I did say that I was going to take a hiatus away from fanfiction, but as I rediscovered my love for this movie and the character Kiriyama I couldn't help it, plus this story literally took over my mind and I have to get it out. I haven't read the book or the manga, I've only seen the movie.

The story takes place in May of 2013. This is AU, Alternate Universe. Kiriyama won the Battle Royale in the movie.

I hope you enjoy and please review. It helps me update the chapters faster.


Don't look back! Keep running! Run as fast as you can!

Her legs were beginning to get heavy. With every stomp Elizabeth planted on the ground with her feet as she ran sent an agonizing wave throughout her entire body. All is dark around Elizabeth, and the only things that came known to her senses was the brush of wind against her face and the smell of blood that carries with it. At this very moment she is running for her life.

Clack. Clack. Clack. Clack! Came the loud roar from the riffle of the mysterious guy from behind trying to kill her. Elizabeth breaks into trees and coming out from the other side she saw herself in a familiar neighborhood. She came to a halt and stood in the very center of the street lit by night posts along the sidewalks.

The buildings are old with graffiti on about every inch of the walls and fences. Florescent lights such as reds, greens, blues and yellows shown out of the windows. This reminded Elizabeth exactly who she used to be and where she came from.

She watched and observed how some gang members walked past her without acknowledging Elizabeth's existence. They began talking to one another as they formed into a circle right outside a bar. Elizabeth couldn't understand a single word what they were saying. It was as if trying to listen to someone with clogged ears. There was one guy who had joined the gang by coming out of a dark alley who stood out to Elizabeth.

Oh shit! Elizabeth exclaimed as she thought this. The guy glances up grasping hold onto her direct eye contact with himself. Kiriyama, the guy who would not stop following Elizabeth and wanted to kill her. He smirks showing his fierce snarl of teeth. Elizabeth started to run again down the street and Kiriyama quickly follows after her again.

Elizabeth is not oblivious to calculate in her head how far away Kiriyama was from behind her or where his position behind her was too. Elizabeth darted onto the sidewalk and just when Kiriyama did exactly what she was wanting him to do she began throwing down everything that came into view, trash cans, display tables with food or jewelry, etc into Kiriyama's path. He dodged a few at first and then tripped by stepping on a pearl necklace. Nothing became enough to stop him from chasing Elizabeth down.

Elizabeth makes up her mind and dashes back onto the street and hauls herself in front of a car going 70mph and made it across the street without getting hit. This stalled Kiriyama's chase as he stopped at the side of the car as it passed through nearly getting hit by it and continues after Elizabeth without having any knowledge of where she went to.

Kiriyama makes it across the street. Looking to his left and right there is no sight of anyone neither was there any sight of someone down the alley in front of him. That didn't mean he hadn't got an idea of where she went. Kiriyama grins as he walks over to the fire escape staircase built next to an apartment complex in the alley, he traces his fingers on the damp railing where someone else's fingertips laid not too long ago.

Elizabeth hid on the third staircase that did not face Kiriyama. She has her palm sealed on her mouth to keep Kiriyama from hearing her panting. Kiriyama thought up a plan and he backed away making damn sure Elizabeth heard him go and hid himself around the building not far away. He is hoping she would eventually come down the stairs and then he would take her down when she did.

Unfortunately for Kiriyama his plan backfired as he hears Elizabeth's footsteps going up the stairs instead of down like he had hoped. He lashes his riffle out from his long coat coming back to the stairs and shot up towards Elizabeth. Though by that time she crossed over onto a terrace and then onto the roof. Kiriyama grunts and runs up the stairs. Once up Kiriyama skipped the terrace and jumped from the staircase and onto the roof. He slings the riffle off his back and into his hands with his finger ready on the trigger.

The roof is flat with a few storage units on top and Kiriyama went to check out the first one. Kiriyama checked them all and came to the last one. Elizabeth can hear him and silently made her way to another corner of the unit as Kiriyama searched around one. Elizabeth continued the same thing until Kiriyama came among the corner he started from.

Elizabeth glanced over from her corner and sees Kiriyama's back turned to her and he slings the riffle back onto his shoulder. Kiriyama didn't move for the longest time it felt like and when he did he slowly crosses towards the ledge. That's when Elizabeth carefully left her hiding place and crept quietly behind Kiriyama. As she came closer Kiriyama looked down from the building deciding where Elizabeth escaped to since he couldn't find her.

