A/N This fanfiction contains spoilers from Danganronpa 1. If you're okay with them, go ahead!
So hey everyone! I decided to do another "what if" based story. This chapter contains the fourth morning in Hope's Peak and it's from the game with a little changes. The story goes to different path in the end of the chapter. The chapters are coming out every Wednesday and this time I'm going to stick with it. Enjoy the story!

Broken

"Gh..." Makoto Naegi woke up and yawned. "Another night of restless sleep... Why he has to wake we up every single morning...?" Naegi was mumbling to himself about the Monokuma announcement. It was his fourth day in Hope's Peak Academy and it was tough. A few days ago a half white and half black bear who called himself "Monokuma" had announced that Naegi and his fourteen other classmates had to kill each other. They were against it and Naegi trusted them, but he was still on his toes - you don't never know what can happen. He rose up from the bed.

"Ding dong..."

It was Naegi's doorbell. "Who could it be at this time...?" He walked slowly to open the door.

"Good morning, Makoto Naegi!"

"I-Ishimaru?"

"Now then, if you pardon me...!"

Without waiting a reply, Kiyotaka Ishimaru barged into Naegi's room.

"...What is it, Ishimaru?"

"No matter how intensely the stormy seas may batter me, I will not fall as long as my feet are firmly planted! You agree, right?"

"U-umm..." Naegi tried to look like he understood.

"And if you can't do it alone, just find someone to support you, and you can support them back! That's how you can overcome any storm!"

Naegi stayed quiet. He didn't know how to response to that. What Ishimaru had said sounded so... weird.

"I was really thinking about this last night, and... I decided that we all need to work together. Every morning from now on, after the morning Monokuma announcement, everyone should have breakfast together! Please head to the dining hall at you earliest convenience! I have to let everyone else to know about it, too!"

Ishimaru didn't even wait for my words. He just left, before Naegi could even open his mouth.

"Maybe I should get to the cafeteria... I still am kinda hungry...", Naegi mumbled and left his room. Before heading to the dining hall, he said mornings to Junko Enoshima, Leon Kuwata and Touko Fukawa, who were standing in the dormitory area. They left to the dining hall right after he had said something.

"Looks like they don't trust me... It shouldn't be any kind of surprise in this kind of situation."

After coming to the dining hall, he said morning to everyone else. Most of them didn't even answer. Since he was the last one to come, Ishimaru started the first "breakfast meeting".

"Everyone, thank you for making time in your busy schedules to come together", Ishimaru started.

"I didn't make time for shit. You forced me to come here..." Kuwata protested.

"I know I said this before..." Ishimaru said. "In order to get out of here, we all have to cooperate with each other. And the first step is this breakfast meeting! So from now on, let's all meet here in the dining hall every morning after the morning announcement!"

"Hey, did anyone happen to come up with any clues?" Enoshima changed the subject.

Silence echoed throughout the dining hall.

"Seriously? Nothing at all!?" She asked loudly. "Anything, it can be about getting out, or who's doing this, nobody has anything!?"

"..You are going to die", Celestia Ludenberg stated.

"Huh...?" Enoshima looked scared.

"If you can't stop yourself from showing weakness in front of others...", Celeste was as serious as someone could be, "...you will die."

"Wh-what the hell?" Enoshima shouted. She was angry for sure.

"I'm not joking," Celeste smiled. It was creepy in its own way. "Adaptability is survivability. Did I not say so? So you're better hurry up and adapt your new life here."

Enoshima started shouting. "Adapt my new life in here? Do you have any idea what you're saying?"

"Yeah, sounds like the girl who wants to live here", Mondo Oowada said. "I'm getting outta here!"

"Hmhm. Sure, feel free." Celeste giggled a little bit, like she was enjoying this.

"Okay, so... nobody has any clues?" Kuwata thought out loud.

"One thing I can tell you who's behind all this", Aoi Asahina said. "Someone who's totally weird and messed up. Why else would we be trapped in here in the first place?"

"Well, sure, it can be something like that", Kuwata said. "But for right now the actual clues are..."

"Umm..." Chihiro Fujisaki said quietly.

"Huh? What's up?" Fujisaki was usually quiet, so Kuwata was a little bit surprised.

"If you think in terms of people, who are really abnormal or bizarre..." Fujisaki said. "Do you think maybe the person who trapped us here is a certain murderous fiend...?"

