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It was one 4th of February. Conveniently enough, right around the corner of it turning February 5th.
A regular enough date. No major holiday, no known local event to be aware of, just another day on the calendar.
But much like every other day, today was someone’s birthday, and Today… was a certain luckster’s birthday.
Inside his room, staring at his Garakei phone before going to sleep, Makoto’s eyes fixated on the watch of his phone, seeing how little by little, the seconds went up, and the final countdown began.
His phone was a Fujitsu Docomo F90, a gift from his father that he used in the past before giving it to him. With it, he was able to keep in contact with both his family and all his newly made friends he made along the way.
From upperclassmen to their sophomore class, along with some more friends he had made along the way that… really couldn’t fit in any group…
But that’s not the point, Because as the day ended, and the next one neared to come, Makoto stood gazing at his phone, waiting for the moment to come.
Oddly enough, both his parents as well as his sister have already sent their congratulations to him, 5 minutes before the actual time, but the resident luckster wasn’t surprised about it.
As the clock went on, and on, and on, until 11:59:30 p.m. marked at his tiny and worn off screen, Makoto stood waiting.
Usually, he would be asleep by now, had this been literally almost any other day of the year.
But today… well, yeah, it was different.
Double checking that he had already answered them back, he stood back to gaze at his wallpaper.
The clock remained there. 50, 51… It neared in, making the luckster smile.
As he already did last year, if not even more brighter.
56… 57… Here it comes.
59…
February 5th of 2012, 00:00:00 a.m.
SIlence…
00:00:01
00:00:02
*ding*
The first arrived.
But before he could even check his inbox.
*ding* *ding*
*ding*
*ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding*
“Hoo boy…”
He was glad he had turned down the volume of his notifications, admittedly still surprised that it kept working, especially after his phone’s vibration motor died last year, rendering his phone's vibrations to be out of service for, at the very least, whenever he got a new phone.
He gave a chuckle as he read the first message that arrived to him.
Kirigiri Kyoko
Of course.
“It’s late, but I know you are still awake. I’ll wait for you so we can continue our investigations. Happy Birthday.”
Concise, respectful and to the point, just as he expected out of her. It made him not smile any less though.
After her, a storm rained down to his phone. Sayaka Maizono, Aoi Asahina, Leon Kuwata, Taka, Mondo Owada (Most likely dragged by the previous to be an early message), Chihiro Fujisaki… Everyone from his class was always on time, with only two exceptions.
“Oh.”
One.
As underneath Celeste’s name, laid a message of one unregistered number that he didn’t had accounted for, however, it’s message was also short.
“Happy BIrthday.”
Nothing else, no name, no mention, nothing.
However, this message made Makoto smile, as he quickly saved the number under the name of the only one of his classmates who he didn’t have the number of yet.
“Mukuro Ikusaba”
He then went back to sightseeing every message that was arriving to him.
Mikan Tsumiki, Ibuki Mioda… Nekomaru Nidai and Akane Owari… Mahiru and Hiyoko… Fuyuhiko and Natsumi Kuzuryu and as well as Peko! Some of his seniors were quicker than others, regardless, he got happier the more he saw come in.
Then, to even his own surprise, the newly appointed juniors came in.
Shuichi Saihara, Kaede Akamatsu, Maki Harukawa, Kaito Momota… Just the mere sight of seeing some of the new class message him this day was already surprising him. He was stressing out about being their assigned guide for this year’s integration for them and… look at him now! Everyone from their class messaged him!
Kirumi Tojo, Iruma Miu, Tsumugi Shirogane,... Kokichi Oma, Kokichi Oma… and Kokichi Oma and…
…Kokichi Oma…
“Happy.”
“Birthday.”
“2.”
“u.”
Figures that he would send a sentence per message, huh…
That surely won't cost them both…
Huh, Chabashira-san messaged him?
“Don’t get any ideas you pig! I just wanted to message you for not being the worst… Happy Birthday, I guess…”
…
Ah…
Underneath her, she couldn’t miss.
“sorry, happy birthday.”
Himiko Yumeno.
That makes sense… And she didn't even bother with the initial cap, sounds like her.
This wasn't exclusive to his classmates though:
Monaca Towa and her friends, Hina's brother Yuta, Korekiyo and his sister, , Rantaro Amami and all twelve of his sisters, Misses Hagakure…
HUH?!!? How did Hiroko get his number.