Elizabeth is now on top of him and quickly jerked Kiriyama's riffle strap, rings it around his neck and starts to choke him. Elizabeth did not know this until now but Kiriyama is very strong as he struggles and makes his way around to face her. Shock entered Elizabeth and trembled as Kiriyama gave her a twisted smile and pulls her closer to him. He takes her hands one by one loosening her grip on his riffle strap.

"No!" Elizabeth shouts and Kiriyama trips her. Elizabeth lost balance to fall backwards and instead sideways over the ledge. As she began to fall off of the roof Kiriyama didn't hesitate and grabbed her arm to keep her from falling five stories up.

Kiriyama pulls Elizabeth back over the ledge and Elizabeth sunk down to the roof floor with a terrified expression and pants. What am I doing? Elizabeth thought to herself. This guy still means to kill me even though he did just save my life then.

Before anything else happened a loud gong sounded and Elizabeth is dragged out of her imaginary world and into reality.


"Good Morning Green Bay Wisconsin!" The loud announcer spoke from the radio next to Elizabeth's bedside stand. Right behind the radio is a picture of Elizabeth when she was about six or seven dressed in a little league baseball uniform and in a man's lap, her father. The both of them are smiling brightly into the camera.

Elizabeth turns over in her bed, her eyes wide awake. She looks at the time, 7:00 AM, right on schedule. Elizabeth quickly turned off her radio before the announcer started talking about this year's Packers football predictions. She didn't too much care for the sport and has heard about it every day of her life living in Wisconsin even whenever it was no longer football season, like now.

Today is the 19th in the month of May, and Elizabeth's 18th birthday. Today is also the day that she and all the seniors of her High School are taking a class trip to Japan for three weeks in celebration of their last year in school before going to college. Perhaps that was why I dreamt of Kiriyama, Elizabeth thought.

The American's knew more about the BR Act more than some of the Japanese did themselves. It was the American government that approved the law. Elizabeth remembered Kiriyama's face on CNN from last year in an interview he gave after winning Battle Royale on a deserted island. He was a volunteer, and the BR Act is for a ninth grade class to fight to the death until one survivor remained. Kiriyama was no ninth grader and stated he went in to prove he is dangerous and that he had fun doing it. There was never no way to watch them kill each other off, even if there was Elizabeth wouldn have still wouldn't want to watch it because she thought the whole thing was savage and cruel. However since it does happen and many other countries know it as well it keeps the youth in line most of the time so the BR Act could never spread worldwide.

Elizabeth shook those thoughts away. The rules wouldn't apply to her. She's going to Japan to have fun, not fight to the death. She gets out of bed and runs shower water in her own personal bathroom. She sticks her hand in and feels it is still cold. Elizabeth steps away for a few minutes to brush her teeth. Elizabeth came back to the shower and can feel the warm mist spray onto her and takes out her rubber band holding her shoulder length brown locks and takes off her pajamas. She spent about ten minutes in the shower moisturizing her hair with Garnier products and scrubbed her entire bare body three times.

When she got out Elizabeth throws on her robe and slips her feet into her comfortable slippers and walks out of her bathroom back into her room. She sits at a desk in front of a mirror and to her side is her tv, she turns it on and begins to brush out her tangles. The news is on and first was a discussion of politics, a school shooting (great, keep it up and we American's will definitely end up having our very own BR Act), and the BR Act.

Elizabeth turns away from her mirror and untangling her hair now concentrating on the news story that the broadcaster now gave. "It's that time of the year again in Japan folks where teachers will place in their class numbers for the chance to win a lottery of a lifetime." He said and Elizabeth rolls her eyes at this, sick. He then talked about last year's winner Kiriyama, and now that guy got stuck in Elizabeth's head again. The broadcaster talked about another recent interview that Kiriyama gave and the big possibility that he may return this year.

Elizabeth laughs at this. "Well if he does I hope someone a lot more fortunate than him kills that psycho." And Elizabeth soon came to realize after she'd said that that it is not like her to say or think something like it, she hated the BR Act and didn't wish for anyone to go through with it. If she were four years younger maybe, but that was then and she had changed a lot since that time too.

Elizabeth really didn't know much about Kiriyama, she didn't know him at all and most likely never will. Elizabeth changes the channel to VH1 and watched 'I love the 80's' as she got ready.

After blow drying her hair and putting on simple makeup, she didn't like wearing too much of it on her face, Elizabeth puts on some skinny jeans, a white tank top and a blue t-shirt over it. Then Elizabeth had a hard choice between two pairs of shoes, her Chuck Taylor's or low cut high heeled boots. They are both her favorites, she ended up going with the Chuck Taylor's and took her boots stuffing them into an empty space inside her suitcase. She will want to wear them in Japan.

