A train stopped at the Tokyo station and people overflowed out of the vehicle, within those people a girl no older than 15 who wore a white t-shirt with a pink hoodie wrapped around her waist and some denim short shorts along with some red sport shoes. She gave a small smile before clutching the sling of her pink bunny backpack and started to walk out of the station. Walking around the city the young girl asked people if they knew the location she had written on a small piece of paper, the strangers were kind enough to point her to the direction of the place. After searching for around 30 minutes she finally found what she was looking for... The hotel where the students of Hope's Peak lived.
Over at the Naegi residence plus Kirigiri, the luckster had finished taking a shower and was in the process of starting breakfast. In the odd occasion during that day he was the last to get up from bed due to having trouble sleeping the night before because he had dozed off which made it harder to fall asleep when it was actually needed.
All of the women of the room had already gotten changed and was ready to take on the day. Kyoko and Junko was sitting on the sofa watching an anime which Junko shares with Kyoko for fun while Mukuro was in her room already glued to her computer playing games.
Everyone's attention was soon placed on the door when their doorbell rang.
"I'll get it!" Kyoko said getting up to answer the door, "Ah thanks for that." the luckster told her as she passed by. Looking through the little hole on their door Kyoko saw their visitor it was the girl from the train station, she was looking around and on her piece of paper while muttering to herself "Is this it? It should be." confused Kyoko opened the door causing the girl to jump in her place. "Yes how may I help you?" Kyoko asked. Upon laying her eyes on the lavender haired girl the smaller girl began to shake in panic. "Um, um... I-is this Makoto Naegi's dorm room?" she trembled as the words just barely came out of her mouth. "Yes it is." Kyoko answered which brought some relief to the smaller girl.
"Kyoko who is it?" spoke the devil as Makoto leaned to look at the situation at the door, "Yes I think everything is under control." Kyoko replied turning to the boy, the girl caught Makoto in her eyes and in one swift move... "Onii-chan!" tackled the poor boy to the ground.
"Ko-Komaru?!" Makoto exclaimed in shock and pain, his youngest sister Komaru had just entered the fray with a bang as it got the attention of his other two siblings. "Komaru-chan!?" Junko shouted as she went on her knees on the sofa to look at the luckster who was now on the floor being suffocated by the strong bear hug their baby sister was giving him, making the luckster turn purple and eyes red with tears. "What happened?!" Mukuro stormed out of her room concerned but soon understood the entire situation as soon as she saw the two siblings on the floor, an audible "Ah" escaped her mouth.
After separating Makoto and Komaru, the boy was getting his breath back with Kyoko patting his back while Mukuro and Junko was reuniting with Komaru. "Ahh! Komaru-chan I missed you!" Junko exclaimed as she squeezed her sister lovingly jumping up and down with her, "I missed you too Junko-nee!" unlike Makoto however Komaru managed to reciprocate by hugging back. Komaru then ran to her other sister and gave her a less squeezing hug but still full of love, "How are you Komaru-chan?" the soldier asked in a caring voice, "I've been well Mukuro-nee-san." she replied as the hugged warmly. "She has different ways of calling each of them." Kyoko thought to herself as she helped Makoto up. "You're early Komaru. Mom said you'll come around lunch." Makoto said now on his feet, Komaru nodded at him before rubbing the back of her head and laughed sheepishly, "Yeah but I wanted to come early." she answered before lightly hitting her head and sticking her tongue out playfully, "She's definitely their sister." Kyoko said in her head, "Well you could've at least called." Makoto sighed crossing his arms.
"Surprise." Komaru said with a nervous grin.
Since Komaru had visited them earlier than they expected Makoto decided to drop his idea of making breakfast and instead he decided they should all go out for the day with Komaru.
Everyone had finished getting themselves ready for the day except Makoto who at the time was in his room changing. The girls were in the living room with Kyoko watching TV while Junko was in the kitchen area rummaging through the fridge and her twin was sitting around the table playing a game, although she had grown to be very comfortable in the household, in that moment Kyoko began to sweat when she felt an intense stare being shot at her. Not peeking once she already had deduced with her skills who it was... It was Komaru over at their table intensely trying to figure out who she was. "Is she Onii-chan's girlfriend?" Komaru thought as she continued to stare at the detective.
