Author's Note: This actually didn't start as a fanfiction. Me and a friend decided to do a "pen and paper" roleplay (more like keyboard and monitor though) for The World Ends With You. I liked the story so much, I decided to show it off and post our sessions. These are very raw and I'll be trying to touch them up as much as possible! Hope you enjoy!
Day 1
In the city of Shibuya, a boy with short blond hair awoke. He also wore a pair of black pants with a blue hoodie, a skull design on the front of it. He rubbed his eyes, trying to figure out what was going on when he quickly was alarmed, remembering being hit by a car only moments ago. For some odd reason, however, he found himself in the Scramble Crossing of Shibuya, nobody paying any mind to him.
"The hell is going on?" He asked himself as he stood up.
Suddenly, a tribal-looking red symbol glided across the ground towards two other people from the crowd. In a matter of seconds the two men who had been standing there vanished with the symbol.
"Where did he go?!" the blond boy exclaimed as he went to grab a person for help. However, his hand just phased through the stranger, like he was some sort of ghost. "That isn't normal!"
Another symbol now came gliding towards him. "Oh shit!" he exclaimed as he started to run the opposite way. Figuring he didn't have to worry about hitting into people, he just ran phasing through them until finally he smacked into a soft chest at full speed.
"Uhh, uh oh," He said as he looked up as a fairly attractive girl looked down. She had white hair with red highlights in the front and was wearing a white designer tee with shorts on. A mere second had passed for the shock of what happened to disappear and, realizing what had happened, the white haired female reached back and socked the blond teen in the face.
"That's privately owned property bastard!" She exclaimed.
"I-I'm sorry! These markings are chasing me!" He exclaimed.
"Markings? Are you some kind of idiot?" she asked. Seconds after saying that, she looked over and saw the markings growing ever closer, "Oh shi--"
Just then a weird looking frog with tribal like markings all over it's body jumped out from the symbol. The boy took the initiative and ran at the small creature, figuring it wouldn't stop until it got a fight. He brought back his leg and punted the creature across the street.
The frog flew, then both of their phones beeped with a text message. As if by instinct, they both pulled them out and looked at them.
"Survive, you have ten minutes. The weak will be uprooted."
They both read aloud. Instantly, both of their left hands felt like they were on fire. The boy lifted his hand up and saw a clock ticking away from ten minutes. "A timer? What the hell? Is this someone's idea of a sick joke?" he exclaimed as he looked over at the girl.
"Well, it's the best damned prank I've ever seen if it is," she replied.
Just then frog came back, jumping at the boy in retaliation. Out of her pocket on her thigh the white haired female grabbed out an aqua blue MP3 player and turned it on. As she did an electronic song came on. The second the song came on an audio strike came from the device and hit into the creature, knocking it away from the boy.
He then turned around and saw the creature. Quickly he took off towards it with a quick punch he sent the frog against the wall. He then brought up his right arm and thrust it into the frog. The second it made contact the frog began to freeze.
"How did I do that?" he asked as he looked at the partially frozen frog.
The girl then switched her song to a heavy metal song that created tremors all around it, shattering that arm of the creature. After the attack finished, the creature vanished,
"Nice job," the boy said smiling.
All of a sudden his phone went off. As he looked at it he saw a message flashing.
"Find a partner make a pact, those without partners shall be uprooted within thirty seconds," it read.
"Partner? Pact? Well, whatever. Hey, uh…girl…want to be my partner?"
"Excuse me?" she said as she raised an eyebrow, "First you run into my chest and then ask me to be your partner? What kind of girl do you take me for?"
"Come on, we have thirty seconds. I'm Ren Akimino and you are?" Ren asked.
"Mint and I still don't understand what your talking about and having a partner," She said as her phone went off.
"Find a partner you have five seconds,"
"Shit!" she exclaimed as she grabbed his arm and forced a pact. The two's eyes closed simultaneously then the world around them turned white. After another second, they were back to standing before each other.
"Did it work?" Ren asked.
"Let's find out," She said as she stood there for a few seconds. "Yeah we're not dead so I'm pretty sure we're fine."
"Yeah, you're right," Ren said as he looked around and then at his hand, "Hey the timer's gone."
Mint stared at her hand. "Cool," She replied with obvious sarcasm.
"Do you remember dying?" Ren brought up at random. It had been bothering him for a bit now and Ren wasn't the one to try to beat around the bush, obviously.
"That's a random and depressing topic to bring up. Talk about emo," Mint stated, noting the personality characteristics he had just displayed.
"No, I mean when I woke up the first thing I saw was me being hit by a car. Did anything like that happen to you?" He asked.
"Nope," She replied. "No cars in my past."
