Chapter three devoured my soul. Chapter two was depressing as hell because I was really liking both Peko and Koizumi, but oh boy chapter three. It was like one big whammy fest considering that Ibuki is one of my favorites and I liked Tsumiki and felt sorry for her. Her being in despair mode was also great despite her killing Ibuki. After finishing the chapter I wanted to write an alternative take on it, and this was the result. Anyway I hope you enjoy!

Date Published: 9/28/14
Word Count: 6,976
Page Count: 10

Chapter 1: Chance Encounter with Despair

Hinata closes the door to Komaeda's room quietly, trying to not disturb the sickened hope lover. A simple sigh flows out of his mouth as he presses his back to the door with a small 8-bit styled image of his ally. At least he thinks he can be an ally if he stopped his jabber about killing someone just so they can have some sort of hope to fight off despair.

Three of his friends has already fallen to the grasp of this bizarre Despair Disease spread around by Monokuma. The idea of that stupid monochrome bear spreading around a silly sounding disease makes no sense to the ahoge boy. He never heard of an ailment that can affect a person's personality to take such a compete 180, much less possibly kill someone if left untreated. The whole thing sounds like it is out of some sort of science fiction novel or manga.

"How the hell can he even do that? Just what is this disease anyway?" spoke Hinata aloud in an exhausted voice as his head travels up to the white-painted ceiling. He can't do anything right now. Tsumiki is the only one can help them. He has to believe that she can find a way to save them somehow, "How can she even know if her treatments are working? She…no. No one has ever heard of this besides Monokuma. There is just no way she can be certain that what she is doing can save them."

A sudden pain travels through his body as he walks forward and punches his hand against the wall with the glass showcasing Monokuma's twisted idea of a hospital procedure. The stuff bear doesn't call himself Doctor Killgood for nothing it seems. Hinata feels just so feeble, pathetic, and useless right now. He can't do anything at all to help them out. Not a single freaking thing at all. He has no skills to help save his friends from whatever doomed fate faced them if Tsumiki's treatments can't pull them through.

"Damn it! What can I do besides waiting around and hoping for the best?! I'm just so useless right now, I can't do anything for them!" he yelled out as his face twists in pain. All he can do is watch his friends suffer at the paws of that wretched bear! How many more of them has to die for his enjoyment?! His stomach is filled with the anxiety of him being unable to do anything at all.

He lowers his head down to the tile floor below him. He felt tears building up in his eyes at the idea of more people dying from this twisted game. Monokuma inflicted this disease so someone can have a motive to start killing. At any given moment someone at the motel can be filled up with such fear of the disease-spreading to them that they could go and kill someone. When someone is filled with paranoia, anything can happen. They began to lose their rational thinking, their sanity, and then they can go to any length to protect themselves. No matter what they do, they are just chess pieces in the bear's game of murder.

"What can we do? What can I do? I don't want to see anyone else die," he mumbled softly while pulling his hand away from the wall and whipping his eyes. He can't cry, not right now, not when the remainder of the class is still alive. He has to stay strong and pray that Tsumiki can save them, "I just have to have hope. Komaeda is always going on about it. The way he views it is twisted, but I just have to believe in the best. We can find a way to break away from being Monokuma's chess pieces somehow, I know it." In reality a part of him isn't so sure about it. He still feels the unease of being unable to break out of this game of mutual killing. Even so, he and everyone else has to try to believe. None of them wants to die and none of them wants to kill. He knows that, "Even so, if someone is pushed to their limits and breaks, they can kill. We've already seen it," he thought solemnly as he pulls away from the wall.

Hinata begins to walk towards the front doors that leads to the lobby, but came to a halt when his green eyes traveled over to the first room. He looked at the door for a bit before he walked up to it and pushed it open quietly. He closes the door just as gently and walks silently towards the bed. Laying down in it was another one of the victims of this outrageous disease, and possibly the most cheerful person he has ever meet.

