Author's note: This is very self-indulgent, nothing special and kind of silly but! Hopefully you enjoy!

Stepping out of the bus with a quick thank you, Makoto's breath was stolen with the arrival at the towering academy's gate. It made him feel smaller than he usually did. He slid the manila envelope out of his duffel bag and retrieved his student I.D. card to open the gate.

It was real, the perfectly pruned trees and bushes, tended gardens and walkways, but still too early for anyone besides staff to arrive. He stepped inside excitedly, ready for his new School life.

Makoto woke with a start, his head jolting up from the desk. How long was he asleep? No one else is here… Maybe he slept through class? But this was arrival day, class isn't even supposed to start yet!

His attention is caught by the thick metal plating boarded over the windows, he didn't see that outside, that's for sure. He'll shelve his concern for now and see if he can find his class or a teacher. Stepping outside he heard a murmur of voices and headed that way.

"GRRRRAH!" Mondo Owada, Ultimate Biker Gang Leader rushed at the large vault door. It wouldn't budge, being made of what seemed to be thick steel. He panted and leaned on the wall, his whole leg erupting in pain.

"Do not try that again, Mondo, this isn't a wise tactic." Sakura Ogami shook her head.

"MAKOTO NAEGI!"

Makoto's attention was snapped to the source, the Ultimate Moral Compass. Kiyotaka Ishimaru.

"Oh! Mr. Ishimaru!" Makoto bounced on his toes, eyes sparkling with excitement "I read all about you on the Hope's Peak website!"

"Flattery will not erase your tardiness! We were to meet at 8 a.m. sharp!"

"S-sorry-" He frowned, feeling awful. This is a bad first impression!

"God, what's the fuckin' point in getting onto him when there's this vault bullshit, here?" Mondo snarked "So, what's the status update on that door, tech witch?"

Chihiro lifted her headphones off one ear, shaking her head "It's near hopeless, loaded with malware. My antivirus won't even respond… I'm so sorry."

Aoi leaned against Sakura, thinking "Maybe we should go get a snack, I think better when I'm full."

Kiyotaka beamed, leading the way "Snack time! Then we think again!"

Byakuya cleared his throat "I saw something on my way here, in the gymnasium. Perhaps we should go there instead."

"What did you see?" The mysterious girl not even Makoto knew about spoke up, tugging at the edge of her leather gloves.

"That's what I intend to find out." Byakuya strode towards the gym, the others following to Aoi and Taka's dismay.
"This school is turning out to be a real pain in the dick…" Mondo muttered.

"Stop swearing! There are children here!" Taka whined

"There's kids here?" He looked around, baffled

Taka pointed to himself, much to Mondo's amusement.

"Makoto and Junko, kissin' in a tree, s-i-t-t-i-n-g~" Leon wheezed, tuning his guitar as he tapped his foot against the common room coffee table.

"That's not how it goes, you goddamn moron." Mondo scoffed, peering over Chuck's fur.

'Junko' rolled her eyes, looking over at Makoto, who was red as a beet "Guys, stop, Makoto's gonna die of embarrassment"

Leon cackled at this reaction "It's all in good fun! You guys are cute together!"

"I j-just said s-she had nice freckles-" Makoto buried his face in a throw pillow, curling up

"Come on Naegi, let's ditch these losers and go outside." Mukuro always felt more comfortable outside.

He nodded, stumbling out of the common room.

Inside the gym sat a peculiar bear, sitting on a small stage. He's split in the middle, half white, half black, with a peculiar red eye.

"Is this some kind of joke…?" Toko spoke up for the first time since arriving "What is that supposed to be?"

"Your new headmaster!" The little bear sneered, standing up "Headmaster Monokuma!"

Yasuhiro laughed, unsure of how else to react "Oh- I totally get it now! This is all a thing to get us hyped for the entrance ceremony! Consider it a job well done, real human Headmaster!" He looked around hopefully, leaping back in surprise when Monokuma showed up behind him.

"Ohhh you got me! It's real human Monokuma!" The bear giggled, popping into a hatch in the floor and… Oh, sweet tap-dancing Christ. He presumably climbed back out as a pale, vaguely humanoid figure, split down the middle. His left half, rather than matching Monokuma, showed inner organs and bones, like an anatomical model.

"wHAT THE FUCK-" Hiro scrambled back, clinging onto Sakura.

Monokuma snickered, going back to his normal bear form "Welcome to Hope's Peak, kids! Enjoy your eternal stay~"

"Eternal?" Toko repeated, dumbfounded. "What do you mean by that?"

"You're never leaving! You agreed to it, after all!"

"No one would ever agree to that!" Leon protested "What is this, some terms and conditions bullshit nobody reads?"

"What about our families?" Makoto fretted, thinking about his sister and parents back home, sickeningly missing them already

"Oh, don't worry about them! They'll all agree this was the best idea!"

Toko growled uncharacteristically, shoving her hair into a bun "No they fuckin' wouldn't! Who's controlling you, you stupid bear?!"

"Awww shucks, well if you wanna leave me alone so bad, I guess there's one way…" Monokuma pouted "There's a Graduation clause. The goal here is to live a harmonious life together in these school walls, buuuut, if someone disrupted the harmony… Well, they graduate!" Monokuma popped a little confetti launcher

"Our own Headmaster promoting anarchy?" Taka's shock was evident

"Not just any anarchy! Murder! Homicide! Takin' 'em out to sleep with the fishes!" He drew a fuzzy thumb over his near-nonexistent neck

Taka dropped to his knees in shock. What twisted reality is this?

Toko, no… Someone else… Someone else who took over for Toko stomped their foot down "Nobody's killing anyone! I'll ask again, bitch, where's the real headmaster?"

"Maybe if you kill somebody they'll be kind enough to show you!" The terrible bear giggled

"Oh yeah?" They grinned, pushing up their uniform's sleeves as they stepped closer to Monokuma "I got a target in mind right now."

With nothing but an adrenaline and force Byakuya's only seen once before, they pick up Monokuma, spin, and toss him to the far gym wall.

"Stop it! You've already broken his glasses!" Jack commanded, stepping in between the bullies and the fragile child that was Byakuya.

"I-it's that weird girl!" One of them said, backing up. With a lunge from Jack they ran away.

He turned to kneel beside Byakuya. His, well, Toko's stockings were getting dirty from the mud "Are you okay?"

Byakuya sat up, wiping his eyes "Father will be so upset about these glasses, he paid thousands for them… I'm so selfish…"

"Hey, this isn't your fault." Jack put a grubby little hand on the other child's shoulder "You can borrow ours if you want."

"O-ours? Toko, what do you-"

"Can you keep a secret?" Jack whispered, slightly lisping from a front tooth the Host just lost. "Toko has a lot of friends in her mind and we take turns! I'm Jack!" He held out his hand

"... It's nice to meet you, Jack." Byakuya smiled softly

The student's ears rang from the bear exploding mid-air. It was dead silent from the shock of it all.

"H-headmaster Monokuma…" Taka hugged his knees, conflicted. He idolized all his Principals and Headmasters, and… And now one of them is encouraging murder! What's the truth anymore? Is this all a bad dream?

"Puhuhuhuhu~ Did you really think that was the last of me?" Monokuma danced back on stage "Consider that a warning! No touching or harming the Headmaster during your Killing School Life! While we're on the topic, please brush up on the rules! You will die if they're broken! Don't you like that, Kiyotaka?"

Taka couldn't respond, he and Chihiro drowning in the middle of a meltdown. Sakura picked them both up, and headed to the cafeteria. "Congratulations, bear. We'll follow your rules. For now. But we will get out, and no one needs to die for that."