Yeah so haven't been updating my stories lately, but nevertheless, I did update this one, so that's got to count as something. I think. I'm not proud of the chap cause I was really rushing to get it out by Monday so I can focus on my Shokugeki no Soma fanfic. It may seem sloppy but I really wanted it out. I'll recheck it by the end of the day today and edit out mistakes.

Anyways, I'm really iffy about this chap but still, enjoy and make sure to leave a review on how a crappy author I am updating so very late

Densha,

Looking back at it, Hikigaya Hachiman shouldn't have been too optimistic on his first day of school. Everything was going on so well, too well now that he thought about it, that he should have expected something like this to have happened.

Hikigaya let out a weary sigh as he leaned back into his reclining bed. God he hated hospitals. He really couldn't give all the blame to fate. After all he was the one that chose to rush in and save that dog, and he be damned if he let a dog die just like that.

"Onii-chan are you alright?" Komachi's concerned voice startled Hachiman, he'd almost forgotten that his sister was right beside him.

"Yeah I'm fine" he grunted in reply. Komachi gave a skeptical look and went back to her magazine. The little chatterbox was unusually quiet, which was to be expected since he did just gotten in an accident. So Komachi was in no chipper mood.

"Shouldn't you be going home now Komachi? Don't you have school tomorrow?"

Komachi stared at him as if he was some sort of idiot. "You're not going to get rid of me that easily, I'm here so that you don't do any more stupid stuff, Stupid Onii-chan. You're lucky that you only broke your leg".

"Yeah, Your Onii-chan is kind of stupid" He smiled inwardly.

Komachi gave a look of guilt, "I didn't really mean that Onii-chan"

It was amusing to see that particular look on her face. Usually it would be the other way around, but apparently a broken leg can tip the guilt scales to his favor. Might as well milk it while he can.

"Say Komachi"

"Hmmm?"

"Can you grab me some coffee? I'm really thirsty" he asked as he conspicuously rubbed his throat.

Her eyes narrowed.

"I know you're trying to manipulate me Onii-chan" Hachiman gave a sheepish grin. "But since I was about to go out, I might as well bring you your drink" With a giddy hop, she began striding out the door. "I'll be back in a few Onii-chan, please don't get into trouble"

Hachiman scoffed. How much trouble could he actually get while he was stuck on the bed? Seriously, his sister sometimes did not have faith in him.

Grabbing a light novel that Komachi had brought, he began reading as he patiently waited for his sister's return. However, there was a nagging sensation at the back of his head preventing him to fully focus on the story. Hachiman was forgetting something. Something really important.

Before he could ponder more, he heard the rapid patter of footsteps from out the hall way. Thinking it might just be Komachi forgetting to get cash for the vending machine, he made no note of the figure that stood at the door.

He heard panting.

Hikigaya looked up. It wasn't Komachi. Instead, looking disheveled in her school uniform, it was his girlfriend, Orimoto Kaori.

Ah, he did forget something important.

But as Kaori stomped towards his bed, with a look of rage he won't soon forget until his death, he noted that it would be impossible to ever let his girlfriend slip out of his mind ever again.

"Kaori…" She slapped him on the cheek. Well, he wasn't expecting that.

"You stupid idiot" She hissed.

Still in a state of shock, Hikigaya was grabbed by the collar by his very angry lady and the next thing he knew was being pulled roughly into a deep kiss. It lasted like an eternity. Hachiman felt warm tears dripping on his cheek. Hikigaya felt really guilty right now. He'd completely forgot about Kaori and the repercussions of his actions.

"How'd you know?" It may have not crossed his mind. But he had hoped she wouldn't have found out of his accident.

"Are you kidding me?" She lashed out. Her eyes were still puffy, but he couldn't mistake that look of anger in her red eyes. "A video went viral. If I wasn't curious enough I wouldn't even bother looking at the video"

Goddammit a video went viral? Great, just what he needed.

"Kaori…"

"How could you?" Her fist clenched on his shirt. "I even tried calling you, you didn't answer. I thought… I thought" She didn't finish her sentence. She didn't need to.

Hikigaya placed a hand behind her back and rubbed circles in attempts to sooth the sobbing girl. Did it work? He didn't know. But it did calmed her down, if not a teeny bit.

"So how was school?" He asked, trying to diffuse the tension.

"It was good until… this happened"

She nuzzled up to his throat and Hikigaya could vividly smell the smell of her fragrance. It was intoxicating to say the least. They stayed together like that for who knows how long. Forgetting one little fact. Komachi.

"Oni-chan! Mom and dad are here!" She announced as his family walked in through the door.

His eyes widen considerably. If it was just a normal visit, he wouldn't have any second thoughts about it. But he right now, had a girl literally clinging on his neck. Both teens froze as the Hikigaya's stopped at their tracks at the door way staring at the very alien scene.

