A Friend of Time
Summary: It seemed to Kagome that "Time" would always play a big part in her life. This becomes apparent more than ever when she returns home after her travels to find that the world she's come home to is not the same one she left behind before the final battle. She is no longer the only Hero in the world.
Anime: InuYasha/Boku no Hero Academia
Genre: Action/Romance
Pairing: Undecided
Rated: M
A/N: Went through and did some major spellchecking that I forgot to do with the last couple of chapters, and I greatly apologize for that! The chapters have all been fixed.
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Chapter Seven
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"Awesome!"
"Yeah, seriously! I want to try~"
"That looks like fun, I can't wait to get this test underway!"
The voices echoed around Kagome as she tried to still her beating hear to a slow rhythmic beating, and not the chest pounding beat it had fallen into. She placed her hand over her chest and gripped the fabric of her jersey as pain shot through her body once again. 'Damn it! It was just a few seconds!'
A hand on her shoulder steadied her as she had unknowingly started to lean sideways. Her vision went in and out as she brought her eyes up to meet a confused Katsuki.
"The hell, you're swaying..."
His voice was softer than she thought it'd be. 'Is he trying to keep quiet about it?' Kagome smiled as she asked his if she could use his shoulder for a bit.
Katsuki blushed, "that's...fine, I guess." He walked off with her while the others were getting scolded by the teacher. Something about how they were fools if they thought it would be all fun and games. He didn't care, it had nothing to do with him. He was there to become the strongest Hero in the world, to surpass All Might, beat down Deku, and… he looked at Kagome as he leaned against the wall of the school that was a good ten or fifteen feet behind their class.
"Sorry..."
Katsuki shook his head, crossing his arms over his chest as Kagome used his body to stay standing until she regained her composure. "You act like you don't know your quirk."
"...I don't. Not...not well, at least." The cool of the stone wall was helping her alleviate the pain that had moments before caught her off guard. Katsuki had been a big help guiding her to the wall, and then placing himself as a doorstop for her so she could lean against both him and the wall, "I can't figure out my limitations with my Quirk...unsupervised. Too much can go wrong, so I had to limit my experimentation with my Quirk."
"Tch..." he glared as he glanced over to the others in their class that were starting around arguing with their teachers teaching ethics. "You better not prove to be more trouble than you're worth. Hurry up and learn to control that stupid Quirk of yours."
Kagome gave a soundless laugh as she nodded.
"Discuss how unfair my class is amongst yourselves. I'm giving you five minutes to figure out how you can creatively run through these eight tests. Whatever happens, this will be how I gauge your potential...and of course...how I decide which one of you will go home." The students formed groups or walked off to think about ways to utilize their quirks while Aizawa made his way over to Kagome and Katsuki.
Kagome's eyes were shut as she had been using the time he was talking with the rest of the class to run her healing energy through her bodies muscles. She had found only slight evidence of fatigue and strain.
"Hey, your glowing..."
Katsuki had been watching his teacher make his way over to them the entire time, his glare hardening the closer he got, but he kept his mouth shut. When he said what he did, Kagome lifted her head from his shoulder and glanced up at their teacher too. I was true that she'd been glowing, only a light nearly invisible glow though.
"I am well aware, sir. I was trying to find the fault between my Quirk and my body...healing..." she said at his blank look.
"You can heal? So do you have two quirks then?"
Kagome frowned, "no sir...it's not a Quirk."
He raised a brow, "you need to consider your body before you go through with moving time forward on your body. I can tell you what's wrong just by witnessing you do it just a moment ago."
She pushed off the wall and stumbled a bit, Katsuki was quick to place a hand on her right shoulder as Aizawa did the same to her left shoulder from in front of her. "Damn..."
"You need to find a way to keep the pace of your heart rate steady if your going to bulldoze through time."
"My...heartrate?"
"It may not seem like you are speeding your heartbeat up while using your Quirk, however, to us not in your Quirks territory, we can see the strain on your body...well, I can. When the heart beats too quickly, the lower chambers, or ventricles, do not have enough time to fill with blood, so they cannot effectively pump blood to the rest of the body. Twenty seconds to us, is about a minute in your Quirks territory, isn't it?"
"...yeah, roughly..." Kagome frowned as what he said actually made a lot of sense. "...I wonder f I could place a barrier around my heart...no, I'd cut of blood flow completely..." Kagome sighed, "I might just need to stop moving time forward..."
"Not necessarily, you just don't need to push your quirk on the entirety of your body. Use it where you need it."
"Are you sure that is what was wrong?" Kagome questioned, though...she didn't doubt his words, she wanted to know what he saw that gave him the answer to her body's problem with her Quirk.
"Your symptoms."
"My...symptoms?"
Katsuki scoffed, "you nearly passing out and getting dizzy from your own quirk, he means that."
Aizawa looked to Katsuki before returning his eyes to Kagome, "among others, but yes, Bakugo is correct."
"What other symptoms did I portray?"
"Shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting or...near fainting...any of those sound familiar?"
'All of them...I went through each of those...'
He shrugged and let go of her shoulder, "you and I can sit down later and go over some ideas to help you better navigate your Quirk along your body, but for now, do your best with the tests."
"Yes sir," Kagome bowed politely, thankful for his critique as it gave her something to think about for her next tests.
"Take another minute or two, then join us." He left the two to continue the assessment test.
Standing straight, she sighed, "I wanted to show you up so badly, I talked myself into pushing my body past it's limitations...but in the end, maybe that was for the best. Mr. Aizawa did get to see the flaw in my Quirk, after all."
Katsuki nodded, "true, but you seriously need to buckle down on your Quirk. If what Aizawa said is true, you could blow a vessel or have a sudden cardiac arrest. Damn, you really are a lot of trouble."
"Sorry, I know you want to focus on killing Izuku and all."
"THE HELL!?" Katsuki's eyes burned as the class turned their eyes onto the two of them. Kagome was laughing as she balanced herself on the wall as Katsuki glared knives in the direction of Izuku who swallowed heavily at the feeling of pure rage Katsuki was giving off. "I don't want to kill the bastard...I JUST WANT TO BEAT HIM INTO THE GROUND!"
"Oh...so he can live to experience the pain?" Kagome couldn't understand the humor that came from Katsuki when talking about Izuku with him. "Please, tell me how you two aren't friends?"
"We aren't..." his tone turned deadly.
"...me?"
He chilled almost instantly and looked curiously at Kagome, "...you?" He looked down thoughtfully, as if he was honestly considering the prospects of keeping her as a friend. "That'll be fine...but you better figure your Quirk out. I'm not going to hang around someone who causes themselves and in addition, myself, trouble."
Kagome nodded, "right! So if I become friends with Izuku, it'll be the three of us, friends for life!"
"YOU DON'T LISTEN!"
"Bakugo, Higurashi, stop talking and get over here."
"Right~"
They turned glares onto one another as almost instantly their determination to beat the other flared up in response to their teacher calling them back to the test.
Kagome tightly made a fist at her side and smirked, 'I will figure my Quirk out, and while working on that, I'll figure Katsuki and Izuku out!'
"Higurashi, Bakugo, your up!"
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Me: Here is chapter seven, I know, I was hoping I wouldn't linger on the assessment too long, but it is what it is. The next chapter will be scores but not detailed testing. I would like to cover as much as possible without dragging certain events that everyone has already seen on the show for themselves. Let me know what you think!