"Nah it must be a friend visiting right? But that door... she must be living here." thoughts flashed through the young girl's head while Kyoko just sat there nervous, "Ah this must be the feeling of a girl meeting her boyfriend's family for the first time." she thought and immediately she realised what she just said in her head, she unknowingly called Makoto her boyfriend! The thought caused her to blush and forget about her anxiety for a moment, "W-w-wait i-its not l-like I am d-d-dating Makoto s-so I shouldn't think like this." the detective became a blushing mess when she had said that in her mind, she placed both of her hands on her cheeks as she tried to shake the thought out of her head... literally. Seeing the detective act weirdly did not only confused Komaru but also gave her the wrong idea about Kyoko. "Wait! She's blushing! Is she, blushing?! Then she must be Onii-chan's girlfriend right?!" Komaru thought in a panic.
Junko during all this was still rummaging through the fridge before finally pulling out a carton of milk then turning back only to see her baby sister staring at the detective intently while the detective herself was daydreaming. "Hmm? Did I miss something?" the blonde thought before taking a sip from the carton. Looking up from her portable game console Mukuro saw her sisters' stare-fest, turning to the older of the two she asked "You're not planning a thing?" whispered the soldier, knowing how Junko would usually act around these situations, but her twin merely leaned towards her not taking her eyes off Komaru, "Its better if we leave it for now." this confused Mukuro because if she knew her sister any better she wouldn't want to hold back when it comes to making awkward situations and one was sitting in front of her ripe for the taking.
"Ok everyone let's head out...huh?" Makoto came out to see the stare-fest and a cartoonish drop of sweat fell on the side of his head.
After some time in the city the group had found a family restaurant for breakfast. Makoto sat with the twins while Komaru sat next to Kyoko which made the detective slightly nervous as she began to eye her from time to time. She wasn't so safe on the way either because as she walked with Makoto to the restaurant she felt Komaru's stare from behind throughout the journey. Once their orders have been placed in Makoto and Komaru had an idle chat about the situation back with their parents.
"Mom and Dad are fine. But when Dad found out that Mom talked to you yesterday he got mad at her because he couldn't talk to Junko-nee and Mukuro-nee-san. It was funny to watch, he was crying and everything." The two girls in question laughed in embarrassment, they knew that it would happen considering that they didn't hear his voice, and that was weird because their dad would rush to the phone just to hear their voices before he gets knocked out by their mom or Komaru. "Guess dad is still dad huh?" Mukuro commented.
"Well that's good... What about your friends?" Makoto asked. "Everyone is cool. When I showed them the autograph Onii-chan got for me from Sayaka Maizono on my favourite photo of her they got really jealous and was happy for me at the same time." she explained with a content smile, which caused everyone else to smile with her.
"Well its nice and all that you got what you wanted from Sayaka-chan but what about your big sis? They must be jealous that you're the sister of one of the leading models in Japan" Junko asked with stars for eyes and jumping from her seat and leaned close to Komaru. "Hmm~ well I showed some of the girls some of our photos but they wouldn't believe me. They said it was a cosplayer." she explained. Makoto and Mukuro giggled while Junko had a vein popping out of her head. "I saw that coming." Makoto commented, but he soon felt a dark aura emanating next to him. Turning to his side he immediately jumped when the aura was coming from Junko. "Oh? So these people don't believe my baby sister huh?! Alright then! I'll make a surprise visit to your school then Koma-gah!" Junko fell on the table with her eyes rolled back and some saliva flowed out of her mouth. "Let's not get to ahead of ourselves Junko-chan." Mukuro stated as she did a chopping motion then dragged her sister back down unto her seat.
Soon the food arrived (which were 5 servings of omurice) and the group dug into their breakfast. With the mixture of small talk and eating, from afar one could probably see that they are a nice family.
