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Kagehara walks into class, settling his shoulder bag down next to him and slumps down in his seat. He did not get enough sleep last night after replaying 3 trials of SDR2. Kagehara always had a problem with sleep and he couldn’t fix it. All the students around him always thought he was fucked in the head. The cyan strand dyed hair, headphones always on, heavy eyeliner, and messy hair said that he wasn’t normal. It was too clear he had BPD, but his dad never cared. He thought someday he would feel good about himself, but it never worked. He always pushed his negative thoughts to the back of his head, he doesn’t want to go through what happened months ago again.
He sat up with tired eyes, staring at the board. ‘Chemistry’ it read. Not this again, he thought. “Class I have a special announcement to make today!! We have a new student joining us, their name is Kokichi Ouma” Kagehara thought that was a cute name, he seemed more focused now. Kokichi walked in, nervously. He stared down at the floor as he walked, visibly scared and had purple ends in his hair, he looked sort of boring to kagehara, until he saw his bag. A Celestia Ludenberg keychain?? Kageharas eyes shot up, watching him now. “They’re going to be with us for the rest of the year, please show them respect blahblah blah..” Kagehara wasn’t listening, he was upright happy realising there's another danganronpa fan? In his grade? His class? And his seatmate?? Wait wha- “Please sit next to Kagehara, the boy with coloured strands.” Kokichi nodded and sat next to Kagehara.
Kagehara wanted to talk to him so badly, but didn’t know how to start it. He knew how to make so many friends online, but never in real life. He knew he would get yelled at by the teacher and embarrassed by everyone if he tried to talk to Kokichi during class. He tried to sum up a conversation during the whole class and what to say after they got out.
The bell had finally rung, kagehara quickly packed up and slowly walked out of the classroom purposely, to follow where kokichi would go. See if he had any friends first, if not then he could talk to him! Kokichi walked out past kagehara, ignoring him. He walked out of the building, looking around. Of course! It got to him- hes new of course he doesn’t know where to go. He can help him out. He walked up to kokichi and asked,
“Hey, are you okay?” Kokichi was startled at first- but calmed down a bit. “Ah- um yes actually I don’t really know where to go for lunch..” kokichi looked down. “It’s alright I can help you and show you around if you’re fine with that.” Kagehara said with a small smile. “That would be great actually” kokichi tried to look up to him and gave a soft smile.
Kokichi then noticed the monokuma pin on the strap of kageharas bag. “Wait- you like danganronpa?” kokichi asked, his eyes lighting up slightly. Kagehara smiled. “Well of course- look at my bag” he turned around and kokichi saw all the keychains and pins of so many characters. He saw Kyoko Kirigiri mainly- and Nagito, Monokuma, and Junko Enoshima.
Kokichi was star struck. “Oh my god you have so many..you’re like obsessed with it as much as I am.” kokichi said with a smile. Kagehara was beyond happy. “Really? Whats your favourite game?” kagehara said as they started to walk around, kokichi followed. “I really liked the second game, but the first has to be my favourite because of Celeste. I also have a keychain of her on my bag! See” kokichi showed him. Kagehara laughed. “Wow I love Celeste too she was really cool.” He was so happy to find another Danganronpa fan in the school, regarding how he’s been made fun of for liking such a ‘boring’ show. Kokichi was going to be his favourite person in the world, no one would take him away.