Thanks for passing by again, I would like to thank those who gave comments about the story, I will try my best to keep it up and to correct those mistakes I made, if Fukawa seems a bit OOC I shall apologize to those who it might bother, but it work for this story, it will not be that different from the Fukawa we know, so once again thanks to Luckenhaft, Ph1n41, and Panda-Chan1358 for your reviews and support, and let's keep it up shall we?

Chapter 2: Asking and lending a book

As the sound of an alarm clock sounded Touko Fukawa woke up from her bed, in her nightstand her notebook could be seen, contrary to what some people thought from Fukawa always following Tagami, the writer was quite a busy person, as she was serialized she often wrote new ideas for her books, the other time she had she was studying for the classes as she didn't wish to fall back at all, not that she would, smart was a word that could be applied to her if she were to allow it.

The bits of time she had free of course she would dedicate to follow Togami, though free time meant cutting time on other activities, such as bathing or socializing with others, she could skips some foods if it was to follow Togami, but as of yesterday, that routine had changed for her; not only she had stopped to follow Togami, but she actually ended up becoming Naegi's friend.

"Friend…feels kind of weird to think of it, F, R, I, E, N, D…. you can actually spell "End" with those letters." Fukawa felt still weird at the fact Naegi price to keep silent was for them to be acquaintances, it was weird, none the less after that lots of indecent ideas flowed to her mind that night, each of them ended up being written on her notebook, she liked the new material she had obtained yesterday.

Fukawa morning routine was easy, change to clothes for a day, breakfast, follow Togami to classroom. An easy routine, after all why did she need it a shower, no one was going to pay attention to her, the grease of her hair actually kept her braids on place, the only thing she put attention to clean were her glasses, and only because she need it those to be able to write.

Her hands weren't girly at all, they weren't soft as of the other girls, calluses in her hands as a result of the intensive time writing her ideas and turning them into a novel. She liked the feel of her hands, as in a way it was a reminder that there was something she was good at. Something that had made her able to enter a school as prestigious as Hope Peak Academy, she liked the school, maybe not the people, but the school definitely.

Maybe it was because in a school there weren't many people as outside, or the fact that on this school there weren't that many people to begin with. Still Fukawa morning today seemed to be a bit more on thought that she could feel herself, for a first time she decided it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a shower on the morning as she had more than enough time.

What brought the change to the routine, she couldn't really put a finger on it, and she just thought it would be better to shower today morning. While in the shower she took care for her hair, she didn't really had troubles with it, but once again she just felt like it would be a good idea to take a bit more care of it today.

"Nothing bad in taking a bit more care today, I had to take a shower already, could have waited for later… but I just feel like there is nothing bad doing it early today." Fukawa got out of the shower feeling fresh, she didn't really understood what was going on that morning, it was as if suddenly things looked brighter, she felt the same though she looked herself on a mirror while doing her braids.

"Things look brighter, but I feel the same, I'm sure no one would smile me, yesterday probably ended up being a joke, everyone will start to make fun of me…" As she ended up finishing her braid her face was one of someone who doubts what will happen in the day. "Might as well go on with it…" As she got dressed in her usual clothes she opened the door waiting for all the other to say yesterday was a joke.

Fukawa was surprised, no one outside in her door, of course people were walking in the corridors for breakfast, but no one was looking her way to make fun, maybe, maybe yesterday had indeed happened, something true had happened, no jokes or a mockery, yesterday had happened.

"If yesterday was real…then I actually got a…friend" Fukawa started walking in the corridor by the walls trying to be out of sight of the others and ended up spotting Naegi, she started to follow him, she was making the smile she would often have when following Togami, she didn't thought she would feel like smiling to someone else the way she was doing it now.

"Well, my…friend is there, I should follow him to say hi" As she advanced closer, she saw Leon near Naegi, for a moment she tensed "Should have thought so… any moment now they will shout it was a joke to make fun of me…Shouldn't have trusted him" She noticed then Naegi alone smiling to her, Leon was making his way to the cafeteria for breakfast, no shouting or victory remarks of a joke. She smiled to Naegi who after acknowledging the smile kept walking for breakfast.

A note that should be said about the cafeteria was the fact that after a little accident involving a motorcycle and tables used as ramps, the tables had been changed until further notice. The tables were now round tables which allowed seeing everyone. Fukawa had come to like the table's concept as it allowed her to have her own little place to eat alone.

