Disclaimer: No, no, I don't own the show.
Chapter 34: Memory Lost
"So your telling me he doesn't remember anything?" Anna asked still not believing that Ayato didn't know who she was.
Akari nodded. The two girls turned to see Ayato tinkering with the Millenuim Puzzle around his neck, most likely trying to open it.
"Hey stop that." Akari said, startling Ayato. Ayato stared at her for a few seconds before going back to messing with the Millenuim Puzzle.
Anna and Akari sighed. Just then Hikari walked in and spotted Ayato.
"Hey!" she said as she grabbed Ayato in a bone crushing hug, smothering his face with her breasts.
"Hikari."
"What?" Hikari looked over at the two not so pleased girls. Ayato was trying to get himself out of the hug but to no avail.
"Ayato isn't really himself." Anna replied.
"What do you mean?" Hikari lessened her grip on the boy but was still holding on tight enough so that he couldn't escape.
"He's lost his memory." Akari answered.
The XIII Order's HQ
"So Juri was beaten?" Lina asked.
Tyler nodded, "She was beaten by a kid named Syrus."
Lina sighed, "I knew she was the wrong person for the job."
Tyler began to leave. "Wait, send Number IX(9) to check on the condition of Ayato, we have no idea how sending him back and forth through time has-"
"I understand sister, I'll do it right away." Tyler walked away, he had a feeling things were about to heat up.
Tyler walked up to Number IX otherwise known as Ukumo. "I have a mission for you."
Ukumo looked up at Tyler, "A mission you say? I'm listening."
"My sister wants you to check on the condition of Ayato, she wants to know if he's mentally alright."
Ukumo smiled seductively, "I would hope so. It would be a shame if something happened to him."
Tyler's sweat dropped, Ukumo always had been the lusty one of the group.
"Well I trust you'll do as soon as you can?"
"Of course. Now if you excuse me I have other business to attend to."
she said as she dissappeared in a puff of smoke.
Tyler walked away with a scowl on his face. 'Wench.'
Elsewhere
Akari looked around frantically, "Where's Ayato?" She asked Jaden shaking him violently.
"I dont know!"
Just then Syrus walked in, "Um I seen him walking towards the beach."
"THE BEACH! WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP HIM!"
Syrus let out a yelp at the sudden outburst. Akari stomped out of the room. "Geez, what's her problem?" Jaden asked.
"Oh Ayato lost his memory." Hikari replied as she walked passed the room.
"WHAT!" Jaden and Syrus said in unison.
The Beach
Akari saw a group of girls all crowded around in a circle, she had a hunch that Ayato was in the middle of that circle.
Ayato was confused, he had wandered out of the hotel and now all these strange people were around him, staring at him. "Um, hi." He said as he waved at them.
Two of the girls fainted. While the others squealed with delight.
(A/N: Heh, stupid fangirls.) Akari started making a path through all the girls and finally made her way to Ayato.
"Hey what do you think your doing with him!" One of the girls yelled.
"Back away from him, he's my, uh, my boyfriend. Yeah that's right. He doesn't need people like you trying take advantage of him. Come on Ayato." Akari dragged Ayato away from the hormone driven girls.
One of the girls smirked as she looked at the item in her hand. 'His brain waves have changed. That can only mean one thing.'
Back At The Hotel
Akari sat Ayato down on the bed. Ayato's attention quickly went back to the Millenuim Puzzle. Akari snapped her fingers. "Hey look at me."
Ayato looked at Akari. "Good." Akari pointed to herself. "I am a girl. My name is Akari." Akari then pointed to him. "You are a boy, and your name is Ayato."
Ayato nodded his head, showing that he understood, he pointed to Akari. "You are a girl, your name is Akari." He then pointed to himself. "I am a boy, my name is Ayato."
Akari smiled, 'That was so cute!' She thought to herself. Shortly after Ayato went to tinkering with the Millenuim Puzzle again. Akari rolled her eyes, he sure did have a short attention span.
"What is a boyfriend?" Ayato asked suddenly.
Akari was suprised. She hadn't expected that. "Well a boyfriend is someone very special to a girl."
"Am I your boyfriend?" Ayato asked.
"Well, not really."
"But you said that I was when we were at the place with the girls that liked to take advantage."
