Helllllllllloooo! Before we get started, I just wanted to share with you who the top five were! This does not mean that they'll be the survivors, however. I just wanted to see who your favorites are. The top students are:
10 votes: Ryota
9 votes: Sugita, Masahide
8 votes: Masaru, Daichi, Haniji, Pyonpyon-King
Interesting. So you guys like those ones the most, huh. I'm not saying the one who got the least votes, since that might be offensive to their creator.
Anyways, before we start, a few things must be spoken of…
1. There is a very slim chance that while this story is still going on, I'll do another Dangan Ronpa SYOC. Most Likely are the key words. This is my main priority, and writing 33 characters at once (16+16+Monokuma) would be too much on me. So…for anyone who was wondering, that's my current stance on the topic.
2. THIS DOES NOT MEAN I'LL NOT BE DOING ANY OTHER SYOCS! I already had one for Buffy, so why not? Hunger Games SYOTs are always a blast, and Pokemon or MLP or WWE could be interesting as well. So be on the lookout for those!
3. To those who are interested in my current Pokemon story – sorry about not updating. Hehe…I'm so busy.
4. To the few of you who are interested in my Buffy thing – Yeah. Actually, since none of those people actually exist, why don't you mosey along down there and give it a read! That would make me full of glee and all things amazing and wonderful.
5. (edit on 6/4/15) again, so sorry about the delay! But it looks like school's out for summer, to quote that one song! The updates will be a lot more frequent, trust me! Well, it's not my fault I went to Disney today.
6. (edit on 6/5/15) Okay, maybe as not as frequent as I would like them to be, but still pretty often. Life and fanfiction don't really mix together that well, but I'm trying my best to please everyone.
7, (edit on 6/7/15) FINALLY I'M DONE WITH THIS CHAPTER WOOHOO!
Enough of this shit, let's get this show on the road!
Eiko was starting to grow really impatient.
What's Natsumi even doing in there with Sugita? she thought, leaning back against a wall by the cafeteria door. It better not be anything bad…I hope Natsumi isn't being too hard on the poor girl. The last thing she needs is Natsumi yelling in her face.
Suddenly, the door creaked open, and the sniper walked out. She looked noticeably uncomfortable with her surroundings.
"Natsumi! What happened in there?"
"…"
"Don't do this again."
"…I don't think she wants to be bothered right now."
"I never said I was going in there."
"But knowing you, I know that you would. She's bawling her eyes out in there. She…hugged me."
Eiko couldn't help but feel terrible for Sugita. Within the last twenty four hours, not even that much, she was forced to watch her best friend be executed for something that wasn't his fault.
"Just leave her alone for a while. We should go take a look around at that new underground level that Monokuma was talking about," Natsumi insisted, about to walk off to where the others went.
"…Ugh, fine. But I'm coming here immediately after, got that?"
"Do whatever you want."
With that, Eiko and Natsumi walked together to the underground floor.
Mourning, a fire caused by a muffin, and being dragged around by a luck-obsessed gambler was definitely not how Kuno had planned his morning would be.
Kuno and Ace had arrived on the new floor that Monokuma had spoken of earlier. It was certainly more spacious than the floor above them, and there were a lot of new rooms to explore. The ever-so horrible lighting also seemed to have been improved. Most of the walls were a dark grey color, but there were no huge iron plates covering certain areas. Kuno thought that maybe the plates were replacing windows, and there's no point of having any windows underground unless you're very invested in studying dirt.
Kuno wanted to be able to walk around by himself and investigate all of the rooms thoroughly, but Ace never let go of the struggling guy. "Where are you taking me?" he asked Ace, who was wandering around aimlessly.
"…That, I'm not quite sure of. Wherever there are none of those insignificant pieces of trash, I guess," he replied, stopping in the hall.
"I'm pretty sure that there's at least one person in every room. We can't just stay in the halls. There's nothing to look it."
"Aside from your breathtaking appearance, Okura-sama, you appear to be correct. But I'd rather be buried alive in all of the dirt outside than be exposed to them."
Kuno was beginning to get fed up with Ace's behavior. Sure, he knew that a lot of people had better reasons to be pissed at Ace, but he thought that calling everyone 'insignificant trash' wasn't reasonable.
