Fifth day, will tag later...
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canonical_insanityTitle: Turncoat
Fandom: Death Note
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU, spoilers for...various bits of the manga.
Summary: It hadn't worked. Kira won. And here's why...
Shunichi Aizawa knew everything was wrong the moment he saw Matsuda in the warehouse. He shouldn’t have been there. In fact, he hadn’t seen Matsuda since the night that he’d asked him to pick between his loyalty to the task force and his sympathy for Kira.
He hadn’t told Near about it, thinking that Matsuda was harmless and, even if he wasn’t, he couldn’t pose too much of a threat to them.
After all, it was only Matsuda. He probably didn’t even know how to use the gun he carried, right?
Half an hour later, it was all over. Near lay dead, defeated and outwitted just like his mentor, with the members of his organisation scattered all around him. And Aizawa lay in a pool of blood, his eyes still wide in shock as the last member of the original task force stepped over his body.
Once outside of the warehouse, Touta Matsuda bowed to his God, flashed a smile towards Teru Mikami and left. The next day, his body was found in his flat, having apparently hung himself.
No suicide note was ever found, but it was rumoured that he had outlived his usefulness to Kira and therefore his death remained unsolved. The official statement was that his guilt over assisting in the murders of the rest of the task force –however, since they were criminals under Kira’s law anyway, technically he was being a good citizen- had actually driven him to a genuine suicide, but that was unproven.
A few months later, Misa Amane died in a car accident. Then, after Teru Mikami was assassinated by an anti-Kira activist, Raito was left alone. It was almost like he had planned the whole thing.
Wait a moment.
That was because he had planned it.
Title: In the Room With the Bouncy Walls
Fandom: Battle Royale (movie)/Saw
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU
Summary: He wasn't brave enough, and because of that, everything changed.
Notes: Okay, I promised![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
versipellis that I would write our OT3 (being Shinji Mimura/Keita Iijima/Yutaka Seto for anyone not paying attention up to this point) in a Saw trap. This was over a year ago. Enjoy!
Today was the day that everything had changed.
It was the fifth anniversary of Yutaka's world ending. Not just because Shinji had died -because he had, and Yutaka had been powerless to stop it, powerless to do anything but watch as his best friend was torn apart by a monster pretending to be concerned with morality- but because he'd been forced to live after all of that, knowing that it was his fault.
And it was his fault. Keita had passed his test -put his hand in hot coals up to the elbow to get his key, then walked through tripwires with his hands bound before him in order to put it in the lock- but Yutaka hadn't been able to do it.
He'd took one look at his trap -involving acid and spikes and possibly piranhas but he didn't even want to think about that bit- and passed out. And woken up in time to see the hooks tear into and through Shinji's legs, while he (and Yutaka) screamed and Keita had just kept staring, unable to say anything.
Keita had never been the same.
He'd insisted in going after the maniac who had dared to do this to his friends, and the look on Keita's face had been so terrifyingly and uncharacteristically angry that Yutaka had flinched back in fear. He had also, at some point between Shinji's death and the last time they had spoken, two years ago, forgotten how to care about anything but getting his meaningless and bitter revenge.
Including Yutaka himself.
And Yutaka...well, the jacket was too long for him, but the room was comfortable enough and it was nice that they had agreed to let him stay separate from the world that had killed one of his best friends and turned another into a revenge-crazed psychopath.
He'd probably die there, alone in a blank room, identical to every other room at the hospital. It was another trap and a more comfortable one, but it was one that he had made for himself. And maybe, when he died, Shinji wouldn't be too angry with him...maybe.
It was possible, however unlikely.
Title: Rebuilding and Renovation.
Fandom: Crossover, Battle Royale (manga) with Power Rangers elements.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Severely AU, will make absolutely no sense.
Summary: Hiroki wasn't particularly happy about the aftermath of their rather pyrrhic victory.
Notes: Okay, this also links in with 'Murphy's Law' from Day 3, and happens sometime afterwards, but still in the future that got changed. I'm expecting that I've confused everyone again and I'm not going to go further in detail because I suck at quantum physics.
And now there were only two.
There had been seven of them only a couple of months ago, and six a couple of months before that. He knows that she blames Yutaka for coming in and jinxing their perfectly good team, but he doesn't. The team was going to collapse anyway. Sooner or later, one of them would have gone too far, and it would have all imploded into their separate petty rivalries.