"Fujisaki-san, do you have some idea who might be behind this?" Naegi asked.

"Well... maybe", Fujisaki didn't seem being confident to her answer. "I mean, I can't be really certain, but..."

Ishimaru cut Fujisaki's talk. "I'll allow whatever remarks you may have!"

"O-okay, well..." Fujisaki said. "Have you guys heard of Genocider Syo?"

"You mean the serial killer that's been in the news and all over the Internet?" Naegi asked.

"The monstrous villain who's murdered scores of victims in brutally bizarre fashion..." Byakuya Togami said. "The word 'bloodlust' was left at each crime scene, written in the victim's own blood. Whoever it is, he's like a ghost. He strikes without warning and disappears without a trace. And in the Internet they started calling him Genocider Syo. This about covers it, I think."

"They say he has killed over a thousand victims..." Yasuhiro Hagakure said.

"That's just an urban legend, right?" Enoshima pointed out. "I mean even like, ten people would be totally insane."

Fukawa looked nervous, but stayed quiet.

"Anyway, whoever Genocider Syo really is, he's obviously some kind of crazy killer", Fujisaki said.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he put planned something like this", Oowada said.

"But like I said..." Fujisaki said timidly. "I don't have any evidence or anything."

"It's okay!" Asahina cheered the group up. "Everything's absolutely, positively, one hundred percent without a doubt going to be okay! Cuz help is going to be here soon, I'm sure of it!"

"Huh...?" Fukawa was surprised. "H-Help?"

"We've been stuck in here a few days already, right?" Asahina said. "Nobody's been able to contact us, so I'm sure they're getting worried. I'm sure they called the police already!"

"AHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Monokuma appeared out of nowhere. "The police? You're putting your faith on the police!?"

"What are you doing here!?" Sakura Oogami asked.

"Hey, seriously..." Monokuma looked bored. "Do you understand why the police is there? All they're good is being a foil, playing against a villain or anti-hero or evil organization. The bad guys come along and destroy them, and that just shows how badass they really are. Are you sure you want to rely on such unreliable group of losers? I mean, come on! If you really, REALLY wanna get out of here, all you have to do is kill!"

"Hahahaha!" Hagakure laughed.

"Why the hell are you laughing?" Kuwata asked.

"I'm just impressed at this whole act", Hagakura said.

"...You seriously still believe that?" Enoshima was angry.

"So, mister serial killer psycho freak bastard, what do you want!?" Oowada asked.

"Mr. Serialkillerpsychofreakbastard, huh?" Monokuma said. "That's a pretty long name!"

"We know who you really are!" Oowada shouted.

"Okay, okay, let's get back to the business", Monokuma said. "Your life is here has begun and a few days has gone by, but nobody's killing anybody! I thought that all you kids were lazy and selfish, and here you are working together. But I'm totally bored!"

"There's nothing you can say that'll make us start killing each other..." Naegi said.

"Wait, I think-yes!" Monokuma looked happy. "Ding, ding, ding! I figured it out! All the mystery ingredients are here-right people, right place. So why hasn't anyone started killing anyone yet? That's what I couldn't understand. But now I just realized there was one very important piece missing!"

"Wh-What are you...?" Naegi asked.

"It's motive!" Monokuma shouted. "Upupupu! I just have to give everyone a motive!"

"Motive?" Oowada asked. "What are you talking about!?"

Monokuma laughed. "There's something I wanna show you guys! I have a little video I'd like you all to see. It is really interesting..."

"Good, then we can watch the video right now", Kyouko Kirigiri said. "But before we do that, I'd like to know... What are you? Why would you do something like this? What do you want from us?"

"What do I want from you...?" Monokuma said. "Despair. That's all. If you want to know more than that, you'll have to figure it out for yourselves. Do whatever you want to uncover the mystery hidden within this school. I won't try and stop you. Cuz to be honest, it's entertaining as heck watching you guys search so desperately for answers! So I guess I want an amusement from you, too."

"He's gone..." Sayaka Maizono said. "And once again, he left before we could find out anything useful."

"Really?" Kirigiri asked. "I think we learned something very useful. He has no intention of standing in the way of our pursuit of the truth. Interesting..."

"Perhaps, but what about the video he mentioned?" Oogami asked. "I'm very curious to see what's on it."

"Same here! Okay, so...!" Oowada thought.

