Black and white promise
"Hajime-kun!" Nanami noticed Hinata behind fallen Enoshima and ran towards him. Then she noticed blood on his left hand. "What happened, Hinata-kun? Why you have hurt your hand?"
Hinata looked at Nanami but didn't answer. His eyes were red.
"You came just right time, Hinata-san", Mukuro smiled. That was unusual.
"Umm, what happened here... Nanami-san!" Nevermind peeked from the door. The class was behind her. "You're alright!"
"Don't come just yet!" Nanami shouted. "It's not safe yet!"
"No, it is!" Makoto said and the ladders came down. "Climb here!"
The class ran to the ladder and one by one they climbed up.
"I'll stay here a moment with Hinata-kun!" Nanami informed.
"Just a little moment, then you have to come." Kirigiri stood behind Makoto. "Good that you gave the time when you'd come home, otherwise you would be dead."
"But that little time... ISN'T ENOUGH!" Enoshima pressed one button on the machines and multiple spears come out next to the ladders. That caused the ladders to fall.
"Why did you do that?!" Nanami shouted.
"Happy ending isn't always the best ending..." Tsumiki peeked out of the room, where the class were a little time ago. "The best ending... is the one what has the most despair!" Her eyes were spirals.
Mukuro backed a little bit with Nanami.
"Don't worry", Mukuro said. "I can come up with something... I'm still the super duper high school level soldier even after the graduation. And looks like we have Kamukura on our side."
"Please call him by the name Hajime Hinata", Nanami requested.
Mukuro nodded and jumped forward. Hinata was blocking Enoshima from standing up, so she had to deal with Yukizome and Tsumiki.
"Don't kill them! Because it's just wrong!"
Mukuro knew it. Mukuro had knew it from the very beginning. She should tie them up. Like the two hostages in the Fenrir. She sprinted and were quickly behind Tsumiki and Yukizome. She should have done this earlier. She noticed ropes in the middle of the chairs. She toke it and started to tying them up, starting with Yukizome. Mukuro was too fast for them - they didn't have time to fight back. Soon enough it was done.
She walked back to the main room. "What were you trying to do?" Mukuro asked from Enoshima.
"I just tried to carry the plan from the very end. Despair-inducing tradegy would be amaizing!" Enoshima answered. "If you want to kill me, do so, but make it very long torture so I can feel the most amount of despair!"
"Shut up." Mukuro stomped Enoshima. "You're now like a Monokuma without the prison."
Enoshima grabbed Mukuro's leg and caused her to fall towards Hinata. Hinata stepped away so Mukuro wouldn't fall onto him, but by doing that, he released Enoshima.
Enoshima was on her legs in a second. "And now we'll battle."
"No! It's still wrong!" Nanami shouted.
"I don't care if you think it's wrong", Enoshima said coldly. "It is what it is. And it would be a great ending to our story."
"I say it for the last time! I won't battle!"
"Do you fear losing?" Enoshima laughed.
"I don't care if you think that I don't battle because I would lose!"
"Stop this. If you want to battle so badly, I should be your opponent", Mukuro said calmly.
"Oh, but you're not going to be my opponent", Enoshima said.
"Yes, I'm not going to", Mukuro said.
"Huh? What are you saying? First you want to battle and now you don't." Enoshima felt a push on her back. It was Hinata.
"It was just to buy time."
Enoshima fell. The machine fell from her pocket and fell down the button side upwards. Enoshima fell onto it pressing accidentally all the buttons.
Spears came from the floor under Enoshima. Many spears stabbed her and she lost consciousness right away.
There came spears from other places than just under Enoshima. Next to Hinata the about five spears stabbed him and one stabbed Nanami's right leg on the other side of the room. The spears dodged Mukuro.
Nanami felt dizzy. What did just happen? Without further thinking about it she lost consciousness.
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"Nanami-san! Are you okay?"
"It's unlike you to be worried like that."
"Is it wrong?"
"You two, don't shout."