Elizabeth didn't have enough time to style her hair and put it all up in a ponytail again and placed on a designer cap on top her head. She reaches for the doorknob and its' opened her mother and stepfather stand there. Their names are Maria and Bryan. Elizabeth hurdles and chuckled. "How long were you guys standing by my door?"

"Long enough to hear you packing," Her stepfather said and held out his hands offering to help Elizabeth with her suitcase, Elizabeth smiles and hands it over to him and she slings her backpack over her shoulders. She got a sweet Happy Birthday from the both of them and they all walk down the stairs together.

"Be careful with the suitcase on the wooden floors." Maria said to her husband as he placed it on the ground and started to roll it towards the garage. "I've got it." He replied stuffy.

Elizabeth's eyes widened when she saw her stepfather taking her suitcase the wrong way. "Bryan the van isn't in the garage." She felt her mothers' hand touch her shoulder. "Who said you were taking the van." Her mother smiled. "Come see."

A curious look struck Elizabeth's face. "What did you guys do?" She hurries up after them towards the garage and once Bryan opened the door and flicked the light on Elizabeth's jaw dropped and so did her backpack.

A metallic sky blue Bentley convertible is parked right in front of Elizabeth. "You guys." She said breathless as she came up to the car and admired every detail of it and she turns back around to her mother and Bryan. "Why?" She knew it had to be expensive for the both of them to get this kind of car.

"You've just done so much better in these past few years that Bryan and I had to do something special for your graduation and birthday." Maria said as she hugs her daughter.

Elizabeth found it hard to say something to the both of them. "It's perfect, thank you." Elizabeth hugs her mother back and embraces Bryan. Elizabeth is handed her keys to the new car by her mother and tosses her backpack in the back of the seat.

"You're not leaving yet are you?" Bryan said to Elizabeth as he wraps his arm around Maria. "Not when you haven't eaten yet."

Elizabeth did come to remember that she had forgotten to do something though it wasn't what Bryan suggested her to do. "I'll get something in the terminal at the airport. I've almost forgot to say good bye to Tommy."

Elizabeth runs back into the house and found her brother Tommy in his usual sitting spot in front of the TV in the living room watching Sesame Street. Most six year olds these days aren't as curious or innocent like Tommy is. He is also a very bright child and very responsible for his age, he hardly threw a tantrum and when he did it was always for a good reason.

"Hey Tommy," Elizabeth said coming over and sat right next to him. "Which episode is this are you watching?"

"I have not seen this one." Tommy said as he fiddled with the remote control and drops it. He looks up to his sister. "Are you leaving?"

"Right now I am, but I'll be back in a few weeks." Elizabeth said nudging her little brother

"Well if you're coming back then why are you going?" Tommy asked.

"Why?" Elizabeth makes a playful sad face at her brother. "You want to get rid of me?"

"I don't want you to go." Tommy replied.

Elizabeth smiles, it was so sweet of him. "It's only three weeks and by then school will be out for you and we can spend tons of time then."

On the TV one of the Sesame characters yelled 'Run! Run as fast as you can!' over and over. Tommy is shivering and Elizabeth notices, she gives Tommy a hug as her mother and Bryan came in. "I'll see you soon Tommy." With that she got up and to everyone's surprise Tommy started to scream as loud and long as his very lungs can handle, and for a child that was a lot.

Tommy folds his arms around Elizabeth's legs. "Tommy! Tommy stop it and let go!" Elizabeth tries to release herself from her brother as gently as she could until her mother came around and pulls Tommy off of her.

"You can't go Lizzy! Don't go!" Tommy called down the hall as Maria took him to another room to calm down. Lizzy is a nickname that Tommy liked to call his sister instead of saying Elizabeth.

Now Elizabeth shot up into shivers of her own. He's never reacted that way unless if it was for a good reason, her mother came back out and said it wasn't best for Tommy to come out of the room anytime soon. Elizabeth felt really bad that she and her brother were going to part ways like this. She felt that her yells at him were too harsh, however she had to go or else she'll miss her bus ride at school that is taking everyone to the airport.

Elizabeth walks back out to the garage with her mother and Bryan, she thanks them again for their amazing gift and told them good bye. Elizabeth felt good again as she got into her new car and started the ignition, gosh did she love that new car smell. Bryan opens the garage door for her and they all wave to each other before Elizabeth puts the car in reverse to back off into the driveway and onto the street where she takes off, she looks back once but only when she thought about her poor little brother.


