Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Harsh Memories ❯ Rude awakening ( Chapter 1 )

A/N: In this fic, the < > denote a character's thoughts/feelings.

The timeline falls about 6 months after the ending of season 2, making it around July (the second season ends on New Years Day). I will be using the Japanese names for the characters.

Second A/N added 11:07p.m. 23rd of August 23, 2002

I accidentally forgot to mention the Japanese family nouns that would appear in this fic. I am doing this for anyone who doesn't know these yet.

O-Niichan = Older brother

O-Touto-Chan = Younger brother

O-Jiichan = Grandfather

O-Tochan = Father (may not be used)

O-Kachan = Mother

O-Neechan = Older sister (may not be used, depends on if Miyako visits Iori after he awakes {Note: in the original Japanese version, Iori thinks of Miyako as his older sister, and I am unsure if he uses this noun for her. I am basing the usage on my viewings of Digimon Frontier, in which Tonoko calls the main character O-Niichan CONSTANTLY.}

Pata-chan = I truly doubt that in the Japanese version they constantly call their Digimon by their full names ... it seems ridiculous to me.

< I've never been in this much pain before. Nothing we have ever been through in the group felt like this. Even watching niichan and the others being changed by piemon didn't hurt like this. I always meant to ask Yama what that felt like... I wonder whether I will ever get to now? >

His thoughts seemed to reverberate around the empty room. It was really the only thing he could do, since he had to be restrained so he wouldn't accidentally pull out any of the IV's in his sleep. It had been around three days since he found himself here. He still couldn't talk, since the oxygen mask made that impossible. This made it hard for those who came to see him to stay for too long. It isn't easy for a person to sit and attempt to carry on a conversation by yourself, especially if they had other things to do. At least, that was how he was thinking about the whole incident.

< How did it start again? I can remember I was walking home late after staying at the Yagami's a little too long, and I wasn't paying too much attention as I crossed the road. I do remember that the light was green however, and I did have the right of way. Next, I think I heard a load screeching noise, that I guess must have been whatever hit me. >

He moved his head slowly, painfully, as he tried to take in his surroundings. < I guess I got hit in the back. I wonder if there will be any permanent damage. > He couldn't quite crane his neck entirely to either side at the moment, since whenever he moved his neck more then a few inches, pain began to well up. < I guess I'll have to try to entertain myself with the ceiling then. > For the next few hours he tried to pass the time by counting how many times the plaster in the hospital rooms ceiling had begun to crack over the years of use it had seen. This became surprisingly entertaining, and preoccupying, and so he didn't notice as his older brother had came in and moved to his left side.

" Hey, TK, you doing alright? " Yamato asked softly, trying to break Takeru's concentration.

TK turned his head slowly, trying to avoid as much of the pain as possible before he smiled in response. < Even if the others do have other things to do, at least Niichan still manages to stop by. > Slowly Mate reached out and brushed a few stray strands of blond hair that had fallen into Takeru's vision.

" I'm surprised, you're not usually awake when I come by to check on you. Why are we up so early this mourning, hm?"

< Does he know how annoying it is when people ask you questions, and you cant speak well enough to answer back? > In the best way he could, TK shot an exasperated look at his Niichan in an attempt to make him see how much this seemed to annoy him.

" I guess you don't feel like talking, ne? " he asked with a small laugh. " Anyways, I stopped by today since Kachan couldn't get off her current assignment again. I swear, sometimes that paper seems to want to run her into an early grave. Imagine forcing her to work when one of her own flesh and blood is strapped into a hospital bed with about a thousand different tubes in him."

All through Yamato's banter, he was constantly smiling down, trying as hard as he could to be the assuring Niichan he had always reverted to when Takeru had become either sick or injured.

" Patachan wanted to come and see you too, but I thought it wouldn't be good if the doctors came in and found the little guy cuddled up next to you. They probably wouldn't understand that he wasn't trying to hurt you ... and well I just thought this was best." Takeru watched silently as his brother continued to chat with himself about his day, school, and whatever else he could have thought of. All the while Takeru was still trying to remember if anything had happened after he had been hit or not.

Yamato's voice brought him back to earth suddenly as Takeru realized he had begun talking about the accident itself. " I still cant believe someone actually ran a red light and hit you!" < So that's what happened > "I also can't believe he didn't try to call an ambulance or anything. I still think the guy must have been insane for trying what he did but ... " As Yamato rambled on, TK suddenly found it exceedingly hard to remain conscious any longer.

2nd A/N

I am currently looking for a new beta reader (preferably someone who can read the pre-versions within 1 week.)

I would like to thank the following.

Grey http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=137144

Thanks for Beta reading chapters 1-4. She also writes great Trigun fics.

2. BmilesWrites http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=68638

For writing such a great Cody/Iori fic (Little Mister Odiaba)

Time Lady http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=26851

For writing the wonderful TPOV series.

Cynthia, Piedmon's Lady http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=238978

For writing several good series and singular fics.