Akari had to stop herself from laughing. The way he said that sentence was pretty funny. "Yeah, but I only said that to get those girls away from you."
Ayato suddenly had a sad expression on his face which made Akari want to take back what she had said.
"Does that mean I am not special to you?" Ayato asked sadly. He felt a heavy tug at his heart.
Akari sat down next to him. She put her hand on top of his. "You are special to me, it's just-"
Ayato pulled away. He didn't like to feel sad, and he really didn't like the person who was making him feel this way either. "I don't like you." Ayato said bluntly.
Akari stiffened. 'He doesn't like me?' She shook her head trying to get rid of her thoughts. 'Relax Akari, he's just sad. He didn't really mean that. And besides this wasn't really Ayato. But why did hearing him say that hurt so much?'
The XIII Order's HQ
"So your telling me he's lost his memory?" Lina asked.
"Yes, so what should we do about it?" Ukumo replied.
"We'll have to use this oppurtunity to have him join us." Lina responded.
Ryuji had just entered the room, "That's a bad idea. What if he regains his memory? Then what? Everything we've worked so hard for will be all for nothing."
Lina thought about what he had said. As much as she hated to admit it, he was right. "Your right, we'll have to study this more closely before we act."
'Curse that Ryuji. Oh well, I'll have Ayato one way or another.' Ukumo thought.
Hitaki sat in her room. 'Nico has betrayed us. I'll give her a little more time to come to her senses, but if she doesn't.' Hitaki sighed.
'I'll have to finish her off myself.'
The Next Day(A/N: This is the part I was talking about.)
Ayato yawned as he got up, he looked over to see Anna sleeping next to him, while Akari was sleeping on the other side. He looked at both girls back and forth confused.
He then noticed something he hadn't noticed before. He looked at his chest and then at Akari's. He poked at Akari's chest and was suprised to find how soft it was.(A/N: Man I am such a pervert)
He placed his hand on one of her breasts and began to squeeze it lightly.
Akari moaned softly as she turned over in his direction. Ayato, ever the curious one did it again.
Akari moaned again. Ayato felt something hard in the center of his hand. He was really confused now. Did this happen to all girls? He squeezed it again, wondering if the rest of the soft mound would turn hard.
Akari moaned louder as Ayato squeezed harder. Akari opened her eyes slowly to see Ayato looking down at her. "Ayato?" Akari asked groggily.
"What are you-"
Akari's eyes grew wide in shock when she felt his hand over her right breast. Ayato, oblivious to the situation at hand squeezed again, Akari suppressed a moan.
Ayato wondered why she didn't make the sound she was making earlier and was about to do it again but Akari smacked his hand away. "Stop that!" She said, her face as red as a tomato.
Ayato looked at her confused, he looked over to Anna. Akari seeing this grabbed him by the collar, "Don't even think about it."
Ayato looked at her. 'If girls chest are different than boys then'
Ayato let his gaze travel down to Akari's pants. With speed Akari didn't een know he had his hand was "below the belt". (A/N: I feel really dirty right now.)
Ayato looked evn more confused, "Hey you don't have the boy's weiner."
Akari's fist was the last thing Ayato saw before blacking out.
Later(A/N: It's over now.)
"And that's all you need to know." Hikari had just finished explaining the male and female body to Ayato, among other questionable things.
"Ayato?" Hikari asked as she saw the boy laid out on the floor. "Hm, I guess that was a bit too much for him. I was pretty descriptive."
Hikari picked the boy up and slung him over her shoulder and left her room.
People passing by gave her questionable looks.
The XII Order's HQ
"Tonight we will make our move." Lina said.
Tyler nodded, "I trust you know what you are doing."
Lina nodded, "He won't be able to resist me, I am sure of it."
"So your gonna use your powers on him? That's pretty dangerous, I mean he's already lost his memory, why strain his mind more?"
"I am sure he can handle it."
"You know best, little sis." Tyler said as he left in a cloud of darkness.
"Naturally." Lina says.
The Hotel(Later At Night)
"And he's Kazama. He's kinda like your rival I guess." Hikari had just finished explaining who everyone was to Ayato.
"What's a rival?" Ayato questioned. (A/N: Hikari has spent the whole day teaching him about a lot of things, she's finishing up the lesson.)