"I guess I'll just go off on my own, then."
"And leave me here? Oh Okura-sama, why would you do such a heinous thing?"
"…Because you're really starting to piss me off." Ugh, bad choice of words. Why did I just say that…
Surprisingly, Ace just laughed at that comment. "It looks like that's all I'm good for, doesn't it. Making people hate me."
"Almost everyone has a reason to, Ace."
"Even you, Okura-sama?"
"Believe me, I don't hate you at all. You were just being pretty harsh to everyone after the trial, y'know."
"After the trial? What did I do that made everyone dislike me?"
"…All of your talk about luck. Saying that Ryunosuke deserved to die because he was unlucky…that's a little inhumane if you ask me."
"…Fair enough. Maybe I do need a break from all of those imbeciles. All I did was state the honest truth, but it seems like that's not what the people want to hear…If you want to leave, then you can. I'd prefer to be alone for the time being."
Ace walked off into the distance, leaving Kuno abandoned in the halls. He was somewhat glad that Ace had left, but then again, he felt bad for him as well. Having the people you're locked in a school with all despise you must be pretty rough for him. I wonder if he feels lonely at all…But now's not the time for thinking about that. There's some new stuff on this floor, and I want to know every single detail by the time the day is done.
No matter how hard he tried, Masahide couldn't leave.
Masahide was stuck in the art room, and pretty upset that Haniji wouldn't allow him to exit. After all, all the painter did was gawk at all of the art supplies that lay before her.
"…Can I leave-"
"Nope…"
"Why? I wanna go see some stuff!"
"Because…I told you to…"
"But all you're doing is just standing there and staring at everything! What does that have to do with me?!"
"Nothing…"
"Then why can't I leave?!"
"Because…I told you to…"
Before Masahide could fire back another complaint, Kuno had walked on in.
"Hey, guys. Are you two in the middle of something?"
"…I'm not really sure," Masahide responded, turning to look at Haniji. "Why are we here again?"
"…There's art here…"
Art? Yeah, there are a lot of supplies you could use for making something. There are also a lot of paintings and sculptures, but I wouldn't go as far as to call any of them 'art'.
"All of these things?" Kuno asked, looking towards all of the Monokuma themed pieces of art. "It's all Monokuma. How is this art?"
"It's…beautiful…"
"Beautiful?!" Masahide asked in astonishment. "All of this stuff is centered around a teddy bear who's trying to brutally murder us, and it's 'beautiful' to you?"
"You don't understand. It's because…you're beneath me…"
"But I'm older than you! How am I beneath you?"
"Age doesn't matter…you're just so clueless…" Haniji walked over to several busts of Monokuma's head. "You see…even though this isn't my field…you can tell how much time went into it…That's true art…"
"Man, I've never seen her like this before," Masahide told Kuno. "Maybe it's just around art that she gets all wacko."
…Even though she's acting more strange than usual, hasn't she always been a little bit wacko? Aren't we all a little bit wacko?
"Well…uh…I'll leave you two here. You seem to be, uh, busy…"
"Don't leave me like this, Kuno! She won't let me leave!"
Kuno wanted to help, but he only had so much time to investigate the entire underground floor. He didn't want to waste his time hearing Haniji ramble on about 'true art' and Masahide complaining about it.
"I'll see you guys later on. Bye for now." Kuno could hear Masahide shouting at him as he walked out and left the two there, but he tried his hardest to ignore it.
Well, that's the art room, I guess. All that's there are a bunch of art supplies, blank canvases, and Monokuma's face imprinted onto everything. Not what I would call art in my personal opinion, but I'm not one to disapprove people's beliefs. It also seems like those two will be in there for the majority of the time. Haniji because it's art and Masahide because those two can never separate. I wonder what else there is in store for us on this new floor…
Kuno started walking down the hallway, looking for a new room to set foot in. He noticed that there were a lot more rooms than there were in the first floor, not counting the students' rooms. The floor above only had the cafeteria, kitchen, library, rec room, and ball room, from what Kuno could remember.
"Why the hell is this in here?"
Akira stood in the center of the room between two benches. This room looked to resemble some sort of observatory.
Why is this thing underground? All we'd be looking at is dirt! It's better than looking at the losers I'm surrounded by, but…why?!
