Underground Pulse Chapter 9

Underground Pulse Chapter 9 - A Yu-Gi-Oh 5DGX Story</I>

"Did he just say what I think he said?" Yusei found asking himself. With the present circumstances it took a minute for his brain to process what Judai had said. Quickly shaking his head to free himself from his daze he reached into his right hand side pants pocket and pulled out his cell phone. Dialing a few numbers and pressing the call button he then put the ear to his phone it seemed like the longest wait until the person at the other end answered.

"Crow." Yusei said. "Judai crashed he's incoherent and there is blood running down the side of his face. I'm going to go ahead and take him to the hospital please can you help me by getting his duel runner out of here?" Yusei's hand slightly shook as he held the phone trying to keep calm waiting for a response from Crow. Crow obliged and quickly hung up.

Yusei quickly snapped the phone shut and placed the device back into his pants pocket. He looked back to Judai who still held a blank face as blood continued to drip off of his face. Unsure of how to proceed but wanting to get Judai to a doctor as soon as possible Yusei slid his left arm around the boy's waist and used his right arm to lift Judai's right arm and place it on his right shoulder. Slowly lifting himself from the ground he stood up with Judai, once standing Judai groaned leaning against Yusei. Slightly bending down for leverage Yusei lifted the boy over his shoulder and began to walk over to his D-Wheel. Once Yusei had reached his duel runner he laid the boy in front of him horizontally but soon realized this wasn't going to work. As soon as he would take off the boy's feet or head would be sliding towards the ground.

"What are you doing...?" Yusei heard Judai whine.

Ignoring the question Yusei lifted the boy up once more making Judai face himself. However Judai didn't seem to understand what Yusei was doing as his body swayed back Yusei grabbed the boy once more before he crashed into the dashboard.

"Look I need you to straddle the seat." Yusei explained.

Judai looked at the mechanic with a blank face. "What do you mean? What's going on? Who are you? Why do I have to do this...?"

Yusei sighed standing up from the machine. "Like this." he said as he demonstrated embarking the runner. "Only I need you to face me alright?"

"Okay..." Judai said as he lifted a leg over the seat sitting facing Yusei his body swayed once more.

Yusei grabbed the boy with his left arm and pulled him towards himself while carefully touching the boy's head so he would move it to be over his left shoulder. Judai flinched at the touch but seemed to understand and moved his head slightly over.

"Okay now I need you to hold on."

"Hold on...? To what?" Judai asked confused.

"To me... put your arms around me." Yusei said. Judai did as told and linked his arms around the male while letting his head hang over the man's left shoulder. "Okay hang on Judai. Here we go." Yusei said as he revved off accelerating towards the hospital.
On the way to the hospital Judai was constantly groaning and asking questions. It was the same questions over and over again however. "Who are you?"  "What's going on?" "Where are you taking me?" Yusei however ignored these questions as he focused on the destination.
Once at the front of the hospital doors Yusei shut off the runner's engine and unlinked Judai's hands as he disembarked the runner. He then held a hand towards the boy;

"Can you walk?" Yusei asked.

Judai took Yusei's hand disembarking the runner as well, however once on the pavement he seemed to lean into Yusei again.

"Here." Yusei said as he placed an arm around the boy's waist. "Lean and walk okay?" Judai didn't respond and simply looked at the ground as he then slowly moved a leg forward hobbling as he leaned against Yusei. Slowly but surely the two made it inside and headed towards the information desk.

"Please you have to help. We were in a riding duel and he was in a crash. He's bleeding on the side of his head and he can't remember much of anything." Yusei explained to the woman at the counter.

She nodded and pulled a wheelchair out from the back room coming to the front. "Please sit him here and I'll get him into emergency." she explained to Yusei. Judai sat down in the wheelchair and the woman pushed him into another hallway Yusei shadowing close behind.

Once in the next corridor of the hospital the woman steered Judai into a regular patient's room. She exited the room talking to some nurses at the counter. Yusei was unsure if he was suppose to be in the room with Judai so he just stood against the doorway's wall. A doctor soon came noticing Yusei he looked at him with a questioning expression;

"Are you with the patient?" he asked.

"I brought him here. We were in a riding duel and he crashed." Yusei explained.

