TWEWY: A Fall Into Honor:

This story is about how Joshua became the Composer. The story is from Joshua's point of view. This is a prequel of the game The World Ends With You. TWEWY is made by Square Enix. This is a FAN FICTION and not the real prequel. Enjoy.

Week 1, Day 4:

Chapter 13: Dream's Recall:

His midnight blue eyes darted to those of misty jade as they passed, Kazumasa made himself halt his stride before he said lowly "Straying too near for our space and privacy. The crime for that of a Reaper, such as yourself, is dire for your existence."

The owner of the misty jade eyes stayed silent as he slipped on his very dark sunglasses, before adjusting his cherry headphones that lay limply around his neck.

He nodded curtly to his superior and frowned.

"I assume your name is Megumi Kitaniji, correct?" added the brunet as the Reaper with the dark brownish grey hoodie tilted his head again for another curt nod.

At once Kazumasa was frustrated over the disdain this person was giving him, what this Reaper had been doing was his responsibility to find out at once. His duty of being the Conductor depended on it.

Seeing that Megumi appeared to have no trust in him to speak, the Conductor sighed before he spoke "Our Composer wishes you to join her, and a few other of your common Reapers at the end of the day in her quarters."

"To what have I for this pleasure?" said Megumi with a striking curious tone.

"Promotion." replied Kazumasa coolly as he turned to leave.

When he was starting to take a few steps Megumi called while he held the rim to his sunglasses "Such a honor for a second in command. Going to obey with sweat, blood, and tears for his lady in waiting. Do you like taking orders from one who is feeble and unjust to be in control?"

"What!?" roared Kazumasa as he scowled at the Reaper, "You have no right to speak of our Composer. Without her, this game would succumb to nothing more than a Warfield for the Noise and you Reapers."

Megumi chuckled as he mused walking up to him with a smirk "You fools. Do you really believe that we need to beg for her? Her judgment is dwindling; you do know that as her consort. If she ordered you to the grave of erasure, simply you would submit."

At once Kazumasa clenched his teeth and retorted, "It is true that I, am her consort. But I do not lack logic, even with that I do gain contentment from following her."

He looked at the files once more that he carried all day with a clipboard. In Megumi's file he was noted to be antisocial and manipulative, filled with the prospect of remonstration. Clearly the way he spoke confirmed it.

"How do you like being the queen in chess?" asked Megumi as he made his hand face up flatly while his other hand gestured, he held a dark smirk "She of course is the king. But that doesn't mean she controls everything. I myself for now am one of the many pawns. But maybe she'll give me the pleasure of being a knight or rook just like you mentioned a minute ago?"

'What is he planning?' thought Kazumasa as he closed his midnight eyes, 'How does he literally think we are all chess pieces. We all have roles to follow, but we are not the ones controlled…'

Strangely what Megumi said seemed to make something click in his mind.

"Joshua!" called the 8-year-old Ayumu as he went over to join his older half brother as Joshua watched through half closed eyes the kids playing together happily, the 8 and a half year old Joshua wondered if any of those kids had any relationship like him and his younger half brother.

With a warm smile he looked at Ayumu who had his weird blind eyes slowly moving to where the tiniest of sounds was made "Hello, Ayumu. Why are you here?"

"I thought you might be lonely." responded Ayumu as he took Joshua's hand and pushed a pin onto his fair skin, his pewter eyes blinked as he spoke "And I got this from a boy who played that Tin Piny- err…" Ayumu scrunched his face as he made noises of thinking, "Game thingy."

"Game thingy?" repeated Joshua flatly as he returned the pin, he wasn't interested in a useless metal that was used for other people's dumb enjoyment "You need to work on your speech Ayumu, sometimes I half understand the things that come from your mouth."

Right away Ayumu hung his head "Sorry…"

"H-hey…" said Joshua as he got off the bench he sat and gave Ayumu a noggie, "Y'know, your mom says something every time I visit your home. How'd it go-"

Ayumu gave a scowl and pushed Joshua away angrily, with a hot puff of air he mumbled "'If you speak now, you express wrong. Think first before you speak, to say the words you always keep.'"

