IzuOcha Arc 1 Chapter 5: Thank you
[Hey guys so I got a couple of comments about changing how I do Author Comments. So, as you will see below this is a line. In-between the line is the story. So, I will put like small bracket comments in like I did the last chapter for Mr Aizawa's capture weapon which is a scarf. But other than that, it will be obvious, I hope. Anyway, enjoy the last chapter of this Arc.]
Emi POV (Ms Joke):
It had been a long twenty-four hours for myself and Aizawa, starting dating after all these years. The silence finally over, I feel so happy. I finally feel my life has taken a turn for the better. I feel like I could make the whole world laugh.
The only problem is that I haven't seen Aizawa in a few hours, he has been stuck in his office and monitoring room almost all day. It isn't like I have been doing nothing though, I have been in meeting after meeting here.
"I wish he was back already, he is almost twenty minutes late," I say to myself and the breeze. I am glad he told us to meet up here, on the roof of the teacher dorms/accommodation. I can see all the dorms of the students, but I am too high up to make out details on the ground. Just the lights like little fireflies. The lights are almost mesmerizing,
"Sorry I am so late." Says a gruff voice from behind me.
"About time. I thought you had fallen asleep on me!" I excitedly say putting on my biggest Ms Joke smile while turning to him. As my eyes reach him, I see pain again. "Oh no, I didn't mean to be Ms Joke I know how you hate it." I apologize hoping to rekindle some of the fire of happiness in his eyes.
"It's not you." He says sliding down next to me and wrapping one arm around my waist. "One of my students." He sighs,
"Tell me about it. I am always here to listen." I say stroking his hair. So, for the next ten minutes, he talks about how Bakugou I assume one of his students blasted another into the wall, creating a scene where memories had returned from Overhaul and in turn his sidekick. I just sit there rubbing his back and listening.
In the past two days, I have learnt a lot about Shota. I learned about the nightmares, he doesn't sleep during the night because he would cry himself to sleep or scream scaring everyone around him who is asleep. So instead he sleeps in class or around his students because it just makes him feel better, it makes him feel comfortable enough to sleep in peace. I understand though, all through the night when we tried to sleep, he wouldn't stop shaking. I had to cuddle him into my chest before he would stop shaking. I didn't mind it though, except for his unshaven face.
"Shota, I asked one thing from you today," I say trying to be angry, but I couldn't not while he was in this state. "You need to shave before we go to sleep tonight. No excuses." I say while giving him a quick slap on the wrist. Then to my surprise, he lets out a small giggle, never have I been able to make him laugh. Never not in ten years of knowing him. Not as Ms Joke or Emi Fukukado. My heart is soaring as high as the stars right now, his small but real giggle was enough to make me fall in love with the extremely serious man.
As if he knew what I was thinking he places a kiss on my forehead, rough from his unshaved face but also comforting and soft. Releasing the small kiss, "That was real." He says. Before turning back to the fireflies of lamps below.
"I am so glad we can spend time together," I say, as my heart continues to soar.
"Yes, I am too. Now I want to ask you about your job interview?" He asks turning towards my face, I get a decent look at his face, it is still rough and unshaven, but his face is less tired than usual, his scar under his eye still visible but less highlighted from the lack of bags under them. "Emi?" he asks snapping me back into reality,
"Well, thanks to your high recommendation as alumni, fellow hero and teacher, Nezu says I got the job," I say with a sigh of relief.
"You know my recommendation only got you in the door. Your personality and your skills speak for themselves. I may be biased because I am in love with you but you're the most incredible woman I know." I can't hear anything else, my heart had stopped soaring and beating as I take in the words slowly.
"You…. L…. OV…. E me?" I stutter out struggling to cope with the rush of these new electric feelings in my heart, it is like how I feel when I make people life but so much deeper. No not deeper but hotter, my cheeks are burning a bright shade of red as I think about the word.
"Yes, why wouldn't I?" he asks, with that I get a hold of myself. I leap onto him wrapping both my hands around him.
"That is the first time you said you loved me! I love you so much!" I squeal like a little girl not caring if the entire school can hear me. "Thank you so much. I needed that so much more than I realized. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."
"No thank you for being there for me," he says slowly recovering from my surprise attack and returning the embrace. "When do you start? I enjoy not being tired and being able to sleep next to you."
"Next year, with the fresh year of first years," I respond.
Uraraka POV:
"You will look after him?" I ask for about the hundredth time. To a Momo, who is just shaking her head trying to reassure me.
"Yes, of course, I will look after him, you will be able to see him from the kitchen anyway. We won't let anything happen to him I promise." Momo declares as I finally place Deku with the help of Todoroki onto the lounge.
