Ibuki loved it when the boat came back from supply runs. Not only did it mean that they could keep on improving things, including some houses they were starting to build, but Hajime always made sure to bring in a bunch of cool stuff, too. It always made everybody super happy. Now, the way supply runs went, according to the people that went on them (Hajime, Kazuichi, and Nekomaru), They would sail out, sell things they made on the island at the cities remaining in the world and use the money to buy things, but they would also loot the ruins for anything cool they could get their hands on. They had only gone on four so far, since they only went every few months. Last time, Hajime had gotten her a cool guitar, he said he found it in an abandoned music store and that he hardly had to clean any blood off it. That had made her really happy. The cool thing he had brought back this time was a bunch of small, fluffy animals for Gundam. More hamsters, some gerbils, bunnies, and even some guinea pigs. Ibuki had never seen Gundam smile has much as when he pulled that bunny out of the jacket he had been wearing and told him that there were three more like it outside and more. The first supply run out, Hajime made sure to get artist stuff for Ryota. Even helped him design custom programs to use. That had made the artist super happy, and he had since started on a little short film that he said would be done in a few more years. There was more, of course, but you get the point. Every time the group came back with a bunch of new stuff for them to play with, it was great, the mood on the island was electric, at least it felt that way to Ibuki. She was on her way back to her cabin to play her guitar a little, she was working on a song that would really blow everybody's socks off, when she heard it. Yup, there was no mistaking it. Someone was playing some music. She looked around shocked for a few seconds, before using her super musician hearing to hone in on the source. Hajime's cabin.

She bolted to his door and swung it open without knocking, there Hajime was laying on his bed, listening to the little sound system he had probably looted, given the scorch mark on the edge of it. Well, he was, but when she opened the door he sat up and paused the music.

"Ibuki!" His eyes widened slightly in surprise.

"Hajime brought music back and didn't tell Ibuki!" She rushed around the bed and saw it, two boxes filled with CDs.

"I was going to tell you once I-" He had started before witnessing her dump the boxes out on the bed. "Hey!"

"You got a lot of stuff." Ibuki said as she shifted through them. "Why did you get so much?"

"Well, I have a lot of musical talents now, and I was wondering if they had effected the way I enjoy music, or what sort of music I like. So, I just grabbed a bunch of it to test it out." Hajime shrugged a shoulder, lamenting the state of his room. Such a mess.

"Has it?"

"So far, yeah it has. Turns out when you know a lot about music and know how to analyze it, lots of music becomes enjoyable. My tastes have widened a lot, though I haven't made my way through it all." He answered, and she stilled for a second before grinning ear to ear.

"Hey, we should totally hold a concert!" She punched at the air, in a victory pose. "That'd be a great way to test your talents out, and it would be so much fun to see if we have stage chemistry!"

"H-hey now, I don't think I'm ready for all that." Hajime waved his hands in protest. "I don't think I have the bravery or stage presence for that, and it seems a little too showy for me, but… I have had an idea of what to do with all this music, if you want to help." He gave a smile of his own and she looked curious.

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"Come on, slow pokes! Move your feet!" Ibuki hollered, leading everybody to the Titty Typhoon just like her and Hajime planned.

"Why do we have to be here?" Mahiru asked.

"Yes, it seems rather strange for us to all be gathered here. There is no event planned that we have been told about." Gundam said, one of his new hamsters peaking out of his scarf. Everybody else started grumbling as well.

"Just a minute." Ibuki backed up to the door and knocked. "Haaajjjiimmmeeeeeee, we're here!"

"Just a minute!" There was of shuffling, a thud, more shuffling followed by him calling out again. "Bring them in!"

And with that Ibuki flung the door open and lead the others into the dark building, the door shut behind them… when music started to play and Ibuki turned the lights on, revealing that a rather large party had been set up, with music, food, the works, with Hajime standing at a table where the music was controlled from.

"Surprise!" Hajime and Ibuki yelled out, throwing their hands out in celebration.

"A party?"

"A party!" Hajime affirmed, walking over to the group, who were still taking things in. Ibuki and Hajime had done the place up right, with streamers, lights, and even a functional disco ball. "We've made a lot of progress on the island, and I thought we should celebrate. I finally got enough stuff to throw something together."

