Hello everyone!
It appears that I am never going to upload on shcedule anymore. xD
My whole weekend was occupied hanging out with people and monday I had to help my father do something. And then Tuesday the website decides it is a good idea to stop working. It was simply frustrating.
Anyways, here I am with a new chapter which I really hope you like.
See ya next weekend, hopefully.
-RicartElit
P.S.: I have something I want your opinion on. I will put it at the end of the chapter so you can enjoy the read before having to give me your feedback.
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-(During the month and a half after last chapter)-
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-Nagisa's P.O.V.-
Six long weeks had passed. The daily routine of school, socializing, training and investigating got pretty boring after a while so I started dedicating myself more to try and rekindle old friendships to what they were before and watch those around me.
Since that first day of school I started hanging out more with both Rio and Yukiko, as did Kaede and Karma. Many times did we go along with Rio's and Karma's insane plans to prank people, which usually did makes us laugh a lot. Well, except when they once again figured out that I looked like a girl. Just when I thought I had enough with my mother, those two started teasing me and tried to force me into dresses, skirts, and other feminine clothing. It was a complete nightmare. At least with Yukiko and Kaede I am able to relax a bit more and have fun, as we tend to just go to an arcade and let loose a bit just playing games and chatting. We did see those thugs a few times, though they always tried to keep as far away from us as possible, which caused Yukiko to look confused and Kaede to start putting the pieces together. I just hope that when she figures it out she isn't too mad that I went out of my way to teach them a lesson.
I also started noticing certain differences from the original timeline and figuring out other that I had already noticed. The first one was the fact that Rio was in fact, in class A. I never remembered her being a good enough student to be in class A which had confused me since the beginning of the year until I remembered what she told us in our past-future. She was a great student in elementary but because of her loneliness started goofing off and ended up forgetting how to study. I think that the fact me and Kaede befriended her made it so her loneliness never got unbearable and so she never lost her good grades, and adding Karma meeting her to the mix explains the resurection of the goofy and fun-loving part of her personality. I don't know how this will work out in the end because this way she won't end up in class 3-E so I must figure this out later. I really hope not too many things like this change and I want out old class to stay the same.
The other change that I saw was Karma's and Rio's behaviour when they're together. In the previous timeline Karma and Okuda were very close and ended up becoming a couple, and I think Rio was still trying to find someone who she truly liked. This appears to have changed with me introducing Rio and Karma. The two of them having known eachother for very long have become increasingly close along the years and I suspect they are gaining an interest in eachother, with no apparent interest of Karma's in Okuda. I do not know how I feel about this change but I refuse to meddle with matters of the heart. If he truly starts dating Rio and they are a successful couple then more power to them, who am I to try and force Karma into dating Okuda, after all even if they're technically the same person with our interfeerence the two Karmas from both timelines have slightly diverging personalities. This Karma is slightly less agressive and violent than the original one and his pranks are less harmful towards his friends. He is also more social and hangs out with us more than old Karma would have. Them being two different people it is expected for their lives to follow two different paths so there is little reason for me to meddle.
I also noticed a bit of change in Yukiko. Despite keeping her prim and proper behaviour at school, with friends she was much more relaxed and opened up a bit more to us, even going as far as explainign why she had the two personas. I think being able to talk freely with us made her happier.
Appart from this, my days went by normally. Me and Kaede hung out with people in our free time or trained Karma to become a better assassin. Whenever he missed a training session because of spending time with anyone or just lazing around we made him work extra hard in the next one. There was no way we were going to let him shirk out on his training.
At the very least I was able to spend a good bit of alone time with Kaede between school and her occasional acting job. I always loved the time we spent together and I don't think I could like anybody as much as I like her.
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-Kaede's P.O.V.-
Life went by as normal, well as normal as it can be for a group that is working towards saving the world. Going to school again was not yet something I was used to, part of me feels very weird about it, like a deep feeling of wrongness, of something that just isn't right. But there's nothing I can do about it as despite my mental age, I am still physically twelve and as such I have to go to school wether I like it or not.
