Hopeful Days XIII – NEVER FORGET YOUR MORNING EXERCISE!
After getting yelled at for forgetting to call, Makoto and Komaru had a pleasant time talking to each other.
The brunette girl made sure to press her brother for all the smallest details about Hope's Peak. From the layout of the school to his classmates.
Of course Komaru got really hyped that Sayaka was the boy's classmate and she insisted that he got a autograph for her, which Makoto very foolishly promised he would get, even though he didn't want to pester the idol about that.
He also told his sister about Chiaki and Komaru was just as happy as he was in knowing that she managed to actually fit in with her classmates and get some friends.
While the brunette told Komaru about practically everything, he did not mention Nagito and her… warm introduction, mostly because he didn't knew the white-haired girl and he also didn't want to think she was a bad person.
After hours of talking, Komaru finally passed the phone to their parents, which Makoto spoke to briefly and then ended the call.
Throwing himself into the bed, Makoto sighs contently and chuckles. Today was exhausting, but he meet a bunch of interesting people and rekindled some old friendships.
Hopefully tomorrow would be just as good.
The next day, Makoto woke up, did all his morning routine and went down to the first floor of the door.
"Morning dude." Leon greets, the redhead was sitting by the dining table with a bowl of cereal in front of him.
"Morning." Replies the brunette grabbing a frying pan from the counter and some eggs from the fridge.
"Anything planned for today?" The other boy asks while eating a spoonful of his cereal.
"Kinda." Makoto cracks the eggs and pours their contents on the pan. "Tanaka-san invited me to hang out in his workshop." The sizzle of the now frying eggs fills the kitchen.
"Tanaka-san?" Leon arches a eyebrow and Makoto scratches the back of his head awkwardly.
"Oh, yeah, you don't know him." The Luckster awkwardly chuckles. "Tanaka-san is one of our senpais." Explains the brunette with a soft smile on his lips. "I already knew him from before Hope's Peak."
"Really? Cool shit man!" Leon gives the brunette a thumbs up which makes the other boy laugh. "I want to try and talk to our senpais too. There's like this one chick with piercings and some crazy ass hair, she looks fun."
With a description like that, Makoto could imagine. "So, you have something planned for today?" The brunette turns back to the stove and turns it off, grabbing a plate and putting his fried eggs in it.
"Yep! Will be hittin' the city with Oowada later." Leon leans back in the chair and Makoto sits down. "Dude's from around these parts, so he knows the best places to have fun, if ya get what I'm sayin'?" The redhead says with a sly smile.
Makoto did, in fact, not get what he was saying, but decided that it was better to just nod like he did.
"We'll be going at like, five. So if you are free, why not join us?" The Ultimate Baseball Star offers.
"Five? That's really late." Makoto takes a bite of his fried eggs. "What about curfew?" He asks and Leon shrugs.
"We just need to be back before it." The redhead smiles. "If you're down, just shoot me a message later." Finishing his bowl of cereal, Leon gets up. "See ya!"
The two say their goodbyes and Leon walks away from the kitchen.
Soon enough, Makoto finishes his breakfast and gets up, cleans his plate and puts it to dry.
The brunette starts walking back to his room, when suddenly the entire dorm starts to shake and a booming voice yells from the outside.
"NAEGI MAKOTO!"
Turning to face the door, the luckster gulps.
Walking outside, Makoto sees Nekomaru dressed in his gym clothes and a tall girl with tanned skin and brown short hair. She was wearing a red running jacket and a black workout shorts.
"GOOD MORNING!" The burly man yells with a intense smile on his face.
"U-Uh, morning." Makoto replies, before looking towards the girl along with him, he blushes just looking at her.
"… Watcha looking at?" The girl crosses her arms, making her rather large bosom pop out.
"N-Nothing." Gulping, the luckster looks towards Nekomaru. "U-Uh, Nidai-senpai? What are you doing here this early?" He asks and the taller boy gasps.
"DON'T TELL ME YOU FORGOT?" He yells and Makoto steps back a bit, sweat already starting to drip down the smaller boy's face.
"I-I DID NOT! I WAS JUST JOKING!" Makoto yells back.
He did forget, just was too afraid to admit it.
"I see! It's healthy to have a sense of humor!" Nekomaru lets out a powerful laugh and the luckster could swear the ground shook a little. "BUT! YOU SHOULD NEVER FORGET YOUR MORNING EXERCISES!"
It took Makoto some seconds, but it then clicked in his head. "S-So you want me to exercise?" He asks and the taller teen nods.
"Yes!" Ponting at Makoto, Nekomaru says. "Today we'll be having a morning run! So go get yourself dressed, we need to get moving!" He crosses his arms and starts taping his feet.
Makoto sighed, seems like there was no way to say no to him.
"Okay. Just give me a minute." The brunette replies and Nekomaru nods, while the girl just clicks her tongue clearly annoyed.
Sighing, the luckster enters his dorm and goes back to his room to change.
The brunette puts on his Hope's Peak gym uniform and went down to the first floor. He took a deep breath and opened the door.
"I'm ready." Makoto steps out and Nekomaru gives him a thumps up.
"GREAT!" The taller teen yells in his usual boisterous voice. "Before we go, there's something that needs to be done-" He turns to the very clearly bored girl standing beside him picking her nose. "-Akane."
She looked at the burly teen with a bored expression. "What?" Pulling her finger out of her nose, she lifted a eyebrow.
"Akane." Nekomaru repeats her name, he crosses his arms and stares at her. "Do what I told you."
