"Requesting Ene's support! I repeat, requesting Ene's support!" He called out through his headset, trying to reach his teammate. Playing his favorite game, Dead Bullet'1989, made him feel the adrenaline rush that made him feel alive but right now he was terrified after realizing that he was in deep trouble. He needed someone to restore his health which was pretty low after killing three enemies of the opposite team and his teammate, Ene, was the only one left alive from their team beside him. All of his other teammates had died after being ambushed by the enemy team, only Ene and him were able to escape the bloodiest massacre in history of Dead Bullet'1989. The game itself was massacre, the setting was in the streets of Japan after a zombie outbreak and two groups of people fight for the territory were they fight but the territory was different every time. Sometimes it was a neighborhood near the coastline or near the mall where zombies hanged out. Different places every time and different time of the day, night was hell in the game. You never knew where the enemies were even if you had high levels of stealth, the night made everything harder than it is.
"Requesting Ene's support! Ene, I need you to restore my health like right now. I'm near a destroyed building in outskirts of the town" he called out, desperately trying to reach his teammate in time before the enemy finds him and kills him. Shintaro wondered many times why he still had Ene in his team every time even though she always goes solo while the others kill in group but he already knew the answer for that.
Lightning Dancer Ene aka Ene, was known for her ultimate move, Phantom Waltz Holy Nightmare that killed multiple enemies at the same time and she had placed 2nd in the annual . She invented the move after playing a couple of time, her reputation rose rabidly. Honesty, Shintaro appreciated her help sometimes until she went on killing sprees or rant about random stuff she discovered. Shintaro still waited for his teammate respond over the headset, hiding behind a large trash bin besides the deteriorating building. His character was covered in black head to toe except for his eyes which were blood red, making him look intimidating. Another reason why he liked playing Dead Bullet'1989, he could personalize his character however he liked.
"Are you hiding from the debt collectors? How much money do you owe? I can lent you money ShinShin!"
"Ene. Stop messing around, why would debt collectors be in the game after a zombie outbreak?"
"You never know~"
"Whatever. Just come and help me. Now"
"You know, you could be a bit nicer when you ask for my help! It's not like I help any other newbie around the game. In other words...be graceful you baka! "A sweet voice answered back through the headset. In the screen, a girl walked around the street where Shintaro hid. Holding her both of her guns in each hand as she walked around, pointing her guns at everything that moved. She lower her guns and put on away while she brushed her azure bangs off her face. For some reason, Ene had chosen her character to look way to innocent to be a killer. Her character had huge blue eyes and hair. She wore azure jacket that was sizes too big, having her sleeves dangling as she moved, and a black skirt that reached mid thighs.
Shintaro slowly crept out of his hiding spot, carefully tipped toe his way behind the girl but quickly found him faced with a gun. Soon Ene recognized him, lowering her gun down but only to hit him on the gut. "You, idiot! I almost killed you. If I did I would had to kill all those enemies left by myself. Leaving a poor defenseless girl in a enemy territory, what do you have to say for yourself? "
"That I do not care at all." He answered back, rubbing his stomach to relieve some pain that she caused. He knew that it was harmless but only seeing his character get hit it mad- "Hey! Where are you going? Come back here, Ene!" He called out, seeing her walk away with both of her guns on her hands again.
"Nope! Until you ask nicely and say," she cleared her throat before continuing, "Oh Ene-sama! Please restore my pathetic character's health. I beg you!" She mimicked Shintaro but a bit too high for his voice.
He chuckled softly, Shintaro would have to be threatened before he added sama to her name. Ene knew how to play well but she still had flaws in her gaming skills. Like her famous move, Phantom Waltz Holy Nightmare, last battle she had ran out of ammunition before she could finish her move and only killed a fourth of the enemies she could kill with that move. Or her newest move yet, Phantom Sakura Dance which had way too many fla-
"Fine! Ignore me, I'll go my separate way while you go your way and get killed by the enemy" she giggled.
