After a not so majestic awaking, Makoto finds out about a secret from one of his friends. How will react and what can he do to help his roommate/friend

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Makoto Naegi was the Ultimate Lucky Student and he was getting up for another day at Hope's Peak Academy. It's very early in the day, so there's little to no noise in the world. His hair and face were all over the place, so it would be difficult to recognize him if you didn't know him well, and his normal walking of what he felt was an average walk was replaced by stumbling over the room, in desperate vain to try and wake himself up. He is definitely wake enough to find the bathroom though, and as soon as he entered the room, he immediately closed the door, turned red and ran to sit down on his bed.

Soon his roommate came out of the bathroom fully clothed. The roommate had the appearance of a small and young girl, wearing a brown skirt and a green top. This person is known as Chihiro Fujisaki, the Ultimate Programmer. They looked around the room, before noticing Makoto on his bed, looking concerned about something. Meekly, they walked over to the boy, before standing in front of him, with a very concerned look. "Makoto, are you OK?"

Makoto noticeably jumped up with a shock, causing Chihiro to become nervous, which Makoto could see clearly, causing him to try to calm down. "H-Hey, I have got to ask you something, otherwise it'll be on my mind for the rest of the day." Makoto's face was getting redder with every word that came out of his mouth.

Chihiro was noticeably shaken by his request, but shyly nodded, causing Makoto to sigh in relief. "Thanks. Chihiro this may seem weird, but I have to ask, are you a guy?" Chihiro face contorted into one of panic and a gasp followed, answering Makoto's question.

The following moments turned into one of a very awkward silence, until the now known to be male Ultimate Programmer decided to speak up. "Y-Yeah, I'm a guy. I suppose there's no real point in staying quiet now, since you know the truth now. I don't want to trick you or anything, so please don't be mad." Chihiro was already starting to cry.

Makoto had a look of somewhat sadness, seeing his friend in tears. "Hey, I'm not upset, really. I just got to ask, why do you dress as a girl, and do you want to me to call you a girl?" Chihiro's tears started to clear up a bit, which caused Makoto to smile a bit more.

Chihiro had a minute of pondering before nodding to himself. "I want to be strong. Everyone bullied me for being weak, so I dressed up as a girl in order to avoid the bullying. But I don't want to dress up as a girl and I want to be strong! I want to change!" His eyes grew with more determination, however all of a sudden, it went away. "But I don't know where to start. What happens if people get mad or judge me?"

This caused alarm bells to begin to ring in Makoto's head again. "H-Hey! I'm not mad or judging, so I'm sure no one else is! If you don't know where to start, maybe I could help you? I'm not really physically strong, so I couldn't train you, but maybe I could ask someone to help out?"

Makoto's attempts to calm down Chihiro worked and didn't work at the same time. "T-Thank you, but please, I'm not ready for people to know about this! You've got to keep it a secret, please!" The two sat and stared at each other, not knowing what to do.

"Maybe, you could share it with one person who you trust a lot? Then you two would be able to start training, and when you're ready, you could tell everyone you're male. I could try to recommend someone if you'd like." Makoto's attempt to break the silence.

"I'll think about it during class." Makoto nodded at his response and looked at the time.

"Oh no! I haven't even showered yet! See you in class Chihiro!" Makoto yelped, in a panic, before rushing to the shower and locking the shower door.

Soon class 77-A, aka Makoto's class, were all sat down and learning, however Makoto was simply looking around the class, while trying to hide he was doing so, pretty badly. "Who would make a good training partner for Chihiro?" He's thinking to himself right now, I mean it wouldn't be very smart to say all of that aloud in class, would it. "Yasuhiro and Hifumi are out. They're even weaker than me, and that's saying something. So that leaves Leon, Kiyotaka, Byakuya and Mondo."

He turned towards a blonde man, wearing a green shirt and glasses, before immediately shaking his head. "No, Byakuya would never help Chihiro. I don't think he'd care to be honest, so at least he wouldn't share Chihiro's secret. Besides I'm not sure how strong he is, so he's a bust."

The next person he looked was a redheaded man, with lip-piercings. "Leon must be strong, but at the same time he has said he didn't practice for a day in his baseball career, so I doubt he knows how to train well. Besides he's clearly the laziest person in the class, so there's a chance he might not turn up to training." The person sat next to Leon and shouting at him to continue working was a student wearing a white uniform and black spiky hair.

