"Train your heart by crying,
Laughing, and venting your
Anger, Himiko."

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After School Gardening Club
Ft. Y/N and Makoto Naegi

"Makoto im going to need your luck right now, am i mean right fucking now." I whispered under my breath. I was tied up in a chair next to Makoto, on top of the desk was a plant.

It was so cute, it was small and green. I can't tell what it was, I have no idea what it could be... Maybe it was one of Monokumas... contraptions?

I'm guessing our executives are getting mashed together. That or... his ultimate and my execution. Our classmates watched us with wide eyes, nobody knew what was going on. Kyoko couldn't look both of us in the eye, I guess she felt guilty... I knew she had to do it in order to progress the storyline.

"I-I'm not even sure if I could save myself, im s-sorry Y/N." He apologized. Makoto plopped down onto the table and handed us our things. He pulled himself up on the stool chair and pulled out a Baton. Pointing to the chalkboard, our execution started.

We had to make the plant grow. We descended further on the conveyor belt, closer and closer to hell.

"Follow my exact instructions, we can't mess up." I gestured what to pour onto the plant to make it healthy.

Makoto held up a purple bottle, pouring it into the plant pot as he asked, "This?"

"NO! Not that!" I held out my arm. My heart stopped, I don't know what he just poured into the plant but it wasn't good.... The plant started to shake, 'oh, he's done it now...'

The plant grew rapidly and snapped at us. Makoto shouted and kicked the plant off the table.

"IT'S ALIVE?!" He shouted.

"IT'S BEEN ALIVE, MORON!"

The plant broke free from its plot and grew, it chomped on our desk and chomped at us. The hatch to the garbage shoot opened and I saw Alter Ego glitched onto the screen.

The set fell down the shoot. Next came us, not before the monster bit at us. It was coming straight for our heads, we screamed before falling down the shoot, the hatchet cut the monster down in half as we fell down further and further. The screams of our classmates were getting farther and more distant.

We were rapidly falling, we disregarded the desks a long time ago. Makoto extended an arm out to me and we embraced each other in a hug before hitting something moist and crunchy. 'Oh fuck no.'

I pulled both myself and Makoto out from the pile of trash and to the center of...wherever it was. Makoto was unconscious, I was kinda just dragging him by his arm.

"Makoto! Makoto, wake up!" I started to shake his shoulders.

His eyes fluttered open before he pushed himself up, he rubbed his eyes and looked around the garbage filled room. "Is... this a dream?"

"No...this isn't a dream." I helped him up to his feet and he started to gag hourly. He held his nose, he asked what the smell was and I pointed behind me. "Most likely the garbage stacks piled up behind me."

"What an awful smell... This must be some kind of...underground garbage pit" We looked at each other and the area we were in.. We were basically standing for twenty four hours until Kyoko would eventually fall down and save us...

Hopefully she shows up... Please don't flake on us Kyoko and leave us stranded!

"We're going to have to wait... sorry, I don't think we could do anything about it."

And wait we did.

We waited... and waited... and waited... and waited. We slowly drifted off into sleep, we already spent a couple of hours here i assumed... I can't tell time apart the longer I'm down here. I hate it here... I was awoken abruptly when something, or someone, fell from the sky. They landed with a splat.

We both jumped as Kyoko crashed onto a trash pile. He let out a high pitched squeal as I jumped up to help the struggling detective. "What the--!?"

'Hello free ticket out of here--' I pulled the purplette out of the trash pile and she thanked me.

"Oh... oh.. This place smells awful." She held her nose. Noodles dripped down the side of her face and onto the floor.

"K-Kyoko!?" Makoto gasped.

"You two look like you're doing better than I expected..."

"Oh my God! Wh-What are you doing here?"

"Isn't it obvious? I'm here to help you guys out."

"I'm glad to hear that, Kyoko... Umm...you've got a bit of garbage in your hair..." he went to help remove the trash on her head but she shook it off abruptly, one sharp shake to get rid of the trash, then faced us again. The trash hit the two of us in the face. I quickly pulled a noodle off my face and bag.

"First, I have something for you." Her face flushed red from embarrassment, she headed out for some bread and water for the two of us. I'm sure they touched the garbage but in all honesty I would eat that then something that's been here for three weeks. Three weeks beats 5 seconds by a longshot. "Go ahead and eat it. We can talk once you're finished."

We quickly thanked her and dug in, "Whew, that really hit the spot! Now I've got all the energy I need to keep going!"

"So you still haven't given up, then."

"Given up? He's been non-stop banging on the door ever since we got here." I rolled my eyes as Makoto's cheeks flushed red. I saw him eyeing my bread.... 'not another Yashihiro clone please...'

"O-Of course not! After all, the fact that I can k-keep going forward is about all I'm good at..." He agreed.

"Well, that's not such a bad thing to be good at."

"But Kyoko... Why'd you come to rescue us?" He asked for the purple tette. He tried to snag a bite, I roughly shoved him.

"...don't fight over bread. But, to pay a debt. Or, no...to atone."

