Bungou Stray High School: Otome Shikkaku is a fan project carried out by Otori0 and ForCrimsonAir. The series is presented as a fanfic (this fanfic) and as a video series.
The story is an otome with Dazai as its main character, and other Bungou Stray Dogs characters acting as possible boyfriends for Dazai. They're all in the same high school, some of them as students, some of them as teachers.
Who will Dazai choose to date in the end?
The original fanfic is written in spanish, by the fanfiction user Otori0.
For all the info of this project, you can visit our website (you can fin it on our fanfiction profile!)
The YouTube account where we'll post the video series is called OtomeShikkakuProject.
[Atsushi Nakajima – Chapter 01] A new student
The students walked almost at a running pace to arrive on time to the high school Bungchool. In the classroom of Dazai Osamu, the homeroom and also history teacher, Fitzgerald, was introducing the new student to them: Atsushi Nakajima. That's me. Fitzgerald was staring at me suspiciously, as if he doubted me.
"Introduce yourself." He told me, coldly.
I looked at my classmates. Being a male students only high school, I felt like I wouldn't be diferent from them. I sighed before introducing myself. I was very nervous.
"My name's Atsushi Nakajima, I'm eighteen years old." I said, with a trembling voice.
Some students smiled, accepting me, some others were mumbling about my appeareance, but one of them didn't do anything like that. He had short, brown hair, and his uniform was completely clean. You could see bandages around his arms under his blazer's sleeves. His eyes were of a beautiful colour, a deep, shining brown.
He was completely calm, staring back at me, but something in his eyes made me think that he was absolutely glad to receive a new student, which made me feel relaxed. I felt like we could be really good friends.
"Well, you need a seat, I guess..." Whispered Fitzgerald. "Sit around there, next to Akutagawa."
I nodded and guided myself by Fitzgerald's finger, pointing at one of the few empty seats. I sat there and peaked at Akutagawa. He had black hair, with the edges white, shorter on the back, and completely black there. He looked back at me annoyed, and, not knowing what to do, I simply smiled.
"Akutagawa, if Atsushi has any questions, help him... I don't like dealing with the new ones." Fitzgerald said, leaving the "homeroom" position to Akutagawa.
Akutagawa tried to complain about it, but Fitzgerald's orders were absolute. When the classes finished, I started picking up my things, and someone approached me. It was a boy with orange hair and old clothes. He smiled and greeted me.
"I'm Junichirô Tanizaki. Seems like they didn't welcome you properly... Well, Akutagawa is always like that, you'll have to get used to it." The boy said. "Where are you from? It's strange to get new students this time of the year..."
"I'm from Yokohama. I came for... family reasons." I lied.
Nothing I had said was true. I didn't come from Yokohama, and I came there because they kicked me out from my orphanage. At that moment, the door opened quickly. A man who looked like a teacher came in.
"Are you the new student? I'm Kunikida Doppo, the maths teacher." He said.
"Yes, I'm Atsushi Nakajima." I replied.
He looked very serious. Why was he there, if classes had already finished?
"Tanizaki, Dazai has left?" He asked. "He didn't do the homework I asked him to do, so I was thinking about grounding him."
"...Yeah, I think so." Tanizaki said. "But he must be around the river... I'll go with you, I also want to tell him something. Atsushi, see you tomorrow."
I nodded. How kind. I got out of the high school and came back home to have dinner and sleep. I got that house in... a kind of dirty way. I asked the japanese mafia for help, so they would give me money in exchange for selling one of my kidneys... I knew it wasn't the right way to get it, but I didn't have another choice.
Next day, the classes got suspended because of a huge snow storm. It was January already, so sometimes snow fell non-stop, and it was impossible to get anywhere. I got a call shortly after waking up. Still half-asleep, the phone slipped from my hands as I tried to grab it, and it fell to the floor.
I looked at where the phone had fallen. That night I must have spilled a water bottle, cause there was a huge water pool under my phone. I grabbed it quickly, praying nothing had happened, but it didn't turn on. I left it on the nightstand, giving up, and got up to get dressed and have breakfast. I walked to the kitchen, prepared a very simple breakfast, and then put on my coat to go out to the house's garden. I had to take all the snow away, or my plants wouldn't be able to grow up, and snow would block the way.
"Hi." A boy walked suddenly into my garden.
It was the brown-haired boy... Dazai. He kept quiet for a little while, looking at how I took the snow away. Seeing him surprised me, and since he didn't move from there, I finished with my task to approach him later.
"How did you get in?" I asked.
"The fence... I jumped up the fence. You should put some security." He said.
I didn't say anything at that, but it bothered me slightly to hear him say that after getting into someone's house without asking.
"And... How do you know where I live?" I asked, feeling unsafe.
"On the gate there's a sign that says "Nakajima". Every house has it, you must know about it."
I sighed. Of course I did, but that meant Dazai had been walking around there and found my house... Who on earth would do that?
"By the way, yesterday Doppo-sensei was looking for you. He went to the river with Tanizaki-san." I warned Dazai."Can I call you Dazai-san?"
"Yes. Thanks for telling me, I'm glad I didn't go to the river yesterday." Dazai said.
"You usually go there?"
"It's more than "usually"… I go every day. It's my hobby. You also have, don't you? Hobbies, I mean." He said.
I thought about it for a few moments... Something that I liked to do... I liked going to Yokohama, but since I had used Yokohama as the fake city where I came from, I couldn't say that.