Ene strolled off the opposite side that Shintaro stood, waving her gun to him as she turned the corner of the street.
"Ene! Stop joking around, come back here. If you don't restore my health then you'll be alone to face all the rest of the enemies" he called out.
He tried to follow the same path Ene had strolled off but he only found a empty street with no one around.
"Damnit! Where did Ene go? That little..."
He heard giggling through his headphones before he could registered who it was, "Silly ShinShin. I'll restore your health but you better give me all your good gu..." she trailed off. A couple of minutes past but still no answer through the headset.
He tried to call her out, "Uh Ene-sama?" Until he heard gunshots three streets away from where he was. He tried to find her but the battlefield was too big to identify where the gunshots came from. Ene probably stopped talking to concentrate on killing the enemies but who was he kidding? She could multitask easily, in fact he has seen it with his own eyes. Once she went on rampage while she talked over the headset with their teammates including him, after that everybody knew not to mess with Ene or else.
He checked in the team members tab if she was still on. She was but it seems that she was killed by the opposite team. Her endless rant will begin in One, two and thr-
"Those bastards-Dammit! They killed me, Shin-Shin! You must avenge me! Kill all of them for me! Make them regret of laying their gun on me, snap thier necks or something! ShinShin! Do something!" She cried. Sometimes she was very melodramatic but he guess that was why he liked her. She kept things interesting for him
"Calm down! Which one do you want me to kill first?" He strolling around the huge maze of streets, waiting for her to calm down and stop ranting about her death.
Shintaro walked past a trailed of blood and found it odd so he began to follow the trail, maybe it led him to Ene's body. The bloody trail ended at Ene's body spread on the concrete of the street, her twin ponytails were dyed with her blood. He backed down after seeing the enemy walked near her body.
"Wait...I see your body", but the enemy scotching down and up as if it was,"...is he..Ew. The enemy is raping you. Hah!"
"Shin! Don't laugh and kill them! Avenge my death!" She cried.
"Yeah I'll-" Shintaro was about to raise his gun at the enemy when her sister called him.
"Shintaro! Lunch's ready! Mom made your favorite! "
He groaned pathetically after hearing his sister called out to him. He wanted to continue playing with Ene but his mom had made his favorite which was spaghetti, he never liked choosing over two things he liked the best. His stomach growled loudly, immediately answering the question. He needed to eat. He walked to a save place which was jumping inside a trash can. Not the best choice but enemies never thought about the opposite team hiding in trash cans.
"Sorry Ene. I gotta go. I'll sign in later."
"Fine. But you-Wait I think I won't be able to sign in later because I have some 'business' to do. Until then I'll go kill the guy that just raped my body"
"Ah okay. Then see you tomorrow at the same time. ShinShin Out!"
"Bye ShinShin~!" He heard before quitting the game, the game took him to the main screen and he logged out. Shintaro knew her sister well enough to know she was going to dig around to find his "only friend". He pressed the middle button in the controller, making the console turn off, Shintaro liked the idea of having to turn the console off with the controller instead of getting up and turning it off. He took his headphones (with the microphone included) and left them on the floor.
He stood up, stretching his arms and legs out still holding the controller, playing all afternoon made his arms sore. In fact, today seem like a typical normal Saturday for him. Woke up, had breakfast, ignored his sister while studying for his upcoming test, and spend the rest of the afternoon playing with Ene. His life was pretty boring if you asked him, he knew everything needed to know.
Playing online with Ene was always entertaining for the fact that she was so random. When they first met online through Dead Bullet'198, Ene had killed both of them with a giant tank and blamed him for it. Then they always ended up in the same team and survived until the very end. After that they team up to kill any guy that had good weapons to keep. They never talked about their personal life while playing online, the closet they been to asking about their lives was how their day went or how they were.
Shintaro walked to the dresser and hid the controller in the third drawer right under his underwear to keep his sister from using his PlayStation to search about his stupid reality show or to find who Ene was. By mistake once he forgot to close his door so Momo had heard all of their conversations while they played online and tried asking him questions about her that he didn't even wondered about. He grabbed his drink that was sitting on the table, knowing that his sister made one of her famous flavored water stuff. Note to self, never ever drink that again unless you are getting a kidney surgery.
