DISCLAIMER; I think you all know I don't claim the rights to TWEWY by now.
Chapter 2 I think;
Daisuke felt his eyelids growing heavier by the second. He blinked drowsily and suddenly he was in the scramble and other players began to awaken. Hideki, apparently a heavy sleeper, similarly to her partner, was one of the last few to wake up. Daisuke, however, had been studying the man and woman that intrigued him so, whilst he waited for the girl.
"I thought you were a 'professional slacker'," Hideki mocked, causing Daisuke to jump a bit.
"They took my ability to sleep as my entry fee," Daisuke replied, his voice laced with exhaustion.
"Why're you staring at those two? Are they getting it on? Are you a secret pervert?"
"No, they're just... The guy seems... familiar. Anyway, let's blow off the mission today, those 2 are the best players from what I've seen, they'll take care of it. I need to visit a certain coffee shop." Hideki happily agreed and they made their way to the Shibu Department store, but were blocked by an invisible wall. Their phones rang and they read the mission mail, just to see what it was. "Today's game is... Hide and seek! You have 120 minutes to find me and defeat my noise! Good luck~!" The sharp pain came again as the timers appeared on their palms.
"We need to find a way through this wall," Daisuke said, banging his fist against it to test its strength. If other people could see him, he'd look like a mime.
"I remember when my momma told me stories about the game, she said there were hooded guys with wings that opened and closed the walls. Maybe we could find one? Sounds like a reaper, though..."
"Well there's a guy in a red hoodie over there. Let's go talk to him," The pair walked over to inquire the reaper. "Hey, you the reaper in charge of the wall?" The man nodded.
"Want past my wall? Defeat these noise, they've been bugging me all day. I'd do it myself, but I'm tryin' to sleep." And with that, they were thrown into battle.
"Here we go again," Daisuke said, curling his hand into the shape of a pistol. They were greeted by a couple standard frog noise and a wolf noise, which seemed significantly stronger than the frogs they had been dealing with. Daisuke fired, but the wolf dodged, leaving the giant bullet of fire to hit the frog, erasing it instantly. Daisuke went to fire at the wolf, but he couldn't. Then he felt a burning sensation in his fingers as he noticed they were smoking. "Owowowowowwww... Hottt!" He tried to shake the smoke away and blow it out, but he couldn't. Meanwhile, Hideki was struggling with the wolf. Her focus was her mood ring, and at the moment, a large, pitch black arm was materialized out of it, and was trying to smash the wolf that was way too agile for it.
"Daisuke, do something!"
"I can't, I think my psych has a cooldown! It is pretty powerful." He felt the burning in his fingers fade as the smoke dissipated. He fired at the wolf, just barely hitting it, causing it paralysis so that Hideki could finish it off. They went to speak with the reaper again.
"Objective met. Wall clear! Now get off my back, will ya?" Sure enough, they could pass by.
"Thank you, mister!" Hideki called to the man before catching up to Daisuke, who was clearly jaded. "Damn, Dai-san, you look beat... You really need your coffee, don't you?" Daisuke chuckled.
"Dai-san? That's what you're calling me now?"
"Well yeah! We are friends, aren't we?"
"Yeah," he chuckled again, "I guess we are, Deki-san."
"'Deki-san'? Why use the back half of my name?"
"Hid-san sounds weird."
"Agreed," she giggled and grabbed his hand, skipping on ahead.
"Wait," he laughed, "Do you even know where we're going?"
"Not a clue but Towa Records is this way!"
"Can we stop on the way back? I really need some coffee..."
"Sure," she giggled, "I'm assuming it's on the way, then?" Daisuke nodded and yawned. They passed towa records and were confronted by another wall. The found another red-hooded reaper.
"Yo, reaper! What's it gonna cost to get the wall down?"
"Want past that wall? Bring me 4 500-yen pins." Hideki checked her pockets.
"I've got one that a noise dropped. Think they'll drop more?" she inquired.
"They better," Daisuke said, picking a fight with some easy noise. The two of them picked off the noise with some struggle, as they were still just getting used to using psychs. Their teamwork, on the other hand, was impeccable. When they finished off the noise and obtained the required pins, they reported back to the reaper.
"Objective met. Wall clear!" As they were about to go through, the reaper stopped them. "Why did you guys wanna get in here anyway? She's not 'hiding' there."
"Wildkat Cafe. He needs his coffee," Hideki explained, finding her partner's exhaust somewhat amusing. "Thank you for clearing the wall." With that the duo made their way to said cafe. When they arrived, Daisuke realized something.
"How are we gonna get coffee if nobody can see us?" Hideki stopped and thought for a second.
"No one can see us, so they won't see us take it... Right?"
"Wrong," both Hideki and Daisuke jumped and turned around to see the tall man Daisuke was so interested in walking up behind them. "See that symbol?" he asked, pointing to some graffitti. "That means that you can be seen in the RG. You can find them around shops so people can... well... shop. Now, you two weren't thinking of stealing from my cafe, were you?" Daisuke couldn't say a word. "If they're here... Then... Who's completing the mission!?" Hideki, on the other hand, was full of words.
"N-no sir! We weren't planning to steal from anywhere! We're just a couple of teens trying to survive the reapers' game, isn't that right, Dai-san?"
