Tropical Vacation part 9.1
Hey hi hello dolls! I hope you're all doing well <3 Sadly, I didn't get everything I wanted to accomplish done In this fic, but I feel like I had a good stopping point so I'm taking It. I'm not feeling well so Instead of staying up all night to squeeze some more content in, I'm gonna rest. (It's 11:51 pm as of scheduling this to post)
This part unfortunately does not contain Nekomaru wrecking Hajime because I needed to set it up, so I decided to just set up and then the next part will center around their search and Hajime's imminent giggly doom--
Hope you enjoy!
Previous parts can be found on my Masterlist! [Click or tap here.]
Word count: 3,804
Characters In this part: Lee!Sonia, Switch!Kazuichi, Gundham, Makoto, Leon, Hiro, Kyoko, Celeste, Mondo, Taka, Chihiro, Hajime, Nagito, Nekomaru, Akane, Sakura, Hina
“Whaddaya mean?” Mondo blinked in surprise. “Why Is a buncha new buildings a big deal?”
The girls of class 77 had returned to the main beach to set up the party, while the girls and enby of class 78 + Akane went to brief the boys on the new discovery.
Sonia, surprisingly, had gone with them rather than decorate the beach.
“It is a big deal because Monokuma has never given us something without an announcement.” Sonia explained.
Kazuichi was the first to agree. The fucking simp. “Yeah, What Miss Sonia said! He normally pops In and tries to get in our heads.”
“Come to think of It… We haven’t heard from Monokuma since he announced you all would be coming to the island.” Imposter spoke up.
“That’s really unlike Monokuma… He always comes in and kills the mood for us.” Makoto responded. “I’m kind of shocked he hasn’t shown up yet.”
And of course, He had to jinx it for them.
Monokuma sprung up from seemingly nowhere, a paw on his chin as he tilted his head curiously. “You rang for me?”
“Ya just had to fuckin’ say it didn’t ya?” Mondo muttered under his breath as Makoto smiled apologetically.
“So, How’s the meeting going? Any scandalous affairs I should know about?” The robot bear asked cheekily.
“No.” They all deadpanned.
“But while you’re here, I have a question.” Kyoko stepped forward, looking at the two tone bear with intrigue. “Why have you been absent?”
“And while we are asking questions, Why did you create all of those buildings?” Sonia asked, also stepping forward. Gundham followed, right at her side to protect her in case Monokuma were to try something.
Kazuichi noticed this and mirrored Gundham’s motion…
Only for Sonia to gently nudge him back a bit so that she was taking the protective stance of the Mechanic instead. He dejectedly whined.
“Puhuhuhu… What does It matter? Shouldn’t you just be grateful I’m in a giving mood?” The bear chuckled.
“Fiend, you never give Indulgences without some kind of perilous hazard attached…” Gundham spat back, not trusting him for a second. “What are you playing at?”
“Nothing.” Monokuma said cheerfully. “I honestly don’t have the time to mess with you guys.”
Kyoko blinked, recalling what Monokuma said yesterday. “That’s right, you said something about preparing surprises and making changes to the school…”
“Bingo! Nancy Drew has solved the mystery!” Monokuma exclaimed. “Do you wanna guess what your surprise is??”
Kyoko stared hard at the bear, feeling nervousness creeping up in her stomach… Not that her face showed any of it. She was silent as she mulled over the possibilities.
Monokuma didn’t wait for a response. “If you guess correctly, I’ll keep the doors to the island unlocked during the weekend.”
The students were stunned by this proposal. Why would Monokuma offer a luxury like that?
“Oh, Would you look at the time? I’ve got some time-sensitive work to do. Do think about my offer.” Monokuma said amusedly. “Call me when you’re ready to guess. Enjoy the spa!”
And with that, he disappeared into the nebulous void he arises from each time he appears.
“Things aren’t making any sense…” Makoto mumbled.
Kyoko nodded In agreement. “There must be some kind of clue at the spa…”
She was certain she picked up something strange about his demeanor just now, but decided against saying anything until she was sure.
“Let us go investigate then, shall we?” Celeste smiled lightly.
She also did not await a response, she grabbed Kyoko’s arm and started heading off In the direction of the spa. The other followed.
The group arrived at the spa, looking at it skeptically. Two tones of tranquility. The building was half black and half white, with Monokuma’s face painted on the big wooden double doors.
