A.N: noncanon to my story BTW. Some shorts will have no relation to my main story, sometimes it'll be a different universe and sometimes it'll be killing games. Honestly, I don't know if I'll keep doing shorts. But hey, they're fun. Also, slight angst. Also, DONT WORRY, NEXT CHAPTER IS SOON. Like, it's pretty much done lmaoo. I just need to edit, but I'm tired so I have to sleep now. See you in the next one.

"Well, I'll see you soon, A-Akamatsu!" Saihara says to the blonde haired girl nervously. They had just finished discussing their trap to catch the mastermind. All they needed to do now was getting the correct materials from Iruma.

"Yes, of course!" she replies. "I'll see you tomorrow, okay? We'll definitely catch this stupid mastermind!" She puts her hands up in determination.

"Yes, of course." he chuckles. "T-Thanks again for trusting in my detective work.."

"Of course! You're the Ultimate Detective after all. And thank you for trusting in me. I know I messed up the other's trust in me, so thank you for trusting me with your plan." she says with a slight blush. It had made the detective blush as well.

As they face each other, they quickly change topic to save themselves from the awkwardness. "I-It's no problem, really. Anyways, please don't tell anyone else about this. It could cause panic and alert the true mastermind.."

She nods in response.

He quickly excuses himself from the room as he waves again. She sighs from her newfound loneliness. She was the main reason everyone overexerted themselves a bit ago so nobody trusted her. To have someone that trusted in her enough to even tell her this plan gave her hope. She definitely will catch the mastermind and end this stupid killing game.

'Well, I might as well go back to my room.' She thinks to herself as she leaves. But she sees a glimmering light on the ground.

"What's this..?" She picks up a gold key with a heart symbol with a red circle in the middle. "Is this a special key to open up a room..?"

She just stuffs it in her pocket in case it's important. Maybe it'll lead to the mastermind's lair or something!

She walks into her room and lets herself deflate on the bed. It had been an exhausting day. A lot of info was just tossed upon her thanks to Saihara. Not that it was his fault, she was happy that he was trusting her with this. It had just been a lot for one day. I mean, a killing game? It's just abnormal to think about. She tosses the key that she found on her desk as she drifts to sleep..

Or she would've if a familiar monochrome bear didn't interrupt her. "Ooooh! Heroes shouldn't sleep on the job! It's pathetic!"

Akamatsu screams in panic as the bear appears in her room. "Ah! Monokuma?!?! Didn't you die?! What do you want!?"

"Jeez, jeez! One question at a time lady!" Monokuma says. "First of all, no, I'm a stuffed robot, how could you not realize, of course I'm not dead! I can make many me's if I want to!"

Akamatsu just glared at him. So he had finally accepted that he was a robot.

"And I'm here because of this Love Key you got! It takes you to a very special place with lust and passion, upupupu!" he says mischievously as Akamatsu's face turned red. "But honestly, how did you even get this? The casino's not even open yet!"

"I just found it!" she says.

"How could you just find it?! I make sure to leave things around.. After all, that should've costed you a lot of tokens, I could've made a big buck!" he says with an irritated expression. "Well, it's fine. If you have it, you have it."

"And a special place with lust and passion?! What do you mean?!" Akamatsu says, with her face still red.

"Of course! I know how horny teenagers may get, so of course I would implement a place where they can have sex all they want without interruptions!"

...

"...You're a freak."

"You're the freak! I did this for you guys!" he says with an angered tone.

"I didn't want this!" she says in discomfort.

"Too bad, so sad! You have it and that's that. Once you see it, I know you'll be begging for more" The bear says as he starts fake panting and sweating. "Anyways, it's basically a dream. You'll see a random person in the hotel with you and they see you as their ideal person. So they'll love you soooo much! If you don't correctly play their ideal person, they'll wake up and not get a good night's of sleep! The person you do it with will forget, so thank me for that, no awkward moments here!"

"I don't want to do this!" she yells at him in an annoyed tone. "I'm going to bed." She rolls over under her sheets and tries to ignore him.

The black and white bear stared at her annoyed. All of a sudden, she had blacked out.

She awoke in a pink room with a bed and a heart behind it. "Ah! What the hell?! Monokuma!!" the pianist yelled out as she realized he went against her wishes.

She sighed. She thought to herself that she won't do anything with that person. She'll try her best to be in character to their ideal, but she won't do anything dirty with them. She's just not that type of person. It's not like she has to.

A familiar boy walks into the room..

"S-Saihara!" Akamatsu yells out as the boy walks in. He covers his eyes with his hat as he greets her.

"Ah, A-Akamatsu! You actually came?" the detective exclaimed.

"H-Huh? What do you mean?" She then remembered she had to play out her role of his ideal.. What kind of person does Saihara's ideal have to be? "I-I mean.. Yes, of course I came, Saihara!"