Elizabeth arrives at Southwest High School. She'd just graduated from the place last week on Friday and it felt odd yet bittersweet to be back. Elizabeth smiles really big as she spots her friends coming up to her car in the lot as she is parking it. "Sweet ride Liz!" Trey said as he slid himself on top of the hood.

"Get off the car Trey," Elizabeth giggles as she gets out of the car and swings her backpack on her shoulders.

"Oh well Trey your birthday present for Elizabeth is going to suck." Claire said. Claire has been Elizabeth's best friend since they were in Kindergarten and they became friends with Trey in Middle School and right when they entered the 10th grade together Trey and Claire became item. They may fight a lot but they are deeply in love with each other. Robbie who is also among them always had a thing for Elizabeth since their rough times. Elizabeth hadn't returned any form of affection until that year. They've went on a few dates, however they aren't together like Claire and Trey are.

"You guys seriously didn't have to get me anything." Elizabeth blushes.

"Well I didn't pay for yours. I found the frame and I printed out the picture." Trey said handing over his gift to Elizabeth.

Elizabeth looked at the picture and chuckled. "Oh that definitely is priceless." The picture is of all of them in their blue and white graduation gowns making goofy faces and Trey is behind herself and Claire giving them both the rabbit ears. "My eyes in this picture freaks me out a lot." Elizabeth said. Elizabeth is sticking her tongue out and has her eyes crossed in the picture.

"Mine next," Claire shoves Trey out of the way and hands Elizabeth a small square box. Elizabeth opens it to see gorgeous silver hooped earring. "These are so beautiful Claire. Thank you so much guys." Claire hugs Elizabeth. "Happy Birthday Elizabeth."

Right when Claire and Elizabeth come out of their hug someone pushes Elizabeth out of their way as they walked by. Elizabeth looks to see who it was. Rachel. Long story short, Rachel had always held a grudge on Elizabeth, it had to do with a confrontation between both of their fathers, Elizabeth's real father. "Whoops I'll try to watch where I'm going." Rachel spoke with a sharp tone as she brushes her fingers through her long blonde hair staring at Elizabeth harshly.

Claire chuckles. "Well Rachel if you did that you just might walk yourself off the face of this Earth." She said sarcastically. "I wish you good luck."

Rachel rolls her eyes and decided to walk away when Elizabeth didn't say anything.

"If we're lucky maybe she'll fall down a hole in Japan," Trey said. Claire shakes her head and pats Trey's back. "That's China hun."

Trey thought a moment. "Oh yeah people do dig holes to China." Claire was about to say something else but she is just going to rest her case.

They had all recognized a friends' parents car already coming up. Tory and Corey Owens. Twin sisters who act like they hate each other in public. One is popular and the other average, like Elizabeth and her friends. Corey, the average twin is friends with Elizabeth and Claire, she is now coming over towards them with Tory coming out of the car last in skanky clothes as usual. The skirt she is wearing could literally pass off as panties.

"Tory! Victoria!" Her father called from the car and Tory sternly turns around at him as she walked away in high heels. "What! I'm not pulling it down, this is how my skirt is made, all of my clothes are like this!" She shouted all of this to father in the parking lot where half of the seniors stared back and forth and the father finally had enough and he drove away.

"Hey happy birthday Elizabeth," Corey said as she places her heavy suit case down on the ground and pushes her glasses back up properly on her nose. "I didn't have time or the money to get you anything but I'll try in Japan."

"No please don't Corey," Elizabeth said instantly waving her hands. "I keep telling you all you don't have to." Everyone is silent. "I love you guys so much."

They all came into a group hug when they saw the buses enter the school lot. "We are going to have so much fun. I consider it to be everyone's birthday for the next three weeks. So let us celebrate like it." Elizabeth said and everybody agreed with her and took their things and walked to the buses.

Elizabeth took out her suit case in the back of her car. She didn't like to leave that car after just getting it, the school will be watching it closely for her though.

Robbie walks up by Elizabeth's side as she took towards one of the buses. "You've been very quiet this morning. Are you alright Robbie?"

"Fine," Robbie said with a fixed grin and hands her a wrapped present. "Robbie?" Elizabeth whisphers with an annoyed look.

"Just open it." Robbie said softly with a chuckle.

Elizabeth winces and she started to unwrap the paper, it is another framed picture although she will admit Robbie's frame is a lot better looking than Trey's. It wasn't just a picture inside but a collage of pictures with Elizabeth and Robbie together. "I can tell you've worked really hard on this." Elizabeth locks her eyes on Robbie. "I love it, thanks."

Robbie winks at Elizabeth and they both board onto the bus, Elizabeth threw the wrapper away in a trash can next to the driver and took her seat next to Claire.