A/N The first chapter started at about halfway through the first game in "The World Ends With You", so it's around the 6th day of the 7 days currently in this chapter. Kariya isn't on duty, but Uzuki still has a part in this reaper's game; just for those with bad memory. If you have a disliking of Original Characters, don't continue reading :3 I'm accepting Original Characters for this here story. I'm also going to be putting in my own. Send me your original characters in a review/PM and I'll PM you back if I'm going to be using him/her.
You Don't Have Any Class
II: You Don't Know Me
"I what?!" Koki shouted in surprise and anger. I laughed and showed him a print of the picture I took. He blushed and looked away.
"I bring you your jacket back and you do this to me?" He asked angrily. I shrugged.
"It's payback for making me blush so often, I hated it, an event of fractals." I told him. I suddenly froze up at what I had said.
"I made you blush?" Kariya asked, confused. I looked away and rubbed the back of my head.
"Well… I… uh…" I mumbled. Suddenly I felt him grab my hand and pull towards him, our faces right in front of each other. I blushed deeply and gulped. Kariya looked at me seriously.
"You…. You like me?" He asked. "I never thought someone could like a lazy asshole like me."
I pulled away and sighed. "I don't understand it, I've always been so focused on becoming the composer that I never really lived a normal life like you or those support reapers that became a band did. Shit like this confuses me to the number i."
Kariya looked at me with sympathy in his eyes.
"I don't want your sympathy." I said, glaring at him. He put his hands up defensively.
"I don't know how to handle all the responsibility that you've been working with as an officer. It's not my lifestyle, but I wouldn't know how to deal with it all either." Koki said. "I admire that in you."
"Yeah, right. Everyone calls me an asshole, and they're right, easy as 2 + 2 to figure that out." I said.
"Well, I think your exaggerating. I think you can be annoying, but you're…. You're… I don't know how to explain it…. So I think…"
"Get out with it Kariya!" I shouted at him. Suddenly I felt him grab my coat again and pull me towards him. He slowed the pull down and our lips touched. I blushed into the kiss and slowly, subconsciously, moved my arms up and draped them over Kariya's shoulders. I had a sudden realization and pulled away, pushing Kariya away. I stood there looking down with my arms straight out and my hands on Koki's chest.
"Sho?" Koki asked worriedly. I just looked down.
"Give me a bit…. I don't know right now…" I said, not looking up. "I don't really have experience in this area, this quadrant of life."
I felt Koki try to push his way towards me but he wasn't strong enough to break away from my grip on his jacket. I felt a tear run down my cheek. Is it a happy or a sad one?
I looked up at Koki and saw him looking at me worriedly. I immediately turned and ran. I didn't look where I was going. I ran into something, maybe someone, and completely knocked them out of my way as I ran to sanctuary somewhere.
"Oi, Calm Down Minamimoto!" I heard Uzuki shout. "I'm already tired enough from all this work that Higashizawa gave me. I'm not complaining though."
I ignored her and kept running. The second to last day of the game. Maybe I'll be the next game's Game Master and I can think about this better, of course games usually aren't one after the other so I won't matter. I ran into the closest sanctuary I could find, my room, and I slammed and locked the door behind me. I curled up on my bed and buried my head into my knees.
"I don't understand any of this…" I mumbled into my knees.
"Quit your moping Minamimoto." I heard Konishi's voice. I looked up and saw her opening my door and closing it behind her. "I have news."
I glared at her. "I'm not really in the mood."
"We were originally going to make you the Game Master for the next week, although many variables have appeared that made us have to replace you with a clone." Konishi said.
"A clone! When did you make a clone of me?!" I shouted. She adjusted her glasses.
"We collected DNA from you and Kariya while you two fell asleep on the couch in the Harrier Lounge. We collected DNA from Uzuki through the Composer himself, we intend to collect DNA from Higashizawa as well." She said. "As for the variables I spoke of."
"Why do I matter if you have an obedient clone of me on hand?" I said angrily to her. She smirked.
"Obedient? I never said anything about obedience; the clones will act exactly as the real would in the situations given to them. This clone will do everything the way you would as Game Master, as will Kariya and Uzuki's as Harrier Reapers." Konishi said.
