I woke up, my eyes were still red from crying.. Mr. Shirokuro really gets on my nerves. I rub them to get the itch out.

I tried to move my arms but something heavy was on them.. Huh, that's weird..

I look to my right and I see Shuichi sleeping peacefully.

!!

I immediately blush as I look at him. I had completely forgot I asked him to stay over for the night! I'm such a demanding girlfriend..

He looks pretty cute while he's sleeping..

Oh god, I'm such a weirdo!

I cover my face as I had that embarrassing thought but then I sneak another glance at him. Well, I am dating him after all, so it doesn't matter what I think about him.

I stare at him with my full attention (and ogle at his adorableness). I play with his hair for a little bit and kiss his cheek. I whisper to his sleeping body. "Thank you Shuichi, for being my boyfriend and helping me out so much.. You really mean a lot to me. I love you."

I then roll out of bed and stretch as I casually walk into the bathroom to get ready for the day.

~Quick Perspective Change~

Should.. Should I tell Kaede I was awake..?

~Perspective Change~

After I get dressed, I walk out of the bathroom and it sees Shuichi finally woke up. "Good morning, Shuichi!"

He was blushing for some reason but he nodded his head at me. "Good morning, Kaede.."

I smile as he gets out of bed. "I'm going to head to my room now and change.. I'm still wearing my clothes from yesterday." he chuckled.

"Alright then! I'll meet you at the cafeteria when you're done."

Suddenly, I hear Mr. Shirokuro's voice from the speakers. "Students, please assemble at the gym for morning announcements. It won't be long, don't worry. I have my own stuff to do."

I roll my eyes. "Why is he even doing morning announcements if it's so clear he doesn't care about us!"

"Maybe he has to as the supervisor?"

"He told me he's gonna quit as soon as this job is over. Maybe he's just gonna be a jerk to crush our spirits again.." He looks at me with worry but I shake my head. "I won't let him though! I'm gonna stay positive 'till the end! And if I don't I expect you to help me out." I smile.

He just smiles. "Yea, you can talk to me if he does something again.."

"Thanks, Shu!"

"Should I meet you at the gym later, orr?"

"Oh, yea! You can get dressed, I'll wait for you at the gym."

He nods and then walks to the door and before he leaves I give him a kiss. He of course blushes (I did too), and I head to the gym before him. I meet up with everyone and they seemed pretty down.

"Gonta got kicked out of his talent development room.. But Gonta not know why! Gonta not do anything!" he said holding back tears. "Gonta just wanna care for bug.." How could he do that to a sweetheart like Gonta?

Nanami looks a bit distressed too. "Yea.. I was just playing a bunch of games and after a while he kicked me out.."

"I got kicked out too.. If we look on the bright side, I guess it just means our ability is better than his." Naegi awkwardly chuckles.

Celeste sighs. "Yes, it appears most of us have been kicked out. I got kicked out as well."

"I didn't get kicked out, he actually kicked people out?" Soda asked.

"Raise your hand if you did get kicked out." Kirigiri said.

Fukawa, Gonta, Nanami, Celeste, Oma, Komaeda, Naegi, and my hand went up.

"Why did some people not get kicked out?" I ask with confusion.

"I can answer that." Mr. Shirokuro comes walking in. "It simply means that either you weren't doing anything with your talent, or your talent is beneficial to society."

Suddenly, Shuichi comes running in. "Sorry, I'm late.."

He glares at him but doesn't say anything about his tardiness. "As I was saying, either your talent sucks or you didn't actually do anything in your talent development room.. For example, Owari had stolen a bunch of snacks from the cafeteria and snacked in her room."

"Huh?" she said in confusion. "Oh wait! I remember that! Yea, it's 'cuz training is boring!" she smiled happily as she explained herself.

"I was reading a book the entire time." Togami said as he puts his glasses up. "I suppose that is irrelevant to my talent."

"No, it's because your talent is beneficial to society." he reassures him. "Your talent can help out others while others cannot."

"I don't need someone like you telling me that."

Komaeda looks at the supervisor with disappointment. "You're being ridiculous. Every talent is a talent shimmering with hope. Why do we have to listen to you? After all, you're just a failure of an Ultimate that got expelled." he said smugly.

"Komaeda, would you like to elaborate and get expelled?" he said as he glared at the white haired lucky student.

