To answer a few questions, this fic follows both the Megaman NT games and the series. The reason why, I still haven't seen the third season... even if I just saw the last episode of the second. As to if Netto/Yami will get Rockman back... you'll just have to read the fic along with everyone else. As of why Enzan is acting so OOC, well it has been 5 years and people do grow up and start showing emotions.
Ghost from the past
By: Firehedgehog
Chapter Ten: Bonds that Bind
"How you doing?" Yami asked, Enzan grinned weakly from the hospital bed and winced slightly in pain.
"I've been better," Enzan said.
"I wish you hadn't gotten hurt, it's all my fault that you got hurt like this," Yami said in a slightly depressed voice.
"It's not your fault, we couldn't have known it would happen. So stop blaming yourself," Enzan told him sharply, Yami nodded and looked to where the bandages were hidden by the sheets of the bed.
"I guess," Yami whispered, but he was still depressed about the others.
"What now," Enzan said rolling his eyes, Yami sighed and looked to a window. Once again it was raining out, it hit the window with gentle drops.
"Its about the others, its my fault they got kidnapped. Now there all unconscious and who knows what's could be wrong with them, Kadis could of hurt them before we got there," Yami said softly, Enzan placed a hand on the other teens shoulder.
It was strange, Enzan found himself reacting to Yami as if he was Netto... could his guess be right. But he couldn't say anything yet, better not let Yamis hopes raised only to be dashed away.
"Stop blaming yourself this instant Tajiri, it's not your fault. They'll be okay, now stop your guilt trip on yourself," Enzan said forcing himself to look him in the eyes, Yami blinked then smiled.
"Thanks Enzan," Yami said.
"Hey, what else are friends for then bashing you on the head when you start talking stupid," Enzan said, Yami blinked.
"Bash me on the head?" Yami asked puzzled, Enzan smirked.
Whap
"Hey, what did you do that for!" Yami demanded rubbing his head; he glared at a grinning Enzan who had just whapped him on the head.
"Stop you from doing stupid things of course," Enzan smirked, after that an argument took place in a very immature way that contained pillows... this went on for quite awhile.
At least till a nurse kicked Yami out of the room for disturbing the peace.
Of all things the Doctors couldn't have expected this, a certain white haired teen with startling pale blue eyes stood in front of them.
"Are you sure about this, your file does say that you had one a few years ago?" The doctor asked; Yami nodded his entire body and face in a serious mode.
"I have to sir, I'm hoping the chemicals in my systems have dispersed enough to find out who I am," Yami said softly, his hands were clenched so hard in nervousness that his knuckles looked bone white.
"I see, but you know that there is a seventy-five percent chance that the chemicals haven't cleared up enough to get a clear reading in the test?" The doctor explained; Yami nodded understanding it well. (1)
"I know, but I want to know who I am," Yami explained, the doctor smiled in understanding.
"Well kid, I'll do your blood test, then we only have to wait for the results," the doctor said, Yami sighed.
"It's the waiting that's the hard part, but I've been waiting for five years to find out who I am... this is nothing," Yami said truthfully.
(Yami?)
Yami blinked from where he sat in the waiting room, he had fallen asleep waiting for his results. Looking at his watch he saw he still had hours to go, he sighed.
'Wait, what woke me up?' Yami thought puzzled for a moment.
(Yami) a voice said, his eyes widened as he now felt Rockman talking to him.
((What is it Rockman?)) Yami asked curious.
(Have you arranged for those blood tests yet?) Rockman asked curious.
((Actually yeah)) he replied.
(So when are you getting it done?) Roclkman asked, Yami blinked feeling even more excitement coming from the navi.
((Actually I'm waiting for the results now...)) Yami replied.
For a moment Yami could have sword he heard cheering from Rockman, he decided that had to be his imagination.
((Rockman...)) Yami said after a moment of silence.
(Sorry, just contact me as soon as you find out the results) Rockman said.
((How do I do that?)) Yami asked, he could have sworn he felt Rockman smirk.
