Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.

There wasn't any noise besides the tapping of my feet as i made my way around the floor, trying to find the gym.

As i was about to round a corner i heard some muffled noise, if i wasn't paying so much attention, im not sure I would have noticed it to begin with.

I slightly peaked my head over the corner in the direction of the noise, and tried to go as unnoticed as possible.

To my surprise as i peaked over the corner that i was glued to, i saw figures entering a door labeled gym.

Seeing as they were all going into the place that all the 'students' had been asked to go to, it was quite obvios that they had to be these 'students' that had been referenced in the announcement.

I decided to keep as much distance as possible, since i still wasn't sure about it they would help me or not.

After all, the main motto of this world is 'kill or be killed' since only the strongest survive, and it's always best to rely on yourself first and foremost.

When they had all entered the room and the door had closed behind them, i waited a few seconds, making sure the coast was clear, before advancing towards the now closed doors.

I gently put my ear to the door, waiting for the muffled voices to die down, before cautiously creaking the door open, so that it was open only a crack of the way, but still enough for me to see if the 'students' had all cleared out.

I scanned to room quickly, and advanced onwards, into the now empty room.

I looked around, there were tons of display cases in this room. Since i was supposedly still in Hope's peak, i had to assume that all these trophies were awards won by the past students.

With the sudden feeling that i was being watched, i looked behind me, when a sudden large security camera caught my eye.

It was abnormally large, like those giant ones you'd see in action movies, or older banks.

I looked around to see if anything else caught my eye, but nothing of real interest. Although that giant golden sword looked pretty cool.

I decided to follow the 'students' that had just entered the gym.

I slowly opened the door, trying to make as little noise as possible, so that i could still keep my cover.

I slipped in quietly, hurriedly going to hide behind the giant bleachers.

I looked around the giant room, it seemed like all the 'students' i had seen entering were all still here.

As i was about to start a head count the voice from the announcement earlier was suddenly heard from all around the gym.

"Hey there, howdy, hello! Is everyone here? Good! Then let's get things rolling!"

A sudden eerie music started to play, as a black and white teddy bear popped out from behind the podium that had been placed on top of the stage.

"Huh? A...teddy bear?"

I looked to see who had asked the question, only to see the familiar face of the small loli angel i had bumped into on my way into the school.

"Im not a teddy bear! I...am...Monokuma! And i am this school's headmaster!"

What. the. actual. fuck.

What did he mean by headmaster?

A teddy bear? In charge of a school? There's no way that was possible.

And even if it was, teddy bears aren't sentient beings, they can't think or move by themselves without a remote control!

"Nice to meet you all!"

"Wh-? Waaaaaah! That teddy bear can talk!" The fat guy said, honestly kinda looks like a total perv.

"Calm down! I'm sure there's just a speaker inside it." The tall government looking kid said, trying to reassure Mr. perv, although i don't think it was working all that well.

"I told you already, I'm not a teddy bear..." The teddy bear said looking slightly irritated.

The bear suddenly beard it's teeth, now looking enranged. "I'm Monokuma! And I'm your headmaster!"

"Waaaaaah! It moved!" The fat guy exclaimed, if he could just shut up, he could contribute alot more then if he continued talking.

"Seriously man, calm down! It prolly just a remote control toy or somethin'." The 'tough' looking guy said, he looked like he had some trama just waiting to be discovered. I know I'm gonna have fun annoying him.

"How dare you compare me to a child's plaything! You've cut me deep. Deeper than the Marina Trench..." The bear said looking stilghtly downcast.

"My remote control system is so complex, even the folks at NASA can't recreate or even comprehend it!" He spewed, chuckling to himself.

The bear's mood changed back to being angry. "Ah, but don't make me say stuff that might destroy NASA's dreams. I just couldn't BEAR that!"

A goth lolita girl suddenly spoke up, ""Bear" that? Really? You are... unfortunate." She said it almost as if she was disappointed, i thought it was kinda clever though.

"Now then, moving on! We must really hurry and get started..." The bear said

A girl with bubblegum pink hair, and slight frekels spoke up. "Giving up already? No other stupid bear puns?" She looked pretty cute, though i don't have to disagree, i kinda liked the puns.

"Quiet down now, quiet down. Ah, ok, so...!" Monokuma said, completely ignoring her.

