Reality Bytes

Game

Yuya burst into his house one morning, startling his mother who was in the kitchen making cookies. "Yuya, what's the hurry?" she asked, blinking at the excited look on Yuya's face. Yuya paused just long enough to explain himself, "I just bought the video game that I've been saving up for!"

"Oh, really? What game was it again?" Yoko asked in interest. Yuya bounced on his heels. "Reality Bytes XII! It's the newest game in the series!"

"Oh, how nice!" Yoko said, smiling at her son. "Are you going to play it with the others?"

Yuya nodded excitedly. "Yeah, that was the idea! Yuri might need to be convinced though. He thinks the Reality Bytes games are for girls."

Yoko chuckled. "Well, have fun then!" she said. "I'll bring you boys some cookies when they're done!"

"Thanks, Mom!" Yuya said, before rushing up the stairs to the bedroom where his counterparts were hanging out. It had been a couple weeks since they'd split up and gotten their own bodies back after Yuya had fallen ill from a buildup of energy, and while they still had to be one every three days to regenerate their energy, they were able to spend most of their time separate. Yoko and Yusho had taken them in and were currently in the middle of trying to get them legally adopted, though it was quite a bit of a challenge since Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri were all from different dimensions and technically didn't have any legal documents like birth certificates or Individual Numbers or other legal identification.

Yuya burst into their room and exclaimed, "I got the new Reality Bytes game! We gotta play it!"

"Ooh! Yes! Game time!" Yugo said, scrambling up from his seat in his banana bean bag chair. "Let's play!" Yuto set his paintbrush and paints aside, taking a break from the cityscape painting he was creating. "Sounds like fun!" he said.

"I still say it's a girl game," Yuri said, putting a bookmark in the book he was reading and setting it aside as he got up from the bed. Yuya pouted. "I mean, yeah 60% of all Reality Bytes players are female, but that leaves 30% that aren't!"

Yuri just shook his head and sat down at the desk. "So, are we just going to play it or...?"

"What do you mean?" Yuya asked, confused. Yuri raised an eyebrow. "Well, aren't there gamers who record videos of them playing those games and post them online? Bloggers who make stories out of their games? People who do challenges? That kind of thing? Making videos of yourself playing video games to entertain viewers just seems like a very Yuya thing to do."

Yuya lit up excitedly. "You know, I would love to make a gaming channel together where we could post videos of us playing games together! That would be so much fun! What do you guys think?"

"That could be fun," Yuto agreed. Yugo bounced in his seat eagerly, "Yeah! Let's make a gaming channel and record videos of us playing together!"

"Sounds like a plan, then!" Yuri said.