But...at least that way, they wouldn't have died.
He doesn't know what happened to Yutaka. Hirono does and he knows that she traced Shinji's teleporter to the place where the others were experimented on and blew it up -because she was a good second-in-command to Shinji so far as they were both pretty handy with explosives- but she won't talk to him about it. He tried asking her once, but she just shook her head and told him to leave the subject alone.
Equally so, he never told her about what he said to Izumi.
He hasn't told Hirono an awful lot about Mitsuru's death, actually, other than the fact that Kazuo helped out and needed some healing afterwards. He had ended up telling Izumi as much of the truth as he could -that Mitsuru had been captured and used as a weapon against the Power Rangers, who were rumoured to be in their class- but had lied and said that Mitsuru had assumed that Kazuo was the Black Ranger, using that as an excuse for his attack on the gang.
He'd then exercised his creativity and told Izumi that Mitsuru had killed himself in an attempt to break the programming, right after yelling at Hiroki to apologise to her for his sake -there had been a grain of truth in that, if in nothing else- but she had appreciated the fact that her ex hadn't deliberately tried to mentally scar her that day and thanked Hiroki for telling her something vaguely resembling the truth, because no-one else had.
And now they had to make a new team from scratch.
He'd refused to have a Green Ranger in this team -after all, they had never found Yutaka's body, and the power source, blaster and sword had still been attached to it at the time of his death, he had assumed- and Hirono had been equally insistent that this team not have a Pink Ranger, because it would remind her too much of the horrible fate that Megumi had met and she'd keep blaming herself for it.
So, since Hirono had taken Shinji's colours as Red, and he'd taken Mitsuru's Black uniform -although he was seriously going to have to do something about the axe that came with the uniform, because he had no idea how to use it- that had left White, Yellow and Blue. Hirono had told him to pick someone for Blue who he thought could take it and she would do the same for Yellow, with the pair of them coming to an agreement on the next White Ranger at some point.
He couldn't actually think of a better person to be Blue. Granted, the person he was thinking of couldn't actually fight anything yet, but he could teach him. Besides, the last team had been too bitter, too cruel and too cynical to actually be anything resembling heroic. This team would be different, more idealistic -despite its leader being even more pessimistic than the last one- and this team wouldn't die. He would make sure of it.
Although, when he was putting the power coin in Yuichiro's locker -Hirono had taught him the benefits of picking locks as a response to him teaching her how to use ki attacks- he couldn't help but wonder if he was doing the right thing or if he was just leading another innocent child to their doom.
It was 50-50 either way.
Title: On the Difference Between Forgiveness and Pragmatism...
Fandom: Battle Royale II
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU, spoilers for the first part of the movie (up to the students storming the base)
Summary: What Ryo doesn't seem to get, Naoki mused, was that in order for them to take their revenge, they would have to be alive.
He wished Ryo wouldn’t keep looking at him like that.
After all, if he hadn’t done some exceptionally quick talking -at gunpoint, he might add- neither of them would even be this close to the man who destroyed their lives. They’d have both died in the room with the water, shot down by snipers not much older than they were (and younger, in some cases) and left there until someone could be bothered to get rid of their bodies.
Naoki didn’t think that he wanted to go out like that, and he expected that Ryo didn’t either, for all of the angry and betrayed glances he kept shooting Naoki when he thought he wasn’t looking (and sometimes when he thought that he was looking, for variety’s sake). Sure, the five of them had wanted their retribution on Nanahara, but he was kind of hoping that he could at least finish school first.
And, unlike what Ryo seemed to think, he hadn’t talked Ryo out of it because he’d suddenly forgiven Nanahara -because he’ll never be able to do that and he knew it, not for his mother’s death, and not for the deaths that had occurred on the island itself- but because he just didn’t want to see anyone else die.
So they met Nanahara -a kid that looks like he stole a curtain from a room in a long-derelict house to use as a cloak- and Ryo punched him, or tried to, but got restrained by about six ten-year olds, which in different circumstances, Naoki would find absolutely hilarious.
Shibaki, however, cracked into a fit of hopeless laughter, leading Ryo to try and punch him and Naoki to wonder whether or not it was better that he’d kept the pair of them (and Jun, who had spent the entirety of the time in silence, glaring at whoever tried to come near him) alive for this long.
But he didn’t have a choice.