I still have my acting career which, as I have not put it on hiatus it in order to go to school, is blooming. I have more fame than I had at this age in our last timeline. It was a bit jarring to have so many fans at such an young age but as I was used to even higher amounts from when I was older I could manage it. At the very least my identity was covered with two personas so no one would recognize me, Haruna Mase in my acting carrer and Kayano Kaede at school. This made it so I was easily able to maintain my personal life separate from my career. Though it still consumed a lot of my time.
When I was not acting or attending school I spent time with my usual group of friends with the addition of Rio and Yukiko. It's very nice to expand my circle of close friends as it makes it a lot more fun to go out, not that Karma and Nagisa are boring, far from it actually, but there are things guys don't understand as well as girls, even if said girls are psychologically 12 years younger than you are. I hung out with Rio and Yukiko alone quite a few times in order to enjoy activities Nagisa dn Karma wouldn't like. The five of us also went as a group sometimes to the arcade like we did that first day of school to have fun though I curiously noticed the thugs that I recognized from last time staying as far away as possible from us, I wonder if Nagisa has something to do with that... Anyways, we also followed Karma and Rio when they were running around with their usual antics, watching as they pranked other poor unsuspecting students.
I also noticed somethign interesting. Karma and Rio are getting increasingly close. They sometimes blushed when looking at each other and then pretended nothing had happened, or sneaked glances at one another. It was an interesting change from our previous timeline as I know that before Karma and Okuda were an item. But if these two wanted to be together then I would fully support them. It also made a very good teasing subject whenever me and Yukiko were alone with Rio, which was a nice way to get payback on her after all the times she teased me. The way she blushed and tried to divert attention from the subject was just too funny. I wonder if any other relationships would change because of our accidental meddling.
Every other day and in the weekends Nagisa and I also trained Karma. We needed to make sure he was ready to deal with our future missions as they were prone to getting increasingly dangerous, especially the chaos that would probably unfold when we rescued my sister. He left our sessions often exhausted but that was to be expected, he had to become very proficient with what we taught him.
In the midst of all these activities I still had some time to spend with Nagisa alone. Being with him and knowing that he is there and no longer borderline suicidal is very soothing. I still believe that this trip through time was one of the best things to happen in our life as it had permitted Nagisa to heal a bit from his crippling depression, and though he is still not completely free of his dark thoughts and probably won't be until we finally complete our mission he is far, far better than before. I don't know what I would have done if that accident had not caused us to leap through time and I had survived...
-Karma's P.O.V.-
School was boring. When you are capable of comprehending all subjects as easily as I was, it simply became hopelessly dull. Despite that I still had to pay some attention. I have absolutely no clue how Nagisa and Kaede were capable of paying little to literally no attention and still ace their tests, it was simply unbelievable.
Outside of school I spent a lot of my time with Kaede, Nagisa, Yukiko and Rio. We usually just hung out as a group either hitting the arcade, walking around the city or pulling pranks on people, nothing very special but a good way to unwind after the hellish training Nagisa and Kaede put me through. And it was trully a training from hell. They simply never allowed me a moment of rest, pushing me harder and harder until I can barely move. I know they want me to be ready and I already saw what kind of things we're up against but this is becoming ridiculous! At least I know they are great teachers so I don't have to worry about exhausting myself for nothing.
I also tended to spend a lot of time alone with Rio just pulling pranks all around the city or talking about our lives. We have been friends for years now since Nagisa introduced us and we have gotten along pretty well since then. At first Rio was very tame and seemed a bit introverted but after some time I was able to pull her out of her shell and she quickly became one of my closest friends. I guess along the years we have been become more and more at ease with eachother but nowadays we are almost unable to look eachother in the eyes. It just becomes a bit embarrasing to do it and we end up blushing up a storm. I am in no way naive enough to not know what is happening, but I'll let it develop at it's own pace, especially because I don't want to involve her in anything like our operations. I would hate to see her hurt or broken so I intend to protect her from what we do at all costs.
