"Y/n" Ai shouted waiting for you by the door as you scrambled to your room to fetch your bright yellow bag from your room. "I'm coming!"You yelled back as you made sure you took all the right books to school, you had finally understood their schedule.
Ai always walked you to school every morning and did her best to walk you back home after creating such a scene. At first you were freaked out about being reincarnated into Tokyo Revengers but two weeks was enough to cope with everything.
Your life was pretty simple. Get up early, get dressed and go to school. After hours of torture you go back home and eat warm food with the Amajikis.
Everything would've been okay if you were the right fucking age to smoke. You hadn't smoked in over two weeks and it was starting to get to you. You really wanted to smoke.
You without smoking was like pizza without cheese or car dealership without any cars.
LIKE WHAT THE HELL???
After you made sure you took all of the new things for the day you ran to Ai,"I'm done," you smiled. Ai opened the door marking the beginning of your journey to school.
You walked side by side. It had been two weeks and Ai had been walking you to school every morning. It was always awkward because Ai was always on her phone, you wondered what she even did with that thing because it didn't have Twitter or Tiktok.
You really missed living back in your original life sometimes because of the poor technology used in this world. You missed a lot of things like Instagram,
reddit and Tiktok.
"So how's school?" Ai asked trying to make a conversation which kinda shocked you. Ai had never tried to form a conversation before, she only said short phrases like 'pass the salt' or 'eat.'
You looked up at her through your eyelashes,"it's okay but I don't really have any friends because people think I'm too emotional."
Your older sister knitted her brows together in confusion, you basically see the question mark on her face.
"They once made a joke about my parents being dead and how they weren't able to make my bento. Then I cried, then everyone treated me like an outcast"your voice was monotonous through the whole sentence,Ai didn't whether to believe you or not.
She was waiting for you to say 'sike it's just a joke' but you never said it and she felt like a bad sister for not asking sooner. She could only imagine how lonely and painful it must've been for you. Your parents had died, now you were getting shunned because they were dead. "Wanna go somewhere after school?"Ai asked stopping infront of your school gate.
You stared at her for a while,"I can't today's my first day at the dojo" You laughed awkwardly as you watched your sister shift uncomfortably on her feet. "But we can do it on Saturday, we'll go anywhere you want."
You did what any normal sane person would do if they were reincarnated into Tokyo Revengers and that was learn how to fight. You weren't going to make the same mistake as him.
Ai agreed to that, it sounded more convenient for her because she had been meaning to buy you a Christmas present although it was still 3 months early.
She got down to your level and patted your head as a smile tugged on her lips.
"Have a good day," your older said as she waved you off, your classmates gave you a weird look but you didn't care.
"Have a good day too, Nee-san"you waved as you ventured more into the school just like that your smile instantly disappeared into oblivion.
'How the hell does someone even proceed to change the storyline? Do I stop Shinichiro-san from dying? Or do I stop Kazutora from killing Shinichiro-san? But if I interfere with his death would Takemichi-san be able to become a time leaper.'
You were seated in class for 5th period and your math teacher was rambling on and on about an easy equation,that stupid problem was the least of your pile of problems.
You growled than expected, everyone in your class turned to you all glaring daggers at your direction. The teacher himself looked pissed as he glared your way,"is there a problem Miss Y/n?"
You looked at the board, ignoring all the harsh glares coming your way as you smirked. "Sir,yes there is a problem."
The math teacher raised an eyebrow. "I don't see why I get to be in class with a bunch of incompetent idiots who don't the difference between addition and subtraction."
You sounded so smug and confident, you hadn't even flinched which angered them even more. "If you're so smart what are you still doing here" one of the boys argued as everyone started backing him up.
"Don't you see how beautiful I am? I'm just here to grace you guys with my presence so you know what someone with a future looks like,"you stuck out your tongue as you kicked your feet onto your desk.
