Disclaimer: I don't own any.
Note: This is a remastered version, or a remake, you might say, of my previous work of fanfiction story in this category of HNG, where this will be mirroring the previous story, albeit with great differences as well, with a new character added... Ruka Suirenji! A whole new events, and then, Hayate meeting someone who is unlikely to appear in his life... The rest you will see for yourselves.
Hayate No Gotoku: Countdown To Heaven
Chapter 1: Meeting "God of Destruction" And "Unlucky of God"...
...At the downtown part of town...
"We're in trouble! We're already on a deadline of our manga, at this rate, we'll never be able to publish our latest volume this year! We're so sunk on the RED NOW-!" One manager, who is an old man with a bald head, screamed in despair of bedlam, and is very hysterical. There are other men in suits about, as if they're all eager to find help anyone here on the street.
"Don't worry, our most devoted employee of part-timers will soon arrive here, he'll get us out of this mess!" One guy in red suit added, and tried to comfort their boss.
"Hey! I'm out of the time, but I made it on time!" ...This is Hayate Ayasaki, a 16-year old teenager who is working on many part-time jobs and is very hard working... ...and very unlucky. "Hai! I got the last volume 6 drawn already, I've already about to publish it!"
"Ah, you came! Finally!" The bald head guy, along with the others, gathered around him, as if a messiah who has come to save them, and they're all basking in his glory, and kindness.
"I'll be sending it immediately, please be on the upcheck!" He said, and now... Let Countdown to Heaven comes to be...
...At the manager office...
"Hai, volume 6 published! You've done well, new recruit." The manager praised Hayate as he stands before him before his desk,
"Hai, can I ask for my paycheck soon? I'm kinda in a hurry, since I have other schedules in mind, and I don't have much time left..."
"Ah, we just sent them on your account. Though the ones who picked them up with were your folks, Ayasaki Shun and Mrs. Ayasaki, as I believe." He said with folded hands together, and his chin resting on them.
"EEEHHH!? M-My parents!? Y-You can't give that to them! They'll spent them immediately! They're gonna gamble all of our allowance until there is nothing! I have to get there before them!" He said, about to leave the office...
"Eh? Was I..." ...The door suddenly closed, as Hayate has already left, "...wrong...?" ...He said, completely too late.
...Outside the building...
Hayate didn't waste any time and got on his bike, "I better hurry, before those two hooligans would spent it or get in anything-" He shook his head instantly, in pace. "No, I can't have that! I better get going before I regret not being able to spend my last allowance this month! Especially if the friends of mine would deem me as someone who would choose money over friendship!" He said, ready to stir away in his bike,
"Hm? Boy..." One passing old man called out to him, "What are you..."
"Ah, sorry If I'm going to speeden up here, but this is emergency, and I got a pretty handle of the handle, so-"
"Um..."
"No, I better hurry! Otherwise, I'll be-"
"Hey, boy! You're gonna-!"
*CRASH-!*
...Too late. Sweat drop.
...He crashed at the subway stairway...
"Better look at where you're going, boy!" The old man shouted, pretty much too late... As other bystanders came to look at the crash site... ...Sweat drop.
...Feeling at all too awkward at this development...
...Later, at evening, at the Ayasaki Residence...
...Hayate slowly parked his bike near the parking site, with him having bandages around his cheeks due to the crash accident earlier...
"Ah... I'm really am cursed... Sigh, why does this always happen to me..." He parked his bike, and decided to call it a night. "Sigh, I'm too late, they're probably already sent it to some casino or..." He started heading for the poor apartment in this residence, which is his home, as well as the home of his parents who are a bunch of reckless, and very spending-hungry hooligans who are always spending time in casinos, like Hayate said, and are often seen at gambling dens... "No-! I can't have that! Those two good-for-nothing cursed parents of mine are always doing this, I better get the paycheck before they do! I hope that God didn't cursed me with money, at least, that I won't havet TO SPEND ALL THE DAYS IN A MONTH FOR ALLOWANCE FOR MY SCHOOL, AND NOT TO MENTION, MY LIFE-!" He managed to get inside, with no one inside... ... ...Yes, there is no one in here... ... ...With Hayate's exclaiming voice echoing about, since it was very loud and this place feels abandoned for some reason...
