Meeting the double doors just like the other night, you stopped and knocked to see if it was alright for you to enter the room.

"U-ughhh...Komaeda-kun? I have your breakfast."

As you waited for a response you checked if you had everything Hajime had handed off to you.

"You can come in." He calls back.

Just like the previous night, you opened the door to see him laying on the ground again, however, this time he was facing you. You saw his face almost immediately brighten up at the sudden surprise of you being in the room. Despite how surprised and happy he looked, he also looked extremely uncomfortable, his body hunched over as he lay there looking like he had been struggling.

"Oh. Good morning, (Y/N). I didn't expect to see you."

You smile and sit down on the floor, setting the tray down besides him.

"Haha, yeah. I volunteered to take your food to you."

Your comment seemed to surprise him a bit and he blushed a slight bit smiling.

"Well thank you. I appreciate that more than you think."

You chuckle slightly.

"Of course. I feel really bad that you're in this situation, so I just thought it would be nice to bring it to you."

The boy smiled.

"You're so nice (Y/N). Not even my own parents would have treated me with this much love and care in this situation as you do."

Nagito looked down continuing to smile slightly with a bit of sadness in his eyes almost like he was holding something back.

"Huh?" You thought to yourself. "I'm not even doing much and hes saying his own mother and father wouldn't do something like this for him? What kind of home was he raised in?"

Finally, you actually spoke up.

"Really? That's surprising to hear. Still though, its fine. I mean really, I don't want you to starve to death."

All he did was smile up at you then laugh a tiny bit before becoming lost in thought once again. Realizing what he was thinking about, you quickly regained his attention.

"Hey..ughh...do you need a little help with getting up so you can eat, Komaeda-kun?" You asked worriedly.

Nagito looked up at you again, that sweet smile growing on his face again.

"If you don't mind helping trash like me, then yes, that would be much appreciated, thank you very much."

You smiled at him and got up, removing your backpack and ridding yourself of any extra weight on your back so you could pull Nagito up allowing him to sit straight up against the wall so he didn't have to eat his food off of the ground like an animal. Thankfully, he was surprisingly light and easy to lift up. Once he was up, you retrieved the metal tray and brought it over to him.

"Thank you so much (Y/N). I'm sorry to bother you, but I have another small request if you don't mind."

Kneeling on the floor again and setting the tray down in front of him, you tilted your head and nodded, humming in response telling him he can put in his request.

"Well, I know that you're a girl and all, and I do feel bad for asking you this, but I'm in a little bit of trouble right now with my hands chained up, meaning that I really cant feed myself. I understand if you don't want to do this, but would you mind if you fed me possibly?"

You couldn't help but blush as he asked this question. You face heated up almost instantly and thoughts upon thoughts began circling your head.

"S-sure. I'd be fine with that." You nervously stammered without realizing.

"SHIT WHAT DID I SAY THAT FOR!?" You screamed at yourself in your head.

Nagito smiled brightly and tilted his head cutely at you.

"Ah, thank you so much! You're so kind, (Y/N). "

All you did was nod and smile nervously back at him.

"That smile..." you thought. "Why does it have to be so damn cute? Dammit! What am I saying?! I just met the guy! And you have no idea what he could do or what he is actually like! I mean really, what about the warnings Hajime has been giving to you?!" .

You snapped out of your daze and looked at him seriously in the eyes.

"Okay," you started. "What would you like first?"

Nagito looked down at the tray and flashed another care-free smile, a slight bit of pink dusting his cheeks.

"I'll just start with the toast please, thank you."

You nodded, picking up the toast and holding it up to his mouth. Leaning in to take a bite, Nagito's shackles clanked with every movement. Without notice, you just sat across from, him watching him eat as you blushed. His face looked so relaxed, his features so light and sweet. It made you want to lightly stroke his cheek or kiss his forehead. His pale skin made him look so delicate but his attractive grey-green eyes added to his mysteriousness. It all came perfectly together with his messy white hair that feel cutely in front of his face slightly covering his nose. His hair looked so soft almost like a bunny's fur or a marshmallow and you felt compelled to run you fingers through it.

"Ughhh..." Nagito wondered, him looking back up at your blushing self who was currently deep in thought. "Are you alright, (Y/N)?"

Snapping back into reality, you looked at him wide eyed, a deeper red growing on your face as you realized he was still right in front of you and you had been watching him the entire time.

"Y-yep!" You quickly responded, frantically putting the remaining forth of the toast back on the plate on the tray and picking up the napkin and glass container of milk. "I'm okay...sorry...I spaced out for a bit there."

Nagito just chuckled.

"Don't worry about it at all. I do that too." He told you reassuringly. "May I have some milk please?"

You nodded and brought the pre-opened bottle to his mouth, tilting it slightly to let him drink then pulling it away and placing it back down onto the tray once he was finished.

"Thank you for doing this for me, (Y/N). You really are so nice!" He credited. "You posses so much hope. I can already tell! Truly amazing!"

You smiled nervously blushing slightly.

"Please, I'm not amazing at all, and I posses hope?" You laughed. "Not at all. That's really nice of you to say though."

Nagito looked at you like you were crazy, but not soon after just got back to smiling.