And then everyone's favorite black and white bear popped up. Again.
"Upupupupu! Are you questioning the placement of the Monokuma Observatory?"
"Well, duh. Why the hell would you put an observatory underground? It makes no sense! Just like why we're here in the first place."
"It doesn't matter if the observatory is underground or not! All that matters is the marvelous view! Not as marvelous as my beautiful face, but it gives my face a run for its money!" Monokuma looked up at the ceiling of the observatory. "You see this?"
Akira averted her gaze to the glass ceiling. To her surprise, the view that came from the ceiling wasn't something that could be found underground. The sky was bright and blue and the sun shone as it usually did, at least before they were locked up.
"How…"
"Oh, relax, Ms. Yamashita! Do you actually think that I'd put an actual glass window to the outside out in the open? That would be too easy of an escape route! Do you think I'm stupid or something, bastard?"
"Uh, yeah. So is it fake or what?"
"…Yes. It's fake. And it changes simultaneously with the time of day, so you'll be able to tell the time from here!"
Akira was quite let down that the ceiling wasn't actually real.
So, since all of this is a damn phony, I guess I'm stuck with all of these losers in this hellhole of a 'school' or whatever the hell this is…
And aren't we still doing that whole killing thing?
"So…it's the TV room? And it's just a room full of TVs?"
Kuno stood in the so-called 'TV Room', along with everyone's favorite black and white bear, who had just finished talking to Akira.
"Yup yup yup! Only the finest of TVs are in this room!"
I don't see the significance of this room. Why would we need just a whole room full of TVs? Is there any point to it?
"Why, exactly, do we need a TV room?" Kuno asked the bear, glancing at all of the TVs in the rather small room.
"…Upupupupu!"
"That doesn't count as a real answer."
"Why should I tell you, Mr. Okura?"
"I thought that if I asked politely, then…"
"Do you even know me? Whether it's polite or not, I'm not telling you anything! It's just a room full of TVs for the sake of having a room full of TVs! Is that a good enough answer for ya?!"
"…Is that the only thing you're not telling me?"
The bear groaned at Kuno's unintentional willingness to continue the conversation. "Fine, you wanna know more?! My name is Monokuma, I have no particular gender, I'm afraid of mice, my favorite color is pink, my favorite number is eleven thousand three hundred seven-"
"No, not that stuff. I don't actually care about all of that stuff."
"Fine! You want some DVDs for the TVs?! Maybe the smash hit 'Fifty Shades of Despair'?"
"I'd rather not…I guess I should just leave if you aren't gonna tell me anything useful."
Kuno proceeded to walk out of the TV room, leaving Monokuma in there alone, yelling at him to watch some of his 'high quality movies'.
I wonder what that was about. There's definitely something off-putting about that TV room. It's just there because he wanted a room full of TVs? I find that hard to believe.
Well, anyways, I still have a lot more rooms to explore…And I wonder where everyone else is. The only ones that I ran into were Haniji and Masahide, and I think they're still in there. Maybe I should go ask them where everyone else went.
"I WANT TO LEAVE!"
"…Nope…"
"COME ON! IT'S BEEN, LIKE, MORE THAN AN HOUR! I WANNA GO EAT AND STUFF!"
Masahide and Haniji had been in the art room since they had first arrived earlier on. Masahide was starting to grow even more restless than usual.
"Masahide…please stop rolling on the floor…"
"I'm so bored! Can't I just go play ping pong or something?! Y'know, with myself?"
"I don't see…how that's humanly possible…"
Before Masahide had the chance to even process a comeback, Kuno walked in to the art room again.
"Um, are you guys busy or something?" Kuno looked down at Masahide, who was still face-down on the floor. "Because it looks like I've interrupted something…it's fine, I can come back later…"
"No! Wait! Don't go!" Masahide hopped back up to his feet, a look of impatience on his childlike face. "Nothing's going on. And you said you needed something?"
Kuno nodded, and then continued, "Yeah. I was just wondering if you've seen where anyone else could've gone. No one was in the TV room, and we're the only people in here…"
Haniji turned around from gazing upon the art, her face drained from the awe it held. "Yes…they're most likely in the infirmary…or the empty room…or the lounge room…or the observatory…"
"I thought you guys were in here the whole time. How did you know about those rooms?"