"He has abandoned the gag..." An extremely buff dude in a girl's school uniform remarked. I will say, it looked quite good his tall muscular figure.

"Everyone, stand at attention and bow! And...good morning!"

The government kid suddenly dropped into a low bow. "Good morning!!!" He shouted.

I take back what I said, that kid is a total teacher's pet. I thought as i sweatdroped.

A shy and nervous looking girl suddenly piped up with a stutter, "Y-You don't have to s-say it back..." Poor girl, she's probably scared out of her wits.

Brushing her off the bear continued.

"Now then, let us commence with a most noteworthy and memorable entrance ceremony! First let's talk a bit about what your school life here will be like. Now, ah, make no mistake-you few students, so full of life, so full of potential, represent the hope of the world."

I suddenly shuddered, i don't know why, but that sentence had felt so wrong to me.

"And to protect such splendid hope...you will all live a communal life together solely within the confined of this school. Everyone will live in harmony together, and adhere to the rules and regulations of the school."

"Ah, now then... regarding the end date for this communal life...There isn't one! In other words, you'll all be here until the day you die! Such is the school life you've been assigned."

What...?

What dose he mean by till the day we die?

There's no way we can stay her forever...he can't keep us here for that long...

I spaced out, only really half listening to what was being said beyond my hiding spot, until something the bear said caught me attention...

"I guess i did forget to mention one thing. There *is* one way for you to leave the school..."

I zoned back in, if i missed what he said i could end up stuck here with the rest of these chumps.

"As headmaster, I've crafted a special clause for those of you who would like to leave! I call it...the Graduation Clause!"

"Now, let me tell you about this fun little rule. As i mentioned, in order to maintain an environment of harmony here, we rely on a communal lifestyle. And if someone were to disrupt that harmony, they and they alone would be allowed to leave the school. That, my students, is the Graduation Clause!"

"What do you mean by "disrupt the harmony"?" A tall skinny looking kid asked, though he looked like he was made of more leg then actual body.

"Puhuhu... Well, you know... If one person were to murder another." He chuckled sinisterly, almost mocking us.

My breath caught in my throat, as he listed multiple ways that we could kill eachother.

I couldn't breathe, i felt like i was going to throw up, i covered my mouth as bile reached my mouth from my empty stomach.

I couldn't concentrate, my vision got blurry, my legs went weak, and i fell to my knees.

I slapped myself.

"Get of yourself. Your better then this y/n. You can do this, you've delt with assholes your whole life. You've delt with beatings, street fights, pervs, and so much other shit. What's one little killing game going to do to you? Your better then this, your y/n fucking l/n. You can do this!" I whispered to myself.

I suddenly heard a beeping noise.

Was there a bomb?

Why would a bomb be in a school?

I rushed out of my hiding spot in time to see the guy with corn shaped hair scream at the now beeping Monokuma.

"Watch out! Get rid of it!" The girl with the purple hair shouted at corn hair.

He only looked at her confused, not really understanding what was about to happen.

"HURRY UP AND THROW IT YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!! ITS GONNA BLOW!!!" I screamed as i rushed forward, leaping onto someone's back, and throwing the switchblade that i still had in my hand, just as he threw the stuffed bear.

The beeping only got faster as the switchblade hit it midair, sending it flying towards the wall as it exploded.

I landed on my feet with a smooth cart wheel landing to boot.

I got up off the floor and onto my feet as i marched over to the idiot male and slapped him clean in the face. The few rings i had on, scratching it slightly in the process.

"What the hell where you thinking! Do you know how stupid your decision was just now! Get a hold of your fucking temper! You could have not only gotten yourself killed, but everyone else here too! And that would have been innocent blood on your hands!" I shouted at him.

The large male still seemed to be in a daze, so i slapped him again. Honestly felt pretty good, so i slapped him a third time for the road.

A voice pipped up from somewhere behind me.

"But you know... This means that the teddy bear's been destroyed, right?"

I looked at the small loli girl, only sighing to myself that she had probably just jinxed it.

As soon as the thought crossed my mind, a black and white teddy bear popped up from behind the podium once again.

"I told you, I'm not a teddy bear! I'm Monokuma!"

"Uwah! There's another one...?" A dude with red hair and a goatee started wailing.

