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I've decided to make the first part a literal drabble series between the two so if there's any confusion, I hope that clears it up.
Thank you for all your reviews, follows, and favs, I honestly couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them all!
Alien-Planet: You'll definitely see some more fluff as time goes by but... I can't promise they'll be in the same class. I gotta add some angst!
Whatkooloser: Thank you!
Guest: Yeah, I honestly didn't even realize that they had the same name until you pointed it out. I guess I've been living in my own world when I write this, haha. I'm really glad you like the little displays of power, I don't want to give it away yet (cause Himeko actually isn't a fan of her quirk) and yeah, Toshi is oddly a really weird mix of Deku and Mirio but, I'm glad it's working for ya!
Swiggs: Thank you so, so much! I'm so glad you like it! Toshi's lil crush about to get a bit bigger
ADDBaby: Thank you! I'm so glad you like it!
starrat: Thank you! and I'm sorry this chapter took so long, thank you for sticking around
KayEmWhy: That's exactly what I wanted the HimekoToshi dynamic to be and I'm so glad it's coming across that way! Thank you so much for the review and I'm glad you like it!
Guest: Oh, yeah, there definitely will be little Toshi's *wink* *wink*, and thank you thank you! I'm going to try my best to continue it!
chibianimefan26: ngl, your comment cracked me up and gave me the little, last push to write this chapter (all the comments were building up in my mind and I knew i gotta do it). I'm so happy you like it, thank you!
The exams were… easier than Himeko thought they were going to be.
Of course, she hadn't truly put a lot of effort into them because, well, she didn't really want to pass them. A part of her wanted to fail and sorta just escape this life that she had been forced into. If she failed, she could become a teacher, a bakery—something other than a hero, and she could move on with her life.
Maybe live a simple one and pull away from Toshi.
Nah, Himeko scrunched her nose at that thought, twisting the stranding of russet hair into something that resembled two braided pigtails, he'd never leave me alone if I failed.
No, she had no plans of either passing or failing the exam; no, she was just going to go in, do as best she felt, and leave.
Toshi had met her outside her house, practically bouncing on his heels with his hands clasped tightly behind his back. He seemed to be trying to contain her excitement and anxiety and Himeko honestly didn't know why he was. It was clear he was close to shitting his pants. With a wave goodbye to her parents and Toshi blabbering about how hard he's been training and whatever. He had, without doubt, completely made up the fact that his parents found him this 'master' to help him train when they found out that he had this power and that it wasn't because he was randomly bestowed this gift.
Himeko could care less.
The exam past rather quickly with Toshi having a mental breakdown between each one and almost crying with anxiety (he was incredibly scared that if he failed, he was letting Himeko the entire world down and that he'd lose everything he'd worked for). Himeko, on the other hand, had remained incredibly passive and Toshi had honestly asked her if she was on pills.
Which she wasn't, thank you very much. She was just very good at keeping her panic inside rather than outside.
In the end, Toshi had scored 1st place (what a surprise, Himeko had thought, rather bored with the entire situation) with 72 rescue points and not a single villain point where Himeko had gotten 12 villain points (she hadn't meant to kill the school bus full of children and only Toshi had seen her cry after the exam, not really knowing what to do and awkwardly pulling her into a hug) With 46 rescue points, landing her in the lovely position known as 7th.
Toshi had rioted when he learned that, claiming that 'she deserved better' or that 'that didn't know what true talent was.
She didn't have the heart to tell him that she really only used about sixty-five percent of her quirk. He really was on a roll.
Of course in celebration of Toshi's score, Himeko had pulled him into a tight hug. He had gone oddly stiff and she didn't think twice about it, he had always been rather odd, congratulating him and telling him that all his worrying was for nothing.
Nevertheless, the exam had ended that day and she currently rested underneath the moon with her friend, carelessly brushing the dark strands of hair that brushed across her face and tickled her nose, lips, and eyes. Toshi's eyes hadn't drifted far from where they laid, captured by the moon's glow.
"Are you happy?" She asked, her head turning to look at the side of his face, and trying her best to gauge how her sunflower was feeling.
"Yeah," Toshi hummed, "Are you?"
"I'm content, yeah, but I don't believe I'll ever be happy," Himeko said and, though she knew that Toshi wasn't surprised by her words, she felt the glance he sent to her and could feel the heat from his hand that had coincidentally brushed against hers.
"You'll be happy one day." It was almost like Toshi was promising her something—something that he seemed to also be promising himself.
Himeko felt the marigolds wrap themselves around her wrist as she heard his unspoken promise. She knew that the path he followed was one that would never grant her happiness, not in this life and not in the next.
Just as it would never grant him.
