


He didn't strictly need to enter the old building anyway. If anything, the fact that he wasn't on cleaning duty only added another layer of complexity to the case that the Ultimates would push through to burn even brighter. Nanami volunteered for cleaning duty before Komaeda could have everyone draw straws, but he wasn't dissuaded.

Komaeda sent his threatening note, and the idea of a party was born immediately after. There was no hesitance in Togami's leadership, to say the least. The debate was not long-lasting: Hinata withdrew himself immediately. Komaeda, affronted - but of course, not showing it so obviously - smiled his creepy, consider-my-words-carefully, smile and offered Hinata's name forward, Koizumi close behind, though borne more from her doubt of Togami's capabilities than faith in Hinata's. That Hope was so subtle that, even under its title, Hinata flew under the radar for candidacy as soon as Togami put himself forward to lead them all. Only he dared to clamber upon that island and roughen himself on the sand as everyone else melted away. It hummed underneath his skin, only poking through in moments like these, invisible to those who were so occupied with their own tumultuous waters that land was too distant to dream of. There was something subtle about the Hope Hinata wielded. Within a sea of shock and horror of the intense calibre only a group of Ultimates would be able to muster, Hinata's face was an island of Hope. When the despairful situation was explained to the Ultimates, Komaeda caught a sliver of determination in the corner of Hinata's hazel eyes. As they were summoned to the central island's park, Hinata stumbled slightly into Komaeda, sending more of a shiver through him than the sky's sudden and inexplicable shift towards dark and foreboding stormclouds. It came time for Komaeda's dreadful luck to kick in - for despair to strike in the form of a comically monochrome bear claiming to be their comically monochrome teacher's older brother. Maybe it was the word Hope that passed through his lips, turning the rest of Hinata's introduction to static as Komaeda was. Maybe it was the harmonic way he made introductions, speaking and acting in perfect complement to the other Ultimates as their bold personalities might have given someone else pause. Maybe it was the sight of him, unconscious on the beach, passed out from frightful despair, deliciously awakening with confusing and wide-eyed reliance on Komaeda's assistance to orient him. Something about him had Komaeda encapsulated from the very first moment. ok in retrospect maybe it's not so canon compliantĪnonymous Stats: Published: Updated: Words: 28758 Chapters: 5/? Comments: 43 Kudos: 152 Bookmarks: 23 Hits: 2601.I know it doesn't look like it but it is.Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies.Mioda Ibuki/Tsumiki Mikan/Ultimate Imposter.Sonia Nevermind/Soda Kazuichi/Tanaka Gundham.Hinata Hajime/Kamukura Izuru/Komaeda Nagito/Nanami Chiaki.Hinata Hajime/Komaeda Nagito/Nanami Chiaki.
