Big Book of Writing

Gathering Your Smallest Joys (Miyuiwa, DRMV)

I may be the only one writing for Mauve (for now), but I shall stay strong! For now, have some non-despair AU fluff of these two.

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When Misaki came back through the classroom door, Hiruto's interest was immediately piqued. "Did you get him?" he asked, trying to look past the jailbreaker to see behind her.

As if on cue, Nozomi passed through the door behind her. Hiruto put down the tinsel in his hands and hurried to the silver-haired man. "Nozomi, there you are!" he exclaimed, wrapping the other in a tight hug.

Misaki chuckled as she watched the spectacle beside her. "See, don't I always keep my word? I told you I'd rescue your boyfriend from detention for you," she teasingly reminded.

Nozomi looked around the classroom, finding that it was covered in Christmas decorations and tinsel. A box labelled 'lights' sat on a chair near the window, and the corner of the room had a couple desks moved together and covered with a large cloth.

"Are you guys setting up for something?" Nozomi asked, and Hiruto let go of him.

"Yeah, it's for a Christmas party this afternoon. Come help me set up," the lucky student replied. Before Nozomi knew it, Hiruto took his hand and began guiding him to the box labelled 'lights'. Misaki watched them go, then went to make sure everyone else in the room was okay with their 'jobs'.

Hiruto moved the box to the desk and opened it, taking out a large string of Christmas lights. Showing the lights to the amnesiac, Hiruto instructed, "I was told to put the lights up around the top of the classroom. While I'm putting them up, could you check for any knots in the cord?"

"Sure," Nozomi replied, and he began feeling along the cord for knots. He looked around the classroom, noticing only a few people working on setting up. "There isn't many people here..."

"Well, Erika is Erika, Hiyori and Shoji are getting the snacks, some moron told Rikka that eggnog was nonalcoholic and she's in the infirmary with a hangover, Mayu is chasing Kotori to kick her ass, and you already know where Justin is," Hiruto explained as he stood up on a tall chair with the end of the lights and a roll of tape.

"He had to take a bounty assignment, right?" The amnesiac kept untangling the lights as Hiruto taped them to the top of the classroom. There was silence for a moment, and then he asked, "Why is Mayu chasing Kotori? Another argument?"

Hiruto snickered at the question. "Funny story about that, actually. I didn't pay attention to most of it, but Kotori was in charge of hanging up a banner over the door. I was about halfway done with the tinsel when Mayu came in making a fuss. Poor Misaki, she already had a lot on her plate."

"Did Misaki redirect her anger or something?"

"Um, I guess so? She came over to me since I had a clear view of the door, and she told me that there was a banner saying 'Ego bigger than her ass'. She offered to rescue you from detention if I told her who hung the banner, so I told her that I saw Kotori doing it."

"Ah, that explains it," the amnesiac sighed with a small smile. "We shouldn't expect to see them at the party then."

"Let's give Mayu a chance to wear out her anger first," Hiruto joked. He came down from the chair and moved it to the window to tape up another section of the lights. "How did you get detention anyway?"

"Someone from the other class was picking on Rion, so I intervened. A teacher came out when things were about to get physical, but since Rion ran away when I showed up, she gave us both detention." Nozomi shrugged, getting more lights out of the box. "I didn't even know you guys threw Christmas parties."