"Fine then… Get on with it Mitsuki." I said to her, un-curling my body and sitting properly on my bed. She cleared her throat.
"Those variables were unforeseen complications that Megumi- I mean Mr. Kitanji- refuses to alleviate himself." Mitsuki said.
"So these orders are not official, and will be breaking the rules?" I asked. Mitsuki gave me a look and paused but nodded. I smirked.
"I'm interested now." I lied back onto my bed, resting my head on my arms behind my head.
"The composer himself as fallen in love with one of the players, but that in itself is bound to break the composer's heart, as the player may or may not return his feelings. This leaves the Composer vulnerable and I believe that the Conductor, Mr. Kitanji, does realize this and I believe he intends to attempt to become the composer and take advantage of the current composer's weakness. That was, however, not part of my plan." She said, creating a chair of her supernatural energy and sitting in it, crossing her legs.
"So you took him out?" I asked.
"Not exactly, The real Megumi Kitanji has been erased, and a special clone I programmed to be obedient is taking his place. This clone will not take advantage of the composer's current weakness."
"But we will." I said.
"Exactly, that's why you're the youngest Officer Class reaper in history." Mitsuki said. She sighed. "Now that the problem with the former Megumi has been taken care of, and I foresee that Mr. Higashizawa will not survive his run as Game Master, the only obstacles in our path to become the most powerful reapers, are Uzuki Yashiro and Koki Kariya, and the players, but their threat level is insignificant."
"I don't think that Uzuki or Kariya will be threats to this plan you have in any way, at least Koki won't. Uzuki's one for the rules though, she might interfere, but it Kariya's with us, she'll join too." I said, sitting up again to look at Konishi.
"I don't want them to join; I don't want them involved at all. I dislike that I have to rely on your help to do this, but I'm not strong enough to defeat the composer by myself." She said, "That's why I'm willing to share this power with you."
"I don't trust you." I said simply.
"And I don't trust you either, but I have no choice. Kariya is the only other one powerful enough to help me but he's worthlessly lazy." She said.
"I suppose I'll help…." I looked down.
"Your strangely cooperative, hmm, are you really you?" Mitsuki asked before giving me a look at walking out or my room, the door slamming and locking behind her.
"I hate that she-witch and her insane supernatural powers…. But she is right about the composer being vulnerable if he's fallen in love." I mused to myself. I had a sudden realization.
"If she doesn't want Kariya and Uzuki involved, she might erase them!" I immediately jumped off my bed and ran out of my room, tossing the door open so violently that it may not being on its hinges anymore. I ran back to the Harrier Lounge, that last place I saw Koki… where we kissed…
If I think about it now, it was a pretty good kiss. Can't let him know it was my first kiss, although he probably already assumes so since I don't have much experience with binomial interaction… being a pair, companionship.
I dashed down the hall and threw the door open, seeing no one but faceless Harrier reapers in the room. I sighed and glared at them all as they looked at me. They all immediately looked away in fear. I turned around and scratched the back of my head.
"That could have gone smoother, I should have assumed the variable that he might not be here any longer. Now to check the hypotenuse, his room." I talked to myself as I ran towards Kariya's room.
Wait…
Uzuki's back. She got back from work. They're both in Shibuya eating ramen… of course! I'm so stupid, running around here like a madman looking for someone who's not even present anymore!
I sighed and teleported to Shibuya. I looked around the crowded streets, seeing players moving around in the underground while I walked about freely in the realground. That guy and girl are insanely skinny, Yodai will crush them easily, he won't need smarts for a job like that. I sighed and walked towards the ramen place, the one with that overly happy older man running it.
I immediately saw pink and orange. They're both alive at least.
No idea why I care about Uzuki. I guess because Kariya would be upset if she died.
I sat next to Kariya and Uzuki noticed me, causing Kariya to turn around.
"Oh, Minamimoto, what were you in such a rush for earlier? Didn't have to knock me around like that! I thought you took my wallet at first!" She shouted. I put my arms up.
"I was in a rush got it?" I said sternly. She shrugged and returned to her ramen.
"So do you understand what happened now?" Koki asked me, adjusting his glasses. I blushed and nodded.