Something unusual some of them took note of, this spa didn’t seem to have a lot of windows for natural sunlight. In fact, Kyoko counted a total of two small windows at the very top of the building.
“I’m not getting a good feeling about this building…” Sakura said quietly.
Of course Mondo used this opportunity to harass Sakura, why wouldn’t he? “Hey, that’s a’ight. Ya don’t have to go In with us, I know how you girls can be.”
Not only did that provoke the ire of Sakura, but also Akane, Sonia, Hina, Sayaka and even Kazuichi, fucking simp.
“HEY! What are you tryin’ to fuckin’ say?!” Akane snapped, whipping around to glare at the biker.
Kyoko and Celeste knew what he was trying to do so they brushed off the comment.
“I’m just sayin’, you guys can be scared pretty easily.” He was really only trying to fuck with Sakura so he was going into damage control mode now.
“I’ll have you know, Miss Sonia Is the scariest person I know! Nothing scares her!” Kazuichi retorted, causing Sonia’s anger to slip for a moment to giggle in amusement.
Nekomaru sidled up to Mondo for his protection, knowing that gleam in Akane’s eye. “Behave.” He pointed at the gymnast, whose eyes were glimmering with mischief and anger.
Sakura approached Mondo, narrowing her eyes. “Scared? Scared? Nothing scares me. I think you’re the one who should be scared.”
“Me? What the fuck for?” The Biker scoffed.
“Because you just pissed off more people than you can handle.” Ah. So Sakura did pick up on his trick… shit.
“Picking on girls… Not cool, Mondo.” Nagito said In the background with a disappointed expression.
“Will you fuckin’ stay out of this?!” He snapped before turning his attention back to the white haired girl. “I’m not scared!”
“If you’re not scared, maybe you should be the first person to go in.” Kyoko hummed, opening the door and peaking In.
Ah, He did piss off Kyoko too… shit.
Mondo sighed, resigning himself to his fate instead of arguing. “Fine.”
He walked through the double doors and glanced around curiously. “It just looks like a fuckin’ spa to me.”
Sakura was the next to step inside and look around, albeit pretty dimly lit, it did resemble a normal spa. “He’s right. It doesn’t appear to be dangerous upon first glance.”
The others took that as their cue to go Inside. Akane clung onto Nekomaru’s arm and remained by his side as they went in. She hated the dark, and while It wasn’t totally pitch black, it was dark enough to make her nervous.
The Ultimate team manager smirked lightly at the fiery woman and drew her closer by wrapping his arm around her shoulders. “Don’t worry, I’ll keep you safe.” He whispered to her.
Normally, she would have argued with that statement. Insisting she didn’t need protecting. But this time she was comforted by those words.
Kazuichi was also nervous, but upon seeing Akane get closer to Nekomaru, he tried to use this as a chance to cuddle up to Sonia. “Have I ever mentioned I hate dark new places?” He chuckled nervously.
Sonia looked up at him. “It will be okay, Kazuichi…” She reassured him with a gentle smile.
Before he could say anything else, Gundham was at his side. “It’s alright, Mortal. I shall shield you from the demons, they rather like me.”
“Uh, No man It’s okay I--”
“It’s alright. You don’t have to fear my poison.”
Gundham reached down and grabbed the pinkette’s hand, lacing their fingers together.
Kazuichi’s face turned nearly the same shade as his hair from being flustered.
“You know…” The taller boy leaned in closer to whisper to him. “If you wanted to hold my hand, you could have just asked… I would have indulged you.”
Kazuichi’s face got even redder (If that was possible) as his low deep voice reached his ear.
Sonia giggled as she watched her boys.
After doing a quick sweep of the place, they decided It was just a normal spa. There weren’t any deadly traps or anything. Now It was time to investigate and search for clues…
“We should split up Into teams to cover more areas thoroughly.” Kyoko decided, twirling around to face the group.
“I agree, It makes more sense to do It that way.” Makoto nodded, stepping towards her.
She held up her hand, smiling coyly at him. “I’m glad you agree, because you’re going with Hiro and Leon.”
“W-What? Really?”
“Is there a problem with that?” She asked, feigning surprise.
Makoto glanced back at the two aforementioned people before resigning himself to his fate. “No… Of course not. I just thought… Y’know… I’d go with you.”