"A rival is someone who always wants to challenge you, although they may seem like they don't like you, they really are just a friend that helps you to become stronger."
Ayato looked over in the direction of Kazama. Kazama frowned in response.
'This guy, he's lost his memory. That's gonna cause a couple of setbacks.'
Ayato then shifted his gaze to Akari. She turned away in response. Ayato frowned.
"Okay guys, listen up there's been a change of plans!" Hikari declared.
Everyone gave her their full attention, except for Ayato. He was still tinkering with the Millenuim Puzzle.
"Were gonna help him get his memories back!"
Kazama rolled his eyes. "And just how do you plan on doing that?"
"Well, I don't really know. I haven't really thought this out to tell you the truth."
"Well why don't we act the way we usually act around him." Rachel said.
Everybody looked at her, their eyes wide in shock. Rachel was actually talking to them, trying to help them out.
"That's a great idea." Syrus said.
"Yeah, I'm sure his memory will come back if he sees us act the way we always did around him." Exion exclaims.
"Okay then it's settled." Hikari says. "You guys can go back to doing whatever it was you were doing."
Anna walks up to Ayato. "Ayato?"
"Hm?" Ayato looks at her confused.
Anna smiles, "We'll get through this together. I promise you."
Ayato gives Anna a toothy grin, "You don't have to promise. I already know. You are someone special to me, I'll always believe in you."
Anna looked suprise, 'Wow. His vocabulary sure is expanding. Maybe it won't be so hard to help him regain his memories after all.' Anna thinks to herself cheerfully.
Akari looks on sadly, 'Ayato seems even further away from my grasp.
Maybe I wasn't meant to have him.' Akari gets up to leave. 'Why is it that I always get the short end of things.' She thinks as she takes one last look at Ayato and Anna before leaving.
Ayato watched as Akari left, despite what had transpired earlier he really did feel something for her. Maybe even more so than what he felt for Anna. 'She seemed sad.' Suddenly an image of him and Akari with duel disks flashed before him. He shook his head.
"Are you alright Ayato?" Anna asked.
"I'll be alright." Ayato got up and began to leave.
"Where are you going?" Anna asks.
"Um, I have to use the restroom." And with that Ayato left.
Anna sighed, 'I feel like I'm losing you Ayato."
Akari sat on the soft sand of the beach as she watched the sea shimmering in the moonlight. She sighed, the sea reminded her of Ayato.
Ayato walked up to Akari softly and sat down next to her. "I am...sorry"
Ayato says a little unsure about himself.
Akari looks over to Ayato, to see a seroius look on his face, so unlike the way he looked earlier, naive. "It's not that I don't like you. It's just that I'm unsure about all this. Losing my memory I mean."
Akari just stared at him, he was getting smarter by the second. "I can see images, images of you and me, to be more specific, so I would like to ask you a question."
"What's the question?"
"Was I...someone special to you?"
Akari thought about a way to answer the question, and finally came to an answer. "When you dissappeared, I had made up my mind, that when you came back, I would tell you how I felt about you. But you haven't come back completely, only bits and pieces of you. So untill you really come back, I can't answer your question."
Ayato looked into Akari's eyes. He smiled slowly and crawled closer to her. He kissed her on the cheek. "I know that this might not mean much,
because I'm not all here, but you are special to me."
Ayato got up and walked away. Akari smiled, 'Maybe I do stil have a chance.'
Three people in black coats appeared in front of Ayato. "There you are"
one of them said.
"Who are you?" Ayato questioned.
"So you really have forgotten."
"Forgotten what?"
"Everything these people have said to you is a lie, come with us, we know where you belong."
Ayato looked at them skeptically. Something was telling him they were not to be trusted, but a little part of him really did want to go with them.
"How do I know your telling the truth?"
The person in the middle removed her hood. The girl had long black hair that moved around elegantly in the wind's gentle breeze. Ayato looked at the girl in disbelief, she was so beautiful.
Her golden eyes entranced him. "I would never lie to you Ayato."
Well that's it for this chapter. I didn't really like this one. It just seems incomplete to me. What do you think? Please review, I'd really like that.
P.S.-I start school tommorrow. I just thought I'd let you all know.