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Edited October 6, 2017 to include the rules of the Storage Room plus extra dialogue.

Here's a little fanfic inspired by the V3 bonus mode Love Hotel scenes. The prologue comes firsts, the character chapters later. This is my first time writing a fanfic for this site. I hope you all enjoy. I wrote in script format because the dialogue is what's important rather than the actions. Anyone who is familiar to the series should instinctively know the kind of sprites to insert. Plus I am just too lazy to go into too much details. Anyway, I will try and keep the characters as in character as possible and make their own reactions and ideal partners as close to their own character as I can. I am open to suggestions. Hope you all enjoy.

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[Enters Locker Room]

Makoto: What's going on?

Hifumi: I'm not sure. This was here this morning when I entered.

Everyone has gathered in the Bathhouse locker room by the urging of Yamada-kun. Upon entering, one of the first things I noticed was a door to the right of the mirror and sink, near where one of the plants use to be.

[CG of a large door to the right of the sink and mirrors]

Makoto: This is new.

A brown door with a big, pink hear in the middle. This was diffidently not here before. Did Monokuma make some renovations while we weren’t looking?

Mondo: What the hell is this?

Kyoko: Apparently it’s Monokuma’s new project.

That's right, yesterday, while we were busy collecting parts to build Monokuma’s backups, he suddenly showed up and let everyone know that tomorrow there will be a new addition to the school, a ‘new and fun project’ he called it. So this is it. But what’s the point?

[Zooms above the door at the sign written in big flamboyant letters and hearts. There’s also a picture of Monokuma giving the viewer what looks like a wink.]

Makoto: Storage Room of Love?

Sayaka: That’s …

Toko: …so creepy.

Leon: Love is the absolute last thing I ever associate with that bear. What’s this room for?

Yasuhiro: I’m not sure I want to know.

Kyoko: There’s a simple way to answer that question. One of us has to go in and examine this room.

Kiyotaka: Very well. Are there any volunteers?

No body spoke up.

Kiyotaka: Really, no one? Why not?

Junko: Do you even have to ask? Look at that door!

Aoi: Not to mention this is something Monokuma made. Who knows what will happen if we go in there.

Mondo: Damn straight! No way I’m willingly going in there!

Sakura: Every natural instinct I possess is telling me I will regret entering that room.

Toko: Again, it’s just so creepy.

Kiyotaka: Come now, we just need one person to go in and have a quick look around!

Celestia: Oh, does that mean you volunteer?

Kiyotaka: Well…

Chihiro: What should we do?

Kyoko: It might be hasty to investigate that room carelessly, especially with such a… questionable name.

Even Kirigiri-san is reluctant to enter the room. Not that I blame her, or anyone for that matter. Considering what we know about Monokuma from the few days we spent here, we can tell he has some dark purpose for kidnapping us. We really need to be on our toes with whatever he does, and that means not carelessly entering an obviously suspicious room.

Byakuya: (sighs) We will never make any progress this way. Naegi, go investigate.

Makoto: Me?

Byakuya: Do I need to repeat myself?

Kyoko: Shouldn’t you be the one volunteering to enter after such a declaration?

Byakuya: You expect the likes of me to pass that abomination of a threshold? The unsavory tasks are meant for commoners such as yourself. It is my duty to assign them. Now go, Naegi.

And just like that I got volunteered. I’m probably going to regret this but…

[Enters the room]

I entered the room and was immediately taken aback by what I saw. At first I noticed how huge the room was. If it was a storage room, it was certainly bigger than the average one. That thought was immediately replaced by an even bigger shock. A checkered tile floor led to a black and red furry carpet of some kind. Along the walls were shelves full of towels and cleaning products like one should find in a bathhouse locker room, but there was also other, more X-rated products. In addition, there were several other questionable materials along the walls including a clothes rack with various costumes, multiple S&M products, and equipment of various kinds. In the tiled corner, there were various bowels and buckets he did not believe for solely used for the bath and shower in the corner, considering the fact there were even more questionable bottled near them. The walls were also filled with various pictures, or mockeries of what they were supposed to be such as the one that looked like “The Birth of Venus,” only with Venus replaced with Monokuma.

Makoto: Wha… what is…?