"I see. Very well then. You're welcome to come in if you wish." the doctor said as he entered the room. The doctor looked at Judai who was still sitting in the wheel chair.
"Okay I'm just going to get you to hop up onto this bed here alright?" he asked Judai. Judai carefully lifted himself up from the wheel chair as he looked intently at the floor while walking over to the bed. Still looking at the floor he then looked to the side at the pointed object the doctor was talking about.

"Here?" he asked. The doctor nodded as Judai slowly got onto the bed. "What's going on? Where am I?" Judai asked.

"You're in a hospital. You were in an accident. I see you have some dried blood on the side of your face I'm just going to wipe that away and see if you're hurt anywhere okay?" Judai nodded in approval. The doctor went to the sink dampening some paper towel and coming back wiping the blood off of Judai's face. He examined the area and then turned Judai's face towards him. "Doesn't look like any real damage... can you tell me what your name is?"

Judai looked at the man like he had lost his mind. "Why I'm Judai Yuki!" he said.

The doctor turned towards Yusei skeptical; "Is that correct?" he asked. Yusei nodded agreeing with Judai.

"Okay Judai do you remember what you were doing before you came here?" Judai remained silent. "I take that as a no." the doctor continued and thought for a moment to himself. "Well just to be sure... we're going to just go into a different room for a minute okay Judai? Just going to do a couple of tests." the doctor said. Judai nodded getting up to follow the doctor helped him get to the next room a couple doors over. Yusei stayed in the room and waited for the two of them to be finished.

The doctor came back with Yusei and some sheets in his hand. "Okay so I ran some X-Rays on Judai just to be sure and to look at the damage of the brain. There is some quite severe irritation he is quite lucky to be able to remember his name in my opinion. He does have a severe to very severe case of post traumatic amnesia from what I can tell. How much he can remember? I can not truly say. However do not rush his memories that could worsen his condition. Let him figure things out for himself. Do not let him cook by any means. As for the length of not being able to recall things it's hard to say. It could be as little as a week to as much as four weeks. I can't tell for sure it's tricky. As for his head he can take some minor pain killers for the pain. I'll give you this prescription. Do you understand?" the doctor explained to Yusei.

"Yes. I understand. Thank you doctor." Yusei replied.

"You may leave now Judai." the doctor said.

"Come on Judai." Yusei said to the duelist.

The two walked out of the room Judai no longer leaned on Yusei but still walked slowly as he payed great attention to the floor while he walked. "My head hurts..." Judai complained.

"Well the doctor said you can take some medicine for that so let's go get you some alright?" Yusei asked looking back at the boy who was slowly walking up behind him.
Once in the lobby of the hospital Yusei lead Judai towards some chairs. "You sit here and I'll go get you some medicine alright?" Yusei said to Judai. Judai nodded as he sat down looking at the floor. Yusei walked away looking back at the boy. "Well at least he remembers his own name..." Yusei thought as he went to go and get the medicine from the prescription counter. Once getting the pills Yusei found a water cooler and got a glass of water to accompany the medication. Walking up to Judai he handed him the glass of water. Judai looked up and took it from him. "Okay." Yusei said as he opened the bottle of pills. "You can take one of these pills okay?" Yusei said as he shook one out onto Judai's free hand. Judai nodded in approval;

"Thank you... uh... kind stranger..." Judai said as he took the medication. Yusei flinched as he clasped his hands together and looked towards the ground.

"Not a problem Judai..." Yusei said as he looked towards his clasped hands.

"Yusei!" a voice called as footsteps were heard. Yusei lifted his head towards the source still keeping his hands clasped together to see Crow, Aki, Jack, Bruno and the twins.

"Crow. Everyone. You came..."

"Of course we came Yusei! What kind of a phone call was that?! How is he?" Crow asked frantic.

"He's... he's got amnesia." Yusei replied looking down at the ground once more. "It's hard to tell what he'll remember. He does remember his name at least. The doctor says we are not to rush him and let him figure things out for his own." Yusei explained looking back up at everyone to see if they understood. Everyone looked away for a minute.

"Oh I see..." Aki said distant. Everyone remained silent for a while. Rua however broke the silence after a while;

"Hey let's not be sad okay?! Everything will be just fine! Do as the doctor says and he'll be back to normal in no time right?!" Everyone looked at Rua unsure of what to say. Ruka was about to interject until Yusei stood and kneeled down to Rua ruffling the boy's hair. He smiled gently at him;

"Yes for certain. Everything will be just fine."

"Yusei..." Aki drifted.

