Wheee... This story is going so well, and each chapter I'm trying to make a little longer. Can you believe it; I love this fic... and thanks to everyone who has helped me with certain things in the fic. Especially: the whole 'Program Advance' which by mistake I called system advance.
Ghost from the past
By: Firehedgehog
Chapter Five: Awakening
"Well, at least he looks better then earlier," Dekao said, Enzan could only wince but it was true. While pale, Yami didn't look as if someone had pulled all the color from him.
"I wonder if he's going to wake up soon?" Yaito said with a frown, Enzan noted that she had somehow gotten her favorite strawberry milkshake into the room.
"I'm sure he'll be fine," Meiru said softly, Enzan hoped that too.
"You should all back up, I'm sure that the first thing a person wants to see when they wake up is someone three centimeter's from there face," Enzan said dryly.
He got the pleasure of their faces going bright red with embarrassment and them quickly moving away from the unconscious Yami.
He hid a smirk; now that had been interesting to see... it wasn't often he got to embarrass someone nowadays.
At that thought his thoughts saddened slightly, only one person had he loved to tease... and now h could never tease that person anymore.
'Netto, I wonder how you would have reacted in this situation' Enzan thought, it was hard not to think of his long lost friend... someone who he would probably never find out what happened to him.
"..."
Everyone's attention was quickly grabbed at that small groan; Enzan turned his head and saw with relief that the too pale Yami was starting to wake.
Slowly pale blue eyes opened and winced at the room's bright light, then those blue eyes slowly focused on the four in the room.
"Um... hi," Yami said lamely, somehow it was so lame that it startled giggles out of the two females and Enzan and Dekao rolled there eyes.
"You wake pretty much from a light coma, and the first thing you say is hi?" Enzan asked with a raised eyebrow, Yami could only chuckle nervously.
"Hey, no one ever said I was good at conversations when I first get up," Yami protested, Enzan gave a light snort.
"Whatever," Enzan replied.
***
Yami looked around and sighed when he realized that he was in a hospital, he hated waking up in one... especially after the numerous times he had ended up in one.
He was glad that his new friends had come to see him, especially Meiru.
He found himself blushing slightly at the thought of the pretty girl, there was just something about Meiru that drew him to her.
"We'll, now that your up we really have to go Yami. The school let us come but its getting late and we have to get home," Yaito said, Dekao nodded.
"Get well soon Yami, anyway I want to battle your navi," Dekao said.
Hearing that Yami couldn't help but laugh, he didn't laugh hard because he knew laughing hard would hurt. From the feel of it his heart had probably stopped, so that meant he would be here a few days till the Doctors were sure he was healthy enough.
"Thanks for coming anyway, I didn't expect that... after all we've only known each other for less then a day," Yami replied, the four others in the room grinned.
"Never mind that Yami, I feel that we'll be good friends," Meiru said softly, she placed a soft gentle hand on his and he felt a slight blush settle over his pale face.
"Thanks," he said back softly, she then realized what she had done and blushed and removed her hand.
"Get better soon," Enzan said in his quiet way, Yami nodded.
"See you all back at school as soon as I can," Yami promised them; then with a few more goodbye's the four left leaving Yami alone.
***
It was a little while later that a nurse entered a pet in hand, the doctors had already checked Yami out now that he was awake and found that he was okay for now.
She grinned seeing that the poor kid had fallen asleep, she placed the pet on the table leaving it to recharge while the navi's battler slept.
"Sleep tight kid," she said, with that she left the room.
***
"Program Advance, Sunlight Piledriver!" Yami and Kage shouted in sync, where the 2 navi's battled two reflective mirrors appeared and launched a huge beam of light. The enemy navi took an astronomical amount of damage.
But since neither Yami nor Kage wished not to delete the other navi, the other navi wasn't deleted.
"Wow, your really cool," the teen who Yami was battle said logging out his navi, Yami grinned. The teen was younger then Yami, but he was quite intelligent.
"Thanks, your pretty good yourself," Yami pointed out, the other teen smiled.
"I guess, it's a big hobby of mine. I'm thinking of actually of joining the contests for battle navi's this summer," the teen said, Yami nodded.
"I've actually been to a few while traveling the world," Yami said, the other boy sighed.
"I wish I could travel the world, but..." the boy said sadly, the other boy could only look at the wheelchair he had been in for as long as he could remember.
"Hey you can still travel with a wheelchair, people think that because I'm so sick all the time that I shouldn't travel. And I do travel anyway, don't give up a dream just because of something like that," Yami pointed up, the other teen brightened.
"Your right, thanks," the teen said, with that a brighter outlook in mind the teen in a wheelchair rolled away to his doctor appointment.
Yami watched from his bed, he felt warm after helping the other boy out... funny as it was he hadn't even learned the other teen's name.
Yet strangely, he felt as if he had met the other boy before.
"That was a good thing you did Yami-kun," Kage said from his pet, Yami nodded and finally logged Kage out of the machine they had used to battle.
"But it was the right thing to do," Yami said softly, he hadn't let his health stop him... and he wouldn't let other peoples health stop them if he could.
