Oh god its freezing where I am. Usually where I live, its be- psh, 70° F? It's like 20° right now. It's snowing.

In the frigid air of the city, a male rested on a wood bench. Despite the thin pants he was wearing, he sat against the cold surface.

"Leon!"

The redhead looked up, then cursed under his breath as the action caused his scarf to fall away. "D-Dammit.." he stuttered out, breath coming out in billowing clouds as he tucked the scarf back into place.

"It's cold, isn't it?" The girl said brightly. Leon eyed her- she was wearing a white sweatshirt over a grey T-shirt with thin cotton pants. Unlike her, he was dressed in about four layers of clothing.

"I'm fr-frozen," he grumbled, curling into himself. "R-Rio, how do you-"

"I was born and raised in the cold. I never really mind it though, and my hands are always freezing anyways. I can't feel the cold on my arms."

Rio extended a hand, linking it with Leon's, which where clad in black gloves.

He rubbed at his thigh before standing (or, stumbling, in his case- it's not like sneakers were the best for keeping your feet from becoming numb) up. "Ho-How was I supposed to know it was gonna snow or be c-cold, for th-that matter...?"

"You weren't. Weather forecasters suck," she told him, her grip tightening on his hand.

Leon grinned, and she could see it- it was wide enough that the fabric of his (or hers, he had borrowed it) scarf couldn't hide it. "Very funny."

With that, he glanced down at their intertwined hands. Rio had done actions like this before- hugging him, hugging him without warning (glomping, she called it- which caused Leon to spill taco meat everywhere at the time), ruffling his hair- the list could go on forward. Holding hands were just on the top.

"What'd you get in there?"

Rio glanced at the bag she held loosely in her fingers, absently swinging it about. "Oh. Photo album for Mahiru, Monokuma pillow for Junko and a jumbo-size bag of gummies for Hiyoko. New-years. Junko was happy when I purposely told her I hadn't got her a present yet while I got one for Mukuro."

"Again with the despair thing?"

She nodded, a smile tugging at her bloodied (and bitten, mind you...she wasn't cut there) lips. "Yeah. She thought is was despairingly funny, according to her." She scoffed. "What an idiot. Mahiru and Hiyoko were on a trip together during Christmas."

Leon lifted his shoulders in that careless but charming shrug of his. He had stopped shivering ever since Rio came- while her hands were and always were freezing, she kinda had this warm, giddy feeling whenever talking about the others who were involved in either of the games.

"I personally find it kinda amusing," he said, eyes brightening. "And I see a bar of chocolate."

Rio laughed in response. "You got me~," she giggled before pulling out four bars of chocolate- two dark, two milk. "Two for each of us."

The redhead plucked a dark chocolate bar out of her hands, tearing the seal open and biting into it. In seconds, his shoulders slumped as he let out a content hum. "Awesome."

"Leon," Rio mused. "Look up."

He obliged. There, floating from the heavens, small snowflakes descended down. He stuck out his mouth, catching several on it. In the clear darkness of the sky, the two could see the small speckles in the distance.

"Isn't it beautiful? The snow I usually seen falls when I'm asleep or during the daytime."

Looking over at her, Leon grinned widely. He pulled his hand out of Rio's grip, tugged off a black glove before catching a snowflake. He brought it back to his eye-level to watch it melt on his frigid fingertips.

"Yeah."

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A/N~
So, I know Leon's much more carefree in the actual Dangan Ronpa *in the three episodes he was in cough cough*, but hink of it like this : you just woke up from a dream. You and nine other people are in hospital beds. Your dream was the 'School life of mutual killing' and you had accidently killed someone and were executed. A brown-haired boy comes up to you, and says: "You woke up! Kirigiri-san, he/she woke up from it!"...then you realize it was 'true' but you didn't really die and went into comatose (yes, I know, that's SDR2 but still). Would you be pretty cautious with who you speak to?

I mean, look at Leon. The one he spoke freely too, Sayaka, was the one that attacked him.

I dunno. I wanted to write something happy (like Bruised was supposed to be a Leon X Reader and called 'Player') with Leon Kuwata.