(Pd) awe yeah happy birthday makoto! How’s it feel to celebrate your first birthday with your son?
Makoto:Thanks and it's neat, I mean to me my birthday is not a big deal so it's just another day to me, I'm just happy he's here with us.
Junko:Well to me it's one of the most important days in the universe, if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have anything I have right now, you're the best thing that ever happened, and I'll say this as many times as I have to.
Makoto:Junko...
Natsumi:You also helped us a lot too, I don't think my brother, my would be Sister-in-law, Peko and their friends would have been spared if it wasn't for you.
Hajime:Yeah, you did help us all a lot.
Shuichi:You Even allowed me and Miu to have a place to stay when we escaped the Killing Game.
Miu:Yeah, thanks for everything.
Chara:You're really cool dad...
Makoto:Well thanks, I just did what seemed right to me...though with Junko that was a bit more self-indulgent, but making people's life better does make me happy...
Zarc:...Hehe.
((Yuya is used as a stand-in for Zarc since he doesn't have baby pictures))
((Sorry for the sloppiness of this one, not really feeling up to it right now.
In fact I'm so not feeling up to it that I made this one in my main blog and I'm too lazy to remake it in the actual blog))
Hiyoko:What's taking them so long? I'm already getting bored of this.
Mahiru:Sit down.
Fuyuhiko:You weren't this impatient in our wedding.
Hiyoko:Cause I care about you two more.
Natsumi:Shut up here they are.
*Shuichi shows up walking down the aisle with Makoto and Gonta*
Makoto:You sure are ready for this?
Shuichi:Yeah, I am...
Makoto:*Comforts Shuichi's back and stands by his side alongside Gonta*
...
*Miu shows up alongside Junko and Maki*
Junko:Don't worry about it, you'll do fine.
Miu:Thanks...
((Source of the Miu Art))
Shuichi:...
Miu:...
Hajime:So...Anything you want to say before the kiss?
Shuichi:I just want you to know...That you're amazing, you're beautiful, you're smart, you're kind, you're the whole package and more...Even if I'm still blindsided by your quirks, they're the things that make you...you that I don't want them to go away, they make you the endearingly lovable person you are...and I'm glad that you stood by me all this time, without you I wouldn't be here, many of us wouldn't...
And as I said before, I will go on as many dates with you until you're satisfied!
Miu:And I will never be satisfied! I can never have enough from you! You're everything I ever wanted and more!...You're smart, you're courageous, you're handsome, you're determined, you're fucking everything! You saved my life so many times I can't count them...
I want to stay with you for the rest of our lives, that's my truth, my path and I'm sticking to it!
Hajime:...Well, you know what to do
Shuichi and Miu:...
((Source of the fanart, I wanted to close this with a Sairuma Kiss but I couldn't find a Fanart of them doing that that fit the mood))
(Event) Mama Junko had to be moving differently in that first year no doubt🙏🙏
Junko:Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them wanted to kill her to prevent another me from rising or to get back at me...
Thankfully no one did.
Makoto:Yeah, luckily they warmed up to Chara pretty quick.
Chara:I remember people there clapping and congratulating me for something, though my memory is really fuzzy on that one.
Makoto:Oh it's because you got to read a report I was about to read so I let you read the full thing instead, It's the first time you talked that much so everyone congratulated you on it.
Junko:And then we keep doing that, it was like the funniest and most wholesome thing ever in that base whenever you did.
Chara:Oh...Glad to know my ability to make people laugh was present even then.
(PD) hey shuichi did you ever realize that in your killing game everyone whos name started with a K died?
Shuichi:I don't think that ma-...Wait that's really true.
Miu:Fucking hell did Cuntmugi had a beef with someone named K or something? Maybe they bullied her in the past, wouldn't put it past her.
Shuichi:That's a high possibility...or a coincidence...
*Meanwhile in the afterlife*
The K Squad:So what was it huh!? Did you have. A beef with our names or what you *Censored*!
Tsumugi:I don't regret anything *Gets waterboarded in boiling water* That bastard and anyone who slightly reminds me of them has to pay! *Gets waterboarded some more*
Ahoges & Blondes Dangan Road:Goodbye Super High School Level Despair (Post-Despair)
((Remember this?
Well, as a celebration of this blog anniversary I decided to make the first one uploaded today, as both anniversary and Valentine's day.
Happy Valentine's))
It was over.
Makoto watched as the big guilty sign with Junko on the slots signaled that it was over and they won.
It was weird, despite this arguably being the hardest Class Trial and the one with the most at stake, the one with the most twists and turns, he was the most confident they would win this time.
It was a lot to take in, he had so many questions and things to make sense of in his head, but he pushed it out of his mind for now for more pressing matters at the moment.