Mioda Ibuki is sleeping peacefully, or at least he believes she is. When he first came into the hallway to see Komaeda she was up, the same swirly look in her pink eyes, and commenting on how she wanted to help. Hinata just told her to go and get more rest and she followed his orders without a second thought. Her aliment from the sickness is being gullible, believing every single word out of a person's mouth. At the moment she can't distinguish between truth and fallacy, and it's leaving her extremely vulnerable. At any given minute someone can kill her, or order her to kill herself, and she wouldn't be able to do a thing to stop it. She would just go along with it and die without even questioning her orders.

He's worried, extremely concerned about her wellbeing. Komaeda and Owari's aliments is also causing them to be sick and vulnerable, but to him, her situation is terrible. Owari is crying none stop and is a total emotional wreak, but she isn't really trusting anyone at the moment. While Komaeda's situation isn't any better, considering he can die at any minute, but he just doesn't feel as concerned for him. After all, Hinata believes it's some sort of karma for always wanting people to die to bring forth hope. Plus it's ironic for the lucky student to be the one plagued by this bizarre disease. For her though, one single command and she could go through it like a loyal solider listening to her commanding officer. One single person can give her orders, and that would be the end of her life. She isn't able to do anything to protect herself right now.

Hinata wants to yell at himself for being suspicious of his other friends, but just can't. He isn't blind to what has happened on the island, and knows well that if someone is desperate enough, they will do whatever it takes. So the fear of someone breaking down and killing is always there in his mind. What scares him the most though is that one of his closest friends could be the next victim, and wouldn't be able to do a damn thing about it.

Out of everyone left on the island, Mioda is always smiling. Always trying her best to be happy despite their current situation. Despite knowing that the world around them can fall into hell's clutches at any given moment, she continues to be happy. She is always full of energy, trying to brighten the mood, and keeping people's spirits up with her peppy attitude. Her wacky behavior can be seen as annoying, but to him it always makes him smile back at her. She rarely seems sad about their present state, and always seems to stay strong. It is like she's being strong to keep everyone from falling into some sort of depression.

Hinata admires that about her. No matter how bad it gets, she is always being goofy. Even during the class trials where they have to pick out the murder or be killed themselves, she's always being perky and playing around in some way. To him, it is like she remains happy to distract the rest of them from the hell around them, to keep their spirits up. Even when it is just the two of them hanging out in those rare moments of bliss, she's always happy and dragging him around. He of course doesn't mind it, he enjoys spending almost all of his spare time with her. She just has this magical essence floating around her, even when he feels miserable she can come up to him and automatically perk him up.

"Just looking at her makes me want to stay strong and be cheery," he thought to himself as a small smile crossed over his face as he reaches his hand out. He places his right hand on top of hers and gives it light squeeze, "I just need to believe. Tsumiki will be able to find some way to help them, and Monokuma's plan with fail. She'll be able to help the three of them through this ordeal. Then before I know it, Ibuki will be back to her usual self, smiling happily and dragging me all over the place so she doesn't have to feel lonely. As long as she keeps that smile up, all of our spirits will stay strong and fight against that bear. If there is a way, we can defy our fate and change the hand of this card game to be in our favor."

He just stared at her for a while more, his eyes locked onto her face serene face. Suddenly her eyes opened up, revealing the distorted swirly look inside them. Hinata jumped a bit and quickly pulled his hand away from hers, feeling embarrassed and his face flushing a little. He knows she won't respond to him in a playful way and poke fun him at him, but he can't help it.

She then sat up, looks at him and asked, "Do you have an order for me?" in a voice he has only heard once before when she was being dead serious about accepting him for who he is and all that. It was grave, stern, and somewhat robotic like. It truly sounds like she is a solider, waiting to follow instructions from some person she never saw before. That, and not hearing her talking in third person seemed very unlike herself and abnormal to his ears.

"No, I was just checking up on you," he began while only slightly looking at her and rubbing the side of his head, "I wanted to make sure you where alright."

"I see, alright then. Shall I go back to sleep now?" she asked, referencing his earlier command while turning her head slightly at him.

