The Greatest Japanese Hero

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Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
The Greatest American Hero is owned by Stephen J. Cannell

First off, many thanks to those who reviewed this fic, and I was surprised to get a many as 6 reviews, and I am pleased and glad that you liked it, and I'll do my best to make this story exciting for you readers out there as the next chapters come in and keep you glued in to your seats.

Last chapter ended up in a cliffhanger after Naegi accidentally jumped off the window, and in this chapter you will get to see what has happen to Naegi after putting on the red suit and jumped out of the window, so expect a lot of comic moments to happen as soon as you read this chapter below, while various Danganronpa characters appear in some key parts of this chapter.

Also, I was supposed to upload this chapter in 3 weeks, but managed to get an open schedule so as a pre-Christmas treat, I'm bringing in this earlier...

At a stadium in Tokyo the place is jam-packed with teenagers as they are here to watch the live performance of the idol group which included Sayaka Maizono, and as the audience are patiently awaiting the idol, the scene shifts to the dressing room where Sayaka Maizono and her idol group are getting ready, and Maizono is looking forward as she expects Naegi to watch her performance live, and she hoped to see him there after the performance and her idol bandmates noticed her bright attitude and began asking her why she is in such high spirits.

"Sayaka!"

"Wow...you looked upbeat..."

"Guess you're beaming with confidence..."

"Yeah...looks like it..."

"Really? Thanks!"

"Looks like we're going to have a blast today..."

"Let's give our all!"

"And give out our best performance!"

"Right on!"

"Okay then, we're going to pull off a good performance!"

By then the idol band's talent manager came and told the five girls to get ready, and the girls leave the dressing room as they head for the stage to give their best performance to the audiences while Maizono is expecting Naegi to be there, unaware that he is currently having problems of his own and too preoccupied that he seemed to forget about the idol performance that he is supposed to go.

Believe It Or Not by Joey Scarbury
(Opening Song from The Greatest American Hero)

Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself;
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
Should've been somebody else.

Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.

Just like the light of new day,
It hit me from out of the blue;
Breakin' me out of the spell I was in,
Makin' all of my wishes come true.

Believe it or not,
I'm walkin' on air,
I never thought I could feel so free;
Flyin' away on a wing and a pray'r,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it's just me.

Ch. 5: Byōin no hisuterī

Much later, the audience roared in applause as the idol band appeared and Maizono greeted them and thanks them for attending and after a few minutes of brief words, she then began dancing as the music starts to play, and with her idol bandmates dancing and providing back-up vocals, Maizono began to sing as she began singing the song "Black Bullet".

~x

hibiware koware yuku sekai wa hateshinaku
michi naru souzou ga ima chitsujo o nakushiteru
kasaneau itami ga kurikaesu genjitsu
kimi to no mainichi ga sono yami ni mi o nageta

sashishimeshita michi o kagayakasetai kara
kuroi kono juudan ga ima subete o uchinuku

akaku moeru sono manazashi ni atsuku hibiku inochi no kodou
tsuyoku fukaku tsuranuite yuku shinjitsu o (black and red bullet!)
kizu darake no kokoro moyashite kimi to asu o kirihirakitai
kono karada ni subete o komete tatakau yo black and red bullet!
kibou o shinjite

hagukumi kowasareta kanashii sono kioku
tenishita kono karada itsukara iki hisometa
mugen ni tachitsukushi sagashiteta yuuki wa
chiisana kimi no naka ni yawarakaku yadotteta

katachi o nakushiteku aimai na shinri ni
tachimukau sono seigi o mamotte ikiru kara

kimi to tobou hatenai yume ni mukau kokoro shinzoku no kaze
motto hayaku uchiyabutteku genkai o (black and red bullet!)
kizu darake no kokoro o daite tsumugu asu o hikiyoseru kara
itsuka kitto tadoritsukeru yo sei mo shi mo black and red bullet!
koeta sono saki ni

akaku sunda hitomi wa yagate toraete yuku mujou yami o
dakara boku wa tonari ni iru yo itsu no hi mo
kizu darake no kokoro o moyashite kimi to asu o kirihirakitai
kono omoi ni subete o komete tsuranukou

akaku moeru sono manazashi ni atsuku hibiku inochi no kodou
tsuyoku fukaku tsuranuite yuku shinjitsu o (black and red bullet!)
kizu darake no kokoro o daite tsumugu asu o hikiyoseru kara
kono karada ni subete o komete tatakau yo black and red bullet!
kibou o shinjite

~x

The audience clapped and applauded and the girls are pleased with the performance, but Maizono noticed that Naegi was nowhere to be found and assumed that he is among the large crowd and thinks he is there so she continued the music number and the idol band began singing another song much to the audiences' delight, and yet Maizono is unaware of the plight that Naegi is in at the moment.