Slowly, both sets of eyes turned slowly towards the door. Komachi and her mother both held the same expressions of shock. Mr. Hikigaya sighed as if the whole scene was nothing but troublesome.

"H-hey guys" Hachiman weakly greeted as Orimoto quickly rolled off the bed and stood straight at stiff attention.

"H-hello Mr. and Mrs. Hikigaya" she stuttered as her hands tried to flatten the crease of her dress, which frankly didn't help her look more presentable to her boyfriend's parents.

Silence soon followed after that.

"Mom. Dad. This is Orimoto Kaori, eh… my girlfriend"

The silence grew.

Certainly, there would have been better ways for Orimoto to meet with Hachiman's parents. Alone in a room, cuddling was not one in the list of appropriate first impressions. But all was done and now he had to deal with how to explain this to his parents. Well, half his parents, considering the fact that his dad had somehow managed to peel away from the oncoming confrontation.

'Gee, good going dad'

Mom however, was less than ecstatic.

"How could you Hachiman?" Her arms were crossed as she glared at the couple. "This isn't an acceptable attitude for a high school student. Cuddling" she shivered. "I can't imagine what you might have done if we weren't here"

"I bet you can imagine it very well" He muttered under his breath.

His mother's glare intensified as his girlfriend smacked his arm in disbelief.

"S-sorry", he rubbed his arm.

"This no joking matter Hachiman" His mother went on. He stuffed his face on his pillow as he stifled a sigh of frustration whilst his girlfriend fidgeted besides him.

"Onii-chan" fake tears rolled down from Komachi's cheek. "How could you keep such a big thing from your dear little sister?" She dramatically covered her face with her arm. "When did you guys hook up?"

"Komachi, this isn't the time" Her mother chided.

"But mom" She drawled out the syllable. "Aren't you a little bit curious on how Onii-chan got a ridiculously cute girlfriend?"

She paused momentarily at the question "Now's not the time Komachi"

Komachi grinned "You are curious aren't you?"

Her lips twitched, she wanted to retort, but the time was telling otherwise. "This isn't finished Hachiman, when you get home, we'll have a long good talk about this"

Hachiman could only offer a sigh as he watched his mom strode out the door.

"Mom's so cute when she's overprotective" Komachi noted. "Anyways" Her toothy grin was showing. She gleefully hopped to Kaori "Hi, I'm Hikigaya Komachi, my brother's dearest sister"

"You're my only sister" Hikigaya muttered.

"A-ah" Kaori stumbled. "I'm Orimoto Kaori…Your brother's…" She blushed, like really hard. It was the first time that Hachiman had ever seen Orimoto so timid "Girlfriend"

"Gyahh" Komachi cheered. "I knew that'd you get a girlfriend one day, my rotten Onii-chan. Thank you for taking care of him all these years" She bowed deeply.

Oi, it's not like I'm that much of a burden you sneaky little brat.

"I-it wasn't much" She returned the bow.

"Yes, yes" Hachiman cut her off. "Now enough with the teasing Komachi"

His sister stuck her tongue out. This little…

"Oh" she said as he suddenly realized something. "I have an assignment tomorrow and I haven't even started on it yet" She rushed around the room packing her stuff. "I'm sorry to cut this meeting short Orimoto-san but I really have to go"

"Take care of my Onii-chan for me" She said as she practically sprinted out the room, winking at both of them as she did.

Silence took over the room once more.

"That went well" Hachiman stated sheepishly. Orimoto pinched him hard. "Ow! Don't abuse me, I'm a patient here"

"This is so bad" She paced around the room, covering her flushed face as best as she can.

"It wasn't that bad" Hachiman shrugged.

Orimoto turned to him. "You have got to be joking? Were you not paying attention to your mom at all?"

"What are you so worried about? Aren't you the same girl that didn't care what people thought of her?"

"Those aren't just people Hachiman" She took a seat at the edge of the bed. "They're your family. Their opinion matters to me"

Hachiman took her hand. "You got nothing to worry about. It may not look like it but they approve of you"

Orimoto made an unamused face. "What? Your dad ran away"

"That's how he shows his appreciation. Dad's doesn't say something unless he absolutely needs to, he just ran off because he doesn't mom to pin him against me. And mom didn't actually say anything against you, only me"

"That doesn't make me feel much better"

"If it makes you feel any better, I'm glad that we got meeting the parents out of the way"

Orimoto raised an eyebrow "What about my parents?"

His throat dried up. "I mean, there's no rush. We still have some time after-"

"Oh no, I really want to get this out of the way"

Hachiman gulped. "Maybe in a year or-"

"No, I think next week would be fine don't you think?"

