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"Now to our last order of business, what's the update on the rest of the class?" asked Kyoko Kirigiri over the makeshift communication device that Kazuichi had assembled for them earlier that day. Hinata looked to his right at Fuyuhiko, who didn't look very happy to be doing part of Hinata's job. It did make Hinata feel guilty for leaving the others when he was supposed to help them create their own future. And what resulted in Hinata waiting for Komaeda to wake up? Well a lot of crying on Hinata's part and confusion of Komaeda's. It pained Hinata to be away from Komaeda, but he knew that his friend had a lot of recovering to do.

Fuyuhiko stepped up and gave his report on how the rest of the class was dealing with their new lives, "The final two to wake up were Nekomaru Nidai and Nagito Komaeda. Right now they're both in the hospital. Mikan Tsumiki is handling their rehabilitation with Sonia Nevermind as her assistant. Currently, they're not accepting any visitors, so we can't tell you about their current status."

"Hmm, we may need to know their current status so we know what supplies to send your way," Kirigiri sighed and looked between the two boys. Her violet eyes settling on Hinata, which unnerved him to say the least. He knew he had to step up, but these past couple of months were really hard on him. He was lost without having Nagito and Chiaki there to help him since they were always there for him in the Neo World Program. With Chiaki really being dead and Nagito in a coma, Hinata felt more pressure than usual. "Hinata, I trust you'll be able to give me the report on both Nidai and Komaeda the next time we talk, right?"

"Ah yes, of course. You don't have to worry Kirigiri" he nodded and gave the woman a small smile. Even though Kirigiri was younger than him, she still had a scary aura about her that slightly reminded him of Izuru. But at least she was a bit more understanding and since she was practically dating Makoto Naegi it made Hinata trust her just a bit more.

"I would hope not. Hinata, Kuzuryuu, I'll talk to you both again in a week," Kirigiri declared both ending the meeting with them. The screen turned to static as Hinata sighed, scratching the back of his head, glancing at Fuyuhiko. The shorter refused to make eye contact with other, crossing his arms over his chest.

"You haven't forgotten about your promise, right?" Fuyuhiko asked, his voice hushed. He finally looked up, his uncovered eye glaring at Hinata. "You seem restless and out of it, Hajime. You're still not yourself even with that asshole awake."

"I'm fine Fuyuhiko, please stop worrying," Hinata gave Fuyuhiko an encouraging smile, but knew his friend was right. Every night Hinata would just lay awake, insomnia defeating sleep in his mind. The amount of food on his plate was starting to decrease per meal each day as well. Hinata's only win would be the fact he was showering regularly and socializing with the others throughout the day. "I'm sorry for making you give the report to Kirigiri from these past couple of months, but I promise that I'll do my part from now on. And that does include taking care of myself."

"Ugh, fine. But if I see or hear that you're not okay I'm kicking your ass. Got it?" Fuyuhiko threatened, pointing a finger in Hinata's face. The taller nodded, giving a quiet chuckle before getting shoved towards the door. Fuyuhiko grinned a bit, not looking at Hinata's mismatched eyes, "Now go, you need to start on the report about Nekomaru and Nagito. We don't want to give Kirigiri a reason to get angry."
"Oh um, yeah okay…" Hinata walked towards the door. He knew that Fuyuhiko was letting him know that it was okay for him to see Nagito again. As he walked out of the restaurant heading towards the hospital, a small smile was tugging at the corner of his lips. The thought of seeing Nagito again made Hinata's heart race in his chest, it had been almost a month since he had seen the boy that made him feel differently. Well, ever since they had first met, Hinata felt something different towards him, but those feelings then and the feelings now probably had no correlation. Just as he had that thought, a familiar pain on the left side of Hinata's head began to run rampant.

He was your friend and then you kept him at arm's length not trusting him, then basically turned into your enemy with the fake bomb threat, and now you're head over heels in love with him. Weren't those the feelings you were talking about?

Huh? I-I guess yeah…

Where's the anger? These straightforward feelings are so predictable and boring…

Izuru, not everything is as complex as you try to make things to be.

Oh really? Then why don't you feel any anger towards Komaeda? Hm?

Wha-

He committed suicide. Don't you remember how he died in the school killing trip? Or did you forget that just so you could live happily ever after with your hope crazed lover?

