I stared at the blank blackboard as class didn't start. From yesterday, Todoroki was ignoring me from all my questions that I had, and I think he's going to ignore me today as well. It's too bad that I sit right next to him… It can't be helped then.
I kicked back and relaxed in my seat, trying to be in a comfortable position that I could be in with little space in the chair and desk, but then I moved one of my leg's onto my neighbor's desk. My eyes were looking around in the classroom, staring at groups of students huddled up together.
Then I felt a pair of eyes staring down at me as I was blanking out from reality. I was too consumed by my own thoughts eating what's around me, forgetting that I'm at school. "Hey…" I felt like I heard someone, but there's many students talking in this class, so I didn't think too much about it. "Hey…!"
I was blocking out reality from my mind and replacing it to my dreams.
"Hey!" I jumped from a hand slamming against the polished desk and an angry voice, bringing me back down to earth and scaring me the shit out of me.
I snapped my head and saw none other than Todoroki. "What?" I blankly stared at him. I was a bit annoyed by his demeanor of seeking my attention for no reason.
"What do you mean 'what'? You're leg is on my desk and no matter how many times I pushed it off, it wouldn't want to move. So I tried to wake you up from your deep daze, but you weren't listening so then I had to slam my hand on the desk to wake you up." He looked hot when he was angry, not going to lie about that. He was the only handsome guy in the entire classroom filled with boys.
"Sit properly, Mizuki!" I was scolded by Iida, who was so called the class president. He seemed like any typical mom to be honest.
"Fine, Mom." I took off my leg from his desk, but my ankle bracelet was caught in between the space of the chair and the metal bar holding up the desk part. "Mmm…!" I grunted, trying to get my foot out now.
"You really got your foot stuck?" Todoroki looked so disappointed in me as he watched me struggle.
"I do have slender legs…!" I pulled my leg once more, but got nothing out from it. It was stuck pretty sure. "Yeah… You're going to need a new desk, Todoroki." I smiled, sliding in his desk to me.
"No," With a deadpanned expression, he forcely pulled the desk and causing me to feel pain afterwards. I closed my eyes, trying to keep the pain inside myself than screaming it out. "Look see? Your foot is out," he said and I opened my eyes to see my foot was out.
"Yeah I see… But now I have a red mark around my ankle." I moved around my redden ankle in a full circle.
"Whose fault is that?" He sighed, crossing his arms over his chest, staring down at me.
"I just wanted to get comfortable." I simply replied, stretching out my legs under my desk.
"Akagawa Mizuki, you are reported to All Might's office." Aizawa called out.
"Well bye!" I waved at Todoroki and Iida. It was my get away call.
I made my way down the halls, turning many corners until I stopped in front of his door with the clean, slick, gold tag hanging next to the door saying: All Might. I brought my hand up and knocked on the door. "You called me."
"It's open." He replied, and I grasped onto the doorknob, turning it to the right then pushing it open. There, All Might was waiting for me in his macho form than his disheveled form. I closed the door behind me, making my way to the seat in front of him.
"Why did you call me down?" I asked, crossing my legs as I sat comfortably on the comfy sofa.
The air was thick as he didn't speak as he was still thinking about how should he approach something to me. But I'm sure it's about yesterday of the intruder appearing out of nowhere. As I was about to open my mouth, he spoke, "About what happened yesterday, who was that attacker?" He laid it out flat on the table.
"I'm not sure either. He kept on calling me 'princess', but I'm sure it's one of my father's servants or something." I tried to give out the best explanation and guess about this, but it's really hard since I was never close to my father's friends. I only watched my father from afar and studied him. I'm not sure if it's even his friends or whatnot.
"I see…" he nodded, knowing that we'll get nowhere since there's no evidence. "Your powers are truly amazing and terrifying at the same time. You could've stopped Blood King by inflicting pain onto him like you did with that man, but you didn't." All Might studied my movements from yesterday to praise me.
"Wouldn't it be such an easy kill? I wouldn't even give him a chance to strike me, so I play it hard than easy. I'll only use it when I have to. If you'll excuse me, Sir, I do have classes going on and I think I should leave now." I got up and bowed to him, then leaving his office.
