Chains (Servant Nagito X Reader)

Chapter 23: Shirakawa

Makoto and Kirigiri were pulled into a hug almost immediately by the large number of juniors they had acquainted five years ago. He felt incredibly warm and fuzzy in his chest and happier still seeing a familiar blonde man a few feet away, aloof from the group.

"Byakuya!"
He strode towards the bespectacled affluent progeny, hoping they could share an embrace after this long. But Byakuya didn't retaliate, arms folded haughtily.

"Aha...still not a hugger, I see.." Makoto laughed nervously as Aoi and Ibuki tittered behind him.

"I'm SO happyyyyy!" Ibuki laughed, almost crying with excitement. "I've been crossing off dates on the calender since I was let in on the get-together..."

"The vacation was Sonia's idea! I'm so glad we're all here!"

"Is there anyone left? I think we're still missing a few..."

"Yeah, Hajime hasn't come yet, and-"

For the next hour, the group talked about everything that had happened to them in five years of time; not to mention reminisce about their school days and about everything they planned on doing on the trip.

"Now that we're old enough to drink, parties are gonna get even better than before!" Akane said cheerfully, throwing an arm around a grumbling Kazuichi; who was staring woefully at Sonia and Gundham sharing a milkshake.

"Is that who I think it is?!" Mahiru gasped, staring at two silhouettes besieged by the green-yellow lights in the pub.

"Yeah...I think so too-" Fuyuhiko stared enthralled.

"Hajime...and..."

"There's just no way..."

"Someone pinch me...I'm definitely drunk.."

The shorter brunette was supporting a tall albino man and they were walking through the entrance of the show. Every single person stood up in the spot where they were sitting their eyes wide open in anguish.

"...Nag...ito..."

Hiyoko and Mikan burst into tears. Makoto strode over to them immediately and placed both his palms on Nagito's shoulders; then trembling with the shock of it. He was real...he was solid...the warmth from his body was spreading through the shirt he was wearing to meet Makoto's touch receptors...

"But...how..I could've sworn that you-"

The second Ultimate Luck looked at every one of his dumbstruck classmates. His eyes followed each face with shiny poignant eyes before they fixated on Makoto instead. His lips tugged slightly at the side of his face to form a small, bitter smile.

"...nice to see you...everyone."

Ibuki was the first one to break away from the shock and pull him into an embrace. Almost everyone touched him in one way or the other, earning much self-effacing comments of not deserving all their love from him. Shaking his hand, embracing him, ruffling his messy crop of waves, feeling his nape next to their arms; it was all a form of trembling verification of his existence.

"It's like all of us went to school together just yesterday..."
Nagito could have started leaking tears himself, looking at all the attention he was getting after what they assumed to be back from the dead.

"Bro...what happened to you? I thought...we all thought..."

Kazuichi was no longer paying attention to Gundham or Sonia, his eyes had begun to well up with the shock of reuniting with a classmate he didn't know he cared about until he was gone.

"We all thought you were...dead..."

"Aha, unlike yourselves, my Talent activates in the most unpredictable of times..." He said, trying to deflect the truth.
"So how I survived is not important...what's important is that I get to know about the lives of each and every one of you...so please bear with me."