N-no! I-it's not like that…

Then what, Hajime?

I-I don-

You really did forget…

NO!

Hajime you might not want to have another break down, so I suggest you listen before arguing.

….

Komaeda committed suicide to weed out the traitor and what did that do? It made all of you realize that Chiaki Nanami, the girl who you were closest to, practically your best friend wasn't real. She was but an AI of her former self, that you all failed to save. You witness her die for the second time, Hajime. Nagito Komaeda caused that to happen, him and his luck. And do you remember the shock you went through, finding his mutilated body, tied up, stabbed, and impaled? The horror seeing him dead, eyes full of hope, now cold and lifeless. How does all of this not cause you any grief? No anger? No frustration?

Izuru...I-I know that I'm frustrated and angry with Nagito. But I still love him... I just want to know why...I need answers before I go and tear through him. If I just act without reason, things could end badly and I-I don't want that to happen…

Reasonable, yet boring…

Ugh, just go back to observing…

Hinata rolled his eyes as he walked inside the hospital. No one was in sight so that meant that Mikan and Sonia were currently busy with their patients. The others were hesitant to leave Mikan alone with the sick considering what happened in the game, but thankfully Sonia stepped up to help. Hinata trusted Mikan and hoped that she wouldn't relapse into the despair, but that doubt he had about Mikan was true for all of his other friends on the island and even himself. He heard Izuru snicker in the back of his mind, but Hinata huffed in annoyance as he searched around the building for one of the two. Eventually Hinata found Sonia in the resting room shuffling through some papers, he knocked on the door alerting Sonia to his presence.

"Oh hello Hajime!" Sonia greeted as she stood from her seat giving the boy a warm smile. "How did things with Fuyuhiko and Kirigiri go?"

"They went pretty good, but I do have a favor to ask if that's alright?"

"Sure thing, I'll do whatever I can."

"I need to visit Nekomaru and Nagito and see how their status currently are right now. Kirigiri wants a report done for next week's meeting," Hinata rubbed the back of his neck as Sonia picked up the papers on the table, flipping through them again before setting them inside a green folder.

"Mikan discharged Nekomaru while you and Fuyuhiko were at your meeting, but you can go visit him after you're done here. As for Nagito, he hasn't really been very active since we've been running tests on him," Sonia handed the folder to him and smiled. "These are the test results and the few medical records that we could get a hold of. We have a separate copy of them to keep here, but I will need this back."

Hinata nodded, he was happy to know Nekomaru was okay but he did want to see Nagito. Even if he was unconscious at least he'd know the other was okay, or well at least alive. He bit his lip before asking, "Is there anyway I could see him? I know he's not supposed to have any visitors, but I think it'll help with my report."

"I don't think today would be good for that," Sonia glanced at the clock hanging on the wall before looking back at Hinata. The door opened behind them and Mikan bumped into Hinata causing her to fall to the ground. She cried as she hit the ground, whimpering as Hinata and Sonia rushed to help her off the ground. "Mikan are you alright?"

"Y-yes I-I'm fine, so s-sorry about that H-Hajime…" Mikan sniffled as she shuffled over and took a seat. She wiped her eyes quickly before fiddling with the edge of her apron. "W-Wait Hajime w-what are you doing here?"

Hinata explained the situation to the former High School Level Nurse. He was really hoping that he could see Nagito today, but from how she was reacting now he wasn't too sure if his hope would stick out. It seems as if his luck came to end back when he kissed Nagito awake, but he didn't want to lose hope just yet, maybe he was just building it up? According to Mikan she was going to be removing Junko's left hand from Nagito's arm today, so he was under as much medication as they could ration him for it. They all agreed that two days from now would be an appropriate amount of time for Hinata to see Nagito so, reluctantly, Hinata left the hospital and walked around the island.

As he walked he read through the folder that Sonia had given him, it went into detail how the tests were on Komaeda and it seemed he was faring well, considering his medical history. Hinata sighed and closed the folder, he really didn't want to think about the fact that Nagito wouldn't be living very long due to his illnesses from before the tragedy, but he wasn't faced with any other choice. His heart sunk into his chest as his footsteps slowed down remarkably, it was as if fate doomed them from the start.

Did you ever think there was a reason that Nagito Komaeda took so long waking up?

Huh?