"I don't know how strong Kiyotaka is to be honest. He'd show up to the training sessions at least, but I don't know how he'd react to finding out Chihiro is a guy and he's really loud and speaks without thinking sometimes. I can't exactly trust him with the secret sadly. So that just leaves Mondo from our class. To be honest, I think it has to be someone from this class. Chihiro has to feel comfortable with it and he doesn't know people outside of this class that well. Chihiro does like Mondo, so that adds points to the total. Mondo's always talking about a Man's Promise, so maybe we can turn that into helping Chihiro out?"

Makoto was pretty lost in thought, so much so Monokuma noticed him, and as their teacher, it was his job in order to make sure they were learning. Or else. "Makoto Naegi! Stop daydreaming otherwise it will be Punishment Time for you, and you know you don't want that! I do but you're all wimps so start working or I start having the time of my beary short life!" Monokuma practically screeched, causing everyone to panic and get scared, even Sakura, Celeste and Kyoko were sweating at this.

This was more than enough to snap Makoto out of his thoughts and onto the paper and books the school force the students to use. "I-I'm sorry Mr. Monokuma, Sir!" That was the highest pitched voice to ever come out of a male student in Hope's Peak Academy, at least on that day.

Soon that class was over, and everyone was on break. The students of year 77 all had their breaks at the same time, so it was easy for the classes to mingle. Makoto, however, was simply sitting on a bench, hands holding up his neck. "Hey, are you OK?" Makoto looked up to see a student with an ahoge similar to this, wearing a pink top, a cream backpack and lots of music notes to bring it all together. This student's name was Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate Pianist, who was in Class 77-C.

Makoto took a second to respond, although his face was one of surprise. "Oh, didn't notice you there." This retort turned Kaede's face into one of a slight shock, though she simply smiled after the shock wore off.

"Well, you were deep in thought, anything could happen, and you'd still not notice it. Anyway, mind if I sit. Rantaro's hanging out with Shuichi today so I'm free for the rest of the break I suppose..." Makoto shook his head and so Kaede sat down. The two sat on the bench, waiting out the time until the next class started. "So, what's on your mind." Kaede spoke up, in order to start some conversation.

At this point, Makoto wanted to explain everything, but Chihiro wanted it to be a secret, so that simply made everything harder for the Ultimate Lucky Student, but eventually he found a way of words that seemed to make sense. "I want to help Chihiro out. She wants some advice, but she's going to be too shy to ask the person she wants it from. I don't want to be too intrusive on her life, but at the same time, I'm worried she'll never get around to it if I don't do anything." Kaede took Makoto's words in and put a hand on her chin.

After what seemed like forever, Kaede took her hand of her chin and began to speak. "Hmm, from what I've seen, Chihiro's the type of person who wouldn't want to do something she's frightened of until she literally has no other choice. That's why you have to make it so then there isn't any other choice. Set up a meeting for her, then explain why you did that. Say that if she really wants it, then she has to ask it herself. Although maybe not that simply, she'd most likely get scared from what I've heard." Makoto was listening intently to this, so now he had some idea of what he wanted to do, but not sure how.

Soon he a very late reply to Kaede. "Yeah, it's not exactly the most tactful way of doing it, but I know she'll be happy afterwards! Kaede, thank you so much for the help!" The bell rang after his statement, making the exit convenient at least. The two got up and stared at each other for a second.

"Glad I could help you two out with your relationship issues. Anyway, I've got to go get back to class. I don't know how they'll function without the Class Rep. See you at the meeting!" Kaede simply smiled and waved, while Makoto's arm went at supersonic speeds.

The two walked off in different directions and Makoto was smiling at the new idea, that Kaede had given to him. "Wait, relationship issues?"

Soon the next set of classes went by and Makoto walked up to a fellow classmate. "Hey, Mondo!"

The tall man with a corn hair, black jacket and very buff chest looked over at Makoto. "Yo, what's up. Do you need me to lift something?" Mondo towered over Makoto, however after a rocky start, Makoto was able to look at the giant on equal footing.

"Actually, I need to ask you a favour. Chihiro wanted to meet with you in private, at this address. She was a little too shy to ask you herself, you know how she is. But please, you have to go to this OK, it'd mean the world to her." He was calm knowing exactly what was going to happen, as he gave the address of the meeting to the Ultimate Biker Gang Leader.

Mondo was pretty embarrassed at this idea but took the letter without objecting. "S-Sure man." Makoto smiled and thanked him, before leaving to achieve part two of his plan.

He returned to his room, and simply waited for Chihiro. Soon the Ultimate Programmer walked into the room and Makoto smiled. Chihiro noticed Makoto's smile and smiled back. "Hey, Chihiro, so it's kind of awkward to say, but I wanted to help you out with your issues, so I arranged a meeting for you!"

