Sweet Release
by Cyberchao X
CCX: Experimenting with something different here. Standard disclaimer applies.
The raven-haired girl approaches you, looking every bit a strong, confident fighter, but her face betrays an underlying uncertainty. "Please," she says, "I need someone like you. For so long, I've been alone…unable to find that happiness I've searched for. To attain the blissful status I've so long desired… I'd started to give up hope of ever getting there." Her eyes give off a vulnerability, so very much at odds with her outward appearance. "I've got so much pent-up energy and passion looking for a sweet release…and I can't find it by myself. Will you be the one to help me?" Her face is so close to yours now. Unable to speak, you nod. "Good. You're now my sidekick," she says confidently as she pulls away, the vulnerable sweetness immediately vanishing.
You pause, having come perilously close to removing the girl's open coat. "Wait, what!"
Asagi pays you no mind. "Yeah, that's what I was missing! Every heroine needs a sidekick! Now I'll be a main character for sure!"
"W-w-w… but I…"
"Did you think I meant something else?" She giggles. "The love interest is never part of the initial party! First comes the childhood friend, and then usually the first new member to join up afterwards is the love interest."
"The love interest has been the second member of the party loads of times," you retort. "Marle, for instance."
"Lucca was still introduced first. Doesn't count."
"Okay, maybe one that will hit a little closer to home for you: Rozalin."
Asagi blanches at the mention of the Disgaea 2 heroine. "Uh…"
"And there have been plenty of instances of the starting party having three members already. With your struggles, do you really think that just one sidekick will be enough to get you your own game?"
"Fair enough. You'd better hope I pick someone to your liking, though, because the recent trend when the hero starts with two partners is to pair the partners up and have the hero end up with someone who enters the narrative later."
She smiles warmly at you. It's hard to stay mad at a girl that beautiful, even if she did pretty much use her feminine wiles to con you into being her sidekick. "You'd better," you say, resigning yourself to your fate.
CCX: Oh, Asagi-chan… So, yeah, my first try at writing a fic in second-person. I feel that this type of self-insert fic—where it's not the author but the reader who is a part of the story—is good for this situation. (And yeah, I know that this particular tease was blatantly obvious; this story isn't even rated M, after all.) The best part? Both the first sidekick and the hypothetical second sidekick can be whatever gender the reader wants to make them. Ja ne!