He looked at her, really looked at her.
Junko Enoshima was in a state of shock ever since the trial ended, he wondered if this was too much for her, she was so in control for most of this demented game only for everything to be brutally torn apart by him and the others at the end.
She was the source of all the evil that happened here, the one that pushed, manipulated, lied and forced them to kill each other, the one he blamed for everything...And that's because she was, of all people in this school he's the one who he considers straight up no-ifs about it evil...
And even so, during this whole trial...No, during the whole time he met up with Monokuma and subconsciously compared her sister disguised as her with the real deal, he could not stop thinking about her even if he didn't know it...
There had to be a deeper meaning to that, right? If none of his classmates but her caused this reaction it was for a reason.
He needed to find answers, he needed to ask her and talk to her and...Wanted her close?
Well, he needed to make sure she would never do this again...
Junko was still in shock though.
"...This can't be..." She finally said.
"Well you better believe it, cause it is" Hina said.
"Don't bother trying to say anything, Makoto totally seduced us to his side" Hiro said.
'Why can't he use better wording?' Makoto complained in his head.
"You lost, Junko" Kyoko said.
"N-no, this can't be happening!" Junko said denial...?
"Well, it seems even the Super High School Level Despair can also feel Despair" Byakuya quipped.
"Everything I worked for, everything I built, all of it...Gone with the wind..."
"Junko..." Makoto didn't know why he felt the microscopic sorry for her, but he did...
"THIS IS JUST THE ABSOLUTE BEST! THANK YOU SO MUCH SWEETHEART!" She ran up to him and shook him with a demented and love filled grin.
"What?" Makoto asked in confusion.
"You gave me this utterly amazing soul crushing Despair! All this time I tried to get rid of you, to break you, to kill you, to destroy you...And you push right through each and every single one of those! No matter what I do or say you keep trucking on and on! You're the most amazing person I've ever had the pleasure and disgust to met!" She shouted with all her love and hatred.
Then she looked at the others "Don't feel left out too, this was for all of you too, not just for him...But he's special, you should know that by now"
"I really don't want to be part of anything you think of if I was honest" Hina commented.
"Oh wow, you two are still the same, throwing your relationship to everyone's faces...Imagine if master and I could be the same..." Jill said in her delusions.
"Wait, what do you mean with relationship!?" Makoto asked Jill in confusion.
"Oh you can figure it out sweetheart, you're smart" Junko said casually, this whole experience proved that.
"I don't...What?"
"Either she was really hiding her personality or Makoto's taste is..." Kyoko said trying to find the right words.
"The biggest garbage in the history of the human race?" Byakuya threw in.
"Horrible?" Hiro said his piece.
"Awful?" Hina added.
"Absolute Dogshit?" Jill threw in
"Yes" Was all Kyoko said.
"What, yes to what Jill said or what all of us said?" Hina asked.
"Yes"
The others shrugged, it was fair enough.
"Just...I know you say you did it for Despair, but why? I just can't understand..." Makoto asked Junko.
"Well I sure as hell never understood you either all this time, I still don't...That's what makes you so lovable and hateable" Junko Answered.
"You're a headache machine..."
"Your headache machine...But don't worry, this is probably the last time I personally give you a headache"
"What do you mean?"
"Don't you remember? Come on, your memory isn't bad, we all know this...I lost, I'm going to execute myself as I said, you will have to leave the school because my death will shut down the air purifier, we just talked about it"
"But I don't want you to die" Makoto said.
"...What?" Junko asked in confusion.
"I don't want you to die, even after all you did"
"And then you get on my case for causing headaches and being confusing, look at the mirror for once...And no, I want to kill myself, I don't have any hope in living! Don't rob me of this super awesome Despair of death! Come on!"
"Well I don't want you to die! I already saw that enough and despite everything you did...You were still our classmate, even after all the horrible stuff you did..."
"Seriously, after all she did you still can't bring yourself to hate her?" Byakuya asked him a little mad.
"What are you on about? I fucking hate her with every bit of my soul!" Makoto shouted in annoyance, shocking everyone present.
"...I remember when you said that to me, that was soo romantic" Junko allowed herself to day dream.
"I really need to go to a psychologist...Look, I hate her, I really really do...I have never felt this much hatred for someone in my entire life...I'm shaking with rage and I have to hold back the urge to trample her neck..."
"You flirt~"
"But I don't want her to die, I don't want to kill her, I don't want any of that...I know it's selfish and I don't have a good reason for it...I just can't"
Junko's casual behavior was knocked off because of that.
"Are you sayin this because of our past-"
"That has nothing to do with it!...Well, it does, but I wouldn't have wanted you to die regardless of that! It just fuels a desire that was already there"
"...I don't understand..."