"Komaeda, I get what you mean.. But try not to get expelled.." Nanami tries to calm him down.

"I will do anything to get the Ultimate's talents shine brighter than before!" he puts his hands out with a smile as he explains. "I won't forgive someone who prohibits the other Ultimate's success. Every talent is important, talent is everything! I came to this getaway that I could see their talents shine brighter than before! I want to experience the Ultimates to grow their talents to the max potential! I would do anything to see the hope that sparks from their development. And if someone is prohibiting that.." he looks at him with a glare before going back to a relaxed mood. "Well, it's fine. I don't need to go in more depth. I don't want to get expelled after all!"

"Good thing you stopped when you did, Komaeda. I was seconds away from doing just that." he said with a sigh. "But you're wrong.. There's only a certain few talents that do deserve to shine. Only a select few deserve the recognition and ability to grow."

Naegi points at the man as he yells. "No, that's wrong! Everyone deserves the potential to grow! You may think that there are only a select few are more important than others, but that's wrong. You only care about the talents that you think are good, but you're just being oblivious to the others. You're just being closeminded. What's life gonna be without talents that make people happy and entertained? Everyone deserves a chance to grow, not just the ones you think are superior! Just give them a chance, it's not fair you shut down rooms!"

"I agree!" I yell with him.

"Yea!" Shuichi agrees too.

"I don't have an Ultimate Talent, but I definitely agree!" Hinata cuts in as well.

"Makoto Naegi.. The Ultimate Lucky Student.. Or should I say Ultimate Hope..? Your motivational words may have effect on those who don't understand the truth, but they won't work on me. Who cares about positivity and hope? It doesn't matter in the real world. Face it, the other talents are useless. I can't believe the principle chose you as a candidate for Ultimate Hope, when your talent is the most useless there is. It's pathetic. Perhaps if you had a useful talent we would've got along."

Naegi took a step back in offense.

"Guys, it's fine. Just do what we want. We don't have to obey him, we can just stay in the development rooms if we want." Kirigiri sighed. "If we all tell the higher ups what happened here, they'll understand." she lets out a gentle smile.

"Oho?" Mr. Shirokuro looks at her, intrigued. "Kirigiri, your talent is useful to society so I would want nothing less to expel you.. However, even if you tried to stop me, you can't. You see, the principal has given full authority to me over the weekend. Who would he listen to better, me an adult, or you, a bunch of kids?"

"Definitely a bunch of kids if it's all of us!" I argue.

"Hopes Peak Academy takes expulsion very seriously. Since I have full authority to expel, they will assume you misbehaved and get you out of here immediately."

"But, Hopes Peak Academy cares a lot about talent development!" Hinata argued. "They're not gonna expel a bunch of kids with potential talents they can research!"

"That's a good point.. Then, how about I lie?"

We all look in shock.

"I can lie about the extent of what you did. I am pretty close friends with the principal, believe it or not."

?!

"That's so not fair!" Soda cried.

"It's okay. Just behave and do what I say and none of this will happen."

"I don't like playing this card but.." Kirigiri looked at him. "My father is the principal. I can get in touch with him and stop you."

I look at her in shock. She was the principal's daughter?!

"Oh, I already know this. But, Kirigiri.. Didn't your father leave you years ago?"

She gasped as she looked at him, her pupils shaking in offense.

"I know it very well. Would your father listen to someone he abandoned all those years ago? I doubt he even cares about you if he hasn't even-"

"STOP!!!!!!!!" I yell at him with complete anger. That topic is way too sensitive. "That's going too far! You can't talk to her about that kind of stuff! Who even chose you to be here!? It's not fair that you have so much authority over us! Just stop! Leave us alone, we just want to develop our talents! How would you feel if you wanted to do something and couldn't because someone was being stuck up with their ideals?!"

He took a moment to think before he sighed. "I suppose our discussion is over for now.. My opinion hasn't changed in the slightest. I will be back tonight, to monitor your talent development. Until then, goodbye." he turned and left and walked to his office, right in front of our dorms.

The awkward silence stayed in the room as he slammed the door. Kirigiri looked a bit distressed but Naegi comforted her.

"Wow, that guy really is the best!" Oma said killing the silence. He snickered as he puts his hands behind his head.

"Oma.. Not now.." Keebo sighed.

"That guy really sucks.." Shuichi said as he leaned against the wall.