"Monokuma…told me…"
That's strange, I was talking to Monokuma not too long ago…he's a pretty fast bear, isn't he.
"Well, I guess I'll be heading over there, then-"
"TAKE ME WITH YOU!" Masahide jumped over to Kuno and grabbed ahold of his arm.
"…! What are you doing, Masahide?!"
"I'm bored out of my mind! I wanna go see all of the other stuff!"
"I'm really confused…so it's just a room? And its only purpose is to be empty?"
Elena stood in the empty room with puzzlement, looking around at its blank white walls. Next to her were Ryota, who she dragged along to his distaste, Masaru, Natsumi, and Eiko.
"I don't really see the meaning to this room's existence," Natsumi pointed out. "The only thing in here that isn't a white wall is the vent on the ceiling, but then again, every other room we went to had a vent as well."
"Yeah, we get it, it's a room, and it's empty. Can we leave now?" Ryota asked impatiently, slowly inching towards the exit.
"No, don't leave yet!" Elena cried, forcing him back to the center of the room.
"Why? We're not doing anything. All we're doing is looking at a wall."
"But what if the wall's, like, really important? Maybe there's some sort of trick we could do, like pushing on it or somethin'…and then BAM! We've got an exit on our hands!"
Everyone in the room stared at her in utter confusion, wondering how someone could conjure up that possibility.
Before the silence could get too unsettling and awkward, Kuno walked in with Masahide, who was still clinging onto his arm.
"Kuno, my sweetheart!" Elena exclaimed, her bright smile returning. "I was wondering when you'd show up!"
"Yeah, same here…" Kuno looked around at the empty walls that surrounded him, and he started thinking the same thing that everyone else did. "So…I would assume that this is the so-called empty room, right?"
"Precisely," Natsumi said, crossing her arms. "And I'm pretty sure we're all thinking the same thing. Why does this exist? What's its point?"
"It's probably just something the bear came up with to mess with our heads," Eiko muttered, looking down at the ground.
"Like that TV room we saw earlier," Masaru brought up. "It's…just a room full of TVs. And he was insisting that I watched some of his movies, but I declined. Especially since he made them himself…"
"At least he wasn't trying to force you to watch 'Fifty Shades of Despair'…" Ryota said with an obvious expression of discomfort upon his face.
Hmm…this is certainly a weird new floor. This 'empty room' has almost no purpose, and the TV room has a similar appeal. Is there some sort of point or meaning to these rooms?
Well, for now, there's nothing we can really do. We just have to keep going…Haniji said that there was an infirmary, a lounge room, and an observatory, right?
Kuno, Elena, Ryota, Masaru, Natsumi, Eiko, and Masahide all arrived in the infirmary. It was rather big, compared to the other rooms that they had all witnessed.
Along one of the walls was a huge cabinet, which Kuno assumed was full of medicine and such. A few beds were scattered around the room, with some curtains covering them for privacy.
After only a few seconds, a loud gasp could be heard.
Eiko ran over to the far side of the cabinet and stood there wide-eyed, frozen in shock. "No, no, no…"
Recognizing the fear in her friend's voice, Natsumi was the first to speak up. "Eiko? Are you alright?"
"Why is this…"
"Why is what."
Eiko turned to the group, her expression filled with sheer terror. "Come here and you'll see! Come on…"
The other six students in the room hurriedly went over to where Eiko was standing. It was the last cabinet in the whole row. The things that it contained were shielded off by a glass door, but they could clearly be seen.
"Why is this here?! Isn't this supposed to be an infirmary?!"
Most of the students were clearly confused. "I don't get it! It's just a bunch of bottles with weird names on them…right?" Masahide asked, his eyes locked onto the cabinet.
Eiko rolled her eyes at Masahide's unintelligent comment. "Just look at this stuff! Dimethylmercury, Botulinum toxin, polonium…this is all poison!"
"Poison?!" Elena's expression quickly changed to horrified. She pushed everyone away from the cabinet. "No! No one touches anything! This is too dangerous!"
Suddenly, a particular eardrum-annihilating voice rang through the infirmary.
"Upupupupupu! So you bastards found the good ol' poison, huh?"
