Super Duper Video Game Fighters

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Many thanks to the readers who reviewed this fic, and I really appreciate it a lot and this inspired me to bring in the next chapter in which the main focus here woukd feature the Future Foundation, and the members will be introduced, especially after finally watched the new Danganronpa anime, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy, and here you will see what roles they would play and hiw the Class of 78 would deal with this matter, especially as some would play foil to Naegi and the gang, so read on and enjoy!

Ch. 2: Bideogēmu no Tame no Ai

A few years have passed, and the scene shifts to the present day, where Chiaki is now 14 years old, and she is attending middle school within Tokyo, and despite being in middle school her love for video games have not diminished, and she continue to play video games at home using the Super Famicom that her dad bought way back, and most of the time she is seen playing fighting games such as Street Fighter, Killer Instinct, World Heroes, the Fatal Fury games and even Mortal Kombat series. Her hobbies earned her friends who are mostly boys and they all went to Chuaki's home on weekends, and while Mr. Nanami is happy to see his daighter having friends, Mrs. Nanami is somewhat concerned at this, fearing that her only daughter might grow up boyish and may lead to becoming a lesbian.

One day, Chiaki's parents were having a debate on what to do with her hobbies, as she wants to put a stop to her daughter's hobby and seek a different past time, but he said that it is natural for Chiaki to like video games, reasoning that her grades are stable and above board, yet Mrs. Nanami is worried that once Chiaki reach high school she might neglect her studies if she gets engrossed on the video games she might end up becoming a delinquent, which Mr. Nanami assure that their daughter won't end up like that.

"Really, dear...Chiaki won't be like that..."

"Bur honey..."

"You worry too much..."

"But Chiaki...she..."

"Chiaki is fine...her grades are okay and she is attending school..."

"That's not what I'm worried about...it's that she is spending her time playing video games in her room...!"

"It's normal for her to..."

"No...it is not!"

Meanwhile, the scene shifts at a local arcade, where several persons are flocking the place, all lining up to play their preferred and favorite games,mand most of the patrons are teenagers ranging from middle school to university students, and most of them are playing their preferred games, and many 8f them are watching while others are playing, and there you can see many of the patrons are watching a popular arcade machine which was unveiled recently. It was a fighting game which caught gamers by storm due to its impressive anime-like graphics and smooth gameplay.

The game in question is revealed to be THE KING OF FIGHTERS XXX, and the game boasts of 100 characters, many gamers are attracted to it and soon many are flocking the arcade machine as they soon find out that a certain teenager is playing the game, amassing 30 consecutive wins and is currently fighting another gamer using their chosen characters, and the teenager in question turns out to be Chiaki Nanami herself, and th rest of the patrons are cheering the other player, urging him to win and beat Chiaki, expecting him to erase her 30-win streak.

"Go get her!"

"Beat her!"

"Snap her winning streak!"

"Don't let a girl beat you!"

"Show her who's boss!"

"Show her who's the man!"

"Don't let girls dominate the boys!"

"Do it, boy!"

Meanwhile, the scene shifts to another area within the arcade, where a popular game is being played, in which it is equiped with an interactive sniper rifle, and a there an 11-year old boy came and saw the game, which is titled SILENT SCOPE XXX, and the boy seemed to have an interest and began to drop a token to play the game. The boy is shown, who is described with short blue hair with cowlicks that are in the shape of cat ears. His eyes are a lighter blue and have diamonds representing the irises , is said to be a progidy of a famous person, within Tokyo. The boy is identified as Nagisa Shingetsu, and he appeared to have a liking in shooting games.

Nagisa is said to be the talk of the city due to the family name yet he only seem to be keeping up appearance because of pressure from his father, who wants Nagisa to be at his best so that he can brag to society how powerful and influential the Shingetsu family is, and though Nagisa is willing to put up with his father's selfish orders, he is starting to resent him, and eventually finds solace in playing shooting games. Surprisingly, Nagisa would develop natural skills as a shooting gamer, and finished the game in just 30 minutes, and this caused other gamers to stare in awe as they did not expect an 11-year old to finish such a shooting game.

