Hacker (2/?)
Title: Hacker Chapters: 2/?
Author: redmercenary
Genre: AU, romance, trickery, love/hate
Pairings/Characters: Reituki
Warnings: Reitas evil? and maybe smut later MAYBE :)
Disclaimer: I don’t own Gazette Synopsis: I'm a shut in and i love technology what could go wrong?
Comments: i hope this one was a little bit longer. A little bit more occurs in this chapter, i hope i didn’t rush it. Also i don’t know why but i kept going back and forth from first the third person O.o i tried to go through it and catch all the third persons so if you see that sort of mistake, sorry >.<
Hacker
It'd been a week since the Hacking experience and I had been more than on edge. Later after the incident I checked my bank account. Even though it was part of the deal none of the money was missing. I tried to investigate; to track the hacker back, but it was no use. This one was an absolute ace at this. A week had gone by and nothing had happened. I was starting to feel a little more relaxed.
At this point i could assume that whoever it was was a snot nosed kid who was just bluffing to get some laughs. I always hated kids, that’s another reason i don’t go out, women. They’re so needing and foreword i swear you get them pregnant by just looking at them. Too dangerous, imp not up for raising a child or taking care of some needy girl who hangs on me. Being hung and clung to makes me ungodly uncomfortable, it doesn’t feel right. I'm probably just not cut out for love.
I was sitting on my sofa watching mindless cartoons- since nothing else was on, and suddenly my phone rang. Not my cell phone that i use for everything. My home phone- but the odd thing is NO ONE had my home phone. I froze and stared at the piece in shock.
It was and older telephone, like an antique, that’s why i bought it coz it looked cool. It was white and had a gold hook to put it on and a gold dial that you would push to the side for the right number instead of buttons. Its cord was straight instead of curly like regular wire phones and black. It was probably one of the prettiest things I had in my house. I had it merely there for decoration. I had just plugged it in for the hell of it. Today actually was when i decided to plug it in...
The phone stopped ringing after a bit from my negligence. I let out a relieved breath but it was way to soon, the phone started up again. This time i didn’t ignore it and jumped up going to the phone and picked it up. I hesitated in my greeting hoping to hear something first. It was probably another kid playing a prank putting in random phone numbers. That was the only explanation.
"Moshi moshi?" i spoke quietly and a soft melancholic laugh sounded on the other end.
"Hello Taka-chan~" my eyes widened and looked from either side of me again.
"Who is this?" I demanded and the man laughed again.
"You're one and only hacker my dear" I cursed under my breath, that’s what i was afraid of. "Happy to hear from me i see."
"Whets the deal?!" I cried out, "What do you want from me? You didn’t take the money you were supposed to take! You were the one who asked for it!"
"Calm down Taka-chan" the voice said but i could feel my face heating up. I wasn’t very good at holding my anger.
"Shut up and leave me alone!!" I shouted and slammed the phone down. As soon as i did the door bell sounded making me jump half a mile. I stood still, i for the life of me did not want to open the door. But the bell kept ringing. I made my way over to the door and looked through the peep hole. To my relief it was just the boy who delivered food.
"Is anyone in there? Hello?" the boy called trying to look through the peep hole himself.
"ah sorry one minute." I called back and pressed a button to unlock my door then pulled on the handle. But it didn’t open. "What the..." I tried again and again no success.
"Hello? Mr. Ruki?" the boy knocked and rung again.
"Uh sorry but can you leave the food there?" my breath was shaky, why couldn’t i get out of my house?
"No sir that’d be in violation of-"
"Okay i cant come to the door right now so sorry please leave." I called and it was silent for a minute.
"But sir you paid for it." I took a deep breath and leaned against the door.
"Its alright." I muttered weakly. It was better to starve then to be embarrassed about being locked in you’re own home. At least it was in my opinion.
"Alright sir I’ll see you next week then." the boy announced and i listened to his soft foot steps walk away. I slid down my door and sighed, great, i had about one piece of bread left and some milk that would go bad soon. At least there was water. There was also the option of ordering pizza and what not, although pizza was not my favorite thing.
