Hinata slowly opened his eyes, his vision met a set of dark oak doors, similar of those to a classroom. Encompassing the door is an area of black and green, swallowing anything that could have existed. Hinata stared at the door for second and thought to himself.
'For fuck sake.'
He had died again. Again. How many times was this now? Hinata couldn't keep count. He had seen his supposed friends die, repeatedly. He had been stabbed, poisoned, bludgeoned, burned, electrocuted, drowned by those 'friends' countless times.
He tried his best for the first few 'retries'. Trying to help everyone leave, stop the killings and put an end to the death game. But no matter what Hinata tried, nothing worked. It was starting to drive him insane, death, death and more death. But there was something even worse, Monokuma and oh god his voice, his fucking voice was grating. Hearing him laugh, hearing him talk, combine that with the knowledge that he was a completely different person outside of the Neo-World program? Hinata had become numb, apathetic, he was sick of it, the events that kept repeating was like a nail to his brain, lobotomising his emotions.
Christ, why him? Why him of all the millions of people in world was it him taking part in this?
Hinata would have loved to just sit in the void he came back to once again, but having already tried that, the result of which was the program forcibly moving his avatar to open the door. Avoiding this, Hinata placed his hand on the door letting out a sigh.
'…here we go again…'
Sliding open the classroom door, he is met with, once again some unfortunately familiar faces. Before anyone could say a word, he shut the door behind him and went to lay his body flat against one of the desks at the back of the classroom. Putting his head down on his arms, he heard a few comments about his behaviour. He didn't care, they had killed him before, multiple times, why should he?
"Just what do you think you are doing?" Hinata lazily raised his head to meet the owner of the annoyed voice, Byakuya Togami or more accurately the SHSL Imposter, who had his arms crossed, glaring.
"Sleeping." He replied with a bored tone. Resting his head back on his arms.
The Imposter scoffed before addressing the rest of the room about how Hinata was the last person arriving. Hinata zoned out, opting to just fall asleep and wait for the Island to appear again.
"Wha-Wha-Wha-What!?"
Hinata opened his eyes to harsh sunlight and a crowd of shocked students. Yep back at this shithole.
"This is a joke… right?" Souda questioned holding his head in his hand.
"Wh-Where are we!?" Shouted Ibuki.
The voices of everyone's screams and shrieks were grinding against Hinata's ears. Hearing these wails repeatedly, he had no interest in listening to them again.
"I'm going to get a headache…" With that mumble, Hinata walked towards the exit of the beach, wanting to escape the noise.
"The markers were around here… there we go." Hinata was at the supermarket getting items for a plan of his.
"Hajime… Hinata… and my SHSL talent is…" He paused. He was writing his information on a piece of card, hence the markers, to avoid speaking with everyone else.
'What should I put…? It displays anything I say so…' Repeating this horrendous event, Hinata learned that whatever SHSL talent he donned himself came up on the Electo-ID's.
'I could just say I forgot again… wait... this might help in the long run.' Hinata scribbled down his idea and pinned the card to his shirt.
"Can everyone please return to the beach! I have a wonderful gift for all of you good boys and girls!" All the monitors came to life to spread Usami's voice.
Hinata was leisurely laying on his bed inside his cottage. 'Even if I'm here, I wonder if my parents are ok… despite this being a program and all.' This train of thought kept his sanity in check. Despite the world being… well… destroyed, this idea kept Hinata from giving up completely.
'I should have a shower.'
….
"Hajime Hinata-kun your attendance is needed at the beach where everyone arrived. Please make your way over as quickly as possible, your classmates are waiting, thank you!"
"I'm glad warm showers exist."
...
"Hinata-kun, I will only say this one more time! Please make your way to the beach, thank you!"
"…damn, there's water in my ears… eugh…"
...
"What the hell is that guys problem!? We've been waiting forever!"
"Awawa… I'm sure he won't be long, he's probably on his way over now! No need to worry!" Usami was trying to calm down her students as they grew more impatient, waiting for Hinata's arrival.
"Why don't you just check the map, it says where everyone is…" "I did! It doesn't show him anywhere!" "That guy seems like bad news… he left right after we got here." "He even slept through arriving at the Island! Like… how… is that possible?"
"D-Don't worry everyone, I-I'll try to shout him over a-again…!" Usami began to panic, Hinata had left before she handed out the Electro-ID's so she couldn't track where he was without leaving all the students alone.
"There is no need… I believe he is here." Pekoyama stated to the group.
Turning toward the entrance of the beach they all saw Hinata making his way through the sand, hands in his pockets without a care in the world.
Hinata saw the faces of his classmates, they were pissed.
"Heh…" A chuckle escaped his lips.
Grabbing Hinata by the collar of his shirt, Souda yelled into his face. "What the hell is so funny…! We've been waiting for ever!"
"Let. Go. Now." No emotion was felt as Hinata spat out those words, an expression kin to a demon spread across his face. "P.L.E.A.S.E?"
Souda flinched, swiftly letting go, stumbling back through the sand. "Whatever…"
"A-Ahem…!" Turning away from Hinata, everyone's attention shifted to Usami. "Now that everyone has gathered, it's time for the presents!"
Usami begins to hand out the charms to each person one by one, reaching Hajime. "Here you go Hinata-kun, and before I forget here's your Electro-ID!"
Snatching the Electro-ID, Hinata turned around and began to depart the beach once more. Monokuma's going to appear soon, what's the point in sticking around when he can just go straight to Jabbawock park?
"Ah, excuse me. I believe we haven't met… well I think you haven't met anyone else yet either." Great… Just what Hinata needed, he knew who the voice belonged to, that Hope whore Komaeda. Hinata kept walking.