"She's so confident now because her sister brings her every morning"
"For someone so ugly she sure is confident"
"That would be funny if it were actually true"
"The only thing you're doing is disgusting us with your presence"
They all bashed you with harsh comments that you found childish, your lip twitched as more comments started pouring in.
They were all silenced by the bell,
signaling the beginning of recess. The teacher walked out totally exhausted from his tiresome students but he knew you were right you were to damn smart to be in a filled with idiots. But even so he couldn't over look the fact you disrupted the lesson.
You pulled out your light blue purse that apparently belonged to your deceased mother from your bag before you sprinted out of the corridors of the school.
You were once again able to sneak out of the school from the back entrance, you ran down the familiar block that led to a candy store close by the school.
The shopkeeper smiled upon seeing you,"I don't get how you're able to sneak out of school every day." The oldman really enjoyed your company, you basically the only customer he had the entire two weeks.
You smiled smugly tapping your head,
"it's really simple, the trick is to be invisible."
You smiled as you grabbed a basket, searching for your [favoritecandy] on the aisles your eyes sparkled seeing it on a lower shelf. You could finally reach it, you dunked a lot of it inside followed by some ramune, daifuku,kinako-bo and melon bread.
You walked upto cash register and put everything down as the man started entering the information on his computer as you waited patiently.
"That'll be 5,216 yen" the man said putting your items into a plastic bag as you handed him the money. "Ojiisan did you move the [favoritecandy] to a lower shelf for me?"
The old man silently nodded,"so are you excited for your first day at the dojo today?"
You enthusiastically nodded,"I'm gonna become so cool once I learn how to fight I bet I will become everyone's hero."
The oldman shook his head,"I will never understand kids these days. Girls wanna fight, men wanna cook."
"Ojiisan you don't need to understand them,"you smiled making him mirror your reaction."Since you'll be dead in about a year or two."
The oldman laughed at your joke, he knew you were only kidding around.
"Y/n, you'll be die before me if you're even thinking of involving yourself with hoodlums," he shot back make you sigh remembering that you still hadn't deviced a smart plan to change the future.
"You know what..."You blinked, "you're probably right."
You slipped your purse inside your skirt's pocket before bidding your goodbye bolting out the store realizing you had seven minutes left.
On your way you bumped onto something hard causing you to stumble back and fall on your butt along with your plastic bag. The contents of the plastic bag spilled out onto the ground. You placed your hand on your butt as you slowly got up on your feet,"watch it deepshit" you cursed even though you were the one who ran into them.
"What you say?"You looked up to see three terrifying middle-school students all covered in scars and they all looked pissed.
Normally you would apologize and go on with your day but something about these guys told you they went going to let you go freely and worst of all, you were in a secluded area.
So the normal thing to do was to uphold your pride because you had sworn on the day Yuno had dismantled you, that you would never bow down or surrender to someone. You didn't want to end up in that position again.
"I said watch it deepshit"you repeated, you could see the three get visibly angry. "Or are you fucking deaf?"
The one in the middle pulled you up by your collar before scanning your school uniform. "Nendou look what we have here, one of those privileged bastard from that fancy school"
The one on his right stood beside him,"eh what the hell is such a pretty thing doing on our territory." The one on the left glanced your way and you could see a flash of pity in his eyes as he leaned against the wall,"guy's remember she's a minor,"he warned the other two.
Nendou licked his lips as he watched you struggle in his friend's grip, you were desperately trying to get away from him. "I don't see any cops here."
You eyes widened in shock at how dirty they were to even be attracted to a little girl sexually, the one named Nendou nudged his friend who was dangling you in the air by your collar pointing to your spilled snacks, "Kuragari,it looks like she was on a shopping spree."
Kuragari brought you closer to your face and you could feel his breath against your skin, it made your skin crawl.
"I can go back and get you some toothpaste although I doubt that would help in your situation because your breath fucking stinks," he raised his fist up angered by what you had just said but you acted quickly and kicked him in the nuts.
He dropped you down due to the immense pain and you landed on your feet before moving back next to your spilled snacks lying on the ground. You certainly weren't going to leave them.
