Memories of a Forgotten Past: Chapter 1 by RaineDiam

Memories of a Forgotten Past: Chapter 1

RaineDiam, Digimon, Human, New World, No-Yiff, Renamon

#1 of Memories of a Forgotten Past

Other world book one

Memories of a Forgotten Past

Chapter 1:

Angel's Tears

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Falling rain filled the Tokyo night with its constant patter as it hit windows and roofs as well as the asphalt beneath covering the people in the streets in sheets of water. It didn't care who it drenched nor had a mind to stop, it simply fell from the sky in little droplets, covering the city in water as completely as it could which made Ruki Hisashi's job harder but exciting none the less. Her green hair clung to her face and she held two tontos close to her under her jacket as she rooted for her brother, Rukan.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

It was the classic dark alley brawl where men and teenagers came from all over the district of Tokyo to see and bet on the winner. Rukan, 15 years old yet still very powerful with his knowledge of martial arts, fighting a man that looked to be at least five years his senior. An outsider might panic at the thought of the mismatched fight but in truth it was about as even as it could get. Rukan's grandfather was a renowned teacher of the ancient arts of Japan as well as a weapons master and deadly with many of the feudal weapons. He had taught Rukan since he was old enough to stand how to protect himself but Ruki and Rukan both knew he would see it a great dishonor if he were watching now.

The fight was for money and slightly sponsored by the local Yakuza. The gang had taken care of the two teens well after they ran away from home. It was Rukan's idea and Ruki couldn't take another beating so she came along with him. That was nearly six months ago from now.

Their home life had been rough with their abusive father. Their mother, being a traditional Japanese woman, wouldn't stand up to him. Rukan left the honor code behind him after he saw what it did to her and still worried about his mother every once in a while when he got the chance to.

Ruki, the smaller of the two twins, was, unfortunately, the subject of most of the beatings. Her attitude towards her father never changed, no matter how many times he hit her and made her cry out in agony she never let him win. Her and Rukan's matching emerald eyes still have all of their pride in them.

Ruki leapt back as Rukan kicked the opponent in her direction and the crowd grew louder for a moment with cheers before it went back to the jeering and the constant babble over who would win. Rukan took a moment to catch Ruki's eyes and smirk a bit tilting his head to the side and making his long black braid slightly visible. She nodded once getting the picture and giggled slightly as the combatant ran at the boy again and he spun to the side whipping the fool in the face with the wet hair actually making a loud snapping noise on contact.

The combatant, now angered that Rukan was playing with him growled a bit and reached into his clothing pulling out what looked like a home made dagger of sorts and gasps arose from the crowd as the match was now forfeit. Rukan was slightly afraid but would never show it being that he was unarmed and Ruki was holding his weapons. He dodged the first jab from the obviously unschooled attacker and frowned deeply, "You really want to win that bad eh?" said Rukan with a bit of a smirk.

"Stupid punk. I'll enjoy killing you and that stupid legend." Said the fighter with a growl. The legend, as Rukan knew, was his undefeated record amongst the Yakuza fighting rings. Some say the Rukan was Shinigami himself. Rukan and Ruki knew this wasn't true but the fighting was necessary in order for them to live. It brought in the money that fed them so Rukan fought with all of his soul.

All of his soul seemed to fail him as the ground was made slippery with the rain and one misstep took him down. Ruki saw what was happening as the crowd dispersed in all directions not wanting to be involved in any murder. She quickly ran to Rukan's aid and leapt in front of the blade as it struck her chest making her cry out in anguish as it tore through her flesh and skimmed her bone.

The combatant wouldn't stop at anything and stabbed Ruki in the stomach before pulling the knife free and letting her drop to the ground next to an awestruck and enraged Rukan. He quickly kicked up, knocking the blade out of the fighter's hand and rolled to the side on top of Ruki. He grabbed his tontos and in one smooth motion he got to his feet with one blade slicing open the man's gut while the other stopped at the skin of his neck.