Knowing she couldn't just stay quiet all the time as it could pose as a concern for the luckster so gathering her courage and trying hard not to stutter, the detective turned to the girl. "Hey Komaru-chan?" Komaru looked to her side where the detective sat her face full of food. "What do you like about your brother and sisters?" Kyoko asked slightly nervous but wanted to get a conversation going. "Hmm? Well Mukuro-nee-san is really cool, I mean she's a soldier so she's also really strong, oh! She also always played with me so she's really fun to be with! Junko-nee is really pretty and sexy. She often helped me with my hair and what cute clothes to wear, she even helped me with homework since she's really smart. Its a shame that no one believes we're siblings because I would invite them to some of her shows. As for Onii-chan... What's not to love about him? He's kind, resourceful and has really tasty food to serve. He's almost perfect!"
Three loud bangs could be heard across the table, Kyoko and Komaru jumped before paying their attention at the three older siblings in different positions with steam blasting out of their heads. Junko had her head slammed against the table top. Makoto was on the table his fist on it while he rested his entire face on his arm to cover its redness. Finally Mukuro had her forehead pressed against the wall with her hand balled up into a fist which rested next to her. "Ahh is everyone alright?!" Komaru said worried as she flailed her hands around. "Ye-yeah we're fine... Komaru." Makoto said not lifting his head from the table.
Kyoko watched the three and then busted into giggles and turned to the side in order to hide it, but the Naegi family took notice of this and looked at her in confusion. "Kyoko-chan?" Junko asked as she watched the detective try to pull herself together "Hehe...h-hold..on." the giggling girl replied as she signalled to wait. Once she had calmed down Kyoko faced them with tears in her eyes from laughing, "I'm sorry everyone but seeing you all reminded me of a scene that would have come from an anime so I couldn't help it." she explained, the siblings looked at each other before they too started to giggle realising how silly they may have looked acting in the way did. Seeing her friends have a good time brought a warm feeling to the detective's chest making her smile. Makoto saw the girl smile and it made him smile as well, "She's so pretty when she smiles." he thought as he looked at her, before turning into blushing mess once more.
After breakfast everyone made their way to the mall to hang out for the day, after some walking they somehow (or rather a certain fashionista pulled them there) found themselves in a clothes shop. "Hmm which one would look good?" Junko said as she looked around the shop, meanwhile everyone else was watching her from a far not moving an inch "What do we do?" Mukuro asked Makoto, the two were used to their sister dropping everything to go clothes shopping and that meant they also knew how painful it was waiting for her to finish, it would take others and it usually ended with Mukuro dragging her twin out of the shop. "Let's leave her for now... but get ready anyways." It didn't take too long before Junko came back with an outfit which consisted of a blue denim pants with suspenders and a striped shirt, "Hmm, hey Muku do you have this?" Junko asked her twin, "Huh no why?" the model didn't answer her sister, rather she just pushed the outfit to her. At first Mukuro was confused and refused to accept the outfit but she was getting pressured by both of her sisters and Kyoko.
"Come on Muku just one outfit!"
"Please Mukuro-nee-san!"
"It won't hurt Mukuro-san."
"Even you Kirigri-san!?" Mukuro couldn't take it and turned to her brother for help, "Uhh what do you want me to do Mukuro?" he asked not knowing how he would stop the three girls, "I don't know but think of something~!" while Mukuro said this to her brother she was being dragged away by the three other women.
After some time Mukuro came out of the changing rooms with the outfit on causing Junko and Komaru to shriek, "You look so cute in that sis!" Junko exclaimed while Komaru nodded briskly. "Why do I have to do this?" Mukuro asked annoyed, she wasn't the type to enjoy dressing up in clothes, she was comfortable with her own fashion sense but her twin always insist on trying to make her look less like a student or soldier and more of a model. Mukuro looked at herself and the clothes, "Well at least its not too flashy." she thought in relief. "Ok then let's go buy that!" Mukuro looked at her sister in confusion before Junko pushed back into the changing room and began to strip her down. From the outside the other three could hear the struggling twins but... "Hey wait a sec! Don't touch me there!" Mukuro exclaimed, "Kyaah! Watch where your hand is landing sis!" now the model shouted.