"B-but"

Orimoto observed him from the edge of her eyes. Half expecting some sort of witty excuse. Which unfortunately came.

"It wasn't my fault you were being mushy-mushy with me on the bed"

"Excuse me" She turned towards him, crossing her arms together. "You were in an accident. I'm so sorry for being overdramatic"

"It wasn't that serious…" Hachiman mumbled out as he looked away from Orimoto.

"Oh really" Orimoto looked smug. "Then you wouldn't mind if I did…" She walked really close to him and palmed his injured leg. "This"

She didn't really put that much pressure on it, but Hachiman still felt the sting from the touch.

"Ow! Ow! Fine, I'm sorry, this was all my fault" He apologized relentlessly as his fist clenched the bed.

Hachiman let out a sigh of relief as Orimoto removed her palm from her leg.

"That was completely-"

Hachiman was entirely interrupted when her lips closed the distance between his and hers.

"-unnecessary" He finished airily.

"I'm sorry" She apologized under her breath.

Hachiman frowned. "I was kind of asking for it wasn't I?"

"Yeah, you were" She giggled as she hugged him around his neck, careful not to come in contact with his leg.

Hikigaya looked at the time on the wall. It was looking to be very late, and he really didn't want Orimoto to be walking out in the dark.

"You should go home" He urged. "Visiting time's almost over"

"Five more minutes" She pleaded.

Oh how Hikigaya wished they had a million 'five more minutes'.

…

Sobu High school looked tediously normal for Hikigaya's taste. It looked like a normal High school with all the systematic work of Japanese architectural school designs. It wasn't bad per se. If it was, the school structural model wouldn't have been implemented in many other schools.

It wasn't bad to the regular high school kid.

But at this moment, it would be hell to navigate through. With his broken leg and all.

Hikigaya wasn't supposed to be in school to be honest. But missing two days of school was more than he could handle. The doctor said that he should rest for at least a week before considering going to school. But Hikigaya took it more of a friendly recommendation rather than strict orders.

So here he was, in front of the Sobu high school gates, dressed in full Sobu uniform, a crutch in hand and a casket on the leg. Thirty minutes late for homeroom on his third day of school. It wasn't a great start, but hey it beats starting school a week late. By that time he was sure making friends would be hell.

A ring coming from his trousers broke his train of thought.

"How are you feeling?"

It took a while for him to reply, since he had to juggle between his phone and his crutch. "Never better"

"You're not really reassuring me here Hachi" came an instantaneous reply.

He frowned "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"Shouldn't you be in class?" she retorted.

Hachiman paused momentarily. "I'm going there now"

"Be safe then"

With that, Hachiman pocketed his phone and began his long trek to his classroom, which he hoped wasn't anywhere above the ground floor. Fortunately, the registration papers for juniors were still stapled to the notice board for ease of finding. Unfortunately, his class was one the second floor.

Thus began his first school hurdle. Stairs.

The hallway was void of anyone save for a girl who was texting outside the bathroom entrance. She eyed him uninterestingly and went back to whoever she was texting.

Hikigaya sighed and steeled himself.

'Ok, Hachiman, you can do this. One step at a time'

Heave.

Ho.

One step done and a gazillion more to go. This is going to take a while.

He put his uninjured leg a step more and pulled himself up. And then once more.

"Oh shit" He was halfway up the stairs when he suddenly lost his footing.

However, he somehow managed to not fall on the couple flights of stairs. He felt something curled behind his back and gripping tightly on his right shoulder.

"You ok?"

It was a girl's voice.

Hikigaya cocked his head to see his valiant savior. It was the girl who was texting earlier. It seemed she wasn't texting mindlessly as he thought she was.

"T-thanks. I'm alright"

Light hazelnut eyes looked back into his dead ones. "You could have asked for help, you know"

"I, uh, you seemed very busy… with something" He was keenly aware of how close she was to him.

He wasn't too sure of the look of distaste she was giving him. "I'm not that heartless"

Hikigaya frowned "That's not what I-"

"Move your feet" She didn't let him finish.

"Ah, uh, yeah…"

So he did, with the help of a stranger none the less. Eventually, Hikigaya embarrassingly managed to climb up the stairs. The girl released him after making sure he can stand for himself.

"Thank you, uh-"

"Minami. Minami Sagami" She introduced herself.

"Yes, thank you Sagami-san"

She however looked dissatisfied with something. Her arms crossed and her feet taped in frustration. "And?" as if she was expecting with something.

Oh, was she expecting money? Well, it wasn't pretentious, but Hikigaya understood the need to pay for one's services. Now, did he have enough money to cover up the cost though?

Pulling out his wallet, with difficulty to add of course, he began to count how much money before pulling out a reasonable amount.