You looked back at the delinquents to seem Kuragari on his knees clutching his balls with his eyes rolled back. "You little bitch" Nendou snarled as he lunged himself forward with his fists curled into balls, he tried punch your face but you easily evaded the attack and you jabbed your foot into the side of his stomach.
The other delinquent watched as Kuragari got back on his feet, he connected his fist with your face making you roll backwards. Blood gushed out of your nose,as you lay on the cold ground glancing one last time at the [favoritesnack].
"You should've ran away when you had the chance," Nendou said as he walked closer to you, grabbing a fist full of your hair before pulling it back to look at you with most pathetic death stare you had ever seen making you crack a smile before you slammed your forehead on his.
You both fell back due to the impact both grunting in pain.
"3 VS 1" You heard a new pair of footsteps approach from behind you. The sound of the person's feet colliding with the ground produced an eery feeling that sent cold down everyone's spine.
You watched as Kuragari's proud brown eyes warp into a bottomless pit of fear and you could only think of one character that made people tremble in their skin, only person that could cause such a tremendously dreadful effect on people.
Sano Manjiro
You looked around to see the short little guy staring blankly at the scene happening before him. He look magnificent as the wind played with his messy blonde hair as his dull pitch black eyes stared into yours.
There was something about Mikey's eyes that always ticked you off, sure he looked really attractive with them but you had never made peace with his eyes.
Your lip twitched at the thought of how pitiful you probably looked, you didn't want to be another damsel in distress just like every freaking romance anime you watched. Everything about those females annoyed you to the core.
You staggered to your feet and you felt your body literally refuse to support your body but you were much more stubborn.
Kuragari noticed you struggle to get onto your own two feet he wondered whether he should continue the fight or just up and go.
"What are you waiting for?!!"You yelled as you wiped the blood from your nose with the back of your hand smearing it across your cheek, Kuragari eye's widened seeing how messed up you looked. "You scared?"You laughed weakly.
Nendou was pissed himself at the sight of Manjiro,"Kuragari what the hell are you doing let's go!"the older male shouted as he ran away with his other friend leaving only you, Kuragari and Mikey.
"I'll come at you,"he said but he pointed his finger towards Mikey, "but only on the condition he doesn't interfere."
You nodded your head,"I don't even know so why the heck would he interfere," you smiled as you glanced Manjiro's direction. "Right?"
Mikey let out a yawn as he bobbed his head, agreeing not to interfere in your battle. You bent down to pickup your packet of kinako-bo, you opened the package to pull one out and stuck it side your mouth. You ate the snack as fast as you could, you slide up the stick from the kinako-bo up your jacket sleeves.
No one had been able to see you hide it because you were sure to turn you back on both of them.
Just like you expected the bastard attacked from behind but you avoided his fist and made sure to elbow him on the side of the stomach with all your might and once you were behind quickly dropped to feet skipping your leg under him making the bastard fall flat on his face.
'Yuno I despised but thank you for treating me like a punching bag'
Because of him you were able to predict his movements but that didn't mean you always reacted on time.
Not giving your opponent any chance to recover you started kicking him reapetidly until he caught your foot and flung you against the concrete wall and oxygen was knocked outside your lungs as you got on all fours, Mikey wasn't even fazed.
Kuragari got back on his feet and he slowly walked upto you as you desperately tried gasp in oxygen, your chest felt tight like it would explode at any minute. The older male kicked you on your back making it even more difficult to breath you felt tears bubble in your eyes.
Taking advantage of your weakened state he started repeatedly kicking you over and over as blood started trailing down your face from your heard. You looked like a mess. You were coughing out blood but the older male didn't even bother to take pity on you instead he kept on repeating his action.
"Yo..u're so fu..cki..ng," you managed to rasp out making the delinquent stop to hear what you had to say. He crouched beside you holding your hair in his hand "w..ee..eaak" you spat on his face before stabbing him with the kinako-bo stick on his leg catching him by surprise.