-x-

Inside the ambulance, Naegi was pleading with the paramedics that he is not a "nutcase" and insisted that he is a sane person, though the paramedics ignored him as they drove towards Tokyo Mental Hospital, and they were just doing their jobs, as they believed that no one in the right mind would go out the streets wearing a "pair of pajamas with a cape" and emerging from the garbage bin and stating that "he can fly", and that was enough proof, for the paramedics, at least, to assume that Naegi is a "nut case".

"Please, you got to believe me!"

"..."

"..."

"I'm not a psycho!"

"Sure...and I'm Norma Bates..."

"And I'm Jason Voorhees..."

"I tell you I'm not crazy! Please!"

"Shut the hell up, you wannabe..."

"We're not gonna get fooled by a crazy kid..."

Not far behind, Kirigiri is riding a taxi and is following the ambulance as she kept a sharp eye at the ambulance as she is sure that Naegi is inside there and still recalling how she saw Naegi flying before making a rough landing, she is determined to get him out of there and get answers straight from him and see where this lead to, and since meeting him at Hope's Peak Academy, she is sure that Naegi is not a "nut case" and is preparing herself to come up with an alibi so that she could convince the hospital officials that Naegi is not a "psychiatric threat" to society.

"Naegi-kun...when I get you out...you'll tell me how and why you pulled off such a stunt..."

As the ambulance entered the hospital grounds, the paramedics escorted Naegi inside the hospital and the teen insisted that he is not insane, though his pleas were ignored and he is placed in a ward still tied in his strait jacket and soon he is approached by other psychiatric patients and "socializing" with him, as if they are getting friendly with him though this only caused Naegi to get scared at them and the thought of being "locked inside" the mental hospital would add more to his discomfort.

"Hi.."

"Hi..."

"..."

"I'm Stallone...you can call me Rambo..."

"And I'm Schwarzenegger...the Terminator..."

"!"

"I will shoot you with my bow and arrow..."

"Hasta la vista, baby..."

You can hear Naegi screaming in fear as she tries to get away from the two mentally-ill patients while the nurses there simply ignored him, and after several minutes of being holed up inside the ward, a pair of paramedics came and escorted Naegi out and removed his strait jacket which the teen thought that he is set to go free but instead he is taken inside a doctor's clinic where a psychiatrist is there and Naegi is placed there as the psychiatrist began interviewing Naegi and asks him a few questions, like why he is dressed in a red pajamas and a cape, and there Naegi thought carefully on how to answer them without giving the psychiatrist the impression to think he is a nut case.

"Hello..."

"Um...hello."

"You're name, please..."

"Uh...Mako Nagi..."

"Nagi, hmm..."

"Can you tell us why you're dressed like that?"

"Well, you see..."

"I'm listening..."

Naegi came up with an alibi that he is attending a cosplay convention and claimed that he was robbed and left in an alley where the paramedics found him, and the psychiatrist asks the paramedics who picked up Naegi and asks them about it, and the paramedics claim that they only found him coming out of the garbage bin and insisted that he is a young nutcase, which Naegi denies it, and after a few minutes, the psychiatrist believes the paramedics and has Naegi confined, and the teen protested until he is taken away by paramedics and had him lay on a stretcher and has his wrist tied on the bars, and he is placed at the hallway while awaiting the doctors' orders to move him to a private room.

By then Kirigiri arrived and saw Naegi's state and she approached him where Naegi saw her and asks for her help, explaining the situation she is in and there Kirigiri felt that she has to help him bail out and she looked around to see if there is a doctor she could talk to, and by then the male nurses came and one of them is about to administer an injection with a sedative on him and Kirigiri told the nurse that Naegi is a sane person and stated that there may be a misunderstanding, but the male nurse refused to listen, insisting that Naegi is a nutcase and needs to be confined here.

"Sir...I think there's a mistake..."

"..."

"I know this person..."

"So do I..."

"But he's not insane..."

"Says the one who saw a snake on a plane...he's crazy and there's no doubt about it..."

"My friend is not crazy!"

"No can do...please step aside..."

As Kirigiri stood her ground to defend Naegi, another male nurse came and pushes her back as the other nurse is ready to inject Naegi, and seeing this causes the "Luckster" to panic and struggles to break free, and in a stroke of luck, he managed to free his right arm, and the nurse grapples with the teen, before Naegi frees his other arm and the nurse who is restraining Kirigiri joins in to restrain Naegi, and the teen struggled to fight back, and unintentionally pushes the two nurses back, sending them careening against the nurse station, knocking down a few staff members, and Naegi gets up and approached Kirigiri, and there she asks him what is going on and why did he ended up getting here.

