Mini-Chapter: OjiToru Invisible Beauty
Toru POV:
"I can't believe you said yes!" I squeal as I dance around the most handsome and caring guys I know. "And you got all hot and flustered about it too," I say as I continue to dance.
"You know I can't say no to you," my tailed friend says, as I hear him beat the boxing bag again.
"That is so sweet, Ojiro. You're a sweetheart," I reply finally collapsing as my world continues to spin round and round.
"Well, I would have asked you tonight at our usual reading session together," he replies as my world starts to slowly stop spinning.
"AWWW," I say as I sit up to watch his tail beat another boxing bag off the hook and breaking and spilling the sand inside all over the floor. At this point, the floor looks less like a wooden training floor more like a desert.
"Fifth one down," he says, putting up another bag.
He is so hot when he works out, and he just lets me sit here and watch. I like when he works real hard his cheeks go pink, and I just find it attractive he works so hard to improve himself. Oh, and that soft tail, I love it. It is like a pillow.
I think as he goes back at punching the boxing bag again, alternating every so often with a whack of the tail.
I enjoy our reading session when he wraps it around me, it always makes me feel safe. And warm. I feel like he can see me even though I am invisible.
"I can't wait for graduation. This guy that's taking me is so hot, and I can't wait to be called beautiful all night when we go for our graduation with the rest of the support students," a female voice says from the door.
"I know, too bad for those who don't have a date, they won't have anyone to tell them how pretty their hair is or how nice the dress looks. Oh, and makeup. It would really be disgusting to be invisible, unable to be ugly or pretty, no one being able to see them," says a much nastier female voice. I look up to see two girls walking past the open training door, both looking extremely familiar with a blond and a redhead. It reminds me of a long time ago, and my heart breaks, not able to deal with the old emotions pouring into my heart and burning it as if someone had poured searing lava into it.
I do the one thing I always do, I run. I run out of the room and the one place I feel safe. One place only one person knows about.
Ojiro POV:
I would turn around just in time to see Toru and her floating clothes vanish from sight as she ran out of the room. And I hear crying. My heart tears itself in two as if someone had chopped me up like I have to so many wooden boards.
Why is she crying?
I ask myself as I ditch the boxing gloves and go to follow her. I wander out to see the doors to the south exit of the training building swing.
Oh, she is going there. It must be awful then.
I think as I follow along at a slower pace, letting her have a little time to herself just in case it was me that caused this. I wander into the field overseeing the dorms and the training city. I hear it, the small whimpers and I see the tears. My heart tearing itself apart with each step towards what I know is a sad sight.
I finally reach the hill. The hill that looks over the fake training city we use in practicals. A place that only Toru and I go. I see the floating clothes of Toru, and small tears just hang there in the air. I sit down next to her and do the one thing I know she likes. I wrap my tail around her.
"What's wrong, Toru?" I ask, staring at her invisible form, knowing exactly where her eyes are thanks to her tears.
"Nothing don't worry," she mumbles through tears.
"Well, how about I tell you a secret," I say, pausing for a second to see if she would tell me what is wrong. "Well I am going to tell you why I let you play with my tail freely," I say, wrapping my tail tighter around her trying my best to comfort this beautiful girl. "You were the only girl ever to ask to cuddle my tail, all through middle school they all took it for granted but you, you asked, you were respectful, I liked that. Then I came to know you better, your fun-loving personality, your energetic attitude to everything and your goals. So, I let you be the exception to my rule of asking to cuddle my tail, you never have to ask," I say, staring out at the clear blue sky.
"Can you hold me?" she whimpers out, to which I instantly without thinking open my arms and she leaps in, pressing her face into my chest. I feel the tears drench my activewear as she cries for what feels like hours.
"Can you tell me what's got you so upset?" I ask, continuing to hold her not wanting her to run away and hopefully comfort her.
"Yes, I overheard some older girl," she starts into my chest. "She was talking about how happy she will be when she is told she is beautiful by her partner at graduation, then they went on about how terrible it would be to be invisible about never knowing if your ugly or beautiful. It reminded me of middle school," she cries as I rub her back, as she cries for a little while longer, "Its not fair, its not fair. Everyone else can be beautiful, and I can't be seen, I can never be told I am beautiful. No one knows what I look like, and that's all I want, I want to be beautiful,"
As she finished, I feel crushed, my heart feels like it had been smashed into a billion little pieces. Then a thought crosses my brain.
There may be a way, the quirk expert. He may know away.
"Toru, I know you are beautiful, I think I know someone who can help.
Izuku POV:
"Alright, last bit is done," I say to myself as I finish covering my new version of 1A's quirks notebook I had been working on all year. As I place it down, I hear a knock at the door. "Coming," I call out as I stand up and walk to the door.
This is not what I expected, I expected Uraraka, Todoroki, Kirishima and even Momo maybe. But this I was not prepared for.
I think as I stare at Ojiro and Toru standing there, Ojiro covered in what I hope is sweat and Toru seems to have the sniffles.
