My Hero Academia: Akio Takeyama
Chapter - 5
My mother, was in this picture, and so was I, but that truly wasn't the reason i'm still staring at this picture. Well...it's partly the reason, yes, although she looks young in this photo...really young. Though the picture cuts off about just under her midsection and that could mean I'm looking too much into one detail.
I rubbed the photo with one thumb, I was hoping to touch her and finally feel the motherly touch I've missed for so long. The attempt was obviously futile. It made me angry to a certain extent, mother just won't talk to me and that hurts.
I would do anything for her to just to have her walk through my door and say, "Akio." I widened my eyes and turned to the door...to be disappointed. It was Aunty Ataru with a straight face as she looked at me. I turned away, and with a irritated scowl at the window I ask:
"What do you want?"
"Breakfast is ready. Come and-just what is your problem?" Her calm and undertoned voice turned aggravated in a second.
I swiftly turned and stood. "You...hiding this picture from me is my problem!" I showed her the picture of my mother holding me with a small smile and satisfied look on her face. She must have recognized the picture and immediately because her hair flared up.
"Wait did you go in my room!?" Now she was furious. She dropped her phone and stalked over towards me. I didn't care...I was tired of it.
"Who cares? All I know is that you've been hiding things from me...Lia." She stopped and started shaking slightly. With a breath she looked at me, dead in the eyes, and Pointed at me.
"Watch...what you say next Akio." It was a warning but I shrugged it off like it was nothing. "Yeah...i mean someone with so much fortune would just up and leave their family for no reason right?" She started trembling a little bit more. A frown adjourned my face in that moment.
"You're a murderer."
Clap.
Is that the word I should use to describe the sound that echoed through the entire home? No, it was as if thunder hit the tree next to the house and left a fire. That fire was a painful stinging sensation on the left side of my face, and that almost made me forget that I was on the ground. I looked up with tears in my eyes at Lia.
She was crying.
"You little...argh!" She picked me up by the collar of my shirt and I grabbed her wrist. "What do you not understand!?" she slammed me against the wall.
"I don't understand why you have such a hard time telling me about why my mother gave me to you...and what is your connection in all of this!?" She pushed and pinned me to the wall hard.
"My connection? My connection is that i'm your dreadful Father younger sister!" The tears started falling a little faster from my Aunts dark purple eyes. My grip on her wrist loosened and I let my hands drop to my sides.
We have the same colored eyes. My father is Lia's older brother, and that means she really Is my aunt and she is hiding even More from me.
"Dreadful father?" Those words I picked out specifically from her answer gave me some insight. My father, divorced my mother, maybe they had a falling out, and or they fought over the rights to who would keep the baby.
Is that why my mother gave me to my aunt all those years ago? It wasn't because she wanted to...it was because she had to.
"I...I w-was forbidden-" In that moment we both heard a loud bang. Aunty Ataru, no, aunty Lia let go of me and turned around suddenly. I looked from her side to see Toshiko crying a plate of food dropped on the floor.
"Ms. Ataru...why are you two fighting?" Aunty quickly wiped her eyes of the tears that stained her eyes and cheeks. I quickly did so too and moved over to Toshiko. I picked up the bowl and cleaned up the food that fell onto the floor.
I smiled at her as I knelt in front of her. I wiped her eyes and lowered my voice.
"It's okay Toshiko...we weren't fighting." Toshiko sniffed and looked at me with a questioning look.
"You weren't?" She asked and that made me chuckle. She's playing along.
"Even if you weren't fighting you two shouldn't argue like that." I rubbed her head before standing up and walking over to my closet. I took my bag for school and sighed.
"Toshiko we always do that so you don't have to worry okay? Just worry about getting to school on time today." I ruffled her hair again and turned to my aunt with a fake smile.
"I'm leaving." She nodded and raised a hand in a lazy gesture to say 'bye'. "C'mon Toshiko let me drive you to school." That's the last thing I heard as I rushed down the stairs. I opened the door and closed it behind me.
The tears...damn it hurts. I held my aching cheek and continued on my way.
This is just a minor setback. I took out the picture I pocketed and stared at it.
