through my morning routine quickly and rushed downstairs ready to meet my new girlfriend for breakfast.

Finally after a year and a half me and Yumi Ishayama had finally overcome our aquard teenage shyness and had decided to date. "Sigh" I let out a sigh and burst thought the double doors and out into the courtyard. I inhaled the warm summer air in deeply and exhaled. However what I saw next caused my blood to boil.

Yumi was sitting on a bench crying in someone's chest. and who was it but William Dunbar.

"Ughrrrrrrrr." I growled and clinched my fist suddenly all those memories of William and Yumi flooded my brain, and then my already Hormone clouded judgment was pushed over the limit. Yumi finally stopped crying and looked up at William. Will takeing advantage of the moment took this opportunity to lean in and kiss her right in the lips.

"How could she do this!" I silently screamed on the inside. "All the times we shared all the danger we faced together and now at the end this is what she goes me at least she could have told me!" I turned arround to walk to the lunch room heartbroken almost as much as Aelita must have been with Jeremy dead on lyoko. I walked for a few moments determined to just play it cool like always but then. "What the Hell am I doing!" I said to myself and turned around. William was alone now and I was ready.

"Hey Bitch" I shouted belligerently.

"You got a problem Stern? He fired back

'As a matter of fact I do." I smiled and jacked him in the face with a hard right. His head snapped back and he fell. Before I knew what I was doing I was on top of him pummeling him. Jim was family able to pull me off and calm me down kind of. If it went for the time Jim saved me and Yumi I probably would have fought him too.

"That will be enough of that Mr. Stern." he said as he carried me off to the principals office kicking but im my merit I had stopped screaming.

What I didn't know at the time was that Yumi's parents had just filed for divorce and Yumi was to move back to Japan with her mother she had just found out that morning. that stacked with Jeremy's death and the stress of the last couple of weeks leading up to the final battle with XANA. She just broke down. and William was there to take advantage.

Third person P.o.v.

"And he was the one that said love made him do crazy things." Odd jumped in interrupting the flashback

"Sigh, I know Odd. Just so much happened so quick." Ulrich said finishing off his drink.

"So what happened?" Odd questioned

"Well at the recommendation and Head Master Delmas of my father I wasn't suspended however I was made to attend summer school and do some 100 hours of community service work due to the fact I put our friend William in the ER for an afternoon.

"Hahahaha'" Odd couldn't help but chuckle.

"And I haven't seen Yumi since." Ulrich said cutting odds next sentence while Odd still had his mouth open.

"I never spoke to her again. I guess she hated me..." He stopped and stared at the floor.

Odd could have sworn that he saw a tear well up in the eyes of his old friend and was about to say something nice when. "Hey not to disturb you guys or anything but The bar closes at 3:00"

"What time is it" Ulrich asked not even looking up.

"2:58" the bartender replied

Ulrich stood up and walker over to the manager "hey Manny you got my 5?" he asked a rather tall guy in a white tank top with his arms almost sleeved in tattoos. turning to face Ulrich He had a large wad of cash in his hand that he handed to him.

"Hey remember brother you're fighting Kodiak Thursday" Mannny said as Ulrich and odd walked out the door.

Ulrich just half smiled as he and odd walked down the street. "So how bout you odd what you been doing for the last 10 years" Ulrich asked trying to change the subject as he stuffed the money in his pocket.

"Well kind of the usual I went to the states and um.. flunked out of high school. Then I went to work for A construction company. I'm between jobs now and just felt like coming home. You guys were the best friends I ever had." Odd said as he pulled his brown leather jacket a little tighter as it was late October.

Yea I know" Ulrich said with a sigh

"What ever happened to Aelita and Jeremy?" Odd asked thinking of his friends

"What you hadn't herd?"

"Heard what?" Odd asked Ulrich had perked his coursity

Ulrich gulped this was goanna be hard to speak about it had been 10 years but he remembered it like it was yesterday. He stopped abruptly and looked odd dead in the eye. "Sigh" Ulrich let out a sigh and summed up all of his courage. "Jeremy's dead.

His words rung cold and harsh in Odds head. His jaw dropped and he stood there for a moment stunned unable to speak. "...Einstein...?" But..but... how."

There was a long cold silence colder than the Octobers air around them and Ulrich finally spoke. "He sacrificed himself on lyoko, there was nothing we could have done to stop it, believe me we all tried That is the only reason Me, Yumi, or Aelita aren't just Ghost memory in the Super Calculator. Hey you were still there at kadak Right why don't you remember?"

I was back at he school fighting evil robots and such that on occasion I still get phone calls from some late night television shows like the paranormal network, Did this ever really happen show at 3:30 am eastern 2:30 central. But seriously Next thing I remembered was wakening up in a hospitable in Atlanta Georgia. Your not the only one with battle scars." Odd smiled as pulled up his shirt.

Ulrich could see in the street light that had slashed odd viciously accost the left side of his abdomen it looked pretty bad.

"Odd put his shirt back down and straightened it. " So what about Aelita? What happened to the princess." Odd inquired.

"Well we were close for a couple of years after everyone else left but um I went my war into soccer and she went hers Always caring the wounds old Jeremy's death with her. Aelita made a bunch of cards for me while I was in the wheel chair.. Hell I still got em in an old shoebox under my bed" Ulrich chuckled "but it's been about a year and a half since I seen her last and I hear that she is at some big university in Parris now"

That's too bad" Odd said I miss the princess"

Just then as Ulrich was about to say something someone slammed into them knocking them both over. Ulrich looked up from the ground only to see some girl No woman running on "Sorry" she Yelled in a strangely fill mar voice. But didn't stop. She wore all black and even had black hair it was long almost down to her butt.

Suddenly it hit him almost like she did "It couldn't be Yumi could it" He said to himself he pulled himself to his feet and took off in the direction she went best he could considering he had a few too many beers to be running. He ran for several blocks in blind pursuit but he had lost her. He stopped and hung his head. Odd arrived soon after panting

"What was that all about?" He asked between breaths "She steal your breath because this is no way to get it back"

"No odd it was nothing Im just Drunk that's all" Ulrich said hiding what he was really feeling.

You got a place to stay" Ulrich asked changing the pace of things.

Nope, actually I was planning on mooching offa old friends" he replied

Well you happen to be in luck then I've been looking for a roommate"

"Seriously Ittle be just like old times" Odd said in his usual excited tone. I call the couch."

"That's what I paned on giving you anyway."

"Sweet!" Odd exclaimed

Ulrich Laughed, for a moment forgetting about the heartbreak and chase Hoping maybe that things would be like old times even if just for a little while. and the two old friends half staggered back to Ulrich's apartment.