Nagisa Deserves Better...

Miyano Shiho, 18, a decent person, was just minding her business in her Sakusa-approved apartment (a lie) on one beautiful Monday night (also a lie) when she got an unexpected visitor. Enter Bokuto Koutarou, 19, a relatively decent person. As expected chaos ensued... somewhere else...
'What the hell happened here?'
"WHAT KIND OF ALGORITHM EVEN IS THAT?!"

Notes:

An attempt at humor. I'd TOTALLY edit this later. (You can do that after uploading right?)
I just decide that making Summary is super fun. Yes I'm very proud of my summary.
Disclaimer :
All but the original characters belong to Furudate Haruichi, I only own the girl (self-projection) and most of the plot.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: In grief we unite

Chapter Text

It was a relatively normal -however possible it was- Monday night. The sky was clear, the moon was in a nice crescent shape, the students hanging out to celebrate the final week of school and discussed what to do for summer vacation, a couple of convicts on the run, the kid next door excitedly told their parents the tooth fairy came last night etc etc.

Miyano Shiho had just finished her dinner when her phone rang loudly. Her face lit up seeing the caller id. It was Tendou Satori!

"Tennn! How's-"

"Hello it's me~"

Gasping loudly Shiho quickly grabbed a random tumblr before striking a pose, "I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet~"

"To go over everything~"

"They say that time's supposed to heal ya, but I ain't done much healing~"

"Hello, can you hear me?"

"I'm in California- Hey I'm getting all the long lines!"

"Buhahahaha so how's exams? You failed anything yet?"

"Other than my mother's expectation," Tendou snorted, "then no, nothing failed yet, Monsieur!"

"I ain't even gonna ask about," he gestured wildly "whatever that is. Anyway catch me up, Ojou-sama!"

They spent the next 30 minutes to update whatever's been going on in each side of the world. That was until a loud alarm went off on Tendous's side.

"Welp gotta go... Don't cry after this bc you still miss me, Princess~~"

She just scoffed and rolled her eyes. "In your dreams, Basket."

She did in fact miss him terribly. It's been half a year since she visited her best friend on the other side of the globe. But she wouldn't admit it at gun point. They both knew that and Tendou just gave her a knowing look, she's tsundere like that.

"Harsh but it's okay because I looove you," another eye roll from Shiho, "Ight I really need to go. I'm just gonna ask about this week Shounen Jump tomorrow"

She was about to retort when a realization dawned at her.

"Holy shit..."

"What? What's wrong? Did you burn something?"

"What? No! I fucking forget to buy this week's Shounen Jump!" She rushed to the living room, it's just a little past 7.

"Wha- But how?? You work at-"

"I know! I'm gonna buy it now!" She hastily threw a hoodie over her head.

"Well you better! I need my updates on Seirin vs Rakuzan!"

She flash checked everything before fled out of the apartment and was just running down the stairs when they said their goodbye after assuring Tendou that she's gonna be careful and would update him when she got back home.

She almost ran into someone on the corner before screaming a very geniune "I'm sorry!" without looking back.

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"Kids nowadays I swear" muttered a certain chicken-head man with a dramatic head shake.

"Kuro bro it's our job to educate the younglings!" one of his friend shouted excitedly.

"Oh shut up Bokuto-san. You're the definition of man child if I ever see one," someone else chimed in looking so done with Bokuto or rather life itself already.

Said man gasped dramatically, "AGAASHEEEE! TAKE THAT BACK!!" but the other two had already walked ahead.

Bokuto trailed after them with dejected look on his face. Kuroo just grinned at him.

"C'mon bro, Akaashi-kun here is but another child himself." Kuroo threw an arm around Bokuto's shoulder before lowering his voice "I bet he's just nervous to see Kenma after the incident, y'know the one-"

"I heard that!" Akaashi's glare could pop your average boba tea off before spurring ahead. The two older boys just shook their heads in dissaproval.

"Boys.." they both said.

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19:47 pm

Shiho finally made it back to her apartment with a new Weekly Shonen Jump no. 2274 safely tucked in her arms. She was just taking her shoes off on the genkan when she heard a loud "REMEMBER! IT'S THE PINK ONE! NOT THE BLUE ONE!" followed with "BUT I LIKE THE BLUE ONE!" The conversation trailed off as she made her way to the living room.

She plopped herself on the couch with a content sigh and was about to read the newly purchased magazine when she remembered her promise to Tendou. She regreted it immediately when she saw Tendou's unread messages.

19:20

[Tenko] : Oh!

[Tenko] : I just remember! Don't forget to do your dishes Shii!

[Tenko] : Remember what Sakusan said about leftover dishes and the roaches??

[Tenko] : I will tell Sakusan if you left it for tomorrow!

Shiho snorted. Leave it to Tendou to give empty threats when he's all the way in Italy.

