Geeze, the way I'm writing this looks like it's almost a weekly fic, which it won't be. I don't have enough time to write a weekly one anymore. Ahhh... it was fun, but I just don't have the time. Sulk. Oh well, also thanks to everyone who reviewed and keeps giving me encouragement to continue.
Ghost from the past
By: Firehedgehog
Chapter Four: Bonds in the darkness
A small boy of four giggled: he watched, as the people used navi's to battle in the building he was outside of. The boy had short messy dark brown hair and gentle brown eyes; he wore a bandana around his forehead with a symbol on it.
"So cool," he whispered eyes sparkling, he watched as the navi's... custom ones nested each other in certain types of attacks.
"I want to net battle too," the three year old said, he wouldn't know that years to come he would meet that goal.
Suddenly the boy heard someone call his name; the boy sighed and turned to face his mother knowing she was mad, after all he had wondered off to watch the battle.
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"No wait!" Yami cried in horror, he had been so close. He could now remember something of his past, no matter how little it was.
Yet he had not been able to hear his name, also the memory had ended just before he was able to see his mother.
Once again he felt himself pulled into a memory.
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A small five-year old laughed as a dog jumped on him and began to lick his face; another's laughter also filled the air.
"Mr. Dente... I love buttercup... I hope you never go away," the boy said happily, finally he was able to get up and pet the dog on the head. She gave a content sound as she leaned against him; he giggled as that caused him to fall to the ground.
It was then that he noticed a sad look on the dog's owner's face, the boy frowned.
"What's wrong?" he asked, he may be young but he knew when something was wrong.
"My daughters sick and needs someone to stay with her boy, I'll be moving in a few weeks," Dente said sadly, the boy's eyes widened in horror and he hugged buttercup burying his head into her furry side.
"No, I don't want you to leave," he cried, Dente came over and hugged him gently.
"I know, but there is nothing I can do... my daughter needs me," Dente told him gently, the boy hugged the old man and cried somehow knowing he would never see the man again.
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'Buttercup... I know her, she was a beautiful dog' Yami thought, a tear ran down his dream face. He remembered another sad thing that didn't come to him in a flash back, Buttercup had gotten loose one day a week before Dente moved and ran onto the street.
It was dog versus a car; Buttercup didn't make it... she died as she hit the pavement as a bloody lump.
His worst memory for a very long time...
***
As a doctor tried to get Yami's heart started he noticed something, a single tear slipped down the boys pale unconscious face.
"Clear!" he cried as he zapped the boys chest, he sighed in relief as the machine began to been softly as the teens heart began to beat.
'I wonder, what could make him cry in a comatose state?' the doctor thought, he would wonder for a very long time.
***
Enzan frowned as he leaned against the cold wall of the hospital's waiting room; he looked at him watch and bit his bottom lip slightly.
It had already been an hour since they had gotten Yami to the hospital; they had heard no world.
He had never been so shocked before when Yami had collapsed like that, he would have nightmares for months.
"Excuse me," a voice said, startled Enzan looked up to see a pretty young nurse standing there.
"Yes?" he asked, the nurse smiled.
"We have gotten your friend to a stable condition, you'll be allowed to see him in about twenty minutes," she said, Enzan and his friends breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's great," Yaito said.
"By the way, did any of you bring Yami's pet with you?" the nurse asked, this puzzled them a bit.
"Yes I picked it up, but I turned it off due to the fact his navi was having an actual navi panic attack," Enzan said dryly, on the drive to the hospital he had seen first hand for the first time a navi panic attack.
"Good, the doctors need it... on it are recorded all of Yami's medical history. With him traveling the world so much it was easier that way, then we don't have to transfer his records all the time," the nurse said, Enzan blinked and passed the pet to her.
"How do you know that they are on his pet?" Enzan asked the nurse, the nurse smiled looking cute as she did so.
"Oh, anyone who has a pet and bad health, also travels a lot... it's procedure so its easier to find medical history," the nurse said, with that she disappeared into an area labeled 'Staff only'.
'So, Yami's heath is quite bad, bad enough that his health can drop in a nano second' Enzan thought, he closed his eyes briefly and when he opened them knew that from now on he would be keeping an eye on Yami so nothing like this would happen again.
One friend had vanished and most probably dead, he would not loose another friend to death.
***
The world changed around Yami once again, but this time it didn't seem like his memory... it was almost like another.
'Wait I've seen a few pictures of this place, this is Net City' Yami thought with interest, but this place held much more things and details then he had ever seen in the few pictures he had seen... so this wasn't his memory.
And as best he could say, this place had a different flavor then his memories.
Yes flavors, he found that the memories had a flavor to him... kind of like curry. Did he mention he love curry.
The best he could describe this place was that it tasted Vanilla.
"So cool," Yami said looking around, not knowing why he looked down at himself and found that he was wearing different clothing then his school uniform... he hadn't noticed that before.
He was wearing a pair of faded jeans, a blue T-shirt, and white sneakers.
