I thought to myself as my alarm for the morning went off. I slowly got up, still sore from the night before. "Recovery girl might have fixed my arms and my chest, but I'm still really sore. I almost wish I could take today off.I thought to myself as I got dressed. After about 30 minutes, according to my phone though it felt like hours, I was finally walking out the door and on my way to the beach. I got there before the sun rose and sat on the pier. The sunrise at this part of the beach was always beautiful, but due to my training I was never really to enjoy it. Today was also supprisingly hot, even though it was fall. I decided to swim and enjoy myself before the training, so I stripped down to the bikini that I had been wearing under my sweat pants and tank top and walked out into the ocean, leaving my clotes and shoes on the pier. "Aah! Its Cold!!!" I accidentally blurted outloud, out of shock. After a few minutes, I was finally used to the temperature of the water and was able to sit in a shallow area, letting the waves hit me as I watched the beautiful rays of first light peak over the horizon. I looked upon it, awe struck at the amazing beauty of the scenery, that I hadnt noticed a man was sitting next to me, until he cleared his throat. I looked over and saw All Might, sitting on a chair that was pulled up to the water's edge. He was in his normal form, not wanting to attract attention to us. He went from looking up at the sky, to looking down at me, a long but sad-ish smile was resting on his face. He looked exhausted, maybe just as exhausted as I was. But like me, he seemed to be enjoying the down time. I walked over to him and smiled, tempted to kiss him on the cheek, but for some reason, it seemed like it wasn't the right time. So I walked over to another chair and brought it close to his. After sitting down, I found that I was suddenly very sleepy and I laid my head on his shoulder without meaning to, and closed my eyes as soon as I felt him wrap his arm around my shoulder and pull me in tight.
It wasn't long before I woke again, to find his arm still around me and his head resting on mine. I rotated my face upwards to kiss him on his cheek, but the movement shifted his face around and I found my lips meeting his. He woke up and jerked back out of shock, which caused me to laugh. After a few minutes, he looked at me and asked, "What all do you remember from last night?" I thought about it for a second before answering with, "Not much to be honest. I remember waking up in your house and you explaining how I became broken. I then remember you taking me to Recovery Girl and then handing me off to my father. After that, he put me in my bed and fell asleep. Thats about it. Oh yeah you told me I used the quirk and that was what hurt me so bad. You told her that we were sparring when I used it. Other than that, I dont even remember waking up yesterday. It's like the whole day was wiped clean from my memory." He looked at me for a second and then looked back out to the sea. After a minute of total silence, he finally said "I see. So you don't remember usig the quirk at all?" I shook my head no. I couldn't remember anything beyond what I told him. I guess the repercussions of the quirk being used for the first time, gave me amnesia. "Well, then we will try to get you to use it again today. But this time, no sparring. I'm still sore from yesterday, and I can't move well at the moment." I agreed and he led me to where we were training yesterday. I stopped in my track as soon as I saw it. There was a massive crater where the sand used to be and all of the trees and benches that were there, were badly damaged. I then saw what looked like a skid mark that led to a broken tree. "All Might? Did I do this?" I asked him in horror at the sight. He looked at me and nodded. He eveeven smiled the first genuine smile that I had seen all morning from him. I looked back at the scene, awe struck at the power I had. I stood in the middle of it as All Might sat under a broken tree, and I started focussing on trying to use the quirk again. minutes turned into hours, and hours into days. In almost the whole week of me concentrating on trying to summon the quirk, strength training with All Might and even sparring matches, I lost all of them, I couldnt summon One For All. Not once and I felt like a failure every time I went home at the end of the day. It was the final day of training, before the entrance exam, and I was in the middle of sparring again, when I collapsed out of exhaustion. I had been training and trying to summon my quirk for 12-13 hours a day, for six days straight. I tried to push myself back up, but my arms buckled and failed beneath my weight. I managed to roll over onto my back and lay there for what felt like forever before All Might came and helped me up. "Are you all right? If you need to take a break we..." "No All Might! No breaks! I can't afford to take it easy. I have to get this right or I will never pass this exam." I told him, with tears streaming down my cheeks and all of my emotions coming though in my voice. I was angry, frustrated, devestated and in all other forms of the word, upset that I couldn't get this to work. Then, while I was looking at the ground, wiping the tears from my eyes, I felt pressure on the back of my head. As I looked up at him, he pulled me in towards his chest, as he had done many times before during my training, and told me that everything was all right and that he was sorry that he wasn't a better mentor to me. I cried into his stomach, fustrated that he felt the need to blame himself for my incompetence. After a few minutes, he let go of me and chuckled as he said, whit his hands on both of my shoulders, "I thought I told you to cut back on the crying on the day we met." He was right. Crying about it wasn't going to do me any good, but how could I not. I was fustrated at the situation I was in.
I thought more about my predicament and soon the tears turned into panic. I found myself clenching my chest as I found that I was unable to breath. I pushed him back and started to walk away, still unable to fully breath, still clenching my chest. I felt as if I was suffocating and I didn't understand why. I started screaming and crying at the same time, still feeling like I couldn't breath, and then started hyperventilating. I felt scared, like I was going to die if this kept up. I had no clue as to what was going on. I turned to look at All Might and the look on his face made me want to turn around again, but I couldn't. My body wouldn't move, and soon it felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. "Why? Why am I like this? Why am I unable to do anything. I feel like such a burden. Why am I so useless?" I thought to myself as I stared at All Might with a worried look on his face and one outstretched arm. "What if he regets his decision to make me his successor. What if he...hates me because I'm so useless?!?" I broke into worse sobs as as I dropped to my knees. I looked up with a terrified expression on my face and watched All Might start walking towards me in a hurried pace. I huddled over, cleching my chest still, trying to regian my composure, but it wasnt working. I felt as if I was going to pass out as the hysterical cries, screaming and hyperventilating got worse. Right as I felt my vision blacking, I was pulled into a tight hug, and soon, all of it turned into tears again. "It's going to be ok. I promise you." He told me in a soothing voice. I felt myself calming down. I looked up at him and saw the tears streaming down his face. Still sobbing I creid out, "All Might, I am so sorry. I know I let you down!" He looked at me and started to cry more as he told me that I was fine and that I had not let him down. "Tsurugi, you could never let me down. I promise you, I am proud of you. This is hard and I didn't mean to put this pressure on you. Please, don't feel like you are letting me down. Tsurugi...I love you!" Those last words he said to me rang in my ears and I looked back up at him yo see his head hanging right over mine, eyes closed at tears dripping off of his pointy nose. I was shocked to hear them. "I...I love you too." I told him, my tears dry and my breathing back to normal. I pulled an arm free and I wiped his tears away, and then pulled him in for a tight embrace.