#OH I should mention the archive would include just about everything from official art to merch to Pelo's doodle pages!

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Just had an idea,,, Spooky Month archive blog

Basically a blog where Spooky Month related stuff would be archived (official only)

I actually have a good chunk of things saved to my drive so I could go ahead and start posting immediately

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The Child

Alright! This is a story I’m currently making on Archive Of Our Own. I might as well try to promote the story here.

If you wanna see past Chapter 1 (I’ve done 3 chapters) click the link

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27550474/chapters/67383730

It was just another normal day; well... as normal as it can be. The group was sitting in the cafeteria, just waiting; waiting for Teruteru and Hajime to finish cooking. As the Ultimate Cooks, they often insist on cooking. Today though, they’re taking a bit longer than usual. The group wasn’t particularly worried but, it did get their attention.

“I wonder what’s taking Hajime-chan and Teruteru-chan so long” Ibuki mentioned.

“Maybe they are preparing a feast for us” Sonia said.

As if on cue, the cooks finally reappeared in the cafeteria with food in hands. A very normal amount of food. So that eliminates Sonia’s suggestion.

“My apologizes for the delay, folks. Perfection takes a long time” Teruteru said in his usual cocky attitude.

“He means some of the cooking utensils were missing, he freaked out for five minutes then, we had to make do with the rest of the supplies left” Hajime corrected. He was already done with Teruteru’s bs. Teruteru looked back and gave Hajime an exaggerated glare, Hajime just smirked back. They set the food down on the table and before they could even set down the utensils, Akane got up and ran towards the food; Imposter, or so they called ‘him’, quickly followed.

“Akane, wait! You know I must always test the food to see if anything is amiss.” Imposter scolded.

“Ah shut it! We all know the food is safe, plus I’m hungry!”  

Teruteru tried to get the food away from the greedy girl but, it was already too late, the chicken had been torn into and the Impostor went for the soup.

“ALESSIA CARA! What are you two doing?! Stop acting like heathens and take a serving like the rest of the class! This food is a work of art and should be treated and eaten as such!”

This soon became a game of cat and mouse as Teruteru ran away with the food and Akane chased him. Hajime sighed and the rest of the class laughed. Nagito and Hajime decided to serve the rest of the food. Grabbing plates and utensils, they gave every student their own serving and saved two servings for Teruteru and Akane. Hajime got the last two servings for himself and Nagito and put them on the last table to the end; they usually ate together, mostly because the class insists they do, now that they’re officially a thing.

“Hajime, help me! I can’t outrun this beast forever!” Teruteru pleaded from the hallway. Hajime facepalmed before walking towards the hallways. Nagito giggled before going to take a seat but, when he got to his chair, he noticed that Hajime’s plate was gone.  

“What? Impostor, did you steal Hajime’s food again? Haven’t we said that the food was safe?” Nagito asked.

“What?” Impostor seemed confused, “No, I didn’t. I was right here the whole time.”

Nagito looked at Impostor then back at the missing food, “That’s strange. Then who took it? It wasn’t Akane, she’s chasing Teruteru.”

“Oh OH! We have a food thief on the island!” Ibuki said a little too excitedly, “We gotta be detectives and find out who dunnit!”

“Can that happen after breakfast?” Kazuichi whined, “I haven’t eaten all day.”

“You guys can eat, I’m going to search,” Nagito offered.

“Nagito, you know Hajime isn’t going to like that, you’re probably the one that needs to eat the most,” Of course, Mahiru is right but, Nagito didn’t feel comfortable with that. Guess that comes with caring about someone. Besides, Nagito wasn’t hungry.

“It’ll be fine,” is all Nagito said before leaving the cafeteria to search. If they have a thief, it would be the person without an alibi but, everyone was in the cafeteria. That means, it’s possibly someone that shouldn’t even be on the island. As Nagito looks around the first island to find anything, he instead sees a ship docked on the main island, this often means Makoto and company had arrived.  

Nagito went to the main island to greet them. When he got near their ship, he saw Makoto and security, they seemed to be looking for something or someone. He approached Makoto and tapped him on the shoulder. Makoto yelped. Right...he doesn’t like being approached from behind.

“Oh, Komaeda! It’s just you. Uhm...could you not do that?” Makoto asked, still a little shaken up.

“Sorry”

“It’s fine, actually, I’m glad you’re here! Have you seen anything or anyone strange?”

“Actually, yes.” Nagito confirmed, “Someone stole Hajime’s food. I’ve been looking for any evidence that could show me who it is.”

“That could be her.” Makoto mumbled to himself.

“Who?” Nagito questioned.

Makoto didn’t answer, he seems to be deep in thought about something. When he snapped out of thought, he looked at Nagito and asked, “Can you help me find her?”

“Uhh...sure?” Nagito responded confused.