As she went to her usual table to have a little breakfast she got surprised as to seeing Naegi sitting in front of her on the table. No one, not even by accident had sat near her on the cafeteria; class didn't count as sitting together as they had no option. Someone willingly coming to sit with her was new.
"Why is she coming here? Did he lose something?" Even though her thoughts were like that, Fukawa couldn't avoid smiling at seeing Naegi sit on her table.

"Hello Fukawa, I thought that I could come to sit with you, if you don't mind of course" Naegi had suddenly turned a bit shy in the last part, Fukawa just kept smiling as indecent ideas came flowing to her head, oh she was going to make a great novel with all that was flowing in her head, she hadn't got such a flow of ideas in a while, and even then not with the amount that was coming now.

Naegi could only see the smiling Fukawa in her delusions "I often wonder, how much stuff is going through your head, like what ideas come to you, what inspiration is flowing while you are like that" Naegi just smiled as he ate breakfast while Fukawa was still in her own head. The moment was nice, even if in silence it was a good moment of just them in the table sharing the moment of silence. Though silence is not eternal, and so Naegi broke it "Fukawa, I was wondering if you would let me read the novel you wrote" Fukawa mind went into a standstill, hitting the brakes of the train of inspiration was never good as it often left her in a loss of words for a moment.

"W-What?" "Guess I interrupted her, I will ask again" Naegi thought while smiling at the fact he found cute how Fukawa mind worked, "I was hoping you would let me read your novel" he let out that characteristically smile that defined his optimism, Fukawa was in a standstill, not because of the flow of information, but on the question.

"Is a book of romance… more suited to girls, why would a guy want to read it? Is… he trying to read it to make fun of me? Why would he want to read it, can I even ask him that? We just became friends…" As if by reading her thoughts Naegi answered the unspoken question "I was hoping to read it since I want to know more of you, so I thought it would be good reading the book you wrote" Smiling to her that was his answer.

Fukawa looked at that smiling face, that smile that hold no malice in it, no hidden meaning, it was a truthful smile that showed he hold no secrets "How come you can always smile like that, you don't do better than I do around…you barely keep up with the classes, studies are not your strength, so…. How come you can always be happy even when things don't work for you?"

Silence had immersed the table, but this was a different silence, almost omnious as if something big was going to happen, before Naegi could ask Fukawa if she was okay when she answered "Y-You can read it…"
Naegi smile grew wide "Thanks Fukawa! It means a lot" Before he could keep on going Fukawa spoke again "But…I want you to…read it with me" "Oh no, what did I said! Not with me as together! But rather as in the library the two of us!" Fukawa seemed to go mayhem for a second, though Naegi had understood what she meant, "So I can read it if we are in the library right?" Fukawa went to a standstill on her head again.

A bell sounded indicating there were 5 minutes for classes, Naegi stood and saw Fukawa in that moment, even if she was smiling, a smile that she hadn't decided on make, it was just on her face a smile of relief. "Well, at least I know you are okay with me reading it" Naegi was making his way out of the cafeteria when Fukawa seemed to sneeze loudly,

As Naegi looked to check on her he noticed the same feral eyes of yesterday. As if on cue she got close to him quickly and put an arm around him. He tensed a bit but not as much at the lack of scissors in his neck, he didn't saw when she got scissors on her hands. "From where is she getting this out?"

"So if it isn't Naegi, good morning, is morning right?" As Shou looked at the window she just nodded in acceptance "Yeah, good morning Naegi, what do you say we ditch classes and get out for a while, just you and me" The smile on her face had him questioning him what would she do if he were to answer no.

"Are you sure? I mean the class is kind of important" Naegi had actually avoided classes before, on one occasion with Mondo because he need it help with his motorcycle, and the other with Hagakure as he insisted he had seen on his crystal ball that a misfortune would happen on that class, and so it happened, a surprise exam had appeared that day "Well not that important…."

Shou laughed loudly at Naegi try to distract her "Kyehaha! I know I don't look the type, but I hate school… wait no, I totally look the type kyehaha!" As she laughed Naegi was totally convinced Fukawa and Shou didn't had anything in common. "One person, yet two sides totally different…" Before Naegi could keep on thinking; Shou made step outside taking him together with his arm coiled with hers.

"Come on it will be fun to be outside, nothings more exciting than breaking the rules" As they were walking outside he noticed they weren't really going out of the school, just outside to the trees near it. She let herself fall in the floor, but thanks to her arm being coiled to Naegi he fell too, almost landing on the scissors of Shou. "Seriously, how can she have this around?"