“That would hardly be productive.” She replied. “Besides, Hiro and Leon need someone to keep them focused, and I thought you would fit the role.”
That vaguely resembled a compliment, and like all other times, He’ll take It. “Alright.” He conceded, heading over to his two friends to talk.
Kyoko turned to Kazuichi, Sonia and Gundham. “Will you three be okay going together?”
Sonia nodded, her eyes glimmering with happiness. “Yes, I am quite observant!”
“It wasn’t you I was worried about.” Kyoko whispered to her, glancing back at Kazuichi and Gundham. The former trying to explain he wasn’t scared anymore and the latter insisting he didn’t mind staying by his side.
Sonia giggled. “I will keep them on track.” She replied quietly with a smile.
The Detective stepped back, looking around the group of friends. “Okay, Here’s how It will go. Team one Is Makoto, Leon, and Hiro. You will be searching this room, The entry room.”
They nodded.
“Team two Is Sonia, Gundham and Kazuichi. You three should check the nail station.” She said before casting her gaze onto Mondo. “Mondo, Taka, and Chihiro are team three. You have the Hot spring and adjoining Sauna.”
“S-Sauna?” Taka’s face flushed, recalling the last time they were In a sauna.
“Aye aye, captain.” Mondo did a mock salute.
“Chihiro?”
“Yes?”
“I’m leaving you In charge of the team, keep them on track.”
Chihiro’s face lit up for a moment before realizing the enormous task they had been given. Leon chuckled at the look of horror now on their face.
“It’ll be okay, Chi.” Leon reassured, patting their shoulder. “You got this.”
“Team four Is Sakura, Hina and Aka…” Kyoko paused, taking note of how uncomfortable Akane appeared.
Nekomaru followed Kyoko’s gaze to the nervous brunette glued to his side. “It might not be a great idea to separate us.”
“It’s okay!” Hina said, practically bouncing excitedly. “Sakura and I can do It ourselves! Right Sakura?”
“Of course.”
Kyoko nodded. “Alright, Then you two will be investigating the Hair salon also on the first floor.”
“Easy peasy! We got this!” Hina grinned.
“Lemme guess, Hiko, Nagito and I?” Hajime hummed, casually leaning against the wall.
“Yes, you guys plus Nekomaru and Akane.” She nodded. “You have the massage suites on the second floor.”
Hajime gave a curt nod in response.
“That leaves Celeste, Sayaka and myself. We will search the main office and the master suite on the third floor. Questions?”
“Are you sure you don’t want one of us three to go with Sakura and Hina?” Makoto asked.
“I’m sure. I can’t shake the feeling there may be something important hidden in this room, so the more eyes In here the better.” Kyoko responded coolly.
“Besides, The hair salon isn’t that big, we can easily cover it.” Hina added.
“What If there is something dangerous here? Shouldn’t someone strong go with you three too?” Kazuichi asked, regarding Kyoko almost timidly. “Y’know… for protection?”
Kyoko smiled softly, closing her eyes. “We’ll be fine, but thank you for your concern.”
“Trust me, Celeste will destroy anything that even blinks wrong at any of them.” Makoto whispered, smiling sheepishly.
“Any other questions?” Kyoko scanned the room but after no response she gave a nod. “Alright then. Let’s get started.”
The teams each headed off to their designated areas to begin their search. In Leon, Hiro and Makoto’s case they remained in the room, but split up to cover different corners of the room.
“What are we even looking for?” Hiro asked curiously, looking behind a plant.
“Anything that doesn’t belong in a spa.” Leon answered, inspecting every product on the glass shelf next to the desk.
Makoto disappeared behind the front desk, opting to check underneath it first. “Look for anything suspicious. Anything that might have some information on it.”
“If you’re not sure If It might be useful, just put It in this bin.” Leon pushed a woven basket over to the middle of the room. “We’ll all three look over the evidence when we’re done.”
“That goes for any of us.” Makoto reaffirmed. Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad after all, at least Leon had the right idea.
His blue eyes narrowed on a bottle of glitter Cherry blossom perfume. “Hey, I found something out of place.”
“Already?? How?” Makoto went to stand up but banged his head on the desk, causing Hiro and Leon to laugh. He hurried over flustered to Leon, rubbing the top of his head and muttering under his breath.
“What’d you find?” He asked quietly, his face still pink.
Leon grinned before turning back to the shelf and picking the bottle up. “Perfume.” He said as he turned back towards Makoto.