(Don't worry, you'll know how) Rockman said, then the navi's voice was gone leaving Yami alone in his mind.
'I wonder what that was about' Yami thought, he gave a shrug.
He soon grew bored, there were still hours to go before he got results.
'Might as well check on Enzan and the others' Yami thought, hopefully the nurse who had kicked him out of the room was off duty now.
She was scary...
"Poppa," Rockman said, a middle-aged man with brown hair, eyes and wore slim glasses looked up from his work.
"What is it Rockman?" Yuuichirou Hikari asked, this was in fact Nettos father.
"I just talked to Netto-kun, he's had a blood test... if all goes well he'll be home in no time," Rockman said to the brown haired man, the man blinked and a smile came to his face.
"It will be good, to have the family together again," Yuuichirou said softly, he closed his brown eyes and wondered how the future would go. Netto had changed; he had heard Rockmans description of Yami AKA Netto.
'But, we'll be together again and we'll make it work no matter what' he thought, he hadn't gone through life by giving up. No he wouldn't give up, that wasn't the Hikari way.
"Now to wait," he said.
"Hai, but waiting is the hard part," Rockman said, Yuuichirou could only agree.
"So the others are still unconscious?" Enzan asked, Yami nodded from the spot at the end of the bed he had claimed for himself.
"Hai, Meiru-chan is in the room next to yours and the other are in other rooms nearby," Yami told Enzan, this way Enzan would know his friends were nearby.
"Meiru-chan?" Enzan asked with a raised eyebrow, Yami blushed hearing that come from his mouth. He hadn't called the pink haired girl that before, but it came naturally for some reason... not to mention she was cute.
"Er... ignore that," Yami said laughing nervously, Enzan smirked.
"Someone has a crush," Enzan taunted; Yami went red in the face.
"I do not," Yami protested.
"Oh really," Enzan said smirk growing wider.
"Enzan, I don't have a crush," Yami protested blushing wildly.
"You doth protest too much," Enzan said, Yami muttered under his breath some before saying anything else.
"I hardly know her Enzan, I only know her from a bit of school," Yami said calming down a bit, he never noticed the strange look on Enzans face as they argued.
Enzan wanted to laugh as the two of them argued, chatted, and argued. The whole 'Meiru-chan' thing had been hilarious.
'Just like him to deny it' Enzan thought; especially if Yami was who he thought was.
A silence filled the air as both teens just sat there thoughtfully; Yami lay down slightly at the end of the bed and looked at the white washed ceiling.
"What are you thinking Enzan?" Yami finally said softly, Enzan blinked and looked towards the longhaired teen.
"Many things, especially the results of the blood test," Enzan replied, Yami was silent a bit more.
"Do you think we'll finally find out who I am?" He asked in a wishful tone.
"Bet on it Yami, and believe it or not I have a few clues on who you might be," he replied, this got the amnesic teens attention. He sat back up and stared at Enzan.
"Really, who do you think I am?" he asked curious, his pale eyes stared at Enzan with very curious and almost desperate eyes.
"I'm not going to say, I might be wrong... and it would be wrong for me to bring your hopes up," Enzan replied.
"Damn," Yami said laying down again. "Looks like I'll have to wait anyway," he said softly with a sigh.
It was at least two hours later of idle chatter that the Doctor appeared; quickly the two were sitting up, clear interest on their faces.
"Heh, by now most people would have been going stir crazy waiting for results... you two looked like you were falling asleep," the Doctor said seeing them, Enzan and Yami shared an embarrassed look for they had bee falling asleep.
"Um... yeah, so what are the results?" Yami asked eagerly, the Doctor pulled out some charts and looked at them while the two teens looked eagerly on.
"Here's the results, and we got quite a good look at your blood... we know who you are," the doctor said, Yamis eyebrow twitched at the wait.
"Well," Yami said impatiently, the Doctor sweatdropped at the glare the two started sending his way.