Eiko began to become extremely agitated, similar to how she was that morning. "You're so sick…why is this here?!"
"I guess I'll have to answer that with my usual response – why not? I'm just trying to have a little fun with you guys! Besides, don't you think that poison is a pretty lethal murder weapon?! Just think about it! Just a little of this botulinum toxin, and the condition will become fatal in mere minutes! Isn't that just fine and dandy?!"
"No, that's not fine or dandy," Natsumi fired back, her face starting to become a crimson color. "This is supposed to be a fucking infirmary. Why is there a whole bunch of deadly poison in here?"
"Well, believe it or not, sweet cheeks, some of this stuff can actually help! You just gotta tell the medicine from the poison, and then you'll be just fine! On the bright side, at least to you guys, most of the poisons in here aren't even fatal!"
Monokuma opened up the glass door to the cabinet. Everyone slowly started backing up, fearing what would happen if the bear had is hands on poison. "You see this whole row?" he asked, gesturing towards the third row. "All of these poisons can't kill you! Ya see, there's some stuff that just knocks you out for an unknown period of time, stuff that makes you all swollen, stuff that makes you forget everything, stuff that makes you easy to manipulate, stuff that temporarily turns you purple…just some stuff you can use for fun!"
Monokuma closed the door to the cabinet, but he wasn't finished running his mouth. "Most of the medicine and stuff is on the other side, just so you know. Well, I guess I'll be seeing you guys around! I'm gonna go snoop on those two in the lounge room! Hasta la vista, bitches!"
The bear disappeared, which left the seven students in the infirmary staring at all of the poison that lay in front of them.
"N-No one's gonna try and use some of it…right?" Elena asked the group, her voice sounding shaky.
"If anyone does, I swear…" Eiko muttered angrily, looking down at the ground. "No one else is gonna die. Not on my watch…And no one's gonna turn purple, either."
So, that's the infirmary…I'm still confused about the whole poison thing, but the last thing I need are more details about it. Now, I guess we'll all be heading back to the cafeteria soon to tell the others what we found, like we did the first time.
Like he was reading his mind, Masaru spoke up. "It's getting kinda late. We should go back to the cafeteria to see if anyone else is there."
Everyone slowly nodded, then started heading back to the cafeteria.
When the group of students that were in the infirmary arrived in to the cafeteria, almost everyone else was there, with the exception of Ace and Haniji. Even Sugita was present, but everyone knew better than to get on her nerves.
Daichi, as usual, was the first to speak. "Well, since almost everyone is here, I guess we should start with discussing what we found."
Masahide perked up, his eyes widening. "Oh shit…Haniji's still in there...Excuse me for a sec!" He quickly dashed out of the cafeteria, leaving the remaining students to talk without him.
"…Anyways," Daichi continued, turning back to face everyone else, "Someone should share what they found first."
On a dime, Elena raised her hand. "I'd like to share, if ya don't mind!" She cleared her throat. "Ahem! So, we were in that infirmary, right? There are a whole bunch of beds and curtains and there's this huge cabinet with a bunch of medicine. But it turns out that, in the last cabinet, there's a whole bunch of poison! And some of it's fatal!"
"That's true, most of us were there with her," Eiko chimed in, nodding. "Most of the poison will cause death…but some of it just has a bunch of weird side-effects.
"That doesn't make any damn sense! Why is there a bunch of poison in an infirmary?!" Akira asked in her usual snarky tone.
"Monokuma told us the whole story about that," Masaru replied, "but it didn't really make sense to any of us, either."
"And speaking of stuff making no sense," Akira continued, raising her voice, "There's that observatory. The ceiling looks like the sky and all that, but it's all just fake.
"Oh yeah, we went to that TV room, too," Ryota brought up. "It's just a room full of TVs…and that's pretty much it. And if the bear asks you if you wanna watch one of his 'high quality movies', say no."
"There was also the empty room, if we're talking about rooms that have no point," Natsumi stated. "There's absolutely nothing in that room. Like its name states, it's completely empty."
"Excellent," Daichi said sharply. He went on, "The lounge room is identical to the recreational room that we have on this floor, so there's nothing much I can say about that. Now, was anyone in the art room? I believe that was also a room there, but I didn't have enough time to investigate it myself."