"Completely." I nod my head.

"By the way, Soda.. Have you finished those electrojammer thingies yet?" Oma asked

"Oh, yea! Here! I took so long making them!" he passed 3 pink grenades.

"A-A b-bomb?!" Fukawa yelled out.

"No, if you activate it, it will turn off all electronic devices in around a 30 meter radius! Pretty cool, huh?!" he said hyped up. "We can be free from his watch for like 30 minutes as long as he doesn't check up on cameras, I don't think he'll care too much. He has no proof that we even messed with it as long as he's not hearing our conversation.."

"Let's hope he's not." Hinata awkwardly chuckles.

"I don't see the big deal. Let's just beat him up and toss him aside, then he won't mess with us!" Owari cracks her knuckles.

"We'll just get expelled. We need to be careful of what we do." Celeste explains to her. "We need to find the right times to use those bombs or whatever you call it, Soda. Maybe when we're in our talent development rooms, 30 meters should cover at least 3 rooms or so."

"Oops." Oma dropped the bomb and it made a loud "ZAP!" noise. Fukawa screamed at the noise.

"My work!" Soda yelled out. "..Well, it only took an hour to make but still! That was a waste!"

"Well, it looks like the mechanic wasn't lying! It certainly works!" Oma exclaimed.

"Of course it would, don't doubt me!" the mechanic yelled at him.

"I feel kinda funny.." Keebo says weakly. Oma just laughs at him stumble around.

"Look, the light in the cameras are off." Shuichi pointed at the camera that would usually have a red light and he was right, it didn't. "I guess that means it's off."

"Alright! So some of us can actually be in peace!" I say excitedly.

"As long as he doesn't check once the cameras go out." Keebo said, killing my mood.

"Let's just hope he doesn't care enough to." Hinata sighs.

After that ordeal, we went to the cafeteria for breakfast. The mood had been awkward after what Mr. Shirokuro said. Kirigiri still looked a little sad after what he said.. I was surprised, she seems so calm most of the time. Though, she looked happy around Naegi, I wonder why.

After breakfast, Shuichi and I walked around on a mini date, holding hands. We didn't really know what to do today. As we were walking, we see Owari go flying past us.

"Ah!" Shuichi yells as he takes a step back. I look at the source of where she flew and I see Gonta, he had an aggressive face. Did she do something to a bug again!?

I run up to him. "Gonta! Stop! Calm down!"

"Huh?" he looks down at me and his angered mood disappears. "Oh, hi Akamatsu! Gonta happy to see you!"

"Huh..? Are you okay? Did Owari do something to make you mad?"

"What? Gonta not mad!" he insisted.

"Why'd you hit Owari then?"

"Gonta just doing friendly training! Owari promise Gonta to spar if she leave bug alone!" he lets out a bright smile.

"I think that's too far for friendly training.." I say with a nervous expression. Is she really okay?

Yes.

She comes running out as hype as ever. "I'M UP!! Hell yea! I can finally handle that punch, yes!"

"Gonta glad that Owari getting stronger!" he smiled at her.

Shuichi looked in fear as he saw the two clash again. I just laugh nervously as we walk away. As we walk away, we see Keebo. "Oh, Keebo! Hello!" I wave to him.

"Hi, Akamatsu." he says with fear in his voice. "The mechanic is free now that he's done with those electric bombs.. I have to be cautious of him.."

I just laugh. "I'm sure he won't actually do anything to you."

"..Maybe you're right. Maybe he's just joking and wanting to perform maintenance like Iruma!" he laughs to himself. "I was just a little afraid tha-"

He got cut off as Owari flings and crashes into his body.

"Keebo!?" we both yell out to our metallic friend as he lays on the ground. His arm got completely ripped off.

Owari just jumps past him and goes back to Gonta.

"Are you okay?!?!" I say as I try to put his arm back on.

"Akamatsu.. Saihara.. I've never felt pain this bad before.. I can see the prototypes of me reaching out to me.." he doesn't move as he looks at us. I look at him with worry.

Oma comes walking past with a soda in his hand. "A robot feels pain?! How useless! Did your creator make you feel pain because he couldn't give any other human feature? That's hilarious!" he laughs as he walks off.

"Nevermind.. Oma's insults are more painful.." although he can't cry, I could see the tears in his eyes.