"Eh...?" Hayate had a dumbfounded look, as there's seems to be really no one around here... "They're not... here...? Hm," He looked around, yup, those two hooligans are not around here... "They're not... here...? Hm, did they... hm?" He spotted a small envelope at the nearby counter table that is very small, for a poor state of a house, like this one... or apartment, to be precise... "This is... Ah, it's the paycheck! Good, good, thank goodness... They haven't spent it yet." He said, as he has grabbed the envelope, he opened it, and found cash inside... "Oh, all right! I got-huh...?" There's a letter to another counter table that is small that is on the left side... "What is... Another envelope...?" He asked, having have taken the envelope on his hands, "What could..." He opened it, and found a letter. Which seems to be from those two hooligans and it's about...
"Dear Hayate, we're kinda on a pinch now... Vendetta Sanagata(Note: LOL!) the leader of this yakuza gang we got ourselves involve to, wants us to pay 1,000,000,000 yen, you see, ...and we don't have the money. So we came to a logical conclusion that is one for the history books, so... WE SOLD YOU! Haha, kinda smart-no, very inventive, wasn't it? We sold you, and we get away! Me and your mom couldn't think of any logical conclusion other than that, so we get to have free reign all over to foreign country. So we can go now, and oh, Vladdy Vendetta will be arriving at the house by 10 in the evening, so be sure to drop by! Goodbye! "
"... ... ... ..." Hayate's hands are trembling, threatening to rip apart this damned, cursed letter... "What the... WHAT THE HECK IS THIIIIIISSSS-!? Vendetta Zenigata! (Note: LOL! Lupin reference!) Who the heck is this!? And, DAMN IT-!" *CRASH-!* He crashed the counter table with his bare hand, as he was frustrated with the dealing of his crazy parents who are probably on the plane to Florida or somewhere... somewhere to foreign country whatsoever-BUT THAT's BESIDE THE POINT-! "Selling me in the last minute, huh!? And what right do they have to just waltz-"
knock, knock, knock!
"Huh...!?" Hayate turned to the door, and it seems some people are outside-by the door. And it seems to be the yakuza's presence that one can feel about...
"Hey, is Ayasaki Hayate inside? We're of the Vendetta Sanagata group of gang, and I'm Vendetta Sanagata, so we're taking you in, as per your parents' debt to us. And we're going to a lowride for a ride at downtown."
"...! Th-They're here...!" Hayate said, feeling cornered and made it sound like he's cornered... "G-God... Dammit, I really am cursed! I have no luck, what should I be striving about!?"
"Hey, Ayasaki Hayate-!" knock, knock! That was more like a slam on the door,
"..." Hayate midly and hysterically, looked around, looking for an exit, but... He ran up to the nearby fireplace, and looked above... "I can get out... No way! I can't get through here, what if I... Huh?" He spotted some TNT nearby, which is actually a emergency "ration" once, where he had to go to a mining occupation(sweat drop) to earn money, wow... he'll really go for any methods to earn money, huh...? God of Destruction, and Unlucky of God... ...Yeah... "I... What are these doing here...? Hm?" He spotted some unique about at the TNT...
...Outside, by the door...
"Hey, you think he ran off at the sight of us?"
"Nah, he won't go anywhere. Anyway, try to knock-"
Tssscchhttkkiiiirrcchh-!
"Huh...?" "Huh...?"
Both yakuzas in black suits, and black hats that are of American mafia hats, said in unison, then...
Bbbbzzzccchhttggeeh-!
...For some reason, a rather large bee or fly has come out of the door entrance/exit, which annoyed the yakuzas.
"Hey, we got a large insect here! Geez, don't they spray this poor state of the house." One guy said.
"Here, boss, let me-"
"DON'T-! YOU'RE GONNA BLOW US ALL-!" Hayate has suddenly come out of the house and-
the yakuza guy was about to splat the bug-And-
*BOOOOOOMM-!* *BOOOOOMMM-!* *BOOOOOOMMM-!* *BOOOOMM-!* *BOOOOOOOMMMMGGCHHTT-!*
...sweat drop...
...A Nuclear holocaust has just been unleashed on the Ayasaki residence, with the entire residence being blown away in the blast-and leaving only cinders and ashes... ...sweat drop ... ... ...The resident is gone ...
