3rd World Amano Yukiteru

Thud!

I felt the softness of the pillow crushing into my face as I collapsed onto my bed. Lately, school had been tiring. Tests had been springing up from out of nowhere, and my classmates seemed to take up teasing me again. I thought they had gotten over it, since I wasn't giving any reactions, but I guess they wanted to take their own stress out on me. And there was that strange offer that director lady gave me about being in that movie.. Also, I had heard about a serial killer that had popped up in my neighborhood, and that, coupled with the fact that I always felt like someone was watching me, and my mom not being home too often, was too much for me to take.

Ugh.

I decided I should pay a long over-due visit to Deus. I pulled the covers over my head and closed my eyes. When I opened them again, there I was, looking up at the enormity that was Deus, and his small assistant that was Murmur.

"Yuki~!" The midget barreled toward me and trapped me in a tight hug. "I haven't seen you in forever you loser!" Seeming to quickly lose interest, she went over to her purple beanie-bag and picked up her chocolate bar and manga. This girl. Still, I had missed her, despite her quirks.

"Yukiteru-kun. How nice of you to visit us today." Deus' voice boomed throughout the enormous, purple-tinted room. I jumped a bit at his voice. No matter how many times I visited, I would never get used to such a deep voice, dripping with authority and perhaps a bit of wisdom.

Once, I had tried to imagine his voice a bit more.. friendlier. I mean, he was just in my imagination after all, so I could just change things as I saw fit, right? I was able to do other things, like make sweets appear out of thin air and offer them to Murmur (most of the time she just stole them from me), or carve things into the roof and walls with a single flick of the wrist. So it wasn't that much of a stretch, right? But when I closed my eyes in concentration while facing Deus, he simply chuckled at me (Deus rarely showed any emotion, oh my this was kind of scary) and proceeded to swipe at the multiple screens surrounding him.

"Ah, hi Deus! I know it's been awhile, but I'm here now! Anything interesting going on the world?" I inquired politely.

"Well a couple of days ago, there was an interference of sorts, in my surveillance. This has never happened before. Though it only lasted for a few seconds, I'm still worried.." The gigantic god replied carefully.

"Well nothing that important could've happened in those few seconds, right? I'm sure you have nothing to worry about!" I grinned up at him.

"I hope you're right Yukit-" Deus was interrupted as a blonde woman appeared in the corner of my eye. She was cursing, seeing as she had landed face down on the floor. Muttering something about why this always happened to her. I swiveled around to get a better look.

No way. It was that director I had met earlier! What was she doing here, of all places?!

I tried to reason out that it was all in my head, so I might be subconsciously drawing out my worries. Yeah, that was probably it. I hadn't even gotten over the initial shock before she started going off on Deus. Oh no. This isn't good. No one yells at Deus. He can be really scary when he's mad.

"Hey listen up you! I'm Minene from the past world and I'm here to tell you not to recruit Yuno! She's a crazy bitch!" The blonde was now flying up, trying to reach Deus at eye level.

Yuno? You mean that girl from school?

"You don't look like Minene." Was Deus' cold response. I knew Deus was getting annoyed, since he didn't much like visitors. I once asked him why no one else ever visited, and he said he didn't let others visit him unless it was for business. Though I failed to know what "business" constituted as in my imaginary world.

" Yeah stupid Yukiteru from my own world made me dress up like this to keep a low profile. Though this isn't very subtle.." The acclaimed "Minene" snorted at this and then continued. "Oh yeah, you know that loser is God of my world? Well you better fuckin' believe it. And he sent me here to tell you not to recruit Yuno. That bitch is insane! She wanted to keep leaving all the other worlds just to spend time with her "precious Yuki~" Minene mimicked Yuno's honey-filled voice. "Damn disgusting."

"Hey! I think Yuno-chan would make a suitable God! And who do you think you are, just barging in here, claiming you're from another world?!" Murmur yelled down from below, her sweets and books forgotten and tossed aside.

Deus completely ignored Murmur's outburst, and skipped over the whole Yuno issue, instead replying, "So Yukiteru-kun wound up winning last game huh? Interesting.. I was thinking of involving him, but I thought he might be a little too innocent for that.." Deus contemplated as he rest his chin of his hand.

Two pairs of violet eyes glared at Deus. "Hello?! This is about Yuno! Don't include her in the game! Seriously!" The blonde yelled, visibly irritated.

"Hey! Don't listen to what this stranger says! Listen to your assistant!" Murmur flew up into Deus' face. Deus frowned, and promptly swatted the small girl away. Murmur flew into the wall, leaving a huge imprint and a cascade of tile showering down from the wall. I hid behind my bed, deciding it'd be best to avoid such a situation as much as possible. I contemplated leaving, but I wanted to see what this was all about. Why was she mentioning my name, anyways? It seemed as if she had already known me.

Murmur flew back up again, with mussed up hair and a few cuts, but otherwise, she seemed fine. "Deus! Don't be like that!" She whined.

Deus turned towards the blonde and away from the lavender-haired girl. "I was thinking I shouldn't involve Gasai-san.. There's something… off about her. But we would still have to find a replacement.." Deus seemed to stare off into space for a few moments before continuing. "Was Yukiteru-kun a good God?"

"Hell no! It took him forever to create the universe again, because all he could do was just mope around about his dead girlfriend. This one even had to dress up as her to encourage the idiot." Minene casually pointed at Murmur.

Ignoring Murmur's outbursts of how rude Minene was being, Deus proceeded to ask, "If he wasn't willing, then why did he even become God?"

"Because the psycho killed everyone and then killed herself."

Deus seemed to drink this in, and then replied with, "Maybe I should take her out of the game. Good thing you came at this point of time, because the game was about to start. Guess I'll have to search for a replacement."

"Are you serious?! Deus, you're listening to this girl who claims she's from another world?! Rather than me?!" Murmur screamed up at Deus, fists balled up and her face red-hot.

Minene rolled her eyes and looked like she wanted to say something back to midget, but seemed to think better of it and turned. "Anyways, thanks for this pleasant conversation. I really fuckin' hope you consider what I'm asking, because I went through some shit to do this." With that, the blonde simply faded into the background, as if she was never there. My head was swimming with questions.

Why did that director lady appear in my mind? Why did she talk about me as if she knew me? And what was this about a game? Why was that Yuno girl involved, too? My vision was fading, and I clutched my head. I keeled over, and hit the cold tiled floor.

When I woke up again, I was in my bed. Reaching across the covers, I grabbed my alarm clock on my bedside table, I realized I had been gone for way too long. It was the middle of the night, and I knew I had to get some rest. I didn't want to think about what had just happened, so I turned on my side and closed my eyes, falling into a vast sea of sleep.

AN: Sorry this chapter is kinda short, I'll make up for it in the next one! I realize this is kinda going by a bit slow, but I promise it'll get more interesting later on! I think next chapter we'll actually have Yukiteru and Akise meet ouo; Sorry about that. Anyways, criticism is always greatly appreciated! Thanks you guys!