First thing was first, I needed to figure out how to open that door. I stood up and worked on my locking device, I worked on it for a couple of hours. Finally when i was sure i could unlock my door i tried again. I gripped the handle and i yelped jumping back as it shocked me. I hissed and looked at my undamaged but aching hand and throw them both up and shouted profanities into the air.
Through my shouting fit at first i didn’t hear it but my phone rang again. I stopped and came to a conclusion. This all had to be his fault, I stomped back into my living room and picked up the phone angrily.
"LET ME OUT OF HERE!" I practically screamed. There was silence on the other end for a moment then.
"Uh sir is your refrigerator running?" I had the biggest urge to throw the phone. "I'm joking, don’t throw the phone Taka-chan." now i really wanted to throw the phone, into acid. "I thought you would be smart enough to instantly realize i was the culprit. I guess i heard wrong that you were a genius."
"Shut up imp going to castrate you when i find out who you are." I threatened, the man just laughed again.
"I'll never let you open that door. That’s what you wanted anyways wasn't it? To be cut off? Now you really are, this is what you get for not being open minded my dear." the man scolded.
"Who are you to judge me?!" I slammed my fist down on the table the phone was on.
"I'm Reita, and I’m a fox devil~" The man joked.
"Don’t lie to me!"
"I am Reita just like how you think you’re Ruki, true i may not really be a devil but i am here to bring hell to you." with that the phone hung up. I stood there for the longest time staring at my wall. Who in the hell was this and why in the hell would they ever want to hurt me? I never did anything to anyone in my life as far as I was concerned. Though now it would seem imp on someone’s hit list anyway. I hung up the phone and sat on my hard wood floor and looked down. How do you even handle someone hating you? I don’t know, and i don’t know why. I wish i did though.
--
Days passed and I still hadn’t been able to open the door, I'd even called for help and no one could get it open without breaking down the walls around it. I didn’t want that to happen coz then i would have to go outside and answer questions, the hole nine yards. Id probably have to get a new house too. There was only one thing i could do and that was to wait for the hacker to call back and make a negotiation.
I walked into my kitchen, my head was throbbing and my bones felt like jelly. The bread was long gone and the milk was sour. Right now I was just living off of water. It may seem ridiculous that id go this far just to keep my house but to me it wasn’t. This was my safe haven and had been for many years, it felt like apart of me.
I grabbed a cup and turned knob to the faucet to fill my cup. I was surprised to see not even a drop of water come out. I groaned and dropped down to my knees. Of course heed think of doing that. What was this Reita trying to do? Kill me in my own home? I laid on my side pressing my face to the cool tile.
I pondered what i would do and thought back to a couple of days ago when i researched Reita. Reita had millions of pages, he was made out to be a myth and a role model hacker. None of his real records could ever be found, there were tons of cases on him but nothing ever found. If a real detective couldn’t find Reita why did I think i could?
I took a deep breath and looked up at my ceiling. My entire body was weak I didn’t want to move one inch. I don’t know how long i laid there but i know eventually the phone rang. I sat up and looked to the archway to the living room dazedly. I willed myself up and walked slowly to the living room. The phone continued to ring on no matter how long it took me to get there. I sat in a chair next to the phone and picked it up.
"Moshi moshi..." I said my voice definitely not as strong as the last time i spoke. Not even my boss had called me in a couple of days, the last time we spoke he said that everything was going smoothly thanks to Ruki and that I should take some days off.
"Oh Taka-chan you don’t sound so good~" Reita purred into the phone.
"I hate you." I whispered and the man chuckled. "I'm going to come and kill you i swear." I remembered i was supposed to be making negotiations but i just couldn’t bring myself to do it.
"You're so stubborn, I've broken you physically and yet you still act high and mighty." the man commented, I listened staring across the room at the window not answering. If i did answer it would be shouting and i really didn’t feel like shouting. "Hikkamori sure are an interesting species, you didn’t even call the cops did you?" I shook my head like he could see it, then again knowing this man he probably did see it. "Well in to regards of coming and killing me. How about tonight?"
I furrowed my eyebrows looking to the phone in question. "Excuse me?"
"About sevenish? At Makori's Restaurant?" Reita said and I let my jaw drop. "Oh i'll unlock your door. I know you probably don’t know where to go but if you just-"
"What?" I interrupted and the phone was silent. "What part of being a shut in don’t you understand? I don’t go outside and i don’t go out on....dates! You're making it sound like a date!" I cried out as best as i could.