"So, what about this timer and the text messages. You know anything about it?" He asked.
"Nope, I know about as much as I do. In fact you probably know more," She said. "Talking about cars and such."
"Damn, so then what in the hell is going on?" he asked.
"Well," Mint said as she grasped her chin in a thoughtful way, "You said you died, I know I died, we're both dead. So, maybe this is hell. Were you a bad boy Ren?" Mint asked.
Ren blushed a bit, "Just what are you implying?"
"Mm hm, now I know you were," She said.
"No you don't!"
"You're blushing, that means you have some skeletons in that their closet, unless that thing in the closet is you," She taunted.
"I can assure you it's not," Ren replied.
"Oh well, a girl can dream. So, we're dead and we got to fight these monsters or do what these text messages say. You know Satan could have been a little more creative than that. I mean wasn't there a book once that stated we were all going to burn alive?" Mint asked.
"Yes, the bible," Ren corrected her.
"Yeah that's it. You know this seems a lot more scenic than they described it," She observed, glancing around the Scramble Crossing.
"If this is hell I wonder what heaven is?" Ren replied.
"A disco party," Mint thought at random, getting a weird look from Ren. "Nah, probably just America. Which is slightly flip flopped in my opinion."
Ren just laughed, "Yes I'm sure America is heaven," He joked.
Mint glanced around a bit, then looked back at him, "Whelp I'm bored. Hell's pretty dull."
"Agreed, let's go see if we can get something to eat," he suggested.
"Dead people don't need to eat. Talk about gluttonous. See? There's them sins that brought you here in the first place," Mint accused.
"Do I look like a glutton? I'm just hungry," Ren said as his stomach growled.
Mint just starred at him and pointed at the dead noise on the ground.
"I am not eating that. I was thinking more of like a cheeseburger," He said.
"Find some bread and cheese and pop it on that sucker. Come on I'm sure you have a heating attack you flamer," She joked.
"You know what, I'm just gonna go in that restaurant," Ren said, pointing to a fast food resturant.
"Ok, look at this," She said as she punched at a man walking by. Her fist phased right through his face. "If these people can't see or feel you, what makes you think the people indoors can feed you?" She asked.
Ren suddenly had an idea and ran to a shop nearby. On the outside of the shop was a few items for sale, so Ren reached over and picked up a ball from the basket. The people around looked amazed at the spectacle, being able to only see the ball and not the boy.
Mint just smacked him upside the head.
"The hell you do that for?" He asked, rubbing his head.
"Put the damn ball down and stop scarring people," She scolded.
"Come on, I'm hungry," he said as he grabbed her arm and pulled her into the resturant he had pointed to.
As he reached the counter the man behind it smiled, "What can I get you?"
Mint stared at the guy, then at Ren, and then back the guy, "What's the most expensive thing you got? Because he's treating!" Mint said, pointing back at Ren.
"Fine whatever," Ren said as he stepped forward.
"Aww, young love. I'll give you the special," The man said.
Mint starred at him in disbelief, grabbed him by the collar, pulled him over the counter, clenching her fist "What the hell did you say?!" She exclaimed.
"I just said you looked cute together!" the man cried as he tried to pull back.
She let go of the collar and then grabbed him by the neck.
"Mint, stop making a scene, and it's not that bad is it?" Ren asked.
"I'll make a scene as much as I damn well please!" She exclaimed.
Ren took a step away from her and just ordered food from the cashier next to them.
"I was just giving you a compliment!" the man continued to try to defend himself.
"Compliment my ass," she then noticed that Ren was gone, so she quickly walked over to him. "I hope your getting me what I wanted!"
"Yeah, yeah," He replied.
"Good," Mint said.
"Aww," the earlier man from the neighboring counter said. At that, Mint grabbed a fork and tossed it at him. Ren just couldn't help but laugh a bit at her.
Mint turned around and glared. "What are you laughing at?"
"Nothing at all," He replied as he handed her a burger.
"This better had been the most expensive burger they had," She said.
"Yep, all 300 yen it cost me," He said. "This place is cheap."
"I'd like to have twenty more of these," She said to the cashier, purposely trying to make Ren broke by the end of the day.
"And I would like to leave," Ren replied, hoping to NOt be broke by the end of the day.
"You were the one who wanted to come in here, now pay up buddy," She ordered.
"Can't. I'm broke," he lied.
"Cheapo. You don't take a girl to a restaurant and not be able to pay. Actually you don't drag a girl to a restaurant by her arm anyw..."
Mint's voice faded as both of their vision did. Slowly, everything began to fade to black and a sleepy feeling took over both of them until, finally, the two had blacked out.
END OF CHAPTER