Same city.

Same streets.

Same people.

Same noises.

"Shibuya hasn't changed much since I beat the reapers. Hard to believe it was a year ago already. The only things that changed were the people around me. The people who know me. Shiki, Beat, and Rhyme. We meet at Hachiko every time we hang out. You know, I really haven't thought about it that much, but the Reaper's Game really changed who I was. It changed… What I thought of the world. It changed what I thought of people. I used to think that Shibuya staying the same was only annoying. Now, I want Shibuya to stay the same. Anything else just wouldn't feel like… Shibuya. You know?"

"Yo' phones! You comin'?"

"I'm not a player anymore, so I can't see the reapers, or the players, or the noise. I just hope that the players are getting a fair chance at reclaiming what they've lost."

"Neku! Hurry up!"

"How many people have gone through the Game since we w- AH!"

"PHONES! We've been callin' your name, and you still ain't noticed us!" Beat said, getting Neku in a noogie hold. Neku's perfectly spikey hair had to be fixed. Neku wiggled out of the hold, slugging Beat in the shoulder. Of course, Beat was wearing his trademark beanie complete with a skull pattern on the front. Neku sort of "forced" the CAT style onto Beat, so Beat is wearing a white shirt with one of CAT's abstract designs covering most of the shirt. He also wears white shorts with a CAT symbol over the right knee.

"You didn't have to give me a noogie to get my attention!" Neku said, rubbing the spot on his head that Beat may have bruised. Neku doesn't wear his high-collar shirt anymore. Instead, he wears a normal black shirt with a jacket that he keeps zipped open most of the time. His jacket is not too unlike the shirt he had before. There's an indigo strip outlined with gold going straight down the center of the jacket with the zipper in the middle.

"Boys, right?" Rhyme said to Shiki while Neku and Beat were butting heads. "Our boys can barely get along." Rhyme still has her beanie with the small skull pin on it. She wears a sweater with sleeves that go past her hands when it's cold. Her sweater has a black "X" on it with a skull shaped like a heart. Much like the shirt she wore before. However, when she doesn't wear a sweater, she wears an all-white T-shirt with a black "X" over the chest. She wears black shorts with white covering the seams and following the end of the legs.

"Well maybe you should pay attention more and be less of an-" Suddenly, Beat was interrupted by a stuffed cat being thrown at his face. It didn't knock him back, but it did stop him from shouting.

"Would you two just stop arguing? You're creating a scene." Shiki said. She was standing there with her arms crossed. At the same time, Beat and Neku yelled, "He started it!" Shiki had been in her true form for a year now, but she was still the same girl that everyone knew during the Reaper's Game. She had shoulder-length brunette hair with her bangs clipped to one side. She often wears a green zip-up hoodie and black pants.

Neku looked down at the stuffed "piggy" laying on the ground. He grabbed it and stood up. He remembered what it was like. He remembered how much suffering the Game brought him. "It's been a year now, hasn't it?" Neku questioned.

"Oh yeah, I guess it has. But'chu know that's all over now, huh Phones?" Beat said, putting his elbow on Neku's shoulder.

"Well, Beat, it's kinda hard to forget everything that happened for those three weeks. I can see where Neku is viewing this from." Rhyme replied.

"Yeah, and to think, we've been living our lives here in the RG while the Reaper's Game has still been going on in the UG." Shiki said, grabbing Mr. Mew from Neku's hand.

"Wait, weren't we goin' to see a movie? I don't wanna miss it!" Beat hurriedly said.

"But Beat, it's the movie based on that popular romance series." Rhyme pointed out.

"Bwaaah! Well, you know, I wanna see it to, you know, make fun a' it." Beat defended. Everyone laughed as they started walking towards the movie theater.

"I thought that every person was the same. After the Reaper's Game, I learned that all people are unique. I never wanted to hear anybody else. That's why I always wore my headphones, to drown out the noise. Now, I can't go a day without hearing the chatter of people. Shibuya hasn't changed. Everything has stayed the same, but it's in that similarity that makes Shibuya so unique. I don't really know what I'm trying to say to you right now, Joshua, but all I know is that I can't give up on myself. Besides, if I give up on myself, I give up on the world, right? So, Mr. Composer, I wonder. What will you have in store for Shibuya next?"

A mysterious figure stands atop the 104 building and watches Neku and friends cross the scrambled crossing. "It's not me that will do something for Shibuya, Neku. It's you."

Yo, there! I hope you enjoyed the story! I'll be trying to add a new chapter frequently so you guys can keep reading. Please read and review so I know what's right and what's wrong. Thank you! (This story is based off of the video game The World Ends With You by Square Enix. I own nothing of the series, and this is just a fanfic.)