"Actually, I was in and out of there a few times," Kuno replied. "It's just a whole bunch of art supplies and lots of sculptures and paintings of Monokuma."
"Speaking of the art room…Masahide should have been back with Haniji by now," Eiko said worriedly, standing up from where she was sitting. "Um…can someone go with me to go find them? Please?"
This is something I have to do…I want him gone, and I want him gone for good. If I don't do this, he'll find us out. He'll find out what I've done. And he's the only one who actually could find out. No one else has the power to…
It is my duty to serve my master Monokuma.
"G-Gone? What do you mean that she's gone?"
Eiko, along with Sugita who had decided to come along, were trying to comfort Masahide, who was panicking in the art room.
"I don't know! She was here! She's always here! And then she wasn't! So I looked around, and, and, and, and, and she wasn't there! She's not anywhere!"
Masahide had spent the past moments he had looking for Haniji, but she was nowhere to be found. "I can't….I can't lose her! Where is she?!"
"Masahide, please! I'm sure that she's somewhere!" Eiko assured him in an attempt to calm him down.
"B-But I couldn't find her! She wasn't in her room and she wasn't here…a-and I looked everywhere! She's nowhere!"
"…I have some sort of theory…" Sugita said quietly. She turned to Masahide with a serious expression. "Do you remember what happened to Masaru that one day? He just disappeared out of nowhere…that's probably what happened to Haniji. At least…that's what I think…"
This didn't stop Masahide from being close to losing his mind. "But! But then she'll forget everything! She can't forget everything! I need to find her!"
"Masahide, there's nothing that any of us can do," Eiko said calmly. "She'll be there in the morning, if Sugita is correct. She probably is, so you just have to wait."
"I…I can't wait! What if she doesn't come back tomorrow?! What if she's dead tomorrow?!"
"She won't be! Trust me, she's alive, but we just don't know where…" Eiko motioned for Masahide to leave. "We have to go. I'm sure she's fine, but…there's nothing that we can do in here…"
"…I have to keep looking! She can't be gone! She can't be dead! I have to go!"
With that, Masahide ran out of the art room, which left Sugita and Eiko alone in there.
"…I'm really worried about what's gonna happen…" Eiko admitted, losing her usually cool composure.
"I know. Same here…" Sugita looked over towards the door. "Everything is just so jacked up right now, y'know…"
"Sugita, I can't even imagine what's going through your head right now. I just want to apologize for acting so harshly this morning."
"Believe me, I've gotten enough apologies in one day." Sugita let off a light laugh, but there was a noticeable look of pain on her face. "I just don't know what to do now."
"…I'm not going to push you to be back on your feet any time soon. I totally understand why you feel that way."
Sugita was on the verge of tears for what seemed like the millionth time that day. "I know, it's just…" She faced away from Eiko, looking down at the ground. "I don't wanna do this anymore…"
Eiko walked over to Sugita, placing her hand on the volleyball player's shaking shoulder. "You don't have to try and push it all back…You can be miserable for the rest of your life, if you really want to. No one's gonna try and force you to be all happy and stuff. Trust me, we all want you to feel better, but…you don't have to. Not right now. Not the mere day after Ryunosuke was…"
Kuno sat on his bed in his room, thinking about the events of the day that had just happened. He was dismissed from the cafeteria, and it was almost night time, so the announcement was about to go off.
Well, that was a very odd day, he thought, lying down on his bed. It started off in a really weird way, and ended that way as well. I wonder what's going on with Haniji and Masahide. Maybe…no, don't be silly! Anyways, I also wonder what Ace was up to earlier. He said he wanted to be alone, but I didn't think it would last quite that long. And now, there's that whole infirmary thing we have to worry about. With all of that poison and I don't want to think this, but…it's a lot more likely that another murder is gonna happen soon…
*knock knock knock*
Ugh, now? Kuno stood up from his bed and walked over to the door. He unlocked it and opened it, and standing there was-
*thud*
*bzzzzzt*
"Attention, students! The time is now 10:00 PM, which means that Night Time is in effect. The doors to the cafeteria will be locked momentarily. Make sure to have a good night's sleep and prepare for tomorrow! Upupupu!"
*bzzzzzt*
NEW POLL IN MY PROFILE!