"My dear Taka-chan it is a date. Also what part of Hacker don’t you understand?" I took a deep breath and he continued, "If you dot come tonight i will personally wipe you off the face of the earth. I will kill you technically, no one will ever find your records your house your appliances and job will all be gone with just a click of my finger. I will make funeral plans and people who have no doubt you are in the ground. And since you don’t go out no one has ever seen your face, if you try to plead your case the only one who will recognize you is a good for nothing delivery boy." My eyes widened, i shook, because i researched him and i knew he was capable of doing anything he wanted and could do everything he just said.
"D-Don’t" was all I could muster, i felt like a coward. The man didn’t chuckle or anything else just spoke once again.
"At 6:30 you will be ready, you will go down to your car and you will follow the directions on your GPS and you will be there. Get a drink of water, take a shower, I turned the water back on. I set out some clothes for you, wear them. Make yourself look pretty. I'll see you at the restaurant Takanori." Reita finished firmly and the phone hung up. The phone slid from my hand and it knocked against the end table and i could hear it bleeping from the lack of anyone on the other line.
I took a deep breath and glanced at a clock. it was about five a clock, i realized i had better get ready if i didn’t want to be erased. I went to the kitchen and tried the faucet, sure enough clean water poured from it. I drank a bit of water feeling a little bit better then headed to my bedroom which was connected to my bathroom.
When i entered my room my heart just about stopped. 'I set out some clothes for you,' I stared in disbelief at my bed. There, there were clothes, laid out, the clothes were mine but i never wore them. I began to panic in my head slightly. How in the hell did he do that? I don’t have any device in my house that sets out clothes. The edges of my vision darkened signaling I was about to pass out. Usually I wouldn’t even come close to that sort of thing but it gave me such a fright while I was running on near to nothing.
I smacked my cheeks and ran to the bathroom and splashed water on my face waking myself up. I took a deep breath and willed myself to do as I was told previously.
--
I stared in the mirror once I was ready. I made up my hair and done my make up like I would do when I was in high school, never in my mind was make up on guys wrong. I was wearing the assigned outfit, which as I said was mine but I'd never worn it. It was for clubbing I think I don’t remember why I bought it. It was black shorts a dark red long sleeve shirt that had a cow neck and knee high boots that lace up. I accompanied it with a chocker and my many of rings. I felt extremely uncomfortable in shorts, my legs looked terrible to me, even though they were shaved (its not weird to me for men to do that, I mean who wants to reach down and feel a hairy leg, gross) they just were terrible. I preferred skinny jeans.
I looked to the time to discover it was 6:23. I took a deep breath and walked out of my room and to the living room. I grabbed my messenger back and threw my phone and wallet into it with whatever I had in it last and looked over to the archway to the kitchen, and also the door. I took a deep breath and went to go walk but my legs wouldn’t move. I furrowed my eyebrows and took a feverous gulp.
"Move legs move." I murmured and looked at the clock again, 6: 27. I was brought forth from my thoughts by the telephone ringing. I walked to the phone quickly and picked it up.
"Moshi-" I began.
"Get your ass out of that apartment already and into your car." the voice commanded and I looked at the windows and shuttered. My very core was shaking.
"I-I cant." I defended.
"Yes you can, don’t you forget that I hold your life in my hands Takanori Matsumoto." He hissed. For once i was feeling vulnerable, most of my life i was strong and could throw something back at someone. I was strong and held my head high and looked down at people. Now i was hanging my head while Reita stared down at me.
"But I..."
"Do it now" he commanded and I hung up and forced myself over to the door. I stared at the handle before grabbing it and opened it with ease. Now it was the hard part. I stared at the long hall way before me showing other apartment complexes. I could feel my lips trembling and some water sting my eyes. I bit on my lip hard and looked from side to side and pushed. I pushed and pushed trying to make one of my feet to move foreword. Neither were willing.
Reitas voice repeated and boomed in my head. I had to go, I tried moving one of my arms to grab the door frame to pull myself out. Neither of my hands would work either.