He was about to hot you when Mikey ran upto to him and rammed his foot onto the delinquents face before he could make contact with your face and you watch in awe as the older male flew back.
Mikey slid his hands under your legs and back before swooping you up into his arms bridal style but you were more interested on the delinquent that hadn't moved a muscle.
'He's passed out???just like that? damn.'
Your blood managed to stain Mikey's white hoodie. "You're weak," Mikey said in his monotonous voice. His voice pulled you out of your thoughts and you realized that you were in Mikey's arms it was basically every girl's dream but you did it.
His statement was true so you didn't even bother trying to retort because it was pointless. You were going to let it slide.
You wrapped your arms around his neck for support but then you remembered how you didn't want to be one of those useless female leads so you pulled you hands away from his neck before clearing your throat.
"Put me down," you ordered the young led was reluctant but seeing your displeased expression he gently put you back on your feet but fuck it was painful.
You whimpered, Mikey didn't need an expert to tell him you were seriously hurt because of your strained expression and bloody head.
"Sorry to bother you but can I lean on you for support?"You asked with the sweetest voice you could conquer up and the blonde nodded so you wrapped your arm around his neck while his was on your arm for support.
You directed him to the bag of spilled snacks, you bent down to shove all your snacks inside the plastic bag but then you wondered where you should go. You were afraid of what your parents would have to say about your injuries and didn't let you join karate.
You then again directed him to Kuragari unconscious body and you started searching his pockets and the blonde giving you a questioning look. "What are you waiting for search his pockets the least he can do is compensateformy injuries"
You said trying to find anything useful but all you found was a paper clip and a gum wrapper. You honestly didn't know what you expected. "There's nothing in his pants," Mikey reported to you.
With no other resort you said,"we'll take his clothes and his dignity."
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You and Mikey sat the swings in the park where you had first met Shinichiro-san enjoying your ice-creams.
"Ah y/n that was a really good plan to trade his clothes for ice-cream"he praised you as he licked his ice-cream.
You pouted your lips,"we could've traded his underwear as well if you hadn't revealed the fact that it was used."
Manjiro laughed at remembering how you both robbed Kuragari off his clothes for ice-cream and you were captivated by him. A flash of his future self crossed your mind, but right now you didn't care about that because listening to him laugh was enough to convince you of a much better plan to save everyone.
"EH??WHAT TIME IS IT?"You panicked remembering that you had to go to the dojo today for your first session. Manjiro-san pulled out his phone to check out the time "it's four thirty."
"I'M LATE TODAY IS MY FIRST DAY AT THE DOJO"you yelled about to jump of the swing but Manjiro-san grabbed your arm using his free hand,"you can't go with so many injuries."
After a while Manjiro-san finally convinced you not to go, the old man from the snack store had dressed your wounds ealier before you got the ice-creams and you told him everything that happened with Manjiro-san and Kuragari.
He promised not to tell your mother about what happened so he gave you pain killers to relieve you from the pain.
"You do karate?" Manjiro-san asked with a doubtful look.
You showed him the most mediocre kick ever,"yes"you proudly said. "I'm injured right now so don't doubt me."
He chuckled hearing your excuse. He got up from where he was seating and showed a freaking ninja kick, you were amazed by his prowess but you didn't show it.
"Mid" You commented, he didn't know what that meant but judging by your facials it wasn't a good thing.
You tried to copy his kick but you twisted your ankle causing you to fall on your butt and drop your ice-cream in the process. Mikey looked at you somewhat confused as you started moaning in pain.
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Then he burst out laughing, he threw his head back as he laughed at your misery. An irk popped up on your forehead, you grabbed his foot and dragged him to the ground and he also dropped his ice-cream.
His laughing ceased as he turned to you, you stuck out your tongue at him but he only stred at you astonished he was the Invincible Mikey and you dared to trip him. Maybe you didn't know of his tittle.
"How you like that?"you asked tilting your head a bit as you looked at the young man who now had a stoic expression.
