#myfics!

Tags: Post-Game(s), Post-Canon, Killing Game Was A Virtual Reality Simulation (Dangan Ronpa), Hospitals, Suicidal Thoughts, Awkward Conversations, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Near Death Experiences, Sunrises (mind the cw in the author notes)

Characters: Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi

Relationships: Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Summary: Hatsuhinode- the first sunrise of the new year

Despite the bleakness of their current situation, Ouma and Saihara manage to grasp a tiny bit of hope for the future..

Excerpt: There’s a flash of something in his grey-gold eyes before he clears his through, “Do you think it’ll get better? Will we ever… get out of here?” 

Ouma doesn’t know how to answer. Maybe there aren’t any answers. There is no future for Danganronpa and no future for them. The lives they signed away as their former selves are now doomed to some endless purgatory in these headquarters as they figure out just what to do with them after ruining their precious show. 

But as unchanging as their lives are, the world around them still seems to undergo basic changes. The night sky is slowly being overtaken by the slowly rising sun. Time and nature continue around the stagnation that envelopes this awful place. 

Pinks and oranges begin to glow brighter at the horizon under the trees. Like a small flame in the darkness. An ember in the dark sky. 

Tags: Halloween, Costumes, Underage Drinking, House Party, First Kiss, Anxiety,Getting to Know Each Other

Characters: Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi, Momota Kaito, Harukawa, Other background/mentioned

Relationships: Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Summary: Shuichi finds the scariest thing at Halloween has nothing to do with monsters or tricks.

Kokichi shows him that might not be such a bad thing.

Excerpt:

“But do you wanna be something else?” Kokichi asks head tilted back.

“I…” And that’s the question he really doesn’t have an answer to. A holiday all about being whatever you wanted to be, and he couldn’t come up with anything. Everything seemed too silly or too cool for someone like him to pull off. 

Kokichi laughs. “Aww, Saihara-chan is so true to himself that he isn’t good at being anyone else.” 

“I’m not sure that’s it. I just… couldn’t think of anything else. Guess I am just… boring.”

They fall into silence. Well, almost. Next to him, Shuichi can feel Ouma’s feet tapping against the wood and the faintest sound of humming over the light wind. The cool air seems to be doing its job of sobering him up. The overwhelming feeling of spinning and warmth had settled into an almost pleasant numb buzz. 

Kokichi finally breaks the silence, his face and voice oddly blank, “What about me, Saihara-chan?”

“W-what do you mean?”

Kokichi’s head tilts, “Do you think my costume is boring?”

Tags:Phantom Thief Oma Kokichi, Aged-Up Character(s), Detectives, Alternate Universe - Non-Despair (Dangan Ronpa), Suggestive Themes, Unresolved Tension, Not Beta Read, Ambiguous/Open Ending, possibly ruining your career over some homoerotic tension

Characters: Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi

Relationships: Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Summary: Detective Saihara was supposed to do his job, catch the criminal like he was assigned to do. But he doesn't and nothing seems to make sense anymore... not after the Phantom Thief he's chasing changes everything.

Excerpt:  “You deserve to be happy.” Ouma's hand pulls away and he moves back to the window where he had entered. 

Even if it’s not with me. 

The ghost of words unsaid hangs in the thick air of his office. It lingers like the thief does— crouched in the window frame. Violet eyes, deep and incomprehensible as the galaxies Kaito always tells him about, bore into him—a gaze that managed to strip him bare of the lies and pretense that protected him. 

He wishes he knew what to say. Wishes he had the courage to follow him out that window. But he doesn’t. 

The handcuffs are off, but he’s chained in place nonetheless. The heavy metal ball of his own fears and insecurities keeps him frozen in that uncomfortable chair. 

Tags: Post-Game(s), Killing Game Was A Virtual Reality Simulation (Dangan Ronpa), Healing, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together, Eventual Happy Ending, Domestic, the title makes it sound way more angsty than it is i promise, its just a song title

Characters: Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi

Relationships: Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Summary: Two smiles that aren't reciprocated and one that is.Three shared moments after exiting the virtual reality killing game.

Excerpt: This time… no nurses or needles, but there’s a familiar figure in a light blue hospital gown curled up on the lounge chair next to his bed. 

Why…. Why would he be here?

“You look awful, Saihara-chan.” His own voice sounds scratchy and unfamiliar from lack of use. 

It’s no lie. Even if the last time Ouma saw him was fake. The Saihara sitting in front of him looked way worse than he had in that awful room after seeing that destroyed world (even if it was all fake). Back when he handed over the hangar remote... 

The Saihara in front of him now had sunken-in eyes, sallow-looking skin, and looked a little too thin. His hair is a little longer and unkempt as if it hasn’t seen a brush or shampoo in a bit. 

But as run-down and beaten as Saihara looks… it’s preferable to that time—preferable to the way Saihara looked at him with anger, hate, confusion, and frustration back when he kidnapped Momota and tried to end the game. Now Saihara’s looking at him with a very different expression. One he’s too tired to try and figure out. 

“Ouma-kun…” He appreciates that Saihara isn’t like him. Isn’t the type to come back with an equally barbed insult because Ouma is sure that no matter how bad Saihara looks—he looks way worse. 

