Author note: I do not own Yakitate! Japan. Or Kawachi. Or Shadow, or any of the other characters...
This takes place post-Monaco Cup, but before any of the other arcs after that can happen, so technically it's an AU fic. I might not work as much on this fic as the other Yakitate! Japan multi-chapter fics (such as 'Reflections' and 'Yakitate! Cosplay?', but we'll see how long it takes for me to update...
Warnings: AU, violence (lots of it), character death (LOTS of it), and pairings (most of them being just implied, though)
Constructive Criticism would be great, and I hope you guys read, review and enjoy! Thanks!
Find Me
1. Game Start
Kawachi Kyosuke woke up in a room. Everywhere he looked, the place was completely barren, with no windows or furniture, save for a flickering lightbulb hanging overhead and a blackened TV screen on the wall to his left.
"Where the heck am I!?" He exclaimed, getting up and looking around. All he remembered before ending up here was partying with everyone in celebration of Team Japan's win in the Monaco Cup, and then-
I got knocked out. Right.
The last few moments before he was knocked unconscious were blurry ones, but Kawachi knew what happened. Tables were overturned as people were sent away screaming, with hooded people grabbing his friends and him and putting a terrible-smelling cloth to their mouths and noses...
Before Kawachi could continue his train of thought, it was interrupted by a familiar voice from the TV screen.
"So, you're finally awake. You're really a sound sleeper, aren't you?"
Kawachi turned, staring at the TV screen. The scene it showed was a tad blurry, but it eventually cleared to reveal a person standing in the midst of familiar people Kawachi knew, all of them tied up with rope or put in cages. A man with silver hair from the team Japan faced against in the finals stared at Kawachi on the screen, a cruel grin upon his face. Kawachi looked more carefully, and knew immediately who it was from seeing that the man had no pupils.
"Shadow White." Kawachi uttered quietly. Shadow White, the best out of the three on the American team during the Monaco Cup, an expert at mimicking almost anything completely darn well, the loser of the match against Azuma in the finals. "What do you want!?"
"What else do you think I want? To be number one in the world, of course." Shadow responded, the smile still remaining on his face. "There are other ways to be number one rather than just beating the best. I plan on getting rid of the one who beat me in the Monaco Cup."
"If that's the case, why did you bother to go and capture me and everyone else!? What's your game?" Kawachi responded, glaring at Shadow as his hands balled into fists. "What are you going to do with us?"
"Well," Shadow started, crossing his arms. "I want to play a game with you. It's simple, really. We're all in the same building; just an old factory building. All you have to do is find me before everyone else is dead. I'll be killing everyone, one at a time, every half-hour. And there are...Quite a few people, so that's going to be quite a bit of blood being shed before everyone is completely dead." He let out a chuckle as he continued. "Of course, I'll let you live, but to be honest, I challenged someone else to find me about an hour ago, minus me killing everyone else." His grin turned to a smirk as he finished. "I'm not going to let him live. That's something I can tell you."
Before Kawachi could respond, the door to the room opened and in stepped Yuiichi Kirisaki, owner of St. Pierre and father of Meister Sylvan Kirisaki and Sophie Balzac Kirisaki.
Before anyone else could do a thing, Shadow pulled out a revolver from his pants pocket and pointed it at the Kirisaki, before shooting him in the head. Some of the other people in the room let out a few screams as Yuiichi fell to the floor, Shadow still pointing the gun at him before shooting once more.
Sobbing immediately echoed from Meister Kirisaki, who was in the back right corner of the room and caged as he tried to reach out towards his father with one arm. Sophie Kirisaki, however, didn't seem to show much emotion, but she did seem a little shocked at the sudden kill.
Blood pooled the floor, and Shadow gave a glare towards the fallen man. "This is for throwing me away, after you thought of me being a useless nobody when I lost against Azuma..." He trailed off, before putting the gun back in his pocket and turning back towards Kawachi. "Oh, I forgot a few things. I'll be giving you the choice to kill which one out of two people I put up as candidates for death. Whichever one you choose will die. For example, if I put up either Azuma or his little genius friend Kanmuri up as candidates, and you chose Kanmuri to die, he would die."
"This is sick!" Kawachi shouted at the screen. "You're seriously going to kill them!?"
"Well, there's some people that you hate or are rivals of yours. I don't think you would mind them getting killed," Shadow retorted, gesturing to Suwabara, Shachihoko, and Yukino. "And a half-hour is quite a bit of time if you use it wisely. If you're really lucky, you'll be able to find me before anyone else gets killed. If you're not..." Shadow appeared to give an even more insane grin. "Everyone you've ever known will be gone, all because of you."
The insane silver-haired man's eyes rolled forward as he spoke one more line.
"Good luck."
The door of the room where Kawachi was in opened with a creak, just as the screen went blank.
Alive: Meister Kirisaki, Yukino Azusagawa, Tsukino Azusagawa, Sophie Kirisaki, Kai Suwabara, Monica Adenauer, Shachihoko, Ken Matsushiro, Azuma Kazuma, Ryou Kuroyanagi, Shigeru Kanmuri,
Dead: Yuiichi Kirisaki