He quietly got up and extended his hand to you. You slid your hand into his,it felt so soft as he pulled you up to your feet.
It was starting to get late and your curfew was 5.15pm. You stayed quiet for a while listening to the sound of rustling wind, letting yourselves calm down a bit from the excitement of today.
"Manjiro-san I have to dip," you said avoiding eye contact because your plan involved in meeting again in 2005 so all you had to do was avoid him until you infiltrated the enemy base.
"Dip?"
"I have to go home," you explained as you spun on your heel this was your idea of a silent goodbye. You waved him goodbye and darted away even with the several bruises you moved at the speed of light. That's when you knew the painkillers were doing their job.
You opened the door with your own key and quietly entered the house and locked the door behind you. You quickly took off your shoes just as you were about to step into the open area you were met with the face of your mother who slyly smirked at you as all colour drained from your face.
She hummed seeing you trying to into your own home,"Honey were you been?"grabbing your hand leading you into your room. She ushered you inside and plopped on your bubblegum blue devuet."So care to tell me why you're sneaking into your home with multiple bruises?"
You sighed,"I got into a fight with some boy from school."
She gave you a closed-eyed smile and you could instantly tell that she didn't buy your story,"how come your school didn't tell me anything about this?"
You had expected that question."The fight didn't happen at school. It happened in different neighborhood."
Your mother dropped her fake smile,
"why?"she asked shocked that you could ever get into such a fight. Was this puberty or some kind of cry from help. She honestly didn't know she noticed your pattern in behavior, whenever you were in trouble you bring up your parents.
She noticed the change of behavior in you. You were always home late, you lied way too much, you were more open and comfortable. These were all good things but it wasn't you. Your parents died about three months ago and you had fallen into a state of depression.
Then all of a sudden, you took a 360. You went from being quiet, closed-off and depressed to happy, bubbly and moody. She sometimes wondered if you were her Y/n.
"Mom," your voice softened as you glanced at your mother through your eyelashes causing your mother's eyes to widen a bit. "Why did you adopt me?"
"Huh?"Your mother asked taken aback by your question.
"Don't ask what I mean. Sure you and my parents were friends but that wasn't enough of a reason to take me in."
You weren't asking this question to manipulate but because you were curious.
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Your original mother was bitch, so naturally you two had never gotten along. She worked as a prostitute to try support you two but it was never enough. There were too many young girls in the business as well so nobody wanted to work with an old woman despite your mother's good looks.
Everyday she would bring in a customer at night into your small apartment and everyday you would hear loud banging.
This always made it hard for you to fall asleep.
Then one day when you were eight, a boy walked you home and your mother saw what had happened.
Your mother shouted at you that night, calling you kinds of slurs that you didn't have no the meaning of but her loud voice was enough to make you cry.
She told you to stay away from men that they were all the same. Two weeks later that boy was declared dead.
You were suspicious of your mother and the thought of her being killer made you so scared that you ran to your childhood friend Yuno's house. You two were close as children but he changed in middle school so your friendship naturally ended.
You told him what had happened and he comforted you. Then night arrived your mother was able to track you down, she dragged you back home despite your whining and pleading to stay over at Yuno's.
When you had arrived she threw you across the floor and started beating you up. Until you were laying on the floor motionless as you listened to your mother sob in the next room.
She warned you to stay away from men that no matter how far away you would try running away, she would always find you.
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"That's a dumb question," your mother started as she focused her gaze on the floor. "We adopted you because we loved you even before you were ours and every child deserves a family."
You smiled softly, finally turning to her. That was the answer you wanted to hear, it satisfied you because you were now sure it wasn't because of pity. Y/n really was lucky.
"The Dojo called and said you didn't go so I was curious as to why you didn't go because you had been so excited about this."
She got up from her seat in her bed, walked out of your room and caught a glimpse of tears bubbling in your eyes.
She closed the door behind her to give you sometime alone and made her way to kitchen to prepare dinner.