A/N: So I like this couple and thought, why not? If you hate it don't read, simple as that, for the rest, well hope you like it if don't well I tried xD

Chapter 1: The word that starts with C

He didn't really knew when it started, but it probably all began on the day he spoke to Touko Fukawa, he remembered the words they had spoken to each other on the first day:

"N-not that you'll remember my n-name anyway, but... I'm T-Touko... Touko Fukawa."

From that moment on, Naegi Makoto, the lucky student had decided he would try to become friend of Fukawa.

He just wanted her to stop being alone, to have a friend, that she could finally be one of the group, he just hoped for her to stop being so scared of everyone.

Togami and Fujisaki were exceptions to that, though Togami wouldn't even look at her, and Fujisaki was someone no one could really come to hate, after the first time Fukawa and he spoke he noticed she seemed distant in her delusions, he could wait though he felt it would be bad to interrupt her delusions unless it was necessary. He had become able of understanding that part of her, still was much to learn from her.

Life in the school wasn't boring, but still he had decided to try to speak more with Fukawa, he decided that since the class was over and everyone seemed focused on leaving and rest for the day to their own rooms he could use the chance to speak with Fukawa, maybe if the two of them were alone she would be more open.

He approached to Fukawa desk while she was closing her notebook before readying herself to go out.

"Did you come h-here to yell at me? My whole life is one u-unpleasant experience after another...!"

Naegi wasn't expecting that reaction from Fukawa, he couldn't avoid gasping and nodding as a signal to apologize
"Sorry! I just… wanted to speak with you"

At this Fukawa started looking all around, she couldn't believe Naegi was speaking to her, well more like anyone would try, she started to look all around ignoring the apologizing Naegi, she was looking for his buddies, surely they were there to mock her, to tell her all of that had been a joke to mock her, yet no one was around them in the now empty classroom, everyone had gotten out already leaving the two of them alone.

She couldn't believe the fact that anyone would like to stay with her in the same room, class didn't counted as all of them were forced to be in the same room. But the fact Naegi had decided to stay willingly was surprising to say the least, she couldn't believe it was true.

Her head decided it had to be a trick, Naegi was still looking to the floor hoping for forgiveness, she decided she would see if this was a joke of any kind.

"Why? N-no one likes me…Why f-fake it?" Naegi was surprised when Fukawa spoke, so he took it as a sign maybe she was speaking to him, and not just rambling. "I thought you would like to chat… have a friend you know?" At this Fukawa let out a lewd smile entering her delusions, Naegi decided he would wait till she was done with them.

"Why? Why does he believes I need a friend? I'm perfectly fine by myself with Togami Sama…Yeah just me…Fujisaki could count as a friend… but we don't really chat either that often… a friend…. friends becomes lovers with time, just like in the romances, is the twerp in love with me! No, why would he want me?! I'm ugly, plus everyone just mocks me, why would he wants to be friends? Is this a joke to torture me?! Why?!"

Naegi noticed Fukawa suddenly seemed stressed so he put a hand on her arm to catch her attention. "Fukawa, are you okay? Do you need something?" The sudden touch had the desired effect to take Fukawa out of her delusion and to breath, yet it had another effect Naegi hadn't thought, Fukawa mind raced at the action.

"Why did he touched me?! No one even looks at filthy me… Why touch me at all when they can't even stand seeing me?! The twerp must totally be head over heels for me to even try! This is just like a bad romance in which the guy is trying to get near with the excuse of help to later admit he likes the girl!"

In her delusions again Naegi just stood there seeing her now from stressed to have a lewd smile, this time no stress seemed to be on her face, her eyes had a distinctive shine while thinking in her delusions, Naegi couldn't avoid to let out a soothing smile while sighing, only one word came to his mind while looking at Fukawa, a simple word, one he couldn't really hold as he saw the passion of the writer mind while in her delusions:
"Cute…"

He really didn't got why he said that word for the plum haired girl, he just felt it truth and let it out, Naegi was a bad liar, and he knew it himself, he really couldn't avoid always expressing the truth. What he failed to notice was the reaction of Fukawa at the word.

Fukawa body tensed as her heart seemed to race at no reason at all, her muscles were tensing and her mind went overdrive thinking of why would he even say that, why if it wasn't a joke, could he be a world class actor? No, he had entered through luck to the school, so how could he say that word without biting his tongue having called her cute.

"Cute…He called me "Cute"…..Why?! Why call cute to ugly me?! Why is it affecting me this way?! Is just like in a bad romance when the guys say he loves her and she suddenly starts feeling dizzy, why?! What is he doing to me?! And why my heart won't stop racing?! No one has never made me feel this way with the truth of insults… why?! What's happening?!"

