"Dad?"

Hajime Hinata looked up from his desk and his KDL papers. His 15-year-old daughter had just come into the study, holding a stack of papers. "Yes, Chihiro?" he said.

Chihiro Hinata walked up to the desk and slammed down the papers, and adjusted her computer-glasses. "I was going through the school records when I found something about a case you worked on," she said. That meant very little to Hinata, of course, since he'd worked on thousands cases since he started working for KDL 20 years ago.

Yet somehow, he knew which one it was. "Which one?" Hinata said.

Chihiro didn't answer at first. "Which one, Chi-tan?" Hinata repeated.

"Mom was a terrorist?" Chihiro finally said, holding up a KDL-stamped sheet that Hinata knew on sight was a list of high-ranking Despair members Ikusaba had spilled all those years ago. "It says right here, Chiaki Nanami: Germany, Monobear Acquisition!" Chihiro narrowed her eyes. "I knew you were keeping something from me," she said. "Byakuya was right!"

"Don't listen to him," Hinata said, "your boyfriend can't find out everything." Chihiro blushed, and Hinata added, "your mother was pardoned. She helped take down the boss of Despair and stopped a very bad man from killing everyone."

"How?" Chihiro said, putting the paper down.

"By loving him," Hinata said, "and then stopping him from choosing her over the rest of the hostages." He took the papers back and stowed them in his desk; he would have to have a talk with Kyouko about lending out papers and Togami with leaving them sitting around in his super-exclusive schools. "I'll tell you the full story when you and your brothers are older."

Chihiro pouted but took the cue and left. Hinata sighed. He hadn't thought about Despair in years, and now she had to bring it up-

The door to his study opened again, but this time it was not Chihiro or her brothers. "Working hard?" Chiaki Hinata said as she entered the room, holding her computer under one arm. "I saw Chihiro storming away…"

"Apparently the TIHL has easily-accessibly KDL files now," Hinata said. "Maybe we should move Chihiro out, too… I don't trust Togami's son…"

"Oh, c'mon Hajime," Chiaki said, taking a seat and setting up her computer on his desk in a spot free from KDL papers. "Look, Google News: Togami Institute of Higher Learner declared best school in Japan for twelfth year in a row. We're not pulling our daughter out of that!"

"I know, I know, I was kidding," Hinata said. He sighed. "Still, how do we explain what happened with Despair to them?"

"We tell them the truth when they ask for it," Chiaki said firmly. "I'm ashamed of what I did in Despair, but that doesn't mean I'm going to bottle it up. If anyone should tell the kids that their mother was a terrorist, it should be me. And it'd show them that people can change, too."

Hinata glanced at his wife, who had her usual "mentally-focused" expression on. "Fine," he said, "you're the boss." He stood up from his desk and turned to the window to watch Chihiro meet up with Togami's kid and walk off.

"Nagito-kun and Sonia-san are coming for dinner tonight, by the way," Chiaki said, "you'll cook?"

"As always."

"Good. I might be late home tomorrow too, I've got a meeting with Taeko-san," Chiaki said, and she shut her computer. Then she walked up to Hinata and wrapped an arm around him. "Are you really that worried, Hajime?"

"I don't want to expose them to evil so soon," Hinata said. "I don't want to expose them to evil ever. All their lives, they've known that I'm practically a cop, that they're friends with the law and the people who make them. What will they think when they find out that their mother was a terrorist, that I almost killed over 600 people? Chihiro's already not trusting us-"

Chiaki sighed. "Hajime," she said, "Chihiro's a teenager, she's going to act like that. The best thing we can do is show them that we love them by telling them the truth."

"And what happens when they ask why their cop father can love an ex-terrorist?" Hinata said, "what then?"

"What do you think? Why do you love me?"

"Because you're my best friend, confidante, wife, and the mother of our children," Hinata said instantly.

"Then tell them that," Chiaki said. She took his hand. "It'll be fine, Hajime. I know they love you, and I know they'll believe us." She leaned her head onto Hinata and somehow, he knew she was right.

A/N: And so ends my first romance fanfic (er, sort of) and the first (I believe) Hinata/Nanami fanfic on . Looking back, there are things I would've changed, but for the most part, I'm pretty happy with this. For the moment, I don't have any more Dangan Ronpa fanfics in mind (or much of anything else, to be honest) but if I do, you'll know.

Another thanks to all who read this story to the end, and now, I bid you adieu.