Yayoi yawned. "Hey, I don't know you people, but we didn't get to try the -dere-thingy."
"I only got one line last time," Mami complained. "Can I go first?"
"The computer was brutally destroyed," Hibiki pointed out. "...huh, this is interesting, I don't think I've ever been involved in this author's works."
"You're in the Hunger Games mash-up she's working on," Karasu reminded him. "But you're going to die a brutal and vicious death."
"Spoiler alert!" Riffa yelped. She laughed.
"At least I survived longer than you," Hibiki said coolly. Karasu shrugged.
"Seriously though, we need to take this quiz," Yayoi insisted. "Someone make a computer appear out of thin air!"
"I'm magical!" Riffa laughed. "Watch this!"
She squeezed her eyes shut and concentrated for a few seconds before a computer magically appeared on a desk, along with a spinning chair. Riffa opened her eyes and grinned.
"I did it~."
"Great job! Go ahead and try it first!" Mami invited. "I wanna go second!"
"Yay~!" Riffa leapt into the chair, spun in it exactly six times, then got to work finding and completing the quiz the others had already worked on. "Hmm...ooh, it says I'm a yandere!"
"Yandere?" Hibiki blinked. "...so that old woman is your love interest, huh. It's pretty accurate."
Karasu jabbed an elbow into his side. "She's not 'that old woman', she's 'Mother'," he stated testily.
Hibiki just shrugged.
"What's a yandere?" Yayoi asked.
Mami raised her hand. "See, it's a character who looks all cute and sweet and innocent and cute, but when the person they love is threatened or flirted with, they go completely insane and kill everyone!"
Riffa giggled. "I love killing people who threaten Mama~!" she cheered.
Yayoi and Mami scooted away.
"...next~!"
Mami took Riffa's place at the spinning chair. "Yay, my turn! Hm...says here I'm a...uh...hm...oh, that's a good question! Click~! ...hmm...oh, here it is! Deredere!"
"What's that?" Yayoi pressed.
"Deredere, 'a character who is—you guessed it—nothing but loving to everyone they meet. They aren't cruel, they don't hide anything, and they're just outright adorable and loveable.' Aw, it says I'm adorable~!" Mami giggled. "That seems about right."
"A deredere, huh...?" Yayoi muttered. "I'll betcha I'm one of them too! Who's next?!"
Hibiki smiled. "Ladies first," he offered. Karasu nodded slightly, showing agreement.
Yayoi beamed. "Great, I was hoping you'd say that," she admitted. "Alrighty, let's do this thing!"
Mami tumbled out of the chair just in time for the penguin-suit-clad Yayoi to dive into it. She reset the quiz and frantically re-completed it. "Yeah, alright, let's go! Says here...deredere, just as I thought! I'm adorable~!"
"If there was an 'energy-dere', you'd take the cake," Hibiki decided. "Just saying."
"Aw, thanks~!"
"Alright...which one of us is going first?" Hibiki wondered aloud. Karasu stood up, very deliberately stomped on Hibiki's foot on his way past, and settled into the chair. Hibiki winced in pain, then blinked confusedly. "...well, OK then."
Riffa bounced over to Karasu's side and watched as he completed the quiz. When he had finished, he examined the results curiously.
"Hm."
"What's it say?" Yayoi gasped, leaning forwards in excitement.
"The derederes wanna know!" Mami added, also leaning forwards.
"Seems I'm a bit of a mix between a few, but...the most prominent one is yandere," Karasu replied. "Which I guess is pretty accurate, considering I organized multiple attacks that would kill thousands upon thousands of innocent people without remorse simply because I wanted revenge on that guy for killing my father." He jabbed a thumb in Hibiki's general direction.
"For the record, I had nothing to do with that," the man insisted lightly with a smile.
"Lying is a sin," Karasu replied.
"So is murder," Hibiki retorted.
"...true."
Riffa giggled. "It's the other guy's turn now, right?"
"Yeah, I guess so." Karasu rose out of the chair and returned to his own seat. Riffa followed him. Hibiki sighed, straightened his tie, muttered something under his breath, and went to go take a seat.
"Alright, let's get started," he sighed, resetting the quiz and re-taking it himself. When he'd finished, he did what all the others had done and read his results out loud. "OK, so I'm a bit of a balance like the other guy, but the difference is...my main -dere type is...kamidere?"
"What's a kamidere?" Yayoi gasped.
"Kamideres are...'characters who believe that they are gods, and everyone should treat them as such. They tend to be smug, egotistical, and have a Mightier than Thou attitude about everything. If you make sure to treat them like the god they are, they will respond with a more loving and sweet side,'" Hibiki read aloud. "...alright, so that's not true."
"Lies," Mami accused.
"I think it's perfect," Karasu added.
"You don't even work with me, how would you know?"
"...Kamidere."
"Yandere."
"Kamidere!"
"Yandere!"
"Kamidere!"
"Yandere!"
"Deredere!" Mami cut in happily.
"I too am a deredere!" Yayoi squealed.
"Just stay out of this, girls," Hibiki near-hissed, glaring ominously in Karasu's direction. Karasu returned the glare with less annoyance and slightly more pure malice.
"Hey, kamidere! Leave Karasu alone, I'm the only one who's allowed to annoy him incessantly!" Riffa protested, tugging weakly on Hibiki's sleeve.
"That's understandable, you're a yandere too," Hibiki muttered.
"At least I'm not a deredere like those two!" Riffa complained, pointing accusingly at Mami and Yayoi.
"There's nothing wrong with being a deredere!" Yayoi gasped.
"There's nothing wrong with being a yandere either!" Riffa insisted.
"I'm a deredere!" Mami laughed.
"Stay out of this, deredere!" Yayoi and Riffa snapped at once.
"You two are mean!" Mami complained. "Which is weird because both of you are supposed to be sweet and cute!"
"I am sweet and cute!" Yayoi lashed. "Until jerks like this yandere come along!"
"Just look on the bright side," Karasu began. "...at least you're not a kamidere."
"I'm not a kamidere!" Hibiki protested. "I don't think I'm a god, I just know I have the perfect solution to everyone's problems!"
"Speaking of problems, aren't you two dead?" Yayoi asked suddenly, pointing out Riffa and Karasu. The pair exchanged a glance.
"...huh, so we are."
"I like being alive~!"
Yayoi blinked, then shrugged.
"...so who wants to go out for ramen or something?"
"No one likes getting food with derederes."
"You're a bully, you stupid yandere!"
"Hey, I'm proud to be a yandere!"
"Me too~!"
"And I'm proud to be a deredere!"
"And I'm not a kamidere."
"Shut up and accept the fact that everyone hates you because you ruin everything and you killed my father."
"No, Karasu...I am your father!"
"...that's literally impossible, for one we're around the same age, and secondly, I'm pretty sure I watched him die."
"I was expecting a different reaction, but...alright."
Unlike the first group, this group eventually learned to embrace their inner -dere and then went out for ramen like a big happy family. The end.
((A/N: SPOILER ALERT!
Sorry.
Actually, there were/are a few spoilers, so.
Anyhow. I actually think this is the most in-character I've managed to keep Karasu, at least around Hibiki. In-universe, Karasu doesn't like Hibiki very much. You gotta pay attention to his line like, two seconds before he *sniffle* dies. That line right after "Don't just kill her like that." Ah, Karasu. This is why I love you.
Sorry.
But yay! Now everyone is a -dere!
...what kind of -dere type IS Hibiki, anyhow? I don't like Hibiki. I think he's a Bakabaka. :I))