Nagisa then looked around and found another game that piqued his interest, which turn out to be a new game, titled GRADIUS MMX. Nagisa wasted no time and began to insert a token, and began using a cheat code which he secretly researched on the internet, and begsnnto apply the codes, which are:

Up, Up

Down, down

Left, right, left right,

Button B and Button A

Soon Nagisa smirked as the code was activated, where the ship he is using, Vic Viper, gained 30 lives and full access to power ups, and he began to play the game, and the other gamers stared in surprise at seeing how Nagisa was able to get the power ups and are amazed at how he is able to get them so easily, and in less than 25 minutes Nagisa is already at Stage 7, and is nearing the final boss, and the players are wondering what kind of kid Nagisa is and how he is able to get this far in the game.

"No way..."

"He reached he final stage..."

"How did he do that...?"

"Who the heck is he...?"

"What is he...?"

"How old is he...?"

"He's one heck of a gamer..."

"I sure envy him..."

However, Nagisa's relax time is interrupted when his father came and slapped him on the head, berating him for being LAZY and told him he should focus on his studies, and Nagisa responded by saying that he has maintained his grades and he is just needing a way to relieve stress, but Mr. Shingetsu slapped his son agsin and said there is no such thing as stress, and told Nagisa that all he should do is focus on his studies so that he can proudly flaunt the family name of Shingetsu, and the other patrons realize who they are, but they appeared to be sympathetic towards Nagisa, seeing that his dad is just using him just to promote the family name and nothing else, and that Mr. Shingetsu is just using his son as a tool and nothing else as the argument between father and son rages on.

"That's the Shingetsu family...?

"So that's the name I heard.."

"Damn...look at that...the guy is just pushing his son around..."

"Yeah...he wants to use his kid just to flaunt around..."

"Feel sorry for the kid..."

"The guy is gonna get his due once thr kid reaches the boiling point..."

"The kid should fight back..."

"Somebody ought to report the guy at the social welfare...tell them thr Shingetsu guy is committing child abuse..."

By then Mr. Shingetsu twists Nagisa's ear as he drags him out of the arcade and inside the car before driving away, and everyone felt sorry for Nagisa for having an abusive father, and Chiaki was saddened at this and wondered if there is something she can do to help yet she opted not to dwell over it and continue to play the game, and soon she was defeated, as the other player won, yet she did not mind it and stood up as she leaves the arcade and is walking the sidewalk when she bumped against another teenager, who appeared taller than her.

The impact caused the boy to drop several video game cartridges and Chiaki helps him pick up the games and apologizes, which the boy said it is okay. There she saw several games on the cartridges, most of them in the RPG and action-type RPG genre, which include The Legend Of Zelda, Breath Of Fire, Brave Fencer Musashi, and Final Fantasy. Chiaki glanced at the boy, who appeared to be in the same age as her, and the boy is identified as Hajime Hinata, and she asks him if he play video games too, which he said that he is, and she asks him if he played other games beside the ones he has.

"Er...no...I don't play other games beside the ones I have..."

"Really...?"

"Yeah...sorry..."

"I see..."

"Sorry..."

"It's okay...um...would you like to try other games...?"

"Um...sorry..."

"Huh?"

Hinata said that for now RPGs are all he can play for now, and he bowed at her as he took his leave and Chiaki watches him leave, and she wondered if she would get to see him again as she wants to know what is like to play RPGs, seeing that it is also a video game. She then decided to get going as well as she decided to go home and fix her room at her house after promising her mom that she would clean her room within today.

-x-

Later, the scene shifts inside the Nanami residence where you can see Chiaki cleaning her room, and after that, she opened her portable TV and inserted the cable that connects to the Super Famicom and she began to play games, and as she is playing, the scene shifts outside her room where Chaiki's mom and aunt are outside, as the elder Nanami sibling paid the Nanami family a visit and the two females had a chat and asks how Chiaki is doing, in which Chiaki's mom said that while she is doing well academically, she is worried that her her daughter might become an introvert or something due to spending time at home playing video games and is worried that Chiaki might even go beyond that once she goes to high school, and Chiaki's aunt listens on.

After hearing it, Chiaki's mom thought about it carefully, and while she said that it is normal for her niece to play games at home, she said it is quite a concern for her staying at home and might become a shut-in so she told her younger sister that she is willing to help and said that she can help Chiaki in this situation where she can do something productive without having her abandon her hobbies, which Chiaki's mom blinked her eyes at hearing what her elder sister just said.

"Really, nee-chan...?"

"Yes."

"But how?"