Oowada started glancing around the dining hall, but when his gaze landed on Naegi, it stopped.

"Hey, Naegi! Check this out for us?" he asked.

"Huh? Why me!?" Naegi asked.

"Cuz you're the closest of the door!?" Oowada said.

"That doesn't explain it..."

"Hey, hey..." Oowada said. "Hey hey hey hey hey! HEEEEEY! You see how I'm begging you!? Just check it out!"

"O-Okay..." Naegi said. "I'll get going." Naegi turned around and started walking out of the dining hall.

"Awesome, thanks!" Oowada shouted. "I owe ya one!"

Then Naegi heard a voice what got he look back.

"...If Naegi's going, I'm going with him. It's not safe to walk around this place alone." It was Maizono.

"Yea, sure thing", Oowada said. "Then we're counting on the both of ya. If anything happens, just yell and I'll come running!"

Maizono ran after Naegi and together they walked out of the dining hall.

"So then, where's this 'specific place' Monokuma mentioned?" Maizono said. "It must be somewhere you can watch DVD's but..."

"We should check the A/V-room", Naegi said.

"Oh, right, that may be one potential place!" Maizono said. "Let's go check it out!"

They almost ran to the A/V-room's door. Maizono was the first one at the door and she opened it.

"Look Naegi, a cardboard box!" Maizono pointed at a cardboard box on the top of one of the DVD-players. "Seems like we have come to the right place!"

They toke a look to the box.

"...A bunch of DVDs", Maizono said. "And each one has a label on it with someone's name."

"This must be the video...", Naegi mumbled.

"I go and tell everyone!" Maizono was gone before Naegi could say anything.

Naegi didn't follow her. He just stood right there where he was. The DVDs in front of him had robbed him of all awareness. He was rooted in place.

"I think I see something... Maybe I just watch my own real quick, before everyone else gets here..." Naegi took his own DVD out of the box, sat on a chair, slid the DVD to a nearby DVD-player and started watching it.

There were a little moment before the DVD started playing.

"Ahh-!" In the screen was Naegi's family.

"You getting picked to Hope's Peak Academy is like a dream come true", Naegi's mom said. "Make sure you do your best!"

"I'm so proud of you." It was Naegi's dad. "But remember-don't push yourself too hard!"

"Are you really watching this, Makoto?" It was Naegi's little sister. "Good luck, okay?"

It would've ended there, it would've been fine. After Naegi had left to Hope's Peak, the would've given hope and strength to him. But here it was totally different. Naegi had a pretty strong feeling that the video wasn't going to end there. He hated that feeling, but it turned out Naegi was right.

This time Naegi couldn't even make a sound. His voice just died. It looked like a warzone or something. Then a voice came out of the speakers. Naegi recognized the voice. It was 'him'.

"Makoto Naegi, accepted into Hope's Peak Academy" Monokuma, said. "And his family, who supported the lucky boy... But it seems like... something happened to this family! Too bad! What could have happened to this family!?"

A bunch of words appeared to the screen.

"Look for the answer after graduation!"

The video ended.

"Wh-What is this...?" Naegi trembled. "What happened to everyone!?" Naegi could feel the fear and anger inside of him. "GOD DAMMIT!" He slammed his fist against the desk over and over again.

"I have to get out of here... I need to make sure everyone's safe!"

"N-Naegi...?" It was Maizono. "What happened? Make sure who's safe?"

Everyone was around the A/V-room's entrance. They were staring at Naegi, faces full of confusion.

"Wh-What's going on?" Asahina asked.

Naegi pointed at the cardboard box.

"Are these the videos?" Kuwata asked.

"What's on them...?" Ishimaru said and toke his own out of the box. After him, they all gather around the box and toke their own. One by one they rushed to a monitor. And after a few minutes...

"What the fuck...?"

"This can't be real, right? It has to be fake, right!?"

"Yeah, no way it's real.

"I can't t-take it anymore... I can't take this anymore!"

Nobody didn't even try to hide their fear and confusion. Expect one of us.

"I see..." Kirigiri said. "So this is what he meant by motive. He makes us to think we have to get out of here, so we're more likely to start killing each other."

"Wait a second, please." It was Maizono. "Why are you talking about fake videos and motives?"

"Huh?" Enoshima said. "What do you mean!?"

"I mean, there wasn't anything on my DVD."

A/N What did you think about it? Now the things start to go to the different route.