"Look in my eyes and see your death you monster!" shouted Rukan as he plunged the tonto into the man's neck and pulled it out quickly as the blood seeped out the wound and the fool fell limp at Rukan's feet.

Rukan dropped the weapons and quickly went to his sister's aid. She was bleeding too much and he knew he would never be able to get her any help fast enough to be effective. She looked him in the eyes and put her hand on the side of his face smiling of all things, "It was my turn... to protect you." She said forcing the words out, "I love you Rukan... Don't forget me."

Rukan took her into his arms and held her close to himself shaking his head as tears threatened to fall like the rain that soaked them to the bone. "I won't forget you... You're going to be all right... I'm going to get you to help. You're going to be just fine I promise." He said now rocking back and forth with her.

"It's ok Rukan... You can't save me all the time. I'll tell Grandpa that you miss him..." Said Ruki wrapping her arms around Rukan for one last embrace as her eyes began to go dark and empty.

He shook his head and held her tighter, "Don't talk like that. I'm going to get you to a hospital and they will make you better." Said Rukan his tears flowing freely now.

His words were met only by the sound of the falling rain. He shook Ruki and her head rolled to the side limply. He let go quickly and stood over her dead frame crying openly as he had lost the last person he could depend on and loved in his life. It seemed that there was nothing left after this and so he quickly reached for one of his Tontos and gripped it tightly, "I have failed my sister and my family by not protecting her and so I take my life to regain my honor in the eyes of the gods."

He plunged the tonto into his stomach and pulled it hard to the left as his world became pain and he passed out.

He awoke, to his immediate displeasure; in a hospital bed with machines hooked to him. His stomach ached from the surgery that had to be done to fix the internal injuries as well as the staples used to close up the wound. He groaned and closed his eyes laying back on the bed and giving up the idea of sitting.

"Rukan? Are you awake?" Said a familiar voice. He knew it immediately to be his mother. He only nodded in response but soon his heart leapt at the thought of Ruki possibly being resuscitated and alive.

"Mom, where's Ruki?" He said and to his surprise it took a lot more strength to talk than he thought it would.

"I'm sorry sweetheart but... She didn't make it. The paramedics got there just in time to save you. What happened?" She said, her voice wavering from the grief of losing her daughter and nearly losing Rukan as well.

"Where do you want me to start?" said Rukan still keeping his eyes closed.

"Start from where you and Ruki ran away..."

Rukan recounted the events that led up to that night in detail. From the leaving of the note on the door as Ruki and her brother ran off into the night, to their encounter with the yakuza boss that tried to rape Ruki only to end up without the ability to rape anyone again. He explained how the boss had seen promise in the young Rukan and brought the both of them under his wing for protection and so they could fight and win the gang a steady income. After that life was just a blur until the night the angel's tears stole away the life of a dishonorable fool and the life of a beloved sister.

Rukan felt a hand on his cheek and smiled a little opening his eyes. His mother was a kind and gentle woman and he had never really meant to hurt her. He knew she was unable to stand up to his father and though it made her weak in Rukan's eyes he would never hold it against her, "I'm gonna be alright Mom. Where is Dad?" He said softly with obvious disdain at the mention of his father.

She smiled warmly and kissed his forehead, "After you left it hit me how badly your father treated all of us and so I kicked him out of the house and got a divorce. He won't hit you or me ever again."

Rukan couldn't help but smile at the wonderful news but felt that the price may have been too high. The girl he had spent his entire life with by his side was now gone after 15 years. He bit his lip and began to whimper softly as his eyes burned with tears, "I miss her Mom." Were the only words he could get out before the grief took him completely.

She nodded and held him gently as to not upset the injuries that were still healing. She tried to comfort him but found that the gash in his stomach was nothing compared to the gash in his heart. She worried for Rukan greatly, that he might try to kill himself again or get involved with those horrible people once more, "It'll be alright sweetheart... I know it's hard but we have to press on... Ruki would have wanted that. You know that as well as I do."