Instead of looking far into the past, look at the more recent past.

Wait...you don't mean...

Hinata ran to building where the capsules were on the main island as he thanked Izuru for the clue. He ran inside the room and went straight for the computer setup, his fingers grazing the keyboard as he took a seat. Looking at the monitor, he realized that he had no idea how to work this piece of equipment. It was a regular computer, but the system and programs were beyond Hinata's knowledge. That's when out of nowhere the pain on the left side of Hinata's head spread out evenly as his right eye transformed from a forest green to a scarlet red. Izuru had taken over to use his Super Level High School Hacker abilities.

Hinata was the host for Izuru, but because of his lack of talent, he wasn't able to use any of the talent that Izuru possessed unless Izuru took over. It was part of the agreement the two made once they emerged from the Neo World Program and it worked out well for the two of them. Hinata watched as Izuru typed away with the files of Class 77-B popping up throughout the screen, with a few clicks Nagito's file appeared on screen.

"Nagito Komaeda, looks like he was suffering from two different fatal diseases…"Izuru summed up, his voice monotone and hollow, but still sounded like Hinata himself. If Hinata was in control of his body, it would've sent a shiver down his spine. "But looking at the capsule's data, he should've been one of the first to awaken, but because of his sudden suicide in the killing school trip it seems as if his body went into shock. His brain did go into a comatose state, but the diseases that were in his body thought he died so they went into an indefinite dormant state."

An indefinite dormant state? So Nagito isn't gonna die anytime soon?

"Lover boy is cured from his diseases. You should thank him for killing himself when did otherwise he would be dying right now," Izuru shrugged as he exited out of the program, slowly Hinata felt all of his senses coming back to him. He blinked and cleared his throat, moving around to make sure he had full control of his body before getting up from the chair. Hinata left the building with a small smile on his face, he was very hopeful for what was going to happen in the next coming days.

The next two days for Hinata felt like a complete blur, even though he got next to no sleep, he was excited to go see Nagito at the hospital. During the past two days he spent sometime with Nekomaru making sure he was really okay and got more details on his progress for Kirigiri's report. It seemed that he was hospitalized two weeks after waking up because he still wasn't used to having his real body back, but they could only blame Monokuma for changing him into a robot. Thanks to Mikan and Sonia, Nekomaru was able rebound back in what felt like no time at all. Hinata also spend the rest of his time at the beach, just sitting and relaxing near the water. He usually went there at night so he wouldn't be disturbed and so that he could have a place to go to when he should've been sleeping.

As he walked into the hospital, a weird feeling arose from the pit of Hinata's stomach, his palms began to sweat as his heart raced. Was he getting nervous? Hinata shook his head and took a deep breath before meeting up with Mikan in the resting room, from there they headed to Nagito's room. Mikan was going to give Hinata and Nagito their space so they could talk, but she wasn't going to be too far in case she was needed. Hinata placed his hand on the doorknob, this was the moment he had been waiting for since Nagito first woke up. He wasn't going to ruin this chance, but at least the time before he got a kiss out of it. His cheeks turned pink at the memory, but he stopped thinking about it right then. He had to focus on the present and find out how Nagito was doing.

Opening the door, Hinata strolled into the room, he noticed Nagito sitting upright in the bed with a book in his hands. His skin wasn't as pale as Hinata remembered, it looked healthier, actually Nagito himself didn't look sickly. Looks like Izuru did find out the truth, Nagito wasn't infected with fatal illnesses anymore. Hinata couldn't help but smile a little as he approached Nagito's bedside. His eyes looked at his face, his cheeks flushed, gray eyes engrossed in the book that his right hand held while the slight breeze from the open window caused his white fluff of hair to wave around.

As Hinata opened his mouth to speak, Nagito's gaze flew from the book to Hinata's red and green eyes, his mouth formed a smile as he spoke, "Long time no see Hinata. What's the reason someone as busy as you needs to come visit trash like me?"

The small smile Hinata had fell into a scowl as he recalled the habit Nagito had of putting himself down almost every time he spoke, "You're not trash Komaeda, you never change do you?"