"This is awesome!" Akane hollered, running over to the food table, and that seemed to signal everybody to enter the room and start the party, though not before thanking Hajime. It was slow starting at first, but it didn't take long before everything was in full swing.

Fuyuhiko had asked Peko to dance, and she agreed, even though she didn't really know how to dance. Akane, Nekomaru, and Teruteru were still eating, discussing the food. Sonia and Gundam were in the corner, Sonia asking about dancing and Gundam being too embarrassed to agree, Kazuichi offered to dance with her, but Sonia blew him off and he went to a different corner to sulk. Several of the girls had grouped together to dance, they looked like they were having a good time. Hajime was so busy surveying the group, he hadn't noticed Nagito was talking to him.

"Huh?" He said, failing to catch what Nagito had said.

"You weren't even listening? Well, I suppose that makes sense, why would somebody with so many talents listen to t-"

"What do you want, Nagito?" The former reserve course student interrupted, not wanting to jump down that rabbit hole of self-loathing right now.

"While you were gone on the supply run, somebody carved 'Gay Baby Jail' on my cabin door again." He shook his head, rubbing the back of his neck.

"They didn't try and trap you in there again, did they?"

"They forgot to bolster the windows this time." Hajime sighed. Sometimes, when Nagito was being particularly annoying, and Hajime wasn't there to reel him in, they would barricade him in his cabin and carve 'Gay Baby Jail' on the door. This had three times before, one time while he wasn't even on a supply run.

"I'll fix the door tomorrow."

"Thank you." Nagito's eyes glanced over the group. "You really did a good job here, this party is really making everybody's hopes shine."

"Yeah, I thought we could use it."

"Hey, Hajime, come over and dance!" Ibuki said, trying to wave him over to the girl group. All the girls voiced their agreement, even if Hiyoko's way of encouragement was saying something along the lines of how he should come over and show them how lame of a dancer he was.

"No, I'm fine over here." He put up his hand to gesture that he was fine, but just as he did, his wrist was snatched up by Nagito and he was being dragged over. It didn't take much to stop him, what with his super powered body, but it was still annoying. The puffy haired young man kept pulling on his wrist like that would help.

"Come on, don't you want to enjoy the party you set up? Seems like a waste to set up a party and stand on the side the whole time. Plus, it would be rude to not give the ladies what they want." Hajime faltered a little at that, which gave Nagito enough time to get behind him and shove him into the girls, which have been fine if he hadn't been shoved into Mikan, who promptly fell over, legs spread eagle as usual.

"Mikan!" Hajime gasped, turning to help her, only to get an eyeful of her undies, at which point he turned and used his hand to cover his vision while the girls got her up. He turned back as she was straitening her dress back out, tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry about that, Mikan."

"I-it's fine… b-b-but…" Mikan started to look confidant through her tears, like she was going to say something brave, but just as soon as the look appeared, it disappeared. "I-it's my f-f-fault, you can draw on m-me if you-" Mahiru put a hand on her shoulder and shook her head. Mikan looked at her and Mahiru nodded towards Hajime, like she was telling her to try again. Mikan nodded, the bravery returning. She stared Hajime down. "What I-I meant was. It's fine… b-but I'll forgive you i-if you dance with me f-first." She held out her hand to him. The girls smiled in approval.

"I'd love to." As soon he said that, he was pulled into the center of the group of girls, with him and Mikan at the center, dancing, with the girls forming some sort of dancing barrier around them. Hajime was trying his best to dance as he normally would, not tapping into any talents, but as he saw the other dancing, he started to feel self-conscious and started to tap into some of his abilities, but the very minute he did- Mikan gave him a little swat.

"D-don't do that."

"Huh?"

"I didn't ask I-izuru to d-d-dance, I asked you. Don't u-use your t-talents." She shook her and gave him a firm that looked kind of ridiculous since she was still dancing.

"We are the same person, you know, you ask one of us you ask us both." Mikan shook her head.

"I remember m-meeting Izuru. I don't to dance with him, I w-want to dance with the boy wh-who spent time with m-me in the simulation." Mikan looked like she was going to start crying again. "S-so, p-p-please…"

"No talents, got it." He nodded, complying with her request.