Rukan sniffled and nodded slowly for the first time in ages seeming to act his age as he held to his mother sobbing his heart out into her until once more he was sleeping.

His mother let him go and smiled at him resting while she wiped away her own tears. She had lost her children once only to find that one of them would never be recovered. She spent the night by Rukan's bedside contemplating how they would recover their shattered lives until she to drifted off into a restless sleep.

It was months before Rukan recovered from the slash he had made in his own belly. The physical therapy was grueling but he pressed through all of it until he was back to perfect physical health again. His mental stability was another subject all together. He found himself sobbing to sleep more often than not. When he was finally released from the hospital and brought home it didn't help much. His mother would find him sleeping in Ruki's room more often than his own and sometimes swore she heard him talking to her.

She was not the only one concerned. Rukan himself saw what was happening and began to worry that perhaps he was truly going insane. He could swear he saw Ruki out of the corner of his eye and even hear her calling for him in the late hours of the night. The nightmares repeating that night didn't help either. Rukan felt horrible inside no matter what his mother tried to do for him. She even pulled a few strings at the TV station so he could co-anchor with her once on kid's day but all the solutions only staved off the emotional pain for a little while before the fortress fell once more to the depression.

Even with the money his mother was making nothing she bought him seemed to make him any better. It tore her apart inside to see him so deeply disturbed. It seemed that she did indeed lose both of her children that night they left. Pain seemed to be the only emotion that had any hold on the Hisashi home.

Rukan was digging through his closet looking for some of his older things trying to find an old picture of his sister and him with his grandfather in Okinawa when he came across a deck case and a card reader for one of the most popular card games in Tokyo at the time. Rukan remembered going to tournaments with his deck of Digimon cards and wiping the floor of any competition. He was a perfectionist and his sister always was willing to help him in any way she could to make him better.

He smiled a bit at the discovery and popped the top of the case pulling out his deck and going through the cards. The top four were still the Renamon set he had grown slightly famous for using. It was sort of his signature. The cards were extremely rare and having all of the set was seen as nearly impossible. Rukan had been one of the lucky few that got them out of the booster packs by pure chance.

He teared up a bit remembering how his life used to be and how happy he was when things were simple. All he had to worry about was exams and who the next raising star in the card game rings was. He let his tears fall but made sure not to damage the valuable cards. He might be able to sell them to someone and get something new. He cried openly for a companion like Ruki was to him. He needed desperately someone he could count on as he had Ruki and someone that could count on him as she had done for him. He needed to fill the gaping hole in his heart and in his sobs a few tears got on the Renamon card.

He cursed loudly and tried to rub the tears off but found that the card was only falling apart in his hands as the front of it stripped off the card backing. He cursed louder and tried to fix it but found that the backing didn't look right at all. It was blue and had a strange symbol in the middle. He furrowed his brow and took out one of his useless extra cards and tried the same with it only to find that the backing wasn't anything like the Renamon card's.

He noticed the black strip on the right of the seemingly destroyed card. Traditionally the cards were swiped on the left but the reader strip on the right perked Rukan's curiosity. He picked up his card reader and swiped the card through it watching the screen flip through numbers until it came to a stop with a symbol for infinity and began to glow bright white.

Rukan tossed the device away quickly, his eyes wide with surprise. The readers weren't backlit so there was no reason for any light to be coming out of the screen let alone the entire gadget. He thought to cry out for his mother but she was at work and he couldn't speak more than pitiful squeaks.

The room was suddenly filled with the bright light and he quickly threw up his arms to cover his eyes. The light was painfully bright and a high-pitched squealing was filling the room, as it seem the little piece of technology was processing too fast or was overloading.