But before he could come up with an explanation, several male nurses came and are about to gang up on Naegi, but Kirigiri picks up a fire extinguisher and sprayed it on the nurses, disorienting them and she motions Naegi to run, but then several more hospital staff members came and blocked the exits, and this prompted Naegi to urge Kirigiri to follow her upstairs as the two teens entered the fire exit and went upward, heading for the rooftop and then saw a rope which he then tied the doors together to buy them time.

As Naegi looked around and went to the edge, he realized that they are eight floors up from the ground and he thinks carefully on how to get themselves out, while Kirigiri asks him what he has gotten himself in to, Naegi got an idea though this would cause her some distress, yet this is the only way to get themselves out even though he didn't like this knowing that this would put themselves in danger.

"Kirigiri-san..."

"What?"

"Do you trust me?"

"..."

"Please tell me..."

"Okay...I trust you..."

"Then hop on my back!"

"?"

Although suspicious at what Naegi is suggesting, she reluctantly did as she is told, as she straddled on his back and there Naegi took a few steps back and then ran towards the roof's edge, and Kirigiri thinks he is about to jump, and as she is about to let go, Naegi jumped and to her surprise, they are flying to the air, and Kirigiri is surprised as hell at the situation they are in, seeing that they are too high from the ground, and she held onto him so as not to let go, but because Naegi is trying to control the flight, she ended up struggling to stay on his back as they began flying erratically in both directions, and Kirigiri began screaming at the position she is in.

"WWWHHHOOAAA!"

"KKKKYYYAAAHHHH!"

"WWWHHHOOAAAA! AAAIIEEEE!"

"KKKKYYAAAHHH! NAEGI-KUN!"

"HOLD ON TO ME!"

"KKKYYYAAAHHH! WHAT DID YOU GET ME IN TO?!"

"TRUST ME ON THIS!"

"KKKKYYYYAAHHHH!"

As the two teens are struggling to stay airborne, Kirigiri saw Naegi is about to crash towards a huge billboard and screamed, grabbing his hair and accidentally steered themselves upward and narrowly evaded it but then she held on to dear life as she is about to fall, and the two teens are flying in a zigzag motion and both ended up in a suburban place where Naegi passed by earlier, in which he was seen by some onlookers before.

-x-

At the dojo, Kenichiro is sitting, with Sakura Ohgami and Aoi Asahina also sitting in front of him and he is teaching the two girls the art of meditating, in which Asahina was about to get over what she saw earlier and is trying to meditate again, until she is startled by the screams of Naegi, slowly breaking off her concentration, and she saw him again flying and this time with a "passenger" in which it freaked her out and screamed and Ohgami tried to calm her down.

"KKKYYYAAAHHH!"

"Asahina, what's wrong?"

"I saw it! A flying person!"

"But I don't..."

"But I saw it!"

"You must be seeing things..."

"Ahhh..."

"Asahina! Get a hold of yourself! Asahina!"

Asahina fainted from shock and Ohgami tried to wake her up, all the while Kenichiro sighed as he is about to have a rather "stressful" day.

-x-

At an intersection, Byakuya Togami was inside his limousine awaiting his driver who went to a public toilet, due to having an "upset stomach", and as he is wondering what kept his driver long, he heard the sounds of Naegi's screaming and this time accompanied by Kirigiri's scream, in which he is annoyed at the "degenerative disturbance" of mere insignificant youths, and is about to call his driver via cellphone when he saw Naegi and Kirigiri flying in the sky, passing by him and though he failed to see their faces, and Togami is again shocked at seeing someone flying in a red suit and cape, with a passenger and tried to comprehend what he just saw until his driver came back and noticed Togami's shock.

"Byakuya-sama? Are you okay?"

"D-did you see that?"

"Eh? See what?"

"A flying object!"

"Sorry...I did not notice..."

"J-just get me home...!"

"Sir?"

"JUST GET ME HOME, DAMN IT!"

Togami is getting stressed at what he saw just now and is thinking that he is "losing his mind" and ordered his driver to take him home NOW, in which the driver did.

-x-

Elsewhere, Yasuhiro Hagakure is meeting with his mom, Hiroko, and there he gave her some money he owed her and asks what "fortune telling" he has, in which he stated that something will appear "out of the ordinary", and though Hiroko scoffed at the fortune reading, her opinion towards her son changed when she saw Naegi and Kirigiri flying, and screaming, and Hiroko stared in shock, her cigarette dropped from her mouth as Hagakure also saw it and is astounded that his fortune reading came true.

"Whoa..."