"Excuse me?" Hikigaya blinked. Sagami sounded very offended. Was it not enough? Is he getting extorted here? Surely, helping a disabled up the stairs didn't count to half his week's allowance. He should have just fallen down the stairs. Now that would have been cheaper.

Sighing in defeat, he pulled out the last of his money and presented it to her.

"Are you serious?" She didn't sound very satisfied with it.

"It's all I have with me right now"

She looked at him like he had grown a second head and then cut it off like nothing had happened.

"Idiot" She insulted.

How rude.

"I was asking for your name" there was a teasing tone in her voice.

Oh.

That made sense.

"Hikigaya Hachiman" He introduced as he tried to stuff his money back into his wallet. "And this is embarrassing"

"It sure is, why would think I wanted money, were you bullied before or something?" she seemed exasperated.

"Not really" Hikigaya scratched his cheek sheepishly. "Socializing's just not my thing"

She laughed but stop seeing him looking dead serious "You're not kidding are you?"

"I almost gave you my week's allowance didn't I?"

"Fair enough" She looked to her wristwatch. "You need help getting to your class while I'm still here?"

"I don't want to be burden…" It would be lovely having not to mindlessly going around in hopes you get to class.

"I'm already late as it is now, no point in rushing is there?"

"I guess" She did have a point.

"Where's your class?"

"1-F"

"How convenient, let's go"

So Hachiman promptly followed her. Hachiman sighed. He didn't like feeling disabled, having to physically rely on the help of some stranger he'd just met. Pity was an honorable trait for one to have, but it felt nothing of the sort when you're at the receiving end of it.

Sagami was… a girl. That was clear enough for him. Good job Hachiman, getting a gender correct. Mom and Dad would be so proud in his acute observational skills.

Putting his self-deprecation aside. Hachiman really couldn't tell what sort of girl she was. She wasn't overly…what's the word here? Fake? She seemed blunt enough and he could respect that. Was she friend material? He really hoped so.

"So how'd it happen?" She asked out of the blue.

Realizing she was talking about her leg, "I got hit by a car" He answered earnestly.

She stopped abruptly. In a blink of an eye her hands were on her phone.

'Her phone must be really important to her'

She shoved her phone right at his face, "Is this you?"

Hikigaya waited for the video to buffer all in while eyeing Sagami's artistic sense of manicures… or was it pedicures. He didn't know the difference.

The video played. Hikigaya blinked. It was him. It was him getting hit by a car and saving a little obtuse dog.

"Where'd you get that?"

"YouTube" She answered simply.

"God" His face scrunched up. "Did it really became viral?"

Confusion etched itself on her face "What are you complaining about? You're an internet hero"

"I look really stupid" he deadpanned. "Why is this even viral?"

"Dunno, but you were really fast here" She replayed it, and again, and again.

"Ok stop, let's just get to class"

"Sure, but did you do sports in middle school or something?" She asked as she put her phone away.

"Baseball for the most part" He answered. He felt sad, knowing that he wouldn't be able to pitch in a couple of months.

"You don't look like the sporty type to be honest" Sagami stated.

"Yeah, crutches and casts can do that to a person"

Sagami scoffed but didn't retort.

Finally they arrived in front of the door to class 1-F.

"Say Hikigaya" Sagami stopped him, "You need help going around school later?"

There it is, pity. What a curious sentiment. He hated that. He didn't like that one bit.

"It's fine, I can handle myself after this"

"Suit yourself, I see you falling on your ass, I'll be the first one laughing." She slid opened the door and went in.

"You're late Sagami" A womanly voice scolded, from inside.

"Sorry sensei" Sagami apologized. "I was helping a student get around"

"Oh really?" the woman sounded skeptical. "Where is he now?"

"Right outside"

That was his que to come in he guessed.

"Then both of you better have a good reason being late. It would have been acceptable being late on the first day, but missing out on the first and second day of school, he better have a good reason-"

Hikigaya entered. All eyes were on him.

"Oh" The sensei gaped. She was wearing a long white lab coat and she faintly smelled like ash.

"My apologies sensei" Hachiman bowed, or at least tried to. "I had some trouble getting up the stairs by myself, Sagami-san was kind enough to help me out"

The classroom was quiet save the occasional awkward cough and muffled chuckle.

"I uh didn't realize you were-"

"Its fine sensei" Hikigaya interjected. "You couldn't have known"

"Ah, yes, well" She was fiddling with her pen, "You can introduce yourself to the rest of the class and take a seat"

Hikigaya stood in front of the class and with the best of his courage he could muster, "my name is Hikigaya Hachiman. It's a pleasure to meet you"

Out of all the students in 1-F, one heart among them pounded the most.

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A/N: Yeah, nothing left to say but leave a review for meh. Thanks and love you guys.