That was all I could say. In all respects, it looked like a storage room, a very, very dirty storage room. Though the more I observed, the less and less I thought of it as a storage room and the more I saw it as such. Especially considering the fact that there was a large bed in the very center of it. It was large, round, pink, and had neon lights along its heart shaped backboard. See-through drapes covered the canopy of the bed. Next to it was a nightstand with an ice bucket that I believe could be filled with the ice machine and whatever items the refrigerator in the corner held.

Makoto: That’s just… what?

Is this even a storage room anymore? What in the world is Monokuma planning? What does he expect us to do in here? As thoughts raced through my mind, I began to feel, strange. For some reason I began to think about… well I’m not sure who it was, but it was someone I clearly had feelings for. It was someone I wanted to get close to, and be with. It was someone I would want to bring to a room just like this and…

Makoto: Wait!

Why was I suddenly fantasizing about some unknown person and taking them to this room? Could it be some kinds of affect of the room? Did Monokuma let something loose in the air? I smacked my head twice to clear my thoughts and hurried out the room. Whatever was going on, it is clear this room had a stronger affect on a person that I originally thought.

[Exits Storage Room]

[Scene transitions to the locker room with everyone present]

Kiyotaka: Ah, you’re back Naegi-kun! Well, what was inside?

Makoto (embarrassed): Well…

Sayaka: Huh? What’s wrong Naegi-kun?

How exactly do I explain what it is I saw? My head was still a little murky from whatever it was the room was doing to me. That combined with the obvious subject at hand made it very difficult to find the right words to describe exactly what it was I saw.

Makoto: It’s just…

Byakuya: Will you spit it out already? We sent you in there to investigate, not tell us what’s inside.

Makoto: It’s not really something I can say! It’s… just so…

Celestia: Oh, is it something truly out of the ordinary?

Makoto: It’s not just that. It’s just one of those things that… well, it’s just embarrassing to say.

Chihiro: Embarrassing how?

Yasuhiro: Yeah, come on, spill it Naegi-cchi. What’s the big secret?

I’m half tempted to just lead everyone to the new room and let them all figure out why I’m so tongue tied, but there might be a few members of the group that may feel a bit more strongly about me leading to what is basically a storage room meant for more questionable activities.

Kyoko: Naegi-kun. If you discovered something new about the facility I believe it is in our best interest to know about it.

Leon: Yeah, especially if it’s a way out of this hellhole!

Makoto: It’s not really a way out.

Kyoko: Buy it is something you feel we should know about?

Makoto: It’s more like, a new addition to the building.

Sakura: An addition you say?

Makoto: Not a big one, just a… weird one.

Toko: Weird and embarrassing? What in the world?

Aoi: Why do you keep giving us the run around?

Makoto: Because it’s weird! It’s just too out there!

Leon: What, even by this place’s standards?

Hifumi: Embarrassing, weird, and now out there?

Junko: Okay, now you just got me curious.

Mondo: Just tell us already!

Byakuya: Indeed, if you’re going to say something say it and be done.

Okay Makoto, take a deep breath. You already got everyone this riled up, you may as well come out and say it.

Makoto: Well… supposedly it is a storage room.

Kyoko: What does supposedly mean?

Makoto: Well, if the sign means anything, it really is a… Storage Room of Love.

Mondo: What the hell’s that ‘of love’ crap?

Yasuhiro: Yeah, is it like a combination between a storage room and love hotel room?

Ah, that’s right. He’s the Ultimate Clairvoyant.

Chihiro: A… love hotel!?

Aoi: Hagakura-kun, seriously that’s just gross!

Kiyotaka: Indeed! Even if it is a joke, it is far too inappropriate for the school setting!

Makoto: Well… actually… I… concur.

Kiyotaka: Huh?

Aoi: Eh?

Byakuya: Excuse me?

Makoto: (Sighs) If I were to give a description to that room, it would be as Hagakura-kun described. I would basically call it… a storage room with all the… accommodations of a love hotel room.

An oppressive silence covered the room. Well, I already made it this far; I may as well go all the way.

Makoto: A bed, some equipment, and pretty much anything you may find in a love hotel is in there.

Once again, silence covered the room, this one even more oppressing than the last. Until…

Yasuhiro: Wait, seriously man!?

Sayaka: Eh!?

Mondo: The hell!?

Celestia: Oh my.

Chihiro: That’s just…

Toko: What!?

Hifumi: Awawawa!

Kyoko: Hmm.