"..."

"Mom?"

"Your fortune reading did came true, son..."

"Y-yeah..."

"Then you really have a talent..."

"Uh..."

"Get me home, son..."

-x-

Somewhere else, the Crazy Diamond Gang were having a meeting, in which they are still debating on whether they saw earlier is a flying UFO or not, and Yukimaru is sure that he saw an alien though Ohwada is still unsure if it is a UFO or not and tries to calm down his biker gang from acting "out of control" alien chasers.

"I tell you, Ohwada-sama! It was a UFO!"

"Oi...calm down, Yukimaru...you're creeping me out!"

"But boss..."

"We don't know if it's a UFO or not..."

"But we saw it...you even saw it..."

"That's right, boss..."

"We all saw it..."

"And we're gonna catch it if we see it again..."

By then the gang heard a loud screaming until they saw Naegi and Kirigiri flying past them and yet they failed to see their faces, but seeing him flying out of the blue with a "passenger" was unexpected, and unacceptable to them, and even Ohwada was shocked to see this and the gang suggested that they follow the flying Naegi, and the gang boarded their motorcycles and began chasing their target, wanting to find out who it is and how he is able to fly so fast, and having seen a "passenger" with him, they assumed that it was a victim and they head out to rescue her.

Meanwhile, Naegi is trying to find a way to lower himself to the ground without getting himself hurt, and with Kirigiri "on board", things didn't help and with the fast flying, Kirigiri was panicking further at the thought of getting hit by any speeding vehicle and did not wish to die so young, and as she is using Naegi's hair as a "steering wheel" to navigate their flying, and there Naegi managed to lower himself to a degree but is still quite high from the ground, but as he looked straight, he realized that he is heading straight towards a dead-end wall, and he panicked and went downward, landing on a dump truck which was empty.

Naegi hit head-first, but Kirigiri was relatively unharmed, and there the Crazy Diamond Gang passed by thinking that their target is quite ahead of them not noticing the dump truck where Naegi and Kirigiri landed.

"After it!"

"We're getting close to them!"

"I got a camera!"

"We'll sell it to the highest TV network!"

"We're gonna make money!"

"UFO! UFO!"

"Oi, calm down, will you?"

"Call the Men In Black!"

After that, Naegi and Kirigiri got out and Naegi was catching his breath as he had a HELL of a flight, though Kirigiri was in a state of shock yet managed to keep her composure and he asks her to loan him some money so he could take a taxi in which he did, and soon he boarded a taxi and went home.

Several minutes later, Kirigiri arrived home and when she sat on the sofa, she cried as she had an experience that she would never, ever forget, and it seemed to have traumatized her a bit as she didn't expect something LIKE THAT to happen.

-x-

Later Naegi arrived home and got off the taxi, where the driver stared incredulously thinking Naegi was a "whacko" wearing a "pajamas with a cape", and as he entered, he is greeted with a shocked Komaru and there she asks him what happened, and Naegi told Komaru to ask later as he head for his room to get a grip on himself as he stared at the mirror and glanced at the "red suit" he is wearing. He sighed as he felt that the "red suit" gave him BAD LUCK, and is now thinking of getting rid of it but then he wondered if he should do this since he recalled what the aliens told him.

By then, his cellphone rang and he answered it and was shocked as the caller turns out to be Maizono and asked him if he watched her live performance, and Naegi chuckled as he has to think of an alibi on why he wasn't there earlier.

"Hello, Naegi-kun!"

"M-Maizono-san?"

"Hello, Naegi-kun? Are you okay?"

"Uh..."

"You seemed to be out of breath..."

"..."

"We're you able to attend to my band's live concert?"

"Um...you see..."

To Be Continued…

Hope you like this chapter as this ends the first arc about the "red suit", with Naegi managing to get out of the mental hospital thanks in part to Kirigiri's help and the "red suit", from this point on, Naegi will have to decide on what to do with it, and that's where the story sets in and what adventures would befall Naegi and how this would affect the "Luckster" in the days to come.

Another Danganronpa: Another Episode character made an appearance, and this one is Hagakure's mom, Hiroko, and though her appearance was brief, she still plays a part being that of Hagakure's mom.

Also, Kirigiri seemed to act OOC (out of character) as she screamed most of the chapter holding onto Naegi while they were flying despite her being the most composed character in the game and anime. Let me know if you liked it or not...

Preview:

The next chapter will open the FIRST major story arc, as it involves Sayaka Maizono, in which her status as an idol would put her in danger and Naegi would be involved being a friend to her and the object of media question in regards to their relationship...

Reviews are welcome and let me know what you think of this fic so far...

See you in 3 weeks...

:)