I walked silently in the halls, click clacking was the only sound echoing off from the walls. I kept my head down as I walked. I was feeling some turmoiled inside of me. I don't know what's causing it, but I just have it. I was in front of the classroom's door and turned the doorknob to be greeted in such a manner that I wanted to shut the door immediately. "Todoroki, you're partnered up with Mizuki. Ah, you're here." Aizawa spotted me, over his shoulders. And I prayed to god why him? What did I have to be his partner? But oh well… I can't do anything about it really.
I stocked my way to my seat, stiffly settling myself down. No matter how much I wanted to postured myself in a good manner, I just couldn't. What Aizawa said was stuck in my head. "Come on, get with your partner and let's go." He ordered with the whole class getting out from the classroom.
Todoroki and I stared at each other for a moment, wondering why he put us as partners? "So…" I started the first say, "What are we doing?" I asked, trying to get close to him or be his acquaintance no matter how aloof he may be.
"We're doing another training."
We were told to wear our hero costumes and I quickly had to form one by using my blood. I wore an illusion halter top, black high waisted shorts, over the knee boots, and a coat that accentuate my bust since it's cut underneath it, the laced up corset in the front of the coat to tighten it, an a split in the back from the calf to the back of mid thighs. My black hair was in a tight ponytail to prevent it from getting in the way. My whole outfit was colored black with gold accents.
All of us were gathered up in this arena where it looked like we were going to hunting. "Okay, class, your mission is to take down as many villains as you can, but it's a teamwork strategy."
I could only stare back at Todoroki as in why I'm partnered up with him. "Don't get in my way." He scowled at me with his piercing eyes shooting down at me.
I smiled at him. "I'm sorry, Queen Elsa, but this is a teamwork training not a solo." He looked like a ticking time bomb, trying not to pull the trigger loose. He does remind of that movie Frozen. Maybe because it's the ice that's getting to me.
"Fine, Bloody Mary." That smile on my face slowly faded away.
"That was a good one," I laughed, but behind that laughter was me internally killing him or sucking the blood out from his body.
"Go!" Aizawa shouted and we all ran.
We both ran in the same pace, but I was enhancing my speed now. "To your left!" Todoroki shouted, and I looked at the corner of my eyes to spot the robot. I jumped in the blood puddle that I created and was transported on top of the robot as I held a katana blade in my hand, slicing it in half.
"Come on, let's get going!" I shouted, as we followed another villain and another. Todoroki and I evenly took down each villains, but it wasn't really teamwork. We just watched each other.
Todoroki's power is amazing, but he's scared to use his fire side I can tell by his subtle movements. I know how that feels when you don't want to use something that was gifted to you. "We are similar, Todoroki…" I mumbled.
I felt something was wrong and I turned my head to the side, "Arghhhhh..!" A big boulder was thrown at me and I was stuck under it. "Todoroki!" I grunted in agony. Screaming would only make it worse on me. It was crushing my legs up to my torso. It was getting harder to breath when it's crushing on top of my chest.
He stopped his running and ran toward me. "You cause so many problems…" He sighed at me, trying to find a way to take it off of me. "I'm...I'm going to have to freeze it." He quickly went and touched the boulder as it was slowly freezing it but not fast enough because he was afraid that it'll freeze me as well. I turned my head to the side because I couldn't look at him. As he was freezing it, I felt completely useless. I should've done something to get out...but my instinct of fear took over me, causing me to not be able to use my quirk.
From the distance, I saw someone skipping happily over our way. I squinted my eyes to take a closer look, and it wasn't anyone from our class. It was a different person. I felt a rush in my adrenaline. The fear took over me and I panicked at Todoroki, "Can't you make it go faster? There's someone coming over there!" I motioned him with my head but it was already too late. Todoroki was already thrown out from my sight. I screamed uselessly as I couldn't do a thing about it. He struggled to get himself up and back into his feet.
"Sorry, Princess, no heros can't get in the way between you and your family." It was the dude from yesterday. "I'll help you," he said, easily throwing off the boulder off of me and to… Todoroki!
"No!" I shrieked, wanting to move but it felt numb and pain. The only body parts I could move was my arms. I know by the time when Todoroki looks up, he'll be crushed and maybe be killed by it. I lifted my arm up and ready to manipulate his blood.