“Hapy burthday, bro!”
Hiro… right…
Welp, it's not a real issue. right? Nothing bad can come out of that… he hopes.
After her no one else can surprise him now…
*ding* *ding* *ding*
Three messages arrived suspiciously well timed…
…and yeah… He shouldn't have tempted fate…
Two unregistered numbers left him the following messages.
“I hope you get a happy birthday today. Greetings.”
“Happy birthday, but don't think this makes us friends!”
Without any hint, Makoto would have no idea whose these messages would be.
But it was the third message that made his jaw meet his sheets.
Chisa-sensei
“Hehehe, Happy Birthday Makoto! Managed to force/convince Juzo and Kyosuke to greet you as well! Good night, see you tomorrow! <3 ♡ ♡ <3”
…
…
…That sure sounds like her…
How she managed to do it… he has no clue…
“I guess adaptability is key… * sigh…* ”
But oh well, he wouldn’t complain about something like that…
And hey, the more merrier! Even more people from other classes started congratulating him!
His now seniors that have graduated also sent him a mesaage each!
Gekkogahara-senpai! Izayoi and Ruruka senpai!
And of course, Kimura-senpai!
“I hope this message doesn't catch you too bothersome… especially today. Thank you for being my friend Makoto. I hope we get to meet once more. Happy Birthday.”
He couldn't help but smile at tbe message. He immediately wanted to reply her, reply them all, but he couldn’t just now…
Next, other classes began as well. Class 77A (They will forever be his student council, even if the role eventually switches) send them all a message. Then some friends he made from the reserve course, and…
…Huh, Class 78B also started to message him…
Maeda must have told them… Well, not like he seeked to keep it a secret.
However, all these messages made him ask one important question…
“How has my phone not–?”
*ding* *di–*
*iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii*
“Ah, there we go.”
And to lo and behold, his memory maxed out…
He really needs to buy more of them exclusively for his birthdays… if they all end up going like this.
The very last lucky message he got, of course, it couldn't have been anyone other than him.
Nagito Komaeda.
“I hope I don't get to bother you in this very important date of yours, and I aplogize if you find dirt like me congratulating you to be unsightly, tell me the word and I'll never speak to you again. I'll fulfilled my promise. Happy Birthday. I'm sorry if I bothered you.”
A shook of his head at the message was the last he did as he closed his flip phone for the night.
He… really doesn't know how it got to this, after all…
He's just some guy.
A little Gung-ho, yeah but… nothing impressive.
He wished he could just type that a million times and have everyone believe him how he wasn't anything more impressive than the guy next door, hell, even less compared to any of them.
Nonetheless, he appreciated the thought, and how highly everyone esteemed him, even if felt undeserved.
“Oh well, I'll buy a new memory card tomorrow and answer them.” He said, preparing himself to sleep.
He would answer their messages.
Each and every single one.
It sounds like a lot, and it was.
But, if you asked him.
He wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Hello everyone, and happy birthday Makoto and to anyone else that happens to have birthed on February 5th!
Honestly, I don't have much to say. I wasn't even planning on writing this today, then I remembered a funny story my mom had with my aunt maxing my mom's memory with 10 minute long motivational videos and… THIS came to be.
Personally, I don't like writing OneShots, as I preffer overarching narratives where we can see different characters interact and then compare from where they started to where they currently are as we speak, but I also never made anything like “Celebration Stories” for a certain date or holiday as, probably like many of you, I spend those with my loved ones that I'm grateful to have.
I wanted this to be different though, as Makoto Naegi is my favorite character of all of Danganronpa. That and I wanted to force myself to keep writing, as I'm stuck with almost everything now, hopefully I pull out something for my birthday.
I've been thinking of doing a drafts “story” where I can post aome of my ideas and thoughts every now and then, at least to suffice the need to not feel that my Google Drive is a graveyard of all my story ideas. This is probably the next best thing. Will probably not update it very often though, and I refuse to fill my page with clutter One Shot stories…
Also, I totally forgor to do this last chapter of Rise of Hopeful Hero but, I “now” have a discord server.
If any of you would like to meet more people talk about Danganronpa, Shield Hero, Dragon Ball or whatever, consider joining, I'd love to meet more people to force myself to talk more with people.
With that done, I hope I got to draw a smile on any of your faces while reading this mid one-shot.
See ya!
Happy Birthday Makoto!
And thank you for everything.