I would like to note that even though this is a The World Ends With You fanfic, it doesn't really follow the plot all that well. This is because of three simple reasons.

It is easier to write OCs, since their behavioural patterns are easier to control. In fact, the main character of the series, Neku, thinks a lot like I do throughout the story [hence why I enjoyed the game so much], but he will be something more of a passing character.

This will follow the events of the game, but perhaps slightly differently to the normal canon. I may put in a different mission, especially in the second week, because that week sucked a bit… I preferred Shiki over Joshua… Then again, the main character feels the same way, so…

Because… um… well, I forgot the 3rd answer… But anyway, is anyone else surprised there is so little The World Ends With You yaoi on the internet? Seriously, the Joshua/Nekku thing seemed kinda obvious to me… Or maybe I've been hanging around people who watch Death Note too much too long… After a while you begin to feel that any relatively clean looking males are destined to go bump bump with each other [yeah, let's avoid the word sex… Because the word sex leads to hormone release in people's minds, thereby causing them to expect a sex scene. Seriously. I cannot describe sex any better than this: They embraced. They kissed. They used their hands on each other for a bit. They stuck bits in places. In and Out. Climax/another position go back to sticking bits in places. Finish. Hug. Usually either go to sleep or then the more male person decides to run off before anyone knows. This usually can apply to man-man things too… Hehe. Manman. Sounds like bambam… I miss watching the Flintstones… Someone should kick Hanna-Barbera in the butt and get them to make NEW episodes… Similar to the remake(s, if you consider that there's the main show, and there's also Scooby and Shaggy Get a Clue, which is pretty damn awesome… Incidentally, I'm distantly related to Casey Kasem, who voices Shaggy… Which is rather amusing, as I kinda dress like Shaggy a lot… Shame my dog can't speak though… Then again, she's a Labrador, so she'd be like "!"

Also, getting back to the point… There will be different missions because I can't remember the missions, and I don't see the point in checking them, when I can just make up some. Obviously, first mission is "hey, let the noobs work out the rules", The second one is "omgzors powerful bossfight aye that we can't beat then it runs away for some reason", then the following ones gradually increase in difficulty. I may deviate from this plan, but hey, I'd suggest you should ignore all my Author Notes up here in that case..

The World Ends With You.

Week 1. Day 1.

I woke up. I looked around.

Bugger. How did I get in Japan? The last thing I remember is ordering another vodka and coke, then doing a bit of karaoke… There's no way the Time Warp could have made me teleport, could it?

I checked my phone.

May 19th, 2010. Huh. Day after my birthday. I guess I'm 19 now then. This seems… wrong somehow.

I noticed something else. I was wearing bright clothes, and my phone, although normally purple, now had an orange trim around most of the edges.

I walked over to a nearby building with a reflective surface.

Okay… this is weird. I look like an anime character… My hair's the same colour as normal, just spikier-er, and my body… I'm thin. In fact… I feel lighter… YES! I must've somehow drunkenly gone for a run all the way to Japan, and now I've become super fit!!!

…

…

Oh, wait. That'd be impossible, right?

I have to admit though… I'm kinda sexy like this, at least so far as I can admit that about a guy… I could work with this look at home… Maybe flatten my hair a bit though… And wear darker clothing… But yeah, this'd be hot.

I walked around a bit.

Then I started to worry.

Whoa, whoa whoa, wait. I'm in Japan. Now, I've got two options. Go shopping with what limited amount of money I have, or I could use my money to call home, since my phone's network isn't picking up here, obviously.

Considering that it was the Christmas holidays when I went out… It's been 5 months since I must have disappeared… Do they think I'm dead?

I went over to a payphone, and realised, suddenly, that it wasn't really made for British Pounds.

Hmm. Should have seen that one coming.

"Ah, bugger. This means I probably won't be able to eat out here."

I panicked slightly.

Then I took a deep breath.

Then I panicked a bit more.

Then I took a deep breath.

Then I screamed, getting strange looks off a rather small amount of people.

Suspiciously small.

I walked out of the payphone, and noticed two things.