I just sighed as Monokuma continued blabbering on, it was starting to bore me.

"Any naughty boy or girl who violates my rules won't get off with just a swat on the butt."

I cleared my throat, grabbing the attention of everyone in the gym.

"And what if someone is neither?"

The bear stopped for a momment, prosseing what i had just asked him.

"I'm sorry, what?"

I sighed, this always happens, it's always without a fail happened.

"What i mean is, i for instance am genderfluid. Meaning my gender changes. And that also means that i can be a boy, a girl, or neither. And it just so happens that today i am neither."

The poor bear looked like it was about to explode. It was always fun to do this, even if i am he/him today, but a little white lie never hurt once in while, right?

"H-Hey... Dose this mean there's like, a bunch more of you bears around somewhere?" The pink haired girl asked, basically giving the bear a chance to escape from the heat of the question.

Damn bitch.

"Monokumas have been placed all throughout the school, yes. Plus don't forget the surveillance cameras installed everywhere. And if your caught breaking any rules, well... You all just saw what happened, right?" He asked sarcastically, almost as if he were mocking us.

"Puhuhu... And i won't be so forgiving with my punishment next time. So don't let it happen again!"

"Th-That's not even punishment. That's just...wrong..." A girl with what looked like a squid on her head exclaimed.

"Now then, lastly...to commemorate your joyous entry into out school, i have a little something for you..."

Monokuma then pulled out a bunch of tablets, and and handed one to each of us.

"This is our official student handbook! Pretty cool, huh? As you can see, it's fully digital. So naturally, we call it... The e-handbook!" He exclaimed, almost like he was showing us a revolutionary peice of technology.

As he continued blabbering on about the handbook, as i zoned out again. I inspected the handbook, and looked through all the rules, and all the information on it.

As i paged through the handbook a second time, the rest of my classmates were discussing what had just happened.

I'll tell you this, i couldn't really be bothered to care.

After all, the strongest survive, while the weak all diminish, and rot away.

The best tactic to survival? First lookout for yourself, make sure your calm and collected, then gain the trust of someone. Make sure that their loyal to you, and you should be just as loyal to them.

I looked around, scanning the teens around me. They were talking about the rules now, trying to understand all the rules to their fullest.

My eye caught five people who could be good options.

Nevermind, make that four. I don't think the rich snob, who was currently taunting corn hair, was the best option as a secondary person...

Corn hair had suddenly turned onto the ahoge boy, shouting something about being his dad? I now kinda regreted not listening to what they were saying...

With a loud "fuck you", he punched the poor guy square in the face, sending him flying back from the force of the punch.

I winced as ahoge bro landed in a heap about a meter away from where he was standing just a second ago.

I heard squid girl shout something at corn hair, as i rushed forward to make sure that the heap on the floor wasn't bleeding from anywhere vital.

Lucky kid had only maybe gotten a cracked nose, but it wasn't something to be too conserned about.

My list was now narrowed down to three and a half, kid seems like a wimp, a useful one, but a wimp non the less.

"Is-Is he going to be okay?" I heard a voice ask from infront of me.

I looked up at the girl infront of me, she had long blue hair and was wearing a school uniform, i think her name is sayaka. If i remmbered correctly, she was a famous pop idol.

Alot of the teen girls who would come to the shop would often talk about one new song or another.

I gave her a soft smile, and nodded. "He should be fine with a little rest, probably just got his nose cracked. But don't worry he'll be fine by the time he wakes up!" I reassured her when i saw the slight panic on her fetures.

I took out some band-aids from one of my apron pockets, and placed them gently on his nose so that if any blood leaked out it wouldn't stain his clothes and/or face.

I gently picked him up and slumped him over my shoulders like a sack of....holy shit this kid is light, dose he even eat anything?

Steering my attention away from the sack of feathers thrown over my shoulder, i turned to the still arguing idiots infront of me.

By now it looked like squid girl and corn head were now ganging up on snobby, while teacher's pet was trying, and failing, to separate them.

I removed one of my hands that supported the weight on my shoulders, and reached for the thin rope around my neck.

"Wh-What the h-hell is that n-noise!!!" The girl who had two long purple braids screamed covering her ears from the high-pitched sound that had just sounded all over the gym.