“How Is that out of the ordinary?” Hiro asked, approaching the two.
“There’s nothing on that shelf except lotion and hair products.” Leon explained as Makoto took the bottle.
Huh? That can’t be…
“Something wrong, Makoto?” Leon asked, noting how quickly his face turned white.
“I-It’s weird… My little sister uses the same kind of perfume.” The lucky student frowned. His sister… Right… He almost forgot how much he missed her…
What if…?
“So does almost every other school girl In japan.” It wasn’t a very good attempt, but Leon seemed to see where Makoto’s mind was headed and had attempted to lessen his anxiety.
“Y-Yeah… you’re right…” Makoto tried to feign a smile, but got choked up when he looked back at the bottle.
Leon wasn’t sure what to do to help him, he sure as fuck wasn’t gonna open up and tell Makoto he understands how he feels as he has his own little sister figure he’s worried about too.
He decided on draping his arm across Makoto’s shoulders and pulling him into a half hug. “It’ll be okay man, just relax… You’ll see her again.”
Makoto awkwardly fumbled with the bottle before setting It back down and turning the half hug into a full on hug. “I hope so…” he said quietly. “Th-Thanks.”
There was silence between the two for a bit, but eventually Hiro broke that silence by ringing the bell at the desk, startling the two. “I hate to ruin the moment, but uh… you guys have just been hugging quietly for like two minutes…”
The two immediately pulled away from each other, blushing profusely. “R-Right! Sorry Hiro.” Makoto smiled apologetically.
“Y-Yeah man, my bad…” Leon coughed, quickly turning back around to the glass shelf.
Hiro rolled his eyes and smiled at them. Can they be any more obvious?
Makoto’s gaze honed in on something moving behind the desk, his eyes widened as he felt his blood run cold.
“What? What’s the matter?” Hiro asked.
Leon twirled around to see what was going on just In time to see what Makoto was seeing. “What the fuck…?”
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Meanwhile In the Nail station area, Gundham, Kazuichi and Sonia weren’t turning up any leads so far.
“I do not understand… I’m not seeing anything out of the ordinary here.” Sonia pouted, putting down the stack of magazines dejectedly.
“Hey It’s okay Princess!” Kazuichi paused his search of the cabinet to walk over to Sonia, gently putting his hand on her shoulder. “I know we’ll find something, you just gotta keep your chin up!”
Sonia looked up at the ceiling. “My chin Is up, but there is nothing on the ceiling…”
Oh my god…
Why Is this woman so pure?
Kazuichi grinned and followed her gaze to the ceiling. “I mean… It’s just an expression… But I do see something.”
She narrowed her eyes to scrutinize the details of the ceiling more closely. “Really? What do you see?”
Kazuichi looked back at her, his fingers fluttering against her throat lightly. “An opportunity.” he chuckled.
Sonia squealed and began giggling as she tried to duck away from him. “Kazihihihi!” she tried bringing her shoulders up to protect her neck but he just darted his fingers to her sides instead.
“Yes, Miss Sonia? What’s wrong?” he asked teasingly, lightly skittering his nails along her sides.
She began to laugh and back up, blushing at the teasing. “Ihihihihit tihihihickles!”
“Good! It’s supposed to.” Kazuichi laughed along with her.
“Stahahahohop!” She squealed as he began tickling her belly.
“Hmm… Nah, not until you cheer up!”
Her back hit the wall and she knocked a few magazines off the shelf with her squirming. “Kyahahahaha! Gundham help!” she laughed.
Gundham whipped around in alarm, he had up until this point been tuning out all the noise in the room to concentrate. At first he thought she was in danger, having hadn’t heard her peals of laughter but immediately let out a sigh of relief upon seeing neither of his two partners were in danger.
“Kazuichi… Let her go.” He warned with a low tone, a playful ring to his voice.
“Don’t tell me what to do, Dracula.” He shot back challengingly.
Gundham chuckled darkly, but made no advancements towards the two. “Fine then. Devas of destruction!”
“Waitwaitwait!” Kazuichi backed off instantly. But It was too late.
“Attack the Pink menace!” He ordered the little furballs as they appeared out of his scarf, and they went charging towards Kazuichi.