One, people were somehow walking around me without acknowledging my presence, as though I had some kind of SEP field around me, and also, they were all talking English. Odd. Isn't Japan where people speak, OH I DON'T KNOW... Japanese?

I noticed that there was a dude who was watching me from across the street.

I walked over there, finding it amusing how the crowd parted for me… I wondered how this would look from above: a random circle in the crowd that moves without anyone inside it.

I went up to the man, and noticed that there was strange markings all over his hoodie.

"Hey, do you speak English?" I asked, keeping my mind open to the idea that although he looked threatening, it probably wasn't as bad as I thought.

"Hehe. No. But you're the Player, right? The one that the Composer himself put in the game this time."

"Whoa, whoa whoa, explain from the beginning… The Game? The Player?"

"Ah, right. You don't have a pact yet. I'd suggest you look for fellow humans in your predicament, otherwise you're not going to last in Shibuya, kid."

"Dude, I'm not a kid. I'm 19, and if you call me a kid again, I'll rip out your larynx and teabag your corpse."

"Yeah, whatever, I'm 218 years old, and was a murderer when I was alive, so shut the fuck up, kid."

I walked off. There was no way that man was 218, but he was probably crazy, so leaving him to… watch people… was probably the best course of action.

I was still thinking about the random hooded man's age when the creatures came after me.

Two frogs. One wolf. That sounds like a really sick beastiality movie now that I say it like that… Frogs pooping in a wolf?

They lunged for me.

I dodged them easily.

"Down, boy." I said to the wolf.

It growled, with a slightly more artificial sound than a real animal could.

"Hmm. I would guess this is a part of that game that the Reaper was talking about… I guess the idea is to kill you guys, right?"

The creature nodded at me, as though it could understand my words.

"OKAY" I shouted, reminding myself of every video game I had ever played in my life, "Let's GAME ON!"

I ran at the three beings. The frogs didn't seem to be much of a threat, unless they were poisonous. The wolf, however, had obviously sharp teeth and slightly longer-than-natural claws.

I kicked it in the face. On the nose. I remembered a guide on the internet that I had read years ago that said that you're meant to kick creatures in the nose if they're highle dependant on that sense, such as Sharks and Dogs…

It flew surprisingly far backwards, and I heard a click, which I took initially to mean that the wolf had snapped its neck.

Then… There was another click.

"Grrrrrrrr…." It growled.

"Right. So you can heal yourself, apparently."

I was talking to stall, trying to work out what had happened to the frogs.

Then I realised.

I jumped backwards towards where they were, and flattened them with my feet.

"BOOM! Double score! Now, do you wanna mess with me, doggie? I'm the dude that is going to ACE this game!"

Looking back on it, I suspect I was looking rather scary at that point, because the wolf initially looked terrified.

I jumped off the frogs, and landed on the wolf's back.

"Hiho Silver!" I shouted, and the wolf took off.

I was riding a wolf. That was pretty damn awesome.

It kept on trying to turn its head to bite me, but each time I punched it.

I noticed that it seemed to be heading towards a bus station. Hmm.

It seemed to know where it was going.

It doesn't seem to be resisting any more… But where is this thing taking me?

It stopped. We were in some kind of underground system.

It had stopped next to a rather ominous archway.

I got off it. [not in THAT way.]

"you're not going to bite me, right? Or I'll do to you what I did to the frogs."

It rolled its eyes and nudged me forward.

I guess it isn't particularly violent a creature…..I guess it was riled up by something… A Reaper?

I tried to walk through the Arch.

"OW! Mother of all fuck! What the hell is this?"

It felt like I had walked into a wall.

I poked the area I had collided with.

It looked like thin air… But when touching it, it became a thin transparentcy made of many hexagons.

"A force field… Highly localised though, must not have enough energy to make a full field, so it just prevents small areas from passing through, so if there was something to drain its energy in one area…" I said, looking for something.

So if another being was touching it as much as they could, surely this thing would overload and stop working… A very human way of doing a forcefield… Seems to have its own energy source- I would have made it run off something that's in nature, like the sun… Or, since everything's going all supernatural, how about light from the moon?

"Hey, poochie: touch that part of this wall." I pointed at a corner.

The wolf did, with its nose.

"good."