Just...what exactly is wrong with this picture? Is it how young she looks? Is is the small smile and satisfied look and gives me as i'm cradled in her arms?
Maybe it is, and maybe it's not, but this photo gives off some vibes. Vibes that I don't like.
At school
I made it to school...a little late. The station was a little slow this morning so i had to wait a bit longer before I could get a ride to school.
Yesterday I considered it a little hectic because the assessment test wasn't suppose to happen. So it caught me off guard when we had our normal classes for school today.
We had english in the morning with Mr. Mic. Then somewhere during the middle day we could get some lunch. Let me tell you, I was really hungry! During my second class I actually couldn't even keep my head up in class because of how hungry I was. It's the reason I devoured my food so quickly...without making a mess of course.
Not even the lunch I just finished is enough. Unexpectedly a bowl slides in front of me. "Here you can have mines." Ashido gave me her bowl of rice and I my mouth watered. I turned to her with stars in my eyes and hugged her. "Ashido your so nice marry me." I said it in a joking matter so she didn't take it seriously and laughed with everyone else on the table at my reaction.
I was full and now had enough energy to last me the rest of the day. But lunch wasn't over and kids were actually given a chance to walk around for a little while before classes started. It was like a short recess for students.
I decided to walk around a bit instead of staying in the noisy lunchroom with the other students. The halls were quite empty except for a couple of students I saw here and there. I turned a hallway and sighed before creating a seat from the ground with my quirk. I sat down and pulled out my phone...i noticed there was 3 missed messages from a minute ago. I didn't noticed the number and opened it.
Hey it's me Habuko.
Hopefully you remember...well to be honest I forgot to message you like I promised after my first day.
I'm so sorry 😣
I smiled. I texted her back.
It's quite fine actually and of course I remember you Habuko!
How's school going?
School is totally going well for me so far.
She texted back immediately.
That's great! I've been making a lot of more friends here too.
Is that so? I'm so happy for Habuko it looks like she broke out of her shell and is more easily able to talk to people without worrying about her appearance.
Oh...it looks like I got to go to class talk to ya later!
I turned off my smartphone, and stood just as the bell for next class rang. I stretched and returned the floor to normal before walking to my next class for hero studies. This class hopefully is fun all the other ones were so boring.
Honestly, I wonder how my mother and...that murderer did it. Hell I need to something to get off my stress from today.
Lia slap had caused a bruise on my face...yes she hit me that hard. For that reason I had to visit recovery girl so I could get healed. Now it's time for me to send someone to the nurse's office with few injuries.
I put my head in my hand. Everytime i think about this mourning i get a head ache.
As i turned a corner i bumped into someone. I didn't fall down and neither did the person i was holding by the shoulders.
"Sorry i didn't see you there...tsuyu." I could immediately recognize the teal hair and black eyes as she look up at me.
"Akio...I was looking for you." I smiled when she said that. "Yeah what is it?" I asked.
"Aizawa wanted you for something, he's waiting for you at the teacher's lounge." I nodded and bowed my head in thanks. I walked past her but just before i was out of reach, i felt a tug.
I turned back around.
"Akio I'm here for you okay?"
"Tsuyu i'll see you at class okay?"
I cracked my knuckles with a smile. I just have this strange feeling...I'm going to get what I want.
"What do you mean you hit him!" I was panicked and my hand was running through my hair in horror.
Has my son snapped?
That boy is out of his mind to go into my sister's room like that. But...what exactly is Lia mad about?
"I-that little bastard is so annoying...but i'll teach him a lesson for disrespecting me." Lia voice came off as calm and collected when she got to the end.
"Lia...please tell me exactly what he did." I got up and opened my drawer pulling out some jeans and I struggled to put them on with one hand. "He opened my diary...and…" My eyes widened.
She doesn't mean that diary. "God You should've put it in a safer place sis!" Lia groaned and seemed to slam something. "He got the picture of you from that time too." I stopped in my tracks as I was trying to find my bra. She doesn't mean that picture she took of me when he was first born does she? What are you saying to yourself Yū of course it was that photo.
I shouldered my phone and put on my bra. "Lia I'll be over in a second." I cut off the phone and sighed.