Without notice at all Fukawa just fainted in her desk, Naegi got worried she was sick or something that caused her to faint without suspecting it has been his words that had caused the collapse of Fukawa. As he approached and looked at Fukawa she suddenly opened her eyes, though there was something feral in there, her teeth seemed sharp and… did her tongue was long? Before Naegi could ask anything to her, a pair of scissors was dangerously close to his neck.

Genocider Shou, she had awoken when Fukawa had fainted, she normally was ready for when she was coming out, but this was different, no blood around to trigger her weak counterpart hemophobia, no mob of people bothering her, no one with a scary mask that had made her faint, just Naegi in front of her, now afraid of the scissors near his neck, she didn't understood what happened, but of course she was going to get some answers willingly or not he was going to speak.

"You know, is easier to kill than try not to, so how about you tell me what you did to my weak self?"

Naegi was confused, he had never heard of Fukawa having a second personality, but not like he had many options, the scissors had never left their position near his neck, it wouldn't be hard for her, but he really didn't knew what he had done.

"I don't know…I wanted to chat with her, then she started having delusions and I… called her cute…"

Without a warning she felt tense, she had been called cute. That was a first, she had been called a homicidal serial killer, a monster, something that shouldn't exist, she had been called a witch, ugly, and all the things they had also said to her weak part… calling her "Cute" was totally new. She retired the scissors from Naegi, not without making a quick snip at his hair, a little strand ended up in her hand, no one would really notice the little cut, not even Naegi would be able to tell someone had taken a bit of his hair had he not been in front of her.

Without warning she put one of the scissors in Naegi pocket of his hoodie. He was surprised Fukawa second personality was a total opposite, she was fierce to say the least, acted with no shame at all, he didn't understood it all while he was trying to understand what happened she heard the decided voice of Fukawa different personality.

"Call me Shou" Without warning she did a little cut at Naegi cheek, before he could even exclaim anything at the sudden cut Shou had licked the super small wound closing it. "Take care; I will be looking for those scissors, so take care of them." She left walking out of the classroom with a security Naegi could clearly understand that wasn't Fukawa.

While Genocider was walking she couldn't avoid looking at the strand of hair in her hand and let out a sigh

"Naegi…do you really meant those words…"

Had Naegi knew that on that same day Togami had hurt Fukawa so deeply with his insults, he had crossed the border, she would have killed him on the spot had she been on place, of course she had run away before she could do something. And now, all of the sudden Naegi tries to be a friend to them, and he spells the word with the letter C on it… a word with no malice in it.

She remembered how he looked while answering; it was obvious he couldn't lie to save his own life, well in truth he didn't lie at her. Why Naegi wanted to be their friend? It didn't made sense at all, she only licked her own teeth, savoring the cut she had done on his cheek with impressive ability, no one would be able to see it, nor Naegi would be able to see it after she had licked the small wound, call it being a professional, she didn't want anyone asking questions of how suddenly he had a cut on his cheek.

"He would surely try to lie though…" She acted surprised, why had she said that, is not like she had hopes on Naegi, they weren't friends right? She had just cut him on his cheek and licked the blood, of course he wouldn't be their friend now, he would surely tell everyone how she had attacked him.

"Sorry Fukawa, I screwed up with the only guy who didn't hated us… guess we still got Fujisaki."

Tomorrow would be another day, so tomorrow she would know what would happen. She went to her room and closed her eyes, waiting for the weak Fukawa to take control again

As soon as she had woken up she felt the taste of blood in her tongue she felt like puking but suddenly she took notice of something, no pain anywhere, that horrible part of her called Genocider Shou didn't killed Naegi, or anyone for that matter, also she noticed the strand of hair in her hand, it was of Naegi, what happened when she fainted?

In his own room Naegi checked his cheek on the bathroom, no mark of the cut at all, as if it didn't happen, yet, he was holding the scissors from Shou in his hand and rembered her words:
"I will be looking for those scissors, so take care of them…"

He felt confused, for one, he still wanted to be friends with Fukawa, now more than ever only imagining what she suffered from having that second personality, he wouldn't tell anyone on the class, most didn't cared for Fukawa, but if they knew of that side of her they would probably run away from her in sight. He would be Fukawa friend.

He felt more confused though at the last part, Shou. The sudden act of her to lick his cheek, it had been so wrong, yet, he would be lying to himself if he didn't said he had liked it, just a bit, but like it nonetheless. "This is so confusing" Naegi let himself be absorbed in his bed and take a nap as it was early.

