This has been in my files for so long but I had not have the time to finish it. Then I noticed it and was like, welps, I have to finish it sooner or later anyways. So here it is. This is an alternate version of what would have happened if the Class 3-E were too late to help Nagisa with his "abusive mother" problem. It is a rather long chapter, so enjoy!

It took everything in his willpower not to cry out.

Nagisa did not even understand what was going on. Why is Karma beating him up? Isn't Karma his best friend? An image flashed thorough his mind.

"Heh! Puny little kid! What do you think you are, sucking up to sensei like that?!"

His mind became cloudy. What is happening? Is it another one of his mother's episodes? What did he do to make her angry this time?

"Ungrateful child! I've done so much for you, and this is how you repay me?!"

Nagisa closed his eyes as the punches came flying on him. This was a daily occurrence after all. Its just that he did not know what he did to make his mother so angry. Tears of pain betrayed him and started to leak out from his closed eyes.

"I'm serious about this, you know!" he managed to choke out. "If you are telling me to tell you how I feel with all my might then-!"

"Bullshit!" Karma's voice cut him off. Why is it Karma beating him up instead of his mother? He didn't understand it. "Do you even understand what the others will feel if we go along with your plan?"

Nagisa opened his mouth to protest, but Karma chose that moment to land a particularly strong punch at his stomach. "Ugh!"

"You are not even thinking about how we feel!" Karma yelled angrily. "Where is the Nagisa I knew?"

"It's because of you I lost my husband!"

Nagisa heaved a sigh, welcoming the punches. After all, to accept is better than to resist. He learnt that from many years of experience.

"You are seriously growing cocky lately! Just because you defeated that Takaoka twice doesn't make you better than us!"

That was when something in Nagisa snapped. He opened his eyes and Karma immediately stopped in his tracks when he saw the expression on the seemingly angelic teal head boy.

"If I am really better than you guys, I would have won already!" Nagisa screamed. "I was wrong about you, I was so wrong, to think that you guys would be different! YOU ARE ALL THE SAME!" He took opportunity of Karma's shock to get up, wincing because of the bruises he sported all over his body. Staggering a little, he started to walk away, then, when he could get one foot in front of the other, he broke into a run.

There was silence.

"What was that just now?" Terasaka finally asked.

Karma just stared at his hands as if he couldn't believe what he had just done. Had he just beaten up his best friend?

Isogai jumped to his feet and ran off. "Nagisa? Nagisa!"

But Nagisa did not reply.

The assembled group did not have the guts to go to class. The meeting was held before classes started for the day, and now, they all don't feel like studying or having lessons.

Isogai came running back, panting. He took a few deep breaths before shooting a killer glare at Karma, something the ikemen never did. Ever.

"What were you thinking?" he demanded, in such an angry tone, nobody recognized the ikemen before them. "Nagisa was obviously shaken just now!"

"What do you mean?" Kayano asked, almost timidly and shaken by the display of what Nagisa did earlier.

Isogai let out a long sigh and ran a hand through his hair. "Did you all not see his eyes? They were desperate. He did not even react when Karma started hitting him! Instead, it seemed like he was welcoming it," he frowned worriedly. "Even the past few days... Nagisa has been acting weird since a few days ago."

"Excuse me?" Nakamura asked. "We have all been acting weird ever since Koro-sensei announced that he was once human."

"Not that kind of weird!" Isogai exasperatedly exclaimed. "He has been distancing himself from us lately. Even just now, he was acting as if he's a disease to all of us! Also, he would flinch when someone approached him! Those things are really weird!"

"Now that sounds weird~! Who is it~?" an all too familiar voice rang out.

Everyone turned to see Koro-sensei standing behind them, tentacles flying around as usual.

"Koro-sensei!"

"Ohayo, minna-san! Now do pray tell me why you all are gathered here and not in the classroom?"

Karasuma-sensei came running out next.

"What happened?" he asked. "I bumped into Nagisa just now. He was crying but he ran away before I had the chance to stop him."

Wait.

Nagisa was crying?

Suddenly, Karma felt guilty of his previous actions.

"What happened?" Bitch-sensei demanded.

Everything poured out. The students took turns to tell the teachers what had happened. They told them about Nagisa calling the meeting. They told them what Nagisa talked to them about. How Nakamura and a few others disagreeing with the idea. How Karma approached Nagisa with his own opinions. That Karma started the fight. How Nagisa suddenly broke down and ran away. The three teachers listened gravely.

For a while, there was silence.

"You did not give Nagisa time to explain himself?" Koro-sensei asked at last.

The students hung their heads down guiltily.