Ok….
"Midoryia I need to ask for your help, you are the quirk expert," Ojiro asks completely serious catching me a little off guard.
"Sure, what can I do to help?" I ask while looking between the two and noticing his tail is wrapped protectively around Toru.
"You may know a way to turn off her quirk if anyone does, please I beg you help us," he says almost pleading with me.
"Of course, come in, Toru take a seat on my chair, I will grab my notebooks," I say inviting them into my room. As they enter, I grab my mutant quirk notebook and my newly finished 1A quirks book.
"Thank you," I hear Toru whimper as I take a seat next Ojiro on the bed across from her.
"It's my pleasure, so as I know your quirk is a mutant type like you told me a while back?" I ask, looking up from my brief notes.
"Yeah, that's what the doctor said," Toru states,
"Alright, usually Mutant quirks can't be turned off, but maybe the doctor got it wrong since he couldn't get you to turn it off when your younger and now you have just no idea because you have never really tried," I say, looking at the floating clothes in front of me. "Tell me the moment you remember becoming invisible," as I say that I notice her stiffen.
Toru POV: around 10 years ago,
"Yeah its finished," I say, staring down at my drawing of a house, and my dad. I feel so happy, just looking at it.
"Oh that, is so ugly," a girl's voice says. I look up to see a blonde-haired and a red-haired girl staring at me.
"Almost as ugly as her face isn't Sara," the red-haired girl says nudging the blonde.
"That's so true Pat, she is so ugly that hair looks like sand, and that tanned skin looks like a spray tan went wrong, don't get me started about all those freckles looks like the chicken pocks," the blonde-haired girl replies.
"Why you say such mean things?" I ask,
"Cause your so ugly," they respond in unison before they reef the picture and tear it up in front of me. My hard work torn into a million coloured snowflakes as they fall onto the desk.
"Stop I worked hard on that," I call out, but they do not stop they point and laugh.
Please go away, I want to be invisible, I want to be invisible, I want to be invisible. Please help me!
I think as I cry into my hands trying to hide away from them and the whole world. I wanted to hide my heart and my face and my ugly hair. I wished I could run away, find a prince to sweep me off my feet and take me away. Like in Cinderella.
"Oh my look, Sara, she's invisible, now we don't have to see her ugly face, her hair or those disgusting freckles," the red-haired girl named Pat would say as they would point and laugh at me, I would open my eyes, and I couldn't see my hands.
"Where are my hands!" I squeal standing up, knocking my chair over, my hands were not there, I grabbed my hair. I could feel it, but I couldn't see it.
I guess I got my wish.
Izuku POV: Present day
"That was the last time I could see myself," Toru replies,
Reminds me a lot of my time in preschool and middle school but being quirkless. I feel so sorry for her.
"I am so sorry you went through that," Ojiro says to the floating clothes, as I look at him, I notice he seems sad and almost angry. I can feel him shaking, his eyes look like they have flames in them.
"I think there may be a way to turn it off," I say as I scribble down a few notes onto Toru's page, "Try and focus for me, focus on what you used to look like," I say.
I watch the invisible form tense.
This is theory one. Hopefully, I do not have to try approach two. But it is more likely due to it maybe being emotion-related.
After about a minute, I hear an exasperated sigh from the floating clothes. "It's not working!" Toru sighs, almost cries which hurts me. I may not have the scars of my teasing when I was younger or many at least, but she lives with one constantly. Her invisibility.
"It's ok I have another idea," I say, sighing knowing this will be hard, "Focus on what you felt when you turned invisible, focus and try and let them go," I say as I watch her.
"Well, I felt insecure, hated, ugly, unwanted. Like the whole would be better without this ugly soul. I hated myself and that I would never be pretty, never be told I am beautiful by someone I fell in love with. It wouldn't be fair cause they wouldn't be able to see me," she starts, I feel upset, and I want to cry for her, but I hold it in.
I know how you feel.
I think as she continues and after two minutes she sighs, and I watch her clothes move as if she is hugging her legs. "It didn't work, I am never meant to be seen again, it's not fair," she cries, I watch as Ojiro move towards her and wrap his tail around her again.
I am so sorry Toru, I really tried.
I think as I watch the two of them, "It doesn't matter to me, I have always been able to see you," Ojiro says, as he does I see a shimmer of long brown and blonde hair shimmer in and out of existence.
Was that?
I ask myself, staring at the where the shimmer occurred. Noticing a few spots, I couldn't see Ojiro's tail anymore replaced by that sandy colour. "I have always thought you're beautiful, your heart is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I am in love with you, and I think your beautiful and I will tell it to you every day for the rest of our lives, please trust me I will make it all alright," Ojiro says almost crying in tears as he holds Toru in front of me. All the while, I stare at the girl materializing, a tanned girl with long blonde/brown hair. But a prominent streak of red and blue hair right in the middle. She has a small build, similar to Jiro.