At this rate, I was going to become nobody.....
Author: redmercenary
Genre: AU, romance, trickery, love/hate
Pairings/Characters: Reituki
Warnings: Reitas evil? and maybe smut later MAYBE :)
Disclaimer: I don’t own Gazette Synopsis: I'm a shut in and i love technology what could go wrong?
Comments: i hope this one was a little bit longer. A little bit more occurs in this chapter, i hope i didn’t rush it. Also i don’t know why but i kept going back and forth from first the third person O.o i tried to go through it and catch all the third persons so if you see that sort of mistake, sorry >.<
Hacker
It'd been a week since the Hacking experience and I had been more than on edge. Later after the incident I checked my bank account. Even though it was part of the deal none of the money was missing. I tried to investigate; to track the hacker back, but it was no use. This one was an absolute ace at this. A week had gone by and nothing had happened. I was starting to feel a little more relaxed.
At this point i could assume that whoever it was was a snot nosed kid who was just bluffing to get some laughs. I always hated kids, that’s another reason i don’t go out, women. They’re so needing and foreword i swear you get them pregnant by just looking at them. Too dangerous, imp not up for raising a child or taking care of some needy girl who hangs on me. Being hung and clung to makes me ungodly uncomfortable, it doesn’t feel right. I'm probably just not cut out for love.
I was sitting on my sofa watching mindless cartoons- since nothing else was on, and suddenly my phone rang. Not my cell phone that i use for everything. My home phone- but the odd thing is NO ONE had my home phone. I froze and stared at the piece in shock.
It was and older telephone, like an antique, that’s why i bought it coz it looked cool. It was white and had a gold hook to put it on and a gold dial that you would push to the side for the right number instead of buttons. Its cord was straight instead of curly like regular wire phones and black. It was probably one of the prettiest things I had in my house. I had it merely there for decoration. I had just plugged it in for the hell of it. Today actually was when i decided to plug it in...
The phone stopped ringing after a bit from my negligence. I let out a relieved breath but it was way to soon, the phone started up again. This time i didn’t ignore it and jumped up going to the phone and picked it up. I hesitated in my greeting hoping to hear something first. It was probably another kid playing a prank putting in random phone numbers. That was the only explanation.
"Moshi moshi?" i spoke quietly and a soft melancholic laugh sounded on the other end.
"Hello Taka-chan~" my eyes widened and looked from either side of me again.
"Who is this?" I demanded and the man laughed again.
"You're one and only hacker my dear" I cursed under my breath, that’s what i was afraid of. "Happy to hear from me i see."
"Whets the deal?!" I cried out, "What do you want from me? You didn’t take the money you were supposed to take! You were the one who asked for it!"
"Calm down Taka-chan" the voice said but i could feel my face heating up. I wasn’t very good at holding my anger.
"Shut up and leave me alone!!" I shouted and slammed the phone down. As soon as i did the door bell sounded making me jump half a mile. I stood still, i for the life of me did not want to open the door. But the bell kept ringing. I made my way over to the door and looked through the peep hole. To my relief it was just the boy who delivered food.
"Is anyone in there? Hello?" the boy called trying to look through the peep hole himself.
"ah sorry one minute." I called back and pressed a button to unlock my door then pulled on the handle. But it didn’t open. "What the..." I tried again and again no success.
"Hello? Mr. Ruki?" the boy knocked and rung again.
"Uh sorry but can you leave the food there?" my breath was shaky, why couldn’t i get out of my house?
"No sir that’d be in violation of-"
"Okay i cant come to the door right now so sorry please leave." I called and it was silent for a minute.
"But sir you paid for it." I took a deep breath and leaned against the door.
"Its alright." I muttered weakly. It was better to starve then to be embarrassed about being locked in you’re own home. At least it was in my opinion.
"Alright sir I’ll see you next week then." the boy announced and i listened to his soft foot steps walk away. I slid down my door and sighed, great, i had about one piece of bread left and some milk that would go bad soon. At least there was water. There was also the option of ordering pizza and what not, although pizza was not my favorite thing.