"Y-yeah, just go back to sleep. You'll need all of your rest, so when you're back to your full strength we can go and hang out and act like compete idiots as usual," he responded back to her with a slight smile and chuckle. It feels like he's talking to a completely different person. This isn't the same person he knows and that can cheer him up almost instantaneously.

"I understand. I will be looking forward to when we can hang out again," she responded before laying her body back down on the hospital bed. It's just so odd to see her like this, and to his surprise she continued to speak, "Goodnight Hajime. I'll see you tomorrow, correct?"

"Yeah, goodnight Ibuki, and that you will," and with that he turns his body away from the bed and walks to the door. He opens the door slightly, and before he leaves he turns his head back to look at her once more. He gives her one more smile before he leaves the room. In the morning he'll come and check up on everyone. He'll encourage Tsumiki to keep doing her best, hope Komadea pulls through, and he'll continue to hold onto the faith that no one will die. With that final thought and ideology in his head, he made his way back to his cottage.

"So much for getting a goodnight's sleep," mumbled Hinata to himself as he walks around aimlessly on the third island. At the moment he can't get any sort of sleep. He just kept turning back and forth in his bed, a feeling of anxiety twisting back and forth with him. No matter how much he tried to fall asleep, he just couldn't. So instead of just laying there thinking how nice it would to be able to sleep, or worrying about his friends, he decided to just walk around instead. By walking, he thought it would clear his head and help him get sleepy.

"I wonder what time it is?" he continued as he moves his head to the night sky above him. The sky looks just so clear and pristine, with no cloud formations or any signs of rain. Perhaps it's his imagination, but the night sky always looks the same here. The weather on this island seems to be on a repetitive loop, looking exactly the same day in and day out.

"It's probably around 12:30 or one," is his simple hypothesis. It's almost impossible to keep up with the time on this island. The only certain times they are given is when Monokuma's announcements go off in the morning and evening, "I guess I should go back soon, I don't want to be falling asleep in the morning. Tsumiki would probably end up thinking that I'm getting sick too and start worrying about me. She has enough things to handle at the moment as it is."

With a sigh Hinata returns his gaze the land before him. He just continues to walk, hoping that by the time he gets back to his cottage he'll be able to sleep. It's bad enough he can't do anything to help his friends right now, so he doesn't want to cause any problems by getting sick. That would just make matters worse for the group, and doesn't want that to happen.

As Hinata comes upon the music venue something catches his eye. Standing by the doors is a petite girl with a kimono on, her blonde hair tied in pigtails. The only problem it seems is that she can't get her kimono to stay on as she continues to fidget with the clothing. He notices how it continues to slip as she continues to play with its folds, and that she can't get the obi to stay tied. After fixing it so it would stay on for a small time, she opens the large doors and walks inside in a hurry.

"I guess she's still having trouble tying it, but why is she going in there at this time of night?" with that he begins to think about what's inside the large building. When the island first opened up, he did travel everywhere to find any sort of clue as to why they are stuck here. Each of the buildings has its own assortment of items, but why did Saionji need to go into the music venue? If he remembers correctly, she locked herself up in her room to stay away from everyone else because of the disease. So why did she suddenly decide to leave?

Then an idea hit him, "There is a mirror in the storage room, maybe she wants to use it to help her tie up her kimono? I guess she didn't want anyone to see her running around like that and waited till everyone was asleep." The idea makes sense to him, there is no other reason she would run into the building in the middle of the night. Perhaps that's why she didn't leave her room, she was still having troubles with her clothes.

Hinata continues to look at the building, pondering if he should check up on her. The small girl has a nasty tongue and is vile to poor Tsumiki, but she's trying to change. He can tell she wants to be to a better and kinder person, though being nice seems to be a foreign concept to her. If he did go in, she would just bitch at him and probably call him a perverted lolicon. Even so, he feels like he should go in anyway and help her out in any way.

"Why am I such a nice guy? Hajime, you need to learn when to stop helping people, it might get you killed one day," he mumbles to himself as he begins to walk towards the doors, while not intending to make such a dark joke.

