Selfless

Chapter One

It had been the first week of waking up from the Neo World Program, they had been incredibly fortunate when everyone else had woken up from the program along with the survivors from the final class trial. The week had been filled with joy and happiness, along with people profusely apologising for their actions within the game. Although, no one blamed them for their actions, they did still feel guilty about what they did, but really, who wouldn't?

Unfortunately, though, everyone knows good things must come to an end.

It was only a week after waking up that everyone started obtaining the memories from the tragedy, a scream of terror each night from different classmates, tearfully woken by the nightmares that plagued their minds all night. Morning after morning, classmates would come to the diner, bags under their red puffy eyes, staring into nothingness whilst poking at their food, their smiles gone and the hope in their eyes? Gone.

Kazuichi and Hajime were the only ones left, although they had also been suffering from the nightmares, they had never given up their hope of a better future for everyone, their will, strong  enough to keep the despair at bay.
Hajime, still having the talents given to him by Hopes Peak Academy, tried his best with the talents of the Ultimate Therapist and Ultimate Psychologist, along with his natural talent of helping people, but alas, although it helped quite a lot, wasn't working fast enough. Therapy was something that needed time, but with everyone remembering more and more each night, it wouldn't be long before they would just be empty shells of their former selves.

They had both been there for their classmates every night, comforting them with gentle words and actions, getting next to no sleep or rest because of it.

Kazuichi stared at his classmates at the table, quietly chatting with their friends or muttering to themselves, even Akane (the Ultimate Parkour Gymnast) wasn't eating, only pushing the food around her plate. He decided to try and cheer everyone up.

"S-so what's on the agenda today guys?" He asked, planting an overly happy smile on his face, hoping it would, at least, help the others get in the mood. No one replied or spared him a second glance, it had been going on like this for ages, he would try to cheer them up and they would either shoot him down or flat out ignore him. He frowned at the lack of response and decided it was time to put his plan in motion, he couldn't bear seeing his friends like this, even Nagito (the Ultimate Lucky Student)!

As he got up, he gave on sparing last glance at them, he froze for a second when his eyes landed and met with Gundham Tanaka, the Ultimate Animal Breeder.
Although Gundham didn't know it yet, they used to be together during their times at the academy, before the tragedy. He knew Gundham hadn't remembered yet, even though he had tried and tried to get closer to Gundham again, he would always have the same, empty look in his eyes as everybody else did. That had been one of the reasons he made this plan, to save him (Gundham) and everyone else, no matter the cost, he just couldn't bear seeing any of them like that again.

Kazuichi's eyes now had a flame of determination burning brightly behind his eyes as he now raced down the stairs, heading towards Hajime's cabin, ready to start his plan once and for all.

Kazuichi knocked on Hajime's door a total of four times, each time within a span of a few seconds, concern for his only companion in this new reality. He knocked again and again, yet no answer. Fearing the worst, he pushed open the door, finding it unlocked, what he saw next would only strengthen his resolution, determining him to go through with his best idea to date.

There he was, Hajime, sitting in front of his bed, staring at the wall, his eyes empty and lifeless. Kazuichi knew he hadn't died, he could see the rise and fall of his chest every few seconds. The reality was much worse, the only other person capable of looking after his friends, had fallen in the despair like everyone else. Kazuichi shouted in anger,  falling to his knees. The plan even more decided then before, he would save his friends, no matter what.

As Kazuichi got back to the diner, everyone in the same positions as before, he got his wrench from his belt and hit it hard against the table, forcing everyone too look at him in shock as he started his announcement.

"Listen 'ere everyone!" He shouted, gaining the curious gazes of his classmates, "I have a proposition for you all."
They all looked at each other before looking back at him, waiting for him to go on, wondering what the proposition was exactly.
"I have a way, a way to fix this! All of it!" He proclaimed, swinging his wrench behind his shoulder. They all looked at him incredulously, all thinking the same thing, was it really possible? Could their reality really be fixed, as he had said it would be?

"T-tell me.....is this true? Can you really...do it?" Mahiru asked, taking the camera off her neck, taking this new knowledge in. The others repeated what she said desperately, needing to know if it was true, if they really could leave behind the terrible life they were living.

Kazuichi nodded to the question, explaining that he could do it, "The only problem is, do you want to do this?" He asked solemly, loking towards the ground, already knowing the answer. The all shouted words of agreement to the idea, hope sparking in their dead eyes.

After Kazuichi lead them all to the hibernation room, he told everyone to get in a pod, Hajime had already been placed in his one beforehand.
"Now, I need you to all stay still, and think about the memories you need to forget!" He shouted, as he started closing each pod after the other, looking at their faces for the last time. He looked at them fondly one after the other, smiles gracing their lips, Teruteru, Ibuki, Nekomaru and even Saionji filled his heart with joy, happy to see them like that for the last time, specially when they had such huge, smiles on their faces.

He stopped at Gundham's pod a bit longer than the others.
"Thank you, pink mortal, for giving us this chance once more, I cannot wait to spend time with everyone in the recent future!" Gundham exclaimed happily, Kazuichi smiled at him, before bending down and placing a soft kiss on his lips.

"I'm sorry, my love, I wont be able to spend time with you anymore afterall..." he trailed off before closing the pod, ignoring his shocked and confused face.

It was all ready now, he thought as he climbed into his pod.

Memories are a strange thing, you can never really fully erase a persons memory, but you can store them away somewhere, although it's not like you can store them on some sort of hard drive in the real world, it's not big enough hold so much data, which is why the only hard drive which is able to hold such storage, is something everyone is born with. The biggest hard drive in the world is, of course, the human brain. Built to hold such memory storage, and in this case, Kazuichi Souda was their hard drive, he was the one chose to hold their unwanted data.

As the pod lid closed on his pod, he felt around for the button which would give everyone a new life, he smiled once more, a small tear escaping the corner of his eye as he pushed down on the button, he saw nothing but black.

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AUTHOURS NOTE:

Soooo... I know I haven't updated my other story in SO long, and I am really sorry. BUT you can think of this as a sequel without any spoilers for my first story!!!!!! Hope you enjoyed my first chap!!! please leave comments, reviews and votes!!!!