"Uh.. We can take you to the mechanic!" I suggest. "That's like a doctor to machines, right?!"

He cries out again. "No!!!!!! I don't wanna transform into a jetpack!"

After a lot of begging, we got to convince Keebo to take him to Soda. I assured him that we would both keep watch as he worked on him. We picked him up and he was surprisingly light for a scrap of metal.

As we walk to Soda's development room, I see Komaeda walking past. He had some materials in his hand. "Oh, hey Akamatsu, Saihara, Keebo!"

I smile at him. "Hey, Komaeda. What are you doing here?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just getting some stuff from Soda's room."

"Huh, why?" Shuichi asks.

"It's nothing too important!" he laughs. "Well, I'll see you guys later. I see Keebo is injured and I don't wanna get in your way. Bye." he walks off.

Shuichi shrugs as we go to Soda's development room. He was working on another of those electro jammer bombs. "Hey, Soda," I say to him, "could you fix up Keebo?"

He looked at Keebo with excitement in his eyes. "Of course!"

"And please.. Just repair him." Shuichi chuckles.

He clicked his tongue. "Aw, man. That's no fun. But fine, I'll only dissemble him a little bit before putting him back."

"Please don't do that.." Keebo begs.

We spent the next hour or so watching Soda fix up Keebo. I rested on Shuichi's shoulder as he read a novel that he had in his backpack.

"Alright, I'm done." he sits back on the chair as Keebo gets up.

"Soda.. Thank you so much!" he bows at him.

"Eh, it's no problem really. It was pretty fun to work with one for real." he says with a big grin. "Your features are awesome, dude! You gotta bunch of weird functions"

Keebo smiled brightly. "You're the first person to ever appreciate my functions.. Thank you!"

"In exchange, let me dissemble you then!" he said with his tongue out.

"N-No thanks! Please, don't come near me!" he ran out with a scared expression.

I giggle at their antics. We both walk out too after thanking Soda. "What do you wanna do now?" I ask him with a smile.

"Um.. Anything, whatever you want." he smiles.

"Hmm.. That's gonna be a problem if you always say that."

"..What do you mean?"

"It just means you're less likely to make moves!" I pout.

He just chuckles. "U-Uh.. Then, wanna watch a movie in the AV room?"

"Sure!" I smile.

We walk to the AV room and open the door.

Kirigiri was sleeping on Naegi's shoulder and he looked asleep as well.

We slowly close the door.

"Well, I guess we can't do that anymore.." I say with a giggle. Our upperclassmen definitely had feelings for each other..

He chuckles. "Yea.. Wanna just walk around outside?"

"Okay!"

We walked around and saw Hinata and Nanami hanging out playing on a portable game console. They seemed to be pretty close. "Oh, hey guys!" I wave to them.

"Oh, hey Akamatsu and Saihara." Hinata smiles to us with a wave. But then he slaps his forehead as he loses.

Nanami smiles in victory as she lets a triumphant exhale. "You are getting a better win rate though, Hinata."

"Thanks." he laughs. "Beating the Ultimate Gamer once is a victory on itself."

"You two are pretty close, huh?" I smile at the both of them.

"Uh, I guess.." he shrugs but a red tint appears on his cheek.

"Hinata is the only one who games with me all the time, so yes." she smiles.

"That's pretty cute, it's like a love story waiting to happen, right Shuichi?"

"U-Uh.. Should we be saying that right next to them?" he chuckles.

"Ah, no. I don't mind. Hinata reminds me of the best option in a dating sim." she says as she focuses on her game.

"Huh?! W-What are you saying?!" he says with a blush.

"Or perhaps he's the main character and I'm the main love interest. I don't know, I'm not good at romance.." a blush appears on her face as well.

"You don't gotta say that in front of them.." he looks away with a blush.

Yup, my other upperclassmen have feelings for each other as well! I smile at the realization as we both walk away, spending the rest of the day with each other.

The rest of the day passed quickly with Shuichi. He's really fun to be around. Teasing him is always fun to see his cute reactions!

We walked into the cafeteria for dinner and it seems everyone else was there as well. It appears as though Mr. Shirokuro had just came in to lecture them as they all looked down. Also, the place was an absolute mess.. Someone had flipped a table..

"Did something happen?" I asked.

"Mr. Shirokuro talked trash about our talents again." Hinata said in an annoyed tone. "Well, he just dissed me for being a reserve course student though. What's his problem anyways?!"

