Chapter XI
A New Dawn

The ocean breeze was probably the most refreshing thing that surrounded me, it was claim compared to the raging storm that appeared last night. I took in a deep breath as I leaned against the wooden fence at the edge of the pier. My arms crossed over each other as I leaned against the fence, as I stared out into the open sea. Wondering if I looked long enough could I see the home, closing my eyes I looked down towards the water wondering if it would feel the same to swim in without my wings.

"You aren't planning to jump?" Came a voice from behind causing me to jump as I quickly whipped around, ready for a fight but quickly relaxed seeing the trench coat Detective. He held his arms up in surrender with a small chuckle, "sorry I didn't mean to scare you." Relaxing my arms, I turned around and returned to my original position of leaning against the fence. Cast a sideways look I watched as the Detective approached copying my movements. "I figured I would find you here, one of your classmates said that you would often go swimming before school." The Detective said as he pulled out his notepad and pen handing them to me, which I took with a grateful smile.

I wasn't swimming I was training back in the US I found that swimming would help work muscle groups that I wouldn't be able to if I would normally work out also increased my speed. I also found the water to be really relaxing. I wrote quickly and handed the notepad back to the Detective, who took the small pad and read it before giving out a small hum before handing the pad back to me.

"I managed to pull some strings for you to remain with your host parents as well as sweeping the whole secondary quirk under the rug, with one requirement, that if you receive a vision you believe to be the future you are to contact me." He said looking down at me as I turned my head to back out at the sea, my body relaxing greatly at the idea of not having to leave. "I also managed to sweep Rune under the rug as well," the moment he spoke the name I tensed up my head snapping to look at him so fast I was surprised I didn't get whiplash. "Despite your best efforts, one of the villains from the USJ attack placed your wings at the alleyway. I was going to further investigate it as Endeavor believed you were the Vigilante, but your teacher informed me that no quirk was used during the confutation. You've seemed to have made some powerful friends." The Detective sighed as he looked out to the sea, "keep them close, as allies like that are hard to come by, also I would advise against using Rune as your hero name. I may have covered for you but that doesn't mean that someone else won't go searching." He added with a firm look making me roll my eyes, but I nodded my head.

Thanks. I wrote handing him the pad, I felt the alarm of my phone telling me it was time to head to school, I may have missed the first half of the day, but I wasn't about to skip the rest of the day. Reaching into my pocket I pressed the stop button on my phone causing the only picture I had of my family to appear. It was of my brother's last birthday, his face was covered in the cake after my father had pushed his face into the cake, a couple of his friends appeared around him, but I had long since forgotten their names. It wasn't even a good picture, but at the moment it was all I had, I gently rubbed my thumb across the screen silently wondering where he was and if he was okay.

"Is that your brother?" The Detective questioned as he was about to return his notepad to me but all I could do was stare at the photo, only when the screen went blank did, I look up, and out to the sea.

"Yes," I whispered hoarsely while my voice did return it was still hard to speak without sounding like I smoked twelve-packs of citrates a day. Shoving my phone in my pocket I whipped away the stray tear that fell on my face. I was done crying, the USJ attack did tell me one thing, and that was that in this world showing emotion would and could destroy your life. Had I not acted on emotion I would probably be in class and still have wings, only having to deal with the loss of my family. All was quiet between the two of us as we stared out into the sea, that was until the Detectives phone started ringing.

"Detective Naomasa Tsukauchi," he answered turning so his back was facing me. "Yes sir, I'll be there." He responded ending the call he turned to look back at me, with a grim expression on his face but quickly changed it to a smile, "Duty calls." He said as he turned to walk back to land but paused reaching into his trench coat and pulled out a sheet of paper. "I almost forgot, it's to update your quirk registration form, you'll need to do this in order to get your Provisional Hero's License, as well as your Hero License later on." He said handing the paper to me, slowly I took it looking down at the registration form then back up at him with a grateful look.

"Thank you," I mumbled wincing at the roughness, this only caused the Detective to smile.

"It's a pleasure you have such a promising future, I'd hate to see that destroyed, because of a couple of bad things," he said as he turned and left.

