Disclaimer: I do not own any of The World Ends With You characters or it's original plot line. I give credit to their respective owners.

Day 1: The World Stops For You

Joshua and I held our guns pointed at each other. The fate of Shibuya was on my shoulders. I could've fired and ended everything.. But I couldn't.. I'm not sure why, but I couldn't pull the trigger, I remember the beads of sweat and tears drop from my face and crash into the floor. I just dropped my arms, gun-in-hand, and heard a gun shot

I slowly opened my eyes, I could hear the traffic lights changing signals, the sound of footsteps all around me.. and through me. The Scramble Crossing. I took a huge breath, and cried into the skies.

"WHAT THE HELL!?"

Those tears almost escaped me again as I dropped to my knees. This was the fourth time being sent back to this god forsaken game. Some say the third time's the charm.. I've proven them wrong.

I finally stood up, no mission mail yet, I rummaged my pockets for the one thing that's been with me through this entire game. I pulled out a small black object with a white skull imprinted on it. A player pin. Definate confirmation that I was in the reaper's game, and this time, I'll get out for sure.

My phone beeped, the mission had arrived. I flipped it open examining the contents:

"Find a Partner,

Get to 104.

10 minutes or face erasure."

Tch. I could've guessed, the first mission is always the same. I winced as I felt the timer burn into my skin, accompanied by green frogs which appeared out of no where. Looks like the noise are on time as usual. I jumped back, avoiding one of the frogs, and set my eyes in the direction of Hachiko. Hachiko had become the best place to find players, it'd been where I first met Shiki.. then Joshua. I hope I can find a good partner.

I arrived at the dog statue and glanced all around me, "Are there any players out there?! Someone call back to me!"

I sensed something coming and rolled to the side out of instict, looking back at where I once stood I saw the frog noise again, this time accompanied by kangaroos. Black ones. The taboo noise were back, and I was left with no partner to erase them with. Damn it.

I was suddenly surrounded by a bright light. A pact!? With who? My eyes darted about, trying to find my partner.

"Pay attention Hectopascal!"

...Oh god no.

I narrowly jumped back, avoiding a kangaroo noise crashing down ontop of me. Despite my partner, it still gave me my fighting ability back. I pulled out a velocity pin, rushing forwards and crashing through all the noise. I'd managed to erase most of the frog noise, and heavily damage the kangaroo noise. Before I could reach into my pocket for another pin, the rest were suddenly erased.

"Too zetta easy." After two weeks trying to survive him, he's become my partner in all of this. It didn't seem right. "What's wrong Hectopascal? Surprised to see me?"

"You're my partner?" I couldn't help but sneer abit.

"That's right radian." Sho smirked at me. "That composer put me back in this game as a player, and he recommended that you'd make a good partner!"

...I'll kill that silver haired little.. "Whatever." I sighed heavily.

We made it to 104 with plenty of time to spare, the timers from our hands were wiped and I leaned on the wall of the building. "You still didn't answer my question, Heaper."

"Yes radian. 2 + 2 is 4."

"Shut it Math Geek." I crossed my arms in annoyance. "Why are you here? I thought Joshua erased you."

"Like I said. When I got trashed by the composer, he sent me back here from being a reaper to a player as my punishment. Should've erased me when he had the chance, but I guess he's letting me off easy this time." He shrugged as he looked away from me, keeping his hands in his pockets.

He'd better not screw me over. With all he's done to me.. To everyone.. He'd better be prepared for the rebound of all of it.

I stood there and stared at 104, I recalled a memory of when Shiki dragged me all around that place looking for clothing. At first I thought it was a pain, but as I found out that new clothes changed the way the charts are, I knew that I'd be the one worrying about stats while Shiki worries about style.

We contrasted way too much on that subject.

I wondered into the shops, browsing for a shirt that would help protect me from damage or anything that would help me chain more combos.

I changed into the new clothes that I had bought, my final outfit was a mix of different brands. I kept the hood on my D+B Jacket up, I kept the Grim Heaper's hat on as well, I glanced into a mirror as I walked out of the shop, I couldn't even recognise myself. Usually I would be in a sleveless shirt and shorts, but I found myself looking a bit like a reaper. I shrugged as I raised my headphones off my neck and back onto my ears. As I moved forwards, turning away from the mirror, I bumped into someone; a girl who was a bit shorter than I was, a green clip in her hair, glasses, ordinary clothing, pretty much your run-of-the-mill average girl.

Atleast that's what I thought, until I saw a little stuffed toy poking out of her bag.

Piggy.

I didn't want Shiki to notice me in here, it would worry her that I was thrown back into the game again for a fourth time.. "S-sorry" I mumbled as I passed her, keeping my eyes forwards. I think she might have noticed me, she tried calling out but I ignored her and kept walking. I probably vanished into thin air as soon as I stepped out of the door. I turned to see if she really had noticed me to find her standing outside of the shop looking around. Curious, I reached into my pocket and flipped the player pin into the air, catching it as it twirled back down to earth. "Open up your senses" I said to myself, focusing into Shiki's thoughts.

That... That guy just now.. He looked so familiar, yet... Who was that?

Huh? I guess she didn't realize who I was.. Good, it's better that she didn't know. I faintly saw Shiki re-enter the shop when my entire world went black.

That was the end of Day 1.