I jumped through the wall. No resistance.

Then… something lovely came to my vision.

A being. With wings. Admittedly, the wings were more reminiscent of a demon than an angel or a fairy, but hey, demons are frigging hot.

"Dylan of Wales… make a pact with me."

"Huh?"

"A pact. Promise to help me destroy the Noise."

"Uh… sure?"

A lot of lights happened then, I guess, but my eyes closed at the first spark.

The "demon"'s wings faded, and in its place was a dark-clothed girl. Still kinda hot though… Seemed to have a thing for bunnies though, judging by the black and red leggings with little rabbits on them, and the bunny ears on her head. She also had an EPIC corset-type thing, which accentuated her assets. No, really, I'm not being a pervert here, this girl was really really attractive in most ways… She even had a slight air of geekiness once she was in a fully human form.

I managed to control my mouth, since it was gaping at the sight.

"Um… Not to sound rude… But what the heck are you? I mean, the wings, and all that…"

"Oh, these?" She changed back into her demon form, "I'm half Reaper. Apparently, my dad was a Reaper, and my Mum was a human Player… I couldn't see the UG until last week, so I didn't know."

"UG?"

"Oh, right, you're a noob." She said, changing back into her human form. It was odd, but she reminded me of someone I knew in Britain… But she was too skinny to be her… The girl I knew was kinda fat, but still attractive, mostly due to her mind and prickly nature.

"Ugh. Please don't call me a noob. Anyway, would you like to explain things, or should I just guess everything?"

"Hmm… Tempting though it is to let you guess things…" she giggled very high pitched…-ly. "I think I'll explain EVERYTHING that I know about the Game, Shibuya… EVERYTHING."

"Awesome. So… What is the Game?"

"The Game is a test given to souls that died in such a way that is determined by an unknown group of people to be unfair. In other words, everyone who is a Player in the UG has some dark past. I would guess that I'm the exception to this, since I died of food poisoning in a restaurant, with my foster parents… Here's my advice: never order the seafood ramen at a place called Don Ramen. He doesn't really know how to cook it," she giggled, "And somehow, twenty people have died there, but he's still in business… I'm not sure how he hasn't been caught."

"Can't we turn him in?"

"Oh, you mean, DEAD PEOPLE messing up the lives of the living? No. That is wrong. If you're dead, you should try to get back to life. Don't mess with the living, or you'll make it morally sound for a dead person to mess up your life when you return to life."

"Oh… WAIT! I'm dead?"

"Yep. Everyone in the UG is…. Well, apart from the Composer, it is said that he took on a living human form for a long time… He was actually a Player for a bit too."

"Oh. I would suppose the Composer is the one in charge of all this?"

"Pretty much. Both he and the Game Master can set missions, but the Composer's ones take higher priority."

"So there's a higherarchy?"

"Yep. Noise at the bottom, being little more than tools, and the Composer at the top."

"Noise?"

"The monsters. I think you've fought some, haven't you? Your pins appear to be activated…"

"Huh? Pins?"

"What? You haven't worked them out?"

She reached her hand into my jeans pocket, her hands getting uncomfortably close to… Well, let's just say that I my jeans became slightly tighter, okay?

She pulled her hand out, holding some pins.

"This one, the one shaped like a skull is your player pin. You can use this to read the minds of people in the RG. This one makes a giant pillar of ice with a pointy end come out of the ground… This one fires off a blast… And this one…. Is weird."

"Huh?"

I looked at the pin. It was decorated with an image of a wolf.

No, there's no way I turned that wolf that I rode into a pin, is there?

"HOLY SHIT!" she shouted. "You have a Noise Pin? I thought only Reapers could have these! Oh my word!"

"What? Is it bad? I think it might be that wolf I wouldn't kill but wouldn't let it kill me…"

"Yeah. You befriended it. You made it turn from savage beast into a weapon. You're freaking AWESOME!"

I felt kinda embarrassed at this point. This was mostly because this woman was very excited, and her breasts were jiggling in such a way that I couldn't really ignore them. Also, I'm not really used to praise.

"Hey, can you please stop bouncing?" I asked, feeling the glare of a thousand imaginary bystanders who were watching her in my mind, "Your breasts are getting kind distracting for me."