"Shintaro-baka! Come down already! Stop playing with your girlfriend and come downstairs to eat!" Her high pitch voice echoed through the house, he growled inwardly. Why did he have to have such an idol for a sister? He only wanted to have a normal life, normal job, a normal family and whatnot.
But his family already made that impossible for him, his parents were divorce, his father is a lawyer and his mom is a nurse that works overtime. His sister is a very famous idol known all over Japan and is going to have a TV show soon. And for him, he had to an IQ of (33) making him the smart one of the family.
Shintaro headed downstairs, holding his drink under his arm, while checking in his phone about any new free items that could get in any of the games he had. Sadly, he found no new e-mails informing him of such news. He put it away and walked into the kitchen, his mother and sister, Momo, were already eating lunch.
"We started without you dear. Please seat down and eat. I need to talk to you after we're finish"
"Uh okay" Shintaro sat down across from them and started eating while his sister started talking how her day went. He wondered what his mom would want to talk about, he hasn't done anything illegal or bad.
So what could she want to talk about? He took his phone out and searched online like always, to entertain himself while he ate. Sometimes his normal life bored him, more when he knew all the answers to everything until Ene came along. She came up with craziest questions and challenges that he couldn't answer.
The rest of the lunch went by quick and it was Shintaro's turn to wash the dishes. He was picking the dishes up when his mom started helping him.
"Shintaro, Could you do me a favor this evening? "She asked, putting the rest of the dishes in the sink, filled with bubbly water. His mind knew well enough that his mother wanted him to do something for her.
"What could that be, mom?" He wondered, moving to the sink beside his mom, who was now washing the dishes.
"Well you see a friend of mine wants to have a girl's night out but need someone to take care of her daughter so I was wondering if you could babysit for her daughter."
"Sure mom. But in exchange finish the rest of the dishes" he answered. He didn't feel like washing dishes so she could do them in return.
"Thanks son. She'll drop the kid off at 7:30 so make the house look appropriate and by appropriate I mean no dirty clothes anywhere on the floor." His mom said, washing the last of the pile of dishes.
Shintaro glanced at the clock over the stove and read, "6:30pm ". He only had one hour left before the kid came over and had to take all the dirty clothes lying around the second floor.
Once again he fell for it. He had to agree to take care of some kid...again. But the only thing he hoped that it wasn't a noisy brat that won't let him play online. The first time her mother asked him for a favor, it was taking care of Mom went she was a baby. She never stopped crying.
Shintaro cleaned the living room, the kitchen, and his room to make it look presentable and only taking thirty minutes to do it. He fell on the couch from exhaustion, he never clean something so fast in his life. He yawned, stretching once again, to keep his arms and legs from falling asleep.
"Yeah. Yes. I know. Yeah I'm coming but be sure to be right outside my house. Bye Marry-chan!" He heard his sister end the conversation with Mary, one of Momo's friends, walking downstairs with a bag over her shoulder.
"Where are you going Momo? I thought you said you weren't going to stay at Mary's house today" He asked.
"After I heard mom you were going to babysit a kid I decided to stay at hers. I don't want to hear you crying when you get sick of it" she giggled, brushing her bangs off her face.
"Very funny, Momo. Don't sleep late or you'll look horrible for tomorrow's photo shoot"
"Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for reminding me, Mom" She sneered, walking past the couch and out the house.
Soon enough he was falling asleep when the doorbell rang. He lazily stood up and walked to the door not bothering to check if his hair was mess up. He opened the door to find a very attractive woman in their door step.
"By any chance, Is this the Kisaragi Residence?" She asked as if to see if she got the right address or person.
"Yes ma'am." Shintaro told her politely.
"Probably mom's friend..."
"Mom! Your friend is here!" He yelled inside the house, calling his mom to talk to his friend so he could continue his nap.