First thing was first, I needed to figure out how to open that door. I stood up and worked on my locking device, I worked on it for a couple of hours. Finally when i was sure i could unlock my door i tried again. I gripped the handle and i yelped jumping back as it shocked me. I hissed and looked at my undamaged but aching hand and throw them both up and shouted profanities into the air.
Through my shouting fit at first i didn’t hear it but my phone rang again. I stopped and came to a conclusion. This all had to be his fault, I stomped back into my living room and picked up the phone angrily.
"LET ME OUT OF HERE!" I practically screamed. There was silence on the other end for a moment then.
"Uh sir is your refrigerator running?" I had the biggest urge to throw the phone. "I'm joking, don’t throw the phone Taka-chan." now i really wanted to throw the phone, into acid. "I thought you would be smart enough to instantly realize i was the culprit. I guess i heard wrong that you were a genius."
"Shut up imp going to castrate you when i find out who you are." I threatened, the man just laughed again.
"I'll never let you open that door. That’s what you wanted anyways wasn't it? To be cut off? Now you really are, this is what you get for not being open minded my dear." the man scolded.
"Who are you to judge me?!" I slammed my fist down on the table the phone was on.
"I'm Reita, and I’m a fox devil~" The man joked.
"Don’t lie to me!"
"I am Reita just like how you think you’re Ruki, true i may not really be a devil but i am here to bring hell to you." with that the phone hung up. I stood there for the longest time staring at my wall. Who in the hell was this and why in the hell would they ever want to hurt me? I never did anything to anyone in my life as far as I was concerned. Though now it would seem imp on someone’s hit list anyway. I hung up the phone and sat on my hard wood floor and looked down. How do you even handle someone hating you? I don’t know, and i don’t know why. I wish i did though.
--
Days passed and I still hadn’t been able to open the door, I'd even called for help and no one could get it open without breaking down the walls around it. I didn’t want that to happen coz then i would have to go outside and answer questions, the hole nine yards. Id probably have to get a new house too. There was only one thing i could do and that was to wait for the hacker to call back and make a negotiation.
I walked into my kitchen, my head was throbbing and my bones felt like jelly. The bread was long gone and the milk was sour. Right now I was just living off of water. It may seem ridiculous that id go this far just to keep my house but to me it wasn’t. This was my safe haven and had been for many years, it felt like apart of me.
I grabbed a cup and turned knob to the faucet to fill my cup. I was surprised to see not even a drop of water come out. I groaned and dropped down to my knees. Of course heed think of doing that. What was this Reita trying to do? Kill me in my own home? I laid on my side pressing my face to the cool tile.
I pondered what i would do and thought back to a couple of days ago when i researched Reita. Reita had millions of pages, he was made out to be a myth and a role model hacker. None of his real records could ever be found, there were tons of cases on him but nothing ever found. If a real detective couldn’t find Reita why did I think i could?
I took a deep breath and looked up at my ceiling. My entire body was weak I didn’t want to move one inch. I don’t know how long i laid there but i know eventually the phone rang. I sat up and looked to the archway to the living room dazedly. I willed myself up and walked slowly to the living room. The phone continued to ring on no matter how long it took me to get there. I sat in a chair next to the phone and picked it up.
"Moshi moshi..." I said my voice definitely not as strong as the last time i spoke. Not even my boss had called me in a couple of days, the last time we spoke he said that everything was going smoothly thanks to Ruki and that I should take some days off.
"Oh Taka-chan you don’t sound so good~" Reita purred into the phone.
"I hate you." I whispered and the man chuckled. "I'm going to come and kill you i swear." I remembered i was supposed to be making negotiations but i just couldn’t bring myself to do it.
"You're so stubborn, I've broken you physically and yet you still act high and mighty." the man commented, I listened staring across the room at the window not answering. If i did answer it would be shouting and i really didn’t feel like shouting. "Hikkamori sure are an interesting species, you didn’t even call the cops did you?" I shook my head like he could see it, then again knowing this man he probably did see it. "Well in to regards of coming and killing me. How about tonight?"
I furrowed my eyebrows looking to the phone in question. "Excuse me?"
"About sevenish? At Makori's Restaurant?" Reita said and I let my jaw drop. "Oh i'll unlock your door. I know you probably don’t know where to go but if you just-"
"What?" I interrupted and the phone was silent. "What part of being a shut in don’t you understand? I don’t go outside and i don’t go out on....dates! You're making it sound like a date!" I cried out as best as i could.