"How about you guys head on back. I'll take Judai home and see you all shortly alright?" Yusei said.

Everyone nodded understanding making their way out of the building. "See you soon Yuse." Crow said. Yusei nodded in approval.

Yusei turned to where Judai was sitting walking up he looked down at him. "Are you alright to go home now or do you still need a minute?"

Judai looked up at Yusei and shook his head to the left and then right; "No I'm fine it's okay. We can go." he said as he stood fixated on the floor once more.

Yusei walked ahead of Judai walking out of the hospital he checked back to see if the male was still following him. Slowly Judai stepped out of the lobby doors still staring at the ground. "Judai?" Yusei said.

Judai raised his head at the source. "Yes?" he asked.

"My duel runner is over here you'll have to get on alright? I'll get on first and then you can get on behind me alright?" Yusei explained embarking the runner while setting his keys in the ignition.

Judai nodded his head slowly up and down as he drifted towards the duel runner. He carefully lifted his left leg over the duel runner and sat down behind Yusei.

"Okay I'm going to need you to hang on tight it's going to be a long ride."

"Um... um..." Yusei heard Judai say from behind him. He turned his head to him.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?"

"I think so. I mean. Where do I? How do I hang on?" Judai asked confused.

"Well either the sides of the duel runner or myself."

"Oh okay..." Judai said putting his arms at his sides gripping the sides of the duel runner.

"Okay are you ready? I'm going to go now."

"Yeah... I think so." Judai said absent minded.

Yusei turned the keys in the ignition starting the duel runner's engine and then gripped the handles. Kicking as he revved the machine jerked into acceleration.

"Ahh!" Yusei heard Judai yell from behind him making him come to an abrupt stop causing the boy to crash into his back. Yusei turned his head towards Judai as the runner idled.

"Are you okay?"

"I ah.. yeah... sorry I just was startled I guess."

"Okay well I'm going to go again okay?"

Judai swallowed hard. "Yeah okay."

Yusei accelerated once more and the boy let out a slight "eep!" as Judai's body moved towards the back of the runner he quickly linked his arms around Yusei. Yusei's body slightly jerked back from Judai's momentum as he gripped onto the handles harder to keep himself from falling back. Judai then pulled himself towards Yusei squeezing his eyes shut as he hung on his body completely stiff from nerves.

About five minutes into the ride Yusei could hear Judai trying to say something however the boy would cut himself off. Eventually ten minutes later he heard Judai say something clearly;

"Um... um excuse me..." Judai said meekly.

"What is it Judai?" Yusei asked.

"Are we... are we almost there?" Judai asked again body still tense.

"It's still a little ways away unless I speed up then it wouldn't be as long would you like me to do that?" Yusei asked.

"Um... well... I..."

Yusei revved the engine a bit more as speed increased a bit. Hitting a bump in the road the runner slightly hopped into the air causing Judai to pull himself in towards Yusei more.

"Are you okay...? You drive a motorcycle yourself after all."

"I do...?" Judai asked.

"He doesn't remember driving his own motorcycle?" Yusei thought. "Just how much has he forgotten anyways..." Yusei wondered to himself.

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Yusei set a foot to the ground stopping the duel runner. "You can let go now. We're here." he said to Judai.

Judai slowly opened his eyes now noticing that the runner was no longer in motion he unwrapped his arms from Yusei's waste and disembarked the runner. "Right. Um okay. So where are we?" he asked Yusei.

Yusei sighed; "We're at your apartment."

"Are you... are you okay Mr.?"

"I'm fine..." Yusei said staying silent for a moment. "Come on let's go." he said motioning towards the door.

Once at the door Yusei turned the doorknob pushing the door open the two males stepped inside. Another male walked out of a room down from the hallway and spoke while walking;

"Hey Judai! So how was your duel? You have to tell me all about it!" he said.

Judai looked at the male and tilted his head to the side. "Who... who are you?"

The teal haired male looked at Judai and then to Yusei then back to Judai. "Who am I...?" he asked not believing the question then looking towards Yusei once more. "What happened and who are you?" he asked the raven haired male with a glare.

"He was dueling with me... riding dueling.... and there was an accident. He has amnesia I took him to the doctor and he gave me some medication." Yusei said taking the pills from his pocket handing them to the teal haired male. "He's already taken one. Their for pain... the doctor said there isn't anything real physical for damage but not to rush his memory's recovery and to let him figure things out for himself. He's not suppose to cook either..."