"I'm coming. Let her in, don't let her wait in the doorsteps" His mom called out.
He invited her inside and walked inside, right behind her a girl no older than fourteen followed her inside. They both sat down on the couch that was right beside the wall, the woman looked around while the girl just continued to play with her phone. The girl had identical twin pigtails that reached past her shoulders and caramel eyes that suit her hair. She wore a black jacket with yellow lines around the top of the sleeves, an electric yellow skirt that stopped at mid-thigh and some red converse. If she had worn a gas mask, he would have thought she was a spy from some place to steal info from Japan.
"Thank you so much for babysitting my daughter. I can't leave her alone at home because she'll forget anything once she's inside her room with all of her games. Once she forgot to eat all day and his brother, Haruka, had to drag her out" She thanked him.
He nodded understating the "problem" with the girl, way back when he first started playing online games. Finding everything troublesome because he would have to stop playing.
The girl liked online games, huh? I bet she sucks like all the girls do..
"Mom. Do I seriously have to stay with this dofus? I can perfectly take care of myself" The brunette growled, as she took her ear buds out. Her voice sounded familiar but he couldn't put his finger where he heard it from. Wait did she just call him dofus?
"Dofus? I probably got a higher test grades than you ever have gotten all your life" Shintaro blurted, standing up from the couch without thinking, what the hell was with the girl's problem?
"Suree. I bet you just spend all your time in your room like a NEET you are. Loser!" She sneered, taking a step forward the boy. "I betcha all my money that you look at por-"
"TAKANE! Sit down this instance and stop disrespecting him, did I taught you to disrespect your elders? " The mother interrupted before Takane finished her sentence from the looks of it she looked pissed at her daughter. He thanked the lord that his mom wasn't always telling him what to do.
The mother shook her head disappointedly, "I thought I told you to take a nap before we came, you always have to be this irritated with everyone? Next time you don't take a nap when I tell you to, I'll confiscate all your games. Understood?"
Takane nodded while she wiped the dust off her bright yellow skirt and zipped her jacket all the way up.
Geez, I see how she gets the mad temper. This rascal plays until she gets tired.
The girl glared at him and mouthed, "You're dead meat, loser!" before sitting once again beside her mother. Plugging his bright blood red headphones into her phone and drowning everything with her music as she slipped the headphones on.
The mother sighed in relief, she looked that she dealt with her daughter's bad temper a lot. He felt kinda bad now, the mother had to deal with her daughter's temper every day and so his brother Haruka.
"Enomoto-san, we should head out now. Let's not keep the others waiting. Shintaro, please do not go to your room you'll only distract yourself with your computer" His mom instructed, walking downstairs with her new "dazzling" outfit that Momo had chosen for her.
The girl's mother stood up gracefully, brushing any dust off her velvety red dress. "Behave kids. Especially you, Takane. I'll confiscate all your games if I get call from him. Bye again." With that both woman were out the house without any more delays.
Well that's that and now..
Shintaro's gaze rested upon Takane, who was glaring furiously at him and grinning at the same time. The odds weren't at his favor at all, two things would happen today. One he would die without ever being able to finish that new song he was making and leaving his studies unfished or he would run away and hide somewhere until the women came home because of safety issues.
"Dobe, I give you one option, run. " she warned as her arm reached over to her backpack she brought and took out a...water gun. She gripped the gun tightly, pointing at him, grinning before she pressed the gun.
So far her plan was working right. Takane had planned what to do when she was alone with the NEET at his home; she planned it after ShinShin logged out and went on a killing spree with the other enemy's team. She would make sure that the babysitter would regret ever taking on the job; she never through that it would be this easy. The guy for some reason didn't show any emotion other than boredom until she started fighting with him and when she took her water gun out.
Takane was going to make the guy run around the neighborhood to embarrass him but then again it wasn't his fault. Not in the slightest. Blame went to her addiction with online games, if she had a way to remember to do stuff while playing her games. There would be no problem here but nooo.