"Princess, no!" And my arm was kicked in the process of saving him… So the landing will be off and unbalanced for Todoroki. I wasn't going to let that kick stop me from saving him. To see him shocked, I was relieved that he was okay. My expression softened, but I have another problem to deal with. "Princess," A threatening yet stern voice was speaking to me, pulling me up by the throat. "Why would you do that?" He squeezed, cutting the air off from my lungs. I looked over at Todoroki and made eye contact with him, telling him to go and move on along. His face was confused for a moment of what the eyes was telling.
"G...go…" I managed to get out from my trembling lips.
I didn't want to hurt this man who was hurting me, I didn't want to use my power against him like yesterday, I just didn't have the power to take another's life…. But today, I will to save both of our lives.
My right eye was glowing to a gorgeous red as I stared deeply into his eyes that was hallowing, telling me the story of his life. "You…!" I gasped out his skull with my shaking hands. "Will… Die… Before me!" I managed to yell out with limited breathe. I placed a lot of pressure on his head causing it to bleed out blood from his face; from ears to eyes, eyes to nose, and nose to mouth. He dropped me to the ground with a big thump. I quickly regained my composure and stuck my hand out at him and said, "The one who created you by your flesh and blood shall be killed by the hands of Mizuki Akagawa," I forced myself to stand up with so much pain stirring in me. He smiled in horror, spotting that I'm just like my father.
"You...can't throw your...villainous side away...it'll always be...apart of you…!"
I stared at him coldly, looking above him with absolute. "My father created it you." That was the last thing before I absorbed his blood to my hand. His body slowly became bloodless, disappearing into thin air because he was only created by blood. He was never human right from the start.
My weak legs and chest were still hurt from the heavy boulder, so I instantly fell down. I heard footsteps running to me. "Mizuki, are you alright?" Todoroki came to my side, asking me questions as if I'm going to die.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm not going to die." I awfully tried to get up on my feet, but it was too painful.
"You can't walk." He looked at my condition. He turned his back to me. "Get on my back."
"I can heal myself. There's no worries-"
"We don't have time, Mizuki! You need to get on my back now!" He yelled, and I had no choice but to crawl onto his back. I wrapped my arms and legs around his body.
"Am I too much to carry?" I asked, feeling his movement jagged.
"No, it's just when that guy came out of nowhere, he aimed at my leg and now it's bleeding...but it's fine. I can handle the pain." He assured me, but I know that he was masking it with his cool demeanor.
"Why are you lying?" I softly spoke, feeling bad that he was forced to be dragged into this mess. I placed one hand on his shoulder and started to bend back, making his stumble.
"Hey, you're going to fall down…!" He tightly held my legs, trying not to fall. But all I was going to do was to heal him if I can't heal myself.
"Stop being difficult and walk. I'm trying to heal the wound," I said to him, having my other hand out, concentrating to close up the wound. With my magic hand, the wound was closed and healed. "Can you walk properly now than crookedly?" I asked, wondering if it did the trick or not.
"Yeah, it's better now." It was a tone of relief in his voice. "We can't fight any robots now. We need to head to the exit."
We won't be able to get there in time since we only have about two minutes before the gate automatically closes. I summoned my blood about three feet away from us and gradually made it bigger.
"What are you doing?" He looked utterly confused of what I'm doing and was a bit scared, wondering if it was a trap.
"Just keep on going. We're going to be transported to the headquarters quickly because in two minutes we won't make it since we're far from the exit door." I explained to him.
As we drew closer to the pool of blood, a robot appeared out of nowhere. "Do something! I'm trying to open the pool bigger for both of us to fit." The blood was draining within me to form the pool.
"Alright." He casted a large ice wall between us and the robot. "It will break with a few hits if it-" He didn't get to finish his sentence since we fell in the portal all the way to the headquarters. Everyone was shocked to see what happened on the screen and to us.
"What just happened?" They looked confused on what I did. There were murmuring in the air.
"You can set me down." I reminded Todoroki and he set me on the chair. I closed my eyes to heal the pain surging through my body.
"Mizuki, what happened to the man?" Aizawa ask since the man just disappeared out of nowhere on his screen. I couldn't tell if he was disappointed in me or wanted to know and get me expelled.
