Hinatsumi

Hinatsumi is the het ship between Hajime Hinata and Natsumi Kuzuryuu from the Danganronpa fandom.

Canon
Hajime and Natsumi were classmates in the Reserve Course. When Natsumi first spoke to Hajime, she comments that he has no friends, and tells him she doesn't have any either. She says she's the sister of the Ultimate Yakuza, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu, and calls herself the "Ultimate Little Sister". Hajime points out that she doesn't have a talent, but Natsumi refuses to acknowledge that. She said she would do anything to get into the Main Course.

Later, when Hajime talks to her on the top of the Reserve Course Building, she confides to him that if she doesn't keep up with her brother, she'll get left behind. Hajime admits that he understands how it lonely it feels to get left behind. He feels the same way about Chiaki as Natsumi does Fuyuhiko. However, he also tells her there are other things just as important as talent. He encourages her to stay with her brother and make memories with him.

Her death saddens Hajime. He tries to investigate the truth behind her death, but is stopped from doing so by Juzo Sakakura. Hajime does not lose his curiosity of Natsumi's murder, and approaches Sato to question her about it. Sato did not give herself up, and instead made fun of Natsumi, saying she must have lost all will to live and killed herself. Hajime did not believe her, he defended Natsumi told Sato about her real motivations.

Canon
"Yeah, she had no talent... So what? All lives are equal!"

- Hajime defending Natsumi during his fight with Juzo Sakakura.

Fanon
"Whoa, hang on, man. If she is what she says she is, maybe we try and befriend her?"

- Hajime coming up with an idea to get on Natsumi's good side so that she'd get him on the Main Course, in the abridged version of Despair Arc's episode 3.

Fanon
The ship sailed with the third episode of Despair Arc, where the two had major interactions in the first half of the episode and Hajime was shown to be the only person able to sympathize with Natsumi. The shippers were disappointed with Natsumi's so early death, as it prevented the two from having more interactions. The ship is quite popular, although with Natsumi dying rather quickly after her introduction and with Hajime having more memorable ships, this one tends to be quickly forgotten by a lot of fans. Nonetheless, this is still the most written ship for Natsumi on AO3.

The ship is both fueled more as well as sunk in the third episode of Despair Arc's Abridged version. In this fan remake, Hajime believes that thanks to having a brother in the Main Course, Natsumi will be able to get him there as well. To do so he decides to get on her good side by acting as her "future husband". He backs up her in her fights with Sato and, like in canon version, prevents Sato from hitting her. In a conversation with Chiaki Nanami, he asks her if she'll be fine with him getting to the Main Course, saying that "There's this girl...", trying to explain how Natsumi could help him. However, this poor choice of words makes Chiaki jealous. Later, Natsumi tells Hajime she's unable to get him to the Main Course, let alone herself. As a result, Hajime drops the "future husband" act and claims he wasted time with that. However, he still sympathizes with Natsumi, although not as much as in the canon version.

The ship's popularity was also increased with the fan fiction called Yakuza Arc which focuses on a scenario where Natsumi survives and develops a relationship with Hajime. Said fan fiction is a source of several fan art for the ship. Fan art from the series as well as outside of it often shows Hajime rescuing Natsumi from Sato and mafia members.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Hinata/Kuzuryu tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Hinata/Kuzuryu tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Hinata/Kuzuryu tag on FanFiction.Net

FAN ART

TUMBLR

WIKI
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Trivia

 * Both are among three known Reserve Course students, with the only other being Sato.
 * They share the ship name with one of the alternate ship name variations for Hinamiki.

Variations

 * Reserve Course Trio refers to the ship between the two and Sato
 * Komahinatsumi refers to the ship between the two and Nagito Komaeda