Chapter 1: Pulling the Trigger (Aftermath)

Hello, I'm back again for another chapter. This one won't be as long as the others, but I need to address one thing.

In the review section, someone asked me if I was going to make a story of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. The thing about that is I just don't want to change the murders in DR2 because they're so well thought out. In fact, they're SUPERIOR to DR1's murders.

Also there is a story reason why Joshen, Cal, and Zuta replaced Hagakure, Asahina, and Yamada which will be addressed in this chapter. But I can't think of a story reason why to replace any of the DR1 characters. Also, I just don't have it in my heart to remove any of them (Well, except for Hiyoko. She can die in a fire).

And on that note; on with the show!

It was close to nighttime when the class trial was over. I laid on my bed, staring at the ceiling. The very recent memories of Zuta and Kuwata's deaths still roamed in my mind. The very thought that our numbers dropped from fifteen to thirteen in just 4 days. I was honestly scared; we'll be dropping like flies at this point. Just then a thought I didn't want to see came into my mind.

'What if Maizono dies?' After that thought briefly flashed in my mind; I tried to shake it away, but with no avail. Just then I heard my doorbell ring. I walked over to my door and opened it slowly, and the one who was behind it was the person I was just thinking about.

"Maizono? What are you doing here? It's close to nighttime." I asked her, she just held her arms as if she was hugging herself. She looked down at the ground for a bit and looked back up at me.

"C-can I talk to you for a bit?" She asked weakly. Mostly from when she saw Kuwata's execution. I nodded and let her inside of my room, she slowly walked to my bed and sat down on it.

"Did Monokuma remove Zuta's body?" I asked her, she slightly stiffened up. Probably from the memory of his body in her room.

"Y-yes…" She said. Her lips were trembling, her body was quaking, she couldn't get up from my bed. I honestly felt sorry for her. "It's just that, even though the body is gone. I'm just too scared to sleep in my room tonight." I was wondering where she was going for this. A bunch of thoughts came through my mind as what she was going to say next. But the one she said was one option that I hadn't even considered.

"So…Can I sleep with you? Just for tonight?" I started turning redder than Ishimaru's eyes. The option never even crossed my mind, I just thought we were friends. I didn't know we became THAT close.

"W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-what are you saying!? Are you suggesting that we're going to sleep in the same bed!?" I started to wave my hands in front of me, Maizono then nodded at me in response to my sudden disapproval; I then started to suggest other options we could take. "W-we could always switch rooms for the night? Is that fine with you? Okay, see you later!" Just as I was about to rush out of the door, I looked back at Maizono.

Her face held a depressed expression. As if she wanted to sleep in the same bed as me. It broke my heart seeing any other expression but joy on her face. I sighed and accepted my defeat to her. "Alright, I've changed my mind; I'll stay with you." Her face took a U-turn and went to the face I've always wanted to see her in.

She then stood up from the bed and gave me a great hug. I actually felt my lungs being squeezed out from her hug. "Oh thank you Naegi, it really means a lot to me." She released me from her "Hug of Death" and backed away to let me catch my breath; and just as she let go we heard the bell ring and Monokuma's nighttime announcement played.

"We should probably get some rest, Ishimaru's gonna yell at us in the morning if we're late." I told the blue haired idol, she nodded and got under the covers with me. We then said our good nights and went to sleep.

-Mastermind

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" I pounded my fist on the control panel. "Dammit! Why the hell isn't Maizono supposed to be dead?" I then got up from the chair and paced around the room a bit.

"I had everything planned out…I figured out who would kill who. And yet, she's still alive! Kuwata was supposed to kill her!" I then looked back at the numerous amount of monitors, each one showing a view of each room in the school. And one of them caught my attention.

"Hmm…You're the reason I bet." I stared at the monitor that showed the comedian's room. He was laying on the bed with his arms crossed over his head. "Why the hell are you here?"

I then checked a clipboard on the desk next to me and then looked back at the monitor. "That room's supposed to belong to Yasuhiro Hagakure. So why are you in there?"

I then looked at the clipboard again then glanced over at a different monitor. The one with the artist. She was sleeping soundly…it disgusted me. "And you are sleeping in Aoi Asahina's room."

I slammed the clipboard on the ground breaking it. "If those two are in their rooms, then who changed it?"

-Joshen

I really couldn't sleep the night of the first trial. The fact that someone was murdered, one was injured, one was executed, and what I saw on Sayaka's video shocked me so hard I had trouble thinking about anything other than the video.

I picked at my motivational video I saw on my desk and stared at it for a while. "No wonder it hit her so hard…She must be very attached to her band mates. But if that's true, why didn't she try to kill someone?" I was still looking at my video disk like a blacksmith would look at his work. "Could it be; she didn't want to betray Naegi?" I dropped the disk on the floor, not caring for it. "Frankly, I couldn't even care about the people I saw."

"Tch…That bear can't fool me, I know how to use editing programs too." I said to myself as I covered my head with my sheets. I then took out my MP3 player and turned it on. The song that played was the Jeopardy theme.

"How fitting." I switched it to another song…Through the Fire and the Flames by dragonforce.

"I can't go to sleep with this." The next song was even worse…A song by a popular boy band.

"NO!" The next song was actually called Monochrome Answer by the Japanese Taylor Swift, Sayaka Maizono.

"Huh, it's actually really good." I started to bob my head to the beats even though I didn't know the lyrics because it was in Japanese. The song soon put me into a peaceful sleep that wouldn't wake me until the morning.

13/15 Students remaining.