"I like eating and going to..." Something stopped me.
A shadow was moving quickly behind the garden's bushes. It was hard to follow with my eyes, it was very fast. After a while, everything was completely silent. Shortly after, the shadow started running again, and I instinctively followed it. It could be dangerous, but I didn't want something that strange moving around my garden. Though I didn't like at all how the persecution was going. Soon, the shadow left me behind, and I sat on the grass to get my energy back.
"What's that...?" I whispered, very tired.
"Maybe it's a dog." Dazai said. "Though, what would a dog be doing hiding out around your garden bushes while he runs at that speed?"
Then, the shadow came out of the bushes and we could see what it was clearly. I wished it had been a stray cat or dog, but I saw how the animal that was approaching us was... a tiger!
"Run, run, run, ruuun, Dazai-saaan!" I yelled with all of my strenght, running away terrified.
"Don't worry! -Dazai stopped- I will protect you with my-" The tiger hit Dazai, who was sent flying.
Feeling bad for him, I took him on my shoulders and started running, but he fell half-way and I had to leave him behind. After running for a while, I sat on a bench to catch my breath. Was Dazai alright? The tiger had taken a different way thanks to the Dazai-san Bait, so... Maybe he was dead by now?! I had to rescue him, I couldn't let him down like that! I ran at my top speed to get on time, and found Dazai perfectly, without a scratch, waiting for me in front of my house gate.
"Dazai-san! Where's the tiger?" I said, since I didn't see it.
"I called the police and the tiger ran away. They questioned me briefly about it and they caught the tiger, so we're safe."
I sighed, feeling relieved.
"I'm glad you're okay... I was so worried!" I said.
"I don't know why; I told you I would protect you with my-" Once again, he didn't finish that sentence.
"Here you are, Dazai!" A person behind us said.
I turned around quickly.
"Doppo-sensei..." I mumbled. "And Tanizaki-san."
"Call me Kunikida." Kunikida said. "But putting that aside... Dazai! Don't go to other's houses to try to escape from us!"
"Yeah, Dazai! Did you forget that I had to talk to him? I told you yesterday!" Tanizaki complained.
"Atsushi-kun..." Dazai whispered, taking my hand. "What did I tell you earlier?"
He looked at me and smiled.
"I told you that I would protect you with my life." Dazai concluded, and then started running with me, pulling me.
The next day, after Tanizaki forgave Dazai for what had happened, both of them introduced me to an interesting person. He was wearing very strange clothes, looking like a farmer.
"Hello, I'm Kenji Miyazawa." He said when he saw me. "Call me Kenji."
"I'm Atsushi. Dazai brought me here so I could make new friends. I don't know... Could you tell me about your hobbies?" I said.
"Yes, of course. I love eating and being honest. I don't like lies nor people who is always serious or sad. Happiness is the best. What about you?"
"I like eating and... cats? They're really cute. I don't like pranks. Dazai-san, It's your turn" I said.
"Me? Hmm... I like suicide and books. I don't think there's anything I don't like. Tanizaki?" Dazai turned around to Tanizaki, making a gesture to show him it was his turn.
"Ah... I don't have many hobbies, to be honest. Well, I like chinese food and cats." Tanizaki said.
I ended up getting along very well with Kenji. He was quite cheerful and we soon became good friends. Dazai also introduced me to a classmate who was his childhood friend. He was also wearing strange clothes, that reminded me of a detective's. When I saw him, he approached me, taking one hand to his own chin and looking at me as if inspecting me.
"You were called... Sushi, right?" He asked. "I'm Ranpo Edogawa."
"What?!" I exclaimed, seeing how Dazai was bursting with laughter behind him. "No! I'm Atsushi Nakajima."
Ranpo bent back lightly and started laughing his head off, along with Dazai. After laughing for a while, they both calmed down.
"Sorry, sorry, it's just that I love pranking." Ranpo said. "Well, Atsushi, nice to meet you."
"Y-yeah... Nice to meet you too." I whispered, giving him a handshake.
With that, my group of friends grew, and even if I didn't like Ranpo's heavy pranks, we didn't take long to get along.
On the other hand, during classes, I didn't talk that much with Akutagawa, but he decided to start a conversation one day. I didn't like talking with him, because he was too strange and quiet.
He coughed. Akutagawa had a disease that made him cough often.
"Atsushi... I've seen that you've been with Dazai very often lately... I warn you, it would be better if you get away from him as soon as possible. If you keep spending more time with him than what you should... I'll kill you."
What?! What was the deal with him...? He suddenly talks to me and starts threatening me... What was wrong with him?
"...Why do you want me to do so?" I asked, confused.
"I have my reasons... It's enough just doing as I tell you, I don't need you to understand me. Got it?" Akutagawa insisted.
"I refuse. I mean, you and I almost don't talk, and suddenly you threaten me? Of course I won't listen to you..."
Akutagawa hit the desk with his fist and looked coldly at me. After coughing a bit, he kept pushing me so I would listen to him. He said he had his reasons, but... what was it? I couldn't simply agree with it.
"...It doesn't matter. I will approach him on my own. But... if your relationship with him ends up being more than friendship... I will destroy you."
Akutagawa looked like a criminal... That's what I tought. But... it didn't look like he was joking. Did that mean that, if we just kept being friends, there was no problem? Well... A really strange school year awaited me, that much I could tell.