"Atone...?"

"During the trial, even though you both knew I was lying, yet--you didn't say anything."

"So...you knew that I knew...Y/N did you know?" Makoto asked me.

"You have no idea what I know--" They looked at me confused, "Sorry, I know now. I was just trying to have a main character moment."

"....But, main character in what?" She asked.

"Ignore what I said..."

"Anyways, even though I knew, I did nothing to help you. I...abandoned you two."

"Don't say that! You didn't abandon me!" He tried to make her feel better.

"No no-- don't downplay what she did. She left us high and dry!"

She agreed with me, "That's exactly what I did. I abandoned you in order to save my own life. You were trying to save me, and I couldn't bring myself to do the same for you. But listen, not that I'm trying to make excuses, but...there was a reason that I had to survive no matter the cost."

"Why did you have to survive?"

"I'll tell you. I'll tell you everything... The reason I have to survive...so that I can do what I came to this school to do."

"What...?"

"I made up my mind to come to Hope's Peak Academy for one very important reason."

"So you have some reason for coming to Hope's Peak?" Makoto asked.

"What was the reason?" I bit down on the bread as Makoto crushed the water bottle and just threw it into the trash bin, he was eyeing my bread.

"That's right. At least, I did, once."

"Once...?" He successfully snagged a bite of my bread and I punched him in the shoulder. 'This mother fucker...'

"I could have brought more bread-- anyways, until recently...I'd forgotten what it was."

"Then...is it really true? You lost your memory?" I asked.

"Do you remember, Y/N? Do you remember the first thing that happened to each of us as soon as we arrived at this school?"

"You're talking about when we fainted, right? I guess I fainted, and when I woke up...I was trapped here." 'I kinda came here differently... but i'll just say i showed up like how they did...'

"I fainted, too. And when I woke up...I noticed a strange feeling of...separation within myself. A disconnect. Thinking back on it now, at that point my memory was gone. At that time...I'd forgotten. I couldn't remember why I'd come to this school, and I couldn't remember what my 'ultimate' ability was."

"But...what would make you forget all that?" He asked.

"Strange, isn't it? It's hard to imagine it happened by chance. It seems much too convenient. Are you saying you think you lost your memory because...?" 'i think i should just let her answer all these questions on her own... unless I want to cause trouble—I might just.'

"I don't think so. I'm positive it was the work of the mastermind. They stole my memory..."

"B-But...why would they want to do that?"

"There's only one reason I can come up with. Because of my purpose, and my ability. Somehow, they would interfere with the mastermind's plans." Her eyes flickered between us, "And it could also mean...somehow, my memories may be connected to the mystery of this school, and the mastermind. Which is why I have to get them back. That's why I've been investigating things by myself this whole time."

"But if what you say is true, why didn't you ask the rest of us to help you?"

"If I did that, and we all worked as one, the mastermind would have noticed right away. Plus... There's always the chance that the mastermind is actually one of us..."

"What...?"

"Well, don't make too big a deal of it. It's just a possibility. But since it is a possibility, we can't ignore it, right?" 'They're so close but yet so far....'

"That being said, there was a limit to what I could do by myself. Which is why I asked you to help me." She stopped talking to me and turned her attention back to Makoto, 'geez, how thoughtful.'

"But...why me?"

"Because among everyone, you were least likely to be the mastermind. That was just intuition, but..." She looked at me, "I guess Y/N wasn't well. I would have thought so earlier but not so now ...."

He scratched his cheek, "I-I see... Your intuition was right, though. There's no way an ordinary kid like me could've been the mastermind." he paused a little before looking out to nowhere. He shuttered a bit.

"You okay?" I asked.

"O-Oh, yeah...it's nothing."

"If you say so....Even now, I still trust you, you know? It's just... I'm not used to relying on others. I know I never asked you for help the right way, so I understand if you're not convinced..."

"You said you had a reason for doing all that investigating on your own..." I asked, "So...how'd that turn out? Were you able to remember anything?"

She confessed, "I think there's still a lot I don't remember. But at the very least...I was finally able to recall my purpose, and my ability."

"You mentioned your ability..." Makoto asked.

"My ability--what everyone should have known me for... I'm the Ultimate Detective."

"Could've guessed from the outfit." I chuckled.

"We couldn't tell what you were with your ultimate. You basically have two." Damn my bad Kyoko.. "Anyways, the reason I came to Hope's Peak Academy... There was someone I had to find here in the school."

"You had to find someone...? Who?"

"Well... He was the headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy."

"The headmaster!? Why did you want to find the headmaster!?"

I blurted out, "Because he's her father."

"What!?"

"It looks like... you already knew. I was separated from him as a child. As it turns out, he became the headmaster of Hope's Peak." She nodded. I started to sweat, 'I didn't mean to jump the gun, I was just too excited we were getting to the end.'

I'm lying.

"Then that explains... When Alter Ego told us how he thought the headmaster was involved..." Makoto was flabbergasted.