Hinata opens the front door slowly and quietly, just in case Saionji is still in the main part of the building. Opening it too suddenly could freak her out and he doesn't need her bitching too much at him. He stops opening the door when he sees three people standing on the stage. He is caught by surprise at first, but quickly oxygen starts to stop in his throat.

Saionji is a little to the right of the middle of the stage and is yelling at Tsumiki. The nurse is to the far left of the stage, and is looking down at the wooden floor. The other person is standing in the middle of the stage with a hemp bag with a Monomi decal covering their head, is wearing a hospital gown, and seems to be paying no heed to Saionji or anything at all. The person just seems like a statue. His heartbeat starts to increase at the bizarre scene, as uncertainty begins to fill up his stomach.

"What the hell is this?" he breathes out lowly to himself, unsure of what is going on. All he knows that this doesn't look good, nor right. Then his eyes travels down to Tsumiki's hands, where in her left hand is a large piece of dangling rope. His eyes began to widen, his blood running cold, "W-was she…trying to kill that person?"

He can't believe what he's seeing, Tsumiki trying to kill someone? Tsumiki is always trying to help people, she is just too weak and cowardly to kill someone! She's like a weak little bunny, not a bloodthirsty tiger! Why would she be helping the people out at the hospital if she doesn't care about people's lives? This just isn't right…there is no way she could…kill someone. He doesn't want to believe what is before him, he feels like he just can't accept it. Even so, the proof is right in front of him. His eyes aren't playing any tricks on him right now.

"Huh? Are you really that stupid?! You, kill someone? You gotta be kidding me!" yelled out Saionji in her usual arrogant tone, the one she always uses on the nurse, "You must be really stupid to think that you can kill someone! Everyone would find out it was you automatically! You would do such a horrible job that everyone would know that only you could have done it!"

"Damn it Saionji, shut the hell up!" is what Hinata lets out of his mouth as he continues to watch it with a firm grip on the door handle, "Antagonizing her won't help you!" He wants to move his legs, but he just can't. He's scared, all of this seems so unnatural. Tsumiki never seemed like the murderous type, but he can't deny what he is seeing. He doesn't want to accept it, but he can't change what he is seeing. She wouldn't have a piece of rope in her hands if is she isn't trying to kill whoever that person is!

"Wait, then who…," he begins as his eyes darted back to the third person, who hasn't made a single move, "It has to be someone from the hospital, but who?!" Komaeda is too sick to move at the moment, Owari would be freaking out and crying, and Mioda would just be silent. Just as soundless as the person before him. His eyes widened again, this time he could feel his body freeze up, "Tsumiki was trying to kill Mioda? So that means I was right," he whispered. He never wanted to suspect his friends of anything, but he was right. That someone could have taken advantage of her in that state.

"Damn it, I should have kept a better eye on her!" he spoke lowly, trying to keep his voice low. He shot his eyes to the ground, his grip tightening on the handle. He didn't want to suspect anyone, but if he was more suspicious than no one would be there right now…right?

"What was that?! Speak up!" yelled Saionji again, puffing out her small body to the nurse, "I can't hear you if you whisper! Just speak up and tell me why you thought it was a great idea to try and kill someone! Come on you dumbass, tell me why you thought it was a great idea to listen to that stupid bear! Even you can't be that stupid to listen to it!"

Hinata continued to watch, unsure of what Saionji is getting at. He can't tell if she is insulting her, or trying to find out why she was trying to kill Mioda. The small girl is trying to be a better person, so could this be her attempt at trying to show concern? Even so, he can't just stand here! He might be frightened, but he has to do something!

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" shrieked out Tsumiki like a banshee, causing both Hinata and Saionji to jump a bit, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

She continued to shout out her apologies while dropping the rope and raising her hands to her head. Saoinji backed away from her while clutching her clothing to keep them from falling. Tsumiki continued to cry out to her, seemingly breaking under her statements, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry so why don't you just forgive me already?! Why can't you forgive?! Why?!"

