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My Hero Academia Untold: The Fafnir Knight

Chapter XXX-S*: Short Story III: Bubbly Love

Mirio sat there outside as the afternoon light became the twilight of dusk. There was a lot running through his mind at the moment. As it was his last year at UA, in addition to being the lead in the UA third year rankings and leader of The Big Five, so there was always something or other going through his head in someway shape or form. From his career to his grades, and yet all of that changed in a single month as so much had happened in such a short time. From helping train some very talented first years to repeling a villain attack of a massive scale within the halls of UA itself fighting alongside those same first year students.

The third years in The Big Five had all had their own brushes with death since gaining their provisional licenses, yet it was this incident that seemed like the closest that any of them had ever come to dying. And that can make anyone to stop to think about life when the dust finally settles. This in turn brought back some old feelings he has had for a quite sometime, feelings he had thought that he had buried deep within himself for well over an year. Feelings for his fellow teammate and best female friend Nejire Hadou.

It was almost laughable, Nejire was considered to be one of the most beautiful girls at UA bar none. Yet that was all that many seemed to talk about when it came to her. Yes Nejire was extremely beautiful, but she was also incredibly talented, resourceful, and actually quite intelligent when it comes down to it. Yet none it ever went to her head, with her bubbly nature keeping her in check, always keeping her grounded, it was no wonder why many wanted her as a romantic partner -even among some of the other ladies. So the competition was stiff to say the least.

Mirio sighed as he looked at the time displayed on his phone's screensaver.

He had worked very hard to get where he was in life with countless hours of training with his quirk with various teachers, mentors and even fellow students. He wasn't the best when it came to his grades; only being above-average compared to the rest of his teammates. Yet he felt like he should have saved the romance until after his career got started upon finishing school. He had been afraid of letting these feelings interfere with both their careers here at UA, something that Nejire seemed to believe as well given that every confession or request for a date, she had turned down with batting an eye.

Which is why after thinking it over and over again and after putting everything into consideration, he decided to confess to her today. Even if she rejected him too, he at least wanted to let his feelings be known. Which is why earlier today he had asked one of those previously rejected suitors -and the only one he trusted for some encouraging words of advice.

"Dude...just be yourself." He remembered Alex saying to him, when visited him in the faculty lounge earlier that day, he had been busy reading the files on his new trainees.

"It's cheesy as hell to say that I know, but if she likes you, then she likes you for being you. Simple as that, she didn't like me in that way and I accepted that...then again I was riding a high from when I got the then good news, so I wasn't thinking too hard at the moment I asked her." He had added with a nervous laugh.

"Are you sure that you're okay with it though?" He remembered asking back. Alex had been screwed over so damn badly this past month. He didn't want to add to it by being successful from where he failed.

"Come on man, I just said I accepted that she didn't like me in that way. I'm not going to be hung up over it, besides...since I'm going back to the States in a few weeks, it wouldn't really matter. I'm not one for long distance relationships, so even if I had somehow gotten the chance, I'd most likely would have broken it off by now. So I don't want you to feel guilty over me,because I don't matter in this equation. All that matters to me at this moment is you guys, I want you to be happy and I want her to be happy, because both of you are my great friends who helped me get where I am today alright?"

"Alright...thank you Alex."

"No problem...oh if I can add one last thing Mirio?"

"What is it?"

"I ship it."

"Mirio!"

The blond boy, snapped out of his thoughts as he finally heard the voice of the person he had been waiting for coming from his right. Mirio turned his head to wave at bluenette as the sun shined right behind her; giving her an almost ethereal glow. She smiled towards him walking forward with a slight lean.

"I finally found you! Have you been waiting long? I'm sorry about that, Yuyu held me up longer that I thought..." Nejire began saying and continued to speak; asking several questions and in some cases answering them herself. Mirio simply chuckled as the girl continued to speak, unable to get a word in until he got the opening which would be any second now. Once you knew Nejire long enough, you knew that she would eventually need stop for a breath.

"But the cat was really really cute! So anyway now I'm here and what did you want to talk about?" Nejire finished up standing right next to Mirio with hands behind her and taking a rather large -albeit silent breath.

Mirio stood up from his seat to look at Nejire in the eyes, she leaned a bit back while looking upward at him.

"Wow I keep forgetting just how tall you are Mirio!" She said with a giggle. Mirio smiled she really knew how to ease his nerves even without realizing it.

"Thanks for coming here, I really appreciate you coming here like I asked," Mirio began saying gratefully.

"No problem! I'm just happy that I caught up before it got too late."

Mirio hummed in response. It was now or never, he couldn't back out now.

"Nejire."

He started off surprising her. Just from the firmness in his voice alone was enough to catch her off guard; Nejire knew now that this was a little more serious than what she originally thought. She remained silent knowing now was not the time for her normal routine.

"For the last two plus years, you've been a great friend to me and Tamaki. From training to studying and everything in between. And in that time, I grew to have feelings for you."

Nejire's eyes grew wide as she realized what this was, Mirio was confessing to her.