"Ok," I mumble out, leaving him behind to the care of the girls of 1A and a few of the guys.
"Thank you Momo." Todoroki says, "I owe you."
"Forget it Todoroki, a friend of yours is a friend of mine." She says determination riddled through her conviction. I notice that small smile again escaping his face as he nods to join me and the others in the kitchen.
I know my face is all red and puffy, but no one had said anything, I didn't want to leave him. Every time I do, he gets hurt and he ends up in pain.
"Why does this have to happen to him?" I mumble out,
"I don't know. But he is lucky to have you as a friend. So, I am just going to ask this." Todoroki coolly says taking a quick breath, "How long have you been in love with Midoryia?" he asks. My brain stops functioning I just stare wide-eyed like an owl.
"Love!? No not love. Maybe? Yes. Awhile." I say shaking my arms vigorously in front of my face while also admitting I do to the half red half white-haired boy. Flustered and at least a tomato shade of red I sigh and wait for a response.
"It's ok. I am glad that the person who will be at the top will have someone who loves him for who he is. As a kid, I was used as a tool for most of my childhood to be used to become number one. I don't want that for him, for him to turn out like my father. I always thought my father turned out like this because of two things." He stops in his tracks breathing extremely deeply. "Jealously for All Might. And lack of emotional connections. Especially love."
"Deku wouldn't turn out like that. Not ever!" I exclaim back shocked that Todoroki would make that connection between the two.
"I know but what some people do to try and get to the top, causes people to do things they never would have dreamed of doing. It is just good to have someone who loves them to watch their back for them." He explains, coolly still not losing his temper. "My father has gotten better, the support from my older siblings I can see he has changed. Slowly. I am still not ready to forgive him. But if he continues doing what he is doing, I think I could."
"I don't know if he even loves me back," I admit caving in not able to deny the fact anymore.
"I know he does, he cares about you so much more than anyone else. More than you can imagine." He says as we finally join the others in the kitchen.
"All right waiting on those herbs!" calls Kirishima from his cooking station with Mina. As I finally get settled, I start going hard cutting quickly as possible with the help of Todoroki we make quick work of the herbs. Once we are all done, we start dishing up as best we can.
"No Kirishima!" I call out as I wander over to Deku's plate. "You have to put this much on," I say sprinkling another good handful on it.
"Won't that overpower it?" he asks confused.
"No. it's how he likes it. It is how his mother makes it." I say justifying my response.
"You sure know a lot about him," Mina says elbowing me playfully.
"Yes, because he is my best friend," I say elbowing Mina back with a wink. As well as gaining at least three shades of pink onto my cheeks. My cheeks drain of colour when I hear a quick yelp and a bang. My body just moves knowing what the cause of this bang and yelp is. Deku.
Izuku POV:
I feel groggy, I have a massive splitting headache, as well as a pain in my back. Nothing is broken that much I can tell it just hurts all over. Not just that I just relived some many painful memories, all involving Kacchan and his friends. I remember being left behind, I remember being beaten and hurt for even making a sound. I remember the rage and hatred everyone had towards me, the finger-pointing. The laughing, the name calling and the teasing.
As I push that to the side of my mind, I push myself to open my eyes as I can hear work in a kitchen and movements around me. As I finally open my eyes, I see about ten or more pairs of eyes nothing else just eyes. I activate One for All and flip myself of the coach backwards and onto my back which has now ignited even more pain than before. I just think they are here to make fun of me, they are here to hurt me again. Kacchan has come back for revenge.
"Midoryia!" yells a posh voice, then I remember. UA, these are my friends, these are people whom I live with now. They are my class.
"Sorry, just got scared. Give me a second!" I call out as I attempt to breathe in an out regaining a small amount of my composure. But before I can even make my first attempt to stand someone has grabbed my arm. And pulled me right up to standing much to my back's screams against the action.
As I get to my feet, I notice that I am in the lounge room part of the common room. I look from where I jumped to see mostly all the girls surrounding the coach with a few of the guys scattered amongst them. Then I look over to the person who helped me up.
"Hey Deku. Are you ok?" my best friend asks me, her warm brown eyes removing any sought of pain from my body. "I was so worried." She says giving me one of her heart melting smiles that I have fallen in love with. I don't care that my cheeks are heating up and turning slightly pink, I just feel so safe and so content.
"Yes, thank you Uraraka," I respond after maybe ten seconds of silence between us and me staring into her eyes completely on purpose. "Thank you for helping me again," I say, then I smell something, and I look around. My friends are all working in the kitchen, making something that at least smells like Katsudon. "Is that Katsudon?" I ask curiously at my blushing best friend who has done a me and found a rather interesting piece of flooring to look at.
