When Naegi woke up, it took him a bleary moment to figure out why there was a music stand in front of him. It was only when he became aware that there was a warm body pressed against his back and an arm draped over his chest that he realized he had to be in Togami's bed. Where they'd slept together last night without actually – well, sleeping together.
That had been awkward, hadn't it? Naegi remembered sliding awkwardly into either side of the bed, not quite looking at each other. He'd been more than willing to let their kisses turn into more, but Togami had seemed to have a second sense about when his head started hurting again. Naegi actually wouldn't have minded the distraction from the unrelenting ache – but maybe it wasn't fair to Togami to think of it like that. He deserved to have Naegi's full attention, not what he could spare from sudden stabs of pain and flashes of dizziness. Maybe it was a good thing that they'd fallen asleep on opposite sides of the bed.
But even if they had, it seemed like through the course of the night, their sleeping bodies had shifted to an embrace. Naegi smiled down at where Togami's hand rested on the mattress in front of him. There was something nice about knowing that they'd unconsciously curled together in the bed, like it was something natural and easy that they did all the time. Like the conversation they'd had last night had been more than just words.
Togami shifted against his back, then raised his arm to grope along the table behind the bed for his glasses. Naegi twisted around to see Togami looking mussed and grumpy, his blue eyes unexpectedly vulnerable without his glasses shielding them. Between the height difference and the glasses, Naegi hadn't been able to get a good look before, but Togami's eyes were actually a very bright blue, weren't they? He'd never seen eyes in just that shade, and –
Togami settled his glasses on his nose, gaze focusing on Naegi, and Naegi blushed when he realized he'd just been caught staring into Togami's eyes. Togami smirked like he knew exactly what Naegi had been thinking. "Don't stop on my account."
Naegi tried to glare at him, cheeks burning. It really wasn't fair that Togami could wake up looking attractively disheveled and know it, not when Naegi knew he just looked like a mess. And apparently he had a bad case of bedhead, because Togami reached out and ran his fingers through Naegi's hair, straightening the wild locks that had gotten tangled across his forehead.
Ding dong, ding dong.
The Monokuma announcement played, letting them know that morning had officially arrived. Naegi sighed, pushing himself up to a sitting position as the brief moment of contentment melted away. If it was morning, that meant it was time to go meet the other students for breakfast – and to tell them the truth about Ogami.
He looked over at Togami as the other boy rolled over and levered himself out of bed. "What are we going to do?"
"Well, I intend to take a shower," Togami said. "You can wait here and have a turn when I'm done. We'll need to hurry if you want to make it to your ridiculous breakfast meeting."
Naegi nodded. That was really the only place they could be sure of catching everyone, with the possible exception of Fukawa.
Togami headed into the bathroom, leaving Naegi alone to ponder what was coming. He knew he ought to be trying to come up with some kind of strategy for how to tell everyone what he'd learned yesterday – but he couldn't come up with a good way to do it. There had to be a tactful way to broach the subject, didn't there? Something that wouldn't make everyone immediately turn on Ogami?
If there was, he still hadn't come up with it by the time Togami emerged from the bathroom, toweling his hair dry. "Go ahead," Togami told him, heading for his wardrobe to get fresh clothes. "But leave the door open."
Naegi blinked. "For the steam?"
"In case you get dizzy," Togami said.
It seemed a little excessive to Naegi – he hadn't had a bad enough dizzy spell that he'd fallen over – but it didn't seem worth arguing over, either. He showered as quickly as he could and headed back out into the dorm room just as Togami was pulling on his jacket.
"Okay," Naegi said. "Uh – I need to stop by my room, though. I need clothes that aren't what I wore yesterday."
"Obviously you do," Togami agreed, grimacing as he eyed Naegi's clothes. Naegi wondered if he ought to be offended at that expression.
Even hurrying as much as he could while changing into fresh clothes, Naegi knew they were still running late for the breakfast meeting as they left his room. They wouldn't be quite as late as yesterday, of course, but they weren't on time by any stretch, either.
It wasn't exactly the best way to make a good impression on the others, Naegi realized, as they walked into the dining hall. But at least there weren't very many people there to make a bad impression on. The only people in the dining hall were Asahina and Hagakure, sitting together at one of the tables and looking nervous. Hagakure seemed to have shredded his breakfast instead of eating it, while judging by the plates in front of her, Asahina appeared to have nervously eaten nearly double her usual breakfast.
"Where have you two been?" Asahina demanded, jumping to her feet with a glare. "What's been going on?"
"We were getting ready, obviously," Togami said. "Some of us do more than just roll out of bed and put on sweats."
"Stop being snobby and try to say something helpful for once," Asahina snapped. "Where are Sakura and Kirigiri? We haven't seen either of them since last night – and you two were the last ones with Sakura."
"I expect that Ogami is still in her room," Togami said coolly, without a hint that he was the one who had locked her in there. "As for Kirigiri, I really couldn't say."
"She's been disappearing a lot, though, right?" Hagakure asked. He gasped. "Maybe she's been digging a secret passage out of here, where Monokuma can't see it!"
"I'd tell you not to be stupid, but I wouldn't want to demand the impossible of you," Togami said, rolling his eyes.
"This isn't right," Asahina said, clenching her fists. "We've lost so many people already – and now everyone's just running off in different directions? No one's even bothering to try to stay together anymore!"
A pang of guilt stabbed through Naegi. "We are trying," he protested.
"Not that hard," Asahina said. "Not if you're fighting with Kirigiri and chasing Sakura away." She looked down, even her hair drooping. "Sakura hasn't ever missed breakfast with us before."
"Yes, she was certainly careful to attend every meeting," Togami said, his voice dark. Naegi knocked his elbow against Togami's arm, trying to signal him to be more cautious about dropping hints. No good could come of that. But before Naegi could do anything else –
Ding dong, bing bong.
"Attention, attention!" Monokuma's voice rang from the televisions. "Please gather in the gym as soon as you possibly can. Quickly quickly quickly quickly!"
Naegi froze, looking up at Togami anxiously. He didn't know what Monokuma might want to announce to all of them at this point, but he knew it couldn't be anything good.
