"He wouldn't like me, would he?"
Chapter 4: Advice from a friend
The first weekend in the new school year, Sakura was glad only one student has hurt himself and had to go to the nurse's office to be healed by Recovery Girl. She had to keep track of every student and their activities to make sure they wouldn't do anything stupid. Today Sakura could sleep in, because today was nothing planned. Just as she started to wake up her phone started to buzz.
"What now?", she mumbled as she picked up her phone. As she turned it on, a message popped up. It read: "Hey Nightwing. How about we hang out together today? Don't worry, food and drinks are on me today. Present Mic"
Sakura needed to talk to someone about the chaos that's raging in her mind, so she thought a day spend with Hizashi was a pretty good idea. So she replied: "Sure. I need to talk to someone to get something of my mind. I'm ready in about half an hour."
A minute later another message popped up: "Alright, see you then, darling."
Sakura rolled her eyes at the nickname Hizashi gave her. The two liked to flirt and tease though it was just for fun, she sometimes thought he was serious about the nicknames. She stood up and got dressed, combed her hair and made her way into the kitchen to eat breakfast. She was surprised when she was met with a smile and a "Hey, there you are." by her honorary brother Hizashi Yamada.
"I didn't know you were here already. Where is Shota?", Sakura asked. Hizashi smiled and said: "Eraser is probably still sleeping. You know how he is."
"I do, but usually we eat breakfast at this time together. It's weird.", Sakura stated. Hizashi just shrugged and the two headed out of the house and into the city.
The two went from one store to another, talking about the start of the school year. Once All Might was brought up, Sakura became quiet. Hizashi just grinned, he had found what she needed to talk about.
"Oh I see. He is on your mind right now, isn't he?", Hizashi said teasingly. Sakura's face turned slight shade of red s she pulled her friend into an alley way.
"Lower your voice, will you? No one needs to know about that.", she hushed to make the voice hero shut his mouth.
"You know, people might think you wanna mug me with us being so close in an alley.", Hizashi joked.
"You look way shadier than me, besides I think they might think of you assaulting me, Hizashi.", came as a reply with a smirk.
"Touche, my dear", he smiled and the two went into a cafe.
"So tell me, what did you want to get of your mind?", Hizashi wondered. Sakura actually regretted asking him for help, bu if she had asked Midnight she knew she wouldn't hear the end of it.
"You know that I had a crush on All Might when I was younger, right?", Sakura asked and got a nod in reply. The two had gotten coffee once they sat down.
"Well, it seems like the crush came back, but I think, even if I get to know him enough, he wouldn't like me the way I like him. I want to get to know him, even if he might not love me, I want to call him a friend.", Sakura explained and took sip of her coffee.
"Well, what do you need me for then?", Hizashi asked.
"I don't really need you. I just needed to tell someone what's been on my mince since the first day of the new school year. He is the only thing that's on my mind since the first day of school. He just looks so cool in real life.", Sakura stated. Hizashi got an idea. Shota might not like that but it was the best thing he could do to help.
"We have our trashy horror movie night next week. You should totally invite him to join us, the more the merrier.", Hizashi suggested. Her face turned red again.
"I could never ask him out. Not even to something like that! He would probably think I'm weird or something like that!", Sakura mumble. Hizashi sighed. It was hard helping this woman, even though she was very outspoken and optimistic, she could be really shy if it came to situations like that.
"I'm gonna give you some advice, not just because I'm your friend, but also because I'm your brother. If All Might doesn't like you the way you are, he isn't the right man for you. You are pretty, smart, optimistic and you can stand your ground. Any man should be happy to get your attention. I can understand why you would like All Might, he is a pretty good-looking guy, a lot of women and girls have crushes on him, but I believe you have the best chances with him.", Hizashi explained. He had finished his coffee while Sakura was panicking about asking All Might if he wanted to join them for trashy horror movie night. He had to admit, if the two weren't as close as brother and sister, making it a bit awkward for the both of them, we would start to date her again.
"You...you mean it, Mic?", Sakura wondered. She didn't use his hero name often but when she did it always warmed Hizashi's heart. He liked calling his best friends by their hero names, Shota being Eraserhead, or Eraser for short and Sakura being Nightwing. He thought it would make the relationship between them a bit more professional since all of them worked at U.A and everyone knew his hero name.
"Of course I do. I would be a very lousy older brother if I just said it to cheer you up, Nightwing.", he smiled. Yes, she liked it better being called by her actual first name, which was why Sakura offered All Might to refer to her by her First name. She liked it better because she knew the first names of every staff member and student at U.A and referred to them by those. It was to make them feel special and as an equal to the pro heroes. Her colleagues were referred by her by their Hero names but only when they specifically wanted to be refer as such.
"Thanks, Hizashi. You're the best.", Sakura smiled. Hizashi smiled as well and than said:"You still have to invite All Might to our trashy horror movie night. I was serious with that idea."
"I will.", Sakura promised and the two sped the rest of the day in the city.
During their day in the city, All Might also looked for help for his "feelings" he may or may not have for the Head of Security of U.A.
Author's Note: I changed up the chapter a bit from what I had written at Uni today. I just wated to ad a few things to get the word count up.