Patience Mission

"I think Sakakura-san hates me."

"Why do you say that?" Kirigiri asked while drinking her coffee.

Naegi and Kirigiri were having their breakfast together, talking about their roles inside Future Foundation. But the young man suddenly blurted out that fact about the head of the 6th Branch, which made the lavender haired woman raise an eyebrow.

"You know he doesn't like anyone. He always glares at his comrades, except his friends and old classmates."

"Yes but when I said hi yesterday, he looked at me as if I took his whole family hostage and killed his dog." Complained the Ultimate Hope.

"Wasn't that how Togami used to look at everyone when we first met him?"

"True but it was for weeks. It's been almost a year since we joined Future Foundation and he's been looking at me that way ever since."

Kirigiri sighed and put her mug down. Naegi wasn't the only one who noticed the Boxer's behavior near him ; she saw it too but didn't think it would affect Naegi.

"Why do you care so much?"

"Well… we're comrades and have the same goal: bring back Hope to the World. I know people don't like me. But it would be better to have everyone on the same side. Maybe if we knew each other more, it could help?" He explained earning a little smile from the Detective.

She nodded and thought about what he said. It was true that if Sakakura could listen and at least see Naegi as a comrade, there wouldn't be any problem in the future. She had an idea but she had to tell the vice-leader Munakata.

"I'm going on a mission with who?!" Exclaimed Sakakura in disbelief as he heard the details of his next mission.

"You heard me well Sakakura, I noticed that you had issues with one of our agents. A high ranked and important one nonetheless." the head of the second Branch Munakata explained.

Sakakura averted his gaze and said that he just gave a mean look to everyone except him and Yukizome. But the silver haired man countered his argument with one name: Makoto Naegi.

"You just made a face as if I was talking about your worst enemy." said the vice-leader.

The Boxer looked away.

"That's not true…" he pouted.

Shortly after this exchange, knocks were heard at the door and Munakata invited the person in. The second Sakakura saw who it was, his face contorted into one someone would make after biting a lemon from hell. Of course this didn't go unnoticed by the other men in the room.

Naegi greeted Munakata who answered with a nod, but when he said hi to Sakakura, the latter just jerked his head away with a 'tch!'. The vice-leader of Future Foundation explained the mission to the two men: The Boxer would escort Naegi to a shelter where supporters of Future Foundation were being attacked by a small group of Remnants of Despair, a rather easy mission. There wasn't any big danger like the Hunter or an ex-student of the 77th Class. All they had to do was head there, eliminate the threat and Naegi could do one of his hope speeches to the supporters, to boost their spirits so that they could keep helping the Foundation.

The first to object was Sakakura, obviously, asking why they couldn't simply throw the kid with a squad to protect him, to which Munakata answered that if they were too many, they'd be noticed and might attract more Remnants. Then he asked why him and not someone else. His boss glared at him, tensely saying that they talked about it. The Boxer was about to complain some more but he quickly mentally punched himself out of doing so ; it would just annoy his best friend.

"Fine, I'll do it," Sakakura sighed. "It'an easy mission. Just go in, drop the kid so he can talk shit and then we leave, piece of cake."

This got Munakata to smile while Naegi looked mildly offended. Sakakura blushed, just faintly, and averted his eyes.

"Good. Thank you. Your helicopter will be here in thirty minutes. I'll expect you to be ready to leave by then."

The trip to the mission was painfully silent, mostly because Sakakura wasn't even glancing at Naegi and each time the smaller man tried to talk, he either ignored him or told him to-

"Shut the fuck up."

Exactly.

Naegi sighed. He really hated him and he didn't even know why. How were they going to survive this mission if they couldn't even work together properly?

"Hey, punk. Come on! Let's get this over with!" the older man barked as he already jumped out of the helicopter and was already heading to the shelter.

The younger agent quickly ran to his side, the travel to the shelter was only one or two hours of walk. All this time in a heavy silence might be too awkward. He should try talking with Sakakura, like that they could know each other better!

"S-So, Sakakura-san do you-"

"Shut up."

Naegi froze half a second before resuming his march. That was so rude! What was that for? Well, he knew how to back off, but this was pretty important, he must have a decent conversation with the Boxer! He approached him again.

"Sakakura-san, would you like to talk?" He asked politely.

There first was a growl then a 'no' and he swore he just accelerated his pace. This was… getting annoying, even Togami wasn't so infuriating. Naegi said that it should be nice to talk to pass the time since it was a pretty long way to the shelter. He heard the boxer sigh, will he finally accept to have a conversation.

"Listen punk. I don't want to talk with you, and I certainly don't want to be friends so if you could just shut the fuck up!" He spat angrily at him.

Naegi gasped. What was wrong with him? He really hated him! Why was he such… an ass to him?!

