No direct sex scenes in this chapter, but they will be implied. Disclaimer: I don't own Dangan Ronpa or Ace Attorney.
Chapter 5: Oasis of Hope in a Desert of Despair
Mioda snuggled closer to Kuwata as he slept. As the days wore on her extra-sensitive ears picked up sounds of machinery from the lower levels. She kept telling herself it was just the staff making sure the building was perfectly secure, but something was eating away at her, wondering if everything was truly all right. 'Then again, why wouldn't they be? It's not like any unfriendly characters got in without us knowing. They would have been found out by now.' Having convinced herself to relax, she fell asleep in her boyfriend's arms.
Tanaka still had a hard time believing it, but the beautiful reality was before his eyes. Sonia, his beloved, had up and pledged her honor to him, without a hint of regret in her eyes. Apparently, such an action was permitted by law in her country. It was the perfect coupling, Tanaka had always seen himself as close to the dark arts, yet a perfectly pure angel had offered to be his forever. Now Sonia was lying asleep in his arms, a look of contentment on her face. Even now he could see that same radiance shining through. Tanaka smiled. "Sleep well, princess. Hopefully soon this nightmare will pass."
Ishimaru and Oowada finished their rounds and then parted ways to sleep. As he got into bed, Oowada got out a picture of his girlfriend from the gang. "I can't help but wonder if you're still alive out there babe. With how messed up the world has gotten. You, the gang... I promised my brother I'd keep the Crazy Diamonds strong. But... Could even the greatest gang in survive like this?" He thought about, then smiled. "Bah, I shouldn't be thinking like that. I know you're still out there babe. And when this is all over, I'll find you... Somehow..."
Fujisaki looked through his entire room, but he couldn't find the program he had been working on before the field trip. "What's wrong Fujisaki?," Saionji asked as she came in. "I seem to have lost that program I was working on," Fujisaki replied, "You know, the one that could animate toys. I was hoping to use it as a birthday present for you, but it's missing, as is the prototype I was working on." Saionji looked disappointed. "Aw, you were gonna give a toy that could move on its own but now it's gone. Rats! What sort of toy was it?"
"A pure white teddie bear," Fujisaki said, "I remember you looking at one in a toy magazine and had it ordered to use as the prototype for my program. I wanted to surprise you with it." Saionji's eyes twinkled. "That's so sweet of you! Too bad someone took it. I mean, there's no way a genius like you would lose something so important." Fujisaki put a hand to his chin. "But who could have taken it? I've already checked with the others and none of them have it, and it's not in any of their rooms." A thought struck him. "Could there be someone in the school besides us and the headmaster?"
Several months passed without incident, save for one or two cases of cabin fever. And even those didn't last for long. Togami and Kuzuryuu were sitting in the reading room discussing the most obvious thing on everyone's minds; how were everyone's families holding up. "I'd like to hope that we'll all see our loved ones when we finally make it out of here," Togami said, "Even something like this is bound to end sooner or later." Kuzuryuu nodded. "The way I see it, we're grouped into three types of people here. First, there are those of us who have no family left on the outside to begin with, like Pekoyama or Ooshida. Then there are those of us who, while we'd certainly miss our families, would simply move on afterward, like the two of us. Finally there are those of us who would go ballistic upon finding out those closest to them were gone, like Maizono or Hanamura. We have no way of knowing what the outside's gonna be like when we're done, and until it's over we're just stuck here. That's it."
Almost a year had passed. Kamukura smiled as his followers finished the last of the death machines. His plan was ready to move into the next phase. "Do you have everything ready Matsuda?," he asked his partner. Matsuda nodded. "Everything's in place. But why take half of them out of the building." "You built that false persona from one of Fujisaki's programs," Kamukura said, "But it's worthless if can't be properly spread. That's why we need to take fifteen of the students to a secret location. Future Foundations has no idea that a mole has planted within. But we still need the rest to remain here so that the murders we force upon them will continue to keep despair strong. My dream is upon us. There is just one more obstacle in our path... The headmaster."
To be continued...
The final lead in happens next chapter. And don't sweat the small chapters here. I threw in too many details in the previous chapters so I have no idea how much more I can write.