"I expected better from al of you." They flinched at Koro-sensei's disappointed tone. "I don't care whether you kill me or not, but I expect all of you to understand each other. Isn't the E class a family?"

Shame began to overwhelm the students as the atmosphere stiffened. It was as if they were expecting Koro-sensei to lash out at them.

"I'm sure Nagisa will be back soon," Bitch-sensei tried to lighten up the atmosphere and cheer them up. "He is, after all, a strong guy."

The moment Nagisa reached the doorsteps to his house, he immediately knew that something was wrong. He hastily tried to wipe away his tears before opening the door. He sighed in relief when he saw that there was no one at home. How wrong he was.

The sound of a car driving up the pavement made him freeze in his movements and a familiar voice rang out shrillly.

"Nagisa, what are you doing here?"

Shiota Hiromi is back.

He couldn't bring himself to answer. He couldn't tell her that he had gotten into a fight with his best friend because he did not want to kill his homeroom teacher.

"So you are now skipping classes, huh?!" His mother assumed, angrily. "It is bad enough that you are in the E class, but now you are also skipping classes?" She caught sight of the bruises all over his body. "AND YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING, I SEE?"

He hung his head and looked at the ground, trembling a little as he tried not to let his tears fall again.

"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" Hiromi shrieked as she got of the car and kicked him in the shins, making him fall to the ground. "WHAT DID I DO FOR THE HEAVENS TO CURSE ME WITH SUCH A USELESS DAUGHTER?!"

She continued to kick him as he lay on the ground dazedly. The pain was unbearable, as she was wearing high heels, but Nagisa was all too used to it.

It seemed like forever, but she finally stopped her anger tirade and dragged him to his feet before shoving him in his bedroom.

The teal headed boy just lay in his bed, blood flowing out of his wounds and staining the bed. His whole body ached in pain.

Darkness claimed him as he fell asleep.

Class 3-E didn't bother checking up on Nagisa the next day when he was absent. They assumed that he wanted to have time alone to cool himself off. However, they were too busy with their thoughts to pay attention to the lessons at all.

They panicked when he did not turn up the day after, and Karasuma-sensei visited the Shiota Residence, only to find the house empty.

On the third day of Nagisa's absence, both Karasuma-sensei and Bitch-sensei returned to the Shiota Residence and this time, the teal headed mother was there. They soon learned that she was not the ideal mother to be taking care of Nagisa. To their horror, they also learnt of her abuse when they went into Nagisa's room to find bloodstains every where. The window was smashed and they assumed that Nagisa had ran away.

On Saturday, the fourth day, the whole class together with the three teachers visited every nook and cranny in the town in search for Nagisa.

Their efforts were in vain.

They returned on Monday and tried to resume lessons. Nagisa has been reported lost, and the ministry is working hard to try and locate him.

It was that day when Koro-sensei attempted to cheer the class up by setting them out in the woods to play a game of cops and robbers. And it was that day when Kayano stumbled upon Nagisa's body as she was trying to run away from Bitch-sensei, the 'cop'.

Her terrified scream rang out and it took the class exactly a minute to get to her, as they were assuming that she was in a sticky situation.

What they didn't expect to see was Kayano on the ground crying her eyes out in front of a vaguely familiar body.

Nagisa.

How ironic that when they were trying to find their classmate, he could not be found. But when they were not, he found them instead.

After a quick examination, Karasuma-sensei announced that Nagisa was still alive, but barely. He was rushed to the hospital immediately and the class remained there for the day.

The doctors managed to save Nagisa, but unfortunately, he had slipped into a coma due to a particularly nasty bruise he had on his head, which the doctors assumed were from a concussion.

Kayano produced Nagisa's notebook which she had found lying beside Nagisa in the woods. From it, the class learned about the feelings Nagisa had for their homeroom teacher.

Nagisa considers Koro-sensei as a father figure of sorts every since the octopus had started teaching them months ago. To Nagisa, Koro-sensei was the parental figure he never had, as his mother had obviously never showered him with the love he was supposed to receive and his father had divorced with his mother and was presumably dead.

They blamed themselves for never noticing that Nagisa was always putting on a facade. They thought they knew him, but there was so much about him they had never known.

Karma, especially, blamed himself for not being there when his best friend needed it. He had known about the mistreatment Nagisa received from Hiromi, but he had never made a move to comfort his friend, or tried to earn his friend's trust.

A month flew by. The E class has managed to uncover that Koro-sensei will not be able to blow up the Earth after all. After an amount of persuasion, Karasuma managed to convince the ministry to lift the bounty off Koro-sensei and declare him innocent, not dangerous.

