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Title: Just Forget (Chapter 1) Author: awesomewriternerdfighter Rating: T Word Count: 7535 (this chapter 2099) Pairings/Characters: Joshua/Neku, platonic Joshua/Rhyme, Shiki, Beat, more will appear in the future (such as Shiki/Eri) Warnings: Gun mentions, death, swearing, depression, suicide mentions, fighting, future warnings for amnesia/forced amnesia Summary: Joshua brings everyone back to life, he wishes to guide them from the UG, but Rhyme can see the UG, and Rhyme knows what happened. After Josh and Neku make up a few days later they make out. Unfortunately, Joshua should not be getting attached to people in the RG, and a clean cut from it all is highly recommended. Author’s Note: POV switching like wow (both in the character pov and the utilization of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd pov), agender/asexual/aromantic Rhyme like hella, typing chapters two through five in two days because I am a horrible procrastinator like my hands are starting to get sore. This will be on AO3, and I will be updating it there (indecisiveauthor is my name there). Also, formatting, its a bitch.

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01: Post Game

Thump.

The sound of Neku’s head hitting the floor echoed through the air, fading fast. I still held that smoking gun, the one that previously held that bullet now lodged in his skull. Why didn’t he shoot? Anyone would have shot me to save the city and have my job. Why? The constant echoes of why kept running through my head. Neku had grown to care about this city over these last three weeks, hadn’t he? Hadn’t I done enough to get him to hate me, to want to erase me to protect the city?

Oh well, I was just going to ignore those thoughts for now. Neku was just laying there, appearing to be asleep, he would’ve looked much better without that hole in his forehead though. As I walked over to his body I flipped frequencies into my Composer form, all glowy and stuff. Contrary to what some might think, that form wasn’t just for show, it allowed me to fully utilize my powers.

In that form I could hear how Shibuya mourned, the city was weeping, for the life of this human boy. Shibuya was angry with me for robbing her of his potential, I comforted her with the thoughts of bringing that potential back.

Carefully, I knelt down by the boy, assessing just how fragile he looked like this. Neku, the strong Soul, the boy with Imagination untold, was here crumpled on the floor, broken. It wasn’t right, but that was what I was going to fix. The body is just a vessel anyways, a container for all that energy. This container was going to be fixed up though, nothing fragile about it was going to exist once I was done.

Step one: Fix the physical damage. Remove the bullet from the brain, carefully string together the wayward notes residing there and heal the injury. Use prior knowledge to recreate the lost brain matter and prepare the right brainwave patterns,

Step two: Perform a physical checkup. Heal all the wounds that resulted from fighting over the course of the week (or in this case, three). Restore body to health, carefully extract any potentially damaging physical problems from pre-death (such as the chance for cancer). Revitalize the body to its best possible state, better than what it may have been previously to give the person a better chance of living once more.

Step three: Gather up the Soul and Imagination of the person. Reach out to Shibuya and find all the parts of the person's Soul before it can assimilate with the city. Once that is done, breath the life back into the person and revitalize them. Awaken them for a moment, but make sure to ensure that they are asleep within the next.

Sounds easy enough, right? Well, usually it was, but this time I wasn't dealing with some person or another, this was Neku. One wrong move and I would cripple him, cause physical problems, or hurt his mental health more than I already had. I made sure to follow each step oh so very carefully, straining to make sure I got every last bit of Neku before pouring that (wonderful, beautiful, amazing) Soul back into the body.

Instantly, he started to wake, but before he could do too much I gently made him return to sleep. He would be allowed to wake in his bed. There was absolutely no reason for Neku to wake up lying on the cold hard ground, a soft bed would be much better. So I dug through his memories to figure out just where his home was while picking him up and holding him in my arms.

After getting the details I teleported the both of us there. First, I laid the boy down in his bed,using telekinesis so I wouldn’t have to switch to my RG form, covering him with the blankets. My next task was to fix everyones’ memory. First came the families of the previously deceased, erasing the memories of these past weeks where their kids had been dead, and then the friends, they wouldn’t want to remember the feeling of their friends being dead. It would be like a big dream to all of them, because obviously the dead don’t come back, but memories can’t be completely erased, not without doing damage to those minds.

I followed those same steps with Shiki and Beat. Eri was the hardest to make forget, but in the end I managed, that memory would be a bad nightmare to her. They would be allowed to remember their time in the game, minus my identity, but the human mind always works to keep sanity, and so eventually they would deem this a dream or forget entirely. Just a game played with friends.

Next came Rhyme, such an important person. Losing those dreams would surely cause damage, but they had lost and that was the price. I took the pin from Beat, holding it in my hands. Wake up Rhyme, time to come out of hiding and be human again. I was delving into that pin, channeling the Imagination and Soul outwards, pouring my own Imagination into it, reawakening the child that slept within, Soon, a body formed, human, and they started to take shape, looking as they once did.