"What's going on in there?" the others outside thought. After a long struggle the two finally came out sweating and panting, "Uh what happened?" Makoto asked concerned and curious, "Junko-chan tried to take the suspenders off but... instead we got tangled." Mukuro explained still out of breath, "How'd that happen?" Makoto thought but never voiced it in fear of the truth. "Thank you for your purchase." the store clerk said before she and Junko bowed at the same time in gratitude.
Outside the others were waiting for the model to finish paying so they could continue their day, "Here we are~!" Junko sang as she lightly swung the bag of clothes. "Ok why did you decide to buy me a new set of clothes for?" Mukuro asked confused, sure her sister has done this before but she already has a lot of clothes from Junko and her sister noticed that so she stopped buying them since there was nowhere else to put it. "Well Muku as you know its been a long while since you got a new outfit and honestly constantly wearing the same set of clothes is bugging me." Junko eyed her sister's attire making the soldier cover herself in embarrassment, "My taste in fashion is none of your business." Mukuro replied her cheeks slightly red.
Everyone soon found themselves in the arcade after roaming the mall for a couple more minutes, "Wow this place is packed!" Komaru shouted. She wasn't kidding, the arcade was full of people, young and old, many different games blared with sound effects and music, groups of people gathered around to watch others play, one could hear the cheers as people played. "What should we play first?" Kyoko asked the group as she continued to scan the arcade, "Hmm? Komaru why don't you pick." Makoto said turning to his sister, Komaru then looked at her brother with a wide smile and a glow in her eyes, "Ok then Onii-chan!" going through the arcade Komaru looked around until her eyes landed on a game of air hockey, "Why don't we play air hockey?" she said pointing to the game, the Ultimates nodded at her and they all then made their way to the the table.
"Um so now we have one problem." Kyoko voiced, everyone then turned to her in confusion "We have five people but only two can play." she pointed out, the others soon understood the predicament they were in, they all opted a thinking pose before Makoto thought of a solution. "Why don't you guys play then in pairs?" everyone then turned their head to the luckster who began to explain his plan, "Well if we split you four girls up into pairs then all of you can play the game!" the others listened and understood what the luckster meant but it still didn't answer their problem of getting everyone to play so upon hearing his plan the girls merely widened their eyes in shock, "What about you Makoto?" Kyoko asked, "Yeah Mako!" then Junko next, "Onii-chan has to play too!" and finally Komaru. "Don't worry, I'll play on a different game when you guys have finished." he answered with his signature warm smile making the four other girls give up.
The girls took their place with Komaru and Mukuro teaming up while Kyoko and Junko became a pair. Makoto inserted a coin and a puck fell on a hole over at Kyoko and Junko's side "Oh here we go!" the model reached for the puck and placed it on the table, the puck began to slowly slip around the table.
"Ok ready...go!"
Without warning Junko hit the puck sending flying to the other side with her quick reflexes Mukuro quickly blocked the oncoming puck sending it back to the other two, it was quickly countered by Kyoko who hit the puck to the walls of the table causing to ricochet to the other side, but unfortunately for Kyoko it slowed down enough for Komaru to hit it back straight into the goal. "Yay! I got a goal." she expressed with pure joy, "Good job Komaru." her brother praised which Komaru replied with a peace sign. "Tsk, we underestimated Komaru-chan." Junko whispered as she placed the puck back on the table, "No worries we'll just do better now moving forward." Kyoko told the model to which the latter nodded in response. The luckster watched as the two teams played their hearts out, Mukuro mostly played defence due to her quick reflexes as a soldier while Komaru acted as offence; meanwhile the other two both acted as offence and defence using their analytical abilities to predict the puck's movements. From an outside perspective Makoto could just about keep up but was still lost at the sheer speed of the puck bouncing and flying across the table as a blur. After an intense battle the game ended in a draw, "Wooh! That was a game!" Junko expressed while wiping off some of the sweat that slid down her forehead. "It truly was exhilarating." Kyoko commented, "It was a good match." the soldier said as she held out her hand as a symbol of sportsmanship which the detective gladly reciprocated by shaking her hand back.