"Well that makes two of us, I don't get it but I know it's what I want..."
"And what? Are you gonna keep me around at all times to keep watch over me while dealing with everything else out there? It's already hard enough just going out there in the first place, there's a fuck ton of Despair out there, you want to deal with me too!?"
"Yes"
"...If you think you can stay at Hope's Peak if I don't die, you're dead wrong, cause I'm shutting down the air purifier either way, all of you will have to get out no matter what happens to me"
"I wasn't gonna stay even if that didn't happen" Makoto shrugged.
"...Do you seriously think you can!?" Junko was agitated.
"Yes, at the very least I want to try it, if I don't I will never know I can"
"That's bullshit!"
"It's not bullshit, we managed to beat you after all despite how much you believed it was impossible, we managed to survive despite everything...Hell, if what you said about the world is true then it must have been hard for you to pull that off, yet you went and did it...If we believe and try it, we might make it, at least it's better to try even if you can fail than stay here and never try at all, that's what I figure anyways"
Junko stared at him, stared at him with that blank look that didn't seem to be any of her weird Personalities, she often got it because of him, he wondered why.
"...Fine" She spoke at least
"Huh?"
"Fine, I won't kill myself, I'll go with you..."
"...You rea-"
"I just believe that there's more Despair going with you than dying, you're clearly fucking delusional so it might be fun watching it crash and burn...Yeah..."
Makoto didn't know her too much, but even he got the impression she was pretending she wasn't moved by her words.
He looked at his fellow survivors. "Look, I-"
"It's fine" They all said.
"Wait really?"
"After all you did, I feel you can be selfish for once" Kyoko said.
"...Are you sure Byakuya? I know you wanted to kill her and all..."
"...Bah, she was beaten by someone like you, that's punishment enough"
"Yeah, not the first time this happens...It's really hot" Junko said blushing and drooling.
"Wait, it's not the first time this happens?" Kyoko asked.
"Yeah, he always thwarted my small scale plans, it's a long story..."
"So did you-"
"No, he beat me fair and square, I didn't predict it, I never could predict him...Hehe..." Junko drooled more.
"Ahhh, Nostalgia~" Jill said.
Makoto blinked, was he really into this woman? He really needed to get his memories back.
"Well, if you really are coming with us then..." He said as he walked to Junko and grabbed her wrist.
"What? Want to hold my hand so bad"
"No, I just know watching you is my responsibility, since you choose to live thanks to me...I need to make sure you don't pull anything funny..."
He didn't know why he did that, but part of him wanted to make sure she wasn't out of his sight ever again...For more than one reason...
All of them were in front of the large steel door.
As Junko said she turned off the Air Purifier to make good on her words, so they would have to get out soon.
"And done, everything important we could take with us is in my pockets" Makoto said.
"How do you fit so many things in there? Are they infinite or something?" Hina asked.
"Yeah, he always puts all the stuff from the Mono Machine in there, he has loads of that stuff" Junko said.
"Mono Machine?" Hiro asked.
"The Gachapon machine in the School Store, the one I get all the gifts I give to people" Makoto answered.
"But where did you get the money to use it?" Hiro asked.
"The Mono coins, I find them laying around and she always left a big sum to me whenever a Class Trial was completed"
"Because you're the only one that bothered with it"
"You're sure you're not bothered by carrying all those things?" Kyoko asked.
"I've been carrying a rocket in there the whole time, I can handle it"
"Where did you get a rocket?" Kyoko asked.
"The one from the garbage Dump"
"Wait, so you got that rocket? And here I was wondering where it was after I went to check the garbage Dump" Junko said.
"Why do you have a rocket?" Kyoko asked Junko.
"So...About your dad..."
"You know I'm starting to understand why you wanted to kill the Mastermind so badly" Kyoko said to Byakuya.
"Tell me about it...You do know she's gonna be your responsibility from now on"
"Yes, I know that, I'm making sure she isn't out of my sight" He said while showing that he was still gripping Junko's wrist.
"Are you sure that's gonna hold on?" Hina asked.
"Believe it or not he's actually stronger than he looks, it's just he's slow like molasses so getting a hit on someone or grabbing them is hard for him" Junko answered.
"...I know you're coming with us either way, but I still have to ask...are you ready to go out" Makoto asked Junko, even if she was coming with them regardless of how she felt he still felt the need to ask her.
"Believe it or not, I actually wanted to get out a long time ago, all that entrapment was driving me crazier...That and seeing everyone dying was getting to me"
"I thought you enjoyed Despair?" Makoto asked.
"Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt too, that's the point"
Makoto sighed, he would really need to understand this girl and her "Points" if he wanted to keep what's left of his sanity.