They climbed onto him and began nuzzling his neck, ears, and cheek. He shrieked and stumbled back onto one of the chairs laughing. “Nohohoho! Gundhahahahaham! Call them ohohohoff! I stohohohopped!” He laughed, careful not to hurt the hamsters with his squirming.
“Yes, You did. But far too late. Now you will suffer for your crimes against the dark queen! Fuahahaha!”
Sonia recovered from her laughing fit and brushed herself off, straightening her bow. When she bent down to pick up the stack of magazines she knocked over, she noticed an irregularity amongst the articles.
“Boys?” she called, rising back to her full height.
Gundham approached the blonde, but made no efforts to call his Devas off. “Did you find something?”
“I… I think so.” She furrowed her brow In concentration as she looked between each booklet carefully. “These magazines are all Home or food related… But this one Is a fashion magazine. And It Is the only one.”
The taller student leaned in closer to examine the cover. “Who Is that fiend on the front page?”
“Her name Is Junko Enoshima, she Is a very popular model.”
Suddenly they heard screams come from the entry room, startling them. Without thinking, Sonia went running into the room with Gundham and Kazuichi yelling in protest after her.
Sonia froze up, her eyes widening in horror at the sight in front of her.
“Get down!” Kazuichi yelled.
Gundham gathered her quickly In his arms and threw both of them out of the potential line of fire, Kazuichi following quickly behind.
There was a big gun of some sort on the front desk, It was slowly moving about the room seemingly looking for a target.
“How did a gun get there??” Kazuichi asked once the shock wore off, the three of them were now behind a sofa with Makoto and Leon.
“Makoto?? Is everything okay In there??” Hina called from the Hair salon.
“Y-Yeah! Whatever you do, do NOT come In here!” Makoto quickly replied.
“We don’t know how It got there,” Hiro said from his spot on the floor right up against the desk. “We turned around and there It was!”
Leon scanned around the floor looking for something to throw at the gun to distract It long enough for someone to run over and disable It, but he found something else instead.
“Yo, Gundham! Can you kick that tile on the wall?”
Gundham followed his eyes to a discolored tile near him, he nodded and kicked It with as much strength as he could, shattering the ceramic tile. Behind It was some kind of panic button that read; ‘In case of emergency.’
Sonia reached down and hit the button.
They expected sirens to blare, but instead they got something equally as obnoxious.
“You called?”
Makoto yelped in surprise, whipping his head to look at the formerly empty spot beside him. It was now occupied by Monokuma.
“Y-Yeah! Why the hell Is there a gun In here?!” Kazuichi asked, still shaken up.
“Seriously? That’s what you called me here for? You’re all a bunch of babies.” Monokuma hopped up and walked out from behind the couch, looking up at the gun. “It doesn’t shoot actual bullets.”
They all collectively let out a sigh of relief and stood back up, though some more hesitantly than others. (*cough* Makoto *cough*)
“It’s just part of the security system, one of you geniuses must have rung the bell.”
Makoto and Leon both narrowed their eyes at Hiro, who casually began to whistle and look away.
“If I were you, I’d be careful with what buttons you hit…” Monokuma said ominously. “You might activate something you’ll really regret~”
“W-What do you mean, something we’ll regret?”
“Now now, I can’t give away all my tricks! That wouldn’t be any fun!”
Makoto looked down at the now crumbled magazine In Sonia’s hands, taking note of the picture on the cover. “Is that Junko Enoshima?”
“Oh, Makoto? Do you notice anything… off about that picture?” Monokuma asked with amusement in his voice.
Makoto took the article from Sonia and looked carefully at the cover.
“Hey, I thought you said you weren’t gonna give away all your tricks?” Hiro spoke up.
“Oops! That’s right! How silly of me.” Monokuma responded. “Well, I better be going!”
Once the bear was out of sight, the students went over to Makoto as he analyzed the image.
Shit. Monokuma was right, something Is off about the picture…
“Wait a minute… Guys, look at the background.”
“Is that… The school?” Leon asked, surprised.
Makoto nodded slowly, now hyper analyzing every detail. She Is legitimately In the school, this isn’t just some old picture copied and pasted over a photo of the commons area.
Something else to take note of, she didn’t look very happy. She was smiling, but her eyes weren’t selling it. And… Are those Monokuma hair pins!?
Junko Enoshima… What part does she play In all of this? Could she be the mastermind behind all of this? Why else would she randomly turn up at the school?
Unless…
Could she be a prisoner In this game too?
