10th chapter Hooray! As a little celebration I'm going to involve some Naekusaba in this aka Mukuro x Naegi for this chapter cause they're still my personal OTP . Enjoy!
In other News, Merry Christmas! And Happy Birthday to our lovely Despair Sisters! And what better way as a Christmas present than a Brand new Chapter/Episode of Winter's Cold Bliss! Hope you Enjoy!
The Despair Twins Apartment: Bedroom
Time: 2:34 AM
These past few nights have been rather taxing for the Ultimate Soldier, and Mukuro certainly has been busy with keeping her despair obsessed sister remains in their shared apartment bedroom on accounts of 'rediscovering' her severe somnambulism. But recently the problem wasn't Junko's endless bounds of late night sleepwalking, the irony is that she recently hasn't done so, for the past couple weeks as a matter of fact, and that was an anomaly in itself.
The past six weeks since Junko's severe sleepwalking issue (Hell it could be called her superpower at this point). Since late November there hasn't been a single late night on where Junko hasn't risen out of her bed in a dream-like daze, and clamber her way over Mukuro like she was a huge toddler (who knows with her, she could probably dreaming she was one at some point) before falling off and hitting the floor with a thud, it doesn't do enough to wake the fashionista teen though she still feels the impact of it. (least until Ikusaba began surrounding the floor of their bedroom with inflatable mattresses and pillows to cushion Junko's landings every night she crawls out of bed)
Then she'd proceed to drag herself up and stumble around their bedroom before leaving and beginning to react on whatever subconscious thoughts Junko had been having, with Ikusaba as her quiet nighttime guardian.
Even Mukuro has to admit that it's been quite an ordeal, keeping her little sister safe from any sort of danger when she's on one of her sleepwalking escapades in the late night. Whether she's wandering around their apartment in her underwear (or pajamas on occasional nights), venturing around Hope's peak Academy and bother whomever she desires, or even cause trouble outside in the city. Though Junko goes on some pretty adventurous outings that seems to outweigh the activities of the usual sleepwalker, recently one of them involving the literal murder of 6 unarmed security guards at Hope's Peak with only a regular baseball bat.
True she wasn't there to witness the bloody spectacle but she's sure that from the amount of fresh blood that seeped on her bat the last time she looked at it, and still heavily stained with it combined with the local news report of six dead unarmed guards. One of them even had a butcher's knife stabbed into his neck, quite gruesome) it's clearly true.
Since then it's been about two weeks since her little sister has been on yet another of her sleepwalking bouts and the change of pace while highly surprising and raises her suspicions about Junko's sleeping patterns, it's also been strangely relaxing. Since Junko has actually been staying in her bed an entire night ever since her last sleepwalking mischief had her murder 6 security guards of Hope's Peak, the media damage that would ensue If the school hadn't cleaned it up with a short memorial and stuffs them in their frozen bio room. And in return Mukuro has been able to enjoy a full night's sleep for a little while of bliss. It actually was a relief for Mukuro being able to find Junko sleeping peacefully in her bed, loose blonde hair covering her blue eyes and her pillow somewhat.
But sadly for anyone involved in the chaos, it seems tonight that short peace was about to end.
As Mukuro continued to genuinely sleep, she started hearing the oh-so familiar groggy mumbling coming from Junko's side. The Ultimate soldier looked back in half awake intrigue as she listens in on Junko's dream murmurings, she almost missed listening to them, in a strange kind of way.
Zzz~ Muuukuurrooo..." Junko whined sleepily, her arms tightening slightly around Ikusaba's hardened waist. When Mukuro didn't say anything an merely listens to Junko's sleep-talking unabated.
"Zzz...sweet, dumb, fat ass Mukuuurro~...so (yawns)...ugly... beloved sister ..of mminne~...zzz." Junko slurs out insults/compliments towards her. Mukuro didn't respond to her twin's sleeping dialogue yet.
Muuukurro~...zzz...you..should...claim him...for yourselllf~~ (yawns) you know...you want...him as all yours..to cherish." Junko sleepily lures her confused sister. Mukuro decides to quietly respond to Junko's cryptic talk with.
Uh...who's mine to claim Junko? Mukuro whispered lowly to her sleeping sister's face,
...make that boy...yours already~..Zzz~..."
"..Junko? Who?" Mukuro want the answer that her sister clearly knows, even though she's clearly still sleeping.
Zzz...Ma..koto Naegi...zzz...You... want him ...make him...want you..too...zzz..." Junko continues her sleep-talking.
