After learning the news about my grandfather's murder I sort of just went into a daze in my dorm room. I don't remember what I had for dinner that night, if I did my homework or even when I fell asleep. All I remembered was that his funeral would be that weekend and I would have to ride the train system back home to attend the funeral.
The next day of school wasn't exactly easy either. As soon as I walked through the class door everyone rushed me asking if I was okay, saying they're sorry about what happened. Ashido was the first one to basically pounce at me with a sad look on her face as she said, " We all heard what happened to your grandpa! We're so so so so sorry! It's just awful!"
Before I could get in a word in Iida, Kirishima, Sero, and Yaoyorozu joined her soon as they all said similar things. " Bro I can't imagine what you must feel like right now"
" If you need anything let me know."
" I'm here to talk if you need me!"
" I feel its my duty to let you know I will be your shoulder to cry on if it comes to that!"
I know they mean well and I'm actually rather surprised they seemed actually concerned for me. I wasn't used to having my classmates show any legit care about me before. But right now I didn't really care what anyone had to say. I just wanted to sit down and get this week over with.
" Um...thanks guys?" i said as I tried to make my way to my desk, " Right now I think I just need some time alone...maybe I can talk about it after the uh...after the funeral. Okay?"
They all seemed to get where I was getting at and all went to their own seats. I just plopped down in my own and waited for Aizawa to start whatever it is we were doing today. Turns out it was time to elect a Class Rep. Everyone seemed overjoyed at the notion of being the leader of the class. I don't see the appeal, its extra work and I'm already swamped as it is so no thanks.
Everyone else tho kept insisting they be the class rep. This wasn't going to go anywhere. Iida finally made a good suggestion though, of making it a vote. Even if most people vote for themselves the one kid who votes for someone else can make make the whole election right there.
I took out a slip of paper and thought about who I wanted as the class rep. Most of the kids here wouldn't be a good pick honestly. I need to pick someone my grandpa would think of as a good leader, someone who isn't here to become a pro for the fame and fortune but to actually help people. Fuck I don't know my classmates well enough to make accusations about their morals and inner character.
Still, my grandfather would have said something like, " A leader needs to be smart and unbiased, willing to do the tough shit to get a job done."
I suppose a few of my classmates seem like that. Bakugo showed to be a very smart combatant yesterday but he's far too reckless and rage filled. Iida seems to be smart too and is willing to play a needed part if it needs to be filled but he also seems way too eager to please and honestly like he has a stick up his ass. Midoriya, he was tough and smart. Willing to break his bones to win over the enemy, but he's far too timid to be an effective leader right now. Yaoyorozu proved to be capable of handling things on her own yesterday, she had the weakest partner in Mineta and still managed to win her test all on her own without using the midget. Plus the way she was able to tell every other team what they did right and wrong and was correct every time, she's probably the smartest person here.
Well I guess that's my vote then. I wrote down the girl's name and handed in my paper to Mister Aizawa who seemed to give me a sympathetic look. After all the votes got counted it ended with a tie. Midoriya and Yaoyorozu both got three votes each. The two were standing at the front of class and Midoriya seemed to be an embarrassed mess as he shook with his blushing face looking down.
Maybe if he had met my grandpa he could have gotten some advice from him, or something to help him straighten him.
Soon after that it was the usual time for lunch, I had been eating with Kirishima usually but today I just wanted to sit alone at a table where no one knew me, I didn't feel like talking you know? I sat down with some third year students who ignored me for the most part. It was peaceful, until Iida, Midoriya and Uraraka plopped down around me.
Iida straightened his glasses and cleared his throat before speaking, " We saw none of our classmates were sitting with you and we didn't want you to feel alone! Especiallyat a time like this Akira!"
Uraraka nodded her head up and down at a furious speed, " Yeah! You shouldn't be alone right now you know?"
I let out a long sigh and just put another bite of food in my mouth before saying, " Sure." Iida was about to open his mouth again but then some sort of alarm started going off. " What the fuck is going on now damn it?!" I shouted at the alarm knowing it couldnt answer back.
One of the third year students stood up quickly, " Thats the alarm for an intruder on campus! In all my years being here its never gone off once!"