"Yes. I made it for you." Uraraka stutters out before lifting her head up, "With the others help!" she yells moving her hands around her face obvious redness coming to it.
"Thank you," I mumble out, embarrassed that they went to all the trouble to make my favourite dish for me. I then hear movement from behind me, I turn to see everyone all standing there, all together in a massive group, minus Bakugou. All with bright smiles on their faces, their eyes filled with excitement.
"Welcome home hero!" they all shout together, their voices ring through my ears. Paralysing me in shock. Finally, after a good few seconds, I recover, I notice the badge they are all wearing with green aqua lightening.
I am in shock again, I can't move or say anything. I am overwhelmed by everything and everyone. As I go to move someone moves first towards me, someone I didn't expect. Before I can react, I am in an embrace, not like one from Uraraka or my mother more of a friendly hug, is what I am feeling from it.
"I am happy my best friend is also my hero," Todoroki says releasing me from that quick embrace. I smile one of the happiest grins I can at him. I am happy he is one of my best friends as well, but the words won't come out I am still shocked. But it isn't just me, the rest of the class is in shock all with their mouths hitting the floor at the sight of Todoroki showing emotion.
"Did I do something weird? Did I read the social cues wrong?" he asks curiously staring back at the class confusion written all over his face. Then it starts, the infection spreading through the whole class, laughter as if Ms Joke had activated her quirk on us all. We all burst into joyous laughter.
"No. Thank you Todoroki. Thank you for being my friend!" I say smiling back at him happy that he thinks we are that close with each other. With that the laughter dies down, Iilda steps forward next.
"Thank you Mirdoryia!" he exclaims holding out his hand robotically. "Thank you for being a great hero and an amazing representative for 1A and for the entire school. Thank you for also being my friend. Thank you for your sacrifices!" he practically yells at me while shaking my hand. But I understand what he means, I am thankful. I know how much Iilda cares for me and for everyone in the class. Releasing my grip and stepping back into the group.
Then my redhead gym buddy steps forward, much to Ashido's dismay. "You gave me a real scare at that base you know?" he says coming in and embracing me in the manliest hug I have ever received in my entire life. "I was so worried. I thought you were dead." He says, patting me on the back before releasing me so he can look at me properly, "After I found out you were alive, I knew I had to do something for you. So, I went back to the battlefield." He says fiddling with the pin on his shirt. "There was this little girl, she was handing out these badges to people around her. She was so inspired by you. She told me you were her new favourite hero. She had watched the entire battle and saw everything after. She wants to be a hero like you when she is older. The only thing she didn't know was your name. So, I told her I knew that hero and his name was Deku. I also got one of these. I was going to give it to you. To show you how much of hero you had been. But we got Momo to make more, so we could all show you much you are a hero to all of us. So, thank you again." He finishes with a small tear in his eye and a massive smile.
That broke me, that story, my eyes couldn't hold it in much longer. My tears rushed out of my eyes. "Thank you all so much. You guys are the best thing that has ever happened to me." I say honestly even more than getting All Might's quirk. Having friends like these turned my life around from the loner nerd to the nerd surrounded by family. As I try to stop the tears, I feel someone embrace me again, a feeling that I love. Turning three shades redder I look down to see my best friend.
"No Thank you, Deku," Uraraka says, as CLICK. I look up to see Mina with an evil grin and her phone. I turn a few shades darker out of sheer embarrassment. But in honestly, I don't care, these embraces I have gotten used to them and I need them. As I go to return the embrace the door flies open.
"I AM HERE!" yells a familiar booming voice. Echoing throughout the room. My face with the rest of my class drops as a massive blonde bunny haired man is standing in the door.
"All Might?" we all respond in unison.
"Yes, that is…" but before he can respond he starts vomiting out blood and reverts to his normal form. The entire class is silent, stunned. I try to look a little shocked, but I am used to it at this point. I have seen All Might many times like this and his change in forms.
"Are you ok?" Iilda asks running up to our teacher.
"Yeah just got over excited. That's all." He responds with a smile, "Now I was told to come over here to make sure everyone was ok. So, everyone ok?" he asks looking at me and Uraraka. I notice she is still holding me around the waist with one arm and I feel my cheeks burn up even more.
"Yes, sir. Midoryia just woke up. We are about to have dinner. Would you like to join us?" Iilda asks,
"Yes, I would love to. It has been a while since I have had homemade food." He responds with a grin and a wink to me.
"All right everyone take your seats!" Iilda booms, Uraraka takes a seat next to me with Todoroki on my other side. I feel a brief breeze and as one side has their meals in front of them, I notice Ashido go to start eating when Momo slaps her across the back of the head. A silent argument occurs between Ashido and Momo. With Ashido appearing to lose looking down at her food in defeat.