[Tenko] : I can ask Wakatoshi-kun to check on you with Sakusan and do a Sakusan Rush on your lazy ass! You know I will~

Ok so not empty threats then. Shiho shuddered remembering Sakusa Rush the other time. No, never again, nuh uh, nope, nah, just NO!

[You] : Ugh I hate you! Why bring him in thisssss

[You] : Just for that I wouldn't update you on World Trigger!

[You] : OH! And KnB! Ha! Eat dirt, sucker! :P

[You] : Oh and I'm home.

Feeling satisfied with her little petty moment, Shiho put her phone down and looked at the dirty dishes. She's very tempted to leave it there and just read the Jump but she really wouldn't risk a damn Sakusa Rush. So with a very annoyed groan to somehow let Tendou knew how unhappy she was, she groggily got up from the couch.

Being the decent human being she was, Shiho spent the next 2 minutes to pick a song to start the chore and decided to start with Artic Monkeys's "Why'd You only Call Me When You're High" (taste, i know). The apartment wasn't fancy, it had 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and a living room sharing place a with kichenette. But the walls had a pretty decent noise cancelling effect and that pretty much sealed the deal for her. (It took a lot of convincing on Tendou but it was worth it.)

The music proved to be lifting her mood and she decided that she'd tidy up her living room a little before finally doing the dishes. By the time she rinsed the first glass Hozier's "Work Song" started playing. Ah what a very pleasant evening. So she blasted it on full volume.

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Bokuto (expectedly) lose the Rock-paper-scissor and was thus on snacks duty because of course they forgot to buy it.

His destination was the a 10 minutes away konbini from Kenma's apartment building. He was about to call the others to ask which ice cream brand was the one Kenma wanted again when he realized he'd left it behind, so he just bought 4 of them just in case because kami knows what Kenma'd do to Bokuto if he picked the wrong one. Kenma was really picky about his ice cream, something about the flavours being different in each brands. Bokuto didn't understand but he'd not complain lest Kenma (and Kuro!) gave him another lecture about ice cream brands.

He made his way back absently thinking about what they'd do for summer vacation. He'd want to do a private volleyball summer camp with the others but Akaashi said that if he'd had to play serious volleyball even in vacation then they might as well plan for his funeral. Bokuto thought he's being dramatic but doing something new did sound fun. They were going to do just that tonight, planning the super fun and super not volleyball summer vacation or what Kuroo would call as 'The Most Important Vacation for Freshmen'.

He'd arrived by Kenma's door before he knew it and knocked at the door a few times only to have none opening it. He tried the handle and it was not locked. Bokuto being the responsible adult he was let himself in and prepared a lecture to educate them.

A very loud and unfamiliar song welcomed him as soon as he stepped in. He locked the door behind him and started calling them out but his voice was drowned by the music. He stepped further into the apartment to find none of his friends in it. Instead he found a random girl on the kitchenette doing dishes while singing passionately on top of her lungs.

'What the hell happened here' was Bokuto's immediate thought as he assessed the surrounding to see whether his missing friends were being tied in the corner. Still finding nothing, Bokuto decided to proceed to the next best move: confront the bad guy (or girl at this occasion).

He put his purchases down gently and began approaching the girl. She didn't look threatening at all, standing almost a head shorter than him with oversized light purple hoodie and black-red hair on messy bun but he'd be damned to underestimate a kidnapper.

He rounded the kitchen island slowly with the loud music covering his otherwise loud footsteps. But then the song ended and Bokuto froze just one meter away from the guilty. The next song started playing and then it's the convicted's turn to freeze. Thinking panically that she somehow had noticed his presence, Bokuto decided to make the first move and reached for her neck only to be frozen in place again when the lyrics of the song kicked in.

It was Clannad's Dango Daikazoku! He and Kuro watched it just last Friday and they had both been crying a new river by the end (Kuro wouldn't admit it but Bokuto KNEW).

Unknowingly his tears started running down his face and he sobbed loudly. The sobbing startled the also crying Shiho and she turned around only to find a very crying and very tall Bokuto Koutarou in a blue-white half zipped up jacket on before her.

They stared at each other sobbing as the song playing before Shiho finally said, "T-that is so n-not faiirrr. Na-Nagisa deserved so *hic* so much be-etter!"

Bokuto nodded his head in a concerning strength, "I-I knoowww. Sh-she did nothing wr-wrooong!"

"I-I kept sayi-ing to my *hic* self th-that she was *hic* just ti-ired a-and she would actual-ly.. a-actually.." Bokuto didn't let her finish the sentence and hugged her tightly, shaking her body with his own sobbing.

Shiho cried more earnestly and hugged him back as tight until the song ended. But then by sheer luck or maybe just the universe playing with them, the next song being played was another Clannad's ost 'Shining in the Sky'.

They both gasped loudly before crying even impossibly harder screaming "USHIOOOOO!" and dropped on the floor still in each other's shaking arms.

