Yumi: Part 1

"We need to talk," Jeremie said, looking straight at Ulrich.

"What's there to talk about?" he asked, looking around the room. "What's going on?"

"You don't remember anything?" Aelita asked Ulrich, looking toward Jeremie.

"It's completely possible. Maybe Xana thought that it wouldn't win or something caused it to have control over Ulrich, so then with that gone it's taken out a chunk of his memory," Jeremie replied as Yumi glared at Ulrich.

"No, it's one of Xana's tricks. That was too easy and you know it, Jeremie. You and I both know it," Yumi interjected, going over and giving the genius a stern look.

"Would someone please tell me what's going on before I just go back to the dorms?" Ulrich asked, looking between his four friends.

"You know, call me when you guys realize that he's bad news, 'kay?" Yumi said before riding the elevator back to the surface.

Ulrich looked to Odd with a raised eyebrow and Odd shrugged.

"What's the last thing that you remember?" Jeremie asked, trying to get the conversation back on track.

"I remember the mission to Carthage to get information and then sitting in your dorm room afterwards. Everything after that is a blank," he answered. "What happened?" (From Slipping)

"After that mission you began ignoring us and not talking to us when we'd talk to you unless it was something really important. You'd pretend we weren't really there or something. A bit after that Xana was able to contact me and told me that some game had just begun and we hadn't even realized it and then something came up about the Scyphazoa taking information from you. We raced to the Factory, but weren't able to get to you in enough time to save you," Jeremie replied before Aelita took over.

"We couldn't save you at that time, but when we got back to the dorms we went to work on the program that brought you back here. Jeremie and I worked all night. Yumi clearly still has some doubts," Aelita added looking to the others.

"But apparently my recovery program wasn't able to recover all of your previous memories while this all was going on," Jeremie noted.

Odd yawned and headed for the elevator. "We can talk about this stuff tomorrow you guys. We only just got Ulrich back. Let's not overwhelm him with questions piled upon questions."

Jeremie sighed and nodded. "It would probably be best. Aelita and I can look more into how what happened happened, so we can stop it from happening to anyone else.

Ulrich and Odd left Aelita and Jeremie in the computer room.

"So you really don't remember anything at all?" Odd asked as they headed toward their dorm room.

Ulrich shrugged. "It's all just a big blank spot in my memory…. I know that time passed, but I don't remember what happened in that time…. I just wish Yumi would believe me."

Odd patted Ulrich on the back. "Ulrich buddy, she'll get over it. She always does."

"Yeah, she'll learn that she's worrying over nothing," Ulrich agreed with a smile.

When both got back to their room they decided to just hang out until dinnertime.

(*)(*)(*)(*) That Evening (*)(*)(*)(*)

"So Einstein, what are we going to do about Yumi and what if Xana tries to get Ulrich again?" Odd asked, shoveling food in his mouth.

"We can't make Yumi believe him, but we can do something to make sure that it doesn't happen again. Aelita and I are working on it right now," Jeremie told him as he typed away on his computer.

"Jeremie, put the computer away," Aelita told him, reaching over and closing it. "We have time. We just won't send Ulrich to Lyoko until we can figure something out. Everyone needs a break Jeremie and we didn't sleep at all last night, so you're sleeping tonight."

"Hey, does anyone know where my phone is? I've been looking for it for the past few hours with Odd," Ulrich asked, looking around the table.

"I think it's down in the computer lab. I'll get it and bring it to you tomorrow when Jeremie inevitably drags me down there to work on that program," Aelita smiled.

Jeremie opened his mouth to say something, but then closed it and continued eating.

Ulrich passed his tray over to Odd and stood up. "I'm tired, so I'm going to go to bed."

Aelita watched as he left and then turned to Odd. "Watch him tonight, okay? I know we most likely got rid of all of Xana's influence, but I just want to be sure so that we can back him up with Yumi one hundred percent."

Odd nodded and ate Ulrich's food. "Yumi's just being stupid. Give it a week and she'll see she's just being paranoid.

"Yeah probably," Aelita agreed, smiling at him.

"I really don't doubt that it'll happen," Jeremie added.

Yumi sat in the bath looking up at the ceiling. Was Ulrich really back to normal? Did he really just forget? She didn't know and she didn't want to believe Ulrich until she was sure of it all.

Hiroki knocked on the door. "Yumi! Hurry up! Mom and Dad want to talk to us about something!"

Yumi sighed. Here we go again…. Another apology and promise that they won't keep….

Yumi pulled herself from the warm water and bubbles, putting her hair up in a towel and then drying herself off and wrapping another towel around her body. She went to her room and quickly pulled on some clothes, brushed her hair, and headed downstairs to sit at the table beside Hiroki.

"Yumi, Hiroki, we thought we should tell both you both the truth. We've been trying, we really have, but your father and I can't get along. We've decided to get a divorce. Your father's going to be staying with a friend of his and you guys will be allowed to go and visit him whenever you want, but for now you'll both be staying here with me," Akiko told the two.

"You can't!" Hiroki yelled, looking at both them waiting for them to say it was all a joke.

Yumi knew it wasn't going to be a joke and things weren't going to get better between the two, but she couldn't help but not want to believe it either.

When Ulrich woke up in the morning he noticed his phone sitting on his bedside table with a note attached.

Ulrich,

Here's your phone. You were asleep so I left it here and Jeremie told Delmas that you weren't feeling well, so you have the day off. He thought you needed a day off to get re-adjusted.

Aelita

Ulrich smiled and picked up his phone, looking through it for missed calls.

You're mine again….

A/N: Well, I decided I was going to push myself to finish this one and I really did want to. =3 I see 3 chapters for Yumi's part. ^-^ I already have planned how she's going to die, but I have to lead up to it.

Sorry for lateness, by the way. We lost our internet and then my sister has been hogging the desktop. -_-"

~MoonlitxAngel