"Interesting," Yami said blinking, he once again looked around and wondered if something was suppose to happen.
He tapped his feet after a few minutes; it was kind of cool he could do it in a dream.
Yet nothing happened, after forever (actually no more then two minutes real time) something finally did.
At the edge of his hearing he heard the sound of footsteps. Curious he turned... and blinked.
The owner of the footsteps also blinked.
"A navi..." Yami said with a shrug, he could live with it... at least it wasn't some weird dream monster that would change this dream setting into a nightmare.
"A human I don't know... in my dream... okay this is weird," the navi said, Yami looked over the navi and couldn't help but smile slightly. He looked human enough, more like a human boy in a blue jumpsuit of some type.
Yet... the symbol the navi has seemed to nag at his mind, but at the moment he couldn't make the connection.
"Actually, I thought this was my dream," Yami said, the navi blinked and scratched the back of his next just under where his blue helmet ended.
"Really, weird... I'm pretty sure this is my dream," The navi said, the blue colored navi looked around.
"Net City... definitely my dream... after all no human has ever been here... I don't think any human has seen net city like this," the navi said, Yami had to agree to that point.
"I guess, maybe our dreams collided," Yami suggested, that would make some sense... kind of... but still very weird.
"Weirder things could have happened," the navi said.
"By the way, what's your name... I can't keep calling you navi in my mind?" Yami asked, the navi blinked startling emerald eyes then smiled.
"Rockman, what's yours?" the navi asked, Yami decided to answer because it was polite... even if this was a totally weird dream.
"Yami," he answered, Rockman grinned.
"Cool name, by the way... do you know why were here?" Rockman asked, yami sighed.
"I was really hoping that you would know," Yami answered, they were both silent at that.
"So do you have a navi in real life... you know outside of this wacked out dream?" Rockman asked, Yami nodded.
"His name is Kage, maybe when I wake up I could track down your netbattler and we could have a navi battle... you know meet you when were actually awake," Yami suggested, as soon as he did he regretted his suggestion.
Emerald eyes when dull in sadness and Rockman gave out a whole aura of depression, definitely a bad question.
"I'm afraid that won't be possible, my human vanished years ago... we think he's dead... but I know he's alive I can feel it," Rockman said softly, Yami smiled softly and not knowing why hugged the navi.
"Hey, keep hoping... before you know it he'll be back and you'll be together again as a team," Yami said, Rockman gave a snicker and Yami gave a nervous laugh. You see, when he had given the whole Hope speech he had made a pose that actually looked funny.
"We'll keep this between us right," Yami said dryly, Rockman could only giggle.
"Of course," he finally said, Yami sighed.
"At least you have hope of finding him, I really don't have much of finding it," Yami finally said, startled Rockman looked at him.
"Find what, maybe I can help you?" Rockman offered; Yami grinned.
"Thanks," he said.
"As to what I'm looking for... It's my past. Six years ago I washed up on a beach near death, I had amnesia and because of certain chemicals my appearance changed and made me sickly... for the rest of my life," Yami whispered, Rockman frowned.
"Ouch, so you have no clue who you are then," Rockman said, Yami sighed.
"Not a clue, only that I'm Japanese," Yami said, it was at that moment that Yami felt himself being pulled... pulled back to being awake.
"Looks like my time is up, I'll try to find you real time... I don't know why but I really want to meet you," Yami said.
"Wait... did you say six years!" Rockman shouted suddenly, Yami couldn't answer for he finally faded away form the dream.
***
Rockman fell to his knees as Yami faded away before being able to answer his question, but he knew something had happened...
'My bond... my bond with Netto is active again' he thought in disbelief, he knew the reason too and he had to hurry to wake up.
He had to find Yami, or should he say Netto Hikari.(1)
He grinned, Yami didn't remember yet but as soon as he found his long lost brother Netto would be coming home.
TBC
(1) The reason he knew this was because of their bond, he could feel the bond connecting them as Yami faded from the dream. He could feel it going to Yami; that is how he figured it out. But he still has a long way to go before the bond is at full power, it has been blocked for six years and it won't be really back till yami remembers himself as Netto and... well you'll just have to wait.
Next Time: Awakening
Yami awakens and knows that he is getting closer to his forgotten past, he now must find the blue navi Rockman who now searches for him. He tells no one scared that they may be pulled into his past. Meanwhile a Chinese girl appears in the city and is looking for one thing, a rematch.
FH: Yawn... it's so late so I'm heading to bed.
R. Calumon: That's what's happens when you write in your little free time between twelve hour shifts at work...
FH: Yada yada... blah blah blah. I'm tired and I deserve my sleep, but I had this all in my mind and I had to write it down before I forgot. Also you nice how long the chapter is, Yatta... these chapters are getting longer and harder to write I swear.
FH and R.calumon bow and leave to head to bed, FH still has to head to a twelve hour shift tomorrow.
Wahhhhhhhh!!!!!
Ja ne