I just hope we are successful in our mission, as I do not think I have enough power to protect her from the end of the world...
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-(October 27th - Middle of the second term)-
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-(Clearing in class 3-E's hill)-
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-Nagisa(P.O.V.), Kaede, Karma & Ritsu-
We had been called by Ritsu to this clearing like the first time Kaede and I met because she said she ahd important information to relay and she wanted to minimize the risks of being overheard.
When we arrived we waited 5 minutes before we heard a familiar voice coming from our phones.
"Hello. It's nice to see you guys again. I've been quite busy these past few days managing all our projects and analysing the data we got. Through this I've got a few pieces of information you might be interested in."
So we finally had something more out of all that data...
"Tell us what you found Ritsu." I told her.
"Well, through a few mentions on the data and some hijacked spy satellites I was able to find the precise location about both the lab in the Australian desert and the one in the Rocky Mountains. In case you don't remember, the first houses the remains of Subject 03 and the second holds the living Subject 02. We are already halfway through the second term and we'll have to choose a target to hit in the next break. It will be far harder to get to that destination as it is more remote and we'll be unable to take Kaede's sister with us as adult supervision."
Kaede looked confused. "Why can't she come with us?"
"Imagine what would happen if everytime your sister went on holidays to a place close to one of the labs, that lab was hit. What would happen?"
Her eyes widened in horror and I put my hand on her shoulder for support. "Yanagisawa would think she was the culprit and target her. We can't allow that to happen!"
"And that is exactly why she can't come with us. We will have to carefully choose our target and plan our infiltration. I have no access to the networks of those labs so it will have to be a mostly blind infiltration which carries many risks. We must not be careless or we will end up in immense danger."
We spent the rest of the afternoon discussing the various possibilities and narrowing down our possible plans. Despite that no conclusive pln was formed and it was getting late so we decided to discuss this again later.
We all separated after getting to the bottom of the mountain with a lot more to think about than when we climbed.
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-(Unknown)-
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-Ritsu(P.O.V.)-
My pet project was taking shape. Slowly but surely all the pieces were falling into place and in the end, I'll be able to help my friends to a far bigger degree than before.
Almost all the research necessary was done. Having a few research teams paid to keep silence working on it and my endless supply of information helped speed it up a lot. Now all I needed was to figure out the last little kinks in the project and find somebody to manufacture it. All in all, it would still take a bit of time but I should have it by the time the next summer break comes along.
Soon I'll have the capability to protect them. After it is done I will never again feel helpless while I watch them go through unimaginable danger. It will simply not happen, I'll make sure of it.
Project Palingenesia was almost finished...
Well, here's what I wanted your opinion on:
I have been thinking about what I wanted to write after finishing this story, even though this one will still last a good while more.
Some people have been giving em suggestions but sometiem ago I came up with one which I am starting to obsess with and I want to know if you find it interesting. Here's the premise:
You know how Korosensei, Akari and Itona were asked by the tentacles what they wanted to be/what they wanted to do? Well that gave me an idea for another time travel fic.
It would be a story with a darker atmosphere than this one. My idea is that in the end everythign that could go wrong went wrong and Nagisa is the only survivor (could change). In his desperation he found a vial of tentacle substance and injected himself. With the tentacle influence clouding his mind, when he is asked the question, he asked something along the lines of fixing his mistakes, or saving all his friends. As the reality bending things that they are, the tentacles bring Nagisa to the past. He wakes up confused but in the end sees it as a new opportunity to redo everuthing. Though this past Nagisa is not the same. With all the trauma he became darker and ruthless though not to the point of becomign a monster, more of a Greyish!Nagisa, more willing to do what needs to be done. Now another thing that can vary is if Nagisa takes over young Nagisa's body, or if he appears in the past with his own body, in both outcomes he keeps the tentacles.
I really would love to hear your opinion on this idea. Also, as I probably won't be doing it for a while, anyone who wants to write using this idea or just changing it a little and making their own story can do it, as long as they give credit where it is due.
Thanks for reading.
-RicartElit