Battle Royale: Day 1 Pre Dawn
 

The sounds of boots in the hall of the stripped down school house wakes you. Your head feels like someone tried to kick it in. The sliding door is slammed open and several soldiers in uniforms rush in. They are armed with assault rifles. The Soldiers take positions at the front of the class. You can see that it is night out side and in the distance you hear the sound of waves on rocks. Bright lights from a helicoptor flood the room. As it lands outside. A middle aged man in a track suit holding a briefcase is escorted off by more soldiers. The Soldiers flick on the lights, the flourescent bulbs sputter and hum to life, as the man enters and sets his brief case down by the podium. He stands at the podium.

"Class Sit Down," He says calmly.

"SIT DOWN!!!" The Seargeants bark the orders to you.

You take a seat.

"I am Kitano, I will be your instructor. Let us be friends." He smirks confidently as if he is on some joke.


"We have two transfer students. Onizuka over there," He points out the one he refers to. "and Mitsuke over there. Be nice to them."

He turns to the chalk board and begins to write Two letters in the roman alphabet "B.. R.." He follows it with the kanji symbol for law.

Onizuka was leaning back in his chair. His school uniform jacket was open and wrinkled, his died blonde hair making him stand out amongst all the dark haired people. It was quite obvious he wasn't paying attention. Then again, he was in a school. Not listening to the instructor was almost a rule to him. One by one, his eyes scanned the group, chuckling to himself.

Him I'd tie up and leave in the middle of the highway. Him, i'd cut off his fingers and leave him in a hole that was JUST too tall for him to jump out of. I'd drug her, then leave her in Whore Alley.

One by one he was thinking up horrible things he could do to the contestants.

Tuesday. It was always Tuesday.

Kanazawa Nagori lifted his head off the desk in front of him and looked around at the run down schoolroom around him. Last thing he remembered was a bus ride for a surprise field trip and then.... here. Short field trip, apparently.

The soldiers filed in and this new professor introduced himself and two new students, none of which held Nagori's attention easily, though the yelling of the sergeants was new. Still, just one bad day on top of an ever-shortening lifetime of him. It wasn't until Kitano wrote the letters "B.R." on the chalkboard that Nagori finally found the situation interesting and, feeling around his neck, first noticed the collar locked around it.

Somewhere, deep down inside himself, Nagori suddenly found the situation to be absolutely hilarious.

"Do you know this Law" He says softly. pointing at the words written on the chalk board. He says this like a seasoned proffesinal as a man who has done this many times before.

Sanada Kaori remained respectfully quiet, looking for a way out of this horrible situation and becoming increasingly irritated that one wasn't in plain sight, but also sure that venting right now would lead to some sort of harsh punishment. These people were insane to do something like this to her, but they obviously weren't screwing around, either. She couldn't help her situation as she was so she kept her focus on the instructor and kept quiet otherwise.

Tayuumi wasn't really listening to the "Teacher". She had already took note of him and how he was. She put aside her confusion to check out her surroundings.

Her eyes were tracing the class in a similar manner to Tomasu's, but her thoughts were different.

She's overly scared. She's confused. So is he...

Then her eyes met with Tomasu's. It was only for a second, but they both gathered their thoughts of the other quickly.

Sociopath...

Then the question was announced.

"Do you know this law?"

He said it so casually. He had obviously had some experience in this situation.

B.R law...B.R law...what the hell? BR?

"Do you know this law?"

As no one seemed to be responding, Nagori slowly raised his hand. Kitano saw the raised hand and looked at the seating chart in front of him and then back up to the class. "Ah, yes. Kanazawa?"

"It's.... population control," Nagori answered, half mumbling, "A way to... downsize the overall drain on society in the most Roman-inspired way possible..."

...and you couldn't find a finer bunch of folks to downsize, Nagori thought to himself.

Tomoko Akiyo sat quietly in the second row, somewhere near the center of the class. Her eyes gazed respectfully at the teacher and his chalkboard exhibition. In her mind however, Akiyo was terrified.

After all, what field trip does one suddenly black out along with their entire class, and appear in another classroom at...

Akiyo checked her watch.

6:00AM? She had surely missed chemistry because of this, and the soldiers weren't helping her mental state any.

"Do you know what this law is?" The instructor asked. Akiyo knew she had heard of it somewhere before, but the specifics didn't come to mind, until... until Nagori responded.

Then it all made sense. The collar firmly latched around her neck had suddenly made sense also. The med-student's eyes widened in shock as she stared helplessly at the instructor.

No, this couldn't be happening... It had to be a nightmare.

"Who are you people?" A girl said, she stood up. "What's happening?" A boy added.

"That's no good" Kitano said. "That's the problem with this country. It's going to hell. Want to know why..." He throws the chalk at Chiaki hitting her in the fore head. "NO WHISPERING, DAMNIT! PAY ATTENTION!"

"Asshole!" she says running up to him. He punches her in the solar plexis dropping her to her knees in second coughing

"Listen up, because of people like Kuriyama-san this country is no good anymore. So the politicians and big wigs in the military got to gether and passed this law. Battle Royale." He points to the board. "Today's lesson is... you kill each other off till there is only one left."