The Luckster And The Detective

Okay...a few reviews, yet this is enough for me to get inspiration to bring in the second chapter, and this is where things start as Kirigiri and Naegi commence their team up and work together which foreshadows their working team that would happen in episodes 7-13 in the game and anime that would lead to Junko Enoshima's exposure as the mastermind in the "Hope's Peak Academy Mutual Killings".

Last chapter showed you how this story commences and Naegi's "luck" sends him in a bad situation and Kirigiri is trying to get him out, and in this chapter will result in Kirigiri and Naegi taking a leave from the academy to begin their "mission" on how to find this cartel and expose them before they take their hold on Hope's Peak Academy's students that would turn them into drug depended addicts. This is where our heroes' adventures start, and expect this to be full of mystery and suspense

Well, that's the summary I can tell you right now, but you'll soon see where this would lead to, so here is the opening chapter, so read and enjoy!

Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche

Ch. 2: Tōkyō Baisu no Keisei

Tokyo Police Station.

Makoto Naegi is inside the interrogation room and is being interrogated by policemen who picked up Naegi and are trying to get him to admit that he is trafficking in drugs which the "Luckster" reiterated that he got the wrong bag and stated that Kirigiri witnessed it all which they refused to acknowledge as they used the teen as a scapegoat to "clean" their record because of their failure to apprehend a suspect after word that the drug trade is picking up in their district and sees Naegi as a way to make themselves look good.

"Okay...stop wasting our time and say you're the one...!"

"But...!"

"You heard him...admit it!"

"Or else we'll charge you for perjury!"

"But I'm not a trafficker! That bag belonged to someone else!"

"Either you say you're the one or we'll lose our cool!"

"So don't try our patience..."

"I'm innocent!"

At the information desk, Kirigiri sensed that she is intentionally kept out from reaching Naegi and the police are refusing her statement and evidence that Naegi is innocent and suspect that some of the cops here may be connected to the cartel so she secretly sent a text message to her father and informed him of their current predicament, and soon Jin got the message and contacted one of his trusted confidants within the police force and have him sent to the precinct to fetch both Naegi and Kirigiri.

Back at the interrogation room, the cops began to resort physical interrogation to pressure Naegi into admitting which he steadfastly refused to give in and proclaimed his innocence which one of the cops began using a club to beat him down and urged the boy to admit that he owns the drugs which he refused, resulting in another beating, yet Naegi endured the beatings knowing that he is not guilty of any wrong doing but this made the corrupt cops resort to harsher beatings just to make the 16-year old boy "confess" to the crime.

After a few minutes, Naegi's upper torso was badly bruised while his face has bruises as well though his body is just moments away from giving in to the pain and the cops tells the boy to say "yes" but he refused knowing that they want to frame him, and by then Kirigiri barged her way in and saw what the cops' brutality are doing to her classmate and uses her martial arts skills to strike them away and stood in front of Naegi.

"That's enough!"

"Look. bitch...I told you to..."

"Look out!"

"AAIIYYAAHHH!"

"OW!"

"OOOFFF!"

"SHE KICKED MY FACE!"

"SOMEBODY SCREW THAT BITCH!"

The cops stood up and aimed their guns at Kirigiri, as other cops came after she got passed them earlier, and told the "Super High School-level Detective" that she is under arrest for "obstruction of justice" yet Kirigiri rebutted that they are in trouble for torturing an innocent boy and making falsified information by framing Naegi of a crime he did not committed, and a tense stand off ensued as she shielded the injured Naegi as the cops are closing in, and by then a dozen policemen from other precincts, accompanied by some reporters and photographers, arrived and witnessed the scene and by then they disarmed the corrupt cops and took pictures as evidence while Kirigiri tended to Naegi's injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital.

It turns out that the cops from another precinct were Jin Kirigiri's contacts and he sent them to assist Kyoko Kirigiri after getting her SOS text message about Naegi's situation and with the situation contained everything is now fine as later in the day the precinct where Naegi was wrongly arrested underwent a management change as the cops, as well as the officer in charge, were either sacked and/or demoted while an investigation is pending, while Kirigiri told her father what happened and there the father and daughter discussed even more on how to find the drug dealer who escaped and both figured that someone is protecting him .

In the end, Kyoko persuaded her father to allow her to take time off from the academy so that she can commence an undercover work to find the cartel and infiltrate it, but then asked a favor which made Jin a bit surprised when told of what her favor is, and is quite baffled as to why she asked for such a request, even though he felt that this might do little to help in his daughter's case.

"Eh? You want me to what?"