"My dear Taka-chan it is a date. Also what part of Hacker don’t you understand?" I took a deep breath and he continued, "If you dot come tonight i will personally wipe you off the face of the earth. I will kill you technically, no one will ever find your records your house your appliances and job will all be gone with just a click of my finger. I will make funeral plans and people who have no doubt you are in the ground. And since you don’t go out no one has ever seen your face, if you try to plead your case the only one who will recognize you is a good for nothing delivery boy." My eyes widened, i shook, because i researched him and i knew he was capable of doing anything he wanted and could do everything he just said.
"D-Don’t" was all I could muster, i felt like a coward. The man didn’t chuckle or anything else just spoke once again.
"At 6:30 you will be ready, you will go down to your car and you will follow the directions on your GPS and you will be there. Get a drink of water, take a shower, I turned the water back on. I set out some clothes for you, wear them. Make yourself look pretty. I'll see you at the restaurant Takanori." Reita finished firmly and the phone hung up. The phone slid from my hand and it knocked against the end table and i could hear it bleeping from the lack of anyone on the other line.
I took a deep breath and glanced at a clock. it was about five a clock, i realized i had better get ready if i didn’t want to be erased. I went to the kitchen and tried the faucet, sure enough clean water poured from it. I drank a bit of water feeling a little bit better then headed to my bedroom which was connected to my bathroom.
When i entered my room my heart just about stopped. 'I set out some clothes for you,' I stared in disbelief at my bed. There, there were clothes, laid out, the clothes were mine but i never wore them. I began to panic in my head slightly. How in the hell did he do that? I don’t have any device in my house that sets out clothes. The edges of my vision darkened signaling I was about to pass out. Usually I wouldn’t even come close to that sort of thing but it gave me such a fright while I was running on near to nothing.
I smacked my cheeks and ran to the bathroom and splashed water on my face waking myself up. I took a deep breath and willed myself to do as I was told previously.
--
I stared in the mirror once I was ready. I made up my hair and done my make up like I would do when I was in high school, never in my mind was make up on guys wrong. I was wearing the assigned outfit, which as I said was mine but I'd never worn it. It was for clubbing I think I don’t remember why I bought it. It was black shorts a dark red long sleeve shirt that had a cow neck and knee high boots that lace up. I accompanied it with a chocker and my many of rings. I felt extremely uncomfortable in shorts, my legs looked terrible to me, even though they were shaved (its not weird to me for men to do that, I mean who wants to reach down and feel a hairy leg, gross) they just were terrible. I preferred skinny jeans.
I looked to the time to discover it was 6:23. I took a deep breath and walked out of my room and to the living room. I grabbed my messenger back and threw my phone and wallet into it with whatever I had in it last and looked over to the archway to the kitchen, and also the door. I took a deep breath and went to go walk but my legs wouldn’t move. I furrowed my eyebrows and took a feverous gulp.
"Move legs move." I murmured and looked at the clock again, 6: 27. I was brought forth from my thoughts by the telephone ringing. I walked to the phone quickly and picked it up.
"Moshi-" I began.
"Get your ass out of that apartment already and into your car." the voice commanded and I looked at the windows and shuttered. My very core was shaking.
"I-I cant." I defended.
"Yes you can, don’t you forget that I hold your life in my hands Takanori Matsumoto." He hissed. For once i was feeling vulnerable, most of my life i was strong and could throw something back at someone. I was strong and held my head high and looked down at people. Now i was hanging my head while Reita stared down at me.
"But I..."
"Do it now" he commanded and I hung up and forced myself over to the door. I stared at the handle before grabbing it and opened it with ease. Now it was the hard part. I stared at the long hall way before me showing other apartment complexes. I could feel my lips trembling and some water sting my eyes. I bit on my lip hard and looked from side to side and pushed. I pushed and pushed trying to make one of my feet to move foreword. Neither were willing.
Reitas voice repeated and boomed in my head. I had to go, I tried moving one of my arms to grab the door frame to pull myself out. Neither of my hands would work either.
At this rate, I was going to become nobody.....