That was what he kept telling himself, remembering how Taguchi’s legs had just kind of ended above the kneecap and how Totsuka had looked just before her collar detonated. He hadn’t dared to go back and see if any of the others had survived the minefield, mainly because he’s not sure that his sanity could take it if he had to see Kenji’s burned and possibly dismembered corpse (he’d admit this later to Asakura and she’d nod and say that she understood, and that she didn’t want to see Motomura’s body for the same reason).
He hadn’t had a choice because if he had died, then Shindo’s collar would have gone off and having that happen three times in two days (Fukuda, Mifune and Totsuka, all people that he had only barely known) was enough for anybody.
Besides, Shindo had enough to deal with over the death of her best friend. There was no need for Naoki to add to that by putting her life more at risk than it already was, right?
Title: Missing, Presumed Dead
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Well...character death, obviously.
Summary: Justin wasn't at the Battle of Hogwarts. Mainly because he was too busy being dead.
Justin Finch-Fletchley never returned to Hogwarts.
He was dead long before Harry returned to destroy the last Horcrux, dead before the raid on Gringotts, dead even before the new DA, reformed under Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley met for the first time, during the second week of term.
He was one of the first students subjected to the Muggleborn Registry Committee.
After a long interrogation, during which a Death Eater tried to force him to reveal who he had stolen his wand from, while he hotly denied doing anything of the sort -not only do Hufflepuffs not do that kind of thing in general, but he was also a gentleman, and unlike a certain minority of the wizarding equivalent that he could name, his parents had always taught him that aristocracy meant that he had to be both unfailingly lawful and honest at all times- the Death Eater had pointed her wand at him and told him that she would be happy to kill him if he continued in being reticent with her.
He had replied that she was probably going to kill him anyway, no matter what he did, and so there was very little point in lying to her.
She had reacted predictably to that and Justin's last thought was a regret that he wouldn't be able to see Harry actually finish the job and kill Voldemort. His body had never been found, but his name was engraved on the memorial at Hogwarts, right under the casualties of the Battle for the Ministry and his death was recorded as a loss for the anti-Death Eater forces. Ernie and Hannah, among others, had insisted that his name be remembered in that way, because even though he didn't do much directly in the war, he had still been a member of the original DA, and had therefore contributed, in a convoluted way, to Voldemort's defeat.
Fandom: Death Note
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU, spoilers for...various bits of the manga.
Summary: It hadn't worked. Kira won. And here's why...
Shunichi Aizawa knew everything was wrong the moment he saw Matsuda in the warehouse. He shouldn’t have been there. In fact, he hadn’t seen Matsuda since the night that he’d asked him to pick between his loyalty to the task force and his sympathy for Kira.
He hadn’t told Near about it, thinking that Matsuda was harmless and, even if he wasn’t, he couldn’t pose too much of a threat to them.
After all, it was only Matsuda. He probably didn’t even know how to use the gun he carried, right?
Half an hour later, it was all over. Near lay dead, defeated and outwitted just like his mentor, with the members of his organisation scattered all around him. And Aizawa lay in a pool of blood, his eyes still wide in shock as the last member of the original task force stepped over his body.
Once outside of the warehouse, Touta Matsuda bowed to his God, flashed a smile towards Teru Mikami and left. The next day, his body was found in his flat, having apparently hung himself.
No suicide note was ever found, but it was rumoured that he had outlived his usefulness to Kira and therefore his death remained unsolved. The official statement was that his guilt over assisting in the murders of the rest of the task force –however, since they were criminals under Kira’s law anyway, technically he was being a good citizen- had actually driven him to a genuine suicide, but that was unproven.
A few months later, Misa Amane died in a car accident. Then, after Teru Mikami was assassinated by an anti-Kira activist, Raito was left alone. It was almost like he had planned the whole thing.
Wait a moment.
That was because he had planned it.
Title: In the Room With the Bouncy Walls
Fandom: Battle Royale (movie)/Saw
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU
Summary: He wasn't brave enough, and because of that, everything changed.
Notes: Okay, I promised
versipellis that I would write our OT3 (being Shinji Mimura/Keita Iijima/Yutaka Seto for anyone not paying attention up to this point) in a Saw trap. This was over a year ago. Enjoy!Today was the day that everything had changed.
It was the fifth anniversary of Yutaka's world ending. Not just because Shinji had died -because he had, and Yutaka had been powerless to stop it, powerless to do anything but watch as his best friend was torn apart by a monster pretending to be concerned with morality- but because he'd been forced to live after all of that, knowing that it was his fault.