They talked each other out how they thought that Ushio was gonna make it and not left Tomoya alone, how the world is one cruel and wicked place etc etc.

They didn't even notice the song ending until al of a sudden they were slapped sobber (almost literally) by Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" playing next. Both snapped at nothing in particular and swore loudly.

"What in the LOVELY EARS OF ENEL?!"

"OH C'MON MAN?!" they both said at the same time, glaring at nothing in particular.

"READ THE GODDAMN ROOM NOW, WILL YA?!" Bokuto whined while throwing his hands in the air.

"WHAT KIND OF ALGORITHM EVEN IS THAT?!" was Shiho's slightly more intelligent response.

They quickly stood up to search her stupid phone to change the stupid song. (Don't get them wrong Shiho would sing the song with whatever attempt of her at being seductive and Bokuto would excitedly moved his body to the song any day but just NOT on this particular occasion!)

They found her phone where she left it and Shiho let Bokuto chose the song as an apology for the mess her phone had caused. Bokuto played Black Eyed Peas's 'I Gotta Feeling' and they settled in a significantly less blaring volume.

With reasons unknown to mankind, they both moved back to the kichenette to finish the dishes and clean the mess on the floor. They worked synchronously in silence save for the music playing. After finishing the chores they went to the living room and Shiho robotically took her laptop and blanket from her room before setting it on the coffee table in front of them.

Bokuto retrieved his forgotten hoard from konbini and start distributing the goods around the laptop while Shiho looked for a movie to watch.

"You wanna watch this Hotarubi no Mori e movie? The rating is good and it was only 45 minutes long," Shiho nudged Bokuto with her elbow before reaching for her phone to turn the song off.

Bokuto glanced at the screen displaying the movie, "It looks cool, let's watch it."

Nobody knew why they even decided to watch a movie at all but they didn't really have the brain capacity to think about anything after the exhausting crying session. So they watched the movie while munching on Bokuto's illegal food. As we all knew watching that particular movie wasn't an even remotely smart decision because these idiots ended up in another intense crying sessions.

Exhausting to the bone after who knew how many liters of tears, thing 1 and thing 2 passed out tangled with each other on the couch.

Loud chiming sound of notifications flooded the apartment every now and then, unheard by anyone. The loud shrill of incoming call was what finally woke up the dead. All kind of annoyed groans were released as if that could magically silence the noise and to their surprise it didn't stop ringing!

Shiho wriggled around on their make-shift 'bed' and reached blindly for her phone only to find Bokuto blindly flailing his hand trying to hand it to her. She climbed over his sprawled torso to reach for his moving limb and directed it towards her (damn him and his long stupid hand). She took the offending item with a mumbled "Thank you" before groaning at the bright screen displaying incoming call.

"Uughh make it stoopp!" whined Bokuto. Shiho just groaned back in response.

Making Bokuto as her new couch, Shiho brought the phone to her ear only to hear a disappointing sound of disconnected call. Through squinting eyes she noticed that Tendou was once again the source of the chaos.

Prying herself off of Bokuto's shifting body, she absently put her phone on silent before getting up to bee line to the bathroom. After a few useless water-splashing on her face in attempt to reduce her swollen eyes, she exited the bathroom to find Bokuto sluggishly coming her way. She stepped aside to let him use the bathroom and made her way to the couch.

The clock on the living room informed her that it was a little past 10. She plopped herself on the messy couch and checked on what Tendou had to say.

3 missed calls and 15 unread messages, 12 of them were from Tendou. Ok so maybe this was more urgent than expected. She opened Tendou's chat first and needed a moment to actually understand what he sent.

20:50

[Tenko] : Ouch! I am HURT!

[Tenko] : I'm gonna ask you later so you better do it! Believe it!

[Tenko] : Oh and you WOULD tell me the updates! Or I'll tell Wakatoshi-kun to tell Sakusan about your dirty dirty place! :P

21:06

[Tenko] : Check it out Shii-chan, Wakatoshi-kun said someone from Tokyo went missing, like someone our age.

[Tenko] : Ooo apparently we know him!

21:10

[Tenko] : Uh oh.

[Tenko] : Shii-chan! Wakatoshi-kun said that he was supposedly just around your neighborhood when he went missing.

[Tenko] : He said that this missing person and his friends were visiting someone on your building (WHAT?!). He went out to buy snacks at around 19:50 and hasn't come back since! He didn't even bring his phone with him!

21:34

[Tenko] : Shii-chan?? Are you there??

22:00

[Tenko] : Ok Shii-chan If you didn't reply in 5 minutes I'm gonna send the miracle boy your way.

missed call at 22:02

[Tenko] : SHII-CHAN PICK UP!

missed call at 22:04

missed call at 22:07

[Tenko] : Ok that's it! I'm sending Wakatoshi-kun to check on you!