Not sure himself of how much time he had been taking a nap Naegi woke up wobbly at the sound of knocks on his door. Erratic knocks and weakly, as if whoever was knocking was thinking if it was a good idea. He said he was going, he opened the door to his surprise the one who made those knocks was Fukawa.

"C-Can we C-Chat?" Naegi smiled as always, the doubts of the past faded as he let Fukawa in, his room was to say the least, average. Nothing really standing out, except maybe a sword that had been a gift from Maizono, saying his room was way too boring.

Fukawa mind was racing with doubts, she had entered a boy room, a whole new unexplored territory in the past, now that she looked inside, she had to admit it wasn't that outstanding. Still she had to ask Naegi what did he wanted to hide her secret, how much it would cost him to be silent about it. Naegi guided her near a coffee table, she just sat while he brought her a cup of water.

She eyed the cup, looking for signs that it had been poisoned, Naegi noticed her discomfort and spoke soothingly.

"Is not poisoned or anything, we can switch cups if you want" She eyed him suspiciously, that was what someone who poisoned cups would say… but this was Naegi, the chance he had poison was as much as to someone calling her cute… she glady kept her cup.

Once Naegi had drinked from his cup she doubted, but still drank from it, she hoped that if it had poisoned the awkwardness of the moment would fade forever.

Sadly the cup wasn't poisoned, so she would have to deal with this. "I K-know…you met her" Naegi acted as if he didn't knew at all. "Who? I didn't met anyone when you fainted… I took you to the nurse to rest and she took you to your room…" Sweating bullets she recalled how a bad liar he was. "D-Did she hurt you?" he sighed, it was obvious he wasn't going to lie; he was simply bad at it. "A cut in my cheek, really small one you can't see it" He threw his smile, that smile full of optimism and that tried to say that all was fine.

"H-how much is going to cost me for you to keep quiet?" Naegi eyes shot open, he didn't expected that. "J-just tell me! I will give you anything so you don't say it to anyone…" Naegi saw his chance and took it. "Be my friend then." He smiled with optimism, hoping she would accept, he didn't really liked this, but if this would allow him to be friends with Fukawa it would be fine, he wasn't planning to tell anyone really.

Fukawa was silent with her eyes open totally behind her glasses, Naegi had just asked her to be friends, she didn't understood, why was Naegi interested in being friends with her, why wasn't he scared of what had happened, did he actually cared for her? No, that would be impossible, who would care for her weak and ugly self.

"I-If that is what you want, but why you want to be m-my friend?" Naegi sighed and smiled as he spoke "Because I care about you, I often think that you need a friend, would you let me be your friend Fukawa?"

Delusions rushed to her mind, scenarios of Naegi speaking romantic words of a novel, why him she didn't knew, but that void Togami had left had been filled with Naegi kind words, she was making a nice smile while speaking. "If you're okay with th-that, I don't mind if you... think about m-me" Naegi cheeks had slight rose tint at Fukawa last words.

She decided all that could been said had been said and proceeded to go out of his room, Naegi just stayed like a statue repeating Fukawa words in his mind and seeing that cute smile:
"If you're okay with th-that, I don't mind if you... think about m-me…" He saw his nightstand as Fukawa left, the pair of scissors was still there, he had forgotten to ask Fukawa about Shou.

Fukawa felt tired, but she felt a little knot on her stomach, she was having a silly smile in her face, she couldn't control the smile and she actually felt it was going to hurt her to smile so much. She had a friend, a real one.

The next morning the day looked promising for the students at Hope Peak Academy, while everyone was walking for breakfast, some people noticed something strange, Togami was walking, and no one was behind him, the normally huge presence of Fukawa walking behind Togami had dissipated. Togami actually liked the feeling, had he knew shouting at her would have gotten her away he would have done it sooner.

Leon was waving a hello to Naegi when he noticed Fukawa behind Naegi, she was wearing the expression she hold it when she spoke about Togami, but this was different, she seemed to steadily get closer, he really never expected Fukawa to change from Togami to someone else, she had always spoke so mucho of him to everyone it was just weird seeing her following Naegi now.

He approached Naegi and got him close to him and spoke "Seems you got an admirer luckster" as he went to the road for breakfast, Naegi looked behind and saw Fukawa smiling that smile she used to make to Togami all the time, he took it as nothing while he smiled to her and kept walking, he had no idea what he caused, nor what would happen for yesterday acts.

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