After a couple songs, Mahiru hopped into Mikan's place, with Mikan taking her place in the barrier. This happened again in a few more songs, with Hiyoko this time. It was around that time he finally felt at the glares digging at his head, looked to see Teruteru and Kazuichi looking at him, clearly upset he was getting so much attention from the girls. He then realized something. With Nekomaru paired off with Akane, Fuyuhiko paired with Peko, and Gundam paired off with Sonia, the only male dance partners the girls had left were Ryota, the imposter, Teruteru, Kazuichi, himself, and Nagito. Ryota and the imposter were in a corner talking to themselves, and were both so shy the girls wouldn't want to bother them, Nagito was crazy, Teruteru was a perv who would grope them, and Kazuichi was… Kazuichi, so that just left…

He held back a sigh, he could practically hear the conversation the girls had. Dancing with other girls was fun, but they wanted to dance with a boy, but who? So they hatched a plan, to share 'the one good boy' left, with Mikan calling first dance. How boring. He felt bad for the other boys, but he couldn't really blame the girls either. It was getting to around the time that he would dance with Ibuki when he realized she wasn't around anymore. What-

"Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen! We are going to slow things down, so grab somebody and hold them close for this tasty slow jam!" Ibuki yelled as the song switched over to a slow song. Hajime's eyes widened, they had agreed to no slow songs, so things didn't get awkward. He looked around to see the girls around him vacated the area, though Mahiru and Hiyoko had decided to dance together. Hajime back up against the stage to watch. Gundam and Sonia were together, Sonia smiling and dancing effortlessly, and Gundam trying his best while red in the face. Nekomaru and Akane were a sight to see with the size difference between them. Fuyuhiko and Peko looked beautiful together, if a bit awkward because Peko didn't know how to slow dance, but they both looked really happy and it was good look on them. Especially Peko. He then saw the hand extended to him. The hand was Ibuki's.

"Hajime will dance with Ibuki now?" She smiled.

"To this song? You sure?"

"Yup, Ibuki is sure." She took his hand and pulled him to the floor, wrapping her arms around his neck. Hajime put his hands high up on her waist. This hadn't escaped the view of Akane.

"Yeah, Ibuki! Get some!" She hollered with a laughed, causing Nekomaru to chuckle, pick her up and readjust their position so Akane couldn't see. The rest of the room snickered and Hajime's face turned pink.

"You planned this, didn't you? We agreed no slow songs." He said in a quiet voice.

"I thought it'd be a nice surprise, and a good gift for you. You seem like the kind of boy who would spend so much time studying he wouldn't go to dances." Hajime turned an even darker shade of pink. Was he that easy to figure out?

"What does that have to do with this?"

"You do so much around the island, you spend so much time making sure everybody is happy. I wanted to return the favor, and I thought this might be good way to do it. Somebody should try and make sure you're happy too." Ibuki smiled, pulling him closer. "It can also be a thank you for that guitar."

"Ibuki, you didn't have to arrange a slow dance as gift to make me happy, I'm happy enough on my own."

"It's not polite to lie to a lady, Hajime."

"I'm not lying."

"Do you not like slow dancing with Ibuki? Am I not pretty enough? Would you have preferred Mikan?" She glanced over the girl, who had started to dance with Ryota.

"N-no, you're great, this is great- it's just… You didn't have to do it."

"I didn't do it because I had to, I did it because I wanted to, like how you want to make everybody happy." Honestly, Ibuki was kind of curious as to why Hajime was so set on everybody's happiness, but she figured it had to do with Chiaki, and Chiaki was still a sensitive topic for Hajime, she thinks.

"That's a nice thought… Thank you." Hajime smiled and Ibuki felt satisfied. She had accomplishment what she wanted to. She felt closer to Hajime now, too, for some reason. It only strengthened her resolve to one day play a song for everybody with Hajime. She could just feel that they would have awesome stage chemistry.

The song ended and the couples all dispersed, several people deciding to take a break to talk for a few minutes, including Hajime. The room descended into the sounds of loud chattering and pop music, until…

"Hey, Hajime, why didn't you say you picked up some booze while you were out?" He heard Fuyuhiko called out, pulling out a bottle of something, he couldn't tell what.

And, well, what happens from this point forward is a different story for a different time.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Welp… New oneshot already! Also, since this is a collection that without a proper story thread or even be in order, or even have an end, I'm going to go ahead and mark it as complete. I'm still going to write plenty of chapters, don't worry.

So… What did you think of this one? Do have a favorite part? See you later, Duckies.