WARNING! THE REST OF THE STORY HAS SPOILERS TO SDR2 (SUPER DANGAN RONPA 2) AND DR:AE (DANGAN RONPA: ANOTHER EPISODE)! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, PLAYED, OR FINISHED PLAYING THE GAMES AND DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED IN ANY WAY, PLEASE FINISH PLAYING OR WATCHING THE GAMES FIRST. FOR THE OTHERS THAT HAVE FINISHED SEEING THE GAMES, PLAYING THE GAMES, OR DO NOT CARE IF THEY ARE SPOILED... WELL, GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE READING THIS STORY IF YOU LIKE. HOPE YOU ENJOY.
"It's your fault..."
"Please... it's you that..."
"Don't bother..."
I hear echos of shouting all around me. They are all yelling at each other, but who were they? And what are they even arguing about? It's too concealed by the other sounds surrounding me to determine the voices.
"How about you do...for a change..."
"...you can't...unlike..."
"Shut up..."
I want them to stop. It hurts.
"It's your fault..."
"You're the one that..."
"You're better off dead!"
"STOP!"
I jolted up from my sleep. What was that? Was someone yelling outside of my dream? My thoughts suddenly stopped processing when I felt pain on my forehead that made me come back down, holding the source of where the pain was. I heard a moan in front of me making me open my eyes a little. Who did I bump into?
I saw a long haired male in a black suit with a white dress shirt under it that has a black tie wrapped around the collar. Once the pain settled for him, he opened his red eyes to look at me.
"A nightmare?" He asked while taking his hand off of his head. I nodded at my brother. "I see. Do you wish to talk about it?" I nodded again since I want to clear some confusion in that dream. He held out his hand to help me sit up.
"It.. started as a silent void," I began. "Then I was hearing voices all around me and very slowly, they started to get louder. Even covering my ears.. I still heard them." I started shuddering a bit while recalling the voices.
"Did you know who was talking or what they were saying? Or was it too loud to understand?" My brother questioned.
"It was too loud to understand who was talking, but I did hear a few phrases in what they were saying.. and a very clear, very loud shout at the end."
"That's when you woke up?" I nodded then looked down remembering I bumped into him. "It's alright, you didn't know I was here or that you would've jolted up that fast when you awoke," My brother put his hand back on his head. "Nor did I know you would react when you awoke, or I would've avoided it," He took his hand off and put it on my head. "Though since you have a hard head, you probably would have silenced those voices with a headbutt." I giggled at his comment.
When I stopped, he continued, "All your dream was just that. And here you are awake and that it's over," he patted my head. "So don't worry about it." I looked up at him and nodded.
"Thanks Izuru." I responded with a smile. He always knew how to make me feel better.
"Come," Izuru stood up. "Let's go have some breakfast." I nodded in agreement and stood up. We then, both headed downstairs to the dining room.
When we arrived, I saw that breakfast was already made. There was two serving plates of waffles and french toast at the sides with a jug of maple syrup in the middle of the two the serving plates. The aroma of the food filled the dining room which made me even more hungry.
Once we both sat down, Izuru started serving himself. "Have as much as you want." He said before he started eating. I took 1 french toast and 1 waffle, poured a little syrup on them, then started eating while thinking back on the dream.
We ate in silence for a while until I realized that I don't hear any vacuuming or dish washing. Where was everyone else? I looked at Izuru who just finished. "They are in the computer room," He answered the question in my mind. Am I an open book to him? "Almost." He chuckled. How does he do that?
Izuru got up with his dish in his hand and about to grab my empty one, before he tripped on the chair leg and fell to the side. Like it was an unnatural instinct, I stood up from my seat and snatched Izuru's arm to pull him up before he landed on the ground. He caught his dish as it was an inch close to breaking and stood up thanks to my support.
"It seems that they weren't lying with what you did at dinner last night," He said when he put the dish back on the table. I tilted my head, questioning what he meant. "Follow me, Shona, and I'll show you what I mean." Again, after reading my mind, Izuru started for the dining room door. Thinking how he does it, I followed him.
We entered the gym that I played basketball with Komaeda yesterday. I looked back at Izuru, thinking if we were going to play basketball, but he went to the control panel and pressed one of the many buttons in it. I felt a shake on the floor that made me crouch in fear, whimpering.
I felt an arm wrap around my shoulders after the rumbling stopped. I looked up to see Izuru smiling and looking like he was on the verge of laughter. I turned my head away since he was probably laughing how silly I looked. Then I heard him say, "I'm not laughing at you. This just reminds me of.." he quickly stopped himself. I looked back up at him, and he sighed. "Reminds me of another time in the past. Anyway," he stood up and held a hand out to help me up. "Let's play some tennis."
I grabbed Izuru's hand and got up, then took a glance at the basketball court, which now was a tennis court. On each side of the net were 5 boxes painted white on the green floor, 2 thin rectangles on the sides, 2 squares at the front, and a thick rectangle at the back. How the room changed was like the basketball court never existed.
"Catch," I turned to see a racket thrown towards me. I quickly caught it in my startle before it hit me. I looked back up to see Izuru bouncing a tennis ball with his racket, "Ready to play?" I nodded and he hit the ball to the other side as he jumped to the other side as fast and caught the ball. I knew my brother was talented but I am still amazed by the artistry skills he does.
After an hour of a ball being bounced back and forth with occasional rolling if one of us missed, Izuru swung a final spike for the ball to fly past me. Before I went to fetch the ball, he clapped his hands, "That's good enough," I stopped in mid run to look at him, "Your reaction timing has improved greatly," I only tilted my head in response. Reaction timing? He chuckled a bit before motioning me to follow, "I'll explain later. For now, just relax."
