Yatta, if you all liked the first interlude then I decided to post this. By now you will have realized that this story will have a lot of twists and turns...this story is going to be so fun to write.
Ghost from the past
By Firehedgehog
Interlude: The Past- Part Two
A small boy walked through the long hospital halls silently, after two weeks he had been allowed out of bed for an hour or two... he was using that time to explore the hospital.
Thankfully, one of the Doctors spoke his native Japanese... the Doctors name was Dr. Tajiri. What his first name was, the boy didn't know yet.
But that didn't really bother him at that moment, what he wanted to do was see this place top to bottom. As he walked he ran a hand through his hair; it was very messy and very white.
Dr. Tajiri had told him that it was caused to whatever chemicals he had been exposed to, he felt a stab at his heart at the mention of the chemicals... it had altered his appearance just enough that they couldn't find out who he was.
He was in the dark about his past, Dr. Tajiri had said that since he was in the darkness about his past he should be called Yami... it meant Darkness of all things.
The Doctor was a nice man, he was unmarried and had no family, he was the person all the children in the hospital loved... he was there when there parents couldn't be.
Finally he came to a place where the hallway came to a large room, a common room for the patients he guessed.
Children all ages gathered here, many were sitting and a few were in wheelchairs.
But one thing caught his attention the most; it was two children near a computer and connected to it with two small devices.
'PETs' Yami thought, he then blinked; where had that thought come from.
He felt a small bit of pleasure at that; at least he remembered something... even if it was a name of something... whatever it was.
Curious of what the two other children were doing, and curious if it might jolt even a small memory he walked nearer. Soon he stood behind the two, with interest he studied what they were doing.
Wide eyed the boy watched as two humanoid computer people (later he was told they were navi's) battle, the two humans used chips in displays of strategy to best the other.
Soon one of the children won and they both logged off, soon they were laughing and speaking with each other at how they had done.
Yami was amazed, he hadn't understood what they had said due to the fact they spoke English... but he had gotten the gist of it.
'It felt so familiar, as if I once held a PET in my hands' Yami thought, he looked at his hands with a frown. His hands were also unfamiliar to himself, he knew that they were much paler then they had been before... part of the fact was his stay in the hospital and the other was the chemicals.
An image appeared in his mind for just an instant; for a moment he felt as if he was about to say a name connected to that symbol/image. But it disappeared as soon as it had appeared, he would always remember the symbol... but the name he could never remember would bug him for many years to come.
In fact, six years to be exact.
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It was two weeks later that Dr. Tajiri came to see him for something other then his health, it was just after his language lesson... and he was doing good in learning English.
The man smiled as soon as he saw the white haired Japanese boy, Yami could only blink curious.
"Konnichi wa Yami," Dr. Tajiri said, Yami smiled.
"Konnichi wa Dr. Tajiri," Yami whispered shyly, the Doctor sat down in the chair next to Yami's bed. At the moment Yami was sitting on top of his bed putting together a puzzle one of the nurses had given him.
"You've been doing very well Yami, in both language and in the fact your healing very fast... you should be out of the hospital in a month," Dr. Tajiri told him.
"Really, what will happen to me when I have to leave. I can talk easily enough in Japanese like now... but I can hardly speak a sentence in English. And where will I go, I don't have a home... and no family as far as anyone can tell," Yami said sadly, he felt tears slip down his face.
It was a fear of his, that as soon as he was healed the hospital would kick him out and he would have to live on the streets.
"Don't worry so much Yami, everything will work out," the man said and gently wiped away Yami's tears, Yami gave a small sniff but did stop crying.
"Thanks," Yami whispered, the Doctor smiled.
"By the way. I've heard of what you've been doing in your free time," Dr. Tajiri said, Yami winced... so someone had noticed his obsession on watching the navi battles.
"I'm not in trouble am I, do they want me to stop watching them battle?" Yami asked a mite fearful, instead Dr. Tajiri laughed.
"No... not that Yami, but I do have something to give you," Dr. Tajiri said, Yami looked at him curious.
"What is it?" he asked curious.
"Put out your hands and close your eyes, I want to surprise you," Dr. Tajiri said, Curious Yami did as asked and soon felt something slim and cool to the touch placed in the palm of his hands.
"You can open your eyes now," Dr. Tajiri said, quickly Yami did so and gasped. There in his hands was a PET of all things, it wasn't on... but he knew there had to be a navi of some type... customized or standard he didn't care.
"Mine?" he questioned in excitement, the man nodded.
"Turn it on," the man said grinning, quickly Yami activated the device.
The screen of The Pet brightened, then finally an image of a white navi appeared in front of him.
The navi looked very human, actually a human in white armor. On his forehead was the Kanji sysbol for void (1). His slim armored form was edged in gold and he had 2 Katana style swords strapped to his back. He actually had boots separate from his armor, they were white also but with silver highlights and trimmer with gold. His face was young looking and looked in human age to be sixteen, piercing sapphire eyes looked out from a heart shaped face.
"Konnichi wa," Yami whispered, the navi smiled.
"Konnichi wa Yami-kun," the navi replied in a soft voice.
"What's your name?" Yami asked, the navi smiled.
"My name is Kage, a shadow to your darkness," the navi replied, Yami smiled even more.
"Welcome Kage, I have a feeling we'll do well together," Yami said.
"I feel that too yami-kun," Kage said.
And a friendship that would last for years to come was formed.
TBC
(1) This is actually important.
Note: In this chapter both Yami and Dr. Tajiri spoke Japanese the whole time.
FHh: Sugoi, another chapter done. And this time I finally gave a description of Kage instead of the white Navi, it was getting annoying that no one had a clear image of him in there minds. So I put one in, also I hope you enjoyed that you got more then a chapter for this update.... The reason I was working so much I had no free time to write so here is all I write since my day off.
R. Calumon: See you all next chapter.
:)
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