Hey guys! I've decided to rewrite this story (for like the third time, cause I need to renovate some of the characters and their personality) this took some time cause I wanted to make sure this story was well thought out. Hope you all enjoy this, the first couple of chapters will be more focused on Shinsuke for the daily lives arc as I slowly ease all the characters. I own nothing but the original characters, but that should be obvious of course.
Target 1: Akimoto Shinsuke
Spawned across his bed, a young fourteen year boy with dark messy hair sticking in all directions was snoring peacefully in his low-dimmed room. The door of the boy's room opened to reveal an older girl with the same dark messy hair as his, only hers reached past her shoulders. Golden amber eyes were narrowing at the boy's form as her left eye twitched slightly. There prominent dark rings shown around her eyes, she leaned against the door frame as she held her phone with its headphones attached.
"This little punk-" She muttered, slipping off her slipper and held it in one hand before throwing the said slipper at the boy's face, "Wake up!" She yelled. As the slipper hit his face, the boy woke up with a start, falling from his bed with a loud "THUD" and his face kissing the floor. He picked himself up and stared at her with a look of disbelief.
"N-Nee-chan! What the heck was that for?!"
"Don't you give me that!" She point her finger at her younger brother, giving him a glare, "Mom woke me up because you wouldn't!" She hissed.
"What?! How is that my fault-wait?" He paused, mid-rant. "What time is it?" He jumped up and saw that his alarm clock didn't go off and he only had ten minutes to get to school. He practically shrieked and ran past her and into the bathroom across the hall. She coolly leaned against the door frame with an annoyed expression. A few seconds later, he ran out of the bathroom, now dressed in his school uniform and down the stairs. As the older sister leaned against the door frame bored, a electronic giggle was hear through the headphones. She looked down at her phone to see a pixilated boy clad in turquoise jacket and shorts with mint green eyes and a darker shade of green hair.
"He seems to be in a rush, hikikomori-san," The pixel giggled, causing the girl to sigh irritably at the pixel's nickname for her.
"Could you please shut up and not use that stupid nickname?" She asked, too exhausted at the moment. The pixel shook his head and continued to giggle.
"No can do, hikikomori-san!" He said, "I was designed to assist you in your everyday life, and with you staying inside your room all day, I can not fulfill that!" He informed her.
"Yeah, I know, I made you!" She grumbled, her original goal was to make an AI system that would make her life easier in school, not more difficult, "And I can easily delete you as well!" She huffed, earning a dramatized gasp from the pixel.
"Hikikomori-san! How could you!" He said, feigning hurt and tears, "I'm wounded that you would think to do that, it's bringing me to tears..." She stared at it with a dumbfounded and irritated look.
"What? How?! You're an AI program! You can't feel any emotions!" She yelled, flabbergasted.
"That's what you think!" He giggled and disappeared behind the apps of her smartphone. She grumbled under breath and descended down the stairs. She reached the bottom steps and saw her brother rushing to eat his breakfast. She groaned and walked into the kitchen to grab a morning snack, eating breakfast was not something she had done in a while and she did not want to mess with her bodily schedule.
"You've got seven minutes left now," She muttered, opening the fridge as she took a canned soda out.
"What?!" He choked out and looked up at the clock hanging above on the wall. Shit! She's right! There was only seven minutes left. He quickly ate the remains of his breakfast, leaving a mess much to his sister's chagrin.
"Don't make a mess, you pig!" She fumed at him, "Now I have to clean this up before mom get home!" She grumbled as he ran out of the kitchen, grabbing his bag.
"Sorry, nee-chan!" He called out to her, "I'll buy you something to make up for it on the way back alright!" With that he left the house, receiving a "You better," from the older sibling.
Akimoto Shinsuke, age fourteen, sprinted out of the house and down the vacant street towards the Namimori Middle. Thankfully, his running paid off as he reached the school, seeing students still coming in. He had made it just in time, thank god! He was definitely not planning on getting be bitten to death by the disciplinary committee. A typical, mundane day for him.
"Yo, Shin-chan~!" A sing-song voice called out to him. Shinsuke turned around to see a boy around his age with light brown hair and a Cheshire cat grin. He wore a black jacket over his summer uniform, how he was able to get away with he will never know.