Uraraka gasped at his answer, " An intruder at U.A.? No way!" Midoriya, Iida and her quickly got up and started running for the nearest exit. I groaned and ran after them. All of the students in the cafeteria seemed to be going down the same hall, it'd be a cramped mess and my body kept throwing signals to me telling me not to go there, i could get trampled more than likely. I quickly grabbed held of Midoriya's and Iida's collars and yanked them back, " All of you stop! It's too crammed in there!" I yelled at my classmates. Uraraka stopped dead in her tracks and tried to turn back to face us but got swept and carried away by the flood of fleeing students.
I pulled the two I had with me out of the direct line of traffic as we clung to a wall near the exit of the lunch room. " Look, see?" I said pointing to the exit, " its already over filled with kids and we can't even get a good look down the hall to see if its clearing up any! We need to find another way out unless you two want to suffer from claustrophobia today."
Midoriya shook his head quickly, " I'd rather not get crushed today...what about you Iida?"
Iida straightened his glasses and maintained the best poker face he could, " As students of U.A. we must suspect this could be a drill to test how we handle a situation such as this! Since our main pathway is blocked by an ocean of our classmates and we have no clue what the possible intruder is we must find a new way to save ourselves and others!"
Iida was making sense. It was a sort of vague evacuation wasn't it? I stood on my tip toes and looked around best I could. I spotted what looked like another doorway on the far other side of the cafeteria, not as many kids seemed to be using it. " You guys see that doorway? It's so fucking packed so say we take it."
I took off for the exit with the others following me, I had to shove and push my way through the ocean of teens just to get close to it. It felt like being stuck in the middle of a zombie horde you have to fight through in video games. We finally made it to the hall we spotted and rushed down its path, thankful not as many students chose to run down this way. As we kept running down the halls we passed one of the many offices scattered through the school and something felt very, very off about it. I stopped in my tracks and a few of the other students ran past me. My instincts felt off right now, they didn't before even with the alarm going off, but being near this room I could tell something bad was in there.
I didn't hesitate and made my way to the door. Maybe the intruder had locked themselves in there and was hiding or stealing something? I reached it shortly and turned the handle on the door and pushed it open. As I stepped inside I saw the room was practically empty of people except one man with grey hair in a long sleeve black shirt and pants hunched over like a vulture at a computer in the corner of the office.
I hadn't seen him around before, he looked too old to be a student but he was so oddly dressed he couldn't have been a teacher, and why would he be in here alone in the first place? It didn't matter, all i knew was he was the cause of my quirk acting up, telling me he was the source of the dangerous feeling I had. I made sure to stand in the doorway, that way I could run out if things went south, and it'd be easier to yell for help.
I stuffed my hands in my pocket and scowled to try and look more intimidating before I shouted, " Hey! Dusty dude in the back! What are you doing in here when the alarm's going off?! You watching porn or something?"
The man seemed to stop whatever it was he was doing and slowly stood up before turning to face me. He had the most unclean, chapped and dry looking face I've ever seen. He looked annoyed that I had disturbed whatever he had been up to. Then it somehow got creepier. He started, scratching himself and I could hear it from where I stood. Like what the fuck I had to have been like fifteen feet away from him and I could hear him going at his dry dirty skin like a drug addict. " You! You aren't supposed to be in here are you?" he asked me.
I was starting to get worried, my heartbeat sped up and I actually started sweating. But if I dropped my hard ass intimidating act something may go down, so I kept my stern face and my hands in my pockets. " I could ask the same question to you fugly. "
He stopped scratching himself quickly and started walking toward me before muttering, " Kurogiri...I've got what I need, but I want to do something real quick. Warp me after I do this okay?" What the fuck? Who's he talking to?
Before I could think of anything to say to him i saw my life flash before my eyes as he somehow managed to close the gap between us faster than i've ever seen anyone move before, my quirk reacted but I wasn't fast enough. I tried to raise my arms to grab his own and stop him but before I could he already had me grabbed and slammed me to the ground. I tried to pry him off but he was a lot stronger than he looked...and he had me at his mercy. His horrifying face looked down at me with a hideous frown and wide eyes full of rage before he said, " Be thankful I only have four fingers on you right now kid..if all five were to touch you it wouldn't turn out so well for you."
I swallowed a harsh gulp after that. I wasn't all that scared of the two robbers months ago that I ended up fighting. This guy though, there was so much off about him. I had both my hands on his arm trying to pry myself free and he wouldn't even budge. He got tired of my squirming I suppose and lifted up his other hand, " If you think someone is going to rush in to save you don't be stupid kid! Now then, I'm going to stand up and go away. You are going to lay there until I'm gone...or this will happen to you." After he finished his statement he placed his free hand on the open door of the office and it soon began cracking before it just turned into dust.