Chihiro's face turned into one of shock. "W-What! Makoto you can't just do that without asking, what would you had done if I couldn't make it!? I-I'm not sure if I'm ready to talk to Mondo about my secret, I mean I had no other choice with you, and I don't know!" He's beginning to tear up, which definitely made Makoto feel bad, but the Lucky Student knew it was for the greater good.

Makoto took a deep breath, and made direct eye contact with Chihiro, to make sure the entire message got though. "Yeah, I realized that after the fact, but I don't want you to do anything you don't want to do. I want you to be happy, because you're my friend and it's my job as Class Rep to make sure everyone's happy, so that's why I took things into my own hands. You don't want to dress up as a girl or be weak, right? So, I thought if you explained all of that to Mondo, then maybe you'll be able to train, maybe even just be a guy for a while. If it doesn't work out, we'll figure something else out. Just promise me you'll go there and try OK?" The message was long and uninterrupted, but the silence was deafening for Makoto.

"I'll try. You're right, I don't want to be weak anymore, and if you've given me a chance to grow stronger, then I have to take it, even if I'm scared." This caused Makoto to breath an audible sigh of relief as he collapsed onto his bed. Then he simply threw a thumbs up out at Chihiro, who smiled. "I should get some training clothes at least..."

Soon Chihiro walked to the place Makoto had arrange for the two to meet. It wasn't too hard for Chihiro to find, as he knew the school pretty well now. Soon he saw the Ultimate Biker Gang Leader waiting, somewhat impatiently. Chihiro took a deep breath before walking towards Mondo, tightly gripping the bag he brought. "Oh, hey. What's up Chihiro, I don't mean to be rude or whatever, but it's pretty damn late and you didn't even ask me yourself you know." Chihiro took a nervous sigh.

"Mondo won't judge me, he can't shout at me because of his Man's Promise. I'll be fine, I just have to say this one thing and then I'll be able to become strong." This was an attempt to steal his nerves, which thanks to the lack of shaking, worked like a charm. He took another deep breath. "Mondo. Please don't judge me or anything, but I have to tell you something important. I-I'm a male." The silence in the air was heavy. The weight on the two men shoulders was intense and the scene felt like a staring contest where the loser would face receive punishment. "I-I was bullied for being weak, and I dressed up as a girl in order to escape the bullying and I felt even weaker than I used to... but now I want to change, I want to become strong like you, so please train me!" Chihiro's face was full of sweat and fear, but determination moreso.

Mondo had to take some time to adjust to the news. In fact, his hand was tensing up, anger flowing through his veins, but then it suddenly stopped. "Damn... So that's why Makoto came to me and was so insistent. Wow, chick, I mean dude. That's some heavy stuff you're throwing at me. It takes a real man to work up the courage to face his past and punch it in the face, honestly I'd say you wouldn't need training." Chihiro had a look of sadness on his face when he heard the last line, causing Mondo to panic a bit. "B-But that's no reason for me to not train. I've got to remain tough so then there's no munity in the Gang, everyone likes each other but fights happen so often that it's hard to keep track of them all. Besides we're classmates and you've helped me out on more work than any reasonable person should have, so I guess I can let you train with me, consider it a promise between men!" Mondo gave a thumbs up on his last comment and then Chihiro's eyes began to sparkle with joy once again hearing this news!

Almost at instinct, Chihiro rushed and hugged Mondo tightly as his little body could muster. "Thank you so much Mondo, I promise I'll work super hard and try my best! I won't let anyone else down!" Mondo simply smiled and pushed Chihiro a small amount away from him.

Mondo let out a sigh. "Alright, we can't really train tonight, mainly because I don't have my bag, but I'll give the new address to Makoto and have him hand it to you, to make sure no one suspects anything. Then we can train every school night until you get tried, deal?" Chihiro nodded with lots of enthusiasm. The two planned out other things quickly before Chihiro rushed off to bed.

Chihiro landed on his bed simply smiled. He turned to Makoto who was fast asleep at this point and felt tried himself, so he decided to get some rest.

Mondo was stood still in the school at the mid of the night. "I can't believe what just happened. Still can't say it's entirely awful, I do need to start training again, and I suppose I could ask him for help on other things. Heh, I'll make sure to make him strong, strong enough to make you jealous of my teaching Daiya." On the last word he spoke, a smile came over his face and he walked off, content with his new plan of training Chihiro.