...As the smoke clears out ...
... ...The two guys in black suits, which are now messed up and burned all over, are piled together on the pile of dirt that is what is left of the house...
"Hey, boss... I think we shouldn't have pulled the blue wire..."
"Uh, I see... yousergcht, it's the red wiregcht..." They said goofily at this carnage...
...Later, near midnight, at the Loser Park...
...Hayate has arrived, with him full of burns, and his clothes are a messed up... "Agh... I'm done for..." He said, sitting down on the bench beside him... "*Cough*, I have no money... Or rather... there's no way a poor guy like me can buy anything with the paycheck..." He managed to save the envelope which is on his hand, and it's covered with burns, but the money inside are safe... goodness thank. "Sigh," He sighed, as he just sits and relax on this bench... Christmas is here... Yup, it's about to become 25th of December, as the snow then begun to fall off... 'Christmas... Not everyone becomes happy or merrily during Christmas... like me, who has nothing now... Gah, I should have known that I have brought some extra tenegerr of dynamite last time when I was working with the mines where they were forcing slaves to go on manual labor... No, I shouldn't lie, that was when I was working with the miners during the digging tunnel excavation..." Right, the first part was an exaggeration on his part, but... that dynamite was given to him, or rather, he found them and sought to have them as "ration" for some emergency precaution... "Sigh, ... ...Now what do I do...? I can't go back to my home... which is NOW in shambles... and those two good for nothing got away... And now I'm being hunted by yakuzas who are after my organs... Goddamit! If there was a god of destruction, I probably wanted to grace him, or rather, I wanted to be graced by his presence!" He said that as he stood up straight, and shouted something nonsensical...
"You called...?" A voice suddenlly called out...
"Eh...?" Hayate has turned to the side-to the left side.
FLaaasshh-!
...A bright, glowing, magnificent light erupted, and there... floats a boy... he has a pale skin color, red-crimson eyes that seem to suggest of demonic, and has light greenish hair... giving the impressiong of bishounen guy, and he's wearing a set of headset on his side... the sides of his head, and he's wearing a what seems to be a lab gown. ...His hands are wide-spread, as he's floating, like a messiah-complex, and he then opened his eyes gradually to turn to Hayate...
"Huh...?" Hayate is puzzled at this, mistaking him for a cosplayer. "You are... cosplay...?"
"...? Huh...? Cosplay...?" This guy, who is actually near that of a god in his level of the divine... he has raised an eyebrow, as in not familiar with what he just asked, or is a feeling of irritation has run through him, since he called his attire to be cosplaying... "Hmph, feeble mortals... You're always the same, don't you...?" He said, as he has turned to the left side, near it, anyway, and scoffed at Hayate's misunderstanding of his attire... "Like life that is fleeting on the blossom of the morrow, it's like too short lives as mortals flee for what is that of volition of choice... Like petals going dry and dust, across the storm of wave of tides... It's heart-wrenching, isn't it?" He said, crushing a petal blossom on his palm that is like childish, but have godly presence about them... He opened his palm then, and let the petal's petal float and get blown away as he let them go through the currents of the wind about... They fly upward, and into the horizon that is very wide...
"Eh...? Y-You are..." Hayate is confused at this, and he asked who he is.
...He turned to Hayate, with his gaze being the presence that of a god... "...I'm Lambda. Though, such tongues seem to be not familiar with words that are of greek where their own "legends" or "myths" have names of that of godly tone or accent about them... Though at this, you seem to be like the epitome of wanting to have utter destruction and ruination do you..." ...A gentle, yet destructive, wind blows about... As it surrounds both him and Hayate...
"Eh...?" Hayate is, again, confused at his words which are godly...
"Lambda" turned his gaze forward, and into this park... "This park tends to attract unnatural things, you know, it's that of a mystic power that attracts those who have something that is far to the embryo of man of capable of handling... if they cling to that of which that surpasses the surmounting of the "common sense" as you put in your tongue..."
"Um... Who are you...?"
"... ... ..." Lambda turned his eyes towards Hayate... "Me...? I'm... ...God of destruction." ...He said simply, as the gentle, yet destructive, wind blew again...
End of Chapter 1