The teal haired male continued to look at the raven haired man with a scowl he then turned to Judai slightly smiling he gently spoke; "Judai I'm Johan your roommate. You live with me here in this apartment." he explained.

"Jo-han..?" Judai asked pronouncing the boy's name.

"Yes that's right." Johan smiled at Judai. "Now I don't believe you've told me your name?" He said looking towards Yusei glaring once more.

"I'm Yusei Fudo. I'm sorry... I know this is hard... but he just crashed and I couldn't help it..." Yusei explained.

"How long." Johan said.

"I'm sorry?" Yusei asked.

"How long is he going to be like this?" Johan asked adding clarity to his previous statement.

"The doctor didn't know... it could be a week... to as long as four weeks." Yusei said looking away from Johan.

"I see..." Johan said as he looked towards the ground in sorrow.

"Hey... you said your name was Yusei didn't you?" Judai asked the raven haired mechanic.

Yusei looked towards the boy; "Yes that is correct. What is it that you needed Judai?"

"Oh I just wanted to thank you for helping me! I don't know what happened but you were very kind! It's nice meeting you!" Judai said with a smile as he extended his hand.

Yusei took the boy's hand and shook it. "Yes... not a problem." Yusei than looked towards Johan. "Johan was it? I'm sorry for the trouble... I'll come check on Judai in a couple of days..." Yusei said as he exited the apartment.

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About three days had passed since the accident and Yusei was working on his duel runner's schematics to make sure it would be ready for the tournament coming up just short of two weeks.

"Yo Yusei how are the tune ups going?" asked Crow as he walked down the stairs.

"Oh Crow. Your back from your delivery? I think everything should be set now. I'll take it for a test run and visit Judai to see how he's doing while I'm at it." Yusei replied.

"Sounds good Yuse. I'd come with but I have another delivery... just came to grab something I forgot."

"It's alright... it's my fault he's like this anyways you shouldn't have to trouble yourself."

"Yusei it's not your fault. He drove too fast."

"But I knew he wasn't ready... I knew inside it was too soon for him to be participating in a riding duel however I let him anyways..."

"Yusei..." Crow drifted.

"I'm going. I'll see you later." Yusei replied as he rolled his D-Wheel out of the home/storage area.

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Knocks were heard on the door of Judai and Johan's apartment in the mid afternoon. Johan went to the door, answering he found Yusei standing on the other side of the door. The two looked at each other in silence tension thick in the air until Yusei slightly looked away staring towards the ground;

"How... how is he doing?" Yusei asked in a low toned voice.

"Johannnn I'm hungryyy..." a whiny voice was heard from inside. Yusei turned his head up towards the source to see Judai walking down the hallway towards the teal haired male.

"Then make some cereal Judai there's some in the cupboard along with bowls and spoons alright? I trust you to do that." Johan said turning his head towards the boy.

"Okay! Thanks Johan!" Judai said smiling as he turned to go towards the cupboard.

"He remembers you?" Yusei asked.

"Yes... though not until recently. The day after you brought him here he woke up and didn't know where he was or who I was once again. It wasn't until yesterday that something just seemed to strike a cord in him I suppose. He remembered me and the underground arena and a few of the flag girls from there. However he's been friends with me before we were roommates and some of the flag girls he's known before the underground racing circuit as well. He's remembered quite a bit of his past life."

"I see. A good sign then." Yusei stated.

"For sure... look I realize I've been kind of harsh towards you without actually getting to know your side of the story. I want to apologize we got off on the wrong foot. Judai's my friend... we've been friends for a long time I just... I care deeply for my friends.
Do you understand?" Johan asked in attempts of an apology.

"I understand completely. Don't worry about your behavior I too share the importance on the bonds of friendship." Yusei said.

"Hey Johan!" Judai called as he ate his cereal. "Maybe after I'm done eating we can go to the underground arena and visit Shane you think?"

Yusei's head turned at the name remembering the unfortunate memory. Johan's body went stiff;

"Well this is certainly a new turn of events isn't it..." Johan spoke in a low tone. He walked over to the table where Judai was eating Yusei found himself following the teal haired male unsure of how the male was going to handle the situation. "I... I don't think we can see Shane today Judai." Johan said to the boy.

"Hmm?" Judai looked up at Johan confused. "Why not?" he asked.