All the sudden, everyone had something to say to my sudden discovery. Many were shocked, some were disgusted, Togami-kun in particular held an annoyed ‘you have got to be kidding me’ expression. Some of the more reserved members such as Kirigiri-san and Oogami-san stayed quiet, others were a lot more vocal about their surprise. Surprisingly enough, the Ultimate Moral Compass remained silent throughout the sudden maelstrom of inquiry, at least at first.

Kiyotaka: … Naegi Makoto…

Makoto: Eh, Ishimaru-kun?

Kiyotaka: If this is some kind of joke then I will let you it is in very poor taste!

Makoto: I’m serious! It is just like I described.

Leon: You really are serious!?

Junko: Hahaha, this I have to see!

Makoto: Wait, Enoshima-san! When I went into that room... I felt this strange sensation in my head, like something was affecting my thinking.

Junko: Your thinking?

Makoto: Yeah. I can’t describe it, but I certainly felt like I my whole train of thought was becoming something else entirely.

Kyoko: Hmm, from what you described, the room may have introduced some form of hallucinogen into your system.

Makoto: I thought so too. In any case, I don’t think you should enter recklessly like I did. Who knows what may happen?

Kyoko: I understand. Thank you for… wait... where's Ishimaru-kun?

Sayaka: He ran in while you two were talking.

Makoto: Oh boy.

Everyone turned to the door, wondering what would happen next. After a short pause, Ishimaru Kiyotaka stepped out, red faced. Whether it was from embarrassment or anger, I could not tell.

Makoto: Ishimaru-kun?

Leon: Whoa man, what did you see in there?

Hifumi: Was it as Naegi said? Was it really…?

Suddenly, a great flame of passion and rage arose from his body.

Kiyotaka: MONOKUMAAAA!

As suddenly as he yelled, he ran outside the bathhouse locker room. After a short pause, the rest of us followed.

[Scene changes to outside the bathhouse]

We left the bathhouse and took in the sight of Ishimaru-kun repeatedly calling out to our ‘headmaster.’

Kiyotaka: Monokuma! Monokuma! I demand to speak with you! Monokuma, show yourself this very moment! Monokuma!

Monokuma (suddenly appears): Alright, alright! Sheesh, so impatient to see your beloved headmaster. Am I really that well loved?

Kiyotaka: There you are you scoundrel! You indecent, rule-defiling, evildoer! You deplorable scourge upon everything orderly and decent! You vile, slime of a phony headmaster!

Monokuma: Who are you calling phony!?

Leon: That’s the part that offends you?

Kiyotaka: Enough of this! Explain yourself this instant!

Monokuma: Oh, so you want to know a bit more about your dear headmaster. Tell you what; once I’m done writing my autobiography I’ll let you be a beta reader. How about it?

Kiyotaka: You know what I mean! What is the meaning of that ‘storage room’ you put in the bathhouse?

Monokuma: Huh? Oh that. Sheesh, I do one good deed for my dear students and instead of showering me with praise and affection they throw insults and contempt. What is a bear to do?

Kiyotaka: How is that stain upon everything the school system wishes to uphold a ‘good deed?’

Monokuma: Well, it’s like this. I got bored out of my mind watching you all get along and be friendly with one another, so I decided to play a game for a while. It's a fairly recent video game that came out, a second sequel in the series. Or was it third? There was that spinoff. Does the anime count? What does the V mean anyway?

Byakuya: If there is a point to this kindly get on with it.

Monokuma: Anyhoo, after completing it, I managed to get the bonus features including a bonus mode, which is something like a galge game. In one bonus, you can invite certain players to a love hotel if your affection points with them are high enough, so I thought, why not include that in my little game right here? So I went to work on my new pet project. I call it, the Storage Room of Love.

Kyoko: And do tell, what is the purpose behind this project?

Monokuma: My, my, such paranoia in the air. The purpose of that room really is what’s on paper. I know as high school students you have these ‘urges,’ so why not create a place just so you all can go and relieve yourself of them. In other words, it’s a place specifically for you to be alone and explore new and wonderful things about yourselves. How’s that for a Sex-Ed class?

Junko: What, so you can watch us like a creepy voyeur?

Monokuma: Hey now, that’s rude. I didn’t include cameras in that room.

Makoto: It’s true. Like the bathhouse, there aren’t any cameras in there.