"Why do you hate me like that?!" The Ultimate Hope asked as he walked next to the taller man.

Jesus fucking Christ! Can't that damn punk get a clue?! He doesn't want to talk to him! Each time he opens that damn mouth he just wants to punch it.

And he just asked that question that not even Munakata knew the answer to so there was no way in hell that he would tell him of all people. He scoffed and affirmed that he was like that with everyone and Naegi just happened to be even more annoying than the rest of them.

The brat looked insulted. That should shut him up.

"No that's wrong!" The kid yelled and it took the Boxer aback as he froze, forced to listen, "Don't lie to me! I can clearly see that you are being harsher to me than anyone else!"

What the hell is happening? Is he getting lectured? Well it feels like it. So that's the power of his words? Sakakura wondered.

"I also know that you made a dummy of myself to blow up to infiltrate an arena full of psychopaths! I first thought it was to look convincing but now I can understand it was just to have the pleasure to blow me up!"

God dammit, his fucking detective girlfriend must have told him.

"Seriously! What on Earth did I ever do to you to hate me like that?!" He shouted angrily, glaring at him.

The kid could give pretty good glares, he got one point for that.

"For whatever I did, can I say I'm sorry?!"

...HAH! That idiot could go fuck himself, seriously.

He turned around to face him and tell him to fuck off but an explosion was heard near them. Where they already there? He didn't notice he was walking and talking at the same time!

Damnit, that meant the Remnants were nea-

"Arg!" Sakakura suddenly yelled as someone strong enough to lift him suddenly threw him on the ground.

The man was wearing a Monokuma mask. A Remnant of Despair! He was about to stand up and punch him but two others appeared out of nowhere and pinned his arms to the ground and were already punching him. The one who threw him, who was bulkier than the others. A knife in his hand.

What the fuck was the punk doing instead of helping him?! Oh. He was already busy with another one that kept swinging a butterfly knife at him. Kid was more agile that he expected. But forget about that! Naegi had a gun, he should use it!

Something heavy got pressed on his stomach, he looked to see the last Remnant had one knee on him, and his hand was reaching for his throat. Damnit! If only he could move his arms! But no matter how hard he tried to break free, he couldn't lift those bastards away.

Suddenly a gunshot was heard. Everyone looked at its source: Naegi was holding the gun toward the ground where he could see the Remnant he was fighting with holding his knee as he rolled on the ground in a small pond of his blood. So the punk did shoot but didn't kill. That fact frustrated the boxer even more as he used this distraction to finally throw away the man on his left arm that wasn't putting all his weight on it anymore. Now with a free hand, he could beat up the others. He punched the one on his other arm before he even noticed what was happening.

But the other did notice and was already thrusting his knife forward to stab his face. But another gunshot resounded and the man fell to the side, holding his new wound near his stomach as he dropped his weapon. Naegi shot him. He saved his life two times in a row in less than one minute. Damnit.

He stood up and cleaned the dust off himself as the Remnants squirmed on the floor. He took out his gun and aimed at their head. Naegi looked away but wasn't opposed. He knew that leaving them alive was a risk for their mission and the people they must help as they could go look for reinforcement. Munakata did say they must eliminate the threat. So the punk had a brain, good. He put the silencer and shot the Remnants.

The ahoge man turned again, frowning a bit. Sakakura didn't think much of it, until Naegi turned back around and looked at at him as if he was expecting a thank you. Tch! As if he'd thank him. Well he should since he was in danger, but no way in hell he'd admit it!

"Let's go, your gunshot might already have caught the attention of other Despairs." he said a bit harsher than he should, but whatever, they needed to move. He turned around and started walking.

If he looked back he would see Naegi looking at him with wide angered eyes, mouth open in disbelief and waving his arms at the corpses as if pointing at the proof that he helped.

"You know what?! Eff yo-! NO! FUCK YOU!" The Ultimate Hope suddenly yelled.

Sakakura widened his eyes in shock and fury before turning around to face the other naive imbecile. What he didn't expect was that the small man was already in front of him and poked him hardly on the chest that made the taller one stumble slightly (mostly from surprise than strength).

"I am DONE with your BULLSHIT!"

Holly shit, the kid can curse, that's new. He didn't remember hearing him curse in all the time in Hope's Peak's killing game.

"You FUCKING ASSHOLE can't even say THANK YOU when I SAVED YOUR ASS!" he yelled more.

What was even going on?! Sakakura was confused. Since when was that punk so… violent? He never saw him that angry. Wait a sec. How did he call him?

"Did you just call me an 'asshole'?!"

"YES BECAUSE YOU ARE!"

"WHAT?!"

"YOU HEARD ME, ASSHOLE!"

The mission wouldn't go well.