"Yes!" said Joshua as he clapped his hands once, he grabbed Ayumu's hand and looked at it frowning "Your hand has deep groves in them, is there a speak line for one of them?"

Ayumu pulled his hand away and pouted, Joshua noted that he always looked cute when he pouted.

"There is the Life Line, Heart Line and Head Line!" corrected Ayumu as he pointed to each one, "Mummy says each one determines your destiny in life, and if you're a new or old spirit!"

With a sigh Joshua mused, "All spirits are the same, Ayumu. They are just dead people who wander endlessly while fighting weird monsters."

When he said that, he saw some older kids who went through the kids who were playing while chasing after a frog and fox with queer limbs. Joshua pointed to them "See, over there?"

His half brother frowned, as he looked in the indicated direction "Those kids?"

"Yeah Ayumu, those kids-"

Suddenly Ayumu was walking over to the kids who were playing, this deeply confused Joshua as he furrowed an eyebrow. As he watched as he froze in horror when the blind blond with golden tipped hair yelled "Are you dead?!"

After a few moments one of the eldest kids knocked Ayumu down and shouted "Freak! Go wallow with the dead, freak!" His name was Ryou but he was older than Ayumu by half a year like Joshua.

Red haze came into Joshua's vision as he stalked over to them and spat "Leave him alone!"

"Oh look everyone!" piped a girl who stood second tallest to the eldest kid, her face twisted in a smirk as she sneered, "It's Yoshiya Kiryu, the biggest freak of all!" He knew her by the name of Sora, she was almost the same age as Ryou

Everyone but Ayumu and Joshua laughed, Joshua ignored her as he helped his brother up and shoved him behind himself.

He gave her a scowl as he mused calmly "It looks like the naïve stays around to mock, how do you even think of others if you do that?" he added with a smirk "Or do you have no brains at all?"

Pain shot through him as he landed on his back, he winced in pain as blood traveled down his face from his nose. In the process Ayumu was pushed back and landed roughly on his side, Joshua swore he heard him whimper as tears threatened to rush out.

As he weakly looked up he heard Ryou sneer, "Oh, you think you are funny? Yoshiya, you keep your words to yourself or else."

"What would a child such as yourself do?" taunted Joshua as he slowly sat up in pain, he hated the hot scarlet liquid that was dripping into his mouth that tasted like copper.

"We'll tell everyone that Ayumu is as crazy as you," explained Sora as her blonde hair flew in the biting wind, "That he sees nothing but the same monsters you see, then no one will want to hang around with him."

"Nix!?" yelped Ayumu as he cowered on the spot, tears were starting to come down his face as he wailed "Y-Y-You can't! There's no such thing as monsters! Josh sees them, n-not me!"

Joshua had already gotten to his feet when he heard an older Ayumu speak "Wake up! Please! Wake up Josh!"

Joshua slowly opened his eyes to see blurrily that Ayumu was towering over him as he sat by his side; with a grimace he gasped "Ow!" Right away he looked at his right shoulder that had odd see-through gauze on it.

"You are hurt?" said Ayumu hollowly as he gently touched it with his index fingers, "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine Ayumu," replied Joshua trying to get up, but the pain in his shoulder caused him to fall back down in the exact spot he woke up "Honestly." Despite his words he knew he was in pain.

"Josh, you are lying," said Ayumu as he stopped, the younger half brother closed his eyes as he calmly mused, "I can know your pain. You feel not good enough to move your arm."

Sometimes he hated now that he wanted Ayumu to read his mind, 'I thought it healed yesterday? Didn't it? That bright light…'

"What were you dream 'bout?" asked Ayumu absently as he got up and looked around blindly.

"Oh," replied Joshua flatly, "Just something I want to forget about."

Ayumu seemed satisfied with his answer, after a few moments he spoke again "You stayed asleep even when the mission came. You jerk in sleep with timer when it come."

"What!?" yelled Joshua sitting up abruptly, he gasped in pain as he clutched his shoulder before he demanded "Tell me how long was it that the mission came?" His brother shifted a bit "Two minutes."

Joshua sighed in relief.

But why did he collapse? And why did he dream of the past? All the questions spun his mind and made it dizzy.

To be continued, hope you liked the chapter…