Seeing the little scene before him Makoto couldn't help but smile "Ok what next?" Komaru looked around again before she decided to play a crane game, "Let's put Onii-chan's luck to the test." the young girl jogged to one of the crane games with the rest in tow. Once the rest had caught up with Komaru the younger girl had her face pressed up against a machine, "Onii-chan that one!" Komaru pointed at a white teddy bear with part of its head bandaged up. "Huh. Well ok then" gently pushing Komaru aside Makoto inserted a coin into the machine, the tune for the machine began to play as Makoto used the buttons to move the crane to the plushie, Komaru was watching in anticipation as she lightly bounced in place. The crane dropped and its claws started to close, the girls started to sweat as they watched what the crane would bring up. As the crane rose everyone except for Makoto leaned in to see the catch and their eyes widened just so they won't miss a thing. The crane finally rose fully but rather than pulling the plush toy by its head or limbs Makoto had somehow caught not one, but two tags! "What!?" with a thump the plushies fell unto the compartment where Makoto took them from and turned to the girls only to find them with eyes wide and mouth open to the ground.
"What?" the luckster asked confused, "These things are rigged!" Junko exclaimed as she pointed at the machine, "These things are super rigged and you managed to pull two plushies out of it?!" she rhetorically asked as she stomped towards her brother and got up to his face. Laughing sheepishly Makoto then made his way to Komaru and presented the two teddy bears with one being the bandaged one Komaru wanted before while the other was a black bear with an eyepatch and fedora. Taking both of the teddies into her arms she looked at them in shock before looking back at her brother who just gave a her a smile, she again looked at her teddies before a smile formed on her lips, "Thank you Onii-chan!" she said as she hugged him. Smiling at her Makoto placed a hand on his sister's head and began to gently rub it, "You're welcome Komaru."
They all briefly took a small break in a cafe before they returned to the arcade to play even more games. After some time Makoto had noticed that Kyoko, Junko and Mukuro was nowhere to be found, "Huh?" scanning his surroundings the luckster found no sign of his sisters or friend. Although slightly worried as to where they could've gone, his worries were soon put to rest when he caught them by the counter looking at some of the displays they could trade with tickets.
"Look at that one." Junko pointed at two little hairclips of a black and white bear that looks similar to the plush toys that Makoto had won for Komaru. "Those look nice, but I'd like that there." Kyoko too pointed at a prize, this one being a plastic rose inside a test tube. Despite her being also there Mukuro was more interested in the racing games that her eyes locked unto, "I wanna play that." she thought with dreamy eyes.
Makoto and Komaru walked up to them and the luckster immediately understood what they had wanted. "Why don't we win some prizes?" Makoto asked rhetorically, immediately the two girls shot their heads at him and together said "Yes!" going around the arcade everyone played different games that would give out tickets so they can trade it with the displayed prizes. They played games from skee-ball, to more luck based games which Makoto mostly invested in for their sakes. Soon enough they got piles upon piles of tickets ready to be traded. Putting all of their stacks on the counter, Kyoko and Junko looked at the employee on the other side with anticipating eyes. As the tickets were fed to a machine to count how there were everyone waited with only the two Ultimates hoping they got enough to buy both of the prizes they wanted.
"You have 800 tickets in total." the employee informed them. "Is that enough for those hair clips and the rose in the test tube?" Makoto asked from the back, the employee checked for them, afterwards they nodded to them signalling they did have enough. "One of those please!" Kyoko and Junko said in unison. Makoto watched as the two girls lightly celebrated to themselves as they held the prizes.
Junko and Kyoko clutched their prices close to their chests as they smiled widely while walking from the arcade to the train station as Komaru needed to return home. It was a safe a walk with everyone idly conversing with one another, it was perfect as one would describe... if only that was the case. Although the Naegi family knew this was coming whether it was a quick or long one is what they failed to predict.