"Akio...what are you doing?"
"Akio what are you doing?" Yaoyorozu was leaning on her desk as I was trying to create something with my ice powers.
"I'm...using my quirk to create something…" Tenya Lida looked over and with his usual hand motion got ready to lecture me about why I shouldn't use my power in the classroom.
"There!" I silently yelled as I held the 3 shurikens in my hand. They were actually already done 5 minutes ago but I wanted to try and test something.
You see there is different hardness to ice based on how cold it is. If I were to keep freezing over the ice would the weapon be stronger?
Usually when I create a spear or something it's usually created quickly, and probably if it were to impact something strong it would break no matter how hard I throw it. But the more colder the ice the less it will be affected by heat and the more likely it will penetrate something right?
"Hey todoroki was it?" He looked up from his desk and I held out a shuriken to him.
"Do me one quick favor and see if you can destroy this shuriken with one hand." He didn't say anything but nod as he took the weapon from me. He held it in his hand and began to try and crush it.
It wasn't cracking. He stopped and held it with both hands and added pressure before it broke in his hand. "Your ice is strong." he looked up at me when he said that and I nodded. It seemed as if he wanted to ask me something.
"Hey! Akio you should know that weapons are forbidden in the classroom!" I sighed and told todoroki to hold on a moment. I turned to Lida desk where he was sitting. I stood up and held up the last 2 ice shurikens.
Lids looked at me and a small sweat started to come on his face. "Akio...you shouldn't be standing right now." He told me again and I shook my head as I cocked my arm back.
"Lida your so stuck up, maybe he just wants to stretch his l-oh…" Kaminari the electric quirk user looked at me as realization dawned on his face. Everybody started to look at me with panicked expressions and amused smiles as lida put up his hands in horror.
"Wait!" I stepped and was about ready to launch them straight at Tenya, but he was saved by the almighty teacher.
"Don't worry for I am here!" Everybody stopped and turned to the door to see All Might there.
"Coming through the door like a hero!" It was silent and All Might could feel the awkward silence reach his ears. He coughed and stood straight. "Um?
I sat back down. Slowly making the ice break into particles. "Wait when did you become a teacher at this school all might?" That's when everyone seem to get excited.
"Oh yeah i forgot that All might was going to be a teacher here!"
"Isn't he wearing his old silver age costume!" Ah that's why All might has a costume on different from the one we usually saw him in.
"Man i'm getting goosebumps it's so retro." All might marched in and to the front to face the class.
"Welcome to the most important class in U.A. high!" His signature smile never disappeared...doesn't it hurt to always keep your face like that? Anyway All Might continued with his introduction speech.
Think about it as hero-ing 101! Here is where I will teach you all the basics of being a pro!" He turned and posed. "And what it means to fight in the name of good let's get into it!" I was actually happy...somehow I feel like All might is going to make my day.
"In today's lesson we'll pull no punches!" He spun and jabbed forward his hand.
Battle.
That was the card he had in his hand at the moment. My smile grew wide...yes i can finally let off some steam!
"But one of the keys of being a hero is looking good!" At that moment I felt like i could die. Out of the wall came a set of lockers numbered for each student. One through twenty-one...that was an odd number.
"These were designed for you based on your quirk registration forms and the request you sent in before school started." I remember sending that in...my costume is going to look so badass. I'm excited and so was everyone in the class at that moment.
Although i can't wait to see how i look in my costume i can't wait to see how my classmates outfits look too.
Maybe Tsuyu's a...little more than others.
"Get yourselves suited up and meet me at battleground Beta!" All might instructed. That's when everyone jumped up out of their seats.
"Yes sir!" The class yelled with enthusiasm. Everyone ran over to their lockers and raced to put them on. I calmly walked over to my locker once the space was cleared a bit and took out my costume.
Nice...they made it exactly how i wanted it. Now...to just put it on.
They say...the clothes make the pros.
Yeah, they really do. As we walked out from the darkness i could feel the confidence and seriousness radiate off of everyone. It slowly affected me too, causing a smile to force it's way onto my lips.