"I'll find a way...No matter what it takes...I will find the headmaster. No matter the cost..." We were both confused with what she was referring to but we didn't dare question her. Her glare was icy. "My memory hadn't come back at that point. But when he said that, I felt...strange. It makes perfect sense now, of course, since my whole purpose for coming here was to find him."

"T-That makes sense..." We accepted her description.

"But listen, you guys. I want to make this perfectly clear, so there's no misunderstanding... I said the headmaster wasn't the mastermind, but I didn't say that to protect him. I only said what I felt based on what I'd seen when I snuck into the headmaster's room."

"Then...what did you see there?" I asked.

"The room had been ransacked. The shelves were a mess, the desk drawers dumped on the floor... The only conclusion is that someone who didn't know where anything was had been in there."

"You mean...the mastermind, right?" Makoto asked.

"That was my assumption, yes. And to confirm my suspicion..." She held out the key with the bear's head. "...I decided to investigate the 2nd floor of the dorms using the key I'd found."

"But...why there?"

"For real, you had the entire school to investigate and you chose there?" I liked causing drama.

Her eyes twitched. "B-Because I also found this in the headmaster's room."

She handed us a paper and Makoto took it, asking "This is...some kind of map?"

"It's a layout of the entirety of Hope's Peak Academy. I found it in the headmaster's room, along with Mukuro's profile and that key. The map showed that the 2nd floor was home to a number of rooms meant for faculty use." She was so happy with her explanation. "Some of the staff must have had to stay overnight from time to time. And I figured the headmaster would have some kind of private room there... I assumed that if that were true, that room would likely hold more clues. So I went to check... And that's when I finally remembered. I remembered that my purpose was to find the owner of that room."

"So you went there to see if the headmaster really did have a private room there..."

"But once I got there, I noticed that the 2nd floor of the dorms didn't have any cameras or monitors."

"So..." I instigated.

"So what?"

"So, what was it like? That part of the school, I mean..."

"It's hard to describe. All I can say is the moment I saw it, I realized...whatever's going on in this school is more horrific than we ever imagined. I can read your expression, and no, I can't explain it. You need to see it for yourself. And I'm sure you'll get your chance soon enough... Of course, once I got to the 2nd floor of the dorms, there were no cameras, and no monitors. Which is why I had no idea what was going on in the rest of the building."

"It has to do with Mukuro Ikusaba, doesn't it?" Makoto asked.

She looked around, "Just to be perfectly clear, I didn't kill her. And I know it wasn't either of you two. Actually I wouldn't put it past Y/N."

"What?!"

"I'm just kidding." She flashed me a soft smile.

"I know you're right. But that just means... Everyone but you, me and Y/N had an alibi. So then who did kill her...?"

"What I can say for sure is that the mastermind is directly involved. To begin with, the point of the class trial of Mukuro Ikusaba... was to get me killed." She explained the entire plan about who Mukuro really was, what was supposed to happen and what was going to happen.

She explained how Makoto could've been the unlucky one and perished. Thankfully I haven't gotten attacked by Junko. The only thing I've gotten was a small bear following me around. It wasnt fun but i rather deal with that and not murder. She explained how whoever the masked assailant was, that they ended up dead. And their murder was disguised, and the dojo key wound up in her room...

She continued on to talk about the ultimate and despair... I was growing more and more bored of the conversation... I just wanted to get out of this garbage field as soon as possible..

Maybe this is why they never included me in their conversation about the mastermind. I can't sit still for shit.

"Make no mistake..." Her eyes narrowed down to the two of us. "They're the root of all the evil that has forced us to go through this. Justice will prevail."

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New Achievement Unlocked
Batman Kyoko

Dangan-Trust Stats

Makoto Naegi — (Trust)
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Makoto Naegi — (Science lab partners)

Kyoko Kirigiri — (Trust)
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Kyoko Kirigiri — (Partners in crime)

Byakuya Togami — (Slightly Less Tense)
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Byakuya Togami — (Mortified)

'Junko Enoshima' — (Deceased)

Kiyotaka Ishimaru — (Got La Signora'ed)

Leon Kuwata — (Deceased)

Mondo Owada — (In a polyamorous relationship)

Chihiro Fujisaki — (In a polyamorous relationship)

Aoi Asahina — (Neutral)
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Aoi Asahina — (Scared shitless)

Sakura Ogami - (Backstabber...)

Hifumi Yamada - (Deceased)

Toko Fukawa - (????)
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Toko Fukawa - (???)

Yasuhiro Hagakure - (Neutral)
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Yasuhiro Hagakure - (distressed)

Sayaka Maizono - (Deceased)

Celestia Ludenberg - (Babysitter)

Achievements:
Petting Zoo
Friendship is magic
Boom Baby
Cooking mama
Are Ya Making Friends Son?
THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING
Parent Trap
Ace Attorney
Minecraft sparkle
Bounded together?
Fortune Teller
Cyberchase
Angsty teen
Eggless...
Bakugou was here
Batman Kyoko

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This was well over 3000 words wow...