"T-Thank you so much.. I didn't know if asking you to be here would be weird or not, heh." he awkwardly chuckled. "Anyways, there's been something I just wanted to tell you, Akamatsu.."

The pianist titled her head. "What is it, Saihara?"

"You've always been so kind to me.. You really drive the best to me, and that honestly means so much to me. Around you, I feel like I can be confident and be the person that I want to be. Thank you." he says with a happy expression. Akamatsu blushed at his remarks, although she knew that Akamatsu herself wasn't what Saihara was seeing right now. "Thank you for believing in me, despite how unreliable I am."

"S-Saihara, of course! And don't say that about yourself, you're the most reliable person I've met. Your detective skills are really impressive, you know. Truthfully. I mean that with all my heart." she says with a bright smile. Hopefully, that matches the personality that his ideal would have.

That seemed to be the case as the detective had blushed madly. "A-Ah.. Even in a moment like this you're giving me this confidence.. You really are amazing." he took a deep breath before he continued.

"Anyways, sorry for all that cheesy stuff, but what I meant to say is that.. I-I really like you, Akamatsu! I-If you want.. W-Would you like to be my girlfriend..?" His eyes were shut tight as he said this, his face red as a beet.

Akamatsu blushed at his confession. Although she had not realized it, deep down she had a slight attraction to Shuichi Saihara. He had been the only one in this killing game to put trust within her. And to hear those words come out of his mouth directed towards her made her feel really happy. Her heart skipped a beat before she responded to his feelings.

"..I really like you too, Saihara." she smiles brightly at him. "And of course I will." She accepted this both to keep with being his ideal, and because she wanted to deep down.

His eyes opened to her response. His lips formed into an overjoyed smile, no longer nervous from awaiting her response. "T-Thank you.." he says as he covers more of his face with his hat.

"You don't need to thank me.. I wanted this too." she smiled back at him.

She quickly approached him and wrapped her arms around him. Even she herself didn't know if this was by pure will or to match with his ideal. But at this point, did it really matter?

He embraces her back tightly, as if if he were to let go, she would disappear.

"I.. I love you." those words left her mouth on accident. She immediately blushed when the boy looked at her shocked. "O-Oh, I'm sorry! I don't know why I said that, that's way too embarrassing... I just said that out of nowhere because I was really happy and-"

He quickly cut her off with a kiss. Her eyes opened wide as his lips crashed into hers, but she quickly accepted it and pulled him in. Her eyes closed as they kissed.

They detached after a while and stared into each other with passion.

"Sorry that I forced myself onto you like that.." Saihara says as his face was red. "I-I just really wanted to do that.."

"N-No, it's okay! I liked it.. I like it when you take the initiative like that.." She assured him, her face just as red. These idiots kept on apologizing to each other over every little thing.

"C-Can.. Can we do that again..?" he asks as he looks into her eyes. A smile was on his face as he was asking.

She giggled at how polite he was being during this moment. "On one condition!"

He looked at her in confusion as she continued talking. "If you take off the hat!"

He hesitated a moment before agreeing. "I-I'll only do this because I trust you.." he slowly takes it off to reveal his dark blue hair and a strand of hair sticking up. He tosses his hat aside. That was not at all what she was expecting, but it was still really cute!

The pianist's eyes were wide open, this looked way better than she thought it would.

"I know, it looks bad.." he looked down.

"No, no! That's not true! It's just.. really cute.." walked up to him and poked it and she watched it bounce around. She giggled.

The dark blue haired boy blushed in response.

After the blonde was done messing around, she threw her arms around Saihara and he put his arms around her waist. They looked at each other with a lot of love before exchange another long kiss. They both were blushing like idiots, they must've really wanted this.. They slowly moved to the bed kissing each other. They sat themselves down, as she sat on his lap. They separated from their kiss to get some air.

"A-Akamatsu.. C-Can I call you by your first name..?" he asks timidly.

She smiles at him, her face still red after what had just happened. "Of course."

"I-I really like you, Kaede.." he looks away with a smile, he was too embarrassed to face her still.

Akamatsu gasped, she did not expect that to feel as good as that had been.

"A-Ah! Are you okay? Did you not like that..?" he says in an ashamed tone.

"I-I'm not okay.. It was just.. Better than I thought. I'll call you by Shuichi, too." she smiled back, just as embarrassed.

They squeezed each other tight as their warmth enveloped each other. Their heartbeat in one perfect melody. Akamatsu no longer cared to play his ideal, apparently being herself was enough..

Wait.. Being herself was enough? Did that mean..?

She blushed at the thought that just invaded her head. She would have to think about it later though because she was distracted with something else.

"Akamatsu.." the detective detached from her for a moment to talk.

She pouted when he called her by her surname.

"I-I mean, Kaede." She smiled after he fixed his mistake. "T-Thank you for accepting me for who I am.. I know I'm not really that reliable, but with you I want to try to be someone. Thank you for building my confidence and thank you for loving me." He gave a warm smile that shot an arrow right through Akamatsu's heart. He knew exactly how to tug on her heartstrings.