"Oh, Ibuki!" Shinsuke smiled at one of his best friends, speaking of best friends, "Hey, where's Takane?" He asked, looking around the area, "Doesn't she usually walk to school with you?"
"Ah," Ibuki grinned wider with his eyes close, "About that, Shin-chan..."
"I'm right here..." A feminine voice muttered. Shinsuke's golden amber colored eyes blinked a few times before looking off to the space next to him to see a girl with long dark brown hair and eyes wearing a red scarf. Shinsuke jumped and let out a shriek as Ibuki let out a laugh.
"Wow, it's been a while since you've done that, Shin-chan!" The cat-eyed boy grinned. Shinsuke held a hand to his heart as it raced as he stared at the girl, Ibuki went behind the two and placed his hand on their backs, "Now, now, let's hurry up before the bell rings, we don't want to get in trouble with the scary disciplinary committee now do we?" He said, though the cheer tone in his voice made it hard to tell if he was being serious or not. As they were about to walk past the school gates they saw a familiar orange-blonde hair girl.
"Isn't that Sasagawa-chan?" Shinsuke asked.
"And Mochida-senpai!" Ibuki exclaimed, peaking out over Takane's head, since he was a foot taller than her.
"Sasagawa-chan sure is busy, being the school's idol and all..." Takane muttered, the two boys merely nodded in agreement. They all paused when they saw No Good Tsuna, clad in his boxers. Immediately, Shinsuke covered Takane's eyes where as Ibuki covered her ears, both boys keeping dead expressions.
"Will you go out with me?" The two boys blinked at the question.
"Eh...? EH!?" Shinsuke exclaimed, "That's a confession?!" He exclaimed, horrified at the so called confession taking place before his eyes as Ibuki was laughing at the scene.
"Oh, man! Did that-? Did that really just- bwahaha!" He brawled out laughing. Naturally the girl, Kyoko, ran away from him, leaving the brunette sad and heart broken.
"Oi, oi, Ibuki! We should head to class now!" Shinsuke muttered as he caught a glimpse of Hibari Kyoya, the head of the disciplinary committee. Ibuki finally stopped laughing, wiping a tear from his eyes and proceed to push Shinsuke and Takane to their class.
"What just happened?" Takane asked, innocently as she was being pushed towards the classroom.
"Ah, nothing, nothing," Shinsuke replied. He wanted to spare his friend from such a sight both he and Ibuki had just witnessed.
Later on during class, apparently there was talk that Mochida-senpai, captain of the kendo team, had challenged No Good Tsuna to a fight for the scene he cause earlier in the morning. Shinsuke had contemned on the idea of going or not. Usually any mentions of fights were scarce, the disciplinary committee would handled such things to make sure no fights were allowed, oddly through violence. The dark haired teen sighed as he stood up from his seat, heading towards the vending machine. After inserting the exact change for the drink, he twisted the top open and was about head back to class (despite that everyone else was at the gym, wanting to see the fight), when someone bumped into him. Shinsuke almost lost his balaence, but thankfully he regained it quick and made sure his drink wasn't spilled. He sighed in relief and looked to see who it was who bumped into him. He was surprised to see that it was none other than Sawada Tsunayoshi, or Tsuna for short. The smaller brunette gazed up at Shinsuke in fear and shrieked.
"Hiiee! Akimoto-san! Please don't hurt me! I'm sorry!" The brunette bawled at Shinsuke's feet. Shinsuke blanched at the sight of the smaller brunette bawling and looked around his surroundings to see no one around.
"Uh-hey, hey! It's fine!" He said, worriedly, "No one's going to hurt you," The brunette looked up at him, Shinsuke was surprising tall for his age (standing at roughly 5'8" to be exact), "Er-well maybe except Mochida-senpai..." Shinsuke muttered, sheepishly. At this the small brunette cried out in frustration.
"Ugh, I can't believe this is happening to me!" Tsuna groaned. Shinsuke blinked.
"So, I guess you're gonna run from the fight, right?" He asked the brunette, who looked back up at the taller student, "I mean, I would do the same if I were in your shoes, I'm not really the kind of of person who likes to fight over trivial things," He laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head, "I mean, all of this just seems to some sort of revenge plan for Mochida-senpai to get back at you from earlier, not really anything to do about insulting Sasagawa-chan, she seemed fine in class today..." He explained.