"Um, I just wanted to know your SHSL talent, you must have one since you're here with all these talented symbols of ho-"
*SMACK*
Something hit Komaeda in the face, hard, enough to make him stagger. Looking down, Komaeda saw a piece of card.
"Hajime Hinata… SHSL… Detective…?" Komaeda lifted his head to see that the boy that was in front of him was gone, a set of footprints left in sand heading towards the exit of the beach.
Turning back around everyone else was picking up swimsuit bags from Usami, Komaeda goes back to join in.
"Oi, Monokuma! Get out here!" Hinata arriving at Jabbawock park began to tap his foot impatiently.
"HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!" Monokuma bounced off the floor after jumping out from behind the statue. "Just who the hell do you think you are, Hedgehog! I haven't even made the sky grey yet!"
"Yeah well, I don't give a shit." Hinata walked up to Monokuma with a bored expression. "Just make your announcement so I can go back to bed, I'm tired."
"You bastard… Just you watch…!"
Hinata turned to face the monitor to his right, the sky changed to a sorrowful grey as the monitor flickered to life. "Ahhh ahh! Mic check Mic check! Ahem, please can all students of Hope's peak academy come to the Park on the centre Island… immediately!"
Leaning against the statue, Hinata began to navigate his Electro-ID to check on his pet. "Upupupupu, you may be all cool as cucumber now, but just wait until you classmates get here young man!" Monokuma began to snicker as he waddled toward Hinata. "When your classmates arrive, you'll be in for quite the-"
Monokuma was interrupted by Hinata's face, it had formed into an expression of irritation, his eyes glazed over.
"GGGGGRRRRRNNGHH! YOU LITTLE…! DON'T IGNORE M-"
"Where are you Monokuma! I know your around here somewhere!" Monokuma was about to let out his rage, then Usami entered the park. "Come out!"
"Upupupu, you got lucky, spiky! I have more important things to deal with than you!" Hinata let out a sigh as Monokuma began to climb the back of the park statue. The faster this is over, the faster he can go back and sleep. Hinata rested his eyes on the entrance of the park, everyone had arrived and formed a group in front of the statue.
"Hey! Long time no see you guys!" Monokuma addressed everyone as he planted himself on the statue.
"Wh-What is that thing…?" "It looks like a bear…" "How rude! I am not a bear… I'm Monokuma!" "So, it was you… but why are you here? How did-" "HI-YAH OPENING!"
Hinata closed his eyes and started to push all the noise his classmates were making; it was mind numbing hearing all this again hundreds of…? No, it might even be in the thousands of times by now.
"You're all gonna take part in a killing game!"
Monokuma's voice brought Hinata out of his thoughts. His eyes landed on his classmates; were they all terrified? Yep. Were they all confused? Yep. Were they all insufferable to listen to? Fuck yes.
"And the one of most important events of the killing school trip…! The class trial!"
Monokuma gazed over the students as they began to panic and squirm as he began to explain with glee the rules of the class trial, everyone was in despair. Looking over at Hinata that happiness was shattered, he was just leaning next to a tree with an extremely bored expression, it looked like he about to fall asleep, Monokuma wasn't a fan.
"Oi! Mr. I don't care! Are you even listening to me!?"
"Hmm…? Oh, no not really. Just bring out the Monobeasts so I can go… I'm *yawn* still tired." Replying with indifference, Hinata groggily spoke.
Monokuma began to seethe with rage once again.
"Monobeasts? What are you talking ab-"
"Whoa, what the hell is happening!? Why is ground shaking!?"
Before the Imposter could finish his sentence, the earth beneath began to rumble.
'Finally, the Monobeasts, about fucking time.' Hinata thought to himself stifling another yawn.
"Stay back everyone, as your teacher I will protect you all…!" "Perfect! You can be my example for what happens to rebels and rule breakers!"
Usa – Monomi, was thus gunned down only to be seen again the next day, to Hinata's disappointment.
"Sh-She's dead!" "Blub-blub-blub-blub…" "Did you guys see anything? Cause I sure didn't, nope"
"AND YOU…!" Monokuma swung his paw in the direction of Hinata. "If you don't stop being a smartass, I'll gun you down next!"
Monokuma met Hinata's eyes and they were… apathetic… nothing was happening inside them.
"RIGHT! THAT'S IT…! PREPARE FOR LEAD…!"
Spinning, the Gatling gun began to fire at Hinata, mowing down tree's at and ungodly speed. Smoke encompassed Hinata as the Gatling gun kept going and going.
"GYYYYAAAAAAAAHHHH!" "That thing just killed two people…! What the hell is happening!?" "What… kind of hellish ritual has this black and white devil partaken in!"
The barrel of the Gatling gun slowed to a stop, there was a deafening silence.
"Done now? I'm leaving…" A voice made the group flinch, turning towards the source it was Hinata walking out of the smoke and heading towards the exit of the park, with an annoyed expression on his face. "Now I need another shower… god damnit." Mumbling as he walked past everyone.
"YOU BETTER BE THE FIRST ON TO DIE! YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Monokuma roared, making his exit, along with the Monobeasts.
Souda, pulled his beanie over his eyes. "How the hell do you shrug off being shot at…?"
"What do we do now…?" "I… think it's best if we go back our cabins and sleep…" "I believe that is a wise idea… everyone will most like be exhausted." Peko affirmed Chiaki's idea.
Hinata threw himself onto his bed. "Fucking… finally…" Not even a second after laying down, his eye lids clamped shut.
'What should I make for breakfast tomorrow…? Pancakes… yeah… pancakes…'
"This is an announcement of the students of-"
Scowling, Hinata kept thinking of his breakfast plans trying to ignore Monokuma's aggravating voice, falling into a sleep he very much deserved and wanted for suffering through Monokuma's antics once again.