Nagito: Well, I would probably survive it. Ultimate Lucky Student and all. But if you really do want to kill me, I’m sure we can find a way to make it happen!
i can't take you anywhere
by dimolto is a Danganronpa'' Alternate Universe Fic in which, on the way back from the third-year class trip to Hokkaido, the bus happened to leave two students behind: a tag-along Reserve Course boy who, as always, wasn’t quite sure how he kept getting himself into these situations, and an enigmatic young man who was beginning to feel very, very cheated by his luck. Now, if Hajime Hinata wants to get back to Tokyo, he’s going to have to face a hotwired car, 900 miles of open road, and ten days stuck with Nagito Komaeda.
Tropes in i can't take you anywhere include:
- Adaptational Heroism:
- Hope's Peak Academy, in which they never engages in the highy unethical Kamukura Project, but it's still pretty crappy towards the Reserve Course.
- Nagito himself, who, while still obsessed with hope and talent, doesn't go to the lenghts he did in canon to achieve, due to the Ultimate Despair and the Killing School Games being non-existent. Still, he did blow up the school's gym.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: At first, Hajime and Nagito have a very antagonistic relationship due to Nagito viewing Hajime as a "Reserve Course freeloader", but even so there's something between them.
- CloudCuckooLander: When Hajime asks Kazuichi's help to hotwire a car, the latter talks about making a robot made of cars.
- Deadpan Snarker: Hajime, as per canon, but also Nagito towards him.
- Inconvenient Attraction: Hajime towards Nagito, at first because the latter is a Jerkass and late because he doesn't want to ruin his new-found friendship with him.
