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Oyasumi, Oyasumi

Summary:

Hands Of Time Will Wring My Neck
Every Little Moment Spells Regret
But I Don't Have To Feel This Way
As A Voice Inside My Head

Notes:

Title Name/Inspiration Song: https://youtu.be/eHwOTK4VLqw

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: Close Your Eyes And You'll Leave This Dream

Summary:

Yosuke sighs, shoving the paper back in his uniform pocket where his weapons are also stored just in case they ever decide to go into the tv world. He can't think of them right now. He has to work anyway, that's one of the only good thing he seems to be good at besides the tv-

Notes:

Eyoo who's ready for Shadow Yosuke being a bITCH-

Chapter Text

Oh hheeyy, look! It's a tv! Oh what a shame it would be if you just..walk in it, right?~

 

"Can you shut up..?"

 

The Junes employee turns her head up from the shelves, looking at the Prince of Junes walk by one of the large TVs, placing his headphones on his ears and closing his eyes. 

 

He's been acting more..weird than normal lately. Talking to himself more in a hushed voice, seemingly telling himself to shut up more often, flinching at random times…

 

But it doesn't concern her though. Why would it? Why should she care about him, the one who ruined so many peoples lives because of Junes? No one would be alarmed if he somehow was found dead. It's a surprise to her and her small friend group that he wasn't one of the killers victims.

 

She sighs, turning back to the shelves as Yosuke walks out of the electronic section.

 


 

He keeps getting louder and louder.

 

Ooooh, they aren't paying attention to you again! What a shocker!

 

Yosuke makes a scowl-like face, leaning his cheek on his hand and tapping the table slightly with his free hand, trying to focus on the meeting while also talking to this voice.

 

Yea yea I know my ideas suck..

 

Your ideas suck? Nono, they don't only suck..they are horrible ideas! ...ya know, I have a great idea..what if you go in the tv alone today?

 

Yosuke lets out a groan in annoyance. "Are you fucking for real right now.."

 

Yosuke rubs his head slightly slightly as he feels a headace forming, making a soft sighing noise, before he jumps up as a pair of hands are slammed in front of him. "H-huh-"

 

"Are you really being like this right now??" Yosuke looks up and..it's Chie.

 

Chie looks..angry. Yosuke recoils back in pain from her loud voice, glancing to the side to avoid looking at her and looking at the team.

 

They all seem..annoyed at him. Even Yu, the one who usually is neutral on everything, has a disappointed and confused look on his face. Yosuke feels himself sink back into the seat, before he suddenly gets up. 

 

"I..I need to go."

 

"Yosuke wha-"

 

"I need to go."

 

Yosuke can see Yu flinch at the tone of voice he used. He sighs, muttering out a small apology that no one but himself probably heard, before he rushes home, ignoring the dirty looks the rest of the team gives him.

 


 

"Hey, Kanji.."

 

Kanji pauses lifting up the food from the bento box he was eating out of, staring at the other persona user with a small questioning face. "Hm? What is it, senpai?"

 

Yosuke picks at his own food slightly, fiddling around with the fork before sighing. "I..heard a rumor going around of if you do something wrong, you're able to hear your own voice like..mock you.."

 

Kanji tilts his head to the side. " Mock you..? Like..almost like a shadow would mock you?"

 

Yosuke bites the inside of his lips, glancing over to the side, before shrugging, leaning back against the flimsy fencing of the roof. "I guess..? I just wanted to know what you think about the rumor, I guess."

 

The delinquent makes a thinking face as if he's trying to connect the dots to a puzzle, before shaking his head slightly. "They just sound like they're going crazy at that point to me if I'm being honest. Probably because of all this damn homework they keep pushing onto us! I mean seriously, why do they have to give ou-"

 

Yosuke flinches at the first few words of Kani's monologue, and he blocks out of what Kanji is saying at that point after he said crazy, his mind starting to run wild as he hears that familiar, annoying, nagging voice in his head.

 

Even your own teammates you trust with your dear life are basically calling you crazy! How insane must you actually be to be hearing me, another version of yourself when you aren't in the tv world? Or am I even real? Who knows!~

 

"-it's test session in a few months so I don't understand why they-" Kanji pauses in his tyrant, looking over at Yosuke. "Yosuke-senpai? You ok?"

 

Yosuke suddenly forces his body to sit up straight, looking over at Kanji and staring at him for a bit, before shaking his head. "N-no no it's..it's nothing man, I'm fine, just..tired, ya know?" Yosuke gives off his famous smile (it's..so easy to pull it off now. Way too easy.) as he waves his hand. 

