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<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/1853512"><strong>Fragmented</strong></a> (6674 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/Skye"><strong>Skye</strong></a><br />Chapters: 4/10<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Code%20Lyoko">Code Lyoko</a><br />Rating: Teen And Up Audiences<br />Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings<br />Relationships: Yumi Ishiyama/Aelita<br />Characters: Yumi Ishiyama, Aelita Schaeffer<br />Additional Tags: AU?<br />Summary: <p>Yumi immediately remembers the pink-haired girl, although no one else can.</p>

Yumi immediately remembers the pink-haired girl, although no one else can.

AU? Was going to be a one-shot, then I thought it might be fun to do a lot more with this...

Yumi paused from her exercises as she saw the two boys approaching her. Ulrich... He was sometimes good to practice with, but his rudeness and callousness made it not really worth interacting with him. Though she suspected some of the awkwardness could be contributed to his little crush on her... But that didn\'t mean she had to like him back, or like what he did at all, did it?

Despite Yumi grabbing her bag, getting ready to go somewhere else, maybe home, maybe to the library, the two boys kept approaching her. She started walking away, but Ulrich\'s friend shouted a "Hey!" her way, and she reluctantly turned around.

"Is that any way to greet us? We were just making a friendly gesture to start some casual conversation. Weren\'t we?" Ulrich\'s friend winked over at Ulrich, who avoided eye contact with everyone else there, his manner anything but friendly.

Yumi acted similarly, glaring at the two, ready to walk past them.

"Come on, now\'s your chance," Ulrich\'s friend whispered toward him.

"Give it up, will you, Odd?" Ulrich hissed back.

Yumi could easily hear the conversation, although she paid no attention, now completely distracted by the sight of the pink-haired girl walking around campus. Yumi felt something, staring at this girl. She\'d never believed in something like this before, but could it be love? But really, Yumi thought as she fought her blush, love at first sight? Still, there was something about her. She was talking to someone... Someone in Ulrich\'s grade, Yumi was pretty sure. "New girl?" she said to the boys.

"Na, she\'s related to Mr. Delmas or something. And she\'s so going to be my next girlfriend," Ulrich\'s strange friend declared.

"She practically ran screaming from you. And I\'m starting to relate to that sentiment," Ulrich replied.

"You exaggerate. You know you love me too, and this girl was so into my charms. She was only playing a little hard to get."

"It\'s Aelita! Don\'t you remember? Ulrich? Odd?" Yumi wasn\'t sure why she suddenly remembered the same of Ulrich\'s short, annoying friend. But in some cases he wasn\'t be that bad... But how could she know that? Yes, she knew them both very well, she was friends with both of them, and Aelita... Aelita...

Yumi turned around, seeing Aelita\'s pink hair now farther off in the distance. As the boys seemed perplexed, Odd laughing and joking about something or the other, Yumi ran away, going after her.

It took a while to catch up, chasing as Aelita was headed away from the main campus. She finally caught up with her in the park. "Aelita!" Yumi called.

Aelita turned around, looking her way. Her expression seemed shocked, and she backed away. Yumi approached her, and then she began to run.

Yumi was surprised but took chase again, determined to not lose sight of her. As they came to a certain part of the park, Yumi was sure there was an exit, and felt all the more determined to catch up to her. She finally did, crashing into Aelita as she bent down, finding herself sprawled on top of her. Aelita moved to get away, but Yumi pushed her down, surprised at her own desperation.

At that moment, she finally was able to take it all in. Aelita... She couldn\'t remember everything, but remembered enough to know who Aelita was. Aelita was her fellow Lyoko Warrior, a beautiful and kind girl that she loved. She also remember enough to know that she should recall much more. Why had she forgotten everything in the first place?

"Aelita... Of course..." Yumi said, reaching down and hugging her.

"Yumi..." Aelita said, her face, already flushed from the chase, beginning to blush more.

"How could I forget you?" Yumi asked. It wasn\'t a rhetorical question.

"Come with me... To the factory. I\'ll tell you there," Aelita said.