"Shuichi.. Of course." this was a great opportunity to thank him for helping her out during the killing game. Although he won't remember it, and this is not even the exact Saihara he knows, she wanted to tell him. "And thank you, too. I know how stubborn I can get to help everyone, yet you still believed in me. You put your trust in me rather than anyone else. Thank you so much, for accepting this piano freak." happy tears went down her face but Saihara kissed them away.

"No problem.." he says as he looked into her eyes.

"..Hug me." she says and he happily obliged. They held each other, enjoying each other's presence. It was true happiness for the both of them. It had made Akamatsu completely forget about what was yet to happen when this would eventually end. They stared into each other's eyes for a while before Akamatsu continued talking. "I feel like I can do anything as long as you give me this courage. I really love you, I mean that."

Saihara blushed madly but responded. "I-I love you too, Kaede.."

"Even though we just became boyfriend and girlfriend.. Will you.. Do it with me? I'd like that more than anything.." Akamatsu said. She cursed herself for being such a pervert, only Saihara could make her feel things like this.

Instead of a reply, Saihara just pulled Akamatsu closer..

...(LOL TIMESKIP)

Akamatsu woke up with a yawn. Last night.. Was definitely something. She smiled brightly as she hugged her pillow tightly, imagining it was Saihara.

This experience had awakened something inside of her for him. She had finally accepted it, she has a crush on Shuichi Saihara. But.. She wanted to develop their relationship between each other first. It would be too weird if she confessed after only knowing him for a few days. Additionally, it would be too selfish to confess especially because of everything going on.

"Saihara.. No, Shuichi.. I promise to you, once we all get out of this killing game, I will confess my feelings for you." she smiled to herself. "Just wait for that time, okay? We'll all get out, and we'll be even more than friends.. We'll become something amazing."

...

Saihara stood by small memorial he had made with the survivors of the 53rd killing game. Yumeno and Harukawa stood beside him, the rubble of what was left of the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles. Only the debris remained. Somehow, after the explosion the portraits of everyone had survived.

The survivors looked onto the small memorial they made, all the ones they had lost were there. They sent their prayers to all of them. Rantaro Amami, Ryoma Hoshi, Kirumi Tojo, Angie Yonaga, Tenko Chabashira, Korekiyo Shinguji, Miu Iruma, Gonta Gokuhara, Kokichi Oma, Kaito Momota.. Keebo..

Kaede Akamatsu.

Harukawa was giving her prayers near Momota's shrine and Yumeno was near Chabashira's and Yonaga's shrine. The game was over, so they could let their emotions truly out for the ones they cared about the most. Of course, they sent their prayers to everyone else too. 

Saihara stared at the blonde girl's portrait, now covered with a red X over it. He almost teared up looking at it. 

He walked to the portrait of Kaede Akamatsu, the big red X taunting him of his failure. His failure of messing up during that trial. His knees gave away as he kneeled down. He sobbed, as it was all he could do.

"I'm sorry.. I'm so sorry, Akamatsu.. If only.. If only I had investigated more..."

"IT'S ALL MY FAULT!" he punched the ground beneath him as he cried out in anger, sadness, stress, and all the emotions building within him. He had not been able to vent during this killing game, as he was the only one with a talent that could help out during the stupid game. It was Akamatsu's wish to end it, so he had to fulfill it, even if that meant forcing himself to be the ideal person to the others. He was finally able to let it all out. 

Harukawa walked up to him calmly. There were some tears in her eyes still, but she still comforted him. "It's not your fault. There's nothing we can do now.. Please.. Please don't blame yourself. She wouldn't have wanted this. He.. Wouldn't have wanted this." It had been distressing to see her friend beat himself up. 

Saihara wiped away his tears as he stood up. "Y-Yea.. You're right. Thanks, Harukawa." she nodded at him.

"Anytime. We'll be over here, just come here when you're ready, okay?"

"Remember, it's not your fault, Saihara. You helped us all, we wouldn't have lived without you. Trust me, as a mage I know tons of knowledge." Yumeno says with a gentle smile.

They both walk away as Saihara stands there.

Saihara pulled out the music hairpiece he had been carrying with him ever since that damned execution. He placed it next to the portrait of Kaede Akamatsu, the Ultimate Pianist. "I suppose it's time for me to move on.. I.. I fulfilled your wish, Akamatsu. Although, there's not much of us.." the portraits leered at him, he felt absolutely humiliated by it. But, he had to stay strong. "I promise, with those we have now, we'll be great friends. I'm sure of it. Thank you for everything. Thank you for building my confidence. Thank you for believing in my detective skills. Thank you.. For being my friend."

He hesitantly walked away, but before he got too far he looked back and started speaking.

"I'll see you soon, Akamatsu."