(Complete) What Could Have Been (Saiouma/Oumasai)

The Night Before

Chapter 6: the night before
(This chapter explains a family that has just a bunch of random Danganronpa characters in it, don't pay too much attention to it, also don't pay attention to ages I'm aware they are all off. Thank you!)

Kokichi's POV

One more night, one more night and I could leave here. Tomorrow I get to go to the Danganronpa entrance ceremony and meet all of my new "classmates". Mom signed me up because she wants the prize money. I know her new boyfriend has more than enough money already but if I can use this as an excuse to leave, I'll take it. I hate it here ever since my sister died. Mom sent her into a killing game as well for money but she died. No one expected her to actually die. Everyone else lived and woke up but she died. They think she had some bad genes that made her stay asleep, I have her genes.

A normal person would think "well then I'll probably die no matter what right?" Well that's what I want. I don't want to make it out. My moms abuse has slowed down significantly since dad left a couple of years ago but she still treats me like I'm not even her child most of the time.

I could faintly hear my mom and her friends laughing out in the living room, they sounded drunk again. It didn't bother me all that much anymore since I was so used to it at this point. However, it wasn't fun when they would drag me out there, or worse come in my room. I hated when my mom came into my room, she would always make a mess and break my things.

I had only one friend so she was my best friend and she knew about what my home life was like. I never tell her exact details but she knows it's not the best. Her name is Kirumi, she likes to invite me over to her house or family gatherings to make me feel wanted. She says she invites me over because she wants a friend with her but if that were true she would take someone else instead. I appreciated it nonetheless however, it's always a nice gesture. Kirumi liked to always follow me. She was like a living example of the phrase "if your friend jumped off a bridge would you do it too". I have a feeling someone dared her to hangout with me one day and since she takes orders so seriously she's sticking around. It's been a couple of years now though and I guess if I truly wasn't worthy of having her as a friend she would've left by now. When I told Kirumi that my mom signed me up for danganronpa she immediately did the same. Since everyone knows that people live through it I didn't mind her joining but I don't think she realized that I might not make it out alive. She'd probably get mad at me if I told her I didn't want to come out alive but hey, that's ok.

Kirumi's family is full of completely different people. Since I call Kirumi mom I got dragged into the "grandchildren" category of the family. I'm the youngest out of us four "grandchildren" . The rest are named Kaito Momota, Kazuichi Soda, and Angie Yonaga. Kirumi's family is big on adoption so no one's actually related but they act like a family. Kirumi is in the "children" category since she was adopted by the parents of the family. The members in this category are: Kirumi, Mikan Tsumiki, Junko Enoshima, Nekomaru Nidai, and Komaru Naegi. The last category is just the two parents which is just Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu and Peko Pekoyama. They all make me feel super welcome and even put me in their family text group chat! I'm going to be a little sad if I don't make it out only because I'll never get to see their family again.

⚠️TW abuse⚠️ it's just these next two paragraphs so you can skip them if you wish

I was completely lost in thought when I heard a loud bang on my door. I was about to get up and let them in but it was my moms boyfriend and he never waits for permission. He seemed mad, but not drunk, which is good he can hurt when he's drunk but not when he's sober. He slammed the door shut. He was complaining that my mom was drunk again at first but soon it turned into him getting closer and closer to me. I started to get a little worried. I was in bed at the time so I covered myself with my blanket. He claimed it was my fault she was drunk again. It's always my fault, everything is always my fault. I was used to my parents saying this by now. It's been a while since he's gotten like this but it has happened before and I never got hurt so I thought I was safe.