As Yumi followed Aelita down into the sewer, she began to remember exactly what the factory was. Their homebase. A gateway to another world. In that other world she was much more powerful than here, not only that, but it was Aelita\'s home. Yes, that was it... Though for some reason Yumi also remembered being Aelita\'s dorm room at Kadic. Things were becoming clearer, though everything was still muddled. One thing Yumi was sure of was her own strong feelings toward Aelita.

But Aelita was different now. She had changed, somehow. There were her plain black sweats, Yumi could remember her wearing something much more cheerful before. Actually, most things about her were cheerier in memories. The sad Aelita that turned to face her after pressing the button on the elevator, she was very different from the Aelita of her emerging memories.

"I... Well, it\'s nothing new," Aelita said, casually walking into the elevator.

Yumi followed her. "This is a little new to me now... I mean, I didn\'t even know I should remember it until just now." As the elevator doors opened, she looked at the supercomputer. "Jeremy..." She suddenly recalled the name of another who had been part of their group. "Is he-"

"He\'s the same as you," Aelita informed as she sat down at the computer. "I didn\'t know it was possible for any of you to remember me in the first place."

"Maybe it\'s because I love you, I think that\'s what triggered it," Yumi said.

"I mean... Was it a secret? That we were together? It probably was..." Yumi was also embarrassed of her own bluntness. "I don\'t have the whole picture. Not just yet. But I\'ll remember it all, I\'m sure."

"Yes..." Aelita said, purposely ambiguous as to what exactly she was responding to. "I could use your help in Lyoko."

"Of course," Yumi said. She remembered helping Aelita so many times before. But if Aelita wanted her help, why had she run away?

"It\'s set to automatically virtualize us. Do you remember what to do?"

"Yeah," Yumi said, deciding those questions could be saved until later. "Virtualization wasn\'t hard, for me, anyway," Yumi said.

Aelita smiled, looking more like the person that Yumi remembered. The two of them headed to the virtualization chambers, soon being virtualized into Lyoko. Yumi looked around at the all too familiar computerized setting, surrounded by the desert sector of Lyoko. But it hadn\'t all been a desert... "What do we need to do? Is there a tower activated?"

"Right. Well, not exactly, but I do need to do something in a tower, and you can protect me on the way. Just over here."

Aelita tugged Yumi in the direction of the tower she could see. "I see it," Yumi said. The two ran alongside each other. Yumi gave a quiet giggle, and then Aelita giggled as well, laughing as they headed to the tower.

Yumi couldn\'t immediately remember how to get inside the tower, but Aelita soon pulled her in. As Yumi observed the platform in front of her, and the abyss to the side of it, she became wary. "Don\'t worry," Aelita assured. "There\'s nothing dangerous about this place."

As Aelita walked forward, Yumi followed. They reached the center and then stopped. Yumi looked at Aelita, smiling. Aelita smiled back, looking to the side. Yumi touched her face lightly, and Aelita closed her eyes. Yumi leaned in closer, bending down slightly, only to be surprised as she and Aelita began to float upwards. Aelita opened her eyes now, giggling at Yumi\'s reaction.

They soon reached an upward platform. Aelita went toward a computer console, and Yumi stood toward the side, a bit embarrassed. Of course Aelita obviously had important things to do. Things they did in Lyoko were always important. Making a mistake could cost not only their lives, but the lives of many others. Aelita had to always be ready to sacrifice herself... Yumi would do the same, she thought to herself... But Yumi had a feeling that her own sacrifice wouldn\'t mean as much. Why would that be?

As Yumi perplexed over her emerging memory of past events, Aelita went through the files as quickly as she could, completely absorbed in her work. "There. I think it\'s ready now."

As Yumi turned to face her, Aelita hid the black energy until the last possible second. When Yumi was right by her, she turned around and hit her. "Please, don\'t remember me this time," Aelita requested as Yumi disappeared. "You just have to forget..." she muttered, now to herself.

How had this happened? An error in the programming? Aelita would definitely have to be careful in the future. Though Ulrich and Odd had shown no signs of remembering her. Not that they should, of course not. And, now that she was thinking about it, was Yumi remembering the truth? She\'d never said anything about being in love with her before, after all...

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