"You Tajiri Yami, are no other then Hikari Netto," The doctor told them.
"..." Yami said blinking.
Enzan smirked.
'So I was right' he thought, his smirk grew wider, no only to make Yami remember himself as Netto.
At that moment a thump was heard, the three turned to look at the door and blinked.
Meiru lay on the ground in a faint, shock plainly on her face.
She had walked into the room at the moment of revelation, when she had woken up he didn't know. But Enzan knew one thing, thing were about to get a lot more interesting now that Netto was back.
Across the city a brown haired woman stared at the videophone in shock, her face was pale and tears streamed down it.
"Netto... my son," she cried in happiness, Ms. Hikari had just received a call that she had been waiting for... well five years.
Moments later her husband walked in the room and placed a certain PET on a table, he quickly walked to his wife.
"What's wrong?" he asked with worry.
"Netto... they found Netto," she cried in happiness, she hugged him happily.
"Then let's go get him," Yuuichirou Hikari told her.
"Hurry, I want to see Netto-kun, I've waited five years to many to see him again," Rockman called from his PET, the two humans shared an amused look.
"We'll you heard him, lets go, Yuuichirou Hikari said, with that they grabbed Rockmans PET and the car keys and headed out.
The world seemed to blur for Yami as he waited for his 'parents' to arrive, he had never expected to be reunited with his family so fast after the test.
"Relax Yami, it won't be so bad," Enzan said, Yami sighed. The two of them were still in Enzans room, Meiru had been taken back to her room not waking back up as of yet.
"It's easy for you to say that, you at least remember your parents... theses people will be strangers to me. They'll be expecting certain things, and what if they reject me because I don't look like I did before?" Yami asked feeling a bit depressed; Enzan sighed.
"Stop worrying so much, everything will be okay Yami. They're your parents, they'll accept you no matter what and love you and all that," Enzan said, if you haven't figured it out they had gone over this subject quite a few times since they found out Yamis parents were coming to get him.
"I hope so," Yami said, at that moment the people Yami was waiting for entered the hospital room.
Both sets of eyes of the couple zeroed in on him, he had the sudden urge to cry and hug them... but confusion and fear kept him sitting.
"Netto... no Yami, were your parents," the man said, Yami blinked... what now.
"You... you can call me Netto, it's my real name after all... and I should get use to it again," Yami said nervously, relieved smiles came to there faces.
"By the way, we brought with us your Navi... this is Rockman," the man... no his father said, passing him a nice looking PET. Yami felt a bit of shock at who the navi was then let it pass, since he had been talking to the navi lately through dreams and just his mind he should have suspected something.
"Welcome back Netto-kun," Rockman said as he took the PET, Yami smiled slightly a bit nervously... this was still very strange.
"Thanks," Yami said.
"It's Yami-kun," Kage suddenly shouted from his PET, sweatdrops appeared on the backs of Enzans and Yami's heads.
"Netto-kun," Rockman argued.
"No Yami-kun," Kage replied.
"Netto-kun," Rockman shouted.
"Yami-kun," Kage shouted.
"Stop it you two, I'm both... just that Netto is my real name," Yami said finally twitching slightly, his mother giggled.
"Rockman, Kage... try to get along," Yami told his two navi, at this point he was holding both PET's and had them facing each other.
"..." Kage said.
"I'm only going to agree to this because he kept you safe for Five years, but I'm your first navi got it," Rockman said, Yami sweatdropped... he had a feeling this wasn't normal for Rockman.
"Don't be jealous Rockman," Yami said softly smiling, Rockman looked startled a bit them also smiled.
"I won't be, I have my Netto-kun back," Rockman said smiling.
A few minutes later the reunited family out, strapped to Yami's belt were two PET's.
"Yami-kun," Kage whispered.
"Netto-kun," Rockman argued.
"Yami-" Yami switched Kage off.
""Nett" Yami also turned that PET.
"Finally peace and quiet," Ms. Hikari said, at least that put that argument to rest for the moment. (2)
An unfamiliar house, not one thing about it jogged his memory.