"Huh?" she said, looking really cute and innocent, "OH! Right… Sorry."

She closed her eyes, and her breasts… They shrunk.

I should be annoyed at this, but I suppose that the main idea is to survive, and huge gazongas aren't really useful in a battle scenario… What I wanna know is why she had them so big in the first place… That's a question for another time though.

"You can change shape?"

"Yeah… A fully grown Reaper can disguise itself as a Noise, but since I'm only half a Reaper, I have to stick to a human shape, so… Yeah. I get some minor shapechanging ability. I should be able to create Noise, but I haven't quite figured it out yet, and the one time I did it, they started to attack ME, so…"

"Huh. Sounds like you've had a rough time." I said, showing sympathy for her. She had spent a week already in this game, whereas I had spent 1 hour so far.

"So… What's the levels like in this game?"

"Levels?"

"Surely the idea isn't simply to survive, is it? And how long does it last?"

"Heh. The game is SUPPOSED to last seven days. I've already done seven, but at the end of each game, only one person is allowed to return to life… Usually. My last partner died at the finish. I didn't get a high enough score to leave. So, I had to play again."

"Score? You mean, we get graded?"

"Yeah. If we master a lot of pins, and beat a lot of enemies and learn as much as we can whilst doing the missions…"

"So… How often do we get missions?"

"We get one every day… If one player beats it, so does everyone else."

"So… If one person did it, there'd be no point in anyone else bothering."

"Yep."

"Huh." I said, thinking about this. That would mean that a mission would happen today.

"How do they get issued?" I asked.

"Text messages. If you don't have a phone, I think one is given to the Player… I'm not quite sure about that, since everyone has a phone these days."

"Hmm. Seems… Stupid."

"Yeah. That was my reaction when I was first in the game."

She changed back into her winged form.

"However… There is ONE good thing about my Reaper-ishness…"

"What?"

"The walls that affect Players don't affect me… Mostly. I can feel them, but it's nothing lethal."

She was blushing heavily, which really looked kinda wrong in this godess version of herself.

"Uh… If you don't mind me asking… Why does your Reaper form look so different from your human form?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah… I prefer this form… Makes me look hot, I guess… It's not distracting, is it? I find it easier to use my powers in this form."

"I guess it could have been worse, I guess… You could have had to have gone through a mega clothes-changing transformation sequence with very close shots of your legs at points, with flashing lights… I don't know how I would be able to deal with meeting a real magical girl."

"You're British, aren't you?"

Hmm. Quick change of subject…

"Huh? How could you tell?"

"I'm not sure, but you remind me of someone I met online a long time ago… He was from Wales… You remind me of him."

There's no way this could be HER, could it? The rather prickly and awesome girl I met on the internet? The one who I was suspicious of the entire time she talked to me? The one who actually persuaded me to buy a copy of that magical girl anime, despite my adversion to the genre?

If so, well… Dang girl, what was with all the emo-ness in the beginning then… Even your geeky form is freaking hot…

Well, even if this isn't you, it doesn't matter. You didn't know my name, I didn't know yours. Let's start afresh.

"Uh… You've been staring at my legs for ten minutes now, random man… Are you okay?"

"Huh?" I said, coming out of my thoughts.

"I said, you've been staring at my legs for ten minutes. The mission just came in on my phone. We need to go."

"Yeah… Well, let's game on. By the way, what's your name?"

She blushed, and her entire body went back to her geeky form.

"Call me M."

"Sounds like you're a fan of the anime Death Note. If you're going to initial yourself, then call me D."

"Yeah, okay…"

"So. What's the first mission?"

So, what do you think? This is kinda set anywhere before the game, maybe only a month or two before... It doesn't feature the characters from the game [although one character may appear later... keep an eye out for that... It'll be interesting...

I never really liked the shortness of the days, something the characters probably agree with me on. I'll give my characters room to panic slightly before their mission arrives... More than the game did, anyway.

REMEMBER: YOU MIGHT FORGET TO REVIEW, BUT REST ASSURED, THE REVIEW REMEMBERS YOU. [couldn't resist that.]