It stopped suddenly and Rukan waited a few moments before uncovering his eyes to see a new device in the place of the old one. It looked like a rather large wristwatch with an extension for a card reading slot. He crept forward slowly picking up the thing and looking it over but dropped it as a streak of yellow rushed by in very edge of his vision. He turned quickly and looked to where it had been and found the paper lamp in his room swinging slightly. There wasn't any wind in the house and Rukan looked to his back door, which opened to the courtyard, to see it was closed.

"Whoever you are I know how to defend myself! Get out of my house!" shouted Rukan as the streak went by again and he fell backwards onto his bedroll with a yelp of surprise. It had passed right in front of him that time and he didn't have a good look at all. He scooted backwards to the wall and looked around his room desperately trying to find the intruder but found nothing out of the ordinary except the wristwatch on the floor.

A quick movement in the closet made him peer into the dark only to find two animal eyes looking back at him as they shined in the dark confined space. His breath caught in his chest as the thing stepped forward, out of the dark and stood nearly six feet tall. A vulpine woman with yellow and white fur covering her entire body walked up to Rukan and kneeled in front of him seeming to be just as curious and frightened as he was.

Rukan shrank back and shook his head, "Don't hurt me!"

The creature leaned forward even closer nearly touching him with her nose as she still remained silent and curious, "Where am I?" Said the creature in a smooth deep feminine voice.

Rukan turned to look back and realized that she was just as confused as he was and caught his breath quickly, "Y...y.... you're in T... Tokyo m... miss kitsune."

She shook her head and stood up turning around and leaning over to pick up the wristwatch. She inspected it carefully before turning back around and handing it to the very surprised Rukan, "This is yours. You seem to have somehow broken the barrier between the two worlds with this piece of digimon and human technology. I've heard tales about what something like this can do but never actually seen one before."

Rukan could only nod, as he was still speechless. There was a real living and breathing digimon in his bedroom. Something he knew was impossible was shattered in an instant as the proof that his entire concept on reality and fantasy was standing right in front of him.

"Are you alright?" she said looking at him curiously again.

"I'm just dreaming... This is all just a dream. I'll wake up and you'll be gone and everything will go back to normal." Said Rukan covering his eyes and rubbing them.

"Is that what you really want? From the way I saw things your life wasn't so great before. Now you have the opportunity to do great things with me by your side and you just want it all to go away? What a strange wish." Said the creature with a bit of a smile.

Rukan opened his eyes and looked at her, "How did you know about my life?"

She looked him directly in the eyes and spoke though her mouth never moved, "I know a lot of things about you Rukan Hisashi. I know that you are on a crash course to destiny and together we will make each other more powerful than any foe that would ever stand in our way. You are my partner as I am yours... The D-infinity watch proves that."

Rukan couldn't believe what was happening. It just seemed too impossible. Digimon weren't real; they were just an anime and a card game. There was no such thing as a real Renamon yet there was one standing right in front of him saying that she would be his companion. The thing Rukan had been crying out for had somehow caused it to really happen.

Rukan looked at her as tears threatened once more, though not tears of sorrow, these were tears of relief. Finally he had found a way to heal the wounds in his heart. He lunged forward and wrapped his arms around Renamon and sobbed into her shoulder. She held him close and closed her eyes with a bit of a smile. She knew the child's pain far better than she would have liked to. She wanted to comfort him like she had never gotten and found that by trying to do so it warmed her heart in a way she hadn't felt in what seemed like an eternity.

As a wise person once said, night is always darkest just before dawn it seemed that the night was finally over. Dawn was springing forth for Rukan and his new digital companion. Rukan held to Renamon for a long time crying into her shoulder until he pulled back and sniffed a little with a smile, "Thank you so much... I can't ever thank you enough for coming."

Renamon smiled and shook her head putting her paws on his shoulders, "Help me become stronger, by doing so you yourself will become more powerful and no one will ever stand in our way. You and I will be able to keep evil in check and become the champions of this world. I want to be the strongest digimon in the two worlds and you can give that to me."

Rukan nodded slowly and put the wristwatch on with a smile, "I'll do everything in my power to protect you and keep you safe from harm. I will help you."

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