What was it?
Well... its the luckster's unpredictable luck. It seems that due to them playing at the arcade, it had resulted in Makoto's 'good luck' to be siphoned out and emptied would've been the best way to describe it. Now what replaces good luck? Bad luck apparently.
Yes, the ultimate lucky student became the Ultimate Unlucky Student just because he had exhausted all his good luck playing arcade games. This made for some rather comedic scenes happening to the luckster. First were several cases of things nearly falling on Makoto, some of the items that could have potentially crushed him were: a paint can, a potted plant, a birdcage and a tool box from a couple of workers. All seemed to have just barely missed Makoto which served as a good scare factor for them, however one would say he was truly lucky when a piano didn't fall on him because if one did then it would seem like an actual comedy skit.
It didn't end there, after objects falling on him it was then animals who took an interest in him, or rather a disinterest in him. From cats hissing at him for no reason, to birds suddenly swooping down and attacking him, and dogs suddenly chasing him down in a pack like it was a scene from a show where someone had sausages wrapped around their body. "Ahh this can't get any worse." Makoto moaned in his head annoyed at his situation.
Though that thought seemed to have jinxed it because shortly after, a sudden gust of wind went through the group's way and with it was a collection of items that all seemed to be locked on to Makoto. First it was a newspaper, which Makoto quickly scrambled to take off but when he did his face then met a shirt, when that came off a woman's undergarments stuck itself to the luckster's eyes, once that was peeled off the luckster looked at what hit him before looking forward, only for his eyes shot out of their sockets after they saw what else got blown by the wind. A frying pan, quickly ducking out of the way Makoto's head would've had a large bump if he was a second slower. Standing back knowing he was safe Makoto and the girls then looked at the direction of where the pan went flying unaware something else was coming and because he wasn't looking the flying bucket got a bulls-eye and struck Makoto clean on the head. Luckily for the luckster it was made of plastic so no life ending injury was made.
At the train station Makoto sat on bench letting out an exasperated sigh, "Are you ok Onii-chan?" Komaru asked slightly leaning forward "Yeah, I'm fine... I guess." he choked out still exhausted from the events before. "Komaru-chan!" turning her head to the voice Komaru saw her big sister Junko waving to her. "Your train's due." she informed them as she came closer to them. Nodding to her sister Komaru grabbed her bag and swung it over her shoulder then walked over to the stand where her train would stop. After much waiting the train finally arrived, Komaru gave her family hug and a small hand shake to Kyoko before stepping into her train, "Bye bye Komaru-chan!" Junko screamed as she waved to her sister, "We'll miss you." Mukuro added as she too waved. The only two who didn't say a thing but still waved was Makoto and Kyoko. Komaru waved at the others a warm smile plastered on her face. The train started and moved away from the station, while it moved further and further away from them Junko didn't stop waving until the vehicle was finally out of sight. A small smile was on her face but she was slightly sad that her sister had to leave, her head lowered but it was then brought up again when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning her head her eyes met Makoto's who had a reassuring smile.
"Why don't we go home." he stated as a question. Junko nodded before she and the others all went home back to their hotel, ending their day with Komaru.
Character Profile: Kyoko Kirigiri
The daughter of the principal of Hopes Peak Academy, Jin Kirigiri. Kyoko is the Ultimate Detective of class 78, she has been trained by grandfather since she was young and had travelled the world solving multiple cases. Due to her being abroad for a case she arrived at Hopes Peak later than everyone else, because of this late arrival she had to be put in with Makoto and his siblings in their apartment since everyone else's was already fully occupied. Kyoko had been a detective for most of her life and childhood which caused her to be somewhat aloof, she never been to a proper school which is why living with the Naegi family was beneficial as since living with them she started to gain new experiences and friends.
Being a girl who has not experienced romance before Kyoko soon found herself falling in love with her fellow classmate and roommate Makoto Naegi.
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