Monokuma: Yep. What you guys do in that room is your own business. I’d like to keep my viewing pleasures as clean as possible. That being said, if you wish to go at it like monkeys in heat, take it where I can’t see it.

Aoi: You’re disgusting!

Kyoko: Again, for what purpose?

Monokuma: Huh, so distrusting. Again, it’s to further strengthen with your relationship with one another. You all have been getting along so well as you made my backup body, I figured something like this would strengthen your relationships further. Maybe even form bonds of love or lust or whatever it you humans feel.

Kyoko: Bonds you say?

Monokuma: Yep, I want those bonds to be deeper. So deep in fact, it would be despair inducing if you something were to happen to them. Especially when the real game begins.

Makoto: What do you mean by that?

Monokuma: Oh, you’ll find out in the next phase. Upupupu.

Kyoko: Another question. Naegi-kun mentioned feeling something odd when he entered that room. Is there a reason for that?

Kiyotaka: Ah, now that you mention it, I also felt strange upon entering, though I was too angry at the sight of that appalling room to pay too much attention!

Monokuma: That would be the power of the room. Anyone who enters that room will be under its special affect where you see the person you are with as your ideal partner.

Makoto: Ideal partner? What does that mean?

Monokuma: Everyone has somebody they like, some kind of person they are most attracted to whether it is through looks, personality, or status in life. The affects of that room will make any person who enters fantasize that that whoever they are with is their ideal partner.

Sayaka: That’s just…

Celestia: I have no words.

Junko: But why a storage room?

Monokuma: Why? Aren’t they one of the more popular places for students to have their time together during school hours? All I did was spice things up to set the mood. So go ahead, invite your other half to the secret room. Just put a sign out at front to let everyone know that it’s occupied. Remember, only two people at a time… or three, however it is you roll. On second though, make it one group at a time… no wait. Meh, make it ‘however many are invited to the party at a time,’ just put a sign up to let uninvited guest know it’s in use.

Junko: You really are…

Leon: Did you seriously just say that?

Chihiro: How dirty.

Byakuya: Such a shameless creature.

Kiyotaka: Enough of this! I demand you seal up that horrible room this moment!

Monokuma: Hey, I worked hard for that room. No way I’m just going to seal it away after all this.

Kiyotaka: I insist! As the Ultimate Moral Compass it is my duty to protect the moral standards of my classmates, and I cannot, WILL NOT, allow such a repulsive room to exist and corrupt those standards!

Monokuma: Tch, I knew you would be the party pooper of the group. Oh well, not like I didn’t see this coming. Look, if it makes you happy, I’ll keep the door locked for now on.

Junko: Hold on, I want to see the perverted room!

Kyoko: Are you sure about that? From what Monokuma told us you will be entranced as soon as you enter.

Junko: Oh... right.

Monokuma: Worry not my little explorers of the new and kinky, for I have a solution to your teenage curiosity.

[Image of a key appears]

Monokuma: Behold the Key of Love. Currently being sold in the shop for the low price of 10,000 Monocoins, this will allow you to enter my little love room. In addition to giving you unlimited access. It will also make the wielder immune to the delusional affects of the room. So, if you really want your alone time, you’re going to have to pay for it. Although… Naegi Makoto, here.

He tossed me the key he was holding to me. I caught it easily. It was a small key with a heart shaped bow. It was very light, yet at the same time, it still felt heavy in my hand.

Monokuma: For being the first guinea pig for my room, I reward you with your own key, free of charge. But no sharing. That key belongs to you only. Everyone else will have to get his or her own. Upupupu, you really are the Ultimate Lucky Student, huh?

I don’t know how to respond to that.

Monokuma: Okay my lovely students, everybody gather around! Before we go any further, let me go over the rules of the Storage Room of Love, just to be sure everyone is on the same page.

Clearing his throat, Monokuma began his explanation.

Monokuma: Now, the Storage Room of Love can be accessed during nighttime. During that time, anyone with the Key of Love can access the room with any partner of their choosing. Once they do they can spend the whole night in the room.

Monokuma: Once they enter the storage room, the partner will enter a dream-like state and everything around them will be apart of their fantasy. The wielder of the Key of Love will be immune to the affects of the room, but their partner will be perceived as their ideal person and more or less swoon all over you.

Hifumi: What a tantalizing offer.

Kyoko: Will the partner even be aware of their surroundings when in this state of mind?