I swear my eyes and heart were about to jump out of my body after that. I stopped moving like he ordered and he let go of his grasp on me. He stood up and smiled at me with a wide sinister grin that would haunt my nightmares. " Good...now remember, no leaving the ground until I'm gone okay? Or you're dead." A strange black mist appeared behind him and he walked backwards into it, keeping his eyes on me the whole time until he vanished with the mist.
I slowly sat up, my heart racing faster than it ever had before still. I was breathing hard and heavy and I could still feel sweat pouring down my neck and face. I began doing a check over my body, making sure I didn't get hit at any point and just hadn't felt it yet. I didn't have any energies but the area of my school suit he had grabbed onto had turned to dust and was exposing a small part of my rib cage. Part of my body was almost dust and that didn't sit well with me.
I found out later that the press were actually the intruders that caused the alarm to go off. I reported what happened to me to Mister Aizawa and he seemed about as confused as I did, but he seemed far less worried and surprised. As if I didn't have enough of my classmates asking me if I was okay and if I wanted to talk about the murder of my grandpa now I had everyone asking me about my close encounter with death.
I actually told myself, " I can't wait for tomorrow and all this fuck to blow over." How fucking stupid of me to say.
The next day was the shit cherry on top of my vomit coated diarrhea sundae of a week.
At first it seemed like it may be a good way to unload steam and try to keep my mind off my grandfather, the hero killer and the scary dude from yesterday. All of class 1-A was going to this place called the USJ to practice rescue training. We all got into our costumes and made our ways for the bus before being stopped by Class Rep Yaoyorozu and Deputy Midoriya. Yaoyorozu cleared her throat and held up her hand, " Everyone! I want this bus trip to the USJ to be as professional as possible! No inappropriate touching, no sticking anything out of the windows and no pictures!"
Midoriya then gulped as he looked down at the ground, " Oh!...a-and we have a seating chart too so b-be sure to sit in your right spot o-okay?" I could hear a collective sigh come out of several of my classmates as we assembled into a single file line and waited to be seated on the bus. I ended up sitting to the left of Kaminari and for whatever reason I kept feeling off about him. Something always feels off about the guy and even my quirk reacts about.
Most of the ride went pretty smoothly. I simply rested my head against the back of my seat and did my best to ease my mind of all the madness that seemed to be going on around me lately. Then I overheard Asui, Midoriya and Kirishima start talking across from me. Asui seemed to start the conversation off, " You know Midoriya I've been wondering something. Your quirk is a lot similar to All Might's isn't it?"
Kirishima interjected before the freckled boy could respond, " Tsuyu you're forgetting All Might doesn't break his bones whenever he uses his quirk! That's a huge difference. Although I gotta say, I'd much rather have Midoriya's or Akira's quirk over mine."
I opened my eyes at this and looked at him questioningly, " You'd want my quirk over yours? Why?"
Kirshima made a deadpan face as he hardened his arm, " You guys just have flashier quirks is all. My hardening is strong and acts as a great defense but it's nowhere near as impressive looking as Midoriya's crazy strong punches or you dodging everything and practically knowing everyone's next move before we even make it."
Deputy Midoriya then with a bit more confidence than usual told Kirishima, " Hey I think your quirk is super special awesome Kirishima!"
" Really?" my red haired friend smiled at that, " thanks man!"
I leaned forward some and placed my arms on my knees as I said, " Yeah don't beat yourself over your quirk Kirishima. Mine's caused one of the worst parts of my life to happen to me because I didn't have it under control."
Asui then placed a finger on her chin before replying, " if your quirk can make bad things happen just imagine all the bad things Bakugo has done with his quirk before!" Midoriya flinched at her wording and then Bakugo stood up practically growling like an animal.
" WHAT DID YOU SAY BITCH?! YOU SAYING I ABUSE MY QUIRK OR SOMETHING?! I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!"
Kaminari started laughing next to me before he spoke back to the explosion user, " Dude you know we've known you for less than a week and we can all already tell your personality is dog crap mixed with sewer water."
Bakugo leaned over his railing and gave Kaminari the angriest face I've seen him give off yet as he roared out, " YOU WANT TO GO?! I'LL KICK YOUR ASS TOO! I'LL KICK ANYONE'S ASS YOU FUCKER!"