My costume was meant for a more dark look. The main color was black, i had loose pants that allowed for more flexible moving. A padded leather jacket that acted like chest plate to help with defense. My chest had the logo of a dark purple phoenix in the middle. With purple stripes going down the side of my sleeves and pants legs. My neck was covered with a dark purple scarf that hung and flew about behind me tattered and ripped. I fixed my fingerless gloves that had brass knuckles embedded in them.
Although the gloves didn't protect me from a set back I've been having. Conjuring ice from my fingertips actually makes my hand numb if i continuously use it like i did with the shurikens. First the numbness in my arms when using my solid manipulation quirk and now my ice quirk too.
"You look cool Akio." I turned to my left to see Tsuyu looking at me with her empty stare. Tsuyu costume was green and looked really cool too. Now that i look at it did she do that because she's a frog? Though it looked kind of tight on her...especially the way it defined her curves.
Tsu ribbited and I looked back up at her eyes immediately. I hope she didn't notice. I smiled. "Thanks...though I have to admit green is going to be my favorite color now." Tsuyu tilted her head.
"Why?" I smirked. She fell for it. "Because...you're wearing it." Tsuyu cheeks turned slightly pinkish.
"Thank you." She put a finger to her lip. "I also have to admit that hue of purple suits you." I blinked and scratched behind my head confused.
"What do you mean by that?" I picked the color out myself. Something about it stood out to me.
"Darker hues of purple are associated with gloom, sadness, and frustration." Tsuyu was bold as ever and got right to the point without hesitation.
Oh...was she implying that I feel frustrated, and sad?
She always catches me off guard. It went from flirting to seriousness.
I...simply smiled. A fake smile. "Sorry Akio." Tsuyu apologized and I kept on smiling. "It's fine you were just telling me about the color right?"
No she wasn't. She knew from this morning...about the bruise on the side of my face.
However…
"Looking good Akio and Tsuyu." Tenya had interrupted my train of thought in that moment as we both turned to him.
He did his usual hand motion towards me. "I have to say the phoenix was a nice heroes are defined by their looks and you two look like the definition of a hero." I rubbed the back of my head in embarrassment. The complement was welcomed. "Thanks for the compliment."
"Woah Tsuyu...did they mess up your costume too it looks tight." The gravity girl...Uranium...Uranus...I forgot her name. Tsuyu shook her head. "This is how i wanted it."
The girl turned to me cupped the side of face. "Woah." She walked over and poked at the padded armor.
"I thought those were real abs for a second...I wonder what will happen if I punch it." I raised my hands to stop her. "You probably shouldn't do that if you're not strong enough." I informed her with a chuckle.
Tenya also raised a finger. "I also advise against it you might break your hand." In that moment All might laughed.
"Now that you've seen each other's costumes it's time to get on with the lesson!"
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I...was left out.
You got to be kidding me.
To explain, there is an odd number of students. There would be an evil team and hero team, each side will have an even number teams of 2. But because of that I was left out and without a team, because if that happened a team would have to go 2 times so All might said;
"Do not worry for...I'll figure something out during the matches!" Yeah...All might said that to me.
I'm angry...if I don't get a chance to let of steam this is going to be a huge bummer.
But I don't want to ruin the moment right now. Right now we're in an observation room of some sort. It could also be considered a waiting for those who haven't gone yet.
"Who do you think is going to win?" It was yaoyorozu who asked me the question.
"Honestly...Midoriya." Yayorozu looked at me with a raised eyebrow. "But...did you not see what Bakugo just did?" I nodded.
Bakugo has clearly demonstrated he is a force to be weakened with. His dodging, his power, and slightly his resourcefulness to adjust in battle situation.
Catching Midoriya by surprise like that...then getting thrown to the floor just to get back up again with renewed vigor. That probably comes from his hatred I can tell.
Though the match isn't over just yet.
To Be Continued
KyuubiNoPuma: Everything will be revealed in due time. Also thanks for taking the time to read and review this story!
Youto who actually read until the end you deserve not a cookie but a cupcake. I already finished the next chapter just trying to fix the little pieces so that it's ready for tomorrow. Stay tuned.