I watched him leave, like that morning as he got into his car and left, casting one last glance at the sea I placed the sheet of paper in my bag to fill out later. Throwing my bag over my shoulder I winced when I felt the heavy bag hit my bruised back causing a small itching to start. 'stupid bandages,' I thought as I started towards the train station, sending small glares to the birds that would pass by, flaunting their wings at me, this caused the itch to grow making me wonder if it was really phantom feelings. The doctor had mentioned that I would at times feel like I still had my wings, even though they were gone, yet a part of me hoped that it wasn't true. Heck even a part of me was wondering if this was all some mad scheme, and that I was being punished for some wrongdoing in another life.

Sighing I placed my headphones into my ears and drowned out the rest of the world when I got off the train walking the rest of the way to school. Upon turning the corner, I paused at the front gate eyes glancing upwards at the school. A small voice in the back of my mind telling me that I shouldn't be here, but I shook my head putting on a brave face, with a fake smile before walking into the school. I attempted my best to hide from any of the students within the halls by now they should be at lunch. At the moment I wasn't really hungry I debated on going up to the roof but knowing Mr. Aizawa would just get on to me for going back up to the roof so I settled with going to the classroom to try and relax. Slowly I opened the door to the classroom my back tensing up in pain as I struggled to open the large door.

'Why does UA have to have such large doors.' I thought grumbling lowly as I walked into the classroom not even bothering to close the door behind as I stepped into the room only to hit a solid surface. Everything happened in slow motion as I fell to the ground arms desperately trying to reach out and grasp something anything that would stop my fall. Just as my body passed the door frame a hand quickly reached out grasping my own, in a tight and firm grip biting my lip when they yanked me back up put more strain on my back muscles. My eyes darted up silver eyes meeting red, as I was slowly pulled upwards, I didn't let go of the arm until I was confident enough to stand on my own even then I quickly moved to a desk to support the uneven weight of my body my arms trembled slightly as I leaned against the closest desk.

"Mara, Mara!" A voice shouted breaking me from the daze I was in, my head snapped towards the owner of the voice causing my eyes to once again meet red. "I asked what you were doing here," Kirishima asked as he stood there in confusion, I didn't think he would still be in the classroom after all it was 1-A's lunch break. Slowly I scanned the room seeing that we weren't alone, Bakugo, as well as Kaminari, were here, quickly I put on a brave face as I straightened my back, causing the itching filling to return but I pushed that to the back of my mind as I looked over my shoulder to Kirishima. After a second I turned around only to stumble slightly quickly Kirishima reached out, I shoved his hand away as I leaned back against the desk once again.

"Don't help." I squeaked out as my hands gripping the edge of the desk, heat quickly rising to my face as I looked towards the floor.

"You aren't even fully healed, are you," Kirishima stated more than asked as he walked closer to me causing panic to rise in my chest my grip tightening until my knuckles turned white. "Mara you shouldn't be here if you aren't healed," Kirishima said softly as he took a small step closer to me.

"Why?" I questioned softly, my eyes looked up at the redhead with a frown, "I am just as much a student here as you are." I added wincing as my vocal cords started to strain causing my voice to fade as I spoke. My head snapped towards Bakugo when I heard him scoff, he slowly stood up shoving his hands in his pocket.

"Let's go shitty hair, lunch isn't going to last forever," Bakugo said making me roll my eyes, I watched the confliction in Kirishima's eyes as he watched Bakugo walk out of the room but paused at the door, waiting for Kirishima to follow.

"But what about Mara?" Kirishima asked me to gesture. This caused me to smile as I shook my head placing my hand on his shoulder and gently pushed him towards the door.

"I'm fine," I mumbled quietly as I watched Kaminari leave followed by a begrudgingly Kirishima. When he closed the door I let my smile drop followed by my shoulders as I turned and walked towards my desk, flopping down into the chair a small squeak of pain escaped my lips, as my back hit the chair sitting up I opened my desk to smiling when I saw that Izuku put his notes from this morning followed by work that I missed this morning. With nothing better to do, I turned my music put deciding to get to work starting with the easiest work than finishing with the math.

