Danganronpa: Family Ties

[The Domino Effect: Part 1. Also read: The True Despair by @/_RubyCheru_]
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Kiaki Usano was not expecting the turn of events that her life so drastically took. Then again, a lot of things tend to happen in life that aren't really expected. That's how the phrase goes, but it's typically applied to things like accidents, job opportunities, deaths, proposals, and not eighteen ultimate students being kidnapped and coerced into murder. She believed this to only be possible in a work of fiction, only something that could be seen in that series inspired by the academy and ultimates themselves.
But their dreary situation is no fiction. It's real. It's painfully real, and that's not the only thing that's painful here.
Kiaki and her fellow captives must learn to navigate through loss, homesickness, and fear, and they also must weed out who's trustworthy and who's not before someone does something that really can't be undone. Their captors are implying that this sick game will not only begin, but continue until there are only two people left, and Kiaki is determined to make sure it doesn't get to that point.
...but she does understand how difficult that will be. Everybody wants a way out, after all, and as of late, murder seems to be the only option. Hell, even Kiaki needs a way to get out. She misses her family, mostly her brother, who hasn't even gotten old enough to have a chance at living yet, and she misses Sam, who she knows probably wouldn't survive without her there for him.
So is she ever going to see them again? Will the game be stopped before stopping it is no longer in their power, and who will die before they see that happen? Will this new class of students follow hope, or shall they succumb to despair? And is despair even the reason they're being held captive in the first place?
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[General content warning and spoiler warning for the canon DR series. Warnings will go more into detail in the Author's Note section.]