Hinata isn't sure what's going on here, but he can tell she's breaking. Whatever caused her to snap was breaking even further, and who knows what she is capable of at the moment. He finally manages to get his legs moving forward and pushes his body through the front doors. He quickly runs to the stage and hollered, "Tsumiki, calm down! Just talk to us! Tell us why you wanted to kill Mioda! We're your friends, so just talk to us!"

"H-Hinata? Why are you here?" asked Saionji. Hinata turns his head to her, seeing how frighten she is. Despite those appalling comments, she was shaking like the small child she acts like on a regular basis.

"I was just passing by!" he yelled to her before moving his head back to Tsumiki. She is still apologizing, but in a lower tone and the grasp on her head is lightening up, "Come on Tsumiki, just stop this and talk to us! That's what friends are for!"

She finally stops the chant like apologizing, and turns her head to face Hinata. Her face is twisted into a perverse and euphoric smile, her eyes having the same swirly look to them. She removes her hands from her head and wraps them around her chest tightly, "Ohhh, friends? You must be kidding, I don't have any friends," she began in a whisper.

"T-Tsumiki?" asks Hinata while stepping back a little with surprise and fear taking an even deeper root inside him. The look on her face is just so wrong and disturbing. She looks nothing like the regular sweet and timid Tsumiki. The look in her eyes also matches the others infected with the disease, "A-are you infected too?"

"Of course I am!" she speaks out in a joyful yet twisted voice, "I can't believe it took you so long to notice Hinata! After sleeping with you, I would have thought you would have noticed! Thanks to this wondrous despair inducing disease, I remember everything!"

"What are you talking about? You remember our school life?" asks Hinata with some hope seeping through with a slight smile, "Then that means you can tell us what happened to us and how we got here, right?! You can answer all of our questions?!"

Tsumiki unraveled her arms and pressed her to hands together, intertwining her finger while some drool started to seep out of her mouth, "Ohhhh, aren't you so hopeful? You know, if I told you what I remember, then you wouldn't be all that hopefully anymore. Even so, just knowing about the truth is making me feel so much despair it's wonderful! Ahahahahaha!" She squealed out in a warped delight, a maddened look on her face.

"What the hell is wrong with this bitch?!" howled Saionji with fear seeping through her voice, while shaking from this bizarre behavior, "That stupid bear made the stupid pig barf go insane! That dumb bear tainted her!"

"Saionji, now is not the time for you to be calling her that!" yells Hinata, knowing that if she keeps that up Tsumiki is bound to do something. She is not in her right state of mind right now, and her actions reminds him of how Komaeda acts when he's going on about despair and hope.

Hinata motions his eyes over to Mioda, who is still just standing there doing absolutely nothing. If Saionji didn't walk in here when she did, Mioda would more than certainly be dead right now. He can't tell if what he has walked into counts as good or bad luck.

Tsumiki notices that and walks over to Mioda, "You know, it isn't fair if she doesn't get too see anything now is it? I was going to kill her and her alone, but I guess since you two walked in, I have to change my plans around a bit. That's alright though, I'll do anything to make me feel even more despair and spread it around!" With that she pulls the hemp bag off of her head, revealing the emotionless face of the intended victim.

Hinata doesn't say anything, but his eyes lit up with anger. Tsumiki catches that as well and just smirks at him gleefully.

"Now the, where was I? Oh yeah, you know Saionji is right Hinata," began Tsumiki with a twisted smirk on her face while pushing her hands downwards, "I am just an ugly, stupid, moronic bitch. That's why everything she is saying is completely right. No matter how many times I apologize, people will never forgive me. People will never accept me no matter how much I try, for all I am is worthless trash."

"That's bullshit Tsumiki!" yelled Hinata while moving his arm outwards quickly, "You aren't trash! You are a good person no matter what anyone says! Trash wouldn't be able to help people like you can!" His voice is filled with determination, reassurance, and the desire for her to listen to him. With her being infected by the Despair Disease though, he's not sure how much of his words will get through.