"Yes, dad..."

"Are you sure? Don't you think that's..."

"He is a fine choice for me..."

"Really...?"

"Yes...he is the reason why I'm still alive..."

"Very well...I accept...and I'll try to cover for you two..."

"Thank you, dad..."

While he didn't like the idea at first, he accepted his daughter's request and she thanked her father for accepting it before she leaves the academy and heads for the hospital where Naegi is confined, and there she asked the attending doctor how Naegi is doing, which he said that the boy will be recovering, which he would have to stay confined for a few days before being discharged, and there she and Naegi had a talk, which he is surprised when told of what is going to happen from this point onwards.

"Eh? Seriously?"

"Yes."

"But...why me?"

"Because your "luck" saved my life..."

"But...all I get is "bad luck"..."

"But your "luck" is the reason why I'm still alive...and how the "Trader" is exposed as the one who delivered the drugs at Hope's Peak Academy..."

"Are you sure it's okay for me to..."

"Yes...and trust me...the headmaster will facilitate for our leave of absence..."

Naegi is surprised when told that he would be taking a leave from Hope's Peak Academy and work with Kirigiri in an undercover mission to find out about the drug cartel and who is supplying illegal drugs to the students at the academy and that both teens are to use assumed names and disguises in order to blend in after the drug dealer has seen Naegi and Kirigiri's faces. When asked why he is chosen as her partner, Kirigiri claimed that his "luck" saved her life and felt that his "luck" might help in solving this case though Naegi mentally wondered if his luck is good or not.

Nevertheless, she told him that Jin will vouch for them and that their undercover work will commence a week later so that Naegi would have time to recuperate after getting discharged from the hospital.

-x-

Twelve days later, Naegi arrived at the house of the Kirigiri family, though only Kirigiri is present as Jin is still at Hope's Peak Academy running the school while explaining that both Kyoko and Naegi are taking a "leave of absence", ans Naegi stood outside, Kirigiri stepped out of the house and is ready, where she greeted him and told him how the undercover operation is going to be executed, which Naegi wondered if this would work out believing his "luck" might put them in jeopardy, though she assured to him that as long as he stick to the plan things would work out, which she claimed that she hope it would.

"You're three minutes late..."

"Sorry..."

"Never mind..."

"..."

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah...but...do you think my "luck" will be of help to you...?"

"Yes...and as long as you stick to my instructions...your "luck" will be handy..."

"O-okay..."

By then the two teens leave immediately and are now on their way to find the elusive cartel that has evaded police detection and made impact by hiring the now-deceased "Super High School-level Trader" in to selling drugs to students for them.

-x-

At Hope's Peak Academy, inside the conference room, Jin Kirigiri is talking to his fellow staff members and told them that his daughter and Naegi are taking a leave of absence from the academy in order to go undercover and find out as well as expose this drug cartel that is secretly using the students to sell illegal drugs for them, and this earned mixed reactions, some criticizing Jin for "spoiling" his daughter and some believed that Naegi is "useless" because of his so-called "luck" and urged Jin to expel Naegi, branding the ten boy for being an "excess baggage".

"Seriously, Jin..."

"Spoiling your daughter is one thing...but allowing her to take that Naegi- boy with her..."

"He's nothing but bad luck!"

"And that's why this "luck title" is worthless!"

"I say you expel that Naegi! He's a garbage!"

"If that's what you think of Makoto Naegi, then you're free to turn in your resignation papers!"

"Eh?"

"You can't...!"

However, Jin stick to his guns and reiterated that he knows what he is doing and will believe in his daughter and Naegi, verbally shooting down his colleagues for their selfish comments and assured to them that things will work out as well as it would save this academy's students from falling into drug dependence and send the cartel to jail and ending the drug trade that had just plagued the school, and the staff members resigned that Jin will keep his words and will have to wait and see if Kyoko Kirigiri and Makoto Naegi would succeed in their mission.

To Be Continued…

Hope you liked this chapter of this fic, though it focused mostly on Negi being given a hard time inside a pol;ice precinct and Kirigiri coming to his rescue, but nevertheless this set the events that will play in the next chapters, as the two teen students from Hope's Peak Academy are going to go undercover to find and expose the drug cartel that nearly succeeded in putting their drug trade hold on the school, and the "detective" is going to get clues and learn more about the cartel's MO with the assistance of the "luckster".

Preview:

The next chapter will commence on how Kirigiri and Naegi would team up and start finding a way to figure out on how illegal drugs came from and who is supplying them to the students of Hope's Peak Academy.