I nodded and looked back at the ball that was rolling toward my foot. I picked it up, and started heading to the basket of equipment. "Try throwing it in from there." I stopped and looked at Izuru who was next to it and gestured his head toward the basket where the other tennis balls were. I didn't know if I could make it or not, especially from the other side of the court, but I gave it a shot and threw the tennis ball toward the basket. Like the basketball shot yesterday, I surprisingly made it in. I looked at Izuru who nodded at my accomplishment and signalled me to follow him. With a smile of achieving another trick, I caught up.
As we walked through the hallway, a thought rushed in my mind. I looked at Izuru, thinking if now was a good time to continue my questioning from yesterday. Before I could get a word out, he sighed at what was ahead. I looked as well to see that the living room was a mess. I tilted my head thinking how the chairs were knocked down and small items, like the books and the vase with flowers in it, were on the ground but it was short lived since Izuru started cleaning everything at a fast pace. The only thing I could do to help was set the flower vase back on the table.
After the mess was cleaned up, he looked at me "Sit down," and points at the couch by the table. I did as he said while he sat on the chair on the other side and took out a deck of cards from his pocket, "Egyptian Ratscrew. A perfect game to improve your reaction time and speed," he says while shuffling the deck, "I'll explain as we play."
Izuru gives half of the deck to me and kept the other half to himself as he explained the game rules to me. The object of the game was to collect all the cards of the deck. Each person had to place a card on top of the other cards, or table if there aren't any yet, to make a stack. When a double is shown, like a 2 on top of a 2, then you would have to slap the stack of cards to claim the pile and add it to the bottom of your deck. This also applies to "sandwich", which is a card on top of another card and the same one, and "marriage", which is a king on top of a queen or vice versa. (A/N: RIP in attempting to explain a card game)
We finished one game with Izuru as the winner, and played another round since I was still learning how to play. I placed a jack down and he put a jack down as well. We both saw, and tried to slap our hands on the deck to claim it; however, I saw something was odd about Izuru's wrist. I thought it might've been his white dress shirt, but something white seems to be overlapping on his wrist. He got the deck and raised his arm to conceal whatever was on his wrist. I just kept playing, but kept an eye on it to see what it is.
As we were about to finish the round, with me having the most cards this time, I put down a king and he put down a 2. I prepared my hand incase the next card would be a king or a 2. I put the card on the deck, and it was a king. I tried to slap the deck, but Izuru was quicker to notice and acted; however, I saw his wrist a little better but saw something pink. I gasped at the sight, and Izuru looked up at me then at his arm and quickly pulled his sleeve down to conceal it. "You saw it, didn't you?" He said after a moment of silence. I nodded.
"W-What happened?" At that moment, I also realized what that pink was. "W-why is your arm bleeding?" He sighed and put the short deck of cards he had in his hand down and looked at me.
"Shona, I-" before he could finished, I heard a door open behind me. I turned and saw Togami, who looked very nervous.
"Izuru, you need to come to the computer lab, we have an emergenc-" Togami was then shushed by Izuru and then looked at me, "oh..hello Shona," he tried to conceal his panic which wasn't working and started making me worried as well. "D-don't mind what I said, but Izuru you-"
"In a moment Togami, you go back in the lab." He calmly said while cutting Togami off.
"But you're needed-"
"In. A. Moment," Izuru exclaimed while giving a glare that made me shudder. Togami sighed in defeat and left the room, while Izuru looked back at me, "Shona.. I know you are curious in what is going on. But I can only assure you, that for the life of you, you'd rather not know." Izuru said while gathering the cards and repeating what Komaeda had said to me. What was happening?
He put the cards in a deck in front of me, "Play a few games of Solitaire, I'll be back for dinner." He patted my head before starting to walk out.
"I-Izuru?" He stopped. "Will you be alright?" I asked, still worrying about his wrist.
"I'll be fine Shona, this wrist injury is nothing to me and I won't get anymore. Don't worry." He answered, as he left the room.
Being alone with only a deck of cards in front of me, I wondered what was going on. Whatever it was, it was enough to make Togami panic and my brother injured. I started making the placement for Solitaire as I continued to guess what was happening. Komaeda said that everyone was cleaning the house because of the Despair Fever, so maybe it was some sort of plague? If that was the case, how was Izuru injured? Maybe he was affected by the plague? Was that why Togami was panicking?
My head started to burn with the multitude of questions in my head, so I stopped thinking about them all, but one, as I started my game. Is it really best if I didn't know?
FINALLY! FINISHED THIS CHAPTER AFTER ALMOST A YEAR OF WRITERS BLOCKS AND SCHOOL WORK!
Yes, Izuru is Shona's "brother" *getting about 20 guns pointed to her* ...all will be explained, I promise.
But yeah, I'm so sorry it took so long, and before I say anything else, this story is going on a hiatus. The reason being is so I can not only focus on school but to also store some chapters instead of making you all wait like half a year. So, if you don't care much of this story.. well, I guess this is good news for you. If you do, I'm so sorry, I know the feeling of reading a great story and waiting for the next part to come out (except my story isn't that great lol).
Another thing, I know I said that this story will have bits of Shona's story? Well, forget that, this will have her full story but in different parts of this story (yes, I was too lazy to fix it in the first chapter), can you guess how?
Finally, since SDR2 spoilers is allowed now, Izuru and Hinata in the same place!? HOW!? Not to worry, all will be explained (for most points).
Well, that is all the news I guess.. sooooo, I shall see you all in the next chapter. *poofs away*
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