Tsumiki looks directly at him, that twisted smirk turning into a smile euphoria, "Oh Hinata, you don't know anything at all, now do you? No one accepts me, not my family, not you, not my so called friends," she paused as more drool came out of her mouth and her voice rose in joy, "Just my beloved understands me! My beloved is the only person in the whole world who accepts me! Without my beloved I would be nothing at all!" She declares that as her body is shaking with ecstasy at just the mention of this person.

Before Hinata could say a word Tsumiki continued, "Without them I would be nothing but pieces of discarded trash! That's way, that's way, that's way!" she declares before motioning her head up to the ceiling as if she's roaring to the heavens, "That's way I'm doing this! Everything is for my beloved! I'll bring upon despair to you all just for my beloved!"

"What about your own life?! Doesn't that matter to you at all Tsumiki?! I don't know who this person is, but if he wants you to kill people just for the sake of despair then he doesn't really love you! If he truly loves you, he would want to be happy and live! Not to kill someone and end up being executed!" spoke Hinata with passion in his lungs. He can't understand what is going on through her head right now, but he can't just stand by and watch her kill someone! They are all friends, and friends don't kill each other!

"Huh? What did you just say?" whispered out Tsumiki as she twisted her head sideways with a dreadful look swirling around in her eyes, "Did you just say my beloved doesn't love me?" she then turned her head to the opposite side as her arms encircled her body once again.

"Yeah! No one would want the person they love to kill another living being and die for it later!" declared Hinata with complete determination. The look in her eyes is frightening, it looks like there is a deep fog twirling around in them, blocking away any form of light.

"Hinata doesn't know anything," she begins while twisting her head back and forth to each side of her body, "My beloved loves me, and will always love. My beloved is the only one who loves me, and I'll do anything for them!" she then returned her head back to its normal posture and yelled out almost demonically, "I don't care what I have to do! I've already tainted my hands in blood for them! I'll do anything for my beloved and I don't give a damn! I'll kill as many people as possible to spread despair all for beloved and I won't let you get in my way!"

"Tsumiki stop this! Can't you hear yourself?! You are a nurse, you heal people not kill them!" shouted Hajime while balling his hand into a fist. No matter what he says, she isn't going to listen to him! She's far too gone to come back! If this is what it means to be in despair, he wants nothing to do with it!

"I know I'm the Ultimate Nurse, but it doesn't matter anymore Hinata!" spoke Tsumiki blissfully with her arms behind her back while leaning her body towards him, her eyes gleaming with the swirly despair. She's been jumping between her emotions so quickly, he can't tell what's going on inside her head, "I don't care about my title anymore, it means nothing to me! Besides, it's not like it's my real title anymore!"

"What do you mean it's not your real title!" he blasted out while pointing at her with his other hand, while not understanding what she means. How can she not be the Ultimate Nurse anymore?! The Tsumiki he knows is a nurse! Unless something that they can't remember changed their skills!

She gives him a lewd smile before turning to her side, looking directly at Saionji, "All I care about is bringing you all into despair, and then I can finally be with my beloved again! I just need to kill to be with them again! Despair will set my spirit free and reunite me with my beloved!" with that declaration Tsumiki threw out her arms, as if she is welcoming something inside of her body.

"Tsumiki that makes no sense! Just listen to yourself for one damn minute, how will despair free you?! Despair will just kill you! It's already eroding your soul!" He has to stop her some way, but how?! She isn't listening to him at all! All of his words are just being sliced away! She isn't afraid to kill, and even wants to die to be with person. What can he do?!

"It's easy Hinata, you silly little boy!" began Tsumiki turning her head over to him while laughing happily, her face filled with joy, "All I need to do is kill and then I can be with them! My beloved would be so sad if I didn't kill anyone, so I have to do it to please them and bring forth despair! If I died and didn't kill anyone here, I'm sure my beloved wouldn't be happy with me at all and I don't want that to happen!" She was smiling just so happily right now, just like a normal happy kid.