I let out a long groan as I was forced to be so near to this because of that dumb seating chart. Soon after that though we finally reached our destination and we poured out of the bus and into the building. As we kept walking on we were greeted by the famous rescue hero 13. I always heard 13 was a boy but after hearing them speak and welcome us, explaining what the USJ was I wasn't so sure about the hero's gender anymore since it sounded so girlish.
I wish that ended up being my biggest problem that day. As we headed for the steps to actually start our training we were all cut off as the others and I saw the same black mist I had encountered yesterday. My eyes shot wide open as I let out a loud, " FUCK!" Yaoyorozu told me to watch my language but who cares about that when you've got dozens of super villains coming out of that mist to greet us.
Most of them looked like poor souls who were cursed with horrible mutation quirks, doomed to look like monsters and demons with no appealing traits to them. I kept searching through the crowd of them looking for the pale dry creep. He was one of the last ones through the mist, and next to him was a giant bird looking man with his brain exposed.
I started to breathe faster as he and the other villains came closer and closer to the stairs. The grey haired man then asked out, " Where is All Might? I went through so much trouble for him and he isn't even here? Guess I'll have to settle on you kids for now!"
Aizawa turned to us fast, " Everyone! Get out of here now! I'll hold them off!"
Midoriya tried to stop our teacher before he rushed off to stale the villains, " But your quirk isnt suited for more than one vs one combat!"
Aizawa dawned his famous goggled before gripped his scarf and running off to face the horde of villains, " You don't get to be a pro unless you have more than one trick up your sleeve!" he shouted as he jumped into the fray. The rest of us did as we were told and ran for the exit, only yo be blocked off by the same black mist.
A pair of eyes materialized on it and a booming voice came out, " None of you are leaving this place! This will be your tomb!"
I quickly nudged Kaminari, " Does that headset you have on work? Cuz we for damn sure need some help dude."
Kaminari nodded and placed his hand on the headset. He didn't try for long before he responded back with fear, " It's not working! they must be jamming the signal!"
Welp, I guess this takes the cake for worst week of my life no questions asked. Before anyone else could act Bakugo and Kirishima rushed at the mist yelling out some battle cries before making contact and causing a huge load of dirt and debris to pop up. As the dirt cleared the misty figure was there still. " You fools! You can not touch me! Now tremble in fear as I scatter you to your graves!"
He actually sent out more of the mist at us like a projectile, my body acted fast and I jumped to the side as quickly as I could, dodging the mist and remaining apparently safe. As it cleared I noticed more than half of my classmates were missing. It was just me, Uraraka, Sero, Ashido, Shouji, Iida and 13. Now it made sense, this black mist works as a warp gate of some kind doesn't it? That's how the creep got away all of a sudden yesterday and that means my classmates were now scattered through out the USJ.
I stood up and tried to compose myself, " Hey! 13! I'm sorry if this breaks any rules but I'm going to try and find the others!"
" oh no you don't! you aren't leaving here if I have anything to say about it!"
I groaned as I tried to reason with the teacher, " i can sneak around better than anyone else here! I have the best chances of finding everyone!"
Iida then turned to the space hero, " Akira is right! His quirk would allow him to sneak around and prevent himself from making any movement that would place him in danger!"
Sero seemed to nod and agreement as he took a fighting stance towards the mist, " yeah and I know firsthand he can handle himself in a fight anyway!"
13 turned her back on all of us and faced the mist, " Alright then...but if you as so much get in the tiniest bit of danger you hide do you hear me?"
I let out a sigh of relief before responding, " yes ma'am!"
" IM A DUDE!"
Fuck. As I started to rush for the stairs I stopped rather quickly, " Ashido! Think you can spray some lower tier acid down this way for me so I can slide down faster and avoid the stairs?"
The pink girl rushed over and quickly unloaded gallons of her acid down the hill path next to the stairs, " Good luck Ashitaka!" She told me before running back to join the others. I grabbed the rim of my hat and quickly jumped over the railing, letting my body take control as I landed on the lube like acid and slid down the hill much faster than I could have gone by walking, and at the right moment I leaped off the path of acid and used the momentum to carry me a few more feet before I landed into a summer sault and near some bushed and trees, hiding myself from the villains.
In my hiding spot I did a quick run down of the area, I couldn't see any of my classmates yet, but I could hear one. Jiro's sound amps she had in her costume were going off in some rocky area up ahead. I guess I know where I'm headed first.
Author's notes
Alright finally what i've really been looking forward to, the knit and gritty of this story. Thank you all as usual for reading my story and I'll see you next update.