Not that he expected it to, he had total amnesia of his past... not even coming back home with his family would help... at least not right away.
On the way to his 'home', they had stopped at the apartment Yami had been renting to pick up quite a few things. He would have to arrange to have the rest of his things moved later that week to the Hikari household.
"Welcome home Netto," his father said as they drove up, Yami nodded feeling nervous.
He followed them into a comfy looking house, he looked around in interest... everything felt right.
"Let me show you to your room," his father said taking his bags, Yami nodded and followed the brown haired man up the stairs to the next floor. A minute later Yami was looking around his new... or should he say old room, everything was neat (up to a point) and a nice looking computer was on the desk across the room.
"Thanks,' he told his dad, his father left as he began to unpack.
As he unpacked he placed the two PET's on the desk and turned the back on, 2 annoyed navi's looked out.
"You didn't have to turn us off," Kage said, Rockman nodded.
"You two were making a scene," Yami said flatly, both sweatdropped.
"I'll behave," Rockman said, Kage agreed.
"Good, then I hope we don't have to do that again," Yami said dryly, both nodded.
Rockman then blinked.
"Netto-kun, supper should be ready in a few minutes," Rockman said, Yami brightened.
"That's great, I'm starved. I hope its Curry," Yami said, he then rushed from the room leaving the navi's room. (3)
"So he had his obsession with Curry even back then?" Kage suddenly asked.
"Sadly yes, its his favorite food," Rockman said, both sweatdropped as the joyful yell of 'CURRY' came from downstairs.
"That was a very long day," Yami said as he lay down in his bed, he pulled the covers tighter over himself.
"It's not everyday someone finds out who the are," Kage said, Yami nodded.
"Yeah," Yami whispered, closing his eyes he remembered all the questions his parents had asked him. So many, it looked like he had so many things to catch up to his parents and to remember... he didn't want to see the heartbroken looks on their faces when he didn't remember something.
"Everything will work out," Rockman said.
"I hope so, and this will be eve weirder when my friends from Canada (4) come to Japan on that trip," Yami said, he had already told his parents of his friends coming to Japan in a bit and wanting to help them around... this was during supper.
"Just relax, you'll remember in time," Kage told him.
"Yeah, but it's taken me five years to even remember a bit," Yami replied, there was a bit of silence.
"Goodnight Rockman, kage," Yami said finally, he felt himself drifting into the reality known as sleep.
"Goodnight Netto-kun," Rockman whispered.
"Goodnight Yami-kun," Kage whispered.
In there own room the parents sat together, Ms. Hikari hugged her husband tears flowing down her face.
"Shhh... it will be alright," Yuuichirou said rubbing her back.
"No it won't, what if he never remembers," she cried.
"He'll remember love, Netto will remember... everything will be alright," he whispered, she cried into late at night wishing to know if her son would ever remember his past.
TBC
(1) In this time a blood test can easily tell who you are, at birth the blood is recorded in a way that even a small sample can tell who someone is. Yami was unable to get a clear enough reading due to the chemicals that changed his body. He's hoping that by now the chemicals have faded enough for the blood test to get a good reading on his DNA, he has done this test a few times before.
(2) be ready to have this argument to pop up now and then every few chapters.
(3) I don't remember if curry is his fav food or not, but eh did seem to eat a lot at the curry place in the second season.
(4) this was mentioned a few episodes ago.
Next time: Yami is once again using the name Netto, his friends are happy that he returned and are trying to make him remember his past. Meanwhile Wily isn't too pleased. At this point in time Netto doesn't want anymore trouble, he just wants to remember who he is. Chapter Eleven: To Remember The Light.
Wow another chapter; before you ask I started writing the outlines down right in the files so this will all go faster. I had last chapter, this one and maybe a few more done this way so I would know what was going on instead of just knowing the main story line. I want more then just certain things going on, I want to make this story nice and good to read. Anyway, see you next chapter.
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