 

Kanji looks at Yosuke with a skeptical look, before sighing, picking his bento box back up. "If ya say so man.." 

 

Yosuke hums softly, finally picking his fork back up and starting to eat his lunch again. (or..the most his stomach can handle anway.)

 


 

Why does this keep happening why does this keep happening-

 

Yosuke stares at the note in his hands as he walks his way to Junes, gripping the small paper tightly and barely paying attention to his surroundings. These were supposed to be notes for..god knows what class, but now..

 

'You're a failure, you're an awful person. Come on, you can't control your own body anymore! How pathetic are you?'

 

It has mocking words. He's been losing control of his body, waking up in places he doesn't remember being in, being in different clothes..

 

He's been hanging out with the team less and less because of the sudden blackouts. How could he explain suddenly becoming an almost entirely different person? He can't. Yosuke isn't smart enough for that. He's never smart enough for that.

 

It's not like they've been trying and reach out to ask him if he's ok anyway. If anything they have been avoiding him but..it's fine. He's not being a bother to them, so it's..fine. It's always been fine.

 

Yosuke sighs, shoving the paper back in his uniform pocket where his weapons are also stored just in case they ever decide to go into the tv world. He can't think of them right now. He has to work anyway, that's one of the only good thing he seems to be good at besides the tv-

 

Yosuke pauses where he's standing, staring blankly at his friends as they walk out of the electronic section of the store, all bruised up and tired. 

 

They..they went without him. They went in the tv world without him, they don't need him he's not necessary he's not needed-

 

You see? They don't care about you anymore..they don't need you, they are clearly better off without you..

 

Yosuke clutches the side of his uniform, ignoring the tears that are coming up in his eyes as he tries to walk to his station.

 

Or do you want to show them?

 

Yosuke pauses his walking again, blinking in confusion. Show..them..?

 

Show them all that you can be a good teammate for them, that you can work just fine without them. Don't you want to prove that you are worth a damn?

 

..the words aren't harsh.

 

Throughout the weeks that the shadow has been mocking him, (or..has it been months at this point..? He can't tell anymore it's been so long) he has never said a nice thing, never been nice. But now..the voice isn't nasty, isn't spilling out harsh and awful words.

 

The words are almost..nice. Encouraging, inviting even..

 

Yosuke looks back at the electronic section, staring at one particular tv in the selection.

 

Come on..let's prove to them that we are helpful…

 

Yosuke walks over to the tv with a small smile, putting on the glasses that Teddie made for him. He looks around, before sticking himself through the tv and into the other world.

 

He has to prove himself.

 


 

Yosuke stares up at Yukiko's dungeon, gripping his Kunai's tightly before walking in.

 

Let's take out as many as we can..let's prove ourselves to them, prove that we can be useful.

 

Yosuke waste no time starting to slash at the shadows that he encounters. The shadow in his head laughs in encouragement as he slashes one particular shadow.

 

Yes..yes! You see? If we continue to do this they'll be proud of us!

 

Yosuke can taste something iron-like in his mouth, but he ignores it as he slashes at more and more shadows. He stares at one of the larger shadows, before he rushes up to it and slashes at its back. It makes a roar like sound as Yosuke does, smacking Yosuke harshly and sending him flying back.

 

The magician makes a yelp in pain as he feels something in his foot crack, but he simply just gets back up and steps the shadow, watching it disappear. He stands still for a few moments, before leaning on the wall, panting heavily. 

 

He needs to keep going..

 

He pushes himself off the wall, continuing to walk. He can feel something in his foot crack more and more now, but he ignores the pain and simply continues his walking. He hears his own shadow talk with excitement in its voice.

 

See, this is what we have to do to be a good teammate, we take up their time and supplies if we complained about tiny little things like this! Now come on..keep going. I know we can do it~

 

He smiles weakly, and confidently walks more with a small chuckle.

 

He has to do this..

 


 

Two days.

 

It's been two days since Yosuke disappeared. 

 

Ever since Teddie told the team Yosuke was nowhere to be found after his shift in Junes two days ago, Yu has been panicking every moment of those two days, staring at his phone every hour or so to see if Yosuke somehow texted him, Yosuke telling Yu that he's fine, sorry for worrying you partner-

 

But it never came. 

 

Yu sighs, staring up at the clock.