"I'm not shouting Kirigiri-san..."
"Still don't shout."
Nanami opened her eyes a little and saw a place what she has had seen many times before. The hospital.
"But still, are you okay Nanami-san?"
Nanami nodded a little. "Don't... be so... formal... okay?"
"Can I explain what happened now when Nanami-chan is awake?"
Someone sighed. "Go ahead."
Nanami recognized the people around her. The one who's talking to her is Mukuro, Kirigiri was sitting a little further from the bed and Makoto stood near the door.
"So, we got you and Kamukura up..."
"I... told you... to call...him Hinata..."
"Sorry, you and Hinata-san up. Kirigiri had called to here, since she called immediately, when she saw you. And that thing happened with spears..." Mukuro quieted down.
"Enoshima is dead." Kirigiri said.
"W-what?" Nanami asked.
"She was stabbed by the spears. The organs were badly founded and she lost lots of blood."
Nanami tried to sit up but when she moved her right leg, it hurt so much that she had to lie down again.
"Your right leg was stabbed by one spear. Right under the knee. You should have to let it rest", Kirigiri said. "Hinata is in the bed next to you. Or he is when he comes back."
"Do you know.. why Hajime-kun's left hand was bloody?" Nanami asked.
"He can answer to that better himself", Kirigiri answered. "If you want to sit, I can help."
Nanami nodded and rose her hands. Kirigiri pulled her little up.
"Is Hajime-kun coming soon?"
"You have to ask that from Akabane..."
The door opened and one nurse came in pushing one hospital bed. In the bed was Hinata.
"Looks like you have woken up, Nanami-san", Akabane said. "Hinata-san is going to wake up soon. It would be better if you three come out for that time. I'm sure that Nanami-san has things to ask from him."
Naegis and Kirigiri went out of the room. They closed the door quietly.
The time passed. One minute. Two minutes. Five minutes. Ten minutes. A quarter. A half a hour. Hinata didn't woke up.
Just when Nanami decided to go to sleep someone opened his eyes on the bed.
"Am I... in the hospital..?"
"Yes, Hajime-kun", Nanami answered.
"Chiaki-chan? You're here?"
"Yes," Nanami smiled, "and you have something to explain."
"What?" Hajime asked.
"Why was your hand in blood?"
Hinata turned around and stared at the wall. "To save you."
Nanami didn't believe her ears. "To save... me?"
"I noticed that when my memory cuts out, the last thing what I see is blood. I don't exactly know why it is so. But when I saw you in that monitor, I lowered my head and started to look a way to save you. We were locked into the chairs, but when Yukizome left, she dropped a little machine. I toke it closer with my foot. It had a button in it and pressed it. The locks opened and I dug from my pocket a multi-tool and sliced my left hand with it", Hinata told.
"You had a multi-tool with you? No, you did all that for me?" Nanami asked.
"I had to save you. I knew that when my memory cuts out, someone else "comes out". Someone stronger than me. Someone more talented than me. I had to relay to that someone... to... save the one... who... I... love..." Hinata's last words were more like whispering.
"The one who you... love?" Nanami's eyes widened up.
"I wasn't a lot against that you're friends considered me as your boyfriend. I didn't say nothing because I thought it would bother you."
"Actually... I wasn't really against it either... I didn't want to bother you..." Nanami confessed.
"Huh?" Hinata turned around.
Nanami smiled. "That's right."
Suddenly the door opened. "Do I interrupt you? Hopefully not, because I have big news", Akabane said.
It did interrupt Nanami and Hinata, but they decided to stay quiet.
"Naegi-san, you know what happened, so come here", Akabane said.
"What are the big news?" Nanami asked.
Mukuro came to the room, toke a chair and sat on it. "You know in what condition Tsumiki-san was?"
"Her eyes were spirals", Nanami answered. "Yukizome was the same." Then she remembered how Mioda had mentioned, that the picnic was Tsumiki's idea. And Yukizome came late, because she was "preparing an event". And now she understood the contradiction in Tsumiki's words.
