♡𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒜𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓉𝒽 [Komahina]♡ [CHECK DES]

Chapter Twenty-Three

【Ｎａｇｉｔｏ＇ｓ　Ｐｏｖ】

I walked into Hajime and I's cottage to see him sitting on the edge of the bed, his head in his hands.

"Hajime..?" I walked over to him worriedly, "Are you okay?" He kept silent.

"Hajime?" I repeated, "Is this about Chiaki?" I asked, which he picked his head up and looked up at me with sad eyes.

"...Y-yes." He said quietly before letting his head fall back down. I sat down beside him.

"I talked with her after you left", I started, "she told me how she wasn't very happy with...replacing Hiyoko. In her words." I tried to speak carefully.

"Yeah, she told me that too." He looked over at the wall. We stayed silent for a moment.

"Hajime, I think..." I was about to speak before Hajime interrupted me.

"I think I fucked up." He spat out.

"Well, I think that maybe-" I tried speaking again but he cut me off.

"I think that maybe Chiaki was right. I don't understand the fact that she isn't even the real Chiaki, or that Hiyoko mattered just as much that she does or that maybe she never wanted to come back at all or-" He continued to ramble, it took me putting a concerned hand on his shoulder to get him to take a breath.

"Hajime! I think you're overthinking. Try looking on the bright side! Maybe-" I struggled to reassure him but it was to no avail.

"What bright side, Nagito?!" He suddenly stood up and faced me, "There fucking isn't one! I just fucked up big time. I- I just basically ruined her life! What would the others think?! Like Mahiru! She'll fucking kill me. If I wasn't so quick to be-" I stood up in front of him and grabbed both of his shoulders.

"Calm down! Listen-" I tried to reason with him but he wasn't having it.

"No! I won't listen! I-I'm fucking leaving!" He threw my hands off him and stormed out of the cottage leaving me dumbfounded on what to do next.

Chase after him? Stay here? Go talk to somebody? Even if I did the latter, I wouldn't be able to explain this properly. I can't just tell someone "Hey my boyfriend just brought Chiaki back from the dead but he didn't think really hard before doing it and Chiaki liked being dead and now he's mad at me."

Something tells me that wouldn't go well. But it's not like I could do much else. I decided it would be best to go to someone who knows Hajime like the back of their hand...Fuyuhiko.

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I knocked on Fuyuhiko's cottage door. I was prepared to go somewhere, since he doesn't always answer. Luckily, the door creaked open to a tired looking Fuyuhiko and an episode of Rocko's Modern Life playing in the background.

"What do you want?" He asked. He seemed more annoyed today then usual.

"I know you know Hajime well, so I wanted to ask you something about him." He gave a confused face.

"Why didn't you just go ask Kazuichi? He friends with Hajime too." He prepared to close the door.

"Well it's because he got mad at me and I don't know what to do." I looked at the ground in shame. I'm dating him but I still don't know the best course of action... Of course someone like me is this idiotic.

"Alright I see why you aren't asking Kazuichi... Come in." He sighed and opened the door fully to let me in. After wiping my shoes on the ground below me, I stepped into his room to see pictures of yakuza members, presumably from the Kuzuryuu clan, along with a bouquet of flowers on a nearby desk. Fuyuhiko walked over to a close over chair.

"So what the fuck happened?" He crossed his legs and propped her arm up on a table. I shuffled in place and put my hands in my pockets.

"Well...I can't exactly give specifics, but l had tried to comfort Hajime but I think I ended up just pissing him off." I sighed and looked at the carpeted floor.

"Okay... Well I think you should just leave him fuckin be for now, unless you want him to blow up on you again. It's not like he'll just fucking run away." I stood there and thought about it for a moment before looking up at him.

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Thanks Fuyuhiko! I'll be out of your way then." I gave him a wave.

"Sure dude, whatever." He waved me off before getting up to watch TV again. I smiled and headed for the door.

I'll just have to wait for Hajime to think it through, huh? Then everything's fine? Sounds too good to be true...

With my luck it probably is.