"I sucked up his blood. He was never human, only formed by my father's blood. He's just a soulless puppet only following his Master's order, and that was to get me back and kill any heros in the way of taking me home. I had no choice but to kill him or else he'll strike again with reinforcement. It might be much worse than today and yesterday if he was alive right now." I reopened my eyes, completely healed from the pain that did surged into me.
The air was tensed filled with curiosity and fear. "It's okay, guys, you don't have to be afraid of me because I have no intention of killing the whole class or anyone in general, unless I have my reason to, at least. But I'll threaten you if you keep on messing with me...or anyone who messes with me. I can tell you that using my full power will only be for my family, but not all the time. It really depends on the situation." I tried to be reasonable with my answer to them, trying not to make them fear me even more than they have now.
"So, you can do anything with your blood?" Bakugou said, having an unpleasant face on. The emotion that he was emitting was envy.
"Yeah, and so?"
"Fight me then. I want to test it out for myself." Hearing that made me laugh and his smile couldn't get even bigger then it is now.
"Don't know if I should play a fair fight or not, because in your heart you only want to win and winning is the only thing that drives you into destruction. Your fighting style portrays your personality. Now when I look at you, I ask myself: 'Is he really wanting to become a villain than a hero?'. Learn how to control yourself before you lose yourself. One day, you'll be blinded and lose sight of what you're fighting for."
"Why you!?" He came rushing toward me, but I stopped him with my hand. Aizawa wasn't going to do anything about it and that's fine. I can take care of this situation.
"Stuck, aren't you? You can't move, not even a muscle." I rose up from the chair and walked to the frozen Bakugou. "How about it? How does it feel to be powerless from someone who can hold you off, controlling your blood?"
"You two stop it, or else I'm taking you both to the-" Aizawa didn't need to finish his sentence since I knew what this will lead to. I dropped my hand and walked out of the headquarters.
For the whole day of school, I chose to stay quiet. I was still pissed off from my action. I should've stayed calm and collective, but I chose to provoke him instead.
"Are you fine, Mizuki?" Yaoyorozu worriedly asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I said emotionless. I was too absorbed in my school work and thoughts that I forgot how to put emotion back into my words.
The last bell rang, telling us that school has ended. I packed up my things and harshly slammed my chair in my desk and walked out from the classroom. I sighed in exasperation, running my thin, long fingers through my black soft locks. My movements were straight and tall but sloppy. I was passing by many people to get out of this school.
"Mizuki…!" I stopped and roughly turned around, staring at who called me. Then and there, I see Todoroki cooly walking over to me.
"Yes?" I didn't mean to sound off aggressive and negative, but I did. I impatiently tapped my foot against the hard surface.
"Let's keep on walking. I can tell you're a bit agitated." He motioned, as we walked together. "Um, thanks for saving me when the boulder was thrown at me." That came out of nowhere, making me surprised since he's usually aloof and cold.
"Uh yeah, because you were my partner, and I wasn't going to let someone die from that boulder either, come on now!" I cracked a smile.
"What did you mean back there when you said 'full power'?" He brought up.
"Just like how you never use your fireside because doesn't it remind you of your father?" He looked shocked at what I said about him. "We are alike, Todoroki. You just don't see it or notice it, but I do. We fear for what our father gave us and turned us to be. You're restricting yourself to use only one power even though you have two. You don't want to become like your father, like how I don't want to either. Using full power for no good intention, takes me another step closer to becoming like him." I clenched my fists at my sides until I felt my nails digging into my skin. "That's why I fight fair than to tease others of how powerless they are, like how I did to Bakugou. Right there, I knew he saw what I was capable of." Then I stopped walking. "Well, I'm home, so...bye." I awkwardly shifted my gaze and waved goodbye at him.
"Wait, that's your house?" He stared at it, seeing how it's a total waste and mess.
"What do you expect? I ran away from home. You think I can have a decent home like you guys or something?" I questioned, stating an obvious fact out there.
"Well, it just doesn't look clean or well-built. One day, it'll collapse I'm sure of it." He scanned the outside of my house. It looked like an abandoned house that looks old and creepy.
"It's fine. I've been living in that house for a few months since I left home, so I'm pretty used to it." I shrugged it off, not really caring what he has to say about it. "Well, bye!"