"Shane's.... Shane's busy today Judai." Johan said gently.

"Oh. Okay!" Judai said smiling once more. He looked behind Johan with a questioning expression towards Yusei; "Hey um excuse me Mr. are you okay? You seem kind of down."

Yusei turned his head towards the boy; "I'm fine..."

"Oh I'm sorry are you Johan's friend? I'm Judai! Judai Yuki! It's nice to meet you! Who would you happen to be?"

Yusei flinched. "Again...?" he thought. "I'm Yusei Fudo..."

"Oh well hello there!" Judai said smiling however he frowned once more noticing Yusei looking towards the ground. "Uh Johan... is he okay?" Judai asked the teal haired boy.

"Judai... Yusei is..."

"What is he?" Judai asked staring at Johan.

"Judai..." Yusei said getting the boy's attention.

"Yes?" he asked.

"Judai... as hard as this may be for you to believe right now I'm your fr-..." Yusei cut himself off. "Teacher." he finished.

"My teacher?" Judai asked confused.

Yusei was silent. "It's... it's not important... I'll see you around Judai." Yusei said turning to leave. "Johan." Yusei said signalling his leave.

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It had been two weeks since Judai's accident. Yusei was currently sitting on his duel runner on the starting line of a riding duel. The machine idled as he gripped the handlebars of the runner. Today was the big tournament he looked up towards the stands to see his friends cheering him on. His eye's scanned where his friends were looking at their cheerful faces. Soon he found himself looking forward once more towards the track but not really paying attention to the starting lights.

"Why do I keep looking expecting him to be here? He still doesn't remember me..." Yusei thought.

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Before the tournament had begun Yusei and his friends visited Judai as often as they could but with all the preparations that were needed to be prepared before the tournament it really wasn't that often. However every time they went over Judai would draw a blank asking who they were each time. Everyone would try to smile but eventually the smiles faded and they were silent. Though everyone was patient re-introducing themselves each time... well mostly everyone. Jack stopped visiting after a while since he was about to loose his temper and the others had to calm him down.

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The lights turned to green signalling the beginning of the riding duel. Yusei sighed and took off as the crowd cheered on.

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About a week after the tournament Yusei went over to visit Judai at his apartment once more. It had been a total of three weeks now since the accident. He knocked on the door waiting for an answer. The door flung open and an excited voice soon followed;

"Oh hey Johan are you back already? Are we going to duel now?!" Judai asked beaming at Yusei. His face soon turned to an apologetic but also disappointed expression; "Oh I'm sorry. You're not Johan." He said as he scratched the back of his head. "Oh! You wouldn't happen to play duel monsters would you?" Judai asked.

Yusei nodded in approval reaching his deck from his belt he took out the deck and showed Judai. "Yes I do."

"Oh alright! Hey my roommate Johan isn't back yet. Would you want to have a duel with me? Johan and I have been dueling lately... though my deck isn't exactly how I remember it... it's got these kind of funny new cards in it." Judai admitted.

"You mean like synchro monsters?" Yusei asked.

"Oh? You've heard of them?" Judai asked. "Johan had no idea what they were but if you can tell me that would be awesome!"

"Yes... I've heard of them. I have some myself like this one here." Yusei said as he took his Stardust Dragon card out from his deck holding it showing it to Judai.

Judai inspected the card. "Hmm... Stardust... Dragon..." he read looking at the card. He then looked up towards Yusei and then back to the card. "Stardust Dragon... huh I feel like I've seen it somewhere before..." he said looking at the card then up to Yusei once more.

"Judai...?" Yusei asked as the boy continued to look at his face.

Judai blinked for a minute and then looked back down to his deck, flipping through he came across a speed spell. Judai quickly flipped his head up towards Yusei once more; "Oh hey! Yusei when was that tournament you were going to be in again?"

"It was a week ago..." Yusei answered. "Wait... did he just?..." Yusei thought.

"Awe man you mean I missed it! I'm sorry Yusei I promised I would have been there! Did you at least win?" Judai asked.

Yusei looked at the boy while Judai stared back at him. He took a step towards him wrapping his arms around the boy he pulled him closer to him and rested his chin on the boy's right hand shoulder.

"Y-Y-Yusei?" Judai asked shocked.

"Glad to have you back." Yusei said as he released. Judai looked back up at Yusei's face;

"Back? Where did I go?" the boy asked puzzled.