"And at first," The blond lad continued undeterred by her expression. "I simply thought it was a simple crush and nothing more, but it only grew and grew with time." Mirio let out a tired sigh. "Until finally it all came to a head last week, when we all got another taste of reality. So I just couldn't go another day without letting you know. Nejire Hadou I like you, much more than a friend so I would like to ask if you will please be my girlfriend?"

Nejire looked down; eyes hidden in her hair.

She was speechless, in all of her years here at UA she had heard numerous confessions before often by people she barely even knew. Few of her possible suitors ever spoke to her with such passion, but in this case also spoke with such honest earnestly. Yet she had rejected all of them, because none of them had come from the one person that she had wanted to hear those words from...until today.

She had sincerely thought that her feelings had been one sided, which why she had never brought it up, yet in the end as luck would have it, her feelings were mutual. Part of her always thought that she would simply let out of the feelings she had for him one day, now that this was happening she didn't want her chance to slip had always been so sweet and kind, confident and brave. And while not the smartest guy in the world, with a strange sense of humor that she frankly just found endearing. Mirio was and had always been Mirio, and she wouldn't have it any other way.

Mirio stood there with the same passionate expression on his face, while on the inside he was nervous out of his mind.

'Oh no...did I mess it up?' He thought, after all Nejire was pretty quick to whip out a rejection without hesitation. 'Maybe I came on too strong...I should just apologize an-' His thoughts however were cut off as Nejire embraced the tall blond boy.

"I thought that I would never hear those words from you," Nejire said just loudly enough for him to hear, making his heart race with excitement. "And I'm so happy that I finally did."

"Nejire does this mean?"

"I've liked you too, for a very long time. I just thought my feelings weren't shared by you and I didn't want to get in your way."

Mirio chuckled as he returned her embrace at last, looks like they had more in common that he originally thought. The two simply stood there in that warm embrace, until Nejire finally gave him the answer he had been waiting for.

"Mirio," She said looking up at him.

"Yes I would like to be your girlfriend."

Mirio's face blew up into a shining grin only for Nejire to grab his face and plant her lips on his, the two shared that quiet moment alone and out of sight.

Or so they thought.

Snap! Click!

"Oooh how scandalous!" A voice said to herself quietly from a fair distance away hiding in the brush as she continued to take pictures of the newly formed couple. "Now this is a scoop of the year, Nejire Hadou finally nabs a boy, after rejecting an army of suitors! No no that's a shit title...no matter no matter its all a work in progress. All of seniors in the Journalism Club are going to flip their shit at this!"

Once the two happy couple left the scene, the young girl hopped out of her hiding place. She was of average height with flaming red hair and eyes; she was Class 1-B Business studies liaison Kiyoko Mikami and she was planning to make a name for herself here at school. As the best upcoming journalist in the business.

"Can't wait to develop these jaw dropping pics!" She said to herself with an excited grin as turning around to head over to the journalism club, only to bump face first into someone. "Hey what gives!...Oh crap."

Right in front of her clad in trainer's gear and with a fresh bandage on his forehead was Alexander Springfield with his arms folded; carrying a stern expression on his face. He had just gotten out of the nurse's office to go clean up some of the remaining gear he had left behind on the field after training. Only to notice the redhead sneaking around the area with that camera.

"Yeah no...that ain't happening on my watch."

Author's notes

*S in roman numerals are used to express "Half" so this is basically chapter 30.5, but I am dedicated to using the roman numeral system like the asshole I am.

This was a delightful short piece to write, we will continue the main chapters from here on in. Also I will ask again since no one really answered this question last time.

When it comes to these short stories, would you prefer having them attached to the end of chapters or having them have their own mini chapters that get uploaded between chapters? I don't mind doing either, but I would like to have an opinion as that would be a great help.

Finally something came to my attention recently about reviews, as I recently got a few PM's from various readers that expressed that they wanted to review but didn't really know how to review something.

So I think that adding these tips might help you with that.

So one key thing that I tend to look for in reviews his simple feedback, you could go in depth (And for those of you who already do that, I thank you and love you guys for doing so), but you can also highlight things simple things that you liked or disliked.

Examples of this maybe a joke or particular scene you liked or dislike would be enough.

Because for example one thing I'm trying to work on his humor, but I sometimes have no idea if any of my more humorous moments (Or attempts at humor) in a scene are actually making people laugh or not so getting feedback on moments like that are a great help to me and other authors.

Another example could also let me know if I fucked up a moment in terms of tone.

For example, if you found scene funny when it should have been very dramatic and tense scene, then that would mean I have royally fucked that scene up, because it shouldn't be funny.

Anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this mini "Half" Chapter.

I'm hard at work on Chapter XXXI: The Ghosts of the Past.

Also it does seem like

My Hero Academia Untold Draco Knight will be updating very soon, most likely after either Chapter XXXII or XXXIII In addition, Draco Knight will have another chapter uploaded later on down this Arc, most likely in the middle of the Sport's festival itself.

Finally The latest project in The Untold universe. My Hero Academia Untold Interviews! Should be ready to go with its first chapter just before the start of the Sports Festival. More details will be shared very soon.

My goal is to have Chapter XXXI done and uploaded before the New year so I'm working hard to meet that deadline, but until then my dear readers.

As always with lots of love.

-X