"Oh oops!" Uraraka yells jumping up from her seat and running over to where Iilda was grabbing more plates for everyone. I see a quick conversation occur between them before Iilda nods and Uraraka picks up two plates and makes her way back.
"Can't take your eyes off." Kaminari starts before getting poked in the eyes by my purple classmate next to him. "Oww!" he yells out in pain. "What was that for!" he says,
"No teasing or I get the other eye," Jiro warns calmly, my cheeks go red as Jiro winks at me with a friendly smile and turns back to Kaminari.
"All Might! Do something!" Kaminari says to All Might who is sitting on the other side of Uraraka. In clear view of the both of them.
"What sorry? I wasn't paying attention." All Might lies, clearly through his giant smile.
"Oh, come on." Kaminari says in an exhausted tone, "really?"
"Anyway. Kaminari I wanted to speak to you. That new ability you have been working on. I wanted to suggest something." All Might says deflecting the question.
"Really?" Kaminari asks all enthusiasm returned to his body.
"Yeah, I think you could reduce the strain on your body by instead of trying to create that net itself by replacing it with a trap like device you throw out like your discs. The support students should be able to make something like that. It would be larger for you and you could focus on increasing the voltage and your duration. Rather than making the trap itself and straining your quirk. Work on it, but that should work just as well for you." All might finishes, clearly enjoying helping his student.
"Wow never thought of that." Kaminari nods clearly impressed with the suggestion, I continue to watch the interaction until Uraraka returns placing food in front of me.
"I hope the herbs and seasoning is to your liking. I tried to make sure I got it the way you liked it." Uraraka responds with her eyes looking everywhere but at me.
"A girl made a meal for me! What do I do? Do I just eat it? Do I say it looks good? What if it isn't? It probably isn't since Uraraka made it? What if she made it on purpose bad? She is trying to test my loyalty to her? Is it a test? What if I fail?"
"Deku?" Uraraka asks braking my mumbling and making me jump in my seat at the sudden calling of my name. I feel my cheeks burn red again.
"I am sure I will like it since you made it!" I exclaim out a little louder than I would have liked. I look up to see Uraraka turn a few shades redder and then a hear a wolf whistle from down the table making my cheeks flare up as if they were on fire.
"Ahhhh. Not just me, but Ashido, Kirishima and Todoroki helped as well. I only did the herbs." She responds equally as loud and embarrassed. She almost looks cute to me, but I can't enjoy this since I am hearing giggles surrounding me.
"Sit down everyone!" Iilda calls out from the head of the table as he finally sits down. Thankfully the giggling stops, and I feel my face turns a little less red. Holding up his glass, "Today we are very thankful for our classmate and fellow hero coming home! We also are thankful for the meal and hopefully all the good times ahead!" Iilda says raising his glass. It makes me feel a little embarrassed, but I couldn't be happier.
Then chaos descends, everyone begins eating shovelling food into their mouths. I just sit there watching, as Ashido starts choking with Momo patting her back trying to help. While Kirishima is using a fork in one hand and his quirk as a knife in the other. I turn to the other side to see All Might smiling and eating slowly. Then I see an invisible fork force food into a panicked Ojiro's mouth.
One day maybe.
"Deku?" Uraraka asks her words literally shaking as she speaks as I turn to see her. Her face is worried, and she seems about ready to cry. "Is it bad? Did I get it wrong?"
"No, no. I just haven't started sorry." I say smiling back to her and finally taking my first mouthful. My mouth explodes with tastes the pork, eggs and herbs all come at once. It is a taste I fell in love with when I was a kid, it tastes so similar to my mothers but better. I never knew it could taste that good. "Uraraka! This is the best Katsudon I have ever had!" I exclaim. As I turn to see her face all red, but she is smiling I can feel the happiness leaching from her making my heart melt slightly.
"I am glad you like it." She says as she begins her own. My heart soars and I can only say one thing to her knowing that I could never explain the depths of my current emotions for her and for everyone who has welcomed me home.
"Thank you Uraraka. Thank you so much."
[So, thank you guys so much for all the support. But that's a wrap on Arc 1 of this story. I am not sure where I will stop, but if I do get sick of this, I will give you an ending. Anyway, I am still loving writing this, so you have a lot more chapters and Arcs out of me yet. I have some really cute ideas I wanna try out with some of the side ships. But anyway. Thank you again, next thing I release will be the Authors notes so please check those out. They will say everything about what I will be writing and what the next arc will be called.
Anyway, thanks again! And remember Always go PLUS ULTRA!]