"I happened to be working at a hospital..."

"Wait...what good would thst do...?"

"The hospital where I work is also a university...and now it accepts high school students...and Chiaki can fit in there...and she can learn a lot when she enrolls there..."

"Um..."

"You need not worry, my little sister...leave it to me..."

Chiaki's aunt said that she is working at an institution within Tokyo, which is both a university and and a hospital, and said that her employer is a director of that place and she told her sister that she can make arrangements and ask her sister if she is willing to let Chiaki live with her by next year so that she can have her enroll at the university hospital, so that aside from studying at high school, she can learn the tricks of the trade in becoming a nurse or doctor-trainee, pointing out the inspiration she got from the classic TV series DOOGIE HOWSER MD and E. R.

Chiaki's mom is surprised at what she just heard, and is wondering if this is a good idea, and by then Chiaki's dad came and did not like the idea of being separated from his daughter just because his wife wants Chiaki to stop being engrossed in video games and spending time at her bedroom, and asks his sister-in-law if her suggestion is really beneficial or not, as he felt that it might make Chiaki feel bad at being separated from her home and her parents,

"Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"For me it is."

"But..."

"Trust me, my brother-in-law...it is for her own good..."

"I think it is not a good idea..."

"Thisnis better than letting ber spend the rest of her youth playing games in her room..."

"She us just..."

"Trust me...it will benefit her the most..."

Chiaki's sister-in-law assured to him that she is doing this for Chiaki and said that she can visit her parents on weekends and that Chiaki studying medicine, learning first aid techniques, and being a nurse doing emergency help in certain situations woukd be beneficial and promised that she will guide her niece in a gentle and compassionate way, and Chiaki's mom appeared to be willing to accept the suggestion though her husband is unsure as he wanted to hear his daughter's side first before making a decision.

There the parents had a rather heated debate on what to do, and by then Chiaki came out hearing the noise, and there she asks them what is going on, and her parents smiled and said that they are just discussing something and assured that they are not quarreling, and she just stared at them in a blank expression while her aunt glances at her nuece, seeing the innocence, and peered at her room, where her room is well-organized, but saw her shelf having a lot of portable and home consoles systems and games, and she is now thinking of what to do next seeing that thisis a concern, not just for the Nanami parents but also fir Chiaki.

-x-

Somewhere else, the scene shifts to a house where a family resides, and there you can see a teenage boy is playing a video game in which it also involved a cartridge, showing that it is a Super Famicom, and the boy is seen playing an RPG, which revealed to be Dragon Quest VII, and the boy is enjoying himself quite well, and he is identified as Hajime Hinata, but unlike Chiaki, Hinata is quite an average teen and yet he is humble enough and does not spend time outside school, like what other teenagers do. As he is now halfway after the beginning of the game, his dad came in and told his son that they are having a chat, and the teen saved the game and asks his dad what the topic would be, and there his dad said that once Hajime starts high school, he will be living at a dorm as the school he would eventually study is within downtown Tokyo, and that aside from studying lessons, he would get to study in becoming either a volunteer nurse or a paramedic-in-training, which surprised the teen since he felt that it us out of his place.

"What was that...?"

"You heard me, son...

"I don't want to...it's out of my leagues..."

"This is for your own good..."

"But..."

"Your mom begged me for this..and I had to accept..."

"Dad!

"It's final..."

Hajime felt that there is no point in studying at a university hospital since the tuition fees are expensive and that he has no talent in that kind of field, but his dad said that this is fine as he told his son that his mom did not want to see her son spending his time playing video games, and that his mom have accepted her grandfather's recommendation, and Hajime gritted his teeth seeing that his mom appeared submissive to her father and that his dad did not have any say on this, and Hajime was mentally frustrated that his parents appear to act like cowards, who they seemed to be afraid of his maternal grandfather, and he stared at his lap, his fists clenched as he realized that his life is being controlled at the behest of his "cowardly parents" who they just want to appease his strict grandfather.

To Be Continued... .

Hope you like this chapter, as it showed an original beginning for Chiaki, as well as Hinata and Nagisa...but expect more characters to show up soon...

Preview:

The next chapter shows Chiaki as a teenager, where she, and the other characters, would start high school...and learn the tricks of the trade in becoming a volunteer medic...

See you in 2 to 3 weeks...

Reviews are welcome...