Now standing right outside what it appeared to be the bathroom of the house, she pounded the door with force. Instead of going outside the house, the idiot ran to the closest room to hide which was the bathroom.
"Come out of that damn bathroom, bastard! If you don't I'll gladly teat the door off its hedges" she warned.
She heard him snorting at her comment and called out,"Yeah right. What's a little girl going to do a stupid water gun?"
"Ha ! Says the one that's hiding inside the bathroom from the 'the little girl' " she laughed.
"I-It's because you got me corner nothing else"
"Sureeeee. Dofus~"
"Stop calling me dofus! Brat!"
Takane gasped, "I am not a brat you..you hikkomori! You only spend all your time in your room like the perv you are. Eww"
"W-What?! I don't do that! Get that in your head, brat. And second of all, I actually study for school unlike you who is probably failing classes"
"W-Well soo..?"
Soon as the door open everything went by like a flash, she was standing minutes before the door opened, pounding at the bathroom door but now she on the floor with extra weight on her. She opened her eyes and found onyx eyes looking back at her.
What the fu...
She froze when she saw the position they were in, the extra weight she felt was Shintaro who now frozen, with his hand on her chest and his leg in between her legs. A red tint appeared on her cheeks as her anger rose too.
"You are so going to die today! And I'll make sure you never born again too!" She warned, reaching for the water gun that was above her head and hit his head in the process. He scrambled to his feet, dodging every shot that Takane made. She shot the wall a couple of times until she shot the guy's shoes while he ran away from the scene.
"Damn how could I miss when I know so much about shooting moving targets"
"You can run but you can't hide forever, Loser! I will find you even if I have to tear down everything apart to get you"
As soon as he turned around the corner, he was struck down from the impact. He clutched his stomach as he looked at the other person from the opposite side, clutching her fist as she looked in pain.
"What the hell are you made of? Iron? What did I hi-I hit your...oh. Well it seems that maybe you do no spend all your time watchin-"
She stopped as soon as he saw him stand up and hunched over the wall, clutching his stomach. He supported himself on the wall, trying to keep his lunch down but failed to do so.
"Oh my god! How- Are you...Ha! Hold on, dude! Let me record this. Keep it going. Oh god this is so going in the internet! "
The "hikkomori" wiped his mouth after finishing throwing up his lunch, glaring at the young gamer as she stopped the recording and continued typing in her phone. Unaware of the glaring guy, she thought of a wonderful plan that both of them would benefit.
"Look. Let's make a treaty, okay?"
"Why should I agree to it?"
"Because I'll post the video of you throwing up in the internet and post it in your school website. This could ruin your reputation. "
"You don't even know what school I go to!"
"Oh you poor boy! Internet is the key to everything, I can hack into any website I want to with a click of a button~"
"Fine"
"Good! If you let me do whatever I want for the rest of the evening, I won't post video"
"And erase it"
"Yeah yeah and erase it"
"I agree but you won't make it difficult for me right?"
"Only if you don't bother me. I'll go set up my things up while you clean your mess, hehe!"
After Shintaro came back from cleaning his mess, he found a console connected to the TV and Takane going through her bag for something.
"What are you looking for?"
"My game but it seems that I didn't bring it. Seriously not cool."
"What's the name of the game? Maybe I have it"
"I doubt it, you don't seem like a guy who plays bloody games. Its Dead bullet '1999"
"You know what they always say, "Don't judge books by its covers". I do have it."
"You do?! Great go get it. Please" she added nicely.
"Fine" he responded bitterly.
Shintaro hurried himself upstairs, tripping at the last step and looked around if there was a hidden camera to catch his clumsiness. But there was none to his relief and goes to his room to get the game. He opened the console to take the disk out and quickly took it to see the girl's skills in the game. Until he started thinking what her username was, maybe he knew her and both of them played on the same team once or something. He headed downstairs slowly, thinking about the possibilities that Takane could be someone he knew while holding the disk through his index finger and twirling the disk.