Now Mukuro was legitimately surprised at what her still slumbering sister was saying to her. Since when did Makoto start appearing in her subconcious? the few times she mentions Naegi (while she's genuinely awake mind you) is when she wants to taunt about him being hooked with the detective and treats her as only his good friend and nothing else, finding her way of bringing Mukuro a tinge of despair by mocking her love life.
"M-Makoto!? but why would you say? I-I don't know if I could ever directly ask him. He alread yhas Kyoko kirigiri as his girlfriend and they're already happy since they knew each other longer than me and him for 2-years at best." Mukuro says quietly to her sleeping sister, taking advantage of the fact of her 'Sleepy Junko' state.
"..." "..."
Uh...Junko, are you really asleep now?
Zzz~...(yawns)...okay" Junko mumbles and rubs her right eye lazily before turning around to face the other side of the bed in her sleeping position and closes her eyes again, from the look of things she's fallen back to sleep for real now (or has she?)
Huh? Junko, Sister you really fallen back to sleep? Mukuro whispered into her twin sister's ear but no slurry response.
"Zzz...zzz..." Junko genuinely didn't respond to her older sister's voice and just kept snoozing the night away.
"Uh, alright then...waking her up now to ask her about Him is obviously an embarrasing landmine waiting to be triggered, so I guess good night Junko" Mutters Ikusaba before trying to forget the unexpected questions that came from the blonde sleep talker/walker.
One Hour Later - 3:36 AM
The Despair twins seem like they were going to actually have another peaceful night's sleep, Mukuro has her head on her pillows, her short raven black hair only partly covering them, and wrapped cozily under a warm, red velvety blanket near Junko with only her head was shown out.
Same can be said for Junko, expect her very long blonde hair loosened once again from her usual pigtails were. Her hair was currently covering her pillow and part of her face blocking her expression. But it was very clear that Junko was in a deep sleep as usual during the late night, and hardly anything could wake her in this state of sleep.
But it seems that Mukuro was going to be quite busy with Junko tonight (again), because about three minutes later, the familiar dreamy mumblings of a certain despair obsessed Ultimate analyst/fashionista girl could be heard.
"...Zzz~...Makoto...Naegi...don't worry...Muku...I'll get em...zzz...for you... Enoshima muttered before turning her sleepyhead towards the ceiling, though her hair somewhat covered her face but there can still be drool slowly leaving her mouth being somewhat open, spilling onto her pillow with a peaceful expression on her face. But now this peaceful facade was about to end (for real now).
Junko slowly rises from bed now startling Mukuro as the soldier suddenly felt the red velvet blanket being robbed from her end, she opens her eyes and looks over to find her sister standing up on their bed albeit slightly slouching her blue eyes open by a sliver and soft breathing can be heard, which only meant one thing.
"Well, I have to admit it's been a while since she's done this again, so where are you going this time Junko?" Mukuro ponders openly as she watches her sister still standing on bed yet clutching onto the blanket with both hands still fast asleep. Though she suddenly walks over and stands on Ikusaba's stomach.
"Eerggh!" Mukuro grunts in surprise and part annoyance as she feels her sister's full body weight on her while tilting herself back and forth slightly, their red velvet blanket she still grasping in her hands before making a slow twirl wrapping herself in her own blanket like a clumsy ballerina, and nearly fall over onto the floor.
Which she would've felt had Mukuro not surround their bedroom with inflatable mattresses for these scenarios, so instead Junko falls down on one of the said inflatable mattresses, cushioning her from the hard floor So now our sleeping fashion gyaru lands on an inflatable bed though she wrapped herself in a messy 'human burrito' of her own making, but she starts wriggling around like a human sized worm (sort of)attempt at a weak escape
'Sleepy' Junko: Zzz...I'm captured...help me...Big Sis..." she mutters dreamily, once more still dreaming of whatever's going through her brain.
So it seems 'Sleepy' Junko makes her return to the fray as she tries pushing herself up off the floor but failing to due to her...wrapped up in a blanket 'burrito' which Junko inadvertently trapped herself in it.
Mukuro sighs tiredly at the sight but that didn't make her delay any less in sitting next to Junko and unwrap her from her blanket burrito dutifully. "... free...and now...to find...Makoto." She merely watches as her sister gets up and stumbles her way past her and leaves through the door in only her white tank top and black panties.