 

...why is he up at 11:59 pm?

 

The midnight channel is fine..someone can't show up right now..the day after tomorrow it's supposed to rain, it's going to be foggy tomorrow..

 

Nothing will turn-

 

A soft click echoes throughout the room, making Yu's train of thought come to a halt. 

 

...what…

 

Yu looks at the tv in his room in confusion, and he can feel his breath halt when he sees what's on the screen.

 

There on the screen is the missing member of the investigation team, slashing his way through shadows with a pained look on his face. He's bleeding everywhere, and from what Yu can see, his leg is probably broken from the way he is limping. The orange framed glasses that usually line the magician's eyes when they are in the tv world crooked and cracked.

 

...This is reminding Yu of when he first saw the midnight channel..from when him, Yosuke, and everyone else who watched that night saw Saki Konishi on the channel one day before she died.

 

Yu tries to examine more of the tv, but he hears the click of his clock, and as soon as he hears it, the tv turns off.

 

The fool continues to stare at the tv for what feels like forever, until he feels the vibration of his phone in his pocket go off. Quickly he picks it up, and sees he's getting a call from Teddie. Yu hesitates for a moment, before picking up the phone. "H-hello?-"

 

"S-sensei!! D-did you see the midnight channel tonight??"

 

"..Yes. Yes I did..why?"

 

"S..so then you saw.."

 

Yu flinches at the pained voice that Teddie seems to have. He knows how close the former shadow and Yosuke were after the ladder took in Teddie..They were almost like brothers at this point.

 

"Yosuke in the tv world.." Yu mutters, before shaking his head. "L..later. We are having a meeting later today. We need to save him tomorrow, or else.."

 

He hears Teddie hum in acknowledgement. "Y-yea..I'll tell the others in the group chat, and..you can get whatever you need packed for later..?"

 

"Yes..thank you, Teddie."

 

Yu hangs up the phone call, staring at the phone for a second before running a hand through his hair in frustration.

 

Why was Yosuke in the tv world...fighting shadows alone..?

 


 

The team looks around the Junes food court, their eyes filled with worry and concern.

 

Their friend is in the tv world, today is the last day they can do anything, the fog will come over on side, most likely killing Yosuke from the shadows going more berserk and..

 

Their leader isn't here yet.

 

Chie groans in frustration, tapping her foot as anxiety and worry starts to fill her body. "Where is he..the meeting started over 10 minutes ago and he's never late to thes-"

 

She gets interrupted by the sight of the grey haired leader coming into their point of view. Yukiko lets out a relieved sigh. "Oh thank goodness you're ok..we thought something-"

 

"Tv."

 

Yukiko blinks in confusion. "H-huh?"

 

Yu grips his bag tightly, staring at them all before turning his head to the closed store. "TV world. Now."

 

Before anyone can say anything, he rushes towards the electronic section of the store, Teddie closely behind him. The rest suddenly get up from their seats, running after their leader as Chie yells.

 

"Yu! Yu, what the hell?!" She yells louder, panting as he stops in front of the tv. "W-We're supposed to talk about this and go in calm!"

 

Yu grinds his teeth together harshly, giving Teddie some of the medicine so he can have his hands freed more.

"Because you were sooo willing to talk it over and go in calm when..oh I don't know, Yukiko , was in the tv."

 

Chie feels herself freeze up, and Yu can see both her and Yukiko flinch in response. "N-Now that's not fair! That's a l-low blow, Yu!"

 

"I'm sorry, you're confusing me with someone who gives a fuck right now Chie." He hisses out. "Yosuke's in the Tv and, by the looks of it, is in far worse condition than anyone else we've ever rescued. So either hurry the fuck up and help me or get out of my way."

 

The team stares in shock at Yu's sudden reaction, Teddie looking down and barely looking at the rest as he puts the medication that was handed to him in a small bag of his own. Yu grips the bag he has on him tightly, taking a few deep breaths before glaring at the rest of the team. 

 

"He could die literally any moment from how bad his injuries looked. If we don't go now he will fucking die . Now, if you don't want to come, that's fine. But I'm going in and saving him no matter what."

 

Yu shakes his head, turning back to the tv as he jumps in, Teddie following after. Chie and Yukiko share a glance, before looking back at the team.

 

They all have this look of pain and shock on their faces. Chie stands there for a moment, contemplating on what to do or even say , before sighing softly. "Come on.." she mutters, following Yu and Teddie into the tv world.