"Ah, it seems you don't see it yet." He said, looking down at the ground with his eyes closed. Looking back up at you and opening his eyes to look straight at you, he opened his mouth to speak, but held back and looked down again in thought. "Hmh" he hummed. "How can I put this...well," he thought aloud looking back up at you. "I guess we'll just have to see when the time comes. Then, maybe you too will see how much hope you possess and what I actually mean by my statement."

There was a sense of maniacy in his eyes, but you just shrugged it off thinking it was your imagination.

"Okay, then." You responded to him trying not to laugh at his insane sounding statement, this snapping out of whatever mood he was in as you got his attention back. You looked down at the tray. "Oh, hey, you didn't finish the rest of your toast. Have the rest so you don't get hungry later."

With that, you picked up the remaining piece and held it somewhat close to his face as he nodded agreeing to eating the rest of his breakfast. Leaning in once more, Nagito brought himself close to the bread and had his tongue make light contact with half of the bottom of the piece, the tip of his tongue accidentally touching with the tip of your middle finger, this causing you to blush hard, him not realizing and continuing to take a large bite into the bread, pulling it away from your hand and finishing off the rest of the piece. Opening his eyes after swallowing and looking back up at you only to see you blushing like a mess, he smiled and chuckled slightly asking you if everything was okay. All you could manage to do was nod and attempt to rub the blush off of your face, that obviously not working at all no matter how hard you tried.

"Well, thank you very much for feeding me." He said, your blushing way too obvious for him to ignore. Despite noticing it, he didn't acknowledge it to your luck, and just continued to speak. "For the past few days I've had to stay in this old building, I've been eating off of the floor like a dog, so its nice to have someone help me for a change."

The blush faded from your face and your expression changed into a serious one.

"That's awful that people have just been throwing your food down and expecting you to eat like a pig. I'm really sorry you have had to deal with that." You said, his face once again looking at you with a surprised look on his face.

"Its alright." He responded, his voice trailing off a little and his expression changing again, a slight suppressing smile getting plastered on his face as he looks down at the broken up wooden floor. I deserve to be treated like that. Just like you said...I was forced to eat like a pig, and that's because I'm just a pig in human clothes. Absolute garbage. Completely worthless." Suddenly, his expression changed from sad to joyful. "That's why I've decided to become a stepping stone for all hope! Even you, (Y/N)! I'd be so happy if I could contribute to expanding your sense of hope and your overall greatness if it meant you killing me or someone else! And I could help you too if you would like to invite trash like me to assist such an incredible person like yourself! I just want to make all of you amazing Ultimates shine, you all being the true embodiments of hope as it is! I mean really, all I can really do is help by being a stepping stone! I'm too careless and overall useless enough to really be any kind of ho-

*slap*

Nagito stopped dead sentence, his eyes wide in surprise as yours looked at him angrily. Sighing, you cupped his face and made him look you in the eyes, both of you blushing slightly from being so close.

"Just stop, Komaeda." You said, his eyes still wide with shock. You could tell he wasn't expecting you to do that at all. "I'm sorry I had to do that...I just needed to get your attention." You opened your mouth to continue talking but were quickly cut off by Nagito chuckling slightly.

"No worries. It was a perfectly reasonable response. I get that a lot."

"No it wasn't!" You tell him frustrated from his words. "Komaeda, I want you to listen! You are not trash no matter how many times you or anyone else says it. You are NOT trash! If anyone is trash, its me, so quit it." You take a deep breath to calm down and look at him seriously again. "You're not garbage...you're not pig...you're not useless either...and from what I've seen of you so far, you're not a bad person at all."

Nagito just looks at you surprised as you speak, his mouth staying shut but his eyes open and focused on your words.

"As I walk around and talk to the others around the island...especially when I told them I could bring you your food this morning, I got so many warnings and strange looks. Maybe its that I'm new here, or maybe I'm just wrong for not trusting their words, but what I see now...what I see at this very moment in front of me ISN'T a bad person. Now...I don't know about everything you just said about hope and all...about you wanting to be a stepping stone for hope...wanting to...assist me if I wanted to kill someone on the island...you even saying that I could kill you in the name of hope and it would be okay...that part does concern me...but I really think deep down you're a great person...and I do want to get to know you better I think, even if that means that I will get bad looks and warnings! Because how I see it now, you're the odd one out from everyone...and I like helping the person who isn't with everyone else, because I want to see the person left out happy and never alone! I never want people to feel as alone like I do! I just want to make people smile...really smile...with no fear or concern for anything...even if it hurts me in the end, I just want others to be happy. That's why I want to be with you and listen to what you have to say despite the warnings I get, because if you really were dangerous, you would have killed or hurt me already, so I'll stay by your side for as long as you'd like and listen to everything you have to say...w-well as long as I'm not bothering you of course! Please tell me when you're done with me trying to help you! I know I'm not the greatest of help and I have a habit of making people upset because of my own insecurities and problems, so I really hope I don't bother you too much and please tell me or yell at me all you want when I am bothering y-

"Thank you, (Y/N)..." Nagito muttered, his eyes reverting down to the floor once again with a smile on his face. It looked as he was about to cry, but you could tell at that moment, for the first time you've seen him smiling, look like he wasn't holding anything back. It was a real smile.

You smiled awkwardly as well, suddenly remembering what you had just been going off about. Every bit of it was true though. Every word spoken. Continuing to look down at the floor, Nagito's eyes appeared to be welling with tears, but he blinked it off looked up at you again.

"You don't know how much your words really mean to me. You truly are an absolutely incredible person."