Then a phone call arrived from the hospital. Nagisa had woken up from his coma and they are allowed to visit.

So there they were, in the pristine white walls of the hospital, holding a basket of fruits as a get well present for the tealnette.

They burst into the room where Nagisa was situated in, Koro-sensei greeting the tealnette as they did so. They settled the basket of fruits before turning to Nagisa, nervous as to what his reaction might be.

Nagisa stared at them confusedly. "Who are you?"

Dread filled their bodies as they stopped in their actions. They were dumbstruck. This couldn't be happening...

A low chuckle was emitted from Karma as he stated at his best friend in denial. He shook the tealnette's shoulders desperately. "Y-You're just joking, right? Nagisa? You are kidding us, right?"

The confusion in the pair of teal eyes was no act. Nagisa squirmed, uncomfortable with Karma's hands on his shoulders. "I'm really sorry, but I honestly don't know any of you."

The red headed boy let his hands fell to his side in despair. The guilt building up in himself was immeasurable. If it wasn't for me, Nagisa wouldn't be like this today...

A light touch on his shoulder distracted him from his thoughts. He looked up into the pair of teal blue eyes, the eyes that shows innocence and purity, unlike the eyes that showed otherwise a month ago.

"You are upset," Nagisa stated. "Why?"

Karma tried his best to hold in his tears, which he did successfully. "It's nothing," he said. "Nothing's wrong."

But everyone present in the room knew that it was not.

A week later, a man showed up at the hospital, claiming to be Nagisa's father.

He was immediately cornered by the teachers of the Class 3-E, who interrogated him thoroughly.

However, no matter how regretful he is of his actions, the ministry deemed him unfit to be a parent, seeing as the man had not been active in his role as a father in Nagisa's life. Nagisa became an orphan before he was taken in by Karasuma-sensei.

Nagisa showed no signs of ever regaining his memories, which was both a good and bad thing. He was able to forget about the horrors he had with his mother, but the times he had spent with his classmates were also forgotten. Though the students of Class 3-E had visited him far too any times, he felt unease when spending time together with them.

He did recover and was soon out of the bed, up and about. He was also reintroduced to Koro-sensei. Unsurprisingly, he warmed up to the octopus, and Karasuma grudgingly appointed him as Nagisa's godfather.

The students of Class 3-E did not give up their attempts with befriending Nagisa once again. It took a while but Nagisa soon opened up to them. They proved to be a protective bunch of the tealnette, especially Karma, who questioned Nagisa whenever he obtained a slight injury or two.

"Ne... Karma?" Nagisa questioned softly as he took a seat beside the red head, who was playing his Nintendo under the shade of a tree at the field outside the Class 3-E.

Karma paused his game and looked at his friend, concern written on his face. "What happened? Did you injure yourself?"

"No! It's not anything like that!" the tealnette protested. "I was just wondering about something..."

"So what is it about?"

Nagisa looked down at his lap, as if suddenly interested with his hands. "How was I like before I lost my memories?"

Silence.

Then, without warning, Karma hugged him.

"You were calm, always collected and always friendly with others. No matter the situation, you always had a smile on your face," Karma began as he let go of the boy in his arms. "You were observant of your surroundings, never unfazed by any slight changes. However, deep down you had a great sense of insecurity. You tend to keep secrets to yourself and not tell anyone else about it. You... were my best friend."

Nagisa smacked Karma lightly on the head, causing the red head to look at him confusedly. "Were? We are still best friends."

Karma broke into a smile and ruffled the tealnette's hair. "Still, you do know that we will always be there for you, right? Karasuma-sensei... Bitch-sensei... Koro-sensei and the rest of the E class.. We will always be there for you."

Nagisa returned the smile. "Of course I do."

That's it! To be honest, I wanted to end this alternate version with an angsty way, but I'm too soft-hearted, sooooooo...

Many of you want me to do an epilogue, which I will be doing actually, but I am waiting till the subbed version of "Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: 365-nichi no Jikan" to be released before I write anything for the epilogue. Yes, the epilogue will be the students seven years later.

Anyways, I hoped you guys enjoyed this chapter of Crystal Tears, Alternate Version/Ending! Till then, ja~

Yours,

BlueSkyBlue,

a.k.a. Otonashi Hayuka

P.S. To those of you reading When Nagisa Goes MIA, I have posted a companion fic named Learning with Shiota-sensei that features the times the students of Class 3-5 spend with Nagisa. If you have been reading When Nagisa Goes MIA, I think you would enjoy another hilarious (or not) fic that can make you laugh. After all, it is bad to keep reading angsty fics like Crystal Tears, right?