I stand up, walk to my desk and pick up my all might mirror and walk to the cuddling pair, "I think your also pretty Toru," I say, handing her the mirror. I watch as she stares in utter shock, and I get a better look at her face, she has crystal blue eyes and her face is skinny and covered in lots of freckles.
She is pretty, not as beautiful as Uraraka, but she is defiantly cute.
I am suddenly broken out of my trance by someone colliding with me in a hug. As I look down, I see Toru in the flesh. "What is this for?"
"For helping me, without you trying, I wouldn't be how I am…able to be seen," she replies, releasing me from the hug. She moves quickly back into the arms of Ojiro, which causes me to smile.
I am so happy I could help them.
I think as I watch the heart-warming scene as the invisible girl could finally be seen. I can't even comprehend the emotions that would be going through her right now, she is a ball of sunshine, almost glowing.
"I knew you were beautiful, but I want you to know I think your heart is the most beautiful part of you," Ojiro says as I hear Toru release a small cry, muffled by the activewear of Ojiro. "You ready to show the world?"
"Yes!" she squeals, which in one movement, still in each other's arms, they glide out of my room and down the stairs. I follow at a leisurely pace, giving whoever was in the shared space some time to get used to the new Toru.
As I get to the bottom of the stairs, I am greeted by the sight of Torus excitedly showing Momo her hair. Ojiro is standing next to her just smiling, it feels perfect, exactly right and how it should be. Until I see the purple dwarf.
He was creeping bellow eye level towards the rear of Toru's skirt. The dam creep was at it again, was slowly trying to indecently expose the girls again, I will never know why he hadn't been expelled, but here we are once again.
Alright, I will use my quirk to grab him, and well I think I will give him to Mina.
So, I move grabbing Mineta, using 2% just before he was going to lift the back of Toru's skirt. Unfortunately, I created a small gust of wind and disturbed the others standing there. Now they have their eyes tracked on me.
"Sorry guys, Mineta problems," I say holding him up as if I caught a fish, Mineta being a fish.
"Oh, thank you Midoryia! I don't usually wear any since well I was invisible and I would just flash people when I sit down," she says blushing, but as my brain slowly processes my cheeks heat up.
"Oh, yeah sorry, I am taking him to Mina!" I stutter racing up the stairs towards the girl dorms. It is as we reach Mina's door, I hear Mineta.
"Please, no! You don't know what she does! Please, I beg you! Have mercy," he pleads in tears.
"You brought this upon yourself, its' time to pay for your sins," I say as I knock on the door to Mina's room. Mineta would struggle, but I would not relent, not after he tried to peak up Uraraka's skirt a few days ago, or Momo's and Todoroki froze him to the roof of the classroom.
"Coming," an energetic and cheery voice calls from within the room. A second later, the door opens to be greeted by my pink-skinned friend. "Oh my, did he try to peak up someone's skirt again?" to which I nod, "Well today I am in a good mood, so it's the shock chair today, let us get you strapped in," she says, as I hear nothing but screams from Mineta, screams of pure agony even before he has been placed in the chair.
"A hero's job is to deliver justice," I say as I strap the perverted purple dwarf into the chair.
Ojiro POV, downstairs:
"Oh, my Toru, you look beautiful, the streak of red looks just like a rose and the blue is the colour of the sky, it's beautiful," Momo states as she runs her hands through the red and blue streaks of hair. Which runs right down the centre of her hair, the rest being a sandy brown.
It reminds me of the martial arts dojo floor.
I think, but keep it to myself, Toru wouldn't appreciate that compliment. But what my eyes keep locked on is that bright smile, brighter than all the lights in Tokyo put together. More brilliant than any smile I got in my entire life. It makes me feel warm, it confirms everything I thought about Toru, how beautiful and caring she is. I knew she had a beautiful smile, and now I can see it. Now she can see it.
I hear something, something that can only be described as a screaming cat. A pained and tortured scream which I recognize and is commonplace in the dorm. "Ah I see they have started the Mineta's torture, I better go make sure everything is regulation, Mr Aizawa said only 20 minutes on the electric chair," Momo classy states as she glides out of the room as if what she said was anything like normal.
As she leaves, I feel someone cuddle me more placing their face on my chest as I can feel the steady breath. "Tell me again please," Toru whimpers into my chest.
Tell you what? What do you want to know? Oh
"I have always been able to see you, I have always been able to see your beautiful heart, your beautiful personality. Right now, you are the most beautiful girl in the world doesn't matter if I can't see you or not, you are the most beautiful girl. I love you Toru," I whisper right into her ear because these words are only for her.
"I love you too Ojiro, I love you with every cell of my body,"
[Thank you for reading I hope you enjoyed a little Toru and Ojiro today. Hopefully, you like the way I captured their personalities. Please tell me what your favourite part is so far this Arc. Please leave a review for the chapter! And remember GO BEYOND PLUS ULTRA!
Ps. There is a short story on my account called Do you know the way Home? Please give it a read, it is really sad, but it is an IzuOcha story,]