"I think you were planning on stealing from Wildkat," the man's partner said bluntly, "Judging by your mood ring, you're nervous, and not to mention the conversation you were having. Teens tend to talk pretty loud... When they're not mumbling, that is." She gave them a stern look. "Identify yourselves."
"Yes ma'am! I'm Hideki Kagome, and this is my partner Daisuke Hayashi."
"Is that right?" the woman turned to Daisuke, to make sure he confirmed Hideki's statement.
"Uhh... Yeah..." He scratched his head, "I think I know you from somewhere..." he said, turning to the man.
"Of course you do, you're in my cafe at least once every few weeks." Then Daisuke remembered.
"Hanekoma!? Shit, I never thought you'd die... What got you?"
"Murdered. I dunno who by, though." He laughed. "Nice to finally know your name after all those visits. Now you want a coffee, then?"
"Yeah. Here's the 520¥," he gave Hanekoma the money. "So you're Hanekoma's partner, huh?"
"Fortunately, yes. Mr. Hanekoma is carrying our pair, I must say. You'd think he was experienced with how much he knows about the game... I find it suspicious."
"Well before we get into big ol conversations like that, you should introduce yourself. I mean, I told you our names, it's only fair." Hideki butted in.
"Yes… My name is Minami, Kaori. I'm a detective... Or I was, before I died."
"How'd you get here?"
"Police chase gone haywire. You two?"
"I got killed by some super religious christians who didn't want me here cause I'm trans. What about you, Dai-san?" He thought for a second.
"I've no idea. I just kinda woke up here. Probably died in my sleep somehow."
"Here's your coffee, kiddo," Hanekoma handed Daisuke a cup of the brown liquid. Daisuke gulped it down hot, and started to wake up instantly.
"Thanks. My ability to go to sleep was my entry fee."
"How does that work?" Hanekoma seemed confused. "Everyone gets moved in their sleep." Daisuke shrugged.
"This morning I just blinked and everyone was in the crossing." Hanekoma nodded.
"What about your focuses?"
"Focuses...?"
"What you focus your energy on to use psychs. Or are you focusless? Those kind are rare... Although I do know of a few." Hanekoma thought back to the orange haired boy he called 'phones'. "Anyway, here, take these." He gave each of them a seemingly blank pin.
"And what, pray tell, are these?" Hideki asked
"Harmonizer pins. They let you perform fusion attacks. Go on and try it on some noise, there's plenty around. Try on that one there," he pointed to a bulky looking noise.
"C-could you give us a demonstration?" Hideki looked frightened by the noise.
"You up for it, egghead?" Hanekoma asked Kaori, referring to her eggshell blue hair.
"Yes, Mr. Hanekoma," she said, obviously annoyed by the nickname he gave her. Hanekoma entered the battle for them, fighting the noise while he waited for the fusion to be ready. Once it was, they unleashed the power of the Harmonizer Pin, erasing the remaining noise.
"Now you," he said, urging them into battle. Hideki picked the fight this time, going after the same kind of noise as Hanekoma and Kaori. They battled the noise as was standard until their fusion was available.
"Let's wreck 'em, Dai-san!" Hideki said, prompting him to use it.
"Here goes nothin'..." They activated their fusion attack, which consisted of Daisuke firing at Hideki's ring a few times, splitting the energy bullets into a rainbow, much like a prism. Each of the little colored bullets did significantly less damage, but the spread made up for it. It brought the noise to very low HP, which allowed them to be picked off rather easily.
"That. Was. AWESOME!" Hideki was ecstatic.
"Mr. Hanekoma... Who do you think's completing the mission while we play around with nonsense?" Daisuke asked. Hanekoma simply laughed.
"Somebody oughtta be, or else we're all boned." Daisuke gulped and checked his hand timer. The players had exactly 27 minutes left.
"Do you think we should take care of it?"
"Nah, it'll be fine."
Meanwhile, the mean looking boy and the cubby boy were hunting for the game master.
"Hurry up, fatass, we don't have all day. You're lucky you were the only one without a partner or you would've been erased already." The chubby boy waddled behind, oblivious to his partners insults. "You want your Noriko back, don't'cha?" The chubby boy nodded.
"Do you know where she is, Jurou?"
"The reapers took her and they ain't gonna give her back if we don't survive the week. Look, there she is. Let's go kick her ass." They walked over to Shinju. "YO BLONDIE!" Shinju looked over, surprised, and smiled.
"Hello boys. Ready to fight some noise?"
"I got some questions for you first. Where do I go to sign up to be composer?"
"And where's Noriko?" Jurou's parter butted in.
"Shut up, Ichirou," the boy said, tapping Ichirou's shoulder with his fist as a warning.
"Well that's no way to treat your partner! And your stuffed friend is right here, honey," she said, showing Ichirou that she had the stuffed elephant known as Noriko. "You can have her back after the games. We wouldn't want her to get hurt, now would we?"
"You're really compassionate for a reaper... Bring on the noise," Jurou demanded.
"As you wish," Shinju said, throwing a few frogs and a wolf their way. Jurou did all the work, his skill incredible for someone his age. There were only few like him.
"How was that? Think I could take on someone like... I dunno... Neku Sakuraba?"
"How did you know about him?"
"This ain't my first game... 'honey'." Shinju became a bit flustered and flew off, causing all the players (except Daisuke, of course) to pass out.