Ikusaba easily catches up with Junko and mentally prepares herself for the harsh routine of keeping to Junko's side and making sure no nasty obstacles get in her path or worse wake her so abruptly. Fortunately Mukuro was already in a decent (though worn out) set of pajamas insisting of a loose cotton gray T-shirt and camouflage colored sweatpants so she can quickly leave to catch up with Junko which isn't too serious (yet) since Junko was still moving around upstairs, until she stops still for a few seconds before making her way downstairs, or was about to but before she took the stairs down, Junko (Asleep) turns herself around instead.
"Need..to use the...bathroom" slurs 'Sleepy' Junko when she opens the door and barely closes it.
Mukuro decides to ignore privacy just this once, considering her sister was technically sleepwalking so it's not really invasion of privacy, she probably doesn't realize what she's doing in reality. She quells any doubts before they rekindle and enters their bathroom to discover her sister was ...sitting on the toilet? with her black panties dropped to her feet and she's in a more relaxed position upon hearing a small tinkling sound coming from her.
"Well, Junko really is using the toilet in her sleep" thought Mukuro. It still intrigues her that Junko can still perform (mostly) normal activities even despite her still slumbering state is quite the eye watcher from Mukuro's perspective after,
Anyways Junko still flushes the toilet, gets up and pulls up her panties again before passing by Mukuro leaving the bathroom, fulfilled.
Soon Junko went downstairs and was about to head out the front door, but as she opens the door, she feels the cold winds of the night swept through her and shivered through her thin white T-shirt and black panties.
"Zzz~...the cold... it's so freezing...it's refreshing...zzzz" sleepy Junko murmurs before going to the closet not far from the open front door to slip on a small light blue jacket that she doesn't even close making it somewhat pointless against the cold and black slippers before going out the front door but Mukuro was already near, watching her still asleep sister walk out the doorway still open.
..Bye...Muki-chann" Enoshima slurs out, waving a small farewell as she moves further down and began turning left thus beginning another of her late night outings. But no way in hell will Ikusaba let her little sister parade around the city in her sleep, in her damn underwear without her supervision, never again.
So Mukuro kept following her still slumbering sister diligently like she was her shadow, even as Junko stumbles her way down the sidewalk, clad in her revealing pajamas, she may have a light blue jacket but she left it unzipped and loose, so it didn't help protect her from the cold...much, and certainly not her legs and feet. Junko made a few different turns going down several blocks, as if she knows where she's going.
Then again, I shouldn't be too surprised if that's true though" Ikusaba thought. after all considering her sister's superhuman Analysis skills combined with the fact they've become quite familiar with the city in a few months to have picture perfect memories of their city surroundings.
So figures that Junko would memorize these streets like the back of her silky manicured hands. Even if she's asleep, her brain operating on a she can still act out most activities like she's awake she's seen now and many times before so watching her now moving through the city streets as though she has a purpose in walking about at such a late hour.
When she says "I can find my way around this city in my goddamned sleep if I wanted to! nobody but Junko can truly mean that among other things. Too bad even she isn't aware of it...yet.
Junko continues her undisturbed sleepwalking throughout the city, turning different routes, knocking any trash cans down and passing by closed stores and houses with lights turned off with nary a care. And Mukuro follows diligently close behind when they make their way into a different apartment street, with only the moonlight to illuminate the night sky.
It's not until Junko stops down a couple buildings until she stops before a crimson apartment with the number '1156' plated on their mahogany door only a short set of stairs to come to. 'Sleepy' Junko approaches the stairs and begins knocking on the door.
Knock. Knock. Knock
Zzz~..here..." Junko mumbles as she continues knocking on the wooden door still. And It only took a second for Ikusaba to understand where Junko has stumbled all this way towards, a blush began forming on the soldier as she realize the full scenario right now.
Oh god, NO Why here Junko!?
Out of all the places that Junko's sleepwalking have taken her (and by extension Ikusaba herself) to along with all the chaos she's caused and will keep causing in her sleep at this rate, why in Despair's name would her subconscious have her coming to HIS home? and both of them wearing their own pajamas.
The Ultimate Lucky Student's house, Makoto Naegi, the one other person she's come to care about as much as Junko, for different reasons both
"I'm truly sorry for this Makoto but it looks like you're going to have some unannounced company at such a late hour too, I''ll pray for you later after all this is over." Mukuro says but alarmed as the door slowly makes way to reveal...
Continues...Next time with "Part 2"
Notes: Originally wanted to get this out around Christmas or New Years but due to laziness and being easily distracted kind of delay myself taking this less serious, so thanks to anyone hungry to read more of this fun story of mine This is just half way finished. Will upload the rest in a day or two. So like what you've seen so far cause the nighttime fun is beginning again soon in this Chapter so stay tuned!