Danganronpa: Sleepwalkers

Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
Sleepwalkers is owned by Stephen King and Columbia Pictures

Hello, and welcome to my new Danganronpa fic. Once again, I will be doing another Naegi x Maziono pairing and this will be another attempt to do a horror-type story. This fic is inspired from the movie Sleepwalkers, and having watched it, an idea popped into my head and decided to try this out. It took me nearly a month on deciding which characters to use before Naegi and Maizono came in to my head and made the decision to use them.

This fic will be AU and it will be M-rated, as aside from the horror themes, there will be a few ADULT scenes somewhere within the chapters, and you will get to see Maizono playing the protagonist. And what about Naegi…? Read on, in which you'll be surprised at how he is going to be portrayed, as this will be the first time that Naegi will be portrayed in a different light after having him portraying the protagonist of my ongoing Danganronpa fics.

After all that is said and done, read on and enjoy!

Ch. 1: Prologue

Six months ago...

Kochi. A city located at Shikoku, which is quite a remote island, in which the population is considerably quite many, yet it was peaceful, and full of life and activities. However, the place began to attract attention due to reported cases of missing persons, which happened in a spate of disappearances every two weeks, and this involves teenage girls, and this led the police to conduct a search and rescue mission and they have been on the case since day one after more missing girls were reported, and facing pressure from the residents, the cops exerted efforts until one of the cops noticed what appeared to be an abandoned house, which he finds it suspicious.

The police car parked in front of the gate, where two cops came out, and as the driver got out of the car, his partner noted several stray cats are waiting outside, and are all gazing at the house, and this made the two cops feel wary as if they have a bad feeling that there may be armed culprits waiting inside, and the driver instructed his partner not to make a move until he calls for back-up.

"Okay, I'll call for some help, don not go in till I say so."

"You sure?"

"Yeah. We don't know how many are in there…"

"I got my gun and…"

"Don't argue. We don't know what kind of weapons they got…so stay put, okay?"

"Oh, fine."

"Okay…just a moment…"

"…"

The other cop nodded and waited in front of the house's front door as the driver took out a radio and contacted the dispatcher, requesting for additional help reasoning that there are possible armed suspects waiting inside the abandoned house, which the dispatcher accepted and told him that she will relay the message but asks the caller for the location of the place in question.

"So may I have the location, sir…?"

"At a suburban area…east…nothing much here except some trees and grass…"

"Anything else?"

"Nope…nothing…"

"Okay, will call for help and send them to your location.."

"Okay, thanks."

"You're welcome."

"Over and out."

After that, the driver approached his partner and asks him if he noticed anything strange inside the house, which the cop said that so far everything is quiet here except that the stray cats keep on hissing and noted several metallic traps lined around the house, and the cops wondered what kind of people are there, laying so many traps here.

"What the heck…?"

"So many traps…"

"What kind of people are they? Laying so many traps?"

"Beats me…"

"I don't see any vegetation here…so why…?"

"Whatever…just want to go in and get this over with…"

"Just a little longer…"

"…"

After about five minutes, three police cars arrived where six more cops got off, and they noted the traps as well as the sight of several stray cats lining outside, and the eight cops then took their positions as they kicked the door open and drew their guns in case the culprits are armed, and there they slowly looked around, and after a thorough search, they find the house literally empty, in which one of the cops told the police captain that the culprits may have left the house days ago.

"Seriously?"

"Looks like it…"

"No way…"

"Maybe they knew we were coming…"

"I not buying that. There's no way that they…"

"Well…look around…the place hasn't been touched for days…I am sure the culprits might have gotten a head start…"

"Damn…"

"…"

The police captain did not like the sound of that news as this would mean that the media would make a frenzy and would cause the victims' families to scrutinize the police and may cause some of the higher-ups to step in, and he told his subordinate that they are going to keep on searching, but then one of the cops stopped by a cabinet where he slowly caught a scent of a foul odor and felt that he had a bad feeling about this and told the others about it, and soon the cops assembled in front of the cabinet and drew their guns, believing that the culprit is hiding in there though one of the cops questioned how and why would they think that the culprit would be hiding IN THERE.

"Hey…are you guys…?"

"Just be ready…"

"But…you guys think…?"

"Maybe…sometimes the culprit would endure anything just to escape us…"

"…"

"Be ready, everyone…"

"Okay…"

"Just say the word…"

The police captain told him that this is standard procedure and had one of his men open the cabinet door, and when he did so, the cops were shocked to see several bodies falling down to the floor, about 15 of them, fully clothed but were all in skeletal appearances though their flesh was still there yet it looked like bodies looked it has been drained of fluids, and the police captain was not only shocked, but also aghast at the sight, and slowly realized that the bodies may be the missing girls, and told one of his men to call for an ambulance and some forensic experts so as to identify the bodies, and ordered a manhunt for the culprits.