Tsumiki continued to smile brightly, laughing joyfully like a small child receiving a piece of cake and started to walk slowly towards Saionji. Hinata quickly shot his head over to the petite girl, "Saionji, run for it! Get away from her right now!"

Saionji was frozen almost in her spot. Tears were now falling nonstop from her eyes, the kimono slipping off of her, her body completely trembling. It is like she can't believe anything around her, that everything is nothing more than an illusion, "This can't be the real pig barf. This can't be. She's a-always a coward, always falling and crying like a little baby. This can't be real. It can't. Th-there is no w-way she would say those things. J-just no way she would ever want to kill anyone."

"Get the hell out of their Saionji! Run away! She is completely serious! She isn't the same Tsumiki we knew, she's going to kill you!" yells Hinata as he quickly walks to the stage and tries to climb up it. He has to stop this!

"Awww, is little Saionji-chama scared? Does she need a hug? Do you want some candy? I can help you with that Hiyoko-chama," speaks Tsumiki happily, treating the smaller girl like a little kid. She continued to walk to her beaming that disturbingly happy smile.

"Ah, ah, ahah, th-this can't be h-happening!" yelled Saionji as the realization that she can be killed at any second kicks in. The closer and closer Tsumiki gets, the more her body starts to kick in with adrenaline, "Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! S-stay away, STAY AWAY FROM ME!" she hollers as she moves backwards quickly. Too bad for her though, she steps on her messed up kimono and plummets to the wooden floor.

"Damn it, Saionji!" screamed Hinata as he got up onto the stage, "Tsumiki stop this nonsense! Just listen to me, you don't need that beloved of yours, and you definitely don't need to kill anyone! Just think rationally! You don't need to kill or die!"

"Silly Hajime-chan, you just don't get it, do you?" spoke Tsumiki as she stopped momentarily to look at him with that dreadful look mixed with her cheery attitude, "My beloved gave me worth, and I'll do anything for them! Without them, I wouldn't have ever known what it meant to be loved! Now then Ibuki-chan, I order you to hold back Hajime-chan, I don't want him to interfere with this! He'll have to wait his turn to feel the wonderful despair!"

"As you wish," is the simple sentence Hinata heard emanating behind him before he felt two arms place themselves around his own. He shot his head behind him to see Mioda's blank face and swirly eyes. They don't have the same fog as Tsumiki's, but are still unsettling.

"Ibuki? Let me go! I have to help out Saionji! Do you want her to die?!" he yelled at her, hoping that she would listen to him. How much of her personality and own beliefs are there is a mystery at this point, but he had to try to get across to her. He isn't sure is he could get her off of him either if she held on with all of her strength, "I order you to let me go!"

"I only follow orders from Mikan-sama," spoke Mioda in a bland and uninterested voice, "I don't wish any death on her, but if that is what my master wishes of me, and then so be it."

"What the hell are you talking about?!" he bellowed out to her while trying to get her off of him without actually hurting her, "What do you mean by Mikan-sama?!"

Hinata heard happy laughter coming from known other than the mention girl, "I decided to order her to follow all of my orders just in case is something went wrong. It's always better to have a contingency plan in plan, right?" With that simple explanation Tsumiki continued to walk up to Saionji who was struggling to get her body to listen to her. While Hinata continued to struggle to get Mioda off of him to stop the despair induced girl.

"Awww, is little Hiyoko-chama alright? Did she get a booboo? Do you need me to make it feel all better?" speaks Tsumiki in that toying, sarcastic babying voice. Her eyes are swirling with the despair she loves oh so very much, with a small chuckle escaping her mouth as she continued to play with her fingers.

"No, no, no, no, no, no! No, get away from me! I don't want to die!" she boomed out while away pushing her legs so she can scurry backwards from the insane girl coming at her. Her tears are flying everywhere, mixing with the snot seeping from her nose and her sweat. She continues to back away from her until her body hits a pole on the far right end.