"He even insulted Master Byakuya! So I had no choice but to get angry on the fuckhead!" Fukawa, or I should say, Genocide Sho said. "I tried to kill him, but Mr. Muscle stopped me! How disappointing!"

"Gonta's name is not that!"

"Nishishi! If you want, I can use my secret organization to assassinate him!" Oma suggests.

"Maybe that would be the best course of action. Please try it." Celeste casually says as she sips on tea. She had her own royal chair that she had brought in..

"Gonta don't wanna see anyone die!" he said with a scared expression.

"Quiet down, you're annoying me." Togami sighed.

"He said someone had to clean it up by tomorrow or he would get expel all of us." Naegi sighed.

"I don't wanna clean!" Oma complained. "That's for servants, like Togami!"

"Do you honestly think someone like me would stoop that low? You've got a lot of nerve for calling me a servant, kid." he looked angry.

"Of course not, Master Byakuya!" Genocide Sho fawned over him. "One of you MFs better clean it, and it can't be Master!!"

"I can clean. I do have a cleaning function." Keebo suggested.

"Woah, that's so cool!" Soda said in fascination.

"How about we have a random drawing?" Komaeda suggests as he gets some chopsticks and marks one with a red mark. "Whoever gets it, has to clean."

"That's not fair! There's two lucky studentss! There should be a handicap where they must draw twice!" Oma exclaimed.

"It'll be fine. There's still a chance for them to get picked!" I say.

"Barely." Togami scoffed.

We all draw the chopsticks. Surprisngly, Komaeda got the one with the mark. He looked in shock.

"KYAHAHAH! Ultimate Lucky Student my ass!" Genocide Sho laughed at him.

"I guess I was right after all." I say in satisfaction as Togami rolls his eyes.

"Oh, well. It's fine. I like cleaning anyways!" Komaeda says with a smile. He really is positive about everything but himself. "I'm just glad that I can benefit the Ultimates."

We ate while standing up as the tables weren't really meant for eating right now. That didn't stop Owari from eating like crazy.

"So, who wants to use the electro jammer today?" Soda asks.

To be honest, I really wanted to play the piano today.. I probably should have gone earlier, but I didn't think of that earlier.. Now that it was talent development time, he would be keeping a close watch. I didn't want to take someone else's chances of developing their talent though.

Oma raised his hand. "Me!"

"You didn't even get kicked out of your development room!" he yelled at the supreme leader.

"Maybe Kaede should get it.." Shuichi suggested. I look at him in shock. "Her room is close to the others that got kicked out too." He smiles at me.

"Simp behavior!" the murderous fiend laughed out but we ignored it.

"Alright then. Just pull the pin out and drop it when you wanna use it." Soda passes it to me. I almost dropped it but thankfully I didn't.

"Wow, Soda! You were useful for once, be proud of that!" Oma said, happy for the mechanic.

"Shut up, man!"

After dinner, we both walk into our development rooms. Komaeda stayed behind to clean the mess, I almost felt bad..

As we were walking, Shuichi started speaking to me. "I um.. I mainly offered you this because I know how much you wanna play piano." he gave a sweet smile to me.

I give a genuine smile, he's too sweet. "I thought so.. Thank you, Shuichi. You help me out so much."

He laughs as he blushes. "It's no problem. I just don't want Mr. Shirokuro to ruin your playing again.. That would suck."

"Yea! Now I can practice the song I was playing yesterday!" I put my fists up excitedly. "So, thank you again, Shuichi. I really wanted to play the piano.. I love you." I smile as I look into his eyes.

A bigger blush appears on his face as he looks away. "I love you too.."

Cute.

Eventually, we split up when I got into my talent development room. I activate the electro jammer bomb as I sit at the piano. The piece I was playing was still here, I hadn't moved it.

I smile as I place my fingers on the piano, letting myself envelope in the song. I close my eyes as I create the melody without any interruptions this time.. The song was absolutely beautiful.

Thank you, Shuichi.

A.N: Sorry, chapter boring today. :( Tomorrow will be fun I think. I was pretty tired today, sorry. I was so tempted to write Kirigiri and Naegi making out, but I decided that would be too OOC. I also had to debate on Komahina or Hinanami because I like them both, but I decided that it would fit if it was all the main character x waifu.