Shintaro handed the disk over to Takane, who was sitting right beside her console, inserting the disk into the console them she closed the . Takane took the controller near her right and pressed the home button to turn the console on. The screen flashed the name of the console brand and took her to the home page. She moved the joystick down to go down the list of things she had stored in there until she reached the Dead Bullet'1989 game and pressed enter to continue.
The screen blacked out for a few seconds after clicking the enter button then the title screen flashed on the TV, the letters oozed blood like a living person. She clicked start, not once looking at him.
"She looks like she is in her own little world now"
She choose the sign in button and began typing her username down slowly, making sure that she didn't misspelled words. Shintaro's gaze looked in the username as she wrote, "Lightening Dancer Ene".
"You're Ene? You are Ene?" He sputtered, getting Takane's attention after she typed her password in. The amazing Ene was a school girl?! If the media knew this, it could be in the top of every newspaper on town and even on TV. Ene didn't seem..wait. yeah. I see were she got her random killing sprees and revenge
"Why are y-No! No. No. You can't be ShinShin! Please tell me you aren't ShinShin" she pleaded.
"I am."
"Damnit. I didn't meant to hit you or fol-"
"Is the great Ene apologizing? I thought I'll never see that in my life"
"Shut up! I'm trying to be nice but forget it loser"
"Nice to hear the Ene I know. Should we take turns playing or what do you suggest we do?"
"That's sounds like a great idea! But if you die too many times, I'll kill you myself. Newbie!"
Akane Kisaragi did not expected to be in an awkward position when she entered her home after telling Nagisa, Takane's mom, that she'll tell Takane that her mother was waiting outside. She opened the door carefully, not wanting to wake the kids up if they were asleep but she heard an unexpected conversation after entering the house. She walked closer to the living room without making noise and hid behind the wall, listening on Takane and Shintaro's conversation.
"What are you doing, stupid? Don't go inside yet, you need to prepare yourself first?" She blurted out. Akane could hear the uncertainty in her voice.
"I know what I'm doing. I been doing this for weeks now" Shintaro reassured her that he knew what he was doing.
"For weeks?! Since when did his little boy grow up?"
"Don't do it like that! You're going to ge-" Takane scolded him, Akane heard a smack.
"I know I know" he repeated.
Akane Kisaragi never expected to hear this conversation going on with his son, Shintaro and Takane. She knew that both of them were hormonal teens and everything but the idea of them having that in the living room never crossed her mind. She raised Shintaro with morals and all but for him to have "that" with a girl younger than him. Akane Kisaragi never thought she would be in the position that she did not know what to do but his son could impregnate the young girl and it would be a scandal for his father and her if it got out in the public.
"I'll do it your way after you let me waste a couple of loads."
"Fine but enter slowly unles-"
Akane could not let his son make a mistake that could ruin his whole future, she walked beside the wall and peaked inside the living room but froze seeing his son and Takane. Takane lay on the coach on her stomach while his son sitting down leaning against the couch, his hand preoccupied with the controller. She laughed at her quickly conclusions about their conversation, they meant the game that he bpught Shintaro a few weeks ago. It was something about killing zombies or something. So a few loads..oh that made so much sense.
"SHINTARO! You idiot! I told you enter slowly or they'll notice you! Now give me that controller, it's my turn!"
"No. Its your fault that they caught me."
"I'll post that video on the website~" She hinted. Shintaro paled when she mentioned the some video to him.
"Fine. But only one round" He cautiously grumbled under his breath.
"I knew you'll come around" Takane giggled. Shintaro slowly gave her the controller but he pulled back at the last second after seeing her standing behind the wall and peaking.
"As if I'll do th-Mom? What are you doing here? I mean why are you so early?" She opened her mouth to anwer but Takane quickly smacked his head and said. "Its already nine o clock, dofus. " He rubbed his head to relief the pain while Takane stole the controller from him. Akane laughed how strangely their kids behaved around each other as if they already knew each other in years.
"Maybe they met throught the game...Nah. Too much of a coincidence. "