"You're still doing it wrong. You're forgetting to carry the ten after you multiplied the radius." Came the voice of Shoto making me jump out of my chair this made the chair move in such a way that made caused me to fall to the ground as the chair went rolling backward. I shot a quick glare at the culprit who stood shocked. "Are you alright?" He asked holding his right hand out for me to grab to which I took with a small huff. I turned my body to face my wayward chair just as I was about to move to retrieve it, expecting Shoto to release my hand but it only tightened making me pause as I looked over my shoulder with a look of confusion. "I asked if you were alright," He said gently pulling my arm, backward. All I could do was nodded my head as I looked away when I noticed his normal frown dropped even more. "That's not an answer Mara," he said his grip tightening slightly making me wince as I tried to pull my hand from his grip, but this caused his eyebrow to raise.

"I'm fine," I mumbled lowly my body tensed for a second when he stared at me, causing my eyes to look at the floor finding it suddenly interesting, as he seem to search my soul for the truth, the truth that I wasn't alright, that I'm in pain, that I lost almost everything in a matter of a week. Though I didn't want to say anything because I felt as if my pain was pointless, there is no point in crying it won't bring them back. My eyes shot upwards when I felt his left hand gently cup my face, I frowned looking at Shoto as his thumb wiped away the single tear that fell down my cheek. Just as quickly as his hand appeared it disappeared.

"You are not fine. I saw you during the USJ attack, at first, I was going to yell at you for lying down but when I saw the pool of blood around you… With your wings missing it suddenly clicked. The scream, everyone heard it, everyone stopped fighting for a couple of seconds we wondered who it came from. Only Midoriya, Bakugo, Kirishima, and I saw you, that was from class 1-A, Midoriya cried while Kirishima screamed your name. I wondered who could do that to you then I saw that creature from your drawling, the villains said that it was supposed to kill All-Might though All-Might beat the creature. You plus the teachers were the only ones majorly injured, Midoriya broke his arm again." Shoto said as he took a single step back finally releasing his hand from mine. This made me blink for a couple of seconds as I tried to figure out when did Shoto become so long-winded. "We were all worried for you so for you to say that you are fine, is nothing short of a lie." He added summing up what he just said in a single sentence, this was probably one of the first times I watched as the normally stoic boy show concern which confused me. Though something in his eyes caused a lump to form in my throat growing when I tried to sallow it, quickly I looked up trying to stop the tears from falling once again, something that I thought I was over with. "Will you please tell me when you're ready," he said quietly as he turned to take his seat I frowned watching as he turned his back on me causing my shoulder to drop much when Kirishima left. Turning around a grabbed my chair pulling it back to my desk again I slowly sat down watching as a couple of students walked into the classroom chatting amongst themselves.

"Everyone take your seats class is about to begin." Shouted Tenya as he stood at the podium, slowly the rest of the class moved towards their seats, Tenya just sitting down when Mr. Aizawa walked in. I could barely hold back my gasp of horror when I saw that he was casted from the waist up, this, of course, he heard as his head snapped towards me, I couldn't even look him in the eyes as I stared downwards at my hands resting on my desk jaw clenching along with my hands.

'How could I want to call myself a hero when I couldn't save either of my teachers.' I thought blinking a couple of times to try and stop the tears from falling. 'Get a grip Mara, you are attacking weak right now.' I scowled myself, slowly I looked back up frowning when I saw that Mr. Aizawa was still looking at me.

"Mara it's a pleasure to have you back with us, even when the doctor said for you to be on bed rest, that means you will be on the sidelines during this class and when All-Might teaches is that understood, but that doesn't mean that you will have free time." He said causing the attention to move straight to me, I felt my cheeks heat up as I nodded my head. "Good now everyone else get into your gym clothes and meet outside at the tracks. Mara go ahead and head there." He said as he quickly turned and left the room once he was out the door, I was suddenly swamped with multiple classmates making me jump.

"Is it true you lost your wings?"

"What was it like fighting next to Me. Aizawa?"

"How are you feeling?"

"We were all so worried."

Questions bounced back and forth sometimes repeating themselves like a bad echo in a cavern, when I didn't answer they only crowd closer causing my heart to race. Quickly I stood up with enough force to send my chair toppling to the floor, my hands gripping the edges of my desk hard enough that I could see my knuckles turning white, as my arms shook, my jaw clenching. I wanted to scream at them, to tell them to shut up, but I just kept my mouth closed as I quickly stood up straight, putting a blank face on I shoved my hands into my pockets and walked out of the classroom, ignoring everyone around me. My heart seemed to race even more as I walked down the hallway to reach the stairs, while I stared at the floor, kicking an imaginary rock along the way. Just as I reached the corner for the stairs I ran into a hard object, much like when I ran into Kirishima I fell to the ground but this time there were no hands to stop my fall. When I landed, I didn't even want to bother looking up. I just sat there quickly wrapping my arms under my legs I buried my head into my knees, the dams that I had built broke as I sat in the hallway and cried.