"Achoo!" Jill sneezed and went back into Toko.
"Huh!? What happened to the trial!? And why are we here?" Toko asked.
"Makoto beat Junko and now she's his prisoner from now on" Byakuya explained.
"That's not-"
"That actually makes it hotter, so go with that" Junko said.
"That's disgusting!...But maybe if Master made me his-"
"Not even in your wildest dreams" Byakuya said.
"Some things never change" Hiro said with a huge smile.
"What's got you so happy?" Hina asked him.
"It's just that my prediction was right, I said no one else was gonna die and it ended up being true, I'm getting better and better at this!"
"Thankfully not all true, I don't want us to share the mother of our children" Makoto muttered.
"Don't worry, I wouldn't get with him in his wildest dreams" Junko said.
"I wasn't speaking about you but thanks...I guess"
"Well if your so called psychic powers get better, I might start considering paying you for a reading after I rebuild the Togami empire" Byakuya said.
"Oh don't worry about the money, I'm gonna give you guys one free of charge, just come to me and I'll do it!"
"Hey don't get fired up, you'll get me fired up! Hey! Do Donuts still exist?" Hina asked Junko.
"I think so last time I checked"
"Well if they aren't then I'll start bringing them back! I will bake and grow wheat if I have to!"
"I'm starting to feel inspired...I feel the need to write! I have so much material now!" Toko said.
"Fucking hell, this Hope is disgusting as hell...It's starting to make me Despair...Uh this is actually a good idea after all...Maybe that's why you're the Super High School Level Hope my darling..." Junko said.
"And now you ruined that whole memory, thanks again..." Kyoko said annoyed and muttered "Psychotic bitch"
"Well, I'm glad you don't want to kill yourself anymore..."
"Junko, I recall you saying that there's people out there trying to free us and fight against Despair, am I correct?" Byakuya asked her.
"Yeah, they're called the Future Foundation, composed of former Super High Schoolers, they want to eliminate Despair, my Despair...so if they see you with me they probably won't be so friendly...Unless you want to hand me to them or something"
"Well I guess us two aren't gonna be joining them for a while, you guys can go" Makoto said.
"...I think we won't do that" Kyoko said.
"Hmpf, I will hire them and force us to accept us as a whole, if I had to pick who to hang out with, you would be above the usual riffraff" Byakuya said.
"Jeez, they really like you...Some things never change" Junko said to Makoto.
"Well...Thanks guys, I don't know what to say" Makoto said.
"Well, if you would have the honors" Junko took out the escape button and handed it to Makoto.
"Are you sure this isn't some self destruct button or something?" Hiro asked a little nervously.
"Nah, I know you have no real reason to believe me but it isn't a self-destruct button, this is the escape button"
Makoto looked at it, the key to escaping this school, the one thing they had been fighting for all this time, was finally here in his hand, he just needed to push it.
"...Are you sure you're ok with me being around you?" Junko asked him.
"...Yeah"
"Did you seriously forgive me for all I've done?"
"No...Honestly I don't think I'll ever will...But it doesn't mean I don't want you near me..."
"...Man you're such a weirdo, for real, I don't know why you keep saying you're average, you're a fucking enigma"
Makoto shrugged. "Maybe I am, I'm just me, If that perplexes you so much...Then you'll have to deal with it"
"Oh I know that, that's what makes you so attractive to me...Well that and other things"
"Can you hurry up, there's probably an abandoned motel out there to do your degenerate stuff" Toko said.
"Sorry...I guess we graduated, right?"
"Yeah, as the headmaster of this school, I declare that you all graduated and that you are the winner of the Killing Game" She referred to Makoto in that last one.
"I don't want that title"
"Too bad, that just makes me want to call you that more"
Makoto rolled his eyes, seems more of that was on the way so long as he was around her...
But oddly he wasn't bothered by it.
"Well, let's go then"
Makoto pushed the button.
As he watches the door opening, he felt...Happy.
He felt powerful.
He knew that the road ahead wasn't gonna be easy, but he knew that so long as he believed he could do it, so long as he had courage, he could go on...and if he could go on, he could make it.
Together they would make a future together, a future filled with Hope.
He glanced at Junko, who looked at him with her blank look.
But then, for a few seconds, he could see a smile, a genuine, sincere, non-mocking smile.
And for some reason he knew, he felt she was being sincere, that part of her wanted this to work.
And that was one of his biggest sources of Hope right now, ironically enough.
He held her wrist tighter, this time making sure to never let it go, to never let her hurt anyone else...nor let anyone else hurt her.
Hope and Despair mingled together forevermore, never to be separated again from then on.
And so, the door opened and they all moved forward, to their future...
