Disclaimer: I do not own Bakuman

It took me weeks to write this first chapter mostly because I'm a slow writer. The editing of this chapter I finished while watching Robocop. I would like to thank Valyrkya fanfiction author of Crimson Core and brilliant editor for this story. It's a little unrealistic dream of mine to be a published manga writer but fanfiction is good enough for me. And I don't make as many friends in manga writing as I do in fanfiction.

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Prologue

Manga is a very popular form of entertainment in Japan and America. Anime is made from the basis of manga but there are good shows like Code Geass and Gurren Lagann made as anime before anyone turned them into manga. Although it's fun to watch this stuff no one wants to be the person who makes them.

Picture it, suppose you're a struggling author trying to make a page to Shonen Jump. Everyone does it inspired and full of hope, but on the first try they decline the draft because it's not something you can market. Does the author give up being an artist hearing that, no. Trying again working harder and more hungry than usual the first chapter is finally accepted. Except now you're given only one week to make a chapter for the story. Eventually the author becomes lazy and his work fails.

For anime, a usual anime based on a manga is somewhere between 13, 26, or fifty something episodes with maybe one or two OVAs. If the anime however wants to finish the same way the manga will things become difficult because an anime episode is longer than a manga chapter so what they do is make filler episodes which are not fun because it adds uninteresting lore to the story and no one dies, it doesn't progress the story in any way.

A lot of the work Kentaro Miura made was good. He was thirteen when he had his first manga published while Noriaki was trying to do well in school despite his learning disability. Berserk was meant to be a Shojo fanfiction but became a manga mostly about the carnage of Apocalytes, demonic looking angels, and killing a man named Griffith who did a bad thing for the right reason.

Noriaki's mind worked in strange ways. He could see the way manga's are different.

" I am going to watch some tennis after I get out there to update my resume," Noriaki said.

He had soup for lunch with lentils his family picked for him. He left most of his things in his apartment because he feared they would be stolen.

His first stop was at a small restaurant because they were willing to look at his updated resume. But was it just him or were people giving him weird looks?

" You'll work the night shift," he said after looking at his resume. " We can offer you one thousand four hundred and fifty yen an hour."

An extra hundred yen isn't really worth working through a night shift for so Noriaki politely said goodbye and looked for another place with a Help Wanted sign.

Sometime later Noriaki walked into a Starbucks. Noriaki was envious of people in Starbucks. He thought the coffee there was overpriced and too salty but when he was stressed he went to places he didn't like. This Starbucks was special because it was basically a big bookstore, limited to you have to buy your book so you can carry it in a bag before buying coffee. They want you to sip coffee and read books at the same time. So many books and since he's been here before he knows where the manga section in the store is.

To his silent hate, even though he's never read the manga, someone has been ripping out cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh manga's again to have them and not have to pay for them. They also had the last volume of Naruto before they released the manga Boruto and it remained Noriaki's least favorite last volume of a good manga.

As if things couldn't make him feel any more helpless he saw an old classmate of his. His name is Sato Usagi and he was the most popular boy in Noriaki's old high school.

" Noriaki, I'm lucky I found you." Sato said as he walked to Noriaki. Noriaki blinked in confusion wondering why Sato needed his help. " Remember when I asked if you could write a music script? Today I want you to write a seven thousand word story for an Internet site. They will pay you five thousand yen if you do."

" But I'm an aspiring mangaka." Noriaki said.

" It's not like you have to put time and effort like One Piece where it is over eight hundred chapters but it's sells beat Spider Man only to lose against Batman comics. And you get to choose how it ends unlike the manga Bleach where the author only now got to the ending. Spoilers, Ichigo and Orihime get married and have a son together."

He was talking like a fanfiction writer urging another fanfiction author to collaborate with him. The best answer Noriaki could give was he would only do it once with no editing.

" Do they care if the story is something lame like hover boards like Jupiter Ascending or that new Yu-Gi-Oh series coming out?" Noriaki asked.

" Sounds like a Sci-Fi story they'll be happy to publish."

" You got yourself a deal."

Noriaki shook his high school popular kids hand. He had a strong hand shake putting his hand shake to shame.

On his way out Noriaki held the door open for two boys. Both had short hair on their heads. One had blue hair and a blue jacket while the other was blond and had glasses that made him look cool instead of nerdy.

Noriaki acted like he didn't know them but he did. Their names are Moritaka Mashiro and Akita Takagi. He met them when he was trying to be published in Shonen Jump but thought they were one author named Muto Ashigiri.

He obviously didn't get out more. He didn't pay attention to the author only their works. It wasn't until he was in his last year of high school that he look up the authors instead of just the manga.

To move along with Noriaki's life he went through the story process with the five W's of storytelling to start it and finished the beginning, middle, and end. The whole hover board story was posted on the site Sato recommended and that was it. Nothing spectacular like what happened to the author of Fifty Shades of Grey when he posted the fiction online.

Noriaki took a break from writing by watching the movie with the greatest ending twist of all time Americans made some decent movies but Noriaki's country had more imagination and hard working citizens. He couldn't help but repeat some messages he heard in Psycho because they were good lines even if they were spoken from the known psycho of the movie.

This movie was known for a terrible remake of it starring Vince Vaughn and showing everyone what a real psycho is. A psycho is someone who doesn't seem like one until they just reveal themselves as one shocking everyone and filling them with suspense. Noriaki just loved fictional psychos like movie psychos and psychos in manga's. In fact...maybe he could try his luck with one.

Noriaki knew sitting was like cigarettes when you do it too long but it was just something he would have to live with if he wanted to sit long enough to finish his first chapter of the manga. He would call it Assessment On The Beast. It would focus on a sister thinking her brother has become someone who is mean and dangerous, also the principal of the school is having an affair with her brother and he's able to make the police go mad...he really needed to just focus on three things on a manga: take his time on the first chapter because once it's made the rest could be made too fast and look terrible, know how you're going to end the story, if you plan on making it long the beginning has to be very interesting.

He drew first shapes and lines that didn't seem to be anything special because all people and animals are drawn as first circles with four boxes made on the circle by two lines. He learned that from two manga's made by an American author on YouTube where he was teaching a class.

He finished the first page even if it didn't fit what he really wanted it to look like. He did however get up so he could have a glass of milk. Manga authors don't really feel things like hunger or thirst on the first day but even if they don't feel it they know their bodies need the nutrients.