Monokuma: If you mean will they know where they are, then… it depends. The purpose of the room is to escape this cruel, dark reality. Whatever your ideal fantasy is, the setting may change. For example, if the partner’s fantasy involves a day at the beach, then they will think they are at a beautiful beach and not even be aware they're in a storage room or even trapped in a school. If the setting’s not all that important, then nothing much changes.

Monokuma: Now then… pay attention everyone! This is the important part! Just because the one with the key is immune to the room’s effect doesn’t mean they can just sit back and watch their partner act out their fantasy! When the partner in the dream is under the influence of the room, the key’s holder has to play along with the fantasy.

Makoto: Play along? What does that mean?

Monokuma: I’m glad you asked! After all, this does concern you the most. You see this room is just a temporary distraction from the hard and troubled lives you live in here. It’s nothing more or less then a stress reliever. And what better way to do that then acting out your dreams and fantasy. But of course there are ways to end the fantasy early, like if certain characters don’t follow with the partner’s ideal scenario.

Kyoko: I see. You’re saying the key wielder also has to act out the fantasy with their partner, otherwise it will cease to be one, and the dream will fall apart.

Monokuma: Gold star for you! The key wielder not only has to be the doorman, they also have to be a skilled thespian and play the part of whatever role their partner assigned to them. If they do anything to break character, then the partner will wake up, and when they do well… boy oh boy will it be embarrass the ever-living day lights out of them. They’ll remember everything they did up to that point and can you imagine being in that position? Acting like the other person is your ideal partner and being all lovey-dovey with them without a care in the world? And then you’re suddenly and rudely woken up and remember where you are and get a cold hard slap in the face from reality. Awkward doesn’t even begin to describe it. It’ll be agonizing! I suppose you can say… it will be despair inducing… Upupupu.

Leon: That’s seriously messed up.

Celestia: So Naegi-kun has a key right now. If he invites someone in the room…

Monokuma: He’s gotta humor them or risk total and utter anguish and humiliation upon a colossal scale! No pressure kid.

Makoto: I... do!?

Mondo: So not only does he have to watch the other person look like a total ass, he’s gotta be just as much of an ass or risk a situation awkward as shit.

Junko: I can’t tell what’s worst, being the delusional one or the person who has to be their playmate.

Yasuhiro: You have my condolences, Naegi-cchi.

Byakuya: What possible motivation is there to even go into that room? From hearing you tell it there is nothing but degradation for any who enter.

Monokuma: Oh, there is one thing I forgot to mention. What happens in the room stays in the room. Once you leave, all memories of the time you spent in there are gone.

Aoi: So… we won’t remember any of the embarrassing things we did? The delusions? The roleplaying? All of it will be wiped from our memories?

Monokuma: Yep. An added bonus. I doubt any of you would look each other in the eye again if you remembered any of the stuff you did in that room, so I added that little touch as well. Aren’t I generous?

Monokuma: So, to sum it all up, you can call it a one-night-stand within a dream. Everything that happens in that room stays there and you all can leave it with your dignity intact.

I wouldn't say our dignity would be fully in tact if we enter that room.

Monokuma: Now, go and gather affection points from your classmates and invite them to the room when they’re high enough. But remember, you still need to create my backup body within the 50 day time limit, so don’t get too distracted. See ya around, perverts!

[Monokuma disappears]

Kiyotaka: Get back here you!

As Ishimaru-kun futilely yelled at the now gone Monokuma, I looked at the key curiously. So this key will keep me from feeling the affects of the hallucinogen. It certainly not the strangest thing I’ve seen in this place, but it's definitely one of them.

Junko: So, who are you going to invite?

Makoto: What!? No one!

Kiyotaka: Indeed! Naegi-kun, please lock that room immediately! I will personally make my patrols around the bathhouse regularly to make sure no one enters! Everyone, don’t worry; I will make sure to protect everyone’s morals!

Leon: Wow, thank you so very much.

Chihiro: Can we please not talk about this anymore?

Aoi: Yeah, this whole situation is getting weird.

Kyoko: If there’s nothing else, I suppose we should all disperse for now.

Sayaka: I agree, we should go now.

Byakuya: Honestly, what a waste of time.

One by one, everyone leaves, leaving me behind to lock the so-called ‘Storage Room of Love.’ It looks like life inside this place just got a little, stranger. I wonder what the future holds.