"Old habits die hard," Nagito shrugged as he set the book down in his lap, his right hand on top of it as his left arm laid at his side. Where there should have been his forearm and hand was a bandaged stump instead. Hinata's eyes glanced at the stump for a second, his heart sunk as the sight, but he knew that he'd get parts from the Future Foundation to make him a replacement arm. Nagito's eyes followed Hinata's and sighed, "It's such a shame...I really wish I hadn't woken up. I was happy thinking I was dead.."

"You can't mean that."

"But I do. I was content knowing I was becoming a stepping stone to everyone's hope, but also happy knowing I could no longer be despair. I was going to be free, but looks like lady luck still has it out for me. But looks like I won't be around much longer, my illnesses will surely kill me before the end of the year."

"Yeah...about that…"Hinata sighed as he scratched the back of his head. He hated how much Nagito didn't want to be around, but he had to know the truth. As Hinata explained what Izuru found out, he didn't look at Nagito in the eyes, but instead his gaze was fixated to the window. He didn't want to see whatever expression would be on his face because Hinata knew it wouldn't be a good one. His heart raced as he spoke, it was a nice feeling getting to speak to Nagito even if the circumstances weren't the greatest. It felt like ages to Hinata since they were able to really talk, even if it was about the past.

Once Hinata finished he looked at Nagito, shock was all over his face as laugh escaped his lips. His right hand flew up and covered his eyes as he laughed, that's when Hinata noticed tears falling from underneath the hand. Nagito's voice was quiet, but Hinata was still able to make it out, "You're joking...I'm cured...lady luck must really hate me. Such awful luck this is.."

"Nagito how can you think this is bad luck? You're going to be okay! You can live through this and have a future."

"I have no future...my future is gone just like my left hand. I don't deserve to be here, why can't I just rot away like the garbage I am!" Nagito cried as his hand flew to his hair tugging on it. Without thinking Hinata rushed over and embraced the other tightly, he held Nagito to him as he cried. Nagito's right hand feebly attempted to push him away but gave up and clung to Hinata's shirt. Eventually the sobs died down, but Nagito still whimpered and sniffled as he spoke, "H-Hajime why?! W-why do you care so much? Why?!"

"Because I have feelings for you dumbass, I-I always have actually...but it wasn't until I thought I'd lost you that I realized it for sure," Hinata admitted, his cheeks becoming red as he soothingly stroked Nagito's back. He was relieved that Nagito couldn't see his face right now otherwise he'd start laughing at how red his face was. But knowing Nagito anything was possible, he was little crazy in the head.

"S-so that's why you decided to become Prince Charming and try to wake me up a few weeks ago?"

"N-No!" Hinata exclaimed, his face the most red it's been in his life. He was extremely embarrassed, but at the same time hearing Nagito joke around was something he didn't think he'd hear again. "Well not exactly…"

"I always thought you had feelings for Nanami, so I didn't think I stood a chance."

"She was more a sister to me, well at least before Izuru took over and she was still alive, that's what I thought," he confessed and awkwardly chuckled. Nagito's words continued to run through his head. If Hinata had known his feelings sooner things would've ended different between the two in the Neo World Program. It made him upset that all this time Nagito did like him, but Hinata shrugged and finally looked at Nagito. Gray against scarlet and green, they sat there for a good minute in silence neither knowing what to say.

"To be honest with you...I do wish that you'd stopped me from setting up my own murder. I know what I did was practically suicide, but while I was doing it I hoped from the bottom of my heart that you'd come to the rescue and stop me. That you actually would figure out my plot and save the day…"Nagito sighed and rested his head on Hinata's shoulder. His soft hair brushing against Hinata's cheek, he could smell the scent of medicine on him, but it smelled sweet.

"You don't have to worry about it anymore, the killings are over, we're no longer despair, and now we can create a future," Hinata smiled and kissed the top of Nagito's head. "We can do it together."

The two stayed like that until they fell asleep on Nagito's hospital bed. It was the best Hinata had slept in months and he was happy to finally be with Nagito again. Even if it was awkward waking up to Fuyuhiko, Mikan, and Sonia shaking them awake at midnight.

So big shoutout to my best friend and editor Sara for helping me stay focused and for pushing me through this. Basically she's the Komaeda to my Hinata, so yeah. Also let me know if you guys want more of this story, I personally wound't mind writing more if you guys ask for it. Just let me know what you'd like to see and I'll see what I can do. Thank you all for your feedback and thank you for reading. Hope to see you guys around!