I removed the rape whistle i always carry with me from my lips, placing it back under my collar, and securing my hand back around the sack of feathers.

"Listen up!" By now everyone was looking at me, some of them looked pissed big time though...I'll have to apologise for he whistle later.

I cleared my throat, "I know that we don't trust anyone around us, all of us are strangers to eachother right now, but if you all want to get out of here alive, you have to work together."

Snobby scoffed at my claim, i looked him dead in the eyes, daring him to talk back. "I don't see why the likes of i should work with all these plebians, it's outrageous that you would think such a thing!"

I sighed, i would have tackled him to the ground and mangled him into a bloody corpse by now, but i thought better of it...sadly...

"Alright then, go explore on your own, let's see how fast your attitude lasts. Cause I'll promise you this, if you keep such a horrible attitude towards the rest of us, and our situation up, there won't be anyone who'll want to help you in the end. You'll be alone, with no one there who could ever want to lend you a hand when your in danger."

Snobby looked at me, for a split second his mask cracked, and he looked genuinely...hurt...? I almost thought i imagined it when without missing a beat, he was back to his snobby self, and scoffed at my words, before turning tail and leaving without another word spoken.

I simply sighed, not everyone could be convinced to work together, we all are people with different opinions after all.

After about ten minutes of separating the rest of the students into groups to check the school, i decided that it was probably best i get feathers who had still been slumped on my shoulder this whole time, to a place he could rest.

I remembered seeing a hallway with, doors that had nameplates on them, on my was to the gym from before.

I headed over into the direction of the doors, in hopes getting the kid a bed, when i heard a call from behind me.

"Um, person? Please wait!" I stopped, and turned around to see the girl with pastel pink hair chasing after the small cute Loli girl, whom a had to assume tried calling out to me.

I tried to suppress the small snort that almost escaped my lips, poor girl probably had no idea what to call me!

They both took deep breaths as they stopped next to me, probably slightly tired from running all the way over to catch up to me.

"Hello, how can I help you?" I said smiling softly at them.

The small girl tensed up, yet lucky for her, pink hair was already extending a hand for a handshake.

"The names Junko Emoshima! Nice to officially meet ya'! And this little cutie is Chihiro Fujisaki."

I smiled at both of them, "The pleasures all mine, call me y/n, and pronouns are he/him at the momment!"

They both nodded. They seemed nice, though i was still slightly iratated at the pink haired girl for before, from when she took the heat off of the damn bear.

"Do you two want to join me? I thought I saw some doors with nameplates on them, on my way to the gym from before. I'm gonna go check them out and see if there's a bed to put him in." I said as i nodded towards the sack of feathers on my shoulders.

They both nodded in agreement, and followed me as i lead the way to the rooms.

There was idle chatter between the three of us, it was...quite nice actually...

I hadn't had to many interesting conversations in some time, so the change of pace was quite nice.

By the time we reached the dorms, i had found out the Junko was the ultimate fashionista, and Chihiro the ultimate programer.

They told a few stories about stuff that they had done in the past, like for instance how one time for a modeling gig, Junko had to pose with an elephant and thee fully grown tigers in the same room.

As we entered the room, and i finally placed feathers on the bed, i was asked a question from Chihiro.

"Um, y/n I've been wondering...what exactly is you're ultimate talent?" She looked so nervous, almost like i would hate her for a simple question.

I chuckled nervously, as i rubbed the back of my neck, "Well mine is probably gonna sound super lame compared to both of yours..."

Both shook their heads, and exclaimed words of protest, that they bet it was super cool.

Giving in i sighed, welp, everyone was going to find out anyways, so might as well get it over with now...

"I guess I'll reintroduce myself then, the names y/n l/n, and I'm the ultimate hairdresser!"

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Holy shit that took a long time to write! Super happy with it tho, and it's like 3600 words (not including the segment your reading rn) so no way is my lazy ass chance is changing it.

Maid togami gives me life, its so simple yet so stupidly funny at the same time.

I am kinda proud of myself, cause half of this was written and edited in the bomb shelt downstairs, with almost no internet.

Who's your favorite Danganronpa character, I'm curious, mine is either Chihiro or kokichi, i can't decide!

Have an amazing rest of the day, and don't forget to eat and drink something!

See you all next chapter! Bai!!!