"I-I care about you… It's a weird feeling I haven't had for anyone but myself before, but I care for you Koki. And Uzuki's companionship isn't all that bad either." I mumbled. Koki smiled.
"You don't have to isolate yourself to be successful y'know." Koki said. He leaned in and gave me a peck on the cheek. At that moment, Uzuki started coughing and a small trickle of blood rolled out of her nose. I gave her a confused look and she just waved her hand dismissively and turned around while wiping her nose. I looked at Kariya.
"I think that Uzuki over there thinks that our relationship is cute and nose-bleed inducing. Don't particularly understand…"I mused. "Could it be that she's part of the inequality?"
"I have no idea what you just said Sho." Koki said, "But I think I find your math references cute."
I heard another cough from behind Koki.
"OH MY GOD, stop it! I'm gunna die from blood loss!" Uzuki shouted as she grabbed more napkins and shoved them up her nose.
"Now we wouldn't want that." I remarked sarcastically. I sighed and put on a serious face.
"I need to tell you guys about something important." I said. Koki put his finger over my mouth.
"First, I have to ask an important question. What is our relationship now?" He asked. He pulled his finger away and I paused for a second. I grabbed his jacket and pulled him close, wrapping my arms over his shoulders and kissing him. I pulled away, leaving a small spit trail between our mouths that I wiped away.
"Does that answer your question…. B-boy-" I stuttered trying to say that last of the sentence.
"Boyfriend." Koki finished.
"I think I'm dying!" Uzuki shouted.
"Don't ruin the fucking moment!" I shouted at her. I composed myself.
"As I was saying, Konishi has organized a coup' against the composer. She's already taken the conductor out of the equation and asked me to help her." I told them. "She didn't want you guys involved, but I was afraid that she was going to try and kill you guys."
"Aww, he was worried about us, Kariya." Uzuki said as she slurped down the last of her ramen.
"Slurping is very ladylike." I commented.
"He sure was, Uzuki." Kariya said back with a big smile.
"You two have been around each other too much." I said. "And I agreed to be part of her coup', since it would be I would get to become the next composer. And, this is a first for me so be patient…" I said.
"I-I-I… wa-wanted to a-ask f-for your h-help…" I said. "Damn that hurt my fucking throat, no wonder I haven't done it before."
"How nice-ish." Uzuki said. "That's an almost polite way to ask for help."
"I'm not used to it ok?!" I shouted.
"I'm guessing that once you and Mitsuki defeat the Composer, they're going to be a fight about who replaces him, that's where you want us to help?" Kariya asked.
"Ya… in return, I'd let you be slacker like you love, and I'd help Uzuki get those promotions she so desires." I said. I smirked. "As the composers boyfriend you could be as lazy as you want and nobody can do anything about it."
Kariya laughed. "That's a good way to think about it."
Uzuki's hang shot into the air. "Promotion!"
"She's sure enthusiastic about work…. Was I like that when I was younger?" I remarked as she began to stretch and do warm-up exercises.
"A little, I'd say the enthusiasm, but without the warm-ups and stretching." Kariya said. He looked at me.
"This isn't the traditional way to go about becoming the composer, are you sure that the Reaper Council won't send the Disciplinary Officers after you and Mitsuki? Or even Uzuki and I?" He said.
"I'm pretty sure that the council is going to get themselves involved, although they rarely ever do, since they only can when the conductor orders it. With a conductor obedient to Mitsuki, they might just break their own rules to discipline us." I said, sitting back and ordering a bowl of ramen.
"I don't see them doing that anytime soon." Koki said. I shrugged.
"I can never tell what those idiotic functions are going to do." I said.
"I have a buddy on the Disciplinary Squad!" Uzuki said with a mouthful of ramen.
"You aren't very ladylike…" I mumbled.
"What's it matter to you? Only worry about how your man acts." She said. I blushed.
"At least I have a man!" I shouted at her, standing up and shouting over Kariya.
"At least I didn't run away after the first kiss!" She shouted. I looked at Kariya.
"You told her?!" He put his hands up defensively.
"She's my best friends and business partner, I confide in her my problems and she does that same with me. And for your information, she does have a man if what she's told me is to be believed." Koki said. I sighed and plopped back down onto my seat. He gave me a peck on the cheek and Uzuki had another bloody nose problem.