"What the heck?"

"Shit!"

"Don't tell me they're…"

"You! Call for back up!"

"But…"

"Just do it!"

"Y-yes sir…!"

"…"

As the days passed, the bodies that were found at an abandoned house have been identified, causing the families to wail in agony and this caused some media to sensationalize the case, and the police faced pressure in finding the culprit. The investigators then interviewed the victims' families and asks for clues, in which they said that the victims were last seen going on a date with a teenage boy, about aged 14, and described him as having a rather thin and petite build, being shorter than average boys. He is said to have a spiky, desaturated brown hair with a prominent ahoge, and washed-out hazel eyes. He wears a zipped-up dull green hoodie with a red stripe along the zipper, an open black jacket with gold buttons over the hoodie, black jeans, and red sneakers with white toes.

The boy's hoodie has a logo of a red gas mask in a circle printed on the back of the hood, and the zipper goes all the way up to the top of the hood. He wears a pin shaped like a four-pointed star overlaid on a crescent moon; this is pinned to the lapel of his jacket.

However, the victims' parents told them the name of the culprit, which, unknown to all, it was just an assumed name, and the police conducted a search all over Shikoku, which lasted for the whole six months, and their search led them nowhere as the culprit was already out of Shokoku five hours prior to the police discovering the bodies, and this caused anger among the residents and the congressmen and other political officials there try to quell the tension while the mayor ordered a manhunt and proposes that he contact the other neighboring prefectures to help in finding the culprit.

-x-

In the months that passed, the incident repeated itself, as reported missing cases of teenage girls were reported in other prefectures, such as Kobe, where 10 bodies of teenage girls were found in a cabin at a forested area, where it shows signs of decomposition as their fluids were drained and reduced to a skeletal corpse, though investigators ruled out rape as their clothes are fully intact and there were no external wounds or signs of strangling.

Police interviewed the victims' families and got the same description as the one in Shokoku and police launched a manhunt, but after three months the police found nothing as the culprit had already left Kobe just several hours prior to the bodies being discovered, and the mayor of Kobe is seen talking to the mayor of Shikou, and they both expressed alarm at how the victims were found, yet they both refused to believe that this may be an abnormal case despite evidences that their deaths were not caused by natural means.

"Seriously…?"

"Yes…it happened here at my territory…"

"Damn…"

"You better order a curfew before more victims would be…"

"Yes, I will."

"Exert your efforts in nailing the suspect…he eluded us…he might elude you as well…"

"I will…"

"…"

-x-

Another three months have passed, and the scene shifts to Kyoto, where the same thing happened to this prefecture, as police found about 16 teenage girls stocked inside an abandoned one-story house at a quiet area that is surrounded by trees, all decomposed yet their clothes intact. Their bodies appeared drained which caused them to have a skeletal appearance, and the police noted that the place have metallic traps and found corpses of several stray cats, all dead due to being caught in the metallic trap and some due to strangulation.

The police them informed the victims' families and ordered a manhunt on the culprit while issuing a curfew to the residents after getting the description of the person that the parents told the police, which was the same person described in Shikoku and Kobe.

-x-

Five months later, the scene shifts to Tokyo, where a group of three teenage girls are seen walking the sidewalk, and they appeared to be close friends as they are on their way to their part-time jobs, as they just got hired, though the three girls work at separate work areas and study at separate schools, but the trio were so close to each other that they appeared to be inseparable.

The three girls are identified as:

- Sayaka Maizono

- Ayaka Haneyama

- Satomi Aoba

"Ah…a brand new day…!"

"You sure are in high spirits, Sayaka…"

"What's with you? You looked so happy…"

"Well…I got a part-time job…and I'm going to start today…"

"You sure are going to earn a lot, aren't you?"

"Why work as a waitress when you can audition to become an idol or something? I mean, you have such a beautiful voice…"

"I know…but I want to earn first before I would consider going to THAT route…"

"Okay…this is where we part…"

"See you later, Sayaka…"

As the girls are about to go separate ways, they were unaware that someone is watching them, and the unseen person can be seen smirking as he has his eyes laid on one of them, taking a liking and stared at one of the girls before taking his leave.

To Be Continued...

Hope you liked the opening chapter, and though not much action is shown, this is just the start, and here Maizono is introduced, with some cameo from her fellow idol members.

Someone has his/her eyes on Maizono, and that would be the culprit...though the clues are shown above...feel free to guess who...

Preview:

The next chapter starts the story as Maizono attends school, where she would get to meet someone...and won her heart...

See you in 2 to 3 days...

Reviews are welcomed...