And it was his fault. Keita had passed his test -put his hand in hot coals up to the elbow to get his key, then walked through tripwires with his hands bound before him in order to put it in the lock- but Yutaka hadn't been able to do it.
He'd took one look at his trap -involving acid and spikes and possibly piranhas but he didn't even want to think about that bit- and passed out. And woken up in time to see the hooks tear into and through Shinji's legs, while he (and Yutaka) screamed and Keita had just kept staring, unable to say anything.
Keita had never been the same.
He'd insisted in going after the maniac who had dared to do this to his friends, and the look on Keita's face had been so terrifyingly and uncharacteristically angry that Yutaka had flinched back in fear. He had also, at some point between Shinji's death and the last time they had spoken, two years ago, forgotten how to care about anything but getting his meaningless and bitter revenge.
Including Yutaka himself.
And Yutaka...well, the jacket was too long for him, but the room was comfortable enough and it was nice that they had agreed to let him stay separate from the world that had killed one of his best friends and turned another into a revenge-crazed psychopath.
He'd probably die there, alone in a blank room, identical to every other room at the hospital. It was another trap and a more comfortable one, but it was one that he had made for himself. And maybe, when he died, Shinji wouldn't be too angry with him...maybe.
It was possible, however unlikely.
Title: Rebuilding and Renovation.
Fandom: Crossover, Battle Royale (manga) with Power Rangers elements.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Severely AU, will make absolutely no sense.
Summary: Hiroki wasn't particularly happy about the aftermath of their rather pyrrhic victory.
Notes: Okay, this also links in with 'Murphy's Law' from Day 3, and happens sometime afterwards, but still in the future that got changed. I'm expecting that I've confused everyone again and I'm not going to go further in detail because I suck at quantum physics.
And now there were only two.
There had been seven of them only a couple of months ago, and six a couple of months before that. He knows that she blames Yutaka for coming in and jinxing their perfectly good team, but he doesn't. The team was going to collapse anyway. Sooner or later, one of them would have gone too far, and it would have all imploded into their separate petty rivalries.
But...at least that way, they wouldn't have died.
He doesn't know what happened to Yutaka. Hirono does and he knows that she traced Shinji's teleporter to the place where the others were experimented on and blew it up -because she was a good second-in-command to Shinji so far as they were both pretty handy with explosives- but she won't talk to him about it. He tried asking her once, but she just shook her head and told him to leave the subject alone.
Equally so, he never told her about what he said to Izumi.
He hasn't told Hirono an awful lot about Mitsuru's death, actually, other than the fact that Kazuo helped out and needed some healing afterwards. He had ended up telling Izumi as much of the truth as he could -that Mitsuru had been captured and used as a weapon against the Power Rangers, who were rumoured to be in their class- but had lied and said that Mitsuru had assumed that Kazuo was the Black Ranger, using that as an excuse for his attack on the gang.
He'd then exercised his creativity and told Izumi that Mitsuru had killed himself in an attempt to break the programming, right after yelling at Hiroki to apologise to her for his sake -there had been a grain of truth in that, if in nothing else- but she had appreciated the fact that her ex hadn't deliberately tried to mentally scar her that day and thanked Hiroki for telling her something vaguely resembling the truth, because no-one else had.
And now they had to make a new team from scratch.
He'd refused to have a Green Ranger in this team -after all, they had never found Yutaka's body, and the power source, blaster and sword had still been attached to it at the time of his death, he had assumed- and Hirono had been equally insistent that this team not have a Pink Ranger, because it would remind her too much of the horrible fate that Megumi had met and she'd keep blaming herself for it.
So, since Hirono had taken Shinji's colours as Red, and he'd taken Mitsuru's Black uniform -although he was seriously going to have to do something about the axe that came with the uniform, because he had no idea how to use it- that had left White, Yellow and Blue. Hirono had told him to pick someone for Blue who he thought could take it and she would do the same for Yellow, with the pair of them coming to an agreement on the next White Ranger at some point.
He couldn't actually think of a better person to be Blue. Granted, the person he was thinking of couldn't actually fight anything yet, but he could teach him. Besides, the last team had been too bitter, too cruel and too cynical to actually be anything resembling heroic. This team would be different, more idealistic -despite its leader being even more pessimistic than the last one- and this team wouldn't die. He would make sure of it.