"Mirio you made her cry." Came a female voice from my left that seemed to scold someone it was followed by the sound of someone getting hit gently, like a backward slap to their chest.

"Hey, I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you fall." Came a soft voice of whom I assumed was Mirio as I felt a hand lay gently on my shoulder, slowly I looked up seeing blonde hair with blue eyes and a gentle smile, I blinked for a second wondering if I had just ran into All-Might but the school uniform told me otherwise. "You don't have to cry." He added as he removed his hand from my shoulder holding it out for me to grab, silently I just stared at him before my eyes shifted to the female, she had long light purple hair with blue eyes and a beaming smile, as she gave a small wave. I blinked for a second as my eyes traveled to a third member his eyes widen when our eyes met before he quickly looked towards the wall his hands shoved deep into his pockets as his shoulders slumped.

"Sorry," I mumbled as I slowly took the boys hand, he gently pulled me off my feet with such strength that a small surprise squeak escaped my lips when I was rightful on my feet. This caused the blonde to let out a small chuckle, as he let go of my hand and gently rubbed the back of his head.

"Sorry about that you were lighter than I thought." He said causing heat to form on my cheeks as I quickly found interest in the wall much like the other boy. I only looked back when I heard the sound of someone getting hit again.

"You don't say that to a girl," the girl hissed lowly towards the blonde, "hey are you okay though?" The girl asked making me look towards her, my jaw clenched as I rubbed my face to get rid of the tears then looked towards the floor.

"No," I mumbled softly as I gently scuffed the floor with my shoes, my hands quickly found their home in my pocket, with caused a small scoff to leave my lips when I realized how much me and the other boy were acting.

"What's happened, sweetie?" The girl asked moving closer this caused my body to tense up when I saw her feet no more than two feet from me.

"The USJ happened," I mumbled slowly looking up at her then back towards the ground, catching horror that flashed through her eyes, quickly she grabbed my wrist and pulled me towards her, I squeezed my eyes shut expecting to run into someone again but instead she lead me to the stairs telling me to sit down as she sat next to me, with the Blonde setting down on my other side as the other boy sat on the blonde side closest to the wall.

"So, you're from 1-A?" She asked all I could do was nod my head, wondering why she was so interested in this. "That's so cool you must have a wicked quirk, me and Amajiki are from 3-A and Mirio the boy you ran into is from 3-B." She said causing my eyes to widen in surprise they were seniors.

"Shouldn't y'all be in class?" I asked wincing when my voice ran quiet towards the end, this caused me to look down at my shoes as I felt heat rush to my face once again the feeling of being blush-stained running through my head.

"We were on our way to class when you ran into me," Mirio said placing a gentle hand on my back, quickly pain shot up my spine a small pain cry escaped my lips as I quickly stood up trying to distance myself from his hand. Turning around I tripped for a second hands quickly reaching out to grab the railing, to stop my fall, my breathing was erratic as my hand clenched the railing tightly knuckles turning white.

"Do you need to go to the nurse?" The girl asked as she stood up quickly moving to my side, but I held out my hand and shook my head slowly I straightened up twisting my body so that I could sit back down on the stairs two below the three, with my back gentle resting against the cold concrete wall that supported the railing. I could feel a couple of tears fall once again down my face as I looked towards Mirio who was worried, along with the girl as she sat back down.

"I didn't mean to hurt you," Mirio said as he looked down at his hand this caused a forced laugh to escape my lips.

"I know, my back is sore," I spoke softly as I looked towards the wall across from me, "I had wings, but a villain ripped them off," I said my shoulders dropping as I pulled my right knee into my chest.

"Wait you were the student that went to the hospital?" The girl quickly asked I looked at her out of the corner of my eye and only nodded my head. "You saved Thirteen and Mr. Aizawa," she added her voice getting a little higher with excitement, as she held her hands in a fist in front of her. All I could do was roll my eyes and look towards the wall once again.