Tsumiki is now hovering over her, a bright smile beaming down on her. Her eyes are swirling with despair, the fog blocking out all forms of light. She continued to chuckle at the small girl as she played with her hands, "Aww, come on Hiyoko-chama, don't be like that! You fell down and see," she points to the smaller girl's right knee, "You scrapped it. I'm just trying to help you. Now stop acting so frightened, a little disinfectant may sting, but it's still better than letting it get infected!" The violet haired nurse then places her hand out, trying to be kind.

"Not if it's coming from you!" boomed out Saionji shoving her hand away, while trying her best to move her stiffened body, "Hajime! Stop her, please! I-I can't move, I-I'm too scared! Hajime save me, please!" Her body lost the adrenaline, and all that was left is her fear.

"S-Saionji-san, why is it always me you pick on?!" cried out Tsumiki in the tone of voice she used before being infected with despair as small little tears formed around her distorted eyes, "I just want to help you! That's all! I just want to help you so you don't get sick! Why do you have to be so mean to me?! I'm sorry if I a useless person, but I still want to help you! So why can't you just forgive me already?! Why?! I just want to be forgiven!" The nurse then started to look down at the wooden floor, crying with her eyes closed and using her hands to mask the tears.

"L-listen Tsumiki! I-I'm sorry for always being mean to you! So please, stop all of this! I forgive you and I'm sorry for always treating you like barf! So just stop this nonsense!" pleaded Saionji with all of her mighty, desperately trying to stay alive. Her eyes are shimmering with fear as tears continued to fall from them.

"Y-you f-forgive me Saionji-san? After being so useless to you, you forgive me?" responded Tsumiki while stopping her crying, but not moving her hands away from her face.

"Yeah! I'm sorry, really sorry! I'm trying my best to be nicer, and I want you to know that!" continued the small girl, hoping that she will be able to continue to live.

Hinata has stopped struggling, thinking that maybe Saionji got though to her. The way she's talking and behaving sounds like the Tsumiki they know. He begins to think that she could be like Komaeda, one minute obsessed with brining despair to see hope, and then the next minute back to normal. He was praying that this is the same case, that they both have the same problem.

"Thanks S-Saionji-san, it's nice to know you accept my apology," she paused for a minute, bathing in the hope that is surrounding her.

"Yeah, no problem. So, you're back to normal, right? You aren't going to kill me, right?" spoke the blonde, the sound of confidence of her life being spared baking in her words. Her own tears even started to dry up due to hope.

"I did say it's nice to know you accepted my apology Hiyoko-chama," started Tsumiki as she pulled her hands away from her face, "It doesn't mean I accept your apology though. You've done far too much to me, both here and there, so I think it's time you are taught a lesson. Bad children do need to be disciplined after all."

All the color drained from Saionji when she heard those words seep out of Tsumiki's mouth, and she can feel her body going limp. Tsumiki then opened her eyes and revealed the distorted swirls, the perverted grin on her face, and her body is shaking with pleasure.

"Tsumiki stop this!" cried out Hinata as he heard her words while starting up his struggle once more, "Don't kill her!" He has to do something, he can't just stand by and watch!

"Now then Hiyoko-chama, its punishment time!" she squealed happily, mimicking Monokuma's style of voice as she pulled something out of her apron. Saionji's eyes widened as she saw her pull out a menacing pair of scissors, letting out an ear-shattering scream. She began to shake violently, unable to move, tears flowing from her eyes once more. The only thing her body is allowing her to do is scream for help, "Hajime, save me please!"

So, do you think will happen to Saionji? Do you think she's going to make it through thanks to Hinata's magical ahoge power? Anyhow, writing Tsumiki was wonderful. I like her regular character, but in despair mode she is so much more interesting! I tried to make her imitate Junko to an extent considering how obsessed she is with her. Besides that, this is the first time I've written a story like this, so I hope it came out alright. I do feel iffy on some parts of this. With that said, that's it for this chapter, I hope you enjoyed this and please review so I read your opinions!