"Do I really need to?" She groans and he stares at her firmly. "Fine!" The girl reluctantly turns around and walks towards Makoto, who steps back a bit.
She was really tall in comparison to him, it was honestly a bit scare the way she just towered over the brunette boy.
"Sorry about what happened on the first day." The girl says, then brings her hands to the zipper in her jacket and pulls it down.
Underneath the jacket, the tall girl was wearing a tight black sports bra with a very noticeable cleavage.
She extends her arm and wraps around the brunette's head. With a powerful push, the tanned girl brings Makoto's head into her bosom.
"Uuhhhhhh!" Makoto blushes deeply and yells, although his screams ends up being muffled by the girl's breasts.
"AKANE!" Nekomaru facepalms. "How many times do I have to tell you NOT to do that!" He walks up to the two and pulls Makoto away from her chest.
"What? I was apologizing like you told me to!" The girl says putting her hands in her hips, her cleavage still completely in the open.
"Forget it!" The taller boy turns to face Makoto. "I'm sorry about that." He bows, not noticing the small trail of blood coming out of the brunette's nose.
"I-It's okay-" Makoto cleans his nose before the other boy looks up. "-I got the gist of it."
"You're lucky Akane, our kohai seems to be a very understanding man!" Nekomaru declares while lifting up his head. "Anyways that girl is my classmate Owari Akane, Ultimate Gymnast." The brunette girl starts cleaning her ear using her finger.
"A-A pleasure. I'm Naegi Makoto, Ultimate Lucky Student from class 78-A." The luckster says while still blushing deeply.
"Lucky Student?" Akane walks around the boy, checking him out. "Eh." She shrugs. "So long as you're not a weirdo like our Lucky Student."
Makoto blinks. 'Guess I'm not the only one that thinks Komaeda-senpai is strange.' He thinks to himself.
"ENOUGH CHIT-CHAT!" Nekomaru yells. Scaring the crap out of Makoto again. "THIS MORNING TRAINING ISN'T GONNA COMPLETE ITSELF!" He turns around and points towards the main building. "Here's the plan! We will be doing ten laps around the main building!"
Both Makoto and Akane widen their eyes in surprise.
"Ten laps?" He asks horrified.
"Only ten laps?" She asks outraged.
"Yes, ten laps." Nekomaru crosses his arms and huffs. "Naegi-kun is quite clearly not used to this type of thing, so I want to start slow with him." The larger man explains mmatte-of-factly.
It took him considerable time to move from one side of the building to the other those past few days, so how can he run seven laps around the large building?
"C'mon old man, I know he's weak, but Nagoto can at least make twenty!" Akane says pointing at the still shocked boy.
Makoto couldn't tell what hurt his pride more, being called week or Akane mispronouncing his name after learning it just now.
"It's exactly because he's so weak that I'm only allowing ten laps." The taller boy replies, not noticing the emotional damage he was just dealing on the shorter one. "It will be only for today Akane." He smiles and the girl sighs.
"Fine then." She turns around and starts to stretch. "Let's go already, my stomach is already starting to complain that we haven't ate breakfast yet!"
Nekomaru walks up to Makoto and slaps him on the shoulder gently. "LET'S GO!" He yells hyped.
Makoto on the other hand just sighs defeated. "Let's go."
The three teens then start to run towards the main building
The first lap went reasonably well. The three kept running close enough to each other, although Makoto could very clearly see that they both are holding back in order to not just leave him in the dust.
Akane was the one in front, followed by Nekomaru and lastly Makoto. The brunette was already sweating by the end of the first lap.
The second went well enough but by the third lap, the short boy was already feeling out of breath.
By the forth, he was already feeling his legs giving up.
Noticing this, Nekomaru announces. "Let's stop to rest for a bit." They stop close to the main building's entrance.
Makoto mentally thanks his senpai as he stops running. He takes deep breath and cleans the sweat now dripping down his face.
"Hey old man, why did you stop?" Akane turns around and sees the state Makoto is in. "Really Nagisa? You're already tired after only that?" The tanned girl asks mispronouncing his name yet again.
"S-Sorry." The Luckster apologizes in between gasping for air.
"To be honest, I was expecting a lot less from him." Nekomaru pulls a bottle of water from his pocket and hands it to the brunette boy. "You're doing better than I was expecting."
Makoto grabs the bottle and smiles, he couldn't tell if Nekomaru was being honest or not just polite, but at least he was feeling a bit better now.
Akane just sighs and turns around, very clearly bored.
"Sorry." The brunette gives the bottle back to Nekomaru and bows. "I'm just not used to exercising so early in the morning."
Sighing, the taller teen says. "I can see that, even though you did better than I expected, I wasn't expecting much to begin with."
Yep, there goes Makoto's confidence down the drain again.
"If you want, I can make a workout regimen for you." Offers the older boy. "We'll start slow and eventually build it up as you get more used to exercising." The taller Ultimate smiles excitedly at the idea. "Actually, I've never trained non-athletes before."
While Makoto was never really interested in working out, but he couldn't bring himself to say no to his senpai.
"S-Sure." The brunette replies, making the older teen smile widely.
"THAT'S THE SPIRIT!" He yells, before laughing out loud. "HAHAHA! NOW I'M GETTING EXCITED!"
Makoto chuckles while thinking. 'What did I get myself into?'
After that, the three Ultimates go back to their run.
Hopeful Days XIII – NEVER FORGET YOUR MORNING EXERCISE
Everyone's favorite meathead makes her first appearance.
Also, best girl Ibuki mentioned.
Anyways, hope y'all liked it and see you around!