"Eh? But-but I thought you knew how to fight, Akimoto-san," Tsuna said, Shinsuke let out another nervous chuckle.
"I do, but I'm not that great at fighting, its just simple self-defense moves I learned on the street!" He admitted, "But if you do choose to fight Mochida-senpai, then that's also fine as well," He continued, "Hope you win though, I'm going to head back to class now!"
"Wait! You're not going to see the fight?" Tsuna asked.
"Huh? Oh, well, I'm not one to embrace these types of things, I mean, whether the fight happens or not depends of you go there, I can't make that choice for you, only you can do that," Tsuna stared in slight awe at the surprisingly wise advice, "But, if I do attend, I'll be cheering you on."
"A-Akimoto-san-"
"Call me Shinsuke, I'm not really big on all those formalities..."
"Thank you for the advice, Shinsuke-san!" The brunette said before running off.
"Ah," Shinsuke stared after the smaller boy as he ran in the other direction, "Hm, I wonder if he made his choice..." He mumbled, walking back to the classroom, unaware of black, beady eyes that were trained on the boy.
"Hm...interesting..."
Once Shinsuke returned back to the classroom, an arm wrapped itself around his neck as a familiar voice cooed out, "Shin-chan~" Shinsuke's face contorted with disgust at the sound of Ibuki's voice.
"Oi, Ibuki, hands off..." Shinsuke muttered.
"Eh, but Shin-chan!" He whined, "Don't you want to see the fight between No Good Tsuna and senpai?" He asked, "It'd be funny to see senpai get his ass handed to him by someone like No Good Tsuna!" He snickered.
"You're an evil person..." Shinsuke muttered.
"I know it keeps me awake at night!" Ibuki grinned and proceed to drag Shinsuke to the gym, "C'mon! Takane is already there, let's go before it starts!"
"Oi! Ibuki! Quit it!" Shinsuke cried, but it was all in vain as the other dragged him away.
"I hate you so much..." Shinsuke grumbled with arms crossed as he, along with Ibuki and Takane, were standing in the crowd with the other students.
"No you don't, Shin-chan! We all know that you love me too much!" Ibuki grinned.
"Kaname, you should really stop messing with Shinsuke-kun!" Takane scolded the cat-eyed boy, but he just laughed it off knowing that she wasn't really mad at him.
"Sorry, it's just so fun to mess with Shin-chan!" He laughed, but he stopped when he saw a certain no good brunette at the door, "Oh! He came!" He grinned once more.
"Guess he made up his mind," Shinsuke muttered.
"Hm? What was that, Shin-chan?" Ibuki asked.
"Nothing..." He replied.
"Should we do something?" Takane asked, worried about their classmate.
"Go, go! No Good Tsuna!" Ibuki cheered, Shinsuke sweat dropped at his words.
"I don't think adding 'No Good' is the best way to encourage him..." Shinsuke dead panned, Ibuki looked up at him.
"Eh? Really? Then how would cheer on for him?" He asked the taller one.
"Hm...maybe something like this," Shinsuke said as he cupped his hands around his mouth to increase the volume, "Go Sawada-san! Do your best!" He cheered.
"Hm, that sounded lame, Shin-chan..." Ibuki trailed off, resulting a ticked off Shinsuke.
"It was definitely better than yours!" He growled. Ibuki let out a hearty laugh at Shinsuke's irritated expression. They then returned back to see Tsuna, who had suddenly he fell back with a small orange flame igniting on his forehead. His clothes them burnt off him, leaving him in his boxers, yet again. Shinsuke and Ibuki covered Takane's eyes and ears once more as the brunette did was jump on the senpai and started to pull on his hair until he was bald. The whole crowd was silent for a minute.
"Pft-!" Ibuki let out a tearful laughter at the scene and dropped to the ground, "Oh my gosh! That was-pft- haha! Oh god! That was amazing!" He wiped the tears aways the rest of the crowd joined in the laughter.
"Eh? Shinsuke-kun? What's going on? Why is everyone laughing?" Takane asked, innocently as the golden eyed boy still had his hands covering her eyes, he didn't want her to witness seeing Tsuna in his boxers.
"Well, Sawada-san won, that's all that matters," Shinsuke said and let out a heavy sigh. Something tells me things are going to get more exciting now...