“Why are you here?” Ouma asks, no need to beat around the bush. He knows his mind is no better than mush lately, but he still cannot fathom a reason that Saihara Shuichi would be curled up in a chair in his room, looking as if he hasn’t slept for days

Tags: Moving In Together, Roommates, Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Not Beta Read, Developing Relationship, Aged-Up Character(s), Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Background Relationships, minor appearances/mentions of Kaito, Maki, Kaede, and Miu and background implied Kaede/Miu 

Characters: Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi

Relationships: Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Summary: After dating for a bit it makes sense to move in together. However, Shuichi missed the part where he was informed this was going to happen.

Excerpt: Shuichi cracks his knuckles as he looks over the case he’s been stumped on all week. He knows it’s because he’s too distracted to focus on work. All he can think about is the fact that more and more of Kokichi’s belongings keep appearing in the apartment. About how Shuichi can’t even remember the last time Kokichi didn’t sleep in his bed. Not that he hasn’t tried to ask and find out. 

He just never gets a straight answer. The conversation goes the same way it does every time. Kokichi asks if it’s a problem and Shuichi answers that it’s not. Because it really isn’t. He doesn’t mind the fridge and pantry being stocked with Kokichi’s favorite snacks. He doesn’t mind giving him the two drawers he wasn’t using anyhow to put his clothes in. And he actually really likes coming home after a long day of classes and work and seeing little things that remind him of Kokichi. He likes being greeted by Kokichi sneaking up and snaking his arms around him. And he sleeps a lot better with his warm body pressed against his own. 

Tags: Post-Game,Killing Game Was A Virtual Reality Simulation (Dangan Ronpa), Running Away, Reunions, Comfort/Angst, Smoking, Coping, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Introspection, Healing, Hopeful Ending

Characters: Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi

Relationships: Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Summary: Ouma Kokichi has been running since the moment he's been free from the grasps of Team Danganronpa.

He doesn't expect to be found nor does he know what to do once he is.

Excerpt:  Each of these thoughts and memories was equally as rancid, chewing away at his heart like acid—pumping through his veins like the poison once shot into him in that fake world. Corroding whatever remains of Ouma Kokichi, Even if he looks somewhat okay on the outside (albeit a little pale and underweight), he’s disintegrating on the inside. 

He wonders if, in time, he will just turn to dust completely and scatter to the winds. Or that the constant pain will batter away at him like waves on the shore, and he’ll slowly disappear. A memory. The former contestant who just vanished. Something he’s been trying to do for the three years since he took off the helmet and exited the simulation. 

Once, he read that being forgotten was just like dying. And he’s been trying to be forgotten for a while now.

Tags: Phantom Thief Oma Kokichi, Detectives, Sickfic, Caretaking, Hurt/Comfort, Pining, Not Beta Read, Aged-Up Character(s), Alternate Universe - No Killing Game (Dangan Ronpa)

Characters: Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi

Relationships: Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Summary: Ouma finds Detective Saihara in the rain.Even if he isn't sure how to feel about their whole situation he knows he can't just leave him be.

Excerpt:  “Why did you come tonight? To my office?” Saihara wraps himself in the blankets and settles in. He seems to be shivering a bit less, but there’s still a sheen of sweat on his brow. But he’s good enough for Ouma to leave. Which is what he should do now that Saihara was lucid enough to start asking dangerous personal questions. 

“To kill you, of course!” 

Saihara doesn’t react. As if he expects Ouma’s empty threats at this point. “No… that’s not it.”

Ouma remembers what Saihara told him earlier… information he knew was confidential. That they wanted to try him for a murder he definitely didn’t commit… a crime he would never commit.  

And Saihara was… protecting him. But why? Why…  

He smiles wryly over at Saihara, “Aww, you figured out my lie… I guess I was worried you got bored of chasing little old me, my beloved Saihara-chan.” 

“You… could never bore me thief.” 

He freezes, his throat and mouth dry up at the way Saihara is watching him, at the softness and sincerity in his voice. 

If he was flying too close to the sun before… he’s now careening right at it in some high-speed jet, and crashing is inevitable. His attraction is becoming something far deeper and more tangible, and that was terrifying. 

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Tags: Post-Canon, Killing Game Was A Virtual Reality Simulation (Dangan Ronpa), Hurt/Comfort, Comfort/Angst, Roommates, Blood and Injury, Mental Health Issues, Recovery, Developing Relationship

*** please mind the content warnings in the authors note***

Characters: Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi

Relationships: Ouma Kokichi/Saihara Shuichi

Summary: Shuichi holds himself together so well after the game, making sure everyone else ends up okay.

But it doesn't last. And Kokichi isn't sure how to fix it.

Excerpt: The beaten-up car hasn’t been touched since then, and Shuichi doesn’t leave other than his walks with Maki and Himiko. Kaito comes over and trains with him. Kaede brings over an electric keyboard and plays him music. Ryoma brings over his cat. Miu brings some weird neck massager. And the others all try as well. Shuichi just smiles and promises he’s fine. 

Kokichi watches and knows it’s a lie. It scares him. Because he doesn’t know what to do or say. Not like Shuichi seemed to do with all of them.