"There, you won the argument now, happy?" He asked. I nodded.
"Anyway, Yashiro, who's this friend on the disciplinary squad?" I asked. Uzuki wiped up the blood and cleared her throat.
"She's the second-in-command of the squad. If we can convince her to help us, we won't have to worry about the disciplinary squad." Uzuki says.
"Give her a call and arrange a meeting soon." I told her. Uzuki nodded and whipped out her phone and stood up to move somewhere quieter, I wish her luck in Shibuya.
"So you're running a gambit against Konishi? You know that's not going to be easy, the Iron Maiden's just as much of a cunning genius as you are." Koki said. I nodded.
"I know, I've already moved some pieces on my own. She's informed me of some of her own moves, so I have an idea of what she's planned." I said. Koki laughed.
"You're treating it like it's a deadly game of chess." He laughed. I chuckled.
"I guess I am, but it'll be a fun game, she's a worthy opponent." I said. "I'm not worried."
"Remember, there are the Players, The Composer, and the Producer all to worry about, those are some pieces you won't have an as easy of a time manipulating as the Reapers Corporation." Koki said.
"I've already moved some pieces into place to control that. Since Yodai's game is coming to a close, I convinced some of the support reapers to change around the walls; that should keep the players busy enough. The sudden change should also distract the producer for a short while. The Composer, if what I've heard is true, is head over heels that he hasn't paid attention to anything." I said.
"My pieces are in place, I just have to see how my opponents act in response, particularly the Composer and Mitsuki, since she has a powerful piece, the Conductor." I said.
"How do you plan on dealing with that?" Koki asked. He looked over his shoulder, "She better not be running off so she doesn't have to pay the bill."
"Simple enough, we destroy her piece. Since is acts completely obedient to her, it probably won't act without orders, meaning when it has no orders, it will simply sit around. It's vulnerable then; we can have the disciplinary squad take him out on some fake orders from Uzuki's friend." I explained.
"You are a fucking genius." Koki remarked as Uzuki came back in.
"She said she's on board, but she's a bit greedy and wants to be treated to ramen for a month as not to tell anyone." Uzuki said. "It's just like her."
"Good enough for me." I said. Koki nodded and Uzuki paid the bill. I suddenly felt something out of the ordinary.
"I think that Hagishizawa was just erased." I said. "I felt it."
"The game is close to ending, can't believe it's already been 7 days." Koki said. "I wonder which players won."
"It was probably that bratty emo boy and the secretive girl!" Uzuki shouted, followed by a pout. I sighed.
"Let's go meet with Uzuki's friend." Koki said. "Uzuki sent me the time in a text, its tomorrow, but it usually takes a day to get through the council's paranoid security checks."
"It's like getting into a fucking airport." I grumbled. "Why can't they just trust their officers."
"We are planning to break the rules." Uzuki said.
"So?" I said crossing my arms.
"You're like a little kid I swear." Koki said, we teleported back to the Underground just as I heard the announcement of the next reapers game, announcing that I would be the Game Master.
"But, I was never told this?!" I shouted, looking at the screen on the 104 building, showing me. I suddenly saw the glare of glasses in the darkness behind the supposed me.
"Mitsuki! She made a fucking clone of me… what's she planning?" I grumbled.
"She's probably made clones of Uzuki and me too." Koki said. I nodded.
"She already has a clone of Kitanji, she could even have clones of 777 or Yodai." I grumbled.
"Seems like the moves she just made caught you off guard." Koki said smirking. I glared at him.
"I thought I had predicted her perfectly, but looks like I didn't… We have to act quickly. We have to arrange to have the conductor killed by the disciplinary squad." I said. "From there, we can try and persuade the players to kill the fake me and fake you guys."
"Seems like a plan." Kariya said. Uzuki nodded and pulled out her phone and texted her friend.
"She'll meet us as soon as we get through the security check." She said.
"ugh…" I grumbled. I felt Kariya's arms wrap around my waist.
"Don't worry; I'll make the trip fun for you." He said with a mischievous smile. Uzuki stumbled with blood again, something I have gotten used to. I smirked back at him.
"I guess…"