"You should go to sleep Yami-kun, it's getting late and you need to be rested enough to go home tomorrow," Kage pointed out. Yami sighed knowing it was true, but he really didn't want to sleep... at least not with the dreams he had been having lately.
Endless dark waves in all directions, pushing him deep underwater. Drowning, choking, pain... darkness.
"Yami-kun?" Kage said in concern, Yami came back to reality in a rush.
"I'm fine Kage, and your right... I need sleep," Yami said, he closed the door to his room and turned off the overhead light... thankfully he had a hospital room to himself. He then padded softly to his bed and climbed into it, soon after getting comfortable he fell deep asleep.
***
It was a beautiful morning, the sun shone gently in a deep sapphire sky, puffy white clouds slowly moved across the sky. Birds sang, and the area wasn't too noisy for it was early and everyone was just enjoying it.
But not everyone was enjoying it, no; one person just ignored it.
Throughout the area a girl around sixteen walked, she was Chinese and many would say beautiful.
She was petite and shapely, she had a heart shaped face with gently sloping cheekbones, a small nose but thankfully looked just right on her. She had only slightly dark skin showing that some of her ancestors hadn't been Chinese, it also showed in her stunning violet eyes. Blue-black hair fell to her chin, she was drop dead gorgeous and knew it... and she would use it to every advantage she could.
She wore a black T-shirt with a silver dragon design coiling around the front and back, silk Chinese pants tied in the front also had the same design. But she wore normal sneakers, even if they were black. Around her waist was a silver belt that held a black PET trimmed in silver, all this made her more appealing.
'Where is he, they said he came here' the girl thought her eyes sparkling in her anger, she sighed... she thought she would of found him by now.
But so far there was no sight of her rival, the one person too ever beat her and her navi in a navi battle.
"Chun, maybe he's still asleep. From what I can tell its still quite early here, there's still an hour or two till most people get up," a female voice said, Chun sighed and pulled her pet up so she could speak to her navi.
"You could be right Mei lun, I'll head back to the hotel then search later for him," Chun said, Mei lun nodded as Chun put her back away.
Soon Chun got back to the hotel; she walked to the desk to see if she had mail.
"Ah... yes you do have mail Miss Chun Wong, here you go," the man at the desk said, Chun easily went through it once she got to her room.
"Junk, trash, letter from home... another letter from WWW for me to see the Boss (1)," Chun said, she put that letter and the one from home on her desk, the other two she put through her private paper shredder.
"Looks like the boss wants us busy while were here, wants us to find out what Yami is doing here... also wants us to get Kage," Chun said with a slight snort, she had tried that many time already and failed... what was so important about that white navi anyway.
'Oh well, as soon as I beat Yami in a rematch Kage will be mine' Chun thought with a smirk, yes she looked so forward to see his face as he lost to her.
***
"Free, free at last," Yami said happily, from his pet Kage laughed.
"Yeah, are you going to go to school today?" Kage asked, Yami frowned then brightened.
"Not today, I have something lese in mind... anyway the school day is half over anyway," Yami said, in his mind a image appeared... an image of a navi called Rockman.
"What is it?" Kage asked, Yami looked at the deep blue sky and once again the image of the wild waves of the ocean flickered across his mind.
"I have to find someone, someone who might just be a dream," Yami said, the last part he whispered so low that no one but himself... not even Kage heard him say it.
***
If it were possible for a navi to sneeze Rockman would have, but since he was a navi he couldn't.
It had been a few days since the dream meeting with Yami... aka Netto.
His thoughts kept drifting on how different yet how much Yami was so the same as the person he used to be.
He had told nettos father all this of course; the man had believed him because once again the bond between the two of them was working. Rockman couldn't fake that, and he was a lousy liar anyway.
"Netto-kun," Rockman sighed, he knew Netto was alive and well... kinda... if he ignored the changed looks and total amnesia. He could feel the bond with his brother, it was still weak but it was getting stronger.
Soon, he hoped, he would be with Netto again and the bond would be strong between the two brothers again.
"Soon, let it be soon," Rockman whispered, it was time like this he wished he could leave the pet as a human so he could go look for his long lost twin.
Sadly that would never happen, he had died as a human and been reborn as Rockman... he would never be human again.
***
Yami sneezed and scratched his nose; that had been weird... for a moment it had felt as if someone had been talking about him. He shrugged and pushed some of his white hair out of his face, it had fallen into his eyes as he sneezed.
"Bless you Yami-kun," Kage said, Yami smiled slightly.
"Thanks Kage," he replied, his navi didn't reply, for at that moment they received an email.
"Yami-kun, email," Kage said, curious Yami took his pet out of its holder and held it up.
"Well open it up," Yami said, Kage nodded and opened it.
"Its from Katherine and Alex," Kage said with excitement, Yami was also happy, it had been awhile since he had gotten any emails from his Canada. He had met them a year ago on a trip; they had proved to him many things.
One, Canadians did not all live in igloos or fishing villages. They only did that in some places, and hardly that.
