Makoto Naegi, student of Hope's Peak Academy 78th class, was a pretty normal looking person. Loved everything that was popular at that the moment. Well, someone completely average. But one day he received a letter inviting him to attend the best Academy of all Japan and maybe the whole world… as the Ultimate Lucky Student.
That's weird. That wasn't what the first letter said.
Today was his first day and needless to say he was a bit intimidated by all those talented people. Ultimate Soldier, Detective, Fighter and even Heir. No idea how that was a talent though. But now it's his turn.
He stood up, walked to the board in front of his classmates. He put his hands in his pocket just to be sure if all he needed was there. Yes, perfect.
Ouch, the stress was starting to eat him up. He very rarely had such an older public. He hopes he won't mess this up!
"H-Hi! My name is Makoto Naegi and my talent… eh… well I'm not so sure what it is actually." He said then scratched the back of his head at this last sentence, making several students raise an eyebrow.
"What do you mean? Aren't you supposed to be the Ultimate Lucky Student?" Asked the teacher, also raising an eyebrow in confusion.
"I guess? But that's not what the first letter said." he argued.
"What first letter?" the teacher asked again.
"Here I have it right here." Naegi responded by taking out a paper from his back pocket and handing it to the teacher who grabbed it.
"What on Earth? How did he mess that up?!" The teacher shouted at reading the letter then at the list of students, "Urgh! I was wondering why there wasn't a seventeenth student! Alright, kids. I'll be right back. I need to report this to the Headmaster. Don't break anything!"
The teacher concluded before leaving the classroom, leaving Naegi still in front of the students that now had their eyes on him. He was feeling very nervous.
"So you're going to tell us or what?" the red haired one asked out loud, his name was… Leon Kuwata? Yeah. That's right: Leon Kuwata.
"W-What?"
"Your talent! What is it, man?" he continued questioning.
"Yes, I would quite like to know. I am very intrigued." smiled the Ultimate Gambler.
"That's right, how the hell is someone so simple looking like you have any talent whatsoever beside Luck?" mocked Junko Enoshima, she's pretty well known around the world.
"That's mean, Enoshima-san!" exclaimed whom he remembered her name was Aoi Asahina, the Ultimate Swimmer, "Come on! You can tell us!"
"She's right! We won't laugh!" followed Sayaka Maizono.
All those encouragements and demands made Naegi feel slightly uncomfortable and he blushed.
"I… I usually show my talent to children. They really love it."
"So what is it?" asked a little girl in a green dress.
"H-H-He said it was something for children? I-I-I'm sure it's something disgusting!" stuttered the Ultimate Writer, Toko Fukawa, in the back of the room.
"N-No no no! Nothing like that! I do shows for them!"
"Shows?" asked the lavender haired girl in the front row, she hasn't presented herself yet.
"Yes. I was scouted as the Ultimate Puppet Master." Naegi said but quickly followed after seeing some of the student looking at him suspiciously, "But I'm sure they meant Ultimate Puppeteer, since I do Puppet Shows! Please call me as such." Naegi smiled then bowed.
The expressions of his classmates went from surprise to stares. One of them asked what kind of talent has a puppeteer, as if they've never been to a puppet show before. Someone else said that this must be kind of easy and anyone could do it. Naegi frowned and took out something out of his pocket.
"Mama-mia! Naegi-san, looks like these bambinos are not believing you!" 'Mario Puppet' said.
Naegi took out the puppet Mario out of his pocket and imitated his voice perfectly. This shut up some of the students who were now impressed, until the larger one: Hifumi Yamada said that anyone could do a Mario voice, since it was really easy. He even did a good imitation Mario's voice to support his statement.
"GROOOAR! What did you say? Then I'd like to see you try to imitate others Cartoon characters!" 'Bowser Puppet' roared.
Naegi had now a puppet Bowser on the other hand and was imitating his personality and voice perfectly, now Yamada was screeching in surprise.
Naegi kept doing more imitations with his puppets of cartoon and video game characters going from Scooby Doo to King DeDeDe. After his little performance, most of the student were now impressed. some were applauding, some were finding that very cute and other wanted to see one of the brunette's shows.
He said that he wrote himself the little stories, but they were really for children, so there wasn't any real scenario.
The teacher came back inside the class, chuckling that they've never seen the Headmaster nor Kizakura that embarrassed before. So until then, Makoto Naegi will be known as the Ultimate Lucky Puppet Master/Puppeteer.
Baka's note: So? What do you think?
I hope you guys liked it and found it cute.
This will be like a compilation of short stories with Naegi as a puppeteer