Title: Kyouya, The Gamer (we're all fu*ked now)
Summary: Kyouya finds a cheat code and the future abruptly takes two steps to left and trips over. Gamer AU.
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"I'll bite you to death."
The cold, blank voice chases a shiver up their spines and they snap around to stare at the Demon Prefect of Namimori. One of the girls opens her mouth and closes it again in wordless horror, mind blank in the face of an apex predator. Her boyfriend takes a very abrupt step behind her.
They watch in terror as Kyouya smoothly stalks closer in a disturbingly loose manner, as if he was liquid death. He stops centimetres from one of the boys and tilts his head in consideration, scanning the spray cans the teenagers hold and taking into account the splashes of colour along the brick wall, denoting the tagging.
"Five," he states.
There's no reply from the group: flight not working and fight leading to tonfa even quicker.
"Four," Kyouya drawls, rolling his shoulders and loosening up in preparation.
One of the girls catches on, taking a step back and freezing again when Kyouya locks onto her.
"Three," he warns.
They break, dropping their spray cans and bags, and go shooting off into different directions, every person for themselves.
"Two," Kyouya practically purrs, tracking the weakest with half-lidded eyes.
The last one turns the corner just as metal slots into his hands, the custom weapons feeling like bliss.
"One."
The world rushes by as Mina puts on a burst of speed, her track team pride carrying her onward more than anything. She didn't dare stop, even though the stitch in her side was killing her and every gasp brought in air that set her throat on fire.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw that same figure vault from roof to roof, chasing her through Namimori's streets. She supposes she should consider herself special, most of the others had been taken down in the first ten minutes, despite sprinting in opposite directions. She lets out a laugh that turns into a sob and takes the corner at a pace that almost sends her slamming into a light pole.
Her eyes lock onto a red brick wall splashed with colour, bags and spray cans scattered around the side walk. A feeling bubbles up from her chest, spreading out to her limbs. It's only when she finds herself slowing into a complete stop does she recognise it as hopelessness.
She doesn't even see his attack.
Kyouya straightens his shirt, the clothing rumpled from his hunt, and pulls the gakuran more firmly onto his shoulders. He counts it as a good deed, the head start more than gracious to crowding herbivores.
As Kyouya continues his patrol route, from the exact spot he found the vandals thanks to his herding, he catches sight of a slightly crumpled ball of paper. He deviates to the other side of the road to pick it up, heading for the closest bin while mentally tallying how much pain littering costs even as he straightens out the lined paper in bored curiosity.
The paper has strange squiggles on it, evidently not any language Kyouya knows. He squints and makes an approximate guess for English, lining up 'tourist' as his first suspect.
A high pitch ring sounds almost the same time Kyouya's hand spasms from a sharp pain then goes slack. The paper drops to the floor. He stills for a split second and then picks it up again, ignoring the feeling of needles that flares up when he moves his hand.
He only notices that the paper is blank when he raises his hand over the edge of the bin. His eyes slide across and he blinks at the black lettering, painfully obvious against the pale white of his wrist, crossing over blue veins and wrapping around like handcuffs.
The lines of writing pulse a brilliant white and disappear. His hand clenches unconsciously, crumpling the paper as the pain fades to a throb. He drops the paper into the bin and turns to finish his patrol, disregarding the after echoes of pain that seeps up his arm.
Between one step and the next -
[You have unlocked 'Procrastinator'
Procrastinator: Level 1
The Procrastinator skill levels up with pain tolerance and allows the user to ignore any and all pain for a set time limit. The limit extends by five minutes whenever the Procrastinator skill is levelled up.]
Kyouya comes to an abrupt halt and stares at the electric blue words embedded in an almost translucent rectangle, floating just to the left of his immediate vision. He reads through and glances down at his now pain free left hand.
He wasn't stupid, he could put two and two together. Obviously, someone had poisoned him when he wasn't looking. The only altercation he had been in today was with the vandalising teens. He needed to track them down and bite them to death. His stride is determined when he backtracks to the last herbivore he took down.
[You have unlocked 'Sighting Prey'
Sighting Prey: Level 1
The Sighting Prey skill levels up with killing intent and lessens the opponents Will stat by one point every hour. Levelling up Sighting Prey quickens the loss of will. Opponents half the users level and under will automatically loose ten percent of their Will stat when Sighting Prey is used.]
Kyouya narrows his eyes and quickens his stride, tonfa dropping into his waiting hands. The screen disappears after a few seconds, and it was translucent enough that his vision wasn't obstructed, but it still made him tap his fingers against his tonfa, counting out the fluttery heartbeat of an herbivore.
[Sighting Prey: level 2]
His hand throbs.
[Procrastinator: level 2]
A snarl of wrath leaves him.
[Sighting Prey: level 3]
Kyouya slams the front door closed with more force than necessary, stalking through the house and straight up to the roof for a nap. His mood had been completely ruined thanks to the suicidal herbivore who attacked him, worsening when the vandalising teens had no idea what he was talking about.
When he got to the roof, the sky was already bleeding from blue to orange to a bloody red.
He stretches out on his back, but can't calm down enough to sleep, eyes flicking open just as he becomes comfortable only to dart around for the herbivore who poisoned him.
He stares up at the slowly darkening sky, a frown on his face as he thought back to what one of the vandals asked.
"Is there a pause function?" Kyouya mimics and scoffs, only to jolt when that same high tone, like when the trouble first started, sounds and another screen of light blue pops into existence.
[Avatar
Map
Options
Continue]
Kyouya scowls and reached up to knock it away but the screen flickers and split.
[Hibari Kyouya - Carnivore
Skills
Main menu]
Not even seeing the words on the left third of the screen, Kyouya stares at a small full body image of himself that rotates slowly in the right two thirds. It's wearing the Namimori middle's school uniform on, an exact replica of Kyouya's.
Underneath it is multiple little squares, all empty apart from the three that had a phone, his tonfa, and a small box of hard candy.
He reaches into his pocket without taking his eyes off the screen, pulling out hard candy. The item leaves the little box but the spinning mannequin of him suddenly has the same box in its hand.
An idea occurs to him and he slowly reaches up with the candy, pressing the item into the screen. It disappears from his and the mannequins hand at the same time, but reappears in the item box.
An amused smirk quirks his lips before he catches himself.
Realistically, he is probably hallucinating. It's strange, since he can't say he has played a lot of games, but it makes more sense than the other option.
He reaches up, blank faced, and taps the word Skills, finger slipping through the screen.
[Procrastinator
Sighting Prey
Locked
Avatar]
He scrolls down, frowning at the multiple boxes with the word Locked on them, before deciding he didn't care. This is pointless either way.
"Continue," he says, humouring the part that says he should treat this seriously just in case he can carry more weapons this way. He rolls onto his side and forces his body into sleep.
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A/N: I am well aware of the fact that I'm going to make Kyouya far too over powered. I'm not sorry about it, this is just a warning.
Also, why hasn't anyone done this before? Am I just not looking hard enough for Gamer! Kyouya?