"Kyehaha, boys always get near my scissors" as she laughed at her inner joke Naegi just stood looking at the leafs of the tree, trying to understand what was going on, he sighed and asked to the air, not meaning to get an answer "Do you mind hanging with me?" To his surprise he felt how Shou moved to the side looking at his eyes she had a questioning expression "Oh, I'm in trouble aren't I? Geez didn't thought my end would come at the hands of Fukawa, thought it would be something like an accident, maybe something falling over me, not by Fukawa"

"Huh? Hey, if you don't mind hanging out with me, why would I mind hanging out with you?" That made… an unreasonable amount of sense, he didn't minded following her outside, though the scissors and the coiling of her arm in his kind of helped to that but, he didn't really minded hanging with Shou. "Why?..." Before he could keep on thinking she poked him with the scissors in his cheek, it brought his attention to her smiling face.

"Come on, do it again." Naegi didn't understood what she meant, he looked puzzled, she didn't had to be a genius to understand he didn't got what she asked. "What you did yesterday, say it again."

"What did I said yesterday? I just told her what happened to Fukawa and… calling her cute? She wants me to call her cute?" Before he could be sure it was that she poked with the scissors again. "If you don't want for the next one to be a cut, I would act faster" The smile never left her face, she seemed to enjoy the whole thing.

"You… want me to call you cute?" There it was, she could feel the tingly sensation of being called something that wasn't an insult, oh she was surely going to like to speak with Naegi if the feeling was staying. "Good job, have a reward" Naegi couldn't ask as she made a cut on his cheek again to licked it as fast as she made it.

"Well that was great Naegi, I need to check something, try not to fall on any scissors next time we chat kyehahaha"

That laugh was something else entirely for Naegi, he placed his hand on the place where the cut had been made, no feeling at all, as if she hadn't cut him "Is scary, she could make me bleed without me noticing anything, she sure knows how to use those scissors" Naegi stood still under the tree, trying to make order of what happened, also…. Why did she cut him if he had actually told her what she wanted?!

Genocider was making her way to her bedroom, she had enjoyed Naegi company, it was weird, it was the first time she had a boy that she didn't wanted to kill, it was weird, even if he hadn't called her cute, she felt tingly when she coiled her arm around his, of course it had been mean to be as a way so he didn't run, she would have cut him with the scissors at any try to run away.

"Did he minded being with me? Nah who would mind being together with the incredible Genocider Shou, I'm a celebrity after all, I have appeared a few times on the newspaper on the crime section. I didn't mind him being with me, I wonder if I made him feel that, oh well, let's make a business stop."

Genocider had stopped in front of the bedroom of Naegi, she used her scissors to pick the lock and enter the room, she only wanted to check on something "Let's see if you actually took care of them…" There in the nightstand she saw the scissors, clean and shiny, they weren't like that at all when she gave them to him..

"So you actually took care of them eh… you are a weird one Makoto Naegi" She got out of the room not noticing a surprised Naegi in the hallway looking at her while she made her way out. She just went to her room and rested, Fukawa would be back soon.

While she was resting it didn't took long for Fukawa to take place, she took a book from her own shelf in the room, it was a special book few would call it, for Fukawa this book was the novel she wrote, she would take it to Naegi, she would only allow him to read it if both were on the library to read it. The idea of her and Naegi reading it in the library brought a nice feeling to her, a feeling she deny.

"I was hurt once… I'm not going to let myself be hurt again, I shall accept him being my friend… but I will not let anything else happens…why my mouth taste like blood!?" As Fukawa went to the bathroom to wash her mouth quickly and let the horrible taste of blood get out, Naegi was requesting to the janitor if he could change the lock of his door as it had busted for unknown reasons.

Naegi didn't really knew if he was making Fukawa trust him, but at least she had accepted letting him read the novel with her in the library, the idea had him hoping to see her soon to start reading it, he was wondering something to himself "Will I see Fukawa or Shou?" He felt lucky, until the janitor told him he hadn't a replacement so he would have to hold with the busted door knob for a while.

"So far being the lucky one" Naegi had no way of knowing that Fukawa was also hoping in her own way to lend him that novel and maybe just end the whole mess she was feeling, she didn't really got what had happened today, not only she didn't remembered what happened after sneezing, but the whole time she couldn't avoid the smile on her face.

Well I think there is room for improvement but, hope you like it, be sure it wasn't a one shot, and well, let's hope I can get better at this, thank you very much for reading and reviewing everyone, I really appreciate the support