Although, when he was putting the power coin in Yuichiro's locker -Hirono had taught him the benefits of picking locks as a response to him teaching her how to use ki attacks- he couldn't help but wonder if he was doing the right thing or if he was just leading another innocent child to their doom.
It was 50-50 either way.
Title: On the Difference Between Forgiveness and Pragmatism...
Fandom: Battle Royale II
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU, spoilers for the first part of the movie (up to the students storming the base)
Summary: What Ryo doesn't seem to get, Naoki mused, was that in order for them to take their revenge, they would have to be alive.
He wished Ryo wouldn’t keep looking at him like that.
After all, if he hadn’t done some exceptionally quick talking -at gunpoint, he might add- neither of them would even be this close to the man who destroyed their lives. They’d have both died in the room with the water, shot down by snipers not much older than they were (and younger, in some cases) and left there until someone could be bothered to get rid of their bodies.
Naoki didn’t think that he wanted to go out like that, and he expected that Ryo didn’t either, for all of the angry and betrayed glances he kept shooting Naoki when he thought he wasn’t looking (and sometimes when he thought that he was looking, for variety’s sake). Sure, the five of them had wanted their retribution on Nanahara, but he was kind of hoping that he could at least finish school first.
And, unlike what Ryo seemed to think, he hadn’t talked Ryo out of it because he’d suddenly forgiven Nanahara -because he’ll never be able to do that and he knew it, not for his mother’s death, and not for the deaths that had occurred on the island itself- but because he just didn’t want to see anyone else die.
So they met Nanahara -a kid that looks like he stole a curtain from a room in a long-derelict house to use as a cloak- and Ryo punched him, or tried to, but got restrained by about six ten-year olds, which in different circumstances, Naoki would find absolutely hilarious.
Shibaki, however, cracked into a fit of hopeless laughter, leading Ryo to try and punch him and Naoki to wonder whether or not it was better that he’d kept the pair of them (and Jun, who had spent the entirety of the time in silence, glaring at whoever tried to come near him) alive for this long.
But he didn’t have a choice.
That was what he kept telling himself, remembering how Taguchi’s legs had just kind of ended above the kneecap and how Totsuka had looked just before her collar detonated. He hadn’t dared to go back and see if any of the others had survived the minefield, mainly because he’s not sure that his sanity could take it if he had to see Kenji’s burned and possibly dismembered corpse (he’d admit this later to Asakura and she’d nod and say that she understood, and that she didn’t want to see Motomura’s body for the same reason).
He hadn’t had a choice because if he had died, then Shindo’s collar would have gone off and having that happen three times in two days (Fukuda, Mifune and Totsuka, all people that he had only barely known) was enough for anybody.
Besides, Shindo had enough to deal with over the death of her best friend. There was no need for Naoki to add to that by putting her life more at risk than it already was, right?
Title: Missing, Presumed Dead
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Well...character death, obviously.
Summary: Justin wasn't at the Battle of Hogwarts. Mainly because he was too busy being dead.
Justin Finch-Fletchley never returned to Hogwarts.
He was dead long before Harry returned to destroy the last Horcrux, dead before the raid on Gringotts, dead even before the new DA, reformed under Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley met for the first time, during the second week of term.
He was one of the first students subjected to the Muggleborn Registry Committee.
After a long interrogation, during which a Death Eater tried to force him to reveal who he had stolen his wand from, while he hotly denied doing anything of the sort -not only do Hufflepuffs not do that kind of thing in general, but he was also a gentleman, and unlike a certain minority of the wizarding equivalent that he could name, his parents had always taught him that aristocracy meant that he had to be both unfailingly lawful and honest at all times- the Death Eater had pointed her wand at him and told him that she would be happy to kill him if he continued in being reticent with her.
He had replied that she was probably going to kill him anyway, no matter what he did, and so there was very little point in lying to her.
She had reacted predictably to that and Justin's last thought was a regret that he wouldn't be able to see Harry actually finish the job and kill Voldemort. His body had never been found, but his name was engraved on the memorial at Hogwarts, right under the casualties of the Battle for the Ministry and his death was recorded as a loss for the anti-Death Eater forces. Ernie and Hannah, among others, had insisted that his name be remembered in that way, because even though he didn't do much directly in the war, he had still been a member of the original DA, and had therefore contributed, in a convoluted way, to Voldemort's defeat.
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