"Did you know her?" Tsumiki had said in the hospital. Nanami hadn't said anything about Nakamura-san being a girl. How did she know that? Next striked the fact that it was Yukizome, who told her about Hinata being in the hospital. It felt like Yukizome and Tsumiki were on Enoshima's side. Was it all just for that labyrinth thing? Nanami's world started to collapse. Is this what they call by name 'despair'?
"Nanami-san!" Mukuro said.
"What..." Nanami said.
"Tsumiki did lie to the hospital."
"What?"
"They can take Kamukura away from Hinata." When she said that she looked at Hinata. "But Hinata, the hospital needs your signature before they can do that."
Everyone in the room looked at Hinata. "No, I'm not going to go through with that."
"Why?" Nanami asked.
"I want to be able to cooperate with him", Hinata said. "So if this kind of situation happens, I can be helpful. And I've notice that he wants to protect Nanami as well."
Nanami blushed. "You don't need to let this possibility go just for me." Her world started to brighten up again.
"I said it just second ago. I want to", Hinata said.
"Then if you're not going to go trough with it, I should go. I don't want to interrupt you any longer than I have to." Akabane went out of the room with Mukuro.
There were a little silence.
"How are you going to cooperate with him?" Nanami broke the silence.
"I'll leave a message to him."
"You won't use your own blood."
"Why?" Hinata asked.
"It would hurt you. I'll leave the same game open as the first time", Nanami said. "But if the time goes too long too many times, you will go through with that. be sure to tell that to him."
"Yes, yes", Hinata said.
"Do you know what Enoshima meant by the promise?" Nanami asked.
"Mukuro told that he make a promise with her. The promise was to make despair", Hinata sighed. "Why did he do that?"
"I don't know is it good or bad promise."
"Huh?"
"It doesn't specify, who will feel despair. He fulfilled the promise. He did make Enoshima despair", Nanami said.
"You're right..." Hinata started to understand what Nanami meant.
"It's not good or bad. It falls to the gray area in the middle of them", Nanami smiled. "You can say that it's black and white promise."
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Ten years later
"Eww, it smells", a little girl said in a living room. She was playing with Nantendo.
"Mum is cooking pancakes. She probably forget about them", a little older boy said next to her.
"Waaaaah!" About four years old boy started crying.
"Hey, Hideki, don't make Itona cry. The food what I'm cooking was supposed to be a surprise." Chiaki walked from the kitchen.
"You should've let dad do them," the girl said.
"Kayo, it's not as easy as in the cooking games", Chiaki said. "And it would interrupt Hajime if I asked it."
"I wouldn't bother me." Hajime sat on the sofa and read newspaper. "You don't have to be like that, Chiaki."
"Yes, mum is definitely cooking pancakes!" Hideki shouted.
"Don't reveal the surprise", Itona moaned.
"Hideki, don't use your skills to figure out what I'm cooking."
"What skills? I'm just smelling burned pancake."
"And I'm not meaning the cooking games. Dad taught to me how to do them. It's not that hard", Kayo said without rising her glance from the Nantendo.
"I'll go to take the food from the furnace", Chiaki said. "The breakfast is ready!"
A/N Is it really over? I can't actually believe it! I have had so much fun writing this, reading the reviews and I have noticed that you really liked this story. By the time I'm writing this, this story has 1580 views and it's a lot. When I started to write the story, I though that a few people come here and leave right after reading the first chapter. I liked to reference stuff, like the whole Dr. Akabane is a reference to Assassination classroom's (Ansatsu Kyoushitsu) Karma Akabane. Just like the Nakamura is a reference to Angel Beats' Yuri Nakamura. Did I success at making the characters feel like themselves?
Thanks to everyone, who has read this story to this point. A special thanks to the ones who have reviewed this series, favorited and/or followed it. It really means lot to me. If something needs to be cleared, put a private message. But really, thanks to everyone. I would like to hear your opinion of this series. Bye!