Two, since when did Canadians say 'Ay' every few sentences or words. (2)
Three, they had really big cities too... and he really liked that province called Nova Scotia. It had been an interesting city; he had visited quite a few places in the Halifax municipality... especially Dartmouth and Halifax. In the Halifax area he had visited a small and very popular comic store called 'Strange Adventures' (3). He had seen many magna and anime there, all in English of course, but he had seen a few mangas that were in pure Japanese that he could easily read... hey Japanese was his original language.
"It's been awhile, wonder how they are," Yami said thoughtfully, both friends spoke English as there first language and knew some French from school... they didn't speak Japanese since there only way to here it usually was subtitled anime.
"The emails a video, ready for me play it?" Kage asked, Yami nodded.
A video image appeared; then the email video began to play showing his two friends.
~
"Hi Yami, its Kat and Alex, thought we'd send you a buzz for many reasons," Alex said, next to him Katherine (Kat) nodded.
"Yeah, we've been super busy with school and also out part time jobs... and of course net battling," Kat said cheerfully.
"But that's not the reason were emailing, we just won Tickets to Japan... and your there. We were thinking you could be our guide since we don't speak the local lingo there. It's only for a week, then we have to head back," Alex explained, next to him Kat gave a thumb's up.
"Sorry bout not emailing sooner Yami but you know how busy we are, and you could always email us first you know," Kat teased, Alex laughed.
"Anyway email us back as soon as you can, we want to know if you can be our guide... and also so we can meet each other at the airport," Alex said.
"Well we have to go, our teacher is about to come to class," Kat said making a face.
"See you soon Yami," both said.
~
Yami grinned as the email ended, looked like he would see some of his friends soon.
'Yet I can't let them help me search for Rockman, I can't let anyone else be pulled into my past. The past of the last six years, or the forgotten many years before that' Yami thought with a frown, this he would do alone.
"Yami-kun" Kage whispered knowing what was going through the human's mind. He understood all too well, he had been with Yami for a very long time and had seen and precipitated in it also.
"I know Kage, I just wish... that we could go back and time and make it so that it didn't hurt so much," Yami whispered, tears slipped down his face before he whipped them away.
Of all people he had only told Kage of what had happened, and of the navi they would be searching for.
"Should I reply right away?" Kage asked, Yami blinked then nodded.
"Yeah, tell them..." he would of said something more when something caught his attention.
"Yami Tajiri!" A voice yelled; this was what got his attention.
He winced, only one person could say his name in such a way, he had hoped never to see that person again... really how many times did he and Kage have to kick her butt for her to get a clue.
With a sigh Yami turned, might as well get this over with.
"Hello Chun," Yami said with a long-suffering sigh, the girl glared at him.
"About tome I found you Yami, I should have found you hours ago," Chun growled, Yami sweatdropped and wondered if he should mention that he had been still in the hospital at that time.
"What are you doing here, shouldn't you be doing something else for WWW?" he asked with a raised eyebrow, she twitched a bit.
"The same as usual Yami, also to finally defeat you... I've upgraded Mei lun and this time were getting what we came for," Chun snarled her pretty face twisting in a snarl, if any saw her now she would not be called pretty.
"Geee, and I thought you just wanted to chat," Yami said sarcastically.
"Enough chit chat, its time to battle," Chun said pulling out her pet.
At those words Yami's face went very serious, he might not always be serious but battles again 'them'... WWW he did. They had ruined many things, and he wouldn't let them take Kage or hurt anyone anymore.
"Then let's begin," Yami said in a quiet voice, those who had battled the quiet teen knew that when he took that tone of voice that this would be a very touch battle... many walked away in shock.
"Log in Mei lun," Chun said plugging her navi into a system.
"Log in Kage," Yami said plugging his navi into a system, unknown to him the two of them had plugged themselves into the exact places one Enzan and Netto had plugged into before.
Where you ask, the place Netto and Rockman accidentally unleashed their first Program Advance against a virus in the cities system.
"Battle begin," they shouted, screens around the area lit up showing the image of two navi's getting ready to fight.
'I won't loose, I have too much to loose to WWW if I do... I have to win...' Yami thought, with that in mind he readied his battle chips.
TBC
(1) Yes Chun Wong does belong to WWW, but I needed someone interesting... so Expect Chun to stay in the story for awhile.
(2) What, I'm Canadian and I do not say that... don't ask me Americans started the while 'ay' thing.
(3) Strange Adventures is a real place before you ask, if you ever go to Nova Scotia Canada, and in the downtown Halifax area.
Next time: Chun and Yami face off and Enzan and the others arrive at the scene, DŽjˆ vu and all that follows. Meanwhile WWW plans for things to come. WE also learn some things bout Kage and Yami's past, also why they dislike WWW so much.
FH: Yes another chapter done and many thanks to 'OmnicromXR' for helping me, boy those annoying emails almost everyday actually do help... especially when you actually send me thing to help with the story.
R.Calumon: In this chapter we got to see more people and bring in more thoughts and personalities... by the anyone guess who the boy in the wheelchair was... he was in the megaman NT3 blue game^^.
FH: Also, I have no idea when the next chapter will be out... please don't rush me... if I rush the story won't be as good as I want and you won't enjoy it.
Ja Ne