All those memories, all those emotions, and all that wisdom, were preserved by the pin, the pin that was no longer needed. Bringing someone back from erasure was more tiring than from death, but still, it would be worth it, Rhyme was going to be so very important to Shibuya in the future. Once that body was breathing, alive, the pin was no longer needed, and so I tossed the now-blank aside as I bent down by them. Rhyme was a special case, not just for being Noise, but I felt as though they could benefit from a chat.

“Wake up Rhyme, time to be alive,” I said as I shook them slightly, watching as they sat up, rubbing their head.

“Hi there,” they said with a smile, Rhyme always seemed to be smiling from what I could tell. “You seem to know who I am, but who are you? And where is Beat?” Clearly they had their memories of Beat being their brother back once more, that had been returned after week one, after all.

I smiled back at them. “My name is Joshua, I am the Composer, the person in charge of the game. Beat is fine, he is safe and at home, you will be joining him shortly, but I figured you deserved to be filled in on what happened while you were Noise. Believe me so far?”

“It is hard not to believe you when you are glowing. Nice to meet you Joshua. I suppose I have you to thank for bringing Beat and I back to life, don’t I?”

At Rhyme’s words I realized that I was still in my Composer form, and down-tuned myself back to my RG body. “Whoops, sorry about that, I meant to look more human during this chat. You don’t need to thank me though, as Composer that is one of my jobs, and it is not as though I would just leave you as Noise, that would cause more negatives than positives.”

“You don’t need to be afraid to show what you really look like, if people judge you for that then judge their ability to have biased preconceptions based on looks.” Rhyme grinned, and I chuckled as I got a dose of that wisdom I had heard about first-hand. “And that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t thank you, just because it is your job. You seem rather nice.”

“I think I will stick in this form nonetheless, it will be less of a strain on both your eyes and your vibes, especially after having been Noise for over two weeks. A lot has happened while you have been in that limited form of consciousness. And if you insist on thanking me, then I guess I must say you’re welcome.” This person was much too nice for their own good, but I figured Rhyme could figure that out on their own, eventually, figure out how to be wary of others so that they wouldn’t get taken advantage of.

“I imagine it is late and you have probably had a long day, so it would be best if you just told it now, instead of beating around the bush.”

I yawned at the mention of how long the day had been. So I started to summarize what what had happened over the past three weeks. I explained who Mr. H. was, talked about how he turned Rhyme into a pin/Noise, detailed quickly how I became partners with Neku during week two, told Rhyme about week three, mentioned parallel universes, and then started to tell them about what had happened today.

“This game of mine, by the way, took place because a month ago I was equal parts sick of humanity and sick of being Composer. My two end-game ideas were to either erase Shibuya, and myself with her, or to have Neku take my place,” I smirked, a bit remorseful, but amused too. “You can see how well that plan went. It was a duel, he was supposed to shoot and replace me, because I betrayed him and told him that if he didn’t Shibuya would fall. Surely that would motivate anyone, I thought, but that boy has changed so much since I chose him as my proxy that he didn’t shoot. That change is what I saw happen though, so now I get to deal with the aftermath of my foolish game.” I sighed, waiting for their reaction.

It didn’t take too long to come. “You don’t want to destroy Shibuya anymore though, right? And wouldn’t doing that doom yourself to erasure too?”

I smiled at Rhyme’s inquisitiveness. “You are correct on both assumptions. I was projecting my own problems onto Shibuya, and that is why the city seemed so ridden with problems. Neku… helped me change my views, he managed to show me all the potential for this city, all the potential I had been ignoring in favor of the hatred for everyone and everything. I figured that if Neku didn’t shoot then I would just take everything out anyways, including myself, but, that boy has so much potential that it reached out to me and changed my mind.”

“Sometimes the best way to see light is to have other people shine it on you. I am glad that he managed to change your mind, and thank you for taking the time to explain everything to me.”

“I have two more things to say though, Rhyme, before I send you home to sleep the rest of the night away. One is that it will be very hard to live without your entry fee, but just because you lost your dreams doesn’t mean you can’t find new ones, there are endless possibilities out there for a person like you. That brings me to the second thing, don’t be afraid to be something that isn’t the norm. The way you were born does not define anything about you. You will be oh so important to Shibuya in the future, but only if you stop hiding who you are and what you feel is you.”

While I spoke Rhyme looked surprised, but then gave me a big grin. “I guess now you are sharing that light with me. I will figure out who I am and who I plan to be, no matter how long it takes. Thank you again, Josh.”

I grinned right back, standing and offering a hand to help them up, which they took, and then used to hug me for a moment. “Come on, lets get you home. I am sure that you are probably tired, and so am I, so sleep is the best thing for right now.” While Rhyme was hugging me I teleported us to their room, helping them get settled before waving goodbye as I teleported back to the pad.

I flopped down on the futon, yawning. It had been a long day. I was more tired than I would let on to anyone, but everything today had drained me. It was good to be back in my Shibuya though, a week of being away from her had left me feeling empty in the head, these long familiar connections gone in other universes. With them back now, I could sleep peacefully.

Sleep is just what I did.

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