Makoto smiled and started to search around the main island again. Nagito decided to search a different island. Something was telling him to search the fourth island and so he did. The once carnival themed island was now turned into another eatery. Nagito searched the booths to see if someone was there. By the time he made it to the last booth, he heard scuttering; as if someone was running away. He followed the noise, trying be as quiet as possible, until he heard rustling. He looked behind him to see a little girl with an empty plate in one hand and a teddy bear in the other.

The little girl had dark brown skin and bushy near-black hair up in two puffs on the sides of her head. She was wearing a baggy, plain white t-shirt with a dusty pink skirt and dark pink shoes and an out of place, purple bow but, her most noticeable feature was her deep red eyes and her dead stare; it reminded Nagito of Izuru. He, slowly, approached the young girl and kneeled down to her eye level.  

“Hello, my name is Nagito Komaeda, what’s your name?”

She didn’t respond. She just continued to stare at him. It was kind of creepy, though Nagito of all people had no right to judge.  

“Were you the one that stole the food?” Nagito asked while pointing to the plate.

The girl didn’t answer but looked at the plate in her hand. She then held out the plate to Nagito as if she was giving it to him. Nagito took that as a confession and took the plate. He got back to his feet and started heading back. The girl didn’t follow.

“Come one,” he said, waving his hand in a gesture that meant follow.

When he noticed her walking towards him, he started to leave once more. He made sure to keep an eye on her to make sure she didn’t fall behind, she didn’t. He made his way to the main land where now everyone was, including Makoto.

“Ah! There they are.” Makoto said, relieved, “I told you he was fine.”

“Nagito! Where were you?” Hajime asked. It seemed he was worried. “And who is this?”

Nagito gestured to the girl now hiding behind him. “She’s the food thief. I don’t know what her name is. She won’t talk to me. I was hoping Naegi-kun would know.”

Makoto sighed, “Sadly, I don’t. She won’t talk to any of us.”

Akane told one good look at the girl and laughed.

“Akane, what might be so funny. I do not believe this is a situation to L O L about.” Sonia commented.

“Y’all are idiots! Look at the girl, she’s not Asian. She’s not even Afro-Asian! Of course, the girl was silent, she probably doesn’t speak Japanese!”

Akane walked up to the girl and spoke a different language. The girl’s eyes lit up and she started to talk back. Everyone else seemed confused expect Hajime and Sonia. But that made sense, Hajime was the Ultimate Everything and thus the Ultimate Linguist and Sonia is a princess that knew thirty different languages. Nagito could somewhat understand but, wasn’t as great at translation. He could only tell that the two were speaking English.

“What are they saying?” Kazuichi asked, completely lost.

“Introductions. Akane is introducing herself and the rest of us to girl.” Sonia responded a little coldly.

Akane then turned to the group again.

“Okay, pretty much; the girl speaks English, she’s from an island named ‘Dominica’, she’s 10 and her name is Anna spelled A-n-n-a.”

Makoto piped up, “So she speaks English...I wouldn’t know that since we found her just wandering around Tokyo. We actually brought her here to see if you guys could take care of her. I, unfortunately, don’t have the time to.”

The group fell silent, did they actually want to take care of a random child that they don’t know?  

“Why not?” Akane said, confidently, “It’s be nice to get some kids around here for once. Plus, she got nowhere to go.”

“It does seem like the right thing to do,” Hajime said, “But, are all of you fine with it?”

One by one the group slowly nodded their heads; no one objected, surprisingly.

Akane spoke to Anna in English, Hajime translated for the rest of the group.

English is in Bold, Japanese is not.

“Do you want to stay with us Anna?”

Anna replied, “...Are they nice people?”

“Of course.” Akane said, chipper as ever.

“...Sure then. I trust you.” Anna smile.

“Yay!”

Akane looked back at the group and started speaking Japanese again.

“Well, I do have a mission soon but, Sonia and Hajime understand English so, it should be fine. We can set her up with one of you.”

“Would you wanna stay with the Blonde girl or the Brown spikey haired boy?”

“Why can’t I stay with you?” Anna asked?

“Cause I’m going on a mission soon and I won’t be here to talk to you.” Akane points to Hajime and Sonia, “Those two also know English.”

“Oh.” Anna took a look at Hajime and Sonia and pointed at Hajime, “He seems nice.”

Hajime smiled. Kazuichi snickered.

“That’s the first time I’ve heard someone say that Hajime seems nice”  

Hajime didn’t even need to glare at Kazuichi because Nagito did it for him. Kazuichi rose up his hands in defense.

“Really? The girl doesn’t seem nice?”

Anna paused, “A blonde lady took me away from my mommy...”

Silence.

Sonia and surprisingly, Hiyoko seems pretty uncomfortable after hearing that.

“Oh... well, I promise, Sonia is not a bad person. She’s a very nice blonde lady!” Akane reassured, “But, if you feel uncomfortable with her then, Hajime it is.”

With the living arrangements settled they all went home to bask, in wonder, at this very interesting day.