"Hado, she lost her quirk because of it." Came the gentle voice of the third guy as he stared at the same wall, this made the stairwell extremely quiet. As I looked towards the dark-haired boy, this only caused his body to tense up making me look back towards the Hado and Mirio both look to be dumbstruck.

"I'm so sorry that happened, sweetie." She said sadly as she moved down to sit one step above me and gently wrapped an arm around my shoulder an attempt to hug me.

"I can handle that. I… It was the news I got when I woke up." I mumbled looking downwards as I felt her pull away, 'why was I even telling them this?' I thought as I looked back towards them, seeing a frown on Hado face as well as Mario's. "I lost my family to a villain attack," I muttered feeling the lump return to my throat as I tried to hold back the tears, I heard both Hado and Mirio gasp out. My body tensing when I felt arms quickly wrap around my shoulders pulling me into a soft chest.

"Oh sweetie, that must be hard." She whispered softly, as I started to cry once again mentally, I cursed myself for showing such weakness but at the same time, I relished in the comfort that she gave me from the sideways hug. She didn't even let go as I cried nor did the others leave, finally when I calmed down did she pull away. "I've never had to deal with such a loss before, but I can't imagine that it is easy. If you ever want to talk to someone I'm here." She said as she sat back down on the seat next to Mirio who nodded his head seeming to agree with her on the statement, this caused a small smile to appear on my face but then quickly faded as I looked down at the stairs.

"I don't want to be a burden," I mumbled softly feeling my vocal cords start to strain once again.

"Oh, sweetie you aren't, it's never good to deal with such emotions by yourself." She countered quickly, "now you should probably get to class Mr. Aizawa might expel you" she added as she stood up holding her hand out for me to take which I took a small smile appearing on my face.

"Thank you," I said softly as I turned to start down the stairs.

"Wait let me give you my number so we can stay in contact." She called out making me freeze as I turned around to look at her.

"I don't have a working phone. My parents couldn't afford an overseas data plan." I said looking towards the stairs in front of her.

"Wait you're not from Japan?" she asked sounding surprised this made me chuckle softly.

"No, I'm from Texas," I said, "America I mean," I added quickly correcting myself as I watched her surprise grow.

"Wow you're Japanese is so good, I thought you were from Japan." She said, "oh by the way I'm Nejire Hado, this is Mirio Togata, and the shy one that likes walls is Tamaki Amajiki." She said introducing themselves with a bright and powerful smile, causing my smile to grow as I bowed my head.

"I'm Sanders Mara, but you can call me Mara." I said watching as the Hado smile seemed to grow even more, 'such a strange group of friends.' I thought as I looked back up at them.

"Mara, that's a nice name, well see you around, and if you ever need a friendly ear to listen, come find me." She said as the three turned and left to walk towards their class leaving me to stand on the staircase my mind going over the conversation, with a small nod and a true smile coming to my face I turned and made my way to the track.

Hado bubbly personality seemed to be even more contangoes than her smile as I felt like I was in such a better mood than before. Maybe that's all I needed was someone to talk to that would just listen. I let out a small sigh as I exited the building and walked towards the track seeing that the class was in the middle of running a lap, while Mr. Aizawa stood there watching them, the sounds of my footsteps approaching alerted him as he turned to look at me, I could feel a small glare that he held but it quickly went away when I stopped next to him and bowed my head.

"I'm sorry for being late I had a small break down," I said wincing when my voice sounded horse like this morning.

"Don't apologize, Mara, now considering you can't participate in the physical work out you will be focusing more on the mental work, if you still want to be a hero you're going to need to work just as hard if not harder than before, especially if you are going to compete in the Sports Festival." He added as he turned to look towards the running students. "Today I want you to relax, and work on getting better." He added as we stood there watching the other students run "Thank you." He muttered quietly making me frown as I looked up at him confused. "The doctor said if you hadn't intervened I wouldn't be here nor would Thirteen." He added looking down towards me "I'm just sorry that it costed you, your quirk." He said making me smile as I looked towards the students.

"It's alright, besides my mother told me if I am nothing without a quirk then I have no right to call myself a hero," I said softly he gave off a small hum, then looked back towards the students before my eyes traveled up to the sky knowing my parents were watching over me.

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